Episode 110 · Monday, 6 July 2009

Get A Shot of Protection With The No Agenda Show!

A collapsing newspaper industry and Sarah Palin's shock resignation provide the backdrop for a global surge in mandatory vaccine programs and economic instability.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 110

About this episode

The San Francisco Chronicle is hemorrhaging $1 million per week as publisher Frank J. Vega attempts a desperate pivot to color printing and magazine-style layouts. While the newspaper industry collapses, Sarah Palin's sudden resignation as Governor of Alaska fuels speculation regarding her husband Todd Palin's ties to the Alaska Independence Party. These local crises mirror a global shift as the Obama administration faces a predicted six-month test of mettle amid rising secessionist rhetoric and economic hitman theories.

UK Health Secretary Andy Burnham warns of 100,000 daily swine flu cases by August, prompting Ireland to commit 88 million euros to a national vaccination program. This medical mobilization coincides with reports of prison uprisings in Massachusetts and Queensland as inmates fear forced treatments. Meanwhile, the UK Conservative Party under David Cameron faces scrutiny for plans to hand NHS patient records to Google and Microsoft, a move complicated by a Tory official's marriage to a Google executive. In the United States, the U6 unemployment rate has quietly climbed to 16.5 percent, signaling a level of labor underutilization not seen since the Great Depression.

Matt Taibbi exposes Goldman Sachs as a bubble-generating machine in a scathing Rolling Stone report while Bernie Madoff begins his 150-year sentence. Amidst the financial ruin, the Dutch pension fund ABP is profiting from the Michael Jackson catalog following his death and the subsequent MSNBC media frenzy. The episode features a knighting for donor Troy Walters and a deep look at the piezoelectric effect on Air France Flight 447.


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CHAPTER 01 / 19 Discussion

San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Crisis and Color Printing

The San Francisco Chronicle is reportedly losing $1 million per week, a figure confirmed by a senior advisor to the mayor. To combat these losses, publisher Frank J. Vega announced a transition to high-quality color presses and a magazine-style layout. Critics suggest this focus on aesthetics and "vibrancy" fails to address the underlying business model failures of daily newspapers.

san francisco chronicle· frank j vega· newspaper industry· financial loss· color presses

00:01 Yeah. Are you ready? I was born ready. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. Ah yes, coming to you from Gitmo Nation East and West this time, it is your Gitmo Nation Audio Publication 110. This is no agenda. Coming to you from an undisclosed hotel location in Gitmo Nation East, better known as London Town, the United Kingdom. I'm Adam Curry. And I'm supposed to be the one who says I'm in Gitmo Nation, West Northern Silicon Valley to be exact. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! I love it when we hit it right there Johnny boy! I felt so professional.

00:39 So you're in London reading the news? Yeah, yeah, that's what the show is. Exactly. I'm in London reading the news and you're in San Francisco reading the news. Yes, but I'm reading the news about how the San Francisco Chronicles decided that the way they're going to save their million dollars a week loss... Which was confirmed to me by the way by the senior advisor to the mayor who I had lunch with. That what? that they're in so much trouble they're losing a million dollars a month. Oh no, I mean, I know that everyone knows they're losing a million dollars a week. I mean a week, I'm sorry. A week, yeah. Four million a month. They should just give us the stories and give us a million bucks a month and we'd be cool.

01:22 Yeah, and they'd save three. Yeah. It's a business plan. The voice of the West is about to embark on a bold new era that could provide a model. This is in the paper could provide a model for how daily newspapers can thrive in today's market. Yes, because these guys know so much about it. beginning today the newspaper will be printed using full-color presses and acquire some of the characteristics of a daily magazine a showcase for the dramatic use of sharp crisp photographs graphics and advertisements let me guess let me guess they have pictures of Iranian protesters with green scarves and the green is really good-looking

CHAPTER 02 / 19 Discussion

AT&T, Comcast, Connectivity Failures in San Francisco

Technical failures involving AT&T DSL lines and USB data sticks prevented the scheduled recording of a previous program. Despite being in downtown San Francisco, cable service from Comcast remains unavailable, leading to frustrations with customer service representatives. The reliability of mobile data bandwidth is also questioned when multiple users attempt to access the same transmitter simultaneously.

at&t· comcast· dsl· san francisco· technical difficulties

02:02 The new press will have the capability to run color images on almost every page Including section fronts quote this will be an eye-opening for a lot of people said publisher Frank J Vega It's going to give us a lot more vibrancy and flexibility in what we'd never where's they're gonna be losing 1.5 million a week Apologies right off the top here at the top of the show for not bringing you your No agenda yesterday on and it's usually scheduled time slot on Sunday. We didn't make a valiant effort I would have to say but of course I got completely boned by AT&T whose DSL line in the in the Undisclosed loft location in San Francisco was working fine until of course we started talking about swine flu then shit got disconnected pretty damn quick and

02:58 I called the customer service representative and they said, oh yeah, wow, yeah, you know, that's really interesting. We rewired stuff at the exchange for your convenience of course and I guess we messed up but oh wow, it's a double whammy. You have not only a rewiring issue but there's something wrong at the building too. Something's wrong in your house. No, I don't think so. Nothing changed here. Nothing. So then we tried the USB stick which is also an AT&T product I might add and we actually just we recorded about five minutes. So the AT&T I figured if the DSL line area was down they probably everybody who had one of those AT&T sticks was using it.

03:50 Oh, and the problem with those stupid sticks. And I'll tell you if if Mickey and I, because he has one as well, if we're both using the stick at the same time then then neither of us gets any bandwidth. It's crazy. It's like two separate radio transmitters. Well luckily you're not, you know it doesn't cost that much to have one of those sticks. Yeah, 60 bucks a month. 60 bucks? Holy crap what a ripoff! It is. It's a total freaking ripoff. And that actually worked reasonably okay two weeks ago And now it's just like forget about it, it doesn't work. It's crap. And of course I complained about this on Twitter and complained at AT&T and at Comcast Cares who are really the culprits in all this because they do not provide cable service to downtown San Francisco. Oh yeah, blame the victim. What do you mean the victim?

04:43 Comcast is the victim. You don't think they want to provide cable service to downtown San Francisco? Well, when I spoke to them on the phone, they were like the Soup Nazi. No cable for you! You're downtown! No cable for you! Swear to God. I was like, are you sure? No cable for you today! Okay. I'm sorry. You do that very well. That's about all I do. Sound more like the U.S. has a kind of an Asian twang. No cable for you! It does have an Asian twing to it. And the Comcast Cares guy did Twitter me back in all fairness and he said, really? He says you should email my team. See this is what I don't like. I don't want to email your team. You should be all over me dude. You should be like your team should be emailing me. Service is going down the crapper with this economic crisis. I had such a horrible experience on Virgin Atlantic coming over.

CHAPTER 03 / 19 Discussion

Virgin Atlantic, Upper Class Service Complaints

A traveler on Virgin Atlantic's upper class reported an aggressive confrontation with flight staff over the removal of a seat divider. Despite the divider being user-removable for a "love seat" configuration on previous flights, crew members claimed it posed a structural danger to the aircraft. Formal complaints were directed to Virgin executives including Richard Branson and Steve Ridgeway regarding declining service standards and personnel cuts.

virgin atlantic· richard branson· steve ridgeway· upper class· airline service

05:44 These guys are sucking too. I just wrote a letter to the flight service manager, Pete Hickman. You should write a letter to Richard Branson. Well, I copied Richard Branson, his personal assistant, Julie King, and the president of Virgin, Steve Ridgeway, as well as the personal account management services team. It was really... We're all ears. Okay, well so I specifically booked these middle seats because the way the Virgin Atlantic upper class is set up, it's not really great if you're traveling with someone because it's so individualistic. You know, you have your own suite which means, you know, if you want to talk to someone you're traveling with, you basically got to get up.

