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00:00 You just walked away. You just walked away from the show. Adam Curry, John C DeVore It's Sunday January 5th 2020 This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 1205! This is no agenda Making it rain down under and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas. Capital of the drone star state! In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where there'll be no record set today because we missed the Zephyr. I'm John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot & Buzzkill In The Mornin'! Well to be fair the Zephyr was just earlier than normal We didn't really miss anything

00:41 Well, I saw it go by. Okay! But anyway... Gee, I guess some stuff happened? Yeah, always on a show day! Show days is when it always takes place but before we go into Iran I do want to make mention that Thursday by request from Sir Chris Wilson in Australia We were requested to give yet another massive shake of our rain sticks which Precision instruments. These are not just some phony baloney tourist thing, these were made by Sherry Oz born in Utah and they work. Conditions have eased on the far south coast of New South Wales after fire threatened the town of Eden live now to our reporter Trudy McIntosh who's in Eden. Trudie take us through what's happened? Well Anna we're starting to see a sprinkling of rain here in the town

01:40 Eden but as you can see behind me there's certainly still plenty of smoke blanketing this area. Plenty of people who have camped here for the night at the Eden Wharf after what has been a pretty difficult few days in this town it must be said, people staying here because this morning there was an emergency level fire that had been coming from the Victorian border towards this town I spoke to one local resident Joanne a short time ago she tells me about what it was like to be in the town as this fire came towards it. I thought I'd have to come down here tonight but with this rain, heaven sent and I went home washed me hair my hair was that dirty oh couldn't believe it and the birds come out they started singing this afternoon so we figured that were right Not out of the woods yet but heaven-sent birds and rain in Australia Did you see this morning's report about the rain? No

02:33 This was caused by the intense heat. No! Bullcrap It was caused by rain sticks. We all know how this works intense heat I'm thinking well, we never get credit for anything ever ever do it now We need a lot more rain to fall but it's a good start and they're predicting a lot more So hopefully things will look on I sent out a note on Thursday to all producer Australian producers said how are you guys doing? And everybody kind of had the Kind of had the same, same feedback. It's like yeah it's bad it's been worse but you know there was a lot that could be done and oh yes some of this may have been set by arsonists which I think is with 85% of all forest fires has some chance of arson involved they're crazy people Arsonist? Well yeah well if he...I have a report

03:34 They actually know where the arsonists are apparently in Australia. Listen to this. Now the meticulous investigation will soon be pouring over the devastated fire grounds all along the south coast. Vital work for the coroner who will probe all aspects of the fire There's an enormous amount of work to prepare for the coroner not just with the burnt out buildings and structures but also clearly the deaths of people that have occurred as a result of these fires And more sinister consideration were the fires intentionally started

04:10 Police have formed Strike Force Indara comprising detectives from homicide and arson squads, plus drawing on insights from officers with local knowledge who will lead the work. We'll make available any other specialist resources in terms of our forensic services group and other criminal investigators. Arson squad detectives are also part of this strike force responsible for tracking down firebugs, known to be responsible for lighting deliberately lit fires like this one at South Taramurra last November Part of their charter is also proactive knocking on the doors of known arsonists when conditions get this bad... Hey Mr. Arsonist!

04:50 Hey, just want to check. Make sure you're not starting any fires." That sounds kind of weird! Well it doesn't happen so much in this country because we find ways to throw the key away with an arsonist because... I know! Because it's been determined that it's beyond a sickness. It's sexual perversion Oh, I didn't know about the sexual perversion part. Well it does get discussed a lot But in Australia you just go- You know where they are? You just knock on their door? Yeah, they're registered arsonists Hey is there any fires lately?! Hey don't do it okay! Don't do it! Knocking on doors of known arsonist when conditions gets this bad to prevent them from getting up to no good. Seven News has been told It's unbelievable...I find that very lackadaisical Yes

05:40 If you have a tinderbox country, maybe you should keep it real. Just not happenstance just drop by and knock on the arsonist's door. It was like when I was in Tuk-Ti-Yuk-Tuk North, I was in the North Pole years and years ago. What? Was it a name? Tuk-Ti-Yak-Tuk is the name of it. It's a little bit above Inuvik at the Northwestern Territories and this was the Molson Ice Polar Beach Party with Metallica and Hole and Veruca Salt was...and we cybercasted! This is a long time ago so we're up there it's... How did you cybercast it? Oh we had a mux

06:24 We had 24 phone lines that we combined into mux with 9600 baud modems. And so that's how we did the cybercasts, anyway at the time it was 23 hours light during the day And you're up there and it's kind of like an oil rig area, kids are driving around on their bikes at midnight because the sun is out. The whole crew was looking for something to drink Which of course is not allowed in that area, in those territories. And so you kind of side up to a kid and say hey do you know any chance...and the kid immediately will go oh! You want the drug dealer or the booze guy? It's that house or that house? That's kinda like the arsonist in Australia. Oh he lives over there mate. Yeah just like that But no only are we helping with the rain stick apparently

07:26 The Australian government even listens to our show. Well that would be a different... Yeah, the Prime Minister! He's not only does he listen he's taking our material. Boots on the ground... We have people lifting our material and not crediting us I'm absolutely sure of that. Well here it is. Boots on the ground planes in the air ships at sea and trucks rolling into communities that have been impacted. Just taking our material Well, there's no subs in the water. This is not going to help much with the fires Anyway we wish Australia the best We hope everything is going very well So some guy got shot or blowed up Yeah Apparently right after our show Yeah Thanks

08:18 And it was this guy, I don't know about you but I made the claim that no one's heard of this guy. Now all of a sudden he is the most famous guy in the world. Well first... and you have people protesting! People protesting in San Francisco, Suleiman, John Fairley It was like they do not know who this guy is They can't identify Iran I mentioned this on the newsletter You couldn't find him on a map I think we need to open the segment properly. We've done this segment about Iran probably since the third year of the show and we have jingles whenever we talk about Iran.

09:13 Woo! That's right everybody, the war machine is rolling once again. Everybody loves a little bit of War with Iran because we all get to talk...talk pontificate and talk and threaten and be smart to shake a carry signs and be smart and tweet. If I knew about that thing in San Francisco, would have headed over there because there's had to be a lot of collectible signs. I have an M5M compilage or short one of their immediate assessment of Soleimani as you know

09:50 A revered man, John. Soleimani an iconic military leader a revered figure Soleimani is difficult to convey how revered he is He's regarded as personally incredibly brave the troops love him I was trying to think of somebody and I was thinking of de Gaulle A brilliant man! He was the Cardinal Richelieu... ...He was Machiavelli Even many of Soleimani's enemies admitted that he was a military genius Let's assume for a minute He was at the Baghdadi, at the Baghdad airport and deserved this. Okay? Let's just stipulate that let's just say maybe it was the right decision to take him out but you have in that case right decision wrong commander-in-chief

10:33 How does all this jive with Thomas Friedman's column, which I actually had excerpted in the newsletter. Yes Where he starts off by saying Suleimani was the dumbest guy ever. He is a bonehead nobody liked him Oh shoot oh wait wait wait I gotta play the CIA analyst Who was on the BBC. So again, he was the dumbest guy? That's what Friedman said? The dumbest guy and they're gonna name a street after Trump because they killed him! Listen to this...

11:14 Obviously a dramatic development for a complicated region. Here to break it all down is Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA intelligence analyst who's now at the American Enterprise Institute. Thanks for being with us. It was a pleasure, Laura. So you wrote that General Soleimani was like a combination of Lady Gaga, James Bond and Rommel all rolled into one. How significant is the moment of his death? Very significant, he was hugely important for Iranians He was extremely popular within Iran He was a critical element of the Iranian leadership Arguably perhaps the second most powerful man in Iran Yes just like James Bond and Lady Gaga rolled up into one

11:58 So we're getting mixed messages from the CIA, the way I see it. Yeah no kidding! And i'm guessing that Freeman's probably better connected than that guy? This is yeah...I've heard he's a go-to guy for the BBC Well they should go to someplace else. Let's listen some regular readings just normal straight up reports It's funny that one of the most objective ones, I'm gonna play it right away is the Democracy Now. They actually did...I think they were more even-handed than ABC. Let's listen to...this is Suli, Suli, they're all called Suli and this is ABC's intro. Oh you want to do ABC first? Yes, so I went there first then we'll get to Amy. Amy took a...they all took it to 10 minutes

12:50 All the networks and Amy too. Okay, everybody get get get big segment big segment okay here's a democracy ABC as we come on President Trump has now addressed the nation about that major escalation in the conflict with Iran The u.s.. Drone strike targeting an Iranian military chief minutes after he landed at the airport in Baghdad General Qasem Soleimani architect of Iranian intelligence and military operations across the region for decades. A revered figure in Iran, today thousands mourning and protesting in Tehran. Iran's Supreme Leader vowing harsh retaliation and revenge for the death of a man he called a martyr. But President Trump blamed Soleimani for killing hundreds of Americans and claimed that he was actively plotting to kill more when he was found and terminated

13:37 The president saying he did not order the strike to start a war with Iran but to stop one. And yet tonight some 3,500 more troops are being sent to the region and others put on alert ABC's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz leading us off with the timeline and swift reaction Alright so there was sometimes stopped it there for some reason time line swift reaction by the way this Swift reaction This was obviously not Trump's operation. No, no no no because they're...Trump is driving drones around following guys and if I well hold on let's just stop there for one second about the drones i looked up some of the statistics and at this point in his presidency under President Trump there have been more drone killings than under Obama and Obama was kind of the drone king

14:34 Now granted you don't hear about them much anymore. I think a lot of them are taking place in Yemen and that's paid work for the Saudis, but personally I despise drone killings And the reason is, first of all it is absolute terror that you have drones flying around everywhere in the world except America. A drone flies and people duck and they're freaking out because you know that usually means you're gonna hear something next and then someone gets blown to smithereens

15:10 I do not like this type of warfare and we got to be very careful being all jitty about it because we already have unidentified drones flying over Colorado. Now granted they're not the same platform as what we're talking about here but these drones can carry some weaponry and one day, one day we will have drone strikes on Americans. Oh yeah there's no doubt about it So I'm just saying don't get all too happy about this cause its fucked up shit drones! I dont like it at all Well, that's one way of putting it. Let's play... I'm going to back off from this ABC report. Oh there is a switchback coming up never mind. Play ABC Switchback Dead End Weird. This is the weird clip here. I wanted to separate it out

15:55 Mary, most members of Congress were not given a heads up about the president's action against Iran and tonight lawmakers from both parties are demanding more information. Whit, both sides are eager to know what comes next? What is the broader strategy here and what is the plan for if and when Iran retaliates we do expect that full Senate will receive classified briefing next week and Speaker Pelosi is demanding the same over in the house. Whit? What exactly was that switch back there I think it's because they started off with the assertion that nobody knew what was going on and they wanted to find out more, then they never did even addressed it. Well let's just talk about about that response for a moment where all of a sudden Congress has some kind of conscience and their

16:41 It's like, well you can't do that. Congress needs to declare war! Let's just set it straight real quick ever since September 11th 2001 a little bit after that we've had the authorized use of military force as long as you can use the words terrorist in a sentence you can operate under that and do anything you want kill any... How do you think we got into Syria under Obama? Congress didn't authorize a war in Syria If anything, Congress needs to shut up because we've been acting...we've been conducting acts of war against Iran with the sanctions. I consider that to be actual warfare! They didn't condone it- actually they did condone it! Congress is just beside itself. They don't know what to do because this is affecting their whole strategy for the election

17:37 Now, while you mentioned the part about Congress should shut up let's go to the CNN version of this report. This is an analyst who came on CNN who mentioned...who thought didn't think much as Soleimani he thought he was a moron for going into... He just blows into Iraq on his own after the embassy attack just shows up like you know hi how are you doing I'm here to see my boys and so Anyway, just play this so you get it. Officials in France say that today we wake up to a more dangerous world Democratic Senator Chris Murphy asked the question Did America just assassinate without congressional authorization the second most powerful person in Iran? Knowingly setting off of potential massive regional war So is America safer without someone this morning what I would say to senator Murphy is why don't you just be quiet?

