What garbage.
Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak. It's
May 21 2010 Time to get no nation media assassination
episode 201 This is no agenda, constantly dodging to to the
head and coming to you from the hilltop Watchtower crockpot
command centre GIBBO nation West in the People's Republic of
Southern California. Yay. We still have power in the morning.
I'm Adam curry,
and Adam has left northern Silicon Valley and so its sun is
shining and things are bright. I'm John C. Dvorak. Raglan
Buzzkill.
It's true. I'm there for three days rain. Yeah, it's
infuriating.
There's no rain today's beautiful out. Yeah, it was
beautiful here to the last couple of times. You've come up
here it has you take you brought the rain with you. But there was
no rain to bring. How did you do that?
Yeah, no, there was rain on Monday. It was it was really bad
in Los Angeles. So I brought it over on Monday. It hung around
for a bit and now it's gone.
Well, maybe you should travel more.
Yes. Now there's an idea. More travel. I have to say I was on
the southwest last night. I love that airline
there. Why? Well, because
they have a very cavalier attitude about their passengers
basically, hi, we don't care about you sit down. And I like
that and then they always do the fun stuff on the PA announcement
which I think is really not always but a lot. Well this L
this Burbank?
We have someone acting like a child.
Yeah, no, I had a new one. It was should air it was guys. It
was a full guy flight. Should there be a drop in air pressure?
Dolce Gabbana oxygen masks will drop down in front of you. And
they did like please breathe normally that would that should
sound something like this. So that was funny. And then on on,
on approach into into Burbank we had a lot of crosswind. So it
must have been about 10 minutes of you know, bumping, you know,
just like really bumping all the way down. And you know, the kind
of gets quiet and then obviously, I'm a pilot, so I
don't give a crap. And then said like three more minutes to run,
the guy comes on and says, just as a courtesy, the barf bags are
located. This deep pocket in front of you. Like that's really
good because people get really they get nauseous basically
because of anxiety. And, of course, the motion sickness as
well. But you could the whole plane was like Ha, you know, we
just relaxed and felt good for a moment. I think it's,
that's the way it's it should be they adopted that, of course
from the original PSA airline, which PSA used to be there used
to be a couple of carriers on California called PSA. And I
think was Western. The only way
to fly was that was Piedmont Was that was that a part of that?
No, no, that's Pima wasn't around here. And I think that
was in the south somewhere. But anyway, there was Western
airlines and PSA and they and then and all of a sudden US air
and united decided that they had to get into this commute
business between San Francisco and LA and by the way, this is
gonna happen to the high speed train too. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
And so a US Air bought PSA and and ran it for about a year
first thing and usually took the planes had a big smile painted
on their face. I remember that. Sure. First thing they did was
take the smile off the face and middle finger this is us their
biggest smile on their face at the planes. And they banned all
that the other ones who invented all that crazy talk, you know
that the stewardess was do your your average She's acting like a
child and all the rest of it. Yeah, there's actually a whole
bit it's like it's very funny. There's several of them. Yeah,
several I'd like to they probably documented someplace I
would say if someone can find him I'd like to see him anyway
so they banned that and then within a year and a half they
they just discontinued the whole southern they just basically
dropped the whole thing it was just like walked it was to Benin
United you know, took its western stuff and kind of
incorporate it into the regular flights and they didn't really
did in the end of the day. There was nothing came of it. So you
ended up losing two good carriers had just sucked.
Southwest came into the market, you know, copying kind of the
PSA model. The CEO will say that and you know, just you could
does a great job.
Hey, did you see the all star celebrity benefit for Iowa last
night? For Iowa? Yeah.
You didn't see it? No. Well, of course, because there was none
even though the whole place is flooded. Oh my god, you don't
even see no one knows this, Iowa. It's like Katrina there.
The plate that Iowa is completely flooded houses washed
away. They're demolishing houses, because they're all like
jammed up against bridges. And no one knows about it. No. I did
a google news search, like only local news. And the pictures are
astounding. It's like It's like the Ninth Ward I'm just like,
and then someone sent me an email. I was like, I didn't know
this was happening. So that's why I legit later my trick
question on you, but I'm sure you're Googling it right now.
Yeah, but just talking about the 2008 Ionis.
Please, please.
I have a flood watch 2008
What are you googling?
I have a flood. I'm googling Iowa flooded. Now just do Iowa
free rain trying to do towards the California Zephyr
here. Do I want floods? 2010?
Huh, well, I guess a flood enough that nobody cares
anymore.
Yeah, but this is, you know, they've got pictures of of like
an Arby's, you know, all the way up to the roof.
I'm looking at now the Des Moines Register has some good
stuff. Yeah, exactly.
I'm just like, how twisted are we?
Well, let's see who's isn't a Republican or a Democrat running
in Iowa.
But still, you know, these people need help. No, no. Oh,
gosh. I'll see if anyone in the chat room was from Iowa. I guess
there's no money there. I guess.
They can't soak the American public with some, you know,
faraway place.
But I still think that, you know, we had the big thing for
Haiti. I think we should have an Iowa All Star celebrity jam.
But we should No, of course we won't. Of course not. Because
you can't scam the money.
Exactly. There's, there's there's no way to there's no way
for shyster show up and take advantage of people's goodwill
and generosity.
So the thing is, is Culver, Chet Culver is a Democrat, so they
should you know, you should be able to get some action from the
Obama administration, but I guess not. Maybe because Obama
doesn't like Presbyterians. Hmm.
I don't know what a president I know. It's. Well, nobody knows
what defines my parents at one time at one point were
Unitarians.
Oh, yeah. Unitarians are the ones who it's kind of a there's
a bunch of Yeah, Unitarians don't believe in the Trinity
that we went to the Unitarian church on Sundays. And but then
we'd also like, on like Easter would go up on a hill and then
watch this. This is No wonder I'm so messed up. Listen to my
childhood. On Easter, Easter Sunday. We'd all drive up before
dawn so not even crack of dawn before that. And as the sun came
up, someone played Cat Stevens morning has broken on a cassette
player. No wonder I messed up,
the Unitarians, typically, like in their Unitarian Church, and
Berkeley is the one that has the craziest speakers. It's the
crackpot church, basically. There you go. Now, at least
around here.
Now I get it. Ah, well, I have found some interesting things
going on in my little corner of gizmo nation, John.
I'm trying to get let me make a few announcements before we do
that of our producers.
I think that's an excellent idea. Do we have an executive
producer for the show? Yeah, we
have an executive producer. And 12345. associates so nice. Okay,
but that's curiously but pretty much all we got.
Yeah, I think we tapped everybody out. We're done. Be
like, I got that Deuce thing. Screw them. See.
Anyway, I want to thank Dwayne melon con from triggered Oregon.
He felt a cosmic urge to donate the other day on a flight
Friday, but he gave us 333 33 Nice. I felt a cosmic urge to
donate the other day on a flight from Portland to Newark, New
Jersey. Not a train right. That would be ridiculous. I listened
to a couple of no agenda episodes. It was still
listening. When I arrived at my hotel, I paused the podcast and
they checked me into room three, three. And I ignore a signal
like that. Coincidentally, I just heard you talk about how
mon Gummer II Santos Monsanto has just donated 5510 This is my
second instalment toward knighthood. Oh, what was that
about the Monsanto thing? Montgomery Santos?
Well, you know that the Haitians did Monsanto sent like tonnes
and tonnes of genetically modified seeds to Haiti. Yeah,
we talked about that. So you know, the Haitians are doing
their you know, they're burning him.
Good for them.
They're doing a whole thing. Here. What did they send they
sent 475 tonnes of hybrid corn seeds, vegetable seeds. And the
MPP has committed to burning the seeds and has called for a
march. to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti.
Interesting to have a presence. I guess they say the
Ag apparently the Haitians have more gumption to the American
public.
Hell yeah. So June 4, which is World Environment Day, they will
be staging an open protest against Monsanto, but I guess
they have a presence there. So here's the seed, and here's
10,000 of our guys. They will help you plant it.
And we got also Jack burns from Charlottesville, Virginia $250.
And he wants to thank you for not making a snide comment about
something or other and Firas I'll fit Barney ALTHI B, a n a
fear Allah is probably an ultra bony Ultra Varney Firas and he's
enraged. Yeah. Saudi Arabia. Cool. And he was complaining
about the fact that we didn't mention that nobody has stopped
with the Arab racism, which of course wasn't he said, because
we mentioned Israel only had one listener. And we didn't mention
the one listener and so that's racist now all of a sudden, I
don't know. I think he's misguided in this commentary.
All right. We have more viewer mail, which I'll read later in
the show LW Corporation in Telluride, Colorado, l. W.
Corporation, that's joining us in John Brown in North
Vancouver, BC, wants to congratulate him on the show. He
wanted to be added to the deuce club, but it's I think he's
we've closed the deuce club. But so he's going to be an associate
producer. And instead, as we'll mark Rhaegar, who gave us $200,
in Munich, he's out of Munich Deutschland, and he wants to be
deduced.
Oh, my pleasure.
You've been de deuced.
That's it for this week.
Even though we we kind of pre announced their status. I think
our house band Weezer is without a doubt the official PR
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was watching them on George Lopez Tonight. The show that had
Donald Trump on as a guest and and there was a pat Wilcox, who
I guess is like a part of the touring band for Weezer, and he
was dressed up in his bunny suit with a crown and then in the
morning sash which was pretty awesome. Although hard to see
really in the in the way the director decided to show ban to
the worst. Oh, my God.
I mean, come on. This is back to the wet late 80s
Yeah, it was Yeah, well, I was like, Hey, I've done shows where
they were the director does this stuff.
Yeah, not very good. You know, it's very, very rube.
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Mickey same with me. Shut out
the chat room goes wild.
Something to do. Yeah. Okay, so we got a lot of news this week.
It's kind of odd. Yeah. So we have a number of clips from the
Miss USA propaganda
was outrageous. I mean, there's so much in this Miss USA thing.
And it really is crossed over from pure entertainment of
looking at hot chicks to actually a subject of political
debate
as all subject it was, it was actually ridiculous and the
funny thing is, you know, I want to say this to all you know of
any course the likelihood of any Miss USA candidate ever
listening to us. Probably pretty low on the scale.
I would say when that happens, it's time to quit our day jobs.
Then we know we're in baby.
There are probably 10 overlooked women that are hot. I mean all
the girls look great. I mean from all the states so I mean So
picking the top five they never picked the best looking five and
they always try to get one dummy in there. There's probably at
least five or six or seven of the women that were just
overlooked because they you know I think they do at this shows
rigged? I think they do. Can you will you be able to take a year
off? No, I'm going to law school I can't take a year off. There's
probably about five to 10 Girls in there that are probably close
to being geniuses.
