And it's lame. It's just lame. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sterling. December 26 2013. Time for your getting donation media
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the mainstream isn't from funeral region six traverse high
tide out Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry,
and from Northern northern northern somewhat Northwestern
Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Yeah, we've you know, I've gotten really spoiled listening
to that lovely connection you have in San Francisco.
Sonic dotnet.
Yeah. This is not Sonic dotnet?
No, this is fibre optic. Really good.
This is this Google fibre. Is this what we can look forward
to?
Is Verizon. Currently Verizon fibre. Oh, that's horrible.
Yeah, well, I'm that's I mean, so is Comcast.
You sure it's not this machine? This is your windows eight
machine. That's
a brand new machine. Did it sounds good when I talked to the
Skype call testing service?
Yeah, but you know, the Skype call Testing Service lady is
it's probably in the Skype itself. It's probably not even
some service anywhere. It's just a little routine that fires up
funny idea, but it's called someone.
I don't know what it does. Yeah. Skype used to be interesting
where it was that kind of peer to peer thing. I think Microsoft
gotten got rid of that. It's probably gonna
tell you this much. This is a Windows eight machine and Skype
on this thing is a joke. Really? Yeah, because you'd have the
entire it's only got a 27 inch monitor, I got two of them in
front of me. And you load Skype, it takes up the whole monitor.
And so you have as a giant blue screen with a giant icon and you
don't even put a image up. So it's a giant, useless icon. It
doesn't even say anything. And then it says Watchtower studio
in the upper left hand corner. 90% of the real estate is just
blank.
You can't you can't minimise it or no, no.
It's full screen apps.
We went on. What was it? Was it to Tuesday. This is girls are
here we went we went shopping and we went to a place here
called the domain. Which Have you ever been to LA the grove?
You mean, I don't know that I have. Okay.
So it's it's really it's kind of a weird sick experience this
place. Because it's essentially a whole bunch of shops set out
in a in kind of a Disney like setting in a way with little
streets. And it's all cute and little, you know, little street
lamps and everything is just in the rocks that play music. But
people actually there's more condos and houses here than
shops. So people actually live in this compound, which is
outside of town. And it's just condos and all of them are the
same as shops and restaurants. And so you pretty much don't
have to do anything. You there's a school for kids. You live in
this Stepford Wives type place and it's kind of
creepy, but of course called The Grove.
No, that's that's the the Los Angeles version. This is called
the domain.
And it's in Boston. Yes. Right outside of the town. Well,
they've ever been a celebration.
Well, it's not quite like Disney celebration, but it borders on
that vibe for sure. Anyway, this is where they have an Apple
Store and so they have other you know, h&m is there's all kinds
of the stores that you can't really get inside Austin are
there and they had a Windows Store which is now opened up
Microsoft Store You mean he will I call it the Windows Store? And
it is oh stop a
second. Tell me what's the name of this place? Again? The domain
the domain Okay, go on now.
And so it's maybe one street away from the Apple Store. And
it's it's completely the same idea. I don't know if you've
probably seen the stores I haven't seen
I actually wanted to one that took photos and reviewed it and
the whole thing, right?
And so it's exactly the same except that people aren't really
dressed in their in kind of like the all the the uniform hipster
thing. So at the Apple store, they usually in blue. Now
they're all in red for Christmas. So they they kind of
have a hodgepodge. No, no set uniform. But the whole idea is
the same with the kind of contemporary wood tables that
everything is displayed on you move in and of course it's 15
people Hey, how you guys doing? You need help? Hey, how you
doing? Hey, help. No, no, we're just looking. So we played a
ride not playing around with any of these Windows machines and
these laptops with touchscreens, any of the tablets, nothing, not
even Windows Phone and I have to say the responsiveness of these
devices just just playing with it's fast. And the phones and
the tablets need this and it's all I guess that's all kind of
the windows eight thing is fast. John's real you touch something
booms like there. So yeah, it's it's very responsive feels very
robust. I have to say,
Okay. Do you have a full screen Skype app? Yeah. And you can
manage that it takes up the whole screen and it just has
just your name. It's unbelievably stupid. In fact,
the
Now is this. Do you ever touch screen to go with this? Because
I think that's the that's the cool thing is the touch would
be cool. It's just a big, empty screen with nothing on it. What
we're gonna touch,
touch my name, touch my monkey
to defining the urban Austin lifestyle for the next 100
years, see how creepy it is? And then get pictures of people.
Yeah, thanks to incomparable cuisine, diverse local artists
and eclectic shopping. Austin is known as one of the most unique
destinations in the country. It's the domain is bringing the
best of Austin to a single urban location. It's phases one and
two of the domain are now open.
It's so creepy. Phase one is open. Enjoy your time. Enjoy
your stay enjoy your life. Yeah, that's not really for us.
Alright, so yeah, no, I get it. I saw the big the big screen
filling thing. I don't know. Why is it so stupid? And this? I
don't know. What do you
mean? Why is it so stupid you think is worth wild? Here's
another thing you want to look, look at your contacts in Skype
with this big full screen. So huge icons are like one inch by
one inch. And again, you only get a few of them on the
screens. We had to constantly to get the two W's Okay, I got hit
and hit it and hit it and hit it and hit it and hit it to
hit so you can't have multiple windows open at the same time on
one screen. Is that what you're saying?
Well, apparently with 8.1 you can have a couple of these full
screen apps. Half the screen. It's still stupid. I want to be
able to resize. Okay, I see the problem my wife seems she said
you know that I thought she was gonna hate Windows eight. So she
said, You know, it's not that bad. We asked
him. This is what I'm thinking. This is the this is the dumbing
down of the populace.
Well, there's definitely a dumbing down aspect. But she did
it because you know, this is done by this woman who did the
ribbon interface and she got promoted. She does a woman that
is behind this design, of course. And my wife says, Ah,
she says that makes no that makes nothing but sense to me.
It's vagina logic.
Okay, there's your show title right there. Let me just write
that down. Yeah, I that makes sense to me.
And I said, Yeah, I guess where I would I've
gone back in time I have 123456 I have eight terminal windows
open. All running something very specific and all very closely
located and really handy and easy to give me information. It
just doesn't have pretty big boxes to to click on.
Big boxes are idiotic Yeah, this Windows eight really this is the
downfall of that company. The gentle logic or no vagina logic.
I don't care.
They're all going to come down eventually. We had So how was
your Christmas was good? Yeah, I this is the one of the first
years where we're doing the show after Christmas. Typically. I
think the past couple of years Christmas has fallen on show
day, either a Sunday or a Thursday. And I found this much
harder. Why? Only because in then you can kind of be prepping
you're doing everything and then on Christmas morning we do the
show and then we have the rest of the day off and this kind of
thing. You know, last week we had our you know, our family
Christmas and we're hanging out and we're having fun we're
eating we're drinking I'm like, Oh man, I gotta prep for the
show. It was hard.
It was I just did it in the morning. In the morning. Yeah,
well I have I got a lot of stuff I got to do. So I took some time
around 10 o'clock last night I started and already of course
you know I have the entire system already filling up with
with information and things that are happening and some
interesting clips this something weird kind of happened with the
Snowden messaging which is interesting to say the least but
could could turn into something bigger this Bart is it Bart
Gellman Is that his name? Well, I think that name yeah,
I've got I know Bart Gellman. Yeah.
He did an interview for The Washington Post with Edward
Snowden.
All right, that thing Yeah. Yeah. And, and what I when
Snowden says yeah, kind of one already Mission accomplished,
which is, is not good for Pierre and Laura and Glenn. This is
gonna ruin their whole their whole their whole company their
whole business. Snowden said no, it's over. It's done with we
don't have to do anymore. But I think there's a rift some of
that something Something changed something Yeah,
they got 250 million and he got bought by kind of a bowl of beet
soup.
borscht? borscht a enjoy that borscht dude. Yeah, exactly.
Everybody was out in full force Susan Rice. I hadn't seen her do
an interview ever since her Benghazi round on the Sunday
shows. And everyone's talking the same thing. So we had the
question, for some reason, the mainstream media and we can
probably figure out the agenda behind this have decided to
focus on the Edward Snowden, Amnesty programme, which
everyone's saying no, no, we can't have it. One of the junior
guys at the CIA said, Well, yeah, I think that's something
we could talk about. And then his boss said, No, we can't have
that. And then Susan Rice is all cagey. Would you
Would the President consider granting him amnesty in exchange
for him never releasing any more documents. But mostly, we don't
think that Snowden deserves amnesty. We believe he should
come back, he should be sent back. And he should have his day
in court. But if if what he's released so far, has been so
damaging, and he has a million and a half more documents. How
important is it that he not released those? And what would
we offer him? Lesley? I, you know, I'm not gonna get into a
negotiation with you on camera about something that on camera
position is that he ought to come back and face justice. Has
he in either directly indirectly in any way proposed such an
arrangement? Not that I'm aware.
Now, this was an interesting interview with Susan Rice, who
is now the she was the United Nation, the ambassador to the
United Nations. Now she is the Director of National the
National Security Director, I think is that her official
title?
Something like that as his title she shouldn't have she's
she's even sitting in Henry Kissinger's old office, or at
least that was the way it was, of course, other people been in
that office, but it's the way she portrayed it to want to make
sure everyone knew that she was in in handle. She did. Yeah,
that would be her. Yeah, a couple of things. I noticed one,
in this interview, she does seem a lot more relaxed than she used
to be. And this was kind of a profile piece. Wow, you're in
the mood shift from time to time, she would smile which hide
you don't see Susan Rice smile a lot. She has a creepy smile. No,
I thought she actually has quite an endearing smile. Well, it
looks creepy on the Wikipedia. Well, when she was smiling in
this interview. And it was it's in such contrast to the way she
normally looks. You know, that really depends on you. And
that's your actual voice. By the way. It's such contrast, she
kind of looks a little almost cute, really. And of course, she
had to tow the party line, which I think was just like the
Benghazi. This was not an act of terrorism. This will come back
to bite her as well.
Officials in the intelligence community have actually been
untruthful, both to the American public and hearings in Congress
and to the FISA court, there have been cases where they have
inadvertently made false representations and
inadvertently made false reputed risk misrepresentations about
taking the cookies from the cookie jar. I'm so sorry. How
she gets away with it, by the way was saying this. Leslie,
she gets away with it amongst who are most of the person doing
the interview,
of course with Lesley Stahl who did this interview just says oh,
you know, just inadvertently misrepresented that didn't mean
to misrepresent anything,
have actually been untruthful, both to the American public and
hearings in Congress and to the FISA court, there have been
cases where they have inadvertently made false
representations and they themselves have discovered it
and corrected it. When you have so many phone records being held
emails, heads of states phone conversations being listened
into has it been worth our allies being upset has it been
worth all the tech companies being upset?
This this this mean? The tech companies are upset I heard this
on I didn't pull the clip should have pulled the clip from this.
I was listening to to This Week in tech. And at a certain point
I'm not quite sure if it was Leo, Senator are one of the
panellists that this is now all of a sudden, I mean, the tech
companies are all upset about what they've been forced to do.
And they're real. And they went to the President and complained
and said you've got to stop it. How do these guys get a free
pass yet again? The tech
we saw the we saw them sitting around yucking it up with the
presidency, and it was I didn't see anyone even remotely upset.
Oh, they're
not. But this is now the become the meme. Because God forbid the
news media say anything negative about oh, I don't know, Apple or
Microsoft or anyone who advertises big
any of the advertisers. They're all advertisers. Yeah, yeah,
it's and
it's funny, because as I'm thinking about this, I'm
thinking, When is the last time we saw a story, a new story, any
story positive or negative? About GoDaddy, calm Carbonite,
audible Berkey, water filters, and any story, positive or
negative. And Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, really, I
mean, a serious story about them. Now. It's all just press
releases. And when you watch any programme, or you're listening
to a programme, or even if you read about it, you people go
into these, you know, the native advertising, the advertorial,
whatever the pitch is when you're drobo is another one of
these companies. And for a while there, even Ford, certainly in
the podcast realm, everyone was doing something for Ford because
they had the money, but you never see even after their,
their their 2013 budget was spent. There's never any
reporting on these companies. They GoDaddy is a huge
multibillion dollar company that fucks its customers over all the
time. But it's never reported on. I don't think people realise
how the how big advertising budgets what they really do for
your, for your PR, it's really the way to go.
You name it is you they were I was running a company. That's
what I do. Right. But
I guess I hadn't really stood still on thought about or
thought about that for a while. Now, there are so many companies
that you just never hear an article about ever. And then I
hear all of these pundits talking about? Well, there's no
news this time of year. What? Oh, you mean no press releases.
Yeah. The PR departments, they're all closed down. So
there's no news, which is why you get all these
retrospectives. Everyone's doing their best of 2013. Because
there's no news. Right, John? There's no news.
There's never heard of any news. In fact, when I opened up Bing
today, yes. And all there was was just a joke. Not only was
there nothing, there was, here's typical story, actresses without
their makeup.
This is the top of the big news
is the kind of Bing news and we go to Bing for a second. Let
me see what Google has is news because there's news but Google
has their news is just the old one. Let me see what they have.
Let me see what their what their what their lead is. This is the
worst Congress ever. Okay, that's the top of the Google
News. UPS FedEx scrambled to deliver delayed Christmas
packages. That's news. Wow. White House extends insurance
enrollment deadline for second time. It Miley Cyrus adore you
video leaked. Oh, boy, the leaks. So anyway, so just once,
you know, when when I'm a little disgusted, that this meme is now
cropped, in, that the tech companies are all upset? No, no,
they're complicit. They have entire departments whose job it
is, is to hand off information to the government, which has
been deemed legal under the did or not to breach the Fourth
Amendment by the Supreme Court.
Well, you know, I think I have an I have a theory on this. When
this whole thing broke, the tech companies were putting too,
between a rock and a hard place because they were mentioned in
that prison slide. One after the other when they when they
knuckled under and became government agents, right. The
rest of the time has been spent covering this up in any way
shape or form because that's was a huge embarrassment. Yes. So
what do we do? Because now are we losing business overseas and
they are losing business overseas? hand over fist? Yeah,
exactly. And they are trying to do anything they can. And
they've they're the ones who started to me. Oh, we're upset
by this. They're the ones who signed on
to it. Yeah, that's that's that's exactly the way to look
at
this is Google wash. Yeah. Now
you're exactly right. And and I even was, I can't remember where
I saw this or read it. It doesn't matter because the meme
is out there. Is that the report? No. This was also on
This Week in tech that the report wording, that initial
reporting of the prism slide was so poorly done, because it
immediately implied that the tech companies were all in and
that is not true.
