Real History with Melissa Podcast (.xml Format)

--{"Nick Heys - Rainbows End"}-- Melissa and Nick talk about Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. Is this a utopian novel, or a techno-optimist's view of a desirable future? In what ways is the world already much like the world Vinge wrote about in this 2006 novel? What is the Hugo Award? The next book that we will cover before the end of the year is George Orwell's 1984.

--{"Neil Foster: Lord Khan's Clean Air Crusade"}-- Lord Mayor Kahn wants to ban log burners - What is the C40? The Global Parliament of Mayors? The WHO Healthy Cities Network? - 'Experts' say that AI could kill humanity in two years, calls to regulate it. - The panopticon, flock cameras - Irish Sentinel reboot, Helena Handbasket - The IRS makes house calls with a gun and badge. - Sports betting an...

--{"Traveling Before 9/11"}-- Neil Foster's holiday - What was traveling like prior to September 11, 2001? - Clouds, geoengineering - Updates from listeners.

--{"Melissa on Heys Reviews - Alan Watt's Cutting Through books"}-- Recently, Nick Heys invited me to talk about the second edition of Alan Watt’s Cutting Through books. Why did Alan write these books? Should you start at the beginning and read straight through? What is the Androgynous (Hermaphroditic) Agenda? What was involved in the process of creating this second edition and who helped make tha...

--{"Goddess and Mashup"}-- What is upcoming on Real History with Melissa? - Talking about a certain kind of censorship - A reading of "If the goddess is bloodthirsty, is she still worthy of worship?" by Not Sure - What is "Mashup" about? Why was it controversial?

--{"Love, Harvest, Weather Warfare"}-- This episode is a little different. We hear from listeners about their weather modification, forest fires, their gardens, and how they survive and flurish in these times.

--{"Dr. James Giordano -- Brain Games: Now, We Barter"}-- The barter for the brain. What can we do with our technologies? What is it we want to do? What don't we know yet? - Forecasting. What is possible in brain sciences? - Merlin Donald, mimetic theory of speech. - Forbes, invasive versus non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) - Roger Scruton, neurononsense - Examples of fiction that draw c...

--{"Neil Foster: What's the good news?"}-- Armadillos carrying leprosy? A town abandoned over water. Is it too hot for fish? Fire! Agenda 21, Agenda 2030 - The birds are not alright. Bird-safe glass - Drones and robots.

--{"Robel and Mimi and Alan Watt"}-- Who are Robel and Mimi? How did Robel discover Alan Watt's work? An interesting conversation that covers Communist revolution in Ethiopia, the Orthodox Christian religion that played a role in protecting Ethiopia from Westerners for a thousand years, and how they both ended up in the U.S.

--{"Targeted"}-- Grateful to Alan Watt - Thievery Corporation - Ron's connection to coyotes - Abused and neglected donkeys in need of rescue - Met a Cree medicine man at a Covid protest and worked with him for a couple of years - Discovering orgone energy - Wilhelm Reich - Plasma energy - Gang stalking and Targeted Individuals.

--{"Happy 250th Birthday, America"}-- What is an example of Doric architecture? Who were the Dorians? What is the language we know as Linear B? When was it deciphered? Linear A and the disappearance of the Minoan civilization - What are examples of Freemasonic architecture in Washington, D.C.? - Shadows cast by the Washington Monument - Why do current 'truthers' have antagonism towards talk of Fre...

--{"Osman: Bioinformatics"}-- Talking with Osman about his university education in bioinformatics. What is bioinformatics? Genetic testing, what is the real purpose? - Remembering Covid-19, banging pots and pans to cheer for the NHS, the Tanzanian president, John Magufuli who defied lockdowns, masks, PCR testing, and vaccines - What makes us optimistic?

--{"Chris Minor"}-- Who is Chris Minor? The music business, horror movies, Hollywood. Editing and continuity. Why did Chris leave his band just as it was taking off? Alan Watt's three levels of science. Relationships and marriage nowadays. Working on his brother's social media campaign for dentistry during Covid. Is marriage on the horizon? Wrestling with existential crises, time away for mental h...

