She is such a douche and an idiot. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Thursday, August 15 2013 time you're getting donation
media assassination, Episode Five, three Niner. This is no
agenda. Sync in my BM keys to my BT sync here in the Travis
heights hide out in the capital of the drone Star State. Austin
Tejas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
And for brother Silicon Valley where I'm nine dog biscuits over
five I'm John C. Dvorak. Hill.
That's because you're pumping out 35 whiskies. I was not doing
ham speak, by the way I was. Well, all the cool kids are now
on the BM, you were talking about?
Did you know what I was talking about? No, let's just say
I'm syncing my BM keys to my BT sync.
What does that even mean? Have you
not followed along with the new bit message?
No. Oh, my God. Oh, I'm sure I'm missing out.
Yeah, this Mollywood even wrote about it and credited no agenda,
which is
like we invented this. No,
no, we did not invent it. But we're using it. We have a
thriving community. So imagine. Email, BitTorrent email.
Okay, I'm imagining it. Okay. That's
what it that's what it is. So you got an email client, and
it's, it's peer to peer and instead of an, you don't get
like john@divorce.org, you get a really long number. Which of
course someone else can store in their own address book is
divorce hacker, whatever,
do I get a Bitcoin? In fact, it works on
the same principle as Bitcoin. I was trying to avoid that right
off the bat. So you wouldn't read it without getting at least
to the crux of it. But it's great. So it's email without any
bullcrap email providers in the middle, and, you know, because
it's all encrypted, it's secure. I mean, although I'm, I'm not
that I'm not interested in so much in the secure parties. And,
you know, there's like, no, Google in the middle. It's just,
it's like, you can send stuff and you can use, you can
broadcast to people who subscribe to your address. So
it's like RSS, and you could and you can also kind of follow
people like Twitter, and it's, it's phenomenal. And of course,
you know, the no agenda community jumps in, you know,
with with all you know, two hands two feet at the same time,
it's really working. It's cool. You have it on a thumb drive,
you jam it into USB slot and there's your your your
spies now. Yeah,
it's really good. I'm switching to that as if you really want to
say something to me, if you want to expect an answer, then you
have to get on the bid message. And of course, you know, so you
can also do channels just goes through torrents or sometimes it
work. Okay, so it's, it's just like Bitcoin. So it's peer to
peer. So it's like Bitcoin like I was right. Yeah. And that's
what I say it's the same system, the same idea, the same except
it has multiple streams, and this couple of improvements over
the original concept of do I have
to mind to get my address?
No, but what is nice is when you send someone a message and
email, you have to you know, there's a statement of work, so
you're doing some encryption, so it's very unattractive for
spammers.
I would think, yeah, so this is
this is really, it's, it's quite groovy.
I sure it's very groovy. So I would assume it would be
actually great. If you didn't still have to go to the legacy
systems to actually get your mail from your mom.
Well, the whole idea is that if you know it kind of looks like
email and if you just say here, just use this a The only thing
that's different is you don't have you know, a you@domain.com
address although those people already have set up gateways and
stuff. So you know, so you can use that it kind of defeats the
purpose but the whole idea of of sending email without an email
provider or the email infrastructure in the middle is
nice. I like it and no spam and of course we have this channel
because you can set up channels and you know, there's everyone
ever since I've been blogging about it and then Molly would
wrote us an article that we got a lot of traction and people
showing up and of course, question number three on the on
the no agenda channel can you guess?
I do I get a number. No.
Is JC D here yet? Oh. You gotta get on this thing. You're like
it.
I'm gonna love it.
Come on. Don't be so skeptical. This
skeptical. I wish I said I'm gonna love it. I'm kidding. I'm
Dutch. All right. If ever if you pretended I was Dutch, then you
wouldn't be able to criticize me for what you consider my
sarcasm, right?
Because the Dutch always sound kind of sarcastic and, and
heartless,
but they're not. No, they're all they just tell like it is but
they have the sarcastic tone because they speak flat. Yeah,
it's it's it is kind of annoying the way it drives people crazy
when they first go there. Like why did the Dutch so kind of why
did they hate? That's what I say to Mickey every day. Why do you
hate me?
I did that to it. There's a BART, there's this cute little
bar of that service just elixirs in an old town in Amsterdam. And
it's only open on Fridays and Saturdays.
What's the name of this place?
I can't remember I got photos. So anyway, I don't know if it
has a name. But anyway, you go in there places packed with a
bunch of Dutch and this woman who runs the place, she just
seems so mean. But she's me. She's the worst case scenario
for this. And actually got on my end. I know it. I understand it.
But it got on my nerves so much. I said why are you so mean to
all the Americans who got in here? She got very offended by
that.
I am not mean I don't care what you say you're crazy American.
I'm not mean to you. I love you from the bottom of my heart. And
from my vibes bottom too.
So anyway,
there's a there's a very funny book. What is it? It's like it's
for expats. And it's I think the ambassador, the Dutch Ambassador
gave it to me or Sunday or something like that. But it's a
book about all of the crazy things that Dutch expats say in
America that are you know, that just come across completely
wrong.
That's cool. You can imagine. Hey, happy
Virgin Mary teleported to heaven day, John.
Is that right? Yeah, Virgin is just a day of the Virgin Mary.
It's the I'd never heard of this Assumption of Mary day.
Oh, the assumption is the assumption is the assumption.
Yeah. So major Catholic.
And, in fact, I think France, some I think the financial
markets may be closed because Trevor, who usually sends me
like this financial tip sheet. He sends me nobody says, oh, you
know, happy, happy assumption of married day. You know, I don't
have anything today like, Thursday. What's the problem?
No, no, it's a big holiday. And this, I guess, is where God
said, Mary, your job is done. Come on up.
I you know, I think
that's what it is.
It's possible. I don't know what the I don't remember. I used to
be a Catholic.
And why did you give it up? Well, I
don't know. This is another mystery. I was trying to
remember why last time I went to a church to
adopt into a church I saw along the way. Got down.
Okay, okay. I don't remember when I
quit. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You never
really quit according to the former.
Hold this. Hold on a second. This is this is new information.
Yeah. Were you raised a Catholic by your parents? Oh, no. I
chose to be a cat. No, I was.
What? This makes so much sense. When you were in third grade,
and at this point, you're what nine? Oh, no, I'm going to be a
Catholic guys.
Yeah, they probably said something exactly like that.
They would have figured out
let me guess You retched. Here's, here's, here's a process
like, Hey, what's this book? Hmm. Several hours later, hey,
this is pretty good. I think I'll become a Catholic. So
interesting. So the Assumption of Mary into heaven, informally
known as the assumption according to beliefs of the
Roman Catholic Church, and parts of Anglicism. It was the bodily
taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven, at the end of her
earthly life. So yeah, I find it peculiar.
Why? Well, because everybody had been having supposedly they're
just the souls in the spirits and they get some body up there
some person wandering around. I think it'd be annoying,
but that's not it's
said to bodily she goes
teleportation, exactly what I said let's look
at then what is she going to do now? Oh, hang it around. That I
think you can move around a lot faster if you didn't have the
body hook to
you. So according to the book of knowledge, which you know, this
thing has like links in it and if you click on it, and it takes
you to another thing, it's really quite amazing. So they so
they have this link for the bodily taking up and you go, you
click on that. It's amazing how this works, and I get entering
heaven alive. The concept of entering heaven alive known as
assumption is A belief held by multiple religious and
traditions, it's not quite English. Since death is
generally considered the normal into an individual's life on
Earth, entering heaven without dying first is considered
exceptional and usually a sign of God's special recognition of
the individuals. Peyote, peyote Pete, play T piety. What is
piety? Wait, it's linked piety. Its virtue. Wow, this Wikipedia
thing is pretty cool.
Yeah, I use it all the time. But there's certain things you can't
quite rely
on it. You mean? It's not really fact.
That's a lot of bogus information. But this one the
Assumption of Mary Paige has got too much bullcrap looks pretty
anyway.
So that's why anyway, interesting to learn that, that
you were when you were nine, you decided to be a Catholic?
Yes, the decision. My parents were in there. I, you know, my
dad was a they were Catholics, I think when they were kids, but
they were never weren't the most religious people in the world.
Very, very skeptical. And especially my father who said
that this whole side of the family quit going to church when
they started, whether you had to actually pay to get into the
church is one church. In Minnesota. You said you had to
pay so that was it? Is that where you're from? That's all I
got fantastic. What we're doing with this show, we don't know
most like if you want to go to a movie that you have, you got to
pay
up front to get a seat up front with that with just only reviews
from Yelp.
We on this show, which I think is a much more spiritual show
than a typical movie. Thank you. You don't have to pay to listen
to this podcast.
I think we're on that you do with the Catholic Church with
spirituality.
There you go. Well, we're we are working. We work a lot. We work
on holidays. And now we're working on the assumption
we're working on that we work on the Lord's Day. We work on the
assumption we work. I know what that says about us, but
we need money and afford not to work.
Well. There's certainly enough to talk about once again.
Yeah, there's quite a few things that went
on. It's kind of kind of a I had kind of like research days
before we go into the news. i Let's just start right off the
bat with something I think we should do. Just to kind of
lighten things up. Since we're talking about religion. I mean,
I have to go shift gears. I have an ask Adam.
Oh, hold on a second. I have an ask Adam jinglun John's
got a burning question. What should we do as?
Yes, you have a burning question, John.
Okay. You tell me what this is.
Is that my cue? Yeah, that was.
A No Yes. No. Once again
Isn't he supposed to say I buried Paul it's it sounds
because it's one of those numbers stations from the from
the short waves. Yes. What
do you think
it's not though, apparently. What is what is that? Uh huh. I
don't know you. Oh, you stumped me by golly, again. What is this
is a CAPTCHA.
Oh, wow, did you? That's interesting. I've never I guess
I never click on the little speaker icon.
Exactly. I always thought they were going to read the what was
on the screen? No, is that what you heard is a number is the
speaker?
Oh, so this is the capture version of making the letters.
Almost. unintelligible.
Yeah. And but, and the funny thing is, is that the capture
that's on the screen, which has a bunch of screws screwed up.
This was I think, from Google, right? As much as screwed up
letters. Yeah, the CAPTCHA that they play is different. Oh,
yeah. Just don't read what is on the screen.
That's interesting. How, how degenerate are we as a society
to to leave a comment? The comment, people just a comment.
And even if it is, you suck, that you have to listen to that
and, and the captions have to go this hole is what is telling
you, you know, I love them. Please enter this word, these
letters in sequence. And you know, it's like, yeah, when you
actually have to go to your wife like honey, what letter Do you
think this is? It's defeating the purpose.
No, it's ridiculous. In fact, many of these things are
unintelligible and you can't read them and you can always get
it wrong and so on. No rung rung. And then there's the other
one which
is now if the website actually would would would start talking
about new rung rung, then it would be entertaining then I
would kind of I would like
more entertaining than it is. But then there's the other one
says 12 plus three equals Yeah. Which I think is actually a
better one. Although I guess you can beat that to buy a machine.
And
but this is this is to combat spam. Yeah, right.
Yeah, mail and scrapers? Yeah. Anyways, there you go. That's
you learn something today, people don't realize I read I
never clicked on it. I just I just think kept coming up. I
could not read it for the life of me. So I clicked on the
little speaker.
And what do you remember what you were trying to do? What
you're trying to comment? I was trying
to say hi, or, Hey, hey, I'm here.
Yes, well, very nice. You know, what we're kind of on on that
track, then let's, let's eat something very, very, almost
disturbing happened. And, you know, there's a lot of people
Well, there's two parts of the story, I guess. So a lot of
people are, of course, listen, really, to what we talked about
on the show, which on one hand is really nice. They say, you
know, this whole thing, this whole trip you're on about the
President and his, you know, he's always saying his his
number one priority is to protect the American people. And
like, no, and, you know, and and we, of course, keep citing, you
know, the the oath that he takes, and you know, that really
his only job is to defend, protect and uphold the
Constitution. And now people are getting in my face about a John,
which is a little annoying, and they're like, Well, you know,
it's he says, as commander in chief, and said, Yeah, okay,
Commander in Chief, and then I usually just send them article
to the United States Constitution, where it shows
what his duties are, as the commander in chief, and have you
ever looked at them as his duties, the President's duties
as commander in chief was
to be the commander in chief, he's not doing anything else. He
just has meetings he's supposed to, he's supposed to take them
meetings. Yeah, here, here's the president shall be commander in
chief of the army and navy with the United States, and of the
militia of several states. So whatever that means, we should
figure that one out. When called into the actual Service of the
United States, he may require the opinion in writing of the
principal officer in each of the executive departments so he can
solicit memos. Right upon any subject relating to the duties
of their respective offices, so he could say, Hey, could you
please write me a memo but how you're doing and he shall have
the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the
United States, except in cases of impeachment. And that's it.
And that's it. So you know, this whole this whole thing? It's,
it's not true in cases of impeachment. Yeah. So
if he's being impeached, he can't pardon himself. I think,
what about if, the way I read it, that means that Gerald Ford
couldn't pardon Richard Nixon abuse? That's all. It could be
that ever got impeached. Nevermind, it?
Well, that's a nice interpretation. That's
interpretation. Boy, you almost you're almost taking this in a
different direction. In fact, why don't we do that before I go
anywhere? Let's go to hold her then. So this was a very
interesting thing that happened. And the analysis of it, I think,
is pretty much incorrect. Just about everywhere. Attorney
General Holder who is the he's the He's the number one dude in
the justice system in the United States of Gitmo nation. And he
does a speech at the ABA, the American Bar Association, which
is the lawyer guild,
it was right here.
Yes, it was it was in Moscone Center, West. And the Hillary
Clinton was she got an award. She's a lawyer. And so she got
an award and her face looks great. It really does looks
really
nice. She doesn't, you know, smile too hard.
And holder starts off with and I've always wondered about the
profession of law. I really love reading legal documents, trying
to understand them that the internet has made it really,
really easy to Google stuff and find out you know, what things
mean and look at case law and really get a handle on stuff.
And, you know, I think lawyers go to school for a number of
years, and they learn kind of a different language, and then
they can charge if if you can get a job as a lawyer, which
seems to be harder. You can charge a lot of money for your
services. You know, it's kind of like an interpreter. But I found
the the thing that Holder was talking about, and I'm going to
presume you didn't see it was kind of like, really do you
really think that you're all that and a bag of chips from its
earliest days, our republic has been bound together by this
system. And by the values that define it. These values,
equality, opportunity, and justice under law, were first
codified in the United States Constitution. So now listen very
carefully what he's saying here, he's in this something that
bothers me enormously because I've always learned that our
society here in the United States is based on the
Constitution, not on values. I've heard this values thing,
you know, you hear that a lot in Europe, you know, what's the
values of our society and nobody values or, I mean, if you want
to call the Constitution values, okay, then so be it. But that's
it, then then values equals constitution. And there's not
like some extra values thing that go that's going around. And
here he's saying, Well, it started off with the
Constitution, but really, you know, you know, that was just
kind of like training wheels. And you know, you
work that way. Before we go on with that. Let me finish that
thought. You know, what's interesting to me about this,
and I do have a holder clip too, but it's a little different. Is
that this is the kind of thing that the Republicans began
pushing. Yes. Which is value, family value family, valuing the
church back into it and returning all these extra
curricular elements into the what would normally be pretty
straightforward constitutional stuff. Exactly. And using it to
leverage voters. And so the fat and the Democrats always moaned
about this, they constantly moan about now.
