Episode 224 · Sunday, 8 August 2010

Let Them Eat Hot Pockets

From blood diamond testimony at The Hague to the flammable tap water of the Marcellus Shale, global power structures and corporate interests collide in unexpected ways.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 224

About this episode

Supermodel Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow take the stand at The Hague to testify against former Liberian President Charles Taylor regarding the exchange of uncut blood diamonds. The war crimes trial highlights the intersection of celebrity and global conflict, while parallel controversies emerge in Haiti as Sean Penn publicly challenges Wyclef Jean’s presidential bid on CNN. These high-profile disputes serve as a backdrop to deeper questions about corporate influence and the transparency of international aid foundations.

Domestic tensions rise as the Pentagon demands that WikiLeaks expunge 15,000 classified documents, while the TSA admits to storing full-body scanner images despite previous privacy assurances. In the corporate world, HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns following an internal investigation into expense irregularities involving a female contractor. Meanwhile, the CDC initiates a nationwide telephone survey targeting parents of young children for intrusive data collection on H1N1 vaccinations and household income. Environmental concerns also surface in Pennsylvania, where residents near Marcellus Shale drilling sites report tap water that can be ignited due to natural gas saturation.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak acknowledge the crew of the USS Columbus and conduct a formal knighthood for Brian Watson of the Order of the Mint. The duo explores the linguistic shift of the rapeseed plant into the trademarked Canola and analyzes the creepy marketing parallels between the Yogi Bear 3D poster and the Pedobear meme. A closing monologue reflects on modern slavery and government control through the lens of taxation and historical standoffs like Waco.


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CHAPTER 01 / 34 Discussion

Submarine Listeners, Submarine USS Columbus

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 224 from their respective locations in Southern California and Washington state. They acknowledge listeners aboard the fast attack submarine USS Columbus and welcome participants in the live chat room.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· uss columbus· submarine· no agenda

00:00 I'll be fighting back the zombies. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, August 8th, 2010. Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 224. This is no agenda. Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning I am the patently unemployable former Soviet spy known as Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, whoops I'm sorry we're talking about Northern Northern Pacific Northwest to be exact. I'm John C. Porak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! You're up, you're in Seattle? I mean Washington? Port Angeles? Yeah, I'm up here in the middle of nowhere. Oh nice, well it's raspberry picking time. They have huge raspberries this year. It's unbelievable how big they are. In the morning to you sir. In the morning to you and to all the ships at sea. Including ships under the sea like the USS Columbus.

01:00 The fast attack submarine which apparently has a few no agenda fans on board. Oh really? Yes, and listen to us in real time. I know I'm quite sure they don't And in the morning to all the human resources in the chat room at no agenda chat calm Hope you're all nice and charged up the way your gitmo government loves you batteries, so we have a couple of hot topics Is this my cue? Am I supposed to hit it already? No, I'd rather go to another hot topic first. Okay. Which is this canola story. Oh, yeah. You want to do that right off the bat before we get to producers and stuff? It may be that important.

CHAPTER 02 / 34 Discussion

Canola Oil, Rapeseed Plant Trademark Controversy

The origins of the word "canola" are examined as a trademarked acronym for Canadian Oil of Low Acidity rather than a biological plant species. Criticism is directed at NPR for a report that refers to canola as a wild plant in North Dakota without acknowledging its roots as a genetically modified version of the rapeseed plant.

canola· rapeseed· npr· trademark· canadian oil of low acidity

01:43 Well, I'm just annoyed you get a... I sent you the link to the NPR clip. Yeah, I got the link. Okay, here's what bothers me. Here's the background of the stories that the NPR ran an item and I guess it's been floating around that the hybrid rapeseed that's floating around genetically engineered to give a... to make it so it doesn't kill you. So you can make canola oil, which stands for Canadian oil of low acidity. And actually, let me just give you a little background here. The name, I remember reading from a book called The Rape of Canola. The name canola was initially registered by the Western Canadian Oilseed Crushers Association for reference to oil, meal and protein extractions with 5% or less erucic acid, which is not good for your heart and was always the problem with rapeseed oil.

02:35 Anyway, it goes on, the canola trademark, it was a trademark, was transferred to the Canola Council in 1980. And in 1986, the canola trademark was amended by the Trademarks Branch of Consumer and Corporate Affairs to indicate that canola must have less than 2% of this, of this uricic acid. Anyway, it goes on and on about these different, you know, with the iterations of the word, which of course comes from, it's a, or a combination of the words Canada, oil, low acid. There is no such plant as the canola plant. Yeah, however I did hear this NPR, our National Treasurer Report, and they're talking about it like it's a seed.

03:15 So now what they've done is somehow they've, I don't know if it's the Canadians, it's the public relations agencies of the canola board or the canola council or whoever. Because I know that the soybean boys here, we make the soybean oil in the United States, the Canadians do the canola and we're always competing with each other and there's a lot of public relations crap that goes on in the background. And like if you say something bad about soybean oil you hear from these jerks. Anyway, so the thing is, I think they've decided to try to push the word as the name of the plant itself, rapeseed plant. and the idiots at the NPR, the National Treasure, they go along with the program. They never once mentioned the roots of this word. Wait, they need their jingle played. Our National Treasure! Should we listen to a piece of the report, John? Just to irk you some more? Yes, please. We missed the commercial. I cut that out. It's no surprise by now that genetically modified crops are growing in farm fields all over the United States. Interesting kickoff to that report. It's no surprise

04:17 Huh? Yeah, isn't that interesting? Yeah, it's like... No surprise to who? Yeah, it is to me. Not supposed to know that. May be surprising to learn that some of the genetically modified crops have escaped. They're starting to appear outside the borders of farm fields. Researchers have found genetically modified canola growing wild along the roads of North Dakota. NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports. This story begins in a parking lot in Cavalier, North Dakota. Cindy Sagers, an ecologist from the University of Arkansas, was visiting to study weeds. But there were none to be found. Since we couldn't find any weeds, we were sitting in the car enjoying a soda at the only grocery store in Cavalier County. We looked through the windshield and there were these beautiful yellow flowers blooming. Anyone who's been to the state would recognize this plant as canola. That's pretty weird, isn't it?

05:14 I find it to be uh... abhorrent, abhorrent it is. I can't use the word abhorrent because it's more disturbing that they would just all of a sudden decide for the public that this plant is going to be renamed as a trademark name by the way. It's not like it wasn't registered. Does it have a little R, the canola? Well, they don't do a very good job of enforcing it obviously but it is trademarked and uh... it then you can find it but it but it's not it mean this is not the plant is a rapeseed plant has been you know behind bread now apparently modified and they decide to use the word canola to to notes to note the plant

06:00 To me, it's just like, why? I mean, what kind of... This is... I can't... I'm beside myself with the fact that NPR would do this. We're early, but hey... I think it counts. I think it counts. Fine, it's a canola plant now. Screw them. Yeah, alright, canola. Alright, we don't need to hear the rest of the report, do we? Oh, God, no. No, no. Well, John, you've been talking about this for as long as I've known you. And it irks you really bad too, which is kind of interesting. Well now I'm completely like been screwed. It's a communist plot, my friend.

CHAPTER 03 / 34 Discussion

Netherlands Antilles, Internet Connectivity Issues

Technical difficulties during a previous broadcast from the Netherlands Antilles are attributed to poor local internet infrastructure. The discussion covers the limitations of 300 kilobit upstream ADSL and the potential for using WiMAX or multiplexed lines for future remote broadcasts from the island.

netherlands antilles· bonaire· adsl· wimax· internet speed

06:42 So let's go and give some let's give some credit. Yeah, do we have any executive producers? We had a had a good a good week, and I think a poor show mainly because of technical detail Difficulties coming to you from the Netherlands Antilles alo Presidente was cutting us out every five seconds by the way there was a somebody says their iPhone feet has dropped dead so in case you're wondering Everything seems to be up and running here. Okay, so yeah, no, yeah, it was a, it was funny because it was bright, you know, we first we started off with the call was like one minute, boom, disconnected one minute, then five minutes and then 10 and then we went like an hour. An hour and a half almost. Yeah, I don't know what happened then also just worked.

