Yeah, they gotta wipe these people out. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak.
Sunday, February 16 2014. Time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination. Episode five, nine or two. This is no agenda.
Welcome to the official nongovernmental organisation
podcast from FEMA Region six drivers high tide on Austin,
Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
from Northern Silicon Valley. I have no idea what he said. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
Buzzkill.
Is that because you can't hear me or you? I was unclear. No,
actually,
I could, but you were long. Don't know what you said. And
also the music's a little louder than you
know, I'm sorry. Well, I was just saying that this is the
official non governmental organisation podcast from FEMA
Region six.
We need to be a non governmental organisation and I've no
but I've looked into this. We can be a non governmental
organisation without being like an official 5013 c nonprofit.
This is true. Why not just call us a word. We can just make
something up. This is it and I've
tried it last night. I gave it a shot. Right. We had a couple's
dinner.
A couple's dinner I know. Now, what does this even mean? Ah.
It's hard all dinners kind of a couples dinner.
This is so here's what happened. One of the Mickey has, I think
two years ago, we met this beautiful girl. Probably the
most beautiful black woman I've ever seen. Like Cleopatra Jones
beautiful. And Mickey. You know, she they they started doing
stuff. And she just fashion stuff and mica use her for a lot
of her artwork. So just kind of Mickey's Muse and her husband, I
think we've talked about this, her husband is a lobbyist here
in Texas, but he's totally no agenda material.
And that's a good thing. Ya know, it's
a very good thing. And so that was good. And she's pregnant.
She I guess she has like three more weeks to go and someone was
going to do a baby shower. And then he went from a baby shower,
and so on. And so anyway, so Mickey says about a week and a
half ago, she's Oh, look, I got shanghaied. And this thing was
supposed to be like a baby shower. But now it's a Saturday
night. I know you're prepping. But it's this couples dinner
thing. Whatever. Please, please, please. Okay, no problem we'll
go to there's five couples is 10 people.
And this is a pretty good sized event. Yeah. And
it's pretty much the worst thing you can do to me, certainly on.
And I knew, actually some good some, a lot of good that came
out because besides the lobbyist, the banker was also
there, who and I'll talk about him later because he knows one
of the bankers that committed suicide. So we can bring a
little info in about that. And, but then I had the opportunity
with three new couples to reintroduce myself and come up
with new ways of saying it.
So I tried to new ways to do not annoy people,
new ways to talk about what I do. Okay, I work for a non
governmental organisation. I work for an NGO.
Yes, gotta be huge.
It's a winner. Really? Oh, wow. You
know, the funny thing is, technically, technically
our show is a non government is a non
governmental org. And if anything, that is not
government, General Motors,
non government, well, hold on, did they did they pay the money
back yet? I think so. Okay, then they're an NGO. So I tried to
two different ways. I tried NGO and non governmental
organisation. And NGO works better hands down because people
they don't even know what it stands for. Oh, okay. Great.
So you just buffalo them? Yeah.
So what do you do with the NGO? I'm a legislation analyst. Wow,
this is fantastic. So So I think we just we just need to say to
any na NGO. We are an official NGO. And I'm just going to keep
trying it. See, see how far I can take it. It seems to work.
I work for an NGO. Let me see if I practice on this. And I'm John
John. Hi. Hi. How are you?
Hi, hey, I've seen you around here at the club. What do you
do?
Yeah, I come around once a while I work for an NGO.
Oh, really? Your offer often at swingers paradise.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Almost NGO people did get an else to do
because we pay.
Oh man. Oh, alright. So actually, there were some we met
some some nice people, homeschoolers, and everyone it
was kind of a mixed mixed batch who was nice. But of course, you
know, it's like 930 I'm like, Okay, nice drinking with y'all,
but I gotta go. Why NGO work? Oh, that's a fair She'll
business, he has to go
to showbusiness.
But that was nothing compared to Valentine's Day. Then I'll I
have to say I feel gypped and screwed. And I don't know if you
witnessed any of this, but I got guilted. And this whole was
really bad this year, typically, you know, I can get away with
whatever. But somehow because of that we had the show before
Valentine's Day. And you know, and that was another thing we
had. It's right. We had a thing going on. That's crazy with the
social calendar. Anyway, I didn't think of reserving
anything or, like restaurant or any of this. And Friday morning,
Mickey wakes me up with a beautiful card and breakfast and
candles and like, ah, oh, drop the ball. Oh, like Oh, friggin
Russian. fragger. As you're killing, oh, my God, I at least
give me the morning to rain some stuff. He said, No, no, don't
worry. You had a show yesterday. I know. It's okay. Okay, this is
very obvious. The Gauntlet is down.
Yeah, that's not good. No, no, don't worry about it. Don't
worry about forgetting about me.
I didn't forget. This was it was not okay. This I was totally
ashamed and guilty. I hop in the truck. I'm running around to
flower shops. Let me tell you something that I didn't know.
But it seems obvious flowers in Texas, not a good match. And
people literally would look at me like, you seriously, you're
here for roses right now on Valentine's Day, and they'd walk
away from me. The people in the store would walk away. Yeah,
like I was generat.
Yeah, I would do the same thing. So
I wound up finding you know, handmade chocolate and I got a
beautiful card. And, and I drew and you know how when you have
the, you have the card and you have the magic marker and you're
doing like your thing. And you're lucky you got through the
spelling, but then I drew the heart. And it kind of looked
like an upside down but crack. It was a totally horrible. But
then, after our dinner, which I did was a quick to arrange
something we were invited to spend our Valentine's evening
with the constitutional lawyer and his wife. And because they
they're big donors to this act theatre here. And we went to see
the play in the next room, or the vibrator play as it's known.
Are you familiar with this play?
Never heard of it.
There was by Sarah rule, and believe me, I'm just reading
what I Googled. It was nominated for Tony's and mythical one, a
Tony. And she is the name of it again. In the next room, the
vibrator play. And it's about the first doctor who use the
vibrator on women to rid them of their hysteria. So you know, the
play may be very well written. But within the were in the first
act halfway through the first act, and Mickey and I looked at
each other like, oh my god, this acting is so bad. It's just
completely horrible. And maybe Welcome to the locals. And maybe
10 minutes after that all of a sudden, a guy keels over right
behind us from a heart attack, probably because of the acting.
It's just and this is the third time this has happened with me.
So I don't know if it's me. Yes or no. Yeah,
this is. Yeah, I heard of this play because it actually
premiered in Berkeley.
Yes, that's right. Exactly. That should tell you enough right
there. So the guy these keels over and Mickey stops the play.
This is why it's yeah, this is the woman you want when there's
an emergency. So this guy keels over forward, you know, and so
now he's like one row behind us. And Nikki just stands up and
says, Oh, this is unbelievable. Yes. And make me stand up.
Doors are better than mine to stop stop medical doctor,
medical doctor.
And I'm like, as opposed to a veterinarian. I don't know. What
are we gonna do to budget and it's good. And then because
everyone's frozen and Mickey is like, alright, call a doctor
here. medical doctor. And people like chill I call 911. And he's
like, Yes, call 911 You You take it over. I think she saved the
guy's life. She probably did.
Or that's a Valentine's Day gift. Yeah. And well,
that really kind of you know, you
really you really blew it. You could I know what you could have
done to save the moment. Not not to play moment, but before Uh
huh. You have a local guy there. He's been wanting to meet you.
You could call him up telling me to do a little act. He was like
part of it. Again. Pretend that has been planned in advance and
have Brian Brushwood come over and do some magic finish off
with a bouquet of fake roses. Right out of his ear.
All I had to do was call Brian Brushwood. How stupid am I could
have taken care of all of this. Thank you.
Yeah, he fake it. Anyway,
you blew it. Yeah, yeah, I did Mimi's
if she doesn't have it in my in my family doesn't like that. I
get it. Usually call on Tuesday a couple of days before or if
I'm not there. I'm down here and she calls me Mimi will call and
say, hey, don't forget it's Valentine's Day. Really? Make
sure to send Jay something.
Do you but you don't have to send your daughter something. Is
that part of Valentine's? Oh, yeah, yeah, no, wait. Christina.
In America, it tends to be all the women that you've seen in
the last six months have your eyes on them? You have to send
them
if you lay eyes on them.
What day was the date? Oh, yeah, but just across the deadline,
but it's such a it's such a bogey Yes. Send them at least a
hell Oh.
Well, that's what that's what the E cards that's why that's
been that was great invention. Oh, I love you kind of here's an
E card. Anyway, so I had lots of time to work on real things.
Besides Bogota
this story about about the heart attack in the theatre is
priceless This is the third
time that the previous time watch people dropping around
yeah no no around me that remember the UT game on
Thanksgiving where the lady died right down two rows below me.
Then we had the heart attack on the plane last time we flew it's
just like the third heart attack. Hmm I don't know. I
don't really have some
vibe coming off. Maybe let's third three threes random now
you probably won't happen again. Everyone in life? Probably
not. So I focused on the three things that we were talking
about last I focused on NGO's because I just shared with you
blew me away with your study. And to revisit that. I don't
remember exactly what the study was. But the result was people
believe the trust study done by Edelman on a yearly basis.
Right? Exactly what should we you are not supposed to report
on? To see I'm not supposed to write it up just the way I heard
it. Okay, that's what I heard. So I didn't write it word of
it, not a word. So the trust studies people trust
nongovernmental organisations the most and so I decided it was
time to probably revisit a couple of these. Wow.
Particularly your face something
like God, particularly Human Rights Watch.
Oh, yeah, those guys. Well,
these are kind of the guys they're the ones that have been
doing all this the Sochi stuff but that's the way to pronounce
it by the way. So Archie, so Archie, not so cheap. So watchI
well, before you go there, I do have one clip that that relates
to where I think you might be headed, which is I have a clip
of a woman what is ours one of our ski jumpers and female ski
jumpers is the first time they have female ski jumpers. This
clip by the way as the Olympian does not get the memo. And I
suspect that because she's she's pretty she's a pretty Olympic
ski jumper and they had her on RT just tell her what she
thought about the whole situation and all the other give
her an impression. And I believe that she was one of the people
that weren't weren't briefed, because who's who's gonna talk
to her? And they so she was honest, not breathe and she told
it like it is about Sochi,
nevertheless had been enjoying life outside the gates. We heard
from some competitors.
I find it beautiful. I think he's been organised. Great. He's
really nice. And of course, the scenery is just fabulous. It was
hard not attention to how much negativity it was getting. But I
was trying to stay optimistic. I knew I was coming here
regardless and so far, I have been so pleasantly surprised.
Well as a sidetrack to that. I have been following the
Olympics. I tried to re catch the fever which is very very
very hard with all the negativity surrounding it. One
of the couples last night the guy used to be in radio sales.
Now I think you and I pretty much can identify a radio sales
guy from a million miles away because they know exactly what's
going on. Right and they are they're kind of they're like,
stock traders almost would you agree this that's a very typical
kind of floor guy, floor guy but he understands what's going on
in life. And we got the talking about the Olympics and he said
oh my god, they're doing it so well. Did you use Did you see
the the snowboarder whose brother is all messed up and
he's like, now he's, you know, even though he was a better
snowboarder, he got Parkinson's and
put the camera on that guy a little too long.
What do you mean it's beautiful in slo mo? It's beautiful. We
were talking about how that has got to be a ratings Bonanza
Anyway,
yeah, cumin definitely gets the tear to come out in most
people's eyes, a horse of course and then there's a lot of tear
jerking moments in the Olympics.
And then our short programme ice skater fell and then he got up
and he finished his programme a true Olympic moment. I shed
another tear
fell on his ass. People were falling all over the place but
he
didn't lose because he had the Olympic spirit. So if you look
at Human Rights Watch this is very in their record is so
atrocious In fact, the was malinovski I think it is called
worked for two was high ranking official Human Rights Watch, was
nominated and approved to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and labour. And subsequently is now
in is convenes actually, the the Tuesday meetings where they
determine who they're going to kill with the drone. This is
Human Rights Watch this is and this this guy was in government
before they went out of government into Human Rights
Watch and back again. And these people are all for renditions,
you know, as long as they're not, you know, the inhumane is a
horrible organisation. It really is. It's just it just and so of
course, you know, I had to pull their 990 just to see, to see
what's going on dev comm like I think they do $35 million in
revenue in one year. I'm pulling up the 990. Now, so I can just
give you the made a couple of markups. Yeah, I think what was
kind of interesting. Here we go. What did they do? Yeah, they
did. $36 million in total revenue for 2012. Salaries $11
million. Seems a little on the heavy side if you ask me. But
okay.
How many people do they have working there?
Well, they don't specify everything. Because it's, they
don't have to first of all, they only show the top people who are
working there. And it's all within reason they got just they
got a lot of people making 240 to $260,000. Right. But when you
really see the grants they paid out, was $3.7 million. So they
they almost tripled the amount in salaries as to what they
actually paid out in grants all the rest of the money. Go so
what what was, I'm sorry, this is human rights. I made a
mistake. This is Human Rights Campaign. This is the split off.
So you have the Human Rights Watch, then you have human
rights campaign, Human Rights Campaign foundation, it's a web
of stuff. And this is this is the gay and lesbian thing. HRC.
In fact, human rights camp, this is from their tax form, the
Human Rights Campaign is organised and operated for the
promotion of the social welfare of the lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender community. By inspiring and engaging people
from around the globe. That is their mission statement. And
that what they do is they give little bits and bobs to just a
different LGBT organisations. But the majority of the money's
going into overhead and lobbying $2 million for lobbying. And
then the page where they have all their donors, because it
says their money comes from individuals, they have all the
all the amounts, but none of them because they don't have to
report it. None of the names. So there's an individual gave
150,300 41,000 But no names. completely non transparent, this
whole thing.
Well, you know, You confused me.
Why? Well, because
the What about Human Rights Watch? 999?
Yeah, oh, they have over $150 million? No, but I think what
I'm trying to say is they're split off and you have to follow
all these individual little bits. And the Human Rights
Watch. That's that is pretty much one for one, the State
Department and a lot of their money comes from what is it the
democratic endowment? Not fun. What is it in down on? What is
it that what is that thing called? The Endowment for
Democracy? Come on, help me out?
I don't know what it is. I never heard of it. Yes, of
course you do. It's a big drinking Club.
Well, there's a lot of those.
On the second National Endowment for Democracy. You know, this
don't I've heard of that? Yes. This is where Hillary Clinton
speaks at this all the time. And this is Oh, yeah, that's right.
And
it has something to do they take somehow there's somebody's
funnelling money that that is
directly from the State Department. And then they they
distributed out to all these other groups and crew including
Human Rights Watch, and human rights. Now and Human Rights
Campaign and Human Rights Foundation. And these are all
the NGOs and they come up with with little reports. And even
though we reported on it way ahead of time, seems that for
some reason this is now his News Group monitoring
freedom of the press worldwide has issued a strong rebuke to
the US, the World Press Freedom Index ranks the US 46 This year
down from 13 spots down from last year, Reporters Without
Borders says the US had quote, one of the most significant
declines in press freedom.
And now if you look at the numbers, we're really talking a
difference of 4%. over last year, on a scale of one to 100,
you know, there's a 4% decline that puts the US in 46%.
Decline.
That's not right. Yeah, it is. Not, it was 33. Before
they do it, but it's a numbers. If you look at the actual
document, it's a number scoring system. This is this is the try
see what you're saying? Yeah,
this is like showing the graphic input. Yeah, the input is
literally a 4% difference over last year, because everything is
so close, when they have the numbers about education, all
America's 190 It's on the list, which is really, it's like two
basis points different from number two. It's just that looks
really good and makes for a good press release.
So it's nice catch, yeah.
And this will go nicely with our new domain name. Thank you,
Paul, the InfoSec guy Reporters Without boredom.com. I guess we
came up with that last time. And we have reporters without
boredom.com is our website, because I think we should be
doing our own little report. And that, of course, brought me
right back to the human rights NGOs. And I thought maybe it
would be interesting to revisit, briefly, human rights. Good
people talk about human rights, gay rights, animal rights, but
mainly human rights. And I guess the big thing is LGBTQ Qi
rights. But where did these rights come from? Who determines
the rights? What who codifies the human rights? When were
these put into existence?
Okay, you're asking me,
I don't know if you if you recall.
