Journalist and winner of 15 Emmys, Brian T. Brown discussed the delusions, absurdities, and secrets of the Cold War including nuclear weapons, Russian intrigue, and even UFO sightings. Brown began with a discussion of the end of WWII in Japan and his research which indicates that the Japanese were already going to surrender when the decision was made to drop the atomic bomb in August of 1945. He says the real reason that the go-ahead was given to deploy the first (and only) nuclear weapons ever in war was because President Truman wanted "to scare Stalin" (the Soviet leader) into realizing that the US had them. Brown said the U.S. Government covered this up and announced that the reason was to save millions of American lives that would be lost in an invasion of Japan. 

Brown said that the period after WWII was "a very unsettled time in America" and the subject of UFOs fed into the fear and paranoia of the time. He mentioned the Ronald Reagan was a big fan of the science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," which featured aliens threatening Earth if we did not eliminate our nuclear weapons. This lifelong obsession caused him to ask his Soviet counterpart Gorbachev what he would do if aliens invaded and used it as an opening to nuclear arms reduction talks. Brown also reported that although Stalin was a fan of American cowboy movies, when he found out that John Wayne was a virulent anticommunist, he sent agents to assassinate the actor. Brown declared that the current president, Vladimir Putin "is Ivan the Terrible, a czar" and another in a long history of Russian leaders who are "surrounded by a lot of rich folks, and the rest of the population suffers." 

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A trained psychotherapist, angel channel, healer, and teacher, Corin Grillo has helped people all over the world discover the reality of angels. Grillo recounted the conditions that led to her discovery of an angel presence in her life. She described the first 35 years of her life as "a tragic experience" which caused her "lifelong depression." A friend bought her an "angel reading" during which a therapist described her life in detail that Grillo thought impossible. The woman advised her to start talking to angels as if they were real, and soon she began noticing coincidences involving angels such as seeing them in advertisements, in songs, etc. Soon after this, Grillo said she was driving when "a bird fell from the sky" in front of her car. She silently asked an angel to help the animal and then saw what she perceived as three different birds rise from where the first had fallen and rise into the sky. 

Grillo said that "Almost every religion all acknowledge that there are some kind of benevolent beings that are here to support humans" and added that she has "never met someone who didn’t have some kind of angel helper." She believes that some of us unconsciously "hire" negative beings to help us with our suffering, and that we must recognize this unhealthy behavior. Her book describes a 21-day experiment or practice to invite angels into your life and to "detox from negativity." Part of this practice, she said was to create a "sacred space" in your house that can act as a portal for angelic beings. Grillo concluded that "people’s lives are changed when they open up to at least the possibility of the divine in their life." 

News segment guests: Dr. John Curtis, Peter Breggin.

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