Backdoor Stuff News on Channel 17 GETV is a program geared towards investigative reporting and getting special guest to appear to discuss world events, entrepreneurship within the community and more.
I have had area senators on, and even interview one of the terrorist suspects arrested in Chicago who heading up the alleged Jihad of the US Ghassan Bullit, from the Al-Salaam Mosque Foundation later known as the Mosque Foundation where he was the President of this organization.
I came from a family who were involved in the press and media in the early days of radio televison and print media.
It was important for me to take my business experience, which covered the areas of Accounting, Business, Law, Art, Entertainment and Science working for the biggest fortune 500 companies, laboratory, and law firm and Government Office and applying the knowledge I received there in to telling the facts as I had experience them in my over 35 years of work experience. My style of broadcast, was conceived, and taught from within a one of a care family of journalist, artist, and talent people who shared thoughts ideas and creativity. The learning experience was one unmatched by any College and University because the teaching I received was from love and respect for one another.
What I learned from my father Dan Burley, was applied to my ability to do old style investigative reporting (getting to the facts by going to the source, history developing time-lines and profiling each individual involved within the case and or story leaving no stone un-turn, they I develop media, press to get the truth on the air. Noting that the age of 9 I had my very own column weekly called ÃÂitÃÂs a FactÃÂ. I was interested in science and strange facts then and always one who could develop time lines which was taught to me by my beloved mother GladysÃÂs who I own my life, ideas, and ability too , she taught me well. She told me two things, one that everything you do in life has a rippling effect and everything else, so with this be careful in the things you do and make sure that once you decide to do this thing you will take full responsibility for your actions. The other was to treat everyone as you would want them to treat you and I live by this even until this day!
Rosialee Bertel - Pioreer in Nuclear Science, Lecturer and Author
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH is Immediate Past President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health. Dr. Bertell served four years as Co-Chair for Canada on the Ecosystem Health Workgroup of the Science Advisory Board to the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission (IJC) on the Great Lakes, and currently serves on the IJC Nuclear Task Force. The IJC oversees the implementation of the joint US-Canada agreement to preserve the shared rivers, lakes and water ways of the two countries. She also serves as Advisor to the Great Lakes Health Effects Program of Health Canada and to the Environmental Assessment Board of Ontario. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of Global Education Associates (GEA), in New York, and directs GEA's Health 2000 Task force. Dr. Bertell has recently been appointed to the Environmental Task Force of the City of Toronto, which has an 18-month mandate to develop environmental policy for Toronto which will make this city a leader in responsible Earth stewardship, in North America.
Dr. Bertell directed the International Medical Commission which investigated the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster in India, and recently organized the International Medical Commission Chernobyl to present testimony before the Permanent People's Tribunal, convened in Vienna. Currently she is assisting the people of the Philippines with problems stemming from toxic waste left by the US on their abandoned Subic and Clark military bases, working with the government of Ireland to hold Britain responsible for the radioactive pollution of the Irish Sea, and assisting the Gulf War veterans and Iraqi citizens dealing with the illness called Gulf War Syndrome. She has received numerous awards and five honorary Doctorates since launching IICPH in 1984.
Dr. Bertell earned a doctorate in Biometry at the Catholic University of America in 1966, and has since been working in cancer and birth defect research, with specific emphasis on the associated environmental factors. She has collaborated in analyses undertaken in the US, Canada, Japan, the Marshall Islands, Malaysia, India, Germany, and the Ukraine. Author of Handbook for Estimating the Health Effects of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation (1984, 1986) and the popular non-fiction book, NO IMMEDIATE DANGER: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, together with more than one hundred articles, book chapters and poems, Dr. Bertell has reached medical, scientific, religious and general audiences on a global basis. NO IMMEDIATE DANGER, published by the Womens' Press, London, England, has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Finnish and Russian. Her most recent book: CHERNOBYL: THE ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS, published by the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland, documents the testimony given by the victims of this disaster at a Tribunal in Vienna, held ten years after the disaster. It is available in English, French, German, and Russian.
By choice, Dr. Bertell works with indigenous and third world people as they struggle to preserve their Human Right to health and life in the face of industrial, technological and military pollution. She was a founding member of IICPH, an attempt to institutionalize her growing concern for human survival on an intact planet. She develops scientific testimony from the point of view of the victim. Ordinarily scientists testify from the point of view of either government or industry.
Locally, in Toronto, where she lives, Dr. Bertell serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Toronto Clearinghouse, an effort to collect and store sleeping bags, clothes, warm coats and blankets, shoes and boots for the homeless. They also collect furniture and household items to help the homeless re-establish themselves in the community. Members collect discarded computers and office equipment from the corporate community for use in schools and non-profit organizations. This organization has provided emergency aid to flood victims and others suffering disasters such as the ice storms in the winter of 1997-1998.
Dr. Bertell describes herself as having a Carmelite Prophetic charism. She spent six years in a Carmelite Monastery, and is a member of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic Religious Congregation with a Motherhouse in Yardley, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 1998, she was called forth to be the President of the Association of Contemplative Sisters. ACS is an organization consisting of about 700 women committed to contemplative prayer. It was founded 29 years ago through the courageous action of Catholic Contemplative Orders of women. Today, membership has broadened. An estimated 35% are members of Catholic Contemplative Orders, 15% are members of Catholic Apostolic congregations, 46% are lay Catholic women, and 4% are priests and lay women from other religious denominations or no direct Church affiliation.