Oh, I didn't I didn't hear this. Sorry.
My fingers.
That didn't mean to do that. It was the automatic response.
The machine is taking over. It knows it was right. But ya know,
this this, I should pull some clips off of that show. It was
very it wasn't Leo, saying that it was one of the one of these
quasi reporters who's on the panel. And it was just like, oh,
well, the reporting was really poor, and there's really no bad
and it was all debunked. Like what?
It's all debunked. It was never debunked. Oh, not
all of that happened is that these companies said, Well,
that's not true. Yeah, anyways, here's something I didn't know
about Susan Rice, or maybe I did, I just didn't pay attention
to it. And I always thought she was a lesbian, quite honestly.
Is that weird that I thought that or is
that she's not?
Oh, yeah. Her husband, Ian Cameron used to be an executive
producer at ABC News. Oh, yeah.
Okay. That's right now i were i remember. Of course, he was. He
used to run this week with Chrystia, Christiane and poor
and later with the George Stephanopoulos, the only kit he
quit two years ago to run the family. What's his name? Let me
see. Well, listen to the rest of the thing. I'll look to Ian
Cameron. Hey, how are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you.
Thanks for coming out
in the middle of everything her BlackBerry went off. And so did
she to confer with Secretary of State Kerry calling from Abu
Dhabi. Never not working. I mean, you always have your
Blackberry, and you have to be accessible. Even if the phone
doesn't ring, you better be checking your email from time to
time, and you actually have stopped working to take care of
the kids.
Oh, we were in a situation, you know, financially that one of us
could step out of the working world.
Loaded.
Loaded rice 49.
Now listen to her background. I don't know if I've ever looked
this up. I certainly didn't remember it. And it's
interesting how she goes off on, on why she is where she is
today. upset that people think it might be affirmative action
grew up
in the nation's capitol on embassy row, DC girl thrown
through born and raised. Her father was a governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, her mother, a leading figure in
education policy. And Rice herself had a distinguished
academic career, Stanford and Rhodes Scholar. There were those
who wanted to suggest as I was growing up that any success I
might have had was because of affirmative action. And that
didn't sit well with me. And so that must have hurt. Well, I
resented it. I don't know if it hurt, because I didn't think it
was true.
This is interesting. Why would she be so firmly against
affirmative action? And for some reason, isn't the whole point of
affirmative action is that you can be successful? And she's
saying, Oh, I was really I didn't I hated the fact that
resented that people thought I was got to where I was because
of affirmative action. Why is she Why would she be against
that? I thought that they were all in on affirmative action.
You've actually brought something up. It's kind of
interesting and interesting interpretation. I don't know. I
have no idea she shouldn't have Why did she bring it up at all?
She's the one who dropped it in there. It wasn't asked to by
Leslie. Well, the
whole thing is, you know, the interview is clearly tightly
scripted, and everything is slotted in as a lot of editing
going on. But then of course, you know, we learned that other
way her husband looks like the goofball of the Deccan.
And then we learned that, you know, she is the daughter of a
Fed guy. Well, yeah. Yeah,
I don't need no affirmative action. I've got my own corrupt
way of getting to the top. Exactly.
Like, wow, what are you
wouldn't deed I wouldn't stoop so low to take advantage of that
when I have my family to take advantage.
I am thinking she that was thrown in to distract from the
fact that that's where she comes from. And a Rhodes Scholar.
Well, you know what, that's all about the Rhodes Scholar.
Yeah, well, that's one of those. That's no good. Agency.
Let's see. So there were a couple other little mini things
that everyone was out on the talk show Mike Morel, the guy
who'd never done an interview ever as he's leaving the CIA
after 33 years. Now he's everywhere. And he needs some
help from the curry Devorah Consulting Group. But I can give
him the tip right now Mike, before you do the interview a
either don't smoke weed so you get this cotton mouth or drink
some water. Listen, you'll just hear you know how someone was
all that just gooey white dream sticky mouth? Yeah,
a lot of that's, you know, I one time I was I was in New York
with a agent, book agent friend of mine, and we ran out he knows
everybody in town and so he walks into walk, we walked past
some guy who starts yakking about something or other and he
had, and he was talking to him, and he every time he opened his
mouth, there was no strings. It was horrible. It was like every
time you open his mouth, there was like 40 strings. And so I
commented on this and they and he says to me, heroin. What are
you sad guys?
Heroin. Oh, there you go. My
the agent says heroin he says that's for common. You see that
all the time with a lot of heroin users. Okay, well, maybe
Michael. This seems unlikely with a CIA guy but who knows?
Maybe Morales
right in the white horse, the white pony, the big age.
You should never have gobs of goo between your lips when
you're talking as though it's like it's just it's pretty
disgusting. Well have a watch Have a listen thank the
president should give him some sort of amnesty
and you know I do not and I feel strongly about me that he
violated the trust put in him by the United States government. He
has committed a crime and my views all that racket.
That's his that's his strings it's a string mouth Oh
whistleblower doesn't run a whistle holes crass non
disclosure information stop.
Did you notice the other thing that happened? It was the
Snowden says hey, I went through channels I already tried doing
stuff
and not only that, not only that, but all of these so called
Great avenues the President has put in place are only now only I
think this month coming into the right into low there's
no he did I believe snowed when he says he tried to you know,
point these things out to the to the channels and they said I get
to get out of here contractor. I don't know why you treated
contractors treated like crap.
I don't know what to believe. But I find this interesting
thing for morale to say with his 40, white gooey strings
on a whistleblower does not disclose information that has
nothing to do with what he says his causes, which is the privacy
and civil liberties of Americans. You know, if I could
talk to Mr. Snowden myself,
why and I wonder why can't he be I'm sure my morale can pick up a
phone somewhere and say get me Snowden. I'm sure that he can
get Snowden on the phone. Sure.
I'm sure Snowden will take
the call. Yes. What say is Edward? Edward, Edward. You say
you're a patriot? You say yourself
in? Yeah, that's exactly right.
protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. You say
that you wanted Americans to have a debate about this and to
make up their mind about what to do about this? Well, if you
really believe that, if you really believe that Americans
should be the judge of this programme, then you should also
believe that the Americans should be the judge of your
behaviour in this regard. So if you are the Patriot that you say
you are, you should come home and be judged.
I say oh, crap, kangaroo court. Is he kidding me?
Yeah, no, he's
judging me. I think he's fine. Let him go. Yeah.
I would say hey, you know, Mike, do you want you grab a couple
ounces a scope? And I'll consider it disgusting, man.
It seemed that I read the transcript.
Then we had Mike Rogers. That so I'm sorry. So Morel was on Face
The Nation. Mike Rogers went on the Stephanopoulos show. And
this, of course is ABC and we know you know, the Ian Cameron.
We did so many ABC connections between this particular White
House but the press corps in general and the administration
that in administrations past the Clintons, etc. The bushes
everywhere, it's one big, incestuous pool of goo. Here's
Rogers. spouting his Christmas cheer,
he went to the press. Then he went to the bastion of internet
freedom China, and then Russia to lay claim. Claims that by the
way, this individual report dominated by law professors just
said
my love dominated by law professors. This is the report
that was written by Mike Morel who was the deputy CIA director
Richard Clark, who I don't think is a law professor. There's one
law professor in this bunch. But now that now the this this
report that was written by the total insider shields, which no
one ever mentioned, by name in the mainstream, has now become
dominated by the Lawyers by constitutional lawyers no less.
I'm sorry, Mr. Rods. Yeah,
this guy is a horrible person. But how does he get reelected
over and over?
He's not the only one claiming this, you'll you'll hear come
back.
There was no scandal, no surveillance on in under the 215
programme all of the things that he's been saying I think been
repudiated by this report.
And by the way, Rodgers is telling the truth in this
regard. Most of the headlines you're reading our report says
rein it in, Mr. Obama, that's not true. We read the report for
you here on the show, it could still find it in the show notes
Two episodes ago. It's nothing of the kind. Nothing at all. All
it says is, hey, why don't we make some other people rich and
and all that data will have to be stored privately by a third
company.
That'll save us some money. Finally,
all of that I think we need to take into consideration Finally,
you've
warned that the terror threat may be increasing again, I'll
cut on the road again. And we know that they have targeted the
Christmas season before Do you have any more reason to be
especially concerned
about but now let me ask you a question. Why is it that
whenever there's a holiday, we get this George Stephanopoulos
in a democratic operative, the Clinton operative, saying, We
know they target Christmas and holiday seasons? What is that?
Is that true? Or is that just made up?
Well is true in some parts of the Middle East. But in this
country, there will there's no evidence of it. I mean, unless
you want to count that phoney baloney crocodile brown
guy was it now three years ago, four years ago. So we're I don't
know, I just the framing of this by Stephanopoulos was very on
journalistic. And
on the rise again, on the rise again.
I thought it was decimated. They were decimated. Was it on the
rise on the rise again targeted
the Christmas season before Do you have any more reason to be
especially concerned? Right now is the threat level going up
around this holiday threat level season?
Well, I think any national holiday like that we would
experience here like Christmas is something that we are
concerned about.
Why why Mike Rogers? Why you're not you're terrorising the
American people is what you were doing you, sir, are a terrorist
in the purest definition of the word. You're terrorising people
with absolutely nothing to back it up. There's no evidence that
we Oh, Teddy. Well, oh, it's a national holiday. And by the
way, what does this Festivus bullcrap.
Well, I think it's funny that has been cropping up as a what
is it? As a common meme? What is Festivus? Well, the festive is
just a little bit like Kwanzaa. It was created on the Jerry
Seinfeld show.
Oh, yes. Okay. I remember what it is now. Okay. Ah, so when
someone says that I'm supposed to laugh, it's supposed to be.
Oh, okay. All right. Did it on the flight up here. I was taking
the southwest. And he said to happy we didn't want to thank I
wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Kwanzaa and a happy
Festivus. Yeah, I
think I see any other threat stream that I wouldn't say is
out of the norm. But again, and the reason we say that is
because there are more affiliates, more al Qaeda
affiliates.
The Get a pen John, we got to write down the org chart there
more affiliates
around the world, Al Qaida in the Maghreb, the Arabian
Peninsula, Al Shabaab blaming some of Qaeda affiliate out. All
of these groups want to have and have the aspiration to commit
acts of violence against Westerners and and Why
could you explain that Mike Rogers, why? Why do they want,
they just they wake up and they just hate us. We think they need
to get back to explaining why the
United States, that's why this threat has grown. And we have
more chances to miss something. And we have just less
opportunity not to pay attention to every single clue we can find
to make sure that we protect the citizens of the United States.
And by the way, we can do that in a way that protects privacy
and civil liberties. But you have to be arguing about the
same sets of data points. And I would hope that this report
stops this inflammatory language of surveillance and scandal and
devastating not that this report, I think concluded was
true. And some of the shortcomings of this report real
quick, George, they didn't gorge to the FBI when it came to
Section 215. And
this is another thing about the report. And I've heard Rogers
about this several times. He's pissed off, that the panel did
not communicate with the FBI because the FBI, of course is
always you know, they they take whatever information comes from
the NSA and they go and arrest terrorists. But the FBI is not
interested in giving the NSA any credit because let's face it,
these guys sit around and honeypot guys for months. They
don't want to give the NSA credit for that. And this is and
you can hear Rogers is all teed off about it, who didn't talk to
the FBI or the FBI, they wouldn't solve a single case
without the NSA spying on everybody, which is just not
true. And the FBI doesn't want any involvement in doesn't want
any of that NSA goop on them, because they got their own ways
of duping the people for any length
about the value of certain programmes that they recommended
against. And by the way, including to 15. They never had
a sit down long conversation with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Who does these investigations. That's an
unfortunate shortcoming in this report. And will be I think,
talking about that in the days ahead. Yeah, some good things in
this report.
This is these messages, little telegraph moment there from Mike
Rogers. Yeah, we're gonna have to drill we're gonna drag the
FBI in here to show some proof, some proof that, that it works,
things
that are concerning in this report recommendations are
things that the government should do that they are already
doing and things that the government shouldn't do that
they're not doing. And so I think this is not the holy grail
of reports, but I do think it crossed a very important
milestone and saying, hey, no scandal. No, no law breaking now
let's just have an honest debate about where we think we ought to
go in trying to stop terrorists from blowing up American
citizens here in the United States.
You're gonna get blowed up American citizen. This guy is a
terrorist. John Does he is terrorising people.
Yeah, no, he should be arrested for as a terrorist.
So this, this is quite the
quite what was a lot who got blowed up in the last five, six
years. I blew it up last year, the
Boston bombers. They blow people up guys. You saw the guy with
his leg blowed off. Just some
guys just gonna happen. It just happened before 911 and these
sorts of things. There was always a pipe bomb once a year
at Berkeley in front of a bang, YOU
HERETIC. You didn't know. But so here's what's happening. It's
the word is out. That the NSA, certainly this metadata
programme has not really resulted in anything. And now
they're scrambling, because lay he is on the warpath and
everyone's saying, hey, you know, maybe maybe one case where
something the NSA discovered resulted in us nabbing a guy who
was sending money to someone in Yemen, which of course
immediately is equated to financing terrorism against
Americans who will get blowed up.
And that could all be bullcrap. Did you see the President's
press conference? last press conference
this year? Yeah, of course.
I have to I have a couple of clips I want to get to. And the
one clip I was going to clip it was too long. It was a guy
actually asking Obama about 215. And then about the reports. He
says the Obama The report says that there was nothing that came
of any of this. What do you what do you do? How is what's your
reaction to that? And Obama goes well, let me answer that second
part later. Let me tell you this and he talked for 10 minutes.
Yeah, and then he never did he skipped a second he never said
anything. He goes Do you saw that? Yes. So here's the thing
that got me look at this clip here. And this one I thought was
weird. This is the last press conference pre opener.
I'm sorry, hold on a second. I had the wrong one pre opener.
Okay.
Good afternoon everybody. I know you are all eager to skip town
and spend some time with your family's not surprisingly I am
too okay.
skip town Yeah, like your what kind of
street our gut is this? This is this is way criminals criminals
talk that way. Yeah. We skip town. We're gonna skip town.
This is criminal lingo. It's his hood lingo.
It's like this is the President United States is going to skip
town and I know I want to skip town. Well, I thought that I was
just taken aback.
