The Ripple Effect Podcast

Lauren Fix lives life in the fast lane--literally. When this automotive expert, author, spokesperson, keynote speaker, TV personality, ASE certified technician, race car driver, wife, and mother of two roars past, head’s turn. Lauren Fix is an award-winning author of three automotive books, was the National Automotive Correspondent for Time Warner Cable and has appeared on Oprah, TODAY, 20/20, Regis & Kelly, The View, CNBC, CNN, FOX News, HLN and MSNBC, to name a few. Whether she’s perfecting her new line of automotive products, sharing her CAR SMARTS®, reporting live from one of the world's top auto shows, test driving the latest hot ride, or debating an industry crisis in front of multiple cameras, Lauren Fix is never finished reinventing the wheel.

Douglas Valentine is an author, journalist & historian. Douglas has lectured and appeared on TV and radio talk shows, testified as an expert witness, served as documentary film consultant and worked as a private investigator. His previous books include The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, and The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA. He is also the editor of the poetry anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century.

James Corbett of The Corbett Report, Jeffrey Wilson and Pat Miletich of Conspiracy Farm joins Ricky Varandas for another roundtable SwapCast. This time they break down the history of Big Oil carbon eugenics agenda and the future of the technocratic post-carbon world.

The Big Secret is the latest work by five-time Emmy Award-winning producer Alex Voss and multi award winning film maker and integrative physician, Dr. Susan Downs. What started as a personal journey to regain his health, Alex came face to face with with the sad reality concerning the influence that big money has on our health and well being. The Big Secret looks at the history of medicine in the US and the influence that wealth and power have on the decisions that your doctor makes concerning your medical care. This shocking documentary is the result of research and personal interviews with leading experts in the fields of medicine and nutrition. "Our goals," says Voss and Downs, "are to empower people with knowledge and start a conversation that will ultimately lead to life-saving changes to our personal health, and reform in our healthcare system." The Big Secret is only the beginning.

Richard Gage is a San Francisco Bay Area architect of 30 years, member of the American Institute of Architects, and founder and CEO of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. During his architectural career, Gage has worked on most types of building construction, including numerous fire-proofed, steel-framed buildings.Gage began his quest for the truth about the collapse of the WTC high-rises after hearing on the radio the startling conclusions of reluctant 9/11 researcher David Ray Griffin. Since founding AE911Truth, he has delivered his live multimedia presentation 9/11: Blueprint for Truth more than 550 times in dozens of foreign countries and 110 American cities to audiences ranging in size from 100 to 4,000. He has appeared in more than 600 radio and television interviews.His most recent project, before making AE911Truth his full-time endeavor, was working on the construction documents for a $400M mixed-use urban project with 1.2 million square feet of retail, 320,000 square feet of mid-rise office space and parking structure — altogether consisting of about 1,200 tons of steel framing.

Dr Kendra Becker-Musante is an integrated physician practicing in for over 10 years; She is Connecticut’s “4A Specialist” (asthma, autism, allergies, atopy/eczema). She is board certified as a ND and APRN. Her specialties include MTHFR, fertility and treatment of “the 4As” (asthma, autism, allergies, atopy/eczema). Dr. Becker focuses on primarily treating the pediatric population and their parents. Dr. Becker is adjunct Faculty at 2 prominent universities, and precepts student Doctors and Nurse Practitioners. Dr Becker lectures all over the country on topics such as autism, the immune system, MTHFR & genetic mutations that have health implications and “Keeping Healing in the Home” Dr Becker is the author of “A Delicious Way to Heal the Gut” and recently released her second book “All you CAN Eat” Dr Becker was chosen as one of Connecticut’s “Top Naturopathic Doctors” & 10BEST APRNs

Today I am joined by an healthcare whistleblower, who for many reasons including her safety, has decided to stay anonymous for the time being. After a mutual friend connected us, I suggested she come on and share her story, so here it is.

James Corbett, is a researcher, filmmaker, writer, historian, podcaster & creator of The Corbett Report, which is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source.Chris Emery is an investigative journalism & film producer for Free Mind Films, who's work includes State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control, ShadowRing, and A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, which is available on Amazon Prime and is the topic of today's show.

Rebecca D. Costa is an author, sociobiologist & futurist. She is the preeminent global expert on the subject of "fast adaptation" and recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her career spans four decades of working with founders, executives and leading venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Costa's work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, and other leading publications. She presently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Lifeboat Foundation along with futurist Ray Kurzweil and Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman, Eric S. Maskin, Richard J. Roberts and Wole Soyinka.Rebecca is also the author of On The Verge, The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, and The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction.

Scott Horton is the host of AntiWar Radio, The Scott Horton Show, author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, managing director of the Libertarian Institute & one of the most knowledgeable & respected researchers in foreign policy & geopolitics.