Aquarian Radio, Debra DeFranco, Dr Sasha Alex Lessin, Elephants in Our Rooms, Janet Kira Lessin, Steve Bhaerman

Elephants in Our Rooms ~ 11/19/20 ~ Hosts Janet Kira Lessin, Debra DeFranco, Guests Steve Bhaerman

This week our guests this week: Steve Bhaerman

Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For over 33 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.” Marianne Williamson has called him “The Mark Twain of our generation.”

As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction (2004).


In his “past life” (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School. A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College. In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics. Subsequent to Pathways, Steve was a freelance writer and co-author with Don McMillan of Friends and Lovers: How to Meet the People You Want to Meet (Writer’s Digest Books, 1986).

On the “serious” side, Steve has co-authored Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton (Hay House, 2009).  Steve’s radio show, Wiki Politiki can be heard on Om Times Radio (https://wikipolitiki.com/ and he’s online at http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/.  He is working with a new platform, https://mobilized.news/ to bring Spontaneous Evolution into the current scene in the form of RESET and Re-Imagine Humanity.

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BY NATALIE COLAROSSI ON 11/18/20 AT 11:46 AM EST

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-dakota-nurse-dying-covid-patients-dont-believe-coronavirus-real_n_5fb2d425c5b6aad41f72129d

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“A horror movie that never ends”.

>>> DONALD TRUMP IS THE LOSER OFTHE ELECTION.AND LATELY, HE HAS BEEN ADDING TO THAT LOSS RECORD IN COURT. NOW, WE’VE BEEN COVERING THESE CASES ON “THE BEAT” FOR WHAT THEY ARE, THEATRICS FROM A BILL BARR ELECTION MEMO THAT MADE HEADLINES FOR ABOUT A DAY, EVEN AS IT DIDN’T CHANGE ANYTHING, WHICH WE SHOWED YOU THE MOMENT THE NEWS BROKE.

TO A SERIES OF IRRELEVANT COURT CASES THAT ARE BASICALLY BEING TOSSED OR PULLED BY TRUMP ALLIES THEMSELVES.AN ALLEGATION IN A PENNSYLVANIALAWSUIT DROPPING THE CLAIM THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTSSHOULD HAVE BEEN TOSSED BECAUSE OF HOW THEY WERE MONITORED.NOW VOTERS IN FOUR OTHER KEY STATES WHO HAD ALLEGED VOTER FRAUD ARE DROPPING THEIRLAWSUITS.

THIS IS A CONTINUING TRICKLE OFCOURTROOM FAILURES THAT HAVEBEEN TIED TOGETHER BY THE VICEEDGE OF THIS MAN, TRUMP LAWYER RUDY GIULIANI, WHO IS NOWSUPPOSED TO LEAD SOME NEWLITIGATION BUT WILL WORK INDEPENDENT OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S FORMAL LEGAL OPERATION, WHICH EVENREPUBLICANS ADMIT IS ANOTHER SIGN THAT TRUMP IS GIVING UP ONTHE FORMAL ATTEMPT TO WIN CASES, AND INSTEAD TURNING TO A TVLAWYER WHO COULD JUST USE THE THEME OF COURT AS A FOUNDATION FOR THESE THEATRICS.

GIULIANI’S DEFINITELY ALREADY GOING DOWN THAT ROAD WITHOUTLANDISH AND FALSE CLAIMS ONFOX NEWS THIS WEEKEND.NOW, YOU’RE ABOUT TO HEAR SOME OF THE FALSE CLAIMS THAT WE HAVEBEEN FACT CHECKING, FOLLOWED BYA LEGAL EXPERT WHO WILL FURTHERCORRECT THEM.SO JUST BUCKLE UP BRIEFLY FOR THIS BONKERS CLIP.>>

HE’S GOTTEN MORE EVIDENCE OFTHE RIGGING THAT WENT ON. HE’S REALLY OUTRAGED. IT’S WAY BEYOND WHAT PEOPLE THINK, INCLUDING A VERY, VERY DANGEROUS FOREIGN COMPANY, A COMPANY THAT HAS CLOSE, CLOSE TIES WITH VENEZUELA AND THEREFORE CHINA.

IT’S A RADICAL LEFT COMPANY. ONE OF THE PEOPLE THERE IS A BIG SUPPORTER OF ANTIFA. OUR VOTES ARE SENT OVERSEAS. THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO TRY TO DEFEAT HIM BY ILLEGAL MEANS. IT’S NO DIFFERENT THAN THE IMPEACHMENT.

IT’S DONE BY LARGELY THE SAME PEOPLE.>> THE REFERENCE TO IMPEACHMENT IS PARTICULARLY RICH BECAUSE ITWAS THE FORMER MAYOR OF UKRAINE’S PLOT THAT GOT HIS CLIENT, PRESIDENT TRUMP, IMPEACHED.THEN, AS NOW, DONALD TRUMP ISRELEARNING A VERY OLD LEGALCONCEPT.MO GIULIANI, MO PROBLEMS.

WE TURN NOW TO FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR JOHN FLANNERY, WHO KNOWS GIULIANI PERSONALLY. YOU CAN SEE THEY WORKED TOGETHER IN THE MID-1970s. HE HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE ASWELL AS ADVISING CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THESE TYPES OF ISSUES.