But this is another part of this is another meme. Washington is
evil and we all know it. Washington is really a horrible
place and we all know it we're really doing the best we can but
we can't wait to get out of here no i i caught the criminal angle
but I'm these people are this kind of works for me. These
people work for me and for you and for every American in here.
And this is the way they they talk about this and can't wait
to skip town blow this popsicle joint make like a banana and
split this place blows. Well then why don't you not come back
and we'll get someone who's really interested in doing some
work.
Yeah, no. So I reacted very negatively leaving that comment
here. Yeah. And here's the opener. This is the you know,
he's Danny begins and it's like, Dennis tries to be funny and he
gets it. Then the woman he first picks on she nails him with a
good question. It irks him. Yeah.
So before so merry Christmas. We're all into all a good night.
I will take ah
yes from the night before Christmas book, some questions.
Jay prepare to lays.
Does that mean he's Santa Claus? The way he says that, or does he
think he's Santa Claus? Before I get to all before I get to all a
farewell unto all a good night, which is what Santa Fe says at
the end of the night before
Christmas. That's I didn't think of that. But it's good. I think
he probably thinks he's Christmas.
So before we should Merry Christmas to all and to all a
good night. Yeah. And
because I'm Santa Claus, I will take some questions.
Jay prepared a list of who's naughty and nice. So we'll see.
Yeah, that's right. We set up we set it all right, reaffirms the
Santa Claus meme. Yeah. I'm Santa Claus. And I'm going to
give a couple of you the opportunity to ask me a scripted
question. If you were nice.
We'll say who made it really must be nice.
That's not at all like a propagandist thing that's going
on there is and you can joke about it all you want. But it's
really not that funny, Julie Pace.
Because, despite all of the data points that you cited in your
opening statement, when you look back at this year, very little
of the domestic agenda that you outlined in their inaugural
address in your state of the union has been achieved. Health
care rollout obviously had huge problems. And your ratings from
the public are near historic lows for you. When you take us
all together. Has this been the worst year of your presidency?
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Why don't they do something
about these cameras? There's no reason you can barely hear the
question. This is a broadcast. And all you hear how many
pictures are these guys have to take? I have a theory
on this. This is, first of all, you never see you never hear the
question asked when you're watching the news. The news will
because it's it's totally irrelevant for the framing of
the messaging. So even on PBS NewsHour, they'll say the
President today responded to questions about this being
possibly the worst year of his presidency, and then they go to
his answer. They never have the question. And I think the reason
is that they have that they don't or either they don't mind
it, or they'd certainly don't do away with the loud camera clicks
is they don't want you to hear the question. When you hear the
questions, you will hear the context in which the answer
comes. And it's always subtle, but it is different. I think
it's meant so you both so
it's definitely doable with that one question where the President
ever answered which he does a lot, by the way, you know, they
asked him a poignant question, and he doesn't answer. He just
lectures them about some Yeah.
But think about it. It's that makes so much sense. We it's
unusable audio, they they rarely have the shot of the journalist
on time. If they'd have it at all,
and where are they picking up does sound from they don't they
don't have these guys might not
know there's a there's a person who sits up front to the left,
if you're looking from the from the podium down and has a little
directional microphone and pointed at the person.
And they pick up all these clicks in the meantime, of
course.
I mean, yeah. I mean, you could easily have everybody miked you
could have all kinds of you know, you could have a boom mic
being put into someone's face. They don't want that. They don't
want you to hear the question in context. Certainly not at the
President's president's not going to answer the question.
Certainly not. I'm
not going to disagree with the theory. So the clicks are
annoying. In the UK, by the way, you could put a rule and you can
bring in one of those loud shutter. Yeah, but the cameras,
these are digital days. We can shoot without the bang, bang,
bang, bang, bang.
I think I've answered your question.
Yeah, I'm just bitching. Go on putting the rest of that and you
hear him try to weasel out of this question.
I gotta tell you generally that's not how I think about it.
I have now been in office five years. Right.
Did you see Edward Snowden this alternative Christmas message?
No, I did not.
Okay, in the UK. And this actually, I have a little bit of
a clip explaining what that is. They so we have the queen, she
does a Christmas message. And then channels that's on the BBC
then Channel Four. Always has an alternative Christmas message in
the past they've had I'm Marge Simpson. You know, it's a kind
of a joke. But this year, it was different. It was kind of a
joke. It was Edward Snowden delivering his Christmas message
to the world via Channel Four via Praxis film so this is Laura
Poydras oh I have to say really needs to work on her miking
skills because the audio is crap. I don't know what this
shot is. This is like this is this is the worst possible setup
so she may not have even done it but it's running through her
company has the copyright on it. The copywriting the news once
again here. And God knows how you know what the deal is that
they cut with Channel Four but here's the here's Edward Snowden
his message which I found to be wholly disappointing.
Hi, and Merry Christmas, I'm honoured to have a chance to
speak with you and your family this year from a
bucket. Pretty much he's in
a hotel and they take the microphone and throw it in a
bucket. And then okay, you can talk now
it's seriously now I think someone tried to do some
processing to make it sound a little decent, but it's it's
crap.
Recently, we learned that our governments working in concert
has created a system of worldwide mass surveillance
watching everything we do.
Now, just I want you to really concentrate job because I know
you'll pick it up. This isn't this is written by someone. This
is written by a speech writer.
Yeah, I know this already sounds like it's written. In fact, it
almost sounds like it was written by a presidential
speechwriter when you really think about it. Recently, we
learned now this is not Edward Snowden, the personable guy I'm
gonna, I'm gonna start it over again. Not that, you know, like,
Hey, here's what I'm doing. I had to blow the whistle. No,
this is we and the world. And it's bothers me.
I'm honoured to have a chance to speak with you and your family
this year. Recently, we learned that our government's working in
concert have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance
watching everything we do. Great Britain's George Orwell warned
us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of
collection in the book microphones and video cameras,
TVs that watch us are nothing compared to what we have
available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us
everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy
of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no
conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means
to have a private moment to themselves.
Okay, this is a little oily going a little overboard. On
recorded
on analysed thought.
Okay, so firstly brings in 1984 George Orwell I don't know if
this was a smart. There's I'm sure there's a reason for it
doesn't feel like the smart way to go. In explaining it makes
him sound like a crackpot. Quite honestly. You don't I mean, it's
like if I were going to write something that was serious, and
I really want to say something to people, I wouldn't be
bringing up the Orwell book. I just, I don't know.
Maybe I don't know what to tell you. It's the thing was
definitely written. It's a little bit off topic, actually,
to be honest about it. Yeah. And,
well, there's another 40 seconds. And he's also now
saying any child born, this born today will never have an
independent on unrecorded on audited thought. That's not
true. Of course, that's in your head. But okay. And that's
a problem. Because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows
us to determine who we are and who we want to be. The
conversation occurring today will determine the amount of
trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us,
and the government that regulates it. Together, we can
find a better balance and mass surveillance and remind the
government that if it really wants to know how we feel,
asking is always cheaper than spying. For everyone out there
listening. Thank you. And Merry Christmas.
Asking is always cheaper than spying? Is he advocating that
the government just pick you up,
grab everybody in a large room, beat him and ask him
pick your downtown for questioning?
Maybe that's what he's advocate. That's what I heard. Town did.
We're gonna ask you some questions.
Yeah, and that we have a few questions for you got
some. Now here is a response from CNN. Then of course, we had
the B team on which is Carol, Carol, Carol, CNN,
facebook.com/carol, CNN, who's, that's all I saw. I remember her
name. And you want to this is actually for me. Here's your
vagina logic right here.
So Carol, a very positive message from Edward Snowden
about the world we're live in today. But I think that over the
years, he's obviously been a very controversial figure. And
so he has gone from kind of revealing this NSA surveillance
programme
Stopstopstop did she say over the year or over the year? I
first
thought she said years but I think it's year is what she's
saying. Well, listen again.
So Carol, a very positive message from Edward Snowden
about the world we're live in today. But I think that over the
years, he's I think he's too His year, obviously been a very
controversial figure. And so he has gone from kind of revealing
this NSA surveillance programmes, I think to being
more of a provocateur, and getting a dialogue going
provocateur about the kind of
provocateur. He says the French word for a whole provocateur,
programmes that are going on right now,
it just enters my mind, he probably tape he did tape that
in Russia, right? Because he can't leave and Russia is not
exactly, you know, a place where freedom of speech flourishes.
And if he said anything against Russia, Russia probably wouldn't
let him release this message. And just he's just a complicated
guy. And it's a complicated issue. And I don't know how to
feel about it.
Because my brain is all scrambled, I can't think.
Well, I think it's interesting. And there's a bit of hypocrisy
going on, as you say, because in Russia, she didn't say that
she didn't say any. Oh, I guess this is because Russia is
hypocritical. There's
there's a very little freedom of expression. And you've seen over
very little no freedom of expression. Really, President
Putin cracking down even further opposition. And the gates of the
conditions of Edward Snowden is a so called temporary asylum is
that he wasn't going to do any more leaks against the United
States. But you've seen, you know, he's passed a lot of
information to journalists, gun crime, others. And so you've
seen these selective leaks over the years that officials say
they really have no idea how much
over the years.
Yeah, and she's saying selective leaks, and which is not
selective leaks is selective reporting information
he really has. And it could be just the tip of the iceberg. So
in very select moments, it seems to inflict kind of maximum
controversy. Yeah, who's doing that you
did
maximum damage to us prestige over the world, we could see in
the coming weeks and months, even more programmes, we really
have no idea how much information he has, or what's
going to be linked. But we have so called proxy, what's
going to be linked to so called proxies and listen, what's going
to do the so called their proxies. I love this what's
going to be linked linked by his so called proxies how
much information he has or what's going to be linked by his
so called proxy
interesting this so called proxy ledger, so called
their proxies. Today interest Why is it so called What did it
because they're not proxies at all? They're agents of the US
government's buying mechanism. I mean, you guys what you
indicating
you got me man, you got me this is I was intrigued by that. Now,
I can tell you where all the data is going to go. That's
pretty much clear now. There's a Chicago company know called
clever safe. A clever safe is it's one of its main investors
you can already imagine. Thank you tell. Oh, yeah, dogs, of
course, is the intelligence arms, the venture capital
company, on the board of Cleversafe. We have former NSA,
former CIA. This is this is where it's all going to go. So
everyone's already on the board, everything's all ramped up and
ready to go. And you can just you can just wait for this to
happen. Which, by the way, it's not that I don't think there's
anything above or below board with that. It's just what it is.
But again, it's a Chicago connection. It's a whole bunch
of intelligence people. And that's where they're going to
store your infant and a lot of this clever, safe outfit. They
already have a lot of public data running on their system.
They're the ones that can do the the 10 exabyte storage if you've
ever read about these guys, oh, yeah, they've got let me see
anything. It's an interesting operation. Let me see what it
says yeah, so here here's
getting clever, clever safe. Now Cleversafe doesn't really do
direct to consumer themselves, but they work with for instance,
they are the data storage for data utility data utility has
all the way like data tilt it has all of semantics business
has, well there's weather bug and yeah, there's a lot of
customer centric stuff. NET app. Let's see who else do they do
business with? They do business with pen Zuora so they really
are a a wholesale data storage company. And they sell off to
let's see, okay, so California State University healthcare
Realty DreamWorks Animation Relativity Media. So they got a
lot of data already knew and you have to ask is, you know, if
you're going to centralise all of the meta data, and you're
going to have But with a third party. Do you want it to be
someone who has all this other data as well?
I would say no, that's intelligence data. Yeah. Well, I
don't like mixing these things up like that.
And also the way they the way their technology works, is they
split up the data and then ship it to data centres. In different
physical locations. encrypted.
Data is expanded virtualized, transformed, sliced, slice and
dispersed using information dispersal algorithms. Yeah.
slices are distributed to separate discs, storage nodes
and geographic locations. Yeah. Yeah. What happens when one of
the locations goes down?
Well, this is kind of my thought is, you know, the how well I
don't know. And then how much
redundancy is there? There can't be more than 100. I made use of
triple redundancy. That would be okay. But I doubt it. I don't
know. I don't know.
I'm just to say I'm just pointing it out. You'll be
hearing about Cleversafe it seems like those will be the
guys. Meanwhile, Greg green rod on Raph he is going to deliver
the keynote at the computer chaos club in Germany. coming up
in January. This is where the all the spies hang out now. This
is what Apple bomb was a part of this is what Poydras is a part
of this is what that little hottie from WikiLeaks. They're
all over there in Berlin, all hanging out in Germany, all part
of the Kaos computing club. Glenn Greenwald also slated to
keynote at South by Southwest.
Oh, you can go over and get his autograph.
Yeah, I could. I to wind it appears that Dennis Blair.
Dennis Blair was the Director of National Intelligence for I
believe, for the Obama administration prior to clapper.
And of course, Blair, by definition, you really can't
interview him. Because of his lifelong non disclosure
agreement, which all of these guys have to why he's even being
questioned on the air is beyond me, because he can't sit if he
says anything. If he even acknowledges classified
documents that have been leaked, he can go to jail.
Yeah, let's go over this again. And we actually both looked over
one of the typical spy documents which are out there that you
have to sign if you want to do any business, even as a
contractor. And it is a lifelong commitment. And you can be
arrested and thrown in the slammer if you violate his
nondisclosure. And there is one way out they can the head of the
Vegas, the CIA, or one of these operations can sign a letter and
absolve you of your commitment. Yes, I don't know that that's
ever going to happen now. But it's in there. And so and so
essentially, and we had we had to remind people, this simple
thing, and you hear when you listen to C span a lot. If Glenn
Greenwald reveal something that's classified, like the
slide that shows Microsoft and all these guys in bed with the
NSA, and it remains classified, even though it's in the public
domain. Yep. So in other words, you know about it, I know about
it. But the guy who signed that document still has to pretend
he's never seen it.
And he's not even allowed to go to the website that portrays it.
Right?
He can't do any of that. So he can't ask smart, intelligent
questions, because as far as he's concerned by law, that is
all not to be discussing. He's not even supposed to know about
it.
Well, in this case, Dennis Blair is not the journalist like John
Miller, who by the way, is going to the New York Police
Department.
Right? Nice little no Miller's just essentially a revolving
signed off security cleared cop that shouldn't have ever done
that piece. So Blair
is on with Fareed Zakaria. Oh, god, yes. And so just bear in
mind that Dennis Blair cannot tell the truth.