18:31 When has Iran ever demonstrated self-restraint? I mean, that's the question i have. So is the world more dangerous today maybe it's more dangerous but when has it not been dangerous when have we not been a target of a regime like exists in Tehran I mean it happens as a matter of routine what I find him amazingly brazen is the fact that Soleimani felt comfortable and he felt somewhat naive that he could simply show up in Baghdad and in his role as a leader of the IRGC and the coups force, he shows up and says hey guys how's it going? How is this attack on US embassy going. Absolutely brazen! And at that moment we had built-up intelligence which was patterned over life different forms of intelligence so we had this target folder on Soleimani

19:19 And this opportunity presented itself and I'm certain what happened was we decided the president made a determination, let's pull the trigger now. And it was, I would say not causally linked to what occurred at the US embassy a couple of days before other than he happened to be there checking up on what was taking place He's so smart. He's a genius! I mean all you need is one of those drone target locator devices in your pocket also known as it a smartphone That's how that's how you target a guy like that. I think yeah, I got a lot of briefings Over the past two days so we can get into that in the moment. I want to hear what other clips you have? I do want to play one brief one here from Debbie Wasserman Schultz She is a congresswoman from Florida

20:09 not well liked here on the No Agenda show. And of course she had to go where you mentioned just a minute ago, that oh well we all know what this is really about! We know why Trump does these things! What I think is going on here frankly This action was taken more in President Trump's self-interest rather than our national interest. We had damning developments just the last day where emails came out that made it very clear that they covered up the real reason behind the withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars to Ukraine, Donald Trump was just impeached a week and half ago

20:49 we need to get to the bottom of how and who helped him carry out this illegal cover-up. Illegal! To allow him, to withhold aid, to help him politically and personally allowing Ukraine to interfere in the presidential election 2020 that's outrageous and I think that has a lot to do with what this is about Somebody get Debbie Wasserman the latest memo please She's way off message here Well, you know she used to write those messages and pretty much think she still has the ability to go freelance. She's gone rogue! We'll do it live! Alright okay let's just skip the rest of ABC stuff it's not that good lets go to Amy and this will be

21:41 Sully, run down WTF1 democracy. President Trump authorized the drone strike that killed Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport. It killed also four other people, including a high-level Iraqi militia chief. This happened Thursday night U.S. time Friday morning in Baghdad General Soleimani has long been one of the most powerful figures in Iran. He was the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, Iran's powerful foreign military force similar to a combination of the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. Iran called Soleimani assassination an act of international terrorism. Yeah? Did you hear what she said? What part? She said that Trump

22:42 called the assassination of Soleimani an act of international terrorism. Let me hear that again. A powerful foreign military force similar to a combination of the CIA and US special forces, Iran called Soleimani's assassination an active international... No Iran not Trump! Iran called it that. Oh well then I miss on it now I misheard I'm hoping for the best. Okay, you're right Iran. What are you doing? I'm losing this plot. Let's go to run down two If the Islamic Republic decides to challenge and fight a country it will do so unequivocally We are strongly committed to our country's interests in our peace we were strongly committed to dignity of our country We're strongly committed to progress and greatness of our country And if anyone threatens that

23:34 we will, without any hesitation confront it and strike it. The targeted assassination came after members of an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia and its supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and set fire to a gatehouse in response to a slew of US air strikes in Iraq and Syria that killed two dozen members of the Iranian backed Iraqi militia, Qatayeb Hezbollah These strikes were in retaliation for the killing of an American contractor and a rocket attack in Kirkuk, Iraq, a week ago. So there are you know I don't know about you but it seems to me that the Iraqis have no control over their own country all this action is Iranian oh yeah well there's I mean I have a bit of an analysis I want to wait and see what clips we get out of the way first

24:25 All right, we'll take clip three of Amy. We get her rolling here. The head of Kata'ib Hezbollah Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed in the drone strike. The New York Times reports General Soleimani had flown into Baghdad from Syria in order to urge Iranian backed militias and Iraq to do more to stop the wave of anti Iran protests that have swept Iraq in recent months The militias are already accused of killing and disappearing protesters and human rights activists. The Pentagon has sent more than 14,000 U.S. troops to the region since May. The U.S. is now warning American civilians to leave Iraq immediately. The attack has sparked fear and alarm in Iraq and across the world. France's deputy minister for foreign affairs said this morning we are waking up in a more dangerous world," unquote.

25:17 Tensions between the United States and Iran have been escalating since President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the landmark Iran nuclear deal, and imposed crushing economic sanctions on Iran. In response to the assassination, protests are planned Saturday in at least 30 cities across the U.S., as part of a national day-of-action US troops out of Iraq. Now as usual, Democracy Now and ABC and I'm sure most mainstream networks in the United States really had no analysis. It was just regurgitating blah blah blah on a protest... No one really went into it. Well there was no analysis that which i actually prefer especially from Democracy now because the analysis they do is so poor

26:04 Well the BBC, the CIA basically went straight to BBC. They had all their guys out there everybody was talking to the BBC and... Yeah okay well I mean I think that they were trying... Well you gotta do it as part of this system I mean you want them yes plant the information overseas and then point to it well otherwise you get Tom Friedman going on and on about the guy being a moron So I have a couple of clips from the BBC News Hour regarding, well really the whole sequence. So first about you know the actual reasoning for doing this... Well here's the clip. I've spoken now to two officials who were briefed on the intelligence that led to this strike and what they're both saying is that the claim that there was an imminent attack would have claimed hundreds of lives.

26:54 I said, is she in a library? Why is she whispering her report? It's very serious matter. What they're both saying is that the claim that there was an imminent attack that would have claimed hundreds of lives uh... is razor thin. In fact the intelligence showed three things Number one, there was a pattern of travel for General Soleimani that showed that he had been in Iraq and Lebanon and in Syria meeting with Shia proxies that are known to have a confrontational relationship with the U.S.. Number two, there was chatter of a conversation between this general... Yeah this chatter word actually popped up a couple of times

27:34 emails that I was sent from people, hey there's chatter over it. Whenever someone says chatter...I'm thinking you're a spook! Unless you're copying something from a spook verbatim in the news? There was chatter of a conversation between this general and the Supreme Leader of Iran where the general said something on the order of I would like to have approval for this operation And the leader of Iran asked him to come to Tehran for consultations, basically not giving a go-ahead. And thirdly there's been a pattern of increasing bellicosity towards U.S. interests in the area that we saw with the attack on the walls of the embassy but what the officials are telling me is that even though one two and three are worrying it is not evidence of what we have been told which is this imminent attack

28:26 So, there was a conflation if you like of these three bits of evidence and a deduction that something big was planned and that the targets were American. That's right. And as one official put it, it was an illogical leap. So, this I thought was interesting because what it implies is that there was a difference of opinion between the supreme leader of Iran. Uh...I guess that would be Khomeini and Soleimani and Khomeini didn't want him to go ahead with this didn't want him to do this big strike which is apparently what we counterstruck

29:12 I thought that was interesting, that there may have been some disagreement in the ranks there. Trump was subsequently presented with a smorgasbord of options, of things he could do. And mind you I think that the president's coming into a room and the only people he might be able to trust there are his daughter and her son-in-law but then again no probably not everybody there hates Iran everybody wants to bomb the shit out of them so he chose the extreme option As I understand it, the assassination of General Soleimani was one of many options being discussed as retaliation for the attack on an Iraqi airbase which killed an American contractor on December 27th. That's right so the discussions appear to have begun with President Trump on the 27th of December following the strike that killed this American contractor

30:10 And at that point, he was presented what one source described to me as a menu of options where the killing of Soleimani was basically the far-out most extreme measure that could be taken. At that point on the 27th, the president himself did not choose that option. He chose a more moderate path which was a strike on several bases that were linked to this Iranian backed militia in Iraq and in the region. However, soon after that what we saw was an attack by Iranian-backed elements on the wall of the US embassy. And at that point President Trump decided to go for this much more extreme option. Yeah I'm gonna call bullcrap on that so Agent Orange our military intelligence he actually called me

30:56 Friday. He rarely does he call, he called me to explain what he thought was happening I got a lot of different briefings from people you know there's some pachinko information as well but i think that something else is going on here and that this may have been a very interesting move by Trump although again I'm against all drone killings I don't like it at all so Tolemani, a little bit of background which I don't think anyone gave any proper background. He's a hero of the Iran-Iraq War he was promoted to division commander when he was 23 well you know we've all heard he was Mr James Bond all superstars fantastic so it becomes the commander of the Revolutionary Guard and then commander of the Quds Force which is

31:48 It's kind of like special forces, but it really has a different position from what I understand. It is above the Iranian armed forces so they have their own special status. So during when Ahmadinejad was in power... The Revolutionary Guard, there was a privatization scheme that got underway and the RG, the Revolutionary Guard came in possession really or control of a lot of important organizations. They had economic power they were given control over border regions the Secret Service, the Straits of Hormuz all the Revolutionary Guard but also they had smuggling networks money laundering really proxy wars that's what this guy was doing and he was the master of the proxy war strategy close ties to Putin

32:43 and you know which of course ties into everything that happened in Syria. So this guy, in short formidable force he had what they say 50,000 troops armed and trained shutting down the Gulf of Hormuz making us shoot down our own drones over the Straits of Hormuz not the Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz whether they shot it down or we didn't doesn't make any difference but because of this This guy is also a political force to be reckoned for. And once Khomeini started tweeting back at Trump,

33:19 which we saw with the so-called breach of the Green Zone and the embassy, which you know... it's a fortress. You cannot get in. You can get in through the first wall if you have a pass. Yeah and you'd only get that far if they let you in. And yeah! You got to pass and then come in there were special forces there I've pictures of special forces there as that was taking place So no way was there any danger of anything really happening? That may have been part of a setup And I think when you see Khomeini and Trump tweeting back and forth, well we're gonna kick your ass. Well we'll kick 52 of your asses for every one of those people you had in 1979 then i knew it the show is on everything's determined It's all over this was something that benefits

34:09 Khomeini. It benefits him to have this guy out of the way, Trump has wanted to have a deal with Iran and now they're just playing the game back and forth to make it all look real I think that this may even been done in cahoots with the Mullah's Well, that's an interesting thesis because if it's true that he didn't want this Soleimani to do some plan and Soleimani is probably pretty much of an independent contractor at this point. He could do it anyway? Very much so! He has to be taken out! Yes

34:45 So there could have been some back channel action saying, yeah it's okay why don't you just blow him up and we'll deal with it later. Now mind you Soleimani was in Iraq let me just get my notes here he was any rock because there was bad blood without Amir Alamir is the leader of the Badr party in Iraq. So there was already all kinds of strife and I think Alamir actually, so Alamir was supposed to have a meeting with Soleimani he cancels sends his deputy who also got iced in this drone strike took out his own possible political foe or adversary second-in-command in Iraq

35:32 I'm not going to say Trump is the genius mastermind behind this. Look, I think it would be more something that Khomeini himself came up with but to me and every Iranian you would speak to and i know many of them they always say the same thing Romani and the Americans are all playing together. It's one big game, and they know it but this guy who they got rid of I think he may have been a real problem And it may actually change things for the better A deal could be possibly in the future I certainly don't think we're gonna see anyone No, I don't you were not gonna see retaliation We already had a sorry ass

36:15 lame, fake news bullcrap. They hacked one of the United States government websites did you see this? Yeah! Of some division I've never heard of... There's a question that has never been asked over it ever crops up i can't find the answer to it and it seems somewhat important is the progenesis of the whole thing which is They keep talking about the American contractor. Who was this guy? Yeah, that's a good question Was he a CIA guy? Well, yeah, you know NSA guy was he some bonehead from Bechtel? I mean who was it? What's his name?

36:59 Yeah, we don't know that. At least I haven't found it but 30% of all activity is done by contractors This is why these a-holes love war! It's because its commercial business! You know there's big money. Big money. Its been completely outsourced So before we continue let me just give you a few choice sound bits here of who people think will get killed in retaliation or who the possible targets could be. Oh yeah, we're gonna turn this into a really big super shit show Yet, previous U.S. presidents when given the opportunity to kill him passed on it because they were fearful of what it would unleash So what could the consequences be this time? Well this is the problem Laura we don't know but you're absolutely right Previous administrations certainly thought about may have had opportunities as they characterized that they passed on those opportunities Because they didn't know how Iran would respond

37:56 It's dangerous business for states to start killing off each other's highest level leaders. We probably wouldn't like it if the Iranians killed off someone like a Mike Pompeo, who is more or less equivalent to Qasem Soleimani in their system. Okay there is one vote for Mike Pompeo let us go to Senator Tom Udall And I think what the president has done here killing this major general that is a part of the defense establishment in Iran is the same thing as if they had attacked us and assassinated our Secretary of Defense on a foreign trip someplace. This is

38:42 getting us into a very bad road and putting us on a very bad path. Secretary of Defense, of course no one knows Esper so it wouldn't even make the second page in the newspaper let's talk to the US NATO Admiral James Stavridis Potentially raising the stakes for American military planners Military-to-military how would you expect the Iranians would fare against the U.S.? they would fare badly. They cannot match us in conventional forces, but they are masters of asymmetric warfare the Iranians may turn around and attempt the same kind of activity against a US ambassador. Ambassadors? Okay. And then they would say this was a proportional operation I got news for you nothing's gonna happen no retaliation this is stupid show and it's... You know what? This was even to some degree predicted

39:41 By our buddy, unfortunately he's no longer with us, Zbigniew Brzezinski the grand chess game. The architect, the master, the man who knows all... The man who fathered Mika Brzezinski and we're still pissed off about it 2008 He made the following statement on a C-SPAN show about Iran's relationship to the United States and Iran's relationship with Iraq. So, the three countries that are in play right here right now – Iran, Iraq and the United States? We can certainly take another look at some recent historical experience after 9-11 we decided to go into Afghanistan for obvious reasons – to eliminate al Qaeda

40:33 Which country was close to being most helpful to us when we undertook that task? Iran. This is completely ignored in any public discussion of Iran, which is consistently painted as a menacing enemy of the United States They're no friends of ours I have no illusions about that But because their own national interest they chose to be helpful to us in Afghanistan In a very significant way Why shouldn't they be helpful to us in Iraq They have mixed interests. They don't like the Iraqis, Sunni Arabs, previous rivals...

