We're really a comedy show.
Just news is funny. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak. Sunday, December 22 2013. Time here get my nation
media assassination episode 576 This is no agenda. Dissecting
media lies to make you feel better from FEMA Region six in
the traverse high tide out in Texas in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam curry.
And for Northern Silicon Valley where I'm taking the plastic
bottle by the horns I'm John C. Dvorak. Raglan buzzkill okay my
new sound effect play it again Sam
it is just like the crunch of boots on of Jack. Jack boots on
Jack boots on fresh snow that's, that's actually that's pretty.
That's uncanny sounding actually. Let's do a little
skit. Okay. Was the Night Before Christmas? Wait wait, wait until
they get to the mouse part.
It cute cue the marching soldiers.
So hold on. Because the night before Christmas. Toys The Night
Before Christmas went all through the house. Not a
creature was stirring. Not even a mouse however, the brown
shirts were out. God yes, that is the Ghost of Christmas Future
ladies and gentlemen. Played by John C. Dvorak. All right, yeah.
strikes. Was that incredible. No agenda show strikes again. So
I'm running. I'm on a Windows eight machine. Okay. Actually,
what I tried to do, I chose you, I gotta get something back to my
workplace where I like to do the show rather than the main
machine where I write. So I decided I've got one of these
little I have a small box that runs Windows eight, in fact, is
Windows 8.1. Pro preview, build 9431 That has not been pulled
back for some reason. I don't know why they usually cancelled
these things. But can they
do that? Do they do that remotely? It just stops working?
I think they I don't know how they do it. Whatever the case
is, I suspect on Tuesday, there will be killed but whatever. But
I wanted to do I figured I'm doing it. I'm going all in. I'm
gonna go with Linux. Ubuntu 12.04 I've got Skype 4.2
When you're so you're running on Ubuntu right now.
No, no, I'm running on Windows 8.1 Pro preview but I want it to
run on. I loaded up the Ubuntu.
Oh, okay. I missed that. Okay, you low you wanted to do that.
Got
it? Yeah, realise, you know, there's no Linux it works. And
it was stunning. So the thing worked to the USB speakers came
on the the weird Azio wireless keyboard worked out right out of
the box of the wireless mouse from Logitech where everything
came up.
Except networking.
No, the networking came by everything came up, except them
M audio. Oh,
no driver. Just
going to Linux is like dating a lesbian. It's always one thing
you know, there's something that doesn't pull it out.
Hold on a second. First of all, can you lower your volume just a
little bit? Just a tad, because you're just on the edge of
distortion.
The edge of distortion? Is that?
I don't know. We'll find out.
Well, anyway, so So I
hold on a second. Have you ever dated a lesbian?
I imagined dating one though. I
have I in college. I had sex once. And the next day she said,
I think I'm a lesbian. That's the that's the response might be
for
you. Last time you told me.
My daughter still loves that story. It doesn't matter how
many times I tell it.
Funniest bits. You caught me off guard because you said this. It
doesn't.
I know it's true, though.
Anyway, so that's what Linux is like. Whatever the case I did
had all these options for the microphones and none of them
worked. I just could not get Skype to work. And by the way,
Skype 4.2 running on on Linux is sucks. It doesn't have private
interface. It stinks. Yeah. I mean, it's just not good. But
everything else was Linux is fine. But it's always the one
thing with Linux that you wanted to do. And there it is, again,
there's one thing you wanted to do and it won't do it.
Well. The good news is of course, that because of the
nature of Linux, you could actually get in there and make
it work though something you wanted to do.
True. I could make it work. And I'm sure if I got on the forums,
some was Yeah, well, you're an idiot because you should have
installed I bet bla bla bla And then possibly,
possibly, and then you have to instal these 18 dependencies.
That's always my favourite. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's true. With
with the MacBook Air, which is very the original MacBook Air
3.1 The first version is very hard to get a dual load thing
going on the ESI or whatever it's called to get Linux to dual
boot. And, and once you've gone through that pain to get that to
work, it turns out the for some reason the driver even if you
use the what is it, the experimental external third
party driver for the Wi Fi, for some reason has it at very low
power. And the Wi Fi literally does not have the reach. It's
these things can drive you nuts. But you know, it could be fixed.
Yeah, everything could be fixed. Yeah, that's I mean, I left but
I still have a dual booting and it will load Linux and it's got
it you know the word everything works fine, except for this one
thing. It's the one thing I put it on there for which is the
problem. And again, it doesn't really run Photoshop, you can
run wine and make Photoshop work and all the rest of it. But is
that I so I just dual booted over to Windows side. And that's
what why I'm over my jumps. Yeah.
It's always one thing without windows.
Over modular, at least it works. Yeah. Well, that sounds
reasonable. It's
always about the drivers. It's always about the drivers. That's
in computing, isn't it always about the drivers?
Yeah, I think so. Thanks. So too. All right.
I had a weird thing happened this morning, as I'm going
through the system, getting all the stories, etc. We know how
Google from time to time just throws people in jail. For like
you had with divorce.org
Oh, right. Right. You
got you got the the malware malicious site with a little
robber, you know, sticking his hand through the computer
monitor stealing your secrets. So Google has decided to do this
for the Russian news agency. Ria. Why? Well, they say that to
say that it's a known malware site now.
Good B.
But that's, that's big. I mean, that is. And it's, it's hard to
if you go to RIA dot are you right now. This thing will keep
popping up. Every time that loads something, it's almost
impossible to get to that website. Where anyway, and
sometimes there's actually you have to do it. Obviously, Chrome
is blocking it right now. And then, you know, it'll
spread what happens with with
Firefox, it usually takes a couple days before Firefox does
that. Before they before they take Google's database, which
they take blindly.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. won't load.
It won't load at all.
I'm not getting anything.
Now. What's interesting is I think Putin close the news
agency. So it could be kind of a double whammy, where Putin
called up Sergey and said, Hey, shut that thing down, man.
I'm getting nothing. Okay. Well, there you go. Says is
transferring data. But
hey, last night, I was, you know, obviously, came up. Did
you get the malware thing? No. Last night, I'm a messing around
and reading the emails and, and all of a sudden, I'm like, Oh,
my gosh, we sometimes are so jaded. Or I am I, maybe you
thought of this. This, this target thing, this, this target
40 to 40 million breaking. Now you'll recall on Thursday's
show, I said, we went shopping at Target. And I can tell you
exactly the day we went shopping at Target, which was December
12. And after the show after we'd uploaded everything, and
you know, I was like yeah, oh, what the hell, I might as well
take a look. And yeah, there were, I think, five transactions
to x holiday fun, whatever. And these were all in the hundreds
of dollars. There were multiple for eat now, food services for
like 60 or $80, all pop up about for a week this has been going
on. So this is probably two and a half $1,000 Is is gone because
we only have debt. We don't have credit cards or debit cards,
right? So I go through the whole thing you call up the bank. And
of course, you know, we have consumer protections in America.
So you don't have to really worry about it. But you won't
get the money credited for at least 10 days. You have to say,
Well, I had this happened to me and that's from Target. But
yeah,
so we got nailed by target. And so of course now I have a vested
interest. I'm interested. I started looking around a little
bit more than The first thing I think to myself is self, a 40
million credit card stolen. And, of course, I was able to get
some information out of the girl at the bank mechanics bank here.
They're friendly, they really know. So hey, you know, is this
a lot? Well, yeah, we got a lot of people call in and there's
all kinds of stuff going on. It's like, okay, so this is this
is pretty big, and it's pretty widespread. And I start really
looking for news. And I'm watching all the news. The news
shows, and I see very sparse, very little information about
this. Like, why is I mean, why am I not seeing every single
congressman and senator doing live interviews about cyber
terrorism? Because this is it take into consideration this
happened in the busiest shopping after Black Friday, the busiest
shopping period of the here? It's also
peculiar. Can you play the clip I have about this, which is
security code stolen?
Yes. And then I want to continue, Hacker
has breached 10s of millions of credit card and debit accounts
at the height of the shopping season, just before
Thanksgiving. And right up until December 15. The theft occurred
when people swiped their cards in store, not online. The
retailer confirmed that customers names credit card and
debit card numbers and security codes were stolen.
Right. And a couple things. So I went back as far as I could, of
course, I'm really late to the research party on this. And so
Google is contaminated. Initially target only said they
had they only started talking about this after they had done
some investigation. So it didn't come out immediately. Initially,
they said up until December 5, then they changed that to
December 15. And again, this is a primo prime example. Truly an
example of American infrastructure being terrorised
by cyber terrorists, cyber criminals. Now, although it may
be an inside job, it doesn't matter. I was very surprised.
Why am I not seeing every single douchebag who's been talking
about cyber for years, Richard Clark, and you know why? Because
target spends $1.8 billion a year in advertising. And there
is no way anyone was going to step up and make this a big
deal. Even the Associated Press. They didn't mention until four
paragraphs in you know, oh, well, yeah, it's safe to shop at
Target again, because of course this is what target did not
want. Is anyone thinking that it was not safe to shop at Target
and quite honestly, we don't know if it's safe to shop at
Target again, because we have not had any confirmation Chase
Bank has limit talk about your centralised systems. Chase Bank
has limited 2 million of their customers. In fact, let me let
me play the link played the clip. Because this is what
happened. The media started making chase the bad guy instead
of target JP Morgan Chase on Saturday notified customers who
used debit cards at Target stores during the recent
security breach that it was limiting use of the cards to
cash withdrawals of $100 a day and purchases totaling $300 a
day. The new limit affects roughly 2 million accounts are
less than 10% of Chase debit card accounts. According to a
bank spokeswoman. The bank said it was taking the action as a
precaution and recognise that the move could not have happened
at a more inconvenient time. Initial reports of target
security breach said data may have been taken through devices
at its counters. Okay, couple things. Again, this is the this
is the only real thing that the media has been reporting big on
it's all Chase Oh Chase, and Chase is an easy target because
they're assholes. You know, and there are they have billions of
dollars of fines and so who no one cares and no one's really
going to lose too much money on the consumer side of Chase
banking, certainly not compared to target target is the number
two or number three largest advertiser in the United States.
And when I was thinking initially wow, you know, the
senators they don't care. The thing is, the news outfits, were
not interested in getting them in because they don't want any
attention on this. And then I went back and looked at the
timeline that day after they announced what was the big
story? Okay, some obscure online interview in GQ magazine with
some duck dude. Oh, then explodes and this is completely
meant to cover up target somebody and we have to we have
to see if I don't care much for the gay folk. Somebody and I
don't know if it's a crisis management company. Or if it's
this interview was out John, this was no big deal. I read the
interview. Who cares? Yeah, the machine went nuts because
everybody wins. First of all target wins by
not talking John, this is the what was actually in the last
newsletter I kind of Yes, exactly. Which is that you can't
the media is so corrupted by advertising that you cannot just
can't get news from them anymore. And they're diverted,
that this is a diversion. Yeah, well, we get a cut. I
think it was a purposeful diversion.
I would say it's, if it wasn't, it was a heck of a coincidence,
even if you look at how the news media because they have to do
some real reporting. And they'll say, this was the largest theft
of credit card data, since the TG X companies. Now they could
say, TJ Maxx, Marshall and I can sue any advertiser they say,
yeah, exactly the T J x companies, so they don't know
links or anything, just TJ X company, you don't have to know
what stores those were formerly known as airs, by the way. This
is. So and this is this is almost like a Christmas gift to
us. Because at the very end here, the very end of the year,
we get to show you how it works. Here we have a true form of
cyber terrorism. The American people, at least 2 million
people from Chase are now limited to $100 in cash
withdrawal that is being terrorised. And whether it's the
Chinese or home grown, where is our fantastic apparatus? Where
is cyber security? Where is my bank? Who if I if I travelled to
Europe, and I haven't called them up, my card will not work.
However, if there's three charges for X holidays, Great
Britain, whatever that is, for a total of $1,500. No problem. So
the all this cybersecurity stuff is bull crap. There's no
triggers, there's no monitoring, and no one wants to touch it
because of the advertising value. This is this really shows
you what's going on and how much bull crap bull crap is coming
out of your governments.
Well, that's a good catch. And I would have to agree that there
is the way they handled this was not as good as you could have,
you know if it was any situation where you could have actually
done so if you wanted to make hay, you could have done that
with the cyber terror. Oh, this is the threat. This is why we
need more money and all the rest of it, but they did nothing.
