John Byfield, together with his wife Kate launched the Eco-Discovery Tour in 2009. Having sold their house and many of their belongings they left their home in Bend, OR and loaded up their solar powered vintage 1962 Airstream trailer to begin what became a nearly two year journey across America. Traveling the country without a set itinerary, they stopped in communities along the way and shared their small space, energy efficient lifestyle with the public by doing free shows at a number of venues including green festivals and a variety of eco-friendly retailers and businesses they found along the way. Crossing the country at the height of the current economic depression they experienced first hand the economic hardship and the incredible resiliency of the American people as they chronicled their journey through their website and blog.
John grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has spent most of his professional career in the bicycle business. He is an avid amateur photographer and occasional blogger. He and Kate currently reside in Portland, OR.
First Guest Appearance: February 14, 2012
Ellen Brown on the move to state banks and the state of banking.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from
the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.
Kristi Boswell serves as the Director of Congressional Relations in the Public Policy Department handling labor issues for the Voice of Agriculture, the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Prior to joining America Farm Bureau Federation, Kristi practiced corporate defense litigation, including labor and employment, at Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP in Omaha, Nebraska. Before attending law school, Kristi worked as an aide to former Nebraska State Senator Pamela Redfield in the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature.
Kristi grew up on a farm in southeastern Nebraska where her family raised corn and soybeans. Kristi graduated with a Bachelor’s degree i agricultural economics from the University of Nebraska in 2004 and received her Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2009. Kristi is licensed to practice law in Iowa and Nebraska.
A lifelong conservative, Daniel Borchers is a Vietnam-era military veteran with experience as an intelligence analyst and report writer, editor of Windjammer, an overseas naval newsletter, and a graduate of Excelsior College in New York.
Mr. Borchers is Founder and Editor of BrotherWatch, a newsletter which examines political, social, cultural and religious issues from a Christian conservative perspective. BrotherWatch debuted in August, 1996 and has featured interviews with people across the political spectrum, from Alan Keyes to Alan Colmes.
Mr. Borchers has published articles in The Lambda Report, The Washington Monthly, The Palladium-Item, The Worldwide News, The Last Ditch, The Maryland Star and Expanse magazine, and his letters to the editor have been published in The Washington Times, on MSNBC, and on the Fox News Channel.
Mr. Borchers has appeared on numerous radio talk shows, including The Lonesome Charlie Show, The Joyce Kaufman Show, Louisianna Live with Jim Engster, The Chris Bowman Show, The Richard Kaffenberger Show, Talk of the Town with Evie Ybarra, The Louie Free Show, The Jeff Katz Show, Talkline with Doug Graham, the Doug Stephan Show, Bert Lee Show, The Frank Beckmann Show, Michelson in the Morning, The Brian Shaw Show, The Hal Ginsberg Show, and Basham & Cornell.
Disenchanted by the hypocrisy and corruption which have invaded the Conservative Movement, Mr. Borchers founded Citizens for Principled Conservatism in the fall of 2001. In his role as Founder and President of CPC, Mr. Borchers seeks to reinvigorate principles and ideals within the Conservative Movement and he views the extremist elements within that Movement as both dangerous and self-destructive.
Citizens for Principled Conservatism is a nationwide network of citizens seeking the restoration of conservative principles and ideals, goals and behavior within the Conservative Movement. We believe that the exaltation of extremist elements within the Conservative Movement is emblematic of the moral and ideological corruption which has invaded Conservatism. CPC seeks to counter this dangerous development.