41:11 But at the same time, they don't like our presence there. I think we could discuss some arrangements in which perhaps emphasize perhaps in capital letters we could reach some understanding but you will never know the answer that possibility unless we try but there certainly is some communality of interest here in a stable Middle East and let me add one more dimension which should be important to most Americans We are in the midst of growing energy crunch Have we spent any time publicly discussing what would be the consequences for energy of an American-Iranian accommodation? What would happen to the price of oil if there was this dramatic increase in Iranian flows? What will happen to the objective of energy diversity for Europe

41:57 if Iranian oil and gas could flow through Turkey to Europe. These are strategic interests of ours which have been completely ignored in a kind of blind antagonism, or it is self-perpetuating." So there's all kinds of reasons for us to be working with Iran Secretly, it's important that that's the most important part because Saudi Arabia is a big buddy. They hate Iran and for a whole bunch of reasons not just oil something about religion they disagree on stuff and we were their pals and we have to do to an extreme yep and

42:37 We can't be doing the bidding of Iran, which is what we have done on the basis of your theory by blowing up this character who they maybe wanted dead because he's getting to be uppity. Well it is very annoying! He's a big dog on campus So yeah, I think that this is much more devious than we're seeing. It definitely benefits Trump by getting everyone off of impeachment talking about something else and so there's no doubt that helps. You know the funny thing about Trump's reputation? The right-wing talkers don't see it the way you do or I do for that matter they see it as the following

43:27 Obama, you know he had a shot at this guy and never took it. And Clinton could have killed Osama bin Laden two years before 9-11 they had a shot at him and they wouldn't take it yeah so everybody had these shots that these guys in history would've been so much better if like for example Clinton did killed Osama bin Laden when he had the chance of course that doesn't include the possibility that Osama bin Laden was working for us all along and may not even be dead. But that's beside the point, Clinton had a shot at him didn't take it or Obama wouldn't take a shot even though Obama is shooting everybody out of this you know with his drone list let's kill this guy today yeah well he had the the kill list Tuesday but Trump again under Trump there's been more more drone killings very disappointed in all this and then top it off

44:25 Oh, I can't believe the president said this. As President my highest and most solemn duty is the defense of our nation and its citizens. Uh no! No! NO! It is to defend uphold protect the Constitution that is your oath that is your highest order of business That is your duty oh god I despise that So it may, you know what it will do for sure is set the machine rolling. Everybody gets to tweet everybody gets to say something. You see what Rose McGowan said? Oh she's nuts that woman! Dear Iran the USA has disrespected your country your flag your people 52% of us humbly apologize she speaks on behalf of 52 percent of the country apparently

45:17 We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime! We do not know how to escape, please do not kill us!" Wow... And she actually issued an apology or it's not an apology and explanation of what she meant and she did it in the video I don't support Iran over America. I want America to be better I want Rafe to stop and I want Harvey Weinstein to go to jail. She can't let that go They're not wrong like Trumpers and right-wingers when they're like Hollywood's a bunch of fake liberals, I'm like yeah! They're not wrong they aid in the bet many many criminals Here's the thing...I do NOT believe governments

46:03 I don't believe Iran's government. I don't believe American government. Clinton, on the eve of his impeachment launched rockets at Iraq! And this is the weirdest part...I became so disenfranchised with the Democrats after learning to the extent and knowing how closely Weinstein worked with the Democratic Party for years how interlinked he was now I said he was Hollywood's cult leader but he was protected by the Democratic Party for sure So I grew so disenfranchised and disgusted with them. And when I first moved to America, when I was 10, I was handing out vote Dukakis cigarettes in little cellophane bags to knock on doors like a cigarette vote Dukakis! When i was 11, I was handing out anti-Iran pamphlets opposing Sharia law and their treatment of women and children around. I come from extremely political family and I was raised this way. Yeah well she's cuckoo

46:58 I don't think that made anything better for what she just said, because all she can do is then bring it around to herself and Weinstein etc. Callan Kaepernick tweets there's nothing new about American terrorist attacks against black and brown people for the expansion of American imperialism America has always sanctioned and besieged black and brown bodies both at home and abroad. American militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism to enforce its policing and plundering of the non-white world." Thanks, Cap! What an idiot... You know he makes a mistake

47:40 It's brown people who live in sandy areas, okay? It's not just brown people universally. If you live in sand and your brown then you got to watch your back but these types of responses is unhinged and the whole thing is unhinged. But the whole thing... Anyway Now there's a back-and-forth between Steve Kerr who's condemning pants for being a liar and then Trump says something about him. It's the basketball guys, it brings us right back to your basketball analysis where we were that guy from FS1 accused the entire NBA of being in China's pocket

48:27 Well, the tweet about that Pence put out there saying well you know this guy is related to the 9-11 attacks. Pence is full of crap! That was totally bullcrap he's like yeah they came from Iran no I don't understand where Pence was allowed to make this tweet. And i think that if anyone's gonna make up some bullcrap retaliation list, put Pence on the top! He's the number two guy you know he's the guy that should be watching his back and yeah whatever he was tweeting... That was not approved. He was not read in. I don't know why he did that it makes no sense. Factually it made no sense

49:13 What does Steve Kerr got to do with it? Yeah, everybody's part of the machine. If you're on television if you have a platform You're part of the machine and this was the reddest meat you can give the machine Everybody loves it And honestly is good for our show we get to talk about something different for a little bit but what a piss-poor analysis from everybody just It's like it truly looks more like Wag The Dog than any kind I've seen Yes, very well. In fact it started with the death of the unknown contractor and it's been wagged a dog ever since With the green zone with people walking around with brand new flags lobbying... even the so-called protesters were saying look at these gas canisters Americans are shooting at us there is nothing because it wasn't anything was not intended to be anything

50:11 But I guess we'll maybe we can crack down at the airports, maybe the TSA. This is not over yet this is just beginning and I think will see the security state getting all jitty. We've seen the stocks are up everybody loves that oil's gonna go up it's fantastic for everybody except for the schmoes. Although it should because Iranian oil isn't even on the table but They figured that well maybe this will escalate and it'll affect the other oil producing regions. Some historical context for this, very interesting we all know the Wesley Clark General Wesley Clark seven countries in five years clip in fact I'll play it just so we can remember what it is... Seven countries

50:54 in five years starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran. So these were the seven countries that we were going to attack in five years after 9-11 this was given to him in a verbal briefing No! He handed them a sheet of paper The sheet of paper... He tells it a little differently in a new version of the story which I've come into possession of. This is, it's a little different. The sheet of paper was not the actual order

51:33 And I wanted to play this clip because it explains very clearly when this really started and where this is all coming from, and who the players are that are involved. And that there's an entire faction in the media, in academia, of course in the military-industrial complex, and in the US government who want this still today! And then I came back to the Pentagon about six weeks later, I saw the same officer, Why haven't we attacked Iraq? We still gonna attack Iraq?" He said, oh sir. He says it's worse than that." He pulled up a piece of paper off his desk and he said I just got this memo- See, he didn't hand it to him. He was reading it to him. From the Secretary of Defense's office It says were going to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years. Were gonna start with Iraq And then were gonna move to Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan And Iran Seven countries in five years Is that a classified memo

52:26 He said, yes sir! I said well don't show it to me. He was about to show it to me. Listen to what he says though listen what he says why doesn't want it? Seven countries in five years. Is that a classified memo? Yes sir! I say will don't show it to me is about the short to me because I wanna talk about it apparently if you haven't actually seen the memo then you haven't seen the classified information I guess This is an interesting question because this brought up the, you know the people in the some people in the intelligence community that can't look at WikiLeaks. Right! You can hear about it but if you actually see it see the actual document then... I'm not sure. See that this is a question that somebody needs to answer for us because we don't know the answer to it which should be phrased as following If you know something's top secret

53:21 But you don't know, but you've not seen any... You have not personally seen the memo or the top-secret information? Or you've never been actually shown it. Right. But you know its top secret because somebody told you it was and your in the community can you talk about it well according to Clark here yes I seven countries in five years I said is that a classified memo He said, yes sir. I said well don't show it to me he was about to show it to me because I want to talk about it and I couldn't believe it would really be true but that's actually what happened these people took control of the policy in the United States and I realized then

54:05 It came back to me. A 1991 meeting I had with Paul Wolfowitz, you know in 2001 he was Deputy Secretary of Defense but in 1991 he was the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy it's a number three position at the Pentagon so I called him up there and he was available and he brought me in and uh... I said to Paul this is 1991 I said Mr. Secretary you must be pretty happy with the performance of troops in Desert Storm? And he said Well, yeah he said but not really. He said because the truth is we should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and we didn't. And he said but one thing that we did learn he said We learned that we can use our military in the region in the Middle East and the Soviets won't stop us. He said and we've got about five or ten years to clean up those old Soviet client regimes Syria

54:57 Iran, Iraq before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us. It was a pretty stunning thing I mean the purpose of the military is that start wars and change governments it's not this sort of deter conflict we're gonna invade countries and you know my mind was spinning This country was taken over by group people with a policy coup Wolfowitz and Cheney and Rumsfeld, and you could name a half dozen other collaborators from the Project for New American Century. They wanted us to destabilize the Middle East turn it upside down make it under our control And that's what's going on here to this day still with these jagoffs who do this stuff

55:55 Well, that's interesting. If we take a look let's try to reanalyze the idea that this Soleimani guy had to be taken out because he was working against those interests because he would have led to the possibility... The real proof in the pudding of the pudding whatever some other pudding is whether or not at the end of this whole series of events Iran gets rubble eyes or not. Oh, yeah guarantee you it's not gonna happen Guaranteed is not gonna happen what happened here is Someone went too far and if you kill American boys and girls in the military Okay That's just that's just what happens do you kill a contractor like part of an American business now? We're pissed off That's what I'm seeing this disgusting

56:49 Like what? You're hurting our company now. This is bottom line stuff! No, no no we can't have that." So how complicit Trump was in this I don't know He was at Mar-a-Lago behind closed doors The press pool didn't see him come in or out really while this is during the New Year's celebration and thereafter so he might have been a big part of it I don't know. Most of the reports that i have, and then I still have a lot of clips which we don't have to play now... No, I'm interested if there's anything good in there but there was mention of Trump during the whole thing playing golf! I thought he was eating ice cream again wasn't that the report? He is eating ice cream! He's playing golf but playing the golf didn't match the timeline because generally speaking plays golf in the morning while we're doing our show right

57:46 And this happened later. It was in the early morning over there, but he wouldn't be playing golf after it gets dark. Nobody plays golf at night you lose the ball Yeah, it's not a great time to play golf yeah I don't know how complicit he was But just looking at the show that's unfolding This is 21st century warfare. This is 21st century stuff that we're used to it here, Trump tweeting around blah blah whatever But for Khomeini to tweet back, that was the tell for me. That's like okay... He's like hey! Hey Khomeini guy listen up Tweet back at me man come on clap back I'm gonna say something you say something and then we'll talk about stuff and now you threaten I'll threaten And meanwhile let's work on a deal man Let's work on a deal or work something out You stay in power you stay big

58:51 I think the analysis, my analysis is clear but a complete wag-the-dog scenario and we'll see how long the media can run with it. Oh they'll take as long as it don't try to scare the public as best they can well now what problem is for them? It's detracting from impeachment talk so there are agendas here at home that need to be satisfied. They're hand wringing over this yeah more we talk about this is gonna make Trump look good! He can't have that There's no doubt about that on my mind. Now, let's play this. This is Amy, she gave her now she goes on and on with a very long explanation of everything but she does bring this guy on to discuss it they never bring anybody on as balance they bring some socialist on but they did bring this guy and I just want to play a little bit of this he's from the Quincy Institute which is some new think tank and by the way this is where you make money

59:46 these think tanks, they just get a bunch of money. In this case I don't know who he gets the money from but or he put him in the Quincy Institute do you name it after some like some founding father's kind of name? Quincy John Quincy Adams so you give us some name like that The Hamilton is... Yeah either use that are you put the word freedom in there Yeah, freedom... Freedom. Heritage It's all good All good So this guy comes on and he has absolutely nothing to tell us except that he just doesn't like Trump Welcome to Democracy Now! Trita Parsi your response to the assassination of Soleimani I think a couple of former Obama officials on TV yesterday put it best when they said that this is an act of war And its' an act of war that took place without

1:00:35 any consultation with Congress, any approval from Congress and authorization from Congress. It's fascinating to see that the last couple of days Pompeo has been spending a lot of time talking to the foreign ministers and leaders in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Israel not until today did he actually start making phone calls to Europeans and others So, this is something that is going to be a major point of escalation. It's a decision that I think ultimately has made America less rather than more safe—I think that's clear from the decision by the State Department today to urge all Americans to immediately leave Iraq.

