Oh no, we did this. I'm great. I will hope everybody listens to
me. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Stanley October 31 2013. Time for your gizmo nation media
assassination episode 561. This is no agenda. Scaring little
children for fun and profit at the traverse high tide out in
the capital of the Roadstar. State Austin Tejas in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
and Silicon Valley where it's always Halloween. I'm John C.
Dvorak. Greg Levin Buzzkill.
I'm sure you guys have always celebrated this Bogot of
holiday.
Yeah, when the kids were younger. Yeah, today is 1031 13
That's cool. Oh, another opportunity missed? Yes. We are
so good. We are so good at this.
3113
Oh my god, I guess a fantastic 13113 That was a fantastic
donation opportunity. Once again, Miss Yeah, lost it lost
cause that's okay, John, because my day started off really,
really well.
What happened? Well, I got
the Smithsonian Institute. That's kind of like I remember
going there.
I was a member I'm also a member of National Geographic.
Are you a member of the Smithsonian?
No. I used to be
well when when we used to go visit Uncle Donna not Meg in in
the DC area.
But I mean used to you never going to see him again.
No, no. When I was younger, like really much younger we get
family like vacation here we
go from it is the way you start those stories. You get it when
he got older. When I was
a kid and we were living in Kensington, in Kensington,
Maryland. And from time to time we'd go we'd go down to the to
the hub, the mothership to visit with Uncle Donna Nan Meg. Now
this is only a few years that I remember this because that was
in Africa for a while and then after that in Holland, but I
remember and they would always take us and and Janee would
always take us to the Smithsonian. And you can see
like the capsule, the Mercury capsule, and I always looked at
it tonight. It wasn't in space. Ever had that? When you see that
thing? You have close? Like
really? No. Is that the original? Or is that some phoney
copy?
That claim is the original but I always remember as a kid looking
at the thing going, Nah, no, there's no way. The door doesn't
even close. Right? This is not this is not true. So I've always
been a fan of the Smithsonian, I've always felt that it was
kind of an interesting event. So use
this thing. The whole thing is bogus. If Sony is just a bunch
of artefacts that aren't real well
here from the Smithsonian website. They have a new
addition to the Smithsonian, they're very proud. And they
have a copy of the artefact with the deed of gift. Number 3189 or
eight. The phone that helped Andy Carvin report the Arab
Spring is now in the Smithsonian.
You're kidding me?
It's really here.
What do you do steal the phone from the hotel?
No, it's like an iPhone
three. Oh, flee.
Andy Carvin is a man of many titles, digital media anchor,
real time news DJ, and online community organiser to name a
few. But the one he is most comfortable with is storyteller.
Oh, Paul.
Oh, yeah.
Throw up in my mouth. NPR, social media strategist carbon,
use Twitter during the Arab Spring to communicate with
protesters in the Middle East and verify eyewitness accounts
from the front lines. Most of the time when he was on his
iPhone in the United States, the hero. He recently published a
book about his work distant witness. Carbon has donated his
old phone to the American History Museum, which will
include it in American enterprise and the exhibition of
that so somebody
finally figured out a way to get a write off on those clunkers.
Man are doing this all wrong, John. Okay, I mean, we've six
years 561 episodes of the best podcast in the universe. And
carvings phone is now in a museum.
Well, carvings for Maryam to carve and you used to ridicule
him mercilessly. Well, the Arab Spring
turned out to be Bogut IV, and then you know, the whole thing
is dumb. And yeah, everyone knows it.
Well, I don't understand why they why they bought into that
phone. Some hidden messaging going on in the fall. retrieve
this. So this is a very long news announcement and blog post
and it's an interview at the same time. Oh, oh, my goodness.
Here it is. They have a picture here. This must be at the
newsroom from left to right day. David Weinberger, Rob Patterson,
Andy Carvin and Jeff Jarvis at NPR HQ. Yeah.
Is that picture at the museum? Or is that just
it's on the smithsonian.com website for some reason they're
relevant to the story. I can't
What did they got to do? This guy's got to do with anything.
But that that. I found that like two minutes before we went on
air like I have to share that with you. That is very
disturbing.
Yeah, I'd say.
So it's Halloween here on the day that we're recording this.
John, your most memorable Halloween costume?
I dressed up as an adult.
Okay, really from door to door? Okay, seriously now for one
second?
When I was a little kid, my parents made a robot costume
that was quite Oh,
really? I can just see you. Do you think that influenced
with a bunch of stuff my father was working as an electrician
someplace and he got this weird kind of this coated these tubes
that were made out of some sort of aluminium fibre. And so that
would be my arm so I actually had arms that could be moved but
they still were looked like solid pieces of metal it was
actually while I was away I think I wanted the award delta
or grade for that costume.
Do you think it influenced your career choice later in life as a
writer of things about technology?
No, not at all. It was just a costume
I remember my the I remember the first two cars they sucked I was
a leprechaun one year seriously mom a leprechaun images put gay
and kick me kick me. And then. And then it was Casper. Casper
is a gay ghost. It's like another gay Halloween.
Maybe they're trying to tell you some that they started to act
out too. Which makes it
Yes. I'm telling you this is very very, very annoying.
Amy is the one who's the costume that she has made. She likes to
make these custom when the kids were younger than and we still
kept she kept them all there in storage.
Oh really? Oh, you mean archived?
There were archives yeah, there's there was costumes such
as a one of the kids I think was JC in it was one of those
customers that you think Benny Hill use this bit? Where you're
in your your? You're writing a dragon and the feet of the
dragon or your feet and then you have phoney legs around the
dragon?
Yeah, of course. Yes.
You know exactly what we're talking about. Yeah.
Do you imagine how many hours it takes to sew up something like
that? It was like any excuse why?
Why? I think you know these because, of course this morning
I had to cruise through Facebook just to see. And it's Facebook
is made for this type of Bogut of holiday. It's great because
you might look how great I made my kid look. Yeah. Wow. Okay, or
my cat. Look at my awesome makeup. It's selfie Heaven is
when
you go from door to door with the kids. Oh, that's cute or
what are you? Yeah, I'm a witch. What do I look like you idiot.
So we have a plan. Apparently here and Travis heights. I think
they dumped kids off with school buses to go walk up and down the
boulevard here the stream certain neighbourhoods that are
targeted. Yeah, so apparently this is one of them. Oh, so
Mickey and she's been making all this stuff to hang in the trees
and she's got me so we're gonna sit there I think with with
white face makeup with top hats. And if I know Miki reasonably
scary looking and we're going to get drunk and just sit there and
just wait for the kids to appear and just go
also, I think on top of that one thing I used to enjoy Yeah, was
setting up a speaker system. Oh, like a PA Yeah, with the most
horrendous sounding you know, Wilhelm screams and things
coming out of it. That was just,
oh, I got a great one. Okay. Okay, so I'll pull it up to
speak well, of course it's no longer stereo system I'll
set up like a mono is fine. Okay. All right.
So and I'll play this on a loop.
Great from receita. Here she is brilliant. Give it up.
Just play that over and over whenever the kids
parents coming over wondering what the hell's going on
with the kids walk. Right this was this is a better one. This
is a better one.
Next Bambi. Bye. ambi I to this day,
Bambi to the stage, that little kids walking up the porch. Yeah.
If you could queue it. So you have a button when you see the
kids come and you push the button.
I think we could. I think I can handle that. I think I have
things that I can queue that will in fire when I push the
button. I think I can work on that. Yeah. All right. I'm happy
for a little bit of distraction, quite honestly. Because man,
it's been the weirdest week when it comes to stuff to analyse.
Because you know, when you have all the when you have one huge
thing going on. You know, it's bad enough, but now you have a
number of things happening. And now I'm looking for okay, what
are we missing? What is the distraction that weren't this
something? There are things going on people that I now are
taking advantage of the situation?
Well, there's a couple of things I'm noticing. Okay, what do you
got? Well, first of all, they they keep trying to I'm let me
just start with this premise that they may be skipping the
six six week cycle. For whatever reason, because they keep going
to everything seems to be a call back. There's there's news.
piece after news piece about hurricane storm tropical
whatever storm Superstorm Sandy.
Was it Randolph?
No, Sandy Oh, because then
we had a storm here somewhere. There was a Randall for some
that I'm talking about these they're doing callbacks and
results is old news stories. And then they even tried the world
series ended yesterday with Boston winning. Yes. And so this
guy comes out. He's happy as a clam that he won. And the end
the day I got the little clip here. The guy who's interviewing
him, how do you feel that is a great championship? How do you
feel so far is because Boston got the bombing from the
marathon. He throws us propaganda in this interview,
and the guy blew essentially, luckily, and I thank him for
this basically blows him off.
It'd be the best thing that we could possibly do. We know it
and up here. That was our goal. We worked hard every single day.
We're World Champs.
A saying you've won a World Series. But we all know what
happened here in April at the marathon. How much more
meaningful is it to win this series in this park, in this
city?
All those that were affected in the tragedy. Boston Strong.
Thank you very much.
from worst to first, from tragedy to triumph.
Unbelievable. was to be expected and if we'd known any better, we
would have done one of our predictions.
Somebody called us on a couple guys did. And it's absolutely
true. It's falls right into our formula. Yeah, who's gonna win?
We could have done it when you do it early. It's bad betting
odds are good.
I know. But it's bad when when we have a formula and it's been
right so many times. We're jaded, and we don't even use
whatever went out. Good. Good news, though. Just briefly,
really good news.
It's another instalment of
tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow. Tomorrow. I'll have a great
Sunday. Jam packed dinner with the robots.
I love the new theme. Yeah, isn't
it great? Yeah. Sir, Jeff, man, you know him.
That's gonna be great. That'll give us some material for
Sunday. Which is interesting, because on Sunday, we do the
show an hour earlier. Oh,
that's right. We have the time change. Right. Time change?
Yeah. So we will be for everybody who changes their
clocks, there won't be any difference, because they'll have
changed their clocks as we will have done. But for people like I
think in Arizona, the show is going to be at a different time.
Yeah. Because they don't change. Don't change nothing. Yeah, I
did find something. There was something going on, of course, I
was cruising through the the sea spans back and forth. And we
had, you know, more of the HCG, which is what I'm calling it
now. hCG. healthcare.gov hCG. We had more of that. And then we
had some more, you know, more NSA stuff. And of course, you
know, I had to cruise around and see what's going on. But then I
found something else going on. It was actually on C span one.
And it was the debate about HR 992, which has already passed in
the House of Representatives. And the and it's Democrats
really, really pushing for this bill and, and I'm like, Okay,
let me see what this is. And it was it took a little time to
kind of get into it. But once I understood what it was, it's
very interesting and makes total sense that this is all of a
sudden came out of committee and is now being debated and I think
the they, they will vote on it today or it's happening. And let
me play a little bit of the representative from Georgia.
David Scott. He is A Democrat from Georgia. And by the way, a
very interesting speaker and man, that's one of these big,
you know, well, like really like dandy dressed. Men, George
Howell from the Georgia. I'm just really he's really got
something really appealing and the way he talks. Of course,
he's a total bankster douchebag.
Mr. Speaker, we have before us.
I want to learn how to talk to this. Hello, children.
Welcome this true welcome.
Before we have before us a zombie, a witch and a Google,
no important bill facing the viability, the financial
security and the stability of the financial system within the
United States. And throughout the world.
It sounds pretty important. He had my attention.
We're dealing here with a $712 trillion piece of the world
economy.
This is the first time I've heard this number. Typically,
the number is 600 trillion. You know what I'm talking about?
712.
Normally,
this is the first specific, very
specific, that's why I'm like whoa, who pause Hold on a
second. I'm paying attention. Now. Normally, when they talk
about the worldwide derivatives, it's 600 trillion. So now we
have a number 712. This
is I know what this bill is right? It's the swaps
push out bill. Now my friends who are in opposition to this,
certainly have some legitimate points. No question about that.
Okay. We it's the southern it's the southern politeness had a
meltdown. We had a meltdown. Banks and members on Wall Street
did wrongdoing, they did wrongdoing,
do declare I have the vapours of the wrongdoing they have done.
But this isn't the bill to punish them for doing that wrong
building
like you're ever gonna punish
the wrong building the last time? Oh, I
don't know. I mean, it didn't roll that back a second. I
thought he said wrongdoing
to punish them for doing that wrong building.
Like building somebody said he's building he's, he's on drugs.
The wrong building. Yeah. He
said wrong building.
That's really weird. Well, maybe
punish them for doing that wrong building.
He says building you're right. All right. Well, they all right.
We punish
them for wrongdoing by working with the regulators, and putting
in fact in motion, not just civil penalties, not just
financial penalties. But criminal actions. Yeah. Oh, wait
for that. But we do that in a another place at another time.
We have already approached that with the CFTC to us criminal
actions. If any of this kind of shenanigans happen again
shenanigans. worldwide financial collapse, shenanigans,
we're here. We're here to make sure that our banking system
that our economy that has to work on the world stage has not
a dis advantage.
So what is that? I said Ice Cube drop stuff into the pot. Is that
your Is it your Scotch? It sounds like ice cubes. That's
funny. So this is the so called swaps push out bill, and I'll
try and explain it. I understand swaps, because I've worked on
derivative systems. And I I understand understood how they
worked very early on.
They're trying to regulate the credit default swaps. It's no,
no, no,
that's incorrect. That's incorrect. are in quite the
opposite. Quite the opposite.
In the buzzer, the Thank you.
Yes, the Dodd Frank Bill act etc. Had a specific clause a
specific section 716. And in 716, it stated that banks needed
to take their Swaps and Derivatives of successful
derivatives exposure and put them into separate vehicles,
which means a new company that is outside of the FDIC Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation system. So that should these now
we have a number $712 trillion worth of derivatives come
falling down like a house of cards, or a huge domino event
typically done in Japan. God I love it when those guys do that
shit. Then it would not come down to the taxpayers to bail
out the banks because they are in FDIC insured V vehicles. And
this is now being repealed with this bill. And and if we listen
to Mr. Scott here, he says, The our our banks will be at a
disadvantage, if they have to now, you know, actually set up
different corporations to run their derivatives business. And,
you know, no one else has to do that boohoo for our banks. And
that was a very interesting conversation because some people
said, it, look, it took 66 years, add to four to repeal
Glass Steagall, and look where it got us. And now, after only
three years, we're going to repeal one of the most important
portions of section 716 of the Dodd Frank Act. This is we're on
a on a fast track to hell. And I think they're right in this
case. And I find it despicable that we have people like this.
This is Scott jabroni. Saying, hey, you know, this is a we can
punish bankers another time don't punish the bankers with
this bill.
What's this guy's name? David Scott,
Georgia. And of course, you can you can see that if you can see
why the banks would prefer to have the derivatives inside the,
the FDIC system inside their their banking organism as it as
we know it today. So that if something does fail, if so, and
this, by the way, is really Citi Group, I think Goldman Sachs
already has adhere to the to the Dodd Frank Act, and Citi Group
has probably about half of the world's derivatives hanging off
of their nut sack. So to me, it's quite obvious like Citibank
is like, Oh, crap, we better keep this in here. Because we're
going to take a bath on this stuff. And we need someone else
to help us like, I know, there's Americans out there. This is
kind of known as the city group bill. But city group is not
small, by any by any means. And, and this, of course, gets zero
reporting, because it you people here swaps, Drew Oh, I don't
want to
know. Yeah, well, that's true. It's boring.
It won't be so boring when we have to bail out Citi Group
again. And we what did we gave him like half a trillion last
time.
They've gotten plenty of money from us. Yeah, no, I
agree. I agree. And it's funny, because you know, and I'm
looking at JP,
Morgan's gotta be sitting on a bunch of this stuff, too. Well,
you know, something very interesting. So there was
another event that took place. Over the past couple of days. It
was the swearing in ceremony of our brand new FBI director,
James Comey, who, as we know, comes from the banking world.
Not specifically he's been in. He's been in government before,
but he came from essentially a huge hedge fund. And he was on
the board at what is the big money laundering bank?
HSBC, HSBC?
And so I don't know if he's still on the board, he probably
had to leave. That would make sense. And so he became the FBI.