Yeah, they have PhDs and then they're extremely volatile
because it
goes good looking doesn't mean she's a dummy. In fact, the
likelihood is the opposite. And there's probably a bunch of
other things. So they you know, they had to find the five and
the five, the five they brought up, of course, they got the one
multi CultI girl, which they gave the award to, which was
kind of, you know, seemed kind of suspicious, and it went
and is she a Muslim?
Well, you know, that's interesting, because at first,
she was supposed to have a Muslim Christian combination of
some sort, but she is a Muslim. Yes,
because because I got reports from Gitmo nation lowlands and I
actually put it in the show notes that say quote, America is
very proud that they're so integrated now that the Muslim
became Miss USA. America is proud, like the
girl to win this thing. Apparently, I meant the first
out Muslim but she, she's, you know, I don't think that became
a big issue. But I'm sure you I'm almost thinking this thing
is like a setup for some future event where she's going to be
touring, you know, because she's gonna tour around, she's going
to be in the Miss Universe pageant, and some, I can just
imagine somebody's you know, quote unquote, attacking her and
making it becoming a lot of news and more publicity for Trump's
organisation
which is pretty much what he does.
He's basically a promoter of the PT Barnum of sorts. And I would
say that you could put this down and make a note for the I told
you so okay, this woman is going to be just gonna be an incident
and she will be a deep deep ground not I think that's going
I think they the D chronically may be put off because they're
already shoulder by strippers pole. And I think that's not
going to I don't think the decline is going to happen. I
think she's going to be attacked for her for not being a
Islamist, you know, she's,
oh, she's not she doesn't wear a burqa,
and she shows off her body in a bikini which is right Okay,
gonna cause a problem and it's gonna cause a lot of attention
and of course the the miss when it comes to the Miss Universe
show where she'll be as representative the USA they
don't get a lot of attention and get more viewers so this is a
scam waiting to happen. So that's the way I see it.
Alright,
so we don't want to do any clips now right when you want to if
you want to
I mean, we can get into the US Miss USA contest. To light so
many good things going on, like the gruesome prison labour now
by the Indians and they're outsourcing.
What? Women so the next guy I get on customer support could be
an inmate
I'm ever doing customer support. Can you help me escape? I have.
I have a couple of ketchup stories. And I'm not I also have
stories about ketchup. But I have some ketchup stories which
are my darling have a good time, which are rather interesting.
Trains first are planes you choose.
Let's go with Alex plane.
You want to go with planes first. Okay. So of course, we
know by now the meme is planes bad trains. Good. Let me just
I'm going to go down the list of horrible plane stories. Because
you know, they really suck they pollute the atmosphere. The the
airways are full. And you have to take your shoes off according
to our president. So the planes just blow and then I'm going to
play you an audio clip which is, I think, astounding. So first of
all, news now that from the audio recording the cockpit
voice recorder in the Polish president's plane which crashed
and half the government perished with him. prior to landing there
were two Annette Well, one identified but there were two
other people in the cockpit. And the way the BBC spins the story
is they were probably pressuring the crew to land. Yeah, I'm, I'm
thinking, let me tell you one thing when you're landing, you
don't want anyone in the cockpit everyone shuts up. There's,
there's like no talking going on, because that is the most
intense moment of the entire flight. And there's not going to
be people visiting like, Oh, what a perfect time to hang
around the cockpit. Of course, it's very, of course, it's very
difficult to hear what they are saying. I'm the cockpit voice
recorder of which no data has been released. So I think we can
officially call that a full on to get ahead. Notice to
cartridges fall today. So that's just kind of a side note, a
plane crashed in Afghanistan, which no one heard about
completely underreported news, including several British
nationals. We don't know who Who? And there's no further
reporting on it whatsoever in Kaboul 44 people on a does it
say what kind of aircraft? No. So there's nothing we don't know
anything except that we're British national. So that's
suspicious.
TSA news scientists questioned safety of the new airport
scanners. I think this is a plant this is on a national
treasure, NPR. This is probably just to scare you more about the
whole flying experience. But indeed, you know, there's of
course, no date if these things are safe for you or not. And
then we've got this guy who I do not like, for the Wall Street
Journal, Andy Pastore. And this guy he's got to be on the Hill
and Knowlton payroll, I'm just gonna call him out. He he is
reporting on two incidents which are not reported by the NTSB who
of course, all incidents are reported to the NTSB, no matter
what it is, he's claiming that twice, planes took off and they
forgot to start a couple of their engines. And they had to
abort the takeoff because they didn't couldn't get enough speed
due to lack of power, obviously, which by the way, I don't think
is completely true, depending on the type of aircraft you may
still be able to take off. And he's reporting it like, Oh, this
is horrible. And it's crazy. And it's because pilots are
distracted. They're distracted by economic pressures and
things. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What? Yeah. Concerns about the engine
blunders come at a time when pilot professionalism,
particularly among flying crews for commuter carriers already is
under public microscope. The Safety Board is advocating,
among other things, voluntary programmes to get pilots and
controllers to take greater responsibility by establishing
self regulating standards of conduct. Now, there's this whole
thing.
Wow, that's a bogus story.
But the guy is, I think I'm really he lives he lives in Los
Angeles. I should look him up. Pastore. Yeah, so hit him in the
mouth. So you know, and it's like, let me tell you something.
When you're taking off, I just know happen to know about these
things. That's why it irritates me when I read these stories,
you know, like, You got four engines, let's say it's worse if
you have to, you know, oh, I forgot to start an engine.
There's two people up there. Yeah. And when there's a
checklist and it just doesn't work that way, you know, you
it's like you know, if you if you notice when you before you
take off the The captain will push the throttle forward a
little bit rude and then he'll push it all the way forward. And
that's a so the engines don't fly off or get ripped off the
wings because you want to be you know, just want to hammer it and
metal to metal as we call it. But then the minute they do that
first little bump, they're looking at all the gauges
they're looking at every single engine all the temperatures the
end ones and then when you go then they're waiting for
airspeed indicators. I mean, this is this is a well known
procedure every pilot does you're not you're gonna forget
and then actually start rolling. Oh, hey, we got no speed I
forgot to turn on the engine bull crap. Bull crap bull
bull bull is a bull crap story.
And then I love this one Hill and Knowlton is all they're
really trying to screw the airlines from USA Today that a
couple of stories one airline cockpit fires prompting
emergency landing. And I have not heard of this yet. But
apparently, on some aircraft thing it's air buses. The
windshield heater can catch fire. So I you know there's the
fire and fire right? It's not like the maybe some smoking.
That's possible. But this doesn't seem like a huge a huge
problem. It being in USA Today. I'm suspicious. But this one
caught my eye power outlets for Coach airline passengers tough
to come by. So the whole thing is if you're a business
traveller, yeah, it really sucks to be on the plane because you
can't get a power outlet.
Yeah, I might have to dry your hair.
And, and then this is my favourite. It's an audio clip.
By the way. What's new? What's news about that? One,
zero news. The whole thing it's setting.
We've never had power outlets. I mean, they've they've tried him
two or three times. I know United had him for a while and
then I think somebody else has got him there on and off. Again.
It's anyone who's been travelling a business class or
first class or whatever, over the last decade has not seen a
consistent carrier that has power outlets and some of them
had those little crazy laptop plugins that like a car
cigarette lighter, right? Were you paying 50 grand does not
work. And this is not news. It's a
setup. That's why it's a PR release from Hill and Knowlton.
No doubt about it. You know, it's like oh, wait, that's why
we've been bitching about laptop power for ages but it even
Microsoft came out with a little thing of their new hot meal
service and you see people on the train because you It's so
handy on the train. Anyway, Ra Robin maiden is a friend of
mine. He's captain on some big iron for Delta Airlines. And he
does a couple of podcasts. And he also does an internal podcast
called Delta flight ops 411. And I really appreciate what Robin
has done because he can't just do stuff, he went the official
route with Delta who apparently are reasonably cool. So whenever
he does one of these, he has to go through channels and get it
approved. And, you know, it takes a while to get these
things out. So this report is goes back to right after the
original Ash mageddon incident. And he interviewed. The chief
meteorologist for Delta Airlines is the guy who was responsible
for for basically keeping these pilots and passengers safe for
the airlines. You've got like army data. I mean, the guy has
got a command centre. That's awesome. And so you know, the
perfect guy to go and talk to I've got two short clips here.
He's about a minute about the realities of ash mageddon
closing down all air travel in Europe, because of the the
Icelandic volcano Yes, the ash cloud. Here's the first clip,
which is interesting to listen to.
Now, you said you were basing some of your charts on actual
satellite imagery, and on some proprietary military
information. So was there a real data that they were using at the
VA C? or were the airlines getting real data? What's the
difference there between the two approaches?
It's a real good point. It was completely theoretical that the
volcanic ash advisory centre was using, they had no observational
information that was being plugged into the model. So they
weren't. And they didn't have a process for verifying their
theoretical dispersion. Also, they didn't have any
measurements at the volcano summit regarding the volume and
content of what was going up in the air. So they did the best
they could. And but it was all assumptions.
Okay. So they made it up like global warming. Yeah, well, it's
the same people who brought you global warming. The volcanic ash
advisory Centre is a part of the Met Office in the United
Kingdom. Now. Robin asked a very smart question, because of
course, he was flying when Mount St. Helens blew up, like the
whole side of the of that thing blew off, right, y'all? Yeah. So
how do we compare the Icelandic eruption to the one is Portland,
right? I said, Hello?
No, it's outside of Seattle outside of Seattle. Sorry,
here we go. Now on
a relative scale. How does this volcanic eruption compared to
one that I remember, you know, Mount St. Helens,
it pales in comparison to the volume of ash. The whole side of
the Mount St. Helens was completely blown off. And there
was much larger volume of material pumped up into the
atmosphere.
How was the impact to the euro airspace with Mount St. Helens
as compared to the impact the airspace with this one in
Iceland?
That's an excellent point to look towards on a comparison on
how that was handled. The area right around Mount St. Helens
airspace, was not used. There was a plume that close to the
eruption area was avoided. But there was no closing of airspace
over the entire US and the authority and responsibility of
the airlines to identify that area and make a judgement call
on how close to operate to it was left up to the airlines
There you go. It so Iceland pales in comparison. Yet they
shut down all European airspace
Yeah, and I remember the St. Helens a shutdown it was it was
like the Iceland shutdown appears to be going, you know,
past 800 miles from the volcano, which is the distance
essentially from Seattle to San Francisco. And in the case of
the Mount St. Helens, it pretty much was the only area that was
a no fly zone was between the mountain itself and Spokane,
which was, I don't know, 150 miles or something like that the
most. And the rest of the area was pretty wide open. So this is
yeah, I think you're I think this is some something else
going on with this is a bogus situation,
the only thing I can think of is it's to destroy the airlines.
You know, the another shutdown occurred earlier this week.
We still haven't gotten to the bottom of this wide effort.