06:23 And say, hey, you got to lean over to talk to someone. But if you book these middle seats, there's a divider and the divider has two little clicks, so two clasps and you slide it right out, you put it in the overhead bin and then it's like basically like a big love seat which is really cool and I specifically booked this. And on the way over, no problem, which was about three, four weeks ago, I slid that out and put it up and boom, all done and we had a nice little love seat. And so we're going to sleep, I pop the thing out, we're actually asleep and then there's a guy on either side of the aisle waking me up. It's like when you have two guys towering over you talking from both sides, it's like really aggressive and confusing to say the least when you're just waking up. And it's like, well, you can't do this, it's a structural danger to the aircraft. I'm like, what? Structural danger to the aircraft?

07:19 Yes, because you know then the seats buckle and love okay well first of all how come was okay four weeks ago and if it's a structural danger why is it so easy to remove it's like user removable you and Man they were so you are so these guys are just full of crap. Well. They were like aggressive and Hmm and uh, oh It really work you over. They give you a couple to the gut. Yeah, they showed me there's Smith and Wesson You want you want to do the head curry? Shut up. So You know, it's like this is a cheap airline or anything

07:58 and uh... you know that i understand the inflight massage is gone i understand that because of personnel cuts a services slow and they've less uh... service personnel but the screw it screw it i did this cheaper airlines they can use screw these guys they better be company with two upper class round trips or on arm history as a customer i bet you get an upgrade upgrade that would that would be a true insult shit upgrade upgrade this I'll show you my upgrade. Maybe they won't give you anything, how about that? Well, they are, you know, with Christmas they always hand out iPods and bathrobes and all kinds of cool stuff like this. So we'll see. Well, that's just the life you lead. Yes. So, um...

CHAPTER 04 / 19 Discussion

Michael Jackson, MSNBC Media Coverage, Thriller Video

Media coverage of Michael Jackson's death has dominated news cycles, overshadowing other events like the passing of actor Carl Malden. During an MSNBC interview, a former MTV VJ criticized the network for failing to play the full 14-minute "Thriller" video while simultaneously praising its cultural impact. Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry also appeared on the network to discuss crowd control for the upcoming memorial at the Staples Center.

michael jackson· msnbc· mtv· thriller· jan perry

08:48 There was a John McNamara died apparently this morning. Yeah, who else died? Carl always dies Carl Malden Yeah, but that was a couple days ago But somebody always dies on our you know the day we do the show in the morning we do the show But of course it's only in the morning Hey everybody time for a dead overview Yeah, Carl Malden like got no press zero Well how could he? I mean Michael Jackson's taking over the news. In fact there's nothing going. Apparently there's no news except Michael Jackson. Nope. Well you know what? I was on the news regarding Michael Jackson. Yes, let's go over this. It's fine. This was on MSNBC. Now of course I learned my lesson.

09:31 Set it up. Yeah, so you'll recall perhaps from a previous NOAA agenda program where I was very excited about doing ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, spent an hour and a half, two hours with the crew and exactly 12 seconds showed up on air. And I said some really good stuff. And so then MSNBC sends me an email, hey, would you like to be on? It's like, yeah, okay, I'll do your show if you give me the title is Adam Curry. You can say XMTVVJ and just put in there presidentmevo.com. And it was kind of funny because this was the day, I guess it was Thursday or Friday when they announced the big tribute at the Nokia Theater at the Staples Arena, which they kept saying over and over and over again as if these guys had benefited almost. I know that's the real name of the arenas but jeez, it just comes across kind of eerie.

10:24 and uh... said they have a location shoot their outside this press conference which was a total died by the way not hate here's the news we're not gonna tell you anything about the concert nothing about the tribute uh... but here's the mayor to tell you about how cool they are controlling the crowds and uh... and there's no more information enjoy your look live shoot so they're just trying to fill up time because they got these need you know they get all the reporters out on the scene and so i'm on for about five minutes and play a little bit of the beginning And then I'll play you the real zinger I got in there at the end. So this is, this is, she's talking to the Chris.

10:59 from MSNBC is talking to the councilwoman and acting mayor of Los Angeles. Councilwoman and acting mayor Jan Perry, it's really nice of you to come over. I know it's been a busy number of days. Oh, you're so cool. Thank you. It's so hard. It's so horrible, all this work you're doing. Thanks so much. Well, it helps to get the word out. Okay, thanks so much. Thank you very much. And the word, by the way, is if you don't have one of the 17,000 tickets, don't show up. Michael Jackson and MTV could either have become an American institution without the other. The 1980s witnessed the birth of music television and the transformation of Michael Jackson from superstar to global sensation. Just two years after MTV's launch, Jackson released the 14-minute thriller video, and the music changed the world forever. Forever.

11:45 Listen to how I come in, because I'm prepared, right? I'm gonna really get into it and really roll. Some say Jackson desegregated MTV and ushered in the era of elaborate and high-tech music videos. Joining us now via Skype is Adam Curry, former MTV VJ. Adam is also president of Mevio.com. I have to tell you that one of the things that strikes me is I've watched thriller over the last several days. And this is so funny because she because I actually made reference to what she's saying that you know I've watched thriller no one they don't play through have you seen thriller in its entirety anywhere in the past two weeks John anywhere have you seen the 14-minute video play? Who's gonna play it? Of course not.

12:27 You can't hear that music playing, you can't have that video playing without stopping what you're doing and watching. Talk about the impact on public health. Please talk about the impact your culture of that thriller video and even earlier Michael Jackson videos Well, Chris, it was really tremendous. And unfortunately, there's hardly a channel that plays the video in its entirety anymore It was about 40. That was my little zinger MTV team in as long which of course was completely groundbreaking for the format of music video listen to what i said she talks about desegregation but i just called at the time uh... it did more it combined conceptual uh... footage with dance with performance i'd also make directors important all of a sudden john lennon's very famous uh... film director directed the thriller video i've been surprised famous from the many movies with a voice for the part of it but it is michael jackson did much more at the time he really put black faces on mtv this

CHAPTER 05 / 19 Discussion

Michael Jackson, Murder Theory, MSNBC Interview Fallout

During a live MSNBC segment, a guest suggested that investigators should pursue a murder angle regarding Michael Jackson's death, citing the singer's physical readiness for his O2 Arena residency. The comment caused an immediate awkward silence from the anchor and led to the guest being abruptly cut from the broadcast. The segment also noted that Jackson's final rehearsals were captured in high definition, suggesting a future commercial video release.

michael jackson· msnbc· murder investigation· medicinal drugs· high definition

13:26 Yes! ... groundbreaking at the time in the mid 80s MTV was kind of, you know... Alright, so enough of that. Now listen to the end where I sneak in a little bit of no agenda to speak which I was quite proud of. Yes, absolutely and... So, wait a minute, she sets me up with this stupid question because she's filling time. This question... And by the way, we want all our listeners to do this when given the opportunity. What, to call in to MSNBC? No, no, to get in that little no agenda speak. Oh yeah, well if you can, absolutely, here it comes. I'm sorry, right now the coffee's being delivered. Hold on, I'll sign for you. What's your name? So the, so the, what you're going to say is that the, she asked a dumb question because obviously they're filling time, which they do a lot of on him or actually all these news stations with that, that talk the, uh, you know, the news game, they, they, they, they were, they were waiting for somebody to show up or they're, or they're trying to wait for somebody to say something to their ear. And so one of the things they're extremely adept at is what

14:19 i'm doing now which is just yes i don't think you very much chatter here we go let's listen to her stupid setup question that these were purple for it's about uh... she's saying all well you know there's so many of videos wait till it comes out on video yeah i can imagine if they really because we know that these rehearsals were done in high def. Oh, there's a clue right there by the way. The rehearsals were done in high def so of course there'll be a video you douche. That would mean in terms of just viewership to places like MTV. I mean there seems to be an insatiable appetite for this. Yes, absolutely and I'm amazed as you know as you're showing the footage and everyone seems to be showing the footage of these rehearsals just two days before it's done. You know here's a guy who clearly was in great physical shape. He had 30-40 concerts coming up in the O2 Arena in London. That's a huge production. You have to be preparing yourself a year in advance at least physically. You can't put on a show like that.

