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0:00 I don't care.

0:01 Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.

0:03 It's Thursday, February 20th, 2014.

0:05 Time's your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 5, 9, or 3.

0:09 This is no agenda.

0:11 Poking skull and bones in their eye sockets from FEMA Region 6 here at the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas.

0:18 In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

0:20 And from Sochi West, I'm John C. DeVore.

0:24 It's Greg Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.

0:30 all right i'll bite there's nothing to bite i just decided to call myself from being from

0:35 soshi west i like it i like what's thursday and uh i love thursdays

0:41 i do i love thursdays you know why i love thursdays john because you don't have the mondays

0:48 no i love thursdays because it's been an extra an extra day you know that i haven't talked to

0:54 you and i'm excited you know i'm excited oh wait you're telling me you love thursdays because you

0:58 get to talk to me, or because you got an extra day

1:01 without talking to me? Yes.

1:02 Yes.

1:04 Best of all of the above.

1:06 There's all these things that have happened, and

1:08 there's extra days in between

1:10 the Sunday show and the

1:12 Thursday show, and I'm always excited

1:14 to tell you what's going on in my life.

1:16 Oh, something happened?

1:17 Oh, it's funny you ask.

1:20 Well, first of all, Miss Mickey

1:22 and I last night celebrated

1:24 our second mattress together.

1:26 You got a new

1:28 mattress yeah i think this yes yeah we did this our second mattress in in our togetherness

1:32 how long you been together five years

1:35 i think i think a mattress every five years you wore out a mattress

1:40 i think five years for a mattress is enough it's hard to say yeah i don't know um

1:49 but the guys who deliver the new one they have some funny stories

1:53 say hey you know you you guys do a lot of mattresses yeah you must see some you don't

1:58 even talk about what we see can you imagine oh my god now that you mentioned it can you just

2:04 imagine what people's mattresses ruin my breakfast um i'll give you a there was something interesting

2:10 that happened on i got a it felt a bit like a booty call but i'll take it on uh tuesday i was

2:18 invited by my constitutional lawyer friend eric here you know the one that was that was suing the

2:22 supreme court etc yeah uh to join him at the austin club oh the austin club yes which i had not heard

2:31 of but the austin club was one of the original i think at one point the largest opera house in all

2:36 of america uh built in the 1800s and now it's uh it's a private club and if you're a member then

2:43 you know you can this is i think it's kind of a bit it's kind of the texas austin texas version

2:49 Maybe like the Princeton Club, except it's not necessarily for, it's not a scholastic clubs, but, you know, like guys, I think Republicans, essentially.

2:58 That's what it felt like to me.

3:01 And he said, you know, I'd really, you know, we do this once a month.

3:05 There's like eight or nine guys and, you know, we're primarily lawyers.

3:09 But, you know, we have one guest who will then be the guest speaker, which I was not.

3:13 I was just a guest to be there.

3:14 The guest was Stuart Bowen.

3:17 And Stuart Bowen, he was, well, I knew his name because he was the inspector general for the Coalition Provision Authority in Iraq just before I went there, which is 10 years ago today, actually.

3:30 So he was doling out the money before Paul Bremer.

3:34 But if you look at what this guy has done, I mean, he was in charge of the transition team for Bush Cheney.

3:42 This guy, big insider, big, big insider.

3:47 um and so i thought you know all right let's this will be cool

3:51 uh also at the table one of the texas or austin's biggest lobbyists

3:57 the the guy who runs the texas teachers retirement fund which is i don't know eight billion dollars

4:04 all right so you're hanging out with the with the local elites yeah and so but the uh what's

4:14 his name, Stuart Bone, his, his son came along and his son is running one of these election

4:19 consultancies in Texas. And, um, I think they're running 10 different positions. And I heard all

4:28 these numbers, you know, like 300, you know, two 50, hold on a second. What? I mean, so you're

4:34 telling me if I have the budget, you can get me into, you can get me a Senate seat. He said,

4:38 Absolutely.

4:38 If you're an R, no problem in Texas.

4:41 The cost, John, to become a state senator?

4:44 What?

4:45 $500,000.

4:46 Well, that's nothing.

4:47 That's what I said.

4:48 I said I should be able to raise that.

4:50 Yeah.

4:50 Imagine all the fun I could have.

4:52 Yeah.

4:53 Committee meetings all day.

4:55 No.

4:57 Anyway, so I'm now kind of in.

5:01 So, you know, I'm making new friends and learning new things.

5:05 This should be interesting when the next one rolls around.

5:08 i think i'm going to be asked to become a member a member of the austin club well the of the club

5:13 the club within the austin club this is one of the club within the austin well it's these guys

5:18 is these guys who have this meeting once a month what's the cost to join this club i think i have

5:23 no idea i don't know if it's money it may be you know it's got to be money i think it's secret

5:27 handshake you got a you know i don't know probably some kind of initiation thing i'll find out i'll

5:33 find out all right but you know this is the this is what we need i have the obama bought dinners

5:38 We need the polar opposite.

5:39 This is very good, I think.

5:40 This would be the polar opposite.

5:42 Yeah.

5:43 I'm excited, though.

5:44 I think this is going to be very good for the show.

5:46 Do you have any independent?

5:49 Why don't you join a church while you're there?

5:51 There's a lot of churches.

5:52 Baptist churches here.

5:54 No, no, don't go.

5:55 Sorry, people.

5:56 Don't go Baptist.

5:57 The largest pointy roof Baptist church is in Austin.

6:03 That's not the architectural name, but that's what it looks like.

6:06 What's the name of it?

6:07 the Austin Pointy Roof Baptist Church.

6:10 Yeah, you know, you probably drive past the place every so often.

6:12 I do know.

6:13 You don't even bother to look at the name.

6:14 It's right near our house, actually.

6:17 I will look at the name.

6:18 Anyway, today is World Day of Social Justice by Presidential Proclamation.

6:23 Enjoy that, everybody.

6:24 As Kiev burns.

6:25 Who keyed what?

6:29 I said enjoy the by Presidential Proclamation.

6:32 Kiev burns?

6:33 Yes, Kiev is burning.

6:34 Okay.

6:37 you're baffling me you got me stumped here on today's show why i don't know i don't know who

6:42 kiev burns is or these other people kiev is ukraine oh kiev burns i thought you're talking

6:49 about some guy named keith burns no this is the show title now kiev burn keith burns keith burns

6:57 burns kiev burns i'm sorry we went back to skype so uh we have less less of a latency in between

7:05 our two stations but the quality is a little lower apparently yeah i have the uh well if you want to

7:12 hear the the propaganda uh mouthpiece of the government i do have the cbs report yeah let's

7:18 do it let's do it uh i got it right here cbs on the ukraine warned ukrainians that the demonstrators

7:23 were trying to seize power but the protesters accuse yanukovych of being corrupt and increasingly

7:30 dictatorial. Oleg Blaschuk is a professional translator who told us he came to Independence

7:37 Square because he wants a more democratic government. Are you willing to fight? When it's

7:44 needed, yeah. I will fight for my family. I will fight for the future of my children,

7:50 of my grandchildren. I have two grandchildren. I will fight, of course. Holly Williams joins us

7:57 now holly what is the way out how do they resolve this well it won't be easy scott because the two

8:05 sides are entrenched the protesters say they won't leave until the president's removed from office

8:10 but he is clearly determined to stay on so the two sides may have agreed to a truce tonight

8:15 but last night they both showed they're willing to use violence to get what they want holly williams

8:21 in Kiev. Thanks, Holly. Now, here's what this is all about. Oh, he's going to tell us. Hold on.

8:27 Let me get my pen. Here it comes. Get your pen out. This is what it's all about. And he's going

8:32 to do it in one minute. Great. OK. Full of a tug of war. It borders Russia and the European Union.

8:38 Ukraine was about to sign a cooperation agreement with the EU, but under Russian pressure,

8:43 the Ukrainian president sided with Moscow. Oh, hold on. Hold on. That's a lie, by the way. That's

8:49 a total lie. Now, I'll finish your clip and then I got to respond to that. The protests, but anger

8:56 against President Yankovic has been building for years. He imprisoned his top rival on dubious

9:02 charges. In 2012, his party won an election that monitors said was rigged, not to mention the fact

9:09 that the economy is a wreck. President Obama sounded off on the crisis today. Chief White

9:15 house correspondent major garrett is with the president who's on a trade mission in mexico stop

9:19 stop stop i hate to make you go back up but uh i've listened to this a million times

9:27 to hear what he says and the economy is and he uses a word i i can't i cannot understand what

9:35 he says oh i thought um i thought it's his shambles be his charges in 2012 his party won

9:40 an election that monitors said was rigged not to mention the fact that the economy is a wreck

9:46 it's a wreck it's a wreck no that can't be it why would he say the economy is a wreck

9:53 because uh he's and it's not it sounds like he's mumbling something else i is erect maybe

9:59 erect it sounded like i'm telling you i can't you you've heard it i why why it says shambles

10:07 Well, I equated wreck to shambles.

10:09 I don't hear wreck, but I hear b-r-e-ck.

10:11 Really?

10:12 Really?

10:13 Well, I hear a wreck.

10:14 A wreck.

10:15 A wreck.

10:15 In 2012, his party won an election that monitors said was rigged.

10:20 Not to mention the fact that the economy is a wreck.

10:23 Is a wreck.

10:23 President Obama sounded off on the crisis today.

10:26 White House correspondent Major Garrett is with...

10:28 Wait a minute.

10:29 Did he...

10:30 Now you've got me second guessing.

10:32 Did he say Obama signed off on this?

10:36 whoa hold on a second what am i hearing sounded off on the crisis today chief white house

10:41 correspondent major garrett is with the president what did he do like a occupy wall street sound

10:45 check my check my check sounding off who's on a trade mission in mexico tonight major

10:51 scott president obama urged ukrainian president yanukovych to keep the military out of this

10:57 conflict pull back his riot police and negotiate a role for opposition leaders in a new unity

11:03 government. We expect the Ukrainian government to show restraint, to not resort to violence in

11:11 dealing with peaceful protesters. We've said that we also expect peaceful protesters to remain

11:18 peaceful. And we'll be monitoring very carefully the situation, recognizing that along with our

11:25 European partners and the international community, there will be consequences if people step over

11:29 line the red line the white house has warned yanukovych that the bloodshed does not end it

11:35 will slap economic sanctions on a wide array of financial transactions a senior official described

11:41 reports of a truce between the government and protesters as a glimmer of hope but scott the

11:45 white house says it intends to keep up the diplomatic pressure major wow okay by the way

11:51 that that that that report from the ministry of truth of the united states what you should think

11:56 Oh, well, OK. So first of all, I love the fact that the entire world was watching Europe watching Kiev on television.

12:05 I'm sure you got the live stream and that was that was really that was a very surreal moment, I thought.

12:12 Yeah, because there was not you know, it was it was everyone's watching the live stream on the Internet.

12:17 Okay, so what we have here is exactly what was promised.

12:23 Well, it's not really the globalization, but Ukraine is now going to be split in two.

12:28 It's big.

12:29 We have almost 25% of the people speak Russian.

12:34 Putin, by the way, that is a lie.

12:37 He did not hand out some ultimatum like either you go with us or you go with them.

12:42 In fact, quite the opposite. He specifically asked for non-exclusivity and to, is it tripertate? Is that what you call it? What's the tripertite arrangement? T-R-I-P-A-R-T-I-T-E? Tripertite?

13:00 I don't know.

13:01 Well, three-party arrangement.

13:03 Yeah, okay.

13:04 Yeah, he said a three-party arrangement. Not just us or my way or the highway. That's just not true.

13:08 No, but that's the way we like to think.

13:10 Yeah. Well, yeah, I know this. This is complete propaganda. This is a huge embarrassment to Putin. That's what this is about.

13:18 Oh, yeah. It's all about Putin. Well, let's just let's just look until we get Snowden back, then things will be fine.

13:24 So look at what we're doing. So, Putin, you hate gays, you gay hater. We're embarrassing you at the Olympics by, you know, with another week to go.

13:35 and you can't really go and send in your troops to Kiev right now.

13:40 Right, and the Russian hockey team lost.

13:42 The Russian hockey team lost.

13:44 We staged, literally staged, a pussy riot whipping, which was actors.

13:50 It was ludicrous.

13:51 I do have that clip.

13:52 Yeah, yeah, well, we'll play the clip.

13:53 It was actors, you know, so we'll make it look like you beat up hot punk chicks.

13:57 Oh, by the way, we're going to buy your Ukrainian-founded WhatsApp with Facebook.

14:02 Screw you on that, too.

14:04 We're blaming Syria's, you know, the Geneva 2 protocol failing on you.

14:09 I think it's amazing that Putin hasn't just gone over and punched somebody in the face.

14:17 Yeah, he's really put up with a lot.

14:19 He's got Snowden.

14:21 He's got Snowden, but there's some really interesting things happening.

14:26 I see Germany, or let's say specifically Berlin and Moscow, you know, President Obama has not spoken with Putin, but Merkel has, and they're both saying, yes, we're going to, you know, we're trying to work on restraint, and people have to look at where Ukraine is on the map.

14:47 This is not just Ukraine.

14:49 We've got Poland.

14:51 We've got Germany.

14:54 We've got all these countries in this particular region.

14:59 I should mention something here to interrupt you.

15:01 Yeah.

15:02 Why interrupt me?

15:03 When he threw the map up of the world map, he showed the Ukraine, and he showed all these little bordering countries.

15:09 Yeah.

15:09 But there was a dark one right above the Ukraine.

15:13 Belarus.

15:14 And they were all labeled except for Georgia.

15:15 just conveniently left Georgia

15:18 who cares

15:19 what I'm seeing John is this is

15:23 from the American

15:24 NATO side I think it's really more

15:26 NATO than US and EU

15:28 we now are going to create

15:30 the new east and west Berlin except it's

15:32 not going to be in Germany it's actually

15:34 going to be on Russia's border

15:36 and we've moved

15:38 we're going to move our borders

15:40 of NATO half you know

15:42 halfway through Ukraine

15:43 and there will be no other buffer.

15:46 And this is very egregious what is taking place.

15:49 And quite honestly, I think I made a mistake, we, but I'll call it my job.

15:56 I was not paying attention to skull and bones John Kerry.

16:01 This guy, all of a sudden, it feels like the neocons have just jumped right into the State Department

16:08 or running the whole thing.

16:09 If you listen to the difference between Kerry, who seems to be running all the shows now in Syria, in Ukraine, and Obama,

16:17 it feels like Obama was caught off guard.

16:19 I don't think he didn't have some grand statement with all the flags behind him.

16:24 He was sitting in a chair kind of like he's at a Starbucks.

16:26 Like, yeah, I don't know.

16:30 Here's Kerry.

16:30 Russia needs to be a part of the solution and not be contributing so many more weapons and so much more aid

16:38 that they're in fact enabling Assad to double down.

16:42 I'm sorry, that was the Syria clip.

16:43 Ah, messed that one up.

16:45 Here's Obama, who of course was in Mexico

16:49 with the North American Union.

16:52 His entire mission there is to strengthen support

16:58 for the Trans-Pacific Partnership,

17:01 which intends to fill some of the unhappy holes in NAFTA.

17:07 And he was just there just for one day, just trying to get the Mexicans and the Canadians on board.

17:12 But, you know, we love on the No Agenda show to listen how people deny something when they really mean that is the truth.

17:20 So let me give an example.

17:24 No, I did not steal the cookies.

17:26 Is that a good example?

17:30 I like it.

17:33 I don't know if it's the best example in the world, but it's a good one.

17:37 Well, I had one the other day, which we couldn't do on the show, but it was a woman talking about, yeah, I'm all for this idea, while she was shaking her head back and forth.

17:45 Well, the president actually, he said something that no one asked him.

17:49 No one brought this particular phrase up, but he just said it in a denying negative way, which to me meant, yeah, that's exactly what you're doing.

18:01 I do think it.

18:03 And this is, by the way, a question when he was in Mexico trying to do something completely different.

18:07 So I think this was annoying to him that this popped up.

18:09 It is worth noting that you have in this situation one country that has clearly been a client state of Russia,

18:22 another whose government has currently been supported by Russia,

18:27 where the people obviously have a very different view and vision for their country.

18:33 And we've now seen a great deal of turmoil there that arose organically from within those countries.

18:42 Oh, organically.

18:43 I don't think there's a competition between the United States and Russia.

18:48 I think this is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of people inside of Syria and people inside of the Ukraine.

18:57 So now listen very carefully what he's saying.

18:59 First, he's denying that this is some kind of proxy war with Russia.

19:03 which is exactly what it is.

19:04 Then he's, even though the question was not about Syria,

19:07 he connects Syria and Ukraine together.

19:09 The only connection there is, of course, Russia.

19:12 Who recognize that basic freedoms.

19:16 Oh, I'm sorry.

19:17 And they need basic freedoms.

19:19 The people of Ukraine want basic freedoms and democracy

19:22 and be able to love who they want to.

19:24 Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.

19:27 Right to bear arms.

19:29 Fair and free elections.

19:30 The ability to run a business without paying a bribe, like America, not be discriminated against because of your religion or sexuality, your beliefs, that those are fundamental rights that everybody wants to enjoy.

19:45 Now, Mr. Putin has a different view on many of those issues, and I don't think that there's any secret on that.

19:51 Wow. So it's not about Russia, but Mr. Putin clearly disagrees with freedom of speech, with starting a business without having to pay bribes, without letting you be yourself, freedom to assembly. Seriously, Mr. President?

20:06 And our approach as the United States is not to see these as some Cold War chessboard in which we're in competition with Russia.

20:18 he can't even say the phrase without stuttering after it it's exactly what he means it is exactly

20:25 what it is an old war chess board of cold war and in this place i'm i really i missed it but

20:35 i think the you know the skull and bones which of course is this is the club that george w bush

20:41 belonged to it's the yalies they're connected to they're connected to carlisle group so this

20:47 economic hitmen all over the place um newland uh newland's husband is one of the original project

20:54 for newest american century authors this is this has always been the idea well that explains the

21:01 newland anomaly which is what i could call it when i first noticed that she was married to this guy

21:06 yeah it makes no sense you know the funny thing is is oh by the way i want to correct myself

21:12 The little part of the map they left off was Belarus, not Georgia.

21:17 Georgia's down south of Ukraine.

21:18 I thought it was Belarus.

21:20 Yeah.

21:20 So we are in, as far as I'm concerned, this tipping point.

21:29 And let's just evaluate some more pieces on the board that isn't the chessboard.

21:34 We have the main โ€“ the Freedom Party, which is run by the kickboxer Klitschko, and he's โ€“

21:45 He's a boxer, not a kickboxer.

21:46 I think he also does kickboxing.

21:48 I could be wrong.

21:49 I think that was his brother.

21:50 Right.

21:51 It's brothers.

21:52 Brother.

21:54 Well, they are brothers.

21:56 Yeah, they're brothers.

21:57 The other one was a kickboxer that very few people realize, but he was actually the international champion for a while.

22:04 And, um, uh, they're stationed in, oh, gee, uh, Germany.

22:10 We've got Angola communicating with, uh, uh, with Putin.

22:16 Here is, uh, here's what, here's what they really want.

22:19 And with they, I mean, um, the West, including us.

22:22 And this is a report from, uh, from Ukraine.

22:26 This is kind of like the Ukraine Russian propaganda radio station in English.

22:31 But it's very clear what, what they're going after.

22:34 The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform, UDAR, led by opposition MP Vitaly Klitschko, has issued a statement demanding an early presidential election.

22:43 Having deliberately provoked bloodshed, the authorities crossed the line.

22:47 So the new election is what they want.

22:49 Even though the election, there's going to be an election one year from now, they want an election now.

22:53 And the monitors, I'm not quite sure how that turned up in your report, but in 2010, in 2012, everyone signed off on the elections.