Yes, well, yeah, the shoe is on the other foot. And in fact, it
is being used specifically for a group of voters. But let's
listen to a bit more what I consider to be hubris, its
constitution. And they weren't renewed and reclaimed nearly a
century later by this organization's earliest members.
Now, if I'm hearing him correctly, he's saying 100 years
after the Constitution was written 100 years later, they
were renewed, I guess, version 2.0. And I guess, you know, that
the American Bar Association now is the constitution. Am I Am I
just overly sensitive? Sounds like am I overly sensitive? Or
is that I think you are? I don't I'm not so sure. It's codified
in the United States for a second. And they were renewed
and reclaimed, nearly a century later reclaimed, mean, claimed,
what is that reclaimed? Rick, I guess they had fallen down.
They were reclaimed. And it's like, it's like a repo man.
Well, they're now erect, let's read about it real polish this
up by bull crap
or
earliest members. With the founding of the ABA in 1878,
America's leading legal minds came together for the first time
to revolutionize their to revolutionize our profession, a
little sliver of a gap there. In the decades that followed, they
created new standards for training and professional
conduct. And they established the law as a clear and focused
vocation, at the heart of our country's identity. Now,
throughout history, Americans of all backgrounds and walks of
life have have turned to our legal system, to settle
disputes, but also to hold accountable those who have done
wrong, and even to answer fundamental questions about who
we are, and who we aspire to be as a people. That's the first
question I have whenever I meet a lawyer, could you please help
me Who are we? Who are we as a people, you you remember the
ABA, you can help me and I don't like to harp on lawyers too
much. But I think holder gives lawyers a bad name. Particularly
when you hear how we cannot read a teleprompter. Even as we see
most crime rates decline. We need to examine new law
enforcement strategies, and better allocate resources to
keep pace with today's continuing threats as violence
spikes in some of our greatest citizens. How are your greatest
citizens doing? Yeah, it's like,
can't see his balls.
I mean, seriously, can't Can't you just pick Can you just say I
mean, cities, he just let that go citizens and no one. No one's
I live in one of the best cities in Fauci. Thanks so much, as
always, for joining us. Good to be here. Some of our greatest
citizens. Look, if you're reading it, we get to make fun
of it. Okay, if you just flipped because you're doing a big
speech, and it's a complicated topic. So what does he do is he
comes up with this, basically saying, We rule you slave, and
we're gonna throw you a bone. It is unworthy of our great
country. It is unworthy of our great legal tradition. And in
response, I have today directed a group of US attorneys to
examine sentencing disparities, and to develop recommendations
on how we can address them in this area, and in many others in
ways both large and small. We as a country, resolved to do
better. The President and I agree that it's time to take a
pragmatic approach. And that's why I'm proud to announce today
that the Justice Department will take a series of significant
actions to recalibrate America's federal reboots the system. And
this is very interesting, because boot to recalibrate,
yeah, we reclaim that rebooting the Reclaim. It's it is it is
very interesting, because by law, we have minimum mandatory
sentences for certain offenses, certainly in the drug arena. And
what is happening here is this not anything, nothing is
changing in law, but it's a policy change directed by hair
holder himself, which he explains here, we will start by
fundamentally rethinking the notion of mandatory minimum
sentences for drug related crimes. Why are they clapping?
Are they all drug dealers?
Why? It makes no sense?
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Very good. Some statutes less work for us?
No, I don't think that's what's going on is not less word ending
in flexible sentences. And this is regardless of the individual
condom, that is an issue in a particular case, which
typically, a judge has the discretion to say, Well, okay,
look, in your particular case, you know, you did this. Yeah, it
didn't really hurt anybody. But it was wrong. You knew it was
wrong, but maybe you didn't, I'm gonna give you you know, I'm
gonna cut you a break. And you're going to do this or maybe
already time, sir, whatever, mandatories, then, right. Right.
So that well, that's what a judge should be able to do.
These mandatories are there. But now here's what hair holders
doing reduce the discretion available to prosecutors,
judges, and to juries, because they oftentimes generate
unfairly long sentences. They breed disrespect for the system,
when applied indiscriminately, they do not serve public safety
today. And let's be honest, the enforcement priorities that we
have set have had a destabilizing effect on
particularly particular communities, largely poor and of
color, and applied inappropriately, they are
ultimately counterproductive. This is why I have today
mandated a modification of the Justice Department's charging
policy so that certain low level nonviolent drug offenders who
have no ties to large scale organizations, gangs, or
cartels, will no longer be charged with offenses that
impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. So the way I
see this, essentially, is look what we're going to be able to
make deals with people now. And whereas this was not necessarily
possible, a prosecutor works for either the federal government or
for the state. But I guess all directly, indirectly, they all
work for this guy will be able to say, okay, hey, look, Devorah
can we caught you, man, we caught you with, you know,
you're growing the weed in your basement, you know, that's five,
five years in the State Penitentiary. But you know, if
you want to, like, help us trap that curry guy, you know, maybe
we could reduce this to 90 days.
I think they do that now. To some extent. No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, because well, you know, yeah, it would be for you,
you're gonna get more of this because I do have one that comes
in with a different
theory to the different theory. I'd
love to hear. Okay, this is the this is the local news report.
And essentially, and there's a Tony Sarah, who's a very famous
I don't think he works that much anymore. But you've seen him
before. Tony says his famous defense attorney, I think he
lives in the Midwest and someplace. And he's that long
white haired Indian gay American. Yeah, I
remember wandering in San Francisco and see him from time
to time on the air. Yeah,
is a very mean me. Yeah. And he would just like, just wins a
lot. So they bring it they talk this is the holder thing. This
is the the local report about it. And then Sarah comes in and
blasts them and then they kind of wrap it up and the whole
thing turns out to be just a bunch of bullcrap.
In San Francisco's da George Gascon told reporters, thinking
of a statewide initiative that would reduce simple drug
possession to a misdemeanor. No, that's But stop right there.
That's not what told her saying. There's no if only if he were if
the laws were changing, but that's not what's happened
adequately reduce the sentencing to one year, I think is the
right thing to do. Holder did not talk about the federal raids
on Bay Area pot dispensaries, or the fact that federal law
contradicts the legalizing of medical marijuana. Defense
attorney and legalization advocate, Tony, Sarah told me
he's delighted by holder's position but he suspects the
motives. It isn't
a concept of justice is not a call Um, step of, you know,
giving, I don't know, a break, you know, to low level, non
violent criminal, they can't afford the number of prisoners
that they have incarcerated
holder did say that while the nation's population has
increased by a third since the 1980s, the prison population has
increased by 800%. And that black males are serving
significantly longer sentences than white males convicted of
similar crimes. You know, there was a, get a third theory that
Ms. McKee kind of steered me towards. She said, Is this just
a coincidence that Sanjay Gupta on CNN, all of a sudden is pro
weed and weed is good and everything should be weed. And
I'm like, maybe, maybe they just need more users. If not, if
possible,
if you think about it, they find out about this weed stuff, it
makes people pretty calm, we got to do something to calm the
public. Well, besides rioting in the streets,
sides, calming them, you know, we know that the banks, the
entire economy runs on drug money, you know, maybe this
like, you know, how we can you know, we want to taper off a
little bit, we don't want to, you know, be printing all this
money all the time, we need some more drug money in the system,
you know, well, then we got to get some users out. I think it's
possibly a screw about I agree when a holder comes in and gives
the speech. And and the thing that I thought was interesting,
it didn't have it on the clip, but it was on the clip at the
beginning. They actually brought up the meme that we stumbled
upon, which was that a 25%. They put it on the screen as a
graphic and it's Chiron 25% of the world's prisoners are in the
United States, and we only have 5% of the world's population.
Yeah. And that was like, that was up there. And that's the
that's that in the mainstream, I didn't expect to start seeing
that and local news that people are starting to add to and to
about this. And so I think Sarah, and his idea that, you
know, this is ridiculous, this prison situation, especially in
California was, you know, they're trying to privatize,
like they have in Texas, largely, right. They got the
overcrowding, and there's been a number of demands. In fact,
there wasn't there a strike a hunger strike and counter
strike going on now.
Okay, so not so now we're getting down to something I
thought that hunger strike had ended.
As far as I know, the hunger strike still going on. I think
it's still going on and get mo to that's where it started.
Right. And, ya know, there's a huge hunger strike. Let me see.
Let me make sure that it's like because I don't want to dive
now. It's like
15,000 prisoners.
It's so poorly reported.
Why bother?
That note that we don't know if it's over or not? Because nobody
really even exists.
Lady Gaga weighs 60 pounds. Everyone knows that.
She that she weighs more like 260 No,
no, no, no, no, no. No,
what happened? Is she we're not going there.
Now she looks anorexic. No,
I was surprised from Canada. Yes, she did. Yeah, this is just
publicity stunts. She probably shot these. You know, these
things are no, no. Let me judge you for the truth about
California's hunger strikes.
I got a publicity stunt for you. Yeah, yeah. While you're
searching for that, all right, you're gonna be annoyed though.
Okay. I got August 13. Hundreds of strikers that did not gone
one month without food is still going on. In his stated effort
to end the state's controversially solitary
confinement practices, yet, it's already in solitary drop of a
hat. So
So somehow, the CCA the Corrections Corporation of
America, they messed it up, or maybe that just whoever was
funny, because we tracked this for years, John, we tracked how
the juvenile system was, you know, shuttling kids in from
school, like, get him in, get him into the jail, get him in
the system. It was, you know, for that
flight, there was actually a judge in bribes to send kids to
send
kids to jail. Yeah, so it was $60,000 a year per person. You
know, what here? Maybe this is what's going on? And I think it
was Eisenhower. I think it was Eisenhower, who said, If you
want total security, and you want a roof over your head and
three meals a day, prison is the place for you.
Maybe remember Eisenhower's saying this?
Yeah, I think it was I can look it up on
this. Okay, well, yeah, unimportant.
So and he ends up his quote by saying the only thing you don't
have there is freedom, which kind of relates to this whole
balance between our you know, our freedom and our security. So
I think maybe people are saying, screw it. I want to be in jail.
There's evidence of that in some communities because a guy will
get out of prison. No, no one will give a an ex con a job in
California, right? Not because you couldn't train him or do
something. But you can get somebody that's not an ex con.
There's no There's so many jobs available exam. I mean, there's
jobs, you know, you there's, I'm sorry, there's, it's a, it's a
buyers market for employers, they there's a you know, we're
in a depression so you can get workers or aren't ex cons to
work for you. So there's no reason to resort to ex cons
because you can't take a chance
jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, let's vote for jobs.
So these guys get out, they can't get a job and then they
have to, you know, do some petty thievery or so they get back,
they get thrown back in, if the system is broken. If you get to
be released, they don't do for gopher rehabilitation, they
don't teach prisoners JavaScript. If only they did, it
would end the whole problem with you know, so they don't do any
of that stuff. They just make them you know, may license
plates are birdhouses and the next thing you know, they come
out they got nothing to do there. They're still D
socialized from being in prison is this is not working the way
they haven't set up it's, and it's creating this problem, and
then they're all felon, so they can't vote. The idiots out can't
vote, or why that was makes zero sense to me. Seems to me should
be able to vote.
Do you lose your rights for good once you've been convicted of a
felony? Or do you do they know, at some point and you can't get
us some way of petitioning? Who's
whose Dick do you have to suck? Or is it just the thing that
happened to be white?
Oh, god. Okay, seriously,
no, unfortunately, unbelieving you. But don't propagate the
mean that America is racist, please, this is not this is not
the point.
No, no, it's not the point at all. But the system is not
working. And they're not training people than it used to
be rehabilitation. Now, it's just long term punishment. The
punishment is too long term. They never never, you know,
throwing somebody in jail for a couple of weeks is not you know,
say you're gonna have a job someplace and you get thrown in
jail for two weeks. You're not gonna get back to me that's
punishment enough to put somebody especially a marijuana
smoker in jail for years,
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, if you want total security, go to
prison there you're fed, clothed, given medical care and
so on. The only thing lacking is freedom. That's Eisenhower,
that Eisenhower. Come on. That was good. You quote him every
week. Eisenhower Memorial podcast like
him, I like him. So I was gonna just just to get it off my chest
because I heard this on NPR. And sometimes I think that, you
know, as we get new listeners on board, we have to go back to our
earlier days where we take for granted. And what the, you know,
like I said, we have a whole chat room full of people who
have been listening for years and they know all this stuff.
And but we still have to kind of help people understand how it
works. So NPR is now if I'm not mistaken, they're supposed to be
funded by people like you and underwritten right, by
corporations, because you know, there's there's all really
there's no profit motive
going back to the well to play the classic. Yeah,
well, maybe I'll play the classic why not? Okay, moving on
to money.
How are NPRs corporate underwriting revenues holding up
in the recession? And what about foundation grants to different
stories?
Underwriting is underwriting is is down, it's down for
everybody. I mean, this is this is this is the area that is most
down for us is in is in sponsorship, underwriting,
advertising, call it whatever you want, call it whatever you
want. Exactly. So I hear this thing. And you know, when John
and I know, John, you and I have been in media for most of our
professional lives, and we know how these things work, and
either NPR is complicit, or they are stupid. And you both Well,
it could be both, but when I heard this yesterday, I'm
thinking to myself, can you really be that gullible? Or are
you just in on the game?
Let's sticking with the music industry, let's move to a big
story in the world of pop music. If it were up to Lady Gaga, we
would not be able to play this song yet.
Note they're playing the song.
on NPR. That song is called applause it was supposed to be
released on August 19. But it was leaked on the Internet. So
Gaga and her record label decided to release it early is a
common occurrence. Joining us to talk about from the blue says,
Listen, so of course I'm like, oh, so they pretended that it
was leaked, so that it could be a story because no one cares.
Except for the little monsters. And now they're playing this
song on NPR newsroom in New York. Is Claire suddath. An
entertainment reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek can't we
have we have Bloomberg Businessweek. Now there's an
interesting backstory here. Tell us what happened with Lady Gotta
go over what happened.
Also, she has a new album coming out in November called Art pop.
And please note drop dates name, title of album, it's the
promotion is right there on August
19. She was going to release the first single off of that called
applause which you just heard. But it showed up on the internet
over the weekend. And so she tweeted some very angry things.
I think her main complaint was that as an artist, she had sort
of lost control over her work and
I listen, so she she tweets as an artist, she's lost control of
her work however,
it's not someone else's decision when to release her songs, then
her label decided that they would just push it out early.
