Lance Simmens has published about 180 articles in the Huffington Post, but his most recent article, Why our Children Should Hate us, was censored and pulled from this publication.
Lance Simmens is currently the President of the Malibu Adamson House Foundation, he also serves as Second Vice-President of the Malibu Democratic Club, is a board member of the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, and is on the Board of Advisors for Vote Riders, a national organization which promotes more fair and equitable voter identification laws.
He has spent nearly four decades involved in public service at all levels of government: Federal, State and local. In the process he has devoted his professional career to a search for the most effective and efficient public policies, programs, and processes to benefit the society at large. He most served as the California State Director for Gasland Grassroots, an organization devoted to public education on the issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and promotion of the current HBO documentary Gasland 2, and was California State Director for the Citizens’ Trade Campaign, organizing efforts to defeat the Trans Pacific Partnership.
He served CA Governor Jerry Brown as Deputy Director of Communications for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, the largest public works program in the history of the U.S. In this position he helped to steer the program forward with a business plan that has largely been hailed as realistic during a most difficult economic period. In addition he served as the chief spokesman for the project, doing innumerable interviews, both on and off camera, oversaw placement of opinion-editorials in all major newspapers in the State, and appeared in dozens of public for a to advance this visionary transportation option for future generations.
Mr. Simmens has spent fifteen years in Federal service, largely serving in senior intergovernmental affairs positions for four Cabinet Secretaries, six years as Assistant Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where he staffed the powerful Urban Economic Policy Committee charged with setting national economic and budgetary priorities for the nation’s largest cities, six years as Senior Economic Counsel to U.S. Senator James Sasser on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and for nearly eight years served Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell as Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs.
In this capacity he received the most distinguished non-member awards for public service by the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, and is the only person to have ever received the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities’ Public Service Citation twice. He also served as the Chairman of the Governor’s panels on development of both wind and solar energy and engineered groundbreaking model ordinances that have been emulated nationwide.
In 1999 Mr. Simmens served as senior advisor on the President’s Council on Y2K Conversion and was responsible for preparation and publication of a government-wide Scenario Policy document on the issue at a Cabinet-level meeting held at Blair House that Fall.
In 1993 Mr. Simmens was appointed by President Clinton to help establish the Federal government’s first Office of Sustainable Development in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Over the next four years he was instrumental in developing and implementing programs, policies and regulations for sustainable fisheries that would earn him the highest award from the Department of Commerce, the Gold Medal Award, as leader of a team of government officials who pioneered sustainable initiatives off the coast of New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Gulf of Mexico.
As Assistant Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 1987-1993 he was responsible for economic and budgetary resolutions and policies on key issues facing urban America, including NAFTA, the Census undercount, targeted fiscal assistance, and reordering Federal budget priorities to capture the “peace dividend” afforded by the end of the Cold War. In 1991 he led a delegation of Mayors to Moscow to participate in a conference on Federalism to help with the transition of government under the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992 he organized an historic meeting of Russian and American Mayors at the United Nations where they heard testimony from major world leaders including Carl Sagan.
During the 1980’s Mr. Simmens served as Legislative Director for U.S. Senator James Sasser and his Senior Economic Counsel on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. He directed his energies to fighting to preserve domestic discretionary spending against the ravages of the Reagan supply-side spending cuts.
Over the years he has written extensively, drafting statements for the Congressional Record and Committee publications, op-ed articles, and speeches. He has published over 400 articles under his own name, and is a regular contributing writer for Huffington Post.
In 2006 he was chosen by former Vice-President Al Gore to be one of the first class of individuals to be trained to deliver presentations on the implications of climate change. As a climate change messenger he has delivered over 100 presentations worldwide during that time, including an invitation to present at the London School of Economics.
He has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Temple University and completed courses for a doctorate from George Washington University, served as an Executive for five years at the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University, has taught public policy at Santa Monica College, and completed Executive programs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Institute for International Development at Harvard University and the U.S. Army War College.
In his spare time he is a voracious reader and he has written a screenplay, a novel, which is expected to be published soon that touches on the perils of drilling for natural gas, a book of political and personal stories, and The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution, has appeared in several political documentaries including 14 Women, Electile Dysfunction, and Gasland 2.
He is the author of “The Evolution of a Revolution: An Attack Upon Reason, Compromise and the Constitution” and “Fracktured”, the definitive anti-fracking novel.
In this episode, Dr. Bark talks about politics, cannabis, corruption at CDC and pharma, Bought, Vaxxed plus ways to get and stay healthy.
