Turn around, make a U turn, make a U turn make a U turn.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, August 29 2013. Time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination episode 543.
This is no agenda peer reviewed
for your protection here in the traverse high tide out in the
capital of the drone Star State Austin teh house in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry
and for Northern Silicon Valley where I go by the Kosovo
protocols. I'm John C. Dvorak. Vaughn Buzzkill.
Oh man, like, sometimes it's annoying when we have exactly
the same research, or we have the exact same conclusion. The
Kosovo protocol now.
At least I got to beat you to the punch
you did. You did it. So that is exactly what's happening, isn't
it? Yeah.
Just bullcrap. It's bolc I actually have a couple of
definitive clip on it. I think it's from a woman named Phyllis
Bennett who writes books about this stuff. And she was on
Democracy Now. And she explained the whole thing it was kind of
funny because you saw the same press conference I did I'm sure
what the dingbat trying vectors
I actually I actually made this might flow nicely into yours. I
have Eliot Engel okay. He's a Democrat. And he was on the BBC.
And you know, when though when when our Congress critters feel
like you know, when they go on the BBC, they feel like no one's
watching. So we're just talking to the Brits over there. And,
and
yeah, this is like you go, you go to Vegas, and then no one's
ever gonna notice. No one's talking we wander around town
with
no one saw me where the trainee hooker No, it didn't happen at
all. This might this might slide in nicely. When I heard this. I
was like, Oh, here's the first guy to bring up the Kosovo meme,
and you actually have a better name for it. The protocol will
I'll just slide this in and let you take it from there
that there will be a price to pay for killing innocent men,
women and children. I mean, he's got so many stockpiles of it. If
he thinks he can get away with it, he'll do it again. And so
will 100 Other despots in the world. And that's why I think
it's important for the West to to send a message now I don't
think the US should do it alone. I think it needs to be done in
conjunction with our NATO allies. I liken this situation
to the 1999 situation, Kosovo, in the Balkans, where you had a
besieged population being murdered by its own government
and NATO stepped in with airstrikes.
Yeah, yeah. You mean Clinton stepped in with airstrikes.
Exactly. So we thought we found this this this 9099 thing that
was actually brought up by one of everybody at the State
Department press conferences now are just pound hounding this
Blondie that just squeaky voice.
You mean, Marie? I love her.
Did you get clips because I kind of you as well?
Well, I got this one. But this is like this where it was first
brought up, she wouldn't really answer it. In fact, it became
kind of funny, and I just took the funny part. And this is the
clip that says some time ago Gotcha. Yeah, I know. It's gonna
be the whole Georgia. dingbat is in Baton Rouge, I got three ding
bag, I'm categorizing my clips.
I might, I might point out that we're getting angry emails about
our categorization of spokes holes in Washington. Just
letting you know, just letting you know.
Okay, I'm sorry, sorry, use the word
that the US decision to bomb Kosovo in order to bomb excuse
me, Serbia in
99 was legal.
I'm not going to do a legal analysis on many things, but
certainly not a historical event. That happened some time
ago. I just don't think that's relevant for this discussion
today. All historical
events happened some time ago.
It's becoming unfair, even though she's she's been a spokes
hole for the CIA. It's the whole it's it's off kilter. You know,
she she just she can't is that the term she just can't handle.
I mean, these are some very seasoned people who are who
covered the State Department. And they can they can do it
because they know the stuff they talk about is never aired on
television or on the radio. Never ever. I mean, the only
place you hear about it is here, essentially. So they can really
go all out and they're not afraid of her. They're just not
afraid of. Well, okay, I don't want to stop your flow. I mean,
I have a clip from her as well.
Which Yeah, but I just thought about her. Here. Let's play that
Phyllis Bennis. Yeah. Discussion. This is a long
longer clip but you really, I think it wraps the whole thing
into a nice package.
And Phyllis Bennis, what kind of legal justification then do you
think that the Obama administration might use for
this? And what kinds of options are available to him?
Well, you know, the decision to go to the Security Council that
the British are doing today is, as you mentioned earlier,
guaranteed to get a veto, certainly by Russia, likely by
China as well, although it's conceivable China could abstain,
but they're likely to veto. They may not even get nine sufficient
votes. But what's dangerous here is that the United Nations
Charter, which is the fundamental component of
international law governing issues of war and peace, is
very, very clear on what constitutes the legal use of
military force. There is no question that having used
chemical weapons who ever used it is a huge war crime. It's a
specific violation of the chemical weapons treaty. It's
also a war crime or potentially even a crime against humanity.
The problem is we don't know yet who is responsible. The US is
hinting that it may use the Kosovo precedent of 1999 as a
way to get around the prohibition the absolute
prohibition on using military force unless it is immediate
self defense, which no one in Washington is claiming that the
use of these horrible weapons in Syria somehow threatens the
United States. So that's off the table. The Security Council
agrees, which we know is not going to happen. The Kosovo
precedent basically said in 1999, we know we can't get
support from the Security Council Russia will veto.
Therefore we won't ask the Security Council will ask the
NATO high command. So they went to NATO. And what a surprise,
the NATO High Command said, Yes, we approve the use of military
force in Kosovo. Now, the problem is twofold. One, NATO is
a military structure. It's like a hammer and a nail. If you're a
hammer, everything looks like a nail. If your NATO everything
looks like it requires a military response. The other
problem is legal. There is simply no legal justification
that says that the NATO High Command, or any other
organization has the right to determine the legality of the
use of force, other than the UN Security Council. So if that is
the justification, it will stand in complete violation of
international law.
Yeah. Okay. A couple of things wrong with that, first of all,
the President himself yesterday, in an interview for the News
Hour said that we are specifically at risk,
specifically at risk from these chemical weapons. Did you catch
his little I
was gonna try to clip out of it. But yeah, Adam would get
justified taking action. I know, you talked about international
norms, because of him.
This, by the way, cracks me up. There is no, so they talk about
there's no talk about international law. It's about
international international norms. Norm Hey, no, no, no, um,
give me another beer.
For that there's two memes that I wanted to point out in today's
show. One is international norms, which is become a major
meme, and they keep using it and they all use it. Yeah. And the
other one is punishment. rushes. We need to punish them, you
know, we get to punish you know,
what it reminds me of? My mom used to threaten me that if I
was really bad, she would spank me with the hairbrush. Bristle
side down. It was one thing to get it with the hairbrush. But
when she threatened bristle side down, that was some punishment
right there. And that's what whenever I hear that punishment,
here's the President, I'll just briefly because I was amazed by
this interview that he gave. Yeah, here he is, with this use
of the word norm 15 times in this one clip.
And so we've been very restrained, although
diplomatically, we've been very active have been providing a lot
of humanitarian aid to people who've been displaced by the
war. But what I also said was that if the Assad regime used
chemical weapons, on his own people, that that would change
some of our calculations.
That's not exactly what he said, by the way. I remember it being
a red line. And now it's changing some of the
calculations. I think that's neither here nor there, but I
just want to point it out.
And the reason has to do with not only international norms,
but also America's core self interest norms. We've got a
situation in which you've got a well established international
norm against who's the
norm again. Syria has one I just gotta stop here. Let me tell you
why he's using the word norm. The reason why he's using the
word norm is because the Chemical Weapons Convention,
which was signed in January January of 1993, has not been
signed. by all countries are ratified by all countries. And
wouldn't you know it, if you look at countries that have
signed but not ratified, Israel has signed but not ratified.
Myanmar, also known as Burma has signed but not ratified. And
countries that did not sign the Chemical Weapons Convention
where Angola, Egypt, North Korea, South Sudan, and Syria.
So they can't talk about international law, or as the
President would say, the rules of war, which, to me, is the
most obscene obscene phrase in the universe. But here he is.
I'll just go back to the original clip, explaining why a
strike is a justified
weapon use, and not because of the 100,000 people who were
killed there in the past and the 2 million refugees who fled
across the border.
Well, what's happened has been heartbreaking. But when you
start talking about chemical weapons, in a country that has
the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world,
where, over time, their control over chemical weapons may erode,
where they're allied to known terrorist organizations that in
the past have targeted the United States. Then there is a
prospect a possibility in which chemical weapons that can have
devastating effects could be directed at us. Oh,
well, there you go. John, you've heard the firt. Your first well,
there's
a stretch. Yeah, they
can be directed at us. You know, I thought Peter King, who is the
Republican who's and he was on I don't know what exactly he was
like he, he makes it so much. The President isn't, you know,
took 40 minutes to get to this point of, you know, well, you
know, they could be directed us these chemical weapons, Peter
King is much easier. And you've just, you've just got to admire
the brazenness of what you are about to hear right to
act without authority
that presidents have done that President Reagan did in Grenada,
President Eisenhower did it in Lebanon as Commander in Chief,
he has the right to begin military actions. Now, if he's
smart, he would certainly consult with the House and
Senate leaders, with the members of the top people on
intelligence committee, the Armed Services Committee, the
foreign affairs committee, but he doesn't have to as Commander
in Chief, I believe strongly, the President has the
constitutional right to carry this out. So it's really two
different issues. One is the right to do it. Secondly, I
think he'd be very smart to consult with the leadership now
with all of Congress on something like I'm taking
his own words as a senator Boston collect 2000 a quote this
spread. Senator Obama, the President does not have the
power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a
military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping
an actual imminent threat to the nation. Those are his words.
Yeah, to me, the hardest thing to deal with President Obama is
keep track of what he says from one day to the next. Just like
for instance, he was against Guantanamo, Guantanamo still
open. He's carrying out drone attacks all of these things he's
doing. It's inconsistent. It's wrong. I'm not here to defend
the President Obama. I'm just defending the Office of the
President,
can you defend the threat to the United States that comes from
Syria? What is that
the threat is what's still one of the chemical weapons with
threat to everyone. And once that line has been crossed, that
puts the entire world at risk as far as the threats are being
crossed. You know, it's
interesting. Do you remember when, when Russia gassed that
movie theater in Chechnya? Yeah, there was no international
outrage about that. And they killed 100 People granted 400
live because, you know, they didn't like choke on their own
vomit. But there was no international outrage. By the
way, bio warfare is not there's no treaty for that. So if you
want to anthrax people, or or, you know, throw depleted
uranium, that's okay.
Yeah. Which is horrible.
No, it's a great, it's an outstanding product, you know,
my stance on this.
Beautiful uranium chunks laying all over the place. Yes,
this is fantastic. So 2002, Chechen terrorists held 700
Russians hostage in a Moscow theater. And and the Russians
threw in some kind of gas. And you know, there was no problem
there. What, if anything, if anything, what has happened
right now is we are occupying Cyprus, that's for sure. Which
is kind of you look at what happened in Cyprus, and how, you
know, the whole banking thing and the bail in and everyone's
money was taken in the Russians were kicked out, essentially.
And the IMF came in and took over and now that's where we're
staging everything. You have to think that staging is actually
look at the word staging in a broad sense right now. And this
this? Yeah, and a lot of it seems to be very planned.
Anyway, the President in his interview actually did just come
out and say what this is about, and I thought that was kind of
interesting,
and so we don't have good options. Great options. for the
region, but what I am clear about is that if the United
States stands by its core values and its core interests, if we're
very clear about making sure that we're stopping terrorist
attacks against the United States, if we are very clear
about our commitment to the safety and security of Israel,
let's just tick them off for a second here first, terrorist
attacks, because that, of course, is Syria is a hotbed of
terrorist activity. Two is our friend Israel, and what could
the third one be?
If we are clear about the free flow of energy throughout the
region?
Okay, just want to make sure the pipe the free flow of energy
flow is the right word
flow the way I felt that that Peter King clip was, you know,
this guy is like a member of Congress and he's essentially
abrogating congressional power. Yes. Which is a disgusting
almost I think that's treason is that to be honest about in terms
of the Constitution, which is supposed to uphold
even says that he says, Keefe says constitutionally the
President has
I know he's a he's a he's full of crap. Yeah. And by the way,
so here's a clip play this one, it's at the end of the list in
the in the keyword, the front is old. The got it at play that
the United States had launched an attack on Iran without
congressional approval, that would have been an impeachment.
This is this clip. It's funny, because I was like, I'm not
going to bring that one up again. Now you went, you went
back to the well, I like it. Well, a fence. Do you want to
review that comment you made? Well, how do you stand on that?
Now?
