We are Orthorexic Rex and proud of it. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak. It's Thursday July 1 2010 times your Gitmo nation
media assassination episode 213.
This is no agenda in need of a release
of my second chakra. I am coming to you from the hilltop
Watchtower crackpot command centre and get more nation West
in the People's Republic of Southern California. Yay, in the
morning. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where July 4 is coming up here.
Do they celebrate July 4 in Canada? I'm John C. Dvorak.
You
know, there are people who actually asked that question.
Well,
the question is, do you as you go to this easy say to a
Canadian say so. So you we have a big holiday coming up? Do you
guys have July 4 in Canada? No. And then of course, they say no.
And you say really, really? Well, third to the fifth? July
4,
this is unfortunately it's true. This is absolutely happens from
time to time, with incredibly smart populace. In the morning,
John in the morning to everyone on the stream. And let me say
today in the morning to all ships at sea.
And in the morning to everyone listening.
Yes, you. You were up late last night and up early this morning.
Looking at my email log.
Yeah, what happened? I was up late last night and then I got
up early.
Yeah. Well, what happened? You just fell out of bed?
No, I stuck up my normal number of hours. Okay. Yes, seven.
Right. That's
what I always got to wake up after sun. Oh,
I go from six. Really? Ooh, seven is the ideal number. There
was a there was a lecture on UCTV and this woman was the
world's expert on sleep. And she thought she actually was wasn't
a bad looking woman. Professor anyway, she says that they all
the studies indicate that the optimum num number of hours for
human longevity. In other words, if you want to live long, yeah,
is 77 hours. And if you get eight hours, it's has the same
negative benefits as getting six hours and getting nine hours has
the same negative benefits as getting five hours.
I always find that if I awaken on the odd hour that I'm better
than the 11 hour.
Yeah, so if I wait, I tend to find it very difficult to get
seven hours sleep.
Oh, no, no problem from you know what? Yesterday? No, the day
before yesterday, Mickey has been threatening she dragged me
down to get my teeth whitened. And this is a process called
what actually is cleaning me up. It's the process called the
zoom. And it's crazy because what they do is they they put a
hydrogen peroxide on your teeth, and then they blast it with a
light for like 45 minutes. And what happens is because your
teeth are porous, then the stuff gets into your, you know,
basically into the what do you call them welding you know, it's
porous so it gets close to the nerve and all of a sudden you
start getting these, like electrical shocks almost like
you're chewing on aluminium foil with a filling. And, and it but
it doesn't happen until they turn the light off. And I'm
like, Hey, what's going on? And then they said, Oh, don't worry.
That's just what we call zingers as well. You could have told me
beforehand, and then they gave me Vikon I've been sleeping
quite well. If I could then shits amazing. I'll bet I never
really tried it. Yeah, Vika Dave yay, Viking good, is good stuff.
That's peroxide treatment. It'll be interesting because it
sometimes in some people, they put it in a lot of mix it up
wrong. And then they put on your teeth and they pull this thing
off and your teeth are gone.
What do you mean, they're still doing well,
by the way, and don't bite an apple. Because many times just
cracking
the apple. Okay. I'll take your advice.
But you'll have pretty teeth.
That's that's all the sudden I had to sign like a whole bunch
of forms, which is just basically you start falling out.
It was quite funny. So do you want to talk about Al Gore
before we do the producers or should we do we have an
executive producer actually?
Yeah, that's good for you. We got a couple of good we have an
executive producer and an Associate Executive producers,
the John Smith, who now his knighthood doesn't he? He's now
a night we'll give him his night. ceremony later.
Fantastic. And he's our executive producer and then we
associate executive producer as the famous Jimmy Vega. Hi, hey
Jean how Woodhaven New York and he's in that he's at 250. So he
that's our coop or
Jimmy bacon doesn't actually doesn't actually sing does he?
We don't know. He's just making that up. If you had a name
Jimmy, I would be singing. I would be in Vegas. Everybody,
I'll be here all week. Jimmy Vega. Okay, that's beautiful. So
that's nice. We have a knighthood to look forward to.
And. And to producers.
Oh boy. And a phone ringing.
Hey, there's, we got a I will have to call out someone as a PR
associate actually, because I'm quite pleased with this one
member our buddy who registered for jazlyn.com After your
excellent report and prediction of future vajazzle ng in the
media.
And who? What? What do you do in a phone rang and they go hang it
up?
Or do you remember the guy who registered for jazlyn.com? Yeah.
Right. So he registered another domain name. Have you heard of
the phenomenon? 220-435-5220.
I can't even say it.
This is what are these
2035522043552204355 That's different. Yeah, it's
yes, it is. It's one of those internet memes Time Magazine
actually posted about it. You may or may not have noticed that
when you type in 220435 into Google and hit the I'm Feeling
Lucky button. This inexplicably happens that it brings up this
guy doing the Kentucky Fried Chicken Dance. So our guy from
jazlyn.com either notice this meme or he may have been it's
kind of like a Rick Roll thing. I guess. It's just one of these
weird things that he registered to 204220435 five.com Good man.
Yes. And he's put a no agenda logo and link at the bottom of
the page underneath the Kentucky Fried Chicken dude. So I think
that's good to hook into a meet.
This guy should be working in the business. He could Yeah, I
think there's a
job at Hill and Knowlton waiting for him. Anytime he wants, he
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we want to start with the gore thing
it's just so funny. It's just it's the whole I mean what a way
to pick up chicks I need to release in my second chakra can
you please help me
Yeah, well do I think I have a clip for the extra rundown since
we're going to go into this Oh really? Oh good may or may not
have Gore's in it but it has all the news that the all the real
news all jammed with one teaser.
Well then let me let me marry it with our real news jingle sound
real professional Hold on a second.
Larry King today telling extra who he wants to replace him
Larry first words about hanging it up after 25 years sad and
happy old at the same time. Will Ryan take his seat Piers Morgan,
Bill Clinton and his wife Shawn took the news. Elizabeth Edwards
comparing herself to Sandra Bullock she wants to reclaim who
she is why she's baffled John fell for rial was heartbreaking
news her cancer spread. Why Elizabeth pray she'll live eight
more years. Secrets from Jake and Vienna's vicious TV showdown
face to face for the first time since they broke up who storms
out Madonna's meeny meeny Lourdes all grown up
looks amazing what incredible style and then my second
reaction is she's dressed completely inappropriately for
school.
It's Madonna extra raw and her new family business plus secrets
from the next Twilight Breaking Dawn why our pads can hardly
speak what is wrong with me.
Elizabeth Edwards breaks her silence times since the whole
show On Edwards scandal blew up Jerry's gonna be all new and he
didn't kill it he
chose her over me. Elizabeth Edwards just doesn't understand.
Oh there you go you're up to
date so so good so they short cheated more
yeah and they and they and they put an effort to Edwards yeah
that's weird
yeah I thought so. So the
examiner headlines sex complaint against Gore is detailed and
credible you know that this just he's just a New World Order
elitist creep and I love in this story you know so this this if
you I'm sure you know by now the story you've heard about it. But
what I love is she talked to liberal friends like herself who
advised against telling the police this is the misuse who
Gore basically assaulted
he sounds like a masher Yeah.
Oh it total masher. And one one of her liberal friends said just
suck it up otherwise, otherwise the world's going to be
destroyed from global warming
get up take one for the team
can you just imagine Gore like mashing on top Yeah, that's
that's the stuff nightmares. It's
like a mash remember that time when he was doing they got to
nomination whatever was it give his wife the big? Yes. The whole
audience? Yeah.
Oh my goodness. Well, you know that he had to go he had to go
because he failed on his mission as the as the global warming
guru, so they had to get him out of the picture. And you know,
there's aside from actually given him the old to to the
head. This is the what better way just yeah,
this is you know, the next step would have been some phoney
baloney paedophilia charge. Oh,
can still come? Yeah. Could
if he doesn't back. Shut up. Yeah, he really had to shut up
and get here. The thing is, I understand and when he shows up,
you know, he's the he's one of the one of the partners of some
sort at Kleiner Perkins.
Well, yeah, no, he. That's the big fun they have together which
includes the warming includes the carbon trading
desk scam. Yes. And apparently when he shows up over at the
offices, he Lords it over everybody. He's got all these,
you know, Secret Service guy? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me just correct you on that. Because I've been there when he
was there. He has two Secret Service guys in an Escalade. And
he's got a sheriff. The sheriff comes out with them. So in
total, it's four guys because the sheriff and a deputy. That's
his whole detail, but it's enough. You know, that's a
lot. Yeah, no, walk around with four people. In my posse, I
think you're more under threat than he is. Nobody cares about
him. It's up to women. Yeah, yeah.
No, it's, uh, I think he's just got to lay very, very low for a
while. And just interesting. So, so you said you said you had
only a couple clips much less than the normal
game wasn't that many clips that you apparently garnered a bunch
of clips. I found very few
was funny, because, you know, I actually, I did have a lot of
time yesterday. I'll be the first to admit that. Which is a
good let your teeth heal. Yeah. So I'm high on Viking the day
went by really slowly and get a lot more work done. I get a lot
more done that way. And, you know, my my hunch was right. I
was thinking your everybody is all over this Elena Kagan
confirmation hearing. So there's got to be something else going
on. He had the minute drudge poll because I'm sure. I don't
think you even have it. I got to play the clip from Elena Kagan.
This is the one that drudge posted. And everyone's like, Oh,
she you know, when she comes in, then the government's gonna
force us what to eat.
Yeah, no, I found that to be disingenuous.
Should we just played let me just play that for a second.
Just to set it up. So anybody who was on the blog? Yeah. So I
actually have it under the heading Codex Alimentarius.
Because the one thing I couldn't find is what, who's the guy that
asked the question? Coburn, Senator Coburn, what I couldn't
find is what Bill he was referring to, because he's
basically saying, you know, there's a bill that's that's
coming through that has to do with telling people what to eat.
And so what is your decision going to be on this? Let's
listen to the clip. This is from C span three from the live
coverage
if I wanted to sponsor a bill, and it said, Americans, you have
to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day. And I
got it through Congress, and it's now the law of the land.
Gotta do it. Gotta do it. Does that violate the Commerce
Clause?
Sounds like a dumb law.
Yeah, I got one. There's real similar to it. I think is
equally dumb. I'm not gonna mention what it is.
I don't know how come no one's all over that. Well, what Bill
is it? I was Googling, Googling, Googling Google? ghuli? I
couldn't find it.
Yeah, you probably have to call his office to get it. I
think that the question of whether it's a dumb law is
different from whether the question of whether it's
constitutional. And, and, and I think that courts would be wrong
to strike down laws that that they think are senseless, just
because they're senseless?
