Episode 1611 · Sunday, 26 November 2023

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Geopolitical shifts intensify as Boris Johnson faces scrutiny over peace deal interference while right-wing surges in the Netherlands and Argentina reshape the global order.

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Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly derailed a 2022 peace deal between Russia and Ukraine by pressuring President Volodymyr Zelensky to abandon neutrality and NATO-related concessions. This intervention coincided with a Ukrainian decree that now criminalizes calls for peace negotiations, effectively silencing domestic dissent. Meanwhile, the military-industrial complex has secured nearly a trillion dollars in profit as the Pentagon continues funding without a formal audit.

Global political shifts are accelerating as Geert Wilders and the Dutch Freedom Party secure a massive election victory on a platform of de-Islamization and a potential Nexit referendum. In Argentina, President-elect Javier Milei prepares to shutter the central bank and adopt the US dollar to combat 140% inflation, while the European Union moves to strip member states of their national veto power. These maneuvers align with new UNESCO guidelines for digital platform governance and the StratCom Summit in Istanbul, where officials from 40 nations discussed treating information like grocery labels to filter out bias.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. details his history with falconry while challenging the manufacturing origins of COVID-19 vaccines, and former national security advisor Stuart Seldowitz faces hate crime charges after a viral harassment incident in New York. The World Health Organization has formally requested data from China regarding a massive surge in pediatric respiratory illnesses that has overwhelmed hospitals in Beijing. The episode concludes with a look at AI-generated singer Anna Indiana and the CDC's latest vaccination push led by Director Mandy Cohen.


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CHAPTER 01 / 39 Discussion

Boris Johnson, Ukraine Peace Deal Interference

Reports indicate former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Kiev in 2022 to discourage President Volodymyr Zelensky from signing a peace agreement with Russia. The deal reportedly centered on Ukrainian neutrality and a commitment not to join NATO. This interference is cited as a turning point that led to the continuation of the conflict and subsequent mobilization efforts.

boris johnson· ukraine· kiev· volodymyr zelensky· peace negotiations

00:00 Value for value. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. Sunday, November 26, 2023. This is your award winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination Episode 1611. This is no agenda. Reading PDFs so you don't have to and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where everybody's cutting Ukraine loose. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Oh yeah, that's over. That is over. It's over. Goodbye. Well, I think we luckily caught the Richard Haas moment on Morning Joe. Yeah, that was it. That was the giveaway. Which was to signify to tell these people, the ones that take the orders. Yes, like Morning Joe.

01:01 Morning Joe right at the top of the list Cut it out done. It's over I mean you saw the the articles that there's some secret agreement between the US and Germany But insiders are talking about was I think was a was it built who had that article? Well it even better is I have a series of these clips. Oh he comes every tree eaves he comes prepared and Okay. About Boris Johnson. Ah, the warmonger, the peace spoiler. And this was, I think because this is getting out,

01:42 It hasn't hit, it's not mainstream media USA but it's around the world. Well you should probably set it up a little and explain what we, because we've talked about this several times just so people understand. It's been discussed. Yeah but so people really understand what's happening here, what happened. It's going to be explained in these clips. Okay well that's even better. Boris Johnson kills peace deal won. And turning to the conflict in Ukraine where a top official in Kiev claims a peace deal with Moscow could have been reached last year. But the UK leader at the time, Boris Johnson, rejected the talks, insisting that the Ukrainians continue to fight. In my opinion, the Russians really believed until the very end that they could have pressed us so we would accept neutrality. This was the main thing for them. They were ready to end the war if we accepted neutrality like Finland once did, and that we make a commitment to not join NATO.

02:34 When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we would not sign anything with them at all and let's just continue fighting. This is the first time that a senior Ukrainian official, a very close associate of President Zelensky and someone who was on the negotiation team from Ukraine coming out and saying that These rumors were indeed true, that a peace agreement was almost in place, that Russia demanded chiefly neutrality, that Ukraine wouldn't join NATO, and that is why there was this push towards Kiev, the pressure.

03:15 Ukrainian authorities. And then he confirmed something that many others have said since, that Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of Great Britain himself came to Kiev and he said don't do it. Don't sign a peace agreement with the Russians. Continue with the war. And that was the turning point, allegedly, after which President Zelensky came out and said total war until they reach Ukraine's borders. Templates 1991. You know, Boris Johnson doing that, and then, of course, he was no longer prime minister right after that because of the covid scandals.

03:57 It's a bit like when I told Joe Rogan to move to Austin and then he moved and I was gone. And he's like, what are all these tents everywhere? He moved to Austin, you were gone. I was in the hill country. He's like, you're getting him to move there as you're leaving. Here, buy my place. Yeah, buy my place for 20 million. It's worth it. Come on. What do you think? He must have, there must have been some more some more in the deal there for Boris Johnson. He didn't just go say, hey, don't sign it. He must have said, hey, don't sign it. Here's some numbers. If you happen to be in Switzerland, they'll come in handy. There may be something like that. None of it's really fully explained in these clips. I have a lot of them, though, because it goes really kind of brings out some details that we have not heard that I at least that I know of. In fact, I have most of my clips today are about stuff I didn't know about.

CHAPTER 02 / 39 Discussion

Ukraine Peace Negotiation Ban, RT Reporting

A decree signed by President Zelensky reportedly bans peace negotiations with Russia, making calls for such talks punishable by law in Ukraine. This legal restriction accounts for the lack of public protests regarding the ongoing war compared to other international conflicts. While the information originates from RT, the lack of mainstream Western coverage regarding these specific legal constraints is noted.

rt· zelensky· ukraine· peace negotiations· censorship

04:59 But let's go to part two and there's a WTF moment here. negotiations again, again the first time that a senior Ukrainian official has come out and shared those details and this comes at a time when in many publications around the world and from officials, from senior officials in Europe, in America we're hearing the The word peace negotiations, the words peace negotiations more and more, something that seemingly was anathema at the start of 2023 when there were these hopes that Ukraine could achieve victory through military

05:50 means. At this point it is important to mention that at this time any calls for peace negotiations in Ukraine are punishable by law. Peace negotiations with Russia are banned by law, a decree signed by Zelensky. Did you know that? No, of course not. Well, you know, Zelensky cancelled elections, he banned the church. That's what democracy looks like. And now, and there's this little element, I can't find a reference to it. I can't say that I tried too hard. Whose news reporting is this? Is NTV? This is RT. Oh, okay, well. So they're gonna be slanted, but... Yes. But generally speaking with stuff like this, they don't, they make, their fact-checking is not bad. So I have to assume that's true.

06:41 Which would account for the lack of protests and people saying she's fired. No kidding. There's like been no protests in Ukraine. So that's interesting. That's fishy in and of itself because there's tons of protests in Tel Aviv. Oh yeah, we got some of that later for sure. There's a bunch of protesting going on in Tel Aviv but yet there's no... In front of Bibi's home even. Here last month... Hold on, here it is. Last month Ukraine passed a law prohibiting peace negotiations with Russia. It's not exactly the same thing Also, it may be in that law that you can't talk about it Well, that's part good because I got some don't talk about it stuff coming up after your series here, this is good All right. Well, here we go at part three Zelensky himself nevertheless. This is a critical admission perhaps

07:33 A turning point, because many Ukrainians who have lost relatives, who have lost loved ones, who have been forced to flee, the hundreds of thousands of men who are abroad in Europe, in Russia, all over the world trying to dodge the draft in Ukraine, the mobilisation, they will ask the question Well, if it was that simple, was it worth it? Was it worth it, continuing with the war, condemning hundreds of thousands to death when all that Zelensky had to do was sign a peace agreement guaranteeing neutrality? So now the conversation drifts over to another little factoid I was unaware of.

CHAPTER 03 / 39 Discussion

Tara Reade, Russian Defection and RT Correspondence

Former US Senate staffer Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, has defected to Russia and now serves as a correspondent for RT. Reade claims she sought asylum after receiving warnings of potential arrest in the United States. Her reporting focuses on the military-industrial complex's role in the Ukraine conflict and criticisms of the Biden administration.

tara reade· joe biden· rt· russia· patrick byrne

08:17 And I'll explain because it's not really explained in this clip, but go to clip four where they bring on one of their new analysts, Tara Reid. No, wait, Tara Reid, she went from accuser of Joe Biden of sexual assault to podcaster, to podcaster in Russia, to now RT correspondent? Here we go. And earlier my colleague, Rorissa Shay, spoke with the former US Senate staff member, Tara Reid, on the choices that Ukraine has had to make. The chain of events was this. They went to Turkey to negotiate this peace agreement towards the end of March. And then in April, Boris Johnson trotted down to Kiev and put a stop to it and said, you are absolutely not going to do this for two reasons. He gave two reasons. His reasons were the West doesn't want this war to end.

09:10 And you can't back down to Vladimir Putin. That was his position. And Kiev, of course, being, you know, the vassals that they are for the United States in this proxy war, and NATO is fighting against Russia via Ukraine, capitulated. And said, OK, the war continues. Now you've lost a generation of Ukrainian men as a result. A peace that could have been achieved. Now, this all came out in even Ukrainian press in the summer. And in May and July, you saw some independent journalists covering that Boris Johnson put a stop to this. But it didn't get any lift in some of the major. Oh, shock and horror, Tara. You're telling me the mainstream media wouldn't report this? Right. But honestly though, right? I mean, look, Boris Johnson, he goes to Kiev, he scuppers these talks. He scuttled the talks. This could have saved the lives of hundreds

09:59 of thousands of people. Tara, why do you think, why do you think, because for such a long time now we've heard the Western political and media landscape saying Russia doesn't want to talk peace, Russia won't negotiate, and yet if you look at it now, it seems that what Zelensky's advisor is saying right now flies right in the face of that narrative that Russia was actually willing to sit at the peace table, but the UK, Boris Johnson, they scuttled the talks. Now, just so I understand, when Russia was ready to talk, they were saying, well, just keep status. Had they not already taken that territory? Or were they going to just let it be wherever it was? I think they were going to just let it be. And it was just going to be, hey, as long as you promise not to... Why would Russia even take those terms? They know that we're not good for it.

10:55 Come on. You mean based on James Baker years ago, our top guy telling Russia, hey don't worry about it, we're never going to move our NATO further east and we just kept doing it? Hey man, we didn't put it in writing, okay? If it's not in writing, doesn't count seas. So, yeah, that's not fully explained, but the Tara Reid thing is interesting and I'll tell you why, which is something I didn't know. She defected. She's now a Russian. Yes, and you know who brought her there? is the redhead. The redhead who... Right, the redhead, yeah, the Russian spy girl. Not the original redhead, but the one that was integrated within the Republican Party, Patrick Byrne. He, it was his girlfriend for a while. Yeah. The Overstock guy. That's, that's who...

11:46 I mean, it's great. So Tara Reid, who makes a credible accusation against Biden being a creep, gee, we never noticed that before. And she gets rebuked by the Republicans, I'm sorry, by the Democrats, and I guess she gets so many threats and she gives up on the idea of actually, you know, becoming, you know, a whistleblower about Biden being a creep. she ends up going, defecting to Russia. Well just so you understand, she went to Russia to speak, she was invited to speak and then she got word from, and she was cagey about it, because I heard a whole interview with her. I think it was actually a Megyn Kelly interviewed her, of all people. And she said, yeah I'm getting word that if I go back to America I will be arrested immediately. So that's why she stayed and that's when she was, you know, like Snowden, was given a Russian passport.

12:44 Well, she was definitely cajoled. Good word. But to me, the irony is that she starts off, you know, calling out Biden for being a masher. And then so she's like the woman scorned. She goes to Russia. Now all she does is do reports on RT about what a jackass Biden is. This is kind of the key to these things. And she's just like a nightmare. It's pretty interesting though, you know, that she's a... Totally uncovered by the buyer press. Well, hello? It's like nobody knows any of this. You know that she's disinformation. Yeah. So... Wow, that's good. So this is all unraveling. So I think they have to pull the plug on this whole thing. Well, hold on a second.

CHAPTER 04 / 39 Discussion

Military-Industrial Complex, Ukraine War Profits

Western weapons manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin, have reportedly generated nearly a trillion dollars in profit since the start of the Ukraine conflict. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's recent visit to Kiev is interpreted as a signal that while funding continues, the strategic situation is moving toward a conclusion. Concerns are raised regarding the lack of a Pentagon audit and the financial motivations behind prolonging the war.

lockheed martin· lloyd austin· pentagon· weapons manufacturers· ukraine

13:37 So, do you think they have to pull the plug because of this? Or because it's just hopeless and the European countries, the American people, no one wants to support this anymore. I mean, it can't just be because it's It's unraveling because now we're finding out that Boris Johnson went there to stop the peace deal. No, I think this is an element. I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back. There's still the money laundering issues, there's the corruption issues, there's all the stuff going on and this coming out making it... Yeah, that's true. Because we're whining and moaning and groaning about one thing or another and now it turns out this could have been peace.

14:15 a year ago would have saved American taxpayers billions. And you've got mainstream comedians making jokes now on Netflix about Hunter Biden's corrupt Ukraine deals. It's so common knowledge now. No one believes any of it anymore. Or it's not credi—you know, the whole reason for it is just not credible. The credibility issue with the mainstream media is at an all-time low. I was, one of the reports I was listening to something in our clips that'll be at the end of the show where their CDC is moaning about 15% uptake in COVID vaccine boosters, 15% of the American public is taking the booster. It's more than I expected, honestly.

15:03 Well, that's about what I expected. Actually, I expected a little more than 15, but the point is, is that the word has gotten out and it's in contradiction to what the mainstream media is saying. Take your shot. Hey, even masking. I mean, six months ago, everyone agreed, yeah, masks don't work. And they're just back to telling you to mask up. Okay. Well, the 50% of the, I feel sorry for those, the 50% of the people that just believe everything. So let's go with the, I think we're on clip four. No, we're on clip five.

15:39 As a matter of fact, in June of this last year, Vladimir Putin, President Putin had showed the actual document of how Russia was withdrawing troops from Kiev and trying to, you know, meet with this accord, this peace accord that they've made. They asked for two things. They wanted neutrality from Ukraine. on this has to do with money this has to do with profits here we go the Western military industrial machine you had these weapons manufacturers that have made almost a trillion dollars since the conflict has begun believable in fact there was a recent call with

16:34 of these Western manufacturers, weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin and so on, talking about the profits that they've made. So it's just been really horrible. I mean, look, they just sent the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Kiev a few days ago. The former UK PM Cameron was there as well. He's going to be some sort of peace envoy or whatever. But Austin was there and I was thinking, you know what? Why did they send America's biggest defense secretary there? Why? Because I think they sent him there to tell Zelensky, look, here's more money, but you know what? it's over because here's what we keep seeing tara in the western media and the political landscape they keep talking about this stalemate in ukraine oh it's a stalemate it's not going anywhere nobody's won nobody look it's it's over you know it's almost it's almost like i i would i would prefer to be corruption of

17:21 the Biden crime family, then the military-industrial complex. If it really truly is just because of the military-industrial complex who wanted the trillion dollars after we pulled out of Afghanistan, that's really sad. The same guys who now, what is it now, 3.8 trillion they can't locate? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's somewhere. I just can't understand why they can't audit the Pentagon. It just makes no sense at this point. Because they're afraid because everybody's on the take. You can chop it into pieces and audit it. There's no reason you can't do it. We have plenty of accountants looking for work. Everybody's on the take or they're blackmailed in some other nefarious way, don't you think? Well, there's got to be some reason. But I think there's a last clip.

18:14 has lost. There's no stalemate anywhere across the board. The West is not supplying the shells anymore. They haven't got the weapons to send anymore. They don't have the money to send anymore. Meantime, Russia continues to make pro- stalemate. There is no stalemate. Hello, Western press, if you're listening. There is no stalemate. How is this going to wrap up? How much longer? Look, we've got Biden. We've got the presidential election next year. Of course, the political establishment wants to maintain the image that Ukraine's winning, that they will win, that Russia will lose. How are we going to get around this just in time for the election, do you think? Well, I think the hawks are going to try to keep it going just a little bit longer because that's the military. You know, that's where they make their money. But bear in mind, too, there's the money laundering issue, right? That's all coming

18:58 Moving to light in Congress, all of the things that were happening with Ukraine and the money laundering that has to do with the politicians that are involved. And so they're trying to do duck and cover and people are kind of taking each other out. So it's going to be really interesting to see how the movement towards the negotiations towards peace goes. But right now, Russia's in a position where they don't have to negotiate. They've been denazifying, moving steadily, as you said. And the tragedy is that a generation of Ukrainian men are dead. I got to say Tara Reade talks a good game. She's not bad. She sounds like a like a pro, like a pro. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't I didn't realize she did. I mean, she'd be doing those podcasts, you know, that that warms her up. Well, she's a podcasting will make you a pro. OK, now there's a that's a bumper sticker. Podcasting will make you a pro. I think CNN is already starting to move

CHAPTER 05 / 39 Discussion

Ukraine Civilian Drone Production, CNN Report

CNN reports on a grassroots movement in Ukraine where civilians are manufacturing small drones on kitchen tables using 3D printers. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has advocated for this drone-building capability to modernize Ukrainian warfare. The report also highlights the training of school children as young as six years old in drone operation, which is criticized as the indoctrination of a new generation.

cnn· eric schmidt· drones· kiev· victory drones

19:54 the conversation about Ukraine, how Ukraine will win. It's no longer about the big money. Remember Zelensky? Just give me credit, man! Just give me credit! 40 billions of credit! Give me credit! No, we're not giving you credit. You got 100 million. Here, shut up. No, I think they're moving towards the Eric Schmidt solution. CNN has been tracking stories of sacrifice that are happening there and Anicorn reports on the ordinary men and women who are now teaming up with drone operators to fight back for their country. Here you go, drone operators. On the outskirts of Kyiv, a soldier puts on a pair of goggles. Welcome to Open TX. She's part of a unit testing the latest batch of drones that have just arrived.

20:55 Some work, some don't. But this is the place to find out before they're delivered to Ukrainian troops on the eastern and southern fronts. Some of these drones are from civilians produced in homes on kitchen tables. They can be used for reconnaissance or assault missions. Right there I'm already really sceptical. Okay, so now civilians are at home at kitchen tables making drones that can carry payloads that can blow stuff up. Now this... Yes, I heard this story too and I found it very... it's like I didn't even... I didn't clip anything about it because it just seemed ludicrous. Well here's the... This is like the Chinese back in the 50s or 60s having steel mills in everyone's backyard. Well they did have smelters. They had smelters. They had a pot of

21:45 It was useless. This is the same thing, this is useless. This is a grassroots movement. A grassroots army of civilians are heeding the call, including Vera and Alexander, encouraging others to do the same. Their operation has taken over their one-bedroom apartment. He makes drone parts with his 3D printer, or she creates camouflage dressings for soldiers' helmets. Their work acknowledged by grateful troops in Bakhmut, who sent them Ukraine's coat of arms made of bullets.

