Oh. Adam curry John C Devora. Sunday December 30 2018. This is
your award winning get my nation media assassination episode
1099.
This is no agenda, looking back
on absolutely nothing and broadcasting live from the
capital of starstay here in downtown Austin chaos in the
studio in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm looking back on all
kinds of things. Hey, why are we working? I'm John C. Devorah.
Raglan Buzzkill.
We're working because we're true artists. Okay. We need the
money. We're working because people want to have some real
information when everybody is gone.
Well, they're adults substitutes are in. Yeah,
but the substitutes typically are no good. They're doing
retrospectives. Look back they bring in the B guests. That's
the worst. They do might be Michael Moore was on speaking of
the BBS Yes. Michael Moore was on Chris. Chris Hayes for an
hour.
This buddy. Yeah, the guests. At the end of the year. Don't worry
about your get
on. Tell you Michael Moore was on with Chris Hayes for an hour.
Oh, god. Yeah. Be Gay.
It was I couldn't even pull a single clip from it. That's it
was just Yeah. So that's what's going on in Chris Hayes worked?
Yeah. Not today, as far as I know. But yeah, he was working.
And it's a good point.
It was just, yeah, no, I
think it might have been it might have been a recording
could have been. Anyway, that's what M five M does. And here on
the best podcast. Yeah.
Important. Trump's such a horrible person. Everything is
so important. Let's take some
take some time off. We're all gonna die. Climate change is
gonna kill us in 10 years, Trump is literally ruining the country
and the world. Time to look back at the kick back, kick back and
relax. Take a little look at what's been happening in our in
our little media world. In the morning to the troll room,
people showing up those young good two and two together about
that. No people showing up today for the for the live stream.
That's always nice to see. That's good. Well, today, I'll
just kick it off. Today is kind of partially somewhat Election
Day.
I ever actually have a recording of a report.
Well, let's kick it off with yours and then I'll jump into my
beat and
the Democratic Republic of Congo. Political unrest is
growing ahead of Sunday's planned presidential election on
Wednesday. The Election Commission said voting in three
cities would be postponed until March due to the threats of the
Ebola virus spreading and ongoing violence in those areas.
protesters took to the streets in response to the news, with
many saying their votes may not be counted if election results
are announced as planned in January, President Joseph Kabila
was due to step down in 2016. But elections have been
repeatedly postponed. This comes as the government ordered the
European Union ambassador to the DRC to leave after the EU
extended sanctions against a group of officials including
Emmanuel Ramazani Shabri, the ruling party's presidential
candidate for their violent response to protests and for
repeatedly delaying elections. The DRC is experiencing one of
the deadliest outbreaks of Ebola with health officials reporting
over 350 people
dead. And again, they're missing all of it.
Well, and you were expecting better? Well,
the yes, if you go to a local African reporter, which is what
I did. Because there are some interesting things. We've got a
name, we've got some other details I'll start off with, as
I said, this is a
Yeah, but did you get to see this Chaudry guy with that crazy
goatee?
Yeah, but he's not interesting. A different guys. Interesting.
The Independent National Election Commission of 70. Yeah,
it's precedent on Wednesday made the announcement that elections
will be postponed in these three localities. We're talking about
a Beni Butembo and Jambi.
Now we know that Benny is where all the Cobalt is mined. We're
also sadly and coincidentally, all the Ebola is located. Let's
not
forget that these three localities are considered
stronghold for the opposition. And of course, sin He says, like
he mentioned that fears of more Ebola outbreak and insecurity
underpinned this decision. And I want to say that this decision
has been hugely criticized by a couple of persons or want to
begin with the opposition stronghold, Martin Fayulu, who
via a tweet, and I would like to borrow his words. He says, bear
me Butembo as well as you can be an integral part of the GRC and
so which is one and indivisible We're under to that effect. The
opposition leader has called for a debt day or otherwise called
in fracture Ville mod today, the 28th of December out there in
the DRC.
So Martin for Ulan
July 2, I don't understand this. If this stronghold is all the
opposition, why isn't Amy Goodman and her communists this
out?
Well, it's you actually would have a good time if she did
three seconds of research, Martin Fayulu, who has been
picked as the as the opposition. And again, it's the opposition
strongholds where the voting has been postponed.
She did point out that they're going to announce the winners in
January, despite the voting in March, it gives a
crap is it totally hidden weed? Nobody cares. Nobody cares what
they're doing. Fee. What's his name here? For you, Lou. Are you
ready for this? We there's a couple things they have in in
the Democratic Republic of Congo. They have diamonds, gold
cobalt, which we'll get to in a moment, very important cobalt,
two thirds of the world's cobalt which you need for your
technology, gadgets and really anything battery related. Well,
this guy used to work for Exxon, Exxon Mobil, educated in
America. He's a he's a total oil guy. They just brought in an
Exxon guy and he is the one that's running. Listen to an AFP
report.
outgoing President Joseph Kabila casts his vote in the election
to choose his successor as head of the Democratic Republic of
Congo. After 17 years that rule, Kabila is not allowed by the
Constitution to stand again, creating the prospect of the
first ever democratic transfer of power in the former Belgian
colonies. of the candidates to succeed him Kabila his own
choice, the country's former interior minister, is set to be
trailing in opinion polls behind former Exxon Mobil manager
Martin Fayulu. The opposition accuses the government of
failing to distribute the fruits of economic growth across the 85
million population. It also fears possible vote rigging,
three opposition dominated regions have already been barred
from the poll, officially because of concerns over ethnic
violence and the spread of Ebola. For herbal salts not
expected until January 15.
I've never heard the pronunciation
Ebola. Ebola. That's the new rule is the
guy it's EBL Yeah, for you Lou is the guy 62 Do you actually
was arrested several times during opposition demonstrations
in Kinshasa. He was he was shot in the head with a rubber bullet
at one point. This guy's pretty tough. But he's a big time. Oil
executive. Actually, I think he owns couple of hotels and he's
one of these leaders too. It's probably been hanging around for
a while and now it's his turn to go in and and take over since
this kind of Sham government has been in power for 17 years. And
I'm pretty sure that Cobalt is really the main issue although
he's the oil guy, if you will. No guys
no minerals. I'm sorry. Well guys know me they know minerals.
Yeah, that's true.
Just today in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo has
declared declared cobalt a strategic substance. And they
are now upping a tripling the royalty rate miners pay of
cobalt to 10%. So the 10% royalty rate that also applies
to Colton, which you would know better not the thing that's in
trend. They use that and transistors maybe chips called
Tim never heard. I don't know what that is.
Probably, it's probably the mineral something else is
extracted from my head tonight.
And so if you start looking at a little bit of what's what's
happening in this area of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
it's it's pretty, it's pretty disgusting. How this I mean,
these miners don't think that these guys have a hat on with a
light and going down in a in an elevator in a tunnel. Now
they're sitting on railroad ties being lowered on ropes into
these mines. There's kids groveling through whatever's
brought up to try and separate the cobalt. And everybody knows
that this is going on. I mean, you would kind of presume that
Apple would have looked at it.
But yeah, but they've come out with Apple going to look at it
but I found
a report that just a short report that explains to us why
we're no longer hearing about children working in the mines in
the cobalt mines for your cell phone and, you know, unsafe
working conditions. And it's all in the words of course,
tech companies around the world are trying to clean up the way
they source cobalt, a key ingredient in batteries for
smart phones, laptops and electric cars. But conditions
remain hazardous in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
which is where about two thirds of the world's cobalt is mined,
we traveled to cozy the cobalt boom town of Congo. These guys
are climbing into these holes straddling railroad ties and
hauling up tons of cobalt with make sure rope and no proper of
safety equipment or support whatsoever.
In January 2016, a Human Rights Report alerted the world to how
Cobalt is often dug up by hand under unsafe sometimes deadly
conditions by subsistence miners, including children.
Pressure began mountain on the businesses that use the metal in
their products, since even suppliers that mined cobalt
industrially often buy or from so called artisanal miners, also
known by the French word Kusa.
So just know, minor small
batch batch.
It's fantastic. If I didn't have time to go look at Apple's
annual reports, but I'll bet you somewhere they'll because it
sounds great. Yeah, we at Apple, we are very concerned about the
health and safety of the people who work with us, our partners,
and that's why we source our cobalt, only from artisanal
miners. I can't even say without laughing. Wow. Right. So
there's a lot at stake introduced the idea of bloody
cobalt. Yes. So they get twist that the blood diamond thing
around.
Oh, mon, mon Mon.
Well, gee, Amy kind of missed the boat on the whole report.
Now you think if if cobalt goes up by 10%? Or yeah, is up 10%.
So it's tripled the Okay. The cost of mining cobalt?
They say that the cost of their tax to the government was triple
that means it was 3%. It went to 10.
No, no, it tripled to 10%. Yes.
Well, what is how do you tripled to 10%? If you don't have a base
of around three
points they do. It's 3%. Yeah. So I said, yeah. So they tripled
it to 10%. We're saying the same thing. Okay, good. So if the if
the if the basic cost of cobalt goes up, and at that price is
gonna get passed along? Will our phones get more expensive?
Will our battery cars and would probably add, it's just gonna
add 10% to the, you know, to the Yeah, we're gonna go. No, that's
1500 bucks, but not because of the cobalt. Yeah, you're gonna
get more expensive because you're getting ripped off.
Exactly.
Strategic artisanal, cobalt. Everybody look forward in an
iPhone near you. And love to
see the videos of those kids digging away.
Oh, it's in the show notes. They just they'd have it. There's no
secret just called artisanal and everything's okay. Yeah, small
batch. Very Yes. Small batch. Cobalt. Beautiful. All right.
Okay. Well,
there's a first depressing story to end the year.
It's we're not looking back. No retrospective. We're showing you
the future.
So my wife was bitching and moaning and groaning about this
about the damage of the 911 lines all over the country? Yes.
Yes. I have some short clip and I was listening to this. I said,
Ah, now I know it is why it is one company should say Why does
one company have such control of all the 911 outlets around
everywhere? Oh CenturyLink by the way, so split the
CenturyLink clip, we'll get a little background
telecom giants. CenturyLink said today it's still trying to
restore internet and 911 Emergency Services in several
states across the country. The outage began early Thursday
affecting millions of customers from coast to coast. Louisiana
based CenturyLink says the outage was not caused by
hacking. The FCC is looking into this.
Oh, well, I'm glad you set that up with that clip. It's a
perfect setup because I have a little more detailed story. And
I have a CenturyLink spokes hole. Unless you want to say
unless you want to say something about this. Yeah, I'll
say some and we're all done.
For the second day in a row. potentially millions of
Americans dialing 911 would not have gotten this 911 What's the
address of the emergency and extensive outage at
telecommunications companies? CenturyLink. Not some emergency
call centers offline for certain callers around the country
highlighted in this map from the website down detector in a
series of tweets beginning late Thursday. By the way,
I love that the news is using such artisanal tools as down
detector to get a reading on health of the 9911 network.
It's it's sad day CenturyLink said its engineers had quote
identified a network element and that the problem would be
restored within four hours. But today more than 14 hours later,
the company reported technicians were still working to restore
services. Announcing a fix an hour later, the head The FCC
announced an investigation calling the outage completely
unacceptable. Its breadth and duration, particularly
troubling. CenturyLink has not provided details on what caused
the disruption. And it's unclear if the outage prevented anyone
from receiving emergency assistance. If I rested
dispatcher 49 one has many of the affected emergency response
agencies suggested people call their local police departments
10 digit phone number if they need help with its 911 system
out Boston fire tweeted a picture of its old street
fireboxes operational since 1852. In the case of an actual
emergency.
Yes, those things apparently still work.
Well, that's the old days.
works now. So did you find out anything about why CenturyLink
has the monopoly?
They won't nobody's talking about it. But I looked at the
map is all over the countries and big blotches all over the
place? Nobody. I know it this is this is this is an example of
microservices architecture.
I don't even know if it's old
way some code broke. Yeah. That's all it takes with MSA to
ruin everything they apparently sold as long as you can do this.
