Why is anyone wasting their time under any circumstances? Adam
curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, February 23 2014. Time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination episode five, nine.
This is no agenda.
Nothing called super foods from FEMA Region six here at the
traverse high tide out in Austin, Texas capital, the Lone
Star State in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry and
from
Northern Silicon Valley where they're looking for all the real
El Chapo. I'm John C. Dvorak is correct, Vaughn
a skill.
So funny. I so agree with what our producer sent us.
Ya know, as soon as he sent it.
And we got we got an email from our producer living down there
in Mexico. Was that the deal?
We can't tell what he is. But he was apparently living in Mexico
is something for some reason, rather. And
he says that it says the guy in the video is an imposter. Not
the real guy or? Well, good on you for calling that though.
John. Yeah, we had the three amigos meeting last week, or a
couple days ago. And you know, I was looking at the TT TPP and
TTIP. And of course, this is also about the Super the NAFTA
superhighway going straight up to Canada Navia. But you said
Oh, no, no, no. There's also a little meeting with the Sinaloa
Cartel
must have been? Well, you Well, we're on at you if you just
died, or there's very few news reports. All we see is what the
AAP sent out. And they captured this guy supposedly is over in
some buddy's house. No guards and a burger. just grabbed him.
And it would seem to me it's pot. There's a number of
backup backup. This is one of the richest people in the world.
This guy. Yeah. Thank you. So So yeah, the idea that, you know,
hey, we happen to pop by for this little meeting and we
figure we come and bust you right now. And it wasn't it was
American law enforcement as well. Correct.
Yeah, DEA? Well, let's do a little background for people
want to know what what happened at the head of the Sinaloa
Cartel supposedly arrested. And we've already known from
depositions in Chicago, and we've discussed this and others
have discussed it long since we discussed it years ago, where
there was a some guy got arrested who shouldn't have been
and so he's there deposing and trying to get do discovery on
the on the on the US defence, not holders group. Attorney
General justice. Yeah. For the Justice Department for a deal to
show that there was a deal done between the Sinaloa cartel and
the US government. That's what Fast and Furious was all about.
It was descending guns to the Sinaloa Cartel period, it wasn't
about anything else,
so that they could ruin all the other gangs takeover and in
return, they received free passage, certainly to Chicago,
but other areas of the United States to distribute their wares
did I just lose? You? Know, that's what happened in our
little pre show as well. Let's hold on one second.
So that wasn't good.
What is this? This is Windows eight rebooting on you know,
seven.
That's right. It's gonna give me a blue screen of death out of
the blue. Every time it does that. I take something off the
USB. and then I have to reboot it reboots fast but, but there's
something. I'm looking at the
Okay, let's Hello. Hello. This is the window tech support. Have
you tried unplugging device waiting? 30 seconds and then
turning on again?
Yeah, that's exactly what I've been doing. Let's
have you installed new drivers.
Come on. App dated looking at this, you know, you help
describe this problem. You know, those mini dump and then there's
just a big DMP file. That means nothing,
you know, you installed something. No, yeah, you're
saying it's exactly the same as it was on Thursday?
Yes, exactly. I don't I don't use this machine for it.
Alright, can we continue? I mean, I
was I was saying they were the ideas they would take over all
the. Okay. Yeah, so we just cut in and you wonder how you wanted
me to go? No,
I've been recording the whole time. I've been singing songs.
If you had to clap your hands.
Let's get back to Guzman. And if it is rebooted, I'm going to go
to another machine. Alright, good. So so he the idea was that
the Sinaloa cartel would take is like from some plot, somebody
sent us a science fiction plot. Apparently this has been done in
the movies, where the idea was that the Sinaloa guys take over
the whole place and then kill all the other gangs off and then
we would just be doing business with one group and it would make
life easier for everybody all around. And, and so this doesn't
this does not fit into the schema? No,
it makes no sense. And by the way, if this truly if they truly
have the number one guy, why don't you think our president
would be doing a press conference and jumping up and
down and gone? All children are safe now.
Yeah, excellent point. That's
what I'd be doing. So
you had there's nothing they didn't even play it on NBC. And
this
is a guy that people know his name. He's a celebrity in a way.
Yeah. El Chapo. Yeah. El Chapo Guzman. Everybody knows this
guy. But not but yet, there's no one thumping their chest. I find
that hard to believe.
Yeah, that's the lack of chest thumping. is ridiculous. And
it's so it's either says, a couple of, I don't know, we can
make some some suggestions. But it seems as if he's either going
to, they needed to get a hold of him.
This was one way he wasn't answering his phone.
So they now they're chatting about some and he's going to
either escape with some spectacular escape, or Yeah,
that was gonna shoot him. And it won't be him of course, no. And
he's going to be moved to Switzerland. And he maybe wants
out. I mean, he's possibly saying look, this is
I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm
tired. Just a lot of work. Hmm. So this is fishy.
Well, it's kind of interesting that it comes on the heels of
the banks essentially being given carte blanche to launder
drug money. So all of that is kind of set up I would believe
that the Sinhala was our kind of ruling the all the gangs.
I don't think it looks like looks like it.
And if this really happened, here's another data point.
Wouldn't you think that another gang would be jumping to get
into position or someone would move up there would be some
there's usually a new guy who then presents himself, right, as
the guy began the copy to to to copy whatever. Now, now, but
we'll have to see, but I'm also very sceptical of this being the
real deal.
Alright, let's I guess we solved that one.
All right. Onward. Yes. Well, I'm a little under the weather
today. I don't like to complain, but I do have to tell you that
I'm weak. As Miss Mickey had two art openings one Thursday night
is wearing yourself out. No, it's the almighty dollar. Yeah,
no, it's uh oh man just people when you when you do an art
opening and everyone's talking in your face and like this and
this bit here facing Oh, right God man and tall people that so
so we had to open one was organised by her collectors,
which is awesome. Because by
the way, do you ever have any of these guys that come up to you
and they get like, something died in their stomach?
Gah there's actually a dead bird in the back of their mouth you
mean? Yeah. Well, so we had the last night
turning away from him to know
well, being six four is good in this case. But last night, we
had the collectors which was you know, really that was that was
really really fantastic. You know? Just heighten your like
Dan Dan rather's wife, you know, kind of like these kinds of
people who were around Austin, who are collectors. And then
last night we had so there's also been advertising and you
know, there's people know about this show. So there were a lot
of people were invited, but also people who just saw it. Go and
check it out. And I don't know what it is, but I am like a
crazy magnet as ye and you probably would have figured that
and you know the kind of crazy that can come to an art opening
John, you know, the really wacky ones?
Actually, no, oh, please.
I mean, I go to these things. I do the same thing you just
described, which is I'm walking having to be in the area and
there's an art opening. And I go in before it opens I'm saying
oh, what's going on eyes? Oh. Oh, is what's in so you should
come out. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you get to like go, you get some
free cheese and some lousy sharp
plastic cup. Exactly. And then everyone spits in your face. So
anyway, so that I woke up this morning on my left, I won't
open. I got pinkeye whooping cough measles. I don't know what
I have is bad, bad bad. But I have to say that I've been
following everything that's going on some a lot of
mainstream follow which which we've had to do. But, but the
one thing I wanted as the Olympics are closing today I I
watched a little bit because I kind of lost the fever but I was
watching the women's you never had the fever I had the fever in
the beginning big time one day I got it I got real fever for
these the the team pursuit speedskating Wow. That's that's
fun to watch men,
especially when they stumble.
Well, yeah. When their skates get entered intermingle, though,
absolutely. That's
a good one. Yeah.
But I saw late late late I saw I've never watched Bob Costas.
You know, I don't give I don't care about sports. I don't watch
sports. I watch the Super Bowl, I might catch. You know, the
World Series, the final game. And and I watched a little bit
of the Olympics and figure skating. So But Bob Costas never
really paid attention to him. And of course, he wasn't on
because he had double pinkeye I think somebody went to an art
opening. Yeah, he was he's got to stay away from the art
openings. And George, by the way. We Friday night, Molly was
in town, Molly wood, and we went out for dinner. And we made
almost made well, we made the mistake. We got lucky. But we
had oysters the night before and important to thing or a travel,
which was very dangerous. Just a rule. And Mickey actually said,
Oh, we didn't adhere to John's rule. Never have oysters before
an important day or travel. We were okay. Anyway. So I see Bob
Costas. And I had no idea. This guy is a robot. The stuff he and
the unbelievable. I'm trying to think how it can explain.
They get a little background, Costas, who has been working in
sports forever. And he's a little sports sports jocks and
therefore is a real wannabe. He's got one of the smoothest
deliveries in the world never flubs he's,
but what he's saying is the writing. And he's and stupid.
But the writing is always stupid. But you can listen to
him forever. And not here anymore. They just couldn't read
his own prompter because he was blinded by this dumb. Right,
exactly. That's why he couldn't do the show because he couldn't
see him off and they put
Matt Lauer and a couple other guys in it who were just
realised when you watch these other guys try to talk about
this banality. This sort of sports they can't get away with
just as stupid as crap there is they can't get away with even
though I'm close, no to mesmerising you the way Costas
does. So as I'm watching,
as I'm watching the coverage, and he has Michaela Schifrin on,
and this is an 18 year old girl. She's like Taylor Swift, except
you don't really want to have sex with her. And she can't sing
and she's really mentally 14. But she's a fantastic skier.
And, and, and I realise all that he's showing is her parents
freaking out in the stands. And then they had a camera in her
house back home and wherever she lives. So they had given the
family, a widescreen TV with a camera in it. So they could
record the family and relatives cheering as she won. And that's
really all they're showing. And he is he is you know, when when
you win the gold medal, and you're, you've been trained by
the International Olympic Committee to talk the right way
about the sponsors and you have media training, she must have
taken off or played hooky for all of that, and Costas couldn't
understand it. He's trying to have a so called interview. And
he's asking all these questions and she's just coming back with
completely she's, I think she there was answers scripted, but
she didn't realise she was supposed to read them. At a
certain point. Costas gets so angry, he has the cue cards in
his hand, like the little cards, the index cards, he throws them
in the air, and then said, Oh, you go ahead and you you read
the toss to the commercial. And I recorded this.
I've never seen Costas lose it. But it was what she said. So
we're picking it up here as EB and he's already had four
minutes of her and he's had enough because she's not playing
the game. She's not reading the script, or the the script didn't
appear on the prompter, or she's just dumb. I don't know what it
was, but he could not handle it.
That so I didn't know they had cameras in there. I knew they
were watching and they got a new widescreen TV just so they could
watch the Olympics, but I didn't know that.
The Olympics look good in high def. They do.
And you looked especially good out there today grabbing that
gold medal. I mean, it was not unexpected because you were
highly touted coming in but it's one thing to have a chance to be
among the favourites and the love thing to do but he's
looking
for the human interest story here. He's really He's waiting
for her to say yeah, you know, I really I worked hard kill before
I've been skiing forever sacrifices, you know, my just
you have the some some sibling who has a horrible disease? I
don't know, maybe not. So he's he's digging, he's waiting for
her to pick up on something and say something nice.
Is there a sense of relief satisfaction? What's it like
a lot of relief? For sure. Especially after that Bob will
the second run but I mean, for the most part, I don't really.
I'm just really tired, right? Is a night race. So we start the
day just later, but I'm
not now she's going to make a fundamental mistake which Costas
digs in deeper and hates himself for it, where they talk about
what time they're recording this and when it's being broadcast,
because you never do that. You never talked about the fact that
is not live and this is not done.
It's, I don't know, one o'clock in the morning, right now.
It's about 2am Sochi time. It's,
like 36 hours past my bedtime.
Is she doing She's ruining my interview?
But 2am Sochi time as we tape this, and as people watch this,
it's just after 1am on the east coast on the west coast in New
York and LA and we're confusing everyone.
Oh, yeah. Good luck figuring this one out. It's a puzzle, but
um,
no, I'm really this is right now. I'm gonna clenching my butt
cheeks and like, Oh, this is so bad. This is like the worst
interview ever excited.
And I mean, that's, I can't I don't really know how to put it
but uh,
alright, so Costas is now he's just he's going to throw a Hail
Mary. And it's it basically it falls drops after two feet. Are
you too tired to party?
Yes.
By the way, when he said party, she went into like an MK Ultra
trance. You know, party. Yes. I'm too tired to party. Is the
party talking with you as a party talking with you as the
party? This is where he loses it. John, when she says the
cause of talking with you as a party
oil boy, you got to have some data not to look forward to.
They're really good night's rest than a party tomorrow.
I mean, you are the best thing I could look forward to.
Thank you so much. You're welcome one.
I don't need those. Just you throw it to commercial. It says
it right there. Go ahead.
What are the Why would he do this? The only reason I can
think he's making her throat to commercials because she was not
reading the prompter the whole time or something like this? Ah,
it was it was really weird.
It is weird. And then
and then she actually, it could also be that they want to hire
her to do commentary or something. Well, yeah, no, this
is a date that they wouldn't hire her. She's too young. Oh,
yeah. Have a work permit.
Susanna Guthrie is smart. I'm sorry.
Suzanne like this? Well,
she's pretty close, but she's really close. Anyway, I just
thought that was weird. He was throwing the cue cards and
getting all pissed off. And yeah, Billie Jean King had a
little thing to say. I don't know if of course the Dutch won
the most medals in the 18th ever competition thing, even one team
since the Ice Age.
As everyone's talking about that, well, it's because they're
ice skaters are just don't worry. Yes, guys, but
that's what we do. And Putin came over to I think her name
was Woolshed Wooster. I forget her name. Who was they tried to
actually make her stand up for gay rights. I think she's
bisexual or lesbian. I know she's openly something. And
Putin came over to the Holland house, which is where we party.
We're well known for our parties as Dutch. And and he hugs her.
And this is big news over there in the Olympic village
of Vladimir Putin's visit to the Holland house. I don't know if
you saw this earlier. The guy who's one of the Dutch speed
skaters want to go metal Irene boost and he went and saw her
and she's openly gay at the Holland house and gave her a big
hug. I think I
saw a little bit of that just real quick. I thought that was
great. Did he know what she's gay? I think he didn't know she
was gay. Good for him. He knows deep down how
sad is this?
This is pathetic so sad. You know that he's human being in
their human being that's great. That's good for you. Baby yeah
girlfriend. That's so pathetic this
Yeah, and something about the Holland house early in our
coverage of this bullcrap. Yeah that everyone's weeks and weeks
ago. Yeah,
that Heineken was supplying it and everywhere it was like oh
Heineken should not supply the beer for the All right was the
Heineken and the beer. The funniest thing that I have here
from the from the Olympics is morning, Joe, as of course
Ukraine, kind of sort of look the play was on we saw something
happen we're not sure exactly was real or not. and Mika
Brzezinski, whose father is
basically the architect of all of this realisation. He has a
couple of interesting books you might want to check out.
