MAFIA

On today’s episode I take a close look at the Reverend Al Sharpton’s work as a confidential informant for the FBI. I discuss his time as CI-7 and how this formed the man that Sharpton would become later in life. I begin with his early years working at Spring Records and how this initiated Sharpton into the world of organized crime. I look at his connections with the Gambino and Genovese crime families, and how an FBI cocaine sting led him to become one of the Bureau most protected and valuable informants.

Civil war redux?

Roy Cohn and Signore Trumpanzee, two of New York's most notorious villains of the 20th CenturyWant to sign up to be a Trumpanzee volunteer, even just for phone-banking?

Tune in to the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR) for another LIVE broadcast of ‘The Boiler Room’ starting at 6 PM PST | 9 PM EST for this special broadcast. Join us for uncensored, uninterruptible talk radio, custom-made for barfly philosophers, misguided moralists, masochists, street corner evangelists, media-maniacs, savants, political animals and otherwise lovable rascals.

Sean from Japan joins me to give his analysis of the recent bizarre news stories of stabbings, and how this may relate to larger geopolitical motives. We cover the history of Japan’s westernization and World War 2, shadow banking and hidden hoards of gold, the relationship of Japanese elites to Korea, the drug trade, black markets, Asian mafias and how these subjects relate to staged news.

A curious twist in the renewed U.S.-Cuban relations is the claim by Mafia financier Meyer Lansky’s heirs for damages from the loss of Lansky’s Havana casinos, which Fidel Castro nationalized after the revolution in 1959, writes Jack Colhoun. By Jack Colhoun…Read more →

Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times Podcast discuss Part 2 of his series of lectures on Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope. We talk about the World War I reparations, the creation of the Bank for International Settlements, engineered booms and busts, the financial crisis of the 1930’s and the lead-up to World War II.  Apologies from the road – I forgot I was on my iPhone so there is background noise.

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John Catsimatidis interviewed two former GOP governors on his radio show yesterday, Jon Huntsman (UT) and George Pataki (NY). Huntsman said he'd support "the party's nominee," but said he has "concerns about some of the things he's said and his stylistic approach, but then I say OK, he has a unique opportunity to bring together constituents under the Republican banner that really have never joined before." So...

The first hour is free, while the full talk can be obtained by subscribing to JaysAnalysis for 4.95 a month or 60.00 a year at the pay pal links. In this first free hour I review and analyze Dave McGowan’s excellent book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream, in an in-depth fashion. Comparable as a compliment to my own book, Esoteric Hollywood, this audio reviews Dave’s research, looks at his claims and adds my own information to some of his puzzle pieces.