Today's program presents a round table forum featuring four talk show hosts, revolving around their projections for the country and the world in 2010.

Joining the panel are Jan Merkell (www.olivetreeviews.org), Paul McGuire, (www.paulmcguire.com), author of "The Day the Dollar Died," Dr. Stan Monteith (www.radioliberty.com) and Brannon Howse (www.worldviewtimes.com).

No boralogue this week. (And there was much rejoicing.)

Listeners have requested an analysis of the this week's Massachusetts elections, so John kicks off by going beyond what other pundits have said to peel back the multiple layers at which the dynamics of paradigm change penetrate politics.

Then we'll continue the predictions 2010 thread begun last week with clips from trends forecaster Gerald Celente (www.trendsresearch.com) and Bill Koenig (www.watch.org) at the White House.

Finally Ellen Brown, author of "Web of Debt," (www.webofdebt.com) returns to the show with a plan for states to bail themselves out of financial trouble by opening state-owned banks as North Dakota has successfully done for decades.

Listeners are requesting some of John's predictions for the year, so we kick off with an extended boralogue looking at some of the issues facing us over the next 24 months or so.

Speaking of predictions, for a long time we've predicted that as the country's financial situation fell apart, the government would greedily eye the money contained in private retirement plans and cook up a way to seize it. The first rumblings of such a plan to "convert" 401(k) might be emerging as we watch. Jeff Plungis from Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com) joins the show to report on that latest proposals.

President Obama this week announced his plan to tax financial transactions to recoup bailout money for the taxpayers. What he hasn't told the taxpayers is that they're going to have to pay the tax for the tax they're supposedly getting back. This segment features a line-by-line analysis of the President's announcement and then compares it to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inaugural address of 1933.

Finally, another executive order has popped out from the White House creating a council of governors to help coordinate military action inside the United States. People are wondering what's this all about. Bob Unruh from Worldnetdaily (www.wnd.com) is the final guest today.

Hi gang! Back in the saddle again for another year of saddle sores.

An international police force has long been a goal of both the United Nations and Interpol. Shortly before Christmas, President Barack Obama amended an executive order originally issued by Ronald Reagan allowing Interpol immunity during its operations in the United States. Is this much ado about nothing or part of a longer- term globalization agenda? Attorney Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton (www.threatswatch.org) join us.

We're starting a new thread on the program to track the growing gulf between the statements of politicians and a deteriorating economic situation. What we should be doing for recovery, we're not and politicians' actions are only making the situation worse. Mary Tootikian is a 30-year mortgage industry veteran and author of "Stunned in America," (www.stunnedinamerica.com).

John's boralogue details the religion and philosophy behind the new hit movie "Avatar."

Happy New Year everyone!

We're taking the weekend off, which means reaching into the SOS grab bag archive to compare shows of the past with events we've experienced over the last year.

First a return to January 17, 1998 for a round table re-run of a discussion how environmentalism is being used to create new government structures, designed to end-run elected legislative bodies and gradually transfer power and authority. Guests are Henry Lamb from Eco-Logic (www.freedom.org), Dr. Michael Coffman (www.discerningtoday.org), author of "Saviors of the Earth," and Berit Kjos (www.crossroad.to), author of "Under the Spell of Mother Earth.

Then we'll hear from a more recent program in March of 2003 rotating around how widely the consensus process penetrates government and education and how it is effecting changes in society and law. Participants are Dr. Robert Klenck, Steve Goss, Sarah Leslie, and Charlotte Iserbyte.