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6:35 Charles Noonan, head of narcotics training at the SoRite Corporation. https://sorite.com/ He is a former DEA operational and hazardous site supervisor, with 26 years of experience, responsible for tactical assaults on clandestine laboratories as well as their complex dismantling and decontamination. Charlie has significant undercover experience investigating narcotic smuggling networks in Mexico, USA, Europe, and South America. SoRite has a really interesting product line, fighting toxins, pepper and self-defense sprays and chemicals to deactivate those sprays.
The killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” by Mexican military forces will trigger an unintended and immediate law enforcement and narcotic challenge inside the United States, the establishment of clandestine narcotic laboratories.
The decapitation of the cartel’s leadership will severely disrupt narcotic distribution routes into major American cities resulting in a classic supply shock: constrained access to fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine, rising wholesale prices and intensified competition among domestic gangs.
That vacuum will be filled by criminal networks establishing clandestine narcotic labs inside the United States, reducing reliance on cross-border trafficking while increasing the risk of volatile turf battles.
7:10 Outdoor report with Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com
7:35 Kevin Keating, Ward 4 city councilman for Medford – there is talk of yet another plan to change the layout of Main Street in downtown Medford.
8:10 Dr. Michael Guillén, known and loved by millions as the ABC News Science Editor, a post he filled for fourteen years (1988-2002). He appeared regularly on Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight. He also hosted Where Did It Come From?, a weekly, one-hour primetime series for The History Channel. He is a three-time Emmy Award winner and a member of the renowned Explorers Club.
We discuss his new documentary THE INVISIBLE EVERYWHERE watch the trailer – https://michaelguillen.com/
Dr. G also hosted and wrote the PBS special Wit, Grit, and Robot Games; the ten-part PBS series Great Minds of Business and Great Minds of Medicine; and the ABC-TV special SeaWorld Mother Earth Celebration with co-host Mayim Bialik (BLOSSOM, BIG BANG THEORY). He’s also advised and consulted for studios such as MGM, Fox and Buena Vista, as well as Walt Disney’s Epcot Center.
Dr. G also produced LITTLE RED WAGON, an award-winning theatrical motion picture written by Patrick Sheane Duncan (MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS), directed by David Anspaugh (RUDY, HOOSIERS).
Dr. G has written hundreds of articles for many publications, including Science News,
Psychology Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He’s an international best-selling author of many books, including: Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered his Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith; Let Creation Speak! 100 Invitations to Awe and Wonder; Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics; Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics; Can a Smart Person Believe in God?; Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree; The End of Life As We Know It: Ominous News From The Frontiers of Science.
Dr. G is president of Spectacular Science Productions and the Spectacular Science Foundation. He’s presently developing a number of television and movie projects. He speaks all over the world and provides science-related commentary pieces for Fox News. He resides with his family in Dallas, Texas.
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6:35 Todd Sheets author of the Newsletter, On Wealth and Progress, currently available free of charge on Substack, which is also available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple… and the book, 2008: What Really Happened.
More on Todd: Todd Sheets / Politics, Economics, and Well-Being
Trump Setting the Stage for a New World Order
By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
President Trump’s courage in committing us to change in the Middle East and Latin America and the deftness with which he and his team have so far executed on these missions has the potential to set the globe spinning in new directions. In this light, both his address to the nation and the events that follow could scarcely be more consequential. In addition to re-focusing America away from Europe’s stagnant socialism and self-defeating politics and towards the dynamism of a potential Middle Eastern and Latin American resurgence, these developments are potentially devastating to China’s global ambitions. [more…]
7:10 Former senator Herman Baertschiger discusses the brewing controversy on the Josephine County Board of Commissioners regarding the makeup of the Budget Committee – Yesterday, current commissioner Colene Martin asserted the dismissals had to do with lack of “conflicts of interest” paperwork by the three citizen members of the board. Baertschiger has a different take on what’s “really going on here”.
7:20 Diana Anderson – This Tuesday, April 14 at the Central Point Library the presentation is titled Technocracy: Stealing of Freedom, Knowledge, Thought and Reason. I’ll be introducing Margaret Anna Alice, creative writer and film maker. She has offered to show a short film “In Five Years”, an existential look at the future. The ‘digital deluge’ of freedom, knowledge, thought and reason is controlled by masters of a ‘technocracy’, foresighted for our present time. By whatever name given to this deluge – Post-post modernity, the great reset, Agenda 2030 or the ‘dark enlightenment’- the truth of it poses many questions, some answered, some hidden. Learn what will be headed for the trash bin and the digital trends, inclusive of ‘mandatory neural implanting’. Learn the dangers and risks of a universal income in a cashless society, the expanded personal information in your identity card, social credit system tracking and artificial intelligence all rolled up in WEFs Fourth Industrial Revolution. See their timeline maps.