Well, I think, you know, Richard Branson is the only one in the
UK, in Europe really being vocal, which of course is really
his job. And he's saying, This is bull crap. This is total
total nonsense. There's no reason you have to shut down,
there is no danger. And he's getting no play. You know, when
he jumps off a building with Playboy on his back, he was
like, oh, Richard Branson, so kooky, but when he actually says
something that's intelligent, you know, they give him no
airtime whatsoever. And I think that out to destroy him destroy
the if not just him. Certainly the airline industry, this is a
huge, huge dent for an already severely depressed industry. And
I think it's just more of it's dangerous. In now it's costing
them real money.
I think Where's Boeing? And where's Pratt? And Whitney,
where are the voices from our American industries are going to
suffer from this another thing, the only time I've heard anyone
from Pratt and Whitney was right after the thing, some engineer
came on. And I don't know if it was official, or unofficial,
again, had a hairy scary story to tell about that stuff got
into a jet engine, it would do would grind it to, you know, to
powder. Which I thought was interesting. Since this is a
Yeah,
well, they actually talk about that in, in the full interview,
which is about 11 minutes and spurred linked in the show
notes. It's, yeah, it, I think the exact quote was, yes, it can
provide more wear and tear on the aircraft if you actually go
through a bit of the cloud. But it's not like you're falling and
no plane has ever fallen out of the sky and crashed because of
this. And if it's and the essentially, if you can see it,
then don't fly through it. But this thing is not at 37,000
feet. It's just not it's it goes up like 20 25,000 feet flight
level to five Oh, so you can find right over it. So it's
politically motivated one way or the other. And, and there's no
questions being asked, you know, where are these guys from the
volcanic ash advisory centre, get these guys out, put them in
the in the stockade for a second, I want to talk to him.
So it's, I believe the only thing I can come up with use
computer
models, we think are very accurate. And we're all for
public safety, it's better to be safe than sorry, shut
up slave, take the train, it's better
to be safe than sorry. So they'll remember we used to do a
bunch of when I was at InfoWorld, when the early days
of using computer on an aeroplane because the laptops
were starting to come out around 1983 or something like that.
And, and there was all these always these meetings and you
know, the F the FAA banned laptops, you couldn't use them
on the plane because it would cause the plane to crash to be
safe and sorry. And then you ever want to come up with
evidence that says there's no evidence that does any of this?
And that you always would come back? Well, maybe but it's
better to be safe than sorry.
So, so clearly, it's politically motivated. Part of it, I think,
is just bringing transportation together in the United States of
Europe, because that's how it's that this is exactly what it's
resulted in all the transport ministers now have yet another
panel, they can sit on and drink tea. And it's meant to crush the
airline industry. And I and I fully admit I'm biassed, because
I think flying is still a great mode of transportation. And of
all the links I have a promoting train, I will only discuss one.
And this is local to us, John, as California's new High Speed
Rail Authority. I love that the authority of high speed rail has
offered a very nice package to its new executive director of
rule of Van arc. He is currently president of a subsidiary of the
French company that constructs trains for the TGV High Speed
Line, he will get $375,000 a year plus a $75,000 signing
bonus for becoming the the new chief of the High Speed Rail
Authority which is is that now is that a commercial gig or is
that a government gig it sounds like a government gig.
I bet it's not
so what's interesting though, like okay, well that's a lot of
money. But what's interesting is that is half his paycheck of
what he's making currently. Like why would this guy do this? So
you got options? Yeah, well, you what you want to look at is
where he was before his his current gig. Okay,
so what's his current gig?
Well, his current gig is as They say, a subsidiary of the French
company that constructs trains for the TGV High Speed Line.
That sounds innocuous, like whatever. French crap. Right?
But then if you look what he was doing before that gig, president
and chief executive officer of Siemens transportation,
President Executive Director, turnkey transportation systems,
Siemens AG before that joint managing director Siemens
limited before that, General Manager, Executive Director of
Siemens limited,
I wonder what company will get the contract? And
do you think he's got any stock options in Siemens Inc?
I would hope
so. That's, that's what we call a good find a good get. It was a
good man. A good a good placement. So the fix is in
there you go.
Yeah. Well, that reminds me though. So I've got a couple of
clips coming up in today's show. And I'm going to I think not now
might be a good time to play one of them. Just to give people the
sense we've already drawn into this, this mix of the kind of a
government somewhere along the lines of decided to screw the
airlines and make us think train at least until they build out
this thing. And nobody wants to use it, which is what's going to
happen. Because let's face it, nobody wants to take a day to
get to Chicago and you can get there or day and a half. When
you can fly there in for three and a half hours. It's just
never gonna happen. It's stupid. I won't take the train. I mean,
you go what are you going to do? smelly old train?
Where you slip on the depends and plug in your laptop?
So there's a book that is an interview that took place on on
afterwards? C? C span show that comes on the weekends?
Oh, wait a minute, I think do we need to play our clip here?
There's
gonna be one of them for sure.
And when we do, you don't have to? See.
I hated that. Hotel rooms don't have C span. It's very difficult
to to live.
For us for us. Yeah. For us. We can watch it on the computer.
Yes, I had my iPad, and you can watch it on the iPad. Oh, they
only have they only have flash on the iPad.
Well, that's just too bad, isn't it? So they had a guy as a
former spy was 1990 to 2006. I think with the CIA, seemingly
pretty nice guy, very funny guy named John Kiriakou. And he was
being interviewed by an ex CIA, another CIA guy. It was
hilarious these two CIA guys, but they're obviously trying to
get some, some some
some shots here that we're trying to get a little bit of
info out there without grabbing too to the
head. Yeah. And so they're but they're taking some shots at the
government basically. And there's a couple of interesting
clips, including one that we were going to play at the end of
the show, which is a little too long. It's almost five minutes
that will make your hair stand on and where the where they go
after the FBI with a an anecdote that is just like, what are we
doing cool. But anyway, but to start at the end, he has a story
to tell about why he quit. And when he quit, it's called The
Big Lie. And I found that this is an example since we just
talked about how you know, there's a concerted effort to
screw over the airlines. And it always comes from high up. And
we might as well play this clip and just listen to how that
worked during the Bush administration.
Did Well, we haven't got a lot of time. But I think let's take
this narrative through your succeeding jobs and what you
came to conclude that caused you to leave the agency.
Right, I I was blessed with a fantastic onward assignment.
Once I finished in Pakistan, I went to work as the executive
assistant to one of the Associate Deputy Directors, not
really realising at the time that he was named Associate
Deputy Director in order to coordinate the agency's
participation in the planning for the Iraq War. So on my first
day, in that job, I was I was read into a compartment. That
was shocking to me. Once I signed my secrecy agreement, the
officer who read me and said, Here's the deal. next March.
This was in August of 2002. Next March, we're going to invade
Iraq, we're going to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And we're going
to open the world's largest Air Force Base, so that we can move
all of our air assets out of Saudi Arabia into Iraq and
deprive Osama bin Laden have the ability to say that we're
polluting the land of the Two Holy Mosques.
How many months before that? This was like six months before,
more than more than Nevitt. It turns out that he even predates
it a whole year.
That's so awesome.
Like the big airport,
this is before the whole day. WMD thing. Oh, yeah, this is
this. Oh, gee, do you mean that was a setup? No, no, you can be
honest,
which is what he called Saudi Arabia. And I was so stunned.
All I can think to say was, but we haven't caught Bin Laden yet.
And anticipating that response, he said, it's a done deal. The
decision has been made, we're gonna invade Iraq. Well, it
turned out the Associate Deputy Director, with whom I was
working, told me that he had been informed in March of 2002,
a full year before we went into Iraq, that this decision had
been made. The senior officer went on to tell me that we were
going to go to the United Nations by the end of the year,
we're going to pretend that we wanted an international
coalition. We knew that the Chinese, the Russians, and
probably the French would oppose us, and that we were prepared to
go it alone. So we were going to wait until the spring and do it
in March. Oh, my goodness. And that became my job for the next
year.
That is so fantastic that this is just on on television.
The only ones and our listeners who are the only ones are
hearing it.
Yeah. It's like, we're now in coming up in the ninth
anniversary of 911. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, by the way, this
was actually planned 10 years ago. This is just an outrageous
working with
the agency to come up with the with its its response.
And as you point out, that just meant that we were taking our
eye off the ball in Afghanistan and the whole effort to find
Osama and we were opening up another candidate where
I thought at the time, it was a terrible mistake. And I'll say
one of the things inside the agency, as word began to get
around as we got closer to, to the March, date, and Vice
President Cheney began talking publicly about some sort of
connection between Saddam Hussein and, and Al Qaeda. We
began calling it the big lie at the agency, because all of us
knew there was no connection.
Let me get back on my chair. Wow. That's so outrageous, isn't
it? So the CIA? So this really plays into the almost generally
accepted theory amongst crackpot circles in which I travel that
the whole 911 was an inside job. I mean, doesn't that make sense
now?
Well, no, that says 911 is actually he's got a 911 story
too, which would make it sound, it's not an inside job. But the
idea was, I think the thing that's kind of disturbing is
that apparently, two things that he brings out, one is that we're
going to pull out everything we had in Saudi Arabia, and move it
to Iraq, because of bin Laden wanted that as though it was
telling us what to do. Because, you know, don't pollute the
land.
And the other thing that was disturbing is that they took,
like I said, they took their eye off the ball, whatever the ball
was in Afghanistan. And of course, now that's costing us
billions of dollars, because we have to go back and the Taliban
is re, you know, rebooted as it were. And was just the whole
thing is a fiasco over there. Now, it's just a drug situation,
they took their eye off the eight ball.
So, but this guy, I've got this story, I got the new he has a
911 story. That's good. And then of course, there's the one that
will play at the end of the show, which is the real to me is
just like anyone who will listen to this whole show and and
listen to this and clip. They're going to shake their heads and
go, What is going on with that?
So I want to do do the 911. Now, if
you want to it's a little it's it's not on the same topic goes
the airline stuff, but yeah, sure, let's play it
know, immediately what to do.
I go, I go into this in the book, too. And I think this is
important. I got my first inkling that something was
happening, because as I said, again, I was working on Greek
terrorism, and I wasn't at all focused on al Qaeda, right. But
on July the sixth 2001, I was leading a group of Arab
intelligence officers in the building. We do this all the
time. It's good for relations. You do a meet and greet with the
director with a senior officer or you take them to the gift
shop and get them some
CIA the gift shop. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I wanted to point that
out. The CIA gift
gift shop. Oh,
yours. You do a couple of briefings. It's good for
relations. Yeah. And on this day, I had asked that Coqui
to no agenda gift shop. We desperately need one,
or come just to shake their hands and thank them for coming.