I want to stand by that comment I made the reason I made the
comment was as a warning. The reason I may I don't say those
things lightly. Chris, you've known me for a long time. I was
chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 17 years, or it's
ranking member. I teach separation of powers in
constitutional law. This is something I know. So I got
together and brought a group of constitutional scholars together
to write a piece that I'm going to deliver to the whole United
States Senate pointing out the President has no constitutional
authority to take this nation to war against the country of 70
million people unless we're attacked, or unless there is
proof that we are about to be attacked. And if he does, if he
does, I would move to impeach him. The house obviously has to
do that. But I would lead an effort to impeach him. The
reason for my doing that I don't say it lightly.
I don't sound like it was very funny. I mean, come on. Yeah.
No, no, I
mean, yeah, no, yeah. I was, I was talking with Miss Mickey
this morning. And you It's so obvious that this is the other
Obama this guy. And, and she has a hard time buying into your
theory. I might point out that there are two Obama's although
really
guy that needs to put some some Grecian formula on his head.
Well,
so you know, of course, a both inauguration ceremonies have
been done over, you know, we've had President Obama has been
inaugurated four times. And both of them I mean, this is
unprecedented. Once that happened before, but to for it
to happen twice. And this it happened somewhere in June, just
before he went to Europe when the switch was just before he
did the speech in, in Germany. And that's where his speech,
speech skills started to suck. And it was so apparent when I
don't know if you saw or heard any of the Martin Luther King
Jr. 50 years after stuff that took place all day yesterday.
The president he does the words are there. I mean, you know,
speech writers are still good. And the media still goes, Oh,
it's so beautiful. Don't you agree? But it's really not good
anymore. This is the war guy. The other guy, I think he's in
the freezer. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This is the other guy
and he means business. And he's He is He scares me. He really
does not as much as Chuck Hagel, by the way. Now Chuck Hagel for
those of you who were forgotten, we have a new defense secretary,
the first guy who did a challenge coin. That's just
says, Chuck. Chuck. Nothing else it just his signature. This
challenge here from the it's not the Defense Department
challenged. Its here's Chuck,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that any
intervention in Syria without a UN mandate would be a grave
violation of international law. Do you accept that? Well, I
think the law of international humanitarian standards is a
pretty important law. We work through international bodies, of
course we do. And we
like I can't believe that he is saying this, by the way. Of
course, you know, we did our law. It's all international.
It's not American law. It's not constitution. No, it's
international. This is what Libya set this precedent for us,
by the way, you have
to be a UN resolution. Well,
I would say the same thing. that your foreign minister said I
believe that no nation, no group of nations is, is bound by only
one dimension of whether they make a decision to respond,
listen to how out of depth this guy is he is talking out of his
butt
to any self defense or any other violation of the kind of
humanitarian violations that we saw in Syria. We are working
with the United Nations, our partners are working with the
United Nations. And that's that's appropriate action today.
And we say we're talking about the military options. What are
they? I mean, presumably, they range from, I don't know,
Tomahawk cruise missiles strike to anything to troops on the
ground, and an invasion in the style of Iraq in 2003.
You should be administered defense, you've just laid out
Oh, range of options.
You're very good. Actually, you should be Minister of Defense.
That is a sign of weakness in an interview when you do that huge
sign of weakness. I apologize to the international community on
behalf of our idiotic defense minister. And I'd also like to
apologize about our idiotic watermelon head Secretary of
State, John F. Kerry, as he likes to sign his name. Who
wants to be president? Did you see his despicable speech about?
Oh, yeah, it was a beauty hear it? Here he is the scientists in
proof, we have unequivocal proof that this took place. Why?
Because well, we've got YouTube videos,
these all strongly indicate that everything these images are
already screaming at us. is real? It's real chemical weapons
were used drill. Moreover, we know that the Syrian regime
maintains custody of these chemical weapons. Yes, we know
that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with
rockets. We know that the regime has been determined to clear the
opposition from those very places where the attacks took
place. And with our own eyes, we have all of us become witnesses.
They stopped have
did he say? A because I didn't know some of these things you
don't hear right away? Did he say that the Syrians clear the
opposition, implying that they cleared the opposition so they
can kill their own people. Let's listen
again. Let's listen again. That was I think you may have a good
point there. Let's go back a few seconds here.
And determined to clear the opposition from those very
places
determined. See, let's go back a little more.
We know that the regime has been determined to clear the
opposition
has been determined. Yeah,
no, no, no. What he said was clear the opposition by killing
them. Yes. Yeah. clearing them from the scene, which is what
it sounds same thing? I think it's I think it's the same those
very places where the attacks took place. And with our own
eyes, yes, we have all of us become witnesses.
We've all seen the YouTube videos, facts truth.
We have additional information about this attack. And that
information has been compiled and reviewed together with our
partners. And we will provide that information in the days
ahead. As
you can imagine, there were some questions about said
information. And Marie Harf answered.
Well, I'm not going to get into the specifics about our
diplomatic conversations with with anybody on this except to
say what we said over the weekend that the Secretary has
been very clear about our assessment of what happened in
this situation and that chemical weapons use is completely
unacceptable. I think he also made a very strong point today
that anybody who thinks that this could be manipulated
evidence that these videos can be doctored somehow need to
check their conscience.
Your conscience bitches, videos can be doctored on YouTube. You
need to check your conscience. That is crazy talk. You must be
a conspiracy theorist. It's ridiculous, ridiculous.
Remember, the kids are doing these videos like that bird that
came down and took the baby. Hey,
you know, there was this movie called Avatar where the people
were blue and could fly.
Those are the pros.
There was this movie called Titanic where this whole ship
went down. And like Leonardo DiCaprio died, and he came back
in The Great Gatsby. It's ridiculous to think that any
video can be manipulated. It's just ridiculous. It's just crazy
talk. You're just nuts. Nuts. I tell you.
There was one scene I think it was on CBS where they showed to
one of these videos and then they panned across all these
dead bodies, you know, just kind of piled up helter skelter and
then I swear that there was a couple of dolls in there.
You know, we got an email from somebody, I think you were
copied on it. And it was essentially fighting me on my
stance on chemical weapons. And you know, I think that they're
just fine because you know, at least you don't get ripped apart
and lifted. bleeding to die for days on end. It happens quick,
then. And so the email was essentially well, you you know
what it feels like to take drugs, don't you? Well, this is
exactly the opposite and went into you know how you
immediately start feeling sick, you drop down, you're
convulsing, you're puking, you're foaming at the mouth, and
then you're dying a horrible death. What you're not doing is
getting to the hospital to be doused down with water. Now,
there's a huge discrepancy in these videos. If this is a good,
a very valid chemical attack, you're not going to the
hospital. You're just not.
Yeah, I guess that's probably true. I do have a clip that I
didn't bring it because obviously I have too many clips
that are spending my time here to figure out what these clips
are. I didn't bring the clip. But there's a clip that I will
play on Sunday. That actually takes your side. Yeah. Of the
chemical weapons.
Ah, well, my side is it's good. Well, look, I don't think
killing people is good at all. At all, but why all of a sudden,
we
just save it for Sunday. Okay.
I do have a beef. Now. I'm a little peeved that that spokes
hold carnies. Little show there. Someone used your specific
phrase. A press guy in the in the press audience there used
your phrase with no credit to the no agenda show the best
podcast in the universe does options.
Does he wants to take out a sock and what his death be a welcomed
outcome at this White House.
I appreciate the question. I want to make clear that the
options that we are considering are not about regime change.
They are about by
the way, I need to say what this is new. It's not about regime
change now
make a big stink about this. And I think there's some legal it's
the same reason they're using the term.
One norm the norm norm and
I think it has something to do with there's some legal reason
they're saying this.
Because regime change means the guy gets to leave you put a new
guy in and if you shoot a cruise missile item, it's not regime
change. It's what is it called? Oh, yeah. Murder, murder,
Assassination responding
to a clear violation of an international standard that
prohibits the use of chemical weapons. Now wait for it. We are
also very much engaged in an effort to support the opposition
in its struggle with the Assad regime as the Assad regime
continues to try to massacre its own people massacred in an
effort to maintain power.
I just, you know, you are being mind controlled with this talk.
You I know you all do realize that only a couple of years ago,
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were hanging out with the
Assad's. And it was all good Angelina Jolie, who is the
ambassador for refugees. She apparently thought it was okay
to hang out with Assad and his wife who was featured in Vogue
magazine, who was an international celebrity it up
until it was no longer cool. So I just you know, you have to
know that this is this is psychological warfare on your
mind, to feel like it's okay for us to kill people.
And it is our firm conviction that serious future cannot
include Assad in power. But this this deliberation, and the
actions that we are contemplating are not about
regime change, not about regime change. And we believe as I said
earlier, and answer to Mark's question, that resolution of
this conflict has to come through political negotiation
and settlement.
And because so much blood and
treasure, what what blood and treasure is back stand by and
spilled
and spent in both Afghanistan and Iraq. If some sort of
military action will be taken, taken, obviously, the President
will be talking about that to the American people. But how
much should the American people expect prepare themselves for in
terms of sacrifices being made by people inside the armed
forces? And are their cost estimates being put together in
terms of how much this is going to cost? And will it run us up
against that debt ceiling sooner
than expected? I've also noticed John, in this particular
conference, the camera clicks are prevalent, which is not
normal for a carny show. Oh, good
call right? There's
something that something Oh, send something up with that.
Okay. Here Here comes here comes the blatant theft of yours for
an idea
wait. The camera clicks are actually Morse code. For someone
out there listening in,
I shall go back and and I will listen again. I'll make a point
of doing that later. But all
excellent questions, most of them assuming A decision has
been made. And I'm not going to sort of speculate about a
decision that hasn't been made yet. So I know a lot of those
questions will certainly take once the President has announced
the course of action that he's chosen. But what I can tell you
is the President has made clear that he does not envision a
situation in Syria that would lead to us boots on the ground,
remains the case. And I've also tried to make clear that
did you hear it? He said, You mean boots in the air?
Oh, yeah. That's funny.
No, it's not funny. He should say boots in the air as per John
C. Dvorak of the show, best podcast in the universe.
Well, let's play a couple of mortgage. We got a bunch of
these to get rid of. First of all, let's play one of the early
incidences of the punish thing, and this is simply called the
punish clip.
I have punished clip. pelle, that's it? Yes.
This is the CBS Evening News with Scott.
Good evening. You just heard the Secretary of Defense say it US
military forces are ready to go. If and when the President gives
the green light for a strike against Syria. This would be
punishment for that chemical weapons attack last week, that
left more than 300 Syrian civilians dead, many of them
women and children. Vice President Biden today became the
highest ranking administration official to declare that the
Assad regime was behind that attack. The Syrian government
denies it.
Yeah, now, I can play another punishment thing, which is the
other punish use of the words just to showing that it is a
meme that's trending. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Okay,
so
you said this military strike could come soon a tricky
calculation by the Obama administration, they want to
strike hard enough to punish the Assad regime don't want to get
pulled into a prolonged
war. I'm telling it's brutal side down this time, I'm gonna
punish him. So where does this idea that they're absolutely
sure that the you know, the side guys use the weapons so the clip
I misspelled Dima is not the same ma cracy. Now it's all
totally garbled. I got it. I gotta play that clip. And this
is a this is again, Phyllis Bennis, who seems to have the
right answer
bankruptcy. Now, what evidence has the US or Britain presented
showing that the Syrian Government definitively used
chemical weapons in the attack and gota.
So far, no evidence has been presented as to who carried out
this attack. The the reports that are coming that will come
from the UN inspectors will not include an investigation of who
carried out the attack. Their mandate is quite narrow just to
find out what was used. Was it indeed a chemical weapon as is
assumed, but not certainly proven yet. But they will not be
bringing in evidence of who carried it out. There was a
report yesterday in yet yet deodara. Note the Israeli math
daily, claiming that it was Israeli officials, who provided
the Obama administration with what is considered by Obama's
people apparently to be definitive proof that it was the
regime in Syria, we have yet to see any of that information. So
far, it is simply the assertion by Vice President Biden by SEC
implied by Secretary Kerry and others that there is evidence it
has not been seen.
Hold on, let's go back to Carrie for a second. I have more of his
proof of the evidence last
night after speaking with foreign ministers from around
the world about the gravity of this situation. I went back and
I watched the videos, the videos that anybody can watch and the
social media.
The social media is John Have you not watched it yet? Is the
is the Social Media Watch the guy is an idiot. Yes, this is
great, because this is his fact. His his proof is social media,
social media. Now watch them one more gut wrenching time. It is
really hard to express in words, the human suffering that they
lay out before us. As a father, I can't get the image out of my
head of a man who held up his dead child wailing while chaos
swirled around and the images of entire families dead in their
beds without a drop of blood.
Sorry, I didn't see that. Did you see that? I liked that
without a drop of blood.