1:01:14 Rather than ending these endless wars that Trump promised his base that he would do, he's sending more troops to the Middle East. He is doing things that are further destabilizing the Middle East and will probably trap American service men and women in the Middle East for a longer period of time So we have the same memes over and over from all the reporters and from every analyst on this side of the water. Yeah, that it makes us less safe And Congress wasn't consulted That's it! That's all they got It's all they got. Congress wasn't consulted and as you pointed out, and everybody really knows this, Congress doesn't need to be supported or I'm sorry informed about a drone hit on someone? No! When have they ever been informed of it?! When Obama had his hit list was he calling congress up saying what do you think Nancy should i kill this guy at the wedding we went into Syria without a declaration of war come on this I mean but that's

1:02:16 That's just grasping at straws. But more importantly, did I hear you say that there is real money in these think tanks? Is that possibly the exit strategy we should be looking at? There is real money in these think tanks if you know how to manage one We need somebody out there who can do grantsmanship So I think we should have the Curry-Dvorak Lincoln Washington Consortium Don't you think so? Doesn't it sound official consortium Group? No, what do we need? Curry, Dvorak, Lincoln, Washington... Confab. No I'm looking for the right one. Lincoln-Washington just a good beginning. Curry and Dvorak who are those guys? So just put Lincoln-Washington consulting

1:03:00 Washington Lincoln, Lincoln Washington. Yeah? Lincoln Washington Washington. You'd have to write you'd have focus group this baby Can we put a just throw JFK in there for good measure? No JFK's out. He's out okay so the I think the Lincoln Washington consulting group Yeah, okay. Might work. Lincoln Washington who's Lincoln? Who is Washington? What do you know? Founding father. We have to we have to... Greatest president ever and the founding father How about strategic strategy group that's better. Lincoln Washington Strategy Group People can watch this in real time as we develop this. And with that, I'd like to thank you very much for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who put the C in the Lincoln Washington strategy consulting group John C Dvorak! Well in the morning to you Mr Adam Curry, in the morning strips of seat boots on ground feet in the air, subs in the water all the dames and knights out there

1:03:55 That was quite a stretch. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, noagendastream.com is where we love to see you hang out on our live show days currently 1,376 trolls on the stream We know why, because it's a big day. We had an event on the show day and the next show day we break it down I think we've delivered at least a reasonable deconstruction of what is taking place here certainly better than the amygdala enlarging crap you're going to get on mainstream media in the coming week or coming days or coming weeks So trolls hang out in the troll room to feed us information, to throw out one-liners and basically to troll the host of any show that's playing live on this stream which is 24 hours a day seven days a week. Check it out for yourself noagendastream.com Also big in the morning to the artist who brought us our work for episode 1204 we titled that one Hunt The Wumpus

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1:05:31 You can find all of the entries, they're already stacking up as we speak. Artists like to... They kind of have to listen to the show in real time to put this art together because right after the show once were done Once we're done, we choose the art pretty much within 10-15 minutes depending on you know whatever things were doing to get the ship the show out the door. NoahGenderArtGenerator.com and there still seems to be some issues with people signing up they don't get their signup emails and I've sent another email to Sir Paul Couture about this

1:06:10 So it seems like it's kind of hit or miss people who are able to sign up and contribute. The whole thing is falling apart! I hope not... Internet! It's the microservices of the No Agenda show that are falling apart, and boy are we built on microservices We barely run anything ourselves. It's all part of our value for value network which is the great thing about it. The briefings I receive clips producer notes, personal experience. It's because the people who listen are the producers and many of them check in every single show as an executive producer or an associate executive producer because they supported us financially and we'd like to thank some of these people now We think we have the whole list Eric DeShill was back in tumbleweed terror

1:06:54 in the Pacific Northwest and it's... now is this a storm that's going on, that their power keeps going out up there? Wind storms. Windstorm! Yeah Is this a... I've not heard of this happening Well its what happened with the tumbleweeds No I mean its happened twice in a week but is this something historically that takes place? This is what bothers me about you Me?! Yeah We have the fires in Australia, we have these crazy wind storms that make no sense and not once...not once! Have you brought up the idea of a weather machine? I've been waiting. It's not it's well i call it as i see it. Australia is clearly the arsonist who they just knock on their door and say hey time to go And I don't know what's going on with Eric The Shill

1:07:48 The wind is a problem in Australia too. Well, I mean the reason those fires are out of control because of the wind and when we had these fires in California recently The Paradise fire and all the rather ones last year or the year before There was a little it was all wind base And they had to win now they're shutting down our powering in PG&E shuts on the path. The wind did window like we never had wind before Or I'm causing this wind all this new wind. I'm sorry. I was focused on wag the dog up from the wag to the wind I'll take note. I'll work on it I feel like a bad crackpot. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting so i had to bring it up now, so i looked like a nut ball! Let's thank some of our executive producers. Well let's start with sir Obi-Wan of Wicapog

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1:09:28 I will read this part. As part of my effort to keep my girls woke, I've decided to drop the letter T from their lives entirely! I figured this will only get them ahead in life as they grow into society that is slowly eliminating one of our letters from existence. I have been busy whiting out the Ts in all their books and on all toys we completely cut out and burnt the T section of the dictionary and the T edition of Encyclopedia Britannica It sleeps with the fishes you with me? Yes, and then he goes to this whole thing about how some people have had wonderful experiences with 23andMe finding out that their family was not their family but they got a new family. I don't know! I don't like surprises like that personally... it's not for me to say and he signs off with the note to the two of us as it will be written in my house he says from this day forward

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1:15:02 fund to tour John's studio. Hopefully it'll cover some of Adams breach of the non-denigration agreement as well." Well, I've gotten a lot of comments about your request for a nondisclosure if i were to be allowed by God's grace to see your studio for once in my life And a lot of people responded immediately by saying that they were shocked, I mean shocked they tell me. That you of all people who considers non-disclosures to be an incredible breach on First Amendment rights and freedom of speech it's quite odd that you would take this as a tool against your colleague

1:15:52 But otherwise, I can see somebody coming up with that. Sure and i agree i think the last guy should be demanding non-disclosures non-disparagement documents to be signed right you're right yeah everybody out there is exactly right because i hate these things are stupid but Yet you're going to make me sign one so I can't talk trash about your studio. Even though, I would only say nicely... You've already given it away right there you couldn't help yourself without even seeing the studio you said you're gonna talk trash about it! No that's your insinuation that I would talk trash about it. Well you said it! Why are you worried? What do you have to hide? Do you have something to hide? Is there something you don't want to tell us about what's going on John?

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1:17:26 Meanwhile, we have a second edition of War and Peace. This time from our associate executive producer Sir Dave Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia this is Fugazotto Yep! And uh but his stuff is always interesting because he floats around somehow magically from place to place He's an interesting guy Many of our producers are very interesting kind of guy Is my first donation of the new year and offset by a week from the first twenty twenty show it by we give two hundred twenty dollars and twenty cents ice which is a lot of twenties just in case here's a good holiday in cases post-holiday slump and indeed there was.

1:18:08 Day Melody, Dame Isabella and I had a lovely 25th of December here in Riyadh. And I had an opportunity to show them around this fascinating country they left yesterday and despite Saudi Airlines best efforts actually got home to middle America few hours ago So now he can talk. Now the countdown begins to our next meeting Regarding Dr. Bronner's Castile soap, I'm a couple of years younger than Adam but when I was a Boy Scout Dr. Bronner always came along in my backpack on camping trips well it was somewhat effective as somewhat effective as soap he was exceptionally aromatic which after a few days on the trail was also appreciated according to the

1:19:03 microscopic print on the bottles. Have you ever seen one of these bottles yet? Yes I did and I love his little rundown here of what's actually on the bottle in the microscopic print yeah he says Dr. Bronner can serve as a shampoo, body soap dog soap dish washing soap laundry soap toothpaste mouthwash deodorant massage oil and ice cream topping, mucilage drinks mixer and degreaser personal lubricant motor oil refreshing beverage laxatives solvent antiseptic bug repellent etc. This is an outstanding product it's really a great product

1:19:45 It does all those things poorly. Truly a miraculous product, everyone should keep a bottle close at hand and surprisingly despite its many uses it's not on Saudi Arabia's prohibited list so everyone soap up I was mesmerized by the multiple, you know when i was in the Middle East at one time it is before 9-11. You couldn't even bring up a cell phone or camera into Saudi Arabia Oh no! No... I was mesmerised by the multiple usages but was smart enough uh even then to know that despite its useful nature

1:20:27 the political rantings of Dr. Bronner's manifesto was BS, hopefully the millennial fascination stops at the doctors cleansing properties certainly listening to The No Agenda Show aka The Best Podcast in Universe is an antidote enough to counter any of these multi-purpose more corrosive effects which he's talking about that the messaging on there so a bunch of communist stuff Anyway, here's to another year of NOAGENDA continued presence as the cornerstone of my amygdala management program. May we, the NOAGENDA community cult find blessings abundant in a new year. I like the amygdala management program also known as AMP kind of like that

1:21:23 Amigla management program. Got a lot of amps going on. Yes, for sure. Karma from both of us and for Isabella and Melody. You've got karma! Thanks a lot Dave. I tm happy new year's jaman i beg you for a dose of contract buyout negotiation karma like it really use it please feel free to edit for brevity. Add my input to the ongoing dissection millennials and our sad idiosyncrasies i'ma twenty eight-year old full attack develop stack full stack full stack is a full stack guy

1:22:14 Full stack full stack full stack developer in irving texas john hit me in the mouth through twit more than a decade ago. I've never heard of anyone using venmo to pay their bills but is widely used as a replacement for cash, I've only seen it. That's right, Venmo is a millennial thing. Well, we don't have on the list of what are then we talked about it because Venmo had an outage and people were freaking out because they could not pay their bills. They definitely pay bills with it. Yeah fact. I've only seen it ever being used Dr Bronner's grandma pine tar soap for years extensive use of subtitles is all yes that's another one subtitles

1:23:00 too real as a small get together you know i talked about this nick jay's fiancee I said oh come in the TV room there is guy he's there watching something and it got the subtitles on. I said subtitles are subtitles, he claims he's a musician he claims that the subtitles aren't because their sound is poorly mixed. You know john we've only talked about this for 50 days subsequently. I don't know why it's coming back up as a small girl, does a small get together and millennials? A girl asked to do my reading again to turn on the subtitles because she couldn't understand the Boston accents of the departed

1:23:43 Wow, I wouldn't allow it. Adam, I owe you a report on my experience with companies that prey on the people who have fallen prey to the everyone can code BS yours in exile. So two things one yes we've discussed quite extensively the abundant millennial use of Subtitles a lot of this is because of distracted second screens A lot of it is definitely because of the 5-1 sound mix that has being jammed through a shitty ass Soundbar, that's another issue big problem in fact maybe one of the main ones and there's also a cognition Issue that is taking place because people are so used to reading little short bits of text. It's just like a tweet

1:24:32 Each of these subtitle cards that pops up, people are losing the actual ability to translate sound into something that they can recognize in their brain. We're all going to be deaf eventually and just be reading subtitles everywhere." Well what's interesting to me is not understanding the really mild Boston accent or any Boston accent it's not that hard Well, I think another problem is when you're not exposed to accents. You see this a lot with...