22:20 Instead of getting married and having a wedding, we spend that money to start making drones. Now we are happy without gold rings, but with the drones. Companies like Victory Drones are training up civilians online to help build these little birds. And that makes sense now with the hundred million. That's the kind of money that Silicon Valley would want. That's what Eric Schmidt, who called for drone warfare, creating Ukraine's drone building capability. When we say drones, it's small drones. Yeah, they're small. Yeah, this is probably what the money is. Bigger than a quadcopter but smaller than a Predator. Much smaller than a Predator. Here, here's a lens. Go build some drones. To then distribute to the military. If you attach the payload

23:08 to the bottom. If you attach the battery on top, you have a perfect shell which is a guided missile. Volunteer and soldier Gennady says to compete with Russia's industrial output, Ukraine must innovate or there will be no future. He's already lost his best friend seen here in this video singing lullabies to their children He knows too well the painful price of this world When I'm saying Innovator die I see eyes of people from my unit. I lost already and obviously we have to win this war because otherwise they

23:52 The sacrifice was fruitless. Even the next generation is getting involved. The military has begun training school kids, some as young as first graders. My name is Sophia, I'm six years old. I like flying drones and protecting the country. And there are even plans to make this part of the nation's education system. Anna Corrin, CNN. This is disgusting. You know, you're right. Terry Reid was right. A generation of men slaughtered for no reason other than for the military-industrial complex.

24:41 with old crap we sent them so we could enrich our own companies here and in Europe. And the money stopped flowing a while ago. We had the clips of the European Union defense honcho saying, hey, you know, if we don't get any orders, we're not going to build. So until you get an order, it's going to take a while. It'll take a year because there's no orders. The money's done, it's stopped. Yeah, it has to be done. And so now they're indoctrinating six-year-olds to fly drones for your country. It's... I mean, this whole is evil. The whole system is evil. It's pretty bad. I can't think of any other term than just evil. The six-year-old at the end there is the kicker. And nobody seems to think that this is sick. When you listen to these reports on CNN and elsewhere. It's heartbreaking. Yeah, as a little kid? You shouldn't be dealing with this. No. By the way, I thought all the kids were rousted from Ukraine and sent to Poland and

25:44 taken to Russia and every place in between. Now here we go. So now we get to the disinformation. And there's something going on right now. There is a push and it's global, it's United Nations related. And a couple of things just kept on coming through, kept coming through. I'm like, hold on a second. What is happening here? And I discovered something that fits right in with the canary in the coal mine was the Westminster Declaration. Remember the Westminster Declaration? Oh yeah. Which is a bunch of bloggers and podcasters, all well-meaning I'm sure, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald. Yeah, of course they're well-meaning. And, oh no, Article 19, Article 19, it's all about Article 19.

CHAPTER 06 / 39 Discussion

Kathy Hochul, New York Media Literacy Mandate

New York Governor Kathy Hochul directed the Division of Homeland Security to develop media literacy tools for K-12 students in public schools. The initiative aims to teach students and teachers how to identify conspiracy theories, misinformation, and online hate. Critics argue this is an extension of ill-defined hate speech laws intended to control digital discourse.

kathy hochul· new york· media literacy· k-12· misinformation

24:41 with old crap we sent them so we could enrich our own companies here and in Europe. And the money stopped flowing a while ago. We had the clips of the European Union defense honcho saying, hey, you know, if we don't get any orders, we're not going to build. So until you get an order, it's going to take a while. It'll take a year because there's no orders. The money's done, it's stopped. Yeah, it has to be done. And so now they're indoctrinating six-year-olds to fly drones for your country. It's... I mean, this whole is evil. The whole system is evil. It's pretty bad. I can't think of any other term than just evil. The six-year-old at the end there is the kicker. And nobody seems to think that this is sick. When you listen to these reports on CNN and elsewhere. It's heartbreaking. Yeah, as a little kid? You shouldn't be dealing with this. No. By the way, I thought all the kids were rousted from Ukraine and sent to Poland and

25:44 taken to Russia and every place in between. Now here we go. So now we get to the disinformation. And there's something going on right now. There is a push and it's global, it's United Nations related. And a couple of things just kept on coming through, kept coming through. I'm like, hold on a second. What is happening here? And I discovered something that fits right in with the canary in the coal mine was the Westminster Declaration. Remember the Westminster Declaration? Oh yeah. Which is a bunch of bloggers and podcasters, all well-meaning I'm sure, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald. Yeah, of course they're well-meaning. And, oh no, Article 19, Article 19, it's all about Article 19.

26:38 of the Universal Human Rights Declaration. I'll get to that in a minute, but first let's see, this came out over a week ago and this was yet another kind of red flag saying something is coming because of course Kathy Hochul, the unelected governor of New York, is going to be in on the elitist messaging. Today I'm directing the Director of Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to develop media literacy tools for K-12 in our public schools. This will teach students and even teachers to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories and misinformation, disinformation and online hate. Start talking about what we're seeing out there. Give the teachers

27:27 the tools they need to help these conversations in school. And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, We can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it, and help prepare them for a very fast-moving and often confusing world. We identified this stuff like a decade ago when the bullying laws, when bullying in school became bullying laws and was all hate speech and hate laws and very ill-defined what is hate, what is hate speech.

28:05 And of course this is now rearing its ugly head in Europe with the parliamentary, well, with the majority win of seats in the House of Parliament in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, not enough to govern. He needs a coalition. And of course no one wants to go along with the hate speech guy. Hello and welcome to Talking Europe. It's an election result that has sent shockwaves across the EU. Shockwaves! The Dutch far-right Freedom Party has won 37 seats, well ahead of its rivals. It's led by a man who's long been the Bete Noire of European liberals and Muslims. Bete Noire? Keep Wilders. The Bete Noire? Is that the black sheep? The Bete Noire? Isn't that black sheep? Is that French for...

CHAPTER 07 / 39 Discussion

Geert Wilders, Dutch Election Victory and EU Reaction

The Dutch Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, secured 37 seats in the recent parliamentary election, causing concern among European Union officials. Wilders advocates for "de-Islamization," zero asylum seekers, and a potential "Nexit" referendum for the Netherlands to leave the EU. European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas characterized Wilders' campaign as hate rhetoric incompatible with the European model.

geert wilders· netherlands· european union· immigration· freedom party

27:27 the tools they need to help these conversations in school. And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, We can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it, and help prepare them for a very fast-moving and often confusing world. We identified this stuff like a decade ago when the bullying laws, when bullying in school became bullying laws and was all hate speech and hate laws and very ill-defined what is hate, what is hate speech.

28:05 And of course this is now rearing its ugly head in Europe with the parliamentary, well, with the majority win of seats in the House of Parliament in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, not enough to govern. He needs a coalition. And of course no one wants to go along with the hate speech guy. Hello and welcome to Talking Europe. It's an election result that has sent shockwaves across the EU. Shockwaves! The Dutch far-right Freedom Party has won 37 seats, well ahead of its rivals. It's led by a man who's long been the Bete Noire of European liberals and Muslims. Bete Noire? Keep Wilders. The Bete Noire? Is that the black sheep? The Bete Noire? Isn't that black sheep? Is that French for...

28:57 Betnoir? It has a very specific, we should look it up so we can read it. Yes. It has a very specific meaning in a political sense. Yeah, why don't you look that up while we listen to Le Betnoir. Muslims, Hert Wilders, advocates what he calls the de-Islamization of the Netherlands as well as zero asylum seekers and tougher border management. Well, migration and asylum is one of the key policy areas of my guest today. Margaritis Ginas is a vice president of the European Commission and he's coordinating the Commission's work on a new pact on migration and asylum. So the intro here is not far from the truth. Geert Wilders has said, look, no more asylum seekers. We're a small country. No more Islamification. All makes sense. All no more Islamification of the country, which is very specific to the Netherlands as

29:49 You know, statues have had to go. Street signs have had to go. All these things, the culture of the Netherlands has all changed. You know, there's... Bet Noir. Oh, Bet Noir. Tell us. Bet Noir is a person, just a simple definition, a person or thing that one particularly dislikes. Oh, dislikes, yes. So the intro guy here on I think it's France 24 is being reasonably true. Because there has been no... Oh, and I guess the big problem for the EU guy who's about to speak as a guest is Geert Wilders is saying we should have a binding referendum, always a problem. You know, having phony baloney voting is one thing, but now a binding referendum.

30:33 Or whether the Netherlands should exit the EU, a so-called negxit. That's really the problem. But let's see what the EU immigration officer VP Doodly-Doot says. Is it a setback for the European way of life? Well, this remains to be seen. 25% of Dutch voters voted for Kurt Wilders, but 75% didn't. This is my favorite. There's 17 or 18 parties. There's the animal party. You can't just say they didn't vote for him as if, well, you know, he's kind of

31:12 insinuating they didn't like what he had to say. He makes it sound like a binary. Exactly, it's not, thank you, it's not binary. People voted for the 50 plusers, for the 50 plus party, which got zero seats in the House, not thanks. So when the government will be formed, the first thing that would be quite interesting to see is whether all this hate rhetoric that shaped his campaign... Hate rhetoric that shaped his campaign? That is patently Patently not true will be translated into a government program that we don't know yet so I would very much like to Give the next government a chance to see whether The government program will reflect this hate speech that we have been hearing during the campaign in any case

32:08 The European model of society is fully incompatible with any form of discrimination or hate. Now, Phoebe's hating something. Wow, this guy was just a biased report if you ever heard one. I have some clips on this. Okay, but let me come back to my hate speech because I'm on a roll here. Okay, finish. Well, what do you have? Maybe it fits in. What do you have? No, this is about the right-wingers taking over the world. Oh, no, no, no, we'll get back to that. Specifically Holland. We'll get back to that. It'll make sense because Because I want to get back to the Westminster Declaration Article 19. So taking place right now in Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, is the, what do they call on this thing?

CHAPTER 08 / 39 Discussion

StratCom Summit, Global Disinformation Battle

The International Strategic Communication Summit (StratCom) in Istanbul brought together officials from over 40 countries to discuss "clean communication ecosystems." The summit focuses on global responses to hybrid threats and the challenges posed by AI in the fight against disinformation. Attendees emphasized the need for consumers to treat information like grocery labels, checking for "ingredients" of bias or hate.

stratcom· istanbul· turkey· disinformation· ai

33:00 The Stratcom Summit. In times of war and crisis, disinformation can be used as a powerful weapon to spread lies to the masses in an instance. In this era of uncertainties, humanitarian and environmental crises, and regional instability, truth-based, transparent media has never been more important. Truth-based, transparent media. Remember that. Remember that line. That's a good one. Remember that line. Addressing this, prominent leaders and experts from around the world are gathered here in Istanbul for the International Communication Strategic Summit, STRATCOM. The goal of the summit is to create a clean communication ecosystem in the fight against disinformation. And with the rise of new technologies like... Is it she called a clean? I'm going to hear that again. Hold on a second.

33:45 The goal of the summit is to create a clean communication ecosystem. A clean communication ecosystem. So these guys are just full of themselves. Oh, totally. Well, this is the money. Creating phrases that sound kind of cool. This is the money. This is the money train. In the fight against disinformation. And with the rise of new technologies like AI, this This battle is getting even more challenging. The annual summit is organized by the Republic of Turkey's Directorate of Communications and is taking place over two days. This year's theme is global response to hybrid threats, stability, security and solidarity. And the solidarity is evident here with over a thousand participants, 60 speakers from nearly 30 countries and 100 officials from over 40 countries. When you're talking about

34:30 people up to no good. They're playing on the fact that emotionally people get manipulated a lot. You have to be critical consumers of information. Just as we read labels in the grocery store, we're looking at the carbohydrates, it's gluten-free. We're not doing that enough online or the way we consume information. But the battle against disinformation doesn't end here. We each have a role to play as we consume and share media. Will we accept it all as fact or will we think critically about it? So you're right, what that lady just said, one of the attendees, that is what NewsGuard does. It's putting a label, an ingredient. I hear it all day long from the podcast industrial complex. Well yes, we need labels on podcasts so you know what you're getting if you want to advertise on it. Or you know what you're getting if you are going to listen to it. Because yes, this podcast contains elements of Hitler. Trump loves Hitler! Stuff like that.

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UNESCO, Digital Platform Governance Guidelines

UNESCO released a 56-page document titled "Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms" aimed at safeguarding freedom of expression while regulating hate speech. The guidelines suggest that digital platforms are beholden to algorithms that prioritize clicks over factual certainty. The World Economic Forum has backed this push, promoting a toolkit for digital safety to tackle cyberbullying and conspiracy theories.

unesco· world economic forum· social media· freedom of expression· algorithms

35:30 What comes out is this article from Reclaim the Net, and it's actually a big kind of red herring. The headline is, World Economic Forum backs UNESCO's push to regulate speech on social media, pushes its own toolkit digital safety, which will tackle hate speech and cyber bullying. So the point of this is to go and, you know, look at... Sounds like a panic to me. Have I've ever heard anything that sounds desperation? Everything you're playing right now is it. Well, it's a distraction from what's really happening. So Reclaim the Net is pointing you to go look at the World Economic Forum. Those douchebags, they want to censor speech on social media. And by the way, before we even dive into these two documents, you said one or two shows ago this is the golden age of the internet, golden age of podcasting.

36:27 Because it's all going to end. Anything that you get from a platform is going to end. And podcasting 2.0 of course will not. And if you still publish a blog with an RSS feed, you'll be okay. But platforms are going away and here's why. So once you dig into this World Economic Forum article with their toolkit, there's a little document from UNESCO. Now for people who don't know what UNESCO is, let me get the exact acronym, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Usually you only hear about UNESCO as it pertains to historical sites. Yeah. It's a UNESCO world sanctioned site! But UNESCO is about education, scientific

37:24 So they come out with this document, Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms, Safeguarding Freedom of Expression. and access to information through a multi-stakeholder approach. Remember, United Nations is built of member states and stakeholders, the United States being one of them. So they have guidelines for an internet of trust. What did we hear earlier? Was there trust, trustworthy media? I forget what the woman said. It was, I'll tell you what it was. It was truth-based transparent media. Yes. I have a couple things highlighted. Safeguarding freedom of expression and the right to information while dealing with dis and misinformation. Remember this is all coming from the Julie Andrews of the Ministry of Truth. Remember the singing lady who was dismissed, who was working for Homeland Security? She got kicked out because this is all her terms. Dis and misinformation.

38:22 Okay, dealing with dis and misinformation, hate speech, and conspiracy theories, so you can't have conspiracy theories now, requires a multi-stakeholder approach. Okay, so like, all right, this is nothing new. Then they have guidelines for the governance of digital platforms. So I'm going to scroll down here. There's a couple things I highlighted which led me to the key document. As virtual spaces for social interact—this is a 56-page document, by the way—as virtual spaces for social interaction, they, digital platforms, are beholden to algorithms designed to monopolize our attention, inadvertently favoring misinformation and hate speech by prioritizing clicks over certainty, probability, and proof.

39:16 Faced with the global nature of these issues, we need to develop consistent responses around the world and avoid the fragmentation of regulations or approaches that compromise human rights. It is precisely the global challenge to which UNESCO must rise, for it is at the core of our mandate. And here it is. Let us remain focused on our goal. combating hate speech and misinformation while preserving freedom of expression. This is not a contradiction. No? What? Sounds like one to me. By bolstering access to free and reliable information, we also enhance freedom of thought and expression.

40:06 Listen to this, by bolstering, so by making more access to free and reliable information more voluminous, with that we actually enhance freedom of thought and expression as long as it's the reliable information. In the words of Hannah Arendt, who was Hannah Arendt? I should have looked her up. Hannah Arendt. She's a very famous, I believe she was a sociologist or an anthropologist or something along those lines, but she was She's a writer and uh, uh, God, I love you for knowing. I love you for knowing. I was in college, but I don't remember too much about it. In the words of Hannah Arendt.

CHAPTER 10 / 39 Discussion

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 19

A distinction is made between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 19 of the ICCPR allows for the restriction of freedom of expression if provided by law to protect national security or public order. This legal framework is being used to justify the suppression of "violent extremism," which now encompasses ideologies deemed destabilizing to governments.

article 19· iccpr· human rights· freedom of expression· westminster declaration

40:45 Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute. Dude, you grew up on that stuff? Yeah. Cal Berkeley. Hannah Arendt was a German-born American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Of course I'd read her. So here comes the thing that led me right to the money shot. So now they get into some of the, you know, this a lot of words, a lot of references. And remember, we're going back to the Westminster Declaration by some of the prominent podcasters and bloggers in America saying, you know, these online platforms shouldn't be censoring us and we're doing reporting and it's Article 19 of the of human rights.

41:37 The guidelines, here it is, point three, the guidelines recognize, the guidelines for platforms, that the application of rules and regulations in every governance system must adhere to international human rights standards, including with Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Whoa! I read that, Article 19, and I thought it was of the Human Rights Declaration, but there's a different Article 19, coincidentally, and that is Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. I'll get to that in a moment, which provides that any restriction to freedom of expression must be provided by law. Again, any restriction to freedom of expression must be provided by law.

42:31 pursue a legitimate aim as set out... Wait, wait. It's a convoluted sentence. What they're saying is if so you have if you want to restrict freedom of expression or they don't say free freedom of speech they say freedom of expression you can as long as it's provided by law. Oh as hence Zelensky putting the lid on anybody using the word peace negotiations. Yes, exactly. which provides that any restriction to freedom of expression must be provided by law, pursue a legitimate aim as set out in the provision, and must be necessary and proportionate. Okay, so then I go to Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ICCCPR. This is a 20-page document

43:26 And it is best practices and lessons learned on how protecting and promoting human rights contribute to preventing and countering violent extremism. So this is how they lay out how free expression is protected, unless we make a law against something which just, which we all agree just can't happen. The submission focuses on the compliance of initiatives and programs aimed at preventing or countering violent extremism with international freedom of expression standards. In the annexes to the submission, which includes further materials issued by Article 9. So this is all in the fine print of your human rights declaration.

44:16 The right to freedom of expression is protected by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is elaborated upon and given legal force in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. That's this document. These guarantees are replicated in many other international human rights instruments as well as in regional counterparts. Though the right to freedom of expression is fundamental, it is not absolute! It is not absolute. Article 19 ICCPR, for example, places the onus on states party to justify any limitations they place on the rights are provided by law, pursue a legitimate aim, and are necessary to the legitimate aim and proportionate.

45:02 Well, this is bull crap because it boils down to this. Activities that aim to threaten the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and democracy and threaten territorial integrity and the security of states and destabilize legitimately constituted governments. So if you have hate speech against the government, they can shut you down. And they call this violent extremism. A broader phenomenon than terrorism. It captures both an ideology and conduct presumed indicative of a future propensity to violence. Dude, they are shutting it down.

45:48 They've had this going for a long time, it's legal, and thank God, literally thank God for our Constitution, our First Amendment, but it's totally under attack with this because we are after all... Of course it is, it's been under attack forever. But this is a legal attack. And the violent extremism, these are the terms they've been using over and over again for years. It's hate speech. So to wrap up what you've just said here, the people who signed off on that Westminster whatever it is called... Westminster Declaration. The Declaration are doofuses. Either complicit or really idiots. They're not complicit, let's assume that. Okay, we'll assume they're just dumb. But the fact is that they basically signed a death warrant. Yes.