And he was very generous in that way. But that morning, he came
in, he actually sat down, which was a surprise to me. And he
told them in no uncertain terms, he said something terrible is
going to happen. We don't know where we don't know when, but
it's going to be an attack on a scale that we've never seen
before.
And then you said Arild way, aid re enter say.
He said the mood in the camps is one of jubilation. We're seeing
camp commanders talking to They're their students and
crying on the phone and saying, I'll see you in paradise. We're
picking up code words about a massive wedding, or a massive
soccer match. And these are all code words for an attack. So he
leans forward, and he says, I beg you, if you have any sources
inside al Qaeda, please help us disrupt this attack. Well, it
was it was a stunning, wrenching, chilling. Yeah. And
at the end of the day, I went back to his office to thank him
for this guy coughing
up a lung,
the guy the other guy, the interviewer is constantly
coughing. He's like, he's on his deathbed
brow. Yeah, but this is this is again, this is just fascinating
information. This is the reason why the guy is saying to the
CIA, because the CIA setup al Qaeda. They said that there was
the Mujahideen to help fight the Russians, right, stupid
at the time, and I said, Cofer, I have to ask you, was that for
their benefit? Or were you serious? And he said, Oh, I was
very serious. He said Dick Clark and I declerck was
from American Bandstand,
Security Council, Richard Clark, Clark and I have been shouting
this from the rooftops, and no one will pay attention to us,
but something terrible is going to happen. And then sure enough,
two months later, boom, there was September 11.
And that comes out and Dick Clarke's book, it comes out in
the 911 Commission report, as they were assessing the tidbits
that were coming in George Tenet with his hair on fire. Remember
that right analogy? Knowing something was going to happen,
but not having the team time, date place kind of thing.
That's pretty astounding. That's pretty astounding, right there.
And then, you know, I wasn't actually going to mention this,
but not to belabour it. If you go to another member pilots for
911 truth.org. Just to remind you that the professional pilots
from that organisation, they acquired the flight recorder
data from American Airlines flight 77. Through a Freedom of
Information Act, of course, now it's like the the NTSB and the
FBI and the CIA, like I give it to those jabroni who can't No
one cares, no one cares. So they decode it. And we've already
been through the, you know, the, this is the plane that got blown
out of the sky, according to Donald Rumsfeld. But he meant of
course, they, they, they flew it into the ground where there's no
hole in the ground, right? So they decoded this information.
And there's a parameter a data parameter, and you can download
the CSV file with all the data on it. labelled FLT deck door
flight deck door, and the door does not open during the entire
flight. Yet, somehow, some hijackers got into the cockpit
and flew the plane into the ground. Yeah.
said nobody cares. When you listen to the last clip, which
will be at the end of the show. It's about five minutes long.
You it might actually verify some of the more crackpot
theories because you have to ask yourself, and I'm not going to
I'll just set it up with a with a huge teaser. I don't like
doing them. But you have to ask yourself why what he's
describing occurred? What's what WTF is the first thing you think
of? Okay, so anyway, okay, so onward? Yes. It was we as we
depress the audience?
Well, I think the audience is, the whole, the whole point of
this show is not to depress, but to show you that if you just
keep your ears and eyes open, you can find out exactly what's
going on, we help you along with that we help you deconstruct
some things, we show you how, how, and this is this is really
how intelligence works. You know, my family background is in
some of the services, to say the least. And it's more important
to to control the messaging and what people believe than to
actually go around, you know, sniping people in the middle of
the night. This is this is the real work of intelligence is to
change the perception get people to believe stuff and then label
the rest crackpots
right, it works.
So, we're at the donation point here, I think we might take a
break unless you want me to play the one kind of a funny clip
that I have that was funny clip and go straight into actually
let me do a couple of clips here. I'm gonna do the funny
clip, then I want to do a clip that will lead us into why one
of the things I want to point out to people. Okay, here's the
clip that I've watched as you know, we've been what we've been
playing ads for all these different drugs and all the
problems they have. So I decided that there's an ad for regulan
which is a product it's not on the market anymore and they're
suing people for whom you know, there you have a class action
suit. And so this is an ambulance chaser ad for
regulated I've listened to the here's here's what you want to
listen for. Listen to the sim Symptoms that it causes and
think to yourself. Wow, would I love to be in the in the court
when these people came up to testify
or what is regular and exactly, I don't know.
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You know him too. He doesn't and all the meetings. Yeah,
I think most people in meetings do these things. Wait a minute.
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Oh my god. He's he's been a lifelong acid reflux patient.
I lay the symptoms again.
Oh my god. You know what I'm talking about right?
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recall the lip smacking yes
yes mm and I know he was looking for something for heartburn.
Well that would be it. I want to get in on the last thing
on that class action. Oh my god oh that's astounding I was
waiting for anal leakage that would have this thing is one of
my favourite grievous eat you know the guy oh my god, I
want to play a clip before we thank our donors for this week
and request more help. This is the kind of thing that you get
when you have normal television playing anything I mean there's
a reason we don't like advertising. I want to this is
the this is taken directly off the air with no there goes the
garbage truck in here. Yep, it's it must be Thursday like it they
put making why they have to be so noisy. Anyway, it's like leaf
blowers.
This is believing this is unedited, taken right off the
air during a dramatic moment in the movie V for Vendetta, just
before the character is going of course a great movie. It's a
great movie by the way I want to mention to our no agenda book
club people we want them to put movies available through
amazon.com on DVDs in the list and this would be the first one
V anyway he's he's he's having his little meeting with the
woman. And he this is like a moment and this is the clip
taken directly from the DVD. I edited nothing. This is the way
it plays on television, on television.
I have a gift for you. But before I give it to you, I'd
like to ask you something. Would you dance with me now on the eve
of your evolution, revolution without dancing, revolution not
worth having. I'd love to
thanks to the New Venture Card from Capital One we get double
miles on every purchase. So we just get rid of voices. And we
get double miles every time we use our car. Double miles add up
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goats. This is like a seminal moment in the movie. And there's
goats coming out yet. I mean, no wonder we're confused species.
This is pathetic. This is why people will want to target ads.
This is this is what you get. And I'm on it. Now. Here's
another one I'm going I don't want to belabour the point but I
will please. So I watched I got hit on my clips done last night.
So when that happens I'm bored in the morning and then to do in
the morning so I decided to sit down and eat breakfast while
watching the Today Show. Right yeah. This this. They today's
show apparently is it has no real show. Even though they're
married it makes $5 million a year but let me hear that this
is an actual rundown. They after they left a mediocre package
that looks like it was prepared by somebody else on how great
Repo Men are in a down economy. So they go into a batch of
commercials. I'm going to read the rundown of the commercials
just quickly One after another, and how until they actually get
back to the show. Can you can you handle this?
Do we have enough time in the programme?
Here we go. We started off these are all 30s There's 115 second
and then two or 3/62 commercials starts off Carnival cruises
different person food you never get to taste Robin Hood movie no
second commercial Robin Hood movie number one in the world
Aqua go into Aqua Fresh eye so active whitening go into Kashi
grain some sort of grain food you can eat then an
advertisement for Clean Coal, then an advertisement for the
Chevy Traverse seats eight then the number an advertisement for
the number one comedy in America just right never heard of it.
And then they go to a quick hit of the today show just plugging
themselves these are two more commercials one promoting the
Statue of Liberty special they're going to do next on the
show. We'll be right back. And they cut back to the commercials
right after first these messages of course. So then we go to a
house ad that talks about the Today Show Toyota summer
concerts with Justin Bieber. We go to a target ad that's that's
also sponsoring Toy Story three, so it's a co op. Open forum.com
I thought 62nd commercial actually for American Express,
then we go two days in best value then we go to a Lipitor
where the were the guy had a heart attack at 50 and his son
turned to him and says yes, you shouldn't listen to your doctor.
The second hour that you should listen to your doctors the real
message Letters to Juliet movie comes after that. Two NBC house
ads one for the news and one for the today's show on to the
Toyota Tacoma lease ad then a an ad then we cut to the local they
switch the local and they have a local ad for some guy running
for Congress Sam Blakeslee a quick hit on Action News eight
which is a local station in Salinas with just two quick news
item hits and then a couple of graphics and they cut back to a
Tony rappers local ad and then two of the Laiho for another guy
running for office add back to the to the eight today show
crowds sitting there pushing the next thing they're going to have
on the show but not actually going to the show promoting the
Statue of Liberty then the Dalai Lama then they cut to a
commercial for the winner of the Harry Potter contest of some
sort not sure they get a free ticket or something then they go
to their own little news bit which only has one item of news
right back to the Prince of Persia commercial breeds right
after that Purina dog food after that clean call at number two
after that comfort in another one then Loctite glue Capital
One that same ad that we just heard from the movie V and then
Shrek three ad hooked into McDonald's again then back there
finally back to the show what kind of what kind of programming
is this?
Well the appropriate programming ads apparently it's just
ads its ads and ads and if anybody watches this show just
you've tried to flip around you can flip the channel the
challenge is more ads. This is pathetic. This is what we're
trying to avoid and anybody who thinks that we should be doing
advertising go ahead clinically insane
it's all about things that bring angry Yeah, it's pretty bad that
so that was like a 10 minute block if I counted or no longer
than that it was longer than
10 to 15 Minute we're actually with it with the no god knows
how long it was like the whole show is just as there's no show
and do you think well you know what it works I'm sure someone's
gonna go see Robin Hood and we're gonna go mail bison
Lipitor and we're gonna Yeah,
but no gladiator in the woods. So so we only have a few donors
here this week but when he mentioned them first of all we
got to we forgot to mention Mark coolin Yes, colon colon in front
from you can pronounce the name of the
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out and he was a deuced donor, right?
Yeah, it was to do story. As it was Sir, can't Zeiss sir?
No, yes. Well, we did pretty good. I mean, I have to say all
in all our our administration is doing okay.
But for this week, we really did poorly, considering we did an
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Yes, indeed. And I think this is one that that we missed.
There'll be a black night as well. It's actually this is
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Oh, yeah. And actually, that doesn't he should do better and
better as time goes by?
Well, it's also just an outstanding app. I mean, it's
the one I use, I have to say it's just a really good app.
And, and I really dig it. So yeah, we didn't do all that.
Great. I agree in donations. Certainly not as good as some
other programming from our national treasure. Did you hear
about frontline?
Yeah, they got another seven, 8 million bucks or something like
that out of the blue for no good reason? Well, so they could do a
majority, they could do more, you know, many shows?
Yeah. That's what I think is going on here. So frontline, by
the way, has often outstanding productions. But I think now
they're turning it into Ministry of Truth. Probably what's
happening is what's her name here? Rep. Patricia Harrison,
who is the who, by the way, is a former PR executive. That's her
whole her claim to fame. She and her husband had a huge PR
agency. And now she's you should look at her Wikipedia page and
put it in the show notes. And so she decided to hand over almost
$7 million, so they could produce more programmes. Here's
what they will be doing. New episodes interspersed throughout
the year will include three short three stories in our not
the usual hour long frontline investigations. In other words,
Hey, guys, you know, you've got a great brand even says it here.
