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R.I.P. Daniel Hopsicker

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 27, 2023 ⋅ Post a comment

Over many years, it was Mr. Emory’s priv­i­lege and hon­or to have inter­viewed Daniel Hop­sick­er fre­quent­ly and at length. In the wake of his pass­ing from can­cer on 8/22/2023 at the age of 72, we mourn the loss of this pro­fes­sion­al, and yet can be very glad for his hav­ing shared his work with us. Dr. Jef­frey Sachs “pret­ty con­vinced” Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE. Mr. Emory emphat­i­cal­ly rec­om­mends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash dri­ve con­tain­ing all of Mr. Emory’s 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fas­cist books on easy-to-down­load PDF files.


Tricky Treats: Is This Mitch McConnell’s Idea of “Affordable Health Care”?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 2, 2014 ⋅ 2 comments

The off-year elec­tions approach, with the GOP pro­ject­ed to take con­trol of the Sen­ate, Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader-to-be Mitch McConnel­l’s fam­i­ly is in the news for the wrong rea­sons. (Most of McConnel­l’s for­tune appar­ent­ly comes from his in-laws.) His father-in-law (James Chao) has pros­pered because of his found­ing and pro­pri­etor­ship of a ship­ping line, The Fore­most Group. That com­pa­ny has an opaque struc­ture, with many of its ships reg­is­tered in coun­tries that make com­pli­ance with mar­itime reg­u­la­tions eas­i­er to skirt. Now, one of Fore­most’s ships (the Ping May) has been bust­ed sail­ing from Colom­bia for Ams­ter­dam with 40 kilo­grams of cocaine aboard. How much of Fore­most’s largesse (and, by exten­sion, the McConnell clan’s wealth) is derived from shady enter­pris­es? All of the con­tents of this web­site as of 10/2/2014–Dave Emory’s 35+ years of research and broadcasting–as well as hours of video­taped lec­tures are avail­able on a 32GB flash dri­ve.


Falling to Earth: September 11th Flight School Operator Rudi Dekkers Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 15, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

Long able to escape legal ret­ri­bu­tion for his actions, Huff­man Avi­a­tion oper­a­tor Rudi Dekkers appears to have run out of luck. The Dutch/German pilot who ran the flight school through which 9/11 hijack­er Mohammed Atta and his Ger­man and Aus­tri­an asso­ciates infil­trat­ed the Unit­ed States has been arrest­ed in Hous­ton for drug traf­fick­ing. It remains to be seen what comes of this inves­ti­ga­tion, but the impli­ca­tions are poten­tial­ly stag­ger­ing.


The Iran-Contra Scandal, the Killing of Judge Vance and the Don Siegelman Case

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 27, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

The vic­tim of a GOP polit­i­cal frame-up cour­tesy of Karl Rove and com­pa­ny, for­mer Alaba­ma gov­er­nor Don Siegel­man’s legal trou­bles actu­al­ly had their gen­e­sis with the cov­er-up of the Iran-Con­tra scan­dal and the Chris­tic Insti­tute’s suit against some of the con­spir­a­tors. Accord­ing to Way Mad­sen Report and the Leg­tal Schnau­zer blog, Siegel­man began inves­ti­gat­ing some of the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty’s drug and arms smug­gling air­lines in the ear­ly 1980’s while serv­ing as Alaba­ma Attor­ney Gen­er­al. A cur­rent fed­er­al fed­er­al judge, Mark Fuller, was alleged­ly hired to keep the lid on the oper­a­tion.
Cen­tral to this analy­sis is the mail-bomb assas­si­na­tion of Judge Robert Vance, Siegel­man’s for­mer law part­ner.


No Surprise Here, Either: DEA Laundering Profits from Mexican Cartels

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Some ele­ments of DEA long known to be com­plic­it in drug traf­fick­ing. Is this laun­der­ing REALLY to help fight the drug traf­fic?


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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 #577 Truth and Consequences—Interview with Ed Haslam and Daniel Hopsicker

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries stretch from Jim Gar­rison’s New Orleans inves­ti­ga­tion of JFK’s assas­si­na­tion to an epi­dem­ic of soft tis­sue can­cer, AIDS, and the 9/11 attacks.


FTR #554 Conversation with Daniel Hopsicker

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 13, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Doc­u­ment­ing the career of Makram Chams.


FTR #542 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker – Catching up with the Boys in Florida

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

In Venice, Flori­da, Mohamed Atta & com­pa­ny were immersed in an inter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal milieu involv­ing orga­nized crime, ele­ments of the CIA and Ger­mans, Swiss and Austrians–the lat­ter almost cer­tain­ly belong­ing to the Bor­mann group.


FTR #528 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker About the Gus Boulis Murder

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 18, 2005 ⋅ One comment

An over­lap­ping series of crim­i­nal con­spir­a­cies envelops indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions in the Bush milieu. Events over­lap­ping the 9/11 attacks Iran-Con­tra Scan­dal, among oth­er events,


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