1:25:07 Love Island UK, which was really big during the season. Which is a stupid reality show but everyone's speaking in very British accent you know very slangish as well and it's it's you know You got to focus and listen and having lived there I pick up I know a lot of the slang But I think when people use crutches continuously then you lose the ability to understand what someone's saying through an accent or even in a different language. I can hear someone speak in any language and I can pretty much pick out what they mean if it's a simple thing just because I've been around language, and I've had to decode it by listening to it. I think people you lose that ability

1:25:49 The brain is very good. You're very good at parsing stuff if you have some exposure to some, you know maybe a little bit of French might help, a little bit of Spanish...You can understand a lot of different languages but not if you're just always reading it translation or a subtitle I think you lose it! If don't use that you lose it Onward! But did he want any karma? Give him his little karma for all that work You've got karma. Which brings us to Sir Schwartz, $202 and he says forgive me podfather for I have douched

1:26:29 Please accept this humble donation. All I wish is a de-douching." You've been de-douched! And he wants some divorce karma, but hey life in is great and when you keep debunking the corporate media it makes it even better Sir Schwartz. You've got karma Thank you very much sir Schwartz sorry to hear that and finally we got anonymous with Brooklyn New Yorker 200 bucks no note and Ryan Black from Waukesha, North Carolina with no note. I can do a quick look up on him to see if he's in there. I thought I recalled something from Ryan Black coming in now we don't know because Eric the shill may have not been able to put everything into our spreadsheet because of the lack of a microgrid let's just call it what it is He needs a microgrid up there you should get that installed

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1:29:38 We go out we hit people in the mouth Goat slipped in there. There was the other big story in my opinion which wasn't covered as much and but I thought was Much more intriguing is that it's the gold story now, this is the the automobile executive who was, I guess he was kicked out of his job and arrested. He was in house arrest and he was going to come forward on some unspecified financial shenanigans charges which I looked and tried... The only thing i could find and maybe you have an answer here in these clips

1:30:34 From what I understand, the only thing that was a problem was his apparent wish to have a merger between Nissan and Renault? Is that right? Oh no. There's more to it than this story is really interesting Yeah i'd love to know what happened Well let's play a couple of clips and then I'll discuss what I think is going on Okay This play Gosen through Turkey 1 what Turkey has said is that it has launched an investigation. The Istanbul Prosecutor's Office is looking into it now and they have detained seven people as you mentioned, four of them pilots one is a manager at private aviation company as well as two ground staff service workers so the Istanbul police now is going to be going through their testimony trying to piece together what happened

1:31:27 know about this mystery, this puzzle is that there was a flight that took off from Osaka Japan and landed in Istanbul. A little while later another flight took off from Istanbul and went to Beirut. That all coinciding with the timeline of GON's mysterious disappearance back to Beirut. And the Istanbul police now are trying to figure out what happened on the ground in Istanbul's Atatürk Airport? It's not Istanbul main international airport. It was decommissioned just a while ago and now only services cargo planes and private jets like the one that Ghana suspected of having fled on maybe some of the testimony that Turkish police gather from these seven detained suspects will shed light on the mystery what is happening, and the international Interpol red notice has been issued

1:32:16 basically going to make it a bit more of an international issue for gone but there is no extradition between Lebanon and Japan so the likelihood of him being returned to Japan is very low. And that Interpol red notice, of course, is just a request international law enforcement and it's not an order. So what will happen, what will come out of that is something we just don't know at this point but we do know that here in Turkey at least one small part of the puzzle now is in the hands of the Istanbul police and perhaps they will be able to shed some light on how Gon got away Again, everyone focusing on how he got away instead of why he had to get away in the first place. Yes! In fact there's a bunch of crazy stories about this which is like... He was put in a double bass cello case and

1:33:06 pulled out of there and all the rest of it. And then there's another story where he escaped his house, what happened was he was actually in jail so let's start there I thought it was under house arrest He was in jail and then they... he had a lawyer that begged and begged and begged There is no reason to keep this guy in jail They should go to his house and they can keep him there under house arrest and under surveillance And so they gave him bail and let him go home. And supposedly, one of the stories is he was in a cello case which makes no sense but it's funny! The other one he put on a mask

1:33:44 and a hat and beard, just walked out of there went straight to the airport took off under all this elaborate surveillance. I'm thinking first of all they wanted it... This is an embarrassment for the Japanese. But what you would kind of thought you promised me gonna tell me why? Why he had- Because he understated his income tax That's the reason why? That's the main reason why. And then they started digging into it, and apparently the company, they lied about how much they paid him and it was all about income. And so then oh, well then the company wasn't making a lot of money. They didn't know what to do with this guy. They wanted to get him out, I believe the following... This guy was trying to orchestrate, and there was a fallout between Renault and Nissan because Japanese can't work with French

1:34:35 Let's be fair, nobody can work with the French really. So that didn't work out and Nissan was losing... They weren't losing money they were still in a profitable company but they weren't making the billions and billions they're supposed to make because Toyota is making all the money I think the following They didn't want this guy to stand trial And he still claims he's gonna spill the goods on Nissan Maybe it's a corrupt organization He claims he's gonna have a press conference and tell all. But they had to get rid of him, they couldn't bring him up to trial so they let him walk out of there. Oh he's got a mask on? Yeah you can go! Ah because the embarrassment of whatever was happening with the merger or not happening with the merger or what kind of crap might show up. The embarrassment for what is going on with Nissan. And also I think this one is even more primary

1:35:30 The Japanese, and you can talk to people who have been involved in the 80s especially when the Japanese were kicking everybody's butt economically. And there was a right, basically we should all do what the Japanese do because the Japanese economy is going to kill us but they're so much better than we are. Sony was going to own the world I remember it once The Walkman came out that's it? They got Betamax they got The Walkman they're gonna own all of us So the Japanese if anyone you know, had worked for a Japanese company in the United States during that era. There were these things called the death buses And I had a guy who explained it to me in great detail. Death buses? Yeah, you'd be running a Japanese operation here in the United States that was mostly Americans and then once you started making profit... You weren't getting profitable and everything was going well the so-called death buses would come in and these were your replacements Oh! Who you had to train. Yeah all Japanese Right

1:36:31 So the death buses, so that Japanese do not like... and remember Stringer? That guy who ran the Sony? The Sony Music Group or the Entertainment Group. Yeah! That Japanese do not like to be shown up by foreigners. Right. Ah! So they have a guy running one of their basic major companies Nissan Motors And they didn't like, I think they just didn't like this guy because he was probably moving them in a direction that was not Japanese-y enough. And they railroaded him and then finally got him out of town... Got himself out of town and he's gonna talk about it eventually but this whole thing stinks!

1:37:14 And yeah, the guy does look a little like Mr. Bean and this is the whole story... This spooky story is kind of interesting Could this somehow also be related to another merger with I think it's Peugeot and Citroen? Is it not Peugeot and Citroen who are merging? Who was...? I just heard this the other day Well that could be but this would have nothing to do with it This is a Renault, which is different. It was French and it's it was yeah I was French Renault and now it looks as though the deal that was gonna come down if it looked like well this guy was still there was that since the Renault thing wasn't working out it looked as if Chrysler which is privately owned would

1:37:55 Was going to buy Nissan and Renault, and do the whole thing itself out of town. Right but now we have Chrysler agreeing to merge with Peugeot and Citroen Yeah, well they gave up on this because there's something up and it has got to do with the Japanese culture. And I think they didn't like this guy he ran him out of town you know he is introducing foreign ideas...I don't know but did the whole thing is suspect and uh..and he escaped they let him escape There was no way that he was going to get past surveillance all the rest of it so....and now we're just story still continues to unfold I just thought it was a funnier story of the two

1:38:38 What is the what's in this second clip? The second clip is it's more of the same you play it out. Yay! Carlos Ghosn investigation. Now reports just out in Lebanon say the government has received an Interpol arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, now the former Nissan chairman arrived in Lebanon on Tuesday after jumping bail in Japan where he was awaiting trial meanwhile police in Turkey have detained seven people including four pilots and a private airline on suspicion of helping Ghosn escape Gul Tissouz now is live for us in Istanbul with the latest. I mean, Gul look at the plot thickens here Turkey's demanding answers we now have this interpol alert do officials there have any idea how turkey was implicated? Well that certainly Gulen thinks he's pretty unclear now especially as he remains in Lebanon you will likely speak to the media on the next few days but in the meantime the Japanese are trying to piece this together as well so

1:39:39 them considering this was supposed to be a man who was under surveillance. Absolutely, I mean this is quite an embarrassment for the Japanese. This was a very high profile individual for them and their legal system was working to basically bring him to justice. And instead of that happening he's now fled in this audacious escape and we don't have a lot of answers for it but gone is expected to speak. So far what he said has been very critical critical of the Japanese justice system. He's called it rigged, he said that it is discriminatory so all in all a very embarrassing moment for Japan and at this point now that he's in Lebanon there isn't much they can do to bring this man to justice infront of their own legal system

1:40:26 Well, regardless of what's happening here and it seems like the media is only focusing on his escape and how he escaped. And did he get into a musical instrument case? Or did he take covert charter jet flights but no one's focusing on the real news...and I thought honestly from your tease in the newsletter I thought we'd get a little bit more about what actually is going on with this guy and with Nissan and this supposed merger or failed merger But there's another backdrop and that is the Japan is now our ally in the Strait of Hormuz, and they're moving their fleet in there. So maybe there's some embarrassment that's taking place? It's like... Well I don't know if it has any connection at all. This guy by the way should be mentioned that he's kind of spooky He's got passports from France Yeah three or four different passports Lebanon And he's got a passport from Brazil

1:41:23 Which is another place to if you want to go hide out somewhere that they should all have extra with everyone. We should all have a Brazilian passport and I think we see what I posted at one just in case but well, you inspired me on the previous show with your retrospectives and the big actually was two shows ago the big the big stories of 2019 and I wanted to follow that up, and i was actually planning on peppering this throughout today's episode but we're already halfway through. Here are some of the big stories that were not recapped at the end of 2019 The one you mentioned specifically And I think really these would go as the Big Media Missers Of 2019 Let's just remember how accurate your M5M

1:42:12 stations were in the past year. We start with the story that no one wants to talk about anymore, Jussie Smollett. Empire star Jussie Smollett was the victim of a vicious racist and homophobic attack his attackers hurled racial and homophobic slurs not only homophobia we're talking about racism We're talking about hate with steroids. They are looking for two suspects who were apparently wearing Make America Great Again hats The offenders uttered, this is MAGA country This is stomach turning mind boggling information I think this a horrible story Yeah Horrendous and unacceptable And this is America in 2019 So let me see did they get that one right John? That Jussie Smollett story Did they- Were they right on the money with that

1:43:00 Wrong wrong. Let's try another one how about the Covington high school kids with the Native American? war hero Outrage over this now viral video showing high school teenagers harassing a Native American elder the native american man who was beating the drum Nathan Phillips and those kids in the Make America Great Again hats that were kind of smirking at him, and kind of looking down their noses at him. As one smirking high school student blocks the elders path. The video appears to show dozens of youths wearing Make America Great Again hats mocking Native American elder and Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips. A veteran a Native American man was you know had a standoff with students who were you know mocking him We feel that President Trump is giving license to some of this behavior

1:43:47 Let me see, were they right about that one John? About the kids smirking and... Were they? No. Wrong! Joe Biden likes to touch people, sniff their hair especially children Let's remind ourselves how the media handled this story when people first started to get creeped out by him. He is very affectionate, I find oddly affectionate he kisses people on the mouth He shouldn't... he's always touching peoples shoulders I've seen him rub the shoulders of women and men Joe Biden calls them expressions of affection. He is an affectionate old school politician. He's a really nice, generous funny connecting guy. Uncle Joe as we affectionately call him he's a very affectionate very likable person you know? He's just an affectionate guy I've known Joe Biden a long time and many others have always found him to be a very emotional man who is very very affectionate. He's touchy feely he has been doing it his entire life

1:44:49 in an affectionate way. I think the next time i see Joe Biden if he doesn't hug me and give me a kiss, hold my hand that's not the Joe Biden I knew He is nice guy, he is not predator And this is ridiculous So do they still talk like that about Joe or are they little more creeped out about it now? This is why you listen and why you help produce the NO Agenda Show because this is the bullcrap that the media puts into your head 24 hours a day if you allow it. And, it goes through your eardrums into your brain processing and then swells up to your amygdala...and then you become insane! Let's check another one um remember the Trump meme where he was shooting all the media

1:45:36 Was killing them, which was from the movie... What movie was that? In The Church. What was that again? Did you just walk away? You just walked away! You just walked away from the show. It's like here I am looking for my wingman and he is gone. That is because you are introducing something and I had to go get a sheet of paper from the desk And then you drew it to me for some unknown reason. I don't know the movie! Kingsman, yes you do, Kingsman Oh Kingsman yeah You know I never got to see the second one Well but you remember the meme where they had all the mainstream media logos on people in church and Trump was there with his head killing them all Right right This video Do you remember how horrible that was? How he's going to kill everybody in the media