Well, I mean, the way it's usually presented, is there a
God given? Right?
Exactly. Right. Except this really happened in the 90s.
That's when
Yes, I didn't know that God came through was he passing through
in the 90s. A little
too, I got stuck in the 80s. He got stuck with shoulder pads.
And he's like I was groovin. Too much. He came in in the 90s. And
that's really when the United Nations codified all this. And
what I was going to do is go back to a quick clip, I pulled
this from one of our earlier shows from the early three
hundreds, when I remember this. Yeah, by the way, when I
interviewed Samuel Moines, professor at Columbia, good,
yep, professor at Columbia. And he specifically talks about
where these human rights really came from, but what they're
really used for. And as you might guess, they're not really
to protect other people's human rights. They're used to impose
military warfare on countries who are accused, or states as he
will say, who were accused of not to protecting human rights,
which is exactly what's going on. So I thought it might be
good to revisit that, yes, you
imply human rights are open to so many divergent uses. And the
one thing I would clarify is that the UN tries to introduce
human rights are right after World War Two. And that's how we
get the Universal Declaration. But no one really cares and in a
way that UN initially is where human rights go to die. So what
happens in the post war period, is that human rights are kind of
reclaimed from the UN. On the one hand, ordinary people part
of amnesty and eventually part of human rights groups like
Human Rights Watch, begin to take take a claim to human
rights to analysing other states to criticising other states.
And the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body that
does this for a living,
it definitely does. So it definitely does. So but so but
there are also so called non governmental organisations which
try to prevent provide an alternative Human Rights Forum
to the United Nations, and then presidents do it. So, statesman
since Jimmy Carter, have invoked human rights have said American
foreign policy should abide by human rights or even promote
human rights. And there we would get into I think, what's quite
difficult about it because human rights could mean lots of
different things. And it really depends who's invoking them and
to what purpose? I wouldn't want to rule out that it can be a
language that can make a difference. Since interfering
with other sovereignties may be something worth doing, and there
may be ways of doing it, that improve the world. But as you
suggest or fear, it could also be subject to abuse. And I think
we have to just be realist and look out. So that when we hear
human rights, we ask what for which rights? With whose
interests in mind. And
that is a professor who's has written the book about human
rights?
How does human rights and droning some family out in the
middle of nowhere Yemen, yeah, how together?
How does that go together? Yeah, it doesn't, how the only way I
see it going together is if you condition people enough to not
care. And that's also kind of his point is that Americans
really don't care. If and if you if you look at what's going on,
if you look at the spy programmes, just the IRS
targeting any really anything. No one really cares. No one
gives
it No. Makes that you it kind of makes that don't care kind of
interesting, in an ironic way, is that there are two political
factions that dominate the the conversation the United States,
the Conservatives and the liberals. And they both pretend
to care in a lot of different ways. But when the ball is in
their court as it is in the liberal world at the moment,
they don't care. They don't do anything. Nobody gives a crap
about Obama's kill list. They talk a big goal. It's terrible.
It's terrible. What are we having for dinner tonight?
And then what's, what's interesting is and it's fun to
watch the lesbian, the LGBTQ Qi community sit by idly while they
are being misused. In the latest round of what the human rights
organisations, the NGOs, the non governmental organisations who
are either directly or indirectly funded by the federal
government are misusing gay and rainbow for their own benefit,
of course, and to and to increase their I know, but to
increase the coffers and everyone's going along blindly.
They don't care. They don't care or they're part of it. Or it's
maybe it's a social thing. I mean, just like to go back to
again, the gay news that with the nd Harmon what's her name?
Northrup woman. They don't really go beyond any thing
superficial. Just like oh, they somebody's somebody's a
douchebag guy. This guy said that gays are bad. This guy said
that gays are bad and I mean, there's nothing more to it. They
don't see any big picture. And they don't care about you know
the truth about the Russians or anything in between. Well, they
don't care.
Well, here's here's the latest I think blatant misuse of the
alternative lifestyle and sexuality communities and can we
stop with be calling it a community, that community and a
community you're lesbian, you're gay transaction, transgendered
transgender new one, you're vicarious bisexual, hetero
Flexa. Whatever it is, it's just community that we have part of
the community of the human people. But this this one really
blew me away.
Facebook users, your about section just expanded in a big
and maybe for many of you unfamiliar way. Under gender,
there's now a custom option, and it allows you to choose from 50
terms. Here's some of the examples cisgender gender fluid
to spirit, intersex, and neither Joining me now rich Ferraro,
Vice President of Communications for GLAAD. So written
Let's pay close attention to what's going on here. This is a
representative from GLAAD. This is another non governmental
organisation. And this guy is peeing in his pants with joy
that they have somehow it was so hard to convince Facebook to
allow people to customise their gender where really, Facebook is
going. Wow, thank you for yet another invaluable data points
that we can send messaging to these people from advertisers.
How obviously has to make right it's so a win for Facebook to
win for Facebook, and this guy is he's like, glad we had to
work so hard, but we got him to do it. We got him for equality
for all 50 categories of sex than gender. You actually
worked on this project with Facebook. So whose idea was it
and why did it become an issue and an important move for
Facebook Facebook
today is a reflection of who we are and the story that We want
to tell the world about ourselves. And there were some
users who couldn't do that.
I don't have to tell you what the, you know, this kind of guy,
right? This PR guy is really, really horrible Facebook,
smarmy PR guy there are a lot of them are very, they're all cut
from the same cloth.
Glad to help work with us on this issue. And Claude was happy
to work with Facebook. But more importantly, we were happy for
the transgender and gender non conforming youth who now could
tell gender non conforming youth the world who they are in their
own words.
So what do you say to those folks that are like, Okay, this
is just way too much to understand and comprehend. And
why can't we just keep it more simple.
I don't think it's ridiculous, to accept LGBT young people for
who they are. I think that Facebook has really made a great
step forward to telling those young people that you can be who
you are on Facebook.
That's a beautiful thing. We all want to be who we are.
Beautiful thing we all want to that actually that's a little
slam at the end. That was kind of fun. Listen to what she says
at the end. That's a beautiful thing. We all want to be what we
are right rich, you crazy gay PR guy
on Facebook? Well, that's a
beautiful thing. We all want to be who we are right, Rich.
Right?
You sleeves that subtle. I hadn't heard
that the first time around as nice. And so this is to me, I
can't see it any other way than this? Is Facebook, just taking
advantage of free publicity basically. And and turn that
into direct advertising dollars. Because
Oh, yeah, no, this is another You're right. This is exactly
right. This is a data point for advertisers, and the NSA and
whoever else, because now you've just you've given a little bit
more of yourself away, because you are a whatever these things
are transit jester, whatever that, you know, whatever, some
of these 50 categories, I'd like to hear a reading of the 50
categories. Do you have that?
Well, the funny thing is, I went into Facebook, and I wanted to
try it. And it seems like you type in a letter and they give
you suggestions. But I think you can do whatever you want to do.
It seems like you can change it into anything. But here's the
rub. So I went in and of course I put in hetero flexible. I
think that'll be funny. And then I save it and it says What does
it even mean?
Who cares? The flex hopefully there'll be able to say everyone
should put it
hetero flexible. And as I put that in, but then Facebook says,
oh, no, you can't do that. You have to have two categories of
people with two different gender descriptions. So you have the I
know it's it's crazy. You cannot just have one it has to be you
have to you have to have the same. But you have to have one
for your friends and then one for public and one for your
what's your red circles? I don't know. I don't know how Facebook
works is. I'm afraid I'll get sucked in and become a user.
A robot.
I don't want to get hooked on it. So I'm
John, Facebook's really not that bad. I think you've got the
wrong impression. I think so too.
But then so as I'm researching this I fall into I think this is
all part of it. The general neutral gender neutral parenting
movement and community. Oh, yeah, this is pretty big.
Oh, a huge and it's in the Bay Area. We get a lot of those man
on the street reports from our local news, where this person is
like, you know, I don't understand why they keep the
building problem is out of control because my son wears a
dress. Yeah, and we think he should wear he should wear
whatever he wants whatever he wants to do is fine. Yeah, or
we want to raise our son as a boy and a girl so he won't grow
up aggressive towards women. Yeah, there's that now there's
there is one and this is literally parents exposing their
children to me traditional boy traditional girls stuff, and
lifestyle. Then there's the and I'm trying to follows then
there's the general the gender creative parenting, which is
different, which I think is actually yeah, which I think is
okay, because it's it's not saying no when your kid wants to
play with adults or wants to have his hair along or whatever.
It's not saying no, you can't do that. You're a boy that I'm okay
with. I think the name gender creative parenting is off base
because it's just it's a bit pretentious. Yes. But it seems
like every one of these parents who was in the news you know
like raising my boy chick. I really
ah, isn't boy chicken old term for the old a Yiddish term. I
don't know a boy chick a
boy boy chick, goat chick I think is what you think. They
all have a blog or a book or so, but I think we're all of this is
headed and this is when I'm a little a little worried about
this. ventually I think is headed towards what are we
emancipation. And we may want to be as parents may want to be
careful as what was really happening because at a certain
point, when it comes to gender, I think doctors already are
saying, Oh, mom, dad, you have to step out of the room, because
you're going to talk about something here with your kid.
And that's when the doctor will say, well, here's some condoms,
you know, but you know, don't worry if you feel attracted to
girls and or do you have same sex? And doctors are? So
I, you know, I think you might be overlooking something, okay.
Which is our basic theme on a lot of these things. It always
boils down to it, which is taking our rights away. And in
this case, I would say freedom of speech again, because this
whole sort of thing, this whole where you this makes it so
you're disallowed from saying, you know, your kid is going to
be screwed up if you keep this up with them. Right? Good to
make you're actually making them wear a dress. Why is he coming
to school with high heels on? He's in the fourth grade lady?
Oh, you're bullying me? Yeah, yeah.
It was I was
much of a society, much of society especially. And I think
this is also a part of the world, the movement toward one
world government and all the rest of it was a little wackier.
There's always been this you know, this movement to, to kind
of disintegrate the societal norms and so far as peer group
pressure is concerned, and if you have all this this
essentially balkanization of the social norms, in other words,
no, people just do do. They're called nuts, kids coming in the
fourth grade with tattoos on their face, and they're saying
they're a girl. And they, and they're bald. And I mean,
there's a million possibilities. And if you can't, you know, if
there's no social norms that said, No, you know, just as a as
a community, a real community. In other words, the people that
live in this town can't tell you, No, you can't do that with
this kid. It is disruptive. And if you can't do that any more
than the whole society falls apart, because most of it is
based on this sort of pressure. But
I would take it just I think I leapfrog this step. And I took
it one further. And I believe that the, and we've dealt with
some other UN thing, children's rights and children have to have
rights. And they didn't have to be able to sue about this to
some shows. Yeah, and there was some legislation, it's just
coming back to me now. But I believe when they were 13, or
14, and maybe even 12, that they're going to start to give
these children's so called Rights, which makes it you know,
you gotta be careful because then people start to tell your
kids what to do against you.
Yeah, and that is going on now to an extent to an extent. Many
kids come home from his school. Yeah. Which is a reason for
homeschooling. And they kept his crackpot notions that are fed to
him by their teacher and I mean, I've had it with the with Eric
to shill. I bust killed Jr, who came home with some what, what,
what have learned that? Oh, no, it's mostly stuff like Columbus.
Columbus is a slaver and he's a horrible person that should be
we should have indigenous day rather than because we killed
the Indians and we're horrible. As a culture. We all stink we
should shoot ourselves in the head.
The American Academy of poetry acts of Paediatrics has embraced
the youth rights campaign and movement. In recent policy
statements on emergency contraception and care of LGBTQ
youth. It could you people get it right is LGBTQ Qi. The AAP
That's the American Academy of Paediatrics, urges paediatric
paediatricians who counsel, educate, counsel, educate and
support young people in the exercise of their sexual and
reproductive rights. This is 12 and 13 year olds. The AAP
informs us physicians that regardless of the adolescents
current intent intentions for sexual behaviour, the
paediatrician should discuss sexual safety and family
planning as a matter of routine routine, anticipatory guidance.
The conscientious paediatrician will go by offering to supply
supply both boys and girls with emergency contraception to have
on hand in case of future need. And this is done without parents
consent 12 and 13 year olds, and, and by the way, I'm, I
handed out stuff to my daughter even before that, but that's my
decision. Not some association of Paediatrics as to what
they're going to do. And that it, I think it runs both ways.
Parents have to take responsibility, and we're easy
to just hand it over.
Yeah, and there are some parents who are irresponsible and crappy
and I think they'll be targeting them. You said well, there's a
good this one is beside the point because they still have
these rights. As they, you know, bore the kid and raise the kid
and pay for the kids school and do whatever they have to do if
they hit you know if they can manage.
That's not right. That's ownerships
like Sparta they lead ideally that some people would love to
take all the kids you have a kid goes right to training camp,
never sees the parents on step down maybe once a month, that'd
be perfect.
You put something in the newsletter, which relates to
this, by the way, big kudos. Our friend who does the newsletter
for the spin class place. She's She She reads our our
newsletters, because she does a newsletter and she's a big fan
of your newsletter. And she thought the cat stroking the
dolphin was just about the best thing she'd ever seen. She
thought that was just she's like, that was almost no fair.
Just how can you top that there's nothing better than
that.
I spent a lot of times
good work. Here's the Ellen Page. She's an actor. And she
chose the Human Rights Campaign to out herself. And I had I
didn't even know I didn't know who Ellen Page was until I saw
the newsletter. And then I went looking for her. I'm like, Okay,
I know who she is. So I have this this minute and a half of
her coming out is that relevant to play in regards to what you
wrote about her? No, play it and we'll find out. We
took just five minutes to recognise each other's beauty
instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not
hard. It's really an easier and better way to live.
And this is exactly not what HRC and HR w are doing. They are not
taking five minutes to look at the beauty and the rainbows and
the unicorns, which I'm all for instead, they are yelling, Putin
hates gays, Putin hates gays. It's not it's true. It's not
constructive. It's just not it's not a constructive thing.
It who says it's supposed to be she just said it. But she's an
idiot. She's
She's there on behalf of Human Rights Campaign. Who are the
people yelling this?
Yes, I know. But this just, she's the she's the
counterbalance. It's like maybe you won't notice that they're
doing what you just described. Oh, yeah. And they're all just a
bunch of good people. This is a great operation.
It saves lives. Then again, it can be the hardest thing.
Because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and
accepting ourselves.
And I know many of you have struggled with this. And I draw
upon your strength and your support in ways that you will
never know. And I am here today because I am gay. And because
I do want to say with 50 categories on Facebook, with big
applause when you're outing yourself. How come when I say
I'm by curious, which is a category on Backpage. It's a
category on Craigslist. How come I get no one's applauding food?
I get shouted down.
It gets shouted down. Well, you're not Ellen Page and cutie.
Yeah. But it's that's horrible, by the way, but by the way, she
I've heard her before. She is so nervous. Yes, she's very well, I
mean, she is extremely nervous may have been a big deal. I
mean, I can
totally and I'm sure
it was it made a lot of people I you know, the funny thing is you
do a lot of public speaking. Especially if you've never
really been nervous in front of a big crowd. You will find a
moment someplace in your in your career of talking to people and
talking to the public where you actually get nervous. It
happened to me once and it's extremely annoying. I got
nervous it happened. So yeah, the only time I've ever gotten
nervous talking in front of the city council. Really? Those
heads?
Yeah, that's I know. That's the joke of it. That's funny.
Not sure why, anyway, go on. But
I've had Yeah, of course, I've had it. I think I had it once
with maybe it was Mick Jagger or something. Or I was interviewing
someone and all of a sudden just fucking lost it. which had never
happened to me before. Maybe it was Quincy Jones, but I was
drinking then. I don't know. Anyway, the I guess the point
that I'm saying here is there's a matrix of this NGO crap that
is pulled all around us and I appreciate that you kind of
broke your embargo. Although I think you held to the letter you
didn't write anything up, but told us about this. We need to
use it to know I
didn't break an embargo. I would this was an oral agreement a and
it was about writing about it. poured on it. But here's the
here's the proviso that went in there says, You can't talk, you
can't write about it, you can't talk about this. This is, this
is a non This is a private event, but you can tweet about
it. Right? So if I can tweet about it, this is me say social
media is open gaming, this is Social Media, what we're doing.