You can just use this plug this into your system, and everything
will work fine. You can just did it brush the calls it does all
these things. And a piece of code didn't work for some
months. Some weird happened, who knows him is a million things
you happen to happen to you all the time. And
artisanal code, artisanal code.
This is the problem with MSA. This is the this is this is the
dooms day. Problem with microservices architecture.
Yeah,
this is Professor Ted's territory. Now, if you would, if
you are the spokes hole for CenturyLink. And you would have
said that and said well, microservices architecture, you
know, we have to reevaluate there's some things you know,
one is that nobody does anything half our audience doesn't know
what I'm talking about when I'm talking about microservices
architecture,
then why don't you speak to the other half of the audience? The
normal people as us journalists,
normal, I just think they don't give a crap or they was never
presented to him, that would be the problem. Well, now you've
got to tell anybody about microservices architecture,
because it's a, it's a well kept secret, that everything runs
using this technology or architecture, which is that you
and you can start a company up right now anyone can and find
pieces of microservices architecture, but now there was
little things somebody who would take your credit card, somebody
who put you create a database of names and addresses somebody who
do a mailing list. In some ways my using of MailChimp is
microservices architecture.
I think in this case you may not be right, I think this is this
was a network issue is networking and they run some
kind of network and if they saw that
make me let me defend myself. Okay. micro services,
architecture also depends on quality network quality network
connections, microservices architecture goes down, not
because the code, but because there's a break in some in some
network link, and the next thing you know, nobody in the country
can do a credit credit card process. Right. Right. Right.
Right. Okay. With this was this is a this is the end of
civilization as we know it, I'm
sorry, yeah, I'm gonna, you're wrong. That is not what this is.
I have the answer from the spokesperson of CenturyLink at
from the horse's mouth, so to speak, you're wrong. You do.
You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. Here is what
actually happened.
We are not concerned about the reliability of the system. This
was a technical glitch that was identified in advance. But now
we will be able to put in systems to make sure we can in
the future
99 glitches into the glitch and put a Gaussian there will Yeah,
I really despise this. This was for journalists. This was a
press conference statement. A glitch everybody. And you know
what all the press did? Would you look at the time, I'll find
my story. Sounds good. Now, it's about something that could
actually hurt somebody. It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable
record reporting. It's not acceptable. I mean,
do you still have the old Adam curry pet peeve of the day Clip
of the Day,
glitch, glitch my ass people. It's so unacceptable. And I was
like, Oh, okay. Time Code Yeah, I think I have to.
Oh, man, the
point is the point is that people should look into this It
is a I didn't even know about it until maybe four or five years
ago when I was explained the whole thing by the guys that one
of the was said, patchy competitor. I can't think of
their names Ning. nginx
running engine nginx Yes.
Nginx. They have they rely on it. They use it. I mean,
everybody's doing this show relies on the job so much
cheaper.
We rely on it to some degree. We have some reliability on
microservices architecture. We do we use buckets from Amazon.
Yeah. So that's part of
it. You can't get around it because you could do it all in
house. Yeah. But you would be burdened.
And it would cost more internet. Interplanetary, interplanetary
file systems the future IPFS I use it. I did my feed and people
had worked. People got the
how many? How many dozens of people got the feed that way?
Oh, mate, probably just about that. The ones who subscribe to
it? Yeah, well, it's, Hey, it worked. I just put it on my
laptop and people were able to download it. And I had my laptop
disconnected, fantastic. Anyway, that digressive if this This
needs to stop this is now what's important. I would really like
to know what's wrong. I'm sure there's some networking dudes
named Ben out there who are also
interested global network and use they've been and I'm sure if
you look at that map of all these outages all over the
place. I'll bet you there's a single point of failure. That's
the problem with all microservices architecture,
there's a single point of failure was some one thing. One
little connection somewhere crapped out to some guy on a
bicycle, you know, using the bike lane. Rollover a cable that
was exposed and busted it. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Yeah,
here. Yeah. Anyway, all right. Well get everyone. We got
everyone straightened out on that.
I'm glad you did. This. It was just a glitch. I don't care when
micro services services. It was a glitch, everybody. Just sorry.
No. Glitch.
I was watching the news thing, because it was a commentary I
made on the last show about you know, it's too early to deal
with the 2020 presidential election, but not the case with
NBC.
My goodness. It's I don't think it's a smart move. But that's up
to them. I think people that can't,
but this does give give us the foundation for what we can look
forward to complaining about in my play the 2020 prelims does
Holly Jackson red dress,
right unbelievable what?
They had her she's a substitute. Oh, she's normally that White
House correspond you look at it. She looks like kind of she's got
a thin got kind of a thin got face. You don't know that. She's
actually a big woman. Oh. So she's a big woman and they put
her on the and I don't mean Danny offensive. There's a lot
of big women
but they put it in an unflattering dress, you know,
put her
in a red dress and make her stand up on keys.
Yeah, too early to talk about 2020 many potential Democratic
candidates spent this holiday huddling with their families
about a possible presidential run. And in some cases, even
starting to look for staffers and VCs, Kelly O'Donnell
explains.
Tis the season for Democrats
to decide over the holiday. I will make that decision on my
family.
During the holidays, I'm going to sit down and
take a lot of stock wringing in the 2020 race. first of the
year, I made a family decision, the new year will usher in what
is likely to be a gigantic field of democratic challengers
competing for staff resources and voters attention. I'm going
to reflect on whether this is something that I should do. But
all that thinking turns into action as early as January some
forming exploratory committees, formal announcements likely
within a few months, the nomination is up for grabs from
the most recognizable and experienced like Joe Biden,
it's all about Donald it's not about anything else. Before
Bernie
Sanders wondering if he can capture lightning again,
based on my past that by the way, I mean, that was a very odd
clip they threw in there of Joe Biden. Why would they do that? I
mean, if Joe Biden is one of your guys, why would you make
him sound like he's only focused on Trump? Is that is that truly
what the democratic voter wants?
I found this whole package which I believe Holly produced because
she voiced vetoed it.
I'll wear the dress but I have to produce the piece
and she had a lot of good stuff in there should that
continuation are we saying I'm going to do over the holidays
have a ride with my family with Tiger Woods my family shed a lot
of good consistent is a very well produced package did seem
not to latch on to like Joe Biden. Yeah, yeah, it's probably
slim. Well, no, it's The package and everything on NBC is
terrible. Let
me let me finish it up.
I don't want to hear the rest of it up for grabs from the most
recognized non
stop, stop. Because you're gonna figure do you get a fish it up
go all the way. If you if you look at it from the perspective
of a propaganda piece, I think the way it ends, kind of gives
us a little indication of what we're going to be witnessing.
Okay, okay, good
and experienced, like Joe Biden.
It's all about Donald, it's not about anything else, or Bernie
Sanders wondering if he can capture lightning again, based
on my past, or based on my ideas, that in fact, I am the
candidate that can defeat Trump, or will Democrats make a
generational shift? But USA Today Suffolk University poll
finds 59% of Democrats and independents surveyed say they
would be excited about someone entirely new. At least six
senators could run for the first time because you have to decide
that you would be a good precedent that you could bring
the country together, that you would be able to
beat Donald Trump on November
Senate defeat has not dampened buzz around Beto O'Rourke, not
anything else and just to be open. Well, former Obama Cabinet
Secretary Hooli and Castro has a date picked
on January 12. I'm gonna make an announcement about my plans.
Of course, it's early and the path unpredictable. But the
process is getting underway with many of these potential
candidates trying to position themselves in what will be a
costly and competitive quest for the nomination. Democrats also
have to decide among three cities where they will hold
their nominating convention and it will go fast. Iowa Democrats
will be meeting to caucus in just about 400 days. Kelly
almost here Kelly O'Donnell in Washington Kelly, thank you. So
you think
Beto is by with it was Kelly O'Donnell not? Hollywood?
Reporter okay. So Beto,
Beto, ha You know, it's it's coincidental. The keeper and I
were out yesterday we were looking for a place to move to
in April May timeframe. And so we know we also went to some
open houses of places we can't afford. But everywhere you go,
South Austin, South Austin particular, the BETO signs are
still up.
The one of James I think Fitzpatrick I believe his last
name, one of your Texas producers sent me a Beto sign
from one of the big ones the oh the big the really big with the
court and I really, really big but it was big. Yeah.
No, but everyone has their beds their their their yard signs
still up. The yard signs are everywhere. Yeah. That's very
interesting.
I'm reminded of p as a Dora
when the rain begins to fall. Yes, PS. Dora. Let's talk about
right. I interviewed her.
Did you know? Yes.
You tell me what?
Well, well, all I know is that she had a rich husband. He is a
British wife, who promoted because her dream was to be a
superstar. So he just spent a lot of money on her just getting
your let me tell
you about it. Let me tell you exactly what he did. I think
he's dead. And I think he's long gone. But PS Dora had had
manipulated her her guys money. And I want to want to say that
they seem very much in love. So I don't know that's fine by me.
To make this song it was from they produced a movie and a
soundtrack. And she did the soundtrack with Jermaine
Jackson, which is like you know, you got a lot of money. We
didn't quite have Michael Jackson money so we got Jermaine
Jackson. And there's and when the rain begins to fall from now
I'm doing this from the off the top my head something about the
something in the alien. Now I gotta know. PS adore movie with
it something. There's something in the alien.
I'm gonna go watch it now.
No, you don't. Was it the voyage of the rock aliens? It was
wonderful. It was something like that, man. She did a lot of
movies. I mean, her husband paid for a lot of movies. Yeah,
voyage of the rock aliens. I believe it was.
She was kind of a cutie. Yeah. Boy, did you think you met her
and talk to him? No,
I didn't. No, no. No, she's all right. She was very tiny. Very,
very tiny. Yeah, well, so is. But yeah, so your point is well
made because Beddoes wife is heiress to a large fortune and
her her danio her daddy yo is probably still has some
influence. But I was thinking about it. And while he seems
kind of good on paper and a white Obama, let's just call him
that. He has just been like it. Wow. A white robe but we can
call him well. Obama if you want to short. I think we have a
winner. Obama Yeah. He reminds you of how many reports that
we've not heard why very reminiscent of Obama Okay?
Yeah no he steals Obama's style with Obama
yes he doesn't well if you steal it or if it's just you know
there's lots of case studies that in steals bomber was
influentially impressionable on young people like to Obama belay
little robot like little Beto and I and I see that people dig
that part. But it's he's much younger than Obama was. I think
he's 10 years younger than Obama was when he when he ran. I don't
know think so. And you just look at the guy and like, you can see
him running. You can see him debating. Do you really see him
running the country? I don't think I don't think any American
sees that. Can be like he's just not you know, doesn't have
enough of a JFK
was the same way dude. That's the same way man. Yeah, man. K
was like a young guy they didn't like because he was good. Look,
I think if you're older, if you're old enough to vote for
JFK, then you can vote for war Obama, you can do whatever you
want. I just I don't know. If it would be great for the
show was gonna be on the it's gonna happen to me. They're
gonna run him. He's not gonna get paid into the primaries.
Hillary's still going to come in and yeah.
So yes. As for your newsletter, I want you to reiterate this
because it's important where we were hearing wall to wall
Hillary up until about six, six weeks ago. She was everywhere
she was with the women in tech, the lesbians in tech. And that's
really I'm not making that up. It was the lesbians in tech
conference. She's doing interviews everywhere. She's
hamming it up. She's got her paperback version with the with
a prologue. And then she starts this fateful tour, a three hour
tour. And you know, that apparently, I don't even know if
the tour has been canceled. No one's reporting on it. Other
than
No, this has not had been canceled and nobody's reporting
on it. Right. So what is your notice material in there?
Tell Yes. So that if you don't mind just for there's a lot of
people who foolishly do not subscribe to the newsletter. I
think it's good that you explain again, just what's happening
here.
Well, to sum it up, Hillary's being blackballed by the media?