1:46:29 Yeah. So this insanely disturbing fake video was shown at a conference of you-know-who supporters It's about so much more than a single video, it's about a president and his supporters who are sowing seeds of hate and division There is something very ugly in the heart of Trumpism And we saw that id in this video It's vile! Horrific Some of his supporters would think this might even be somehow funny You know there aren't real people bodies...and lives on the line all of you judging me that I'm offended and upset by the video. You try doing this once a member of your family is continued to have this happen over and over and over again." Now, did anyone from the media die? Anyone assassinated? No, not happened. Did anyone at the end of 2019 wrap up The Mueller Report about how right the media was and how spot-on they were with their analysis

1:47:21 Oh, you mean how it was that he was doomed because of the Mueller report? He's going to be delivering what I think are gonna be his indictments. The final indictments This is suborning perjury and there's no question it's an impeachable offense And at that point we are in high crimes and misdemeanor and we are an impeachment- Right! The spirit of what Trump did is clearly treasonous There's outright treason I think he's feeling a noose around hi neck The noose is tightening He feels the noose is tightening People might go to jail You're exactly right. For the rest of their lives I think they're all going to jail! Well, i think they were all gonna end up together in prison and maybe that's a good thing Oh my god He has no idea that he is going down The investigation is over and according to a senior DOJ official there will be no further indictments How can they let Trump off the hook? Did everyone go to jail? Were the indictments imminent Was the Mueller report any significance

1:48:17 No. Apparently not, now- I have one more last one okay last one this has got to be my favorite because it's been so many it's been years since they first laid this smack on us and it's good to remember how incredibly wrong the media were or was about the Steele dossier Parts of the now infamous dossier on Trump have proven to be true. Your intel community has corroborated all of the details in there that when the president just refers to it as fake dossier, that is false I don't think that's a accurate characterization investigators have

1:48:55 corroborated part of the dossier. We do know that parts of it have been corroborated, but it hasn't been disproven. No major thing from the dossier has been conclusively disproved to date and none of it has been disproven and whole big parts of it are holding up. The dossier holds up well. It's a fact that none of it, not one word has been disproven in fact a lot of it turned out to be right on the money. The FBI would not have just taken a dossier to the FISA court and used that as their predicate for the surveillance they had to corroborate themselves that's how they operate

1:49:33 So if you're wondering, or someone in your family is wondering why you listen to this podcast that's why. And I'm sure we can do the same thing with this Iran-Iraq Soleimani thing at the end of this year You know, the funny thing about that dossier story is that although it's we didn't document is specifically. Is the way the dossier story kept changing and morphing in regards to the FISA court? Yes. When they first came out, they said, well, I wasn't that important to our FISA request. Yeah. And then it became important to the fight. Then apparently was the only thing that it was device a request was based on was the dossier this dossier was

1:50:18 I don't understand how it got as far as it did, because it was just look phony from the get-go. It had stunk I mean, it just didn't smell. It passed the smell test. Well part of that...I might get a clip for Thursday. It's an interview with the author of the book The Plot to Bring Down An American President? Forget exactly what the title of the book is and this guy has done all the research in his assertion is that the dossier was not used for the FISA warrant application. It was written specifically for the FISA warrant application by slipping in one or two very pertinent lines which literally say that Trump is compromised by a foreign power and that line, but that was written in specifically... That's interesting. Now it makes sense. ...that it's exactly reversed, that the Steele dossier was not

1:51:20 the genesis of the warrant, but they knew they wanted to get this warrant. So they had... They created this through Steele and you know there's lots of implications as who was complicit in writing this. Anyway I digress. I'm reminded I want it just one I just ran into because I was going through some my old files and I forgot about it. This was from a year earlier This is classic because everybody bought into this and they bought into it hook line and sinker And they've all since forgot I'm forgotten about it Donald Trump's guerrilla Channel Donald Trump liked to watch television, but he was- The Gorilla Channel. I forgot about that! He had to watch gorillas and so they created a fake channel for him So he could watch gorillas and as he watched the gorillas he's always bitching and moaning about they weren't fighting enough Yes, so everybody passed this around is fact

1:52:17 Donald Trump and the Gorilla Channel, that to me is the epitome of the stupidity of the left. audience out there that are suckers for this sort of thing. And that was promulgated by everybody, there was a lot of TV stories on it and it was all over the network or the internet but The Gorilla Channel yeah, classic. Do we have any clips about that? I'm sure we... Probably go back probably 2017. Hmmmm..I don't see anything offhand. I should probably put together little compilation of that, of The Gorilla Channel That was hilarious

1:52:58 That was. The Russian pranksters, as they're known... I just like to prefer to call them the podcasters. Vovan and Lexis have struck again now previously they had gotten through to Congressman Adam Schiff's office claiming that they had compromised and compromising pictures of Trump. If you remember, we had some of that phone call and these guys are like radio guys, like weenie in the butt of Moscow so they have a new gambit and they went after Maxine Waters pretending to be Greta Thunberg and Greta's dad

1:53:46 And they made up this, uh... They made up the name of an island. Changa-Changa I think that's literally what it is called and they decided they're gonna call into Maxine Waters' office get her on the phone and say well listen there Maxine you know it's Greta and Gretas dad and we are here in I think its... What did they say? They were South Carolina And, you know we're here to garner support to save the island of Changa-Changa and could you please help us out? We'll put ya on speakerphone. I pulled a pertinent clip from this YouTube video and this used to be what Americans did! We used to be the phone pranksters...we've let Russia grab that away from us. Congresswoman? Yeah? I have Greta and her father Sivante on the line

1:54:34 Thank you very much. Congresswoman, this is Swanta, Greta's father and here is Greta. Yes! Hello, Congressman Waters. Hello I'm very happy to talk to you Well thank you both for calling me and I am very anxious to hear from you. Yes, I know that Joss called you Aunt Maxine. That sounds sweet, I think Is that true? Brilliant, brilliant. Butter her up first by calling her Auntie Maxine She'll love that! Butter her up very good By the way these guys sound nothing like Swedish Greta and her dad but still Maxine is falling for it Absolutely yes

1:55:13 That's so nice. We have a wonderful climate strike to support the ecology of Chumkachanga Island, thousands of people came to meet me! Well thank you and I'm so glad that you came to my state and of course I know all about you. You have made quite a big, big, big... thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you and the work that you're doing. We are now in North Carolina so we are in a climate strike here at a meeting

1:55:52 Okay, so you're in the meeting now? You start the meeting and started. Yes yes already! Yes we are here now at a meeting and if you will allow me I will put on speaker phone So yeah And we will let you say to people who is around here Which island are they targeting This is this is a part of like the best All these politicians are like that. It's like if I can get anything out of you, and of course typically these calls are about money But right now is like oh shit. I can align myself with Greta Thunberg This is fantastic this is good for me And they can roll out some bullcrap script just right off the cuff even Maxine and she's up there in age but she still she's a pro

1:56:39 at rolling it out. So she has a little bit of information, she knows it's North Carolina She knows its Greta who is a Thunder apparently She knows its Chinga Changa Island which doesn't exist and she's gonna do a little promo! And we will let you say to people who are around here Which island are they targeting? Chunga Changa Chunga Changa Yes Hello everybody, this is Congresswoman Maxine Waters and I am so pleased to be on this telephone call with Greta Thunberg. I am just so proud- I think she says thud berg which is a new one for us. So pleased to be on this telephone call with Greta Thunberg

1:57:32 I am just so proud of her and her father, Savante Thudberg. And the work that they are doing as you know Greta is an environmental activist and she took part in the United Nations Climate Summit in New York recently. She has been traveling and she has been the greatest advocate for what is happening with our climate and the environment. And I'm very pleased that she's with you in North Carolina, where you're focusing on protecting the very important island of Tula Challenge.

1:58:21 I'm so happy she's supporting the very important, the critically important island of Chimichanga. You Greta Thunberg and your dad Devante Thunberg come on! Well i believe these two comrades deserve a medal for this work This is really very good Well let's give them their clip of the day I wonder what that we should do a Russian version so we can know how good they were Comrade now both of them sound like a couple of Russians more ludicrous It's it's a 15-minute call there's more in it, but I thought that was the funniest one especially the Thudberg

1:59:10 What a moron. Now that should be on the normal news, don't you think? Yes! It should be but no we can't... it's a member of Congress so stupid to fall for this I mean if she was keeping up with anything she knows that Greta boogie back to home base and she's not in North Carolina. She didn't go to North Carolina after the event in New York, no. The whole thing is just ludicrous and it should be regular news that that's regular news story. I agree. No, because the news media is so fraught with Democrat left wingers just to be honest about it they can't bring themselves to do these stories yeah oh my god it makes us look so stupid

1:59:55 I refuse to run that story. Wow, hey we did have kind of a crappy story here in Austin on Friday was it Friday or Saturday morning? We had a stabbing one person died on South Congress I mean really like 10 minutes from my house let me see if there's So here's what happens. It's at a burrito joint and this is right on Riverside and South Congress, this is really where I've lived for a lot of the years in Austin, this general area. And so first there was an altercation in a coffee shop

2:00:43 Then this 27 year old suspect was detained by people because he was harassing a woman. So there were civilians, I think and they detained him the guy broke loose the cops arrived the cops run after him He you know, the cops can't catch him. He runs into the burrito joint stabs two people wounding one One cook there fatally then he runs up onto the roof And Swan dives while the cops are trying to, you know, ordering him to come down. He swan dives off the roof onto his head and people could hear his neck bones cracking he's in critical condition and of course in the hospital but in custody

2:01:31 And you know what people in Austin think right away is, who is this guy? Everyone thinks he's homeless or transient. That sparked an immediate row between the governor of Texas Abbott and the mayor of Austin Mayor Adler. tweeted, there we go 21st century diplomacy. He tweeted and said holy crap I'll bet you this guy was homeless once again that the mayor of Austin is not protecting his people who put him in office and then our mayor turns around and tweets back how dare you? How very dare you assume it was a homeless person

2:02:18 Or, as he would say, how dare you assume it was a person experiencing homelessness? And of course it turns out that's exactly what it was. Tonight Austin police say the man accused of carrying out a deadly stabbing attack Friday is homeless, that information being shared as the governor continues his attack on Austin policies toward people living on the streets he most recently tweeted today quote The city's top job is public safety and they are failing KXAN's Kaitlin Carmute talked to Austin's mayor who's pushing back

2:02:54 People realize that there's not a link between homelessness and criminality. That's like suggesting that all immigrants are rapists, it is just not true and is This is Mayor Adler's response to Governor Abbott's tweets. We talked to him while he was in a New York hospital waiting for his daughter to give birth He felt it necessary to respond to the governor's attacks on Austin policies towards homeless people This comes after a 27-year old man attacked three people at a South Congress shopping center, killing one Shortly after, Governor Abbott suggested that the suspect would likely be a homeless person. Mayor Adler called that suggestion irresponsible and today APD confirmed the suspected killer is homeless today. Governor Abbot had a series of tweets suggesting that the city must ensure its homeless policies doesn't endanger innocent people than mayor Adlers response most of the crimes in this city are not committed by people experiencing homelessness

2:03:56 So to demonize people that way, to make us scared of people does a real disservice to the community. Mayor Adler says instead of a Twitter feud he'd like to speak to the governor face-to-face I want this state to be our partner and to be working with us Well...I'll tell you not a lot of credibility left for the mayor here in Austin Yeah well vote him out! Vote him out! I really liked the way he sticks to the memes Experiencing homelessness. You can't just cut it down to homeless. No, you have to say neighbors experiencing homelessness but the problem is just like California cities here now as well there's no prosecution for small crime there's no prosecution for small assault There was a woman and it could have been the same guy from all I know couple weeks ago was assaulted on this thing of the South First or South Congress Bridge

2:04:53 And, you know it's become violent because these are not just You're right, he's right. Homelessness or people experiencing homelessness that's not necessarily the issue but Austin has become a mecca for transients to come through because everything is free here Free money camp where you want do what you want just because you can't camp downtown every median of grass now outside the downtown area is filled with tents barbecues people parking their cars on the median Our mailbox was broken into yesterday, you know as you know we don't have mailboxes. We have one up at the top of the street but broken open all the mail stolen packages ripped open which is a federal crime I might add so that's thank you thank you yes that's not just some petty crime where's the ring doorbell now?