07:23 Yeah, but I did investigate the the internet situation on the island and essentially there's only two ways to get it And I know if I go back and I'd love to but I can't I can't work that way I mean, it's just it's impossible They also have WiMAX apparently on a part of the island. Oh, yeah, I didn't know that I would have loved to have tried that and I think if should I take a residence permanently there which is a big if I would have to have a mux of multiple lines because even as it was the ADSL I had was 300 kilobit upstream Which is quite poor. Yeah, I said at least yeah, that's pretty pretty bad

CHAPTER 04 / 34 Discussion

Executive Producers, No Agenda Challenge Coins

Executive producers and donors are recognized for their financial support, including a "quad call out" of specific individuals. Paul Couture is highlighted for his work with the No Agenda challenge coins and his efforts to facilitate new knighthoods for the show's community.

paul couture· brian watson· challenge coins· knighthood· donations

08:02 Anyway, so we appreciate everyone hanging in and I do think we got some support which is nice. Yeah, we got a few and of course we have our noagendafans.com contribution of the week from Paul Couture who is doing obviously pushing the the uh... the challenge coins yeah he's pushed the challenge because he's also trying to get his twelve nights and so this show we've got brian watson who will be knighted from raleigh north carolina and that's from challenge coin money and uh... so he's an executive producer and benjamin a card deal c a u d i l l from lantham maryland uh... he's uh... industry thirty three thirty three so he'll be an executive producer and he was just a call out one two three four guys as douchebags do we do that now i guess

09:02 Richard Mark Robin Scott yes so that's a that's a quad a call out Wow a first is a first damn eventually Paul Couture associate executive producer I took said piece to his he wants to uh... a mention at boy bonked b-o-n-k-e-d for you twitter users if you wanna follow him now wait a minute doesn't he uh... doesn't this complete his own knighthood

09:40 Didn't we already knight him? I have no idea. I get confused. Well, if not that yeah, we did that's of course we did So it's sir Paul couture not just Paul. Yeah, it's sir Paul. Yeah, we're gonna have to put that yeah get that worked out then we have Roman McIlovich a Kyle of it. Yeah from st. Petersburg Wow 223.22, he's an associate executive producer and what's curious is that I was looking down the list of people that we want to thank for you know $50 and there's another St. Petersburg guy Vladimir Frunze so I have to assume there's no way that we're gonna get two donations from St. Petersburg Russia you know on the same show something must have happened they're buddies or something happened

10:30 something happened in russia and uh... we're on the radar but i could be maybe he's going to both of the uh... with the with the guys who walk with one hand uh... i'm watching and that will make it less guy we also have robert alter of kansas city missouri uh... missouri to of six forty and finally nathan shelton from zimmerman if there is such a town indeed in minnesota two hundred dollars and he uh... wants to apply his website which is incorrectly-political.blogspot.com. And just to do him a favor, I'll say it again. Incorrectly-political.blogspot.com. So I'm watching Glenn back.

11:16 and because I was like I... Can we thank everyone? Are you going straight into the next topic? No, this is still related to the... Okay, good, good, good. And this is why it's two St. Petersburg guys. Glenn Beck is talking about how Putin is so... He says you can spot a KGB guy when he's walking around because they only walk with one arm waving. Because they're holding on to their peace with the other? Yeah. That's his theory. Gee, that Glenn Beck. Gotta tell you I cracked up. What a guy what a guy well We very much appreciate the support from our executive producers for episode 224 of no agenda Brian Watson Benjamin Caudill and our associate of executive producers sir Paul Couture Roman Mikhailovich and

12:03 Roman Mikhailovich and Robert Alter along with Nathan Shelton, associate executive producers and of course we'll be knighting Brian Watson later today as he is a no agenda knight of the Order of the Mint. Anything that get a thousand dollar donation gets you the the knighthood right off the bat and of course if you come in With these higher numbers which show a lot of love and support for us. That's how you get the executive and associate executive producer credits They're real and you can you can put them on your resume put them on your business card will vouch for you Unlike Hollywood where you get that credit and then it's like thanks for the dough shut up

12:41 You can actually call us and as I said we'll vouch for you and help you with some no agenda karma. All the rest of you out there, we need you to go out and propagate the formula because that's what you can do today. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. You know, unfortunately, I missed him but you know we actually have listeners in Bonaire?

13:19 No. Yeah, I got an email. My name is Itish Meera. Originally from Aruba, but my boyfriend Robert Cruz, he's from Bonaire. You wouldn't believe it, but he listens to you and your conspiracy theories on no agenda ever since the show started, along with the Daily Source Code, I think religiously. We even use your in the morning and shut up slave terms. No one understands what we're talking about, but we do and it's hilarious. Yeah, well, you know, as amuse yourself. Yeah. So it's hilarious. It is, you know, you do you wind up using that and and then the meme spreads and you know from time to time you'll say you'll throw it in the morning. But you'll throw it in the morning and you get one back and it's like oh okay the show is not like some rinky-dink little hobby or something you know I'm living off this shit now. Yeah good luck with that.

CHAPTER 05 / 34 Discussion

Hot Pockets, Millennial Food Culture

A discussion regarding the frozen snack Hot Pockets explores their similarity to English pasties and Russian pirozhki. The hosts express skepticism about the nutritional value of the product, referencing a millennial named Eddie who considers them a dietary staple.

hot pockets· eddie· millennial· pop-tarts· english pasty

14:15 Okay, so we got a couple of interesting topics. There's just kind of offbeat I have to say besides the Canola thing well, that's just from your side. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have anything solid. I just got a crap. Okay. Yeah, I'm talking about crap. Yes it's not this is going to be the new one right this is that this is our new no agenda thing i think is good yeah so i if you get a list of go to the blog to work dot org slash blog and uh... did just this to assert for any and i've got it to a second video of any who is the uh... uh... sits in the media offices and uh... and i uh... have been interviewing him

15:00 about various things. He was born in 1982. He's a millennial. He's a millennial. He's a millennial, classic. And he gave me the lecture on hot pockets and I started looking into it and discovered that these things are, I don't know if they're even safe to eat. But but they're based on you know we talked about this and it's like they're based on us this is the base they're based on I think cement on an English pasty and a that Russian and Polish dough thing whatever that's called I can't think of it right off

15:44 No, the dough, the little pirozhki. Pirozhki? Yeah, it's a pirozhki, it's like a pirozhki or it's like a English pasty, which is a piece of thick, piece of gooey dough with meat inside. It's basically disgusting. You know, I was in Cornwall and was taken to, oh, you've got to try the best, because this is where most of these things are. You have to have the best past in the UK. Yeah, but that includes like real meat. Yeah, but it's still a big pile of 90% dough.

16:20 And it's gooey, and yeah, there's some meat in there. It's crummy. I don't think a pasty... No offense to the Brits who didn't give us any donations this week, but those things are terrible. They're gross. I once had one of these on a Scandinavian air flight, and it was like a mini Hot Pocket. I'm talking 20, 25 years ago. And there was reindeer meat in there, and that was actually quite tasty. I liked it. It was like a nice snack. Well reindeer meats delicious. Yeah, I'm like I'm sorry to interrupt your flow here But do you know what? Continental served us on our way to Haiti you'll never guess it was a turkey dog in a croissant What I know like who had this meeting It was a turkey dog wrapped in a croissant It's like okay It's like who came up with that

17:19 It was one of the most weird thing and it was quite tasty. Well, I was hungry. I was about to eat my neighbor. But it was literally and it was baked. It was like, yeah. It was weird. A turkey dog in a croissant. It's kind of the Continental Airlines version of a... Hot pockets! So the, uh, I like the ding part of that. Yeah, that means the microwave is done. Hot pockets! So anyway, so Eddie goes on about these things as though they're the greatest thing in the world and it's all he eats. And so I found both the Hot Pocket rap song and posted that and... I'm sorry, I went to Bonaire, not to Haiti by the way. That was a slip. I'm already on to the next topic. I'm bored with the freaking Hot Pockets. But I said Haiti, I meant Bonaire.

18:11 and then uh... there's also a comedy act here but i thought this is a check it on the blog is that i'm always is not going to play you know if you have been one of the long and i went on too long the and the rap song wasn't that good Eddie was better. Eddie was the best and it was kind of frightening because my daughter is a big... they come from Pop-Tarts. I think that originally the Pop-Tart started this and so they just, you know, the Pop-Tart of course has the the so-called fruit filling. You're making me sick just thinking about a Pop-Tart. You put them in the toaster and I've heard my daughter talk about Hot Pockets, you know. I got her off of them but it was, you know, I had to intervene. We had to have actual sit-down about the Hot Pockets thing.