15:17 that without an enormous insurance coverage which includes a tremendous amount of physical testing so I'm amazed at what happened that I know that there's breaking news about some form of medicinal drugs that were found in his home. Quite frankly, I'm amazed that no one is looking at a murder angle on this. And at this point, there's smoke coming out of her ear. She's like, and you can just hear the producer going, get that guy off the air! Well, we shall see. There's much more to come out of this. I'm amazed at what happened. I know that there's breaking news about some form of medicinal drugs that were found in his home. Quite frankly, I'm amazed that no one is looking at a murder angle on this.

16:05 Well, we shall see. There's much more to come on these doors. You like the long pause? The pregnant pause. Uhhhhhh. Crap, what do I do now? We, uh... Adam Curry, it's great to talk to you. Great to talk to you. Thanks so much. My pleasure, Chris. I'll never be on the air ever again. Ever. Not with them. No, and I waited... And I waited... Maybe it'll be on the door overnight, uh, you have a station or whatever that thing is. And I waited for the producer to come back on, you know, thank you very much, like, nothing. Like, I waited five minutes, like, okay, might as well hang up. They're not gonna thank me. They're so angry. You're like, don't pick it up because I don't want you cussing him out. Oh my goodness. You son of a bitch. We're not supposed to be talking about it. And of course, I'll put the entire interview up in the show notes at noagenda.mevia.com and noagenda.squarespace.com, which is a website. It's very cool.

CHAPTER 06 / 19 Discussion

Podcast Metrics, TechTV Legacy, Natalie Del Conte

Podcast listenership is compared favorably against cable news ratings, with claims that niche digital shows often reach larger audiences than daytime MSNBC segments. The career trajectory of Natalie Del Conte is highlighted, noting her move from technology journalism to a role on the CBS morning show. Historical viewership for TechTV's "Screensavers" is estimated at 40,000, significantly lower than modern top-tier podcast audiences.

msnbc· techtv· leo laporte· natalie del conte· cbs morning show

16:56 Our new website's going up, noagenda.squarespace.com. If people want to donate, there's also the click buttons there. Hey, those buttons are cool, John. I was looking at them and I like the No Agenda Night Layaway program. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. Looks cool. Yeah, it's a big button you can click on. Well, the whole idea is kind of cool. But more importantly, not a single email, not a single Twitter, not anything about this interview. No one's watching. No one. I can't believe they actually... Who's buying commercials on that station? No one's watching. We have over six figures easy into the number of listeners we have. I think it's a different milieu. The milieu of people that listen to MSNBC or any of those news stations during the day

17:49 I don't even have a clue who those people are. I'd like to see somebody send me a demographic description of who this person is. It's clearly no one though. It's just no one. I think the numbers are extremely low. Well, you know, when we were at Tech TV, our most popular show was Screensavers, I believe. Yeah, it was Leo's show, right? Leo and Patrick Norton. Not so they had that I saw I saw Eddie Murphy's raw over the weekend. Have you ever seen that? Yes, it's classy wrong. Hey Norton. Why'd you come over here? Anyway, yes screensavers. How many people watch that's a 40,000 40,000 tops

18:31 So Leo's got like ten times the audience. Leo's got at least a half a million. Yeah, so it's got ten times the audience on the podcast. Hey, how'd that go yesterday by the way? Of course I was flying so I couldn't come up to the cottage. I would have loved to have been on the show and have some wine with you. Yeah, we had some Macedonian wine. How was the show though? The show was I thought it was okay. It was it was it was functional. It was it was a journeyman's job I didn't know you know bring in I had Natalie on she was on the video things. Oh, right. Yeah, how's she doing? She's doing good. She's doing good. She's still in New York Yeah, she's got some gig at the one of the CBS morning. She doesn't want you the morning show did that was part of the whole deal That's why she left right on power to her. I

19:18 I've never seen her on that thing, but she looked terrific on this video thing. She was on a little webcam and with a headset on and she looked better than the average person normally. I mean, it's astonishing. I'll just have you know that we took her from a writing journalist only, put her on video, and now she's on the CBS morning show. This is what can happen when you hook up with Mevio. This can happen to anybody. It can happen to you. That's right. If it can happen to Natalie, it can happen to anybody. So anyway, so she's yeah, she's fine. Yeah, it was a good show. It was all right. You know, it wasn't a threat to Leo, that's for sure. Yeah. So. Hey, I remember what we on our aborted program. You had this great rap about Sarah Palin. Now, of course, because I already got part of the setup. I've looked into it a little bit more.

20:14 But I think you should really launch into that because this is highly interesting. Yeah, let's go and let's take a look. Here's what happened. There's a Sarah Palin-Gate website run by this woman named Regina who apparently hates Sarah. Is it SarahPalinGate.com? Yeah, something like that. I think it's SarahPalinGate.blogspot.com. If you Google Sarah Palin-Gate, you'll get it. I think it's blogspot.com. Anyway, and there's another website called conservativesforpayland.com which is run by this woman out of Los Angeles.

CHAPTER 07 / 19 Discussion

Sarah Palin, Alaska Independence Party, Resignation Theories

Sarah Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska has sparked theories regarding her past ties to the Alaska Independence Party, a group advocating for secession from the United States. Her husband, Todd Palin, was a confirmed member, and critics suggest Sarah's move to the Republican Party was a strategic necessity for her gubernatorial run. Speculation exists that her resignation may be linked to a desire to rejoin the separationist movement or avoid mounting legal costs from ethics lawsuits.

sarah palin· alaska independence party· todd palin· resignation· secession

19:18 I've never seen her on that thing, but she looked terrific on this video thing. She was on a little webcam and with a headset on and she looked better than the average person normally. I mean, it's astonishing. I'll just have you know that we took her from a writing journalist only, put her on video, and now she's on the CBS morning show. This is what can happen when you hook up with Mevio. This can happen to anybody. It can happen to you. That's right. If it can happen to Natalie, it can happen to anybody. So anyway, so she's yeah, she's fine. Yeah, it was a good show. It was all right. You know, it wasn't a threat to Leo, that's for sure. Yeah. So. Hey, I remember what we on our aborted program. You had this great rap about Sarah Palin. Now, of course, because I already got part of the setup. I've looked into it a little bit more.

20:14 But I think you should really launch into that because this is highly interesting. Yeah, let's go and let's take a look. Here's what happened. There's a Sarah Palin-Gate website run by this woman named Regina who apparently hates Sarah. Is it SarahPalinGate.com? Yeah, something like that. I think it's SarahPalinGate.blogspot.com. If you Google Sarah Palin-Gate, you'll get it. I think it's blogspot.com. Anyway, and there's another website called conservativesforpayland.com which is run by this woman out of Los Angeles.

20:51 who is a Palin kind of a maven and she's a pit bull and she was attacking something that Palin is having a beef with a fellow Republican in Alaska over the fact that some monies aren't being distributed that were supposed to be distributed to some poor people someplace in the state. And then so he slammed Palin and then Palin slammed him and then the pit bull at conservativesforPalin.com She blasted the crap out of this guy and discovered that he owned stock and BP and she did an investigative thing and she wrote a whole bunch of stuff up. So I'm looking into all this because I'm finding the whole thing kind of fascinating because this is the day that she quits. You know, she says, I have only been here for two and a half years and I'm not going to finish off my year and a half because I think it's unfair to the people because she's getting sued left and right on these trivial lawsuits, which is they she claims this cost her $500,000, which

21:47 Which is about right you get a trivial lawsuit typically will cost an average person $40,000 easy easy. That's that that's the bit that is the baseline number people use so she's had 12 of them That's about a half a million, but does she have to be is she being sued personally or? Why is the state you know what I don't get that part, but that's but that's fine. I kept digging and digging So then I ran into a thing that the woman posted and it's on my blog by the way, just look up Palin or Alaska Independence Party. There was a bitch back and forth between, and by the way Andrew Sullivan had a real mean spirited slam at Sarah which was actually very interesting. Uh oh, John? John? Oh, wait hold on I lost you there John, you're back.

