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00:00 WOOO! WOOO! Shut up, man. What are you doing? Riding the sharp edge of Occam's razor and broadcasting live from downtown Austin Tejas, cap of the drone star state in the Cluedio. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm waiting for the zephyr and eating my vitamin B12 to get the show going, I'm John C. D'Baraki. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yes sirree. You're eating your vitamin B12. You just swallow them I think. I don't know if you want to eat them. Or are they chewables?

00:43 You want me to read the instructions? Or do you have Flintstone B12 chewables? I have Jero formulas. Jero? Is that is the root word Jero for geriatric? Jero, J-A-R-O-W some company. Uh-huh. Methyl vitamin B12. Mmm. Yeah. Superior form it says. Mmm, yum. And then it says usage. Dissolve in mouth. Okay, dissolve. All right. Don't eat dissolve when you chew up, and then you blum blum blum they get dissolved It's just a faster way of doing it not taking them as a lozenge, but you don't swallow them supposedly no I don't know how to do you just do yum yum yum Blum blum blum you just do yum yum yum well you do yum yum yum yeah, you do yum yum yum Kim Jong yum no it's yum yum yum All right

01:47 What you been doing? Hey, well, you know what I realize you I really do I want to hear about that. I realized that every single network that calls itself a news network except for One America News Network is not giving any news now now they've just stopped news altogether There's no news on these shows literally no news. It is only a Republican memo, Democrat memo. Putin, Trump, Russia, collusion, blah. Shoot AR-15. There's just no news. There's not even a headline at the top of the news. Like, breaking news. You know, the memo. Whatever. There's just zero news. There's so much going on in the world and

02:33 The Americans of Gitmo Nation are not hearing about any of it. No, of course not. But it's gotten so bad. And I don't think too many people give a crap about the dueling memos as they like to call them. I think that's a total nothing. A total nothing. A total nothing. Did you read the memo? No, I did not read the memo. I decided not to read the memo. I don't care about the memo. But you did read the memo and you're going to give us a briefing. I'm just going to say it's really, you know, the only dispute here as far as I can tell is, well, we did disclose that it was funded by someone else who might not like Donald Trump.

03:14 Which is not exactly the same as saying funded by the DNC and Hillary for president. That's about it. You're talking about the dossier? Yeah, the dossier was funded. Yeah, exactly. I don't know, it's annoying. I do have, well since you brought it up, I do have the kind of the overview that was done on the weekend. It was the latest greatest on CBS on the memo. And as I look at my clip list, I have it. We begin with the release today of a memo from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. It's a rebuttal document to a Republican memo released earlier this month that alleged anti-Trump bias at the FBI and Justice Department. Paula Reid is at the White House.

03:59 Reena, as you just noted, Republicans earlier this month released a memo suggesting that the FBI abused its surveillance power to monitor former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. They alleged that the FBI requested a warrant based on information from someone who had an anti-Trump bias. But today's memo, which is authored by Democrats, alleges that the FBI actually had an independent basis separate from the information in the infamous dossier to believe Page was knowingly helping Russian intelligence and Republicans have charged that the warrant to monitor Page taints the origins of the special counsel's investigation into any connection between the Trump campaign and Russia. In a statement Democrat and Ranking Committee member Adam Schiff said,

04:53 While Republican Committee Chairman Devin Nunes released his own statement doubling down on claims the FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on an American citizen from the Republican Party. Today's release caps a month of dueling memos and partisan bickering on that committee but while they debate the origins of the Russia investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller moves ahead full steam. Over just the past week, he has netted two new guilty pleas and filed dozens of new charges. I should mention a couple of things before we continue. That does sum it up. The CBS can do that. I only listen to CBS on the weekends when Rina, who's a CFR member, is hosting. She's kind of a, I think, I would say medium to dark-skinned Indian looking or South Asian looking woman. Multi-culti woman. Very multi-culti. CFR perfect. And then this Paula Reed comes on. I don't see her that much, but when I do see her, I kind of always like,

05:56 Kind of get startled. She's a light-skinned blonde woman with very light blue maybe light Gray eyes, I'm convinced. She's one of those aliens from the Norwegian style alien And so she gives her report. She must be about 7 foot, I guess. I don't know. She's one of the tall blondes. I don't remember what they call them. Tall blondes. They call them the tall blondes. Well, she's one of them. Unless she's short. If she's short, then I'm completely wrong about this. But I did get, I do remember a couple of days ago, when they did one of these indictments. I just want to play the indictment clip. This is from one of the other networks, I believe, maybe ABC. This is another indictment. But what's the indictment for? For lying.

06:43 In the day's other news, special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained another guilty plea in his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Attorney Alex Van Der Zwaan appeared in federal court in Washington. He admitted to lying about contacts with former Trump campaign official Rick Gates. Gates was indicted last year on money laundering and other charges. Meanwhile, President Trump charged again that President Obama was not literally tough enough on Russia. I wish we could hear from this Alex van der Schwan, which is a Dutch guy, and it would be Alex van der Schwan, which means of the swan. I wish we would hear him speak because then, you know, I could roll up my accent. Yeah, we're missing out. Now, the thing is,

07:30 I was thinking about this earlier, which is this guy, they're all, the real, the only thing anyone's done that's bad is lying to the FBI. I thought this was an independent counsel thing. What's the FBI got to do with this? Is this because we keep, you know, intertwining Mueller because he was an FBI guy. Yeah, exactly. With the FBI, but this is supposed to be independent counsel. Is the FBI running the investigation? So it's an FBI investigation. It is an FBI investigation. And I've done, I did quite an amount of research since our last show. and that was kind of egged on by a long article in the Atlantic about Paul Manafort. Now the Atlantic, this must be a left publication, is it? Yes. Okay. That kind of makes sense. It always has been. It's more left now. It's been bought and sold a few times. I think even the new ownership, I think even involves Lorraine Jobs. Oh yeah, that's right. I do recall that.

08:35 But it's very less so Paul Manafort and I am a progressive Paul Manafort Also in that mix somewhere is Roger Stone, but Paul Manafort really pioneered a lot of what today we now know as lobbying in Washington DC I had no idea how far you know you see Paul Manafort a picture here and there the guy is well in his 70s and he has been at the forefront of lobbying mainly for other countries in the US for decades. I mean, he goes back to Reagan, he goes back to Nixon, and very, very powerful inside the political scene, not just for Republicans but also for Democrats. And his, you know, I think what's going on here is there is most definitely an investigation about him.

09:31 And I think it is an FBI investigation, that would make sense. He failed to register as a foreign agent. There's tons of money laundering issues. This story from The Atlantic is really detailed. Of course, they stop at the most important point, which I'll get to. But it's very detailed about how he essentially started to live the lifestyle of his clients who were either Russian oligarchs or rich Saudis. He introduced Prince Bandar into the whole Bush equation. I mean, the guy is really, really out there. And when you start to understand what happened to him when he was running or lobbying for

10:17 the Ukrainian president who got kicked out, you kind of see where Russia and Ukraine, he ran into a lot of problems, especially with this Oleg, what's his last name, Deripaska, who we took a hundred million dollars from, so all invested in something else and then the investment didn't go well and so he's got like a Russian oligarch running after him trying to get his money back. And he signed up with the Trump campaign, according to this article, for free. Because he thought to himself, well if I just do this for free then Trump won't think it's all about the money. I'm not sure how the Atlantic knows that. And he actually wrote a note to Oleg Deripaska saying, ah, I think we can use my new situation to make us whole. And so if anyone was colluding with the Russians, Paul Manafort most definitely was.

11:12 But here's here's the use the term most definitely three times down. I should stop doing that then perhaps just drop the most Okay, even definitely I don't think I need no, okay and this is where the Atlantic story stops and It's where the Podesta group comes in so Manafort was working with the Podesta group on one specific deal lobbying the State Department and the Obama White House for the, I hate to say it, but for the Uranium One deal. Wow. Yeah, which connects the Russian collusion and Manafort to Podesta to Hillary Clinton directly. And you'll recall the note that she sent, you know, basically if I don't win we're all going to hang from the same noose.

12:06 This is what Hillary Clinton said. So I did find, I thought of really detailed good backgrounder on this whole case which to me all of a sudden explains FBI involvement, explains to me why Trump is not unhappy at all with Mueller and why he hasn't fired him. We've discussed this. They thought that Mueller was probably working more for Trump than we know. And this is from One America News and I think it's a Russian package, but doesn't matter. As far as I can tell the information checks out. controversial uranium one deal in the form of pay-to-play politics. Russia would take old warheads from the Soviet times, boil them down, turn them into peaceful uranium and they would sell it to the United States. But that program was coming to an end during the Obama years and the Russians wanted a new form of commercial sales.

11:12 But here's here's the use the term most definitely three times down. I should stop doing that then perhaps just drop the most Okay, even definitely I don't think I need no, okay and this is where the Atlantic story stops and It's where the Podesta group comes in so Manafort was working with the Podesta group on one specific deal lobbying the State Department and the Obama White House for the, I hate to say it, but for the Uranium One deal. Wow. Yeah, which connects the Russian collusion and Manafort to Podesta to Hillary Clinton directly. And you'll recall the note that she sent, you know, basically if I don't win we're all going to hang from the same noose.

12:06 This is what Hillary Clinton said. So I did find, I thought of really detailed good backgrounder on this whole case which to me all of a sudden explains FBI involvement, explains to me why Trump is not unhappy at all with Mueller and why he hasn't fired him. We've discussed this. They thought that Mueller was probably working more for Trump than we know. And this is from One America News and I think it's a Russian package, but doesn't matter. As far as I can tell the information checks out. controversial uranium one deal in the form of pay-to-play politics. Russia would take old warheads from the Soviet times, boil them down, turn them into peaceful uranium and they would sell it to the United States. But that program was coming to an end during the Obama years and the Russians wanted a new form of commercial sales.

13:04 Since June 2009, Russia's state-owned enterprise Rosatom became increasingly interested in the Canadian mining company Uranium One, which produces uranium in Australia, South Africa and North America. Uranium-1 at the time was expanding its mining in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Russia, despite already having a sizable stake in the company, wanted full control of it. The problem is that Hillary Clinton's family foundation, the Clinton Foundation, was receiving tens of millions of dollars from shareholders in Uranium-1 who wanted the Russian government to acquire them because it would be a financial landfall.

13:46 A former senior employee for the Podesta Group said back in 2013 Manafort, a prominent lobbyist for the Kremlin at the time, was in regular contact with John and Tony Podesta. The Podesta brothers have been prominent allies and donors of Hillary Clinton who served as Secretary of State under the Obama administration. Manafort and the Podesta group helped Russian officials establish close ties with Clinton as they were convinced she would be the next President of the United States. While that's going on, a funny set of things happened. Bill Clinton gets a speech for $500,000 from the Russians.

14:21 John Podesta's brother gets a contract from the Russians. John Podesta gets put on a company that gets an investment from the Russians. Bill Clinton's foundation gets millions of dollars suddenly from people interested in these uranium deals. Subsequently, the Obama administration granted approvals to the acquisition of Uranium One by ARMZ Uranium Holding Company, a subsidiary of Rosatom. Hillary Clinton has repeatedly denied her role in the Uranium One deal, suggesting a lot more people in the Obama administration were also involved. There's no basis for any of that. The timing doesn't work. It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was Secretary of State. There were nine government agencies who had to sign off on that deal. I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the Secretary of State did.

15:11 The former employee for the Podesta Group says they believe the ongoing attempts to tie President Trump to Russia are baseless, as Manafort's efforts had been focused on securing the multi-billion dollar Uranium One deal all along. Meanwhile, Russia hardly had any commercial interest in US real estate or any political interest in Donald Trump whatsoever, as few would expect an outsider to the Washington establishment to go on and become the President of the United States. Pretty comprehensive background. I like that. That was a very good. Where'd you get that? I told you one American news That's but it did make some he knew was a funny foul up in there. Just want to kind of do as an aside. He said Financial landfall. I would be windfall Which is a phrase from the Shays that refers to fruit a windfall really? Yeah, you get a big wind started there So you had a bunch of ripe fruit and you got to bring these pickers out, but you get a big

16:09 This is mainly avocados, but you get a big wind comes through and knocks all the fruit to the ground and you can just pick them up. That's a good thing. With other fruit they get bruised, but avocados are perfect when they get knocked down. So it is a windfall only for avocados? Well, I don't know. Maybe there's other fruits someone else would know. But I know for a fact avocados are a benefit. And avocados are never as good when they... They never ripen quite properly when they're knocked to the ground like that. Is an avocado a fruit? Yeah. Nice. It used to be called an avocado pear. So this, I think, is what is really going on and either the news media doesn't know it or, I mean, the Atlantic article just wondrously stops, dead stop in the story right about at the moment that Manafort is engaged with the Podesta group. And, you know, so now when you look at it... Who wrote that article, do you know? I can find it right here.

17:06 Manafort was you know jumped into the because he would he was in he had the depression he was in a clinic but you know a couple therapy because he'd been cheating on his wife. Yeah with a hundred million dollars missing and the Russian mob after him. He had a bit of a problem this was written by Franklin Farr, national correspondent for the Atlantic, he is the former editor of the New Republic and author of World Without Mind. I see other articles from him. Oh, this is a new one. Manafort's fate is sealed.

17:43 And it really is, I mean the guy is super interesting to just to read his background all the different campaigns that he was involved in and you'll recall that it was Manafort who worked with the GOP, the Republicans at the convention to change some of the language in the party program to ease sanctions against the Russians. Trump got blamed for it if you recall. You remember any of them? Vaguely, yeah. Makes sense. Well, when you read the article, all these things start to come back. There's been so much that we've covered that I just don't even remember anymore.

18:21 So, for some reason I'm thinking, yeah, we're going to see some fireworks, but it just may not be what everybody expects. Now, by the same token, I went back and looked a little bit more at the Russian troll factories. Troll farm or troll factory? What are they calling it these days? I think we like to use the word farm, but I think it's called something else. It's got some other name. I think it's the troll factory. It's the Internet Research Agency. There's a reporter, Adrian Chen, who now works for New Yorker, but in 2015 he wrote an article about the Internet Research Agency for the New York Times Magazine.

