Episode 1060 · Thursday, 16 August 2018

Austin Beatniks

Economic warfare in Turkey and a landmark Caspian Sea energy pact collide with explosive revelations about the Kennedy assassination and Al Sharpton’s history as a federal informant.

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The Turkish lira's 40% freefall against the U.S. dollar has triggered global contagion fears, specifically threatening European financial institutions like BBVA and BNP Paribas. President Erdogan continues to resist interest rate hikes while the Trump administration doubles steel and aluminum tariffs following the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson. Amidst this economic turmoil, Russia, Iran, and three other nations have signed a landmark agreement to govern the Caspian Sea as a common resource, effectively locking Western military forces out of a region containing 50 billion barrels of oil.

Former mobster Michael Franzese claims the American Mafia orchestrated the assassination of John F. Kennedy as retaliation for Robert Kennedy’s pursuit of organized crime figures. Franzese further alleges that Al Sharpton served as a federal informant for the FBI starting in 1983, participating in a sting operation against boxing promoter Don King. Meanwhile, Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book release has sparked a legal debate over Section 230 protections as Facebook and Twitter face increasing pressure to act as publishers rather than neutral platforms. Reports from San Antonio reveal that Facebook employs manual graders to review every video posted, contradicting claims that AI handles the bulk of content moderation.

Austin City Council meetings have replaced clapping with finger snapping to promote inclusivity, a move mocked as peak beatnik culture during the approval of a new MLS stadium. The episode features a formal knighting ceremony for a high-tier executive producer and a deep dive into the Bird Graveyard Instagram account, which documents the violent backlash against electric scooters in Los Angeles. Michael Franzese concludes with a scathing critique of James Comey, arguing that modern FBI corruption now exceeds the racketeering he witnessed during his time in the Genovese crime family.


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CHAPTER 01 / 34 Discussion

Aretha Franklin Death, Diva Reputation, News Cycle Impact

Aretha Franklin passed away, prompting a shift in the global news cycle and a wave of public retrospectives. While many celebrate her legacy, personal anecdotes describe her as a demanding diva who was difficult to work with. Comparisons are drawn to other music icons like Donna Summer, James Brown, and Van Morrison regarding their professional reputations and the circumstances of their deaths.

aretha franklin· james brown· donna summer· van morrison· news cycle

00:00 If she has another facelift, she's gonna end up with a goatee. On continuous poop patrol and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas in the Clunio. In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where we turn this show into a post-Zephyr show. I'm John C. DeVore It's Crackpot & Buzzkill In The Morning! I believe we've had many a post Zephyr episode Yeah but it went from pre-Zephyr to a post because it ran

00:42 down the tracks just as you got cut off. Okay, mark it down in your book did you get the serial number and registration everything? You foamer! The new efforts have big tails Well uh...the news cycle of course changed dramatically just overnight Yeah Aretha Franklin died Oh yeah she was on her last legs Rip everybody rip love and light Everyone's posting selfies. Yeah, look here is me with Aretha I never worked with her but i worked with a lot of people who worked on big shows with her and she was pretty universally hated as a diva and very very bossy demanding apparently just not very nice And that's my eulogy Great! Bring him up on stage ladies and gentlemen

01:39 I'm sorry, you know that's a wonder. You're not in the industry anymore That's all I heard it's all I've heard all my life about her is like I'm like I'm not gonna fake it. I'm not Same thing about Donna Summers who we knew as a puter shop see I disagree Donna summer I did work with what a sweetheart well It's nothing case when she got older maybe well one of our producers played the bass on I feel love Okay, well maybe he knows. Van Morrison is supposed to be hard to work with! Yeah who wants to work with van morrison?

02:16 anymore. Anyway, so you know that does make a difference in the news cycle and everyone's because of the minute there was an announcement she was sick everyone's putting together their retrospectives what we'll see a lot of respect puns oh yeah R-E-S P-E C-T yes now I uh the funny thing about this particular one first Mimi tells me about all over reason is gonna die And then Jay tells me about it, and it's like... A lot of people die during the year that are old and famous. Yeah but she spans four decades or four generations almost of listening audiences. It started with James Brown but nobody told me he was gonna die when he did Because he died during plastic surgery! Which is not a good way to go No That's like you expect waking up fresh and young looking with some bruising for a couple days

CHAPTER 02 / 34 Discussion

Turkey Economic Crisis, Lira Freefall, Global Contagion Fears

Turkey is facing a severe financial crisis as the Turkish lira falls by over 40% against the U.S. dollar. Investors fear the turmoil could spill over into the global economy, specifically affecting European banks like Spain's BBVA and France's BNP Paribas. While President Erdogan resists raising interest rates, the historical context of the Ottoman Empire and the unrecognized Armenian genocide are noted as missing elements in standard Western education.

turkey· recep tayyip erdogan· turkish lira· ottoman empire· armenian genocide

03:14 Yeah, but not dead. No say wake up you don't expect to wake up dead never want to wake up dead Let's see I did a lot of You know turkey is becoming a problem We've been looking at Turkey for years have always identified its it's growing issues and but what is so interesting to me? Is that The Ottoman Empire I think is taught in school as a timeline with the big cloud around it, you know? And here's the Ottoman Empire and then after the Ottoman Empire all this happened. But really what went on during the Ottoman Empire and that Turkey or Constantinople which is now Istanbul was the center of the universe...I don't think it's really taught in schools! I certainly didn't get even more than a summary of what was going on

04:05 Do you know? Yeah, it would be part of world history courses taught in college. College level yeah and in the Netherlands... It would be mentioned in passing in high school level And it was a friend of mine said, oh you should watch the promise which I think came out last year this movie. It's about the Armenian genocide...it is love story, a love triangle type story and it's a personalized story but gives your pretty good impression of what was going on when the Turks massacred the Armenians which has never been officially recognized by any Western leader I don't think

04:42 I think Trump may have touched on it. Hmm, well he would be the first according to the book of knowledge but holy crap man that was some...that was not a and we just kind of stood by like yeah okay We weren't big world powers then right early 1900's Right, we didn't want to be drawn into anything Yeah but you know there was a lot going on where we had naval fleets that could have done something Probably not. Anyway, here's a report about Turkey It's more in-depth than most especially coming from euro news the financial turmoil continues for turkey investors are heading for safe havens and Markets in the US and some in Asia have been losing ground amid fears turkeys crisis could spill over into the world economy The Turkish lira has been in freefall with lost almost move around on Monday against the u.s Dollar and in the past year

05:38 it's fallen by more than 40%. Turkey Central Bank has acted to get more money into the banking system but has resisted calls to increase the main interest rate which currently stands at 17.75% an increase could help attract investors who've taken fright over growing debt and deteriorating relations with United States Well, as of May Turkey's private companies owe more than $240 billion and it is this debt that has helped private consumption grow the economy at a pace that many now believe is unsustainable. That means foreign banks could face big losses if those companies can't repay their debts.

06:20 Spain's BBVA is the most exposed with Turkey accounting for 13% of its loans. Italy's Unicredit, the Netherlands ING and France's BNP Paribas are also well and truly on the hook Now is this in any manner analogous to Greece? I don't think so. No? Greece is being squeezed by the central bank of the EU, right? These guys are just being sanctioned by the United States to a spiral. True true true. I guess maybe more that there's foreign banks that have interest in them and they're going... Oh yeah well that's gonna be the case with any these countries they always everybody's intertwined Could this trigger the Armageddon? You know personally somebody else asked me this one of the Lib Joe's

07:09 And I said, I don't think they have the leverage as an economy to really trigger it. It's not big at all. It's not No we already looked at this on the last of society a little bigger in Argentina right but if If they go never and that's been in and out of business for years That has never triggered anything But I guess contagion would be what people are worried about if it catches onto other countries and investors start pulling their money out that could That could then maybe start to affect the euro I don't think so. They're not in the euro, they're not in the euro zone. No if it goes to other countries? I don't see it happening Okay well good but we just...I'm looking for the trigger you know You've predicted this certainly economic downturn Yeah I look at the trigger too, I just don't see this being it It'd be convenient The timing would be good

08:00 I just don't see it. It's a weak sister, doesn't have enough oomph to really cause an issue." Well there is a lot being written about it now and more about China... China is really the...I think China is the one that keeping on because those guys we don't even know what going on they're really fake their numbers. Yeah you can tell its black box. Yes exactly I mean, that's a bad...I had the report on this from CBS and now you brand that? The CBS report sucks. It was good report, you were right! Where is your CBS report? Oh here it is. This is an economic war according to Turkey and the enemy is America its NATO ally

CHAPTER 03 / 34 Discussion

Andrew Brunson Detention, US Sanctions, CIA Coup Theories

The detention of American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey has triggered U.S. sanctions and a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs by the Trump administration. Turkey has retaliated with its own tariffs on U.S. goods and a boycott of American electronics. Internal sources suggest the economic chaos may be a "soft coup" attempt, potentially involving the CIA and the Gulen movement based in Pennsylvania.

andrew brunson· recep tayyip erdogan· mike pence· fethullah gulen· cia

08:47 The Turkish lira has been falling in value for months, but last week it plummeted 20% because of a dispute with Washington over this man Andrew Brunson an evangelical pastor from North Carolina who's lived in Turkey for more than 20 years and is accused by the Turkish government of terrorism and spying. Pastor Brunson has been detained here in Turkey for nearly two years. The US says it's seen no credible evidence against him I have a message on behalf of the President of the United States of America Release pastor Andrew Brunson now or be prepared to face the consequences

09:30 Those consequences are US sanctions and a doubling of tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum announced by President Trump on Friday. In retaliation, Turkey's doubled tariffs on US passenger cars coal and other goods and announced a boycott of us electronic goods these angry Turks tore up fake dollar bills in protest. Many people here believe this crisis is all the fault of the US, even though experts have been warning of danger signs for months some blaming Turkey's authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdogan There was a video going around about a couple of Turks smashing iPhones with a hammer did you see that? Yes I did And at the end you hear an iPhone ringtone

10:21 It's like, we're smashing these iPhones except for the one I have in my pocket. Yeah very very funny! I did get a note from one of our producers who is extremely in-the-know on Turkey and...I'm not gonna mention his name because I don't know if he wants this attributed to him but I'll share it because you know we have a couple things in here the failed coup this guy who was the pastor who may or may not be sorry Brunson yeah who may or may not be spy But here's what our source says. Does the economic... The current economic chaos in Turkey seemed like a soft coup, ala the methods outlined in the Economic Hitman. Short answer yes! Can Erdogan keep the Turkish economy upright without IMF support now? Maybe not. Banks in Germany France and Spain will be pushing for IMF loans to back up the Turkish economy they have large loans on their books to Turkey which we just heard. I think said banks and others would welcome more stable leadership in the country enter... ...the Gülen movement there he is our friend in Pennsylvania in the Poconos

11:21 While roundly hated in Turkey, they have strong support in Germany and the USA may be seen as more easily controllable. This actually makes things come together for me earlier this year I talked with someone involved in the Brunson matter an American I was told that Mike Pence and the Turks had reached a deal but factions within the CIA And State Department were working to frustrate their agreement in order to make Erdogan look as bad as possible Heard last month while in DC that Brunson would be released from prison after Trump himself had negotiated the release of Turkish Hamas courier Tourists being held in Israel, which I think happened Yes The Turk was released but Erdogan only released brunch into house arrest in Turkey Not what was envisioned about 10 days ago. Everyone formally announced a turkey would join the bricks. I missed that news Did you hear this?

12:10 No, not at all. So it'd be the Brixit. I would guess that these two things may have personally angered Trump enough to impose sanctions. Let's see what else does he say here? Erdogan's government are very still very pissed off at Gulen has not been extra night extradited back to Turkey They've repeatedly stated Brunson will have to go through the Turkish judicial process when the DOJ here blathers on about lack of evidence and how The extradition process is still under review a tit-for-tat situation. It's likely that Brunson had some interaction with the gulen movement he lived in Izmir for 25 years the city in which Gulen first gained following and

12:47 Given the Gulen movement's use of interfaith dialogue, which has been very successful in recruiting gullible sympathizers and religious circles around the world I wouldn't be surprised if Brunson was caught up in some nefarious goodness BS However, I've seen no evidence that he was a spy or working on behalf of Gulen during the coup attempt in 2016 under the state emergency in Turkey A lot of secret testimony etc. Has been gathered but is not released providing an opaqueness to prosecutions of this type So it's just reading this, it seems to me that we know Gulen was put in the Poconos by CIA. They took care of his paperwork and everything he has got his compound up there He probably was used for the failed coup attempt which I think is universally recognized now Was a botched job somehow on our other CIA's

13:37 Part I think and maybe they just know. I'm not sure that that's universally recognized although it makes a lot of sense It's recognized by Erdogan everyone A lot of people think is said the whole thing up to blame this yeah, that was certainly something we looked at as well Yeah But within everything I hear from you know people that we talked to its in intelligence circles That reach us which is the outer crust crumbling crust of chalk But okay, we touch it. At least that crumbling crust of chalk is better than most people get. Exactly! So maybe they do want to try another attempt? Maybe a soft coup? Get some Gulen people to take over? I mentioned on the DHM plug show that there was an economic hitman model at work here That's what it sounds like. Yeah, so that's what our source just said

14:32 But meanwhile, this poor pastor stuck there and if the guy's correct which it doesn't wouldn't surprise me that the CIA is working against the administration because that's all they do. Which is too bad to say the least. I don't think it's not bringing the economies of the world down or anything else It's just gonna shake things up in Turkey. All righty And talking about you did not you mentioned this we haven't heard any of this stuff, of course by the mainstream media I mean they're more concerned about You know the smashing of the iPhones Yes Is there's this I got this other thing from euro news that you mentioned your own news and here's one listen to this This happened on the day of the show. This is our show day News yeah Sunday and tell me who know any of this you've even heard of any of this stuff Oh

CHAPTER 04 / 34 Discussion

Caspian Sea Resource Agreement, Russia, Iran Energy Alliance

Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan have signed a landmark agreement to govern the Caspian Sea as a common resource. The deal establishes a special legal status for the body of water, effectively excluding non-regional military forces. The region is estimated to hold 50 billion barrels of oil and 300 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, a development largely ignored by Western media focused on domestic politics.

caspian sea· vladimir putin· russia· iran· natural gas

15:25 This is the unreported oil and gas agreement from last Sunday. Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan say the bulk of the Caspian will be treated as a common resource that they will govern together. And the five say it will be given special status putting it outside jurisdiction existing international law governing lakes and seas No agreement was found on more contentious issue where the seabed border should be traced but Russian president Vladimir Putin