They've got a great brand. But you know, you're getting a
little too close to the truth. So could you just do like some
fluff pieces do like three shorter fluff pieces?
Yeah, this is based on that frontline world show that that
was going on for a while, which I think was the test for this
would people put up with it. And they tend to be done by very
independent producers on extremely low budget and not
really that deep.
In March, the Public Broadcasting Corporation which
administers federal funds for public broadcasting federal
funds, can you just repeat that federal funds your tax money to
not donations is independent human, Monsanto said it would
make a separate $7.5 million available to set up seven
regional reporting projects that would be collaborative efforts
between public radio and TV stations. So the Ministry of
Truth is expanding as the way I read this.
Well, there's also if you go to the blog, and I think I sent you
a link to these are maybe some of the some of the stories
coming in about Kagan now. Yeah. And the Obama administration is
actually wanting to pretty much control all free speech, the
internet pamphlets, posters, they want to literally censor
all these things. It's very good. A couple of elaborate
stories on it came before the Supreme Court they were she was
grilled about it and about what the white and essentially
everything short of book burning was in was in the mix and even
the book the censorship thing was you know, being at you know,
as soft pedalled there is a there the Obama administration
apparently if you listen to the right wing talk guys, they they
hint about this they think they think the following they think
Obama is extremely sensitive to criticism doesn't like it one
iota and would just assume put the kibosh on all this crap that
you know, that he has to put up with, you know, somebody
criticising him and his wife. And so that's, I think that this
is all part of this, you know, kind of, I mean, we can see it,
we see it with the stories that we're doing the show every twice
a week, because every story here is always suppressed,
is pretty outrageous. I'm reading this right now the link
in the show notes. Explosive report shows Kagan supports
censorship of TV, radio posters and pamphlets. Looking at the
internet. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't quite say no agenda
show. But one of these days, someone's just gonna say, We've
got to get these guys in the morning. We've got to get rid of
Bernie, just to get some viewer mail from Venezuela.
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So we got some listener feedback. Normally, I'd say it's
a producer note, a note from the producer. But this is actual
listener feedback from Otto from Venezuela. And this note is not
entirely safe for work. But I do want to read it to you because
it is basically directed to you. Although he starts off with Hi
Adam and John. On show 199 You call the president
democratically elected of the Bolivarian republic of
Venezuela, an idiot. And not only that you called the
majority of the population of our country idiots. What the
fuck, don't insult if you don't have a clue about our country
and what our president is doing free education, free health
care, and many, many other things he is doing for us.
You're insulting the country that the US Empire fucked up the
last 50 years long Have any of you to being been invaded
Venezuela and better? You talk about conspiracy theories and
stuff. But you have not realised that our president who goes
Chavez for years is provided is proving all the things you talk
about and call him an idiot for I love your show. But don't
insult us and inform yourselves better about Venezuela. Please
don't miss inform me because I know your job is to inform. I
don't have a jingle of the show. But the President's name on
Sundays is called alo President day.
Yeah, he has a show every week.
Love the show. Let me know if you need any information about
Venezuela. Glad to help can't donate yet. But once I get a
job, I will and blow some links about Venezuela. So first of
all, he's clearly
so he's well yeah, the thing is there is I mean he Chavez was
targeted by the economic hitmen they tried to kill him and it
was after that that he went kind of nuts
Oh President day you can't you can't
blame him in the morning in fact you i mean i You can't blame him
for being the way he is but he's not a good guy
he's not a good guy.
So here's another piece of mail this one from a producer I don't
know if you read this this is in the in the spreadsheet in the
morning to you gents found something interesting Ah, it
says ah no Adams earthquake is real question mark. I was
watching violent Earth on a National Geographic Channel
explorer show apparently at 1930 in the show as Soviet rocket
engine fired off through a magnetic field and created a
quake by accident while they were studying alternative energy
systems. This is a very real Soviet earthquake machine the US
military bought the machine after the Cold War ended where
is it today unknown tell you anything says the National
Geographic narrative you're not going to get a more impartial
recognition that this thing is real than the National
Geographic maybe.
Well, look, listen Hear me now believe me later. Of course
these things are real play that you
played the jingle the right this is bogus playing of the jingle.
It's not a vote. It's not a misfire
this fire on so the
United States of Europe is in in deep peril. And it's now gotten
to the point where first the plan was of course in unless
you're living under a rock and they even mentioned this maybe
even on the NBC Today Show that you might have heard there's
some financial issues going on in Europe after this member how
good it was to instal this Lisbon tree. EDI and make it all
one happy place on Earth. So first, the call was hey, you
know, with all these different countries, you know, because
then we gotta bail everybody out, we got a trillion dollars
lined up, we need to be able to look at your books, you know,
like they hadn't done any diligence before. We hadn't? No,
of course not. We need to look at your books to make sure
you're playing by the rules. Well, no one like that, of
course, because everyone's cooking the books. And so now
they're saying, Well, you know what, we need to have more
regulations and Brussels needs more control, which is exactly I
should play the jingle here, which is exactly what what was
predicted exactly what this is about. And now in Gitmo nation,
East in the United Kingdom, where we have a new government,
we also have a new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David
laws. So, you know, we got new guys coming in. And you know, as
just typical, you know, they'll leave their predecessor in this
case, Liam Byrne will leave like some information behind you
know, for the for the new guy coming in. And this clip is kind
of funny, because it was on a talk show, I guess, I don't know
which one in in the UK. And the new guy, the new Secretary of
the Treasury, David laus, received a note from his
predecessor
note from your predecessor, Labor's Liam Byrne saying we've
run out of cash. Yeah. Well, I had to chuckle when I received
it. I thought when I got this note, and the civil servants
said, you know, your predecessor has left you some advice. I
thought, how kind of him this must be about how to deal with
other ministers about the complex. Were making decisions
in the treasury. And it was just this very short note, which
said, Dear chief secretary, I'm sorry to have to tell you the
money's run out. And it was honest. I mean, I think most of
us knew that from the start true, then the money has
completely run out. Well, we clearly have a massive deficits.
It's more than run out. What would you write back to him?
Well, I would thank him for that very honest. We talked about
this on the last show. We didn't have no we didn't talk about it.
I told you about it at lunch.
See, this is why we should not talk about anything. I know. I
even said I shouldn't by the way, that proves by the way,
ladies and gentlemen, listening and listening in. This is why
you don't do pre interviews. Exactly. As I swore I would
swear that if somebody had quizzed me, I'd say, oh, yeah,
he talked about in the last show. Would you mind
telling us briefly, John, about your you had you told me about
something and I just want you to relate the story. So we can do a
true media assassination on CNBC, which you were bumped or
you were
thrown off. You were not allowed. I get bumped all the
time on CNBC to
tell our producers why. Well, the way it works is of course
you were going to promote the show, I'm sure.
Actually, I haven't done that yet. But one of these days in
the morning gets gets on CNBC. Seem I do say since I write from
MarketWatch, I have been I've done a lot of CNBC and of
course, they're supposed to be putting us on Fox Business. But
if you have the choice, you don't want to work Fox Business.
No one's watching. No one's watching but people do the real
important people do watch CNBC. It's every stock broker in the
world has got it on constantly. And but the thing is, they
these, these little segments they do when they have the two
people in the boxes are essentially rigged. They have
you know, they make a decision on what they want to issue is
going to be and then they start calling people up and asking
them what they're going to say. And you can kind of tell by what
they you can tell what they want you to say. Maybe they say, What
do you think it's just a terrible thing that they're
doing this? And they said, No, I don't think it's that terrible.
Okay, well, we'll use your next time. So what did they want you
to do? They wanted me to they were gonna talk about apples
only taking cash. And I explained to them what why that
probably was because I'm not I'm not it was not taking cash. You
mean? I mean, they're not the only right. They're not taking
cash only 10 Credit cards for the iPad, because they're trying
to monitor who's buying them. And they won't let anyone buy
more than two of them because they're going right immediately
to the black market being sold in South America and Europe, and
Asia. And so the old I'm sure the bootlegs are coming out of
Asia anyway. So anyway, so the story I was grilled up until
apparently what I was my job was to be I think it's an invasion
of privacy. Apple is a terrible company for doing that.
Okay. So the producer calls you up. And he asks you what he
because he does the pre interview
ECA says, We'd like, you know, talk about the Apple thing, do
what do you think, you know, people and he just kind of hints
around, but I think I give him a lecture about what I think which
is that I think there's the only real issue is that it's legal
tender to have $1 Bill to buy something. What? How is the
Apple law bypassing the Treasury, you know, that means a
whole system of waste, which I think is illegal. What they're
doing is that was going to be my comment. He says, Well, he kept
asking me do I think it's an invasion of privacy is an
invasion of privacy. So he wanted me to say, yeah, it's an
invasion of privacy. But I couldn't say that because I
didn't think that's what they were up to. I thought they were
up to just a database just to keep tabs on the sales. I didn't
honestly believe it. And since I didn't, honestly Believe it or
not, when I go on these things I generally I mean, I can
sometimes anybody can do this if you have, you're kind of on the
fence you can take either side of an argument which is ideal to
for these shows because they can give you a you know, nobody
wants to say that I'll say it because sometimes you can say it
because you don't really have a strong opinion. But when you
don't really believe in something like
audit, why bother? Yeah, you don't need to be that bad and
but it's the way blows me off. It's like he just like, you
know, I What do you think it's an invasion of privacy? I think
it's a no, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy. And then it
goes like this. Wow. You know, I think we're gonna go with an
analyst
I love it. So because otherwise Erin Burnett, I mean, she would
have been.
The irony was Aaron wasn't on that. They had some substitute
British Oh, nothing lost that. I've never seen. Yeah, with
Erina. They're white.
No loss. Who cares? All right.
This other woman who was if there's one of the other women
I've met over the state studio, I would it'd be kind of fun but
this one I never seen this one before. She must be from CNBC
world or something. thick accent,
more proof that the Codex Alimentarius is real and
spreading. from Gitmo nation low lands a TV report, and I've put
a link to it in the show notes that won't do you much good if
you don't speak Dutch. So unless you're in Holland or South
Africa, you're screwed. But I thought the the title of the
report was pretty good. And this is like a half hour report.
Assault is a sniper. It's a sniper. It's killing you. I tell
you.
This is the most amazing phenomena ever seen this assault
thing? Yeah. And there's a couple more links that we get we
have not isolated that PR agency behind it.
Well, you don't need to this is well, you know, and you're
right, because global warming, of course, is the same type of
setup. Set up over years and years, by the way, the next
global warming Scylla Knowlton, by the way. Yeah. And the next
global warming conference will be in Cancun, Mexico. Yeah.