And the guy, by the way, is a head taller than President
Obama. Which leads me to probably dunk on him. Which
leads me to believe that the President may not be the six
feet tall that everyone says he is. I was like, wow, that's
weird. Like six three or something? No, but like a head
taller John. He's like lurch dollars,
like six inches. Yeah, I'm telling you, I guess it's more
like eight inches.
So they have this big ceremony. And this and this Comey guy, ah,
I already really am not liking him, really. And his wife and it
smells a leak from beginning to end. It just drips off of this
guy. But here's the interesting thing as the assistant as the
deputy director gets ready for the inauguration, we find out
something very similar. There's something that this our new FBI
director has in common with the President. Go figure.
We are here today for two purposes. First, as many of you
know, Director Comey was sworn in during a private ceremony in
Attorney General hold his office on September 4.
Now this is like what, really in a private ceremony in holder's
office. And so this is where to me it was like hold on a second.
Wait a minute. This. This is the guy going after Jamie Dimon. It
is the FBI, by the way, who probes the WHO IS is doing one
of these huge multibillion dollar probes against JP Morgan.
So it makes total sense for a competing Board of Directors
former banker hedge fund guy to become the boss sworn in like
secretly quickly just before this whole JP Morgan thing falls
falls apart and Morgan has to report you know, $23 billion in
reserves for litigation and finds craw that's that's just a
slight coincidence, but it gets better.
But we've reviewed the rules and regulations and determined that
oath was invalid because his spouse was not holding the
Bible. Uh huh. So officially, I've been director. In second,
equally important, we wanted to be able to officially welcome
Director Comey in his family into the FBI family. Yeah.
So to inaugurations could be two of these guys. I'm just saying.
Yeah. Why not? Two presidents.
This seems to be like a theme with these guys. That will just
do over because his wife wasn't holding the Bible. Seriously.
I don't believe that. No, it was,
you know, if it was a joke, it was just very funny. It was a
joke. It wasn't very funny. It really wasn't very funny.
Yeah, anyway, but I totally a joke, and it wasn't funny.
You're right.
But he's the way that it kind of clicked for me. September 4.
Yeah, this is so this is, uh, you know, about six weeks ago.
Seven weeks ago, this is exactly when you know, when all this
stuff came down with JP Morgan. I'm telling they're cleaning out
the cleaning house that getting back at people their
positioning, someone's getting screwed and it's diamond
definitely. But the people are jockeying for position and this
guy, it's amazing how AHIMA he must have the goods on so many
people are, you know, he must have the best tip sheet in
Washington that everyone wants to be on his email list. He
said, unbelievable. This guy got confirmed.
Yeah, no, it's totally odd.
Other than that, he's a banker.
You got bankers running the FBI at Central? Well, that means you
know where they're going to be headed. They're going to be
headed at the banks. What do you mean? They're gonna start taking
names and you're gonna be? Yeah, no, I think theory is right.
But it's what I mean. Yeah. But it's only going to be a couple.
I mean, we have to have winners and losers that Oh, please. The
banking sector is so competitive.
Yeah, I know. But the idea is, you know, when you get when you
can go after these guys, you can start to I think there's gonna
be a money grab the FBI confiscates all kinds of stuff.
They have all these things. I mean, they take money from, I
mean, the government or the local local authorities and the
FBI and all the rest of them. They do everything they can to
confiscate stuff, right. And have you They confiscate like
billions and billions of dollars, the tax coffers need
all the money they can get.
I mean, it's not it's not just tax coffers, they get to do
stuff with that money. Yeah, strip get to go to buy hookers
and all kinds of stuff. And if you notice how both the FBI and
the CIA have are getting like No, no blame, no finger pointing
no nothing in all these revelations, and all these
hearings, and everything, and now even Dianne Feinstein comes
out, full review of the NSA stop, this is crazy. We can't
have this. I went back to our original theory, John, or our
original theory that this is the CIA versus the NSA.
Right? I don't think that there has been dropped. No,
but I do have some additional things that became very
interesting. As former deputy CIA, Mike Morrell, did an
interview on CBS 60 minutes. And he said a number of things. In
fact, here's the opening of this of this interview, where he's
intro he's never done in a public interview. First time
ever as he's resigning after, oh, 33 years. It's it's really
Oh, yeah. Seriously. 33
years. Yeah. And that means we have to take this with a grain
of salt. Yeah. Well, and
he Well, he Well, yes.
Or it's code? Definitely. We're supposed to pay attention. I
think we're I don't know,
I don't know, either, but I was paying attention. And the worst.
What do you think is the worst part of all the revelations that
actually would benefit? People like us? You know, you and I
tried to figure this thing out, but of all the the Snowden
leaks, which, of course, you know, we'll get into that in a
second. But, you know, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, and
everyone has everything it's not like Glenn Island is not like
Snowden is sitting there like, Oh, let me PGP encrypt this and
send it to you.
Right. We already discussed this in the last show, which is that
he gave all the documents both to the Guardian Greenwald and I
guess that I tell
you something else. You know what happened after that?
Greenwald and everyone went hey, thanks. See ya.
Pretty I'm sure yeah.
Oh yeah, this is the hey thanks, buddy. Well, we Greenwald's
definitely get one of those guys who took over the car and kick
you out. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. It's it gets a bit choppy drive. You're out. You're
out. Oh, but we can get you. Here. Here's a ticket to Moscow.
And you can leave in the transit lounge for a while. We haven't
figured that part out.
Julian Assange his pen pals.
Yeah, here's Julian's email. And here is I have an old the I have
an iPod first generation with about 10 songs on it and enjoy
your life. Thanks a lot. You've made me a wealthy man. We don't
need you. Screw you. Okay, so But really, this is all been
about NSA, not about CSS CIA at all. Not about the FBI. But what
is the what do you think the CIA would claim is the most
damaging? And but actually for them is really good. And for us
even better, can you? I mean, I don't even think this is known
that that he leaked this, this came out in August.
There's a lot of stuff that keeps coming forward that I say
I never heard this, right. I don't know. Just play it.
Mike Morel was deputy director of the CIA and gave us the only
television interview he's ever done ever. He spoke to us
largely because
the stop, but I think people out there should realise that when
something like this happens. He's never given an interview
before. Why would he suddenly out of the blue? Do one now it
makes no sense. Those types of guys that are that deep and
deeply entrenched in stuff they do they never come out of out of
the
closet closet? Cause they never No, of course not. And all of a
sudden now for 60 minutes. If something was brought out for a
purpose, and it's after 33 years, so this is a message we
have to pay attention nature of the spy business, keeps
successes in the shadows, but often pushes failures just like
our show. We keep our success in the shadows.
That's not by any. We want to
know under the bright lights. Morale operated in those
shadows, but his insights have helped shape the key foreign
policy.
The CIA wrote it, of course, does, obviously,
the last three presidents. The first thing we asked Morel about
was the last thing he did at the CIA taking part in the damage
assessment on Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked
classified documents about America's secret electronic
surveillance programmes.
I do not believe he is a whistleblower. I do not believe
he is a hero. I think he has betrayed his country.
How serious a hit is that to national security.
I think this is the most serious leak some serious compromised
the classified information in the history of the US
intelligence community,
most serious ever in the history of but what is it really
because of the amount of it or the type, the amount and the
type. But of the hundreds of pages of NSA documents that
Snowden has leaked, morale pointed to one in particular
that has caused a great deal of damage to US intelligence. It's
a copy of the top secret document, the CIA calls its
black budget, what value would that have to an adversary,
the real damage of leaking that document was that certainly they
could focus their counterintelligence efforts on
those places where we're being successful and not have to worry
as much about those places where we're not being successful.
Kind of like handing over the playbook to the other team.
Yeah, yeah. The question is, What team are we talking about?
What are we what? Wait a minute. So what we heard here is that
the CIA is most concerned about the black budget document.
Well, the question is, are they really or do they? Are they
pointing something out? And I think it's, they're pointing
something out. Because I went, I went to find this. So this
apparently was published in August. I missed it. In the
Washington Post. Well, that kind of explains why I missed it.
And, and, and, of course, they're not publishing the
entire document. They published like five pages of 130. So you
know, I hate this. I really, really hate this about how this
is working. Because, you know, they make a whole story. They
make pretty graphics on the show notes, of course, 561 dot any
shownotes.com they have big headlines, and then they show
you some extrapolated information, but certainly not
the entire document. You can't even you can download or
download documents source and it's like four pages, that goes
from page 14 to 62 133. Half of it's redacted because they're
doing this with sending you a sanction. It's obvious that it's
okay, you can put this out. And when you look at it, headline
screams $52.6 billion, the black budget, and then it shows you
and I think this is the whole point where the money goes. Now
you think that the NSA gets all the money and has all the
people. Isn't that kind of what we've been told led to believe
led to believe? Well, the NSA certainly does okay with $10.8
billion. But the top number one agency with $14.7 billion is the
CIA. And if you look at what they're spending it on, and you
look at how many people that
have a National Reconnaissance Office are God knows
the CIA, but not the national. That's the satellite guys.
That's the guys that keep shooting shit into space all the
time from Vandenberg. That's NRO. That's,
are they associated with the NSA or the CIA?
Oh, I'm pretty sure it's CIA. i But I may be wrong. But if you
look
at station signals, it said, when you word the use of the
word signal that goes right to the NSA, I'm not possible that
you have 14.7 plus 21.1. Combined for NSA in our Oh,
if you well. Here's the next category I looked at. Employ
number of employees, NSA 23,400. CIA at 3675 full time employees.
Wow, the CIA is the mack F and daddy of this thing. And I
believe that along with our theory that this is really just,
you know, CIA, of course, let's not forget, or let's let us
remember that Snowden worked for the CIA, that he said he hated
the NSA, the CIA didn't tell the NSA when he was put on NSA job
through his contractor, that that he you know, that he said,
Oh, I'm gonna blow blow blow it wide open on these guys. There's
a lot of stuff that you know that we now that points to this
really being a CIA op. And in the, in the midst of all this,
in the midst of all this NSA stuff, there's this really
feeble attempt by Amnesty International. Like you know,
they killed a grandmother with a drone The CIA is not good.
Right? I mean, that they've been trying to get this into the
news. And this by
the way, I want to stop you here because the the graphs about
who's employing who are very, are very cuz he he confused at
three 675 is not CIA.
It's full time civilian employees.
of all, apparently, of NSA plus the CIA, because the military
position is 23 400 is just as NSA employee. 64%. Of all
military president say that 23 Foreigners is the is the number
for the NSA. This is this is very vague.
I'll agree with you. I'm not sure what your now you're making
me question what the information is. But also, I mean, it's a, it
looks like an aeroplane seating chart. Just gave me the frickin
data. So I can do it myself, which they don't give
you. The all they tell you is there's 107 107,000 employees in
the intelligence quote unquote, community, right? Well, this,
this graph, give us a breakdown between the two. I would assume
there's more CIA people. But I don't think it's this by by a
factor of four.
Well, back to the top. Looks to me like CSI CIA has all the
money.
Well, not if you combine the NRO money with the NSA money, then
they don't. And then based on our theory, which would say that
the CIA wants more money, and that the NSA shouldn't be
getting as much as they're getting. I
think it's different. So I've just really been thinking about
this. So the NSA. I watched the whole half hour interview again
that the plan propagandists stick with the crazy music that
that Kaiser Alexander did with his blogger, oh, that thing,
okay. Now, why did he do this? It's because he can't hear the
CIA owns the media, not the NSA. NSA does not own Hollywood, they
don't own the media. They don't they don't know how to do this.
And they in hindsight, now that I'm thinking of this, this
Alexander is being bullied. I'm telling you, he's being he's
acting
like a kid who was being bullied this way he talks he talks like
to Leave It to Beaver kids. And you know, he's got a nervous
quality and he's defensive and he said, I have a I have one of
the clips here I do, which would be worth playing. Let's do it,
which is the Kaiser Alexander clip which one is that I have to
lead. I got foreign
partners or story turning around espionage. foreign partners.
Okay.
National Security Agency Director,
head of the US is National Security Agency has counted
claims that his organisation collected phone data on millions
Europeans describing them as completely false. During a
congressional hearing, General Keith Alexander went on to say
the NSA acts within the law to stop militant attacks and works
closely with America's NATO allies.
The sources of the metadata include data legally collected
by NSA under its various authorities, as well as data
provided to NSA by foreign partners.
Right? Exactly. So he is on the defensive, I am now really
starting to believe that not only does he feel like he's
doing everything right by the book, I think he is now John,
you and I both know big big data is big do do the Amazon can
figure out what they're still trying to sell me Superman
underwear or something. It's like they have no idea what's
going on. I bought tickets to KLM on KLM to Amsterdam, every
single website I got is still trying to sell me tickets to
Amsterdam. So
big data is bullcrap. I know this is though I
have no idea what's going on. And these guys have no way of
parsing through he even said so much in this interview is like,
well, you if you have 70 million phone calls, it would take 2
million analysts 100,000 years isn't but what he is doing is
slurping everything up. And that's by design. And that's
really all that he's doing. And he's been doing a pretty good
job. However, he needs to be kept in check, because I think
he's been handing out candy to too many people. And I
are IRS. If yes, Ira shins we already know the IRS got
information. Yeah, but some taxpayers. We also know that the
FBI has made a move on some people based on these kinds of
illegal wiretaps.
Yes. But if you want to know who the real scary people are, the
NSA, they're not walking around with guns and dark guns and
sticking you with a needle you fall down dead. They're not
droning people. No, no, no, they're not here, listen to now
we gotta go back to this interview, where they talk about
the drones. And there's a reason why he's doing this. He's
basically saying, and this is Mike Morel, who never done an
interview, he is going to tell us how great the drones are and
what would happen if we didn't have the drone programme which
is surgical in precision in morels.
33 years in the CIA, perhaps the boldest change in how the agency
achieved results came literally out of the blue armed drones in
the skies over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen
became the go to weapon to kill al Qaeda terrorists. But the UN
and others have said they've also caused hundreds of civilian
fatalities.
This is a very precise weapon. Collateral Damage is very low.
It's not zero. I wish it was maybe two. But it is as close to
zero as we have gotten. With any weapons system in the history of
this country. There is no doubt in my mind that without these
without this these operations, that there would have been
another attack in the homeland that would have rivalled the
scale of 911.
But no doubt in my mind, he's proving a negative. I love it.
No doubt in my mind, on the scale of 911 to three buildings
would have collapsed at the speed of gravity.
That clip that I stole dig it up who which one I might have it
what which one? Well, it's the one of fines This is from four
years ago, it was finds Thien asking all these generals and
the head of the CIA and the head of National Intelligence. Oh,
yeah. Do you think we're gonna have an attack on the homeland?
The next
annex any minute now? Yes. Any minute. Yes.
Anything is gonna happen? The Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
We're gonna be attacked
any minute now. I hear something overhead now. Okay, so this is
him. This is very important. This is the difference between
the NSA and the CIA, NSA suck basically carbonite.com This
backing everything up sucking it all up, and possibly able to
retrieve some stuff based upon if you've got an email address.
And yeah, I think we can kind of figure out you know, where it's
located and you know, we can find it. It's an interesting
project that he's but they
can't do any. They've got all this data, but they can't really
analyse it. No, you can't. They couldn't stop the bomb. Exactly.
You can't stop and you can't do this in real time. 52 examples
or whatever the number was 54 Yeah, we're all bogus because
they couldn't find real a real example.
But the real people who need to get this department under
control because they need to shut up do as they're told, and
oh, by the way, nerd boy, get out. We're gonna put a new guy
in a Navy guy. So nerd boy, you're out. Did you stupid. You
got a big mouth. We don't like you. We're embarrassing you but
we are the CIA Central Intelligence Agency. We kill
people. We do some funky we'll get up you'd listen to someone's
iPhone, we get out of bed, put our pants on and kill people. We
drone them and we pay off leaders of former oil executives
posing as leaders with with hats made of goat foetus skin,
because that's what Karzai wears. And we pay him in cash.
And we're not ashamed to say it to pave
the way for military and intelligence operations,
including the use of drones. The CIA has reportedly supplied
between 50 and $100 million over the past decade, in direct cash
payoffs to President Karzai, foreign aid is one thing, but
cash in suitcases and backpacks to the President and key aides
has a different feel to it.
It's all foreign assistance to the Government.