Let's, let's remind the public listeners that three of the
producers that Fareed Zakaria is does not like the Constitution
says we should have a constitutional convention and
redo the whole thing.
Yes. And he always has private meetings with the President. one
on ones just to discuss strategy.
I don't I don't see anything wrong with putting in additional
checks and balances on the FISA court along the lines that have
been suggested. But, you know, for the main thing that I looked
for in the programme was whether actual harm was done to an
innocent American by the by the programme, has anybody lost a
job been harassed by the FBI? Been? Yeah, from from doing
something as a result of the programme any innocent American?
And the answer is no,
isn't that Yes. No, no, no, no, it's unbelievable how violating
your constitutional rights is just seen as Oh, you weren't
hurt where you were? wasn't what was the problem? You weren't
hurt?
What about the people that were set up to do with various
entrapment schemes? They're hurt? Yeah, they have to go to
court or their lives are ruined. There's plenty of evidence that
did this has happened over and over and they're doubted
claiming this has never happened. Well,
if you were worried Fareed Zakaria, I'm sure you would
intervene immediately and say this.
Right. Yeah, I
would none of those have come to light. All the concern is about
the possibility of misuse of this information by the the
National Security Agency in the intelligence committees. My
experience is that information is not misused. And that, that
having it available to efficiently check to see whether
a foreigner who has been identified as a potential
terrorist has called an American phone number, is a useful check,
and in fact, has helped us toward some attacks. Oh, really.
Senator Wyden says that it's pretty clear now that the phone
logging programme that the NSA uses this big data mining
programme did not in fact stop any terrorist attacks that the
the committees the advisory panels report a makes that
clear. Excuse me.
Alright, pay attention.
Because before you go on the other guy who what's this guy
this talking as Akari. Again, he you notice the way he talks?
It's, it's just stop and go borderline stutter? Only there's
there's silence because he's, he's working in words.
Yeah, he's choosing his words very choosing his words very
carefully. For some reason. He also didn't want to say NSA, he
said National Security Agency,
gonna say NSA, and then he decided, I'm not sure why
reason. Yeah.
Anyway, so here he is. Now. Now he's going to start the new
narrative. Because this we all now know that this metadata
programme resulted in no thwarting of terrorist attacks,
and he is now going to say it did
your reaction.
I think that's incorrect, I would say the Nagi bola Zazie.
Plan plans to set off a number of bombs in the New York City
subways in 2009, on the pattern of the 2005 London attacks, and
I know that the information gathered by NSA under this
programme was a key factor and tipping us off as to what Zazie
was up to. And he was subsequently stopped before he
could do it. So I just think that's incorrect intelligence.
And this is an F, this was an FBI sting. And so let's go back
to think about what Rogers was saying about how pissed off he
was that there was no that didn't talk to the FBI in the
report. This is what they're now doing, there's going to be an
amendment to this report is something's going to happen
because they need to prove that this that this NSA metadata
programme does result in saving the American people from being
blowed up. And so they are recruiting. So it's going to be
this certainly this specific instance, and where he gets away
saying, modelled on the London seven seven bombings, really one
guy versus like seven guys, and they happen to be a drill with
the exact same pinpoint locations. Really. That's what
you're going to pin this on Dennis Blair. To you watch this,
you watch this, this, this come to the forefront,
a lot of different indicators put together when done well to
find what's going on. And this programme has contributed to
that. And I believe it's constitutional. So I believe it
should continue. Now, I'm not
sure if he says it in this next clip. But the whole idea of the
recommendations of the report, which of course the no agenda
show is one of the few actually read the report and told you
what's really in it. Is there is a provision, if so the idea is
all that all the metadata will be stored by a third party,
private third party, because that's really what they're
pushing for, not for everyone keeping it themselves. So that
would be clever, safe. And then you would they would have to get
a warrant in order to do anything with this metadata and
unless oops, unless, of course there's imminent harm to the
American people being blowed up, then the Attorney General can
sign off on it and they can get the warrant later. The attorney
general of course, being Eric Holder by himself can say you
can just say yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, go
ahead. And they can do it almost like high frequency high
frequency trading. And then they can go back and get the warrant
later. It's just it's it's just solidifying the entire spine
programme, making it easier and giving some Chicago Boys some
nice coin at the same time.
I do believe and I tried when I was director of national
intelligence to talk more openly about this, this programme. I
think we can do that without without talking about specific
details which which are what have to be kept secret and I
think that this administration has done a bad job of explaining
it. And had we done it from an early stage from the time that I
was DNI on, then why these revelations would have been less
shocking shouldn't have fired me bow. I think a couple of things
are worth mentioning though. The scale of these programmes is
large because the scale of communications is large and and
there are billions of phone calls, emails, tweets and other
transit communication being made.
Look out for them tweets,
the tweets can be dangerous all over the world. So in order to
try to find ones that are being made by those hostile to the
United States, it will require big programmes, large computers,
lots of lots of data. So is it a question of scale? Not a
question of principle? It's just
a question of scale, not print, screw principles. You and your
tweets can go twat off. It's not about principles. It's about
scale, baby, get those Chicago Boys in here clever save. Oh,
yeah, so that was that was my pre Christmas round up of
douchebags.
Well, I kind of stayed domestic in my little job of research and
came up with a very turned up and very interesting couple of
things.
But before we do that, if you don't mind since we're going to
switch gears. I would like to of course, in one of our last shows
of 2013. Sincerely John like to thank
him isn't this this? Isn't this actually our last show?
We have a show on Sunday. No.
Oh, right. Saturday, Sunday. Late I Sunday will be our last
show
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he did, yeah. And he said, he said, I got a great deal. And I
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But he says he will continue to list official brain professor of
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yeah, professors so we had a little get together a little
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sorry. What's today? Today is Thursday. Yeah, Sunday after the
show. Okay. And it's just you know, the friends who were in
town came by to the professor came by and and he said, Oh, we
got news. Now. Okay, thanks. He also gave me a document which I
he was, he just was, well, first of all, everyone was drunk. So
I'm like, What are you talking about? He says that there's an
this document from a couple of years ago put it in the show
notes 577 dot na shownotes.com and it shows how the scientific
community is in agreement that forensics are not really
admissible in court when it comes to fingerprints. junks,
it's junk science says it's complete junk science. Your I
didn't know this.
Oh, yeah. In fact, JC buzzkill Jr. There's about a year ago and
he's working on a course he's not a coder, but he likes to
write and we've been working on detective story, style write
stories. Yeah, man. So he read so he got all these different
books about all kinds of foliage, you know, how the
police stuff supposed to be done? How you're not supposed to
touch anything at the crime scene, and all the rest of it.
And he ran into the documents that said this is bullcrap. None
of this stuff is it's just a it's just a dog and pony show
just the impressed the jury, which is why no one's ever
called out on it, which is why you
rarely see an actual scientist testifying in court. I'll just
read a couple of it. The whole thing is marked up it's about
five pages written by Michael J. Sachs and Jonathan J cooler.
Converging legal and scientific forces are pushing the
traditional Forensic Identification sciences towards
fundamental change. The assumption of discernible
uniqueness that resides at the core of these fields is weakened
by evidence of error in proficiency testing and an
actual cases. And of course, this is pushing towards DNA
typing, which is modelled as scientifically defensible
approach. And as questioning and driving older forensic sciences
sciences out. Courts almost never excluded testimony. Cross
Examination rarely questions the foundations of the asserted
expertise or the basis of the analyst certainty today, the
ones complacent corner of the law and science interface has
begun to unravel. The news carries reports of erroneous
forensic identifications of hair bullets, handwriting footprints
bite marks even venerated fingerprints. Scientists have
started to question the core assumptions of Forensic
Sciences. And this is from this is from 2005. Yeah. Legal and
scientific forces are converging to drive an emerging scepticism
about the claims of the traditional forensic
individualisation sciences. As a result, the sciences are moving
towards a new scientific paradigm. And of course, this is
all moving towards DNA, which I I've always understood DNA to
have its its issues as well.
Well, especially if somebody is a Chimaera, which means that
when they're in the womb before birth, one of the little eggs or
it's would becomes when it becomes some blood viable, eats
the other one. So you have two sets of two, two sets of DNA,
that same family resemblance, but you can take the DNA from
somebody and they won't match, right, some DNA that was used
for the gap that in other words, an individual, I think this
accounts for a lot of the people who say they've got a woman
inside them. I think it's literal, I think, I don't see I
can, I've seen you've seen people that look like they
should be female, and they're not, you know, and there's, you
know,
this is this is this is interesting. The girls were we
were talking about, oh, it's officially now LGBTQ Qi. So the
acronym down, and I would say LGBTQ Qi, because there will be
lesbian, gay, bisexual, bi curious, questioning, queer and
intersex. And I learned two important things in my
conversations with the experts who are residing here. One, it
often happens that a transgendered person, so let's
say we have a gay guy wants to become a woman. And he and he
becomes a woman. And then is becomes a lesbian.
Yeah, that does happen. But apparently,
it happens a lot. Lot. Like it's very common. Which is
interesting. You know, does that mean that homosexuality in some
way is mirroring yourself? Or I don't have an answer. Obviously,
it's
too confusing for me.
Smokes coming out of John's ears at the moment, I don't
understand it. And the other thing I learned is that gays and
lesbians are huge bullies against each other. So if
lesbians go into a gay bar, there'll be more bullying
against these lesbians in the gay bar than anywhere else. Yet,
that wouldn't surprise me surprise me either. But it's
just interesting to note that there's probably more gay hatred
going on in the gay bar in America than there is in Russia,
which by the way, holy crap, John, we went to a Christmas
drink. Oh, here we go. Yep. Yeah. And this was at the at the
robots house who could never have a Republican at the dinner
table. Not that John and I are, but I'm just framing it for you.
And, and all of a sudden, we were talking about Russia. And I
was like, Well, you know, the boy, they really hate the gays.
And I was tired. And so you know, I can't I want well, let
me just say that's not true. Oh, my God, when the host of the
party is walking away from you, in disgust, that's when you know
that it's a problem. Because it you know, it's it's, you know,
there's a white paper and I'm gonna get this to you. And it's
really there's there's more anti gay shenanigans going on in the
US than in all of Russia. In Russia. You don't have to, you
know, there was no don't ask, don't tell you could be gay in
the military is no problem you can adopt without going through
some rigorous training or door questioning to see oh, if you're
gay, can you adopt? There's none of that in Russia, none of it.
But you've been duped by the media and I say the man and it's
mainly to soak the American media of $30,000 for every
violation. And by the way, it's only of minors under 13, to
Prague to propagandise, and an untraditional or non traditional
lifestyles. This is not like you know, you can't say you're gay
you can't it's not it's not true that they don't want to believe
that people don't fucking want to believe it. And then it's
like well, but that puts me Ryan stuck for two years two years
put the riot like Don't you see what's going on? Don't you
understand the propaganda of all of this on both sides? Russia is
horrible. It no it these are smart smart people love
Apparently not. Well, it's a it's a Mind Control thing.
Although I did hear luckily at this dinner, multiple people say
yeah, I'm really tired of MSNBC and specifically Rachel Maddow
so good yeah I was very encouraged by that and then of
course he said well you know Fox is run by Democrats you can
watch that and then they just like the eyes roll hey go ahead
and then they keel over and I really I really did not do a
good job of
I got a word tired you
know I wasn't I was on my D game
Well that's no good. It was really bad just shut up
that's what I should have done I should just just smile and go
yeah
whatever you think idiot
now I got to start emailing articles is the same guy who
said when the towers came down I knew we had the the NSA is doing
important work. And now you know you're gonna see he's gonna go
oh, look at this we through the 1995 the 2001 for the whatever
the haka Maka lucky, modelled on the blue London bombing to
losing proposition.
Well, anybody who's comes out of the blue and the first thing you
learn from them as they won't have dinner with a Republican is
an obvious bigot. And bigots have a mind that doesn't work
right, no matter how smart they are. And there's plenty of smart
bigots as it were. But their mind is twisted it to begin
with, it's like a damaged brain. And so they certain things,
they're just you don't unscramble part of it. It just
kind of freaks them out. They get a little weird. I mean,
that's one of the things that's great about no agenda listeners,
is they get open. Some I'm sure they did kind of crack potty. If
you listen to them, then we get the email, but for the most
part, they will listen to reason. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
they're sceptical. It didn't sound like he's sceptical. He's
just a lock stays a Nazi.
Yeah, there we go. That's all done. End of show. You call them
a Nazi. Nazi muzzled, quit while we're ahead. I, here's, I went
down a little, you want to do something because I got a little
rabbit hole.
This is a little lengthy, but I'm gonna do it. So I'm, I'm
gonna give you the how I got into this. This is the first
thing is going to involve four clips. That got me into what I'm
going to reveal which is showing again, the media accompanies and
many famous websites that we compete with, completely
dropping the ball on his butt. So we got an email from a guy
says, oh, you should look into the free freedom club of
Berkeley. Because they do lie detectors as a bunch of spoons.
You were able to read that email. I looked at that email. I
went what?
I decided I'm in Berkeley, so I decided to type in freedom club.
There's nothing on the internet about this at all. But I did run
into the freedom club of the United States.
And he because he referenced Ted Kaczynski Yeah, the union bomber
and he's but email was weird. John was like, don't propagate
Kaczynski freedom club Berkeley. But
yeah, it was weird. But I did a little at least I looked into it
but then I stumbled onto something completely different.
So it triggered that because you're gonna wonder Well, what I
got I got okay. So free. The free club of the United States
of America is it appears to me to be a pyramid scheme of some
sort. But they have all these interesting come ons and he's
come on, it's fascinated me. And I've got four four different
things here. First of all, here's the main come on to which
is the FC USA.
yourself from debt with his limited time special offer? Do
you know that every credit card you've ever had is worth
$150,000 cash, and you never have to pay it back. And every
auto loan or student loan is also worth $150,000 cash, and
you never pay it back. And every mortgage is worth $375,000 cash
cash for your debt paid off or not think what you can do with
financial freedom by downhaul by getting back to the Ambassador
that sent this to you, this will change your life
forever. Wow, that sounds like a bargain. If I got a credit card
is worth $150,000 This is good.
But yeah, no, you should cash it in. So apparently they got this
this it's really a pyramid scheme if you look at it, but
it's got they got all these pitches, and I've heard these
pitches before and they're all nonsense, but they're
interesting. And it's the perfect for our show and a lot
of our listeners I'm sure there's many of our listeners
who are actually at some point or another bought into some of
this No offence listeners and producers but but this one here
or you've heard this before, this is the straw man clip
it must say something else.