Yes. And she has been left that when they talk about polls,
well, here's the newest poll says this that the other thing,
there's no mention ever, when they did this rundown that Kelly
did on this, or Kathy, were Kelly, whatever, whoever it was
the debt report we just played. She has all pictures that she
has no screenshots of one, you know, all the potential
candidates from including Amy Klobuchar, who they even have a
sound bite of Amy Klobuchar, talking about how she's thinking
of running. And so you have, you know, screenshot after
screenshot of people in a big, you know, murderers row shot,
right. And no, Hillary, there's no Hillary she's not mentioned,
she's not shown. She's been completely blackballed. When
they do polls, she'll show up in the poll, but they will leave
her out when they present it to the public.
So what do you think her strategy will be? She's not
taking this lying down? I mean, she's clearly lying. Wait, she's
not going to happen with her? Yeah, she is going to she's
taking names for starters, right? I think what she's gonna
do is lay in wait, if she knows he's been through this enough,
she did do but she lost Obama and she lost a Trump. And so
she's, she ain't gonna lose to beto. No, no, she's not gonna
lose the battle. But what she's gonna do she knows the ropes
enough. Now, she still has the same people that she's gonna lay
in wait, let these guys you know, kill each other off. And
she's gonna come in late.
She's gonna swoop in risky, risky strategy. But she'll have
to wait for someone
or something as risky as you think if you consider the field
being so big. And everybody wanting to run? Yeah. We're
talking 40 people I know. But
the media is strong. And she clearly doesn't have CNN on her
side. MSNBC seems to have waned. She could she counting on Fox
News, the Democrats at Fox News to help her.
Now there she's counting on the news cycle to help her. You know
what she swoops in. It'll be like a big deal and new kids,
you win again, it becomes a center of attention. She won't
have any trouble getting ink.
I'm just wondering what the catalyst will be. I'm not
disagreeing with the strategy. Although I you know, I don't
know. She's nuts. She really thinks she can do this. Maybe
she can. I don't know. Maybe just maybe the numbers do add up
against her, but I don't think we'll see her Repeat of Trump
Clinton just doesn't sound right.
It doesn't sound right to me either. But I this is I think
it'd be what she tries to do, and I think she could pull it
off. It's not
even gonna be a Trump in 2020, he's going to jail. He's going
to jail. I tell you, impeachment imminent. That's all I see on
television. It's imminent and the people in it.
And it's not as the New York Times The New York Times the
worst offender, by the way, any minute now. It's not if he's
going to be impeached,
it's when it's witness. Well, I'll just on that for a second.
I guess somewhere Christmas right after Christmas. A report
came out that there was a prog ping from Michael Cohen cell
phone, which would mean he lied, and that he was in Prague
colluding with the Russians. And this report came from McClatchy
which I don't I don't know why, but I can't I think I know the
name. But everyone seems to be saying this is a very reputable
outfit. Tell me who McClatchy is
one of the old syndicates it's very, very established, not some
newbie. It's not like the whatever you pointed out earlier
about the downtime.com or whatever it is. They have they
have chops really are very good. They're a dying operation. But
it's you know,
then you will like these two clips I have from the man
himself, Greg Gordon, who is the person who wrote and filed the
story for McClatchy. Then when you're you know, even though
you're old school, I mean, they have standing. Is that what
you're saying? They're reputable. They're seen as they
have standing? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Well, so the best they
could do is get on the joy read show for some reason. Over at
MSNBC, Danny,
is it doesn't include having a good agent. Oh, well,
they definitely need an upgraded agent. And the question is, you
know who exactly where your source is? Now? It's okay. I
guess we're in the era of everything is anonymous sources,
people,
you know, I can imagine seeing some of these old school
operations, having to stoop to New Age tactics to get some air
time because they can't do it with their legitimate reporting.
That's a possibility.
Do you have any idea about their sources? Have you heard any even
know this story? Oh, this was this. The this is part of this
sparking up of the it's all over for him because it turns out
that there is evidence somewhere from someone from sources that
have a a ping in Prague from Michael Cohen cell phone.
So that would have to be the NSA that did found that or this or
the station chief from the CIA that was monitoring something or
that incident. It sounds sketchy.
Well, let's listen to McClatchy defend his reporting are the
Greg Gordon from McClatchy defend the reporting and the
sources. If there
are intercepts that put Michael Cohen cell phone in Prague, one
would think those would be fairly specific. But the
reporting of McClatchy is that they were either in August or
September. How would they not be more specific? If these are
actual intercepts that show the phone pings? I
think they are more specific. But unfortunately, we weren't
able to pry that out of our sources who are getting
information from foreign intelligence agencies as a
counterintelligence investigation closely held, did
your sources see the intercepts for themselves? Or are they
passing along information from other people?
The sources have some of the sources have government sources.
And some of the sources are
I got government sources or
people who told us that they have trusted intelligence type
sources that they get information from. We don't know
the specifics, but we have used these sources on many subjects
and they have been very accurate.
I'd say that not only stooping to the modern tactics, I'd say
he's holding his his ankles. So stooped over.
Sounds, I would find this to be very sketchy, and that he
started off by saying that the sources were foreign
intelligence. Yes, yes. Our boys know and as ACA gets better,
you know, that sounds a lot like a steel dossier. I reread the
steel dossier today.
Because listen to him laugh or she basically rubs it in his
face. I'll give him a give her a point for that saying yeah, this
kind of sounds like the steel dossier, and he just cracks up
laughing
You know, that sounds a lot like a steel dossier. I reread the
steel dossier. Because the reality what the
hell was why did why? What was so funny about that?
I'm wondering myself, I mean, I'm kind of befuddled by this,
again, McClatchy and it wasn't like a nervous laugh. It was a
it was a goofball. Ah, yeah,
there wasn't a tail. It was like a domino. I don't know what that
was. So she said I reread this the it sounds like the steel
dossier. So be there he thinks a steel dossier is total crap, or
it's a complete breakdown of his system like you got something is
very strange.
That sounds a lot like a steel dossier. I reread the steel
dossier. Because the reality is if your sources didn't see the
intercepts themselves, do they let you see them?
Did they lead you?
Where did they pass? Have you seen it? No. So what we have
then is sources have been used before and they're saying it was
they were told that these intercepts exist that was true.
Have they what kind of evidence do they provide you for you to
confident that this was something that you're willing to
put McClatchy his name on?
Well, for one thing, we we got numbers, we have four sources
have told us about this. For another we have we have read our
beginning of our story to some of these sources to make
absolutely certain we've gone over it and over it and over it.
We worked on this really
short story. No, they went over it and over it and over it. And
yeah, he has four sources. We've got numbers. I like how he said
that. First of all, we got numbers. Is that the numbers? Is
that a thing? You say in the news business? Like we got
numbers here, okay. I got numbers. I got sources who know
government sources. I got numbers, I'm McClatchy.
Did your sources come to you and say, Hey, we have this new
information or did you go to them asking?
Well, it's been a dialogue for a long time. So you know, it my
partner, Peter Stone, did some of this solicit sleuthing, but
we both are
sleuthing. sleuthing. What is he Nancy Drew? Has I'm here in
Prague. Maybe there's something behind the bookcase?
Some of this sluicing sleuthing, but we both are well acquainted
with the sources. And we, I would say, we do have some of
these, some of this came from foreign sources in those people,
one of those people talk to us over a long period of time
before you provided a drop of information.
Now he's gonna He's, the guy is going to come. He's not unglued.
But everything's unwinding before his very eyes, and he
even admits to it in this it gets, it gets kind of sad.
I mean, I guess the reason that I'm asking is because we know
that there is a possibility that sometimes sources have motives
for putting things out. And one of those motives might be to get
McClatchy to run a story like this, even if it isn't true. Is
there any concern at all that people might have had a
motivation to try to get you to run a story? There was sort of
an audit and prod situation where
it didn't what is either in Prague, I've heard the
expression, I've never heard that expression. Oh, no, we have
to now we have to look.
I think it's a movie reference da, I think I think alpha delta
alpha had done maybe not had to in Prague. At a restaurant.
It's just a promotion or some risks.
Even if it isn't true. Is there any concern? And one of those
motives might be to get McClatchy to run a story like
this? Even if it isn't true? Is there any concern at all that
people might have had a motivation to try to get you to
run a story? There was sort of an audit and prod situation
in Prague. Maybe I'm not hearing it, right. Abba Abba in Prague,
maybe
dancing queen. I don't know
happened, but they want it printed.
Well, that's not the kind of dialogue we've had that would
create a kind of suspicion because the people that we've
been working with, but you always have to be wary of
disinformation, what I would say about disinformation reads, just
think about the dossier Michael Cohen, because this is this
whole Cohen episode. The reason it's got so much attention is
that it goes if Muller has not yet charged anybody with
collusion, or any crime equating to collusion. And so what this
what this meeting or purported meeting in Prague could mean is
the first strong evidence of sort of some sort of collusion
behind this, the fact that his cell phone appeared to show up
in the Prague area. We don't even know if there was a
meeting. But this is coupled with some intelligence from an
Eastern European intelligence agency that depicted this, this
conversation
and the conversation. Yeah.
So now, the conversation, they picked it up, and somehow it
came from Prague and, you know, collusion, it's nevertheless 20
seconds. Very, very sad thing this man is about to say,
Michael Cohen is in Prague from from a Russian official, we
believe a senior Russian official and
I guess my question to you would be, is there anything that You
were able to actually physically see for yourself that
corroborated what the source sources were telling you.
Anything that looked at the intercepts that would give you
some further evidence beyond their worst where you
had we hold out for a while for that. And we, you know, that
came a time when we thought we had critical mass. It is a
competitive business.
Yeah, it is a deed. Okay, Gord, thank you so much for your
competitive business. We had to get the story out there. I think
that's very sad to hear this from a so called reputable old
school organization. Well,
it's a shame Well, that's why you don't that's why you never
heard of them. Got it. Said it seems to me that the CIA the
NSA, somebody would know if this Cohen was flown around Prague
ever. Yeah. So I mean, this is not a story. It's a bullcrap
thing just to excite the public
well and for McClatchy that final nail in the coffin sounds
like to me. done those boys are done. I tell you. Let me see
that's
the second load downer here for the downer. It's
it's meant to entertain. We've had glitches we've had pings.
What else do we have going on in the news?
Well, I got a series of clips. Let me change these either. Oh,
I do. I did. I was going through my I was going to do the did
again or the whatever happened to Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. I have
two clips on the same topic because it turned out to be this
as in 2015. Just a few years ago. It turns out to be this was
the news item of the year it was there were every channel was I
have to two clips about it. It was going on and on. Everyone
was just up in arms and they're just everyone's in a tizzy over
this whatever happened to story, and I had the PBS version and
they have the ABC teaser on on this thing. Let's start with the
teaser,
the eye opening new cancer warning hotdogs, processed meat
and bacon now put in the same category as cigarettes, and
asbestos. Whatever happened to that story, whatever that's as
best as the show.
Let's listen to the PBS report. This new report released today
by the World Health Organization found that often beloved nice,
like sausage, bacon, ham and hotdogs can cause certain types
of cancer. prior studies had established similar connections.
But the who was the most prominent health organization to
specifically say processed meats can cause cancer. It looked at
more than 800 studies around the world. It also found that eating
freshly prepared red meat like steak or pork or lamb probably
can cause cancer as well. Not is bacon processed.
But it's cured. A slice slice does not really process it to
them means anything other than just to shoot
still on the pig. It's still on the pig. It's on it's
unprocessed bacon
is smoked and treat you sometimes with nitrites to
protect it.
Are we dead yet? No. Yeah. Well, I can follow that up with the
story. You know in. In the United States of Gitmo nation,
we have the Food and Drug Administration running around
trying to you're not trying writing up regulations to stop
children from the evil vaping because it leads to smoking.