So let me just put the two next to each other. And where's
Richard Clark target getting hacked and active cyber
terrorism performed in the United States by an unknown
enemy carried out in such a sophisticated manner that it has
investigators fooled, or a southern reality television star
makes an anti gay racist remark in an interview and gentleman's
quarterly magazine, which one is more newsworthy? I think it's
the gay story, obviously. And that plays right into NBCs
agenda because they are desperate to promote the
Olympics coming up in just a couple of weeks. It is on NBC so
gay Phil Robertson gay. Oh, yeah. Russia facing fierce
criticism for its anti gay propaganda laws. The White House
said it wanted its delegation to represent the best of America,
diversity, determination and teamwork. Enlisting openly gay
athletes like two time Olympic hockey medalist, Caitlin k hat,
give us a Caitlyn K. Star and tennis legend Billie Jean King,
who said she hoped the games would be a watershed moment for
the universal acceptance of all people. In September King
encouraged American athletes to speak out telling USA Today
sometimes I think we need a John Carlos moment, referring to one
of the two American sprinters who were kicked out of the 1968
Mexico City Olympics for protesting racial discrimination
in 1968. Wow, we're really really hot before you go
off on this other chance. I do have a couple of comments about
the target thing. So let's stop for a second. You just kind of
are going off. Oh, no. Well, I
was bringing it round. Because should go ahead, please. Well, I
just want to mention a couple of things what JC had a apparently
an issue. But it was he killed his card, because he got and I
believe this is where this is stemming from to he got a no
charge query for his card plus security code from the Ukraine,
which is where all this stuff? Well. I heard a lot of that
China, anything that I don't buy the Chinese says it's I
know people who have received Chinese charges, whether it's
the Chinese doing it or not, they Oh, maybe
there's some I would suspect the Ukrainians got the cars in the
distributors all over the world. But that apparently there's a
one of the things people should note is that they're they some
of the I didn't have this happen to me, as far as I can tell. But
some of the targets have a card reader that sucks the card in
and some of them have the Swiper and you can't get the security
code unless you have the sucker And the sucker. Uh, we didn't
know this until recently. And JC says, kind of confirmed it. The
sucker the one that sucks. The Guardian takes a photo of both
sides of the card, which then steals the security code from
your card, which Oh, right. Yeah,
exactly. Because it's basically just scanning it as you through
as it goes through.
Yeah, which is, which is a bad thing. Now that said, I took
advantage of this. I'm just gonna say this for people who
listen to the stream, you might want to go to Target right now.
Yeah. Last night, you walk in and there's a they immediately
say, Don't forget 10% off the entire store. And so give you a
little card to remind you. So you buy more, and I did. And
then when you go into the store to buy stuff, everything's
already like 50% off. I mean, they are giving the store away.
They have to because this is a huge issue. And a lot of these
cards were their own credit cards. John, the red targets the
cards
to plague. Yeah. I don't get those store cards ever again.
They just get you in trouble. Well, I just wanted to get that
in. So people so there are real going for listeners are going to
you know, take advantage I'm telling you. It's cheaper than
goodwill right now.
Yeah, go in with cash people go in with and I'm I have to say
that Mickey and I have talked about it again. It's a hassle,
you know, the card is cancelled. You have to wait for a card and
we have another bank account. Oh, let me guess it's with
Chase. Of course. So that's, that's a real winner. You know,
we got the kids over, we have to use you know, we've taken him
out to dinner. This, you know, we need to charge stuff. And
it's annoying. Now we have one card between the two of us. And
you know, it's that you want you want to just start thinking
about cash again, this is a cash I like it too. And but this is a
real the conversation, then no one is having the conversation
because of target.
It's because of advertising. Yes. Because of advertising. And
it's the only group, the two of us that discussed it this much.
And what's even more disgusting. Is of course, everybody wins. He
wins. The new season of Duck Dynasty starts on January 15.
That couldn't be much better than that. Who is co owner of
a&e?
Well, one of the big media company Viacom
ABC, oh eight they own half of it. So here's ABC without any of
the usual full disclosure comments. Well, the question is
does he want to fix it? Is he willing to go to a deeper level
and understand it and see why his remarks offended so many
people and we can't even talk about on a morning show how
truly vile and offensive his remarks were. I know this is an
I read the
example of them not telling you anything and then when you go
look at the sources is nothing is meaningless.
He said I worked. He said about black people. He said like I
work with the with black people hand in hand on the farms
growing up. And then and they were they seemed that they were
happier before the Civil Rights Movement. That's That's it. It
was like That's vile 10 sentences. Yeah, that's vile.
That's vile. It's horrible. And Diane Sawyer, ABC World News
Tonight, but no one says oh, by the way, we own half of a&e and
we hope it's a ratings bonanza. Well, they do mention the
ratings Bonanza part not just to the gay community, but to the
African American community, African, you got to take your
voice down not just to the gay community, but to the African
American community to Alera. They go much deeper than what
we've talked about really
outrageous statements that we said ratings. Dynamo, do you see
any bringing him back? Because this is such a big business for
them? And if so, how do they do a business for you? But letting
people know that they acknowledge how outrageous and
offensive these comments are?
Yeah, don't worry. I'm sure they'll work it out. Last
minute, Miracle miracle apology. And then the most disappointing
of all of this, because everyone jumped on it. Everybody wins.
Everyone gets to talk about it. It was the topic of
conversation. Every pundit gets to talk about it. But Sarah
Palin, who I have defended, she jumped in on this and she's
standing next to them and in a very big disappointment, big
disappointment. So she's just she's just a big money whore.
Like
not getting any attention. That needs some consulting. She just
handles
that was the wrong thing. I've defended her even Mickey said
wow, usually defenders had not this time. Not this time, man.
This is so stupid. This interview was up and it was only
online and you know someone and some genius threw it into the
machine and it blew up exactly what the machine needed at the
right time. And they kept feeding Oh, we have a video of
him saying something gay Whoa he said gay put the video on our
stream seems to be down by the way, the minute we started
explaining how it works. The stream goes funny how that
works. So it'll be interesting to see if this is what I feel is
the most important. Okay, everyone's on vacation. But when
you come back congressmen and senators, I need to hear about
this I need to hear about how you know it's so important for
us to have all of these cyber initiatives $600
billion expected to be spent on this cyber which crap,
but they can't but this is such a simple one.
Yeah, and yet Where's the phone calls of the guy who set this
up?
Nothing is nothing is absolute because it's all bull crap.
They're just stealing our money.
Yeah, dammit. stealing our money. So that was that was
really healing our money now really quite quite a revelation.
I'm just because I, of course, we knew about the Duck Dynasty
thing that was promotion. I could but I hadn't figured it
out until I saw the timeline like Ah, of course. Do whatever
and then yeah, and then NBC smart you know, they jump on the
gay thing. What did you see Saturday Night Live? Not that I
watched it. But I saw the clip. Well, they had one of the
players that Billie Jean King with a huge NBC Olympics. So she
t shirt. Yeah, and everyone loves it. You know? It's like
Billie Jean King is a big gay middle finger to Russia to
Putin. Yeah, the whole just playing it up. Total bullcrap
thing or to Putin, they wouldn't go at all. Yeah.
Well, the President had his little news conference there the
byline is you see the president on his news conference. He now
has a visible facial tic Have you noticed this?
I think we love it.
I pick these things up you know because of course I'm full of
visual facial I got all kinds of tics. Yeah, but so I see this
very quickly when someone has it he kind of it's his right eye
and he'll he'll blink but it's really a tick and then the left
side of his face looks like he's been beaten to I don't know It's
like someone beat him. He did not look good. He literally as
we know that. Presidents usually look very very bad after they
come out of the
out of this you have to keep them drugged up the whole time
they're an office it looks like
he seriously like he was rude feet. But the but the tick thing
is concerning because that you know, that's when you're a
public speaker it's very hard and if you can't control it, you
know it can get worse it can move to other areas it can get
it can get really distracting, disturbing and it exudes for a
position like that non confidence and people I think
subliminally pick it up. Whether they notice it immediately or
not but Angela and I go into so she now I just have no I just
got no time or whatever. And then again Billie Jean King and
then this this the ice hockey really so impressed. I got a
note from Brian the gay Crusader. He says he was on a
waiting for him at the gate for a flight listening to the show.
When I threw out my Billie Jean kings Elton John with a bra. He
said he laughed so hard. It's like everyone was looking at
him. And he's he's rewriting he's doing this the second or
third draft of his of his report, which shows that this is
not true. This is not a huge anti gay law in Russia, and he's
a journalist. He's actually quite famous for his writing.
And he's even having problems in his personal life defending this
the whole time. As people just you know, they just don't, they
just don't want to know.
They don't want it. They don't want the truth. Yeah, it's
elusive. It's the public at large, generally speaking is
problematic when it comes to some of this stuff. And once
they've been given the meme, officially by the government and
the media backs him up. And in pounds at home, it's almost
impossible to lodge it dislodge it
is very difficult and interesting. We had to after the
show Thursday night, one of our friends is she it was her
birthday and her husband said oh, we're gonna do a little
surprise party and have dinner and I'm like, okay, you know, I
can handle that. And it was it also there were the robots who
would never have dinner with a Republican now. And, and this
guy is extremely smart, extremely, really smart, smart
guy. And they're talking about phones like I don't I don't have
a phone anymore. Like why not? So well because I just don't
want to. I don't feel comfortable someone being able
to know where I am at all time that Ah
seriously, this is That's the noise they make
it well, you know, I'm pretty sure that eventually the public
will stand up and they'll make this stop. And I'm like, Are you
insane? Wow. And I said, By the way, this, this tracking is bull
crap. They have not not maybe one instance of terror,
financing terrorism has been thwarted, and he went off on me.
When those towers came down, I said, Okay, stop right now, I'm
not going to have this conversation with you. I'm going
to send you a clip, a clip from Leahy, two days ago on CNN,
Saxby Chambliss, this morning on Morning, Joe said that there
were 54 instances that were of terror threats that were
directly prevented by the NSA programme.
Well, you know, that was a question that I asked them when
they had to appear in public. And that 54 went down to 13. And
they sacked more about it. It came down to one possibly
tangentially involved. There you go one
harping on this on the show, man, and
I sent this link to him in the video, no response. No response.
It because it can't believe it. When this number is punched, and
lay he must be lying. I'm sorry, the lays
the head of the of that committee.
I know. I know. But this is what we're up at. Well, I'm not
really up against it, because that's
what that's what no agenda listeners are. Yes, exactly.
Did you hear what John Bolton had to say?
Bolton, one of my favourites.
About Edward Snowden. He threw in a nice little one, which got
some virality it
has to be one of the dumbest things that I've seen in a long
time to be speculating about this publicly. Even if they are
kind of plating some kind of deal with Snowden some kind of
amnesty, the last thing that people ought to be doing is
speculating about it publicly, it will inevitably make it a
political football and it will enhance Snowdens bargaining
power. What? Why are they doing it, then? I think it's a big
mistake. I don't I have no idea. I mean, my view is that Snowden
committed treason. He ought to be convicted of that. And then
he ought to swing from a tall oak tree.
Oh, okay. All right. Just so we know. Hanging hanging my say,
Hang him. I think the guillotine is better. It's it's chop off is
helping you the offer the head is much better hang of somebody
be swinging from an oak tree. Yeah. Bolton is a kind of talk
is that that's not okay. Talk.
Oh, by the way, is unreasonable.
We always talk about the just going back to target for a
second about the difference between the American credit
cards and the rest of the world almost but Europe where they
have the pin system. And so this forced me again to look into why
don't we have that yet in the United States? And there's a
couple reasons. First of all, we have very, very strong consumer
protections in America. When someone says you know, you need
a credit card, because your debit card, you're not
protected. It's not true. You are but you may cost you $50. If
your credit, that's
if your banks are dicks. Yeah, but that's that is it? Most
banks don't charge you for that. And Which reminds me, by the
way, which is my favourite scam, which is insurance. If your
credit card is lost or stolen, you'll have insurance. Yeah.
What did they want you to pay money
insurance? Yeah, idiot buys this stuff. Yeah. So we've got the
credit, which is not universal. In fact, with the system in
Europe, it is either you the card holder or the vendor who is
liable for it. But pretty much no longer the bank. And so I'm
saying why have we not upgraded, and I looked at the numbers. And
that's when I started to understand credit card debit
card fraud in America is approximately $50 billion a
year. I am sorry, fees are $50 billion a year, the fraud is
about four to 5 billion. So we're talking a 10% on their
fees is fraud that they have to deal with cost of doing business
because if you want to upgrade everyone's card and these cards
with the chip, they cost about five $6. And you have to outfit
everybody with terminals, and it will eventually probably get
there. That cost of that is in excess is a multiple of the $5
billion you they really don't care to write off for them. They
really don't care and is it more secure? Now the only reason why
it's somewhat more secure is because it's harder for thieves.
The thieves have to have to get into a new business of creating
new kinds of cards with the chip and this it still has the
magnetic stripe on it so you know it's all vulnerable. The
banks have no interest in upgrading your security right
off they don't hear what's $5 billion? What's nine or 10%?
There's nothing I
know it's it's just a numbers game. And there's also the point
when they first came up with the smart card, the chip card, the
chip card. Yeah, it was the patent was owned by some French
guy. And the banks didn't want to pay a nickel and we don't
want to pay any royalties, screw it. And so they said, we can
charge 18% interest on our cards and we don't screw that guy. And
so they never did that the cart did this, I think is now public
domain. But until recently, they didn't want to even deal with it
because it was gonna cost them a nickel or something. You know,
it's too much
now the bank these guys know what they're doing that they do
and they don't care and guess who gets penalised you stupid
schlub? You can't take your money. $100 cash. That's it.
Christmas. Merry Christmas. $100 in cash. This is the this is if
Ted Kaczynski had a blog he'd be writing up a storm right now.
Guys Yeah. Did he die in prison? Yes.
Oh no, he didn't die in prison. What
did somebody get my blog he probably be very interesting
blogger.
You know, he missed the whole revolution. He's been in prison
during during the whole if he had if he had had a blog back
then he wouldn't have to blow people up. Just to get his
manifesto published.
Yeah, he self published on the internet's Yeah.
