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♦ Interview with Steve Benen – producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, & Author of the newly released book: Ministry of Truth.
Guest: Steve Benen and Mary Kay Elloian of The Legal Edition discuss his new book that chronicles the MAGA movement and the Trump presidency, detailing the Economy under Trump compared to Biden and Obama to reveal the blatant mistruths of the former president on the health of the economy under his presidency.
Discussion identifies how the historical facts have been purposely rewritten by the far right to ‘mislead’ the American people – and what one can expect in a presidency if Trump is re-elected. How his hollow promises of building infrastructure, building the wall, and providing Americans with choices in healthcare – all have fallacious underpinnings for a man who delivered none of it – but lies.
And why the American people still believe him, despite actual data that shows the contrary – including those who saw with their own eyes and ears what unfolded at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
A must see for anyone thinking of casting their ballot for the former president – the pathological liar and felon-in-chief.
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♦ Interview with Former Inspector General of the US Department of Justice under Presidents Clinton, Bush & Obama & Acting Inspector General of Department of Defense Under Trump – discussing his new book: ‘Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government’
Guest: Former IG Glenn A. Fine, discusses the little known but vitally important role Inspectors General bring to any administration – providing transparency, efficiency, and ethical accountability to the American people.
Discussion on the a variety of investigations focused on oversight, accountability and recommendations. From espionage to terrorism to financial fraud – former IG Fine has seen it all. Discussion is based upon a compendium of the IG’s experiences under several presidencies: from Clinton to Donald Trump – including what he calls the ‘Friday Night Massacres of IG’s Investigating Ukraine Under Trump’. A riveting discussion that no one interested in accountability and ethics in gov’t should miss!
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♦ Interview with the Author of “Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections”
Guest: Investigative Journalist & Author, David Daley – explains in excruciating detail, the Subversive Plot by the ‘Far-Right’ to Hijack American Elections by insidious means: by overtaking the nation’s judicial system, think tanks, infiltrating college campuses, grant-funding, and internships – all to indoctrinate young people in the far-right ideology – often without their knowledge or consent.
More pointedly, what the far-right could not accomplish through the legislature and ballot box, they have turned to subversive ways of indoctrination – using court rulings to limit options and freedoms of the American people – including democracy itself.
Startling revelations that no one should miss – especially in light of the upcoming presidential elections!
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♦ Gerrymandering Your Vote: (Followup to, Where to Draw the Line (2017))…
Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, JD, PhD – Sr. Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Discussion on recent US Supreme Court ruling in South Carolina v NAACP, effectively ‘prioritizing’ Partisanship over Race. How recent SCOTUS decision has Weaponized ‘Partisan Gerrymandering’ – Further Eroding Racial Inequities.
(Followup to previous program (2017), ‘Where to Draw the Line…How Partisan Gerrymandering is Used to Discriminate & Disenfranchise’ with Dr. Breen – discussing the inner-workings & effects of gerrymandering.)
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♦ Intersection of Domestic Violence & Reproductive Justice – Where Do the Delineations Fall?
Guests: Attorneys Lynn Hecht Schafran & Azaleea Carlea of Legal Momentum – A New York City Advocacy Organization for Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violenc; the nation’s first and longest-serving legal advocacy group for women in the United States.
Brief Bios: Lynn Hecht Schafran, is Senior Vice President, Legal Momentum, and Director, Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program & Azaleea Carlea is the Legal Director at Legal Momentum, overseeing the organization’s litigation and policy initiatives.
Discussion of how living in a Post Roe America after the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs – overturning 50 years of legal precedent on abortion – sending it back for individual states to determine. How this decision has negatively affected pregnant women, especially those living in abusive conditions across the country, and specifically in states that have severe restrictions on reproductive healthcare access. Where mortality statistics now show: it is now 3 times more dangerous for pregnant women living in abusive conditions where states are setting abortion laws; how data now reveals increased maternal mortality during pregnancy, or shortly after the birth of the child.
Explored are the never-discussed issues by lawmakers on what happens to these abused women who are married to their abuser if they are not killed by them, and what happens to these women and girls in the courts if their pregnancies are a result of rape or incest. How courts perpetuate the abuse and trauma by awarding visitation rights and even custody to the very perpetrators who violated these victims, leading to their pregnancy. An enlightening real-life expose on what “Right to Life” Movement will never address or tell the public: the real-life consequence of abortion bans, and the myriad repercussions of their ‘pro-life’ movement.
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♦ Show Topic: Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases
Guest: Attorney, Lecturer, Writer – James J. Brosnahan – in an ‘in-depth’ discussion with Host & Producer, Mary Kay Elloian, Esq., on Jim’s sixty plus years of experience trying and winning high profile civil and criminal cases – all of it outlined in his groundbreaking new book ‘Justice at Trial.’ From prosecutor to defense attorney, from Harvard Law to Berkeley Law, Jim Brosnahan made his mark from Boston to California – and internationally.
Discussion: Working as Assistant to Special Prosecutor on Iran Contra – ‘Weapons for Hostages’ under President Ronald Reagan, to his riveting testimony in the Confirmation of former US Supreme Court Associate Justice – William Rehnquist nominated to Chief Justice – to cases involving the FBI searches and seizures made on a US Citizen. Having tried over 150 jury cases during his career – made him the right choice to teach “oratory” at Berkeley Law, California.
Justice at Trial – Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases is a must read for every fledgling lawyer, and everyone interested in how our justice system works. A captivating perspective from the inside out.
More information on James J. Brosnahan, and his new publications here.
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♦ Show Topic: Stand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US
Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship.
Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun owner? Did race, status and gender play a role?
Learn how ‘stand your ground’ laws evolved over the centuries – how our nation’s forefathers expected and envisioned who would exercise that right.
Fascinating account of our nation’s past – and a look to the future on stand your ground laws across America. Find more information on Dr. Light’s work, and publications here.
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♦ Show Topic: Blind to Betrayal: Breaking the Silence of Trauma & Abuse
Guest: Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd, Professor Emerit at the University of Oregon, and Editor of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage.
Discussion on the institutions that foster betrayal as a culture of secrecy and how those institutions fare in the courts, as well as in the court of public opinion. How perpetrators oftentimes reverse the roles of victimization to gain empathy for their crimes and bad conduct – and how sadly, it is oftentimes successful. What every victim and every lawmaker and judge should see and understand about victimization and the role of the state as protector of the abused.
A riveting discussion that transcends many areas from the church to workplace to the home. For more information on Dr. Freyd and her research, visit: TheLegalEdition.com
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♦ Show Topic: Crisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical Care
Guest: Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.
Discussion focuses on the Trump administration and its treatment of migrant women and girls up to and including before President Biden took office. According to official reports, under the Trump administration the International Standards for keeping families intact – were repeatedly violated by the US.
Other reports of children forcibly taken from their parents and put in Foster Care are equally disturbing. Other reports of unnecessary medical procedures and withholding of hygiene materials appear inhumane. Discussion on the mental trauma and revictimization of these migrants, after fleeing their homeland in search of safety.
Is the US traumatizing another subset of future Americans by forced family separation? Are forced sterilizations of migrant women taking place? Is the US violating International Treaties and Human Rights Standards? This discussion explores all these issues with a look from someone who had an inside view from the US Department of State.
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♦ Show Topic: Siege at the Capitol & Homegrown Violent Extremism – Is it Here to Stay?
Guest: Dr. Michael Jensen. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. He leads the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project – a first of its kind database on the radicalization of U.S. homegrown extremists used by the US Justice Department, including the FBI.
Discussion on how extremists get radicalized, who they are, and why they do it. An in-depth discussion on the psychological motivations of those who become home-grown violent extremists, how they identify their cause, and even merge their actions with other violent extremists groups, as seen on the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
A stunning review of psychological profiles of those who truly believe in their cause – willing to Act at their own peril and that of others, believing they are “Patriots” – and must subvert government, and “take” it back.
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♦ Show Topic: Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Guest is Attorney Mitchell Garabedian – the attorney who litigated many of the first child sexual-abuse cases in the nation – representing survivors of the clergy abuse taking place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and around the nation.
Discussion focuses on the serial predators: “clandestine clergy” cloaked in the ‘cloth,’ yet hiding their true nature behind religion and the church – using it as a pretense to “prey” upon vulnerable children and their unsuspecting parents. Child predators making their way into family circles – becoming trusted confidants and revered family members – all the while – exploiting their children.
The Attorney who brought these cases to justice, including the John J. Gagon case – is Mitchell Garabedian. His work brought attention to the horrors and realities of child pedophilia in the church to public scrutiny – while advocating justice for survivors.
Attorney Garabedian’s work is the subject of two award-winning movies – Our Fathers & Spotlight, along with the dedicated reporters of the Boston Globe ‘Spotlight’ team whose impeccable and unrelenting investigative journalism won them a Pulitzer Prize.
Additional discussion on the newly released 2020 – 461 page Vatican “Report” ordered by Pope Francis on the newly defrocked Cardinal, Theodore McCarrick formerly of Washington D.C. What it admits as fact, and what it does not. Discussion on the progress of the McCarrick case in the court. Additional discussion on other litigation pertaining to institutions accused of child sexual abuse.
This is a program that every parent of young children should see
#CatholicChurch #childsexualabuse #MitchellGarabedian
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♦ Show Topic: Unmasking the First Amendment – Litigating Freedom of Information, & Office of Legal Counsel Opinions
Guest: Attorney Stephanie Krent, of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The Institute’s mission, is to defend freedom of speech and the press in the digital age – through strategic litigation, research, & public education.
What are the often discussed OLC Opinions and what is their importance? In this interview, Attorney Krent outlines how the Office of Legal Counsel – an office within the US Justice Department functions, how it assists the Attorney General and is both legal adviser to the President and all Executive Branch Agencies.
Discussion on how often the OLC keeps many of its opinions “secret” – away from public scrutiny, and the attorneys who need to understand its findings. Most importantly, those outside of government can neither comply with it, nor challenge its rulings if they are kept secret.
Even when there is no national security issues requiring OLC to keep opinions from public view, it has nevertheless become standard practice to keep many of its opinions secret. In an era when the call to increase transparency and accountability in the executive branch of government, it is all the more imperative to make the law clear to the American public.
