Blue Glove Blues | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou

<p>Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. </p><p>Today we discuss:</p><p>• If the Homeland Security Dept. shutdown continues, some <strong>smaller airports may have to shut down entirely</strong> within weeks due to a shortage of TSA security screeners. Typically, under 2% of TSA workers call in sick or do not report to work. At Atlanta, JFK and Houston, no-show rates are about 20%.</p><p>• In public, <strong>Israel is urging Iranians to revolt</strong> against their government. Privately, senior Israeli officials are telling the U.S. that <strong>Iranians will “get slaughtered”</strong> if there’s an uprising, according to a leaked State Department cable.</p><p>• Israel and the U.S. are relying on targeted assassinations in their war against Iran. But <strong>decapitation strikes </strong>against figures like Ali Larijani, Iran’s de facto leader, and Esmail Khatib, intelligence minister, has its limits, and <strong>may even prove counterproductive</strong> by radicalizing the government and marginalizing moderates. Iranian missiles are flying all over the Middle East.</p><p>• Israel has ordered a mass evacuation of southern Lebanon and is subjecting <strong>central Beirut to heavy bombing</strong> in its attacks against <strong>Hezbollah</strong>. </p><p>• Democrats are <strong>turning against AIPAC</strong>. Only two out of four AIPAC-backed candidates won special elections yesterday.</p><p>• The <strong>Strait of Hormuz shutdown</strong> has several countries on the ropes. <strong>Myanmar, Vietnam</strong> and the <strong>Philippines</strong>, according to the SocGen commodities team, 80%+ of their oil via Hormuz, and only have about a month of oil in storage before they run out. <strong>Singapore</strong> has 40 days of inventory. <strong>Thailand</strong> has 50 days. <strong>Taiwan</strong> can last about 100 days. <strong>Bangladesh</strong> can last about 100 days, and has already instituted fuel rationing and shuttered fertilizer plants. </p><p></p><p>MERCH STORE: <a href="https://www.deprogram.live" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.deprogram.live</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/tedrall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/tedrall</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/JohnKiriakou" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/JohnKiriakou</a></p><p></p><p>LIVE ON RUMBLE: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow</a></p><p>SPOTIFY: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu</a></p><p>APPLE MUSIC: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall/id1825379504" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall/id1825379504</a></p>