EmpowerU America Podcast

The Fort Thomas Military and Community History Museum has a collection of more than 250 propaganda posters from both World War I and World War II. These posters were published by both government departments and private businesses, and they offer a virtual catalog of propaganda techniques aimed at bolstering friends and discouraging enemies. They reflect the hopes and fears of a country at war and provide valuable historical context.The artists who created these posters had varied backgrounds, but they shared the same goal of getting the desired message to the public. This was a time when television was in its infancy and AI and ChatGPT weren’t even a hint in science fiction stories. Whether the purpose was to encourage conservation, recruiting, patriotism, or civil defense, each poster had one shot at reaching the target audience. We will look at examples from several categories during this class.

ABOUT DEANNA BEINEKE

Deanna Beineke is Director of the Fort Thomas Military and Community History Museum.  Her father was WW II veteran, and she has had a life-long interest in history.Prior to becoming director, Deanna had collaborated with the museum to curate several exhibits, including a quilt exhibit associated with the Smithsonian “Journey Stories” traveling exhibit in 2011, an exhibit commemorating the Vietnam War, and another showcasing original WWI and WWII propaganda posters.Deanna has grown the museum’s collection to over 4,500 artifacts, letters, pictures and uniforms, and she has written a coffee table history of the Fort Thomas military installation, spanning its existence between 1890 through 1947.  She is currently writing a history of the city of Fort Thomas.Deanna graduated from Highlands High School, University of Kentucky, and earned an MA Ed. and Rank I at Northern Kentucky University.

White House stenographer who documented the daily activities of Vice President Joe Biden, Mike McCormick shares the Deep State actions he witnessed. Mike McCormick’s An Almost Insurmountable Evil provides his eyewitness account of the globalist plots perpetrated by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis, the CIA, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Denis McDonough, Anthony Fauci, and many others. Mr. McCormick reveals how the Obama-Biden White House networked the Catholic Church into human trafficking along the Southern Border; how it schemed Ukraine into becoming a biological warfare threat to Russia; and how it collaborated with China to release the Wuhan Plandemic to upend President Trump’s 2020 campaign. We’ll discuss Mr. McCormick’s point-by-point dissection of Obama-Biden Deep State overreach, of what Archbishop Vigano refers to as the Deep Church, and of what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. refers to as Deep Health, to better understand the betrayal, death, economic destruction, and emotional damage perpetrated on the nation by our government, the Catholic Church, and the globalist elites they serve. ABOUT MIKE MCCORMICK Mike McCormick served as a White House stenographer for fifteen years, covering President Bush, Vice-President Biden, and President Trump. In this role, he transcribed speeches and meetings across the Oval Office and West Wing, and around the world on Air Force One and Air Force Two—often in high-pressure, around-the-clock environments He is the author of numerous books, including Fifteen Years A Deplorable: A White House Memoir (2019), Joe Biden Unauthorized (2020), a children’s book Young Jesus (2021), The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden (2023), as well as An Almost Insurmountable Evil: How Obama’s Deep State Defiled the Catholic Church and Executed the Wuhan Plandemic. Mike lives with his wife and children in the Washington D.C., metro area.

Michael Mercier — a lifelong autodidact — will explain how to use ChatGPT to teach yourself any subject. Drawing on his own experience integrating chatbots into every stage of self-directed learning, Michael will show how anyone can accelerate and deepen their learning process with the help of AI. In Part 1, he’ll explore how learning works: what it means to learn, how the brain organizes knowledge, the stages of the learning process, and the difference between self-directed and traditional learning. In part 2 he’ll demystify AI chatbots, explaining how large language models work, what built-in project management features chatbots offer, and how to structure conversations to match your learning goals. In Part 3, he’ll synthesize these insights, providing practical ideas for using ChatGPT at every step of the learning process to master any subject independently. Whether you’re a student, professional, or lifelong learner, you’ll leave with actionable tools to optimize your potential in the age of AI

BIO

Michael Mercier is President of Screen Education, which addresses issues at the intersection of digital technology and human well-being, including smartphone addiction, news media bias, and artificial intelligence, though research, seminars, and consulting.Reflecting his passion for learning, Michael’s first major splurge after starting his career was a used set of World Book Encyclopedias. He then spent a decade as an editor and publisher in the college textbook industry, and another decade in market research.He holds a BA in Psychology from Vassar College, an MBA in Marketing from the University of Michigan, and an MS in MIS from the University of Cincinnati.

Hunter Oswald, a writer for The American Spectator, will share his insights on GenZ conservatives, including what makes GenZ tick and how GenZ conservatives differ from other generations.

Take 20 speaker, Monty Lobb, will discuss his work as Executive Director of the Christian Business Partnership. A new effort by the Center for Christian Virtue, the Partnership is Ohio’s only statewide Christian Chamber of Commerce.

Congressman Davidson will discuss his efforts in the House Financial Services Committee/Sound Money Caucus to safeguard the value of the dollar, a recap of border-related executive orders and ICE funding in the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill, as well as his thoughts on efforts to federalize bad state policies that enable election fraud.

Also, Ohio Secretary of State candidate, Marcell Strbich, will detail ongoing efforts to eliminate security risks and illegal voting vulnerabilities in Ohio’s elections. He’ll introduce his "One-Day/One Vote" proposal, and he'll explain how he would implement President Trump’s recent call to eliminate “no-excuse” mail-in voting, as well as insecure voting machines, across the country.

In his book "Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion," Edwin Black argues that, while Israel's Rising Lion and the US's Midnight Hammer operations obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability in the short erm, that nuclear capability can be reconstructed if the current regime remains in power.
Edwin Black is one of the first journalists to understand the gravity of this story and to share its urgency with the world.  Do not miss the opportunity to learn the backstory of Operation Rising Lion from this renowned journalist.

ABOUT EDWIN BLACK

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling investigative author of 200 award-winning editions in 20 languages in 190 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in leading publications in the United States, Europe and Israel.

Editors have submitted Black’s work thirteen times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years he has received top editorial awards.

Black has contributed to numerous anthologies worldwide, and he hosts the weekly Edwin Black Show. Black’s eleven award-winning bestselling books are IBM and the Holocaust (2001 and 2012), Financing the Flames (2013), British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement (2011), The Farhud (2010), Nazi Nexus (2009), The Plan (2008), Internal Combustion (2006), Banking on Baghdad (2004), War Against the Weak (2003 and 2012), The Transfer Agreement (1984 and 2009), and a 1999 novel, Format C:.

Judge Josh Berkowitz has served on the Hamilton County Municipal Court for the past ten years. He currently serves as the court’s Presiding & Administrative Judge. Attorney Scott O’Reilly is a prosecutor and private attorney with more than two decades of experience practicing in courts throughout the region. They will share their unique insights and perspectives on the state of criminal justice in Hamilton County, current Ohio law, and the issues confronting the judiciary and the citizenry concerning public safety.