2:05:52 Where's all that? But you know, you don't see the cops running around now saying oh do you have any ring doorbell video and doorbell any video and no they Don't even show up for it. Well we have us still did you California versus Boston We have a new issue And the left media left-leaning media at least is on this one and it's not quite the same as what you just described but it's it's an issue because it's gonna cause somebody in It could be anybody. A lot of money. Yes, I heard about this one! Here's a report from one of the stations in Southern California on the new California water law. Alright so many laws get considered each and every year they're discussed and then they're passed. This one...I'm not sure how i feel about this you're not going to be allowed to shower

2:06:40 and do a load of laundry in the same day? I had the same misgivings. Doing a load of laundry takes about 40 to 50 gallons of water, taking a shower for about eight minutes takes about 17 gallons of water well there's a limitation on your daily use of water 55 gallons per day so that means if you are taking a shower and doing a load of laundry you can't do both without being in violation of law. There are some exceptions about this You can't do both without being in violation of the law. There are some exceptions about this, there are some caveats for instance if you have a multi-person household if you have four people in your household or three people in your household that 55 gallon limit

2:07:19 per day applies for each person. So you could do a load of laundry if you have a multi-person household. Okay, so who's going to police that? Who's gonna cuff Mark Risky when he's out running the time for laundry? What's going on here? Who is enforcing this? Well, you can actually see your water uses on a daily rate with your water meter now there are actually fines available for this as well. Your first violation is $1,000 and per each day that you are in violation. Wait, who made this law? Let's talk to them! It's the state legislature the governor signed this into effect goes into effect January 1st now there's also another caveat if we're in drought conditions and the governor declares an emergency that fine can go up to ten thousand dollars a day so be careful

2:08:02 You know, you could change your word to serenity to anger now. Wow! And you're not going to be able shower in 2020. I'm gonna pick doing laundry over showering. So all of a sudden i can smoke marijuana as much as I want but I can't take a shower? Yeah it's unbelievable. That's where our country is gone Yeah, I saw this and I clipped it as well. It's KTLA the very famous Los Angeles station What was most fascinating to me is The female anchor says well who made this law? Excuse me Hello news lady you're supposed to be on top of this This was a state legislator and it was signed into law

2:08:41 And they can completely track this right down to your micro-gallon. They know exactly how much you use, how many people live in there? Two people that's 110 gallons a day don't go over it Oh yeah fines are coming Yeah Well luckily you don't bathe that much so you won't have much trouble with the law I never bathe! I just use Dr. Bronner's I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the ppl who could deal with us Oh yeah they'd be fab! On NO AGENDA You know you don't need to breathe if you use dr. Bronner's Doesn't it require some water? No, this stuff doesn't is unbelievable fabulous I had no idea just wipe it on and wipe it off. It was a squeegee Yeah Let's start off with stankin a few people for show 1205 starting with Mike Nick

2:09:40 Koliachuk. Nikolai-Nikolaichuk, Nikolai-Nikolaichuk. He says he's by the way one of my uh one of the guys that tracks the newsletter and I got a lot of people that didn't get to news oh yeah i got a second mail email from you so we had another problem with the with the email reaching it well this time i've had here i'll give you a little background on this i'm trying to figure out how many emails just aren't getting place at all, which I think is a problem with MailChimp. And so I've been discussing this over various secondary mailings and people are there when writes in now I got it! I don't care if you got it. So this time I came up with the bright idea which was... Email me if you didn't get it. Well no, I always say that

2:10:28 The problem was everyone emailed me anyway, whether they got it or not. But this time I added the stupid easy thing I should have always done which was use the subject line. Yes! I didn't get the email so that way I can sort out to people who just want a chat and people who actually didn't get the email and made it a lot easier than that now you can see it was like 20 or 30 people which means it's just this tip of the iceberg because not everybody is even going to bother right but So they're not getting the mail out or something. There's something amiss The way I see because if you're not getting it at all, even in your spam box Yeah, then there's something wrong Well, you know what because I've been working with a lot of email in my With my workflows on Linux. I've noticed that in particularly Google Gmail is being very very stringent with the D mark and

2:11:22 You familiar with DMARC? No, I'm not. D-M-R-A-C... Yeah this is a it's like a policy what does DMARC stand for Domain Message Authentication Reporting Yeah, that's DMARC and they've tightened that up. I've only just started looking into it because i know that...I don't have my DMARC set up properly on curry dot com so if MailChimp doesn't have that set up properly or there is one small anomaly immediate non-delivery uh..i dont even know if it sends a bounce message So once again its mainly Google but im sure the others are following suit Whatever google does everyone does yeah thats right

2:12:10 Well, that's anyway. He is actually Sir Raul S K of the Paris of the Prairies from Saskatoon obviously yes and he I just give him a de-douching okay you've been de-douche John Robinet 100 bucks Sir Gotton Nathen, Sebaspol California 6969. Baron Mark Tanner twice a month Whittier California 6789. Sir Tom Dari 5510 from DeForest Wisconsin Francisco Tejeda 5432 Steven Sandoval

2:12:54 5333, Michael Gates 5280. Oh it's another news item Michael Gates so Bill Gates big makes a big stink yeah I think we should have you know Washington State is one of the few states like Texas Florida Nevada there's a few that have no personal income tax yes no state tax for state they have other mechanisms in Washington State they use speed traps and here we use property tax Well, they use property tax too. But it seems to be better run than states with when you start getting the state income tax these days get corrupt and California is the worst example but so Bill Gates comes out with a big statement Washington State now this is after this guy's already shut them shut the lid on the submarine he's in

2:13:47 Washington state should have, because he has no personal income anymore at all. He's got zero. All his money is just money in the bank that he spends. The State of Washington should have an income tax! This is ridiculous for a guy like this to say that. Just butt out It got everybody all up in arms. So our producer Michael Gates should call his family member and tell him to shut up? Is that the connection? That's the reason I stopped. Michael Gates came with $52.80, Eric Hochul and Mulrose Doisland $52, Brian Burgess in Pelican Rapids Minnesota 5033 says it is an honor to help produce this show provides in-depth analysis

2:14:38 No one even attempts. That's right. Robert Stotz in San Diego, California 2020 Matthew Grice 5005 and he's got a Happy New Year to us and he's got a birthday for someone. He has well first of all this was 73 didgeridollarydoos which comes out the 5005 Oh, his daughter Freya on the birthday list. Yes January 20th she'll be 12 so we're a little bit early but she's on the list I think she's on the list for today and in the following people are $50 donators starting with Matthew Haynes Matthew Januszewski in Chicago Chicago Sir Matthew Andrej

2:15:25 Dominic, Dominichi. Domenici, Domenichi! I think. Anyway... Yeah, Domenici is in Puerto Rico. He's in Prrr-PRRRR-torico Send us a boots on the ground report Andres. Like to know what else is going on there. Paul Dubois in Kirkhonkson New York I don't know. Sir Brett Farrell in OKC, Baron Allen Bean in Oakland, Jeffrey Zinnemann in South Euclid Ohio and last but not least Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh North Carolina shortlist today very disappointing in that regard but want to thank all these folks for helping us produce show 1205 yes and everyone under $50 we see you we see you there in fact I think a lot of those didn't even come through on the spreadsheet John

2:16:20 There's nothing under ten. We always have fives and fours I don't see them on the list today So I'm not certain. This is part of the power outage, the tumbleweed terror that Eric DeShillo's going through so if we missed you which is possible then please just email us and we'll make sure we fix that this is one that it just blame it on the tumbleweed! We can't help at all but we do thank everybody who came in as a producer today Thank the execs and associate execs earlier And again under that $50 many people use that for reasons of anonymity understood But there's programs you can join in. There are subscriptions that are just smaller amounts at certain dedicated times, so it can be once a month, once a week, once a show... Whatever it is go to Dvorak dot org slash NA Select one if you haven't already and know that we very much appreciate your courage and for producing the best podcast in the universe! I'm sure someone needs a karma

2:17:25 You've got karma. We did get a small list together luckily for this fifth day of January 2020. Scott of the Tall Corn will turn 39 years old tomorrow as I said earlier, Matthew Grice says happy birthday in advance to his daughter Freya she turns 12 on January 20th and Brian says happy birthday to Aerie Kiyogi who celebrated on January 1st! Happy Birthday for everybody here at The Best Podcast In The Universe

2:18:02 As far as we know, we have one title change for today. Circumference has upped his support to the show in another $1,000 and has changed his title now to Baronet as he moves on up the peerage ladder and you can always check the status of of all of our peerage at itm.im slash peerage there should be a map in there somewhere as well which I'm thinking i should put into show notes more regularly and thank you very much circumference for your support of the show

2:18:47 It's just like a party, only it's a non-triggering event. Everybody is welcome at the No Agenda meetups where producers from around the world get together in all corners of the earth Here's an overview of what's coming up in the near future. On Tuesday, the second biannual Knoxville meetup at four o'clock. Sir Seatsitter will be waiting for you at Barleys Knoxville upstairs at The Pool Tables next Thursday and no agenda Toon Man tour this is Jesse Coy Nelson his Beirut stop six o'clock European Standard Time Meet Jesse at the Rabbit Hole

2:19:27 on Makdisi Street in Beirut, Lebanon. One of the West Clark 7. Make sure you get there before they rubbleize! Then next Saturday we'll have the Long Island Meetup. Long Island New York at 730. Excelsior Slaves come one come all it will be at the St James Restaurant and Bar Andrew Grasso is your host for that Let me see if we have... I gotta keep reading because i have to read this note from Mimi I'm reading these meetups. Well, i'm reading the note from Mimi so what are you talking about? No, I am talking about a separate note well why don't you do that then well I have to find the notes keep reading is what I said keep reading for now this is interesting because I see here's a secondary Long Island Meetup on the same Saturday

2:20:19 No, this can't be right. The St James... no it's just I'm sorry this is a doubling so there is one Long Island meetup there you go that's the one at the st. James restaurant and bar then next Thursday the 16th so now we're already a Thursday week and a half away will be once again the Austin local 512 meet up it'll be a Doc's backyard in Sunset Valley And that is of course Sir Scott Baronet of the NOA Agenda Armory and his wife Christine will be organizing that. If you did not hear something that is coming up near you, go to noagendameetups.com You can find out more information about it or start your own. A reminder February 21st Adam and The Keeper will be in Florida at the meetup which is being scheduled for Delray Beach and we look forward... Yes this is the problem

2:21:12 So what happened, and nobody seems to respond to Mimi on this. And she just got a mess on her hands and she says no one can make a decision uh...and she's not gonna do it because she is going to get blamed and she says you're gonna have to do it there are 1 2 3 4 5 competing Delray meetups There's the Saltwater Brewery at 630 by Scott. This is great! There's the Saltwater Brewery at 735 by Matt Pez, there's a salt water brewery at six by organizer Crystal and David Coppa. There's brews room sports grill that six fantastic purse. There's the salt water brew again it's six by Nick B. Sounds like the salt water brewery is the place to be

2:21:58 Yeah? So let's make the saltwater brewery. Which one, 630 to 730? Six? Can I ask you a question? Why are you so angry at me what do i have to do with this? I have to do this...I'm being firm with the organizers Somebody has to make a decision about which one. You're gonna pick Saltwater Brewery, but which one? 6, 630, 730... By the way somebody else has one that he wants to go to 4 in the morning with. Okay so it's going to be at the Saltwater Brewery and it'll be around six and everybody who is organizing that except for the one person who had a different one I'll see you there!

2:22:38 I don't know organizer we're gonna stick crystal and david culpa. Okay be the organizers okay scott mezz and nick b have to contact them and then maybe you can switch ownership of this thing if you want to but adam is decided That is the Saltwater Brewery, 6 p.m., organizer Crystal and David." Yes! There you go! That wasn't so hard? I'm sorry there was so much angst in the Dvorak household about this... We had meetings! What?! An actual meeting? No no no, this will not stand Yeah that's why we had to go to the GoTo guy which is YOU

2:23:21 Uh, okay. Let me see do I have any of those? Then Lou come up with something else Oh here-I do see the note here finally can be oh yeah Okay! I have-oh man I love when Mimi gets all upset It's all for the 21st of... It's February 21 and Saltwater Brewery. I like that everyone chose the Saltwater Brewery except for Lou. Lou, don't go to Room Sports Grill we'll see you at the Saltwater Brewery. The Saltwater Brewery must be a good place for a meetup! Yeah if everyone is thinking that way it's going to be great meet up. I think Horowitz might show up And by the way, because he was very concerned about this. If Horowitz shows up everybody pretend you don't know who he is

2:24:05 Who? You do a podcast with who, you do have show with John too. Never heard it to make sure you do that because he's very concerned if people wouldn't know who he was Yeah and you being the kind gentleman you are I decided to set him up Exactly! What else our friends for So that is a current overview i did want to mention the 25th of January as an additional that'll be in Moscow Russia So make sure you gear up. Man, I would love to go to one of those! We gotta do more traveling this year...I've decided. Then a.... I know your laughing at me. You say that every year That's exactly what Tina says. I want to remind you every year you tell me we need to travel more. We now have a map with pins in it It was a Christmas gift

2:24:58 So I've got a big map with pins where we're going. Yeah, uh have a meetup report a Audio report this really the only kind that works best for a podcast so i appreciate sir roderick velo We all know sir rod he is knight of the noah general table also host of his own podcast in the Netherlands which is very successful. He organized the Amsterdam meetup and recorded everybody in attendance. This is Sir Rod on the No Mojenda Meetup Amsterdam, and this is Sir Pete with the protectorate of Friesland and North Holland I'm Tim Goudriaan from Roermond. Hoi Adam!