So if I get this right, she said it's not anyone's decision when
to release my songs and then her record company decided to do it
early. Just the reporting alone should these people should be
fired? All right. Yeah, no, I'm
looking I'm looking at the Gaga feed.
You subscribe to Gaga
No, I'm you can go look at the feed. You just type her name and
she got 39 million followers, you know, the wish to just plug
my or I can say track
me made How about no agenda? Dude, what do you mean?
sidetrack book?
Okay, you know, that'd be cool if we had Lady Gaga as ignore
agenda listener. Good luck with that. Yeah, she's not that. So
applause to that all it is is like this is the worst feed
anyone who subscribes to the Lady Gaga feed has that listen
to this same thing. Ah, I don't see her complaining. It must be
deep. She She? No, no, today's the 13th I mean, it says the
13th I don't see all this bitching.
Because the because you can only imagine that. I think this this
is bullcrap. What
she said is nonsense it UK monsters. Thank you so much. I'm
so happy to be climbing your charts again. I can't wait to
see you live kisses from across the pond. The applause lyric
video will be out at 12 PST today. I don't see the
complaining.
Because this is promotion as blatant promotion. That's the
point.
There's not one thing in here where she's complaining. The
woman reported that she was complaining on Twitter.
Yes. So NPR liars.
is unbelievable. I will challenge anyone to find
anything more than maybe one. I can't find one. Where she says
cares at all about this. Okay, well, nevermind. Alright, so
that we got that.
Let me get all of the annoying things out. Now before we might
as well do it just so I can get it done. And this This was
annoying, because I couldn't believe that I was agreeing with
this person. This is this is this is kind of sad. And this,
this goes back to the presidential duties. So there
was this is actually a little clip from NBC talking about the
President had an interview, you know, another fascistic
interview because now now he's in bed with Amazon. And he had
an interview with Kindle. Apparently Kindle now interviews
people. So you know, this is this? Yeah, he just spoke at
Amazon. It's like the whole thing. It's icky. It's very icky
when you're doing interviews with Zillow, the real estate
company, and you know, not not a journalistic outfit, but just
Kindle, that he's being interviewed by Kindle. And
here's what he says it's also been a shift in culture.
We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way
that kids are these days. There was not that window into the
lifestyles of the rich and famous. kids weren't monitoring
every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West
was going on vacation
and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success. Okay.
So, you know, think of it what you may say to me was little,
okay, hypocritical much, but the mother and mother in law of
these two have Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Chris
Kardashian, has somehow used her daughter publishing a sex tape
with Ray J, and whatever his name is, into our own television
talk show called Chris. And the eye is little heart, the dots,
the eyes, a little heart, it's Chris. And so this, of course, I
don't watch this. But this clip was sent to me. And I'm like,
Ah, why am I agreeing with this woman?
And the President said, and I quote, The American Dream
involves some pretty basic stuff, a good job where you felt
some security, a good education. I don't think people went around
saying to themselves, I need to have a 10,000 square foot house.
kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was
wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking
that was somehow with the mark of success.
And interesting to note here that NBC did not read the entire
code. And she did, which was talked specifically about one of
our my major points, the President's rebranding of the
American dream.
So I read this, and I thought, wow, I wasn't I mean, it's
really great. Ain't that people aspire to get a great job. And I
would too wanted that when I was growing up, and I graduated from
high school and I really wanted to work hard and succeed. But I
wasn't aware that you could only set the bar so high, and that we
could only dream so big. I was taught dream big, work hard, and
you could have whatever you want.
How sad is it in America when I'm now agreeing with with Kim
Kardashians? Mom?
Well, Kardashians mom is probably no dummy. And I think
by the way, that this is a little bit. And I don't want to
be too completely cynical about this. But this may be a little
bit off the rails for what the what the powers that be will
accept. Because you know, the President won't has his new way
of creating a reality. Well, it's the new Gambia short, live
talk show host if she keeps doing stuff like, oh, well, let
me play d&d, and she'll be the you know, she'll be asking for
donations.
Hi, everybody. It's the Chris podcast. How you doing? Well
listen to her follow up.
I thought was wow. I bet the President has some friends with
10,000 square foot houses and you probably wouldn't mind going
over there, Mr. President, while you were asking him to have a
party for you, when you were campaigning for you know,
dollars to run for president. I just I don't I find it so
awesome. His picking on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Kanye
West. First of all, there you go.
Alright, enough. Yeah, that is enough. But let you watch. So
stuff like
Well, no, I don't watch stuff like this. But it was sent to me
and other people said the same thing. Can you believe that? I'm
agreeing with this woman? Right. Yeah, I am. And I
just do these celebrity Talking Heads. Say stuff occasionally
that you'd have to agree they it's not like everything they
say is wrong.
No. But it's noticeable when this happens because typically
all they're talking about is exactly that is about how
awesome their house is and where the great vacation they went on.
And this is it is and these I would I would also say that
these are Obama bots. They certainly were all on the Obama
buzzer Republican to me that well. Okay, I don't know about
her, but I'm pretty sure that
the rest of them Yeah,
Ryan Seacrest produces this, please. This is an Obama bot
production. We're gonna write that down. That's a good
Seacrest and a bomb about production. So something's
happening. Something is really happening. And it seems like
there's sometimes I get the feeling John, there's a
concerted effort. And maybe the whole Glenn Greenwald Snowden
thing has something to do with it. That it really is a force
moving to move this the current power base out? Do you ever get
that feeling if
we've discussed this before that, you know, they keep taking
these runs at Obama and they do it in bursts? Yeah. And they
have been very unsuccessful. I think it's, I think the public
at this point is so dumbed down and so fat butted sitting down
kind of thing. I don't know how else to describe it, that they
really can't be riled up. There's nobody out there to rile
them. I mean, there's not a Republican like we're this right
now is a two party system with a third various third parties out
there like, Gary, what's his name? So
you have Gary Huntsman's?
Gary, so you have like, Republican orders that just are
uninteresting. And they're just as bad as the Obama they got
nothing to say. They don't rouse a crowd. They don't get anyone
to stand there working for the same people. Yeah, it's all the
same goal working for insurance companies, big corporations, et
cetera, et cetera. And so it's like, they got nothing they got
no, they're set. It's another thing they got no inspiration.
Okay, my dog in the hunt, so they can't get anybody riled up.
But that's for sure. And then the third party guys, they're
either nuts, or they get
stone, stone, the stone stone,
and they got you know, they can't get in or they have a high
pitched voice. The Ross thing, Gary Johnson's voice stinks. You
know, he's not a guy once again,
Gary, you know, Gary Johnson, I talked to his camp member, I
interviewed him and I spoke with his campaign manager or his
media campaign manager when I spoke. I said, Yeah, you the
guy's got to get a little forceful. And then they took it
exactly the other way. And he'd been rare. And it became like,
really, it's kind of like Alex, Joni, like you know, is the
crazy
insincere screaming. Yeah, you know, people can tell they can
tell when you're actually mad or when you're unless you're the
really great actor and that's why Reagan I think was so it's
so well, because he was he could act when he you know, didn't
really have Oh God I have can't get out. You can't sometimes you
can't get yourself motivated. Well, if you're an actor, you
have a better shot at it. Well, I better go get those Iranians
right now. I know that wasn't very good wasn't what I know,
but we could recognize who you were trying to do.
I was my way. John Huntsman. Exactly. Yeah, well, I find it
noticeable that that this happened. It's noticeable. It's
noteworthy but or, as you would say, noted. noted, noted.
Alright, so we of course, don't have cool little hearts over the
eyes in our in our logo. I don't think we have an eye anywhere.
Maybe we could have an OOM loud, we could have two little hearts
somewhere over DeVore aktiver. Can Devorah Kevin uhm, loud.
There are some characters and I don't know what they're called.
They're Eastern European that you put over a divorce rack and
it becomes
Slav Evora, Jacques Jacques, right. We have a different
model. So you know, we don't get affiliate fees. Of course, you
know, we don't also don't get taken off cable systems like
CBS, and Showtime over some dispute, which is basically
about you about stealing money from you. And that's all that
it's about. And your you know, what are you losing? Who knows,
but you're not getting service. And you're not getting you know,
you're not seeing what you want to see, you're may want to see.
We've chosen for a model where you actually do tell us what to
do or what you'd like or don't like, and you support us. And if
you don't think then
so distributed unless a lot of people say the same thing if we
don't want to do it, right.
What does that mean that
call you upstairs? Oh, yeah. Hey,
now listen to you feel. Yeah, you know, you guys were taught
jingle?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, you're paying attention. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Oh, you may know we're talking about
this one.
Yeah, yeah. We don't want you playing a jingle anymore, man.
Because it is science.
So we do have a couple of these three actually executive
producers to thank for today's show. And I want to thank them
in curiously two of them are both that big a second was
second show in a row where we have two members of the show
number.
And, and Anna might add, we had a 538 33 and a 538. flat on the
last show. And this is the same 539 33 and 539 flat.
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. And here's the third coincidence.
They both came in one two punch
in from California.
Well, we go on,
wait a minute, it might be a conspiracy.
One is our hyper word technology guy David Sir David Foley, who
is the Earl of Silicon Valley who seems to be on a roll of Los
Gatos 59539 In the morning Oscar and Felix from the Earl of
Silicon Valley we're gonna roll with the no agenda. We're on a
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I'm sharing the wealth with the best podcasts University and
closed it's 539 and 33 cents so you can continue to fill up the
bunker with mac and cheese which by the way, so I am going to
post this picture I have I was at this place called grocery
grocery with 1000s of Grocery Outlet and it's called referred
to generally speaking as grossed out
is that a California thing? I don't think we have it here.
I think it's West Coast i There is one I know in Washington
couple in Washington state so it's just I think just a West
Coast thing. And they had a there's a mac and cheese a bento
box. Yeah. And it says mac and cheese dinner.
Does it have the word gourmet anywhere?
No. No, but it's it says mac and cheese dinner and it's a box
with you know you can shake it and there's some powder in there
and some God knows. This is like I should have bought it. Yeah,
what do you 39 cents?
What and how many servings does this provide?
Well, I didn't look on the back but I didn't really want to
touch it.
I can't believe you didn't buy that as well. I
was thinking about it
39 cents now is that is
39 cents for a mac and cheese dinner. But is it but do
you think it's one two servings or six? Or because it for
family?
It's a little box so I would say that is just one single shot
single? I betcha dial go back. I'm gonna go back. You gotta get
your bucket says two servings on it. No, it's
not. It'll say it'll say. It'll say is that a dinner? It'll say
two to three servings.
You're eating alone. Is that a dinner?
Yeah, of course a meal.
That's a meal so anyway so
let me let me play the mac and cheese jingle for
you slaves get get used to mac and cheese macaroni and cheese
shattered melted together mac and cheese mac and cheese mac
and cheese mac and cheese by iron Rand. And there's the thing
that's you know when I did that, but the cheap cheddar it's
actually not even cheddar just powder.
It's just chemicals. It's it's sulfur.
Anyway, so coming in also from Pleasant Hill, California is
Robert Montoya. And I don't have a note from him. I looked I
searched on the on the email. If he has something to tell us. I
haven't you will feeling
that. Why don't you keep going? I have someone I thought that I
saw an email from him. Let me just tell Okay,
well, that could be could come here at some funny name. What is
his Yeah, like he might come in with something like Robert?
No. Well, I just looked at Montoya.
So I got here. I got a Robert. Hello, Adam. And John. I believe
this loving donation will elevate me to the prestigious
ranks of the no agenda knights roundtable. Is that this,
Robert? I would think so. But I don't see him on the list.
Well, hmm, what does he say what? Let's see what here's what
His email is on the Pay Pal. I guess I shouldn't give it out.
But let me see if it's a Gmail or their ad.
No, it's Yahoo. Is it
Bob something? No. All right. All right. Well, then we'll have
to fix it. Anything that's wrong. We'll do on Sunday, then.
You get a black night. Yeah. So Robert, get a hold of it. That's
the way to go. Well, we say you sent a note and then not really
send one so you can get a black
day. I've already discussed with guys who tried to pull that
way. People have been trying to scam us for that. Well,
I don't know why you want the black arrow I want to be a black
knight. And I explained to him what it takes, you know, and
it's like, oh when we genuinely make a mistake, an ex
and actually there's a whole back channel and there's like
arguments on email. It used to involve meanie it's really not
fun. These black knights. It's not it's not a not a fun
process.
We haven't had too many in the last six months.
We're trying to get away from it.
So boss, okay. Boss brew Nick's Blandings brown X enforced. Came
with 258 Indigo.
This is a second time in in as many shows, I think. I think
it's a mistake. But I don't see a note from boss. Okay, last, we
need modes. There's a little box you can fill out. It's cool. And
sometimes it says instructions. Anyway, those are our three we
have two executive producers, one Associate Executive producer
for the show. 539 I actually the two guys came in late. We always
only had boss. Period. Yeah. So
lucky. I'm sorry. Well, it gives us more time to talk about stuff
because we'll have a short donation segment as well. Look,
just looking at the spreadsheet.
Yeah, we didn't get a lot of no volumes down. Volumes down
volumes down. Well, let
me say in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
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yay, yay. Yay. Yay. All right. I got it. contender? You do I got
a contender for Clip of the Day Yeah, you
want to now you want me to hurt you later.
Hurt me later. Yeah, I want to now see what you're made of
Reggie Love.
Are you familiar with the no
not this name. We haven't heard it on the show for you should
measure brief people on it for what over I almost two years
yeah
Reggie Love was just like whom Aberdeen is Hillary Clinton's
body man Reggie Love is or was President Obama's body man which
means he pretty much does everything you call the
president sweet in the morning, he's going to answer the phone.
Of course, you know, there's there's always speculation about
these types of body men, you know, it's like, could it be a
little bit more you never know. We do know that he complained
incessantly about the President sitting in the in the beast in
the Presidential limousine that the President does not sweat.
And then he turn off the air conditioner and remember that
and Reggie loves like hand to do just like he's I think he said
he was like a reptile, didn't he? Or like a lizard?
I thought it was just Hillary I Never No, no, no,
no, this was Reggie Love when it was rare interviews. And he
said, Oh, man, this is crazy. The president you know cranks up
the or turns off the AC and he just sitting there but he
doesn't sweat. Now.
Yeah, Hillary doesn't sweat.