She works for MSNBC. And she was very adamant about all these
horrible people making money off of this tragedy, have three
flashpoints across the globe right now, Ukraine, in very
vivid terms, Syria, where the bloodshed goes on just horrific
levels, crimes against humanity being committed. And then, of
course, Iran, who looks like they're going to walk away from
the table and move towards nuclear weapons. What's the
common denominator in all three of those world crises? Vladimir
Putin, what's the United States response? What's the President
going to say? What's the Secretary of State going to say?
Once the United States government going to say, what
are we going to do? Tell aggressively? Are we going to
work against Vladimir Putin? That's the question.
Well, I think you add to that question, what about all the
people making a lot of money at the Olympics,
the people performing, they're the people competing, they're
the people sponsoring there. What are they going to do? Why
are they there?
Is this okay?
I'm just curious.
How about NBC? You did?
Who is that guy?
That's Joe Scarborough.
And this is on MSNBC. Right? Yeah.
But But yes, so she's, uh, first of all, he's doing exactly what
he should do is covering up the fact that the United States and
other actors are making all the rubble. So he's doing his job,
but then she's so ditzy. She's basically saying, Oh, we
shouldn't be making any money, including my own company.
I thought she was being there. It sounded to me as though she's
being sympathetic.
Since you put this dumb,
no, no, it sounded like she was saying, what about all we can't
be mean to Putin? Because what about all these people that have
jobs? Because if you'll No,
no, no, she's saying it's crazy. It's it's detestable that all
these people are making money off of Putin. Putin is enabling
it. That's what she say. Oh,
would you I'm not hearing it that way. Okay, that's the way I
heard it. Well played again. I would be interested in listening
with your perspective.
Okay. Well, I'll take his part out because his part is off.
I got his we know what he's doing.
But all the people making a lot of money at the Olympics, the
people performing there, the people competing, they're the
people sponsoring there. What are they going to do? Why are
they there? Is this okay? I'm just curious, if kind of
strange, isn't it? Yes. It's
very strange. Wait a minute. He's an evil dictator. And we're
making layers
in a hole? Yeah. There was a guy on the PBS NewsHour that wrote a
book called Russia. And it describes the people of Russia
and the problem with Russia. And he discusses a little bit about
this, including some interesting factoids. A Russian book guy
too. I would like to go over this guy's little commentary,
because in part two of it, he brings up a couple of
interesting points that I don't think anybody really reflects on
to any extreme, and it leads me to discuss the curry divorce and
divorce consulting. Possibilities. Do
you want me to play one or two?
Well, let's play one. So we get a little background on this
thing. And in my many travels across Russia, it seems to me
that Russian behaviour is understandable. And there are
patterns behind it.
Well, so let's, let's look at that through the guise of the
Olympics, right, because we're seeing the Olympics from the
opening ceremonies to the state the whole stage and how does
this Russia that you see manifest itself?
Well, I think the Olympics are a very traditional Russian event.
I mean, this is a country that has built a St. Petersburg to be
the European city on a swamp, professed it wanted to spread
communism around the world. The Olympics, in a way are another
grandiose project to try to catch up to the west. But I
think what really characterises these games to me is that they
show how much Russia actually lags because if you look at
what's going on in Russia, Moscow may be full of luxury
cars and fancy restaurants thanks to the riches from
Russia's vast energy wealth. But you don't have to go to Siberia,
you can just drive 50 miles outside of Moscow and see the
countryside that's literally dying. I visited many villages
where there were two, sometimes even one elderly person living
in what used to be villages on muddy tracks and the poverty
alcoholism. Um, disease in many ways Russia is heading toward
crisis.
Has he ever been to Albuquerque? I don't want to say too much.
But yeah. You don't have to drive too far here either to get
somewhere that alcoholism and dirt road stuff.
Yeah. Well, he goes on He does have a couple of and he has an
interesting thesis, which I think is interesting for for the
one reason that it? Well, we have to play this clip, which is
a little long, but I have to say it brings to mind a couple of
interesting points that I think I'd like to at least discuss for
a minute with you two of
the things that you write about a lot and that and then again, I
think we see in the Olympics from your writing and others
power and, and corruption. Tell us tell us what you what you
see. And again, how do they manifest themselves in the
Olympics?
Well, we we've heard a lot about corruption in this the Sochi
Olympic Games, the most expensive games ever more than
$50 billion $7 billion are reported to have gone to
companies connected to one man, this man happens to have been
Putin's childhood friend and former Judo partner. But I think
what happens at the top reflects what's going on in the rest of
the country. A former central banker said that in 2012 $50
billion were spent illegally outside of Russia. But it's more
than that. I think that we have this idea that
I need to ask you can I you might have been interrupted here
for a moment. No, go ahead. This the whole corruption thing,
which I've now heard this 50 Sometimes it's 51. I've heard
people say $52 billion corruption from who we who gives
a crap, you know, it's not like we all pitch in and sent money
to the Olympics, and he's ripping us off. I mean, it's
it's a huge building. Oh, no, I agree
with that. And that's where it's it was leading. Yeah. Okay, by
the way. Yeah. Okay, so the Russians have blimey Scott's 50
billion and a bunch of it went to his buddy. So all the rest of
it's really none of our business the way they do do things. But
when you finalise this, that, that's when the point will be
made. Okay? Putin has
ruled according to a social contract. According to which, as
long as living standards keep rising, the Kremlin is more or
less free to be as authoritarian as it likes. I don't think
that's quite true. I think the glue binding Putin's regime to
the Russian people is corruption, because bribery
involves everybody.
Well, that's what I was gonna ask him. Why is it accepted and
explain that? Why would corruption be the glue? If if
there is, and I recently spoke to Masha Gessen about her her
new book about Pussy Riot and we see the riot some of the members
showing up in Sochi, and we've had some reports of being
attacked for it. The general population seems at least from
the outside to accept the system.
Sure, because they're part of the system. I was saying about
how Russia has Russians have practical motives for acting the
way they do. I think that this glue binding the system
together, as I said, is bribery. Everybody has to pay a bribe. If
you drive a car, you will certainly have to pay a bribe.
When you're stopped by a traffic policeman, which happens almost
every day. If you're the owner of a corner store, for example,
you have to pay the fire safety inspector, the health inspector,
the building code inspector, everybody pays bribes. And I
think bribery not only coerces people because it enables the
authorities to prosecute almost everybody, it also co ops
people. Because if you if you're paying a bribe, you get
something out of it. If you're the corner store owner, and
you're paying the police to ensure that no harm comes to
your business, you feel that you've got something over the
competition a couple blocks away, man has he had
these guys ever been to Italy? And this or? Yes. Okay, so
here's here's, here's the way I'm looking at this because the
Jaycees friend who was living in the in Ukraine for a long time,
he would talked about this, and you would commonly be bing, bing
cops constantly. And it was like, Whatever happened, you
just paid them off. And it was they would make things run
smoothly, things did run smoothly. I think it's a public
relations problem. I think the way bribery is done in some of
these Eastern European countries, which is just
endemic, and part of the system, which is what's always
overlooked. It's literally part of the system the way it works,
these guys don't get paid enough this has to happen. I just think
it needs to be renamed. And this is why they should people should
hire us once in a while to open tipping.
And we have an app for that on iOS as Android apps for that.
Yes. What is the problem
await? When you go to a restaurant? Why do you leave a
tip
for bribery? I'm bribing you. Hold on. Very good. We bribe
people all the time for the better at our table for the day
get in the front lines everywhere Of course we do of
course we do a tip What are doughnuts for cops? What is that
that's not bribery oh that's bribery
that's rare so called you know the cops that don't take Fritos
are called thin ah
okay well and this was I want to get PBS on I
was on the NewsHour yeah and these guys got this book might
be worth reading is a very interesting character and he was
trying to let us the American public doesn't know crap about
Russia no no and we have all these these preconceived notions
I mean I have the stereotypes I get a big kick out of him you
know hookers from the Ukraine and all the rest of that there's
that by the way like the premature ageing phenomenon that
you run into there well yeah open tipping if they would just
get a pump in Russia got a clue i like it he'll you know get to
WP peace boys out there and they can fix the whole thing up
i like it i think i think it's a good hey there we're talking
about Pussy Riot is the music video out yet cuz I looked at
that that footage again. This is the music video. The whole this
is the whole thing was a music video shoot.
Oh, right. It had to be that because those guys those phoney
baloney Cossacks know this. And they were actors and they were
hitting the girls on the ass. Yeah, whatever that that piece
of rope was which was real cops that use a baton and be beaten
the crap
would be over in two seconds of now. Now this this was the music
video. And it's funny to me that AP and everyone all was all in
on it. And then they rough up one guy with the camera. No, of
course that's part of it is that we're gonna this is the guy
you're supposed to hit. Who's this? Free Press. And then one
of these so called Cosmic guys. He was actually filming himself,
you know? So you'll see his footage in there is I mean, come
on people. And by the way, let's Ukraine for a moment, just for a
moment here. So I'm watching everything unfold. And this is
very interesting, because whenever you can have bring back
an actor who, you know who has distinct features. It's always
great for ratings. So this is why we bring back Yulia
Tymoshenko with that crazy
size. Besides being an attractive female. She wears a
crown when anybody noticed that she's wearing a crown. Yeah,
well, she's insane. But she's insane. I mean, I don't think
anyone knows what where she's from. She was she was at one
point maybe she still is the richest woman in Ukraine. You
know, she's the gas princess. And she and she was thrown in
jail and convicted because, you know, she took out contracts on
people and had them killed. Now, there's a reason why all this
happened. She is completely pro EU. And she's always been pro EU
and so that didn't work out for her and they threw her in the
brake and now all of a sudden, I mean, here, here's what here's
what I saw happening. There's, I didn't see police with brutal
act, and not none of any video that I've seen. I didn't see
police killing protesters. I saw protesters beating the crap out
of police, or so called protesters. And there's this one
guy who is in every single picture all footage, I'm sure
you've seen the guy's got one of those goofy helmets on and he's
got like a it's like a drape like a curtain as a cape. Have
you seen this guy?
Probably he's an old one. The guy saw over and over again had
a had a gay rights hat.
No, no, no, I didn't see that guy. No, I'm talking with
frontline guy, frontline. He's got like a tablecloth or a
curtain or something. And you see him and he's age at the
Presidential home. He's on the barricades. He's in he's in
every this guy is very recognisable, you'll see him and
when you really see what is going on here on the stage where
we had the so called protesters at the airport doing similar
like a CITIZENS ARREST on politicians who were trying to
escape as a no no, no, no, you're coming back and you're
voting on these laws. I mean, come on. This is coercion. Is
it? Yeah. And one of them is to pop this this woman out of jail.
And then she's up there like yeah, oh, like she's like she's
the chosen one. And this is this is really really really obvious
what's happening here. This is not okay.
I want to exchange one corrupt group with another well here is
a an I want to joke of it is, you know, they want to put near
this a Russian pro Russian guy than they want some pro
Ukrainian guy. The joke of it is with this woman. And I only
looked this up because I was looking at her says she's 53
women in the Ukraine, and you can talk to people that live
there. And it's not necessarily a bad stereotype, but they look
like they're 70 When they hit 30 Yeah, it's just something and
there's a long explanation for genetically why this happens.
She's 5354 55 She looks like she's 20
No, not anymore. John. She did you look at her on? She doesn't
look as old as she would not. She doesn't look to me. Yeah,
but she does not look 20 No.
Well, she compared to the women in the Ukraine. I mean, no
offence to the Ukrainians, but they know what I'm talking. She
doesn't have a moustache. Yeah, that was that. So she's under
Latvian and Latvia has got this weird. You know, they have the
blonde parade. And it's a weird place. But for women,
just just the whole thing was such an obvious setup. I got
this, I watch them Al Jazeera America. And they called in
Skype to some local blogger who either who knows what side of
the spectrum she's on this particular reporter, but she
just gave her an interesting little rundown of a few things I
think we should listen to because it was not the
mainstream messaging.
Now to the breaking news out of Europe, a situation changing by
the hour and about the time it takes to ship a package from New
York to California anti government protesters in Ukraine
have taken
I'm not sure I don't know which clip this is Hold on a second.
Let's listen to this anyways, sounds kind of interesting about
the time it takes to ship a package to
your kyiv's Main Square, seize control of the president's
office and today begun the formation of a new and very
fragile government, one week of unofficial war, and this
morning, opposition protesters are commonly restoring a new
kind of order. They began to revolution three months ago, but
the real work happened in just days.
I'm sorry. This is my clip of listen to how neatly it's all
packaged up for the idiots in the West.
Ukraine's president who has been MIA appeared in a TV interview
calling the revolution a coup comparing it to the Nazi
invasion of Germany. There have been conflicting reports about
whether or not he is resigning. We know that President Viktor
Yetta COVID his office and his very elaborate compound have now
been seized. I want to bring in NBCs Richard Engel who is live
on the phone I'm
sorry, no, this is this is this is the Richard angle. Remember,
this is the guy who did the fake report about being hacked in
while he was in some cafe in Moscow, but the whole report was
bullcrap was bull crap. Yeah. So angles is compromised.
So So here's here he is, he's now he's he's not staying for
the rest of the Olympics in Sochi. Oh, no, no, no. I mean,
he's he's on he's boots on the ground now in case he ever in
Sochi? Well, that no, I think he was only in Moscow. And so now
he's boots on the ground here. So this Richard Engel is clearly
part of the pundit programme there from the agency
from Kyiv. With the very latest, Richard is it too early to say
the President's regime has been toppled?
I think it's fair to say that a revolution has taken place.
The revolution is taking place. They are
70%. There. The capital is now in the hands of the protesters.
The government buildings are in the hands of the protesters. The
presidential offices are occupied by demonstrators. The
police all of the Interior Ministry forces have firmly come
out in a statement saying they are with the people. The army is
saying it will not get involved. The President has had to flee
the capital city. Parliament has taken over this has been a
effectively a parliamentary coup and the legislative block branch
has ousted the executive branch. And all day parliament has been
being broadcasting their processions on loudspeakers and
passing law after law. And to answer your initial question,
the laws that they are passing, which would normally require
presidential approval are being implemented. For example, they
passed a law to release Yulia to chenko, who was a former prime
minister, main rival of the president. She has been
released. She is back in Kyiv. And she's expected to address
protesters any minute
so I can literally see Victoria Nuland sitting there tonight get
those guys back from the airport sit down all right, pass this
pass this I mean would they just wrote these laws in two minutes?