18:51 Yeah, it's people it passes as food. It's unbelievable to me that it exists and it's not food obviously All right onward just some real topic. Yeah real topic Just to mention this we're just showing you that we're in the culture deep enough into it that we know about that's right That's a ringtone I downloaded from their site by the way they say they proudly portray that as the Hot Pockets ringtone Yeah, that's not that's funny. Yeah, so Sean Penn hits the airwaves and I'm very very happy he did because he essentially backed up everything we've been saying on this program about why Clef Jean We cleft don't wasn't he a Fuji think it was a Fuji Yeah, you know to food, you know a Hot Pocket is but you don't know what a Fuji is. No, I know and I know exactly the fact

CHAPTER 06 / 34 Discussion

Wyclef Jean, Sean Penn Haiti Criticism

Sean Penn appeared on CNN to criticize Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency, suggesting the move is driven by corporate interests rather than the needs of the Haitian people. The segment highlights allegations of financial misappropriation involving Wyclef's charity and his sudden transformation into a polished political figure.

wyclef jean· sean penn· haiti· wolf blitzer· presidential election

19:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right Fuji. Okay a bicycle perfect. That's a fugu miata anyway So we're we both have been saying you know this is not a good idea this Wyclef Jean he's he was out there with Bill Clinton who of course has been raping Haiti for years and and now is set to build Bill Clinton Plaza and And Sean Penn, he comes out, he says all the right things, but he holds back, man, he holds back so amazingly, saying allegedly and, you know, choosing his words so carefully. I guess he doesn't want to be labeled a crackpot. Of course he is being labeled a crackpot now. But I'd like to play his bit from CNN. He's on with Wolf Blitzer of the Situation Room. And he tells you exactly why Wyclef Jean is not a good idea to be the president of Haiti.

20:45 and uh... of course sean is right although i don't think he did his message kind of falls apart uh... at the end there and then we go with sir with uh... wolf blitzer sorry the last thing in the world haiti needs and i'm not accusing like lives on a being an opportunist i don't know the man thank you that's a way to start by the way this great Say right off the bat, I'm not accusing you of being a douchebag, but uh, because I don't know you. Yeah, I don't know the man. Great. But I think it's extremely important that we pay great attention to both the individuals in the United States who are enamored with him, maybe not for his political strengths,

21:23 and in particular for corporate interests that are enamored with him, and those that may themselves be opportunists on the back of the Haitian people. Right now, I worry that this is a campaign that is more about a vision of flying around the world, talking to people, as he said. It's certainly not one of the youth drafting him. I would be much... I didn't even know that that was the ticket he was running on but I guess he is. I guess Wyclef Jean is running on the the youth want me because I'm hip because I used to be a Fugee which is of course disturbing and but here's the message right there Penn is right right off the bat.

22:21 I don't know very much about Wycliffe Jean as I haven't seen or heard anything of him in these last six months that I've been in Haiti. I think he's an important voice. I hope he doesn't sacrifice that voice by taking the eye off the very devastating realities on the ground and the very difficult strategic future that it's got in putting itself back together. You raised some serious questions about the motives behind Wycliffe Jean's decision to run for president of Haiti and I want you to be more specific if you can, Sean. This notion that there are some corporate interests here in the United States who may be pushing him to do... I love Wolf Blitzer. What, there's gambling going on over there? It's unbelievable. It could be corporate interests? No, no, that's not possible. Sean, do tell us more. What do you mean by that? What do you mean?

23:11 Well, the people that I've spoken to related to his campaign and those on the ground in Haiti claim these things and so really I'm putting this forward to the... See, this is where he falls apart. Yeah, this is where he falls apart. I'm sorry, did you say you were bored? No, I said he's just babbling now. Yeah, this is what's... Now he just, he loses his shit, which is really unfortunate because he has factoids coming in that are pretty good. To a very important oversight committee and that's the media. So what he's appealing to the media. He's saying the oversight committee, which is the media, has to now pull this guy apart. Sean.

23:50 Sean, Sean, get real. I watched Rick Sanchez prior to this program talking about himself and his his his frolic with baseball as a child for a long time. That's funny though. I'd like the he gets a slam in for Sanchez. Rick's list. But yeah, instead, but he says it wrong. He said, you know, Rick Sanchez is jerking off for half an hour. That's what he should have said. But of course, that's He thinks he can't do that. And in the meantime on my BlackBerry a woman of 24 years old is dying because she didn't have attention to a tooth for the last six months in Haiti. I see in Wycliffe John somebody... He's dying on his BlackBerry? Yeah, I guess because he got the information on his BlackBerry that a woman who's had a tooth problem is now her skull is rotting away.

24:34 who could well have been influenced by the promise of support from companies. I think that Haiti is clearly... Here's what's interesting, John. Now there's a split screen. Why Clef Jean is coming out of a Gulfstream IV And he's walking there with his wife and I guess their child. And he, but he, now he's like completely corporate. He's got a suit on, he's got a Brooks Brothers, he's got the striped tie, the whole thing. And he's coming down in Porter Prince Airport there and Sean's talking over the video. uh... is way more able to in particular the manufacturing concerns that it's a desperately needs in the job that jobs that's a desperately needs but with a history of american interests coming in and underpaying people this is when i swear to god why clinton's job looks like a politician he's like he did doesn't have you know the funky clothes on his hair is completely you know close-cut shaven

25:29 And he's got the white collar on and there's military people out there greeting him at the airport and he's walking across the tarmac like he's a politician. Which is just, it's disturbing to see. He is a politician. Sorry? Well I mean now he is a politician. I know but it's, I mean if you bumped into Wyclef Jean as Wyclef Jean you'd be like, hey Wyclef, you're former Fuji. But now you'd be like, excuse me, sir. You'd be like, sorry to mean to bump it. You wouldn't recognize the guy. It's just an amazing transformation. If it had a leak before the earthquake, it doesn't make much sense to rebuild it with the leak again. So what I'm encouraging is that we look very hard at all the donors because this is somebody who's going to receive an enormous amount of his support if he continues this campaign from the United States. And I'm very, I have to say, I'm very suspicious of it simply because he as an ambassador at large has been

26:34 virtually silent in terms, for those of us in Haiti, he has been a non-presence. He said earlier he was helping to move bodies and so on in the first days. That may well have been and everybody whose help was very needed. But his voice has really been most loudly that which allegedly had taken over $400,000 of money that was designated for Haitian relief for himself. He claims he didn't do it. I think that's going to have to be looked at. He has all these little factoids, but he just blows it at the end. Instead of saying the guy is a total douchebag, he stole money, he had his charity pay himself $100,000 to perform at the charity event, which is just unconscionable.

CHAPTER 07 / 34 Discussion

Corporate Jets, Fast Company Journalism

The use of a corporate Gulfstream IV jet by Wyclef Jean is linked to his frequent travels and political connections. Journalist Jenara Nerenberg is criticized for a Fast Company article supporting Jean's candidacy, while the hosts question the transparency of Bill Clinton's Haiti-related foundations.

gulfstream· wyclef jean· jenara nerenberg· fast company· bill clinton

27:20 By the way that happens a lot more than you think it does I'd like to point out He just kind of loses his shit there. You know Sean needs some help down there He needs some help in communicating the message because they're just gonna call him an idiot. Yeah, well yeah, well he is kind of an idiot anyway the Gulfstream for Wyclef Jean is walking out of has registration November 2 5 4 Gulf Alpha it is owned by the Gulfstream Aerospace Company and Yeah, so it's not just a rental and it flies to Europe a lot. It flies to Farnborough which is kind of the private airfield for jets just south of London, southwest of London. It's there a lot.

28:10 And it's a nice little airplane by the way. G4. And so... I don't know, Gulfstream should let us use their jet once in a while. So, you know, if you're talking about... Hey boys! Yeah, really, send it over so we can go down to Bonaire. We'll go to Memphis for that meeting, the Nashville... But then you get, you know, so it's already... this is from a fast company. You read fast companies report of Wyclef Jean. And here it's like, yeah, you know, so the guy's been accused of taking some money and yeah, he's being suspected of misappropriating funds and yeah, he's got a $2.5 million lien from the IRS, $2.1 million tax lien, but you know,

28:59 Given his aggressive attempts to galvanize teenagers and Rastafarians alike since the Fugees forever ago declined He may just be the perfect person to step in and give Haiti a little sparkle in its name attract foreign investors ensure long-term aid and recovery efforts I'm like my god fast company is so on the program written by Genara Nirenberg and I think we need to start calling these journalists out. She by the way is pretty hot looking and She's a freelance writer and producer in Asia, regularly on CNN Go, and a graduate of Harvard and UC Berkeley. Other stories she's written... Climate Change is for Real, Y'all! Is that what the title is? Yes! Yes! Climate Change is for Real, Y'all!

29:49 Posted Friday, August 6th? Oh yeah. Why do you spell her last name? So it's Jenara Nerenberg. N-E-R-E-N-B-R-G. Like Nurenberg without the U. And she looks good. I'm sure she's looking good out there in the field. But for that to be one of her most recent articles... Climate change is for real, y'all. She looks like a typical... she doesn't look that good. She looks like a Berkeley, uh... Yeah, you know... Birkenstock good. Girl who never washes her hair. I like that kind. One laptop per child perseveres despite challenges and controversy. We got to call these people out as douchebags. Hold on, here she is. You are a... DOUCHEBAG! Get out of here. Saying it's good to have Y Clef Jean. Well, the guy's clearly gonna win.