Ciao. Oh, gee, coincidence? I think not. Hello reptilians. To
Reggie Love is at some, like one of these conferences. And it's
one of these conferences where you have a little riser and the
audience is there. And you usually like to chairs table in
the middle. But it's not the Clinton Global Initiative. It's
not Davao, you know, it's just it's like a little University
thing. I may have been Davos, by the way, did I say what did I
say? Said done? Oh, well, if you've been and then you know
how to say Dubbo. I've been to double. I've been to Davao many
times, it's all about the breakfast. And Reggie Love is at
some college thing. And he's being interviewed. And of
course, he's not really noticing the camera in the back, I
presume. And he makes quite a stunning admission talk about
the day that Osama bin Laden was killed. Do you remember where
you remember? Of course he of course. I mean, I think it was
it was a very, very long day. We actually spent the entire day at
the White House. And probably, you know, typically like the
weekends, he's like, he'll work like a half day. And this
Sunday. I mean, we worked the I mean, we were there until almost
I mean, I think he went on TV at midnight, and almost midnight
and sat around in the private dining room. Kind of like most
people were like down in the Situation Room. He was like am I
can't I'm not going to be down here. I can't watch this entire
thing. I'm just so he myself. Pete Souza, the White House
photographer Marvin we played we must have played 15 Hands 15
games of spades. Who made a minute can mean he wasn't there
that picture where everyone's like staring and we're all like
it was intended to
be smelling your finger. Yeah,
that picture so he that he just wanted to clear intently. He
went in for the photo op and then went and played spades with
Reggie Love in the executive dining room all night.
That's pretty good. To be I know, Derby home have a clip of
the day. But I think the day needs a little more surprise.
Okay, well let's listen to I was hoping that was gonna win.
Here's the problem. You oversold it. Now you're right because I
expected Reggie Love to say something a little more
interesting. And then I kissed isn't too boring.
And then I kissed him and
kissed and then we did this this year. He plays spades What a
lame game is there playing poker a
lot to it? I mean just the the first of all what is spades?
What is the game of spades? Is that like the old me like
hearts only difference like old made it gets it gets a college
game. It's not even a really great game. It's um, let me
think what kind of
game not a good game. It's I think it's not a family
Hold'em would be. Yes, I'm sorry.
You're still Texas vulgar
strip poker.
Yeah. I found the hold statement to be bizarre. Who a that give
the president you know, he supposed to be like, yeah, when
we killed Osama bin Laden, he wasn't even in the room.
He's just up there playing spades. I don't know. It's I
found that to be disturbing.
Well, he didn't say I was playing Go fish.
And then this other comment which also does not jive at all
with what we've heard in the past, which I also thought was
kind of funny about the his birth certificate and also This
thing is about who we are who the president trusts in the
White House. Who does he most trust? And listen carefully
because I think words matter and and emotions matter. Most trust
I'm definitely his wife. I think she's, like a brilliant person.
brilliant person. And what is that? Like, she's a brilliant
person.
What was I'm taking the same thing.
Isn't that weird?
You play it again. Play it again.
Cuz it's like he's thinking like, he's thinking about
something thinking about something that
cracked him up. Nobody has
a nervous laugh is does he most trust? Most trust I'm definitely
his wife. I think she's, like a brilliant person. brilliant
person and, like space laughing about the brilliant person or
like she so? I don't know, either. But this is not
that we should keep that clip in abeyance? Because someone's
gonna come out about that. Something's gonna come. Yeah,
here we go tough. She's tough. I think within the staff, I think
probably either Pete Rouse or rally Jared. But probably one of
the one of those two. Did you say Pete Rouse. Like, hey, this
is I think that's his staff. Right. He's the head of staff,
and Rouse and then Valerie Jarrett. Of course, I remember
when he found he finally found his birth certificate. And this
is interesting. I remember when he finally found his birth
certificate a little too long. You come from your parents don't
live together and they travel all over the world. documents
get lost there really now. So so now I'm led to believe and I
have no reason to believe Reggie Love is lying. I really don't.
But now I have to believe that this I don't think we've heard
this before that the President had lost his birth certificate
that he couldn't find it. That's new information. And how do you
get through all of this without ever having to get Oh, yeah.
Parents get divorced documents get lost? Really?
Yeah, I think I think he's accurate. Well, yeah, you got a
bunch of really, you know, it's all over the place was kind of
keep dragging this. You know, I guess I think he's right. I
think he's dead on I think it's actually very accurate. I just
wanted to get my dad to birth certificates real or the birth
certificate, they lost in, say, Kenya on it. I mean, who knows?
You know,
what I want to go on record was something I think I mentioned to
you, outside of the broadcast at one point. And there's been a
number of books, movies and television episodes that I've
seen recently. That all and in, they were twins. And this is the
thing that keeps coming back to me is the two Obama's which is
your theory. And and I'm pretty sure we had a switch in June and
this is the other Obama. I'm thinking twins. I'm thinking
that was it. And that was the reason that the birth
certificate was complicated, because there was there were the
there were two. Just wanted to take birtherism to a whole new
level.
Yeah, I know. You had the you have been making the off Kent
off camera off. Yeah. Yeah. Backstage. By the way, I think
you should take a look at Pete Rouse, r o u s. E, and ask
yourself, look at his images and ask yourself why Obama trust
this guy. So I mean, this guy looks like a kind of guy looks
like a real guy. Don't use this word. Like like a douchebag.
Like a prick.
Doesn't need. Where's he from? Let me get Chicago. Oh, he's
known as? Hold on. Wow. Where's he from? Capitol Hill. Early
life New Haven, Connecticut. Okay. Huh? Japanese mother.
Interesting. London School of Economics, Harvard University,
Capitol Hill. He was with Dashiell Yeah, he looks like a
hard ass.
Yeah, totally. I wouldn't want this guy yelling at me.
Know on the wiki page has a picture of him. Yelling at the
President actually. You're not doing it right. Yeah, but he's
he looks like he's about five feet too.
He's very short. He's well no, he's no good. I think Obama How
tall is Obama?
Six one or six two? Yeah,
I think he's six to maybe higher
Hello Wikipedia people can we add a height and we weren't
height on these on this guy,
I'm guessing is 595 10 Oh, five, nine, maybe he's got a five
nine, build that little guy for that business. And he trusts
him. And Valerie Jarrett, of course was like, unpaid staff or
whatever she was, I don't know if she has a position
she is. She is the president we're talking about. She is the
physician. She's the actual person. Anyway, let's finish
this. And so he wanted to, he wanted to just like, have like
an impromptu press conference and walk in to the Press
Briefing Room in the White House and just like put it, the verse
on the podium. And everyone's like, that's a really bad idea.
Of course, he was like very gung ho about doing it. Why was it?
So? Why would that be a really bad idea? Yeah, no, that seems
like a really good idea. Like here, bitches. Here it is.
What's your problem? That would have been a really good idea.
Maybe the verse certificate needed some alterations
and some adjustments. Wait, let's just photo had me that
Barry. Let me photocopy that for a second. Don't worry. So that's
Reggie Love. I think Reggie Love is talking too much.
He's gonna have to be put down. Wow.
That's, that's pretty low. But, ya know, I found that to be, you
know, that's not the image I had of my president in either case
that he had lost his birth certificate,
a play spades all day, if you just said, Hey, look,
you know, my parents were divorced. It's, it's lost. I
mean, I gotta get a copy, whatever, I'll figure it out.
That would have been so much more believable. And then, here,
it is very
poorly hand.
I found it. It's in the it's in the box in the basement of the
White House. Right where I put it. Please. All right. It's
okay. This is all what you want to believe.
See what we got? I have a there's a couple of things going
on that I thought were interesting. One is, of course,
you have to meet everyone has to monitor our tea. Because, you
know, this is the last ditch effort of slamming the
administration on behalf of Putin,
and I'm getting very tired of monitoring our tea. Because
they're really taking attacked, which they have the wrong
attitude. You know what I mean? It
Well, that's because you watch Abby. Oh, no, no, I can't
watch the rst. Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, no,
I can't watch seven har T.
I turned it on. But it's just, you know, the host doesn't work.
The hosts are poor. They can read.
Tom, Psalm guy. He's terrible. And then they have Max Keiser
screaming at you. As though that was going, you know, Max Keiser
is max couch is the Kramer show Fast Money, loud money, whatever
it's called. And so he thinks that's the way you should act on
anything, which has anything to do with financials and so he
screams for no apparent reason. So he's an unwatchable. And then
they have these? I don't know.
Nobody had no, here's the here's the problem. I'm gonna say it
now. And then here's the problem I have. They come up with the
story. And it's an oftentimes it's things that we're looking
at. But then the way they handle the stories, they get some dude
on Skype talks for 10 minutes.
Yeah, this is like, right now does this. Yeah. It's like, I'm
not used to dizzied Yeah, some guy out of his mouth is going
one way something else is coming out. Yeah. It's horrible.
Yeah. But it's in 10 minutes, and it's a horrible shot. It's
not interesting to look at and you don't know who the people
are.
Right? And they did right. There are unknown jokers. Yes, the
Skype connection sucks and the guy doesn't know how to set up a
camera. So it's like a homebrew. It's very amateurish.
Exactly. Okay. There's my problem with it.
I don't Yeah, it's a big problem with democracy now, too. I have
the same problem with them. But let's say this so what they've
decided to do is they're gonna go after all our allies and
anybody that and make make it look like all kinds of horrible
things, because there's a nonsensical piece. That RT did a
hit piece on the Saudis, because they figure well, let's
embarrass Americans, because we're in bed with the Saudis. So
they so this came out
recent week, Saudi Arabia has launched an offensive against
anti regime activists.
So where did they get the English guy from?
This is one of the one of the many shows on RT and I I'm
annoyed by that
thing many and sentencing some two years in jail. The total
number of political prisoners has now surpassed 40,000.
According to some reports, the crackdown has even forced a
member of the ruining family to defect. RT Arabic spoke
exclusively to Saudi prince Khalid bin Farhan outsold who
accuses them on a key of corruption and silencing all
voices of dissent.
Okay, stop right there, stop, stop. So they bring this guy
down who's apparently member of the family, and we're all
family, we have to remember is about 30 to 40,000 people. And
they all get a piece of the action. And so this guy, instead
of wanting a piece of the action decides to break away and bitch.
And in the process, he talks about anyone who does what he is
now doing, they get killed. But there he is, he's got no,
there's no bubble over his head. There's no voice changer.
There's nothing. He's just standing there yakking away. So
this guy is obviously a shill. He probably is not a member of
the family and be honest about I don't think anybody in the
family knows who's
probably with Skype in Hoboken.
Well, that's a possibility too. But anyway, so we'll go on from
there. And then the government is obviously scared of the Arab
revolutions. And they've responded as they usually do by
resorting to oppression, violence, arbitrary law and
arrest. The easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your
salary or fire you altogether. The ruling regime is not guided
by justice. And this is especially true of the Ministry
of Interior. There is no independent judiciary, as both
police and the prosecutor's office are accountable to the
interior ministry. The ministry is officials investigate crimes.
They call them crimes related to freedom of speech. So they
fabricate evidence, don't allow people to have attorneys, things
like that happen all over the place. They even put people
under arrest for an indefinite amount of time. Even if a court
rules to release such a criminal. The Ministry of
Interior keeps him in prison, even though there is a court
order to release him. All right, so I listened to this and
thinking was his hit piece on the Saudis. I realized that's
not what they're up to. Being in the propaganda, the nation
that's really done a very good job of propaganda. This is not
about anything, but us rolled, all the references are parallel.
And so what you do is you roll out these parallel references
firstly, create this this Boogeyman. Oh, these guys are
horrible. And then you just discuss how horrible they are.
And so you discuss Oh, indefinite detention, court
ordered orders released, but they won't release them anyway.
All this is what we are doing at Gitmo and right, so this is an
interesting thing to start looking for when you're watching
RT, which is that this parallel? In other words, you do this is
not the same as guilt by association. But it's a kind of
a, which I gotten to a beef on Twitter about, by the way, but
you were this one guy there. Anyway, the it's, it's it's
create a parallel universe, it'd be very critical of it and have
a rationale for it being a horrible, but what you describe
is the United States,
let me ask you a question. So very cute, but who are they
trying to impress with this is? Are they trying to influence the
American public? Because as a media professional, you're not
hitting the mark, you're off with this? Who is this just a
politician so that we got the Russians going? Watch this
piece? They will hate it. You know, what is the point? It's
just a waste of bandwidth?
Well, you know, I think your point is well taken as the as
the term would be, I think they're just practicing. I think
that this our whole RT thing is just a bunch of test marketing,
see what sticks, see what catches on, they got a whole
24/7 to themselves. They put the weirdest stuff on. They just I
think they're testing and testing and testing because I
think they're so old fashioned by now, the Russians that they
will say, they have to experiment. Listen
here. Okay. I've been thinking about this for a while because
I've been, I've been evaluating what what Zucker is doing at
CNN, which by CNN, he's destroying it. He's he's doing
everything exactly wrong. And these are T guys they're doing
now we gave them early on, we gave them some tips and they
didn't follow up and now they've gone so far in the wrong
direction, that I think they should really turn up the roof
ski angle, they should get a couple of Netherwood Bridgette
Nielsen used to look like when she when she was young. And she
was really smoking hot. And they need to put one of those Russian
hats on her, you know, like the, like the bear hat with you the
military table saves this table hat. And yeah, and have the, you
know, the push up bra, and just have her with a Russian accent
just saying, God, these pigs, these American scum pigs, and
really just turn it up, you know, because I would watch
that.
I think you might be onto something and that here's let me
relate once the old story I think from 1996 So I'm first
trip I took to Beijing with a group of people from PC
computing. I'm there with Paul SummerSlam and others and we go
there we're kind of stunned because we've never been to
China. And and this is the middle of it. And you know,
there's no we both of us actually commented on this
because in 96 it was still Red China and all the rest and we
were looking for the bolt, you know, the giant, the giant what
we have in our country, that giant speaker system, the giant
voice system, the giant voices and we're expecting that there's
nothing like that in China and people were in the house now
people are wearing to Hawaiian shirts and not wearing those any
mouthing nothing. So he got to the point where we said Where
can we get a poster of mouth say doing or get one of those, those
those outfits that that crazy looking shirt they were? And the
first is of what are you nuts? Nobody wants that stuff. And all
those shirts were rounded up and sent to the peasants near the
border areas.
And you're looking and you're looking for souvenirs and you're
insulting. Yeah, yeah.
So I we finally got somebody to go into the library and get a
smile posters. We got some classics. But we got some
posters out of the country. But I was always thinking to myself,
why aren't they milking it? I mean, you can have you the
tourists are starting to come in. We were tourists, and we're
looking for my jackets, and then nothing. There was nothing. So
now they stood this day, they really aren't milking it the way
they could the Russians have a number of stereotypes. Of which
one is that is the heartbeat news. Yeah. And
so they could they could take, they could milk the stereotypes.
In fact, no, stop, stop, I stopped. This is what we're
going to do. I am now opening up the phone lines. Open I'm
opening up submissions for hot Russian chicks. And we will
write a story. And we'll just do one story. What in fact, we'll
know even better. We will take the exact Russia Today stories
as they've written them and just have a hot Russian chick with a
Russian accent. Just read it in your mind embellish a little
bit. You know, like let's see the imperialistic regime Obama,
you know, that kind of stuff. Right. That's it. They should be
doing this. And I would watch that'd be like, they need to be
confident. This is why Fox is winning. You see, because Fox is
not snide, and they're not like Neener Neener No, they're not
no watch Bill Bill Reilly
No, but they're not he's, he's beyond in. These are different,
really believes everything. But they're not really like Nene or
need anything like, you know, hey, here's the facts we're
reporting on. And by the way, do I have some killer legs or what?