Yeah, or even a visible
wound or a few
bodies contorting and spasms, human suffering that we can
never ignore or forget. Anyone who could claim that an attack
of this staggering scale could be contrived or fabricated needs
to check their conscience and their own moral compass.
Building abilities. Even the guy is a dupe,
even to check his Waterhead is what he better check, she might
knock, knock that thing open. Here's this kind of, we have to
broaden the scope here because even though the American
population will be providing its blood and treasure, to go and
kill these people for the free flow of energy in the region,
here is a Cameron and shadow Prime Minister Clegg with their,
with their reasoning, any action
we take, or others take would have to be legal would have to
be proportionate legal, it would have to be specifically to deter
and degrade the future use of chemical weapons punishment.
Let me stress to people this is not about getting involved in a
Middle Eastern war or changing our stance in Syria or
not at all. I don't see that happening there, you're on there
no
further
into that conflict. It's nothing to do with that. It's about
chemical weapons, their use is wrong. And the world shouldn't
stand idly by the murder of innocent men, women and children
through the use of chemical weapons is a repugnant crime and
a flagrant abuse of international law. And if we
stand idly by we set a very dangerous precedent, indeed,
were brutal dictators and brutal rulers will feel they can get
away with using.
This is why you need to punish them, John, because if you don't
punish the kid, then other kids will start stealing money from
the piggy bank.
He's just like chewing gum that's run
a larger and larger scale in the future. These are weapons which
were used on a large scale in the First World War band back in
90 in the 1970s. So what we're considering is a serious
response to that. When I
No, no,
I've got it now. So Cameron went out on the stump and he's been
pounding the same drum. This is a different this is NBC has a
bunch of these lone, they keep themselves on one of their pages
that just a bunch of clips they never used. And I got two of
them that are just they're just straight up. There's no
interview, or just the guy yakking away and this is
cameras, appalled. Same kind of clip as that one.
I'm on a second. Oh, okay. Yeah, I got it.
I understand people's concerns about getting involved in wars
in the Middle East getting sucked into the situation in
Syria. This is not about wars in the Middle East. This is not
even about the Syrian conflict. That's about the use of chemical
weapons, and making sure as a world, we deter the US. And we
have not heard the appalling scenes that we've all seen on
our television screens.
So he this is essentially a this is a different clip in the one
you had. But essentially, he's got his talking points. This is
just nothing but talking points. In the same pile of clips of
just these guys, I ran into the classic again, you know, just
sitting by itself. McCain. Usual. McCain. Yeah, got it.
douchebaggery. Yeah, to
the present, United States said Bashar Assad Moscow. A year ago,
he said that if they use chemical weapons, they cross the
red line, they already did before. Now they did again, the
United States has little or no credibility. As far as our
threats as to what to do in the region. We need to take out his
air capabilities, we need to take out his command and
control. We need to give the lead the fighters the equipment
that they need in order to succeed. That should be the
policy. So far, that has not been the policy
good. Let me let me just say that people like McCain, people
like who's the douchebag that I played the read and well known?
Well, Cameron, of course, but also the the Elliott angle. But
also Peter King. These people are part of the fossil fuel
industrial complex, which meshes and melds nicely with the
military industrial complex. This is all about the end. The
President just said it. I mean, you heard him say it's about the
free flow of energy in the region. And that's what it's
always been about and for and for the American people.
Certainly, but even certainly, I would say the British people as
well to stand idly by and except the same psychological attack on
the people to go. Okay, that was used for Iraq is mind boggling
to me, except now it's chemical weapons versus weapons of mass
destruction. It is exactly the same thing for exactly the same
reasons.
Yeah, same script, but some of the stuff crossed out and
pinned.
Not even they just put pencil in case we need to go to Lebanon
next, which we will I have I'd like to wrap up my my clip asure
with the final piece here from the President, which is the kind
of his wrap up on this. This interview that he did for the
NewsHour, which he added two women had to show up to do this.
Glenn and who's the other the other lady?
Glenn Eiffel in the right, the one who's actually the anchor,
blondie.
Yeah, the blondie. Exactly. So it was a doubling. And
why is Eiffel there? She is like a hagiography.
She's the planet she she has the scripted questions. And then to
make PBS looked like that fair and balanced. You know, they
bring in Blondie anyway, here he is wrapping it up, justify
taking action. I know, you talked about international
norms, because of chemical weapon use, but not because of
the 100,000 people who were killed there in the past and the
2 million refugees who fled across the border.
Well, what's happened has been heartbreaking. But when you
start talking about chemical weapons, in a country that has
the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world,
where over time, their control over chemical weapons may erode
where they're allied to known terrorist organizations that in
the past, sorry, did
I play this one? I think I played this one, didn't I?
Yeah, he did. still enjoyable?
I have a different one. Let's play a different one. It's all
enjoyable and
potential action in Syria and the collapse of the government
in Egypt. Do you worry at all that your ministration
underestimated what the tall would be of an Arab Spring?
Well, I don't I think we anticipated this would be a
really difficult process. I mean, you've got a region that
for decades had basically been under autocratic rule. And
people had been suppressed. And there were no traditions of
civil society. There were no traditions of political freedom.
And then suddenly, folks,
for all did he actually say that there was there was no freedom.
There was nothing in the entire region. Did I just hear him say
that? Like everything was suppressed, and you couldn't say
anything? And let me think there was no social media. There were
no US AI D NGOs in all of these countries, riling people up none
of that was possible. Not none of that was there, it was
completely invisible didn't exist allowed to
express themselves, but a lot of their laws and principles end up
being around extremist agendas. In some cases,
he is He is literally painting a picture. So you are now supposed
to think as an intelligent person watching PBS, because
that's what intelligent people do. That these are just a bunch
of dumb sand bunnies sitting around, they're like, ooh, we
can't do anything with the stupid. This really an
underestimation of what? Of what the rest of the world is? Like?
What I mean isn't like, Am I crazy? John, this it's,
he might be painting that picture. And I think a lot of
people probably most Americans are dumb. Most Americans don't
have a clue about what's going on around the Earth. I mean, I
always reminded my mother. Oh, you know why you want to go
there? I mean, you know,
everything in Europe was back Raizy there. Why
do you want to go to France, it's backward that you smell
like cheese from World War One.
Look at look at popular, popular culture, and what we are taught
certainly in the United States, what we are taught about what
these places look like, look at the movies. It's like,
everything just gonna be one big sand filled, you know, towel,
headwear and crazy ak 47. Fire and crapola. Yeah. And that's
all you're supposed to think about. So, imagine my disdain
when we had the 50th observation 50 years after the fact of
Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. Which by the way,
did you know that that is copyrighted? And you cannot use
that? But I have a dream that speech was cost me
Yeah, well, actual speeches are copyrighted. I think
no, but the the recording of it.
Oh, that could be you. I do have a date. Since we're on maybe I
don't want to change the topic to this yet. Okay. Because I do
have one thing I want to play. Let me play this first before we
go off to the Martin Luther King All right, which is this was
this is long, but this is i we just we talked about dumb
Americans if we're going to use you know, paint everyone with
the same big brush. Yeah. This one. So I decided I got the two
words. It's the produced rundown. This is the this is the
presentation done by the today's show, which is arguably what
most people watch for news, you know, housewives in the middle
Midwest and the rest this would Be what they are fed from the
Today Show which I think I think it's a it's a it's not a nice
clip telling the story about the war possibility we're going to
be with by the way we should have bombed them last night the
way I see it I know what happened
would have been much much more fun for the show today because I
hate it when they like we have a show. And then it'll be we'll be
done with the show that at the final music, and then two hours
later, like something cool happens like bombing. All that
cool,
but it is a show. It's cool for our show. It's very cool for the
show. And that's all that counts.
Thank you What else is there in life.
So here's the produce rundown for the Today Show. And this is
what the American public given
even as the US military prepares to launch missiles at Syria, a
group of renegade computer hackers with close ties to the
Syrian military rally to the defense of Syrian President
Bashar Al Assad by attacking of all things, the New York Times
and Twitter for the second time in two weeks, the New York Times
website crashed on Tuesday, a group of computer hackers called
the Syrian Electronic Army supporters of Assad claimed
responsibility the site was down for several hours before it was
restored. Twitter meanwhile, is investigating a hack on its own
site, a nuisance but no national security threat, at least not
yet. They decide to go after financial institutions or other
sectors of critical infrastructure that will be far
more concerning to the US government. All this as the US
gears up for an attack of its own on the Syrian military.
cruise missiles will be the US military's weapon of choice for
US Navy guided missile destroyers, with up to 90
missiles each and at least one submarine are already in
position in the eastern Mediterranean. The assault would
come at night to reduce the possibility of civilian
casualties. The American Legion can
it will come at night. Hold on a John. No, no.
Houston, Vice President Joe Biden pledged Syria must be held
accountable.
There's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use
heinous of chemical weapons in Syria, no doubt the Syrian
regime.
The prime targets planes rocket launchers and artillery used to
launch deadly chemicals but not the chemical weapons themselves.
And the Syrian leadership including President Bashar Al
Assad are not on the target list. There's no word yet this
morning that President Obama has actually given the order but
once he does, it could be just a matter of hours before those
missiles are flying man
All right. Okay, so I know why it didn't happen last night.
That's pretty obvious John de we haven't positioned Anderson
Cooper yet. Anderson's gotta be on the border we got to get
brought over there we got to get Erin Burnett for the feel good
stories and the sound effects here we are Syrian border with
Turkey coming in it's gonna be great. Can you imagine we need
footage of this you can't just strike overnight. You need
positioning baby. We need positioning and Jordan we need
positioning in Israel. We need that we need TEAM COVERAGE TEAM
COVERAGE thank you by the way for these excellent sound
effects. These are very rugged these these sound like actual
cruise missiles these two
Yeah, well they're taken from a cruise missile launch. Yeah, and
by the way, very good. Hell was this thing
that launched yesterday from vapor clip of
I have a clip describing it. Police station
it was it was a spy satellite clip, but it was a Delta
No, no is an atlas four, which is bigger. It's huge. It's the
biggest and right
now breaking news on California Central Coast. A live picture
from Vandenberg Air Force band story $1 billion top secret spy
satellite has just been launched into space on top of the
powerful Atlas four rocket. The payload may be top secret, but
the launch is anything but it's hard to hide the sights and
sounds of a launch of this size, an unmanned spacecraft. Of
course, once fully in orbits, the spy satellite on top of this
atmosphere rocket is expected to be able to distinguish very
minut details back here on earth. Why do we put up with
this?
How can I don't understand? I just John Okay. All right. I'm
now I gotta get into my Martin Luther King thing because it's
an important part of it. This
satellite, by the way is a billion dollar satellite not to
mention what it costs to send it up there. And it's just a spy on
us
is okay, so I watched the movie enemy of the state, as I
promised I would. And by the way, no sooner had we identified
it was not available on Netflix and Amazon and iTunes as all of
a sudden it's available on iTunes on Netflix. And on Hulu,
which makes me think it's been it's been doctored
edited. So I'm the and I was I took notes, I watched the whole
thing. And the only things that really stuck out besides the
fact that the Jon Voight characters birthdate is 911. But
she's always one of those little gotchas, especially before 911.
You know, and why, why is it even important?
I know, I felt the same way. And then by the way, it also is it
looks like an area code 91140, which it isn't, but it is a
phone number of some sort of spamming operation. I looked at
every possibility of these combinations. Yeah, got nowhere.
But continuously, they're talking about the keyhole data
keyhole mapping. And of course, keyhole is the company that
Google bought, which became Google Earth. So in a way,
they're basically saying the NSA, you know, owns Google, and
Google is the NSA. And that's, that was kind of in there. But
there was one other thing. At a certain point, they talk about
the epic database. And I was like, really epic, because Epic
is is like, the isn't at the privacy outfit, the Electronic
Privacy Institute something or other? I don't know, actually.
Yeah. And yeah, if you consult the book of knowledge, you
probably find it. So they're talking about, you know, we have
everyone in the epic database, I couldn't come up with any other
acronym for for epic database for epic, other than other than
that, and you know, and essentially, it was just
predicting our future Larry King, talking about civil
liberties, instead of, you know, what is constitutional rights,
which is, you know, obvious here. And, and the only other
thing I wrote down is, in the beginning, it says, you know,
Fort and Fort Meade, we have 18 acres of mainframe computers
underground, and we set that up 20 years ago. So that was
essentially now 4040 years ago. So you just kind of get the idea
as to how advanced all that stuff really is. But I didn't
get any. Anything else really from the version of the movie
that I saw at least, just kind of right?