23:03 the international monitor so this is it's just a lot of lying going on and we yeah it's weird

23:10 and we need to sell this how do if we want to sell something to the public what is uh do you

23:16 need to get that uh if you when we work in the united states government when we want to sell

23:26 something to the people i'm just going to see if john knows what we typically do who do we call

23:33 that's right you call cluny and say cluny go to film festival in berlin you know we'll let you

23:46 come and show that movie at the white house which is being universally panned by the critics

23:50 sorry uh could you say something about ukraine there george the klitschko brothers we're friends

23:56 with we've known them since the oceans film and we see them often and uh and keep in touch

24:01 sometimes and I like them both very much. But I was also aware of Yulia Tymoshenko and the fact

24:06 that she really hasn't committed any crime and she's been placed in jail sort of as a political

24:11 prisoner. And it just seems like it gets lost in all of the shuffle of news and it's not talked

24:17 about. So I just wanted to show some support for that. I think that the protesters are having a

24:21 very difficult time and I know that they're having some hooligans on their side that are also making

24:25 more difficult so it's going to be again a very long struggle but i find it to be an important

24:31 one to at least point out that the people are hoping for their own self-determination

24:36 is a spy okay where did you get that uh that was also on the ukrainian radio

24:47 good looney commentary yeah it's as opposed to george clooney is a spy

24:52 oh no the commentary i if only they played that on the ukrainian radio that would be funny

24:58 um so i i find this what happened because this was pure embarrassment

25:07 they could have waited and by and everything is exactly what the call said by the way biden called

25:12 the president give him an attaboy rub on the head how how incredible is that that biden even after

25:20 was exposed that he was being used as a little puppet to give an attaboy that he does it i i

25:27 wouldn't do it if that had been exposed in that phone call by newland that i'm just some some

25:31 monkey boy who's called in to dance and and call the guy because you know the president's too big

25:37 to call him our president i think that was an error that they that the newland that that was

25:43 revealed uh about um biden biden i don't think i don't think it matters i don't think anyone

25:49 no that's the point i mean that's the real insult it's not that he did it it's that they don't give

25:55 it crap don't give a crap about him yeah um for them to do this now with you know still this last

26:02 week of putin did not want this i'm sure of it he doesn't want this crap going on during the

26:07 olympics that's his moment yeah um so this is i'm telling you i think this isn't going to end well

26:14 no he's going to do some nasty stuff after this he can only put up with so much of this he's going

26:19 to let the olympics get over going to give it a couple of weeks probably around the six-week

26:24 cycle time or maybe thereafter it might distract from the cycle and he's going to do something

26:29 nasty well first what he will have to do is in the middle of the night he's if we keep up you

26:35 funding the the crazy radicals and this this may truly spin into some kind of it may spin out of

26:41 control it almost feels a little bit like it i don't know who's in control right now they're

26:46 supposed to be a true each other now yeah they're supposed to be a truce but everyone they're

26:49 killing each other exactly um i the only thing he he will have to send in russian troops in the

26:56 middle of the night and clean this up very very quickly after the olympics and you know we'll

27:02 see what happens from there but i don't i don't we're not gonna if he sends in russian troops

27:07 in the middle of the night which is the way he'd do it he's done this before yes uh and he has to

27:13 be careful because we got we got eyeballs everywhere yeah well it doesn't even matter

27:17 we'll we'll make it look like he's bad it doesn't matter whatever the case is it's like he's going

27:22 to come in and we're not going to be able to do anything about it no oh absolutely not but i think

27:26 it's what we want i think this is you think you think we want him to come marching in yes i i

27:32 believe this is a problem interesting theory i believe it's a pure provocation so that we can

27:37 make him look even worse well there were some elements of that in the georgia conflict which

27:45 was started by georgia i'd like to remind everybody everyone thinks that russia started

27:49 that but it's been universally and i believe it because it was our goading yeah and fancy websites

27:55 yes as you recall yeah um and then also it's possible and also venezuela is uh

28:03 which is all another russian ally is is being annoyed maybe we can put it that way right

28:11 actually the venezuela situation is quite interesting and entertaining what do you uh

28:16 what do you have on it what are you learning well i mean there this is going to turn over

28:20 the government i don't think the ukrainian thing will maybe it will but it's going to be very

28:25 violent the thing going on in venezuela especially with this guy who's who's the opponent who turned

28:32 himself into the police to show that uh to become a martyr a martyrized imprisoned uh

28:38 kind of taking on the mandela type of uh approach right maduro um he uh this i think the venezuelan

28:48 thing is we we can't do too many of these things at once and i don't think i think we

28:52 We used to have some control.

28:54 I think we've kind of set the thing going, but I don't think we're that involved.

29:00 I think it'll just be natural.

29:01 It'll probably be a better turnout, a better result than this mess that we've created.

29:05 A better turnout.

29:06 We'll sell more tickets.

29:08 The Ukrainian thing is like, I think it's just typical when we meddle too much.

29:14 We got Nuland down there handing out cookies.

29:17 We got the economic hitman's girlfriend going back and forth.

29:21 I think that this โ€“ so this was provocation, and this was pushing, and I'm not quite sure why it had to be done right now because now it's personal.

29:34 I think it had to be done right now because we've got to do everything we can to โ€“ we really went after the Olympics.

29:40 I mean, it seems like petty, but I still personally still think it's got more to do with Snowden than anything else.

29:48 It has the pipelines and all the train and all the rest.

29:51 Well, I looked at the Snowden angle again and I was thinking.

29:54 There's a number of us, so let's say Putin isn't it's it's his move.

30:00 He he's going to have to make a move.

30:01 By the way, there's also Iran.

30:02 You know, Iran is they've they've they've stopped the Iran Pakistan pipeline.

30:08 So these are all Russia's allies.

30:10 The only one we really haven't messed with that much yet is China,

30:13 but I think that's coming too.

30:14 And I see Kerry already shaking a stick.

30:17 And I'll take it back to these Skull and Bones guys.

30:22 Look, Kerry's dumb.

30:23 The guy's dumb as wood.

30:24 He's truly a moron in my mind.

30:28 And did you watch that climate change speech by him in Jakarta?

30:34 Terrible.

30:37 I had to pull some clips because the man is not well in the head.

30:41 He's truly insane, and he really has visions of grandeur.

30:47 He thinks he's doing a State of the Union, and there's like 20 Indonesian kids.

30:52 It always sounds like he's doing a State of the Union.

30:54 But the things he's saying, we have to listen to the science clip about how he explains science,

31:00 but I truly think that something's happened, John.

31:04 Something happened within.

31:05 Something happened.

31:06 I got a job. But there's strings being pulled. And Kerry is the facilitator within the State Department. I don't think Obama has this under control. I seriously do not. This is just no.

31:23 Well, I think your point that you made, that the best point you've made, is the fact that he was caught off guard about the Ukrainian situation.

31:30 He was seated in a wood-paneled room ad-libbing when, in fact, when you see him standing in front of six, seven flags, six, it was always six flags.

31:43 Six flags, yeah.

31:44 Always standing in front of six flags with his little, comes to the podium and makes some supposed off-the-cuff comments from his teleprompters.

31:51 then you know he's in you know he's got he's in in on it this thing here was ludicrous

31:57 so we have ukraine we have syria which essentially john kerry our representative

32:04 the geneva 2 blew up after he started saying oh no i'm sorry geneva 1 protocols are still in place

32:11 that means asad has to go after putin actually saved obama's ass on that whole deal with the

32:18 weapons with the chemical weapons and and this is this is what they get in return and the wall

32:23 street journal now um i think this was a report on msnbc i can't read the wall street journal

32:28 because of the firewall the paywall the the whatever and i put the headline into your

32:34 browser and you'll find the article someplace else well i think it's funnier when you get

32:37 msnbc telling you reading it for you that's much easier because i i'm pretty sure the skull and

32:43 bones guys are running this operation too wall street journal is reporting that the administration

32:47 is revisiting plans ranging from expanding efforts to train and equip the moderate rebels

32:51 to even setting up no-fly zones, which they had said was something that at the time,

32:57 back in last August and September, was something that would never be on the table.

33:01 Meanwhile, assistance could include paying salaries to some of the rebel forces

33:05 and providing more transportation and intelligence.

33:08 Hey, you want a ride?

33:10 And we'll give them $10.10 an hour, minimum wage.

33:13 your salaries there as government contractors and a no-fly zone wow you can't do that with russia

33:21 russia runs the port there you can't just set up a no-fly zone that's this is act of war i think

33:27 that's just a idle threat i think i don't know why they said that why it was brought up in the

33:33 conversation i do not believe they will do it because you're right that's exactly the problem

33:38 what you just said this is russia's port they're not gonna have a no-fly zone over anything they do

33:45 unless you want to jet shot down right so so what they say they make the idle threat of the no-fly

33:51 zone but then make a very realistic threat of some transportation i don't know metro bendy bus i

33:56 don't know what they're sending down there but paying salaries that's ludicrous i wonder who

34:03 leak that information it was a mistake uh so carrie's talking about sanctions

34:12 on everybody kiev burns russia and germany talk together

34:21 this this feels very very britain east and west berlini to me well the funny thing i like the

34:30 the theory and i think it's interesting that uh that you'd come up with that um

34:36 there's something screw there's a just a couple screwy things about it that's for sure

34:41 there's another aspect of the ukraine that's kind of offbeat there's a little uh one of the

34:50 states of the ukraine which is is at the very southernmost tip is called the republic of the

34:56 Crimea. And it's and I never heard of it until I heard this report on on France, Van Cat.

35:04 Once you play this and it's kind of interesting. Let me just see.

35:08 Yeah. Roger months. What do they talk about when they're there behind closed doors?

35:14 We don't know. I would bet you a pretty penny that a lot of it is about Ukraine and what's going on there right now.

35:20 We have some Kremlin advisers, some pretty top notch people that we never talk about.

35:25 A guy named Sergei Glazyev, let me put his name out there.

35:28 We've never mentioned his name, I don't think, on air.

35:30 A big Kremlin advisor, he called actually indirectly on Ukraine's leaders in an interview,

35:35 a recent interview in the Russian press, for Yanukovych to crack down on the opposition demonstrators,

35:41 basically saying what we haven't heard Putin say explicitly.

35:44 This guy has Putin's ear.

35:46 The Republic of Crimea, have you ever heard of that?

35:49 It's on the Black Sea coast, autonomous region.

35:53 Well, it's basically a region of southern Ukraine that is two-thirds Russian.

35:58 It's part of Ukraine, part of Ukrainian territory.

36:00 There have been stirrings of separatist talk in Crimea.

36:03 Now, a lot of people say far-fetched, it's not going to happen.

36:05 Territorial integrity is very important to Ukraine.

36:07 But the fact they're talking about it also sort of shows that there's stirrings, Russian nationalist stirrings on Ukrainian territory.

36:14 These people see the protests as a clear and present danger to their very well-being on Ukrainian territory.

36:20 Crimea, we don't talk about it that much.

36:22 And I don't, I think it's a lot more than that. This is, of course, it's ludicrous to think that all of Ukraine wants the freedoms and democracy of the EU. Bullcrap. These people, they're not stupid. They know what goes on. These are educated people and they're like Occupy Wall Street, except they do something and fight.

36:46 Which is kind of disgusting when you think about it, how our president was arresting and making sure Occupy Wall Street people were arrested until they completely hijacked the whole movement.

36:57 But when you talk about it in other countries, oh, no, that's just for democracy and the people want to be part of the West.

37:04 Bull crap.

37:05 I want Texas to be part of Russia right now.

37:09 That sounds a lot more fun.

37:10 Putin would be a great president.

37:14 He seems like an okay dude.

37:16 play the did brought up a point play the my pussy riot in so she clip because there's a little

37:23 commentary where the girl from pussy ride goes on and on about something and i'm thinking

37:27 she's obviously never been to the united states at the winter olympics a protest against russian

37:33 president putin drew a violent response today in sochi cossack militiamen with horse whips

37:38 beat and manhandled members of the punk group pussy riot as they tried to perform at least

37:44 one person was bloodied, but police made no arrests.

37:47 Later, the performance artist did manage to stage a show

37:50 and insisted they won't be silenced.

37:52 In the countries of Europe and the United States,

37:58 there is no real understanding of what is going on here in our country.

38:01 There is no security for those who express the civil political position.

38:05 These people might be beaten.

38:06 Some are raped at police stations, killed or put into jail regularly.

38:10 Our goal is to tell the truth about that as loud as we can.

38:13 Let me let me play my pussy riot clip, which does not have an interview of this propagandist who clearly works for Amnesty International.

38:22 If you need to see this video in its entirety before you play it, the question I have to ask is.

38:28 When she her description that people get thrown into jail, they get beaten, you know, I can find that like right off the top of my head, I can start looking this up on the Internet and we can find places right now where people are getting by the police department.

38:43 being beaten up.

38:45 Yeah, tased.

38:45 Thrown into jail.

38:46 Tased.

38:47 Tased or worse.

38:49 I've got a good clip for later.

38:51 But think about how ludicrous this is.

38:54 When you see, so the whole video,

38:57 and this was, these are actors.

38:59 Cossacks with horse whips?

39:02 Yeah, did you see what these are like?

39:04 I watched this thing.

39:06 Half the guys didn't have the right costume.

39:08 One guy had camo pants.

39:12 And so people are upset because you see at one point this guy has a whip, and I have to say he hits the Pussy Riot girl pretty hard.

39:20 On the butt.

39:21 Yes.

39:21 We, however, like to shoot 10,000 volts of electricity through our drunks.

39:28 So who is the horrible person here, if this is indeed true?

39:36 And then they're pushing him around, they're yelling, they don't arrest him, and then they walk away.

39:42 It was like a bad high school play.

39:46 Members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot told USA Today...

39:50 And we discussed this, how beautiful the whole idea of Pussy Riot is, because you don't recognize these girls.

39:56 It's the outfit. It's like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

40:00 You know, they have they have ski masks on.

40:03 So as long as you have a neon ski mask and, you know, then you're a pussy.

40:09 You can be pussy right.

40:10 When did these Cossacks take the masks off?

40:11 Well, they were pulling one off at one point.

40:14 They were beaten with whips by Cossack military members.

40:17 I don't think that can you find Cossack military?

40:21 I looked.

40:22 There's not.

40:23 No, I can't.

40:24 It's an old term that somebody said, hey, I have the Cossacks.

40:28 Wait, who's the Cossacks?

40:30 Call up to Petaluma. Leo's probably got some of those crazy hats.

40:33 You know, the ones with the red on top. That's great. We can use those.

40:38 This was acted.

40:39 Outside a downtown Sochi restaurant Wednesday.

40:41 Rushed it today, got it on film.

40:43 Conveniently, rushed it today, this is there, and it's the beautiful Sochi backdrop.

40:49 I mean, this whole thing was perfectly staged.

40:51 The Associated Press, six group members, five women, and one man

40:55 had put on their signature ski masks and were pulling out a guitar and microphone

40:59 when at least 10 Cossacks and other security officials moved in.

41:03 One Cossack appeared to use pepper spray.

41:06 Oh, yeah, that was another good one.

41:07 So he sprays, like, Miracle-Gro at her,

41:10 and then she forgets that she has to be in severe pain,

41:13 and then she waits to go, oh, oh, oh, oh,

41:15 but nothing like actual pepper spray, where you're down on the ground.

41:19 If you get pepper sprayed, you're stopping.

41:21 She just, you know, it was Miracle-Gro.

41:25 Another whipped several group members while others ripped off their masks

41:29 and threw the guitar into a garbage can.

41:31 Ooh.

41:31 The group's attorney told USA Today Sports by phone

41:42 that three members of the group

41:43 had been hospitalized after the attack.

41:45 Bull crap.

41:46 They were just standing there.

41:49 They didn't have to go to the hospital.

41:50 Pussy Riot had chosen that location

41:52 to film for a music video.

41:54 Yeah, all right.

41:55 Very good.

41:56 That's why they had the cameras running.

41:58 Amnesty International, good job.

42:00 Very good.

42:02 And we got to talk about our NGOs.

42:04 But I just, for those of you living outside of the United States of Gitmo Nation.

42:08 Yeah.

42:09 You probably, so you saw Keith Burning live on television.

42:15 And Europe was interested in this.

42:17 You know, this is Yugoslavia.

42:18 We've seen balkanization before of these kinds of states.

42:21 So this is nothing new.

42:23 It's unfortunate that it has to happen again.

42:25 And that we're behind most of it.

42:28 So what do we do in America?

42:29 Let me think.

42:31 Oh, yeah, no, I know.

42:33 Let's get right to the breaking news this hour.

42:36 A new terror alert that could affect millions of airline passengers in the United States and around the world.

42:42 The U.S. government has now issued a warning about the possibility of shoe bombs.

42:47 Let's get in our chief national security.

42:49 Okay.

42:51 This is clutching at straws to the extreme.

42:57 We had the toothpaste bomb.

42:59 Yeah, I was thinking of this in more of a meta way, and the shoe bomb is a โ€“ first, you're right, the toothpaste bomb, which was a week ago because that was just before Sochi began.

43:11 So it's been running for a little over a week now, and now right in the middle of Sochi, we've got the shoe bomb, and I've thought about this because we're a couple of weeks away from the six-week cycle.

43:24 And they've been fine-tuning it on us to the point where they've had dual events of lesser importance in the last two events.

43:32 Right.

43:32 One thing at an airport, something somewhere.

43:34 So there's all this stuff going on.

43:36 So I'm going to assume they're going to have two events again.

43:40 And I think what โ€“ they do a lot of โ€“ if I'm doing this, I am doing focus groups.

43:45 I'm doing research.

43:46 I'm doing analysis.

43:47 I'm doing polls.

43:48 And I think that they were getting โ€“ I think there was โ€“ I'm just guessing.

43:52 They were getting some feedback as what are they doing to protect us?

43:57 Because the answer to that is apparently nothing.

44:01 So now I believe we're going to see on almost a weekly or at least a 10-day cycle something like this to show that we're actively involved in protecting the public.

44:13 And there's something relatively new about this, quote-unquote, breaking news that I โ€“ the minute I saw it, I was like, oh, my God.

44:22 uh and i think you can hear it in this clip listen to the background because the video

44:27 was running continuously on all the screens in the in the brolf studio uh see if you can hear

44:34 it in the background what what the uh what the subconscious mind programming is that's going on

44:40 here correspondent jim shudo he's got the details what do we know well this is a new warning it's

44:44 issued directly to airlines and our understanding that it's based on new intelligence gathered by

44:49 the U.S. and other countries, indicating terror groups have been working on new shoe bomb designs.

44:54 This affects overseas flights coming into the U.S.

44:57 Okay, you hear it?

44:58 It is already TSA.

44:59 Okay, you're hearing explosions.

45:01 What they're showing is they're showing an airplane test explosion.

45:05 They're showing cars exploding.

45:08 They're showing just explosions that apparently now you're supposed to make the connection between.

45:16 Actually, there's a shoe hanging in the shot, and then the shoe explodes, John.

45:21 I kid you not.

45:23 A shoe?

45:24 Yes, a shoe.

45:25 Policy for passengers to take off their shoes going to security checkpoints to be x-rayed.

45:29 A law enforcement official said that passengers, as a result of this new warning,

45:33 may notice additional searches, including explosive detection swabs.

45:38 They're rewinding the reel.

45:39 To be clear, there is no specific threat or plot known.

45:42 Listen, I love this.

45:43 They do this on all the reports.

45:45 I got two of these reports myself, and all the reports, they say that's the exact same.

45:49 It's as though they're told to give this disclaimer.

45:52 What is it, a new shoe bomb?

45:54 Is that your report?

45:55 Let's see.

45:57 I got a couple of them.

45:58 I got the CBS one, which would be official, and then I have a PBS one somewhere in there, too.

46:03 But you can play the CBS one.

46:04 There's another developing story tonight, a warning about a possible terrorist plot, a warning to U.S. airlines.

46:12 Wyatt Andrews has been looking into this.

46:15 The Department of Homeland Security has directed airlines with flights inbound to the United States to be on alert for explosives, possibly hidden in shoes, liquids or cosmetics.

46:27 I ask you a question. If this is so, if this is something that's happening overseas, why is it only the Department of Homeland Security?

46:36 Shouldn't this be CIA or some other agency involved if it's foreign actors?

46:42 I think they have this...

46:44 They have that in their portfolio, you think?

46:46 I'm sure they do.

46:47 Sources emphasize this is a general warning, not one based on a specific threat,

46:52 and that the alert has been issued in an abundance of caution.

46:55 An abundance of caution. Be safe, citizens. Hold on a second.

46:59 This is nothing but an abundance of caution. Do not be alarmed.

47:02 However, your shoes may explode as well as your toothpaste.

47:05 Do not be alarmed. This is just abundance of caution.

47:08 Resume normal activity.

47:12 Screaming for shoe-based explosives has been routine at airports since 2001,

47:17 when Richard Reed tried to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight from Paris to Miami.

47:21 He's now serving three life terms without parole,

47:24 but terrorist groups are still trying to perfect that kind of attack.

47:28 Now, is this going to lead to the only guy who knows how to do this, the secret bomb maker?

47:33 Is that the lead-in?

47:34 No, curiously.

47:35 Oh.

47:35 Now, somebody screwed up.

47:38 That's a good point.

47:39 I didn't think of that either.

47:40 That's the guy who should have, yeah, that's where it should have led.

47:43 Sources say those terror groups have recently stepped up the discussion of shoe bombs to the point where officials felt the need to inform the airlines.

47:51 Hey, Mohammed, how are your shoes doing?

47:55 Oh, you know, my shoes, my shoes, they're very tight.

48:00 I like that.

48:01 They could make my foot blow off.

48:03 I have a blister that's about to blow.

48:07 This is really, maybe you should prick it.

48:10 Just two weeks ago, the airlines faced a similar warning that focused on possible explosives in liquids or in toothpaste tubes.

48:18 But that alert centered on flights inbound toward Russia and possibly the Olympics.

48:22 This new alert scars for the United States and is not thought connected to the Olympics.

48:27 All right, let's listen to the, it says news hoe bombers.

48:33 I guess that's news shoe bombers.

48:36 A new warning has gone out to airlines over possible bombs in shoes.

48:40 The Department of Homeland Security issued the alert, but declined today to give details of the threat.

48:45 It's unclear if this is related to earlier warnings about explosives hidden in toothpaste or liquids on flights to Russia.

48:52 And, of course, there's no actual statement or anything on the Department of Homeland Security website,

48:57 which I always find to be a complete disservice.

49:01 To our credit, they did do the read without any reporting, which is like, at least they got it out of the way without bull crap.

49:09 I want to take you back to Brolf, just because it really shows you the level of mind control programming that is being thrust upon the poor citizens of the world, but primarily the United States.

49:23 And again, listen to the background.

49:24 An intelligence official told me this, quote.

49:27 An intelligence official, unnamed source.

49:29 This threat is not specific or credible enough to require a specific response.

49:33 But be afraid.

49:34 The DHS often issues alerts out of an abundance of caution.

49:39 Now, I spoke with CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen

49:42 to get an understanding of what kind of groups would be capable of this.

49:46 And here's what he said.