Its foreign assistance, my friend pallets of money pallets
in backpacks, just and let me tell you, is I want to come back
to two things we've discussed in the past. Isn't it interesting,
that we no longer it has been outlawed by the press somehow,
to film flag draped coffins returning back from Afghanistan,
Iraq or anywhere for that matter? Most likely, because if
you believe in the continuance of the American hero story,
which was a true story from the Vietnam era, it's filled with
drugs. Everyone know everything, United Nations, the World Health
Organisation, everyone agrees that Afghanistan now supplies
over 90% of the world's Poppy products. Heroin,
right apparently controls Afghanistan is saying, of
course, and they're paying for it. And if you don't play the
game, they have a drone programme. Yes.
Is there a quid pro quo here about you take care of me. And
I'll allow unfettered drone operations in the country, even
though they're unpopular.
I think that those things that President Karzai allows the
United States of America to do, and Afghanistan and are in the
interests of Afghanistan.
Yeah. These guys have no shame. And this guy came out to say it.
And I think Johnny, he was sending a message to a number of
people and I'm taking it, I'm accepting this message from him.
CIA is really in charge of the whole deal. We run everything.
And we run the White House, we run the whole thing. And where's
Brennan and all this. You don't hear about Brennan anymore. Look
at the purge that has taken place. Look at everyone who's
gotten kicked out. They kicked out Petraeus. He was annoying.
Yeah, the chairs had to go and how do they do that? I mean,
classic classic CIA stuff in conjunction with the FBI. I
might add. They had no they had the FBI do all their nastiness
now. Now, let's go back for a second and talk about our friend
Glenn Greenwald. So who I'm I'm quite not I'm really I'm not
liking this guy. And we've gotten this impression that you
figured that out. Yeah. No. So he's, he is in control of of the
whole show. He is in control of what is being leaked out. But he
needs protection. And where's he getting his protection from?
Well, I'm going to submit to you that his protection comes from
the CIA, I think Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar, I'm not quite sure how
to pronounce it. Omidyar who has direct business dealings with
Booz Allen. Oh, where have I heard that name before? Booz
Allen Booz Allen. Oh, do you think Snowden was a contractor
for Booz Allen, up here on my radar? Who? Let me see that
wasn't easy in charge of eBay. eBay who bought PayPal? who
denied WikiLeaks payments? Isn't that the same Pierre Omidyar?
Thank goodness. Glenn has a friend at democracy now in Amy
Greenbaum who was just sitting there and she wants to be hired
by him so bad she's slipping off her chair. You can see it's
like, oh, this is so great. You impede you get to under $50
million dollars. It's journalists dream. It's a dream.
I tell you, I can we can save democracy. And show of course,
she has to ask the question about this Pay Pal thing.
Have you talked to Pierre Omidyar, are you concerned about
issues like well, you know, he's a founder of eBay, eBay cut off.
eBay owns PayPal, which cut off support for WikiLeaks, what
kinds of discussions have you had around that which certainly
would be relevant to what you want to do and your deep
concerns about control?
I'm going to call that a scripted question. What do you
How did you read that? Yeah,
I would say I wouldn't disagree with that. It's not a very
scripted very scripted.
sure that within the very first conversation or second
conversation I had with the air I asked him about that exact
issue. And what he told me was that at the time, and this is
absolutely true. He was in
a, unfortunately, a really bad Skype connection.
I've watched him. I've got some
clip, but he says, this was absolutely true. What Pierre
told me is absolutely true.
eBay, he was not involved in this management or were PayPal.
And then he actually disagreed with that assertion and a
newspaper that he owned on Hulu that he ended and, and our team
was working editorialised against the government's tax on
WikiLeaks and funding.
Okay, let me just replay this was very hard to hear. But he
says the first. No, the second time I ever talked to him. That
was the number one thing I asked the second time I talked to him,
because you know, it's just such a minor thing. He said, Look, I
was not the CEO. The guy is like in the top 50 richest people in
the world. He looked at his Omidyar Network, look at the
look at the corporations that invest with him and in him and
with his, these, some of them are direct come directly from
the intelligence community. This guy, if he says open up PayPal
to WikiLeaks, it opens up to WikiLeaks.
This is I wish he would have that cloud. Yeah,
this is and then to say, but he had a newspaper an online
newspaper in Honolulu, who editorialised against it. Oh,
sure. I'm convinced now absolute truth No, this is CIA. Or maybe
it's even a separate faction that we don't even understand
but this is the same people who are screwing the NSA who are
helping with this it's protection Greenwald you have
protection now your protect your a bitch you're protected man
now. And good luck with that. Because these things always come
around this not well, not in pretty will not in pretty.
No actually I was thinking about that today. There's there will
be a point where like in that scene from the we had the clip
of where you Why take a chance. Yeah, with Casino. That guy at
the end. You know, they said what do you think he's a good
guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. Yeah. Why take a
chance? Why take a chance and he's not you know, he's not a
let's say, Greenwell is not a made man in the agency by any
means. Yeah, he's, you'd be cut out.
And now now now something very interesting happened. And
someone is going a bit too far. And I And again, I'm going to
point to the agency because the agency hears i As you know, I'm
familiar with some protocols from the agency. Booze, is
approved, drinking of booze boozing, getting hammered.
Drinking drunk is all good. But philandering women, men,
transgendered, whatever you can get your hands on, but typically
we'd like guys with Gauss with skirts. Approved not a problem.
Drugs. Yeah, we move on. We sell them we use them for for
leverage. We don't do them. CIA does not do drugs is a no no.
Is this culture always been a smart policy of drug dealers?
Man, he was just on that Scarface was just on the other
night. Exactly. That's what happens to you if you use your
product.
That's right. You do not want to be smoking your own dope, or
sniffing your own blow or whatever it is. And that's a
it's a very good policy. And this is real. This is it's the
truth. Okay. Just like Glenn Greenwald said. But it's
also applies in Monaco, where you can't leave if you're a
citizen, you can't legally go into the casinos. Exactly.
Because that's where the money is made, and they don't want the
citizens giving the money back is stupid, or is getting
constantly. If you own a liquor store, you don't become an
alcoholic. Well, no. All right. Well, a lot of people do but
that's the reason you do B you see what happens anyway, go on.
But there's also they like humour. They are their way into
jokes and humour and sometimes little practical jokes. And,
you know, that's funny that you say that because the people in
some of the most darkest professions, love humour. I gave
a speech once. And I forget it was in the Midwest somewhere.
And it was the it was the mortuary association of
Undertaker's of some sort.
Huge national group. That was a hoot.
It was unbelievable. Everybody brought their hot rods and they
were Niall. It was the wildest group I've ever seen talked
about. There was some guy regaling people with some of the
most filthy and actually hilarious jokes. Everybody was
had a sense of humour. They were yucking it up I've never seen
anything quite like it. Yeah, it's fantastic.
Anyway, so we had this again, now this came out through the
Washington Post Barton Barton Gellman whatever, but it's all
from the same group of people. And we saw essentially what they
said a slight look like a post it note of how and really the
So, two parts. So NASA, muscular NSA is muscular programme.
muscular, really, and this is how they, they collect data from
Yahoo and Google and they get it from by decrypting out, you
know, their, their Edge server before it goes into the
internet, etc, etc. And really if you if you dig into the three
slides of the hundreds that are in this deck because the the
deck slides are numbered, but of course, you know, they're not
going to give you the full deck once again and stuff is is
redacted out because it's all been approved. It's all gone
through channels. This is no surprise, no one didn't know
this was happening. It's just more psychological warfare on
you people. And then they and this is where they messed it up.
They put an acronym G F E. You saw the acronym GFP. Yeah, I
did. Which stands for what?
I don't know what.
It's like the Google. Hold on a second. What did they call that?
Like the Google fibre exchange or something like that? It could
be and it had a little smiley face under it.
Yeah, the little smile, kind of. Yeah, the smile, smile. Kind of
an emoticon style. Yeah,
let me let me just bring it up. I don't want to I want to get
the acronym right. Because when I saw that accurate, that's when
I knew they were fucking
be a good faith estimate. Now,
now, if you Google G Fe right now, you will get the true
meaning as the internet knows it. Go ahead.
The girlfriend experience Thank
you very much. GFP is it's like by curious as a category. That's
what escorts that's what hookers put on their ads, GFP. It's a
girlfriend experience that is the top hit. And so for these
guys to put GFP is their little little acronym
with a smiley with a smiley face.
Okay, you got me? Ha, somebody's
getting screwed.
Someone's getting the girlfriend experience. And I'm thinking
that's Kaiser Alexander. Or maybe he's not giving enough
girlfriend experience. So his Uber Lords at the CIA and Pierre
Omidyar or whoever else, it's the Google front end server, I'm
sorry, GFP. So this is now and now they're taking it over the
top. And I think they need to stop.
Because by the way, well, you can do that. But let me just ask
a simple question, which seems everybody and Google and these
guys are all bent out of shape about this one slide. And it
seems to me that when this whole thing began, and they had that
slide, where are these big companies have already signed
on? Remember that original prism slide? Yeah, it prism slide. It
showed it all the way out? We got them. We got them. We
finally got apple. Hooray for us. We got all these guys are
all part of the scheme. Well, if that's true, why did they give a
crap about anything? I mean, this is like, there's something
wrong with it with there's something discrepant about the
prism scheme, slide and this slide, which indicates that
they're sneaking data out when they apparently have the front
door open to them.
Well, this is Am I missing it? No, I don't think you're missing
anything other than the USA Freedom Act, which Feinstein
will either get on board with or She'll create her own version of
it. Now we have we're gonna have a new bill and new laws that
curtail the NSA, which is exactly what we need. If we're
the CIA, we need this guy reined in a little bit, his britches
got a little big, he got a huge amount of the budget that has to
stop, son, you need to shut up and you need to be a backup for
us as in like Carbonite. And when we say we want something,
you give it to us.
You don't give it to the FBI. You don't give us you don't do
this. You don't drink anything. And you don't, you're not so
stupid as to lip as to blow this stuff out. To embarrass the
intelligence community at large. Yes. This is like a humility,
even though it's not ca got themselves out of, you know, out
of a bind by not getting mentioned. But now the focus is
the focus. And the focus can't not reflect on the CIA in one
form or another. And that's what it's doing. And that's what they
buy your thesis. They don't like it. And now I'm reminded just
just to top that off a little bit, one of the old heads even
though it was head of the CIA for a while, but we really more
associated with the NSA is Hayden. Yeah. And there's the
story that we was gonna run last night. The train story, the
train started, just play. This is the story and then I have a
comment about it.
And the former head of the National Security Agency has
been subjected to some unwanted eavesdropping of his own Michael
Hayden was riding a train from New York to Washington DC on
Thursday, giving an Off the record phone interview. As an
anonymous former official. Hayden did not realise he was
sitting close to former moveon.org Director Tom mattes.
who proceeded to live tweet his account of Hayden's phone call?
Maxie says Hayden's comments included harsh criticism of the
Obama administration, as well as bragging about the CIA
renditions programme under President George W. Bush. Yeah.
Now here's the way I interpreted this with this story came I was
just played straight. But if you listen to the guy, the Massey
character for talking about this and other venues, you find out
one thing, Hayden is on his phone in a public place. talking
loud. Yeah. And I've seen guys do this, you know, you've seen
these guys to blow hard with the cell phone. Yes. You know, in
the aeroplane or the bus or somewhere else? Oh, no. And we
did this. I'm afraid. I will hope everybody listens to me, in
earshot exists, it has to be again a galling what can't you
guys keep your mouth shut? Or go someplace where you don't have
some everybody listening to you? This is really bad.
Is is Caitlin Hayden. The I have not been able to find the
spokeswoman for the National Security Council. She Hayden's
daughter?
I don't know that she is, let's find out. I've been
trying, but I just can't get get it. I can't get a I can't get
the confirmation anywhere. So maybe not. Maybe that's really
just coincidental.
That would be pretty funny, if true is doubtful. Yeah.
Okay, so the thing that near the really when this when they tried
twice now, in the past two weeks to get this, an NPR is trying,
everyone's trying to get this drone story out there. It's
based on a report and actually the reports in the show notes
for two or three episodes ago, and I looked through the report,
and the report starts to start I mean, this, you hear the same
story over and over again, a grandmother was out, you know,
getting you know, beats or something for a family, and then
the drone killed her. And then the grandchildren came to catch
her, and then another other drone killed them. And that's at
the top of the report. It's the same stuff. And no one's read
the report. They just read, you know, oh, is this look at this
story at the top of the report story that's use this over and
over again. And that, of course, is directly attributable to
Brennan, and the CIA and the kill list. And how many more
gatherings do we need to sell to see in the House or the Senate?
And no one is there from the CIA. No one CIA is not being
questioned. And this is Brennan's not being called to
account. Nobody, only the NSA. And now we've seen at Kaiser
Alexander, who was a stone Trekkie, nothing against
Trekkies, but he's a Trekkie, and you know, and he and he
wears like Vulcan underwear when he goes to sleep at night. And
he's, you know, he's he's a hurt little boy that he's like,
they're bullying me.
He's acting that way. Yes. And yeah, and
so now of course, it's like that everything's just it's fair
game. And
he does seem a little bit now that you mentioned never
thought, you know, we'll we'll read we reevaluate constantly on
the show. But now that you mentioned it, he does seem a
little bit like a go by the book guy. I think he's, I think he's
actually exactly what I'm what it says I can do. And that's all
I'm doing, doing any more. I did and that's why he's so defensive
when he is if he's going by the book,
here's my TPS report. I did it just like you ask boss. Oh, no,
no, it's and then of course to now as you know, we need to mix
it up a little bit
where I'm just reminded of another thing I don't think I
have this clip but Greenwald's on on Amy Goodman on this last
show are to yakking away he, when he starts talking to guys
just unstoppable. And he's going on, he said, and he says that
Hayden, he just throws us in out of the blue, which again, would
be something you'd be prompted to do. Hayden has the most power
this is there's no question about it. I don't think anyone
who questioned this assertion there is he is the most powerful
man in the military. Bar none. Hayden? Not Hayden. I'm sorry.
Yeah,
Alexander. Oh, please. Oh, please. And he throws that
Alexander is the most powerful man in the military. There's no
doubt about it. Yeah. And you yourself. In fact, when we were
doing beginning our thesis on this brought up the fact that
he's got this dis barricaded facility in Maryland and they've
got she's got a ship dedicated himself. Yeah, we're kind of
buying into this thesis that he's the most powerful man in
the military has his own army. And then maybe just the algebra
we're being led down a primrose path. Oh, Explain. Well, we're
being led to believe all these bad things about about I'm gonna
say Hayden again, but I mean, Alexandria, about Alexander when
in fact, all from all appearances. He's a go by the
book guy follows orders. He doesn't do anything. He's not an
evil person trying to screw it. Just collecting data they can't
do much with it. And but he's collecting as much as he can
because he was told to do that. And that's it.
And I was looking at I looked into Leahy you know, because les
he's like it has some kind of power over him. And Les he seems
like a pretty straight shooter. Actually. He's from he's from
the
Vermont they lay he's not a straight shooter.
Now when it comes to this, yeah.
Oh, well, he says a lot of stuff. I, by the way, he's in
the he's half in the he's in the tank half the time but he's on
on the air. Oh, he's,
he's a he's a drinker.
We've had, we've had, you're not paying attention we've had or
not drunk episodes about. Di
I'm sorry. I'm paying attention. I just forget the name some
time. But he learning well, he. He, he may be he's probably
being used in this. He's probably man. I think he's
probably if he's in the tank that he's probably in they got
stuff on him. Maybe? Yeah, they got stuff on a mouth. Yeah. So
then they came anyway, to wrap it all up to now you know, it's
fair game. We can do whatever we want. And we can say whatever we
want, and the press will publish whatever. I mean, you and I, we
could probably concoct a great story. And we could make it
credible. If you made it about the Netherlands or something.
You know, I could probably be I have some credibility there that
would make it work and it would fly like this. One
spokesman for Russia's President Vladimir Putin has had to deny
reports that Russia spied on delegates at September's g 20.
Summit in St. Petersburg, reports in two Italian
newspapers suggested Russia handed out USB memory sticks and
phone charging cables. The sticks were discovered to have
digital bugs built inside, which could then steal data and
transmit it.