I am. Yeah, I just I don't think I have a copy of it. Either. I
looked around. So I don't know where we can get a copy of the
original film with a DVD might be find something different,
you'd have to run them. The problem is, it's not going to be
any big deal. It's something we haven't already figured out. But
then you'd have to run them simultaneously side by side. It
would be interesting to see if something was taken out because
that would be a clue. But it's not I just not going to do it.
No, I have I mean, who knows? Who knows, I think
somebody out there might want to try it and give it a shot. Let
us know.
All right. Now Now I just need to get to the the Martin Luther
King stuff.
Well, before you do, I do have an I Have a Dream Diddy, which
is the commercial they were playing to me marginalizing. And
actually, I think it's melting the entire event. As a little as
a little in between. So it's a interstitial commercial that was
you find on the internet. NBC, okay.
Dr. King drempt have a better future.
I ever dreamed that we can learn to listen a little better.
Everybody will feel safe in America,
this century Kennedy, center of peace, now is your chance to
share your dream.
I have a dream that people will listen, you know, this is like
this taken the idea. You know, I have a dream that would get more
donations, in fact, or do a user segment. Maybe this is
ridiculous. I just found it assaulting.
Did you? So did you see the email that the White House sent
out? No, I didn't. I have it in the show notes. Actually. It's
the President looking up at the statue which shot from behind,
you know, all like artistic of him looking at Martin Luther
King. The whole thing was near the Martin Luther King speech.
Of course, it was done. It was done a year before I was born.
So there's no way that I can you know that I can even imagine
what it was at that point in time. But I do know a little bit
about Martin Luther King, Jr. And first of all, the President
did they? I think we might have even someone sent this to us.
And I think we discussed it briefly on email. I just thought
it was kind of funny. I did pull the clip. And I said I don't
think you did. The President was asking, What would Martin Luther
King think about things like the president the job he's doing and
his health, the Affordable Health Care Act? What do you
think he'd say about Obamacare?
Oh, he'd liked that. Well, because I think he understood
that. Health care, health security,
help but notice the new word here. Health Security,
good catch
is not a privilege. It's something that a country as
wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to. And, you
know, on starting on October 1, because of the Affordable Care
Act, Obamacare, anybody who doesn't have Health insurance in
this country is gonna be able to get it at an affordable rate.
And you were just talking with some folks earlier about the
fact that for a lot of people, it'll be cheaper than your cell
phone bill. And as a consequence, you'll be getting
free prevention, free checkups. And if heaven forbid, you get
sick or some family member gets sick.
Notice the how this is being put free, it's all free. You're
getting all this free stuff, but it's not free there. It's just
not free. You know, I worry about these types of terms, when
it's for you feel like Aizaz free, even if
you have a pre existing condition, you know that you're
going to have the security, you're not going to lose your
house security, you know, suddenly go bankrupt, and you're
going to be able to get the treatment that you need. So the
key is going to be just signing folks up. And one of the things
that we're really going to be emphasizing in the month of
September, October, and then all the way through March of next
year, is letting people know it's simple to sign up, you go
to healthcare.gov. Simply find out exactly what plan is right
for you. It's going to be affordable, you're going to be
able to get a subsidy help, and he's paying for it. And we're
really counting on everybody out there to get informed if you
know what it's about. And you screen out all the
misinformation, you'll discover that this is something that
really is going to help millions of people.
Hey, where's the cheaper than a phone bill? thing? What did he
say that I missed it? I didn't hear it in there. What the hell?
Somehow I'm sorry. At a certain point, the president
you played that entire clip for the cheaper than a phone and
it's not in there, and it's not in there? I suck. I suck like
that. I suck. I'm sorry. Very much. I suck.
I'm sorry. You would if you said the President did at one point
say it's for some people. It's cheaper than your cell phone
bill.
Some people Yes. For
some people that would Yeah. what probably is for some people
who have very expensive cell phone bills.
I mean, my cell phone bills. 30 bucks a month.
Yeah, mine's not.
Okay, unlimited date. I got unlimited texting. I don't know
why you're paying so much
got AT and T What do you expect? Here is so so this whole this
was kind of like a five day celebration of you know, of
course, we had to have some stuff happen over the weekend
because otherwise people wouldn't be able to watch it.
I'll stay home and watch on television. And here's a I love
Cornell West. He's the funniest funniest guy. Mickey thinks that
I would that when I get older that I will be kind of like
Cornell West.
I think that'd be great.
She says you'll have the crazy hair and the beard and
everything. Like, really?
He's got a nice vision of you. I tell us what's trending.
Here's keeps Cornel West on the celebration.
Very low quality leadership. Today on the stage. We saw a
bonafide apologist for for the Obama administration. There was
no serious talk about Wall Street. There was no serious
talk about the new Jim Crow. No serious talk about drones. No
serious talk about us security state no serious talk about the
massive surveillance state was about just voters rights, and
maybe some vague reference to jobs.
I thought he was right on now. Like, that's exactly what it
was. It was like,
smiley, that guy is not the spy but
whatever. Yeah, Tavis Smiley.
So he, by the way, a good movie to see Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy, I realize is one of the two movies that have been out in the
last number of years that I if I see it on TV, I'll watch it. And
I've watched it. And that actually is a complex enough
movie that you actually have to watch it a couple of times to
get the nuances. But the other movie that I can't stop watching
is Casino.
Really? Sharon Stone is extremely hot in
that movie. Oh, she's great. And this is her best acting job
ever.
Especially when she's a little drunk.
She Well, most of the movie but casino and but Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy which was been it's been on HBO last couple of weeks
is definitely a it's a good spy movie. And it's about the Kilby
incident in England where they had a one mole that was given
everything to the Russians. Anyway,
but But hold on. What does that have to do with Martin Luther
King where I'm leading the conversation?
I forgot why. It's funny. Be
quiet. Don't do that.
I'm sorry, I want to play but that movie.
You're just doing your own thing. They're doing a whole
different show. Are you recording locally for your own
little for your own show? So everyone talks about and we've
discussed many times that Martin Luther King was more than likely
assassinated, not for his stance on racial equality but for his
fervor and protest against the Vietnam War. And so if we are
going to
get anybody bring up during the all the speeches that how the
FBI hounded him and they had a huge dossier. And Jackie Kennedy
made some comment in one of her books, she thought he was a
communist. And they do know that they just he hated this.
Everyone hated this guy.
And they had. Yes. And it was Robert Kennedy, who had him
wiretap every single conversation, everything they
did was wiretap
Democrats out there. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the war party.
So I'm going to play a little bit of a famous speech that
Martin Luther King Jr. gave in 1967, which I think is the
speech the President, our constitutional lawyers, are our
constitutional law professor should listen to this is the
speech that I think is the one that is relevant, the most
relevant to our situation today,
time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic
war. Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam today,
because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are
reserved for those who are in a period of moral crisis. Maintain
that neutrality. That comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Truth of these words is beyond doubt. But the mission to which
they call us as the most difficult one, even when pressed
by the demands of any true men do not easily assume the task of
opposing bad government's policy, especially in time of
war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty.
Do you want to I got it like another minute and a half do you
want to make a list? All right, because I think it's important
against all the apathy of conformists thought within one's
own bosom. There has never been such a monumental dissent during
a war by the American people. Polls revealed that almost 15
million Americans explicitly oppose the war in Vietnam.
Additional millions cannot bring themselves around to support it.
This reveals that millions have chosen to move beyond the
prophesying of smooth patriotism, to the high grounds
affirm dissent, based upon the mandates of conscience, and the
reading of history. Now, of course, one of the difficulties
and speaking out today grows out of the fact that they are those
who are seeking to equate dissent
with this loyalty. It's a dog day in our nation. When high
level authorities will seek to use every method to silence
dissent. Something is happening and people are not going to be
silent. The truth must be told.
And I say that those who are seeking to make it appear that
anyone who opposes the law in Vietnam is a fool our Trader are
an enemy of our soldiers. is a person who has taken a stand
against the best. And our tradition.
And there you go. That is Martin Luther King. And I think it was
what like 10 months later, they killed him.
Yeah. Well, he was causing his problem with this kind of talk.
Yeah. And and, and but look at where we're at, ya know, same
place with less dissent, because they they figured out that if
you don't start drafting you know, if you don't that's why
some of these democrats kept saying we have to reinstitute
the draft because they know that would create the Senate
situation during the Bush administration of course and
people would wouldn't want to you know, put up with these wars
and all those other military actions instead they created
this so called Volunteer Army by you know, which is easy to to
populate because you can have a depression. Nobody can get work
so they join the army. And then you have you NOTICE is similar
to a draft. They're kind of forced into it. But it's they
volunteered, hey, you volunteer for this job. That's why you're
going to deploy it again and again.
Hey, you know, so you're cutting out again. I don't know why this
happens, but it's just started now.
It happens at some point in the day. There's nobody else in the
house, so it's not anything. No, no, I'm
trying to think if it's, I mean, it could it could be my machine.
I mean, we've never really had it that way before
but was it just Mickey downloading porn? No, she's
not here. And it would be uploading not downloading just
so you know. Anyways, downloading No, she would be
uploading Oh, she
would be uploading and you guys do at night hello
in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
Linda morning do you Adam curry in the morning all ships and sea
boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all
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Well, Earl of Silicon Valley. Thank you so much. You're You're
a guest we'd like to see here
at our tech gonna be interesting when things just won't switch to
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To we had apparently we just talked over the whole cheaper
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We're so preoccupied with doing Oh, it was
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saying you're in that already. It's yeah,
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to that. Now we're stupid. I'm a little annoyed by the Skype
thing, though. It's just that was great for an hour. And then
it's just now just sucks. I don't know what's going on with
that.
Doesn't make any sense.
I did want to bring a couple things into the conversation
because the what's happening in Syria, as we know, it's part of
it is of course, to thwart any terrorist attacks on the
homeland, obviously, because you know, this chemical weapons, you
know, that cloud can float can float. And before you know it,
you just did you did from chemical weapons float. And
other, you know, other naughty children might get an idea that
they could be using the same thing. So besides that, it's
also for the free flow of energy. I did want to kind of
show you how everything fits together. And this is something
that you have mentioned many times, I finally because I was
doing movie stuff, you know, with the with the Will Smith
movie with the enemy of the state. We've talked about how
the international banking cartels fit into the whole
picture. And this is where you'll see exactly how it works
with Greece. And with Cyprus. Of course, Cyprus, very important
right now, that is the staging ground for all of the whatever
might happen in Syria. So whether we're going or not, we
now have definitely occupied Cyprus. And this is from the
movie, the International John, which you have brought up
several times on the show, I finally went and got the clip,
which is the essence of banking. Are you do you remember, this is
a great movie for this? Yeah. So this little piece will make you
want to watch the whole movie. It is a here's an international
banker explaining what banking really is about small
arms are the only weapons used in 99% of the world's conflicts.
And no one has the capacity to manufacture them faster and
cheaper than China. What skarsten is attempting to do is
to make the IBC the what happened broker of Chinese small
arms to the third world. And the Messiah deal is the gateway
transaction.
There are billions of dollars invested simply to be a broker.
There can't be that much profit for them.
This is not about making profit from weapons sales. It's about
control.
Control the flow of weapons control the conflict. No.
No, no, the ABC is a bank. Their objective isn't to control the
conflict. It's to control the debt that the conflict produces.
You see, the real value of the conflict. The true value is in
the debt that it creates. You control the debt. You control
everything.
That's right. You control the debt. You control everything. So
who controls the debt in the world?
I don't know. The IMF the World Bank, Bank of America Chase. I
think
I think you
hbsc No, I
think you nailed it with IMF. I think that is the correct
answer. And something and you can put this in the Red Book.
Hungary is cruisin for a bruisin. No, I think you can put
in the Red Book, Hungary may be harboring terrorists. Let me
think what else maybe we just they just, you know, just need
to total overthrow, you know regime change or something
because they are they're skating on thin ice.
There are literally 30 steps between the building of the
National Bank of Hungary and the head office of the International
Monetary Fund in Budapest, but that is as close as they get. A
letter from one building to another at the end of July said
that Hungary no longer required the services of the IMF and that
its employees must leave the country as soon as possible. The
country's deputy economics minister is tight lipped on any
kind of open hostility towards Brussels, but acknowledges that
what the EU bureaucrats are offering does not suit Budapest.
His message is we can handle it on our own
decrease. That level is according to GDP. After this two
bailouts and restructuring and everything is 160% in Hungary
below 80%. The European average is now about 85%. We are able to
finance the public debt on the market, I will have to introduce
the reforms which make the country more competitive. And
that is what we have done in the last couple of years. And I
think they are the good basis to do have an independent economic
policy.