30:51 And then we'll see. Then we'll see how good it will be. And meanwhile, you know, Sean Patton, what a hero. No, Haiti's always been screwed up. Why is anything going to make a difference? No, I understand that but it's you know, this is... I just can't let some of these things go, you know? It's like, it's just... It's so in our face and it just happened and this was all we were talking about and we all text our money and... We didn't text our money. I didn't. That was always your money down the drain, anyone who did it. Yeah, well... It was in Clinton's pockets, it's ridiculous. They did by the way, they have...

31:28 They have actually started the foundation, the Haiti Now Foundation, which is the way Bill Clinton and George W. Bush We're doing it is they were taking the money into their charities first because they wanted to get you know the money and quickly get it rolling quickly, you know we got it we got to get that rolling quickly, and then they were going to give that money to The foundation when the five-oh was it 501 C. Whatever it is when the action seats Yeah, the 503 C whenever that the charity it started so it has been started any new money apparently goes into that But I'm still waiting for the 2009

32:06 William Jefferson Clinton IRS filing. He has released his own annual report which talks about how great he is but he hasn't actually released or I think as far as I can tell filed the information yet which of course should show a couple hundred million dollars going to that foundation. Yes. Well right we'll see. Anyway I just want to see the numbers you know just show me the numbers and he just still hasn't released it. No data yet. We'll stay on top of it for you. Anyway, so that's my little thing on Haiti and I hope the good Lord takes care of Sean down there. So on to another topic, you got your wish this week. Really? Yeah, you play the clip and it's his wish. Finally?

CHAPTER 08 / 34 Discussion

Naomi Campbell, Charles Taylor Diamond Testimony

Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified at The Hague regarding "uncut diamonds" she allegedly received as a gift from former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Actress Mia Farrow is also scheduled to testify in the war crimes trial, which centers on Taylor's use of gems to finance civil war in Sierra Leone.

naomi campbell· charles taylor· mia farrow· blood diamonds· the hague

32:59 I have so many important wishes. Could this be the one I've been waiting for? Alright. I saw the clip come in and purposely did not listen, of course. Actress Mia Farrow will be the next celebrity to testify in a war crimes trial. According to the UN, she is scheduled to be on the stand Monday in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Now, supermodel Naomi Campbell here testified this week about uncut diamonds that she received while in Africa. Taylor is accused of using the gems to finance a bloody civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. I love it! That was exactly what I asked for. It was your wish.

33:37 Are they just sitting around saying, hey, let's blow it, let's blow this guy away. Let's call Mia Farrow. I don't know what she's going to do, it's all second-hand information. But we know she's going to lie. She's going to say, I didn't see them and we know that's just going to be a lie. Because any woman who says, hey, I got this awesome frickin' rock. Yeah, it was a little dirty but I spit on it and look how good it looks. You know, every any woman says, show it to me. Exactly. It's ridiculous. I mean, any guy would. What if somebody said that to you? You'd want to see it. Yeah, of course. So she apparently, there is a little clip here of Naomi Campbell giving the testimony. I couldn't find the whole testimony and they only played, this was CNN, they don't even play the good part but this is kind of interesting. Do you know that, because this took place in The Hague, right? At the International Court and the Dutch press was ordered to stay away.

34:28 No one was able to ask any questions, do anything, shut up, go away. You can't talk to me. Shut up slave. Yeah, shut up slave. There's no... Hey, be quiet. Who do you think you are? The press or something? Yeah, when I was sleeping, I had a knock at my door and I opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, a gift for you. Do you know what time that was? No, I don't. I just, I was sleeping so I was woken up from my sleep. And these two men, did you know who they were? No, I'm afraid not. Now Campbell says that- Wait a minute. So there's a knock at her door in the middle of the night, two guys come in and say, Hot pockets! I got something for ya. And she's not screaming her head off in bloody murder? I mean, if two guys came into my room, I'd be freaked out.

35:24 Yeah, there probably weren't there were probably like bodyguard type. Oh wait Mickey says maybe not Mickey would be like a big black guys I don't know it might be okay Thanks, babe I feel so secure in my manhood now. So now the report continues and it says that she just she threw them away. Hold on, let me hear the rest. Now Campbell says that she did not keep the stones and wasn't sure if the gift was from Taylor himself. Taylor has pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges including rape and murder. People have given me a seashell and I've kept it. What do you mean she threw them away?

CHAPTER 09 / 34 Discussion

CDC, Childhood Immunization Survey

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting a nationwide telephone survey targeting parents of children under three years old. The survey asks detailed questions about H1N1 flu shots, breastfeeding habits, and household income, which the hosts characterize as intrusive market research.

cdc· immunization· h1n1· survey· market research

36:05 It's horse crap. This woman, she's terrible. She's a terrible person. Yes, well yes, in general I would say she is. She throws cell phones at people all the time. It's frightening. We have one of our producers received an interesting voicemail message, John, which I'd like to share with you. You might be interested in this. Hello, I am calling on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding a nationwide study about childhood immunizations. We spoke previously about this important study. You or someone in your household asked us to call you at this time. I'm sorry that we've missed you. We'll try to contact you again soon, but please feel free to return our call anytime at 1-866-999-3340. Also, if you have any questions, that number again is 1-866-9999.

36:54 999-3340. So that is the CDC calling, doing a nationwide survey. The Centers for Disease Control. And this is producer Mike and he says his wife called them back. Unfortunately I don't have a recording of that but I'm sure now that we have the number out there one of our other producers may call them. The CDC wanted to know about his daughter's immunization records, specifically if they got the flu shot and if it was a flu shot with H1N1. Only wanted to know about kids under three years of age and of course also wanted to know about their income, if they had child assistance from the government or insurance, and if they had breastfed.

37:37 I also wanted to know when their child was given solids for the first time. About 20 minutes of questions. Wow. Yeah. A little intrusive. What are they up to, you think? Well, I don't know. They want to see what happened. They want to understand why their propaganda... Why it didn't work. This is market research. Exactly. They want to figure out what's going on. What went wrong? It worked for some people, obviously, because I have photos of long lines of people standing in line for H1N1 in Albany. and but it didn't generally work and there was no pandemic which was you know at all the whole thing was a scam from that creepy woman that runs the World Health Organization yeah yeah she's quite creepy so what other new good news do we have well

CHAPTER 10 / 34 Discussion

BP Oil Spill, Well Coordinate Discrepancies

Discrepancies in the video footage of the BP oil spill cap are identified using Lamber XY coordinates. The hosts claim that video showing a successful cap actually displays coordinates for "Well A" rather than the exploded "Well B," suggesting the public is being misled about the status of the leak.

bp· deepwater horizon· lamber xy coordinates· gulf of mexico· oil spill

38:28 I think I finally have some of the actual proof that I was looking for. Some of the data. Now of course, even while I was in bone air, the news reached me that our president had, as if President Obama had personally donned a wetsuit and gone down there and tapped on that well, because the president has closed the well. That's literally how the reporting came through. Well, we're all safe. Humanity is saved. Yay for Obama. uh... members now we've been talking a lot about the uh... about the the cameras that have been used in this uh... video that is just being repurposed, almost no question, in fact as far as I know no questions asked whatsoever about the validity of these underwater footage. We've seen doors open in the background, questionable I admit, but hey BP has opened themselves up to scrutiny. What bothers me more than that actually is the fact that over time when you see these videos it always looks like a different pipe.

39:27 Well here we go. I saw one laying down and the oil coming out. I saw a green one sticking up with a bunch of valves on it. And I saw another just like coming out of the... I mean I saw just a different picture every time. I mean what's the deal? Okay so here's the deal. BP filed for two deep well drilling sites. We call them well A and well B. Both have been identified by, and now I finally know what they are, by these so-called Lamber XY coordinates. And these are a different, this is not quite like GPS coordinates, but they're called Lamber XY coordinates. Well A has the Lamber coordinates

40:09 1 2 0 2 8 0 3 dot 8 8 as the x-coordinate and y-coordinate 1 0 4 3 1 6 1 7 dot o o well be has the coordinates 1202581.28 and 10431685.95 and from the testimony, actually it's the same guy who testified about the blue screen of death. This guy is, he will not live long I predict. He's talking way too much. He said, you know, we had well A, which is the one they started drilling first and the BP guys were saying drill faster, drill faster, we got to get down there and they drilled so fast that cracks started to appear on the side of the well and the drill bit jammed and it jammed so badly they had to stop that. They sent tools down, they tried all the different stuff. It didn't work so they said screw it, we're gonna go to well B.