Oh, is the magical USB data stealing transmitting stick?
This is the I think the BBC and you hear them like it had a bug
in there. I mean, this isn't no and I have no idea how to report
on this stuff. If no idea No, it's really it's funny because
we have this world where we have technology reporting, which is
all about shiny crap. And then we have real reporting, which is
about technology, but they can't get past like words like bug.
Snooze, snooping, glitch,
glitch, favourite glitch,
and, and then just some some I'll wind up my stuff here. Just
some general douchebaggery from the hearing yesterday. This is
Rogers. This is the guy who wants so desperately to have new
legislation so that all his buddies wants to
be a spy. He is a seasoned spy wannabe. Now he's a dupe Yes, a
stooge.
But he knows he'll be in on all the contracts. And he wants to
get you know, there's so much money to be made. Yeah, that'll
bring him into a meeting or like he's part of this team. Well, if
you know, if you've read in this town, then you know that this is
how you build up capital, and then you leave government. And
you go make a couple million dollars a year being a
consultant to whoever, whoever and one of these days Miss
Megan, I'm going to pick it up when I move to DC and become a
consultant because I'm tired of poverty. But I still have some
scruples left. So now listen to his view on privacy. Because as
clearly
indicates, in 10 years, clearly indicates that something must be
doing right.
Something must be doing right guy can't even talk must be
doing something like the computer that runs it all
clearly indicates in 10 years, clearly indicates that something
must be doing right. Somebody must be doing something exactly
right. But who would be complaining? Or somebody whose
privacy was violated you can't have your privacy violated if
you don't know your privacy is violated.
This is a guy from that is
an evergreen just that little bit.
Well, it can be an evergreen have your
privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.
That's what it is. Is this a world of wily coyote cartoons?
Wait, run off the cliff. And if you don't know that you're off
the cliff. You don't fall.
Wait until you hear the follow up because this law professor,
of course gives the logical rebuttal which would be don't
know if a tree falls in the forest.
Oh, did yeah. Does it make a sound? Well, of course it makes
a sound.
Yes. Yeah. Well,
right. But who would be complaining? Or somebody whose
privacy was violated you can't have your privacy violated if
you don't know your privacy is violated. Right. Can
I disagree with that? I mean, I think I think if the tree falls
in the forest, it makes the noise whether you're there to
see it or not.
That's a new, interesting standard in the lawn. Like we're
gonna have this conversation, but we're gonna have lights
because that's gonna get a lot more. Fair enough.
That's yeah, he thinks that's crazy talk. That's just correct.
This is new
the law guy. Like, isn't it from Michigan, I believe? I don't
know. Yes. That vote for this character should be ashamed of
themselves. Yeah. This guy should not hold public office.
He's a out and out moron. And something of an a hole. Well,
it's just beautiful when someone says if you if you don't know
your privacy is being violated, you don't think your privacy is
not being violated? And if you're asleep, when you're being
raped, will you really raped? And let's be honest about it.
And maybe we should go rape him and ask him for rupees. Yeah,
maybe go roofie Rogers. Oh, man show title. roofie right. roofie
Rogers, go roofie. Rogers. That is just unbelievable. Here's a
Kaiser spoke and
tell you factually, factually do not have access to Google
servers, Yahoo servers, that no court order, we issue that
corridor to the FBI. And it's not millions, it's 1000s of
those that are done. And it's almost all against terrorism and
other things like that. It has nothing to do with US persons.
He's crying almost. It's fact. It's fact that I don't I don't
we don't do not spy on people is fact backpack. We don't do that.
And then the last one I got is clapper. Who has changed his
mind? Because what, what was did we actually save that clapper
thing? What do you say?
Anything about clip by the way? This is interesting. I didn't
realise this until somebody brought it up. When clapper made
his statement when he lied to Congress. Yes. They didn't swear
him in. Y'all can really it was considered that it's considered
like bad form to swear in certain people because they
their integrity would be impugned. Really? That's what I
heard. Yeah. Oh, that's
something that needs to be be pursued. Well, Clapper,
why there's been nothing done about it. Okay. Oh, by the way,
somebody else pointed out that you still lying before
Congress's defence whether you're sworn in or not. But it's
obviously not that's going to happen.
A clapper did a little statement. And we also got the
talking points. I'm sure you saw that that was requested by
lamanda where the NSA talking points, and then it's a
documented I've got it in the show notes. And the document
says no punch the 911 thing a lot. That's the talking point.
Because Kaiser Alexander, he's really playing by the book. Oh,
we got a FOIA request for our talking points for when I
testified. Okay, here they are. And yeah, no, I said punch 911.
Because we don't want you we really weren't saving the world
from another 911. We're, we're doing with this what we're
doing. This is what we're doing. I'm a good guy. And I And in
hindsight, yeah, he's just, he's just another government dude,
who's really is trying to play by the rules. He can't get any
play in the media, because the CIA controls it. And he's doing
everything he can. So he brings in the blogger to explain
himself. And you know, but think about it. It's sad, really, it
really is sad. Because this is actually the guy you want on
your side. This is the sysadmin who's actually trying to play by
the rules. And he's getting shafted for it by by the other
departments. And here's clapper. Who has gone from No, no, we
don't we don't know. Are you kidding? We don't spy on
Americans to now every single time he uses the word spy, he
does air quotes. Did you see this? Yeah, it's hilarious. And
he's just saying spying. He's not. No longer is it information
dominance, or surveillance, or you know, or information or SIG
int? No spying,
all of us in the intelligence community are very much aware
that the recent unauthorised disclosures have raised serious
concerns that you alluded to, both here in Congress and across
the nation about our intelligence activities. We know
the public wants to understand how its intelligence community
uses its special tools and authorities and to judge whether
we can be trusted to use them appropriately. We believe we
have been lawful, and that the rigorous oversight we've
operated under has been effective. So we welcome this
opportunity to make your case to the public. So I'll repeat, we
do not spy on anyone except for valid foreign intelligence
purposes, and we only work within the law. No. Okay. Now,
to be sure, on occasion, we've made mistakes, some quite
significant. But these are usually caused by human error or
technical problems. And whenever we found mistakes we've
reported, addressed and corrected them. There's no way
to erase or make up for the damage that we know has already
been done and we anticipate even more as we continue our
assessment. And as more revelations are made, yeah, we
only spa Sorry.
Can he answer the question? A simple question now 99 which is
if you guys are so good. did all this and you correct all your
errors? How did Snowden walk out of there with this much
information? And you still don't know how?
Yeah, no, he knows he knows what's going on. Yeah, believe
me, he knows he knows
for valid foreign intelligence purposes, as authorised by law
with multiple layers of oversight to ensure we don't
abuse our authorities.
And why would that be important for policymakers to know what
the intentions of foreign leaders might or might not be?
Well, for one,
to determine if what they're saying gels with what's actually
going on gels is invaluable to us to know where countries are
coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us
across a whole range of issues.
Is this something new and different that the intelligence
committee might try to target foreign leaders and tensions?
It's one of the first things I learned in intel school 1963,
leadership retention, and whatever former US express this
kind of a basic tenant of what we are to collect and analyse.
Yeah, what's your
problem? What's your problem?
Meanwhile, we have this clip Carney on on Merkel good
backpedalling and just falling apart is hilarious Friday's
press briefing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was
questioned about NSA spying of the German Chancellor. Thanks to
follow up on your comment
in yesterday's briefing about how the United States is not and
will not monitor German Chancellor Merkel's
communications. Bikers in Berlin have objected to that answer,
because you didn't say whether her communications were
monitored in the past. So I want to ask you has the United States
monitored the Chancellor's phone calls in the past
netural. We are not going to comment publicly on every
specified alleged matter of policy, we have a clear that the
United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type
gathered by all nations. As I mentioned yesterday, the
President spoke with Chancellor Merkel reassured her that the
United States is not and will not monitor the Chancellor's
communications. So
here's here's how I see it. And then we should thank our
shortlist. But we have a list the NSA with now the Yeah, I was
aware of the NSA and I kind of knew a little bit about the NSA
because way back in like 9293, I was working when I first set up
mtv.com, a headless sun Three server, I set it up at a company
called DGX, which was in Reston, Virginia, and DGX. Well, they
were bought later, but then they'd literally, there was a
data centre, and had a T one above a Chinese restaurant in
Reston, Virginia. And these were,
you know, super cool dudes spooky if he asked me No,
well, they were just really total, you know, emacs writing,
open carry, beard, having butt crack showing Unix dudes. And
they were they were, you know, these are the people that really
helped build the internet. And, and, you know, and we would, you
know, so I had my headless son three, and they say, oh, yeah,
and I went to visit them. Was it all over there? You know, that's
the that's the black boxes. So who's that? Well, that's NSA and
FEMA. And you know, these guys are really smart. They're all
over it. So this is not like we we don't know that you know
that. They haven't been a part of our lives. But it's always
been the spies or the CIA. That's always what it's been.
And the NSA is a service bureau. It's like Occupy, you know, they
just occupy doesn't take credit for streaming. You know, Jon
Stewart. So these guys, you just shut up. This is what's going
on, shut up. By the way you're overcharging for your services,
your $10 billion that needs to go to us because we're that
we're the mack daddies, we got the drones are running the
drugs, which is keeping the financial system alive back eff
off. And that's what's happening. And we're all being
we're all being duped right into it. And it's all one one of
these jokes zactly
what we said on this show, the minute this to Snowden showed
up, but not
but now it's starting to now people are making mistakes. And
to me, the biggest mistake is, is Glenn Greenwald hooking up
with the with his new his protector Pierre Omidyar. That
is That was a mistake. It's a greedy mistake. Greedy. And
you'll see,
I'm not gonna argue, no, I know you're watching and I'm also
going to be you might be interesting to see who suddenly
had has an accident in a small plane earmarks of the economic
hitman story, if you take a look at it from a different
perspective and consider the jackals and all the rest of the
models of the economic hitman book in Afghanistan and and the
real the, I guess, hold card is this is the drones because their
blonde people have left her Right, we don't know if this is
like a personal grudge against some guy. And
by the way, if I hear who they're killed by here, one more
house that explodes because of a natural gas. If you follow this
if you Google that, know in America, it's like every day a
house is exploding natural gas explosion, which Mythbusters
couldn't even replicate Mythbusters which everyone buys
into you
also have Hastings, the little journalist? Uh huh. Who was
obviously droned or bombed or something Boston breaks,
something like that.
Yeah, yeah. And I'll bring out Andrew Breitbart at least two or
three Oh, Andrew Breitbart.
Oh, that's pricker
pricker. And then the the guy who the the who does the
autopsy, he died
on Google. I can't figure out what he was what?
Oh, I know what he did. He had he had the real goods on on the
President's heritage. You know, that he that he's, you know, the
who's whose son, he really is and all that. And maybe had the
Columbia
on around forever? I don't know anyone has any evidence? He must
have evidence you're saying?
That's That's what I've always heard. And that that's probably
why Hastings got drawn to is he was on that same tip. Come on
any other things is? Look, I'm worried about Miss Mickey is all
I'm gonna do you know, I got a no, no oysters, no fucking
muscles. Nothing that could be covered.
Right? No seafood. No seafood. Really? It's very easy to do
that.
I know. And it's and it's completely transparent.
Yeah, well, that in prusik acid, that's another thing you got to
worry about? What will actually blow prusik acid in somebody's
face? And it didn't it immediately just kind of goes
away. And there's impossible to
anyway, I hope that we've given sitting certainly helped me this
little conversation. I think it puts things into perspective.
And now you can watch it and when people go. Like, they don't
they have no capability that really, really it's, you know,
yeah, if they focus on you, of course, of course, there's
chaos if they gave the exactly anybody that it's like the guy's
a hitman from the mob. Yeah. Focusing on killing you
specifically, you're probably going to get killed unless
you're like, you know, some, unless you're, it's pretty hard
not, you know, you'd have to be part of the group or you'd have
to, I don't know how you get out of it. No,
you don't you don't get out of it. So if someone really wants
to target you, you know, keyloggers, there's a million
ways to do it. But is there some Kaiser Alexander sitting up
there in the cloud? And like, there's no like screens are
running? And like both? I found the terrorist. No, no, it's
really, really not happening that way. Don't be fooled by big
data in government, particularly when you can't be fooled by big
data in commerce,
when the guy who guys who have to do it to make a living, not
just to get more government, dole,
and the funniest thing is if you go to like any website, like, go
to the Guardian, go to any politico, go to any site that is
on this story, New York Times, you will see that they have a
minimum of 40, but usually between 50 and 60, trackers,
data trackers that are tracking your every move across the web,
and they're still showing me shit that I already bought two
weeks ago.
And you know, I keep getting the same ad.
What do you get? What ad Are you getting?
Are you well, I buy watches of wine operation that kind of
sketchy. So I buy wine from them every so often. And every time I
go to any I get their ad. Yeah. I already buy from them. I'm a
customer. I don't need to see this ad. This is a waste of
bandwidth. And,
but not even that, from a marketing perspective. I built a
couple marketing companies the opportunity that is being lost,
they're the opportunity to thank you cross sell you upsell you
are or the old school dealer used to have at cash at
checkouts and a lot of grocery stores the opportunity to say,
These guys just bought from wine company, a wine company B, don't
you think you should be advertising to this person?
Right? So
there's so many different ways.
I mean, they used to be used to be they've, I think this the
company that went out of business or they or somebody put
in a restraining order or whatever. If you went to a cert
this was like, I don't know, eight 910 years ago, you used to
go to and there used to be a little machine at the at the
grocery store. A cashier, you'd go you buy a six pack of coke,
you get a coupon for a six pack of Pepsi. Yeah, yeah. Pepsi to
get a coupon for a six pack of coke. Whatever you bought, they
would counters the opposite does the opposite. Exactly. Well,
that was a good Good idea yeah but bull crap selling me
something you know if I buy a Coke I get if I went bought a
coke and got a coupon for a six pack that was to wait a minute I
just bought this coke I'm getting I could have used this
coupon I paid too much I'm not buying coke anymore
so big data is big doodoo and advertising on the Internet is
pretty much a Ponzi scheme it's it's just it's unnecessary.
So here is the clip glasses. Well
let's I was kind of transitioning into
I don't transitioning I got a couple of clips we gotta get out
of here.
We don't we don't want to thank our producers and we're an hour
and a half into this shit man what? It will
take him in one minute okay, we got it. I just want to get these
out because they will make no sense otherwise be at Peter
King. Who's Who's the biggest he's getting to be a bigger and
bigger douchebag. on Democracy Now being clipped and then Greg
Glenn Greenwald commenting on the clip, which I thought it is
a good kind of way to wrap this. Okay, hold
on. So where's the where's the Greenwald? Response?
Peter King to glow. It's
all in one. Yeah. Oh, great. Oh, it's a twofer.
The president should stop apologising, stop being
defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved 1000s of lives,
not just the United States, but also in France and Germany and
throughout Europe.
Pay Hey, next time I see a French person, I'd be like, You
know what, you should be sucking my balls right now. We saved
you. You are the one of the 1000s that we save.
And you know, the French is someone's to talk. And the fact
is they've carried out spying operations against the United
States, government and industry. As far as Germany. That's where
the Hamburg plot began, which led to 911. They've had dealings
with Iran and Iraq, North Korea, the French and the Germans on
the European countries. And we're not doing this for the fun
of it.
I'm surprised he doesn't say and look at that. Merkel. It's a
dude. It's just the dude. That's the only thing missing from him.
This is to gather valuable intelligence, which helps not
just us, but also helps the Europeans.
That was Congressmember Peter King, who may well be running
for President of the United States going clean? Well,
first of all our democratic partisans at all embarrassed by
the fact that the most vocal proponents of these NSA spying
programmes aside from people like Dianne Feinstein are the
very Republicans whom they've spent years deriving as these
radicals and extremists, people like Peter King, or John
Boehner, or Michelle Bachman, all of whom have very vigorously
defended President Obama's spying programme, does that give
Democrats any pause at all about what the real value or purpose
of these spying programmes are? What Peter King is essentially
telling the French and telling the world is that they ought to
be grateful that the United States government is invading
the privacy of their citizens by the millions and intercepting
their communications data? And I think that message is resonating
really quite poorly.