Next year, Hungary will host parliamentary elections and some
say the hardline stance with the EU may be part of a political
campaign by the right wing leadership. But analysts are not
ruling out that should Viktor Orban government be reelected?
The prime minister may take his standoff with Brussels to a
completely new level by initiating a referendum on
leaving the European Union all together.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. For Hungarians, that's not how you
play with the international bankers.
So I guess the economic hitmen went in there to make them an
offer. They couldn't refuse it. They refused it at Yeah, which
is a dangerous thing to do. So this is all may we just get
hungry back to the Russians? Oh,
I think the I think the Russians may have a deal for them. That's
I think this was actually an RT report. So it doesn't surprise
me that that is a very viable, very viable possibility. Now as
as part of all of this that is taking place. And we have you
know, so we know what, what the meme is right now for for Syria.
There is an incredible push for the free flow of energy in the
form of natural gas. In Gitmo nation East in the UK, there's
all these stories like what do I have here, worrying decline in
oil and gas production, they're doing anything they can to get
the price of gas up, and anything they can to move people
towards use of natural gas, because that is what the fight
is really about? The question is, who's going to provide the
natural gas? And the one side is Russia? And then the other side
is everybody else who hangs out with America? Would that be a
fair assessment? John?
That's probably yes.
And how and how do we move the consciousness? What happened
with Germany? Germany after Fukushima? That's my new name
for it fake Kashima. And I have to say, I am a pro nuclear guy
after Fukushima. Germany said we're closing all nuclear
plants, Germany, of course, the biggest missed apparently, the
biggest customer of natural gas from Russia, but you know,
they're trying to get it from it. They're trying to hedge. I
have a little bit of a news cuz, you know, I have to give you
what I think and it's very difficult. And I'm not going to
do too much of this because I'm not a nuclear physicist. I have
no credentials. I can throw out pico Curies and Becker record.
We've got we got that. That's my point is I can't help you with
that. But I can give you some. Are you annoyed by this, John?
No, I'm just a free to get to the point.
I'll remember to do that with you. Well, thanks. But just you
know, keep going. You're talking about movies in the middle of
something else? Well, I
don't know what I was thinking.
All right. Okay. So that's what you did
to me. As a matter of fact,
I know you're gonna do it. I want to do it again. Okay, I
want to give you some facts on this raising to level three.
Okay, before you do that, I do have a clip because I just want
to point out to you, because what you everything you say is
true, but I don't think you've taken it far enough. That the
kind of the kind of like, oh, it's like a subversive thing
about this, this nuke power. And here's Amy Goodman, who if we've
listened to her enough to know that she does everything she can
to be totally a objective, she goes out of her way to like not
even bring up any, but tell me that there's not a little bit of
bias against nukes, which coordinated
projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the country. He
provides independent testimony on nuclear and radiation issues
to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the NRC,
congressional and state legislatures and government
agencies and officials in the US abroad. Its chief engineer at
fair winds associates Arnie Gunderson. Welcome to Democracy
Now. This is a tremendous victory. Well, for the governor
himself, who actually as a state legislator was supposed to the
nuclear plant in his own district.
Yeah, this is Vermont Yankee. Yeah, that is being close. 600
people out of work. All right. That's a great victory there.
Now, of course, she's biased because Don't you
think that was a little over the top?
But this is this is, look, what's interesting to me Look,
and look, listen. What's interesting to me, is that the
alternative media and I'm talking about natural news.com
I'm talking about guys that I've been reading for a long time, we
are conspiratorial in our thinking in general. So we're
always thinking that the government is covering something
up and we are being duped in this case being misused into the
biggest fraud of our time. And let me just give you a couple of
simple facts about Fukushima. The level three was only
instigated yesterday not a week ago, the level three is not
about the current plant it is not about the so called 300 tons
of water leaking in because I have all the documents so you
can check them in the show notes from the I NES It is not about
the the water that was you know leaking into the ocean that is
the radiating the fish we're all gonna die. It is specifically
and only about the wastewater storage tank, nothing else
nothing it is not about anything else. And the I AE a there's the
guys who allow you to use one of these ratings has urged Japan to
now go back and explain exactly what is happening at Fukushima
because of the confusing messages they've been sending.
They this this particular event with the water tank has been
hacked as happened several times in the past except that didn't
get a rating. And now all of a sudden it's being used as a
communications tool by slapping this rating on it. Okay, you
have to understand what's at work here these are very large
forces that ultimately want to close down all nuclear
facilities so that we can use another finite substance you
know, another fossil fuel which is natural gas, and you're
falling for the trick you're falling for it. And and the
anger I get from our audience John, the anger
your mass Well, we're gonna die. The clouds coming and Fisher
radiated.
No, it's not true. It's not true. I talk I've been gone so
deep into this with expats don't
understand you, Adam buying into this Frode nuke I'm
evil, you should send a cruise missiles but it's all part of
the same thing. Because when we have people stopping nukes, and
Whoa, we're all antinuclear who wins the gas guys win. And
that's what serious about you're a part of the problem. That's
what I'm trying to say. Does that make any sense?
Well, yeah, no. And I'm actually a subscriber. Since it's seems
to me, especially since the invention of the backyard nook,
I am just beside myself, because I would love to have one of
these little units. And I never have to worry about being on the
grid. None of this stuff. It all goes away. Yeah.
Do you remember the report that we were laughing about the UT
report that had the about terrorist attacks on nuclear
plants another part of the of the plan to get rid of nuclear
power that was done here at the University of Texas total crock
of crap that it had and but you know, the the news reports, were
you Oh, the Department of Defense requested this report.
And on the report itself, which was done by an undergrad
student, they had a little nuclear cloud and stuff. So now
the defense department had to come out and say they did not
request or validate the recent study on security to America's
nuclear facilities by the the nuclear proliferation prevention
project. This is a
General Electric God pod and said, Hey, write this. No more
of this crap. Here's
the quote, the Department of Defense did provide funding to
the University of Texas at Austin but did not request a
report on that specific topic, nor did we validate its
findings. Oh, by the way, sorry, that wasn't a headline news
report in the we're all going to die from terrorist attack.
Because on nuclear facilities you are being duped. You're
being duped people duped so you
have to tell me that the media only played part one of the
actual whole story yeah
and that crazy the Hastings group by the way is the PR
outfit that you want to be looking out for. They're the
ones that do all the anti nuclear stuff the Hastings group
and propagate stories like this. The one we got by the
way I saw this this mentioned they I don't believe this is
true. The Hastings group is too much too lightweight. This is
something bigger.
Okay, well, it could be you don't think the Hastings group
is big enough? No. Okay. So the story that you know that we were
sent headline radioactive bluefin tuna caught off
California coast I love it here this. This is written by an
Warner who looks like a douche bag. And what was the line here?
It was something really funny this incident Makes Three Mile
Island and Chernobyl pale in comparison. What this is you are
being there's war warfare being performed on you people. Anyway,
I'm just going to have to the highlighted once in a while.
Just gotta highlight that it's new are really this is fake.
Fake fake Kashima
well, they shut down Yankee.
Yeah, that was that sad. Oh, all right, whatever.
That's 40 years old. Some of these facilities?
Oh, no, no, we definitely definitely need to upgrade. I
mean, we do not want the 40 year old technology. But it'd be nice
to get some of these breeder reactors that have no nuclear
waste that eat their own poop. Literally, there's no waste.
There's a lot of new technologies in this in this
business that's for sure. I do have a thing that's kind of like
a I guess it's a trends added by by the
way certain surging Lord Vikon of Austin is in the chat room.
He's like, Hey, man, I'm not going to buy the backyard
nuclear you guys. Okay, well, that's a bummer.
You know, Thanks for nothing.
Thanks. Good Aria.
One a backyard nook. I'd love to I get we build a place up in the
mountains or the backyard nook? Yeah.
Let's do it on Ruby Ridge. I hear that's good, cheap real
estate there.
Yes. So this the Brookings Institute had a huge thing on
mostly about modern relationship with Russia and Putin in
particular. And I'll play this play this little clip here of
Brookings on Putin. And then I'll take I'll the guy talks too
slow for me to take a big clip of what he actually says. So
I'll finish it, because I just think it's kind of fascinating
that our State Department, and it was run mostly by Hillary
while you play this, and then I'll explain moving events into
them, when it might just be a bad day. But in in Coutances
case, there is an argument that, you know, having been in control
of Russia, roughly speaking for over 10 years, he sort of is the
state in a in a Louis the 14th. kind of way. And I wondering to
what degree are the problems that that Steve and Angela both
pointed to in the relationship, a result of Mr. Putin coming
back into power, and and his new approach to us Russian
relations?
I think what you say is true. And I would add, Mr. Putin
coming back. And the fact that US US administration's policy
towards Russia was very much premised on him not coming back.
The reset was exactly it was all that Steve said. It was a list
of very practical, important issues between the United States
and Russia that needed to be dealt with, needed to be
tackled, and, as Steve described, successfully, were
tackled during the period of the reset, but the reset was more
than that. And reset was a bet on Dmitry Medvedev. As a new
Gorbachev was a long shot, but admittedly, so by people who
thought of this whole idea.
Interesting. Interesting, neat, so they didn't think he was
going to come back.
This is really interesting, because now this is a Brookings,
Brookings. This is like the deep thinkers, this is no guests at
this particular event. And there they said that the State
Department bet on Medvedev actually around and Putin not
making it back into power. And the kicker and this guy, this is
the Putin expert. The kicker is, there was no plan B if Putin got
back in
well, yeah, there was. That's not true. They did it today.
They had a painting of Putin in women's underwear.
Did you see that? No.
The police sees the painting of Vladimir Putin in women's
underwear. What? Yes.
I'm telling you, where was the seized
in a gallery in St. Petersburg. It's pulled it's Putin with some
other dude in a dress. And he's in like a women's negligee. I
mean, they're pulling everything out. Anything we can do to
discredit this guy. He wears women's underwear.
That'd be a great painting to have a copy of. Oh, so the point
is, is that we're just beside apparently the State Department
is clueless. They don't know what they're just floundering.
Yeah, they're completely clueless about Putin they don't
know what to do about them. They're never SPECT him out as
become as taking over again. Apparently, they've been
everyday been put all the marbles in the one game with
Medvedev, and that was the end of it. And that's why we're in
this stupid mess.
So let me let me understand where they were expecting that
Medvedev met that guy to be so where are they? How does that
fit into the whole pipeline gas thing? I mean, were they is this
took them by surprise. They thought they had it nailed down.
It was all divvied up it was all set.
Yeah, that's my guess.
And then and then Putin went you know what screw y'all I'm going
to take it all I'm going for the gusto
something like that. Huh? But I on our show because we watched
this transition at no time in the last six years did we ever
think that Putin wasn't always running the show and wasn't
going to come back? And I don't think we're the only people that
analyze it properly. Why How did they make such an error?
I mean what but why would you not even have a plan B in case
he did decide to come back That's
That's right. All the all the people on this panel all agree
that was baffling be
baffling, baffling. Well, so now so here we are. Here we are with
this huge scenario scenario which is you know, the the
natural resource Oil Gas cabal is is is you which is McCain and
King and all these eight holes. They're just ready to go and
kill people just just to keep this going. It's weird. This sad
is what it is and even sadder that people don't see it.
That's what said.
Yeah, well, we see it.
We do. Let's talk about the snow job for a second because there
was some more interesting articles that came out. First of
all, there was in Deus built or built. Laura Poitras wrote an
entire article about who I'm I'm I'm increasingly starting to
believe she's not real. This woman does not exist. So
apparently she lives in East Berlin. And she writes this
story in I'm sorry, Spiegel, not build Spiegel. And let me just
read a little bit because I this is this is her own words,
apparently. And I think it's bullcrap. I woke up last Sunday
in Berlin to an email from Glenn Greenwald with only one sentence
I need to talk to you ASAP. For the past three months, Glenn and
I have been reporting on the NSA disclosures revealed to us by
Edward Snowden. I went online to the encrypted channel that Glenn
and I used to communicate. He told me that he had just
received a call telling him that his partner David Miranda was
being detained at London's Heathrow Airport under the
Terrorism Act. Now I'm calling bullshit on this. Because you
know when you are being detained, no one's calling you
no one's calling your wife your husband your mom your dad. No
one's calling and David Miranda certainly was not able to call
you can't even make a call first of all it's illegal to use your
phone in the in the certainly at Heathrow but even the United
States Yeah. In a holding area. Well, even when you're just
waiting to get know I know line. And in many cases, they there's
jamming, you can't even make the call. And then it's like listen
to this prose. For the next six hours. I was online with Glenn
as he tried to find out what was happening to the person he loves
most in the world. Please. What is this supposed to be? A fairy
tale? Very, very strange. And then it's just you know, it's it
goes on and on. I mean, every single meme is hit about how
they're trying to make journalism hard to do. I wish it
was me. As the hours went by on Sunday, gotcha. Yeah, no, I'm
telling you. I'm telling you. I wish it was me instead of David.