So I but I, regardless of how we, we break this news, the two
things are one, we need to take advantage of this for ourselves.
And we really need to use that. And I'm just, I am now
officially crowning us with the title of NGO. And we need to be
very, very vigilant. And continuously look into all of
these operations that we have been trained to accept as the
good guys, because they're just not. And even the good guys who
have these good intentions, are really just misusing their
causes to further political agenda.
Yeah, no, in fact, this is what I claimed on the last show.
Looking at Edelman's complete list, he first stumbled on this
the first time he did the truth survey and started to notice it
as a major trend. And that was 14 years ago. So governments
themselves Yes, and he made a billion dollars doing they
looked at that they looked at what this guy's like this, this
character is a hotshot. And he's one of the hasn't one of the
major public relations operations in the world. And
when he says something like that, people take notice and
then wishes I think the reason they want to keep a bit quiet as
they can they take notice and literally take advantage of it.
And he was very was trusting the NGOs. Let's just become an NGO.
And as you just did, well, if nobody likes that, we're
podcasters. Well, let's just become an NGO, which we can,
yes, we are not cast as an NGO. It's a non governmental
organisation. Yes, we are guys.
We are an NGO by subscription. It's subscribed, please
subscribe to my NGO on iTunes. Yes, we're an
NGO. But no, there's no there is no right. I don't see any word
any rule that says an NGO has to be a nonprofit charitable
organisation. Let's
check out the book of knowledge. Let's just see. Governmental
organisation, I don't think you have to be a nonprofit. I don't
think you have to have some kind of certificate. Non Governmental
is no such
thing is like being a reporter. You don't need to have a you
don't need yet. You don't need a licence.
Oh, hold on. Yeah, this is true. I think I just as it's opening
up, and for some reason, everything's going slow today,
here, listen to this. The term non governmental organisation,
NGO, normally, which means not always refers to organisations
that are neither a part of a government nor conventional for
profit business, I'd say. Yeah, we're highly unconventional,
usually usually set up by ordinary citizens who for to
NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations, or
businesses.
Now, we don't get any we get some business support,
some of wait some avoid formal funding altogether, and are run
primarily by volunteers. NGOs are highly diverse group of
organisations engage with the right wide range of activities,
and take different forms in different parts of the world.
Some may have charitable status, while others may be registered
for tax exemption based on recognition or social purposes.
Other may be fronts for political, religious or other
interest groups. Well, that's us. A front for our rent. Yeah,
that's what we are. The number of NGOs operating in the United
States estimated one and a half million NGOs, one and a half
million, and that's not nonprofits. That's one half
million NGOs. Yeah, that's just
outrageous. That doesn't include Russia, which has 277,000, it
says, and those are probably mostly American,
or American now have to be registered as foreign agents.
Look at India,
how are they doing? 3.3 million NGOs? What are they? How's that
working out?
There's just one NGO per 400 Indians.
That should be our ratio. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So I think we fit
the mould we can just use the is there any monitoring and control
way to some organisation Hold on. Kofi Annan, I just didn't
know if we have to register anywhere legal form of legal
status, legal form of NGOs.
We'll hold on a second. Now that I think about this, and I think
we discussed this on a show about a year and a half ago. The
United Nations has some sort of list of official NGOs that
somehow promote whatever and I believe at least I tried and
maybe you did to get to fill out the forms necessary to be
listing listing the show As one of their approved operations,
but it was so confusing. I think we gave up on it and then stop
talking about it.
Well, so here the legal status legal form of NGOs is diverse
and depends upon homegrown variations in each country's
laws. In practice, however, four main family groups of NGOs can
be found worldwide unincorporated and voluntary
association. I think that's us. We're not incorporated. And
we're voluntary association. Trust charities and foundations
companies not just for profit. Oh, hello. It's not just for
profit. That's us. We're not just for profit. Exactly. We're
for fun. comedic value.
We're here to serve the public needs for real information. Yes.
Value for
value entities formed or registered under special NGO or
nonprofit laws. Okay, we're not in that. All right. Well, we
should probably look into that again, see if there's a list we
can get on someone can certainly get us on a list. That's, that's
valid. And then isn't there? Like no, I
think we have a better shot now than we did before. Yeah.
There's certainly there's some kind of seal or stamp of
approval or ribbon or some banner, we can put it on our
website that makes us official. Don't you think there's got to
be so pack them in. That'll pack them in? Oh, they're official so
I can listen to their show now. Well, John, thank
you for your courage. And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
In the morning, do you Adam curry in the morning and all the
ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air,
subsequent water and all the days and nights out there. And
to
our artists, thank you very much for all of the wonderful work
that you provide us with that. No agenda art generator.com
Episode five, nine or two, Martin JJ back. And we look
forward to seeing what happens today. And we always appreciate
the work that our artists do for our album. Marty.
Before you get finished in the morning, to say something about
the art in the morning in
the chat room, people. Oh, yeah, I've been so nice today. Is this
is my favourite. When someone just types a whole line of z's.
Like I guess they're bored or something about what we're
talking about z's. Yeah.
Oh, boy, me. Yep. So bored.
Look at your life. Loser. You're listening to a podcast.
I want to I want to mention something about Martin JJ and
the art. Yeah, just to the other artists. Just I mentioned this
about three, four months ago, I mentioned it again, I went back
and looked at old art because I was digging up something for the
newsletter. And I noticed that like years ago, Martin JJ was
constantly sending stuff in. And I don't think we picked his
stuff for two years. Because he was missing it. You know, he
just did a little thing there a little bit. He wasn't nailing
it. And and so this is a thing that I would do. I'm just saying
this because I don't want to dis. I don't want to see artists
discouraged, because we don't pick their art.
So what you're saying is keep going out at Attaboy. Is that
what I'm saying? I have no idea what I'm talking about trying
and one day the gods have no agenda, the NGO might choose
you, we might bestow you with the honour.
Okay, yeah, pretty much.
So the way this programme works, and the only reason why we can
even bring up the topic of NGOs, because we're not afraid we
don't have to pay our, our rent from the NGOs, who we have to go
and be nice to to get a handout. We don't have to do any of that.
We'd have to be nice to advertisers. All we have to do
is satisfy the people who actually produce this programme.
They are our producers, and they support us with all kinds of
information and also financially and the top donors for each
episode. There are executive and Associate Executive producers
and a good list today to kick us off into into the new week.
That's your I do want to mention, we also have this new
category called Special executive producer just for show
600. Yes. And we do have first just random number. I guess
three people showed up today. Wow. Taking that honour, Sir
David Foley $600.33 And he's in Los Gatos we know him he's the
what was the name which he does 4k? What's his name of his
4k 4k special.com use N A for a discount but I believe now Sir
David Foley is the Is he the Grand Duke? No,
no, no, he's he's got he's
the Archduke. He's still Archduke of Silicon Valley's up
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brother.
It's kind of funny because I forward the note to Eric. And
then he puts in the spreadsheet, you got an email about it? Well,
yeah, that's why I forwarded it to you. Anyway,
so I thought he's not going to type all that crap in it. Oh,
I'm sorry. CTRL C Ctrl. V. My hands hurts.
Whatever. Just three the note pile everyone
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Yeah, your patented shout out you No,
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Paul and Howard crowd, a couple of Jews from FEMA regions to and
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just cut people off while they're listening to the live
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just cut them off and charge him to get back in.
So Leo does so he doesn't charge them to get back in that's a
that's a twist. That would
be cool. That's like you can get an extra five bucks you can get
an M five cheap
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where does where does he want to be Kansas City? I do get
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I still need some here. Okay,
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have been a cheap bastard. Do you think that's a good opening
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You've been de Deus. You've got karma. You go.
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whole story about anything. Good. I'll tell you later. All
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mile marathon. And I have WWE no agenda show emblazoned across my
lycra. So other you know, it's like Cary Sherman, who's
disappeared from our listening listenership used to put it
across there but yeah, so other producers should look at me
along the way so anyone can Tokyo go watch the race and
watch for the guy running around with a no agenda show? On his
back? Maybe it's front. I'm not well, I'm not out promoting no
agenda. I will be raising money for home for all that we're
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and Fukushima things are still pretty tough there and kids
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It's got a big heart. At least the NSA and my health insurance
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six months and lost almost 20 kilogrammes in the process. And
wow
that's that's pretty good. Mark.
That's 545 50 pounds. That's it was he wasn't a fat guy was he
know he was to British? Yeah, I
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far better than those friendly, trendy spinning trainers. They
show it just gets better and better. Thanks from Tokyo Sir
Mark.
So for your edification, it looks like Miss Mickey and I
will be going to Tokyo in May. Miss Mickey has been offered a
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I'm going somewhere in March troit I'm going to Detroit.
Finally again, I got a speaking thing. Oh Troy's I'm gonna. I'm
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Yay.
I heard that apparently Eric is selling those 33 bags. Now
they're selling quite
a few of them are there on the website on the no agenda niche?
Yes.
I have been surprised he has sent some samples out to us. He
He did ask me and then he said you want someone to give me a
couple? I mean, I don't know if you sell him I'm happy to have a
few.
And then it'd be cool to go out and then
he came back to the post office rejected your address. He had my
address from a year ago. Weird. I had so I have not actually
received my bags yet. No forward to it. I did receive I did
receive yet another healthy surprise box. I didn't Oh, and
that's also going this will be the last one because I keep
telling Joe to email me because he's going to go into the old
address and now the the post office won't forward anymore.
But in there I had and maybe you had this in a previous box. The
freshly wild kale joy with must eat mesquite. And it's almost
like the Lord is messing with me. Because then NPR has some
deal with Ted which I think ruins both brands quite
honestly. ted.npr.org
and they have really tipped on NPR news to me. Oh
yeah, no. So they had this whole show a whole Ted show where
they're playing little snippets including Dr. Terry walls. I
started with greens because their greens. By the way, can we
stop? This is almost as bad as veggies. Greens. You find greens
to universally mean the same thing.
I hate veggies. I started I like vegetable. I like the vegetables
but I hate the term veggies
green creepy. Yeah, but greens. That's okay. Greens, they
get some greens. Like that sounds like a pill. Hey, you got
some greens. Yeah, I got some greens. I got some blues. I got
some I got some crosstalk
with greens because they are rich in B vitamins, vitamins a
c, K and minerals. And those are two types of kale. Kale has the
most nutrition per calorie,
the most nutrition per calorie, John.
That's gotta be that's what does that even mean? I don't
know of any plant of any plant.
I find that hard to believe, by the way.
So do I but it's on TED. It's an NGO
brassica cabbage. It's a form of cabbage. By the way, Ted is
kind of they have NGO status as well. Somehow, you know what I
mean? I'm not quite sure how they did it, because they are
very commercial, but they have some kind of that's why that's
why Ted NPR it's
it's Bucha types of kale. Kale has the most nutrition per
calorie of any plant. The B vitamins will protect your brain
cells and your mitochondria. Vitamins A and C support your
immune cells. Vitamin K keeps your blood vessels and bones
healthy and minerals are cofactors for hundreds of
different enzymes in your body.
Why is she shouting?
Well because she's programming you know have more kale. Now
when I heard that not eat more kale. But have more kale. I felt
it was time for this.
So have more kale have more kale, have more kale, have more
kale, have more kale have more kale,
you you you you have more kale, you will obey
I think that's working well. Or kale, so you
went to the couple's thing and then you came back
and I made this and you felt the
obligation to produce a clip.
I thought it worked. I like this.
It's just okay. You guys are amazing. Exactly.
All right, well I'm going to disprove that that thesis so
of the were amazing or kale is the most nutritious kale is
number one on the list. You know I before I never really went
into in great depth, but this whole thing started in England,
but with one public relations company that was hired by some
kale growers, who are apparently couldn't sell the stuff usually
because it's Gosh, awful. You can make it edible but you have
to actually go out of your way. It's not like something that's
naturally tasty. It's you know, if you beat it up and go Looking
at bacon fat and you smell and put a lot of nuts in it, and
then you really do first you got to parboil it to beat it beat it
up so you can actually chew it then you cook in bacon fat and
you get this bacon a greasy gobbly goo, or fry it, deep fat
fry it. So it's like a crunchy potato chip. You can choke it
down. So these guys in England have done everything they can to
promote kale as this bogus superfood and this the word they
used, and in fact it's taken off I mean, it says your public
relations does it says it
right here on this kale Joy freshly wild superfoods is the
name of the company. We need to be the no agenda, non
governmental organisation superdense be a super food. I
think we can be a super food, super food on the brain. We are
the no agenda, non governmental 100% natural antioxidant rich
Omega three and four vegan gluten free, dairy free, non GMO
super food podcast with no trans fats.
It's a mouthful. Okay, so you have so the kale tastes like
crap is what you're trying to say. It's really bad. It's just
horrible. Now, I have not had, I've cooked at once using view I
have a lot of recipes I'm accumulating and I want to
remind people if they haven't recipe for Kale, that's a little
offbeat to put the subject line kale and send me an email with
it with the recipe. I don't want just a copy of something from
food.com to divorce. You know, Jonathan horik.org, it's not
that hard to find my email. And I'll put a little no agenda book
together. At some point. When I have enough of these recipes. I
should be able to cut and paste something pretty quickly. But
most of these recipes are the same. You parboil the kale, five
minutes, so you can beat it up a little bit. Take all the stringy
stems and stuff out. And then you cook it in bacon fat, you
know, as much and with bacon chips in there, maybe throw in
some walnuts and then and then choke it down was still warm.
She said, salt and
pepper. That's it. Yeah. All right. Onward. Onward. Onward.
I got an interesting email from one of our producers, who was
very familiar with the drone campaign. This relates to the
$250 million WordPress blog from the PR drive my car and Glenn
Greenwald, oh, Raph. And Laura Poydras. Oh, by the way, before
I even mentioned that I got a nice little note that James and
Patricia portress donated $20 million to the Institute for
Brain Research at MIT a couple of years back. I didn't know
that Laura Poitras came from money.
That seemed if you can throw money at just a research
operation to the tune of 20 million, that means you've got a
lot of money.
And here's what was in and it's family money it's from from his
parents. Oh, yeah. She's
loaded. Yes. A rich girl.
Yes, she is. But what's interesting, after hearing Bob,
we talked with Pat and over a dinner and we realised we could
help make this happen fascinate hope to the poor just has have
committed $20 million support research of major depression,
bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders
at the centre. And they say one of the reasons is that we were
happy to do this as one of our own daughters was diagnosed with
bipolar disease. Now they don't say which one? Oh, really? Uh
Huh. Interesting, huh? Yeah,
I wonder if it's Laura. It could be could be she you know, she
the way she acts? I mean, that that would explain a lot of the
word nasil she goes through when she comes through the border the
cross the border, you're you're pretty on the verge of having a
nervous breakdown. Anyway, proceeds anyway. Yeah. And you
come in you're a little uptight and say the guy says ask you a
question and you
write little well, I'm not doing anything what what
are you know, she snaps at him. If you snap at one of these guys
with a snide comments, something that bipolar person might do,
you know, just as a meet some mean sort of boy you're you're
in lockup for hours. Oh, yeah, that's not really lock up.
You're in a closet, but or a room.
So anyway, this, this, this huge, well funded venture cranks
out one bullcrap drone story. Let me just read what our
producer Matt says, hey, you know switching SIM cards does
make sense, but not with drones. When I was in Afghanistan, high
level targets would give their SAT phones to low level idiots.
The idiot would be given a message to read over the phone
so they would be targeted and not the high level guy. Yes.
Seems that makes sense to me too. By the way. Since 2004, the
US is using newer technology that allows them to clone
captured SIM cards. Often a group of suspects will be
stopped and blindfolded all the phones will be taken SIM cards
clone then returned to the people originally would take
hours to triangulate a person then it would only give you a
general area with the newer stuff. The Clone sibs, it took
15 to 20 minutes to pinpoint a specific building. They caught
on to this and would give their SIM cards to nobodies are
idiots. So they would be thrown off this switch of SIM cards
only make sense when they are boots on the ground to throw
them off. If they capture a nobody, then they will release
them switching SIM cards doesn't make any sense or they're being
drone, they would just switch the SIM cards again. Matt says
this is total bull crap. And it's also not the way it works.