16:07 nevertheless welcomed the principle of regional governance. It fixes principles of military-political cooperation off the member states, he said and guarantees the absence of armed forces in nonregional states. The Caspian is believed to hold some 50 billion barrels of petrol and 300 thousand billion cubic meters of natural gas Now was Azerbaijan in in that lineup I didn't hear him. Yeah, and so is Iran and Russia Turk Turkistan as your vice John and Kazakhstan that's an interesting little a little group there no kidding they got they got to say they got resources They got the raw materials They got their processors And they got their sales force in Azerbaijan whole thing and then you just the pipeline through Georgia but a bing-bada boom

17:02 Very nice. No, I hadn't heard that. I had no idea the Caspian Sea was that loaded with natural gas. I didn't know that either! Yeah... And of course none of this gets reported. You know we just want more windmills in the United States. Just don't pay any attention to what's going on over there. They cornered the market on natural gas. Jeez, it seems like everything is loaded with natural gas. God, it's ridiculous that this is ignored. That is... you know well again as we started off today the whole news cycle was going to be R-E-S-P-E-C-T Well there's that and also you know like get go vote! Vote! Oh yeah. Vote Democrat Yeah so the latest bomb The latest smart missile in air quotes Is Amoroso

CHAPTER 05 / 34 Discussion

Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged Book Release, N-Word Tape Claims

Omarosa Manigault Newman is promoting her book Unhinged, which contains various allegations against the Trump administration, including claims of a recording featuring Donald Trump using racial slurs. Discrepancies have emerged between her book's text and her media interviews regarding whether she actually heard the tape or merely heard about it. The book's publication by Simon & Schuster, a subsidiary of CBS, is highlighted as a potential conflict of interest.

omarosa manigault newman· donald trump· simon & schuster· apprentice· npr

17:55 And this is very easy to understand. Do you have any clips? I have one or two, i think. I have one clip that we should play right away because it's Lawrence O'Donnell. Yeah. By the way get the unhinged clip ready or no they stopped hammering Get it ready. Yeah, so here's Lawrence O'Donnell on Amorosa today the people who follows me on Twitter Patricia McCleary tweeted if you talk about Amarosa tonight when there are 700 children still separated from their parents then I will turn you off but Amarosa

18:37 is one of the reasons that those children were separated from their parents and are still separated from their parents tonight. Those children were separated because of the cruelty, of the people working in the Trump White House especially the president who thought it was a good idea to separate them Omarosa and everyone else working for the Trump presidential campaign knew they were supporting a candidate who believed that the one thing we didn't have enough of on the southern border was cruelty. That cruelty was going to be one of the methods Donald Trump would use at the southern border to discourage immigration, Omarosa knew that

19:15 All of the Trump campaign workers knew that. And now Omarosa proceeds with her TV interview version of her Nuremberg trial as she does that, she wants to use the defense the world heard frequently during the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after World War II I didn't know Stop! The hammering I would agree actually. That's pretty funny. The guy is insane! Yeah, it was great and she's treated so seriously and taken with such respect...I tried to get a clip from the Daily Show Trevor Noah and she was on and she was flirting with him like a queen diva but nothing interesting nothing of any use

20:10 At all now. I do have a clip from NPR where NPR? Has it gotcha they've got it got you on Omarosa as they asked her to read To start off in this interview by reading a passage from her book And I'm pretty sure she already recorded the audio book as she will be able to discern from her Uh, from her read. On this phone conversation I was told exactly what Donald Trump said yes the N-word and others in a classic Trump goes nuclear rant This seems pretty clear she didn't hear the tape but was told what was on it But that's not what she said in her interview with Morning Edition And once I heard it You have heard this tape? I've heard this tape you heard The President of United States I heard The President Of The United States

21:03 use not only the N-word, but as Bill Pruitt described during that interview other horrible things. During the production of The Apprentice." You don't mention that in the book? That you've actually heard the tape is this new? Oh no it's mentioned in the book But what Manigault Newman points to is that section she just read about the phone call In the interview Rachel Martin presses her to clear up the discrepancy Forgive me though that sounds like you just heard his account of the tape Did you actually hear the tape? I did. Did you miss this whole part girl, did you read my book?!

21:39 Girl, did you read my book? No girl because you didn't even write your book. That's why! Girl did you read my book?! She did read the book so did I it's not there in the book Manigault Newman makes many claims about President Trump and others in the White House that would be shocking if true that he has dementia that he referred to people of color as those people that he wanted to be sworn-in on a copy of his book The Art Of The Deal rather than the Bible There's a lot. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders put out a statement that says in part, quote, This book is riddled with lies and false accusations. It's sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks and even worse that the media would now give her a platform after not taking her seriously when she had only positive things to say about the president during her time in the administration unquote

22:33 Those days are clearly over. It completely shattered my belief in him being a decent person. But, a big question now hangs over it all... Did she actually hear the tape as she claims now? Or did she simply hear a description of it as she says in her book Unhinged? Thank you Omarosa by the way for the fantastic ISO. I think this is a contender for the end of show. Girl, did you read my book? That's a good one! So this is very easy through the no agenda lens it's not that hard to figure this out because I'm not kidding she didn't write this book she sat down with someone from Schuster and Simon or however the other way around now well hold on

23:34 Schuster and Simon owned by CBS who hates Trump Moonves Redstone it's a bunch of haters and she came out they've had this book they wrote it up and she probably told the story one way neither decided not to write it that way because there wasn't it sounded too vague or they didn't need you know just tried to not get sued into oblivion Yeah, you don't get sued. And so they know it's just it's a horseshit this is total. This what this is that is that other political stuff? You know and everyone's taking seriously doesn't see it for what it is particularly the Simon & Schuster tie in Hello cheese yeah that's pretty bad well I've told I think about this on the show when you get ghostwriters

24:23 There's a bunch of different ways you can go. Generally speaking, the ghostwriter gets his name or her name on book cover I haven't seen this book cover so i don't know if there is another name on it Is there? Do we know anybody who knows? I haven't seen and have not read it Girl! I did not read your book And uh... So that's one way of doing it You say so-and-so, you're the author with Or the author and Yes, and then there's a third way of doing it where it's pretty apparent that the author didn't do anything by the way You should have called me out. It's Simon and Schuster not Schuster and Simon you should have called The other way around oh now I understand what you're saying okay now I get it sorry

25:10 Anyway, so there's these different models and then there's the real whopper of a model which is maybe what they did. Which is you have a ghostwriter write the whole damn book, you got nothing to do with it except if you tell a few tales and then they embellish them just does from an interview. You interview the person and the ghostwriter is a ghost writer, literally there's no mention of the person. Sometimes there's a thank you or something in the forward and that's kind of the person who wrote the book but in that case it's almost like you have to sign a non-disclosure, you never get to say that you wrote the book or if you have nothing to do with it and you get paid more. You get paid like a lot more, you make most of the money

25:58 So, I don't know what they did. But you're right there's no way she wrote this book. I've written the outline for my book Oh yeah? You want me to write it? No Well... I want the big dough! Well there are other people vying for this spot Okay, we just give it to them. I really don't have the time. I wanted to come out in my lifetime. I Don't want it to be you know after the fact that only posthumous publication point well taken Yeah, it's a novel by the way Oh good, it's novel. Any of the books that we ever publish will be novels? Yes, it's a novel so far as they'll be novel Yeah or they'd be very novel yeah but I just took all my life stories and baked into a spy novel and works frighteningly well oh good! Well you could...yeah alright yeah I'm calling it unglued I call it unhinged but it is too late shoot missed again

CHAPTER 06 / 34 Discussion

Newspaper Editorial Coordination, Trump Press Attacks, Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Over 100 American newspapers, led by the Boston Globe, coordinated the publication of editorials defending the free press against President Trump's rhetoric. The movement references Thomas Jefferson's historical shift from supporting newspapers to criticizing their accuracy after taking office. A 1964 Supreme Court decision is cited to emphasize that public discussion should be robust and include sharp attacks on government officials.

boston globe· new york times· thomas jefferson· free press· first amendment

27:04 Well, today front page or not from I don't know if it was the front page actually but in over 100 newspapers. No is more than that? I think Let me see what The New York Times said here They all banded together at the behest at the suggestion of The Boston Globe as they called for nationwide media response to Trump's attacks on the press This has never happened before in the history of American politics. No president has ever attacked the press Do you remember first the guy is a trailblazer? Well, I remember when over 100 newspapers agreed to run editorials on the same day defending a free press against Obama when he spied on The Associated Press hacked Sheryl Atkinson got phone records of reporters tried to jail the guy Yeah didn't the newspapers do it then too

28:02 I don't think so. No, I don't think so either but what's interesting they took a very because everyone could write their own op-ed or their own great their own editorial like reporters writing op eds well i'd well this is from the editorial board Okay, well that's different. I'm sorry yeah, should have said that properly. I'll just read the first two paragraphs because i thought they're... They approach it from an interesting angle and you may know more about this in 1787 the year the Constitution was adopted Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend where it left me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter

28:44 That's how he felt before he came president anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." Jefferson's discomfort was and remains understandable. Reporting the news in an open society is an enterprise laced with conflict, his discomfort also illustrates the need for the right he helped enshrine as the founders believed from their own experience a well-informed public is best equipped to root out corruption and over the long haul promote liberty and justice." And then comes this interesting bit

29:25 Public discussion is a political duty the Supreme Court said in 1964 that Discussion must be uninhibited robust and wide open and may well include vehement caustic and sometimes Unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials That kind of described the Supreme Court decision against the purge from social media. Yeah The way I took it so why doesn't anyone pick that up? Oh Because nobody wants to pick it. Here's the thing, I wrote a column this week and i don't know if it came out yet... I saw it yes! I liked it and that makes sense It was very no agenda go ahead The publishers these yeah Facebook section 230 basically What set me off on it was an article I forgot where ran in some somewhere by Jeff Jarvis defending Twitter and Facebook as you know not publishers

CHAPTER 07 / 34 Discussion

Social Media Platforms, Section 230, Publisher Liability Debate

The legal classification of social media companies as "platforms" rather than "publishers" is challenged, specifically regarding Section 230 protections. Critics argue that because Facebook and Twitter curate content and sell advertising, they should be held legally responsible for libelous material. The distinction between a neutral network and a curated publishing house is central to the debate over digital free speech.

facebook· twitter· section 230· jeff jarvis· mark zuckerberg

30:20 Jeff Jarvis forms. Oh, yes. Oh that was Jeff Jarvis who did that yeah? So I read this thing is it This is a load and so I decided I must go to the other extreme and then I started thinking about it a load It was. And so I decided to go to the other extreme and as, as I started thinking about it everything that we're calling a platform based on the dictionary definition of what I know to be a platform is bullcrap! The internet is not a platform. The internet is a network You know, they had to remember when Sun Microsystems used to say the network is the computer. The network is not the computer! It does no computing and it's not the computer there's no way it's the computer but we had but Silicon Valley has always dreamed up this crazy stuff so they can kind of market stuff and these douchebags that run Facebook and Twitter and every all these other platforms that aren't platforms are publishing houses

31:17 They refuse to take legal responsibility for the evil deeds that they do. And they hide behind a cloak of this bullcrap. Oh no, we just let people push stuff that's not ours! We got nothing to do with it! We have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!" Well I think the best argument in your piece was advertising. That a platform does not need advertising and that is one of the Turing tests if you will to see if something is a platform So your computer does not need advertising and its a platform But Facebag, now to some developers it may be a platform but it's just not the same thing. Then certainly now when it comes to speech... Again as the definition even to some developers is not a platform It's a mechanism that they can use to put their code in play but its not a platform per se They have no control over If you own a platform My PC I own and throw out of window

32:19 I'm not arguing with you, by the way. I'm a slave to Facebook's API I mean, it's just as far as i'm concerned. It's just a definition and is done for legal purposes so they can flirt yes They can skirt the law Yes So they can't be sued because well that was what made the internet grow and gave these websites license to grow which i'm not saying Is bad? I agree with that uh wikipedia as well by the way they also are under the same they use the same section 230 legal argument But your point is right. They are publishers because they're editing the output and that's not just by deleting... Even if they're not editing the output, they should be editing it well. And the point I make in that column is if you libel somebody on Facebook

33:14 It's no different than if you libel somebody in the New York Times. The New York Times can be sued, why can't Facebook? Because Mark is cool man! Don't do that That's pretty much where it boils down to So about this... You know the editing they do, the AI artificial intelligence that they deploy To be able to find all these offensive hate speech posts Here is a note from one of our producers who is an uber driver now I'd never considered this but you know because you know how I like to talk to the uber driver and sometimes it would record them because they have interesting things To say cuz they're always from a different country at least in Austin. They are

CHAPTER 08 / 34 Discussion

Facebook Video Moderation, San Antonio Training, Hollywood Guidelines

A report from a source within the ride-sharing industry reveals that Facebook employs staff in San Antonio to manually grade every video posted to Facebook and Instagram. This human moderation contradicts the public narrative that AI handles the bulk of content filtering. Additionally, Facebook is reportedly developing content guidelines to be imposed on Hollywood production houses, YouTube, and Netflix.

facebook· instagram· san antonio· video moderation· hollywood

33:58 But it works the other way around too. Our spy network, many of them drive in Ubers to pick up a few bucks here and there and sometimes you hear something. In the morning Adam says Brian quick sidebar to your recent discussion on face bag in Texas The other day I gave a ride Uber to a paralegal that was traveling to Texas She worked at Facebook campus apply Avista LA Facebook and Google have slowly been taking over the area Google took over the old Howard Hughes hangar and converted it to their space didn't know that During the ride she mentioned her travels, face bag and her task while in Texas. Of course I inquired for show intel! This is what i'm talking about

34:36 Your analysis of Facebook in Texas is accurate. Her task was to go to San Antonio and train the Facebook employees on how to grade all videos that are posted on Facebook and Instagram." She says, someone actually watches all those videos! Yes AI at its finest! She also mentioned Facebook is creating guidelines for Hollywood production houses their next play will be YouTube and Netflix So there's guidelines that they're creating, that they're going to hand to Hollywood. This is interesting. Facebook? Mm-hmm! It makes sense. That's a diversification of their business. That makes a lot of sense to me If they can become the de facto filters of hate... They have more data than anybody else. They can at least claim they know what they're doing Well while you're on the topic Dan University California thinks it can be the arbiter of hate

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Online Hate Index, UC Berkeley, ADL Machine Learning

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and UC Berkeley’s D-Lab are developing the Online Hate Index to help tech platforms identify hate speech using machine learning. The project claims an accuracy rate of 78% to 85% in its initial research phase. The initiative aims to uncover patterns in social media discourse to assist platforms in addressing problematic content.

adl· uc berkeley· online hate index· artificial intelligence· machine learning

35:38 And I have a clip of what, a clip where they're describing one of their programs. Is this the clip that I played just on the last show? Is it? Yeah probably! Yes Okay, sorry were you there last show I don't remember this clip We talked that you were like why the creepy music. I even remember what you said about it? I did say those reviews But I don't remember being the same huh okay well. I'm sorry no It's okay we're gonna play it again ADL and the University of California at Berkeley's D lab have been working to develop a new approach To tackle online hate using the latest methods The goal of the online hate index is to help tech platforms better understand the growing amount of hate on social media and use that information to address the problem.