49:47 The DHS warning is nonspecific,

49:50 but the universe of people who have desire and capability is not large.

49:53 There's al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

49:55 It's al-Qaeda.

49:56 I love al-Qaeda.

49:59 And so whenever you want something serious in American news, you bring on a Brit.

50:03 You bring on a Brit who can't pronounce Al-Qaeda.

50:05 Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda in the Republic.

50:07 Al-Qaeda in Yemen.

50:08 Al-Qaeda in Yemen.

50:09 Continues to put underwear bombs on planes.

50:12 Really?

50:12 Al-Qaeda in Yemen continues to put underwear bombs on the plane?

50:18 They're continuing?

50:18 Apparently.

50:19 Hey, let me show me your underwear.

50:22 Continues to try and put cartridge bombs on planes.

50:25 I don't know nothing of they're continuing to put cartridge bombs on planes.

50:29 I don't know this.

50:30 There's been no alert.

50:30 Why don't they grab some of these bombs and then make a big deal out of it like they did the last time?

50:35 Yeah, that's crazy.

50:35 And I love the little yell.

50:38 Who's this guy in the background yelling?

50:39 They're showing Al-Qaeda training on the monkey bars.

50:43 They're using the old footage of the monkey bars again.

50:45 They're using old B-roll from the 2002 era?

50:48 Yes, yes.

50:49 Now, you remember only two weeks ago there was another warning regarding terrorists attempting to use toothpaste tubes to conceal explosives.

50:56 That tied specifically to flights from the U.S. to the Olympics in Sochi.

51:01 And, you know, Wolf, this is a path that terror groups have been interested in for some time,

51:04 going all the way back to 2001.

51:06 You'll remember Richard Reed, who tried this then.

51:08 And it's something that U.S. intelligence agencies have been focusing on.

51:13 They want to know if the terrorists are trying to find a new way to do this.

51:16 They believe they are.

51:17 So here's a case where, out of an abundance of caution,

51:20 they are sharing this information as widely as possible.

51:22 How many times are you going to say abundance of caution?

51:24 That was in the talking points. Abundance of caution. This is all about abundance of caution.

51:28 That's a show title, by the way. Abundance of caution. Write it down.

51:31 Doesn't mean that they know a group has this capability now or is going to use it now.

51:36 They don't even know if a group has the capability. Wait a minute.

51:39 I just I just heard that there was talk about escalated talk about shoes.

51:44 They don't. What? But it does mean they know that they're trying this kind of thing.

51:48 And, you know, they want to be careful. Is there any indication it's linked to the timing of it to Sochi?

51:54 Wow, good read, Brolf.

51:56 There's no indication of that, and as I mentioned, we had this toothpaste bombing.

52:00 That was linked specifically to this.

52:02 This is linked only to that intelligence that they've been working on, new designs.

52:05 There is no intelligence.

52:07 Ah, new designs.

52:08 Apparently, we now have Jimmy Choo explosive shoes, pumps, Prada.

52:16 Particular target in mind or date in mind.

52:18 And we're talking about flights.

52:19 It is, after all, London Fashion Week.

52:21 Originating overseas and coming to the United States.

52:23 That's right, and that's where passengers might notice additional measures.

52:26 You know, those swabs they take to look for explosive residue on your person or on your baggage.

52:31 That's the kind of thing that passengers coming to the U.S. might see.

52:33 So, yeah.

52:36 So I think whenever we talk about these kinds of things,

52:39 we just always have to make sure we have explosions in the background

52:42 about the new, new, new design of the shoes, John.

52:47 They're really beautiful looking, these new design shoes.

52:51 Let me mention something here, which is possibly, this is maybe instigated by one of these creeps that runs these companies that manufacture product.

53:01 Oh, yeah.

53:01 That swab device, which I've seen in use at most American airports, they usually have a couple of them.

53:08 I've never seen in Europe.

53:10 Have you ever seen it there?

53:10 Now, let me think for a second.

53:16 Well, Schiphol Airport, and of course we have flown from Amsterdam to Austin via Atlanta multiple times.

53:24 If it is a KLM flight, they only have a body scanner, but you can opt out and they don't even put you through a metal detector.

53:33 They just do a pat down on the spot.

53:36 Really friendly.

53:37 Maybe 20 seconds.

53:40 Maybe too friendly.

53:41 20 seconds.

53:42 No, I've complimented the Dutch.

53:43 No, that's what I'm saying.

53:46 You know, the bag check is okay.

53:49 If you fly on Delta, which is the KLM partner, it's basically the same flight with a shittier crew.

53:57 Because the Dutch crew is kind of nice.

53:59 The American, oh, old grumpy.

54:03 But don't they share flights so they have the same flight number you get on a KLM or the same flight number you get on a Delta?

54:10 Yeah, you got to know what it is.

54:12 Which is which.

54:13 Yeah, you can mess it up seriously badly.

54:16 You want the KLM flight.

54:17 So if you leave Amsterdam on the Delta flight, then they do an interview.

54:22 But the security screening is exactly the same, and I have never seen a swab machine.

54:28 This is to sell swab machines to the idiots in Europe.

54:32 These things can't be cheap.

54:36 I like your idea of the setup for the six-week cycle better.

54:41 That makes more sense.

54:42 Yeah, I know.

54:43 but if you follow the money, these swab machines are a great thing to sell to these guys.

54:47 Yeah, this is true.

54:48 Yeah, swab the shoes.

54:50 You must swab all shoes.

54:51 What, you don't have one of these machines?

54:53 Order one today.

54:55 Well, you know what?

54:59 It's my mission to make sure we get done on time today, so I would like to thank you.

55:04 Even after a three-and-a-half-hour show?

55:06 So we're sitting around the dinner table, and we come up with this idea.

55:09 It's either an idea or a threat.

55:12 i'm not sure which which is uh one of these days we we do our show and but we don't end at 200

55:23 hours and 45 minutes we just keep talking we don't end it three hours and a half we just keep talking

55:30 and we go as long as we can possibly 12 hours with one extremely long show really and then i

55:39 I mean, it's just an idea.

55:40 And then we go on vacation for a week after that?

55:42 No, we go to bed.

55:44 Okay.

55:45 What would the possible outcome be?

55:49 What would the outcome be?

55:51 Or what is the thinking behind it?

55:53 Just something for people who can look forward to.

55:58 It would be like a promotion.

55:59 I guess it would be kind of like a promotion.

56:03 Like a wacky radio promotion.

56:04 Those guys are saying, it's rock till you drop night here.

56:08 no agenda i don't know if we do 12 hours of material but sometimes we have a lot we're in

56:13 excess what might always what might be good is to do 12 hours but then revisit all the stuff that

56:18 we've discussed we continue to get new people into the show who will say things like i can't

56:24 believe you didn't talk about that and it's of course we we probably spent four five six weeks

56:30 on on a topic that they bring up but it was two years ago yeah no we talk about a lot of the stuff

56:35 people are wondering about, but we've talked about

56:37 it months ago, and sometimes

56:39 you're right, a year ago or more.

56:41 We have to learn how to revisit

56:44 that and

56:44 remind people about it. Yeah, I think it's important.

56:47 I don't know that it's important. I'd rather have

56:49 people bitching and then just say, hey, we talked about it

56:51 a year ago. Go listen to all

56:53 592 of them and find out

56:55 where it is. Yeah. Anyway.

56:57 Go back forever. Anyway, so I hope to do

56:59 two and a half hours today, and with that, I'll

57:01 say thank you for your courage, and in the morning

57:03 to you, John C. Dvorak. Well, in the

57:05 Morning to you, Adam.

57:06 Gurry in the morning to all the ships at sea.

57:08 Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.

57:11 All the dames, all the knights out there.

57:13 And to all of our human resources in the chat room, noagentastream.com.

57:17 Good to see y'all.

57:18 Thanks to our artists.

57:20 Martin JJ did it again for episode 5, 9, or 2.

57:23 Noagentartgenerator.com.

57:25 Looking forward to what will be submitted for today's episode.

57:29 Always, always enjoying the...

57:32 And make sure to keep our pictures out of it.

57:33 Yeah, and or episode numbers,

57:35 so we can reuse them.

57:36 Episode numbers are no good.

57:37 Yeah, exactly.

57:38 No good.

57:38 Huge mistake.

57:38 Yeah.

57:39 And don't steal the art.

57:42 Yeah, it's another one.

57:43 So we are running quickly towards episode,

57:46 show number 600, which will be big for us.

57:49 And we are offering special executive producer titles

57:53 for anyone who joins the 600 Club.

57:56 And today we welcome a few new members.

57:59 Sir Dr. Sharkey is at the top of this list, $600.

58:05 from jackson tennessee joni and chachi uh to celebrate the massive defeat to the uaw in my

58:12 home state of tennessee i've decided to donate once again to the best podcast in the universe

58:16 please de-douche the entire workforce at volkswagen for this and how about some jobs jobs jobs mac and

58:22 cheese life karma with some you will obey thrown in for your courage okie dokie sir

58:31 you've been de-douched jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs

58:40 macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together mac and cheese mac and cheese mac and cheese

58:51 you will obey you've got karma

58:55 living in the mac and cheese life.

59:00 Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.

59:01 There we go.

59:02 Brian House in Batteau Bay, New South Wales, Australia, $600.

59:09 Zooming back to Vienna from the land of money cockroaches.

59:13 Of the money cockroaches.

59:15 I wonder what that means.

59:17 Money cucarachas.

59:18 Something going on in Zurich.

59:21 And listening to your show, OBB RideJet has wireless, so, railjet, railjet, OBB railjet.

59:31 That's a carrier.

59:32 No, I think that's their high-speed rail.

59:36 Oh, the high-speed rail, the OBB railjet.

59:40 Yeah.

59:40 Has wireless, so as your 600 show is coming up, I need to make a $600 buck, $600 buck, sorry, donation to make night.

59:48 I've decided to back up to $200 donations from 536 and 563, interesting, with a bolus, it says donation, I think it means bonus, to help you get going and to get me over the line finally.

1:00:04 Can you do a mac and cheese?

1:00:05 This is interesting.

1:00:06 I always love these coincidences.

1:00:08 Can you do a mac and cheese?

1:00:10 You will obey.

1:00:11 I'm telling you.

1:00:13 Yeah, and two to the head.

1:00:14 This is all random number theory.

1:00:16 You will obey two-to-the-head combo for my title.

1:00:19 I'd like to be knighted Sir Baz Von Bateau.

1:00:23 Cheers and thanks for the great news analysis you provide.

1:00:28 Oh, and again, thanks to whoever set up that no-agenda wireless access point at Sheephole.

1:00:33 It's a winner.

1:00:35 It works everywhere in that joint.

1:00:37 And I did get a note from one of our knights who said that he was in the lounge and could not access it.

1:00:43 So if our wireless knight can check that, it is quite spectacular.

1:00:50 Was he talking about one of the airline loungers?

1:00:52 Yeah, he's a knight.

1:00:54 He travels in style.

1:00:56 But I think it might have been his computer or something,

1:00:59 because that thing has been rock solid for years, rock solid for years.

1:01:03 Yes, we will be crowning you Sir Baz Von Bateau later on in the show,

1:01:09 and thank you very much for your courage and for your support of the best podcast

1:01:13 in the universe you will obey you will obey you will obey mac and cheese by ayn rand

1:01:22 you've got karma there you go thank you sir f onward with our special executive producers

1:01:32 lee jang in aberdeen city uk 600 i just received my first pay right raise after two years of hard

1:01:42 work at the company immediately thought i need to share this goodness with no agenda on top of my

1:01:48 monthly subscription of 33.33 here's a 600 donation to help me accelerate my way towards

1:01:54 my first damehood thanks for the great deconstruction of the news they are fantastic

1:02:01 and a round of karma for all no agenda listeners wow lee thank you very much this is great

1:02:08 send pictures you've got karma

1:02:14 kurt danielson from burnsville minnesota his uh came in as a check from the bank one of those

1:02:24 bank checks with a note or just a no note because it's a bit one of those checks that come in from

1:02:28 the bank but we know so i don't know if he has something to tell us uh you sent us a i didn't

1:02:32 see any email no but he's in the 600 club that's what he wants he tells us what he means with his

1:02:37 amount yes and i think wait a minute doesn't that make him a hold on i see blue here doesn't that

1:02:44 make him a knight or does he get a title upgrade hold on a second i don't know he's in blue and

1:02:50 we have somebody eric may have run the numbers on him so we'll just knight him kurt yeah no he

1:02:55 becomes sir hmm sir kurt of the frozen north are you sure we don't have an email from him

1:03:02 I don't see it.

1:03:03 How else would we know that, hmm?

1:03:05 Well, where does it say Kirk of the Frozen North?

1:03:08 That's in the spreadsheet info.

1:03:10 It's not on my spreadsheet.

1:03:13 No, well, if you look at the email, it's in the email on your spreadsheet.

1:03:16 Oh, oh, I don't know.

1:03:19 Maybe he sent something to Eric.

1:03:21 Hold on, donation note.

1:03:22 He must have sent it to Eric.

1:03:24 By the way, I forwarded this and said, please put in spreadsheet.

1:03:29 This note is the accompaniment to a $600 donation that is in transit to you.

1:03:33 This donation should complete my knighthood.

1:03:35 I'm taking advantage of the show's $600 offer.

1:03:37 I would like to be dressed as Sir Kurt of the Frozen North.

1:03:40 I would also appreciate some job karma for the love of my life, Suzanne.

1:03:44 Well, I'm glad I looked that up now, aren't I?

1:03:47 Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

1:03:50 Let's vote for jobs.

1:03:52 There you go.

1:03:54 All right.

1:03:56 Does that mean a birthday?

1:03:58 No.

1:03:59 No.

1:03:59 No, Job Corps, but it does not mean birthday.

1:04:01 Welcome to the program.

1:04:04 And that concludes our special executive producers.

1:04:09 Thanks, Kurt.

1:04:10 And, of course, it is the Frozen North now because of the Vortex.

1:04:13 Yeah.

1:04:14 Brett Mahoney came in from North Quincy, Massachusetts with $400.

1:04:17 You guys provide a great value.

1:04:19 And now that I get a refund check from my university, I wanted to round out my knighthood.

1:04:24 I also liked hearing Spearfish.

1:04:28 I liked hearing Spearfish SD donating to the podcast.

1:04:32 Oh, I see.

1:04:33 So somebody named Spearfish.

1:04:36 No, we had Spearfish, South Dakota.

1:04:38 Oh, Spearfish, South Dakota.

1:04:40 That's right.

1:04:41 We had two.

1:04:41 Then we have two people.

1:04:42 Yes.

1:04:43 Yes.

1:04:44 My birth state needs to keep up the donations.

1:04:47 Let's keep the jobs.

1:04:48 Oh, he's from South Dakota.

1:04:50 He moved to Massachusetts.

1:04:51 Wow.

1:04:52 Let's keep the jobs karma rolling for the college students and the veterans like me

1:04:57 trying to get a job last but not least stop the rain sticks boston get keeps getting pounded by

1:05:03 snow these are not snow sticks i'm blaming you for my body aches from shoveling california can

1:05:09 live without with the drought now these are rain only these are not snows i agree yeah it'll get

1:05:15 them get us straight federal funding yes we will get federal funding but we need rain yes we do jobs

1:05:20 jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs

1:05:24 all right everybody good job karma for everybody thank you the snow sticks are a lot quieter

1:05:30 and we don't really have any shane o'hare and wilcilla alaska 333 33 the last i'm in the more

1:05:38 or in the morning from get moment nation i can see russia i've been keeping an eye on the olympics

1:05:42 nothing to report last time i donated i asked for some karma for a couple of days ago things were

1:05:49 great then it backfired i'm dealing with some monumental disaster in my business to make a long

1:05:53 story short fuck the government so i'm requesting an extra special super focus karma bukkake

1:05:59 i need every drop to get through this bukkake i think it's pronounced bukkake versus my 25th

1:06:06 birthday i sounds right i am competing in a dj competition for anchorage's best club dj it would

1:06:13 It would mean a lot if you guys could give me a DJ name drop to record and use in my set.

1:06:19 Oh, okay.

1:06:20 Like Shane?

1:06:22 Does he have a DJ name?

1:06:24 It's Shane O'Hare.

1:06:26 All right.

1:06:27 Let me give this a shot.

1:06:28 Well, let's do that right after I finish reading this.

1:06:31 Okay.

1:06:31 As always, thank you so much for the show.

1:06:35 I find myself listening to each episode multiple times.

1:06:37 You guys are doing amazing work and providing excellent products.

1:06:40 Shouts out to Royce, Kukami, and Geekscape.net.

1:06:46 Last thing, can I hear John say,

1:06:48 what bitch always makes me laugh?

1:06:51 Shane O'Hare and his Candy Lace 3, Pennsylvania Avenue.

1:06:57 Or Kilo Lima 3, Papa Alpha.

1:06:59 All right, I'll do the shout-out.

1:07:02 I got it for me.

1:07:03 It's a name drop so he can use it in his set.

1:07:06 Yes.

1:07:07 All right, here we go.

1:07:09 Don't look over there.

1:07:10 I'm sorry.

1:07:11 Don't look over here.

1:07:13 Look over there.

1:07:14 It's Anchorage's best club DJ, Shane O'Hare.

1:07:17 Say what, bitch?

1:07:18 Okay.

1:07:21 Come on.

1:07:22 That was creative.

1:07:24 I guess.

1:07:25 It was good.

1:07:27 It was your surfer voice.

1:07:28 That's what you tell me is always the winner.

1:07:30 Yeah, it's a good voice.

1:07:33 It's a good voice.

1:07:33 I think you could have been more surfer.

1:07:35 Well, should I do it again?

1:07:36 Yeah, do it one more time.

1:07:39 I want to hear the surfer surfer.

1:07:41 I want a guy who just got out of the water.

1:07:42 Don't look over here.

1:07:44 Look over.

1:07:45 Hey, don't look over there.

1:07:48 Look over here.

1:07:49 It's Anchorage's best club DJ, dude.

1:07:52 Shane O'Hare.

1:07:53 Say what, bitch?

1:07:54 Sorry, Shane.

1:07:57 It's the best we could do.

1:07:58 Sir S.

1:07:59 What do you got?

1:08:00 Sir S. Russell Williams in Boise, Idaho.

1:08:04 26178.

1:08:05 it adam just wondering if you ever come close to using the sword i gave you on the opots yes i have

1:08:12 shown it to them uh once in a while just to make sure they remember please keep up the great work

1:08:18 i truly do appreciate all the work you two do so i don't have to no need to read this part on the

1:08:23 show okay we won't thank you very much he's now a baronet sir uh sir baronet russell williams

1:08:29 And finally, Daniel Carda, $211.33 from Littleton, Colorado.

1:08:37 He has a note, and I willโ€”hold on a second.

1:08:40 Hold on.

1:08:42 I got to get on my horse.

1:08:43 I left the note over.

1:08:44 Hold on.

1:08:45 Yes, apparently, as we near episode 600, we're doing schtick, ladies and gentlemen.

1:08:53 I'm back.

1:08:58 Here's the note to John and Adam.

1:09:00 This is Daniel Carter from Littleton, Colorado, somewhere inside FEMA Region 8.

1:09:04 First, I'd like to say thank you for your courage.

1:09:06 I'm sorry about the typewritten note.

1:09:07 As I mentioned before, my handwriting is atrocious, and you would not be able to decipher it.

1:09:11 So far, it's stymied the NSA.

1:09:13 I really enjoyed the past couple of shows where you've been totally skewering the mainstream media.

1:09:20 I laugh as you lay bare the memes of their incompetence.

1:09:25 Honestly, I'm continuously shocked this program is not listened to by 100 million people.

1:09:29 This podcast probably should be required listening for high school and college students.

1:09:34 Free men and women don't need to be taught what to think.

1:09:38 They need to be taught how to think.

1:09:41 I don't always agree with what you guys say, but it usually gives me something to think about.

1:09:46 As part of our value for value deal, I'm including a check for 211.33.

1:09:50 The numbers are built in.

1:09:51 This puts me within striking distance of my knighthood.

1:09:54 I have some bills to pay, but I think I can get my knighthood in April.

1:09:57 I've already got my title picked out,

1:10:00 and I'm looking forward to hearing my knighting ceremony.

1:10:02 I'm also sending a check, so fuck you, PayPal and Visa.

1:10:06 Things are going great, but I'd like to request some general good life karma.

1:10:11 I'd also request that mac and cheese jingle.

1:10:12 There we go again.

1:10:13 What? Really?

1:10:14 I'm telling you, this is the random number theory at work.

1:10:17 These things happen in bunches.

1:10:19 If we were at the craps tables, we'd be rolling in dough.

1:10:21 Wait, wait.

1:10:23 You want some karma, mac and cheese jingle, and don't eat me, Hillary.

1:10:27 Oh, where is she?

1:10:30 Okay.

1:10:32 Let me see if this is the right one.

1:10:34 Yeah, that's the right one.

1:10:35 Yeah, I think I've removed the wrong one, finally, after all that.

1:10:40 Okay.

1:10:40 Living the mac and cheese life.

1:10:44 Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.

1:10:45 Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.

1:10:47 You've got karma.

1:10:50 Did I get everything there?

1:10:51 Was that it?

1:10:53 No, he does have one little thing to say.

1:10:54 He says, I'd like to challenge, issue a challenge to all the boners out there.

1:10:57 If once a month you just gave up one precious latte and sent the cash to the best podcast in the universe,

1:11:02 these guys could afford to keep up the media's slandering for decades.

1:11:06 If not once a month, then how about once a quarter?