You know, just briefly on this you know that when Glenn So
Glenn Greenwald, as you look at his history, he he ran into
trouble early on or in his in his legal career and he had he
basically quit practising law some say before he was going to
be disbarred because he illegally ironic ironically
enough taped conversations with people and didn't didn't
disclose that you know, this right.
No, I don't know this. I'm all ears. Oh, wow. Okay.
So he's a lawyer and I know that well, but the as the story goes,
and I'm just giving you the story the way I've heard it he
does this all but this is pre his his work at the salon. So
then he moved to Brazil, and he started in the started a a gay
porn company called Harry jock.
Right I know that part.
And then his he got a fight with his I think his business partner
or something.
Or Amador
I don't think Pierre Amador was was was part of that actually.
And then he changed it like hairy dudes or something. Yeah.
And then he kind of fell into that hole. Daddy pays for a
salon magazine. So he's not like the cleanest dude ever. But he
talks like, you know, he takes a shit and it smells like roses.
And I can tell you from being in the public eye that comes before
the fall. It really does and it could be quite harsh. And man,
just the
oh he could easily be set up. Bears are the small plane you
know, it's in one of the easy ways. Oh, but he
doesn't leave Brazil doesn't even leave Brazil. He let alone
get on a small plane Nana now he sends his boyfriend or husband.
Hey honey. You got to do that. It's like okay, no. Anyway, we
continue to keep our eyes on this and trying to make more
than yeah it is but sometimes
we will at least have to have a clue so when they watch these
guys yakking away we they go up brother
and we also don't have to break for commercials which is one of
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This is the Dean of the University of Colorado Boulder.
So you can't dress up sexy. can dress up was a geisha or, or any
of that good stuff.
Then when I would go that was known for a bunch of rapes or
something. Anyway, go on.
It doesn't matter. This is this is coast to coast to far. It's
outrageous. Calgary, Calgary, Calgary school. Which school is
this? I
want to find Calgary, Canada. Yes. Alberta. Not sure all the
money is Calgary. I'm not sure if it's
in Alberta or not. But the school has decided to no longer
have an honour roll. Because, you know,
it's the feelings of the dummy. Yes. Yes. I wrote a slighted
quote awards eventually lose their lustre to students who get
them while often hurting the self esteem and pride of those
who do not receive a certificate
certificate for participation.
Oh my god
this is all the competitive to the side of the whole western
societies. Hell, we'll see what that gets us.
Well, it's not going to end up well. I mean, just just you've
been around a little bit longer than I have. No, no, you don't
have to do that. This is not twit I'm not ageist I'm I have
respect sleep with it II just this weekend he just on that
show this weekend? ageism? You've I mean, it has it always
been this nuts. Is it? Is it a little nutty? or Now do you
think that might have to do with we're just annoyed by more as
all out from the 60s. There's no doubt about it in the 70s
What do you mean by that?
Oh, man, do your own Dang. Man. Oh, man, do your own thing be
nice. Which was from dole came from right from the from the
drug smoking. LSD era of the 60s, late 60s and 70s. And, you
know, man, you do your own thing. Be nice. Mm hmm. that
never existed before then if people beat each other up, and
it's
so i My daughter was born in between, because I was I'm very
young dad, which I'm very, very, very thankful for. For so many
reasons. But she was born in 1990. And this is kind of this
was actually it was it was a great time the 90s You know,
it's just money and everything was great. And it was you know,
yeah, we had like that the first Gulf War whatever they would
that was a CNN it's an interesting channel. You know,
it's like they got guys standing there and like bombs fall on.
And that was kind of cool. But But none of this insanity. But
somewhere it just it really and it's almost like
parents who are and the self esteem movement had a lot to do
with it.
Parents who are my age, but have you know, have children who are
now 6789 They're just they're not they're crazy about this.
What they're doing is they're hurting their children. I think
it's like wear a helmet to go outside and don't go outside.
You walking down the street wear a helmet.
Not kidding, man. I'm not kidding and everything so
nothing funnier than
a little kid. walk down the street with a helmet.
I can't wait to see what shows up for Halloween. And I'm sure
we're gonna get in trouble. Now for scaring kids. drunk, because
that is the plan. No kidding.
Yes. When you say and it won't take much. That's the good news
for you. Yeah, you don't you're not going to get drunk that's
for sure. Two glasses. I'm done. So but get the I think the sound
system has to be there.
Oh, no, no, we're gonna do the sound system. Definitely the set
the sound system is is a Hey. Hey, kids. Look next Bambi.
Bambi to this
game bam, Bambi. Just every little kid named Bambi.
Wow. All right. Okay, so I get It just seems like it just that
is just we've gone into a place of insanity. I don't know if we
can return
it's always a four. Yeah, no, we're not going to return it
gets returned it what happens is it did the competitive natural
competitiveness of people returns in a new way it'd be the
old formal remain. In other words, we're gonna have to give
out certificates of participation and we can't hurt
somebody's feelings. All that is we're stuck with that forever.
But there are ways there there will be a some way of sublimated
into something else. This will be some new way of making people
feel bad. Hmm. Well, I don't know what it is. Well, I'm
maybe, you know, it's like, I mean, I mean, it's the kind of
thing I was almost doing myself. Which you nixed by the way,
which was if you're not listening to our podcast, here's
what you could be listening to clips of some horrible podcast
or something that was alright actually wasn't necessarily
horrible. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But that's
what that's what you're mixing that that's what it amounted to
was, was telling me to be nice. So because I've hurt someone's
feelings, even though these guys were getting publicity they love
it was not. I don't care about people's feelings getting hurt,
as you know. But it's so aggravating because it fills up
the mailbox because I read my email I kind of go it's just
pretty much you did so much negativity, that I don't mind
being negative about other people. When when when people
turn on me it's like, Ah, it's annoying because I got a job to
do. And the end the being honest. Right, it was a bad
segment but the being honest and just saying what I feel about
people and things it's hard enough as is with with celebrate
ease and the Obama bots tomorrow. Yeah. And oh, by the
way, this is great. Talking about just total stupid. I mean,
this is so this is like a little podcast on the White House
website. So the White House sent out an email again yesterday.
Oh, we know it's Game Six of the World Series. But please look,
the website is good. And we're getting it working and it's
gonna be great. And they've put together they've got the White
House players. So you know, they get straight from central
casting. And they got they put together a little video to make
you feel good about the healthcare.gov website that it's
working and and how to get through it. So we took like,
some people who are aren't native English speakers, you
know, some older people and and to me, this is just hilarious,
particularly because I think they're supposed to be
recruiting young healthy people or in order for the system to
work with you I would get like some real celebrities and have
them do a cool video, something that's really convincing but no,
instead we have this by the way, these of course are the free
loops that come with Final Cut Pro.
We keep hearing you know, there are difficulty that you can
register but me and my daughter tried and first time I
registered and it was very successful to have patients with
assists. Why was that? You didn't hear this wasn't
from the White House. There's no way they put some unintelligible
weirdo on there. This is
on the whitehouse.gov website. And oh my god, she's a first
time I tried it with my daughter, I was successful.
First time first time I registered with my daughter,
you can read it but me and my brother tried and first time I
registered and it was very successful.
It was very successful. Have patience with the system. You
know, take your time. You know, read the whole screen that
you're on and make sure that you know you are following
everything you can possibly follow but just don't give up
because as time goes along, things are definitely gonna get
better. I
just see people sitting there for days. I am not giving
up. This was a heck of an endeavour.
The morning of October 1 The first thing I did when I got up
was to go check out health care that
this is so believable. It's October 1 How I can't wait which
directed
me to DC Health Link and within 15 to 20 minutes I had looked
through all the plans decided what plan I want. That sort of
was like what I had with my employer and I got
all signed up was I will say to people I love
it. I was like it was sort of like what I had with my employer
sort of kinda so I I took it
I got all signed up was I will say to people when they have a
problem with the website, I said don't worry you want to get in
is really easy. Any technology. Take a time down at the bottom
of
the page. This is how Apple should do their iPhone
commercials. Don't worry I really easy ticket time just put
your finger Go there and it coming work. Hello, I found
there was
a bar that said having trouble logging in it told me to clear
my browsing history, clear my cache and clear my cookies.
Whatever those were, gave me the instructions on how to do it.
And once I did that, I went back onto the computer.
And all my passwords for my porn sites were gone, sailed,
right straight through no problems at all, you can call
the phone number, they can send you something in the mail to
fill out. But don't give up. Because I think really everyone
really should look if you don't have health insurance, or you
have private health insurance. Now that's not through your
employer work to see if you if you can save money. Cobra was
$600. And now an equivalent plan of what I had is $350. So you
know,
which is the one,
which to me, that's, that makes a humongous difference
policy that I have. It contains so many more preventative health
care measures than what I had before. Of course, the price was
a perk. But I think that the policy itself is so much more
inclusive than what I had before. I'm just I'm very
pleased Leni
Riefenstahl called she wants her propaganda back. This will be
shown one day, and there will be children in the future. Who will
view this as like we view grainy scratchy black and white greyed
out stuff from World War Two and go man, that's a propaganda back
in the day. Unbelievable. But of course, we also have Joe Biden.
And when you catch Joe in the halls, and you ask him about
stuff, you can always expect gold,
we were under the impression that it was ready to go. We had
the president to his credit. Almost seven weeks out was
saying Are we ready? And to be told by the pros? Yeah, this it
looks like it's all ready to go all in line. And neither he and
I are our technology geeks. And really, you don't say we assumed
that it was up and ready to run. But the good news is, although
it's not, and we apologise for that. We're confident that by
the end of November, it will be still be like what
he says the good news is although it's not really good
news is not enough. I did catch one thing interesting from
Sebelius. What have we always joked about when it comes to
government websites?
Boy, do they cost too much?
And what is the number? 8 million? No 18 million?
Oh, is it eight? Yeah, that was eight.
I thought it's always been at million dollar website that it
was eight but okay, teams fine. It's
still too much.
Let's find out what this one costs. And we needed a real
answer. And I thought I'm pretty sure it was 18 million. John, I
guess I'm wrong.
Can you give me a ballpark of what you have spent on this
website that does not work that individuals cannot get to? What
is your cost estimate?
So far, Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the
website itself.
Love it. 118 million?
How do you spend that much money on a website that is nothing
more than a dating, CAPTCHA analysis and then forwarding
system to it funny you ask John, you type in your name and your
social security and we put put as much information as you can
you probably put a lot of extra information, don't go into a
database, it gets stored in a database, you then you do a
lookup of your social security number, and you see who this
person is. And then you you since you already told them what
state you're in, then it's supposed to either send you to
the State site. Yeah. All right, Stop, just stop. This is not a
million dollar deal.
I have an IT Insider. A number of them actually contacted me.
And I would like to read at least we were talking about
rolling back one revision. You know, just using the versioning
system and writing my thesis
was they don't have a revisioning system in place that
they can do that.
Hey, all the foots Adam and John. So I don't work on the
contract responsible for healthcare.gov. But I do work on
another federal contract con contract. And he mentioned the
agency which I'm going to omit to protect his identity. CGI
also works on this contract and I interface with them closely
and on a daily basis. These people are idiots. They don't
know what what Git is God is or anything nor subversion or even
crushed the S R c s, nothing is version controlled. It's all
seat of the pants. When we move WWW dot something rather.gov.
The testing consisted of, hey, I'll run Apache Bench, which is
typing a B from the command line and that's it. When the story
broke about their website, I knew what would be found half
assed testing unless CGI works differently on this content.
Back then every other one I promised they don't do version
control federal IT work is like amateur hour at the Apollo
please keep my name private as I'm already having to feed my
milk and three month old human resource poverty mac and cheese.
I'm a Unix admin as well as a manager for another contractor
for the government. Yes, specific questions, etc, etc.
And I've received the same from multiple it insiders that this
is not version control. You were you were right, not version
control.
You can tell a mile away that if it was going to be and and
number two, they won't have this thing running like a champ by
the end of November. It'll be worse.
Well, then maybe it's who knows if there's a reason for it.
There's a reason for it. It took the money. Yeah. It's like that
would comment that we had in one of the clips. That guy says the
one guy was discussing this. He said that something like 92% of
all contracts over 10 million or 100,000,001 of the two are
thievery all folded that they they never work right? Yeah.
Never worked ever. Yeah, just money down the drain. However,
it's a perfect opportunity once again, and it's
why doesn't somebody go to jail by the way? Oh, fleet.
Sadly, it's not no one's going to jail. But we are going to
promote yet more new internet services that are better. Of
course, we've had kayak and Amazon we have a new one in the
mix. John, did you hear the new way? The kayak
thing keeps coming up over and over? What is who is
something's? Well, that's the Chicago we know what Chicago is
the Chicago thing. Okay. That's right. We were Here's Mike
Rogers, who somehow was also in on this thing. So not only is it
he's, there's a common commonality in these things in
this in the NSA. And healthcare.gov is Mike Rogers.
And here he is promoting, I guess his favourite shop actual
information
at risk, because you did not even have the most basic end to
end test on security of this system. Amazon would never do
this proflowers would never do this. Yeah. could never do this.
How
can we get proflowers
proflowers was in the conversation before this. Yeah,
that they don't go down on Valentine's Day. Yeah, but why
proflowers
FTD. And all these other bigger companies are the ones that
would make more sense to promote but they promote pro flowers.
That's right. Have you dug something up? No. We sew up on
someone's going to dig something some reason they're saying pro
flowers instead of FTD, which is the big one.
But I did this is a gem of a clip. This is night I don't
watch her anymore because I find her so annoying. But someone
pointed this clip out to me CAROL COSTELLO. She does the
morning show on SSI. And she does. She used to be in the
morning morning until they decided they really didn't want
anyone watching and they brought in that morning show with our
friend Mikayla. So now we're 37,000 People now in the demo.
In fact, on our half half of our stream that's working now more
people are listening to this show than watch CNN this morning
show. A CAROL COSTELLO comes after that. She does say go to
facebook.com says Kelsey, and then go to facebook.com/chaos,
CNN. But she lit up a little thing about the Obama
administration. And and the press which was nice to know,
there is a larger story, which Jason began to touch on there.
And that is the Obama administration's thin skinned we
can call it or he mentioned the record prosecution of leaks.
It's there's a consistency in the Obama administration of
going after people who embarrass the administration, but not
those that take shots or cover for the administration.
And will really does have a point because I felt it
firsthand when I was you know, reporting on the presidential
race. I mean, President Obama's people can be quite nasty. They
don't like you to say anything bad about their boss and they're
not afraid to use whatever means they have in hand to stop you
from doing that including threatening your job. Really
I love it. Well, that sounds doesn't sound right from
CNN no less threatening your job.
We're gonna get you fired for saying that Obama's not six foot
one. You see
the Valerie Jarrett was tweeting and the whatever it she'd like
fact, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter what she was
tweeting. But her twitter name is what caught my attention.
Vijay 44. Oh, right, meaning she is the true 44th President. I'm
telling you. That's funny.
He's crazy. And so one of the things I got a couple of things
here. Well, actually, you want to take our get our big donor
list out of the way here before we go into some? Yeah, that's
a good idea.
I'm gonna show my school
by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
It's actually not a big list, which is why we're
gonna see, shortlisting get out of the way where you hope to
pick it up a little bit on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday,
Daniel Ehrlich in Boalsburg. Pennsylvania $133.32. He may
have a note in email, I haven't seen it. But he sent a check in
Keith may Kolpin, in Imperial Pennsylvania to Pennsylvanians
right in a row. $125.
Now, unfortunately, I'll go ahead.
I'd like to hear we got your girlfriend listed on the Happy
Birthday. If you could have Adam, during the birthday
segment reassure her that I wanted to talk about this.
reassure her that a new DMV picture does not look like a
drunken celebrity photo mugshot. Now we don't have I asked him
for the picture because I don't think it would make the
girlfriend feel any better. To say something like this if you
haven't actually seen the picture. Yeah, and it would be
an insult to your girlfriend Amy.
And depends if she if she looks like Nick Nulty celebrity mug
shot. We're gonna have to
talk but this is like an on doable request.
Yeah, I think it send us the picture and then you know, then
we can actually talk
about decide maybe but and you know, she obviously she feels
bad. Who cares what your DMV photo looks, I
think it's actually kind of cool to have your DMV photo like
really with bugout eyes and really crazy.
