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David Cay Johnston 2 days ago One of the biggest experts on Donald Trump is David Cay Johnston. He is the author of many books on the former president, outlining both Trumps' history and his malfeasance in office. His no holds barred and anti-b.s. detector means he is invited on shows on cable and national news as well as interviews in podcasts such as The Opperman Report. Here he talks about the current travails of the former president, and how they reflect not only on the two tier justice system which affords Trump certain privileges no one else would get, but also how it reflects on a country where almost 30% of the electorate would want a grifter and would be dictator as their leader. David Cay Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. From July 2011 until September 2012 he was a columnist for Reuters, writing, and producing video commentaries, on worldwide issues of tax, accounting, economics, public finance and business. Johnston is the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has also written for Al Jazeera Englishand Americain recent years. Johnston is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at College of Lawand the Whitman School of Managementat Syracuse University. Johnston is the author of best-selling books on tax and economic policy. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism. It follows his earlier book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else, a New York Times bestseller on the U.S. tax system that won the Investigative Reporters and Editors 2003 Book of the Year award. Johnston's first book, the 1992 Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business is an account of how the junk-bond kings usurped mob control of the casino industry in the 1980s. The book discusses corruption in the industry and the role of the federal and state governments in that corruption. In 2014 Johnston released Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. Cay Johnston shows most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Post-recession (from 2009 to 2011) the top one percent of households took in 121 percent of the income gains while the bottom 99 percent saw their incomes fall. In 2016, Johnston released The Making of Donald Trump, a journalistic account of the rise of businessperson-turned-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time he wrote the book, Johnston had known Trump for 28 years. The book was on the New York Times bestseller list. Published in 2018 is It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, an investigative piece that details actions taken by Trump and his appointees at the departmental level, and how these actions affect Americans' rights and civil protections. Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business (1992) ISBN 978-0-385-41920-8 Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else (2003) ISBN 1-59184-019-8 Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill (2007) ISBN 978-1-59184-191-3 The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind (2012) ISBN 978-1-591-84358-0 Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality (2014) ISBN 9781620970850, 1620970856 The Making of Donald Trump (2016) ISBN 978-1612196329 It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America (2018) ISBN 9781501174162 The Enforcers : How little-known trade reporters exposed the Keating Five and advanced business journalism (2019) ISBN...

Shadow Diplomacy - Lev Parnas’ wild ride from Brooklyn to Donald Trump’s inner circle 3 days ago One of the longest serving Trump insiders is Lev Parnas; as a key member of Trumps' inner circle, Parnas had front row seats so to speak on the movements, motives and mantras of the former President, from his tycoon real estate heyday to some of his post-Presidential activities. This gives him a unique insight into Trump, and it's really a study in thought control and management. He tells Ed Opperman some juicy stories of his time in the shadow of the Republican front runner. From Government Wire Reformed former Trump insider Lev Parnas is set to release his biographical memoir, Shadow Diplomacy: Lev Parnas and his Wild Ride from the Streets of Brooklyn to Trump’s Inner Circle, offering readers an unprecedented insider’s perspective into the murky world of international politics under the 45th president’s covert direction. Pre-sales for the highly anticipated book commenced on Black Friday, November 24, 2023. Lev Parnas Unveils Explosive Memoir, SHADOW DIPLOMACY, in Highly Anticipated Black Friday Book LaunchShadow Diplomacy delves into Parnas’s firsthand experiences, shedding light on the secret maneuvers and clandestine negotiations that shaped the global geopolitical landscape during his years of international travel to Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, Israel, Austria, and France, the UK, and Poland. As a key figure with unique access to corridors of power who acted as a shadow presidential envoy, Parnas provides readers with a compelling narrative. The book’s timeline spans his involvement in critical diplomatic efforts, spanning from his conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro alongside the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to his solo discussions with two Ukrainian presidents and his former political allegiance with an obscure Florida congressman who later became the state’s controversial governor because of their friendship. Website : Lev Remembers.com Preorder the book This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Steffan Hou - Moms of the Missing July 19 Ed is joined in this archive show by Steffen Hou, who has spent many years studying killers, particularly those who kill children. This has resulted in his book Moms of the Missing, a sort of how to parent and look after your children, with knowledge gained from the most tragic circumstances. In the book, Mr Hou talks to those the children left behind, scarred people, ever-searching parents, guardians and family members, all with one thing in common; they hold out hope - no matter how slim and unlikely - that they will see their child again. "Oh my God, we found a dead body." The man's voice, calling from a mountain trail in Cleveland National Forest, was frantic. "Please