CHAPTER 11 / 39 Discussion

Westminster Declaration, Platform Regulation Skepticism

The Westminster Declaration, signed by figures like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald, is criticized for potentially validating international standards that allow for legal censorship. There is a call for independent media to move away from centralized platforms like Twitter and Substack back to open web protocols and RSS feeds. Predictions are made that major platforms will eventually de-platform independent podcasts due to "clean communication" mandates.

westminster declaration· matt taibbi· glenn greenwald· substack· censorship

46:38 in essence, even though it's gonna mean nothing and it means nothing to them to get and go, just a bunch of guys' signatures. But, beside the point, symbolically they signed their own death warrant and they don't even know it. And if you look at the UK, who was already way on board with this. Or Canada. Well, I'm gonna use the UK for a moment because, you know, this big protest, big pro-Palestine protest going on, all organized, of course, by the Labour Party. The Met police handed out a leaflet that warned against language that breaks the law. Language! I just want to repeat this. Americans can't, well a lot of them can, but most Americans can't even fathom this sentence. There's language that breaks the law. Yeah, it's like thought crimes. The leaflets warn protesters not to use words or images that are racist or incite hatred against any faith.

47:37 that support Hamas or any other banned organization as it is illegal under UK law to support such terrorist organizations, or, here it is, that celebrate or promote acts of terrorism such as the killing or kidnap of innocent people. In America, you can do that. You may be a dick, but you can do that. Yeah, I would say that that church, the God hates fags church, is a perfect example. And Nazis can walk around and do their Heil Hitler stuff and walk around with their little goose stepping and the ACLU used to protect them. Used to defend them, but no more. Used to defend them, yeah, I guess not.

48:19 But that's part of a true open society and democracy. It's closing in quick, but they're going to go after every single platform. Anything that's a platform, anything that you believe is the internet. It's gonna be under the, it's already really under these rules, they're just gonna formalize it. And they're doing it, and now you got the money, everyone sucking up the money, they're in Turkey with the Stratcom conference, yeah we got all kinds of news guard, we got all kinds of filters, we got all kinds of stuff, we can track people down, put our hobnail boot on their neck! This is exactly what is happening. So yes, way to go Westminster boys.

49:00 Westminster Declaration boys. Look into that. Report on that for a second, please. No, they're too high. They're actually pretty glib about that. I think Matt Taibbi, if he really looked at it, because he's kind of wrapped up and you know the IRS came to his door and he got, for the first time he's figured out the government hates him because they hate everybody, all citizens. He's a little wrapped up in it. Yeah, and he's, he's, he's, no, he's still a babe. He's still innocent. Oh, come on! Let us, let us report on social media! No, no, you've got that wrong, Matt. And please get off of Substack. Back to blogs! That's it. Back to blogs. We gotta go back to using the network, not the platforms. Well, uh...

49:51 Well, I don't know how that relates to the right-wingers that took over Europe or are taking over Europe. Well, they're shutting them down. Let's see how far they get. I think that, you know, talk is, it's a big deal to talk a lot, but... It's easy to shut down... Implementation is a problem. It's easy to shut down people. John, children today, they think the internet is their iPhone. Hey, I got Google, I got the internet. They got apps. Apps? Come on! People always thought the web was the internet too, if you really want to go back to it. Yes, it was! It still is! But it never was. The web, no. But the web is an open communication hyperlinking system that runs on the internet. That sits on top of the internet. Yeah, but it's one step closer to... It's not a platform. The web is not a platform.

50:45 Twitter is a platform, Facebook is a platform, Google is a platform, your iPhone app store is a platform. These are platforms that they will regulate to their own desire. The web is still the last place. I would say going back to your initial thesis, which you did not bring up in this presentation, that the platforms aren't going to go away because they're going to be They're the ones that are going to co-opt the government regulations to benefit them. Yes, I agree. That's what I'm saying. Of course they're going to. So MEDA will be around? No, it'll be around, but it won't be a place to get any word out because it will be a clean communications ecosystem.

51:36 Yeah. Yes. Good luck. It's hard to, you know, they don't have enough butts to help. I can tell you right now, we're not on Spotify, we never were. We're going to get kicked off of Apple. It will happen. This podcast will not be on the Apple Podcast app. I can tell you right now because of conspiracy theories and possible hate speech. What conspiracy theory? We have never pushed a conspiracy theory on this show. We didn't land on the moon. Well that's you, not the show. And that predates the show. I gotta step up my game then.

CHAPTER 13 / 39 Discussion

Javier Milei, Argentina Dollarization Plan

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei plans to shut down the country's central bank and replace the peso with the US dollar to combat hyperinflation. Critics note that while dollarization may stabilize prices, it makes the country beholden to US Federal Reserve policy. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and China have established a $7 billion currency swap line, signaling a move away from dollar dominance in other regions.

javier milei· argentina· dollarization· central bank· peso

57:47 because the Netherlands is suffering elevated inflation because of the monetary policy of the European Central Bank and also a dire economic environment when it should not be in such a situation due to the, well, many of the policies that have been imported from the European Union. So all those things can be tweaked and at least Again, I'm just surprised that he doesn't really mention immigration. Yeah, he's almost went out of his way not to. And he's there. He's there. That's the thing. He's there. Well, let's go on to the, we'll just take that for what it is, but let's listen to what's going on in Argentina.

58:33 Speaking of inflation, you did mention now turning to Argentina, the 140 percent inflation over there. Now, Javier Millet is saying he's going to shut down the central bank, calling that non-negotiable. How much does the central bank fit into the inflation we're seeing? Well, certainly the central bank is one side of the coin. and a very important one, obviously printing pesos in a way that is completely incredible. But that's one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is fiscal policy. A country that has more protectionist measures than many of the communist regimes that we know, like Cuba or North Korea. So it needs to open the economy, it needs to cut spending, and it certainly needs to stop

59:21 printing pesos and stop this situation every night. Millet is an economist and now he says he does have a plan to fight inflation and that's dollarization. He is wanting to change the pesos to the US dollar. How likely is that to succeed? Well, it's inevitable. Because one of the problems in argentina is that many of the politicians did not want to recognize the big elephant in the room which is that the peso is a completely invalid currency that is failed, argentina has more than fifteen different exchange rates of the past so all of them completely false implemented by the government and,

1:00:03 the best of news by citizens in argentina whenever they can so actually dollarization is already evident within the argentine economy because no argentine citizen i mean at least no saying i'm trying to send me a statement in pesos and certainly All of the relevant transactions and purchases that Argentine citizens implement are already dollar. I find it interesting that they're going to switch to the US dollar as their currency. Well, we talked about this on the last show. But we talk about it all the time because people, you know, it's like it's a reserve currency for the world.

1:00:47 But here's the thing. But to do it officially is what I think is it. I don't know anyone else has done it officially. Well, it's not entirely clear because it says dollarization. So, I mean, to shut down the central bank to then get the Federal Reserve Central Bank, what a difference. Well, it won't be 140 percent inflation. No, but it'll... Okay. You get my point. I mean, structurally it's the same basic idea. But that, I mean, there's a lot that has to happen before that can take place. Pegging the dollar to the peso would be possible. Well, that's different than dollarization. I know it's different. That's what they did in Brazil. We'll have to see what he can do. I mean, he doesn't have a majority in Parliament. He's just the prime minister.

1:01:44 I mean, there's... Well, we'll see what he does. President, I'm sorry, president. I think it's fascinating that that's what he wants to do. I mean, they have... Pegging to the dollar is not new. I mean, I think they maybe done that in Argentina years back, but I know it's been done in Brazil. But even when they did it, when they went from the Crizero to the Real, which the Real meaning real, was pegged one to one to the dollar. But now it's like two and a half to one. I mean, it just doesn't hold up. Which would be different than the dollar, which would hold up. It's interesting that Saudi Arabia and China just announced a $7 billion local currency swap line, which is a good way to peg your money to the yuan and get it away from the dollar. It's like a start in a sequence of things.

1:02:37 So I don't know the problem with yeah, yeah, go ahead. The problem with the one in my opinion is that they were it's rigged. It's far more than the dollar is of course, but hey, but they just don't want to be beholden to us anymore. We got a new guy, new boss, same as the old boss. It's just they're tinier. I don't know. They don't go and kill as many people, just their own. So just sticking with Europe. Not reported. Okay, so what has been reported is we have lots of immigration clashes. Dublin, Ireland, which immediately was called, oh, the far right wing nut jobs, they hate, it was a rumor started by them and no, it was not true, but yes, there was indeed an immigrant

CHAPTER 14 / 39 Discussion

European Sovereignty, EU Veto Removal

European lawmakers recently approved a proposal to remove the national veto for EU member states, a move led by Belgian politician Guy Verhofstadt. This change limits the ability of individual nations like the Netherlands to block EU-wide laws they oppose. The vote occurred amidst rising tensions over immigration-related violence in Dublin and France, further fueling "Nexit" sentiments.

european parliament· guy verhofstadt· dublin· ireland· sovereignty

1:03:26 who stabbed several people, including children, and Dublin. It was called the Irish Welcome, as The Guardian writes. And there's no more Irish welcome. The Irish are sick of it. The Dutch are sick of it. Didn't hear about... even Conor McGregor, MMA fighter, says, yeah, this is a problem because there's just a revolving door on immigration with a gravy train upon arrival. People don't like it. In France, didn't even hear about this. The French villages Winter Ball.

1:04:06 knife attack, killing a 16-year-old boy, injuring 17 people. And this immigrant told guests, we're here to stab white people, before he started to stab white people. So this is not stuff that people like. Now here's the kicker. European lawmakers approved plans on Wednesday to remove the national veto for EU member states. A total of 291 members of European Parliament supported the proposal put forward by the Forhofstadt group member Guy Forhofstadt, the guy who was all against the, you know, the Belgian guy, who was all against Brexit and was making a big problem, the arch-federalist.

1:04:53 So the vote was passed by a majority of just 17. So now a European country like the Netherlands can no longer have a veto on laws they don't like. Didn't hear about that anywhere. Goodbye sovereignty. What would make the European Union so appealing if you have no power whatsoever? Well, hence an exit. You know, I don't think Geert Wilders is going to get a parliament together. I, you know, the VVD, which was the current majority, or it was the majority party before the election, in coalition, so they had kind of a center right-ish, I guess, government, very slight right-ish. They said, well, we don't want to be in a coalition with the PVV, which everyone was kind of counting on. Said, but we will, whatever they want, we'll just agree with them.

1:05:54 It's gonna be very hard for him to form this thing. You know, he can get, you know, there's a couple of weird new parties which got, you know, he can get the farmer party in there, but he still needs 76 and he's at 37. It's not gonna be easy. It just may not happen, which will mortify people in the Netherlands. It's very interesting to watch. It's very, because I think that where the Netherlands goes, so the rest of Europe goes, and you're right. If you don't have a veto, if you can't stop something completely ludicrous, why would you want to be in it? You know, you've already got Fifi Lagarde running your bank. You know, soon... so much nuttiness. Meanwhile, here in America, this was very interesting, CBS Sunday did a story between two CBS journalists, where the journalists were the story.

CHAPTER 15 / 39 Discussion

Tim Alberta, White Evangelical Church Politics

Author Tim Alberta discusses his book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory," which examines the political shift within white evangelical churches toward Donald Trump. Alberta argues that the pursuit of political power has caused some religious leaders to compromise their values. The segment also addresses the rise of Speaker Mike Johnson and the media's reaction to his biblical worldview.

tim alberta· cbs sunday morning· donald trump· evangelicals· mike johnson

1:06:48 Oh, nothing like journalists interviewing journalists. And they didn't have a single outside person in this six hour, six, six hours, it could have been six hours, in this six minute piece. Tim Alberta has written, Tim Alberta, I think he's mainly an Atlantic writer. His dad was a preacher or pastor at a church. He grew up in the church. And well, wouldn't you know it, the church is being hijacked by Trump, the church is political, it's no good, and we have to have a book out, which now these two journalists, what's the other guy's name? The CBS guy is Robert Costa, and he interviews Tim Alberta about

1:07:32 The white evangelicals. Alberta's reckoning with faith and politics is the basis for his new book, The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, which documents what he calls an age of extremism for evangelicals. There was a real crisis in the American church, specifically a crisis in the white evangelical church. About a quarter of American adults identify as evangelical, And as the Republican presidential race heats up, nearly 70% of white evangelicals are supportive of Trump. Alberta says that reflects a shift away from norms in the GOP and in the church. We should think about the American church almost in parallel to American politics. When it gains enough influence, when it gains enough power, the fringe can overtake the mainstream.

1:08:27 That's what we've seen happen in the church. The convulsions in today's churches come after decades of evangelicals gaining influence. Do you love God? Do you love him with all your heart? With all your soul? From Billy Graham's stadium crusades to the stadium rallies of Donald Trump. But you know, we have our Christian conservatives for Trump today and they're in the room. Let's go. In recent years, evangelicals have had debates over the response to COVID and to Trump. All while many key Republicans count themselves as one of them. What I find most interesting, there's one more clip here. What I find most interesting is the Democrat Party has actually been doing this for decades. And it was a man, I learned all this from Mo, but it's right out there. Who is one of the big promoters of the Democratic Party amongst black America?

1:09:25 Al Sharpton, name another one. Jesse Jackson. What are they? Reverends. This was all, this is all, the Democrat Party has always said... Yeah, they don't like the idea this is happening to them. Exactly. Against them. What's interesting is I like the tricky use of association. So you have Billy Graham in front of a huge audience. Yeah, from 1960 or something, 1968. It doesn't matter when. But there are these guys and they get in front of the, well I'd say the preachers on TV that are in front, they're in the stadiums, those guys, the megachurch guys. So they got a big giant audience and then they switch to Trump in front of a big giant audience. So you make the association there's something going on.

1:10:14 You know, you could have done the same thing by having Taylor Swift in front of a big giant audience and then putting Trump in there and claiming that he's a rock and roller. I mean, this is bull crap. Here we go. What do you say to evangelical leaders who might hear your argument and say, you missed the point? Trump wins for evangelical Christians. He wins for conservative wins. What? Supreme Court seats, a seat at the table at the White House. Show me where in scripture any of that matters. But it does matter to many of those standing with Trump as he once again seeks the White House you had millions of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump and Just sort of gleefully embraced his see this is where I would have expect I would have expected here to have a whole bunch of Christians going Yeah, God told me to vote for Trump, but they don't have any of that They just connect it's because it doesn't exist but why don't we go go back and even

1:11:15 He makes it, when one point is made he says show me in scripture where that matters. Well his whole thesis, show me in scripture where any of what he says matters. Exactly. Exactly. This is a, this is an interesting hit piece. ...matter to many of those standing with Trump as he once again seeks the White House. You had millions of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump and just sort of gleefully embraced his Gleefully. Gleefully embraced. What's he using? Gleefully. I mean, this guy is a propagandist. This is only people that watch this besides us are left wingers and middle of the road. Nobody cares. Whoever's bored enough to watch 60 Minutes in its current iteration, which is not a good show, I might add. It's very dull. And it's CBS Sunday, not 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday.

1:12:14 Oh, even worse. Jane Pauly. Jane Pauly special. A Jane Pauly show. Nobody watches Jane Pauly's show. It's well structured. As a pro, she's like really good, but... And they got this Atlantic writer who grew up in the church and then I think he basically left to become a political reporter. I'm not sure if he's a Christian anymore or not. No, he's probably not. He's probably an atheist. Let's continue. Not much left. Terrible rhetoric and his un-Christlike conduct. His un-Christlike conduct! Is he supposed to be Christ? What?

1:12:50 Hey, hey Christians! I'm not electing Christ. The whole point is we're all sinners, you douche. Terrible rhetoric and his un-Christlike conduct. Why did they gleefully embrace it? To use your term, power. Power, power, sure. Trump campaigned for president in 2016 promising that if he was elected, Christians would have power. And he gave it to them. I never saw that. I never heard that. Did you hear this? I never heard that. All I remember is they're gonna build the wall and Mexico's gonna pay for it. How come they don't harp on that? That's a good one. Mexico's never paid for any of the wall.

1:13:29 So I mean once you go after him on stuff he actually said he gave it to them in ways that arguably no American president has in modern history. Holy crapola He gave stuff that no, it's amazing, but what is it? And when you have power you can very quickly lose sight of your principles, your values, even your beliefs. How's your faith? You know honestly, it's never been better. Tim Alberta's faith in reporting is also strong. And he says that is his own calling. You and I were reporters. That's right. We're not supposed to be the story. I never wanted to be the story. Once you see this, you can't look away. Dude, this is such bullcrap. This is such bullcrap. There's, I was in church this morning. I get up very early to do that and still do my show prep. There's, there's as many people who are looking at Bobby the op

1:14:29 as there are at Donald Trump. And most people are like, is that, I mean really that's our choices? This is just, it's just, it's not true. But they're freaked out. These people are freaked out A, by God, they're really afraid of God. And Mike Johnson, I think, is the catalyst here. Oh, oh, his little, his imaginary daddy in the sky. Who's Mike Johnson? The Speaker of the House. Oh that guy? Yes! Oh yeah he's about it and the funny thing is as religious as he is he shows no signs of it I don't know what they're complaining about. Because he says stuff you know he says like my world view is the Bible

1:15:15 He wants to take us back to the world view of the United States of America. If you really look at it, I had a history professor at Cal, Winthrop Jordan, one of the most famous history professors in the country, who says if you want to understand American history, you better sit down and read the entire Bible and then you'll get it. And he wasn't a religious guy. He was just a matter of fact. He said that. Well, I'm going to make a prediction. What these people are doing, if they keep this up, you're going to see a revival. You're gonna see a real revival. They are awakening powers that have no idea exist because they were kind of suppressed. So here, you mentioned R.F.K. Jr., the op. So I have two clips.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Falconry and Vaccine Claims

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared anecdotes about childhood pets, including a sea lion and his interest in falconry. He also claimed that COVID-19 vaccines were manufactured by military contractors rather than Pfizer or Moderna, with the pharmaceutical companies merely acting as labels. These claims and his highly produced media appearances are analyzed as part of his ongoing presidential campaign strategy.

rfk jr· vaccines· nih· pfizer· falconry

1:15:57 Want to play which I think the op is ending. I think they've decided that they're gonna do something else You know there's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of people saying oh, oh now you called the op over It was never an app, but the bibbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi- This is I got to play the AI stuff where all of a sudden AI is gonna eat the world That was that was a big a big giveaway for me RFK Yes, we played on the last show. That's when I trick I had two other two clips to go with it But we ran out of time. Let's listen to RF. This one here is like a hot an eye roller RFK jr. And the seals

1:16:44 I started hearing about some of your pets. You had a seal? My mother came from a family of outdoorsmen and one of them caught a bunch of little baby sea lions and he sent off the sea lion to each of his siblings. A big truck pulled in the driveway on Christmas Day and a crate came off it. It was a little baby sea lion and we raised him in the swimming pool and there were fish all over the yard. How old were you when you had the sea lion? I was like six or seven, but you know, he stayed with us for a couple of years and he just swam in the pool with us. He'd jump off the diving board and he would run with the dogs. The dogs would sometimes go into the nearby town and there was a milkman who would bring the milk in the morning and he'd see the seal with the six dogs walking through the town.