This “secretive” process has been an ongoing problem through many presidencies, yet none more notable than under the Trump administration.
From the issues surrounding the Mueller Report, including whether a ‘sitting president’ can be prosecuted for a crime while in office – to a host of other executive branch regulatory opinions – OLC sits at the head of the table. The Knight First Amendment Institute challenges the need for secrecy in the courts – litigating for the public good – to bring sunlight to hidden issues, to ultimately benefit the American people – because, Democracy dies in darkness.
#FirstAmendment #OLC #TheLegalEdition
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♦ Show Topic:The Sound of Silence – The Hidden Epidemic of Domestic Abuse and Trauma
Guest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.
Dr. Herman discusses the pervasiveness and insidiousness of domestic violence and abuse. How victims often suffer in silence, and how the institutions that should be protecting them, often do not. She recounts how many victims feel revictimized by the system, their families and societies. Dr. Herman elucidates the cycle of abuse, how to identify the signs of abuse, and what to do to break free of it when an abuser won’t get help.
Further discussion on the treatment of women by patriarchal societies and the pervasiveness of institutional bias against victims and even Congressional witnesses: from Professor Anita Hill’s congressional testimony in 1991, to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 – both alleging sexual improprieties of powerful men – yet those men were still elevated to US Supreme Court justices on the nation’s highest court.
Herman focuses on how women victims need to shift the paradigm and stand up for their rights. She elaborates the importance of the SurvivorsAgenda – a movement creating a national conversation – a recognition on how women’s rights are human rights, and that all people deserve equal dignity and treatment under the law, and in society.
For more on Dr. Herman and publications, including additional biographical information.
#DomesticViolence #TraumaAndAbuse #SexualAssault #SurvivorsAgenda
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♦ Show Topic: Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System 2020
Discussion on how voting machines are inherently vulnerable and what can and should be done to make them safer – to the ‘Gold Standard’ of paper ballots used across American in this election. Further discussion on hacking, audits and International bad actors trying to infiltrate state election databases as well as old voting machines that are potentially vulnerable to attack and manipulation. An open and frank discussion with a ‘security guru’ with decades of experience on how we can keep America’s democratic process of voting safe and secure.
Guest: Bruce Schneier, is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books — including Data & Goliath, & Click Here to Kill Everybody — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
#SecureTheElection #VotingSecurity2020 #BruceSchneier
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♦ Show Topic: The International Bill of Human Rights – Politics & Priorities – Where Does America Stand?
Guest: Attorney, Jamil Dakwar, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program (HRP) – dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to its international human rights obligations and commitments. He leads a team of lawyers and advocates who use a human rights framework to complement existing ACLU legal and legislative advocacy, primarily in the areas of counter-terrorism, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and criminal and juvenile justice. Before joining the ACLU in 2004, Atty. Dakwar worked at Human Rights Watch, and outside the United States as senior attorney with Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Currently he is an adjunct professor at Hunter College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Our discussion is on the International Bill of Rights – (3 parts) including: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948 after WWII, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is a “multilateral treaty” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1966, and put in force in March 1976. Yet, the Trump State Department is weakening the rapport with both the international community, while exacerbating the international norms.
Discussion centers on a newly created Commission on Human Rights – coming together at the behest of US State Department, Secretary of State Pompeo. It appears that the Commission is viewing a need for a “Hierarchy” of Human Rights, placing Religious and Property Rights above other Rights including Cultural, Health, Gender Rights, Women’s Rights, and other rights that have been viewed with equal priority over the decades. Atty. Dakwar talks about the danger of creating this hierarchy of rights, and how it is being negatively viewed by the international community, as well as scholars, educators and non-governmental View TV ShowsHomeorganizations in the US and abroad. Notably, there is much discussion on the fight for women’s rights and how women and girls can be put in danger if religious and property rights are “prioritized” or are elevated over the rights of women, notably in nation states that are oppressive to women because of fundamentalist religious views. An intriguing discussion on the topics other treaties and conventions of which most Americans are unaware, but nevertheless shaped our foreign policy, and by association, our national security.
#HumanRights #CommissionOnHumanRights #SecretaryPompeo
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♦ Show Topic: Reconstructing the Reconstruction – the Aftermath of Slavery, and the Continuing Fight for Equal Justice
Guest: Michael David Cohen, PhD, is a research professor in the Department of Government and a faculty fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, in Washington, DC.
He is a historian of nineteenth-century America, and currently serves as editor and project director of the Correspondence of the twelfth and thirteenth presidents of the United states, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. His previous works include: the letters of the eleventh president of the United States, James K. Polk, and the the Papers of Women’s Rights Activists & Abolitionists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
He is a graduate of Harvard University and Carleton College; and is the author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War – winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award.
Discussion centers on issues around Reconstruction after the Civil War and the comparison to the racial injustices from the 19th century to today.
From voter disenfranchisement – poll taxes and literacy tests – to the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s – to the “purpose and meaning” of erecting Confederate statues in the South, and the messages they were meant to send to future generations. A historical account of racial discrimination and family separation policies of a nineteenth century slave-owner president – to family separation policies of today. A survey of the aftermath of Reconstruction and the education system that followed including: the US Supreme Court ruling in “Plessy v. Ferguson” making “Separate but Equal” the law of the land, to “Brown v Board of Education” – striking down ‘Separate but Equal’ as Unconstitutional.
Explanation of the benefits and challenges posed by the ratification of the 13th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution abolishing slavery, and giving Black Men the right to vote. How Black Americans helped to build the US to what it is today, and how the statues memorializing the Confederacy strike at the core of Black Suffering. Also discussed, the work of abolitionist and suffragist Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton – ‘paving-the-way’ for the 19th Amendment – finally giving American Women the “Right to Vote.”
A fascinating discussion that will enlighten viewers about the history of race and gender relations in the United States, and the fight for equality for almost two centuries.
For additional biographical information: Dr. Michael David Cohen
#RacialJustice #ConfederateStatues #Voting #WomensRights #BlackAmericans
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♦ Show Topic: Liberty, Justice & Healthcare for None – Litigating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) During COVID
Guest: Attorney, Author, Professor Nicole Huberfeld.
She is Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, at Boston University School of Public Health, & Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law.
Her work is at the intersection of Health law and Constitutional law – including the role of “federalism” – the division of national and state government power – as it relates to healthcare and public health.
Prof. Huberfeld has coauthored two books, The Law of American Health Care and Public Health Law, and has published many book chapters, journal articles, and other publications, as well as being quoted in major media outlets such as the New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, Modern Healthcare, The Hill, and others.
Discussion on the Litigating the ACA during the COVID CRISIS. Answering the hard questions: Why Trump Administration is Heading to the US Supreme Court on November 10th – to Try, Once Again – to Repeal the Affordable Care Act, When Millions of Americans Rely on it – and it is Now, More Than Ever, Critical to Have it…? And, Why South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, states he wants to “kill” the ACA – at a time when all Americans, including South Carolinians needed it the most. Professor Huberfeld clarifies the ACA, what it brings to states that “adopt” it – and what it could bring to states like South Carolina in healthcare coverage for all those who want and need its coverage during COVID.
#ACA #COVID #ObamaCare #AffordableCareAct
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♦ Show Topic: Running on Fumes: Biofuels, the Environment & Your Health – COVID Edition
Guest: Stephanie Seneff, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Her research is at the intersection of Biology, Chemistry and Engineering – which includes the Analysis of Empirical Data from Government, Public & Private Resources – which is used to assess the Potential Detrimental Effects, Upon Human Health and the Environment.
Discussion of the potential relationship between the prevalence of COVID and the use of biofuels in the environment. Dr. Seneff provides insightful analysis of charts and graphs created by scientists and academics that may be a window into why some nations are hit harder with COVID than others.
To substantiate her theory, Dr. Seneff points to environmental data points that appear to correlate the presence of biofuel use in an environment, with the prevalence of COVID. She postulates that biofuels are laden with glyphosate, a toxic chemical used to kill weeds – prevalent in GMO (genetically modified) crops and used on traditional crops at time of harvest. Dr. Seneff opines this toxic weedkiller contaminates the harvest, and the subsequent burning of it as biofuel puts these toxins into the air and water. Her data points suggest the virulence of COVID may be based on the prevalence of biofuel use in the very nations that use it. Could it be just a fluke? Dr. Seneff discusses the probabilities of pure chance in relation to her theory of possible causation. Further discussion on theories, as to why vaping has proved to be as bad or even worse than cigarettes for the lungs.
A fascinating eye-opening discussion as to the “possibility” that “toxic” glyphosate-laden biofuels may have a hand in energizing COVID across the nations.
#COVID #Biofuel #Seneff #glyphosate #e-cigarettes #vaping
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♦ Show Topic: “The Altered States of America: the Psychological Effects of Donald Trump”
Guest: Dr. Seth D. Norrholm, PhD, is the Scientific Director, Neuroscience Center for Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma (NeuroCAST), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan. He is an Associate Professor and translational neuroscientist with over 20 years of research experience in furthering the understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying fear, anxiety, trauma, and stressor-related disorders and the psychiatric conditions with which these disorders are found.
Dr. Norrholm has trained in both the “classical” bench-based neurosciences as well as within clinical arenas dedicated to the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. Together with a network of collaborators, he has employed objective, psychophysiological methods to study the underpinnings of mammalian fear processing, as well as the mechanisms mediating effective treatments for fear and anxiety. Dr. Norrholm is a recognized world leader in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Fear.
Discussion on how the conduct of the Trump administration is having lasting effects on the psyches of the American causing anxiety, fear and panic caused in part by routinely providing false information to the American people. From the Coronavirus to whether the Russians meddled in the 2016 election, to irrefutable evidence of climate change to his attempt to deny his ongoing court actions currently in the US Supreme Court that would take-away healthcare coverage for preexisting conditions, and do away with Obamacare during a pandemic. Why Senate members still support him even though what he proposes is against their own best interests, and why many in his party turn the other cheek even when he insults them to their face and makes outrageous remarks that would make most people enemies for life. Why he routinely sows distrust, and misinforms the public about diseases that can kill the very people who will elect him. Why he can and does pit one group of Americans against the other – and routinely denigrates beloved members of society including heroes and fallen servicemen calling them, “losers and suckers.”
