Look at all these women around you. They're all dogs. Adam
curry,
John C. Dvorak. August 27 2009 Time beer Gitmo nation audio
publication episode 125.
This is no agenda coming here from
the 17th century canal house crackpot command centre in
Amsterdam get mon nation east where the Mark of the Beast is
official as of today. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where a heatwave is afoot. I'm
John C. Dvorak. Buzzkill.
They finally made it official John, the chip that people will
carry everywhere is now official in the Netherlands. They've you
can no longer use public transport without the
without the chip card. ID or the chip card.
Yes, the RFID. They call it the I forget what they call it.
When are they going to put the chip in the people
that get in there? There? Actually, there was this other
it's funny. I was listening to this on the radio. They have
there was a big dance party on the beach over the weekend, and
it got out of hand and the cops were surrounded by the public
and then the cops started shooting and shooting. Yeah.
shooting and shooting. Yes, like with their firearms. Yeah. And
so one kid died of a shot wound and six others were wounded of
which one other seriously? And so immediately the word came out
well, you know, it's it is possible that he was killed by a
police bullet IE, you know, Shah, they're getting ready
they're getting ready for the evidence to come out. And so the
mayor of I think it's Rotterdam actually is has come out and
said, Okay, that's it. We've got to ban all parties, no more
parties ever again. And so I was listening to radio this morning,
making our driving in the car down to the south of Holland for
some business and there was this whole discussion where the right
wing political party is saying well you know we could do we
could still do parties but why don't we put a chip into the
people who have been troublemakers in the past and we
can identify them? Oh, like they're really seriously
discussing this shit. Chip in the in the troublemakers. So
anyway, so the the managing director of this whole
Wait Wait you know if you put a chip in the troublemakers only
the troublemakers will have chips No. I think it'd be kind
of interesting because the troublemakers couldn't dead
group up with it with each other by having a scanner and then
finding other troublemakers exactly
we need to find each other it's going to be very easy
so the managing director of the of this you know this whole big
sis they've had a campaign going on for a long time like the only
way you'll be able to travel in with public transport is with
this RFID card and everyone's got to use it starting August 27
And so this guy is of course you know the Managing Director He's
the first one to use it right you know it was like oh look,
here it is and he gets stuck in the in the turnstile. Is that
true? Yes. It does. That's a real PR nightmare. If you're
trying to make this couldn't go forwards or backwards you stuck
stone cops around the place telling you man I'm telling you
so what is it what is it you're supposed to do?
Well you all you get I think the way it works is probably the
same as the Oyster card in the UK where you buy the empty card
or maybe you buy it with you know with like one or two bucks
on it and then you can top it up but of course what they really
want is they want you to buy one that is associated with you in
fact they also announced today that kids can buy meals at
school with their with their RFID card so it the process is
already well underway here in get Manish is the
point what did they what are they afraid of? I mean, why did
they chipping people? It makes no sense.
What do you mean why? So they can track you? Of course what do
you mean? Why? What
do they expect to get out of it?
It's handy. It's handy. Because why are we doing this? You have
to do less work is is really handy. But think about it.
They're putting kids lunch money onto these cards. So if you're a
bad kid, no lunch for you.
Bad Kid. Bad Kid. Well, I guess it was a bunch of drugs. Bad
kids are there. Yeah.
Well there's, you know, it's this country is pretty good.
There's a fantastic book that I saw advertised and I bought it.
I love this written by I think like a 72 year old artist. She's
a painter ina Fein and the book is called more nominates The
Crone which roughly translates to murder in Oh, what is the
word I'm looking for? Murder by order of the crown. And it's
about pin 14 The politician who was all set to win the elections
and I think 2002 It was maybe no 2000 2001 Remember the you know
that everyone called him the Dutch LePen and everyone was
really freaking out of course, the whole country was behind the
guy and he actually won his party won posthumously, but he
was assassinated outside of a radio studio. And, and she got a
hold of a report from the Dutch version of the either, I guess,
kind of like the FBI, the Ben loans file of Hades Dienste
maybe you called CIA. And in it it talks of a second shooter and
apparently, there were there were like five bullets in his in
his in his head. Two of which came were a different calibre
and from
so they went for a headshot because he couldn't take a
chance he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Yep, they went
for the headshot
to to the head. And so I'm very excited. You know, there's, well
there's, there's some of me some crackpots here in Holland, I
love it.
I'm sure there's more than a few.
But it wouldn't surprise me. I'll tell you that that guy was
he was he was going to sweep that people were freaking out.
He was going to sweep the elections. And he did. Of
course, the party fell apart. Because they get without their
leader. They were all screwed up. Yeah, that's typical. Yeah.
Which was, which was a shame. But you know, people say, Oh,
that's just crazy. So well, it's based upon a report from the
from the separate. That's crazy talk. That's just crazy. So of
course, although I'm not in the United States right now, I can
only surmise that the news is all about the death of Teddy
Kennedy.
Over the last couple of days. Yeah, it's been like, in fact,
my wife was irked the other day, CBS in particular is all over
this. And for some reason, you have to kind of figure out what
to CBS CBS being a very much in the Obama camp.
They can't tell you why. I'll tell you why in a minute.
But But tell me why now, because it'll be a good backstory. Well,
because the newest comp well, so it's, well, it's very
convenient, of course, and unfortunate, you know, the guy
died of brain cancer. And, of course, he was, you know, the
he's the last of the of what we call royalty, I guess in the
United States. But very convenient for him to die on the
very same day that the news comes out that the deficit will
rise by 2 trillion more than expected. Of course, a lot of
that is is the proposed health care reform. Unemployment is
going to blast through the double digits, we're going to go
through 10% You know, all of this horrible, horrible economic
news and that is completely snowed under by you know, Teddy
Kennedy.
Yeah, he could have been dead for days for all we know.
Keep it quiet. We got he's too early. Dammit, we gotta wait
until we have to release the numbers. Because you're not
reading anything about the numbers. You're not hearing
anything about about about that? I can just guess.
Ya know, it's all gets good wall to wall. Michael Jackson too.
And so without the dancing right. So but anyway, so my we
there's a new show that we like new drama that we'd like to
watch which because just has a great character called The
Mentalist. Oh.
What's the premise of this?
The premises this guy is a magician, who is also good at
reading people. And, and, and can feign reading your mind kind
of thing. And he's a he's an he's an A consultant with the
police department. The California Bureau of
Investigation actually. And they he goes from case to case and
kind of figures out who did it. And it's actually very
entertaining. It's very well done is it's the structure is
nice. It's paced well. So it's one of the shows where now the
family is watching. So there was a rerun, my daughter did get to
see so they're showing the thing and right in the middle of it.
Unlike every other network, which just had a scroll a you
know, a crawler crawl at the bottom. They interrupted the
show and went on for 15 minutes.
Are they out of their mind? They interrupted show the family was
watching Darnit that
is absolutely the fact. I mean, why are they interrupting the
show? Because this was I mean, if it was given us
Schwarzenegger or something local or that you actually there
was a Washington but it was something local. But I had to
tell anybody this maybe they don't know. But Ted Kennedy was
a senator from Massachusetts,
and he got handed that Senator shifted and he wasn't actually
elected. I think
that his first time around I'm not sure I know. I'm pretty
sure it was What the handoff do well whatever
the case was he was he really liked it a lot. But anyway but
it's it's really it's it is national news at one level but
not you know world war three. And World War Three is my
daughter didn't get to see the episode. Darn it. That's because
of Viacom's corruption. Hey,
Ron Viacom's corruption. Yeah. Does your daughter know that
she'll be paying for for your death squad?
death panels
panel? I'm sorry. Is she aware of that at least? Or did you not
talk about that at all?
I mean, listen to this show. So
$10 trillion. That's what that's what it's a. That's what the
oversight management board is saying. $10 trillion
adds up.
