John Kiriakou
Everything John personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"Man, I love my birds so much I can't even tell you. No, seriously. I wake up an hour earlier than I need to every day, seven days a week, just to play Angry Birds and not lose a productive hour of the day. It's the very first thing I do. As soon as my alarm goes off, I put my glasses on, pick up my phone, and start playing Angry Birds. I love it. Why? It's just so mindless, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment."
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"We're going to turn all the lights off. We're going to have the guy sitting in a chair. We're going to make him as relaxed as we possibly can. And we're going to count backwards from 10. And when we get to one he's going to be hypnotized... everything that he said in that initial hypnosis session turned out to be true."
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"In 2017, WikiLeaks published thousands and thousands of documents classified far above top secret... There are thousands of documents all freely available now on the WikiLeaks website."
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"He wrote a book called Inside the Company in which he documented in an appendix the names of every undercover CIA officer that he ever met. And it was something like 1,200 names."
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"The CIA was the very first investor in Palantir... So I mean do we trust Palantir not to just feed everything to NSA and CIA? I don't. I worked there for 15 years. I know how it works."
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"It's being wasted on the development of inefficient and inappropriate weapon systems like the F-35. Nobody wanted the F-35... because you can't have a one-size-fits-all aircraft when one size can never fit all."
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