Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou cue up the long-awaited Epstein files vote; a Trump Administration investigation of UC Berkeley over a skirmish at a Turning Point protest; the torture of 252 Venezuelans in El Salvador at the behest of the US; JNIM’s fuel blockade highlights the rise of Al Qaeda in the Sahel in the wake of French withdrawals.
• DOJ Investigates UC Berkeley Protest Incident: The Justice Department announces an investigation into UC Berkeley after protesters confront Turning Point USA event attendees, with civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon labeling demonstrators as Antifa operating with impunity. Protests outside Zellerbach Hall feature chants against Trump, a brief scatter from fireworks mistaken for gunshots, and four arrests including one violent off-campus incident. The probe may fold into ongoing UC system scrutiny over antisemitism and diversity practices, while the university condemns violence and cooperates with FBI. Will the White House babysit Turning Point everywhere they go?
• Epstein Files Discharge Petition Reaches 218 Signatures: Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva affixes the final signature to the bipartisan discharge petition led by Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna immediately after her swearing-in last night, triggering a seven-legislative-day countdown for the bill forcing full DOJ Epstein files release to hit the House floor. Senior aides estimate a contentious December vote, despite Speaker Mike Johnson’s pivot to opposing it and Trump downplaying the matter as a hoax. Three GOP women—Boebert, Greene, and Mace—remain supportive amid White House pressure, with Massie predicting passage and potential Johnson allowing vulnerable members to vote yes.
• Venezuelans Tortured in El Salvador Gulag: A Human Rights Watch and Cristosal report reveals over 252 Venezuelans deported under Trump’s policy endure systematic torture, sexual assault, beatings, and inhumane conditions at CECOT mega-prison. Detainees face prolonged incommunicado detention, inadequate food, and abuses after visits by officials like Kristi Noem, with the US paying $4.7 million to El Salvador despite known abuse. Groups demand independent DOJ investigation and halt to third-country deportations, comparing it to Abu Ghraib and accusing Trump administration complicity.
• JNIM Blockade Paralyzes Bamako, Mali: Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM seals highways since September, imposing fuel blockade on Mali’s capital, causing soaring prices, power cuts, school closures, and resident desperation. Ambushs burn tankers, abandon vehicles clog streets, and Western nations evacuate staff as JNIM leverages discontent to pressure military government toward negotiations. Analysts see growing JNIM hold aiming for regime change in Mali and Burkina Faso, with local deals in regions allowing siege lifts for taxes and non-cooperation with forces.
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Didn’t this air yesterday ?
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14:20 is when it starts
Bob D, not good in concert. I can concur.
From the Washington Post article:
"On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned."
That would be the variety that mostly produces thebaine, Papaver bracteatum. Thebaine is a really unpleasant stimulant that deters opium addicts from stealing the crops, causes strychnine-like convulsions at high doses, and it just so happens to be of very high value to the pharmaceutical industry, because thebaine is the chemical precursor for such things as hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone,, oxymorphone, buprenorphine, and even naloxone (Narcan).
I was glad to hear a little opinion on Andrew !!!
I told my wife that I thought he was full of it… with his stories..
I have been listening to you for a couple weeks now
I must admit I've been on the opposite side of you politically mostly but I believe that you are a genuine, good man and I'm praying that Donald J Trump gives you a pardon
Please do voice for your own books, would be so much better!
Malenia was a very talented model. Not every random girl got Epstein VIsa.
The 7 missing minutes… how intriguing 🤔😂
This is the first time I’ve had to ever click off something with John K in it.
Bless this host and all but wtf are we doing here.
Wheres the $500k for everyone else? Dam govt is all corrupt
34:51 YES! His recent album with Los Straightjckets is sooo good.
Cia needs to either be put under the gap or abolished. It has always done the worst to the word and to the US. The dullas brothers scent still lurks in every corner of cia. The Uk has had its fingers in everything to set up its zionist state empire from Israel to ever war. From the elm house trafficing, the child abuse of prince andrew to coverups to helping israel commit horrible crimes against everyone involved with helping Palestine. Cia, mossad and UK are one
John and Snowden should get a medal and a pardon
Here
John, Elon Musk did inarguably more for humanity than even you. If you dont like him can you at least make your best case for it?
You might want to change the opening AI photo of Epstein – he looks handsome – NOT A GOOD IMAGE FOR A MULTIPLE PEDO OFFENDER .
1:56 Massie and the few republicans and The Squad have not stopped demanding for the Intel! Good!! That’s why it was shut down! That’s why it didn’t budge for 40+ days! Now “Trump is mentioned in emails” as being a f*cking SPOOK!! A walking wire! An agent!! RESORTS INTERNATIONAL YALL!!!! IN-Q-TEL!!!!!
3:10 what do ya think happens when they slam us in CILFs for speaking out? The black vans make a round to your block? WE know what happens. You go to a 70s built CILF and are held as a “terrorist” an the media and public go along with it. 😊 COG. REX84. Operation Sledgehammer.
Im sorry fellas, the" two old men trying to figure out the internet 30 seconds of silence" had me laughing.
6:57 but if it had worked… the Sackler Family and others like them would have had a literal FIELD DAY!! You thought wat they did with Morphine and other opioids between 1999-2012 was bad? It would have at least tripled!
“The radio said they were just Deportees”
Woody Guthrie
I’m not much of a reader, but I would love to have an audiobook, and I would REALLY love to have John himself reading the book. I would buy it instantly
Are you going to find fatter people than Americans? Boostamonte claiming other peoples stories as his own is pretty typical of people in this industry. Look at any military channel and it's on display 'way too often'.
No surprise whatsoever. It's why in Britain it's frowned on to write a book & get it passed through vetting. They really don't like it when these things come to light.
JNIM means support group for islam and muslims. None of the words in JNIM could be translated as "revolutionary"
It is shit that when you go live it's 2am in Melbourne, Australia
John – Emmy-winner with 30 years experience here…Your voice is good, you speak well, and you tell stories with excellent delivery. Do your own audiobook reads. Jon Krakauer has a crap voice, but his audiobook for INTO THIN AIR was much more compelling because HE WAS THERE AND HAS EMOTIONS ABOUT IT that come across as genuine, elevating the experience. If someone tells you not to do your own audiobook, they are not serving your best interests. Big fan, carry on.
Three federal warrants for gun crimes and the FBI doesn't care? Surely there plenty honest people working there watching the absolute scum rise to the top acting as political mafia and are sick of it, Where are the whistleblowers.
Thank you, lads…. 😊 .
Everyone wants the author to do the book. they are crazy
Gov. Newsom will step in & protect UC Berkeley from Tamales 47
Not when he’s with Baez😅
Agree John, id much prefer to hear your voice in an audiobook!
So the senators aren't ok with them doing it to them and want 500,000 dollars because their constitutional rights were violated but it's okay for them to do it to everyone else. smh
Where are the November SSDI payments?
Watching these is like stepping back in time about 20 years…. time to invest in real cameras and production values guys