Come I found interesting was they had a they some some I was
watching that one of the networks they have B roll of the
of the head guy what's his name Yuschenko? Which clincher yets
are the other guy the the know that guy was running the place
or trying to oust
Victor. What we just call them Victor v y Victor YVYV
y so he's shown signing something but then I saw this
and it was him. It was some B roll somebody's done. Got with
him filling out some the Wednesday on his calendar. So I
thought that was so they don't have any photos of this guy
seems to have disappeared. I have. There was an interesting
thing on NPR PBS newshour where they have we had one of the guys
emerge from the Atlantic Council.
What is this? The think tank?
Yeah, it's kind of a real heavy duty one too. It's one that we
don't hear much from. It's the Ukraine side note from the
Atlantic Council guy, you might want to play that for
today in the My don use, they use the chances to be Zeca
hatch, which means con be gone. X constancy served two terms in
prison as a young man. And the new chants are, you know, death
to the prisoner. So they you know, there is a call for a
capital penalty, even though Ukraine no longer has the death
penalty, but there is a rage out there in the public. And I think
he is aware of that. It's been said that some of his valuables
are being removed from his lavish residence north of gift,
which has over 10 1000s square 100,000 Square Feet on these
lavish ponds and lakes and in which over $100 million has been
sunk valuables have been removed from his offices and the
presidential administration. And I don't even know if he's coming
back.
I love how they do this. There's no value missing. They're trying
to make it look like Saddam's palace. Now. This guy, there was
a democratic layer, the
this guy had a place. And if you listen to the next report, which
is the bald guy from France, Van cat, who I think is plugged in
enough to give us an interesting thing. And give us some
interesting insight. He has a description of the guys, please
I don't think that this is bullshit about the deal.
They've been let down too many times in the past, they feel
that there have been a lot of false hopes, a lot of false
promises in the past. Times when they felt perhaps they were on
the verge of perhaps the President Viktor Yanukovych, who
is the universal opposition's perhaps biggest enemy, Public
Enemy. Number one, the man that they have wanted to resign to
step down immediately. That has been their demand really, since
day one of this three month protests. And so there's a real
sort of disconnect this morning between on the one hand, the
political and the opposition leaders calling this deal, a
triumph. And obviously many respects, it does look very
ambitious the early elections, you're talking about the call
for constitutional change, obviously the call for reforms
and a unity and national unity government not to mention
amnesty for all of those who have been a for all the
protesters in those detained,
I think and free chocolate for everybody. I think that would
add nicely to the changes in Ukraine.
It's just not enough for many of the people in this square. And
you don't have to talk about the hardliners. Also the moderates.
You have one group was actually saying they will not lay down
their arms. And they're calling on Viktor Yanukovych to resign
by 10am. local time today, that's just in a couple of
hours.
So talk in spite of these concessions that are being made
by President Yanukovych,
he's clearly under pressure here to resign. How likely is that to
happen? Not at all.
I'll tell you what is under pressure, but he's not in Kyiv.
This morning, according to two most reports the left key of
overnight, he is he hasn't fled the Capitol, although there is
some rumours on the internet that that's what he's done. He's
in Harkey, which is a town in the east of Ukraine, according
to the reports, a town where he is seen as more of a bastion of
his support, although that support, as we know, has been
dwindling across the country, not just in the West, which is
much more with the opposition, but also in his traditional
bastions in the east. Now, his supporters basically saying that
this is normal business as usual. He's just touching,
touching base with his base and his supporters. But there's a
lot of speculation Why isn't he on the Capitol the day after
these historic accords? He is a weekend man, that is
indisputable. The question is, what is he going to do next?
What are his next moves? And how quickly will he abide by the
terms of this agreement signed yesterday?
Now I think it's great. It's this is an at this point. It is
a complete media. It's just now they're just rolling out the
media plan. It doesn't make any difference what really happens
anymore. It's just whatever the media decides is going to be it
is going yeah, this
is what this was sent to the beginning. Yeah. Well, I just
knew I did get this whole thing as a media. It was at the end of
the clip. Yeah. Oh, well, he describes his 100,000 square
foot residence, which was not it was not in that one. Now in
Atlantic, the Atlantic, the Atlantic Council, by the way,
which is, seems to be an anti Soviet operation that's involved
with a bunch of these Eastern European countries. There's a
couple of things I noticed I wanted to point out. One is that
if you're the way you spell Kyiv, how do you spell key F?
I believe it's k i EV.
That's the way the Russians would spell it.
I'm a pinko commie.
Now, if you're Ukrainian, you'd spell it Ky, KY IV right? And
the pronunciation is slightly different to that's Kyiv Kyiv
can can there's and then I don't have the clip I'm going to try
to get it because I couldn't I couldn't I was just an issue I
had some technical issue of I had a Newland spoke to a group
of oil executives and right behind her by there was a huge
Chevron logo how
convenient well we know Chevron got the got a big contract to
drilling in Ukraine.
And I don't know if she's doing this on purpose or what but she
pronounces it Kyiv No, no, I believe she I tell
her that would have been clipper the day what do you mean
technical issue?
I said long story but I'll get it. All right. But she says key
but she says that a couple of times. And I'm wondering she's
talking about either she's talking about something else.
I'm good. Or she's got a quarter codeword Oh, she's an idiot.
No, I it's coded you know, she's not an idiot. Nuland is no
moron. But she's also you know, she's the one else who says
klatch, and yachts and she's got all our little little shortcut.
And you know me shorthand
names. Yeah, she just says, Kev, Kev. So I got some of this keep
it's kind of keep I got some
inside information. First of all the reasons just backing up a
little bit. The reason why you could Shenko V. V. Why the
president? The reason why he backed out of the UK, UK, UK
Shimanami. Yeah, yeah, Ana COVID. Anna COVID. The reason
why the reason why he backed out is in the agreement that the EU
handed to them was a security clause, which effectively made
them a a an acting member of NATO. So that's what this really
is all about. And that's understandable. Yeah, no, this
is the reason why he flipped flowers. No, of course not. And
it was just gonna put up with that, oh, it's a security clause
and like making
Kentucky a part of the Warsaw Pact. And of
course, there's the Crimea, where the Black Sea Fleet is now
you brought this up on on Thursday that there's, you know,
there's this port down in the south. This is where the black
fleet, the Russian Black Sea, Black Sea Fleet is stationed are
part of it. There's no way that you can just say, Oh, yes, no
worries, Ukraine now has a NATO security agreement. That's not
going to happen.
You know, the, there's a funny history behind that Republic of
Crimea. I just ran into, apparently, it was it was put
in. If it was me, it was always Russia. It was always part of
Russia, this little area. And Khrushchev when he was the
premier, whatever he was the head of Russia. He gave that
chunk of land to the Ukrainians, because it was no because he was
a Ukrainian himself. And he thought it would be a good thing
for him to Oh, interesting. I thought that was so it's really
always been Russia.
Well, that. So there's, there's a couple of things. And now my
understanding is that, that really, there was some kind of
agreement somewhere. And I'm thinking Germany, Germany, and
Russia. And I have a very strong feeling that there is something
big going on between Moscow and Berlin. And the idea was that
they were going to somehow they had some agreement about
Ukraine, and something went wrong. And it started really,
with the Russians killing all the Polish government. Now, this
happened in 2011. I
think we I don't know, we were all over the I think it was
2011, and assassinations of the leftover bodies. Just everyone
was
just gone. And this was supposed to connect. And of course,
Poland connects very nicely to Ukraine. And all of that
connects through to Germany. And there was and somehow I think
Putin got shanghaied I'm not sure it's somewhere up some
power chains. Not quite sure what happened, but from what
the, some of our insiders have told me, the 2012 European
football championships were held in Ukraine. And this is when all
of the actors came in. As advisors for you know, how we
should set up the media and advisors for the buildings, etc.
And I can actually point to Paul Ron's Heimer, he's a German
German journalist, and he's this guy is on the ground with
Klitschko. He's everywhere. You can see you can kind of see that
there's certain men members of the press have are on the
inside. I mean, seriously, just travelling with these guys.
Well, the press has always been known to hit too. to camouflage
poorly I might add spies.
So now let's look at something we're seeing all these shots of
Ukraine whose video is this? And then we have cameras in
strategic locations. We've got the stages we've got microphones
amplification, Where's all this coming from? From these people
with curtains and single shot rifles, you know, come on. This
is a professional operation and it's being shot very, very
professionally.
Curiously, I think it was Showtime or somebody they've
been playing wag the dog a lot
one of my favourite movies I like it like just
like you know I there's a bunch of things about them you know
which last time you saw that but you know I got along a couple
years ago maybe yeah, they're they're so deep that I watched
them say I don't remember this scene I don't remember the part
about the shoes
they someone had the wrong shoes on and they changed them and
remember the part about the shoes either? No I don't have a
guide that was that was supposedly behind the enemy
lines it was who's the psycho Woody Harrelson Yeah, are they
called him shoe? And so they so they came up with this idea of
of tying shoes or US shoes together and throwing them over
telephone lines and everything all over this country. So the
whole country was having these to celebrate shoe and ringing
bell. Yes, I do remember that. Yeah, of course. And it was like
this movie. People have to go watch this movie. Again. It is
just phenomenal. It's when
Chroma Key was done on blue screen before it became green
screen. That's how old the movie is. Yeah, it's
pretty old. Yeah. Well, anyway, so
you know, I'm just looking at this from a television
perspective. I'm seeing the shots I'm seeing you could think
they've got the the camera shots up above you know, this was not
a YouTube revolution. This was a professional job. With a
professional that somewhere there's
a restaurant guys with eyeballs and know what they're doing. As
a director. There's
a producer, there's uplink. So there's a lot going on. This is
not this is not some country on the brink of civil war. And
really not like Venezuela for instance, or which is yes, yes.
No feeds from there. No zero United see no live shot there.
Or Bosnia Herzegovina, which is wow, this is in play big time
again. Ah. So yeah, so this, this is very obvious. I think
that tears will come. The thinking that I'm getting from
people is sending in messages is day after the Olympics. So
that's today, I believe it closes, Putin may just have to
do something. Could we can't have this we're not going to
split it into. We're not going to have no we're not going to do
any of that. This is this is this is a nonstarter. My
question is and this does go along the lines of the clip that
you had about you know, what, what is Russia? Is it really
just Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the rest is a dirt road with a
bunch of vodka drunks? Does Putin really have the firepower?
Does he really have the balls? Or is he a paper tiger, you
know, is all of this posturing this look at me with my shirt
off is that because he really doesn't have the military might
the muscle the money, whatever it is to go against the EU and
NATO to strike back to say Screw you guys.
Well, first of all, that Ukraine or the Ukraine, as you know,
it's not the it's Ukraine, Ukraine. Ukraine is not part of
NATO. So he can also waltz in there. Was NATO supposed to do
this, though? Are they going to just start taking it upon
themselves to say well, I think Somalia let's go get them
although they have done that with Libya. Thank you. I think
it would take a lot of nerve for the NATO folks to all of a
sudden think they own the own the Ukrainian Republic.
Well, we shall see what the how the script rolls out because
that is exactly what is what is being said. Well, here's I got a
little clip of I love when she talks because she's the you
know, the no chin monster. The High Representative of the
European the
highest she's I didn't know that she was doing I guess she's pro
marijuana. I've
never understood why they call her the High Representative. I
just, of course, Hillary Clinton just called the High Priestess.
Yeah. Hillary Clinton just calls her Kathy. But it's the Baroness
Ashton of the High Representative the European
Union who I thought had left her job but maybe that's just after
these upcoming elections. And she before we the script rolled
out of here's all these laws we've implemented all of a
sudden she was coming out with sanctions and just some
interesting to me interesting talk.
It's absolutely clear that this violence is completely
unacceptable and should stop immediately.
So he's making it sound like you know, like, like there's evil
evil Ukrainian army is killing people which I just didn't see
it.
And any further escalation should be avoided. Those who are
responsible for human rights violations should be brought to
justice. Oh, I'm
sorry, human rights violations that's there, there we are,
should be brought to justice.
We call on all sides to engage in an inclusive and meaningful
dialogue to de escalate the situation and to find a
political solution. We have, as you know, in the visits been
that I've made, talked about the importance of this dialogue. But
the primary sponsibility to get this moving lies with the
President. We know the elements for a lasting solution,
formation of a new and inclusive government constitutional
reform, and the creation of conditions for democratic
elections and we remain ready to support Ukraine in this process
of political dialogue, offer political association, and
economic integration remains on the table economic integration,
as well as our commitment to enhance People to People
contacts, people to
people contact, what are they Christian mingle.com What is
this People to People contacts is weird.
But in the light of the deuterium situation, we decided
as matter of urgency, we need to look at targeted sanctions.
We've agreed to suspend export licences for equipment for
internal repression.
Equipment, she means guns. Exactly. That's exactly that's
exactly what
he's possibly want to rub allies the place. No, no, no, no, no, I
don't. Well, he's just about the oil. You know, the history of
the well, yes. The history of the Ukraine. This used to be
called the breadbasket of Europe. History of Ukraine,
Ukraine, did I say the I'm sorry, yes, history of Ukraine.
He used to be the breadbasket of Europe. The the land was
fertile, it was perfect. And the people of Ukraine, they've been
they've been getting short end of the stick for a while. There
was the starvation of Ukraine, and in the 30s 32, I think
you pointed out, which was,
of course, they were invaded, but then Stalin starved them
out.
Somebody pointed out that Ukraine has been owned or
dominated by some other country since the 1400s. They've never
been truly independent.
Some other country
boy, I mean, yeah, besides Russia, okay.
I gotcha. And a country somewhere somehow Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So they're not used to being you know, their own
doing their own thing without so they would probably, you know,
if they lost Russia as their patron they'd probably be very
comfortable with another Patriot which would be the you know, the
boneheads from the EU
Yeah, now the only problem is is the the economy that's the issue
that that's the real problem is that they have to do something
about their their debt and the and their money. And I don't
know one thing I know for sure, none of these people talk and
give a crap about the citizens of Ukraine. They do not care
about that. All they care about is the oil contracts. Chevron
and shell have the two big ones maybe the fertile land if they
can refer tie lines it but if if we see a Yulia Timoshenko coming
back into power that will be that's just hilarious. It will
just be too funny. The queen, the Princess Leia, when you see
this, I'm talking about no but she's had that's been her
trademark because she's insane John, it's like shared now she's
like, share with with the crazy hair or it's her trademark
because that's this is what megalomaniacs and celebrate he's
do like Yahoo serious. Or how about that AOL digital Prophet
guy? This is what people who have no talent do. Oh, I'm
sorry. I was the hair guy too. Oh, well, there you go. So we
were I was you
know this case in point I was I was gonna come in with a
case in point it's what it is. And then you know, she comes out
of it. So she was in jail. But oh, wait, I need to have my hair
braided before I go speak to the people of the revolution.
onstage with my microphones good to go.
