But to get a dime back. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, May 12 2019. This is your award winning get my nation
media assassination episode 1137.
This is no agenda given by
double digit dog biscuits and broadcasting live from the
frontier of Austin, Texas Capitol the growing Star State
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry and from
Northern Silicon Valley where I heard 12 2019 Maybe it's just
me, I'm just eating Raglan Buzzkill.
Now, what's this about? 12 2019 120? You said, What did
I say? May 12 20 2019.
You should sound like 12 2019.
I didn't say Sunday. Here's the problem. I can't even hear
myself today. But yeah, I've got so many, so many complaints
about the feedback from my headphones to the microphone,
which is because I can't wear my hearing aids with the
headphones, that doesn't work at all. Just putting the audio
directly into the hearing aids delivers an ever so slight
delay, which is too annoying because it has to go through
Bluetooth and all kinds of other crap. That's interesting. Yeah,
it's like it's doable, but it's slight. And I still like the
weight like immediate and I like the weight of the cans on my
head, you know, what? type. So I had to choose between keeping it
at 11. Because I haven't, you know, I have the output of the
of the mixing system goes into a separate headphone amp just to
jack up for my deafness. But then I'd have to tape the
headphones to my head with masking tape. So nothing could
leak. So I just decided to turn it down. So I don't know what I
said honestly. Okay, yeah. Hopefully there'll be less
feedback. And that will annoy people less.
I never heard it. What?
We're just gonna keep this going. You never heard what the
feedback? Oh, it's constant. It's gotten much worse, since
I've really been using the hearing aids a lot. And then
when I take them out, and I put the headphones on, like, What?
What? I can't hear. Yeah, but I just a number of people have
noticed that. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we'll
see how we do. Yeah.
To find out.
Well, let's see, we start off with you know, I've already
Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to you and your family.
Everybody's family out there. Yeah, Happy
Mother's Day to all the moms. That's right. You get a
poor response to the newsletter and the Mother's Day promotion
and
someone said what you could do one of our producers sent in a
note and said it's obvious why this happens because unlike you
who have no moms and think that everyone else hates their mom
for some reason. People are sending their money to their
moms as gifts instead of to the
show. I saw that note and that was that could be it.
I think it's it's possible people are doing that. Although
I don't know what could be better than a shout out on the
best podcast in the universe for mom. Okay, flowers are nice too.
But, you know, this will be around in some form long after
we're all flowers die. So I'm reliably informed.
So, yeah, so
Happy Mother's Day. We do have some people who want to thank
their moms so we'll be doing that in our donation segments.
But you know, one of the highlights of my television year
that I always look forward to watching is the European song
contest the Eurovision Song Contest I
should say yes seems like every year you talk about this thing
because
I'm always excited about it like the songs I like how all these
countries compete has nothing to do with Europe. It's the Euro
vision so you know Israel won last year. So this year
what Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. Israel's not in Europe.
It's the Euro evasion. We do this every year to you say so is
your vision has nothing to do with the EU or Europe Europe.
Oh, okay. Just it's just it's like one hour cleaners guy.
Exactly. Exactly. Doesn't say why we're back in it's gonna
take two days. Yeah,
it's just the name of our players just to name just a
name. Exactly Eurovision Israel won last year you remember was
kind of a funky they tend to have some funky acts. And and
they they swept everything and so now the contest which I think
is the final is next week this weekend. We have semi finals all
very exciting. But the Palestinians now calling for a
boycott of course. You fight over your Hamas all the time and
now we got a fight over songs in the Eurovision Song contest that
this this will not stand
the Palestinians calling for a boycott that that's going to
close it.
I don't know if they'll close it, but there's a lot of
sympathy with the with the Palestinian plight which I
discovered there is no country named Palestine. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah and once you start looking into it, there was a good
documentary I saw I was interested in you know, the two
state solution, you know, the two state solution was that was
the original idea is set forth by I think it was still League
of Nations. That was that was the resolution this is meant to
stay in place. And it never played out. Kind of so here we
go. Then we have the artists calling for a boycott, why them
some some immediate like PBS, for example. Some Yoku who
believe there, you're in Europe. They never play this, this whole
event in the US at all. Nobody cares.
You know, there is one channel that carries it. It's and the
thing about the Eurovision Song Contest, certainly in the
Netherlands, but above all in the United Kingdom, who I don't
think they've won since brotherhood of man did kisses
for me. Which was when I was eight or nine. They'd have
unfortunately passed away but Sir Terry Wogan who was a famous
BBC Radio to presenter Yeah, he would do the voiceover and he
would just sit there probably a little bit in the abbreviated if
not slosh drunk and just make fun of everybody because the
breaks always knew they'd never ever get in the final they never
win. And and so now in the US to be worth watching it. Well, it
was and now in the US we have what is the name of the channel
that Univision now it's not Univision. It's something you
have to think. Oh, no, no, it's not a real one. I'm sure it's on
the Pluto TV. Now it'll be on it's something with a T but they
get two gay guys to sit there and comment on everything which
is perfect. You know can't be can't be gay guys. Like what
Cooper and Anderson Cooper and what's his face? Andy Cohen and
Andy Cohen always tried to do on New Year's Eve. And CNN only
these guys pull it off cord TV. I think it's logo that's what it
is logo. Logo broadcasts. It was wild. Man Iceland has a wah and
we're like heavy metal kind of grunge crazy ass with all the
frightening video clip. It's not your your your syrup syrupy.
All you need to do is just put Katy Perry on the judges podium
and then you'll have it made the adult ABCL carry it.
Yeah, but see, now this is the beauty of the Eurovision Song
Contest is there's a each country has its own professional
judges and they vote in they're not allowed to vote on their own
country. But then you have the text vote. And you know, and you
see all the politics coming into play, you know, adjacent
countries who will vote for each other you know, the if they
don't like that country, then you know, everyone hates Russia,
so they don't vote for them except for the countries that do
love Russia. So it's just it's a wonderful evening. Apparently
logo stopped doing it.
Yeah. So much for your theory. Damn, it is ridiculous. I do
think it could be when you mentioned Terry Wogan just
ragging on it. I think I've watched that
you and I could do this actually. We could do it
ragged, as much as anybody. Well,
we could do a good job. I think it'd be fun to have you just
been like, what is this? What country? Is this country?
Where's
Katy Perry?
I could see. All right, well, I'll see if anyone is carrying
it.
Next year. This would be a big event. We can do a little TV.
This is our exit strategy. Hey, I'm all for it. Let me see if we
Hey, how about this, let me see if we can get a feed that
everyone will be watching the eagle feed illegal feed. And
then and then we'll just pop on our stream and we'll just
provide commentary. You can sit on the couch while you do it.
Now we got to do it on video. It has to be video.
We can't We can't we just provide it. I see what you're
saying. Yeah, it has to be synced with the video but we
don't have to be on camera. No,
no, no, I was
thinking more like spacetime science 3000 with the two of our
shadows in front you know or silhouettes of our heads. It may
be a third head
think that's complicating an already well thought out format.
Just do the voiceover you don't need to do anything else. It
was what how did Wogan do it?
He just voiceover he was just in the background. He was never
shown that the video feed. Yeah, just get a video feed and then
you and I will just rag on it complicated later. Wait a
minute. Wait a minute. I think this is I think this is it this
weekend. That's the that's the wedding weekend.
And also the canceled
either that or we can sit in my studio and do it live together.
Yeah, man wedding.
Maybe not. Maybe not. All right. Well, I've determined there is
no news in America.
Oh, I got plenty of really?
Let me guess. Barbone mula drowned by the last go something
like that. Yeah. The news you caught.
I didn't understand that. Where you said when you
tried to? I'll try it again. Barbara Mueller. Tromba.
No, no, I only have one actually from that whole thing. Okay.
Even though I promise clips, I got nothing. I got to wonder to
as kind of intersection probably flipped this. Okay. We're gonna
clip it. We'll play that then. It's a gold mark on the coup on
the Nadler committee. Oh, he calls it a coup. Yeah, nice. Now
this committee majority is on the wrong side, have a very
important historic time. We've never had the intelligence
community, the FBI, people at the top of the DOJ abusing their
powers to create a case against a president where there was
none. Where assets were actually used to try to set up members of
the Trump campaign. When there was no case to try to create a
case we ought to be all over that we ought to be demanding
answers from the FISA judge or judges who were either a content
to have fraud committed against their courts, or, or complicit,
maybe it was Peter struck buddy that he bragged about in his
decks that was going to be the face a judge that signed
warrants where there was no probable cause of anything. This
was an attempted coup and history is bringing that into
focus more and more clearly.
And this is very dumb idea to call this a coup. No, because
it's not the definition of a coup involves the military. Even
an attempted coup d'etat the textbook definition involves
military
I don't think it does. Oh, okay.
Do we need to
okay
let's take a look I can of course be wrong because after
all I'm just a VJ it's a
you get your coach can be wrong because you're deaf
what it literally is like that a bit Okay, let's see book of
knowledge what do we have here coup sudden violent and illegal
seizure of power from government so it needs to be sudden
violent.
There was no military mentioned
the true but it has to it has to have that to be violence.
So there was no cool look up soft
soft coup Well I think the coup is still ongoing if you want to
take it in my literal sense with the the military Bloomberg did
an interview with General Kelly I have no idea why he feels he
should be talking at all but okay. Especially the
guy that used to be Chief of Staff Yeah, Bloomberg is he
doing walking? Yeah he's gonna guys are the what kind of people
do we have running the mill This is what happens when you don't
have like a major war and all that kind of lousy players move
to the top so just happened in World War Two where you had all
these boneheads running everything's like the the head
of the Navy and second, nav second. The rest of them were
all let the ship after ship was being knocked out on the east
coast by German U boats. No, no, I was an accident. It was just
ridiculous to watch these these. These incompetence run things
until they finally got thrown out so they get somebody so
you'd win the damn thing.
I thought Kevin Lee was revered within the armed services. I
couldn't be sure I'm sure that's what he says. And he wasn't the
Chief of Staff revered he shouldn't be out yakking away
about his about his ex experiences boss was still in
office. Well, worse. He was irresponsible. Worse. I
think he's propagating a coup by talking about what needs to
happen with the president's family. The team we
became as a White House staff built on what Ryan's previous,
my predecessor and a great guy built on what he was trying to
do and for that 18 months we staff the President very
effective was a complicated to have the president's family in
the government at the time. They're, they're very influenced
that has to be has to be dealt with. And
I don't know how that sounded to you. So I'm listening to this
clip. Like to to the head
right there well,
and he actually says he's he's going to qualify that which I
thought Oh wait, no, you're gonna backpedal on this but no,
it has to be. It has to be dealt with. And today if you were I
don't mean I by no means you need Mrs. Trump. First Lady's a
wonderful person. This
fantastic I thought it was gonna say no, I don't mean like kill
them or anything you know? No, he meant kill them, but Melania
is okay. She can stay she's good.
Yeah, you need it. Firstly, I thought that was just that was
pretty revealing to be dealt with. I mean, it's the if Trump
could trust these guys like rants, Priebus who was the
leaker he great guy, Karina Kelly. Okay. Guys, they're all
really not be out. As I
said, there's no news about, although I did, I did pick up an
interesting clip from a podcast. This is Oh, yeah, this is member
Sebastian Gorka.
And we're still around. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I thought he was a
podcast.
I thought he was gone. Because some I guess he got I remember
he left the administration and
slipped dangerous. Yeah.
Was it conflict was that while he left, there was some
conflict. He it was his turn. And they were raking over the
coals for B and you know, of course, obviously, he's a white
supremacist from support Nazi Quadroon. Obviously, we all know
this. Anyone who hangs out with Trump has got to be a Nazi. Um,
so he has a podcast and he had, I think it's Victoria toensing.
quite sure what she does. And my favorite Digenova Joe Digenova,
who you know, has, has all this great stuff
seems to have taken kind of a turn for the best on this show
he has. And I want to say this is funny, because at least six
months ago, I had a bunch of Digenova stuff and a lot of it
is
and I didn't like it. And I didn't like it at the time, I'm
sure or No,
no, I actually cut most of I didn't use a lot of it. Because
he he's too long winded. But he's really great when it comes
to coming up with crazy ideas that are never going to come to
fruition about what's going to happen.
Well, this is an interesting one, because it again, it's
about Papadopoulos and how they were trying to set Papadopoulos
up. And as you and I both know, having traveled internationally,
there's a limitation on how much cash you can take into the
country or bring into the country which ran $10,000. And
that's, that's an it's an inlet, unless you declare it, you know,
that's okay. But it's a huge pain in the butt to declare it
and why do you need more than 10 grand in cash to travel anyway,
but they tried to use this on Papadopoulos. Remember, this is
kind of the dumbest guy who has the, the hot Italian lawyer
wife, who stuck with him through all of this spice law business.
So I don't know about their relationship, but they seem they
seem pretty good together. And I guess she helped him out of a
potentially nasty situation. You have
an incredible story, Victoria, about how this man I wish
I was Sebastian Gorka. I could just talk like this. The
Charlaine you have any
podcast? He is the voice cast?
Broadcasting? Yes. Um, do tell me is Bastian can you ask the
question? You have
an incredible story, Victoria, about how this man do you
like that bottom and he's got that Victoria. He's got it. He's
got some going on. He's got some processing.
You have an incredible story, Victoria, about how this man who
was targeted by our intelligence communities, they try to sting
right, what happened to George papadopolis
After he was put on the Trump campaign as a foreign policy
adviser unpaid I mean, very informal. He only met the
president one time at a meeting with a bunch of people. He was
vacationing with his fiancee in Greece. And this guy comes and
tars starts knocking at his door basically to say, hey, I really
want to deal with you. You're now very important that a lot.