Bring a friend Tuesday April 14, Central Point Library starting at 6:00. Thank you for sharing.
Diana Anderson lynndanderson@protonmail.com
7:35 Washington family lawyer Michelle T. Dellino, who frequently works with children’s court-appointed advocates, also known as “guardian ad litem,” says recent reporting has confirmed the concerns she and her colleagues share about the system in Washington state. A report by the nonprofit news site InvestigateWest found that there is little independent oversight in Washington of these court-appointed officials, leaving parents little recourse when their work is biased or otherwise inaccurate. Michelle and I discuss this and more, plus here’s here statement on the matter:
“Like any other profession, the guardian ad litem plays a valuable role in the courtroom, representing the best interests of the child during a divorce or other dispute. But like any other profession, there are going to be cases where they simply don’t do a good job. The problem right now is that the only venue in Washington for a parent or attorney to raise their concerns is the same courtroom where their own case is being decided. In other states, simple reforms such as making a public registry of complaints or creating a state ombudsman to oversee the guardian ad litem system have made a major difference. It’s long past time for Washington to look at how to make this system more fair and transparent so that they can best serve the needs of the child in the case.”
8:10 Captain William E. Simpson from the Wild Horse Fire Brigade – www.WildHorseFireBrigade.org
The US Forest Service’s Dangerous Budget Priorities: Spending Billions to Fight Fires While Ignoring Prevention
By: William E. Simpson II
Every year, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) receives billions of taxpayer dollars to manage our national forests and combat wildfires. Yet the agency’s own FY2026 enacted budget reveals a deeply flawed set of priorities that effectively monetizes wildfire at the expense of public safety, forest health, and American lives.
Using the core operating accounts provided in the FY2026 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations, here is how the money is actually allocated:
- Firefighting (Suppression): $1.011 billion → 24.5% of the core budget
- Wildfire / Fire Prevention (primarily Hazardous Fuels Reduction): $177 million → 4.3% of the core budget
- Salaries & Expenses (NFS + Wildland Fire Management): $2.676 billion → 64.9% of the core budget
- Sustainable Forest Management & Conservation: $67 million → 1.6% of the core budget
Total core budget analyzed: approximately $4.123 billion
The numbers are stark: nearly two-thirds of the budget goes to salaries, while only 4.3% is dedicated to actual prevention through hazardous fuels reduction — the very work that reduces the severity and frequency of future wildfires. Suppression (fighting fires once they start) receives almost six times more funding than prevention.
This is not just poor budgeting. It is a systemic incentive to monetize wildfire.
When the agency spends the vast majority of its money on salaries and on fighting fires after they ignite, rather than preventing them, it creates a self-perpetuating cycle. More fires mean more suppression funding, more overtime, more emergency appropriations, and more job security for agency personnel. Meanwhile, the American public pays the real price.
Wildfire smoke in the western United States is now linked to an estimated 36,000 premature deaths annually and $218 billion in related health and economic costs each year. These are not abstract statistics. They represent real people — children, grandparents, outdoor workers — whose lives are shortened by toxic smoke from fires that could have been less severe if prevention had been properly funded.
The foolishness is obvious: the USFS is spending a massive portion of its budget on personal gain (salaries and suppression operations) while allocating only a tiny fraction to the very prevention work that would protect forests, save lives, and save taxpayer dollars in the long run.
Sustainable forest management and conservation — the work that actually keeps forests healthy and resilient — receives just 1.6% of the core budget. This is not stewardship. This is mismanagement on a monumental scale.
A Proven, Cost-Effective Natural Solution Exists
Fortunately, a practical, nature-based alternative has already been field-tested and proven effective. The Wild Horse Fire Brigade Plan relocates genetically intact wild horses from BLM holding facilities into suitable, vacant wilderness areas where they naturally reduce fine fuels through grazing. This approach has been demonstrated during the 2018 Klamathon Fire, where strategic grazing by wild horses helped limit fuel loads in key areas. The plan is cost-effective, self-sustaining, and simultaneously solves the wild horse management issue while delivering measurable benefits to multiple public land stakeholders — including reduced wildfire risk for forests, watersheds, wildlife, rural communities, firefighters, and taxpayers.