Yeah. What's the straw man?
I don't have a straw man clip.
Is it in the second part of this stuff I sent.
I got all your stuff. Hold on a second. I'm sorry. Does this
work? clips to? Hold on a sec? No, I don't have any have
anything with an S I go from p to
q? Well, that's not good. This is an important.
It's not in the second bunch of clips. Well, I'm
gonna have to send it to you again. Yeah. Because
yeah, let me let me check part one. Maybe I missed it here as
possible.
I believe it would be important to
know, you did not attach it my friend will attach it now. Can
you send it out real quick? I can. Okay. Yeah, I'm looking at
it. Let's let's name something else. I've GM. No,
no, no, it's named straw man is sitting here. Do you? Do you
have the clip I'm able to send you to do you have where money
comes from? I have that one. And you have quantum energetic I do?
Well, that's weird.
Can we play them out of order while you're sending that? And
we know actually,
I want to do a minority because it's actually kind of important
you send it yet? I will. I can't talk and chew gum at the same
time here.
It's so it's so incredibly hard. By the way, I'm back on Firefox,
I decided I've had enough. I was using Chrome for a while because
now it's just Firefox which just can't handle flash. For some
reason, and and then Chrome became a nightmare. Just really
spinning wheels of death and it slowed everything down. And at
least Firefox doesn't seem to be grabbing on the Mac. All the
resources seems to be doing somewhat better. But man Oh,
man. It said we need a new browser.
You know, I was thinking about that. Maybe we could do a yes.
What a startup thing. And a browser that's there is a couple
of browsers out there, but they're always based on Firefox.
Mozilla. Yeah. Pretty much older. WebKit Mozilla would
probably Mozilla.
Yeah. Okay, so I sent you to the strawberry strong.
So what were you thinking we were going to do you when you
say a startup? You mean a Kickstarter? I just have to try.
That's what everybody Yeah, you were going to do a Kickstarter,
right.
What do you think it would cost?
What to do? What to build a browser? Yeah,
it's expensive to do. People say it's not expensive. You get to
that one one quarter was using and then you have the one that's
in
France. What's so great, what's going to be different about it?
Well, they would they make it better. We have a guy knows what
he's doing.
I got straw man ready. So he roll it. Okay, so
let's play straw man. And now tell me you haven't heard this
pitch. It's a common like bullshit pitch that a lot of
people promote. Here we go.
Nor legally, your sweat equity is collateral for the US
corporation to Federal Reserve Banks. USA is a private foreign
corporation, incorporated in England in 1871. I know I've
heard this IRS is a private corporation contracted as a bill
collector to repay the interest on the national debt residing in
Puerto Rico. They are not a government agency. Corporations
can only do business with other corporations. Upon their birth,
all individuals are given a twin known as your straw man, which
is a corporation owned and controlled by the government
beginning in 1933. Your Corporation straw man name is
Your name in all capital letters, such as John H. Doe, or
Mary a doe. Black's Law states, a capitalised name refers to a
corporation.
Yeah, before you go on, because you said some of our producers
probably had been a part of this. I've looked at this many,
many times. I've seen many seminars, lots of speeches, lots
of documentation. And it's common law. I think the it's
like Common Law of the Sea or Admiralty, I forget exactly what
the term is. And it totally makes sense to me. I don't think
that people forget that we also have a police force that will
arrest you and throw you in jail if you try to go around this
system. But there's always a claim that there are people who
know how to do this, and are living outside of their legal
twin entity. And you end up the way you answer questions and
it's things that you do or do not acknowledge I've you know,
yeah, so I've seen the seminars, I've always thought, wow, that'd
be cool to do. But I would probably wind up in jail.
Yes, as anyone else would, by the way, because this is all
nonsense, but let's go on
you think it's not true that none of this is true, but that
we were bankrupt in
1933. Maybe and you got it and you when you're born you're born
as a corporation. Yeah, I don't think so. You don't think so?
No, I don't think so. Find me your corporate record. That was
all Adam curry. All caps. That was all caps thing come from
Yeah, no, I Okay, no no no no don't don't even think it's any
of this is realistic. Okay, where money comes from is
another one that we as we move along with this is a pitch
you've heard this too. Yeah and this I just think did I like
these because they got a little music in the background I got
some nice graphics are very professionally done. And the guy
who's got a nice voice
didn't have didn't What was it wasn't wedlock Wesley Snipes the
freedom club guy didn't know
or maybe his love what you mean the guy in jail
where money comes from fractional banking creates money
from your birth account using your note signature. Banks are
loaning you your own money. Your signature gives them implied
authority to take the money from your birth account. They then
pretend it was their money they loaned you you pay principal and
interest to the bank for money they did not loan you that is
conversion and therein lies the fraud.
Yeah, I've heard this too. And this is where the $9.2 million
of value comes from. That each of us is assigned and what I
have always understood that listen to me, I'm telling you
I'm telling you my deep my deepest heartfelt secrets I have
always understood that the there is a part of America's value is
the number of human resources at birth times 9.2 million that's
adjusted for inflation of course and that is what we bank upon
and that and that is the true value of the United States and
that indeed the the banking system banks on that on the
legal entity that we are outside of the personal entity that you
are that this it's though that the United States is it is
registered as a legal entity that way is you know the so our
cities and particularly fractions of cities the City of
London you know this all this stuff
with this whole cities are incorporated this business and
if it was the United States where where's the incorporation
papers?
This it well, you catch me a little off guard, but I had sent
me a
guy sent me a copy like to read the included the articles of
incorporation. All right, onward, you can do that later.
Yeah, meanwhile, of course, you go on with this stuff. And you
end up with finally, you know, besides the scheme that they
have you forgiven $5,000, you get a check for $550,000. Look
at
Well, this sounds like a great idea. Yeah.
But they also do this, which is like why is this in here and
this is the quantum energetics, which is also on this site.
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I don't know where that came from. That's a part of the
that's the same outfit.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I did the thing that got my attention
was his bankruptcy in 1933, where they supposedly some
bankruptcy took place. And so I ended up with a with a, I read
this article about the bankruptcy. And so I did one of
my classic, you know, let me take the weirdest sentence I
could find, and then
roll that to see where it came from.
I couldn't find out where it came from. But it's interesting
to see where it ended up. And essentially, what they've done
is let me just read your part of this. They're all they all say
the same thing. It starts with these pieces. This is an article
that has been pieced together to convince you of some sort of
bankruptcy, bankruptcy that took place in 1933. And it starts
with a supposedly a quote from the Congressional Record from
James traficant, Jr. In Ohio, addressing the house and he
says, now we're gonna have to read this, Mr. Speaker. We are
now here in chapter 11. Members of the Congress, our official
trustees, presiding over the greatest reorganisation of any
bankrupt entity in the world history, the US government, we
are setting forth the hopefully a blueprint for our future.
There are some who say it is a coroner's report that will lead
to our demise. Oh, then in the same article that that's got a
quote mark at the beginning, there's no quote mark at the end
of the after the word demise. So that makes you think it's a
continuation. It is an established fact that the United
States federal government has been dissolved by the Emergency
Banking Act of March 9 1933 48. Stack one public law 89 Dash 719
declared by the president wrote by President Roosevelt being
bankrupt and insolvent it goes on and on and on. So as usual,
if you look at the Congressional Record, and actually look at it,
you find the traffic content thing. It's they're debating a
bill H, I think it's H 1303. And he says this Mr. Speaker here,
and now in chapter 11, he goes on and on and on. This was
facetious, because it's after the word demise. He doesn't go
on with He doesn't say, it's an established fact, blah, blah,
blah. He says, I am going to support the rule. I am not sure
if it will support this budget. I want to hear an awful lot more
not being a member of this committee. And if I'm not
getting to vote for things I do not and it goes on. He never the
rest of it is all bullcrap. What are you talking about? So
everything that isn't that's been floating around this, this
little document has been floating around saying it goes
on about who dropped the gold standard. We're in bankruptcy.
It all happened in 1933. This has got nothing to do with what
he was doing. And they then they cite that it was a good question
all records bullcrap. It's just a lie. So I googled the little
phrase, I ended up Googling, let me find it here like Google
search. The AI it within this document, it says this new form
of government is known as a democracy, which is the argument
that we're not a republic anymore. We're a democracy. And
it goes on us as his new form of government is known as a
democracy being an established socialist slash communist order.
Under a new governor for America. There's a government
running in place. So that and this is all just part of this,
this script, or this one document. So I googled it, this
new form of governments known as a democracy to see who ran this
thing. And they ran it full cloth with the same missing
quote, as though traffic count. They brought our traffic Conte
brought this up in Congress when he didn't, he was just joking
around actually, like, say, you know, it's like saying, Hey,
Adam, well, how are you doing this weekend? I'm bankrupt, man.
I got nothing. And then all of a sudden that random curry is
bankrupt. Alright,
so Okay, so let me just follow this. But you're really relating
this to the Federal Reserve 1930 1913
No, no, it the whole thing is about this one phrase. The US
went bankrupt. We actually filed and went bankrupt in 1933. That
is the assertion that and they win people a bitch about the 98
they're the Federal Reserve Act they they usually drop that in
afterwards they were already bankrupt and all and we got a
new form of government nobody's talking about and we have a
governor that runs things and we don't know who he is as a shadow
government running everything. Right. It's not that it this is
like oh, well this is another piece of crap. It's when you
google this it's who printed this article. In exactly full
cloth.
That is shocking. What does that what does it mean full cloth?
Everything is exactly the same article Yeah, there is no
editing they all they edited it was the headlines the editing,
there's no editing of this thing. And we go from we go from
the Republic of the United states.com When you go to before
it's news.com. We go for awaken video.org We go to this true
democracy. Henry Henry Makau rent ran this thing the daily
Paul ran it. Republican of Arizona ran it full cloth.
Slavery is the news. Granite full cloth. Liberty beacon ran
it. I mean, these are all pushing this bullcrap. And then
you get into some interesting ones. It shows up in Facebook
all over the place. The gathering spot Bakersfield
talks, freedom for all seasons.com And then you get
farm guardian. Sovereign america.com Jesus saviour.com It
goes on and on. And then we get to it. Here's the ones I wanted
to get to which again, page three rumour mill news, soda
head, Joe bird freedom club, then it shows up in watchtower.
It shows up in rents, which people always say oh rents
rents, and then it shows up and guess who your buddy down the
street? Ran it full cloth
Infowars. Yes.
It goes on and on the chemical centre.
And so it is based upon a throwaway line. That was a joke
and it's a lie and it would never happen that way. Yeah,
yeah. Well, and you're surprised
know what that what I was surprised by was it's such a
piece of crap. little article, and it talks about that we have
a governor now and it's a socialist country. And we've
changed. We had papers everywhere. What surprises me is
not the data that we see.
Is that no one does the the research to take a look at
what's really going on. No, I know. And it runs
in grants and it runs in full World Wars.
Well, I've
been trying I've been trying to do I know I've been tracking.
I've been tracking something recently, which is blacklisted
news, Zero Hedge wrens, Breitbart, Infowars, all of
this, about this lawsuit. And when you really look into it,
it's it's quite different. But here's the headline, US sailors
dying of cancer, they were at Fukushima suing the United
States Navy. And then when you look into it, it's a husband and
wife, who tried this a year and a half ago, judge threw it out
of court, they've now tried to amend something they don't,
they're not actually dying yet. You know, it's like it keeps
getting worse and worse and worse and worse. And then they
actually come out and they're suing for $100 million. And then
they and then the statement is, well, some people will think
we're doing this just for the money. Oh, no, no, I didn't
think that at all. But the way the headline morphs and you
know, my I mean, I've I hold back on, on all of these
Fukushima stories, because I I'd rather wait five years and go,
Oh, are we all dead yet? Because, you know, it makes no
sense for me to say it's not true. You're being lied to,
you're being manipulated, you're specifically being manipulated
by the gas industry, specifically,
T. Boone Pickens has got more brands than we do,
and everything and the whole solar and wind and it's all
about gas. But you but you know, of course, he's the same people
selling iodine drops, etc, right? And then and then this
map that's been going around, look, here's the the toxic cloud
had reached California within four days when that map was
actually from NOAA. And that map is of a current from the
aftermath of the tsunami, not at all about nuclear cloud or
anything. And
I was extremely annoyed by this besides the humorous clips from
the freedom club, when this this 1933 thing came up and I said
well, I'm gonna look into it the way you would do normally and
then why saw it linked to every crackpot and your alternative
news sites but John, that's because they're not doing as
hell that no, you can't get good news anywhere
because they're not doing the work. They're not doing the
simple work and how long did it take you? 40 minutes?
It took me it didn't take long now, but But no,
I get it. I told Okay,
brings me brings me on budget. If I'm gonna bitch about the
media, I might as well go to the mainstream media for a second.
And I got an ask Adam here. Now take yourself and make yourself
like a journalist that you're like, Well, I have to get into
character. Don't rock rock. Okay, I'm ready. Okay, now I
want to play a clip from the Today Show. And as a journalist,
you're going to ask who, what, when, where and why. So I'm
going to ask you questions about what you learned from this clip.
And you're going to tell me based on what's in this clip.
What this clip is all about. Essentially, it just run the ads
again, this is today's show clip
wanted to know more about as Google technologists Daniel
Sieberg?
The story that we were just talking about in the break up
Justine Sacco, a lot of people may not know the name if they
weren't, you know, immersed in Twitter, a
little offensive tweet would certainly come up a little bit.
Back to her it was heard around the world eventually. And the
idea is that she sent out this offensive tweet that had to do
with AIDS and Africa, she got on a flight from London to South
Africa. By the time she landed, the internet had exploded with
reaction to this. And everybody was of course very upset. She
was fired as a result and just this kind of, you know,
mentality of everybody reacting to it online was very, she was a
PR person for major company, which is why I do so much she
tends to apologise for it, we should say she's got a
statement, I'll read it. Your Words cannot express how sorry I
am how necessary it is for me to apologise to the people of South
Africa. Well, I have offended due to needless and careless
tweet. I'm very sorry for the pain I caused. The only good
that came out of this were some sites that redirected people to
donate money to AIDS charities, so at least that's a small
positive but obviously a lot of negative reaction. Yeah. It's
horrible.
So my question would be, what company?
That would be question number one. They didn't say why. They
didn't say what you know what company it is, right. Mary,
what's his name?
Oh, I see Barry Diller's coronary jewellers operation.