Yeah. So that's why Obama had Calderon over, setting him up
getting him ready. So yeah, it's clearly a setup. And I'm sure
that the Codex Alimentarius group will want to hire a global
agency soon enough, but this,
I would be stunned if they don't have one. Yeah, I haven't been
able to find it yet. But this thing has been building for a
long time through the World Health Organisation, the United
Nations and
assault thing has got somebody behind it.
Well, I yeah, I don't know. I mean, they all
they always say you can't get this much publicity without a
public relations agency. The newspaper guys aren't going to
go out and dig this stuff up. The government is incompetent at
promoting stuff. It has to be a big public relations agency. We
have to figure out who they are.
Okay, so that is the task the homework for our producers to
find out what the PR agency is behind the assault on assault by
the way boars head we got a picture from one of our
producers Kevin. He's got a sign in the cafeteria it says boars
head our assault on assault continues. I mean, you need salt
in your in your there is a counter thing. That's the
assault Institute, which of course everyone has now, you
know, they're becoming the Big Tobacco of the salt war. And
they're even saying,
public hearing,
they're gonna be Oh, yeah, there'll be public. And you've
sold
25 tonnes of salt last
year, bastards. You're trying to kill us all. I don't know what
it is, you know, and everyone, and the New York Times is all
over. They're trying to speculate. They're saying, Oh,
who benefits from from less salt? The Tabasco industry
chief? Right. Good. Me. So yeah, but I think John, I really saw
this. This morning, as I was going through the early morning
in the morning routine. I thought, you know, maybe it'll
crop up, maybe a Monsanto type company or someone is going to
have something all of a sudden, and we're gonna go Oh, brother,
I can't believe it. It could happen. Because they gotta come
up with some Well, I
know that they have this new assault of the different kinds
of flakes that they're dead. Somebody's working on. So that
could be it. No, you're right, that we will just keep an eye on
it. I want to get something something's.
Yeah, I'm almost becoming jaded. You know, about this. ICLA so
funny. It's so funny. Yeah. It's so funny to watch. You just sit
there go like, of course, that makes total sense. Why not?
Joining our army of listeners into the same sort of, although
a lot of people still aren't quite thinking for themselves
because we get notes every once awhile there. It makes you shake
your head. But you know, there's a good story that came in from
Australia. They're they're pushing the poor notes.
You hear about that? Yeah, I did not actually had it in
inherently now
on the on the sheet on the sheet. I haven't seen one
someone should send me a scan, I want to see a scan of incoming
passenger car. Passenger. Check the boxes are you bringing in
more than $10 us terrorists workers? It says, Are you
bringing in pornography?
Yeah. Which is like, Oh crap, I've got my laptop with me. And
let's pornography
is still the issue. Is it just a naked person picture of a naked
personal pornography?
Well, we know that if you have a picture of a naked person where
you actually see them atomically Correct. As we played on the
last show, where you see a, a female labia that that would be
deemed pornography according to their their rules. So yeah, so
you know what this is? John, this is this is the whole
doublespeak coming up. This is a very good point, actually, what
is pornography? It is not being determined. In this in this on
this card?
Yeah, no, it's just like it's vague. This is the way you want
to do by the way you want to make it. So everybody's breaking
the law all the time is the Soviet approach to populate, to
controlling the public, which is that no matter what you do,
you're somehow breaking the law. So you're always subject to
arrest, you know, under all circumstances, because there's
no way I give a story when I went to Russia for the first and
only time I hope to go back. But this was before the fall of
communism, and they had all these rules. And one of them was
you could not have any Russian money outside. Outside of the
outside of the country. You had brought a couple rubles. We all
did. That goes which means me I was a criminal. But the joke of
it is that you couldn't have any any money outside of the
country. And when you went to the airport, there was like a
line where you're like in the country and when you were out of
the country, and the only one way you could get a cart to put
your baggage on. The carts were outside the country but really
required inside the country money. Oops. So to get a cart,
you had to break the law heavy Johnson. Walking right in the
rush for the first time you broke
the law. Hetty Johnson, Chief Executive of Child Protection
Group bravehearts agreed with Patton. I'm not quite sure what
this is. The question was too broad. She said it should apply
only to illegal pornography. Quote, if it said child porn I'd
be 100% behind it. If you're carrying child pornography, then
you deserve everything you get. She said. The issue is and this
is something we got to research the issue has echoes of the 1956
detention of famed British conductor and composer sir
Eugene Goossens, who had his bags searched upon his return
from Europe. He was carrying material that was considered at
the time pornographic and his reputation was subsequently
ruined, forcing him to flee the country apparently the term
pornography is not referred to at all in the federal
classification Act which customs relies on to classify the
material there you go yeah this is this is the document I gotta
we gotta jingle
is peace. Freedom is Slavery doublespeak ignorance
doublespeak no of you know against does speak of though
naked is porn.
It's a little lengthy and let me read you a story from Everett
Washington, which is kind of like classic example of
doublespeak and making doing what this is a woman apparently
there's a number of these, you know, in Washington State
because it's very boring area. Just stay awake there drink so
much coffee. So that was just down in coffee constantly so
they don't don't just fall asleep while standing. So
there's you know, Starbucks and Seattle's Best and everybody's
up there making tonnes of coffee. And there's a bunch of
these keep your your eyes open. There's a couple of the so
called bikini baristas who are the women who wear bikinis. And
then they make an espresso. Hey, so let me just read you this a
bikini barista who had faced a prostitution charge, pleaded
guilty when to get to that part, pleaded guilty Monday to every
month in Everett Municipal Court to working without an adult
entertainment licence for being in a bikini at the stand and was
sentenced to 20 days in jail. She's allowed to serve her time
under Home electronic monitoring. She also ordered the
woman to be fully clothed, no bikini or lingerie when she
works at an expresso espresso stand. The 21 year old had been
charged with prostitution after detectives photographed her
licking whipped cream off of another barista
that has nothing to do with prostitution. How wow that's a
big doublespeak right there.
or other baristas charged after a lewd behaviour investigation
last year at the Grab and Go Express espresso standard will
have charges dropped if they stay out of trouble for two
years. So basically you got a girl in a bikini and another
girl in the bikini and one of them's put SPIRATION some, some
whipped cream on the other girl licks it off. Now she's a
prostitute. Can you believe this?
It's very hard.
How does licking whipped cream off of somebody make you a
prostitute? Did she get to his exchange of money? And didn't
she? I mean, this is bogus. This is unbelievable. This is what's
going on here and Australia and probably most of the world with
these. This this this craziness.
That's actually I saw something interesting. Where is it? In
California? I think maybe I don't know if we talked about
this. Governor. Who's our governor here? No, no, no. I
have almost like This is Governor dot Hughes for
governor.com Hughes. Who's his guide Douglas R. Hughes. I guess
he's he has no chance. But I
guess he's just the guy running in California. Yeah, exactly.
This is the guy. Oh, this
is yeah, I mean, this has been so as a as your governor. My
number one promise. By the way. We have an $18 billion
deficit in California. Schwarzenegger is our governor
by the way. I know he's
running for governor. That's why I stopped myself. So we have an
$18 billion deficit with the grease of of the United States.
My number one promise he was governor is to remove all
paedophiles from the state of California. Sounds good, right?
So what's he going to do? Well, by the way, he's we can do this.
We as parents care about our children, they are a gift from
God. It's our responsibility to keep them from harm, Bob. Okay,
absolutely. Currently, our government places paedophiles in
prison after short sentences. They're released back into our
neighbourhoods, to rape our children. How mentally ill can
one government be? Why should Californians tolerate this
practice? So he has a plan. As Governor, I will introduce
legislation to impose mandatory expulsion of Convicted
Paedophiles from the state of California. By the way, a
paedophile is not necessarily someone who has sex with
children, that would be a pedo sexual to be really correct. So
a paedophile I think can be broad. The paedophiles in the
state of California will have three choices, one leave our
state of California permanently, to remain in prison for life. Or
three, live on Santa Rosa Island, a self supporting
community for paedophiles and sexual offenders. This is
amazing.
And this guy, by the way, is the creepiest looking man in the
world.
He's probably already got a house there. It seems like I'm
gonna have a cool pad. And this is next. In between Santa Cruz
and Sammy grows where Santa Rosa lies. And they wants to build a
community. This is crazy.
So they can exchange tips.
I don't know. It's like, Ah,
now there's just another loser running for governor in the
state of California.
I would I would like you to just talk about you posted this at
devora.org/blog. As you know, there were a lot of states that
boycotted Arizona. Oh, yeah. And this is and this by the way,
this Arizona thing is going to turn right into the national ID
card. We're going to we're all going to be getting mobilised
with this. And it feels like let no good crisis go to waste. Like
oh, okay, those guys in Arizona, they screwed up. Let's take this
and turn it into a bill that we can like, attract people because
yeah, we don't want to like just because the way you look, we
know we want to, you know, be identify you through RFID or
something like that. You watch. You want
to know that's going to happen. So, any excuse?
So Los Angeles, came out publicly and threatened and said
we're boycotting Arizona. And what was the exact quote it was
kind of funny. It was not to
the PDF file in front of Yeah, I
do. I'm opening it up here. Not okay. The quote from Los
Angeles. By the way, that's Mayor Ville, how do you
pronounce it? Valeria. gosa, I think is how you pronounce it.
Well, we recognise that as neighbours we share resources
and ties with the state of Arizona that may be difficult to
sever. Our goal is not to hurt the local economy. But to impact
the economy of Arizona. Our intent is to use our dollars or
the withholding of our dollars to send a message. So that's
what la said to Arizona
Yes, so much for states rights. Then the which is guaranteed in
the Constitution, by the way and all these actions that the
cities are taking are completely unAmerican.
So Gary Pierce, Commissioner of the Arizona corporate
commission, sends a little note back and you can I have a link
to the to the For our blog, so you can read it there. And he
says, oh, Yo, dude mayor. Message received Please receive
mine. As a statewide elected member of the Arizona corporate
commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities. I
too am keenly aware of the resources and ties we share with
the City of Los Angeles. In fact, approximately 25% of the
electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power
plants in Arizona. It's an economic boycott is truly what
you desire. I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to
renegotiate your power arrangements. So Los Angeles no
longer receives any power from Arizona based generation. I am
confident that Arizona's utilities will be happy to take
those electrons off your hands. I'm saying rolling blackouts are
on the way. Good. Oh my god, this is crazy. This is
I thought it was a genius. Well, yeah, it
is genius. It's like a big middle finger like Screw you.
But just wow.
So on another topic I ran into this just brought this I keep
seeing this commercial. And then I had to finally record this.
Because it's a sense. I've never seen this done before an app you
know, Broadway show tunes have become parodies of themselves. I
mean, the Simpsons do. Family Guy does and to a lesser extent,
but they have a certain sound to them as a Broadway show tune.
