Michael Riconosciuto – P.I.D. Radio

P.I.D. Radio 3/9/24: State of the Octopus

Derek — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:12:33 +0000

A NEW DOCUSERIES on Netflix had us thinking that somebody had been listening to 15-year-old episodes of P.I.D. Radio.

That’s not the case, of course. The Octopus Murders, a four-part series, is well researched and connected some dots that we hadn’t put together back in 2009. However, it was a bit surreal seeing people whose names we’d become very familiar with, like Danny Casolaro, Michael Riconosciuto, John Philip Nichols, Robert Booth Nichols, Cheri Seymour, and others, on screen.

If you’re not familiar with “the Octopus,” we refer you to our episode from October 4, 2009, where we summarized the investigation and highly suspicious death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro in 1991. Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia with his wrists deeply slashed 10 to 12 times. It was ruled a suicide, despite the impossibility of slashing the second wrist when the tendons of the opposite hand have been severed.

We also discuss this week’s State of the Union address, undoubtedly the angriest SOTU message we’ve ever seen. For a president who claims to be optimistic, Joe Biden sure seems ticked.

Also: If Israel isn’t the “real Israel,” why is the god of Islam and his followers obsessed with destroying it?

SOLIDARITY MISSION TO ISRAEL! We’re planning a one-week trip to Israel May 6–13, 2024 to bear witness to what’s happened there since the war with Hamas began. We plan to visit Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Sderot, the site of the Nova Music Festival, and more. For details, go to www.GilbertsInIsrael.com.

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P.I.D. Radio 12/17/22: Fractal Politics

Derek — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:59:48 +0000

JUST AS fractals are geometric patterns containing detailed structures at increasingly small scales, geopolitics is a reflection of activity in the unseen realm.

This week, we discuss globalism from the Project for the New American Century to the World Economic Forum, the role of cryptocurrency and the unseen hand called “the octopus.” All of it is intended to bring us back to the kingdom Nimrod built more than 5,000 years ago, Babel.

Links:

PID Radio on Danny Casolaro and “the Octopus”
Our interview with David Flynn on links between ancient Babylon and Washington DC

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NEW DATES FOR OUR TOUR OF ISRAEL! Due to the Israel-Hamas War, we are rescheduling our tour to March 25–April 3, 2025, with an optional three-day extension to Jordan. Specific dates will be confirmed shortly. Special guests Doug Van Dorn, Dr. Judd Burton, and Timothy Alberino will join us, and we encourage you to plan for next spring. This is a tour like no other! We’ll visit Shiloh, Joshua’s altar, Gilgal Refaim, and more. For information and to reserve your place, log on to www.gilberthouse.org/travel.

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P.I.D. Radio 10/4/09: The Octopus

Derek — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:38:46 +0000

Danny Casolaro

THE TITLE of tonight’s show is a reference to the conspiracy investigated by journalist Danny Casolaro. He believed it tied the United States government to the Inslaw case (a software company that accused the Justice Department of stealing its extremely powerful PROMIS case management software), the so-called “October Surprise” theory that Iran had held back the American hostages to help Ronald Reagan win the 1980 presidential election, the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and the Iran-Contra scandal. The scheme was so vast and complex that Casolaro referred to it as “the Octopus”.

Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia in August of 1991, his wrists slashed 10 to 12 times. His death was, of course, ruled a suicide.

Casolaro’s story might have continued its slow fade into the dusty corners of conspiracy theory folklore, except that charges were filed this week against a Miami-based missionary to Honduras named Jimmy Hughes for the 1981 slayings of Fred Alvarez and two associates in Rancho Mirage, California. It is believed that Alvarez was killed to silence him before he could carry out a threat to expose financial improprieties and other illegal activity on the Cabazon Indian reservation in Riverside County, California.

Incredibly, what happened on Cabazon land in the late ’70s and early ’80s reaches around the world and into the highest levels of the US government — part of Casolaro’s “Octopus”. Central to the story (especially when he tells it) is the mysterious Michael Riconosciuto, now serving a 20-year sentence for production and distribution of meth.

Understanding “the Octopus” is like the old story of the blind men trying to comprehend their first encounter with an elephant: the parts you touch can appear to be completely different and totally unrelated. Running over the outlines of the case in about half an hour, we didn’t even mention mainstream media reports — published prior to 9/11 — that FBI spy Robert Hanssen sold an upgraded version of PROMIS to Russia, which in turn sold it to Osama bin Laden. It’s believed Al Qaeda used the software to penetrate databases and move funds between banks without being detected by US counterterror groups.

A PROMIS derivative was also allegedly used by Chinese military intelligence to steal nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

So, like the Octopus, the tentacles extending from the modifications made by Michael Riconosciuto at the Cabazon reservation are many and far-reaching.

Also: Ireland approves the Lisbon Treaty; President Obama strikes out in Copenhagen; the Ring of Fire heats up; the IMF becomes the world’s central bank; and a scam in Montana.