Well, that's a, that's a, that's a that's a roll up. So as a
whole A bunch of companies in IAC.
Yeah, well, she was one of the May PR people, I think for the
holding company, whatever the case. Why didn't they say who
didn't? That's the question I had. What was the name of the
company? What did you learn from that clip? You learned these
guys? Like they laugh Yuk it up at the hole. And is it an
offensive tweet? What was the tweet?
No, we don't need to know what the tweet is. That will be
wrong.
We would ditch offensive one person says it's offensive. The
other one says it's really offensive.
It's really offensive.
What was it? What kind of reporting is this?
Yeah. Well, it was that's pretty bad reporting. Now. I've looked
at it now. It's funny because someone did at the party at our
party. Someone you know, I was laying down my smack about.
About Duck Dynasty and, and target about that being the
cover up. And then And then someone who was listening? Who
had no idea what you're talking about, when? Obviously. Wow, did
you hear about that tweet from the PR lady. And I,
by the way, this PR lady had 100 followers. Yeah, who cares what
she tweets but okay, go on.
And I was like, No, and that's where I first heard about it.
And I guess if she said, I'm going to Africa, hope I don't
get AIDS because I'm white or something like that.
No, no, she says, I'm going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS.
Just kidding. I'm white. Right? Yeah. So this is uh, this was
very, very, very offensive, so offensive, extremely offensive,
extremely offensive, to the point where they couldn't even
say what it was that she said, and I looked at I said, this is
just dumb. It's stupid. It's just stupid. So what
interesting why, why did we know what the story was behind that?
Of course, that's the whole point is to
somebody picked it up and retweeted it isn't this offence
some, you know, Newton, it got there, I guess I think was
somebody trying to get this woman and they, they're in the
PR business, right? So they got it out there. Boom, she's fired.
She goes, Robson, the she's a centre of attention when she
lands in South Africa. She has 100 followers. Who cares what
she says it's like these guys, ankle biters.
I think the way I the way I when I read this, and I do recall
reading it, I kind of took it like, kind of her way of saying
apartheid is alive and well. And no one cares about black people
in South Africa and the AIDS problem. And it seemed like a
kind of like a tongue in cheek not a great joke. But I kind of
got it like, Okay, you're going to South Africa. Hope you don't
get AIDS. But just kidding. You don't because you're white. It's
like, yeah, there's a huge problem with AIDS amongst the
black population in South Africa. It's not a great way of
trying to bring attention to it. But that's how I read it. And I
think that was the intent probably was I don't know but
this is this the Machine Man the machine likes to be fed at the
end of the year just wants to put more crap into that. Will
you know the machine learned
about the machine as you can pick it up? We have this thesis
on the show that people always tell the truth at some point.
Yeah. They can't not people can't live forever. So I found
Matt Lauer curiously telling the truth during a stupid segment
that I watched him with this is this is the dumbest thing and I
don't even know how it became a segment how it became
before you before you do that. Can I just say something about
the age thing and Africa? Yeah. You know, Mickey's she's sag so
we've now we're getting all the movies for the SAG Awards. She
has to vote on it. And we and we got the Matthew McConaughey
movie The Dallas Buyers Club, which was almost outstanding,
because it it completely legitimises my theory that the
AC T was killing people. And you know, and it was the FDA. And
the whole thing is up until the very end of the movie, the last
line to stop the lawsuits. They put a one line in there that
says, later the AZT and very low doses and it was given to
patients and save millions worldwide and of movie. The
whole thing was about how people were living for years without
AZT with just the HIV virus not having full blown AIDS because
they weren't taking this, this the unapproved cancer drug and
rejected cancer drug. And at the very end of the movie, they
ruined the whole thing by by little throwaway line, like, oh,
but in very low doses. Yeah. Which will be nothing. It saved
millions of people. So they don't get sued. Anyway.
Well, that was what you have to
do. Yeah. That was just the way it works in the movie. Okay.
Yeah. So anyway, so
we're going back to that so the media sucks. And so we want to
now do tell the truth once in a while and they bring it out that
they suck. So there's this piece floating around about and it was
just a lousy piece it was and I saw it on the internet. I saw it
here and they did it on the Today Show. Because apparently
today's show Oh nowadays is essentially just running crap
off it's the news the news so this is that airbrushing story
that became a rage oh look the airbrush this girl and they made
her legs longer and they did all this stuff
another story I know nothing about Photoshop okay I don't
know anything of the day just play it
no I'm gonna get the setup set it up yeah so the if you went to
any of these website news websites they have all this
stuff at the bottom now which is all paid for advertising that's
done in the form of news stories and a little Photoshop quick
photo Photoshop thing remarkable Photoshop YouTube video and it's
a it's just a piece of shit is useless. But they picked it up
on the Today Show and he decided to go with it.
What is not understanding? Is it showing how women are.
It's a it's a girl's picture and then they Photoshopped her and
they didn't make a blonde or they make her legs longer. Good
and high speeds.
Right? Got it.
Got it and it's lame. It's just lame. It's part so why are they
running? Yeah. Why are they running this as news on the
today's show in the yucking it up. But what's interesting is
that they give a little insight they give us a little bit of
truth of the end that you'll catch, I'm sure and I just did
ah, this is a great clip
trending from YouTube photoshopped to perfection take
a look at this. It's no secret that the glamorous images we see
in magazines are heavily airbrushed right now a dramatic
new video is illustrating just how much work goes into that
process. This time lapse video shows a makeup free model
becoming a blonde bombshell photo editors in large her eyes
and shrink her nose. They tightened her tummy they stretch
her neck and legs and finally they lightened her skin giving
it that certain glow the final result looks like a completely
different won't even need the model no I mean it's like weird
science you could just make up the girl let's
be clear she started as a blind bombshell so she needed all
those improvement is
this amazing. You cannot believe anything you see in print or on
television. I
think a little airbrushing a little bit here and there. But
that's extensive.
A little here and there is okay. But that's crazy.
The line is you cannot believe anything anything you see.
That's the line. And then he says oh and tell the truth.
He says television, right buddy kind of pulled back a little
well this
is there is something going on. It's an advertising opportunity.
It's really big. And it revolves around. This is maybe partially
part of it. But this is about fat talking. And this is a meme.
This is vagina logic Janez and said Mimi brought it up, I feel
more confident and comfortable using this phrase over and over
again. It is vagina advertising logic. And I want you to tell me
now what you're going to this is a video and it is an ad. Id the
product is not mentioned in the ad. But you're going to tell me
what it is. And in this there's a clothing store. And these
women it's fake and these women are all actors, but yes looks
reality. So you're gonna believe it. And they come in and
everything on the clothing on the on the articles, has a
little tag that says, Boy, I will look fat in this or I'm I'm
too bloated to wear this. It's and then they have all of a
sudden they're all in this store and they have a conversation
about it. You tell me? What is the advertising motive behind
this new fat talking bullying mean?
93% of women that talk. We believe it's a barrier to
managing their weight. It happens everywhere. Especially
when shopping for clothes. Just show how damaging words convey.
We created a store filled with actual fat talk. Hi, good
morning. Welcome. This is cute. Very cute. I have a muffin top.
Cellulite is in my DNA. Hashtag cow. I mean, that's awful. Like
starting to sweat.
This design.
I mean, these are all things that I've said. This is like
looking at the inside of my head because it makes me feel
nauseous. I feel sad. I didn't realise how bad it was. That's
like you're fooling yourself.
You bully yourself
instantly you're waking up over filler.
It's kind of bewildering to me to think that someone could do
this and say this and feel this way about themselves most
definitely
eye opening. It's damaging. I can't talk about myself that
way. I teach young girls to dance and I don't want to fat
talk because I'm going to be a role model to them.
promoting more positive thoughts within myself as well as with my
friends no more fit. I don't want to hear any more from
anyone we need to shut it down
we're all doing this and we're all in this together we need to
be each other's support reversing the fat talk making it
positive
reversing the fat talk shut it down Don't be fat talking now
first I will say this is a real issue and women are programmed
to do this did look at just look at television turn on television
you'll see nothing but this so it's very sad because it is of
course true that this fat talking is all a part of a
female popular culture and it's programmed right into the box
but this is a commercial us and stop what fight fat talk.org is
brought to you by Kellogg's Special K because you know you
might as well diet is disgusting. Kellogg's Special K
is trying to help you stop fat talking by not being fat. And we
can't use the word fat and the BBC has entire the hour long
programmes about fat talking. Yeah,
it's it's almost Clip of the Day. It wasn't Yeah, it's
video of the day if you saw the video you'd be like wow is
really good but it's it's not
get anything off of fight fat talk.org
fight. Oh, come on. Fight fat talk. Maybe it's fight fat.
talk.com Let me see. I'm seeing it right here. Shut down. Fat
talk. Shutdown fight for here.
You can find it under special k.com English fight fat talk.
Here it is Sheesh. From joking about cankles to deconstruct
destructive self deprecation. Fat talk has become part of
ordinary conversation spoken without a second thoughts. Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely true. But come on you you guys are jumping on
this bandwagon to sell your your cardboard sugared flakes.
Please. products. And there's their cereal bars and their
treats in there cracking chips and everything.
Yeah, you get some coupons on this site. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Why don't we take a little break here for a second just
to show my mood by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the
people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Some people
like me, a Rubenesque. Woman,
I would say this. This is a PR driven initiative. This fat
talk. Yes. This is not advertising agency. Or it's one
of those agencies that is both Well, it's but it's this is a
gimmick that is on a higher order of the higher order
gimmick that's all I can say. Yeah,
but it is ultimately advertising. And it
got people to get I'm sure people are saying talking about
it. Yeah, it'll be on today's show shortly. Oh, yeah. Oh,
yeah. Fat talk. It's more anti First Amendment stuff is he
asked me cankles does cankles
cankles ain't fatness? It's just cankles
Yeah, it's not fat. It's just as cankles because you get tangles
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led me into something else which is why I want to go through the
through the process that I that I went down so there was this
again on a lot of websites. And there was this video of Paul
Walker Paul Walker of the Fast and Furious who died along with
his friend and partner actually in in their classic car
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And the video showed Paul Walker It was a very well cut video and
makes no sense to play the audio, but you'll find it in the
show notes. And it's about his reach out worldwide charity. And
in this in this video, John, it's Paul Walker and he's
helping people in Haiti. This is of course, what immediately got
my attention. I'm like, Well, that didn't work out too. Well,
if you're helping people in Haiti, what did you actually do?
And the caption at this of this video, which has been floating
around is, wow, you know, if only the news played this, you
know, this is what celebrities really can do. And this is how
fantastic they are. And so I wanted to know what they had
done in Haiti. And and this video, by the way, it was
produced by a high end reality television production unit who
produce the motorcycle Chop Shop reality show. And I think they
also do the what's the shrimping, the the crab, the
lobster boat, whatever, that dangerous catch. So these guys,
you know, you give them a budget of? Well, actually, the budget
is here listed in their form 990 $23,000. And they can make a
great video of you. And I and it was irksome A, because I just
like, oh, how am I really going to see if this guy was for real
with this charity or not? And, you know, yeah, I am. And then
of course, what I found out is now, even $15,000, or $23,000,
for anything, if it's going to help someone, I think is a good
thing. So I'm not trying to negate that. But all of this
stuff in this video is bull crap. So what what he and his,
the other guy wrote us, I think his name was what they wound up
doing is they put a share of this, they formed, they formed
this, this nonprofit, in 2000. Let me just see here, I think
2009 and put 20 grand into it. And then in 2010, when they got
all the publicity, there was like, Oh, 700, almost $700,000
was put in, but it wasn't cash, it was a share of their classic
car collection, which they trade on in which this guy who was a
money manager, who was the guy who was driving. He sold that as
a diversification of your investment portfolio. So this is
a great way to put you know, to stash some money tax free by
putting it into your charity. And if you look at this, they
received $7,000 in gifted rescue equipment, which they gave away.
And I think this is what they gave away, maybe to the people
in Haiti, and the year after that, there's no money going in.
Nothing at the ed ed best in four years time $15,000 was was
handed out, the majority of it was in travel expenses, probably
for Paul Walker and his buddies to go shoot this video. So it's
kind of this whole idea of a celebrity front is a little
disturbing, I'm sorry, there was $50,000 put in by I think the
water the Dahveed off cool water for the for the commercial that
he did for cool water, but then that subsequently went to
$12,000 of accounting. I mean this, I can do this accounting
on a on a spreadsheet for this operation. So here's how it
works. You get a bunch of lawyers and accountants they
say, oh, you know, what's a good idea? You need to start a
foundation and you can you can put your your car investment in
the foundation, so that's all tax free, and just keep that in
there. And then you know, well of course we're gonna charge you
$12,000 For you know, setting this all up and, and filing all
the paperwork, and then you do this one commercial with these
guys. And then you look great, and it's legit. To us, I'm
looking at that and I'm thinking okay, these things, there's so
much bull crap going on with this is just front, just
pretending and quite honestly a little despicable when you see
the video. It's you think the guy was single handedly saving
the world. And then I thought, hey, wait a minute. Where's
George Clooney and all of this? We've got the Sudan blowing up
what exactly is going on with with his nonprofits? So I start
to go look in but
for you do you have to play it?
No, of course. Well, I was I was planning on playing it but if
you want to hear now Sure. George Clooney
is a spy.
I was thinking of the call Clooney one.
Oh, well, we can do that one too. I mean, it's all good. I
love it. Man, you need distraction. Someone's getting
cornhole today. Okay, okay.
They got in
there. Okay, so this is very similar. I'm George Clooney, his
organisation is not on our watch Inc. And also, so it seems like
Not On Our Watch Inc. Put in a lot of money $6 million back in
2009 It's this is the six guys this is Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Clunie Don Cheadle, so they throw they throw some real money
in here. And if you look at their website, after the initial
announcement, and and I didn't go back and look and coordinate,
you know, collaborate to see see what it was overlaid with. I'm
sure there was something that was beneficial. They really have
not done anything since 2010. So I love going to these websites
and looking at you know, the press list, so we'll go to Not
on our watch.
Jerry went in troubles in there, too. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. So Not on our watch project.org/press. The last
press they have listed bothered to list on their website was
April 20 2010. So that's a dead charity. There's nothing going
on. And if you look at their filings with the 990s, it's
defunct there is it's dead. There's nothing happening
anymore. It's pretty much closed. But then, you see that
one of the donors to the knot on our watch, Inc, is the Enough
Project. Now the Enough Project is actually what is funding the
satellite Sentinel project, which is what Clooney is
claiming as his eye in the sky project. But it literally says
on their website, the satellite Sentinel project or SSP is a
partnership between the Enough Project and Digital Globe. And
it conducts monitoring of the border between Sudan and South
Sudan. So this is this is not coming out of George Clunies.