And so will you just come to Israel?
Stop. Is that is this isn't Camille Paglia No, no, no, it's
Victoria Tounsi.
Oh, she's just got the same cadence. I'm just going with
mill you just pointed out okay. This is the milieu of the
lesbian libertarian. Oh,
well, let's take a look at her
Paglia does constantly besides having that exact same clip
speech. She says stuff like, you know, in the middle of things.
Yeah. Oh, well, hold on this. No wonder Victoria Antoon Singh is
a lawyer and partner were their husband, Joe Digenova. That's
the husband and wife team here. I didn't know that. I'm gonna
see where she comes from Anglia, but well look, but she still
could be a lesbian. Could be that was your
lesbian libertarian meal you doesn't mean you might be in the
middle you but you don't have to be a lesbian.
Right? Right. Right. Okay, well, let's continue,
starts knocking at his door basically to say, hey, I really
want to deal with you, you're now very important that a
little. And so we just come to Israel and talk to me about
making a deal and why can you talk now we'll know your niche
and user quota here Israel, the guy takes him to his hotel room,
and there on the bed is $10,000 in cash in a suitcase $10,000
just yet, so I'll make it short.
It's very smart and says, it says
don't do it.
Leave it here. They left it in Greece with his lawyer, he flew
back to Dallas and the second he landed, the FBI surrounded him
and started searching everything that he had. And in fact, they
already had his baggage from the plane. He couldn't leave
baggage. It was a complete setup,
because he didn't have it. There was no tent that there was no
$10,000. But they knew that he hadn't declared it when he
entered the
United States. So he hadn't declared it. So we're going to
nab it. They say we got him now the thumbscrews on squeal,
and one FBI agent said to him, this is what happens when you
work for Donald Trump. Nice. Nice.
I believe that's true.
I believe that to be true. That's true. So that was a smart
move. By the way, I'd be like 10 grand. Ben cheapass. Where's the
hooker? Yeah, grand 100 grand and where's the hookers? Man?
Don't you know how this works is inflation to write some dumb
report. So that's the only kind of interesting news in the any
collusion files that I've found. What I did find rather fun is I
have a little flashback. Do you remember Eric Holder? Do we
remember who he is? Who he was?
Nuts? Of course we do. He's the Fast and Furious guy who's got
called up for contempt of Congress. Yes. He
was held in contempt. That's correct. Eric Holder was the
attorney general, held in contempt. I think it took a
while before they actually voted on holding him in contempt of
Congress
make much difference because the local da at the time who has to
do if there's going to be any, any real legal action. He was a
staunch Obama supporter. He wasn't gonna go anywhere with
it.
Yeah, there was a couple other things besides the gunrunning,
which was known as fast and furious that was arresting
journalists, spying on journalists, we have such short
memories than the M five M even shorter doesn't seem to recall
that. But I do have a couple of sound bites, little copy laws,
if you will, of the mainstream back when we are talking about
contempt of Congress of an attorney general, except this
was the Obama Attorney General, given what we know about the
Republican Party and the way the House of Representatives
conducts itself when run by Republicans and with a Democrat
in the White House. It shouldn't really count as news when a
House committee finds the democratic Attorney General in
contempt of Congress, every
single Republican voted to hold the attorney general in contempt
over this crazy conspiracy theory
tell the Republicans to stop this witch hunt now. He's right
why go ahead with a contempt vote book. There
are certain internal documents that are not Congress's
business.
Why just looks like more of our broken politics and vicious
fights now
out in the open a party in the Congress that does just about
nothing to create jobs or to help people without jobs decided
the best way to do their job is to shower the Obama
administration with subpoenas.
See, if you're a person who watches Fox news all day, it is
possible that you have been marinating in this conspiracy
theory for long enough now that this seems feasible.
Was this sort of stop and frisk at the highest level? Who at the
Attorney General given the empty his pockets it looks like stop
and frisk does it let me finish with my personal views of the
stop and frisk thing? And I don't mean to use this term too
much but it's almost like a stop and frisk for a lot
of people. This is Republican versus Democrat and they say
this is just theater it amounts to nothing
it is a distraction it is politics writ large in in
Washington according to most people
this is really much more to be filed in the category of
politics than law this
is contempt Kabuki This is a classic case in Washington of
where you stand as a matter where you sit when the
Republicans have the White House that love executive privilege.
I like contempt Kabuki.
I'd like yeah I like a contempt Kabuki too there was something
else in there liked it was well,
of course my point obviously is that people this is the same
shit just different team. It's wrestling.
Yeah, WWE II
Yeah. Without the without the cool suits.
Yeah, and the guy would do with that guy. Have you got Gohmert
instead of talking like this
Gohmert Beto could be one of the Mexican terror twins, right?
That's, I'm confusing them. I'm sure. I don't know much about
wrestling. Yeah. It's exactly the same. Exactly the same
stuff. Now. It's just the other party's yelling the same. Fox
News is now saying what these guys were saying. Although Fox
News man, something's, something's very odd with them.
They are going well, they're going off message style, they're
going off message.
The going a loser audience doing this, by the way, I used to
present a concise, it's like to watch and Shields and Brooks.
Yeah, I mean, shields Imbros. This was to be, you know,
supposed to give us two sides of an argument. No, no, they're
both in total agreement. And then who wants to watch them? I
mean, I do have a contract. I got a good example. This is a
summary of the latest shields Brooks and shield summary on
PBS, subpoenas for the president's son subpoenas for
the attorney general. What do we make of all this?
Well, I mean, we I think it's the House Banking Committee,
across the board, and now led by that I just thank God that ran
in Venezuela. I mean, it's just but this end for the into the
this isn't the system wasn't intended for this. I mean,
you know, it's a complete breakdown of the checks and
balances system.
I smelled the vortex razor blade in
this this place. That's the way it goes. No, he
talks like that. No, yeah. I don't believe it. I have a
different example of Fox News. Just I don't know. This is
specifically Tucker Carlson. And I think he may. I don't know
he's compromised, but not not in the way you would think. He had
Andrew Yang on. Now, Andrew Yang is is we're focusing on him
because we get complaints that we don't that no one focuses on.
We'd love to
get no money. I mean, I'm surprised he gets as much
airtime as he does where a guy with no money.
Well, we love his PowerPoint idea of State of the Union on
PowerPoint. And that's that's, that's his slogan for this year,
PowerPoint, PowerPoint. He is the man who on Joe Rogan was
talking about the universal basic income being the way to
go. And now he has a new Gambit, which he rolled out on Tucker
Carlson, I was, well wasn't surprising to hear this from a
Democratic primary candidate. It was surprising to hear Tucker
Carlson all in on these this idea I have standing in this
particular area, having lived in multiple countries with this
particular situation. And I thought it was interesting that
Fox again, is moving away from their core message. I don't know
if a lot of people in America understand what this is really
about or what it really means. But the way it's presented is
I'm curious at best.
And Amazon's the most egregious example where they're now
soaking up $20 billion in business and causing 30% of
American malls and stores to close and taxpayers are seeing
zero in return. So if you look at what other advanced economies
have done, they figured this out, they've said, Look, we need
to have a mechanism in place that Amazon's gonna pay its fair
share along with Netflix and delta, these other companies
that are paying zero in taxes. So what they've done is a book,
can you guess? Can you guess?
A government regulate? Amazon?
No, no, it's better? Well, in a way. Yeah. Actually, yes, in a
way, if adopted
a value added tax, where then the Americans stay with it, tiny
slice of every Amazon sale every Google search and on and on. And
it's very, very hard for companies like Amazon to game
their way out of,
we're actually gonna roll that back for a second because He
literally says here,
Dell Deltan, these other companies that are paying zero
in taxes, what they've done is they've adopted a value added
tax, where then the American people would get a tiny slice of
every Amazon sale every
No, this is the this is a lie. This is a scam. This is well,
I'm gonna play the whole clip, but a value added tax. He's
saying, Oh, the American people will get a piece of that. Yeah,
after you pay all of it. So here's his brilliant idea. Let
me see I'm gonna pay this value added tax, and I'll get 10% of
it back in services. That sounds like a great deal. Yeah, no,
but to get a dime back,
Google search and on and on, and it's very, very hard for
companies like Amazon to game their way out of a value added
tax system. So why don't we have that? Oh, it's a great question.
People.
Just listen to it for a sec. We could stop it every 10 Second
companies
like Amazon to game their way out of a value added tax system.
So why don't we have that?
Oh, It's a great question. I mean, people have been
advocating for it for quite some time. And my campaign is
advocating and championing it right now. Because we need to
wise up to the fact that companies like Amazon are very
smart, and moving their earnings through places like Ireland,
where the American taxpayer will see none of it. Whereas the
value added tax will make it impossible for them to sell to
us without paying into our society, their fair share, as if
they're going to be paying that fair share. This is so great,
the way he's explaining it, and Tucker buys it. So why
are you the only candidate who's thinking through what to do
about this?
Yeah, well, we already answered that question. And it gets kind
of weird.
I think it's weird. Again, all you have to do is look around
the world and say, other countries, other advanced
economies have figured this out, we're the only advanced economy
that does not have a value added tax in place. And we need to
make sure that the American people are actually seeing some
of the gains from the incredible innovation and value that
companies like Amazon, and Salesforce, and Netflix, all of
whom paid zero in taxes last year, are getting away with
really, and they're doing their job, which is to pay as little
in taxes as possible, you have to do our job, which is to make
it to the American people see our fair share.
So does that mean just to argue the other side for a second?
Would that increase? And presumably would increase the
cost to American consumers of goods? Right?
Yes. Well, in some instances, in some cases, the companies will
find cost efficiencies or eat part of it. And that's one
reason why my campaign wants to take that money that we're
getting from the value added tax and return it to the American
people in the form of a dividend. Because that's the
most direct way that we can actually have the American
people benefit. The fear is that even if we do end up increasing
the tax rate on some of these companies, people won't benefit
from that. Andrew Yang,
certainly the most interesting person running for president and
I thought sounds like a great idea to me. I appreciate
that's a great idea. There you go. Great idea. Let's enlighten
Mr. Carlson about the value added tax, which I lived under
in the Netherlands and Belgium and the United Kingdom the tax
the value added tax in the Netherlands when I was there, I
think it's still either 20 or 21%
and you pay for that much off the top but yeah, everything you
buy
and it's an added tax so it's not built in
yet the word added in there. That's the thing he took her
shirt is that well, it's another words more taxes
Yes. And you consumer you pay for it. And here's the problem
with the value added tax. If you add that if you start down that
road, it'll be okay everybody, great idea of 5% value added
tax. And somehow just like the carbon tax in Canada Navia it'll
come back to you magically. Alright, so we're paying that
and you know what happens in two years? Everybody, we've got to
get our money, no shortfall here. We need to up that value
added tax just a bit. Don't worry. It's really the company's
paying for it. Don't you worry about some good, bad ideas.
10% 1015
I'm amazed. I'm amazed how he can back this. There's clearly a
right wing alright.
What drew me that Tucker doesn't travel that much as he probably
doesn't. I don't know. I think about I don't know that he's
ever talked about any other countries ever. You may go down
to Cancun and that's about it. Listen,
we grew up watching this guy and he was wearing a bowtie so you
know, you don't travel anywhere if you were one of those. Not
unless you unless you're a professor and you're visiting
scholar somewhere
and the publisher.
I put him up the same level as my, you know, as Christopher
Buckley, my ex cousin in law, whatever it was that kind of
guy. Yeah, he know that internet. Adam, who was going to
want to read the newspaper on the on a computer screen?
Yes, No.
i Okay. I have an AOL address. But that's all I'm doing. I'm
just keeping it at that. Christopher Buckley douche. So
that is the media landscape. It's changing rapidly where we
have a guy like Yang promoting this and it's a this sounds like
a great idea.
That sounds good. Again, it's like soccer.
Now I do want to point out I've had down on my notes. I want to
make a prediction do still have a red book. We haven't looked in
the Red Book in a long time.
I gave up on it because I realized I can't read my own
writing. I think that 14 long
track of these so you can predict what you want. Okay.
I believe that football let's just call it instead of soccer.
Football, I think is going to be extremely big on US television,
but it will only will be women's football. There's something
about this that is especially our team, the United States team
who all cute. There's something about this that is going places.
That's my prediction. I think you'll see with
joy women's when I was in Croatia a few years back. We
were talking about this and they graduation said well, we
understand that football is very popular in the United States but
only amongst women. And women T is only women teams men no play
it isn't it isn't our day when they said I'm not going to
correct them. I said no, you're absolutely right. Men do not
play soccer as we call it. It's only played by women. And that's
just the way it is in our country and it's for women only
now. We have a really good team though don't we? Yeah, I'll
do World Champs. Yeah, yeah, we have great women's soccer
players.
Well, I want to promote them. I think we should I'm
looking at the list and by the way just to back up a little bit
look at the list of value added tax and remembering it starts
always starts off like at five or 10% Right now in Hungary it's
27%
Geez, I thought they harmonized that the EU everyone had to have
20 Oh no, they're
all different. Really? Norway is 25% 25% 25%
I remember back when I had money in an airplane. It's like yeah,
I want new avionics I said okay, well it's gonna be I was like
8000 euros or something like wow it's a lot of money but okay,
cool. Oh book there's 21% Value Added Tax like what you just
threw on 2000 to 2000 euros just for dive now. It may it drives
you nuts I'm looking at these other numbers
25% for the far Fargo islands is everybody's this is crazy
to have no agenda logo on the on the team uniform. That'd be
cool. We can make it happen I mean this
when you're traveling people should notice when you're
traveling if you get your receipts where everything you
buy this over a few bucks yeah, you can get your ticket to the
airport. Yep, your value added tax and get your money back up.