22:40 Okay, so anyway, Andrew Sullivan had a thing, everyone should look it up, in the Atlantic, I think, in his blog about Palin, calling her a whack job. Okay, but I keep looking but what's the problem? I don't understand. Well, let me keep a word good that the problem this is the problem I think you kind of explain the whole background so I so one of the things that cropped up in the during the Presidential campaign was that her husband was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which is a party that wants to succeed Seriously wants to succeed. Okay succeed the Union. Oh means break all the united states and become their own country. And she says well it was just a mistake he checked the wrong box on a ballot and she made some phony baloney excuse and it turns out that now and it's posted on my blog this last the last convention

23:24 of the Alaskan Independence Party. This guy comes, he starts giving his talk about how you know we were screwed, we shouldn't have been a state because they brought in the US government, a bunch of military guys came in and voted for statehood and they wouldn't let the Native Americans vote for statehood and it was just a scam and then they ended up with the state as a you know because the United States wanted the gold and oil. Okay let me play that back. So you mean the Eskimos? Yeah, and there's other Indian tribes up there. So they weren't allowed to vote? No. Okay. But 40 or 80,000 US military were, and it goes on and on. Then he starts discussing how Sarah was a member of the party, and then it was a good thing that she changed her affiliation to Republican so she could run for governor.

24:12 And he was advising that everybody else do the same thing because it's a great way to get in there and we can make the changes we need to make. So I'm thinking, maybe Palin quit. So she could rejoin the party, which nobody knew about by the way. Okay, I get it. Yeah. But listen, but the fact of the matter is there's no way that she could have been a member for so long and an intelligence agencies didn't know this and the Republican Party had to know it when they made her the vice president. So why would they do this? And the Democrats had to know this, but they never brought it up. What was the deal with that? Because they all want Alaska to break off, I guess.

CHAPTER 08 / 19 Discussion

Alaska Secession, Economic Hitman Theory, Resource Drilling

A theory suggests that Alaska might attempt to break away from the United States to bypass federal environmental regulations preventing oil and gas drilling. This "Economic Hitman" perspective posits that an independent Alaska could exploit its natural resources more aggressively. References are made to Vice President Joe Biden's comments about a "generated crisis" that would test the Obama administration's mettle within its first six months.

alaska· barack obama· joe biden· drilling· secession

24:51 That's my theory. The way it goes, except the Democrats have an issue with this because they can't, Obama can't be the one president in the United States that has lost a state. I mean this... Oh shoot! What happened? Dang! I lost Alaska! Where's my state? Where's my state gone? So I'm thinking that Biden talked about the crisis is going to happen the crisis the crisis and obama's gonna do something unpopular unpopular as in arrest sarah palin for sedition Wow. Now that would cause a few kind of a, that would cause a stir. But the, but the idea is that if the, if you take a look at the economic Hitman theory of the, of the universe, the idea is we've got, they got Alaska in and then all these crackpot environmentalists won't let them drill in Alaska. And that's all Palin bitched and moaned about during the entire campaign was why can't we drill in Alaska? Why can't we drill in Alaska?

25:49 drill baby drill and so they split the state off and make it its own country somehow through some international legal action well they can drill this place dry now hold on here's the quote i don't have the audio mark my words biden told donors at a seattle fundraiser sunday night it will not be six months before the world test barack obama like they did john kennedy the world is looking we're about to elect a brilliant forty seven-year-old senator president of the united states of america watch We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis to test the mettle of this guy and he's going to need help to stand with him because it's not going to be apparent initially, it's not going to be apparent that we're right. I don't know if that... I'm just saying. It doesn't really sound like it, John. Well, it doesn't sound like anything, but whatever the case is, this would be an international incident.

26:44 So, okay, so what you're saying is... And by the way, she just did the anniversary of the statehood, which I don't know, I think I have a link to it in one of my blog posts. And she's going on and on, and the people that were at this event, by the way, it's like the 50th anniversary or something like that, or 60th. because it's fiftieth they uh... yeah fifty nine it is when they became a state so uh... they have a lot who was there the russian ambassador as well to international people there was a net there wasn't one celebrity at one american politician that attended this thing it was really weird wow so is ok so uh... her resigning does that then uh... keeper clear to become empress of alaska empress uh... no i don't i mean she

27:30 I don't know what she didn't have to really resign but I think if she's gonna pull a stunt like this I think she you know figure she might be able to It would probably be better if she wasn't a senator because there's probably some legal, I don't think she could, I mean I think that she maybe could be accused of treason or other forms of sedition, who knows? All I know is that it seems to me that she didn't, I mean people are speculating on why she resigned saying well maybe she's under indictment, maybe there's this, maybe there's that and I'm thinking a lot of this doesn't make sense if you're under indictment and yes what's his name in italy burlesque only your indictment you want to stay in office so you can use the power of your office and they can make new laws so that uh... so that uh... how it's what i'm looking for he put the uh... the term that the statute the uh... statute of limitations and he changed and so i think before two thousand uh... five uh... it's okay which was that all this shit was done in two thousand three

28:31 So, anyway, this is just my thinking, but when you hear this guy, this bearded character who was one of the hot shots in the Alaskan Independence Party, and they were about one thing and one thing only, which is getting their freedom from the United States. It's a separationist group, very similar to Quebecers when they're more serious. It seems to me that Sarah is one of the many of these people that have become Republicans or Democrats or whatever just to kind of pretend to be something else. Is she originally from Alaska? Was she born and raised there? No, I think she was raised in Idaho and moved to Alaska. So what's her patriotic thing about Alaska? Is this Todd who's forcing this on her? Well, Todd is an Inuit, so he's like half Eskimo or something.

29:23 got it so so yeah there's probably some connection there but whatever the case I mean she has enough popularity in the state and they did when the guy talked about it says like Ted Stevens and all that they're all in on this so that's what we're building the bridge to know or just steal some money from the US government but it wouldn't actually be a bad thing I'm not against it if Alaska wants to be their own country that's cool with me you know that's fine Texas may do the same thing I think Texas would have a harder go of it. Alaska is only 50 years old and I think they have some, and they can stall them when that was part of the changeovers. Many of them are still there and they can point to the fraud. You mean the election fraud of becoming a state? Yeah.

CHAPTER 09 / 19 Discussion

Audi Diesel Advertisement, Foreign Oil Dependency

An Audi advertisement claiming that clean diesel could eliminate the need for 1.5 million barrels of foreign oil daily is criticized for logical inconsistencies. Critics point out that diesel is a distillate of crude oil, which would still need to be imported or produced from the same sources. The ad is characterized as an insult to consumer intelligence regarding energy production.

audi· diesel· foreign oil· crude oil· advertising

30:07 Yeah, okay, so and how would that affect anything really? Who cares? Obama would lose his state! Dude! Where'd my state go? My state! That still doesn't matter. The American public doesn't care. They're too stupid. As long as Britney Spears is gonna do her show. Well, obviously they're more interested in Michael Jackson being dead than anything. So now somebody's talking about how they want to, you know, plasticine him with his monkey. Well, Bubbles isn't dead. Well, he will be. If they plasticine him, yeah. So what's this foreign oil quote? Oh yeah, this is a good one. Why don't you play this clip? This is an advertisement for Audi. Okay, I play it now? Specifically, it's an advertisement for Audi diesel. Okay, here we go.

31:11 1.5 million barrels of foreign oil every day. If only one third of us drove clean diesel, we could send it all back. Diesel. It's no longer a dirty word. Okay. Okay. Well, let me get this straight. 1.5 million of barrels. By the way, we import in the United States 13.5, but they're talking about 1.5 for some reason, which I guess is what makes diesel. What do they think diesel is made out of? Uh, out of oil? You mean out of dog pee? Diesel requires oil to be manufactured. It's just another, it's a distillate. It's one of the things that comes off distil. Now the fact of the matter is, according to, this number is a little sketchy, but most people believe that diesel requires 20% more crude oil to manufacture. So where are we sending these 1.5 billion, or million barrels back to? Who are we sending them back to and why? Back to Canada. Where it comes from.

32:15 We have to bring it back again to make the damn diesel. What are these people kidding? Do they think we're stupid? Let me think. Yeah, of course I'd like to find out who did that ad and what did what they were thinking That ad was an insult to everybody's intelligence. You think that adds an insult you want to hear a really insulting ad go Joe brought it home from the office he gave it to Betty and one of his kids and to Betty's mother and But Betty's mother went back to California the next day, before she knew she had it. On her way to the airport, Betty's mother gave it to the cab driver, to the ticket agent, and to one of the charming stewardesses. Joe's kid gave it to some other kids in second and fourth grades. And Mrs. Merrill, the third grade teacher, she got it and gave it to her husband.