And people you know, and probably more people would have
read it front page and anyone who was alive at that time. Did
you ever read the manifesto? I've known I really? I've read
it. Not you're not everyone, darling.
Well, thank you, honey. retort, honey, darling. Just say,
Honey, honey. The stream is completely hosed now.
Oh, there we go. It looks like we're but yeah, no stream. Yeah.
I think we're kind of back. And of course, the now I have a some
some thoughts on this as well. Of course, this is what you have
said from day one. And we have held as our thesis about this
NSA spying business. And here's a quick little headline from the
BBC about it.
The documents are said to show over 1000 names of targets from
60 countries, including Israel's Prime Minister. They're also
said to be terrorists, but more surprisingly, also on the list
are a senior member of the European Union Vice President of
the Commission, Jochen Almunia, who deals with economic
competition issues, humanitarian organisations like the UN's
children's charity, UNICEF, and French medical charity medicine
du monde, companies like French oil giant totaal, and German
government buildings in Berlin and overseas. We'd already heard
about the Americans targeting German Chancellor Angela
Merkel's phone that caused outrage. But the allegation that
Britain may also have been spying on allies may cause
further problems. A European Commission spokesperson said
they would raise the allegations with the US and UK and said if
true, they were unacceptable and deserve the strongest
condemnation. This is not the type of behaviour that we expect
from strategic partners, let alone from our own member
states. They said, Well, this
seems like a lot of spying on the French the medicine demand,
which is not the Doctors Without Borders. In fact, I looked at up
it's a splinter group, a guy who left a co founder who left
Doctors Without Borders to start this thing. And God knows it's
an NGO, and it's funded by millions of governments, and I
think they're highly suspect as well. But doesn't matter. You
know, this is business intelligence. This is economic
spying that we are doing. And when you look at the fact that
we spied on the antitrust commissioner or the things the
Assistant Commissioner of the EU, who directly is involved in
the in the process procedure with Google, whether they will
be fined under anti competitive rules in the EU, much as
Microsoft was fined for billions. He's being spied on.
Oh, wow. How convenient. Come on. This is the all these
companies who go crying to President Obama are all in on
it. They're all spying. They're spying for their own good for
their own information. You Charlie, the the commissioner of
the EU can't be a terrorist. And she suspected of terrorism.
Where when are we going to figure out that this is this is
what is the word? I'm looking for espionage espionage? Yes.
Thank you. It's espionage. It's pure espionage,
blackmail. It's like Spectre. Sounds like one of those
operations. You know, that's in a James Bond movie. Yeah.
Complete portion espionage, blackmail. You know, the whole
nine yards, everything. That's what it's so so obvious. What
else would you set up a system like that for?
Well, yeah, but it's well, I have a couple of thoughts. First
of all, we also found out that the NSA had a $10 million
contract with RSA Security from RSA Yeah, apparently to put in a
backdoor into standard encryption. Now did you see any
documents about this? Or just the just the claim? I'm sure
they have some documents leaked by whistleblower Edward J.
Snowden. I couldn't find
it just been going around the net that they're in bed with
each other. And apparently the all these encryption standard
operations because JC buzzkill Jr now is, as he says he works
in the industry. They're kicking out all the NSA guys from all
these, these closed committees that deal with encryption, they
have to it's a huge issue now the NSA has, and by the way,
they've been disinvited from all future black hats, where they've
always been allowed to show up and hang out and do the rest.
No, now they're all being they're being kicked out of. So
this is this is what a great job. You know, Kaiser
Alexander's done. He's gotten to manage to get everybody kicked
out of all these things that they need to be in and they're
now they're gonna have to go in through the backdoor by you
know, buying, bribing, you know, other members. So it was you
could you could just make a recording for us, and then we'll
be good. You put a microphone under that table, they will give
you 10 grand, right. It's a promise a huge problem. Because
it is our it is our industrial espionage arm. And then was if
it's the big or big companies,
the Director of National Intelligence, they have that
Tumblr website. So they released a whole bunch of documents. I
have to give it to Charlie Savage and David E. Sanger on
this one from the New York Times. But they immediately
reported on it. Let me just read this from the New York Times
about administration moved late Friday to prevent a federal
judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of
warrantless surveillance programmes authorised during the
Bush administration. Telling a court that recent disclosures
about the NSA spying were not enough to undermine its claim
that litigating the case would jeopardise state secrets in a
set of filings. And these are the documents that were
disclosed, although not disclosed with this description
on the DNI tumbler website. So a lot of people overlooked it, but
not the times. And I think that's good. Too long run Kenny
long running cases in the Northern District of California
that government acknowledged for the first time that the NSA
started systematically collecting data about Americans
emails and phone calls in 2001. On an on the government set,
despite recent leaks by Edward J. Snowden, the former NSA
contractor memo, the scope of the surveillance data collection
programmes put in place after September 11 attacks sensitive
secrets remained at risk in any courtroom discussions of the
details. Long story short, what the White House and what the
administration is attempting to do is tell the court you cannot
even hear these cases, because the information that would be
revealed would put the country at risk of I don't know, cyber
terrorists. Oh, I'm sorry, they're already here. And they
assert that state secrets privilege is in play here and
that these these cases cannot even go to court. And that we
hear it as Mr. Clapper suggested the programme was one of many
needed to continue al Qaeda. But he argued that revealing
additional details including whom it targets or how companies
like AT and T and Verizon have given the NSA access to its
equipment and data would be harmful quote, disclosing or
confirming further details about these activities could seriously
undermine an important tool, meta data collection and
analysis for tracking possible terrorist plots. He wrote and
could reveal methodology metadata
to find the bad books. That's
right. The bad books. Very funny. So that was
done by the CIA to look there. There was no doubt about that.
So here is still in play on this deal. Yeah. So here's my
thinking now. This we're very, very occupied. And a couple of
people have been I've been emailing with our producers are,
are very helpful for the nine emails that are totally useless.
And I love when people just send them a link to a bill. Oh,
thanks. Got any context for me? I just I just read this.
Ultimately, a couple 100 pansies, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is
it. Give me a subject line. Tell me what this is about. Don't
make it too long. And when I reply and say thanks, that is
not an invitation for you to open up the whole thing. I'm not
going to reply again, probably. Let's look, let's look at the
CIA. Before he was kicked out not long before he was kicked
out. CIA Director David H. Petraeus made some interesting
comments. And of course, there's no video or audio of it, but I
do have a transcript from cia.gov This is March 1. 2012
And this is his speech, at in Q tel. And for those we've talked
a lot and in Q TEL is kind of at this point is if you say in Q
tel, probably my friends from the dinner would go, Oh, there
he goes, again, conspiracy theorist.
Hey, that's a new guy.
He has a lisp this guy. If maybe I should just read a little bit
of this for you. And of course, the this is in the show notes.
As you all know, exploiting the intelligence opportunities,
which is an easier subject to discuss in an unclassified
setting than the counterintelligence challenges
will require a new class of in place and remote sensors that
operate across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Moreover, these sensors will be increasingly interconnected. The
current this is David Petraeus talking in public with these at
this at the CEO conference of in Q tel. And we'll talk about what
in Q TEL is in a minute, the current Internet of PCs will
move of course, towards an Internet of Things. Remember,
this we've talked about this Internet of Things means things
of devices of all types 50 to 100 billion of which will be
connected to the internet by 2020. As you know, whereas the
machines in the 19th century learn to do and those in the
20th century learn to think at a rudimentary level in the 21st
century, they are learning to perceive to actually sense and
respond key applications developed by our in Q tel
investment companies are focused on technology and technologies
that are driving the Internet of Things. These includes item
identification, or devices engaged in tagging, sensors and
wireless sensor networks devices that indeed sense and respond,
embedded systems those that think and evaluate. And finally
nanotechnology, allowing these devices to be small enough to
function virtually anywhere, items of interest, which could
be your car you will be located identified, monitored and
remotely controlled through technologies such as radio
frequency identification, that's RFID, sensor networks, tiny
embedded servers, and energy harvesters, all connected to the
next generation internet using abundant low cost and high power
computing. The latter now going to cloud computing in many areas
greater and greater supercomputing, and ultimately
heading to quantum computing. We are looking at things that were
set up 1020 3050 years ago. And this the NSA, meanwhile, the CIA
is investing completely under everybody's radar hidden in
plain sight with incue tell their nonprofit venture capital
company, and they are building the true long Hey, it's only six
more years until we're at 2020. And everyone's buying new
machines by then you're gonna have your new washing machine,
you have your new phone, and that wash that.
That is what is he doing now he's doing a lot in
cycle. That is the trend cycle that is the trueness of NIPER.
Ready. That is that we are being distracted, distracted from what
is really going on. And when ipv6 Fully rolls out, when every
RFID sensor has its own IP address, this is where it's
going. This is what it's really all about. And it's run by the
CIA, the same guys who I don't know kill people with drones.
These are the eight holes and run by civilians who are picked
and managed. It's not the defence department. You get your
own Obama's got his guy and who thinks he's this guy. This is
beautiful. Every No wonder no wonder, let's do some more. Oh,
let's focus on Google. Who gives a crap? Well sprinkle sprinkle
some nano dust Donya to track you
know, there's that. Yeah, well, it's all being promoted by the
shows NCIS and NCIS. Especially in CSLA. Yep. As a guest the way
it's gonna be man, you know, they're doing they're they're
saving us from all these terrorists which are blowing
stuff up left and right. I mean, just the other day. 510 years
ago, Something blew up. So on the board of trustees of in-q
Tell we should notice. People like James Barksdale. Yeah,
who's the Netscape guy, right. Netscape guy used to be I'm
looking at the list and Vint Cerf used to be on here and he's
not and he's the,
he's now Google. He's with the NSA. Okay, so you can't be
revived. Yeah. Well, Ted Schlein,
your buddy, a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Oh, yeah. One of the
guys. It's just a bunch of these Silicon Valley types. They have
an office down here somewhere. Have you
looked at there at the companies that are invested in the way
this work is in Q TEL is a nonprofit venture capital?
You don't need to make any money. No money is made from
Afghanistan, heroin. And yeah, there's no reason for
from the wealthiest to be probably important sales. If you
just look at it though, and they've been doing this since
1997 or 98 I think they have a lot of cloud stuff. Well turning
ink into action. Biometric biometric,
you know, these companies are all under the radar operation.
miser, where is my digital
reasoning? Gain span, Jenny of Photonics, huddle, high trust, I
move imprint energy, line Microsystems, lucid works, and
you click on these things. A lot of optics as well, a lot of
optics. That's because of the satellites. Yeah.
Planeteer, of course, that that God had never gotten in the legs
that Planeteer who makes
a good example for somebody that went right to the n z space.com,
formerly known as infinite Z, which was I think a DJ in the
50s is a leading edge technology provider that enables natural
interaction with virtual holographic 3d imagery.
Let's see whether it Oh, yeah. How about whether analytics
delivers global climate intelligence. We have why spry?
What is widespread do it's gotta be why fabulous RF semiconductor
company designs and manufactures RF CMOS integrated circuits and
components for leading manufacturers of mobile phones,
laptops, wireless data, communications products flow.
That's your little spy in your box. Just the amount
of chip should be spy on a chip spy on
a chip. Just you know, just read through this and laugh at what's
this owl thing? Read owl analytics. Boy, whenever you got
an owl, you got to think
walleyes and other next generation handheld portable
imaging systems. So if anybody has any imaging ideas, you can
get some money.
Oh, totally. Even if you have half an idea. Yeah. pixum
Digital pixel Pelican imaging open span. What is Open span up
sounds good. Broad desktop automation, desktop analytics
suit import from drive revenue. Now that oh, boy, how'd that one
sneak in snow spying?
Was that one say desktop analytics,
I guess to spy on employees probably could be. So this is
when you really look at it in context, CIA versus NSA and FBI.
Two. I think the FBI is more on the CIA side.
No, I think the FBI is more on No, I think they're really in
it. I think
they're playing a double game, John.
Yeah. But they show up at all the meetings that second in
command guy. He's always there with his NSA buddy, Alex. Yeah,
you're
right. You're constantly Yeah, you're right. You're right. But
if you look at the CIA, you know who's really glued? Who's right.
Brennan right. John O. Brennan running the show. Yeah, I don't
think they like him. But the President feels comfortable
enough with him. And remember that they bring the kill list to
the president every Tuesday. I haven't forgotten this.
Yes, the same day. Coincidentally the same as Patch
Tuesday for Microsoft.
There's no coincidence there. I think not. And meanwhile, at the
end of the year here, we have to of course, these companies,
they're all corrupt. Silicon Valley. They've been playing
along with the NSA. Probably thinking it was cool. Facebook
has 50 People who everybody
wants to be a spy.
Google released their Zeid, guy 2013 top searches. Unbelievable.
The name Ed Snowden doesn't show up in any of Google's lists of
2013 searches. It's no one cares, I guess. Yeah. How was
that possible?
I have no one cares,
right. Yeah, I believe that you think they rigged
this these results? Really? You'll think there's gambling?
Yeah.
Now let's see what else do we have here? Of course, we now
have a name for Pierre Amini, Mahna, Mahna, Mahna Mahna car
and the Poydras green green raw wrath. That's called First Look
media. That's the dumb name. That's the dumb name. Yeah. And
the setup. How crazy is by the way that Pando daily seems to be
the only the only quasi journalistic outfit calling
these guys on except that one
guy that says all those guys they brought over from not safe
for for work.
