You just walked away. You just walked away from the show. Adam
curry John's he divorced Sunday January 5 2020. Fishes your
award winning get my nation media assassination episode
12 105 This is no agenda, making it rain down under and
broadcasting live from opportunity. So I'm 33 here in
the frontier of Austin, Texas capital of the drone Star State
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where there'll be no record set
today because we missed this effort. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Raglan Buzzkill.
Got to be fair, the Zephyr was just earlier than normal. We
didn't really miss anything.
Well, I saw go by
okay. But yeah, anyway. Ah, Gee. I guess some stuff stuff
happened. So yeah. Thanks show days is when it always takes
place. But before we go into Iran. I do want to make mention
that Thursday by a request from Sir Chris Wilson in Australia,
we were requested to give yet another massive shake of our
rain sticks which are precision instruments. These are not just
some phoney baloney tourist thing. These were made by Sherry
Osborne in Utah, and they work conditions have
eased on the far south coast of New South Wales after fire
threatened the town of Eden. live now to our reporter Trudy
McIntosh, Reese and Aiden Trudy, take us through what's happened.
For Anna we're starting to see a sprinkling of rain here in the
town of Eden. But as you can see behind me there's certainly
still plenty of smoke blanketing this area. Plenty of people who
have had camped here for the night at the Aden wharf after
what has been a pretty difficult few days in this town. It must
be said, people staying here because this morning there was
an emergency level fire that had been coming from the Victorian
border towards this town. I spoke to one local resident
Joanne a short time ago she tells me about what it was like
to be in the town as this fire came towards it.
I thought I'd have to come down here tonight. But with this
rain, it's heaven sent. And I went home wash me ham here was
that dirty or couldn't believe it? And the birds come out and
they started singing this afternoon. So we figured that
we're right.
Not out of the woods yet. But heaven sent birds and rain in
Australia.
Did you see this morning's report about the rain? No. It
was caused by the intense heat.
No. Bull crap. It was caused by rain sticks. We all know how
this works. Intense heat.
But it said I'm taking one thing. We never get credit for
any ever,
ever, ever do it. Now we need a lot more rain to fall. But it's
a good start. And they're predicting a lot more. So.
Hopefully things will look I sent out a note on Thursday to
all produce Australian producers and how you guys doing? And
everybody kind of had the kind of had the same same feedback.
It's like yeah, it's bad. It's been worse. But there was a lot
that could be done and Oh, yes. Some of this may have been set
by arsonists, which I think is with 85% of all forest fires. is
some chance of arson involved that crazy people. arsonists.
Well, yeah, well, I have a report. They actually know where
the arsonist is, are apparently in Australia. Well listen
to this the fire is destructive force was fast and furious. Now
the meticulous investigation will soon be poring over the
devastated fire grounds. All along the south coast. vital
work for the coroner who will probe all aspects of the fire.
There's an enormous amount of work to prepare for the current
and not just with the burned out buildings and structures but
also clearly the deaths of people that have occurred as a
result of these fires
and a more sinister consideration where the fires
intentionally started. Police have formed at Strikeforce
indera, comprising detectives from Homicide and arson squads.
Plus drawing on insights from officers with local knowledge
who will lead the work
we will make available any other specialists resources in terms
of our forensic services group and other criminal
investigators.
Arson squad detectives are also part of the strike force
responsible for tracking down fire bugs known to be
responsible for lighting deliberately lit fires like this
one at South Turramurra last November part of their charter
is also proactive knocking on the doors of known arsonists
when conditions get this
bad Hey, Mr. arsonist, hey, just want to check make sure you're
not starting any fires. This sounds kind of weird.
Well, it doesn't happen so much in this country because we find
ways to throw the key away with an arsonist because it also says
because it's been determined it's not just it's beyond be it
is beyond a sickness is a sexual perversion
Oh I didn't know about the sexual perversion part we just
discussed a lot but in Australia you just go you know where they
are you just go knock on the door
Hey registered arsonist Hey
70 fires lately hey don't do it. Okay
don't do any knocking on the doors have known arsonists when
conditions get this bad to prevent them from getting up to
no good Oh, seven years has been Tulsa
believable. I find that very lackadaisical.
Yes.
If you have a tinderbox country with this have a tinderbox
country you know maybe you should keep a real just not you
know, happenstance just drop by and knock on the door. It's like
when I was in tuk tuk tuk. North I was in the North Pole years
and years ago, what it took to Yaak Tuck is that tight? Yes.
It's a little bit above Inuvik in the northwestern territories
and this was the Molson ice polar beach party with
Metallica. And whole and Veruca Salt was in we cyber casted,
this is a long time ago. So we're up there. It's
last which is cyber casted, oh,
we had a mux. We had 24.
I've heard enough going
24 phone lines that we that we combined in a MCSE with the was
it 9600 baud modems. And so that's how we did the cyber cast
anyway. It was at the time we were there was 23 hours, light
during the day. And you know, you're up there and it's kind of
like an oil rig area. And you know, just kids are driving
around on their bikes midnight because it's you know, the sun's
out, and where the whole crew is looking for something to drink.
Which of course is not allowed in that in that area in those
territories. So you kind of sign up to kids say, Hey, do you know
any chance and the kid immediately will go Oh, you want
the drug dealer or the booze guy? Is that house or that
house? That's kind of like the arsonist in Australia. Oh, he
lives over there, mate.
Yeah, just like that.
But not only are we helping with the rain stick apparently the
Australian government even listens to our show. Well, that
would be different. Yeah, the Prime Minister he's He not only
does he listen, he's he's taking our material boots on the
ground.
People lifting our material and not crediting crediting us I'm
absolutely sure that
well here it is boots on the ground. planes in the air ships
at sea and trucks rolling into communities that have been
impacted taken on material
well, there's no subs in the water.
It's not going to help much with the fires. Anyway, we wish
Australia The best we hope everything is going very well
so some guy got shot. Or blowed blowed up. Yeah, apparently
right after our show. Yeah, thanks. And it was just it was a
guy. I don't know about you. But I made the claim that no one's
ever heard of this guy. Now all of a sudden he's the most famous
guy in the world. First and you have people protesting people
protesting in San Francisco ceulemans unfairly It was like
they don't know who this guy is. They can't identify Iran I
mentioned this in a newsletter you couldn't find it on a map
I think we need to open the segment properly we've done this
segment about Iran probably since the third year of the show
and we have jingles whenever we talk about Iran bomb
Iran bom bom bom bom bom bom bom.
Right everybody the war machine is rolling. Once again.
Everybody loves a little bit of war with Iran because we all get
to talk, talk and pontificate and talk and threatened and mark
to sharing signs, shake a carry signs and be smart and tweet and
tweet. But if
I know about that thing in San Francisco, we're headed over
there because there's had to be a lot of collectable signs.
I have an M five M Company large or short one of their immediate
assessment of solomani. As you know, a revered man jobs and
iconic
military leader a revered figure
Soleimani is is difficult to convey how revered he is
regarded as personally incredibly brave the troops
love him trying to think of somebody I was thinking of de
Gaulle, a brilliant
man. He was the Cardinal Richelieu. He was the
Machiavelli even many
of sulamani enemies admitted he was a military genius.
Let's assume for a minute that he was at the Baghdadi at the
Baghdad airport and deserve this. Okay, let's just stipulate
that let's just say maybe it was the right decision to take him
out. But you have in that case, right decision. Wrong commander
in chief. All Yes, that was actually a good point. How does
all this jive with Thomas Friedman's column which he
actually had excerpted in the newsletter? Yes. Where he starts
off by saying sulamani was the dumbest guy ever. He's a
bonehead. Nobody liked it. Oh,
shoot, oh, wait, oh, I gotta play the CIA analyst who was on
the BBC. So again, he was the dumbest guy was that that's what
that's what Friedman said.
Dumb is guy and they're gonna name a street after Trump
because they get he killed them. It was this
dramatic development for a complicated region. Here to
break it all down is Kenneth Pollock, a former CIA
intelligence analyst who's now at the American Enterprise
Institute. Thanks for being with us. It
was a pleasure life.
So you wrote that General Soleimani was like a combination
of Lady Gaga, James Bond, and Rommel all rolled into one. How
significant is the moment of his death?
Very significant. He was hugely important for Iranians. He was
extremely popular within Iran. He was a critical elements of
the Iranian leadership, arguably, perhaps the second
most powerful man in Iran.
Yes. Just like James Bond and Lady Gaga rolled up into one.
So we're getting mixed messages from the CIA that way I see.
Yeah, no kidding. And I'm guessing that freedom is
probably better connected than that guy.
Yeah, this is yeah, I've heard he's, he's a go to guy for the
BBC.
Well, they should go go to someplace else. Well, let's
listen to some regular ratings and just the normal straight up
reports. It's funny that one that's the most one of the most
objective ones that I'm gonna play right away is the democracy
now they actually did I think they were more even handed than
ABC. Let's listen to this is SULI SULI. They're all called
SULI. And this is ABCs. Intro. Oh, are you gonna do ABC first?
Yes. First we'll get to the AMI Ami. The AMI took good. They all
took it to 10 minutes. All the networks and Ami to Okay. Gay
again.
Big segment. Big segment. Okay, here's a democracy ABC.
As we come on. President Trump has now addressed the nation
about that major escalation in the conflict with Iran. The US
drone strike targeting an Iranian military chief minutes
after he landed at the airport in Baghdad, general Qasem
Soleimani, the architect of Iranian intelligence and
military operations across the region for decades, a revered
figure in Iran today 1000s mourning and protesting in
Tehran, Iran Supreme Leader vowing harsh retaliation and
revenge for the death of the man he called a martyr. But
President Trump blamed Soleimani for the killing of hundreds of
Americans and claimed he was actively plotting to kill more
when he was found and terminated. The president saying
he did not order the strike to start a war with Iran, but to
stop one. And yet tonight, some 3500 more troops are being sent
to the region and others put on alert ABCs chief global affairs
correspondent Martha Raddatz leading us off with the timeline
and the Swift reaction. All right.
So there was some time stopped it there for some reason,
timeline swift reaction, and by the way, the Swift reaction. The
this was obviously not Trump's operation. No, no, no. Because
then the Trump's not driving drones around following guys.
And if
I Well, hold on, let's just stop there for one second. About the
drones. I looked up some of the statistics. And at this point in
his presidency, under President Trump, there have been more
drone killings, then under Obama and Obama was kind of the drone
King. Now granted, you don't hear about them much anymore. I
think a lot of them are taking place in Yemen. And that's paid
work for the for the for the Saudis, but I personally, I
despise drone killings. And the reason is, first of all, it is
it is absolute terror, that you have drones flying around
everywhere in the world except America. A drone flies and
people duck in, they're freaking out. Because, you know, that
usually means you're gonna hear something next and then someone
gets blown to smithereens. I do not like this type of warfare.
And we got to be very careful being all Jedi about it, because
we already have unidentified drones flying over Colorado.
Now, granted, they're not the same platform as what we're
talking about here. But these drones can carry some weaponry.
And one day, one day we will have drone strikes on Americans.
There's no doubt about it. I'm just saying don't get all too
happy about this because it's fucked up shit drones. I don't
like it at all. was one way of putting it.
Let's play dominant back off from the ABC report. Always a
switchback coming in nevermind, play. ABC switchback dead end
weird. This is the weird clip here. I wanted to separate it
out.
Mary, most members of Congress were not given a heads up about
the President's action against Iran. And tonight lawmakers from
both parties are demanding more information
when both sides are eager to know what comes next. What's the
broader strategy here? And what's the plan for if and when
Iran retaliates we do expect the full Senate will receive a
classified briefing next week. And Speaker Pelosi is demanding
the same over in the house with
what what exactly was that? Was the switch back there?
I think is because they started off with an assertion that
nobody knew what was going on. And they wanted to find out more
and then they never did even addressed it. Well, I think
let's just
talk about about that response for a moment where all of a
sudden Congress has some kind of conscience. And they're like,
Well, you you can't do that. The Congress needs to declare war.
Let's just set it straight real quick. Ever since September
11 2001, a little bit after that. We've had the authorised
Use of Military Force as long as you can use the word terrorist
in a sentence. You can operate under that and do anything you
want killin. How do you think we got into into Syria under Obama?
Congress didn't authorise a war in Syria. Now, if anything
Congress needs to shut up because we've been acting, we've
we've been conducting acts of war against Iran with the
sanctions. I consider that to be actual warfare. They didn't
condone, actually, they did condone it.