There is real boots on the ground for a lot of these
drownings. But as I was thinking about this and the Poydras
thing, and really our conversation, and I kind of I
think I misunderstood you on a Thursday show where we were just
in completely different vibes about what this thing is. And I
think you were looking at it from a journalistic standpoint
of this is what you come up with. I think maybe that's Am I
categorising that right where you just saw this blog and went
what,
but that's what I did. I don't know what you you were, I don't
know what you were talking about?
Well, what I was talking about is what what is the journalistic
side, but I think a lot of journalists, yourself included
as you're in a more in a milieu of writers and journalists than
I am. I mean, I didn't get the invite to Edelman and told to
not, you know, not write about it. You know, I don't hang out
with John Markoff. Okay, so I think you're more in that
milieu. And I think there's a lot of like, like, like, poets,
you know, you sit around grousing about the other guy.
Yeah, look at these assholes. That's what they came up with.
Can I be a little
rough? There's an element of that element of it. Okay. What's
the milieu like you said, it's exactly what it is.
So I'm looking at this Greenwald thing is, it hit me the other
day? He is just and you
say, did you come up with a new name for him? Did you say green
ball?
Yes. green ball. Glenn Greenwald? Glenn Greenwald. He
is just a, it's a new of a new cog in the wheel of the military
industrial complex. And I say this, because if you look at the
intelligence community, there's about 16 different agencies. And
we've identified we've probably identified maybe 12 of them, I
think we can identify, but they're right down to the
spinia. Are our friends special? Our friend's girlfriend, special
area in the State Department. I mean, there's all this all these
little everybody's got an intelligence units, right? Yep.
Now, if you look at it all, but one of them are related to one
way or the other, the Pentagon or the Department of Defence,
only one of them is a civilian agency. And that's the CIA.
Exactly.
So they so they really are outsiders, we have no idea what
their budget is. They, of course, really do run the wet
operations. They do kill people, they're doing the real work. And
I think what happened is that we started this military industrial
complex, in the 60s is really when, when we were warned about
it. And I believe that what we're looking at right now is
including Glenn greenwall, green ball is, is just this whole
thing is spinning apart, because we're withdrawing from portions
of the Middle East, you know, so what do we have to do we want to
keep it's like 60, or 70, or $80 billion a year at least, that
goes around with all the contractors, right? It's not
Edward Snowden did not work for the NSA, he worked for Booz
Allen Hamilton. Now these and those guys have six, seven $8
billion worth of contract by themselves. So this is a huge
thing that has to keep going. And the only way to keep this
going. Of course, we point this out all the time on the show,
the only way to keep this going is to keep people afraid of now
the terror is coming to the homeland. He'll be very worried
about about all of this. And I found some numbers and I found
it in go ahead.
Before you get those numbers. I want to throw something in and
what you just said, just for the listeners as an aside to people
who promote this idea that you should just be sitting in your
house watching television, afraid of your own shadow, need
to be you have when you see somebody doing that to you. And
if they're a politician or anything else, you should either
call them on it or vote them out of office. These people are evil
Anyway, go on.
Well, I did something that we we tend to do from time to time.
And in fact that did that in the start of the show. But I went
back and I listened to the relevant portion of Eisenhower's
farewell farewell speech where he specifically talks about the
military industrial complex and warns us for it. And there were
a couple things and it's only a minute and 50 cents. As you
know, I've cut down all the bits and pieces. And this is kind of
nice. It's a dramatised version, John's little bit of music in
there. I think we should listen again, to what he actually told
us and what he actually said and look at some of the numbers that
he's talking about in 1961.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
Good evening, my fellow Americans, we now stand 10 years
past the midpoint of a century, that is witness for major wars
among great nations.
I love the little piano but it makes it makes it more more
dramatic.
I'll see what comes out
the latest of our world conflicts. The United States had
no armaments industry, American makers of Ploughshares could
with time and as required make swords as well.
Now I had to look this up, but I hadn't had to like what the heck
is the President talking about? I Ploughshares and swords.
Swords to Ploughshares, is a term used apparently, before I
was born, is the concept in which military weapons or
technologies are converted to peaceful civilian applications?
And what Eisenhower says in this speech and this is there was a
televised speech and he's he's saying be careful people, the
people the the American Ploughshares. So this is the our
civilian industry can actually reverse the process and start to
make swords, which of course is exactly what happened. All of
our you know, our aircraft, our vehicle industry, our weapons
industry, we're just making like little shot guns and and cars to
tootle around in and planes to fly and bombs and fighters and
tanks. So yes, he was correct in his assumption. And before this,
he said we had never had this in the United States.
But we can no longer risky emergency improvisation of
National Defence. We have been compelled to create a permanent
armaments industry of vast proportions. Added do this,
three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in
the defence establishment. All right.
Three and a half million men and women in 1961. I got the 1960
census at that time, there were 179,323,175 people in America,
right, roughly half the population we have today.
So if I don't know if it's fair to do this, but can we then say
that by today's numbers that will be 7 million people in
total? Yeah, I think that would be fair. And I I would wager
it's a lot higher than that right now.
Oh, I thought you had the number.
We don't have that number
a bitches more? Or what it would be but it's not seven.
But why don't you look that up? Now this way of looking that up?
Thank you. Yes, I can let me
try it. You try to give it a shot. But hold on. I'm gonna
rewind just a little bit. He said some more interesting stuff
here. Do this
keep going. Three and a half million men and women are
directly engaged in the defence establishment. Now this
conjunction of an immense military establishment and a
large arms industry is new in the American experience. That
total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, is
felt in every city, every state house every office of the
federal government, we recognise the imperative need for this
development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave
implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all
involved. So is the very structure of our society and the
council's of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never
let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic processes. We should take
nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable
citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial
and military machinery of defence with our peaceful
methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper
together.
Now, I didn't know that he had said so that security and
liberty may prosper together. Because that is pretty much the
only piece from this entire speech which is left over and is
continuously abused by politicians saying we need to
find the balance between security and liberty which of
course the President recently took to a new extreme by saying
security and your freedom that is this you say your, your
freedom or your liberty. Liberty, not even liberty.
Liberty, your liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Yeah. But but the we
are there, this has now happened and I think that it's good to
revisit from time to time. This is now what is it 40 years
later? What are we 50 years later? Where are we? Yeah, 50
years later here we are.
And it's gotten the number appears to be about the
extrapolation was 7,000,006
Actually, that can't be that makes no sense. We have 2
million people with classified status alone. This is all
specifically the defence anything hooked directly to the
defence department and the Ennis industries must be a lot more
robots Well, I think there's a they're taking a lot more money
at the top I think I don't know what after the War World War Two
I think they're pretty much fully staffed i don't i don't
know I'm just telling you this what I only number I can come up
with like I can keep digging I'm not gonna do it for today. No,
no sir. I have a couple of things I want you to listen to
something want you to listen to something and tell me what you
hear in this within this clip it's it's the clip is called
listen carefully. This is this somebody describing the skeleton
run on the Olympics
section the next page
I don't think I could hear what your
I didn't hear any of this very very difficult. I clipped it
down very difficult to hear. Yeah, it's hard to hear but I'm
telling you you did something in here and now play How did this
even happen flub and see if this is the clip I'd have liked
unfortunately Miss label this one which is the just the part
that I'm trying to get you to listen to can go in Toronto No
no, no strike try weird flub.
Taxi drivers in France may have won their first
is not it either. Dammit.
I have something do How about zoom 0037 No, that can't be it
either.
Because zoom I think is the social media report about the
Olympics. So here it is selection normalised and and
boosted This is the same thing. I'm trying to get you to listen
to off this clip.
It's looking good.
You don't hear him say fucking No.
You're looking good.
We have a really this is a family and everybody hears
I can't hear that. I mean, listen again. You think? Let's
listen. Let's listen one more time. John, John. I'm here
to show me your tips. Yeah, I
heard it. Okay, very funny. I'm watching the Olympics.
I never would have played that. Let's you brought this clip.
i Yeah, very fancy. Good. I have tried to dig up some stuff like
that on you. So let's go with here's what here's why the
Olympics boiled down play. Zoom 37
Hey, Meredith. You know those inappropriate selfies you've
been sending me lately? We're talking about something
different altogether here this selfie is the thing that the
Winter Games The Sochi selfie. Yes, it has its own name popping
up all over social media. Here a couple of them to know each and
athletes. Can you use their heads and put them together to
wish a happy Valentine's Day? How about American slopestyle
skier Nick gapper making swift work of his bronze medal fame,
tweeting a Valentine to Yes. Taylor Swift. On Instagram Team
USA writer Jamie Anderson won gold this week and slopestyle
but first she tore up a little fresh powder with some of her
friends and American alpine skier. Julia min Cousteau lit up
Instagram with this cool kind of artist. Why are
you hurting me with this?
Yes, indeed, the twin flame
on the opening ceremony. A look at the metal count shows host
nation Russia is in the lead with the United States and the
Netherlands. Not far behind Germany and Norway also in the
mix. But you ask who's winning the social conversation around
these wins?
I'm asking
the social conversation.
But wait, but wait, Adam, you're asking who's winning the social?
I'm not asking this. Why does this guy assume that I give a
crap.
I'm very interested in who's winning the social conversation
as a digital prophet.
In the mix button us who's winning the social conversation
now?
No, this is I know who's asking this, the advertisers. They're
saying, Hey, who's winning the social conversation? Because I
want to advertise there. This guy's talking to the advertisers
that's
winning the social conversation around these Winter Games. Well,
Facebook tells us the US is clearly in the league with posts
likes and updates. Topic number one is figure skating. The
United States though, if you look, the map does have some
pretty decent competition. from Great Britain and from Canada.
Great Britain's topic of choice is snowboarding. But the big
surprise as you look here is that the Philippines ranks sixth
in the Olympic Facebook conversation that Michael
Martinez is the country's first ever winter Olympian, and no
surprise, it's his sport. That is Topic number one.
Really, this was completely unnecessary.
This is on on NBC there. This is a major cancer. This is dumb.
Well placed the part two of it to see how dumb it really is.
Well, what did How do you Oh, there's a there's a second part
of competent report edition and billions of kilobytes of online
chatter. We were wondering who billions
of kilobytes of online chatter Hold on a second. I gotta write
that down. I got billions of kilobytes of online chatter for
you babe. Right here. My pants gained
the most traction on the web. Well, Yahoo looked at the
athletes who inspired the biggest overnight spike in
searches. So who's number one? Is it Shawn white? Not him
believe it or not Gracie gold? No. Could be her next week. But
right now it's sage Katzenberg, his name saw the biggest spike
in Yahoo searches. He's gone from the virtual unknown now to
do they have graphics and charts to go with this and like Arrow
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, this is loaded to the gills with graphics.
Maps, Katzenberg brought his followers along for the ride,
tweeting throughout his winning day and afterward, getting love
from all over the world, including this tweet from Kobe
Bryant. Wow. Let's leave it tonight with one last word from
the opening ceremony after the cauldron was left the First Lady
of the United States Michelle Obama summed it all up pretty
nicely in a tweet writing. Thanks to US Olympic team for
inspiring me and our nation's kids. Meredith, brought to you
by Visa.
Was that a piece of crap?
It's i I told you I can't watch it anymore. It's so Facebook
and Twitter plugs up the butt. And and when the Twitter is
really got to be shut down.
At the Twitter, he tweeted this. He tweeted that.
He tweeted congratulations. Oh, he tweeted you're ugly?
No, I think no, that's I think that's all fine. I think that's
really good. That's actually the tweeter thing. I'm okay with.
I'm not no I'm okay with that. Because it's nice. I
know you're you're just
Yeah, but it's different. It's a different thing. Who cares where
the I'm let
me do one little last little thing here. Just to get you back
on track. Did you've already blonde got together? In
Washington, right? Yeah. So I have two very short clips. One
is what Obama said to old blonde, and then one that Holon
said to Obama, and I think the contrast is, let's use the word
telling.
Okay, so we'll use Obama to Ilana first. Yeah, play that.
And then the break. Okay. And then we'll go to the next one.
All right, here we go. Here we go ending
together. And using our freedom to improve the lives of not only
our citizens, but people around the world is what makes France
not only America's oldest ally, but also one of our closest
allies. Wait
a minute. I've heard that line before.
Yeah, was what he says. All right. So now here's what Ilana
said to him, France and the United States are two countries.
That's right. And one of them speaks French.
He says, what is his line? Was there two countries?
Well, this all this uh, this visit, of course, comes amidst a
lot of stuff happening in Africa. And a lot of it in the
French portion of the African empire. What used to be known as
the African empires, and I've done my diligence I've really
tried to look into as much as possible, starting with the
drone base that we really knew nothing about in Niger or Niger
or making plans for Niger. And I went back and I found a clip
from January of last year, when the news about the so called
drone base, which now is apparently huge, and in full
operation. This is how the shill woman from the Department of
Defence answered the question about rumours in the press of
the drone base in Niger air
this Dory. It has been widely reported that the US is eager to
build a drone base in Nigeria to the extent you can tell Was it
an open hearing? Has that base begun construction or even been
completed? Are drones being launched from that base? And how
many US personnel are there?
We know these questions are scripted, I think he did a
little too easy on the read there.
To start, we do not have a drone base in Niger. So hopefully that
is helpful. What I can say is that commensurate with the
growing threat in the region, Africa Command as well as the
intelligence community is very interested in increasing
resources that are focusing on the region to improve our
understanding of what is happening there. And we are
seeing a growth in intelligence resources of all kinds.
This is how you skirt around the question. There's a growth in
intelligence resources of all kinds. Okay,
to include ISR. What you're referring to, in part, I
believe, is news that stemmed from the recent conclusion of a
status of forces agreement with the government of New shear.
This is the type of foundational agreement that we pursue in many
different countries in Africa that have regular relationships
with Africa Command for purposes of exercises and other
activities. So that that was what made it into the news and
then an extract extrapolation about a drone base from there,
but we are certainly
news report, that was an exaggeration. does happen
unusual?
Yeah. Okay, so a year later, of course, we know that it's true.
And that both of you are just full of
crap. Can you? Can you remember, this is one of the clips I had
on the last show, I believe about the drought that was at
the show before
the last show. That's why I went in looking for information right
now. I
understand. Yeah. What do you remember which clip? It was?
Um, yeah, I can probably find it hold on a second.
Because I guess I I was as shocked as you are, that we have
a base there and is based on this clip? Well, so I figured
out, it was on event cat, I'm just trying to say what the
source of this information was. Because now that it points out
an obvious lie, you know, was this with a drone base
overnight? Or is this one
with a French and African troops do have a mandate from the
United Nations to use force if there's a direct threat to the
civilian population? So if, for example, a Muslim is being
lynched by and
I don't think it's that one USA in Africa with French maybe it's
that one, let me slit has several military
bases. So looking at the map, then just reminders where they
propagate so far, and where they may cooperate in the future?
Will they cooperate a lot
in Mali? Because the US had just set up a drone base in
neighbouring Asia.
There you go. So that's, that's where it came from. And I
understand why it's in Asia, because we that's right in the
middle of Mali is this clip said to the north, that's where we
have the ever so dangerous al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
And that Yeah, yeah, this is I've been to the south we have
Nigeria, which of course is Boko Haram. But in both cases, it's
the Boko Haram was not there in Nigeria, Boko Haram Kenya, they
may be there too, but I think their base is in or the book,
all of this is probably made up.
I mean, who knows? Okay, we can go with that right.
Now. Apparently, we also have a drone base in Ethiopia, because
now I just I started really looking into it, like where are
we in Africa? So we have Ethiopia, we know we have
Djibouti Africa which is mentioned in my clip is still in
Germany. And this like this is what's very strange that we have
it because you think they could put it in Libya or any of these
other places that we kind of own yes in Germany, right. But it's
still in Germany. But we have the eyes in the air we have the
eyes in the air and and of course the only two countries
that should that we need to really be looking at although it
turns out that may not be true. Is the two on the west Clarke
seven lists which would be I think, Sudan and Somalia. These
are really on our on our new world order list. But somehow
and and obviously it's BP and total and elf is it elf oil elf
elf is that the other French elfia The French one Yeah. So so
if you really look at it, all these countries, you know, they
were all run by up until now like late 60s or 70s, by Britain
and France, and we really had didn't have a lot to do in
there. And and I'm starting to see that not only are we
extracting the minerals of course, we're we're extracting
Chinese first, like, Oh, hello, Chinese. Thank you for building
the road and the infrastructure get out. Then we're taking over
that. But there's also and this is what I think the French and
the British are seeing, because these countries are growing
There is there's a huge market now in selling gasoline to
African countries that people are getting cars and they you
know the infrastructure is really building there it's no
longer just a jungle bunnies running around chucking Spears
you know, there's these are real countries with real economies
that are going to make a big difference. And I think this is
everything is shifting over there not just for extracting
but for selling and building and buying and, and doing business.