Well, I guess the question I'm asking you is, do we have the
power to tell people what they have to eat every day?
Senator Coburn I mean, what is
the extent of the commerce clause we have this wide embrace
of the Commerce Clause, which these guys who wrote this never
ever fathom that we would be so stupid to take our liberties
away by expanding the Commerce Clause this
way? And I think he's holding up the Constitution it's a little
unclear what could be the Bible? I'm not sure what holding up it
looks like the Bible is like a constitution. It looks a little
thick to be the Constitution actually. So so everyone said
that
maybe the law he's talking about Yeah. I don't understand why he
doesn't mention I find that the weird
me too. I guess that's like, Huh, why don't you just tell us
what's what's going on? Why the big secret but I don't see
anywhere in the media. anyone questioning this? But what was
he talking about?
Most people in the media think we should eat the three
vegetables a day or something? I don't know. I have no idea.
Well, boy, I do have to go for a vegetable right now. Yeah, I can
go for I think some squashes in season.
I could go for some brought some broccoli. Tasty. Broccoli is
nice. Well, just on that briefly. You know that you and I
both could actually be suffering from an actual disorder John.
Broccoli, no. orthorexia nervosa, orthorexia. Yes,
this is this is nourish. It's obviously
we haven't heard of this. Oh, my goodness. No, of
course not what?
Well, this is big news. This is all over the mainstream news
orthorexia. I just said it and I forgot it already. nervosa.
orthorexia nervosa is fixation on righteous eating.
Oh, yeah. We are definitely suffers Is there
a pill? Not yet, but there will be a vaccine
called a McDonald's hamburger? Yes. The
I am definitely seeing significantly significantly more
Orthorexic than just a few years ago, said Ursula Philpott Chair
of the British diet Dietetic Association's Mental Health
Group. other eating disorders focus on quantity of food but
Orthorexic can be overweight or look normal. They are solely
concerned with the quality of the food they put in their
bodies were finding and restricting their diets
according to their personal understanding of which foods are
truly pure. orthorexia is commonly have rigid rules around
eating
I think we ate whoever got the website get orthorexia.com
Oh yeah, good.
one.go Go go go go. That is now a
orthorexia nervosa, that is that we are Orthorexic Orthorexic and
proud of it and proud of it. We need a t shirt t shirt guys
Orthorexic and proud of it this is great artists. Alert for Paul
when it gets better. The obsession about which foods are
good and which are bad means Orthorexic can end up
malnourished I'll bullcrap their dietary restrictions commonly
caused sufferers to feel proud of their virtuous behaviour.
This is us, John, they get to us to the tee.
Yeah, but it's probably also includes the whole foods, people
who probably are starving themselves because of the
inability to digest brown rice.
Dean that Deanna Jade, founder of the National Centre for
eating disorders said, there's a fine line between people who
think they are taking care of themselves by manipulating their
diet and those who have orthorexia. I see people build
people around we have no idea they have this disorder.
People wanted us to talk about food more. Here you go.
I see it in my practice. I see amongst my friends and
colleagues, Modern society has lost its way with food. This is
just too good.
Heaven forbid another French restaurant just opened. What are
we going to do?
So I mean, there's I have a couple of things on the under
the Codex Alimentarius heading in the show notes. I'm sure you
saw this. You probably blog this the European Union. Now as Ben,
this is part of the Codex is telling shopkeepers. Sorry, you
can't sell eggs by the dozen all fell Yes.
No, I don't know. But as soon as I saw I was blogging. Well, I
just maybe didn't get to it. Yeah, it's ridiculous. You can't
sell eggs by Doesn't this is this is what are they thinking
with this that now they're gonna make your way each egg? Yeah,
it's a it's a 10 cent item. Chickens crap them out all over
the place. They're out there in the yard. Yeah.
Well, there you go. It's it's going to be legal. Illegal I
tell you
it's just funny, you know, the fact that any public would put
up with something like that is ridiculous. Well, it just can't
sell eggs by the dozen.
I'm sure there will be big protest and get Monet shout
over. Just put up. So, anyway, back to Kagan,
and it just makes the lines longer as they have to weigh the
eggs,
does it? So there's a couple things that were going on at the
same time. And I'm glad I switched around, because
yesterday, the house essentially passed the what I am calling the
Federal Reserve empowerment act. This is the what the President
calls the financial reform bill. And I've read this bill, and
I've posted yet another copy of it. It's weird now, right,
because they have all these different amendments and are
amendments changes. And I watched the voting yesterday. It
was pretty amazing. Amazing. I tell you, where the the Audit
the Fed portion of the bill was, so they wanted to send it back.
Right. They wanted to send it back to the to the committee.
And so they had a vote. And to send it back that failed 198 to
229. Ron Paul actually posted on his Facebook this morning. He
said, well, a lot of Democrats who actually co sponsored my
bill voted against it when it really mattered. So he's gonna
post a list of the Democrats who flipped flopped at the last
moment.
When do I Yeah.
Do you think there was any pressure? And it was amazing to
watch? Barney Frank was freaking out. I know. I've been pulling
so many clips. I didn't have time. What was he freaking out
about? I'm just he was so you know, he was really excited
because this is his big thing. Right? It's the it's the Barney
Frank's Chris Dodd bill. And you know, when they say okay, the
yeas have it and or whatever. And he goes,
I want to I want to vote.
Literally like that. It's like, whoa, Barney, calm the F down,
dude. And then the minute it passes, then all of a sudden,
and there's been hours, hours of debate. Pelosi is there all of a
sudden, and then she's gonna take all the credit. This is
legendary. This is great. No longer the Republican screwed
us. So now, what's your philosophy? It's good. It's
pretty good, right? Yeah. And so now it goes. I guess so between
the mid July they're going to debate it, and then it'll get
passed. And this gives the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve oversight over the banks. I would like to remind
people the Federal Reserve is not a governmental institution.
It is a private collection of banks. So the banks get to
oversee the banks. It's great. It's absolutely great
genius. It
it's brill. And so, of course, the President was out yesterday,
there's so much going on. And boy, he was lying. He was out.
He was in Minnesota, Wisconsin. And one of these townhall
meetings one of these bogus things, where there's only
supporters of the president. There may be people standing
behind these these people with tasers for all I know. And I got
I pulled a couple clips. The first one I thought because he
in reference to the financial reform, it's like, you know, and
by the way, it's a still campaigning, it's the
Republicans, you know, we inherited this and it's all bad.
And you know, we got to fix it. And then he brings in a
comparison to passing the health care bill, which I thought was
just interesting, the way he worded this.
And let's face it, for some of us, just voters, the prospects
of change are kind of scary. Even when we know the status quo
isn't working for us. I mean, you remember all the fear
mongering that was going on during the health care debate.
Right. Now, all of you were told, didn't know you're gonna
lose your health care.
By the way, when he does these town halls. This is what he's
really good at. This is where the guy excels. You know, when
he rolls up, it takes off his jacket, rolls up his shirt
sleeves and walks around and he's campaigning, that's all
he's good at take that takes the prepared questions. He's really
really good at it. Very funny. He's really good. He's good.
That's gonna be socialised. government's gonna come in and
death panels is gonna be set up and we're remember that. And now
we're about three, four months into it and everybody's looking
around. No.
Yeah. Nothing changed it. Where's the money?
Exactly. And I'm like, wow, this is amazing. You know, first of
all, a lot of this stuff isn't supposed to hit until 2014. So
we're not going to feel the pain just yet. And all I'm seeing is
increases in rates. Everyone's seeing their rates skyrocket.
Yeah. happen. Yeah, he's good ways is what he does. He's like
a propagandist. He should have been. Yeah. Anyway, go ahead.
Okay. So
then he, and this was kind of scary, and I want you to help me
pick this apart, he hears his speech on why government is
good. And why you need government, because without
government, John, we would be nowhere. I just want you to know
that upfront before we listen to our president proselyte. This
the economic policies, they put in place, turn a $237 billion
surplus into a $1.3 trillion deficit. So
it's kind of old news, isn't it?
Yeah. But also, it's not true, because Clinton took away a lot
of the regulations and, and that that really started affecting
everything in the years after that.
Yeah. Well, it's always been Clinton's fault. Let's face it.
So
there were a couple of signs when I came in, said, you know,
do something about spending. I'm going to do something about
spending. But let's just remember how we got into this
fix.
Still campaign. He's still saying it's the Republicans, and
I hate I hate both of them. Democrats. I
tell you this, though, you know, it's the Democrats who have the
house by a wide margin, and they have the Senate, and they have
the presidency, and they're putting the next Supreme Court
justice, and they just put one in, what are they what's the
Republicans got to do with anything else standby,
because government is good, and we really need it.
Now, I've never believed the government has all the answers.
That's not how America thinks. Government can't and should not
replace businesses as the engines of growth and job
creation in our economy. Government should live within
its means we should root out waste and abuse of taxpayer
dollars, wherever and whenever we can. Too much regulation can
stifle competition and hurt businesses. But if you think
about the history of this country, we've always recognised
that there are times when only government has been able to do
what individuals couldn't do and what corporations would not do.
Okay, so are you ready for the list? John? Stuff that Well,
I'll
tell you one thing. It doesn't include fixing these potholes
that are out here on highway 80. And they go right onto the
street, Oakland, San Francisco Bay Bridge, you drive up and
down. You're just like ruins your your entire car.
That's how we have railroads and highways and public schools and
police forces.
Wait a minute, who built the railways? Wasn't the one that
like some big private guys who like railroads, the Union
Pacific and the sea was central Pacific and the Union Pacific
wasn't like, Morgan or Rockefeller? Again, it
was a bunch of yeah, these these these moguls?
Yeah. But wasn't that private money? Wasn't that private?
Well, it was in 1864. I would think probably Yeah, I think a
lot. Yeah, I don't know. I think they I think they scam some
government money, the deal, but I didn't notice that the
government. Those were not nationalised railroad knows
exactly when they were done. They were privately run.
Thank you. It gets better.
That's how we've made possible scientific research that led to
the medical breakthroughs and technological wonders. That s
right. All of us take for granted now. That's right.
That's right. Apple. Apple has the government to thank for the
iPhone, the technological marvel and the medical breakthroughs.
That's just not true.
And it gets the bell labs that invented the transistor, which
is responsible for everything that we're doing. Yeah, yeah. Is
a government run. That's all government, some government
money.
Thank you, government. Thank you. Thank you. What
he's saying is that the government would sneak some
money in that maybe,
maybe that's what maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Okay. I
think you're totally misunderstanding a man. Okay.
That's why we have social security. And a minimum wage.
I don't have no social security. You've stolen that from me. What
are you talking about? There'll be nothing. There will be
nothing for me
laws to protect the food we eat. We drink and the air we breathe
is a stump speech.