CHAPTER 10 / 19 Discussion

Swine Flu, 1970s PSA, Statistical Discrepancies

Historical Public Service Announcements from the 1970s are used to illustrate the government's long-standing "shot of protection" marketing for the swine flu vaccine. Current data from June and July 2009 shows a rapid increase in reported cases and deaths, though skeptics question the accuracy of these figures. Many of the reported fatalities involved individuals with significant pre-existing health conditions.

swine flu· public health service· psa· mortality rates· statistics

31:11 1.5 million barrels of foreign oil every day. If only one third of us drove clean diesel, we could send it all back. Diesel. It's no longer a dirty word. Okay. Okay. Well, let me get this straight. 1.5 million of barrels. By the way, we import in the United States 13.5, but they're talking about 1.5 for some reason, which I guess is what makes diesel. What do they think diesel is made out of? Uh, out of oil? You mean out of dog pee? Diesel requires oil to be manufactured. It's just another, it's a distillate. It's one of the things that comes off distil. Now the fact of the matter is, according to, this number is a little sketchy, but most people believe that diesel requires 20% more crude oil to manufacture. So where are we sending these 1.5 billion, or million barrels back to? Who are we sending them back to and why? Back to Canada. Where it comes from.

32:15 We have to bring it back again to make the damn diesel. What are these people kidding? Do they think we're stupid? Let me think. Yeah, of course I'd like to find out who did that ad and what did what they were thinking That ad was an insult to everybody's intelligence. You think that adds an insult you want to hear a really insulting ad go Joe brought it home from the office he gave it to Betty and one of his kids and to Betty's mother and But Betty's mother went back to California the next day, before she knew she had it. On her way to the airport, Betty's mother gave it to the cab driver, to the ticket agent, and to one of the charming stewardesses. Joe's kid gave it to some other kids in second and fourth grades. And Mrs. Merrill, the third grade teacher, she got it and gave it to her husband.

33:09 And in California, Betty's mother gave it to her best friend, Dottie. But Dottie had a heart condition, and she died. But before she died, Dottie gave it to her friend, and the mailman, and the people. If a swine flu epidemic comes, this is how it could spread. You'll want to be protected, especially if you're elderly or chronically ill. Get a shot of protection. The Swine Flu Shot. Recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. I thought she was giving people gonorrhea the way it was going. But she died. She died. But before she died, she gave it to someone else. This is a PSA, dude. These are for real.

33:54 I got 30s, I got 60s, I got everything you want. How much swine flu? Get the swine flu shot. Get a shot of protection. That's gonna be the new slogan. A shot of protection. I like it. Yes, you would. How does it go from June 19th according to the stats June 19th? We had 21,000 449 cases of swine flu in the United States with 87 dead all of course having preview You know borderline dead before they got it. They were on the ropes. They're on the ropes well the guard would have died go ahead and Then by the way your stream just died according to somebody really Yeah, looks like I'm still streaming here

34:37 I'll start it again. Happy to start. Interesting. What did it do? I don't know. All right, keep going. I'll fix it. Okay, so anyway, we had 21,000 dead, with 87 dead, on June 19th. By July 4th, which is like two weeks later, we had twice as many dead. We had 34,000 cases with 170 dead. How did so many people die within two weeks so quickly? These numbers are bull. Hold on, let me, I'm seeing what's going on here, John. Why the hell is this, ah, I hate this. All right, the stream died. That's all right. Everything else is still working. I'll set that up.

CHAPTER 11 / 19 Discussion

UK Swine Flu Projections, Prison Uprisings, Mandatory Vaccines

The UK Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, warned that Britain could see 100,000 new swine flu cases per day by August. Similar alarms have been raised in Ireland, where the government is spending 88 million euros on a national vaccination program. Reports of prison riots in Massachusetts and Queensland, Australia, suggest that incarcerated populations are panicking over potential outbreaks and forced medical treatments.

guardian· andy burnham· ireland· prison riots· lisbon treaty

35:17 You know, in the Guardian, I read this morning upon arrival in the United Kingdom, that they... Well now you died. Palingate.org. Yeah, alright, we're back. I tell you a million times, just because you can't hear me doesn't mean I can't hear you or that the system's down. Yeah, so anyway, you were saying... but I wasn't hearing anything, so you were saying... No, of course you weren't hearing anything, because when I'm rerouting stuff, then you can't hear me. It doesn't mean hang up. Anyway, what I was saying is that the Guardian in the UK is predicting 50,000 cases a day come August in the UK alone. 50,000 new cases a day. Yeah, with 50 million dead. I saw that one too. Oh really? I didn't see that. So it would be 50 million dead, 40 dying a day in Great Britain.

36:18 This is a whole bunch of, we really hit the jackpot with the swine flu topic last week. People really, really clung on to this and have really been starting to take notice. Here it is in Ireland. This is from the Independent in Ireland. Everyone in the country is shortly to be offered a free swine flu vaccination as health authorities brace themselves for a worst case scenario of up to 100,000 new cases a week in Ireland. After a month the country will all be dead I guess with 100,000 a week.

36:54 The vaccines, which will cost the exchequer 88 million euros, will be administered either through GPs or a network of 121 swine flu clinics. See, they already know how many there are going to be. They'll be set up nationwide as soon as sufficient amounts of the vaccine are available in late summer or early autumn. The Health Services Executive, that's HSE, confirmed last night. They will manufacture 7.7 million doses of the vaccine for Ireland. This is happening everywhere and it's the same exact thing. Everywhere, every country in the world and of course this is totally what the Lisbon Treaty is all about.

37:37 because the Lisbon Treaty, which has yet to be ratified but we're getting very close to it just being ramrodded through, really allows for this. It provides for this type of action. As we know, there are state senators and lawyers in the United States who believe it is completely constitutional to force vaccinations upon the fine citizens of the United States because you're a threat, of course. You're a walking weapon. Someone suggested that the, to me, that the swine flu vaccine, the experimental swine flu vaccine is actually, is going to be an agent that is a binary thing to actually save your life. Oh please. And so everyone who doesn't take the vaccine, who are obviously troublemakers, all die. Here's the guardian.

38:35 Swine flu is spreading so rapidly across Britain that there could be 100,000 new cases a day by the end of next month, Health Secretary Andy Burnham said today. 100,000 a month, a day, by next month. 100,000 a day. Wait a minute, let's do the math on this. 100,000 a day, that's 3 million in a month? How many are there now? See in the United States I just mentioned there was 34,000. And by the way, most of these are mild, by the way. Except for the few people that have, you know, they're lingering. I don't know. It's just a whole thing. I mean, it's obviously just a money-making idea.

39:18 Well, yeah, you can see it as just a money-making idea or you can see it as a... well now of course everyone's looking at this as, you know, comparing it to the book of Revelation where, you know, you're marked with the mark of the beast and if you don't play nice then you'll live, right? So you won't die if you don't take the swine flu shot but of course you will have no money, you'll have no place to live, you will not be able to get food. So there's a prison, I just got a note from somebody saying there's like a prison uprising over swine flu outside of Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'm trying to decide what, it's a vague discussion here in the news article.

40:04 Nobody knows why this thing was started. There's 12 people with, 12 inmates came down with flu symptoms. One of those may have had the swine flu, the others they don't know. So what's the uprising? They're all worried, they want to get out. Let us out, we don't want to get swine flu. Yeah, I think that must be it. Meanwhile, front page in Gitmo Nation East. Well, I mean, you can scare the public to death with this kind of propaganda. What do you expect? I mean, the numbers just don't add up. First of all, the numbers don't add up and the people that are having a problem with the swine flu, including in that PSA, they mentioned it, it was the one woman who died who was about to die anyway. I mean, you know, if somebody, I mean, you could have like a million people with a heart condition and then, you know, a million of them could get the swine flu and then one of them could die and you'd say, well, you know, it's just, it's a swine flu. It's killing everybody. I mean, the whole thing, these numbers are no good.