1:17:35 So okay, so when he was seven he had a seal pet. That's weird. This is very, this is very interesting. Before you move to your next clip, he had an, I'm actually looking it up right now. He had a clip on RFK Jr. on X, eggs, which I saw just the other day. Here, let me see if there's audio to this. Hold on a second. I started doing Hawking when I was nine years old. Did you know he was in Hawking? to a falconer. Yes! My uncle, President Kennedy, was in the White House at that time and a lot of people were talking about Camelot and I read a book about Camelot, about the young King Arthur called The Once and Future King by T.H. White and T.H. White was a British falconer. And there's all these these pictures of him holding up his gloved hand and the hawk is

1:18:31 landing on him. And so he had a chapter in that book about young King Arthur and learning falconry. And I read that it was very, very detailed and, and to me, absolutely riveting. Okay, I won't play the whole thing. But isn't that a rich boys thing? Fall you don't think having a pet seal and your giant swimming pool at home is not a rich boys thing. I think it's in line I Think it's right up there. Yes my pet seal So so there's that stuff which is negative Very negative so there we have him coming off a nut Tell me if you've heard this this is this is

1:19:17 This is his commentary on the military manufacturing the vax. The vaccines were developed not by Moderna and Pfizer, they were developed by NIH. The patents are on 50% by NIH. Nor were they manufactured by Pfizer or by Moderna. They were manufactured by military contractors. And basically Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their stamps on those vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry. But you know, that's not what they were doing. They were coming from, you know, this was a military project from the beginning. Well, I can't disagree with what he's saying.

1:19:56 What, that Pfizer and Moderna didn't make anything? They just put their name on some military stuff that came out of a military... What military facilities manufacture vaccines? Well, he may mean develops because we both know where they were developed. No, no, he said they made them. He said the military manufactured contractors made the vaccines and Pfizer just put their label on it. What facility is this? I would like to know. Well, I don't know, but Fort Detrick is where we think it was developed. That's not a manufacturing place. That's a pure research facility. Maybe you are Mitanoka. No! Maybe the... Okay, you're taking him literally at his word, but he's trying to make a point. That's what he said! I know! I'm gonna give him this one.

1:20:45 The seal and the falconing, the hawking, that's a problem for me. I'll give him this one. And I like the use of the word hawking instead of falconry because hawking implies selling something. Or hawking something up. Well, there's that too. One of both. Or Stephen Hawking. The guy, he's Hawking and Hawking new software. He's Hawking. So there's something amiss with the op. And it's really stylized and highly produced and lots of slow-mo of falcons. And then one of them actually grabbing something in the air. Like a dove, like a freedom dove.

1:21:35 If the op is not over, this is not a good look for Bobby. Although the polls are showing, oh, he would take 30% away from Trump. Well, if the polls are accurate, that's probably what recently killed the RFK thing. Yeah, get rid of the op. Because you want him to take the votes away from Biden. They're trying to keep Biden from getting in. We want him to be attorney general for Trump. Biden? I don't think so. No, not Biden. No, you know what I mean. Anyway, since we're on vaccines and COVID, what we previously could only get through NTD and WION from India has finally hit our shores. It's even in Chicago.

1:22:22 And I have a few clips to share. The World Health Organization says China has shared data about a recent surge in respiratory illnesses in children and there's no sign of any unusual or novel pathogens. The WHO saw information after Chinese news reports and social media posts. described a surge in sick children in recent weeks. Now the data suggests the spike was caused by known bacteria and viruses like pneumonia and RSV. WHO says the surge is happening earlier than expected. Surge! Now this is interesting for really for one reason.

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China Respiratory Illness Surge, WHO Inquiry

The World Health Organization has requested data from China regarding a surge in respiratory illnesses and "undiagnosed pneumonia" in children. Hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin are reportedly overwhelmed, with some facilities seeing 13,000 patients a day. While Chinese officials attribute the spike to known pathogens like RSV and influenza, the timing has drawn comparisons to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

who· china· pneumonia· rsv· beijing

1:21:35 If the op is not over, this is not a good look for Bobby. Although the polls are showing, oh, he would take 30% away from Trump. Well, if the polls are accurate, that's probably what recently killed the RFK thing. Yeah, get rid of the op. Because you want him to take the votes away from Biden. They're trying to keep Biden from getting in. We want him to be attorney general for Trump. Biden? I don't think so. No, not Biden. No, you know what I mean. Anyway, since we're on vaccines and COVID, what we previously could only get through NTD and WION from India has finally hit our shores. It's even in Chicago.

1:22:22 And I have a few clips to share. The World Health Organization says China has shared data about a recent surge in respiratory illnesses in children and there's no sign of any unusual or novel pathogens. The WHO saw information after Chinese news reports and social media posts. described a surge in sick children in recent weeks. Now the data suggests the spike was caused by known bacteria and viruses like pneumonia and RSV. WHO says the surge is happening earlier than expected. Surge! Now this is interesting for really for one reason.

1:23:00 Well, actually a couple, but it follows the format, follows the format that we saw in November of 2019. It follows the format. We're seeing some stuff. It's a little different now because it's children, it's children. Think of the children. It's children. This is bad. It's children. Children, children, children. Next tonight, a troubling headline out of China. Troubling, troubling headline. Hospitals overwhelmed with children suffering from respiratory illnesses. This is RSV cases are rising in some parts of the United States. Hold on a second. Aren't all headlines trolling? Shouldn't they be? Is it inaccurate? Is that what she's complying? I'm not sure I follow. She said trolling headline, didn't she? No, she said troubling. Troubling. Oh, troubling. It sounded like she said trolling headline. The day ABC says trolling, I'll eat my shoe.

1:23:52 No, no, no, troubling, yes. Troubling. Notice that connection, completely irrelevant connection. This is walking pneumonia. But, oh, it's troubling because we have something going on in China and RSV on the rise in America. Let's bring in ABC's Britt Clennett in the Hollywood Bronx. You're learning the World Health Organization is in contact with China tonight on this potential worrying spike. Worrying spike? A worrying spike? Oh, this is beautiful.

1:24:31 Lindsay, yeah these reports coming out of China are grabbing international attention. The UN Health Agency is investigating what it calls clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia with some hospitals in northern China overwhelmed with sick children. Tonight the World Health Organization consulting with health authorities... Stop again. If it's pneumonia, how is it undiagnosed? How do you have anything undiagnosed pneumonia? If it's, you just diagnosed it. It's called pneumonia. How is it undiagnosed? Because this is meant to put fear into you over children. Tonight the World Health Organization consulting with health authorities reporting an increase in respite-free illnesses but crucially not detecting any unusual or novel diseases. The WHO noticing the uptick

1:25:22 to are being hospitalized at the highest rate. Health officials urging families to be vigilant as they start gathering indoors for the holiday season. So what I'll say about ABC is they immediately go to their sponsors, hey, hey, there's something going on in China. RSV, hey, maybe we can get some more people interested in that RSV vaccine which costs $1,000, which they can't sell to anybody. But if we go to WION, our go-to gal,

1:26:13 They have a little more detail on what's happening with China's walking pneumonia outbreak. We begin with the outbreak in China. It's too big to ignore. They're clocking more than 10,000 cases a day. Most of the patients are children. They're coming down with a mysterious pneumonia. They have infected lungs and fever, but the cause of the illness is still unclear. We don't know exactly what this disease is. And China won't say how many cases there are or how widespread the outbreak is. Unofficially, it's been called a walking pneumonia. Officially, China is not sure what it's dealing with. But here's what we've been able to piece together. It's massive. Thousands of patients, mostly children. There is anecdotal evidence from key hotspots like China's capital, Beijing. The Beijing Children's Hospital is overwhelmed. They're getting seven

1:27:01 7,000 patients a day. That's the daily average. 7,000 patients. Another hot spot is Tianjin. It's a metropolis in northern China, close to Beijing. Last Saturday, Tianjin reported a big surge, over 13,000 cases in 24 hours. And this is just from one hospital, the Tianjin Children's Hospital. the biggest one in the city, this hospital. And remember what the pandemic taught us. These numbers are only a conservative estimate. They do not reflect the full scale of the crisis. If 13,000 patients end up in hospital, there are most likely many more outside, many more carrying the infection. Okay, I have two questions for you. One, what is walking pneumonia?

1:27:40 Walking pneumonia is the kind of, you have pneumonia but you can wander around and it's easy to find you maybe short of breath, which is common. It's used in rock and roll lyrics, walking pneumonia and the boogie woogie blues if you recall. I think this is mass hysteria. Yes, and this is perfect to hype up because that's exactly what happened in the beginning of COVID. We saw people, remember the anonymous nurse? who came out in New York and she said, I'm seeing people come in, they're just freaked out. They don't have anything, they don't even have, they have a sniffle. But they're freaked out and they got palpitations, they're fainting, they're so freaked out by the media, which is not yet cranked up yet in America. Here's question two, would you be so

1:28:29 kind is to keep your eye on San Francisco where Xi and his Chinese delegation just was with their nasty, infected, seething, oozing, walking pneumonia bodies. I think they dropped the ball on that. They can still pick it up. They can still pick it up. But they gotta hurry. It's too late. They gotta hurry. No, I think they can still pick it up. I don't know. It took a while for them to... Remember we had to see videos of... TikTok videos of Chinese fall on their face. Yeah, having the shakes, having white powder sprayed all over and being dragged out of the car. But how about this? Where's Bill Gates immediately saying, all right, everybody, this is probably nothing. We got our health force one on the case. This is what we talked about. We know how to do this. Helicopters are landing. We're going to sweep the streets of San Francisco, make sure everything's OK. Isn't this what we learned from the pandemic? Why are we ignoring this?

1:29:28 The playbook is vague. I just want to make sure we keep our eye on it because we didn't- I'll keep an eye on San Francisco and wait for it because- If it happens, it'll happen within the next seven days. It has to be. It can't be put off long. It has to hurry. It has to happen pretty quickly. Yeah, now that we've monitored the local news. Yes, yes. Be monitoring. It'd be two steps. Yes, two steps. Two stages. One, you announce what's happening, and then the second one, some expert comes on and may attribute it. This could be Because the Chinese delegation, I mean that'll be the second step where they blame it on the Chinese. That would be good. That's the way you have to do it at this point. And then we got to shut down all flights from China.

1:30:15 Maybe, maybe. Trump would do it. But John, they've been pushing this RSV, which yes, agreed, it has existed, it's dangerous to little babies, but it hasn't been a huge thing, certainly not for older people, but they've been pushing this vaccine for what, six months now, maybe even more? Now is their shot. You can't tell me that Albert Bourla is not looking at this going, oh my god, this is another shot for us. We need to make more billions, there will be another pandemic. His stock is in the tank. I'd be out there. Yeah, you would. And you hear them already connecting what's happening in China to RSV. Oh yeah, be careful this holiday season, RSV.

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Philippines Excess Deaths, Parliamentary Investigation

Philippine Deputy Speaker Dan Fernandez has called for an investigation into 262,000 unexplained excess deaths recorded in 2021 and 67,000 in 2022. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority indicates these deaths were not officially attributed to COVID-19. The legislative inquiry seeks to determine the cause of the sudden spike in mortality rates during those years.

philippines· dan fernandez· excess deaths· statistics· health

1:31:11 Yeah, and yes mass hysteria. Of course we also want to cover up what's going on in the Philippines. Huh. This is, I have a clip, it's 45 seconds, I'll tell you what the guy is saying. This is the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Dan Fernandez. Good old Dan. And he says, We have to start an investigation into the 260,000 excess deaths. The copy of the resolution, this is about a 260,000 excess deaths that we experienced in this country. We'll be showing a graph coming from the Philippine Statistics Authority.

1:31:59 And in the DOH, they also have copies that have been submitted, datas. We are shocked to find out that there were 262,000 deaths on 2021 alone. And after that, in 2022, there were still 67,000 deaths. And these are all unexplained deaths, Noah. So these are not COVID deaths, debts. Deaths, sudden deaths. Debts, debts. Unexplained deaths. Yeah. This is, none of this is good.

1:32:39 If you're not gonna, nobody's gonna get into it. They're gonna let it pass over. Oh man, you just, you just, you know, you're just so cynical. We live in a clean communications ecosystem. Trustful, what was it again? I gotta write it down. What was the phrase? I'll tell you again. Yes, please. Truth-based, transparent media. Truth-based, transparent media. Yeah, that's us. That's the world we live in. Well, and so then there's this. Let me see. Where is, um, this is, this was, they even say it in the clip here, which is really quite phenomenal.

CHAPTER 19 / 39 Discussion

Derek Chauvin, Prison Stabbing Incident

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was seriously injured after being stabbed at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. The attack occurred shortly after the release of a documentary titled "The Fall of Minneapolis," which challenges the narrative of his trial. Speculation arises regarding whether the incident was a message to high-profile inmates or a precursor to potential clemency.

derek chauvin· george floyd· tucson· arizona· fall of minneapolis

1:33:19 The former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd hospitalized after being stabbed at the Arizona prison where he's serving a more than 20 year sentence. A law enforcement source tells NBC News that Derek Chauvin was seriously injured from the attack, which happened at a medium security federal correctional institution in Tucson. Chauvin was transferred there as part of a plea deal that allowed him to move out of a high security state prison in Minnesota. Find the defendant guilty. In 2021, Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd after being recorded on video kneeling on Floyd's neck for about nine minutes. In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed an assault happened around 12.30 p.m. local time Friday, but did not name Chauvin. The agency said employers performed life-saving measures before transferring the inmate to the hospital. Is there a concern about security in prison for high profile inmates?

1:34:15 There is always a security concern for people who are famous or infamous or police officers, law enforcement in prisons. Medium security does not mean medium safety. The stabbing comes after Chauvin recently spoke out for a new documentary where he calls his trial a sham and says the knee restraint was a technique he learned in police training. Axeller restraint technique right in their written policy manual. And no comment tonight from Chauvin's attorney. The office for the Minnesota Attorney General says Chauvin is expected to survive. So two things about this. One is this documentary just came out about a week and a half ago called The Fall of Minneapolis. I don't know if you've seen it by any chance. I tried to watch it. You found it unwatchable? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was quite interesting.

1:35:06 I couldn't watch it, I'm sorry. And the two things that jump out, both we have covered and we knew, is that indeed this particular move is covered in the police training manual, and two, that George Floyd basically died of an overdose and the autopsy showed it. Right. So of course the coincidence of this, and it's a crowdfunded documentary so it's available for free, it's out there, I have a link to it in the show notes. So the coincidence of this guy getting shivved in prison while this thing just drops is one. The other one is, hello Trump! It's a message. If we get you in jail, you're going to get shivved. Don't you think? That's an interesting interpretation I didn't anticipate. Oh, I thought of that immediately. Yeah, don't show up here with your truth-based transparent thinking.

1:36:03 Well, my thoughts on it were just the opposite of that. Oh, interesting. I'm thinking that they're setting this guy up, this cop, to get a clemency. It's going to be too unsafe for him. They're showing that, you know, now they have to look back at the old evidence and it's quite likely he didn't really kill the guy. Oh, very interesting. But they can't do that. This is what the whole George Floyd, this is what the Black Lives Matter riots are based on. You're telling me they're gonna... They can slip it in without a lot of publicity and he'll be out. Wow. Okay, I hadn't thought of that one. I'm a little more cynical. Wow. Okay. It's not good. They're having enough trouble getting police recruited. They're gonna have to give this guy, cut this guy some slack. Meanwhile, plenty of other messages going out. In particular, here's what you... Do not

CHAPTER 20 / 39 Discussion

Eric Adams, Adult Survivors Act Lawsuits

New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing a sexual assault allegation from 1993, filed just before the expiration of the state's Adult Survivors Act. Other high-profile figures, including Jamie Foxx, Axl Rose, and Sean Combs, have also been hit with last-minute lawsuits under the same law. Adams has denied the allegations, stating he has no recollection of meeting the accuser.

eric adams· jamie foxx· axl rose· sean combs· adult survivors act

1:37:06 Mayors and governors of America do not speak against our immigration policy. Do not complain about what we're doing here in the White House. Because we're gonna re-educate you. This morning New York Mayor Eric Adams denies knowing the woman who claims in a court filing he sexually assaulted her in 1993. It's absolutely not true. You know, I would I would never do anything to harm anyone. Just really, it's something absolutely that has never happened. And I don't recall ever meeting a person who made this allegation.

1:37:48 The woman's legal filing contained no details but said Adams caused physical, psychological and other injuries suffered as a result of conduct that would constitute sexual offenses when they both worked for the city 30 years ago. Adams was a police captain at the time. This is what's interesting because there's a whole bunch of these for one... particular reason which I was unaware of. The woman filed her claim under New York's Adult Survivors Act that allowed sexual misconduct accusers to file civil lawsuits that would have otherwise been barred by the statute of limitations. Actor Jamie Foxx is also facing a claim under the Adult Survivors Act by a woman who said he sexually assaulted her at a rooftop bar in 2015. He said the alleged incident never happened and now he's threatening legal action of his own.

1:38:33 And a former model accused Guns N' Roses frontman Axel Rose of a violent 1989 sexual assault under the same law. His attorney called the claim fictional and said it never happened. Sean Combs, who recently settled one lawsuit filed under the Adult Survivors Act, was hit with a second by a woman who says he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991. Combs denied it, a spokesperson calling the claim made up and not credible and saying in a statement to ABC News, this last minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head. So all these lawsuits came out because this this law is expiring. This adult assault law. And I think the I think it has expired now. So everybody had to get there. This lawsuit against Mayor Adams got in like the night before, which is good news, John, because we dodged the bullet there.

1:39:28 This is what that lady sued Trump over under the same law. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know man. Eric Adams didn't sound very convincing, I have to say. This is absolutely not true. Well, one way or the other, there's still a Biden play. Oh, of course. As a New York mayor, bitching and moaning and then cutting You know, getting the Cardi B thing to happen. We never played it because it's just expletively... It's extremely offensive. But she starts off by saying, hey y'all, if I get disappeared, I'm not suicidal, I'm Cardi B. I love that part. She's grousing to an extreme. She's not going to get disappeared. No.

CHAPTER 21 / 39 Discussion

Palestine Solidarity Campaign, London Protests

An estimated 300,000 people marched in London for the seventh consecutive week to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by political figures like Jeremy Corbyn, is identified as a primary organizer. Meanwhile, protests in Israel have targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence, with demonstrators calling for his removal.

london· palestine solidarity campaign· jeremy corbyn· israel· protests

1:40:27 But yeah, it's just all crazy. Everything is so incredibly political and people are just falling for it. We still back and forth, back and forth about Palestine. Oh my goodness. So they had a big protest in, I think it was London. and they claim 300,000 people, which I'm right on board. I'm sure it was that big. But the signs are professional. And the spokesperson you'll hear is a spokesperson for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The bombs in Gaza may have fallen silent for now, but around the world calls for a permanent end to the violence continue to grow louder.

1:41:21 Organisers estimated at least 300,000 marched through central London on Saturday in what marks the seventh straight week of demonstrations in the UK supporting Palestinians. Their demands throughout that time have remained the same, a permanent end to the crisis in Gaza, not just a pause. Week after week, pro-Palestinian protests have paralyzed the streets of Western cities. While the demands for a permanent ceasefire still haven't been met, there is a growing belief here that their voice is one that's being heard. There is no doubt Israel did not want to agree to this temporary pause. The deal, if finally accepted, was put on the table two or three weeks ago.

1:42:03 It didn't want to accept it. Why is it accepted? It's accepted it because it has been put under some pressure by governments, international governments, particularly Western governments. But why are they doing that? They're doing that because across the piece, here in the UK but also elsewhere, people are making clear that their governments are not representing their views. So I go to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. which is at palestinecampaign.org. And they are not a non-profit, they say themselves. We are a political organization. They are big movers behind the BDS movement. Boycott, divest and sanctify! Whatever it is. And who are our patrons? Who's at the top of the list? John Austin, former Labour MP. Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP.