Yeah, total stump speech. But the one that got me is an coming
from a service. family background. This one just pissed
me off. There was a woman who stood up and she said hey, you
know, we it's men. Stop this, you know, our boys and girls who
are overseas in war, they got no time here, they come back and
they turn around, they gotta go back again for another tour, you
know, we got to do something about that, Mr. President,
the first is making sure that counselling, support for our
troops is there in theatre, as
you know, so we have record numbers of suicides.
So he was so instead of sending him back, instead of illegally
sending them back over and over and over again, with a with a
solution to this as counselling, oh, standby
was when they get back home. And there has been in the past this
sort of stigma around mental health issues. But you know,
what, if you send somebody into a war zone, that's going to be a
shock on the system?
No shit. What? Really? Do you think you think, you know, says
the chakra system this is the chakra system
drama, The 40 storey building, I'm guarantee it's gonna be a
shot on the system. Especially, you know, when they hit the
bottom, has
this guy ever served? As does this guy know what it's like?
You're nobody's been in Chicago. So it gets rough as close? Well,
they've made engage in enormous heroism, enormous courage, you
know, our troops do just spectacular things, but it's
going to have an impact.
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna suck a little bit, you know? It's not
gonna be great. You got pretty clear, thank you. Thank you,
thank
you. And when they've been on two tours, or three tours, or
four tour tours, or tours,
it's just like, three tours, five tours, or six doors gives a
shit just send them over. They're young, they're young,
they do amazing, spectacular things. Sometimes
that impact adds up.
It could add up, you know, like, like, five years, you've been in
the desert, and you know, and you don't know what you're doing
there. And
like she had parasites in your body
IEDs and stuff, you know, and you don't know why you're there.
You know, it could mess with your brain, you know, it's like
it's normal. This is very normal in the past,
things like post traumatic stress disorder, we're really
talked about. Now we're starting to talk about and we've actually
now listened to
this. As mentioned, talking about this for the last 40
years,
no, I nice, but listen to what he says
getting what we're doing for veterans, as well as active
duty, this whole issue of post traumatic, post traumatic stress
disorder, PTSD, we are really emphasising this and down, up
and down the chain of command. We're saying people should not
be embarrassed about seeking out counselling in these.
I'm embarrassed that I'm freaking out.
situations. So that's point number one. Second point. Very
good. Thank you. The second point you're making is there
needs to be bad rest in between deployments.
Need to rest a little bit.
take a week off. PTO, we got to take it for a going back, take a
week, take a week or take a week do some shopping. No, he's
he's he's little did we know John, he's actually done
something about this.
I didn't know. And that's part of the reason why we actually
increased the number of Marines. The Army and Marines have really
borne the biggest burden in terms of these very quick and
rapid and stressful deployments.
So part of the reason we sent over 30,000 more troops was so
some of them could get more rest. As a bull crap,
I don't believe that I'd never heard that. No, it's new.
That was for the surge. It was like to have more troops on the
ground, not to give anyone any way to
get those dig that harvest finished.
And what we've been saying is, let's start getting back to a
point where there is ample time between deployments. And we are
actually for the Marines. I think we were just about there.
For the army. I think we've got another year before we get to
where we want to be although, in another
year, you're supposed to be drawn down troops. My friend,
July. Remember July 2011, is when you're supposed to bring
people out
you can take that to the bank face to that a lot more than it
was for example, two years or three years ago.
So I just found that Cavalier and rude and insensitive and
dumb
was like that Pete Stark clip that's going around the
internet. What's that? I don't know which one that's on the
blog. Go to my blog. You'll see it just if Stark, who is a local
here in California should just basically had a little town hall
meeting and started chewing out. Oh, no, I
did see that. Yeah, of course. I've seen that. Yeah, I've
actually put it in the show notes. Yeah, it's just crazy.
Yeah, it's
guys been around been in Congress for 37 years. He lived
there doesn't eat represents Fremont, California. And he
doesn't even he lives in Maryland. He has a townhouse
that he you know, maintain some some little piano tear so he can
still maintain his Fremont You know, qualifications, but he
lives in Maryland. He hasn't been he never cut shows up and
then when he does show up, he just gets mad at everybody. So,
I don't know, how did these guys keep getting reelected? I mean,
the people of Fremont, Newark in the vicinity should be ashamed
of themselves for continually putting this jerk back in for 37
years.
So, then I switch over to the Robert Gibbs show. God man C
span is so, so amazing. That guy
needs like a theme song. Yep, Jeff Smith,
do a Robert Smith. Robert. Robert Gibbs, here comes you
know, you gotta be careful when you ask Him for that because he
actually does that kind of stuff. You don't have to see,
right. So on the Robert Gibbs show, a reporter in the
audience, and I didn't know this was happening right now pipes up
about the blood Goya witch trial. This is Mayor Rod
Blagojevich who was a part of the Chicago cabal and was ousted
for Dynamo he did something wrong. He was governor,
Governor. I'm sorry. Why say mayor, governor. He pissed
somebody off. And she asked a question which just blew me away
because the whole thing is about the Senate seat and trading. He
want I guess he wanted to go into the into the Obama
administration. He got cut out. And he said, Oh, what I'm
holding the Senate seat. And apparently that was supposed to
be reserved for Valerie Jarrett, who is a special adviser to the
president.
Yeah, he slipped in the information that he should pick
her. So go ahead. We'll go ahead. You
got this total? Yeah, here's a so here's what the reporter
asked. She's reading it straight off of her Blackberry. So it's
coming straight from the Chicago trial reportings, which of
course are not televised
ballot office, a local labour leave. They were later in
Chicago and in testimony today, a little boy, this child he
talks about a phone call that he got from Barak Obama on Monday
evening before the Tuesday election, which posts Mr. Obama
is saying he thinks Valerie Jarrett should be United States
senator that she fits the criteria. I would prefer that
she remained working for President Obama. But she does
want to be senator and offset he told the Senate to be president.
I said thank you, I'm going to reach out to Governor
Blagojevich with that.
So So in case you couldn't hear it, because it's that crappy
audio they have in the press room. This is all about
telephone calls and tapes and what the what the jury is
allowed to hear and what Yeah, and a lot of these have been
sealed by the judge. So apparently Obama did call and
said hey, you know, you got to get Valerie clarion
call. He didn't call Blagojevich directly it called a, a, an
associate. Right. And he gave him the message and but they
won't let him play that because the Fed has a bunch of stuff
that they're not letting into the letting the jurors here,
which says to me that, especially in a case like this,
a corruption case like this, you really have to let everything
play out. It says to me that the judge and the whole system
Christmas, Chicago, they're railroading. Blagojevich. Yes.
And he screwed. Yeah.
So here's back to the Robert Gibbs show. The President make
that phone call.
Are you telling me about this testimony? I'm not going to get
into commenting on obviously an ongoing an ongoing trial. And I
have not had an opportunity to see
before that the President did not get involved with the
suggestions or the conversation.
He's not gonna get into commenting on an ongoing trial.
Shut up slave. So he said you said before the President didn't
make any calls. And now there's a guy testifying that he did.
I'm not gonna get into that shut up slave. Next question. That's
essentially what what was said there?
Yeah. Well, yeah. And and you expected What?
No, I just wanted to point that out, because no one's talking
about it. It's yeah, they don't talk about anything. And the
President had a meeting meeting about, and this is what I really
uncovered, I think I think I figured out this whole cap and
trade, how they're renaming it or what they're using to kind of
slide that under the mat. The President had a meeting before a
another Senate Committee, which was taking place in some small
back room, which I have some clips from, and it's about the
carbon tax. And what in our dependence upon foreign oil.
Another question from the Robert Gibbs show. What other
approaches would he be open to specific? Well, look,
I don't want to narrow or open up her legislative bidding from
up here. The President reiterated his position that
they're putting a price on carbon he believes is the right
policy. I think science has shown why that's important. Oh,
So the sciences
to say, you know, it's a fact.
I do think that you, you had a you had a bipartisan group of
legislators here who understand the need to move tax this
legislation forward and get something done this year. And I
think the President was hopeful after that meeting, that we can
find common ground on a lot of different subjects.
That the legislation can be passed this year.
Yes. Yeah. It can be passed this year. Right. So I go looking for
this. And I find it it's the clear act, John, the clear Act,
which has been around for, like, a couple years now. And so it's
high, it's on, you know, it's like this weird committee
hearing with our new head of the minerals. department, they
renamed that to the ocean law, something rather a collection.
Yeah, they get to keep renaming these things. So they become
moving targets.
Apparently, it hasn't even officially been renamed. So this
guy is Brahma witch. And I think it was a week ago that we that
he was up on the hill being questioned, the guy has not
left, he has not actually been to his agency. Because and I got
to play this clip, I snipped a whole bunch of things together.
And you'll hear that he keeps saying, Well, I've only been on
the job for a day only been on the job for eight days. I don't
know, I've only been I can't answer any question. I've only
been on the job for eight days. But a couple of these
representatives have not having any of it. And then it becomes
very clear that this guy who's a lawyer, who has been a lawyer
for the past 10 years, and a huge firm who was represented
Big Oil clients, is only there to actually shepherd in great
legislation for the oil companies, the guy knows nothing
about energy other than how to fight in a court for oil
companies. The clear act is what it's all about. And I if you're
interested, I can tell you a little bit about the clear act.
But listen to this montage, which I put together of him not
knowing anything, only being on the job for eight days, instead
of saying, Hey, why am I doing doing this bullshit, not being
able to answer your questions and go down and actually do some
work in my agency, which I've just inherited? Now, you know,
I've only been on the job, I just gotta be up here and just
got to stall while everything else is taking place. Listen to
the montage.
I'll be very brief want to talk about three concrete things that
have been done in the in the eight days that I have now been
on the job as the head of the agency? The short answer is I
don't know.
I know you've been there eight days. So whether or not not not
eight full days? Yeah. Seven and a half, seven
and a half? All right. The answer is I don't know whether
it's necessary. I don't know what the view, will you
take a review of that, as we're looking at this and get back to
us? Absolutely.
I can't give you a detailed answer to that. I look forward
to working with whether there are whether there are reasons
why it's not as good an idea as it sounds like to me, I don't
know, on the Jones
Act itself. Why is it that the administration has not waived
that act so that additional resources can be brought to bear
on the problem?
I don't know the answer that you may have lost your answer. When
Secretary Salazar left I really don't know the answer to that.
One of the disadvantages of being a freshman. Thank you.
Mister problem which you're the head of the Bureau of Ocean
Energy. What experience do you have in ocean energy,
I don't have any experience in ocean energy. I do have some
experience in the energy sector. I represented a number of energy
clients on non ocean related matters during my last 10 plus
years of of law practice.