It Congress is just beside it. So they don't know what to do,
because this is affecting their whole strategy for the election.
Now, yes, well, you mentioned a part of Congress should shut up.
Let's go to the CNN version of this report. This is the an
analyst who came on CNN, who mentioned who thought didn't
think much a Suleimani thought he was a moron for going into he
just blows into a rock on his own after the embassy attack.
Just shows up, like he you know, wow, I do and I'm here to see my
boys. Anyway, just play this. So you get it.
Officials in France say that today we wake up to a more
dangerous world, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy asked the
question, did America just assassinate without
congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in
Iran, knowingly setting off a potential potential massive
regional war? So Is America safer? Without someone this
morning?
What I would say to Senator Murphy is, why don't you just be
quiet? wins as Iran ever demonstrated self restraint? I
mean, that's the question I have. So is the world more
dangerous today? Maybe it's more dangerous, but when has it not
been dangerous? When have we not been a target of a regime like
exists in Tehran? I mean, it happens as a matter of routine.
What I find amazingly brazen is the fact that sulamani felt
comfortable. And he felt somewhat naive that he could
simply show up in Baghdad. And in his role as the leader of the
IRGC and the Quds Force, he shows up and he says, Hey, guys,
how's it going? How's this attack on the US Embassy going?
Absolutely brazen. And at that moment, in advance, we had built
up intelligence, which was pattern of life, different forms
of intelligence. And so we had this target folder on Suleimani.
And this opportunity presented itself and I'm certain what
happened was we decided the President made the
determination, let's pull the trigger now. And it was, I would
say, not causally linked to what occurred at the US Embassy a
couple of days before other than he happened to be there checking
up on what was what was taking place.
He's so smart. He's a genius. I mean, all you need is one of
those drone target locator devices in your pocket, also
known as a smartphone. That's, that's how you target a guy like
that. I think I got a lot of briefings over the past two
days. So we get into that now. Moment. I want to hear what
other clips you have. I do want to play one brief one here from
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She's a congresswoman from Florida.
not well liked here on the no agenda show. And of course, she
had to go where you are. You mentioned just a minute ago that
oh, well, we all know what this is really about. We know why
Trump does these things.
What I think is going on here, frankly, is that this action was
taken more in President Trump's self interest rather than our
national interest. We had damning developments in just the
last day where emails came out, that made it very clear that
they covered up the real reason behind the the withholding of
the hundreds of millions of dollars to Ukraine. Donald Trump
was impeached a week and a half ago and we need to get to the
bottom of how and who carried helped him carry out this
illegal cover up to to allow him to withhold aid to help him
politically and personally allowing Ukraine to interfere in
the presidential election 2020 That's outrageous. And I think
that has a lot to do with what this has
meant the latest memo please. She's way off message here.
Well, you know, she used to write those messages and pretty
much think she still has the ability to go freelance. She's
gone rogue. Do it live. All right, again, let's go let's
just skip the rest of the ABC stuff. It's not that good. Let's
go to the AMI. And this will be SULI rundown WTF one deploy
knighted
states is assassinated the Iranian commander, Major General
Qasem Suleimani and a major escalation of the conflict
between Iran and the United States, which now threatens to
engulf Iraq in the Middle East. President Trump authorised the
drone strike that killed Soleimani at the Baghdad
International Airport. It killed also four other people,
including a high level Iraqi militia chief, this happened
Thursday night us time Friday morning in Baghdad. General
Suleimani has long been one of the most powerful figures in
Iran. He was the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps Quds Force, Iran's powerful foreign military force
similar to a combination of the CIA and US special forces Iran
called Suleimani is assassination and active
international terrorism.
Yeah. Did you hear what she said? What what was said that
Trump called the assassination of sulamani an act of
international terrorism here that again,
powerful foreign military force similar to a combination of the
CIA and US special forces Iran called Suleimani assassination
and active international Iran
not Trump. Iran called it that. Oh
well, did I miss it? I misheard. I'm hoping I'm hoping for the
best Okay, you're right.
What are you doing Devorah I'm losing the
plot. Got a run down to Julie Islami. Agha has been
Islamic Republic decides to challenge and fight a country it
will do so unequivocally. We are strongly committed to our
country's interests and our peace. We are strongly committed
to the dignity of our country. We are strongly committed to the
progress and greatness of our country. And if anyone threatens
that we will without any hesitation confront it and
strike it.
The targeted assassination came after members of an Iranian
backed Iraqi militia and its supporters attack the US Embassy
in Baghdad and set fire to a gate house in response to a slew
of us airstrikes in Iraq and Syria that killed two dozen
members of the Iranian backed Iraqi militia caught the head
Hezbollah these strikes were in retaliation for the killing of
an American contractor in a rocket attack in Kirkuk Iraq a
week ago. So there
I don't know about you, but it seems to me that the Iraqis have
no control over their own country. All this action is
Iranian.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, there's, I mean, I have a bit of
an analysis I want to wait and see what what clips we get out
of the way first,
like subsidiary of Amy would get her get a roll in here the
head of cutterhead Hezbollah, Abu Mahdi muhandis, was also
killed in the drone strike. The New York Times reports general
Suleimani had flown into Baghdad from Syria in order to urge
Iranian backed militias in Iraq to do more to stop the wave of
anti Iran protests that have swept Iraq in recent months. The
militias are already accused of killing and disappearing
protesters and human rights activists. The Pentagon spent
has sent more than 14,000 US troops to the region since May,
the US is now warning American civilians to leave Iraq
immediately. The attack has sparked fear and alarm in Iraq
and across the world. France's Deputy Minister for Foreign
Affairs said this morning we are waking up in a more dangerous
world, unquote. tensions between the United States and Iran have
been escalating since President Trump withdrew the US from the
landmark Iran nuclear deal and impose crushing economic
sanctions on Iran. In response to the assassination protests
are planned Saturday in at least 30 cities across the US as part
of a national day of action US troops out of Iraq.
Yeah, as usual democracy now and ABC, and I'm sure most most
mainstream networks in the United States really had no
analysis. It was just you know, just regurgitating blah, blah,
blah, on a protest. And the date no one really,
no, there was no analysis that which I actually prefer,
especially for Democracy Now. The analysis they do is so poor.
Well, the BBC, the CIA, basically went straight to BBC,
they had all their guys out there. Everybody was talking to
the BBC.
And we'll access Yeah, okay. Well, I
mean, I think that they were trying to do it
as part of the system. I mean, you want to, yes, plant the
information overseas, and then point to it? Well, I mean,
otherwise, you're gonna get Tom Friedman going on and on about
the guy being a moron.
So I have a couple of clips from the BBC News Hour regarding,
well, the whole really the whole sequence. So first about the
actual reasoning for doing this. Well, here's the clip. I've
spoken
now to two officials who were briefed on the intelligence that
led to the strike. And what they're both saying is that the
claim that there was a limited library to claim. What is
she in a library way she whispering her report?
That's a very serious matter.
What they're both saying is that the claim that there was an
imminent attack that would have claimed hundreds of lives, is
razor thin. In fact, the intelligence showed three
things. Number one, there was a pattern of travel for General
Soleimani that showed that he had been in Iraq, in Lebanon and
in Syria, meeting with SIA proxies that are known to have a
confrontational relationship with the US. Number two, there
was chatter of a conversation between general Yeah,
this this chatter word actually popped up a couple of times in,
in emails that I was said from people, Hey, there's chatter
over whenever someone says chatter, I'm thinking you're
spook. Unless you're copying something from a spook verbatim
in the news, too.
There was chatter of a conversation between this
general and the Supreme Leader of Iran, where the general said
something on the order of I would like to have approval for
this operation. And the leader of Iran asked him to come to to
Iran for consultations, basically not giving a Go ahead.
And thirdly, there's been a pattern of increasing
bellicosity towards us interests in the area that we saw with the
attack on the walls of the embassy. But what the officials
are telling me is that even though one, two and three are
worrying, it is not evidence of what we have been told, which is
this imminent attack.
So there was a conflation, if you like, of these three bits of
evidence, and a deduction that something big was planned, and
that the targets were American.
That's right. And as one official put it, it was an
illogical leap.
So this I thought was interesting, because what it
implies is that there was a difference of opinion between
the Supreme Leader of Iran, I guess that will be Khomeini and
Soleimani. And how many didn't want him to go ahead with this
didn't want him to do this big strike, which is apparently what
we counter struck. I thought that was interesting that there
may have been some disagreement in the ranks there. Trump was
subsequently presented with multiple with a smorgasbord of
options of things he could do and mind you. I think that the
President is coming into a room and the only people he might be
able to trust there are his daughter and her son in law, but
then again, No, probably not. Everybody there hates Iran,
everybody wants to bomb the shit out of them. So he chose the
extreme option.
As I understand it, the assassination of General
Soleimani was one of many options being discussed as
retaliation for the attack on an Iraqi airbase, which killed an
American contractor on December the 27th.
That's right. So the discussions appear to have begun with
President Trump on the 27th of December, following the strike
that killed us American contractor. And at that point,
he was presented what one source described to me as a menu of
options, where the killing of Soleimani was basically the far
out most extreme measures that could be taken. At that point on
the 27th. The President himself did not choose that option, he
chose a more moderate path, which was a strike on several
bases that were linked to this Iranian backed militia in Iraq
and in the region. However, soon after that, what we saw was an
attack by Iranian backed elements on the wall of the US
Embassy. And at that point, President Trump decided to go
for this much more extreme option.
Yeah, I'm gonna call bull crap on that. So agent, orange, our
military intelligence, he actually called me Friday, he
didn't rarely does he call, he called me to explain what he
thought was happening, I got a lot of different briefings from
people, you know, the sympathetic information that as
well. But I think that something else is going on here. And that
this may have been a very interesting move by Trump,
although again, I'm against all drone killings, I don't like it
at all. So solomani is a little bit of background, which I don't
think anyone gave any, any proper background. He's a hero
of the Iran Iraq War. He was promoted to division commander,
when he was 23. Well, we've all heard he was Mr. James Bond, all
superstars fantastic. So it becomes the commander of the
revolutionary Revolutionary Guard. And then commander of the
Quds force, which is it's kind of like special forces. But it
really has a different position from what I understand. It's
above the revolutionary, the Iranian or armed forces, so they
have kind of their own special status. So during when
Ahmadinejad was in power, the Revolutionary Guard, there was a
privatisation scheme that the got underway. And the argies
Revolutionary Guard came in in possession really were control
of a lot of important organisations and economic
power. They were given control over border regions, the Secret
Service, the Straits of Hormuz, all the Revolutionary Guard, but
also they had smuggling networks, money laundering,
really, proxy wars, that's what this guy was doing. And he was
the master of the proxy war strategy, close ties to Putin.
And, you know, which of course ties into everything that
happened in Syria. So this guy in short, formidable force, the
ad, you know, what they say 50,000 Troops, armed and trained
shutting down the Gulf of Hormuz, making a shoot down our
own drones over the the Straits of Hormuz, not the Gulf does the
Straits of Hormuz, whether they shut it down or we didn't
doesn't make any difference. But because of this, this guy is
also a political force to be reckoned for. And once companies
started tweeting back at Trump which we saw with with the so
called breach of the of the green zone and the embassy which
you know, you and I this thing is a fortress, you cannot get in
you can get in through the the first wall if
you have the past and you only get that far if they let you
Yeah, you
got to pass and you can come in there were special forces there.
I've pictures of special forces there as that was taking place.
No way. Was there any danger of anything really happening. So
that may have been part of a setup. And I think when you see
Khomeini and Trump tweeting back and forth, well, we're gonna
kick your ass. Well, we'll kick 52 Are your assets for every one
of those people you had in 1979? Then I knew it. The show is on.
Everything's determined. It's all over. This was something
that benefits how many It benefits him to have this guy
out of the way Trump has wanted to have a deal with Iran. And
now they're just playing playing the game back and forth to make
it all look real. I think that this may have even been done in
cahoots with the mullahs and then with Hong Kong,
that's an interesting thesis because if if it's true that he
didn't want this sulemani to do some plan, and so on. He's
probably pretty much of an independent contractor at this
point. He could do it anyway. Very much has to be taken out.
Yes. So so that could have been some back channel action saying
yeah, it's okay. Why don't you didn't blow up and we'll deal
with it later.