1:43:15 Victoria Brittain, Editor Guardian, these are leftist statists who only want you to vote out the current politicians. They don't care about babies and incubators. I sure wouldn't think so. It's all, it's just all political. Just like we're doing in the United States and, oh let's spin everybody up. Get them all wacky and then tell them to vote that guy out. That's all that it is. And I don't know... In that case, definitely. There's no sincerity whatsoever. Now you talked earlier about the protests in Israel. They are protesting in front of the Prime Minister's home, Bibi's pad. And here is... Now this is from TRT, of course, the Turkish radio and television, which will get... So take that for the slant they have.

1:44:14 So this is one guy, his name is Itai. He's mic'd up so it's not like a man on the streets like, hey stand here let me mic you up and let's hear what he has to say. I have never for one single moment in my life have trusted this man. I think he's a psychopath. I think he's a lunatic. Not just I think that. Lots of people. I would never trust him with anything. Not him not his government. They are dangerous people. They're extremists, they're fascists, they're racists, they're fanatics. They don't want peace. They want war because it serves their own self-interest. While most of the people on both sides, you know, Israelis, Palestinians alike,

1:45:00 They are the people who pay the price. They are the ones who suffer. They are the ones whose lives are lost while they keep the power in their hands. Spaniards are just like us. Donald Trump, just like Milosevic, just like Hitler. These people will do everything to keep power in their hands and they don't care if everything else crumbles. They can destroy everything just as long as they remain in power. Just like Hitler, he told the German people, you're not worthy of living because if I go down, you go down with me. Same thing with him. It's all Hitler. It all comes back to Hitler and Donald Trump. That was beautiful. Except it was over-modulated. Hitler and Trump, you can't beat it. It was a little over-modulated. TRT needs some work on their audio. They could do better there. They could do better.

CHAPTER 22 / 39 Discussion

Cornell University, Anti-Semitism and Campus Speech

The Department of Education is investigating harassment complaints at Cornell University following campus protests. The slogan "from the river to the sea" has become a focal point of the debate, with Jewish students viewing it as a call for genocide and Muslim students describing it as a plea for equal rights. The university has increased security and condemned all forms of discriminatory bias.

cornell university· anti-semitism· department of education· hamas· free speech

1:45:56 A little update on the investigation from the Department of Education because as you know we're also a civil rights organization. We gotta dive in and see what's happening because we can't have anymore of this genocide Joe talk. No, no, no. NBC take it away. The Department of Education is now investigating alleged harassment complaints at Cornell and other schools. It's just been really, really challenging for people on this campus. when I'm seeing my peers march down the streets chanting things like from the river to the sea, which we've seen as really a call for genocide or an ethnic cleansing of Jewish people. Many Jewish students see that slogan from the river to the sea as a call for violence. Many Muslim students say it's a call for equal rights. The thing says from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. So the question is, where is it from the river to the sea, Palestinians shouldn't feel safe?

1:46:44 That's a better question I think we should entertain. Let's look at the map and say, I want Palestinians to be free, I want Jewish folk to be free, everywhere from the river to the sea. That's what it means. My problem is with that slogan in specific, not whatever message anyone thinks they're sharing with it, because Hamas has used it. It's been appropriated by a terrorist organization. Cornell has increased security and promised new programs to fight anti-semitism and tells NBC News they condemn all forms of discriminatory bias. Yeah, okay, fine. My favorite propaganda technique that I see is, I didn't clip it because it's just way too long, but there's a Muslim woman, Muslima, and she has the, just her face is visible, so that's not, it's obviously not in burqa, it's not the, what is that? That's the,

1:47:36 The job is that the he job and maybe the head job. Yeah, I think that's a he job or a knee job You tackle a guy too low And it goes like this, do you know Roald Dahl Roald Dahl who wrote Charlie the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl who wrote James and the Giant Peach that guy loved by children all around the world Have you ever heard of his book going solo? Is he talking about masturbation? You're just full of them today, aren't you? Oh my goodness. Roald Dahl was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and in 1938, and it's a very shortened version how they tell this, he landed in Palestine.

1:48:21 And he was, and this is like, he was in Palestine. Don't you get it? He was in Palestine. It was Palestine. He landed in Palestine. And there was, it wasn't Israel, it was Palestine. So easily disregarding the entire region was Palestine, including Syria, Golan Heights. And then, you know, and this somehow is supposed to prove that that wasn't, it was in 1938. So it wasn't Israel, it was Palestine! 1938? It was the British ran the whole joint in 1938. That's true. Are you forgetting something? Britain ran the joint after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It's the lack of history.

CHAPTER 23 / 39 Discussion

Stuart Seldowitz, Islamophobic Harassment Arrest

Stuart Seldowitz, a former national security advisor to President Obama, was arrested in New York City after being filmed harassing a street vendor. Seldowitz was caught on camera making Islamophobic remarks and questioning the vendor's immigration status. He faces multiple charges, including stalking as a hate crime and aggravated harassment.

stuart seldowitz· barack obama· nypd· harassment· manhattan

1:49:04 of knowledge of history is astounding. It's not really astounding. It's disappointing. Well, there's that. To the point where we're going to ruin our Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Also, New York City pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Free Palestine! Demonstrators jumped barricades and ran into the street with some gluing their hands to the ground. They were later taken into custody. This comes amid heightened tensions over the war in the Middle East. ABC News has learned that pro-Palestinian protesters plan to demonstrate at shopping malls across the country on Black Friday. So we finally found a protester who's doing, or someone who's Islamophobic. It's been very difficult to find this.

1:49:55 You know, this is why Genocide Joe there in the White House is saying, hey, you know, we won't tolerate anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, which I still think should be semaphobia and Islamophobia. OK, but we found a guy. We found the guy and uh oh. In New York City a one time advisor to President Obama was arrested after he was caught on camera harassing a street vendor with an Islamophobic rant. Stephanie Goss has details. I'm working now, okay? Can you leave please? The videos are hard to watch. We killed 4,000 Palestinian kids. You know what? It wasn't enough. On multiple occasions, Stuart Seldewitz, a former national security advisor for President Obama, berates a street vendor in Manhattan. You're a terrorist. You support terrorism. I'm not some... You go. I'm just helping you. Hurling Islamophobic insults. Did you rape your daughter like Mohammed?

1:50:50 Speak English. That just shows how ignorant you are. Saldowitz also questions the vendor's immigration status. You're an American citizen? Yeah, David. How? How did you become an American citizen? At one point, taunting him by taking his picture. The 64-year-old is facing multiple charges, including stalking as a hate crime and harassment, according to the NYPD. Man, why did it have to be one of our guys? You know, what's funny is that they say it's hard to watch. Yeah, because it's really boring. He has a zinger every few minutes, but it's like you watch this guy just basically standing in front of this guy's stand, where, you know, falafel place. The guy's a Coptic Christian, by the way, who runs the stand. And the guy's standing there, he's yakking away, yakking away, and yakking away. It's like, who the hell, you can't watch it.

CHAPTER 24 / 39 Discussion

Israel-Hamas Hostage Exchange, Biden Railroad Claim

A temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has facilitated the release of 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. President Biden suggested that Hamas attacked to disrupt US efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. During his remarks, Biden also mentioned a G20 plan to build an "underground pipeline railroad" from Riyadh to Europe, a statement that drew ridicule for its lack of clarity.

joe biden· hamas· israel· hostages· g20

1:51:41 But it was boring. I agree. What a joker. And anyway, it seems like, you know, we got to shut this thing down too, because this is very annoying to Genocide Joe. And we got to we got to come up with solutions, BB. BB, we got people out there talking to you like you're Trump, so you don't want to be Trump or Hitler, so BB, do something. How about can we do a little thing with some hostages? And over the next three days we're expecting to see more hostages released, 50 in all, but There are hopes that perhaps that number could increase further. Yes, so 50 is over the course of this what was agreed to be a four-day ceasefire but there is in the agreement what has been termed an option to extend for a further five days and you would see in that period

1:52:28 anywhere between 10, 11, 12 up to 13 hostages released again per day and in return for each hostage that is released three Palestinian prisoners would be freed by Israel. Now my understanding of this is that it would be a maximum of five days because the entire scope of this agreement is around civilian women and children. It's thought that there are around a hundred in that category held captive by Hamas in Gaza. So after that point, that takes you to around a hundred people. I mean if they got to a point where a hundred civilian women and children were freed, you would then be into other categories of captives that would include soldiers and also the men being held. Now they are not part of the scope

1:53:16 of this agreement and that's why it's always been termed as a maximum sort of nine days and after that you've got both sides saying the war will go on. Biden, who knows if this was a gaffe or intentional we don't know anymore with our president. But because he doesn't really know I don't really have any proof of what I'm saying, but let me just throw something out there What next question please? Hoping to get cooperation from Arab leaders to release some hostages. What do you say mr. President? I'm hearing a lot, but I'm not going to speak to it right now. There's an overwhelming desire on the part of the region to

1:54:02 Let me back up. I'm I cannot prove what I'm about to say But I believe one of the reasons why Hamas struck when they did was they knew that I was working very closely with the Saudis and others in the region to bring peace to the region by having Recognition of Israel and Israel's right to exist wait a minute. You mean Trump's Abram Accords. That's what you were doing. Mr. President You may recall when we did the g20 about a little while ago. I I was able to get a resolution, a statement passed through there saying we're going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way through the Middle East into Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. and all the way up to Europe. What? Not the railroad, but it would be an underground pipeline railroad. An underground pipeline railroad? What?

1:54:51 Well, hold on. That's crazy. Not the railroad, but it would be an underground pipeline and then railroad. The whole idea is there's overwhelming interest, and I think most Arab nations know it, in coordinating with one another to change the dynamic in their region for a longer term peace. And that is what I'm going to continue to work on. But I have no evidence of it. Jeez. What is he doing? You know that whole thing that you just played was, I don't have the clip where they're doing it, but RT played that clip and ridiculed him endlessly saying he's not, he's taking credit for stuff that we already know is being done here, there, and everywhere else besides him. He's out of the loop. And they went on and on about it. It was actually quite funny.

1:55:38 Although it was hard to prove one way or the other, but they definitely are in the mood for it. And I think Tara Reade's got something to do with mocking him. Well, she's the one. She's good at it. She's good at this stuff. Who knew? I do have one kind of an odd report that I did pick up that we have never heard of. And this is the US attacks. You know, when the Iranians were sending missiles and hitting with some of our bases in Syria and Iraq, we countered with a few bombing runs. Well, I guess one of the ones we did in Iraq was not against the Iranians, but against the

CHAPTER 25 / 39 Discussion

US Airstrikes in Iraq, Sovereignty Violations

The Iraqi government condemned US airstrikes on the Al-Assad airbase, which killed eight Iraqi troops. While the US claimed the targets were Iranian-backed forces, Iraqi officials stated the fighters belonged to the Ministry of Defense's mobilization units. The incident has led to renewed calls in the Iraqi parliament for the removal of US military "advisors" from the country.

iraq· us military· airstrikes· al-assad airbase· sovereignty

1:54:51 Well, hold on. That's crazy. Not the railroad, but it would be an underground pipeline and then railroad. The whole idea is there's overwhelming interest, and I think most Arab nations know it, in coordinating with one another to change the dynamic in their region for a longer term peace. And that is what I'm going to continue to work on. But I have no evidence of it. Jeez. What is he doing? You know that whole thing that you just played was, I don't have the clip where they're doing it, but RT played that clip and ridiculed him endlessly saying he's not, he's taking credit for stuff that we already know is being done here, there, and everywhere else besides him. He's out of the loop. And they went on and on about it. It was actually quite funny.

1:55:38 Although it was hard to prove one way or the other, but they definitely are in the mood for it. And I think Tara Reade's got something to do with mocking him. Well, she's the one. She's good at it. She's good at this stuff. Who knew? I do have one kind of an odd report that I did pick up that we have never heard of. And this is the US attacks. You know, when the Iranians were sending missiles and hitting with some of our bases in Syria and Iraq, we countered with a few bombing runs. Well, I guess one of the ones we did in Iraq was not against the Iranians, but against the

1:56:22 Iraqis and they passed a bunch of laws about it and they want us out of the country. I think again the Middle East once again the US has unleashed air strikes on what it says were Iranian backed forces in Iraq. The attack was carried out by the AC-130 gunship known for its side mounted guttling guns and airborne artillery. Eight Iraqi troops were killed at the Al-Assad airbase Baghdad has condemned the act as a direct violation of its sovereignty. The US strikes were conducted without the notice of the Iraqi government in what was an unacceptable violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

1:57:01 Now, we earlier spoke with independent politician Saad Al-Mutalbi, who strongly condemned the US attack on Iraqi territory. To start with, these are Iraqi fighters with a law that was passed in the Iraqi parliament and they belong with their movements and their affiliation to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and partially to the mobilization units, so public mobilization headquarters. So they are backed by Iraq and not by Iran. They were shooting up the place. Yeah.

1:57:49 And you know, and they don't want us there. Part two, I think they discuss it a bit more. And the attack on these soldiers and fighters was a severe and gross violation of Iraq's sovereignty. This is completely condemned and we think that the Americans again have violated the agreement they have with the Republic of Iraq. Therefore, we think that the agreement that we have with the Americans, or many people in Iraq think that this agreement is null and void and has no consequences whatsoever. So why do we have the American advisors since they are not really advisors, they are a fighting force. Advisors. And a strike force.

1:58:35 Therefore, there are many calls now in Iraqi parliament for the Americans to cease their presence in Iraq and move away from any type of military representation. Oh yeah, so wait, the advisors aren't just advisors? That doesn't sound right. It's like, why are we there? I thought we left. No, we took off, we left Iraq and left the green zone to itself. And then we still have the base for some reason. I mean, do we have any respect for another country's sovereignty? We have a base in Syria? Well, you and I do. And I think many people who listen to this show do. But the military industrial complex who has captured the entire political system clearly does not. If you want an answer. No, I didn't really want an answer.

CHAPTER 26 / 39 Discussion

Iceland Volcanic Activity, Glacial Cycles

A report from a glacier guide in Iceland suggests that volcanic activity in the region is linked to a 40-year cycle of glacial retreat and advance. While some attribute recent eruptions to climate change-induced melting, historical data from the Icelandic Met Office shows periods of advancement are expected in the coming decade. The current earthquake swarms are located in southwest Iceland, an area with few glaciers.

iceland· volcanoes· glaciers· climate change· vivid iceland

1:59:28 I'd just like to complain. Because this would really bring it home because you know climate change, the glacier melt is what's causing these volcanic eruptions. Yeah and of course we did get a boots on the ground report from one of our buddies, one of our producers in Iceland. Which I will share now. Good. And this is our resident knight in Iceland.

2:00:14 His name is Night Champion of the Frozen Wastes and he has real boots on the ground inside because he has spent the last six years as a glacier guide. He runs his own private glacier guiding service and YouTube channel called Vivid Iceland. So, yes, we have lots of volcanic activity. In Iceland, most active volcanoes lie beneath glaciers. These glaciers function as counterbalance to the magmatic forces below them. We're talking millions of tons of ice crushing the terrain below and effectively pushing back against the uplift that magma can cause. Think of applying pressure to a wound to stop the bleeding. As you can imagine, as the glacier melts there's less ice mass on top, the land rises due to volcanic activity and you will likely see more eruptions. With that said, what all these reports leave out is that the location of the earthquake swarm is in southwest Iceland, a place with

2:01:16 glaciers yeah he also no glaciers there is bullcrap which is funny because they won't talk about that but he also did I think it that's the letter that has the 40-year cycle that he highlighted you can read that yes But yes, they are retreating melting but according to the records from the Icelandic Met Office there appears to be a 40-ish year cycle of glacial retreat and then a period again of glacial advance for about 40 years according to the climactic data climate climatic sorry

CHAPTER 27 / 39 Discussion

COP28 Climate Summit, Carbon Pricing Goals

The COP28 climate summit focuses on pressuring the oil and gas industry to increase investment in clean energy and reduce methane emissions. A primary goal of the summit is to establish global carbon pricing, estimated between $50 and $100 per ton. Critics argue this is a move toward a global tax system that will impact consumer costs for energy, food, and transportation.

cop28· carbon tax· methane· renewables· blackrock

2:01:54 Freud climatic data I've seen over my guiding career here We should be entering the glacial advancement stage within the next five to ten years The winter certainly have felt colder over the last two years and we've seen record snowfall in many areas Which would lead to glacial advance a few years down the track. Oh goodness There's your boots on the ground from a guy who actually takes people on guided tours over the glaciers. Oh But just believe the heaven forbid the truth based transparent media So back to COP 29, this is the big one and I believe it's in Saudi Arabia I think is where it's being held. Some place you have to fly into. You gotta fly in, it's gonna be great, you're gonna have special papers so you can drink and I think Pierre is coming in from Paris to do the ladies hair and well we have a moment of truth. The COP 28 summit taking place. Oh I thought it was 29, is it 28?

2:02:54 I don't know, I will keep the numbers. fix it. The report shows that the oil industry currently only accounts for 1% of global investment in clean energy, while meanwhile being responsible for about 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. And our main And that may not seem like a huge amount, but that's just from its own operations. So, extracting oil and gas from the ground, processing the fuels and delivering them to consumers, for example. A UN analysis released earlier this month showed that the planet is set to heat up by nearly 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. So if we're to stand any chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees,

2:03:46 The IEA says drastic measures need to be put into place. And what do those include? Well, the report is quite clear in what it wants from oil and gas players and that the solution is twofold. It wants them to cut the pollution we mentioned earlier by more than 60%, something it says isn't too difficult, especially when it comes to methane emissions. And it needs to ramp up its investment in renewables, which currently only stands at about 2.5% of its total capital spending. It's interesting to note as well that the report says the oil and gas industry needs to let go of carbon capture as a solution to climate change because it's simply not adapted to the scale of its missions. Oh, that doesn't work anymore.

2:04:25 Oh, go figure. Since when? Well, since COP 28 or 29 or whatever it is. Hey, I'm having dinner with the oil baron on Thursday, so I'll hear how well his stocks are doing and how much more BlackRock has invested because this is great for the oil and gas industry. But I have, I think, figured out what this is going to be about every single COP. has a goal. It is, of course, to move the needle. We want to move it a little bit further, make people afraid, worried about the world coming to an end, scare young children into not even wanting to start families of their own because why bother? We're all going to die. You don't want to see your child die in flames or in the water, the boiling water. You don't want to see him die like lobsters in a pot. And your own news

2:05:17 did this report and I think we now know what the point is of this COP. A week before world leaders meet for the COP28 climate summit in July, Canada's hosted EU leaders for a summit in Newfoundland. Whilst there they signed up to the Green Alliance, a package of environmental pledges to limit climate change to one and a half degrees. On green issues, we've been aligned for so long with the European Union in knowing that the economy and the environment don't just have to go together, they do go together.

2:05:53 There is a lot of consequences for our societies and climate change requires innovation. So I would strengthen our ambition to work together, to innovate, to develop more technologies, to resolve those difficulties and those challenges together. They've agreed to expand carbon pricing, which is a climate change tax, to 60% of global emissions by 2030. There it is. The goal of COP28 is to get pricing. They desperately need the pricing of carbon estimated to be somewhere between $50 and $100 per ton of carbon. They don't even say carbon dioxide, just carbon. Just carbon. Carbon, you know, black, dirty, sooty carbon.

