Welcome to a potpourri show today Four Americans were murdered by pirates off the coast of Somalia this last week An important part of the story is being ignored by the mainline media So what else is new Jim Jacobson from Christian Freedom International www christianfreedom org joins us From there attention turns to the state of world oil production Steve Levine from Foreign Policy journal www foreignpolicy com guests for the first time with the question Is OPEC fudging its oil reserve reports and how much could it produce in a global crisis The answer isn't comforting Christian professionals

The U S has lagged in education ever since progressive educators began reshaping it in the s Now President Obama says we have to reform this failing system to train American youth to compete in science and math But educrats have been crowing reform for years with no results and competition is anathema to their thinking So what does reform really mean Dr Karen Effram M D from EdWatch www edwatch org joins us John pauses for a segment in the program to pay tribute to the life of Professor Edward R Rothhaar an expert in the history of broadcasting

If democracy is breaking out in the region notably Egypt why are the knees of Christians and Jews knocking John's boralogue sets the stage for today's program with a backgrounder and small news stories about the attitudes of Jews and Christians from the Middle East towards the changes that are underway We'll hear first from a Coptic Egyptian named Mike whose name we'll withhold for security reasons as to the minority Christian viewpoint of the changes in Egypt Then we'll transition to an interview with Ken Timmerman about the new documentary Iranium dealing with Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons

The Middle East finds itself in the midst of radical changes which are rewriting rules for the geopolitical chess game of the region including the collapsing peace process This presents serious security implications for Israel sandwiched between countries whose governments are in trouble First John's boralogue examines the peace process and other politically correct myths that have been shattered by the current crisis Then what is the future for these countries especially Egypt Will they move towards freedom or Islamic extremism Former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat www shoebat com joins the program The usual transnational suspects seem to be

President Obama's State of the Union address this week touted education reform Now where have we heard that before The President's speech was a compendium of education buzz words which educrats have been slinging around for decades But how do we expect students to learn to compete in the st Century when the very words competition and individualism are anathema to academics John's extended boralogue traces the failed history of education reform over the last thirty years Then Dr Erwin Lutzer chief pastor of Moody Church in Chicago joins the program to discuss his book When a Nation Forgets God

The global economic end game approaches signaled by the onset of a global debt crisis This event will completely change politics within the countries involved We've had requests from listeners to elaborate what this means for us so we'll do that by providing perspectives from two continents Europe and North America Claus Vogt is the founder of Europe's largest contrarian newsletter Sicheres Geld Secure Money and author of the new book The Global Debt Crisis Herr Vogt joins us for the first hour Secularism has hammered away on removing Christianity as the basis for western morals First it sought equality

Christian health care professionals are discovering increased pressure to perform procedures that violate their religious convictions and beliefs resulting in discrimination in medical schools and hospitals Dr David Stevens M D www freedom care org from the Christian Medical Association guests Then we'll open a new thread for the new year narrating the current state of geopolitical trends Brian Fitzpatrick from Worldnetdaily www wnd com guests with an analysis of the recent U S-Russia arms control treaty We'll close with news from the persecuted church in the Islamic world John's extended boralogue analyzes the verbal media battle that erupted on

Pray for the secession referendum in the Sudan this weekend which could separate the Christian south from the Muslim north The elections could have major positive or negative implications for the Christian community there depending on the outcome Oil and Islam's attacks on Christianity are once again the center of the dispute After the extended boralogue Steel starts guest interviews with an in-depth examination of Christian life in Muslim countries Juliana Taimorazy www iraqichristianrelief org is president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council and very familiar with this issue In the last part of the program we'll examine the influence

Happy New Year everyone and happy new decade Today's program features some of the more important Steel on Steel interviews from this past decade including former Attorney General John Ashcroft former Congressman Bob Barr Congressman Ron Paul and G Gordon Liddy The common theme rotates around the disappearance of civil rights John's boralogue is a boralogue from Did we get it right or wrong nbsp Want more resources on these topics Here are some previous programs you might find interesting The Keys of This Blood Revisited Cult of Multi-Culti John's Commentary Articles What an Outrage The Parousia Strategy in a

Merry Christmas everyone We're taking time off today as we hope you're doing How did America get to the point in just years that it has completely up-ended itself What does this mean in the rough times to come now that the country has chopped itself loose from its reference points Regardless of what everyone else does what can we do to help ourselves and each other To answer some of these questions we'll air John's speech at the Strategic Trends conference in October of this year The Road Back Extended Version min Why are we in such trouble as