I also find it interesting that this bill that's supposed to be
dealing with a national crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, changes
on shortly sales to a sealed bid bid process removing the ability
to use live auction bids. Interestingly, you did away with
the relative and kind programme which used a sealed bid process
whereas onshore used a live auction, and now you're taking
the bid process that was used in royalty and kind and applying it
to the onshore in a bill that's supposed to deal with the
national crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. Fascinating. Well, I,
again, might say on the job, I haven't read the clear act. I
don't know what the specific requirements are that are
contemplated in the clear act. So I really can't speak to the
disconnect or sensing. I'm happy to come back later on when I'm
better informed on this specific provisions in the clear act, but
I'm really not able to help you today. And just so you know, my
inclination is to be as transparent as possible on
almost everything.
It's very obvious to Me, the clear act is how they're going
to do it is how they're going to bring in carbon taxes. And this
guy is only brought in to make it happen. And it's really going
to benefit only the largest, the absolute largest of all oil
companies. He's a complete shill. And all he's doing is
just sitting up there on the hill. He's not he's not managing
anything. He hasn't gone down. It was fascinating testimony two
and a half hours and I could pull clips all day from it. But
you want to you want there's so this clear Act was introduced by
Maria Cantwell. Who is what is she? I don't know where she's
from. Do you want to hear their little promo video from the
clear act? What is supposed to be?
Yeah, might as well. Okay, here we go.
Carbon limits and energy for America's renewable act is what
clear stands for.
The Clean Air Act is a bipartisan clean energy bill
introduced last December by Senators maria cantwell of
Washington and Susan Collins of Maine. Unlike lengthy
legislation that can be complicated to understand, the
Clean Air Act addresses climate change simply in just 39 pages.
These 39 pages will jumpstart our clean energy economy by
going directly to the source fossil fuel producers. First, a
limit is placed on all the carbon that these producers
introduce into the economy, then they will need to bid at an
auction for carbon shares, permits to continue to sell
their product. As the number of carbon shares are gradually
reduced. Carbon dioxide emissions will steadily and
consistently go down as well. co2 emissions over 80% By the
year 2050. This mandate reduce
what do you moaning about? I'm just saying this is bullcrap.
Well, this is the one this is this is what it's going to be
carbon
will create a predictable market signal for clean forms of
energy. That's just a fancy way of saying that using clean
energy will be incentivized for the American people. This
process will harness the power of the free market, not
government to find the least cost technology solutions and
protect the energy market from volatile Wall Street Style
trading or even manipulation.
Now pay attention because here comes the part that I don't
really understand the auction revenues. It's the 175 50 25%
rule. I don't get it. Maybe you can help me understand
what happens to all the auction revenues. Think of the clear act
is 175 25 Zero policy 100% of the permits to bring fossil
fuels into the US economy will be auctioned from day one. There
are no windfalls for historic polluters. 75% of the auction
revenue is returned directly to each American as equal monthly
dividends. Every low and middle income family will come out
ahead or break even as a result of the dividend covering their
increased energy costs no matter what state they live in. But
what about the other 25% of the auction revenue that 25% of the
dividend is devoted to investments in clean energy in
jobs to build our clean energy economy and in the agricultural
and forestry communities to encourage environmentally
friendly practices.
So I guess, okay, okay, here here,
here's what I'm thinking. Okay. So, for some reason, they're
gonna charge a tax, or so called auction revenue. Yeah. 10 bucks,
right, or just say $10 A barrel per tonne to these guys. The
$100 a barrel, the $100 will be patent will actually be passed
on to the consumer, if you think about it, right or the exhaust
so you'll be paying 100 bucks, but the government's gonna give
you 75 bucks of that back. But that means you're out $25 That
you're supposed to be gaining in this deal. You're losing 25
bucks because you're going to have it all handed back to you.
Anyway, this is bowl this is just to talk about a shell game.
Yeah, it's exactly it's like a pyramid. It's like the guy
was on the tail with the two or three walnut shells in his
little pea Rhona back and forth. This is crap. So the way I saw
that was the tax and other data gateway. You know, here's the
problem. I was gonna rent a car I'm gonna go up to Washington.
And I'm looking at it's gonna cost me 180 bucks for a week.
That's cheap. Yeah, it is cheap, but that doesn't end there. Oh,
notice the total price is $300 Yeah, it's because of all this
artists. It's like a daily fee I have to pay a fee for having the
car on the road instead of in the lot where it makes no money.
There's a there's a tax on the gun the rental and then there's
another tax called a rental tax on top of the sales tax. And
there's one thing after another and it's almost the entire cost
that they quote you is like it's almost doubled because of all
these hidden too and these are taxes by the way, these are all
taxes were taxed. You go to the airport, you take a plane ride
someplace, you're taxed. You're taxed at the airport, there's an
airport fee there's this fee there's so that these are called
fees, but they're actually taxes because they go into some they
go into some government coffers someplace you're not going into
the pockets of the guys, you know that are running the
airlines, that's for sure. And it's not it's coming right out
of my pocket. And this is what's going on they're just trying to
they can't taxes anymore. Because you know, we used to
brag about oh In the lowest tax countries in the world is bull.
But they always always so low tax, we don't ever look at the
highest anyone pays 35%. And all that kind of tax. We're paying
about 70% Because every time we turn around, we're taxed on
something else. We're taxed for our food. We're taxed for milk
we're taxed for and then the dairies are taxed for, you know,
spilling milk. I mean, the whole thing is, it's just we're taxed
to death and so they have to make get more taxes. And what
are they doing with this money, they can't even fix the potholes
out here.
On the freeway, do the potholes thing again,
if you're in the slow lane, you might as well just get a new car
by the time you drive three miles. John sees for X day.
That's been your pet peeve over the month.
Sticking with until they fix these potholes are all over the
place. I wanted to here's the challenge for anybody out there
in the living in the car company through the San Francisco Bay
Area. Come off if you're heading on East Highway at Ellison from
San Francisco from the South Bay or anyplace else get off yet to
be heading east by the way to get the full effect. Get off on
Emeryville, the Emeryville exit and then just head to the Trader
Joe's it's over there, you will hit a patch of road you'd swear
was in Mexico some place it might as well be a dirt road,
I'm gonna make a movie of this, this is so bad. It's
unbelievable. This road is just like it's a mess.
So anyway, I believe we need to keep our eye on the clear act.
This is the cap and trade and this Bromwich jabroni has been
brought in to shepherd it through he's a lawyer. He
doesn't know anything
about just being long enough to get this thing passed.
That's right. He's just a lawyer and you look at him and he has
this smug look on his face. It's just so what was pretty cool is
President Clinton was on a CNN fortune Time Magazine panel. And
he was asked about you know, all this anti Obama your the Obama
hate, even the people who voted for him are now pissed off that
he's not doing anything. Clintons kind of defending him
saying, you know, the guy can't win either way. You know, it's
people hate you when their own lives are no good. And then he,
yeah, it's great. It's great. And then I actually I clipped
that part out because the other stuff was just two men will have
to stop a couple times in this clip. He has the solution for
the well, but then, and it's too bad. You're not seeing the video
when he talks about this. This gusher in the Gulf, his eyes
light up, man. It's freaky to see how how pleased he is with
with the amount of oil that's coming out. But of course, he
has all the solutions. And he knows exactly how he would do it
if he were still president.
I think today, I'm sorry. play that clip. Let me mention
something that was kind of interesting this week. Okay. Is
that involved Clinton. So we have this situation where
Clinton apparently has endorsed a couple of candidates around
the country that are in direct conflict with Obama's
endorsements. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. And it's a big
deal. So the next thing, you know, you see a picture of
Clinton apparently meeting with in Russia with Medvedev, no, no,
the other guy, the boss, Putin, Putin. Yeah. And so he's meeting
with Putin, as Medvedev, of course, is Medvedev is floating
around the US. And I guess he took off. And then while pretty
much Wow, Clinton was sitting down with Putin, not quite, but
you know, they showed it that when all the news shows, they
break up this huge right ring, Spy Ring, with Clinton sitting
there in Moscow. Having to deal with this. And so I'm thinking
that you know, and of course, ever Well, we have no way of
knowing what the FBI or anybody is doing. It just a coincidence
that, you know, we have all these situations happening when
they happen because there's there's a there's a Chinese wall
between the, you know, the government can't be involved, as
if nobody's tipped anybody off or told them to do this or that
the whole thing just stinks.
The let me tell you one thing I have on good authority. Every
country has spies in other countries. And there's two types
of spies, the registered spies and the unregistered spies. It's
I know it sounds crazy. But we know which Russian operatives
which are registered are in the United States. And I believe
that this was probably one of those rings.
They said they were unregistered. They made a big
point of that. And the course the fact of the matter is they
didn't have to do anything because these people weren't
doing anything there was no espionage charges and they
couldn't kept an eye on them as long you know, knowing that they
what they know it's easier to follow them around and see
what's going on. You can kind of put together networks and figure
things out. That's how you would normally not bust them. So
meanwhile they busted I'm just because Clinton was over there
to embarrass the guy. They're really they really are getting
there's a battle going on between Clinton are
interesting. Okay, I like that. Take, they have, they did pull
an extra little benefit out of it. Wired Magazine, of course,
which I'm quite suspicious of them and the stuff the articles
they post. Now they're saying that this alleged spy ring was
posting all their secret messages encoded on public
websites and images. And you have to overlay a different type
of filter in Photoshop, and then you got maps of airports and all
kinds of stuff that's
bold crap. I mean, they're talking about steganography
actually, which is a type of encryption, but you can just go
and run P PGP and get in a chat room and tell anybody anything
you want nowadays, this is bold. Nobody's doing drop boxes and
all the rest of it
now they're just using it to you know push the agenda of licenced
internet as the way I felt it was going
I think it was just make it seem more spy like
a lot of information though. Well, now that you're on that I
might, I might as well play this clip from CNN before I get to
Clinton because I just like wow, CNN knows everything about this.
Oh, hold on a second. It's slow to load for some reason. News,
New arrest in Russian deep cover case. You go. This is pretty
astounding. Come on CNN. Hurry up. And don't give me a pre roll
or kick your ass.
It goes to pre roll.
No, no, no, no, CNN is slow.
I saw a great pre roll here. This
is about encrypted computer messages, drop points and secret
meetings. The 11 people accused of being spies are described as
Russian intelligence operatives whose goal was to recruit people
in the US government or people with access to policymaking,
according to the criminal complaint,
like a lobbyist firm. Nothing new about that.
An intercepted message makes clear the men and women some of
them using the names of dead people were given bank accounts,
cars and houses and were expected to send back
intelligence reports among the alleged spies, a longtime
columnist for Spanish language newspaper LDR. You and her
husband both arrested there Yonkers, New York
and Yonkers, New York. Let me tell you, when you live in New
York, the big joke is no one lives in Yonkers.