2:06:46 And that is your tax. That is your global tax that will be taxed on everything you do, everything you eat, everywhere you go, every move you make. You have a washing machine? Here's the carbon tax that goes on top of that for dirtying the world. That's the point of COP28. They need to get... Yeah, that would be a good point. That would be the one to do. Now, in small ways, we're feeling a climate change mitigation here. Interesting article from, what was it? Liveandletfly.com, liveandletfly. We know that in the United States, but I believe it will be worldwide if it isn't already. And one of my buddies from Holland, he's a KLM 747 pilot. I think he's coming in next week. I hope to be able to talk to him because he would know. He's a captain.

CHAPTER 28 / 39 Discussion

United Airlines, New Turbulence Safety Protocols

Effective December 2023, United Airlines requires flight attendants to be buckled in by 10,000 feet due to increased turbulence risks during descent. This policy change may end beverage service earlier on short-haul flights. The airline attributes the shift to "approach maneuvers" designed to save fuel, though some link the narrative to climate change mitigation efforts.

united airlines· turbulence· flight attendants· climate change· aviation

2:07:39 They're doing these new approaches. The approach now, instead of going down in a stair-step fashion, going from flight level to flight level to avoid any chop or any jet wash turbulence from other aircraft. is a thing of the past. We need to save on fuel so the airlines can get their carbon credits, their goody-goody points. So they're just retarding the engines and we're basically, we're gliding all the way down so we use very little fuel and passengers be damned. And here is the article, why service will end earlier on your next United Airlines flight?

2:08:20 Effective December 1st, 2023, flight attendants must be safely buckled into their jump seats for landing no later than the double chime at approximately 10,000 feet above the ground. So short-haul flights, you're never going to see a beverage. No. And why is this? It even says in the article, at lower flight altitudes, pilots are conducting approach maneuvers and aircraft sensor data has shown an elevated risk for turbulence. Yes, because of your approach maneuvers. Flight attendants have sustained significant injuries in the final approach phase of the flight. Sure. But none of this is necessary. None of it. And what are you really saving? I mean, seriously. But you need to be as uncomfortable as possible because of climate change. People are going to be puking.

2:09:15 Scared, scared. Yeah, a lot of people don't like turbulence. Most people don't like turbulence. Yeah. But who cares? We're sorry, ladies and gentlemen, due to climate change, there's some turbulence up ahead. Remember, pay your climate tax, your carbon tax. Thank you. Ding ding. Flight attendants, please be seated. That's that's it's it's so sad. We're ruining life. for a hoax. Yeah, well, I remember my my turbulence story. Oh, I'm in some I'm done in the Southern California region and I'm going through we're coming in from I think for Phoenix to Ontario and Ontario, California or Ontario, Ontario, California, Southern California. And

2:10:11 All of a sudden the plane gets jerked all over the place, the wings look like they're gonna seem like they're gonna come out. It's just a huge mess. It was just unbelievable. It was the worst experience I've ever had in an airplane. And the pilot comes on and says, I'm sorry that we had pierced it. We've gone through the wake of a B-2 bomber. That'll do it, yeah. And we're not giving a heads up or anything. We're very sorry. And so we went through. So I am on a plane, some overseas flight, and I'm sitting next to one of these sales guys who is basically flying all the time.

2:10:49 And so we start exchanging flight stories about our horror stories and I tell him the story about going through the wake of a B-2 bomber. And he says, oh really, you think that was bad? And then he says to me, did all the overhead compartments open up and throw luggage all over the place, knocking people in the head? I'm guessing not. No. He says, oh, well then you have not been through real turbulence. So that was the end of that story. So I haven't been through real turbulence, so I don't know what that's like. I didn't really have the crescendo I was expecting. I was waiting for more of a climax, but OK. It was an anti-climax. It was an anti-climatic story. When you sit next to one of these guys who's basically doing nothing but flying all the time. Yeah. You can't forget talking to him about flying. You can't beat him.

2:11:43 Of course, all of these problems will go away when we have electric planes. That was a good laugh. Once we have electric planes, it'll be fine. Then we can just, you know, there'll be no jet wash. It'll be, it'll be beautiful. You'll fly for exactly 22 minutes. Yeah. There'll be a lot of little stopover points. There are charging stations. You fly for 20 minutes, just go to the charging station and you sit there for two hours. Let it recharge. Hop, hop. I'm sorry. Off you go. We laugh, but sadly it's not a laughing matter. It's bad. I got an interesting note this morning about Sam Altman's sister. Did you know that Sam Altman has a sister? No, I don't know that. Who likes to write on Medium. Okay, a lot of people do. Nobody goes there because you can't anyway. Her name is Annie.

CHAPTER 29 / 39 Discussion

Sam Altman, Family Allegations and OpenAI Drama

Annie Altman, sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has published allegations on Medium regarding a history of control and abuse within their family. The posts appeared amidst the recent leadership turmoil at OpenAI. The claims include accusations of conditional love and psychological harm, adding a personal dimension to the public scrutiny of the tech executive.

sam altman· open ai· annie altman· medium· silicon valley

2:12:50 Annie? Annie Altman. I have experienced drama like the OpenAI drama. I grew up in it. But I was repeatedly told, quote, not to talk about it and to allow another person to remove my human agency. I have lived under my siblings' authority my whole life. The narrative of Annie is crazy and Annie doesn't know how to take care of herself is what I was raised and conditioned in. That narrative along with intentionally conditional love is what was used to control me my whole life. I mean, she even accuses him of incest. Oh, geez. Yes. Well, that's not good. Sue her. Well, I mean, this whole thing is quite... Is there a link in the show notes? We should all read it.

2:13:41 Yes, there is a link in the show notes and she said she even says something weird here about Let me see Let me just find that where it is No, so she began in-person sex work in late 2020 to be able to financially support herself and then later with virtual sex and And she says, somewhere in here, she says, you know, thanks Sam, I helped you figure out your sexuality after you climbed in bed with me night after night. It's creepy. Oh God! Yeah, this whole thing is creepy. Oh, that's not a good thing for him. It's not a good thing for her. I'm gonna switch gears before we get to the break, because I watched the K-part and they had some woman from The Beacon on the PBS.

CHAPTER 30 / 39 Discussion

Jonathan Capehart, COVID-19 Science Gratitude

During a Thanksgiving segment on PBS, journalist Jonathan Capehart expressed gratitude for "science" after testing positive for COVID-19. Capehart contrasted his current situation with the early days of the pandemic, praising medical advancements for allowing him to manage the illness at home. The segment was noted for its strong support of the Biden administration's handling of international crises.

jonathan capehart· pbs· covid-19· science· thanksgiving

2:14:35 The beacon? I just want two clips. What's the beacon? The beacon, the free beacon. You've seen it. It's an online newspaper. Oh, yes, okay. Yes. Where are they located, the free beacon? In Washington, DC. There was the Washington free beacon. And they would put this, because nobody on Friday, this last Friday, everyone's on vacation, nobody's watching it. So they actually put some of their, maybe not a, blatant liberal leftist progressive. Oh, wait a minute, someone else snuck in while everyone was out partying? Well, Brooke went on vacation, but K-Part did the show from home and I have two clips from him because one of them is just too good. Wait a minute, so he was just by himself on a show that's supposed to be red-blue? No, he's by himself with the woman from the Free Beacon. Oh, okay. He's by himself at home. Right, okay. On the Zoom.

2:15:28 on the zoom. So here we go with it. I just want to play this so we know why people love Biden. They're going to vote for Biden and people think that Biden is going to get kicked out of office. Maybe wrong. Let's listen to. K-Part talking about Biden. Right now, when we most need it. This is the time when President Biden is at his best. He knows what he's doing and I just wish that Democrats in general and the American public in particular would give him the grace and give him the room to exert American will and American pressure as much as he can on a situation that is infinitely more complex

2:16:06 than a lot of his critics give it credit for. This is Israel Hamas that he's talking about? Yeah, yeah, he's talking about that and Biden knows what he's doing. He does. He says, so shut up. I don't have any proof of what I'm saying, but I know what I'm doing. So at the end of it, they they introduced a Thanksgiving segment. And I just thought this was too rich not to cut and play. I have 40 seconds left and I will say that I am grateful on this Thanksgiving for my family and their support. So each of you have 20 seconds. Jonathan Capehart, what are you grateful for? Nick, I'm grateful for science. On Sunday, I tested positive for COVID. So I've been at home since Sunday.

2:16:52 And three years ago right now, the nation was listening to ambulance sirens, hearing about hospitals that were overflowing with people who had come down with coronavirus, folks who were intubated, folks who passed away without being able to see their family. And because of science, I got a positive COVID diagnosis. May the science be with you! He had a positive COVID test? Because of the science? Yeah, he's at home with COVID. Because of the science? Did he mention the science gave him the vaccine and that he shouldn't have COVID or did he forget to? He doesn't get into the kind of detail, come on.

CHAPTER 31 / 39 Discussion

Anna Indiana, AI-Generated Music Critique

Anna Indiana is a fully AI-generated "singer-songwriter" whose image, lyrics, and melodies are created by algorithms. Her debut song, "Betrayed by this Town," has been criticized for its lack of human talent and off-key notes. The discussion highlights the current limitations of AI in replicating creative human endeavors and the debate over Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

anna indiana· ai music· artificial intelligence· songwriting· agi

2:17:42 That's good. That's good. Have you seen the this I want to play this just before the break because it just tickles me Have you seen that AI Indiana Anna, Indiana? I'm sorry, Anna, Indiana This is the latest in artificial intelligence Anna, Indiana is an AI robot babe animated thing and not only is she a Her image, her movements, her speech, but also the song is completely created by artificial intelligence. Oh yes. No, I have not heard of this. Well you tell me when you want to stop. Hello world. My name is Anna Indiana and I'm so excited to share my music with you. Here's my first song, Betrayed by this Town.

2:18:32 As an AI singer-songwriter, everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it. By the way, it's a little upbeat ditty called Betrayed by This Town. Sitting at my favorite cafe Sipping my tea, it's Saturday Thinking about all he's done To everyone This town is full of broken dreams Shattered hopes and silent screams Do you want more? Are you digging it? I'm listening, I wanna hear a little more. Toe Tapper? It's terrible. Yes.

2:19:33 Here we go, here's the hook. The trade by this town, let's tear it all down. Okay, I can stop. You can stop with that off-key note. The trade by this town, let's tear it all down. This is never going to work, people. Who is afraid of AI after hearing that? Please. I got I got I got a message from someone. You sounded like a little girl wanting to take away AR-15s. You have no idea what you're talking about. Don't compare LLMs to AGI. It will come within 10 hours, 10 days or 10,000 years, but it's coming. What? Yeah.

2:20:15 When did you complain about AR-15s? I didn't, but that was the comparison. You sound like a little teenage girl crying about AR-15s. That was... I mean, this is the email I get. What were you bitching about? About that I said AI sucks and it's never gonna get to AGI. It has its moments, but if it's used like this songwriter used it, it sucks, yeah. You cannot, you cannot replicate the human talent. It can't be done. Yeah, you can. If you're stealing from human talent, you can. Yeah, and then you get this. No, you know, that's a bad example. No, I'm saying you may be able to steal from human talent to replicate what human talent did, but you can't create new, new talented work.

CHAPTER 32 / 39 Discussion

No Agenda Stream, Community and Trolls

The hosts discuss the interactive nature of the "Troll Room" during live recordings, which provides immediate feedback and energy. Listeners are encouraged to use modern podcast apps to receive alerts for live broadcasts and new episodes. The segment also mentions the "No Agenda Social" platform as a place for community interaction away from mainstream social media.

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2:21:05 I love my job and I love what I do. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the clean communications ecosystem. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora. In the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, also in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to our trolls who have been hanging out in the troll room. Let's count them shall we? What do you think? Sunday, gonna be low, I'd say 2000. 2078?

2:21:49 More than you thought. This is not bad. Much more than I thought. Well, but it's better than you thought. I'll take it. It's two, more than 2,000 trolls listening to this banter. Our witty banter live. You want to call it banter? Banter. I'll call it banter. That's exactly what it is. Good to see you here, trolls. They have been pretty active, actually. I only saw one or two trolls kicked for flooding. But otherwise, everyone's been pretty nice. You know, the usual stuff. But this is what it's for. If you, if you, so don't go on a social network trolling people. It's not worth it. You get into long drawn-out conversations and then you got to check to see if you got any likes or if someone replied angry to you and you get all

2:22:33 and then you're doing you the minute you finish dinner you're back on your troll alert you're watching and it's your heart rate goes up no you're only giving Silicon Valley more more more attention don't do that go to this troll room get rid of it right away And it's gone. And then you're gone and people go like, ah, you suck. And then we're on to the next thing. There's no permanent record. It goes away. It's ephemeral. It goes away. It's perfect that way. It's good. It's good. It's a good thing to do. You can do it twice a week. on Thursdays and Sundays. You can actually do it 24 hours a day. Go to TrollRoom.io where you can listen to the No Agenda stream which is 24-7. Tons of live shows. A lot of podcasts record live now which we kind of pioneered for everybody.

2:23:20 And then you package that up, boom, send that out as your podcast for those who miss it. It gives you a live studio audience at the same time. It gives you good feedback. It gives you good energy. And that's why we love our trolls. Thank you for being here, trolls. Of course, you can also listen to the live stream and be alerted when the stream goes live. Find a modern podcast app which is not connected to the Apple database or any platforms. No, it's modern. podcastapps.com which will give you alerts when the show goes live. In addition to that, if you can't listen live, when we post the show within 90 seconds your app will tell you, boom, it's ready for you. No waiting for these legacy apps to, I'm gonna see if there's something new over there. No, no, get something modern. Right now, what are we drinking?

2:24:12 I am drinking Signature brand seltzer water original. Signature brand seltzer. Now, is this... What is Signature brand? Is that like a... It's one of those house brands you get at a grocery store. Okay, so is Signature the name of the chain that it's at or...? No, it's Signature's one of those, like Lucerne, it's one of those house brand that you find in certain grocery stores. Okay. I'm drinking a waterloo Waterloo's I like waterloo. Yeah, well it has natural flavors which we now know is basically chemicals Well wait until if you I'm saving for the next show because they're obviously we're not gonna have time for it today But I have a whole series of clips on How these things are killing us? Very so it's the art of the teas ladies and gentlemen how how you are going to die on the next Noah Jenna That's beautiful

2:25:14 So that was and of course there's no agenda social.com where you can. You can follow along with all the trolls who like to troll and like to get into arguments and like to say, you're wrong! No, you're wrong! Jew hater! Muslim hater! It's great. It's a beautiful place over there. You can follow Adam at NoahJenTheSocial.com. I'm not posting anymore. I'm just liking and boosting. Or John C. Dworak. You have not seen a post from me. I'm only liking and liking and there's some there's some douchebag is Adam Curry memes. Oh, this is a funny account. Have you seen this guy? No. So he's taken, you know, my my old logo of mine. He's put me and Tina in his header. So it's a total parody account, I guess. And he's posting memes. And they're even worse than the regular memes people post. It's the Adam Curry memes account. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, yeah,

CHAPTER 33 / 39 Discussion

Producer Contributions, Art and Talent

The show acknowledges the diverse contributions of its "producers," including those who provide boots-on-the-ground reports, news links, and digital artwork. A specific apology is issued to an artist whose work was mistakenly identified as AI-generated. The "Value for Value" model is emphasized as the primary means of supporting the show's production and distribution.

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2:26:17 Maybe he'll come up with a good one, but I haven't seen it yet. He's not boostable. It's not boostable yet now we are very thankful for the Producers because we don't have listeners. We only have producers You should be a producer in some form of the three T's time talents and treasure and We got boots on the ground from Iceland. That's a perfect example of talent and time to write up the huge boots on the ground report. There's many people who contribute to this show in really an enormous way. I mean, we can't even count how many people do things to really help produce and make this the best podcast in the universe.

2:26:58 And it's even the guy, who's the guy? Is it Pate? Who posts on LinkedIn. Every single show he posts on LinkedIn under the No Agenda account. Which I guess he just registered No Agenda on LinkedIn. Yeah, that's what he did. And he posts it and it's great. That's very helpful. There's people who follow it over there. Yeah. So we love stuff like this. You can also make make clips, you know, that, you know, a lot of people like Dave Ackerman doesn't make clips, but he sends me 15 links at least daily of short little news clips on, on YouTube. And I use very few of them really, but it keeps me up to speed with the international news. They're all short and you know, that's, that's a huge help. These things really help. There's a guy who sends me C-SPAN stuff of callers who are getting, you know, of weird callers.

2:27:49 I mean, you have these people too in your life, I'm sure. This is incredibly helpful and that's what producers really do. And never, never hesitate to send things, oh, they've probably already seen it. No, no, no, no. You don't know that. Usually when you think that, we haven't seen it. So never hesitate. John at Dvorak.org, Adam at curry.com. Woo-hoo! And of course, we love to thank our artists who bring us artwork, many pieces to choose from. At the end of each live recording, we go to noagendaartgenerator.com right after we've done the credits and we select something from the vast uploads, which sometimes is 30 or 40 pieces. It's really quite amazing.

2:28:34 Before we discuss, I'm gonna say, well, continue, but before we discuss this piece, I wanna go back an extra show to 1609. Okay. Where we had the gobbling AI monster, you've got the winner. Yes. Well, at the bottom of that collection, you'll find a piece by Capitalist Agenda called Rock 1609 Well, where there's the artist looking at a screen and drawing a turkey. Yes. I think at the time I was under the impression that it may have been AI generated. Turns out it wasn't. No, because he posted the actual creation of that art on No Agenda Social and he drew the whole thing from scratch. And he showed how he did it in real time. Yeah. He had a screen capture. And how do you feel about this now that you accused him falsely?

2:29:24 Well, I didn't accuse them. I don't know if I accused them falsely. You kind of did. Yeah, you're going to get shivved in jail. That's what's going to happen. I probably did. I mean, the piece we picked was good, but this is a capitalist agenda. I went back and looked at his art. I gave him, put the newsletter, I used one of his pieces. I'll probably use a few more because he's done a lot of stuff, and he's doing everything from scratch, it looks like to me. And he's one of the really, and he's good. He's like really good. But it just didn't hit us the way we usually like to choose something for Thanksgiving. Yeah, sometimes. It's definitely not what we're looking for. But I'm just saying capitalist agenda as an artist is not just telling the AI to crank something out like in today's art. We see a bunch of it. It must have been very demoralizing for him to hear that. Well, or not.

2:30:18 Mean because it's you to do that much work over just quickly hmm is pretty astonishing And it would you know it's all I think it's borderline on a compliment to say it looks like it was like yeah The guy's the guy is clearly a illustrative genius. No he is a is top now mastermind Yes, mastermind, so I want to apologize to a capitalist agenda. Oh there you go oh Well, we apologize to Capitalist Agenda and we simultaneously thank Francisco Scaramanga who brought us the artwork for episode 610. That was our Thanksgiving Day episode titled P. Doom. Thank you, Sam Holtman. No, thank you Twitch CEO, Douche, Techno Douche. This was by far our favorite Thanksgiving creepy image.