19:06 And what he pretty much identified is just a group which is run by, you know, some guys got some money there in Russia, they call him Putin's chef. And he was irked about what Hillary had done with her techno experts in the 2011 Russian election where we had all kinds of shenanigans going on just trying to disrupt and exactly what we're accusing the Russians of by the way exactly we did that and that's when Putin took the huge dislike to Hillary yeah and I think it's pretty much been

19:45 It's accepted that this happened, although it's never discussed. And this guy was just pissed, I'm going to use my system to mess with him. But as it turns out, what this Internet Research Agency really is, if you look at their background and the way the guy wrote the original article in 2014-2015, is It's nothing more than an operation that jumps into a topic, creates discord on both sides, arguing against themselves to create more clicks and then to advertise. They were taking $25 a post, $150 a post.

20:25 They're pretty much like a Russian version of BuzzFeed with just shitty articles and clickbait. And we saw from the poor quality that this is not a serious attempt at disinformation. But it's not professional but their whole business model is generating audience except instead of being just just bots and just generating clicks and then you know selling that to people like BuzzFeed or whoever needs some traffic for the end of their quarter. They do both sides. They create the discord in a topic that's hot, so it would be cops killing black people, it would be Trump versus Clinton, whatever it is. And they get on both sides just to have the space and then they start posting articles and paid advertising. And then they propagate that with their bots, etc. It's a very well-known business model. So this guy shows up on Chris Hayes

21:19 couple of days ago. The Russian? No, the Adrian Chen, the guy who wrote that article. Yeah, and well here's I cut it down to two minutes. Here's some of what he talked about. But there's a huge amount of volume, right? I mean that's part of the thing here. It's like it's a fair amount of labor power and a lot of volume, right? Yeah, I mean it's kind of amazing how many, you know, it was 90 people in the American department and so they were tasked with doing posts all day every day. So they could turn out thousands of comments doing that. And it would be interesting to see like where did they target them exactly and how much could they actually, you know, overwhelm legitimate comments on say a news site or something. Is it your sense this is ongoing?

22:04 I do believe that it's ongoing. I've had some off-the-record conversations with some people who have been claiming to still work there. And I think that it's still going on, yeah. Do you think it's going to... I mean, it seems like in some ways it's a remarkably effective model. Insofar as if you just want to like mess with people, right? There's like this kind of there's this kind of salt in the wound thing happening here, right? Like you don't see Chris can't believe that this has not been a massive Kremlin undertaking. He can't believe that it's downplayed. So he has to say things like well, it's a massive volume massive this massive just crazy massive.

22:44 In terms of what the goals are, you don't have to pull off some enormous thing. You just got to be kind of in people's consciousness enough constantly in this sort of irritant way. With 90 people you're paying, you know, running an operation that doesn't cost that much money, it does seem like a sort of good bang for your buck. Well, the effectiveness question, which everybody's talking about now, you know, it's of my personal belief that it isn't all of that effective. You know, it's essentially a social media marketing campaign with 90 people, a couple million dollars, a few million dollars behind it. run by people who have a bare grasp of the English language and not a full understanding of who they're targeting, what they're targeting. I think if you think about that in terms of just a normal marketing campaign, that's not going to be a very good bang for your buck. I think that the paranoia aspect, the idea that there is this

23:35 You know, kind of all powerful or immense propaganda machine that's going on and that anybody who's tweeting something that you don't like or is, you know, kind of causing trouble on the internet can be chalked up to Russia. That is a very powerful thing that's going on and is really increasing now, I think, in the wake of these indictments in kind of a worrying way. There's not a lot of people saying, well, let's hold back, you know, maybe it's not all that big of a deal. Yeah, Chris got rid of him right after that. He did not back up the story. This is really, it's like MeVeo, really. I mean, it's like any, no, MeVeo is not even a big, there's, I always put them in the middle of a huge pack. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. And then there's the thing that I think needs to be reported on. I don't know if it's even possible.

24:30 But I'm, because I don't know that it's existing, but I am seriously doubtful that it's not existing, which is that internet research center type operation in the United States run by various maybe partnered PR companies. Although I don't think they should partner with anybody if they're gonna do this. It's kind of a, just a sneaky operation. But this wasn't... I think it would have to be done, it would have to be done by contractors. But John, they weren't taking money to do anything other than promote products and services in the groups where they created eyeballs.

25:08 Yes, I know I understand that but I can see a targeted political only operation or a marketing cut thing that is that is kind of a an Adjunct to the normal marketing process. Yes. We actually start that company today would be very successful been thinking about it We've got the trolls We know how to do it and and hold on. Thanks to one of our anonymous producers who calls himself troll named Ben we now have pointing to no agenda show dot com troll factory dot us troll bot factory dot com and troll room dot us troll room would be good yeah the and what you would do is you set up shop and anybody wants to try this they can do I think we could do it and probably do a better job

26:00 But because of our contacts and our and our we should consider this this is not a bad way It would work is it was a legitimate operation. It's not like some scammers We're not scammers and you you job out you have the same 90 people You have to have a lot of people doing this and some of them both they ought to sign on this very strict We have thousands who will sign up thousands. Yeah, but you can't manage that many you don't need that many and And we had to pay him. Hold on, hold on. Since when are we starting a business where we have to manage people? This is not a good idea. This is not what we do. Somewhere along the line management is needed. Oh, all right. Call Moody. You set up shop and then you offer the services of social... I know this is going on because you see too many things that just

26:52 scream that it's going on, which is the way native advertising works. So you got somebody, some agency, Edelman, one of the big boys that does a lot of native advertising, and you do value-added, you're value-added. They don't only do the native advertising, but you set up shop promoting, hey, did you read the article about so-and-so doing this and that? Exactly, exactly. Yeah, and yeah, and I know what's going on too because all the time I get emails. Hey, I saw your website great Great post the blog curry calm fantastic. Hey, I've written this little post, you know that that really handles this topic Maybe you could put a link to it or you could put it in and oh, yeah, get a lot of oh I got this article about this you did right and they're sophisticated because

27:45 I actually know they're not yes. Oh, I've gotten some sophisticated ones where they say um yeah, I listen to your podcast in the morning. Oh, yeah, well, they're getting more sophisticated Well, that's a little more sophisticated, but their pitch the real pitch that they have is not it's not convincing No, no, not to a sane human being by the way. I think troll womb is maybe even better WMB That's where our trolls live. Well, we'll think about it. So how about another no agenda project that will fail miserably? No, it won't. We'll never get them off the ground. We'll wind up writing a book about how to fail at everything. A fizzle and a failure. How to not try anything and still eat.

28:36 Try this on for size. Oh, by the way, I'm lining up an interview with Charles Ortel, the financial analyst who exposed GE for their fraudulent behavior years back and has been all over the Clinton Foundation. He also says that there are multiple governments now targeting the Clinton's biggest charitable funds. So they're in all kinds of trouble. And let's just try this on for size. Hillary's running, she thinks, and everyone around her thinks, she's gonna win. She's a woman, and oh my god, and then the best thing of all happens, Trump. Oh, this is fantastic. This couldn't be much better.

29:16 But they've been running all kinds of pay-for-play scams for a long time, and this is a big one. We're talking $100 million that went to the Clinton Foundation from the board members of the company that wanted to buy Uranium One. We're talking $500,000 from the same outfit for speeches from Bill. There's all kinds of money flowing. Manafort's in there, Podesta's in there. John Podesta ran Hillary Clinton's election campaign. His brother Tony was then running the Podesta group which the minute all this fell apart they folded it and I think shredded everything and burned down the office building. They closed the whole thing, shuttered it completely and they were still in the

30:01 conviction Hillary will win and everything's gonna be hunky-dory and then they didn't win what is the best tactic in this case is to immediately make the Russians look like the bad guys even though you've been sucking their schlong taking their money to give them whatever they wanted same with you know Saudis and others but blame the Russians because that's the biggest thing the connections are there man a force there they know they're screwed blame the Russians and then immediately Bring in as much crap as you can like this like the troll factory. It's total horse crap This has been a known outfit for a long time that something would have been done about them or should have been done about them It was so dire a number of insiders from the troll factory that have written up stories a year or two ago bitching and moaning about the working conditions and how many

30:55 Post they had to do a day and it wasn't worth it and they weren't getting paid that much complaining bitterly about what a kind of a Dickish operation it is so it's not like this is all big news to anyone right But you know with today's media and there's even one there's one point in this Manafort story I'm gonna grab this for a second that caught my eye. I'm gonna open the story up Let me see if I can find it here I'm looking for this one particular. Well, there's a piece there's it's a very long article There's a piece in here where Manafort said hey, you know, I think that the US media is ready to be duped You know and to make him believe anything and he's saying this to the Russians, but it's a couple years ago. It's not It's not in the most recent election. Let me see. I can't find that offhand. I do remember that when we had

32:03 first when Manafort first got in that We were wondering who the hell this guy was and what he had anything to do with the who you had to wonder who put him in the position of In the trunk it to be the campaign manager for those few months. Yeah, the the article explains that I really needed to get to Trump, Manafort told an old friend, the real estate magnate Tom Barrack, in the early months of 2016. Barrack, a confidant of Trump for some 40 years, had known Manafort even longer. When Manafort asked Barrack's help grabbing Trump's attention, he readily supplied it.

32:45 Manafort's spell in the Arizona clinic had ended. It hadn't been a comfortable stay. Ba-ba-ba-ba, let me see. Then it's about his affair. With the arrival of Donald Trump, Manafort smelled an opportunity to regain his losses and to return to relevance. It was in some ways perfect. The campaign was a shambolic masterpiece of improvisation that required an infusion of technical knowledge and establishment credibility. Barrack forwarded to Trump's team a memo Manafort had written about why he was the ideal match for the ascendant candidate. Old colleagues described Manafort as a master pitchman with a, uh, pertinent... preternatural, preternatural? What is that word? Preternatural ability to read his audience. He told Trump that he had avoided the political establishment in Washington since 2005 and described himself as a lifelong enemy of Karl Rove who represented the entrenched party chieftains conspiring to dynamite Trump's nomination. In other words, to get back on the inside, Manafort presented himself as the ultimate outsider, a strained case that would strike Trump and perhaps only Trump as compelling.

33:48 and so then he says guy and he got he always reminded me of like a real high-end sales guy yeah yeah brown shoes totally so that's how we got in and you know the that's that was the strategy this is not a it's not because oh I lost you know the Russians did it that's a distraction from the crime that it truly is the cover-up it's not it's not it's really not an issue And I have a strong belief that Mueller's on to this and Trump knows it and God knows. I don't know. I mean, everyone thinks that Mueller's going to be such a stand-up guy. I'm not so sure. He may just be doing all of this to obfuscate what he's really doing. We'll find out soon enough next year. Yes. Or 2020. And then, boy, definitely nothing's going to happen before the election.

34:46 Yeah, you mean the 2018 election? Yeah. No, they would surprise me. But something will happen very soon, perhaps this week. We've seen it happen several times. Trump will come out, answer a question about someone, whether it's Bannon or Roger Stone. It's the Trump kiss of death. You know what I mean? It's like, well, you know, he's a good guy and you know. Right, he's a good guy. We'll see, we'll see what happens. He's a classic. He's always a good guy. Yeah, he's always a good guy. We'll see what happens. Now, you and I both believe that Ivanka and Jared in the White House is a very bad idea, certainly Jared. And you have to know that I think the reason why he never got his permanent security clearance is because he's blackmailable. He has debts to Chinese banks, you know, almost two billion dollars. He has huge financial issues is what I understand. And wouldn't this be surprising because his dad was kind of the same guy? His dad went to jail.

35:44 Yes. He can't fire Jared because it's the apple of his eye. It's Ivanka's man. You know, he would... He can't do that. Yeah, he's a huge fan of his daughter. Yeah, I mean, he's a fan of Ivanka, not so much Jared. And he can't, he just can't fire Jared. So he gave Jared the Trump kiss of death. Your Chief of Staff, General Kelly, has recommended ending the practice of granting interim security clearances to members of the Trump administration. If that proceeds, would you be willing to grant a waiver to Jared Kushner, one of your senior advisors? Well, Jared's done an outstanding job. I think he's been treated very unfairly. He's a high quality person. He works for nothing, just so nobody ever reports that. But he gets zero. He doesn't get a salary, nor does Ivanka, who's now in South Korea. Long trip. Jared is

36:40 truly outstanding. He's he's he was very successful in the private sector. He's working on peace in the Middle East and some other small and very easy deals. But Jared Kushner is right in the middle of that, and he's an extraordinary dealmaker. And if he does that, that will be an incredible accomplishment and a very important thing for our country. So General Kelly who's doing a terrific job, by the way. So that'll be up to General Kelly. General Kelly respects Jared a lot. And General Kelly will make that call. I won't make that call. I will let the general who's right here make that call. But Jared's doing some very important things for our country. So I will let General Kelly make that decision. And he's going to do what's right for the country.

37:31 and I have no doubt he'll make the right decision. Thank you very much. There's the Trump kiss of death. He could do it himself. He could say whatever he wanted. He could give him a clearance on the spot. Yeah, he's not going to. Jared is out. He's out. He got the Trump kiss of death. He could do it if he was such a big fan. Terrific guy. He's a terrific guy. I'm gonna let Kelly, Mad Dog by the way is his nickname. No, no, no. That's Mattis. Mattis. You're right. It's Mattis. No, Kelly is no slouch. He's a Marine tough guy too. He'll cut him in seconds. They just gotta spin the story. I guess... The thing is, it's still... He and Spider-Woman... Daddy, can't you do anything? Daddy, can't you do anything? I'm sure she... Well, listen, this happens when she's in South Korea. Come on.

38:21 Come on, it's a perfect setup. Oh that could be yes. Yeah, she's out. You know she for a few weeks and then get rid of the kid and then what could I could do nothing? Yeah, just got to get rid of him. Sorry, baby. He's not gonna be fooled by that. My hands are tied. It's it's general case a general. He's a general. Yeah, he does make a big deal out to generals. Well, he has respect for generals because that was his schooling was with generals. Yeah, you know at the Academy. So we so Jared is out set the clock. Yeah, I think you're probably right I mean there's no reason for that I mean we both of us agree that they those two have to both be gone and Maybe what the thinking is here is because he does this and she knows what's going on. She comes back and quits Yeah, well, well, I think that would be collateral damage at this point

39:15 Yeah, but she needs to go to she did he doesn't need his daughter in the White House No, that's why she's in Korea. And that's when you know, she with her spy hope X Knows it around. Yeah, that's what's happening right now is I'm sure her and hope her on the phone as we speak. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah I can't believe yeah, what's good good little report? Alright, so we have that taken care of. We do. All the problems of the world are solved. Now, I do have a couple of... Since we're talking about the FBI, let's stand up because I got a couple more FBI stories. Okay. The FBI, stupidly, you wouldn't know this and you wouldn't know it if... Most people wouldn't know if they were just watching television. They said there might be an item or two.

