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“The Altered States of America: the Psychological Effects of Donald Trump”

How and Why Donald Trump Could Lie to the American People with Impunity and Without Remorse. What that says about the psychopathology of the person, and why so many people still support and even vote for a man that lies with impunity, and denigrates veterans and the disabled. What that says about the man himself – Trump – and the people that support him. Dr. Norrholm, a translational neuroscientist, brings the many psychopathologies of Trump to the forefront.

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Toxic Teeth, Toxic Truth: Mercury, Amalgams & FDA – Part 2 of 2

Discussion with Dr. Robert Breiner, DDS – the doctor who literally wrote the book on how mercury amalgam fillings, often referred to as ‘silver fillings’ can actually be making people sick. He discusses the science and the policies that allow these toxic dental treatments to be used across America – despite the known toxicity of the materials. He details that a small filling falling into a lake can deem that lake off limits due to hazardous waste. Yet, those materials are put in human teeth. A two part discussion that will make everyone think twice about going to the dentist.

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Sexual Assault, Recent Judgments & #MeToo – Is America Moving Closer to Equal Rights for All?

Discussion on Sexual Assault, Recent Judgments & #MeToo – how the Legal System is all too often more friendly to the ‘alleged’ perpetrator than the victim. Attorney Murphy discusses cases she has been involved where Judge’s trample on the rights of victims, censoring the words they use to describe their assault, making it impossible to describe their ordeal. She describes real cases litigated, including against a judge who ordered the victim to not use ‘certain words’ to describe her brutal unrelenting rape. Clearly, judicial overreach to stifle a victim’s First Amendment Right to choose her words, her speech in a public forum – a court of law. Justice itself is bare if a victim can be ordered to only speak of her ordeal in palatable terms – and not describe what the perpetrator had actually done to her. It is axiomatic, that to get a just result – the ability of the victim to tell her story without judicial censorship and bias is critical for a jury to reach a just result.
A fascinating story that unfortunately, is not out of character with the US judicial system – treating women as second-class citizens, and elevating abusers, and minimizing the effect upon the victim.

Attorney Wendy Murphy. She is a former prosecutor now working as a “victim advocate” and “impact litigator” to assist abused women and children – bringing change to how the courts, legislators, and the public view violence against women and children. She has written numerous briefs in both federal and state courts on Sexual Assault, to violations of Civil & Constitutional Rights – taking place on College Campuses & in the Workplace. Many of her cases and issues are of first impression (never before litigated) in MA and around the nation. She is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law – Boston, and often appears as a legal analyst for a variety of news outlets including CNN, PBS & Fox News.

Her book, And Justice for Some is a riveting compendium of insights as a prosecutor as well as a victim advocate – on how lawyers and judges let dangerous criminals go free.

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Who’s in Charge of the Internet? Privacy, GeoPolitics & the Big Chill

Discussion on International Privacy Laws and how geopolitics affects speech and what can be said on the internet across borders. Further discussion on retrieving data across borders when a US warrant has issued – even though those who wish to retrieve the data use a US warrant, data stored across borders may not be accessible. The discussion of geopolitics, internet privacy and how speech can be chilled by countries and foreign citizens wishing to remain anonymous.
Guest: Attorney & Professor of International Law, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Harvard Law School.

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