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Brent Jabbour guest hosts from the Mass Torts Made Perfect conference in Vegas. Paraquat is reapproved despite the herbicide’s links to Parkinson’s disease. Social media platforms and hotels are complicit in child sex trafficking.

Just one day after launching on a NYSE ETF, bitcoin has seen its price clear previous records. We discuss the new frontier for bitcoin with former CFTC chair J. Christopher Giancarlo. And with winter approaching amid an energy shortage, Europe is at odds with Russia over supply. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann brings us up to speed on the conflict and what role the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is playing in the dispute. Then we take you back to the picket line as organized labor launches another wave of strikes. Professor Richard Wolff brings us the latest from the movement and what it could spell for labor moving forward.

In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy ask, “are you prepared?” – for the sudden repricing of everything, including risk and money. In the second half, Max continues his chat with Nick Giambruno. They turn to chip shortages and commodity prices.

Nikki Sixx has lead the life of a quintessential rock star and his new book “The First 21” gives fans a glimpse into his childhood and his journey to understand his father a little better. Plus, how he has learned to really appreciate life after 21 years of sobriety.

After the chaotic retreat from Kabul, has the 20-year ‘War on Terror’ finally come to a close, and is there any hope for greater understanding between the West and the Islamic world? One of the world’s most influential Muslim academics, anthropologist Professor Akbar Ahmed of the American University, discusses with Alex Salmond the prospects for a rapprochement between East and West.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to public-health expert Professor John Ashton. He discusses the House of Commons’ Health and Science Committees’ report on the UK’s coronavirus response and how it exposes the government as having been seriously unprepared. Its disastrous policies, he says, led to deaths in care homes early in the pandemic and, later, to the UK’s death rate being one of the highest among developed countries. He goes on to discuss how the UK has fallen behind with its vaccination program compared to Europe. He pulls no punches, calling it “social murder” committed through “arrogance and incompetence.” And democracy, he says, is under threat as a result of the government’s recklessness. He goes on to criticize the consultants who have become extremely wealthy through the development of the discredited, privatised NHS Test and Trace service, and the possibility that further lockdowns will be imposed. In the second half, we speak to Karen Greenberg, author of ‘Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump’. She discusses what she calls the US’ “subtle tools” of international coercion, such as torture and drone strikes, which have furthered US foreign policy since 9/11, but led only to further strife. She goes on to explore the degradation of language to make policy boundaries deliberately vague, citing the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991, which precipitated the First Gulf War, its wording enabling broader US military interventions. Barack Obama continued the use of those “subtle tools,” meaning they were left on the table for Donald Trump, whom she says had no respect for either procedure or the law. Lastly, she goes onto explain how they have since been used domestically, both in immigration policy and at the southern border.

Is there now a dual system of justice? Many think so. For example, a former senior FBI official lied repeatedly to his bosses, but now is exonerated. But a former head of the National Security Council did not lie to the FBI and his life was destroyed. Where is the justice in that? CrossTalking, with Lionel, Sabrina Salvati, and David Gornoski.

Bitcoin has taken another step toward institutional acceptance as the premier cryptocurrency will now have its own exchange-traded fund on the New York Stock Exchange. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann fills us in on the breakthrough and what it could mean for the future of the cryptocurrency. Plus, the global energy crunch has caused the price of coal to spike as a means of combating supply-chain shortages. Todd ‘Bubba’ Horwitz lends his insight on the converging crises. And cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright joins the program to discuss the surge in ransomware attacks slamming US businesses in 2021.

NHL star Jeremy Roenick, who played most of his career with the Chicago Blackhawks, reflects on his incredible career and how intimidated he was getting drafted right out of high school. Plus, how he’s master his golf game since retiring from the sport and how hockey helped his swing.

In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the stories related to rising inflation, building shortages and the multinational retail chains renting private cargo ships to deliver holiday goods. In the second half, Max chats to Nick Giambruno about the Bank of England’s warning that bitcoin could cause a financial meltdown. They then discuss the actual financial meltdown in Lebanon, where Nick had previously lived, and ask: Is there hope for the country, and if so, would bitcoin fix it?