From the public shaming and humiliation to name-calling, Dr. Norrholm delves into motivational behavior, why it continues, why people his supporters and those closest to him excuse it. More pointed discussion on why he would he tell his own supporters that they do not need to wear masks to protect themselves while holding rallies in COVID hot-spots – yet tells renowned Nixon Watergate author that COVID is “the plague.” And why, despite all the palpable lies and mistruths, his supporters continue to follow and support him. Tune-in and listen to this riveting discussion with Dr. Seth D. Norrholm.
#Trump #psychopathy #narcissism
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♦ Show Topic: “Conquering the Enemy, the Memory Within” – discussion on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) appearing in Abuse Survivors & Veterans of War
Guest: Dr. Roger Pitman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, & Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He served as a psychiatrist in the US Navy during the Vietnam era, and later served for 30 years in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs prior to affiliating with MGH in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Pitman is the recipient, of the “International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Award” for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the field of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and its “Lifetime Achievement Award.” His work in the research of PTSD spans more than 25 years; and he has created more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on PTSD, and greater than 200 publications in general psychiatric and medical literature. He has appeared on numerous media outlets, including ‘60 Minutes’ – sharing his research on the causes, and treatments of PTSD.
Discussion on the signs and symptoms of PTSD, how to recognize it, and how it can be treated with propranolol and cognitive therapy. Also discussed, the similarities as well as prevalence of PTSD among Veterans and Victims of Violence, how these symptoms manifest, cause flashbacks, and how repeated trauma can increase the likelihood of having PTSD. Discussion on the mechanisms of the brain, it plasticity, and how adrenaline during a trauma can actually increase the traumatic memory. He answers why these painful memories keep flooding back, and how these memories can be weakened to achieve a better quality of life through for the victim to make them a true survivor. A fascinating discussion on an all too familiar and needless injury, as well as treatment that can help change lives for the better.
#PTSD #Trauma #VictimsofViolence #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #Dr.Pitman
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♦ Show Topic: “Roundup®” – Is it Ready for Another Trial?…The Monsanto Herbicide Cases
Guest: Dr. Stephanie, Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Her Research Includes Analysis and Synthesis of Empirical Data from Government, Public & Private Resources including: Chemical, Molecular, & Atomic Properties—to Assess the Potential for Synergistic Effect upon Human Health.
Discussion on the multi-million jury awards to those who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma where causal evidence suggests and juries have found the regular use of the herbicide “Roundup” as a major causal factor for many of its victims to develop the fatal disease. Several cases are under appeal, but damning evidence at trial indicated the original manufacturer, Monsanto knew of the dangers, but did not disclose them to the consumers who used them. Since Bayer Corporation purchased Monsanto in 2018, it has been embroiled in litigation trying to overturn many of the extraordinary jury awards, and deter thousands of other cases currently already being filed. The cases are a nightmare for those afflicted with terminal cancer, as well as a public relations nightmare for the company.
#Weedkiller #glyphosate #non-HodgkinsLymphoma #roundup
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♦ Show Topic: The Affordable Care Act–Liberty, Justice & Expansion for All…
• Medicaid Expansion • Critical Care •Women’s Health & • COVID-19
Guest: Attorney, Nicole Huberfeld, Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, at Boston University School of Public Health, & Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Her work is at the intersection of Health law & Constitutional law, and the role of “federalism in health care”–which is the role of the states with regard to actions by the federal government. Professor Huberfeldand often writes about Medicaid.
Discussion on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare; how States are faring that have implemented the Medicaid Expansion vs. states that have not. How absence of critical care units in hard-hit communities is affecting rural Americans due to hospital closures and lack of funding. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has put an added strain on hospitals already struggling to care for Americans living in thee rural communities even for routine care, including Women’s health, maternity, and others.
Also discussed, how some states are hiding the fact that they adopted some version of the ACA but under a pseudonym. Exploring the importance of healthcare availability in states that have fully expanded it, to those that have not.
Discussion of recent Court rulings on ACA expansion, coverage, preexisting illness and issues affecting women. How deep-seated hostility to women’s reproductive freedom is creating Health Care “deserts” across the nation. How a more uniformly expanded Healthcare Law such as Medicaid Expansion of the ACA can better serve both rural, and economically challenged populations, creating healthier communities across America–especially critical care in a time of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Prof. Huberfeld has authored numerous books and scholarly journal articles, including the first “new” casebook on health care law in a generation. Her work was cited by the US Supreme Ct, in the first Affordable Care Act case: NFIB v Sebelius. She has been published in national & int’l journals including: Stanford Law Review, NE Journal of Medicine, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics; and has also been interviewed by media outlets including: the Washington Post, New York Times & NPR. [This program was recorded prior to the Coronavirus pandemic.]
#AffordableCareAct #ACA #ObamaCare #Medicaid
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♦ Show Topic: Parallels in Patriotism: Educating America One Generation at a Time – History of Immigration & Bigotry, Then & Now
Discussion • Jewish Holocaust, •Armenian Genocide • Central American Migration How immigrants have been migrating for thousands of years and have provided the fabric of America like no other country on the planet. How many cultures were once demonized yet became integral to the building of a great nation, despite being met with contempt by ethnic cultures preceding them. How many twentieth century cultures and races have escaped oppression and genocide to find a home in America compared to those in the twenty-first century who flee to escape gang violence and death, economic instability due to national strife and climate change. Discussion contrasts the days “undocumented” immigrant/migrants landed at Ellis Island, to modern day “undocumented” immigrant/migrants at our southern border. Program provides a wealth of information on the history of our nation’s founding, and where it may be headed in this new age of migration.
Guest: Adam Strom, Director of Re-Imagining Migration, an education project working with a team of experts from UCLA and Harvard Graduate School of Education. The focus of their work is to bring history and understanding of past immigration–and its current day analogs to classrooms and educational leaders across the globe. He is the former Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves, an organization dedicated to helping educators, schools and communities learn about ethics, social responsibility and justice. He has written extensively on issues including: George Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry; Stories of Identity & Religion; America’s Civil Rights Movement; Crimes Against Humanity and Civilizations–including the Jewish Holocaust, and the Armenian Genocide.
#migration #immigration #civilrights
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♦ Show Topic: Polarization in Public Education: Teaching “Democratic” Values in a Trump-Era Democracy–Teaching Ethics, While Deescalating Prejudices in the Classroom
Discussion: on how educators have to deal with children whose families have raised them with beliefs and stereotypes about cultures that can bring disruption to the classroom, and how educators need to diffuse and bring inclusivity to the classroom. Case scenarios are discussed including diffusing first graders who want to literally “build a wall” in their classrooms to keep the Mexicans out! The dynamics of inclusivity and quelling of ostracism are discussed in a way that educators need to both hear and apply, to create a holistic-classroom learning environment.
Guest: Dr. Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She is the founder of justiceinschools.org an organization devoted to providing information on ethical issues in education. She has also published a number of books on ethics and the dilemmas public school educators face in the modern-day classroom–much of which is a new phenomenon in the new Trump-Era “democracy”. She has published a number of books, including her newly released book: Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics, in addition to her previous book: Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries. Dr. Levinson holds a doctorate in political theory from the University of Oxford in the UK, and a BA in philosophy from Yale University.
#PublicEducation #ethics #teaching #Harvard #MeiraLevinson
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♦ Show Topic: Digital Dilemmas in Public Education: Privacy, iPads & ICE
Guest: Dr. Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education & founder of JusticeinSchools.org
Discussion on how on how school policies have been making student’s more vulnerable to intrusion even at home with the use of technology, such as their school-issued iPads, issues about who and when students are being monitored, who sees the information being monitored and how is it stored. Issues of conflict of interest are also discussed where often school resource officers are tasked with keeping students safe at school–but may moonlight for ICE and may very well raid the homes of students that they keep safe at school during the day. A fascinating, and also frightening account of how technology can encroach on personal privacy without students and their families even knowing.
#PublicEducation #DigitalTechnology #schools #ICE #Harvard
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♦ Show Topic: The CarbonNation: Rolling Back Climate Change One State at a Time-
The Massachusetts Model of the Green New Deal, Creating Renewable Energy & New Green Jobs While Combating Climate Change with a Carbon Tax Rebate
Discussion on how to bring Renewable Energy to the homes of citizens across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
Massachusetts has already been a leader in solar energy, and now with coastal wind farms, now Massachusetts is poised to set new records for renewable energy generation. As a progressive state, and a green-energy leader: state legislators are proposing the “first in the nation” & “revenue neutral” Carbon Tax Plan with accompanying “rebate” for homes and businesses that go green. The model has been successfully implemented in the province of British Columbia, Canada, but not here in the USA. Massachusetts leaders are determined to find a way to combat climate change, while benefiting the air and water quality around the state to improve quality of life for its citizens, while at the same time, creating new “green” jobs. A worthwhile discussion for those who don’t want dangerous fossil fuel and pipelines to determine the health of the planet, or destroy their neighborhoods.
Guest: Massachusetts State Senator, Michael Barrett. The Senator is a Harvard College graduate, a MA multiple term state legislator, a lawyer, and a tireless advocate for a healthy environment. He serves as a Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy. He has been an outspoken advocate on renewable energy and bringing clean energy jobs to the state of MA. Through his advocacy, he has put the Massachusetts ‘revenue neutral’ plan to combat climate change in the spotlight. This “model” can be adapted for “all” the states that embrace the necessity for clean energy, clean water and a clean environment for their citizens—all while providing financial incentive to do so.
#ClimateChange #CarbonPricing #RevenueNeutral #GreenEnergy #Harvard
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Guest: 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.
Discussion centers on the fact that the Equal Rights has never passed the 38 states needed for ratification as a Constitutional Amendment. Currently, 37 states have given the nod ratification, including Illinois in 2018–becoming the 37th state. Unfortunately, only the Virginia Senate voted to Ratify–the Republican-controlled House of Delegates (state representatives) shot it down. So which state will step up to the plate and finally put women on “constitutionally prescribed” Equal Footing with Men–we will have to wait and see.