It's a gateway drug to smoking. We don't know the effects of
nicotine, you could die. And meanwhile kids are vaping up a
storm but they're not smoking cigarettes, which is why the
company formerly known as Philip Morris bought Joule for some
ungodly amounts. It wasn't 60 valuation $60 billion so crazy,
and from real sales, and real forward looking stuff. So you
know that there's a very big future in the UK. Get my nation
East. They haven't quite caught on to that. Did they no longer
have I thought Philip Morris was wasn't a British originally or
at some point, do they not? Do they no longer have a stake in
in in cigarettes and tobacco products? The UK? I think they
do. I don't think I wonder I wonder if the UK has any any
relation to tobacco anymore because the Public Health
England which is the government's public health
propaganda arm has launched a campaign to show well, I'll play
though
let me show Solon. Philip Morris, I'm looking at their
wiki page. They are a they're still in tobacco. They're
founded in 1847. Their headquarters in New York tonight
a British company
thought they were what is the British American Tobacco there
was a number of companies that there was a lot of them anyway.
They won't if they do because they're really trying to get rid
of cigarettes and they're doing it by showing the kids It's
vaping is good.
And what we are going to do is we are going to have one bell
jar set up to smoke the average number of cigarettes smoked by
smoke each month. And then we have another, I need
to give you some visual aids here. So they have three Bell
jars with cotton balls in them. One is the control bell jar
which just has cotton balls and just air then they have one with
a vape stuck on the top and they have one with a cigarette
holder. And they drew in the equivalent amount of cigarette
smoke and vape vaporizer condensation. As to a month's
worth of smoking each product and I'll say some smoking in a
month's worth of nicotine in one puff. Now a month's worth, it's
not the nicotine, a month's worth of whatever you puff from
a cigarette, a month's worth of from whatever you puff from a
vape. And then a just nothing plain old air with the same
name, just the control of the control Jar Jar through which we
draw
vapor from an e cigarette for the same amount of time. And
then as a control condition, we have clear air to demonstrate
not smoking or vaping. So let's see what's going to happen.
Yeah, it's the bell jar with cigarette smoke.
I mean, it just is so revolting. That's just the inside of the
jar here, a lump of tar. So that's what's going on inside
your lungs. There's loads of it. And this is only after one
month.
So now let's have a look at the e cigarette let's just
see a little bit of vapor. That's the only one that's
really got much in the way of color.
Just in my research shows that E cigarettes are significantly
less harmful than cigarettes. A big reason for this is the tar
which you can see here, which is not produced by E cigarettes but
produced by cigarettes which are linked to diseases such as heart
disease, stroke, and cancer.
Well, there are 6 million smokers in England and we think
about half a million of them will try and stop smoking in
January. The best thing a smoker can do for their health is to
stop smoking, but don't try and do it on your own. We asked
people to search smoke free and get some help so that they can
be more successful in quitting smoking.
I don't know but to me it sounded like they were telling
the kids vaping is good
but does it produce a lump of tar
it doesn't and there was zero talk of nicotine nicotine is not
the issue the tar and whatever yeah whatever other cancers
crazy
addictive issue so they say ours not nobody's addicted to tar
become a roofer no right Yeah, exactly.
You get the point. Like someone's not on board they
promote Of course this is this is what these guys do they have
been in the business of these guys must be beside themselves
when they were banned from advertising. They read they own
the net when the NASCAR races they they were advertising on TV
they had Ronald Reagan smokin Chesterfield you
remember Johnny Playa special? No JPS the black with a gold
letters it was all the racing cars had it yeah JPS Johnny
Playa special in the cigarettes I remember as a 15 year old and
now I'm gonna smoke some Johnny play a special well there's like
the like smoking a dog turd like unbelievably crap.
Good Thomas's cigarettes are well I'd ever smoked so I can't
really meet I'm not a connoisseur so I can't say I but
these guys have you have to be beside themselves because we're
talking about some of the greatest marketing people in the
world that have to sit down and come up with schemes because
they can't really just do they you can't just cut them loose
it's got to be very frustrating. Right? Right. So this is their
latest so Lisa doomsday get either keep them busy. Yeah,
I see the bigger future for vaping it's big. I think you're
right. That's right. Well, if only we
had a door I think is dorky, especially with the smoke smoke.
It is dorky it is
spoken as vapor. But my favorite is scheduled a souped up these a
fill a room was vapor.
But the vape go dissipates pretty quickly. Yeah, but it's
but I do remember going to visit vape I remember visiting Dexter
at the vape conference in Dallas a couple of years back. And the
whole hall was just just one cloud. It was just hanging there
smelling of like popcorn and cotton candy and I'm not a big
fan of the current event in Dallas. It was big. Isn't the
convention center a lot of people vape and that's when I
got the hoverboard. Remember?
Oh yeah, whatever happened to that thing? Yeah, I
gave it away. It's a flying bomb, man. I don't want to be on
that thing. A battery just wait for the battery to ignite my
house only that.
Alright. Yesterday so some guy go buy another one we'll segue.
Yeah. Yeah, between his legs.
Well, yeah, but you're but you're right like a skateboard
so you're sideways is between your legs, but you're sideways
in the end the wheel is parallel to the skateboard.
That's all we need more of that I was thinking about the
dockless mobility, which is what we're talking about. And here's
what I don't know. The companies that are big in this are Uber
and Lyft. And they've purchased pieces of the of the big front
runners, bird and lime. And knowing that the Uber model
itself only is working, because they're severely undercutting
the actual price of the I mean, they're selling rides below
cost, in most cases, unless they unless I use you know, the app I
used to use on my phone, they go It's curry just do times five,
because that's how they price their rides. You know, Tina will
use an app and she'll get the same ride for less same with air
b&b and all that stuff. But you know, they're really not making
any money on any rides. I think they're they're losing about a
billion dollars a quarter. And the reason they're still around
is because they've been able to get some new group of idiots for
you know, the fifth round of investment to put money in so
they can keep it isn't a bit like a Ponzi scheme, or at least
it's a scheme where they just need to keep pumping money in to
keep afloat. You agree with the with this assessment? Because I
want to make sure I'm seeing it right because I've no, I don't
you think they're making money? You think they're profitable?
There are reports around float around the investment community
that show that you can if you set up one of these bullcrap
operations you you're in the black view within the 60 days
what I'm talking about cars first not about the bikes, I'm
talking about the cars.
Oh, I don't know anything about the financing of that. That's
where
they're losing a billion dollars a quarter is my understanding.
So they've bought into this what you believe is, is a profitable
or you've heard can be a money making operation. But I'm just
gonna go, you know, whatever happened to or whatever. Yeah,
whatever happened to we had the big bike sharing startups in
China. It was exactly the same thing. They had 2 billion
initially in venture. Then they 18 months, they started to start
to really catch fire and then more people came in and then
more money and they started to acquire each other. And then
they had an IPO one of them raised $4 billion in IPO. And
now these companies are all done broke. There's huge mountains of
these bikes that are just just piled up because they're out of
business. They're not
used to the homeless.
I don't think they have homeless in China. No homelessness, yet
Lucha so I mean, wouldn't invent the end. Yeah. And what happened
is investors just stopped stopped investing simple. You
don't seem to be able to make a return and this was on the
scooters in the bikes. I don't know it just doesn't seem like
him. You got a lot of people in China if you can't make it work.
I remember pictures of China there were more bikes than we
thought and Amsterdam was like oh, these people really have a
lot of bikes. When you remember the video the old film footage
of of El here's Beijing and people on bikes everywhere. They
couldn't make it work. Yeah, so I'm not so sure. Every time I
you know if there's an Uber advices don't invest in this.
Well, no, but also I think the whole system just It's doesn't
seem sustainable. Well, if
you think about it doesn't seem right. To have this though. This
crap laying out, you know, buying all these things and then
having them laying all over the place. It's just doesn't seem
like I have come to pick them up and charge them. Yeah. Yeah,
it's expensive. It's expensive. Yes, that's gonna cost money
and I'm now downtown Austin, they have a new problem.
Whenever one of these bikes is or these scooters is, is parked
in the middle of the sidewalk, there seems to be someone going
around and putting his boot and bending the disc brake on the
back.
There's a disc brake on the back.
Yeah. Exposed disc brake very thin. And it's apparently if you
put your boot on it while it's lying down, you can bend it and
then the wheel won't go rendering the whole thing
inoperable. Someone is doing that downtown. Some vandalism
vandal is doing that. I have no idea
and I bet you the police aren't interested in catching him
either. No, no, no. We have other things to do, sir.
Yes. I'm not sure what we got to go protect the ground. For the
soccer stadium, make sure no one's pee and on it something
like that.
Wow. Yeah, always some. That's awesome. That's the thing that's
always overlooked in these great utopian schemes is that is the
preponderance. I'm not talking about just occasional I'm
talking about preponderance of vandalism. That's why we have
the police. We have wait. I mean, it just just humans in
general have, especially in the in freedom, freedom loving
countries, we have a preponderance of vandalism just
go you can drive through any city and look at all the
graffiti. It's all vandalism even though there's a lot of art
in there. But
it's now in Austin in Austin, we have a we call it graffiti, a
graffiti Park and we call it art where it's really just a bunch
of it's a place where there's some rundown buildings where
kids are smoking dope and drinking and spray painting the
wall but in Austin, it's art.
Well, there are pieces I've seen, I've collected some
actually of graffiti that is art. It's visit a very specific
style of art. And it's very pretty and but that's not what
most of it is. Most of it is these you know, that they call
throw ups and, and just tags and just a mess. Yeah.
Well, clearly it's beatniks who are doing this in Austin. So
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I got a question for your church or anybody out to can explain to
me why there is this obsession with Mumia Abu Jamal, but what
otherwise known as Wesley cook Free Mumia you ever seen those
stickers? You go into any like Philadelphia or Baltimore? You
see these stickers on poles as free movie? Yeah,
no, I don't know. I don't know anything about this.
Well, you I know about it.
Mumia Abu Jamal is
he's the guy who shot a cop and Philadelphian got life, and how
long ago to just get him out ever since. But God will
challenge anybody to go to the wiki page and read about first
let's play this clip. I got a clip on here they are again
because democracy now it'd be one of these operations that
would be trying to Free Mumia.
And those are some of the headlines. This is Democracy
Now. democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy
Goodman. We begin today's show with an update on a major
development that could be the path to freedom for former Black
Panther Mumia Abu Jamal, the award winning journalist who was
convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer
Daniel Faulkner, but as always maintained his innocence. On
Thursday, a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge ruled Mumia
Abu Jamal can re argue his appeal and the case before the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, because then Chief Justice
Ronald Castile failed to excuse himself from the case due to his
prior role as Philadelphia District Attorney when a Bucha
Ma was appealed. laying his case on Bucha. Mom's lawyers argued
that statements Castile made about people accused of killing
police officers indicated he should have recused himself.
They cited campaign speeches and letters he wrote that called for
the death penalty in such cases, a Bucha. Ma spent nearly three
decades on death row before his sentence in the shooting death
of Officer Daniel Faulkner was thrown out over flawed jury
instructions. Prosecutors then agreed in 2011 to a sentence of
life without parole. Judge Tucker's decision on Thursday
was split because he denied a Bucha mas claim that Casteel
had, quote, personal significant involvement in the case while he
was in the district attorney's office. For more we join. We're
joined here in New York by Johanna Fernandez, a professor
of history at Baruch College, CUNY, the city and University of
New York, and one of the coordinators of the campaign to
bring Lumia home. She has been in the courtroom for part of
this case, and is the editor of writing on the wall selected
prison writings of Mumia Abu Jamal, Professor Fernandez,
welcome back to Democracy Now. Can you talk about the
significance of Thursday's ruling?
Well, this is a case that is important for Mumia Abu Jamal,
but also for dozens of people sitting in prison in
Pennsylvania. Essentially, the judge established that if there
is prejudice in a hearing, the defendant has the right to a new
hearing. And
hi even kill it. Yeah. All right. So this guy, the stories
that make it short, I could read from the wiki page, but I
recommend people go there and look at it. I just type in
Mumia, you'll get it. I just like witnesses, it would happen.
He was a cab driver who became an award winning journalist when
he was in prison. He did some kind of reporting for a couple
local radio stations gotten fired by one of them, became a
very staunch Black Panther during that era. And he was
driving his cab at 344 in the morning, when apparently, his
brother was pulled over by a cop for something. And the two of
them were gotten to an argument when we got out of his cab,
walked over and shot the cop in the head.