I'm gonna say yeah. I've never been through a hostage
negotiation, but this certainly felt like one. David was finally
released. After nine hours he was forced to hand over all
electronics. Using border crossings to target journalism
is not new to me. I experienced it for the first time in 2006 in
Vienna when I was trapped Moving from the Sarajevo Film Festival
back to New York, I was put in a van and driven to a security
room searched and interrogated. The Austrian secure security
agents told me I was stopped at the request of the US
government. But it landed in New York. I was again certain
interrogated. This is not true. That's what she says she's
writing. It's her Why No,
but can you? I mean, you get stopped by the Austrians and you
are stopping you on request of the US government.
That's what she says. You believe it? No. No, I don't even
think she's real anymore. I didn't you know, come show
yourself. Woman. Was she
has been under Democracy Now. Show. Oh, you have seen her? Oh,
yeah. I've seen her a couple of times. Oh, okay. No, then. Okay.
So
it's a hologram. No.
Real actually certain nervousness as she keeps talking
about the 40 times she's been stopped. So here's what's
interesting. So as I'm looking around, now, we know that Laura
Poitras has been financed partially by the birther
Foundation, which of course is is that dude to box Nick? The
the, who is the the loathing Jew as as he calls himself,
loathing, self loathing to anybody I come across, and so
that he's a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace, which is an
activist group against the Israeli government for the,
their policy, particularly against Palestine. And so he
funds anything that goes against that, and he also funds Laura
Poitras, but here's what was interesting. An organizer of a
Muslim Brotherhood rally, acknowledged the Muslim
Brotherhood's friendship with the Jewish Voice for Peace at a
statement at a rally in DC, led by Egyptian Americans for
democracy and human rights. So this thing is getting so deep
now I don't understand. So is now the Muslim Brotherhood,
indirectly. Financing Laura Poitras. This is like these
groups are this very, very
idea. This is like a nightmare for anyone trying to track it
down.
It's really it's really strange. Very strange. Anyway, so that's
just another little piece of the puzzle that we're trying to
figure out. Here's why.
So you stop this guy at the border. And then you call Glenn
Greenwald? Because you have his number in your wallet, to tell
him that you his boyfriend's been stopped and he's been being
held for questioning? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
Not to me. Anyway, we can we can rest assured everything's gonna
be okay. Because, you know, the panel that the President has put
together, you know, to oversee the the NSA and all the spine is
going on, is now going to include, and maybe the leader of
the team Cass Sunstein. Cass Sunstein, the main backup, he's
gonna be the in what,
on the panel? The MSA oversight panel? He's not he's not going
to serve on the panel.
Really? This is this guy who was a you know, notorious douche
communist. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what what the how this works
out.
He's the guy that wrote the white paper that said, what the
security services in America that anti terrorism movement
that the Stasi police should be doing is infiltrating our chat
room and infiltrating conspiracy groups. That's that's what this
guy wrote.
I think our chat room has long since been infiltrated. I know
but what is it gonna get good? Is it going to do they have to
deal with Eric
but to put this guy on the on the NSA panel? That's it's
almost funny. Yeah.
This just gets worse. So
let's see here has Cass Sunstein. Richard Clarke.
Seriously. And Michael Morrell, remember that I know that name
from somewhere to oh, he's CIA, ex CIA. But you put a bunch of
don't put any civilians on who care
ya know why you would debit screwed things up.
Yeah. Mike. Pretty funny. Yeah, he's a CIA guy. Super CIA, by
the way. Interesting.
Well, while you're
so I got a thing for you to do to change topics. Okay. Harris
County District Attorney Mike ganger. Anderson is over here in
Ninh, Texas.
Over here, Texas.
This is a letter somebody one of our producers got your parent
guardian. And the Harris County District Attorney's office
incline independent school district partners in Harris
County stay in school program. Think I got this Yeah, school
attendance is a high priority of my office and school district.
Programs is designed to increase school attendance, which is
something all concerned parents strive for to help their child
succeed. No, just because they get federal money. If the kid
doesn't show up, they don't get the money. This letter is to
inform you of the law and the district policies regarding
failure to attend school. It's important that all parents and
guardians be aware of the consequences of unexcused
absences from school under Texas law. unexcused absences are a
criminal offense. And both parents and students will be
charged. If your child has three unexcused absences from school,
a warning letter will be sent and one will be hand delivered
to your child in school. You will be summoned immediately to
a conference at the school to discuss and solve this problem
before criminal charges are filed.
Does your throat heard from that? Little bit? All right.
Do I get to read some email? Yeah, do it. Alright. This is
from I think you got this too. From Mel Fiano. Adam and John I
work as a telephony data engineer in Massachusetts. I
visit different companies daily and configure or repair their
telephone and data equipment. All I hear everywhere is towns
are broke budget cuts in the millions. I'm in the town of
Wellesley today at a public school. And here every student
in this middle school has an iPad this year, the teachers and
secretaries have iPads. They already have MacBooks stacks of
$500 iPad sitting in this room for eight to 10 for eight to 10
year olds. WTF is that isn't enough. Guess what the kids eat
here. boars had truck just pulled up.
The bar said.
He says I'm this ridiculous. I'm pissed. He says he can't believe
it. He said this is kind of strange.
Yeah, everybody's crying poor miles as the old term would be.
Yeah, well, except in except for the except for the public
schools. I guess they get in all the dough.
I know somebody's getting to go to shut up and hearing the
petition avoidance tactics. DEP. As you know, we try and we try
to help people understand when you're accosted on the street,
what to do. Adjacent in a little note, he's been working on his
petition avoidance tactics. He says during my daily running for
work today, a woman was standing outside the Secretary of State
collection, collecting signatures to quote save the
wolves. She asked if I wouldn't mind adding my John Hancock to
the mix. Looking at her slightly puzzled I said but they taste so
good. Good one. Good one. J very good. We need more of these and
we need a whole collection. I like this a lot. When you say
the rules but why they taste so good. I can just imagine the
look on her face would
and most people have they don't cogitate these kinds. They just
short some out for just a little bit. Yeah.
Ah, okay. Oh, by the way, for those of you who Thank you very
much, by the way for the emails, I really appreciate people using
the bit message protocol to send messages to me. I would like to
make one little point. I am not a big message testing service.
Do you know how many people Hey, man, I'm testing big message.
Did you receive my test? Please go somewhere else. We are not I
don't have time to answer all your if you send me something,
I'll send you something back. Not like just testing to see if
it works.
You ask for it. You've set yourself up for these
situations. When you moan about it.
Yeah, well, I Well, I'm just pointing I've already I think
I've done my testing. I've done enough now. Anyway, very sad day
as Janet leucaena. Positano sent her farewell she had her
farewell at the I think the National Press Club as she is of
course, leaving a service and I think we have in the red book
that she will go to the University of California system
and she eventually will come back as a Supreme Court judge.
That's my hashtag
CIA past. Hashtag CIA.
And I watched her farewell speech. And I thought we would
listen to a couple of choice bits from from her farewell.
Here is clip number one where she talks about Boston.
Over the years, DHS has supported more than a dozen
exercises in Boston, including a large mass casualty event
involving hundreds of responders just last November.
You know, I always find these things so coincidental. And we
supported the creation of the medical Intelligence Center, the
only one of its kind in America hashtag
medical Intelligence Center
to enable information sharing across the Boston medical
community. The well timed and coordinated emergency response
that immediately followed the marathon attack was not
accidental. It was a product of years of planning, training and
investment in building state and local capacity. And the quick,
orderly, focused and comprehensive response by law
enforcement, first responders and the larger Boston community
on that day save lives.
Can you believe what is being said here? Isn't it just like
the craziest thing?
What is hell's this got to do with her farewell.
But no, this is her trumping her accomplishments. This is what
you got to do. When you're leaving, like look at what I did
immediate control over the scene by law enforcement and
assistance from first responders and medical personnel help
triage, evacuate and treat the fallen and injured a scenario
they had practice to ensure no one facility would be
overwhelmed.
You just keep getting the feeling like you know, they had
all this practice and someone's like, Come on, man, enough of
the practice, let's do something real.
Citizens stepped up and played a critical role, caring for the
wounded, donating blood and submitting videos that help
identify the suspects. Ah,
here's what it's winding up to be what did you do Lucy,
a powerful reminder of the role the public plays not only in
providing aid, but also providing useful information.
And the reason why after I became Secretary listened to
this lie, I called for the creation and then expansion of
the department's if you see something, say something
campaign, that is
a lie. I'm sorry, that is a bold faced lie. She did not come up
with the slogan. You'll remember this is the MTA in New York who
have trademarks if you see something say something, it was
always their slogan to start with. And she facilitated the
licensing of that. You'll see if you see the see the slogan See
Something, Say Something it has an R next to it. A little R with
a circle registered trademark of the MTA the Manhattan Transit
Authority. She did not come up with this you lie,
expanding it to more than 250 states, cities, transportation
systems, universities and private sector entities
nationwide, to encourage the public to play an active role in
reporting suspicious activity. And
furthermore, during your tenure as head douche of the Department
of Homeland Homeland Security, never did you have the
foresight. Did you have the vision to use our jingle in your
campaign? Big mistake big, big
mistake before she took over the place from sep tember fourth
2011 I'm sorry, I got the date wrong. But anyways, beside the
point she already taken over. But the Metropolitan Transit
Authority's challenging cop cats attempting the trademark for it
see something say something counterterrorism slogan, born on
the wake of 911. So it showed up right away way before she got
the job. It was trademarked in 2007.
That well, and this now landed on the MTA. If you're if you're
ever wondering what John is doing during the show,
everything that comes out of my piehole he's googling no matter
what I say like let me see if this is correct. full of crap.
Oh, no, no, you did to me.
Here's a little little ditty in her farewell speech that I found
interesting. Who do you think the partners are? At the if
you're the Department of Homeland Security? Who are your
partners in law enforcement in enforcing Homeland Security? Who
are your partners?
You thought would think the FBI, local law enforcement State
Police?
Yeah, yeah. Now, if you were a fascist, who would your partners
be?
The White House No. Congress,
no fascist John fascist think, Oh, I'd
be General Electric. That would be bowing. Up, go.
Okay, let's listen to the answer.
Getting to know them has been one of the most rewarding parts
of being Secretary and any success we have achieved flows
directly from their dedication and service. I've also had the
chance to engage partners across the homeland security
enterprise.
It's the homeland security enterprise. Stay tuned to write
them down.
Governors and mayors,
governors and mayors, police police Okay, firefighters,
firefighters,
and first responders and business and faith based
community leaders.
Business and faith based community leaders. You're
telling me that the the Reverend and on this apparently this is
very strange. I find this to be a strange thing to say. Churches
are involved in this in this homeland security enterprise.
Probably more mosques. Oh,
okay. And then finally she has a an open letter to her successor.
Now we don't know who her successor successor is going to
be. We have heard it's going to be the deputy over at the
hashtag NSA. This this person is still yet to be announced. On
the media is calling for Ray Kelly, the head of police in New
York City. God Yeah, well, I don't think I'm going with our
insiders who say it's going to be this. What's the guy's name
again?
The NSA? Yeah, that guy down the road? Mr. Roboto?
Yeah. Deputy NSA, hashtag NSA. What was his name again? David,
I want to say, Oh, I know. I know. I know. I hate it.
English, John, English, that that's the guy. That's the guy.
That's the guy who we think is going to be it. Anyway. So
regardless, naps has a little message.
And you will face new challenges that we have begun to address,
but that need further attention. What could it be? Our country
will, for example, at some point, face a major cyber event
that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy, and
the everyday functioning of our society.
Just so you know, she said that's going to happen. It's a
fact sciences in Don't be a denier, our country will have a
major cyber event, which will affect every man, woman and
financial institution in this country and Homeland Security.
And by the
way, and by the way, that wouldn't be rationalized English
getting the job because the NSA is the ones who are on top of
this because they got a $5 billion budget to set up a bunch
of I don't know what the brigades of the cyber,
the cyber offense. They're storing bunch cyber Sturman
fears.
