Hearts Across The Waters: Recent Episodes
Masake Kane and Anab Whitehouse
Two individuals -- one from Senegal (Masake Kane) and one from the United States (Anab Whitehouse) -- join together to explore an array of philosophical, educational, political, economic, medical, cultural, technological, scientific, and spiritual issues from their respective perspectives. While both individuals are Muslim and, therefore, such a spiritual orientation helps shape their ways of engaging life, nonetheless, the tenor of the podcasts will be to focus on topical issues through a process of critically reflective inquiry (by the two co-hosts along with thoughts and insights from occasional guests) which seeks to highlight a variety of conceptual themes that might be of potential value, as well as to raise relevant questions that could serve as food for thought, among members of the listening audience.
Three essential, interacting components of geoengineering are explored in some detail -- (1) superheated water vapor from power plant cooling towers; (2) chemtrails consisting of heavy metals, endocrine disrupters, nanotechnology, as well as bioengineered materials; and, (3) nexrad Doppler radar facilities
Masake provides an overview of some of the ideas at the heart of Maria Montessori's views concerning adolescents and education, while Anab continues exploring different facets of the Stanford Prison Experiment as well as traces out some of the parallels between the Stanford Prisoner Experiment and the experiment in democracy known as the Philadelphia Constitution of 1787.
During the first part of the 'Hearts Across the Waters' podcast, Masake explores various ideas concerning the problem of becoming persistent with the issue of consistency, while in the second part of the podcast, Anab follows up on the previous podcast's comments focusing on the Milgram 'learning' experiment with a foray into the Stanford prison experiment.
This episode focuses on providing an overview of the Stanley Milgram "learning" experiments of the early 1960s, as well as engages in a series of critical reflections concerning whether the driving force being given expression by the participants of those experiments was a matter of "obedience" or a function of a process involving the ceding of agency to others based on various forms of trust. In addition, the implications of the foregoing experiments for democracy are briefly examined.
During part 1 of the podcast, Masake Kane provides an overview of a theory known as the Grand Solar Minimum and, then she proceeds to describe some of the implications which the GSM perspective carries in relation to our lives. In part 2, Anab Whitehouse explores the qualities of a teacher and links those qualities to the principles of sovereignty that were discussed in Episode 5 of the Hearts Across the Waters podcast.
Forty-one principles of sovereignty are briefly explored. If one actively engages these principles through a process of critical reflection, there is much food for thought that is contained in the podcast that concern the issue of self-governance.
Masake explores some ideas surrounding the issue of labels that are placed upon people, as well as relates some information and insights concerning her own development as a political being over time in conjunction with the labeling ideas that are reflected upon in the first part of her presentation. Anab offers some critical reflections concerning Erving Goffman's notion of "framing analysis" and, then, applies those findings to the topic of technocracy.
In the first segment of the podcast, Masake Kane critically reflects on certain aspects of the system of education in the United States, France, and Senegal. She concludes -- at least in part -- that systems of education rooted in various kinds of ideology may be a problem. In the second part of the podcast, Anab Whitehouse briefly explores several books written by John Perkins concerning his life as an economic hit man.
According to Dr. Banks, a strategy was developed by individuals associated with diamond mining to misdirect attention away from the actual causes of the AIDS-like diseases that were occurring among many Africans, and, thereby, evade any sort of liability for what was taking place. In other words, instead of focusing on the unhealthy conditions that existed in and around, for example, mining operations and noting how those conditions were responsible for many of the diseases being experienced by Africans, financial forces associated with diamond mining induced people – both in Africa and elsewhere -- to believe that such diseases were the result of a virus – namely, HIV – that was being transmitted through sexual activity and contaminated blood components and which supposedly led, in time, to the development of AIDS.
Just as opium had been introduced into countries like China by various financial forces in order to destabilize that nation and, thereby, render it vulnerable to all manner of economic and political exploitation, so too, AZT (a-zido-thy-madine) and other antiviral drugs (which actually create precisely the same sort of symptoms that are being attributed to HIV) have been introduced into Africa. As a result, tens of thousands, if not millions, of people died in Africa, not only for iatrogenic reasons -- since the drugs being prescribed by people like Anthony Fauci for individuals in Africa who had been diagnosed with AIDS were also the reason why many Africans were dying -- but, as well, because all of the millions of dollars that were being directed to the rigged and duplicitous fight against AIDS in Africa could have been spent on ensuring that Africans would have access to the sort of clean drinking water, proper sanitation, and appropriately nutritious food that would have helped them to avoid the sort of biological breakdown that led to AIDS-like disease. Instead, another element of destabilization was introduced into African society by financial forces in order to preserve the profits of the owners of the diamond mines, and protect them against any kind of financial liability for being responsible for the condition of economically depressed Africans, as well as to protect other kinds of economic exploitation that were taking place in Africa, and, thereby, maintain, if not extend, their financial empire.
According to Dr. Banks, the on-going set of tragedies is made possible by the manner in which an array of financial forces have come to control the flow of information that, among other things, shapes medicine by means of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as through the way in which medical students are taught in universities, medical and science journals are operated, research dollars are allocated, and healthcare is practiced.
In the United States, the Rockefeller Foundation is cited as one of the financial forces that has played a major role in shaping the whole notion of what is meant by medicine, but Dr. Banks also points out that one can actually trace the aforementioned financial shaping process back to the activities of the Dutch and British East India corporations that, among other things, ran opium operations in different countries during the 17th and 18th centuries … operations that have continued on throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Afghanistan, and the United States via some of the activities of, among others, the CIA and such operations are often protected by members of the Department of Justice, if not various members of Congress .
Dr. Banks indicates in her “Empire” book that opium, heroin, cocaine, and other drugs have been pushed by such corporations and intelligence agencies in order to introduce destabilizing forces within any given targeted society. … and black communities in America have been one of the targets of such destabilizing agendas.
The hosts for the "Hearts Across the Waters" podcast discuss aspects of their respective lives involving education, the origin and etymology of their names, the Sufi path, role models, and political activism.