Yes. Which is not always convenient.
Now it's not always convenient and the people who are sitting
there also don't mean especially with the people in France I
think I bought a pair of glasses in France because I broke my
glasses got a new pair and then one went to retrieve the VAT and
it just it just mean and rude. What you want in France that's a
shock Yeah, I know what a thunk it it's crazy
Okay, so now Yang is on my list of anyone even worthwhile
anytime anyone brings up the value added tax and especially
when they throw the bowl crap at you like he did which is just
all advanced economies use the value added.
Yeah, the smart ones have it
Yeah. Yeah, cuz
mind you that you know that VAT also gets tacked on to medical
costs medical procedures. Oh, yeah.
It's an added it's where's the value? I like this value added
tax. It really should be just called an added tax. Yes. Dummy
tags. So here's a thing I picked up on one of the networks that
just kind of a rundown. You know, they really do want Biden
to run they think he can win. Yeah. And so here's the classic
rundown a Biden rundown of what's going on with Biden and
Who's this from which outlet? You know, I forgot to write it
down but it goes to Zephyr. It's one of the Oh, an extra car
today. The one of the networks
from the minute Joe Biden sets foot onto the campaign trail, he
is the person to beat. The question is whether one of these
19 other candidates emerges as his chief adversary or whether
his biggest obstacle will be Joe Biden himself.
The T shirt knows a lot about it his mama lived in in Long Island
for 10 years or so. God rest her soul and although she's Wait,
your mom's still, your mom's still alive. God bless her soul
is now the front runner because he is a household name.
They put one foot in front of the other. They keep going.
That's the unbreakable spirit of the people of America. And also
he brings a much broader set of policy experiences to the table
than really any other candidate.
I believe we have so botched this policy, so botched the
opportunities to move on the Sandinista government, the SNL
the scandal. We need not tell anyone is the biggest white
collar rip off in this nation's history judge. If I look only at
what you've said and written as used to happen in the past, I
would have to vote no.
For all the respect that he is given as the elder statesman. If
you look back at Joe Biden's previous races, his 1988 bid
flamed out in the middle of a plagiarism scandal in 2008, he
won exactly 4% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses. There is a
lack of message discipline,
Vice President of the United States of America. Joe Biden,
I remember in the 2008 campaign after the Obama team put him on
the ticket at a fundraiser late in the campaign, he went so far
as to apocalyptically almost predict there would be a major
international crisis. This was one of those moments tailor made
for a Saturday Night Live parody.
Words, if you take away nothing else, from what I say here
today, or indeed in this entire campaign, remember this. If
Barack Obama is elected, we will have a crisis.
I'll give Joe Biden credit for one thing. He dragged Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama into a same sex marriage. You remember
that? No. Yes, it was. Obama was going to come out and announce
the policy on maybe a Monday or Tuesday and then on some some
interview, but it was it was a problem because he was basically
the guy that on an interview, and Matt posted with Robin, I
think, from Good Morning America. Robbins was, and he
said, Oh, no, I think same sex marriage should do. It should be
okay. And he just went all in on it, which we had. And this was
shocking. At the time, no one had heard of what are you? This
is from the White House. And then, and then Obama and
Hillary, they immediately had to kind of jump on and say, Oh,
yes, yes, yes. We've changed our views on this. And that was Joe
Biden, who dragged them into that by basically jumping into
the announcement, which he wasn't even supposed to do in
the first place.
Yeah, he does a lot of that. Yeah. I consider that bumbling
well, he plays it off his bumbling. I think he's a lot
smarter than we might give them credit for in that regard.
Well, that's a possibility. But gates, the guy who was used to
be in the CIA and whatever, and he was in the various staffs of
the Obama administration, who wrote this book, if you recall.
Pretty much about the Obama administration said everything
Biden did was just everything he did was wrong.
Well, the only reason why he's being picked up on top right now
is because he's got the money. You know, when you raise
$700,000, in one night, then the news media is like, Hey, Joe,
how you doing? Let's do another interview. So you can buy some
ads. It's their money. They see that as their money. Who's got
the money? The Biden's grabs our money, let's go get that money.
And then they go on. Monday. No, wait Monday. Yes, Monday night.
Watch what happens with man. Are you okay?
I'm having a lozenge.
When Beto is going to reintroduce himself. I am
reading from the Associated Press, O'Rourke plans to step up
his national media appearances after skipping most of that kind
of exposure in recent months. He is scheduled to appear on MSNBC
is Rachel Maddow Show on Monday night and ABC is the view the
next day. O'Rourke acknowledges he struggled to find his
presidential campaign footing.
Sounds like he struggled to find a good Booker.
I think in part I was just trying to keep up when I first
started out, he said after addressing about 40 people at a
recent house party in Newton, Iowa. I really feel like I found
my rhythm and my pace. I just feel comfortable. I feel like
this is what I'm supposed to be doing. It's my calling. Spread
ball and butter. So we'll see.
And he's lost so much momentum and when you hear him
he's dumb. It's just dumb. Well, he
also has the tries to sound like Obama at that pacing and is
waving it sounds like he's doing an Obama.
But, you know, all you hear him say is we've got to do you know,
comprehensive this reform that
impeach the president at least at least Yang
at least Yang is saying oh, we're gonna do a value added
tax. Oh, go to Universal Basic Income. He's not saying oh, we
should No, he's at least he's saying something. Elizabeth
Warren still the favorite amongst the graduating class. We
just got one back here. Done with the with four years in
Arkansas, liking what Elizabeth Warren has to say feels somewhat
cheated scammed by the system. Everyone's talking about Liz.
Hey, y'all want to don't care about anything, just take this
debt off of my books. She's got a real shot with that.
She's making sure she's got that and to promise she's got
something. She's got stuff like this, too. She has too much.
She's creating problems for herself with play my Warren clip
in this op ed comes just weeks after a Massachusetts senator
and 2020 Hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan to break
up tech giants including Facebook, Google, and Amazon.
Oh, yeah, she has no focus this. She's an idiot. She has no focus
she had she has something going on with these kids who are all a
voting age. They probably won't vote. You know, these were the
BETO voters who didn't really come out in Texas. Yeah, for
sure.
Too much work.
Yeah, but yeah, I'm
finishing my game here.
But if you've got 30 or $40,000 in in, in student loan debt, I
think I can go to the poll and vote for you listen, yeah,
maybe but I got Facebook. No,
no, I disagree. These kids are also moving away from Facebook.
They're moving away from social media now they had no they they
actually have to do they're getting dogs.
My dog won't let me go. Down idea of breaking up the tech
giants besides being scatterbrained is like wait a
minute, these are the guys who got all the money. And you're
good, you know, so you're gonna turn on you're gonna bust up
Amazon, Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Hello, hello,
knock knock
you? Well, I'm against. I'm against all of this. I'm against
all of these the breakup ideas, because I see the internet as a
network that anyone can access and anyone can use whatever, you
know, freely available protocols there are to distribute your
information. And I don't think necessarily Facebook and Twitter
and Instagram are the internet. And that's what people believe.
But it's not true. It's not it's nice. Just not true. So true. So
let let these guys wallow in their own shit. That's fine. I
don't need to use them. But anyone who participates in this,
in this breakup conversation is giving him too, too much
credence. It doesn't know what the internet is. It's, you're
looking at the America Online version of the internet.
That's what you're talking about Elizabeth Warren and all these
other people, you don't even know how to turn on a computer?
Well, I think that's pretty sure they can do that, you
know, Hey, Bill, can you turn on my computer? I don't know how to
do it. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on. It's that round
button.
There's a lot of different things that are problematic for
for people in government. They, for instance, have you been
tracking Bitcoin?
No, I don't follow Bitcoin that closely.
Well, going back to, I think November, November last year,
the prices dropped from around $6,300 down to a low of just
above 3000. Right. And now. And if you look today, I can look
right now. But last I checked, it was over 7000. And if you've
ever looked at a at a stock chart, it looks like the longest
bear Surrett bear trap I've ever seen in my life. And that's
actually down a bit now since 68. But it was up to as high as
almost 7400 which is higher than it was when the drop happened.
And this is causing concern for a lot of people and certainly in
in government. This is Congressman Sherman. And he has
a he has only one way to go for this.
I look for colleagues to join with me in introducing a bill to
outlaw cryptocurrency owner purchases by Americans so that
we nip this in the bud in part because
I love to nip it in the bud Hello 10 years. Hey, there's
something to this Bitcoin shit. We should nip that in the bud.
Let me write up a bill for y'all.
In part because not a awful lot of our international power comes
from the fact that the dollar is the standard unit of
international finance and transactions. Clearing through
the New York Fed is critical for major oil, oil and other I'm
just
going to interrupt him then I'll play that bit again. What he's
saying is, is true, although it may sound very, very
unbelievable to most when you transact money, I think even if
you go from, let's say, the Netherlands to Germany. I
believe it still eventually goes through the Swift clearing
system or they may be using the full European system. But the
Swift American banking system has fought very long and hard to
Make sure all money transactions go through our system through
defense system, all of them, certainly when we're talking
about dollar purchases. But you know, and this guy's really just
laying it out as to why this is a problem because of you know,
what interests we have. And I think greatly explained a
problem to me. To me, it sounds like this is exactly why Bitcoin
needs to exist
of international finance and transactions. Clearing through
the New York Fed is critical for major oil, oil and other
transactions. And it is the announced purpose of the
supporters of cryptocurrency to take that power away from us to
put us in a position where the most significant sanctions we
have on Iran, for example, would become irrelevant. So whether it
is to disempower our foreign policy, our tax collection,
enforcement, or our law, traditional law enforcement, the
purposes of cryptocurrency, the advantage it has over sovereign
currency is solely to aid in the disempowerment of the United
States and the rule of law.
Yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, I think he's right. Bitcoin is
anti American. Yeah, it's true. I'm all I'm all for it. I have
to say I'm all for it. And I think it's great. We should we
deserve a little competition on our dollar.
Yeah, we're gonna get it from the Chinese. Yeah, we
certainly are. Well, how are the Chinese now do you guys usually
track that over DHL and plug they got their their increased
that tax tariff?
Or as imports or hospital really tracking? Because they lie?
The Chinese? Yeah, well, what are they lying about?
lie about their numbers. You don't know what the hell's going
on with.
Someone sent me this. For all you can say about him. Trump has
been extremely consistent throughout the years prior to
his presidency with the same talking points going back to
Oprah Show in the late 80s, early 90s. And here he is
addressing a crowd in 2011. At did he was he running in
somewhere around that time, he was just making noise about
Obama wasn't he 2011
about running in the year 2000. Right, but
not 2011. He was just making making noise. He
was just, he's always he's always running. He's always
promoting his show and running.
So here he is addressing a crowd specifically about taxing China
and how to tax China and how to present it.
I'll give you a little China story. Also, China, I said the
other day, very, very hard to buy anything outside of China or
certain other countries also, but China's you know, the one I
said so it's the one Why did you do what can you do? So easy. I
drop a 25% tax on China. And you know, somebody that is really
the messenger, the messenger is important. I could have one man
say 25%. And I can say another
I guess he chose for the second way of doing it. They're
responding poorly. I understand.
The Chinese Yeah. I don't like it. I don't like to be
intimidated. But
you know what, I'm what I'm reading everywhere. Is okay,
fine. You know, you order this stuff, and it gets shipped from
Vietnam. That just just kind of using Vietnam as a Pio box now.
Well, I haven't heard this word. Yes. I've
read it everywhere.
Have you gotten anything for Vietnam.
I have also received that this is what tipped me off to it.
I used to buy art from both China and Vietnam. And different
shops that did all kinds of custom. And it was just fabulous
artists in those areas, especially Vietnam, they got a
lot of very artsy if you go to visit the country go Holy
mackerel. And I noticed the one thing I noticed the most was
that FedEx and whoever also was had some deal. So it was pretty
much everything coming out of China was free shipping, or it
was $1. And I was always befuddled by this because the
same products out of Vietnam would cost like $30 in shipping
minimum. And it was just seemed to me that what how does China
doing this deal with FedEx, or whoever it was ups and all of
them they were all given China this huge deal or the Chinese
were eating the price. I didn't know what was going on, but I
thought it was there was some moment of corruption.
Well, we ordered sort of When we moved in, we ordered a chair
from West Elm, the company West Elm, and we've ordered from them
before and as with pretty much all furniture. It comes from
China. But this time because we've ordered from them in the
past this time it showed up huge box. Large Print made in Vietnam
don't think it's China has made it Vietnam doesn't say made in
China on the chair itself. But I'm I'm pretty convinced then I
started looking into it. And I'm seeing they're either doing
subsidiary deals with factories, but basically using Vietnam as a
Pio box.
No, I don't think so. I think it was made in Vietnam. Okay.
Could be I'm just saying we used to get from the same company
will be shipped from
Johnson. Chinese had been notorious for like, moving their
manual, it's funny. To Taiwanese move their manufacturing to
China, the China gets Chinese got swamped and has been known
fact that they've been outsourcing. China, China has
been outsourcing to Vietnam and India. Okay. Well, that makes
sense. And so I would say I would say this, the product will
be better.
And probably will. Yeah, they know what they're doing over
there
are outstanding quality. Yes. It's a very interesting country.
They live 98 their literacy rate in Vietnam is higher than we
have. It's like 98.5% of the country's literate it's very
interesting place. Okay, onward. Yeah. I don't know if that's
anything but it's like a very, I don't know what we're gonna do
about China.