36:21 By combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with social science, the online hate index will ultimately uncover and identify trends and patterns in hate speech across different platforms. We've just completed our first phase of research and we found that the machine learning model identified hate speech accurately between 78%-85% of time In the next phase of our project We will look at specific targeted populations in a more detailed manner. That clip actually filled me with hate.

37:17 You know the thing I must have been distracted by the music so much. Well, B12 comes to mind. I actually just took something. Okay good. The... Well there's a race we see there's a race on John and this is huge opportunity Ah! This is an arms- hate arms race Yes this is a race to be but does it raise to be the de facto go-to place? We have the independent network of fact checkers which includes Tucker Carlson's outfit The Daily Caller Foundation Right. You know, which the whole thing I can't believe he's doing that douchebags Yeah total douche trying to be you know the arbiters of truth and really despise that very disappointing That includes Snopes there in there as well So you got those guys over their snopes is also promoting itself now is a news source Do you notice this? No, I really don't visit Snopes much They've decided they're gonna become a newspaper

CHAPTER 10 / 34 Discussion

Alex Jones Twitter Timeout, Jack Dorsey, Incitement Allegations

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey placed Alex Jones in a "timeout" following media pressure regarding a video where Jones discussed "battle rifles" and the media. While NBC's Lester Holt and others characterized the video as an incitement to violence, a close reading of the transcript suggests Jones was discussing self-defense and legal action. The incident highlights the pressure on tech CEOs to apply community guidelines inconsistently.

alex jones· jack dorsey· twitter· lester holt· infowars

38:09 So, um... let me see if I can do this. I've got a couple of clips here so Alex Jones got a timeout! A time out from Twitter. If you need to time out go sit in the corner. They were hounding Dorsey so much that they... Well what i want to do is have Dorsey responding first Then I want to play the universally accepted language as to why he was kicked off and then we actually have the real verbiage in clip form of what he actually said which makes things even more interesting.

38:49 Because this is all about the rules and the terms of service and the community guidelines. Here's Jack Dorsey... Alex Jones on Twitter posted this week what essentially is a video calling for people to get their battle rifles ready against the media Okay, remember this eh? Essentially said get your battle arms ready against the media You heard that?! I heard that, yes. Okay well we'll just keep that in mind Alex Jones on Twitter posted this week what essentially is a video calling for people to get their battle rifles ready against the media saying it's time to act its gotta be done now move criminally against people send a chill up my spine how about yours? It did! There are a number of actions... Did it send a chill up your spine John

39:42 Never heard it, but I just heard from him. Well will he when you hear it chills will go up and down your spine. Oh, I believe help a call to incitement to violence and those are the things that we need to Call to incitement to violence. Okay, so far So good battle arms against the media calls of incitement to violence Make sure that were taking action on you have you've taken action against him in this instance What is it? Can you tell us what it is? We I believe we put him in a timeout removing his ability to tweet for a time period. A time out seems juvenile, seems minor compared to the implications of someone

40:23 Might be Lester Holt actually. It sounds a little like him. Yeah, that it does have the potential to change impact and change behavior so whether it works within this case to change some of those behaviors and change some of those actions I don't know but this is consistent with how we enforce

41:05 Okay, thank you Jack. So Jack did not argue with I guess it is Lester Holt with his assertions there that Jones called for a battle axe battle rifles against the media incitement of violence against the media Let's listen to the actual video, which I chopped out some silences so it's a little bit shorter. And I guess when you're policing words over hate speech, I think we should really listen to the words and let's see if we can discern any actual hates... well didn't even mention hate speech incitement of violence and battle arms against a group of people in this case the media. It now stands with you

41:45 and the US military, who I know already understand who the CHICOM operatives and the traitors are to understand. Who's trying to take the First Amendment? Okay this is where i usually tune out but we're going to keep with it guys stay with it now come on you can... The Chicom! You can do it You can do it. Who's trying to bankrupt the country? Who's trying to shut down everything who want to admit that they wanted a bankrupt health care in America, to bring us to our knees we're under attack and you know that you pointed out mainstream media is the enemy but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag I know the Justice Department crippled a bunch of followers and cowards okay so we got it maybe dissect this bit by bit so he's saying you know who the enemy is

42:27 The enemy is, did he say fake news or the media? No no he said the media. He said the media and we have to be careful because they're going to come out with a false flag-the media! And I think what he's implying is that someone in the media will get hurt and it will be traceable back to someone like Jones saying go hurt the media So far he has not told anyone to do anything. But there's groups, there's grand juries you call for it, it is time politically and economically and judiciously and legally and criminally to move against these people It's got to be done now! Any call to violence there yet?

43:09 Hello? Not by my definitions. No, not mine either. Not yet! Get together the people you know aren't traitors and aren't cowards and aren't hedging their freaking bets like all these other assholes do. Woo! And let's go let's do it because they're coming now in your wisdom you may be playing possum and waiting for them to come in but America needs to know that they've got their little pathetic commie red teams ready And they've got their targets picked out. The sheriffs, the judges, the police chiefs, the patriots, the veterans, the talk show host everybody and everybody's going to be amazed when they come... When those cowards come and it's gonna hit in the middle of night and they're coming. Yeah! And they're coming. Say it again? They think that can really take down America so people need to have their battle rifles everything ready at their bedsides

44:01 and you gotta be ready. Okay, is that incitement to violence yet? To have your battle rifles ready by your bedside with your nightcap on I guess and your gown?! Is that incitement to violence? No, it's an incitement to public defense I guess. Yes because... It's not even incitement because it's just telling you that you know all right let's we got 14 seconds left maybe it's here the media is so disciplined and their deception Antifa attacked all these people at the White House beat up reporters beat up women children no coverage and they've got discipline folks they've got criminal discipline because there are a bunch of followers

44:39 That's it. That's why he was given a time out for that video, for those words Well Lester Holtz is the liar Yes Complete liar and Jack just sit there went uh-huh uh-huh so that's just not true It's a lie. It is just a blatant NBC lie But it will go down in history that Alex Jones called for people to come to arms against the media He will go down in history with weapons Yes, that's how its gonna go down That is your truth Yeah From now from this day forevermore Yeah cause they'll just harp on it Yep I know we've done this million times on this show Reality versus what they decide to make a meme

45:26 A lie! It's a lie, it's not a meme. No it's a lie but they turn into a meme the lies turns into a meme and everyone goes oh that Jones is terrible you know what he did? Yeah yeah exactly good catch I'll give you clip of the day for The Deconstruction Thank You Here's NPRs here and now a little bit more about the topic. Boy, Kurt Wagner senior editor of social media for Recode people have just been ferocious in their criticism of Dorsey Well, Jack and Twitter have been really the last platform that still allows Alex Jones to operate. And so Twitter has a long history of really defending this idea of free speech and you know when Jack Dorsey came out last week and said Alex Jones has not violated our rules but all of the other companies found that he did it kind of opened himself and Twitter up for criticism So yeah, he's definitely taken a lot of heat over the last week Well how much is this complicated by the fact

46:27 that Twitter is the main message service of our current sitting president. I mean, this is speculation but how much are people speculating that Dorsey and Twitter might be uncomfortable about banning someone for violating a rule like let's say threatening violence when you have the President of United States who has used Twitter to threaten violence against whole countries? Yeah, hey man. I think you know comparing to what we just heard from Alex Jones You know get your get your battle rifle your musket put it next to your bedside with your with your nightcap on Versus Trump saying I got a big red button and it works jabroni yeah, I think there's she made a point there have the president of United States who used Twitter to threaten violence against

47:17 whole countries. Well, I think it's very clear that Twitter is afraid of alienating this you know very very conservative group and that's what it's called really in some regards It's a group I think that's probably crossed the line at the same time it has said in the past that President Trump gets basically special treatment on the platform and because he is the president and everything he says and does is newsworthy, they're going to hold him to a different standard than everybody else. What I think that does unfortunately is it creates this approval for stuff that maybe would have otherwise been violated even if it makes sense that the president shouldn't be kicked off Twitter because he's the president, he provides air cover for other people who probably are skirting those rules a little bit

48:06 Okay, well that's your NPR analysis. Let's look at the pressure tactics that were going on for... Sorry? Well I'm just gonna say before we leave that topic standing there like that- Oh i'm not leaving the topic! No no, before we leave his assertion standing there like that, yes That the president gets special treatment What about Rob Reiner?! I mean this guy... He also gets special treatment. He gets obviously special treatment because i know myself and everybody else is complaining about him constantly he in one of his tweets just recently, he's got oh it would be autocrats strikes again John Brenner as a patriot stripping the former CIA director which shouldn't have security clearance for sure should frighten all patriots when did these left-wingers or be all into patriotism and the flag? This has always irked me

CHAPTER 11 / 34 Discussion

Block Together App, Shannon Coulter, Advertiser Boycotts

The Block Together app, promoted by activist Shannon Coulter, allows users to en masse block lists of advertisers on Twitter to exert economic pressure. This tool is used by political groups to target companies that support specific content creators or platforms. The effectiveness of these "block lists" is debated, though they represent a significant shift in how users can influence platform monetization.

block together· shannon coulter· twitter· advertising· media matters

49:01 And another one, don't you think? I mean it just doesn't make any sense. Well John hello welcome to 2018! And the other one he's got one he says he calls President Trump garbage. Garbage?! And this is defended as criticism calling somebody garbage especially the president of United States i think is rude but calling somebody garbage is not criticism No no what do they say when the president does it Oh yeah, they jump all over him. Yeah but they have a word for it I'm sure. Well anyway... They don't say he criticized that's for sure slammed! That's pretty much alright pressure tactics why did Jack do this because clearly there was no violation if he actually listened or read a transcript even I think even the transcript you couldn't get confused about there being incitement to violence against this particular group in this case the media Lester Holt? No. A couple of ways

50:00 The first one, the one that I find interesting is there's a version of a Media Matters group out there and they use something called Block Together. And Block Together... Funny this is a coincidence, I didn't bring it up on the show but I ran into the Block Together woman Shannon Coulter? Yeah. Oh, tell! And I didn't run into her personally, ran into her on Twitter You want to explain what it is first? Or do you need to... She's got this program- It's an app. What? It's an app. Yeah that's what I'm gonna- it's an app. Program. What does App short for? Application. Yeah but its a phone and- Application software. It's a phone app. It's a program Yes A phone program

50:51 And so what you do is you plug it in and they've got a block list of about, I think it's 450. Every advertiser you can imagine? Yeah! And you push this button and now you blocked them Well what they do is they select the number who are advertising currently on Twitter or whoever their attacking though...and then everyone blocks that advertiser en masse which I think does show up in there statistics. I think they will see a loss of, well engagement certainly but views or whatever the measure is so they probably notice it and then they certainly hear about it as I don't know how effective it is but I think this thing works I think these types... This proves you cannot monetize the network by the way because no matter how big you are people are bigger and so I have to say although I disagree with that I think it's pretty cool idea

51:47 I thought it was a really cool idea. I don't like it either and I don't like what they're trying to do, and there's just a bunch of lefties that are just you know meddlesome. Yeah but this kind of stuff can't be stopped! This is what I mean by you can't monetize the network... You can win! But you could do the same thing on the other side is not what you would call, you know something that's not going to land a rocket on the moon. It just this little piece of code that anybody could rewrite to put other lists together. I think it's a great idea! Should be like a whole bunch of these we can have the No Agenda block list. Very short... We love everybody. Well there are lot people who are constantly blocking us. We're not blockers? I am. I block people constantly Now there was a claim made

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Overcast App, Marco Arment, Podcast Directory Censorship

Marco Arment, developer of the Overcast podcast app, admitted to manually banning InfoWars from his directory before Apple took action. Arment cited pressure from listeners and personal beliefs about hate speech as the primary drivers for the override. This move highlights the vulnerability of independent podcast apps that rely on the Apple Podcasts API for their directories.

marco arment· overcast· apple podcasts· rss· infowars

52:35 Which I believe to be true by Marco. Marco is the guy who does the Overcast app, which is heralded as the best podcast app. I think he has some of the best features. I like that He's an independent developer. I like a lot about him a lot about his product It's a for pay product it's very inexpensive and it's extremely good He actually came up with a new idea To put a little a new tag into the RSS definition as an, what do you call it? As a namespace. for donations so that now any podcast feed will be recognized by Overcast and it's catching on, so I think other podcast apps will do it. That there is a little dollar sign button or if you're in Europe, the Euro button and you click on that, it'll take you right to that show's donation page regardless of what it is whether its like us with the Dvorak.org slash NA or Patreon page...I think thats good! I like he's doing that stuff

53:32 What I don't like is that he was using the Apple podcast directory. So as we discussed in the previous show, when Apple removes something it gets removed all the way down the line because these developers of phone podcast programs don't have the ambition to create a directory themselves and I have ideas on that which are going to talk about at separate times but Turns out Marco had actually overridden the Apple API and banned Alex Jones before Apple did it. And in this snippet from his own podcast,

54:15 You'll hear that he starts off by saying, well you know there was some person who was upset. But listen to the pressure that was put on this one single independent guy. What happened last week is the Alex Jones show... basically what happened is it crossed a whole bunch of lines of like things that things like hate speech and by the way he's an incredible lefty and didn't even hear the video obviously, didn't hear what uh what the line crossing was but that's okay that's his religion. And you know inciting violence and things of that nature that like are against Apple's terms for what they allow in their podcast directory and are in many jurisdictions are actually illegal um and so a listener emailed me saying hey I'm leaving your app because you host this content A LISTENER! and it's horrible

55:01 I looked and i'm like you know this should not be allowed. Like, this is clearly in violation of Apple's own content guidelines. Clearly it's not! You're full of shit. I do have a mechanism uh in Overcast that I can override a feed that would otherwise show up and I can say this feed should not show up. I haven't used this mechanism very often um...I used it once before for NRA TV, for similar reasons that I believe it was violating Apple's own guidelines. I used this flag on these InfoWars properties because it was very clear they were violating Apple's guidelines but Apple wasn't removing them from their directory and I heard about them from a lot of people. Oh now its a lot of people! It went from one email to a lot of people. Gee, I wonder...