Yeah. That's that's, that's pretty incredible
guy that they brought over and all he had he's doing all this
stuff that they would have never done. They're still doing
it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm impressed. I pee on that whole
operation, but the stuff they're doing there's that's pretty
bold. Of course. They'll close soon. I'm sure that I'm sure
that will be the end of them. That's a valid effort. So yeah,
first look. And then we have Jay Rosen the isn't he? Professor?
Professor Jay Rosen a quit? No, he's on hiatus, professor and do
this too. Now he's on hiatus for six months while he advises the
company. Okay, great. Uh, he published the press release.
About a first look.
Says now So Jay Rose has become a PR guy.
Yes. Okay. He literally, in fact, here it is. From his press
think blog. I will read to you, of course, the PR guy, press
think.org. And the title of this blog post is a first look at new
co structure. Today Pierre Omidyar announced some details
about how his new venture in news will be organised my
summary and explanation first, the official release, which he
probably wrote, I'm sure and then so a couple of things we
learned $50 million. He has his first infusion of $50 million in
capital to fuel operations being established on both coasts. This
reads like a Silicon Valley. Press Release. Listen to this
opening Honolulu. The news organisation organisation
created by Pierre Omidyar, formally dubbed nuco has taken
another step forward with an infusion of $50 million in
capital to fuel operations being established on both coasts,
fuel, yeah, fuel
use fund fund would be a fun to throw
a proper word ADRs first capital outlay represents 20% of his
initial commitment to the media venture. First, look, media will
publish robust coverage of politics, government, sports,
entertainment and lifestyle arts and culture, business technology
and investigative news. So the way they're doing it is, first
look media, I have to do the voice again. First, look, media
will be made up of several entities, including a company
established to develop new media technology and a separate
nonprofit journalism organisation. So the way it
works is they're going to have this technology company that's
the one that is for profit. And any profit that makes will fund
the nonprofit. Wow, this is really innovative. Wow, yeah.
That's pretty bad. And then to say,
and what's your what is their technology is great technology.
Well, it'll
be the one by the way, this
is reminding me What is it with these guys? So now all of a
sudden, Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation are funding private
prisons? Yeah, that's
pretty good, isn't it?
It's ridiculous. How does that even fit into the scheme of
things? You know, I remember there was this guy or why isn't
that on the PBS news hour? It seems somebody should bring it
up. Yeah. Oh, wait a minute. It was brought up in Mother Jones
isn't it funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? I'm
sorry. I'm
Oh, Kyle. I see waiting me your way you're making the connection
here. Let me see if I get this straight. You're making the
connection that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds
so much PBS content that heaven forbid anybody actually writes
something about the foundation that's a negative like them
funding and you know, dropping millions and millions of dollars
into more not just one but a couple of private prison
operations which have notorious reputations by the way yes, the
G O group.
The GE this didn't have prisons where they were beating
children.
Yeah, or something beat they just they had a beat down every
so often. Yeah. And
there was there was a there was faeces on the wall everywhere.
So they keep them happy, locked emergency exits, excessive use
of pepper spray on minors. That's your Bill Gates,
everybody that genius who's saving the poor black children
in Africa? By testing vaccines on them?
No. To me, it was just a matter of time Bill. Bill who I know is
a guy who makes money. He's not a coder or he's not he's a guy
who makes money he has got one goal in mind make money,
as he always has. He always has been about making money has that
always been his thing
to tell when he was a kid? He one of his notorious little
things when he I think it was still in high school or grammar
school. He cornered the market on the McGovern, Eagleton
campaign buttons. Yeah, Eagleton was the original vice
presidential choice for George McGovern. And the Republicans
pulled a quick one and got they got him to take Eagleton Thomas
I think Thomas singled Eagleton as the vice presidential choice.
And then as soon as he was picked word got out that he had
been subjected to. What do you call when you put the electrodes
on your brain electroshock therapy Oh I was really tested a
few times because apparently he was nuts. So but they had
already printed all these buttons. Gates brought them all
before the word got out and before the buttons were taken
back, and then he said they sold them to collectors. I mean, this
guy, he has no scruples, guys. Well, I thought that was a great
idea. Most of his ideas are sound. And I just knew when he
started the Gates Foundation that there's at some point, he
because he's into making money had to make some investments
into some sleazy operations. And there it is,
well, I mean, he's an oil and gas he's got all kinds of
things. Yeah, this is very minor. It's not a lot of money.
But it's a really shows you where, what, what's going on and
the
apologists for the Bill and Melinda Gates. Well, the
foundation needs to make money to
do good bullcrap. It's the largest funded foundation in the
history of foundations. They don't need to make any money.
The idea was not to make money, it was to give money away.
It's the mack daddy of money.
Unbelievable. how anyone could be an apologist after hearing
this thing about the prisons is beyond me, but you know,
well, in that case, thank you for your courage. And in the
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I know. Well, I
just because he's stopping off a lot of places. This guy looks
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sometimes I think it can be a little challenging. It's a new
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fun doing anything in my life. And, you know, when you when you
it's so creative to be, you know, so last night, it's like
1115 I'm like, I'm to what I what I'm missing something, you
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like it. Oh, wow, this is look at this. Look at what we're and
it's it's just it's I don't know, it. To me. It's an
incredibly creative. I love the process. And I'm very happy. I'm
not bummed out about life. Because I get to talk about for
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you know that we got a new listener that wrote in and he
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Because
I sent the note back saying, you know, generally speaking, we
don't talk about just regular PR stunts done by Hollywood,
because they we he says it's a PR stunt. Yeah. And he was right
about that. We said most of our listeners are on to this
already. We don't need to remind me that's not the level that
we're working at, generally, that we all when it comes to
when you made the association with target, then it brings into
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looking at the right we don't look at Lindsay Lohan stuff.
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already identified as as as a no agenda producer slash listener,
he identified it was a PR stunt. He brought it to our attention.
And that feedback, gave me the sparks like, oh, wait a minute,
you know, just because of course we know it. But we almost felt
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she has a website and a charleston.com. Go to N A
charleston.com. She has a website to to set up no agenda,
community and meetup community I think in
our small but I'm telling you, even if you get three or four
people together, dynamite. This is a good group to have a
meeting with because you have like minded people. And it turns
out they're very diverse. We don't have it's not like
everybody's in the military. We have people in the military.
Quite a few truck drivers. We have students, we have lots of
students. We have high school kids, which probably won't go to
the meetups because there's old folks, we retirees,
that's not true. Lots of young folks have showed up at meetups
that I've been to.
Okay, yeah. It's a real interesting cross section of
that, which is unusual, because there's the only thing they have
in common is pretty much a desire for truth telling.
Exactly.
Okay, well, we gotta go check that out. And of course,
continue to propagate the formula. Our formula is this. We
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Merry Christmas. Thank you, Lizzie. Lizzie gave us a merry
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looks all sweet. But you know, she's the devil inside.
So I that was following a couple things. We had a couple of clips
I wanted to or a couple of things I wanted to read from the
last show. And and there was two articles that I want to talk a
little bit for a minute about Kim Jong Hoon? Yes, because he's
been in the news again and there. It's like not every even
PBS is going out of their way to slam this guy with some really
crazy reporting on him. And I want to read, I want to place a
few clips and I want to read at least one comment that was left
on on the Washington Post because the Washington Post and
Reuters had two different profiles of the guy the
Washington Post, which is an arm of the government.
Full disclosure. It's an arm of the government because Amazon
runs the CIA's infrastructure. And Jeff be He's also owns the
Washington Post.
So they they went on a tirade about how they did a survey
without naming one person of people that were in school with
him in Switzerland and he was a maniac. You know, he's a crazy
crazy kid and he was dangerous. And then the Reuters had a
Reuters one which I sent you last for the last show I sent to
these two
are moving forward to this year we have it's the same story same
week, two different takes on
the outputs. The other take was he was a great guy. They don't
know what they're talking about. Everybody thought he was cool.
And I have one fact I'll read this. Now miser read this. This
was in the Washington Post comments and I thought was
interesting comedy. So there were a couple of YouTube videos.
I don't know if they're still up with Kim Jong Un's classmates
talked about the guy. As I recall, no one had a bad thing
to say about him. He was studious, outgoing, polite and
respectful. He liked to ski that was about it. His oldest brother
Kim Jong Nam was out of control son he was, by the way, I
believe this was written it was in the Washington Post. It was
written by somebody who put it here for a reason. Kim Jong Nam
Hi. Okay, sorry. Kim Jong Nam was the out of control sun being
groomed for the top spot, but Kim Jong Il wasn't going to
leave the country to a party animal. Kim Jong Nam hightailed
it out of the DP RK and spent a lot of time at the gaming tables
of Macau. Oh, I
didn't even know we had a brother.
That didn't either Jang Song. Well, I think he has an older
brothers in the military too, is a different one. I think he's
got two brothers. Jang Song Thek was supporting him. Probably
with the idea of putting him in charge. That's the guy is one of
the plotters. The last I heard Kim Jong Nam is the on the run
from several EP RK hit teams. Yeah, of course. Kim Jong Un's
older brother is Kim Jong Chol. And it seems to to work closely
together he's again in the military. Kim Jong Un's half
sister, Kim Seul. Song is also very close to Kim Jong Un. This
is only my opinion. But all three siblings have spent a few
years outside the DPRK and have seen how the world actually
works. Kim Jong hyung had to fight fire with fire but I
honestly think these three went to dreht went to drag the DPRK
kicking and screaming screaming into the new century, Kim Jong
Un keeps talking about it. That's what holds them together.
I thought this was highly significant debt and did not
speak at the ceremony of the two year anniversary of his father's
death, he remained seated the DPRK as his country now that
ancient regime is dead and gone. If you weren't part of the
solution must be part of the problem. That was the end of
that little note. So that is falling on deaf ears the actual
reality of the situation. And the Reuters report also brought
something up interesting, and which I will talk about after we
go through these clips. So let's start with Kim Jong Un. Let's
try MARGARET WARNER And the Margaret no one one erratic
let's start with their Part One erratic.
This week, North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong on embarked on
his third year as head of the isolated kingdom after a week
that has raised questions about his intentions and his country's
stability. Today Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey
commenting on Kim's execution of his high ranking uncle said
these kinds of internal actions by dictators are often a
precursor to provocation. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel
called it concerning to everyone. Tonight senior foreign
affairs correspondent Margaret Warner takes a closer look at
the erratic 30 year old.
Okay, okay. So I'm listening to this and the key word here is
erratic. Yeah, of course. Okay. Now what makes him erratic?
Well, if he listened to part two, that brings up another
issue and then I'm going to ask you the question.
Part two is mystery. That's the one yes. Okay.
NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman returned to Pyongyang today to
renew what he calls his basketball diplomacy and his
curious friendship with Kim Jong moon, North Korea's young leader
for the past two years who remains a mystery to the outside
world
you just you just you give me the sign anytime you want me to
bring up the uncle Don stuff, he just let me know.
Okay, so it will probably you'll probably bring it up when you
feel it is necessary. Now let's get destroyed. Let's listen to
this report. He's erratic on the one hand, but he's
curious curious relationship with Dennis Rodman with a
curious relationship I'll explain. But the How can he be
both erratic if he's a mystery? If he's a mystery? You don't
know what he's like, right? Is that what the word mystery
means? Yes, correct.
You're right. So
how can he back in you make the assumption he's erratic if he's
a mystery, so I found this to be little good, just crap
reporting. So let's go on with Margaret Warner she goes on, and
this is they have a she kind of makes more assumptions about
this guy and then they play a clip, which unfortunately you
can't see but it's so um raving maniac who apparently is doing
the newscast in North Korea jumping up and down, but you
have to see him it's just hilarious but let's play this
clip.
While much is not known about Kim Jong Hoon after these two
years to transcend his leadership appear clear and
worrying. The internal instability revealed by the way,
Kim's uncle was purged and executed, and North Korea's
ongoing buildup of a nuclear weapons and missile arsenal that
could threaten the world. On the day John was killed a state TV
newscaster recited a litany of shocking charges against
the accused Jang committed hideous crimes, such as
attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of sabotages
and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the
supreme power of our party and state. What is the difference
between this outrageous newscast and John Bolton saying we should
hang Edward Snowden from an oak tree? I mean, differences are in
fact our guys ruthless.
I know it's ridiculous. So let's listen to one tweet. There's two
more these are all short clips. I like it. I like it. Kim Jong
Un without John Kerry because he's like the state guy. He has
to say something he doesn't know anything either. And he's
little, I think annoyed by the thing that's going on with
Dennis Rodman Kim
summary dispatch of his high ranking relative perplex and
disturbed foreign governments and longtime observers.
Secretary of State Kerry spoke on ABC last Sunday
tells us a lot about first of all how ruthless and reckless he
is spontaneous, erratic, Mr. Worried about his place in the
power structure and manoeuvring to eliminate any potential
adversary or competitor.