41:06 Well B is of course the one that exploded that had the transocean I don't know if the well exploded, but we had the explosion above well B So then we have all this stuff all this stuff leaking we got you know we're seeing all this video We're seeing this gusher undersea and it all has well be Lambert XY coordinates then John you'll recall as they're about to clean this thing up We had a convenient little storm remember that everyone had to scurry out of the Gulf and Yeah, okay, but here we go. Oh, yeah, it's a little early in the show. I'm sorry. It's not really that early then they come back and They close it and we're seeing video of The well capped and closed and nothing leaking and it is the well a coordinates They're showing the well a coordinates on the video. It says it right there in the top. It's not the well be they're showing us well a the one that didn't that never like John Stewart

42:06 This is well a what can I tell you but this is an outrage it is an absolute outrage I have all this guy said that he testified to this no he didn't testify he testified about well a Not working they went to well be but I but I have the timeline now and this is what's great about this BP video and there's actually a YouTube video that has all of this strung back-to-back which is great and and including this guy's testimony, and you see the video, you see the date the video is being shown clearly after the well has been capped, and they're showing you video of well A's XY coordinates, the Lamber XY coordinates, not well B.

42:50 So this thing may still be gushing for all we know. Or it may have never been gushing. Also very possible. Let's not forget that all the smaller oil companies, since there was a three month moratorium on drilling, they all had to pack up and go home. And who's left is BP, sitting on top of the gusher that according to President Clinton, can't wait to find its way into your car! It's a total scam. It's a little scary. It is. Tell that to the people in Louisiana who get this goo on their ducks. Well, yeah. The EPA, meanwhile, is saying, hey, you can go back in the water. Go swim. You have some shrimp. You know, I got the biggest kick out of the fact that Lisa Jackson, another creep,

43:36 Yeah, she was so easy to just pass this off as okay. Everything's fine. Yeah, she's so Such a stickler about all this captain trade and you know, we got it We got a we got a you have to have a permit to work on your own home and all that kind of stuff Which is not but go swim in the Gulf. It's good. It's good for you Pretty peculiar have a swim have a little swim and yeah, we can have some shrimp. Mm-hmm And of course they rousted all the reporters so everyone that was you know working on the beach remember when they had the There's like a discrepant reports about the beach. Oh, you can't wear masks You can't do this are you gonna get poisoned or the stinks and they've been reporters were rousted by the Coast Guard What's the Coast Guard doing telling reporters to get lost and there's all this so nobody really got any reporting done And they never made enough of a fuss no of course not it now that good little slaves, okay? Okay, I'll go back to the hotel

44:31 Exactly, and so they all went back, you know, they did no work really. And so we don't even know what's going on. They could have been planting the oil there for all we know. It could have been no oil coming in. You don't know. Well, I think this is quite damning evidence and it's very easy to see because it's right there in front of you. bigger the lie the easier it is for people to believe. They are showing you video of the well A Lamber XY coordinates and if you see something with the B coordinates let me know because I'd love to prove my own theory wrong here but it seems like they are just showing you video from the well that would that never even had oil coming out of it out of in the first place. So who knows? Who knows? In fact James Cameron

CHAPTER 11 / 34 Discussion

Fracking, Flammable Tap Water

A listener from Pennsylvania describes a phenomenon where tap water near Marcellus Shale drilling sites can be lit on fire due to dissolved natural gas. While the industry claims this can occur naturally, the anecdote highlights the dangers of gas accumulation in pump houses and residential wells.

fracking· natural gas· pennsylvania· marcellus shale· flammable water

45:12 Mr. Greeny, why don't you go down there and prove it to us? Go prove... you got all the gear, you got that... you're doing Titanic 2, you've got your stuff ready. Why don't you go down there and show the people, prove it. Prove it! How come our National Treasurer doesn't pay for some investigative reporting there? They're too busy renaming Rapeseed to Canola. That's a full-time job. Meanwhile, Dr. Joe, just to get off the oil cabal, but just one last little note here. Hey guys, I was listening to your discussion on natural gas and drinking water after fracking. My in-laws have a cabin along the Sasquahanna River in Laceyville, Pennsylvania.

45:55 They're in the middle of the Marcellus shale site, which is now in the news as well with some controversy about the shale oil continuing or not. Anyway, for years a favorite parlor trick up river was taking a bottle of fresh tap water from the well, shaking it and lighting it on fire. Where they are with a relatively shallow well, you get a poof. However, a few miles away a worker was killed when he lit a cigarette while working a pump house and ignited the gas in the room. All this was before fracking was invented. While fracking releases more gas, some people have gas dissolved in water naturally with no harm. If you'd like a sample to try, I'd be glad to send it to you. Not sure if it would still light after the trip caught cross-country, but if you'd like to try, send me your address. John, I want some. Hey, you know, it might be a, if you bought, I think if you took the water that with the gas and if you get a

46:53 Or you have one of these things that puts bottle caps on a bottle put in a bottle like a coke bottle Yeah, and then cap it with a bottle cap. I think that we could probably do the lighting experiment I think I think we've got a new type of what you know you have like smart water and vitamin water It's like water that is like real fire puts fire in your ass water You can drink it, but it burns too. It's a hand. It's handy. It's a dessert topping and a floor wax Oh my god. Yeah, I want some. We'll send you our address. I would definitely like to try lighting some water. This is great. Most excellent. So anyway, that's what the oil cabal is doing for you. And I'm sure the video, which has all this evidence, seemingly great evidence, and it has all the filed reports of these well coordinates, and I didn't know what Lamber XY coordinates were.

47:46 But I'm sure that will show up on no agenda TV calm as well as in the show notes at no agenda calm no agenda show calm so yeah, there you go and you can Amaze your friends and family with this very simple evidence you two can use the Anderson Cooper home reporter kit Anderson Vanderbilt. He's looking more like he stopped his, Mickey noticed this, he stopped his kind of athletic buff dude thing and now he's more like a model. He's kind of more like the GQ guy now. So he's thinning down a little bit because he was getting a little... He was way too buff. Yeah, he was way out there. He was getting too pumped. Yeah, he was out there. All right, well I guess that's it for today's show. No, I think we've delivered some value right there.

CHAPTER 12 / 34 Discussion

Bill Clinton, Westchester County Flight Records

Flight records for a specific Gulfstream jet show frequent trips to Westchester County, New York, near Bill Clinton's residence. The hosts speculate on the connection between these flights, corporate interests, and the ongoing redevelopment projects in Haiti.

bill clinton· westchester county· flight history· private jet· haiti

48:36 Some real value. It's just too much. Yeah, just to show that the public's being bamboozled by the media and the corporations, it's ridiculous. I mean, it's gotten completely out of control. Now we're even getting like, I have a couple clips here, there's one I want to play. Oh, I'm sorry, before I jump off of that, Stek emailed me something here. He's emailed me the flight history for November 254 Gulf Alpha. Notice all of the trips to Westchester County. You know who's up in Westchester County, don't you? Who, Clinton? Yeah. Yeah. It's like a million, he's got, he emailed the whole thing, it's like a million trips to Westchester County. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. It's probably... Are we surprised by this? No, no, no. He's meeting up with Clinton constantly and somebody else's G4? Yeah, yeah, well in Gulfstream's, in, in, it's the corporate jet. So, but you, so do you know what this also means? It means there's going to be a corporate

49:33 Jet port. Oh, it's a northern part of the island where all those hotels are absolutely It's beautiful. You know if we get more people to fly into Haiti at the corporate jet port. That's where you sell more jets Hey guys, we wouldn't mind a couple of rides. You know we don't mind a ride on a jet No, it's never hurt doesn't hurt Gulfstream. Joe is a ride on a jet We just gave him a bunch of publicity. It was a real pain in the operator Right So now the news media doesn't bother telling us anything it seems to me. So you know that guy who, the black guy who shot up all the people at a beer distributor ship? Yeah, because of course he was drunk, right? Well, on beer. He accused them of racism and the rest of it. But the thing is, there's a story about him apparently giving away beer on his ride

CHAPTER 13 / 34 Discussion

Omar Thornton, Connecticut Beer Distribution Shooting

Following a mass shooting at a Connecticut beer distributorship by Omar Thornton, police arrested a woman for allegedly accepting stolen beer from him. The hosts criticize the media coverage for being vague and question the police resources spent on the secondary arrest.

omar thornton· connecticut· beer distributor· shooting· christy quayle

50:33 and the arrest of some woman to whom he gave beer to and the whole thing is so vague and why they arrest this woman the whole thing is confusing to me and the news these guys these reporters this is either CNN or Fox I think it may have been CNN it's just there's no there's no anything it's unbelievable to me nobody asks a simple question like why was this woman arrested I don't know a play beer truck guy oh I didn't know we had a clip that's nice okay beer truck guy Connecticut police arrested a woman they said accepted stolen beer from a man who killed eight people this week. Christy Quayle was charged and released on bond yesterday. Here she is. There's video allegedly showing her though accepting beer from a truck driven by Omar Thornton. Police say that Thornton went on a shooting rampage on Tuesday. His employer, Harper Distributors, said that it asked him to resign when it caught him stealing and selling alcohol.