And once a day wrecker,
and this was witnessed by numerous people, including a
hooker. He was take sex with sex worker. He was taken in as his
gun had five rounds missing from it, he had been passed all the
obligatory, you know, test powder on his hands, all that
stuff. And he still had the gun, they had the gun, they had the
murder weapon. And it goes on and on and out. And We admitted
it to somebody in prison that he did it and does all these these
things. But for some reason, and I don't know what it is not, I
can't believe it's just because he's assigned me an accent, that
this is a been a left wing cause. And they've, I mean, it's
possible that he could have been framed. I've never seen a frame
like this. It's never resistors too much, too much. Too many
people I know has come forward saying that they lied. It's just
outrageous. And they this continues this has gone on since
the 70s. You guys been in jail for 30 years, and the left wing
keeps bringing it up as long as there's some sort of a cause
celeb and I don't even know why I don't know why.
Well, I can I can wager a guess as to why it's cropping up. Now.
As we just had prison reform Trump has been President Trump
has been working with people of great importance like Kim
Kardashian, and also entertained some input from Kanye, about the
certain prisoners who have been in for a long time. Maybe
they're trying to hitch onto that bandwagon, just bring it
back again. And maybe just to say, Trump, you hate Muslim
sounding people, because you didn't help this guy. I mean,
who knows? It could be that it could be any number of things.
I don't think this guy's getting out. But to me, this has been
going on for way too long. And it's just it but yeah, maybe it
explains where it's come back into the news at this point. His
time Yeah, right now this has been continuous. Interesting.
Yeah. Yo, I got we got left. He's out as somebody can explain
it to me. I looked up. I don't want to hear all he's innocent.
He's not innocent.
I looked up Mumia Abu Jamal and the wikis and I got a high
reader in the US. It seems you use Wikipedia a lot. That's
great. It's a little awkward to ask, but this Sunday, we need
your help. We depend on donations. Of course I'll
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It's my would send them a nasty note.
I always know I always send him money at the end of the year. Of
course, it's invaluable resource whether it's right or not
valuable.
Well, but it is a valuable resource is no doubt
about you said this guy became an award winning journalist in
jail.
Yeah, it was a book about being in jail.
Well, it was kind of, you know, gee, just like which I think
by the way, there is some some left leaning idea of the
literate mind. So if you can, you know, this happened with
Norman Mailer, he found some guy in jail who was a savant, very
good writer. I can't remember his name Henry or something like
that. Henry something. And he got an early release. Pretty
much a Norman Mailer cognisance of that guy went out and killed
somebody or raped somebody just somebody got thrown right back
in jail. And it was a huge humiliation for Norman Mailer.
Gotcha.
Well, speaking of journalists, odd journalists, The Washington
Post on just between Christmas and New Year's on the 28th
released a little bit of news, it was very actually very
reminded me a lot of the Climate Change report just pushed out on
a Friday kind of hush hush. We don't want to, which is
something that Washington Post yelled and screamed about. They
put out a news report admitting that they had discovered text
messages between their star columnist Jamal Khashoggi and
Jamal Khashoggi that became very clear to them that the exact
chief executive at the Qatar Qatar Foundation International
Maggie Mitchell, Salem, had been texting him and shaping his
columns, proposing topics drafting material prodding him
to take a harder line against the Saudi government. And this
was below the fold even in the article that they admit to this.
But so we were right. That guy was a shill. Yeah. And he was he
wasn't even he was, I mean, who was writing these columns? Looks
like Qatar was writing them. Were this Qatar Foundation
International. Yeah. Who, you know, Qatar and Turkey, their
buds. Now they're all against Saudi Arabia. And I think it's
disgraceful that the Washington Post didn't just say, hey, you
know what, we really messed up on this one.
Because they did does it doesn't work. There's no anti Trump
angle. But he didn't post
but it's it. Well, that's my point. It is the Washington Post
that discovered this. That they They're big. They're big
columnist, their freedom fighter. Oh, no, we we love him.
He's great. He was just a shill for the Muslim Brotherhood. And
they have every right to be journalist as well. But don't
tell me that you're the Washington Post and you're
holier than all that. You got just the you got the same
problems everybody else has. Only you didn't catch it, or did
you?
Or they did it? Well, they came and they finally caught it. They
did it sheepishly that's very, very, very, very low. Yeah.
Especially for putting in us below the fold on page 40. And
then Friday night and on the Bulldog edition, whatever.
Exactly.
It's exactly what the final exactly what they did is
disgusting.
Okay, well, let's looses. We're in that part of the world a
little bit. Let's talk about the Sudan riots, because there's a
funny thing that happened on the way the Sudan riots, which are
going on as we speak is not being covered by the media. Of
course, there's too many retrospectives of the great 2018
whatever it happened then. But let's play this
in Sudan. Scores of people have been killed in anti government
protests that erupted last week, government officials put the
number of dead at 19. The Amnesty International said
earlier this week, the number of dead reached 37. The government
has declared a state of emergency and reportedly
censored or shut down newspapers that were covering the
demonstrations. The protests, which were triggered by a sharp
rise in the price of bread are taking aim at the worsening
economic situation of the country and the military regime
of President Omar Hassan Al Bashir, with many calling for
the overthrow of the ruling national congress party there.
Now
the code words came in to that story. And I realized that we
haven't really talked about it much we did it when the first
when the Arab Spring began. Yep. The severe rise in the cost of
bread in Egypt, bread, Egypt, I think Tunisia, Tunisia.
Everybody has these. These it's always in there. They got bread
problems, is a bread problem, Prakash To the huge rise in the
cost of bread. For one thing, we're never told what the rise
is ever. Was it from 10 cents a loaf to $5 a loaf? Was it from
$1 a loaf to $2 A love? What is it severe? It brightened up cost
of bread. And this happened before? I think that's code I
think the CIA code or somebody's right that gets into the story
to let everyone know that okay, we got to mobilize over
something here. So let's you know, meet your meet your
handler and let's talk about it right. Who knows,
typically after the bread code goes out, someone lights himself
on fire, but that they they pop that too early this time and it
wasn't in Sudan? Would we have a guy like himself?
I don't know if that whiffed if the chronology is correct
somebody's always lighting their selves on fire, but I don't know
if that's in relation to the bread now. No,
I did I don't think so. But that's why I'm saying that we
get bread and then we typically get lighting on fire or the
other way around could be the bread
thing is the one that gets stood out when she gave this report
because yeah,
I agree they've gone nuts
over bread because everyone goes onto the streets to start to
wrecking the place because of the price of bread really? Well,
bread is important to some people it's easy for us. No I
know but some people make their own bread is it the price of
wheat if that's gone up that would be different is different
story it's just doesn't there's something about it? It just
something about it doesn't know Yeah, the price is bread has
gone up so I'm gonna go riot and wreck my break the town here
bread
price hike. Starts violent sparks violent protests. Let's
see. We can find out the actual bread price increase.
Yeah, that'd be neat. Neat to know. That Sudanese
police fire tear gas on people protesting higher bread prices.
Wow. Hmm.
So he's sending it like a like a color revolution thing.
So you can add a color come out of it yet. Now. Sudan would be
beige. Mm hmm.
I found a good podcast, a drone podcast called droning on, which
kind of attracted me I'm like, that's, that's funny. If you
have that kind of humor about yourself about being a podcast,
and this guy is, you know, I think we've talked about this,
like the, the actual vocation of journalists is just invalid. And
let's just go to someone who actually knows what they're
talking about. I mean, we don't know much about drones. There's
people in our in our network and the value for value network who
know a lot about drones, but no one offered anything up this
guy. He does a drone podcast. He's in the UK and he has a
couple of theories about the Phantom drones at Gatwick
Airport. So
a very quick recap of the incident at Gatwick. 1000s of
flights were canceled or diverted. The military was
called in multiple police forces involved not just Sussex 5
million pounds spent on anti drone systems, the international
press and media camping on site with telephoto lenses looking
for a drone and all based on eyewitness accounts. But yet not
a single video or photo of the drone. So if it wasn't a drone,
what exactly happened? Well, there's been a lot of
speculation people have suggested eco warriors
complaining about additional runways being built at the
airfield. Other speculation has been a major systems failure at
Gatwick shortly after the Gatwick incident Birmingham
reported an air traffic control error which led to grounded
flights such a failure of the airport would have resulted in
paying millions of compensation to airlines and passengers. And
of course the airport would not want that. But the bigger news
for me is the announcement yesterday that Vinci group are
buying 50.1% of Gatwick Vincci are a French company that
currently own 46 airports around the world. And in October 2018,
analysts estimated value of Gatwick at between seven to 10
billion pounds. The sale to Vinci of 50.01 add only 2.9
billion puts the value of the airfield at just less than 6
billion which is far less than the estimation of the analysts
earlier this year. So the big question is did the drone crisis
at Gatwick devalue the airfield therefore making the sale to
Vinci more economical?
I like all of those. Wow, the one I liked the I think it's it
could be more of a combo though. Where another I don't know if
whatever. I don't know enough about the air traffic control
mistake but I'll tell you when it comes to millions of dollars
in in aviation and airport Yeah, I'm pretty sure that do anything
to not have to hang for that. And maybe that would be the
catalyst the acquisition they didn't want that get Now that
sounds like a cover up. I think the guy's got a couple of good
ones.
Yeah, it was a great analysis. Yeah,
the Eco warriors majority do beat also all 67 of the sighting
reports were all airport employees no passengers Hello?
Yeah that's dubious yep that's that's that's podcast and for
you people.
Yeah that's what you have to go to get the real information
nowadays. You get nothing from the mainstream that's for sure
there's guys are pathetic. Let's go to Saudi Arabia leadership
update get back out of the country.
The leadership updates in Saudi Arabia King Salman has
consolidated power for his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
ordering a reshuffle of the Cabinet nearly three months
after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which caused
international uproar and brought Saudi leadership under close
scrutiny. Notably Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir, was
demoted to the position of Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs al Jubeir. Blame Khashoggi is killing on Rogue
Saudi agents. He also previously characterized the international
outcry of Khashoggi murder is fairly hysterical. The cabinet
shakeup is seen as a boon for the Crown Prince by placing
loyalists in key positions bin Salman will retain his roles in
the government, including Deputy Prime Minister and Defense
Minister. Earlier this month, the US Senate passed a
resolution saying it believes the Crown Prince is responsible
for Khashoggi murder. Khashoggi, a US resident and columnist for
the Washington Post was killed by Saudi agents after entering
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul Turkey on October 2.
Okay, so where does that leave everybody I'm a little confused
lives the solar reports are confusing to wear leaves anybody
so just a me that this changed the guy's got more power he's
got consolidation is gonna go on with his project to build a
Dubai clone out in the middle of nowhere and dump also
he's he said he would rebuild Syria. This is part of the deal.
Saudi Arabia is supposed to rebuild Syria, whatever needs
rebuild. Second,
I work with the Turks, the two of them don't get along very
well.
Some deal even will clear
out the place and the Saudis will come in and rebuild,
possibly. The Turks are on the border now. Now, you know,
they've given the Kurds enough. Heads Up leeway lead time. Also.
Trump's deal. I think he gets like, Get out. Get out. Yeah. So
they're on the border. They're about to go in and do whatever
they think is necessary.
Yeah. Well, that should be very more bloodshed. Certainly work.
They work well with the Russians. It'd be fine.
So Amy is is is working. She's working.
It was from Friday, I think Oh, okay. Well, oh, still. She
didn't know they never work on Sunday. But she's working the
week. Yes. Yeah. When she wakes the other people. No, no, no,
there's not a retrospective. Yeah, mainstream guy that ended
because one of them takes a week off and they all take the week
off because it's in his, you know, the people think less of
them if they had to actually work. So
the President has been at the White House over the holidays.