1:11:08 Maybe John and Adam should offer seeds.

1:11:10 No.

1:11:12 No.

1:11:13 No seeds.

1:11:14 He's saying that sarcastically.

1:11:15 Keep up the good work.

1:11:17 You'll keep listening.

1:11:17 I met someone here who wound up hanging out with some of the guys who work for the Seed Man here in Austin.

1:11:26 Oh, the Seed Man.

1:11:28 The Seed and Water Filter Man.

1:11:29 Yeah, that guy.

1:11:30 Do you know how many people work for him?

1:11:33 No.

1:11:33 60.

1:11:34 What?

1:11:36 Yeah, but you know where they work?

1:11:37 No.

1:11:39 In the warehouse.

1:11:40 What warehouse?

1:11:41 Hello, the Seeds.

1:11:43 The Seed Warehouse?

1:11:45 Yes.

1:11:46 Oh, he owns the seed company?

1:11:48 Well, they're shipping.

1:11:49 They ship everything from their own warehouse.

1:11:52 They got the seeds.

1:11:53 They got the water filters.

1:11:54 They got the iodine.

1:11:55 They got the coffee.

1:11:56 They got all this stuff.

1:11:57 They got these healthy products.

1:11:58 So essentially, he is just a...

1:12:02 Home shopping network.

1:12:03 It's a home shopping network where he throws in some conspiracy stuff and a couple of news pieces.

1:12:09 I was blown away.

1:12:10 And then sells seeds, and he's got the warehouse, and he's in the warehouse.

1:12:12 I don't know if he's in the warehouse, but he's got 60 guys working for him in the warehouse.

1:12:17 The pick and pack.

1:12:18 Doing pick and pack on the drop ship.

1:12:21 Yeah, it's, well, it's legacy.

1:12:24 I don't know.

1:12:25 I was blown away.

1:12:27 I was saying, whoa.

1:12:28 Anyway, before we move on, two quick PR mentions.

1:12:34 There will be a No Agenda San Francisco meetup on Wednesday, 5 p.m.

1:12:42 at John Collins on Minna Street,

1:12:44 which I've been to.

1:12:46 It's a night that was right around the corner

1:12:47 from our old place, John,

1:12:48 before it got torn down.

1:12:49 Yes, John Collins is a little bar.

1:12:50 In fact, it was right across the street, wasn't it?

1:12:52 I think it's on the same side of the street.

1:12:55 That place across the street they tore down.

1:12:56 So the note specifically from

1:13:00 Night Sir JD

1:13:02 is no agenda SF meetup

1:13:05 and 2030 cyber force kickoff.

1:13:10 Apparently, next week marks the annual gathering of cybersecurity professionals in San Francisco.

1:13:15 Is there some kind of Moscone thing?

1:13:17 Well, maybe an RSA conference?

1:13:18 Could be.

1:13:19 Come join your fellow No Agenda Nights producers and cyber professionals for Meetup, Wednesday, 5 p.m., John Collins on MinuteStreet.

1:13:26 And I expect people to take pictures and bring us a full report.

1:13:29 And then, thank you, I can't remember who got this for us, but youwillobey.us was available.

1:13:39 And I think it's only fitting that that now forwards to noagendashow.com.

1:13:43 You will obey U.S.?

1:13:44 Yeah, so you will obey us.

1:13:46 Wow.

1:13:46 I know, isn't that one of the better ones?

1:13:49 How do these things become available?

1:13:51 It baffles me.

1:13:53 Yeah, it does baffle me too.

1:13:54 So thank you very much for your support of the 600 Club,

1:13:58 but we'll be thanking more donors and producers later on in the program,

1:14:02 and we appreciate everything you do.

1:14:04 And remember, we do have a show twice a week.

1:14:06 And any one of these shows could be the 12-hour show.

1:14:09 So you want to get in on that and support us on Sunday.

1:14:13 Dvorak.org slash NA.

1:14:17 And, of course, we always appreciate you going out and propagating our formula.

1:14:21 Our formula is this.

1:14:23 We go out, we hit people in the mouth.

1:14:26 Order.

1:14:33 Shut up, play.

1:14:36 uh today cannot be the 12 hour because miss mickey's uh art expo is opening tonight oh nice

1:14:45 yeah so i'm uh and so we can't do the 12 hour show today and nor can we do it oh no uh we could

1:14:51 do it sunday say when we can do it we just do it it won't be maybe for a year oh okay it might

1:14:57 never happen it might be just made like the third show i got so much positive feedback

1:15:03 on the idea of us becoming a non-governmental organization.

1:15:09 We are.

1:15:11 Well, but an official one.

1:15:13 What does that mean?

1:15:14 Well, it really doesn't mean anything.

1:15:16 You don't have to be non-profit.

1:15:17 You really only have to register,

1:15:19 and there's a number of places you can register.

1:15:22 One is with the United Nations.

1:15:26 Now, United Nations might be interesting for us.

1:15:29 I discussed this on the show.

1:15:30 I'm sorry?

1:15:31 I tried to do this, you know.

1:15:33 Yes, I know, but now I have in the show notes, I have the actual links.

1:15:36 Oh.

1:15:37 But here's an example of emails I've received.

1:15:40 This is from Ben.

1:15:41 Hi, Adam.

1:15:42 After many years of sysadmin work, I find myself between jobs.

1:15:46 It would be much less social and professionally awkward if I could tell people that I'm with the N-A-N-G-O

1:15:52 instead of looking for work, even if it's a non-paid position.

1:15:55 What do you say?

1:15:56 Can I join the team?

1:15:57 I'd be happy to provide a resume as well as professional and personal references, to be clear.

1:16:03 I just want to tell people that I'm with the No Agenda NGO.

1:16:05 I don't really want to do any work.

1:16:07 Yes, this is what an NGO does.

1:16:11 I feel this opportunity could really help me get back on track as a respectable wage slave.

1:16:15 So I hope you'll agree to this.

1:16:16 Well, I think we can come up with something.

1:16:18 Maybe we have a donation amount, John, that allows people to become a member of Nango, which, of course, is what it is now.

1:16:26 Nango is our NGO.

1:16:28 Nango?

1:16:30 Nango.

1:16:32 nango that's great yeah and i think we have nango.net we have noagenda ngo.com

1:16:38 and i have a theme for us i i i have a theme and i know how we're going to be incredibly

1:16:48 successful and this is in part thanks to africa because as i was looking into everything that

1:16:54 going on in africa um i hit upon at least five different ngos every single one of them are of

1:17:05 course there to protect and promote lgbtqqiaap2s rights this is how we're going to take over

1:17:17 african countries the non-governmental organizations just like they did with

1:17:23 russia we'll be talking about first we'll start with the uganda kill the gays bill which has now

1:17:29 been changed but apparently has been signed by the ugandan president it's an anti-gay bill

1:17:33 that truly is an anti-gay bill if you're gay and you know it you will be sent to jail however if

1:17:40 you want to repent and become un-gay you can you can get off out of let's rephrase that you can get

1:17:45 out of jail 37 countries i think what i what i read from these ngos in africa if there are 37

1:17:54 have anti-lgbtqqi i uh laws and we've got things like what do we have here the gender dynamics

1:18:06 NGO. In fact,

1:18:08 if you just do a Google search

1:18:10 on LGBT...

1:18:12 Get to the point.

1:18:13 You want us to be a gay NGO?

1:18:16 Yes.

1:18:17 That's no good.

1:18:19 Listen to this. Hold on a second.

1:18:21 I believe

1:18:23 that we can

1:18:25 become an LGBT,

1:18:27 pro-LGBT

1:18:29 NGO.

1:18:30 In fact, I've registered the domain name.

1:18:33 Noagender.com

1:18:35 i like that that's funny no agenda this is this is no good and i'll tell you why i think it's no

1:18:42 good okay it's way too limiting i mean the national human rights watch has got they can

1:18:48 come on any show and talk about anything they want to this puts us in a bind where no no no

1:18:54 let me explain you or me or you might curious you're not going to come on and represent the

1:18:59 gay community it's it's it's an i think it's an insult to the gays no may i please explain why

1:19:04 this is a great idea okay this is talking this is going this is why i say africa we need to be

1:19:10 we need a base in africa we have some producers there we need to have a po box in africa because

1:19:17 this is how we are going to take over african countries what does not work people don't we

1:19:23 talked about this people don't care about africans because certainly not in america they think it's

1:19:27 just people in the jungle and when you say africans the thing is these africans whatever

1:19:33 but when you say gays oh then all of a sudden the conversation changes this is going to be

1:19:41 we can get ahead of this game john you're gonna have one of our guys set up a po box in one of

1:19:49 these countries representing a gay ngo yes you're gonna get arrested and beaten and thrown in jail

1:19:56 No, we can't have that.

1:19:57 But think of the money we can raise.

1:19:59 Self-identifying, get beat me up.

1:20:02 Think of the money we can raise.

1:20:03 The money.

1:20:04 Yeah.

1:20:04 What's the problem?

1:20:06 This is great.

1:20:07 I don't know that our gay donors are that substantial.

1:20:11 Okay, well, we'll talk about this in a minute.

1:20:14 Straight people will donate to our gay NGO.

1:20:18 Yeah, well, if we had more of your Obama-bot people, I'm sure that's true.

1:20:23 I'm not so sure about our group.

1:20:26 This is what's going to happen in Africa.

1:20:29 I can feel it.

1:20:30 I can guarantee you that even the president is...

1:20:34 Yeah, but it gives us a short-lived NGO.

1:20:36 I like the Noah gender.

1:20:39 That kind of works.

1:20:41 Yeah.

1:20:42 Because then you can bail from that, you know.

1:20:44 The Noah gender.

1:20:47 Okay, look, do you have a better idea?

1:20:50 No.

1:20:51 Because this is where it's headed.

1:20:53 The president came out with a statement yesterday.

1:20:56 So you're going to go on CNN representing a gay NGO.

1:21:03 The first thing they're going to ask is, are you gay?

1:21:06 And you're going to lie and say, yeah, I'm gay.

1:21:09 No, I'm not saying a gay NGO.

1:21:13 No, I am merely following Chelsea Clinton, who is also, and you know, the Clintons are all over this.

1:21:22 This is the proof.

1:21:23 And it's not gay, John.

1:21:24 It's L-G-B-T.

1:21:27 Yeah, I can't remember all those letters.

1:21:28 I like it when it's just L-G-B-T.

1:21:32 Well, no, it can't be that anymore.

1:21:34 Even Chelsea Clinton, here she is at human rights campaign,

1:21:41 and she'll give you what she's standing behind.

1:21:45 I've often been asked why issues of equality are so important to me.

1:21:50 And frankly, I never understand why I'm being asked that question.

1:21:54 because to me, this is fundamentally about the premise and the promise of our country,

1:22:01 of always marching toward a more perfect union.

1:22:06 And I was raised in a family where inertia was not an option.

1:22:10 If we are not making progress, we are by definition falling behind.

1:22:16 My mother has often said that the issue of women's rights is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

1:22:22 That is certainly true.

1:22:24 now that is old clinton what is she promoting and by the way she is now a

1:22:31 full-time director of the clinton global clinton initiative

1:22:34 but so too are the issues of lgbtq rights the unfinished business of the 21st century

1:22:46 the unfinished business of the 21st century

1:22:49 no agenda it's my hold on a second didn't she just say women's rights for the unfinished business

1:22:57 no that's what her mom says she said her mom says women's right and she takes it she as the new

1:23:04 director of the clinton global initiative says lgbtqqiaap which is the true you said lgbtq

1:23:12 if we all continue to work together in the not too distant future every child whether lgbtq

1:23:19 are straight can go to sleep every night no do you this that that really bothered me that line

1:23:25 where they're lgbtq or straight where am i in all this well here we go again well

1:23:34 where are my rights i'm not lgbtq and i'm not you're not a child there you go knowing that

1:23:44 they're safe and secure safe and secure and can dream about who they want to be and where they

1:23:49 want to live and who they want to they want to love love without those dreams being shadowed

1:23:54 i want to determine who i can love all right here's the deal i'll compromise with you all right

1:24:00 you get some money from this operation this clinton operation that wouldn't give the haitians

1:24:07 anything that they have to bring it in billions and then i'm in i'm in on this deal all right

1:24:13 you got to get you got to have a meeting with chelsea well she's coming to south by so i'll

1:24:17 I'll hit her up.

1:24:18 She's being South by Southwest.

1:24:19 I'm sure there'll be no security around her.

1:24:21 You'll be able to go right up to her and introduce yourself.

1:24:25 She probably is an old fan of yours.

1:24:26 Remember me from AMTV?

1:24:28 Point at your hair.

1:24:29 By the way, did you notice that the American ice dancer looked just like you?

1:24:33 No.

1:24:34 No, he does not look just like me.

1:24:37 Oh, yeah.

1:24:37 When I first saw him dancing around, I said, that's Adam.

1:24:41 Then I realized you can't skate.

1:24:43 All right, and then to close this out, actually, I can skate, but not like that.

1:24:48 To close this out, it is now official, and this is the full, you're either straight or LGBTQQIAAP.

1:25:00 And what is new, and actually, LGBTQQIAAP.

1:25:07 QQAAP.

1:25:11 AAP?

1:25:12 Yes.

1:25:13 Okay, what are these? What does this mean?

1:25:15 Okay, lesbian, gay, bisexual, bi-curious, transgendered, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, allies, pansexual.

1:25:30 I kid you not. This is really true. I kid you not.

1:25:37 Pansexual.

1:25:37 People attracted to others by individual personality, not gender.

1:25:44 And you are in this.

1:25:45 You're an ally.

1:25:46 Straight people.

1:25:50 Well, then it would be LGBTQQIAP or straight.

1:25:58 Yes, or straight or boring.

1:26:00 So what you're assuming, that means immediately what you assume by that differentiation is

1:26:06 that the straights are all homophobes yes thank you this is where it's going this is where we're

1:26:12 headed so you so in other words you can't be straight without this is this is fantastic yeah

1:26:18 this is the greatest analysis you've ever done what you've shown here is that now it's going to

1:26:24 the point where if you are straight you're a homophobe you're automatically by definition

1:26:30 by literal definition you're a homophobe that's right holy mackerel you fag hater however

1:26:36 if you join the no agenda ngo with a small donation you can become an ally

1:26:42 know what i'm saying in the morning wow that was a long way to tipperary yeah but it's it's worth

1:26:52 the trip it's worth the trip huh anyway okay onward uh um i did i did find some some other

1:27:03 things going on in africa of course we we still have this thing going on in the central african

1:27:08 republic we need to continue to look at in fact uh someone alerted me to the fashoda incident

1:27:16 the what fashoda incident in zuntite thank you the fashoda incident or fashoda crisis of 1898

1:27:26 was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between britain and france in africa a french

1:27:34 expedition to fashoda on the white nile sought to gain control of the nile river and thereby exclude

1:27:40 britain from the sudan and possibly force the british out of egypt and fashoda is where the

1:27:47 uh the congo and the nile intersect

1:27:52 these rivers are extremely well the nile of course without doubt are extremely important

1:28:00 for anything you're doing in africa whether it's for you know shipping stuff out or just

1:28:06 industrial stuff having water this was it happened in uh was it kodak i think

1:28:10 this is just history repeating itself in the scramble for africa

1:28:15 uh which has always been imperialistic before this happened before and it's exactly the same

1:28:20 thing with the difference now that there's also an interesting uh market to sell to and who else

1:28:27 is in on it is the universities um let's see the uh what is the name of this fund there's this huge

1:28:36 universities in america are incredibly rich here it is a london-based emergent asset management

1:28:43 run by former jp morgan goldman sachs currency dealers and they are buying up large plot the

1:28:50 on behalf of the universities are buying up large plots of land in africa

1:28:55 maybe to sell to the chinese well funny you mentioned that here as for the american

1:29:05 universities much of their money is being channeled through emergent asset management

1:29:08 they may have invested up to 500 million dollars in some of the most fertile land

1:29:13 in the expectation of making 25 percent returns interesting you bring up china we have the

1:29:20 forum on china africa cooperation coming up and china is they're really doing it

1:29:29 in a very interesting manner.

1:29:31 And everything you hear out of Africa is the Africans like the Chinese

1:29:37 because they don't try to fuck them immediately.

1:29:39 That comes later.

1:29:41 But after they built some roads and some infrastructure and some nice stuff.

1:29:45 And where is this?

1:29:49 What is the next one being held?

1:29:50 Everyone's joining this, the China-Africa cooperation.

1:29:56 Yeah, cooperation.

1:29:59 Hold on, where is this?

1:30:00 Shoot, now I can't find it.

1:30:03 But this is the one we have to look out for.

1:30:06 Wow, I wish I could find that exact...

1:30:14 So they have a meeting coming up.

1:30:15 Sorry, I can't find it that quickly.

1:30:17 And it looks like we're fighting for the waterways,

1:30:26 anything that has the water,

1:30:27 anything that can close in on the minerals and the oil.

1:30:33 And if we can kick out Chinese who have already done the groundwork,

1:30:37 that's even better.

1:30:38 And we're going to do this all under the guise of

1:30:43 we have to stop African dictators from killing LGBTQQIAAPs.

1:30:50 That's the strategy.

1:30:55 All right.

1:30:56 Have at it.

1:30:57 You are now the chairman of the NGO.

1:31:03 Nango.

1:31:04 Yeah, the Nango.

1:31:07 N-N-N-N-N-N-Nango.

1:31:09 I think Nango is pretty good.

1:31:11 Let me see.

1:31:12 Someone, I thought we had Nango.net.

1:31:15 Let me see.

1:31:15 I know Nango.org is gone.

1:31:18 Maybe someone else, maybe another no-agenda person registered Nango.org,

1:31:22 which would be a little more appropriate.

1:31:26 Here's the letter I got.

1:31:28 I work in marketing with a client based out of Kansas.

1:31:32 Client spoke with me about a company called Pathar, P-A-T-H-A-R,

1:31:37 that is showcasing their new social media software analysis program.

1:31:40 It apparently does a deep dive and provides more data than ever before.

1:31:44 It's the same old song and dance I've heard for a dozen times from a dozen vendors,

1:31:48 and I'm told that this was the brainchild of some CIA guys.

1:31:51 This piece of information slipped out during some joking around,

1:31:54 but I don't think they were joking.

1:31:55 I laughed because the deck was 33 slides.

1:31:59 I got suspicious and started doing research on the company,

1:32:02 the trademark folks, et cetera.

1:32:04 There's a trademark thing and the rest of it.

1:32:06 Not sure there's anything here, but it's kind of interesting.

1:32:08 I thought it was something.

1:32:09 I looked into it.

1:32:10 This is a cool company, and they've got offices scattered around.

1:32:15 But what draws my attention to them, you can look at their website.

1:32:18 They talk a little bit about what they're doing.

1:32:20 They are essentially going to โ€“ this is a company that goes and looks โ€“ it takes the Twitter hose, whatever.

1:32:27 You can get the โ€“ you buy the hose, right?

1:32:29 Yeah.

1:32:29 Takes the Twitter hose, takes your Facebook stuff, and then does deep analysis.

1:32:34 But when you look at their description that they left for themselves on LinkedIn, I just got to โ€“ there's two things that attracted my attention.

1:32:46 One is that they register through an anonymizer run by Network Solutions, of all people.

1:32:53 I didn't know they did that, but they do.

1:32:56 And it says, we build the world's most dynamically advanced commercially available end-to-end solution for creating actionable intelligence from big data.

1:33:05 You know that story, don't you?

1:33:07 Right.

1:33:08 Okay, that'll work.

1:33:09 Yeah, that'll work.

1:33:09 Our proprietary intelligence engine power is Doonami.

1:33:13 Our web-based software platform, Doonami, combines breakthrough advances in analysis, network, and advanced analytical techniques derived from longstanding intelligence practices.

1:33:23 Doonami's broad capabilities are being used to find, understand, and predict the behaviors of thought leaders and organizers of any type, including identifying extremists, criminals, and others who are inciting potential violence around the globe.

1:33:39 We're going to get shut down.

1:33:42 I think there's just another...

1:33:45 And they do this based upon Twitter analysis?

1:33:47 It doesn't say.

1:33:49 I extrapolate.

1:33:51 Ah, this is all such bullcrap.

1:33:52 This is all bullcrap.

1:33:54 I know.

1:33:54 I wish we had one of these companies.

1:33:56 I think...

1:33:57 Oh, but I forgot an important thing, John.

1:33:59 Nango.

1:34:00 It's Swahili for equality.

1:34:03 Oh, cute.

1:34:06 Yeah, it's not, but I thought it would sound good.

1:34:07 Oh, great.

1:34:10 More bull crap that we need to deal with.

1:34:13 Well, yeah.

1:34:14 Well, you know the way they found the guys who were the head, the leaders of the movement, what was it called?

1:34:23 Occupy Wall Street?

1:34:24 Occupy.

1:34:25 You followed this, right, where they just tracked their phones?

1:34:28 Yeah, they did everything.

1:34:30 So they got the, well, what they did, these guys, a lot of these guys were posting,

1:34:34 The trick to stay anonymous was to use a laptop, go to Starbucks, open up an account with a fake name or just get your free โ€“ buy a latte and get your password.

1:34:46 And then you do all your planning and strategizing in the coffee shop.

1:34:53 And then what the security guys, the NSA did is they paid no attention to any of that.

1:34:58 They just saw where the stuff was coming from.

1:35:00 Then they tracked all the phones that were lit up in the coffee shop and then by process of elimination figured out who it was that was on the computer writing whatever they're writing.