GOOD TO SEE YOU, SIR.>> GOOD TO SEE YOU, ARI.>> LET’S START WITH THE GIULIANIOF IT.I GUESS THIS IS WHERE THEVAUNTED LEGAL CHALLENGES END.FITTINGLY, PERHAPS, NOT IN COURTROOM, NOT IN SOME OTHER METHOD OF PROTEST OR CIVILDISOBEDIENCE OR ANYTHING THAT MAY BE VAGUELY CIVIC.>> RIGHT.>> BUT IN A FOX NEWS GREEN ROOM.>> WELL, THAT’S THE SAFEST PLACE TO TELL LIES THESE DAYS, YOU KNOW? FAUX NEWS — MAYBE YOU CAN’T SAY IT, BUT I CERTAINLY CAN, AND OBJECTIVELY, IF YOU TAKE THAT BONKERS SEGMENT THAT YOU JUST HAD, HE MADE REFERENCE TO CONTACTS TO VENEZUELA AND TO STRONGMEN AND SO FORTH, AND THAT CORPORATION HAS NONE.

THEY REACHED OUT FOR A LIBERALCONTRIBUTOR AND TRIED TO MERGETHAT TOGETHER WITH IT. AND THAT’S NOT TRUE.SO IT’S ALWAYS BEEN TRUE, I GUESS FROM DAY ONE WITH TRUMP, EVEN AS A CANDIDATE YOU COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE SAID, UNLESS MADE AN ADMISSION AGAINST HIS OWN INTERESTS. AND RUDY GIULIANI HAS BEEN THATAND WORSE. SORT OF HE’S MADE ADMISSIONS FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

AND THE WORST THING WE HAVE HERE IS A MAN WHO HAD THE CAPACITY ASA YOUNG MAN TO BE A GREAT TRIAL LAWYER AND A GREAT MODEL FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE LAW IN AMERICA.INSTEAD, HE’S TAKING THE TALENTS HE’S LOST AS A YOUNG MAN AND DISTORTING AND MISREPRESENTING OUR ELECTION PROCESS. AND HE’S ATTACKING IT WITH NO FACTS. AND ANY OF THESE ACTIONS, JUDGESWE’RE LUCKY TO HAVE, WHO HAVE QUESTIONED THE FACTS, YOU KNOW, WAS THERE A PERSON WHO COULD OBSERVE. OH, WELL, YEAH, THERE WAS AND THEY WERE CLOSER, BUT WE HAD OTHER PEOPLE THAT WE WANTED TO BE PRESENT.

THERE ARE THESE KINDS OF CONTRADICTIONS. AND THEN WHEN PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO COME TO COURT AND BE JUDGED BY A JUDGE WHO IS GOING TO ASKFACTS AND SEE IF THE LAW FITS, THEY EITHER WITHDRAW THE CASE OR IT’S THROWN OUT. SO I THINK THE LONG GAME HERE ISTO UNDERMINE OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS.

AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT — I MEAN, YOU HAD SCHIFF ON HERE AFEW MOMENTS AGO, AND I WAS GLAD TO HEAR HIM SPEAK, BUT IF WE GO BACK TO THAT, WHAT WAS TRUMP TO DO FOR HIS PUPPET MASTER PUTIN? WAS IT TO DESTROY OR TO COMPROMISE OR TO HARM IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE THE AMERICAN PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE AND LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION? I THINK SO.

WHAT DOES HE GET OUT OF IT? I DON’T KNOW. IS IT DEFENSIVE OR WHATEVER? BUT IF YOU WERE TO TAKE HOW HE’S RUN THIS ELECTION AND HOW HE’S FAILED US IN THE CORONAVIRUS, JUST THE MOST RECENT ERRORS, AND HOW HE’S COMPROMISED OUR SOCIETY. THESE ARE — HE IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. HE IS THE ENEMY OF THE STATE. AND IF WE HAD TIME, HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED SO HE COULD NEVER HOLD OFFICE AGAIN. AND RIGHT BEHIND HIM SHOULD BERUDY GIULIANI WHO IS GOING INTO COURT AND APPARENTLY THERE IS A CONSPIRACY OF A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES WHO ARE PREPARED TO TELL THE MOST BIZARRE THINGS TO JUDGES INORDER TO DISTORT THIS PROCESS.

AND IT WAS INTERESTING, IN THE LAWSUIT THAT WAS FILED THAT ISCONSIDERED FRIVOLOUS, RIGHTLY SO, IN PENNSYLVANIA, THEY MADE REFERENCE TO GORE AGAINST BUSH. AND IT’S LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO SQUEEZE WHAT THEY DON’T HAVE INFACT INTO SOME — SOMETHING LIKE THE QUESTION OF EQUAL PROTECTION IN FLORIDA, WHERE THERE WAS A SEPARATION OF, I DON’T KNOW, 574VOTES.

WHEREAS WE HAVE — IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY — SOMETHING LIKE 70,000 SPREAD IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY STATE IN WHICH BIDEN IS BEATING HIS FILL IN THE BLANK.

AND SO I THINK WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS RUDY HAS PROVEN HIMSELF BY HIS DIFFERENT ADVENTURES, ROGUE RUDY OR SILLY RUDY WHEN HE’S NOT PROTECTING HIS SHIRT OR WHATEVER ELSE HE’S DOING, HE IS PART OF THIS CABAL OF PEOPLE WHO COMPROMISE WHAT’S BEST OF AMERICA AND LITERALLY SUPPORT A MAN WHO IS BY DOING NOTHING KILLING PEOPLE IN AMERICA, NOT PROTECTING US AGAINST THIS VIRUS. SO IF THERE’S — IF THERE’S A LEGAL PATHOGEN, IT’S THIS DUO, AND IF THERE IS ONE THAT’S TRUE.

Massive dataset reveals which governments have best responded to COVID-19 pandemic
Researchers study the ability of democracies to react to global crisis

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Citing lack of evidence, courts across the country dismiss Trump’s election lawsuits

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Researchers discovered a COVID-19 patient who shed the novel coronavirus for 70 days without showing any symptoms during the period. The patient suffered from a form of leukemia, which might explain why the immune system could not mount a proper response that would have cleared the virus. Immunosuppressed patients risk infections like COVID-19 and may…

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