CHAPTER 12 / 19 Discussion

Swine Flu Vaccine Safety, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Social Engineering

Concerns are raised regarding the safety of the fast-tracked swine flu vaccine, referencing the 1976 outbreak where the vaccine caused hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome. A discussion involving a former Black Panther member touches on fears that forced vaccinations and genetically modified foods could be used as tools for social engineering or targeting specific demographics. Reports of quarantines at San Quentin prison further fuel these anxieties.

guillain-barre syndrome· vaccine safety· black panthers· gmo· san quentin

40:59 They don't have enough dead people to make this work. Let's listen to another one. Hold on a second. There's got to be more. I want to hear the shorter versions of these PSAs. Hey, I'm the healthiest 55 year old you've ever seen. If a swine flu epidemic comes, your good health won't protect you. Get a shot of protection. The swine flu shot. Recommended by the US Public Health Service. Why do we need this? I mean, we don't have to. The regular flu kills a half a million people. Hold on, hold on, hold on, let's listen to another one. The swine flu shot? I don't know. I've been thinking about it. If a swine flu epidemic comes, thinking about it won't protect you. Get a shot of protection, the swine flu shot. That's the meme, dude. Get a shot of protection. Get a shot of protection. Listen to No Agenda.

41:44 I don't need another flu shot. I had a flu shot last year. If a swine flu epidemic comes, last year's shot won't protect you. Get a shot of Protection, the swine flu shot. Recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. So this thing is not even available yet, this swine flu shot. And already they did. And denying that, but they have to fast track it because they really can't prove it's a good shot. I mean in 1976 we had an outbreak of a form of swine flu and the shot, nobody died from the swine flu, it was really super mild, but the shot killed between 25 and 300 people. Is that all? 500 people at least. Is that all? Well, we really need to work on this. This has got to kill a lot more people. This shot is no good. It might. But the worst part was 500 people got Guillain-Barre disease or syndrome, that crazy thing that paralyzes you. Yeah. A friend of mine got that.

42:32 And is he still paralyzed? No, no, he got over it, but it was like it took it was it was horrible because the worst part of it. He got over it. The worst part was his one eyeball. His one eyeball was frozen and like, you know. Well, all these people walking around with frozen eyeballs. Dude, it's a... In another place. We laugh. I got this in Australia. We got another prison outbreak that's causing rioting there in Queensland because again the prisoners are freaked. I mentioned this to Maggie at the office. Now Maggie, you have to understand, is a former Black Panther.

43:14 She's 60 now? She's got to be 60. Yeah, something like that. 60, very strong-willed African-American woman, fantastic executive assistant, makes me laugh. She really cracks me up. And I told her about these forced vaccinations and her head like snapped around like, what? So yeah, you're going to have to take the swine flu shot. She's like, oh no, you didn't. I said, yes, absolutely. And then I told her the whole binary thing about, you know, that it's probably engineered so that people who eat genetically modified potatoes, i.e. French fries, most likely from McDonald's, that they're going to die first.

43:53 And then she's like, oh damn, they're targeting poor black people again. Like, yes Maggie, now you get it. She's like, I should listen to that no agenda show. Yes you should. Yes she should. Here's another one, swine flu quarantine at San Quentin prison. My God, so here's what they do, they're going to let the prisoners out, right? I don't know what the deal is with all these prisons, but this seems to be something going on here, story after story cropping up. Cambridge prison riots sparked by swine flu. It's another in the Boston-ist. Let's see what else, maybe one more I keep getting.

CHAPTER 13 / 19 Discussion

NHS Data, Google, Microsoft, UK Conservative Party

The UK Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, is reportedly planning to transfer National Health Service (NHS) patient records to platforms managed by Google and Microsoft. This move is criticized due to potential conflicts of interest, as a high-ranking Tory official is married to a Google PR executive. The existing "Connecting for Health" database project has already cost an estimated 12.4 billion pounds without reaching full functionality.

nhs· google· microsoft· david cameron· eric schmidt

44:31 They just keep flowing in, aren't they? Meanwhile, front page of the Guardian this morning, I'm sorry, the Times, I read this in the car on the way to the hotel, the conservative party, who of course if there was an election here, labor would be thrown out in a heartbeat and the Tories as they're known would be in power. They're pretty much set to transfer the National Health Service patient records to Google and Microsoft. Of course, there's a huge conflict of interest because, I'm looking for it here, one of the guys who's high up in the conservative party is married to Google's PR woman.

45:22 So there's all kinds of hoopla going on about that. You know how much... That's a conflict of interest. Yeah. Do you know how much that they have set aside to create? Because of course, it was like two or three billion pounds to create this centralized database and it's not working and no one's using it and it's a big cluster fuck basically. But now, Mr. Cameron He's the leader of the conservative party, has repeatedly promised to abolish large IT databases. The National Audit Office has said that Connecting for Health, that's the electronic patient records program, will not be completed in 2014. Expect it to cost, how much do you think it's going to cost to set up basically a database with everyone's insurance numbers?

46:08 Well, what it's probably if you see it cost the setting of a database which most of the tools are out there and that but there's good quality people that could do it you'd probably cost in real in real terms it should cost about $250,000. Okay, how about 12.4 billion pounds? that's like twenty billion dollars john we're in the wrong racket dude we've got to start building databases twenty billion dollars to build a stupid database that contains insurance codes and then they're going to outsource it to google and of course google's eric schmidt is now a member of the conservative business coalition he's over here all the time and uh...

46:53 And Cameron speaks at Google events, it's so transparent. It's funny. So, but when somebody said our stream died again saying it's no coincidence. Now, by the way, it is not. I'm sure it's not there. There's so I was so Eric sent me a link to the Google Google search on you searching out for prison swine flu and you run into 435 articles, many of them with the headline prison swine flu spreads. Wow. So, something's up with this prison and swine flu thing. So, it's clear. Swine flu at a South Miami-Dade women's prison has infected 13 inmates and hospitalized one. It's going on. So what? So it's a flu. I had it. Yeah, it's, I don't know. It's not a big deal. They're not even saying you vomit when you have the swine flu. I know, it's just like flu. A little bit of diarrhea, runny nose, cough. Yeah, okay, so it's a flu.

47:51 Yeah, these prisoners have been yeah, but they're these people are like incarcerated. They think here's what it might be You know you're in prisons people trying getting the swine flu one of the guys dies mysteriously They're trying to get rid of us. This is the easiest way to lower the prison population. We got to get out of here Telling you I don't understand what there's something wrong with primcast. That's the provider we have oh you mean in the stream. Yeah, I Because it shows that I'm pooping out a stream here. It's connected, so I don't understand what's going on. Maybe it's just the one guy. Just leave it alone. I'm not going to touch anything. We're recording. That's the good news, I think. Hold on. Yeah, we're recording. Mr. Curry! Mr. Curry! Oh, geez. Oh, geez.

CHAPTER 14 / 19 Discussion

Flight 447, North Korea, Michael Jackson Music Rights

Speculation continues regarding the crash of Air France Flight 447, with some analysts dismissing lightning as a cause while others note a mysterious flash seen by pilots. Meanwhile, North Korea's missile launches on July 5th failed to result in the predicted attack on Hawaii. In financial news, the Dutch pension fund ABP reportedly owns rights to Michael Jackson's music and is profiting from the post-mortem surge in sales.

air france 447· north korea· hawaii· michael jackson· abp pension fund

48:41 A lot of news about the scare bus, the plastic airplanes that keep falling out of the sky. Yeah. And a lot of people really sending me good detailed information on electronic, what is it, EMPs, electromagnetic pulse weapons. Oh, by the way, before you get into that, I want to remind everybody we did have July the 5th. Where was the North Korean attack on the Hawaiian Islands? Yeah, they shot off a couple of missiles didn't it was so funny to watch Michael Jackson fullscreen and underneath the crawl Korea launches missiles Wait a minute. We've got the news all screwed up here. It's a little backwards Yeah, where was the attack on Hawaii? Yeah, I want to know yeah, we put up a big Giants

49:33 What did we put up? We put up a big thing, didn't we? In Hawaii? To thwart it? Oh, giant radar! Giant radar, that's right. When will people realize that this is all just scare tactics? It's nothing more. Well, I think, well, people, listeners to our show... Of course, it's not that we're not scaring them. So for flight 447, there was absolutely no lightning in the area, according to a detailed meteorological analysis, which you'll find the links in the show notes at noagenda.mibia.com and noagenda.squarespace.com. Yet there were these Mexican pilots who saw a flash in the sky. Both 447 crashed into the ocean intact.