You're gonna get letters for that. For what spear chucking
sand bunny jungle bunnies? Yeah, I'm making a point.
I know that you are. But I but do listeners of the show don't
understand how you make your points? Well, then they should I
think this is disgusting. They're gonna gripe they're
gonna gripe I'm just telling you in advance. I don't know, I
don't want to hear you grousing about it.
Oh, that's fine. People don't understand. That's fine. And you
can kind of apply this to what's happening in the Middle East. If
you live in
LA, hold on a second, let me help you here. So you don't get
these letters. What Adam just did was portray a stereotype of
the African which is used as a model for the elites in so far
as their their pre dis predisposed definition of the
situation. Yes. And that was would be exactly how they think.
And that's what he was doing was essentially reflecting that when
he uses this, this this usage. It's I didn't bother me, but I
know that let's some people would be upset already on your
case.
It's fine. Everyone. Everybody can be on my case. That's fine.
But I'm just saying I just wanted to because I know what
you're doing. And in the way you do it is it seems it seems it's
very elegant, actually. So continue.
Thank you. I am convinced that a large portion certainly of the
American public, but probably the European public as well,
when they heard about the shootings in the shopping mall
in Kenya. I have a feeling a lot of them went what? They got
shopping malls in Kenya. Right It's a
modern shop. Yeah, it's very modern.
It's like any crappy shopping mall anywhere.
Exactly. They got popcorn and got a movie theatre. They got
the games out from the movie theatre, Cineplex, Cineplex.
Thank you, they've got the what's the what's the, the t
shirt shop where you buy your skateboard hipster gear
t shirt shop, t shirt shops. It's,
well let me do a site about this. Let me do it in his site
about this. For example, in Asia, there's different kinds of
shopping malls, and I'm one of those guys when I travel, I
don't sit around the hotel, I get somebody to take me
shopping. And your staff is usually not a staff. Usually
somebody's holding me over there for some reason. And I kind of
demand an escort to take me some places unless it's like Korea,
which I know the town enough, I can just draw a guy and get on a
bus and I've done that and just bus around. But you there are
shopping malls that make many of our shopping malls very sick by
comparison. And some of them are very weird though. There's a
shopping mall. And I believe this is in one, I think this is
an I'm trying to think he had to Jakarta or someplace like that
is it but the outside of the mall is like they're different.
They're like a big just like the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.
It's a big building, as opposed to a strip mall. And the
building has maybe eight floors of shopping. And it's more
vertical than it is horizontal because of the space
limitations. So the shopping mall takes on a slightly
different quality, but it's still a shopping mall. And they
have the same stuff. They have the same perfumes they usually
have a better selection of Asian electronics and any place you've
ever seen. And cameras, etc. in different colours you've never
seen. And they're pretty, pretty moderate. It's just like people
shouldn't be thinking like that, that there's no shopping malls
in Nairobi. Or,
or any of these countries really, that that that of course
is the point that I'm making. It's the same point that I make
that people somehow then this is exactly the same. Russia is just
filled with a bunch of hairy fat women with drunken vodka
slurping dudes with bear hats on who hate gays. Yeah, well,
besides that, though, there's a lot of pleasant Russians.
Actually.
I'll give you a little in the morning. Have a report came out
whereas it here I have it here. Americans Okay, who did this
report? Washington DC. I just got to open this up to find out
who did the actual report. This is Gallup. Oh, there you go.
Gallup poll. Would you say that's reasonably no more
corrupt than the rest?
I would say it's probably the least of the corrupt groups. I
like when I see Gallup I they have a trust. They're
trustworthy in the trust. Since
February 3 In 2014, America's views of Russia, Putin are worst
Aden years. clear majority view the Russian president and his
nation unfavourably. Yeah, no kidding.
So the propaganda machine does its job as host
nation, Russia dominates the world stage the Winter Olympics.
And so he, Americans clearly do not think highly of the country
or its President Vladimir Putin. Putin and Russia scored the
highest unfavourable rating 63 and 60%, respectively, that
Gallup has recorded for them in the past two decades.
20 years good worker Human Rights Watch. Yeah,
it's exactly what you wanted. Well, there you go.
Now, here's what's funny. I so I'm, I don't know why this keeps
getting lost in the conversation because we I maybe because we
don't hound our pound on it enough. I'm listening to
somebody else's podcast. And the guy goes on with this thesis
that we have because I guess it got to him about the gay thing
in Russia is overblown. And the Russians are just what they are.
I mean, they're the things you know, they haven't drawn going
out of their way to do one thing or another about gays coming
over to visit so she and so she's not that bad, of a
situation in reality. And the comment was, why would we do
that? Why would we what is the point of making the Russians
look like a bunch of saps and creeps? It's always forgotten
that the Russians have Snowden. Yeah. It's about Snowden. Give
us Snowden No, not giving you Snowden. Oh, really? Okay, well
here out here. Watch this all tracks right back to Snowden.
Just to show you how great the no agenda global audiences I got
a tweet from someone who was watching RTL four, which is the
commercial broadcaster in the Netherlands. And he said, Oh my
god, RTL four on their newscast use the same drag queens for a
Sochi report as as NBC used the same drag queens in the same
sorry as club with the same sorry as story about how gays
are persecuted in so cheap.
Yeah, it's a package a package. Exactly. And I wonder who did
the package do we know who else did I bet you it was one of
these NGOs? I
think it's well, I don't think it was it wasn't a package per
se because the it's useless for me to play because all in Dutch,
the the they had their own reporter there but I think that
they have a liaison. You know, this is part of the Human Rights
Watch liaison there. It's like, okay, NBC a tomorrow we'll be
going to the drag quad to the to the Viking bar. And then RTL we
can go on Thursday. Yes. Okay. Very good. Well, such all up.
Well, it's not I don't mean it's a package by by, like a package
package where it's a complete product, right. But one of these
years to be role, here's the script. Here's the kind of thing
you know, one of those things where you can have your local
guy doing the report, I think is more common now than I've done a
pure package that is completely done from beginning to end.
Right.
Right. And meanwhile, I would I found the real news to be is
that Egypt has apparently reached a deal with Russia, for
Russian military equipment, which so we have said, you know,
screw you guys, we're not going to give you the F 16 We're not
going to give you some helicopters. And Russia Putin
goes to Egypt makes a $3 billion deal which apparently the Saudi
Arabia is going to fund and no one is talking about this if I
find wow there you got me I find this to be something that needs
to be evaluated that we are giving money. Of course that's
how it works and we give money to Egypt, Egypt then I don't
think they even get our stuff and then we get a check. Right?
Don't we just cut it directly to the contractor? I would presume
I presume Egypt doesn't get a check or Bitcoin.
No, no, no, they get a
Bitcoin one Bitcoin. So now, Saudi Arabia has said, Well, you
know, we're kind of interested in Egypt thing over there. We
want to because they're always involved in everything. And
they're going to give $3 billion to the Russians for MIG 20 nines
and mi 35. Helicopters, some light weapons of ammo. And but
no, Bob Costas has pinkeye. And what are we doing in America
people? What are we doing anywhere with any kind of news?
Oh, the Dutch. to of course, the Dutch are sweeping the
speedskating which, which is great, you know that we have I
think the men won. Gold, Silver, Bronze women gold, silver,
bronze, Putin. This is what Putin is over there, sucking up
to our queen, our hottie queen from Argentina, and our King
King Pils who's drunk, too because he's drunk all the time.
He's 100 The Olympics it's it's and that's all that they can
report on. Nothing else is important. It is such a big
distraction from reality. But it's hunger. And we
do the same thing where we watch the reports together. Guy comes
in first a guy come to the gate with a great story guy comes the
second guy, an American comes in third the interview the American
Yeah, of course. How was it coming? How was it coming in
third? He wasn't exciting. Yeah, it was exciting. I'm glad I got
third. Yeah.
So I think these things. And then of course, we had the
hockey thing, which I guess we got a ruling and we beat Russia
because of some technicality.
Well, it was it wasn't that it was. Yeah, we had the net was
out of the hole. And by my rule, you can't date gold doesn't
count. It's just a rule.
So you think that all of this that the entire gang up is only
about Snowden?
I think so. Yeah. Oh, well, no, no. Okay. Also the Syria, Syria
because Russia has a bunch of things. But Snowden was the was
the was the cherry on the top of the thing. That's when we let it
rip? Yeah. i Come on,
I think I think a lot of it has to do with Syria, because Syria
is essentially been saved. If you really want to look at it
objectively. The Syrian people, they all would have been dead,
all bombed to smithereens like Libya. And you wouldn't have
seen any of it if it were not for the Russians. I truly think
Russia saved more Syrian people than we're pretending to with
sending, you know, al Qaeda fighters over there.
It's just I agree with that. Yeah. Because I think the
Russians are full of crap, because I've been watching a lot
of RT. And, you know, they're full of crap. I mean, they're,
they're trying to do the best they can with the propaganda,
their propaganda machine, which doesn't even come close to ours,
were so much better. Yes. It says ludicrous. And they and I
think they're flummoxed by the whole thing to kind of like, Oh,
God, what do we do now? I don't know. And they just hope to God
that I mean, we're two guys that try to compare notes on these
things. And we see what the Russians are up to, and our what
our State Department is up to in terms of countering what the
Russians are trying to do right. And then there's the Chinese
issue which the Russians are also kind of a wildcard in that
because they're kind of friends with the Chinese but then again,
they're not because they share a border and they really don't
like each other. It's it's interesting, but yeah, the
Russians are out flanked by us by lots it's just got to be
frustrating if you're them Yeah. And I think that's part of the
reason that Putin is always out there with the shirt off. You
know, your president can't ride a motorcycle your president
can't write he all you ever see him throw a baseball he can
throw a baseball I can do a shoot shoot a basket know
what it is here so thank you for pointing this out. This is and
by the way, all of this can be solved very easily all Russia
has to do is hire the curry Devorah Consulting Group. We
know how to do this for you. They are using know that using
cold war tactics of look at my my chest. Look at the bear I
shot Look at the fish I caught. This is no you know, you got to
do. You have to be way, way way on the other end of things to
impress the world stage. This is all
do. Right. This is all 50s 60s
era. Thank you. You know, first of all, Vlad has got it. He's
got to start speaking English. He's gotten you'll get someone
you just got to do it. You are behind you have zero. You need
to speak the language of the kids. And that's what I'm all
the kids speak English because that's the popular culture. Just
learn a few words. Tweet it. We could start there. We can start
there. Now. Where's Russia's First Lady? And we've got
Michelle Obama. Excuse me, by the way, this counts the $12,000
dress the Celebrate ease and her at the state dinner. This stuff
counts on the world stage. Putin you get your baby out there get
her done gussied up and some. You know, Tom for you. You were
the Tom Ford give her some go to a Gucci whatever, Versace. You
got store's there you got to gussied up man.
I start talking to the way I the way I see it even though it
doesn't really work because after spending $50 billion on
gussying up Sochi the he gets a lot of he gets a lot of flack
from his political competition. As a spendthrift he's just all
you guys he's you he's not a he's not a good Soviet or Soviet
Russian. Recently he's too flamboyant, which is not true.
The Russians actually have a history of flam Catherine the
Great Peter the Great all these the greats Putin the great they
have with all these in the past they you know, they would the
French and the Russians were very close to each other
historically, and they would always copy each other the
French love the Russians in terms of their art and
architecture and then it goes the other way. And so they when
Catherine the Great goddess, she just built the place up with all
kinds of fancy palaces and, and then before that they've done
this for just all the time until Stalin got in. And then he just
built everything. And this kind of let me let me. Let me give
you an example, I designed
an example. So on this ski slopestyle thing, they have a
big babushka doll on the ski slope of the nesting doll. Yeah,
they need chicks to pop out of that at some point. You know,
like, babes. Not just another doll. You know, this is
modernise a little bit people.
The thing Russia does have that dollar school because the some
of the stunt guys would bounce
bounce off of it. I know. I know. The the best thing the
best thing Putin has going for him in this fight America
against Russia. Putin against Obama. Yeah, apart. He's clever.
It's clearly his his agent of change, Joe Biden. He's working
for the Russians. Did you hear what he said just the other day?
You have a clip? I
do. It always surprises me when we don't have the degree of
optimism we should about the state of the nation. And in
spite of who's president, in spite of who's in the Congress,
in spite of who's president. That's your boss, dude. You
realise you can say in spite of the President,
that he doesn't know a lot doesn't even know what
does he even know what he's saying? In spite, in spite of
the who's president. Wow, Joe, pick up your ruble check.
Well, he's he deserves it for that. Meanwhile, yeah, they need
to upgrade they got to modernise to get to bring it up to the
21st century. That's just old fashioned stuff. I mean, it's
funny for us, I mean, we get a kick out of seeing Putin, you
know, doing some dumb things flying with a with a goose and a
ultralight is an example. But yeah,
and but I know all of that is it's you're right. 1950s
He got definitely jobbed on this social thing, because when you
see that when you watch Russia, today's version of the Olympics,
and they of course, they're, you know, promoting it. They show
some stuff though, that is like I never saw that the some of the
fireworks displays and some of the cute little town that's
there, and they just they, you know, they roaming around is
really quite quite attractive. It'd be a cool place to visit.
But I've never get that impression from any American
coverage.
I saw that. I see. Do I have it here? So they were misusing the
global warming in Sochi? Yeah, because I guess they don't have
snow or it's, it's above freezing. And there's and so now
that's being misused as Oh, yes. Well, there's a global warming
and it's ruining the Olympics. Well, isn't Sochi a place that
has palm trees? isn't the kind of like doesn't kind of happen
there?
It's a resort town on the on the, on the Balkan or in the was
it the Black Sea? Yes, it's a resort town. It's a resort
village that they built up and probably going to have a Do you
know, I don't know what they're going to do with it now. But
because of all this extra buildings, but yeah, it's all
built up. It's it. But it's, it's a summer thing. And so it
probably doesn't get that cold. They all have skiing stuff is 45
minutes away.
But we're getting a tonne of, of course, in. Here's the situation
in the United States, we have the pretty big Cold Snap, which
is not unprecedented, but it's it's very annoying for people on
the West Coast and southern states. In the meantime, in
Europe and the United Kingdom is flooding. The Dutch claim they
have the warmest winter ever, which I also don't think is
true. Then people are using the example of it being very warm in
Australia. Of course this is their summer it's exactly polar
opposite. But CBS really is taking this to the max with
this. You know the me Shukaku the crazy Asian scientist guy.
What they bring in from time to time. Yeah, to white hair. Yes,
that guy. That guy, that guy. So and he is a he's not a
meteorologist. I think he's a he's a physics physicists right.
But he is now in charge of propagating the message you need
to listen to this report. combating the global cooling
that we believe we are in. Charlie Rose just muttering
throughout the whole thing while Kaku is talking out of his butt
as
another major storm system hits the south and the east subzero
temperatures still gripped the Midwest and Western Oregon and
Washington State were hit with unusual snow.
Northern California just got about 20 inches of rain from a
pineapple Mix. pres but that state is far from ending its
drought emergency
question about that. When When do you have enough rain to end
the drought emergency? What do you really need to end it? In
California?
I was listening to you your I don't know if you listened to
her normally but just the congressional dish with Jen
brainy.
Yeah, I listened to her but sometimes I get annoyed by her
Obama bot ism
is She's a bit of a bot but that's but she does go through
this stuff. And she went through the Farm Bill. Yes, I heard what
she did. I realised there's something she talks about which
is the drought funds that if you apparently declare a drought,
sort exactly what I was thinking yeah, how much money can you
get? You get a
bunch of money so you you're also a California if it can do
it. It just stays in a drought no matter how
much. Yes, that's what I was thinking. It's a scam. Yes. And
it's a federal funding scam.