All right, that now I get to interrupt. All right, so my
uncle and you can look them up Donald P. Greg gr e GG, who was
in the Wikipedia. He is and he was the ambassador to South
Korea, and he was a civilian in the Pentagon. And it's all on
Wikipedia what his background is, it's all in the Wikipedia,
he is often invited back to Korea and they revere him
because he's now 8384. And ages is respected and and held in
high regard. And he until well, until recently, I'd say until
this administration really, he was even though he hated George
W. Bush literally hated George W. Bush. He would act as a go
between he ran The Korea Society, I'm sure it was an
agency front in New York City now he's the chairman emeritus
of the society. He went to South Korea. I think about a year and
a half ago not even maybe a year ago, the first time just right
after the first time Dennis Rodman went to to North Korea
and he also met with the North Koreans because he has a history
with them as well. And he went on CNN with the with the anti
constitutionalist Deepak what's his name? Nan Deepak a douchebag
czar 00 Whatever that guy, that guy, Rajiv was
Rajiv Azaria
was something
and and that was the last time he was on television because he
said look the North Koreans they don't want armistice they just
want to be seen as a full country they don't want war they
all they would you know they just don't want to have they
don't want to blow anybody up they just don't want to be
treated as little babies and this armistice this they don't
want that and he said that Dennis Rodman he agrees more
with Dennis Rodman than anybody and Dennis Rodman this, the
reason he is here is for the Big Bang and Pyongyang. Have you
heard of this?
Well, actually, I'm gonna I'm headed there. Okay. But then
I'll stop. I'll stop. Okay. So let's go on with it. There's for
one thing, there's a defector, this is bad reporting. The I'm
going to continue with this just kind of skewed Report on PBS
your you know, the National Treasure Fareed Zakaria, by the
way, Fareed Zakaria
regimes and Naria
jeez, guys a douche. I can't remember his name. So this is
Kim Jong. So they found some defect or some army defector or
some any I don't know, the guy was, you know, left the country
this would be this Ed snow or the Ed Snowden kind of character
that left the country they put him on one of these machines and
they let him talk and he bitches and moans about own and he had
but this is there was no there's nothing there's no counter side
to any of this. story this is a complete this is a hit piece on
this this own guy. It's ridiculous but play that Kim
Jong Hoon the defector speaks there's an
incredible admission of infighting in the country and
factionalism which is has been completely unheard of in North
Korea that a to incredible admissions for a country that
tries to keep a very public profile of them having
everything under control.
Kim's a sensible enemies weren't named, but this former North
Korean military intelligence and Workers Party official, who
defected to South Korea just before Kim Jong Hoon came to
power, offered some insights. We agreed to conceal his identity
and name
because military officers generally were outraged that
they had to accept Kim Jong Hoon as the new leader. Do they think
the military is all stupid. discontent among the military
elites began soon after Kim Jong Il demanded we transfer our
allegiance to his son, the feeling of betrayal turned into
anger.
Military and party officials scorn Kim for his inexperience
the defector said and his rudeness to subordinates,
his father had more confidence and so was more relaxed because
he earned the power. Kim Jong Hoon did not have the chance to
learn and prepare for the leadership. This is why Kim Jong
Hoon heavily relies on intelligence officers to control
and spy on his people. So to suppress dissent.
Can I say something? Yeah. All right. So take your mind out for
a second. Here's the crazy leader of North Korea, who put a
his uncle at the firing squad and killed him. Crazy guy is his
nut job. Now, think about our president who sins unmanned
aeroplanes to kill Americans. Like I don't know Wasn't there
some guy in his 16 year old kid to kill them cafe to kill them?
And he jokes about it. I have two words for you. Predator
drones. This is the mean who's the who's the crazy? Who's the
crazy and he likes basketball too?
Well, so we go to that aspect. And there's a not this is not
reported. You probably have heard it but maybe some of the
listeners have but generally speaking, this is the only way
we're dealing with this Kim Jong Hoon character in the mainstream
media. And so I finally found you know, the Reuters report on
him had two interesting things because he really really liked
basketball like that a lot, which is the reason that
Rodman's over there and his main team that he routed for when he
was in Switzerland, was the Chicago Bulls. Oh, Dennis Rodman
played for the Chicago Bulls. Now what's Rodman doing there?
Again, you play it, you have to go to China. That CCTV report
and you barely understand this guy, but play the CCTV report on
what North Korea is up to with Rodman.
An agreement was reached between Seoul and Beijing earlier this
month after South Korean president pug when he made the
offer as a humanitarian gesture during her visit to China in
June. Still on the Korean peninsula former NBA star Dennis
Rodman has had tryouts for a DPRK team to face a dozen NBA
veterans and an exhibition game to mark the birthday of Kim
Jeong the DPRK is top leader.
And it's it's billed as it's a birthday party. It's the big
bang and Pyongyang. Yeah, and it is.
This is not being reported.
It's sponsored by Paddy Power. The Irish betting outfit and it
is the PaddyPower Dennis Rodman basketball Invitational event.
You can buy tickets for the tour. You can you can you know,
they have it to six and a half 1000 Euros per person. All
included. return flight on air choreo. You get the North Korean
visa hotel accommodations. Yeah, the whole thing is, Bonanza is
for his birthday. It's sponsored by a betting outfit. And it even
has a Vegas named the Big Bang in Pyongyang. Yeah. And it's
reported here. And I would add to that now because I didn't
know the Chicago Bulls but now that I think about it, is it
feasible to anyone and could anyone maybe broth Blitzer could
make the connection? Maybe Kim Jong earn is trying to say Hey,
I like basketball. I like the bowls. President Obama, you'd
like basketball. Maybe you could find some common grant and he
likes the bowls. Yes, maybe we could go team maybe we could
find some common ground there and Does the President not even
see this? Can the President not say, hey, there's an opening?
There's a there's a reason for me to open discussions with the
erratic, mysterious leader of the DPRK. Because we have a
common love for the Chicago Bulls. No, no, that would be too
good. I think I think that's a that should be seriously
considered.
I see it. I think so too. I think this guy's This is the
opportunity he sends opening crap from that that phoney
baloney guy who was in South Korea, that was the ex whatever
military intelligence guy saying that, that Kim Jong, you
remember Kim Jong Il, when he first showed up? Yeah, he was
like a weird haircut. And they had the front page of The
Economist saying, Hello, Earthlings. Crazy, fantastic.
Guy was considered a complete lunatic, but he was okay. But
this new kid who's down to earth is not Jurassic. It was an
insult to the military. Yeah, full CRUD. This is. This is a
hit piece by PBS. And I really? I'm really surprised to see it.
Of all people. The news hour on PBS doing a hit piece.
Oh, really? You're surprised? I am surprised? Well, who pays for
that news hour on PBS? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
You mean the people who Finance Abuse of prisons? For Profit
abusive prisons? And you're surprised? I'm just saying, all
right, let me tell you this, although I am going to be on
your side, that the solution and the concept that she created is
something to be discussed and is not that important in the
overall scheme of things. Ayan Rand and Atlas Shrugged,
accurately described where we are right now with the insane
government, which is what she saw and why she wrote about it
in her youth in Russia. So forget all the Gulf Gulf and the
who's John Galt and the and the quitting and all that I'm okay
with objective is and we can all talk about that another time.
But the description of what is happening right down to the rail
is exactly what she was warning the United States about. by
Iran, and I think you can even agree on that.
What's funny, is that that's not the message that is being picked
up from her by the Silicon Valley, folks, idiots. They're
more that you pounded earlier in the show. They just see it as
Oh, I wish you'd make more money. No, no. Great is
good. They should. They should all quit. That would be a good
start. I'm all for it. If they're their takeaway is oh,
we'll just quit and no, you won't have Gmail. Fine. Fine.
Get out. Get the apple to Tim Collins, Steve Cook, whatever
his name is. Jim. I like saying Tim Collins. It's a bad it's a
bad cocktail. It's a Tom Collins gone left. He's compromised
Collins. He's compromised. He's compromised apple. He's
compromised the entire operation. There's no other
reason for him to sit in that suck up meeting. Suck up meeting
at least jobs before he died, had that dinner and got all
huffy about it. Remember that? Yeah. Remember that? Sorry.
Yeah. Ah, Zuckerberg didn't even show up.
No, he sent us Sheryl. Yeah. lean in.
Lean in. Lean forward.
Whatever.
Yeah. Wow. Okay. Well, that's it. That was
that's what's going on. It's
a little wrap up there. I like that a lot.
I think we at least are on top of this. And we should visit the
country. I think there's a lot there's some going on. And it's
like that way here's another thing I was thinking about when
I put this together. Where is the news media, interviewing
Dennis Rodman? How come there's not a microphone in his face?
How come CBS took a took this crazy guy that's bitching and
moaning this this unknown guy. We can't say his name. But they
never put a microphone and you don't think Dennis Rodman
doesn't like to have a microphone in his face? He's a
media whore. Well, he's the TA he
does have an exclusive with Vice who we're doing yet another
documentary. So there may be some issue there. But But here's
what here's how the mainstream for Vice if he talks, I agree.
But here's how the mainstream media. I've seen this at least
three times. You get a pundit on and then and I even saw a woman
from on ESPN, why don't you have the ducks ESPN reporter says
women are hot. And they talk well, they know. They only know
about sports. I don't know anything else but okay. And
here's how it goes. Well, what do you think's going on? And
Dennis Robins mind? And then the answer is if I knew what was
going on and Dennis Rodman might not be in an institution every
single one
of that's it that's that's the
That's it. That's the coverage right there. That's exactly
right. And little did he came out from the White House kind of
in the region will stay in the, in the Eurasian region.
memorandum for the Secretary of State would be that would be a
John Kerry, who you aptly titled The State guy, and to the
Secretary of Energy. Dear folks, doesn't say that. I have
considered the proposed agreement for cooperation
between the American Institute in Taiwan and the knop unipay
economic and cultural representative office, the
United States concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy,
along with views, recommendations and statements
of the interested agencies, I have determined that the
performance of the agreement will promote and will constitute
will not constitute an unreasonable risk to the common
defensive security. So we're now going to go enter into a nuclear
relationship with Taiwan, China's most hated enemy. It's
not at all obvious.
Well, what can I say? When the provocateur is
Yes, well, nothing other than how about those cool that cool
photographic and video graphic evidence of the moon landing
from China? Hmm,
you're still on that?
Yes, I am still on that because I you know, even now, even
people who like who, who are angry at me for even suggesting
that we never landed on the moon are joking about China. Really,
the the fake footage we have in the 60s was better than what
they're doing. Where's all the high def stuff? Where's
anything?
When the Chinese make all that gear? That's the iron Yeah,
they're not showing any of that they had they show that a video
of an animation on a flat screen in their command centre, please.
How insulting Why is the scientific community not saying
they now are outraged by this lack of of what they're showing?
People please. Turkey is on fire.
I got a couple of Turkey clips too. And the thing is, it's
interesting because it brings back a topic does something uh,
we had, we have brought this up numerous times this one this
topic about these crazy schools in Texas. Yep, the Gulen
Movement. That's right. The GULAG lists, that's the right
way to pronounce it. What's
not it's not just Texas, John, there's there's all over the
world. Their 600 is all over Europe, the Gulen Movement, the
Gulin schools are all over the world 600 schools.
And now it's believed that the Gulag lists are behind what's
going on in Turkey,
which is what we said on this very show.
And every time it comes up, I'm always reminded is these crazy
schools and it's so it's still somewhat we don't know what the
hell's going on. I mean, this could be an agency thing, but
the FBI has been investigating. Apparently they're all over
this. The Gulenists in Texas, there's a bunch of articles that
are floating around about it. The FBI investigation of Gulin
schools aka harmony science academies in Texas now. They've
apparently been
Yeah, so the number of police officers were arrested for
corruption and everything you read if even Time Magazine and
that means the CIA is behind it, because if time is, is doing
this, then now we have someone coming to we have a little meet
the kids party today. And we have a famous documentarian
coming to I won't mention his name, but he will be joining us
and I believe he may be doing something along these lines
about this particular thing. So you have to understand that this
Gulin guy the
lives in the Poconos by the way,
he lives in a huge compound in Pennsylvania and here's here's
what we have to remind people of the uncle of the CIA uncle of
the Boston bombers. Kit he was a direct connection to the State
Department arranging for the green card for this guy's moved
to the United States. Remember that? Do you remember this now?
Is it coming back?
vaguely remember that you're right, though? Yeah.
And the CIA, oh, this
is this. This is the most I don't know. I They just look at
it and look at it. And I go, gee, this, this is too screwy
not to have some agency involvement. But we have
to because we know the Chinese have just the the Turks are
buying Chinese rockets, a little faux pas, if you want to be a
NATO, I'd say. And they're doing that on the heels of a $30
billion loan to complete rail for the trans Eurasian rail
network, which will transit through Turkey into Europe to
connect China and the Russians who were working together the
Shanghai Cooperation. The Shanghai cooperative
Corporation, I think it's called all the way into Europe,
Rotterdam, up to London, down to Barcelona. And now also going
into Africa, as the Chinese are paying for Kenya to upgrade its
rail to standard gauge. Oh, no, this is this is very obvious.
And of course, we have all the pipelines running through
Turkey, not all of them, by the way. Go to this this, this will
tickle you, John. Go to Ukraine gas.curry.com. This is a great
graphic. Ukraine gas.curry.com.
Yeah, I was ready, then I wasn't.