55:52 you know, a few days after I did that Apple pulled them from the directory and so did everyone else basically. And so... You know? I think i was proven right! It was, you know had I known Apple is going to pull them a few days later I might have just waited for them to do it So that way like I'm not involved in this and I really try-I hope To use it as little as possible because I don't want to put myself in this position but Sometimes you have to be in this position like sometimes something like this happens where people are, you know demanding immediate action. Oh This is really escalated in the course of two minutes and You look at the problem and you're like well I kind of don't like that I'm seeming that I'm being kind of bullied into a decision like this but if you look at The you know Look at the actualist just I think he used the word the term He was bullied into doing this

56:45 That sounds like a pressure group to me." And you're like, well I kind of don't like that i'm seeming...that i'm being kind of bullied into a decision like this. But if you look at the actual situation it's like yeah this actually should be solved! Like this is a problem and this does require action so they're correct. The people asking me do this are correct so it's important not to think defensively in that time and just say okay actually yeah this is right I should take action and just do it anyway. So Going back to the original topic. So, so, so, wow! Yeah? Now that is a chilling clip To me it is he got bullied

CHAPTER 13 / 34 Discussion

Financial Censorship, Mastercard, Silicon Valley Political Bias

Financial institutions like Mastercard are reportedly pressuring platforms like Patreon to close accounts based on content, mirroring previous actions against WikiLeaks. Simultaneously, corporate firewalls like Palo Alto Networks have begun blocking InfoWars on internal networks. These trends are attributed to a perceived left-leaning political monoculture among Silicon Valley venture capitalists and executives.

mastercard· patreon· palo alto networks· silicon valley· john doerr

57:26 Now, it fits within his purview and the lies that he believes in. Yeah, he was more than happy to do it. The lies that he believes in and he said he looked at it and he said yeah that clearly violated... No! It didn't violate anything I don't think it violated Apple's terms of service either not that it matters but just a lie needs to be pointed out. I think there is plenty stuff you could get Jones on wait for something good Wait for something good. Don't don't do it like this is stupid, but the purge flows through a lot and we don't think about this but Here well patreon is now Closing accounts at the behest of MasterCard they are they say hey mastercard has said We can't process for this particular podcast or this type of content For your patreon were sorry your accounts closed bye-bye

58:25 So that's the power of Mastercard. We do the same with WikiLeaks and then a dude named Ben, working for a large organization he just discovered that the firewall we use Palo Alto Networks has flagged Infowars as having questionable content and is now blocked on our internal network It was never blocked before so it seems that firewall providers have just jumped on the bandwagon along with Apple etc Yeah, that's what happens. It's a dominoes... I wrote this column about this two weeks ago about censorship of the net. Yes! It's a cascade And the blacklisting. My blog was blacklisted over and over again until i changed the title line on the HTML from uncensored

59:09 So, so this is horrible. It can go pretty deep now what happens at a certain point does... Where's the neutrality everybody? We got Palo Alto networks blocking some guy Well this isn't that neutrality This isn't what we would have seen on a massive scale I think we dodged the bullet But this type of, and it really is almost an inverse. Well yeah it's like an inverse of the microservices you know although its still human fed people hear oh that guy ban him okay click and then its firewalls that are deployed all across corporations tens hundreds of thousands of corporations click its free wifi outfits that won't provide anymore

59:55 We've had that happen and as you said with your blog we've had it happen in other ways my mail server sometimes That gets on a blacklist, and I have to beg and plead to get taken off so my email isn't sent the spam You know this is a little more serious than just getting kicked off of Twitter. Hmm. That's really interesting Well, this is what it is. The problem is the tech community somehow turned left some time ago I never could put my finger on why can tell you this much? I remember one time going shooting with a CEO from one of the well-known company and he says to me whatever you do don't ever tell anyone you went shooting with me

1:00:50 I said, oh yeah that's like Ray Lane was the same at Kleiner Perkins. Yeah he didn't want... because people would be freaking out that he had guns. Yeah and so i said okay i don't have a problem with that and then he specifically mentioned John Doar as going kind of ape shit at a Halloween party because somebody brought their kid dressed up as a cowboy with it with a cap gun. That guy So, I mean this is where the whole Silicon Valley. The tech community and the venture capitalists who are many of whom are billionaires which is just backing up our thesis that the Democrat Party is a rich party trying to keep everybody down which has been forever as long as the black community doesn't recognize that they're going to be forever in trouble

1:01:45 They just keep everybody in place because you don't want any things to get really, you wanna talk a big game and do nothing which is what seems to be the case with these billionaires. They don't wanna have anything, possibility of losing any money and so the Democrats always blame Republicans oh they're making their rich richer but it's always the Democrats doing that. And the whole Silicon Valley is all rare or the number of Republicans there are minor as probably 20% well that was Ray Lane at Reyland a Kleiner Perkins who was the guy who put together the the 500 million dollar government grant for Fisker He didn't work in the business after that one He he went shooting all the time and said yeah, I'll talk about it here and people don't like that so much John Doerr. He's a card keep when he was investor in my company At this one point took me aside and his 16 year old daughter was completely completely unhinged

CHAPTER 14 / 34 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 1059, Artwork, Monsanto Email

The hosts acknowledge the artwork for episode 1059, titled "Barrel Roll," created by Darren O'Neill. They discuss the history of art submissions from producers like Martin JJ and the difficulty of getting work selected. A brief mention is made regarding a suspicious email from Monsanto, suggesting the company employs online shills to influence public opinion.

darren o'neill· martin jj· monsanto· barrel roll· album art

1:02:42 And he wanted me to talk to her, see if I could fix it. Like no! I'm not going to do that. Yeah but you understand young people? Uh... No. No, I have-I am not qualified for that John sorry. Not qualified. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John C U S E stands for R E S P E C T Dvorak In the morning to you Mr Adam Curry also in the morning all ships of sea boots on the ground Subs in the water space bars and all the dames and knights out there. Yes in the morning to The troll room hold on a second um that's interesting it seems like my website is down

1:03:28 Yeah, you got shut down by the blacklist. Wouldn't surprise me! Hey Troll Room how are you doing? NoahJenderstream.com You guys are always uh... Doing good for me and the show and I appreciate it. Trolldar VCO5 Cyborg Dave Garlic Occult Fan Dying Monkey And there's always Doug. And i also want to say a hearty in-the-morning To Darren O'Neill who brought us The episode artwork, the album art work For 1059 The title of that was Barrel Roll And this was the roundup. bottles with great no agenda font and a star advertising smash pop out sticker that said now with more cancer. Yeah, it was very good. He's done he's done good work in the past but he's one of those guys I wanted to mention on this that he's one of those guys if you look at his because you can click under the artist and see all their work. Mm hmm. He's one of those guys like Martin JJ that went probably for more than a year or two without getting anything picked then he started get a bunch of stuff picked

1:04:29 Yeah, and then all of a sudden he had to stop. He was just getting picked well Martin JJ did yeah? There's too much winning picked every week it was too much winning Remind me about my curious Monsanto email I want to say something about that later who will Okay, let me write it down. Curious Monsanto email yes I think they have an army of shills out there trying to convince people oh yeah well course they do but i think i got one oh well that's good because they never got a hold of me all right let's thank a few people for producing and associate executive producer in executive producing show 1060 Yes uh starting with aha

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Michael Franzese Interview, Al Sharpton FBI Informant, Don King

Ex-mobster Michael Franzese reveals in a podcast interview that Al Sharpton served as a "gun for hire" and an FBI informant starting in 1983. Franzese describes a sting operation called "Shadowboxing" where Sharpton introduced undercover agents to boxing promoter Don King. The discussion questions how Sharpton maintained his career at MSNBC despite his history as a federal informant involved in bringing down the Genovese crime family.

michael franzese· al sharpton· don king· fbi· donnie brasco

1:25:54 Slash and not only do we deconstruct for you, we make you feel better and give you life saving tips. Our formula is this way go out or hit people in the mouth. Shut up. So so you have this thesis that I've subscribed to which is that people say things on podcasts they normally don't say. Yeah. And there's a lot of these video interview podcasts by wannabe interviewers, and many of them are very well produced. There is one guy discovered as Patrick Bet-David who interviews a lot of very interesting and many shady characters

1:26:52 And he did, I have four clips. I can play one two or many but i'll give him a...I'm going to start with the teaser of this group This is Michael Franzese who was an ex-mobster in the Colombo crime family When the Kennedys were coming up his father was not the most straight you know He was a... Ok so I gotta set this up hold on back off Hey man, don't tell me to back off when you just told me to come in. What's wrong with you? Yeah but I wrote it set up at the end of the clip which is his idea He's talking about his dad who was a majorly famous mobster and His dad who still alive at 100 which in fact he was just released from prison recently at 100 years old Wow

1:27:37 And he was a big shot during the Genovese era, when all the families were like altogether before they all got taken down by various Rico actions. Until they got into drugs and ruined the business. So in this case, in this zero clip, he's talking about Donnie Brasco and the fact that it took out like 100 mobsters... It was made into a movie with Johnny Depp. Who is he? He's a law enforcement officer? Who? Donnie. Brasco, it was a different guy that was his name I think he went by in the as when he played a gangster He was an undercover guy who's undercover with the mob for six years Yeah And the mob was very upset about it and now he is relating not sure but he talking about Brasco here and how just one group of

1:28:30 criminals got careless and let him in, and then he took the whole group down a lot of other people. It was very disappointing." And then he says that almost had similar experience some creeps coming in but they avoided it. There's a piece of information here that explains something to me. You know you get a guy like Lefty or you get some those guys who are really not earners big earners, you can get somebody that is earning could put a few bucks in their pocket they get a little sloppy They don't look that far back. And I'll tell you, I had that experience too." Okay, I get contacted in the middle is a huge case. They called it shadow boxing I get contacted by a guy that was With Muhammad Ali the FBI took him out of prison and put him in this undercover operation along with an FBI agent That went undercover his name was Victor Quintana And he allegedly was a drug dealer at one point in time they cleaned up his act But had a ton of money wanted to get into the fight business so they come to me Can you introduce us to Don King?

1:29:29 I'm with these people for eight months, okay? All the while they're recording everything that I do. I had like 83 recordings on me. I take them finally through Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is a gun for hire. I worked with him a lot and I make Al Sharpton set up a meeting with Don King to bring these two guys to meet King so we go there and first I check out the FBI had setup a bank account that had 15 million dollars in a bank in the Midwest The FBI has set it up So I bring him to King We're in King's office, I go in there first. I said Don let me tell you something...I know these guys seven or eight months they are high rollers they're driving the Rolls Royce we went to Florida together they want to meet you but I don't know them past that so when we talking here everything has gotta be legit. I'll say anything wrong everything is legit lemme keep looking for him

1:30:19 and the meeting went great. Bottom line is, they were asking for more money to continue the operation. The FBI said no because after a year they still couldn't do anything and then the whole thing fell apart we found out later that it was undercover operations Sports Illustrated did a huge deal on it. Al Sharpton! The Rev! The Connector Al on the Coast, he'll take care of ya. I look into this... they actually call him a hitman and they did dissolve this operation. I read that article and it was written in 91' and it was about this shadowboxing undercover sting

1:31:00 Comes out of it was is the following timeline this undercover sting to ask a question just because I don't understand Shadowboxing what when you say that? I don't understand what that means well He said that was the code name for the undercover. Okay got it So he asked that was with the FBI called it and he said that in that clip okay anyway, so you look into this and thing took place from 88, 89 or I'm sorry 82 to 83 and it ended they ended it. And he the way he says that he understands that they ran out of money and they weren't going to keep this thing going. I don't believe that's what happened

1:31:42 What happened at the point, that is the point where Al Sharpton became an informant for the FBI. Because if you look into Al Sharpton, FBI informant he became an informant in 83 which was right after this event I think The FBI went in there to try and bust these other guys including Don King And they found Al Sharpton like what a gem They found Al Sharpton, who was very well connected I guess. And they used him and in fact it was Al Sharpton who was responsible for bringing down the Genovese gang. And i'm wondering why he's still alive? Number two what is he doing at MSNBC? He still has a weekend show there How did he get that job? Was it the FBI that said we should place him someplace? Do you think he has clearance? I'll bet he does

1:32:37 Interesting. Something very suspicious about that guy I like, i like this! I thought you'd get a kick out of that one Yeah Now... This is on YouTube? This is some dude? Yeah yeah you can find it He doesn't have a broadcast deal Not that I know of Sign him up Now, I got a couple...I got three other things. One is about the corruption. Francesco goes on this clip too but corruption and I'm not gonna...but I don't necessarily want to play it about the FBI says is more corrupt now than it ever has been. That's all we have done on Sharpton? Yeah that was just in passing as though as a matter of fact he was just a man for us. Let's just all remember there's no real conflict! Just remember there's no real conflict

CHAPTER 16 / 34 Discussion

JFK Assassination, Mob Involvement, Joe Kennedy Bootlegging

Michael Franzese claims that the American Mafia was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to Franzese, Joe Kennedy used his mob ties from his bootlegging days to secure the presidency for his son, but the family later turned against the mob. The involvement of Jack Ruby and Sam Giancana is cited as evidence of the mob's role, which Franzese asserts is common knowledge within organized crime circles.

jfk· joe kennedy· jack ruby· sam giancana· marilyn monroe

1:33:23 I got one, he talks about the Kennedy election being done by the mob and how they mob assassinated Kennedy. Yes yes! Not the CIA? The mob?! That's what he says. Before process issues that'd be a very interesting person to talk with him He goes back to the days of Luciano Castello and gosh... What? He's talking about his dad. Okay, because he was younger than but he knew Capone came out of New York so he knows right on it stuff with a couple well he knew him I'm not saying I don't know what exactly did but he knew him I asked my dad I gotta tell you this My Dad was uh... he got so much publicity in the 60s now he wasn't the main guy around okay there were a lot guys doing it Columbia everybody was around But for some reason they targeted my dad and i gotta tell you this story Are you sure that hold on stop stop is this clip one

1:34:15 I'm sorry. I thought you were jumping ahead no, it's not no the Kennedy election That's what we're talking about an assassination clip. Oh, but I see what I did wrong okay apologies I take all of that back. When the Kennedys were coming up, his father was not the most straight. You know he was a you know Joseph Kennedy who was a big part in market manipulation and when Roosevelt hired him to bring him in and said listen what do we need to do here? And they came out with fingerprinting for licensing. The guy came out with SECC. He was very much involved in knowing how to manipulate the marketplace. He was involved with the mob based on some of the stories you read about. Strong personality So then you read and say, well the mob helped Kennedy get elected. I don't know that. I'm asking you so my first question is is the answer to that yes? And two once Kennedy got elected a follow-up is it's been said That once he got elected they try to distant themselves from the mob too to look like they were good So nothing would happen The mob got upset about it and when they got upset about it because they couldn't fulfill their commitments They made to them up the mobs that we got to do something about it