2:31:10 Yeah, it was I'm guessing this was AI. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yes, it's creepy. It has a very the subtlety of the creepiness, especially the little girl holding that that huge knife. And then the kid with breast man on his. And the kid with breast man on his chest. His apron. It was it was hard to beat and the other piece of he looks very very disturbed Turkey is alive and not happy So that would that piece was that's it to me is a classic kind of image that we get a kick out of It was it was good. There's a lot of other good pieces. There's no doubt we could have picked any of maybe five to ten pieces and

2:31:55 Some of the ones that are really super AI looking like pickle surprises Up above that and let's eat grandma Or let's eat grandma or let's eat grandma I mean the clippy stuff was good, but you should know that it's Thanksgiving. We're going to You know, we're gonna pick a turkey thing. We're gonna pick a turkey image, a Thanksgiving image. Well, a lot of them had a turkey... Comic Strip Blogger managed to get a turkey to hug Clippy. Yeah. I thought that was qualified. It was cute. Yeah, it was cute. But it wasn't like... No. The little girl and the little boy wins. Yeah. It was just the creepiest of all creepy. We didn't talk about it. I kind of liked the roach giving. That was a good AI image.

2:32:46 The family sitting around a roach. Where's that? It's on the left. Oh, that one. Oh my God, it's disgusting. See, I don't have to bring that up. Happy Bugsgiving. And by the way, y'all can stop with the Ukraine, Israel flags and all that stuff. We're not using them. We're not using them. Was there anything else? No, no, it was just there was other good stuff. But no, I thought capitalist agendas. Turkey parade was good, by the way, Tantaniel. That's a very accurate prediction of a depiction of the speck cook that I yeah, she's Dutch, right? That's the thousand layers. It turns out it's about 30 layers because I did take it to the Thanksgiving dinner and said that I had anyone believe your bogus story. You know, the cake actually came back.

2:33:39 Then it came back. Well, it wasn't eaten entirely and the international arms dealers wife dropped off the rest of the cake yesterday. Here's the rest of your cake. It didn't all get eaten. I'm sure you want to continue eating. It wasn't any good? It was good. It was good. But there was a lot of other desserts too. Oh, you were competing in the dessert category. I didn't realize I was competing in the dessert category. And there was some very Very very tasty stuff, but I think it was probably stove top the stuffing. I have a nose for these things Yeah pond office homemade Anyway, we thank us Francisco's caramanga very much for his artwork and of course all of the artists Who clearly they're all putting in work one way or the other and we appreciate it's great I mean what a luxury to be able to choose from I mean how much do we have today? Looks like we got another 20 to select from today

CHAPTER 34 / 39 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits, Donations and Titles

The hosts read credits for executive and associate executive producers who have contributed significant financial support. Notable donations include a posthumous "daming" for a producer's late wife and several large contributions from Australian listeners in "dollar-y dues." These producers are granted honorary titles and recognized for their role in maintaining the show's independence.

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2:34:40 That is a luxurious position to be in. Thank you. Makes a big difference to the show. It gets people hyped up, interested, reminds them to listen. It brings in new people. It's just overall a wonderful service you provide. Now we'd like to thank the people who brought the treasure to the show. Our executive and associate executive producers are up front. Anything above 300 is an executive producer. Anything from between 200 and 300 is associate executive producer. These are real credits. You can put them on your LinkedIn, put them in your... your CV and your resume. You can also go to imdb.com. That's where all the pros who have these executive and associate executive producer credits, where they post them and put their little, their little, you know, little bios. You can open one with that. It's completely official. If you look for no agenda on imdb.com, you'll see hundreds and hundreds of producers who have done exactly the same thing and a big.

2:35:35 Thank you to Mark Rachal, I think it is. Rachal, R-A-C-H-A-L from Monument, Colorado, with a long row of threes, 3,333.33 cents says thank you for the continued value you guys provide. If I could get a dedouching... You've been dedouched. And with that he wants an I Got Ants jingle, which is of course not really a jingle, but we play the beginning of it. And house renting and jobs karma, I would like to my title to be Sir Not Sure.

2:36:13 For the roundtable, white Russians for me. Keep up all the great work. Well, thank you very much. You got it. And that will include a PhD, of course, since you came in on time. I got ants. I got ants. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! Karma. Nice. Before I read this semi-sad note from Sir Donald the Fire Bottles, I want to mention an interesting situation that occurred, which is a donor who wanted a PhD as a gift, I think for her son or somebody, and but wants to give it to him on Christmas. Oh.

2:37:07 surprise. So we're holding back the mention of the donation and putting it aside. Jay says she'll be able to do this, which is good. Which is classic no agenda risk. It is with us, but not necessarily with her. So she's gonna put it aside and it'll get mentioned on the Christmas show, but it will be a PhD that will go out, sent to her that she can package up and give as a gift for Christmas. If anybody wants to do that, you have till Wednesday. Yes, that'll be the 333rd day of the year. The PhDs end. School is no longer in session. But I thought that was a cute idea. But we had to keep her off this list. And we're not gonna do this for...

2:37:53 knighthoods and other things. This is a special, special, special, special, right? Yes, please. We don't want to start doing this routinely. But for this Christmas we'll do it for the PhDs only. Yes. So now we have Sir Donald, 13333 Spokane and on United Federation of Planets Letterhead? Yes. I enclose the 133333 for a switcheroo times two. First, a thousand dollars for my posthumous daming of my wife, Paula, who passed away in October. We didn't know this and... No, we didn't. Wow, man. Please, please dame her, dame Paula, rescuer of secondhand kitties, in honor of the many times we took in the pet cats of friends who had passed away.

2:38:44 Second, a donation of 333.33 in the name of Kristen Tedesco. Please de-douche. You've been de-douched. At the family gathering after my wife's burial, I discovered that Our niece, Kristen, is an avid listener to No Agenda. How about that? But has not yet donated to the show. I cannot allow this situation to continue. Sure, Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles. Thank you, Donald. Yes, and condolences. And condolences for sure. Yes, of course. And I'll just say she's graduated, brother. She's graduated to heaven. Especially if she's a rescuer of secondhand kitties.

2:39:32 Sir Mike is in Glen Osmond, South Australia, in Australia. 1013. ITM John and Adam, how could I pass up an opportunity to add a PhD in media deconstruction to my BS in onology? Is that how you pronounce it? Onology? What is onology? I have no idea what onology is. There's got to be something good. Oh-en-ology. Did you say enology? What is enology? Wine making. Whoa! You should be talking to him. Really? Probably working with one of the big boys in Australia. They got southern Australia's got tons of Cabernet manufacturing. Yes. It's all called Skippy.

2:40:14 Not only that but my one on one three donation is a show club donation in dollary dues ah It's 1611 in Australian dollary dues okay, man. He's taking license with that mom. I'm gonna. I'm not gonna argue I'm gonna give it to him come on. He's a he's a he has a BS and analogy. He's a wine guy This donation makes me a baron and as such if it pleases the Peerage Committee... No, I think what he donated is 1611. Yes, he donated 1611, correct. Yeah, to get to a thousand. Yeah, we love that. It's great. So that also counts for a show number donation. Oh yes, absolutely. Which is a separate credit. This donation makes me a baron and as such if it pleases the Peerage Committee I request a change from Sir Mike Black Knight to Sir Plus, Keeper of the Federal Reserve.

CHAPTER 35 / 39 Discussion

PhD Program, Media Deconstruction Graduates

A special "PhD in Media Deconstruction" program is highlighted, with several donors receiving certificates for their long-term support. The segment addresses the legality of using the PhD title and includes a testimonial for executive resume services. The hosts emphasize that these honors are a way to recognize the "wisdom" gained through years of listening to the show.

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2:41:08 How about that? Surplus, get it? I got it. Thanks for your continued efforts at amygdala diminution. Dim-dim-diminution. Help me, John. Diminution. Diminution. Diminution. Love and lit! Thank you for your courage, Sir Mike Black Knight. Barren to be. You got it. So now I have Dreb Scott who comes in with one thousand thirty three with this donation I'm hoping to get is on someone with a sweet PhD action. I work at a company with many people who have PhDs after their name. I'm wondering if I get accused of stolen valor if I start putting PhD after my name in my email. You know anyone can just do that. Yeah that's not stolen valor. Except in certain states there are certain you have to look at your state laws. No I looked that up. I looked that up.

2:41:52 You cannot do that if it's an educational institution, which we're not. I'm sorry? In certain states you can't do that, but it only counts if you're doing it from a bogus educational institution. We're not an educational institution. No, we're a bogus podcast. No, we're not bogus! Oh, no, we're real. Sorry. Anyway. We're pros. Pros. So yeah, you have to look it up and see what you can do. Yeah, if you're not, yes, it varies from state to state. There are state laws that govern use of the PhD as doctor. You know, when you're in Brazil, I used to be famous in Brazil and I'd give a lot of speeches down there and they'd always introduce this public, the keynote speaker as doctor.

2:42:42 Always found that interesting. Thanks for all you guys do keep up the amazing deconstruction in the best podcast in the universe Dreb Scott our stuka the Southern California mega region no jingles. No karma will accept that and also Thank You Dreb Scott He is the guy who does all of the chapter work for every single no agenda episode Which you can see in in the chapters in any modern podcast app Dreb Scott's the guy who bought my frisbee and He's often known as the Bruce Wayne of Podcasting 2.0. He is a very, very mysterious character and we love him as such. Sir Roley of Crystal Palace is in Washington DC.

2:43:25 1000. ITM John and Adam. Thought I'd take the opportunity to earn my PhD so I can finally fit in with all my wife's friends and colleagues. It's not easy hitting elitist in the mouth here in DC. Well, you nailed it. Keep up the good work. You're helping preserve my sanity. Just a go Karma for my anchor baby and smoking hot wife, please. You've got Karma. Maurice from Parts Unknown. Hi, John, Adam and John. I've been a listener since episode one. Sorry to hear that. Actually, since the Daily Source Code. There you go. Wow. And now my contributions have been and until now, my contributions have been time by hitting people in the mouth. But I can't deny being. Oh, I know. Maurice, of course, I know who he is. And so I can't refuse such an offer. Hey, Maurice.

2:44:22 Maurice, yeah. Maurice. Maurice. There you go. You have kept me sane during difficult times in general and in my business. Seeing different perspectives and information from the... by the way, we have to ship this to Holland? Yes, you are shipping it to Holland. Yeah, it's really... okay, well, you got to track it because these overseas shipments of anything get lost. We've lost so many rings. Or stolen. I'm not only working 33 years in the media, but finally I can call myself a doctor in media deconstruction. Keep on working that system from within, but now with a PhD for my night name, I would like to be known as Sir M. Knight of the media landscape. And if that's okay with the peerage committee, that is. Thank you guys for all that you do. And please give a karma to all who need it. You've got karma.

2:45:22 And up next from Australia JD the former spook with a thousand. Oh man, Tina's cooking something good I will try to keep it short. You didn't first First time donor, long time boner. To say the least. First time donor, long time boner. Like a common parasite I've been suckling and freeloading from the host since the early hundreds, most likely the 200s. The two of you had been with me for a very long time and heavily influenced my way of thinking. I wanted to chip in and make amends for my protracted period of douchebaggery and also take advantage of the PhD program. Please accept my humble offering of $1,000 USD which equals $1,500 Australian dollar-y dues. Could you kindly recognize the dollar for dollar? $1,500 so I'll be considered as a halfway along my journey from knighthood towards baronethood.

2:46:16 Well, I guess we do. No problem. I guess we do. Oh, check this out. I'm an ex-law enforcement officer and four-letter agency operative of 15 years, the Australian equivalent of your American three-letter agencies. Ooh. And I did not accept the... Spook. Spook. I did not accept the vaccine into my life and subsequently found myself looking for alternate employment. Really? They kick spooks out? That's terrible. That's dumb. Because you got information, man. Even armed with documented medical and religious exemptions and with competent legal representation, I was unable to swim against the raging current, which was the madness of the COVID mandates. With God preparing a path for me, I was able to secure work and now find myself in a corporate role, which I consider to be just as satisfying at times.

2:47:12 If either of you finally make the trip to Australia, come to Queensland and we will gladly host, entertain and guide you around. At the very least, we will throw an NA party to remember. That goes for any other traveling No Agenda producer. Side note, is there a No Agenda message board for weary NA travelers who need connection as they travel? Yes, noagendasocial.com. Or you can always organize meetups. Please knight me, sir-viving the communist takeover. Great note, JD, the former spook. Thank you. Yeah, it was good. Jamie Richard Renard Jamie Renard is up next. He came in with $1,000 switcheroo donation for my husband David Jamie is the is the wife if anyone I know deserves a PhD in media deconstruction. It's him nice

2:48:03 Please dedouche him. You've been dedouched. Ignite him, sir-cum-stance. Protector of the sharp-clawed creatures. Thank you, Jamie. There's our wife. There you go. Robert Shepard with a thousand. Love the show. No jingles, no karma. Thank you for all you do. Love and light. Right back at you, Robert. Thank you. Donald Barthelow. Barthelow. A thousand. Traditional spelling of privileges, please. Donald Barthelot on the certificate. You have to go to noagenderrings.com and fill out the form because we need the address and all the rest of it. Where to ship it and then what name you want. No Jingles, No Karma over 1200 hours in show slash class, which is the media deconstruction class that we give. Yes. Every Thursday and Sunday. And still loving it. Thank you, sir. Jim Turner.

2:49:02 With a grand. ITM, gentlemen, I have had a few people through the years suggest I should go back to school for a PhD. I've always laughed! But after nearly 400 episodes with the best podcast in the universe, I think I'm ready with my preferred field of study. Media deconstruction. This donation actually gets me to baronet status. I achieve knight status from my episode 1499 executive producer donation, but I erroneously sent my donation note and Hasn't and hence wasn't called forward to the roundtable regardless I request to be knighted sir James of the Derby City would like Eagle rare bourbon and well done tater tots at the roundtable tater tots With Eagle rare bourbon hmm. Okay a weird combo, but yeah you go He was obviously watches the voice

2:49:53 I'm about to separate from the military. I will forego any jingles and simply request jobs karma you get that also I have Taken John's semi weekly advice and reached out to Linda Lou Patkin We had a very pleasant conversation and determined we were both Rana mo's following Adams first Joe Rogan experience appearance I was very impressed with her presentation the personal attention and the product line she offers at this point I'm just... Wow. This is good. At this point, I'm just questioning whether I'm actually executive material. I'm dubious. Nevertheless, I was very impressed by what she had to offer at imagemakersinc.com. That's Inc with a K for all your executive resume needs. Chill. I don't know if it's a chill. I'll take that kind of chill in any old day. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.

2:50:48 Andy Walmer's next and he's in Burke Burnett, Texas. And he comes in with a thousand dollars. These are last the PhD I'm ashamed to have only taken value from me and the other produce from you and the other producers to this point your work and this community are truly blessings not a joke Andy Wallmer and Burke Burke burn it, Texas Then we have Baronet Nico of the hills parts unknown switcheroo for sir eagle-eye Happy birthday, brother I appreciate you and congratulations on another trip around the sun. I'm still king of the tire! Baronet Nico of the Hills. Sir Delia in Beaverton, Oregon. 333. It's been too long for Sir Delia. A de-douching please. You've been de-douched.

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Birthday List, Meetup Reports and Final Credits

The episode concludes with a list of upcoming listener meetups across the US and internationally, including events in Denver, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. Birthday wishes are shared for several producers, and final thank-yous are given to those who contributed to the "Value for Value" model. The hosts reiterate their commitment to ad-free, independent media deconstruction.

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2:49:53 I'm about to separate from the military. I will forego any jingles and simply request jobs karma you get that also I have Taken John's semi weekly advice and reached out to Linda Lou Patkin We had a very pleasant conversation and determined we were both Rana mo's following Adams first Joe Rogan experience appearance I was very impressed with her presentation the personal attention and the product line she offers at this point I'm just... Wow. This is good. At this point, I'm just questioning whether I'm actually executive material. I'm dubious. Nevertheless, I was very impressed by what she had to offer at imagemakersinc.com. That's Inc with a K for all your executive resume needs. Chill. I don't know if it's a chill. I'll take that kind of chill in any old day. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.

2:50:48 Andy Walmer's next and he's in Burke Burnett, Texas. And he comes in with a thousand dollars. These are last the PhD I'm ashamed to have only taken value from me and the other produce from you and the other producers to this point your work and this community are truly blessings not a joke Andy Wallmer and Burke Burke burn it, Texas Then we have Baronet Nico of the hills parts unknown switcheroo for sir eagle-eye Happy birthday, brother I appreciate you and congratulations on another trip around the sun. I'm still king of the tire! Baronet Nico of the Hills. Sir Delia in Beaverton, Oregon. 333. It's been too long for Sir Delia. A de-douching please. You've been de-douched.

2:51:44 He needs an F-cancer for his brother and a karma boost for the family would be appreciated. Nice job on the Altman-Elon-Fidman imitations. You're a hoot. Thank you and John for all the hard work which helps us stay sane. Sir Delia. You've got karma. And a karma boost. We'll add a goat to that for you. You've got... karma. And we've got Eddie with 333 in Mableton, Georgia. Hi, JCD and Adam C. Love the show. Thank you for your courage. Here's a long overdue show notation from Eddie at EJ3 Gutters, serving North Georgia's gutter needs. This is a switcheroo for my beautiful wife, Delicia Lafleur. Now there's a name for you. There's a name. Delicia Lafleur, everybody.

2:52:43 Say hello to Mademoiselle Delishelle Fleur. And here she is! Seriously, John? Delishelle Fleur, who's having a birthday Monday, 11-27, day 331, almost 333, like my donation. Please credit her as executive producer for this awesome show, 1611. Consider it done, sir. Absolutely. We dropped down the associate executive producers with Kyle to Hig in Spokane Washington and this was a nice note.

2:53:23 ITM this donation is an honor of episode 1609 approximately 42 minutes in when the clip of you and your banter resulted in no less than eight repetitions of the phrase pulling the goalie. While comical to hear you both come to understand the phrase related to removing contraception it was one of a cluster of signs from God for us to do so. My amazing lady and I are both divorced she has had an awesome kid Kids and I had none a few years back. We met serendipitously at our favorite mountain and quickly fell in love. She's in Washington. Yep, mountains there. And quickly fell in love yet gave up on the prospect of her own child due to our ages. This past week has brought us a series of unmistakable signs to give hope and encouragement to the prospect of our own child and no agenda talking about pulling the goalie.

2:54:17 Was one of the signs as we both heard the segment separately while contemplating such a huge decisions Couples that no agenda together stay together. He writes Well, the goal is now pulled and we could use some prayer and baby making karma Kyle aka the spook of Spokane jingles whole load little girl. Yay So, you know the rule right that when you know when you have your child you you realize that you're gonna have to name it John and Adam. John and Adam. John Adam. John Adam. John Adam. Even if it's a girl. Okay? Them's the rules. But John is a good name. Just so you know. Woo! You got some baby-making karma and prayers. I'm gonna give you the whole load today. Yay! Yeah, I'll pray for you. I'll pray for that. You've got karma. That's great.