And you will see here. The pipelines that go through
Ukraine, from Russia, and the actual percentages of Russia,
Russian gas that is used by Ukraine and is trans is the
Ukraine. Just like all the guests 66% of Russian gas
exported to the European Union, trans trans transits, Ukraine
66%. Yeah, the
Ukrainians have no choice in this in this whole situation
with the depictive. Russia versus the EU.
Well, not unless they want to get really cold this winter.
Isn't it possible? Yeah.
And it's not a warm country. It's a bad time to be. And
they're getting $15 billion bailout, which is like free
money. Yeah. And like somebody we have people bitching about
the Ukraine, I don't think they'd be personally. I suppose
you could maybe make a case. But the Ukrainians like somebody
said, I don't want to just disparage the Ukrainians. We
have a think one of our producers. Yeah, but they said
the only export they have is you know, Booker's is corruption and
prostitutes
and gas today transit gas,
and they would be in the EU, they would be you know, it'd be
a problem, I think, for the EU to have the Ukrainians, when
they're really, traditionally more toward the East and the
West in terms of their culture.
Yeah. But anyway, we know that the State Department is there
with Victoria Nuland, assistant to Deputy Secretary of State
handing out pretzels to everybody and sandwiches. Cuz,
you know, but it's good to try and head them off at the pass.
And this chart of yours, I think really points out what really
should happen, which is separate the Ukraine name country into to
have the Ukrainians Oh, you
mean like Bosnia Herzegovina? Is that? Should we do that one?
Should we do that one again? Well, Yugoslavia turns into two
different spots. Yeah.
Two, I think there's more than two and Yugoslavia.
While but that's kind of what we wound up with. And yeah, the
balkanization
where these countries say, look, all the Ukraine, the Ukraine
speaking you, people are on the west, and they can become part
of the EU if they want to try that and Russian so I can just
become part of Russia.
And typically, in this process, 1000s of people are slaughtered.
This is great. We can just wait for it
saying, yeah, it's always problematic. I have to agree
that it's not like I've been trying to open or advocating
separating the state of California into three states,
oh, you and
sends you in that silicon? Who was this non story
that was about he was just, I had been talking about this for
a decade. And I've always thought having to state cut in
half would be a good thing because we get more senators and
more representation for the state itself. Because it's a big
state. It doesn't need to be this big. But I finally worked
it out to three states that should be the northern part, the
centre part and then the Southern California, Canada,
America and Mexico. And like that, that kind of a fractal.
Yeah. And it would be fine. Anyway, but you know.
Right on the heels of France, where prostitution is legal, but
soliciting sex can get you a 1500 year old fine, we now skip
over to Scandinavia. In their
ruling the justices note that prostitution itself is not
illegal in Canada, but the laws meant to discourage that trade
endangered lives. Three Laws made it illegal for prostitutes
to communicate with clients and public do business in private
buildings and for anyone else to live off their profits. The
court ruled those laws put prostitutes in harm's way by
prohibiting them from paying for security working in brothels or
screening clients on the streets.
This is a very interesting that this took place because the you
hear who comes out and immediately it's, well clearly
it's okay for people to buy and sell women, which of course does
not has nothing to do with this ruling. Because, you know,
trafficking in humans and underage sex is obviously still
illegal.
In writing the unanimous decision Chief Justice Beverley
McLaughlin pointedly raised the case of the BC serial killer who
preyed on vulnerable street prostitutes. But groups that
fight human trafficking and child prostitution, called the
ruling a step backwards is a sad day, that we've now had
confirmed that it's okay to buy and sell women and girls in this
country. I think generations to come, our daughters, their
granddaughters, and on will look back and say, what were they
thinking?
That's, that's really, I mean, that's just not true. This is
not what it's about. It's renting. It's not buying and
selling, it's renting. And it's yes, there's danger. But wow,
you know, that time,
today's decision doesn't have any effect on Canada's laws
against human trafficking, child exploitation, and pimping. Those
laws are all still enforced.
Thank you. At least they point that out. That's the weekly
hooker report there.
That was the weekly hooker report.
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A guy named will only bring up my notes here. A guy named
Stephen Schneider. A Stephen Schneider who passed away in
2010. Stephen Schneider did. He was a climatologist. He was a
member of the icy IPCC working group too. He also a died of
cancer. But like but he had beat it. And then he all of a sudden
boom. It's like he was a MacArthur Fellow. Big climate,
climate change guy, big, big climate change guy. He also was
on stage when Barack Obama received his his peace prize.
He's been around. And here he is in 2000. I think beginning 2010
He died rather suddenly talking about the dangers of climate
change and global warming. In the in the near future. Don't be
poor in a hot country don't live in hurricane alley. Watch out
about being on the coasts or in the Arctic. It's bad idea to be
up on high mountains with your glaciers melting and losing your
water supply. And if you're in a Mediterranean climate, you're
going to have a fire season in the summer, it's really going to
be a problem. Sounds like he's pretty much all in on the we're
all gonna die from global warming, manmade global warming,
he wrote the report on manmade global warming. Unfortunately,
as I was watching the entire Leonard Nimoy narrated piece
about the global cooling from 1978 I came across this sea ice
could be melted by covering it with black slit to increase the
absorption of sunlight.
Dr. Stephen Schneider as a climatologist from the National
Centre for Atmospheric Research. Can we do these things? Yes. But
will they make things better? I'm not sure. We can't predict
with any certainty what's happening to our own climatic
future.
How can we come along and intervene that and that
ignorance you could melt the ice caps? What would that do to the
coastal cities? The Cure could be worse than disease
would that be better or worse than the risk of an ice age?
How unfortunate
Well, there you have it in a nutshell.
And then he died suddenly. Yeah. So this guy was all in fact, if
you read about him, one of his ideas was to create a nuclear
explosion on the pole to break up the ice and then Anzac but we
don't Oh, we can't really predict the climate. Can we? Oh,
I'm sorry. The same guy who in 2010 was writing about the
models that were predicting the climate. To send that to my
Republican hating friends.
Yes. Yes. These are all good things to bring up at the dinner
table.
Yeah, access now. Yeah, no, not not. Not tonight. Tonight. We'll
do it tonight. You
have a little clip machine with you. And they were sorry. Oh,
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great dinner, mate. No, that's not invited back? I guess. No.
So you know, I was noticing our donor donation list. There
wasn't anybody from India, which is one of the largest English
speaking areas and so I figured I'd have my my monthly Indian
douchebag clip. Oh, so here's a guy that runs a thing in India
is a big he's just a big publisher and he's also you
know, this typical Brahmin and right and it brings up the
situation fact that let's go back to the talking about Indian
Brahmins. Don't you think it's a little peculiar that the story
that's perfect play this clip India strip search fiasco
continues
Oh, they've Jonnie Cobra garden, India's Deputy Consul General
was tweeted.
We have seen the statement issued by the Manhattan US
attorney on December 18. We need to keep in mind the simple fact
that there is only one victim in this case. That victim is Dave
Jonnie Cobra Gotti, a serving Indian diplomat on mission in
the United States.
This story has captured the Indian media's attention news
outlets are pitching the arrest and detention including strip
searches and cavity checks of the Indian diplomat as the
humiliation of the nation. Many people have welcomed the
government's strong response and New Delhi appears determined to
set an international example
given the excitation it is not a matter of India alone, so but
all developed nations should learn a lesson from this and
should raise their voice whenever such incidents take
place. Or
protesters shout anti American slogans in the north Indian
state of Rajasthan. They're angry chants of feeding a
growing chorus of discontent.
Okay, couple of things. One, he said on mission, which is
annoying. But Rajastan gives a rat's ass about anything that
happens in United States, I can assure you, but there is okay.
They got all riled up about this thing. And I was thinking about
this, this is the, you know, the you these these Brahmins that
are part of most of these missions into a un like in the
United States or in the council or wherever you run into them,
they're all over the place. Many of them were an industry, but
these Brahmins that these are the high caste Indians are
extremely they're outrageously arrogant. Yeah, there is
absolutely I was looking at thinking about this strip search
and cavity search. I'm absolutely convinced that they
went in there probably like most government guys do with a
reasonable you know, look, you violated this rule you know,
there's going to be a fine and she must have given them some
outrageous lip. Joe, as a Brahmin would do it because
everybody's beneath a Brahmin and so they decided to share
some New York you know sentiment and they gave her this you know,
the whatsover and showing her who's the boss because she's not
the boss of them and that's how this thing is gonna kind of spun
out of control and I think it's interesting that nobody really
wants to even discuss it as anything other than because it
makes no sense that they would strip searcher and cavity search
a woman for a for a paperwork violation unless it was
something she triggered.
It's a retaliatory move, of course. Yeah.
You can't do this with especially with in our police
state. Come on. Is Hello, Officer. Yes, sir. What else do
you need, sir? Anyway, I just thought it was just a little
thing. So that brought me to this other clip, which is this
is the channelled 18 guy who's now considered the Rupert
Murdoch of India. And he says this, and I just went and just
just couldn't take it fun
also has interests in E commerce in films and magazines. So just
to mention a few. Raghava, hello, thank you very much
indeed for speaking to us. It's a real pleasure. Thank you
know, you've been called the Rupert Murdoch of India. I'm not
sure for some people. It's a compliment for some people,
perhaps not. Well, what do you make of that? I think this is
this is more because we are one of those few media companies,
which has got a footprint both in entertainment and in news.
So he goes on with this. We are one of the few companies in the
world that is in entertainment and news is one of these big
media companies that's not in news.
We'll see a big one is They of course they're all in
entertainment and news or whatever it passes for news.
This guy's just full of crap even first look media appear on
me come I can no NARS Laura Poitras, greerton bright red
brown, Rob Greenwald. They're going to be doing sports and
entertainment and gossip and celebrity there if they're even
their press release says it. Because you can't do news
without entertainment in mainstream.
Right. And you can't control the masses without news. And you
can't control the entertainment without news stories about the
entertainment. Yeah, that's what it's really about. I mean, you
have a new guy, you see it all the time you watch one of these
leaving the local shows. Oh, tonight, there is the last
episode of Breaking Bad. You know what's going to happen? Who
cares?
Yeah, well, a lot of people cared.
So Obama commuted a bunch of drug
guys. Yeah, including someone he knew, I think.
Yeah, well, here's the story. And here they look to part out I
didn't get to borrow. He also did a bunch of pardons for the
first time but listen to this story they do given the needle
here a little bit. Mama commutation? Yes.
commutation,
President Obama commuted the sentences of eight convicted
drug offenders today. In a written statement, he said their
prison terms were unduly long under a law that treated crack
cocaine more harshly than powder cocaine. A more recent law has
reduced the disparity before today the President commuted
just one sentence in his five years in office.
So he did one. They didn't mention the pardons and I said
Wow. And it's funny they would have met because he did a bunch
of Pardons I think eight or something like that. All the
part getting we've talked about this on the show before he
doesn't pardon anybody. He's a very cruel ruler. So he didn't
pardon anybody. But he pardoned a bunch of all of a sudden,
every one of those pardons the people were already served their
term. Oh, really? Yeah. Not and one of them was in jail. David
along said serve their term.
Really? Yeah. And that funny. That's lame. I read somewhere
that lame. I read somewhere that one of the one of the pardons I
thought was like the son of someone he knew.
But that was a commutation. I
think how many times what is it commutation?
Exactly? When you set your your commute the sentence the guys in
jail, he's not innocent. But he's, you're just you let him
out. You're in too long. Boom, you're out. Pardon is that
you're now innocent. You're like, you know, it's just thrown
out. The whole case is thrown out. You're okay. You're good to
go. Here we go.
Top democratic ally Deval Patrick's crack dealer cousin
was among eight people whose hefty sentences were commuted
yesterday by the President. There you go.
Yeah. Okay. Well, that makes sense. That commute a bunch of
so that one didn't stand out.
Well, Bill Clinton, of course, famously pardoned Marc Rich, the
or the man who essentially set up the oil spot market for
illegally trading with Iran and went on to create Glencore, the
largest Oil Corporation in the universe. He dialled recently.
Yeah. Recently,
I got this report about Central Africa. Yeah. Wow, I got a lot
about yours that you can go on with yours because mine's not
it's Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, I want to play it first.
Because it'll get it out of the way. And I want you to tell me
there's a reason for this report that I haven't called this the
CIF with big voice. There's a guy that comes on and he's got
one of these unbelievable big voices. You know what I'm
talking about. Though, this is bigger than that. Oh, you can't
even do this voice. It's so big. And I want to see if you can
spot it. When it comes on the comes onto the clip. UN
Ambassador
Samantha Power is getting a close up look at the violence in
the Central African Republic. She met with the country's
president on Thursday. The Obama administration says it will
provide $100 million to assist African Union troops and another
15 million to the UN for humanitarian aid, as Al Jazeera
is Andrew Simmons reports.
A military handover that's meant to make a difference to the
traumatised people at the Central African Republic. The
car peacekeepers called FurMark are now replaced by a much
larger force. Its name Miska. Another military acronym in this
confidence troubles and the largest force of its kind in
this country. It will try to calm the car, which is on the
brink of more killing and the threat of genocide is ever
present. It's twice the size of the existing force called fo
Mac. And we'll double that number again in the coming weeks
to 6000. With the military buildup, more political pressure
was bearing down on the country's interim president
Michel jata deer to calm the anger and threatened full
justice against anyone involved in the unknown number of
atrocities.