What we're gonna do is what we've been doing is cut them off
at the past the worst them everywhere. We can mess us mess
up countries where they want to have a foothold for their Belt
and Road strategy. And screw Venezuela and the process.
You're just brings me to Venezuela. I'm sorry. I have a
China.
Wally go with Venezuela.
Yes, I do. I have three things from Venezuela. This is from
NPR. And one I have one. What's this play yours first? What
do you got? Well, mine is about into the local protests. You
know, Code Pink. Yeah. And all the rest of the end of
democracy. Not everybody. They're all pro Maduro. For some
reason. I don't know what
and code print Code Pink is.
Even protest that Obama a lot is a protest everything, everybody.
Yeah. But they love Maduro. So they're protesting. I
think you can hire them for anything. So just highest
bidder, isn't it?
guaido people in and move the real Venezuelans out if you want
to call them real Venezuelans as guaido isn't, but let's play
protests in weirdness at the Venezuelan embassy Democracy
Now. In Washington,
DC authorities cut off water and electricity to Venezuela's
embassy as activists with Code Pink and other organizations
continue around the clock occupation in order to prevent a
takeover of the building by Venezuela's US backed
opposition. The activists entered the embassy in late
April with the invitation of Venezuela's government,
opposition groups led by Juan guaido and backed by the Trump
administration have pledged to take over the building. So far
police and Secret Service agents have arrested nine activists,
including Jerry condone a 72 year old Vietnam War veteran and
the president of Veterans for Peace, who was violently tackled
and pressed to the pavement Wednesday by five officers after
he tried to bring food to protesters occupying the
embassy, now known was left bleeding from the head and
needed medical treatment. He's been charged with throwing a
missile resisting arrest and assaulting police officers he
attempted to get food inside the building.
did not report mainstream adoption.
Well, of course not I just this just in from one of our lawyers
within the value for value network. I have been advised and
I can confirm that this isn't the he's the real deal. I've
been advised by clients who buy from China as follows. The
manufacturers are moving to Vietnam from China, but the PIO
box scam is being perpetrated in Malaysia.
So that's how they're rolling. Okay,
Malaysia. So look for some problems in Malaysia. What can
we what can we stir up in Malaysia? Because that's what it
seems to be. We just want to thwart the Chinese. This is
Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon, on NPR. And this first
clip is about the failed coup. I'm sorry, flipping in Venezuela
out of the tools available to the United States who will
compare to the vulnerabilities.
Up to this point, the tools have not been sufficient, really
beginning on January 23, when Juan guaido declared the
presidency vacant, and declared himself the president under the
Constitution. The hope at the time was that would be
sufficient to flip the military, it did not work. Then the
opposition working with the United States and other
countries decided that focusing on humanitarian assistance and
creating a confrontation at the border between Colombia and
Venezuela, over the delivery of humanitarian assistance, would
create a rebellion within the armed forces that did not work.
Then the administration decided that sanctioning the state run
Oil Company Podesta and effectively sending a clear
signal to the armed forces, that revenues would be cut off and
their access to the Venezuelan gravy train would end would
convince the military to flip. That did not work.
There's also been an effort to focus on individual members or
former members of the military, some of them had been
sanctioned. And just the other day Vice President Pence said
the US would aim to lift sanctions on an individual
former intelligence chief, I believe, who switched sides. Is
that working at all?
Well, we'll have to wait and see. The purpose, obviously, is
to send the signal that those members of the armed forces that
choose to work with the opposition, if they are under
sanctions will have those sanctions lifted, and those who
might be facing sanctions would not face them. If they chose to
work with the opposition. We're gonna have to wait and see how
that's received.
What's just amazes me is to listen to this guy cavalierly
speak with an NPR host, who easily could have been lamenting
the Russians meddling in our elections. But listen to this.
What tools do you have? Well, this tool didn't work. And that
tool didn't work. What are you doing? Well, I'm gonna jack
Venezuela, obviously. Oh, how about Russia and China,
the Russians have provided significant sales of weapons to
the Venezuelan Government, along with purchasing large quantities
of oil and gas and inserting themselves into Venezuela's oil
and gas industry. And then the Chinese, of course, also have
deep interests in the oil and gas sector.
Is there any way to pry those foreign actors away from the
Venezuelan Government Maduro government,
that's NPR, your National Public Radio is participating in this
totally radical is, yeah, we're just strategizing how we can
fuck the Chinese.
We're gonna have to wait and see. I personally believe that
calling these governments out, especially the Chinese and the
Russians was not intelligent. The Chinese in particular, have
been looking to play a very low key role in this political
dispute and are more interested in their long term energy
interests. And therefore, it's important for the United States,
to make very clear to the Chinese that the long term
future of their relationships in South America are going to
depend on China's willingness to help Venezuela find political
accommodation that gets it through this period of crisis,
do
you mean to say would have been more intelligent to quietly
approach the Chinese and reassure them that their energy
interests will be maintained no matter who is running Venezuela?
Yes, but also to make clear that countries who have China as a
number one trading partner, like Brazil, like Argentina, like
Chile, like Peru, wants to maintain that relationship. But
in order to do so that the Chinese need to understand that
by financing the Maduro government, they are actually
creating problems inside of South America, especially the
outflow of refugees from Venezuela, that are seriously
affecting the stability of countries like Colombia, Peru,
Ecuador, Chile and Brazil.
Yeah, there you go. That's that's what we're doing. That's
that's your you don't need to know anything else. We are all
over it.
Who is that guy?
That is the Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon. Shannon speak
it too much me thinketh. This is way out the problem this morning
to get some other tools.
That was a Yeah, I agree with you. What is this? What is the
point of this? Well, it's it's not like deep disinformation, or
some sort of just giving a briefing meeting or anything.
You go on NPR just explain the strategies.
This makes no suity. That must be the way the State Department
of State is being run these days. Now, the technical experts
that we've discussed who have targeted us when we talk about
Venezuela, we're not doing it right. We're not talking about
him. Right. I'm starting to see some patterns here. As there are
some young Venezuelan kids, and I say kids in the 20 to 2425
year old range, who put together a video specifically meant for
Alexandria, Ocasio Cortes, who as we know is all in on Maduro
regime and the and the socialist country of Venezuela. At least
that's the way it's portrayed in the in the M five M. And then
this video appears I'm gonna play a little bit of it first,
you get the idea.
Let me tell you something. Alexandria. Alexandria, Ocasio
Cortez, I want to tell you something else. Illegal novels
Jonah Hill socialismo No. funciona My name is Jose. I'm 21
years old. I am Simone Machado. I'm 22 years old, I fled real
socialism. Me and my family fled. Real socialism. Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez, Ocasio Cortez, you're a liar. You're a liar.
You don't know where you're talking about. You're clueless.
You have never gone through socialism. So you reach it like
you do. America will never be a socialist country, American will
never be a socialist country. A lot of people think socialism.
It's all about equality, and free stuff. What socialism is
really about its starvation, people dying from lack of
medicine. Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez, I want these
now. Just notice that the lack of medicine all the talking
points
are here who produces Birch Society? No,
this is why I was interested in sharing this. It goes on for
about three minutes. 30 more seconds to hear some of the
other points you've heard in this type of campaigns really
about its starvation, people dying from lack of medicine.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, I want to tell you something. If you
really believe in socialism, why are you here in the US? Why
don't you move to Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Afghanistan,
China? Why don't you just go there? You know, you talk about
socialism, as it is something so perfect for you. No, it's not?
Well, no, actually, you really truly believe that, that he
works like that. But he doesn't just go and look into actual
facts and not just in books. Isn't it? Good to have your life
going everyday to Starbucks, tweeting how much hate
capitalism from your MacBook?
That's great, right? Okay, so when I hear these things, you
know, like, isn't it great drinking your Starbucks and
tweeting how much you hate capitalism on your MacBook? I'm
like, okay, these are talking points. I've heard them before.
And they sound a lot with a medicine thing and Maduro. It
sounds a lot like the emails we received. This is produced and
distributed. By turning point USA, home of Candace Owens and
Charlie Kirk. These are the propagandists, and now I'm
starting to think maybe it was their, their outfit that sent us
emails who would know about podcasts? Who would stay on top
of that? I was giving the US State Department too much
credit, I think. So these may be the actors. And how does this
fit in with what I thought Turning Point USA was? I don't
know. I never heard of them. Well, you know, Candace Owens.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, she's the Brexit that I like Candace
Owens. I like them. I like what she does I like what she does
for Prager University but what is this what is these guys are
turning point USA this is this is propaganda stick crap and I
can't take them very seriously after hearing this well what do
we know about this drug
bitch it's just like the those horrible Democrat the celebrity
ones were the celebrities yes was bad yeah. I'm not sure I
think we have to change the color of blue to green stuff
black and white and stuff like that just black and white to
probably
well I'm going to look into look a little deeper into turning
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that would be a bad idea. And in the morning to let me see. I
believe it was yes. Darren O'Neill who brought us the
artwork for episode 1136 1136 episodes. That episode was
titled spy slot, which is a CIA term we learned on the show. And
Darren O'Neill. Oh, yes. He brought us the find example of
what you don't like at a Whole Foods checkout line. Someone
with face tattoos. blown out ear ear lobes. And I think in this
case dispatch both Darren and I are I'm Darren and we kind of
went for the cheapest laugh I guess is that what we would
classify this as?
Well now that you mentioned it is kind of going for the now
that you started this this analysis.
Nose ring mustache.
You saw it in this this piece of art this art. Okay, there was a
bunch of stuff that was actually
it was all borderline I mean, the kind of the funniest sickest
one was the black royal
extreme cave bear. extremely racist,
racist. Yes, racist piece. I liked the mental health one the
most, but it was like more of an evergreen didn't really have
much to do with anything. The cat with the with the phone is
funny but not pertinent to the show. The thing was, we actually
looked over these domains, and it was pertinent to the show was
the mustachioed character. Yeah, so that's what we that's really
the reason we picked picked it.
And someone else made a an email common to us that the artwork is
really just part of a package of three elements of promotion. And
I wanted to bring that up, because it does work in concert.
We have the album art, we have the show title, and we have the
opening blurb at the beginning of the show. And each one of
those three elements is important in promoting each new
a new episode. Personally, I think the tight title is yes, go
ahead.
And we have made a rule, just not true arbitrators, your rule
is your rule. You can't crossover.
You can't have the artwork be the same or have the same topic
as the title and the opening. giblet can't be related to the
other two, either. I don't know why we came up with why I was
you at the same place. But I like it makes us
well became established. Because at some point, I think we did
have a couple of contrary Well, it's called dissolves with the
artworks is doing. Once it became established, we just kind
of said okay, well, we just what we're gonna do, we could do it.
It's not like it's impossible.
People really want to hear that conversation. I should record it
when we're discussing artwork and titles.
Let's record it, you just recorded it.
No, I mean, the actual process. Oh,
maybe you wanted to things, we noticed that the art works as
we're discussing it as people try to guess.
Oh, yeah, the topic that we will be interested in as arts. Yes.
Yeah. And so if the art itself, we never mentioned it. And we
get to the artwork say Oh, this guy just did. We didn't talk
about it. That was a disappointment is sometimes it's
I guess, superior piece of art. We say wow, what a great piece
of art is too bad. We didn't talk about this.
That yes, that does indeed have like, quite a bit. We missed the
topic.
Yeah. A bit predicting what we're going to talk about and
Pete Buttigieg being called Alfred E. Newman by President
Trump is not on my list. It's not something we were ever going
to talk about. Now. At least not on this show. No, I
don't think so. I will say
that the art that was done here. Didn't make them look like
Alfred E. Newman is out sis.
Done. Yes. Like they will probably go for a mom thing. I
think that's pretty good. Mom is always good. Mom is always safe,
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Who else knows what's going on in Venezuela Hard Formula
is this. We go out for yet people in the mouth
European Parliament elections are coming up. And it's very odd
because due to the lack of blegh of Brexit The European parties
are in and they can vote on European representation. since
Brexit is Brexit breakfast, says breakfast. Breakfast is not yet
done. The European Union and just explaining this is it's
kind of complicated and but I think it's interesting to do it
without the visuals, because the European Union had a little
cartoon to explain exactly how it works. That you know how
these European Parliament elections work.
I would be remiss if I said I absolutely knew, but I don't.
Well, I
find it to be rather confusing, I'm sure. Somehow Faraj gets in
his own way. The end of the day, Faraj is in
this year's European elections, it's a big deal.
I love this kind of Eurocentric British accent. It's very
different from, from what you hear in the UK very different
than a real British accent. Yeah, it is. It's just it's very
Eurocentric. optische They got a whole roomful of these people in
Brussels who do nothing with these voiceovers.
But it's not simple not to help you get your head around them.
We put together this handy explainer. Confusingly different
parts of the EU use different voting systems. But all are some
form of proportional representation. Some vote for
parties who has selected a fixed list of candidates to appear on
the ballot paper. Other countries have more open lists
where voters choose a party or indicate who is their favorite
candidate. Hear electors choose as many candidates as they like
and number them by preference. turnout at EU elections has
dropped from 62% to 42% over the last four decades. And because
you made it so easy, that's why that's despite a handful of
countries including Belgium, Greece and Bulgaria, where
voting is compulsory. MEPs are elected to represent
geographical areas regions in some countries like Italy, while
in others such as Germany, they have the whole country as their
constituency, the number each country gets is proportional to
his population.
Now this is kind of interesting. When you hear the difference in
its base, it's pretty much the way our House of Representatives
works. Except they don't have the concept of a Senate with
some equal power. So here it's just whoever's the biggest
rules.