51:28 Thorne's girlfriend claims that he was being racially harassed at work. Hmm. Well, that's interesting. So this woman get arrested guy drives up a beer truck to you and says, Hey buddy, you want some beer? And you say, yeah, sure. That's fencing, man. You can't be taking stolen stuff. You don't know it's stolen. The guy might be a beer maniac. He may be the, the duff guy from the Simpsons, you know, he's giving away beer. I mean, what? You know, what is it? It's a beer. So what's a dollar, 50 cents, 25 cents for a can? You know, I mean, if this is stolen, we're going to get all worked up. We're going to waste police time arresting somebody for taking 50 cents worth of beer. It's ridiculous. Well, you know, there's of course very little information about that incident. And so this clouds it even more as to why a guy goes nuclear or what we used to call postal.

52:24 and goes and shoots everybody, and it's very easy to say, oh, you know, racial, whatever. It's just coincidental. I got a link to, it's a list basically of 101 witnesses who witnessed the Columbine shooting. Of course, eight years ago we didn't have the show. Eight years ago, I think that we still believed the news eight years ago. I don't know. You may not have. Not me. Not you. But when you read these a hundred, more than a hundred witness accounts that there were other people there and it wasn't just these two these two kids Eric Harris and Dylan was it Kybold or Klaybold whatever his name was yeah yeah but they but there's reports of like three or four people

53:17 You know, and it's like, if only we had had the show back then, we could have brought that into question. It's like, there's no question. There's just no question at all. You still haven't heard one thing about that crazy Ford Hood shooting. No. No. Not one person has come forward to say what they saw. No. And then if you remember when they originally reported it, They credited some guy or some woman was stopping the guy by wooing him. And it turns out she had nothing to do with it. Some other guy had shot the guy. He was in the hospital and wasn't getting any credit whatsoever. The whole thing was scammed out. It's gone. It's gone. More important things. Lilo. Lilo locked up, released after nine days. That's what's important. You know, John, would you mind just calling me back?

CHAPTER 14 / 34 Discussion

Interstate Alcohol Sales, Kombucha Alcohol Content

A bill in the House of Representatives aims to ban the interstate sale of alcohol, a move attributed to lobbying by major distributors. Additionally, retailers like Fred Meyer have pulled Kombucha tea from shelves to verify alcohol content after the drink reportedly triggered Lindsay Lohan's alcohol monitoring bracelet.

alcohol laws· kombucha· lindsay lohan· fred meyer· prohibition

54:03 Did I go dead? No, but you're warbling a lot. Oh, okay. I'll be right there. All right call me back Might as well get a perfect connection while we're doing it, right? Hello, yeah, okay, it could be The the Port Angeles thing who knows that could be our Eric's downloading porn So just staying on the demon drink of alcohol, of course, there's still the neo-prohibitionist movement as John has coined it and A bill pending in the house which I did not know about is getting set to ban the interstate sale of alcohol, John. Yeah, this has been going on for a long time. This is all part of the... everybody knows about this. I didn't know about it. This goes on every year they try to do this because this is to keep a liquor store in California from shipping

55:06 a bottle of wine usually because there's wine that gets transported back and forth mostly to somebody in New York, upper New York State where they can't get a decent bottle of wine for a decent price because you can actually buy a bottle of Bordeaux in San Francisco, ship it to New York and it's still about half the price you'd be paying for it in there. in their area and this is part of the old Southern Wines and Spirits is behind a lot of this and they're a big distributor and then some other operations that they want to have a death grip on the local distribution of the products. Okay, so this is not new although it is cropping up again I guess? It crops up every year. Okay, alright.

55:52 Then one of our producers sent us a, I gotta turn my head to the left here because he took it in the wrong, took it in landscape mode. This is the Fred Meyer, it's a memo from Fred Meyer corporate office. June 18th, 2010. Dear valued customer, effective Thursday, June 17th, all Millennium products including Kombuca tea are being pulled from sale until the alcohol content can be determined. This is not a product recall. We will resume selling product once the suppliers provide the necessary documentation to verify alcohol content. So this is the stuff that Lindsay Lohan said she was drinking when her scram bracelet went off. She was drinking the tea that has apparently enough alcohol in it to set off the bracelet.

CHAPTER 15 / 34 Discussion

Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard Resignation

HP CEO Mark Hurd resigned following an internal investigation into sexual harassment claims and expense account irregularities. Although the harassment claim was not supported by facts, Hurd was ousted for inaccurate expense reports related to a female contractor.

mark hurd· hp· hewlett-packard· sexual harassment· expense accounts

56:41 So they've taken it off shelves. Yeah, well just saying it's not unrelated. Pops up, there it is. Boom. Don't drink it. I just got a note from Eric saying that the Ford Hood guy is still receiving his Army paycheck. Sure, why not? Why not? Where's my pay? Do you want to talk about this HP case? This is the CEO and chairman Hurd. Who I might say took this company's guy that did bump I was gonna do a local radio show on Friday and about talking about some something I wrote about market watch and then I got bumped because of this story really what was your story I can't remember that's why you got bumped it was forgettable well whatever

57:34 Yeah, so now this is the guy who well there's a couple things I think that went on here But he he took the company you know he what like quadrupled the revenues I mean this guy awesome to the whole company and he gets Essentially fired, but I guess he resigned they resigned in a disgrace. Yeah, but you know it's like because because of a couple contracts that you know that like for like 20 grand or something or what or was he actually harassing this woman or what is it? Apparently he would the reason that I think the official reason of course this story again isn't well there's a I got it somewhere there's a Market Watch has a good article on it. Well here's here's the the internal memo

58:22 This, I guess this just came out. By the way, did you know that Mark Andreessen is on the board of HP? Yeah, isn't that funny? Oh my god! I like Mark Andreessen, but geez, this guy's on the board. Here it is. Mark's resignation followed an internal investigation into a claim of sexual harassment asserted against Mark and HP by a woman who was a former contractor to HP. The investigation was conducted by outside counsel in conjunction with HP's general counsel's office and was overseen by the board. Based on the investigation, it was determined that the former contractor's claim of sexual harassment was not supported by the facts. Okay, then what's the problem? Well, the problem boils down to... He bought Palm, that's the problem. He bought Palm. He what? He bought Palm. He bought Palm. He had to be fired for that. Why didn't they just fire him? He made a shitty decision. Instead, they drum up this thing?

CHAPTER 16 / 34 Discussion

WikiLeaks, Pentagon Document Demands

The Pentagon, via spokesman Jeff Morell, has demanded that WikiLeaks "expunge" 15,000 classified documents from its website and return them to the U.S. government. Media analysts on Fox News suggest the Obama administration may be indifferent to the leaks as they reflect a war effort already perceived as failing.

wikileaks· pentagon· jeff morell· afghanistan· classified documents

59:16 No, supposedly this was for expense account irregularities. He had been, I guess, dating this woman or doing something and then putting it on his expense account as some bogus... on some bogus line item, that's my understanding. Yeah, but for a guy who was so successful, you know, there had to be something else going on that they wanted to get rid of. I'm gonna have to go down to the valley and roam around and start knocking on doors. Do some gossiping and find out what the heck it is. Start knocking on some doors. More from the Ministry of Truth this kind of blew me away, and of course there's no c-span in bonair But I was able to get the Defense Department Press briefing and listen to how this starts out which just made no sense to me I have a brief opening statement. This is Jeff morel into questions. I

1:00:13 On Monday, pardon me, Tuesday, it was reported that WikiLeaks has asked the Department of Defense for help in reviewing approximately 15,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks obtained in an unauthorized and inappropriate manner before WikiLeaks releases those classified documents to the public. WikiLeaks has made no such request directly to the Department of Defense. These documents are the property of the U.S. government and contain classified and sensitive information. I think that's kind of interesting. Why would Wikileaks, are these Wikileaks getting thrown under the bus now? I don't know yet. Something's up, something's weird, and there's a, I have the same kind of thing, I have a clip from the same guy, demanding it, this is my clip, is the Pentagon on Wikileaks.

1:01:03 This was played on Fox and then it was and then there was a bunch of memes that were dumped This is the weekend by the way the weekend Fox News shows are awesome. They're awesome because they're the biggest idiots ever on television exactly But they're hot chicks and we all want to be you know, they all want to be on O'Reilly They all want to be mainstream, but they're on the weekends where nobody watches Fox on the weekends except us because we because we have to so you don't have to yes so and they're all but they they they drop these bombs and I thought that this one was particularly interesting because everybody in the room this was a first day play this clip we can play the whole thing and they can

1:01:45 You hear the guy from the Pentagon and talking demanding they the WikiLeaks takes down all their postings as if nobody has ever You know that they don't get that it's already been copied a million times billion nerds who have copies now Yeah, that would include me Hello, it's Fox Weekend. What I'm announcing here is a request, a demand of Wikileaks, the organization, to do the right thing and to not further exacerbate the damage that has been done by them to date and return to us all the information that was illegally passed to them and to expunge it from their website and all their records.