We have discuss with the president of the transition to
rally insist on what needs to be done to prevent further atrocity
crimes. In other words, it is critical that message comes from
himself to make sure that nobody will be immune from any form of
prosecution.
Okay, you can stop it.
Wow. Let me tell you a little bit. I want that voice can do
this voice because we tell the President about the
his voices got a little more. So meeting me. Low No, no, no.
You've got to blow me. Well, what's this all
hell's breaking loose? Was
it not? Your our economic hitman coup? Verbatim said several,
maybe two months ago. It's time for genocide in the region?
I don't think he was advocating it. No.
Well, I don't know what he was doing. But he did say this. And
Sudan is also falling apart right now. South Sudan,
South Pacific. Yeah,
yeah, it's completely falling.
Here's a question about I tried to get some South Sudan clips.
But there were always two there was like this last clip I got
was too wordy.
It was very annoying to listen to. Yeah, it was too.
It was no good. And it was Al Jazeera. summarise better. So
here's the thing with South Sudan, I want to ask just ask a
rhetorical question. They got this one guy with his big gap
tooth guy. Who is I think he's the guy who wears the cowboy hat
or the other guy wears a cowboy hat they're they're all crazy
down there. So this guy was is out of government wants to get
back into government. So he wants to start there's like
right now he's like trying to take over the place and they're
trying to get rid of the other guy and they're killing each
other. Left and right. And we're on one side or the other. Why
don't we just since Sue Don, don't we have drunk? Why don't
we just blow one of these guys up? Yeah, we got everything in
Djibouti. I think it's because we there's not enough rubble.
I'm done my rubble theories holds true here. Because we can
easily fix this dilemma in South Sudan by blowing up one of the
two guys.
Oh, there's no for the drone. Boom done. No, we need more
rubble.
Yeah, we need more rubble, so they're gonna lose all hell is
gonna break loose. They're gonna kill each other. We're gonna
stand by watching it. And then we're gonna wring our hands.
Samantha Powers is going to go over there. And she looks so out
of place in Africa. I have to say Yeah, she looks like a
nervous wreck. Oh my god.
I think my friend I didn't sign up for this. Totally exact.
Rather being a New York coffee house. She does not look good.
No, she just looks like a wreck and she's wearing the wrong
clothes. She
looks like yeah, you have to do this job. You have to be
ruthless. And she essentially she's married to Cass Sunstein
and Cass of course is all in on the you know let's let's make
turn everything into a police state infiltrate the the
conspiracy theorists Hey there chat room. You know, he wrote
the he was on the panel for the recommendations for the NSA to
expand the authority of the NSA do go read it for yourself don't
believe what the what the media is telling you. It's expanding
it and creating a bonanza for Richard Clark. To have a third
party store all of this crap for a fee. So she's she was the
cheats out. She was coached and she was hanging out in the White
House and she and Valerie Jarrett, whatever she was doing.
And then she's like, Oh, I get promoted. Oh, this is so great.
Oh, I gotta have to wear long sleeves. Sudan. Oh, no. Yeah,
she's gonna end up with berry berry or something. Berry Berry,
you know, one of those African diseases. Oh, okay. I think it
bears your leg swell out gigantic. Isn't whatever it's
called. Berry Berry. Berry Berry.
Yeah. So the President is under the War Powers resolution.
percent approximately 45 US Armed Forces personnel to South
Sudan. Why can't he just say 45? Why is approximately, to weak,
it's hard to count to 45
I wonder about that myself because it could be foreign and
50.
That's what I'm saying is bullshit. And he said I'm
providing this report as part of my effort to keep the Congress
fully informed consistent with the War Powers resolution
because of course, it's al Qaeda or terrorism or whatever. She's
a lie. Isn't this the Muppets are not gonna jump up and blow
us up here now but what a South Sudan have
and we got to make plenty of it and make
sure the Chinese don't come in or kick whatever is there out?
Well, they're gonna be Rubble and we in the process, whatever
Chinese sign is doing there is going to be blowed up. That's
gonna get hit for sure. What is the Libya?
What's the capital of South Sudan?
I don't know. Let's take a look in the book acknowledging get
that straight. Okay. So
South Sudan's capital it is been we it's not been we,
yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think so or
dooba dooba dooba. So let's look at Juba. Just look at some
pictures of Juba images. Let's see what you
booktube Juba capital largest city of the Republic of South
Sudan. It also serves as the capital of central equa Tona a
critique with Tonia wouldn't take capital Equatoria,
Equatoria central equatorial What the hell's that? Is one of
the 10 states of South Sudan?
It wouldn't take stand. Yeah, and you got all these states. It
wouldn't take much to make this look more readily. It's pretty
rubbly as is.
Yeah, it doesn't know Rubble. Really, really Rubble is like,
should be Wow.
Wow, that's some rubble. Yeah. Where do we where do we have
Rubble right now? We have rubble in Syria.
Yes, Syria, Libya. Not Egypt yet. No, we're getting there.
We're working on Turkey.
Well, turkeys, Turkeys down the line thing Egypt will go for and
Turkey is
going to be it's going to split it's going to be right up the
Bosphorus. That's i He took it right up the Bosporus. That's
where the split is going to be the between the the terrorists
and the non terrorists or whatever they're going to make
up to to stop trains and pipelines and what have you. Do
you before we did I got a couple of things to wrap up here that I
think would be kind of funny, but do you want to talk about
this? This John Stuart accusation was pretty
interesting. And the reason why I bring it up is because a lot
of people really think that Jon Stewart is great his show, and
although extremely funny, and I know him I know him when he
started the Jon Stewart show at MTV, and I've worked with them
in a nice enough guy, but I was kind of blown away by these
accusations.
Yeah, I was done by David. I actually know the guy that did
the accusations. I know him pretty well. But who is this?
David Feldman known to his friends as feldco
and he's a writer comedian. He's
a writer. He's a stand up comic he does off colour. He likes to
do borderline off colour jokes kind of like Louis C. K does. He
never bring you Feldman is never brought himself to actually get
to the level of Louis C. K by that same type of material. You
know, it's the jokes about prostitutes and it's
paedophilia. And, you know, dude with the light touch high brow
material. Yeah, it's it's, it works to a point. So apparently,
he I guess this guy got him on an interview show, we should
have taken a clip from it, which we could have. And he just went
off on Stuart. He has been a head writer or writer for Bill.
He was writer with The Dennis Miller Show. When he was on HBO.
He was actually the I think the head writer. When Miller was on
HBO, then he worked for Bill Maher studio. I think it worked
for Stuart, then he worked for Bill Maher, if I'm not mistaken,
whatever the case is, he's really a stand up comic that
writes for a living because he doesn't. He's not famous enough
stand up comedy has never gotten to fame. Maybe
Maybe you need to explain how the shows work. Because not
everyone sees John Stuart and things. Boy, he's brilliant. And
there's three other people who appear from time to time, but he
must have 20 writers.
He's got a huge staff of writers and so does Bill Maher. Mars is
less than it used to be.
How many writers do we have? I'm just going to count how many
writers do we have? We have
two writers. Adam curry and John C. Dvorak. Yeah. And then we
have a bunch of stringers, who send us email and jingle. And we
tend to take the two writers of this show you and me, we can
take stuff from that, right? Oh, yeah, we don't have a big, it'd
be very interesting. It'd be funnier. Anyway, so apparently,
Stuart is anti union. preK. According to this article,
linked in the last newsletter, if you didn't get the
newsletter, you should have gotten it. It's in the
newsletter and his link there. And it's a very interesting
discussion about what he thinks about everybody thinks Dennis
Miller is technically the funniest guy, but he doesn't
agree with his politics. He thinks Bill Maher's middle of
the road but he agrees with his politics and Feldman is old
fashioned, liberal. And then he dates John Stewart because he's
a piece of anti Union now
tell the story that his writers wanted to Unionise he fought
against it, they joined the Writers Guild, they joined the
Union. And he has punished them by not using any material from
from the writers who joined the Union.
Right. Supposedly, which is the
kind of the worst thing you can do to a writer, a writer. The
writer will take a check for only so long
but if without having as material ever acknowledged as
useful. Yeah, that's true. They bail out just because there's
other jobs out there. Especially for comedy writers. I mean, the
big gig you want as a comedy writers, one of the staff
writers for ongoing comedy show on network TV that pays around
$40,000. Depending I mean, but you can get up to $40,000 a week
put. Yes.
Wow. Holy crap. 40,000 a week. Yeah.
Yeah. Wow. For the run of the show. And then you get
residuals. So Oh, wow. Is money. Are
you getting residuals if your joke is used, or just in
general? Oh, no, it's
just a piece of it's just a couple points of the Act show
some Wow. I didn't know that. You're a writer. You don't get
like the actors get huge residuals, but you get
something. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. And I think Stewart's just
like 5000 a week I've had somebody gave me the number was
I think, actually, if next time I get a hold of Feldman, I'll
find out what the numbers are for writers on the Stewart show,
because he'll tell me cool. And then we'll say I think it's five
or something like that a week, something? I'm not sure. 5000
Yeah, something like that.
Wow. And that's, that's not their only gig, they can do
other things.
Generally, that's their only gig. Oh, okay. I mean, you can
try writing a book, but you're, you know, in the writers room,
you're just interesting. It's time consuming.
The Federal Register. I put a little ditty out, which is kind
of interesting. The National Archives and Records
Administration is issuing a final notice about the disposal
of a collection of disaster recovery backup tapes from the
George HW Bush and Clinton administrations. If no one says
they want it, they'll be destroyed. What? On February
18 2014.
Oh, somebody must want them. Who reads the Federal
Register? Just us bad. Chad from Colorado is reading it.
Well, maybe Chad should get the tapes. I don't know
if if civilians can do that. I'm sure why not just
its public as public document. There's no such thing as a
copyright and government public a National
Archive. What is NRA, the National Archives and Records
Administration determined further retention of these
disaster recovery backup tapes is not warranted. The
presidential and federal electronic mail they have
other backups. In other words, they're not throwing out
material. Who knows I'm not backups. Yeah,
I'm not so sure. Who knows? Well, I think it would be
something that should be looked at, in the minimum. At minimum,
someone should just look at it.
They're just gonna shred them anyway. They don't like read.
They don't recycle anything they don't. Note.
Okay, there's a interesting a one of our producers Scott,
Malloy. contine I think from Australia, marked up a document
which I did a great job of PDF. This is a study done by James
Allen Fox and Monica J. dilla. Tour, published December 18.
This is mass shootings in America moving beyond Newtown.
And he did a great job of marking this up. It essentially
is a myth about mass shootings in America. And it's very
interesting to read. First of all, a mass shooting Do you know
how many people have to be killed for it to be deemed a
mass shooting? Two, four, actually four? Yeah. There's all
the all kinds of factual evidence Okay, myth, mass
shootings are on the rise factually not true. Not true.
Pretty much consistent since 1976. Incidents and victims
pretty much consistence consistent. There's no surge
from year to year. They just get more publicity than before. So
everyone gets all worked up, correct.
According to the expanded data over the past few decades, there
have been on average nearly 20 mass shootings a year and United
States most of course, were nowhere as deadly as recent
massacres in Aurora new town that have countless Americans
believing that a new epidemic is upon them because that's what
the media tells you. reflects the facts clearly state there's
been no increase in mass shootings and certainly no
epidemic. Myth recent mass murders involved record setting
body counts. Also not true. If you look at the history then we
have violent entertainment video games are linked to mass murder,
of course no evidence for that. Greater attests the
opposite actually, yes.
See, widening the availability of mental health services will
allow unstable individuals to get treatment they need to avert
mass murders. Turns out no clear relationship between cycle
psychiatric diagnosis a mass murderer has been established.
They've been trying to establish that since 1986. They have not
been able to establish that which is interesting. And recent
examination of 93 mass shootings from January 2009 to September
2013. Conduct conducted by Mayors Against Illegal Guns the
Bloomberg founded fine outfit in only 10 of the 93 cases. Was
there evidence that concerns mental health of the shooter
that had been brought to the attention of a medical
practitioner or legal authority prior to the shooting spree? My
favourite assault weapons used in these 93 incidents, how many
of the 93 mass shootings for people are more involved? A
assault weapon or high capacity magazine? John?
Well, if you listen to the mainstream media would be all of
them. Yeah. 1414 out of harmony
93. That's quite a low statistic. And then very low.
Yeah. So there's a couple more, there's a very good document. I
appreciate Scott for marking that up. That's very cool.
You'll find it under the war on crazy. And it kind of flows into
something that I guess we missed, or, you know, of course,
the news of the Arapahoe high school shooting has been covered
up because well, first of all, was an armed guard who, if this
was not a drill, if it was real, if this kid is even real, which
we won't know if this kid was even real well, because of this
shooter was
not removed from the debate team than the teacher that was
responsible for that disciplinary action was his was
the shooters main target. We still have to visit with a
variety of people to determine what the outcome or interaction
relative to the threat was. Here if we prepare to release an
assessment deal.
The question is, are you going to release the suspects DOB date
of birth? I'm not quite sure why that is so incredibly relevant.
But the this is the douchebag share if your favourite guy with
the with the tech, with his head moving all over the place? And
his answer is interesting. We
will release the date of birth. Within the next day or so. I
will tell you that. He's 18 years old. He was 18 years old.