Germany the most populous will get 96 MEPs for it at 2.8
million people, while tiny Malta with 475,000 people has just
six. They will serve a five year term 2019 to 2024 and spend
their time between European Parliament's in Strasburg and
Brussels. They pass EU laws and approve its budget along with
the European Council. M EPS, while representing countries or
regions sit in transnational groups in the parliament
according to political ideology. For example, there are groupings
to represent the center right socialists, greens, and others
for Euroskeptics. MEP is also helped choose the President of
the European Commission. The largest political grouping after
mais election has the strongest mandate to have its choice head
up for Commission, the European Council comprising chiefs of EU
countries first votes on a nominee chosen after taking into
account the election result if they approve the candidate. He
goes to the European parliament where he or she must get the
support of a majority of MEPs.
This is so convoluted. I don't think anyone I don't think
anyone it's just like why your eyes glaze over. Man.
I did. I don't know. I still don't understand, especially
with that background
music hands is that meant to make me feel calm or trying to
comprehend. So everyone has a different system. Everyone does
it differently then you throw a whole bunch of people out there
and then they all those people then go and determine who they
are, which could be a totally Rando they could bring in to be
the president of the European Parliament. And then you add in
the you get the well, good luck. Every every country and every
union gets the government government she deserves and
you're getting all
but what's really the government No. scam.
So as I'm looking around, since there's no news in America, at
least I didn't feel anything really that newsworthy. I wound
up watching your own news. And your own news had a number of
stories about samosa, the island of Samos, which is a Greek
island. But it's an it's an odd one because it is almost it's so
far off the coast of Greece is actually very close to Turkey.
And, you know, you could hop a hop a little boat to get from
the coast of Turkey to this Greek island. And what has
happened is some moss has been used as a parking place for
migrants who want to come into Europe at and not just being
held there because the European Union's like, yeah, we got
enough people and we remember they kind of close some borders
here and there and whatever don't look at Greece, Greece is
really doesn't count because, you know, they, they got no, no
money, we don't care about them. So Greece is pretty much the
dumping site of the EU. And they had a well, I'm gonna play the
first piece here about Yeah, about what's happening in the
numbers of what's taking place. And then there was a 20 minute
piece which I pulled one little specific piece out of here's
here's the basic story of Sam was talking to a person who set
up a community center for these 1000s of refugees living in a
tent city with at no sanitation, no garbage disposal, no
sanitation and no toilets. 00 toilets
situation hasn't improved in any way. Right now. There's over
3300 people on Samos, the capacity of the country 650 The
delays on the asylum procedures are extremely long. We've seen
recently people getting interview dates for 2022 Even
someone for 2023 for their appear which is
they're sitting in these are un UNICEF, actually, it says on the
side, UNICEF tents, no toilets, no, the people just pooping on
the perimeter. And, you know, the next to farmlands and all
kinds of stuff like this. And these people are saying, I've
been here for eight months. I can't live here for another year
and a half before I get my site my asylum hearing. So I'm going
to go crazy. And of course there's all kinds of crime now
taking place.
This is having people waiting for such a long period of time
without any clear information about knowing what's going to
happen with them without having a proper process where they can
integration process in place for having a possibility to work and
provide for themselves. It really affects people especially
their mental health. And this causes a lot of distress. It
doesn't look that things are gonna change anytime soon
because the system in place is broken right now. Well, if we
look at the EU Turkey deal, it has never properly worked.
This is the EU Turkey deal where if someone came into the EU
could not rightfully claim asylum. The EU paid several
billion euros to Turkey to take them back. And we remember I
remember we covered this oh yeah just send them back no problem
Well, that's not working out because they're not being sent
back to not being accepted even though you could almost toss
them overs over off the island they could swim back to Turkey.
Well, if we look at the EU Turkey deal it has never
properly worked. People are supposed to their cases are
supposed to be treated very quickly. And like the hotspots
are supposed to be like a triage point where people are that are
supposed to get asylum they are allowed to stay in those that
are rejected their asylum they will be quickly returned to
Turkey or to their home country right now what what was
happening is people are are just waiting for months or years for
their asylum procedure to be completed. And without knowing
what kind of even if they get the rejection they are still
staying here for a very very long
time. And you know, there was a piece about some people who have
their little house there and they're literally on the other
side of the fence and and they're feeding some of these
people as they can you see the slop that they're getting is
passes for food is just I mean this any humane animalistic
circumstances makes you really think that are putting kids in
cages is a good deal when you see this is the EU helping out
right now the policy of the European Union is to send the
big chunk of money to the Greek government but the money does
not reach the people on the ground is not acceptable that
someone has to live on in a tent for eight months a year or year
and a half with like no sanitation, no protection, no
proper food looking at the most vulnerable like babies or
children or pregnant woman there isn't like they have to live in
a tent for a long period of time. But like yeah, there is
not a lot of money sent but the money does not reach the ground.
So a lot of the initiatives like this one that see like our our
group, we work only on private donations.
So that sounds like it's going extremely well. So next time we
have anyone in the European Union criticize As us of our
immigration policies, I'd like you to focus on the island of
Samos, as they have done something, and the what they've
done is they've determined it will be better to move this camp
a couple miles up the road. So it's further away from the main
drag the main city, but unfortunately, that puts it
exactly half a mile from a little village. A little
picturesque village in on the island of Samos in Greece, and
what your news did in this 20 minute piece, you know how they
they'll have someone talk and they'll just voice over it like,
you know, a translation. Yeah. overdubbing I guess is what they
call it. Yeah. Well, now it's like a complete radio play. And
with emotion, so they have a couple of people that just
impromptu town meeting. And it's, you know, couple old guys
couple old ladies and all Yellin but you don't know what they're
saying. But they've chopped it all together with the EURO NEWS
translated voices, but they're acting. I realized it's like a
radio play.
The Greek government has promised to close down the vathy
refugee center soon and to open a new and bigger one, if you
kilometers away from the capital geared use is the president of
the village of mytilini. Next to which the new camp is set to be
built,
here are the former slaughterhouses where the
migrant center is set to be installed. Here you can see
where my community is, the distance is one kilometre, so
you can understand the problem of Rafi will come to our
village,
the topic has inflamed the community, a group of villages
is expecting us.
Don't let them go to the destination they want to go to.
And we are keeping them here by force. So they are giving us
their misery. I mean, their misery becomes ours.
Just can't be people wandering around without us knowing who
they are. They might be criminals, rapists, we
don't want them here. That's the issue. They can take them
wherever they want. But we're here. We don't want them. That's
it.
We cannot live with those people. They have 800 diseases.
If you go to the hospital, it is full of black people. Oh, no,
they still live with them. We will take the law into our own
hands. Quite
possibly. This all sounds racist? We are no, please don't
associate us with this term. And we've had it up to here.
Close its borders. And it is Greece that has paid the price
for it.
Those Europeans who take and give orders, can't they
understand that the only thing they are going to achieve? Is
the rise of the far right. Little by little they are
pushing us to the extreme. This is what Europe has succeeded in
this is what you should tell them.
I don't know. I thought it was kind of cool as a radio play.
Yeah.
That's funny. Well, yeah, they can bitch and moan about what we
do. But that's gotta be a mess over there. This whole thing is
a joke. You know, I'm reminded as listening to all this, as
you're just playing these clips, and I'm thinking, the Europeans
really don't have a culture to do to manage the EU, in the
formation of the United States, even when we had 13 colonies,
let alone when we started expanding, if you read the
literature from that era, the Europeans scoffed at what we're
up to, especially when we went independent, decided to become
one big group, as opposed to the small colonies that were all
owned by different parts of Europe, in many ways, or
slightly independent, but not too far, was that at the point
of the 7076 era, it was believed that the country was too big to
manage this is going to be the downfall of the United States is
that these 13 colonies
you can't make shall never work. Yes, exactly.
And so the there was all of the agreements of French would say
that the Brits would say that to everybody. It was too big. I
mean, look at the size of the euro, some of our countries and
there's already too big meanwhile, so they go from that
kind of thinking over hundreds of years. And there's Donald
change that into one language, they don't do anything in Europe
to to make it easier. They still have all their separate little
languages. And they decided to make one big monstrosity and try
to manage it with a bunch of bureaucrats running it out of
Belgium. Does this make any sense to anybody? Historically?
No,
no. And by the way in, in the Netherlands, as there was a
smallish town that has a local newspaper, and the local
newspaper was not allowed by the authorities to inform the
community that there would be a new asylum seeker center. That
will be set up right near their town. This is how bad it is.
Over
what how did that go over?
Not very Well, in fact, the entire news desk, quit the
paper, the paper quit itself pretty much.
Why? What's the paper got to do?
Because they were not allowed to publish this news. And they were
forbidden from publishing this news. So no one there knew about
it until all of a sudden this they start building this center
like well, what is this? Well, they can have asylum seekers
over here, which of course, in Liberal Europe, everybody loves
people coming seeking asylum. But you know, where we don't
want it. Yeah, NIMBY NIMBY. Exactly.
Yeah. Well, I do have some news from over here. Really? I guess.
Okay. I have a couple of clips that bothered me because there's
missing information. All right. This one here's the barge report
from CBS where we had a little spill wipe this
afternoon two barges and an oil tanker collided in a shipping
channel in Houston. One of the barges capsized after a hole
opened up in its side it was carrying about 25,000 barrels of
a toxic chemical used to make gasoline some of that has
spilled into the water that's not when you
hear that what do you what what goes through your mind and so
far as information what information did was kind of not
told was left out seems well whose barge was this? Well,
that's one of them. Yeah, that would be nice to know be
interesting to know. Yes.
Don't you think you have your gym and aren't even curious
about what toxic chemical has gotten into the water that's
Houston who gives a shit?
Well there's well besides
okay let's say anything but Houston Yeah, I'd be interested
do we know if we figured it out that do we know at all what's
happening?
If you go look at the news reports this was even more
interesting instead of a toxic Campbell with this. I'll set
I'll read you some headlines from various stories. Barge
leaks gasoline product in Houston ship Oh, I know what it
is. barge and tanker collide leaking gas product. Products
barges causing massive gas product.
Holy crap. We're gonna die. What is this stuff?
Well, what it turns out to be if you do a little research. I know
what I don't even get into it. In these news stories, either.
They just call it reformate.
I know what it is. I know what it is. It's the stuff that turns
the frogs gay.
No. Oh, that's Atrazine. Atrazine. Yes. Atrazine. And
it's not using petroleum products. No, it's caught. They
call it all these news articles talking about it as reformate
reformate is just kind of a witch's brew of crap. That comes
off of various catalytic reform.
So it's a waste. It's a waste product.
No, it's not a waste brine is all high end stuff. Oh, it's the
good stuff mixed up. So you haven't totally you win and
napped the nap there. You got benzene, which is the carcinogen
xylene xylene xylene. Lotta xylene Yeah. So you have all
these aromatics and some benzene and some other chemicals. All
it's a witch's brew, and it makes the it's used to boost the
octane of normal gas,
some supercharged fish in Houston? Well,
it's the thing that was left out of the report, in my opinion, is
the fact that benzene, which is highly carcinogenic, was leaked
into the water and nobody's talking about it.
Damn, and not just a little bit. So this is fun. So this is a
cover up then because I mean, and just even if your report is
poor reporting No, it's it sounds more like
that. I probably shouldn't get all bent out of shape if you say
that. So yeah, don't really get a public bent out of shape about
the fact you've got a bunch of benzene in the water, which is
not a good product. No. But yeah, but they were they had
covered up toxic and as you know, tell you when it's not,
these things aren't theirs.
But this stuff we'll get into here, we'll get into the water
supply eventually, won't it?
I don't know. Most of the operates now sold high end, I
mean, it's all very volatile, so it'll go away. So not that big
a problem. Now if you boil the
channel, this stuff will come right off.
Don't worry, just boil your arm and it'll rub right off.
That's already say I always tell people you know, if you're gonna
use the you know, most most oils, I'm gonna get a lecture on
this but most oils that you get, unless they're specifically say
expeller or crushed, depends on how the oil is made. But you
know, first virgin olive oil first press is pressed and then
a lot of a lot of oils are expellers and expellers. Spin it
around, it comes out of the seeds and whatever. But most oil
production like that did Mazola the giant gallons of oil that
you get, yes hence to be a hexane extracted which is the
easiest way to pull oil out of nuts and fruits and whatever
you're pulling the seeds whatever You're pulling the oil
out of his you extract with hexane, make a mash put hexane
in there, flash it off and you end up with some oil. The
problem is there's always risk, I believe, I believe that
there's no way you can flash all the hexane off. And so you end
up with a some residual hexane and the oils. And now a lot of
natural food fanatics. Oh my god, you can't use these oils
for anything. You can use these oils I also believe based on
just basic chemistry, that if you Yeah, if you take the corn
oil that's been hexane extracted and using your salad dressing
you're probably going to ingest some so you don't use that you
use olive oil Of course of course we don't use but if
you're gonna use it for making French fries which eat that oil
up to 320 plus degrees if there's any residual in there
it's gone. So it's safe.
So do I go long oil or short based upon? I don't know. I love
how you know you I'd love you to throw out the based on basic
chemistry that you lost me it can
yes okay, you know, yes things flash off and
now does that work with chicks?
No, it turns out unless they're Kim chemistry nerds
doesn't really work or with any of them and just want to make
sure
no, it's not a chick magnet. Remember who's doing it for
people out there who like to cook and they're always you know
the read about this and that about you it is overpriced
expeller oils. I mean I cook I tried to cook blue and I french
fry I tried to cook and safflower or sunflower oil,
which is a really good oil for deep fat Frank,
I've gotten kind of hooked on the sorghum syrup. I know it's
what growing up in Holland. In the Netherlands for breakfast.