Now, it's a hotbed of spy apparently,
searched Monday. According to the complaint, the spy set of
secret ad hoc computer networks and transferred information
between computers at specific designated times. In one case,
an alleged spy set up her computer to send encrypted data
at a coffee shop near Times Square, and official with ties
to listen to the UN was in the area at that same time,
apparently receiving the coded information. Washington DC a US
undercover agent posing as a Russian met with another alleged
spy in a local park. The undercover agent gave the
accused spot Mikhail Samento $5,000 to leave at a secret drop
point under a bridge in Arlington, Virginia, which he
did. How does she know all
this? Yeah, it is this bullcrap. I hope that our listeners are
laughing out loud, better boys are being unfolded. Yeah,
this is just crazy. I think you're right. I think it is to
embarrass clean is probably Clinton's spy ring he knew about
maybe All right. So let's let's listen to bill for a second.
I think the federal government's position ought to be very
straightforward. Most important thing is to fix leaks. Anybody
can help us fix leak, I'm for it. Hey, what
happened ideas, how to fix the leak.
Second most important thing is to keep the oil away from the
shores. The third most important thing is to minimise the damage
of the oil that reaches the shores. The fourth most
important thing today is to figure out who did what wrong
and hold them accountable whether it was somebody in
British Petroleum or somebody in the US government.
So it's exactly the opposite. Now, this is exactly the
opposite of what's happening is we've got Brahma which up there
and everyone's saying, How did it happen? How to happen out how
to how to happen out what we've done nothing but how did it
happen? How to happen? Nothing to fix it.
And I'll do that. But let's do one, two and three first, all
right. And then
by the way, his mouth is like it's really like sticky. It's
kind of geeky. He doesn't
yell at you. He's got he's got you really doesn't doesn't look
always assign a heroin users. Not really sure. Do you find
somebody you know, you see somebody talking. They
constantly have white
white strings in their mind strings.
Heroin, heroin junkie, Franklin, you never know. Well, you never
know C should
show empathy. And yes, he should feel their pain and all that.
But what people want is to fix the leak. So one of the best
things that they've done is to deploy massive naval and Coast
Guard resources and finally start taking help from other
countries,
which is not true because we just heard that in the Brahma
witch discussion that the Jones Act is still enacted and foreign
help is not being
this is Clinton giving the needle to Obama Exactly.
But unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up, the will blow
up the Wow,
here we go. This is what the Russians did when it happened to
them
and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and
debris, which may become necessary. You don't have to use
nuclear weapons. By the way, I've seen all that stuff,
hey, I don't know, nukes, hey, that's just stupid. I got t and
t in my back pocket that can do that is
blow less, we're gonna do that. We are dependent on the
technical expertise to these people from BP. They have 11 of
their folks killed on that explosion. The people that are
working on this, whatever the managers did wrong or didn't,
they're good people, they're trying to do the right thing. So
I think we ought to distro in the same boat for a while. So we
plug the leak, keep the stuff away from the shore minimise the
damage of what's on the shore. There are 20,000 Vietnamese
immigrants who came to this country who are making a living
off their shrimping business, all of whom are thinking about
their family facing bankruptcy now, let's just fix the problem.
And then we
wait. I'm just saying I think we've heard enough.
I want you to come on up and wait to hear about him talking
about the well it's necessary.
He's he's definitely giving it to Obama in this talk.
Well, but he's also completely invested in BP and the success
of the of the oil company you'll hear you'll hear Listen,
hold everybody accountable and a moat are not a moat or whatever.
But I think the President's gotten a bum rap on this.
Mountain. Do I think's a mountain? Do you got to be who
you are, you got to be who you feel comfortable with? And
whatever your personality is. It is.
It's funny, right? We're douchey you're a douche. But
I don't find him lacking in empathy just because he doesn't
blow his top. It's the slightest provocation. I think it's a bum
rap.
Just one clarification. Are you concerned that those two relief
wells that they're drilling right as
Wolf Wolf Blitzer Now listen, now? Now his eyes light up on
this one?
I was supposed to be ready in August, and stop this leak might
not work.
Yeah, at some point, I think we'll have to ask ourselves. I
just did not enter this. You know, I'm not being part of the
decision making process. So I'm not second guessing anybody. I'm
just telling you. This is a geological monster. And I'll
tell you one thing, whoever did deciding for BP knew what the
heck they were doing. It's one heck of an oil well. There's
more oil down there than I ever dreamed. And it can't wait to
find its way into your car because it just keeps gushing
up.
And it doesn't love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. He's so he's
so in on this and his eyes are like it's a Gusher. It's a
Gaucher. It can't wait to get in your car. It's because they hit
the motherlode man, a biogenic oil
guy obviously has something to do with it anyway. Yeah. So he's
still giving it to Obama and you know, in an offhanded way, no
other guys, you know, they used to bum rap that he's got no
personality. She can't help it. Can't help it. It's just the way
he is. If somebody's like a dud, that's where they go. What
happens do is what happened blow up all the time. He's just the
way he is, you know.
Let's take a moment here. I think I certainly feel like I've
done some work. And I'd like to thank people who helped support
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look at something that we got an email from somebody and I
started this has kind of screwed me up because it came in late
and now it's gonna be like a two parter. I'm gonna have to go
look into this deeper but there's this operation you can
look at look at it called Fenton communications. They are a
they're kind of their left wing equivalent they're viguerie does
this for the right but these people are they they are big PR
agency huge actually the biggest that are always involved in
public policy is bigger than the Hill and Knowlton well for for
this or for left wing specific targeted left wing initiatives.
They're the biggest in the in the world in terms of you know,
doing stuff for big governments. They're small potatoes compared
to Hill and Knowlton. But right now They're apparently working
for Qatar as part of a disinformation campaign to
defame Israel. Oh, and this is kind of typical of you know,
what we heard from Melanie Phillips in the couple of shows
ago where she says all these left wing groups have a lot in
common with Islamist is that they all hate the Jews. And of
course, we got a bunch of mail about this. And so let me read
to you from from a blog called Fresnos zionism.org. And so
after I read this for the first time, well, you know, this is
undocumented. But a lot of this is documented, there is actually
some paperwork, showing that they've signed up to be a
foreign agent, on behalf of a website that you can look at
called for horror.org, which is in Qatar, and it's run by the
second wife, this is because the wife of the of the of the ruler,
but he's she's actually the second of three wives, she's the
middle one. And it's fa khora.org. And this is
presumably a an operation that is supposed to be involved with
giving kids scholarships. And it seems that most of the
scholarships are just are to study Islamic law. But if he's
really looking at the website, the home page and anything in
there, it's really about slamming Israel over the
situation with the Turkish ships.
And by the way, I think that when, when you say Jews in this
case, are we not speaking of Zionists and Zionism?
No, we're talking about Israelis, essentially, the
Jewish state, okay. I mean, there because this PR agency
actually represents a Jewish organisation which is involved
with women's rights, even though they got nothing to do with
anything in the Middle East. So let me just read a couple of
notes here Fenton communications. Apparently, this
was from the blog I read today their goal is to prevent the
Jewish state you're talking about this PR company from
defending itself by creating a massive public opinion that sees
itself defence as war crimes, and to prevent a Jewish safe and
defending itself so that its enemies can finally succeed in
doing what they've been trying to do since Israel was born
destroy it. These guys have been their ally with move dot o move
on.org and Greenpeace Ben and Jerry's. Melissa gates have Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. here here's a clip they took
from another website says Fenton communications, which has its
offices in Washington, DC, New York and San Francisco signed
two contracts last year with Qatar to develop a
communications action plan for an 18 Month campaign, aimed at D
legitimising Israel and generating international support
for the Hamas run Gaza Strip. There's documents from the they
have attached and these could be forged, but I don't think so.
With the Justice Department documents showing that they are
now signed, as foreign agents contract with $390,000 More than
we make with the Office of our Highness names to long
dimension, the wife of the Qatari ruler, separate
Foundation, she chairs the whole thing, so I started looking into
it. And in fact that this this, this public relations operation,
Fenton, is definitely worth kind of checking out for who they
represent. They don't list everybody, but it seems as
though it's pretty much mostly left wing operation Navy, again,
you start looking into it. And the funny thing is, you start
finding the names of people associated with associated sites
that feed them news stories you find is you see the same names
cropping up, over and over. And one of my favourite ones is
running into this woman, Phyllis Bennis, who is a who's a at the
Institute for Policy Studies which which is an operation that
is kind of a front for something but they produce this
newsletter, online news thing called the F p if the foreign
policy something Foundation, or news, I'll go to fpf.org I think
can find it. Anyway, she's a fellow there and she seems to
crop up anytime Fenton does any kind of publicity for anybody in
varying various regular news articles by being quoted
profusely. And my favourite example and then I dig into this
and I find that this kind of interest she showed up in 2005
in a salon magazine article about Cindy, she Han and when
you do a little research you find out that Fenton
communications did a pro bono representation of she hand
they're the ones who brought her to the fore and you can you can
take clips from anything about she can you can take and put
those in Google and you'll find article after article after
articles of pretty much you know, it's cookie cutter stories
about she had and you'll also notice if you if you look in the
sense of Obama's got in they dropped she hand because they
don't need you know, it's Obama's war now, and so she's
done. So I get the biggest Kick out of following this stuff.
So can I just give you from their website Fenton's track
record? We are the firm that helped galvanise public
opposition to end apartheid. legitimise global warming as an
urgent threat to our future. They're taking credit for this
compel government bans and restrictions on toxins such as
Bisphenol A, and artificial growth hormones and everyday
consumer products, prevent hard liquor advertising from airing
on network TV, established the National amber alert, and create
a system at the Centres for Disease Control that tracks data
on violent deaths to prevent homicides and suicides. So
that's their track record.
Yeah, that's the only the that's just the tip of their track
record iceberg. I mean, they have done a lot of stuff that
goes under the radar, a lot of pro bono work for liberal
operations. And they also represent they have a client
list. That's a shoulder boy, yeah, I'm
looking at it right now. It's huge. It's
got pretty much every left leaning operation in the
country. And it's actually kind of frightening. But the fact
that they've now decided to take on Israel, which I think is, is
disingenuous, to say the least, it's also probably, I mean, I'm,
I mean, they had to sign up as a foreign agent to do this.
Because it's against the US interests, generally speaking.
And you know, so that's why they had to do all this go through
this rigmarole. I think it's really, I'll look into this
operation a little more, I'm sure there's more interesting
connections in the past, because with Google, now you can do some
date limited stuff. And you can they'll crop up, especially if
you know who the players are. Then in other words, you see the
same writers and the same contacts and these same
combinations of why is why is this one person being quoted all
the time, but in regards to this one topic? And you see that
people will sneak into the public domain like the Cindy she
hands of the world because you know, they're being promoted?