Pocket This is coming out of the Enough Project. And you can only
guess who is in the Enough Project who Who do you think
runs that?
Well? I don't know. But I'm sure that when one name comes up, I
can associate the
president John John Pendergrass.
Yeah, Pendergrast to get the hit include his handler, I would,
right? Yes, that okay.
Now, but here's, here's what I said. The money comes from
Pendergrast. His charity goes into the Sentinel project, and
I'm tracing it back. Now. Where does the money come from for the
Enough Project? Again, I'm looking at all IRS forms and
filings the form 990s. Where do you think that comes from? who
also happens to be a paid Director at $175,000? What
nonprofit could that be from John with $33 million in takes
over the 2012.
Your job is not Clinton. Is it?
Centre foundation centre Centre for American Progress?
Oh, those guys,
right the Centre for American Progress founded by John
Podesta, who is now a special adviser to President Obama. They
are directly funding George Clunies satellite eye in the sky
project. Well, there you have it. I think this gives a very
different spin on everything and
Pendergrass give a different spin does. Well, I've
always wondered where this Pendergrast guy comes from. He
is a director at the Centre for American Progress, which Okay,
so did you know that?
I don't think I did? No.
No. And they gave, so if you look at and it's really. So if
you look at the Centre for American Progress, they spend 14
million on policy programmes, which is basically lobbying.
They spent 4 million on communications, whatever that
means. And then the next on the list. $3.5 million is for the
Enough Project. And the satellite itself cost 900,870
something $1,000 a year. And then Pendergrast takes another
$60,000 from the Enough Project as the as the sole director.
Everybody's taken money and it's all run through this. Well, the
Centre for American Progress. This is a an extremely left wing
outfit. I mean, what do you know about this? Because they keep
cropping up these guys.
Yeah, it's a big left wing operation as used to front for a
lot of these other things going on. It says it's fun looking at
his. Here it is. I'm looking at his wiki page, American human
rights activist, author and former director of African
Affairs for the National Security Council. Hello, yeah,
well, yeah, he's co founder of the Enough Project, a non profit
human rights organisation affiliated with the Centre for
American Progress. It's pretty it's right in the front. So it's
not like a like, we may have known
this. I didn't I didn't know this. I never saw the molecule
Look at the wiki page before so yeah, but we've never seen the
money flows like this. It is. I thought George Clooney was
paying for this out of his own pocket. But it's not true. The
Centre for American Progress is paying this through the Enough
Project. And Pendergrast then puts it The 800 $900,000 for the
Sentinel project into the other Clunies other nonprofit he's not
spending a dime of his own money and he's very quiet right now.
And I bet he's pissed off because he's trying to launch
his his Monuments Men movie, he doesn't need any of this Sudan
crap sticking to him. That's why he's not talking. Your will
is definitely doesn't want the negative thing going on in
Sudan. Got a note from the economic hitman who is floating
around Africa, he says is about one minute away from the Dinka
is which are the dominant tribe in South Sudan. And the
President that Yeah, where's the cowboy hat is a Dinka.
And he has and he that guy has what does he have the 11 people
he's holding hostage?
I don't know who's holding him hostage. But he says there is a
there are two minutes away from Rwanda like genocide and
curiously the Lubos which are one of the two tribes it's which
is an over kind of a meta tribe, that we're partly it's kind of
the deacons aren't that far away from the Rwanda head choppers
and the
once you say spear Chuckers while you're at it, that's
better head
choppers they chop hands off with their with their Yeah,
machetes, yeah, Chuck spears. Sure. I'm pretty sure. And it
turns out one interesting thing about the Dinka is even though
the term makes him sound funny Dinkus. They're actually the
tallest tribe in Africa. The average height is 511, six foot.
We have a couple of at least one NBA player from this group. But
he says is going to he says unless something is done,
there's going to be a genocide, like it or not in South Sudan,
why that's a clue he doesn't have anything to do with it. I'm
seeing
a complete replay of Libya. Regardless of what's happening
on the ground, we're we're taking it through the UN
Security the United Nations Security Council process. First
here's here's a notification to Congress that the President said
President Obama notified Congress by letter today that he
sent 46 US troops yesterday to evacuate Americans from the town
of bore in South Sudan, a place that appears close to civil war.
Mr. Obama told Congress he may take further military action
under the War Powers Act to protect Americans in South
Sudan.
In fact, he's already done that and has sent in an additional
approximately 150 We had a presidential proclamation about
the African Growth and Opportunity Act. So we're
really, really cranking up the heat. And here is our brand new
ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha Powers wife of
Cass Sunstein, who was one of the co authors of the document
that apparently had nothing but constitutional lawyers looking
at it, except for of course, the CIA guy and the let's infiltrate
the conspiracy theory groups people guy. And she has a lot of
ohms and ahhs to say about the Central African Republic and
Sudan. But one thing's for sure, we're sending in more troops,
more troops, more peace keepers.
Finally, as you know, I just returned from the Central
African Republic, where I had the chance to witness just how
dire the situation is on the ground. And even as we discuss
the situation in South Sudan, and of course, discuss Syria, I
want to just say that the situation in car begs the
world's attention. terrible atrocities have occurred,
terrible atrocities are occurring. We met with one woman
whose husband had been stabbed in front of her his body then
doused in gasoline, and then set on fire in front of her very
eyes.
You know, what I'm All I'm missing is the incubators with
babies does, you know throw that one out? Suzanne, Samantha
Carter, what those who have survived violence of this nature
are crying out for his justice. And one of the worries that we
came away from the Central African Republic with was that
those who are not seeing justice be done, are increasingly
tempted to take matters into their own hands and that you're
seeing a cycle of retribution and violence that is very, very
alarming. But again, overwhelming consensus,
overwhelming desire to move quickly. You know, very
significant alarm on the part of council members by the accounts
by Edmond and and others. Possibility.
Now she's going to start Yes, she's going to start to lose it.
She's going into the Sudan talk. Now, of course, the United
Nations she's talking about
Central African Republic. And then Sudan in the same breath.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, she's completely confused. That's why she goes
up. The United Nations had to retract their story about this
mass grave apparently in South Sudan, and they're killing
children chopping their heads off. Now, it may be true. But
the the it's not coming out very well with good old Samantha
confrontations at UN bases where civilians are gathered. I mean,
the there is, this was not a politicised or ideological or
editorial meeting. This was a meeting where everybody was
scratching their heads to see how can we and rolling up their
sleeves to see how can we help as quickly as possible? That
pipeline
that goes from South Sudan all the way to the north into the
Red Sea? Any idea who owns that pipeline?
I don't know. Soros trainers. Oh, okay. That makes sense.
And we recognise that it's not even when the Security Council
has authorised this increase in troops in this intermission
cooperation, intermission cooperation,
five and a half 1000 troops of peace keepers,
the delivery on those sort of forced realignments will not be
immediate. And so that's again, another reason for the urgency,
but the gravity of the situation on the ground, the sense that
worse could come from, and the recognition that it's going to
take at least a few days to to actually move resources. Well,
there's no resolution yet. We're still negotiating it and we
actually got some
she's so out of her depth here. She does not know she does not
understand she does not know what's going on. She does not
belong in this job.
No, not at all. When you see her she looks like a scared little
girl.
He does not know what she's she does not know the real agenda
that's going on here. That's the thing that bothers me. She
doesn't know what's really happening,
not read in because she's doing and trust her.
Some I thought, very thoughtful comments from a number of
delegations, so we'll need to incorporate them. Again,
everyone's on the same page. So it's just about creating the
best product possible.
What is the best product? This is where she's, it's about
creating the best product what she talking about this? I don't
know, I think she's maybe she's trying to sell like Bitcoin or
something. I don't know. This the best product, I think that
what she means by best product is either the best product that
we can steal from there or best product to kill people with. So
it's just about creating the best product possible,
recognising that we're eager to move this ASAP,
with our best products, so we can recognise me to move this
ASAP.
One of the questions that is on the table is how quickly we
would wish the Secretary General to record report back to the
council. And I think one of the things that we're all in
agreement of is both in terms of the ground situation and whether
these redeployments themselves will provide this sufficient
reinforcements in order to perform civilian protection in
order to ensure that UN peacekeepers themselves are also
not isolated, and vulnerable in the way that some of them have
been.
What I hear when she's talking like this is someone who has no
idea what war is really like, no idea what dead people really
look like, can't really she's been isolated from reality. And
she talks about a troop deployments as a product. Woman
is insane, but not insane. She's She does not belong in this
position. Because she really doesn't understand it. And with
this black hat guy, that hat that was given to him by George
Bush, he is indeed, detaining 11. So he's not necessarily the
good guy, but I think it clears his name. I have a feeling that
he's got some of the goods and that's why we're on his side for
some reason. I'm not claiming to understand this at all myself.
But, you know, it's very obvious what what South Sudan has. And
that's all the oil that the North wants and goes all the way
up with the Chinese pipeline to the Red Sea. And either we want
to get the prices up by intervening and creating
crackers. I can only smell us all over that John, I'm smelling
us.
Well, you know what the end result will be what we're
looking for rubble.
As someone sent me a thing about Rubble, was that about your
rubble theory? Oh, I see. The FDR Drive in New York City,
apparently was built from World War Two rubble from London.
Why? Don't really have enough of our own rubble. Apparently not.
Well, they're shipping in rubble from London during World
War Two, the loop of Office savagely bombed the city of
Bristol in England a major port for American supply ships. After
the supplies were unloaded the American ships had no British
goods to replace them on the return trip and needed ballasts
for stability. So they loaded up rubble from Bristol's bombed out
buildings back in New York, the ships dumped the ballast from
23rd to 34th, who does landfill for what would become the East
River drive now the FDR Drive.
That's a fascinating anecdote. Well, it's interesting. Next
time you're on the FDR, you can talk at you and bring it up and
be just insufferable bore.
Learned that on the no agenda show.
Well, this isn't gonna
end well. No, it's not It can't end well.
No, because it wouldn't be in our best interest for the end.
Well,
no, no. unforced and oil is going down oil is down to what
are we at 889 bucks I think now, or is that that's not
necessarily good for the oil people.
Well, it shouldn't be should only be 40 bucks. Yeah, that'll
happen.
I got an email from my buddy, who's keeping an eye on Turkey.
And there was now what's happened here is the Gulen
Movement has parted ways with Eric Googliness. Schools have
parted ways with Erawan. And everyone there's all kinds of
people are getting arrested think
crude oils. 9955 Oh, really, I'm sorry. still high. Go on.
The Gulenist. I have kind of split off from air Dhawan. And
they used to be backers from what I can understand. And crap
is happening now the leader of the Golan Heights movement lives
in Pennsylvania and was brought in by the CIA in the State
Department and, and there's at least 100 of these Gulin schools
in America 600 worldwide. They're all over the place. And
the the fear is that there is teachings going on that are not
necessarily in line with our American culture and our values.
And it looks like in Louisiana, they're on to something
a man on his knees appears to be praying as the FBI raided a
school in Baton Rouge. The feds took off with a vanload of stuff
but won't say what they're after. Good evening. I'm Michael
Marsh. Tonight the latest scandal involving a crippled
charter system. You're looking at what the FBI spent the
evening doing it. Kenilworth charter school that's near the
intersection of Highland Road in Kenilworth and South Baton
Rouge. They were coming and going with boxes of stuff. The
school is run by Pelican Educational Foundation. The
organisation is tied to a family from Turkey that would be the
Gulin guy and it was a trip to Turkey that got a former member
of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in trouble
earlier this year. Bessie member Linda Johnson was fine for
breaking the laws and she didn't pay a dime for that trip.
So there's something going on there's there's movements afoot.
And this is a pure Gulin finance operation this school and
they're taking out administration and there's
something going on
I think we've said that in the last show there's something
going on right
but they just don't know what it is but this is new this is a new
piece of information
Yeah, no this will keep happening if we pay attention.
This is the first raid that I
think we've seen on the Gulin charter school. We may see more
and we have no details well the only details we have is what's
going on what we know we don't we have no details we really
don't know
but this sums up so we can figure it out this not just
they're gonna have just with Texas is the stronghold where
the most of these places are a lot of them Yeah. Call harmony
or something like that.
The Harmony schools Yeah, thanks. So yeah.
Well, I picked up a clip you know, the one of these
retrospectives Yes, I just changed the topic here. This is
the from the best to C span a couple years ago. This clip is
the best of C span Collins I thought it would be worth
sharing phone calls of one of three life our next called
Newark New Jersey Go ahead.
Yeah, hi, I got myself into really bad debt. I was paying
one credit quote off with another for over four years. It
just went on and on and you know, I mean, I'm like really
broke right now about to file bankruptcy and you know, I'm
trying to get a penile implant. I need to Lord my pick up a
chick these days. North Carolina is up next Good morning.
And why didn't it was like no agenda show. Something anything
thing.
Yeah, we get weak this guy gets on but no agenda. People don't
care. Okay, that was dubious. No Tip of the Day. No,
you don't get credit for the day for that? No, I did get an email
from one of our producers. I was listening to the latest episode
and putting everything together. I'm a freelance technician for a
company that I'm not going to mention their company that finds
gigs for techs locally. Recently, I've been involved in
a post to replace all of the point of sale units at all
targets nationwide. For obvious reasons, target needed all this
done by the Christmas season. I'd forgotten all about it until
John started in about the different point of sale systems.
Since target specifically said the theft happened inside the
store, it stands to reason the new point of sale system had
skimmers installed, and that would implicate China, since all
of the units were manufactured and assembled there. That's the
news I didn't have
that wouldn't be reported anywhere
I didn't hear well. Of course, no one's
watching because his target was to talk about I think you're the
point you made in the last show, which is that this is a big
cover up story because Target is a huge advertiser, especially
during Christmas.
Someone took it a little bit further which intrigued me
Yeah, I saw this email
that that the if you look at so if you look at the target's
competitor Walmart Walmart that Hillary Clinton was on the board
of Walmart the Obamas always launch everything with Walmart
didn't wasn't it to the first lady who was caught they
paparazzi got her shopping at Walmart remember that? No, she
was in the in the checkout line she's like yes sometimes we like
to sneak away at night I'll you you remember that? Yeah, bull
crap right. And the Let's Move campaign. Oh, the Healthy Eating
it's all Walmart Walmart and then Beyonce comes out and
promotes WalMart where?
