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IACRL Honors Roger Stone
South Florida’s Italian-American community packed Casa Calabria in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on March 11, 2026, to celebrate heritage, faith, and political power. The occasion marked the inauguration of the South Florida Chapter of the Italian American Civil Rights League, a revival movement defending Italian-American culture and reputation. The evening honored longtime political strategist Roger Stone, whom many…
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Days of Infamy
Forty-three years after the Beirut barracks bombing, Americans still wrestle with the same hard question: How did the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism operate for decades with so little consequence? In “Days of Infamy,” Greg Maresca argues the answer lies in nearly half a century of Western hesitation toward Iran’s revolutionary regime. From the 1979…
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Federal Content Creator Courtroom
Two veteran investigative reporters pull back the curtain on one of the internet’s strangest federal lawsuits. In the latest episode of The Unknown Podcast, journalists Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe dissect the bizarre legal battle involving YouTuber Jeremy Hales and a network of critics, commentators, and internet personalities. The case has become a spectacle where…
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Steve Bannon’s Money Trail with Miles Guo
The spectacular rise and fall of Chinese exile billionaire Miles Guo—also known as Ho Wan Kwok, Guo Wengui, and Brother Seven—is one of the most bizarre financial sagas in modern politics. Guo built a global anti-Chinese Communist Party movement that doubled as a massive fundraising machine. At the center of it stood Steve Bannon, former…
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Fed 2 Fight Club: Plaintiff-Oriented Litigation And Media Orchestration Plan
Investigative journalist Richard Luthmann jumped into the legal firestorm on the “Two Lees in a Pod” podcast with hosts Lisa, Tami, and Robbie Kezsey, breaking down the latest developments in the controversial Jeremy Hales “Fed 2” federal lawsuit. Luthmann explained his joinder to Lisa Lee’s motion asking the court to take judicial notice of Hales’…
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Judge Boots Danesh Showdown to November
A federal courtroom showdown in Fort Myers just exposed two uncomfortable truths. Danesh “ThatDaneshGuy” Noshirvan cannot bring himself to support the liberation of his own Persian homeland because President Donald Trump helped make it happen. And his lawyer, Nick Chiappetta, walked straight into a public reprimand from a federal judge for flooding chambers with email…
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FBI Sting or Setup?
Federal agents have arrested Leo Grillo, the 77-year-old founder of the legendary DELTA Rescue animal sanctuary, in what prosecutors call a kidnapping-for-hire plot tied to a former employee who won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against him. But the story is already turning into something far murkier. The government’s case hinges largely on a cooperating witness —…
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Sacred Olive Oil History – The Tree That Would Not Die
Olive oil is older than empires, older than scripture, older even than many of the civilizations that built the modern world. Long before nutrition labels and supermarket shelves, olive oil was revered as medicine, sacred ritual, and the fuel of civilization itself. Kings were anointed with it. Lamps burned with it. Warriors healed with it.…
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YouTube Bully Jeremy Hales Exposed
YouTube fame is one thing. Weaponizing federal court is another. Jeremy Hales built “What The Hale$” flipping storage lockers into clicks. But critics say he flipped something else — the U.S. legal system — into a blunt instrument. On this live March 2026 show, I broke down what many now see as abusive litigation, anti-Semitic…
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‘Judge Not Claude’ Rules Against Jeremy Hales
Jeremy Hales built his YouTube empire on swagger, spectacle, and storage lockers. Then he brought that swagger into federal court. It did not go well. In a blistering simulated opinion authored by “Judge Not Claude,” a patriotic AI jurist in the Simulated Florida Federal District Court adopted a magistrate’s recommendation and dismissed Hales’s sprawling lawsuit…
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