Yeah, no, they got to leggy, chatty. Nailing at that cutie
that little cute girl that they use? Yes. Which administrative
Perino she's very pretty, and that's
nailing it because it's so you need to take a real and bio, I
think Fox News. They do approach stories from a news angle, and
people are tired of it. They're tired of your newspapers that
suck off politicians. And that just kowtow The New York Times
is trying this now they're trying a little bit, they're
pushing a little bit against Hillary. But that's not the the
DNA of the New York Times. That's Mark Thompson, that's mi
six who they've let creep in. The British intelligence is now
running this paper, British intelligence is running the
guardian. That's why people read these papers that British
intelligence is running the Daily Mail. And because of it,
they have a very can do journalistic attitude because
they have nothing but the enemy in their sight. And I think a
good journalistic outfit should see everybody, I think that's
how I how I approach it, although I don't want to call
myself a journalist, is you've got to, you know, whoever is
telling me something, you're the enemy, just from the get go, I
have to look at the opposite of what you're saying all the time.
And this is and this is how you will be successful because
people want to see the other side if they just want to be
jerked off. You know, there's plenty of plenty of places for
that. And that's what CNN is now trying to do. They just do more
than trying to make it prettier. And then Jeff Zucker, oh, we
have a new digital platform. Listen, I've been around the
internet for a long time. Nothing I've ever seen called
digital platform has ever been successful. Ever, ever. So I
think we could do it and you know what, sir Jean Baron of
DiMaria to share from Texas. He knows hot Russian chicks. So I'm
gonna I'm gonna have him recruit some he knows he knows all the
hot chicks in Dallas all the hot Russians and they speak Russian.
And they got the accent work and we're going to do the whole
thing. We're going to put the hat on a shipment Mickey can do
a green screen telling little Mickey can do this. Mickey can
look like Russian. I think we can make her a Russian What do
you think? Well, we
need to have real Russians. It's noticeable. She's not Russian.
Okay.
Yeah, you're right. What am I thinking when you real Russians
and just had
this and it's not like there's a paucity of them.
So and we'll do Russia tomorrow.
No, I think we should not that Harz, the pigs, imperialistic,
the pretender President Obama,
and that yeah, the pretender president, the fascistic, all
these words, you just gotta use it,
Oren and Obama. Yeah, and be a great show.
Always, always call them Barry Sottero is always President
Barry Sutera president, that's what they should do. And it
would be hilarious and you'd watch it and I bet you you could
actually get some real and you could get people interested in
giving you real information sneak
in some real good property guys.
So on that this Egypt thing.
Yeah, these guys you're right. There's Russian today guys are
completely lost a lost cause they get no numbers. Nobody's
watching this crap. That guys are boring. They're trying to do
too intellectual. And they got you know, their best bet is Abby
Martin who's just not you know, it's from
Oakland.
She's from Oakland. I mean, come on. Comrade Russian chicks all
over the country. They're all over the United States. There's
tons of them. Many of them came over as brides.
Yeah. The capitalistic scum of Berryessa Terrell's
administration.
Pac Man.
So what's your take on on what's happening here in Egypt?
Yeah, I've been trying I didn't get any clips on this. I may
have one one loan clip that has something to do with I watched
a lot I've read a lot. It appears to well first of all,
it's not Oh,
wait, wait. I do have one clip. I gotta get it'll be a good
little aside as we do it. This play the detained and beaten
clip part one, which is the one that's the one that says just
what No, there's no number. Yeah,
I gotcha. Can I play it? Sorry. It
was declared a month long state of emergency and imposed a
nighttime curfew on Cairo and 10 provinces. As night fell, police
announced they had taken complete control of the citizen
sites in Cairo. I said earlier that President Morsi had been
ousted in late June. It was actually early July. A short
time ago I spoke to Newsweek and daily business correspondent
Mike Giglio covering the dispersal of a pro Morsi site in
Cairo today. He was temporarily detained and beaten by Egyptian
security forces.
And did they have him on? Did they have him on have him on?
The casually detained and beaten thing kind of gets on? Yeah. Did
he have a black eye? Did he?
Well, they had him on a on a on an audio call, but play the
second part. And then I have a question as to the way they
handled these reports.
My Giglio Welcome to describe what you saw today at the camp
dispersal and and what happened to you.
So I was at the camp that robot before the crackdown even
started and I was there as the police vehicles rolled in. And
as police opened fire on the crowd. And we're standing on the
police lines, watching them shoot the tear gas at the
protesters and also watching them shoot live rounds, and you
guys are described. And after about an hour or so the police
seem to decide that they didn't want journalists, at least on
that side of the conflict. So they rounded up me and a couple
of photographers and they beat us after we identify as being
journalists. And then they detained us for about four hours
along with a number of protesters from the Senate.
Was there any warning this morning before they came into
the into the protest camp?
There wasn't. I got there around 6am. And yes.
The way it came across to me is like Are you a journalist? Yes.
Now, here's the question that comes immediately to everybody's
mind. What is it? This is definition of beaten? Yeah. Did
he get punched? Did he lose a tooth? Yeah. Did he get hit with
a with a baton? Was he beaten to death was he stomped and kicked
on the ground? Was he punched in the gut? Was he knee to the
groin? Was he slapped across the face? Was he given a throat
chop? I mean, what did happen was he was he suddenly flick his
nose constituted beating I don't know
Okay, so here's so I think there's there's definitely
something going on in Egypt and I have I have with some thoughts
about it. This reporter I think he might have been in his hotel.
He sounds like he's full of shit. Sounds like he's lying.
Like he's just making up a story and this is not beyond the
mainstream media to do that. No, no, I my I agree with you know,
admits with The Daily Beast if Oh, okay. Well, there you go.
He's, he's, he's staying at the Sheraton. He probably didn't
leave his hotel room. It just doesn't sound like that. Because
if I was there in the camp, and the police come in and start
beating me, can I be Looby pretty graphic, and I'd be
tweeting pictures and all kinds of stuff. I'd be bitching about
it. Yeah. What's the guy's name again?
I don't know. Don't care.
Well, I thought maybe there might be a picture of him.
A little beaten. Yeah, point. I'll look it up while you're
gone. Okay, so here's here's what I'm worried about. I
clearly this is not well, we know that we're trying to bring
in Ford now as our ambassador. What's his name? Ambassador
Ford, who was the ambassador to Syria.
Remember, the Fenty is part of the Ford family. Right?
Pretty sure. Now this works. Now this guy is
Robert for that. So don't go too far. There were several cops
punching and slapping me in the head. So I said, Okay, this is
the get to report in The Daily Beast. There is no picture of
him be there's no picture of him. But he's got a
picture of his face beaten up. You think I'm just said that's
what I would do. Maybe he thinks it's an journalistic or
something. I don't know,
whatever. Okay, go on your story. Okay, so
So President Obama is trying to is attempting to have Robert
Ford, become the ambassador to Egypt. Now Robert Ford, is
pretty well known. For his Who was the guy, the original guy
who had all the death squads in the in like the early days?
It'll come to me in a minute. But he's kind of a student of
this idea of policy by Death Squad. In fact, he was the
ambassador to Syria, and lo and behold, what do we have in
Syria? We've got, you know, terrorist and death squads that
I would argue have been put in there by American intelligence
services. So they want him to be a part of, of the Egyptian
system, what's going on? And I'm worried because to me, it feels
like what's happening now? Is not the Americans, and is not
the Russians. It feels like it's either a third party, which
could be if it's really some, you know, like some third
banking party or something, you know, like just real high level
people who just want to screw up the Middle East, then we're then
then I'm really worried about it.
What about the Brits? Yeah,
I don't think they have that kind of power anymore. I don't
think the Brits can do it can can get something like this
started. But it's apparent we've got Al Bara die, who was the
vice president of something he quit. Now we know he's an
International Crisis Group, guys. So you know, he's an
American shill. He's out. Everybody's jumping the ship?
And it could all it could also be that this is truly, you know,
what happens to countries when people have just had enough?
No, because that does happen. Yeah. And this revolution was
not caused by the CIA, right? And
you can look at this look very closely. This could happen in
America, and it may be a different version. I'm not so
sure about the military piece of it. But this this kind of stuff
could happen. You know, this, this is, this is one thing for
sure. This is not good. This region, and anyone who if this
whole if the Northern Africa and the Middle East, if all of that
destabilized this bad for everybody, it's really that will
result in no good.
Well, I I can understand Russian involvement with the help of the
Chinese maybe maybe, but it doesn't, just detracts, it takes
a little pressure off the Syria situation. I mean, I don't think
the Russians care much of all hell breaks loose in some
country that we've essentially controlled for all time, or at
least modern time or post World War Two. And the Russians, you
know, the whole place goes to pot like Lebanon, the Russians
could care. I don't think they care. Well, I
think I think they had to take
the pressure off their problems in Syria, because they're doing
the proxy war there. And they're like, Hey, you guys want to play
this way? We can do this. Let's see.
It seems like it would be to destabilize this region, which
houses a lot of the energy that the Texas based companies depend
on, really opens up for the Russians to do you know, they
just did a deal with LG, not Algeria. Beaucoup Azerbaijan.
They just did an oil and gas deal. And this was our this was
our turf. This is the Hillary Clinton went we had the
Eurovision Song Contest in, in, in Azerbaijan. We all were
supposed to own that. And now Putin walks in and he's done an
oil and gas deal with them. I mean, we're, we suck.
Well, something else is going to they're doing. The Russians have
got some sales thing going on that we don't. It's not bad, or
at least the two of us don't have a clue as to what it is
what seems very simple, John, it seems like they have all the
other routes outside of the Middle East. They've got
everything going through. You know, the the caucuses to
Georgia, the Black Sea, the you know, everything runs through
Turkey it's all Russia, Russia, Russia, everything that comes
south of Turkey from from the Middle East, it's a mess. It's a
mess. The Mediterranean is going to be a mess. And that's where
that's where it all you know, we're all our companies or
that's the way I see it. It's maybe simplistic. Maybe it's
just that's just simplistic. I don't know. But what if Egypt if
that
doesn't calm down your Bhaijaan thing is kind of weird. I have
to say, Well, that wasn't that supposed to be ours? I would
think Yeah. Huh, no, no. Well, this Egypt thing is so it should
shake out to the point where we can figure it out. I mean, right
now, just like just random rioting everywhere. And if I
see another CNN journalist ducking for cover on camera and
come on. Do your story from the Sheraton. Just give me some
information. None of this like well, it was really scary. I get
it. Putin is visit designed to discuss a wide range of
bilateral issues including trade, energy, transportation
and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Rosneft that's their
company reported that it also agreed with the state oil
company of Azerbaijan to jointly use pipelines and terminals to
optimize supplies to consumers. That would be Europe hello hello
consumers of Europe.
Consumers in Europe ah
that guy's smart guys very smart.
So I find it interesting couple of clips about talking about
foreign stuff so John Kerry Waterson head Jews stories that
came up one of them just typical democracy now dead pan report.
But the other one I thought was funny, this was this my last AR
T clip, which is that you know, they these guys again are trying
to do stuff by being coy and intellectual and cute. And I
thought this was was kind of cute. But this is the way this
just this was a longer report about Carrie and what he's up to
buy one of these does the fat bald guy that's on our T and and
it's and he just throws this in as a descriptor. And I thought
this was like Okay, I'm getting this I get it. I get it. Just
the carry assumes a clip. Be massive NSA snooping revelations
have cast a shadow over John Kerry's trip to Latin America.
His first visit there since he assumed the position of
Secretary of State
assumed the position of Secretary of State was That's
funny. That's funny. I know. Was that our tea? Yeah. So imagine
we've got this hot chick, right. And she's got the boobs and
she's got I think she has a fur coat with nothing on underneath
it. But it's cool. It's closed.
Some slinky seal. Okay, okay, whenever
the slinky but I did want the hat with the red star on the
front. Kennedy who assumed the position of Secretary of State
from that madwoman something like that. From Mr. Hillary
Clinton just say stuff like that it would be funny. I'm telling
you it ratings through the roof they will be outraged. There
would be congressional hearings about yes, there would be
congressional hearing can you imagine NPR would be playing
clips of RT that just why don't people why can't we get a gig
consulting these people?
We should I think we could make that network just saying
we know enough Russians.
The Russians themselves are too. They're there. They haven't got
the guts to actually be themselves. We can help where
they drink and all the time.
Yeah, and then we can get just get vodka sponsors the whole
time. Oh, just all vodka. Vodka and caviar.
One after another. And we have all vodka.
We get like Jay Z and Kanye and and all these guys to have their
own vodka brands promoting it. And Diddy. Yeah. Oh kidding me
be great. All right. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to
me. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay, here
we go. So meanwhile, here's the story that came out this was
under report on demotion now but John Kerry the other carry clip.
I just want to I can't believe when I heard this. I couldn't
believe it. Because this is like seems to me to be grounds for
firing the staff. Because you can't you can't run a sec
Department of State. When you hear this clip, you get you
listen to you go. How screwed up is our government.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism says last month saw
three US drone strikes carried out in Pakistan the highest
December since January. Last week Secretary of State John
Kerry told Pakistanis in a TV interview, President Obama had a
very real timeline for ending the strikes. But the State
Department's own spokespeople quickly contradicted him. Jen
Psaki said in a statement, there was no exact timeline while
Marie Harf said quote in no way would we ever deprive ourselves
of a tool to fight a threat if it arises.
Who didn't read the memo?
Wow. That is so humiliating for Kerry. He says something. You
know, Chris is a blowhard. So who knows? He may have made it
up. Yeah. Which I've actually believe he might have just I
don't know, I'm convinced he's just talking out of his
butthole. And they're they're actually trying to cover up for
their boss and make it you know, fix it.
That has to be it because this is insubordination. Otherwise,
you know, you've made your major these
have. This guy is just
I think he's an idiot. Yeah. Well, I
mean, he's obviously not a super idiot, but
I'm not sure of that. Yeah.
I don't think he has the I don't know. I don't know. He's over
there playing nice. He's an actor. He's an actor. He looks
the part. He's got the yacht, you know, he should have been
President. This is his problem. He that's why he still signs his
name, John F. Kerry, you know, he, he he wanted to be president
from the day he popped out of the womb. And it's worked out
that way for
it looks like again at so just the last part of this there. To
follow up on that story. Democracy Now went on with the
drones in the double tap, which I just think I wanted to play
just for informational purposes. So
yeah, Guerrero has also released new evidence the CIA targeted
rescuers last year at the scene of prior drone strikes in
Pakistan, conducting so called Double Tap strikes, and in some
cases may be considered war crimes. The reports are the
latest sign there's been little change in the Obama
administration's covert drone wars, despite pledges in recent
months for reforms, including greater transparency.