Dr. Bark received her Medical Doctorate at Rush University in 1986 after studying psychology at the University of Illinois and University of London. She then trained in both pediatrics and rehab medicine at NYU and U of Ill. She immediately took the positing of director of the pediatric emergency room at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
After two years, she began her studies in alternative medical practices such as nutrition and classical homeopathy all while keeping her hands in emergency and urgent care medical work as well as starting her private practice in 1993.
In 2010, Dr Bark went off to Haiti to act as a volunteer physician and eventually returned two more time in response to the earthquake and cholera.
In 2010, Dr Bark also began a Masters program in healthcare emergency medicine at Boston University where she focused on vaccine safety, efficacy and ethics issues. She is currently an adjunct professor for the Boston graduate program, teaching the psycho-social effects of disaster.
Dr. Bark is an avid speaker at medical conferences and has been published on the topics of Homeopathy in medicine in two medical text books and most recently, was wrote a chapter about the lack of scientific evidence for mandated flu vaccines for health care workers, entitled “Policy without Reason” in a book edited by NYU legal research professor, Mary Holland.
Dr. Bark was co-producer of the documentary “Bought” and featured in the documentary “Silent Epidemic”. She is active in legislative issues and has given testimony for senate health committees
Dr. Bark has been featured in local and national magazines and was the feature article for O magazine July 2012.
Her blog can be found at www.disease-reversal.com and her specially formulated supplement to repair mitochondria and boost cognition (Invigoral) along with her favorite low glycemic, heavy metal-free, raw chocolates and natural skin care can be found at www.skinandchocolate.com.
You can find her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @doctorsensation.
Barbara Loe Fisher is president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she co-founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982. For the past three decades, she has led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system. She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject
She is co-author of the seminal book DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985); (get links to books below)author of The Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines (1997);Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic (2008) and Reforming Vaccine Policy & Law: A Guide (2014). She is a video commentator for the NVIC Newsletter and Mercola Newsletter and a blogger atwww.VaccineAwakening.blogspot.com. Her long public record of vaccine safety and informed consent advocacy was featured in the 2011 award winning film documentary THE GREATER GOOD.
Her 1985 book, DPT: A Shot in the Dark, which she co-authored with Harris Coulter, Ph.D., was the first major, well documented critique of America’s mass vaccination system calling for safety reforms and the right to informed consent to vaccination. She worked with Congress to include vaccine safety provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and with parents of vaccine injured children to bring the issue of vaccine safety to public attention, including leading demonstrations at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the White House in 1986.
She conducted research and developed a comprehensive library on childhood infectious diseases, vaccines and federal vaccine research, regulation and policymaking that serves as the foundation for information disseminated by NVIC. She coordinated five scientific conferences, including the 1989 International Scientific Workshop on Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines and four International Public Conferences on Vaccination in 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2009.
During the past 25 years, she has served as a consumer representative on vaccine advisory and public engagement committees, including the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (1988-1991); the Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum (1995-1998) where she helped coordinate five public workshops on vaccine safety issues; the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (1999-2002); the Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative (2002-2005); the Vaccine Safety Writing Group (2009) and is a member of the Consumer’s United for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Cochrane Collaboration – U.S. She provides public comment at federal health agency meetings, has testified in Congress and state legislative hearings and is a featured speaker at health care conferences.
Barbara has been quoted on the subject of vaccine safety and informed consent to vaccination in national news reports including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. Since 1993, she has debated more doctors on the subject of vaccination than any other American, including on NBC’s “The Today Show,” as well as on CNN, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America and National Public Radio. She has appeared in vaccine news reports on CBS “Sunday Morning News,” ABC “World News Tonight” ABC “Nightline,” PBS“Frontline” and CBS “The Doctors.”
She has authored position statements and articles that have contributed to the national dialogue about vaccine safety and informed consent, including “The Moral Right to Conscientious, Philosophical and Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination” (National Vaccine Advisory Committee 1997); “Shots in the Dark” (The Next City Magazine 1999); “Smallpox and Forced Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know” (The Vaccine Reaction 2002); “In the Wake of Vaccines” (Mothering Magazine 2004); “Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic” (Autism File2009); “Whooping Cough Outbreaks and Vaccine Failures” (NVIC Newsletter 2010); “Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy” (NVIC Newsletter 2011); “Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. the Evidence” (NVIC Newsletter 2012); “Measles Reports in America: What Does It mean?” (NVIC Newsletter 2013); and “Leave Parents Free to Choose Vaccines” (USA Today 2014).