As you're here. I think that's a wig. No. It's a crown it's a
literal crown. It's not even real it's just it's not even her
some some slave she had.
It's just Arab. It just took Charlotte they just took some
lady and threw the crown on not even her yeah, no man. Oh man.
No. All right. Well, so we just have to wait and see how it
plays out but I am blood on the moon is what I'm predicting. I'm
thinking I'm thinking that this cannot stand so somehow the the
narrative has to change. Just everyone's kind of hedging like,
well, we're kind of there, but the President really hasn't
said, Okay, I'm stepping down and then you know, they talking
about elections in May and you know, then he has to get out.
And but this is all this is this is everything that's happening
here is really against human rights of the people of Ukraine.
I mean, they had democratic elections in 2010. Everybody
said, we had all the monitors there. Everyone said, Yes, it
was clean as a whistle. It was great. This guy's in and now it
changes. Now all sudden, that wasn't a good one.
No, well, no. I think it's possible that the Ukrainian
people as a whole are just naturally dissatisfied. Yes,
well, could be I believe that's the reason we have glitch and
his brother as code champion, co world heavyweight champions.
They're just irked.
They're just so pissed they win by kicking your ass. So now we
have something similar in
Boston, by the way, just one last side. Again, buzzkill
juniors, Powell who lived in the Ukraine for a number of years,
you know, that you created for the same cause? You went there
and Ukraine says that the the Litany is is that the Georgians
are the brains of the Eastern European countries and the
Ukrainians are the muscle
while the Georgians are now also in play once again, go good
amongst all of this but you're not hearing me sometimes. I
don't know if you can turn up your speaker or something but
sometimes I'm talking you're just talking over me like you
don't care.
They still give feedback.
In Bosnia Herzegovina they are now talking about the what they
call like the
getting a lot of lost packets, by the way is one of the reasons
Oh really, oh, oh, this may be too loud.
I want to know it sounds good. I'm not hearing anything that
then they're bosnia-herzegovina today now talk of the new era of
discontent. And they're getting Yeah, well, but there's, there's
there's a fantastic NGO, a non governmental organisation that
is to
come up with a new meaning for NGO. Okay, I'm just saying just
keep it in the back your head.
So there they have the initiative for better and humane
inclusion who is working on the ground there. And this is a very
interesting outfit, which of course I looked up for, for our
pleasure. Let me see if I have it here. These guys they
basically take money from UNICEF and all these other really big
United Nations type organisations and they funnel it
through to all these other little things or these little
projects that they have. And if you just look at it and they're
to IB hi.ba Ba man is it's just all this money comes in from
mainly UNICEF which is un money which I guess
we give me those letters again
India Bravo hotel India dot Bravo Alpha be a Bosnia
something rather here social reform in the NGO sector it's
it's this is really a very it's fascinating just to see how all
of this money flows and I was kind of thinking about all these
the NGOs it's it's so out of control in America if we stopped
the tax exempt pneus of nonprofits and if you donate to
a nonprofit if you shouldn't if you don't deduct it, we could
solve the deficit forever for just for once and for all
there's so much money not being collected in taxes for this
bullcrap. Yeah, everywhere. Yeah, everywhere. It really
needs to stop.
This is worse than churches. And I'm not condemning being tax
exempt but in terms of like the amount of money that saved
because the church just don't pay property tax or any sort of
tax this is way beyond what your people bitch about the churches
they don't nobody bitches about this.
So here's here's a report that came out you might have heard
about this and I actually I got the report because I wanted to
see what they're saying is is Human Rights Watch the Human
Rights Watch now we all know is no agenda producers that this is
funded by mainly the State Department and the what's the
democracy, the democracy group. And it's about the actually the
title report is a wedding that became a funeral US drone attack
on marriage procession in Yemen. Yeah, this story now I'm I'm I
got a real problem with the drones. I don't like don't like
the whole idea. And you'd expect Human Rights Watch should be the
guys who are all over this. And I'm going to make some changes.
So here's the report that you probably heard about an
investigation into a US drone strike in Yemen. Human Rights
Watch is reporting a December strike may have killed up to a
dozen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen, among them,
the bride that's based on interviews with witnesses,
Yemeni officials and relatives of the dead. US officials say
only members of al Qaeda were killed in the December strike
and are refusing to make the results of two investigations
public. All right. So first of all, Don Lemon, I don't know
where he got his information. But in the summary page, two of
this report, it says everyone in the procession was a civilian,
including all of the dead and injured and the bride received a
superficial face wound that the bride did not die, Don Lemon,
not according to the reports, I'm like, maybe he's reading
from a different report?
I'm sure he is. No, I'm sure he's not reading from the
prompt. especially made for CNN. Yeah,
especially CNN report. So I want to give you a couple of the it
within just reading, I didn't have to read the report, which
is only 36 pages, which is it's not a lot because these NGOs
what they do is create big reports with lots of
information. That's what they're supposed to do. But I didn't
have to go past the summary and recommendations to understand
what they're doing here. So human rights rights watch found
that the convoy was indeed a wedding procession that was
bringing the bride and family members to the groom's hometown.
The procession may also have included members of AQAP,
although it's not clear who they were or what was their fate. So
this already is sounding a little more dodgy like, well,
let's see, maybe there were some guys there. This raises the
possibility the attack may have violated the laws of war. I want
to read that, again, this is Human Rights Watch. But they now
talk about the laws of war by failing to discriminate between
combatants and civilians, or by causing civilian loss
disproportionate to the expected military advantage. Now, I would
think in basic human rights watch, I don't want anyone to
die. I don't want anyone to be killed. But now this all of a
sudden, there's a there's a number, there's five zones, yes.
So you cannot cause civilian loss, disproportionate to the
expected military advantage.
Okay, so what you're looking at obviously, is a way forward
designed to make it look as if somebody cares, and that if
drones get out of control and killing people indiscriminately,
we're on it.
Ah, well, it's even worse than that. So now, in this summary,
the legality of the December 12 Attack hinges on both the
applicable body of international law and the facts on the ground.
So now I'm already understanding this document is supposed to get
us prepared to have legalised drone strikes that are all good
according to international law. And it says here, the burden is
on the attacker to take all feasible precautions to ensure
that a target is a combatant before conducting an attack and
to minimise civilian harm. This is a cover your ass document and
we see that in the recommendations. Again, this is
Human Rights Watch, who under the guise of your killing,
wedding parties are now going to recommend the following. Here's
what I would recommend if I were if I were a human rights
advocate. I would say he would my recommendation would be don't
kill people. It's not nice. Instead, the Human Rights Watch
says to the governments of the United States and Yemen ensure
that the United States is taking all feasible precautions to
minimise harm to civilians in targeted killings. use lethal
force. I know.
Yeah, man. It's a comedy. This is anyone with a sense of humour
sees with what's going on. This is their
number one recommendation. Yeah. Be careful when killing people
in a targeted manner. Usually. It's I know it's laughable.
Usually
this should be read by some comedian Gilbert Godfrey
agreeing to
use lethal force only when absolutely necessary to protect
human life and I'm gonna say so you can only kill someone when
you're going to save someone else. It's like human lives
saved or created. And it should all be in accordance with
international human rights law. Now somewhere in international
human rights law it must state that it's okay to be killed as
long as you know you're you're a bad guy I guess.
Yeah. Recognise can be killed the recommendation
number two. Again, my
recommend I'm sorry, I just say who determines who's the bad
guys another sorry but go on.
Recommendation two from Human Rights Watch a human rights
organisation. Again, my second recommendation would probably be
let's try to be friends. Let's try this. Let's not send
pilotless aeroplanes to shoot Hellfire missiles upon people
who may be getting married No no no recommendation to implement a
system of prompt and meaningful compensation for civilian loss
of life injury and property damage from unlawful attacks.
Wasn't Ford Motor Company condemned profoundly because
they put $1 amount figure on the Pintos when they were being
blowed up when someone rear ended was very good. Yeah,
that's right. They were condemned for oh, you can't put
money on the value of a human life and it was the same people.
Interestingly enough, of course, this has been going on for a
while as it states in this recommendation, the United
States also should institute a system of condolence or ex
gratiae gratia payments, as it has done in Iraq, Iraq and
Afghanistan. A system of condolence Ah, here we go. Hey,
we're really sorry. I'm telling you,
this would be a recording. We're really sorry for killing your
died. This is a recording. We're really sorry for killing your
bride. This is a recording.
Exactly. Or just be a robocall?
Hello, if your name is Ahmed, hello, this is the US government
calling if your name is Abdullah, please say please
press one. We're sorry to have killed your bride. This is a
recording. So I just snapped it all over myself. I'm sorry. I
was holding my nose and I was not smart. Oh, sorry. Anyway,
then to finalise the second recommendation is only to the US
government. And so the first one was to the governments of the
United States and Yemen. Now this is to the US government
explain the full legal basis on which the United States carries
out targeted killings, including the attack on December 12. And
publicly clarify all policy guidelines for targeted killing.
So this is part of the setup that we already identified,
which comes right into us being able to kill an American
citizen. This is still in play. Oh, yeah. And here and here it
is. Let me let me just prove it. Hold on. I got it here. Crap.
Well, here it is. Hold on, hold on. This is so this this report.
There's no coincidence about this report. The timing of it.
These things, you know, they don't just appear magically,
like someone sat down and wrote 36 pages No, with this
particular recommendation? No. It comes amidst the all the
bombs, the toothpaste and the shoe bombs
in Yemen, have al Qaeda in Yemen, a master bombmaker
Ibrahim Al Asiri in their ranks, who is still at large now this
is a guy who's responsible for several of the attempts on us
aviation in the last few years. He's ingenious at making bombs.
He's constantly trying to come up with new ways to get past
airport security.
While some of the administration described the threat as
aspirational desire to attack is
that Sylvester the cat
that's Barbara Starr, from she's CNNs. Pentagon correspondent,
this US official tells CNN that TSA would not have taken the
steps to warn the airlines unless the threat was real,
that this is where she she just messed up. Because TSA has
nothing to do with this. That's internal. This was department
supposedly Department of Homeland Security, who was
telling security at other airports, international
airports, they had to be careful. This is not TSA. So now
already the story is coming apart. But it's going to come
into view very quickly.
The official telling CNN, this threat may represent a renewed
effort by al Qaeda. This is not just some flip comment on the
part of a bad guy. One big worry al Qaeda may have developed.
Again, the video you're seeing is a shoe. It's a boot hanging
that explodes. I kid you not you're seeing a shoe explode on
screen. While she's doing this report a
new type of hard to detect bomb that can be hidden in shoes.
screening technology couldn't detect the explosives and the
bomb might have little or no metal contact. US officials also
confirmed there are a small number of American citizens in
Yemen, with al Qaeda with American passports. They could
readily reenter the US
ah I'm coming in from Yemen. I'm getting on the plane in Yemen.
I'm trustworthy with my American passport.
Now, fundamentally US officials are holding their cards very
close to their vest. Yes, about what is really going on here
offering very little detail. But it does come as there's growing
concern about Americans overseas fighting without fighting in
places like Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Syria.
So here, here are the pieces we have the repeated threats of new
bombs from the master bomb maker. It could include
Americans with American passports who have these the
we'll be taking these into the United States and blowing up
aeroplanes and of course Human Rights Watch says it's okay to
drone people if they are
bad. Yeah, yeah, no idea.
So it's set up it's it's good to go so we just need to wait for
this someone to go to die.
Well, it'll happen shortly. Somebody's gonna get killed
Human Rights Watch. Mine. Yeah, you
have a real hard on for them. Oh, I
got a hard on for another. But first, I want to thank you for
your courage. And I want to say in the morning to you, John C.
Dvorak.
Well, I want to thank you for your courage. I want to say in
the morning to you also in the morning all the ships at sea and
the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, the subs in the
water all the games a night out nights out there and, and the
very few I might add very few producers and executive
producers for this show. 594
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our human resources in the chat room. highly appreciated that
you are here as long along with our artists. We thank ROTC we
thank Joshua Pettigrew.
Yes. Did a very nice piece. And meanwhile, by the way, I might
mention that we're noticing that at least I'm noticing that Nick
the rat, is electioneering. Now on Twitter, and elsewhere to get
us to pick his art more. I want to I did a
how's that working out for him? I like
to get a review of last year's art. All last year's art and
Martin JJ was the number one provider of art for the show.
And Nick the rat was number two. There was really nobody close to
those two. There was a few others that came in a lot but
not like those guys. So I don't know what Nick the rats, the
nichter I had a nice piece that had lots of double entendres and
meanings to it. It was a good piece, and we were close to
choosing it but we chose this one because we just liked the
the whimsical aspect to it was quite a pretty piece of art.
They want to thank some executive producers and
Associate Executive producers, namely one executive producer,
our friend Sir David Foley over there in Los Gatos who came with
594 33. This is a Baron of Silicon Valley. No, he's
he's Archduke,
Archduke IgM. John and Adam, please find my donation for club
594 Plus my 33 cents Illuminati tax. Looking forward to some
analysis on the BTC crash of Mount Gox. You know, funny thing
about that mount Gox it was actually crashing while Horowitz
and I were doing DH unplugged and we're looking at at the
arbitrage opportunities for the Bitcoin. Yeah. And we couldn't
figure out why. Why would you why as we watched it went from
$400 to $260 during it one hour that we did our show. And I
really not. I don't know if I have any analysis on it yet.
Well, hold on a second. It's 622 Now, so where did it go down to
200?
Was that last June? That's Tuesday. Oh really? I 200
I don't pay attention to it anymore. This is a scam. It's
obvious Hello. This is a complete scam. But I'm waiting
up to 10,000 I'm holding every on hold on to my Bitcoins.
I would hold on to mine if I were you. Uh, Sir Mark Wilson
$200 in Glasgow, UK. Hello, gents. A couple of months ago I
asked for karma and it worked. And now I'm a step closer to
being a fully qualified member of the evil empires department
of bean counters and financial bullshitters aka chartered
accountant. Anyway, in recognition of passing I got a
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and one others as a shortlist and
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would like to thank my two buddies Harry and Daulat for
their courage, they both hit me in the mouth and they have been
managed to guilt one of them into donating. I believe doll it
still deserves a gentle douche bag call out. Bag prayerfully
followed by a Russian ITM Jing if available.
That was and the Chinese one, just in case. Okay. Hold on, I'm
gonna throw my lowcarb you've got karma. Yeah, that's not so
great, everybody. I mean, it's great. for.org/na
people I we it was very disappointing. But
well, you know why? It's very obvious why John. Hello. I mean,
your your, your fault is clear.
I have actually switched from kittens to puppies. Yes, you put
a puppy in the newsletter. My newsletter doesn't normally have
dogs or cats. I think the problem was there was a holiday
on Monday and every holiday week we get some
crap. Well, why don't we start taking holidays off then?
We didn't really work that day. Anyway, we took it off. Okay.
By the way, but the um, the amount of people who said they'd
love a 12 hour no agenda? Yeah. What are you? They're nuts. What
were you thinking? Why did you even say this? People are all
hope is possible that still I didn't say we're going to do it.
It could happen. I said it would be spur of the moment
today could be the day.
No,
no. Not gonna happen. Now, I got two little quick PR things to
mention. Okay, the I received my my box of the new no agenda 33
tote bags, they are Wow, what an improvement over the over the
beta version that we tested a while back. Nice. These are
nice. And Eric is got them up for sale. They're on his
website, no agenda, nation.com and the store. So I wanted to
give a plug for that they are really nice. They go for 1111.
And a portion of that benefits the show. And then I wanted to
thank Producer Ron Boyd, who has completed the no agenda album
art book, it's available for your iOS iBook. But he's also
made a PDF available of it. It's really beautiful. He's
categorise them by theme. So in the PDF version, I've seen this,
you know, like all the Hillary Clinton ones or the Barack Obama
ones, it's really well done. And when you take a look at the art
that has been created over the years by our artists, I mean it
is just it is phenomenally beautiful. So this is all data,
I believe it's all free you can and he spent a long time working
on it. And We highly appreciate his work. I don't know. I think
it's free. Let me see the Apple iTunes where he's got the no
agenda album word book. Yep, free. That's cool. Exactly.
Alright, so we appreciate that. Thank you very much to our
executive producer and a
lot of value for value, or value for no value or whatever you
want to call it. On this show, I think this show is the best
podcast in the universe period.
I agree. As do our associate as executive producers and again,
our executive producer David Foley. Thank you very much. We
will also have a few more thank yous but again, it's a very
short list so this is that's what it is. As you say it
holiday I think it's the puppies aren't I think I think the value
is definitely there. So that can't be the problem. Please go
to I'm sorry.
I was gonna say the puppy is now on the puppies per se are now on
probation. For a.org/and
Everybody probation or not, you need to get your ass out on the
street and propagate our formula.
Our formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth
a couple of interesting stats for you, John. Just a couple of
stats. Yeah, stats. We should have a jingle interesting stats.
First of all another 35 A gay protesters arrested in Boise
Idaho. Bringing the total now to think 77 Funny how we didn't
hear about that anti gay news anywhere? Oh, yes, stray dogs
seven and a half 1000 stray dogs 18,000 stray cats roaming the
streets of
Wait, let me guess Soshi
Detroit
Well, something must be done.
And this and this was kind of the the the depressing thought I
was reading up on on Detroit about how the basically how
banks ruined Detroit, which is a lot of financial trickery went
on to Create this, this bankruptcy. But what was
interesting to read is that the entire debt of Detroit that
created the bankruptcy of a city is still $1 billion less than
Facebook paid for WhatsApp.
Yeah, there's a funny irony to all this.
Yeah, there is some ISO $18 billion debt for Detroit company
goes bankrupt seven. Just think of the dogs alone people. Just
seven and a half 1000 stray dogs. And half a million people
left the city. And yet the WhatsApp is worth 19 billion.
Yeah, just these things are just a little crazy.
Yeah, yeah. It's It's, uh, it makes it funny. It makes the
whole thing funny It does to me. We had a note from one of our
producers who said he got into the show, and he tried to get
his wife to listen, by hitting her in the mouth. And oh, boy,
he said that. She had to describe the show to her. He's
new one of our newer guys. And he and she says always sounds so
depressing. And he had to convince her it's really a
comedy,
or comedy podcast Exactly.
But it says, I think on the surface, I don't think our sales
pitch. Again, we shouldn't hire the Devorah creative work
consulting company to get the sales pitch evened out a little
more, so it doesn't have so a description of the show isn't
depressing. Oh, it has to describe what you know, we just
let people do it on the Wikipedia. People. I always say
tell people go look to no agenda. Go look it up on
Wikipedia, read it there. You can get some idea. And you can
kind of get the hint that it's what's your we were an uplifting
show. We're not a depressing show.
What? Why don't we just say we're a comedy show?
Well, because there's we don't really do jokes. And I think we
can go actually an entire show without getting a laugh. Yeah,
what's commonly I think, actually,
have you watched Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show? Oh, yeah. I'm
on fire now baby. Yeah. Okay. So southern Southern Poverty Law
Centre. I'm on an NGO tear. I'm so angry
about either one you got a hard on for? Yeah. Well, I hadn't
looked at their form 990 in a while. Okay, how much money
these guys have.
So they catch depressing.
Well, wait until you hear so and of course, the Potok guys that
he holds. And then in this group, all they do is incite
racism, just incite racism and lie in the you've just lies. And
it's just the horrible man. But these stories, and
you do that, because this is like you want to get more money.
What do you incite? What gets you the money?
Yes. Well, in fact, as you'll hear, they were actually accused
of that, but we have to go back to get into the because of
course, these guys don't appear upon the scene until we have
some racial issue. Now I didn't see them during the killed the
kids with the loud music in the car trial, which I have no idea
what it was about. The last time we saw them was you know, it's
always typically it's about hate groups who want to kill the
president, because they don't like a black man in the White
House. This is a I hear this a lot. But it started with Ted
Nugent, who had a little rant which Yeah, but it's important.
Because there's, I want to say something if you play if you're
gonna you're gonna play the new gen clip.
I got to play the new gen clip and then I want that but then I
need to play the response to it and expose the incorrectness at
least. So I'll play that just so everyone knows. Here's what he
said.
Obviously failed to I'm sorry.
I didn't say Oh, I'm sorry. That was new.
Wow, you sound like new Cat Scratch Fever for me man coming
overnight,
pride in not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant
not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated
communist nurtured to subhuman monkey. Like the acorn community
organiser, gangster Barack Hussein Obama, to weasel his way
into the top office of authority the United States of America.
All right, so the key phrase here that is going to be taken
out of all context ever is subhuman mongrel mongrel by the
way I think means dog and have an unidentified breed. That is
the definition I found. Okay, so here is broth on the CN ns i
This actually happened earlier in the week but then it came
around to the Southern Poverty Law Centre. So I brought this
back I did hadn't played this. But here's broth lying.
The problem here is when you call the President a sub human
mongrel, which has not only a disparaging reference, but also
an historic racial references
a professor, by the way, who is now claiming this as a historic
reference in some
places. And then when you call a feminine woman, women,
politicians,
fat pigs, which I didn't hear Nugent say eggs,
then Abbott has to make a decision. And he had to say, Do
I keep Ted Nugent on the stage with me or not? He has chosen to
do so
by the way, this is we're talking about Greg Abbott, who
was running for governor of the state of Texas, primarily
against Wendy Davis, who has the pink shoes and that's what
happened today. Now listen to broth broth is going to take
what this guy just said. And he's going to expand on this
ratio calm.
I mean, do they know the history of that phrase subhuman mongrel.
That's what the Nazis called Jews.
Okay. I'm sorry, this is not true. Brah leading up
and during World War Two to justify the genocide of the
Jewish community. They called the Jews owner mentors are
subhuman long rows if you read some of the literature,
so he's, he's he's just embellishing winter. Manche
indeed, is subhuman. But it wasn't Unterman shrine hunt. It
was underbench. So to call someone subhuman is one thing,
but to to now invoke Nazis, Jews, because that's what Ted
Nugent said. It doesn't even make sense. And this has now
become like this huge media frenzy. The machine is eating
this alive. But it is not true. Intermarriage has nothing to do
with mongrel whatsoever
that the Nazis put out. There's a long history there of that
specific phrase that he used involving the President of the
United States. So
isn't there Godwin's Law isn't there? And when you invoke Him,
you got to stop. I mean, you'd have to stop that. But no, we
bring on and this is Erin Burnett. And she had very
interesting Potok who is the he's kind of the spokes Hall for
the Southern Poverty Law Centre. With the I guess, an editor from
the National Review, his name is I think he had he has like a
Muslim name. And it was very interesting to hear this
conversation a little longer clip. But he but almost
immediately, you can you can hear where the Southern Poverty
Law Centre and how much money they're making, it is just
disgusting. When you think when you really hear what the guy's
talking about, and the racial hatred he is inciting?
Well, I think the best data shows that in fact, anti black
racism has risen over the last four or five
years, what is anti black racism to mean that you're a racist
against and people who are anti black? I mean, this doesn't even
make sense what he's saying there. So
there's polling that shows that both implicit and explicit anti
black attitudes among American whites have gone up quite
significantly between 22,008 and 2012.
Notice these using this time as the President's first election
2008 2012
to the point, now, more than half of white Americans have
these anti black attitudes. Wow.
So more than half of white Americans hate black people.
That's what he just said. This is an outrage.
Half of white Americans have the real evidence. Alright,
Ron, half of white Americans
real evidence? Yeah, no. Real No,
he has no polling polling data. Now we have the guy who's gonna
put him in his place interesting.
Anti black attitudes.
I think that's extremely misleading. When you're looking
at things like implicit associations, when you're
looking things like so called microaggressions. Some people
have identify things that we're characterising as anti black
attitudes. The trouble is that if you use the same standards in
the past, you would see there's actually been a sharp decline.
You'll see, for example, that one out of 12 marriages, let me
just say, racial marriages. Yeah,
you're talking about if you count things as racism, then
that you count now and did an apples to apples comparison and
you need an apples to apples comparison. And the thing is
that people are getting very creative and what they're
characterising is racism, when you look at hard statistics,
like interracial marriages, interracial friendships, when
you look at the level of racial segregation, you've seen
enormous progress over time. And I think that we should celebrate
it.
And I believe this guy is telling the truth, when you look
for times,
if you think about it, normally, when you have a president, no
matter Black, White could be a Chinese guy. The President does
and this is taught in all the political science classes
because it's a fact. Well, it's a truth not a fact. The
President really sets the standard for him. He's a
standard setter. It's like the queen who appoints you know,
some tea company to be your tea company. And so blacks are more
accepted probably now than ever before, because we have a black
president not in spite of having a black president. And that, by
the way, is I believe this sort of thing when when you had Bill
Clinton in office, and he was getting sucked off by Monica
Lewinsky is why there is now a teen epidemic of oral sex.
You're probably right. I don't doubt that for a second. are
certainly more aggressive. I'm told.
Yes. Yeah. This is bogus. Well, but black president has made
race. I mean, yeah, there's still the guy hates his
neighbour. Well, but especially the other way around. Thank
crap. And all these guys, Bill Maher's and the rest of them.
Yeah. Black man. Yeah.
Whereas more than half of the united states voted for the
black man. So you can't tell me that? Yeah. Doesn't Want You
because they didn't vote for the black man. They hate him. That's
your polling data. Mark, what what do you what's your
response? Mark, Mark to that? Well, I
think if you're talking about a 50 year span or 100 year span,
obviously that is correct.
Oh, okay. Well, thank you for fessing up.
It is false, though, that it's only some kind of weird implicit
test that shows the rise in the wealth of the last five years or
so in anti black racism.
What is I don't I failed to understand the term anti black
racism.
It's, well, often I have
to just be black racism, racism against black black
racism, but maybe sounds as though blacks are being racist.
I believe this to be a term that they've they're promoting.
They're pushing it. I agree.
That very much includes explicit anti black racism. And we've
also seen an enormous growth over the last 15 years or so, in
the number of hate groups.
Now we know about his we've discussed his hate groups where
he'll take three guys in a newsletter and call him a hate
group like the kk k,
primarily white supremacist supremacist 602,002, more than
1000 today. So there are a number of things out there that
suggest this going on. And frankly, I think a piece of it
is one second, I want to throw something in there just as a
subtle point. This numbers increase has a lot to do with
with something in the same time period called the internet.
Yeah. After all, we know there could have been 330 1000 of them
before pre internet, but we never heard of the exact little
guys in the corner church, some sort of crackpot guy, we don't
know. But now that there's an internet you get, you get real
numbers because people can do it cheaply.
Everyone can put up a website, you get something going exactly
what's going on. And frankly, I think a piece of it is the
permission giving that people like Ted Nugent in effect get
when Ted Nugent describes the black president as a subhuman
mongrel. He is using language that comes right out of the Nazi
party. No,
it is not, that is an outrage. That is an outrage. But this is
not true. What he's saying
I think they actually dropped the ball on this idea he got I
don't know where they came up with going with this anti
semitic approach, I believe, I don't know this to be true.
Personally, but I believe if you did your research did some
research you would find in in anti abolitionist literature,
you might find something similar to this and you could use that
and then you could apply any race card that you're trying to
you could
do doing you could do a slave thing but instead of doing a
slave thing to do in a much more effective I mean, seriously, can
you just separate the Jew thing from the slave thing? I mean,
get your messaging right. We need to consult these guys right
out of the clam.
So I think it's right out of the clan has an effect and when the
clan
never said the words it's in the clan. This is not in the clans
documents nature politician in Texas clan, who was Democrats,
by the way
refuses to condemn this in any way. You know, I think it in
affects how certain people out there it's alright to have these
cones. That's
right. That's right, Texas. We're a bunch of anti black
racists. We hate him.
That's true. Right on that it tells certain people
now listen to this guy. Now. Now comes the eye open. Are you
ready for the number? Stand back
that it's okay. I mean, people who already think this people
who think you know, No normal person would but certain people
will quite the opposite. I think what we see is a world in which
anti racists have a lot of voice. They have a lot of
influence. So whenever someone says something like that that's
so appalling. What happens is that they get an enormous amount
of pushback. And I think that that's a very good thing. But
another thing is that we have organisations like the Southern
Poverty Law Centre, that really have grown enormously in recent
years. For example, in 1995, the SPLC had net assets of about 52
million in 2011. They had net assets over to one 100 and 50
million. And this is not a period of time during which
racism increased by a factor of five. Rather, they've been able
to grow by drawing on incidents of this kind, and then weaving
them into a story about racism growing racism is real. It needs
to be combated. But we also need to be wary of people who profit
from the perception that yes, ism is something that it's not,
which is to say a growing phenomenon.
I was I'm first of all, yeah, I've write a won't have that guy
back. Oh, no, he's done. Yes, that guy. He's from the National
Review. I think salon National Review writer. Good. Yeah. So
indeed, I'm looking at the 990 for the Southern Poverty Law
Centre, their income for this year total revenue. $40 million
donors unknown, of course, because of the the nature of the
nonprofit, you don't have to tell where the money came from.
That's always nice. Their total net value net assets
$256,554,758. That's a quarter of a billion dollars for these
budget, these frickin jabroni salaries alone. $19 million.
This isn't that use this. That guy was that was on the show.
There's probably bringing down a million a year. Well,
no. Well, not directly. So Richard Cohen, who's the
president CEO, him at the southern of the Southern Poverty
Law Centre, $300,000 salary?
expense account? I
bet Oh, yeah. No expense. Well, they have. Well, so here's the
chief trial counsel, Morris Dees. He's a 306,000. They have,
I'll tell you this is they have $220 million in investments and
other securities, of which only $8 million is publicly traded.
They have 15 million in taxes and venture capital company.
Yeah, this is exactly what is but we don't know because we
don't really know where the money's coming from. You say
we're not allowed to see that. But and I think the the
nonprofit NGO regulations really have to change, this is not
okay.
That should be what our NGO focuses on.
You know what, no one will give us money to ruin everybody else.
That won't work. The whole idea is
this, that you're right on that, you know what you're saying you
as a cynic. Yeah. But I'm not totally convinced that you're
that. I think there's a lot of people that that would
let let's look at what they saved, what they spent the money
on. And this is the real here's the real scam, here's the real
where the real money goes to they spend a lot of money on
raising money, or they call it canvassing or telemarketing. So
they spend $1.6 million on a grassroot have sent it to
grassroots campaigns Inc, in Boston, but they only brought in
731,000. So that was a loss of almost $900,000 as a but then
the talent so they tell me,
wait, wait, you're telling me to give me this numbers again. They
sent so much money over to this grassroots operation
for canvassing brought back less? Yes. The gross receipts
from that activity was 731. So they lost almost $900,000 on
that now you have telemarketing. Also Boston, Massachusetts. So
there's a couple of them. telephoned Inc. They spent
$384,000 brought in 632. So net profit there of 248. Just by
calling people.
Yeah, yeah, that's you get those calls. Yeah. Hi, I'm Rachel with
account services,
but it's roughly it's roughly half everywhere. Every place you
look telemarketing, they take half of the money they bring in.
Oh, they gotta get paid to do what they do. Yeah, but that's
easing blood from a turnip, but that's pretty good.
Oh, and here's a little thing. Periodically, the spouse of the
chief trial counsel accom, accompanies him on trips when
her presence supports the business purpose. This occurs
free infrequently and at the minimis minimis cost to the
centre, minimalist now it says minimis m i n i m. I S. O it
says at de minimis no de minimis de minimis cost of the centre
dues for membership and a social business luncheon club is paid
for by the organisation on behalf of the CEO. They also
have the health club membership for every employee. Now this is
good. This is good fighting racism $300,000
some exclusive all white clubs
and golf club. No Jews are white or black. He's here. Oh, no Yes
or No. All right, so let's have a Potok. respond to this, I
thought very eloquent, factual, retorts, saying you are
profiting off of your primarily racist inciting comments.
Mark, let me give you a chance to respond to that since
obviously, that's
you since I'm a Council on Foreign Relations and you know,
we're buddies and we drink all the time. You know, we obviously
that that's, that's That's messed up.
He's talking about?
Well, it's simply an ad hominem attack on the part of
counterpart here. You know, the reality is, is that people out
there are worried about what is happening in this country. I
think it is undeniable that we've seen a remarkable amount
of polarisation over the last five or six years. And that is
very likely the reason that people send us money. You know,
the idea that
you extort money that I'm not buying this people $40 million.
Who's sending that
yeah, that the day that I'm citing has somehow been produced
in order for the SPLC to get wealthy is just you know, kind
of a gutter attack. That doesn't really mean much. Yeah, it's
exactly what is going on is what's happening.
I want to take a go a little just a quick aside here. I
watched this. This clip I had must have been seen. I don't
know who she works for now. But you've seen this woman Her name
is Dana Bash. She's proceeded to want the big eyeballs and a
little mouth and she looks like she looks like
she's CNN she she did some political correspondent.
Yeah, she's and she's got these huge eyeballs. She looks like
she's a grey.
She's not a great but our and keep going. You don't know that
you do. How do you know that? She's too tall to be a grey.
Wouldn't make you think she's tall. Let me look her up into
Wikipedia. I don't think she writes it. I
think she could. I believe she is a tall. I believe she's a
tall blonde. I do not believe she's a grey.
I'm sorry, I do not see a height listed. No. As usual, okay with
that in advance. She's got Ted Cruz sitting in the chair who
was suckered apparently, even though I'm not a big fan of Ted
Cruz. And I do want to mention that just as another aside, is
that I was I was go I went to the city. So I listen to Michael
Savage, which is one of the radio talk show guys. And he
went on he he went ballistic, which is his best time to listen
to radio. And he goes ballistic, about somebody approaching him
about native advertising. And he he says the deal and he told the
deal. He says he was on a confidential, they couldn't say
what the company was, even though he kind of hinted it was
the Tea Party Express. They came to him and they apparently have
gone to all the right wing talk show guys. And the deal was you
have just 234 spots in it in a three hour period. Plus, you
have to bring on a representative to talk about the
Tea Party, the Tea Party and to promote the pack and push people
toward the pack. And you have to bring one on every hour and a
half. And it was a third and at one point you have to
editorialise as part of the native advertising about how
great this is. So
just just for people who are new to the show, native advertising
is this new thing and it's new to the interwebs where
advertisers control the the story,
editorial content, editorial content, they trick you into
thinking somebody is writing a story about them. Legitimately I
can tell legitimate story but they're actually here's an
example many
here's an example. Here's an example. Okay, I would say John
Hey, John. Hey Adam. Have you received the new chocolate
healthy surprise box?
Holy crap that is fantastic. It really is by the way Adam How
can you you know we're getting those things are fantastic. how
can listeners get a
well if you go to healthy surprise.com Y'all can get
yourself one of these boxes too.
Yeah, yeah. Now the only and it would be like we were actually
plugging these guys now. The only problem the last healthy
surprise box that we got there was some weird chocolate in
there that is actually good. No, I love the little round ones. If
you have one of those things little they're horrible. I don't
know what the little round a little round chocolate thing is.
It's got grit in it. It's got like like just the sugar is
never asked us for sandwich the whole thing out.
Okay, well, we like our chocolate box. But anyway, fan,
so So if we got a big check paid us to do that. That would be
that would be that would be native advertising.
Exactly. So so savage went off the deep end on this and bitched
and moaned and he and he kept talking about Ted Cruz
apparently is just got some new Ted Cruz and meanwhile so he
goes to commercial break and I switch to Hannity. And
I Hannity was doing the whole
they had a substitute in there but she was talking to a Tea
Party Express and the whole thing I listened to it after
listening to savage go off the deep dive said this is it this
is a Hannity's obviously being bought off by these guys. Yeah,
so this right now I want to tell people out there when you're
listening to any of this crap on the radio, you got a good chance
of being duped. Yeah, it's advertising bull crap. Yeah. So
meanwhile, Dana Bash has got this a great shaggy dog story.
She's got Ted Cruz on the on the chair and he got suckered into
coming in for some reason. And so she plays him to Ted Nugent
thing. And then she goes after him. Would you allow Ted Nugent
on the stage saying such a thing? Would you apologise? And
she just goes ballistic about this Ted Nugent thing and he's
gone. i He was ambushed. He goes I be you know, he's gonna break
it together, right to say whatever he wants with you, you
know, condemn what he says, Well, I don't I don't agree with
what he says. I never said any of that. And it was very funny.
But did you set him up by saying this is what Hitler called the
Jews? She put Did you set him up like that your way? Oh, wow.
Perfect.
I like it. Anyway, so be on the lookout for this bold crowd,
man.
i Wow. Just uh, I woke up this morning about the go to fail.
You'd heard of the go to fail.
That you talking about the Apple go to failure to vote and
Twitter or something. This is apple.
And they rise apple. Yeah. So they released a an emergency
patch for iOS, but they also have to release it for 10.9.
Whatever the Mavericks thing, it essentially I'm going to be I'm
going to give you some words, but here's how I understand it.
It actually is a vulnerability for their version of SSL for the
for secure communication over the internet. And when you see
this bug, and if you understand anything about code, and the
fact that it was introduced into the iOS code, about four weeks
before the prison document claims that Apple was on board,
you gotta think this is no coincidence. And it is literally
a bug in the code. And if you look at the code, it's using a
go to statement. Now we know this from our basic days will
be, you know, 10, print Hello, world. 20, go to 10. So the
practice of using go to statements in modern code, it's
probably been frowned upon for about 25 years, at least Yeah,
because it's not a very good idea, because it can come back
to bite you in the ass when something changes somewhere
here, but meanwhile, you don't remember that was there and then
you change something where it was going to ruin you can't
figure out why.
So this is a essentially a security handshake. failover and
somehow erroneously. So there's a statement that says if if the
SSL cert if the if the Secure Socket Layer state is this, then
go to fail, which is and then fail as a separate command,
which should then essentially fail the handshake. But then
underneath it was an erroneous line that just said go to fail
without an if statement. So when you're when you're logging in,
with just when you're when you're submitting your, your
password to website, very interesting, it would
essentially render if you if you. So anyone who has an iPhone
or anything like that, and you know you can, and I'm still on
six, which is where this was introduced, you go to go to
failed.com. And you'll see that it's compromised. And then
there's no does my SSL work.com. There's all these other places.
And this is an all of a sudden, this has now come to light. But
you look at the timing because you people are looking at the
code. This was introduced three to four weeks before the prism
slide says that Apple joined onboard the programme and was
open for the NSA, you know, had basically had a backdoor.
Now essentially, it turned off the security of Yes,
yes. Yes. Well, it's not entirely but you can use a it
does not validate a certain type of certificate so you could
spoof it very easily.
Yeah, yeah, essentially is what it meant, what it was set meant
to do,
and so on. So now they've now for me, this is a big pain in
the ass because I I have not upgraded to iOS seven. I really
didn't want to do that. But now I can't use a device that is
just broadcasting passwords. I've used my banking software on
this on this iPod Touch. So basically, anyone who was
snooping my packets which could be Wi Fi which is the only way
that thing Connect. No would have my information. Yeah. This
is unacceptable from Apple on acceptable. And I, I I think
that there was either a rogue agent who put this in the in
fact, that's the only thing I can think of people are saying,
Oh yeah, you didn't have debugging turned on and bull
crap. Bull crap. This is such this is such a dumb bug. This is
such a rookie mistake the fact that they would allow developers
to use go to statements in your SSL TLS code. Really? Very,
very, very sketchy. It's very handy. Yeah, well, but Apple
will get a pass of course. Oh, well, they fix it at least.
Yeah, well, it's like the Human Rights Watch it essentially that
they went over all the details of the killing of the wedding
group. Yeah. And so it's fine. Everybody's happy because this
looks like
It looks tasty. It's legal there. We're
on top of it. Good to go.
Very, very, very disturbing. Very, very disturbing. I would
say.
i Oh, but oh, we have a quick break here. I think we let's
I've got a direct connection here. Let's check in with Tom
Hartman. Tom Hartman. Are you trying to hurt me? Check in with
Tom Hartman come on every 68 with highs of
Farmington, Minnesota sitting at 40 counts per minute with spikes
to 62. And Rapid City South Dakota is hovering at 39 with
highs of 55 counts per minute red casts alert level is 100
counts per minute. However, they remind us that there is no such
thing as a safe level of radiation.
Gamma you went You took so long to get to the Tom Hardy and live
that we missed the San Francisco readings.
What are you talking about? San Francisco gotta
be high readings because of Fukushima.
Oh, I'm sorry. Am I okay?
Next time we'll we'll keep an eye on this. Oh, by the way, I
am of the opinion that Hartman actually thinks he's setting a
trend here.
Oh, by reading the bullcrap, radiation numbers,
radiation levels?
Yeah, I might actually start doing something dumb like that.
It's just funny enough. It's just funny. I have a question
for you. And this actually came up. So let me let me let me step
back a couple things happen in the agenda 21, client climate
science, global warming stuff. And it started kind of with an
email. Someone who asked us about our stance on global
warming, and he was new to the show. And you wrote a very
eloquent email. Which I put in the show notes, kind of
explaining why, you know, we're not buying this. Yeah, we're not
on board. We're not on board with it. And then at the same
time, we discover the great you see, what's the name of the
great climate climate to was a great global one. That why the
great global warming swindle now the great global warming
Swindle. That's it. Yeah. Excellent film is it's a great
film and what it shows is how co2 and this of course is bad,
everyone's debunked everything, but how co2 follows heat not
heat following you know, co2.
logically makes sense. If you think about it does
and then Bill Nighy was on C span you
a rare moment, I was going to almost borderline getting a clip
of that.
Well, well, well, I got one and there's Oh, I
didn't know you?
Well, there's a reason for it. Okay, well, let me do this.
First, let me play you a little clip from the great global
warming Swindle. And this by the way, we should mention this is
an old man it's from 2007 It's it's for what is it? Seven years
old? Seven years old. And by the dump, I think BBC wasn't always
a channel for
this was independent and it was and they have lots of it's a
really very entertaining
it did air it did air in the in the UK. Okay, so what do any
good did it know what what's interesting about it? Well,
there's, they go into the science very deeply. But there's
also a number of IPCC members, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, who were a part of who actually authored parts
of one of the first reports. And here's that little segment that
I pulled out of the movie, which and there's a link in the show
notes to where you can actually see the whole thing. But this
was it's fun to listen to this.
I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of 1000s of
scientists on the global warming issue and the humans are causing
a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well, I am one
scientist and there are many that's simply think that is not
true.
manmade global warming is no ordinary scientific theory.
This morning, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change made up it is presented in the media
as having the stamp of authority of an impressive international
organisation from the IPCC, the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the IPCC, like
any UN body is political, the final conclusions are
politically driven
this claim that the IPCC is the world's top 1500 or 2500.
Scientists, you look at the bibliographies of the people.
And it's simply not true, there are quite a number of non
scientists
and to build the number up to 2500. They have to start taking
reviewers and government people and so on anyone who ever came
close to them. And none of them are asked to agree. Many of them
disagree
those people who are specialists, but don't agree
with the polemic, and resign and there have been a number that I
know of, they are simply put on the author list and become part
of this 2500 of the world's top scientists,
people have decided you have to convince other people that since
no scientist disagrees, you shouldn't disagree, either. But
that whenever you hear that in science, that's pure propaganda,
guys,
so definitely worth watching. I like that, because there were
actual IPCC guys.
And there was a lot of heavy hitters on there, but they're
all you know, at the University of Winnipeg and places where
they didn't get hounded to death. Yeah, to shut up. Well,
and so a couple of things point out that there's a big
moneymaker. Well, I was thinking
about this is seven years ago, that this climate change
business it really truly is, along with stuff that kills
people, like you know, bombs and planes and ships and weapons. It
truly is an it is part of it's a huge part of the economy. Now,
it is the the I think the elites are basing a lot of the economy
on this premise. You know, we this is why we make solar panels
and, and windmills and then green and battery cars, all of
this comes from this, you know, this, this basic premise of
manmade global warming. But there's a little other piece to
it, which I was, I have a question for you. When you
texted me You said Oh, my God, look at C span to the by the
way, this is how exciting our lives are.
Hey, man, turn on C span to now we don't do it as much as we
used to.
But when I get it from your like, because I would have just
taken a shower, I'd to go to make a show, you know, like C
span to Damn, I gotta turn on the C span. Something's
happening right now. And it's Bill Nye the Science Guy, the
comedian clown. Fighting for two hours, this one on a religious
guy. I don't even know who it was. And the and the argument
was, and there onstage creationism versus science.
Essentially, it's science. And so here's a little bit of just
how Bill Nye is talking.
Now, I just want to remind us all there are billions of people
in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched, who
have a wonderful sense of community from their religion,
they worship together, they eat together, they live in their
communities and enjoys other company, billions of people. But
the same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the
earth is somehow only 6000 years old. That is unique. And here's
my concern. What keeps the United States ahead, what makes
the United States a world leader is our technology, our new ideas
or innovations. If we continue to eschew science, as to the
process and try to divide science into observational
science and historic science, we are not going to move forward.
We will not embrace natural laws, we will not make
discoveries, we will not invent and innovate and stay ahead. So
if you ask me if Ken Ham's creation model is viable, I say
no, it is absolutely not viable. All right,
so now I'm watching this. With that in mind, I'm watching this
documentary
in it. Can I just throw in something during this whole
thing? I didn't watch the whole thing couldn't take it. My
mouth, my jaw was it was wide open the whole time. Why is
anyone wasting their time? Under any circumstances? arguing about
whether the earth is 6000 years old or not? There are too many
things like I could be cleaning my office. I mean, it's just a
ludicrous argument. And what difference does it make? I mean,
it's like No, the Earth is like obviously not 6000 years old,
but I'm gonna debate some guy who thinks it is for some
religious reason because he believes it is. Yeah, I think I
think that nothing, just nothing to discuss is what he thinks. So
what do you have it? There's
something interesting here. Okay. As I'm watching this
documentary and they're you know, and they're talking about
millions of years and 1000s of years and hundreds of 1000s of
years and you know, evolution and did a whole class you cannot
believe in manmade global warming without believing in. In
evolution. It is impossible bullshit. Why is it then that
the same people who are all Why does our president on one hand
say climate change is real? But then at the end, he says, God
bless America. Which one is it? Do you believe that God is going
to bless them with the Clip of the Day Thank you, this bird
this really bothered me and all gore. So here's Gore he was he
just did a speech in Kansas City. And he says among the
countries or states turning to renewable energy strategies, the
Vatican is increasing use of solar technology. Vatican city
wants to be the first co2 neutral sovereign city state in
the world they have two advantages it is very small and
they have God on their side I mean you cannot have everything
you want you can't say God is real if you if you believe in
the global warming the theory of yeah the global warming period
in evolution so this is to make up your mind people so this is
the same thing and we've said this before. If you believe in
peak oil and global warming, you got nothing to worry about.
Problem will solve itself eventually.
Yeah, well, that that meme apparently went around just
enough not because we started it I think it's it's other people
that have come up with the same conclusion. That Peak Oil thing
is dead. I don't hear it now. At all.
No, no, it's no it's over. Because of the dichotomy people
couldn't handle the question,
or the real thing that I think is still the most viable way you
know, if you believe this, even though these people are
insincere, because they in the cap and trade, which is what
needs to be discussed, right? They're obviously insincere,
they wouldn't be in the cap and trade they'd been to cap. And if
they really believe this to be true, then they would go with
modern nuclear power, which is not what was built in the 70s or
the 50s or the 60s. This is like 50 years later. This is breeder
reactors, this is beyond that thorium reactors that ones that
are enclosed, they never give off waste, there's a million of
there's wood things you can put in your backyard. They're
running every new ship being built by the US Navy, they're
all our aircraft carriers are using nukes all our bases are
pretty much powered by these small little ones. Why are we
not saying let's just go there and there's going to be no more
co2 Excess co2, it's not going to happen.
And because of Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island
China Syndrome we're all gonna die nuclear bombs Nagasaki,
Hiroshima. That's why Anyway, anyway, so I just you know, I'm
sorry I sent you that that now that's
okay. No, no but but I'm I just feel that this needs to be
pointed out that if you are going to say I'm all in manmade
global warming millions of years of data, then please do not
invoke God on me that just how can you how can you say that?
Because if God truly blesses America, then He will protect
us fix things
or are you maybe you're not on board so so this whole debate of
you know 6000 years and creation and last night I was really
confused I got into bed I said to me, Kay said you know, do you
think that maybe they could it be that maybe there's a third
option or a combo to maybe it's not just creationism? Maybe it's
not just evolution, maybe there's a third option, which
would be the greys obviously, or maybe there's, you know, like,
there was millions of years of mash, you know, we became you
know, we started to evolve and, and then you know, there was an
event where we accelerated and you know, they're like some
magic potion poof. And here we were,
what genetics do have a cascade effect which is interesting you
it's best observed with dogs and actually some other animals that
breed in have a genetic change when we were breeding dogs you
would like it wouldn't just change the their their
personalities or habits or the fact that they can hunt all of a
sudden they look like completely different beasts. Yeah, and then
we have this since dog breeding is so you know, popular they
We've been inventing new breeds all the time. It's astonishing
what happens when the when a cascade effect takes place and
the dog all of a sudden, has, you know, a completely different
pattern of the of coloration and different hair and eyeballs with
different colour. It's, it's genetic, the cascade effect of
gene selection is not fully understood. I'm not using
puppies anymore.
I am. I know I have to say I see. Maybe it's probably my age,
but I see such an increase in dog ownership. And I look at
these people. I'm like, Why do you want a dog? I mean, why?
It's you. You can't let the dog run around. Loose. You got to
pick up his crap. What is the pleasure of this?
I don't know. I mean, I've had dogs. I like dogs. I like dogs,
too. I don't go out of my way to own one. Even though I own a
bunch of them because Mimi owns a bunch of them. Yeah. Cats are
very interesting. Even more interesting because they have a
parasite that if you ever catch this disease, you love cats.
I also don't like the cat. I don't like having to empty the
cats poo box.
Oh, the poop post is the worst. I'm sick and tired of that
parasite, by the way.
Yeah. Yeah, that's why pregnant women can't have cat. But it's
just no no, no, no, it's maybe I've had all kinds of pets but
every pet known to man, but I don't see how dogs are
in today's attic giant? Like a tiger or
today? No. Yeah, I've had that to today's society. I see. And I
see people just observe. I see people with dogs at the market
here and it's a big thing and it might get your dog on the leash
and and that you know half the dogs like being pulled along
like what what I smell some? Like smell some good over there.
Next janked away. Oh, yeah, someone's like, Oh, this is my
dog said said said said goodbye. Said. Why are you yelling at the
dog? You want chicken you want chicken sent said said? What are
you proving to me? You've trained this dog and was getting
some chicken to sit? Wow, I'm impressed. It's sad. I find it
really sad. Sorry, well, I owe a tangent.
I'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine
all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
We do a very few people to thank for the show 594 including
Andrew Walton who came in with $223.33 from New Hope Minnesota.
And he says I don't want to wait another 196 months for my $5
monthly subscription earn me a knighthood. So I saw you move it
along.
And what is it while you're still producing content? In
other words, do you know something
before the native advertising comes in that makes us rich men?
Yes. beyond our wildest dreams. Great value
great value. If I could get a jobs calm he'd be we'll give it
all the comments. At the end, you'll get that it'll be your
job karma. I did get a note from Frank mon twill. From Haley
corners, Wisconsin. He donated $112.34 it because he has a
couple of get the douchebag button ready. He sent a note in
with a couple of verses first donation. So he needs a D
douching. And we'll do D douching. And karma at the end
of the show. But we do these in real time. And once a douchebag
call out to his nephew, Michael Johnson who punched me in the
mouth last summer and so give him a douchebag. And it's Blaine
sang Tsar who I punched in the mouth shortly thereafter, yet
both have never donated. And he has a request for a nice name,
which I'm not going to give away because it's somebody might
steal it.
Yeah, it's like that's like domain names.
Yeah, you got to be careful and be very careful him Sam Minar in
Victoria, Australia. $111.11. And she wants to make it rain
for Jenny. Hey, put her on the list. When is the club
open? Man you got
it probably next Thursday. It looks like they're the painters
are in today and it should be dry and ready for work because I
was expected to dry it out by tomorrow afternoon. How's the
poll? And they're working on Sunday for God's sake.
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changes. That's usually what happens when we have a down day,
but it does happen. New Meme alert. New Meme alert.
We need a jingle for
that new meme. Do we not have something? Not that I know?
Actually, we don't have a new meme. Let me see. No, really,
you think meme
of the day? FB
meme of the day. Okay,
nice. No, that's no good. Don't use it.
So they're training a new guy over there at the White House to
be the spokes hold. His name is Josh Earnest. And when you get
the new guy at this music companies quitting? Well, you
got to think that carnies ramping up yeah, of course, he's
eventually he's gonna have to quit. He's tired. You know, he
may have a different gig. There's lots of you know,
sometimes these guys die. You know, these spokes holes and not
it's not a great job. It can go very wrong. But I think he's got
a fantastic opportunity. He's, he's he has put in the hours, I
would give him a glowing recommendation if I were
president. To the bringing in the new guy, Josh, Josh Earnest.
And, and when you have the new guy, you know, you always want
to try the new stuff out with the new guy. Because if it
doesn't fly, then you say, it's the new guy. Yeah, that's kind
of how it works in corporate America. And I think that's the
state
would do the same thing when they had a hearth. Yes. Yeah.
The one hand in this other what's her name? The one that
does most of the work?
Well, there's Marie is the is the the Bandcamp. Girl and then
there's the red one with no soul.
Yeah, that one? Yeah. I can't
remember her name now. But it'll come to me.
But anyway, she said her and her heart were like going at it.
Who's gonna get the job? And the soul? This one got it?
She pops up from time to time though. The Bandcamp. Anyway,
so. So new meme. And I've been tracking this and you laugh at
me? Because Oh, it's so funny. You think I'm, I'm supporting
Tom Perkins, which I'm not. I do not support. Parker. I do not
support Tom Perkins, which is which? I do not support him. But
I find his observation interesting that there is a
definite war on rich people.
Yeah, those poor, helpless, rich people, there must be just like
the Jews in Germany. They are so helpless. They can't do anything
about their plight.
So tell me what this is code for. He said it four times in a
span of five minutes. I clipped out each of the four times,
unfortunately, Republicans refused to even consider the
possibility of raising some revenue by closing some
loopholes that benefit only the wealthy and the well connected
the president in a sign of his willingness to compromise
included those entitlement changes into the formal offer.
Now, did you hear it? No. Okay. Well,
you said it four times. I heard two things first before
that's No, I this is the first time he said it. You didn't hear
from slips there? Well, here comes the second time he says
it.
Okay. Okay. Then I'll get his and middle
class families to make sacrifices in pursuit of
reducing the deficit and not ask the wealthy well connected to
make some sacrifices to that it's just not fair. Are you
hearing that good policy,
wealthy, well connected one,
whereas if no, it's the wealthy, and the well connected?
I think in the second clip, he says wealthy well connected?
Well, let's
listen to the third time,
and why they think that it's good policymaking to ask senior
citizens and veterans and middle class families to make
sacrifices, but say that corporations and wealthy
individuals and well connected individuals shouldn't have to
bear that responsibility and making those sacrifices. What do
you think makes sense? So what exactly it's not good policy?
You think he thinks that? Do you think he thinks he's, he's
mixing it up a little bit? When he says wealthy and well
connected, then wealthy, well connected, wealthy, and you know
what I mean, you're talking about well connected devices,
like obviously, was put in front of him.
Let's listen to this for me. Let's listen to the fourth one,
then we'll discuss.
If we're going to ask seniors and others to make sacrifices by
changing entitlement programmes. Then we're also going to ask
corporations and well connected individuals to give up some of
their tax loopholes
so well connected, and so it's the wealthy, the well connected,
well connected individuals the well connected, what exactly is
when are you well connected because Clearly you need to hate
those people. But what is what is well connected? I would argue
they have so much money that we have to like soak them. Well
connected doesn't mean you're rich. Oh,
that's my point. There's the wealthy and a separate group.
Now new is the well connected to who are they going after with
well connected? Arguably, he's well connected. He's in the
White House. Now he's totally well connect to what does this
mean? What is where are they going with this well connected
meme you watch. It's coming? No,
no watch. It's obviously already in play. But who
are they? Who is that can be anybody
know it could be anybody that the joke of it doesn't mean that
they have any money,
I think. If you are if you're less than three degrees
separated from Kevin Bacon, then you're welcome. Which I am. By
the way, I'm only two degrees I'm well connected.
If I go meet the guy, would I be at one degree?
You'd be a first degree Yeah, you'd be well connected.
I felt calm. Connected to find well connected well connected to
free diksha highly influential, important relatives and friends.
Well connected, unconventional approach to building genuine,
something well connected adjective.
You know how you also can get it you know how you could be well
connected? Through a group like I don't know, church, synagogue.
Now I know that when you if your score is not well connected, or
I mean, they could be but I don't think that defines them
depends
on which church but anyway, I'm noticing this as a meme. And I
find it disturbing.
well connected is not something you want to hear being brought
up in as a target. Because it's fixed. Stay at home. Yeah.
Otherwise, you're going to be seen as well connected.
Yeah. I find it troubling as
well. Can a someone who is well connected has important or
influential relatives or friends. This is like a threat
to somebody.
Well, yeah, it's got to be a threat to some group. I just
don't know. Are they talking Republicans? Are they well
connected? Or is it is it if you're in an NGO or a Super PAC?
Or did you actually look up the wealthy and well connected?
Let's just see. Let's see if it's what the Google comes
backwards. Oh, I hear it. Oh, interesting. Here's a couple of
people already picking up on this. Why not just that now it's
the well connected okay, why does anyone have an answer?
This is from CNS News. I don't know what that is. That's
probably some cyber cast news service at some little guy.
Yeah. Well,
that's a that's a Republican side. It looks like but what is
it what is wealthy and well connected? I don't. I'm
New York City's wealthy and well connected. Wait, I hate it when
they're the ones. What does it say?
Well, I'm well connected. I'm super well connected, but I'm
not wealthy.
No, no, not at all. New York City's wealthy and well
connected this would be you and this would be this is right to
set the headline nails you connected hate it when they're
the ones feeling the class war. Oh, Tom Perkins, please save me.
I'm right. You watch. We are going to be throwing well
connected people to the lions.
You get a double hit with Tom Perkins occupied for
accountability. All right. Well, you've spotted something. That's
all. It says something we need to keep an eye on and we'll see
where it goes.
All right, then I might as well just play these because this is
our First Lady of the United States of America. She is now
the spokes hole for all things you'd expect to need. And she
goes on the Jimmy Kimmel Tonight Show and and he or she is
promoting the Affordable Care Act. And how else would you do
it but to condescend the you need to do that you need to
condescend people in to join
to talk to you I want to talk to you about the Affordable Care
Act and it's March. Is
there a deadline or end of March? Absolutely, yes. And
why? Because a lot of young people watch our show. Would you
like to tell me why would they because people don't have money
to spend?
Well, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young people can stay
on their parent's insurance until they're 26. But once they
hit 26 They're on their own and a lot of young people think
they're invincible. But the truth is, young people are
knuckleheads.
Dare you go that's perfect. The people you actually need in your
system to make up for the old people. You need to be
condescending and also you need to kind of like skirt around
what you know because you know, why are they not go Heads, you
know, why do you need
anything? That's it? They're making a huge mistake here.
Yeah.
Well, listen, they know you have to listen to the Fit last 15
seconds why they're knuckleheads and then you can get into the
mistake. You know?
They're the ones who are cooking for the first time and slice
their finger open. They're dancing on the barstool. They're
young people. Yeah,
it's not like, you know, AIDS, cancer, you know, anything like
that? No, no, it's just slice your finger. That's why you
need.
The way to do it is to get the media on board with the you
know, the same way they do with the last flu season where all of
a sudden they're giving us a death count on a daily basis,
which they could have done any year with the same numbers. I
just get the media on board with the hospital and find the kid
who fell off the barstool, cut his finger off, or has cancer or
whatever, and go in there and say what, I'm going broke man, I
didn't think this would happen to me. I didn't think this would
happen to me. And then you get in how in the public. And in
fact, if you want to, why does the government do what they can
do best? Send some goons that beat the crap find out who
doesn't have insurance and beat the crap out of the hospitalised
him and put him on the air? Yeah, no, it wouldn't happen to
me, man. I wish I'd go join the health insurance programme. I
wouldn't be broke.
Now. Here it goes. Hi, I'm Adam curry. I used to be a well
connected knucklehead until I sliced my finger open cooking
for the first time. And what will they be
cooking? Remember much but probably like mac and cheese?
Yeah, that's one of my big that's advanced mac and cheese
casserole. It's pretty simple. It's more than two ingredients.
I'm in ramen noodle area. You gotta love it when the First
Lady is out there promoting mac and cheese and slicing your
fingers that
is that balancing is BS. eat ramen noodles. Yeah. Oh, that's
that's great. And then just to
top it all off. There was a segment where the EU segments so
I guess it's a Fallon Saturday Live skit and the First Lady is
there and of course
chaps. Oh, yeah. You know, instead of potato chips a
healthy alternative. Kale Chips. There you go
promoting mac and cheese which is a depression depression fill
in the poor man and lettuce. Kale is the poor man's lettuce.
We'll get another depression food that's been pushed into the
limelight because apparently bugs won't even eat it.
And, hey, I got an email from one of our producers John
Hamlin. And he said on Thursdays no agenda show five nine or
three y'all read a note from a reader who said she grew up
referring to kale is poor man's cabbage. Oh, I thought it was
lettuce with cabbage, and deconstructed the PR company and
rebranded it as a superfood to jack the price up. I enjoyed
your previous deconstruction of kale. And that story sounded all
too familiar. You see, my maternal grandfather played
polo, and therefore hung around with the kind of elites who can
afford to keep 20 Plus horses employ three pro players and the
groom from South America travel the seasons and oh yeah, not
work for a living. Grandpa lived in West Palm Beach during the
winter polo season and would sometimes fly my mother down to
visit him. He was during one of these trips that mom met the
mushroom King. According to this is a great note. According to
mom's reporting, the mushroom King earned his nickname and his
riches by convincing people that portabello mushroom was
something other than garbage. Before he came along portobellos
were considered a trash mushroom that grew like a weed on
alongside the quality fungi. At the at that time, the good
shrooms were small, white and delicate, while the portabella
was big, dark and floppy. As the story goes, the mushroom King
managed to flip the script and made a fortune in the process.
God that sounds
believable. Flipping a script that's the way you make money in
this country.
What so what can we do to flip the script? What what products
can we take? That is basically garbage waste waste product.
While we're doing that kind of with the news coverage? Garbage.
Well, that's true. That's true. And we are flipping it into into
pristine analysis. Yeah, but
we're not getting rich in the process on our job. We're not
getting rich in the process.
We're not getting rich, but it is fun. And people it is also
enlightening for people to realise this you know what a
bunch of crap is out there. That's fact I had this
interesting clip is not that interesting. But this is the
Olympics and this is the way they have to play this because
there's nothing really that scandalous about these Olympics
except some some bad judging of events, which is always going to
happen. But they had a look play on the Nancy Kerrigan Tonya
Harding thing from I don't know 20 years
ago. Anybody remember this? Does
anybody know what are they if you watch The Olympic Stadium
because they kept talking about it. Do we need to like, you
know, history if you've if you, if you forget your history,
you're going to have it reminded, but you go forever
you're going to be have it thrown in your face. There's a
bitter joke there. I'm sorry, I blew it. Let me play this little
clip because it Jay brought up an interesting point that
according to at least one of the skaters who watched this
carnival that took place with the media, the media frenzy, he
believed that was for him, it was the death of the media,
which they said that was why why bother with these people
tender a situation. You could not miss this practice session.
Here they are together on the eyes for the first time. There
are about three or 400 cameras, that the practice it's a
practice. I wasn't afraid of her. But I thought it would be a
zoom to put us
on the same ice. And that was right.
Nancy Kerrigan wore that white lacy dress that she was wearing,
the day she got attacked. Humour is good, and it's fun. And I
thought, it's empowering. And it's, Hey, I'm here,
I can do this. I'm back. I'm ready.
I saw press jammed into this one little area, I saw the
Washington Post, The People Magazine, The New York Times the
National Enquirer, and you go down the line, and they were all
equals. This may have changed skating a little bit. But to me,
it changed the media forever.
All the clicking and flashing. When I did my job that made me
fall and hurt myself.
Both of them on the ice, it's inevitable that they're going to
pass each other. And when they came like this, the click the
word of the cameras. I mean, it sounded like a million
firecrackers going off. But that was the money picture. This was
that big of a deal.
So what you're saying here is It's so pathetic, they could not
jump drum up any controversy that they had to bring this
back.
Yeah, but that but more importantly to me was that
besides the noise that 300 cameras would make in the olden
days before digital, right, all shooting at the same time,
because they're all a bunch of robots taking the exact same
shots that normally I would think a pool guy could do,
right? One guy? Yeah, do we need 300 photographers from every
media outlet, including the National Enquirer and everybody
in between? I mean, it doesn't make any sense and stupid. And
the guy who was saying that the change for him to change media,
I think, which by the way, predates, you know, the
realisation that this is all crap really predates our show,
which started six, seven years ago, by a decade at least or
more. It's just, it really means it's just astonishing to me that
this hasn't been picked up to any extreme like we do on our
show at all. I mean, I think the last guys who used to pound the
media for being a bunch of shills and jerks was if stone,
which was like doing a newsletter in the 1960s. And he
died. Yeah. And even before that, the cell does character
and it but those used to be in the form of newsletters, but
there's no serious people to seriously looking at what a
crock of crap that is being fed on a 24 hour basis to the
public. There's nobody
except for us. I think we are one of the few
I think somebody everyone's gonna take a shot at it. But
there's, there's so poorly equipped or poorly trained, or
they don't have enough background, or they are they're
insincere, or they're still kind of part of it. And they can't
really release themselves completely. And
well, that's a no, no, no, you've nailed it there. Because
they, most people, even when they're critical are part of the
system. And somehow they they you know, it's like, it's I
think it's mainly based around ads, if you are selling seats,
yeah, if you're in any kind of business where there is an
advertiser, then you can you can go against the system, you just
can't even if your advertiser receives an iodine or whatever,
you can't go against it. For instance, I guarantee you this
will this it's already a bit of a story, but I think this will
get some legs and I'm going to debunk it for you right now.
Outer net.is Have you heard of this? John? Outer net.is? Yeah,
no,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I looked into this a little bit and I dropped
the ball, right.
So this is a Oh, another nonprofit, which is funded by
some pretty big names here, the media development investment
fund, MDI, f.org, who I might add, give us nothing. But I will
give you a net a couple of names here of the foundation for
democracy of media. The John D And Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation. Oh, the only EDR network like the immediate our
network, peer drive my car, the Open Society Foundation Soros,
Oxfam, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency,
they funded Tor, Swiss Agency for Development. It's the it's
the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It's the it is
the indifferent, they held media, the usual suspects, but
they don't give us any money. Now they are funding the
Outernet. And this is, this is such a scam. So what they're
proclaiming to be able to do it for the Outernet information for
the world from outer space, unrestricted, globally
accessible broadcast data, quality content from all over
the internet available to all of humanity, for free. And then
there's subtext here, by leveraging data casting
technology over a low cost satellite constellation.
Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and
offer a universally accessible information service at no cost
to global citizens. It's the modern version of shortwave
radio or BitTorrent from space. Okay, I have to say, bullshit,
this is so full of it, they are claiming that they will be using
cube sats and I have this whenever you get into BitTorrent
and shortwave radio, you're now in my backyard. You aviation to
I have communicated with satellites, cube satellites. And
it's absolutely possible. If you have you, if you're really
lucky, you can even do it with your little rubber duck antenna.
If you know exactly when the satellite is overhead, you can
open up the repeater and you can actually hear your message come
back from the satellite fun to do put it you can do it with a
$50 China radio button, you really need a directional
antenna Oh, and I'm sorry, it's five watts. And the CubeSat is
not on all the time, it's only waiting and it receives a signal
flips on the repeater broadcasts it back. And these things go out
of business after a couple of years because you know, the
batteries just doesn't recharge. They're all silo. So they're
claiming that they and this by the way is on 400 megahertz. Now
add, which is why you need five watts, you really need more to
do it properly. Now they're claiming that you will be able
to use your Wi Fi radio on your smartphone, which will be any
smartphone you want. Which is 2.6 gigahertz 2.4 2.6 gigahertz.
And that you will be able to receive the satellites just by
having your phone in your hand outside. And this will not work
for a number of reasons. One is you need a lot more gain on
these frequencies. Now Now you're much higher in the
frequency band. Wi Fi is byte its entire protocol is meant to
be short distances not not low Earth orbiting satellite. And
and then these things are gonna have to be broadcasting all the
time in order for you to pick up the Wi Fi signal. This is bull
crap. It is not going to happen. It is a lie. It does someone is
soaking these guys. This emptyeyes Good.
We should be so lucky.
And they've got like pictures of people holding up their
smartphones. Yeah, I saw that. It's pathetic.
Well, this so shows how dumb the public is. I mean, it doesn't
even make any sense. And then the idea that it's going to go
anywhere. It's not and it's sensor proof. Does anybody
remember the good old days when the Communists were fighting us
in a Cold War? And we would have Voice of America and they just
put up a bunch of scramblers? Yeah. Yeah, you think one guy
with a couple 1000 Watt antenna over here. And they would you
won't be able to pick the signal up for 10 miles around this is
as censorship free.
No, this is as dumb as the Google balloon project. Oh,
where's that? No one's gonna hear about that.
And maybe this is just a hoax. It's not a hoax. And this is a
hoax. No, the
guys are answering questions on their on the on the I got into
this. I was like, Okay, what are you doing? Isn't it I think what
they want to do is technically, I think impossible. And besides
the fact that they're not building an internet, they want
to do data casting like DVB or digital radio. The way the
technology
presses the way they can send a message to us all. The way that
technology
presses picking this up is wow, this is so cool. This guy's got
the Outernet and your peer drive. My car is frightening and
it's really smart. It's really off Ah, free internet. By you
doing twit today, this
is a column for me. Thank you.
So are you doing twit today?
Yes, I am. As a matter of fact,
$4 says this, this one comes up as a new story.
Well, it won't get very far because I think even Leo knows
that that being a ham to nuts. See, I've seen. So what am I?
What should I do? Should I just clam up and see how South it
goes? And then jump in? No, no, I
think you'd be quiet, who was on the show was on the show with
you?
reported from USA Today and somebody else, USA Today will be
all in perfect. So you just you know, this guy's just the only
reason I like working with this guy is because he's pretty
cynical. What's his name? I can't remember. I feel bad about
that. I like him. I should know his name. I just don't I don't
know his name. I just, it's good. No, it's think I like to
go laser good guy,
you should say nothing. And then when it comes up, you let
everyone talk about it. And you say, that's going to be so cool.
That's what you got to say, Wow, that's gonna be so cool.
We're gonna actually the Wi Fi protocol you said it was this is
not only designed for short distances. But if you've it
fully implement the protocol, if it senses you've gone past a
certain distance, not retrieve the data. Of course, you have to
actually disable that aspect of it to get it to go more than a
mile.
So I have experience with these
1200 feet or something here go on. Yeah. And that's how
I have experienced with the SATs. And this is just it's off
the wall. It's really It's so dumb. But maybe we can learn you
or maybe we can learn something from this we create a satellite
or something we saved. I mean, they're looking for hundreds of
1000s of dollars. Hundreds of 1000s of dollars are getting
from this outfit. You know? Yeah.
Because there's a guys that with hundreds of 1000s of dollars
burning a hole in their pocket.
How can we don't how come? Well, we're clearly not well connected
our way that we
know it's a good thing. That would be
that would be the final problem. All right. Hey, I've promised
that I'd get us out on time. So I'm doing that I'm getting
people saying hey, you guys are taking on the shows
too long. Those too long.
shows too long. Okay, so of course we will have an update on
Ukraine. If Well, it's very possible that Russian troops
could storm Ukraine before Thursday. We'll have to see.
I say no.
And Monday getting to have the two teeth extracted so I'll be
cranky all week. What's Yeah. Well, I'm this is my year. I'm
getting my all my teeth done this year. My 15 front teeth
removed. No, no. Is it two molars that I've got?
I just gonna get caps.
Crowns. Yeah. Well, I had to save up the guy's been hound. He
said you teeth are gonna rot out of your head. If you don't do
something. I gotta save my money. So that's what I spend my
money on. I
must be ocean for Adam's teeth.
Yeah, right now I must be well connected. And we'll meet each
other back here on Thursday. Looking forward to that here in
FEMA Region six in the morning, everybody. My name is Adam
curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I where the
weather is, by the way is very nice. We're in a drought and
we're going to cost this big money. I'm John C. Dvorak.
On that note,
we'll see you on Thursday. Right here on no agenda.
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