Of course, one of the reasons we want to keep secrets in this
country is because the I think these are war crimes, you can
say
it's okay, you can say corporation or company, it's the
same thing. It's registered.
And the we've had other clips that indicate, you know, if
you're in the CIA, and you're driving the drone around, and
you're killing people, you're not protected by the same laws
and protect the military. So you're subject to murder. Yeah.
Charges. Yes. And I would be very I've, I think they should
get out of that game.
Out of the murdering game. I've been asking about this a long
time, the murder. The murdering gets a good idea, John, the
murdering game. Now before we thank our relatively short list
today of producers and supporters, the program, we have
been kind of waiting for this to happen. And it came through now
we've been looking at the media shield law, which everyone seems
to be on board with, including the guys from freedom of the
press, foundation.org, calm slash whatever.
We looked at their paperwork, right. Yeah.
And, you know, it's who was a Glenn Greenwald is any jar Dan,
the Ellsberg, but also Laura Poitras? And who's that other
guy? Your buddy? Yeah, my buddy. All my buddies are there. So
yeah, and, of course, the EFF guy. What's his name? Barlow,
Barlow. So on the books is, and I believe we've read this. If
not, I put a copy in the show notes. shownotes. Just in case.
Let me just bring it up. Here it is. Where's it I put it under
Ministry of Truth when we go? is Senate Bill 987. And I'll just
give you the title of it, just so you know, media shield law.
And of course, we know that this is fundamentally
unconstitutional, because the First Amendment says, Congress
shall make no law regarding the freedom of the press or freedom
of speech, so having a law is unconstitutional. So this s 987,
which was drafted by Chuck Schumer and Graham they're poor
Lindsey, Lindsey and Chuck. They introduced it in May and it is a
bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by
providing conditions for the Federally compelled disclosure
of information by certain persons connected with the news
media. This Act may be cited as the enemy to the Go, the free
flow of information act of 2013. How Orwellian does that sound?
It's all Orwellian. These two creeps put together a horrible
piece of legislation that everyone thinks is great.
And so in this world, the worst part is the amendments that have
now been put in, but in the original legislation,
essentially. So we're not going to spy on you, we're going to
let you go, or no, wait a minute, we're not going to tell
you we're spying on you. Unless, whatever we think you're doing.
My might know, we might need to know about it to reasonably
necessary stop, prevent or mitigate a specific case of
death, kidnapping, substantial bodily harm, or conduct that
constitutes a criminal offense and a specific offense against
the minor or if it's about national security. So pretty
much we're just going to continue to spy on you. And
we're not going to tell you and we're going to force you to give
us your your sources, etc. will throw you in jail. Now all of
this legislation is already crappy. But then we have you
know, this is now going through committee. And now we have a
year buddy out there in California. Yay, the People's
Republic of Feinstein. And Feinstein has added an amendment
John, and this. Did you have a meeting with her by any chance?
No, she wouldn't have taken a meeting with me. As she added
a couple of things find season that she did. Her amendment now
provides three definitions of what a journalist is. I'll open
up the Red Book and cross this one off. Okay. So in order to be
protected under the media shield law, which by definition is
unconstitutional. And this is coming from a disc jockey Hello,
I'm a DJ. You can only be protected by the media shield
for the free flow of information if you are working as a salaried
employee, independent contractor or agent of an entity that
disseminates news or information, which covers the
CIA, by the way. I love how they threw that in there.
You know, there's a little gotcha in there too. That's even
more interesting. What's that word? salaried. salaried? Yeah,
most people are contractors, what they say whatever they say.
Nobody except the editors.
You didn't hear me it said salaried employee, independent
contractor. Okay, or agent of an entity that disseminates news or
information. This is your your, your your podcast license coming
up. Okay, meaning the prior definition. Okay, you have to in
order to qualify as a journalist, John, you have to
have yet to meet the prior definition for any continuous
three month period within the two years prior to the relevant
date. By having substantially contributed as an author,
editor, photographer or producer to a standstill is a word. Yeah.
significant number of articles, stories, programs, it
gets a word Yeah.
But yes, it's a word. What do you what are you saying?
Well, what if you just want if you wrote one long piece? Well,
that would have been one short piece that was just dynamite. I
won a Pulitzer but you but that's not enough. That's no,
that's not significant journalism, programs or
publications by an entity within two years prior to the relevant
date, or if you're working as a student journalist,
participating in a journalistic publication at an institution of
higher education. This is a
student journalist and can be covered by this bullcrap law,
which is useless anyway. But you can't be a blogger. Correct.
You're not a blogger. You can be a blogger, no matter what their
credentials is not a journalist.
You can be a blogger but you won't be a journalist and
therefore you will not be protected by the shield. Because
you shield doesn't protect you and you don't have the cloak.
You don't have the cloak around you Feinstein's cloak of
protection, so you can have free flow of information. Gubbels is
smiling.
She is such a douche and an idiot. I could tell the story
again, but I won't
let me ask you a question. With all of this, with with with this
going on. But more importantly, what's going on with with the
revelations about spying etc. Where is the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and all of this? Where are they? Are they out
there? are yelling, are they at press conferences? Are they
suing the government? Are they really doing their job? Well,
let me ask you do who do they really work for?
I have no idea.
Well, let me help you to answer this because I pulled them to
write a column about this. By the way, well, let me give you
some information, you can go to the show notes.
No matter how many columns I write, even though I can write a
column a date will never be significant. It's never
significant or substantive. It's not enough because there's only
one little percentage, not
significant. So I pulled their form 990 of the EFF. Because I
wanted to know now of course, there are 5013 C corporations,
so they don't have to list their donors, which is always fun. And
I got the list here to how much money do you think they raise?
In 2011? More than we did? Yeah. Just have a guess. $10 million.
Cool. Now? Not quite seven, almost eight $7,910,000. Okay,
now you can contribute to the EFF by donating money. How much
do you think they made on that?
From donations? Yeah. Well, so they use a different number. Is
it a subset of the first number? Yeah, so there's two numbers.
So the three numbers, the $8 million 7.9 Is their overall
2011, which by the way, is triple from three years ago?
That is that's their their overall revenue?
And then, so this number you're asking me for is a subset of
that number?
Correct. So we have, so I'm going to break it down into two
separate numbers. One will be the because this, this is how
they split it up the amount of money they received from
members. So when you go on the website and say, hey, I want to
donate to you, because I think you're doing a great job, you
become a member. And then they have grants and gifts, which is
from foundations, and corporations, but not disclosed
on their 990. Because they don't have to by law. So that's okay.
They don't have to do it. So what do you think the breakdown
is of that?
Well, because you are asking, I'm assuming that the the the
number of personal contributions is less than a million. Now it's
a little over a million, just just a tad around a million,
it's just a tad over a million. And all the rest is gifts and
grants. And they do not well, they have their report from you
know, through 2010, when their revenues were about less than
half of what they are now. And in that case, they're saying,
Well, you know, here's a couple of couple of foundations, etc.
Let me see what they say. corporate contributions. 2010
was less than half a million. But so now it's, you know, it's
in the millions of dollars. And the question is, who are they
working for? Do they work for Apple? Do they work for Google?
You know, do they work for the the minority of people who
donate it to their cause? This isn't asked John guessing.
I'm guessing just so I don't have any idea. But I'm guessing
I'll bet you that if you dug into and found the big donors, I
bet you're Google's at the top of the list. I
think you're right. And I think they should disclose that. By
the way. I'd like to know who they don't know. They're not
really.
They should. Why wouldn't they?
Because I
know. I mean, they know I don't think anyone's ever asked them.
But if they if you ask them. I'd like to hear what their reasons
for not doing it. Here, let me give it to you. Yes. Me. I'm
Yes. We're here at they pray to Mr. Curry. You have a question?
Yes. I'd like to know. Who do you what corporations? It seems.
Is Google maybe giving you a lot of money? Oh,
we do we have a policy of not disclosing the corporations
because they've asked us not to and why
is that? Why have they asked you not to? They are
private. They're people who do not they respect your privacy
and we respect your privacy.
Okay. Wow. Thanks. Hey, thanks for your press conference. That
was great. Can I now get out and I have my Google Glass now in my
goodie bag
all right. I here's I got a little thing for and then we
should thank our this lava bit thing.
You wouldn't love it.
Yeah, no, I'm not I don't like this because, you know, this,
these this these things are happening and whenever Glenn
Greenwald is around, and by the way, I'm not anti Glenn
Greenwald specifically but I think that he's part of a cabal
that is trying to make certainly the Obama administration look
really, really bad. And but I don't think he's doing it really
in a journalistic fashion. He's just saying stuff. You know,
like I spoke to Edward Snowden and he said this Snowden told me
this, Mr. Snowden said that, you know, there's it's like, you
know, why doesn't Snowden like
it's like a guy didn't use it his wife, my wife. Yeah, go out.
Exactly. Yeah, you know what we can't you don't want to go out.
So you blame it on your WHY
CAN'T Snowden like, you know, write a blog or something, you
know, or what, you know, whatever. Just, why is it always
Glenn? Apparently, the
Russians told him to shut up. Well, then,
well, that that makes me even more suspicious. makes me even
more suspicious. Right. Okay. So so you know, and the main reason
is when and there was actually a little Twitter thing going on
that I got sucked into, and I got out of where some, you know,
it was it was about the lie that the Bolivian president's plane
was forced down, we have the, the audio they asked to land
with a bogus reason that their fuel indicator was off. And then
this, like this person on Twitter is like, Well, then why
did France and why did Spain apologize? And first of all, is
like the would like the country put on its Facebook. We
apologize now. It's like some Ambassador somewhere said, but
we really apologize that something happened. But they all
say this in the reports from Reuters and AP. They all
specifically say but they deny that they refused. entrance into
the airspace.
Yeah, except for Portugal. Well, I haven't read Portugal,
Portugal says that they somebody told them apparently us that
Snowden would be on board and it would have caused some sort of
mess. I haven't
seen that one. I haven't seen that
yet. But they apologized. Yeah, ya know, in general, in general,
that, you know, this was a bowl crap thing, you know, the plane
was not forced
down. Right. Okay, so, but these things get into the, into the
lexicon, and they get into the alternative. Because no one
trust the mainstream media now, even though that's where most of
this comes from. And then people that's true, it's that gangrene
well said so. So the whole idea of this lava abyss now we got
this lava bit which shut down? And the general consensus is it
shut down because Edward Snowden was using it as email and they
got a national security letter to turn over the goods. That is
if you ask anyone on if you go on Twitter right now and say
why? That's what they'll tell you. Yep. I think there's a
different thing going on here. And but the guy was on Democracy
Now with his lawyer. And this is this two minutes little long and
the clip here. But at a certain point, the question is actually
asked NSA leaker Edward Snowden recently described your decision
to shut down love of it as quote, inspiring. Now, I want to
say he did not say this. As far as I know, he apparently told
Glenn Greenwald this, but just want to make sure that we're on
the level with what's who's saying what here or how things
are coming into play. For a journalist who I agree lives in
Brazil, he told
the Guardians Glenn Greenwald, quote, America cannot succeed as
a country where individuals like Mr. Leveson have to relocate
their businesses abroad to be successful. And there was never
any mention of relocating his business abroad. So I don't
understand why he would say this. I'm very skeptical about
the nature of this quote, employees and leaders at Google,
Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple and the rest of our
internet Titans must ask themselves why they aren't
fighting for our interest the same way small businesses are.
The defense they have offered to this point is that they were
compelled by laws they do not agree with, but one day of
downtime for the Coalition of their services could achieve
what 100 Lovitz could not. Snowden went on to say, quote,
when Congress returns to session in September, let us take note
of whether the internet industry statements and lobbyists which
were invisible in the lead up to the Conyers Amash vote emerge on
the side of the free internet or the NSA and its intelligence
committees and Congress. You know, the Snowden guy's a lot of
time on his hands to formulate this.
There's a couple of things here one, if it's a sink, if it's a
quote from a secondhand source, and it's and it wasn't derived
from a press conference or someplace where other people
have heard the quote, it's not a quote, you have to say, As
quoted to
that's that's what she said as she said, she said, she said,
Keep told Glenn Greenwald. That's what she said
the beginning but then these other quotes, I don't know,
okay, I'll let her slide on it.
But not very far. Because I feel there's no questioning about
this. This guy, Hey, she the guy lives in Brazil works for a
British newspaper. Are we insane to believe everything that comes
out? And by the way? I think it's funny because I like the
fact that this is anti Google, anti big Silicon Valley
companies. But I think the We have to look a little bit
further than just some dude.
whistle blowing. In fact, I think most of the public gets a
kick out of this. Yes. But but but it doesn't mean it's
accurate, true or or even something, or even positive in
some bigger sense and may not be
and and I will take the other side for a moment and say we
should be wary of other countries and journalists from
other countries attacking us. Just you know, you said we have
to be aware of what's going on now. Let's continue. le dar. You
are the service provider for Edward Snowden. Now this says
she's asking a rhetorical question almost. Because this is
the this is the mean. I believe that's correct. Oh, okay. He
doesn't even say I didn't know him personally. Oh, it seems
like the report was he was just tucked into it. Let's listen to
what he says. Listen to what he says. You talk to Albert a
little bit, and
that's okay. I do it all the time this provider for Edward
Snowden.
I believe that's correct. Obviously, I didn't know him
personally. But it's been widely reported. And there was an email
account bearing his name on my system.
Okay. Is he dead?
I don't think so. I didn't know
him personally. Yeah. The way it is the way he's answering the
question. I don't know him personally, because I didn't
know him personally when this bruise was set up has been made
well aware of recently.
Okay, so read in is another way of putting down right
now. Now listen to the questions here. Glenn Greenwald also
wrote what is particularly creepy about the lava bit self
shutdown is that the company's gagged by law, even from
discussing the legal challenges, it's mounted and the court
proceeding its engage. In other words, the American owner of the
company believes his constitutional rights and those
of his customers are being violated by the US government,
but he's not allowed to talk about it. Greenwald goes on to
write quote, justice is true for people who receive national
security letters under the Patriot Act. Lavabit has been
told they would face serious criminal sanctions if they
publicly discussed what is being done to their company.
Okay, so now she's gone into a gray area where she is I don't
even know if she's quoting Snowden, written by Greenwald or
just Greenwald, himself talking. So she she sets this whole thing
up. It's all about what the Guardian newspaper published
about love a bit. What is the obvious question? I don't know.
What is the obvious question is Is this true? Die? Yeah,
that's the obvious question is obvious. Yeah. What
is she? What does she ask?
Dr. Levinson? Why did you start off with it? What is that all
about?
The whole thing that she sets his whole thing up, and then why
did you start? Why did you start Lavabit
that I've given you tip of the day for that,
not one accept it. I won't accept it. It's good. It's not
good enough. But here's, here's the thing you need to know. So
this all happens in July. And so the guy clearly has no idea if
this is because of Snowden, but he's got all kinds of hassle.