50:22 That much they know for sure although still no black boxes to be found What you wish it kind of surprises me since they heard the black box I from my understanding Like weeks ago, so now they're not gonna find it cuz it's gonna be dead now unless they have found it did did I mention that I don't think I did I think I mentioned on our aborted episode that this is a Dutch article that pension fund ABP Sorry. Pension fund ABP owns several rights to Michael Jackson's music and they are very happy. They're very happy that it's selling so well. No plans to buy any Beatles rights, they say. But gee, it's really cool. I just say follow the money.

CHAPTER 15 / 19 Discussion

U6 Unemployment Data, Labor Underutilization

The official U.S. unemployment rate of 9.5% is challenged by the U6 data, which provides a more comprehensive measure of labor underutilization. The U6 figure, which includes discouraged workers and those in involuntary part-time positions, has reached 16.5%. This level of economic distress is compared to the Great Depression, which saw peak unemployment between 25% and 33%.

u6 unemployment· jobless claims· wall street journal· labor statistics· great depression

51:22 Yeah, well, Sony's gonna end up with those Beatles songs. And one other thing, John, what is the U6 data? Are you familiar with this when it comes to unemployment in the US? No, it's one of the numbers they develop. I don't know what it means. Horowitz would know. Okay, we should talk to him about it because there's a Wall Street Journal article here This is a job because we got new jobless in this number. There's all kinds of lying and bullshit going on and I never believe these numbers when they say, okay, unemployment is... Well, they keep changing them, you know, that's the funniest thing. They keep changing the way they calculate them. No, they'll give you a number like we're up, da-da-da-da-da, and then when the next number comes out, they readjust the old number and so the new number looks better.

52:07 So it was 9.5% which was apparently the highest level since August of 1983 but another more comprehensive gauge of unemployment also continued to take up. This is the U6 number which is the comprehensive measure of of labor underutilization accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can't find full-time jobs. Yeah, like unemployed I guess is what that is. Yeah, well that's a different unemployed number. That thing I think is 16.6 or something like that. Yeah, 16.5. So is the real number 16.5? Is that really the number? Yeah, no, that's the real unemployment number. But then do you add the 9.5 to that and we come up with... No, no, that's the total number with the 9.5 in it. Okay, so 16.5 is the real unemployment.

CHAPTER 16 / 19 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, International Donors, Wagga Wagga

Troy Walters of Australia is officially knighted following a $1,000 donation to the program. Other significant contributions arrived from Moscow, Finland, Zurich, and Rotterdam, including a unique $123.45 donation. A listener from Wagga Wagga, Australia, is also recognized, sparking a discussion about unusual town names and a proposed $500-per-plate listener dinner.

troy walters· australia· wagga wagga· rotterdam· zurich

52:56 Jesus, isn't that bordering on the Great Depression numbers? The Great Depression I think hit as high as, it was generally seen as 25% and I think it maybe poked 33 at one point. So I think this is a perfect time to bring up the fact that we are a listener supported show and seeing as we too soon will be out of a job, we really need your help. And we're getting a lot of help too and I want to mention some names today including a new knight and I find it interesting that our new knight Troy Walters is in Australia. So what did Troy do to become a knight of the NOAA Gender Roundtable? He clicked on the knight button and he gave us a thousand dollars. A thousand US or Australian? No, a thousand US. Wow. Troy, thank you so much man.

53:46 That's awesome. So let's go over some of our new donors. We got Noel Melanowski, $50. Francis McClure, $50. Fyodor Savaliev, and I might pronounce that wrong, but it's Fyodor Savaliev as far as I can tell. He's in Moscow and he gave us $60. Alexander Seleniyov, who is in Finland, And Alexander, and that name is going to be, it's S-E-L-E-Z-N-Y-O-V. He's in Finland and he gave us, and I'm surprised by the way that he's the first guy to give us this, $123.45. Oh, I like that. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Good one. Now we're waiting for the one, two, three, four, five, six person. Yes, we are. Who's going to be the first?

54:34 We got John Matthews who along with Father Frank are on the Lay Away Night program. So now the Lay Away program is 20 installments of 50 bucks, is that how it works? Yeah. Excellent, excellent. Thank you so much for building a future night. Future night. And Alfred Person, P-E-R-S-S-O-N. Jorlo, B-J-O-R-L-O, and he's in Oslo, 55. Michael Gruden, 50. David Sauter, $96.80. I don't know. Give it again? How much? $98.80. I think it was supposed to be a hundred and some, I don't know how he did it, but somewhere along the line they took money. They took money. Somebody took money. Thanks, PayPal.

55:24 Felix Schuettl, $100 and he's in Zurich. We had a lot of international people this week. Robert McCoskey, 50 Australia, Gary Lader, Michael LeBlanc, William Kortes, K-O-R-T-E-S, and it's Willem, W-I-L-L-E-M. You might want to guess where he's from. He must be from Holland. Rotterdam. Ah, excellent. Rotterdam in the house. How much did Willem give us? Fifty. Jordan Wyatt, fifty dollars from New Zealand.

56:04 And then one of my favorites is Tristan Lennon, who's in Australia, but he's not just in Australia, he's in a town called Wagga Wagga. Oh yes! I'm very familiar with Wagga Wagga. Wagga Wagga is like the New South Wales is now going to be one of my... I have these towns that I like to refer to when I write once in a while. I always like to talk about gnaw bone Indiana. And people when they read the column they'll look it up and say what is this? They'll find there's a real city named Gnawbone. So what happens with these knights, John? What are we going to do for them now that we have three nights now? We've got three nights and two waiting. So do we put their pictures on the website or do we just send their addresses directly to the Feds? What do we do? You know the funny thing is these guys, the typical guy who's a nice guy, they don't want us to, this guy from Australia,

56:59 uh... walters he doesn't want to buy in the underwear or anything he's just you know kind of what he does not have to do you don't want to do you know what the weather oh my gosh so i don't know i mean we did we will do the sheepskin thing for sure and and you know it had the fancy a scroll by hand done and how about uh... our dinner did anyone respond to the idea of the five hundred dollar plate dinner I still think good idea is working one person. You look I'll tell you what if if you give me $500 I'll go to dinner with you clowns. Yeah, no, we have to we should probably bring that up as a more serious thing and see if anybody's interested. We only need 10 people right 10 and we'll have a great dinner and people have a bottle of some some really really good wine. Great wine in a great restaurant wine a bottle one bottle for all 10 of us.

CHAPTER 17 / 19 Discussion

Geomagnetic Storms, Tectonic Plates, Aircraft Safety

Russian Air Force commanders have reportedly issued warnings about geomagnetic storms emanating from the African tectonic plate. These storms, potentially caused by the piezoelectric effect during tectonic shifts, are being linked to the recent losses of Air France Flight 447 and a Yemenia aircraft. Such electromagnetic anomalies could severely disrupt fly-by-wire systems in modern computerized aircraft.

geomagnetic storms· tectonic plates· piezoelectric effect· air france 447· yemenia flight

57:53 What would be a giant bottle then? I still think it's a fabulous idea. I think so too, but I want to thank all these people who helped us out. It was actually a good week, I think it's because we did a good show last week. And I would like to, for our Russian friend, of course the president is in Russia today. There's a lot of Russia in the news and I think that we should do some Russian news We're gonna have to do Australian news from the sound of all these Aussies that are you know I might have some Australian news But let me do some Russian news first because this pertains to flight four four eight and there's some real data in here So you might want to get a pen and paper handy because you might work for a four foot four four seven. I'm sorry Yeah, you might want to write this down. Oh, please Look, I can't do a conference call right now. Jesus reports circulating in the Kremlin today

58:45 are saying that Russian Air Force commanders have issued warnings to all of their aircraft to exercise quote extreme caution during flights in and around an area defined as latitude 17 north latitude 3 south to latitude 8 north, latitude 19 south, and between the longitudes of 46 west, 33 west, 46 east, and 33 east, which covers the greater part of the African tectonic plates. The reason for this unprecedented warning is the rapid formations of geomagnetic storms emanating from the boundaries of the African tectonic plate.