Now in mind you Soleimani was in a rock. Let me just get my notes
here. He was in Iraq because there was bad Add blood with Al
Amir al Amir is the leader of the Baader party in Iraq. So
there was already all kinds of strife. And I think all Amir
actually so Alamy were supposed to have a meeting with
Soleimani. He cancels since his deputy who also got iced in this
in this drone strike. So, you know, took out his own possible
political foe, or adversary second in command in Iraq. You
know, I'm not gonna say Trump is the genius mastermind behind
this. I think it would be more something that Khomeini himself
came up with, but to me and every Iranian you would speak
to, and I know many of them. They always say the same thing
up to Khomeini, and Americans are all playing together to one
big game and they know it, but this guy who they got rid of, I
think he may have been a real problem and it may actually
change things for the better a deal could be possibly in the
future. I certainly don't think we're going to see anyone. No, I
don't think we're not gonna see retaliation. We already had a
sorry ass, lame, fake news bull crap. They hacked one of the
United States government websites. Did you see this?
Yeah, of some, some division I've never heard of.
Like, there's a question that has never been asked. Nobody
ever crops up. I can't find the answer to it. And it seems
somewhat important is to projected ces of the whole
thing, which is, which is they keep talking about the American
contractor. Who was this guy?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Was he a CIA guy? Well, yeah. You know, NSA guy, was he some
bone hid from Bechdel? Three, who was he? What's his name?
Yeah, we don't know that. At least I haven't found it. But
30% of all activity is done by contractors. This is why these a
holes love war, is because it's commercial business. You know,
there's big money. It's, it's been completely outsourced. So
before we continue, let me just give you a few choice sound bits
here of who people think will get killed in retaliation, or
who the possible targets could be. Oh, yeah, we're gonna turn
this into a really big super shit show.
Yet previous US presidents when given the opportunity to kill
him passed on it because they were fearful of what it would
unleash. So what could the consequences be this time?
Well, this is the problem or we don't know what you're
absolutely right. previous administrations certainly
thought about may have had opportunities, as they
characterise that they passed on those opportunities, because
they didn't know how Iran would respond. And it's dangerous
business for states to start killing off each other's highest
level leaders. We probably wouldn't like it if the Iranians
killed off someone like Mike Pompeo is more or less
equivalent to cost money in their system.
Okay, there's one vote for Mike Pompeo. Let's go to Senator Tom
Udall.
And I think what the President has done here, killing this
major general, that is a part of the Defence establishment in
Iran is the same thing as if they had attacked us and
assassinated our Secretary of Defence, oh, on a foreign trip
someplace. This is getting us into a very bad road and putting
us on a very bad path.
Secretary defence, of course, no one knows Esper. So it wouldn't
it wouldn't even make the second page of the newspaper. Let's
talk to the US, NATO Admiral James Stavridis. potentially
raising the stakes for American military
planners, military to military, how would you expect the
Iranians would fare against the US?
They would fare badly that cannot match us in conventional
forces, but they are masters of asymmetric warfare, the Iranians
may turn around and attempt the same kind of activity against
the US ambassador and say, Oh, this was a proportional
operation.
I got news for you. Nothing's gonna happen. No retaliation.
This is a stupid show. And it's, you know what this was even to
some degree predicted. By our buddy, hit, unfortunately, he's
no longer with us is a big new Brzezinski. The grand chess
game, the architect, the master, the man who knows all the man
who fathered Mika Brzezinski, and we're still pissed off about
it. In 2008, he made the following statement on the C
span show about Iran's relationship to the United
States and Iran's relationship with Iraq. So the three
countries that are in play right here, right now, Iran, Iraq, and
the United States,
we can certainly take another look at some recent historical
experience. After 911, we decided to go into Afghanistan,
for obvious reasons, to eliminate al Qaeda, which
country was close to being most helpful to us, when we undertook
that task? Iran, this is completely ignored. In any
public discussion of Iran, which is consistently painted as a
menacing enemy of the United States. There are no friends of
ours, I have no illusions about that. But because of their own
national interest, they chose to be helpful to us in Afghanistan
in a very significant way. Why shouldn't they be helpful to us
in Iraq, they have mixed interests. They don't like the
Iraqis Sunni Arabs, previous rivals, but at the same time,
they don't like our presence there. I think we could discuss
some arrangements in which perhaps emphasise perhaps in
capital letters, we could reach some understanding, but we'll
never know the answer that possibility unless we try. But
there certainly is some commonality of interest here in
a stable Middle East. And let me add one more dimension, which
should be of importance to most Americans, we are in the midst
of a growing energy crunch. Have we spent any time publicly
discussing what would be the consequences for energy of an
American uranium accommodation? What would happen to the price
of oil? And there was this dramatic increase in Iranian
flows? What will happen to the objective of energy diversity
for Europe? If Iranian oil and gas could flow through Turkey,
to Europe, these are strategic interests of ours, which are
being completely ignored in a kind of blind antagonism or the
self perpetuating.
So there's all kinds of reasons for us to be working with Iran
secretly, if it's important that that's the most important part
because Saudi Arabia has
been paid for a whole bunch of reasons not just oil, something
about religion, then the disagree on stuff.
And we were their pals. And we have to, to the tune extreme,
you know, and we can't be doing the bidding of Iran, which is
what we had have done by basis on the basis of your theory, by
blowing up this character who they maybe want to dead, because
he's getting to be uppity. He's, well, he's
very annoying. He's He's causing a lot of what he's, he's he's a
big dog on campus. So yeah, I think that this is much more
devious than then we're seeing a definitely benefits Trump by
getting everyone off of impeachment, talking about
something else. And so there's no doubt that that helps.
The funny thing about Trump's reputation, the right wing
talkers don't see it the way you do, or I do for that matter,
they see it as the following. Obama, you know, he had a shot
at this guy, he never took it and Clinton could have killed
Osama bin Laden. Two years before 911. They had a shot at
him and they wouldn't take it. So everybody had these shots at
these guys in history would have been so much better if like, for
example, Clinton to killed Osama bin Laden when he had the
chance, of course, that doesn't include the possibility that
Osama bin Laden was working for us all along. And you know,
there may not even be dad. But that's beside the point. Clinton
had a shot at him didn't take it. Obama wouldn't take his
shot. Even though Obama's shooting everybody out of this,
you know, with this drone. Well, let's kill this guy today. Yeah,
well,
he had the the kill list Tuesday. He'll this But Trump
Trump again, under Trump. There's been more more drone
killings, very disappointed in all this. And then the top it
off. Oh, I can't believe the President said this.
As President my highest and most solemn duty is the defence of
our nation.
No, no, no. It is to defend, uphold protect the Constitution.
That is your oath that is your highest order of business. That
is your duty. Oh, God, I despise that. So it may you know what it
will do for sure. Is set it set the machine rolling. Everybody
gets to tweet Eat everybody gets to say something. You see what
Rose McGowan said,
Oh, she's nuts that woman dear Iran, the USA
has disrespected your country, your flag your people. 52% of us
humbly apologise. She speaks on behalf of 52% of the country
apparently, we want peace with your nation. We are being held
hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape
Please do not kill us. Wow, she actually she issued an apology
or not an apology, an explanation of what she meant.
And she did it in a video. I
don't support Iran over America. I want America to be better. I
want rave to stop and I want Harvey Weinstein to go to jail.
See, she can't she can't let that go. I'm not wrong. Like
Trump errs and and right wingers and they're like Hollywood's a
bunch of fake liberals. Yeah, they're not wrong. They aid and
abet many, many criminals. Here's the thing. I do not
believe governments. I don't believe Iran is government. I
believe American government. Clinton on the eve of his
impeachment, launch rockets at Rock. I mean, and this is the
weirdest part. I became so disenfranchised with the
Democrats after learning the extent knowing how closely
Weinstein worked with the Democratic Party for years how
interlinked he was now he said he was Hollywood's cult leader,
but he was protected by the Democratic Party, for sure. So I
grew so disenfranchised and disgusted with them. And I'm
somebody who like when I first moved to America, when I was 10,
I was handing out vote to caucus cigarettes in little cellophane
box to like, I would knock on doors, like a cigarette vote to
caucus. When I was 11. I was handing out anti Iran pamphlets
like opposing Sharia law and their treatment of women and
children around. I come from an extremely political family and I
was raised this way. Yeah, well, she's cuckoo.
And I don't think that made anything better. For what she
just said, because all she can do is you know, then bring it
around to herself and Weinstein, et cetera. Colin Kaepernick
Kaepernick tweets. There's nothing new about American
terrorist attacks against black and brown people for the
expansion of American imperialism. America has always
sanctioned and besieged black and brown bodies both at home
and abroad. American militarism is the weapon wielded by
American imperialism to enforce its policing and plundering of
the non white world? Thanks cap. What an idiot, you know, he
makes a mistake. It's brown people who live in sandy areas,
okay? It's not just brown people universally, if you live in
sand, and you're Brown, then you got to watch your back. But
these types of responses is unhinged. And the whole thing is
unconditional a problem again, yeah. But the whole thing. And
anyway, now there's a back and forth between Steve Kerr who's
condemning cance for being a liar and then Trump's well.
basketball guys it breezes right back to your basketball analysis
where we were that guy from Memphis, one accused the entire
NBA of being in China's pocket.
Well, the tweet about that Pence put put out there saying well,
you know, this guy is related to the 911 attacks. And fence is
full of crap that was totally ball crap is like yeah, they
came from they came from Iran now.
I don't understand where Pence was. Well, Pence when he was
allowed to make this this tweet, and I
think that if anyone's going to make up some bullcrap
retaliation list, put pence on the top. He's the number two guy
now he's the guy that should be watching his back and yeah,
whatever he was tweeting that was not approved. He was not
read in I don't know why he did that. It makes no sense. Yeah,
it was actually it made no sense.
Let us do Steve Kerr got to do with it.
Yeah, I was everybody's part of the machine. If you're on
television, if you have a platform, you're part of the
machine and this was the reddest meat you can give the machine
every everybody loves it. And honestly, it's good for our
show. We got to talk about something different for a little
bit. But what a piss poor analysis from everybody just
it's like it truly looks more like wag the dog than any have
seen.
Yes, very well. In fact, it started with started with a
shoot with the death of the unknown contractor right, which
is the dog ever since
with the green zone with people walking around with brand new
flags lobbing Even the the so called protesters were saying
lose these gas canisters Americans are shooting at us is
nothing. Because it wasn't anything it was not intended to
be anything. But I guess we'll maybe we can crack down at the
airports, maybe the TSA, I mean, this is not over yet this this
is just beginning. And I think we'll see the security state
getting all Jedi we've seen the stocks are up, everybody loves
that oil is gonna go up. It's fantastic for everybody to
skyrocket except for the short
should because Iranian oil is not even on the on the table.
But they figured that well, maybe this will escalate and
it'll affect the other oil producing regions.
some historical context for this very interest. We all know the
Wesley Clark General Wesley Clark, seven countries in five
years clip, in fact, I'll play it just so we can remember what
it is seven
countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then
Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.
So these were the seven countries that we were going to
attack and five years after 911. This was given to him in a in a
verbal briefing.
He handed him a sheet of paper. It's the sheet of paper handed
paperback, but he
read the sheet of he tells it a little differently in a new
version of the story, which I have come into possession of
this is it's a little different. The sheet of paper was not the
actual order. And I wanted to play this clip, because it
explains very clearly when this really started and where this is
all coming from and who the players are that are involved.
And that there's an entire faction in the media, in
academia in the middle, of course, in the military
industrial complex, and in the US government who want this
still today. And then
I came back to the Pentagon about six weeks later, I saw the
same officer. I said, Why? Why haven't we attacked Iraq, we
still gonna attack Iraq? He said, Oh, sorry. He says it's
worse than that. He pulled up a piece of paper off his desk
because I just got this memo. He didn't hand it to him. He's
reading it to him and the Secretary of Defense's office,
it says we're going to attack and destroy the governments in
seven countries in five years. We're going to start with Iraq.
And then we're going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan, and Iran. I seven, seven countries in five years. I said
it's in a classified memo. He said, Yes, sir. I said, Well,
don't show it to me. He was about to show it to me sit
there.
And listen to listen to what he says though. Listen to what he
says why he doesn't want it.
I seven, seven countries in five years. I said, is that a
classified memo? He said, Yes, sir. I said, Well, don't show it
to me. He was about to show it to me. So because I want to talk
about it.
Apparently, if you haven't actually seen the memo, then you
haven't seen the classified information? I guess.
