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Dr Danica Hubbard - Sex Offender: My Fathers Secrets, My Secret Shame
Jan 11, 2023
Ed has as his guest Dr Danica Hubbard. Danica is talking about her new book, which is a heartfelt, open and honest account about knowing someone and not knowing them at all.
The reviews for her book are striking
Dr. Hubbard opens her heart to share with us a beautifully written, touching, informative, and brutally honest book about the intricacies of having a father who was a sexual predator.
---AMY ZABIN, author of Conversations with a Pedophile
Imagine having someone you've known your whole life, someone you've looked up to, tell you about a heinous crime they committed. This book provides understanding, forgiveness, and inner strength.
---JULIA LAZARECK, author of Prison: The Hidden Sentence(r)
This is a sensitive and delicate subject that is seldom explored. It is a testament to Dr. Hubbard that she has the courage and willingness to share her journey with us.
---BARBARA ALLAN, author of Doing Our Time on the Outside and Founder: Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons, Inc.
This book will pave the way toward a deeper, nuanced understanding of criminal behavior (especially sexual offending) and its aftermath for readers of all stripes.
---J.J. PRESCOTT, University of Michigan Professor of Law
Danica Hubbard, Ph.D., has taught for over 25 years as an English Professor at College of DuPage. She is a Prison Families Alliance Board Member and facilitates monthly support groups including "Support for Families of Sex Offenders." Sex Offender: My Father's Secrets, My Secret Shame is her first book.
She tells Ed Opperman her story with the hope it will help others learn, forgive and move to a more positive relationship with the past.
Book: Sex Offender: My FatheraEUR(tm)s Secrets, My Secret Shame
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Douglas Pike Ex BF of Natasha Cornett
3 hours ago
Natasha Wallen Cornett is an American criminal currently serving a sentence of life without parole at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville for her involvement in the Lillelid murders.
In her book The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill, forensic psychologist Helen Smith considers Natasha Cornett's troubled life as a warning of the failures of the school, mental health, and criminal justice systems in preventive treatment.
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Patrick Bergy - Shadowgate and the Hi Tech Threat To Democracy
2 days ago
OPERATION SHADOW GATE: Hacking Mankind's Shadow, is the true story of Afghanistan veteran, Patrick Bergy, and the events surrounding the arrest of journalist Millie Weaver, while uploading Shadow Gate, a documentary esposing the 2020 election influence between our government, journalists and the Military Industrial Complex.
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The Salty Lunatics - Madaline Soto
April 12
Shauna from the Salty Lunatics has information on the grim case of Madaline Soto
From NBC News:
The body of missing Florida girl Madeline Soto was found in a wooded area Friday afternoon, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said, hours after the department said they believed the 13-year-old was dead.
Her mother's boyfriend is suspected of moving her body and the case is a homicide investigation, Sheriff John Mina said at a news conference earlier in the day.
Madeline's body was found around 4:30 p.m. by Osceola County Sheriff’s Office search teams in a wooded area off Hickory Tree Road, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said in an update.
"Madeline’s family has been notified. We have no additional information to release at this time. Kissimmee PD is the lead agency in this homicide investigation. That work continues," the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff’s office previously said Madeline was last seen Monday morning when her mother’s boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, 37, dropped her off a few blocks from Hunter’s Creek Middle School in Orlando.
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The Salty Lunatics - Madaline Soto
March 29
Shauna from the Salty Lunatics has information on the grim case of Madaline Soto
From NBC News:
The body of missing Florida girl Madeline Soto was found in a wooded area Friday afternoon, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said, hours after the department said they believed the 13-year-old was dead.
Her mother's boyfriend is suspected of moving her body and the case is a homicide investigation, Sheriff John Mina said at a news conference earlier in the day.
Madeline's body was found around 4:30 p.m. by Osceola County Sheriff’s Office search teams in a wooded area off Hickory Tree Road, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said in an update.
"Madeline’s family has been notified. We have no additional information to release at this time. Kissimmee PD is the lead agency in this homicide investigation. That work continues," the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff’s office previously said Madeline was last seen Monday morning when her mother’s boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, 37, dropped her off a few blocks from Hunter’s Creek Middle School in Orlando.
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Joseph McBride - Into the Nightmare - My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer Tippit
Sep 21, 2022
Back to November 1963 and the fateful events which were to change America and the world.
Ed Opperman is joined by Joseph McBride.
From Amazon:
“AMERICA’S NEED TO WALK INTO THE NIGHTMARE . . .”