And certainly does. You know, it's like, how egotistical are
we as human beings that were willing to save our ass now and
have our great grandchildren take the rap? You know, it's
just how egotistical are we? I mean, When will someone just
stand up and say, You know what, fuck that shit. We need to
change it for the better. I'm gonna sacrifice myself right
now. There you go. I'll sacrifice myself. I'll take I'll
take the I'll take no health care, so that my grandchildren
can have it. Wow, Jesus. Right in the middle of that John gets
blown out of the water. Hey, man. That's one. Let me see if I
can. Oh, yeah, I know what the cut in is. Well, hold on a
second. We may not have to cut it. And maybe you're still up.
Hold on. That's kind of weird. Say some testing. 123 You're
still on? Cool. Yeah, if you call back then it works,
apparently. Okay, where did you lose me? I was saying that we
need to sacrifice ourselves for the for the good of our
grandchildren.
Yeah, I said something along the lines of that's the way it's
always been. I mean, isn't this has been forever. So I mean,
it's just, you know, there's, we cheat the system somehow. I
never really,
yeah, by printing more money and we're going to run out. It's
over.
Not gonna run out of paper. That's the point. So
Finland is shutting down the paper plants. What are you
talking about? We are actually we are running out of paper.
It's like paper may become as valuable as gold one of these
days.
It is. So why don't we before we get off the Kennedy thing I want
you to play the Kennedy clip that I have. Now. This is what's
the name of the clip.
The name of the clip is Kennedy NPR special.
Yeah, they did a special on the Kennedy clan and you know,
mostly was the one of the mandates about Joe, Joe Kennedy.
And again, the basic effect he's a mobster. And you know, he
made all his money during Prohibition right running
bootleg liquor. Yeah.
Yeah. And he's well connected. And so the whole thing is about
these kind of crooked deals. But the one of course, you know,
they I mean, if Ted Kennedy is lionise it you know, you don't I
mean, he doesn't he doesn't hold a candle to John Kennedy. And
then so there's this so I'm gonna point
it was it was it supposed to be joke? No, what was the Joe
Kennedy Jr. was gonna be but he was gonna be president. He got
Yeah, he got killed in the war. He was supposed to be the main
it's amazing how three names for kids from one from one family.
We're all you know, either slated to be president or, you
know, yeah, I mean, how does that work? That can only mean
that there's some kind of corruption going on? Yeah,
well, here play this clip. And that this is Tip O'Neill by the
way, this is the the the narrator followed by an in the
middle there's Tip O'Neill laughingly who used to be the
speaker that was laughingly talking about the kind of how
they basically bribe their way into getting Kennedy elected
plate.
Kennedy carried Wisconsin, but he did lose key Protestant
districts. And the next contest was in an overwhelmingly
Protestant state, West Virginia. To win their Kennedy would have
to confront the religious issue at every public appearance.
Senator Kennedy, how can we stop the religious issues that keep
coming up to confuse the public
Rajon? What were those religious issues with the Protestants at
the time?
They can't use it first, first Catholic president. And there
were there always the protestants in the United States
historically, was sceptical of Rome, and specifically the Pope.
And they always felt that if a Catholic president was elected,
they would just take orders from the Pope. Yeah, that's the dude
in that cool car. Exactly. Think that? I don't mind.
I must say that we shouldn't vote because it's a I am running
for the presidency, which is a powerful office, given great
power under the Constitution. And it is a matter of concern to
a good many people. And the best way to get it answered seems to
me is to ask the question openly.
West Virginia was not only Protestant, it was notoriously
corrupt. Once again, the Kennedys left nothing to chance.
I Tell the story about Eddie Ford. Betty Ford went out there
pocketful of money. This is a tip on you. Yeah, you see a
sheriff and say to the sheriff Sheriff, I'm from Chicago, I'm
on my way self. I love this John Kennedy boy, he can help this
nation. I got he's got the feeling father, you know, he,
he'll do things for West Virginia. Data, what he said his
3000 his 5000. He said, you carry your village, follow him
or your county, follow him. And I'll give you a little reward on
when I'm on my way back.
Wow, bi wiretaps would later show that underworld figures sad
to have old ties to Joe Kennedy. We're also distributing funds on
behalf of the Kennedy campaign. Kennedy won West Virginia and
all of the primaries. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. That's
That's what Mayor Daley did for Obama.
Yeah, there's that. And that it's like, you know, but it's
funny that, you know, they're just rife with the whole system
is rife with this. So you know, what's, what's what's he loves
Jack Kennedy. You know,
what's funny is what's funny is, if there's only one small
discrepancy, or if there's, you know what, anything goes wrong
with the voting on American Idol, the country is up in arms,
we are pissed off to no end, because it should have been the
other dude with a hair who won. And but when it comes to, I'm
sure you've heard the voting machines, you probably blogged
it that a couple of guys prove that it's very easy to or
relatively easy to change the votes in the voting machines
that are used in many districts in the US. I mean, this whole
this whole voting machine thing is it's rigged. The whole thing
is rigged.
It makes it easier. I think you're right. I think a lot of
this has to do with just ease. Yeah, making things easier. By
the way, you know, there was a movie and I would let the
listeners maybe can help me here. Oh, those this movie came
out in the I think I must have come out in the late 60s, early,
mid 70s, early 70s 70s. I don't know. I saw it at the Pacific
Film Archives. And it was at the time I was watching I said this
is the most ridiculously stupid movie I have ever seen in my
life. And it was a movie that had that was documenting the
various mob families and who they'd run for president and
like every especially the Democrat Party, everybody that
you would Lyndon Johnson was representing one part of one mob
family and Kennedy was representing another mob family.
And well they're
all gangsters. John Of course. We know that the Clintons and
bush of families have been working together for years
running drugs through you know MENA Arkansas this is it's
they're all thugs and gangs it makes total sense why do we
believe otherwise I just would
like to fight you know, the thing is this was so well
documented even though I thought it was bogus, because I was
broke because because you were not
awakened by then.
I was a sceptic that I've been through experience on my head
Yes.
research experience and research
research. So So there's an interesting story breaking as we
speak
Oh, what's that? Wait Do we have a breaking news story? No, sorry
we don't know we
have it well let's I want to preface it with the clip well,
we do
We have breaking news breaking news
did I blow Yeah, was it I think that Warren was when he should
be used for when we have duplication need a different
noise because that should be for repeating ourselves Yes. Anyway,
the rich clip Do
you want me to proceed
the breaking the run the Olbermann clip
or I got three of them? Oh, I got all the worst person and,
and three as well. There's
a couple of days. There's a couple of weirdnesses going on
with Olbermann.
Now you're not gonna get into the whole news network fighting
news network thing again, right?
No, no, no,
no, I'm just saying it's, it's over and relevant. I mean, how
many people watch him
he's got to big numbers. His numbers have gone and he's
getting a big head which is hard to believe,
but which is very good for your television career.
It's hard to believe, but it's actually good. You know, so But
what's interesting to the commercials they're running
around his show.
Oh, let me guess. Big Pharma
No, that's what's interesting about it really run I think
Olbermann one Okay, let's check five
healthcare healthcare is then ration. Also the quality of
health care with socialised medicine is greatly reduced. You
will wait months and years for treatment. Many of the people
will not get treatment at all You will pay for free health
care for over 20 million illegal aliens Obama and the Democrats
know that socialised medicine does not work. They want it
because it gives them more power over you. You can stop the
horrors of socialised medicine from happening to you by joining
the US Citizens Association. Membership is free gold offering
is no good to you initiate your business at a salary dot job.
Wait a minute. I was gonna say why did you scramble because you
didn't want to promote it.
I'm not putting out somebody else's phone.
Let's play that backwards, then I get the I get the number and I
can find the website.
I'll give you the number, please. But yeah, so
that's an anti Obama and you would think, an anti
right before, you're right during one of the breaks, and I
just go, wow, somebody's already here. Bye. But I'm wondering
whether it's a honeypot or what it is because when I listen to
that ad is basically everything's free, free free.