There's there's really, that certainly younger kids will have
a slice of bread or maybe two slices, buttered up with
margarine actually. And then they either put chocolate flakes
on there or chocolate sprinkles, they can also do they can do the
colored sprinkles, but also molasses just spreading molasses
on top of the butter, right and I grew up eating that. Or they
can go the other way and have a piece of bread again with the
margarine slash butter. Then slices of young age Gouda
cheese. That will be another another fan favorite in the
morning, but also for lunch. But as you know, I just took a piece
of bread and I put some some butter on it. I put the sorghum
syrup and oh my god, it took me aback is delicious. It's
delicious. It sounds like it should taste like poop. Sorghum.
That doesn't sound appealing. But when you try it's good man.
That is sorghum pancake for breakfast today.
We should try my sorghum syrup on your sorghum pancake.
You know, I like the one great delicacy that the United States
has pretty much Jemima Canada. And Jemima is is maple syrup not
answer my mantra. My name is got sugar, water, fructose corn
syrup, and all kinds of crap and who knows what's in there. But a
real 100% Maple syrup is a is a delicacy is rather cheap.
Considering how rare and valuable it is
around the world. It's very expensive.
Yeah. So all right back off of the food thing. Okay,
well, just a few updates. Jussie Smollett will not return to
Empire for next season. He's done. Oh, he's
on again off again.
I guess now it's off. Just the you know, the fox is Fox News.
Fox made their decisions and now it's not worth it. So he's off.
Good.
Liar. Yeah. Good. fries with that
Bernie Sanders and AOC are calling for the creation of
government owned banks run by the US Post Office. And I want
to say I've, well,
we should like your savings in stamps.
Well, I've used this system. When I when I was growing up. It
was quite popular in the Netherlands. And it was called
post Hiro. And you literally did your banking at the post office,
or you could do it through the mail, which was free, and you
filled out your little card for payments, and it's still there
and you can still do now they do it online, but it's what
interests me is why don't they promote a credit unions? We mean
doesn't necessarily have to be a government run thing for it to
be more of a nonprofit model and a bank that's not trying to
screw you. Oh, or at least, is being honest about not getting
back in deals for the worst they screw you. And that's a credit
union and we have them all over the United States and, and they
are community banking to its maximum. You don't have to be in
a game yet. Yeah. But the having a banking system within the post
office it's I mean, I don't know if we could do it with our with
our postal system, but it's not a bad idea necessarily.
I've seen it work lines.
I've seen it work.
Yeah, you've seen it work but a lot of post offices because
they're a little five times in the United States. It'd be some
issue with customer service.
Oh, well, I mean, just like me I don't have a mailbox so just
imagine like you move look sorry, you don't have any money.
Sorry, we we don't we don't know where your where your money
account is. is gone.
Don't cut it another clip. That is I consider something of a
gaffe. Or maybe not. I'm not sure. But it would seem to me
that if you were a news reader, and you were an or an expert, or
you remember the woman who was the head of Planned Parenthood,
kind of the yes, the
CEO Rogers. No, no, no, no, no, no. Roger. Cecile Richards.
Richards. Yes.
I'd like I've always liked Chris Watts and Richard's daughter if
you remember. Yes, I do. Yeah. From the Texas governor. Look,
she's starting I hate you. I know what you're gonna say she's
attractive. Except no more recently, having been booted out
of Planned Parenthood. She really is starting to look like
George Soros. Oh, man.
Recently, I didn't catch the sore last five.
Yes. That Sith look for you. Or your Star Wars folk. Yeah, she's
starting to look Sith so I mean, that's you know, a drawback but
she was on with Amy and there's a little gaff in here. I want to
see if you can spot it. I don't know that you you will. But you
might. But I did immediately. And I just had to go back
Michelle with his bullcrap. Bucky not know this. Okay, let's
have a listen.
And anyone who wants to be elected has to respond to the
issues that women care about. So that'll be a lot of the
organizing work. We're doing both online and offline in the
coming months.
Four Democratic women have now announced their plans to run for
president the significance of this for you and will you be
endorsing?
I think the importance of obviously, there's there's no
way to overstate the importance of women running for president
and I'm thrilled that they are and I think they're raising
issues that have long been needed to be raised. I think
it's it's disturbing, to see what I believe is a real double
standard and how they are being treated versus the many, many,
many men that are running for president. You know, two thirds
of political reporting is still done by men. And so I'm hoping
that both through supermajority through other folks that follow
the media, we can actually be lifting up the important work
that these women have done. As you probably know, these are
women who, in large part have never lost a political race. And
so when people talk about women being unelectable, I think it's
really important to look at their record because it stands
up. Really in contrast to a lot of the a lot of the men who are
actually in the race right now.
Who is she working for now?
Oh, it's some says God says you'd look her up. He had some
more some. That's like, not a lobbying group. But as some, you
know, NGO, kind of an operation and why
did she leave?
I don't know. Plan. That clip was more about the gaff, which I
think was inexcusable considering we have Amy who's a
newsreader and knows that knows should know about this because
it's about they're talking about women politicians and and, and
Richard should have said something. So what was the
guest? There are four women running for president is the
gaps. There's five okay, I considered a huge gap and you're
a woman. And you're all for women running for the booth
naming them now naming them but Hillary it would be six but
Hillary is not running through our five, not four. And I think
it was I think they purposely forget one. And I think the one
they keep forgetting is Tulsi Tulsi
Gabbard, yes. They don't even consider her a contender for
some reason.
Yes, they issue her with a stick a thumb in her eye and they say
for the for they're talking about is is Klobuchar Harris.
Warren and Gillibrand. Right. And the fifth one is Tulsi
Gabbard, that's so
rude. But it's not it's not unexpected. And I've thought
first of all, I like Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi
Gabbard is the only anti war when we're talking about the war
and that's what I'm saying. That's all What I like Tulsi
Gabbard a lot of liked her since we first became aware of her
five years ago, maybe six years ago and said that she could
totally be president. But her message is wrong. She's hates
war as a veteran. She's been in war and so that's wrong. But she
also has a view. She has zero stage presence. She, she's very
I mean, she's stately, and she speaks thoughtfully and slowly
but who gives a crap? No one cared. No one wants that
anymore. We need to see fire and both shatter people. Yes, yes,
yes. Yes, we need fire and passion and, and pissed off
SNESs. And now she doesn't have any of that. But for her to just
be excluded by these top women is very
sad that she's the one they excluded. Because they never
mentioned names. Obvious. Yeah, I
agree with. I agree with you.
So there's only four women running? Yeah. Yeah. bullcrap.
And I'm looking at a Wikipedia page. But oh, what does no
doesn't say where she's currently working.
It's um, it's somewhat weird organization.
I'd like to know what happened there because I thought she was
on I actually thought she was on her way into politics. It seemed
like she would be perfect to do some good in the Democratic
Party.
And must have been some scandal. No one ever wanted to bring
some things going on. Yeah, maybe we just missed that.
If you dodge the needle from measles. That's illegal. Or if
you catch the measles, you will die.
Yes. Yes. Tracking the measles because it's just so much fun to
do. We spread over to Europe 100,000 People with the measles
just tell them how important it is.
I mean, measles is is a horrible disease and it can kill. It does
spread very, very quickly. And so the only way to protect
yourself is to make sure you've had the full course of vaccine
and it's never too late. Just because your child is a little
bit older now they can still go and get their vaccine from the
GP.
Go get your shots, get booster. Get the shots. How do you get
all these people getting infected? These shots are
distilled water. I think this is a scam.
You know I'm with you. It's like everyone's so worried. Now we
know that if you've been inoculated you cannot get you
cannot get it again. If you've had it you can't get it again.
But now there's these wishy washy you need a booster 9497
Look if you if you protected by the vaccine and what are you
worried about? Was everybody freaking out you Alabama County
Fair? Oh my there was a five month old baby tomato everybody
freak out nine five we first broke this Live at Five we were
on the for the new information that the testing for that St.
Clair County baby presumed to have measles was negative sigh
of relief.
Ooh. Cremation from Alabama's Department of Health once you
find out Alan.
Well, those are the results and you know when we we've been
seeing this all along. You know, while there was concerns you
might have had measles, we're talking about that five month
Euro infant over in St. Clair County but you know, tests had
to be done what had to be done by the CDC. The tests weren't
done there were eventually the Public Health Department
releasing late this afternoon. It might be a rash of some sort,
but it's definitely not measles. Now we can tell you the public
health department they are investigating about 80 cases
going on right now in Alabama as an investigation the Public
Health Department has already dismissed 170 of those
investigation in cases again those were not measles stay the
head of health visual we've been that
must be that fifth disease that the what we were talking about.
If it's not measles, things like well, it's not measles move on.
Well, hold on. I think that's kind of important to know if
there's something that looks like measles gets everyone all
freaked out. That's that's measles telling
you as you heard St. Clair County that little girl it was
presumptive positive until the actual presumptive positive nice
tests were done and examined. And that was by the CDC. So no
measles in Alabama, but remember, we have those at
investigations. And of course they will we can also tell you
the health department they look into communicable vaccinated
cases the possible diseases all the time. So that's is this is
not that.
I think that's what he's doing. He's auctioning off this idea
that we all need to get a shot
and catch up with Dr. Karen Landers. Today. She just with
the Public Health Department. Tell me overall Alabama is still
in very good shape when it comes to measles. We're a highly
vaccinated state. Still, you know, there is that possibility
somebody unvaccinated gets exposed elsewhere.
You meant a vaccine year comes here
could cause a problem. If you have any questions again, check
with your doctor. He'll let you know if possible. If you need to
get a booster or not.
I get two booster. I think we should get boosters. Let's get
boosters for our anniversary, baby. Let's get a booster
together. And there's some Yahoo Jumoke in San Francisco who's
been you know, if you want to get out of this, you know you
can buy your way into school you can buy your way out of
vaccines.
We showed up at the offices of Dr. Kenneth Stoller on Broadway
whose medical records will be reviewed by the San Francisco
city attorney's office as part of
a ongoing investigation into whether or not this particular
doctor was granting medical exemptions to patients that
didn't qualify for them.
There's no hiding the fact that Stoller has issued medical
exemptions for vaccination purposes. We found people had
written on Google review about his work. I am so grateful to
have.
This is now journalism. Well, we checked out the web, and we got
a Google review page. It's like Yelp only shittier. Let's read
that for everybody. We
found people had written on Google review about his work. I
am so grateful to have found him to help my son regarding
vaccinations. Another posted we sought out Dr. Stoller, when in
the middle of spring of last year, my daughters were being
asked for new vaccine exemptions. Senate Bill 277,
which went into effect in 2016 says you can no longer cite
religious or personal beliefs to get out of vaccinating children.
I didn't know the state senators behind
Yeah, you can only get out of it if if you have cancer or if you
have an immune system issue, which quite honestly, you know,
you got a lot of other problems going on. intraday, of course
you want to introduce a virus but you probably shouldn't be in
school where the immune issue out of vaccinate,
nothing keep playing that clip in children.
But the two state senators behind 277 allowed for medical
exemptions which include a person's family history. Dr.
Stoller is attorney Skyped with us from back east.
So there are a group of doctors in California that have taken
these two centers at their word, and are issuing broader
indications based on family history, just like the Senator
said
they can do many but
now State Senator Richard Pan, one of the authors of the bill
says the law has been exploited by some doctors
because you know, we're having measles showing up people are
bringing it into our state, and we can't have measles spreading
rapidly through a school.
He's now behind. How
does that work? If 99% is is vaccinated, how can spread
rapidly through the school?
It makes no sense unless they're shooting people up with
distilled water in charge. The doctor doesn't want to boast
it's it's all comes razor really. And
we can't have measles spreading rapidly through a school. He's
now
behind another bill 276. This time calling for the state
health department to vet all medical exemptions. And both
state Senator Pan and the city attorney's office say they are
most concerned with kids who cannot get vaccinated because
they either have cancer or a compromised immune system. They
say well, she said that almost with disdain, but his kids could
get cancer but you can't get your shot because you got
cancer. What's wrong with your kid and
the city attorney's office say they are most concerned with
kids who cannot get vaccinated because they either have cancer
or a compromised immune system. They
these stupid ass kids
say they're the ones in real danger. So yeah,
California is becoming Florida. With these crazy stories, I got
a California story.
I just wanted to set before you move on just want to say
something about this, this semi Vax that the talk that we have,
because we're not anti vaxxers We're just you know,
you keep bringing this up. Yes,
it's important. You got to say it. I want to say it for people
who are just new listening to us. We appreciate what you are a
partner you John, but what everyone else is a part of with
this program. You can't say this stuff and post it on YouTube.
You can't say this stuff. Put it on Facebook. You can't say this
often. Oh, they listen to my great show on SoundCloud. You
can't you know, we can't sell CDs of this on Etsy. But just
because you're asking questions you get kicked off of that,
which is why we use the actual internet and all the pieces that
it includes. Let me close out the segment measles. How is the
general public right now? cases have been surging in the lab is
a 25 year hot.
Are you serious? The measles. All right, the measles. In San
Francisco. They have this story this is teacher has to pay for
her replacement story.
A California teacher who is battling breast cancer isn't
just facing mounting medical fees. She is also being forced
to pay for her own replacement. Turns out it is the law. Here's
Jamie Lucas.
She's a veteran second grade teacher at San Francisco's Glen
Park Elementary School. We're choosing not to identify her to
protect her privacy. When parents heard she was actually
required to pay for her own substitute. They were outraged
and launched a GoFundMe page to help cover costs. They could not
believe that. This could this could be happening that this
would be a lot Ah, the more I found out the more angry I got,
teachers can use 10 paid sick days per school year. Once those
are exhausted, they can use 100 days of extended sick leave and
receive their regular salary minus this substitutes pay what
doesn't seem fair at all. Connie Leyva chairs, the California
Senate Education Committee,
we would never want one of our teachers who is basically
educating our future to be worried about where their family
is going to be when they're out battling cancer.