Other points of discussion include sexual assault legislation that is being implemented by the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos to weaken Title IX–the federal statute that prohibits discrimination in education based on “gender.” In essence, Secretary DeVos, through her execution action is making it “harder” for victims of sexual assault and rape to have justice on college campuses. Seem absurd–Ms. Murphy discusses the travesty of justice when so many rapists and sexual aggressors are getting merely probation for heinous acts against women and girls. Watch, Learn & Rally for “REAL” Justice–and Against the “NEW” Female Justice Reform Under the “Trump” administration. Reform that makes it more difficult for victims to report and prosecute–and easier for dangerous criminals to go free.
Ms. Murphy’s 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.
#SexualAssault #WendyMurphy #VictimsofViolence #TitleIX #BetsyDeVos
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Guest: Attorney Shanna Cleveland. She is Sr. Counsel at ‘Free Speech for People’ an organization devoted to renewing our democracy, taking big money and corporate interests out of politics & stopping the misuse of the US Constitution by Corporations. She has been Sr. Atty. for a number of political & environmental organizations including the Conservation Law foundation where she worked in the Climate & Clean Energy Programs. She has received awards including one presented by our former MA State Supreme Court Chief Justice for her work – providing Access to Justice. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, and earned her JD from University of Virginia Law School (UVA)–while serving as Executive Editor of the UVA Law Review. Atty. Cleveland received her LLM (Master of Laws degree) magna cum laude from Vermont Law School.
Discussion centers upon how the concept of corporate personhood, an artificial artifice to enable corporations to extract the benefits that humans do, the right to vote, the right to give money to big business interests and the right to have a very loud voice at the table–something that would not be possible without the title of “corporate personhood.” Yet, this artifice did not come about by happenstance. The historical underpinnings was a well-choreographed effort by an attorney for Big Tobacco who made his way to the US Supreme Court during the Nixon administration. That justice, not only took his corporate prejudices to the bench, but wrote a “playbook” that was utilized to spark renewed interest in corporate personhood, and was a leading catalyst to breathe renewed life into the case of Citizen United–allowing big money to infiltrate the political process to favor corporations and big business.
Most troubling for the democracy, the “Justice” withheld his “playbook” information from the confirmation hearings–an all too important reminder why “full disclosure” and open discussion is imperative to Judicial Confirmation Hearings. Attorney Cleveland identified numerous reasons why ethical accountability and full disclosure into judicial confirmation hearings is critical–and it must be overhauled to ensure that nominees have and will be accountable to the American people and not beholding to corporate interests. With the polarization now in Congress and the recent US Supreme Court partisan hearing–there is no doubt that reform is in order to save the American democracy.
#CorporatePersonhood #BigMoneyinPolitics #CorporationsArePeople #Constitution #corruption
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Show Topic: Making the Connection: How Herbicide Use Correlates to Modern Disease
Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Sr. Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Dr. Seneff holds multiple degrees from MIT including: Biophysics, Nutrition, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science.
Dr. Seneff’s research has identified a number of correlations between the widely-used herbicide “glyphosate” also known as “Roundup” used on many food crops and now believed to be linked to many modern-day diseases. This diseases range from auto-immune to MS to Cancer. The recent legal case in the US against the makers of Roundup, Monsanto, has supported Dr. Seneff’s claims about a causal link. The first case of its kind against the herbicide maker, Monsanto, the jury awarded the dying father, Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper who routinely used the herbicide and suffering with non-hodgkins lymphoma with over $200 million, mostly in punitive damages against the herbicide maker. Punitive damages, not routinely awarded, send a powerful message that the jury found significant wrongdoing to the maker of the herbicide. Monsanto is appealing the verdict.
Additionally, Dr. Seneff has also identified correlations with toxic algae blooms she correlates to wide-spread use of glyphosate on sugarcane fields in the state of Florida. As a seasoned MIT researcher, her work is at the intersection of human biophysics and data analysis. She has conducted extensive analysis of data from studies conducted on these very topics.Dr. Seneff has coauthored numerous white-papers and has given numerous testimonies and lectures. Her work includes data analysis on the processes involved in identifying and determining causal events, etiology and methods of prevention. For more on Dr. Seneff and her work, visit: https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/
References –
For more on the trial verdict:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/health/monsanto-johnson-trial-verdict/index.html and https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-cancer-lawsuit/monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289-million-in-worlds-first-roundup-cancer-trial-idUSKBN1KV2HB
#herbicides #ModernDiseases #glyphosate #lawsuits #Non-HodgkinsLymphoma
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♦ Show Topic: Gerrymandering: Where to Draw the Line… How Partisan Gerrymandering is Used to Discriminate & Disenfranchise–Weaponized to Dilute the Vote & Keep the Incumbent Party in Power
Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, J.D., PhD, is a Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American History from Boston College.
Discussion on how gerrymandering began, why it has remained, and when or if the US Supreme Court may be unseating the concept of entrenched partisan gerrymandering as new cases come before it. Dr. Breen, lectures on the issues at the intersection of American History and the law. This is an ‘eye-opening’ discussion on how gerrymandering–drawing voting district lines–is all often “calculated” and implemented as a ‘subtle’ means to weaponize discrimination. By marginalizing blocks of voters–usually black & brown voters–diluting the impact of their vote by “packing and cracking” the district–so those in power who set the rules–stay in power; by keeping the status quo, minority voters and non-incumbents can be disenfranchised from the power of their vote. This process of ‘vote dilution,’ has the power of chill dissent and quell voices of what should be a ‘representative government’– a concept that is paramount to having non-racial and bipartisan voting.
Exploration of election practices: how our nation can reverse the effect of gerrymandering that has so openly fragmented our state and national elections. It is axiomatic that no one should disenfranchise voters or dilute the “one person – one vote” requirement of the democratic election process. The discussion centers on constitutional issues surrounding the use of of gerrymandering by state legislatures–with the purpose & effect of keeping the incumbent party in power. The result undoubtedly influences the outcomes of each states’ federal congressional elections, as well influence party representation within the state itself. There will be a review of current US Supreme Court cases presently under review.
Dr. Breen’s lectures on a variety of presidential historical topics on the historical and legal underpinnings of or democracy on invidious discrimination against minorities and women.
#gerrymandering #DisenfranchisingVoters #Redistricting #VoterSuppression #MinorityJurisdictions
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♦ Show Topic: Early Insults: Effects of Chemical, Metal & Water-Borne Contaminants on the Developing Brain
Guest: Dr. David Bellinger, PhD – Professor of Neurology & Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and a Sr. Research Associate in Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Bellinger holds a PhD in Psychology from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. He also holds a secondary appointment as Professor in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health; and is the current President of the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment.
Discussion centers on toxicants in the environment that have a negative effect on the developing brain. Included in discussion is the effect of lead in water–including the issues seen in Flint, Michigan; in addition to phthalates (BPA), pesticides (organophosphates), methylmercury and other water and air borne pollutants that find their way into the food chain and into adults and children. Also discussed ways to mitigate the harmful effects and ways to avoid further harm–as well as a call for parent & legislative advocacy to stop the current EPA and administration from further putting our nation’s children at risk.
#organophosphates #MethylMercury #contaminants #DevelopingBrain #children
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♦ Show Topic: Who’s in Charge of the Internet? Privacy, GeoPolitics & the Big Chill
Guest: Vivek Krishnamurthy, Esq., Assistant Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, & Lecturer on Law in Subject Areas of Human Rights, Internet Regulation & Free Speech
Discussion will include how the Internet is affected by policies of individual nations and their laws that define “privacy” – and how these laws might eventually affect what we can see and find on the Internet–across the globe. Issues include free speech, the right to be forgotten, search and seizure of digital “evidence,” and what new revelations may have in store for the “free and open” internet.
This program is a must see for anyone interest in Internet Freedoms and Uncensored Speech!
To read his most recent 2017 article appearing in Wired, click here!
Biography of Professor Krishnamurthy: he is a public international lawyer by training and background. His clinical teaching focuses on the regulation of the internet as a cross-border phenomenon and on the human rights impacts of internet-based technologies. He advises activists, journalists, governments, and technology companies on these questions and has spoken about the intersection between the internet and human rights at conferences and symposia around the world.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Vivek holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He clerked for the Hon. Morris J. Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada and currently sits on the board of two human rights charities.
#InternetPrivacy #GeoPolitics #CyberLaw #FreeSpeech #VivekKrishnamurthy
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♦ Show Topic: The ‘Common Good Nation’– A Nation Defined by Agreement
Guest: Dr. Terry Mollner, EdD. He is the Co-Founder of the Calvert Social Investment Funds–the first family of investment funds focusing on social responsibility; he is also an active & vocal Board Member of Ben & Jerry’s–helping to negotiate a buyout with international conglomerate Unilever–a successful negotiation that would not only leave the social mission of Ben & Jerry’s intact, but so successful, that it would be adopted by Unilever worldwide. Dr. Mollner is the author of numerous books on promoting the ‘Common Good’, social justice, cooperation by agreement, and working to ‘reverse’ the traditional bottom-line of profits over people.
His three recent books are: Common Good Nation, Common Good Capitalism, and Eldering: What We Do Between Enlightenment and Death. During the Ben & Jerry’s buy-out by Unilever, he made sure they received a legal contract from Unilever to continue spending the same percentage of its annual budget on social activism as the year it was bought–forever.
Discussion will be on the concept of Nations Defined by Agreement into the discussion on politics of change. How in the era of Trumpian politics, a movement for social change for good–among businesses and individuals will take place in the private sector of committed individuals–not with government. As humans we have a choice–compete or cooperate.
#Unilever #BenAndJerrys #CommonGood #SociallyResponsibleCompany #TerryMollner
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Show Topic: Public Education in America: Under Control, or Under Siege?
Guest: Dr. Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She holds a (DPhil) in Political Theory from the University of Oxford (UK), & a BA in Philosophy from Yale University. She is also an award-winning author, and is also the founder of JusticeinSchools.org — an organization devoted to discovering ethical dilemmas in education, and dedicated to social justice.
Discussion will include public and special education in America; charter schools, vouchers, ethical dilemmas and how the new US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos may influence the direction of public schools in America. Don’t miss this fascinating topic that affects all children of school-age years across America!