1:35:10 And then they went and harassed them, busted a few of them.

1:35:13 It's a great โ€“ people โ€“ only people in their right mind would have a phone on them that was alive.

1:35:19 I mean I think you are ahead of the curve on this.

1:35:23 I have no phone.

1:35:23 I do not carry a phone.

1:35:26 So you wouldn't be in a coffee shop typing into an anonymous computer and be caught.

1:35:32 You wouldn't be caught.

1:35:33 No.

1:35:34 Unless the cops were right outside.

1:35:36 No, but I've even, I just, I do not carry a cell phone anymore.

1:35:41 I've just opted out then.

1:35:42 I do not miss it one single minute.

1:35:45 I have an iPod touch with only a few apps on it.

1:35:51 Why even have that?

1:35:55 Oh, I don't mind connecting to a Wi-Fi spot here and then, you know, just to do certain things.

1:36:01 But I don't like broadcasting my position all the time.

1:36:04 That's really what I don't like.

1:36:05 Yeah.

1:36:06 That's just unnecessary.

1:36:07 I just don't need to be, that's, I mean, I love the idea of having a network in my pocket.

1:36:13 God knows I don't need to call anybody.

1:36:14 I got a network in my pocket.

1:36:16 Yeah.

1:36:17 Or you're just happy to see me, big boy.

1:36:19 That's, yeah.

1:36:21 Yeah, exactly.

1:36:22 Yeah.

1:36:24 So, your turn.

1:36:27 Inequality.

1:36:29 I have a question for you.

1:36:30 This has now become the buzzword, and you watch, you know, we're seeing more and more hatred towards rich people in America.

1:36:40 Yeah, but I like the latest Tom Perkins little innovation.

1:36:44 He wants to make it so whatever your net worth is, you get that many votes.

1:36:48 I didn't hear that one.

1:36:50 Yeah, this is a guy that you're defending, but go on.

1:36:53 I'm not defending anybody.

1:36:55 Don't put that on me.

1:36:57 I was going to ask you a question about inequality.

1:37:00 Yeah, it's bad.

1:37:01 I think this would all be leveled up by a wealth tax, but go on.

1:37:04 Do you want to hear my question, or do you just want to spout off non-sequiturs?

1:37:08 I'm waiting for the question.

1:37:09 You keep interrupting me with insults, quite frankly.

1:37:12 There's no insults involved.

1:37:14 Is inequality, is income equality, because that's almost the same thing,

1:37:20 It's being synonymous.

1:37:22 Is that a zero sum game?

1:37:24 Because the way it's being shown by the mainstream prostitute media is the rich people are hoarding all the money.

1:37:35 And I don't believe that's the way it works.

1:37:39 And it's literally when you talk about even the 1 percent, 99 percent implies that these people have all the money and they're not letting you have it.

1:37:47 But I don't think the economy works like that.

1:37:51 Like, it's not like one pool of money and these people keep it and there's no other money.

1:37:56 They're all holding it in a big bunch.

1:37:57 Yeah, that's kind of what the charts make it look like.

1:38:01 This clearly cannot be true.

1:38:03 This is my money.

1:38:04 Well, there's a thing called the money supply.

1:38:09 Right.

1:38:11 Which kind of makes it a zero-sum game if you think about it in those terms.

1:38:15 Well, we do have more money coming in all the time.

1:38:18 Well, money coming in all the time usually takes money to lure money.

1:38:22 Now, the money is coming in all the time from all sorts of ways.

1:38:25 And, yeah, it's not technically a zero-sum game.

1:38:28 Or technically it is.

1:38:32 I don't know.

1:38:32 What's your point?

1:38:33 It's not a point.

1:38:36 It's a question.

1:38:36 That's the way it's being sold.

1:38:39 Yeah, I'm going to take this.

1:38:40 I'll take the side.

1:38:40 I'll play along.

1:38:42 I'll play your game.

1:38:42 Yes.

1:38:44 If somebody has a billion dollars and I have one dollar and the money supply is a billion dollars, yeah.

1:38:51 Yeah, I have to get money from that person or I won't have any money.

1:38:54 All right.

1:38:55 Okay.

1:38:55 Well, I'm happy that you take that side because this, of course, would justify killing rich people for their money.

1:39:04 I don't have to kill the guy.

1:39:06 No, you won't, but other people will.

1:39:08 Well, I think there's a lot of potential for heads on a stick.

1:39:12 Yeah.

1:39:13 But it's going to be the rich people and not the politicians.

1:39:16 This is the funny part about it.

1:39:17 It should be the politicians.

1:39:18 It's not going to be the politicians.

1:39:20 They're the ones who are โ€“ well, of course, they're the ones who are being played, but they're also the ones that are responsible for not being played.

1:39:27 They're the rich people.

1:39:29 If you're a rich guy who has been using politicians to get more rich, it's the politicians.

1:39:35 They're the ones that we have the control over.

1:39:38 We don't have any control over the rich guy.

1:39:39 The rich guy can do whatever he wants as far as I'm concerned.

1:39:41 And if he's got some bonehead politician in his pocket, does whatever he says, you know, for some chicken feed, you know, so he can dance around, you know, or the guy shoots bullets at his feet while making him dance, that sort of thing.

1:39:54 The politician's got to be voted out.

1:39:55 These politicians are horrible.

1:39:56 They're all, half of them are corrupt.

1:39:59 That new guy, that guy was caught doing the porn movies in Africa.

1:40:02 What a background he's got in Chicago politics.

1:40:05 Yeah, that was a real winner.

1:40:08 Those guys are great.

1:40:11 Yeah, and the guy who took his job when he got kicked out the first time and then pardoned by Bill Clinton or commuted by Bill Clinton, that was Jesse Jackson Jr. that ended up in that district.

1:40:22 Right, and isn't he the guy thatโ€”

1:40:26 And he's in jail.

1:40:27 He's in jail as well for misusing campaign fines.

1:40:30 And that's just the tip of the iceberg, obviously, just that little bit.

1:40:34 Yeah, no, it's all politicians.

1:40:41 I'll get I'm on your side when it comes to if you want to give the rich folk a break.

1:40:46 Yeah, there's nobody forcing the money down their stump throats.

1:40:52 There's nobody forcing them.

1:40:53 You know, they're doing what they do and they get a lot of they leverage.

1:40:56 They're good at leveraging.

1:40:57 I mean, the thing that the thing that was an eye opener for me was finding out that Elon Musk.

1:41:04 Yeah, must be a genius.

1:41:06 this tesla car operation oh it's you know about the thirty five thousand dollars well what here's

1:41:14 here's what i understand when i heard this i don't know if it's the same thing you're talking about

1:41:18 every car company in america has to have a number of electric vehicle credits and um so you know

1:41:25 you can either make a vehicle or a hybrid or you can buy the credits from somebody else and

1:41:32 apparently this is what i understood because of the the design etc of tesla they get three credits

1:41:38 per car they make so they can sell and this is i think where your 35 000 number comes from they

1:41:44 can sell that to the other car manufacturers right it's like it's like a carbon uh credit

1:41:49 exchange exactly it's beautiful who dreamed that up well i don't know if he did but whoever did

1:41:56 is indeed a genius and it may be musk someone came up with that and it's it is beyond genius

1:42:02 don't believe it i think musk knew of it i don't think he's he i don't know of musk being that type

1:42:08 of a businessman where he's you know marketing by getting legislate that's old school but it had to

1:42:14 be somebody that's been around well you can come up with that one that would have to be moritz then

1:42:18 that's that's the sequoia guys sequoia capital so it's mark moritz or one of these guys they

1:42:25 are old school badasses badasses they're the guys that invested eight million dollars in

1:42:32 whatsapp and are reaping the rewards significantly from the facebook purchase

1:42:38 and they know and that's also old school because it's just the government buying another great

1:42:43 database let's be honest you know this is this has nothing to do with facebook's advertising model

1:42:50 so yeah these guys are and i think kleiner perkins is dead in the water compared to what

1:42:55 i mean these deals are huge and the and the electric car thing for uh tesla gene yes

1:43:03 and i think they knew that you know i think that that's also what

1:43:08 kleiner was trying to do with fisker but fisker their cars just kept burning up

1:43:15 yeah it was it was not the car itself was not engineered well it was designed well and you know

1:43:19 Yeah, shit car.

1:43:20 That Fisker guy is the guy who designed the exterior of the S.

1:43:25 That's crazy.

1:43:26 Really?

1:43:26 Yeah, Fisker apparently is one badass car designer.

1:43:31 Right.

1:43:33 And it seems to me that after that, the Fisker, if you ever see one of those little sports cars on the road, they're very attractive.

1:43:38 Yeah, they are.

1:43:39 And the S is beautiful, and it just looks like a modern car.

1:43:44 Wait, wait, wait.

1:43:45 Are you talking about the Fisker or the Tesla?

1:43:47 The Fisker, if you see one of those on the road, the little sports car, it's very striking.

1:43:53 It's pretty.

1:43:54 The Tesla S is also striking, but it's not abnormal.

1:43:59 It looks like just a good-looking, looks like a Jaguar.

1:44:02 Why, if a guy like that's floating around, this Fisker character, and he's now got to be broke because of his company,

1:44:09 why doesn't Chrysler or Ford or one of these companies just gobble him up?

1:44:14 Well, I was thinking something different because we've talked for a long time with NAP for Humanity and carbon credits.

1:44:22 How can we get in on some of this?

1:44:23 And I was thinking, what is the bare minimum requirements to get some electric vehicle credits?

1:44:29 Could that just be a go-kart with batteries?

1:44:32 I think it has something to do.

1:44:34 I don't know.

1:44:35 We should look that up.

1:44:35 We have to find the law that this could all be bullcrap for all we know because we have not actually seen this law.

1:44:42 We've just heard about this.

1:44:43 And it also could be bullcrap to prop up the stock price of Tesla, which is way overpriced.

1:44:49 It's crazy right now.

1:44:50 I just think it's going to be a great short for somebody someday.

1:44:53 Well, I think that's coming up.

1:44:54 The last thing they did was, oh, Elon Musk had a conversation with the M&A guy at Apple.

1:45:00 You know that's pump and dump.

1:45:02 You know that's bullcrap.

1:45:03 Of course it's bullcrap.

1:45:05 Well, while we're on this, John F. Kerry, the megalomaniac skull and bones man who was the front man for some kind of New World Order takeover of the United States government, in my opinion, brought up a name.

1:45:21 It's already been taken over by the security state that began in 1947.

1:45:24 Who's going to take it over?

1:45:27 No, no, he is running the world show.

1:45:31 Okay, go on.

1:45:32 He's running the F. Putin thing.

1:45:33 so he goes to jakarta indonesia and does this speech which is intended to be i don't know what

1:45:40 he was thinking but right off the bat he brings up a name which is very similar to what we were

1:45:45 just talking about with this tesla credit thing you know some time ago uh i traveled to another

1:45:52 vibrant city a city also rich with its own history rio de janeiro brazil as opposed to

1:46:00 rio de janeiro portland yeah right below washington this is this is just a small example of how

1:46:08 idiotic this man is you know they're sitting in a big room

1:46:14 uh surrounded by representatives from about 170 countries

1:46:21 we listened as expert after expert after expert described the growing threat of climate change

1:46:31 and what it would mean for the world if we failed to act the secretary general of the conference

1:46:37 was uh he was a he was an early leader on climate change oh an early leader on climate change who

1:46:45 could it be john who could it be who could it be a world leader that was an early early so so

1:46:50 huh it must have been one of hansen's pals oh i don't know it's much i can't believe

1:46:55 carrie mentioned this name man by the name of maurice strong maurice strong co-founder

1:47:02 co-founder with al gore of the chicago carbon exchange oh god and he told us i quote him

1:47:10 every bit of evidence I've seen persuades me

1:47:14 that we are on a course leading to tragedy.

1:47:17 Yeah, for him and that carbon exchange.

1:47:21 That conference was in 1992.

1:47:24 Okay.

1:47:25 Woo!

1:47:26 Now, I pulled a number of clips from this,

1:47:30 and just all kinds of crazy, dumb stuff.

1:47:34 But I believe we need to listen to John F. Carey explain science.

1:47:43 Yeah, right.

1:47:45 I think it's long, and when we get tired of it,

1:47:50 we can stop at any moment because every second is insane.

1:47:53 But this is very important.

1:47:55 People need to know this man has a screw loose in his head.

1:47:59 And he probably has two holding the head onto his neck.

1:48:04 This meant lurch.

1:48:05 This watermelon head is dumb.

1:48:08 The science of climate change is leaping out at us like a scene from a 3D movie.

1:48:15 All right.

1:48:15 Whoa.

1:48:16 Whoa.

1:48:17 Oh, it's 3D.

1:48:20 It's warning us.

1:48:22 It's compelling us to act.

1:48:25 I compel you to act.

1:48:29 And let there be no doubt in anybody's mind that the science is absolutely certain.

1:48:38 Are you ready?

1:48:40 Do you think you can handle it, John, the science?

1:48:44 It's something that we understand with absolute assurance of the veracity of that science.

1:48:55 something we understand with the absolute assurance of the veracity of that science

1:49:00 wow carrie wow bullshit no one disputes some of the facts about it no one disputes some of the

1:49:08 facts about it whoa who's writing this for him he is i'm sure you're probably right you're probably

1:49:15 right an example is that you know when an apple separates from a tree uh it falls to the ground

1:49:24 Yes!

1:49:24 Not always.

1:49:26 No, no, no.

1:49:27 He's comparing climate science with Newton's law, you see.

1:49:31 Yeah, I know he is, but what he just said is not true.

1:49:33 I can pick an apple, it doesn't fall to the ground, and it separates.

1:49:36 Yes, yes, you're right.

1:49:38 I grab it and pull it off.

1:49:39 Yes, we'll give you a point for that, John C. Dvorak.

1:49:41 You now are on the board with ten points.

1:49:43 We know that because of the basic laws of physics.

1:49:46 Aha!

1:49:47 No one disputes that today.

1:49:49 No one disputes that.

1:49:51 It's a fact.

1:49:51 It's a scientific fact.

1:49:52 It's a fact.

1:49:53 Science also tells us that when water hits a low enough temperature, it's going to turn into ice.

1:50:00 And he can't even tell us what that temperature is, apparently.

1:50:03 Just low enough.

1:50:04 When it reaches a high enough temperature, it's going to boil.

1:50:08 Aha!

1:50:09 No one disputes that.

1:50:11 I don't dispute that.

1:50:12 Science and common sense tell us.

1:50:14 If you reach out and put your hand on a hot cook stove, you're going to get burned.

1:50:20 Do you hear?

1:50:21 Are you just playing a harmonica or are you listening?

1:50:23 I think he needs a little background music.

1:50:25 But I want to make sure you hear it.

1:50:26 I'm hearing it.

1:50:27 He said you're going to get burned if you put your hand on a hot stove.

1:50:29 I can't imagine anybody who would dispute that either.

1:50:32 Well.

1:50:33 Depends how hot it is.

1:50:36 Well.

1:50:36 Yeah, I don't know if it's that hot.

1:50:37 Depends on the actual, yeah.

1:50:40 Depends on the actual temperature of the stove.

1:50:42 There's a lot of variables in that one.

1:50:44 Yes, I agree.

1:50:44 So when thousands of the world's leading scientists and five reports over a long period of time.

1:50:53 Can I stop and ask you a question here?

1:50:56 Yes, of course, please.

1:50:57 What is the point of this speech?

1:51:00 If this other guy started ranting about this is 1992 and they've been how apparently I'm guessing hounding the public ever since.

1:51:11 Year after year, the end is near where, you know, this is the last year where it's irreversible because all scientists agree it's irreversible.

1:51:19 It's been irreversible apparently since 92.

1:51:21 And as it goes on, why are you going over the same old boring ground once again?

1:51:28 What is not convincing about this argument besides the illogic of it in general?

1:51:35 But what do you think he's thinking here?

1:51:38 Well, a number of things.

1:51:40 It sounds desperate.

1:51:41 I think he's high, is what I think.

1:51:44 I think he's stoned, and people are just making him do stuff.

1:51:50 But he is such an egotistical, narcissistic megalomaniac that he gets, I think you're right, he writes this himself, and he says, watch me scare these motherfuckers into existence.

1:52:07 i'm gonna scare them so they want to be on board with climate change yeah but it's only 50 school

1:52:12 kids i don't care so i think he's he this is a test run for him um he wants to see what gets

1:52:19 picked up um for instance this is the quote that some people picked up or think about the

1:52:25 proliferation of weapons of mass destruction it doesn't keep us safe if the united states

1:52:31 secures its nuclear arsenal while other countries fail to prevent theirs from falling into the

1:52:37 hands of terrorists.

1:52:38 We all have to approach this challenge together, which is why all together we are focused on

1:52:45 Iran and its nuclear program, or focused on North Korea and its threat.

1:52:50 The bottom line is this: It is the same thing with climate change.

1:52:57 In a sense, climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction,

1:53:03 perhaps even the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.

1:53:07 That was over-quoted everywhere.

1:53:13 Yeah, so that got picked up.

1:53:15 Yeah, that's kind of cute.

1:53:17 He probably was proud of that one.

1:53:18 They didn't pick up on this one, which was the big stupid mistake, which I thought was funny.

1:53:24 But the United States, simple reality, just as I talked about the scientific facts in the beginning, this is a fact.

1:53:32 Fact.

1:53:33 The United States cannot solve this problem or foot the bill alone.

1:53:39 Fact.

1:53:39 Even if every single American got on a bicycle tomorrow and carpooled to school instead of buses or riding in it.

1:53:52 Okay.

1:53:53 Kerry, stick to your own script.

1:53:56 Buses are better than carpooling.

1:53:59 Why does he, if they carpooled instead of taking the bus.

1:54:04 Ah, okay.

1:54:05 He can't go, he can't go off prompter.

1:54:09 No, no, he obviously, you can hear him, you can hear this fear in his voice.

1:54:14 Bad, bad, bad.

1:54:15 I am leaving the script now.

1:54:16 I hope to get back.

1:54:17 I hope they don't close the door behind me.

1:54:20 Yeah, let me just get back to the facts.

1:54:21 With thousands of scientists contributing to those reports, when they tell us over and over again that our climate is changing, that it is happening faster than they ever predicted, ever in recorded history, and when they tell us that we humans are the significant cause, let me tell you something.

1:54:46 All right.

1:54:46 Whenever he does this, he's an ad lib.

1:54:50 we need to listen you will obey when 97 of all scientists agree what happened in 98

1:55:01 did we go down are we trending down one of the guys died on anything we need to listen

1:55:08 and we need to respond whilst 97 of climate scientists have confirmed that climate change

1:55:17 is happening and that human activity is responsible these scientists agree on the

1:55:24 causes of these changes and they agree on the potential effects they agree that the emission

1:55:32 of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide contributes heavily to climate change i think because he

1:55:41 mentioned maurice strong and by the way carrie is rich this guy this guy is forget his marriage to

1:55:49 the and the the ketchup dynasty this guy is really really rich and he has been he i think

1:55:56 he feels so robbed by you know from his career that he you know he didn't he really feels like

1:56:05 he should have been president a long time ago i'm not quite sure you know if you look at his history

1:56:11 It's very, very interesting.

1:56:13 All the things he's done to get into some kind of office,

1:56:16 and it just hasn't worked, and they've pestered him because he's dumb.

1:56:20 This guy's just a moron.

1:56:22 I think he is so passionate about running stuff

1:56:29 that you really have to be afraid of him.

1:56:32 I think that this guy is extremely dangerous.

1:56:37 and when he goes off on this tangent about climate change,

1:56:41 and he's been on board with this for over 20 years,

1:56:44 I shudder to think what this guy is really going to do.

1:56:48 And he seems to have a lot of irons in the fire.

1:56:52 They agree that the energy sources that we've relied on...

1:56:56 I can't listen to him anymore. He's a moron.

1:56:58 And then he talked about the California drought,

1:57:03 and there's all this bull crap.

1:57:04 But then there was the funny thing.

1:57:07 Sticking with Agenda 21, did you see Bill Nye the science guy debating Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn on Meet the Press?

1:57:15 No, I don't watch Meet the Press anymore.

1:57:17 Before you go off this thing for a minute, I want to mention, because he had this interesting statement that if you have 10,000 people all agreeing on something, you should pay attention to them.

1:57:31 You need to listen.

1:57:32 You need to listen.

1:57:35 20,679 physicians say that luckies are less irritating.

1:57:45 Luckies?

1:57:48 Lucky strikes.

1:57:49 Yes.

1:57:51 And they calm your nerves.

1:57:53 And more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.

1:57:58 You need to listen.

1:58:02 Another one of those things which I did not clip because everyone was playing that in the mainstream media where he says, we don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

1:58:10 Yeah, I heard that one.

1:58:11 But does he understand that he's actually slamming himself by saying that?

1:58:15 Because he's in the Flat Earth Society.

1:58:18 Yeah, I mean, who's all in?

1:58:20 The Flat Earthers was the 97%.

1:58:24 They said the Earth is flat.

1:58:26 And then the story we learn at school, of course, is Columbus said, no, it's round.