This is an interesting question. Because this brought up the you
know, the people in some people in the intelligence community
that can't look at WikiLeaks have
right? You can hear about it. But you if you actually see it,
see the actual document, then you begin
to see that this is a question that somebody needs to answer
for us, because we don't know the answer to it. Which is,
which is that you should be praised as following. If you
know something's top secret, and but you don't know, but you've
not seen a you have not personally seen the memo, the
top secret information, or you've never been actually shown
it right. But you know, it's top secret because somebody told you
it was and you're an in the in the community. And
can you talk about it? Well, according to Clark here, yes.
I seven said in five years, I said, is that a classified memo?
He said, Yes, sir. I said, Well, don't show it to me. He was
about to show it to me. So because I want to talk about it.
And I couldn't believe it would really be true. But that's
actually what happened. These people took control of the
policy in the United States. And I realised then it came back to
me a 1991 meeting I had with Paul Wolfowitz, you know, in
2001, he was Deputy Secretary of Defence, but in 1991, he was the
undersecretary of defence for policy to number three position
in the Pentagon. So I called and up there, he was available. And
he brought me in and I said to Paul, I said, and this is 1991.
I said, Mr. Secretary, you must be pretty happy with the
performance of the troops and Desert Storm. And he said, Well,
yeah, he said, but but not really. He said, Because the
truth is, we should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, and we
didn't. He said, but one thing we did learn, he said, we
learned that we can use our military in the region in the
Middle East, and the Soviets won't stop us. He said, and
we've got about five or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet
client regimes. Syria, Iran, Iraq. Before the next great
superpower comes on to challenges, it was a pretty
stunning thing. You mean, the purpose of the military is to
start wars and change governments. It's not to sort of
deter conflict. We're going to invade countries and I, you
know, my mind was spinning. This country was taken over by a
group of people with a policy coup Wolfowitz, and Cheney and
Rumsfeld. And you could name a half dozen other collaborators
from the project for New American Century, they wanted us
to destabilise the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it
under our control.
And that's what's going on here to this day still, with these
jag offs, who do this stuff?
Well, that's interesting. If we take a look, let's try to re and
analyse the idea that this sulamani guy had to be taken out
because he was working against those interests. Because he was
it, he would have led to the possibility because what we do
the real proof in the pudding of the pudding, whatever of some
other pudding is, is whether or not at the end of this whole
series of events. Iran gets realised or not,
oh, yeah, I guarantee you is not going to happen. Guaranteed it's
not going to happen. What happened here is someone went
too far. If you kill American boys and girls in the military,
okay, that's just that's just what happens. You kill a
contractor, like part of an American business, and now we're
pissed off. That's what I'm seeing. That's what I'm seeing.
This is disgusting. Like what you heard in that company now,
this is bottom line stuff. No, no, no, no, we can't have that.
So now how complicit Trump was in this, I don't know. He was at
Mar a Lago behind closed doors. The press pool didn't see him
come in or out really while it is during the the New Year's
celebration and thereafter. So he might have been a big part of
it.
I don't notice that the reports that I have, but I still have a
lot of clips, which we don't have to play now. I'm interested
if there's anything good was mentioned of Trump during the
whole thing playing golf.
I thought that that was eating ice cream again, wasn't the
question that the report he is it
is playing golf, but he did playing the golf didn't match
the timeline. Because generally speaking plays golf in the
morning, when while we're doing our show, right. And this
happened later. It was in the early morning in over there, but
he wouldn't be playing golf after guts gets dark. Nobody
plays golf at night. You lose the ball.
Yeah, it's not a great time to play golf. Yeah, I don't I don't
know how complicit he was. But just looking at the show that's
unfolding. Look, this is the 20 this is 21st century warfare.
This is 21st century stuff that we're used to it, hear Trump
tweeting around but whatever. But for home for home, you need
to tweet back, Doc, that was that was the tell for me. That's
like, okay, he's like, hey, hey, Khomeini guy listen up. Tweet
back at me man. Come on, clap back I'm gonna say something you
say something and then we'll talk about stuff and you
threaten all threatened. And meanwhile, let's work on a deal.
Man's work on a deal works out mild. You stay in power, you
stay big. I think the analysis my analysis is clear, but
complete Wag the Dog scenario. And we'll see how long the media
can run with it.
So they'll take it as long as they don't don't try to scare
the public as best they can. Well, now the
problem is for them it's detracting from impeachment
talk. So there are agendas here at home on
their hand wringing over this. More we talk about this is going
to make Trump look good. Can't have that. There's no doubt
about that on my mind. Now, let's play this. This is does
Amy she gave her now she goes on and on with a very long
explanation of everything. But she does bring this guy on to
discuss it. They never bring anybody on to death balance. It
brings some socialists on. But they didn't bring this guy on. I
just want to play a little bit of this. He's from the Quincy
Institute which some new Think Tank and by the way, this is
where you make money. these think tanks just get a bunch of
money in this case, I don't know who he gets the money from but
or he or him and the Quincy Institute. Do you name it after
some, like have some Founding Fathers kind of name Quincy,
John Quincy Adams. So you give it some name like that the
Hamilton.
Yeah, you use that or you put the word freedom in there. Yeah,
freedom, freedom, heritage.
It's all good. All good. So this guy comes down. He's got
absolutely nothing to tell us except he just doesn't like
Trump.
Welcome to Democracy Now. Trita Parsi your response to the
assassination of Suleimani.
I think a couple of former Obama officials on TV yesterday put it
best when they said that this is an act of war. It's an act of
war that took place without any consultation with Congress, any
approval from Congress, any thought authorization from
Congress, it's fascinating to see that the last couple of
days, Pompeo has been spending a lot of time talking to the
foreign ministers and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the
UAE, and Israel, and not until today that he actually start
making phone calls to the Europeans and others. So this is
something that is going to be a major point of escalation. It's
a decision that I think ultimately has made America less
rather than more safe. I think that's clear from the decision
by the State Department today to urge all Americans to
immediately leave Iraq. Rather than ending these endless wars
that Trump promised his base that he would do. He's sending
more troops to the Middle East, he's doing things that is
further destabilising the Middle East. And that will probably
trap American service when men and women in the Middle East for
a longer period of time.
So we have the same memes over and over from all the reporters
and from every analyst on this side of the water, that it makes
us less safe. And Congress wasn't consulted. That's it.
That's all they got told the guy wasn't consulted. And as you
pointed out, and everybody really knows this. Congress
doesn't need to be supported, or I'm sorry, informed about a
drone hit on someone. No. When Have they ever been informed of
it? When Obama had his hitless? Was he calling Congress I'm
saying what do you think Nancy? Should I kill this guy at the
wedding?
We went into Syria without a declaration of war. Come on
this. I mean, but that's, that's just grasping at straws, but
more importantly, did I hear you say that there's real money in
these think tanks? Is that possibly the exit strategy we
should be looking at?
There's real money in these think tanks. If you're if you if
you know how to manage one. The you have to have we need if
somebody out there who could do grantsmanship
so I think we should have the curry Dvorak Lincoln Washington
Consortium. So just think so. That sound official consort
Consortium. Group. What do we need curry? DeVore at Lincoln
Washington. Con fab. No, I'm looking for the right link
in Washington. Just a good beginning. We like Korean
Devorah. Who are those guys?
So just put Lincoln Washington consulting?
Washington, Lincoln, Lincoln, Washington. Yeah. Lincoln
Washington was throwing, she had to write you'd have focus groups
as baby
can we put it would just throw JFK in there for good measure.
Lincoln, JFK. He's out. He's out. Okay, so the I think the
Lincoln Washington Consulting Group.
Yeah. Okay. might work. Lincoln Washington. Who's Lincoln, who's
Washington? Well, you know, we have to we have to wait his
president.
Father, how about strategic strategy group that's better.
Lincoln Lincoln Washington Strategy Group.
People can watch this in real time as we develop this.
And with that, I'd like to thank you very much for your courage
and say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the
Lincoln Washington strategy consulting group, John C.
Devorah. back
Wednesday morning to you Mr. Graham Korean and more his trip
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wind storms wind storm
is this. I've heard I've not heard of this happening.
Well that's what happened with the tumbleweeds and
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we have the fires in Australia we have these crazy wind storms
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it's not it's well I call it as I see it. Australia is clearly
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V. Well, we have a second edition of war in peace, this
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Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia. This is for
Gizmodo. Yep. And, but his stuff is always interesting, because
he's floats around somehow lead from place to place.
He's an interesting guy, many of our interesting guy. That kind
of guy, very interesting kind of guy.
This is my first donation in the new year and offset by a week
from the first 2020 showed by we give $220.20 dice, which is a
lot of 20s. Just in case, here's a good holiday in case there's a
post holiday slump. And indeed, there was a melody game Isabella
and I had a lovely 25th of December here in Riyadh. And I
had an arrhythmia, and I had an opportunity to show them around
this fascinating country. And they left yesterday and despite
Saudi airlines best efforts actually got home to Middle
America a few hours ago. So now he can right now he can talk
because he's now he's alone again,
they can't be. Now that countdown begins to our next
meeting. Regarding Dr. Bronner's castile soap, I'm a couple of
years younger than Adam, but when I was a boy scout, Dr.
Bronner always came along in my backpack on camping trips, where
it was somewhat effective as somewhat effective as soap. He
was exceptionally aromatic, which after a few days on the
trail was also appreciated. According to the microscopic
print on the balls. If you ever see one of these bottles, you
have to Yes, I did. And I love his little rundown here of
what's actually on the bottle in the microscopic print.
Here, he says Dr. Bronner can serve as a shampoo, body soap
dog soap dishwashing soap laundry soap, toothpaste,
mouthwash, deodorant, massage oil and ice cream topping
mucilage drinks, mixer edgy grease or personal lubricant,
motor oil, refreshing beverage lacks it is solid, antiseptic,
bug repellent, etc.
This is a sanding product. It's really a great product.
It does all those things poorly, truly miraculous product i
Everyone should keep a ball close to him. And surprisingly,
despite his many uses, it's not on Saudi Arabia's prohibited
list. Okay, so everyone's soap up. I was mesmerised by the
multiple. You know, when I was in the military one time it was
before I came before 911 You couldn't even bring up a cell
phone or a camera into Saudi Arabia. Oh, no, no, I was
mesmerised by the multiple usages, but was smart enough,
even then to know that, despite its useful nature, the political
rantings of Dr. Bronner's manifesto was BS. Hopefully the
millennial fascination started the doctors cleansing
properties. Certainly listening to the the no agenda show aka
the best podcast in the universe is an antidote enough to counter
any of these multipurpose, more corrosive effects, which he's
talking about the messaging on this a bunch of communist stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, here's to another year of no agenda,
continued presence of the cornerstone of my amygdala
management programme. May we the no agenda, community cult? Find
blessings abundant in the new year.
I'd like the amygdala management programme, also known as amp.
It's kind of like
that. middleman managing amygdala map. Yeah. Amp. Amp.
It's perfect amygdala management programme got a lot of amps
going on. Yes, for sure. It was about some
karma from both of us and for Isabel and melody. Karma. Thanks
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Dave. Space Coast, Lewisville, Texas 2021022. A joy to ITM.
Happy New Year's gentlemen. I beg you for a dose of contract
buyout negotiation karma. I could really use it. Please feel
free to edit for brevity. I would add my input to the
ongoing dissection of millennials and our sad
idiosyncrasies. I'm a 28 year old full stack developer full
stack, full stack full stack, full stack. He's a full stack
guy. Full Stack guy, full stack guy, full stack developer in
Irving, Texas. John hit me in the mouth through twit more than
a decade ago. I've never heard of anyone using Venmo to pay
their bills, but is widely used as a replacement for cash. I've
only seen it. That's right. Venmo is a is a millennial
thing. Well, they don't have one on the list.
We talked about it because Venmo had an outage and people were
freaking out because they could not pay their bills. They
definitely pay bills with it.
Yeah, fact. Fact. I've only seen it ever being used to Dr.
Bronner's grandma pine tar so for years extensive use of
subtitles is all yes, there's another one subtitles to real as
a small get together. Mural I talked about this Nick. Jay's
fiancee. I so I come in their TV room, they just got us they're
watching something and it's got the subtitles on. Ah, I said
subtitles the subtitles. He's and he's claims he's a musician.
He claims that the subtitles are odd because their sound is
poorly mixed.
You know, John, we've only talked about this for 50 days
subsequently. I don't know why it's coming back up.
As a small girl guys a small get together and millennials. A girl
asked to dim I'm reading again to turn on the subtitles because
she couldn't understand the Boston accents of the departed.