40:13 But its sports world knows this very well and everyone was baffled by it, which is the overreach of the FBI. The FBI has gotten involved in investigating cheaters in college basketball. Oh really? Yeah, which everybody means he was like throwing the game. No not throwing the game Which would be really cheap know about people who they go? There's the trend right now in college basketball is all these talented You know we if you watch the Olympics they would talk about these two Russian skaters. Oh Yes, I watched and I by the way, I think the older the 18 year old should have won but anyway we can argue that

40:55 But the kid the little kid the third 15 year old yeah the two the the announcers were Tara Lipinski Who's was a gold medalist and some other guy he was also a gold medalist. Yes, they knew what they were talking about and He said that she she was better. No no it's the other way around no he said he said the 18 year old was better I agreed with him and then Tara said no the 15 year old's gonna win. I agree the 15 year old all the way Well, that's came out wrong. I thought she was soulless anyway Of course she's a Russian bot. Hello. Did you see your skate? Did you see what she was it was just practicing and she did never put in her to her routine where she did Triple triple triple triple triple five in a row with arms above her head. Yeah five in a row effortlessly. Oh

41:49 That's the threat to America is their damn figure skaters. I'm getting back to the point, which now I'm going to lose to the connection of the FBI. But the point was, no, I've got it back. The point was Tara, or Tara I think said this, she says both these girls are done. She says the women right now in Russia that are 13 and 12 years old could kick both their asses if they were allowed to compete in the Olympics. I remember her saying that, yes. And they're doing quadruples. Damn Russians.

42:25 So these, so I'm looking at this 15 year old who's on the top of the world right now and those two girls competing. Enjoy it while it lasts girls. By the time you're 17 you're done. Done. Toast. Well that trend is more international than you'd like to believe because what's going on in college basketball is that there's all these incredibly talented high school players that are coming into, and you can't go, they discourage in all kinds of different ways. It's been done, LeBron James did it, and a couple of other guys have gone straight from high school into the pros, but generally speaking, and I think a lot of it has to do to get the reputation out there, most of the guys go into college and play one year and then go into the pros. And the process is called one and done.

43:20 Because it's such a major trend, the guys who are agents, the agents have been cozying up to these kids. Ah, okay, you want some candy? And they've given not candy, they'll drop a hundred grand on a kid. Right, just to get him in for the one and done. Or just give the parents a new home. It's kind of like our podcast network. So, so this has been going on and then all of a sudden there's a big scandal and there's a special group that's been formed with led by Condoleezza Rice and they're going on and on about this and the FBI has come in and finding everybody's there's a federal crimes now. Oh, really? What what exactly is the federal crime racketeering? Well, there is no, no, it's which

44:06 It's interfering, it's like a commerce crime. It's like because the colleges get, if the college gets a minimum of $10,000 from the federal government, anything that affects their bottom line can now be considered a federal crime. Okay, now the only good explanation for this I found on pardon the interruption of a two-parter There's an interview going on with Jay Bill us who has also he's a commentator on college sports and he's also a specially basketball But he's also a lawyer and he actually with this two-parter is Kind of explains what's going on and how crazy it is this FBI and NCAA dust up. And one of the questions that comes up is if players are found to have taken money, current and recent players taking actual money, is there any legal jeopardy for them?

44:56 Theoretically there could be, although I doubt that the federal government would go in that direction. It's a very interesting legal theory that the feds have on this and it's not that federal law has been violated, it's that NCAA rules have been violated. So for this not to be a crime we wouldn't need a change in federal law, we'd only need a change in NCAA rules. And the federal government is basically saying that By virtue of NCAA rules being broken, the schools are being victimized here because they're at risk of having to disgorge profits and vacate games and they can't properly marshal their assets and make decisions on their assets being the players in the scholarships.

45:37 because of these NCAA rules being broken. It's really a novel theory. I for one don't happen to think these are federal crimes, but good luck telling a U.S. attorney what is or is not a federal crime. You'll permit me to come back on this. I thought NCAA rules were just simply NCAA rules, that they would never hold up in any sort of a courtroom necessarily. So who cares if they're being broken on a federal level? That's what I think everybody thought Tony and there are a lot of smarter legal minds than me that feel these aren't federal crimes But because these institutions are federally funded over $10,000 That means that that the feds feel that they can squeeze this in and make it into a federal crime But but but again if the NCAA changes amateurism rules tomorrow, these would no longer be federal crimes Hmm, that's interesting

46:28 Well, what's interesting again at the overriding, what is the FBI doing here? Yeah. And I think it's part, I think they've been suckered. I don't know how they got brought in. There was some discussion of that between these guys. Sounds like mission creep to me for FBI. Totally mission creep. Good old term that we forgot about over the years. But I think it's just plain overreach, but mission creep could be it too. So let's play the second half of this, because in this part, they discuss the fact that they're making a big fuss over basketball only. And we'd be making a mistake if we said this was just basketball. This is football too. I mean, you know, Reggie Bush didn't play basketball and agents were giving him money. And we've seen this before. I mentioned in 2010, North Carolina football players were paid. We've had this forever.

47:18 And so when Mark Emmert came out today and all of a sudden was acting like college sports has an existential problem if we don't address this, this has been going on since the NCAA was founded. And so the idea that this is some new thing that has come up and we didn't know about any of this is painfully naive to the point of being willfully blind. And this is not just, so when this commission was formed by Mark Emmerth that's being chaired by Condoleezza Rice, why it stopped at basketball is beyond me. This entire enterprise should be in front of a commission. They should be making decisions not as to how we're going to address this, what new rules we need. They should be looking at the enterprise saying, hey, do we need changes? Do we need to allow the players to monetize their name and likeness?

48:02 Do we need to allow players to have agents? We allow players to have agents in baseball and hockey. Why would we disallow it in football and basketball to the point where these things could be theorized into a violation of federal law? I'm realizing, much to my chagrin, that our institutions in the United States, and we'll talk about some of them after our B-block, Most of these big elitist institutions abuse children, abuse them for money, abuse them for all kinds of stuff. But there's a lot of abuse. Just look at what happened over the weekend. Institutionalized. Yes, on the so-called news networks, just abusing these kids from Florida, from Broward County, abusing them to no end.

48:48 over and over and over again. Well, this is very common. In fact, there was a report on 60 Minutes, I believe, or one of them, where they were, you know, the people that play college football are being exploited. They're not getting any money. They're getting, you know, they all have many of them have a hopes of going into the NFL. But when you do the math, it's low. Maybe two or three kids from each school might get in. But they had this This report showing that especially a lot of black kids in the southern schools in the SEC I think North Carolina was one of them where they there.

49:25 given kind of, supposedly given a scholarship and a free education, but they never get the education part of it. They get beat up in these games because it's a violent sport. They get their knees blown out, all kinds of bad things happen. They end up with a bogus degree, and they were on there saying, I learned nothing. I don't have a college education at all. It was just all football all the time. It was a scam. And this is a terrible situation. They should professionalize it. If you're going to play, you get paid. It's odd how sometimes our topics intertwine without any previous discussion of what we're bringing to each individual program, which we never do. Now I know where to put this clip, very short.

50:14 Some kids who go through the system and wind up in a pro league actually did learn something at school and then still the FBI is a part of them. From the NFL to the FBI, that's the path one former football player is hoping to take. According to the Chicago Tribune, former NFL cornerback Charles Tillman is training to be an FBI agent. Tillman retired from the NFL in 2016 after a 13-year career with the Bears and Panthers where he totaled 38 interceptions. The 36-year-old earned a criminal justice degree while attending the University of Louisiana Lafayette and meets the FBI's requirement of candidates being between the age of 23 and 37. Tillman spent last year working for Fox Sports, but it looks like his post-football career is heading in a new direction.

51:05 Everybody wants to spot the spook. So what are the chances he'll be highly unrecognizable of course, Tillman will go undercover and might bust open some of these practices? That would be the perfect kind of guy to do it don't you think? He would be the perfect kind of guy if he wanted to be. But since we're the last topic on the FBI is there is a you don't see this on the mainstream news but on local stations is still going on and I think I think even the story about the NCAA and the FBI get there's nose in it has something to do with a trend.

51:45 or a movement or a Trump thing. I'm not sure who's behind it, but we talked about it before, which is this anti-FBI narratives. They report about this, especially about the Florida situation. And now, not only what we already know about the Florida situation, they're piling on with a story I heard no place. It was packaged by somebody and sent around the nation, but it was only showing up on local stations. It was not on the networks that I know of. I could miss it. But this is the alarming tip, another anti-FBI piece that's floating around. Alarming new information out of South Florida. A tipster told the FBI she knew confessed shooter Nicholas Cruz was going to explode. She said he had four Instagram accounts where he said he wanted to kill people. The tipster called Cruz a violent child who killed animals and said she thought he could go into a school and shoot the place up.

52:42 She told the FBI quote I just want to get it off my chest in case something does happen And I do believe something's going to happen The FBI is looking into why this alarming tip was not forwarded to agents to investigate Yes, I've heard this and I have a lot more about that for our c-block. Well. I do want to I do You do you do do you I do I do I want to mention the letter that you sent. It was actually in the Sun Sentinel. It was an article. It's the only place I've ever seen it, never heard this stuff before, from the kind of full parents of the kid, of the shooter. Yes. And is that what you want to save or do you want to talk about it? You can talk about that now, sure.

53:32 Kid was kind of I guess his mom died and then this dad didn't worse Give me was a stepdad or whatever. The case was adoptive mom who had been with for yeah Yeah, and so he ended up living with these two people because the son of the two people Brought him in to the family and he apparently was a model for kid, I don't know what to say. But a model, if you're gonna bring an adopted kid in, he was fine, he did his chores, he did what he was supposed to do, loved the pets. He was like, he loved the dogs and cats, I'm not sure what total pets they had, but there were enough so that they noticed that he was great with them, great with them. Which is nothing a kid who's a torturer

54:26 is with pets, they're always mean to him. I've seen kids like this. They're never nice to pets. But meanwhile, we keep hearing about he kills animals. And I thought that was a discrepancy that was never explained to me. And it's major, major discrepancy. And it's always incorporated into this FBI didn't do their job. Which is another narrative and I don't know who's putting it out there, why they're putting it out there. To the point where we have the clip where the FBI apologized for one of the tips that came in. But it seemed this very, I don't like it.

58:28 Good to see everybody here in the morning as well to horsehead businessman. Horsehead businessman did the artwork for episode 1010 titled that spin the bottle and this was the back of the Prius or as Jeremy Clarkson would say Prius with a dimension. Does he say Prius? He says Prius. I watched a whole bunch of episodes. Tina's out of town so I watched I watched Grand Tour last night. Yeah, he says Prius. So the back of this Prius has a Dimension B license plate. Don't question authority. Bumper sticker. Not my president with the elephant upside down. AR-15 ban. There's all kinds of groovy stuff. It was nice.

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1:00:00 Due to spending much time on medical issues, I've not donated for over a year yet. I've listened to almost all the presentations. I have greatly benefited from the massive amount of information the two of you have screened for my listening. And I appreciate that much of your time is used breaking down what is said in the clips that both of you carefully record. Please accept my donation of $275. You do have the greatest podcast in the universe. Please accept my apology for not donating sooner. However, you do not However, if you would please call out another listener, I frequently speak to George for not donating I Urge him to promptly do so and then he's got no jingles. No karma. Okay, and JNK. Thank you very much You will be the sole executive producer of episode

1:00:50 10 11 and I think that you can add that to your where you're gonna put your credit if you put it on your LinkedIn soul executive producer All in Seattle wash speaking of soul. I never mind. I'll tell you later Paul in Seattle, Washington, 23337. Donating to the February Dole Drums because of the great work the two of you are doing, deconstructing and entertaining. And because of the incredible end of show songs and the producers made for the show 10101, great job everyone. Jingles please. I just got the notes got a long ways to go. He just put the jingles up early.

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1:02:19 You should come, man. You should come, even though you're anti-social. You should give it a shot. Everyone's- Anyway, he needs the Antifa tequila parody and a Karma goat. Antifa! Antifa! You've got Karma. I forgot about that Antifa, so that's a great little- That's a good clip. Good clip. Yeah. Paul Dorton in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio! San Antonio! 2222, thank you for what you all do. Been listening since 995. First time donor, so I'm catching up. Wish I could hear you. He's only been listening since 995. Wish I could hear you analyze more.

1:03:14 QQ anon no Q anon is this guy called Q anonymous Q anon on 4chan who has been posting for months now and you know like I'm an insider I'm an Intel insider and I'm Chase the White Rabbit and he's giving clues every day but he's not saying oh I remember I've seen this thing this is what's gonna happen no it's like think about the moon when the spoon does not go to the ground Follow the rabbit. I mean that's exactly what it is and everyone's like oh yeah QAnon No, if if the guy is real, he may be he's low level. I doubt it. He's low level if he's real low level It's not worth your time or ours. Sorry. He won't pass the the Lie detector which if you're in if you're in Intel you're gonna have to take that test mandatory Mandatory and then the cycle is different for everybody, but it's at least once a year. I think and

1:04:16 But everything I've read, of course I've jumped into it, of course I've looked at it. But if there's someone serious about blowing the whistle and telling you what's going on with the Deep State, why doesn't he just say it? Why is everything a riddle? It's like a bad episode of Grace and Frankie. It's just so stupid. Alright seems to be a significant news in the post since it's not too much like a de-douching mm-hmm You've been de-douche what else does he want it was a love ants I love ants and a goat scream karma, okay? Well, we'll do just a little bit of ants for you since you know we're in the donation segment You've got karma

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1:06:31 Broseph oh really really man all the events are fun to watch in primetime plus if those bitchy dudes Weren't so catty as they point out every skaters mistakes. It would be more watchable. I know I disagree I really like pointing out mistakes I'm pretty good now calling green yellow or red dot my god. That's yellow I Definitely a yellow for that element that component I Know way too much about it. Yeah, my mom was a figure skater. That's why I'm into it. Oh, what she yes Yes, so you know what one of the hardest moves is that no one ever claps for is the spread eagle where you know It's like you have your toes outward and you're and you're leaned backwards and you go on that semicircle Okay, that is and I remember this because I went to my mom as a kid and

1:07:26 We went to Holiday on Ice and you know we're in the stands and it's kind of quiet and then someone does the spread eagle move. My mom's like, WOOOOOO! I'm like, shut up mom, what are you doing? You're embarrassing me. But that's apparently a really tough move. Another tip. I don't think it's called the spread eagle. Yes it is. Okay, are you gonna contradict my dead mother? No, I'm just asking because I've never heard anyone say spread eagle on this analysis, so nobody does it? They never talk about it. No, they all do it. It's a required element. Well, maybe it's because it has a semi-lewd sound. Okay, anyway, that's your pro skating tip. Well, tell me what's the difference between a triple cow sill, a triple toe loop, and a triple jump. I don't know everything.