And if you actually dig into it, ah, gee, man, it turns out that
there's something else going on in on June 10. of 2013. A search
warrant was executed against Lavabit user Joey 006 ad love of
it.com for alleged possession of child pornography. I'm thinking
this this guy, you know, he had to shut down because the whole
thing was rife with pedo bear crap. Yeah. Could be and he had
to shut it down. And it's a handy excuse to say, Oh, well,
you know, it's because he never
says for one minute that he note knew that Snowden was on this
thing. Greenwald is the one who said it. And made the just
bullcrap Connect. Yeah, the whole thing. This is a bogus
Story Complete. Nonsense that no one's reporting on. You're
probably right. It makes sense. They've been going after pedo
Barisan to an extreme. Yeah. And so they went in there with some
not may have not even been a national security letter. I
mentioned that in some tweet, Twitter and, and Declan Macola
from CNET who covers all this stuff. He says, now as bullcrap,
it could be a number of things and he sends me this huge
document of all these government doc these all these government
subpoenas and other things that all have gag orders in them,
it's like, right could be anything that they gave the guy
right and it could have been a warrant or information regarding
pedophilia for all we know. So they don't know so this guy has
ever said right
now. So this guy, he's clearly being used for this. Clearly. He
seems like a nice guy, you know, he started something and you
know 2004 With a couple Love buddies and it grew into this
now and they're like, uh, yeah, it's it's cool. It's like a
little service. I'm all for it, you know, it's all good. And it
became a real hassle. He's like, Oh man, I gotta shut this down.
But he's being misused. And this is where I come back to. I can I
can feel it John, I can feel that there are forces really
really working real hard and Glenn Greenwald is, is probably
willingly a part of this. And it's not it's just not news
reporting anymore. It's a it's a full on attack. And I'm not sad
because it's it's fun.
Great fun for us especially
but I do want to point out that there's that something is going
on here. This is no
I'm not gonna argue that this is a good possibility. Did you see
that New York Times piece and about Laurel fortress is hanging
on to the piece was bad. Yeah, because it was just it was
appalling. You know, it was just terrible. And but it didn't, you
didn't you could glean some cool stuff out of it. Like the fact
that Poitras is in Brazil, hanging out in her desk and
looking like the legacy is, yeah, like a spook and that
photo is totally a spook photo, like his handler, and then when
you start deconstructing everything that's in that story,
which is everyone can go read in the New York Times you started
taking pieces out of it, because there's information in there.
This is a whole thing sounds phony.
Well, let me let me did I just follow that for a little bit,
you know, and there's a great Reddit thread about Poitras
showing up she was embedded with some troops and then she
disappeared off the radar and then all sudden you know this
this unit got ambushed and but she was there with the camera. I
mean, it's very very sketchy stuff but I was looking at her
film production unit and it lists a number of donors to her
to her her documentary company and one of them is the mental
foundation and you know me it's like I do what do we what does
that work called
again? Falling into a rabbit hole yes
that's it I was I fell in love and so I look up the mental
Foundation which is essentially a just a front for a rich
family's money. It even says you know, like we know this is the
managing their assets, but it seems it says specifically
please note the foundation is not involved in any charitable
activities. Its primary purpose is to support by contributions
other organizations exempt others go to the top it is it's
the Robert and Joyce mental foundation m e n S H E L and C.
So she she says that she received a grant from them but
they say they don't give out grants to directly to people
they only do it through other foundations and I can't find her
as a nonprofit foundation. So it stinks just stinks
well this takes us back to Okay back to Egypt What about Israeli
intelligence?
Well yeah yeah I'm I'm way down with that. You know when you see
a Egyptian police and they have gear that says police on it,
which is not the Arabic word where they get rice from you
know, the Who Who are these Jabra Ionis you got to think
that the money's coming Well, we know a bit Hey, we send them a
billion dollars a year I think it totally could be Israeli
intelligence the Israelis could be totally responsible for this
Yeah, they saw where things were headed with this guy this
mercies of goes show wolf in sheep's clothing you know
helping them a little bit here and there but as a long term
loser for the Israelis they're always having to deal with these
Palestinians already decided to screw it screw the place up.
They they're right next door, they got better assets in place
than we ever would you know, and they go off the reservation all
the time. There was a sense of jets over Syria we did I'm
absolutely sure nobody in the American Services approved of
not blowing up of a bunch of stuff inside Totally agree.
So anyway, so kind of bring this all around. It's very
interesting to watch. It's clearly just be careful who you
champion, you know, be careful who you're becoming before you
know it, they'll turn around and they'll fuck you. Because it's
just not so cut and dried to me.
Yeah, Well this this isn't it anyway, so that New York Times
article I still think is worth really looking at and
deconstructing and trying to figure out what information you
can get out of it because it is kind of a puff piece. But it's
not a normal puff piece. It's a we and as long
it's a positioning piece. Yeah, yeah. It's and it's not that
different from the piece that was written by Let me see who
wrote this. I didn't check on that. Peter moss. See who is
this guy Peter moss? Is he a shill?
I looked at his I've reached
my limit of 10 complimentary articles this month. Sorry,
can't read it. No. Oh, that goes to show
subscription.
Not gonna get a subscription. Screw those guys. Propaganda.
Peter moss author and journalist.
Let's see is it the same Peter moss
he wrote crude world love thy neighbor.
This is this is this the Peter we know that Peter masa that was
a great writer that we're at Serpico the valachi papers and
all this died. So he's dead. So that's
that's not him. This is this is the it's Peter moss.com Double A
double S. I am right I am a writer publications I have
written for include the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker
foreign policy, and the New York Review of Books. I wonder I
wonder what this guy's all about. About a boot. A boot
Peter mine
has the extra s on his name to differentiate him from the
Peter.
It's the extra s for savings.
For more P there'll be at least 10 people in the audience that
will get
it really so he's been around. He's he's he's been around. He's
done a lot of stuff he's covered. He could be spooked by
the way.
Yeah, no, it's always anyone can be a spook.
Well, listen, he was writing for the New York Times International
Herald Tribune covered NATO and the European Union 87 moved to
Seoul, South Korea, I could ask Don about this guy. If I screw
it, I bet you thought he worked for Don. I wrote primarily for
The Washington Post totally. After three years in Asia, I
moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans
is independently wealthy.
So you can move around like this
spend most of 92 and 93 covering the war. And it's funny that the
giveaway for
spooks is going around, they're moving around too much. They
never put them in I mean, except for a couple of these guys that
are not they're already outed as spooks would. What's his name?
Woodward. Woodward is outed in that in that bush book. And so
they're already out so they don't move them around much.
Just put them in place and crank out stuff here for us. And but
these other guys are always there here. And there's always
these hotspots, you know, there.
So here's here's one of the books he wrote. man hunt. Oh,
no, that's the other Peter moss. Sorry, that's the wrong one.
That's the that's the the original novelist yet. Is Peter.
I just I just Googled is Peter Moss, a CIA agent? Sometimes you
can get lucky on that stuff. All right. Well, we'll have to save
this for Sunday. Oops, what did I do wrong here? Hold on a
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the roundtable of the Knights and the dames. Yeah, hey, there
was another thing I was a couple other things I was looking into,
I want to go down or not dawned on her to you thought it was bad
here. But in New Zealand, it's been you know, they have a lot
of bringing a new law onto the books. And it's, let me see what
the exact name of it is. It's like the it's basically a spy
program. And the spy program is called the GCSB, which is like a
government crap spying bureau. I can't remember exactly what it
is. And the New Zealand is small. I mean, how many people
live in New Zealand? You know, offhand, John, it's not a lot.
I think it's a 5 million, maybe it's pretty small. So look it
up. Okay, you
consult the book of knowledge on that. So the prime minister, his
name is John Key is kind of under attack for this. Because
you know, just because there's a lot of sheep, and there's only a
few people. They're really switched on down there. And
they're like, Hey, hold on a second. This is not okay, what
you're doing. You can't just go spying on us. And there's this
or this, like, point 5 million, 5 million. So this is
legislation that's been written. And now it's, you know, it's
been changed and amended. And essentially, the way I
understand it, the Prime Minister of New Zealand has
hired one of his buddies as the judge who will determine if you
can be spied on, and then that judge determines if there's
gonna be a warrant and it's cross checked by the Prime
Minister himself. So it's the whole thing. Obama and his death
list exactly what it sounds like. So there's a here's an
interview, and here, here's the here's the question about these
warrants
decide the security. Yeah, okay. So that under cyber security for
sadoff GCSB. A has to get a warrant from WHO? Okay, so the
warrant, like all warrants is the same as the warrants face is
from have to be signed by the commissioner of security
warrants, which is a retired high court judge appointed by
who by me has been here was the other person who signs a
warrant. Okay, me, you and the person that you've appointed.
Okay, so that was just a little warm up. But this guy, you think
that that Obama is bad? You think that the you know, the
Republican leadership are a bunch of elitist pricks? We had
nothing on this on the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Listen
to this woman asking about this program, and how he feels the
new the population of zoot New Zealand, kiwis, as they'll say
themselves in this interview, or press conference? how low he
thinks of them,
the GCSB bill fundamentally, and incredibly changes the powers of
the GCSB. Within New Zealand, you may think that's a good
idea. You might think that's a bad idea. But the Prime Minister
suspects you don't actually care at all. That's what he told
Rebecca right at the National Party conference over the
weekend. Minister, we are doing a state of the nation this week.
With regards to the GCSB bill. How do you switch to snapper?
More people watch cable light, but it's up to you? Well, how do
you think that Kiwis feel about the bill? I think they're much
worse than snapper quota.
Are you hearing what he's saying? Yeah, you saying I think
the people are much more interested in the snapper quota.
I eat how much snapper you can catch. But I'm not gonna make
the same request. I'm talking about the GCSB. But how do you
think that they feel about the GCSB. But
I'm much more interesting Stanford quote. Why? Because
they like catching fish. As opposed to well, they can see
that either a they're fed a lot of information through
information they see which is just incorrect. But most New
Zealanders understand that actually there is the need for
the GCSB. They accept the government's perspective that
there's a narrow focus to that. And they accept that this bill
is improving oversight, but many of them will get a bit confused
by experts that tune up on your show that aren't really experts
and actually don't know what they're talking about. Will you
turn up
on our show and tell New Zealanders what you're talking
about with regards to this bill? On Monday week when we bring the
results back? Probably not Let's sanctimonious
praying and then here's an explanation okay, because we
have to dumb it down because you know, people only care about
fishing in New Zealand, you stupid Kiwis with your snapper.
Just go catch fish. Don't don't if you're on the internet, don't
worry, just catch fish. And the government is here to help you.
So what happens under that provision is if the GCSB wanted
to provide cyber security support to an agency, let's take
IRD and its facility. Okay. So that's the provision under which
again, they have to go through that process of getting a
warrant by the inspector or by the commissioner by me subject
oversight of the Commissioner, I go to the inspector. Okay, fine.
So that's the first thing you have to do you know what happens
under that they cannot look at the content of anything in
there. All they can do is protect you so it's against
malware, or against the virus so you have on your computer, let
me finish because it's a really important people understand
this. So on your computer at home, you will almost certainly
have Norton Antivirus where you have some sort of anti virus
thing that you've downloaded and paid money for. That is exactly
what that is at a much higher level. I
think we should adapt the same messaging it's like Norton
Antivirus NSA Norton's antivirus security agency the disdain
skies unbelievable. They should vote that guy out or do they or
does he
was a parliamentary system so did public doesn't necessarily
vote right right right right they vote like parties and they
vote the party and and then the party puts what I would take
that entire party you know what they should do this this should
be their leader and I would take I don't know which party that
is. But let's take a look and find out what
what is key John Key know what they should do? That one guy
should go up behind him and pretend like you're tying your
shoe and then someone else should push him That's what I'd
be doing. What a dick. Sorry, y'all Kiwis down there? No one
and you got to be careful man. I think the Kiwis can get rowdy.
Well, my goodwill angry I'd be careful John Key. Yeah, Kiki,
what ke y
is like, looking at his picture. He looks like an idiot.
Now now is now now we don't make fun of appearances here on the
no agenda show.
We do all the time.
Okay, then there's that
was the fifth national
it must be the something or other party. It's a bunch
of parties that have combined because they gotta guess it
couldn't get a confidence and supply party with the ACT New
Zealand party with the United Future party with the mayor Tory
Party. He is in the town. He's a MP in a town called Helensville.
And he's been in there since 2008.
Wow, okay. Well, hey, you get the government you deserve.
Let's see where Helensville is.
It's your turn left to the sheep.
Helensville was the middle of nowhere it looks like here's his
office. It was so shack he's got his electorate offices a shack.
today. Well,
listen, producers in New Zealand keep fighting this guy. Keep
fighting this because this is bullcrap. And how this guy
talks,
he says that you're an idiot. The topic is international. His
party is the national party. That's the party you vote
against you. You fight against this guy. By voting out the
National Party. They're obviously they think that he
says himself. Do you think you're idiots?
Yeah, you care more about fish. And you're so stupid that you
think that you should believe it's just like Norton Antivirus
percent
of the vote in 2011 election in Huntsville,
get that guy out. I have another little debunker ridge that I
wanted to bring in because it's irritating me. I don't know what
this is the new story. And then this propagated all over the
place
we have to meet in secret, because if there's a nuclear
worker was called speaking to me, he paid a high price. Mackay
college if TEPCO knew
I was speaking with you, I'd be fired for sure. Speaking out as
an act of suicide. Mr. Fujimoto works in the decontamination
program at the Fukushima plant. He works 12 hour shifts, for
which he's paid just $10 an hour. And he's watched as TEPCO
has failed repeatedly to stop the leak of radioactive
groundwater, with 300 tons of leaching into the Pacific every
day. All right, so this is the mean 300 tons of radioactive
water leaking into the ocean every single day. And and so I
see this story come up, over and over and over again. And then
it's your natural news.com with Mike Adams, the health Ranger.
Now this is a really popular alternative news site. Right.
And his headline Fukushima now in state of emergency leaking
300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily. Now, I did
something called what is it called again?
Math.
Yeah, yeah, math. And I actually I sent an email to our knight,
sir. Atomic rod Adams and said, Please help me understand. I
feel like this is a meme because it's this 300 tonnes of
radioactive water. You know, who's measured this? Where's
this information coming from? Where are these facts coming
from? And I need some help on this. So I go to a source who
actually drove around on subs in the water atomic subs and he
works for for an atomic energy company and he's he's a new guy.
He says Well, here is the information for you on the
highly radioactive groundwater so the samples according to all
this the same story by the way, every time you google this 300
tons radioactive water leaking the ocean daily,
it's the same single source has been propagating yes,
that which means it's propaganda. Okay, these the
quote is a select few samples of indicated strontium 90 at quote
30 times drinking water standards. He says that sounds
scary 30 times drinking water standards. The standard for
strontium 90 in drinking water is 0.3 pico Curie per liter.