Wow. I wouldn't allow it. Adam, I I owe you a report on my
experience with companies that prey on the people who have
fallen prey to the everyone can code BS. Yours in exile. Sir
Pippin.
So two things. One, yes, we've discussed quite extensively the
abundant millennial use of subtitles. A lot of this is
because of distracted second screens. A lot of it is
definitely because of the five one sound mix that is being
jammed through a CTS sound bar. That's another issue. Big
problem. In fact, maybe one of the main ones. And there's also
a cognition issue that's taking place because people are so used
to reading little short bits of text is just like a tweet. Each
of these subtitle cards that pops up, people are losing the
actual ability to translate sound into something that they
can recognise in their brain. And we're all going to be deaf
eventually. We'll just be reading subtitles everywhere.
Well, what's interesting to me is not understanding the really
mild Boston accent or any Boston accent. It's not that hard.
Well, I think another problem is And is big when you when you
don't when you're not exposed to accents. You see this a lot with
love Island UK, which was really big during the season, which is
a stupid reality show. But everyone's speaking in a very
British accent very slang ish as well. And it's, it's you got to
focus and listen and having lived there I pick I know a lot
of the slang. But I think when people use crutches
continuously, then you lose the ability to understand what
someone's saying through an accent or even in a different
language. I can hear someone speak in any language, I can
pretty much pick out what they mean, if it's a simple thing,
just because I've been around language and I've had to decode
it by listening to it. I think people you lose that ability.
The brain is very good. You're very good at parsing stuff. You
have some exposure to some, you know, maybe a little bit of
French might help a little bit of Spanish you can understand a
lot of different languages, but not if you're just always
reading a translation or a subtitle. I think you lose it.
You don't use it, you lose it.
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Alright, let's see we got here. Ryan Black here. He does. Are
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a LinkedIn profile that lists every single no agenda show he's
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the goat slipped in there.
There was the better big story in My opinion in which which
wasn't covered as much and but I thought was much more intriguing
is the is the golden story.
Now this is the the automobile executive, who was I guess he
was kicked out of his job and arrested he was he was going to
he was in house arrest and he was going to come forward on
some unspecified financial shenanigans charges, which I
looked and tried the only thing I could find, and maybe you have
an answer here in these clips. From what I understand, the only
thing that was a problem was his apparent wish to have a merger
between Nissan and Renault. Is that right?
Oh, now there's more to it than this is really interesting.
Yeah, I'd
love to know. Well, let's,
let's play a couple of clips in and I'll discuss what I think
it's going okay. Display Goshen through Turkey one.
So far, what Turkey has said is that it has launched an
investigation the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office has is
looking into it now. And they have detained seven people as
you mentioned, four of them pilots one is a manager at a
private aviation company as well as to ground staff, service
workers. So the stumbled police now is going to be going through
their testimony trying to piece together what happened and what
we know about this mystery. This puzzle is that there was a
flight that took off from Osaka, Japan and landed in Istanbul. A
little while later another flight took off from Istanbul
and went to the route that all coinciding with the timeline of
guns. Mysterious Disappearance back to Beirut and the Istanbul
police now are trying to figure out what happened on the ground
and Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. That's not Istanbul's main
International Airport. It was decommissioned just a while ago.
And now only services, cargo planes and private jets like the
one that Ghana suspected of having fled on may be some of
the testimony that the Turkish police gathered from these seven
detained suspects will shed light on the mystery of what's
happening. And the international the Interpol the Red Notice that
has been issued is basically going to make it a bit more of
an international issue for gone. But there is no extradition
between Lebanon and Japan. So the likelihood of of him being
returned to Japan is very low. And that Interpol Red Notice, of
course, is just a request to international law enforcement.
And it's not an order. So what will happen, what will come out
of that is something we just don't know, at this point. What
we do know that here in Turkey, at least one small part of the
puzzle now is in the hands of the Istanbul police, and perhaps
they will be able to shed some light on how gone got away.
Again, everyone focusing on how he got away instead of why he
had to get away in the in the first place.
Yes, in fact, there's a bunch of crazy stories about this, which
is like he was put in a double bass cello case and pulled out
of there and all the rest of it. And then there's another story
where he escaped his house. What happened was he was actually in
jail. So let's start there. I thought I thought it was under
house arrest. He was in jail. And then they he had a lawyer
that that begged and begged and begged there's no reason to keep
this guy in jail. He should go to his house and they can keep
them there under house arrest and under surveillance. And so
they gave him bail, and then we go home. And supposedly the one
of the stories is he was shallow kids, which makes no sense.
What's funny, and the other one he put on a mask and a hat and a
beard and just walked out of there and went straight to the
airport and took off under a desert elaborate surveillance.
I'm thinking first of all, they wanted the Jap This is an
embarrassment to the Japanese.
You you kind of I thought you promised me you're gonna tell me
why? Why they he because
he understated his income tax.
That's the reason why that's the
main reason why and then they start digging into an apparently
the company. They lied about how much they paid him and it's all
about income. And so then their dough and then company wasn't
making a lot of money. They didn't know what to do with this
guy. They wanted to get him out and I believe the following.
This guy was trying to orchestrate and then there was a
fallout between Renault and Nissan drive Japanese can't work
with a French
let's be fair, nobody can work with the French really.
So so they didn't work out and Nissan was losing new weren't
losing money. They were still in a profitable company. But they
weren't making the billions and billions they're supposed to
make as Toyota is making all the money. I think the following.
They didn't want this guy to stand trial, and he still claims
he's going to do spill the goods on Nissan, and maybe it's a
corrupt, corrupt organisation. He claims he's gonna have a
press conference to tell all but they had to get rid of him they
couldn't bring him up to trial. So they they let him walk out of
there. Oh, he's got a mask and a dog. Yeah, you can go.
Because the embarrassment of whatever was happening with the
merge or not happening with a merge or what kind of crap
was going on with Nissan Ah, okay. And also the one I think
is even more primary, the Japanese and you can talk to
people who have been involved with in the 80s, especially when
the Japanese were kicking everybody's butt economically
and there is a right, we should all do what the Japanese do, you
know, because the Japanese economy is going to kill us with
so much.
Sony was going to own the world. I remember it once the Walkman
came out, we're like, that's it. They got Betamax they got the
Walkman. They're gonna own all of us.
So the Japanese, if anyone, you know, has worked for a Japanese
company in United States during that era, there were these
things called the Death buses. And I had a guy who explained it
to me in great detail because no one else's Yeah. You'd be
running a Japanese operation here in the United States. It
was mostly Americans. And then once you started making profit,
you weren't getting profitable. And everything was going well,
the so called Death buses would come in. And these were your
replacements.
Oh, who you had to train?
Yeah, all Japanese. Right. So the death busters so the
Japanese do not like a member string or that guy who ran the
Sony Sony,
Sony Music Group or the Entertainment Group. Yeah,
the Japanese do not like to be shown up by foreigners. Right.
So they have a guy running one of their basic major companies,
Nissan Motors, and they they didn't lie I think they just
didn't like this guy because he was probably moving them in a
direction that was not Japanesey enough. And they they've they
railroaded him and then finally dragged and got him out of town.
He got himself out of town. And he's going to talk about it
eventually but this whole thing stinks. And yeah, that guy does
look a little like Mr. Bean and is the whole story this spooky
story is kind of interesting.
Could this somehow also be related to the to another merger
with I think it's Pozo and sutra. When are they is it not
the Peugeot once you join who are merging? Who was I just
heard this the other day?
Well, that could be but this would have nothing to do with
it. This is a Reno, which is different
events. It was French. And it's
it was yeah, it was French Reno. And now it looks as though the
deal that was gonna come down. It looked like Well, this guy
was still there was that since the Reno thing wasn't working
out. It looked as if Chrysler, which is privately owned, was
going to buy Nissan and Reno and do the whole thing itself. Out
of town, right?
But now we have Chrysler agreeing to merge with Peugeot
and Citroen when,
yeah, well, they gave up on this because there's something up in
the Japanese culture. And I think they didn't like this guy.
He ran him out of town. He's, you know, he's introducing
foreign ideas. I don't know. But it did the whole thing is
suspect. And, and he escaped, they let him escape. There's no
way he was gonna get passive surveillance and all the rest of
it. So and now we're just story still continues to unfold. I
just thought it was the funnier story of the two.
What is the what's in the second clip?
The second clip is it's more of the same thing played out.
Yay. On that Carlos gon investigation now reports just
out in Lebanon say the government has received an
Interpol arrest warrant for Carlos gone now. The former
Nissan Chairman arrived in Lebanon on Tuesday after jumping
bail in Japan where he was awaiting trial. Meanwhile,
police in Turkey have detained seven people including four
pilots and a private airline on suspicion of helping gonna
escape rule to Sue's now is live for us and instal and stumble
with the latest. I mean, go look at the plot thickens here
turkeys demanding answers. We now have this Interpol alert. Do
officials there have any idea how Turkey was invoked clear
Well, that certainly Golan thinks he's free and clear now
especially as he remains in Lebanon, he will likely speak to
the media in the next few days. But in the meantime, the
Japanese are trying to piece this together as well. So
embarrassing for them considering this was supposed to
be a man who was under surveillance.
Absolutely. I mean, this is quite an embarrassment for the
Japanese. This was a very high profile individual for them and
their legal system was working to basically bring him to
justice. And instead of that happening, he's now fled in this
audacious Escape. And we don't have a lot of answers for it.
But Gordon is expected to speak. And so far what he said has been
very, very critical of the Japanese justice system. He's
called it rigged. He said that it's discriminatory. So all in
all, a very embarrassing moment for Japan. And at this point,
now that he's in Lebanon, there isn't much that they can do to
bring this man to justice in front of their own legal system,
or regardless of what's happening here. And it seems
like the media is only focusing on his escape, and how he
escaped and did he get into a musical instrument case? Or did
he he take a covert charter jet flights, but no one's focusing
on The Real News. And I thought, honestly, from your teas in the
newsletter, I thought we get a little bit more about what
actually is going on with this guy. And with Nissan and this,
suppose that merger or failed merger, but there's another
backdrop and that is the Japan is now our ally in the Strait of
Hormuz, and they're moving their fleet in there. So maybe there's
some embarrassment that's taking place. It's like
I don't know if there's any connection at all. This guy by
the way, should be mentioned that he's kind of spooky. He's
got passports from France, three or four different paths,
Lebanon, and he's got a passport from Brazil. Yeah. Which is
another place to go. If you want to go hide out somewhere. They
should all have extradition with everyone. We should all
have a Brazilian passport. I wish you I posted that one, just
in case. But well, you inspired me on the previous show with
your retrospectives. And the big action was two shows ago, the
big the big stories of 2019. And I wanted to follow that up. And
I was actually planning on peppering this throughout
today's episode. But we're already halfway through. Here
are some of the big stories that were not recapped at the end of
2019. Yeah, the one that you mentioned specifically. And I
think really, these would go as the big media mixers of 2019.
Let's just remember how accurate your M five M. Stations were in
the past year. We start with the story that no one wants to talk
about anymore. Jussie Smollett,
and buyer star Jussie Smollett was the victim of a vicious,
racist and homophobic attack his attackers hurled racial and
homophobic slurs not only homophobia,
we're talking about racism. We're talking about hate with
steroids. They are looking for two suspects who are apparently
wearing Make America Great Again hats the offenders uttered. This
is Maga country this is stomach turning mind boggling.
Information lie this is a horrible story. Horrendous and
unacceptable.
This is America in 2019. So let me see did they get that one
right John that Jussie Smollett story, did they did they? Were
they right on the money with that? Wrong Wrong? Let's try
another one. How about the Covington high school kids with
the Native American war hero outrage
over this now viral video showing high school teenagers
harassing a Native American elder
with a Native American man who was beating the drum Nathan
Phillips and those kids in the Make America Great Again hat so
we're kind of smirking at him and kind of looking down their
noses at him as
one smoking high school student blocked the elders path
to video appears to show dozens of youths wearing Make America
Great Again hats mocking Native American elder and Vietnam
veteran Nathan Phillips, a veteran a Native American man
was you know, had a standoff with students who were you know,
mocking Him. We feel that President Trump is giving
licence to some of this behaviour.
See where they write about that one John about the about the kid
smirking and where they know wrong wrong. Joe Biden likes to
touch people's sniffed their hair, especially children. Let's
remind ourselves how the media handled this story when people
first started to get creeped out by him.
very affectionate. I find oddly affectionate he kisses people on
the bow he shouldn't. He's always touching people's
shoulders. I've seen him
rub the shoulders of women and men, Joe Biden calls them
expressions
of affection. He is an affectionate old school
politician.
He's a really nice, generous, funny connecting guy,
Uncle Joe, as
we affectionately call him. He's a very affectionate, very
likeable person. You know, he's just an affectionate guy. I know
Joe Biden a long time as many others and have always found him
a very emotional man, who is very, very affectionate,
touchy feely. He's been doing it his entire life in a in an
affectionate way.
I think the next time I see Joe Biden if he doesn't hug me and
give me a kiss and hold my hand, that's not the Joe Biden. I knew
he's a nice guy. He's not a predator. And this is ridiculous
show Do they still talk like that about Joe? Are they a
little more creeped out about it now? This song, this is why you
listen and why you help produce the no agenda show. Because this
is the bull crap that the media puts into your head 24 hours a
day if you allow it. And it goes through your eardrums into your
brain processing and then swells up your amygdala and then you
become insane. Let's check another one. Um, remember the
Trump meme? Where he was shooting all the media was
killing them, which was from the from the movie. What movie was
that in the church? What was that again? I just did you just
walk away. You just walked away. You just walked away from the
show. Like it's like, it's like, here I am. I'm looking for my
wing man.
Because you are introducing something I had to go get a
sheet of paper from the desk. And then you then you threw it
to me for some unknown reason because I don't know that movie.
Kingsman? Yes, you do. Kingsman. Oh, Kingsman. Yeah, you know, I
never get to see the second one.
Well, but you remember the meme where they had all the
mainstream media logos on the people in the church and Trump
was there with his head? Killing them all in the right, this
video. Do you remember? What uh, What? What? How horrible that
was? How was going to kill everybody in the media? Yeah.
Disturbing fake video was shown at a conference of you know,
whose supporters
it's about so much more than a single video. It's about a
president and his supporters are sowing seeds of hate and
division. There's something
very ugly at the heart of Trumpism. And we saw that ID in
this video.
Files are terrific.
Some of his supporters would think this might even be somehow
funny.
You know, there are real people's bodies and lives on the
line.
Oh, easy for all of you judging me that I'm offended and upset
by the video. You try doing this once a member of your family is
continued to have this happen over and over and
over? I'm gonna guess.
Now. Did anyone from the media die? Anyone assassinated? Did
anyone at the end of 2019 wrap up the Muller report about how
right the media was and how spot on they were with their
analysis?
Oh, you mean how it was he was doomed because of the Muller
report is going to be delivering what I think are going to be his
indictments, the final indictments.
This is suborning perjury.
I think there's no question it's an impeachable offence and at
that point, we are in high crimes and misdemeanour and we
are in impeachment.
The spirit of what Trump did is clearly treasonous. There's
outright treason. I think he's putting the noose around his
neck, the noose is tightening.
He feels the noose is tightening, the noose is
tightening, people might go to jail. You're exactly right, the
rest of their lives.
I think they're all going to jail. Well, I
think they're all going to end up together in prison. And maybe
that's because
he has no idea that he's going down.
The investigation is over. And according to a senior DOJ
official, there will be no further indictments. How can
they let Trump off the hook?
Did everyone go to jail with the indictments imminent? Was the
Muller report of any significance?
No, apparently not. Now.
I have one more last one. Okay, last one. This has got to be my
favourite. Because it's been so many. It's been years since they
first laid this smack on us. And it's good to remember how
incredibly wrong the media were or was about the steel dossier.
Parts of the now infamous dossier on Trump have proven to
be true.
Your intel community has corroborated all of the details
in there the when the President just refers to this fake
dossier. That is false. I don't think that's the accurate
characterization. Investigators have
cooperated part of the dossier. We do know that parts of it have
been corroborated. It's not
been corroborated. But it hasn't been disproven.
No major thing from the dossier has been conclusively disproven
to date. None of it has been disproven, and whole big parts
of it are holding up as the dossier holds up. Well, it's a
fact that none of it not one word has been disproven. In
fact, a lot of it turned out to be right on the money. The FBI
would not have just taken a dossier to the FISA court and
use that as their predicate for the surveillance. They had to
corroborate it themselves. That's how they operate.
So if you're wondering, or someone in your family is
wondering why you listen to this podcast, that's why and I'm sure
we can do the same thing with this Iran, Iraq Soleimani thing
at the end of this year.
You know, the funny thing about that dossier story is that
although it's we didn't document it specifically, is the way the
dossier story kept changing and morphing In regards to the FISA
court, yes, when they first came out they said, well, it wasn't
that important to our Pfizer, you know, request Yeah. And then
it became important to the fight then it was apparently was the
only thing that it was device a request was based on was the
dossier, this dossier was. I don't understand how it got as
far as it did, because it was just look phoney from the get
go. It had stunk. And he had just passed the smell test.
I might get a clip for Thursday, this interview with the author
of the book, the thing is the plot to bring down the American
president I forget exactly what the title of the book is. And
this guy has done all the research and his assertion is
that the dossier was not used for the FISA warrant
application. It was written specifically for the FISA
warrant application by slipping in one or two very pertinent
lines, which literally say that Trump is compromised by a
foreign power, and that that line and but that was written in
specifically, it's interesting enough that what makes that it's
that it's exactly reversed that that the, the steel dossier was
not the genesis of the warrant, but they knew they wanted to get
this warrant. So they had they created this through steel. And
now there's lots of implications as to who was complicit in
writing this. But anyway, I digress.
I'm reminded I wanted this one it just ran into because I was
going through some of my old files, and I forgot about it.
This was from a year earlier. And this was classic, because
everybody bought into this. And they bought into it hook line
and sinker and they've all since forgotten, forgotten about it.
Donald Trump's gorilla channel like the watch television, but
he was the gorilla channel. You're
right, forgot about that.
He had to watch gorillas. So they created a fake channel for
him so he could watch gorillas. And so they as he watched the
gorillas, she's always bitching and moaning about they weren't
fighting enough. The gorilla? Yes. So everybody passed this
around his fact. Donald Trump and the gorilla channel that was
a good one. Yep. Anime of the stupidity of the left. And this,
the basic audience out there that are suckers for this sort
of thing. And that was problem promulgated by everybody. There
was a lot of TV stories on it. And it was all over the network.
And there, there the internet. Yeah, but the gorilla channel.
Yeah. Hi, classic.
Do we have any clips about that? I'm sure we
probably did go back probably 2017.
I don't see anything offhand. I should probably put together a
little compilation of that of the of the gorilla channel. That
was hilarious. That was the Russian pranksters as they're
known. I just liked I prefer to call in the podcasters. VO
Vaughn and Lexus have they struck again. Now previously,
they had gotten through to Congressman Adam shifts office
claiming that they had kompromat and compromising pictures of
Trump. If you remember we had some of that some of that phone
call. And these guys like radio guys like weenie in the butt of
Moscow. So they have a new Gambit. And they went after
Maxine Waters, and pretending to be Greta Thun, Berg, and Greta
is dead. And they made up this. They made up the name of an
island Chunga Changa. I think that's literally what it's
called. And they decided they're going to call into Maxine Maxine
Waters office, get her on the phone and say we'll listen to
Maxine. Yeah, it's Greta and greatest dad. And we're here in
thing it's when they say they were South Carolina. And, you
know, we're here to garner support to save the island of
Chunga. Changa. And could you please help us out? We'll put
you on speakerphone. And I pulled the pertinent clip from
this from this YouTube video. And, you know, this used to be
what Americans did. We used to be the fun phone, phone
pranksters. We've let Russia grab that away from us,
Congresswoman. Yeah, I have Greta and her father Sivan. Say
on the line. Very much, Congresswoman. This is swans
greatest father. And here's a great Yes. Hello. On the line.
Watch us. Hello. I'm
very happy to talk to you.
Well, thank you both for calling me and I'm very anxious to hear
from you.
Yes, I know that yours called you and Maxine. You That's
brilliant. Brilliant butter up first. Bye. So calling her
auntie Maxine. That's the she'll love that butter up very good.
By the way, these guys sound nothing like Swedish Greta and
her dad. But still Maxine is falling for it.
Absolutely, yes.
That's so nice. We have wonderful climate strike to
support the ecology of choice on the islands. South end of people
came to meet me.
Well, thank you. And I'm so glad you came to my state. And of
course, I know all about you, you have made quite a big, big,
big thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you
and the work that you're doing.
We're now in North Carolina. So we are in a climate strike here
in a meeting.
Okay, so you're in the meeting now you start the meeting has
started. Yes, yes.
Yes. Yes. We they're not here now at the meeting. And if you
will allow me I will put you on a speakerphone. So yes. And we
will let you say to people who is around here,
which Island? Are they targeting?
This is this is the part I like the best. All these politicians
are like that is like if I can get anything out of you. And of
course, typically these calls are about money. But right now
it's like oh, shit, I can align myself with Greta. juneberry
This is fantastic. This is good for me. And they can roll out
some bullcrap script, just right off the cuff. Even Maxine, and
she's up there in age, but she's still a She's a pro at rolling
it out. So she has a little bit of information. She knows it's
North Carolina. She knows it's Greta, who's a thunder
apparently. She knows it's Chinga Chanca Island, which
doesn't exist. And she's gonna do a little promo.
So yeah. And we will let you say to people who is around here.
Which island? Are they targeting? Chunga? Changa shunga
Chandra? Yes. Hello, everybody. This is Congresswoman Maxine
Waters. And I am so pleased to be on this telephone call with
Greta Thornburg. I am just so
sick, she says thud Berg. Berg, which is a new one for us
on this telephone call with Greta Thornburg. I am just so
proud of her and her father Savanti. And the work that they
are doing. As you know, Greta is an environmental activist. And
she took part in the United Nations Climate Summit in New
York recently, and she has been travelling, and she has been the
greatest advocate for what is happening with our climate and
the environment. And I'm very pleased that she's with you in
North Carolina, where you're focusing on protecting the very
important island of Tula challenge
I'm so happy she's supporting the very important the
critically important the island of chimichanga you Greta
Thunberg and your dad Devonte Thunberg Come on. Well, I
believe these these two comrades deserve a medal for this work.
This is really very good.
Well, let's give them this clip of the day. Yeah,
you know, I wonder what that we should do a Russian version so
we can I don't know how good they were clear. Oh, god dang.
Comrade.
Now both of them sound like a couple of Russians. It's more
ludicrous.
It's a 15 minute call. There's there's more in it. But I
thought that was the funniest one. Especially the thought
Berg. What a moron.
That should be on the normal news, don't you think?
Oh, yes, it should be but no we can we can pitch a
member of Congress so stupid to fall for this. I mean, if she
was keeping up with anything, she knows that Greta Boogie back
to home base. And she's not in North Carolina. She didn't go to
North Carolina after the event in New York. The whole thing is
just ludicrous. And it shouldn't be regular news that that's
regular news story. No, I agree. No, no, no, because the news
media is so fraught with Democrat left wingers just to be
honest about it. They can't bring themselves to do these
stories. Yeah. Oh my god, it makes it look so stupid. I
refuse to run that story.
Wow, hey, we did have kind of a, a crappy story here in Austin.
On Friday, was it Friday or Saturday morning? We had a
stabbing one person died on South Congress. I mean really
like 10 minutes from my house. Let me see if there's a. So
here's what happens. It's at a burrito joint. And this is right
on Riverside and South Congress. This is really where I've lived
for a lot of the years in Austin, this general area. And
so first there was an altercation in a coffee shop.
Then this 27 year old suspect. He was detained by people
because he was harassing a woman. So there were civilians,
I think, and they detained him. The guy broke loose. The cops
arrived, the cops run after him. He he the cops can't catch him.
He runs into the burrito joint stabs two people wounding one.
One Cook, they're fatally then he runs up onto the roof. And
Swan dives while the cops are trying to you know, are ordering
him to come down. He Swan dives off the roof onto his head. And
people could hear his neck bones cracking. He's in critical
condition and of course, in the hospital but in in custody. And
you know what people in Austin think right away is Who is this
guy? Everyone thinks he's homeless or transient that
sparked an immediate Rao between the governor of Texas Abbott and
the mayor of Austin. And Mayor Adler. And Abbott tweeted, there
we go 21st century diplomacy. He tweeted and said, Holy crap,
I'll bet you this guy was homeless once again. The mayor
of Austin is not protecting his the people who put them in
office. And then our mayor turns around and tweets back. How dare
you How very dare you assume it was a homeless person? Or as he
would say, How dare you assume it was a person experiencing
homelessness? Of course it turns out that that's exactly what it
was.