I had a but when I bought I don't know about 25 years ago or
so. I had my DMV photo and I had a pair of those. They were kind
of big glass this is during the Miami Vice here and my hair was
switched swept back and you can't take pictures with that.
They won't let you take pictures with sunglasses on. But these
were those glasses that when light hit them they darkened
really fast. Yeah, I don't know you can buy those anymore but
they just instantly dark and so my DMV photo had me looking like
some creep drug dealer with these dark dark glasses. It was
hilarious. Well, you know,
you know sir Jean, right? Yeah. Have you ever met Sir Jean?
I've only I've only corresponded with Sergio Okay, so sir Jean,
by the way apparently he's the one that's trying to get you to
meet your buddy Brian Brushwood Yeah, what's
gonna happen I'll meet I'll meet with Brian and I'll be and I'll
be packing heat you better so so Jean moves to Austin or wants to
move want to move to Austin I said, Okay. Well, I can hook you
up with with John and Chris the the real estate, real estate
boys. And and so they're driving around, they're doing everything
with Gene trying to you know, and and every single time
because he wanted to release something first. He would put in
for you know, to apply for the for the rent or whatever. Two
things would happen. First he'd write down under pets. Yes, I
have snakes, which should always be kind of an issue with some of
the homeowners, but then they'd have a copy of his driver's
licence now sir Jean. He has many many different looks. I've
seen him he's like a chameleon. And I guess that's part of what
he does. But his driver's licence John, he looks like an
honest to God 100% thali, BahnCard carrying terrorist with
a beard like like like it's like a crazy terrorist with a big
black beard in the name doesn't even say Gina she's just a
Mohammed the terrorist and I think that is the kind of
picture you want. Basically, it was some fun anyway. Yes. So we
don't have any making it rain donations today. So we go from
125 to 100. And I do want to say that we have now a pack of three
different jingles which I wanted to play Have you already heard
at once maybe on the show I wanted to play it because now if
someone donates the Making it rain 111 11 Then you get a
choice.
Grade from receita here she is Braven give it up.
That'll be one of the Making it rain jingles that will now play
for you.
By the way, receipt is r e s e d a star r e c whatever receipt is
a little town in this in the San Fernando Valley, which is the
valley where all the porn is made. Okay, here are we going
Todd Semin Simon's in Brisbane, Australia $100 and he needs some
house buying karma since we use short today. We might as well
give them some can. You betcha. You've got karma. And now we're
just run through what we got left which is Joshua Baxter at
88 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nicholas Oman in Thief River
Falls Minnesota nuts 7777 Sir JD in San Jose, California 7747 And
he's got some math here that he
also wants a big F karma cancer shout out for his friend Karen.
And I definitely want to do that for him and his friends because
he is of course a night we break for nights karma
break for nights we do. And now we got down to whoa I see it. If
this happens one more time or stop the jingle is out. This is
it 69 from Eric Nagel in Boone showed in Spartanburg Utrecht
Boone's coat and SPAC and Burr
so there you go isn't night today because
you're gonna really know that's homeless. I'm gonna make sure
we've got Yeah, he'll be sir Eric knothole night of
Spartanburg. Nice. Congratulations.
Baronet Oleg racquet teeny. A racket teen in Richmond Hill,
Ontario. 6789. Keith Edwards 6666 is
a nice one, by the way. 6789 That's kind of cool.
6789 is cute. Yeah. In Gilbert, Arizona. These are all 62 final
our final 6666 We're gonna let this go one more show and then
after Sunday night, the 6660 thing button on the Pay Pal is
going to be discontinued so this will be your last chance to
congratulate us on our sixth anniversary. Keith Edwards,
Gilbert Arizona, Stephen R agar hoodie. A gar hoodie Agere
hoodie, egg hoodie. Se Southampton, UK. Eric Thorson,
Bergen, Norway. William bow. Bachman is actually the way it's
pronounced in Port y nimi. Very good. California. Robert Gosh go
and Sherwood Park Alberta where all the money is Mickey Kennedy
in Kingsville Maryland jerris Corporation in Arlington
Virginia we
say no more.
Robert dem off in London England and finally
I'd like his nope thought I better get on in the action need
to support the Friday the firewall firmware upgrade.
Michael Siegenthaler in Parts Unknown, Matthew ma Werder in
Bend Oregon, Chris Johnstone and tapping Australia and anonymous
from parts unknown. And finally, Sir Alan Bean, who usually comes
in every month with $50. He came in with 6666 and a note of
apology. He said he was he sent me wasn't I don't know what he
was talking about, to be honest. But he says he insulted us. But
it was just in jest.
Um, no, I think he sent a note about something and you know,
Knights can never insult me it you can't you come up, you can
come up to my face, spit in it and say douchebag and I'd be
like, That's cool, man. You're nice.
You're not you have privileges? Hell yeah. Eric Hogle. In
Berlin, Deutschland $52.
right up the street from Laura Poitras.
Probably, Kevin Payne, keep an eye on her. Kevin Payne and
Chantilly Virginia $50.69. And finally, Alex shoot unveiled in
Sun Prairie Wisconsin. $50 ultimate gaming hardware
Richfield, Minnesota. And finally, finally, finally, Carol
Baron in Malmo think it's Karl.
Karl Baron.
I say Carol. Oh, Karl. Sorry, Karl. Karl Baron in Malmo, which
is the Southern little tiny Ben their cute little place. Really?
Yeah, yeah, you can get you can take the subway, essentially, or
the board the transit or whatever, this the tram from
Copenhagen. Now it takes you to Malmo or it's I guess it's the
train. But it goes across the new bridge, as the train it's
it's got a bridge track on it. And then you go across and
you're in Malmo. And then you look around and go, Wow, this is
a small town. Where get back on the train and
babes that
just Malmo it's got you know, no babes. It's not worth it. That's
the Muslim area where a lot of Muslims are.
And then we have a special calm request. And as you know, we
break for nights. It doesn't compare to the F cancer karma,
but it's a life changer for day Melissa, Sir Alec, the who was
knighted before birth, the best of breast milk and pablum kid
and myself. were struggling with bank related computer failures
in the application for our first house. It's not looking too
positive right now. And this is the house for us. I hope I
haven't missed the deadline for this karma request. Thank you
from Sir Todd de Melissa. And Sir Alec. And the karma, of
course is coming your way but I will tell you if if something is
stopping you it wasn't the house. Take it from someone
who's bought and sold houses is right into the poor house
actually. You've got karma. I'd say that's the rule if if
something stopping you from getting it. It is not the house.
Would you agree, John?
I wouldn't argue with that.
When you kind of sell that place, man and is there a
time in the 2017 deadlines a ways off? No, but it's
like it's hot now before the bubble burst. I mean, everyone's
it's everyone's like, Yeah, it's crazy.
I know my house went up like a half a million dollars.
And it was only worth 100 grand to double YZ it's amazing. I'm
telling you, do you just just half a million? Did you just say
that? This thing,
and we're working on it? I mean, you don't really have to clean
it out. Can you imagine? Yeah. Okay, get my office clean. Oh,
wow, I need to bring pros in.
That's a reality show is what that is. We could actually sell
Archiva
you're just like moving the
lift Smithsonian, the Smithsonian Institute. Exactly.
Do you know that I would. I seriously, I would rent a
trailer. If I'd Park an RV. Next to it. I can't really do that
cuz you don't really have a next to it. But down on the street.
And I would create a reality show about emptying out that
place. I bet it is. I mean, and to have you like boring. No.
Look at everyone who did like the just a bunch of stuff in the
basement that you think put down and you grab a box of stuff
because you get the ideas. You take a box and you go through
and throw it out. But you can't you go. Wow, where did you get
this clipping?
Mackerel, look at this half a thing. I know. It would be
beautiful. This is a dream. It's kind of a combination between
hoarders and and what's the the the storage unit? Oh, that's
right. Storage Wars. It'd be harder Storage Wars is what it
is. Yeah, I can pitch it. It's like, it's like Dustin Hoffman
meets Storage Wars meets hoarders with a little bit of
Duck Dynasty thrown in. I can sell this man. Okay. All right.
I'm just saying, Be great. Thank you very much. We of course,
understand that the list is shorter today because of the big
celebrations. But the usual suspects came in and some new
ones as well, to support us and prop us up. And we of course,
highly appreciate that. It keeps us going as the only way this
show works until John can sell the house. But of course that's
the end of an era because they don't have to move to
Washington. This is why you don't want to sell it.
I think I'd rather move someplace. I'm not gonna move to
Washington. We want to sell that place to Oh, really? better
places to live. Yeah. Why would you want to get a Pinot Noir
vineyard in the in the Dundee Hills area of Oregon? Oh,
Oregon. Interesting. Also a no income stream to get to. So also
no income tax in Oregon?
No, there's income tax in Oregon. There's no sales tax on
the income tax in Oregon. Is this your best bet? Here's your
bet. I've said this before. I'll say it again. Because Oregon's
income tax even though there's no sales tax, which saves you a
tonne of money, but the income tax is the same as California.
But here's what you want. You want to move to southern
Washington to Vancouver area, Southern Washington. And you
want to right across from Portland and you get no personal
income tax when you live in there. But then you drive across
the bridge to Portland, do all your shopping because there's no
sales tax right? Back and forth. It's a very short drive. Now
they're trying according to one of my correspondents, he says
that yes, this is the best idea ever, except they're trying to
create an $8 toll.
per axle.
That cheap bastards right, anyway. Okay,
but so you're looking to kind of settle down a little retire. I
don't know what we're doing. Okay.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean you're trying to roust me. Well, no,
I'm
no, we're actually seriously thinking of the Austin. How do
you think that would work out?
Is that really? Is that a serious?
Texas? Well, she's
never been to Austin. Has she know that? How could she hate
it?
She just does. She's She's bigoted. When it comes to some
things. That's one of them. All right. Do a hot.
Yeah. No, I'm sure the rain is nice where she is now. I'm only
saying because I'm your friend. And I feel I need to alert you
to a a market based circumstance that you may not be taking
advantage of because
I'm very familiar with these ups and downs. Pretty much. Yeah.
But how old are we going to be on the next up?
It's going up now.
That's what I'm saying here. But there's this is a bubble. And
it's going to pop and there's going to be blood on the moon as
my mom would say. That's a great saying it's the same blood on
the moon. Yeah, and I don't know whatever. I don't know where it
comes from either. It's just one of those one of those 60s
things. There's going to be blood on the moon
because it's going to be working I believe me I'm actively
working.
It's going and to be a slaughter when all of these stupid
companies that have all received angel funding, that's another
great Ponzi scheme, Calacanis. I'm looking at you this angel
funding, and then you know, been slurped up with you know, with
total rip off contracts by venture capitalists. It was
basically robber barons. It's going to be and when when all
this stuff just falls apart. It's going to be blood on the
moon. It's going to be horrendous San Francisco, then
we'll just chop that piece off and let it float away into the
ocean.
It could happen by itself.
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We have a little leftover from the from our knighting the other
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The next night from China will get that same. I'm sure that
same service. Exactly What am I hearing?
So I have a nothing.
I heard something really weird in the background. It was funny,
I had the last the last night I'm prepping and I knew everyone
definitely call it prepping. I'm prepping and everyone knew that
we had a huge storm coming and I have my new my new handheld ham
radio. Yeah, with the one with aprs which is like this cool
digital messaging thing. Nevermind and and all of a
sudden you go rip rip rip rip rip rip rip, what the hell. And
apparently it has the analogue old school giant voice system
built in for the National Weather Service. And the
National Weather Service can trigger an alert on this thing.
And it was pretty cool because it it switches over and you get
a really detailed alert, the National Weather Service that
those guys are good. They got I mean, they know right down it
just it was I was impressed. I have to say, I guess I was very
impressed. And they were right. Flooding. Everything was pretty
bad here.
Well, that's what happens when you have people living in
floodplains.
We don't live in the floodplain. So
I have so
do so. Ah, so,
uh, um, I, by the way, have a hammered for the next show.
That's Umer actually. And I think she may be getting close
to the record. Another spokes hold from some operation. Oh,
excellent. I have an all purpose evergreen, classic st comment
that you can use it anytime you want. I think this is another
one that should go into the files into the Evergreen files
to be used on any occasion. I'm concerned. It's scary.
That's a very good one.
It's a very good one. It fits into everything. I'm concerned.
It's scary.
Yeah, I'm going to I'm putting this into the Evergreen file
right now. And yeah, I think it's just a sometimes I'm
concerned is scary. Very good. Very good. Jen. I'm liking it a
lot.
I'm ran into the bother with the EURO NEWS. Oh, yes. Which I've
been listening to those guys. They actually, you know, that
are new to all our news outlets in the United States in
particular, and even the BBC and others. You have it that Russia
has anti gay laws, anti gay, anti, you know, for the Olympics
just to try to I don't know who's trying to extort who, but
whatever. Whereas we
know that these are really laws that are pitted against the
American entertainment industry too. You charged 10s of 1000s of
dollars for violations of a promiscuity law, not an anti gay
law.
But at least these guys got the thing so they did have an anti
gay kind of theme, but they actually got the, the gist of
the basis correctly and I was actually stunned by this.
As Russia prepares to host next year's Winter Olympics,
President Vladimir Putin is keen to make sure nothing derails
that success. Introducing the head of the International
Olympic Committee to host city Saatchi, Putin says everyone
will be welcome. He's been accused of discrimination
against homosexuals by his critics, but stresses there'll
be nothing of the sort at the Games.
We're doing everything organises athletes and fans so that
participants and guests feel comfortable in Sochi, regardless
of nationality, race, or sexual orientation. The International
Olympic Committee has praised preparations for the games, but
a new Russian law banning homosexual propaganda among
minors has been casting a shadow over the lead up to the event.
Yeah, well, not really. Putin now moves ahead of President
Obama in the Forbes power ranking list. I'm sure you saw
this. Yep. Which I think is right on. Did I send you that
thing that like 23 Pictures comparing Putin to Obama always
gets everything is slightly off, but you know, it doesn't matter.
It's all Ministry of Truth. It's just funny. He said another
reason to put out a picture of Putin you know, with a shirt off
on that horse are catching like huge sharks. I love it. I mean,
those I mean, that's some propaganda right there. What do
we get of our president you know, run around the pool with a
little plate of water gun,
right that's driving a bicycle this stupid helmet on his head.
It's really it's really dumb. I've got a document here which
I'm not going to dissect. But I would like people to just you
should just have it in your arsenal just download it from
the show notes 561 dot n a show notes.com It'll be under a clips
and stuff that's where all the clips and stuff goes. It is from
the European Union a 60 page documents Technical Report John
titled, development of EU eco label criteria for flushing
toilets and urinals
they are they're spending their time on valuable information.
This it really is. We are now going to let you know like we
have the the labelling system if something's Energy Star
compliant for electrical devices so now we're going to have
crapper compliance. Yeah.
Yeah. How much they flush how they flush what system
water they use. How much yeah
60 pages of this stuff.
60 pages of brother.
Toilet and urinal is a urinal or urinal urinal in England. They
say urinal, they do. Yeah, it tripped me out the first time I
heard that. You Sherwood's they weren't just messing with you on
and I'm pretty sure it's your birthday so you're writing your
Reindl Your Highness your idle toilet and urinal suites and
flush free urinals are the functioning units and as such
represented the core of the scope man. Nevertheless, there
is need for including in the product group, both suites one
piece products and independent equipment such as toilet
receptacles, urinals and flushing systems, which make
function units only when combined. i We are we are really
barking up the wrong business tree to imagine just doing a
whole 60 page report on on toilets. It's unbelievable. It's
the European Union man and I caught a thing. Where is it? So
they had their big their big who how the big powwow thing and I
was listening to this report and then something caught my my ear
heads of state and government under let's haiku Herman Of
course, the close relationship between Europe and the United
States and the value of that partnership. They express their
conviction that the partnership must be based on respect and on
trust. So I
was hearing this and now and now something helpful, like hold on
a second,
including As concerns the work and cooperation of secret
services.
on economic matters. The leaders discussed ways to strengthen the
banking union and keep up momentum on the EU's roadmap
Economic and Monetary Union.