2:55:09 John, the things you and I do, man, we are really changing people's lives. David Harper is in Brookfield, Missouri. And comes in with 20909, says, please deduce me. You've been deduced. And he goes on to say, I love Jesus, Bitcoin, and making my own music. It's the trifecta. I am at Cryptaholic, with a K, Cryptaholic on TwitterX. I have only three song links there and hope you like them. The Kill, Deep End, Robot. Your show means a lot to me. I appreciate your guys dedication BTC peace and I would say get those on value for value You can do that at get your songs up on value for value go to RSS blue calm they can help you out our van I've been birdie pin bear even bear. Oh, it's always in there. Okay even bar then even better in the beat hole then built Hovind

2:56:06 Oh, I thought it was Beat. No, Bill. Bill Tolvin. Bill Tolvin, yes. $200 and 4 cents, no notes, no nothing. Give him a double up karma. You got a double up karma as a freshman. Dutch style. Dutch style. Beef cut. And associate executive producer with $200. We're almost done. Talia Dupree from McKinney, Texas. Not that far away. Short note, it is. Thanks for all you do. Please add me to the birthday list. You're on it. I'll turn 40 on the 28th. No jingles, no karma. Talia Dupree Douglas in McKinney, Texas. And finally, we come to Linda Lou Patkin, who's keeping up the pace from Lakewood, Colorado.

2:56:45 Jobs Karma, for a remarkable resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. She writes, that's imagemakersinc.com or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Well that wraps up our executive and associate executive producers another great showing thank you for bringing the the treasure today we know that it'll be you know it'll drop down significantly after after after the Christmas holidays so we will be saving that up of course we appreciate any donation amount that anyone

2:57:27 is willing to part with to support our work. We don't play any commercials, don't take any creepy corporate money, it's just whatever value you get out of the show, we appreciate it if you return it to us. And I will just say in addition that we read all of the donations above $50 anything below that is not read for reasons of anonymity and of course we always have our sustaining donations which we appreciate you can make those up yourself you can find them all at vorac.org slash and John will take us down through the 50 short list we start off with William Bullock Bullock Bullock in Buckeye Arizona

2:58:12 $100. Frank, by the way it's a pretty short list, Frank Taurasi in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where the Ontario airport is, 100. He needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Brian Tobiason in Gardner, Kansas, 80.88. It says Some sort of boob donation. Frank Chiapetta in Carpentersville, Illinois, 8008. Kevin McLaughlin, our regular boob donator in Concord, North Carolina, 8008 with the commentary, they are bouncy, they are fun, boobs make the world go round.

2:59:02 Greg Hartlaub in Cincinnati, Ohio, 80. Gary Blatt in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, 7777. Kevin McLaughlin's back, 6006 with the small boobs and he says, boobs are the secret to eternal youth. James Sullivan, Stratford, Connecticut, 5678. Sir Beboop in New Brighton, Minnesota, 5432. Charles Boyd in San Marcos, Texas. 50. Oh, wait, we're already at the 50s. So let me just read $50 donors, name and location. Charles Boyd, San Marcos, Texas tops us off. Brian Hummel in Wimberley, Texas. Another Texan. Samuel Cannarday in North Riverside, Illinois. Diego Lopez Crane in Ithaca, New York. Salmitra Saravana.

3:00:02 Salmitra Saravana in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Falline Farm in Columbus, Georgia. John Walter in Wenatchee, Washington. We have a bunch of them all from Washington. Well, there's one from Massachusetts. Amy Grohl in Burien, Washington. You'll see that town when you leave the airport. Derek Howe in Douglas, Massachusetts. Shauna Norberg in Seattle, Washington. Scott McCarty in Lodi, California. Forrest Scott. Brinkley in Christianburg, Virginia. Brian Emenheiser in Lancaster, California. Jack Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida. Gary Gibson in

3:00:48 Fruit Port, Michigan. And oh, that wraps it up. It's quick. I want to thank these people for making show 1611 the reality that it is. Thank you all very much for supporting the No Agenda Show. 16 years and counting. 1611 episodes. It is value for value. Remember us at Dvorak.org or at noagendadonation.com. Thank you for supporting us for episode 1611. Our formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth. It's your birthday, birthday. Oh so much, yeah. We do have a couple of birthdays we're celebrating. Eddie wishes his beautiful wife, Delicia Lafleur, a happy birthday. She will be celebrating tomorrow on the 27th. Talia Dupree turns 40 on the 28th. And Baronette Nico of the Hills, which is Sir Eagle Eye, a very happy birthday. And we join in and say happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah. Do-do-do-do-do-do.

CHAPTER 37 / 39 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, Peerage and Titles

A formal knighting ceremony is conducted for several high-level donors, granting them titles such as "Sir" and "Dame." The hosts explain the process for receiving signet rings and certificates of authenticity through the show's website. This tradition is presented as a way to build a dedicated community of supporters who "work the system from within."

knighthood· dame· peerage· rings· no agenda

3:02:00 We're looking at two title changes today as you heard earlier, Sir Dr. Otter of the Flatwater becomes Sir Dr. Otter Baronet of the Flatwater and Sir Mike Black Knight becomes Baron Sir Plus, Keeper of the Federal Reserve. And we believe he's in Australia doing that. Now it is time for our PhD graduates. This will be, let's see, one more time after this for the Thursday show as this ends on the 333rd day of the week, that is this Wednesday. We'd like to welcome Martin Rakal of the year, yes. Sir Donald, Sir Mike, Trev Scott, Sir Roley of the Crystal Palace, Maurice,

3:02:44 JD, the former spook, David, Robert Shepard, Donald Bartholow, Jim Turner and Andy Wallmer. Welcome new No Agenda MD PhDs to the Society of Learned Persons. The path to this high academic honor for some of you has been a long one and a costly one. Some of the price has been paid to your hard-earned wisdom and some in other ways. But today is not an end. It's only the beginning. From this point forward, go forth and spread the No Agenda word far and wide. We will not be silenced. We will not be deterred. The truth is... Go and find it! Oh, man. I need some tepid water. Yes, that was my mistake. I didn't have any tepid water. I don't have tepid water, but I do have

3:03:38 One Dame and a couple of Knights actually. So bring out your... Well I have one blade, here you go. That works for the Dame, sure. And the Knights. There you go. Paula, hop on up here. Mark Ruckall, Maurice, JD, the former spook, David, Jim Turner and Jason, all of you, thanks to your donations, the Noah Jenner Show are about to become a Knights and a Dame and I'm very proud to pronounce Kate the S, Dame Paula, rescuer of secondhand kiddies. Sir Not Sure, Sir M, Knight of the Media Landscape, Sir Vibing the Communist Takeover, Sir Cumstance,

3:04:13 Protector of the sharp-clawed creatures, Sir James of the Derby City and Sir Jason of the insert name here. For you we've got Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay. We've got White Russians, Eagle Rare, Bourbon and Well Done Tater Tots. We got Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils. And of course mutton and meat, it's always here on tap for you. While you're enjoying that, I guess, you don't have to use silverware. It's fine. You can use your hands, especially for mutton. There's not a problem. But be careful, don't get your keyboard dirty. Go over to noagendarings.com. There you can find a place to, well, instructions on how to sell

3:04:49 your ring and then where to send it, to give us your address so we can send it there. That goes also for our PhDs. You'll see in the menu, No Agenda PhDs give us the name and we recommend you use your real name for your PhD and where we can send that. And with the rings, of course, you get your wax to seal your important correspondence with. They are signet rings and a certificate of authenticity. And thank you all for supporting the No Agenda Show. No Agenda Show! This is really the connection that people enjoy most in their lives, is going to a NOAA Gen Ed meetup. The people that know Gen Ed together stay together. You may meet a future mate.

3:05:33 Through the show so many never knew that was listening to say you're it I never wait I didn't realize really incredible you can miss happen a few times It certainly happened a few times And I think this happened more times than we even know people haven't mentioned it to us So next time you're sending in a note let us know if that happened Before we list the upcoming meetups, here's a couple of reports from Los Angeles. The Flight of the No Agenda, number 46, Leo Bravo. Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at Flight of the No Agenda, meetup number 46 I think. I'm passing the phone around. Folks have things to say. In the morning, this is Angie from the Red. In the morning, this is Dan, still a douchebag.

3:06:12 Hey, what are you drinking? It's refreshing, it's good, it's breast milk in a can. In the morning! Okay, alright, we got comedians. Let's see how Fort Wayne did for their Meetup Report. Adam and John, this is Shoshanna, co-host in Fort Wayne. We invited the indie group up and we put the boom in bingo. Boom shakalaka. Shelly from Fort Wayne in the morning. Thank you. In the morning, John and Adam. This is Alicia from Indy with the Fort Wayne group. This is Jared from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Just got my M&Ms with peanuts. Hey, this is Dame Trinity having a great time. Lots of target practice and food. Thank you for your courage. In the morning, PBR Street Gang. John, what are you drinking?

3:06:48 Hello, this is day Maria, and this is sir mark up the Fort Wayne meetup, and we had a great time shooting and eating and Deconstructing everything we could find this is Mike with the Fort Wayne group of no agenda and the indie group has Made peace with us and come and eat dinner and had a great time tonight I've checked all their browser history, and I can officially say there are no spooks here. I love that you know people who are If you ever wonder what it's like to shoot a gun, find one of these meetups where they go shoot stuff. It's a great way, because you know it's always intimidating. You go to a range like, I don't know what I'm doing. I'll tell you, I have a little note for this sort of thing. Generally speaking, if you find someone that has a lot of guns that have collected and you go shooting with them, they like nothing more than you shooting their guns and their ammo and their ammo so you can share the experience of, oh, what'd you think of the way that PPK shot?

3:07:49 The best is to do it with Baron Scott's reloads. That's the best. Click. His reloads, sometimes they don't go. Well, I like to go shooting black powder with someone. We had one of those at one of the No Agenda shoot meetups and I think they got kicked off the range. No black powder allowed! That's too bad. No, we didn't go back to that range. Don't worry. We don't, we don't, we don't, that's not how we roll man. Hey there's a meetup coming up on the 30th this Thursday. It's the Mile High Meetup 6.30 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado and also on Thursday in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It's the one week after another parliament election in the Netherlands. Eight o'clock in Biercafe Kadinsky in Tilburg. I've been there.

3:08:41 for some reason in Tilburg, the Netherlands. That should be a lot of fun and I expect a good report. And do the report before you're all stoned, will you? Just tighten it up a little bit. God, they're always so hammered. But they have a lot of fun. In the month of December, St. Gabriel, Louisiana on the first, Fort Wayne, Indiana on the first, Higginham, Connecticut on the second, Garden City, Idaho on the second, Cheyenne, Wyoming on the third, and the big Indianapolis, Indiana meetup on the fourth. I will be there with Tina the Keeper. We're really looking forward to that. On the 6th, Fort Dodge, Iowa. The 7th, we have Simpsonville, South Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina. On the 8th, Grasses, what is this? Grasses, hola! In Pulach, Bavaria, Germany. Hmm. All right. I want a Meetup report from you guys. On the 9th, Three Forks, Montana. Brooklyn, New York. It'd be interesting to hear a Meetup report from that as well. Houston, Texas. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Mayfield Heights, Ohio. And another Fredericksburg, Virginia. That must be a double.

3:09:44 I think there's only one Frederick. Well, maybe there's two meetups on the same day. On the 16th, Epping, New Hampshire, Gloucester, Virginia, Cincinnati, Ohio. On the 21st, Charlotte, North Carolina. And on the 28th, Lombok, next to Bali, Indonesia. Oh man, wouldn't you love to be at that meetup or we're all just freezing away here in Texas. Those are the No Agenda meetups. You can find them all at noagendameetups.com. Seriously though, if you love the show, if you like the amygdala shrinkage, if you love the media deconstruction, you'll love the people who also love No Agenda and love being part of this community. Go find them. Connection is protection. Go look at noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy and awesome.

3:10:29 It's always a party! Play it. Oh my god. It's cute. Oh Did you say that like you like you got something better? Well, I got a few I got it I got I'm following the theme of the kids. Let's try shows over Okay Not bad, I like it not bad. Yeah, not bad. Okay, let's try podcast structure this podcast has no structure and

CHAPTER 38 / 39 Discussion

Good News Segment, Make-A-Wish Disney Trip

A "good news" story features a five-year-old boy from North Carolina who, after finishing treatment for leukemia, was granted a trip to Disney World. The segment, sourced from an ABC affiliate, is criticized by the hosts for sounding like a "native ad" for Disney. Despite the skepticism, the story is included as a rare example of positive mainstream reporting.

make-a-wish· disney· leukemia· north carolina· good news

3:11:27 I like shows over better than that, but okay. Oh, then go to great achievement. That is a great achievement. I think I like the kid. The show's over! That's just so cute. Okay, I'm good with the kid. And now it's time for... Google U of J CD Time for some good news, John! We never want to leave our Noah Jenner producers. These things are hard to find. In fact, it's so hard to find that this is a story I got from Wichita, Kansas, but it's not about Kansas. It's about something in North Carolina. But it's a good news story. By the way, it's an ABC affiliate in Wichita.

3:12:07 And it's about a Disney giveaway. Movie screening in Brier Creek turned into so much more for one local family. Disney, our parent company here at ABC 11, partner with Make-A-Wish Eastern North Carolina, and together they invited kids to a sneak peek at the not yet released movie Wish. And it seems everyone inside that theater learned a little wish can go a long way. Jameis Price was there when that wish was granted and talked to a grateful mom about what this will mean for her son. Hi, Jameis. Hi Lauren, this wish represents a new chapter for the family. It's a fresh start where their child is healthy and whole and can really be a kid again. All of this unfolding on the big screen in true fairy tale fashion. The stage is set. This is such a special night. For a magical moment. So we see children filled with joy. Disney and Make-A-Wish

3:12:57 celebrating its decade-long partnership with a special screening of Disney's new animated musical, Wish. The VIPs invited inside this Briar Creek Theater, families with ties to the Wish-granting nonprofit. Tonight, they got an early peek inside a fairy tale on the big screen before one plays out in real life. five year old Everett Carpenter from Durham is the lucky recipient. You are going to get on a train and spend the night on the train while it drives you down to Florida and you're going to go to Disney World. Wish granted. It's overwhelming and really, really happy and crying. Um,

3:13:43 just to get this point. Little Everett was diagnosed with leukemia in December 2020 fighting in a big way. We're celebrating his strength and his courage and his endurance through everything that he's been through. His last treatment was in February of this year. I have been waiting for this point just because I think it's a good way to close a chapter on a very horrible part of our life, but it's also ending very well. The foundation working every day to grant the wishes of children with a life-threatening illness. A wish is really a break. It is a moment in time for the family to just be together. It gives them an opportunity to kind of forget some of the struggles that they've been dealing with. It inspires children to dream and to think big.

3:14:25 Everett heads south to the happiest place on earth and learning a lesson on the silver screen that no wish is ever too big to dream. A good news story from JCD. Happy vibes for you and me and we all feel better now he's done his bit. So back to reality that's turning to shit. I don't know man, that sounded more like a native ad than anything. Yeah, I was not happy with that presentation. No, no one was happy with that presentation. Oh well, it's alright. It's hard, finding good news is hard. It's hard, it turns out to be, yes.

3:15:10 Well, good news is Behind the Schemes is coming up next on noagendastream.com if you stay tuned into your app or if you're listening at noagendastream.com or if you're in the trollroom.io. End of show mixes. We have Professor JJ checking in from China. We got the Rolando Gonzalez from Dallas and Tom Starkweather who's in the Spooksville area of Virginia. Virginia, Virginia, Virginia. And we return on Thursday with another several hours of media deconstruction. We love doing, we love our jobs. We're thankful for you supporting us.

3:15:48 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in FEMA Region No. 6, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain. And remind you that this is the last week for the PhD. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday. Until then, please remember us by supporting us at dvorak.org slash NA or noagendadonations.com. Until Thursday, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and sun! The CDC estimates there have already been 1.6 million flu cases. RSV infections are also on the rise, impacting kids under the age of 4. And COVID-19 is still a concern for a lot of families, but only about 15% of adults have received that updated shot. This is the CDC's new director, Dr. Mandy Cohen.

CHAPTER 39 / 39 Discussion

CDC Vaccination Push, Media Literacy Outro

The show ends with a montage of clips featuring CDC Director Mandy Cohen urging Americans to get updated COVID-19 and flu shots. It also includes Governor Kathy Hochul's remarks on media literacy in schools, juxtaposed with various "truth-based" media soundbites. The final mix serves as a summary of the episode's themes regarding government messaging and media deconstruction.

cdc· mandy cohen· vaccination· media literacy· kathy hochul

3:15:10 Well, good news is Behind the Schemes is coming up next on noagendastream.com if you stay tuned into your app or if you're listening at noagendastream.com or if you're in the trollroom.io. End of show mixes. We have Professor JJ checking in from China. We got the Rolando Gonzalez from Dallas and Tom Starkweather who's in the Spooksville area of Virginia. Virginia, Virginia, Virginia. And we return on Thursday with another several hours of media deconstruction. We love doing, we love our jobs. We're thankful for you supporting us.

3:15:48 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in FEMA Region No. 6, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain. And remind you that this is the last week for the PhD. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Thursday. Until then, please remember us by supporting us at dvorak.org slash NA or noagendadonations.com. Until Thursday, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and sun! The CDC estimates there have already been 1.6 million flu cases. RSV infections are also on the rise, impacting kids under the age of 4. And COVID-19 is still a concern for a lot of families, but only about 15% of adults have received that updated shot. This is the CDC's new director, Dr. Mandy Cohen.

3:16:37 I remember COVID times. The three reasons to get vaccinated. One, the virus has changed. Open every science lab. And third, people are still getting long COVID. Always wore a mask, never thought to ask. Thinking in the night, what's so wrong? You couldn't get no HCQ. 1.6 million flu cases. Is this just another flu? RSV infections are also on the rise. Give it one more try, booster in me. Kids can't realize no escape from RSP oh man The warnings you gave are just twinkin' Does mommy hear what you say?

3:17:23 Not many people have gotten the flu shot or the covid shot. How concerned are you? 15% of adults have received that updated shot. Give me four more tests today. And third, people are still getting long. Gathering the stats, numbers climbing. Oh, Biden needs a surge. So who is reminding us, Mandy? The warnings you give are just playing. No, mommy's here to play.

3:18:10 Today I'm directing the Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to develop media literacy tools for K-12 in our public schools. Ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning. This will teach students and even teachers to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories and misinformation, disinformation, and online hate. And so the machine is taught. They're taught about what we're seeing out there. And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine.

3:18:54 What then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process? Give the teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school. Do we understand the technology? Do we know what is going into the decision-making? And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, we can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it, and help prepare them for a very fast-moving and confusing world. What is in the best interest of the health and safety and well-being of the people of our country?

3:19:32 Who was telling the truth? Yes. What was the reality? Gris grasped the country. The lasagna of lousy. You know what you did. He liked beer. And kind of a wind up to the F word. Kind of a ffff. Every story has three sides. No. Every city in America has a Trump hotel. And both parties are in danger of winning. In danger of winning. But it can be worse. You can actually kill somebody's cat and puncture their tires to get them to shut up. I had one beer! Technology is the big question whether or not it is making people happy. Lies, smears, besmirchment, the character assassination and frankly the bludgeoning of... Visionary, blame the other person, tactics, when he himself... Who was telling the truth? Yes. What was the reality? Oh, look what they found! I had one beer!

3:20:25 Because we've got facts and then we've got feelings. Nope! It was one beer. One beer. Alright, and boofing is not flatulence. You know what you did. The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. The show's over.