1:02:30 Pentagon spokesman Jeff Morell there sending a message to people who run Wikileaks, the website responsible for publishing classified military documents about the US effort in Afghanistan. Morell also saying Wikileaks is breaking the law by encouraging US insiders to engage in espionage. He talked there in that soundbite Jim about the damage done the pentagon obviously believes there's been tremendous damage done to the war effort is that reflected in the coverage uh... the media are kind of confused about this issue because on the one hand they're knee-jerks toward full disclosure on the other hand they kind of realize we're losing this war but what's interesting though is that the pentagon may not like this leak but i don't think the obama administration cares i don't see eric holder saying i'm gonna throw these people in jail i think the obama administration even now doesn't really care whether this stuff comes out or not

1:03:18 Well, because it doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know. And by the way, we were already losing the war. So, we've been losing the war for years. Wow, this is great! We're losing the war, we're losing the war, we've been losing the war, we're losing the war. Yeah, the first guy says we're losing the war, she says we're losing the war twice. And this is the whole meme going on. We're losing the war, we're losing the war, we're losing the war on Fox. That's amazing. I like the use of the word expunge as well, by the way, which is a total Microsoft Outlook word. Expunge actually I think it's an IMAP word to expunge the mailbox. Isn't it? Expunge. Yeah, it's a great word expunge. It's a good sounding word. It has comedic qualities. Hold on, let's just look up expunge. Expunge. That's a good word. Here we go. Expunge. You can

1:04:12 Dictionary.com. Come on, dictionary.com. Go to Webster's.com. It's better. Really? Expunge. To strike or blot out. To erase. Obliterate. Wipe out or destroy. Hmm. The word dates from 1595. I like the word obliterate. But I think you need to obliterate this information. Like expunge. It doesn't really affect that at all and I think there's more that the media could be doing on this for sure. You know in particular calling some of the people who have come out and said there's blood on the hands of the WikiLeaks people for killing you know people in Afghanistan which is kind of ironic considering how many people we've killed in Afghanistan. I mean it's just why doesn't anybody call them on this kind of stuff? And how many people the Taliban has killed.

1:04:55 terrible which also doesn't get me stand up for leaks for one second I mean clearly you can have damaging leaks in a military situation and these Jim may be causing some damage but you know it's the military's job to keep their secrets and most of us who work in the media will tell you honestly we live off of leaks give me more leaks please! yeah but Ellis, Ellis look if wiki leaks exist you live off of nothing you shithead we live off of leaks Boy oh boy oh boy. So you can tell that John and I have been very busy once again watching C-SPAN and Fox News on weekends so you don't have to. It is part of our public service and we need you to support us.

CHAPTER 17 / 34 Discussion

Donor Recognition, Knighting of Brian Watson

The hosts conduct a formal knighthood ceremony for Brian Watson of Raleigh, North Carolina, inducting him into the Order of the Mint. They also acknowledge various birthday shout-outs and explain the different levels of show support, including the "Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable" (KNR) designation.

brian watson· order of the mint· knighthood· donations· no agenda

1:05:39 Because we don't take commercials, we never will run commercials or take any type of commercial money. We're out here to show you that it can be done and we need your support to do just that. And we take that in form of donations. And I think we should thank a couple people who helped us out this week, John. Yeah, we actually had, there's kind of a shortfall of people helping us out except for the larger donation, most of which came from Paul Couture, of course. uh... but we did have them uh... mathol phillips from dearborn heights michigan who gave us a sixty nine sixty nine with no comment and to give me much become a dad uh... podcast for peace sir jeffrey girlock of alamo uh... through in a fifty one fifty which of course refers to uh... insanity he's been uh... podcast for peace has been helping us out for a long time appreciated

1:06:35 yeah and uh... yeah as a matter of fact vladimir frunza from saint petersburg russia again fifty dollars uh... which i find it unusual we have to deal from saint petersburg russia nobody from the u k giving us money but we did get what do we also have a couple night with layaways tristan lennon and mike westerfield they're still on board and finally linden Gervin of Landisville, Pennsylvania for $50 and that wraps up our donors over $50 this week.

1:07:14 So just cleaning up house here. Hey guys says Ara Dardarian. I sent you a PayPal donation for the last show. In the notes I wrote a little request for a birthday shout out for my wife and daughter. You mentioned my donation but didn't mention the shout out. If you don't mind, could you please give them a shout out on the next show? This is what I put in the section of the PayPal notice and then the email ended, which kind of sucked. So, Ara, if you wouldn't mind sending that back, then we can do that properly. Also, a birthday shout out to Professor Tom, who is one of the writers and contributors to the noagendareport.com website. Happy birthday from your buddies here at No Agenda.

1:08:04 Well, we also have Dame Margaret George. Oh, yes. And, uh, Erya Der- Der- Darian's daughter, Stephanie, and wife, Lena. Oh, so there it is. That's what I just- Were you listening to me at all, or were you just ignoring me as usual? No, I was trying to find this email. Okay. So do that properly, then. So you got, uh... Dame Margaret George. Right. Who, uh, I think turns 23, doesn't she? 24. She's 24. Mm-hmm. And, uh... And today's her birthday. By the way, it's also our wedding anniversary here at the Northern facility. Oh, well that's great. You could give each other rings. And then... Just gloss over that. Some night rings, perhaps. By the way, talking about glossing over, somebody did send us the clip. I'll talk about it later, but let's get this Dame Margaret's thing out of the way for sure.

1:08:59 Okay, happy birthday day mark what we could do it like this I mean she'll should do that do the jingle for shoot let's do the jingle Okay, John go Dame Margaret George's birthday. She's 24 and One of our nights, and she still reads the paper without her glasses exactly And then we have to draw our swords. John, you could just grab yours as well. Okay, there you go. Noagendafans.com, the No Agenda coin challenge continues. Paul Couture has started this excellent project and I think you might want to reach out to him. He may be able to assist you with the ring project. He seems to be doing pretty good with other physical objects.

1:09:55 And what he's trying to accomplish and looks like he's well on his way is to deliver 12 nights to the No Agenda roundtable in the order of the mint. And he is taking one each show at, I guess at random, and donating $1,000 on behalf of a person who purchased these coins. Remember, these are only $33.33. They are very, very nifty. You can find out more information at noagendafans.com. You know, actually I wanted to, I got a new one here. Hold on a second. Here's the, uh... Yes! There we go. As we draw our swords once again for the knighting of a new knight in the Order of the Mint, Brian Watson of Raleigh, North Carolina, please step forward. Brian, of course, ordered a single coin from noagendafans.com.

1:10:42 And like other members of the Order of the Mint is having his knighthood purchased by noagendafans.com He will also be the recipient of one of only 12 black nickel-plated No Agenda Challenge coins. Only 144 coins remain. So Brian Watson, we hereby pronounce thee Sir Brian Watson, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable. Please step up and give Dame Margaret a pat on the tush there. And by the way, did we get daughter Stephanie and wife Lena from Ariduridian's birthday in Larry and Waterbury, Connecticut? No, I don't have any birthdays. Okay, well here they are. Our administration is in shambles, my friend. Alright, we've got from Ariduridian, Derriderian.

1:11:32 D-Durian, sorry. Daughter Stephanie and wife Lena. And also happy birthday to Larry in Waterbury, Connecticut from his friend Bill Saturno. Right, happy birthday everybody. It truly sucks. It's really quite bad. Hey, it's my fault for digging up details. So by the way, we're going to have the two things we have. People always want to have some letters to put after the names. OTM for Order of the Mint is the type of knighthood. The other one is the KNR, which is the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable. KNR? Okay. Yeah, so that's the regular night who is a KNR, the OTM are the ones that we're developing out of this other program. Right, so the way this works is if you support the show with a thousand dollars or more and that could be over time through a No Agenda Night layaway program, you become a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable or a Dane as it were. Of course there's the special things that happen from time to time like the challenge coins.