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1:15:05 Alrighty. Oh, is that it? Yes, it's our group of all executive producers very unusual. Here's what's so disappointing is Typically a newsletter with a stupid picture of me. Thank you very much Scores big. Yeah. Well, I bet you the opens are high, but you did something very mean you put the picture Rachel in there Yeah, you compared me to Rachel Maddow. That was that was a very very low blow. I And you know, not like you taught them, anyway. Let me tell you how that happens. Okay, here I'm doing the newsletter. I have my collection of photos and funny cartoons and all these things that I collect during the week, and I keep them in a file that I open for the newsletter, and then I start popping them in there. And I had to, first I get the drunk picture, which is,

1:16:01 You know, rolling your eyes back felt if I felt it was a fake personally, but it was okay. It was how I felt at the moment of the picture snap. You didn't do it on purpose for the purpose of the. Okay, well, that's good to know. No. Well, he caught you then I know why you're rolling your eyes back. He caught yes, it was a good shot. I give Horowitz credit top shot. And then I, but when I was looking for that photo in the pile of stuff, I saw the Rachel Maddow picture, which I don't know why I collected that one, but it's got that baby, you know, she's gonna cry. Do you have a Manila folder somewhere that says Rachel Maddow pics? No. Okay. Yeah, I should. I don't have to worry about you then. The, so I saw that, I said, ah, that's so, that picture.

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1:18:31 And it fits so well that, you know, Occam's razor comes out and tries to slice me across the face because just everything else falls apart as an explanation as to what happened with all of these very strange discrepancies, just incredible strange things. Here is, I'm just gonna play a couple clips and I'm gonna get into what I think is going on here. This is the sheriff, Sheriff Israel, And this is an older report. You'll recall we had that guy who arrived at Fort Lauderdale Airport and then pulled the gun and ammo out of his checked luggage and then started shooting people at the baggage claim. When was this? This was 2016, not that long ago. Okay, yeah, I do remember that. I don't remember it being recent. Well, that to me, so it's about a year ago.

1:19:30 Maybe a little bit longer than a year ago. Yeah, I do remember that. Here is Sheriff Israel's response after that shooting. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel sees the parallels between what happened at the airport and what happened on Sunday night in Las Vegas. Israel says in a situation like that it's almost impossible to stop. If you have a lone wolf assassin, that's committed to commit great carnage and kill people. There's really not anything you can do about it. What it teaches Israel is this, in this day and age whenever you go out to a public place you must be aware of your surroundings. After the airport shooting in Broward, reports were issued on how the law enforcement and counties response could be improved. A range of topics emerged, better communications, improved radio capabilities for first responders

1:20:15 and how to handle a massive response of law enforcement officers from all over the area that wanted to help. We appreciate their desire to get to these events in these venues, but at the end of the day, self-dispatching probably makes it worse than better. Now, Sheriff Israel told me that He feels that training is obviously the most important thing that his deputies can do. He also said that law enforcement relies on the public for tips. People who might be acting suspiciously or posting threatening messages online. Law enforcement wants to hear from you, he said. He also believes that massacres like what happened in Las Vegas should prompt frank and open discussions among lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee about common sense gun control.

1:21:02 So there you have all the elements, training for mass shooter events, got to be ready for them, better communication systems, tips, tips, tips, just the tip baby, tips, tips, tips, send us your tips and all of that failed. not more than a year later. So this is annoying everybody including Jake Tapper from CNN who I think is doing a very good job at grilling the sheriff who I already thought he was quite a cock at that CNN town hall where he was just you know berating the NRA lady that you like Dana Lash is that how you pronounce it? Lash?

1:21:39 Loosh, loosh, lash, lash, lash? Yeah, I think so. And, you know, we had all these... separately we had the FBI who didn't respond, but we had, I think, 39 different calls about this kid being crazy. and Jake really got in his face about it. On November 30th, fewer than three months ago, your office received a call from a tipster explicitly saying that Cruz could be a quote school shooter in the making. According to notes released on that call, no report was even initiated. At this point, sir, do you understand how the public seeing red flag after red flag after red flag, warning after warning after warning, they hear that your office didn't even initiate a report

1:22:23 when they got a call saying that this guy could be a school shooter in the making? How could there not even be a report on this one? Well, if that's accurate, Jake, there needed to be a report and that's what we're looking into. That a report needed to be completed, it needed to be forwarded to our either Homeland Security or Violent Crimes Unit and they would have followed up on it. That's from your notes. That's from notes released by your office. I'm not making this up. This is from Broward. And that's what, the officer who handled that is on restrictive duty and that's an active internal investigation and we are looking into it. I can't tell you, I can't predict how an investigation is going but I've exercised my due diligence, I've led this county proudly as I always have. We have restricted that deputy as we look into it.

1:23:14 You know, deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes. But it's not the responsibility of the general or the president if you have a deserter. You look into this, we're looking into this aggressively and we'll take care of it and justice will be served. Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter before the incident, whether it was people near him, close to him, calling the police on him. Jake, I could only take responsibility for what I'm about. I exercise my due diligence. I've given amazing leadership to this agency. Amazing leadership?

1:23:55 Yes, Jake, there's a lot of things we've done throughout this. You don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into a... These deputies received the training they needed. Maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether or not they protect the community. In this case, you've listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter. And still nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to make sure that the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him. Your deputy at the school failed. I don't understand how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership. So to me, this guy sounds like a pathological liar. No one else would say that but a pathological liar. Would you agree? Trump would say it. Pathological liar, exactly. So what is going on with the Broward

1:24:50 County Sheriff's Office and in the background of that know that I think it was Dade County the the chief of police there sent out a memo to everybody saying hey, you know I know that we're the ones that actually did the responding and that you know All the sheriff's guys were cowering behind the car and but they're taking credit. So don't worry about it You know would whatever's do our our do will come around just be cool about I'm not quite sure what's going on Can I do a side aside? Absolutely So I was down in Broward County with a friend of mine who's an inventor with a lot of patents. A patent? A patent troll? Actually, I have funny thing is now I think about I have two guys down there like that. But this was the guy who did Panda Systems.

1:25:38 And he is driving, we're driving around with some, she's just showing me around. And I was talking about the cops there and he said, oh, the cops here are the worst. He says that there's been so much drug business around here that they are so gun shy, they're afraid to do anything. They're even afraid to pull you over, because there's a lot of people driving like maniacs and nobody seemed to care. Because they're always afraid it's gonna be some drug dealer and the guy's gonna pull a gun and kill him everyone it all the cops are Just afraid of their own shadow because of the drug dealing and everything They were just kind of trained to be super cautious and all they really ever do is is parking tickets Well that yes, I think it goes a little bit further and it's worse now. I remember I

1:26:20 The minute the shooting happened, and I don't have a clip of it, but I remember the first thing that was reported, unbelievable, this county, Broward County, was just voted safest in the entire state. Do you remember those reports? Not really. Okay, well it came out. I should have looked for a clip. But I know everyone talks about Parkland being the safest town in the state. Yes, yes. There's nothing else. Exactly. So on the tweeter, we have a new person, at the last refuge to who posted a Twitter thread you know where you get like 24 posts and it's all a thread and I want to read this to you because when I read this it made nothing but sense fits everything perfectly and is more egregious than than a false flag

1:27:08 So I'm going to read this. I spent about 18 months in 2012 and 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies on how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices. My interest was initially accidental. I discovered an untold story of massive scale and consequence as a result of initial research into Trayvon Martin and his high school life. What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict. The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent entered into a political agreement with Broward County law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes. The motive was simple. The school system administrators wanted to improve their statistics and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.

1:27:50 So officials, the very highest officials of law enforcement, sheriff and police chiefs entered into a plan. And with this he posts a February 15th, 2012 media advisory from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Miami-Dade Schools was recently commended by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice for dramatically decreasing school-related delinquency in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The Miami-Dade school public district, whatever, has the distinction of decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent, 6-0, in the last six months of 2012. And it goes on. We continue with the thread. As soon as Miami-Dade began to receive the benefits, which are both financial and political, from the scheme, Broward County joined in. The approach in Broward was identical as the approach in Miami-Dade.

1:28:41 And then there's more documentation. This is all in the show notes. You can take a look at it. He continues, it's important to remember this was not an arbitrary change. This was a well-planned fundamental shift in the entire dynamic of how teenagers will be treated when they engage in criminal conduct. The primary problem was the policy conflicted with laws and over time the policy began to create outcomes where illegal behavior by students was essentially unchecked by law enforcement. Initially the police were excusing misdemeanor behaviors. However, it didn't take long until felonies, even violent crimes such as armed robbery, assaults and worse were being excused.

1:29:17 The need to continue lowering the arrests year over year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored. Over time, even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police. We found out about it when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide. The sheriff and police chiefs were telling street cops and school cops to ignore ever-worsening criminal conduct. So they were in a bind. They were encountering evidence of criminal conduct and yet they had to hide the conduct. There are examples of burglary and robbery where the police had to hide the recovered evidence in order to let the kids get away without entering reports. The police would take the stolen merchandise and intentionally falsify records to record stolen merchandise as if they had just found it by the side of the road. They put drugs, stolen merchandise in bags, sent it to storage rooms and the police department never assigned the recovery to criminal conduct. Stolen merchandise was just sitting in storage rooms gathering dust.

1:30:12 They couldn't get the stuff back to the victims because that would mean the police would have to explain how they took custody of it so they just hid it. To prove this was happening, one of the officers told me where to look and who the victim was. At first I didn't believe him. However, after getting information from detectives cross-referencing police reports and looking at the found merchandise, I realized they were telling the truth. A massive internal investigation took place and the results were buried. Participating in the cover-up were people in the media who were connected to the entire political apparatus. The sheriff and police chief could always deny the violent acts were being ignored. That's why the good guys in the police department gave evidence of stolen merchandise because the physical evidence couldn't be ignored and prove the scheme.

1:30:51 From 2012 to 2018 it only got worse. In Broward and Miami-Dade, it's almost impossible for a student to get arrested. The staff within the upper levels of law enforcement officers keep track of arrests and when a certain number is reached, all else is excused. And it didn't take long for criminal gangs in Broward and Miami-Dade to realize the benefit of using students for their criminal activities. After all, kids would be let go, so organized crime became easier to get away with if they enlisted high school kids. As criminals became more adept at the timing within the offices of officials, they timed their biggest crimes to happen after the monthly maximum arrest quota was made. The most serious of armed robberies were timed for later in the month or quarter. The really serious crimes were timed in latter phases of data collection periods. This way, the student criminals were almost guaranteed to get away with it. Are you still interested?

1:31:38 Yeah, I think this explains a lot and it also explains why somehow Parkland was the safest community ever. Because that's where bull crap. Well, I'll continue the thread. It's almost over. Now you can see that the entire process gets worse over time. Present corruption, the need to hide the policy, expands in direct relationship to the corruption before it. This is where the school police come into play. Understanding the risk behind the scheme, it became increasingly important to put the best corrupt cops in schools. The best as in the smartest. Those school resource officers, as they're called, became the ones who were best at hiding unlawful conduct.

1:32:17 Again over time the most corrupt police officers within the system became the police inside the schools. These officers were those who are best skilled at identifying the political objectives and instructions. Those school cops also have special privileges. It's a great gig. They get free on-campus housing close to the schools they're assigned to. They're crooked as hell and the criminal kids know just how to play them. It's a game and it's an open secret. A lot came out during the earlier internal affairs investigation. Unfortunately, the behavior never changed because the politics never changed and it's still going on. And he has some links to some FOIA documents that are worth reading. For years this has been happening and no one cared. Crimes happened, students excused, victims ignored. The Broward County School and Law Enforcement System is designed to flow exactly this way. It's just politics.

1:33:01 Only then a Parkland school shooting happened. For Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel this had to be an oh shit moment, but not for the reasons the media initially thought. If people start digging they'll soon discover the shooter was one of those previously excused students. So I think what we're seeing here is maybe what's going on at the FBI as well is to get the numbers up to make sure we look super safe Just ignore this and ignore more and ignore more and ignore more And I think that at a certain point these cops or the sheriff's deputies that were so used to ignoring behavior that when something went down Serious they froze they just froze these guys were no longer law enforcement officers They were just corrupt pieces of crap and this whole thing fits Completely with all the open questions as far as I can tell who is this guy again?

1:34:01 Israel. No. Oh, this guy's the last refuge to at the last refuge to Twitter. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm sure he is. They've got tons of documents that corroborate everything he's posting. Yeah, he's a cop. And this I'm telling you, this will lead to take this job. So I just put, you know, tight everything. I think this will lead back to Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And who knows where that could lead? Well, yeah, she's up to her. But we know that we know as an example, we know from an insider that FBI has had sometimes they reinstate it, but they have a six week cycle. We got to have something happen every six weeks. So they lay back on lots of stuff to make something happen. Usually there's some patsy who they set up with a with a with a with a button that says press here to explode this something and then you know it's just two wires in the back that are empty and a nine volt battery and a light bulb.

1:35:04 And they go, we caught him, we got him. But who knows? Who knows how far this type of behavior reaches? And this is what I was talking about with complete abusive children. These guys, these guys need to be hung. So the place was, so the town, the safest town in Florida was probably rife with crime. Yes, yes. And the kids knew it. Everybody knew it. Let's see what happens. I think this... Do we have any No Agenda listeners in the Parkland area? I don't have No Agenda listeners per se, but I do have... How do you know this? You don't have the mailing list in front of you? No, I didn't. I'm asking you right now if there's anybody... Yes, I understand. But I was going to read some other notes from producers... Oh, I'm soliciting right now. Yes, I got you. We'll get people to tell us what's going on. Producer Nathan wrote in... A teacher in Parkland would be great.