1:58:31 i'm going he was one percent so why is he saying the flat earth society are the crazy people

1:58:37 it's the yeah there you have it these guys are the flat earth society the 97 percent is the flat

1:58:43 earth society we are the we are the lone voices saying uh maybe you should take a look at some of

1:58:49 this along with marcia blackburn who fought bill nye the science guy the ceo of the planetary

1:58:57 society which pays him a nice hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year that is by the way the

1:59:03 society started by carl sagan and i find it atrocious that this comedian is the ceo of that

1:59:14 yeah it's pretty funny i'm going to point out some other anomaly here

1:59:18 the same people that are all in on all this are this are the same people that criticize for

1:59:25 example any like a monsanto spawned uh monsanto funded studies and all these these dow chemicals

1:59:33 founded funded studies and there's all these studies done by these large corporations then

1:59:38 there's the independent little study you have you know 100 of these funded studies and one study

1:59:43 that says the opposite which nobody pays any attention to because it's not funded by anybody

1:59:47 they will be very adamant about well this is because these these corrupt corporations are

1:59:53 paying for all these studies and the one guy over here nobody's paying attention to this is the

1:59:58 exact same thing that's happening with all these climate change studies they're all funded by these

2:00:03 big companies that they expect results they expect you to come up you get a pile of money study this

2:00:09 yeah you study it and your results are like well let's let's finagle the results because we'd like

2:00:15 to get some money for another study and we're not going to get it if we if we don't kowtow to these

2:00:20 guys which is exactly what happens with a lot of these studies you can you can twist them any way

2:00:25 you want to you can leave out some data you can say well we were leaving this data out for some

2:00:29 reason you can have a reason for it i just it's just beyond me well it's going you can't see this

2:00:35 it's going to be taken one step one step further new york times yesterday uh two days ago a big

2:00:42 article about retired billionaire investor tom steyer democrat who founded one of the world's

2:00:50 most successful hedge funds uh will uh will be setting up a a super pack to spend 100 million

2:00:58 dollars it'll be called next gen climate action uh to by advertising for global warming i.e to

2:01:10 promote the fact that it's true and in fact here is the way the new york times how much money is

2:01:17 going to drop on this 100 million okay uh well actually he says he he is offering 50 million

2:01:24 and wants uh donors to match the other 50 million i'm starting to change my mind about your attitude

2:01:30 on climate change adam yeah me too john i think we should get a website going i think we're wrong

2:01:38 yeah what we're stupid oh we weren't paying attention to the science this concludes this

2:01:45 meeting of the flat earth society uh next gen climate action among the largest outside groups

2:01:50 in the country similar in scale to the conservative political network overseen by

2:01:54 charles and david coke so that he's going to be the antidote to the coke brothers which will never

2:02:01 get mentioned no and uh so this is very interesting and it's specifically for advertising

2:02:08 specifically uh so that that's a big deal that's a that's a really big deal i think

2:02:15 there's money to be made off this guy i think it changed my mind yeah no you can yes you can

2:02:22 change your mind all right so bill nye who is a science guy who's a comic he actually started

2:02:31 off as a comedian i thought he started off as an engineer at boeing no no no no no no hold on

2:02:37 i think i think you're wrong um i'm going to do the obvious

2:02:43 hello hello obvious the book of knowledge stopped working what's going on uh-oh uh-oh

2:02:51 wow this is because i'm i've got it up the computer just american science educator comedian

2:02:57 television host blah blah blah early life and education career he began his career at seattle

2:03:01 at boeing where among other things he starred in training films and developed a hydraulic pressure

2:03:06 resonance suppressor still used in the 747 later he worked as a consultant to the aeronautics

2:03:12 industry in 1999 he told the saint petersburg times that he applied to be a nasa astronaut

2:03:18 every few years he began his professional entertainment career as an actor at a local

2:03:26 sketch comedy television show in seattle called almost live a show by the way that i that was

2:03:32 always funny it was a local version of saturday night live that was actually funny he attempted

2:03:38 to correct the show's host pronunciation of gigawatt as gigawatt oh okay who do you think

2:03:46 you are bill nye the science guy and i was thereafter known as such on the program okay

2:03:53 but we can agree he is not a meteorologist no no no he does he's like the kind of the engineer who

2:04:00 did a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor so he he is brought on on to meet the press

2:04:07 which as you'll hear in a moment was set up and had native advertising because of course what is

2:04:13 what is all this climate change supposed to lead to natural gas that's what this is all about the

2:04:20 president in a state of the union wait a minute hold on adam that's ridiculous because we all

2:04:28 know that if you're really serious about climate change and you're worried sick about co2 natural

2:04:33 gas doesn't solve much it drops the co2 levels a bit you have to go nuclear power well that would

2:04:41 be insane because fukushima oh yeah we're afraid we're afraid i don't want to build fukushima

2:04:48 okay go on yeah well the nuclear thing is not playing out too well

2:04:53 the actual solution shall not be addressed so she goes he goes with on he's invited on meet the

2:05:00 press why him who knows other than to shill for the gas industry which is which chip chip gregory

2:05:07 will bring up beautifully but he's on with uh marcia blackburn marcia blackburn actually is on

2:05:13 she's republican uh congress rep congress critter she's on all of the committees she's on the

2:05:23 uh here what is she following committees i think she's on the energy committee she's on all this

2:05:30 stuff and and they do what she calls cost benefit analysis but uh she's not having any of this bill

2:05:35 nine i thought it was pretty cute the way she addressed him if you could invent a better battery

2:05:39 a better way to store electricity you would change the world and if you were to do that

2:05:45 in a way that you could manufacture and export it you would also do very well financially

2:05:50 congresswoman is there new urgency to act you've heard the president in drought-stricken california

2:05:55 saying that these weather emergencies in effect are creating the conditions that government has

2:06:01 to act david i think that what it brings to mind is how we utilize the information that we have

2:06:08 and we all know and i think that bill would probably agree with this neither he nor i

2:06:14 are a climate scientist he is an engineer and actor i am a member of congress and what we

2:06:21 he's an actor i love how she slipped that in he's an actor to do is look at the information that we

2:06:27 get from climate scientists as you said there is not agreement around the fact of exactly what is

2:06:34 causing this even the president's own science and technology office uh head mr holdren says

2:06:40 no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change all right so one one side note

2:06:47 on this uh about the actor thing i've been watching house of cards season two and i am appalled

2:06:57 to see Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, and Ashley Banfield,

2:07:06 all journalists, news prostitutes, acting in this series.

2:07:15 I don't understand how they can do this and retain credibility.

2:07:21 They can't. It's actually a conflict of interest.

2:07:26 Rachel, they all want to be actors. They don't want to be a news or talking head or they're just all actors.

2:07:32 Well, they're pretty. Yeah, maybe they're actors already. That's what I'm possibly.

2:07:37 All right. So here's a chip is going to bring up the real reasoning for this farce of a conversation between really two nincompoops.

2:07:47 There is not consensus. And you can look at the latest IPCC report and look at Dr.

2:07:52 Blinzen from MIT, his rejection of that, or Judith Curry, who recently, from Georgia Tech,

2:07:58 there is not consensus there. I think what we have to do. Well, hold on. I just have to interrupt

2:08:04 you. I'm sorry, Congressman. Let me just interrupt you because it's not, you can pick out particular

2:08:08 skeptics, but you can't really say, can you, that the hundreds of scientists around the world who

2:08:13 have looked at this have gotten together and conspired to manipulate data and that industry

2:08:17 folks like pg and e here's pg and e's website its current website this is a natural gas producer in

2:08:22 northern california saying as a provider of gas and electricity to millions of californians and

2:08:27 an emitter of greenhouse gases pg and e is like keenly aware of its responsibility to both manage

2:08:32 its emissions and work constructively to advance policies that put our state and the country on a

2:08:36 cost-effective path toward a low carbon economy so the issue is what actions are taken when will

2:08:41 they really work i love it throw the gas yeah they threw the wait a minute hold on a second

2:08:47 let me get this straight what he did was he points out he finds the pg&e website which is playing to

2:08:53 the to the public because it's bullcrap i mean their pg&e is what their real interest is is

2:08:59 making money as much as they can yeah but they put this up there because it just sounds good

2:09:03 hey where are we going to put on the website i don't know let's i got an idea bring in sally

2:09:08 She's got some thoughts on this.

2:09:10 And so they put that bull crap, and he uses it as documentation?

2:09:13 Yes.

2:09:13 Yeah.

2:09:15 He's an idiot.

2:09:15 He's all, he's promoting the party line.

2:09:19 And then just my own little yucks here.

2:09:24 We'll have Bill Nye, he, at a certain point, he holds up an iPad,

2:09:29 and he says, the snow is melting in the Arctic.

2:09:34 I think he meant the Antarctic, so he screws that up.

2:09:37 And see if you can find, this is a test for you, John, see if you can find the other fact that is a lie, or at least not true, spouted by Bill Nye the Science Guy.

2:09:48 So you'll have to pay attention, find the other fact that is a lie.

2:09:51 Once again, the Congresswoman is trying to introduce doubt, and doubt in the whole idea of climate change.

2:09:58 So what I would encourage everybody to do is back up and let's agree on the facts.

2:10:02 Would you say that the Antarctic has less ice than it used to?

2:10:07 When you said you asserted, Congresswoman, that a change from 320 to 400 parts per million is insignificant.

2:10:14 My goodness, that's 30%.

2:10:18 I mean, that's an enormous change.

2:10:20 All right, did you catch it?

2:10:22 Yeah, it's a 30% number?

2:10:24 Yeah.

2:10:25 What about it?

2:10:26 It's 25%.

2:10:27 Yeah, okay, well, that's a lie.

2:10:29 The other thing, he did say Antarctic.

2:10:30 Antarctic when it should have been Arctic.

2:10:32 Which is just the opposite.

2:10:32 It's not true.

2:10:33 It's actually growing.

2:10:34 You should have said Arctic.

2:10:37 And no one called him on it.

2:10:39 Not Chip.

2:10:41 What?

2:10:42 No one's going to call him on anything.

2:10:44 Not Chip.

2:10:45 He's the go-to guy.

2:10:47 He's the face of climate change.

2:10:50 There's so many things wrong with that, even the 25% number.

2:10:57 It's an enormous change.

2:10:59 Well, it's a trace element.

2:11:00 Fluctuates.

2:11:00 Anyway, okay.

2:11:02 All right.

2:11:03 Hey, should we thank some donors, John?

2:11:04 That might be a good idea right around now.

2:11:06 I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.

2:11:09 Imagine all the people who could do that.

2:11:11 Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

2:11:12 Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.

2:11:19 Before we get started, can I just do a few make-goods before we get started real quick?

2:11:24 Okay, it's not the formula, but go on.

2:11:27 I like to mix it up.

2:11:29 Trying to bust up things.

2:11:30 Keep people guessing.

2:11:32 Now, we missed a knight request.

2:11:34 Sir Dennis Cruz, the den man, would request that you job karma.

2:11:39 Oh, yeah.

2:11:41 No, he had a request in, right.

2:11:42 He was down at the bottom somewhere.

2:11:44 And we always try to break for knights.

2:11:46 But knights, please, if you're sending something, with every donation, please add your title into the notes because it's very hard to keep track of it.

2:11:56 Right.

2:11:56 We harp.

2:11:58 What is it we do?

2:11:59 We hound people about this?

2:12:00 We harp.

2:12:00 We harp.

2:12:01 be wine we make a lot of noise about jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs

2:12:10 there we go so wanted to make sure we fix that one well you got his karma yeah anonymous

2:12:20 137 dollars from somewhere in mississippi 137 dollars was the extortion fee i was expected to

2:12:29 pay a pub let me do it with mississippi action expected to pay a publishing company in order to

2:12:34 access and submit my homework assignments despite attending the physical campus of a major four-year

2:12:39 public university f that i've had to put up with more and more red tape and bullshit in college

2:12:47 than i ever did as an infantryman i know this show will use the money far more honorably than

2:12:52 And a publisher preying on a capitive audience.

2:12:55 ITM and thanks.

2:12:57 And then he says he makes a horrible mistake of saying he likes kale.

2:13:01 So the whole thing is...

2:13:04 Sorry.

2:13:05 Yeah, that's very questionable.

2:13:07 Hence the anonymous.

2:13:08 He doesn't want to get beaten up somewhere on the street.

2:13:10 Nicholas Ragucci in Hanover Park, Illinois.

2:13:15 So we have...

2:13:18 Is there a name in here called...

2:13:19 Yes.

2:13:19 This is a 1111.

2:13:21 This is a...

2:13:22 Yeah, 111-111, sorry.

2:13:23 Gina Breena.

2:13:24 Gina Bina.

2:13:25 Gina Bina.

2:13:27 Is the club open again?

2:13:28 When is the club open?

2:13:28 No, no, no.

2:13:29 The club is under repairs.

2:13:30 We're fixing the club.

2:13:31 I told you before, the whole front part of it caved in.

2:13:36 Was it a sinkhole?

2:13:38 You know, that's possible, because if it was, then we're in real trouble,

2:13:43 because then we're going to have to move the club.

2:13:44 So hopefully on Sunday, can we think?

2:13:48 I think it's going to be next Thursday.

2:13:50 All right.

2:13:51 I'm keeping my eye on you.

2:13:52 Sean Coffey, $80.80 in Annandale, New South Wales.

2:13:57 And he has, I don't want to read all these comments,

2:14:00 but he's 8-0-8-0, I think is interesting, with A-T-E.

2:14:04 It was a penalty for thinking Adam was David Coverdale.

2:14:08 No, thinking David Coverdale was Adam, really.

2:14:11 There was an In Excess documentary in Australia.

2:14:17 They are, of course, Australian.

2:14:19 It was huge.

2:14:20 It was trending on Twitter.

2:14:22 And I received multiple tweets and notes saying,

2:14:27 yeah, you were in the INXS documentary, it was great.

2:14:29 And there was, this is really sad.

2:14:32 And people would send me clips from this documentary,

2:14:36 two different clips.

2:14:36 One is clearly David Coverdale at the MTV Video Music Awards

2:14:41 snuggling with Tawny Katane.

2:14:43 And they think it was me.

2:14:45 But even worse, so in the documentary,

2:14:49 The manager flips on the TV, they finally made it to America, and MTV comes on, and it's Mark Goodman.

2:14:55 And people also thought that was me.

2:14:57 I mean, what's next, Arsenio Hall?

2:15:00 Please.

2:15:02 So, no, I was not in the documentary.

2:15:04 And so he felt so bad about it, because he's like, hey, it was great.

2:15:08 He sent me the clip, I'm like, yeah, except that's David Coverdell.

2:15:10 Give yourself a In the Morning for that.

2:15:13 Yeah, all right, thank you very much.

2:15:14 In the morning.

2:15:15 That was one of my better ones.

2:15:16 Nick Batson.

2:15:17 Oh, here we go.

2:15:19 Oh, I'm sorry.

2:15:20 Yeah, I'm sorry.

2:15:22 I was too self-consumed.

2:15:24 For the big two 69-69 swazzling off entries we have today.

2:15:33 I know, we shouldn't have even played the jingle.

2:15:35 Nick from Geelong, Victoria, Australia,

2:15:39 and he was apparently discussing kale with his grandma.

2:15:42 Apparently in the 40s and 50s,

2:15:45 their family grew it in rural Australia as a decorative garden plant.

2:15:48 Now you're talking.

2:15:49 Yes, here it comes.

2:15:50 It was also known to her as poor man's lettuce.

2:15:55 As they sometimes had to eat it when money was tight.

2:16:01 And do you know that this kale, so we go to the farmer's market every Saturday.

2:16:05 And the farmers here in Austin, they're honest, hardworking people, but they're no dummies.

2:16:13 They got five bucks for a little head of kale.

2:16:17 Yeah, it's a total scam.

2:16:18 It's poor man's lettuce, my ass.

2:16:20 This is elitist lettuce.

2:16:22 Well, you know, it's almost as though somebody's laughing up their sleeve.

2:16:28 Yeah.

2:16:28 Let's see if we can make people eat this crap.

2:16:31 It is, in history, surely there have been things like liver oil or cod oil.

2:16:40 Cod liver oil.

2:16:41 Cod liver oil.

2:16:42 I'm sure at some point that was the same.

2:16:44 Like, hey, let's get this really disgusting thing.

2:16:47 Tell people it's good for them, and they have to have a spoonful every day.

2:16:51 That went out of fashion eventually.

2:16:54 Well, not in the Scandinavian countries.

2:16:56 It turns out that the stuff is quite good for that disorder you get when the sun doesn't rise for six months.

2:17:03 Yeah, it's called depression.

2:17:07 No, no.

2:17:08 Cabin fever.

2:17:09 There's a name for it.

2:17:11 Yeah, winter fever.

2:17:11 Cod liver oil actually works well to defeat that.

2:17:15 And if you go to Iceland and you go to a grocery store and you go down the aisles, you'll find one aisle that's a mile long with a million different kinds of cod liver oil.

2:17:24 They must just be slugging that stuff down like crazy.

2:17:26 Yeah.

2:17:28 Seasonal affective disorder.

2:17:30 Yeah.

2:17:31 Cod liver oil cures it.

2:17:33 So, like I said, you go to Iceland and you'll find an aisle full of cod liver oil that's just like a thousand brands of it.

2:17:41 Well, maybe we can come up with a new packaging for kale and tell them that that will solve it.

2:17:46 I think they'd come up with a new packaging for kale.

2:17:48 Superfood!

2:17:50 Yeah, superfood, I know.

2:17:51 Superfood.

2:17:52 I might start calling it poor man's lettuce.

2:17:54 Poor man's lettuce, yes.

2:17:56 Poor man's lettuce.

2:17:56 Eric Ryan Asness.

2:18:01 Wait, you missed, I think you missed.

2:18:03 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

2:18:04 The last of the 69 69ers is David Randall Lane and Springfield M.O.

2:18:10 Okay, Eric Ryan Osnes, I guess, in Lawndale, California, 5950.

2:18:16 Scott Nelson, 5555 in Melbourne, Florida.

2:18:19 Brandon Mixon, Foley, Alabama, 5533.

2:18:23 Mr. BX, as opposed to Mr. BX, 5121.

2:18:28 He's in Croatian, Kastel Kambalovic.

2:18:32 And he says greetings from one of the ships at sea people.

2:18:36 Yeah, he's a long-time, second-time donor, long-time boner,

2:18:41 slowly going from bonership to donorship,

2:18:44 calling my friend Lazarus a douchebag.

2:18:47 Douchebag!

2:18:48 For not donating to the show,

2:18:51 can your lordship, Mr. Adam and Mr. Charles,

2:18:54 grant me some karma as for my better half, Miss S,

2:18:57 and a cheesy sound clip for my 33rd birthday,

2:18:59 which is on the 21st, so we're putting him in the birthday list

2:19:03 and we'll give him a karma at the end, absolutely.

2:19:06 Here's one that I messed up last week.

2:19:10 Sergeant Fred had sent me some more DVDs, and he had tucked in between some business cards

2:19:17 double nickels on the dime.

2:19:19 And so he said, I always enjoy it.

2:19:23 Are you going to throw the business cards out?

2:19:24 No, no, no, no.

2:19:26 But I opened up.

2:19:27 His packages are very unique.

2:19:29 And he sent it to the house.

2:19:33 And he almost stuck it.

2:19:36 Here it is.

2:19:36 I'll show you.

2:19:37 Don't open any packages that are sealed with duct tape.

2:19:41 No.

2:19:41 But what he did, with Fred, you'll talk for two minutes about something.

2:19:45 Then he sends me the movie La Cucaracha, which, of course, this is a very old movie.

2:19:52 And was the first, was it the first colorized movie?

2:19:58 It's all in Spanish.

2:19:59 It's Spanish movie DVDs.

2:20:02 But then he also sent double nickels on a dime, which is $55.10.

2:20:09 He actually has double nickels on the dime, two nickels on a dime.

2:20:14 And then in between, that's why I didn't see it, he has the actual paper money.

2:20:19 So thank you very much, Sergeant Fred.

2:20:20 That's highly appreciated.

2:20:22 And so we missed that on the last show.

2:20:24 Cool.

2:20:26 All right.

2:20:28 It's your neighbor.

2:20:30 No, he's not my neighbor.

2:20:31 In Colorado Springs, $50.

2:20:33 These are all $50 donors.

2:20:34 Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, home of the Graves, in Ontario, Canada.

2:20:41 Harry B. in Kirkland, Washington.

2:20:43 Kyle Bauer, our old buddies.

2:20:45 Every month he comes in.

2:20:47 Fit Worcester, Ohio.

2:20:48 David Trotsky from Romeoville, Illinois.

2:20:52 Carolina Garcia in Elmswood Park.

2:20:59 and she has a note saying that we have this fantastic show

2:21:02 and she's more than happy to support it.

2:21:05 Send a picture?

2:21:06 No, no picture.

2:21:07 She has a very pretty handwriting, though.

2:21:09 It's very...

2:21:10 Hey, that was it.

2:21:10 Kind of like block glitter script.

2:21:13 It's unusual.

2:21:14 Hold on.

2:21:14 Did we just...

2:21:15 That was it?

2:21:15 That's the end?

2:21:16 Yeah, it's just shortness.

2:21:18 That's short.

2:21:18 It's very short.

2:21:19 All right.

2:21:21 I have not heard back from the Kraut brothers

2:21:23 who became knights on Sunday.

2:21:25 About whether or not you can call them the Dirty Krauts?

2:21:28 The evil Kraut Brothers.

2:21:30 Like Dirty Krauts.

2:21:31 Dirty Krauts.

2:21:31 That's even better.

2:21:32 Dirty Krauts.

2:21:33 But I did all of a sudden, almost in the middle of the night, remember what they were talking

2:21:37 about with Adam's shout out to Eleanor.

2:21:40 It took me a minute and then, oh, of course, this is what I should have done.