#PublicEducationinAmerica #MeiraLevinson #SocialJustice #JusticeInSchools #Harvard
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♦ Show Topic: Going Dark or Getting Personal? The Battle Between Data, Privacy & Our Constitution’
Guest: Attorney David O’Brien, Sr. Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University makes guest appearance on the The Legal Edition-Legal, Business & Policy News for the Second in a Series, “Going Dark, or Getting Personal?” the continuing discussion on the “Going Dark” debate. Attorney O’Brien and The Legal Edition Host: Attorney & Policy Consultant, Mary Kay Elloian, engage in legal and practical dialog on cybersecurity affects our Constitutional protections against unwanted intrusion into our personal and business affairs.
Discussion: How cybersecurity may manifest as warrantless intrusions and violations of Constitutional protections afforded by the First, Fourth, and even the Third Amendment to our US Constitution. Discussion includes what individuals and businesses need to know about the scope of warrantless intrusion by governmental actors: intrusions that infringe upon Constitutional rights to privacy, and the warrant requirement. Also discussed, how nongovernmental hackers also pose a rick to our cybersecurity, through online piracy of private records and data mining–creating data breaches–and subjecting trade and proprietary secrets to potential theft and liability exposure–data that was supposed to be, and used to be secure.
Topics for discussion include what appears to be limitless modes of intrusion, and how protecting private conversations & corporate secrets has never been so important. The questions and answers discussed only touch the surface of this provocative issue, but the implications are far-reaching. Can we ‘never’ expect to be alone…even when we think we are? How conversations and places once protected from intrusion–may never be private again. Further discussion on the Internet of Things (IoT) and how that is changing the issue of privacy and third party discovery in ways businesses and individuals never contemplated. For more on the scope and breadth of this fascinating topic, watch both segments of “Going Dark, or Getting Personal?” only on The Legal Edition!
#DataPrivacy #USConstitution #InternetofThings #Warrants #BerkmanKleinCenter
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♦ Show Topic: Going Dark or Getting Personal? The Battle Between Data, Privacy & Intrusion’
Guests: Bruce Schneier–internationally renowned security expert, a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; he is the author of 12 books–including the New York Times best-seller “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” and is a Board Member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Attorney David O’Brien–Senior Researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He has authored numerous articles, white-papers, and reports on cybersecurity and privacy for the Berkman Center, and serves on the advisory board for Harvard’s Open Data Assistance Program..
Discussion on the new report issued by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on the issue of “Going Dark,” and the role of law enforcement and privacy rights under scrutiny in the Apple iPhone Encryption litigation unfolding in the Federal Courts. This is one program for those in law enforcement, cryptography and privacy rights won’t want to miss. Stay tuned!
#DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #BruceSchneier #BerkmanCenter #Harvard
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♦ Show Topic: Sectarianism and Schism in the Middle East: What it is & How it Came to Be
Guest: Ara Sarian, Attorney & Senior Rule of Law Advisor for the US State Department to Iraq & Afghanistan, and the International Legal Council for the European Commission (EU).
Discussion: on the underpinnings of the divide, its history, and what it means for modern day zealots, followers, and US & European relations in the Middle East and around the world.
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♦ Show Topic: GMO Fraud: Your Food, Your Health, Your Government
Guest: Public Interest Attorney, Steven Druker, Author of the Newly Released and Riveting book, ‘Altered Genes, Twisted Truth-How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public.’
Attorney Druker is the Founder of the ‘watchdog’ group, Alliance for Bio-Integrity.
Discussion delves into the science of GMO’s, the laws that are in place to oversee GMO’s, and the FDA’s systematic non-adherence to its own policies to favor biotech giants without any indicia of independent testing–or even testing by the FDA! Unlike what most people believe to be a government agency protecting the health of the people from toxic or potentially hazardous food, the FDA has a ‘voluntary’ system whereby GMO food manufacturers do not even need to inform the FDA of bringing new products to market. Through the suit launched by Attorney Druker’s nonprofit watchdog organization, the ‘Alliance for Bio-Integrity,’ along with several other plaintiff’s, were able to obtain, through discovery, information about what the FDA knew about GMO’s and when they knew it. The information gleaned from the FDA was enormous. With over 44,000 pieces of evidence that otherwise would not have been discoverable, but for the suit–startling information about American food safety came to light. To learn that no one was monitoring for potentially hazardous GMO’s, even though top scientists warned those who head the agency. After listening to the evidence presented, you will ask, ‘Are we left to our own devices?’ Will labeling be enough to protect the public from these hazardous GMO’s? Learn the truth about Food Labeling Legislation, Whistleblowers, and Congressional Inquiries into GMO Food Safety. You should be shocked–but not surprised. Government regulation leaves much to be desired to protect the public. For more information on the author, Steven Druker, and his fight against the fraud of the FDA, visit: http://www.biointegrity.org/ and also visit The Legal Edition Publications and Blog section of this website for more information on the GMO legislation, toxic ‘designer’ herbicides, and GMO free labeling and organics.
#GMO #GeneticallyModifiedOrganisms #StevenDruker #AlteredGenesTwistedTruth
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♦ Show Topic: Toxic Teeth-Toxic Truth: Mercury, Amalgams & the FDA – Two Part Series (Part 1 & Part 2)
Guest: Dr. Mark A. Breiner, DDS, Author of Whole-Body Dentistry and founder of the Breiner Center for Whole-Body Health.
Dr. Breiner is speaking out on Mercury-Amalgams, and how it is classified everywhere as hazardous waste–expect when it is placed in the human body! Dr. Breiner discusses scientific studies tracing the root of disease to mercury in organs of the body. He also provides insight into his approach to obtaining optimum health. His whole-body approach to remedying illness brings to light health related issues that may dental practitioners and even physicians may overlook. However, as Dr. Breiner points out, there is a connection between dentistry and whole-body health–one affects the other. The book is a page-turner filled with scientific facts including conductivity of metals, electrical currents in the mouth and body, leakage of mercury to distance sites in the body, and the fact that mercury is a neurotoxin that crosses the blood brain barrier, and can be passed on to a developing fetus. The foreword of the book is written by well-known cardiologist, Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, Author of ‘Reverse Heart Disease Now.’
The book, Whole Body Dentistry’ is the WINNER of the 2012 Global E-Book Awards/Medicine and Healthcare, and a Finalist in the Book of the Year Awards!
Discussion: Although the FDA considers Mercury to be Hazardous and one of the most deadly substances on earth, outlining policies for its delivery to dental offices and where the EPA sets guidelines for disposal once removed from patients–there is no information provided to consumers to warn of the potential for devastating health effects on adults, children–and especially pregnant women and their unborn fetuses. Yet even though the FDA & ADA do not acknowledge that amalgams can be unsafe in many people, the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology deems it otherwise. Now banned in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia–-and even in Japan-–amalgams are getting the attention outside the US that it deserves. But what about here at home? Explored are the devastating effects of systemic poisoning to include what appears to be autistic symptoms, cognitive deficits, MS, Lupus and more. So why are consumers not informed for the potential for illness when they go to their dentist? Why are they not informed that they have choices and alternatives to amalgams? Further discussion on alternative dental practices that take into account the ‘whole body’ to help achieve homeostasis and a disease-free state. Whether it be a cavitation, or an energetic imbalance in a body system or a tooth affecting a vital energy meridian–-Dr. Breiner explains the disease process and the road to wellness. This is an eye-opening discussion for everyone who has head a health problem that has evaded detection by their doctor or dentist–follow the detective paradigm with Dr. Breiner. Also discussed the first successful amalgam litigation case in the US. So stay tuned for more of The Legal Edition!
For information on Dr. Breiner: http://wholebodymed.com/
For more information: http://iaomt.org/
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♦ Show Topic: Autism & Environmental Toxins: Mercury, Medicine and Money
Guest: Mark Blaxill, Co-Author of The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-Made Epidemic (Thomas Dunne, 2010) and Vaccines 2.0: The Careful Parent’s Guide to Making Safe Vaccination Choices for Your Family (Skyhorse Publishing, February 2015). He is also the Chairman and co-founder of the Canary Party and Health Choice, editor at large for Age of Autism, a former director of SafeMinds. Mr. Blaxill has also testified before Congress on issues related to autism, health, and the environment. He is also a parent of a child with autism. Mr. Blaxill received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public/International Affairs at Princeton University, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. For more information on the Canary Party, visit: CanaryParty.org Age of Autism online: AgeofAutism.com and SafeMinds: SafeMinds.org Discussion will include historical accounts of mercury levels in the environment over the past centuries to today. Further discussion will include the uses of mercury derivatives from the 19th to 21st centuries in medical products and their effects on the human body. Topics of discussion include: environmental contaminants to vaccines, and traditional uses of toxic metals in medicine–etiology, manifestations and potential for new disease. Also to be discussed will be the recent US Supreme Court Case, Michigan v EPA, to which the Court just ruled that the EPA overstepped its boundaries–not fully assessing the cost to corporations to meet more stringent regulations of compliance for emitting coal-based mercury and other toxic contaminants into the environment. Contaminants that find their way into our lakes and streams–further tainting the human food supply and the environment. To learn more about this insidious and pervasive issue and how corporations, special interests and our government allows this to continue, watch for this upcoming program ” Autism & Environmental Toxins: Mercury, Medicine and Money” on The Legal Edition.
♦ Show Topic: Vaccine Mandates: Greater Good or Greater Greed?
Guest: Attorney, Scholar, Mary Holland–Research Scholar at New York University Law School, and Co-Author & Co-Editor of the Best Selling Book, ‘Vaccine Epidemic’
‘Personal Liberties Under Siege’ The Usurpation of Individual Rights Under the Guise of Promoting Public Health
Discussion will include the US Supreme Court case of Jacobson v Massachusetts (1905), in which vaccine mandates were mandated under a full-fledged smallpox epidemic in Massachusetts–pay a fine-or take the vaccine. Discussion will also include the current vaccine legislation to remove exemptions that have afforded many in states across the country a reprieve from vaccines that can harm and injure, but the oppressive and contrived nature of the urgency of such legislation. Also discussed, the revolving door between our government agencies charged with protecting the public health, and their ties and allegiances to BigPharma. Discussion includes CDC Whistleblowers, and those who falsified data at the CDC–now fugitives from the law. Background: Historically the US has passed laws that have irreparably tarnished the reputation of the US, such as forced sterilizations of children and adults notably poor that were earmarked as ‘defectives and imbeciles’ and sterilized ‘for the common good’–under the 1927 US Supreme Court decision Buck v Bell; where rampant experiments such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama; and the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII under Korematsu depriving them of their liberty and their property–all under the guise of promoting the public good.