1:36:06 Producer Nathan wrote in so he says I've taught in the hood for several years, bro I've worked in Nashville's worst middle school in high school I can testify to the fact that a lot of shady shit goes down in those places It's not from teachers, but always from the admin or district office. I They want their suspension numbers down and the grad rates high so they find ways to do Restorative justice that's in quotes and let aggressive kids go back to class I had several mentally unstable kids in my class because the district won't let us separate them out because it's quote unfair or makes them quote feel different

1:36:43 They also lower the bar for graduation. I was told several times to just give kids passing grades so our numbers would be higher. The whole system is out of control because of the parents and liberal watchdog groups. In Nashville, the NAACP said they would sue the district if their suspensions of black students went up. So what'd they do? Stop suspending black students, even if they hit a kid or stole something. It's not the actual schools, but the political leaders of the districts. They tie our hands and keep us from being able to do anything for the kids who need it. Personally, I'll stay in education because it needs good people. Thank you. Let me ask you both to stop blaming teachers for these issues and when you discuss the brainwashing I will agree that there are some bad apples, but the curriculum is the problem. I don't think we've ever blamed teachers ever.

1:37:29 Have we I don't think so either but it's possible that we are critical of teachers in some situations that were involved Common core whatever happened to common core by the way is always well. It has a new name. It's being relaunched We had a story a couple weeks ago. Take much to derail it again, right? So but Nathan is a You know Nathan is a great teacher and he has got no agenda thinking going on. So we were happy He's staying in in education But I think this is, you know, it's the same, it's, look, hear me now, believe me later, this is a unique American problem. I think it is also, it might be a globalist problem or a global problem. It might be a globalist problem. But just like a company, company always has to show, you know, hey, you got to have 20% increase in your profits or your performance year over year.

1:38:24 You get all these Silicon Valley companies who are buying up cheap-ass, bogative traffic to increase their numbers, to look good at the end of the quarter. Maybe the growth is just out of the world right now. Maybe just stand in place. But no growth, you get penalized. You have to show growth everywhere. I've always found that to be fascinating. The growth stuff? Yeah, that you have to. Why can't you build a big, great company and stabilize? Yeah. No, I guess not. You know, Stabilize, you're a good company, you're making nothing but money, you're making tons of money, you get to the point where you can run this operation perfectly, it's stable, it's not gonna grow, it's not gonna shrink, it's not gonna go out of business, it's gonna provide a service that's important to the community, and you are going to just run it. You can't do that, that is not allowed. No, that gets penalized. You're right, it's not allowed, just penalized. Not allowed.

1:39:25 Then, as we were discussing the uncanny... Actually, before I get to that, I have two clips here. The first one is... This was kind of interesting. You probably heard CNN yelling at Fox News saying, you know, lies, lies, that child is a liar. Tucker Carlson had Colton Hobb, H-A-A-B. from Parkland on and he said, well, you know, I was supposed to write a speech for the town hall for CNN and they sent it back and said, how about some questions? And then I was like, well, how about you just use this question?

1:40:07 And so the kids said, I think, no, Tucker led the witness by saying, well, so they basically scripted your question and then that became a whole thing where CNN is yelling, and oh, we've never scripted anything for anybody except of course the question that Donald Brazil gave to Hillary Clinton, but we'll just let that slide. But Tucker did something really weird here and I'm calling him out on it. At the request of a CNN producer you sent in a number of questions, statements you wanted to make, questions that you wanted to ask of the politicians on the stage and they rewrote one of your questions?

1:40:44 Is that right? Yes sir, so what had happened was four days ago I had gotten contacted by a lady named Carrie Stevenson from CNN. She had asked me originally to just write a speech. It was going to be at the town hall at the BB&T Center. So I agreed. I felt like it would be the right thing to do. Be able to go speak my part as well as open eyes to a few things that I thought that could make this situation a little better. From there, three days ago, so the next day after that, we had gotten, I got an email back from her and she asked for more of questions rather than a speech, which I was totally fine with, so I wrote little less of a speech and more of questions that I wanted to ask at the town hall.

1:41:24 um... the day after that it was more just questions yes for just questions that i would like to ask so by it uh... gave for my questions and then yesterday at about five fifteen i made contact with her and she had asked um... if i'd just asked her one question so what they had actually done was wrote out a question for me cuz in my interview with cnn i talked about forming the teachers that they were willing to on themselves in the school to carry on campus So he never let the kid read the damn question. Ever. Throughout the whole interview, he never came back to it. That's bullcrap.

1:42:14 That's just poor form. He's just doing that. He's abusing it on purpose. Yeah, he's abusing this kid to make CNN look bad and it's despicable. This shit, it was unnecessary. And now the kids being called a liar by CNN for what? For what? For some stupid ratings? Made me sick. Just abusing children. The child abuse is today's theme. So, we hear that countries who have banned guns, what do they not have? They don't have school shootings. They don't have school shootings. Which countries don't have school shootings because they ban guns? Okay, I'll bite. India. Oh, come on, you know the countries.

1:43:06 Australia, Australia is always on the list. What's the other one on the list? And what's the other one on the list? UK and Canada. UK and Canada, thank you. Canada. Oh! Oops! I'm sorry I ruined your life. It's a phrase the shooter repeated as he apologized to the seven people he injured and their families. For nearly 12 minutes, the teen read from a prepared statement. He addressed the four people slain in the January 2016 rampage as if they were present. To Adam Wood, I didn't really know you but I heard you are a good person, a kind person. I would have taken your tests. I'm sorry I shot you. You were not a target. To Teacher's Aid Marie Janvier, I'm sorry I shot you. You went to school to help teachers, to help others. I didn't know you but I heard you were a very bright person.

1:43:55 You were not a target and finally to the Fontaine brothers a lot of the time when I'm sitting in my cell I pretend that both Dane and Drayden are sitting there with me I talked to them wishing they were still there in August the crown and defense will make their arguments in Meadow Lake a date and location have not been set to determine whether the teen will be sentenced as a youth or an adult Oh, you know gee we didn't hear about that Well, there's a good reason Okay, in Canada. It's illegal to report on news stories that are And crime stories that are good that are in the court system in any way shape or form so it's against the law There was no we don't if Americans don't report on it, which I'm not familiar with this rule

1:44:45 Yeah, so there's a school shooting and then everyone says oh, there's a school shooting can't report on it because you know We don't know well. You don't know nothing pretty much. That's the law yeah This is what you get when you have a country without guns You get stupid laws like that Jeez, I didn't know that well. That's but still I think the reason why I don't hear about it is because there's nothing more you can do I They've just given up, but we got their guns already so yeah, we lose a few kids now and then whatever no problem No, don't need to yell for anything. We don't need any extra special I don't hear any any screaming now that it's in the court system and apparently can be reported on I don't hear any screaming for Improvement or how did you how did this kid get this illegal gun old news never reported on I've never heard it the very same Yeah, okay. Oh very disappointing Indians have a very strange system about how they report on on crime and

1:45:44 by the presses of their handcuffs. I was not aware of this. They're always bitching about it. So with this comes and I'm gonna start wrapping this up Our final part of the topic is about the combination of all of the issues of you know kids with a you know single moms, you know or single parent no parent the video games in combination with psychotropic drugs I got a lot of different emails from people about the about the video games being used as simulators, a note from one of our producers.

1:46:25 Anonymous producer, gents, great show. The army and air force actively prefer to recruit gamers. Most of the new unarmed aerial vehicle platforms have controllers based on the Xbox. Two of my Unreal Engine developers, says you real, I think it's unreal, well you real, I don't know, maybe, have worked on government combat sims. In my time setting up weapons trade shows at the National Harbor, I have seen this first hand. P.S. John, I love The Last Starfighter. And there was a and then we have a great article written by one of our producers Let me see. Where is it dude named Josh? Video games and predictive programming in the 21st century, but what he gave me in addition to that which I've put in the show notes It's under it's under SSRIs. No, it's under SSRIs. It's under simulators Yeah simulators. He gave me I think six or eight

1:47:26 FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests about military involvement with video games and it's redacted but man it's unbelievable. America's Army Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor Airborne, Medal of Honor Sony video games playstation c launch pad all of these guys don't know anything about these games i do remember that we talked a lot about you be soft being very interesting companies as a lot of you be soft in here ghost recon. Red Storm, Halo 2, Area 51. I'm missing the premise here. All of these companies, these are FOIA requests, all of them had money. There's a name of a company in a FOIA request, I don't know why. Okay, all of these had money and or direct contact with the United States military for the making of their game. Either they were paid in part, you didn't hear me say it, either they were paid in part or they had very close contact with them.

1:48:29 Would it be any different than a movie company getting military help? Exactly the same thing. But they were, if you look at these FOIA requests, they're very interested in the simulator effects and have realism, realistic nature of the video games. It's just a side note that simulators are indeed, that games are considered good simulators by our military industrial complex. Yeah. Call of Duty. No, I'm just saying, you know, because... Is Call of Duty in there? Yes. Yeah, hmm Wow. We'll call it duty, which is the really great game. Yes. It's in there

1:49:10 It's in there. A big Guardian article actually about it as well. Because whenever you say this in connection with anything violent, people lose their shit in our audience. But as I said, they're simulators. You may just be a good, a well-trained shooter. Doesn't mean you're gonna go out and shoot anybody, but you add the drugs into it. That's when it becomes problematic. And big news came out this week about SSRIs, antidepressants. It was, I mean, I can't believe it wasn't touted as large as it was in the UK. uh... because they really did bid our big articles on this this is an important study because it's the final answer to a long-lasting controversy about whether antidepressants work for major depression we found that uh... almost most commonly prescribed antidepressants uh... work for major depression and for people with moderate to severe major depression and also we found that some of them

1:50:11 more effective than others or better tolerated than others. So that was the leader of the study, his name is Cipriani and the headline everywhere, BBC, big, Antidepressants Work for Treating Depression, Study Finds. You've got to hear some of this stuff. So this is from an article written about the study but it takes language directly from the study, it's a little easier to read. Antidepressants work, some more effectively than others, in treating adults with major depressive disorder according to authors of a groundbreaking study which doctors hope will finally put to rest doubts about the controversial medicine. Our study brings together the best available evidence to inform and guide doctors and patients in their treatment decisions, said that guy, Dr. Andrea Cipriani, University of Oxford and Oxford Health Biomedical Research.

1:51:10 Through examining trials involving nearly 120,000 people including patients taking 21 commonly prescribed antidepressants, the research found all the drugs were more effective than a placebo. The findings are not applicable to people with treatment-resistant depression, however. This is great. I mean, let me just read that again. Through examining trials involving nearly 120,000 people, including patients taking 21 commonly prescribed antidepressants, the research found all the drugs were more effective than a placebo. The findings are not applicable to people with treatment-resistant depression." The hell is that? People that don't cotton to the drugs. It sounds like that doesn't work for everybody. Certainly not.

1:51:59 The findings are relevant for adults experiencing a first or second episode of depression, the typical population seen in general practice. However, this does not necessarily mean that antidepressants should always be the first line of treatment. No, of course not. So then, you know, they go into this meta-analysis, which included 522 double-blind placebo real antidepressant tests. and they find that some antidepressants are more effective than others. Turns out the majority of the most effective antidepressants are now off patent and available in generic form, which is condemning by itself. They keep coming up with new

1:52:39 antidepressants but it's really the old ones, the original ones that work the best but they're off patent so they don't want to sell those to you so they're doing other things to it but they seem to work less effective than the ones that originally were put on the marketplace but they can't make enough money. Well they can make enough money they've been buying the generic drug makers all along and now you can mean you can buy for example Tamiflu is a expensive antiviral it cost about $150 a prescription. And the generic cost about $150 per prescription. It's not true. They've been buying these generic. It's a scam. They should be arrested. Thank you. That's good enough for me. Well, you drifted way off from the topic you were on. I wanted to talk more about school shooting situations. I'm sorry. I think everyone in school who shoots schools are on antidepressants. So I'll just finish with the last paragraph.

1:53:40 Importantly, the paper analyzes unpublished data held by pharmaceutical companies and shows that the funding of studies by these companies does not influence the result, thus confirming that the clinical usefulness of these drugs is not affected by pharma-sponsored spin. Okay. Yeah, and if you believe that, you're an idiot, is what they should have put at the very end. Back to school shooting. We have a situation in Berkeley High, apparently we have a same size as Parkland. How many officers were at Parkland? Do you remember? It was the one guy, right? The guy wouldn't come in and there's a couple other people just hanging around? He had one school resource officer for 3,000 kids and three deputies who showed up and also stood behind the car. I thought the numbers were interesting.

1:54:33 Because here's Berkeley High story and you can play them and I want you to stop it when I'm gonna tell you to stop it I could have clipped this doubly but I didn't. Berkeley High School is about to lose two of its campus security officers because of budget cuts. District leaders say they don't think the move will jeopardize student safety, but students tell KTVU's Rob Roth they think it will. While many schools nationwide are discussing ways to increase security in the wake of the mass shooting in Florida, Berkeley High School's security force is about to decrease. The reason? Budget cuts. Students say that's a bad move. In general, it's not the smartest idea. Because what? I mean, it's just kind of logical. If there's danger, it would make sense to have more people who can respond as soon as the shooting... Okay, can you stop for a second?

1:55:23 I was listening to this, it turns out Berkeley has about the same, it's the same size as one of these ridiculous, I think it's ridiculous that these schools are this big. 3,000 students give or take? Yeah, 3,100. How many guys, they fired two or they got rid of two of the guys for budget cuts, how many of you, just as an offhanded guess, what kind of police state would we have in Berkeley? How many officers are there? Well, if it's a budget cut, I would say it would have to be five or 10 percent. That's what you do with budget cuts, so I would say 25 total oh wait too high But higher than I would have guessed keep playing more people who can respond as soon as the shooting Took place we're firing safety officers if anything we should be hiring more Do you feel like you less safe because of that?

1:56:19 Yes, I do. The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education this week voted to reduce the ranks of the unarmed campus security force at Berkeley High from the current 15 officers to 13 beginning next school year. Berkeley has a student population of about 3,100. Okay, now I'm thinking this. Berkeley Berkeley, home of question authority, home of fuck the police, bumper stickers. Yeah. More police please. Berkeley, home of where you call a policeman a pig. But the kids, they want more cops. When I was a kid, there was, I mean, I never went to a school bigger than about 1,200 kids, but we didn't want a bunch of cops roaming around the school. No, no.

