Drug cartels are using African religions and Latin-American cults to give them a supernatural edge in the ongoing drug war.

Tony Kail, Southern Regional Coordinator of the Symbol Intelligence Group and author of Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars, joins us to explain how.

Also: Pentagon panic over Russian hypersonic missile; government shutdown reaches second weekend (and no one outside Washington notices); Ebola scare in Nebraska; and a blood moon kicks off the New Year in the US.

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