--{"Neil Foster and Sandi Adams - UK Column: What's Up?"}-- U.S. Farmers; Why did a county government seize a farmer's land to build a private airport? Hundreds of thousands of peach trees to be destroyed. Sandi Adams discusses the Light Paper's recent event, Stand in the Light. Iain Davis' recent article, UK Column Conundrum. Sandi Adams and Debi Evens spoke with Michael Ginsburg about their expe...

--{"with Heys Reviews - Dom Waterson: "Traitors""}-- Dom Waterson (Sheep Farm podcast) has written a book called Traitors: The Plandemic Politicians, an incredibly well-researched look into the backgrounds of the UK politicians who participated in the nightmare known as Covid-19. Some people don’t want to remember the lockdowns and restrictions, the masking, the bubbles, the vaccine, but those who...

--{"Paula, a mother in Lancet's MMR study: Question everything!"}-- Who is Paula Aitken? The MMR vaccine-autism report published in Lancet and then retracted - Andrew Wakefield - The gut connection - The role of antibiotics in Paula's son's health problems - Why is autism on the rise and we don't understand the causes? - Alan Watt and the three levels of science.

--{"Melissa and Neil w/ Sandi Adams: Agenda 2030, Technocracy"}-- How did Sandi Adams first discover what was happening with Agenda 21? Rosa Koire's book, Behind the Green Mask - Who is Emma Dunwell? When did Neil Foster and Sandi Adams know each other? - How do we educate people about Agenda 2030 and Technocracy? Lynn Taylor, outcome betting and data mining of children. What is the history of tec...

--{"Greg and Graeme - Elimination of Spirit from Modern Language - Part 2"}-- We continue our conversation about the word 'spirit,' and language construction and similarities in different areas. What is the language of architecture we see in churches? The Protestant Reformation and its effects. Pentacostalism. Gregory's upcoming book and more about perichoresis.

--{"Greg and Graeme - Elimination of Spirit from Modern Language - Part 1"}-- What is Spirit? - Neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology - Definitions of Spirit, working through the Eternal - "spirited bodies," Monism - Parse the difference between Mind and Spirit using Quantum Theory - Iain McGilchrist's latest book references all the major religions and their founder, but not one mention in t...

--{"Adon and Annie in Australia - Permaculture and Common-Unity"}-- Who are Adon and Annie in Australia? Permaculture, regenerative agriculture. How did Adon get into permaculture gardening? Where is Annie from and how did they meet? What are challenges of community, and working a common lifestyle? What is Australia's Triple-P program? If you are interested, please contact Adon and Annie by email.

--{"Cutting Through books - Ula and Darick Chamberlin"}-- Melissa unboxes the Cutting Through books! Talking with Darick and Ula Chamberlin, the husband and wife team, who made this 2nd edition happen. Both Ula and Darick are artists with very different styles. Together they run a business (Solid Coffee) in Aberdeen, Washington. Their beautiful family of three children under the age of eight keeps...

--{"Dr. Giordano - Brain Games: Ethics, and Humanness"}-- We discuss the military background of James Giordano. His father was in the Navy, a submarine designer. How did the movie Fantastic Voyage affect him as a child? Was his family religious? South Tyrol, Italy. What is standpoint theory? Giordano's book with John R. Shook, Bioethics and Brains. Thomas and Julian Huxley, experts and academics....

--{"Neil Foster: War fallout, and gardens"}-- Rising gas and jet fuel prices, cutting funding for Medicaid and Medicare. The so-called war with Iran. Military-age men in Germany must receive approval before long stays abroad. America raises the enlistment age. AI data centers increase temperatures in surrounding area. Extreme weather predicted. Time to start a garden.

--{"Nick Heys -- Inverted World"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Nick's trip to Vietnam, and his delayed return home. Nick and Melissa discuss Christopher Priest's Inverted World. What was the world like? What one word best describes the story? Priest's novel The Prestige, and Christopher Nolan's movie. Time, memory. The next book we cover is Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End. Nick and Melissa decide th...

--{"Sarah Tacoma: German New Medicine, Herbs, and Homeopathy"}-- Who is Sarah Tacoma? How did she get interested in herbalism? What led to her studies and practice of German New Medicine? What obstacles does she face in practicing herbalism? Homeopathy, healing modalities, and more.