Well you know I have the funny thing about to be honest with
you. I do have a clip. When she went to the today on The Today
Show. They went on and on it with Beyonce. This is a
promotion for her album. It shouldn't have been run at all.
But they ran it because you know they made some there's money to
be made. But apparently Walmart never added up. Because they
never once mentioned again like today's show does they didn't
give us the fact that was a Walmart that this happened in
and sometimes
waiting into the last few days to do your holiday shopping does
pay off after all, because Grammy winning pop star Beyonce
stopped by a store in Tewksbury, Massachusetts to do some
shopping and to promote her new album and when she got out to
the checkout stand she had a surprise for everyone in the
store right now. The first $50 of your holiday gifts on
making friends and fans everywhere that's right Beyonce
picking up the first $50 of the tab for everyone there so and
picking up the baby is so cute.
So I thought that was another dubious report.
By the way chat room corrects me Michelle Obama was snapped at
Target not at Walmart so that target Walmart that blows the
seat well there is a target Walmart war for sure. But the
the Justice Department is investigating target to see if
they can nail them for negligence. I find this the lack
of reporting on this thing in general just really troublesome.
Yeah, yeah, no, I didn't hear that either. Wow. Yeah.
negligence. Yeah. Next what are they did what about the Bank of
America? What about all these other data breaches? I've never
heard anybody suggest negligence that's
why I think our producer was saying you know maybe that maybe
this is a Walmart target thing. Hey, why why does the just the
Justice Department investigates data breach there's already a
number of lawsuits which should go we should get in on that I
can get on a lawsuit
yeah I think was killed Jr. Got got hit he got hit so I you
know, I called the bank or mechanics bank and they asked
and he's and they apparently just so there was a memo going
around you There we go. Let's just look it up and see there's
a strange charges and I don't believe in, in bank by email by
computer. So she said Well, let me see. And she says, Ah, there
you didn't buy anything from you bought something with target the
other day, which I did, because it was everything was on sale.
And she says but you didn't buy anything from Target after
Thanksgiving.
there but it was up until December 15. No, I know,
but I didn't between Thanksgiving and December 15.
She knew these dates. Ha, she specifically looked to see if
there was any activity at target within the proscribed dates
which would have made I could have been my car it could have
been stolen. And so she said don't worry about it. So they
apparently did their customer service people are given the
information about data if you look for this, right. Well, that
that was at least they're doing their job. Well,
I think I'm going to go back to as much cash as possible I found
the entire experience very annoying. Nikki still doesn't
have a card back a new card, or sharing a card which has been
limited the whole thing is just Yeah, I don't know. I don't know
Where's where's my great cyber force? where's the where's the
cyber is
the NSA. There's got nailed this before it was the
storm troopers. Yeah, it should be saving are asked for all of
this. Now. None of that. I want a little clip. Let's are you I
got
a couple of things I can get rid of. Yeah, let's
do a little back. We're gonna back up to 1998 9098 and C span
clip, another retrospective one of the great little moments in
the history of Congress.
Pardon me. But today I rise because I am outraged by a New
York Times report that the Department of Defence has
requested between 50 and $100 million for Viagra, the new sex
drug designed for impotent men. Instead of offsetting this
request from its $265 billion budget. Secretary Cohen has
requested an increase in the 1999 military readiness bill
when the military brass was on Capitol Hill saying that a
reasonable belt tightening had resulted in an impotent
military. I guess I didn't fully understand the scope of the
problem. With $50 million worth of Viagra, the entire military
industrial complex will be last cut and ready to rock. Pretty
scary, huh? But you know, Mr. Speaker, they just don't get it.
With Monica gay, the Aberdeen Proving Ground sex scandal and
widespread sexual assaults throughout the military. Our
commander in chief and his Secretary of Defence, concocted
this idea that our military needs this extraordinary
expenditure. Let's have no more talk of malfunctioning missile
salvation, was that
he was a congresswoman from Georgia and I can't quite
remember her name. But she was a loudmouth. I don't think she's
in Congress anymore. I like that. Yeah, it was very funny.
She had a couple of one liners in there, especially at launch
Hawk
when ready to rock and roll. Nice.
That was there during this. We don't see these as much as we
used to we get more good clips from them, which is the one
minute sessions. We have one minute or so that way
was that Georgia Congress? She sounds familiar. Yeah. You've
heard her before, but as she out,
I think so. I haven't seen her for I don't remember seeing her
recently. This was a 98. So a while ago, that was
back in the good old Clinton days. Yeah, no wonder no wonder
it was on Viagra. Hey, Audrey's pulling the train gotta be
ready.
So I ran into a well, here's a quickie post. Is it going to 49
cents? No.
Next Christmas, it'll cost you a little more money to send that
letter to Santa Stan prices are going up by another three cents.
The total 49 cents a pop is new price goes into effect next year
in January later said it'll help the Postal Service recoup some
of its nearly $3 million in losses.
That's $3 million in losses is just like 3 billion or
something. 3 million somebody can just write a check.
They really don't know what they're talking about anymore,
do they? negotiations are ongoing in the third round of
the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the T
tip that continues to desperately trying to get
something done before the election season in Euro land,
desperately trying to get that going. I'm not going to happen.
If you don't think it's gonna happen.
I don't think you're anything done by the election season.
Yeah,
they may not. It's very sad. Because I don't know any other
way out. We really have to we have to do something we have to
we have to get away out John. I mean, do we seriously have to
wait for Hillary?
Well, you know, I am still dubious about it. Hillary
getting in. Really? Yes. Really? Do you think she's not going? I
think it's because they're they're pushing it too soon.
Well, you think he's timing timing, timing. You know,
there's so many of these guys that get in real early they got
that. You know, this thing on the get the emails somebody who
I can't even remember the name of the programme already, you
know, make Hillary Oh, yes, she called her candidate we this is
how bad it's
become elect Hillary now or get her in Headstart. Hillary,
Hillary. Do we do Hillary in the backyard?
Cynthia McKinney.
Yeah, yeah. Her. What about her
that? That was who was talking about the Viagra?
Oh, right. That's exactly. Yeah.
Yeah. And she, she's, she's been like hiding out in her house. I
think people want to kill her. Why? Because she is all over the
scams that are going on. If you if you look at Cynthia McKinney,
she's very outspoken. Um, let me say she's also a truther. I
think if I if I'm not mistaken, let's see.
It wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, that's her.
Now she's had a she had a lot of a lot of interesting things to
say she, but she kind of got run out of DC the way I've always
seen it. criticise Al Gore criticised nine 911
Yeah, she criticised Clinton. She was not on his side there.
Katrina. Yeah, she's probably right on the money with just
about everything. Yeah.
Viagra thing. She's the only one who brought it up. Yeah. 100
million dollars.
Yeah, that's crazy. Okay. 2000 and the Green Party? That's
right. She was a candidate for the Green Party. I remember
that. Yeah. She was opposed to the military intervention
intervention in Libya. Yes. She's She's, she's more good
than not, I'll tell you that. That's why she's out. That's why
they got her out. too annoying, too much, too much truth here.
Stop that.
Stop, play the GM mess. And I'll be done with my little clips.
Okay. This is an information clip. City was
everywhere in the business. Just a few short years ago, General
Motors had more than 30 different vehicle architectures
supporting sales of about 9 million vehicles worldwide. And
then they're ridiculous.
Hold on a second. This is about General Motors.
Right? Yeah, this is the guy who's the CEO of General Motors
before he turns it over to this woman. Right. And he's just
telling us stuff out of school about how dumb the company is.
And some of this, he's like, Okay. What did you have? What
have you done for the company? Am
I mistaken? Or did I not see that they? I'm seeing all these
couple metres AIG? Yeah, and I saw an AIG commercial just
before the holidays. And like we repaid the American bailout
money with profit. And of course, the same was said for
GM. Although they didn't they just turn around and take a loan
from somebody else that was cheaper.
I don't know that it did did but it definitely taking out loans
commonly. So it's wouldn't be a surprise, the
company had almost 70 different advertising agencies around the
world, just to support the Chevrolet brand.
Wow.
It's green. But it also shows how we lost focus, and we lost
our advantage, economies of scale. And another move, GM
leaders outsourced nearly all of the company's information
technology, we effectively dismissed. Data Capture and
proprietary intellect, analytics, as a core competency.
Just as the internet was about to transform all modern business
models, timing is everything. We also ended up with 23 leased or
partially owned data centres, which is not only costly, but
risky. We are now in sourcing it. Growing it as a core
competency, those 23 data centres will be reduced to two,
which will increase our performance, our reliability and
our cost.
What were they doing with 23 data centres?
I don't know, the company has seemed out of control. What?
What are you doing with your dummy? Yeah, I understand what
some cloud computing but 23 I mean, how big are these data
centres?
Well, they got rid of them. So there was not been important to
know that much. Can you go to a I want you to comment on this.
Go to the link I sent you in your email. The whitehouse.gov
page is a deep page that I had to do it this way. And tell me
what you think of this photo of Obama.
Okay, is this from the K 2013 and review that's why it's
loading up here. White House is not a very fast site to load for
some reason. In 2000
Here's a picture of Obama right?
It hasn't load Yeah, I'm seeing in 2013, our economy grew, our
deficit shrunk or above that. Above that's I have an empty
page and it's loading slowly. I have now the White House banner,
I'm telling you this White House site doesn't load very well for
me.
So I wonder why that is? Flash. Flash,
I still don't have it. But let me let me finish this GM clip.
while that's loading.
Okay.
At one point in time, we could barely close our own books in a
timely matter. Because various units in the company were on
different general Ledger's and for those of you that are
financially trained, that's finance 101. The list goes on.
We all know what happened next. The company that top the fortune
500 when it first was listed in 1955, and stayed there for 35
years, fell into disgrace. Something even more sobering. GM
had lost sight of its customers and what they truly valued,
quality, compelling design and reliability. In my heart of
hearts, I knew Jim was fixable if the new leadership team
played team ball and systematically addressed the
company's shortcomings. So I made a promise to myself into
the board to deliver on three important initiatives in my
tenure. The first was the restoration of GMs. Good name.
Second, the transformation of the company's basic operations.
My third goal was to put quality and the customer back at the
centre of every decision we made Yeah,
okay, can kill this thing. I don't know why that was left on
there. But
I can't load this website. John. It's now I've got spinning beach
ball.
Oh, that's a shame because there's this picture of Obama on
the 2020 13 year and review that I don't know that it just, it's
horrible. It's the most ominous creepy picture ever. And then of
course, the rest of the site's got all kinds of cool stuff. I
will talk about on the next show.
I do this the whole browser is frozen now this is almost what
it looks like this page is like 12 months of flash. Do you have
is like a whole calendar seven. Okay. It's like a million embeds
on this page. What are these people thinking?
They're there yet there says is the Zakho the other guy.
I'm telling you it's nothing but YouTube in a skip
skip
logic all kinds of
speaking in binary. That's the problem. Oh,
my browsers completely frozen and my whole computer is now
frozen. Listen, sorry. That's not funny. I can't do it.
Nothing will move. Wow.
Well, I think we're done.
Yeah. Well, I can't play anything.
Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to crash. Here it is. Lighthouse
is finally loaded. The picture of him profile pinching his
chin. Yeah, urine review.
Is that a creepy picture?
It's propagandistic.
Yeah, say Hitler. And it was started with Nazis and Hitler.
Wow.
I don't know about that. But it definitely does not exude
confidence. It's kind of a you know, it's like, oh, I'm
thinking about all the American people.
If you want to see if you want to scroll down, get down to the
100th anniversary of Rosa Parks birth and you see Obama sitting
in the bus. No, really?
That's pretty funny. Oh, there's all kinds of crazy.
It's just a crazy crazy site. Yeah.
I have like this. There's him on I'm standing on a GoDaddy car.
was in the White
House Correspondents Association Dinner. Well, he is. This is a
megalomaniac site, man.
Bob's a GoDaddy car when you see him in the bus. This whole thing
is so sick. No agenda art.
It does with his hair with the bangs and everything. Wow. Wow.
That's a little. Okay. Officially creepy. Now, I'll
wind it up then with Eric prince, who has written a book
to tell you that Blackwater was not bad. Blackwater was just
doing what the American armed forces had contracted to do,
literally. And if you really look at what's going on
Washington DC is worse than anything he's ever seen in all
of his years at Blackwater killed civilians.
Look, if 41 of our men were killed doing the missions, and
we did more than 100,000 protected missions between Iraq
and Afghanistan, no one under our care was killed or injured.
Fortunately, unfortunately, dangerous things happen in war
zones. I mean, we're much maligned for Nyssa square. That
event started with a car bomb. And a lot of incoming rounds
were received as well. I just want to draw a parallel even to
October three right here in Washington DC. There was a 34
year old woman driving her car got into a bit of a traffic
altercation outside of a federal building. The Secret Service
opened fire on her she moved to another location. Again, they
fired on her as a third location. She was finally gunned
down and killed. When they went to her car. There was no
weapons, no explosive material, nothing, just a fortunately,
uninjured baby sleeping in the backseat. Although the woman was
killed, dangerous things happen. And that was in Washington DC.
There was no shots fired. There was no there was no car bombing.
There was no Warzone that day. And yet federal police officers
opened fired and killed an unarmed innocent woman.
Yeah, and we loved it. It was great.
The media loved it. Media loved
it. Fantastic rule crap. She's nuts. No follow up. No nothing.
And there's Eric Prince telling you right there that they fired
on an unarmed woman after a traffic altercation. Yeah.
For him advance himself at least he's you know, not trying to be
sad.
I gotta read his book. He's Yeah. He's very specific about
being pissed off about the bad rap. He and Blackwater got now
owned by Monsanto Corporation.
Is that right? Yeah.
Z was purchased by Monsanto. We got to keep those farmers in
line John. replanting your seeds without paying for sending the
helicopters? Yes, I'm filled with all kinds of groovy trivia
like this last show of 2013. We'll be on Sunday Sunday.
Looking forward to that. So we'll have a little bit of time
to work on some stuff during the week because there's always news
even though everyone else is on PR hiatus. Word work here in
FEMA Region six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
on Santo Bice Blackwater. I'm up in the pacific northwest valley,
which is really not a valley what at all, it's kind of a
hill. I'm John C. Dvorak
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