1:35:17 and they went about doing what they did to hire who they hired, to shoot him etc. When he walked off the mob killed him Now this is some of the stories us obviously a lot of this is conspiracy but one of the best conspiracies to read about as Kennedy people are so fascinated by it Having said that what do you know about the JFK situation there? Well understand my father is through that whole era and many other guys I knew were through that whole era So all I ever heard And that I know to be true, okay? And there's no upside in me saying this. I'm not writing a book about it nothing But there's no question that Joe Kennedy was involved with though he was a bootlegger You're not gonna know quest no question okay and I know for a fact that somebody wanted to kill Joe Kennedy during those times because I heard that he was robbing money wasn't doing the right thing and his life was spared

1:36:11 This is 40s, this is 30's, this is 50's. During that era. He was a bootlegger you're not a bootlegger unless you're dealing with us guys that's it Okay, no question also. Okay that through his father John Kennedy was we wanted him in the White House and he was a connection as far as we were concerned So yes through Chicago through Louisiana He was they did help him get elected They did have absolutely like Union votes and so I know this for a fact okay? And now the government's never gonna want anybody to know this They're gonna call me a liar and all that kind of stuff But that's the truth Patrick

1:36:49 And as far as the assassination, I mean come on. Did Jack Ruby come out of nowhere? He had all the sudden these mob ties didn't mean anything If you had mob ties with me they would want to say it all over the world You're connected with a mob All of a sudden Ruby who was connected with the mob now is saying he wasn't They never want it to be known that the mob had a hand in that assassination because it makes them look horrible Government doesn't want anybody know that but...I've heard that consistently throughout my whole tenure in that life, all the time. You know, Giancana in Chicago and... So when he got killed you're saying the assassination is linked back to the mob? Yes

1:37:29 Now, again it's been said yeah that's not true he is a liar I have no upside in saying this other than this is what I know to be true throughout my whole time of that life. I heard from my father and everybody that I know that was in that era. I was there when I was younger obviously I mean I wasn't coming up at the time but but it was shortly after me I got recruited in the seventies It was couple years after he was killed so that story was fresh Nah forget about it Now, he has another story. I don't have everything because he knows where Hoffa's buried. Isn't he buried in the Meadowlands in New Jersey? Yeah, that's definitely not it and when he finally... He wouldn't say what details but you could deconstruct it and it sounds as if

CHAPTER 17 / 34 Discussion

Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover Secrets

Organized crime figures reportedly targeted the Kennedy family due to a personal vendetta involving Marilyn Monroe. Michael Franzese recounts a story from his father about Robert Kennedy pursuing his father because of a relationship with Monroe. The segment also touches on J. Edgar Hoover's refusal to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia because the mob allegedly held compromising information regarding his personal life.

marilyn monroe· robert kennedy· j. edgar hoover· organized crime· mob

1:38:16 Hoffa was given some cement boots and dropped off in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Oh, day wrecker! Yeah pushed him out of a plane. Out of a plane? Well that's how you get them in the middle of the Atlantic maybe they pushed him off a boat but I think it was a plane. Nice Okay now the last one is the one we were talking about his dad again and this story is the real...and he even kind of hints at his dad was kinda full as shit with his stories But he kind of says this story sounds kind of true because his dad was really targeted by the Justice Department over a lot of these other mobsters. Right, and

1:38:57 For all these years you can never figure out why and so this story which is clip three comes out Before process issues that be a very interesting person to be talking he goes back to the days of Luciano Castello God, he'll even tell you about Capone because he was younger than but he knew Capone came out in New York So he knows right I got stuck with capsule. Well, he knew him. I'm not saying I don't know what exactly did but he knew I asked my dad, and i'm going to tell you this. My dad was a... he got so much publicity in the 60s now he wasn't the main guy around okay there was a lot of guys doing it, Columbus everybody was around but for some reason they targeted my dad and I gotta tell you this story So I went to him one time I said Dad why are you? Why is there a lot of guy's around why did they pick you

1:39:42 He said, my mom had passed away five years ago. And he said I never wanted to tell you this. I don't want to disrespect your mom but now that your mom's passed away i'm going to tell ya! I said what? He said... I was dating Marilyn Monroe Kennedy fell in love with her Bobby Kennedy who was the Attorney General at the time she made him understand that she was a love of my father From that point on, Robert Kennedy targeted my dad because of the Marilyn Monroe. Went after him like crazy Now sometimes my dad will you know I'm wondering okay Dad are you trying to make... but it made sense! I said Dad you tell me he says I swear to God So your dad was with Marilyn Monroe? Yeah and he got a little bit more graphic when he told me this story I'm not gonna repeat it here

1:40:26 But yeah, and then you know I'm starting to think. And I said where did you meet her? Now he started questioning him He says uh-uh met her at the store club that was a hot place back there right Costello had a piece of it and I said Okay, tell me how it happened. He'd tell me the whole setup and everything else and you know because Hoover wasn't targeting mob guys back then That's right he was a friend because you had information on him on that information Yeah, he was bisexual You know he got caught and blah blah blah so he never went after guy yeah cuz they held it over his head said there is no mob Is what he said? There is no mom all right but Kennedy was a different story And he targeted my dad for that reason. You know what? Sometimes I think my dad, but I believe this one. I absolutely believe it because I put the two together and did a little research... It was true! Wow, this is great. This is on YouTube That's pretty good Yeah There's stuff out there I like that

CHAPTER 18 / 34 Discussion

FBI Corruption, Michael Franzese Critique, James Comey

Michael Franzese expresses shock at the current level of corruption within the U.S. political arena and the FBI. Drawing on his experience with five indictments and multiple racketeering cases, Franzese argues that modern authorities are violating the law more flagrantly than in previous decades. He specifically criticizes former FBI Director James Comey for "tainting" the reputation of the bureau through his public actions and book tour.

fbi· michael franzese· james comey· racketeering· corruption

1:41:19 And what's this? What's this? You want to play this last clip or not? Well, the last clip is kind of just a lightweight clip compared to the other three. But yeah, play it! So let me ask you as dirty as politics was back then how dirty is it today more or less Patrick I have never and now understand something Yeah did I see them when we were on the street We understood the government A lot of times crossed the lines with us We got it but you know what? We were criminals So in a way, can you justify it? I don't think so. I don't think the government is ever supposed to act illegally Okay they're supposed to abide by the law we were criminals We broke the law but they're supposed to use the laws effectively and properly To get anybody that's my feeling But you know what all right we were criminals And they crossed the line every once in awhile okay I have never In my lifetime seen The level of corruption that Is going on

1:42:10 today in the political arena. Come on, Michael! Patrick I kid you not more today than before 100 absolutely and at a level that i can't believe I mean look this is my life experience you gotta understand I've been indicted five times I've had two federal racketeering cases I've had two state racketeering cases I've been in front of the Supreme Court on constitutional issues in my dad's case. I've been in front of the appellate court so many times, there have been more grand juries than you can imagine This has been my life! I understand it, I know the law And I am telling you, I've never seen the law violated by people in power like i'm seeing now. It's to a point where I can't even watch it anymore! It-it's terrible because its bad for all of America Look... We cannot let our political... You know what is bad? When the gangster says it's BAD man over there! Authorities cross those lines of what's legally correct we can't let them do that because it's a threat to everyone at that point and time

1:43:12 And I'm not being biased. I have many friends in law enforcement, many friends and they're honest com- They'll tell you straight out we don't approve of what's going on Retired FBI agents that I know now are sickened to what they see now Wow! I mean come on this is...I mean look even Comey What he's going on is book tour I mean the things that he's saying that are coming out of his mouth It's an embarrassment to the FBI In my opinion Because there's a lot of hard-working, honest legitimate agents that do their job and a guy like this in my opinion is tainting everything else. It's terrible! Did he work for the feds as well?

CHAPTER 19 / 34 Discussion

Austin City Council, Finger Snapping, MLS Soccer Stadium

The Austin City Council has reportedly adopted "finger snapping" instead of clapping during meetings to be more inclusive, a move mocked as "beatnik" behavior. Meanwhile, the council approved a deal for a new Major League Soccer stadium. Critics argue the stadium deal is a poor use of land originally intended for affordable housing and dismiss soccer as an "un-American" sport due to its lack of commercial breaks.

austin· texas· mls· soccer· city council

1:43:47 No, no I never did. That's really... John! Bend over well deserved. I'll just lump it all into one and like it. And I think that was a good collection. Very good. Oh man I hope they don't uh..I mean he said something bad about Al Sharpton will probably get purged from the platform This is a bad idea to be talking- Don't put that on your platform Alright let's shift gears for a sec Just some light, some light stuff. Local story! Local story I told you that this happened and i have some proof Austin Texas now gone so crazy That in the city council meetings we no longer clap We snap our fingers like beatniks man Like beatniks because it's really good Hey hey stop, can you stop? I'm gonna tell you something This is bullcrap What is There's no way that what your saying Because you told me this already

1:44:47 We usually don't do stuff on the show where we've talked about it before. I am not buying it if you, If I'm going to buy it then I got to bring the bongos out Okay so let's do this...I have two clips I have one from the incident that I was told about and I have the second one is from just uh 2 nights ago and I'll explain that as well So you can then so listen first because it's at the very end All right, don't play your bongos Because you will miss it because it's good because everyone's talking. It's just short its short short short briefer

1:45:24 This is the diversity council, part of Austin City Council. This was regarding the name change I believe because the founder of Austin Texas had slaves therefore we need to be changed our name to shithole. Apparently this is going on in Canada with the founder of Canada! Ah racist get rid of him So you'll hear it at the very end. While I do think that my prime responsibility and the main thing that I will continue spending my time on is helping folks survive and addressing inequality in our community, um, I do think that having something for folks to feel proud of and come together around and want to stay in Austin for, um, is-is something that our council should continue working on and considering. And so that's why given all of this work, I'll feel comfortable voting yes on this deal. Thank you

1:46:16 Any further discussion? Did you hear it? Are you kidding me? Let's listen to just the other night as the MLS soccer stadium has been approved for building in Austin, Texas. What is the name of the Austin soccer team? Oh they're getting them from I think Ohio it's a... No there was one lined up. I think they are called MLS actually Here we go Now again at the end So wait with the bongos The soccer team is paying for and their building a stadium and then they're giving it to us for free, and then they're paying us rent to use it. They are delivering significant important much-needed community benefits there are no public subsidies because the most probable public alternative used for this property is affordable housing There's no loss of property tax revenue I want thank staff for pretty exceptional work in working through this issue Thank you Thanks to the community for engagement my colleagues for working through a pretty difficult issue

1:47:21 The city is excited about Major League Soccer. I am too! I can't wait until we are all wearing the same jersey celebrating the first championship in Austin Are we ready to vote? Councilor McArthur There you go, more finger snapping That is unbelievable Why is it unbelievable? What's stupid, that's why. Okay! That's different, that's not the same as unbelievable. Live in Austin long enough you believe Now its also very discriminatory I mean to the point where its close to being bigoted

1:48:02 You're gonna ask me how does that work? How does that work John, how are you bigoted for finger snapping. Some people cannot snap their fingers! You know good point some people cannot snap their fingers. Bigoted, bigoted, bigoted, bigoted What's really big enough a loud bongos into this great? What's really big it is that you heard it there in the clip hey, it was just intended for affordable housing screw those people That was funny and I want to irony of that clip wasn't saying yeah I would like to... And I'm not buying that they're getting the stadium for free plus they're gonna pay a rent. It's a stupid thing to do and although i grew up in football loving territory and love the footballs, soccer as a sport is un-American! it's an un-American sport because you can't put commercial breaks in. Un-American this soccer

1:49:04 So I don't know why they're all for it. You can't make money on it in America. The break problem is really an issue? Yeah, no, it's the issue! It's the only reason why football soccer has not made it in America because we can't break for commercials. The Austin beatniks will soon be taking place at the... Thanks, Net Ned. The Austin Beatniks! I'm writing that down. I'm writing it down too. The Austin Beatniks... nice Hey let's do a little more Trump hate Okay great Trump hate is always good uh you know the Antifa rally in Washington DC i just pulled a quick little clip of their chant

CHAPTER 20 / 34 Discussion

Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialism, Jeff Bezos Wealth

Bernie Sanders appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to define Democratic Socialism, focusing on a $15 minimum wage and universal healthcare. Sanders criticized the wealth disparity in the U.S., noting that Jeff Bezos's wealth increases by $250 million daily while many Amazon workers rely on food stamps. The hosts warn that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be taken seriously as a political force despite her critics' dismissals.

bernie sanders· stephen colbert· jeff bezos· alexandria ocasio-cortez· socialism

1:49:58 There you go. No borders, no wall, no USA at all! I think this is really the highlight of all these guys. The no borders, no walls, no USA at all. Or actually it's wall singular so it rhymes better. So Bernie was on Colbert Yes, and you know he asked in Colbert tried to make it interesting Colbert You can play this if you want is Bernie answering the question. What is Democrat socialist and Bernice answer is bullcrap and of course Colbert never did anything about that no borders No walls, no USA at all which is part of the

1:50:46 Program according to did he promote his girl? AOC. Oh, yeah Constantly want to say something about that blowing him I want John C Dvorak Shocked don't do what you think no No, maybe a fondle I want to say something. I'm seeing Dana Lash and all these types of people, you know these Twitter right-wing Twitter stars everywhere laughing and they're kind of standard now... We want her please!