Since the GoFundMe page was launched, at the end of last
month, nearly $14,000 has been raised well over the $10,000
goal. The teacher posted in appreciation, my heart is
lifted. And it gives me so much strength to know that so many
people care about me and my family. So I
hope next year our leaders in Sacramento will take a hard look
at that and make sure that they change the language in the law.
Jamie Lucas,
CBS News.
Yeah. What are you guys leaving the union? No, can't come
quicker. No matter can't come quick enough.
Now, I have one clip I want to play, which I think is I don't
know if we're gonna get to it or not. But we are now because we
talked about this in the last couple of shows. I think we've
discussed the false flag.
Yes, we were quite familiar with the flag of falseness. And it's
going to be in Iran. We need an Iranian false flag as well. We
got the fried out
of the this is the latest from CBS. And by the way I want to do
Jeff Gore's is quitting or go got no got fired. Oh, from the
CBS Evening News, he did have a very avid little short, his sign
off is very sweet, because it was mostly about the crew didn't
talk too much about himself. And then he actually quit on Friday
quit the show early and talked about the crew. And he said he
want to thank every one of them. Then they did a slow roll of the
credits. Yeah. You know, which is what usually do with the
shows not long enough. Yes. But in this case, it was like he's
walks off this thing, you know, and they do this unbelievably
slow roll of just not only everybody that's on the
internet, I know they don't have a cameraman working the show.
Well, it's not on that particular night. But no, but
that's
the point where they were they did a slow roll. But Jeff
glorious, I do his last sign off. It's kind of sweet. We
don't need to play. I want to
hear it now. No, no, you said it. Okay.
We leave here tonight. I just want to say thanks.
How long was he in this job? A year
to year? Yeah, he took over from Pelle. It first it was Anthony
Mason took over from Pelion and they kicked him to the field
and, and they brought glory and it's I thought, well, I don't
like the way. But again, I like glory, because he's got a very
nice, he's got an extremely pleasant professional voice.
He's not a flubber. And he and he seems objective and like
pelle, who is a Trump hater. And so what are they going to do?
They're going to get rid of glore and they're bringing in
the Trump hater, Norah O'Donnell. Yes. From the morning
show. And she she's gonna be she's a flubber. She's not going
to be able to sit down and seriously read the news. What
are they thinking? By
the way, according to the Muller report, ever since you got
canned from PC Magazine, you become a Trump supporter.
Yeah, I didn't see that in there. So that's bullcrap. Well,
someone
said so on Twitter, so it must be true.
So let's hear anyway. So here is
goodbye. Let's hear glorious Goodbye. Oh, yeah.
As we leave here tonight, I just want to say thanks. This is a
short broadcast, but a long game. Through it all the people
who put on the evening news remain committed. This program
will be moving to Washington DC in the coming months. I wish
Nora O'Donnell the best of luck, but she won't eat it all.
I heard it. I heard. I wish her the best of luck. Wish Nora
O'Donnell the best of luck. She won't need it because of all the
people backing her up. So I'd like to use the time I have left
on this night to recognize them. Their hours are long and
unpredictable. Their family and friends are unfailingly
patients.
No, no. Thanking the crew. Yeah, it's an old one. They still it
works a team effort. I think
I think my crew going on and on about these four these guys
screwed me over.
So let's so what do we know what happened Norah O'Donnell
to take my place? Are you kidding me? That's what he
should have said.
I bet she tests really well though.
We'll wait until she starts doing now. I mean, this is like
Who was that they brought in that woman? I think it was also
brought into CBS that the morning woman from the Today
Show was I can't remember her name. She was terrible. You know
just because you're it's nice to have a woman anchor but it's you
can't do it. I mean, the the epitome of female anchors on
news reading is Asian Goodman.
What happened to Connie, Connie Chung
whatever how Connie Chung I think she married more Maury
Povich than she did Marian but she was great actually pretty
good. Yeah.
She was your stereotypical, she was your stereotypical Asian
woman news model.
I will say this they had and I don't want to sound like a
racist. By but the Asian newsreaders I've seen it once it
comes out good. We have a lot of in the Bay Area they come in.
There was one woman here, you would just sit and waiting. I
mean, I don't care who you are and how good you are. You can't
go weeks after weeks after weeks of daily news reading with never
never making a flub saying something. There was this woman
I can't remember her name, but she was screamed through the
news and she would be flawless. And I think and well maybe the
Asian some Asian newsreaders are just they just have a skill set
that you can't otherwise achieve. And so Connie Chung, I
think was in that league. Norah O'Donnell will not pull this
off. She won't pull it off you watch.
That wasn't racist at all. By the way. I understand what you
were worried about.
I'm always worried because you keep calling me out on it
thought you're misogynist as all hell but
okay, let's so anyway, so Okay, back to Iran. The reason why we
think that it's ripe for a false flag is a I mean, come on. It's
what they do. It's fun. Be we had pence specifically tell a
group of Iranians behind closed doors, which are not pence,
Pompeo CIF State State Department, former CIA will get
it eventually, specifically told them which means you know, it
had to leak out. We're just hold them back. We're not doing
anything, no aggressive moves from us. It's not going to be
us. Whatever you mean, see what happened. It won't be as we're
not doing anything. So that means, of course, that there's
something afoot.
And meanwhile, they take the Abraham Lincoln in about
800,000 10,000 sailors, sailors and
abroad and they sent him right in Oh, this is this is and
nobody's saying this is?
Yes. Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard is all over it. Haven't
you heard? It? I haven't heard that. But here's the report from
CBS with Iran's
Revolutionary Guard today ruled out any talks with the US aimed
at getting Tehran to give up its nuclear program. This is
tensions grew with a new show of force in the region. Here's
David Martin.
A carrier strike group has already passed through the Suez
Canal and B 52. Bombers already landed at an airbase in the
Persian Gulf. But the Pentagon is sending even more forces to
backup its warnings to Iran, Patriot air defense missiles and
amphibious assault ship, a nuclear powered submarine, along
with fresh supplies of precision guided weapons are all on their
way. In response to intelligence reports Iran is preparing to
attack American troops or diplomats. Secretary of State
Pompeo has warned any attacks will be answered with a swift
and decisive US response. In an interview with Margaret Brennan
for Face the Nation. former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said he's worried the stage is being set for a conflict neither
side wants. Now if the Iranians make the mistake of launching a
attack in the Persian Gulf on a more American warship. The
administration probably won't have any alternative but to
retaliate is scarier. Lincoln was first passed by Yemen where
Iranian backed rebels have in the past fired missiles at
American ships. And once it arrives at the entrance to the
Persian Gulf, it will be operating under the noses of
Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guard units. David Martin, CBS
News, the Pentagon.
You know, I really hope Trump has a handle on what's going on
here. Because all these things can just collapse so poorly and
really fainted they're ratcheting up the Syrian thing
again. Oh, Assad is bomb at him and clip it. It was so
insulting. Assad is bombing hospitals again killing children
and patients hospitals. The war machine is huge.
Well, this particular situation is so obvious we're shipping all
these armaments 10,000
to 10,000 sailors alone.
Yeah. And what is the here's the one thing that is ever discussed
by any of these news operations. Because you could if your work
working in DC, you could ask somebody you can go to you had
the Pentagon briefings. The question is, what does it cost
to move the the Abraham Lincoln and all of the new gear and fly
the B 50 twos and take all those ships and move them into the
into the region right next to Iran? What does it cost? Well,
how much does It cost to move all this gear over there in the
first place. It's gotta cause I gotta cross.
I'm pretty sure. I pretty sure we can find the answer in the
Muller report. SpaceForce that's what it is. Everyone's your meet
the so called media is so bad. It's hard enough. Even if you
put something in a headline in the New York Times, most people
won't really know about it. It's got to be headline news for days
and days and days. It's got to be hammered. But there's too
much media too much noise people tune it out. They got other
things to do. They don't care. So the machine is very good at
the repetition because that's what works. It's how do you why
do you see the same damn Princess toast commercial for
the stupid vitamin C gummy bear for your moronic kids. And I
don't have kids and I keep seeing this ad. I have one but
not to need to the gummy bears. It's because it works and you
remember it. But they're not. All they're doing is Mala Mala.
Mala bar trump the mala Mala Mala bar, trumpet, Mala, Mala
Mala ba Trump did nothing. Not informing the American people
that I'm sure it's not much better anywhere else.
No, it's well, you know, it's not. Let's go here's this.
Here's an interesting one. Yeah, sorry. Yes. Is this story that
should take our break? We can't unless it's related. We should
we should do a break here. Yeah.
Oh my god.
Oh, my God,
no agenda. Imagine all the people who could? Oh yeah,
that'd be fun.
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Wow. Now we got somebody who decided to write war and peace
which of course in my spreadsheet, I can't see. Yeah,
we
should we should come up with it. Just as a suggestion because
I've done this myself.
It's Christopher king.
The joke is if you wrote war and peace, what would be a hipper
version of that shouldn't be like the kicked over the
Hornet's Nest trilogy or maybe Tolkien or Lord of the Rings we
need to update what when we say that
well you we don't say it i It's my joke. I say it all the time
and your want me to change it?
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just work on your material Atlas Shrugged bible the bible. Atlas
Shrugged.
Strike. Atlas Shrugged.
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loving this family. And they they both like they're
surprising each other and they both mentioned their daughter a
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Stewart Walton 51 do today. What is the day today they're
graduating from college in the middle of May
at least just graduated. She just came home Friday.
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Sorry or cello. McGann? Musumeci I guess 50 That's a it's there.
No, but it's it is his first donation. He says credit
unfilter for bringing me here. Are those guys still on? I
thought they were off the air. No, they're
there. No. Ebro David. They haven't been on for almost a
year now. You've probably listened on filter picked up our
show. And then
wanted you wanted the original to donate one of the originals
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He's hoping to God they come back but now they didn't. Chris,
he could ask us for help. And then we could have shown him
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on our list is Robert Bruckner and he doesn't have any so
that's it for our call outs do. Okay. Well, I thank these folks
want to thank their moms.
Yes. And Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. Happy
Mother's Day, Mother's Day to Tiffany. My sister and my sister
Willow both outstanding moms of course. Tina the keeper be
Mother's Day to me, me. Tina, the keepers best mom in the
universe. Jesse Hill never listened to the show. No, it's
not not such a great mom because she doesn't listen. So
now. She'd be a better mom as she listened to the show. So I
guess D up and Eric does shills wife she does listen so she's
time to time and she's busy. 2020 boys they got the how many
kids are running around? They got 13 kids I knew something
like
that. And she will be machine Hear me out here they call out.
Well, thank you all very much the other moms that we missed.
We
love all our mom and our moms in heaven, John. Yeah.
My Deaf mom and he was talking about me. Why
would you ever make good from Jos solace, solace Hauer a Adam
John Hurt episode 1135 Where I donated $121 donation was
attributed to me the donation was supposed to be from my buddy
and fellow producer clay. Bassett vici. I think in order
to get him to knighthood, I just want to send you both an email
so we can get the credit for the donation and finally reach
knighthood. So we need to have the details about his
knighthood. So have clay, send in a note to either myself or
John and we'll get it off to the back office and Eric Xu will
take care of it. But that will be next time we've still have a
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It's nice no matter where you are in the world. And you know,
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Yeah, everybody has. They're all free thinkers. Yes.
It's really nice. It's very, very enjoyable. May 18,
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oh, I I forgot the 20th This is not
official yet by thinks or Jono is trying to set up a meetup in
Tel Aviv. Israel on the 20th. But But Mimi thinks that least
posting is spam or something. So I got to talk to me make sure
she knows that. Yeah, we have people in Israel. So that will
be a nice meetup to go to May 20. So we're working on that.
But again, you can find this at no agenda meetups.com When
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The vortech.org/na all help is welcome and necessary. So I
know I've been note, Producer Grant about this dimension of
the of the diesel subs, which was
we were talking about them if it was an antiquated thing or why
we were laughing
about it they made the point of saying it well this guy here
just a couple of people actually. Yeah, diesel subs are
exceedingly quiet compared to nuclear boats. A nuclear vessels
need to maintain their coolant pumps even when lying silent.
This means they always create some level of noise that can be
detected by passively listening. Diesel subs run on batteries,
meaning that they can be completely silent while moving
at low speed and cannot be detected unless they move
quickly or which causes cavitation this means the sub
can move into a shooting position without the enemy
detecting them. While running like this. Their opponent must
use active sonar sonar dipping them active sonar gives away the
pickets ships exact position and is likely to invoke a torpedo
launch at the surface ship doing the pinging. This is why they
are very dangerous. Okay diesel subs weakness is that they need
to charge their batteries using their loud diesel engines,
either while on the surface or just beneath it while using a
snorkel. They are very vulnerable while doing this
little background for people don't
know the more you know. On the no agenda show, Alyssa Milano.
She's pretty powerful in Hollywood due to her. I think
her husband who is a big CIA agent I think she He is using an
oldie but goodie, the old Lysistrata trick calling for a
sec strike to protest anti abortion laws. In other words,
you see, I think she has a list slogan or logo. It's a big pink
sign with a big X. And is it oh, here it is. Hashtag sex strike.
Our reproductive rights are being erased until women have
legal control over our own bodies. We just cannot risk
pregnancy join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy
back. That's a bumper sticker. Huh, this is horrible.