There is a better way. Prevention must become the priority — not an afterthought. The current model benefits a few at the monumental expense of the many. That is not public service. That is fiscal and moral failure.
The forests, the wildlife, the air we breathe, and the lives of 36,000 Americans per year deserve far better.
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6:20 Wayne Barnes, former FBI Counterintelligence agent. Author of A TRAITOR IN THE FBI
The true story of the undercover operation to unmask the KGB’s mole in the FBI.
From author and former FBI counterintelligence agent Wayne Barnes: “In 1998, I was the undercover agent tasked to recruit a Russian who could unmask their spy in the FBI. Twenty-five years later, this story is still not known outside of the Bureau.
My mission was to befriend a former Soviet Embassy official at a film festival in Santa Monica and persuade him to betray
the KGB’s mole. He was to return to Moscow in eight days, and our nation’s security hung in the balance.
No one knew what I was doing, not local colleagues or family, and there was no paper trail, fearing the traitor might learn of our plan. He had turned over nuclear secrets and the name of our penetrations in the KGB-who were executed.
I profiled my target’s affinity for strong women and crafted a bold plan, never attempted with a Russian. An authoritative and impressive female agent would have to make the overture.
6:35 
Eric Peters, Automotive Journalist from www.EpAutos.com with today’s great “Wheels Up Wednesday” talk including these articles and more:
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/04/06/2026-mazda6/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/04/07/the-return-of-lenos-law/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/04/06/51-new-cases/
7:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation www.OregonFirearms.org
HB4145 is signed into law. This is good, what’s next? More at https://www.oregonfirearms.org/4145-is-law
7:35 Dr. John Lott Jr. economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
https://crimeresearch.org/about/
Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones
By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
It may sound hard to believe, but except for a very limited group of personnel, the military has treated its bases as gun-free zones. Until last week, only designated security forces – such as military police – could carry firearms while on duty. Commanders punished any other soldier caught carrying a weapon severely, with penalties ranging from rank reduction and forfeiture of pay to court-martial, dishonorable discharge, criminal conviction, and even imprisonment. That changed with a statement from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. [more…]
8:10 Controversy over the Jo County Commission, Commissioner Colene Martin responds to a call in the late 7pm hour from former Commissioner John West.
8:35 State Rep. Dwayne Yunker –
Rep. Yunker Calls for Civil Rights Investigation of Portland State University
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Representative Dwayne Yunker (R-Grants Pass) today issued a formal letter to Ben Cannon, Executive Director of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC), demanding an investigation into whether Portland State University (PSU) is violating state and federal civil rights laws.
The inquiry specifically cites the PSU Office of Academic Innovation’s promotion of the book Culture Clash as a Faculty Book Club selection for Spring 2026. Yunker argues that using state resources to encourage faculty to adopt racial stereotyping creates a hostile educational environment in direct conflict with established civil rights protections.
“The Legislative Assembly maintained PSU’s funding during the 2026 short session as an act of trust. It is a profound violation of that trust to use state resources to promote professional development that relies on divisive and disparaging racial stereotypes,” said Representative Yunker.
“As the HECC prepares the HB 4124 report on program financial viability and drafts the budget ask for the next biennium, we must scrutinize whether these administrative offices are a responsible use of taxpayer dollars. PSU is encouraging faculty to view students through reductive racial lenses, which stands in total opposition to the principles of equity and fair treatment,” Representative Yunker continued.
“We work for the people, and they deserve an immediate investigation into whether these programs violate civil rights protections by characterizing a large segment of Oregon’s student population in uniformly negative terms. The era of ‘automatic’ funding renewals is over; future investment must be contingent upon statutory compliance and institutional integrity,” said Representative Yunker.
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6:35 Ever wonder how we arrived at today’s death culture? It didn’t gather momentum in a vacuum. Able Americans’ Senior Researcher Mark Mostert, PhD concisely contextualizes this complex history in a readable 10-part series called “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?” Read Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 .
7:10 Kevin Gill from Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com discussing well health, how it’s looking for this dry year, and what well owners can do to improve the life of their well.
7:35 Former Senator Baertschiger and I discuss the latest in politics and news, the war, what happened to the Dems?