Throughout American history, these deprivations of personal rights stand eternal as grave reminders of the effects of overreaching and overzealous government and bureaucrats. Notably, these home-grown indignities greatly tarnished the American reputation for liberty and personal freedoms–serving as a template for the Nazi use of ‘experimentation’ in their internment camps during WWII (1939-1945). During the Nuremberg trials during WWII, the Nazi’s referred to their torturous and barbaric behavior as ‘medical experiments’ and used the American indignities on its own people as justification for leniency in the trial of their War Criminals during WWII. There can be doubt these cases stand as irreverent reminders of our nations darker past, and color the view of America in the international community. Our history here stands in stark contrast to the American values of liberty and freedom for all its people. Today, America is once again at a crossroads–legislators making choices for the individual, or for the common good. Yet these choices appear to be founded upon the same pillars of those in our history. Protecting Society for the’ Greater Good’ has proven to have Greatly Failed. That burden and seriously tarnish our history and our Constitution–it has usurped our Personal Rights and Liberties.
Now, the American government engages in its own justification of another assault upon its own people–now doing so under the guise of Promoting Public Health–Mandating Vaccines, and Curtailing Vaccine Exemptions. Once again, trying to force the greater good — has always greatly failed — and has always left a nation and its people severely, and irreparably divided. With that as a backdrop, one must ask–who will ultimately benefit from forced mandates and the further erosion of personal rights and liberties? Hasn’t history already given us the answer? To learn more about the History of Personal Liberties & the Importance of Standing Up for Personal Choice and Freedom–look for this upcoming program. Vaccine Mandates: Greater Good or Greater Greed? You decide…
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♦ Show Topic: ‘Toxic Exposure-Toxic Truth’–The Real Story About Vaccines–the Children They Injured–the Lives They Ruined – Two Part Series
Part 1 – Focus on Vaccine Litigation – Part 2 – Focus on Vaccine Science
Roundtable guests: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at the MIT; Dr. Richard Moskowitz, M.D. & Homeopathic Physician; Kevin Conway, Vaccine Litigation Attorney. Join us for a roundtable discussion about Real Issues, Real People, Real Lives. From how a case gets to vaccine court, how parents of injured children cannot sue the government or the doctor or medical provider who gave the vaccine, and who is ultimately responsible for taking care of injured children for the rest of their life. Hear startling information about how ‘vaccine court’ works, how it is so difficult to make a claim yet how billions of dollars have been awarded for those severely injured, and families for those who have died. How the VAERS database tracks these devastating injuries, but only represents approximately 1% of those injures reported.
An enlightening expose from those in the trenches. TheLegalEdition.com
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♦ Show Topic: Toxic Food–Toxic Metals–What We Don’t Know Might Kill Us!
Guest: Dr. Gary Kracoff, NMD, RPh Discussion about our tainted food supply, rife with Mycotoxins, Aflatoxins, i.e., Fungi, known and admitted to be Carcinogens by the FDA. Discussion about the increase in allowable toxins in our food and animal feed over the decades. Discussion will also include metal toxins in vaccines, what they do to the health of our nations’ children, and what can be done to make life better. Also discussed, the fungal meningitis that was allowed to grow unchecked at New England Compounding by regulatory authorities. That malady wrecked havoc with numerous lives, debilitated many, and killed more than a few. From Discussion from Tainted Food, Vaccines to Autism and the Immune System. Dr. Kracoff shares his years of experience as a Registered Pharmacist/Chemist, Naturopathic Medical Doctor, and Health and Nutrition Coach!
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♦ Show Topic: From Rites to Remedies-How Homeopathic Medicine Has Saved Lives During Global Pandemics
Guest: Dr. Richard Moskowitz, M.D., & Homeopathic Physician Discussion will include the Role of Homeopathic Medicine today in Childhood Illness Prevention and Cure, as well as the Successful Use of Homeopathy in History, During Times of Global Pandemics. Further discussion will include Conventional Medicine and the role of Homeopathy as a Complementary or Stand-Alone therapy to treat childhood diseases, illnesses and adult diagnoses. Dr. Moskowitz received his B. A. in 1959 from Harvard, Phi Beta Kappa, in Biochemical Sciences, and his M.D. from New York University in 1963. As part of his medical education, he completed his Internship in General Medicine at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver in the areas of: Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Surgery, OB/GYN, and Emergency Medicine. After completing his Medical Internship, Dr. Moskowitz other the years received Medical Licensure in several states including: Colorado, New York, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. However, it was during his thirteen years of his General Medical Practice from 1969-1982, that he became interested in incorporating natural therapies into the home birthing experience of his patients. As a result, his interests turned to Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy. He then began studying Japanese Acupuncture with Sensei Masahilo Nakazono in Santa Fe from 1974-1975; while at the same time studying Classical Homeopathy which he incorporated into his practice in 1975. As part of his formal Homeopathy Training, Dr. Moskowitz trained with the National Center for Homeopathy, based in Washington, D. C., and continued his studies with Dr. George Vithoulkas in Greece, Dr. Rajan Sankaran and colleagues in India, and other practitioners in the US and abroad. In addition to lecturing and teaching seminars and courses on homeopathy and related subjects, Dr. Moskowitz has written several books including: ‘Plain Doctoring,’ ‘Some Thoughts on the Malpractice Crisis,’ ‘Resonance: The Homeopathic Point of View,’ and his latest book ‘Plain Doctoring-Selected Writings’ released in 2013. His first book, ‘Homeopathic Medicine for Pregnancy and Childbirth,’ published in 1992 is still in print. Additional Scholarly Articles include: ‘Why I Became a Homeopath’ and ‘The Case Against Immunizations.’ In addition to his extensive medical background practicing family medicine, he was also a Graduate Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Colorado. For additional information about Dr. Moskowitz and his work: http://www.doctorrmosk.com/
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♦ Show Topic: The Great Cholesterol Deception–The Story Behind the Statins
Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Dr. Seneff holds multiple degrees from MIT including: an Undergraduate degree in Biophysics; M.S. and E.E. in Electrical Engineering; & Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Research Focus: Dr. Seneff’s research is at the intersection of Biology, Nutrition, and Computer Science–allowing her to develop Computational Models using Epidemiological Data from Government, Public, & Private Resources, to Determine Risk Factors for Illness and Disease. Discussion will include what Statins do, how they are designed to lower cholesterol, while in-depth research from around the Globe seemingly indicates that the war on Cholesterol just may be a Great Deception–a myth perpetrated by pharmaceutical giants for purely financial gain. The Great Cholesterol Deception will look at why Cholesterol is so essential to human life. Discussion will examine how our our government under the FDA turns a blind eye to this deception–not conducting its own clinical research, but relying on clinical data supplied by the drug manufacturers’ themselves! In addition, Dr. Seneff will explain the biological and synergistic effects of cholesterol, and why it is so vitally important for essential bodily functions–and how interfering with those functions can often bring on devastating and debilitating disease; that is, disease and illness far beyond the cardiovascular issues that statins were supposed to prevent. From studies around the Globe, Dr. Seneff will discuss her own research and those of her scientific colleagues to bear witness to the Great Cholesterol Deception, upcoming on The Legal Edition.
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♦ Show Topic: Makers, Takers and the 47%–The New Wave of Safety Netters Catapulting out of Poverty and Into New Age Entrepreneurs
Guest: Dr. Gareth Olds, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Business Administration-Entrepreneurial Management-Harvard Business School Discussion will focus on the New Breed of Social Entrepreneurs that not only use or vie for the ‘Safety-Net,’ but Utilize it as a means to Catapult Themselves Out of Poverty and into ‘Roles’ as New Age Entrepreneurs. Based on Dr. Olds’s years of Research–gone should be the stereotypes that ‘Once in Poverty-Always in Poverty’–which some in society have labeled as ‘Perpetual Takers.’ Instead, what Dr. Olds’s research has shown, is the ‘Presence’ of the Safety Net, whether it is used or not, has ‘Forged a Route’ that would not otherwise exist–a Route that can Catapult those in Poverty into new roles as ‘Social Entrepreneurs.’ To ‘take a chance’ has always been the American Dream–to become creators–the so called ‘Makers’. Yet, the market forces of Today are Highly-Competitive–incomparable with those of years past when the first immigrants came to this country to make their way. Today, market forces are leaving those on the ‘Lower Economic Rungs’ with a much steeper ladder to climb. Whether disadvantaged by lack of Education, declining Health, or just plain Poverty–None of these should define one’s financial future. Most Importantly, Dr. Olds’s Research Data Shows that the Safety-Net is in fact, giving a Boost–‘Intended or Not’–to those ‘Willing to Take the Risk.’ New data shows the Safety-Net has become a Trampoline–there to help those who vie for it to reach new Heights–yet there to catch them when or if they should Fall. For without the Safety-Net, those wanting to Climb the traditional Ladder out of poverty Rung by Rung, would have No Way Out. Most importantly, Dr. Olds will discuss how the Public Misconception that 47% of the Population are just Takers–‘preying upon’ the 53% of Makers is factually and statistically incorrect. In fact, his research shows this belief has always been a Stereotypical Artifice of a more Affluent and Privileged class. Time permitting, discussion will include health and labor economics, applied econometrics, and the supply of entrepreneurial talent for start-ups; the importance of interpersonal trust in reducing credit market frictions and facilitating entrepreneurship; and the impact of public healthcare programs on insurance crowd-out and medical innovation. It is this cumulative effect that public healthcare and income support programs have on helping safety-net households to establish firm footing in the new Entrepreneurial Arena. Professor Olds earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University in 2014, where he received the Merit Dissertation Fellowship, the National Science Foundation’s IGERT Fellowship (for an interdisciplinary program on poverty and inequality), and the Graduate Teaching Award. He also holds an A.M. from Brown University and a B.A. from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is originally from Anchorage, Alaska, and is a Safety-Net Survivor. For information on Dr. Olds and his Research: For Government Database Information on Labor Statistics and Population Census: http://www.census.gov/cps
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♦ Show Topic: The Next Generation: From Pipelines to Propaganda-Putting the ‘Best’ Energy Policies to Work [Roundtable Discussion]
Guests: Massachusetts State Senator James ‘Jamie’ Eldridge, Vice-Chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and Member of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy; Jim O’Reilly, Director of Public Policy at Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP)–Join The Legal Edition Host & Producer, Attorney Mary Kay Elloian. An-In-Depth Roundtable Discussion will focus on Energy Policies and Energy Needs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Northeast–while exploring how Implementing a Responsible Energy Policy and Renewable Energy Generation Infrastructure can be a model for the entire Nation. In contrast to these goals, discussion will include current proposals for new pipeline infrastructures across the region with a First of its Kind Proposal for a ‘tariff-based’ cost recovery system proposed by the Energy Company itself. As proposed, the new pipeline would carry high-volume, highly volatile, pressurized, ‘fracked gas from the Pennsylvania Marcellus shale deposit to the northeast region. The proposed system would be a gas–storage and delivery system–which would allow for pressurization and storage of gas during all seasons. As proposed, it would navigate through sensitive environmental terrain, near schools, homes, businesses, and watersheds which provides safe drinking water to thousands of people in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Along the 400 mile route of pipeline would also be compressor stations–to consume a 100 foot swath of land and private property in its path–with the effect of diminishing land and home values affecting their saleability, insurability, and jeopardizing covenants of mortgaged property. The premise of the gas pipeline proposal is to bring additional energy to the region for home use and electricity generation–while at same time the energy company states its goal is to also export the gas it brings to outside the US. However, to export would bring higher profits to the energy company–while bringing substantial costs to the local environment and every rate payer in the region.