1:57:10 Huh. So Berkeley, home of again, home of the use of the word pig and lewd bumper stickers. Why are these kids want to be in a police state? Which is what that amounts to, it seems to me. 15 cops. You said 25 unflappingly. Well, I just did a calculation. I mean, I just like, but which was a smart way to go. I found it odd that both schools have similar student body count. You know, one has the one cop and the corrupt... One guy. Yeah, and this school's got 15, although that one cop was corrupt, and your corruption thing makes a difference. But... What? I'm just baffled by these kids. I mean, they're all Dimension B. They all hate Trump. They all hate the police. They all hate all this stuff, but they want more cops. Yeah, they gotta make up their mind. I thought the cops were racist. I'd like them to make up their mind, too.

1:58:06 Yeah, we're in an odd situation where people are screaming, screaming, screaming, you know, hate the cops, Black Lives Matter, hate the cops, go away cops, no cops, and then please more cops. And then the cops, you know, some cops are screwing around just to get better numbers. It's all abuse of the children. That's what it is. I have the last shooter report which was the overview from CBS on the weekend which kind of I think takes us out of this topic because I sent mentioned something about the school shooter in the newsletter I got feedback with the single word ug sorry

1:58:48 reflecting their feelings about this topic. Well, there are new questions about the law enforcement response to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. 17 people were killed in the Valentine's Day attack. A 19-year-old former student is accused of opening fire with an AR-15 rifle he had purchased illegally. Omar Villafranca is in Parkland, Florida. CBS News has learned that Broward County authorities are looking into the possibility that three additional sheriff deputies did not go into the school to confront the shooter. I'm Scott Peterson. Deputy Scott Peterson resigned this week from the Broward County Sheriff's Department after investigators say the armed school resource officer stayed outside the school in a defensive position while the gunman was still shooting inside the building.

1:59:38 My wife and son go to that school. My wife's the teacher there. She's assistant athletic director. For officers who did go into the school, like Coral Springs Police Sergeant Jeff Heinrich, the emotions are still raw. Heinrich was on the baseball field when he heard gunshots. His wife and son were on campus. By the grace of God, when they walked down the hallway, they found each other. and they were in a little shelter in place. Officer Chris Crawford was on patrol when the shots rang out. The Marine veteran says he grabbed his rifle and went into the school bracing for a shootout. My philosophy is if I got there while he's still shooting, one of three things is going to happen. He's either going to be killed by me

2:00:26 I'm gonna get killed by him or I'm gonna be helping a wounded child. Officer Tim Burton is a 12-year veteran of law enforcement. Burton says last week's shooting will haunt him. This one's, this one's pretty tough. Yeah, you can kill it. Can't get rid of this one. I noticed the Marines saying the fourth option which was the kid will stop shooting put his guns down and throw his hands in the air was never mentioned. Seemed like a possibility. Yeah, could have been. Well, the programming is out, the mind control programming, that'll get us out of this segment for sure. Van Jones on CNN making some fun comparisons. I think that the NRA, despite your kind words about them, has played a net destructive role for people who are trying to solve this problem. There is a sense of fear and terror among people who are in elective office.

2:01:18 that if they even entertain certain notions, that the NRA is going to drop a ton of bricks on them. And so we haven't had the kind of innovation, experimentation, trying of things. I don't know if any of the things that are being proposed would make any difference at all yet, but we should know more than we know right, because we should have been able to try things, and we haven't been able to. So now what's happening is, you have a whole generation of young people who essentially see the NRA as their enemy. To them, the NRA is like the KKK. It's just some hostile force that is against them, that's risking their lives. And you have young people now, they're not fighting for their future. When I was a kid, my big problems were bullies and homework. Those are my big problems. I'm still traumatized by both. But these kids, they're not fighting for their future. They're fighting for their right to survive, to have a future. They're fighting for their right to stay alive. And they do not see the NRA as a friend in that fight.

2:02:09 Yeah, the whole NRA thing is... yeah. I have an NRA clip. The head of NRA was at CPAC and I think what he had to say no one wants to pay attention to just like he says. I think it's very poignant. It actually goes so far over the line in terms of what is acceptable by Second Amendment enthusiasts that I'm actually shocked that people don't bring this up. And oh how socialists love to make lists. Especially lists that can be used to deny citizens their basic freedoms. And now some people are calling for a new list of anyone, anyone who has sought mental health care to deny them their Second Amendment rights.

2:02:54 Look, and this is really important, and you never hear this on the national media. So I want to say it to all of you now, and I need your help in telling all of America this because it's the truth. The National Rifle Association originated the National Instant Check System. It was our bill. No one on the prohibited persons list should ever have access to a firearm. No killer, no felon, no drug dealer. And anyone adjudicated as mentally incompetent or a dangerous to society should be added to the check system and prevented from getting their hands on a gun.

2:03:43 But watch what I released three years ago, and the media machine all over the country, they so callously and completely ignored it. Watch this. Here's what the media won't tell you. The NRA has fought for 20 years to put the records of those adjudicated mentally incompetent into the National Instant Check System. And until the politicians demand that they are submitted, killers who are legally prohibited from owning firearms will walk into gun stores and pass every background check they take. So if they really wanted to make a difference, the media would lead every newscast with a reminder that the names of millions of violent felons, criminal gangbangers, and adjudicated mentally incompetent and dangerous people are missing from the background check system.

2:04:40 I'm very confused now. It goes on and on and on with even more examples of the stuff the NRA has done. Yes, you should be confused. That's the idea. And the whole thing makes you wonder who's really against the guns? Are these people sincere? Or they actually want this violence to continue so they can point the finger at the Republicans? What evidence is there that lawmakers have not have thwarted the NRA's efforts to get mentally incompetent people on their list. What evidence? Well, he goes on, that movie that he made three years ago goes on for about ten minutes. Oh, because I need to watch that? Okay. That would be useful, but the point is is that a lot of the stuff that people say they want to do

2:05:28 They blame the NRA because the NRA's giving everybody so much money that's why they're not doing it. Maybe the NRA's two-faced and they are trying, you know, saying one thing and doing another, but I don't really think so. I got to look into this. That's very interesting. Especially since he said, well, you know how socialists and commies like to make lists, but they seem to be making the list. I know that's somewhat ironic. Here's another, I have another NRA clip which would be good to lead. I have the same clip. I'm happy to play yours because for me it was an Ask John business economic question. Where did you get the clip? Mine is 17 seconds, yours is 28. All right, play mine. But just so you know, it's the exact same title. My clip says NRA discounts, your clip says NRA discounts.

2:06:21 Yeah, that's great. Well play yours. Hertz is the latest company to end a partnership with the NRA. The company announced in a Twitter message that they're ending their rental car discount program with them. MetLife Insurance, Wyndham Hotels, Avis and Budget are also pulling their affiliation with the group over its response to the Parkland Florida shooting. Alright, is yours different? It's the same, but it's different. Moving Company, Allied Van Lines ended a similar program. Insurance company MetLife has also decided to cut ties with the National Rifle Association. And finally, Silicon Valley-based antivirus company Symantec stopped its discount program.

2:07:18 Do you think that these types of boycotts, which are, it smells of Media Matters, you know, it smells like David Brock, it reeks of all of those guys all over this. Does it A, make a difference to the NRA and its members? B, could it potentially backfire or economically hurt the companies who are publicly denouncing the NRA? And these programs are well known, it's like the AARP or even the ARL. This is where I disagree with you. I never heard of any of these discount deals. Are you an NRA member? No.

2:07:55 Well, then they're not marketing it very well. That's what I'm saying. That's the first thing that came to mind when I heard this clip. I said, what? I can get a discount at Hertz. If I'm an NRA member, I can get a discount here. I get discount there. I never knew there were these discounts. I know there's discounts for AARP and some Costco. Yeah, well, even the Amateur Radio Relay League. Yeah, we have car rental and health insurance, of course, health insurance. We're old geezers on the oxygen tank. We have health insurance Through you know, well, I don't have it through them, but you can get all kinds of stuff I didn't know NRA and but it makes sense. They have it. It's you know, it's well now that they mention it, but I had no clue I had no idea that there was all these deals. Do you think you could get if you remember now? Do you think that this could backfire or that people will now go and boycott those companies because they're boycotting the NRA could there be any

2:08:49 No, I think the NRA should, I think they got him painted into a corner. They don't have, I mean it's been doable, I mean the last time that anti-boycott went the right way was when Sean Hannity, some guys pulled out and they made a big stink and now this guy's got a bunch of flack and they had to start advertising again. The NRA is under this current leadership And again, I think you just pointed it out, I noticed, I did notice but I didn't think about it as a bad thing, but the guy talks about the communists and socialists want to make lists and we want to make lists. I don't think this guy that runs the NRA is really that good. I think he's a bonehead.

2:09:28 I mean, in fact, everything, that whole speech, there's nothing worse than a speech that this guy gave, the speech that he gave at the CPAC. There's nothing worse than a speech where you tell everybody all the stuff that nobody knows, all the goodwill you're doing. It tells me that you haven't been doing a good job of getting the word out that you've been doing this, because it was all news to me. My God, the NRA is almost like a podcast. No one's ever heard it. Yeah, and it reminds me of other things I've seen. It reminds me of Microsoft in the day when they were doing that during the days of Vista, where they did one of the stupidest ad campaigns ever. It was, they came out and they showed, they said, here's the new operating system of the future. And they had these, and they were showing people some of the crazy stuff you can do with this new operating system of the future. And everybody was jacked up.

2:10:20 And then they like took the curtain away, says it's actually Vista. It's not the operating system of the future. So what the ad says that we're so stupid that we can't even promote this operating system of the future when it's right in front of you because this kind of apologetic, they don't realize it's an, I think it's called an apologia. They don't even realize when they're doing it that they're pointing out how crappy they are at managing their own business. And I think that that's what this guy at the NRA just did with this speech. It's like holy shit. And so then all this bad stuff happens, they get all the discounts removed from these wimpy companies that'll roll over and you just blow on them.

2:11:05 Well, he's... I don't think there'll be any feedback because I don't think the NRA's got the clout that they had. Yeah, I don't think they have the money either. We've looked at the money, we've looked at what they put into politicians' pockets and again, it's all just abuse. It's abuse by mainly Democrats but Republicans are doing it too. Abusing children to go yell, hey, hey, ho, ho, NRA's got to go. Which is completely meaningless and they just want to make every and you know They're always pointing to the people who are receiving money who receive campaign money and oh gee, they're all Republicans So don't vote for them in 2018. That's what this is all about and sadly We are the lone voice in the wind telling the children what's going on? So if you have children you need to weaponize them against this egregious Now that you bring that up. I do have one more clip that involves guns. I

2:11:59 The theaters around here, Cinemark chain, has decided to ban bags. You can't come in with your purse, unless the person, some of them let you bring a purse, but most of them won't even do that. Can I bring my clutch? Don't I don't know okay, probably not oh It's a great accessory, but there's a very interesting little twist in this story that at least for me Was a very bad sign. This is Yeah, I'm sorry play your own tall about 13 inches if you've got a handbag like this you won't be able to bring it in if you've got one even like this well

2:12:35 That's too wide. You'd have to leave that home as well. The decision comes as a national discussion takes place surrounding gun safety just a week after 17 died in a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida and six years after 12 were killed during a Cinemark theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. I think I think it's a good idea just for the safety of citizens with everything that's been happening recently. I think a smaller bag is definitely a better idea. If an organization is making an effort to keep people safe and that this is the step that they would like to take, then I support that. Cinemark Theater says the large bag ban also doesn't apply to diaper bags and any kind of medical bag. I'm through.

2:13:19 I would want to search all the diaper bags. Could be something lethal in there. What concerned me about this clip was the narrator, the guy who's doing the report. His terminology for what's going on, he says this is about gun safety. Gun safety is about gun safety. This is not about gun safety. Gun safety would be handing out a gun to everybody in the theater and showing them how to use it. Yes, that is a good point. That is a word that's going to... yes. The meaning of the word is changing. You're taking the word gun safety and you're exploiting it, is one way of putting it, but it's more than that. You're twisting it. So gun safety is now a bad thing. I think we should track this. This may get legs.

2:14:07 And that reminds me, what is the NRA real... What is the NRA? What was the purpose of the NRA? Gun safety. Yes. I happen to know that. Gun safety. Isn't that their slogan? Be safe! Yeah, gun safety. About gun safety. What is their slogan? Let's go take a look. Well, I know gun safety is one of their main reasons to be. Yeah, that's what they're talking about. But I... When the guy says that this is about gun safety, it's not about gun safety. Let's see if they have a slogan. Hmm. They don't have a slogan. We need to come up with a slogan for that. No, they need a new guy and a new slogan. Yeah, that guy is no good. And they need a slogan. How about just a slogan? I'm looking at their website right now. Nothing. Nothing at all. That's really... that's... dumb. Let's see. The slogan, gun safety is our business, would be a good slogan. Just off the top of my head. Yeah, I would like that. I would like that. No? Well, you know what they also do? Ah, okay.

2:15:06 They have the carry guard thing. That's a big deal for them. That is what they're always promoting. That's what that Dana Lash woman does. And that's if you carry the gun, you want to get the special carry guard insurance from the NRA so that if you kill someone in self-defense you have the best lawyers to... that is there... We don't need... yeah, this is one of this... that may be where they're going after the operation. There you go. The gold standard in carry training. So you get training, you get these special insurance. This is what everyone should want really. It should be mandatory.

2:15:43 Get the insurance. This is what it's all bitching about. Yep, just like a car Okay, you get some insurance, which I'm sure is not cheap, but through you know a big membership You're right. Maybe that's what they're going after try and get whoever is behind. Let's see Lockton the seed locked in affinity administers comprehensive personal firearms a bill of liability insurance So they're going after probably trying to get locked in unless they may be specific. It's not available in New York Lockton. There you go. Privately owned independent insurance brokerage firm. Uh-huh. We got to put the independent guys out of business maybe? I don't know. There's something to it. There's something going on. But play the beginning of that same clip again. You'll hear the fire, the gun safety thing. It's very, at the very beginning. It's like it catches you off guard and puts it in your brain. It's a bit too tall, about 13 inches. If you've got a handbag like this, you won't be able to bring it in. If you've got one even like this, well,

2:16:46 That's too wide. You'd have to leave that home as well. The decision comes as a national discussion takes place surrounding gun safety. Oh, yes, a national discussion around gun safety. Good catch. Good catch. I think we'll see more of that. I think you're right. I think they're going to start to discombobulate the concept of gun safety with the shooting. Well, I tell you, if my kid were here now and the kid were younger in school, whatever, I mean all I can see is law enforcement, not all law enforcement, but what we've seen here is law enforcement not caring about the kids, not protecting the kids, and actually saying, we don't want you to be able to protect your kids, so you can't have any guns. There's something wrong with that.