It's, it's, it's, it's probably, it needs looking into let's put
it that way. So the reason I got triggered by this, because we
got the guy who complained about the the Melanie Phillips piece
that we ran at the end of the show a couple of weeks ago, or
about a week ago, I guess. He had to he basically gave us the
laundry list of their all the bad things about Israel and the
Jewish state. That was essentially the checklist from
Fenton Oh, really? So
you think that the Fenton operative is No, I don't think
so. I
think it was, well, that's always a possibility. It's
always a possibility. But it could be either an operative
because the checklist is there. Or it could be just somebody
who's been completely indoctrinated. Out,
indoctrinated, indoctrinated already, and this is only the
beginning, because this campaign is just fairly new.
Okay. In conclusion,
well, in conclusion, I think that we're going to have to
start looking a little more. We're I think we're getting a
little lazy about following the public relations. That is behind
almost everything. We're starting to witness on the
mainstream media, to the point where I mean, we aren't getting
any news. I mean, even back as far as 2005, if you can look up
the salon magazine article, and Cindy Sheehan. You can do it by
the writers, I looked at the up the writers if he had any
consistent, you know, a lot of times you'll run into,
especially with the Guardian, you'll find the writers are just
right, you know, basic doctrinaire low wing Tyria. But
this guy is just all over the place. So I don't think so. But
he is obviously fed a lot of a lot of stuff from the PR agency,
because it makes life so much easier. Because you get you
know, let me tell you about this. Here you go. So you
basically handed a story in a silver platter, and you have no
way to get out of the way it's being presented, and this is
what's going on. And then I you know, resent people, right,
telling us that, you know, we're stooges for one thing or another
one, we're very aware of this mechanism, and we uncover it
constantly. And I would say that you should really check your own
sources. Why are you thinking the way you're thinking?
And in fact, although it's just kind of funny, we know that Hill
and Knowlton is the agency for the high speed rail Association
of America and it seems like they've done quite a good job
this week all about our trains. Planes ban a number of
outstanding stories they've placed maggots in luggage locker
delay us flight in Atlanta. There's a lot of this the my
favourite which showed up in USA Today and a couple other big big
mainstream publications, airline food kitchens have Rodin
problem. And, in fact, you can almost hear this CBS News
report. You can almost hear that it's a setup by the by A Hill
and Knowlton it's a pre package deal. Now apparently the FDA did
an investigation six months ago and I went to the FDA site I
went to food safety.com could not find said report they went
to Sky chef and a couple other these huge outfits that do the
catering for airlines and they found rats and, and all kinds of
safety violations and hazards and there's a CBS This is this
is network news. They put together this package and it
really I mean, if this isn't pre produced, I don't know what is
particularly the woman they interview from Sky chef, you
know, it's like some poor woman, some poor Hispanic woman who
just like I don't know, I don't know I can't talk about that
literally what how she's talking is like they didn't go to like
the the press department apparently. Just listen to to
how planes are being once again marginalised so that trains can
be put in, and then we'll give you Chris Matthews to finish
that out. Here we go. CBS News. Oh, guess what? I checked five
times on this site, and there was no pre roll. Now all of a
sudden they get a frickin pre roll. Sorry about that. So a
couple other reports. While we're waiting for the pre roll
to finish, body scanners, airlines, do you probably think
about maintenance
and mechanical issues that could put you at risk. But what if we
told you it is the food served at 30,000 feet that you really
should be worrying about? CBS news consumer reporter Kristen
Cole has the filthy findings don't they find more than half a
billion meals a year are made by some of the largest airline food
kitchens in the US. And a recent analysis by the US Food and Drug
Administration found that food preparation in some of these
kitchens is a recipe for disaster. Violations include
roaches, mice, unsanitary conditions, and no place for
employees to wash hands.
Volume always leads to problems. Obviously there's not a lot of
accountability.
food prep in all three New York area airports were cited for
violations including LSG sky chef for food that was subject
to contamination employees not washing hands thoroughly
touching food surfaces with bare hands and failure to clean and
sanitise to protect food from contamination. We went to their
LaGuardia Airport facility to try to speak to someone in
charge. His findings by the FDA, Yvonne loneliness and possible
contamination of food. I cannot say anything, a spokesperson for
LSG sky chefs as they make 405 million meals a year and that we
have comprehensive and multi layered quality control
standards in place to ensure our customers receive safe, healthy
and high quality food. And those systems are checked and
confirmed through a series of approximately 400 audits a year.
I would say. Right now the FDA is woefully inadequate in most
aspects of our food protection
at another food service company Gate Gourmet. The FDA found it
failed to keep food at safe temperatures failed to keep
equipment clean, that there was no hot water for hand washing in
the restroom and that there was black residue in the kitchens
and on the ice machine. The makers of 50 million meals said
their inspections are taken very seriously and assist us in
further improving our service at issue according to food safety
experts is a lack of oversight when it comes to cleaning and
food preparation, leading to oftentimes dangerous conditions
for diners and flying food which has facilities in Newark, JFK
and across the US has been cited for failure to test for
dangerous microbes, not taking precautions for contamination,
lack of proper hand washing facilities and lack of adequate
drainage which may provide a breeding place for pass. They
stated we now service our JFK customers from a brand new $32
million state of the art airline catering facility that raises
the bar on quality cleanliness and efficiency in airline
catering worldwide. But these reports will no doubt give many
fliers food for thought. at LaGuardia Airport, Kirsten Cole,
CBS two news.
So hold on a second. Was this like a half hour special? I'm
telling you the idea of a soundbite there's
no way that W CBS TV in New York put this package together
there's just no way there's just no way this this was pre
produced. They knew what they were getting. I've never seen
this woman and I can't find the report. If anyone can find the
this report from six months ago apparently, on the FDA website.
Send it to me please. I don't get it. I can't find the report.
So what
do we do? It gets me about this. It's so obvious what's going on
here. I mean, we've been harping on this is one of our topics du
jour or that we we have a we have a jingle.
Yes. That says how much we've been harping on it. We've been
harping
on it the question is Is that what is wrong with the airlines
that they can't counter this? This is eating right into their
into their pocket book. I mean, although there's not really an
alternative for most, you know, travel I mean, just like you can
talk a big game but nobody's taking the train, let's say
isn't even they put a high speed rail and nobody's taking the
train it's there's not going to happen. So it's not like they're
losing their their asses. But you think that they would do
something to protect their image because of some weird thing
happens in in Uganda when there's some court cases,
nobody's going to be you know, all this comes out and says
aren't you guys careless? I mean, I don't understand why
they let the situation get out of control like this. There's
not one. I haven't seen anything to counter any of this
is there? Is there actually a? Well, we'd have to find out who
the PR agency is and never hire them because there's no
PR agency. I think they all doing their own thing. I think
they each week, probably it. I think United's got its own PR
agency, and they're just, you know, like every other PR agency
nowadays doing nothing, by the way, sitting around, you know,
yeah, well, you know, we can't do it by ourselves. So we're not
gonna do anything. And I'm gonna take any call broke.
They're broke, too. And they're broke. So here's, here's Chris
Matthews, who clearly got the message in the memo from Hill
and Knowlton on his hardball with Chris Matthews.
Let me finish today with the pathetic state of the economy.
And one big thing we can do about it. Today, we learned that
consumer confidence number fell nearly 10 points since last
month. It's not hard to figure why the unemployment number for
me showed a dismal growth of just 41,000 and American
civilian jobs and people got the word all this the bed, June
unemployment number expected Friday, the bed consumer
confidence number that dropping down today all working together.
And we're looking at the plausibility of that second dip,
we've been warned about. I hear this all has the folks in the
White House looking past a big defeat November to what they can
do, going into 2012. It's a brutal conundrum. Countries in
Europe just made clear that G 20, that they're in no mood to
boost spending to create markets for American goods. They're
tightening their belts trying their best not to be accused of
doing what Greece did. What means what do we do it? We've
got everybody in the world cutting back and what's that to
do the prospect of economic expansion here at home? Well, it
kills it. If you're looking for good news. I have one suggestion
stop listening to Europe stablished into the
conservatives do what has worked in the past. What got us out of
the Great Depression was production, massive industrial
production to support the Allied cause and World War Two. We need
production for this country. Now we need to build rapid rail to
catch up to those allies from World War Two. France already
has the t shirt of a China is building its rapid rail system.
It's time we joined the movement. We need to go back to
the future become a country that builds things again, it'll
create jobs, it'll catch us up to the rest of the world. It'll
cut our reliance on oil. It'll give us hope we can believe in
luck. Lincoln built the continental railroads. Even in
the middle of the Civil War. I built the Interstate Highway
System and this supposedly do nothing 50s President Obama,
just do it. Just
do it. Rail high speed rail. It's gonna save us.
How does this look into the future? Don't you think that
just sports like, you know, jets that do 1500 miles an hour is a
little more futuristic than putting a train line in
No, we need to go back to the future. You heard the man back
to the future. And that was terrible. Airport body scanners
could give you cancer. Like we didn't know that good report
there from the telegraph. And our national treasure PBS. has a
fantastic month. The whole month of July is airline calamity
month. We have that right? Well, I don't think actually building
it as such. But we have the deadliest plane crash that airs
Hold on. We get the schedule here. At least this is Nova Nova
for July. July 6 8pm. Missing in MIG alley, July 13 8pm deadliest
plane crash July 20. B 29. frozen in time, July 27, who
killed the Red Baron it is absolutely air aeroplane
calamity month on Nova, that your national treasure brought
to you by Siemens, who are making trains.
Unbelievable. Yeah. Wow. There was a story that we actually I
think somebody ran in the blog that they were there. Also
another story you want to overlooked is just to give us
more impetus. Apparently Russia is in bed with a French train
maker to get high speed rail throughout the storage Bureau
storage route Russia
well, they ordered 200 High Speed electric locomotives
Yeah, and then they have a picture of these but those don't
even look like you know medium speed electric locomotive those
clunkers that are all over Europe, they do it they go fast
at 80 or 90, but it's not like three or four miles an hour.
No, it says 200 kilometres 124 miles per hour.
Like operating temperatures, you know, they could hit that.
That's not what I call high speed rail. Trains in the United
States that were steam engines that went that fast. Ah, yes,
that would be the Taggart Express. Oh wait a minute boom
by iron Rand what?
Nothing. You can't take the subject seriously.
I've taking the subject very seriously. Hey, I didn't throw
any chemtrails on you at least you just did. No, I'm waiting
because the people are sending me tonnes of links and I'm gonna
hit upon the actual
you're gonna have guys showing up at the house. You know the
type. They're gonna be, like slightly lopsided and slightly
cross-eyed.
