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  • September 19 · 54 min

    Iain Avery Bryson - I Love You Like One: A Letter to My Daughter, Abducted by a Cult

    "I am taking her back to the cult… Because of mind control… I have something like Stockholm Syndrome… My dad created a red herring so that nobody will believe you... You will never see her again…” These words echoed off the walls of our little apartment in the weeks prior to the abduction of my three-year-old daughter as my first wife fought through her trauma-based programming in an attempt to warn me of what was to come. And then, two days after Christmas in 2010, I gave my daughter a hug, believing that she was going to the library down the street with her mom. As far as I knew, I would be reading her a bedtime story and tucking her into bed that evening. But I never saw her again. The police wouldn’t help, the U.S. Embassy told me it was out of their jurisdiction, and my family turned their backs on me. I tried to solve the problem on my own, which led to my incarceration in Poland for fifty months. This book is a voice for my first wife and our daughter. It is a voice for ritual abuse survivors and victims everywhere who must be heard. This book obliterates the red herring. It demands justice for those oppressed by cults practicing ritual abuse and mind control, and it points us to our only hope. https://amzn.to/4grvDQx

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  • September 19 · 54 min

    Jason Wardle - The Fixers: The Secret Industry of Damage Control (1870s–2026)

    Who cleans up for power? Who makes scandals survivable, turns crimes into “mistakes,” buys silence, buries evidence, reshapes headlines, calms investors, manages victims, and keeps the machine moving? The Fixers is a sweeping, full-length history of the hidden industry of damage control from the late nineteenth century to the present. It follows the people, firms and systems that step in when corporations, governments, churches, celebrities, police departments, financial institutions and political machines are threatened by exposure. Their names change—private detectives, strikebreakers, public-relations men, crisis consultants, white-shoe lawyers, reputation managers, intelligence contractors, restructuring specialists—but the core job stays the same: protect power from consequence. Beginning with the private armies and labour spies of the Gilded Age, The Fixers traces how open coercion gradually merged with softer and more sophisticated methods. The book moves through the labour wars, company towns, Ivy Lee and the birth of modern public relations, the rise of corporate legal defence, the insurance system, Watergate, tobacco’s manufacture of doubt, internal investigations, NDAs, victim-management systems, private intelligence, digital reputation management, bankruptcy innovation, platform moderation, and the anti-union and security industries that still form the coercive bedrock beneath the polished surface. Along the way it takes in major case studies including BCCI, the 2008 financial crisis, Boeing, Purdue and the Sacklers, Flint, Deepwater Horizon, Catholic Church abuse scandals, Cambridge Analytica, and more. What emerges is not a string of isolated scandals but a single historical structure. The Fixers argues that modern capitalism does not simply produce harm and then apologise badly. It has built an enormous professional apparatus to contain fallout, delay accountability, disperse blame, price catastrophe, and preserve ownership. Law firms, PR agencies, consultants, investigators, lobbyists, insurers, crisis managers and digital operatives do not sit at the edge of the system. They are part of how it functions. They are the people who manage the gap between what powerful institutions do and what they need the public to keep believing about them. This is a book about more than corruption, spin, or “bad apples.” It is about a whole social order that repeatedly generates injury, fraud, cover-up and institutional survival as part of normal operation. It shows how victims are processed, how outrage is paced and cooled, how blame is narrowed to a few disposable figures, and how wealth and power are shielded while the bill is pushed downward onto workers, communities, consumers and the future. Written in plain, forceful prose and backed by deep endnotes, The Fixers is both hidden history and present-day field guide. If you want to understand how the modern world keeps absorbing disaster without changing course, this is the anatomy of the people who make that possible. Book

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  • September 18 · 54 min

    Iain Avery Bryson - I Love You Like One: A Letter to My Daughter, Abducted by a Cult