But I asked him Police say the man accused of carrying out a
deadly stabbing attack Friday is homeless. That information being
shared as the governor continues his attack on Austin's policies
toward people living on the streets. He most recently
tweeted today quote, the city's top job is public safety. And
they are failing. kickstands. Caitlin carmudi taught to
Austin's mayor who's pushing back.
people realise that there's not a link between homelessness and
criminality. That's like suggesting that all all
immigrants are rapists. It's just not true. And it is.
This is Mayor Adler's response to Governor Abbott's tweets. We
talked to him while he's in New York Hospital waiting for his
daughter to give birth. He felt it necessary to respond to the
governor's attacks on Austin policies towards homeless
people. This comes after a 27 year old man attacks three
people in a South Congress shopping centre killing one
shortly after Governor Abbott suggested that the suspect would
likely be a homeless person. Mayor Adler called that
suggestion, irresponsible. And today APD confirmed this
suspected killer is homeless today Governor Abbott had a
series of tweets suggesting that the city must ensure its
homeless policies doesn't endanger innocent people. That
Mayor Adler's response. Most
of the crimes in this city are not committed by people
experiencing homelessness. So to demonise people that way can
make us scared of people does a real disservice to the
community.
Mayor Adler says instead of a Twitter feud, he'd like to speak
to the governor face to face.
I want the state to be our partner how to be working with
us.
Well, I'll tell you not not a lot of credibility left for the
mayor here in Austin. Yeah,
well voting for him i i really liked the way he sticks to the
memes. Oh, the security fencing homelessness he can't can't just
cut it down to homeless Oh,
no, you can't you have to say x and you have to say neighbours
experiencing homelessness. But the problem is just like
California cities here now as well. They've you know, there's
no prosecution for small crime. There's no prosecution for small
assault. There was a woman and it could have been the same guy
for all I know a couple of weeks ago was assaulted on this thing
of the South first or South Congress Bridge. And yeah, it's
become violent because these are not just you, right? He's Right
homelessness are people experiencing homelessness.
That's not necessarily the issue. But Austin has become a
mecca for transients to come through because it's
everything's free here free money camp where you want to do
what you want. Just because you can't camp downtown, every
median of grass now outside of the downtown area is filled with
tents, barbecues people parking their, their cars on the median.
Our mailbox was broken into yesterday. As you know, we don't
have mailboxes we have one up at the top of the the top of the
street, broken open all the mail stolen packages ripped open.
Which is a federal crime I might add. So that's Thank
you. Thank you. Yes, that's not just some some petty crime.
Where's the ring doorbell now? Where's all that? But you know,
you don't see the cops running around now saying, Oh, do you
have any ring doorbell video and doorbell and any video and you
know, they don't even show up for it?
Well, we have a still did you California versus Boston, we
have a new issue. And the left media left leaning media leases
on this one is not quite the same as what you just described.
But it's it's an issue because it's going to cause somebody. It
could be anybody a lot of money. Ah, yes, I heard about this one.
It's another money grabbing. Here's a report from one of the
stations I think in Southern California, on the new
California water law.
All right, so many laws get considered each and every year,
they're discussed, and then they're passed.
All right, this one, I'm not sure how I feel about this,
you're not going to be allowed to shower and do a load of
laundry in the same day,
I had the same misgivings, doing a load of laundry takes about 40
to 50 gallons of water, taking a shower for about eight minutes
takes about 17 gallons of water. Well, there's a limitation on
your daily use of water of 55 gallons per day. So that means
if you're taking a shower and you're doing a load of laundry,
you can't do both without being in violation of the law. There
are some exceptions about this. You can't do both without being
in violation of the law. There are some exceptions about this.
There are some caveats. For instance, if you have a multi
person household, if you have four people in your household or
three people in household, that 55 gallon limit per day applies
it for each person. So you could do a load of laundry. If you
have a multi person household and Mark kreski. Well, you can
actually see your your water uses on a daily rate with your
water metre. Now there are actually fines available for
this as well. Your first your violation is $1,000 per each day
that you're in violation. Wait,
who made this law?
It's the state legislature the governor signed this into effect
goes into effect January 1. Now there's also another caveat. If
we're in drought conditions, and the governor declares an
emergency that fine can go up to $10,000. So be careful.
You could change your word to Serenity to anger now. You're
not gonna be able to shower in 2020.
I'm gonna pick doing laundry over showering so
all of a sudden I can smoke marijuana as much as I want but
I can't take a shower. Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah, I saw this and I clipped it as well. That's KTLA the last
very famous Los Angeles station. It's what was most fascinating
to me is the female anchor says, Well, who made this law? Excuse
me? Hello. Hello, news lady. You're supposed to be on top of
this. This was a state legislator and it was signed
into law. And they can completely track this right down
to your micro gallon. They know exactly how much you'd how many
people live in there. Two people that's 110 calot gallons a day.
Don't go over it. Oh, yeah. Fines are coming. Yeah. Well,
luckily you don't pay that much. So you won't have much trouble
with the line. Never
bad. I just use I used
to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh
yeah, that'd be fun
you know, you don't need to break bait if you use Dr.
Bronner's.
Doesn't it require some water?
No to stuff doesn't get some unbelievable fabulous. I
know I just wipe it
on. And wipe it off. Use a squeegee. Yeah. Let's start off
with stanking a few people for sure. 1205 Starting with Mike,
Nick Kalai a chuck
Nikolai Nikolai Chuck Nicola, Nicola, Nicola Isaac.
He says he's, by the way one of my one of the guys that tracks
the newsletter. And he's got a lot of people that didn't get
the news. Oh yeah,
I got a second mail email from you. So we had another problem
with the with the email reaching out
Last time I tried to send my pay here, I'll give you a little
background on this. I'm trying to figure out how many emails
just aren't getting to the place at all, which I think is a
problem MailChimp. And so I've been discussing this over
various second secondary mailings, and people are the
everyone who writes it. Now I got it. I don't care if you got
it. So i This time I came up with the bright idea, which was,
email me if you didn't get it? Well, I know I always say that.
The problem was everyone emailed me anyway, whether they got it
or not. But this time, I added the stupid easy thing I should
have always done, which was use the subject line. Yeah, I didn't
get the email. Yeah. So that way, I can sort out the people
who just want to chat. And people who actually didn't get
the email and it made it a lot easier net, and I can see it was
like 20 or 30 people, which means it just as tip of the
iceberg, because not everybody's even gonna bother. Right. But so
they're not getting the mail out or something. There's something
I miss the way I see it, because if you're not getting it at all,
even in your spam box, yeah, there's something wrong.
Well, you know, because I've been working with a lot of email
in my, with my workflows on Linux. I've noticed that in
particularly, Google Gmail is being very, very stringent with
the demark. Familiar with demark No, I'm not d N R A C. Yeah,
this is a it's like a policy. What is demark stands for domain
Message Authentication reporting. That's demark and
there be they've tightened that up. I've only just started
looking into it because I know that I don't have my demark set
up properly on curry.com So if MailChimp doesn't have that set
up properly, if there's one small and not anomaly, immediate
nondelivery that I don't even know if it sends a bounce
message. So there's once again, it's mainly Google, but I'm sure
the others are following suit.
Whatever Google does, everyone does. Yeah, that's right. Well,
that's anyway. He is actually sir. Raul es que of Paris of the
prairies from Saskatoon, obviously, yes. And he, I just
give him a D douching. Okay. You've been D deuced. John Roman
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And Mark tanto. Twice a month. Whittier, California. 67892. Tom
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to the 432 Stephen Sunday, Vol. 5333. Michael gates 50 to 80 Oh,
there's another new news item Michael gates. So So Bill Gates
big makes a big stink. Yeah, I think we should have you know,
Washington State is one of the few states like Texas, Florida
and Nevada. There's a few that have no personal income tax.
Yes. No. They have other weird mechanisms. Washington state
they use speed traps and they
get on here here we use property tax. Well,
they use property tax too. But they did. It seems to be better
run than states with when you start getting to the state
income tax. The states get corrupt and California is the
worst example. But so Bill Gates comes out with a big statement
Warren Washington State now this is after this guy's already shut
up shut the lid on this submarine he's in Washington
State should have it because he has no personal income anymore
at all. He's got a zero he all his money is just money in the
bank that he spends. The State of Washington should have a
income tax. This is this is ridiculous of a guy like this to
say that just bought out. They got everybody all up in arms.
So our producer Michael gates should call his family member
and tell him to shut up is that the connection? That's the
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duck's back yard and Sunset Valley. And that is of course
there's Scott Baronet of the no agenda armoury and his wife
Christine will be organising that and if you had did not hear
something that is coming up near you go to no agenda meetups.com
You can find out more information about it. You can
start your own and a reminder, February 21. Adam and the keeper
will be in Florida at the meetup which is being scheduled for
Delray Beach and we look forward to and
this is the problem. So what happened and nobody seems to
respond to Mimi on this and she just got a mess on her hands and
she says no one can make a decision. And she's not going to
do it because she's gonna get blamed and she says you're gonna
have to do it. There are 12345 competing Del Rey meetup. Here's
the saltwater brewery at 630 by Scott This is great water
brewery at 730 as is the saltwater brewery at six by
organiser crystal and David colpa there's brews rooms sports
grill at six five purrs there there's the saltwater brewery
again, it's six by Nick V.
Sounds like the saltwater brewery is the place to be.
Yeah, yeah. So let's make the saltwater brewery
Which one 630 to seven 736
Can I ask you a question? Why are you so angry at me what do I
have to do with this?
I have to do this. I'm being firm with the with the
organisers. Somebody has to make a decision about which one
you're going to you're going to pick saltwater brewery but which
166 3730 By the way, somebody else has one that he wants to go
to four in the morning with Okay, so it's
going to be at the saltwater brewery and it'll be around six
and everybody who is organising that except for the one person
who had a different one. I'll see you there. I don't
Oregon and iser, we're going to stick crystal and David culpa
are going to be the organisers, okay? Scott mez and Nick b have
to contact them and then maybe you can switch ownership of this
thing if you want to. But Adam has decided that is the
saltwater brewery, 6pm organiser crystal and David. Yes, there
you go.
That wasn't so hard. I'm so sorry. There was so much angst
in the divorce household about meetings. What an actual meeting
No, no, no, this will not stand
Yes. Where we had to go to go to the go. To go to guy which is
you okay, let me see. Do I have any of those who come up with
shot Mouse?
Oh, oh, here I do see the note here finally. Oh, yeah. Okay. I
have Oh man. I love when Mimi gets all upset.
It's all for the 21st
it's February 21. And saltwater I liked it everyone chose the
saltwater brewery except for Lou Lou don't go to Bruce room
sports grill we'll see it the saltwater brewery is gonna
be the saltwater brewery must be a good place for a meetup if
everyone's
thinking that way it's gonna be a great meet up I think Horowitz
might show up on by the way, because he was very concerned
about this. If Horowitz shows up everybody pretend you don't know
who he is. What you do a podcast with who with YouTube Show with
Jon to never heard it to make sure you do that because it's
very concerned that people wouldn't know who he was.
Yeah, and you being the kind gentleman you are decide to set
him up exactly. Probably do this what else
our friends for. So that is a current overview. I did want to
mention the 25th of January as an additional that'll be in
Moscow, Russia. So make sure you get out man. I would love to go
to one of those. We got we got to got to do more. More
travelling this year. I've decided then a
I know you're laughing. You say that every year.
That's exactly what Tina says. I want to remind you every year
you told me we need to travel more. We now have a map with
pins in it. It was a Christmas gift. So I got a big map with
pins where we're going, Yeah, I have a meet up report a audio
report that's really the only kind that works best for a
podcast so I appreciate sure Roderick Veilleux we all know
sir rod he is Knight of the no agenda roundtable also host of
his own podcast in the Netherlands which is very
successful. He organised the Amsterdam meetup and recorded
everybody in attendance. This
is a rod that no agenda meet up. Amsterdam had this survey. It's
with the protector. It's all free Atlanta North Holland.
I'm Tim holiday and former month
boy Adam. I'm getting lots of drinks. So that's really cool.
All right. Do you have Holland surrouding This is my second
meet up in one week in the Netherlands. I know from
observing who's
cadaver? Hey, Adam and John. This is Jacob. from Wisconsin
coming to you from Amsterdam.