1:51:27 Please we want her to run. We want more of her this is great she's fantastic, we can't get enough She so hilarious let me tell you that's what they said about Donald Trump be very careful what you wish for Yeah, very very careful because just because she she's a blithering idiot And I don't mean that she's not intelligent She is not schooled she can get the schooling she can get the answer she can be told how to talk we had A president that did this So be very and she has everything else going for her. Yeah crazy eyes big big smile Big mouth the lots I mean to be very careful This is the type of actor and I say that in a literal sense who could really get somewhere? so, um Just that was just my little warning Bernie. I'm on your side with this Yeah Not that I wouldn't mind because it would be great for our show. I Would look forward to that

1:52:22 But let's hear about it from the Bernster. And both of you identify as democratic socialists, what does that mean? Well I think it means among other things that if you work 40 hours a week in the wealthiest country in the history of the world You should be earning a living wage 15 bucks an hour It means that we end the international disgrace of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right. Notice how it's now gone to major country, it used to be in developed West you know in the west there used to be developed world and now it's just major company

1:53:16 country, just any major country. It's not true. The international disgrace of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right while we end up spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other nation. It means that we understand that the future of this country are our young people and that it is insane that hundreds of thousands of bright, young kids cannot afford to go to college because of the income with their families. And many others are leaving school deeply in debt and were going to make public colleges and universities tuition free? And it means that as global citizens

1:54:09 People who understand that we have a moral obligation to leave a healthy planet to our children and grandchildren We're gonna stand up the Trump and we're going to transform Our energy system in this country away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency Other people Other people have espoused those ideas without calling themselves socialists. Ever since the New Deal, and certainly since The Great Society, the Democratic Party has been associated with the Social Safety Net and it's essentially been socialism curious but why do you need to call yourself socialist because that has such... That's freighted with so much negativity in the United States

1:55:00 Okay, I'm just saying that like people are very excited about Ocasio-Cortez. I've had her in the seat She's very impressive But the people that she campaigned for did not win their primaries only half the people you campaigned for won Their primary so far So maybe maybe there's a little there's a little taint to socialism that turns pain. I don't really think so I think the real issue is that the ideas of that we have been talking about, almost without exception Stephen are now ideas that are mainstream ideas that are supported by the vast majority of the American people. And I think also people in their gut understand that were living a really strange moment in American history above and beyond Donald Trump which is very strange

1:55:46 What's stranger than Donald Trump? What is stranger? Well, what I... This is what might be... Might be stranger. Is that we're looking at a time where We have an out of control capitalism Where the greed of the people on top is really unbelievable! I mean... Outta control Right now right now in America you got three people Who own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the American people? You got the top 1 tenths of one percent owning more wealth than the bottom 90%. You got one guy, Jeff Bezos of Amazon. His wealth is increasing every single day by $250 million a day but he pays his workers many of his workers wages that are so low that many of them are on food stamps or Medicaid

1:56:39 Wow, I'm tired after hearing all that. Yes! I had to cut it short he went on for another five minutes. Oh my goodness why you know it baffles me why don't you just say yeah I'm a socialist this socialism is good just go everyone's couching and like well you know it's not really the right brand what its going to be we're going to change the definition of socialism just like we've changed the definition of racism And that's fine as long as we understand what it is. You can call it whatever you want, meaning...you know gay does not have the same meaning as it used to So I'm okay with that but let's all agree on what it really means What it really means is what Nancy Pelosi by the way I think she just in time for the midterm she got her face job

CHAPTER 21 / 34 Discussion

Nancy Pelosi, Frederica Wilson, White Supremacy Claims

Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson have intensified their rhetoric against President Trump, labeling him a racist and a white supremacist. Wilson claimed that everyone working in the White House must align with a "value system of racism" to exist there. The segment also mocks Pelosi's recent appearance and Wilson's use of the term "racial chinge" during a media interview.

nancy pelosi· frederica wilson· donald trump· racism· dog whistle

1:57:27 You got a new facelift done. Have you seen her recently? This will have to be the last, this has to be the last. Oh no it's definitely it's definitely the last but she has another face lift she's going to end up with a goatee hold on okay um uh I know something about faceless my first wife had a couple that's why I always say some bruising for a couple of days it'll be fine yeah yeah She's had major work done and everything is so tight still because he's in That's actually a little bit now. She's missing because she can't quite control her she can't move her mouth yep Pretty much really groupie dog yeah, that's it and by the way I have nothing against faceless you do whatever you want even put your head up face It's your face. Yeah, it's your platform My face is my platform. I'm Adam Curry my face is my platform

1:58:29 Here she is with some stuff about the president. He's a racist. The sorrow this is for our country, it's going backward. And the president with all of his statements he's the master of the dog whistle everything that he has done whether it's taking babies out in their arms of their other moms He came along and said hey you I'm taking that baby are you a mom? Yeah even better There are issues that relate to health care in our country access

1:59:09 services and the rest is, it's his whole thing is make America white again. That's his thing and he can say a nice thing today in a tweet but the fact is his actions speak louder than his words and every day in the Congress we have to fight those initiatives I'm very proud of our House Democrats on different committees who fight those initiatives Make America white again. That's right, she just racist this just Right there just throw it all up but we can make it worse We can make it worse how about Congresswoman Wilson do we remember her congresswoman Wilson? She wears the wacky cowboy hats in a variety of colors that idiot Oh John

1:59:56 she really can take what Nancy Pelosi says and what Maxine Waters says, and puts it into a bundle of joy. Well look in fact the president called you wacky in a tweet more than a year ago which is similar language to what he has used with Omarosa Manigault Newman over the last couple days. He called her wacky as well do you see a racial change to those comments like you clearly see something. Wait, wait what did he say? Chinj? He said racial chinj. What is a chinj? He meant to say tinj. Let's make sure now hold on...chinj Is this a word? Oh urban dictionary! No It shows up as top hit. Chinj A beard which connects from the chin to the minge

2:00:50 Oh, that's not what you... racial chinge. Chinge? A racist is a racist beard! Racial chinge. What a moron. Racial chinge?! I just have a ching of pepper to those comments like you clearly see something racial with the dog statement. I said it a year ago almost uh that Mr Trump is a white supremacist. He has surrounded himself with white supremacists and everything that comes out of that White House is racist. So what he says, it's racist the people around him what they think what they say how they act

2:01:36 It's all racist and we've got to stop this. And I don't expect anything more from him." I do want to point out she does use the Maxine Waters racists terminology. work there, you have to have some sort of value system and it has to align itself with racism. You wouldn't be able to exist in the White House! It is that clear! Wow just so you know...you're up-to-date on the White House. It's racist! And this woman keeps getting reelected I guess

CHAPTER 22 / 34 Discussion

Chris Cuomo, Antifa Violence, Moral Equivalency Argument

CNN host Chris Cuomo argued that violence committed by Antifa is "morally different" than violence committed by bigots or white nationalists. Cuomo claimed that those fighting against hate are on the "side of right," even if they resort to physical blows. This perspective is criticized as a dangerous departure from the equal application of the law and an example of media-driven moral religiosity.

chris cuomo· cnn· antifa· moral equivalency· violence

2:02:39 The best though from the M5M this past week came from... There's more? Yes, there is one more. It came from- well no actually there are a couple of more This came from the Cuomo Kid and he has something called Closing Arguments By the way, there is something I noticed that very creepy about this guy Not so much about his show And I know you don't watch it and I tend not to watch the whole thing as very difficult But the style these days that I've seen Fox is doing it, I've seen MSNBC do it. They now have the try box so you got they're doing the presenter of the host in this case the Cuomo kid in the middle and then they do the count

2:03:26 Count a point counterpoint to the left and the right in a box, right? And it's the latest and though and the person who is the right-wing crazy alt writer Nat white nationalist Nazi is on the right box makes sense. Yeah, and The normal person is on the left box yeah with Cuomo show so then you it's basically a head-and-shoulder shot of everybody Now, if you had these three boxes in a row and you have these three head and shoulders it's comfortable to watch. But what they do with the Cuomo kid is they zoom his box in so its bigger than the other two heads And it looks like he's one of those heads on the front of a ship just leering out of the television I'm gonna ask you some questions

2:04:14 is his box itself is bigger. Yes, yeah it extends higher and broader It overlaps the other boxes Right which is not the way supposed to be done Its very uncomfortable to watch No its no good He probably insisted on that or his producer did Somebody did Yeah somebody did Because if you look at the... And now wait I got a question too Is him within the box If he was scaled to size Is the shot tighter on him? Oh, yes. Yeah it's tighter It should be having shoulders a tighter shot which is shouldn't be good enough yeah as a So we have a tighter shot in a bigger box He looks like a giant max headroom popping out in between these other two people that is really amateurish Everything about it is wrong for all your television production reasons. It's very creepy yeah

2:05:02 But then when you hear, when they zoom in and it's just him alone he does his closing arguments. Here he is going to explain that when Antifa gets violent or counter-protesters or pro coms or whatever you would like to call them When they use violence it is different than when a alt right white nationalist Nazi KKK Hitler loving Nazi does it There's different kinds of violence and the Cuomo Kid explains.

2:05:51 When you use your hands in a violent way, you are a rioter. And unless you're justified in defending yourself and you hit someone, You're a thug. Your criminal. You attack cops? You slap the media? Your in the wrong period But I argue to you tonight all punches are not equal morally In the eyes of law yes but in the eyes of good and evil here's the argument If you're a punk who comes to start trouble in the mask and hurt people, you're not about any virtuous cause. You just somebody who's going to be held to the standard of doing something wrong but when someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot even physical are they equally wrong as the bigot they are fighting? I argue no

2:06:39 Fighting against hate matters. Now, how you fight matters too there's no question about that but drawing a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it because they both resort to violence emboldens hate legitimizes hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out two wrongs and what is right The bigots are wrong to hit. Antifa or whomever, anarchists or malcontent or misguided they are also wrong to hit but fighting hate is right and in a clash between hate and those who oppose it those who oppose it are on the side of right Think about it civil rights activists were they the same morally as the bigots? As the racists with whom they exchanged blows

2:07:35 are people who go to war against an evil regime on the same moral ground as those they seek to stop from oppressing the weak. It's not about being right in the eyes of law, but you also have know what is right and wrong in a moral, good or evil sense That's why people who show up to fight against bigots are not to be judged the same as the bigots even if they do resort to the same kinds of petty violence My God man! Wow, wow and by the way this is another example like when Rob Reiner's going on about patriotism in the flag Yeah This guys going on about moral religiosity practically in a practical sense you'll know who's right and wrong good versus evil You know one of these guys all these atheists become so you know crazy about do they flipped the script on everybody

CHAPTER 23 / 34 Discussion

Koch Brothers, Republican Ideology, Bernie Sanders Error

Bernie Sanders continues to claim that the Koch brothers' ideology dominates the Republican Party and the Trump administration. This is noted as a factual error, as the Koch brothers have been vocal critics of many of Trump's policies, particularly regarding trade and tariffs. Sanders is accused of using an outdated political script from previous election cycles.

koch brothers· bernie sanders· republican party· donald trump· ideology

2:08:28 It's for their paycheck, I can presume. They're in the milieu they're swept up in it as they believe it they believe all these things is what they talk about the water cooler in the cafeteria? As they believe this! It's their truth and really...I can't fault them for really going all-in on the nut job stuff because they've been trained to believe this. It's mind control And by the way, talking about kind of flipping the script not know what you're doing. I do want to go do a call back to the cold Bernie on The Colbert Show with a very short clip This is like...I thought that this had changed but apparently Bernie never got the memo on The Koch Brothers

2:09:11 Okay. Is a Republican party which in the last 30 years has moved very, very far to the right? You have the Koch brothers one of the wealthiest families in this country whose ideology is now the ideology of the Republican Party and Trump No it's not! Doesn't he understand this? Apparently doesn't He just lathering his generalities He's not flipping the script he's using the last election script that's what going on Yes, you're right. And of course we do have a few people to thank for show 1060 starting with Haley Hunsinger in Tigard Oregon 18818 and it's her birthday for Sir American Carnage

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Knighting Ceremony, Birthday Wishes, Global Producer Support

The show concludes with a formal knighting ceremony for an anonymous donor who contributed over $1,000. Birthday wishes are extended to several producers, including Sir American Carnage and Taylor. The hosts thank a long list of contributors from around the world, including Australia, Ireland, and various U.S. states, reinforcing the show's independent funding model.

knight· anonymous· birthday· karma· value-for-value

2:10:12 Andrew blowers or blowers is the way it would be pronounced not blowers flowers in Windsor Mill, Maryland one two four three five hmm that's an anniversary congratulations Kyle man wait it says Adam I think of you as the dad. I never had oh son Come here son. I'll teach you how to drink and drive a truck Kyle Mann in Chapel Hill, North Carolina 120. John Prebaz in Washington DC 100 best podcast in the universe. Another happy birthday on the list for his beautiful fiance Taylor yes

2:10:51 Taylor oh and wedding karma for their upcoming nuptials on September 29th. Yes Oh put that at the end Robert Young in Annandale, Virginia 8888 these are the last of these eight eight eight eight He wants a photograph sir John and Hebrew Springs Arkansas 8888 Michael asked Falk never had a fight yes 8888 and they never had a fight Gregor Zaya Chuck Zaya Chucks. Ah, Mount Kisco. I've been to Mount Kisco. Mount Kisco! Yes! Let's go to the zales in Mount Kisco! Sir Cal 8888. Uh Ty Robinson... Is that Sir Cal from The Lavender Blossoms? I think it's Sir Cal and the team.

2:11:41 Could be. I thought we had a...I know we got a Lavender Blossoms donation in here somewhere, that might be it. Ty Robinson and lavenderblossoms.com is the name? 8888 Queen Creek Arizona Dedouching needed for Timothy Lang and Mount Cross. You've been dedouched! He also wants to call out Patrick as a douchebag. Douchebag! His donation was 8008, the boob. Boob. Sir Paul from Twickenham, Middlesex UK Great Britain. He says been listening for five years now the show has got me through some good times and bad times Donating really makes you feel part of the community and I recommend everyone to donate when they can love the show Thank You thank you sir Paul from Twickenham. Uh sir, sir Baron Mark Tanner in Whittier California 6666 comes in twice a month Christopher Dexter is 5678 Jeffrey too big too Higg

2:12:46 Oh, too late. They just did a... Jeffrey and Rebecca did a meetup in Albuquerque New Mexico so I'm gonna read this Jobs Karma from my lady Rebecca as she drives home from her job up north love you mucho also for my job interview today yes in the morning to Anthony and Chris from the Albuquerque Meet-Up this week I'll be attending New York Comic Con for my first time this year hope to work in that industry Jeffrey now you know I say with Jeffrey when I did Was that the first Hot Pockets tour? I think the Hot Pockets tour went through New Mexico of them Yeah, yeah. I don't remember but I've seen him a cop. I'd done two meetups with it nice guy then Rebecca's at sweetheart Thank you very much sir Eric VM baronetta the valley $50 and 38 cents he says your past few shows have been superb Lindsay in Alexandria Virginia ah

2:13:37 And the following people are $50 donators. Get to the end pretty quickly today, it's Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard Washington, John Camp in Antlers Oklahoma, Micah Miller in Bethel Pennsylvania but Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami Florida Robert Weber sent us a note, Patricia Robert Weber, San Jose California. Send John a picture I think is what he's saying. I don't know. Send the picture to Adam. You can send the picture me too but send me a copy. Philip T Paxton 50. I've not listened for some time doing...for host of reasons but reading your newsletter on identity politics compelled me not only start listening again but donate. The essays do work! Well thank you

2:14:32 We actually usually get when I write one of them they get the donations go down Yeah, it does seem to work that way Matt, so I don't do him a lot. Matt Bolick, I think. Bolicky? Bolky. Bolkey. Bo-hi-ka. Brian Matthews in Balborgin, Ireland. John Haller in Missoula Montana. Trevor Hoagland in Portland Oregon Keith Yarborough in Austin Texas down the street from you