While we have built systems protections, and a framework to
identify attacks, and intrusions share information with the
private sector and across the government, and develop plans
and capabilities to mitigate the damage. more must be done and
must be done quickly. Yes, quickly. You will also have to
prepare for the increasing likelihood of more weather
related events of a more severe nature as a result of climate
change. Yes, and continue to build the capacity to respond to
potential disasters in far flung regions of the country that
could occur at the same
time and I'm so happy she brought up climate change
because it was now we follow these things a lot. What what do
you do when you're releasing a new record? Like we just saw
recently with Who's the girl, the Russell Brand chick up at
Katy Perry? Katy Perry? Remember we had that whole NPR thing
about how you promote your record when it's going to come
out? What do you do?
What do you do you leak it over your leak at first then you do a
video right?
Yeah, so Oh, it got leaked. And guess what happened? The IPCC
their new report
was leaked leaked got leaked. Yes.
And it got leaked to Mother Jones of all people.
Oh, what a weird coincidence and they
have five terrifying statements in the leaked Climate report.
Are you ready to be terrified?
I'm ready.
Terrifying fact. Number one. We're on course to change the
planet in a way unprecedented in hundreds to 1000s of years.
Leaked Fact number two, ocean acidification is virtually
certain to increase. I love that virtually certain What does that
even mean? Virtually?
Surely cert what does that mean?
means making it up. Terrifying facts number three harmonica.
Long term sea level could rise to be five to 10 meters. That's
30 feet by the way. Long term. Yeah. 10 meters is 30 feet. But
this by the year 2100. John. Okay. Frightening Fact number
four. This implies of substantial melting of the
Greenland ice sheet and frightening Fact number five
much of the carbon we've emitted will stay in the atmosphere for
a millennium. No, you go. There you go. The BBC on the other
hand, they're finding it harder and harder to come up to come up
with ways to lie. So they've just said, Well, okay, this is
from the science editor here at the BBC. Let's see what the
headline is. Global warming slowdown has been linked to
cooler Pacific waters. Yeah. Okay. They just do an egg
good. No.
People don't understand
message.
Well, yeah, it is off message. This is Matt McGrath. Not long
for the BBC and done. No, good, Matt. Let's see what the New
York Times says New York Times their report is climate panel
cites near certainty on manmade global warming near certainty.
So we're getting close. It's almost true.
I thought it was a done deal a decade
ago. No. And it's snowing in Brazil. Yeah, that's odd. Is it
normal for snow to fall in Brazil?
I've been there in the winter cup was maybe in the mouth? I
don't know. Maybe in the northern part where there's some
mountains. I did not know. Frightening spec
for six. According to the chat room. Janet Napolitano naked.
Yes, indeed.
The only way she cool down.
Man, someone did send me a cool note about the Trump. Have you
ever heard of the Trump?
Yeah, the Donald
Trump. That's TR O N P. E. o The Trump. Are you familiar with
this?
I've heard of it.
The Trump is a it's a water powered compressor. Right. And
it's technology from like the 1600s.
Right, just as they they still use this technology in parts of
Washington. Yeah, well,
it's apparently it's gaining a resurgence. And what people are
now finding out what they're doing is that so essentially,
it's a series of tubes. And you and you take some water, and you
just as long as you have a constant supply of water from a
stream or something like that. It's two tubes, and the water
goes into one tube, and then the bubbles go into another tube, it
compresses and then then it poops it out. And then it sucks
in new water and it becomes kind of a, an energy source. And
people are now hooking this up to air compressor generators,
and are subsequently able to power stuff. It's It's, um,
like, this is from the 1600s
Yeah, they were pretty bright back then.
It's really phenom. I mean, and there's
a lot of stuff with hydraulics that that could be used to store
energy. I mean, one of the things that used in Washington
is they get a bunch of they get the generators are going at a
constant speed. And when they don't really have any reason to
be strolling out the energy they throw on these pumps. And then
they push the water up up the hill. Yeah, and it's stored up
there and then when they there's they're short of energy that
water comes down and it powers the generator. Yeah, it's crazy
thing.
Well, it's fascinating. I mean, it's it's almost it's kind of
like free free energy. As long as you have a water source,
which is not
available. Moving is has energy in it. Well, yeah, the virtue of
its motion, right, but
it's not it's not an energy that you don't have to burn anything.
You don't have to you know, do anything just capture it in the
tube and then it kind of makes it
well you know, dams are a very good source of energy, but they
seem to they seem to be tearing them down more than building
them. Yes. Oh, I don't get it. So I got a real news play the
real news clip. We got this Real News. Oh my goodness. Well, here
we go. Back to real. Yeah, it's not gonna be Miley Cyrus is Dr.
Phil. Dr. Phil did a bad tweet.
To you you listen to me talk.
Dr. Phil McGraw has been tackling tough topics on his
self titled TV program.
I need you to please explain that more than a decade is
offensive to me and it is offensive to my staff.
But this morning, the no nonsense talk show host is
finding himself in the hot seat after show staffers sent out
this controversial tweet on Tuesday. If a girl is drunk, is
it okay to have sex with her? Yes or No to at Dr. Phil hashtag
teams accused
hashtag NSA. So while we're on Real News, I did of course watch
the MTV Video Music Awards. Of course you would of course
because you know, I used to work there and I'm always interested
to see whether
I like to do they finally introduced a pedo bear.
I think for us, that was fine. The old only thing I'd like to
say. So they did very well in the ratings. By the way, I think
it was a 5.5
better next time,
no, no, but this is this is already quite good. That's I
think that's eight, nine, maybe 10 million viewers. This is
really good. It's a live event. And you want this is where you
can really make make your mark you know, even on a night when
you have the newsroom and Breaking Bad and all this stuff.
People are TiVo in that are watching it, you know, on
Netflix or Amazon, whatever, after the fact. So the live
events is where and I've always said this is that's where
television ultimately is. That's the only place you're really
gonna be able to make money still. And so they did very
well. Very well. Horrible. Yeah, Super Bowl Exactly. Very well
for a completely whitewashed bland, stupid show. Here's the
thing that bothers me when we have and this is in my lifetime.
We have these live events. Where where musicians of the world?
Where's the protest? Where's the one person? You know, it was
such an egotistical show? Yeah, I get it. It's great that we can
you know, it's all the gay rights and that's all great. And
I get it. Okay, but it's all so on such a minor scale,
comparatively speaking, what's really going on? Whereas the one
person to say, excuse me, President Obama, excuse me,
Prime Minister Cameron, excuse me hair Merkel? No, just No,
just stop, stop with your war. Stop it. Stop it. Not a single
person. And also, there's never a conversation about that
anymore. NPR did 12 minutes the other day. 12 minutes on Miley
Cyrus. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
He shouldn't do one minute. Oh, it's shameful. It's absolutely
shameful.
And where were these live events we used to use? That's what used
to be exciting.
Yeah, someone would come out and make some political statement
protest some Yes. Say something
like, Hey, enough, already. None of it's happening. And
or just get on the microphone and take your word and say, and
the war? How about all they have to do they don't even do that
anymore? No, it doesn't happen. My agent. And I like to thank my
God, God, God, God. I want to thank God, I
want to thank God and might manage that before
we go. And can I do a little little? Just something about the
media that it's really threw me off this morning, I got some
news that really freaked me out. It's not me. It's not like
horrible, but I wanted to share it because people have to
understand how twisted the world of mainstream media is.
And you're running. Yes.
Okay. Now you remember that my daughter, I encouraged her to
participate in this reality show in Namibia.
Right? You're gonna be good. I can tell.
Okay, so. And the whole idea was, it's called Jungle VIPs, or
something like that. And the idea is that you have these
VIPs, you send them to the tribe, and they stay with this
tribe for three weeks. And so it's challenging, right. But you
know, it'll be cool, because you see people who are used to the
lap of luxury, having to I don't know, you know, kill a pig and
eat it in the morning and to do try black stuff. Right? Yeah.
And I encourage you to do this. I said, Look, you know, this is
one of these things. Cuz she's a dad, and the money is whatever,
cuz she gets paid nicely for it. No doubt about it. But she says,
I really, you know, I'll do it for the experience. I finally
convinced her with others, but I really push. I'm like, Honey,
when you get to be my age, I don't ask you to do this cool
stuff anymore. Go do it. It'll be fun. And I had warned her I
said, you know, first of all, I helped her with the negotiation,
you know, that she should get a phone call and etc. And she and
she really got one phone call a week for three weeks. So they
screwed her on that but doesn't matter. She was in touch with
with a girlfriend and we'd have you know, we'd heard here that
things were okay. And she was no she would say oh, you know, I
got my tribe initiation. I was, you know, that we had this whole
thing and she got her tribe name and so she was really into it.
Right? And I had already warned her I said no, this is a reality
show even though no one gets voted off their will they will
try to do stuff like star view, get you drunk, try to cause some
commotion because that's what these reality shows are based on
as long as you're aware of that, then you know, you should be
okay. So she's she's done she's on her way back. She's still in
Africa and and she calls up of all the things I could have
prepared her for what is the one thing that I that I didn't see
coming
douchebag producers
at the very the very last day, and you know, as they're about
to say goodbye to the tribe, and they've been through tremendous
tribulations, all kinds of stuff that I mean, I don't even know
the 10% of the stories all of a sudden, the African tribe start
speaking Dutch they put on their clothes. was the whole they were
all actors the whole thing was fake. What? And she's She's
devastated. As a mom, she's dead. She thought she really
went through this initiation and the whole time that just like
making fun of of the people on the show.
So wow, it's a meta show. So
it's turned into this like Truman Show big joke.
Where it's like, ha, look at what we did to those saps
and oh, man, that's That's wild. You don't think you could have
foreseen that?
No, but and she's she was devastated. She said, Daddy, I
cried for hours. Because she really thought that she knew
that she had because she shoulda said I was so good. I really
worked hard. And I really tried to be a part and she was in the
sweat hut and everything and, and eating the poop. And
meanwhile, bullcrap. And these actors, right after everyone
went to bed, they go and have stakes in the in the hotel, like
10 miles down the road. The whole thing with the whole
village was a set. And wow, but the the arrogance, the elitist
thinking of a television show, instead of I mean, he was an
opportunity, you could still have a great show. The tuning
out to have you know, to show people getting accustomed to
someone else's life. You know, like, this is like, Fuck you,
Africa. I mean, it I'm still my mind is still boggled from this
is really something. And I'm like, welcome to Welcome to
Modern show business. That's
what it is. I mean, and she's mad. She's destroyed. She's so
angry about this. She's so angry. In that crazy.
Oh, it's totally crazy. It's a very, it's very insulting. I
could see her being upset about this for a while. Yeah,
well, I'm upset because I'm the one that said No, it'll be a
great experience. And if I see this is i works by the way. The
people who also produce celebrities splash and all that,
and that little punk right out Rula mom's if I if he gets in my
path. I'm gonna punch his lights out. He's a dick. And I could
you see them. Ha, this is so funny. Look what we've got them
doing. They had like the fire rig. You know, like one guy was
supposed to do something special with the fire, and then it will
keep going out or then it would like flare up really bad. And
then the tribe the tribe were like ooga booga. You're not
doing it. Right. ooga booga, and they get all mad. Meanwhile, the
production guys are sitting there with a gas flame turning
it up. And I mean, come on. And that and that is the level to
which television has has sunk. sunk. And that's how low it
goes. Anyway, so I'm sure I'm not supposed to be telling the
story because it's supposed to be some big fucking secret. But
screw.
So they roll it out as at the end. Yeah. And I don't I don't
know. No. So in other words, is the viewing audience doesn't
know
either. Well, they do now. Well, I know that you now. I don't
know. I don't know what they're thinking. How can you possibly
think that people are not going to talk about this huge hoax?
How can you possibly think but think that that's not going to
happen that everyone's like, sworn to secrecy? And it's so
funny. I what I think is gonna happen is they're going to roll
it out as some Truman Show like, look at what we did. And it'd be
hilarious to see these celebrities, celebrities being
dumb and being new. Yeah,
that's the way I would do it. That's the way I do it, too.
Because you don't, because the audience Yeah, you have to do it
that way because of the audience sees, gets fooled, and then at
the end, they'll get mad too. Yeah. And there'll be
sympathetic with the actors. So if you do it as a meta meta
show, in other words, your start you show the background you have
the guy you show the guys eating steaks.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's what I think they're gonna do. That's
the way I would do it.