59:26 that due to their intensity have caused the loss of two major passenger aircraft during the past month killing nearly 300. So the Russian... What are you reading from? From my Russian sources, comrade. So what they're basically saying is that these plastic airplanes that are falling out of the sky is because of this huge geomagnetic storms that are taking place which essentially, and it makes sense when you look at the data from 447, we don't have any data on the Yemen aircraft yet. Well, there is a, you know, you do have, when the tectonic plates shift, you do have a piezoelectric effect. Exactly.

1:00:07 And the piezoelectric effect, by the way, which can take place on a smaller scale is responsible, they believe, for certain kinds of weird anomalies in swamplands in the American South where there's a lot of piezoelectric activity that creates ball lightning. Exactly. With no clouds in the sky. Exactly. So you get lightning and also any kind of geomagnetic storm can severely affect a highly computerized aircraft. That is fly by wire. You know, remember all the data that was coming out of 447, all this confusing information? This thing was probably zapped by a geomagnetic storm, whether it was from the earth or man-made, who knows?

1:00:48 But I like this report, you know, and it's interesting. Well, and the other thing is that all this activity, all these, these crazy, this craziness is all taking place in the southern hemisphere. And typically you have, you know, these things are isolated. We haven't had any craziness like this in the northern hemisphere yet. So of course, it's interesting. This is well, and, and, you know, NASA has even reported that, that there's a very strong shifts in the, in the pole activity, which of course are all magnetic. So there's really something going on. This is the 2012 phenomenon and I truly think there is something happening here. Wait a minute, what do you mean the 2012? You're not going to go in that direction are you? Well do you want to be killed? The end is nigh. Read the book of Revelation.

CHAPTER 18 / 19 Discussion

Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Bernie Madoff

Journalist Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article, "The Great American Bubble Machine," details how Goldman Sachs has allegedly engineered market manipulations since the Great Depression. In other news, the town of Nome, Alaska, has reportedly invited Ruth Madoff to relocate there. Speculation remains that Bernie Madoff may have an "exit strategy" to avoid serving his full 150-year prison sentence.

goldman sachs· matt taibbi· rolling stone· bernie madoff· ruth madoff

1:01:41 Here's one, Russia Today has a top story which is kind of like related but it's got more of the Russian Today people obviously are trying to get into the Western, you know, trying to get push their news into the Western media by having compelling headlines. Let me read it to you. Did global warming help bring down Air France flight 447? There you go. and uh... for those of you who really want to read a little bit about uh... how corrupt our government is and how involved uh... goldman sachs is in the corruption Matt Taibbi wrote a fantastic piece in Rolling Stone magazine. I don't know if it's in the magazine but it's certainly on the website. It's called The Great American Bubble Machine. Yeah, no, it's in the magazine. Okay, subhead, Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. We've talked about this almost ad nauseum when it comes to

1:02:37 leaders of the treasury of the federal reserve they're all ex-goldman sachs guys and he's the and this is a real journalist we need to protect this guy in fact we should take some of our money and just hire bodyguards for this dude because he's doing good work I think he's fine once you do this story what difference does it make you know it's over the guy that you know here's the here's a funny story my wife dug up Apparently, Nome, the town of Nome, spelled G-N-O-M, no I'm sorry, it's just N-O-M-E, Alaska, has invited Madoff's wife to move there and they'll pick up the tab. Oh, of course, because then Madoff, who of course will have a heart attack... Oh yeah.

1:03:23 Because you know the guy's not gonna sit in jail for 150 years. No, no he had to have an exit strategy. That's been my theory from the beginning. There's no way that he hasn't got a million schemes to get out of this deal. Yeah, that he can go live in Alaska and then he can be under the auspices of the new country. Empress Palin. Empress Palin can run things. Geez. All right. You got anything else bud? Just the there's a couple more things that we can bring up on the next show I mean we have a lot of material backing up I was mentioning a knob on, Indiana the other town by the way I like to refer to him and I was told this some years ago that when you're in BC Canada if you during a speech just bring up the town name spasm Spasm spasm and you'll get a big laugh. This guy says you're gonna get a big laugh. Just say it. Oh

CHAPTER 19 / 19 Discussion

Global Food Supply, El Nino, Bee Populations, Outro

A dire report discussed by Presidents Obama and Medvedev suggests the planet may struggle to provide adequate food for the global population by September. The onset of a new El Nino cycle and the continued decline of bee populations are cited as major threats to agricultural stability. The program concludes with a promise to cover Monsanto and the California fruit crisis in the next episode.

el nino· food supply· medvedev· monsanto· colony collapse

1:04:16 So I said it, got a huge laugh. And so every time I go to BC now, I bring it up into the conversation, Spuzum, which is a real town somewhere down near the Washington border somewhere, I think. Anyway, Spuzum. That's just a tip for you public speakers out there speaking in Canada. Only works in BC though, for some reason. Eh? Eh. Okay. I think it's his stream that's dying because I don't get any sensitive. No. There may be one or two hiccups here and there. So how much have we done today? What's our time? We're about 60 minutes right now. Oh, okay. Well, we were gonna... You want to go a minute longer? No. Let me see if I have anything else. I might have one more thing. I have a bunch of stuff, but it's not... Anything worthwhile? I haven't digested a lot of this material. Let me see what my Russian sources say. There's always something good from them. I'm really liking the geom...

1:05:21 I like that too, I like that a lot. The magnetic storms? And it's possible. I mean there's a possibility that these, because I'm very familiar with that effect and it's nasty. But you know the big earth movements send an electromagnetic pulse into the sky and knock something out of the air, it wouldn't surprise me. But the only problem is there must have been some other aircraft in the area, unless it's just a I don't know how you can target it. That's kind of the thing that... Well, here's good. Here's some good stuff. Okay, again from Russia because there's a lot coming out of Russia. I'm reading off the cuff here, a dire report markers item 3 on the agenda to be discussed between visiting President Obama and President Medvedev in the Kremlin, warns that our world will reach the point where our planet is no longer able to provide the food needed for its human inhabitants who must maintain at least 2500 calories needed to keep our bodies functioning properly and that should happen by September of this year.

1:06:17 Even worse for our world, Michel Lerue, head of the US Climate Prediction Center is reporting today that a nascent El Nino weather cycle threatens to wreak more economic havoc and disrupt raw material production across a wide swath of the world evoking memories of the killer edition of 1998. Are we due for another El Nino? There's a cycle, I don't know what to... I think it's 11 years, isn't it? Yeah, something like this. It's like the sun's spot cycle a little bit. And this is why they're going to kill you with the swine flu shot. We have to kill people.

1:06:55 in order for some to survive. This is not me making this shit up. Google it. Kill people. 5 billion. That's how many have to go away in order for the rest to survive. We can keep like a billion, how many billion people, 6.5 billion on the planet right now? I lost count, around 2 billion. Yeah. Apparently they're starving to death in Korea. Okay, so what we're going to talk about in the next show, I want to by the way thank everybody. Go to noagenda.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org.org

1:07:37 Next week we're going to bring the story back into the fold about the problems we're still having with bees. Oh, geez. Yeah. And the bee story needs to be brought back. And I'll tell you that fruit this year in California sucks. It's not very tasty and it's mushy and there's all kinds of problems with it. And my tree, you know, my plum tree only had like one tenth as normal production, which really annoys me. You should try some of the GMO crap they put in my room here in the hotel. You can just imagine. All right, so... So, more Monsanto and Bees next week. Yes. Or next Thursday. Thursday, exactly. It's Thursday. And coming to you from an undisclosed hotel location in London, the United Kingdom, at a temporary crackpot command center in Gitmo Nation East, I'm Adam Currie. And from Northern Silicon Valley, the place that doesn't exist yet, I'm here. I'm John C. Dvorak. AT&T, Comcast, and Virgin Atlantic all suck. We'll talk to you Thursday, right here on No Agenda.

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