Complaint Review: JAMES RANDI EXPOSED RIPOFF AND FRAUDS - LOS ANGELES, MIAMI, ATLANTA, NEW ORLEANS.... CA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, NEW YORK.....

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James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

 He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims. Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from his foundation at 87.

Although often referred to as a "debunker", Randi said he disliked the term's connotations and preferred to describe himself as an "investigator".

 He wrote about paranormal phenomena, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, famously exposing fraudulent faith healer Peter Popoff, and was occasionally featured on the television program Penn & Teller: B******!

Before Randi's retirement, JREF sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a prize of one million US dollars to eligible applicants who could demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

Randi gained the international spotlight in 1972 when he publicly challenged the claims of Uri Geller. He accused Geller of being nothing more than a charlatan and a fraud who used standard magic tricks to accomplish his allegedly paranormal feats, and he presented his claims in the book The Truth About Uri Geller (1982).

Uri Geller ( born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other illusions. Geller uses conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy, though he consistently claims his powers are real. Geller's career as an entertainer has spanned more than four decades, with television shows and appearances in many countries          

Believing that it was important to get columnists and TV personalities to challenge Geller and others like him, Randi and CSICOP reached out in an attempt to educate them. Randi said that CSICOP had a "very substantial influence on the printed media .... in those days.

In 1973, Geller appeared on The Tonight Show, and this appearance is recounted in the Nova documentary "Secrets of the Psychics".

In the documentary, Randi says that Carson "had been a magician himself and was skeptical" of Geller's claimed paranormal powers, so before the date of taping, Randi was asked "to help prevent any trickery". Per Randi's advice, the show prepared its own props without informing Geller, and did not let Geller or his staff "anywhere near them". When Geller joined Carson on stage, he appeared surprised that he was not going to be interviewed, but instead was expected to display his abilities using the provided articles. Geller said "This scares me" and "I'm surprised because before this program your producer came and he read me at least 40 questions you were going to ask me." Geller was unable to display any paranormal abilities, saying "I don't feel strong" and expressing his displeasure at feeling like he was being "pressed" to perform by Carson. According to Adam Higginbotham's November 7, 2014 article in The New York Times:[46]

The result was a legendary immolation, in which Geller offered up flustered excuses to his host as his abilities failed him again and again. "I sat there for 22 minutes, humiliated," Geller told me, when I spoke to him in September. "I went back to my hotel, devastated. I was about to pack up the next day and go back to Tel Aviv. I thought, That's it—I'm destroyed."

Linda and Terry Jamison (born January 12, 1955) are American identical twins based in Los Angeles, California who claim to be psychics. The Jamisons' predictions have been featured in tabloid newspapers, and they have appeared in various media. They claim to have channeled the spirits of dead celebrities and predicted future events such as the September 11 attacks; however, critics have exposed the inaccuracy of many of their predictions.     James Randi  November 21, 2013  · Los Angeles  ·  When Sylvia Browne died, Montel Williams offered this sappy eulogy: "A beacon that shined for so many was extinguished today, but its brightness was relit and will now shine forever for many of us from above." To explain to this apparently dense man where his judgment has reverted to the level of a 5-year-old, I’ll point out that Browne was not at all funny "h*o-h*o" but frightening – to anyone with any compassion. She fed eagerly on the insecurities, the grief, the need and desperation, of her victims. They turned to her for help, at great cost -- $850 for a 20-minute telephone chat as she squatted before the TV camera like a taloned Jabba the Hutt confronting Luke Skywalker – played by Montel – and graveled out anything-but-funny, unfounded, useless, and damaging pap that added to their confusion and pain – but which made Montel and his sponsors ecstatic, because they could hear those cash register sounds as their products slid off store shelves. And she let 10+ years go by yet never tried for the JREF million-dollar prize, as she’d agreed to do when we both appeared together on Larry King Live so many years ago… I agree with JREF President D.J. Grothe that we do not celebrate her death, even as we criticize the way she lived. But I’ll be quite frank with you, I cannot mourn at Browne’s passing — she really hurt far too many people, and always so unapologetically. It's unfortunate that she only stopped hurting so many people by dying.  

Sylvia Celeste Browne ( October 19, 1936 – November 20, 2013) was an American writer, medium, and psychic. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, and hosted an hour-long online radio show on Hay House Radio.

Browne frequently made pronouncements that were later found to be false, including those related to missing persons. In 1992, she plead no contest to securities fraud. Despite the considerable negative publicity, she maintained a large following until her death in 2013.

   Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed and eccentric women, she has received numerous accolades over her eight-decade career, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2013.

MacLaine claimed that in a previous life in Atlantis she was the brother of a 35,000-year-old spirit named Ramtha, channeled by mystic teacher and author J. Z. Knight.

She has a strong interest in spirituality and metaphysics, which are the central themes of some of her best-selling books, including Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light. Her spiritual explorations include walking the Way of St. James, working with Chris Griscom, and practicing Transcendental Meditation. 

Phan Thi b***h Hang is a famous, purported psychic in Vietnam. She claims to be able to see and talk directly with spirits of the dead. She also claims to have the ability to see remains buried underground. Recent investigations suggest that she may be involved in fraud.

Phan Thi b***h Hang was born on February 15, 1972, in Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. b***h Hang is a graduate of the University of National Economics and later she got a degree in Business Administration (MBA). 

Since 1999, b***h Hang has been working as a lecturer at the Hanoi University of Business and Technology. Phan Thi b***h Hang is one of the professional staff at the Psychological Department, Research Center for Human Potential, Union of Science and Technology of Vietnam. In early 2005, she started doing a business specializing in interior design. Then she and her like-minded friends launched a vegetarian restaurant chain in Hanoi in order to create jobs for some students. All the profit collected from the business is transferred to her own charity named Tam Vang (Golden Mind). Besides other activities, this charitable fund mainly helps victims of Agent Orange and financially supports heart surgeries for newborn babies.

The process of becoming psychic

b***h Hang claims to have become a psychic after a major incident. The story begins when she and her girlfriend were bitten by a rabid dog in 1988. Her friend could not sustain the injury and died. b***h Hang's family took her to many Oriental and Western physicians and healers to treat the disease, but in vain. b***h Hang claims to have died, and awoken with a plethora of psychic abilities allegedly proven through finding buried bones and other acts. She is famous for her purported abilities in Vietnam. Ms. Hang claims to have found the remains of tens of thousands of martyrs including those she claims come from historic figures such as the writer Nam Cao, Nguyen Phong Sac, h*o Ngoc Lan, Nguyen Duc Canh. Ms. Hang also claimed to find ancient graves that had been lost for a long time such as the grave of military leader Hoang Cong Chat (1739–1769).

In Stanton, CA, Psychic Luu My Linh who claims to put people under hypnosis and knows their past lives.

From that, she can explain the present condition

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