But I will also tell you and this is a bit of an editorial
comment on my part. This is my personal perspective, as usual,
followed by my professional responsibility. I will share his
date of birth. But I will tell you that I am no longer
inclined, nor will I speak his name in public. Let's Yeah,
listen to this. He is someone who victimised an innocent young
lady by an act of evil and in my opinion, deserves no notoriety
and certainly no celebrity. He deserves no recognition. The
issue here is the victimisation of Claire Davis, and the
victimisation of this community in this school. So it is my
professional and my personal perspective, that although I
realise your responsibilities, I also understand my perspective
on life. And I choose never to use his name again in public.
And this. This is the he's the PIO, the Public Information
Officer in this case, besides being the sheriff for for this
particular incident. Now of course it's I'm thinking that
there may be something more to this the fact that he was gunned
down by an armed officer and police so there was no mass
casualty because as to be for at least for dead before it's a
mass shooting. So it was not a mass shooting. He was a
socialist and proud of it, which is the not fit with the redneck,
crazy gun freaks, right to hating gay hating rag, gun
freaks. And of course, and I know I'm not allowed to play
here, but here's Mad Cow all over the sheriff's
commitment as you just heard there to not deliver notoriety
or recognition to the gunman who perpetrated the crime and then
killed himself the sheriff's refusal to speak the gunman's
name. That turns out to be catching on. Oh, in the New York
Times today, some survivors of mass shootings and victim's
family members are advancing the argument that gunman in these
incidents should as much as possible just be written out of
the coverage of these crimes.
Oh, okay.
What she's all in on this kind of Reporter Is she
does a half hour segment on this with all kinds of people who are
like, yeah, no, because we can't with the we should not give them
celebrity because of course celebrities only if you swallow
penis on camera, that's, you know, and then release that.
That's when you get celebrity in America, not for killing people.
That's not how we do things.
against the rules, it's against the rules of celebrity
Yeah, it is. If you get drunk and do something weird if you
don't wear your panties, and you step out of the car, anything
with Dennis Rodman, you know, these are all things that get
you celebrity. You see it not even if you're talented, if
you're talented, you shouldn't have celebrity. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, this is not how we get celebrity this is
we're not ruining our airwaves with these celebrities. And I
think that, John, honestly, I think that this is only for this
case that they just want to get rid of this. This one does not
balance. I'm not sure you're right. But my might not could be
made because there's something about this case, because they
definitely want to get this case off because it does not follow
the narrative. The guy is a socialist. That was a it was an
armed guard at the school that was advocated by the NRA, as we
talked about in the last show that shot that guy and stopped
the whole thing from getting out of control. And all these things
are not part of the narrative, the anti gun, anti big clip and
all the rest of it. And you know, the guy's being a right
winger. So yeah, it's possible that it's a one shot we'll see
now staying in Denver. Public and news media will be barred
from a pre trial hearing in the Colorado theatre shooting. That
will include testimony from a psychiatrist who evaluated
whether defendant James Holmes was insane. Arapahoe County
District Judge to testimony from the psychiatrists and other
witnesses would infect a large portion of the jury pool with
factual information about home sanity, and make it impossible
for him to get a fair trial. Let me reread that sentence. The
Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos a similar Jr. said,
testimony from the psychiatrists and other witnesses would quote,
in fact, a large portion of the jury pool with factual
information about Holmes's sanity and make it impossible
for him to get a fair trial. Why can we not have factual
information? Why is that a bad thing?
God? I don't know. Well, I don't know. This is this is very
because it's because it's a kangaroo court. That would
explain it.
But I think because he was something was going on with him.
And I believe that this is not necessarily saying he was
mentally insane, but maybe he was mentally controlled, or
something else was going on. And someone was honest about it and
wrote it down and we can't have that. That's what I'm thinking
and parts of parts of the judge's ruling were even
redacted seven pages of 40 pages of his ruling were redacted What
is this play what is this country why can't what is so
dangerous Canada it's it's so dangerous we can't have this
information because what what what could possibly be so
dangerous to know about him so Moore's 40 Page ruling said the
upcoming hearing is quote one of those rare situations in which
closure of a pre trial hearing is not only justified but
required because of the potential damage to homes his
right to a fair trial I don't understand it either. You're
insane or you're not insane but there must be something else
that has been that has been written down that they just
someone doesn't want the public to know about because I can't
think of any case what difference would it make? We're
all grown ups we get it people died it was the bad bad news bad
day. But why can't we know what his mental state was?
i You got me you asking the wrong guy? Yeah, I know. I'm
just saying you don't know either. And there's something
there's some piece of information that they don't want
out is what it
was the seven pages of the of the judge's ruling by itself as
they don't want out so it's yeah, the
guy was like MK Ultra that's what I'm thinking or something
he's part of a government programme or he's on some sort
of mixture of drugs for some reason because he looked like a
maniac sitting there. Yeah. And or something crazy about him
that they don't want to talk about because it wouldn't be
fair, would embarrass someone in the government. I can't see any
other reason for that.
Ya know, Something's fishy about this. That's a way to do it.
Did s&p downgrade Europe that I didn't see that correctly?
I didn't see that. I think I didn't see that. No, they should
have if they didn't.
wasn't really a lot of news. Yeah, ratings agents. The
Standard and Poor's downgraded long term credit rating of the
European Union on Friday look good. It should have been
downgraded taking away its top notch, triple A grade and making
it a plus. Which means Oh man. Oh my god, this is the last
thing I got to talk to you about. Wow. This. Where is it
to? The Why can't I find this now? Oh, here it is. The C F TC,
you'll be talking about this with Horowitz you doing a show
with him this week?
No, we're not doing a show until next year. Oh, too bad.
It may all be over by them. The CFTC which is the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission. I said oh, there were some
technical errors in reporting the swaps data. This is the
derivatives. We under reported the swaps market by $55
trillion. What is the GDP of America?
I don't know. It's a good question. I think it's not that
No, no, it's not. I think we're we're maybe a 10 or something.
Well, let's
find out what the GDP is nowadays.
55 trillion the underreporting because of a glitch? It's a
glitch in
the computer glitch. Yeah, no wonder we.
But what's interesting is when I when I'm I don't know, I don't
know anything. I know how swaps work. But I don't know anything
else about this and how the CFTC works. And but you know,
15.6 8 trillion.
Okay, so this is fourth, three, three and a half times the size
of the entire GDP of the United States of America on an annual
basis. Yeah. $55 trillion, which is that it's a technique that is
actually said a technical coding issue. Yeah, gosh. But I was
Googling around for that number. And in 2008, September, just
before the maybe it was just around the time of the bailout.
That number popped up. And I thought that was kind of
interesting. And this is from what, let me see what this is
from CNN, from 2008. As Congress wrestles with another bailout
bill to try to contain the financial contagion as a
potential killer bug out there, who's next movement can't be
predicted the credit default swap. And just over a decade,
these privately traded derivative contracts have
ballooned from nothing into a $55 trillion market. Is it
possible, John, that this 55 trillion CDs, your credit
default swaps was technically coded away? And now they're
trying to finagle it back somewhere? Or is that just
really a coincidence?
Well, the numbers are coincidence. I mean, it was
weird coincidence? I don't know. I don't think they're I think we
everyone's been aware of the size of the credit default swap
business, and then it's high. And I think 55 trillion may be
low.
No, no, the the entire Swaps and Derivatives market not this is
just credit default swaps. The entire derivatives market is 700
trillion. Okay. That's the President said 600 trillion, but
I think it's about 700 trips a lot. Yeah, Yeah, kinda.
But it's, you know, it's, it's kind of misleading because most
of these swaps just expire. And there's really have a lot to
there's not really necessarily worth anything after they go
away
unless someone starts wanting to collect. And this is what Warren
Buffett called weapons of financial destruction or
whatever you call it.
Yeah, it's still kind of it's never been well reported how
this is going to affect the economy. Well,
other than that, we just had this bill passed, which allowed
banks to keep their exposure to derivatives inside their FDIC
insured entities. I mean, it all just kind of comes at the same
time. That's all I'm noticing. I'm not a financial wizard. I
don't I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just noticing
little patterns, along with Europe's downgrade along with
Europe's new new new bank out bail in deal. I think your 2017
number is coming up my friend.
Yeah, make him sooner than later. We'll see in the next
year. We're definitely going to get through this year without
the without the perfect collapse days, everything's off down. But
there will be a collapse of some sort. And I liked the market
going over 16,000 as it goes much higher than is probably
going to reset sometime next year.
Yeah, no, I think I think we have to have a 40% reduction
which would not be the collapse, but it would certainly be a
reset. I think that that has to happen. With gold at 1200 Do you
think it'll go below? 1000? Yeah, yeah, you do.
I don't think it's gonna go far below but at 900 Looks like a
good place to be. Wow. And that
would be a reset back to 2007 Because I remember I bought my
gold Krugerrands at 850 I think,
yeah, while you're still in the in the blue, in the black,
I'm holding on to a man, that's gonna be worth a lot more when
the time comes,
so I only have what do I have left? I just wanted to mention
there's somebody sent us this link to this whole article that
we didn't cover when it came out in July of 2012, actually, but
this is a very funny story about a team of researchers at the
University of California Davis set out to test the reliability
of drug and bomb sniffing dogs. This is one of our themes of the
show. I just didn't never had this particular article, the
team assembled 18 police dogs and their handlers and gave them
a routine task, go through a room and sniff out the drugs and
explosives. But in order to pass it, but there was a twist the
room was clean, no drugs, no explosives. In order to pass the
test to handlers and the dogs had to go through the room and
detect nothing but have 144 runs that only happened 21 times with
a failure rate of 85%. Although drug sniffing dogs are supposed
to find drugs on their own, the researchers concluded that they
were influenced by their handlers who smelled like dope.
No, you're right. Wow, yeah. We've talked about this before.
These got these dogs lie? Yes. They're told to lie by their
handlers and his handler old dudes. I don't know. You know,
it's just like any other train dog. You know, you have a little
signal you move your foot a certain way or you scratch your
cheek. And next thing you know the dog sitting next to
something as though it's got drugs or bombs in it.
Lying dogs. Sons of bitches playing dogs. Alright, Johnny,
boy, what are you doing for for the 25th? That's a Wednesday and
up north and I'll be up there.
So you'll be up there for Thursday show?
Yes, I will on Sundays to
Oh, Okay, nice. Well, that's good. You'd be hanging out with
the family.
And, and we'll see hopefully the connection will be as good as
this. And I'll be doing my work from up there.
Okay, I'm here with the girls. All three girls, Miss Miki? We
have Miss Christina and we have Miss Rihanna. But I've got the
girls here. We're doing an old school family Christmas. And a
big meet the kids drink thing tonight. Everyone's dropping by.
So we're really festive.
Sounds like it's festive time for all.
Yeah, it's Yeah, it is really nice. I missed the kids so much.
You know what it's like when you have young kids around? Like you
got JC and his wife wife. Hello? Yeah, right. It's nice. When
when the young kids are hanging around, you learn a lot. It
gives
them to grumble about I learned a lot. Really a lot. Yeah, you
tend to learn quite a bit.
Yeah, some stuff that oh, actually I'll tell you
tend to learn something like so I'm listening to this ad the
sprint ad and I'm wondering is that are they making this up?
This is supposed to be a conversation they bring out to
famous actors. Malcolm McDowell and the deep voice black guy
whatever. I can't remember his name offhand. And they talk
about the you know they got the big deep James Earl Jones James
Earl Jones and and and they and they're supposedly reading or
read you know they're reading with some girls apparently have
typed into now you they ever spying on the girls and they got
this this dialogue or they just made it up which I believe is
sorry. I just believe this is bullcrap.
Sprint owners, Lizzie and Kim's call on our new network.
Brian is a total hottie. MacArthur's Ave he's amazeballs
is like the hardest hottie that ever hottie these like a hottie
times infinity plus another infinity it is smile as totes
adorbs totes McGoats. It's cray cray adorbs totes smart goats.
In honour of the important things you do save up to $100 on
any new phone when
you switch to sprint. Yeah, that's not how my kids talk.
Get this ad off the air. Yeah,
that's that's pretty bad. That they don't even mean kids don't
even watch TV. And they're all starting to think about dropping
their cell phone plans to that's a plus going Wi Fi.
Anyway, that's yeah, I got other stuff we can talk about on
Thursday. We'll do if we get a couple more. I have 111 elevens.
We'll do those too.
Oh, okay. Lovely. Well, we look forward to that. And thank you
all very much for your support of the show best podcast in the
universe as we're sometimes known vying for that ultimate
Comedy Award. Working on it, after we discredit the
competitors like Jon Stewart Yeah.
that's just the start. We're just getting started people.
Thank you all very much. Have a wonderful Christmas. Merry
Christmas. And I'm not going to say what everyone says. Whatever
you celebrate enjoy it. No, I'm going to say that. That irks me.
Festivus one very Kwanzaa. Exactly.
And we'll be back here on Thursday day after Christmas,
we'll be rolling up towards the 2014 date. Keep an eye on all
the bullcrap for you so you don't have to, so you can feel
good about knowing that you're not being completely snowed
over. Coming to you from FEMA Region six here in Austin, Texas
in the morning, everybody. My name is Adam curry and
from Northern Silicon Valley where the storm troopers are
coming. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk
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