{"id":1074,"date":"2010-05-20T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:30:18","slug":"may-22-2010-john-paul-leonard-our-totalitarian-open-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"May 22, 2010, John-Paul Leonard, &#8220;Our Totalitarian Open Society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1075\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jplpicutre.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/> May 22, 2010 Podcast\/Show Archive\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2010.gcnlive.com\/Archives2010\/may10\/AmerikaNow\/0522101.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 1<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2010.gcnlive.com\/Archives2010\/may10\/AmerikaNow\/0522102.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 2 <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives2010.gcnlive.com\/Archives2010\/may10\/AmerikaNow\/0522103.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> Hour 3<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2010.gcnlive.com\/Archives2010\/may10\/AmerikaNow\/0522104.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John-Paul Leonard is the owner of Progressive Press, a publishing company located in Joshua Tree, California.\u00a0 He earned his Bachelor&#8217;s in Political Science at UCLA and a Master&#8217;s in Finance at the University of California-Berkeley.\u00a0 After a business career took him to Europe (all parts east and west) for 18 years, John-Paul returned to the United States and took over the family business, Tree of Life Publications.\u00a0 During the time between all of these events happening in his life, John was awakened by two key moments that occurred:\u00a0 Al-Aqsa Intifada and 9\/11.\u00a0 John will talk on how these events reshaped his life and influenced his course of direction at Progressive Press.\u00a0 He will also speak on\u00a0\u00a0 life in America as he views it, which he terms &#8220;Totalitarian Open Society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John hasn&#8217;t written a book himself, instead he is publishing a collection of books to track his search for answers about our upside-down world.\u00a0 As the\u00a0 owner of Progressive Press, John publishes books dealing with conspiracy, New World Order, modern history, brainwashing and psychology, biographies and New World Oligarchy, economics, and corporatism.\u00a0 Webster Tarpley, Nick Kollerstrom, Mathias Broeckers, Henry Makow, Jeff Grupp, A. Jones, and Glen Yeadon are just a few of the authors who publish with Progressive Press.\u00a0 Progressive Press also sells DVDs by BBC Director Adam Curtis as well.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete listing of books and DVDs for sale at Progressive Press, you can go to the website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivepress.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.progressivepress.com<\/a> or\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shops\/booxboxx\" target=\"_blank\">amazon.com\/shops\/booxboxx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.O. Box 126, Joshua Tree, CA\u00a0 92252<\/p>\n<p>&#x69;n&#x66;o&#x40;&#112;&#x72;&#111;g&#x72;e&#x73;&#115;&#x69;&#118;&#x65;&#112;r&#x65;s&#x73;&#46;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tel. (760) 366-3695<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, 2010 Podcast\/Show Archive\u00a0 Hour 1 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 2 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 3 &#8211;\u00a0 Hour 4 John-Paul Leonard is the owner of Progressive Press, a publishing company located in Joshua Tree, California.\u00a0 He earned his Bachelor&#8217;s in Political Science at UCLA and a Master&#8217;s in Finance at the University of California-Berkeley.\u00a0 After a business career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[134],"class_list":{"0":"post-1074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-show_archives","7":"category-guests","8":"tag-progressive-press","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}