2:15:08 Matthew Hardy in Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park Alberta Kyle Meyer in Atlanta Georgia Frank Molinari in Bolvard, Texas. Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus California and last but not least Jason Deluzio in Chatsford Pennsylvania I want to thank all these folks for supporting the show and producing Show 1060 Indeed! Thank you and thank you to everybody who came in under $50 typically for reasons of anonymity but a lot of you are on the subscription programs we really appreciate that The 1111s or 33's

2:15:46 There's a number of them. You can all check them out at Dvorak org Slash and a and we have another show on Sunday remember us there as well, and as requested jobs Jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for job you've got karma Here's our list for today. It is August 16, 2018 John Prebos says happy birthday to his beautiful fiancee Taylor she turns 30 on the 14th of August Sir Paul from Twickenham celebrates today Haley Hunsinger and Baronetta Susan Johnson both say happy birthday to Sir American Carnage who celebrates on the 18th and Scott and Mary Beth McKay say happy birthday to their son Mitch His birthday will be on August 26 Happy Birthday from everybody here at The Best

CHAPTER 25 / 34 Discussion

Mastodon Social Network, Federated Timeline, Masto.host

The hosts discuss the growth of No Agenda Social on the Mastodon platform, emphasizing its status as a decentralized, free-speech alternative to Twitter. They highlight a service called Masto.host, which allows users to easily set up their own Mastodon instances for a small monthly fee. The discussion covers the "federated" nature of the network, which prevents any single entity from censoring the entire system.

mastodon· no agenda social· federation· masto.host· open source

2:16:40 Broadcasting the universe And oh we do have one nighting so this is good news, let's do I got my blade always ready How was your blade caller 100? Yeah, there's a blade right there. Oh nice Anonymous hop up on the podium here My friend right next to the roundtable of the no agenda Knights and dames you have supported the program in the amount of $1,000 or more and we are very for very very proud To bring you into the table and pronounce the KB Anonymous as surrealist and for you we have hookers and blow rent boys in Chardonnay. We got cookies and vodka warm beer and cold woman to keto and tequila. We got Parliament's and pale ale Pagan boy rabbit milk, rabbit meat and goat milk. We've got bourbon and bong rips pepperoni rolls and

2:17:28 And power chords, we got ginger ale and gerbils. Bong hits in bourbon, geishas in sake and yes even some mutton and meat it is a fan favorite at the table go to noahjennination.com slash rings give Eric the shill your ring size he'll tell you how to do it I'm gonna get that out to you as soon as possible and tweet it to us love to hear from you! I did want to mention something okay as this purge was taking place you know I'm a big fan of the deep you know decentralized networks the way the internet works best I think. Mastodon, of course we have noagendasocial.com which has been really running quite nicely for a while now maybe it's been up for what nine eight nine months now? Yeah you're never there but they're all the time yeah sure you're looking

2:18:19 Then I was just thinking about, you know wouldn't it be great if kids could just easily set up their own Mastodon server and create a little... because when you set one up and its completely empty the public timeline all that stuff there's nothing. It only happens when either you start following people or people start following you If there's another user on your system, then whoever that person follows or who follows them will show up in what they call the federated timeline. So you can really create your own little ecosystem which has content that if you bring people in at the beginning it's like seeding and it grows. It's very... That's what happened with No Agenda Social. You put a couple of people in

2:19:01 You know, these people created their own little environment. They're following people they're talking back and forth across different instances of course that's how we got on the big block list. No agenda social is a free speech zone you should block it! And I'm not kidding that's literally what they say because we are free speech zone. Who was they? We were on the block lists? Oh we've been on the blocked lists from day one almost On that woman's blocked lists Well mastodon dot social Kind of the first, you know the Genesis instance. They have a block list because there's bunch of people are whiny over there and that's the way it supposed to work I like...I'm not a fan... You're blocked by the master MasterDON account? Anyone on that server cannot communicate with us at all

2:19:51 This is the master server. Well, it's not real there's no master server But that's kind of the first one where everyone got their first account to learn how to what the system is I'm appalled but it doesn't matter because you know people who want to federate with us federate with us and there's still tons Of stuff when there's lots of people who will even get an account on our instance just to fight with us You know It's okay But there's total control, users are much more in control than anything else and you know there is no entity that can kick you off the whole system because it's federated. And really that's kind of a I have to say Dave Weiner had the right idea It's but this is it. This is like RSS only it's a different system, which is why he'll never change It will never bring his smarts to the table again But the activity pub system at protocol is very good anyway long story short I found this kid just by himself His name is Hugo and he has this site called Masto dot host

2:20:51 And for five bucks a month, for up to 200 users but unlimited bandwidth etc. I think his top is like 25 bucks for unlimited users You literally register email address password PayPal boom there's your mastodon instance It's like WordPress for social networks it's really cool Really? Yeah, and you know WordPress is an arguable huge success for its independence. Yes WordPress that's where Guccifer went And I would say that this is something VCs should jump all over Now how are you going to get your money out? I don't know but if people are willing to pay... They're not jumping over anything they can't get their money out

2:21:38 I don't think so either but for five bucks a month and this kids got a little you know little server farm actually on OVH which is the network we use as well. Yeah, OVH is still good. It's the way to go yeah they got they got good deals But it's really interesting Especially because I had already set one up And then I started to set one up my site is called sat the psyop shop calm psi op shop calm Yeah, you yeah. Hmm. I'm gonna put only spooks are gonna be allowed in I Have a couple of me up if your spook sorry if you're a spook go over there I have a couple second half the show clips Oh well then let me get a little second half this is

CHAPTER 26 / 34 Discussion

Barack Obama, Roswell Secrets, End of Show ISOs

A clip of Barack Obama joking about Roswell and government secrets is presented for potential use as an "In Search Of" (ISO) soundbite. The hosts compare it to a clip of Omarosa Manigault Newman asking, "Girl, did you read my book?" They decide to use a "double ender" combination of both clips to close the episode.

barack obama· roswell· omarosa· secrets· iso

2:22:22 This is a surprise, I'm sorry. Don't worry about it we don't even need this steam Okay i can't find it so good So here we go with the- Wait wait! I'll do what I need to start the server! Here it is! I got it! I got it! Yikes! Second half of show John C. Devorak on deck! Let me bring the JLog because they have two clips...I found an old Obama clip that was kind of interesting and I did 2 ISOs on it But I thought this was good. This is Obama, this is a very flippant comment he made while he's president. Okay here we go... It was it was a wonderful trip over here We took the helicopter and landed in Roswell. I announced to people when I landed that I'd come in peace

2:23:16 But let me tell you there are more nine and ten year old boys around the country when I meet him they ask me have You been to Roswell, and is it true what they say? And I tell them if I told ya that's a kill you so Get all big. Yeah, we're gonna keep our secrets here Little little boys It's very pleasant well, so I have the two isos. They have ISO one if I told you that to kill you That works better out of context. I like it think it's a good one yeah And then as I saw too, yeah, we're gonna keep our secrets here now So that's not as good now. I'm now I'm on the fence because I thought I definitely had the end-of-show ISO Well play yours again okay? Let me grab it here Here's mine girl did you read my book oh

2:24:11 If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Ah! Perfect a double. Alright let me practice. Ooh... Okay practice. Gold did you read my book? If i told ya'll that's the killing perfect you're right okay we got a double double ender good word nice work good work good work Pookie!

CHAPTER 27 / 34 Discussion

Genoa Bridge Collapse, Directed Energy Weapons, 9/11 Truthers

A brief discussion regarding the bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, features a witness description of the structure turning into "flour" or "dust." This leads to a speculative tangent about the potential use of directed energy weapons, drawing parallels to 9/11 conspiracy theories. The hosts acknowledge the fringe nature of the claim while noting the unusual nature of the witness's terminology.

genoa· italy· bridge collapse· directed energy weapon· conspiracy

2:24:57 Now, I know you're not talking about it and I figured oh! I found this killer clip which is a topic that we weren't going to talk about because people keep asking me at the table. You gonna talk about the Genoa Bridge collapse? Why what's it got to do with news deconstruction yeah so you have a clip about it Second half, Genoa Bridge. Listen carefully. Okay... Plunging over that bridge. I was died. You would have died? Yeah The mother of two said the bridge started shaking violently then the giant A-frame tower in front of her collapsed like flour. They can't fall down like a flower. Like a flower and it was also like between towers

2:25:48 Just dust. Yes, she abandoned her car and ran for her life Are you a 9-11 truther now about the bridge? So the bridge turned into flour first when I first heard I said it's like a flower and that's directed energy weapon ah Boom! I win the bet. I knew that's what you'd say Yeah, I knew that's what you'd say how much did you win Dollar oh nice very nice All right, we're out of second. I say I was saying you gonna say particle beam but same know the directed energy weapon This is good well as that there is a directed energy weapon popping up in Los Angeles Californians wait not that one

CHAPTER 28 / 34 Discussion

Thruvision Technology, LA Metro Screening, Terahertz Waves

The Los Angeles County Metro is the first public transit system in the U.S. to deploy Thruvision, a passive screening technology that scans commuters for weapons and explosives. The system uses terahertz waves to see through clothing without exposing individuals to radiation. Concerns are raised regarding the potential health effects of terahertz frequencies and the invasive nature of the low-resolution "naked" body scans.

thruvision· la metro· tsa· terahertz· body scanner

2:26:39 There you are the poops no, no I'm gonna. I'll come back to poops Here it is this the one I was looking for it is called through vision This is the newest technology that's going to be used to detect weapons LA County Metro It's the first public transportation system in the country To use this this is going to be the extra layer of protection and make sure your safer in public transportation Here's how it works. Commuters walk by the small mobile machine and they're scanned for weapons This new technology was tested and tweaked by the TSA for more than a year Then, Metro jumped on the opportunity to bring it to Southern California This is a completely non-evasive and portable screening system that passively scans weapons

2:27:30 or individuals for weapons and explosive devices. Have you seen this thing? No, I thought it was just a metal detector. No! So it's a flight case... It opens up and has a flat antenna on the front and is aimed at the escalator coming down to the subway so everybody coming down to the sub- it's just like what was the Schwarzenegger movie? Where you walk through- You're gonna get on this shuttle and you walk past the screen and they see your bones Yeah Was that Terminator I don't remember. Yeah, you're that of the Mars thing so it's just like that they its its terahertz It's I think is 249 gigahertz

2:28:16 something like that they call it more than that yeah it is more than that hold on the terahertz waves are the hardest waves to find oscillators for its almost in fact, if you can start a terahertz company up and actually get it do anything? You make a lot of money. Well this is it! This is the Terahertz Through vision. What's the frequency? Okay, all right I'm gonna take a look now almost I have their website here it's through thruvision.com and I got a whole bunch of information in the show notes about about terahertz waves okay about here we go shoot no they don't of course they're not telling us about that on their website thought

2:29:09 Anyway, it's yeah terahertz is but there's a lot of conflicting information about this You know is this the kind of stuff that can rip apart your DNA? Some people say yes. Now they say it's passive? Well, they say it only goes through clothing but doesn't go through the skin so basically what you're seeing in the report is a very low-res naked body scanner It's extremely low res what they show But they say its passive meaning that it's only detecting radiation you already have

CHAPTER 29 / 34 Discussion

ATM Jackpotting, FBI Bank Warning, Cyber Crime

The FBI has issued a confidential alert to international banks regarding a coordinated "ATM jackpotting" attack. This cyber crime involves hacking into a bank's system to force machines to dispense all their cash in minutes. Unlike credit card skimming, this method targets the bank's internal software, potentially allowing criminals to empty hundreds of machines simultaneously.

fbi· atm jackpotting· cyber crime· malware· banking

2:29:49 And not active. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me I don't know what you're talking about, um... I know-I saw this story too and didn't know what to make of it. I saw the thing that you were coming down with. The Chinese had these things during the SARS epidemic Yeah well look how tiny the Chinese are! Okay? Just saying We don't need to talk about it anymore You made my point right there May not be good for ya From the way things are going, I can't believe it's good for you. Here is a warning from the FBI and this is the kind of stuff that we love in the false flag community The FBI has warned international banks that their cash machines could be mass hacked by cyber criminals in the next few days In a confidential alert on Friday The FBI told banks they could be targeted by an organized group of cyber criminals That work together to plan coordinated attacks on cash machines The FBI said that it had unspecified

2:30:49 identified reporting indicating that cyber criminals were plotting an attack soon, relating to an unknown card issuer breach. This warning which was first reported by Krebs on security is thought to have been issued to all banks with international operations such as Barclays and HSBC. This type of cyber crime which is known as ATM jackpotting allows criminals to take millions of bills in just a matter of minutes from cash machines around the world They hack into a bank's system and access user data, and can trigger changes in an account's information such as the balance to make cash machines dispense more money until they are completely empty. Criminals group together to access different cash machines at the same time and empty them of funds before banks react. This is very different to credit card skimmers which steal information off one single account

2:31:36 Hackers in this incident could access money from hundreds of different accounts at once. Incidences of ATM jackpotting have worsened over the last year, with several incidences reported in Europe and Asia. Should this attack happen it would likely send shockwaves through financial institutions although small independent banks are the most vulnerable to attack according to our experts While the banking industry is heavily regulated and many have sophisticated cyber security, it doesn't make them less of a target for criminals looking to make some money very quickly. Well, it has happened before. They don't report on it much because it's embarrassing. This exact type of breach which seems to be different than a skimmer? Yeah this is a jackpotting issue where you just somehow you code the... You send some code to this thing and it just puts all them every dollars got in there it coughs it out It happened a number of years ago and it was uh it cost the banks millions millions Cool So it's gonna maybe happen again Here's where I go Bitcoin baby

CHAPTER 30 / 34 Discussion

San Francisco Poop Patrol, Public Works, Pit Stop Program

San Francisco is launching a dedicated "Poop Patrol" team to proactively clean feces from city sidewalks. The six-man crew will target known "hot spots" where human and animal waste is a frequent complaint. This initiative is part of the city's broader Pit Stop program, which includes 22 public toilets, as officials struggle to maintain hygiene in the face of a growing homelessness crisis.

san francisco· poop patrol· public works· feces· 311

2:32:51 I don't know what Bitcoin's gonna do. Detective Dookie! Detective Dookie! Poop Police, SPU Special Poopers Unit That's right everybody it's time for another episode of Poop Police SPU special poopers unit we go to San Francisco normally when San Francisco Public Works gets a call about a dirty sidewalk or street they send out a crew to clean it up but in recent years the department has seen a sharp increase in the number of service calls So starting next month, a new six-man team will be hitting the streets to try to be proactive about the problem. Rachel Gordon is with San Francisco Public Works. We're going to have a dedicated crew who will be going out in kind of known hot spots in the city where there have been complaints of feces whether dog or human and they'll be going out to clean it up so that's gonna be their new job