With the laws of Supply & Demand in the Balance–the end result could very well be higher costs for US rate payers once exports are increased. Discussion will include what the energy data needs assessments really show are the current and projected energy needs of the region, while addressing best practices on how those energy needs can be met. With climate change looming and terrorism in the news, renewable energy is now making its way into the forefront of clean energy generation–now is the time for discussion on how to put those new energy measures to work. Discussion will include data analysis and best practices to bring clean energy to consumers, while at the same time offering new solutions to meeting energy needs and minimizing negative effects on the environment. Discussion will include New Energy Generation Initiatives that will not only protect sensitive wetlands, farmlands–and human health and safety–but will ultimately address the elephant in the room–climate change. This is one show that Legislators, Consumers, and Energy Policy wonks won’t want to miss. Also see: www.TheSolutionsProject.org for more information on how to make each and every state –totally Renewable Energy Driven! Additional Information on Senator Eldridge: https://malegislature.gov/People/Profile/jbe0 and Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP): http://www.neep.org/ Additional Information on Shale Oil and Gas Risk Assessment: http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1180
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♦ Show Topic: The New Food Order: How Glyphosate, Herbicides & GMO’s Are Shaping Our Future – & What the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She holds multiple degrees from MIT including: B.S. in Biophysics, M.S. and E.E. in Electrical Engineering, Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her Approach Includes Analysis and Synthesis of Data from Research Literature & Web-Based Epidemiological Data Related to Health and Environmental Toxins. Discussion focus: Herbicides and GMO’s are all around us–but are they safe? So much information in the media–but is that information ‘unbiased?’ Learn more from a Senior Research Scientist from MIT who is not only using her skills as a formidable researcher in biological sciences but is combining her research and deduction skills using super computers to garner and parse unfathomable amounts of information. From raw research data to full-blown studies from around the globe, Dr. Seneff will share her findings and her opinions based upon years of researching scientific papers, studies and peer reviewed journal submissions. She will answer the question based upon her years of research study and evaluations of scientific literature whether Herbicides are truly safe, and how they work synergistically with GMO crops and other toxic chemicals in the environment today. Discussion will include how will the new Frankenfoods of today could affect us tomorrow and down the road–and the Public’s Right to Know What’s in Their Food. Additional discussion will include Updates on Truth in Labeling Litigation currently ongoing in the Northeast in the state of Vermont—Litigation by Food Industry Trade Groups & Big Business Aimed at Preventing the State of Vermont from Putting their Labeling Law in Effect–even though the Governor of Vermont already signed the Labeling Bill into Law. One might ask, why would big business spend millions of dollars on fighting truth in labeling? That is, if they truly believe their products are just as good, and substantially similar to conventional products? If you are unsure–watch the upcoming episode of “The New Food Order…” on The Legal Edition.
For more information about Dr. Seneff and her Research: http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ To View International Research on the Effects of GMO’s in Animal Studies: http://gmojudycarman.org/ & the Effects of GMO’s and Herbicides on Humans, Animals and Crops: http://www.gmoseralini.org
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♦ Show Topic: Our Oceans–Our Survival–One Earth (Two Part Extended Edition) – Part TWO Series – See Part 1 & Part 2 on YouTube & TheLegalEdition.com
Guest: Dr. James J. McCarthy, Ph.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University; Former Director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology; and Co-Author on the First Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) Report on Climate Change. Dr. McCarthy is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the AAAS, our Nation’s Largest Scientific Association; and Current Chair of the Board of Directors for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Additionally, Dr. McCarthy served as the first chair of the international committee that establishes research priorities and oversees implementation of the International Geosphere – Biosphere Program (IGBP); Founding Editor for the American Geophysical Union’s Global Biogeochemical Cycles. For the past two decades Dr. McCarthy has worked as an author, reviewer, and as a co-chair with the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For the Third IPCC Assessment, he headed Working Group II, which had responsibilities for assessing impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change. He was also one of the lead authors on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, and a Vice-Chair of the 2007 Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment. Dr. McCarthy is also the Recipient of the New England Aquarium’s David B. Stone award for distinguished service to the environment and the community. Program discussion will focus on his role in Co-Authoring one of the First Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports (IPCC) in 1990, and subsequent climate change reports. He will discuss the state of our oceans and its importance to our own survival: from the glaciers in Greenland to the ice shelves in Antarctica–melting in the poles has been unprecedented on the past decades with no end in sight. This program will dispel the myths of whether melting is actually occurring and why. Melting of the polar regions is not a new phenomenon–yet the rate of melting is unprecedented. Discussion will include: acidification, carbon, disappearing ice shelves and coral reefs, and extinction of key marine populations essential to the biological health of our seas. Discussion will also include drilling for black gold–how both drilling and pollution affects the biology and chemistry of our oceans–and the marine populations that inhabit it. This is one program that everyone who cares about preserving our great oceans–and ultimately ensuring our own survival must see!
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♦ Show Topic: Managing the Risks of Climate Change While Averting Economic Disaster (an overview)
Guest: Dr. Dale Jorgenson, Ph.D., Samuel W. Morris University Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Professor of Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government–and Author of the newly released book on the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: “Double Dividend” and Nobel Prize Nominee.
Dr. Jorgenson–past President of the American Economic Association in 2000–and named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association in 2001. He served as a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991; and Chairman of its Board from 1998 to 2006. Additionally, he served as Chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003; in addition to holding office as President of the Econometric Society in 1987. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, and has authored more than 36 books and 300 articles on Economics. He most recently co-authored, Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States. Discussion will focus on the issue of climate change, recent EPA rulings, in addition to economic productivity and the overwhelming need to minimize economic loss. With the increase in the frequency and intensity of violent storms, extreme weather conditions–as well as arid growing conditions–business and industry must brace for the additional costs of lost productivity, loss of property, loss of life, and increase in insurance costs that may drive prices higher than ever anticipated by consumers and CEO’s. Yet, the cost of doing nothing about climate change is no longer a viable option–as insurers refuse to underwrite high-risk areas of the country as well as the most vulnerable industries. Unlike the past, costs of rebuilding infrastructures may no longer be be borne by the government to reestablish communities devastated by coastal storms, inland hurricanes and tornadoes–especially where insurers had refused to underwrite them and Congress has not appropriated monies to rebuild. Whether acknowledged or not–climate change is here to stay..and policymakers need to stop that debate and start finding solutions to manage its affects. Experts agree–we are in uncharted territory with no time to spare–and as a result of procrastination and spurious debate–we must mitigate the risks in ways unprecedented in the past. This is one show that not only will focus on the financial affects of climate change, but the devastating market affects on the economy and on the American public if left unabated. Like it or Not–the Scientific Majority are in Consensus–climate change is real! The time has long passed on that debate..Now it’s time to find solutions. This is one episode of The Legal Edition that will give economic and policy assessments to this oft debated and often ill informed issue. Dr. Jorgenson, a much sought after scholar on the Economy & Climate Change provides solid, empirical, evidence-based discussion on whether climate change is real and the economic effects that will occur if left unabated. This is one episode of The Legal Edition that will provide economic assessments and mitigation strategies of one of the most critical issues of our time. For further biographical and scholarly information about Dr. Jorgenson and his research on the effects of climate change: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jorgenson/home
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Environmental Series: ‘Fracking Our Future’ – Dirty Little Secrets the Oil & Gas Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know!
Guest: Dr. Anthony. R. Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E. is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University; President of Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy; Research Member Cornell (Hydraulic) Fracture Group, and Expert on ‘Fracking’
Discussion: As a concerned scientist/engineer–and President of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc.–Dr. Ingraffea engages beyond the academy to further inform and educate the public on critical scientific issues that involve the public health and safety–such as Hydraulic Fracturing, aka Fracking. More information about his work as President of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc., can be found at www.psehealthyenergy.org Dr. Ingraffea is also a lead Researcher in the Cornell Fracture Group that is working with other researchers to create, verify and validate computational simulation systems for fracture control in engineered systems. The educational research is focused on both experimental testing and numerical simulation of fatigue and fracture in spectrum of materials.