He's made quite a point of it. I'm sitting here over the
everyone's at home Nancy's in Hawaii. I'm here. He's doing
what we're doing. Yes. milking it like, yes, milking it like a
podcaster. He is. But he did do a couple of interesting things.
First, he stock whispered the market up 1000 points, which I
have a backstory report on
I'm told new reporting now. A high ranking Trump
administration official reached out to a well known hedge fund
manager for advice on how to get stocks to go up that the call
took place after the Christmas Eve sell off. The worst ever for
Christmas Eve. The administration was said to be
determined to get stocks to reverse and go higher. I'm also
told that the investor who was called told the administration
official to get President Trump to stop criticizing Jay Powell
on Twitter, the Fed chair to stop all the turnover inside the
White House Mattis the latest to depart the defense secretary,
and of course to strike a deal with China.
Well, it sounds like he got part of that right be the word came
out like oh, no, no, the Fed chairs, no danger, no problem
whatsoever. And then he also said buy the dip. And that
worked out reasonably well. As for China. Yes. It seems we have
some deals. It looks like we got a rice deal we might have which
is new and huge. We may have a soy deal. There's something
going on. And here's a sorry.
I think it's really Beals deals bigger than the rice deal.
Well, that we've never had a rice deal. So it just depends on
you. Maybe Maybe size but I think the fact that rice would,
how crazy is that? We're sending rice to China.
The Japanese won't take our rice you
know that? Why did Why won't they take our rice
because they feel that they start Japanese unlike us feel
that they started importing rice and it will ruin their artisanal
businesses
of having have children in the rice field artists. Artisanal is
now code for Child child abuse and child labor. Well, here's a
report on what the President is doing with China,
is there any promise that they could make about snooping or, or
not stealing our technology that could be believed?
Well, what the President has been writing about in his books
and seen in his campaign speeches, as he's looking for a
verifiable agreement, he's looking for things that we can
actually make sure the Chinese do
but by American lives for people like this.
You can have verification majors yes, this was done in the case
of previous trade agreements. The trick is going to be seen
performance actually take place. So if they buy 100 airliners, we
can see that happen if they actually shut down intellectual
theft companies and put people in jail have some show trials.
There's a Chinese proverb you probably know called Kill the
chicken to scare the monkeys, SHA Zhi Jing hoe and Chinese
face SHA Zhi Jing, oh yourself, if they have a lot of these
trials and put people in prison for 20 years for for property
theft against Western companies or technology transfer this
forced that will have a huge impact that we can see.
But I think, no, I'm looking forward to that.
But there was an NBC report which was largely a propaganda
piece on Cummings diesel. Okay,
so the famous diesel manufacturer. Yeah,
they're in Indiana, I believe and they have their very famous
diesel maker. They have a lot of the modern technology for
diesel's comes from them. But let's play these clips and I got
them chopped up to a lot of small pieces. Just to show you
how the NBC slants things and this go with the and also drops
in little propaganda bits come in diesel one,
Columbus, Indiana is thriving. There's a new brewery, not far
from a century old ice cream parlor. Many towns like this
have struggled with jobs moving overseas. But in Columbus, one
company has held it all together. Because of trade with
China. Our economy would go down the drain Commons wasn't a part
of our community. Cummins is the world's largest independent
diesel engine maker employing 10,000 People in Indiana alone,
we export about 65% of the engines that we produce here.
But this American success story founded here 99 years ago faces
soaring costs and $200 million in losses this year, because of
us tariffs on Chinese goods,
tariffs are harmful. They're attacks and they create
additional costs that will eventually be borne by all
customers.
This summer, the Trump administration imposed tariffs
on Chinese steel and aluminum and on key parts Cummins needs.
We have no suppliers available in the US. In fact, there are
not foundries that operate in the US.
Oh, let's
stop there. Oh, there are 1000s of foundries that operate in the
US. There's three in my area, and I can see two of them from
the house.
Well, one of them well, she's lying. She's lying.
She's this box haul for comments. And now the thing
about this, there's no foundries and there's a lot of them make
big products. They make a I don't know which ones make the
ink. We have. We have a fast but the Chinese aren't the only
people in the world that make an engine block.
We have a producer who was doing his dad as a foundry. He sent us
foundry stuff. Yeah, right. He made us ice cream scoop. That's
a foundry.
Yes, it is a foundry but it doesn't make engine blocks
engine block boundaries are big, but they are they're around now.
So I'm listening to as you put this on NBC is packaged. And
this assertion that the US has no foundries goes unchallenged
by the reporters Archie's NBC me, okay, okay. Okay. Okay.
All right. Let's go to the tariffs on components like these
engine blocks. They're essentially the skeletons of the
engines making up 40% of the final product, but the only
place that Cummins can get them, China,
President Trump's leadership is working in China wants a
different American president.
tough talk, but here it's more personal. After all, Columbus is
Vice President Mike Pence his hometown are the potential
consequences on places like your own hometown, worth this fight
with China, the United States of
America today has faced more than $600 billion trade deficit.
And the better part of half of that is with China actually
engages in forced technology transfers of American companies
and even outright theft of intellectual
property. But his tone was far different when as Indiana's
governor he visited a commons plant in China. He cited the
immense potential for the creation of more great jobs for
Hoosiers through the strengthening of ties with our
Chinese partners. Commons workers like Steve Engel have
counted on that partnership.
If we don't have globalization Jim, we don't have no growth.
Right?
Right, right. No.
Guy worker IT guys union guy. Yeah. And he somehow this guy's
a man on the street man on the street and he says we have no
globalization.
We ain't got no job. Right, right. Right, right. Well,
that's what he's been taught.
Yes, what he's been taught. So what he's saying, in essence, is
that throughout history, there's no such thing as as growth
unless there's globalization. What he said was this and again,
Commons workers, like Steve angle have counted on that
partnership.
If we don't have globalization, we don't have no growth. Right?
Right. Right for God, this minecraft romantic
piece of crap that they threw into this report. NBC is pro
China, anti American. Clearly, I'm making that assertion it's
pretty obvious that NBC presents everything like that and if
something Trump wants to do, it's Trump's it's not the United
States
and also as Trump and also Trump's wall when when when Mike
Pence was in charge of Indiana, he was protecting Indiana's
interests and with the he asked, that's how the state and federal
model works. So that doesn't always align. Now he's a federal
guy. He's a Fed, you know, a different different, different
issue. Make him sound like it's a flip flopper.
Cool that was the idea, though, of course. So I got a three
second little kicker at the end of this. Part Three.
Now they find themselves caught in the President's trade war.
Yeah, Trump's fault. It's a President's trade war. It's not
a may not
America's trade war with China. No, it's the President's it's,
it's Trump's this personal thing. It's just hurting,
everybody
is hurting. That's because you have to you know, globalization.
So they're pro global. They're anti Trump pro China. And so
now, here's the way the way they finish the thing when he does a
sign off and throws it back to Holly Holly. Halle, Halle
Vaughn Hilliard, NBC Wait,
wait, wait. I got to set this up. This to me is the segue of
the year as a big deal when the way people segue things, we do
it everyone. So we have a really good segue. It's kind of cool.
Sometimes we stopped the show. It's a show stopper. Yeah,
segway was great. I just have
for our because we are globalist for our global production
audience. A segway is when you transition from one topic to the
other. And if you can do it smoothly, it's called a great
segue.
And there's a lot of things called awkward segways where you
go from you know, talking about some burn victim to somebody
promoting fire eating, but you have like this, this
possibilities existed to actually the this hour has 20
minutes, 22 minutes, whatever it is up in Canada has a whole
segment of awkward segue. This I consider to be just an anti
Trump segue because of the way they present this story this the
the globalist positive globalist thing here with the with the
engine blocks that apparently before China existed companies
couldn't make I don't know how they did it, how they existed.
But listen to the way this segway works.
Vaughn Hilliard, NBC News, Columbus, Indiana.
Another painful reality we saw play out this year a record
number of school shootings
wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, so we had a job and apparently that Cummings
report was a painful reality
very painful reality people very much in common with
school shootings.
It's just as bad what which we find out now. Oh, I
have the report. Oh, I
have report to whose report do you bring?
I have the CBS version.
I let me do mine. First
CBS What's your lengthy yours?
The length of mine is 52 seconds. Okay, I
got 154 you do yours first
right the Florida Sun Sentinel publishing a bombshell reports
and school shooting massacre in February this year. It's
headline this unprepared and overwhelmed. The paper goes on
to report the two decades after Columbine and five years after
Sandy Hook. Educators and police still weren't ready for
Parkland. Surveillance video when the report shows killer
Nicholas Cruz in the beginning moments of the massacre telling
another student quote, you'd better get out of here things
are going to get messy, then pulls out the AR 15 and begins
shooting. The video also shows deputy Scott Peterson the school
resource officer the only armed law man on the campus as he
reportedly the paper says fails to go inside the building
despite shots being fired. He ordered a school lockdown
instead of ordering deputies toward the building later
revealed in this report that officers quote may rush toward
gunfire rather than shower according to policy there in
Broward County.
That was a terrible report. Who was that? I think that was CNN.
Which makes sense that it was terrible.
Yeah, they're terrible. Well, for one thing, there's we saw
the video of the kid walk in In on the guy with the gun and
not shooting, he pulls it out as the kid walks past them, and
then
he had it out and he was loading it as the kid. The kid looked at
him he looked at the kid says, You better get out of here.
Something bad's gonna happen and he told the kid to get lost
because he was loading the gun. And that's not the same as
telling the kid to get out of here and then pulling out a gun
no matter what. So let's listen to this is a little longer
report is pretty much the same thing as I think is a little
better. This is CBS and 10
months after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida, we're seeing for the first time
video from the school's interior security cameras. The Sun
Sentinel newspaper obtained a video as part of its
investigation into the mass shooting that killed 17 students
and staff members. The Sun Sentinel says The video shows
moments where opportunities to end the chaos may have been
missed. Manuel Bohorquez has our report.
The just published video shows the moment shooter Nikolas Cruz
entered a stairway in the school and while loading his semi
automatic rifle warns a student who happens to walk by according
to a draft of the official report by the Marjory Stoneman
Douglas Public Safety Commission. Cruz told the
student you better get out of here something bad is about to
happen. The report says the freshman student fled and
immediately told a football coach who did not issue a code
read. It was one of three missed opportunities. The report
concluded to warn the school there was an active shooter.
Cruz was left to make his way through the school to the third
floor where students were gathered in a hallway after a
fire alarm went off. The shooting lasted eight minutes,
leaving 17 dead. For the first time we see crews running away
from the school. At the same time. Deputies believed he was
still in the school because they were watching surveillance
videos that were on a time delay. Andrew Pollack, whose
daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting reacted to the new
video tweeting this minute by minute playback. With so many
missed opportunities for intervention is heartbreaking.
And calling for the resignation of officials in charge. The
Commission's draft report calls for improved training of
deputies and educators and recommends a controversial
policy of arming school teachers who undergo proper training and
background checks. A final version of the report is set to
reach the governor's desk next week. Wait, wait a minute. Wait
a minute. Yeah, what
now left that out of the CNN report this
year did. That's Trump's horrible idea. Yeah. And now
that's something they're considering. Yeah. Fantastic.
This only time only reporting. Never heard before, if you sat
down and read it, but nobody does that. Well know that we
just copy with the other really good report from CBS. Especially
when contrasted with that piece. Oh, man. Good.
Good. Work on finding that one. That's interesting. Yeah,
I know I get the biggest kick out of its conclusion. Are our
new teachers, the teachers,
I have some new world order news. Because we have Davao
coming up in January Davao, it's the winter jam where all the
elites jet off to the World Economic Forum. And they have a
title now they've there's all set up they've announced what
they're doing. This is the title of the World Economic Forum for
2019 will be globalization 4.0 4.01 more time we can do it.
Yes, we'll be Hillary Clinton 4.0
Here's where they have global economic leadership. Okay,
globalization is being redefined simultaneously by four major
transformations and this will be the topics global economic
leadership is no longer dominated by multi-lateralism
but characterized by plurilateral ism. What does that
mean?