    "I am taking her back to the cult… Because of mind control… I have something like Stockholm Syndrome… My dad created a red herring so that nobody will believe you... You will never see her again…” These words echoed off the walls of our little apartment in the weeks prior to the abduction of my three-year-old daughter as my first wife fought through her trauma-based programming in an attempt to warn me of what was to come. And then, two days after Christmas in 2010, I gave my daughter a hug, believing that she was going to the library down the street with her mom. As far as I knew, I would be reading her a bedtime story and tucking her into bed that evening. But I never saw her again. The police wouldn’t help, the U.S. Embassy told me it was out of their jurisdiction, and my family turned their backs on me. I tried to solve the problem on my own, which led to my incarceration in Poland for fifty months. This book is a voice for my first wife and our daughter. It is a voice for ritual abuse survivors and victims everywhere who must be heard. This book obliterates the red herring. It demands justice for those oppressed by cults practicing ritual abuse and mind control, and it points us to our only hope. https://amzn.to/4grvDQx #CultSurvivor #MindControl #StockholmSyndrome #RitualAbuse #JusticeForVictims #SurvivorStories #AbductionAwareness #TraumaRecovery #FamilySeparation #BreakingTheSilence #CultsExposed #HopeAndHealing #ChildSafety #EmpowerSurvivors #TruthAndJustice #EndRitualAbuse #VoicesOfSurvivors #HealingJourney #CourageToSpeak #StandAgainstCults

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  • September 16 · 1 hr 4 min

    Rodney Alcala the Dating Game Serial kIller

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support. Beginning in 1968 and continuing into the 1970s, a predator stalked California and New York, torturing, raping and murdering young girls and women. But who was the monster behind these tragedies? Eventually, a suspect emerged, but he didn’t look like a monster. Indeed, Rodney Alcala was a handsome, charming photographer who’d once studied film at New York University under director Roman Polanski. With his wit and easy self-confidence and humor, he’d even been selected as the “winner” on the popular television show “The Dating Game.” But his real game was much more sinister. In 2010, Alcala was convicted of murdering five women in California during the 1970s; then in 2013, as he waited on Death Row, he confessed to the murder of two more in New York. Yet, that might not be the end of the nightmare he caused. At his arrest, police found his “portfolio” with thousands of nude and erotic photographs of women and boys, who may also be among his victims. In “THE KILLING GAME,” bestselling true crime author and radio show host, Alan R. Warren reveals the shocking details of Alcala’s brutal crimes, as well as the trials and appeals that stretched on for decades and may still not be over.

  • September 15 · 1 hr

    Chuck Apps

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  • September 15 · 1 hr 29 min

    My Bronx Tales

    My Bronx Tales By Ed Opperman

  • September 14 · 1 hr

    Whispers in the Willows: Who killed Rebekah Gould? Who killed Amanda Tusing? And why?

    Best-selling author and award-winning journalist George Jared takes his readers on another spell-binding journey with his third true crime book, Whispers in the Willows. Whispers is an anthology style, true crime book that chronicles three unsolved murders, a series of Death Row executions, and tells the harrowing stories of two Holocaust survivors. A 22-year-old college student, Rebekah Gould, vanished from a friend’s house Sept. 20, 2004, near the town of Melbourne, Arkansas. Her partially clothed, bludgeoned body was found near a rural road not far from the house a week later. Her case has never been solved. It’s been profiled on The Dr. Oz show, and was featured on the Hell and Gone podcast, one of the top performers in 2018. Jared has written about her case since the day she vanished. There’s a glaring amount of evidence in the case that points in several directions, and he has dedicated another chapter about her in his newest work. Amanda Tusing, a 20-year-old aspiring veterinarian, left her fiancée’ home on a rain soaked night. A few hours later she would be dead, and her case has baffled law officers for almost 20 years. Karen Johnson Swift was a mother of four that vanished just before Halloween, 2011, in Dyersburg Tennessee. Her body was found in a cemetery a couple of months later. Her killer remains free. Four men who committed unspeakable acts of violence and torture were set to die on Death Row in April, 2017. Jared was there for the planned executions and gives a detailed look into one the darkest places on Earth. The book also includes two Holocaust survivors and their tales of survival. The murders they witnessed cannot be imagined. Jared has also written two other true crime books, Witches in West Memphis … and another false confession and The Creek Sides Bones … Reality is more horrifying than fiction. Those books included chapters about the internationally famous West Memphis Three case. Jared wrote more news stories about the WM3 case than any other journalist in the world and includes Death Row interviews with Damien Echols. Those books also detail a series of the heinous capital murders he’s covered through the years. The best-selling author’s stories have been featured on the Discovery Channel, in the New York Times, the Hell and Gone podcast, the USA Today, and in many other media outlets around the world.

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