And so this is a mailing list operation, I
was gonna say, you know, maybe we should actually call the
number because maybe it's, you know, as you say, a honeypot,
where you call up and then they try to convert you,
or whatever, or just get your name on a mailing. What's
the website? What's the what's the website that they gave out?
Come on, John.
It's like it's the name of it. It's the name of the group.org I
think something like that. Thanks.
I can go get I'd have to play the real clip without the
unedited clip to figure it out. But let's go. Anyway, that's an
example of the ads they're running on that show which I
thought was a surprise. And now the more surprising one because
I've never heard an ad for this ever. is I think it's clipped
the third clip for Oberman you
are not your name. You're not your job. You're not the clothes
you wear for the neighbourhood you live in your fears, your
failures or your past you
stop hope now you gotta guess what do you think it's gonna be
I think this is wow is this targeted? At college kids?
I don't know hit it.
You are imagination you are the power to change to create the
girl who
you are you are all that you can be
spirit that will never die no matter how you will rise again
Scientology know yourself. Oh, whoa. Wait a minute.
These guys mythology. They must be hard
up for money man. So they're taking Scientology dough and
they're taking anti Obama ad money.
So it sounds like and this by the way went right into a Rachel
Maddow house ad
Have you ever read Dianetics by Ron L? Hubbard? Well, Ron, yeah,
have you actually read it?
I couldn't get through it. It was just I read
it you know I read it one vacation you read you read Atlas
Shrugged. Yeah, I did it. I mentioned it. I have not seen
the I got to put up the link the amazon.com link I'm going to
start promoting all these wacky books. So yes, you did it again.
But Dianetics it's not a bad book, you know. It's not you
know, I like just
my advice. People can read it, but
it doesn't seem as freaky as the people who try and get you clear
who are stopping on the street you know, with the with that
volt ometer or whatever it is. The blue metre heat metre the
predecessor to the iPod it's it's that's some pretty logical
stuff in there a lot of the book is about you know what a what a
foetus actually feels while it's inside the womb and what it
hears and you know, the whole idea of not
getting interesting commentary from the and Rand
I haven't the only thing I've gotten let me tell you, dude,
the only thing I've gotten
is good. The horn when you say Dude,
no, I will not. I've gotten good feedback. People are like, Hey,
man, thanks. Thanks for pointing that out. That's that's a pretty
interesting book. I don't know if they've actually gotten
through it all. How have you started yet? John? Mr. Critic,
faster. I have
I've started it's sitting over on the toilet. And so when I'm
taking a dump, I read a couple pages. It really helps. I'm
telling you get out of there. Faster.
I read gossip magazines, primarily ones that that have me
in it when I'm taking a dump. I get out real fast. I'm like, oh.
I'm being raked over the coals again. So I was walking down the
street. And I had one of my roll ups in my mouth.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's Adam curry. Smoke it. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, totally. It's all over the news. Hey, he's on he's on
dope. Again. He's stoned again. And like, Dude, it's just like
it's tobacco.
So, alright, so here's some actual interesting political
news. And this requires playing one more clip. Wow, this one's
really clear cut number two, which is the long clip the worst
person? Yeah, Olbermann does this thing called the worst
person in the world. So he cites some poor schlub, who happens to
be a PR guy defending his congressman, for apparently
being politically incorrect or using the word and allowing
somebody to use the word terrorist in a joking manner.
And I've noticed this with Olbermann, which is a show, you
know, it's worth watching. Occasionally, if you can put up
with Olbermann who has got no sense of humour, and he's got
this huge head that just fills the screen, and he's really
serious. And he stares in his guinea purses his lips, and he's
really certainly certainly, Oh,
what did he do before this? Was he like a comedian or?
No, no, he was a rich guy, his reputation by being fired by
ESPN.
Yeah, right. He was a sports guy. I thought it was some
theatre.
And he dreamed up the show some time ago. And it was a huge flop
until the election came around. And he decided to go overboard
with being on Obama bot. I mean, really, over the time, he
started getting a following. And then he picked up some better
writers. And the show is actually pretty, pretty full of
material. But a lot of it is just really sketchy. And this
particular piece, if you listen to it, it's a it's a it's it
leads me right into a news story that I found interesting.
But I wonder tonight Mephala voice the spokesman for
yesterday's worst Congressman Wally Hergert, Chico,
California. After a constituent now identified his birth stead
of Redding, California, stood up in a burger town hall and
identified himself as a quote proud right wing terrorist.
Congressman Hungary responded not with any rebuke but by
saying, Amen. God bless you. There is a great American
spokesman Mr. woyww now says the Congressman has no intention of
apologising or praising a self described terrorists. He says,
quote, the comment was ingest the man was using satire to make
his point which does not have a damn thing to do with it. As I
said last night, even if he was being allegorical or hyperbolic,
this is not language to Bandy about. Not when people are both
sides are showing up with submachine guns or guns and
submachine guns when members of right wing militias are showing
up at town halls. When faced with this crap on the eve of
last year's election, even Senator McCain's conscience got
the better of him, and he represented a woman spouting
hate speech against McCain's rifle. Congressman, her and his
spokesman need to do the same. And until they do, they are
contributing to this climate of paranoia and violence in
developing our political system. Until they say something
Congressman Berger and this spokesman are not defending the
Constitution. They are threatening it. McEvoy the
spokesman for Congress from bodyboarders Second District,
California, today's worst person in the world.
Yeah. Okay. So this guy, so he brings up the violence thing of
tempting advice.
I love I love the phantom of the opera music that goes along with
pretty great. Yeah. So so the story breaks this morning, that
some punk who had apparently busted up this is the violence
part, by the way, busted up to democratic headquarters. And I
think Denver defaced a bunch of Obama signs and you know, busted
away
inside the actual offices.
Now they threw rocks through the window or hit the but they just
busted up to place some extreme and it was blamed on pissed off
Republicans who were
funded by the insurance companies.
So they, but by coincidence, these kids, I guess, went around
here and their kids and one of them is 24. He's they're both in
their 20s, mid 20s. And they give some cop by coincidence
caught him and is in a guy's a Democrat operative. Really?
Yeah, he's a Democrat. He was he actually he's been he's been a
paid canvasser. He got 500 bucks for canvassing for some, it's on
my blog. divorce.org/blog You should check it out. And I'm
beginning to now think that okay, so he ended the ideas. And
of course, the Denver Post very supportive of Obama says no,
he's not he's not a Democrat. He's an anarchist. And I'm
thinking yeah, sure. He also apparently was was arrested in
Minnesota trying to disrupt the Republican convention. This guy
is just one of these
troublemakers is that he should he should be chipped.
He's a paid trouble. He should be chip. He's a paid
troublemaker. But it's like now that they've turned out that
there's a whole bunch of listings on Craigslist to get
you know, with the title summer jobs that make a difference
where they pay 350 to $500 to go work. This one got us. Oh, yeah,
no, that's been
going on for weeks. Right to go. Yeah.
And there's no reason for them. You know, the idea here is just
to make the Republicans look better. I was thinking about
this because I've been watching a lot of these townhall
meetings. And there's this really sketchy stuff that comes
up. And, you know, from the supposedly Radical Republicans,
these Republican terrorists that you can barely get away from the
television set, let alone go protest. My commentary is
simple. Do What Republicans do you know, that go around driving
around on bicycles and throwing rocks at places like these two
kids were doing it with the Republicans. Unless a church
organises a protest and buses, the people out there, they
generally don't do that much. They're not the radical.
You know, they're gonna show up in their Ford F 150s, where
they're where their semi automatic rifles, you know,
they're not gonna go waste time on bicycles with rocks.
So the point is, well, they generally stay home. But the
point is, they do and so so I'm watching one of the townhall
meetings which I'd taken a clip from earlier, and this guy gets
up who's moaning vociferously about the bad health care bill
and he first he says, I pay $700 a month for my health care
insurance. And I think I get the best and I'm an American and I
get the best health care in the world and he rips off of two or
three Republican, the corniest the worst of the Republican
talking points as if he's mocking them, but he makes makes
very clear he's paying $700 a month for those great health
care. The phone so I'm and somebody comes in berates him
afterwards saying that. Well, hold on a second shot.