Right? And they're not very effective. They're happy that's
not what they sound like. But they're not very effective as
advertising vehicles and there's this one night they keep playing
and I keep why are they playing this Broadway show tune and I've
seen this had about five or six times. And that is you when you
hear it you can go oh my god sounds like a Broadway show tune
but you can never remember what the ad is for and then when you
finally realise it's it's a lame AT and T ad you kind of say
well, they're just wasting their money but but but I want to play
it so because people have heard this ad I'm sure if they watch
television at all, and they will never they will not except now
that I've mentioned at&t will never identify it because it's a
meaningless crazy ad to Office he's somebody who really likes
Broadway show tunes I won't say why got into the advertising
agency and talk them into this idiotic ad will be
with us travelling in the world of my creation what we'll see
will their explanation remember when you were five and anything
was possible happy fifth birthday again. I'm with me. And
you will be in your imagination.
Remember when you aren't the worst? Isn't that is that from
Willy Wonka?
I don't know why I guess maybe what's a Broadway show tune
whatever the case but did he did the you can't use a Broadway
show tune to sell anything
while they're trying to you know the whole appeal is member when
you were five well shut up slave that's what they should have.
That would have been funny. He went five your five again slave
Shut up slip on the bracelet.
So Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Yeah.
I told you see I recognise my show tunes at work No, I
know I'm scared it works. Anybody would rail on anyway but
I online listening to this going why are they playing a Broadway
show tune here's another little exercise that people can deal
with I think this could be you know those those pictures you
have when you have what's wrong with this picture and they show
a picture in picture B or you know find find the differences
is why but you there's always but you can just do with TV
shows. No I having knowledge. You can find the nursery between
facts and crazy bull crap on bullcrap. Now, this is a clip
from Criminal Minds that has got so many unbelievable assertions
about technology and everything in between that it's like a
joke. This is worse than the making the pixel into some into
a licence plate number. Play it. Well, there wasn't the cameras
and remember to take those with them.
Wasn't the body to deal with them to Hey, did Garcia find
anything unusual with Alison's wireless? No record show there
was a basic DSL installation.
Apprentice probably move this tape
this line right now, this is what brings the internet from
the street into the house. Okay, so this isn't DSL. It's not to
fibre optic. Oh completely different. have a connection. We
just found this mistake
there's already an internet connection in the house. Why
does he bring us on with him miss
the upload speed. Fibre optic allows him to stream large
amounts of video
and maintain a chat room. That's dozens of computers connected to
him at once. You need a lot of bandwidth for something like
that,
which ISP is wanting to turn on.
I get mail phone calls, people knock on my door all the time to
see if I want to upgrade my internet. Yeah,
and get them to. And they'll offer to come inside and
demonstrate how much faster their connection is.
Did you record the ads after this, this is the 18 T ad must
have run right after this crap.
I'll tell you this is got so much garbage in one they got a
fibre optic cable stuck into a DSL wireless router somehow, I
don't know magic with a dongle. Apparently, it goes on they said
they also bust them because we play the rest of the world. I'll
tell you deconstruct it first that gets him in the door. Well,
it
makes sense. During his demonstration, he would have
access to his victims computers.
On his way out. He asked for a glass of water and distraction,
something to buy enough time to plant that first
need to find out what company owns this cable.
I detected forums already hunting that down. And there's
an ID number on it. So it shouldn't take long.
There's an ID number on the cable shouldn't take long.
shouldn't take long. Okay, I don't know how many cables have
ID numbers on None that I've ever seen. But there's a number
of flaws, number of flaws. This thing is filled. When When does
somebody knock on your door? Would you like to upgrade your
and I can demo it for you run a special wire demo how much
faster and the one guy says oh, they come over, they come over
and they demo how much faster it is. And the woman says yeah,
that's happened to me to just pull crap on bull crap. And then
to make it worse at the end of the show. The guy who's the lead
Criminal Minds guy does an Eric Schmidt quote, which I just
dropped my jaw. It's like, what are you doing? Eric
Schmidt, the CEO of Google. Yeah, I play it. Yeah.
The internet is the first thing that humanity has built, that
humanity doesn't understand. The largest experiment and anarchy
that we have ever had. Eric Schmidt
he's such a visionary, revolutionary. Don't be evil or
Eric Schmidt. NSA shill? Yeah. That's, that's, that's
phenomenal. You know, they're still working on the Federal
Reserve empowerment act.
Yeah, that's gonna go anywhere. Yeah, I think they've already
got it. And haven't they? I
think they've pretty much shut it down. But I was watching some
of the, the holes that actually, I think I have here. One of the
reasons for this going awry is because they're trying to, you
know, put regulations for derivatives and derivatives. And
I happen to know a lot about derivatives because I built a
swap, vanilla swap trading system for Bankers Trust in the
90s. So I learned is, it's really not that hard, the most
common form of derivative. And it's basically it's a hedge,
it's to to lower your risk, an easy way. So some to understand
is like oil as an example. So you want to you know, you can
get some oil now, or borrow it from somebody and you is
basically a contract saying, hey, I'll take that oil from you
within the next two years for X amount. You can do it with money
if currency fluctuates, so you can say, hey, now I need some
euros, and you need some dollars, let's swap them. And
we'll do it at that this strike price. So it's a reasonably in
business. It's used all the time for all kinds of things. But it
has a very bad connotation. So you can't just go in and
outlawed derivatives that would truly stop the world. You just
you can't do that. And what was there trying to put all these
derivatives regulations? And I tried to find it on on the C
span video library, because I thought it'd be a funny quote,
but Senator Judd Gregg said in his speech, he said the way the
derivatives language of this bill has evolved, this is the
bill put in by Chris Dodd jabroni. The way the derivatives
language of this bill has evolved is that it just gets
worse and worse and an almost incomprehensible and irrational
way that is rather surreal. It's almost as if we were at the Mad
Hatter's Tea Party the way this derivatives language is
evolving, and he has a whole bunch of Mad Hatter. Alice in
Wonderland references like I guess the queen of hearts would
be proud of it, you know, just keeps on going on and on and on.
But the clip that I found was another something that has
exploded with this is how crazy is it what the dickheads are
doing in Washington, expressly put in the bill A form of
derivatives that had to be outlawed because it would kill
the industry.
Maybe so Americans can understand that recently one
firm actually proposed a Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary proposed
to do futures on movies. So oh in, in LA, they would produce a
movie. And then the people on Wall Street would bet on what
the opening weekend was going to return and they would bet on how
much money it might make the this became of such concern to
producers in LA because they thought oh my god, if they if
they start out shortness right away, then that's going to
depress you know, our investment potential for the movie etc,
etc. So they've actually in the Senate Bill, they're actually
banning this sort of derivatives so they're banned two kinds of
derivatives one has been historically banned for some
reason lost to the mists of time onions, you can't do them on
onions and the second would be movies from Hollywood but
otherwise, you can bet on anything you could bet on the
weather tomorrow.
I thought that was pretty interesting.
You know, that is interesting in the I used to know the rationale
for the onions.
I was gonna ask you about I'm sure you would have known
Yeah, no, I knew about the opinions and I can I can almost
remember it because I heard somebody I probably on C span or
one of the financial channels explaining it in great detail.
And it actually was some it made some logical sense at the time.
I'll have to
say though, I thought what I find offensive about this is the
usage of the word bet. Like it's one big casino bet you can bet
on this you can bet on that yes
the mean they want you
betting it's betting it's a casino it's betting just betting
with him. It's not it's you need derivatives in global business
you need it is very, very important. It just has been, you
know, the the financial derivatives of these CDOs and
synthetic CDOs. That of course, is you know, they just need to
pull all these guys down. Just put them out of business, get
rid of them.
But can we jump to the Miss USA thing before we run out of time?
If you'd let me do one more thing about the squid. One more
thing about the squid because Bloomberg, I think I heard you
and Horowitz talking about this, you know, chuckling about
Goldman Sachs is perfect quarter. Yeah. Where they, they
made money every single day. Right? daily trading revenue
topped $100,000,000.35 times last quarter out of 63 trading
days. So actually, it's Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Chase and Bank
of America this week said each each set its trading desk made
money every day of the first quarter every single day. Right?
So this guy, Jonathan Weil from Bloomberg, and he posted the
calculation by when I wouldn't have given you the story without
the actual formula. He calculated the chances of that
happening. Do you know what the chances are of that? That'd be
ridiculous. One in five point 7,000,000,004 banks did it.
Yeah, yeah, that's because chances are miscalculated when
it's rigged.
Oh, I love it.
It's fantastic.
Miss USA I've got a few clips we get mainly that near the end but
I get the kick did they first begin listed Miss Michigan give
her answer. They do it the way the structure was. Okay, now
we're coming to the hardest part of the competition they say and
I speak exactly. That's the first thing I say to my son. Oh,
yes. Now she has to actually talk. So the girls did fair. But
play that we knew the Michigan one it just done clipped it down
as best as I could. But essentially they had to pick
from a job some idiot that's the judge including the most gay guy
they've ever had on the show this skater who was wearing
feathers and
why are we discussing this? Oh man I must give you
a shout out because I like to watch it because this is like
you know show business that is worse. Let's skip to the play
the Michigan thing but the Old Miss USA was actually pretty
pretty girl had a walk off you know because she went to
Michigan or walk off. Sorry, Bobby playing Michigan first or
walk,
play the sickening walk off. This has been obviously so
scripted and she reads this thing I guess before she comes
down and wanders around shaking her butt. Butt which makes it
funny as you listen to this and it is the worst type of writing.
It's the most they use the adjectives overuse of
adjectives. It is it is a self promotion for Trump. It is
everything that's wrong with the world world summarised in this
walk off.
Well now to the woman who knows what it's like to take the top
prize and deliver life in the spotlight. As she takes her
final walk is the reigning Miss USA please welcome back Kristen
Dalton
this magical year has been filled with priceless
opportunities to meet incredible people work with dynamic causes
and travel our great nation and so many parts of the world.
Working for the Miss Universe organisation has taught me to be
stronger and more inquisitive and to encourage young women to
dream big and realise that with education and hard work,
anything is possible. I want to express my deepest gratitude to
everyone who helped me grow and to achieve my goals to God for
my countless blessings in this amazing chance to make an impact
on the world. My family to best support team ever mama Julia
candy Drew and daddy, the Miss Universe organisation especially
Paula, lark and Esther and Mr. Trump here the world's best boss
of being Miss USA has been an absolute honour that will never
be replaced by any other experience. But I'm not finished
yet and I'll take everything I've learned and apply it to my
next dream.
Working at Wendy's my next dream Oh
my It was a jaw dropper listen to that crap. What garbage?
I think was it Miss Oklahoma or is one of them talked about
states rights and she got
Miss Oklahoma play it. Okay. Yeah.