Pico Curie apparently is a B and a Q I thought it was a it's been
acute pico Curie Curie as in Madame Curie, a person who
drinks a liter per day of water contaminated to nine pico Curie,
which is 30 times the standard would receive an annual dose of
0.09 Micro serviettes. Normal background radiation is between
2.4 and 3.0 microserver yet per year depending on the source of
information. In other words, big deal. Not. So you're receiving
up to three microserver units per year of radiation just from
the background. And but if you drank a liter of this water,
which you not because of going into the ocean, well let's say
you did for an entire year, you would receive 0.09 microserver
yet so it's not all that scary. They're making it sound scary by
giving you information. That is clear. But you don't know what
it means.
And the final conclusion you've drawn
Well, the it's the same it's the same conclusion as always drove
the truck into the wall there Yeah, well this the same
conclusion as always, is that you This is propaganda to make
you anti nuclear when it is the definition of renewable energy.
Yeah, no, I know that we you harp on this more than I do.
Yeah, but I want to point it out and that when you read this and
these headlines from your alternative news service,
yeah, well, I'll tell you what bothers me. And this has been
going on I think to start messing with what was Fukushima
three years ago two years ago. Yeah. Well, right it was nonstop
This thing's gonna blow this thing is going to it's going to
kill us all and it was and it was a goal and now it's going to
melt down it's going to do all this was this has been going on
if remember that one time when there's a bunch of memes
floating around and
you knew you had a Geiger counter for your fish
yeah, well don't deny it. Yeah, well there was there's fish
around there and if it comes from Japan I guess I'm skeptical
fish from Japan it's around there's but it's not I don't
care if the fish is caught off the coast of California so
anyway no I'm not talking about them talking about the doomsday
with the cloud was coming over we were gonna die out and it was
Alex Jones was selling
iodine iodine.
He made a million bucks on iodine. I'll tell you that we
should have idiots who are stupid on board we're stupid.
We're stupid
because we don't jump on board but if we did we'd probably be
making some serious money now but anyway and then all the
Twitter guys Oh, you guys had to cover this on no agenda. It's
gonna blow covered on no agenda because it's gonna blow and so
like it's not always it's not gonna blow and we're not
covering it. Just and so now we're just continues.
Yeah. Does and I remain by my theory that this was and we have
all kinds remember that was the the tsunami bombs that were
tested. We have Have you no evidence that the there was tons
of tsunami bombs and this was a very, very shallow earthquake.
Right? You had this and I still I still think it was. Yes.
Target troops. Yeah. Well go read state of fear.
No state affairs tells us it tells us a lot. So talking about
telling us a lot some of these books there's a good book out
there on on Cornelius Vanderbilt, the first tycoon by
a local writer named TJ Stiles, and who's been on the speaking
circuit for a while he won a Pulitzer and a National Book
Award for this piece of history. And as I've heard him speak a
few times and is the book is a must read, especially for people
like biographies. But you have to there's a little side note
about this woman named Victoria Woodhall, who is apparently the
reason it was never a good biography of Vanderbilt, because
all his stuff was scattered everywhere. He never kept the
library and never created anything that would submit to
because he claims that most biographers and I think there's
some truth to this, like to find a cache of material so they can
sit on their butts in one place and write a biography. They
don't like to spend, in his case, six years combing the
country for for documents, but I just thought that this was just
a funny little clip, I picked it off on one of his speeches,
talking about this woman, and you'll see what the punch line
is. You understand why this is a clip?
If only I knew which clip it was, it says Victoria wood Hall.
Oh, that would be the last clip in the
question, which is the issue of Victoria wood Hall and Tennessee
Claflin. How do they factor into the definitely not part of the
business side of Vanderbilt? That's, that's one of the many
interesting side lights. A life of this long intersected with a
lot of famous and sometimes notorious people, or people
generally familiar with who Victoria wood Hall is now it's
alright. Victoria wood Hall was one of those interesting kind of
footnote yet more than footnote characters in 19th century
American history. And she her name came up during the last
election, because of Hillary's run for the presidency. She
famously ran for president in 1872, the first woman to
announce herself as a candidate. She was a really fascinating
figure, in part because I think she was in part a con artist.
Wow, I didn't know this story. That's cool. I like that.
I just saw the parallels.
And I gotta look at this. Now. This is interesting. I visited
the Vanderbilt mansion.
One of many that are all done not by Cornelius, but by his he
Cornelius apparently was not a skinflint, but he didn't believe
in mansions. And so it was William that who sired most of
the family, which is his son, who cranked out all these
mansions. So that's still knows that it's only it's one
generation. It's one group removed from Cornelius, you will
never yield. I don't know if there's a house that that has
anything to do. He had. Here's an interesting little factoid,
comparing his wealth to Bill Gates. At the time of his
maximum wealth. His total wealth amounted to $1 in every $20 in
circulation, wow. Wow. Bill Gates has got his rich. Yeah,
but his wealth amounts to $1 in every $140 in circulation. Wow.
Victoria Woodhall was an advocate of free love. It's my
kind of girl. Yeah, she went from rags to riches twice your
wallet. Her first fortune being made on the road as a highly
successful magnetic healer. Nice.
Yeah, there's a lot he talks about this actually. I'll see
if I can clip this out. Yeah, get some of that for Sunday.
That sounds that sounds like there was the
magnetic healing thing is quite interesting. And apparently
Cornelius was into that too. It says he says it was essentially
deep massage therapy. But there was a lot of seance and all
kinds of stuff back to
back to the free love bit. Yeah, well,
it's been around it comes and goes. Age didn't help it.
True. But don't get me started on that.
No, no, no. There's just so so just one little thing American
Airlines and USTR they they're gonna merge and then they killed
it. Yeah. And of course now they're whining because they
approved all these other mergers but what happened was the
Justice Department looked at what all these other mergers did
and they said this is not it's not working out. But I just got
this one clip. I think that was two of them I think well let's
try the is gonna be this one merger hurts competition clip.
You gotta listen to these two CEOs yucking it up when they
when they win. This deal first came about in about six months
ago. And the comment that one CEO makes, I just rolled my
eyes.
It was all smiles and backslap six months ago, is the airline
CEOs announced plans to merge this really isn't About taking
two airlines putting them together and providing better
service to customers. Our view is it increases competition
doesn't decrease competition.
Okay, you can start today what bull crap is is this is about
improving service and increasing competition by becoming a big
one airline and so in other words in parts of the country I
apparently Regan international airline 75% of the airport be
devoted to this one new airline? Probably not I mean, these these
listening to these guys, why do they even? What is it somebody
pi these guys, there's no way this is going to increase
competition or improve service? Well,
I mean, I've been in the airline industry and it's incredibly at
a very small scale, but I learned a lot about the business
and it's incredibly difficult to make money with the unions. And
and it's not just the unions in the airlines, it's everywhere. I
mean, the whole business it's basically a money losing
business. It just is it's just you can't make money with an
airline. It's burning your money in the air. And it shows you
know it shows where you know now they're they're moving the your
suitcase, you know, you have to pay for your luggage and then
it's over 40 pounds. You can't it was just crazy. It's just
it's too bad.
Johnny, I'm still waiting for the day and ISIS, I suspect it
will come where they weigh you. Yeah, and you probably you fly
by the pound. This is the way to stop the weight. You need to get
weight loss in this country to take hold. Yeah, if you're gonna
pay for the pound and you're a big fat guy. You're gonna
probably lose some weight to save some money.
Did you know that delta now owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic? No, I
didn't know that. Yeah, I learned that only by reading the
in flight magazine. Not a lot of people thought they wanted to
buy the whole thing. And I bet you that Branson wanted to sell
the whole thing because he's looking at it to go like oh
crap, man, just like burning my money in the air. Even though
he's just a frontman doesn't really do anything.
frontman for who?
For the for the real money, guys. Big hedge funds and stuff.
Jeff, come on, man come I could be Richard Branson. I look like
him. Not look like him.
So here's a story that came out and just recently local street
tell me this is a good idea. Play the clip brown and the
transgenders about high schoolers
are another Governor Brown signed a groundbreaking bill
into law today. It allows the state's transgender students to
choose which bathrooms they use and on which sports teams they
wish to participate. Ya know, whatever, I don't care.
I just think it's a day it's gonna be a nightmare. I
really don't care.
Why do high school how does high school kids become a transgender
so soon? Don't you want to be a little older before you make
such a decision? No,
unfortunately, a lot of parents make decisions for these kids
which I think is not necessarily a good idea. And they make it
early on. Yeah, the whole idea of men's bathroom it's all like
this Puritan thing
well we could have people just use it there are restaurants
that have
unisex shirt unisex pounds of in Austin is very common, very
common. I think it's it's a good thing.
Well, if you did that, that would be better. Why don't they
just do that and make it unisex? No,
I agree with this. We've got we're so when I was growing up
in in Europe, the Europeans used to laugh about the prude
Americans. Oh my gosh, you know, they you can't talk even talk
about nipples or anything or you can't show any Oh my God,
there's so which of course is true. And and now we're in this
weird situation where we're still in we have this very
prudish culture. Yet we're trying to be really open and
free. It's like it's such a dichotomy. It's I think it's
hurting people's brains really?
Well, I think it's designed to hey, you know, I'm looking at
this general election and Helensville thing I didn't
notice this right away. There is a party in New Zealand called
the legalize cannabis party.
Yeah, I'd be voting for that.
I didn't get many votes.
Because everyone was like, dude, let's vote. Oh, man, you got any
m&ms?
All right. So you're
gonna see I've got I got a kind of a fun clip. You know, I've
been I'm following the New York mayoral election for one reason
and one reason only because I don't know any other candidate
running but Anthony Weiner. And there's a chance he's gonna win
because it's just that's that's how crazy it is New York, New
York. But he is he's, he's, he's insane. Remember, I know this
guy. I've interviewed this guy. He's a douchebag. I interviewed
him a lot when he was councilman. And then I knew
like, Oh, you're such an insincere prick. And but now
he's he's, I'm not quite sure what is going on, you have to
see the video, it'll be in the shownotes. But I have the audio.
He's so he shows up for some appearance on the street. And it
seems like there's like maybe 10 journalists and nobody else. And
he's making fun of his entire appearance. But worse, there's a
woman from ITN the British news service and she's asking him
questions and he's he's going off the deep end. And I thought
maybe it'd be fun to listen to it.
Or it's American media. British talking then it seems we're
walking along. How do you maintain such resilience in this
campaign? Okay, it can't be you want to be that person? What do
you mean? If you want to if you want to be the Mayor of the City
of New York, you got to work hard, and you've got to fight.
Okay, what about what's going on in your personal life? And how
do you deal with that when you're confronted and you've
been so exposed your family Thank you, brother. How do you
carry on when what's going on in your personal life? Either way,
I guess you must be on the impression it's supposed to be
easy. It's not you're fighting for a tough job. That requires a
lot of toughness when you're on the job so this is the way I'd
want it to be. Is it ambition? Is it a hunger for the big job
the power? To take you seriously? No. It's it has to do
with wanting to be mayor of the city of New York and wanting to
help the middle class and those struggling to make it what do
you want to do? With a hunger for the big job? Hello? Why do
you have my website Anthony weiner.com I want to fight for
the middle class and those struggling to make it would
anything stop you I just had a feeling I'd like to step into a
Monty Python bit I don't know what anything stopped me. What
do you want now is we're rocking and rolling ahead. No, nothing's
gonna stop me I'm gonna win this election. What makes you so sure
you're gonna win this election? What can you give these people
I'm gonna work hard for them got better ideas I come from a
better place I don't I'm building a campaign on ideas for
the middle class and those struggling to make it and every
single day I'm fighting to show them that I want their sport.
Look at me. When I started this campaign I was 692 140 pounds is
all that's left to me. That's how I'm doing this campaign. I'm
gonna slide under the door Gracie match. Anything else I
can do for ITV? You want to do the weather or something? If you
can do the weather you can do the weather for me. What Where's
it from? This is this is in England. We can do the weather
here in New York. Do yours instead it's gonna be raining
cloudy and gray. So to which you can guys to try to keep your
head up keep a stiff what does it sit upper lip
you know it's I think he's being forced to do this John, but a
douche. But he's being he doesn't want to do this. He's
being forced acid those
struggling to to make it those struggling to make it
Yeah, he's just it's forcing him to I don't know what's going on.
Well, who's they? The Clintons? The Clinton has to be the claim
of course is the claim da they own him. But I mean, wow, this
is this is it's sad. It's just sad. I you know it. It's kind of
I wind up killing himself.
Oh, put it put that in the book. I'm putting it in the Red Book
just that
in the book. This isn't it? This is not not going well for him.
By the way, if you want to take it to the next level, he might
he might appear to have killed himself.
Well, hello, Clinton body count Google that.
All right. Teenager nowadays.
Hello, please. How easy it is not that would not. Yeah. And I
have Ted Koppel who was he was kind of funny these days.
Yeah, he's a real Obama bot. Hit it.
America's chronic overreaction to terrorism with the headline
you wrote, we have created an economy of fear and industry of
fear, a national psychology of fear. Al Qaeda could have never
achieved that on its own. We have inflicted it on ourselves.
Fundamentally, there are two sets of questions that apply in
the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with
the where's it gonna go? Where's it going to happen? What's going
to happen? When is it going to happen? The other set of
questions deals with what is it that our enemy the terrorists
are trying to achieve? What are they trying to induce us to do?
Take a look at what's been happening over the past week
with a conference call. Al Qaeda has effectively shut down 20 US
embassies around North Africa and the Middle East.
But that was pretty funny. I think what's a video conference
call actually. He's right though.
So the guy I running as a head is this Bill de Blasio. He's
leading with 30%
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about the New York race just said you don't know
who was winning. Okay, you're back to that winner. I just went
to look it up because I wanted to know. And wieners down to 10%
Really? Oh, I'd had down from 16 Every meeting fast everyone
in the chat room is saying he's it's this story. The Wiener
store he is Peter from House of Cards and I've seen House of
Cards and wow spot on. So here's how it happens. He kills
himself, asphyxiation in his car. After getting caught one
more time doing whatever he does, and then but of course,
he's the way it happened was as he was, he was drugged and they
put him in his car in the garage and left the engine running and
then he died. So look for a an exhaust pipe suicided death for
Anthony Weiner.
That could be i If it happened, it wouldn't surprise me if life
imitates life imitates art. And we've been doing this show long
enough to know he can actually have a shot himself twice in the
head with a gun in his left hand.
You think it's crazy? Google it. Alright, I'm gonna go read up on
Victoria Woodhall. I think that there's stuff to be learned here
about what we can expect from Hillary.
Yeah. When she was if she pictures or in college, she
looks like a free love chick.
It looks a bit like Victoria Woodhall, actually with the
short hair. Check it out and see the pictures of her. Yeah,
what's it black and white? A kid a big booty though.
Well, well, hello. I will be back on Sunday and I'm sure
there'd be a lot more for us to talk about some research that
I've been doing on a couple other things. As more on the war
on sugar to more magic numbers.
King has it up Hillary vibe
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