hurry. I'm so scared. It's a little kid." When police arrived, they were met by a horrific sight. The girl was naked and had been positioned in such a way that detectives believed the murderer had seen his kill as some kind of a trophy. As if he were showing off his "work". The little kid was Samantha Runnion, a five-year-old girl who had been abducted while playing in her parents' garden the day before. Samantha is just one of too many American kids who disappear. Almost half a million children are reported missing every year. And all across America parents are searching for their missing children or if the worst case scenario has come to pass the person who killed them. Moms of the Missing investigates ten abduction cases. Through personal and heartbreaking interviews with the victims, it describes how parents maintain their hopes of one day finding their children some of whom were taken by a stranger, a family member, or human traffickers. And two survivors tell what it is like to be held captive, tortured and raped, but also how they have restored life after being rescued. Moms of the Missing explores the principal types of abductions, and not of least importance who's most likely to become a victim of the epidemic of missing children, but also how abductions can be prevented. Moms of the Missing is parent's guide to keeping children safe and puts focus on: * CHILD PROTECTION * FAMILY ABDUCTIONS * STRANGER ABDUCTIONS * INFANT ABDUCTIONS * HUMAN TRAFFICKING * THE SEX OFFENDERS * ONLINE DANGER * DOMESTIC VIOLENCE * THE MOST LIKELY VICTIM * LONG-TERM MISSING * THE PROFILE OF AN ABDUCTOR * THE IMPACT OF DNA Book : Moms of the Missing This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Samantha Spiegel: Obsession of Confessed Jon Benet Killer Speaks Out! Sep 8, 2020 Samantha Spiegel is a 26 year old residing in San Francisco, California, but she is no regular young lady. Samantha is a survivor of child abuse and perhaps even SRA. She has, over the years, contacted several serial killers, including Charles Manson and Richard Allen Davis. While Ed and Samantha discuss this aspect of her life, the focus of this interview resides on her relationship with one John Mark Karr. Karr is most famous (infamous?) for confessing to the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey. Karr and Spiegel had a very close relationship over two years - Spiegel says they were engaged to be married. Her contact with the (as rumored) transvestite Karr ended when he tried to get her to scout and deliver young children to Karr for insidious purposes. This summary only scratches the surface of what stunning information Samantha shares with Opperman Report listeners..... This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Maggie's Hammer: How Investigating the Mysterious Death of My Friend Uncovered a Netherworld of Illegal Arms Deals, Political Slush Funds, High-Level ... Secret Role as America’s Hired Gun Jul 3, 2021 Maggie's Hammer: How Investigating the Mysterious Death of My Friend Uncovered a Netherworld of Illegal Arms Deals, Political Slush Funds, High-Level ... Secret Role as America’s Hired Gun In November 1988, Hugh John Simmonds CBE, Margaret Thatcher’s favorite speechwriter and the author’s best friend, boss and political mentor, turned up dead in a woodland glade a few miles from their sleepy suburban hometown 20 miles west of London. To learn why his best friend was murdered, Geoffrey Gilson journeyed into the dangerous world of international arms deals, covert intelligence operations and high-level political corruption and discovered a secret that explains much of contemporary history. A quest for truth which, after 20 years of high-risk adventure coupled with painstaking research and firsthand interviews, uncovered the ugly reality that, for some 30 years, the various governments of Great Britain have loaned their country’s military and intelligence services to the United States, allowing presidents from Reagan to Obama to pursue their covert foreign and military policies without the encumbrance of congressional oversight. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Douglas Valentine - CIA - Pheonix Program Sep 27, 2022 Douglas Valentine joins Ed Opperman to discuss the CIA and in particular the Pheonix Program. The Phoenix Program for the unacquainted was a CIA generated operation that sponsored mass arrests, terrorism, torture, murder and lies during the war in Vietnam. Many of the players went on to walk the halls of the Pentagon, Congress, the Department of Homeland Security, and major National Security Corporations. As no other writer, Doug Valentine has been to the heart of darkness in American foreign policy and come back with stories of historic moment. His brilliant, courageous work is revelation, prophecy, wisdom. It will stand as a singular mark of our saving capacity to learn. Books: The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam Website : Douglas Valentine This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Rob McKenzie - El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico Aug 24, 2022 Ed is joined by Rob McKenzie, who has been researching into the scandal surrounding the CIA and the Ford Motor Company in Mexico. Throughout the 1980s to today, on an increasing amount, American factories and jobs were being outsourced to other countries, the most widely publicised was the move by Ford Motor Company to Mexico. This desire to maximise profits and lower wage costs was tunnel visioned, and never more so than the morning of January 8 1990 when a group of drunken thugs and criminals launched an attack on the factory which culminated in the shooting of nine employees. Rob McKenzie worked at another location for the Ford Corporation, and was disbelieving of the story when it first broke. But his curiosity got the better of him and what started as an attempt to back up a apocryphal rumour to a investigation spanning years, and his destination was not one he was expecting. This is a tale of twists and turns, of lies and falsehoods, of misdirection and malfeasance. Ultimately it is one of corruption, power and greed. Book: El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico Website : Rob McKenzie Twitter: Rob McKenzie This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Opperman Live - George Flippin Nader - Special Hunter Biden - Blocking FaceBook FBI August 19 The stories behind the stories. The scandals behind the polish. The words which are unspoken yet common knowledge. Ed Opperman has the inside track on who knew what, when, what they said about it and what happened. Who covered who and who lied to protect themselves and their paymasters/blackmailers. Remember: the Opperman Report is one of the rare outlets which does the homework, which has the contacts to give you an authoritative and accurate overview of current events. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Stormy to Hunter Biden & Rudy: A Strange World To Live in April 1 The news has been kind of crazy this week; From Trump grifting his followers to protest and donate, to adult actresses running around TV Studios, to Rudy and Mike Pillow Guy receiving unexpected mail. Ed Opperman has news and reminders of what is at stake for America, why Trump is where he is and why this is just the first in a long line of moves to dismantle arguably the most dangerous man in America and his (albeit diminished) cult. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Brian Heiss and Pat McKenna – OJ Simpson Case. Jul 26, 2022 Filmmaker Brian Heiss and legendary private investigator Pat McKenna join Ed Opperman to discuss the misrepresentation of evidence in the O.J. Simpson trial. When OJ was declared not guilty of murdering Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it was not the resolution many expected; Much of the evidence heard in the case was hand picked to convict, but many other items of evidence were left out of the presentations for both defence and prosecution, evidence which would have exonerated ‘The Juice’. It was one of the first real ‘show trials’, and spawned a mini-industry of its’ own, but if the evidence Brian and Pat present is accurate, why was it left out? The glass, the plane tickets, the gloves and that chase down the freeway. In a final attempt to put right the accounts of history, McKenna and Heiss put their case. The conversati0on ranges around the LAPD’s Scientific Investigation Division which was in charge of all of the DNA evidence, much of which, without even the advances in technology, were questionable as evidence due to sloppy techniques and storage. The assumption that given the LAPD and the SID were suffering from a crime epidemic, they needed a ‘high profile’ win to remain unscrutinised. Backgrounds: Pat McKenna F. Lee Bailey TwitterBrian Heiss BookThe Truth about the OJ Simpson Murder Trial MediaOJ Simpson and the Murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman YoutubeOJ trial Brian Heiss Wikipedia OJ Simpson OJ Simpson Trial This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Carl Colby : Son of CIA Director William Colby Sep 19, 2020 We discus his OJ testimony, the alleged Bob Marley assassination, his fathers death, murder or suicide. The Phoenix Program, Watergate, Vietnam. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Geronimo Pratt Jul 3, 2021 Th Johnson, frequent guest and OJ Simpson case expert explains the case of Geronimo Pratt This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

TH Johnson RETURNS !!! More OJ simpson Dec 12, 2020 T.H. Johnson was born in Crockett, TX in 1949 and raised in Minneapolis, MN. He became one of the founders of the Ocean Medical Investigative Group in 1996 with his brother, the Chairman, Dr. Henry s. Johnson, of Los Angeles, CA. He produced a compelling documentary in 2004 that screened in several national and international film festivals entitled "Serpents Rising" which chronicled the due diligence of the investigative team examining irregularities associated with the OJ Simpson case. The investigators found evidence of virulent fraud in the OJ Simpson murder trial and the subsequent civil trial based on concealed evidence intentionally hidden from both juries. He came back in 2011 to author an analysis of the case from his personal investigative files in his book "PURSUIT OF EXHIBIT 35 in the OJ Simpson Murder Trial". T.H. is also the author of an autobiographical account of L. Hortense Long entitled "Lilac Journey: Biography of a Gangster Girl". Johnson attributes any ability he may have as a thorough investigator to his father, Dr. Thomas H. Johnson, Jr., who had at one time the largest private medical practice in Minnesota. The late Dr. Johnson, according to his namesake, was one of the best plaintiff doctors to testify in personal injury cases and won over 90% of the cases he testified in as a medical doctor. "My father was cool, calm, and collected but believed in being consummately thorough in his analysis, and taught my brother and I to be the same when conducting an examination of anything". "I dropped out of my pre-med courses but both my brothers continued on with theirs, with one of my brother, Henry, going on to become a medical doctor himself with that same consciousness as our father". "What they got away with regarding malfeasance via suppression of evidence in the Simpson case was shoddy, and the case was put into our hands in late 1996 starting with the irregularities found in the autopsy reports on both murdered victims". This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

EAST PALESTINE — The Unity Council for East Palestine Train Derailment November 13 a community oversight committee formed by Ohio and Pennsylvania residents impacted by the Norfolk Southern Train Derailment — continues to pressure Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to declare East Palestine and the surrounding communities a disaster area. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Quinn Mitchell - Into The Tussle November 6 Quinn Mitchell runs a podcast which looks at the political system, how it's manipulated, how it tries to control the public narrative whilst also doing some pretty devious things. It also looks into the mindset of political purists, from the faithful to the ideals of the American Dream, through those who use religious ideology to disguise their less than pure intent to those who steadfastly remain locked in their belief systems, despite all evidence presented to them that they are being manipulated or misled. Podcast This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement