Hey, just get it out of the air the energies around you, man.
It's around you.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Thursday, January 3 2013. times
you're getting on Asian media assassination episode 475. This
is no agenda,
wrapping up the Red Hook MPs in the lowlands of Gitmo nation day
28 living in exile in Amsterdam in London, everybody. I'm Adam
curry
and from Northern Silicon Valley where it remains cold and
chilly. I'm John C. Dvorak.
And may I be the first to wish you a very Happy National
stalking Awareness Month?
I didn't know I needed to do wear stockings
by presidential proclamation. That also includes by the way
cyber stalking.
It is stalking I thought you meant stockings,
no. National stalking Awareness Month.
That's one of those bogus.
Bogus It was signed by auto pan. It's real. The deal is complete.
I've seen these things. We've what we watched the C span we
know what's going on. So I'm happy we wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait. We have a Happy New Year thing. What do you mean, I
want I think we should at least play one clip right off the bat
that New Year's New York New Year celebration thing showing
you that what happens you get a guy in there forever four or
five terms he becomes he becomes Mussolini. And you get this kind
of a report then 1 million
people from all over the world crammed into several blocks
around Times Square. Three hours before the ball dropped. There
were so many people you couldn't get close enough to see it. And
this year, there were no food vendors or public toilets.
poop on the floor a slave. Hold on a second that people say I
sound like crap. Hold on a second. Do I sound like crap?
Good news. I sound good. All right. Wow, how come no public
toilets I mean, how hard is it to throw a couple of porta
potties down? What's the problem with that?
Because it obviously be filled with a giant bomb. All
right. Oh, yes, of course. I'm sorry. The giant poop bomb.
Yeah, well, happy New Year. John. Let me just say yeah, we
are here now in 2013. As we enter our sixth year, is it six
years already? Is that? Is that our Is this what we're doing?
Six and heading to show 500 in about 24 episodes. Oh,
I have to say. Well, first of all, let me ask you how your
celebration wasn't. I'd like to say something about mine.
Okay, well, you probably had more fun than I did. Because the
Europeans have you know, well, I we actually we had we didn't do
anything special. We watched the fireworks is we can do off the
porch. Yeah. Because it was overlooked San Francisco. So we
watched it. It was actually quite a good display.
Now people do not explode their own fireworks on New Year's Eve
in the United States, correct.
Depends on the state or states. It's legal. California. No, no,
generally speaking, in fact, this year, they cracked down on
what's normally done, especially in East Oakland and Richmond
where people take their 40 fives and they go outside and take
about six rounds and
I do I miss home I miss home so much boom boom boom
boom just like just like Iraq Iraq. I miss I miss the DOM used
to do that. I miss
popping off a couple rounds of the of the judge would have been
nice. I miss I miss my judge.
Yeah, well, um, let me so you had some champagne, you know the
same same old same old wasn't anything? Okay. Well, here you
can't go out anyway. They got 2 million patrols are trying to
bust everybody. This country has become a bunch of duds.
duds? Wait a minute. You insulted the Americans on the
last episode by saying it'll be hard pressed to find an American
who can find Europe on the map this this went viral by the way.
This this quote of yours. And what was this new one? This
country is filled with a bunch of duds. Let me just make sure
we get the quote properly. As the real DeVore hack everybody a
bunch of duds. Well here in Gitmo nation lowlands where
everyone has apparently the equivalent of what the Free
Syrian Army has in in explosives. It was it was quite
annoying. I'm not a big fireworks fan. I like looking at
a fireworks display. But I'm not really big into the the loud
explosions. It just freaked me out. It's just like, I don't
need this. But what's what is very interesting, is here in the
lowlands, and I believe it's many countries in Europe but it
was very interesting to watch it specifically here. They have the
big year and lotteries. And this is what everything is centered
around the year end lottery. And now we have the state lottery
and they they both may have invoked argument with the with
government, the state lottery obviously does, but they really
pay for most of the entertainment on television. And
they have these really big bombastic shows. And if you
it's, it's so interesting, you can even buy a fifth of a
ticket. So a full ticket is 30 euros and you can buy a half a
ticket, a quarter of a ticket, or a fifth of a ticket. And then
of course, you would share with the with the other co owners of
the ticket. But the lottery I wanted to discuss with you
briefly and I have a really, really big event on New Year's
Day is the postcode lottery, known as that which would
translate to the zip code lottery. John, I have no idea
why this is not going on in America. This is the this is a
curry Dvorak, it has us written all over it, we need to start
this lottery, and let me explain how it works. You play via
automatic bank payment, so every single month, I love this part
on it every single month, you can and you can choose, you
know, one one lottery ticket to I think as many as you want,
essentially. And the drawing is done on zip code. So what
happens is, so let's say I'm here in zip code 1017 diem, and
that's an entire street. And so they pull the zip code. And then
the the, the celebrities who are part of these big television
shows, it goes on for days, the whole windup for this thing,
they didn't come to your home with these huge envelopes. And
and they say, oh, you know, you're in the zip code. So that
means you win. How many tickets do you have that determines the
prize amount? And and also, how many can your printer which is
kind of like awesome, dude points. As for the length of
time you've been playing, and then you, you get a large cash
prize. And it's the entire prize is divided up in the
neighborhood. So they divide essentially 20 million euros
into the amount of winners in the street, whose ZIP Code was
chosen. Now, here's what I love about this. Because invariably,
you see on television, you see these poor people who like when
a million euros or 2 million euros or even you know, 400,000
euros and and then you look at the other people in the street
who have their their curtains drawn because they didn't play.
They didn't take any pressure. The peer pressure is
outstanding. It's outstanding. And then they get
to go visit this person that is a loser.
And you can just see people are like committing suicide. Can you
imagine being in the street where the big prize fell, and
then you didn't buy any tickets worse, you didn't have any super
awesome bonus points. So you got a lousy 200,000 Where your
neighbor got 2 million and even then you'll feel like a loser
even though you really want it is the unbelievable the most
unbelievable peer pressure Gitmo nation thing I've ever seen and
the way these celebrators go around to all these people's
homes, and they have the big checks they pull out of the
envelopes. And it's sad, literally, I mean, and you know,
so the whole New Year's consists of slaves who have won money,
and now they're heroes. It's basically the heroes for letting
the lottery take money from their bank account every month
for God knows how long and the end but because they were smart
enough to play their national heroes, and we have Holland's
new millionaires. Let's see how the new millionaires are doing
it is John, why is this not being done in United States this
peer pressure is a great system.
I'm sure it's being considered. We need
to be in on it because the amount of entertainment shows
that are put together that are sponsored by this zip code
lottery is I mean, this everything is
possible it'd be in on it because in this country illegal
lotteries are well it's certainly don't have this or
what they are which is illegal
or why should it be illegal it can just it can be illegal
lottery we have Powerball don't we
gets illegal lottery based on legislation. Right. So
we're saying we need a new lottery based on legislation
that works think about this could save the postal system.
postal system doesn't need saving. Just play with me now.
I'm glad you liked this sort of scam. I love it.
It's awesome. I just sit there just watching.
So I got all my clips today by the way I want to mention I
picked up off of the somebody has a German I think is in
Berlin satellite to see band. Oh, Slingbox. Ah. So I was
watching what I could do Now there's a bunch of crazy I don't
know if you've got we should maybe introduce some people to
the idea of what's on German television in general. Not to
mention what's on the satellite dishes. But let me give you a
you maybe you can explain it. Joe. I have a little have a
little piece of German programming. Yeah. Which I,
which I haven't as an ask Adam item and why don't you maybe
first guess what this might be?
Okay. Now you know that i It is possible that I will be able to
understand the German. Oh, yeah. No, I'm
sure you can understand. This German, essentially. No, I'm
coming to think it fits perfect in the National Archives or
something like that. Yeah. Well, why don't
you play it
from handy? Which was notice the light, slight, slight, slight
noise from handy. Finds
the light slight slight slight noise from handy.
I'm so happy GX two was making a living in Germany. That's
fantastic for him. Yeah, I know what this is.
Yeah, why don't you explain it because I don't think when
Americans first go to Germany and they flip on the TV they run
into these these channels. And on the satellite dish I swear to
God, there must be 50 of them.
Yeah, this is it goes on all over Europe. I don't think it's
just Germany. We have it now.
It is all over. But Germany really has a lot of it. Right?
So
after hours when when you know it's not cost effective to put
in expensive lottery sponsored programming. Then you basically
have a bunch of girls who will be in it typically is live
they're sitting in a room with a bunch of pillows, and they're
scantily clad and there'll be on the phone and essentially they
are talking to people who are calling that number that 999
side side sigh whatever she said number and then of course you
can go private with her it's kind of like it's like a what
kind of like a webcam sex thing only a little different
now the funny thing is about this to me is occasionally Yeah,
unfortunately there's no real guide to this dishes got like
2000 channels so I'm punching you know I spending hours going
down channel
this is what you spent New Year's day doing isn't it? I
spent a
lot of time on this thing. I only found two worthwhile
channels Sky News, which is actually quite as much better
than me.
I don't know if this who's who's Slingbox did you get no one sent
me this. This login to the German as Slingbox.
I found a sling box sharing website.
Oh, homework. Really? There's
this there's a huge underground of this and I Okay, because
nobody got me a New York sling box. Right? Don't don't write me
right, but never right. So what is your anyway? So what's your
question? No, it's not a question. I'm saying I'm watch
going through this. And then there's the occasional channel
when I swear to God, it's a 5060 year old woman.
Have you seen this? And I don't know what you're gonna say. But
I like it already.
She a 56 year old, horrible looking woman naked with rolls
of fat seriously. And she is offering her, you know, two bad
boys or something. It's some crazy thing. I couldn't quite
pick up what she was angling for. But there was a number of
these sites and it was literally, you know, it was not
pleasant. Let's put it that way as your good Whoa. And you get
you get hit my channel button as fast as you can try to get the
satellite thing to change channels. Sure, John. Welcome to
your
Yeah, sure. Oh, quick. Change it change. Oh, honey, I can't get
it to change. It won't switch. I don't know what's going on.
What's happening. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, so that sounds like
you had a good time there. That's right. And by the way,
hello. Hell froze over. New Year's Day you showed up on
Google Plus?
T I did. start the new year off, right? Yeah. grousing so much.
Like he's never gonna show.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. That's about it. I mentioned in
the in the in the intro there that we're going to wrap up a
couple of Redbook predictions. And you did bring the Red Book
for today's program. I have it right here. So let me let me
talk about let me take this in sequence here for a moment. I
caught a couple of things from the US I tried to you know, I
tried to soak up as much culture here as possible, obviously. And
people seem to be liking that. This does change on the show,
which I'll tell you my experience is a lot less
likeable. This has now been a month 28 days in exile. full
month dual rent. Cold. It's yeah, What do you mean? What are
you laughing about? It's not funny that the place do not that
funny. You know, we're about to get kicked out
by the get kicked out. Hilarious. So it's not hilarious
anything
but hilarious. We're about to get kicked out of here. And
we're about to get kicked out in Austin because, you know, we had
only have the the lease until February 15. And, and nightmare.
Okay, so I saw quite a little bit of the year end
retrospective of from CBS News. And you know, these year end
things.
Yeah, I was actually thinking of getting you want to you want to
do I got this was the I didn't do one. Okay. I
I didn't do one either. But I wanted to play for you. That
piece of CBS News is year end retrospective of Benghazi. Now
we all remember what happened in Benghazi. Would you like to give
me just a if you were to produce this, John, what would you put
in there in the in the Benghazi?
I mean, you have to have the regular cannon that the public
expects, which is that was you know, an attack of some sort,
when in fact, we have all the evidence tends to point to a
failed kidnapping attempt, as in October surprised to benefit the
Obama campaign. And that failed it, which is, which is why
Hillary was very upset at the time, and you can see visibly
and why she she's not going to ever testify before Congress
about this episode. So that's the background record as
well. Well, you're fired. Even even that is way too much.
And then Benghazi, Libya, an armed attack killed US
Ambassador Chris Stevens, and three other Americans. For State
Department officials eventually resigned over the incident.
And there you go.
Simple and easy. Like, wow, what happened? All those 20 people
that they ferreted off into Germany,
and the fact that those four people didn't resign, they just
resigned one piece of their job, and they took other gigs and
yeah, oh, crap. And of course, we now have hiding Hillary hide
and go seek Hillary Clinton. And either way, you're what would
you let? Would you let me just go just flow through this before
you do it, by the way, because I'm afraid you're gonna like,
ruin my bid you step on my bid. Exactly.
All on.
I'll wrap this up real quick. So of course, you're not allowed to
come up with any conspiracies about hair, Hillary. Because
that's crazy. It's just crazy talk. Now, of course, on the
last episode, I brought up a pretty much a clear piece of
disinfo that is out there about this accident that Hillary may
have had and that that related to a SEAL team member who had
supposedly committed suicide. And I already said, you know,
this is very shaky source that this is coming from. And now you
kind of see it all over and it looks like it came from Sasha
file, which is just bullcrap. Just total bull crap. Our theory
has always been very, very simple. But first, let me let me
play a piece of a representative Israel, who will just tell you
how insane you are to think that, you know, the Hillary
might be faking this or there might be something else going
on. In fact, she, the representative Israel could
actually be on on this week in twit this this week in tech with
Lloyd facing direct questions on Benghazi. What's your thought?
Well,
that's what's wrong with Washington. You know, the people
who invent conspiracies behind every cloud. These are the same
people who said that the moon landing was staged in a
Hollywood set.
There you go. It's um, crazy. The same people, the same people
who said the moon landing was staged on a Hollywood set are
saying that Hillary has ulterior motives. But we found the
smoking gun. I have it here for you. I've got a smoking gun. Our
theory of course, at least one of the theories is that Hillary
is on deck for a complete makeover, a facelift the whole
nine because of course she has to rest up, get ready. You know,
she's going to be running in a couple of years and she's got a
lot of work to do. And if you've seen any recent pictures, and
you know how many women feel about their appearance, and you
probably would agree with that. Here is smoking gun proof that
she is indeed doing just that
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was released today from
New York Hospital where she was being treated for a blood clot
in her head. The Secretary left in a motorcade with former
President Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea. Margaret
Brennan is at New York Presbyterian Hospital Margaret
Anthony Secretary Clinton was just discharged from the
hospital. Her car pulled away just moments ago, and her
spokesperson released this statement saying her medical
team advised her that she is making good progress on all
fronts. and they are confident that she will make a full
recovery. Now, earlier today, Secretary Clinton made her first
public appearance in three weeks as she walked out of the
Harkness Eye Institute and into a secure van.
Okay, let's stop right there. And let's take a look at the
Edward Harkness Eye Institute, which you will be able to find
John at Columbia i.org. And while you look that up, I will
tell you that the things they do here is laser vision correction,
and I plastic and reconstructive surgery. And if you look at all
the photographs, oh, yeah, she comes out with the with the huge
sunglasses on the Jackie O sunglasses. Zack,
by the way, by the way, yeah, this is exactly if I would go
but I was thinking about going back and pulling a clip from our
own show saying that when you first see her, she's going to
have a huge sunglasses and a
big scarf around. In fact, right? You said that you say
did you that's what you that's what you do you wear these?
These are not normal sunglasses, and why are you wearing them at
all. But these are huge sunglasses to cover up to black
eyes.
And notice that Bill and Chelsea and the Secret Service guys, not
even the Secret Service guys are wearing sunglasses, and they
always wear sunglasses. She did not have the scarf over the head
yet because that work hasn't started yet. It's very obvious
that work just hasn't satirized done. Yeah. Finish the report,
along with a smiling bill and Chelsea Clinton and accompanied
by security detail. Now there are private doors here at the
hospital. She could have used to avoid those cameras, but she
chose to walk out smiling into the cold New York air. And the
State Department does say that Secretary Clinton has been very
active by phone and in communication with her staff.
And I'd like to point out she was also not in a wheelchair,
you know, someone who has a blood clot and all this stuff
going on, you know, typically you but what is she doing in the
Eye Institute? Only one thing. They don't do anything that no
one ever said, Oh, she has a vision problem. I didn't hear
any of that. It's not behind her eyes. The blood clot apparently
is somewhere around her ear. No, no, this is she's going to look
dynamite is gonna take a while that's gonna take another eight
weeks for sure. But she apparently the procedure hasn't
been done yet. She just done. She's doing it piecemeal. So
she's got the job first. So I call this smoking proof. What do
you say?
I'm all in? Good. I mean, when I saw the sunglasses, I saw that
picture. I know, brother. Okay, well, this is the giveaway. But
then she had all this stuff jib thing wrapped around her neck
too. But it's obviously she hasn't had her jowls worked on.
She hasn't had that maze. Part of it. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, that would take too long to heal so that this will happen
in the offseason. But you
see this. This is very important. She's shown that
she's alive. So that's what she did. That's very important that
she showed that you know, she's not dead.
You know, here's what I did. Let me give you another off the wall
thing. I think that this is just a coincidence that she couldn't
do the Benghazi and I think this was scheduled.
And we had to No, no, no.
No, no, I think I've tried to avoid the big guys.
I'm just trying to get in with the right doctor. It's like,
look, I don't care. Benghazi, Benghazi. All right, I'm gonna
go see that doctor here. It's very hard to get a spot open up
on Dr. Blumenthal schedule. This is just not gonna happen. Oh,
well, in the morning and happy new year to you John C. Dvorak
in the morning and happy new year to you. Adam curry also in
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much. Actually, they did some good work for me. Earlier today.
I couldn't get to an audio thing. And I just threw a URL
into the chat room and like hungry wolves. They dealt with
on it. And they and back came what I needed was I was kind of
nice. And also chat rooms are good for Thank you, Joe, who did
a little PR campaign he says, I don't know. He said here's an
idea. I donate it to the VLC Kickstarter, I guess VLC are
doing a Windows eight version or something. As part of the
Kickstarter, they offered me a credit for being one of the
backers since I don't care that much about such a thing. I asked
them that the show get my credit, just trying to hit some
people in the mouth. So that is there it says no agenda show.com
no agenda, best podcast in the universe. I think that's a very
good idea. If you're going to any contribute anywhere, you can
always contribute in a name of the show. Yep, I think that's a
very good,
it's actually a very good idea.
And other ways to contribute are by
calling C span. Yeah. I've been listening to this No one. No one
does that. No, I'm, I'm Bill in Fort Worth. And I'm calling as
an independent. And I think that everything is bullcrap what
they're doing in the Congress. Do you have a question, sir?
Well, yeah, I have a question. You know, these guys had been
screwing around. And it was
at that point, so you could even you could do it. Do you have a
question? Sir? Yes. What is the best podcast in the universe? I
give you a choice. No agenda. show.com no agenda. That's how
you do it. No one ever does that. It's think about a
legendary that would be it's so easy. I think what happens is,
you people think that, you know, C span is probably detrimental
to your health, you probably just watching like, Ah, it's
painful. And I was watching. In the middle of the night, I was
watching the the fiscal cliff thing voting thingamajig on the
streaming website. That's how bad it is actually watching that
at three in the morning. It was like 130, and like, okay,
they're gonna do a vote that was like, we'll do it in the nine
o'clock hour and like, oh, no, that's 3am
Apparently there wasn't a midnight deadline or anything.
So as long as the thing was underway during the so the
fiscal they did most of they got rid of that. That John Lennon
was just beyond God's sakes. Just
be honest. It's bullshit. It will be parently hold the whole
like, it has to be done by midnight. This total bull crap.
What they did was bullcrap, too. In fact, what's funny about
listening to these, both the Sky News and the van cat, which has
a 24 hour news station in Europe, so you can watch the
news all I mean, it's not like the carefully chosen feeds we
get, you get all kinds of weird usages that they won't give to
the Americans. Here's one that from one of the stations on the
cliff is a fudged deal. Who uses this term you want to play that
takes
one the bill doesn't go far enough. It is a fudge deal. I
think anybody who thinks that it's anything else.
My mom used to say this probably to
lose themselves. So I think we are going to hit problems again,
come February when President Obama presents his budget for
2014. And clearly one of the issues in that is going to be
the debt ceiling. And the budget deficit, which is $16.4
trillion, is totally unacceptable.
I think we need to reintroduce the term John fudge fudge to
mean well, you can do it. You can do it in multiple ways. You
can just say, fudge.
What does it mean? What does it mean?
You've made fudge of it? Oh, fudge.
What does that mean? Well, do you please wrong with fudge?
Fudge is a chocolate delight. Delectable. Why is this bad?
Hey,
fudge, you fudge. What's
wrong with what I don't get this? What? Why don't see how
this term is a negative term.
Well, if you think of the British, and you think of the
American and you think of all the derivatives, it's somewhere
between fuck and poop. It's fudged.
fudged
fudged, it's a fudge deal I tell you fudged I got a I got
something that you didn't see. The Obama campaign sent out a
video did you catch this one? No, I don't think you did. This
was not on television. So the Obama campaign emailed because
you know the I guess he's going for a third term because it
Brock Obama campaign is still alive. And I pulled out a like a
42nd clip. And it's it's funny because it's really they have
different producers and it's not as slick and there's no cool
background just is like a flag. You know, the mic isn't isn't
placed right? You know, obviously just like they grabbed
like, hey, hey, man, Brock, Barry. Barry, do one for the
campaign. Man. We get one. Okay. All right. I'll do some for the
campaign. And he put a twist on this, which was I'll give it
I'll tell you what it is. It's eat more of the rich, but then
he winds up with with just a Killer ending.
Obviously, there's still more to do when it comes to reducing our
debt. And I'm willing to do more, as long as we do it in a
balanced way that doesn't put all the burden on seniors,
you can hear how the audio is all goofy, and it's just this
poor poor production for students
or middle class families, but also asks the wealthiest
Americans to contribute and pay their fair share. So if
we had to do more rich people pay more.
Once we get this done, we can get to work on the issues that
will determine whether America prospers, not just in the next
four years, but for the next 40 years.
Okay, it's important write this down, John, here, the things
that he's going to be doing,
winding down the war in Afghanistan in a responsible
way. Okay. reforming our immigration system and
protecting our children from gun violence.
Let's Yeah, let's talk about that reform the immigration
system. I'm not so happy with it. Oh, protect the children
from gun violence. Yes.
freeing ourselves from foreign oil, and screwy floods, you
Canada harmful effects of climate change, reforming our
schools, and opening the doors of higher education to more
Americans.
Now? What can all that mean? What can all those things
combined mean?
spend more money.
In other words, making sure this country remains a place where
you can make it if you try.
Wait a minute. I can make it if I try. There's a song in there
somewhere. There's a lyric we can make it if we try it what is
the
might it might be? It might sound a little better, you can
make it if you really try it.
Even say that he just said you can make
he probably forgotten that you didn't make it if you really try
just
to try if you just if you just try and just Yeah, just one
thing. I'm just going to try it. Oh, my goodness, I apologize to
the to the universe. For for that for the American Dream
being give it a try?
Well, here's a new he has a new twist that he pulled out. And I
think this is kind of interesting. He put on one of
his press conferences after the signing, he came up with this,
which I have the clip is Obama logic and I'm paying bills. He's
finally it. This is this could open up a can of worms. But this
is essentially what he said, while I
will negotiate over many things. I will not have another debate
with this Congress or whether or not they should pay the bills
that they've already racked up through the laws that they
passed. And we repeat. We can't not pay bills that we've already
incurred.
Okay, so so he's throwing it at Congress, because Congress, in
fact, is responsible for the budget. Well, of course,
although although, interestingly enough, Congress is not only
responsible, but legally, only Congress can write a bill that
raises revenue. Interesting how the Senate did this, but that's
maybe another step.
But actually, if you follow veiners, Tweeter, Tweeter feed.
I'm sorry, I
must have skipped I must not be following him.
This house initiated it is true is no. Okay. Boehner had the
thing done something that they sent to the Senate and Senate
just rewrote the whole damn thing and sent it back. But it
didn't really it didn't initiate and the Senate it was done
properly. But nobody follows veiners Twitter feed or to a
tweet or Twitter. Hold on just tweet or feed. And so Hey,
Johnny misstep, I
found the song I found the song I got this is the song for the
American dream.
I see the crystal raindrops fall and the beauty of
will just wait for the the chorus for a month to recognize
the song John? Oh, yeah, I wrote that. Here we go. Just the two
of us. We can make it if we try just to. That's it. Right.
That's the one.
You can make anything. So that's where he got it from. Okay. So
and he probably this is the probably him and Michelle must
be listening to that song constantly. Just the two of us
in the 747. Just the two of us.
GX two, you've got your work cut out for you. That's all I want
to say. The 747 Yeah, so of course I read through the I read
through the the bill, which is HR eight. That's the Senate
version. Of course it passed unchanged. Did you have a chance
to look at anything did you? Do you have any
do you would you love reading legislation? It's my father. I
know it's so sad because I really do. I really do. I think
it's charming. Okay, couple of things were were fixed. Your
favorite the alternative minimum tax. Of course, it's not gone.
It's just been patched and indexed. So it'll be
ambas index permanently. So we don't have to deal with this
crap. Well, until
they change it again. I mean, it's true. Yeah, they could
change this at any time. There's nothing will change it back.
They can do whatever they want. It's Congress. And I was gonna
get rid of it. Actually, CBS did a pretty cool rundown of a
couple of the couple of the bendings that were slipped in
there. I was surprised that CBS didn't. So I'll hand it over to
CBS for a second, then I'll, I'll mention a few other things.
The fiscal cliff law passed so quickly, many in Congress never
realized it was full of special interest tax breaks, one of
which allows auto racetrack owners to speed up their tax
deductions. Another tax write off Goes to Hollywood a $20
million break. Anytime a TV show or movie is shot in an
economically depressed area of the United States. There's a
subsidy for rum made in Puerto Rico a tax break if you train a
mind rescue worker, and a tax credit for every kilowatt of
electricity produced by the wind, all told, a fiscal cliff
law designed to reduce the deficit added $74 billion in
spending through changes in the tax law.
So I thought that was a really it was a decent rundown. It
certainly wasn't everything. I mean, if you look at see what
did I have here? I just gotta go down my list. Extension of
Indian employment tax credit. So this cheap bastards don't do
anything for the show. Yet our government is is extending tax
credits for the employment of Indians. Very annoying to me.
railroad track maintenance credit, there's Warren Buffett's
Gotcha. He got his little little bend,
wait a minute, stop a second. Indian in this day will moan and
groan about this and they give there's still a tax credit for
for people. Like if I was going to use India to outsource I
would get a tax credit to do that, right?
No, I believe it's only if you bring Indians over here.
Oh, even better.
I'm not kidding you. I'm thanking you. I don't know why
no one brought that one up to me it like jumped right out. I'm
like, really? Okay. There's an extension of tax exempt
financing for the New York and liberty zone. So if you happen
to if you happen to be lucky enough to be building in the New
York Liberty zone, which of course is where the World Trade
Center stood and where the new World Trade Center is being
erected. You get a tax exempt financing. So you know, there's
a little scam in there. Extension of credit for two or
three wheeled plug in electric vehicles. I didn't know you
could get a credit for that. Did you know that?
Two or three wheel? Yeah.
So if you know what that means is
a tax credit for a segway? That's correct.
It's a two wheeled plug in electric vehicle. Let's see.
Then we have unemployment benefits. Yeah, we got all that
then we have oh, yes. There was an extension of the agricultural
program. That is a supplemental financing for the asparagus
farmers. Remember, this is an extension. So So I guess this
was put in place when Bush was in office. And asparagus was
doing poorly, apparently. And we've now extended it because
asparagus has not recovered. damn nice. Damn that asparagus.
Now, here's here's a couple things that I want to actually
talk to you about didn't quite understand, improve, and make
permanent, the provision authorizing the Internal Revenue
Service to disclose certain return and return information to
certain prison officials. And I'm not quite sure why but you
know, we know the prison system is so corrupt and so rotten and
commercialized. Oh, yeah. That when I read in general under
slave
labor camp,
well, so apparently, I think that the IRS is now disclosing
what the prison would prisoners have made. And it disclosing it
to prison officials. So I don't know. So he's like, Hey, that
guy's rich. Let's go, you know, let's let's give him some
benefits, or let's rough them up.
It's rough them up. And it's very,
very, very strange provision. And it's a long one, that maybe
someone out there will be able to figure it out but
restrictions on use of disclose information any return or return
information received on this paragraph shall be used only for
the purpose of and to the extent necessary and taking
administrative action to prevent the filing of false and
fraudulent returns. I Ah including administrative actions
to address possible violations of administrative rules and
regulations of the prison facility. If you're a prisoner
do you have to file your tax return?
Well, I think you're under the if you're a prisoner Well let's
see. Okay, this is got the okay let's I got your 10 realistic
this has got to have to do with white collar prisons because an
average poor black guy caught for smoking a joint in the East
Oakland or West Texas what most of these dudes are by most of
these guys are that and some guy poor poor schlub in Texas was in
jail and being you know, made to do a lot of extra, you know,
free work for 10 cents an hour right? It does get to the point
where he has to file a tax there's no way right but a white
collar prisoner who's who's making interest income interest
and he's got all these different things going on in on the side
in the background because he can't stop making money. Right.
He has to file a tax return of course. Wow. Okay, I think I
think so that his tax return goes right to the to the warden.
Is that the deal? Yeah, I
guess so. To serve. Gotta
have something to do with the different class of prisoners.
Okay. All right.
And then the of course, the film and television productions. I
think that's just fascinating. You know, how the the president
and politicians always toilet Hold
on a second. Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop. Are they not making
any money? Is that the problem? I guess, the Hollywood people
and all those limos and Ferraris and then Justin Bieber and his
his Fisker and his Ferrari both he's got a million cars. I mean,
is there bro? Well, I would
like I would like to I'd like to point out this was not for the
music business. This is for certain film and television
productions. And I would like to say that you know how the
President in particular, but politicians in general will talk
about the special tax breaks that the oil companies receive.
This is a lie. And we've talked about this many, many times on
the show that these tax breaks are available to anyone who
produces anything in America, such as software. So Apple and
Microsoft, they, they enjoy this tax credit, the film and
television and music industries already enjoy this tax credit as
well as the oil companies if they produce here. And in fact,
Hollywood is actually getting the actual additional tax credit
that the President and other politicians accused the oil
industry of receiving up to 15. I think they actually change it
from 15 to $20 million. You just check here. I think it's from 15
to 20. If you produce in, in like Detroit, which is great,
because that's all the movies, are they you know, that's all
anyone needs. The background, like Detroit seems like every
single movie is Armageddon. So that's fantastic. And that was
pretty much it. It was pretty straightforward. To have one
more Oh, yes. Yeah, I did have one thing that I found a little
disturbing. The Comptroller General, the United States shall
conduct a study and the potential of clinical data
registries to improve the quality and efficiency of care.
And that wasn't it there was I thought there was a it was like
a DNA database thing that I saw, I swear to God, here it is.
Let's throw that I'm telling you advancement of clinical data
registries to improve the quality of health care. Oh,
yeah, this? Yeah. There was a commission thing. Hold on a
second. This was actually quite funny. If I can find it that
quickly. There was for some reason, they threw in like a
commission thing. Like we're going to create a commission for
long term health care of people on Medicare, which to me sounds
like a death panel.
Yeah, probably. Yeah.
So that's essentially what I thought I had that one marked.
Maybe I didn't, I gotta look at that one. But I'm pretty sure
that that there was a death panel provision in there. So the
whole thing, of course, is just bogus. It was a big show,
proving once again, that politics is truly Hollywood show
business for Ugly people. Everyone got their little moment
in the sunshine. Everybody did that a little bit. It was the
whole deadline was obviously bullcrap. So it didn't mean
anything. We could go over the cliff and it's not like it was
irreversible. We'll just backdated it. Just to add insult
to injury, the President signed it with his auto pen, while
vacationing in Hawaii. I mean, come on, how many? How much of a
beating do we have to take? And then in two months, it's well,
now I guess we're gonna have that whole stupid debt ceiling
conversation again. It's like, you know, reruns work to a
certain extent in Hollywood. But there is is a limit you know
even even Terminator can only do so many sequels. You can't
continue to do this. We're not going to not going to care
anymore about the debt ceiling and then in the first of March,
we're gonna have the whole sequestration conversation is
boring. It's completely freaking boring
though Well, hey, did you notice by the way that overnight, Al
Jazeera bought Current TV.
Now this to me is the the I have. This is mind boggling to
me.
Maybe I got it.
It's, it's mind boggling. So
what happened? Al Gore sold his crappy television network to Al
Jazeera for a rumored
$500 million.
That's That's bogus. Yeah, I think that did. Yeah. That is
what that's what you call as a face saving? Yeah. It's both a
press release you you make it I've seen this happen and people
should be aware of it. Yeah. People say, Oh, yeah, we sold
for five I did a press release over there. It's over 500
million terms, not disclose the terms not disclosed as the key,
right? Because there's no terms because there's not 500 million
is bullcrap. There's no way it's 500 million. It's not what does
that station isn't worth? Probably worth 100 less than 100
million. Well, clearance. It's
yeah, it's the clearances, but they Last Time Warner in the
deal, which is a huge part of
Oh, yeah, there's boom, yeah, that's done. So it is
truly only the clearances out. And by the way, everyone's
fired. Forget a chunk start looking buddy, because you're
fired, this is just going to turn into AlJazeera. It's just
turning into
clearances, if they got 50 million out of the deal, be a
miracle.
And notice and notice they did it before the fiscal cliff deal
was signed. So they could beat the increase from 15 to 20%. of
the capital gains tax.
Right. I don't know what the capital gains would be but
whatever. I'm sure it's a shoestring operation, everybody
that mean that's why Olbermann quit because he couldn't take a
listen this hour and I this is from this. What's the CEOs name?
What's his name?
Isn't it Hyatt? Is that his name? Joe Hyatt, who's the CEO?
I think it's
Joe Hyatt. Yeah, Joe. Hi, Alan.
I did significant due diligence as part of our evaluation
process. That's that's code for Hail Mary, we're so happy we
could find some stupid sap to buy this piece of crap. We were
impressed with all of that we learned about AlJazeera and it's
a journalistic integrity. global reach award winning programming
and growing influence around the world. That influence has
recently been demonstrated by Al Jazeera as important and
impactful coverage of the Arab Spring fake, which was widely
credited as being the most thorough and informative
coverage from any media company, in fact, and here it is. Here's
the real reason why Al Jazeera bought Current TV, Colin Powell
told owl that's Gore that Al Jazeera is the only Cable News
Network he watches. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. I'm
Colin Powell. And I only watch Al Jazeera did I lose you Are
you back?
No, no, I'm back. Okay. What? Okay, well cooked guys. Colin
Powell and gore are both with Kleiner Perkins he's in on the
deal of course doors in on the DL he probably some well LG is
here. Here's the problem with LG LG zero never got on any of the
networks consistently. They were floating around on MX Z word
Yeah. But
then on Comcast Time Warner was another their carrier here in
there, but they're don't have like an established conduit that
I know of. It doesn't. It was all syndicated from what I can
tell there wasn't any 24/7 thing. Do you think?
Do you think that they they said you could have joy Bay heart as
a slave that they throw her into the deal? Do you think these
ladies come pick her up? Here she is. Here's your television
network. Oh, and here's this.
Maybe the whole thing came around this word. They had a
meeting when they say what do we do about joy Bay Harbor? Well,
who hired her? I have an idea. Let's sell the station. To
station
get rid of her. Oh, it'd be so funny, Tom. You know, I harbor
no bad feelings. But you know, poor chunk, man. What's he going
to do? You know, no one's gonna hire him. No one's gonna hire
anyone from that network.
Now a chunk is going to go on to the he's going to pull a Andrew
Sullivan and he's going to he's going to go on he's going to do
a word deal and he's going to bring out a because he's got you
know, he's got he doesn't know you know, he sees guys like,
Who's the guy that guy used to be with a man show that Corolla?
Yeah, and a roll up is actually made
Just doing what he does really sent a cease selling man diner
or whatever that stuff is. Yeah, well
he's selling a lot of stuff but serious money No, he's
not making a stop. He's not making serious money he's doing
okay, I'm making serious
making it sounds like he's making it doesn't matter whether
he
actually if he makes it look good I agree. He looks
like he's making serious money and so does so do zonas like is
he looks like he's mad just like is by the way who's the fact
that would like us as like as did some sort of a deal on his
last years as a radio guy who's like he got a play or pay deal
essentially walked away with millions of dollars that I don't
any work who's
like I have no idea who this who was this like as you speak? Oh,
like this is one of the
big shots. He was in Texas for a while. He's one of the he's one
of the big podcasters now, but anyway, there's a bunch of
these.
I'm the pod father. I've never heard of him. This
shouldn't look him up. Okay. He doesn't he doesn't but
essentially a
right so essentially Okay, so here's the deal. That's what's
gonna happen. So chunk is look at all these guys Damn it down
though. Making all their money selling selling gold coins.
Exactly. I can sell me some gold coins. I can we're not selling
gold coins. Selling gold coins. My friend is We're so dumb.
Out to sell gold coin. Did
you read that whole? That whole statement though from from the
AlJazeera deal from Joe. Hmm, it's really funny.
No, I didn't. It's worth reading. Yeah. link in the show
notes of course at 475 dot any shownotes.com There's a couple
of choice. It. First of all, it's all Al and I L and I are
thrilled and proud to announce that a few moments ago current
was acquired by AlJazeera, the award winning international news
organization. And here's him. As you may know, Al Jazeera is
funded by the government of Qatar, which is the United
States closest ally in the Gulf region, best friends, and is
where the United States bases its Middle East Air Force
operations. I have had first hand knowledge of Qatar's
policies and results as a result of my tenure on the board of the
Brookings Institution. The Saban Center for Middle East policy is
a joint venture of the Brookings Institution in Qatar and has
offices in Washington DC and Doha, Qatar. It is its purpose
is to propose practical public policies that can contribute to
peace in the Middle East and its founding director is my friend
Martin indict the US ambassador to Israel until he this is this
is the funniest thing they've had anyone on the inside who
even knows a little bit how this works it's hilarious to me. It
really is what it what a Hail Mary bullcrap thing to say you
took any current when it started it actually was kind of
interesting you know like they were trying to do something
different and now you know Qatar atomic rod pointed out sir
atomic rod, I should say. They are the largest producer of
liquid natural gas. So you can be sure that anything that is on
this new Al Jazeera America will be promoting the use of of LNG.
In fact, you and I, John we can right now, here's another thing
we Isigny is another great idea we'll never act on. We can which
were full of we can put together a whole series of great uses for
natural gas, liquid natural gas, and we will sell it to them as a
as a series and we could make a package as a package as a 13
episode. You know, we'll have like a will show a city bus
running on the LNG I'll show you airplane running and whatever
we'll make some crap up. We can deal with send some producers
out into the field you know, just do a voiceover and we're
done. Because that's all it's gonna be it's gonna be one big
propaganda machine from the from the country that tries to bring
you peace in the Middle East.
Well, anyway, so that's the end of them. See a chunk. Chunk Hey,
everybody,
it's the joy Bay har and chunk, chunk podcast.
You know, I guess. I guess when Gore was started doing a show
himself, he was on any standard ratings did nothing. They can't
do anything to move the needle. You know, they said, Oh, man,
what are we going to do? You know, and they finally found
somebody to take it off their hands.
Yeah, that's a real and yeah, it's a total Hail Mary. Total
Hail Mary. And I wonder how much they raised money too. Didn't
they? Didn't they like that? They might have to pay something
back somewhere. Another one. They went public. Did they go?
No, they didn't go public. So they raised a lot of money pre
public. I remember that pump. The IPO didn't happen. No, I
don't remember any of that. I can't remember that.
Anyway, let's thank some producers. Yes. Oops, every
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I received quite a bit of email about the AEDs that I brought up
on on the previous program. Of course you're thinking What the
hell is an AED? That is the automated external
defibrillator?
Oh, right. Yeah. You talked about that in the last show is
showing up there and they're buying them for everyone.
Well, what I talked about is that there's a bill that has
been introduced by Representative Laura Richardson
of California, yay. To provide a grant for AEDs, automated
external defibrillators, defibrillator, defibrillator,
heart starters, to be put into all schools everywhere. And you
know, I got a lot of email from people, people saying, Hey, man,
this is a really good idea. We need this. And but no one
actually had an example of someone surviving because of
some quick thinking, and someone grabbing one of these devices
and restarting somebody's heart. A lot of people said, oh, you
know, these things are really good, they're really smart. You
know, you grab it off the wall, you put the, you know, starts
talking to you. So you don't need any training, it tells you
what to do, when you must put paddles on bare chest. And then
it you know, it determines the voltage. So these things are
amazing. They cost about 1000 bucks, each 1000 bucks is not
which most people who wrote me called very affordable. Most
people were doctors, we have a large contingent of medical
professionals who listen to the show. And I'm like, so what,
what really are we doing here? Because to me, I'm thinking, if
we can do this, why don't we have epi pens and every school,
you know, in case, you know, kid has Whoa, he's got a peanut
allergy. And he's dying, you know, get an epi pen. And by the
way, lots of people have epi pens in schools. So don't email
me just don't email me at all. Thank you very much. But you
know, do we really need a government scan sponsored grant
to have epi pens in all the schools. And it turns out that
this Congresswoman Laura Richardson is, of course, a
shill for the medical devices industry. I would like just to
point that out just to just to get my little gram of
satisfaction here. She also introduced the repeals excise
tax on medical devices. So she's actually a Democrat, by the way,
she's actually against the excise tax on medical devices,
which went into effect as of January 1, she's trying to
repeal that for specific medical devices, which would include Oh,
I don't know, defibrillators. Is this like a 2.3%? Tax? She also,
she also has introduced the breath of fresh air act To
Provide elementary and secondary schools with nebulizers Oh,
yeah, of course, you know, you can ask them attack, you know,
there's gonna be a whole wall for things like, Oh, John, do
you need a nebulizer? Luckily, the nebulizer was right here in
your office. I mean, there has to be a point where people just
you know, people do have to fall off the edge of the year, people
do have to die. We can't have a device for every single thing.
In every single public place. I look in the statistics. There's
about 280,000 heart attacks a year in the United States. Not
all of those are people that die. And by the way, these
numbers are also like that also all over the map. You know, you
read other places where you say 300,000 People deed a
defibrillator doesn't mean that they would have died without it.
But you know, how many AEDs are deployed nationwide already. So
there's more than a million and a half of these things, hang him
everywhere, like theatres. And it's law. It is law that these
things have to be hanging up. And I'm sorry,
how many people you think even know where they are?
Well, now that we have we do have the international green
symbol for the defibrillator, which Oh, yes. Which has been an
internationally recognized as the symbol. It's a green heart
with a plus you have not seen this. And of course, Laura
Richardson's campaign finance reports, according to open
secrets are top donors are all from the medical device and
pharmaceutical industry. Just actually, you look at who's
donating to her campaign. The whole thing is just funny. Let's
give you a couple names.
So what you're suggesting is corruption involved. Yeah,
there's gambling going on. Sure. Top so I'm looking at this
symbol. I wouldn't know I you know what it looks like to me
unfortunately. It looks like a caution sign. It looks like
Don't come near this thing because there's electricity and
it will kill you.
Yeah, that's so here's here's who's donated to her campaign.
Just wanted to give you a rundown of the names Cordoba
Corporation, carpenters, joiners, Inc, landmark medical
management, New Democrat Coalition, Swift ships.
teamsters union eight T and T Academy of Nutrition and diet
diet diet dietetics dyadic dietetics. American Association
for Justice Miller Marske Boeing Corporation is all these
corporations, given all these monies, all these Congress, men
and women, it's Bogota. And then they come up with these things
like, oh, we have to have the asthma pump on the what what
else? You know, we have to have, yes, asthma pump. I mean, there
has to be an end is the stuff that we have that we are forced
by law to put into public places in case someone has an attack.
You know, I think there is just a limit, or am I am I now
sounding like, oh, wait, a Republican. That's what I'll be
called next. But isn't that isn't it just a little crazy?
Well, it's just the stuff never gets you. It's just a waste of
money. Well, that's
what I think it is. But you know, but everyone's like, Oh,
this is fantastic. We should have these. It's life saving. At
a point, a certain point, how much life saving? You're paying
for it. If for some fat, overweight schlub, who gets a
heart attack. I'm sorry.
Hey, hold on a second. Yes, play the clip. This by the way, there
is a this is a huge controversial issue in Europe,
especially in the UK, because the UK just came up with a thing
saying anyone's overweight we're gonna pull you out of the
healthcare system, being overweight
could actually help you live longer. That's at least
according to a controversial new study and the effects of
obesity. Researchers in the United States say carrying a few
extra pounds might actually reduce your risk of early death
skies. health correspondent Thomas Moore explains.
A new year and a new determination to get fit and
lose weight for those extra pounds from Christmas indulgence
could in fact, be a lifesaver. He Research shows people who are
a little overweight are less likely to die prematurely than
those who stay slim, contradicting the long standing
advice of most doctors. It's good
to have a little bit of body fat. It should be trying to stay
at a very low weight. But it's like everything else in
moderation.
That has to be uttered. Excuse My French. It's, it's just where
do I get this stuff from? You don't really
think he said fudge.
So, in fact, and you play part two clip there. It's an
interesting, they actually this is pretty well documented.
American researchers pooled the results from 97 studies
involving nearly 3 million people with a range of body
weights. The findings were consistent.
Sometimes that surprises people. But they really should not be
too surprised. Because in our categories of not these 97
studies, 80% of them show that there was lower mortality and
overweight than a normal weight people
so overweight by how much because obviously morbidly
obese, right? Like not like Michael Moore, but I mean, how
overweight mom, but how overweight? Like you're, you're
probably a little overweight for what you should be. What? Come
on, be honest. Be honest, you're my butt look big. Is
that what you're telling? No,
your butt does not look big at all. Honey, it looks tight and
sexy.
I would say the thing is like, it's like 10 or 15%. It's like
it was like, in other words, you're not buffed, essentially.
Right, right. Right. We could lose it. You could be one of
these you, you know what, you could lose a little weight, that
kind of thing. Not like holy crap.
That that's very scientific. They actually
they brought that up in the report. And that, that you have
a 29% higher chance of getting dropping dead. If you're really
big. But no, they're talking about 1015 20% overweight.
Can I make a prediction something for the book. You have
the book and the book, I make a prediction that we will have in
public spaces. Just in case of an emergency because you know
how incredibly dangerous it could be to the young human
resource we will have emergency diaper dispensers acquitted in
the book, put it in the book. you'd laugh at me you'd laugh at
me. You must have seen one already know but some idiot is
gonna get paid but by the way, it's a big scam. These diapers
is very expensive. Anyone who has kids know this and of course
the whole diapers crap. But it's bad if the whole thing is bad.
But you will have emergency diaper dispensers. You watch you
want that's how far it goes.
Right? I think it's a better idea than the defibrillator.
Okay, okay. Hey, we're
gonna have a rerun, rerun. Once you're talking about the deja vu
thing you're bitching about how Oh god, you know, these things
keep that we get sick of the same story over and over.
What do you have?
Falklands? Okay,
Here we go. Argentina's presidents written an open
letter to David Cameron demanding Britain handover at
the Falkland Islands. Tom Parmenter is here with the
details. And Tom, what exactly is in this letter? This is
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at it again, you might say,
because we've heard this kind of thing before from her. But
again, she's putting the point directly to David Cameron, this
time in the form of an open letter that is printed in
several of the newspapers this morning, saying that we want the
Falklands back and she's using today, the 100 and 80th
anniversary of Argentina being forcibly stripped of the male
Venus islands. So there's the phrase that she uses. Now Venus
islands, of course, being the Argentinian name for the
Falklands. So it's an argument we've heard before, and we're
likely to hear again, because there's a referendum that's
coming up on the islands in March. And so this issue is
going to be very thorny for some months. And it's goes back quite
a while because you may remember at the G 20 meeting in Mexico
last year, she thrust the letter writing to David Cameron's face
as he was walking between meetings. Hmm.
Interesting. Well, you know, 180 years ago, I mean, this is like
a pretty I mean, this is like the this is where you want us in
the Mexican Mexicans in Mexico. One California back gets the
less time lost the name.
What do you mean, then, then they don't want to wait. They
don't want it. No place is broken. I don't want that
anymore. They don't now, but few years ago, they did.
But this is interesting, because Argentina was in the news here
as well. And I wonder if there's a correlation, you know, our
crown princess maxima, who will be queen when the when the
prince known as Prince pills, which is Dutch for beer, when he
becomes king, when the Queen abdicates? And then some are
saying it could be this year 2013. So she is from Argentina.
And she is maxima Zurich data. And if you look up Zara and yet
if you could spell it, I'll give you 10 cents. Her dad, Ken is
once again being accused of disappearing people up to
30,000, of course, the Argentinian government, you
know, they disappeared a lot of people. And, and this was I was
before Miss Fernandez. But maybe Mr. Fernandez, Mr. Fernandez was
a part of it. But all of a sudden they bring his name up
again. And he's being accused of of disappearing people in
Argentina. I wonder if there's some kind of thing going on,
where it's like, hey, we want those islands back. And then
Cameron says, oh, yeah, we're gonna start, you know,
pressuring all your people you want I mean, that could be
something going on. There.
Could be some things something's amiss. Deb by the fault lenders
by the way, they do vote on this occasionally. And they've always
wanted to stay British. Oh, yeah. Chris Christie is running
for president president. Yeah. I mean, he hasn't said that. No,
but it's a pretty obviously. Yeah. Did you see this? This
this complaint of his Well, yeah, of course
the No, no Sandy vote for the 60 billion Yeah,
yeah. So I have the I have the clip. It's quite it's quite
funny, but what he's doing is he's distancing himself from the
current Republican club. Right so he's still Republican but
he's he's finding a way to push himself away from these,
essentially a bunch of boneheads, you know, the good
news.
Here's the good news. He this guy is gonna live a long, long
time.
The US President Barack Obama has urged Republicans in the
House of Representatives to vote on a bill aimed at delivering
federal aid for states affected by Superstorm Sandy. Particular
anger was directed toward I just
need to point out that the in case you didn't know, it's
called Superstorm Sandy, because if it were a hurricane,
different insurance comes into play. So a lot of people didn't
get a proper insurance payout because it was not classified as
an actual hurricane. That's why you hear the media consistently
calling it Superstorm Sandy, what's House Speaker
John Boehner for canceling the expected vote. New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie, a Republican was among those
sharply criticizing Boehner before the speaker changed
course.
This means there is only one group to blame for the continued
suffering of these innocent victims, the House Majority and
their speaker, John Boehner. This is not a Republican or
Democratic issue. national disasters happen in red states
and blue states and states with Democratic governors and
Republican governors. We respond to innocent victims of natural
disasters, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans, or
at least we did until last night. Last night, politics was
placed before our oath to serve Citizens. For me, it was
disappointing and disgusting to watch. Last night, the House of
Representatives failed that most basic test of public service and
they did so with callous indifference to the suffering of
the people in my state.
If I can just do you have something you want to say about
this? Because I have no no and well, of course I read the
bailout package the $60 billion package, you know, this is not
for citizens. This is for FEMA. This is for you know, cop really
a cop cars, you know, new homeland, the Department of
Homeland Security stuff. And yeah, there will be loans made
available. But this isn't really for it's not like, the way you
hear him speak and Peter King was crying in, in the house and
Everyone's crying over this package. There's so much bull
crap money being thrown into that, that has nothing to I
mean, there's, there's there's money for West Virginia in
there. This is it's really it shouldn't be discussed. It
shouldn't be debated. It shouldn't be rammed through. And
it's not like that money is going to go to the actual
citizens not like oh, well, I'm so happy I'm helping. It's my
it's my people to New Jersey, you know, but it's not like this
money is really going directly to help these people. It's just
not, it's not it should be debated. So and Christie's
Christina the New Jerseyans, I know really hated Christie
before Sandy. They've really really despised the guy. And you
know, I don't forget things easily. So this got thrown into
his lap. And then, like, we'd love a bit of good hero story.
But now I'm just gonna say this is bullcrap that Sandy package
60 billion is filled with all kinds of stuff that just doesn't
belong there. And, and I think no one should get anything and
you should see what your government is actually doing.
Because they don't give a crap about you just don't give a
fudge at all. A single fudge. All right. And I have my
opinion. That's my opinion. I
can go I can continue with the Clip of the Day. Oh, I'm sorry.
Did I say that? I didn't mean to say that. What I don't call Clip
of the Day. Wait
a minute. Do you? Do you have something you think as a
candidate? Why
you have something?
I got plenty, but I but I'm holding back. I'm wondering
whether
you can put this I'll be like, you know, I'll just give you
this one and see if you can top it. Okay. It's a it's a
children's TV cartoon series called Liberty's kids. And the
clip was shown on the soup. It's very obscure, but it's it's out
there. It's floating around. I'd love to get the original series
because I'm sure there's more. There's more gems. Like this
is nothing seditious about an intelligent woman wanting to
keep well informed. That's the black dick to decide to line
that's what the sailors cool and know how it gives us black dick
and we feel nothing. Perhaps he has a dark temperament.
You got it. There's nothing to fear when black dick is around.
Thank you for a juvenile laugh. Ha. That's always nice.
All right. I'm not gonna top that. But I do have I do have
some Bogota of PR. That I'd like to I'd like to introduce, we
love Bogota, PR. And the first is an actual Bogota of PR move.
And the second is is an ad for a drug which I'm dying to try out.
So Bogota PR first.
Yeah, hit it.
in Aurora, Colorado, a PR move gone wrong. Very wrong. The
movie theater where 12 people were shot to death last summer
has offered families of the victims an invitation to attend
its grand reopening. The families have declined calling
it a disgusting i for i would say mission accomplished. How
can you say it's a gone a PR move gone horribly wrong? It's
like I know one thing. Theaters back open.
Wow. Right? Yeah. Who was that? Where did you get that clip? Um,
sound like Mansbridge from Canada?
No, I don't think so. Nothing was CNN. CNN. Yeah, CNN. And
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So this is essentially a field that works for four hours.
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By the way, bong hits and bourbon also works. I'm reliably
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The best podcast in the universe in no way endorses intermezzo as
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Now it takes him warm milk, a punch out, but even read a read
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When I wake up in the middle of the night. I get up and I do
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go back to bed. And yeah, everyone should do that. You do
that? Or you don't do that anymore. No, I do
that. That sounds that's a logical thing to do. If you wake
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Hey, good news, John. Very, very good news. Did he sell did he
sell? The telecommunication communications giant and
Marriott International, recently broke ground on a $45 million
hotel in Haiti. Puerto Prince Haiti. Absolutely. Opening up in
2015. That's right. The 175 room hotel is a milestone for both
companies. It's Marriott. Its first in Haiti. And Digital's
first foray into tourism. Am I want to point out, did you sell
you may remember, received a lot of support, and oh, what is
that? Oh, yeah. money to put in put in, put in place, a
micropayments. Cell phone payment system in Haiti. They
own the basically they own telecommunications in Haiti. So
they took this money, and you can say isn't it wasn't that
money or some other money is bullcrap. And they, and they,
and they said, Oh, we have all this money. And you know,
there's no there's a couple 100,000 People who are pooping
their guts out because of cholera, living in tents and
eating dirt cakes. But we'll just make sure that you don't
see that from our new hotel that we're going to build. It's just
disgusting. To me. This isn't the New York Times who reports
this, as with the headline, business travelers in Haiti,
we'll have a new Marriott because there's so much business
to do in here in Haiti. Well, there is of course, you know, we
have new factories, where we put our slaves to work to build
cheap garments. Of course, there's the gold and mining
industry is all of that was quickly arranged with the brand
new president who used to be a musician Martelly magic is sweet
Mickey Martelli, the musician after they kick the other
musician out because he was, you know, his britches became too
big for him. And then to top it off, here's an amazing story.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are closing actually they have
now closed their Haiti fund. That's right. Net Galloway
Pearce, Vice President of Marketing Communications of the
fund told The Associated Press that the Clinton Bush Haiti fund
term it will terminate ended December 31/31. Because it will
have spent all of the money it raised from business
organizations and individuals. So how, how much money do you
think they raised that they spent all this money? All the
money from the Clinton Bush Haiti fund? By the way, this is
the we just
need cash. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or
water. Just send your cash. How
much money do you think they raised and spend all of it John
how much?
I have no idea. Well, let's see. It should be like $3 billion
$54.4
million. What? Yeah, that's it. Apparently, that whole pitch
that don't send blankets or water just send your cash, all
the telethons, everything that all went to the to the Clinton
Bush Haiti fund was $54.4 million
that they collected like $3 billion. No, no, no, I'm sorry.
No, that is not correct. $54.4 million. I know. I can't I can't
even I can't even talk about it anymore. This really turns my
stomach. And every single time we do another, we'll have
another benefit for some bullcrap. To make you feel good.
Now you probably John, but other people go, I'll text my 10
bucks. And these elites, they steal it. That's amazing.
They love they love stealing money.
50 I think the Netherlands alone gave more than $54 million. It's
crazy. And did you sell recipient of some of these funds
wherever they whatever? Apparently, not from not just
from Clinton Bush Foundation. They're building a $45 million
hotel. In fact, it's almost a one for one just boggles my
mind. Fudge. Fudge. I tell you,
how do you spell did you sell di gi c e? LL? So bad spell it.
It's not that's not the way you spell it? No. I said that's the
way I'd spell okay, because I can I can give you the URL if
you want. I just have to Oh, actually,
you have a URL. I was actually wondering if there's a publicly
traded.
Did you sell? Um, hold on a second. Where did I gotta reopen
my thing here?
Did you sell it all one word?
Let me just see it is. Oh, it's one l dI g i c e l did you sell
one word?
Did you sell Jamaica? They're all over the there in the
Caribbean? I guess. Yeah. It was pretty. It's probably traded in
some weird Stock Exchange. That's one who's on the board.
Oh, that's a very good point. What can you find out any luck
on
five and five and get their symbol? Usually unless it's
trading? I think there's symbol Jamaican stock market I'm not
gonna get I think
there's symbol as an all seeing eye with 66 Is
that possible? Antigua and Barbuda?
Oh my Lord. They are the country's largest employer. I
got a link here in New York to
the Cayman Islands. That's where I bet your 10 bucks state their
headquarters are in the Caymans.
Wow, it says Dennis O'Brien is he the two years I'm reading
this here now? Impatient buyers returns and run on Donna who is
okay? It's Dennis O'Brien, an impatient Irish billionaire who
tends to make his points with a few choice profanities, like
Screw you Haitian brownies is determined to change all that
and a recent Sunday morning blew his vast telecommunications
company did you sell it might be Irish. It'd be Oh, you're not
looking. You've given up
I'm looking now I'm looking at my Wikipedia page for Dennis
O'Brien. The guy looks like like a piece of work if you you know
like it. Yeah, he would chew you out. Yeah, he does. Does get me
up for Get off my wiki page. Got an MBA from Boston College. It's
pretty funny.
Right?
Okay, while you're looking at okay, well, we'll
look that up later. While you're looking that
up. Let me do a little bit again I just want to remind everybody
that I am still maintaining kill list.currie.com. We've had quite
a few entries in the past week or two and another one added
today
that reports from Northwest Pakistan say that a militant
commander has been killed in the US drone strike. Pakistani
officials told the BBC that Mullah Nazir and at least five
other militants were killed in the missile attack in South
Waziristan.
Do you notice the use of the word militant seems to have
entered the vernacular no longer is it just terrorists. No longer
is enemy combatants no longer is it a tali bond although that
does come up later I think militant seems to be I mean
millet millet is a militant actually an enemy of ours. What
is the definition?
Just mean somebody that's that's agitated? Is that is that the
actual shaking their fist?
Put it down John put it let me just militant let me see what
the definition is of militant. So if you're shaking your fist,
you can now get a drone. Let me see militant. And I have
adjective now with that we want the noun a person who is active
in this way. What does that mean? As a militant? i Oh, in
this way would be aggressive in support of a political or social
cause, typically favoring extreme violent or
confrontational methods.
Okay, that sounds right. Okay,
let's continue near the Afghan border for more now from our
Islamabad correspondent Ilima. Gould has been explaining how
well known Mullah Nazir is.
It is one of the key figures within the Taliban in northwest
Pakistan. He is a man who controlled a large part of South
Waziristan, which is very much the Taliban stronghold,
particularly the area of one and towards the Afghan border. And
certainly the Americans will be very pleased, indeed that he is
now gone, because of course. Are you pleased?
I bet I didn't. I've never heard of the guy. Well, but
the Americans are very pleased.
Well, like, maybe an American is I don't know who that
might be said the Americans. I just want to make sure that
you're pleased.
Well, I'm not No, I don't know any. I know I'm not pleased
in Afghanistan. They're not just fighting the Taliban there. But
then those militants often escape across the border into
Pakistan and Malena Xia was somebody who not only provided
safe haven within South Waziristan, but also provided
fighters and material support for the insurgency across the
border in Afghanistan. Alright, so
let me just explain this one more time, because people who
listen to the best podcast in the universe know that that you
would never heard the word Waziristan ever before in your
life until you heard it on this show. And the reason why is the
pipeline that the Turkmenistan Afghanistan, Pakistan India
pipeline is supposed to go through Waziristan. And these
guys in here, they should have paid them off. But I guess we're
too cheap. And we're just not and so they said, hey, get away
with from me with your pipeline. And everyone who's in the way if
you got to village and the way the pipeline, you're gonna get
droned. And that's what's going on here. They're no threat to
the American security anywhere. We're never sure invading on
there. The BBC had a whole entire documentary, and no one
asked the central question, which is what danger are these
people? What danger are they? Are they plotting in their yard?
No, they're protecting the turf or they're angry about being
infringed upon. And it's all about the stupid pipeline. You
just have to once in a while, we just have to stop and say hold
on a second. What is going on? And either that or we're we're
in the middle of our game show when lose our drone. We really
need to get that one going. Yeah, it's better than the
postcode lottery.
Now the postcode lottery,
I do have another but what?
Nothing, I just the postcode lottery. I just,
I thought I said, I thought you were like groaning me like I
have a there's a new Tom Cruise movie coming out. In 2013 called
oblivion. Here's a little bit of the trailer
166 back on line. 16 years ago, Earth was tech. We won the war,
but they destroyed half the planet. Everyone's been
evacuated. Nothing human remains. We're here for drone
repair.
Drone repair, job drone repair. Hello, hey. Yeah, overnight in
there. Yeah. Drone repair called, Hey, I didn't call drone
repair. No the drone Phone call does. Awesome drone repair. All
right. Let's see what we got oddball news United States that
they didn't you never you had your good review of the of the
bill that passed and you had some analysis on Sky News, they
took a different tact and they just found some oddball laws
that to ridicule the Americans from the British side. A couple
of things are kind of interesting stuff people should
know,
the fiscal cliff and we're talking about the state's what's
going on there. But other things came in. And you know, there's
400, other local and state measures have come in some
cracking ones. If you go to Kansas, in Wellington, you're
not allowed to have more than four cats. They've got and this
is a law that's come in. And nobody's heard about this,
because obviously, we were concentrating on the fiscal
cliff and Kentucky, you're not allowed to release feral hogs,
you know, the number of stories that sort of get missed, but
these are laws that are being given as much attention in the
local area. And I don't know if you spotted at the bottom of
that. But actually, if you go to Illinois, you're not allowed to
have shark fin soup.
Yeah, that's an ad. Yeah.
Yeah. Didn't make fun of the Americans.
Racking. I think just another word you'd never hear on the
shows they give to us. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, they wouldn't report that the the President signed
the National Defense Authorization Act 2013, would
you? I mean, you wouldn't hear that we are the way the
amendment to protect Americans was vitiated. And that's it, you
know, that would be a good word. For the Brits,
yes. At cracking, cracking,
vitiated the cracking, cracking, good amendment.
Now they don't have there's nothing like that. You know
what?
There's not. Meanwhile, this is this is actually you kind of
went past me, this is the last bit of really serious, droning
stuff I got to do. So the, you know, there was a lawsuit, the
ACLU and a whole bunch of journalists sued the government
over not releasing certain documents under the Freedom of
Information Act regarding the legality of droning American
citizens. Okay, so you wouldn't be you wouldn't be so far. Yeah.
Okay. So the lawsuit, essentially said that it's like,
you know, said, Hey, we send in all these Freedom of Information
Act, requests, requesting documentation that shows how you
can legally drone people in other countries that we have not
declared a ward upon, especially if some of those people might be
American citizens. And so the judge came back. And, and I have
the the judgment here. And it says, I'll just I'll just read
the pertinent piece here. This court is constrained by law and
under the law, I can only conclude that the government has
not violated Freedom of Information Act by refusing to
turn over the documents sought in the Freedom of Information
Act requests, and so cannot be compelled by this court of law
to explain in detail the reasons why its actions did not violate
the constitution and laws the United States, because that's
gotta go back here. The executive branch under the
constitution and laws, the United States, indeed, has the
power to not disclose this. And then the judge goes on to say
the Alice in Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not
lost on me. But after careful and extensive consideration, I
find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I
cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraint and
rules, a veritable catch 22, I can find no way around the
thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the
executive branch of our government to proclaim as
perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face
incompatible with our constitution and laws, while
keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret. How about
them apples? I mean, wow, that's
a good font, isn't it? Basically, if there was a clip
that would be the day
isn't that basically just doesn't that basically mean
like, okay, we can kill you. And it's legal, but we can't show
you how it's legal.
That's pretty much that's,
I mean, is there any, is there any way to can? I mean, can this
go to the Supreme Court? Are
there any way around the conundrum? Yeah, if you get
killed, you can sue the government. Yeah. And take it to
the Supreme Court. Unfortunately. You're dead.
Uh huh. But if they drove you to death? I can sue on your behalf.
Maybe maybe not that they could predict you'd have some real
interesting things regarding standing, which is your ability
to sue on somebody else's behalf or concerning somebody else. So
I could help me me and the kids do it. And I could report on it,
maybe but they'd probably get drowned in the meantime. I would
say there's not a, you know, the Supreme. I don't know, I don't
know how it could be done. I mean, they've been suing is a
number, the ACLU and a bunch of other geysers suing over this,
or this, but this is full death suit would be the way to go. It
seems to me. Yeah.
But and the thing that really bums me out, is you know, this
is Oh, this is sealed. The documentation is under seal. And
of course it will one day be declassified when we actually
are dead. That's the thing that bugs me is we'll never get to
see this. Because these things are sealed for what? 50 years.
75 years. Maybe they're sealed forever. And of course, it will
be declassified eventually. And somewhere in the future. Some
schmucks on a podcast and they go, oh, man, can you believe
this crap? Read what they had to go through stupid slaves? Don't
you think?
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm bummed about it.
Well, that brings up the clip I have here which you can be
bummed about it. The 60 Thought you know, now the numbers are
coming out how many people are dead in Syria? Yeah, whatever
they say? Sure, whatever they say but here's what I have to
take on this. Over 60,000
people have been killed since Syria's uprising began in March
2011. That's according to an independent report by the UN
study commissioned by UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi p&i
took data from sources including the government and opposition
groups the numbers have been steadily increasing as the
conflict drags on.
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thing love I wouldn't use it.
I bet you a bit of theirs. I bet you someone on one of our
producers has a theorem and somewhere that we can use on the
show. I bet you
Oh, somebody should I hope somebody has a Slingbox in New
York.
And if anyone can get us in touch with Mara Donna in
Argentina, that would be appreciated.
By the way Slingbox in Australia would be awesome.
Ah, okay, so I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it when we
get to cross off another thing out of the Red Book. And I think
that I have. I mean, we've had so many pieces of what we
started off the show with with diehard prove that Hillary
Clinton's getting a face job. Now, something that I've been
all over for more than a year, actually been over for much,
much longer. And this is the existence of what I will
generally call earthquake machinery. Now, many people
scoff and laugh at me. But of course, you can't really do
that, because I've shown you many times I've linked to it a
link to it again, and 475 dot na shownotes.com The actual
testimony of Secretary of Defense Cohen, who testified
that many other nations were using biological weapons such as
earthquake machines, and we needed to have them as well. You
recall this, John,
earlier some mention of earthquake machines in a un
document? Yes,
well, but this is actual testimony in our own United
States Congress. So we don't even need it in the EU or the UN
called for the no one should have these biological weapons.
And what Secretary of Defense Cohen said was, yeah, we
probably should have our own just in case. So when Fukushima
when the earthquake occurred, and they've had several large
earthquakes off the coast of Japan since and many prior but
this tsunami thing was pretty crazy. It knocked out the the
reactor, which of course, has prompted Japan now to stop all
nuclear energy. Germany said stop on nuclear energy, be very
afraid of nuclear energy, it's all gonna melt down your fish
are radioactive, we're all gonna die. Oh, it's the cloud is
floating over. While we're not dead yet. And I submit to you
that this is a cabal move against nuclear energy. And now
of course, we'll all be told to move to liquid natural gas.
Do you? Do you remember? I guess it was a couple of months after
the Fukushima event that we were getting all these emails from
people that say, Oh, the thing is going to blow Oh, yeah, it's
proof positive, it's gonna blow. Everyone get no agenda should be
on this
hundreds of 1000s of people are going to die die until you die
from radiation. Now, the problem I had with the earthquake and I
and I said it the day after it happened, I said, this was a
planned event. It was a very, very, very shallow earthquake,
you remember was like one kilometer if even that,
according to the size of seismology. And I had a problem
with it. I said, this feels to me like this was set in motion.
We remember we even tracked like some company that some weird
apparatus they set up there's all kinds of things pointing to
a manmade event that caused this tsunami. And of course, you
know, crazy Moon Landing guy, global warming denier, Holocaust
denier, Republican, racist whatever you want. Listen to
this report from New Zealand.
A secret operation in the 1940s to develop a tsunami bomb in
coastal waters on the federal Peninsula north of Auckland has
been uncovered. The United States and New Zealand conducted
secret tests of the bomb designed to inundate coastal
cities that the operation codenamed Project seal was
shelved just months before the atomic bomb was used on Japan in
1945. The secret plans were uncovered during a search by the
author and filmmaker Ray Wang. Over a period of several months
they carried out almost 4000 Taste explosions to kind of
calibrate the size of the explosions, the number of
explosions and the depth and explosion in the water would
need to be in order to create a tsunami effect. Right What Oh,
who uncovered secret tests to develop a tsunami bomb in New
Zealand of waters
so you can call me whatever you want. But there is proof proof
that the United States tested 4000 Tsunami bombs before they
dropped an actual atomic bomb on Japan. So you think for one
second that these a whole oil cabal elitist? Would you put it
past them that they would blow one of these things off to make
nuclear energy seem really scary? I question you Jeb. Well,
you
know I don't think they have the wherewithal but I mean, it would
be within that. Well, they have the money. I don't know maybe
they really maybe when they do those deep drill those deep
holes, they get the same gear they can put something down in
there and blow it up. I don't know. i That seems unlikely.
I just want to point we're unlikely to hit you earthquakes
actually do exist yet but this is the very shallow one.
It was a weird one.
It was a weird one, but I call it immediately and here is proof
that there were tsunami bombs for Japan?
Well, maybe they How about
this for a concept? And you can't just stop you can't refute
it but go ahead What's your concept? They were testing these
things that they planted a bunch of them and that one didn't go
off until then. Say one of those bombs they got these bombs in
London they find them everywhere went off. Went off accident is
one leftover.
Sure, sure. Hey, can I there's something weird I noticed over
here. All the cars. But even but even like really high end taxis
like Mercedes, they have this economy mode. And when you pull
mode Yeah, yeah. Is this exist in America? Where do you know
what this does? This ECO mode?
Yeah, what existed existed for 20 years? Oh, yeah.
What does it do?
It apparently change it makes me think a little bit.
No, no, no, no, no, this is different eco mode. When you
when you pull up to a stoplight or if you stop the engine cuts
out.
Oh, one of those days. Oh, I hate that.
It's the most annoying thing. And is this supposed to actually
do anything? And then well, I
here's here's one of the I you know, I've been testing cars but
I've been doing this for a number of all
the all the cars here have it by the way. Oh, it's like, you
know, it's like it must be required by
all the all the hybrids obviously do but they're just
not a problem because they're electric. But the not hybrids.
These are just a regular regular cars. Well, General Motors about
I think about five or six years ago came out with a bunch of
cars with this feature. And so they wanted me to test one of
them just driving around with them. And it was a truck, pickup
truck. And so they met him over here somewhere. And I jumped
into the thing. And I and they said it was fine. It didn't seem
to you know, you stop at a stoplight at the engine drops
dead and then you punch it and then you wait and milliseconds
going. It's kind of annoying. But so I said, Well, let me
check it. Let me see this thing really is any good. And so I
which I do anytime there's a car around here, the drive around, I
always take it up this unbelievably steep hill called
Myrin. That takes her right to the top of Grizzly Peak. It's a
real painful Hill to go up and a painful Hill to come down.
Right. So then you stopped halfway, the engine cuts off,
and it
goes back about a mile. So I'm up there at the stop sign but
I'm at like a 30 degree incline. And I let go. But it goes to
step on the gas and I do step on the gas but the cars already
rolling backwards. And as it goes back about 20 feet. I said
this doesn't seem too safe to me. And so I so they they never
talked to me for what is is there
any evidence that this actually like saves the planet? Alright,
what is it supposed to do? What is it supposed to do? Is this
what it does? If you're in a traffic jam and stop dead? Yeah,
it stops the engine and doesn't just waste gases you sit there I
mean, that's all it does.
What it but when you start the engine it doesn't that take
extra gas? Did you really say anything a
little bit more? Yeah. It's not that much.
But it's unnerving. Because I'm not used to it. And you know,
and we take a cab somewhere. And at the stoplight, it's like,
Dude, your engine just quit. Just it's feels weird. And
luckily, there's not any
hard on the battery
and doesn't cut off the air conditioning. They don't need it
here, obviously. But when they cut off the AC as well.
Now they could be running on battery to the battery cars that
house hooked up. I mean American air conditioners obviously. And
I think this changed in a lot of cars is done by the belt of the
engine. But there's other ways of doing it.
Did you know that that in in 1897 actually really didn't
really start until 1904. I think that electric cars were all the
rage that the the Roush and Lange, electric car that that
was like the big they were producing, I think 50 a month or
200 a month, and that everyone was driving electric cars in
1904 until they came out with with the combustion engine.
Did you know when they came up with the more practical
combustion engine? You know, you could drive and then put some
more gas in it and drive. But
here's the thing, what kind of battery there were they using
lead acid batteries they had to be? I mean, that's the thing
that that hasn't really, I mean, is it just me or can we come up
with a better battery? It seems like
when I was writing this when I was writing for Forbes, I was
doing a lot of energy stories about different technologies,
including like
the zinc errs that while you're no longer writing for Forbes.
Now they really did long story when I got time. So I'm writing
the story. So I got into the scene quite a bit and I still
kind of keep up and I ran into it. I was talking to God All the
guys who do these really weird and exotic batteries will tell
you the same thing. Battery technology hasn't really changed
in any meaningful way I mean it's changed it's been tweaked
and you know the lithium batteries are interesting but
this is all tweaks on on old inventions that go back and
almost everything's public domain that go back you know 100
years bad or did no one's come up with a new battery idea
or Has it just been suppressed perhaps? Definitely.
Believe me. No, it hasn't been suppressed some magic batteries
zero point energy yeah hey just get it out of the air the
energies around you man it's around you
it's Oregon energy well you know you can you can stick a
basically a metal pipe in the earth and get and get to and
power a light bulb with small one but you can power a small
light bulb when there is indeed energy all around us. That's you
would it's undeniable
you being addicted me is that is that what I'm hearing? i Come
on, you know, I believe in this I think it has been suppressed I
think it was Tesla they didn't the water that you can burn they
Well, they burned all of his research all of his documents.
You know, that guy had something going on? You know, he had he
had some ideas that were waiting.
Don't ya? I mean, I don't like the idea of burning documents,
that's for sure. Yeah, but he's inventions are there out there.
There's if somebody could come up with a great new battery
technology, especially in this market where everybody wants. I
mean, right now the and I'm gonna, you know, I mentioned
I've driven all the battery cars, and clutch cars. And the
battery cars are non starter for me. I mean, it's fine. The Volt
is the only one that's acceptable, as are the plug in
hybrids, because if you don't have a motor, I at some point,
you're going to go out somewhere and you're not going to get be
able to get back. It's no good.
No, I know. I know. I'm just still I'm thinking that there's
guy the way
the other thing if you want to talk about all ideas, which is
still viable. One of the other popular cars around the 1920s I
suppose was the steam engine car the Stanley Steamer was one of
the most famous in the things apparently could go like a bat
out of hell really go fast was the fuel supply Was it cold is a
little gas burner. Anything you'd had kerosene, you know
just something to heat up the tank to make the steam and that
would work done once the thing got steam, you know, got a head
of steam going you could just go like crazy.
But that's it now. Thank you. Congratulations, you've
essentially just created nuclear energy because that's what nukes
do is I just heat up water and then there's a turbine right and
there's no reason you can't have a small a very weird thing with
with a Tesla
turbine. Little bitty Tesla turbine, Tesla turbine, come on,
these things are amazing.
You need a little you get a small new cute nuke plant that
is a size of a computer mouse. Yes, not that big. And you'd
have that in your car. It would be a perpetual it lasts for 100
years. And you you'd be a steam engine of some sort or whatever.
You want to use it and you just drive it around forever. You
don't you just want one payment. You're done.
And we call it the black dick. Okay. Yay. Yay. Onward. Um,
where's my list of clips? I don't know what year I got my
list here. I don't know. Do you want to hear a funny Sharpton
clip? Oh,
I love Sharpton okay.
This is obviously someone who called into Sharpton as a radio
show, I guess. Maybe has a room or maybe the I believe he does.
He has a radio show. Someone called him set him up. And then
his answer of course was priceless.
In a civilized society. You do not see massacres continue to
happen. from Tucson, to Aurora to Columbine to Virginia Tech to
where we are now in a new town to Chicago and you keep the same
laws when clearly they're not working.
What happens when the criminal goes to knives now? Then you
deal with knives.
Ladies, I couldn't understand a word of this. So he's like from
Aurora to Columbine to New Town. You have to deal with the
problem and then the caller says what happens when the criminals
go to knives out and he says then you deal with knives
because we take away the knives,
registered knives and some parts either way.
Sandy Hook interesting. So remember last show we were
talking about how there was a massacre in Australia. And and
because of that there was a big ban on certain types of weapons
in Australia. Yeah, so that was the Port Arthur Mac massacre.
And Steve G. One of our producers, I think he might be
from Australia, pointed me towards the book of knowledge
entry in Wikipedia. And here's what's interesting about that,
because, you know, I said, you know, could this be like our
Port Arthur Port Arthur massacre? Here's what he pointed
out to me in the book of knowledge. Martin Bryant. Bless
you, darling. He is the guy who eventually pleaded guilty to the
crime. He was from New Town. A suddenly a suburb of Hobart. How
about that, huh?
That's a good one. That's like a New
World Order kind of Illuminati type of thing. Yeah,
that's a good one. I like it. And now of course, there's
all kinds of weird stuff happening where I have the list
here. Police, a high school student arrested for doodling.
He doodled like something that looked like a gun, arrest,
police, Maryland, Bethesda, Maryland Elementary School,
suspend six year old boy who pointed finger and said pow. And
then we have in San Francisco up in your neck of the woods. This
report was
a dark poem. And in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy, it
raised red flags and triggered a quick response by school
officials. So
this is a girl who wrote a poem,
and now the student is facing the possibility of being
expelled.
Understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he
pulled the trigger. Those words
and Courtney Webb's poem prompted school officials at the
life Learning Academy on Treasure Island to suspend the
17 year old senior until further notice.
While we are oppressed by a dysfunctional community of
haters and blamers, the meaning of the poem is is talking about
society, and how understand why things like that incident
happened. So it's not like I'm agreeing with it. But that's how
the school made the scene.
Courtney says she didn't turn the poem in as an assignment.
Instead, the teacher discovered it in class and took it to the
principal why Courtney says she served in dark poems about
suicide and sadness in the past with no problem. It's a genre
she likes,
for example, in person I could think of would be like Stephen
King. Like he writes weird stuff all the time. That doesn't mean
he's gonna go do it or act it out.
Exactly. That's a very smart young woman. They're encouraged
Yes, she she shouldn't be getting she shouldn't be.
Screw or screw are sticking to her. Like crazy. It's
not just nuts.
This is this kind of thing. Just the thing that really galls me
the most. Yeah,
well, I have a thing here that is deconstruction worthy. So
and, you know, we've stayed away from Sandy Hook because we know
it's there's a whole bunch of stuff wrong with that. We know.