8:10 Great Talk with journalist and author MARK RAY CROMER, author of the must-read CALIFORNIA TWILIGHT: Essays and Memories of The End of The Golden State You can’t talk about the destruction of California without looking at immigration, and Mark is ALL over this.
The Medical Director for Sacramento County’s Indigent Services exposed a covert scheme putting illegal immigrants ahead of Americans. He was fired.
At the cusp of the Post-American Age…
In CALIFORNIA TWILIGHT: Essays and Memories of The End of The Golden State, journalist and author Mark Cromer makes his case that decades of political malfeasance and journalistic corruption of the American media helped upend the California way of life. Part reporter’s notebook, part memoir and eulogy to The Golden State by a second-generation native, CALIFORNIA TWILIGHT is a collection of fast-paced columns and in-depth essays that shine a light on California’s struggles to address illegal immigration, urban overcrowding, and seemingly unrelenting crime.
CALIFORNIA TWILIGHT introduces readers to characters like Dr. Gene Rogers, Sacramento County’s former Medical Director of Indigent Health Services, who was fired after he exposed a scheme allegedly set up to provide illegal immigrants healthcare services at the expense of the most impoverished American citizens.
Cromer also takes readers inside the chaotic City of Pomona, where police discovered a low-bid janitorial service that hired illegal immigrants to clean city hall, literally providing them keys and unfettered access to city resident records. Cromer argues the system that allowed illegal immigrants this kind of access is a symbol of the jettisoning standards and safeguards that are meant to protect American citizens and workers.
CALIFORNIA TWILIGHT offers a compelling warning to the rest of the nation—before it’s too late.
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6:35 Jim Bopp Jr. of the Bopp Law Group https://www.bopplaw.com/
Stand for Health Freedom Urges the U.S. Supreme Court Not to Trade Americans’ Safety for Pesticide Makers’ Immunity
NAPLES, FL — Stand for Health Freedom filed a friend of the court brief yesterday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject pesticide maker Monsanto’s claim that government approval of a product label removes Americans’ right to sue if the company does not warn about known health risks. The case, Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell (No. 24-1068), was brought by John Durnell, a Missouri man who developed cancer after years of using Roundup, one of the most widely used weedkillers in America, without being warned it could be dangerous. The brief supports Durnell.
“Congress never gave pesticide makers a free pass to hide health risks from the American people. FIFRA says registration is not a defense to civil liability for failure to warn on know risks — period,” said James Bopp, Jr., of The Bopp Law Firm, PC and counsel for SHF. “What the pesticide maker wants isn’t preemption. It’s immunity for damages to people its products injured with no federal remedy, compensation, or courtroom. The Constitution doesn’t allow that.”
The pesticide maker is trying to use the EPA’s approval of its Roundup label to block all state civil lawsuits. The federal pesticide law, called FIFRA, was created to set basic safety standards for labeling, not to give manufacturers immunity when their labels do not warn its users about known health dangers. Three separate juries found that the pesticide maker had substantial evidence that Roundup’s main ingredient could cause cancer and kept that information hidden. Bayer, the pesticide maker’s parent company, has paid about $11 billion to settle more than 100,000 claims.
Durnell sued because the pesticide maker never placed a cancer warning on the Roundup label, even though it had knew of the risk. A Missouri jury awarded him $1.25 million. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and will decide if the EPA’s approval of a label can block all state civil lawsuits for failing to warn. This case will determine whether Americans retain any legal right to hold pesticide makers accountable when they fail to disclose known health dangers.
“Stand for Health Freedom is filing this brief on behalf of nearly one million Americans to ensure the Court understands what this case means for the people most impacted,” said Leah Wilson, Executive Director of SHF. “We are actively fighting and defeating these same liability shields across the country. This is an improper use of tort reform that would strip states, courts, and individuals of the ability to hold corporations accountable for marketing dangerous products without warnings of know health risks. We want the Court to understand that the American people will bear the cost if accountability is lost.”
The U.S. Supreme Court docket for Monsanto Company v. Durnell (No. 24-1068) is available here, and the SHF brief is available on the docket here
7:20 John Shively, CEO of Pebble Partnership – https://pebblepartnership.com/
Shively is a former Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources.
Fox News Digital just broke a major story: the Trump administration is defending a Biden-era EPA veto that has locked up the world’s largest undeveloped copper deposit in Alaska, and Donald Trump Jr.’s past opposition to the project is casting a shadow over the whole fight.