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2:28:57 We discussed this after the show. Maybe he knows that there's a hashtag me too moment coming for his organization. Yeah, he's gonna get out possibly for him. So he's like, well, why not just take the $600,000 hit and get thrown out? Take the billion dollars when I have to sell the league and at least I won't be shamed as being a an a-hole. There's a new twist, not that part, not a real twist, but where this whole thing came from, where he made his criticism that got him the $600,000 fine, I think is kind of interesting. And there's live in, though. Mickey Eriser one time fined half a million dollars for getting into some wine and saying something about Donald Sterling on Twitter. And then this guy, you've got a situation where Mark Cuban is just on Dr. J's podcast. He's like, I'll help an old timer, I'll do his podcast.

2:29:46 I'll do a favor next thing you know bang it cost me $600,000. Did you even know dr. J had a podcast? Thanks so that gave me the ISO who doesn't have a podcast at this point, I'm sure Yes, it's a fine thing I invented there. It's just a commodity piece of shit Everybody's got one. It's like it's like a belly button or another piece of your anatomy. Everybody has one. That's right. It's true. It's true And I thought I was also surprised. Dr. J is an old basketball player. Sure Julius Irving 76ers. Yeah, you got

2:30:30 Well, I think I think we're still technically kind of in our in our hashtag me too moment And now it's time for your sexual harassment update Yeah, and Well, there's a couple of new cases that came out With it one. That's very surprising to me, but we start with well actually this is from the UK children rights activist Peter Newell and Jailed for child abuse. That's not really a hashtag me too, but just I'll throw the pedo bears in there then we have Lawrence Krauss famous atheist and liberal crusader and in certain whisper networks a well-known problem With women coming forward alleging sexual harassment will his skeptic fan base believe the evidence Never heard of I've never heard of the guy either but this next guy caught my eye because it was an article from the Austin American statesman and

2:31:32 Women describe 14 years of Austin Opera maestros lewd talk and touches Right here in Austin. Oh, no Yes in the week since Austin Opera's conductor was fired amidst allegations of harassment Seven women have come forward to describe a culture of permissiveness that they say allowed Richard Buckley to touch women inappropriately and engage in lewd talk because He was a star I like us. Yeah Well, here's what they say. The women told the American Statesman that Buckley, who served as the opera's conductor and artistic director for 14 years, regularly touched women's buttocks, commented on their bodies in a sexual manner, made crass jokes, and gave employees unwanted massages.

2:32:21 Opera executives... This massage thing keep coming into the picture. It's like code. Oh, well, it's a star thing, I'll tell you. Opera executives and board members knew about Buckley's behavior but failed to intervene because of the celebrated maestro's talent, the women said. Now this is very interesting. They, I mean, first of all, a great opportunity, which they didn't do, the statesmen, to bring in the Trump grab-and-buy-the-pussy-when-you're-a-star. I mean, come on. What a fail that is. And this massage thing, it's like a show business thing. It's what groupies do when they want to sleep with you. And you're backstage and they come up and like everyone's hanging out, whatever. Like, hey, can I give you a neck, a back rub, a neck massage? That's the code. That's the signal. Now why he was doing it, I know he got his signals mixed up clearly. And why isn't the board resigning if they knew about this?

2:33:20 Oh, they should go. They should all go. In fact, they should fold the whole Austin opera operation. The whole operation should be shut down. Shut it down! Who in Austin goes to the operas? They play crappy country and western on that street. What street is that? J Street? D Street? I can't remember. 6th Street. 6th Street. K Street. They play country western constantly on that street. One little band after another. Yeah, opera. Opera's no good. Although I have to say I have a happy algo story. Actually, let me close this segment. And this concludes your sexual harassment update. Didn't even ask me if I had a clip. And you closed it. Oh, I'm so sorry. Typically you don't have a clip for... Do you have a clip? No. You're horrible. What a horrible man. I had a great algo moment the other day. First time. First time.

2:34:20 In all my years that an algo did something for me that I thought was simple yet impressively cool. But the pen, no, the Spotify app on my phone went bloop bloop, which it rarely does, gave me a notification. And it said, you listen to Tony Bennett quite often. He'll be playing at the Moody Theater in Austin on April, no, March, no, yeah, April 29th or something like that. Click here to buy tickets. And I clicked and I was one of the first ones and I got great floor tickets right in the front by the stage. That doesn't happen often.

2:35:01 Well, that was a service. That was the that is the first time I was impressed by the algo. Here's the here's the interesting thing Tina got She got a message from Spotify Only her message was go see you know this pokey dope country band because you live in Houston now I don't know how the algo screwed up with her. No, that's bad. Yeah, you know, we're near Houston Oh, but I was very impressed by that. I mean, it's so simple to do it, but they did it and And it worked. Well, that's your one shot. You had your that was your thrill. That's it. It's all downhill from here. I would guess I have a Robo Rosa update Omarosa the trunk

2:35:47 Oh, yes, we need to keep this keep it on top. Yes. This is from Dorian. She watches religiously She said second to the last episode air last night You can tell John it's a shortened season because they say celebrities can't afford to be as isolated for as long as regular people Amorosa dropped one of the most obvious and possibly last points since next episode on Sunday is sure to be very jam-packed. I don't know if they'll have time to slip one in. So they're all having a conversation and someone conveniently says, what was it like the first time you walked into the Oval Office? And Roborosa hits back with her bombshell, which time? The Clinton or the Trump White House?

2:36:31 And of course Marissa says, I only knew about the Trump White House. And here's where Roborosa gives her little excoriation of the press. And to paraphrase she says, of course you did. The media likes to paint a narrative that Trump is surrounded by incompetent people. But I worked in the Clinton White House. In fact, I have my undergraduate, master's and PhD in communications. But when they talk about me, it's always just, oh Omarosa from The Apprentice. Another pro-Trump message. from Roborosa. Wow, we need a jingle for this segment. Unfortunately, the show ends in one week, so we can't do this any good. So I didn't know that she had that she was also in the Clinton. Of course you didn't because of the media. Yeah. And I did certainly didn't know that she had undergrad, master's and PhD in communications. I don't know if that means much, but I don't have it. But it's called Bafa Muffud. Oh, I have a Connecticut School of Broadcasting diploma. I really do.

2:37:31 Yeah, an honorary degree. Oh, yes, I showed up for signal. I'm a Kentucky colonel. So, yeah. Okay. All right. Oh, let's see. I have a little ask Adam. Oh, well, you know what I did because I felt so bad about the last time I found the correct jingle. Ask Adam, ask Adam. Will he know or will he won't? I don't know but here we go. Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah. There we go. What do you think in this clip I would find irksome? The question is, what do I think?

2:38:10 John C. Dvorak would find irksome in this clip. I'm sorry. Oh, that was that was in the clip. I thought it was yours in the clip. Oh, geez. What has taken place with her the last year? She was skating on the junior level this her first full season on the senior level. Terry, she wasn't even in the Olympic team conversation at the beginning of this season. She changed that convo. This is a great new bit you're on. I love it. Convo. Yes, the indiscriminate abbreviating of regular words into shit, I think is the name of the segment. That would be a good segment name. How about this Convo, baby? You're so adorbs when you play those clips. I love it. Adorbs is one of my favorites. That would be good. Yeah, adorbs. I love adorbs.

2:39:09 Convo. Is this just newspeak? Is this what's happening? Well, you know what? What about this? I can't even ask the question. I should have put this in my Me Too segment. This is Jill Abramson talking about Clarence Thomas. So I guess he lied. She feels he lied. He lied. This is our Supreme Court Justice. Long dong silver. The pubic hair on the Coke can if you're old enough to remember. Is that a pubic hair I see on that Coke can? But Jill Abrams is, of course, the OGH, OGBH actually, the original gangsta Berkley Hummer. And even though the quality of this is somewhat dubious, her humming is exquisite. You write that this may be, in your view, an impeachable offense. What would make these events impeachable offenses?

2:40:04 Well, perjury is an impeachable offense and there's no statute of limitations. And so I think that the evidence that I collected and present in this piece shows overwhelmingly that Clarence Thomas lied during the hearings in 1991. She is such a good hummer. What is she up to? She thinks she's gonna get Clarence Thomas impeached? Apparently she's on some mission. I guess this is, you know, here's the meeting with Hillary. All right, Jill, you take up the flank of the Supreme Court. You gotta change that.

2:40:50 We gotta change the config. Change the config. Change the config. We gotta change the config. We gotta change the config. That is misogynistic, you know. No, I don't think so. We have no evidence she's actually a woman. You know we have this new library in Austin? You say library library. I said library. Okay, I wouldn't say library not in February Mac producer Mac caught this on the face bag and he sent it to me He said this is a person I follow who lives in Austin now this library a five-minute walk from the common-law condo So I'm going to verify this myself this week. Have you been in this library? Tina has been in the library when it was most of these libraries in these towns like this are dynamite well

2:41:53 Here's the bag post. Lori and I finally visited the new downtown library today. The parking structure was full, so we drove around amidst all the construction nearby until we finally found a spot on the street. The $125 million building is spectacular as it should be for the money. But about half the library's users on this cold, wet day were bums and vagrants, what we politely call homeless. They were sleeping, watching videos on the computers, charging their cell phones. Many had large numbers of bags, one was wearing a plastic bag.

2:42:29 Another was dressed in filthy long underwear. They stank with fierce body odor. None of them was reading a book. It was like being in an urban bus station except the structure was brand new and cost taxpayers $125 million. We did not feel secure. I would not leave belongings unattended or allow a child to be unaccompanied with this clientele. What the city of Austin has created is an expensive well-equipped homelessness homeless shelter Most of the non homeless users weren't reading books or magazines, but using their laptops You don't need a hundred and twenty five million dollar library to provide free Wi-Fi. That's what Starbucks is for We were very disappointed and eager to leave what a waste of money I've been telling you the homeless situation is out of control and now we're becoming just like San Francisco or just Now I'll let him go there then fine

2:43:17 So I'm going to the zoo yesterday with my daughter and there's a special Chinese New Year event. So we go there and two things she spots on the way back she spotted a giant raven with somebody's cheese sandwich or something. But she, I didn't get to see it but she says it was not only it was in a baggie This bird was carrying this thing off. But on the way into the zoo, we're going through some part of town over by the AT&T baseball park and she says, ah, you always know you're in San Francisco when you see somebody pooping on the sidewalk.

2:43:58 I guess she saw something, I was driving so I couldn't look around but she saw it. But she works in the city, walking dogs and so she sees people pooping. Because San Francisco is just a giant poop, poop, it's a giant poop on the sidewalks place. There's poop everywhere. But yeah, I can see that's going on in Austin. If I was homeless, I'd go into the library. I can't wait. Yeah, no, you okay. Here's the deal if you're here's your assignment. I have an assignment. I'm ready boss bring a camera or your iPhone or something of course take enough pictures that I can use a few in the newsletter you got it Maybe I'll do some selfies with some of the homeless. Oh oh Man I just you got excited there for a second You got it no I want to see the sprawl of

2:44:54 Yeah, okay, and we'll do that. I'll have Tina come along. She'll be my camera person. I mean my cinematographer. I'm sorry Yeah, you need a cinematographer. I do need that a couple stories from around the globe the the Netherlands you recall that they had a Referendum which is legal was legal in the Netherlands to have a referendum about the they did really the Dutch said the majority of the Dutch in the referendum said we really don't want Ukraine to be part of Europe just yet. We don't want the Ascension Agreement to be all hunky-dory for them. We still don't know what happened with the 200 of our fellow citizens who were shot down over Ukraine. We haven't got an explanation for that. So the way that Dutch Parliament just solved that is they held a vote and 76 to 69

2:45:45 The entire referendum clause in the law books is scrapped. No more referendum for you, slave. You voted the wrong way. What? Yeah, so you can't do a referendum in the Netherlands anymore. Done. Over and out. How can the public put up with that kind of crap? They're all vaccinated. I don't know, they're docile. Chemtrails. That's the worst story of the day. The best story... Well, I have a bad story too. I'll sell you a happy story, for us at least it's happy. Save the happy story. Okay, go ahead with your story. I have a bad story. This is a famous, apparently now because we spend so much money overseas, billions and billions of dollars putting roads in Afghanistan. We of course can't maintain our own highways anywhere. Even though we have a highway fund like... What? No, go ahead. I'm just wondering, is this a story about Afghanistan?

2:46:42 No. Okay, because I'm mentioning that Afghanistan gets a lot of the road money. Yes. They blow up a hole and they fill it up and fix it. And the United States, I mean, the highway fund for California is so bad. I know what they stole the money. The money's being stolen by the corrupt individuals. In fact, they're starting to show off with the corruption thing. I think there's a good way to end it. So there is a notorious pothole in Warren, Michigan, that is so famous. that they even do a whole feature a bit about this pothole which I guess if you hit it and which is very likely to happen if it's raining because you don't know there's a pothole there it just knocks your tire just flattens your tire immediately. You are in one stretch of becoming an obstacle course as drivers try to dodge the dangerous craters Tim Pamplin has that part of our coverage.

2:47:29 Currently there are 10 disabled vehicles, flat tires along Mound. Make that 11 vehicles with flat tires. 12. Here comes another one. So yes, there's a problem in Warren. It's bad. It's real bad. It goes all the way across the lane. Drivers along this stretch of Mound are at their wits end as another driver falls victim. Went home and I had to know I had some road flares meet mr. Harold genuine concerned citizen That's right come out here and give him probably 10-15 minutes Somebody not hitting them holes. Yes, how old's flares lasted for about 15 minutes and provided a respite ridiculous a cop

2:48:07 Cops come by before when all them other cars were there, but they gotta... gotta patch it. I don't know where they're at. Once Harold's flares were snuffed out, the pothole was back in business. What's with the British accent though? Well, I have no idea. In fact, I'm wondering how you get hired for local newscasting in Warren, Michigan. Sounds credible. You get a British accent, you sound credible. That's it. You sound like you can't pronounce the right words. I can't imagine how this stuff works. But at least no one had to go to hospital. But that's another thing, it probably introduces that kind of weirdness. But yeah, this big hole I guess in the road, nobody gives a shit. Because they can't afford it. Well you said Afghanistan and that's where my story comes from. Because yes, our money is going to fix roads in Afghanistan and for a very specific reason.