I mean, there's all I mean,
now it's it's undecipherable.
There's bullet holes in cars outside, but from teachers who
were killed inside, and there's bullet holes from inside the car
going out, I mean, you can't even make this stuff up anymore.
That's crazy. I, I do put the links in the show notes for
seven fives at na shownotes.com. We're not going to discuss that
what I do want to discuss is this lawsuit. So one of the
surviving kids six year old girl who has actually been on edge,
you've seen her interviewed here and there, certainly on CNN, her
family started a lawsuit then retracted the lawsuit, 100
million dollar lawsuit, and the lawyer was on CNN, one minute of
clip of him. And then I want to talk about it because I think
that it's very obvious what is going on here. But listen very,
very carefully to everything he's saying in these in that job
as well. Obviously otherwise it wouldn't fit in the script and
it was a
dark poem. And in the woods, sorry, wrong one.
Here we go. And attorney in Connecticut has withdrawn this
request to sue the state for $100 million. In the wake of the
Sandy Hook school shooting. This attorney represents the family
this the six year old girl who witnessed and survived the
shooting just from a couple of weeks ago. He says the state
failed to take steps to protect the children from harm. He is
Irving Pinsky. He is Ivan Pinsky. He is with us this
morning. Forgive me I have two different versions of your first
name perfect Pinsky Good morning. Let me let me just
first ask you this, you know, with regard to this young girl,
what is the family telling you? Why go after the state of
Connecticut?
Well, that's not really their decision, even though legally it
is technically the truth is that it's our legal strategy. And
we're not only going after the state of Connecticut, but what
we had to do to get the state of Connecticut was we had to file a
request for permission to sue them. You can't even just sue
them. That's the law in Connecticut in many other
states. So we filed it and then we got new evidence coming in
plus we had all this backlash of intense nervousness. So we
withdrew it. But we reserved all rights to bring it again within
the next year. Let's
talk a little bit about the backlash. I mean, John and I
were both in new town a couple of weeks ago to have a story
I've ever covered. very tenuous, there right now. And I imagine
just so recent after what's happened to these young people,
that that you have gotten quite a bit of backlash. Why continue,
if you so will choose to do so?
Well, the it's a natural reaction to get that backlash. I
know that. But on the other hand, when I get called, I have
to save the evidence. I can't wait for the Attorney General to
get their evidence for the police to get their evidence as
a lawyer. I'm looking for different evidence that they
are. So I had to go in early. And that was not made clear to
the public because there's so much of the fog of disaster. So
I just was doing my job. And I'm still doing it. And I've got a
year to file the request. What kind of backlash are you
talking?
So there's, it's like a six minute interview with this guy
that you can linked in the show notes. But I know what I'm
hearing what are you hearing in this?
I'm not hearing what you're hearing? What are you hearing?
I'm hearing Shut up money is what I'm hearing the kid clearly
saw what happened. The guy goes in immediately files the request
no intent to sue anything but he has to file and withdraw. He
gets a whole year then he wants Shut up money. Yeah, that's what
this is about. It's Shut up. hush
money is the word I call it shut up money. 100 million. Slave
money, shut
up. Shut up slave money. 100 million dollars is very odd. And
he's like, I've got the evidence. There's new evidence I
have I can't wait for the other and the guy's got evidence.
Evidence.
Yeah, well, that means it'll this will never come to
divorce. Not Of course not. But that you know why else you'd
like
to be bought off for a meal?
Hmm. Someone wasn't included in the deal. That's for sure.
Yeah, apparently. Or some some something. Some there's a hole
in the story. Yeah. Let's just hope they nothing weird happens
after that. I've got just a good report from Iran, Iraq that was
displayed in Europe. You've probably seen this up. But I
swear that none of this is coming over here about Iraq
falling apart. It's actually falling apart.
Welcome back. It's time for focus. Tonight we're turning our
attentions to Iraq, a country blighted by sectarian rivalry a
full year after US troops withdrew, will Sunnis complain
that they're being sidelined by the Shiite government of Nuri al
Maliki. They've been staging large protests for more than a
week and even managed to block key trade routes. Prime Minister
Maliki says he's prepared for dialogue but will not tolerate
in this demonstrations. And in a new twist, the sheer cleric
Moqtada Al Sadr has joined the Sunnis he says Iraq should have
its own Arab Spring moments. Kate Williams has this report.
Okay.
I saw this actually, because I didn't want to say it but I've
been watching Sky News over here because it's the only news that
has actually watchable.
Yeah, it's very watchable. Yeah, although, Van cat if you can get
the English versions Very good.
Van cat isn't on here for some reason. I've got all kinds of
other stuff I've got. I've got sky BBC. BBC International is
kind of cool because Holly Gorani is on there.
Yeah, I can't I can't have that yet to find that. I
like she's she's still sexy. I don't know why they don't use
her in the States. Haleakala, Holly Golani. Gorani Holliger I
don't I don't
see you know what I mean. So there there is a there's also a
kind of breaking news that they play in in Europe today and I
swear I would you think I'd know about this. But in fact, this is
about a surprise to me. It was only good they had this dish in
Berlin, but they won a Grammy is the clip. Ready? Yeah, Grammy
Award winning punk rock band Green Day have announced that
they are getting back on the road following last year's
cancel tour. frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sought treatment for
substance abuse after an outburst on stage in Las Vegas.
The band have notched up five Grammys and sold over 65 million
records worldwide
as your boys notched up not notched up fudged up near boy
stood up. Now it's funny because I had that story. I was going to
ask you if you knew that your boy had come out of rehab you do
love those you do love those green now.
Here's the one that guy this was my favorite clip this if it
wasn't for the good Clip of the Day this I think this is a
propagating the BS. You know that there's a TV show called
bones. Yeah, I never watched about it. Aspergers genius that
just good at doing deconstruction. aihole
He's an aihole. Who the bones isn't the bones and aihole or I
think it's something else something I mean, I don't know
what I'm talking
about. Anyway, no, this is really a good story. It's very
well constructed. But to break to do that, you know the old oh,
let's let's see if we can take pictures. Take a look outside.
The lens CV you can use to
enhance, enhance, enhance, or my
favorite would say we had a couple of years ago where they
got an image of a guy in a window off of a shiny bolt from
a tight,
enhance zoom in rotate.
Yeah, get something out. Anyway, there's all that crap. This one
here was like the eye roll or I have not heard anything this
bad. Probably for two or three years why that we should Grennan
I was able to restore part of the text from the paper scraps
that you sent me. One contains a fraction 1/3 and the letters AR
GE AR. It comes from the word margarine and the 1/3 is a 1/3
of a cup. The papers were from a cookbook, eight different pages.
Was there any way to tell which cookbook? Yeah, I ran the
typeface through the Library of Congress database and I got the
name and the date of publication and a lot of tips on how to cook
for prisoners. It's the Gordon institutional recipe index 1993
edition.
I ran. I ran ran the typeface.
It's zinc, zinc bats. It's diff whips.
I ran the typefaces. I've read Congress's database. This
database by the way does not exist obviously because there
was no such space. You ran the typeface and she got the date of
publication. Give me a break. What kind of idiots do they
think the public ed
are? Say it again? Said drew the line.
What kind of idiot you think the public are? No, not
that one. I mean, what she did,
she ran the typeface through the Library of Congress database.
Perfect. Nailed it.
What a crock butter.
It was margarine. I knew that word was margarine. I ran it
through the typeface database. Perfect.
Da Redbook Yeah, I got it prediction. But Burma. Burma,
Burma. Okay. Yep. Time to start some droning, no fly zone. Get
ready to move in. Of course, we know there's a pipeline. I
everyone could take a drink. But the prediction is what you see
in Syria, Burma next.
Pie in the above kitchen state not far from the Chinese border.
A helicopter gunship fires on the ground below. Film from
rebel trenches by an aid agency. These pictures clearly show jet
planes being used against fighters from the kitchen
independence
police, filmed by rebel fighters by an agency police
army. It's part of a marked escalation in an 18 month long
conflict that's displaced more than 75,000 people.
The jet approach it just sounds like it's screaming. It's so
loud. And
there's using the American photographer who happens to be
there. Everyone ran
into the bunker and and ducked. And as it turned, we could see
that it wasn't going to fire in our position, but it started
firing machine gun at a different K position just a
couple 100 meters away.
So just put it in the Red Book. That's why clippity clop was
there. Yeah, you know, Hillary was there, you know, but Brock
was there. were hugging the hot Chicky whatever. You know, it's
time whatever it is, it's time to do some crap in Burma.
Is this delicious woman you're talking about? Yeah,
that would be the one you know, the one with with the big
sunglass, it's almost too delicious to believe my friend.
Exactly. And she was referring to that woman from Burma.
Exactly. Exactly.
All right. I got nothing else.
Really nothing else. I have an endo sharklet
What might it be?
Um, it is about two and a half minutes of explanation on the
floor of the House about FISA. Since no one else is talking
about it, since you know, basically, essentially it just
tells you that you're going to be eavesdropped on. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, to play it.
I mean, I think would just be one of those, like, one of those
things that may or
uplifting thing to begin the new year Exactly.
Mainstream media can't play any of this stuff. You know, it's
from C span. So we might as well just roll it out. Who was
telling me by the way,
by the way, you know, the C span stuff is all public domain.
Yeah. And not all of it. There's so they have some exclusive
stuff is rare. But most of that's covered by fair use, but
the network should run this stuff without even any issue.
Instead, we have German chicks and later Hosen over here who's
hot Got a phone number for you to call them so you can jerk
off? Essentially, yeah. That by the way would be a good start if
we had at least that in America.
Day 28 in exile, Miss Mickey coming down with the flu, and I
am going stir crazy. But hey, I'm living that American dream,
everybody just getting by. Let's reform immigration, shall we?
Here in the lowlands of getting our nation in the morning,
everybody, I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where the sun is now it's
shining. I'm John C. Dvorak and it's
gray here. Once again, what a surprise. We'll be back on
Sunday right here on no agenda
in the morning. Discussion and the amendments that will be
offered, it is never okay never okay for government officials to
use a general warrant to deliberately invade the privacy
of a law abiding American. It was not okay for constables and
customs officials to do it in colonial days. And it is not
okay for the National Security Agency to do it today. So if the
government is going to use general warrants to collect
people's phone calls, and emails, it is extremely
important to ensure that this authority is only used against
foreigners overseas and not against law abiding Americans.
Now, despite what the presiding officer and the Senate may have
heard, this law doesn't actually prohibit the government from
collecting Americans phone calls and emails without a warrant.
The FISA Amendments Act states and I want to quote here,
because there's been a lot of inaccuracies and
misrepresentations on that on this. The FISA Amendments Act
states that acquisitions made under Section 702 may not, quote
intentionally target a specific American and may not, quote
intentionally acquire communications that are known at
the time of acquisition to be wholly domestic. But Mr.
President, the problem with that is it still leaves a lot of room
for circumstances under which American phone calls and emails,
including purely domestic phone calls and emails could be swept
up and reviewed without a warrant. This can happen if the
government didn't know that someone is American, or if the
government made a technical error or if the American was
talking to a foreigner, even if that conversation was entirely
legitimate. And I'm not talking mr. president about some
hypothetical situation. The FISA court in response to that
concern and I and others have had the FISA court has already
ruled at least once that collection carried out by the
government, under the FISA Amendments Act violated the
Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Senate rules
regarding classified information prevent me from discussing the
details of that ruling or how many Americans were affected
over what period of time but this fact alone, Mr. President
clearly demonstrates that the impact of this law on Americans
privacy has been real, and it is not hypothetical. You may return
to your business citizen. Adios MoPhO Hillary Clinton
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