2:33:39 This new special team is part of a larger effort by the city to keep human and pet waste off the streets. Public Works says they've also had good luck with their Pit Stop program, which is made up of 22 public toilets in 12 neighborhoods across the city We want to be able to allow people to relieve themselves Everyone has to do it at a place with dignity that's not using our public sidewalks and San Francisco as our toilet But Public Works admits that keeping San Francisco clean is a big job and they still need the public to keep reporting any problems by calling 311. It's a serious problem, uh and it's one that we are committed to making sure we can make it different They need to have a snappier number This is the word- By the way 1 800 CALL POOP I don't know where you got this clip K R O N

2:34:27 Well, every other clip from all the other stations around here called it The Poop Police. Which I thought is the clip you'd end up with because it makes sense with the jingle you played and they're called The Poop Police or The Poop Patrol. They actually have that name! That's the name they gave them and I don't know why KRON which is a really independent little lackey station used to be used to be... Well, I think the I think poop police is better and I think they should have badges And while we're at it, they should be armed. It's a dangerous job out there in the streets of San Francisco Well they should be armed you're right yeah the pooper troopers how about that I like that Pooper Troopers I think is better Excuse me ma'am i'ma pooper trooper. I'm here from san francisco sfp sfpp ss poo police

CHAPTER 31 / 34 Discussion

Electric Scooter Backlash, Bird Graveyard, Tech Worker Culture

Residents in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills are increasingly hostile toward dockless electric scooters from companies like Bird and Lime. An Instagram account called "Bird Graveyard" documents people destroying, burning, or pooping on the scooters. The backlash is attributed to a general disdain for "douchebag" tech worker culture and the perceived unsustainability of the current "Silicon Beach" economic boom.

bird· lime· electric scooters· los angeles· beverly hills

2:35:21 It's okay, don't worry because they're pooping in Los Angeles too. Californians raging against the technology revolution This is from RT. have found a new target... scooters! There's these companies who rent electric, paper-minute scooters. They're dockless meaning the scooters are hanging out on sidewalks or near bike racks and you can just go up to one grab it and scoot away to wherever you need to go! There's lots of them with cutesy names like Bird & Lime And apparently they're everywhere in LA and people hate them as one scooter hater told the LA Times... This was the actual quote in the newspaper. And that man is not alone in his feelings, because people are putting poop on them! They burn them... they toss them into toilets...they tossed him off balconies...they tossed him into the ocean I love their pooping out of scooters this is a good combo deal bury them in the sand and snap up there kickstand they talk about broken piles getting really creative for how to totally mess with these scooters don't you think it would be an idea

2:36:21 for to train the homeless in San Francisco to poop on the scooters. Because then, you know... I would like to see the homeless on the scooter just scooting around! I've seen, now that you mention it there are several clearly people experiencing homelessness who have the dockless bikes and i don't know exactly if they're paying for it? They have smartphones a lot of them But they have all the gear on it, you know. It's all... I don't know that maybe this jacket open or something but I'm... I have no idea! But i don't see him on the scooters. I think if someone asked me for money on the street which will happen the minute I walk outside, I'll say yeah If you ride on that scooter for me right now This is how much people in LA hate them

2:37:19 There's even an Instagram account dedicated to destroyed scooters called Bird Graveyard, after the scooter company Bird. Bird Graveyard has more than 24,000 followers and counting. And one moderator told the LA Times that they get over 100 videos and photos of scooters being defaced every day. Okay so that's a good start and although this report is very tedious to listen too she makes it point that all of sudden I realize what my hatred of these scooters really is. And they only published the most outlandish ones It got in so bad that Beverly Hills has banned them for six months LA City Councilman Paul Koretz is calling for the city to take all available measures to outlaw the scooters from the city entirely. And we're talking about L.A! People are supposed to like outdoor activities there, they're also big on climate change as an issue and here they are pushing back against a mode of transportation that's a little bit lighter on the environment than cars but instead of embracing them their pooping on them and Instagramming it They hate these scooters so much

2:38:21 It might have more to do with the fact that there's a certain kind of people that ride them. As the LA Times writes, And even here in New York I can say it's usually douchebags riding on scooters and it annoys me too! Even though I love alternative modes of transportation Just goes to show you that no matter how good a new technology appears to be it's only as good As the humans who use it so this made me think I was like, you know That's really true. There's something because you can spot on a mile away You know what? A tech worker looks like in Austin. You just not I mean This is we still got cowboy boots and hats and that's the women

2:39:08 So you know that this person coming down with the satchel, obviously there's often the Google T-shirt or the Facebook logo. You see it's one of them and then when they're zipping along on these scooters and this is my problem obviously it's some trauma I have somewhere...you just think to yourself what a douchebag! Douche bag tech worker floating over at the sidewalk like that stop it so there's something about that I have to talk to my therapist to figure it out, but there's something that... It triggers me. It does and it's triggering other people Here is the second thing that I find interesting This using feces as a

2:39:49 a way to vent, literally your anger. Chimpanzees in the zoo do the same thing by the way Thank you because we're seeing a lot of this it may be because there's more closed-circuit cameras and there's just more internet and there's more ways to share it I'm sure that's a big part of this that I'm seeing more of it yeah but you can't use the restroom woman poops on the floor throws the poop at the guy people are pissed off with scooters poop on them What and you know People pooping while jogging in front of their houses. I hate the students. I'm gonna poop on the track What is wrong with this that? I think that's an illness It's a mental illness maybe the insult comic dog who poops on everything should be He's ground zero of the poop movement, but you know what I'm saying is this something new oh

2:40:41 Everything's something new. But this is just something out of disgust. No, but yeah, I'm telling you this is the beginning of the end and not talking about the end of the culture, the end of the world, the republics down to drain all the world, it's the end of the economy, the pooping No, the whole thing. The Silicon Beach and Silicon this and Silicon that... Right! It's unsustainable. ...the Seattle area is just completely out of control Now on the other hand our economy is data now wouldn't you say we're cutting out data? Data is the new bacon everything's about data so it's going to be companies that deal with data

2:41:32 Think maybe it's just limited how much they can rip out of people through you know taking away privacy and That that will I think there's a limit to that. You're not really being bringing people joy You know what? I mean, you're just not bringing them joy But I do understand what you're saying that when you have this in this overindulgence And you know There's so many of these scooters and bikes and people can poop on them and throw him away hundreds a day Yeah, you've got a culture that's in trouble too it seems. But yeah economy I'm with you on that let's just keep it and then you know reminds me I get the feeling the feeling i'm having is the feeling from 1999

2:42:12 And it was, it's the amount of bars and restaurants and things that cropped up just before the dot-com crash in San Francisco. And we were going to all these different places there was just like a ton of them! There's this opening up everywhere...and Seattle is like completely out of control with the bar scene. There's all these new they're all hipster bars, there's tons of them And there's just people that get them all the time and they're all the tech workers, and they're all mixing and meeting and greeting. They're drinking too much in the whole thing it's but it's very similar to the 99 feeling not 2008 feeling a 99 feeling. Just too much going on is too crowded. The freeways are jammed up and too many bars. That's the way I see it!

CHAPTER 32 / 34 Discussion

John Brennan, Security Clearance Revocation, First Amendment Debate

President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance has sparked a debate over free speech. While media critics call it an assault on the First Amendment, others point out that 5.9 million Americans hold clearances and that losing it primarily diminishes Brennan's professional utility as a consultant. The hosts argue that the move is more of a personal embarrassment for Brennan than a constitutional crisis.

john brennan· donald trump· security clearance· msnbc· cia

2:42:57 So I'm watching CBS Evening News. Now they've changed their structure a little bit, this is my last couple clips and they're very short. They've changed their structure a little bit where they have a bunch of teases at the beginning of the show and then it turns out two or three of the teases in fact to in this case everything that was in the show They've expanded on, you know, Brennan lost his security clearance. Good! Can I just say something about that? Sure The security clearance being lost, people need to understand why that is such an insult. What I hear the people like the Cuomo kids saying is that's an assault on his First Amendment right! And which is really great and they explain this because

2:43:54 He said something the president didn't like. He punished him by taking his clearance away, that is punishing free speech and I'm not kidding this this is how it's being explained across the board on the M5M and therefore that's its borderline unconstitutional It's you don't do that! It's crazy It's different. The reason why it is so embarrassing, is there are 5.9 million people in America with clearance 1.5 million of them have top secret clearance He said he's a loser! You can't even keep the clearance That's why its so embarrassing Is because anybody can get this A million and half people have top secret clearance Well he wont be able to talk to any of them now

2:44:44 So his usefulness at MSNBC has been diminished. And it's true because I think I've told the story before At my grandparents, no was this when they still alive anyway it was a niece once removed somehow and she's part of the Uncle Don side of the family and she's about 15 16 we're sitting there at the big family gathering with chatting and I asked her oh really tell me about that. She says I'm sorry can't talk to you don't have clearance 16 year old snot nose. Oh, okay yeah no and they're trained so everyone has this shit everyone has clearance except us Yeah well Anyway I'm sorry back to your unreported teaser So they have the outplay all these teasers but there were two teasers they didn't carry I mean they had a teaser which i have clips of but they didn't do the story Really?

CHAPTER 33 / 34 Discussion

Sweden Arson Attacks, Youth Gangs, Media Teasers

CBS Evening News teased a story about 80 cars being torched by masked vandals in Sweden but reportedly failed to air the full segment. The attacks were coordinated online by "youth gangs," a term often used as a euphemism for migrant groups in European reporting. The hosts highlight this as an example of media outlets burying significant international news after using it for sensationalist teases.

sweden· arson· youth gangs· migrants· cbs news

2:45:42 That kind of... Well, we do that all the time but it's just because we forget. I doubt they- Yeah well were doing it because we're just living a show No no we forget We literally forget So let's listen to what they might be if there is maybe some reason they are not doing these stories. Heh Uh I know what this is and now i understand where you're going. Okay, second teaser? Wait before you do that they did have the picture of the Monsanto roundup. Oh they did have the picture so they didn't mention Monsanto by name because we know that Cheryl Atkinson got fired after she... We're all concluding that now and so here's the other one

2:46:30 About 80 cars were torched overnight in Sweden by masked vandals place saying these are arson attacks that were coordinated online by youth gangs Who are now in Turkey? You mean they've miss saying migrants. Well, they didn't say anything like that But they just showed a bunch of vet They had some video and these kids there they probably migrants and no they are the kid who was Was picked up until you flew back to turn it through Turkey to get back to wherever he came from They burned the place down and they never told the story. It was a very interesting story for no other reason than it was all coordinated online somehow, but no we didn't get the story just little teaser that is not interesting yeah I found it very interesting hmm alright

CHAPTER 34 / 34 Discussion

Kanye West, Jimmy Kimmel Interview, Show Sign-off

Kanye West appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, discussing his support for Donald Trump and his refusal to be "bullied" by the liberal or hip-hop communities. West emphasized the importance of overcoming fear and maintaining individual confidence. The show concludes with final credits, a reminder of the Sunday episode, and a series of closing jingles and soundbites.

kanye west· jimmy kimmel· trump· black community· sign-off

2:47:22 I have a Kanye West was on Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, I saw that. Was there anything you thought was real? Some people are like oh yeah he couldn't think about the president saying this or that but...I thought it was pretty decent interview. It's pretty funny and okay wasn't anything highly controversial in my mind No there was nothing controversial But he did bitch and moan about the fact that people were calling him out and making his life miserable. Okay, let's listen to that Everyone around me Tried to pick my candidate for me mm-hmm And then told me every time I said I like Trump that I couldn't say it out loud or My career would be over I get kicked out of black community because blacks are we're supposed have a monolithic thought We can only like we can only be Democrats not so um

2:48:13 Even when I said it right before I went to the hospital and I expressed myself, and when I came out I had lost my confidence. So I didn't have the confidence to take on the world in a possible backlash And it took me a year-and-a-half to have the confidence To stand up and put on the hat no matter what the consequences were. And what it represented to me is not about policies, because I'm not a politician like that but it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt no matter what anyone said and saying, You can't bully me! Liberals can't bully me News can't bully me The hip-hop community they can't bully me Because at that point if I am afraid to be me then I'm no longer yay That's what makes yay And I actually quite

2:49:04 I quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things. You must enjoy it! Yeah, yeah. You know Kanye is an enlightened guy that was my takeaway from the whole interview Yeah i think so too and the thing is that he's more influential than most people in the white community if there such a thing. Oh hell yeah. Yey! Yey is influential yey absolutely He's very influential and maybe part of the reason that the number of blacks are turning Republican or that put up with Trump has increased from 14% to 31 percent of their population. Okay, Kanye no more small aircraft no hot tubs definitely stay away from garage doors and that is our show for today ladies and gentlemen I'd like to thank in advance Tom Starkweather Hugh Allison Sir Chris Wilson

2:50:04 And a cast of thousands for the end-of-show mixes. And thank you for showing up, Troll Room, noagendastream.com Those of you still listening NickTheRat will be up next at noagendastream.com Give that a listen to ya it's always on 24 7 and uh... Thank You Mr. Dvorak! Coming to you from downtown Austin Texas capital of the drone star state here in FEMA region 6 on the governmental maps in the 5x9 Cluedio in the common law condo In The Morning Everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where are others at Costco awaiting my presence? I'll be snapping my fingers! I'm John C. Dvorak. That's right snap them and play the bongos remember us at dvorak dot org slash na for Sunday show until then adios mofos

2:51:18 I don't care what you say about old President Trump He may act stupid, but he ain't no chump He got one thing going in his defense Y'all ain't gonna do nothing cause nobody here wants Pence Thank You Very Much You come here a lot, but then when you make it is when you play in the big room inside We will reach greatness

2:51:58 Everybody walking with their phones. Not San Francisco, pooch city! Everybody walking with their phones We have not reached greatness Donald Trump is a lounger He continues to do a lounger People just lounging around intoxicated We have not reached greatness Is gone Oh my god! Wooo! Listen to that goat! Oh my god, oh she's beautiful. She is beautiful. Yeah alright. Oh no he has got karma too. Oh my god it's an ITM 33

2:52:50 Oh my god! We're gonna watch this. This is special, this is special. That girl gives me the chills and it has absolutely nothing to do with how cold it is here but that doesn't stop a producer especially when it comes to making jingles As we try and cool off by staying hydrated, scientists also say the heat waves in the northern hemisphere are undoubtedly linked to global warming. As we try and cool off...

2:53:35 By staying hydrated, scientists also say the heat waves in the northern hemisphere are undoubtedly linked to global warming. Woo! There it is! Undoubtedly... Are undoubtedly... Not necessarily... Scientists... Global Warming are undoubtedly linked to global warming. I don't care.

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