The daughter of a nurse and an Army officer, she graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English and was a writer and community relations professional at a teaching hospital before becoming a Mom in 1978. The mother of three grown children, her oldest son suffered a convulsion, collapse and brain inflammation within hours of his fourth DPT shot in 1980 when he was two and a half years old and was left with multiple learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.
Jack Wolfson D.O., F.A.C.C., is a board certified cardiologist who uses nutrition and supplements to prevent and treat disease. After ten years performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac procedures, Dr. Wolfson started Wolfson Integrative Cardiology in 2012 to offer patients the ultimate in holistic heart care.
On this episode, we spend some time talking about how to heal the body using nutrition. We also discuss how to help a vaccine injured person heal.
Dr. Wolfson was raised in Chicago, attended Midwestern University for his D.O. degree and completed a 3 year Internal Medicine residency and 3 year cardiology fellowship. He was selected as the chief fellow of his class.
Together with his wife, Dr. Heather Wolfson DC, they are The Drs. Wolfson. Their website TheDrsWolfson.com is an excellent resource for holistic health and lifestyle information. The Drs. Wolfson have two beautiful boys who were born at home, nursed for over 3 years, and they are still co-sleeping.
Amazon Best Seller, The Paleo Cardiologist is the first book by Dr. Wolfson.
www.TheDrsWolfson.com
Leslie Manookian is an award-winning documentary film producer and writer and former successful Wall Street business executive. She chose to leave Wall Street at the height of her career in order to pursue a more meaningful path. She is a member of the Board of the Weston A. Price Foundation and has served as chapter leader for the Sun Valley/Ketchum, Idaho area since 2008. She is also a qualified homeopath, nutrition and wellbeing junky, and a health freedom advocate.
Originally from Idaho, Manookian’s career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. She later became Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research business. She learned of the vaccine debate while living and working in London and determined that one-day she would make a documentary exploring the issue. She conceived, wrote, and produced, The Greater Good, fulfilling that dream. She has been featured in a cover article in Barron’s, in numerous other financial publications, in dozens of TV, radio, print and Internet interviews, and a presenter at numerous conferences. She advocates for nutrient dense traditional foods and sustainable farming in here community. She has served on the board, managed or consulted for many organizations in her community. She has been active legislatively, playing a leading role in defeating the extension of a vaccine-tracking registry in Idaho and helping to secure legislation protecting consumer access to raw milk. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a BA from Middlebury College, and M.L.C. Hom from Lakeland College of Homeopathy.
www.GreaterGoodMovie.org (You can stream the film from the website and watch the trailer here)
Irene Pi is an activist who works tirelessly to educate people about the risks associated with vaccinations. #showupday was created by Irene to unify the country to visit your legislators to educate them about vaccine risks. Irene is also involved in helping to coordinate the CDC Truth and Transparency rally happening this month in Atlanta and other cities across the country.
Sue Elkind, E-RYT-500, RPYT Owner, Director is recognized internationally in the yoga community as a teachers teacher, with over 20 years of yoga experience. Her in-depth knowledge of alignment and therapeutics, along with her passion to teach from her heart, allows her students to expand their potential both physically and spiritually. Sue is an expert in prenatal and postnatal yoga and skilled in meditation. As an activist, Sue is dedicated to empowering women through yoga in all stages of life.
Sue is director of DIG Yoga's 200 and 500 hour Teacher Training programs, and developed a Pre/Post Natal Training that she offers worldwide. She enjoys donating her time teaching fundraisers for various causes and has presented at festivals like Wanderlust, Global Mala, Namas Day, Bermuda Yoga Festival, and Recharge in the Swiss Alps. Sue is the author of DIG Pregnancy, Birth & Baby: A Conscious and Empowered Approach to Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga and has been featured on the video Yoga Mama, for Crunch Fitness, as well as Fit Pregnancy, W Magazine, and Spa Magazine.
Inspired by keeping great company, quality time in nature and her loving her family, Sue co-founded DIG Yoga in 2010 with Naime Jezzeny in Lambertville, NJ, as a place to nourish the body, mind and heart with yoga.
Today's guest, Michelle Ford, is founder of VIAL - Vaccine Injury Awareness League. She started VIAL because she concerned that vaccine manufacturers have no accountability for their product because they have zero liability (thanks to Congress) for injury or harm. She's also concerned about the rising number of people getting harmed by vaccinations. One of their goals is to inspire those thinking about vaccinating to do their due diligence in regards to thoroughly examining the risks of each vaccine.
Michelle shares what prompted her getting involved in this awareness movement and what drives her to continue.
www.v-ial.org