Did you know that this banking union thing had gone into
effect?
I think I might have because it
only it only got signed on the 15th. And I didn't hear any any
reports about this at all, except as I went looking, I'm
like, banking union. So what they've done is of course, what
was the plan all along is they've they've created a union
like the European Union of states and peoples etc. Except
for the banking system. And of course, it's this is going to
save the the citizenry, so you don't have to pay for mistakes
made by the banks. But, you know, somehow I doubt that I
found a little report, which I thought was just enlightening,
because you know, you can't have any kind of union without some
awesome new buildings. The skyscrapers
of Europe's banking centres are imposing structures, but they've
also become symbols of crisis and taxpayer bailouts. Finance
Ministers in Luxembourg agreed the new EU banking supervisory
would monitor banks to identify problems early and head off
future financial crises.
We need the new banking supervisors so the taxpayers are
shielded, banks will pay for banks to have this prevention
system up and running.
When building is complete on the European Central Bank's new
headquarters, the new authority will start work here in a year,
it will be tasked with keeping tabs on Europe's 130 top banks.
First on the agenda is a stress test results would indicate
whether lenders have enough capital
the finance minister still have a lot to decide central
questions are who pays if a bank cannot pass the stress test? And
what happens if a bank goes bust before the resolution mechanism
is in place? Germany thinks that it's mainly the players in the
private sector who are to be held responsible, other nations
think that banks should have easier access to public bailout
funds.
Hello, yeah, I enjoy that you're old enough to make of this. I
mean, this is like obviously, there's something's up well, I
think is Italy. Italy, essentially just fell over the
cliff. You know, six, maybe five or six months ago, there was
these reports like, oh, Italy's on the upswing, and everything's
great. And, you know, it looks like we're coming out of this.
And it turns out that all they had really done is the, the
department that that evaluates the economy had, like changed
the questions on the questionnaire or something. And
now it turns out, Oh, yeah. Youth unemployment. And yeah,
40%. You know, moving towards what Spain is. You cannot turn
around the Eurozone without Italy. Italy is humongous. And
to have youth and youth, we're talking 25 year olds, these are,
you know, teenagers. 25 year olds, no job, no job. Well,
you have too many of them and you end up with a government
overthrow. Yeah, they're just trying. I think what they're
doing is they're looking around and saying this is not good.
This could cause an issue. We have to we have to create a
fascist state. The entire EU has to be locked down militarised
state like the US has done see whether way they do it. That's
the way you do it. militarised put lots of cops everywhere make
everybody in the military make of you know, play anthems all
the time we play more anthems in this country that nowadays in
the baseball game, they besides playing the national anthem at
the beginning of the game now in the seventh inning stretch they
play America the Beautiful with a bunch of military guy standing
around it used to be take me out to the ballpark. Yeah, well used
to be what they say no, no, you got to play more military stuff
and a fly over which God knows what those costs. And so they
fly over so we got we've got it down us we've done a good job
where the Empire and we have this all set up.
People ask me why people ask me why I'm not interested in
sports. Because it's militaristic crap meant to keep
men you know, keep their toss testosterone at the right
levels, you know, just just you gotta yell a little bit once in
a while. It
doesn't hurt. So whatever the case, the Europeans because all
they have is soccer, which has got to be the
man field hockey, you know, female field hockey.
Lacrosse is good too. So you so they don't have quite the
militarised clamp down that could keep some minor revolution
from occurring. I mean, look what happened in Greece. I mean,
they didn't report it much here. But we watched it. It was just
the riots left and right. They don't report anything.
That's even worse than that. You know, they arrested like, like
20 Guys from the Golden Dawn party. They arrested him. And
the people are rioting now because of course, you know, the
Golden Dawn party is being seen as you know, they're fascist or
Neo Nazis. You know, this is Just what is being reported in,
you know, some in in, you know, in some Western media? I'm not
so sure you know, I always have a question.
I look at him as kind of libertarians
because I remember I remember him for town when I was living
in the Netherlands and he was like he's the Dutch Lapan. He's
a nice guy was a six foot five bald Gay Guy professor who just
said it like it was he said hey man you know this Muslim stuff
is gonna come and bite you in the ass. We gotta like do
something about this. And then he got assassinated a week
before his his party one the elections assassinated just shot
in Holland. And so I don't buy any of that. And in fact, I have
a I have a clip interesting you bring it.
Around 1000 supporters of the far right Golden Dawn party took
to the streets of the far right, it could be 10,000 supportive
for all we know
Athens on Sunday. The group chanted Greece belongs to the
Greeks and slogans against the Prime Minister. They're
demanding the release of six MPs including their leader who faced
charges of being part of a criminal organisation. Last week
the government cut off state funding of the group and lifted
that immunity pending trial. Earlier on an Anti Fascist
demonstration took place which aim to march on the headquarters
of the party dubbed a neo Nazi criminal gang by the government.
Police trucks were positioned to keep the two groups apart and
the day passed without incident. It was the murder of an Anti
Fascist rapper last month allegedly by a member of Golden
Dawn which triggered public outrage putting pressure on the
government to take a stand to
have a legit and yeah this the storage some pretty bold. And I
love how, you know they their immunity and money was all
stopped before the trial.
Yeah, that way you can spend, you can afford a lawyer.
And so this is this is not new. We
do that here. We confiscate everything. And then you're kind
of Oh, yeah, on your own, you have to go to a public defender.
So there's something's going to happen on November 1. I've got
this watch November 4 In Egypt, when they start throwing dates
out at you for specific things. And by the way, that would be
one week after the six week thing. So something if we're
gonna have that six Widney which,
yeah, but this it has to be FBI related. I don't think I know
but this
is just saying this. I don't know what the point of this
throwing this date out is and it's got to do with Egypt. But
something's going to happen on the fourth and Egypt at least.
photos released said to show the moment of arrest. The Egyptian
authorities have detained senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Osama
al Ariane as the crackdown against the Islamist movement
continues. Rihanna is said to have been taken from a Cairo
residence where he'd been in hiding. The Muslim Brotherhood
group was banned and many of its leaders detained after the army
deposed Islam as President Mohammed Morsi. Last July, at
least 1000 people have died in the violence that followed.
Before his detention Ariane had described the deposing of mercy
as a divergence from the true democratic path and called for
dialogue. When the boy mercy supporters have called on
Egyptians to hold mass protests on November the fourth, the day
their leader goes on trial for inciting murder, raising the
prospect of more bloodshed as the country's political crisis
goes on. It's gonna be a nightmare.
It's a nightmare now and what course what do we have? What's
our kind of thing? What kind of protests or wild things do we
have to moan and groan about and you know, with drones and
murderers, murdering Americans and all the rest of it? We have
an Apollo Tano running is going to take over the University of
California and so we have a protest that goes something like
this.
Sorry, man, I don't know what oh, man,
I do it. I got into politics. There's only one mention of her
this whole list.
Yeah, but it's see but I look it has to be the first word because
it's alphabetical. Don't you understand? It's Hey, small
cheese.
I was invited to pet a shark.
I just got here from Washington.
I've had my fill of sharks. Wanting to Positano Bay have
left Washington behind her legacy is Homeland Security
Chief follows. Officers chanted outside Napolitano is visit
today to Oakland tech saying she's not the right fit for you
see,
Janet Napolitano under the administration of Obama was
responsible for escalating federal immigration enforcement
and recorded into deported a record number more than 2
million immigrants from this country.
If Allah Tonto also announced an additional $10 million in
support for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers and
Julian Frank, I'm told that this money will not come from wishin
or state revenues, but rather reserves. Reporting live tonight
here in San Francisco. I'm Heather Holmes. Caitlin, you
know what's crazy? I'm sorry.
Well, I'm gonna say, Can these can protesters in the United
States come up with something other than hey ho Hey, Phil X Y
Z has got to go. Yeah. Now it's the stupidest thing I hear it.
There's the you know, they're protesting General Electric, you
know, hey, whoa, whoa, this assholes gotta go. I mean, if
Anyway, go on.
Well, first, I'd like to point out that they're protesting
immigration. This is a giant Berkeley. Oh, how about the
police state? How about the military militarization of state
and local police forces through how about the suspicious
activity reporting the the brown shirts Staci Nazi Cresci
Institute for tuition now I know I'm but I'm just saying that you
know, the best protest we have in the United States of America
and in fact in many countries around the world is this podcast
this is the best
that's pretty pathetic if you think about
it's extremely pathetic.
But hey, hey, ho ho does not have
to go and I saw what's her name Mina. You know the the Code Pink
Lady.
Oh, gosh, she
was Did you see her she was getting off now as well. So
she's cute by the way but she's just super cute. This is just
want to pick her up
a little pixie kids say that because you're a man that's
sure do i but she was sitting behind Kaiser Alexander and all
those guys with she had the giant sunglasses on you know the
huge like the funny the joke sunglasses that are that are
twice as big as your head. And it said Stop spying on the
glasses. And you know she's on her website. I bet they hated
that fit. They hated that. Really? We need we need some
it's gonna it's gonna come down to bad bad stuff. Maybe Maybe
Maybe I don't know. You think that the university student
maybe? Now it's just not gonna happen. It's just not everyone's
like, yeah, so yeah, I get depressed when I when I think
about a John you got to pull me out of that I get really
depressed.
Okay, well, here's something I want you to deconstruct
interesting. Greenland news is very strange story.
Greenlands parliament has voted to end a decades long ban on
mining for radioactive materials such as uranium, Greenland and
autonomous Danish territory is looking to boost its economy,
which is currently dependent on fishing and Danish subsidies.
Because it's very important on the company expects a turnover
of 9 billion kronor. I'm shedding poor Greenland's GDP is
12 billion. It will be close to doubling the GDP. It will have a
huge impact on Greenlandic society today
in all tuning for the continents at some point,
the project has been criticised by environmental groups with
NGOs warning the mining will threaten the Arctic's ecosystem.
British company London mining has won the contract to extract
the iron deposits
hmm, I thought that was a weird story. And by the way, what is
Greenlandic society anyway? It's something we make up on
television. Green, I thought that was an interesting that
they would you know, because their new thing may be going on
in the background where people are, you know, just trying to
keep it quiet information repressed so you don't get
speculators jumping in right? And buying mining companies.
Anyway, just just out of the blue, nobody's talking about it
now. I saw a new thing. Come on to the scene. We had a lot of
doctors who listened to the show. Also a disproportion
amount of dentists. Listen to the show for some reason.
Well, we have a we have a den tight night.
I know. I know. But we have just a lot of oral professionals.
That's right,
in more ways than one. That's right. Hey, OH, Oral
professional, that girl in style. Just
stop, just stop. So here's a new one. And where did I saw this
article? I was like, oh my god, this is you know, we're always
on the lookout for little memes and things that the
pharmaceutical and healthcare industry essentially will do.
Just to just crazy crap. So we've, you know, we've had this
pre cancer thing that we've been looking at, which is, you know,
yeah, everyone's pre cancer. But I think that that, you know,
they're kind of catching on to that. And so now We have
something new called stage zero cancer.
That's a good one. Yeah, stage
zero breast cancer, a new term many women will start hearing,
particularly as it relates to breast exams, mammograms. So
stage zero cancer is what they're calling a stage zero
cancer. And essentially, you can have it okay. I love this.
According to oncologist, Dr. Arcana miny, stage zero breast
cancer is an earlier indicator of a potentially serious
disease, quote, it's pre malignant. So left on its own,
it would have developed into an invasive cancer, but maybe not.
A stage zero diagnosis is most often made following a mammogram
that detects a lesion on the breast. Now, having some fatty
tissue or something in a mammogram is not uncommon. I
know a lot about this, I would say. And, you know, the the
problem that I have is these reports come out and this type
of new classification, now that we have new health care laws in
place where you can have the Angelina Jolie procedure done
and it's insured. Just you know, like, oh, you know, you might
have the gene, you might be stage zero. I think we're all
stage zero. just lop them off. And yeah, this is concerning,
because I believe this is just being done for profit.
Not that would be unusual.
Well, yeah. But people need to know this. Because it's the same
people who put helmets on their kids when they go to walk to
school. We're like, oh, yeah, no. Oh, it's science. I gotta
go. No. And speaking of which, and just and this will, this
will end up my, my day because there's the transhumanist stuff
is really bugging me. And it's still one of our producers. Let
me see if I can find his note. I may not be able to get to a
quick enough. Sent me. Let me see. He sent me a note about a
Yahoo Sports story. Let me just see. Where is it? And I'm so
sorry. I wasn't quite prepared for this. But it's important.
Okay, I can't find it. Okay. Yahoo Sports story. About the
Cougars versus Oh, hold on a second. Now is that the Cougars?
I just have to find it here for a second.
My football team the Jaguars Jaguars
that's it. Yeah, Go cougars Jaguars is all this that
actually helps me find the story. Oh, I can't I find it.
You can summarise. Yeah, I
can sound right. Okay. So it was on Yahoo Sports. And it was
essentially, I wanted to read it. That's why I'm angry about
this because I was so sure that I had saved it. And as a sports
story that was written automatically by an outfit
called Automated Insights. In fact, I'm going to play the
because I found this company and replay this little bit of a
video they have on their website, just to ease you into
the idea of computers writing your news, and I'll see if I can
find this actual report and read it to you.
I have a background in both computer science and on the
writing side. So I have computer science degrees from East
Carolina University and master's degrees from MIT. And as well as
a history with O'Reilly, I've authored or co authored 10
books, and was an editor for a short period of time. And so
when I started thinking about an interesting business to create,
I wanted to sort of marry my two passions, which was programming
and writing. And that's what led me to Automated Insights. We
take data generate interesting content and stories from data.
So purely from data we can generate narrative content and
either long or short form, visualisations interactive
content applications and mobile and social context human
readable content derived from data through software so
fundamentally, it's about having software do writing for you
Yeah. So here it is Jaguars pounded by the 40 Niners Yahoo
Sports
pounded by the way what was the name of that company? It does
the automated way.
Automated Insights Yeah, okay. Go. Which you can find that
guess automated insights.com that okay Jaguars just this is
this is your future that hey, Marissa Meyer. Good work. Here
we go. Jaguars pounded by 40. Niners 42 to 10. The Jaguars
were dismantled by the 40, Niners 42 to 10 comma at home
Chad Chad henne completed 29 of 1445 passes for 208 228 yards
one touchdown and no interceptions. Colin Kaepernick
ended up going 10 of 16 with 100 and Kaepernick ended up going 10
of 16 with 164 yards passing three touchdowns one pass to
rush and no interceptions. Maurice Jones Drew was a key
factor for the Jaguars, comma rushing for 75. So it's all
stats.
You take stats, and you're right, this bullcrap and it was
a key factor in what they lost when I was a key factor.
doesn't even say key factor. You said he was a key factor? Oh,
yeah. Right. So that's the key factor. Where does it say key
factor? You said it, you read it? Oh, Maurice Jones Drew was a
key factor for the judge what you said right? No, there you
go. Okay. Well, let
me just ask you this. He was the key factor in what for the
Jaguar. They lost the game that guy. Okay, thank
you. I knew we need to pull this apart. He says he was a key
factor for the
loss. He's a factor in them losing.
Yeah, this is your future of sports reporting, John. When you
sit when you finally buy the farm, and get out of get out of
reporting, get out of writing. This is what he does crap. We're
gonna have this Automated Insights. We'll just take over
it'll be okay. Here's the John C. Dvorak. Automated Insights,
script. Jaguars, crap.
Niners with nine. Right. That's code. All short, though.
That's great. All right. So this is part of this should be not
accepted. Okay, this should be not accepted. It's just not
okay. And for Yahoo Sports to publish this. And actually put
an ad put ads on this page is an insult to people who read Yahoo
Sports. Now. This only leads to of course, more transhumanist
activity that is taking place and something that has been
bothering me for a while. And I'm sure you've seen the ads is
luminosity. Have you seen this luminosity stuff? Yeah, I
don't I'm not sure what you're referring to. Because I don't
know that it's just stuck in my by show clay, the commercial,
one of the many. I think, is it gonna play here we go. I do
it to stay sharp. I take care of my body. But it was harder to
work out my brain. But lumosity.com is based on
neuroscience. And it just seems like games, but it's serious
brain training. I am happier with my brain. Definitely.