Well, pluralism let's look it up. I know what it kind of know
what it means. I don't have the definitions to top my head.
Squirrel. Well, it's plural lateral ism. Yeah, but
plurilateral louder or lateral ism will stem from the word
pluralist you need to be
an elite just to pronounce it plural Lila, tried it wrong.
conditioner system in which two or more states groups,
principles sources of authority etc. coexist? Well, what how
does that this of holding more than one office or church was
the church building more than one? So plural lateral ism would
mean like unilateral means you do it yourself bilateral that
means you do two people plural lateral realism means you have
three or more parties involved. Well,
how does how does that differ from multi-lateralism? I don't
see that it does. Well, they Okay, multilateralism, according
to the book of knowledge, refers to alliances have multiple
countries pursuing a common goal. Yeah, and here they say
global economic leadership is no longer dominated by that. But
it's characterized by plurilateral ism.
So there's there's they're saying there's a difference.
Yes. Well, what is it? I don't know, but they're gonna have a
big spread the pluralism definition sounds the same to
me. They're gonna have a chat about
it in the snow. Okay, so we don't understand that one. The
next topic, the balance, I
don't understand what they're talking about. Why is this
gobbledygook they're just trying to confuse us.
Well wait for the next one. The balance of global power has
shifted from uni polar to multipolar.
So that means it's shifted from uni polar, which would be us,
I think. Yeah. I think what they're saying is, hey, America,
screw you put your phone finger down. There's China and they
probably think Europe, they probably think they're the other
party. Yeah, it
would be Europe for sure. Yeah. Europe, China. Us. Yeah. And
then, of course, they were just ignore Russia, even though
Russia
is not that big. Then we have the next topic. ecological
challenges, including but not limited to climate change are
threatening socio economic development. Think about that.
It's threatening socio economic development, is it? Well, it's
threatening. I don't know what is threatening, but it's not
doing anything. Well, what is socio? No, actually,
he's here. where's the where's the rising tides? What is socio
economic development? What is that? It's gross. It's it is a
Dave Smith, growth of a of a society and its economy.
And finally, the fourth industrial revolution is
introducing technologies at a speed and scale unparalleled in
history. Yes, well, they
they I would Yes. If you go back to the 1300s. Yeah, I think
they're talking about technology. I'm sure that talked
about technology. But I think that the growth rate is I guess,
I don't know. I guess it's unparalleled in some ways. So
as the inflation of the money supply. That's all that's also
unparalleled. Now to go along with this angle, and Merkel she
will make she will be in attendance. She is right on
board. You know, she's on the way out. She's not looking too
good. Actually. She, I think she she's looking. I'm just looking
at this picture. And she doesn't look as
jolly, look, hangdog.
It's a little more that I don't know. I hope she's she's okay.
Anyway, she did a little speech where it was the speech. It was
at the where was it? It was her it for her own party. But she
said, and I quote, nation states must today be prepared to give
up their sovereignty. In orderly fashion, of course, she joked,
attempting to lighten the mood. There were politicians who
believed that they could decide when these agreements were no
longer valid, because they are representing the people. But the
people are individuals who are living in a country, they are
not a group who define themselves as German people she
stressed. I don't know what that's all about. But there it
is, Europe must be stronger. And when more sovereignty nation
states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty. And
this is shaking the European Union. This is being reported
quite broadly, as you can imagine.
I can imagine but I guess she couldn't. I mean, it's like
Hillary, when she made the commentary years ago, that she
sees a day or once a day where there's no borders from the tip
of South America to the to the up to Alaska. No borders. Yeah.
Nor countries party time. It's already too late. What kind of
thinking is this in this society? I mean, yeah, it's
gonna be interesting idea. Yeah.
Well, you know, the, the wall, the fence, whatever it is, we
have, it's not gonna make any difference. It won't change
anything. We've got this stuff in place now. But these
migrants, these economic migrants, and some of whom are
asylum seekers, they got tricks, man, they got tricks. They know
how to get past any structure,
we have a problem. And the problem is the fact that the
mortar will be sawed on your newsreels a few weeks ago, how
people coming up to the fence could simply melt through the
fence. The wall is important. The President understands that
wait a second, I want to make sure then that's why we'll be
doing
is just like a Marvel Comics book situation. They melted
through the fence.
You saw them. You saw the film's people just literally were under
the fence with literally melted there were slides. Big sliding
in between the slats.
The shapeshifters John, they're melting. No wall can stop that.
Luckily they like to do gardening.
That's Texas Congressman Burgess. We got some real cards
here. Don't wait. We got some good guys.
Well, you had one guy, just one smart guy just died. And he did
leave at least help us the oldest vet in the world. He's in
Austin. He's not Stinney in. Black guy was in Pearl Harbor or
you live worked out of Port Harbor, but he's the last vet
he's 212 Yeah. And he left with some good little report here on
CBS. His oldest vet dies. He gives us some good kind of a
good advice advice advice roadmap to long life Oh, a
roadmap any any died? 112 years old. You say? Yeah, I'm paying
attention.
America's oldest veteran who also happened to be the oldest
man in the country died yesterday from pneumonia at the
age of 112. Richard Overton of Austin, Texas was the grandson
of a slave. And he attributed his longevity to whiskey and
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once Yeah, wants to wear people's faces.
Hey, Joe possibility Joe. I'm
very interested. Replace her faces. I'd
love to know what you want your face replaced.
Maybe. Maybe I got some things I want to look at. All I have is
what he's doing. And I had listed our show. Yeah,
I have no shame. Because I tend to go out looking good. Like
Dick Clark, man. I'm going to be America's teenager maybe so
here's
a you know, I liked the way they turned to New Year's
celebration. There's something about Khashoggi at least this is
nobody reports this because it's not report is dumb. But This is
Democracy Now is reporting on the New Times Square
celebrations. Now. It's going to be dedicated to two dead
journalists.
Apparently the AMI did this before the Washington Post
reported that he was a shield for Qatar.
Yeah, times for New Year's Eve celebration, will honor the
Committee to Protect Journalists this year. Tim Tompkins
president of the Times Square Alliance said the group chose
CPJ to quote celebrate the free press and journalism and those
who work to protect, preserve and practice it. Journalists
will join in the celebrations helping to kick off the
anticipated ball drop countdown to the New Year, and its
recently released annual report on murdered journalists CPJ
found at least 53 journalists were killed on the job this
year. 34 and reprisal for their work almost doubling the number
of targeted murders against journalists in 2017. No Okay, me
so you don't hear about any of them by the way?
No, no, it's only one of them. No, and he wasn't a journalist.
He was a columnist. Sorry. A little different thing. By the
way. Sir. Hashtag no has emailed us the font the font porn and
the poor NATO fonts. Yeah, it is the noteworthy font.
Now is that the original name because most fonts have been
renamed and then stolen.
He says the font you loved is called noteworthy and is a
Macintosh standard font. Look into sad John sad news, or just
sad, sad things taking place. And I've been following the
climate grief. Where it surprise surprise, this is a this is your
beach? Well, I'm going to go to swerve a little bit on this. The
point I'm going to make is that we have been telling the world
and I'll say we because it's our generation that journos news
whatever you know, starting with of course, Al Gore, we have been
telling the world we're going to die. You and I have heard it for
decades, we've heard we're gonna freeze to death, the population
mom the tipping point and peak oil we're gonna die for a
million things. And now climate change global warming. With the
most recent report, we have 12 years really effectively 10
Before we died, and young children are being affected by
this. It's they hear it, they read it, they hear their parents
talking about it. And even though there's a high likelihood
a lot of parents don't really think we're going to die. They
forget to put the disclaimer in so people hear things and it
affects them it affects their amygdala does
it become large, we're all gonna die in 10 years.
Well, so I have some examples. And this is not just kids, these
are young adults. And to show you what has happened with the
political career agonist social justice warriors, just to see
what's going on in our universities. And there's two, I
don't know, if you saw either of these clips, I don't know how
much I can play of each of them. But they really show what
society has become. The first takes place in a convenience
store with a transgender woman, who is very net. And if you see
the clip, she's clearly still in transition. Because you can tell
that she's a woman by her hoop earrings, her mid longish hair,
a pink purse. And that's about it. And quite a beefy
transgender woman. But what and that's, I don't care. I really
don't, that's fine. And with this, however, you want to be
dressed, whatever. But the guy who's who's behind the counter,
I guess says, Yeah, could you guys wait a second to to a
female, and the wall, whatever he thought it was. And the
transgender woman went apeshit over this, and because he made a
mistake, and this is where this is the problem I have. And I
think this this is the issue and society in general. We have that
now in the UK, where you can't miss gender or dead name or
don't you? You can you can get in trouble for it. But it did
name oh, if you use a transgendered persons previous
name, which usually would reflect a name of the opposite
gender than they are today. That's called Dead naming. That
is a that's
probably why there's this new trend in non specific namings
that we did on the show I had a list of them that don't need to
men or women so you could name your kid that and then you can
keep the name so
just less paperwork. It's not not so much of a hassle if you
want to change okay, but I think when you when you listen to uh,
you'll hear that, you know, here's someone who is the West
problems with this and it's this is this is not the way it's
supposed to go. I don't think in society. Excuse me.
Excuse me. It's Ma'am. Ma'am. I can call him he likes to settle
down. You need to settle down Mind your business. Okay. Yes,
ma'am. Once again, man. I said both of you know, you said sir,
ma'am. Both of you guys. Gentle light beforehand. You fucking
said Sir. Sir. Mother thought to take it outside. You want to
call me? I will show you a fucking sir. I follow
motherfucker. kickin stuff. I need to corporate number because
I'm going to talk call them and talk about House misgendered
several times in his store. I need your corporate number now.
For me now
I'm gonna ask you for the time to stop calling me a man.
Because clearly I'm not. Yeah, yes. Yeah.
It's sad. It really is. Because, look, when I was growing up,
1314 15 I had weird hair. And I look like a girl. And then what
happened? offense? I would say how's your what's your
daughter's name? Or what do you say, young lady? And it's
uncomfortable and it sucks. But I didn't go nuts. It's like,
it's okay. accidents happened this week. It needs to work both
ways. And that's clearly not nice. And I think somehow we
have this what is the word I'm looking for? This righteousness
like I have the right have the right
facility. While it is hostility, it's almost looking for trouble.
So that you don't look like a girl period. From the sounds of
it. We'll just go with that doesn't really know. And you
want to be called it just because you got some hoop
earrings on nowadays doesn't mean you're dead. You're a woman
or a translator. You guys were those police around here. And so
if you go in there and then use just one trouble, I would do it
just get the police or the security guard throw the guy.
I don't I don't think I don't think she was looking for
trouble. But this was really a triggering this was a complete
triggering is not going in looking for trouble. It's just
in but you have to
call me ma'am and call you a douchebag that
would have been better. Now the next one, which interestingly
also involves the term I'm going to call corporate, which is I
think that's a new thing. Do we have so many noodle boy type
operations that everything's a chain and we will call corporate
on you and seems like the threat du jour but this happens in a
vape shop and this is different What happens here is a guy comes
in baseball hat, big hoodie with Trump. Trump on it. And not even
like an official thing that you've seen, but just big, big
letters Trump red, white and blue. And he comes in, he's
looking for some vape juice, and, er e juice, as I would call
it. And the guy behind the counter that I've seen, this is
a piece of the video. Yeah, he's okay, I'm gonna get this for
you. But then he sees this guy's wearing a Trump sweater, and he
refuses to serve Him and wants him to leave. And here's what
ensued. Here we
are exhale, vapor city in Tucker, Georgia, and I've just
been asked to leave the store. He greeted me that was nice. I
did find the item that I wanted. And the next thing he said was
that
if you do not stop recording in my store, I'm going to call the
police and ask you to leave now.
That'll be awesome. That'd be awesome. We can call Fox five
and all sorts of stuff I'd like to I would like to purchase
something else. And please do call your boss because I will be
calling corporate. Go for it. I am looking forward to releasing
this video. Because I just want to purchase something
this is the guy behind the counter. He absolutely goes
insane he cannot separate he just can't separate anything in
his head from what's in front of him. And he believes that this
guy embodies evil Trump and everything evil about him.