For more information on his fracturing work, www.cfg.cornell.edu For additional biographical information about Dr. Ingraffea, http://www.cee.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=ari1
Program discussion will clarify what is Fracking and the infrastructure that it entails, and clarify what are Greenhouse Gasses and their longevity and persistence in the environment. Dr. Ingraffea will also elaborate how he and his colleagues have researched and determined how NOT ONLY the entire State of New York can be adapted to be fully Renewable Energy driven–but the entire nation! That model includes–making that state ‘Energy Independent’–while Creating Good Paying ‘State-Based’ Jobs in the Process. This ‘Clean Jobs’ and ‘Environmental Infrastructure’ Model has been researched and adapted to meet the needs of each and every state–which in turn–can bolster a state’s economy, create new jobs, and enhance quality of life. To learn more how Your State can become Renewable Energy Driven, visit http://thesolutionsproject.org/
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Environmental Series: ‘Fracking Our Future’ – Dirty Little Secrets the Oil & Gas Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know!
♦ Show Topic: From Pipelines to Profits to a Community Near You…
Guest: John Rumpler, Esq., Sr. Attorney for Environment America
From Marcellus to Massachusetts–the Shale Deposit from Appalachia up to the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Pristine lands, countless watersheds, lay in jeopardy as oil and gas industries mobilize to exploit our most pristine natural resources–convince unsuspecting homeowners to sell their mineral rights beneath their lands, turn clean water into toxic soup, industrialize watersheds with compressors, pipelines, holding tanks, and methane flares–practices that utilize our most precious resource–water–toxifying it–removing it forever from our water supply. We ask the question, could these practices create new Hazardous Waste or Superfund sites of the future? This discussion is for everyone around the nation–from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania to the foothills of California–anyone who cares about clean air, clean water, quality of life, and open space for this generation and the next. It is first in the series: ‘Fracking Our Future…Dirty Little Secrets the Oil & Gas Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know!’
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Guest: Chris Schaffner, P.E., LEED Fellow, The Green Engineer, Inc. (a Certified B Corp.) Discussion will focus on Standards that are used in Sustainable Green Buildings that can alleviate energy-efficiency issues, save money, create a better environment for workers–and have a better impact on the community. Further discussion on what LEED Certification entails, and how it is applied across the nation where energy efficiency and technological advancement are center to creating buildings of the future.
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♦Show Topic: ‘B’ Certified: The Beneficial ‘B-ing’ That is Sweeping Across Massachusetts & the Nation
Guest: Erik Trojian, Director of Policy at B Lab, New York City, New York; With Offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & San Francisco California Discussion on Third Party B-Certification–What it is and How it Enhances the Statutorily Created Benefit Corporation Mission: Host Mary Kay Elloian, Esq., & B Lab Policy Director, Erik Trojian, will discuss ‘Beneficial B-ing’, that is What it Means to be B Certified, Why B Certification is so Important, What B-Lab’s Third Party Certification Policy & Procedures Entail, and How Receiving Your ‘B’ Will Ultimately Distinguish Your Corporation, Create Good-Will, & Keep it ‘on track’ to Maximize the Endowed ‘Benefits’ of the Triple Bottom Line–that is, People, Planet & Profits. Discussion Will Also Include the Distinction Between What is a B Certified Corporation and What is a ‘Benefit Corporation’ as Established by Law.
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Guest: State Senator Michael Barrett, Co-Sponsor of the Massachusetts Carbon Tax Bill (as modeled after Federal Legislation proposed by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) & Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Discussion will focus on the fiscal policies that are necessary for a state and nation to be socially responsible with the carbon pollutants entering the environment as a result of business, industry and daily living. In addition, policies and methodologies will be explored that can provide a cleaner and healthier environment with more responsible energy initiatives being put in place–including Solar. Models for discussion include fiscal and environmental initiatives that are currently hailed not only as ‘workable’ but ‘working’ by socially progressive nations around the globe. Join us for a candid discussion on fiscal and environmental policies working together for the common good–to usher in a cleaner, healthier, and more robust energy policy for tomorrow.
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Guest: Dr. Mark Albion, Former Dean of Harvard Business School and Professor of Economics & Marketing, Faculty Founder of Net Impact, Author of 7 books and named a NY Times Best Selling Author. Dr. Albion is also the founder of six companies including ‘Net-Impact’ to assist Students in Finding Socially Responsible Careers; he was also named 2010 Entrepreneur of the year; and most notably has co-founded More Than Money Careers, Benefit LLC. Dr. Albion holds five degrees, including a joint PhD in Business & Economics from Harvard University and Harvard Business School. Discussion will focus on how positive change will occur only by “Occupying Wall Street From Within.” That is, by changing long held tenets of profit over people. By educating a new generation of students and business owners how positive change can be achieved–and ‘profitability’ maximized in the process. That is, reintroducing ethics, accountability and transparency to a marketplace that is now devoid of it. To encourage a new system of metrics for measuring and defining what ‘profitability’ really is. To employ the maxim “Change Takes Time–But it can be Achieved Only if we Begin.” Discussion will include how the new Benefit Corporation model is a step in the right direction, in addition to educating our nations’ young people as to the vital importance of reclaiming our nation’s future. Occupying Wall Street from Within–a Social Concept and a Business Model that will change the way America does Business–for Good.
>>Watch For This Two part Series With Dr. Terry Mollner-Member, Board of Directors of VT Based Ben & Jerry’s on ‘Social Responsibility & Common Good Investing’ <<
$ Show Topics ‘Two Part Series’: Common Good Investing & Common Good Capitalism: the Next Layer in the Maturation of Socially Responsible–Impact–All Investing—& Its Effect on Wall St Show (2 Part Series).
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♦Show Topic-Part 1 of 2: Common Good Investing: A New Path To Common Good Capitalism Show
♦Show Topic-Part 2 of 2: Common Good Capitalism: The Inevitability of Common Good Investing
Guest: Dr. Terry Mollner, Outspoken Member, Board of Directors of VT Based Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream; a Founder of Calvert Social Investment Funds and the Calvert Foundation, Pioneer of the First Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, Chair of the Trusteeship Institute and Stakeholders Capital; Author & Lecturer on Common Good Investing. Dr. Mollner will be discussing Common Good Investing & Common Good Capitalism.
Dr. Terry Mollner, will join the Host & Producer of The Legal Edition, Massachusetts Attorney & Business Consultant Mary Kay Elloian, in a discussion on ‘Socially Responsible Investing.’ Dr. Mollner will draw on his Decades of Experience as a ‘Pioneer in Social Responsible and Impact Investing’ since the 1970’s to elaborate on how Common Good Capitalism will Emerge Victorious on Wall St. and the Nation. Discussion will focus on how purely profit-driven companies will fade into the past, and will no longer be a progressive business model for doing business and attracting new investors and capital. The ‘profits first model’ will give way to a more Robust and Community-Based Business Model of Capitalism embracing the reality that ‘we are all in this together.’ A reality that becomes all too apparent when we see our economy still sluggish after several months of economic downturn and stagnation. Discussion will explore how corporate profits via public trust and confidence actually increase when corporations set their priorities to provide ‘first’ for ‘The Common Good’ and ‘Do The Right Thing’ by their Employees, their Communities, their Stakeholder, and the Environment. Further discussion will include the stages of ‘Maturity’ for Corporations and Nations as Identified by the Common Good Business Model, to build toward an ‘Evolutional Hierarchy’ of Maturity of caring for The Common Good. It is unmistakable, that Redefining Business Priorities to Align With The Common Good, actually affects the corporate and national bottom line in a powerful and productive way. That ‘Good Will’ is not just a Business School Precept, but a clear reality in today’s emerging world of ‘Socially Conscious’ Businesses and Consumers. An In-depth analysis of the History and Evolution of ‘Common Good Investing,’ will provide a clear blueprint on how Common Good Capitalism will Inevitably Emerge in the Private Sector as ‘Fully Funded’ by Wall Street, and ‘Embraced’ by Corporations as a means to Ensure their Own Survival.
If you Care about–Harnessing ‘Good Will’–‘Gaining Marketshare’–and ‘Doing Good’–These are Two Shows you Won’t Want to Miss!
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Guest: Steve Grossman, Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth & Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidate.
The Former Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will join the Host of The Legal Edition, Massachusetts Attorney & Business Consultant Mary Kay Elloian, to present Innovative Ideas and Topics of Discussion on Fiscal Responsibility, Job Creation & Employment to Combat the Rising Number of College Grads still seeking employment in Massachusetts, and around the nation. This is an Eye Opener for New Grads & Employers seeking ways to put new Life and Energy into their Corporations and Businesses. Discussion will include Enterprising ways to harness the Innovative Ideas, Skills, and Enthusiasm of New Grads, while Kick-Starting their Careers, Stimulating Innovation, and Creating a New Business & Innovation Paradigm.
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Special Guest: Attorney William H. Clark, Jr., of the Philadelphia, PA Law Firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Drafter of the Model Legislation as being adopted around the Nation.
Panel of New ‘Benefit Corporation’ Guests include:
Carter Powers, COO, DiMagi, Inc. (international), and Laura Stanton, Dancing Deer Baking Company, Inc. (nationwide).
This is one Show The Business Community Will Not Want to Miss! Attorney Clark, of the Pennsylvania law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, joins the Host of The Legal Edition–Attorney, Business & Policy Consultant Mary Kay Elloian, and a panel of National & International Benefit Corporation Executives–to discuss the Adoption of the New Benefit Corporation Legislation & Business Model–and its Effect Upon their Bottom Line.
Discussion by executives of national and international corporations address how the new adoption of the Benefit Corporation status has allowed them to Benefit their Employees, their Stakeholder, their Communities and the Environment while still Adding to their Bottom Line. This new ‘Triple Bottom Line’ of People, Planet & Profits is a Business Model that not only gives back to Employees who are making these companies great, but the environment and the nation in which they reside. Whoever said a corporation can only be profitable when they give back to their shareholders has missed the point of the New Benefit Corporation. This newly created Entity, will reward all Shareholders and Stakeholders for a job well done, while making money and gaining accolades all at the same time. This program is for all corporations that want to be socially and environmentally responsible–making them a highly sought after, new breed of Socially Responsible Corporations. That is, where Corporations ACT like RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE–by Being a SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE Business Model for ‘GOOD.’
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How the SBA Can Help Small Businesses Get Funding, Get Off The Ground, & Keep on Going!
Guest: Lisa Gonzalez Welch, Economic Development Specialist with the U.S. Small Business Administration located in Boston, MA
Discussion on funding mechanisms that are available to help small businesses get off the ground, while teaching the talents needed to run a business effectively and efficiently.
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