Welcome back to the 2010 Miss USA pageant live from Planet
Hollywood resort and casino Las Vegas. Now. That's on to our
finalists. Most difficult challenge at all.
Is this the skater feather guy?
No, that's the guy who's the host. Oh,
that's right. It's the all important final question.
First up, Oklahoma, come on over, hop yourself to a car and
drive around in
low you hear the applause tape. Get cut in. Did you hear that?
Yeah. Hey, dude, there's a fader on that button.
And either way, they're good talking about that. You know
that this has been the positive alternate being turned up and
down by the control room because during this question, the guy
the guy asking the question has to calm the audience down from
booing, but you don't hear the booing. So the audience actually
isn't miked at all. Now,
you're saying the booing was put in?
No, there's no booing the guy. They didn't make the balloon and
they didn't always have a booming thing. Shoot up there
the audience with another words the audience wasn't a mic. So
they couldn't get the booing.
But I but I I've seen clips of her being booed everywhere
now and I checked it. Well, that was put in later because here's
the real clip because
I'm okay. Just sorry. There's no I saw a clip of the view. And on
the view they show her getting booed loudly,
loudly. Well, here's the real clip. You tell me if I'm just
what you heard.
I mean, we'll I'll go see if I can find the view clip.
Come on over. Help yourself to a card I'm not literally. Okay.
Judge number two Oscar Nunez. Your question, please. Help us
Oklahoma. How are you?
I'm doing so great. Thank you.
All righty. Arizona's new immigration statute authorises
law enforcement authorities to check the citizenship of anyone
they country illegally. Now listen to the question before
you boo. Critics say this may amount to racial profiling. Do
you think that this should be mandated by the state or by the
federal government?
I'm a huge believer in states rights. I think that's what's so
wonderful about America.
So I think it's perfectly perfectly fine for Arizona to
create that law. And I am against illegal immigration, but
I'm also against racial profiling. So I see both sides
in this issue. Wow, thank you very much.
Oh my god. Oh my god, Joe. I've got to find this frickin clip.
Oh, my God on the view. They were moving her
there you have it. Oh, crap.
Oh, hold on a second. I thought
I knew that but when they turned up the applause on her which is
what they actually did it that was also a tape because there's
a whistle in there that shows up. It's this just corresponds
with a beat, you know, just this. It's very, I mean, I
whistle in audiences and the whistle never sounds so
perfectly the same each time. And they had it come in in two
or three times that little whistle. But ya know, the guy
says Stop, stop. Don't you know before you boo, but there was no
noise because the audience was in mic. So how did they all of a
sudden didn't view get a copy with the audience mic? You don't
make the audience after they've gone home. Oh, my
God. Man, if anyone in the chat room can find that clip that
will be
we can write it again next week or next show. Maybe I have it
here. Let me see. Let me see. Everybody into Bo it's Whoopi
Goldberg. Elizabeth
Less than 24 hours after Reema for key was crowned Miss USA
photos emerged.
Let me skip past that. Let me see if I could find the clip of
her. I hope this is the one
on Donald Trump
with this looks like it used that they say to get her to say
alright, it's
in this clip. Hold on, it's coming up. Oh, we gotta listen
to this, John. I'm telling you.
I'm a huge believer in states rights. I think that's what's so
wonderful about America
now, this is what they said.
So I think it's personal. It's perfectly fine for Arizona to
create that law. And I am against illegal immigration, but
I'm also against racial profiling. So I see both sides
in this issue.
Oh, well, she fixed it up because she got booed. It seems
it sounds like he didn't get booed.
He got booed in that clip.
Yeah, let's let's do a be it for a second here. This is this is
actually quite interesting. Yeah. Hold on. Where's
where's your clip? Do you think that they did it sound different
to you?
Yeah, they have a lot. They have audible boos in the one.
Alrighty, Arizona, be illegally now listen to the question
before you boo.
He's even setting up before you boo before you boo before you
boot
critic say this may shut up that this should be
I'm a huge believer in states rights. I think that's what's so
wonderful about America.
Okay, now let's listen to the view clip. There
was no booze in there, right? That cost her the crown.
Check it out.
I'm a huge believer in states rights. I think that's what's so
wonderful about America
sounds the same to me.
Now there's a little booing and they've also changed the debate.
It sounds a little more sounds less cheering and more kind of
Oh,
yeah. But but but it doesn't really matter because they come
back to it was the was the big woman who said that the
view that a bigoted black woman here she is. She
She fixed it up. She got
she got booed for that. It seems it sounded like she got booed
when she said I'm for states making the laws and then she
came. Now I don't know. They're
lining them up and shoot them shut him to to the head, every
single one of them will be high.
So Michigan gave her thing and she added, you know, just a
dingbat question didn't make that much different difference
to the main girl or the girl from Maine who was like six,
seven, who didn't have a shot and held her when anything. She
ended up getting a question from Trump's wife that it ended up
chilling for Trump. We can play that one. Do we have to do we?
Why or it's fine. It's funny.
What's main? All right, then. Then we got to stop this.
I got one more because you got to have the Virginia Wait, wait.
Okay, then skip the main and give me this one. You gotta play
Miss Colorado because this one came in very close to that girl
who started talking about the globe. And you know, we don't
have you know, this is the dumb This is the dumb one. By the
way. Nice outfit change. Johnny, your question. Johnny's, the
gate guidance. Oh, he had
new feathers. Hello.
Okay, so the question, a new social networking site has
become a place for young people to anonymously post gossip,
nasty, and sometimes sexual comments about their peers?
Should such sites be regulated by the government?
I feel that it's hard to regulate these sites, regulate
any website. But I feel that we should take it into our own
hands, to be above the status and to show people that we
should be kind and caring to everyone no matter who they are,
what they look like or what they believe in. All right, thank
you. The status of the status stop.
All right. I want to wind it up with a little we told you so
moment, although I won't play the jingle until the product is
officially on the market. We've been talking about the eugenic
eugenicist agenda behind a lot of the people who are pushing
the vaccines. And I believe because I can kind of recall
where I was. I know I was at the at the minimum containment cell
there in San Francisco when we when we talked about this on the
show. And I said you watch the next thing is male birth control
vaccine. And here it is male birth control stopping sperm
with ultrasound. And this store has been out for a week or two.
We just didn't
reblogged it. Yeah, but this Bill Gates Foundation's because
it's the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. You If you see Bill
Gates go kick him in the nuts. Well, yeah, kick him in the
nuts. It's crazy. Anyway, I believe that is kind of it,
John.
Yeah, I think we're done. And I want to remind people that after
the music place to stay tuned, because we have a clip of the
reluctant spy discussing a very disturbing situation that
everyone should, should least listen to.
Wow. Just in time, because you're starting to fade on me
through the Skype connection for some reason, man. Good. So, yes,
thank you all very much tomorrow on no agenda stream.com Which of
course, we still would like to see more support for that.
dvorak.org/nas FUBAR Friday edition of the Daily source
code, also open source as is this programme. And until then,
I am Adam curry coming to you from the hilltop Watchtower
crackpot command centre in the People's Republic of Southern
California, yay, in the morning,
and apparently breaking up here in northern Silicon Valley. I'm
John C. Dvorak, we'll
talk to you again together for Sunday morning, early service
right here on no agenda.
impact on me, I thought it was very important. So we were in
the shower together. And we happen to drive by the Taliban
embassy, which was still functioning. And I mean, this is
in March or April of 2002. So it's well after the Taliban
government had fallen in Afghanistan. Yes. It didn't make
any sense to us. And as we're driving by he pointed it out to
me. And he said, You know what we should do? We should break in
there one night and just steal everything they have. And I
laughed, and I said, Yeah, that would be funny. And then we
looked at each other and I said, You know what, that's exactly
what we should do. So we went back to, to Islam, Abad, and
Tommy pitched it to his FBI bosses. And they gave the Go
ahead. He requisitioned two vans from the embassy motor pool, and
assembled a team of people. We drove up to push our waited
until about two o'clock in the morning, broke the cheap lock
off the front door and went in and just started taking
absolutely everything in the building. Computers, files, cell
phones, weapons, money, anything, anything that wasn't
bolted down to the floor. We jammed it into these two vans
and drove back to Islamabad. Well, because September 11, was
an open criminal investigation. Of course, the FBI had the lead
here. So Tommy II, not emailed but cabled the FBI saying we did
it, no problems. Everybody's account. Everyone got
everything. We're going to start going through it. They said
Congratulations. Please advise if you find anything
interesting. Well, four or five days later, he came up to my
office and he said you're never going to believe what I found.
It was a file folder with telephone bills in it. And the
telephone bills were written in English. They were Pakistani
issued telephone bills. And they documented 168 calls made from
the Taliban embassy to numbers inside the United States. And I
mean, all over the United States, Bethesda, Maryland, Los
Angeles, buffalo, Kansas City, all over the country. And those
calls, stopped abruptly on September the 10th 2001. And
then started up against slowly on September the 16th. So he
created a live one, yeah, alive. We'll talk this is the best lead
that we had. During the time that I was in Pakistan. Well, he
was very, very excited about this. This was a very serious
catch. And so he cabled the FBI, and said, Be advised, this is
what we found. Were pouching the originals back they said Good
catch, please make sure the originals come to such and such
an office. And we were so busy. I'd kind of put it out of my
mind. So went back to the agency several months later stayed in
touch with Tommy and I asked him whatever happened to those phone
numbers. At one point. He said nothing that I know of. I know
that we you know, we sent them back to FBI headquarters. I know
that they received them, but I haven't heard any follow up.
Well, then a couple of years later, I left the agency and I
spoke to him again in 2005. And I asked him whatever happened to
those? Those numbers were the traces ever done. And he said
you know the FBI never retraced those numbers. They said
initially, that they didn't have the past two translators
necessary to dedicate to the to the job. And I said, but the the
bills were in English. They didn't need to be translated
from Pashtu. That was the reason why we knew what they were. And
he said, Well, all I know is what the party's in the United
States, which is parties in the United States. Now, in a worst
case scenario, this is terrorists living among us,
right, or terrorists.
It was clear that and the Bureau, remember warned us about
that
in the 911. They did could have sleeper cells, sleeper cells,
Attorney General Ashcroft at the time was very clear about the
possibility of sleeper cells in the United States. And Al Qaeda,
as leadership had alluded to the fact that there were sleeper
cells in the United States, while 2007 finally comes, and I
asked him once again, whatever happened to those numbers and
the FBI traces, he said that, to the best of his knowledge,
nothing was ever done with them. And then finally, I ran into an
FBI, a former FBI colleague with whom I had served in Islam about
and I asked him, and he said that the phone bills were put
into a box and sent into an FBI storage facility in suburban
Maryland. The box had never been opened, and nobody had ever
traced those calls.