Racist racist
yeah
I'm not a racist he's Where's his tropes? He's racist Trump
bullshit got some racist bullshit
already I'm fucking I'm not serving you on that has to do
with that bunker
I don't have a problem with you sir. Whatsoever Alright, see?
Because
here's where we're at. Here's here's here's why dude, go ahead
take another swing at it make contact with me one more time.
I'm gonna make a deal with you. I want to purchase that vape
juice. You sell it to me. If you sell it if you sell it call the
police. Bennett was assaulted me what I need is that for my wife,
if you sell it to me, I won't call the fucking cops and press
charges on you for assault. I vote call corporate and get you
fired to sell me the fucking product so I can leave buck out
of here.
God bless America capitalism wins again.
Fuck your capitalism funky bucking president. He's a racist
stupid you
know sell it to me. So it's your job your freedom so many shades.
You can sell it to sell to me. Fuck off. Come on. Help your
customer
this now we're laughing. But I find it very sad. This guy is
He's insane. He's been made crazy.
He's been made crazy by the mainstream media. Yes, it's just
tell like it is. Well, CNN and MSNBC and Fox was nuts and the
schools. Well,
thank you for leading into my third and final clip. This is an
open Madison board of education session where everyone gets five
minutes, you can come up and say whatever you want to the board.
It's kind of like a town hall. And our next speaker is a
university educator. And she's going to educate us on white
liberalism.
Hi all. So I'm an educator at the university and recently I've
been teaching my students about the connection between white
liberalism and white supremacy. And I'd like to offer just some
working definitions here. So that that we've been coming up
together with my students. What is white liberalism? White
liberalism means valuing law and order and protocol above the
lives of people. In this room, we see white liberalism and this
is just from my students reflections embodied through the
timer. The please finish up the numbers, the signup process, the
stage and the barrier. All of these signs suggest that the law
and the decorum and the civility of this conversation is actually
more important than what is being said.
Finger snaps finger snap
fingers another aspect of white liberalism is policing people's
tones of voice The obsession with civility, refusing to hear
black and brown people when they aren't following white cultural
norms of communication. Snaps snaps for young people speaking
today to you, what they're saying is a matter of life and
death. And I'm not sure what it means to you. But I imagine it's
a combination between a sense of duty, being able to put a line
on a resume, feeling like someone needs to take charge,
and feeling like you're the best person for the job. And that's
actually where the connection lands between white liberalism
and white support ready, because it's by maintaining law and
order. And by maintaining Civility by keeping your front
lawn nice and tidy. And by putting that all are welcome in
our communities sign on your front lawn, you are denying the
fact that all the while you are with the other hand, passing
money to a deadly institution, that police's with great
disparity and causes tragic, tragic harm to the communities
that are neighbors and the communities that we actually
should be building forward with. So telling black and brown
people to please wrap up suggests that their voices,
their pain, and their stories are less important than the
rules. And that in and of itself, is the place where white
liberalism turns into white supremacy, is because white
supremacy is the accumulation of these aggressive messages that
say, Stay off the grass, mow your lawn, act respectable, pull
your pants up. Right, right, I was to raise my voice and start
using God forbid some swear words to you. I don't believe
that it would be received in quite the same way as it would
be if a black or a brown youth were using those swear words. So
here's what I have to say, Fuck white liberalism and fuck white
supremacy. Thank you for your time. There you go.
Now you understand. Now you understand why our children are
going insane. This is teaching them this is teaching them.
Yeah. Yeah. By the way, people are all over the place.
Either way, it was Bill Cosby, a black man who said pull your
pants up.
But I was but he's a victim of white supremacy. The woman who
lived there was school it was that she teaches that she was
she white? Yes. Course. Okay, hello. Makes sense.
Alone? wouldn't make any sense if she wasn't. But I mean to
say, Keep off my lawn that is white supremacy now.
Yeah. mow your lawn is white supremacy. Don't mow your lawn.
Then meanwhile, from the same people who will give you this in
packaged form I'm talking about Vice vice is, first of all,
they're an advertising agency. They don't then you know,
they're not really a news outlet. But if anything, they
are a very left leaning news outlet. And they skew a lot of
things. And I find them very untrustworthy
artificially create situations. So they have
a series on YouTube, which I don't understand. Well, I
understand what it is. But no, actually it don't. It's called
kids telling dirty jokes. And they take five and six year
olds, and they have them tell dirty jokes. And it's hilarious
they think and it's a series and it's on YouTube as half a
million views. It's a serious shot.
It's this is child abuse. You will not they just have kids
smoking.
Are you ready for you want to hear this?
Sure. I'll hear one or two of them. I don't want to hear the
whole series.
It's only 30 seconds. six year old girl.
A police officer is gay. The smell of his moustache. What was
Clinton's favorite game? What? Swallow the leader can you pick
up a Jewish girl? Oh god to ash with a dust bath. get pregnant.
Oh. Dress her up. older boy Why did Hitler kill herself? Why?
Because the
last bar and this is on YouTube
is future Sarah Silverman but it shouldn't be on YouTube YouTube
should be that should take be taken off the
platform vice immediately immediately
they want to do it because Is it another liberal operation is
sold things a scam but this is child
abuse. You
can't do this to children. No, no, it's horrible. I'm
speechless over this fairly. Yes. I mean, there's a lot of
things you can do anyway, look, my kid is going to be kind of
okay. Yeah. Should be alright but your kids may not be so look
out route starting 2019 Thinking about what's happening with your
kids. Yeah. Your kid, especially if they're going to public
schools, any school doesn't even have any school gets worse.
Yeah, the whole thing is ridiculous. Ah, I mean, the
schools have me there. We talked about how their whole school
system in the United States has just fallen to crap as because
of people like that woman. Yeah. This imaginary hoppin the gut
hobgoblins out there white supremacy you know, and as a
rule, you know, you want to mow your lawn. It's white supremacy
black people like like a clean lawn. They weren't. Oh, no, the
only reason they do that is because of white supremacy. A
normal black person is really insulting to blacks. But yes, of
course, it is. A real normal black person can't speak without
cussing. Doesn't want to do their lawn. They live in in
hovels, because that's the way they like it. They're just a
bunch of bums.
It's so racist and so wrong, just wrong. Yeah. And we're just
two voices blowing in the wind. And I don't, I saw that that to
me is like, this should be congressional hearings over
what's happening here. This should reach something.
All right. Well, I think we're wrapping 2018 I don't know if I
have anything else on my worst my
I have some throw I have to throw aways. Throw one away.
Okay, I'll throw two away. One is a cyber attack that took
place. Big news
times and several other newspapers across the country
fell victim to a cyber attack. The attack caused printing and
delivery problems, which led to delivery delays today. The LA
Times reports a suspected virus from outside the US is what
caused the problems. The newspaper says the cyber attack
created issues for all publications within its former
parent company Tribune Publishing, as well as some
papers printed out in LA Times plants.
Oh, attack from outside the US. Like how they phrase that? Yes,
I guess they're trying to say the Russians are trying to now
stop our newspapers from being printed. Really well, I guess,
which is somehow going to stop our world from turning
on sounds like the whole thing. Just a glitch. OVS me
Yes. Sounds to me, like someone messed up. I'm just waiting for
one thing to happen. And it will happen, then it's either going
to be with Apple or it's going to be with Microsoft would be
even more fun. But someone's going to get in is going to mess
with the updates. Once someone gets into the update, if you can
get into the update sequence, that's going to be a lot of fun,
especially but you do the code you have to implant has to have
a has to be timed so it doesn't start crashing machines right
away because they don't do all the updates. Now one minute
Exactly. We don't want Mary Jo Foley out about a 30 day cycle.
Yeah, well, no, it has to be shorter because they might
discover it in time, right? Maybe like a four day three day
thing. start updating and then three days later, they'll start
going off. I do have one last little thing from Hallie
Jackson. Because I thought it was funny her phraseology. This
is the Hallie Jackson Trump politicizing border deaths
for the first time President Trump is acknowledging the death
of two migrant children in government custody, but he's
blaming Democrats politicizing the loss of life, tweeting the
death of children or others at the border is strictly the fault
of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies.
Really?
Well, he sent a tweet out bitching about something, but
the thing is, she makes it sound as though this issue has not
been politicized and Trump came along.
Oh, yeah. All right. All right. Well, then I just need
one liner. She had the little girl telling jokes. You couldn't
understand where she said and then this guy's giggling over
that was sick. You must just be poking her with a stick.
You didn't hear what she said. You couldn't hear her jokes.
I could only hear a couple of them. There were not good.
I have stuffed that as well. This will just I think we should
just do one last one. Nah. What do you want? Do you want the
end of the 2018 season? Okay,
we end the 2818 season with the future. For our children.
Bill peacock built his San Francisco dog walking business
through a series of branding steaks. Most of them cowboy
themed.
Hi there. I'm William peacock. While Bill peacock the dog
wrangler aka the cowboy poop fairy princess.
After more than 15 years in the business bill now has
competition from on demand walking services.
This is your dog. He needs to walk while you're at work today.
That's where word comes in@rover.com where the dog care
is second only to you, Doc people with
the success of on demand services like Uber and Lyft has
investors Pouring millions of dollars into these pet apps. Wag
alone recently got $300 million from Saudi Arabian investors.
These companies run the typical gig model hiring contractors who
are paid per walk and ordered on a phone. They take single dogs
for 30 to 60 minute on leash walks,
I see them walking around the block with their cell phones
out, taking video of their leash walk around the block.
Bill does not send his human clients videos of their dogs.
But a few years ago, he tried to grow his business with the same
kind of contractor model but the app companies use we sort
of exploded I had six vehicles with deer horns on the roof.
And then he says some of his workers complained to
California's Labor Department. Like many gig workers, they felt
they were employees, not contractors, which means they
should get overtime paid breaks and protections like workers
comp. Bill says he couldn't provide that.
They find his $18,000 and we got hammered and it did it folded
the business and we were you know, the kind of business
America supposedly wants. Husband and wife.
Well, the independent contractor model backfired on bill. It's
helping wag and rover expand into cities around the country.
They've been able to shield themselves from the kind of
problems Bill ran into by making their workers sign mandatory
arbitration agreements, standard practice in the good world.
These obligate the employees to handle complaints behind closed
doors. There you go.
Well, Jay has done some work for wag for her little book on dog
walking. Yeah. And the stories are pretty, pretty horrendous.
Mitch the future. Future you've signed away your arbitration
that's right everybody. Let's try to be better in 2019 shall
we?
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the kids will still drawing those pictures of fire and
everyone will be dead.
We are calling for a folder a couple things.
complacent in the mass
of life on Earth was my freshman year of college and I took a
sustainability class.
All life now there's a name for what she's feeling. Laura
started working in attendance.
Things like mass shootings and climate change thrown at home in
warmer energy system, large government investment. What is
that? Like? winterizing homes, gradualism? We dry winterizing
homes, farm our lawn is needed. Step eight. Climate farm our
lawns. All life develop awareness of brain patterns.
Row and Laura. Yeah, listen, again, the
question of the session of the conference and one except the
problem. What exactly is climate grief? Climate grief is the gut
punch that you feel when you realize that your imagined
future may not exist anymore.
You have to accept that
you're going to show up
to full life on transition 99 show up and transform our energy
show up where dogs nine nine, show up security lawns. Drawing,
you're not mature enough to tell it like it is.
news these days. Like no one ever told me that we were like
rapidly going towards this catastrophe. So is this the
climate depression session? Feel my feelings right I
first looked outside is dead bird terrific news for poor
Well I work at news a restaurant
internally inside myself I was saying to myself I need a break
I need a break Tom individuals are comparing this to Watergate
Why am I seeing this ad your boys gonna be told me when
someone makes a statement but it sounds like the mascot of the
New York Times
feel my feelings How do you not feel your feelings in the
morning
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for road signs and here's a hand by dries the bread guys have
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