2:21:45 He's a constitutional lawyer.

2:21:47 That's what got them to donate in the first place.

2:21:50 Oh.

2:21:51 Yeah, it hit me all of a sudden.

2:21:52 That's one of your many voices.

2:21:54 That's my Eleanor voice, which I'm quite proud of.

2:21:57 Yeah, it's pretty good.

2:21:58 And then Greg Wilson says,

2:21:59 Greetings, I was an executive producer on show 585.

2:22:02 At that time, I pledged an additional $13.13 monthly going forward.

2:22:05 I have upped the pledge to $33.13.

2:22:07 My knighthood timetable has now moved up to October 2015.

2:22:13 And he says, this is just my way of saying thanks.

2:22:17 And I just want to thank him for increasing his monthly donation.

2:22:22 That is highly appreciated.

2:22:24 Well, at the end here, I'd like to give us, there's a couple of people who requested a de-douching.

2:22:29 We want to throw that in, plus a jobs karma, and then I think we're good.

2:22:33 Okay, let me just get the jobs karma all lined up while we do the de-douching.

2:22:38 You've been de-douched.

2:22:41 And then it didn't work.

2:22:45 What happened?

2:22:47 Sorry, we'll try that again.

2:22:51 Something weird going on today.

2:22:53 All right.

2:22:54 you've been deduced jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs

2:23:02 there we go uh thank you all very much especially to our special executive producers members of the

2:23:10 600 club our associate executive producers and executive producers all of you will be credited

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2:23:20 very well for getting gigs through linkedin for some reason uh but you can also use them for your

2:23:25 imdb or anywhere else and thank you to all of our producers here um and of course we always always

2:23:31 thank people who donated fifty dollars or above there's lots of people on lower amounts and we

2:23:35 highly appreciate that most of them are doing it either uh just for what they can or because they

2:23:39 want to remain anonymous but those monthly donations really do help so if you have a chance

2:23:43 to do that, please do, and

2:23:45 think of us for the Sunday show.

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2:23:50 It's your birthday

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2:23:54 I'll know what

2:23:57 you're doing. All right, quick list. Graham Scott

2:23:59 says happy birthday to his son, Jovan Scott.

2:24:01 Mr. Bix turns 33 on

2:24:03 the 21st, and Shane O'Hare

2:24:05 will be 25 on the 21st

2:24:07 as well. Happy birthday from your friends here

2:24:09 at the best podcast in the universe.

2:24:10 It's your birthday, yeah.

2:24:13 And then we have a title as Sir S. Russell Williams goes to baronet.

2:24:17 And we have two knightings today, which is always great to see.

2:24:22 Always happy to do that, to welcome some new attendees to the round table of the knights and dames.

2:24:27 So we can just grab our swords here.

2:24:29 This is the sword I was talking about earlier.

2:24:31 This is the one right here.

2:24:33 And if I can call up Kurt Danielson and Brian House.

2:24:37 Gentlemen, both of you have contributed to the best podcast in the university.

2:24:41 Out of $1,000 or more, you become Knights of the Noah Jenner Roundtable,

2:24:44 and you've got names, so I please hereby pronounce these.

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2:24:51 Come on down for your Cuban cigars and single malt scotch,

2:24:55 your hookers and blow, your rent boys and chardonnay,

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2:25:16 You know, I'm slighted.

2:25:18 What did I do wrong?

2:25:19 You took your sword out, then you took your other sword out,

2:25:22 and he had one sword in each hand, and you knighted these guys without me.

2:25:26 You almost chopped the head off of the one guy.

2:25:29 Well, I got tired of waiting for you.

2:25:31 You know.

2:25:34 I'm sorry.

2:25:34 Don't take it personally.

2:25:37 Here's the kind of thing we didn't get to in the first half of the show.

2:25:40 I should bring it in because we can't take our eye off the ball.

2:25:46 This clip is stray dogs at the Olympics.

2:25:48 Twitter.

2:25:49 Doing all I can to bring them home with me.

2:25:54 This tweet was posted by Team USA Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy last week

2:26:00 after finding four stray puppies on the streets of Sochi.

2:26:03 The 22-year-old has posted these photos to Twitter

2:26:07 and has become something of a hero online,

2:26:09 with the stray dogs capturing the hearts of countless web users.

2:26:13 Oh, isn't that sweet?

2:26:16 Can you get a follow-up, dogs, too? Play this.

2:26:18 Oh, oh, there's more. Wait. Oh, wow.

2:26:20 You are on the ball, Mr. Dvorak, with the puppy thing.

2:26:24 And the athlete's clearly not the only one moved by the plight of Sochi's strays.

2:26:28 Other online initiatives are also emerging.

2:26:31 The Save Sochi Dogs Facebook page has been set up, for example,

2:26:36 to appeal to international television networks,

2:26:38 provide coverage of the issue

2:26:40 and produce an air pet adoption segment

2:26:43 with the dogs of Sochi in mind.

2:26:45 And social networks are buzzing with messages and announcements.

2:26:49 The team at Povodog, Sochi's first dog rescue shelter,

2:26:52 has posted a message to their Facebook page

2:26:55 saying they've taken in 100 or so dogs since opening

2:26:57 at the beginning of February.

2:26:58 They've also explained how to go about adopting one

2:27:02 before the Winter Olympic Games are over.

2:27:05 Yeah, I think the Chinese delegation with the Philippines are going to grab a lot of those dogs.

2:27:09 Yeah, we want some of them dogs.

2:27:11 We're taking them back.

2:27:12 So this is just more bull crap to humiliate Putin.

2:27:17 Mm-hmm.

2:27:18 I mean, I'm not a big Putin fan, but this is so transparent.

2:27:22 People lap it up.

2:27:24 It's easy.

2:27:24 Why not?

2:27:25 I mean, everyone gets to do it.

2:27:27 Lap it up.

2:27:27 Hey.

2:27:28 Hey, hey.

2:27:28 But it's true.

2:27:30 People are so hypnotized into believing what Russia's really like.

2:27:37 There's some weird stuff going down in Australia, Queensland.

2:27:42 Now, we had these motorcycle laws.

2:27:47 I think we talked about that probably briefly, where the bikies is what they're called.

2:27:52 And for some reason, I don't know, the bikies were making trouble,

2:27:55 so you can't have more than three bikers, essentially.

2:27:58 Right.

2:28:00 No more than three in a room at the same time.

2:28:03 But now...

2:28:04 Three in a pack.

2:28:05 Now, Queensland has introduced, and I believe this has passed now,

2:28:11 has introduced new legislation aimed at curbing, quote,

2:28:15 out-of-control parties.

2:28:17 And these out-of-control parties, the legislation is kind of like,

2:28:27 shut up, slave.

2:28:30 so i have yeah i have never heard of such a thing in australia no well here's i'm looking at the law

2:28:35 here this is the and it's marked up for your convenience in the show notes uh five nine or

2:28:41 three dot any show notes.com part seven out of control events so there's the additional powers

2:28:46 the powers of police officer has under this part part seven are additional to and not limited by

2:28:50 the powers police officers normally have so there's a couple of definitions as to what an

2:28:56 out-of-control event is when police can go in and arrest people and bust heads

2:29:01 so an out-of-control event is an event well actually it says here 53b what is an out-of-control

2:29:09 event an event becomes out of control if a 12 or more persons are gathered together at a place

2:29:17 three or more persons associated with the event engage in out-of-control conduct at or near the

2:29:26 event and the out-of-control conduct would cause a person at or near the event to reasonably fear

2:29:33 violence to a person or damage to property or to reasonably believe a person would suffer

2:29:38 substantial interference with their rights and freedoms or peaceful passage through or enjoyment

2:29:43 of a public place um so then of course you have to ask what is out of control conduct

2:29:50 well wait a minute i was can you i don't want you to repeat the whole thing but what's the

2:29:55 first part if there's 12 people at a party it's out of control by definition no if there's if

2:30:00 there's 12 party 12 people at the party and three or more of those people are engaging in out of

2:30:06 control conduct okay all right so that's so if it's a party of 11 people no then you're good to

2:30:13 go so if i have 11 people i can put three people can go crazy they start shooting in the air and

2:30:18 everything else yes okay good however you don't need to shoot in the air the following conduct

2:30:25 is out of control conduct one unlawfully entering or remaining in a place or threatening to enter a

2:30:33 place. Behaving in a disorderly, offensive, or threatening, or violent way. Examples,

2:30:41 using offensive, obscene, indecent, abusive, or threatening language.

2:30:46 That's seriously out of control behavior? That means Tourette's guys can't go anywhere.

2:30:55 Not if there's 12 of them.

2:30:59 And then you can also be associatedโ€”oh, also, littering is also out-of-control behavior.

2:31:07 Littering in a way that causes or is likely to cause harm to a person, property, or the environment.

2:31:12 What happened to Australia?

2:31:16 They don't like to party.

2:31:18 They love to party.

2:31:20 Oh, well, then where are they putting up with this crap?

2:31:23 That's exactly what I asked our producers.

2:31:25 I said, why are you putting up with this crap?

2:31:27 You have to stop this.

2:31:29 Well, this is one of those selective enforcement situations that are plaguing.

2:31:34 I mean, the Russians are the ones who designed this concept.

2:31:37 The fascist Nazis in Italy and Germany, they took it to another โ€“ took it up a level, and then the Russians took it up higher, and then now we've started to do it.

2:31:47 And that is you pass a million laws, so essentially you can't do anything without breaking the law at any given time.

2:31:53 You're always breaking some law, yeah.

2:31:55 There's always a law out there.

2:31:56 Doing this podcast is probably breaking some law.

2:31:59 Oh, several.

2:32:00 We just don't know what it is because there's a million of these laws.

2:32:02 It could be that maybe in Austin, Texas, you're required to pay a fee of five bucks to even be on, you know, have a microphone in the house.

2:32:11 You don't know what it is.

2:32:12 It could be.

2:32:12 You never know.

2:32:13 Right.

2:32:13 So the idea is you pass these stupid laws in Australia and then, you know, and then if the party is actually seriously a problem, they can come in and they've got statute they can throw at you and handcuff you.

2:32:24 kick you and beat you and whatever throw you in this slammer overnight and that's that

2:32:31 that's what it is it's a selective enforcement it's just more bull crap

2:32:34 well it's happening in australia and queensland i i found that to be

2:32:40 disturbing well what i found disturbing was this thing this guy this this character was arrested

2:32:46 it's a local story this um where is this clip it's a cop davis stockman dirty they hear the

2:32:57 dirty dui scandal they play this clip and then this is what's going on with policing in this

2:33:02 country we need pussy riot to be complaining a former contra costa county sheriff's deputy

2:33:07 broke down today just before he was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison 50 year old steven

2:33:13 Tanabe told the judge he didn't think he was doing anything illegal. Tanabe was convicted

2:33:19 last year of taking part in a scheme that set up men going through divorce and coercing them

2:33:23 into drinking and driving. The judge says he was concerned Tanabe did not see the red flags but

2:33:29 still gave the former deputy a shorter sentence than allowed by law. Punishment comes in different

2:33:35 forms obviously not just prison but you know he's losing his liberty and he's going to be away from

2:33:40 his children and he doesn't have a career that he's worked tremendously hard for all these years

2:33:45 tanabe has two months to turn himself in and begin serving his sentence he still faces civil

2:33:51 suits filed by the men he arrested during the dirty dui scandal dirty dui so here's the way

2:34:00 i interpret this there's a couple of problems with the story one is that can you imagine what

2:34:03 black people think when they hear this story well the guy can turn himself in they didn't give him

2:34:07 much of a sentence the guy was it was pulling an illegal entrapment scheme yeah scheme obviously

2:34:14 i didn't get it in this part of the story but the way i see that you have a lawyer or is it really

2:34:19 hard-ass divorce attorney who's got the female the the wife is the client right he's in cahoots

2:34:26 with him you're the the guy is like a normal seems like a normal guy's at a bar he's commiserating

2:34:32 with you oh yeah my wife she's trying to screw me over in this divorce oh have a drink on me

2:34:36 have another one here come on they're on me you can drive you again and then the guy takes one

2:34:42 step into his car he gets busted and then the cop does and apparently according to this story the

2:34:47 cop didn't think this was bad this was fine and this whole thing this is the kind but it's just

2:34:52 one of the more disgusting stories i've heard and what's really disgusting is that the cop

2:34:58 doesn't realize that he was this was just not kosher this is this everything that's wrong with

2:35:04 The police state is epitomized by this guy doing this to these poor men.

2:35:09 Yeah, because they think it's okay.

2:35:10 Yeah, they think it's fine.

2:35:11 Hey, he broke the law.

2:35:12 Yeah, good to go.

2:35:13 And what's the problem?

2:35:14 I don't see a problem.

2:35:15 Yeah.

2:35:16 Anyway, that's my version of the story.

2:35:19 General Allen was at some...

2:35:24 Oh, yeah.

2:35:24 Oh, yeah?

2:35:27 Yeah, I damn near clipped this.

2:35:29 About Afghanistan?

2:35:30 Yeah.

2:35:31 Yeah, I thought this was pretty funny.

2:35:33 So he used to run the Afghanistan campaign?

2:35:37 Yeah.

2:35:38 He used to run the whole shoot and shebang there?

2:35:41 Yeah.

2:35:42 Yeah, and he was happy to tell us why.

2:35:45 Afghanistan truly has, in my mind, two great natural resources.

2:35:49 The first is underground, underground.

2:35:52 And we don't know how much the value can be attributed to the natural resources of Afghanistan underground,

2:35:59 but it's probably in the trillions with an S.

2:36:03 I love that he, with an S, trillions with an S, trillions.

2:36:08 No, I don't know.

2:36:10 Was he talking about the lithium?

2:36:12 I think the Chinas are going after what we're sitting around.

2:36:16 And he wasn't talking about the poppy poppies.

2:36:19 That's why, by the way, which is worth a lot of money.

2:36:22 That's why I think he specifically said underground.

2:36:24 Ah, good point.

2:36:26 Very good point.

2:36:27 Yeah.

2:36:27 And that's only the trillions from underground.

2:36:30 We're not talking about the hundreds of billions above ground.

2:36:34 Right. That's why I think you made that very clear.

2:36:36 That's a good point. Let me just listen to that again. That was good. I like that.

2:36:39 Two great natural resources. The first is underground. Underground.

2:36:44 Or he's saying the first is underground. The second one is the human resources on top of the ground.

2:36:51 That is his second point.

2:36:52 We don't know how much the value can be attributed to the natural resources of Afghanistan underground,

2:36:58 but it's probably in the trillions with an S.

2:37:02 The extractive capacity of Afghanistan's future mining industry is really breathtaking.

2:37:08 That is lithium.

2:37:10 Yeah, breathtaking.

2:37:10 It's breathtaking.

2:37:12 Think about this.

2:37:12 But it will require security to do this.

2:37:14 Ah, there we go.

2:37:16 It will require security to do this.

2:37:18 All right, got it.

2:37:18 At least we understand that finally someone's just telling the truth.

2:37:22 It's about time.

2:37:23 I like it.

2:37:24 Okay.

2:37:24 So our American companies are in there.

2:37:27 Getting a mammal in the morning, by the way.

2:37:29 Yeah.

2:37:29 Our American companies are in there, and we're providing security for our American interests.

2:37:36 Well, that's fine.

2:37:37 I'm okay with all that.

2:37:39 Why doesn't everyone just, instead of this, oh, they want freedom and democracy, just be honest.

2:37:47 Hey, listen, there's lots of stuff there.

2:37:49 The other great natural resource of Afghanistan, frankly, is the people.

2:37:55 And they're tasty.

2:37:58 Not quite sure what he meant by that one.

2:38:00 All right, so the president was down in Mexico for one day, one day only,

2:38:06 for what is being called the Three Amigos Summit.

2:38:09 Had you heard this term, the Three Amigos?

2:38:11 Actually, I have heard it.

2:38:13 I didn't pay much attention to it.

2:38:15 The summit.

2:38:15 They're calling it the Three Amigos Summit,

2:38:18 but as Juliana Goldman pointed out in the last half hour,

2:38:21 not everything is rosy between Mr. Obama, President Peรฑa Nieto, and Prime Minister Harper.

2:38:27 What are their main objectives on this summit?

2:38:30 Right. The Amigos may not be so friendly this time.

2:38:33 They each have their own objectives.

2:38:35 One of the objectives of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

2:38:38 is to get some progress on the approval of the Keystone Pipeline.

2:38:43 That's not something that President Obama is interested in giving him,

2:38:46 but Prime Minister Harper yesterday told reporters here

2:38:50 that asking about Keystone will be part of his agenda.

2:38:54 What President Obama would like to get out of the talks is some commitment to move forward on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

2:39:01 That's something that the three countries generally agree on, but there are a lot of details to be hammered out.

2:39:06 And after more than three years of negotiations and 12 countries now involved, it's a trade agreement that is not close to being wrapped up,

2:39:15 but it's something that President Obama wants to move toward closure on.

2:39:20 And I want to reiterate that my position on this is it's good.

2:39:25 I'm not, I don't really understand why everyone is so, besides the New World Order aspect, duh.

2:39:32 But Democrats are the largest detractors.

2:39:37 Everyone's against this thing.

2:39:38 Why is that?

2:39:39 It seems to me this is our last chance.

2:39:41 This is our job to find out what the deal is.

2:39:47 I do say this about the โ€“ this is a performative.

2:39:51 I want to mention something about this meeting.

2:39:53 I'm totally convinced the only reason โ€“ why would you have this meeting in Mexico?

2:39:56 That's because Obama could take a huge horde of people down there and a few of them can split off and have that meeting with the Sinaloas while in Mexico because they're not going to have that meeting with them here.

2:40:06 But they only met โ€“ Obama flew back same day.

2:40:09 Yeah, well, that's all you need.

2:40:10 You go down there.

2:40:11 The guys got โ€“ there was something that had to be โ€“ what was the point of rushing down there for just a quick meeting?

2:40:17 like that in mexico if you're not going to spend any time down there was to it was to deliver

2:40:22 something a package agreement some papers to sign a message something they needed to get to the

2:40:29 sinaloa boys you know that's very possible um they got it signed off and then they jumped back

2:40:36 in their plane and took off you don't think it was tpp related you think it was really sinaloa

2:40:41 My feeling was he needed to, well, maybe he had to deliver something to get him,

2:40:47 to pull him over the line for the TPP or something.

2:40:49 I don't think it was about TPP at all.

2:40:51 It was about the cartel.

2:40:52 Because there's stuff happening that has to be.

2:40:56 Yeah, okay.

2:40:57 It could have been a pot full of money for all we know.

2:41:00 Cash.

2:41:01 Right.

2:41:02 Air Force One filled with pallets.

2:41:04 It could be.

2:41:06 Well, that's how we usually do it.

2:41:09 That's what our, uh, that Bowen guy, the Steve Bowen, who was at that Austin house meeting,

2:41:14 he was talking about pallets and pallets of money.

2:41:16 Yeah.

2:41:17 Just a couple of pallets of money.

2:41:18 One pallet is 400, uh, $400 million.

2:41:22 Okay.

2:41:23 Well, probably a couple of pallets.

2:41:24 Wow.

2:41:25 We don't know.

2:41:26 I mean, there's nobody reports on anything and that those planes, when they land, they're

2:41:30 way out of the way from the, out of camera view.

2:41:32 Yeah.

2:41:33 They park them in the middle of nowhere on the airport.

2:41:35 Yeah.

2:41:36 And they put the guy in a limo, and the president drives on the limo all the way to the back, you know, to out of the place.

2:41:44 It's almost like a private โ€“ well, it is private.

2:41:46 So I was watching Democracy Now! and this woman, the woman that talks like this, who's Snowden's lawyer.

2:41:56 Oh, this one, yes.

2:41:58 So apparently now she's been detained.

2:42:01 She's the one from, it's debatable whether she's his lawyer, but she was a whistleblower herself.

2:42:07 That woman?

2:42:08 Right, the whistleblower woman.

2:42:10 Yeah, gotcha.

2:42:11 And there's something weird because she apparently went to England and she was stopped.

2:42:15 But so she was meeting with Snowden and then she's going to England to meet with Assange.

2:42:20 And I'm wondering, and then they were grilling her about Bradley Manning or Chelsea, which she never admits to.

2:42:30 Well, just before you go any further and lead into the clip, I'm a little tired of all these

2:42:36 people.

2:42:36 I mean, Greenwald, now, you know, of course, his husband, the court ruled that the David

2:42:47 Miranda detention, which, as we pretty much deducted or deduced, was a setup.

2:42:52 He has no reason for him to fly through London.

2:42:54 Right.

2:42:55 These guys, they're putting themselves central to the conversation continuously.

2:43:01 Yeah.

2:43:02 And when you're reporting on yourself as part of the story, it smells bad.

2:43:08 Yeah, and I think this is what's going on with this woman.

2:43:10 I don't know what her real relationship is to anybody, and the story she tells sounds like slightly crock of crap.

2:43:18 And it's no worse than you when you were getting stopped all the time.

2:43:23 For years, for years.

2:43:24 Yeah, for the first two years of the show, at least, and probably before then.

2:43:28 And it was a good moment of humor for everyone to listen to your travails, as it were.

2:43:36 But I wasn't complaining that the police state was out to get me.

2:43:40 Well, she was.

2:43:41 But let's listen to the weird Snowden lawyer.

2:43:44 Well, we begin today with the news that an attorney who represents...

2:43:49 Oh, wait, stop, stop, stop.

2:43:49 Stop, stop, stop.

2:43:51 Sorry.

