Merger of Crooked Vote Tallyers

Com­ment: With this impend­ing merger, it appears that ES & S–one of the com­pa­nies linked to vote tam­per­ing in recent U.S. elections–will be pur­chas­ing the money-losing unit of the better-known Diebold firm.
“US Vot­ing Machine Mak­ers’ Merger Nears Approval-WSJ” [Wall Street Jour­nal]; reuters.com; 3/4/2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0410550220100305
But the depart­ment will require the com­bined com­pany to divest a key electronic [...]

Al Qaeda Linked to Rogue Aviation Network

In early 2008, an offi­cial at the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity sent a report to his supe­ri­ors detail­ing what he called “the most sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ment in the crim­i­nal exploita­tion of air­craft since 9/11.”

FTR #684 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Business as Usual in South Florida

9/11 hijack­ers were part of a vast inter­na­tional crim­i­nal net­work; Ger­mans, East­ern Euro­peans at the hub of that net­work; drug-trafficking, mas­sive fraud schemes are their stock in trade.

FTR #672 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker: Talking about “Muthahs” on Mothers’ Day

For­mer owner of 9/11 flight school abus­ing his step daugh­ter; new owner Arthur Nadel ran a Ponzi scheme; Was Nadel involved with orga­nized crime and major drug traffickers?

FTR #653 Touching Bases with Daniel Hopsicker

Scan­dals over­lap­ping the milieu of the Florida flight schools, through which many of the 9/11 hijack­ers received instruction.

FTR #640 Winging It with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.

FTR #637 Catching Up with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.

FTR #620 Interview with Paris Flammonde about the ‘Masques of New Orleans’

Recorded Novem­ber 25, 2007
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Fol­low­ing on the heels of FTR#619, this pro­gram fea­tures author and radio pro­ducer Paris Flammonde’s account of the New Orleans inves­ti­ga­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion. For­mer pro­ducer of the sem­i­nal late-night radio talk pro­gram The Long John Nebel Show, Flammonde’s 1969 book The Kennedy Con­spir­acy was one [...]

FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­ity to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism could lead to [...]

FTR #611 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters — Caution: Networks at Work

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Explor­ing the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal net­works that both pre­cip­i­tated and exe­cuted the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram high­lights the links between Islamist ele­ments involved at the oper­a­tional level and indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that dom­i­nate the global geo-political land­scape. These networks—belonging to elite indus­trial, finan­cial and reli­gious insti­tu­tions, as [...]