I'm Jacobina I'm dealing with the doomsday deniers and we're
not talking about impeachment Hello Esquire
and soon I will be sir. Okay. Notice the empty paypal account.
Hello,
John and Adam. This is entrepreneurial from Amsterdam,
you Yeltsin
by Martin tiny fire, just dropping in? Sure. Here go
nitrile to PayPal fiefdom of Utrecht second meetup in one
week, not too much.
Never enough. Had better balls are excellent. Now that's a meet
up report. I love how they talk to
I think that that was one of the best media reports you've had. I
think it was introduce yourself out of the way.
Yeah, dynamite. Dynamite. Well, it's also rod Broderick, he
produced it. So he cut it up nicely made it all work. I love
the guy that future night of the empty paypal account. I think
that's a great night name. That's a good name. Yeah. Thank
you all very much. And remember, no agenda. meetups.com is where
you can. Hey, we need some more people to organise a meet up on
the 21st Let's see if we can find some other locations. It'll
be fun. Or just find something near you and go attend. It's a
great opportunity for a trigger list conversation about anything
good drinks, across boundaries across age groups. race, creed,
religion, background age, you name it. We're a crazy cult. Go
find your meet up.
Ever stink bug update. Well, we talked about the stink bug. Yes.
And now nobody knew about anything going on. But
apparently the stink bugs have invaded a good part of
Washington State.
This is the Marmorated Stink Bug, I believe is the force.
Exactly. I got a lot of emails from people about your story.
Apparently yes, they're everywhere. Brown Marmorated
Stink Bug is something Darryl Beetham of paratexts pest
control has plenty of experience with
their a CSGO invader. And they come in right about now.
But now when again, and particularly now, homeowners
call in with little clue about this critter, wondering what it
is where it came from, and whether it's harmful.
I do all the multi character it's like six hospitals and 40
outpatient centres.
Originally from Asia, the stinkbug first crossed our
border in 2010. Since 2012, it has spread quickly from Clark
County to 20. Others working its way across Washington, a wait
out the winter and cracks and crannies of heated homes. And
then they get busy. I mean, they propagate over the past month.
The emails and phone calls have flooded into WSU researchers
more than 300 So far, most of those sightings in King Pierce
and Thurston counties.
So what do you do once they're inside gulps question because
they will stake either vacuum up, throw away the bag when
you're through. Make sure throw away the bag that when you're
through vacuuming because your back and will wreak for weeks.
The real threat is outside where they're ready to gorge on trees
and shrubs and they don't discriminate. They decimate
which is why agriculture experts hope you will help them keep
track in Seattle, Greg Copeland keep fighting.
So a question how just looking at these pictures how big is a
mark? We don't have them in Texas. I don't think how big is
one of these things yet. How big are they?
The size of a thumbtack.
Okay, so relatively small.
Maybe that's what I could tell the size of some tech now. Do
you remember? Because this is I think we've made went to two
cycles of these bugs stories bug get ins. I think it was probably
two years ago maybe three bed bugs. Yeah, it was sorry after
story about bedbugs and hotels and bed bugs and bed bugs and
bedbugs and that what happened to all the bedbugs die I can
nest story just dropped off to just now Athan, it wasn't scary
enough. The apparently the stink bugs are now the story. So it's
always some bug.
Now can you eat them? Are they tasty?
Of course not. If they stink and they make a vacuum cleaner reek.
Curly is a nauseating smell. Because i That's why it's called
a stink.
Yeah, I've definitely seen this type of bug. It looks familiar.
But I don't think I've ever seen one here in Texas here right
yet, but, and I'd like to know, I'd like to know a little bit
more. What is this? What
does it say? We shouldn't send you a few meetings
for yourself. Oh, maybe maybe we won't do that. That's not a good
idea at all. Updates, Epstein updates. The apparently FBI is
now officially looking to talk to some people like wow, they
figured maybe it'd be good idea to go have a chat with Elaine
Maxwell and see if she had any involvement in any of this
stuff.
Financing Jeffrey Epstein trial on sex trafficking charges, but
the case isn't closed. Reuters has learned the FBI is
investigating people who may have been accomplices to
Epstein's illegal behaviour. to law enforcement sources told
Reuters the principal focus is British socialite Ghislaine
Maxwell seen here in 2013. Maxwell has not been accused of
criminal wrongdoing. Her lawyers did not respond to a request for
comment. One of Epstein's accusers, Virginia gufram said
in a civil lawsuit that Maxwell recruited her into Epstein's
circle. And so she introduced you to Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, so
you were hired to be a misuse for him. Initially. Yeah,
Maxwell has called Gu phrase allegations lies who fray claims
Epstein forced her to have sex with friends, including
Britain's Prince Andrew. Andrew 59 also categorically denies the
accusations and has said he has no recollection of meeting
gouffre. Law enforcement sources said the FBI is focuses on
people who facilitated Epstein and that Andrew does not fit
that category. Somehow
I think they're just never really going to talk to Elaine
Maxwell or as they say, Well, this a socialite British
socialite, now she's protected, she's protected. She's
protected. She's a spook. She's protected by multiple
intelligence agencies. And we'll never know anything. However,
tonight. 60 minutes is promising something new, Sharon
Alfonsi has investigated Epstein's death for five months,
and reveals what happened in the moments after his body was
found. What did the prison guards do with Jeffrey Epstein's
body?
So, immediately after they discovered him, they took him to
the hospital. They were trying to do CPR on him. About an hour
after he got to the hospital, they declared him officially
dead, but 730 And then he was taken to the morgue where they
did the autopsy the next day. What do we know about what was
found in Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell. So it's interesting, you
would think that it would be sparse right? This is a federal
prison high security. What we have learned through our
reporting is that there was multiple sheets in there lots of
bedding, and electrical cord, prescription medicine. There was
actually notes and a paper he had written a note. So in the
piece, you were heard saying that a guard
was saying breathe, Jeffrey breathe. So this was widely
known
what was happening in the prison are we aren't sure. Well, we
know the way that the prison was set up. He was in a secure area
where there were about eight cells. And so we have heard and
our sources tell us that the guards could be overheard saying
breathe Epstein breathe and what's kind of areas that after
that the prisoners that were in that secure area all started
chanting, breathe, Epstein breathe.
So the first day the prisoners other prisoners were aware of
what was going on.
They knew something was going on. It's you know, the doors are
blocked. They probably couldn't see that much. But certainly
they heard the commotion
that were there. Was there video surveillance in there in that
area?
It's a great question. We know that there were video
surveillance facing the guards desk, which is outside of the
area where he was. We are told that the video facing the cells
the video that might have seen his cell door was corrupted. It
was corrupted, meaning we don't know. Okay, good question.
No problem finding ring doorbell video of anything in the fucking
universe. But oh, this one's corrupted in the jail. And he
had electrical cords and she had every This is an abomination. It
truly is an abomination and it's insulting to people's
intelligence.
Yeah, but then again, what's new? What's new with this story?
I didn't know I didn't know they had all this. He had all that
stuff in his cell. Well, even so, but that's kind of pertinent
to how someone kills themselves to lie
ever said they saw the cord wrapped around his neck You
always imagine somebody in there choking him saying Breathe,
breathe.
That actually think is the best theory ever. The guy is standing
there saying breathe Epstein while he's choking him that I
think is is something to look at.
Imagine it Yeah.
Yeah. And I don't, I don't expect much. Not expecting.
I'm not even going to watch it. I watch a football game instead.
Well, you do that. Oh, watch.
I have an old clip that I want to get out of the way. This is
going to be our last clip. Yeah. Okay, well, then we can go back
to 2016. I never heard this clip we'd ever played on the show
that I know of. This is before Trump was even elected. He had
just been nominated president. And there was a discussion with
Harry Reid.
He's he hasn't been elected. He'd been nominated president.
What what are what did you
just say? He's not been elected yet. This is before the
election? Oh, yes. The nomination? Okay.
He's the nominee for the Republicans got it. So he just,
she's just a new nominee. So he's not any big thing. But
there he is. And this is the kind of thing that was going on
during that era, with Trump just got nominated. Here's what the
Democrats are doing.
It's obvious that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
It's obvious he can't control his mind or his tongue. Well,
I've suggested if now because he's the nominee for the party.
And he gets his entitled to briefings from the CIA, for
example. I told him, I said publicly giving fake briefings,
pretend your briefing, don't tell them anything that you
don't want to get out. And that's how I feel about it. I
think the man is a loose cannon. I think he's done so much to
hurt our country with our international relations already,
but he's the Republican nominee. Isn't he entitled to get those
briefings? Give him fake briefings? What does that even
mean? It means they'll tell him stuff, he won't know the
difference. You're basically telling the intelligence
community to lie down. I, I'm not gonna lie to you, but I
still have to tell you everything.
I hadn't heard that clip. Is that one of ours? No.
I found it on the interwebs. Well, I kinda was surprised when
I heard I had no idea this was gone that far back. He's already
ruined the relations with the world and they just got
nominated. And this is where this is where they're headed
with it. And this is where it began. I think this predates
even near stuff that was just prior to the election.
Well, just before the New Year, Al Green representative Al Green
of Texas, who has put his foot in his mouth multiple times when
it comes to impeachment. He is of course, the the man who said,
Well, if we don't impeach him Hill hill when he'll be
reelected, which is, I think, kind of the money quote for
2019. But just before the New Year's, he's on with Chris Hayes
on MSNBC, talking about the genesis of impeachment, and
when, when, when the decision was really made that you know,
this guy needs to be impeached and
levelled against Democrats during this entire affair,
particularly since September when the formal Impeachment
Inquiry started. And you you play a starring role in those
charges. I mean, the argument goes like this of how of House
Republicans and Trump and his allies the President has allies
is basically the Democrats wanting to impeach Donald Trump
from day one, they cast about looking for a set of facts that
they could plausibly use to do it. And all of it was pre
textual and reverse engineered to get to this point, exhibit
one, Congressman Al Green, who's been calling for the man's
impeachment for two years now. What's your response to that
charge?
Well, the genesis of impeachment, to be very candid
with you was when the President was running for office, and he
had members of his own party to talk about his unfitness to hold
office.
So when he was running, before he was even the nominee, we knew
we had to impeach him.
Yeah, I pretty much says it all in this Harry Reid thing. I
mean, this guy's were these Democrats are not going to let
this guy Wow, ever just, it's pretty astonishing, actually.
But it's a great time to be alive an even better time to be
a podcaster. Would you agree?
I would say there's nothing else that you could do. If you want
to get information out. You have to be a podcaster because the
media is not going to or the mainstream is not going to pick
up on it. No, they won't. They just won't run with it because
it's against some narrative, that unspoken narrative that I
guess everybody internalises and then you end up with what you
get, which is crap.
So if you're looking for non crap, but a whole lot of
stinkbug check in with us Thursday, right here on no
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bye bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran bomb Bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
Rouhani is away Goodbye.
Good evening, everybody in the United States is once again
attacking Iraq sort of as like a big boulder sitting in the
middle of the road. Yes, Bill.
But we're hearing as a series that we're hearing a series of
very loud in
the aftermath shows an attack that was deliberate and
sustained. With around a half dozen explosions, the Americans
firing with
T land missiles off show. He want us to declare war. We took
action last night to stop a war
prevent another Gulf War we did not cause were acting today. It
is less likely that we will face these dangerous
in the future. He was plotting attacks against Americans. But
now we
increased America ability to prevent future acts of violence
and aggression.
Last night and my direction the United States military executed
a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist
ringleader
earlier today I ordered America's Armed Forces to strike
military and security targets in Iraq.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know I sound like a broken record to
many of you the last six years speaking so much about Iraq. If
you're a Sunday morning junkie, you've had to hear me almost
every Sunday morning
to demonstrate once again that reckless acts have consequences.
And I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is
necessary.
Take them out. Well, well, how are we going to do that? Tell me
how this ends. Charlie.
Let me close by addressing one other issue that the serious
debate currently before the House of Representatives would
distract Americans or weaken our resolve to face and doubt
other Democrats are questioning the timing of this strike which
comes as the president faces a looming impeachment trial I'm
the first person to ever get a pizza there's no crime I like I
feel guilty for the
Congress was voting to impeach the president. The US military
was bombing Baghdad.
This could escalate it could lead to a cycle of violence. It
just got more data
are you going to be with me Charlie? Whew.
Because after coming to you they can turn that into a song. I
hear this for coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming
It's coming It's coming.
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