Well, right now is in the South Georgia of course plus. The
heartbeat bill. The heart duct which is dubious is
questionable.
dubious. It's completely I think it's is yes. Very lame.
Whoo. So so the ball the Hollywood lot of Hollywood
movies are made in 1 million square feet of soundstage in
Georgia. Yes, perfect, huge. They have a lot of sound stages,
and they got a lot of action to get they got and the workers are
cheaper, you know. So yeah, so that I can make movies there.
And now I think Spielberg and some other guys that are that
are kind of signed up to do movies there said, Well, they're
gonna take their profits from these movies and give them to
some rights organizations. They're not actually pulling out
completely as some others claim. But the super action is in
Alabama, where they're just going to make abortions illegal,
and this is supposed to be the lead into the eventual
supposedly I don't know what's really going on there. But I
have a clip.
You have a clip. Okay, because I have a question questions about
this. Let's listen to the clip. First
Alabama State Senate delay to vote Thursday on a law that
would ban virtually all abortions after a rancorous
floor debate that saw lawmakers repeatedly shout in protest. The
bill would make providing an abortion a Class A felony
punishable by up to 99 years in prison. In Alabama Senate
Minority Leader Bobby singleton objected after Republican
leaders sought to remove amendments from the abortion ban
that would have allowed exemptions in cases of rape or
incest. She
didn't even make a motion Mr. President, make a motion he made
a motion to table the motion. No motion for he made a motion to
sink in and other Democrats also protested when Republican
leaders attempted to pass amendments on a voice vote. They
demanded a roll call so that lawmakers votes would be put on
the record. This is Andrea Miller, president of the
National Institute of reproductive health.
I mean, the reality is what happened in the Alabama Senate
just shows how high the stakes are right now, when a state is
planning to ban all abortions outright, and not only eliminate
access to abortion care for the people in their state, but in an
effort to eliminate it for everyone all across the country
because they hope they'll be the ones to bring the case to the
Supreme Court that will overturn or severely eviscerate Roe
versus Wade.
Yeah, I think they're a long way from doing that with these,
although it's law, it's law, this heartbeat bill, which I
read through because I'm very interested in the topic. And you
know, it completely flies in the, in the face of the privacy
of Roe versus Wade. So I don't think that in actuality it will
do much but yeah, what eventually happens is the access
and you have to go out of state and that's definitely a problem.
I know by you, I'm pro killing people. I think it just to be
televised, that's that's the only beef I have about it. I
think you put people on death row, we kill them play great,
you got to televise it, this should be the same. But I'm
confused about the numbers. We have birth control as it's very
effective 100. And it's 99.9% effective, multiple different
kinds of ways. It's mainly regional 99% for women deal with
the problem after all, it's their body. I don't understand
this, these high numbers about five because I looked it up I
was over the weekend, about 5% of all women per year have an
unwanted pregnancy. 40% of those are African American who
represent 6% of the population. So that's very high. My question
is why? And it's not really answered. I know there's some
NIH studies but why do people become pregnant when they don't
want to? And I don't even know how to formulate the question.
It's an unknown I think they call it unintended pregnancy as
an unintended didn't want to get pregnant didn't want to have the
baby. So is is access to contraception. too
controversial, not available, too expensive. Why? Why is why
is this option B? unchosen with a reasonably high frequency. I
don't know the only answer I need? Well, the only answer I
get from the NIH is education, that the less educated you are.
And the less and the poorer you are, the more chance that you're
going to have an unintended pregnancy. I still just don't,
it means that that means that again, education just needs to
be be better, or are there other reasons I'm just looking for
it's high, I find this number high. And we have so many
different ways to stop the unwanted pregnancy up front. No
one No one has this talk. You know, it's all about the baby
killing part and the choice or life or whatever. But what is
the root? Cause? You don't know, either. I guess. I don't
have a clue. Yeah. But except for the simple education or
people don't care. They're careless. There's a lot of
carelessness, or there's just a pad the heat of the moment. And
who knows, I mean, it's just I don't know, I my mind at the
group that's involved with this.
I mean, the only thing that I can think about after and I
really have put that it's in the show notes it put some study
into it of unintended pregnancies, and to have one
very surveyed a lot. But the answer is all they say as well.
Here are the groups who have it more often. But is it possible
that we're so shattered certainly the African American
African Americans who historically, really ever since
the welfare state came into being the real welfare of our
fatherless families, I have this fear that there are a lot of
black women who feel like okay, I'm gonna have a child with this
guy, my baby daddy, you know, you hear them all tell my baby
daddy, it's this whole cultural thing. And it's not just black,
but this is where we're hearing it. The baby daddy, and maybe
he'll stay with me. And it's almost used like a, like a, like
a, like a bond between a wishful bond and then it doesn't happen.
The baby daddy leaves like I'm not wanting to get rid of the
kid. That's it feels like that may be some of it. And it can be
black or white. But it just the numbers say African American
women 40% of all abortions, and this now we're just looking at
the unintended ones. unintended pregnancies. I don't know. This
is the stuff I'd like to understand. Maybe I'm sure we
have people in producers who could not be discussed, will
know but we can discuss it if our producers point us in the
right direction. Read
some producers notes, but we have no nothing real
information. Absolutely
nothing. But yeah, other than everyone just going apeshit over
this. They said nothing about it in the Muller report.
No, I didn't see anything about it in the Muller report. Another
way I got another news story that we didn't get any we have
no information, but this hasn't been covered by anybody who's
our new defense secretary. Do you know what's his name?
Yeah, isn't it the junior guy who came in the undersecretary
guy?
I think it might be. What's nice to know, you know, this is an
important job. What's
the clip? Oh, yeah. New defense secretary,
President Trump's nominated Patrick Shanahan to become the
next Secretary of Defense Shanahan has been acting
Pentagon chief since Trump fired James Mattis at the start of the
year last month and internal Pentagon ethics investigation
cleared Shanahan following accusations he unfairly favored
the weapons contractor Boeing where he spent over three
decades as an executive. Yes, I,
I think we talked about we talked about him because he was
the Boeing guy that we discussed this, I have two clips to two
media related clips. The first one is it's only the intro to an
interview with Matt Taibbi. Matt Taibbi, I like a lot as a
journalist, he writes for Rolling Stone or wrote for
Rolling Stone and then I think he moved to the intercept. And
he's still but then he left the intercept and he left the
intercept mass right. He
went back anyway because he found him to be poor. He had a
phone conversation with him and I he I asked him about the
intercept thing, and he just thought it was just a
disorganized.
Well, maybe it was at the time. It seems to be a lot better now.
You don't know.
Now you don't. Anyway, he has a book
called Have you seen a bee recently? He doesn't shave the
head with unfortunately is not shaved.
He's looking a little scraggly is scraggly. Yeah, this word
There's a book out called hate ink. I have not read it yet. But
he went on to the only place you can can get on that is news
related. Is On Russia today. He
can't Yeah, with Chris Hedges.
He can't get on anything else. And I just wanted to play only
the intro that Chris Hedges did before the interview because it
kind of neatly sums up what's in the book and I think it's going
to be an interesting read.
Welcome back to part two of our discussion of the day case that
has beset American journalism with Matt Taibbi, the author of
hate, Incorporated how and why the media makes us hate one
another. Last week we discussed the shattering of the old forms
of media manipulation and the rise of a new media landscape
built around demographic silos that sell internecine conflict.
The result tie the points out is a bifurcated public that is
addicted to hating each other. This new media landscape still
manufactures consent, but by setting group against group, a
consumer version of what George Orwell in 1984, called the two
minutes of hate. Our opinions and prejudices are skillfully
catered to and reinforced. Aided by a detailed digital analysis
of our proclivities and habits and sold back to us. It is
Tybee, writes packaged anger just for you. The result is
political impotence, a fractured and disempowered public crippled
by hate and fear and mesmerized by the fake dissent of the
culture wars and conspiracy theories rather than genuine
dissent. The moral swamp is fertile soil for demagogues,
such as Donald Trump, who is a creation of this media burlesque
and feeds our emerging corporate totalitarianism
and that's why you should not only listen to but also support
the no agenda show because that's exactly what's out there.
You don't even have to listen to the interview.
That piece itself was was very slanted Of course it was. That's
what makes it great. This is a known as socialist
congratulate, he should be at Starbucks tweeting from his
MacBook.
So we have the trade war going on. Another another interesting
little tidbit was on Democracy Now which I'd never heard
anyplace else, which is the French the French are having,
you know, besides having their yellow vests which
are still ongoing and six months now 26 weeks is the 26th
weekend. It's still going
now they got a GM in protest going on in France
in northern France, human rights activists are attempting to
block authorities from loading French weapons onto a Saudi
vessel, saying the shipment would be used to kill civilians
in Yemen in violation of an international arms.
We were the holes in that deal treaty.
About 100 protesters turned out Thursday at the port of lab
ahead of the arrival of the Saudi ship as lawyers for two
separate human rights groups sued to prevent the shipment.
The protests came after a French news site reported French may
tanks and laser guided missile systems were being used by the
Saudi led coalition against civilians in Yemen's war. This
is John Paul Cook, a member of the French National Assembly who
joined Thursday's protests
on public again. Well, you men it's the war in Yemen is a
difficult war, we are turned into supporters of Saudi Arabia
and if we the French citizens do not act if we don't try to stop
arm sales, we will end up as accessories to this business. We
don't want this we don't want to be in the situation.
I wonder this is the French I give them a lot of props. So how
am i How was that intertwine? Well actually, let me play my my
yellow vests clip because this is what I heard was going on,
but maybe the two are intertwined or half of the
people went over to the Yemen protests. Heavy
rain kept the number of yellow vest demonstrators down in Paris
as the movement marked the 26th consecutive weekend of protests.
Organizers were hoping to regain the momentum following a record
low turnout last weekend. The government says fewer than
19,000 people turned out nationwide. Although organizers
said this was because of major May Day demonstrations earlier
in the week appeared to widen this weekend's protests, big
demonstrations were planned in the regional cities of Leon,
Nona and Toulouse. More than 5000 people were expected at
Lille rally core to protest against plans to privatize
public services. Saturday's rallies come two weeks before
European Parliament elections when more protests are planned.
The movement began last November, as a protest over plan
rises in fuel tax. It grew into a wider campaign of grievances
against government policies,
their mind you urine news is not to be trusted. Now notice they
don't mention what the tax was about, Oh, just a fuel tax. No.
It was the climate change fuel tax? Yes. So that that no longer
is nobody wants to talk about it? No, I have a climate change
thing. But I'm move that over to Thursday. Because it is an
interesting theory that I was listening to and I think it
might fit a little bit and help us understand more what's going
on what can be done and what can't be done. Greta Thornburg
now tweeting that we really have to start we only really have
five years.
Oh, we're gonna be dead in five years because of climate change.
Now she
says if we don't have substantial things underway in
five years, then forget your 10 year mark is not going to
happen.
She got a PhD in this what is the deal? She got braids, man.
drug prices rigged to have this clip. Okay. This is lawyers are
crooked
the attorneys general of 43 states filed a lawsuit today
accusing 19 generic drug companies and more than a dozen
executives of price fixing generic drugs should cost much
less than the brand name drugs they copy. But that is not
always the case. There's Bill Whitaker of 60 minutes.
It's an industry wide conspiracy. And I think it
answers one of the biggest questions all of us are asking,
which is why are prescription drugs so expensive? And I think
we know why now because the prices of generic drugs are
fixed. And there's a widespread conspiracy to rig the market
reading the
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, since his office
found evidence of price fixing by dozens of generic drug
industry sales directors, Marketers CEOs dating back to
2006. How many drugs? Are we talking about hundreds,
hundreds of drugs, what kinds of drugs, every kind of drug that
touches our everyday lives. I'll give you an example. Bill. This
is my bottle of doxycycline. It is a common antibiotic that I
take every day for a skin condition. And there's a
conspiracy around doxycycline and so sitting here today as the
Attorney General the state of Connecticut, I'm one of the
victims
doxycycline makes kids nuts, doesn't it?
No, no, it's just tetracycline. Oh, your version. It biotics
Okay, all right now, kids nuts.
Give us some happy to leave the show. I want
Chelsea Manning's out I think Manning update. Nobody talks
about her being added J Wait
a minute. I saw her on. I think she was on CNN this morning. But
she there was it was an exclusive, exclusive interviews
that exclusive but okay,
in Northern Virginia. Famed US Army whistleblower Chelsea
Manning was released from a federal prison Thursday after
spending 62 days behind bars for refusing to testify to a grand
jury. Manning had been subpoenaed to answer questions
about her leak of hundreds of 1000s of secret State Department
and Pentagon documents to WikiLeaks, including evidence of
US war crimes, the grand jury ultimately disbanded. Manning's
freedom could be short lived. Her lawyer said in a statement,
she will again refuse to testify in response to a separate
subpoena.
Yeah, I'll get the get the CNN interview for Thursday. If
there's anything in there, maybe show up on a couple other shows.
Yeah. Alright, everybody, we tried to break it down for you.
The the deconstruction should be completed, at least for what we
could bring you today. And we return on Thursday, where it's
just plain old episode 1138 that we have a Mother's Day or any
other specialties, although it will be the last one before I
guess before I get hitched. So we will need to talk about what
we're going to do for that show day. But that will happen on
Thursday. Remember us at the vortech.org/and A end of show
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and from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Can we return on Thursday right here with no agenda. Remember to
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They're not bad folks, both China if you're
listening because the stunt in the circus continues why they
do that, that the committee will find no conclusion or no
collusion because that will be consistent.
That is not conspiracy because it's done right out in the open.
I think this is gonna have a happy ending
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