As California slides over the edge into an economic abyss it's a miniature model of the entire country's destination How did this most prosperous state arrive at such a wretched condition Professor John Ellis professor emeritus at the University of California Santa Cruz is President of the California Association of Scholars www calscholars org He maintains the socialist multicultural atmosphere on college campuses led to representatives in the state legislature whose worldviews are totally divorced from reality Israel found itself in a hotspot last week when it approved construction of more homes in Jerusalem But while the media excoriated Israel

While some states are approaching financial Armageddon many people are looking to state legislatures to force the federal government to get its economic house in order by using the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution Gary Wood from the Tenth Amendment Center www tenthamendmentcenter com joins the program We have been stumping freedom of speech issues the last few weeks It's clear that on many campuses the speech of certain groups is allowed while the speech of other groups is suppressed Gilad Ini from CAMERA www israeliapartheidweek com joins the program to discuss one such even scheduled for this month John's

Iran Is they or ain't they This is a crude way of saying is Iran on the edge of nuclear weapons capability and is Israel going to do something about it We'll run a thread on this topic today First former CIA operative Ishmael Jones www ishmaeljones com author of The Human Factor weighs in on what we actually know about the state of Iran's nuclear program Then a pause to pursue the ongoing crash-of-global warming thread where GW advocates aren't giving up Cap and trade is morphing into green jobs programs same thing under a different wrapper But how

A lot of time is spent in the first hour of today's program examining the effect hate speech has in masking the truth of many political issues and why this is a grave threat to freedom of speech This is exemplified by the hate speech trial of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands for producing his widely-viewed video on the internet Robert Spencer from www jihadwatch org is the first guest to track how well the trial is going and what hate speech laws mean The government wants to require wireless companies to track the movements of your mobile telephones Declan

The G financial elites met on an island in the Canadian Arctic this last weekend What were they planning Could it be a global tax which Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced this week We'll start this an examination with an update on the Euro crisis which has the potential of dealing the global economy a body blow An interview with Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph in the UK is featured Then a jump to Chuck Coppes www chuckcoppes com author of America's Financial Reckoning Day for a first cut at what went on in at Baffin Island in

Busy show today John's opening boralogue compares the religious philosophy of a new science fiction series Caprica with the emerging global paradigm of religion A clip from the series is analyzed As financial elites move us toward a global currency one candidate for the job is now in trouble the Euro and it's all caused by member state Greece's imminent bankruptcy There are parallels with troubled states in the U S seeking national bailouts for their own fiscal irresponsibility Harold Hoffman joins us from the U K www britanniaradio co uk to unravel this somewhat complicated financial system in the

Today's program presents a round table forum featuring four talk show hosts revolving around their projections for the country and the world in Joining the panel are Jan Merkell www olivetreeviews org Paul McGuire www paulmcguire com author of The Day the Dollar Died Dr Stan Monteith www radioliberty com and Brannon Howse www worldviewtimes com No boralogue this week And there was much rejoicing

Listeners have requested an analysis of the this week's Massachusetts elections so John kicks off by going beyond what other pundits have said to peel back the multiple layers at which the dynamics of paradigm change penetrate politics Then we'll continue the predictions thread begun last week with clips from trends forecaster Gerald Celente www trendsresearch com and Bill Koenig www watch org at the White House Finally Ellen Brown author of Web of Debt www webofdebt com returns to the show with a plan for states to bail themselves out of financial trouble by opening state-owned banks as North

Listeners are requesting some of John's predictions for the year so we kick off with an extended boralogue looking at some of the issues facing us over the next months or so Speaking of predictions for a long time we've predicted that as the country's financial situation fell apart the government would greedily eye the money contained in private retirement plans and cook up a way to seize it The first rumblings of such a plan to convert k might be emerging as we watch Jeff Plungis from Bloomberg www bloomberg com joins the show to report on that latest

Hi gang Back in the saddle again for another year of saddle sores An international police force has long been a goal of both the United Nations and Interpol Shortly before Christmas President Barack Obama amended an executive order originally issued by Ronald Reagan allowing Interpol immunity during its operations in the United States Is this much ado about nothing or part of a longer- term globalization agenda Attorney Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton www threatswatch org join us We're starting a new thread on the program to track the growing gulf between the statements of politicians and a deteriorating