2:43:51 This is RT.

2:43:52 This is RT America.

2:43:54 This is the Russian show.

2:43:55 Ah, that's very important.

2:43:57 Yes, it does.

2:43:58 Sir Edward Snowden says she was detained and questioned by Heathrow Airport Border Force in London while going through customs.

2:44:05 Jessalyn Radack was traveling along with former NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake to meet with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy.

2:44:13 Yesterday, Radack tweeted after her experience saying, I'm fine.

2:44:18 Heathrow's Border Force was just trying to intimidate me.

2:44:20 Who is Edward Snowden?

2:44:22 Do you know him?

2:44:23 Where is Bradley Manning?

2:44:24 Where is Bradley Manning?

2:44:26 And who is this Chelsea person?

2:44:28 What have you done with Bradley Manning?

2:44:30 Really?

2:44:30 Really.

2:44:31 To talk about what happened exactly.

2:44:34 I was joined earlier by Jessalyn Radack herself from London.

2:44:37 And I first asked her to tell me about what that experience was like.

2:44:41 Yeah, I don't, I mean, everyone has to go through customs.

2:44:46 I get that.

2:44:47 And usually you get the same questions about where are you going?

2:44:52 Where are you staying? How many days will you be here? And that sort of thing.

2:44:57 But I was directed to a specific booth at what is called Border Force, which is, I guess, a name they use for customs at Heathrow.

2:45:08 And I was initially asked why I was there. And I said to see friends. And they said, who?

2:45:16 And I said, well, the people in Sam Adams Associates, which is an American organization, an NGO, which is usually the kind of answer that I give on the last 15 international trips I've been on.

2:45:30 And then they wanted to know who was in that group.

2:45:34 So I named some names and then they did at one point.

2:45:38 Here's what happened.

2:45:39 I'll just interject here for a moment.

2:45:41 She's reversing the order.

2:45:44 So she arrives there.

2:45:46 She is hot and horny for the limelight

2:45:49 because she didn't get a lot of attention as a whistleblower herself.

2:45:54 She's in this Sam Adams organization

2:45:56 who gave a candlestick to Snowden over there in Russia.

2:45:59 And she comes in.

2:46:01 They say, well, who are you here with?

2:46:03 I'm with Sam.

2:46:03 Oh, tell me, what is Sam Adams?

2:46:04 Well, you know, we gave an award to Ed Snowden.

2:46:07 We gave an award to Bradley Manning.

2:46:09 And then they went, oh, well, hello.

2:46:11 Maybe you should tell us about what is your relationship to Edward Snowden.

2:46:14 She basically set it up herself for this to happen.

2:46:19 Would you agree?

2:46:20 Yeah.

2:46:21 I did look at the passport enough to see that I had two Russian visas in there

2:46:25 and wanted to know why I had gone to Russia twice in the past three months.

2:46:33 And I said that I had a client there.

2:46:36 And they asked who.

2:46:38 And I said that it was Edward Snowden.

2:46:41 wow and what is this is there something good in this report because she's annoying me to no end

2:46:48 this is what wow got really weird even weird this is where it got really weird or i should say

2:46:55 they said who is edward snowden that is so weird and that just felt very strange strange

2:47:03 and i want to ask you about that a whistleblower and and a sally that was extremely peculiar i

2:47:12 don't know i mean that's not peculiar our own government doesn't even know his first name

2:47:18 our moronic congresswomen and men and senators that call him eric snowden edwin snowden it's

2:47:25 not crazy that the by the way heathrow 95 of the immigrations guys are indian or pakistani

2:47:33 So I think she's doing the accent when she does it.

2:47:36 Who is this Edward Snowden you're talking of?

2:47:37 Because that's really what happened.

2:47:39 And she came across as suspicious.

2:47:42 Yes, very peculiar.

2:47:45 Who on the planet doesn't know who Edward Snowden is?

2:47:48 But, I mean, my answer was just very factual.

2:47:53 He's a whistleblower and he's an athali.

2:47:56 He's what? What did she say?

2:47:59 He's a whistleblower and he's what?

2:48:02 Emma Filey?

2:48:03 Let's listen again.

2:48:05 Edward Snowden is, but, I mean, my answer was just very factual.

2:48:09 He's a whistleblower, and he's Emma Filey.

2:48:12 A what?

2:48:14 Emma Filey.

2:48:15 Emma Filey?

2:48:16 Yeah, Emma Filey.

2:48:18 What is that?

2:48:18 That means at night he wears women's clothes.

2:48:21 Oh, okay.

2:48:22 And then after that, they asked me if I represented Bradley Manning.

2:48:30 They brought up these names, not me.

2:48:32 They asked if I represented Bradley Manning, and I said no.

2:48:37 And then he did that same peculiar question, who is Bradley Manning?

2:48:42 And I said, a whistleblower, which legally he is.

2:48:48 And then the man asked, where is Bradley Manning?

2:48:53 As if he didn't know.

2:48:55 And I said, in jail.

2:48:57 Is this woman in kindergarten and doing show and tell on Monday morning?

2:49:02 There's a punchline if you back it up.

2:49:03 I'm sorry.

2:49:04 I'm sorry.

2:49:05 My goodness.

2:49:06 Right when the punchline was going.

2:49:06 Yeah, of course.

2:49:07 Of course I did that.

2:49:08 Which legally he is.

2:49:10 And then the man asked, where is Bradley Manning?

2:49:16 As if he didn't know.

2:49:17 And I said, in jail.

2:49:20 And he said, yes, he's a criminal or something to that effect.

2:49:23 I mean, it was to make me feel like, okay, these people are not with the lawyers.

2:49:27 She spends all of her public's time with a shaggy dog story, and she doesn't even know it was a joke played on her.

2:49:36 Unbelievable.

2:49:38 Anyway.

2:49:39 She cannot be his lawyer.

2:49:41 I don't think she's his lawyer.

2:49:42 I'm with you on this.

2:49:43 I think she's just a poser.

2:49:45 Or she's the go-between for the Sam Adams Award.

2:49:48 She's the one who keeps, you know, she brings it around.

2:49:50 I don't know.

2:49:51 Maybe it's in her suitcase.

2:49:51 I have no idea.

2:49:52 The candlestick thing.

2:49:53 It's a candlestick.

2:49:54 Well, this kind of brings us near the end of the program, I would say.

2:50:00 What is going on here?

2:50:07 Something's wrong?

2:50:09 Okay.

2:50:10 So first look media, the people who brought you The Intercept,

2:50:17 which is the incest, as far as I'm concerned.

2:50:22 It's only about grand grand grand.

2:50:24 And and now, of course, hey, this is funny that you mentioned this.

2:50:30 I have not looked at that site since the last show.

2:50:33 That's how uninteresting it is.

2:50:36 Yeah, it's not getting a lot of play because they're only writing about themselves.

2:50:39 They have, however, hired Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone full time.

2:50:46 Yep.

2:50:47 Apparently, they must have thrown some money at him.

2:50:50 Yeah, he's going to lead their digital magazine, I guess, similar to The Intercept.

2:50:56 So it'll be about banking.

2:50:57 He's a good journalist.

2:50:58 I'm getting a little worried.

2:51:01 I think this Pierre Drive My Car, he's going to suck up all these guys and kill them.

2:51:06 Well, you never know.

2:51:09 Something bad could happen.

2:51:10 So anyway, the incest...

2:51:13 All be in the same private plane.

2:51:15 That's right.

2:51:15 The Incest writes about the fact that they have received,

2:51:20 and they being Laura Poitras and Grant Reval, don't rap,

2:51:23 have received the Polk Award.

2:51:25 Now, the Polk Award, named after a memory of George Polk,

2:51:31 who was a CBS correspondent who was murdered while covering the Greek Civil War

2:51:35 in 1945, 7-something, a long time ago.

2:51:41 And if you kind of follow this, the Polk Award, I was kind of following it back.

2:51:50 It's funded by INN, the Investigative News Network.

2:51:58 Which is very, very annoying to see who is funding that.

2:52:07 Because it's the same suspects.

2:52:10 yes in fact i'll bring it up here and they do okay you know they got a couple million dollars a year

2:52:17 and they hand it out to well they spend half of it in salaries the funders of the investigative

2:52:23 news network uh macarthur foundation uh the knight foundation the mccormick foundation

2:52:31 open society foundations which is soros the rockefeller brothers you know it's like when

2:52:37 When will it ever end?

2:52:38 This is not independent.

2:52:40 This is very structured.

2:52:44 Strings attached, my friend.

2:52:46 Lots of strings attached.

2:52:47 Lots of them.

2:52:48 And this investigative news network, they make software that they give to other companies.

2:52:55 The web of these NGO companies that are news, so-called independently funded news, are not independently funded news.

2:53:05 They're funded by some very specific people.

2:53:07 um and so it was it was kind of weird from a journalistic standpoint although i'm not a

2:53:13 journalist uh to see glenn greenwald reporting on a report so he's reporting on the incest

2:53:21 about a report on the incest about him that's how sad it is and he'll actually refer to

2:53:29 salon published this in 1922 and then he points to an article that he wrote i mean this guy is

2:53:36 it's it's such a it's so recursive yeah there is a lot of writers out there that are recursive

2:53:44 they're always pointing to themselves i mean i've done it but i not to the extreme of people that

2:53:49 i've seen do it almost incessantly where they're they're right and say they're a columnist and they

2:53:55 write the column i was so right about last week's column right and then last week's column he talks

2:54:01 about how right he was about the column before that or he goes calls back a call you know it's

2:54:06 just about you know and and in the internet age it's actually more beneficial than it ever used

2:54:10 to be because it it gets more page views because you do is this click right and but it's not a it's

2:54:18 not good form generally speaking and he seems to just pretty much yeah come on i don't know why

2:54:24 we can talk about the guy i have a better story i want to finish with okay i'm sorry i just think

2:54:29 it's interesting because what the only reason i bring this up is there is such a fanboyism going

2:54:34 on of of this operation this first luck first luck for first luck uh in the incest operation

2:54:42 and people are blinded they're just blinded by blinded by money yeah well the people who are

2:54:48 working there may be blinded by money but people are reading and you can see that these articles

2:54:51 are not edited they're way too long you know there's just this it doesn't it's they're too

2:54:57 long he's repeating over and over again this it's not good this is not meanwhile style tends to be

2:55:02 repetitive yeah and he'll say something he'll say it again and say it again they'll go off

2:55:07 wander off then he starts saying the same things that he said already twice right it's very kind

2:55:12 i don't know why they don't do stop him so here's the i think the big story of the week uh everyone's

2:55:19 picking it up is that this is great and of course i'm seeing it as this is the beginning of the end

2:55:25 which is the fcc moves in on the internet the federal communications commission will draw up

2:55:30 new rules for an open internet a federal appeals court struck down a previous version the rules

2:55:36 were designed to ensure that broadband providers don't discriminate or block content on the web

2:55:41 today the fcc opted to try again instead of appealing the court decision

2:55:46 right uh who is saying this is great to go on twitter oh finally i can i won't have to worry

2:55:55 about netflix being choked off by verizon fiber yeah no i've heard a bunch of people say it's

2:56:02 great i've i see it as just the beginning of the end the fcc is we've talked about this incessantly

2:56:07 on this show has been doing all it can because it sees the future broadcasting is it like the

2:56:12 dead duck eventually it's all going to be you know over the internet and they don't really have any

2:56:17 way of they don't have any control over what goes on on the internet no they you know they have

2:56:22 enough trouble they've been trying to get cable they've been trying to get their mitts on cable

2:56:26 so they could put a stop to certain things but no they have this is the wide open thing now they can

2:56:32 get oh we're gonna be making some rules first they start making rules and they start oh you know

2:56:37 that's bad bad bad for the government we have to do some licensing you get licensed podcasters

2:56:42 and then they're gonna oh you get fine because you said you know some shit you said something

2:56:48 it's just that this is this day that this that came out is the beginning of the end

2:56:55 they're just the camel's head is in the tent

2:57:01 nice and uh where did you pick up this uh was this during your travels to uh the middle east

2:57:09 where you picked up this little ditty of the camel's head being in the tent old one that's

2:57:13 good one well to get an idea about the fcc um let's see there was um what was her name baker

2:57:22 meredith baker was an fcc commissioner appointed by a republican but appointed by uh president

2:57:31 obama and uh she supported the initial comcast mbc merger and uh i think it was four months

2:57:43 after the merger she resigned and now she is the vice senior vice president for governmental affairs

2:57:48 at a comcast nbc wow yeah these people are these people have absolutely no shame

2:57:56 four months later by the way four months and she's not i mean that's this is crazy

2:58:03 uh so yes uh we'll have to see how this shakes out but it i don't see how how any of this can

2:58:10 We just don't want any regulation.

2:58:12 Well, there could be.

2:58:15 I mean, somebody called me on this because I bitched about this on Twitter.

2:58:18 And I said, well, what are you going to do?

2:58:20 How are you going to keep these people from abusing the situation?

2:58:22 And the abuse thing is very simple to deal with.

2:58:26 You have, for one thing, you shouldn't allow these monopolies to exist.

2:58:29 You should have enough competition locally so I can say, well, I don't want this.

2:58:33 I got sonic.net here.

2:58:35 That's what I'm using right now.

2:58:37 That's competition.

2:58:37 I wish we had a SonicNet here.

2:58:41 And Sonic.net doesn't screw anybody over, and they're a very nice little company.

2:58:45 And there's other possibilities for competition, but they're trying to screw the competitors.

2:58:49 They don't want them to compete because they just want this giant monopoly.

2:58:52 But if they allow for competition and then if people start screwing around, there's something called the FTC, the Fair Trade Committee.

2:59:00 These are the guys who should be going after this thing about Netflix.

2:59:04 They're just bringing in a hearing and fining them.

2:59:07 They don't have, they're not regulators.

2:59:09 They're regulators of free trade, essentially.

2:59:11 And when something like this happens, you can sue through the FTC.

2:59:14 The FTC is a very strong body, an organized body.

2:59:17 You don't need the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission.

2:59:22 No.

2:59:23 It's just not a good operation to be involved with the internet.

2:59:27 And who's, okay.

2:59:28 And who's going, who's going to.

2:59:29 Camel's heads in, we're done, we're screwed.

2:59:31 Who's going to regulate the, or look at the WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook?

2:59:38 Well, that should be done by the FTC.

2:59:42 The FTC would be one of them, and that's a good example.

2:59:46 They're not tough on this stuff, and I guess there's two or three organizations that could put a stop to it.

2:59:54 Nobody's putting a stop to it.

2:59:55 No, no.

2:59:55 By the way, Facebook wanted them bad, man.

2:59:58 Holy crap.

2:59:58 They'll own 8% of Facebook after the acquisition?

3:00:02 I didn't know that.

3:00:04 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

3:00:05 So it's huge.

3:00:07 And they get all this restricted stock that they're getting, and yeah.

3:00:11 Well, I do know that Facebook or NSA, whoever's really going to flip the bill,

3:00:16 and at some point there'll be a lot of money under the table,

3:00:18 who needs this database, but they're paying $100 a head.

3:00:22 Wow.

3:00:24 Calculation.

3:00:25 That's huge.

3:00:25 That's like 10x.

3:00:27 Yeah, generally what's a head worth?

3:00:30 I thought it was $10.

3:00:31 Yeah, $10.

3:00:32 Well, of course, this is, and I believe this truly is for their real business,

3:00:37 which is looking at relationships.

3:00:39 I don't think anyone's interested in what you're saying on WhatsApp.

3:00:42 But the group nature of it and the โ€“ I think that's very, very valuable.

3:00:49 I think it's very โ€“ one thing I know for sure,

3:00:52 this is certainly not about getting me better ads when I want them.

3:00:57 That is such a farce.

3:01:01 And then I want to ask you one other thing.

3:01:02 Are you doing Twit today?

3:01:03 Are you going up there?

3:01:04 It's pretty hard to do on Thursday.

3:01:07 Yeah, no, you wouldn't be doing that today.

3:01:08 Oops, sorry.

3:01:10 There seems to be a war on passwords.

3:01:14 I just wanted to finish with that.

3:01:15 War on passwords.

3:01:17 Yes, so it kind of started with Apple and the fingerprint.

3:01:21 Well, it started with fingerprint technology in general.

3:01:25 Now Google bought this company, Slick Login, which, you know, there's this whole,

3:01:31 there's a war on passwords, and I'm not quite sure, well, I think it's wrong.

3:01:36 I think what it must be, because if there's any of these sorts of things that you're describing, it sounds like many of these operations and the argument is commonly, oh, you can do all your passwords through this one operation.

3:01:53 Yeah, exactly.

3:01:53 You can keep track of all of them because it should all be different, even though anybody in their right mind has duplicate passwords, especially to noncommittal, you know, who cares what your password is to some company that sells cables.

3:02:05 But regardless, I think it's just to centralize passwords so you can crack them better.

3:02:11 Yeah, but there's truly a war on passwords, and you are too dumb to come up with a good one and remember it.

3:02:18 That's basically what it is.

3:02:20 It's been going on for years where they keep ridiculing the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 password.

3:02:24 Right, which, okay, that's worth ridiculing.

3:02:26 And the QWERTY password.

3:02:28 That's worth ridiculing.

3:02:29 And the password password.

3:02:31 But this whole idea, I mean, if you have a password in your head, it's in your head.

3:02:34 It's nowhere else.

3:02:35 that's the best place to keep a password you know my favorite thing about the password password

3:02:41 and what's that take you know people say this goes back i used to write a column about once a year on

3:02:49 these on the stupidity of the public but then it was you look at there's a logic to the stupidity

3:02:54 of the public in the olden days would say press any key people would look around for a key that

3:02:59 said any on it they would say where's the any key i don't know where the any key is i don't where's

3:03:05 and they called in i don't know where my any key is is this a fact yes great and the password thing

3:03:11 i'm totally convinced that 99 of the people that use it it says it says right there type in password

3:03:17 when they type in password right so you type in p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d you're good to go it opens it

3:03:22 yeah unfortunately i think you're really right about that they're just doing what they're told to

3:03:29 do that uh well hopefully no one listening to us eavesdropping on the conversation

3:03:39 does that but if you do you'll probably never do it again the ridicule is just too big

3:03:53 Okey-dokey.

3:03:54 Yeah.

3:03:56 So we'll see what Keith Burning is up to on Sunday.

3:04:02 We'll see how that plays out for Putin as we near the end of the Olympics.

3:04:07 We may see it all unravel before us.

3:04:11 Well, we should make a bet right now.

3:04:17 Before Sunday, troops, Russian troops in the Ukraine or no Russian troops in the Ukraine?

3:04:23 No Russian troops before Sunday.

3:04:25 I would agree with that.

3:04:27 Because of the Olympics.

3:04:30 Yeah, after the Olympics, a day or two, boom.

3:04:33 But tears will come, that's for sure.

3:04:39 Tears will come.

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People mentioned

News clip sources

  • CBS 3 clips
  • CNN 2 clips
  • MSNBC 1 clip
  • PBS 1 clip
  • RT 1 clip

Buzzword tally

  • karma ร—12
  • in the morning ร—8
  • mac and cheese ร—8
  • ngo ร—8
  • best podcast in the universe ร—7
  • abundance of caution ร—6
  • jobs karma ร—6
  • knight ร—6
  • you will obey ร—6
  • no agenda ร—5
  • producer ร—5
  • skull and bones ร—5
  • gitmo nation ร—4
  • de-douche ร—3
  • fema region 6 ร—3
  • boner ร—2
  • douchebag ร—2
  • formula ร—2
  • human resources ร—2
  • mainstream media ร—2
  • new world order ร—2
  • prostitute media ร—2
  • shut up slave ร—2
  • value for value ร—2
  • narrative ร—1

Around the world this episode

  • Ukraine

    Political uprising framed as proxy conflict between US/NATO and Russia; potential balkanization

  • Russia

    Putin embarrassed during Olympics; conflict with US over Ukraine, Syria and Snowden

  • Kiev, Ukraine

    Protests, violence and political crisis in Independence Square; East/West tug-of-war over EU vs Russia

  • Africa

    Scramble for resources, waterways, China-Africa cooperation, NGOs and LGBT rights

  • Sochi, Russia

    Winter Olympics; Pussy Riot whipping incident and stray dog stories

  • Mexico

    Obama at Three Amigos Summit for Trans-Pacific Partnership; possible cartel meeting

  • Syria

    Geneva 2 protocols collapse; US considering no-fly zones and arming rebels

  • London, UK

    Jesselyn Radack detained at Heathrow Border Force en route to meet Assange

  • Afghanistan

    General Allen on Afghanistan's underground mineral resources requiring security

  • Crimea, Ukraine

    Autonomous, majority-Russian region with separatist stirrings

  • Jakarta, Indonesia

    John Kerry's climate change speech calling it a weapon of mass destruction

  • Queensland, Australia

    New 'out-of-control events' and bikie legislation expanding police powers

  • Venezuela

    Anti-government protests; opposition leader turns himself in to become a martyr

  • California, USA

    Drought cited in climate change debate; PG&E gas industry shilling

  • Iran

    Halting of Iran-Pakistan pipeline; nuclear program as US focus

  • Uganda

    Anti-gay 'Kill the Gays' bill signed by president; LGBT issues in Africa

Books, movies & media

  • tv House of Cards

    Adam watching season two, appalled to see real journalists (Scarborough, Maddow, Banfield) acting in it

  • movie La Cucaracha

    Old Spanish-language film Sergeant Fred sent on DVD; mentioned as possibly the first colorized movie