Hello, hello, John C. Dvorak. escort service. Yeah,
some opinion polls some opinion poll. So anyway, and I was
thinking we should
we should really have a way to patch your phone in when an
opinion pollster calls, we should be like both on the phone
and we shouldn't really mess with their heads.
It would be great. Anyways, but the thing is, when it picked it
up, they're already hung up. Because I'm obviously on a
dialer called the company's opinion, one. Anyway, the
phone's off the hook now. So I'm thinking and somebody else comes
up to, you know, some other Republican or real Republican,
kind of flabbergasted about how this guy's bragging about paying
$700 a month, as though this is a good, a good thing. Yeah. And
she had this look on her face, and that now I think back on it,
why isn't that why was it? Or was it just a Democrat plant, in
a form of irony, saying I pay 700 ollars a month for the
greatest health care in the world, I want to keep it that
way, which is essentially what he said. So I'm thinking half of
this stuff is staged, in one way or another, and it's not, you
know, staged by the Republican,
you know, we need to set something straight here, because
the $700 a month, or whatever it is, you probably pay 400. I
think that's what I pay somewhere in that region. That's
actually not paying for health care. Okay, you're paying for
insurance. And the whole idea of these insurance companies
sitting in between whether they're public or private,
whether it's government owned or not, the whole idea of it being
like a layaway programme is just wrong. You know, health care, in
general should be somewhat affordable. And there should be
reasonable parameters around what a doctor can charge you,
which is the way it always worked in a lot of these ghetto
nation states, which was actually worked pretty well. But
now it's become this. This is what I pay for health care. Now,
that's what you pay for insurance for your No, I
agree with that. Now, there's a secondary meme that has shown up
and this is not something that's new. But all of a sudden, I'm
noticing this, if I watch any of these townhall meetings, or I
listen to the news, and then they're clipping from this meme,
it started to show up, and I'm not sure who's behind this one.
But I get the sense that it's these organisers that aren't
Republicans or Democrats. But it's the people that keep
promoting health savings accounts. Now, I've Health
Savings Accounts became legal. It's like a form of an IRA. It's
tax deductible, right? Yes, tax deductible. And now I'm hearing
on right wing talk radio, left wing talk radio townhall
meetings out of the blue, and this wasn't that I'd say two
weeks ago, I would have not heard this at all, zero. Now I'm
hearing it constantly references to health savings accounts over
and over and over again, as if somebody has pulled
it's a perfect way to put more money into the banks. It's a
great to be part of Yeah, it's a great financial instrument. And
of course, when we when we have that money in the banks, then we
can create derivatives and trade on it. Yay.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
I'm sure that there's a derivative guy right now saying
how can we just take health savings accounts and sell a
package to the Germans?
Yeah, well, but you know, it really what happened and in the
United States, you know, we're entrepreneurs, we're, we'd like
to create businesses, doctors everywhere, setting up these
specialist clinics and you know, all kinds of expensive equipment
and, you know, and it's just the system is just, we need more
than reform, you know, we just need To rethink what we're
doing, then we're just, we're not there. It's all it is. It is
all these memes that, you know, I pay for health care. No, it's
insurance for health care, it's in case you really really get
toasted. You know, it's in case you get hit by a truck, it's in
case you get cancer, you know, in case you get a heart attack,
it's for it's for, you know, like, insurance for your home
insurance for your car, you know, you don't call, I pay for
auto service. Now it's insurance for your for your automobile.
That's what that's where it's all gone wrong. People just
don't quite understand the
advantage astray. And they've been hypnotised
people watching three, four or five hours of television
television a day, completely, you know, I was at home alone in
San Francisco for a week. And of course, you know, what am I
doing? Right? So I might as well turn on the porn. And of course,
I stop on, you know, on any other, you know, low low number
channel, and I'm just like, it's amazing the kind of shit that's
being fed into your head. And now we have the president who
has it. And it's quite interesting how this goes in, in
even the Financial Times in the same article I'll see. Well, he
is nominated Ben Bernanke to be the Federal Reserve Chairman for
a second term. And in the same article, he is reappointed him
like, well, hold on a second. That's not how it works. You
know, you can't just reappoint him as the president. He has to
go through a whole point, which of course is going to be just
the I mean, you thought sort of my era was was funny. Now
they're gonna have to do another Senate approval process for Ben
Bernanke. If he wanted to watch that twisting and turning going,
Chris Dodd, you know, who of course is a total shill, but Oh,
yeah. Well, you know, we're really going to grill him this
time. Bullshit. Chris are a Todd Dodd. Shit. But yeah, I call it
bullshit. mean, this is like giving the Doctor Who, who has
been convicted of malpractice, like giving him a medal of
honour, you know, it's like this guy. Remember,
there's like George Bush, give me all those freedom, freedom
metals to to the guys who screwed up a rock.
I when I was in, in Spain, the people in the house next to us,
the guy, we had dinner with the one that one night and three
kids and kids are running around, it was it was kind of a
laid back like family dinner. And so what do you do? John
says, Well, I, a managing director of a security company
like Oh, really, you know, and he's British? He said, Yeah, but
you know, a lot not like people who, you know, protect your,
your office building, like a security company. I said, Oh,
you mean like, a consultancy? And he's like, he was a 20 year
commanding officer of the British Army. And, and you know,
and he has like a basically he runs a Blackwater. I was like,
Well, this was a little and I
gotta he was that's why it was in the house next to you. Yeah.
How
should I should have thought he was looking at me wasn't a
sure that there's nothing weird going on with this guy.
Just hold on a second, I should probably play this. Back to
severely underreported but interesting. Nonetheless, in
1969. The, then I guess, Prime Minister of the Netherlands,
Vilem. Thrace was given by the then ambassador to the United
States, in in the Netherlands, a piece of moonrock. And this, of
course, was put into the Reich's Museum, which is probably the
most fine famous museum in the Netherlands. They've got a lot
of fantastic art and the Free University of Amsterdam got a
hold of the moon rock and and they said yeah, this is really
interesting because of course, we like talking a lot about
about space and what's going on above our heads the naval Space
Command and you know, of course my opinion that yes, although we
not only have been on the moon we have probably have Moon
bases. The actual Shut up the actual 1969 Moon Landing, I
believe was done in a studio. So the the Free University of
Amsterdam examines this moon rock and after 30 minutes, they
say, Hey, nice. It's a piece of petrified wood. It's not an
actual moon rock.
Well, that's interesting, because my understanding is
there's only one moon rock that was ever given away to anybody
and I can't off the top of my head. Maybe somebody in the chat
room would know who it is. And then I think it's an American.
And it wasn't I never heard of a second moon rock ever being
handed to anybody. So I think the thing never was a moon rock.
Would just petrified when we got a moon rock for you, buddy.
You know what? We should hand out no agenda moon rocks. This
is another fine premium John. We're just banging them out they
did we get any? Any ringtone requests? That doesn't sound
very promising.
No, really
not a single Yeah, we
got a few donations we didn't really I don't think we made it
clear. And I think we botched the ringtone that we had. And I
want to end near the end of the show when we get to my point
where I'm gonna have to ask people to pony up a little bit
here. We'll set up a mechanism and one of the buttons isn't
working for some unknown reason got changed? Yeah, I
got a lot of messages about that. So I'm gonna
wait today. But the point is, is that no, we didn't get any, any
at all. Zip zero.
So I want to congratulate it didn't pan
out? Well, it doesn't mean it should it really should. I think
so too. I think the problem is we don't have a real mechanism
in place where people can get you know, because I don't think
you can only donate, you can put a message in. When you use
PayPal you can use you can add a message, can you?
Yes, you can. And I don't think we I don't know if people aren't
seeing that box or what it is. But I haven't seen any messages.
We might need to set up a customised donation.
Yeah, I'm gonna set something up today. By tonight. This is
Thursday, August 27. Buy on August 28. For tonight,
sometime. They will it'll be set up differently. And you can go
to dvorak.org/in A, or no agenda show which does not be fixed by
the way that that's well does that host. Now it's not
completely hosed. But one of the two of the buttons don't work.
But anyway, did mark.org/and They will be working for sure
tonight. Exactly right. And then we'll just, you know, have a
separate button for the donation with a ringtone it being the
27th of August. I do just want to say that it was 19 years ago
today that my daughter came into the world. And that was to the
soundtrack of The Beatles in my life in Livingston hospital.
Well, congratulations to you. Yes, that's to you and her.
Chris is her name Christina. Yes, Christina.
Yes. So I want to congratulate Alex Berenson of The New York
Times who wrote a fabulous piece forwarded to me by one of our
listener producers. Tim Brophy. And I think you got it as well,
John. It's about the software that was stolen, quote, stolen
from Goldman Sachs, by this guy, Allien Ali Ali, knee, cough, who
was working at Goldman Sachs. And it really goes into what
this software does, in fact, and this, of course, is why Goldman
Sachs is making billions of dollars in profit. This high
frequency trading actually is a complete market manipulation, he
explains it in pretty simple language, you'll find the link
to the article in the show notes at no agenda show.com or
career.com, or Dvorak, that org slash blog. And in fact, he left
Goldman Sachs because he was only making $750,000 a year as a
software programmer at geeks pay attention. He left because he
was offered a $1.2 million a year job at Taser technologies.
And what it does is this the software, which is probably
written in some really low level machine code or something COBOL,
probably binary code binary COBOL. And, you know, so it
bundles up trades before they actually hit the open market.
And so they're making Penny exactly what we talked about
many weeks ago on the show, and and they and they're able to
make pennies on these trades, even before it hits the open
market systems. And of course, the the travesty of all of this
is that Goldman Sachs through the tarp, or maybe it's the
towel, I think it's the tarp is actually able to borrow hundreds
of millions of dollars a day for free for free, mind you, from us
from from our from the treasury, in fact, to then go and make
these trades so they have no risk, no risk at all. And
they're making billions of dollars through market
manipulation, and it's right here in black and white in the
New York Times. And that's amazing.
And of course, I've always thought I've always thought that
the market wants to computerised trading thing took place, and
especially with computerised systems like NASDAQ, that there
had to be a way to deconstruct the mechanism reverse engineer
it in such a way that you could manipulate it with another
computer programme if you had enough money to do it. And
that's what Goldman Sachs had when they gave, you know, they
were essentially they've always had because they're one of the
biggest but the you have to be pretty big to do this.
And you gotta have some major major hardware if I know one of
these guys and I remember he was a kind of a monopoly a buddy
because it was kind of weird. But we met at the at the Ben
Cohen's shawarma restaurant one night we got to talk on, you
know, his spare time, he was like, uh, his hobby was pole
vaulting and, and he was this, you know, bald head, which of
course, works perfectly with Goldman Sachs type guys, because
they're all they seem to be kind of balding is like a club. And
what he would do literally is work on these incredibly
sophisticated yet very simplistic, very fast
programmes. And all it was was just, you know, how fast can we
execute trades. And, you know, if you're really good at your
binary COBOL, then there's, there's quite a lot of dough for
you to be made out there. And which brings me right back to
the assassination of that software programmer who worked
at at the gates Law Firm, I'm telling you, I'm telling you,
these guys are onto it. They don't want the story to come out
the FBI. I mean, if someone steals something from your
company, the FBI, I'm reading this book, The informant, I'm
almost done with it. And the FBI takes months, months, sometimes
years before they go on arrest. Anybody know, when it comes to
Goldman Sachs and someone took their market manipulation code,
they arrest the guy within one day, one day, the FBI is like,
whoa, stop. We got to arrest you. Yeah, this is not just
some crazy theory of the crime.
Yeah, except the crime was he took the code. Yeah, but how do
they know? Because Goldman Sachs picks up the red phone?
No, I'm just saying. Yeah, exactly.
How do they eventually show me the code? Yeah, they didn't.
They didn't have any time to investigate anything. They just
like they pick
up the phone. Do you have a copy of a printout of the code? Or
was it in his head? Or was it on a thumb drive? No, he uploaded
it to some open server somewhere? Probably Europe?
Yeah, probably.
I mean, it could be the just having access to the backup
stuff, after you quit the company is have is stealing the
code.
And meanwhile, we're led to believe that Bernie Madoff was,
was duping his clients with a copy of Windows 95. And a dot
matrix printer, by the way, New York Post reporting that he has
cancer in his dying. Uh huh. I feel bad for people with cancer.
My mom died of lung cancer. But, you know, all of a sudden, oh,
yeah, he's taking 20 pills a day. He talks about it all the
time. He's not, you know, of course, he's gonna it's not the
heart attack. We thought, John, it'll be cancer. That's what
he's gonna die of?
Well, they're still going to have to, you know, there are
ways of, of injecting people with certain chemicals that make
them look dead. And then you've wheeled him out. And I mean, you
see it in the movies, and it's probably overdramatizing. It's
probably more dangerous than then you'd think. But, you know,
I mean, you think this guy had to have a look, this guy walked
off with over $60 billion, you know, more money than Bill
Gates. We haven't found by the way, which they haven't found.
There. He had to have an A an escape plan. Oh, yeah. I mean,
because you obviously walk right into the whole thing turned
himself in. I mean, he, I mean, you think that if he maybe would
disappear to, you know, some island, someplace where there's
extradition proof moved to Paraguay, I think you can get
this hurt with the bush, man, I think I think that's extradition
proof. And there's a bunch of things you could do, and you
could live a good life there. I mean, you got to live a better
life and Paraguay is definitely going to eat better than you're
going to end the prison in North Carolina.
Yeah. So he'll die of cancer very soon.
something's gonna happen. Very, very
sad. And they'll bring the box out. And He'll slip out the back
Jack.
That's my guess. Because otherwise, it makes no sense. A
guy like that, who dreamed up this scheme and can carry it to
such an extreme he has to have, you know, a an exit strategy.
I think the 60 billion is just the tip of the iceberg. I think
it was involved in a lot more he set up NASDAQ. He was the the
founding dude of NASDAQ. So he was involved in all kinds of
trickery. Oh, yeah. No, no, it was a dot matrix printer printer
with Windows 95. And he went and made up these accounts for
eight. How stupid they think we are.
Apparently quite stupid, very.
The Dutch Prince, you remember that? The Royal the Royal Dutch
Prince had sued the Associated Press said you can no longer
make pictures available of my family. Yeah, so the I don't
believe there's been any verdict yet in that in that case, but
this was clearly a case of
over here. Nothing to see here. Look at that
the prince has been building a house in Mozambique, which is
kind of the new Paraguay it's, it's the Paraguay for Royals.
And he pulled a fast one, which has been all over the news here.
He no longer owns the house, he put the house into a a new
structure of a foundation. And of course, he was kind of smart
to do that. Because this development has been nothing but
one big wasps nest of bribery. Someone's been killed on the
premises. There's all this amazing shit going on. And he's
like, Maybe I should put the house into a foundation. No, no,
we're gonna help poor people with this house. The doll? Yeah.
If you're wondering why our economy has gotten a little bit
better, because, you know, of course, even though the long
term prospects are horrible, and that news has been snowed under
by the death of Ted Kennedy. And this is I'm actually deducing
this from reading about what happened in Germany when the
German economy we were we were quite amazed that it actually
grew. And I kind of figured it out. number of reasons, but the
one that makes the most sense why the US economy economy has
not deteriorated as quickly it's still declining, mind you, but
not as quickly as expected, is of course the cash for clunkers
programme, John, because so much money now think $3 billion has
been pumped into the economy directly with real cold hard
paper. That this is it's like it's like a paper, a paper play.
And up next cash for refrigerators.
Yeah, I know. I saw that one I've had Horowitz and I talked
about it are really cash for appliances and they're going to
you know, he thinks that maybe it'd be going for cash for
sofas.
How about cash for hair extensions?
Cash for shrubbery. I mean, it's like okay, fine.
They're gonna do like a half a billion dollars. I think cash
flow, cash for refrigerator. Is this coming from originally?
Yeah, this is this is all for the environment. All right,
we're gonna get some of these old appliances. Off the Grid.
Yeah. How stupid am I?
It's about being green. The
so the news, of course in the United Kingdom has been nonstop
about and it was kind of fun to pick up a financial times at
Schiphol Airport, as I flew over to London to hang out with
Christina for a bit. And I actually took your advice, John,
I took the Heathrow Express into town, instead of taking a cab,
which was fabulous. I got a first class ticket is great.
They give you CNN indoctrination and free Financial Times,
completely different edition, much more interesting, because
it had none of the other Lockerbie stuff in the in the
international version. And as you already predicted, Gordon
Brown taking a lot of heat. And he finally came out and said
something he finally said, Oh, I was disgusted by the hero's
welcome that whatever, whatever the guy's name is the the
suspected bomber received upon coming home. But of course,
they've all distilled it here and said, Well, it's going to be
quite embarrassing when British Petroleum announces the big deal
they have with Libya, which is on its way, apparently the deal
has already been cut. So yeah, so everyone knows exactly what
this was about. And we've been receiving lots of emails about,
you know, the kind of debunk this guy's being as being the
actual guilty person, you know, the apparently, it had to do
with someone else who was on the plane. And the detonation
device, which was found in like, 25 miles from the crash site,
was this exact same detonation device used by the CIA and some
other scam they pulled off. So it doesn't make much sense to,
you know, to dredge up all this stuff. Was it 25 years later,
but ya know, it's like, it's like the Kennedy assassination.
No one cares. There's other things to do. Yeah. But the fact
of the matter was, this guy was found guilty and blamed. And so
why do you only get eight years?
The thing that everyone's really pissed off about is that he, by
being let free he withdrew his appeal. And there was all kinds
of evidence that was set to be brought into the open, which
people really wanted to hear about. Right. And so that was,
pretty much
that would be the conspiracy, the real conspiracy angle, not
the deal for the oil possibly, here's it. So let's take a look
at it from this perspective. The guy's got the goods on who
really did it, let's say it's the CIA. So all of a sudden, we
got to get this guy out of the back out of the country and make
him drop this appeal. So what are we going to do? I know I
have an idea. Let's do a deal with Libya's oil and British
Petroleum make it look like he's gonna like that's the reason
they did it. And then get him out. Nothing to see here kind of
a move as possible. And then let Gordon Brown try to dig himself
out of it. Well, Brown is going to eat crap for this days.
They'll say, oh, yeah, but brown wasn't going to win. Anyway. So
brown is going to just hit you know, we'll give him a big pile
of money and he can go off and do something else. You know, I
was already toast this is already chosen. There's
only one flaw with that with that theory is that I believe,
the CIA that President Obama and his administration do not
control the CIA. I think the CIA is actually out of control right
now. I think they are completely loyal to Bush, maybe even Bush
Clinton or the whole you know, the whole gang over there on the
bush Clinton side. And I believe this is why Obama has now set up
a new team which reports only to him outside of the CIA can you
believe it? How crazy does it have to get now we have the CIA
to and they're going to be the only ones allowed to interrogate
suspected terrorists. This stinks. This really really
smells like poop Don't you think? I mean
I don't I don't see how that has anything to do with my my
theory because your your theory is that the all these things
about the CIA were going to be uncovered and therefore they
came up with this with this scam. But I don't think that
brown slash Obama on the same side all run by the same
gangsters. I don't think they it behoves them to protect the CIA.
That's my point. I think I think if they could blow open the CIA,
if they can expose too
risky No. No, it's too risky. Well, it's certainly one thing
you can get killed.
Oh, yeah, that's right to to the head. Hey, let's talk about some
spaceships. I got one. Here's one. This This blew me away.
11,000. Sorry. This you are with me? Yeah. 11,000. United States
veterans who had colonoscopies at the US Veterans Affairs
hospitals may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and
HIV. Apparently in this I think was a Miami Yeah, Miami VA
Hospital. 11,000 veterans had who had colonoscopies were
treated or the colonoscopy. These were done with equipment.
That's an endoscopy, endoscopy and endoscopy and just yeah,
that device should they show up your ass? Instead of being
sterilised? It was just rinsed off. God, I mean, that's not
it's not only that dangerous. That's just disgusting. Hey,
lady, Nurse. Nurse, can
you rinse this off? She grabs it sniffs it rinses it. sniffs it
rinses, it sniffs it.
So there's a couple of guys who contracted AIDS eight so far. 12
were tested for Hepatitis B 37 for hepatitis C because they
they only rinsed the anal probe
to a Wait, isn't this a government health care system
we're talking about? Absolutely.
There you go. That'll do it for you. That link will be in the
show notes. I kind of freaked me out man.
Yeah, well, if you're gonna get one of those tests, I think it
would. So anyway, back to the CIA. I think the jury's still
out on whether they killed Kennedy and then killed Bobby
and killed what didn't kill but then they you know pushed what's
his name off the bridge and next thing you know, the Kennedys are
done. Yeah. Now, here's a problem that I have that that
I'm going to take the crackpot side of things. But I have a
clip that I want to play that K that was shown on Nova science.
Now which has this goofy guy who is the narrative
who's the whole image Let me guess this is the rat memory
clip.
Yeah, the rat memory clip. So they got the they're teaching
this rat. They got a rat wired up and he and they have this
moving platter. And so the rats walking around and when there's
one spot on the platter, if it gets narrowed, he gets a jolt.
And so the platter keeps moving around moving around.
So those are the spot changes.
While it's moving, it's a moving platter. So so I'm sure it
should be standstill is going to be pushed into this area where
he gets the jolt. So he starts walking. He keeps walking away
from this area as the platter keeps moving around. He learns
that didn't avoid this area and he learns quite well but then
they pull a fast one on the rat But I found it very disturbing
this whole segment, which you're gonna play right now.
He's walking. When the rats stays away from a particular
area, we can imagine that he has remembered where he was shocked.
Then, Fenton injects the rat hippocampus with a chemical
called Zipp, known to undo the effect of PKM zeta.
And what we observed, which was quite remarkable was the rat
acted as though it had forgotten completely where the shock zone
was, and it explored the arena as if it was in the arena for
the first time just got shot.
Yet, the rat could learn once again, to avoid the shock zone.
So we hadn't damaged the rats brain, we hadn't broken its
ability to learn anything. What we had simply done was
specifically erased the memory for that shock. So
Oh, boy. So I guess we can relate this to the swine flu
vaccination. Hmm.
You know, there's something well, they had to they injected
this directly at some spot, although I'm sure you could make
a somewhere for somebody to, to attack this area. But the thing
that disturbed me about this was the matter of fact, way that
they did it, then this cut this this, this chemical called Zip,
they never really said, What is this? What is that stuff? I
don't know. But it's obviously been known to exist because they
said they already knew that attacked this district, they
found that chemical had to do with short term memory. They
found that this chemical attacks this other chemical, and then
erases the short term memory of the rat. And then the rat is
buddies, the rats perfectly normal except for the fact that
this this memory of this shock zone had disappeared, and he had
to relearn it. I found this to be extremely disconcerting.
Well, the first link in Google talks about this very study and
it keeps talking about these. This is from 2007, about the zip
chemicals tip. But this also doesn't tell me what this is, of
course, this is all part of the mind control studies the CIA has
been doing for four years to how is that zip stuff? How do we get
some of it?
I can use after this you I can use on myself.
It'll be interesting though. What is zip is science mag.org
Rapid ratio of long term memory associations in the cortex by an
inhibitor of PK M and then it has a symbol p k m Hmm. Here we
go. Ah, the components of the remodelled synaptic machinery
and how they sustain the new synaptic or cell wide
configuration over time are yet to be elucidated. In the rat
cortex, long term associative memories vanish rapidly after
local application of an inhibitor of the protein canasa
C isoform.
I know you butchered whatever it was, but you can put it in the
show notes. Go ahead. k
i n a s e canasa C isoform. Protein ca NAS M zeta. So that's
what this zip stuff is. Can we then we should be able to get
some of that.
What we're gonna do with it.
I got some ideas. Honey, honey, there were no hookers and blow
didn't happen. Trust me. Just Just take your flu shot baby.
Not a problem.
So anyway, I was I found that to be a distressing, but no one
ever, you know, no one ever talks about. They just kind of
throw it out. You know, look what happened to me the rat. We
lost his he lost his memory. Haha. And it was like, I don't
know what the point of the story was.
Not to prepare, you know that we're getting very, very close.
Now September, October is when the vaccinations are supposed to
start. And now you
know, they're now the latest news here in the real Gitmo
nation, is they not going to have enough crafting do they're
going to have to demo nation. They're going to have the GM
standing for original
original gangster original Gitmo.
But you know, gangster, they they're going to have to roll
out the now they say oh, the adjuvant. The adjuvant based flu
shot in a two shot deal. At the same time they have the regular
seasonal flu shot, meaning there's going to be a three shot
for kids who don't like shots anyway, and this guy did. You
can see this becoming a fiasco. I don't think they're going to
do that. I think they're going to just put it off until next
year. They're going to create another you know, they're gonna
have to rejigger with the flu vaccine of the flu virus itself
because they've already done that. Add it according to the
some of these reports, jigger it up a little bit. So it actually
does kill a few people, and then try the scam again, you know,
actually,
you know that we're gonna reboot to reboot wouldn't be a bad
idea, John because, you know, of course I believe that there's,
you know, an actual plan out there to eliminate people but on
the other hand if you just look at the finances of it, I believe
that all the pharmaceutical companies, they're going to get
paid regardless, they're you know, all the shots have been
ordered. So just going to be written off and you may be
right, you know, it's like, we'll have 1020 30, maybe 400
People die, by the way, according to the numbers from
the CDC, who no longer actually track cases of swine flu.
According to their numbers published 500 people in the
United States have died of swine flu. According to their numbers.
I'm sorry, I didn't see the news report. 500 have died of swine
flu Indian
people were sick to begin with, but
I've only heard of one where did all these other Where did these
500 come from? And now they're just doing these aggregated
numbers. It's crap. A little bit of music for you everybody here
on no agenda says more
than Americans are all ready to get vaccinated swamp rooms come
back like a firewall attack. It's like seven decisions you
got to cover Get back. Get the vaccine don't give that because
those medical quacks I'm making money off Dad,
you got to see this video. It's in.
The black community gets on to this.
Don't inject me the swine flu vaccine song well, yes, of
course. The the the actual news is that swine flu may infect
half of the US population this year. Yeah. It's called the flu.
Okay, sure it happens. It happens as a Bloomberg report.
By the way. 1.8 million patients in the US will be hospitalised
filling intensive care units to capacity and causing severe
disruptions during a fall resurgence. scientific advisors
to the White House have warned swine flu, swine flu,
it's going to kill you. Show me how you should make that into
it. Somebody should take that clip and do something with it.
What's the what's my last clips? I have? Yeah, how
are we doing on time? We got 15 minutes or so. You've got it.
You have Alaska town hall and lionfish.
Oh, the let the Alaskan Town Hall is kind of interesting.
This is a town hall meeting with some nurse who shaken like a li
or not a nurse but a doctor shaking like a leaf and this was
done by that Senator from Alaska who's kind of the page she was
she was also a Republican seems to be paired. Sarah Palin is
enemy and also seems to have some brain. The gut the senator
female.
I just I let the Forget it.
So anyway, I'm not a big Sarah Palin fan anymore. So I never
was actually I thought she was on paper. She looked like a
candidate. Neither
am I. But I still feel that the way she was treated by the press
was anti feminist. It was sexist, sexist, ageist to a
certain degree. Yeah. And completely just end by the way,
those of you sitting at home listening to this screw you to,
you know, people who are saying, you know, I don't I don't care
for the woman's politics. I don't I don't give a crap. I do
care about how you talk about women in general. And the jokes
that are made on every single news channel from Fox News to
hold on one second, John.
Hey, so I guess I'm not the only one who gets phone calls during
the show. While by the way, while Adam is out. Talking to
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John, thank you so much for doing that. It was actually my
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her I'd left a voicemail message. I just wanted to say
happy birthday to her. So thank you for covering
divorce.org/n A.
All right, do we get to the C? Do we get to the townhall? Are
we gonna go straight into begging for money?
No, I used to begging for money so you don't have to excellent.
Although it would help if you beg for money once in a while.
So let's go to the town hall. And the only reason I'm playing
this and it should have been played earlier in the show. It's
a some doctor who has a just a kind of a complaint about she's
a general practitioner and she's complaining about how there's a
dying breed and this new bill is not going to help things.
Hi, my name is Dr. Alana farm a family practice doc here in town
and I'm here representing 16 Family Practice Doc's which is
20% of the family practice Doc's in. in Anchorage, we went from
180 down to 75. family practice doctors because of low Medicare
reimbursement rates. Our core group uniformly said that if the
bill that is currently proposed are bills, we would all be out
of business by 2014. This is a very serious problem as we all
enjoy seeing our patients. Right now for $115 office visit I am
paid $40 by Medicare and $7. By the secondary insurance, United
Healthcare takes $400 for secondary insurance a month,
they made $3 billion last year, what we need to do is do health
savings accounts and allow our seniors to take $300 that they
are paying right now to the secondary insurance, put it in a
Health Savings Plan so they can pay us so they can pay for
hearing aid so they can pay for other medical devices without a
bunch of government bureaucracy. And people should be allowed
from birth to death to a health savings account,
you know, John, I think that might actually be of course, we
should have played this much earlier in the show you right.
But I think that might be an interesting option to see that,
you know, revive it's not a bad idea to teach people how to Oh,
I know it's an anti American to say this but to save, save
money. We've we've we've fallen into this reverse savings called
credit. You know, where my mom used to call it the Never Never.
Never, never what
you like you never never pay it off. If you borrow money. She
said, Hey, did you buy that car on the nevernever? And, you
know, saving money to actually Of course, it's not it's anti
American. It screws up our economy. But maybe that's a good
way to go through it. I'm not quite sure what happened to the
dollar if we if we saved our money. You know how?
Well the economy is designed for cash flow. Yeah, so saving our
money is not is not many economists will say is a bad
idea. Yeah, it's a good idea in the 20s. It was maybe a good
idea in 1860s. But of course, what's happening
right now is people are saving their money. They're keeping it
in their pocket. They don't want to say because the future is too
unsure. That's why you get deflation, which I'm also not
against shit stuff is getting cheaper. Yay.
Yeah, well, deflation is also seen as a bad thing.
So of course, my nomination for Federal Reserve Chairman. Damn.
Who me mine. You. Yeah, I would be really good. Back to the gold
standard. You'd
be at least a humorous.
And I look better than Ben Bernanke. And
I'll tell you Bernanke doesn't seem like a very funny guy. He
does not he really doesn't.
He wears funky shirts, though. Designer shirts. You see that?
Whether the caller has like some Yves Saint Laurent logo on it
and tone it down, Ben? Yeah, wear a white shirt. Yeah, tone
it down, dude. And can we can we have a president and officials
who wear ties again, I just think it's proper.
On that you mentioned it. I haven't picked up on that. But
you're right. He was rolling around polo shirts.
Well, that's okay. You know, in a certain in a certain setting,
but I see Bernanke without a tie. I see Obama without a tie
next to him. Can we? Since when did the tie become not
fashionable anymore?
Silicon Valley. Somebody said to me once a year the last guy in
Silicon Valley who still wears a tie. Yeah, I think it was you. I
bought the lionfish clip. Now we'll we'll save that for
Sunday.
Now we'll never use it. Oh, Sunday. By the way. I think we
may have to start a little bit later. Because Christina is is
doing a fashion show. She's on the runway. And it starts at
8:30am Gitmo nation West time. So if we You'd start probably
around 10 Maybe instead of nine.
Yeah, that's fine. Now if you're going to if she's going to be
doing that, you're going to bring the camera and you're
going to turn it on the movie mode and make a movie.
I don't have to do that, because this thing is going to be
covered by the press like nobody else's business. Yeah, but
they always I know, I've seen this, you know, this reminds me
by the way, if I'm gonna have my last gripe of the day, Oh, hold
on
a second. Ah, shit, whereas I'm sorry, John. I don't have the
day. There you go.
So I have the notes downstairs, unfortunately, so I don't have
them handy.
And that was it. Great, John. Thanks. Love it.
Maybe I'll bring it up on the Sunday show with the exact
details. But here's the deal. So I'm watching the Miss Universe.
Thing that Donald Trump's show.
Oh, jesus did I miss it again? Crap. It was
the worst produced thing ever. The cameras were jerky and they
were all over the place. And they were doing stuff that was
from the 70s away, they were handling the shots and they'd
never show the girls but by the way, very bad. They would have
the girl walking out in a in a bathing suit. I swear to God,
anyone go find a tape of this, they'll see the same thing. The
girl comes out walking out in a bathing suit, they got a front
shot ever coming out bang did anything. Then she flips a turn
around and then they boom, they cut to a shot of her legs. No
ass shots once back, no then a side shot of her legs, a side
shot of her legs walking back and then they boom they make
another cut to her flipping back around and it's kind of now it's
kind of a
short just wasn't really, really bad direction. They just missed
it every single time.
No, it was every single time exact same sequence. And I
realised they weren't showing to you. So you never got to see if
the girl had a big you know, I mean you're gonna look at the
caboose right I mean there's girls are walking back, you want
to see if they got big flabby buttons or whatever you want to
look at.
So part it's an essential part of the whole deal
of the of the swimsuit thing for sure. So you don't know when
anyway, but they had had the same exact phenomenon that
people have to be aware of with these, which I think are rigged.
And I don't think you have to do any more rigging than the
following simple act you have to always remember that the last
thing in the series of events or or any sort of series The last
thing is always given the highest ratings, the highest
numbers is just the way it is people always hold back hold
back and then they let their their numbers go up at the end.
So if you have 10 girls come out and if they were exactly the
same person in some way are proven to be the same in some
you know, you can do a double blind study which can the last
girl will always get the highest score of one of the last two
they'll always get the highest score and the girls at the
beginning always get the lowest score. So in this instance, we
had a beautiful girl and that came that was the number two in
the sequence from Iceland she was gorgeous. And she
was she was gorgeous
sorry I don't see this girl wasn't broke, I can assure you
but I get the joke. But anyway so I soon as I saw the first you
know three or four I said these girls can't win because they're
at the beginning of the sequence and so this is just bogus and
this poor girl from Iceland who was really pretty you know, she
was eliminated rather quickly and then But then near the end
the last three well I figure are gonna be one of those three is
going to be the winner and they always put Miss USA as not last
but always second to last and most of these competitions
because that'll keep her in and she was a kind of a perky. She
was good looking.
Because the longer you watch these these women, you know, the
more turned on you get I mean, that's obvious, usually anyway,
so they right so so the Miss USA comes out second lesson and the
last one who comes out is Miss who I thought was one of the
prettiest women in terms of just being elegant looking was Miss
Venezuela, there was probably about five that were knockouts
and I was when they're getting to the last of them who said it
and the last one of the 15 is and I said why I can't believe I
got to put Miss Venezuela up there. Boom Miss Venezuela the
last one. Who do you think won the competition? Miss Venezuela?
Absolutely. John Cena borax.
So John, I would like to thank you for proving my theory that
we spent 10 times much more time actually complaining about the
Miss Universe competition than we did about rigged voting
machines for the presidential elections. I appreciate it.
Really a pretty welcome. I try to keep the show topical.
about Iceland by the way. I just wanted to mention one thing.
Remember that the ice ice Lansky bank went belly up. And most it
was an internet like an online bank that had billions of of
wild euros kroner whatever whatever their US dollars,
whatever. They're using a lot of the money from the UK and the
Netherlands, and the money was from the UK A lot of was Council
money. So municipalities who would invest their money because
they had some outrageous rate like eight or 9%, some something
really high. And so the government's jumped in when the
bank went belly up, they returned a third of the money to
the Dutch and UK investors. And now they have kind of like a Fed
accompli that they have given Iceland saying, okay, you've got
to repay this money back within, I think it's like 10 years or
whatever. If not, you won't get any support from the IMF, which
of course the country desperately needs, even though
it's like 300,000 people who live there, the amount of money
they have to pay back is 80% of their entire gross national
product for a year, per year or a year for a year. So there's no
way there's no way they can ever pay it back. It's the super
never never. So getting completely squeezed. And of
course, the 300,000 inhabitants are up in arms like no shit. No,
you know, why can't Why do we have to pay for it? Why did the
people have to pay for this crappy ass bank? Who by the way,
was advised through the consultancy of amongst others,
Peter or Zach, who was in charge of the government of the United
States his budget. Good work, Peter. Yeah, way to go dude,
rocket.
Well, you know, maybe there's a reason for it. Now, we wanted to
bankrupt Iceland. If you want a terrific world in Iceland, by
the way, anybody goes to Iceland, Gino, if you're taking
a trip to Europe, if you can take a stopover in Reykjavik,
like a couple of hours, the airport will store is probably
the best in the country,
I was going to transition to the saying if you want your money,
well taken care of consider a donation to this programme.
Because look at you know, you might you might spend 50 bucks
on wool in Iceland, which would probably cost you a lot more
because you got to get there, you got to get a hotel to stay
overnight. Or you could just donate some money to this show,
and maybe get a third show a week out of it. But you know,
like I'd quit my day job and just do this all the time. I'd
bring back daily source code. If we could actually make a living
out of this. I enjoy it so much. You do? I really do. It's the
highlight of my week, twice a week. I love it, John.
I love love you what's your go to no agenda or no agenda
show.com or divorce that org slash Na, I'll get the buttons
fixed today. And I'll add some other stuff on there. And we can
actually it's really good. You know, for your kids. If you want
to teach your kids about economics, then besides of
course, allowing them to listen to this show. And lots of
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high school teachers all the time who are turning their kids
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hey man can I really have that they put it away on layaway for
you. And every week you'd bring your money and you know you'd
save it up and then after like 10 weeks, then you'd actually
you would get you would get the product and it was very
exciting. It was it was a fantastic reward and you felt
really good about yourself of course, like stealing money from
all over the place to pay off the layaway but still it teaches
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we got to find out source of petrified wood. That's really
easy, man. Someone in my backyard as a matter of fact,
I think you should look between your legs. where's the where's
it? where's the where's the rim? Where's the rim shot when I need
it? Alright, so no agenda. We'll start a little bit later on
Sunday. But it should be I should have some interesting
stories to tell
about what but what what cities
have interesting stories to tell. That's enough tease right
there my friend.
That's it. That's it. About lionfish for sure. Yes. And
petrified wood. Coming to you from the 17th century canal
house crackpot command centre located in the heart of Gitmo
nation east in Amsterdam. I'm Adam curry.
And looking at the no agenda show.com and divorce.org/n. A as
you should all do later. I'm in northern Silicon Valley. I'm
John C. Dvorak,
we will talk to again on Sunday, right here on no agenda