No matter why you want a better brain nimasa.com can help. It's
like a personal trainer for your brain, improving your
performance with the science of neuroplasticity, but in a way
that just feels like games, start training with lumosity.com
right now and discover what your brain can do. neuro
plasticity, neuroplasticity. And so it's Lumosity I'm sorry, not
luminosity. lumosity.com And this is an Indian Cabal. As
heavily venture funding
we get we can do that right.
Definitely ventured venture funded. And they've got ads
everywhere. And it's like, you just know it's bright. It's like
oh, you can train your brain and like,
like, this is so bogus, bogus, and bogus live. And by the way,
since we brought it up these these Indians who never
contribute to the show, and you know that the English speaking
people in India itself, have plenty of opportunity. And many
of them listen, they're all boners right? Yeah, I went to my
Israel plant clip. Uh huh. Can you play the contaminated spices
clip?
A wake up calm. That's what some people are calling a new FDA
analysis that found about 12% of spices brought to the US are
contaminated with insects, rodents, hairs and other
unsavoury items. Researchers also found nearly 7% of spice
imports examined were contaminated with salmonella.
The FDA says most of the insects and insect parts found in the
spices are typical of those that would be living in warehouses,
spice imports from Mexico and India were found to have the
highest rate of contamination.
Yeah, exactly. They don't donate. All they do is they give
us bugs and hair, bugs and rat hair.
Thanks. Thanks.
So they've got this. But this this idea, this is the same and
luckily, I'm having dinner with the old boss, which of course
includes our actual brain professor, Professor Russ, the
official brain professor of the no agenda show. I'm gonna have
to call him dude, what is going on with this? Because the same
people who put the helmet on the kid and oh, you can't be a
cowboy or an Indian for Halloween. They're like, Oh, but
let's let's good. Let's pay Lumina. Lumosity money to come
train your brain. Brain Training, Joe
asked him about the birth of plasticity. Come the
neuroplasticity. Yeah, ask him what assets is today? What is
that? Let's see what he says. I know he's gonna say just a crock
of crap is what is a parlour
tricks is what he's gonna say. So he's got Kunal Sarkar, CEO
and co founder. Prior to founding Lumosity. he co founded
private equity fund ame LP which manages $400 million in capital.
This is like a toy for these boys. You got Krishna kaka Rolla
was a racist, a racist because all they have is white people on
their site. They're just a white dummies need to
programme I skipped over some of the white people who work there
as a couple. They got some token whities. Like, oh, no, they
gotta like she looks like she looks Iranian or Persian, almost
who she Doctor Farzin. Where she from? She's at Lumos Labs to the
end. They kind of like part the partners on this thing. But do
we have Blue Shield Blue Cross really? Is this going to be
covered by insurance? I can get Lumosity to scan Lumosity and
they got a whole bunch of people in neuroscience from Boston
University, Johns Hopkins. So yeah, this is gonna be very
interesting. But the idea that you can train your brain with
some kind of exercises. You know, you could also just read,
read more, do a Sudoku. Just yeah. Read a musical instrument,
pick up a newspaper, pick up a Yeah, learn a musical
instrument. This is scan. But people want these shortcuts they
want shortcuts to it's fixing my brain, it's making my brain
healthier. It's so much better enter my new favourite toy,
which you can preorder the a row Ayar Oh, trans, humanistic
bracelet. This thing is an outrage. And of course, we have
a video which is proudly displayed on their site. This
thing is amazing. John and I are Oh yeah.
There's more to health and wellness and just counting. It's
what you eat, how you sleep, your stress levels and your
exercise. But life is busy. And it's hard to keep an eye on
everything. Life is
busy, it's hard to keep an eye on everything. That's why
I use arrow. It's a wristband that keeps track of my
lifestyle. Oh god, I
have to stop. It's a wristband that takes the keeps track of
your lifestyle,
we live better. Take food, for example, meals automatically.
That's pretty cool. There's no need to take pictures or out of
calories. There's a built in spectrometer right here. That
keeps track of how many calories I've eaten, as well as the
nutritional quality. Arrow keeps track of when I exercise as well
as how I exercise. It measures the intensity of my activity, as
well as the number of calories that I burned. In the morning
arrow wakes me up at the best time possible that I can start
my day feeling refreshed. And
let me just review up until this point. So you actually see her
eating a bowl of twigs and branches. And she's like, I
don't have to worry about what I eat because the bracelet is
keeping track of the calories because some it has some magical
thing it scans through your skin and measures how many calories
you ate and how many you burned while exercising, and it wakes
you up at the most optimal time for you. Which on her bracelet
is like 845 ubitx, some people have to get up at 630 to go to
work. So I don't know about your bracelet waking you up at 845.
That's real nice and all. But wait, there's more. It takes
care of her at work when you're unknown, she may work at
noodles,
it also keeps track of how many hours of deep sleep I get each
night. And at work. Eric keeps track of my stress level in real
time, and will give me a heads up if it's getting too hot.
tracks your stress level at work and gives her a heads up. If
she's too stressed and you see your iPhone and it says you are
too stressed. Let's try some breathing exercises. And, you
know, I know so many people who are going to be all in on this.
Even recommend specific exercises to keep
exercise exercises to keep calm.
But my favourite part is the arrow puts all of this
information into helpful reports to show me where I'm doing well
and where I can improve. Real Time notification and daily
updates make it easy for me to understand my health and
maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Right and the insurance company of course,
of course. But I mean when did
we imagine your insurance company requiring this that oh,
oh,
well it's just last week you set these companies up? Exactly.
It's just like the blind
realise how much money you can save on your individual
components within the insurance system. If you make them wear
these little bracelets will Californians California profit
to you
California just to prove the black box, didn't they? Pretty,
I'm pretty sure yeah, you gotta buy lockbox for insurance
purposes. Yeah.
Yeah, it's all in it's good to go. They improve the the Yeah.
I'm pretty sure. I had a story about that.
Yes. The black box here,
this black box in your car source of tax revenue from the
LA Times and you ask and we play here we go. I'll give you the
I'm sure it's progressive, but oh, this is they want this for
the new road tax. That's what it is. Because, you know,
obviously, people are driving electric cars. And you know,
they're not getting they're not buying enough gasoline. That's
right to spend it to pay the taxes on the gasoline because
first, they've been encouraged to drive electric cars, they're
encouraged to get good gas mileage, but because they're
getting good gas mileage, it's kind of screwing up the numbers,
so we have to gouge them in some other way.
Well, not just them, everybody.
Well, everybody Yeah, everybody.
So while Congress this LA Times Will Congress can agree on
whether to proceed several states are not waiting that are
exploring Hold
on a second. Shouldn't the public which has been encouraged
to save money by dinky little cars to get great gas mileage?
be rewarded for their efforts? Yeah, save the environment and
stop global warming rather than being gouged by one of these new
systems yes, you're
getting you got a fun new gadget this is your what's your
problem? This is great. This is what it this is what we want. I
think this this should be added into the arrow bracelet so that
it knows interlingual It knows when I'm driving
but you know when you walk it can wear and tear on the
sidewalks Exactly. So
you pay your fair share. It's tearing up the place pay your
fair share you've got to pay for your fair share of carbon tax
for living for breathing for exhaling this is not going in
the right direction but the apparently California is I think
Washington and Washington State may be in on a to John I'm
thinking and there is a Big Berkey Water Filter add thanks
had mine for a year
maybe you want a second one.
Anyway so the idea is GPS GPS put in your car and it'll be for
your insurance it'll be for your taxes
we can make some money on this deal. No
we can we are
a little bitty scramblers a little bit just some sort of
device it doesn't have to be sorry Eagle FCC scrambler
those those are already illegal. No, no, this
wouldn't be one of those good ones.
Excuse me any GPS. scrambler is in
many states I think Nick need to do something to the ignition
system. So your car is poppin little set there's got to be
some way of you creating an interference pattern within the
GPS system that looks like it's not your fault bug.
The GPS jammers. I think they're they think they may be I don't
know what level they are GPS jammer. They're illegal man. You
can't look at all the old jammers
are illegal. They didn't used to be cell phone jammers are
illegal are they? Yeah, I started like anybody knows what
to do if they find one but they're out to get Yeah.
Here it is creating quiet zones to the use of GPS jamming is
more illegal practices illegal and being enforced by the
Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau.
How about this then? No jammer whatsoever Faraday cage
Yeah, but you know, one of
my wallet No, you need one that wallet over the thing
you need one that gives bogus data. What you want is you want
to feed the device with bogus data if it's just like no data
received, then eventually you know someone's going to come and
say hey, you know your things not working you know, you don't
have it on properly what you want is you want a GPS
transmitter that the hands out groovy data that is advantageous
Yeah, that's actually what you do want
that and that by the way may not fall on the definition of
jamming Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna well I'm gonna look into
it. I'm going to
wow look at this high powered GPS jammer this four bucks how
much from the from the website signal jammer? Oh, nice. Signal.
Yeah, signal blocker. jammer.com nice. They have the three anti I
have one of these. I had one I don't have any more. I had one
of these three antenna jammer for cell phones that was that
would have it had all three GSM and it had CDMA had the three
antennas and you you just put in your pocket and turn it on and
jammed all the phones within about 20 feet of you, is very
entertaining.
I like the idea of it should be something that you just put near
your GPS receiver and it just Bogut of data, like you know,
you're driving, but you're, you're right within the speed
limit,
you're always one mile under the speed limit. You're always good.
You're going to the doctor foodstore constantly driving
around. Good thing. In fact, John,
you've hit upon it, and I think we should leave it. Leave it
with that this is our future. Our future is creating
transmitters that transmit slave slave compliant data.
Slave compliance.
And so when you have this bracelet on, you know, it's
going to like, it's going to you're barely stressed at work
just a little bit. You know, when the boss asks you to go
that extra mile
in bad data. Yeah. And how great you are bad data, Inc. He ate
well again today and how is that possible? Yes, surance premiums
should drop to zero.
I had all everything. Oh my gosh, he ate kale again.
Which reminds me, I want to remind everybody out there, do
John dvorak.org. Send me your kale recipes, use the subject
line kale. And we're going to do a no agenda book on kale,
the superfood of the future food.
And we'll have that we'll put everybody's anecdotes, and we'll
put your recipes and your anecdotes and we'll put it
together make a little ebook out of it. It'll be ready before
Christmas if you give me some recipes, although I don't think
they too many people. We
also need some art we need we need some art for this giblet we
can do. Alright, so here is my recipe. It is and this is one
that I have had and I will say it is the only recipe that I
have actually eaten that included the superfood kale that
I liked. And it's from the food for fitness cafe here in Austin.
It's called goddess kale. Ingredients are kale top tahini
lemon juice, white wine vinegar, sea salt and black pepper.
And just basically the tahini.
Yeah, it's yeah, it's basically tahini with kale. Yeah, and the
tahini stuff. I kind of like that has an interest in
these tasty or did you get sick of it after a while it's just a
sesame seed paste. goop, goop. So before I've done here, I just
want to play this one clip. And I want to have you talk to any
of your friends back in Europe at this very I think it's
slightly underreported over here. But what is kind of crazy
storms that are whacking the EU.
Yeah, in fact, the Netherlands got got whacked and some great
videos. Yes, no trees were down. There was there was a lot of a
lot of spoof videos running around about the because finally
people catch on how dumb the news is, like so they take like
reports of it's typical. Whenever you have a storm, you
have like you show a flag waving in the wind. You see people on
the beach leaning into the wind, you show a tree that's down and
an ambulance in an ambulance. And you're good to go. There's
there's your package right there. There's your windy
package. Yeah, so it was interesting. He was like, of
course, it's all climate change. We're all gonna die. But yeah,
what do you got
is a clip that kind of summarises it since I think a
lot of Americans in particular don't know anything about it.
Hurricanes constraints winds, which battered southern Britain
on Monday left a trail of destruction before heading
eastwards onto mainland Europe. In all more than a dozen people
have been killed mainly due to falling trees or being swept out
to sea others had lucky escapes Dobson dude in the UK the storm
was for some reason given the name Christian as it slammed
into Germany and France with winds of up to 160 kilometres
per hour, but you just say for some
reason. Yeah, like I heard when I heard what isn't that Raymond
downbeat? You know? Yeah, isn't Isn't that all written down and
predetermined what the storm names are some rails make it
up. Torrential rain. In Denmark, as in other places, the wild
weather brought out onlookers despite warnings to stay
indoors. One student said I think it's 10 times worse than
we used to do. For those who felt they had to go outside they
risked flying DeBary homes and businesses and are counting the
cost of the damage. Although European insurers say it's too
early to give accurate figures on the losses is likely to reach
more than a billion euros. Fortunately, no one was hurt
when this scaffolding in Copenhagen collapsed
scaffolding collapsed
I tell you it was a good one that was a great video the
scaffolding collapse like a whole half of a building was a
scaffold and it just got blown away
by people in Amsterdam thought it was funny that someone
finally got killed on the on the canals of Amsterdam by nature
instead of buying you know, Yugoslav gunmen. Someone got
killed by something natural instead of you know, the Hugo's
coming in shooting the place up.
They got GPS blockers for cars, but the only lasts for hours
these things are no
we need so it will be S C. D ink slave compliance data
Incorporated. And I think it's as simple John as creating a
counter bracelet. So you, of course, you're going to be
clamped, you're gonna have these bracelets is going to be your
citizen bracelet.
Yeah, that'd be locked down, bam, welded on, well, welded.
It's funny, there's a movie, there's an independent movie
coming out. I think it's playing November 4 here in Austin. It
was part of it was funded. I don't know. I can't believe
these guys had to go to Indiegogo or something to get
funding for it. And it's called who? Oh, what the hell is it?
It's the premise of it is China gets pissed that we don't pay
them back. It's really fun. And, and because of that, every
single chip that was made in China, which is pretty much
everything freezes breaks. And then the only and then, you
know, they start handing out these bracelets like it's called
I think it's called a US citizens freedom band or
something. It's pretty funny. And
let's see that or I'll, we'll see it I'll wait for it. I'll
get a copy. Let
me see if I can add it was it was actually I don't think I
have it here. It was it was the trailer was pretty well done.
But then you know, like they they had to try to raise 50 I
know $50,000 on Indiegogo to finish the movie or something
was really quite weird. I'm not sure why. Why they were doing
that. But the but the premise is kind of cool. Where China just
like turns everything off. Say okay, look, screw you guys.
You're done. And, and then you have to wear the Chinese
bracelet and and of course, ham guys in the trailers. You guys
are like, putting 100 potatoes and series in series to power
the ham radio. It's pretty funny. But anyway, so I think we
can start the corporation, citizens, the data, the
compliant Data Corporation, you get a band, and it transmits
compliance data into any other sensor that you're forced to
wear by your insurance company or by the IRS. Which is or Yeah,
which is bound to happen.
It's happening.
Yes, it does. Yes, it's happening. So all we need is a
Kickstarter campaign.
Well, we can give it a run. And we think it's designable. We
won't do push legislation as soon as something like just
showed up. Yeah, John,
in six years from now, we'll be doing the same show talking
about the same pitch and emotion.
But at least we'll have some evergreen. We have a great
collection of evergreens will be living up
there and your place within the wine country. No, I'm looking
forward to it.
It's a nice area. Oh, yeah, we
got wine country in Texas now.
You've always had wine country. They've
been really successful. It's always been it's hot wine is
really like hot.
Over there. Georgia. I think it's toward Abilene or it's West
Texas. There's an area that has a microclimate that makes decent
wine. There's actually some in the panhandle, too. There's an
ex IBM er that's had a place up there for 25 years. I noticed
and I believe that's the name of that one is pheasant ridge. Yano
s staccato I'm telling you, I'm telling you. Their line is, you
know, it's, it's it's quantifiable. By
the way you're always invited shoket down. You're always
invited to come live in Austin. Mimi, not so much. No. All
right, everybody. We will be back on Sunday. And we do expect
you to support us for this effort as we continue our
deconstruction of the mainstream media, Big Data doodoo and I'm
here in Austin, Texas, home of some great wines in the morning.
I'm Adam curry.
And I'm from Northern Silicon Valley where there's actually
better wine, and it's always Halloween. I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda,
the best.
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