Yeah, it's just a way to get money from the feds. But they
have to pretend you know, it got us a drought. Oh, yeah. And then
that gives them an excuse to jack up the rates again, they
never lower the rates by the way. What is gonna be flooding?
What do you think Charlie meant by a Pineapple Express? Is that
a medium meteorological term? It's,
it's any storm that comes in over Hawaii. Okay, and then
comes up and picks up tropical moisture and drops it in
California is called a Pineapple Express
tide, but I keep following this and I also see the the Federal
Register. And every single day there's the President signed
disaster relief for the state for Georgia for Florida. For
California for New Jersey. It's like billions and billions of
dollars. And I think you're right, as long as you keep
claiming it's a drought no matter how hard it rains. I
mean, I'm expecting zero fruits and greens from California this
year. You guys must be dying out there. I mean, yeah, I can't
believe I'm talking to you. You must be dead. The way it sounds
out here and it's everything was pretty green, CBS News. Now
here's I was just apparently a whopper coming in. That's going
to drop a couple of feet on us and it looks like it's going it
looks like the jet stream is shifting enough to bring all
this Alaskan air down. We're filled with moisture and just
flood us I mean, just nails and I guarantee after that's over,
it'll still be
drought. Now. You're right. Here's the rest of this report
rain from a Pineapple Express. But that state is far from
ending its drought emergency. CBS News contributor Michio Kaku
is a physics professor, which means he knows nothing
professionally Professor really about climate at the City
College of New York. Good morning. Morning. So what's
causing all this?
Well, the wacky weather it could get even wacky her.
That's when I perk up.
Holy crap. When did he become a broadcaster The Morning
everybody. My daddy was a Beatle.
I don't know why I said that. But that's what they do at the
morning.
What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex
are becoming unstable, unstable, unstable instability of historic
proportions.
historic proportions. I will give you no backup no proof, but
It's historic. Trust me.
Now think of the polar vortex as a bucket. A swirling bucket of
cold air. However the walls are weakening. Cold air is spilling
listen to
RO is going. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's, he's a robot. And he's
just lapping it up
bottling bucket of cold air. However, the walls are
weakening, cold air is spilling out spilling out over the walls
of the bucket. And the question is why? Why is this polar vortex
weakening?
This is. This is like Romper Room. It's a big bucket but the
walls are weakening. And the air is spilling over the thin walls.
The question is why? Why? Let's ask dooby dooby can tell us
we think it's because of the gradual heating of the north
pole
out the gradual heating of the north we think it's the gradual
heating of the North Pole.
The North Pole is melting.
It's melting that excess heat global warming Charlie Rose. Oh,
God. I just woke up. Cuckoo Did you say global warming melting?
Listen to rose in the background. It's hilarious
global warming.
The North Pole is melting. That excess heat. This is
this is the programming. See Charlie Rose is very tired.
Very, very tired. Man. He does
too much work. It's way too much have to. There's only a few guys
with a few minutes. Just let me go aside for a second. He does
his regular interview show which takes a lot of effort has a big
staff. He's got to coordinate and then he's got to talk to all
these guys. And if you've done an interview show of any sort
over the years, you know that most people are not even
interesting, right? They can't Converse you have to carry this
show it's like a lot of work. And so you get pooped. That's
enough work for anyone guy, believe it or not, even though
it's only an hour. I
know it's a lot of work,
and a lot of work and doesn't look like it, but it is. And he
and I do a morning show, which means you have to get up at 430
earlier no
earlier. No, no, he's okay. But three, he's up a three man
desperately
in the morning. Yeah. And then you got to prep and they got a
budget to make up and then you got to go over the Shah and you
got to, and that's an hour and a half show. Right? So you gotta
be lively.
So here's what's happening the housewives. So he is in a
constant buzz, coma buzz. Yeah. And this is what's so beautiful
about it because the trigger words are ISIS mountain North
Pole is melting. The pole is warming. And then you can hear
him go. Global warming, which is what most people are programmed
to think. This is guess is programming in process. It's
beautiful. A wicked. I'm Sir Richard Attenborough. And here
we see a fine specimen. A specimen known as the morning
news Casta. The news. The news Castle wish
you could find the clip of him where he's making a pass it that
woman
I have I have that. I have it. We have the newscaster the news
cast that has been programmed over the years to believe in
Angry pressure by global warming. That's the stuff that
man made themselves. And when he gets the keywords, he literally
will wake up and say global warming
weakening. We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the
North Pole. The North Pole is melting. Tell me about the
sexuality. It's in your DNA. That's right.
That is the creepy. That was Angelina Jolie,
tell me about your sexuality is in your DNA global warming.
That excess heat generated by all this warm water is
destabilising this gigantic bucket of cold air weakening
this low pressure region causing cold air to spill out over the
United States. Okay, that's the irony.
What's the irony of the bucket and the whatever leading
could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions?
Okay, so the irony is the heating can cause gigantic
storms of epic proportions. Okay, we get the third please
get the spilling out of the bucket right because right now I
don't get that. This one is this happened before the spilling out
of the bucket. Right. Okay, we get
the third please. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
We get the spilling out of the bucket. Right. We see this snow
in the Midwest in the South. Why then is California been the
driest on record? I mean, look at the snowpack in the Sierras.
Any whiskey or nose out there they have so little snowpack,
huge drought,
because a lot of the weather that warm. The moisture laden
air which should go to California is being diverted
into Canada who had freezes.
Oh, yes. Finally, damn can the Navy and stealing our snow? I
knew it
and it falls on your backyard. So in some sense, there's a link
between what's happening in California as the Jetstream
diverts diverts the the moisture laden air over Canada and then
it snows on the on the United States. I'm trying to follow
you.
I'm really trying to follow you. But does this explain why
Niagara Falls is frozen and why it's warm in Sochi? It's all
connected to the same thing.
Okay, so what is that saying?
This guy off the air? Oh, no,
he's he's genius. In fact, they're going to compliment him
on his broadcast professionalism. It's connected.
Look at
globally, globally, globally. I know I'm trying rose globally,
you see he's had to England is flooding right now. Latin
America is warm. While California has a drought. We're
talking about instabilities caused by the erratic new
weather stream
what can be done about it, Professor? Ah, well, I think we
can actually do about it.
The bad news is that the North polarising that continues to
rise in temperature. It seems to be irreversible at a certain
point.
Where is where is the fact that in this, this isn't just not
true?
There's not affecting any of this. This is all supposition
and just knee jerk bullcrap. And I like to ask the question which
I asked every time you bring one of these idiots on here with a
clip. I thought, I think the first time I heard it was maybe
almost 10 years ago that if we don't do something this year,
first of all, we're doomed. The next year if we don't do
something this year, it's irreversible. We're doomed. If
we don't do something this year, it's irreversible. We're doomed
happens all the time. And now it's happening again. When are
we doomed? What's irreversible? If it was irreversible 10 years
ago? Why is it not irreversible? It's always gonna be. We're
getting near the end here. Yeah, just bother you.
Me? Yes, yes, we're doomed you
may have to get used to a new normal. That is a north polar
region that is melting, causing more instability in this bucket
causing more things to spill out, which means more extremes
some winters can be very mild. Yeah, other winters could be
horrendous.
And you say 2014 is the hottest. Listen, just
listen. Just listen it out, man. Listen it out. We have to help
people understand the need that they can laugh about the Jabra
Ionis it's on record.
It's shaping up that this year could be one of the hottest
years on record. The decade that just passed it was the hottest
decade ever recorded in history of science.
In the history of science ever since bones were invented.
You know if this physics thing doesn't work out, you can be a
weatherman.
Charlie Rose made a funny but there's something up with CBS
CBS is really pushing this right now. And I got an equally
disturbing report from the local Steve CBS station. And you
there's all these climate spokes holes that are around. They all
did. They're available and they're all professors somewhere
other. This guy what is his profession Hold on a second.
He's from I think Alabama. And his name is Terrell, what is his
name here? Matthew Thoreau. And he is he's not a meteorologist.
I have it here somewhere. I gotta look for what he is. But
he they pulled him as an expert onto a local CBS where they're
essentially doing the same package. He had dendro
chronology. What's dendro chronology? Well, let's find I
think that's the study of dead trees. Actually. That's probably
why it could be Yeah, that's probably why he's in bald guy
has a huge beard. So you know he's hiding something. A welcome
back in the recent winter weather only gives more fodder
for those who debate the validity of the global warming
and climate change argument.
You know where this is going. This is this is the the
propaganda, the anti prod the anti pill that we need to spread
locally to tell people that this cold weather it's just part of
the
heat and a recent article citing several scientists suggest our
planet could actually be in for a global cooling period. Dr.
Matthew Farrell is a Professor of Geography at the University
of Alabama. He joins us now live from our Tuscaloosa newsroom.
Doctor, good morning to you. Good morning.
They wait hold on a second. You picked us up in local affiliate
in Arkansas, or Alabama? I mean, it's from I mean, I always just
played in Austin.
No, this was not an Austin. I think this is Washington state.
Well, they don't have a play that back. There's no way
anybody in Washington state has a as a
let me let me let me find out who could be wrong? Hold on. Let
me find out. Let me find out if I can. I don't know where this
is from John. Let's listen again, we might be able to
figure
it out. So that is slide.
Back in the recent winter weather only gives more fodder
for those who debate the validity of the global warming
and climate change argument. And a recent article citing several
scientists suggest our planet could actually be in for a
global cooling period. Dr. Matthew Farrell is a Professor
of Geography at the University of Alabama. He joins us now live
from our Tuscaloosa newsroom, Dr.
Tuscaloosa. So where's Tuscaloosa?
Alabama? Tuscaloosa? Alabama? So
it's an Alabama report.
I'm pretty sure Okay, morning to be good morning could be Burma.
It seems like it depends on who you're talking to these days,
whether there's a difference between global warming and
climate change. Talking about the saying here?
Well, essentially, I mean, I think that that's an argument
that's sort of in the public realm, maybe in the internet,
but
pay attention, John, just in the internet, the stupid internet,
people think that that's something Yeah.
I've noticed that there are a lot of idiots on the internet.
They talk about stuff like that, but we're gonna be serious here.
It's not a it's not a serious it's not an important argument
going on in the scientific community.
No, not in the scientific community, which is different
from the LGBTQI community.
So when we get this harsh winter weather that we're getting now a
sceptics though the wonder, how could we be warming up the
earth? So what do you say?
I love how he how the package is written. Sceptics say. It's
everything this whole thing is written so beautifully to to
shout down people.
Well, I think that people need to remember that weather and
climate are different things and you can take what is convenient
for you one On whether event and I ascribe that to global change,
for instance, at the same time that we're experiencing really
cold weather. It's extremely warm in Australia. Yeah, it's
their summer douche. And so you can't
That is unbelievable. Yeah.
He's literally saying it's warm in Australia. Yeah, it's summer
there.
Yeah, it's also kind of warm in Panama a lot of times of the
year. Yeah,
it's very weird that way
can take one event and say that that has anything to do with
climate change or global warming, even
right now in a Forbes magazine article back in May of last
year, and this is my favourite piece. They cited noted
scientists from West Russia, meteorologists from Germany is
saying we're actually entering an era of global cooling caused
mainly by two factors, colver ocean water,
what are you doing?
I'm clapping,
cycling to the top every 20 to 30 years and decreased sunspot
activity. So there seems to be maybe some disagreement within
the scientific community.
Now, how are we going to address this, because this is the Nexus
this, I think we probably have people in our audience who have
seen this report on their local station, maybe with this guy,
even as the expert, because what happened is Forbes magazine
publishes an article saying looks like global cooling. And
they have scientists weighing in with their expert analysis just
as good or as bad as the IPCC, really. And this has to be
discredited. And this is how you do it?
Well, you know, that's a good point. That's something I talk
with my students a lot about, which is media literacy. And,
you know, the first thing I always tell them is to consider
the sources. And so for example, I don't think most people
consider Forbes magazine, a reputable source for climate
information. And if you look at the particular article that
you're referencing, that's an op ed piece. It's not a journalism
article. And so, you know, this isn't something that I would
consider a reputable source for discussing climate change.
Well, you know, he but the scientists, though he cited
there, they were obviously commenting on the Op Ed piece,
they were just mainly stating their data, their their
scientific research, or feeding their research.
Well, he actually referenced newspaper articles that
reference those scientists. So you know, if you really want to
understand it, you have to get to the original sources and look
at those, you know, like I say, it's, if you if you're really
doing studies on this, like my students would, for example,
that would not be a good source to look at. Yeah,
okay. All right. Good. So it's the wrong source wrong.
Scientists,
obviously. Yeah, his students would know better as kids
students would know that. Forbes is an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I
was good. i That's exactly the way to do it. You discredit the
source, right? You cut it off, and then you cut them off at the
knees.
Perfect. And yeah, and I do want to say about this whole thing in
the UK. This is not unexpected. What is happening there. And so
you these guys can say a million times is all freakish and whoa,
who knows? But in 2014 there before Yeah. I remember when
Britain used to people would highlight the are the A and the
i in the end of Britain, it would always rain. It was just
in the 70s like you go into Britain, rains ever hear of
London fog. It used to be the wettest place on earth the way I
remember it. Yeah, but I had this great article about
European Union policy introduced by the 2007 directive from the
Environment Agency, which is I think, introduced but published
fully in 2008 which then sought to increase the frequency of
flooding in this exact area. They knew this was coming they
knew that they could either make space for water this is all
agenda 21 stuff by the way of all of this, all of this this
luda cracy of not building up resistance to this area. The
whole point is to have these homes washed away. I'm quite
convinced about it when you read this article, and you see how
this this this area of the UK was really meant to be managed
to flood and all the documentation points towards it.
And now all of a sudden, where people are bitching and moaning
that bring in the Dutch who are just pumping it out with their
you know, this is what the Dutch should do very well. And oh,
yeah, maybe we should, you know, put some strategy in place. But
this is not unexpected. This This has been known since you
know, almost the mid 2000s that this this area was going to be
flooding. And now Cameron just walks around pretending like
yeah, oh, whatever. Oh, yes. We'll help them all out. It's
very disturbed since
we don't have we haven't had any major kind of even though I
still think there's one coming. Conflict conflagration In other
words, World War Two, where you get to bomb out all this old
stuff kill a lot of people in the process, but you get to bomb
it out and then rebuild this in a modern you know In modern
facilities, you gotta You still got to get rid of some of this
crap. They mean people crap or no to you and me. It's not crap.
It's beautiful stuff that could be modernised or it's just, but
no, no, that's not the way anyone else thinks. Americans
kind of think like that, because we don't really have anything
old, but they have stuff from the 16 and 1700s that is falling
apart, they just, but you can't just tear it down. Many of us
got special designations. Exactly. If you got a special
designation place, you'll start to hear reports and I've already
started to hear him I didn't think about it until he brought
this theory up, that you start to hear reports Oh, it's such a
so that was one of the most famous places there was famous
and it was it was protected. And now it's washed away. What are
we gonna do? Yeah, have you noticed this? Yeah. Yeah, that'd
be a bunch of famous places that a ruin washed away gutted. I
mean, because you you know, in other parts of the world where
there's a lot of famous old cool stuff like Syria, you know, we
just realise that nobody gives a crap
oh, the best part was Iraq when we we the Sumerian tablets and
all that today, what does this
clay What is this crap?
Is this is Clay just time to clean up kids
sweep up the clay shards people this is no good. And the crazy
thing is that this is what is happening right now. This this
global warming making it very cold is pretty much the exact
script for the day after tomorrow. You remember this? Oh,
I noticed that this movie was this was this one was this was
this 2003 or four? I think this this movie came out and let's
look it up. And the whole idea was you had this professor and
he went to the United Nations. He said, I'll be here because
the polar ice is melting. We're going to freeze down here. And
everyone laughs at him.
2004 Okay. It's pretty much 10 years ago. Yeah. Hey, 10 years
have passed. Let's go with this script. Yeah.
I think not. Exactly.
It is the
it is this is this story. It is exactly my story.
So if we do not see Grand Central Station under 500 feet
of ice.
That's okay. Not yet, but standby.