2:48:54 And of all people leading the charge, finally, finally, we have something to watch again on C-SPAN that actually holds my interest. Marco Rubio is worried about the Chinese. At a Senate intelligence hearing last week on worldwide threats, intelligence agencies outlined their concerns over Russia's meddling in U.S. elections. But they also talked about China and how China is projecting soft power through colleges and universities in the United States. Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida pointed to Confucius Institutes. I wrote a letter to five higher education institutions in Florida about the Confucius Institutes, which are funded by Chinese government dollars at U.S. schools. And it is my view that they're complicit in these efforts to covertly influence public opinion and to teach half-truths designed to present Chinese history, government or official policy in the most favorable light. So if the FBI is monitoring these Confucius Institutes, are they saying that they're concerned with some potential criminal activity going on?

2:49:57 Yeah, Christopher, I didn't go quite as far as saying that, but the FBI director essentially said that they've been watching the institutes, as he used the word, watching them warily and in certain instances have developed appropriate investigative steps. So that was as far as we got in terms of detail, but certainly it did suggest that the Jesus Institutes have been at least a subject of investigative attention by the FBI, if nothing else. Good. Why were you groaning? I just remembered something. Okay, they're groaning about the clip. Well, so we're taking on China and Afghanistan is right now front and central. A couple of articles came out, homework for people who are interested in learning a little bit more. You'll find it in the show notes. Go to nashownotes.com. You'll find the episode there in the archive and then go into the show notes and look for the pipelines.

2:50:45 Professor William Engdahl, who I've read all his books and follow all of his, he's a big pipeline war type of guy. So he has a great article he wrote about how the Chinese have been desperately wanting, as we talked about, I knew what was happening, desperately want to adopt Afghanistan into their three belt no road strategy as they want to go through Afghanistan. And we are stopping that by our huge troop buildup and by this wonderful article that came out two days ago. This is the New York Times headline, Afghanistan Breaks Ground on 1,127 Mile Peace Pipeline. This is the big one that we've been trying to get done since UNICAL proposed it in, was it 1968 or something? It's going on forever.

2:51:40 I'll just read a little bit. This is the TAPI known as the Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India pipeline. This has been the the big monster. This is why we're in Waziristan, which is right on the Pakistani border, which we talked about before even drones started showing up over there. This is why we're deployed all the way in Kandahar. It's to protect this pipeline and what's happening now is the Taliban Taliban banana, they're so happy. They're saying, you know what? I think we can find some common ground here, America. Why don't we protect the pipeline over here?

2:52:17 So finally we've got this is what Rex Tillerson wanted this everybody's wanted to do this for 30 years as far as I can remember And it also will have you know fiber-optic cables and a railroad and it's going to connect Afghanistan or Turkmenistan which is where the gas is it's going to thwart the other piece pipeline Which is the Iran Iraq? um Iran it was at Iran Iraq the No, the Iran-Pakistan-India, sorry. Iran-Pakistan-India, IPI, that's what it's called. Which would come from the South Pars gas field in Iran. But now you know why we're there. This troop buildup is to stop China and not let Iran slash the Russians do anything. And we're going to protect it all the way, all the way down Afghanistan, into Pakistan, into India. Good work everybody. Maybe you won't have to kill anybody now.

2:53:12 You got what you want. Well, that's not gonna happen. It's too much fun. Yeah, sounds right. And then between the poppies, so they can, somebody said, no, what do they, you know, somebody said a letter in saying, we get all our heroin from Mexico. Because now they bust a bunch of stuff. So what's the point of being in Afghanistan protecting the poppy fields? And I said, it's for the Europeans and the Russians. Yes. That's where that poppy stuff goes. They get the Afghan stuff. They get the Afghan stuff. Yeah, they get the primo stuff, apparently. Yeah, we get the crappy stuff from Mexico. Two social justice clips. Mexican brown. Two social justice warrior clips to end up with from my side. I know you got to go, but do you want to play any clips?

2:53:58 Well, I got a couple. I got a little homeless clip. Oh, well, how come you didn't stick that to the library? I wasn't paying that close of attention. Oh, okay. Thanks. Let's play the homeless clip. I'm looking for it. No, wait, don't play that homeless clip. Play Amnesty International report. They get so they have a big thing, a big embargo and they're gonna and then I played this clip and I said all the Amnesty International does is bitch about us. Our Secretary General, Salil Shetty, will give an overview of the report and the key themes that Amnesty is highlighting this year. Next, my colleague Erica Guevara-Rosas, who's the Americas Director for Amnesty, will speak to some of the human rights themes in our hemisphere, including the United States. And then our third speaker, Tarana Hassan, Director of our Crisis Work, will be able to speak to Amnesty's work on the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar, as well as the situation in Syria and any other crises that have been arising over the last several weeks and the last year.

2:55:02 Thank you all for joining us this morning. So one year ago, millions of people, not just in the United States, but across the world, were watching anxiously to see what a Trump presidency would yield after an election campaign of hateful and xenophobic and sexist rhetoric. They were also looking with trepidation across Europe where electoral races in France, Netherlands, Austria and Germany were showcasing similar rhetoric

2:55:42 and the cynical use of fear and hatred. Combined with already harsh crackdowns and identity-based violence in many countries, it was a bleak outlook. A year later, we take stock, and what we find that in 2017, to a very alarming extent, sadly, the hateful rhetoric crossed into hateful reality. In the USA we saw the reinstatement of the global gag rule depriving millions of women and girls worldwide of vital health care. The travel bans aimed at mainly... Hold on, hold on. What global gag rule? What is he talking about, this Jamoke? This is the worst. This guy goes, he's talking about we stopped funding some operation that sent stuff to Africa.

2:56:38 I mean it's not as though the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation don't send anything. But it was part of the Planned Parenthood kind of money being... Oh, okay. No, he goes on and on, but he starts with Trump, Trump's the... This is Amnesty International, this British operation. I looked into him, you can play the rest of the clip in a minute. I looked into, you know, I didn't really, I knew Obama, he always bitched about being a bunch of foot fakes. And so, you know, I said, these guys are getting on my nerves, you know, blaming it. Now they're blaming torture, worldwide torture on Trump. And in fact, they even mentioned that time where he says, well, I think there were good people on both sides. They're an activist group. They're an activist group. Yeah. So I was looking back in 19, 1995 to 1998, somebody did a, uh,

2:57:24 a breakdown of all their press releases and their criticisms of various countries. And the number one country in the whole list of African countries everywhere in the world, what was the number one country where they're bitching about how bad we are? Oh, I gave it away. 49 criticisms of the United States, 12 of Cuba. Wait, wait, wait, are we number one? Yeah, we're number one. Woo! Foam finger number one, baby, woo! Once again, America does it it's like it's unbelievable this list but this operation you're right There's just a bunch of phonies. This is a bullcrap operation. Anyway, play the rest and you'll see what I'm talking about USA We saw the reinstatement of the global gag rule

2:58:09 depriving millions of women and girls worldwide of vital health care. The travel bans aimed at mainly Muslim countries, the dramatic cutback on refugee resettlement numbers leaving thousands more in limbo. and a new climate of permissiveness for xenophobia and hatred arising from President Trump's failure to condemn it when he saw it. Peddling hatred and fear against whole groups of people based on who they are ultimately leads only in one direction When leaders foster it or turn a blind eye the endgame is horrific and literally fatal Gibroni man Go to Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia's yet. No complaints. No, of course not fabulous. Oh, thanks very depressing

2:59:05 Yeah, well, okay. I thought you had a happy clip at the end. Well, and you have to go. So I'll play the last... I gotta go, right? I gotta go. I gotta play the last two clips. Social justice warrior clips. What could have possibly gone wrong with this? We think we're bad. Candanavia, who also have school shootings as we heard earlier, they've taken this political... Well, they're there to the extreme. Canada has got huge problems in this regard, yes. Changes in management are happening too, but like most... This is about... Don't know how to pronounce it Dalhousie University, Duluth II Dalhousie I used to know how to pronounce Dalhousie is how I pronounce it changes in management are happening too But like most Dalhousie University's executive leadership still lacks visible minorities. So Dal is taking steps to close the gap Restricting who's eligible for a senior management position in student affairs because of a low representation of racially visible and indigenous people among our senior leadership

3:00:05 at Dalhousie, that in the circumstances of this search we were going to restrict applicants to only racially visible and Indigenous applicants at this time. Excluding others from applying has generated some backlash, including this Toronto newspaper headline asking if it's an example of reverse discrimination. But this Dalhousie student whose activism has brought her face to face with senior Dal management says greater overall inclusion is critical. Even sitting at that table I felt very uncomfortable as a racialized student trying to connect with other people. I love this new term racialized student. That's very broad.

3:00:46 I don't even know what it means. This is the first time Dow has imposed these restrictions to fill a senior administration job, but they have been applied before, notably in hiring 11 faculty members since 2012. We're bringing something new to the table. Jay Perazrum is one of Dell's so-called diversity hires. It's not just that I have brown skin, it's that I bring brown issues into my teaching, into my service, into my everyday work. Hey! That's what Jay saw on the street. Brown issues! It's that I bring brown issues into my teaching, into my service, into my everyday work. But some advocates for disadvantaged groups don't like the job posting. This Nova Scotia activist points out DAL is cherry picking who's eligible and excluding the disabled. Why not include them in that policy as well, which is best practice around the world when you have an affirmative action program. DAL says there's a reason for that exclusion. People with disabilities are not underrepresented at the university.

3:01:48 The job posting is being launched this week. It could take months to select a winning candidate. Yeah Way to go Canada Racialized students I've never heard of that. What does it mean? Well, it was a Muslim girl who was saying that so when you racialize I think it means that you are Unrepresented or underrepresented and therefore you're racialized. Mm-hmm That's what I think it means. Well, let's look it up. Well, we're still here. Okay before I can I'll Let that uber stay out there. I'm gonna He'll keep the meter running. Don't worry. We are going to find out the term racialized. The password is racialized What did you find out John? Racialization is a whole wiki entry. Oh, oh

3:02:40 In sociology, racialization or racialization, ethnicalization is the process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such. Wow, so these are people who don't even want to be recognized as part of a group, but they get lumped in as a part of a group. So the Muslim woman is probably, is she white? She's probably something. Brownish. Well, she probably considers herself just a person. She was wearing a hijab. Well, it's just decoration. It's icing on the cake, I tell you. It's like a Christmas star on top of the tree. It's just decoration. Well, we'll be on the lookout for the term. Wait, let me read this. The process of racialization

3:03:36 can affect newly arriving immigrants as well as their second generation children in the United States. The concept of racialized incorporation bridges the idea of assimilation with critical race studies. in general and in the concept of racialization in particular. While immigrants may possess specific ethnic and cultural identities associated with their countries of origin, once they arrive in the US, they are incorporated into a society that is largely organized along the lines of race. The racial hierarchy, it just goes on and on. It's like a long explanation that I still don't fully get. Okay, we'll boil this down to some simple meaning. Let's see if it catches on this term. And I just yearn for the days when school was simple.

3:04:24 And the lunch ladies would do a theme, you know, you have your sloppy joe day, sloppy joe day. I always used to love the lunch ladies. New York University is apologizing for an offensive menu that was created for Black History Month. The dining hall was serving ribs, collard greens, cornbread, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese, and two beverages, Kool-Aid and watermelon flavored water. An investigation determined two employees of the school's food vendor acted independently in creating the menu. They were fired. What? They were fired. Sounds like a great menu. I know. And I think

3:05:01 You know, it would have been good, but no! Racially insensitive. You're racializing. I don't think there's a person black or white in that school that wouldn't have loved ribs and cornbread. It's fantastic. And watermelon water is tasty too. You gotta get with the program, Dvorak. Oh man. Thanks to Albert Felici, Garth, And Tom Starkweather for our end of show mixes. And thank you, producers, for bringing it once again. Dvorak.org slash NA is where you can support us for the next media deconstruction coming to you on Thursday right here on the same no agenda channel you're used to. And I am coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state, FEMA Region 6 on all the governmental maps in the 5 by 9 Cluedio in the common law condo in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

3:05:51 And from there in the Silicon Valley where we were sent out, gave the guy the credit for sending me this little NBC chime. Which doesn't sound anything, well I mean it has the right notes but it's kind of weak. But it's great, I have it now. I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda. Until then, adios, mofos. Watch out now! Maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind. Would you like to say people kind? Say people kind, not mankind. Justin's position is clear. Say people kind, not mankind. Listen to the first verse. Watch out now! Say people kind, not mankind.

3:06:46 There we go, exactly. Neil Macdonald reports, Justin's position is clear. Take people kind, not mankind. Neil Macdonald reports, Justin Trudeau lonely and unpopular. Trudeau the Younger likely won't be as successful as was Trudeau the Elder. We've seen a fair bit of misbehavior but that was the most egregious example. The most egregious example. Neil Macdonald reports. Justin Trudeau lonely and unpopular. Neil Macdonald reports. Justin Trudeau, watch out now. Justin Trudeau, watch out now. Justin Trudeau, watch out now. I got a formula.

3:07:35 It was for the good of the system. Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries elections? Oh, probably. But it was for the good of the system in order to avoid the communists taking over. We don't do that now though, we don't mess around with other people's elections. We don't do that now, though. We don't mess around other people's electricity. Thank you for a very good talk. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Read the book. If it rings true, it is true. Here's the thing about the book. If it rings true, it is true. I have more agenda.

3:08:46 I have no agenda. I know that there's demonic forces. I have no agenda. Hold yourself to accountability. Oh my god, you've been bad. I don't know you haven't. I have no agenda. I have no agenda. We cannot believe a single word. It's club material. He's playing a character. He's a performance artist. You know, I am an actor.

3:09:49 Stay woke! Stay woke! Do you know this guy? It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist. That either you're with us or against us. And the long-term view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the earth, right? How long? Yeah, it's been like a live colonoscopy on television. Stay woke!

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