That's my people, man. What are you talking about? That's
my Pete and they forget the shutter.
Shut up. That's my people. That right there. So, I'd like to
wait, wait, we
got one more topic I want to get to I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
So Petraeus. Did you notice that there you know, here's the
here's an interesting thing.
McChrystal resigned, by the way, he's out. Yeah, her dad, and
they're letting him resign as this is exactly what we said. We
said he was going to resign, he'll never have to buy himself
another beer ever again. Because people love him. The people who
understand what he was actually doing as a patriot, although he
was completely misdirected, and they let him resign as a four
star general, which he actually I guess he wasn't a four star
general long enough to technically be able to resign
with that commendation, but now
he gets a bigger pension. Yeah, so and your pension, he's guys
resigned and people said, why didn't he just resign if he
didn't like it? You have this convoluted theory that he had to
do all these things to get kind of get kicked out.
So I know, I know where you're going. And I think we should
play the CNN piece from your blog actually from
divorce.org/blog. I think you're going towards Laura, Laura
Logan.
Well, I wasn't headed toward Laura Logan. But Laura Logan was
part of the you know, the the I mean, the whole thing was, yeah,
she may actually was stunned. Actually, she everyone's on her
case, because she stupidly made some negative commentary about
the guy Hastings article on McChrystal. I got him fired. And
she was befuddled by the whole thing saying this doesn't work
this way. In fact, she went on and on with about how they don't
they start ditches impossible just
play a little bit of hurt because I thought it was
interesting. So Matt Taibbi Who was the guy who was written in
Rolling Stone magazine about Goldman Sachs, which of course
made no impact on Washington say magazine, another great writer.
He said, You know, this is bullcrap. And he actually says
Lera Logan, you suck was the title of his article. And I'll
give you my thoughts on that in a minute. But here she is on
CNN, I guess, saying she's befuddled about how this could
actually take place.
The Rolling Stone piece it ended General McChrystal, his career
raises an intriguing journalistic question. Could
this have happened with a military beat reporter? Joining
us now is a woman with plenty of experience in Afghanistan and
Iraq. CBS as chief foreign correspondent Laura Logan,
welcome. If you had been travelling with General
McChrystal, and heard these comments about Barack Obama, Joe
Biden, Jim Jones, which should have been would you have
reported them?
But it really depends on the circumstances. It's hard to
know. Yeah. Michael Hastings, if you believe him, says that there
were no ground rules laid out. And I mean, that just doesn't
really make a lot of sense to me. Because if you look at the
people around you, and McChrystal, if you look at his
history, he was the Joint Special Operations commander. He
has a history of not interacting with the media at all. And his
chief of intelligence, my feeling is the same. I mean, I
know these people, they never let their guard down like that.
To me. Something doesn't add up here. I just I don't believe it.
When you are out with the troops and you're living together and
sleeping together, is there an unspoiled
I wouldn't mind sleeping with her?
There is a rumour she's hot,
broken agreement? Absolutely. You're not going to embarrass
them by reporting insults and banter? Yes. Tell me about that.
Yes, absolutely. There is an element of trust. And what I
find is the most telling thing about what Michael Hastings said
in your interview, is that he talked about his manners
pretending to build an illusion of trust. And his he you know,
he is he's laid out there, what his game is, that is exactly the
kind of damaging type of attitude that makes it difficult
for reporters who are genuine about what they do, who don't
distinguish, I don't go around in my personal life, pretending
to be one thing and then being something else. I mean, I find
it egregious that anyone would do that in their professional
life. And, and I mean, I take that to the point of even when I
applied to interview someone about something difficult, and
they want to know the areas of the interview. I might not say,
Well, we're going to spend the whole interview on this, but I
will list that I will list that controversial issue and
blindside them because I don't know
what she's basically saying the way she's married to a black
water guy, you know, oh, there you go.
So what she's basically saying is, you know, if you uncover
something, you need to keep it off the record and protect your
relationship so that you can continue to have a relationship
and rapport
she continued to not to give us any news.
So when I saw and these are both linked to the both his video and
Matt Davies column who says this is what's wrong with journalism
in in the world, and he's right. Oh, yeah, but see, they're both
wrong. They they both missed. The point is that this was
setup, it was a set hold,
right the point that we make on this show, which is the whole
thing was an obvious setup they actually she actually confirms
it but she doesn't know she's confirming it right? She's
bitching about the article but what she's complaining about is
actually telling you that this couldn't have possibly happened
unless it was meant to happen. Exactly. She never says that the
debt but because she's not thinking in those terms. But
what this game crystal couldn't do so well. Why don't you just
quit if he hated the situation? He couldn't he to be quitting
with three stars. He would be very dubious it looked like a
quitter looked like a coward. I mean, he just couldn't resign.
It was impossible it would he would put himself into a hole so
he could get out. And what it's apparent he tried to get out. He
first he leaked a memo, which was insubordination. They
wouldn't quit kick him out on that, then he does something
else. And he finally does this ridiculous interview, which just
makes him look like a complete insubordinate. So they have to
make a deal to get him out of there, which they do give them
an extra star and tell him to get lost. He's happy he's got
accomplished what he needed to accomplish. And if nobody thinks
this wasn't a complete, fake setup, even though even Hastings
may have not known it, but whatever the case was just
listening to her. She pretty much says this guy doesn't talk
to anybody. Why is he was this, this guy this this Freelancer
hanging around for a month?
And the partying and the Pentagon has? That's what at
least what Matt Taibbi writes has 30,000 people in their PR
department.
Yeah, he says they have a budget of over $3.3 billion in PR
30 30,000 people. And then this just got through some Oops, oh,
we slipped up, didn't we come
make any sense?
No. And now we know that we're just going to be in Afghanistan
longer. You know, and of course, then they bring
in of course, I got this does. You know I as you know, I'm not
a fan of Petraeus. But if you want to read some of the dig up
to portray this article that was written in the daily costs in
2007, where they blast portray us, portray us for having for
one thing having one of the valid metals with a V on it.
Yeah, we're on star with a V on it, which means he had been
killed or shot or something or wounded, or having you know,
having they say he's never discharged his gun in a war
zone. He's got he's covered with metals from head to toe. And
people are talking about most people that are high up. So you
know what, you don't have to wear all the metals, even if
they're not all required. If you have certain like about, you
know, Uber metals that count for half the metals underneath them.
You know, these ribbons, and you can take off the ones the ones
below but no, this guy has to look like that. I've said it
before. And the military people that listen to this show can say
whatever they want about it. He looks like a generally Simona
Banana Republic with all this with all these things hanging
off of them. And now all that's missing is the big giant hat.
That's got the big top hat they wear with all the scrambled eggs
all over waiting for that. I guess he has to take his hat
off. That's ridiculous. This guy.
I hope people see I hope I hope what we discuss on this show
makes people at least questions some of this. Oh, boy, yeah,
that was a good one. So I think things are moving very, very
swiftly. It seems like certainly in the United States of Gitmo
nation. There's a lot of things that need to be accomplished
before the November election. And it's just one after another.
You know, the President was on this morning talking about
immigration, and it's just like, What, is there something we've
overlooked? Is it something else that that we can't give up
control of? Certainly there's there must be more. It's than
financial reform. Its cap and trade. Oh, of course, our second
amendment that was a good one that was very, very scary,
actually, with the Supreme Court.
No, yeah, actually, the Supreme Court as far as they're
concerned, guns are out.
And that's so if Elena Kagan comes in, she could tip the
balance and then
she'll be part of the the she's replacing one of the four. Oh,
okay. You I believe another new justice. That's five to four
right now. It's gonna be five
to four, but it doesn't actually. I mean, we have a
constitution. And this is why I love living in America because
the government knows at the end of the day, we've all got guns,
and they and they will lose this this is why it's great. It's not
you know, yeah, it sucks guns. You know, people get shot and
you probably likely to kill yourself with your own gun. But
at the end of the day, that's what makes America
great is the only time he was shot was by another soldier,
supposedly by accident. Oops, sorry about that. Sorry, boss.
Well, maybe I'll get another ribbon.
He did. I think he got the Purple Heart for that. So yeah,
it's it's amazing. It's just it's it's astounding to watch.
And I think the of course we'll see this Wall Street reform
which the President is Lying about saying it's all about
consumer protection, but please go and read the bill. It's
linked in the show notes no agenda show.com. It's, it's,
it's complicated, but just look at how many times the Board of
Governors is listed as the guys who are in charge. And the Board
of Governors are bankers at the Federal Reserve, which is not a
part of the government and their bankers overseeing their own
banks. And, and the government will be able to determine if
something needs to be unwound and they'll unwind it. So it's
moral hazard. It's go ahead and fail will bail don't fail. It's
It's easy. It's just a beautiful, beautiful system
that's being set up. And and then we'll be paying, you know,
as we already showed on the show, 25% more on energy,
because the rest will be stolen, and we'll probably get some kind
of bogus tax credit. Which that doesn't work for
me. Yeah, we won't even get that we will get we won't even get
the money, we'll get a tax credit. So you have to make the
money to get the money. Yeah, that never
works. For me. It's like I don't want a tax credit. Just give me
the cash. Just send us your cash up front.
And one more lighthearted news. Yes, I got a couple of
lighthearted ones as well, which you might want to finish with
those were up. Here you go. The NAACP in California endorsed the
merit marijuana law.
This is the National Association
for the Advancement of coloured people, right. And now all the
black ministers are all upset about this because they don't
think marijuana should be legalised. And nobody wants to
listen to the arguments for it, of course, and we have law
enforcement is going to be chiming in pretty soon there's
gonna be a whole bunch of very interesting ad campaign coming
up, I'm assuming probably later this year. I'm guessing it'll
get hot and heavy starting in September. We'll follow it. But
there's a little story on it and you can get see kind of the
didn't slant it one way or the other yet, because they don't
have any big PR agencies involved at the moment.
Here we go. The president of California's NAACP announced
today his organisation is supporting a November ballot
measure that would legalise marijuana. The group says it's a
matter of civil rights. It says last year 62% of those arrested
for marijuana possession were non white, and more than 40%
were under 20 years old. But some leaders in the black
community, especially religious leaders, suppose that
endorsement,
I think tobacco is is proven to kill you. And yet, they're not
putting kids in jail for having a pack of cigarettes. I mean,
come on. Let's get real in America.
If that's the case, then why don't we legalise crack cocaine.
Why don't we legalise burglary. It's a smokescreen.
Some church leaders are calling for the State NAACP president to
resign and even those who support legalising marijuana are
questioning why the NAACP is getting involved. Get ready to
pay more.