2:25:36 I'm getting lots of drinks so that's really cool. Hi, I am Stuart Dee of Hollandse Riding this is my second meetup in one week in the Netherlands. I'm Arnaud from Amstelveen. Goesgedave! Hi Adam and John this is Jacob from Wisconsin coming to you from Amsterdam. I'm Jacobina, I'm Dame of the Doomsday Deniers And we're not talking about impeachment. Hello, I'm Andre Peters Esquire and soon I will be Sir Andre Nijthout the empty PayPal account! Hello John and Adam this is Entrepreneurio from Amsterdam Jeroen Jansen Hi Maarten Teuninchaar here just dropping in Sir Herco, Nijthout the Paypal Thiefdom of Utrecht second meetup in one week Not too much Never enough The Bitterbulls are excellent Now that's a MeetUp Report! I love how they talk too

2:26:30 I think that was one of the best meetup reports you've had. Just introduce yourself, get it out of the way... Dynamite! Well it's also Rodney, Roderick he produced it so he cut it up nicely made all work. I love the guy The Future Knight Of The Empty PayPal Account. That is a great knight name. It's a good name yeah? Thank y'all very much and remember noagendaMeetups.com Hey, we need some more people to organize a meetup on the 21st. Let's see if we can find some other locations It'll be fun Or just find something near you and go attend it's a great opportunity for triggerless conversation about anything good drinks Across boundaries across age groups race creed religion background age You name it? We're crazy cult Go find your meet up

2:27:26 I have a stink bug update. We talked about the stink bug? Yes! And now nobody knew about anything going on, but apparently these stink bugs have invaded a good part of Washington State This is the marmorated stinkbug i believe is the full... yes exactly ...I got a lot of emails from people about your story Apparently, yes. They're everywhere! Brown marmorated stink bug is something Darryl Beetham of Paratex pest control has plenty of experience with. They are a seasonal invader and they come in right about now But now and again...and particularly now

2:28:04 Homeowners call in with little clue about this critter, wondering what it is where it came from and whether its harmful. I do all the multi-care there's like six hospitals and 40 outpatient centers Originally from Asia the stink bug first crossed our border in 2010 Since 2012 it has spread quickly from Clark County to 20 others working its way across Washington It weighed out the winter in cracks and crannies of heated homes And then they get busy. I mean, they propagate over the past month The emails and phone calls have flooded into WSU researchers more than 300 so far Most of those sightings in King Pearson Thurston counties So what do you do once they're inside? Don't squish them

2:28:49 because they will stink. Either vacuum them up, throw away the bag when you're through... Throw away the bag that you put when your through vacuuming because your vacuum will reek for weeks." The real threat is outside where there ready to gorge on trees and shrubs and don't discriminate, they decimate which is why agriculture experts hope he will help them keep track in Seattle Greg Copeland King 5 News So a question how just looking at these pictures, how big is a marm- we don't have them in Texas I don't think. How big is one of these stink bugs? Yet! How big are they? They're the size of a thumbtack Okay so relatively small hmm maybe that's what I could tell yeah size of thumbtacks now Do you remember

2:29:40 Because this is, I think we maybe went to two cycles of these bug stories. Bugageddon's It was probably two years ago maybe three bed bugs! Yes. There was story after story about bed bugs in hotels and bed bugs and bed bugs and bed bugs And that what happened? Did all the beds bugs die? How come that story just dropped off to just nothing it wasn't scary enough The apparently these stink bugs are now this story so hmm there's always some bug Now can you eat them are they tasty Of course not, if they stink and make a vacuum cleaner reek. Apparently it's a nauseating smell That's why it's called a stink Yeah I've definitely seen this type of bug It looks familiar but I don't think I've ever seen one here in Texas You're right yet But... And I'd like to know a little bit more What is this? Maybe we should send you a few mating couples And you can examine them for yourself No! Maybe we won't do that That's not a good idea at all

2:30:39 Uh, updates. Epstein updates... Apparently, FBI is now officially looking to talk to some people. Like wow! They figured maybe it'd be a good idea to go have a chat with Ghislaine Maxwell and see if she had any involvement in any of this stuff? Finance chief Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but the case isn't closed Reuters has learned the FBI's investigating people who may have been accomplices to Epstein's illegal behavior Two law enforcement sources told Reuters the principal focus is British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, seen here in 2013. Maxwell has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing—her lawyers did not respond to a request for comment. One of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Gouffrey said in a civil lawsuit that Maxwell recruited her into Epstein's circle. So she introduced you to Jeffrey Epstein? She did yeah

2:31:37 So you were hired to be a masseuse for him? Initially, yeah. Maxwell has called Goufray's allegations lies. Goufray claims Epstein forced her to have sex with friends including Britain's Prince Andrew. Andrew 59 also categorically denies the accusations and has said he has no recollection of meeting Goufray. Law enforcement sources said the FBI's focus is on people who facilitated Epstein and that Andrew does not fit that category Somehow I think they're just never really gonna talk to Ghislaine Maxwell or as they say, what do they say? Socialite.

2:32:12 British socialite. No, she's protected! She's protected, she's a spook, she's protected by multiple intelligence agencies and will never know anything however tonight 60 minutes is promising something new Sharon Alfonsi has investigated Epstein's death for five months and reveals what happened in the moments after his body was found What did the prison guards do with Jeffrey Epstein's body? So immediately after they discovered him, they took him to the hospital. They were trying to do CPR on him about an hour after he got to the hospital they declared him officially dead about 7 30 and then he was taken to the morgue where they did the autopsy the next day

2:32:56 What do we know about what was found in Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell? So it's interesting you would think that it would be sparse, right This is a federal prison high security What we have learned through our reporting. Is that there was multiple sheets and there are lots of bedding an electrical cord Prescription medicine there was actually notes on and a paper he had written in note. So, in the piece you were heard saying that guard was saying breathe Jeffrey, breathe so this was widely known what was happening in the prison or we aren't sure? Well, we know the way that the prison was set up He was an insecure area where there are about eight cells And so we have heard our sources tell us that the guards could be overheard saying Breathe Epstein, breathe! And what's kind of eerie is after that

2:33:44 The prisoners that were in that secure area all started chanting breathe Epstein breathe So the prisoners other prisoners were aware of what was going on. They know something was going on It's you know, the doors are blocked They probably couldn't see that much but certainly they heard the commotion whether it was their video surveillance in there and in that area It's a great question We know this is a video surveillance facing the guards desk which is outside side of the area where he was. We are told that the video facing the cells, the video that might have seen his cell door was corrupted. It was a corrupted meaning we don't know. Okay good question no problem finding ring doorbell video of anything in the fucking universe but oh this one's corrupted in the jail and he had electrical cords and she had every what? This is uh...an abomination

2:34:37 It truly is an abomination and it's insulting to people's intelligence. Yeah, but then again what's new? What's new with this story? I didn't know they had all that stuff in his cell Well even so... That's kind of pertinent to how someone kills themself. It's a lot... They never said they saw the cord wrapped around his neck I always imagine somebody in there choking him saying breathe, breathe! That actually think is the best theory ever The guy standing there saying breath Epstein while he's choking him that i think is something to look at Yeah you can see it and imagine it

2:35:16 Yeah, I don't expect much. Not expecting much! I'm not even gonna watch it. I'll watch a football game instead Well you do that...I'll watch Now i have an old clip that I wanted to get out of the way Is this going to be our last clip? Uh yeah Okay well then we can go back to 2016 I never heard this clip We've never played on the show that I know off This is before Trump was even elected. He had just been nominated president and there was a discussion with Harry Reid... Wait, wait, wait! So he hasn't been elected? He's been nominated president? What did you just say? He has not been elected yet this is before the election Oh yes the nomination okay He was the nominee for the Republicans

2:36:01 So he's just a new nominee, so he's not any big thing. But there he is and this is the kind of thing that was going on during that era when Trump just got nominated here's what the Democrats were doing It's obvious that he doesn't know what he's talking about it's obvious He can't control his mind or his tongue And I've suggested if now because he's the nominee for the party And he gets, he's entitled to briefings from the CIA for example. I told him, I said publicly give him fake briefings pretend you're briefing don't tell them anything that you don't want to get out and that's how i feel about it. I think that man is a loose cannon. I think he has done so much to hurt our country

2:36:43 with our international relations already. But as a Republican nominee, isn't he entitled to get those briefings? Give him fake briefings! What does that even mean? It means they'll tell him stuff and he won't know the difference You're basically telling the intelligence community to lie to him No... I'm not going to lie to you but it's fine if it tells you everything That's... I hadn't heard that clip Is that one of ours? NO! I found it on the interwebs Well, I kind of was surprised when I heard. I had no idea this was gone that far back He's already ruined the relations with the world again just got nominated

2:37:19 And this is where they're headed with it, and this is where it began. I think this predates even stuff that was just prior to the election. Well just before the new year Al Green representative of Texas who has put his foot in his mouth multiple times when it comes to impeachment he is of course that man who said well if we don't impeach him he'll win, he'll be re-elected Which is, I think kind of the money quote for 2019. But just before the New Year's he's on with Chris Hayes on MSNBC talking about the genesis of impeachment and when

2:38:01 The decision was really made that this guy needs to be impeached. Basically, the Democrats wanted to impeach Donald Trump from day one. They cast about looking for a set of facts that they could plausibly use to do it and all of it was pretextual and reverse engineered to get this point exhibit 1 Congressman Al Green who's been calling for the man's impeachment For two years now what your response to that charge?

2:38:37 Well, the genesis of impeachment to be very candid with you was when the president was running for office and he had members of his own party talk about his unfitness to hold office. So when he was running before he was even a nominee we knew we had to impeach him? Yeah, that pretty much says it all in this Harry Reid thing. I mean these guys were... These Democrats are not gonna let this guy... Oh wow! It's pretty astonishing actually. It's a great time to be alive and even better time to be a podcaster would you agree?

2:39:19 I would say there's nothing else that you could do if you want to get information out, You have to be a podcaster because the media is not gonna or the mainstream is not going to pick up on it. Nope They just won't run with it cause this against some narrative that unspoken narrative That I guess everybody internalizes and then we end up with what you get which is crap So if you're looking for non-crap but a whole lot of stink bug check in with us Thursday right here on No Agenda No agenda show calm or if you want to listen live no agenda stream calm We will deconstruct anything that happens between now and the next show day You never know a lot seems to happen on show days And please remember us for support at Dvorak org slash na coming to you from opportunity zone 33 here the frontier of Austin, Texas where people are being knifed to death in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where people were being pooped to death. I'm John C. Dvorak

2:40:14 It's great to be podcasters. Alright everybody, we will see you on Thursday right here No Agenda Dvorak dot org slash na please remember us and until then adios mofo stay tuned for the grumpy old Ben They'll be grousing about air travel and such bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb I ran Good evening everybody, the United States is once again attacking Iraq. Iraq sort of is like a big boulder sitting in the middle of road there. Yes Bill? We're hearing a series... we're hearing a series of very loud explosions

2:41:11 The aftermath shows an attack that was deliberate and sustained with around a half dozen explosions the Americans firing with T-land missiles off Shelby. You want us to declare war? We took action last night to stop a war, prevent another Gulf War we did not Because we're acting today, it is less likely that we will face these dangers in the future. He was plotting attacks against Americans but now... To increase America's ability to prevent future acts of violence and aggression Last night at my direction the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader Earlier today I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq

2:41:58 Ladies and gentlemen, I know i sound like a broken record to many of you the last six years speaking so much about Iraq. If you're Sunday morning junkie, you've had to hear me almost every Sunday morning. To demonstrate once again that reckless acts have consequences... And I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary Take him out? Well um uh Well, how are we going to do that? Tell me how this ends Charlie. Let me close by addressing one other issue that the serious debate currently before the House of Representatives would distract Americans or weaken our resolve to face them down Other Democrats are questioning the timing of this strike which comes as the president faces a looming impeachment trial I'm the first person to ever get impeached in this real crime like I feel guilty

2:42:45 Congress was voting to impeach the president, the US military was bombing Baghdad. This could escalate it could lead to a cycle of violence it just got more dangerous. No no no I don't know about that. Are you gonna be with me Charlie? Here comes the zephyr coming... see if I can turn that into a song I hear the Zephyr coming, it's coming it's coming

2:43:40 It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. I hear the zephyr coming. I hear the zephyr coming. The best podcast in the universe! Yes. MoFo. Dvorak dot org slash N-A Okay, Boomer