. . . was how Norman Mailer predicted the tumultuous period that led to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 murder on a public street and the fifty years of controversy that have followed that turning point in our nation’s history. Journalist and historian Joseph McBride, a volunteer in JFK’s 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary campaign, began studying the assassination minutes after it happened. In 1982, McBride launched his own investigation. Both epic and intimately personal, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit incorporates rare interviews with key people in Dallas, archival discoveries, and what novelist Thomas Flanagan, in The New York Review of Books, called McBride’s “wide knowledge of American social history.” McBride chronicles his evolving skepticism about the official story and shines a fresh, often surprising spotlight on Kennedy’s murder and on one of the murkiest, most crucial aspects of the case, its “Rosetta Stone,” the Tippit killing.
Joseph McBride is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years in his life.
He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.
Book: Into The Nightmare
Website: http://www.josephmcbridefilm.com/(domain registered, website under maintenance at time of posting.
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Other Books: How Did Lubitsch Do It? What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers Frank Capra: Castastrophe of Success Political Truth: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy Searching For John Ford: A Life Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies Hawks on Hawks (Screen Classics) Writing in Pictures The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies
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Stephen Marche - The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future
Dec 9, 2022
Researcher and prolific writer Stephen Marche talks to Ed Opperman about the state of America, and the likely directionit is heading in. In a disquieting interview, Marche details his work looking into the abyss America teeters on the edge of, and with global, financial, economic and environmental disaster just standing close behind, his conclusions should worry us all.
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In this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that reads like Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized crossed with David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth, a celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds.
On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts— and tips America over the edge into ruin.
If there was an interview which will make people sit up and take notice of where the U.S. is at, then this is surely a contender for that position.
Book: The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future
Website: Stephen Marche
Twitter: Stephen Marche
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Jean Guerrero - Hatemonger
May 1
Stephen Miller is one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He has crafted Donald Trump’s speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims and separate families, and outlasted such Trump stalwarts as Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions. But he’s remained an enigma.
Until now. Emmy- and PEN-winning investigative journalist and author Jean Guerrero charts the thirty-four-year-old’s astonishing rise to power, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries and government officials.
Radicalized as a teenager, Miller relished provocation at his high school in liberal Santa Monica, California. He clashed with administrators and antagonized dark-skinned classmates with invectives against bilingualism and multiculturalism. At Duke University, he cloaked racist and classist ideas in the language of patriotism and heritage to get them airtime amid controversies. On Capitol Hill, he served Tea Party congresswoman Michele Bachmann and nativist Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.
Recruited to Trump’s campaign, Miller met his idol. Having dreamed of Trump’s presidency before he even announced his decision to run, Miller became his senior policy advisor and speechwriter. Together, they stoked dystopian fears about the Democrats, “Deep State” and “American Carnage,” painting migrants and their supporters as an existential threat to America. Through backroom machinations and sheer force of will, Miller survived dozens of resignations and encouraged Trump’s harshest impulses, in conflict with the president’s own family. While Trump railed against illegal immigration, Miller crusaded against legal immigration. He targeted refugees, asylum seekers and their children, engineering an ethical crisis for a nation that once saw itself as the conscience of the world. Miller rallied support for this agenda, even as federal judges tried to stop it, by courting the white rage that found violent expression in tragedies from El Paso to Charlottesville.
Hatemonger unveils the man driving some of the most divisive confrontations over what it means to be American––and what America will become.
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Matthew Phelan - James O'Keefe, Project Veritas
Sep 22, 2023
Matthew Phalen joins Ed Opperman to discuss the mysterious yet widely referenced machinations of Project Veritas, and one of its' founders, James O'Keefe.
Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010. The group produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Project Veritas also uses entrapment to generate bad publicity for its targets, and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories in its videos and operations.
Targets of Project Veritas include Planned Parenthood, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), NPR, CNN, and The Washington Post. In 2009, Project Veritas associates published misleading videos that depicted ACORN employees providing advice on concealing illegal activity, causing ACORN to shut down after losing funding. ACORN was cleared of wrongdoing by the Attorney General of California in 2010, and the associates paid a total of $150,000 in settlements to an ACORN employee who sued for defamation. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned in 2013 after Project Veritas released a deceptively edited video portraying another NPR executive making controversial comments about the Tea Party movement and NPR's federal funding. Project Veritas unsuccessfully attempted to mislead The Washington Post into publishing false information about the Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations in 2017 the Post won a Pulitzer Prize after uncovering the operation. In 2022, a jury awarded $120,000 against Project Veritas for fraudulent misrepresentation concerning nonprofit Democracy Partners .
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