Okay, here's the interesting thing that minister comes out
and says, Why don't we legalise crack cocaine. So let's make the
argument stupid and burglaries. Yeah, but or burglary, right,
which is even dumber. And so which is a specious argument.
It's in fact it's not even very well, well argued. But then he
says it's only then he says it's a smokescreen. It's a
smokescreen
for what? Well, yeah. Pot. Yeah, it's
got to be a lot of smoke involved but was the smokescreen
for what?
I don't know. It was not in my prepackaged report. It was not
in my report, John, I don't know. I just don't know. Anyway,
we saved another life, John.
Good. By the way. We have actually a couple of letters
that came in we should probably discuss let
me do the life saving note that I'm so proud of this. I just
have to read most of it because it's just one of these stories.
A couple of weeks ago you guys read my letter I sent you about
starting Chantix Chantix. This is the cigarette smoking drug or
no agenda. Want to give you guys an update last Friday was at the
end of my second week of Chantix. I went out drinking
with some friends that night but did a great story by the way,
but didn't drink as much as I usually do. I was out for about
three hours. Last thing I remember I left the bar near my
house and was walking home. Next thing I know I'm in front of a
Random House and some cops arrive asking me what the hell I
was doing. I tell them I had no idea what I was doing how I even
got here. And the cops asked me where are your shoes? I looked
down and noticed my shoes were not on me. The cop finds my
shoes but not my belt that's gone missing. They asked me
where my car is. I tell them I have no clue. Last thing I
remember when I was walking home. The cop told me that he's
pretty chill cop. I'm lucky for not getting drunk enough for
getting a drunk in public arrest. It gives me a ride home
I miss going to work the next day. I noticed a few days before
this ordeal that Miss Ben Mason misplacing my keys my wallet, my
gym card, my work badge in short, we've gone nuts over the
Chantix stuff which is a lethal drug. I quit taking Chantix that
night when I remembered what you guys said about the chances of
quitting smoking on Chantix was about 22% or something effective
versus a placebo sugar pill which is 13% effective. Now we
of course pulled the commercials apart specifically for this
reason. So instead of Chantix, I take a sugar cane Use twice a
day as a placebo. It's working even better than the Chantix. I
have not cheated or smoked a single puff of a cigarette in
five days. I no longer have vivid dreams, no more insomnia,
no more nausea. In fact, I feel great. And my mind is more clear
than I was when I was on that crappy pill. Danny's not winding
up, hammered in front of random houses with no shoes on. And
then, disturbingly On another note, he told a co worker about
what had happened to him and he said, You know, I'm really lucky
that his co worker said you're lucky you didn't get a DUI he
said in his DUI class that about five people who got a DUI even
though they were not driving. One got a DUI This is driving
under influence inside Carl's Jr. While you could get arrested
for that, no matter what, because he was intoxicated they
asked him where his car was he said outside that checked his
pocket found car keys in his pockets and charged with DUI.
Because even though it because he was in he was intending to
drive, it's like a thought crime.
Yeah, no, I found this distressing. isn't done yet. I
believe it I believe some stuff like this happens. But I mean,
that's, by the way with it with the economy in the tank like
this. More and more of this sort of thing is going to happen
because it brings revenues in now
that brings us to our second email, which I think this is the
tale of a deadbeat dad. Do you want to summarise this?
Well, this guy got thrown in jail. He's actually he's out of
work. And him and his wife came back he has he has he's been
battling cancer. Yeah, right. I'm sorry. He's been battling
cancer. And so he's got a whole series of problems. Yes. He and
his wife is behind him on this and he can't, he has to catch up
to his child support. But
actually, his wife is like, you know, hey, I understand but it's
an automatic thing because the it's got nothing to do with his
wife, right? The courts you know, the the system takes your
money. I mean, I've only read some
of this. However, the county collects the child support from
me and it gives it to her. So they're aware of how behind I am
every two to three months a warrant is issued for sheriff
show up at the door at the door and s and take me in front of a
judge who also knows the situation points out how
ridiculous it is. And lets me go since my being behind is kind of
out of control. Apparently more recently, I guess he ended up on
a Friday, late Friday afternoon there was a knock at the door to
sheriff's were there and they they took me in. Here's the
problem since I was late in the day, it was late in the day I
was going to have to spend a weekend in the county prison
until the courts opened on Monday a brand new level of
hell. I gotten used to the routine arrest but spending a
weekend in prison was a new experience. I had no idea that
prisoners prisoners experienced some observations I made in the
process. Other than me, everyone I saw there was in prison for
minor charges, mostly pot dealing or smoking. One person
was locked up over an open container violation. It must be
nice to know that there's no crime to worry about over here.
I do know the state pays the county based on prison
occupancy. After hearing some of the bail stories. I'm convinced
that the system is set up to make sure that people are locked
away to increase county income $10,000 bail for an open
container violation is out of line in my opinion. This is a
New York by the way, New York state which is broke.
And then they wanted to vaccinate him. They they tried
to give him vaccinations for Hepatitis A Hepatitis B flu,
pneumonia vaccines. He explained that he was under doctor's care,
the guys battling cancer. So he had to really fight that off and
he did all sorts of blood and urine tests. They tested him. So
these times I'm sure they get money for this as well.
Yeah, this is all they get the guy in there that if he if he
takes one of these shots, they get paid. They have to test him
for this and that they get paid. They got him in there. They get
paid. This is this is a crock of crap going on here.
And then he he he couldn't pee. Because he says he has a shy
bladder as hard. He says when you got a 300 pound guy staring
at your penis. And then he said I made one big mistake. They
asked me how my mental state was while I was in medical. And he
said Well, to be honest. My first time in prison. I'm a
little nervous. This kicked off a number of alarms. First off,
they insisted on getting the Ativan. I don't know what that
is, but I'm sure it
said the Ativan is one of these days and anti nervous pills
made me see a mental health professional since they were
concerned I might kill myself. And they offered me an Ativan
script when I was leaving to keep me docile. So he's he says
it just it's you know, it's a report straight from the
slammer. And you're right John, particularly in the in the hard
times now with the economic crisis, the jails have to fill
them up, bring them in, fill them up, doesn't matter what
you're doing. You got to throw you in jail. So we can make some
money and they're making money on all fronts on the on the job.
drugs they give you on the vaccines they give you on
locking you up.
I can't believe over a weekend somebody wants to give him a
shot flu shot. Yeah. Wow. So anyway, that looks like they're
starting to destroy some of those flu shots. And are they
getting you know? Well, nobody's using?
Well, no, they're what I read is they're folding it into the
seasonal flu shot, both in Gitmo nation, East and West. This is
what I'm reading.
Yeah, well, I'm just hearing about the old ones that want
those straight ones, the ones that just have the h one n one
and N are getting
swine flu jabs to be repackaged as seasonal flu jabs, according
to the Financial Times.
Well, I think there's a lot of action. There's somebody also
investigating I think one of the states is investigating the
whole scam saying that we didn't write the right contract or this
is in Canada. Well, yes. A lot of action going on where I had
to revisit the top of
the world. The BBC reports that the swine flu vaccine contracts
have lacked get out clauses. Yeah. Da. So
one point was Great Britain they lost a billion dollars pounds
1.2 billion pounds $1.5 billion down the drain. Yeah. Because of
that idiot that runs the the World Health Organisation that
that woman. Yeah, Miss Swan Chon,
whatever. You got a couple more clips, anything you want to play
or?
Let's see what I have. I have something funny,
which was during the Petraeus confirmation hearing, Chairman
Levin or Levine I guess Livigno 1111. Sullivan words matter, I
would say so listen to his 26 seconds of his opening
statement.
We've already seen a positive effect of setting the July 2011
date to begin reduction of our troops. Lieutenant General
Caldwell, who commands our training efforts in Afghanistan
told us that when General Obama announced the date Aygo,
General,
General Obama and no one bats an eye.
Roll Obama. Well, he should wear all the metal,
you should have a cool uniform. Absolutely. Under the Act now
that Joe Biden came out and said, this is like a smash and
grab. Well finally, the NPA and what is the record Association,
our ia ra.
And everyone, they've got the cops, the Federal he's working
for him now. So Homeland Security, went out and busted up
a whole bunch of websites that were hosting Homeland Security,
that we're hosting movies illegally. And they did a whole
press announcement and Disney was on stage with the Homeland
Security then yeah, we did a great job. They've always wanted
this to happen. And then there was a little local store in San
Diego. And this is from one of our producers down south in San
Diego who reported this he said this is this is impossible.
There was a little Asian store was suspected of selling
counterfeit designer items was raided by police it's in a strip
mall and the police claimed that they pulled out a million
dollars worth of illegal goods
yeah
Juicy Couture Chanel Nike Louis Vuitton Yeah, I mean if they
were real and they were store price I can see was a million
bucks, but these are just, you know, the so called knockoffs
not knock offs. Yeah. Yeah. cheap crap. So but, but it's
fun, you know? So we were throwing people in jail for
smoking pot. And, and we're busting up to Asian elderly
people for
you know gonna get worse.
Oh, you gotta get out of here, John. I know you gotta you gotta
boogie. Right? So I gotta take off. Yeah, then let me just say
one thing women. Ladies, are you I'm reading from
scienceblogs.com? Are you independent, stubborn or mildly
aggressive in your social interactions? Are you perhaps
less interested in having sex with men than your
neighbourhood? nymphomaniac? Are you possibly even lesbian or
bisexual? Worst of all, are you pursuing a career in a masculine
profession and possibly deferring pregnancy and child
rearing to a later date or indefinitely? You may have a
disease. Yes, it's kanji congenital adrenal hyperplasia,
better known as C H. And it's a real disease. And we're coming
up with a vaccine for it. The American Academy of Paediatrics,
paediatrics has confirmed CH is an actual disease. You are
masking alized and you're in trouble.
Brother.
Please read the entire room. worked in the show notes at no
agenda show.com Because you're just in trouble we have to get
your shot pretty soon some hormones because lesbians is an
illness now. I believe on a funny note at least
Yeah, that's that's, that's more depressing than the rest of this
stuff.
All right. Show on Sunday as normally. Yeah. Okay, good. You
can tell where you going. Are you flying?
No, I'm carrying the train. So I have to leave three days early.
Normally, I would take the plane I'd be up there in a couple
hours, right because it's gonna take me three days to get there.
I'm gonna prefer it because I don't want to eat rat turds and
planes meals. Oh, by the way, they don't serve meals on the
plane. So I don't know what that's all about.
Yes, it's fun to live in Gitmo nation coming to you from the
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Republic of Southern California. Yay, in Gitmo nation West. In
the morning. I'm Adam curry
in the northern part of the state where Silicon Valley
doesn't exist. But the sun does. I'm John C. Dvorak.
And the government doesn't own the sun yet. We'll talk to you
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