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Unlike the idea because it
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see the note about bread. They make bread to bread makers. One
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I don't think he's like a commercial bread guy. Like big
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I think big. Like a big, like big data. Only big bread,
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Obviously, we're, obviously we're all in stages for the
fossil fuel industry. That's why we're so only promoted as
nuclear. But that's beside the point. Hey, told
me about in the newsletter, you wrote something about the unions
and the wages and the minimum wage, and you're going to bring
that up on the show today. So I'm reminding you to do this.
That's your fantastic setup. You didn't like? That's okay. No, I
would I thought one of the news items of the week that we didn't
discuss much I mean, especially when you compare it to play this
clip because it compares the way unions go in the United States
of America with the way they go in France play Uber in France
and karaoke.
Taxi drivers in France may have won their first fight and a long
fight battle. The government has suspended new registrations for
private chauffeur services like Uber. Parents made the decision
until it finishes talks with unions representing taxi
drivers, who have been striking since Monday. The crucial
stumbling block is taxis require a licence that cost more than
200,000 euros while private competitors have no fee.
She had a little flub in there by the way that was interesting.
I think it's under weird flub, can you play that?
Taxi drivers in France may have won their first fight and a long
fight battle to
fight fight battle thing
is like neuro linguistic programming but probably just a
flub. I did follow.
I signed up for Uber. I got the app I've never use the service
but the me see
buzzkill Jr. uses it daily. So I
I got the app and then immediately I'm getting spam
from them and news articles and and I did read about I think a
cab driver beat up an Uber driver or something this
happened weeks ago. This is not fresh. Okay. All right.
I think it may have been the lift guys though, because the
lift guys go around with that big pink moustache on their car.
And they are slightly different. They're more visible and they
get harassed more because of the big pink moustache. But as part
of the end this, it's a different system. When you go on
Lyft I wrote a column about this because I was fascinated by it,
because JC uses it. But when you go on Lyft you have to be a
conversationalist. In the end, you end the
drivers back up. But Lyft is an Uber like service because I have
no idea what you're talking about. I think
I think it was I think it might even predate Uber Ubers, a
little more polished, a little more venture capital A little
slicker, a little better cars. Lyft is really pretty much
anybody. And and it has a different model. And you pay,
you don't pay a fixed amount you pay what you think the guy
deserves. Oh value value is value for value. And so what
happens though, is that the Lyft drivers, and you rate each other
after the ride is over this. That's the lictors rate you as a
customer
I believe in this is the pressure. Yeah, no, this is the
future puking My car smelled like crap, you know, annoying.
Talk to me.
You like you rate each other before you receive each other's
ratings too. So you can lowball the guy and so he'll say that
you just guy stinks and he's you know, or whatever that you as
the customer or that you can say that guy's car was a piece of
crap and I would never be in it again, I get one star and it
would you but you can get blackballed. You can as a driver
get blackballed with too many of these, you know, negative
reviews and you can also get blackballed as a passenger is
very interesting and more like a slightly more advanced in some
ways, but Uber is more popular is trying to go all over the
world. So they go to France and of course, they this is where
you will get beat up because the French have these great remedies
unions in France. These taxi drivers didn't just go on
strike, they went out to the main freeways and just you know,
five across just stopped dead right? 100 deep. Yeah. Yeah,
well, the French we don't do don't do that. We are so anti
Union now in this country. And I was thinking about it because
they had this VW plant that tried to go UAW and the UAW is a
dying Union. It was a member of that union and at least two
different local let's
let's talk about what actually happened. So just set this up
for people around the world. So the the United Auto Workers
Union wanted to Unionise at the Volkswagen plant in
Charlotte, I think North Korea, North Carolina or Arkansas, I
can't remember exactly where what happens is in the south,
where they're generally anti union, okay. And they voted,
they thought it were going to win and without a lot of real
pressure, just not make the vote no, they voted no anyway. And
that was the end of it, because the UAW has been trying to get
all these, these so called their companies that come in from
like, Volkswagen comes in and builds a factory because it's
cheaper. And Honda's got factories down there. Toyotas
got factories, and so the these import cars that you buy in the
United States generally aren't really imported. The only thing
imported is the factory. Well, the way I see it is that I've
come to the conclusion, the only reason I wanted to bring this up
was I think that unions have outlived their usefulness in
this country, I think they worked fine and socialist
oriented company that countries like France, where people
actually get a job as a taxi driver take it very seriously.
They spent $200,000 for a licence, and they do this for
the rest of their lives. They're not trying to be you know, in
the United States, we're all thing I, I'm going to quit and
get get some financing from venture capital, I'm going to
start myself a mud pie company. Yeah, we have all these, you
know, these outrageous dreams that have been kept alive by the
Bs in the media. So I think the only I think the future for
unions in the United States is over, I think they're all dead.
And I think that the model is actually the syllabus for
success in terms of worker participation. And so far as by
participation, I mean, have some thing to do with you, whether
you like working or whether you're, you know, you have a job
and you're being mismanaged by people. How do you deal with it?
If there's no union? I think the model in Silicon Valley, which
is to just give you a piece of the company, so you're, you're
essentially read into the company, and if he had
mismanaged you can you have some sort of recourse as a part
owner, I think that's totally the future. Because the results
of that model, that Silicon Valley model where everybody
gets a piece of the action, has people working 16 hours a day,
it's rageous, because of the the carrot at the end of the stick,
and that's just seems like the future in such a in so many
ways. I just I've never seen anything work like that, that
works so well. And you're part of that system. I am. Well, you
were in startups, and you've seen these guys kill themselves,
you know, on the frontlines for them. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah.
Yeah. Well, so. So yes, I agree to a certain extent, I think the
startup culture, which is a Ponzi scheme, and you are of
course you're projecting you're on your own family so you see
buzzkill Jr, busting his ass 20 hours of 16 hours a day. And
yes, he's in a startup so he has a piece of the Ponzi scheme but
once the once this this level moves up, I either bought by
somebody which would usually be a Google that's pretty much what
everyone's looking for. And that's what the angel investors
and even the a round investors get in for is for that big pop.
Everyone after that is slave but but get slave wages and you get
this big promise of options. Yes, take these options,
there'll be worth something someday. And when you leave, you
got to buy them. So it's a Ponzi scheme and a scam. And I
actually like what you were talking about the lift model
that I believe is the future. The problem with with all these
companies is the company itself who Wouldn't some like it's the
same with Patreon, this value for value for the arts,
everything about it is right, except for the fact that there's
a company in the middle. That's the one thing that is
unnecessary. So I say that again, that everything is right.
But what except for the company that's running the service,
there's no reason we have to have companies that are going to
take all this money and create them and essentially, take the
value to enrich themselves. There's no reason if you run it,
like a co op, where it really what do you what do you need,
and when it comes to infrastructure to run Uber,
really, it's, you know, it's server infrastructure, that's a
co op thing. But instead, they are, they're creating all the
value and keeping that for themselves. I love the mutual
reputation systems. And there will not be a single person who
doesn't buy a car in the future, that well, there will be people
but I'm pretty sure you and I, John will buy cars based upon
the model that this thing is sitting there 70% of the time,
and I'd be happy for people to use my car and pay me for it. As
long as I knew who know who they are, and I can check up on the
reputation system. But that doesn't this whole idea that
that has to be accompany every single time that's monetizing
the network. And it's proven time and time again. It's
limited. And it works great for the big scams, you know, the geo
cities, the AOL cells, the Facebook's the Twitter's, they
will go away every single one of them, you know, my space? Well,
no, I
know I'm gonna I can't disagree with it's just because this is a
basic thesis of yours that has never wavered. And I can see
where you're coming from with this again. And I have to agree,
because I think a better example of that something extremely
successful, that doesn't really need any sort of centric,
corporate entity is LinkedIn.
LinkedIn, yeah. You Me saying LinkedIn doesn't really need to
have a central system or a central company? No, I
don't see what I mean, I know what they're doing. They are the
ones that created the network, and they created this. But why I
mean, why can't that be an open source thing, just like you're
describing for everything else?
Well, and this is why, when you have a system like RSS that
these companies set out to destroy it. This is why Google
turned off Google Reader. Because they saw the writing on
the wall, hold on a second. Everybody poops an RSS feed out
of everything these days, we have to stop this. That is that
would that could route around us being the connector. That's
exactly what that was about. That's why Twitter doesn't
support RSS feeds anymore. That's why Facebook barely they
had some little support. They are shunning. But even worse,
they get their corporate shills, Mike Arrington, and as all of
CNET if you Google RSS is dead? And that because these people
are maybe even paid? I don't know, to go out and say, Oh,
that's dead. Oh, it's all dead? Of course. So it's a fun thing
to say in tech land. It's
dead. Yeah.
And that was a concerted effort to kill it. And we will have to
somehow come up with you know, whatever we have to do. But the
gay I
just went to it. The number one the RSS is dead. I went just
Google it into TechCrunch TechCrunch. As the first two
articles, RSS is dead question mark is for percussion.com.
Never heard of them. Digital trend has it. But they're
talking tomorrow about the Google thing failing and being
alive didn't fail. Why aren't matters is the herd. So there's
some fighting going didn't fail. It got shut down. I mean, how
right how can that fail? They claim that's what that no,
that's what Google said.
Right? It failed, unlike what YouTube is making them so much
money? No, no, no, no, this is a concerted effort. And I believe
eventually, in the long run, they will not prevail. But as
you know, but then but as long as we're teaching children non
keyboard, shiny touch and swipe tablet consumption devices.
Yeah, we're it's going to be difficult. But I've really
turned my social network is much more email now. And somehow the
idea of hashtags in the subject line really stuck with people
that are really using that a lot. And it was funny
about that. If you remember when that first showed up. Twitter
was dead set against against de dri. Yeah,
exactly. Even the retweet RT even that is it was a user
developed thing. Right, but I just looked at my team All right
now I have number two hashtags snowed in effect, third email,
hashtag, Africa hashtag NGO, then I have six is hashtag
turkey. So what's happening is because people are used to the
idea of a hashtag, I'm finally getting descriptive subjects in
my email and emails a beautiful social network. You know, I can
block people. I can put them in the spam bucket, I can auto auto
reply, I can do all kinds of really interesting things. Yeah,
it's it's work. And it's, you know, there's others. It's a lot
of it's mixed up, but at least no one owns me.
Don't know how we get from there to you. But you're right. I
don't know either. Well, there's a good but it was very well
done. Whatever happened reserve segue, somehow, we talked about
bitching about RSS being not dead. I have one more thing I
want to bring up just I thought was interesting. Okay. This is
the because as you know, and most of the listeners have
listened the show for a while know that my thinking is that by
2020, there'll be a civil war in the EU, which will result in the
same old same old battle between Germany and France, you
mind if we just move that to 2030? Just to propagate our 20
for the purposes of our gimmick? Yeah, just just make it 2030.
And that also gives you a little bit of room.
Well, I guess I could say that it'd be there'll be a skirmish
in 2020 Because something is going to happen. And then the
world wars the big one because like the First World War was
just like a opening salvo and the big 110 years later, you
know, it happened. Works fine.
was fine. Okay. 20 by 20 years, yes.
German roots of descent. This is the beginning of the end.
Is this a clip I'm supposed to look for? Yeah, it says John.
I'm sorry. I saw I got it here gave me
the name Ana and who didn't want to be identified. Tell me how
grateful she is for the help the food bank provides.
I have everything here. Eggs, even fish bread. The little
things make a big difference. The money I get from the state
goes to keep the power on that most I have 150 euros a month.
I'm very happy to have this. Because of this. I can buy
clothes and live.
Some of those receiving handouts accuse Germany's politicians of
caring more for wider Europe than the German people
event of immigrants halfway part of Europe. We help you Why don't
you help us? We have hungry kids. But the government says we
should help immigrants that take more of them. We have to close
the open door.
Charity organisers say that they've seen a change in the
demographic of those coming to them for help. Doesn't matter.
My editor mentioned Swanscombe,
we've noticed an increase of older people, which is
unbelievable for us. Traditionally, old people in
Germany wouldn't ask for free food. Now they have no
alternative. So we see more people whose need has become
stronger than shame.
This is happening everywhere across Europe.
Yeah. And this is thanks to Bill Maher, by the way. Oh, so he's
just a jerk. So going back this is the overriding situation in
Germany is this clip which is Germans on well, a welfare ended
the numbers are kind of interesting.
Business is booming in Germany. But under the surface, there's a
surprising number of people failing to get anything from it.
The Harbin but when Sam Hartsfield says
we still have 6 million people on long term unemployment
benefits. That means almost one in 10 households live on
welfare Deutschland.
In fact, figures from the German Office of National Statistics
and Euro stats show that just over 16% of Germans are at risk
of falling into poverty. Compare that to the situation in France,
the Czech Republic or the Netherlands. And you see that
more people can potentially slip through the safety net in
Europe's economic powerhouse. This is see more and more
Germans turning to charities for help. This food distribution
centre
we're seeing this in the Netherlands as well. The food
banks are the it's really the big thing is where people just
going to get food. Yeah, and
it'd be an epidemic and throughout the EU. But the
numbers at least that they presented on this report, which
I think was on our tea or art if it was on our tea, but it may
have been on van cat
so they're really looking at a 14 to 15% unemployment rate. If
every one is
something like real, even higher rate of about 16 Maybe
so what happens what happens when we have all of Europe? The
real unemployment if you if you're looking at the US, let's
just we'd say youth unemployment would be 40 50% In some
countries
in Germany to is pretty high to what what
I mean, this can't be hard to look at and predict nothing but
darkness What what is going to have? I mean, what is going to
happen? What is this because we have the industrial period is
over and we just have a bunch of people who don't fit in with the
new Tino hipster model. I mean, what is going to happen? Where
are the jobs going to come from for these people? They're not.
Then we need to have a war. Yeah, that that is what the
elites have always done.
Yeah, they gotta wipe these people out, is because they've
already restructured the whole world essentially. So the old
manufacturing is in China. Yeah. In parts of Mexico. And here and
there. I mean, scattered around. But China's the ones got their
fancy factories that can really crank stuff out. I mean, they're
astonishing. Well, so
you have
all these, there's no more factories, there's no more work.
I always reminisce, I tell him stories about when I worked at a
factory. I've worked in a bunch of factories I had when I was in
high school, when I was in high school as summer jobs, I'd come
out with a lot of money and kids were buying cars with their own
money. Because they got to get during the summer time saved,
we saved our money.
And you could do all that you can't do any of that now and you
can't lecture people about it and you can't listen to right
wing talk shows. Go get a job. Go get a job doing what
McDonald's you have to wait in line to get a job there. That's
all you're doing is taking the lowest possible wage and I'm
making anything at that place when you were just to work at a
factory I
hear I hear your money. I hear Costco is a great place to to
work Costco, right.
That's what the programme so you get a job at Costco. You can't
do luck. Yeah.
Well, then I would say the only other way to do it is we have to
have some kind of pandemic we have to kill people in another
one. They've
tried to do that with them slipping in the bird flu that
remember that one? That's my favourite.
Let me the here's one. So this is a report. The Lancet The
Lancet that I would say the lancet is when it comes to
medical information. It's highly regarded. Lancet has a called
Lancet. I said Lancet. Yeah, the lancet Lancet, the Lancet. This
is what everyone points to when they say vaccines are safe and
correct the Lancet. Am I wrong? Or do you know anything about
the lancet
is one of the great medical journals. Yeah, thank you. Okay.
A new report, which came out on February 15, neuro behavioural
effects of developmental toxicity. And I have this report
in the show notes 5902 dot Ionis show notes.com. In 2006, they
did a systematic review and identified five industrial
chemicals as developmental neurotoxins. We postulate that
people should never be exposed to these, these chemicals should
not be presumed safe to brain development. At any time, these
include, I'm going to try and read some of these lead,
obviously, methyl mercury polychlorinated biphenyls
arsenic, and Choate toluene. Since 2006. epidemic, epidemic,
epidemiologists,
epidemiological studies have documented six additional
developmental neurotoxins. So these are six additional ones
that you should not have anywhere near you. They include
manganese chloro, chloro, Pirate phos, dye chloro dye phenol
trick to loafer the theme to others I can't pronounce and
fluoride. Oh, and what do we see here on the first thing that we
see in the news regarding fluoride
going Finally this week some new advice for parents the American
Dental Association says that a tiny bit of fluoride toothpaste
should be used to brush kids baby teeth. As soon as they come
in. China. I think a lot of parents normally try to avoid
this because they're worried their little kids might swallow
this. So why did the ADA make the change to
kill them? That's why to kill these little children. Give them
fluoride because
it turns out that a lot of kids are getting cavities 40% of
school kids and the more cavities you have as a kid, the
more likely you are to have cavities as a grownup, which is
also absolutely not true. It's behavioural is not medical. They
are literally promoting a neuro toxin. That hurts your brain as
per the lancet promoting that for two year
olds. Yeah, that's probably not a good good thing. No, yes. Or
is fluoride in March?