Yeah, that's the that's that makes it even worse. It makes it
worse. And it you it makes it kind of worse, but at the same
time, since you're in on the joke, yeah. You get to kind of
snicker at
these idiots and of course, what happens is because of the
controversy, more people are gonna watch it. That that's
that's the sick part of it.
Yeah, no, it's totally sick. The whole thing is however terrible
however.
Rhino LeMans is a market man. And I have knights show me what
you got. Make you my bitch.
That's now there you go. It's over this. Oh, she'll
She'll get over it. But you know she I mean she I mean apparently
they had this whole thing and where the the women in the in
the tribe are like, you know, painting their their boobs and
running around and she did it too because he's like, I'm going
to be a part of it. That's not funny, John.
Come on. And no, it's funny in a very sick, sick, twisted way.
I'm sad. I'm saddened by it. I'm saddened by this because she
didn't get it all
she got out of it was in more deeper knowledge that the whole
show business game is crap.
I tried that. I said honey, think of the law. Lesson you've
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your question hey thanks Dad good good
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Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah that'd be fun
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I think you miss all the nuance. And in fact, you weren't
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By the way, we now have the BioCurious section. Which
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notes. I'm gonna get me a kilt. Yeah, I think it's a good look.
You all Yeah, that's a great look. I like the the camo kilt
is the one I'm going for. Oh, yeah. Um, so here's something
that someone tweeted us and normally John will have the
clip. He didn't have it. But after that, I want to kind of
bookmark our fantastic donation segment with idiocy on American
American media are actually in media in general because of the
story before the donation second was about the European EU media.
This is the beauty pageant. Contestant John.
Yeah, I made it. Right. I feel bad that you didn't clip it.
Yes. I have a reason for not clipping it. Okay, what's up?
Well, I my clipping system was down. I had to reload
everything. And by the time I did I lost. I just just had I
have too many clips. That's why
you did have a lot of clips. Maybe I should not play it then.
No, no, I love this clip, play it out.
Among the five senses, what do you prefer to have? If you can
only have one? And why would you? Repeat?
I love that. Would you like me to repeat the question? Thank
you for that wonderful question. If I have two out of five senses
out there, see, because seeing is the best lens that we can
never see. Because seeing is believing and believing into
what you see is perfect. And all census seeing really be
wonderful. Because thank you
I love at the end of the clip, you gotta look at it in the show
notes. She answers whatever her answer is. And then she like
immediately, like struts her stuff and throws out her chest.
Look at me. Wasn't that good?
I wish she had a better go six. It was so less echoey the
that's the only one I have we need
more of these sorts of clips.
Why?
I think that the best.
Have you been following this? This, this initiative to get the
rest of the 5 billion people in the world on the Facebook this.
This initiative? Yeah, it's like with Facebook and interested in
the Opera browser and Nokia and all these guys are like we're
going to connect the rest of the world to Facebook. Have you been
following
that? No. This is not not following this at all.
Oh, this is this is a big push. It's like the one you know. So
why? Well, why? Because we need to have everyone in the database
of course. here's the here's the Zuckerberg on CNN, India, where
they're talking about this. It's pretty funny. I just I just love
the Indian hosts
the Big Interview with Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
on the rights to the internet. Zuckerberg wants
the to get the next 5 billion people access to the internet.
Guess more on that. Okay, thank you very much. I
use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with our
friends but they're they're gonna use it to decide what kind
of government they want and get access to health care for the
first time ever.
Your health care is going to come through Facebook John Yeah.
Nuts you
Yeah, I'm connecting with family hundreds of miles away that they
haven't seen in decades and getting access to the Internet
is a really big deal.
The Internet, why why is he equating Facebook with the
Internet?
Oh, he's just saying that he's pretending that it's the
internet, but he really means Facebook. But you're gonna get
your health care through Facebook to do it. It's also
good for Facebook and these other companies, right? Because
mobile access to the internet is where your business lives right?
Now, if we were just focused on on making money, the first
billion people that we've connected have have way more
money than the rest of the next 6 billion combined. It's not
fair. But but it's the way that it is. And we just believe that
everyone deserves to be connected on the internet. So
we're putting a lot of energy towards this.
But it's not about money. Not at all. No, not at all. Little
transparent mark. To little obvious what you're doing. An
opera I didn't know that opera was Do you know that the Opera
browser. I thought it was this great. Like it was the
alternative. And it's this, you know, non level. And
at one point, like early on in the late 90s, or mid mid 90s, it
was actually a better browser than anything else. And they're
the ones who invented tabbed browsing, right. And there was a
compact kernel, it was extremely quick was a really good product.
Right? It was a great product. And but apparently, they are now
on on the Nokia phones and all these kind of like the low the
low rent phones that are that are the rest of the world is
buying to get on Facebook, right. But the way it works is
they the reason why they're involved in this consortium is
because they compress everything runs through the opera servers
and they compress all the data. So that you get a good
throughput, a good experience a good Facebook experience on your
phone in, you know, in India in the outback, or in somewhere in
Central Africa. And that's inherently wrong. You know, to
be to be jamming everything through a central server, I
mean, you might as well give everyone a Blackberry, you want
to do that.
So they can probably do that. I would run it through the NSA
servers and then have them compress it that's bring it back
out. Kind of my point is I'm just I was just surprised. I
didn't know that opera did that I thought Opera were the good
guys. But they're not.
Nobody's the good guys anymore.
And so on throughout the week, we've been talking a lot about
the email and how that works. And you know, the the how email
is being co opted as a new marketing platform, by Google,
certainly, but by others as well. And it went back because I
remembered, all of a sudden, I remember, remember the company
that you have to pay money to if you want your email to be
delivered. It's called what was called strong mail. And they
changed their name recently to strong view. And these guys, if
you if you take if you have a subscription to make sure that
your company's email is delivered to your clients. I
think it's like $150,000 a year. That's just to get delivered.
But what's interesting is that even the CEO of strong mail have
it here says that, you know, they've been duped by this
promotions tab. I think this is interesting that you know all
these guys like the MailChimp guys the strong view forming
strong mail guys. They all like whoa, you know what happened
here? I think I think this is much bigger than we realize. And
we're just not uncovering the real dirty stuff yet.
Yeah, there's something wrong with this picture. And we've
been I mean, it hurts everybody. I mean, our numbers are down a
lot so drastically. And then we're I'm still getting feedback
from people I'm collecting anyone who sends a note in the
same stuff comes in all this is first it was in spam. Well, it
says it always came through, then all of a sudden it started
going into spam. So I bitched about that by clicking on a
button, not spam, not spam users not spam. And then it started
showing up in the promotions button. Yeah. And so it's just
like there's two layers of this of this. And then meanwhile,
there's still other people. That's it's never been a
problem. So this is not like they're not doing it. Well, I
guess. Yeah. Well, hold
on. A lot of people are saying I get my Gmail on my you know,
using the Mail app on my iPhone. Yeah, this is not going to go to
promotions there. You're gonna get it. If you're using the web
interface. That's where it goes wrong. That's where that's where
the problem is.
Yeah, well, there's that. Anyway, it's, I'm surprised that
I think it's some extortion racket going on here. You just
mentioned that $100,000 So way to make money. Yeah. I'm
surprised. I think guys haven't done it. Well,
they've also Google also just really, if you see your search
results sucking, which I you know, I've been using this AAC
thing. I'm really enjoying the crazy search results I'm getting
from that. But they just released penguin 2.0 or
whatever. So now there's no even less chance you'll get the
search results you want. I guess that's their new slogan. You
know, it's like no spam and less good results. That's all coming
to you from Matt Cutts over here at Google. And and they've also
done away with the keyword tool. You know, how you could do your,
you know, see what keyword searches were great for your
website. That's all they've changed that now to that taking
everything away. That's there. I think. I think you're gonna see
Google in trouble soon. I can feel it, John, tell that tell
Horlicks that, William?
Well, I don't know who to talk to. The Google people do not
have a press agency that's worth a crap that you have to you.
There's nobody to talk to. And then you can ask them whatever
questions you want, that once in a while, they get back to you on
something rarely, but they do. But it's, again, rarely, if you
ask him a hard question, like the one question I keep wanting
to ask or get an answer to I've been bitching about this is
that, and I, I can see why they're kind of secretive.
Because I think a lot of the stuff they do is like, they
don't want to mention it. There. Navigator has just gone down the
toilet. It used to be the best navigator you could punch in a
number always take you to the right place to take your own
traffic jams and all the rest. Now it doesn't even show you the
traffic jams on the on the main screen. So you don't know what
you're up against. It doesn't take you around any traffic
jams. And half the time it can't find the place. And in fact, I
was in San Francisco. And it also Oh yeah, the main thing it
used to do the old Google navigator. So I think they lost
a license to something, they bought something else and they
don't want to talk about it. Because it's, you know, a
secret.
Oh, that's why that's why they bought ways maybe. But I
think that's the way the reason one of the reasons they bought
ways but ways isn't isn't the solution of whatever they had
originally. Because here's an example, as I'm in San
Francisco, this happened to be again, just recently, I got
something punched in and I am going I see this traffic's
blocked. So I take a left and go down another street. The old
navigator would recalculate immediately figuring that you
were taking this turn this does not scheduled for a reason and
reroute your round something. Right? And it was just the the
crappy or versions of the of these navigators did the
following. And now the Google one does the following which is,
which is this, turn around, make a U turn, make a U turn, make a
U turn. And I ran into this? I ran into this in Los Angeles
when I was going I was trying to get to the Burb the at the
Burbank Airport, but I was out in Malibu, and I'm and I, I was
not going to go up to 405 because it was stopped dead that
you couldn't even get on the 405. But it was the shortest
route I kept saying now go on the 405. No, I'm not going on
the 405 wheel shirt. Anyone
from LA will tell you you never get on the 405 No matter what
Google navigator
keeps telling you to get on the 405. So I'm going out wilsher
And it keeps telling me to turn around and I look at the route.
I'm supposed to make a U turn. I'm talking about five miles
out, make a U turn go back five miles and get on the 405. It
wasn't until I was on Sunset way, way past where the thing
finally said Oh, I see oh, he must be going a different
direction. And they rerouted me it took forever. The old
navigator never did that. All right. So something's amiss.
Yeah,
well, I'm saying it's a pet peeve? No, no, it's I say big
short on Google. Big Short, they're in trouble. Sergey just
is getting divorced. You know, the whole thing is falling apart
is getting divorced. Oh, you didn't know this?
No. Oh, yeah. Like the married? No, he
was at someone's else's wedding. Now he's been with this girl for
a while she was the genome like, like DNA sequencing girl or
something. Remember, she had that little company? Yeah. Yeah.
So they've been
thinking it's gotta be an unpleasant situation. Well, that
Yeah, I
mean, it's certainly distracting.
Yeah, for sure.
All right. To wrap it up today tomorrow. We are scheduled to
host the next round of the Austin based Obama bought dinner
okay, this is gonna be good. And Zemi we have to talk food later.
Yes. I mean,
I have a recipe from search Scott of The no agenda armory,
which he sent me he apparently was also a chef. But you know, I
don't want to I want to wing that by you. You tell me if you
think that's good. Okay, but most importantly, we'll have
Professor Russell
will be at the dinner of course, the days that the brain Doctor
Yeah. And I'm going to ask him about this bogus story about
these you know, this was all over the technology news about
scientists controls colleagues hand and first human brain to
brain interface over the internet. Yeah. What is this?
Well, he'll tell you. Bullcrap is what he's gonna say. I'm
sure apparently they got some. It's like it's a real low
bandwidth, EKG. You know?
You I'll explain let me tell you what this is. This is so this is
part of of course the President's 100 million dollar
BRAIN Initiative. You know what this is gonna be? This is this
is what they're doing. Pretty soon, you know, we're all gonna
get used. It's gonna be so cool. Right? CNET Oh yeah, so cool.
It's awesome. This is high tech. This is great. Yes. Oh, I like
have you and, and the quantified self. I want to take my
brainwaves. Before you know it. You're gonna go to the airport.
They're gonna say, Oh, yes, please, before you get on the
plane. Just put the little cap on. Let's see. If you're
thinking properly. Oh, you have bad thoughts. Mr. Curry, you
can't fly with us today. That's where this is headed people. I'm
telling you. This is all about the little brain cap. You
disagree?
It's a funny idea. It's nice to say I would say yeah. The more
likely scenario is the last clip. If you look at all the
clip list. There's one at the very end play it and I think it
summarizes the show.
Okay, too much cleavage.
There you go.
That would do it. Ladies and gentlemen. He couldn't clip
everything. But he got that one.
Very much clearly much cleavage.
All right, a little bit long today. But
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