Pebble CEO John Shively told Fox News the DOJ’s position “conflicts a little bit” with President Trump’s own agenda on critical minerals and AI dominance. He also penned an op-ed in RealClearEnergy laying out why the EPA veto doesn’t just threaten one project, it creates a regulatory “kill switch” that any future administration could use to preemptively block mines, pipelines, and energy infrastructure even after the science clears them. Briefing in the lawsuit is set to wrap mid-April, and a court decision could come anytime after that.
Why this matters:
- 6.4 billion pounds of copper locked underground while China controls over half of global copper refining
- The U.S. imports roughly 45% of its copper supply. Pebble alone could cover 15% of American demand
- S&P Global projects copper demand to surge 50% by 2040, driven by AI infrastructure and defense spending
- U.S. mine permitting averages 29 years. Competitors take under 5. Beijing is not waiting
- The project has attracted nearly $1 billion in investment, including $150 million in environmental studies
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Brandon Drury: Baseball Standout
By Dennis Powers
Born in 1992, Brandon Drury lived in the Rogue Valley and went to Grants Pass High School. He played shortstop for the Grants Pass Cavemen and became a first-team, all-state selection in his senior year (2010). The Atlanta Braves pursued him that year—and drafted him straight out of high school in the 13th round. Drury needed to decide whether to play baseball for the perennial nationally-ranked Oregon State baseball team, or to go with the Atlanta Braves. He chose Atlanta.
His professional debut was with the Gulf Coast Braves, but needed to adjust in playing pro-ball as a teenager; Drury batted .198 in 192 at bats. The following year (2011), he played in the Appalachian League (for rookies), hitting .347 with 265 at-bats—and was named the league’s MVP. While playing for the Rome Braves of the Class A South Atlantic League, however, he hit only .229 in 445 at-bats (an off-year, when he adjusted his batting style) in 2012.
Drury headed to Arizona in 2013 in a blockbuster trade involving different players and three-time All-Star outfielder Justin Upton (to Atlanta). He played his first season with the South Bend Silver Hawks in the Diamondbacks organization, hitting .302 in 134 games with 15 home runs. The 2014 season was at the Visalia Rawhide (Class A), being promoted in August to the Mobile Bay Bears of the Class AA Southern League. He had a .299 batting average, 23 home runs, and 95 RBI.
During these years, Drury was on different minor-league all-star teams and in 2011, 2013, and 2015 was an all-star on MLB.COM’s list. In 2015, the Diamondbacks invited Drury to spring training and assigned him to Mobile to start the season. In June, he was promoted to the Reno Aces of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, his seventh minor league team in five years. The Diamondbacks called Drury up to the major leagues on September 1, 2015, and he made his debut that day for the remaining short season.
In the following year, the Diamondbacks occasionally started Drury in the outfield as well as second and third base to keep his bat in the lineup. He hit for a .282 average with 16 home runs in 134 games. Drury then hit .267 with 13 home runs and 63 RBIs in 135 games in 2017.
Arizona sent Drury to the New York Yankees in a three-team trade in February 2018 that included five players (plus two to be named later). This year was inauspicious as due to injuries, he played for the Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and a minor league rehab team after suffering a broken left hand. Playing a number of positions, he struggled offensively with the Blue Jays, hitting .219 (2019) with 15 home runs in 120 games. The struggle continued, as he played in 2021 for the NY Mets, a minor league team, and then elected free agency.
In 2022, he played for the Cincinnati Reds (having signed a minor-league contract) and making the team as the starting third-baseman, then was traded to the San Diego Padres later in the year, hitting overall .268 with 28 home runs in 138 games (his fifth MLB club in five years). Next, he was traded to the Los Angeles Angels where he signed a two-year, $17-million contract. In 2023, he played in the infield for the Angels as a starter with 26 home runs, but he was released the following year after an injury and a below-average performance. Drury is currently signed with the Kansas City Royals, playing in the minors and this team. (He has been in the top 10 NBL season statistics at different years for doubles and slugging percentage.)
A journeyman baseball player, Drury shows grit, talent, and perseverance.
Sources: “Wikipedia: Brandon Drury” at Drury Biography; Mail Tribune, “Grants Pass’ Drury traded to Yankees,” February 20, 2018; Brandon Drury, Baseball Reference.com at Statistics.
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