I find it fascinating. And this has to be part of this part of
the idea that we can the war is messy. Why don't we just poison
the kids to poison him to death?
Man, it's just this this you know, the thing is, is going to
be developmental. So the kids still going to grow up, he's
just gonna be dumb. And it's that which makes it easier to
kill them in a war but I think that there's gonna have to be
some it's just as it seems like, you know, this is kind of
insincere.
It's an insincere attempt,
this is a big this gonna be a dare just nothing. Unless they
come up with something, some invent, I don't know how you can
do it, there's no jobs. No,
there's not. And also
to all the countries that have done, you know, kind of gets
eaten through this economic situation or doing it through
financial services and services, you know, service industries and
all that sort of thing. I mean, Iran here yeah, there's there
are a moderate amount of industrial operations here in
there. I mean, there's paint mixing place down the street of
Zubair has got a facility in Berkeley, there's a they still
make a lot of stuff here and there as small, I think there's
gonna be a lot of craftsmanship, stuff that that will keep people
busy, there's stuff like, you know, completely off the off
beat new media stuff that we're doing. Right, right, right.
Which is not even on the list of things to do for anybody. And do
ya know, it's gonna be a huge war and it's gonna take place in
Europe.
And you're thinking same actors, Germany, and the rest. Germany
and France, France, really
is going to be interesting is how it breaks down because you
know, you'd always end up with the British getting involved
because they can't keep out of anything. And so they'll get
involved with the French and then the Germans because there's
more talented at this sort of thing they'll start kicking
their ass and we're gonna have to get involved to save or are
there's going to be all these other countries I don't know
what the Russians are going to do. Well, no, they're freaked
out about everything so they
if we if we believe in Smith, Smedley Butler's war is a racket
then this is the only logical way to go because that's how
money gets created industry comes back and every everything
it takes a while and it's messy
I'm gonna have to get some a clip of this or do a scanning or
something but in in one of William Manchesters books where
he discusses the beginning of most of this about Roosevelt and
he discusses the beginnings of World War Two and he has stats
on how many planes and ships we had and then how our
manufacturing cranked up and then what it was like two years
later it's it makes your hair stand on and how we went from
his kind of as funky country that was whatever to into the we
don't want to get involved the years a bunch of a holes we
don't want to deal with them to incredible I think
stinky eight holes was what we said the smelly
and it was like Wow, you got to see these numbers. I'll dig that
up.
Why would How about the Middle East will be Rob alized How
about Africa? We can we do anything? Will they? Can we not
just make war in Africa and build that
is no fun?
Yeah, that's right.
Making war in Africa does not really solve Europe's problem.
Here's the good news. This is for the book club after the war.
There's lots of fun stuff we can do with science
does America oh its edge and military technology to Nazi war
criminals brought here after World War Two. An important new
book shows that while part of our technical edge was homegrown
part came from some 1600 Nazi scientists who tried to win the
war for Adolf Hitler. Operation Paperclip explores the secret
military programme that hired scientists who use slave labour
to build the v2 rocket and others who use concentration
camp victims for human experiments. For more. I'm
joined here in New York by Annie Jacobson, she's the author of
Operation Paperclip, The Secret Intelligence programme That
Brought Nazi Scientists to America Ania it's such a thought
provoking book, you start at the end of World War Two, when of
course the Americans and Russians are rushing towards
Berlin. And there's a different race going on trying to get a
hold of these Nazi scientists. Yes, we
were after what were called ABC weapons, atomic, biological and
chemical.
I think we nailed it. This is good. i This is the first kind
of mainstream publication that I've heard about recently of
Operation Paperclip.
He is getting back in the news. Some reason I'm not sure why
movie is getting geared up. We're trying to get the right
mindset. We've already militarised the United States of
America by making everyone you know, go through a rigmarole
just before any sort of an athletic event where you stand
up and you're just salute the flag and then there's a fly
over.
Don't forget the satellite. of the troops satellite shot of the
troops in Kandahar
satellite Shan they're all waving and they're in there is
all done. Now the most recent thing is they've gone from in
baseball games, they start off with a militaristic, which is
recent by the way people should look into this. They weren't
doing this around 1920. So they have the, you know, the national
anthem, and then on the seventh inning stretch where they used
to play I take a break for a minute or two where they
refurbish the infield with some scrapers. They used to sing Take
Me Out to the Ballgame. It was a tradition. They've dropped that
in most parks now and they sing America the Beautiful so they've
added a second second element of militarism into the baseball
game, which is supposed to be just something to sit in.
Something that you know laze around watching, which I found
was a little distressing. And you see that a lot. This America
the Beautiful there's no reason for this. We don't need to be
listening to the same two songs excessively.
You want to do a clip Blitz to get out of here. Are you done?
What do you Where are you at?
Well, if we do have if you want to hear some, here's, hold on.
We're gonna set it up right me? Yeah,
unreported news, Bahrain still going strong.
Bahrain, a string
of violent protests by Shia Muslims and Bahrain, marking the
third anniversary of the uprising against the Sunni
government. Several injured over a dozen detained as police used
tear gas. The unrest that began in February 2011 has been
violently suppressed with rather a lot of help coming in from the
ruling Maliki as a Gulf allies.
I think we should do like Libya, they do not no fly zone and go
go get those by Iranians.
This has been going on forever. It never gets reported to us
media, but it's been going on forever. Another non real hold
on hold
on hold on another non
reporting back and forth. Okay, it's not just all you, man,
three clips 33, clip Blitz, Blitz,
Syria, it's been a week where there was some rare good news,
food and medicine finally went into the besieged or quarter of
palms. And more than 1000 people were brought out during a
temporary truce between rebel fighters and the government. But
resolving serious deep humanitarian crisis needs a
political solution that helped push the warring parties to
attend peace talks in Geneva. But the second round ended today
in complete failure,
failure failure, everything's failed. I wonder why Kerry's not
out there saying hey, I suck. Sorry. Didn't work. What I mean,
well, so remember now that the the chemical weapons apparently
we're all going to be gone. And you had the Geneva one protocol
which called for Assad to step down. Then they came back for
Geneva to protocol. And then the guy said, well, but this is
based on one which means you still have to go and then Assad
said but hold on. I gave him my weapons. Why do I have to go?
And now it's all failed again. So the verbalization continues?
Exactly.
BlueJ
southern Bulgaria hit it. All right.
To southern Bulgaria, where far right protesters clashed with
police after proceeding a mosque. Over 100 demonstrators
arrested after hurling rocks and bottles at security forces and
smashing the building's windows. Local anger was sparked by a
decision to reopen the site as an active place of worship. It
had been used for secular purposes since the country
became communist in 1944. Yeah,
yeah. Bulgaria let's put it on the list of countries to watch
rebel
rehabilitation list. regularisation has begun through
through Facebook kills Oh, it
started for some of the drinking game has already begun to claim
lives for victims so far, all young men. The premise of the
game called Nick nominate is simple. Someone films themselves
down in a large drink and post the video on social media. After
that, they nominate a friend to outdo them. And if the nominee
doesn't respond, they are ridiculed on their Facebook wall
or on a Twitter
bullied. It's very difficult in this day of personal liberties
to say that Facebook shouldn't be condoning this, it should be
taking these videos offline. Personally, I'd like to see that
happening because frankly, if the thrill wasn't there, because
your mates weren't seeing you, I suspect it would very rapidly
fizzle out.
I think this is another part of a fine campaign. You hook them
up with the fluoride early on. Then you get them to drink
themselves into a stupor in their teens. Then you get them
on the meds and get them to OD on heroin in their 30s. Who
needs more it
does It's too little too late. All right,
one more.
Well, my favourite clip is this one Bart cops at work. Okay.
And what Bart is admitting tonight, Kristen?
Yeah Burt's police chief telling us today that the officer who
tased a man on the train here at San Bruno BART station was doing
his job. You cell phone video shows it up close. The BART
officer warns a man of what he is about to do. And he teases
him. It happened the night of January 29. Someone called Bert
police to complain that this man was drunk and harassing writers.
When an officer tracks the man down on the train. He repeatedly
asked him to get off. The man who has now been identified as
Robert Asbury doesn't listen. So he's tased once and minutes
later when he's on the ground again for five full seconds.
Taste again. As you saw in the video, the officer was extremely
patient
first police chief. The Office patient does not take the tasing
is fairly new. But he defended the officer's actions saying
even the second teasing seemed reasonable.
saw the subject still kicking struggling with the officer. We
also
showed the video to Don camera and a former BART police officer
who is now a tactical trainer.
I think both tastings were appropriate simply because you
will listen
to people on don't listen to me. You don't listen, it's
appropriate for me to shoot electricity through you
for the train that day do not agree. In that video they can be
heard telling the officer that Asbury did nothing wrong. was
sitting next to him insisted as Barry was harmless he should
have complied. But San Francisco resident Benito Taylor told us
that does not justify what the officer did next.
I don't think the second tase was necessary was already a
painting is down.
I love that we will have the entire world go into a tizzy
over some zoo that killed the giraffe. Or some stray dogs that
are going to be picked up. And everyone's all freaking out. But
oh,
I think you know one Tears was okay. You know, it was a second
one. I think it was a valid tasing. I think that's all
right. Shoot some electricity. So that guy with hooks with
metal hooks into his skin. You know, I think that's okay.
Taser, taser, taser. Ah,
wow, that is that guy was
the reason I like that clips because the guy was barking at
the guy like the TSA people used to bark at you that you always
bitched about Yeah,
oh, but this this
is not patients. No, this is what's not patient. Get off the
train, sir. Yeah,
this is the next step. Put your put your laptop in the thing I'm
gonna teach you take your shoes off. No liquids,
taser, taser, taser, shelter in place, cower in the corner.
Well, luckily, those of you listening to this programme are
going to stop that. Because you can stand there and just laugh.
days or days or days.
You can just stand there and just laugh and everything will
be fine. And you know that you're there just, you are just,
the whole idea is to just terrorise you, and go forth
after this podcast and realise that you you cannot be
terrorised. They cannot do it to you because you see the humour.
You see the you got to admit it's humorous.
It's very funny in a sick way.
It is for the sick world.
Taser, taser, taser.
Yeah, you're not listening, sir. Wow. I don't know what to leave
you with experience North Korea or the Snowden accomplices. I'm
not sure I'm a little torn. Maybe I'll do both.
Hit the boats off and we'll finish up. All right. So go to
experience North korea.com. This is our producer my thesis? Yes,
exactly. Our producer Tony. He says he was in Shanghai. And
there is a there's a C in it. They went to he went to a bar
with his South Korean friend. And he says these flyers were
all over this restaurant or this bar in Shanghai. And it's
experienced North korea.com. And there's big big tours. And by
the way, it's all in English. There's no Mandarin so they're
not going after the Chinese market. They're going after the
American market or English speaking market. And it looks
because this is get
good. Yeah, I want to see that parade that big thing they do
once a year that's got to be just worth the price of
admission. I'm going
to this is Pyongyang marathon 2014. With the banner on the
homepage has that hole. What are they? What are the tours? They
have something that let's see. Is there anything okay? We can
go to Pyongyang and surroundings, which you get
visit three most important cities of the country get to
understand the country and its society. observe their way of
life, or you can do a week in the past, which is 1900 euros
live a unique experience for the world's most hermetic country.
Visit the country under the purest communism. Whoo. And then
you could do Pyongyang, the capital of communism, that's
three days and two nights.
I said, you know, there's gonna cost about a grand for some of
these things. I think this would be you probably could do this
trip for about $1,000 If you can get there.
But I'd like to congratulate you. And I think you can pull
this out. I mean, it's fact you are right on North Korea wants
to be a tourist destination. And then their marketing. They're
actually marketing. They're out there getting getting the word
out. I think it's really good. It's
fantastic. I think I can probably put this back about
four years when I first bitched and moaned about wanting to
drink Bordeaux. And after I saw the vice thing, and they had all
these tourist things, even though they're all empty. You
don't set up a big tourist attraction because you just want
to kill empty. You wanted to bring tourists. Yes.
You wanted and I bet it's a beautiful country. I bet his
beautiful. Oh, it's untouched. Yeah.
It's the light that say on this website. Is that the final the
last frontier or something that have some? Yeah,
there'll be no billboards. Horrible. McDonald signs.
There's no McDonald's. Let's face it. There's no jack in the
box. There will be 10 years from now. But right now it's probably
pristine.
Experience North Korea, the untouched final frontier. Its
beauty great, was beautiful. So everyone can enjoy that. And
then then we had a little bit of an argument about this. It
appears the accomplices everyone was referring to regarding
Edward J. Snowden, unknown to many in Congress as Edwin or
Eric because that's how our Congress is paying attention.
Looks like the the accomplices are being targeted. And we'll
hear about who they are soon take
this February 10 memo from the National Security Agency to
members of Congress detailing to some great extent what they
believe now is happening and what they're saying to Congress
his there was an NSA civilian who Snowden apparently got to
enter his the civilians password into computers Snowden was using
the person did not know of course, he says that Snowden was
going to steal information from the NSA database has entered his
password and Snowden, unbeknownst to him, is able to
capture that password and use it. That civilian who is not
identified now has left the employment of the NSA, the NSA
says that it is informed the Justice Department of all of
this no information about what will happen next, the memo
pretty tantalising because it also says there is a contractor
and an active duty member of the US military also caught up in
all of this, but the NSA same, it's going to leave it to their
employers to deal with it. So perhaps more to come. All of
this, of course, a massive security violation. And it
begins to explain how some of this happened.
Yes. And I think it starts to put the strategy into clearer
view of calling Snowden a thief. By saying he didn't have access
to this, he stole the documents. So this very different legal
scenario that is compliant, it
puts your buddy Glenn green balls into a bind because he
ain't
by now. Now. He truly is offence of stolen material. You're
absolutely right. So we both were eautiful we both win. And
it's a set of beautiful. It's a setup though. It's so obvious
because first we have douchebag Rogers trying to get Comey the
FBI guy who's new, let's face it, to say yes, if you if you
are a whistleblower and you stole a dress, then you're a
thief. If you're a whistleblower, but you stole the
documents, then you are a thief. And if you sell those documents,
you are fencing. So if you did not so it's a very specific
difference between having access to the documents and saying,
Whoa, this is wrong what's going on or stealing the documents?
Then that isn't that will not that will put Snowden outside of
the whistleblower category and place him firmly in To the thief
category
well, it changes a lot of premises because Snowden was
always sold to the American public as the guy who had
access. And that was a it was scandalous that he had access.
And now that if he didn't have access, and he just stole a
password and went in, this changes the whole thing, just
gonna take a lot of work to straighten this out
it i think i think it's and it's so clear that you can set this
up, it's easy to get some other civilian to say, yeah, no, I
gave that to him. Yeah. And some of the active member of the DOD.
Yeah, yeah. He find some students to do that. Well, okay.
I think we've gone too long.
Dude, we've gone way too. So be back in the
conversation. I'm sure.
It's I think that's going to be one of the major focus eyes of
the coming week.
Probably that end that we got it. Just funny that mainstream
media hasn't picked up on this North Korea thing.
The again, the experience North Korea trips,
yeah. Dynamite. Yes, perfect. To get there's that ex that
interested Vice magazine used to China, I think was the way to go
because you get your documents right there on the spot.
Right. And you're good to go. Well, yeah, although they seem
to be steering clear of all things China, which is
interesting. I'm not sure.
Not sure. Yeah, that's weird, too. Well, we'll figure it out.
Figure it out and take the visit.
We're definitely going to do our best and we will continue to do
that for you on Thursday. When we come back on the best podcast
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