1:12:28 And then we have a whole page where you can choose different levels of support at Dvorak.org slash NA or at ChannelDvorak.com slash NA. You can also find this link at our website, noagendashow.com. We always appreciate the $5 a month donations. If you're on the $5 a month program, please go and check that it's still, you're still in place because PayPal does sometimes kind of unsubscribe you for reasons unknown. Let's not forget that we still have the official no agenda mothership boarding pass a numbered board to put boarding pass 1,000 seats available for when it comes to pick us up John will be staying behind and waving waving at us fighting back the zombies John will be fighting the zombies as we waft off into the universe into into a beautiful a beautiful future

CHAPTER 18 / 34 Discussion

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Analysis

A discussion of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" focuses on the concept of infant conditioning and "narco-hypnosis" as tools of government control. The hosts compare the fictional drug Soma to modern societal distractions and the public's obsession with celebrity culture.

aldous huxley· brave new world· george orwell· eugenics· soma

1:13:20 and we'll leave him behind. Talk about fighting the zombies, the movie Zombieland, there's an alert to the... We talked about this already. Okay, yeah, well the guy Woody Harrelson fights all the zombies, does a very good job of it. It's a good movie and I actually would like to send a heads up to the No Agenda Book Club. I read one book over the holiday week and you were amazed I had not read this book yet but it is by Uh, Adolus Huxley? Algis Huxley. I call him Adolus. Okay, well all this Huxley is called a brave new world. I believe you have read that but no well you look I was deprived it's I grew up in you know I grew up in the know what you're reading this book. No they don't it's an excellent book I think it might even be on Project Gutenberg although I had to buy it on iBooks from Apple so that means that it probably wasn't it's actually on Apple it's it's not well done I think it was scanned

1:14:20 and words are strung together and sometimes there's a misspelling where an R is a TH or something. No, that stinks. Yeah, it really does blow, especially because... well, the book was cheap, $2.99, but still. Phenomenal book, very interesting. And I got a note here from Niels von Kauk. He says, Adam, I was a bit behind listening to the shows. I was on holiday myself. But I heard you mentioning Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. His brother was Julian Huxley, a little bit of trivia here, a member of the British Eugenics Society. And if you read this book, you'll understand why that's important. Furthermore, on October 21st, 1949, Huxley wrote to George Orwell, author, of course, of 1984, congratulating Orwell on, quote, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. In his letter to Orwell, he predicted,

1:15:05 Within the next generation, I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more effective as instruments of government than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience. And I think we're well on that path, you know. Oh yeah. I think this whole 1984... But we have the dual purpose society. We do both. Yeah, but I think the 1984 is just a distraction. You know, we're all looking at like, oh, we're going to be slaves. But meanwhile, we're all glued to Lilo. We're looking at what Lindsay's doing and we're kind of loving it and it's all nice and, you know, we... Yay! It's good. And we have our own version of SOMA. If you don't know what SOMA is, you'll have to read the book. But...

1:15:55 I'd say also there's also a second book called Brave New World Revisited which I've never read. Oh really? Is that also by Huxley or is that someone else who did that? I think it's I don't know I've never read it I just got a note about it. So one of our producers went through the trouble speaking of Soma which is the drug that is By the way, that whole Huxley thing, I kind of like it because everybody belongs to everybody and you can have sex with everybody whenever you want and everyone just said, okay, I'll have sex with you. And you just can't have babies. Yeah, yeah, Huxley was... Yeah, and then you take some of the... Sublimating with that one. Yeah, you take some of the Soma dope and it's all good. I mean, you know... You can have a Brave New World party. Yeah, hey! In the hot tub. Maybe, oh, Bobby Eden's still in town. I gotta invite her for a Brave New World party.

CHAPTER 20 / 34 Discussion

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Media Criticism

Bill O'Reilly is criticized for a slip of the tongue where he appeared to include himself in the "Democrat party" during a discussion about the House of Representatives. The hosts argue that Fox News reporting is often mediocre and leaves out critical context.

bill o'reilly· fox news· democrat party· media bias· reporting

1:25:34 Doggone it, I'm gonna have to go dig it up to do this. But I sent you this... No, no nuts. It's a good clip, but it's a clip that... I'll just say what it is. Somebody sent me the clip of O'Reilly referring to us. What? not us, the two of us. There was a discussion of the Democrat party losing the House and O'Reilly says, well it looks like we're going to lose the House and then he kind of glossed it over like he wasn't... Oh right, because of course we know that Fox is really run by the Democrats. Right, and apparently O'Reilly is a Democrat and who would think that? But he just glossed over it, huh? I'll dig that clip up and we can play it next week or next show. Yeah, that's a good one.

1:26:23 I do have a... I'm sorry. No, I'm just saying this is exactly what it proves. I mean, this whole thing is... Fox is something of a scam operation when it comes to their news coverage. I mean, they're not... In fact, they have another clip from them. They're not really reporting any... Their reporting is terrible. They leave things out. They don't do their job. There's obviously no postmortems on any of their news writing. It's unbelievably bad. I have a clip that is Fox News on Pat down. So Fox News is back on the story about the the over the weekend. There's a weekend show and they did they actually put together a really mediocre kind of reportage of the of the those machines that take your picture and they supposedly won't you know save them but they do

1:27:15 And then they so they had somebody who thought it was fine to have your nude picture Posted all over the place and then another person didn't like it and then they had a third person that they interviewed to zoom in on the street Who made no sense at all? There's a character in the King of the Hill show who was a babbling Texan. You can't understand the word he says right? That's this guy And what is the story about exactly it's about the machines and whether they're gonna keep the photos and whether we should have the naked body scanners Yeah, and it's it tends to push itself toward you know don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, okay?

CHAPTER 21 / 34 Discussion

TSA, Full Body Scanner Privacy

The TSA admitted to storing thousands of body scanning images despite previous claims that the machines could not save data. A Fox News segment on the controversy is mocked for its condescending tone and for showing blurred "blob" images that do not accurately represent the clarity of the actual scans.

tsa· body scanners· privacy· naked pictures· fox news

1:27:53 Full body scanners, just as the machines are set to appear at virtually every major airport in the country, a federal agency admitting it has stored thousands of controversial body scanning images. This, even though the TSA has insisted all the images cannot be saved or recorded. Uh-oh, Peter Doocy live in our New York City newsroom with more. Hi there, Peter. Hey, Julie, that's right. 35,000 so-called naked pictures of people. How condescending is this? Whoa. So-called they can controversial pictures. Whoa, whoa. It's going to be a dis a long clip. And when you get to the end of it, it even gets weirder when she starts doing, she does stand up. Oh, great. Oh, great. Let's listen. Entering a Florida courthouse. We're saved.

1:28:37 And that's problematic for several reasons, but mostly because the government said it wasn't possible for the machines to save everything or anything. Now here are some of the images in question. You can decide for yourself if someone having a file with a picture of you looking like this makes you uncomfortable. Okay, hold on a second. So they show a picture of, uh, it's a blob. a blog. We know what these things do, they take a picture of you naked, it's a good, we've seen it, we've photoshopped them, you can reverse it out, you can do anything you want, it's really good. And in this case, these Fox people are showing us a picture of a blob, literally. And that is a picture.

1:29:17 I mean it's a bunch of blah blah blah gobs of light. It's ridiculous what they show. As though that is the image when it's bogus. That's not the image at all. It's total BS. But anyway, onward. Or protection groups like the Electronic Privacy Information Center think... Who is that? The Electronic Privacy Information Thing? I don't know. I've heard of EFF but not these guys. Information Center think it's outrageous. It's outrageous. The TSA told us in a statement yesterday that when they install 450 similar machines made by a different manufacturer at airports nationwide, the memory feature will be disabled. The company who made the machine that recorded the images in question says the scanners have a save feature because 40% of their clients are private businesses who need records of who comes in and who comes out of their... Let me just jump in here. The actual tender

1:30:28 that the government put out for these machines required storage capability. I'd like to remind you of that. It required storage capability. We had that on the show. There's a lot of lies. Sorry? I'm saying there's a lot of lies. Yeah, it's just lies. ...prevention and it's up to the person operating the machine, the US Marshals Service, in the case of the pictures you saw earlier, to disable the memory. But still... What? The US Marshals Service? What do they have to do with it? And this whole report is really screwy. body image, safety's the way to go. Probably have privacy issues with that. I believe if you want to cover up certain things that you ought to be able to cover it up and just for the fact that you walk into the airport you know not have to compromise all your rights to privacy just because that a guy or some bureaucrat sitting behind a bunch of red tape thinks it's the right thing to do. And by the way Julie, US law makes it clear that anyone that objects to being scanned can opt for a pat-down instead. They already do pat-downs don't they? I mean

1:31:39 I mean, they do, but usually it's just if you have some kind of something that's setting off the machine or if they have some kind of a reason. Like my huge slong is setting off the machine. To think that you need a pat down. This is if you don't want to go through the scanner for whatever reason, you can opt to have somebody pat you down instead. Okay. Opt to be patted down. I opt not to be patted down, but although I don't want to see my buns on 3d black and white images either. So sort of a toss up. All right, Peter. She's got one more line at the end, it's just even dumber. So what's it gonna be? I'll leave you with that. Pat down or no pat down? I'm gonna take the pat down. I'm with you. I love that it's a woman and they always let women pat down women. And you can go into a private room as well if you don't want to feel as if you're being violated. I don't really care about the pat down in public because it's very gentle. Yeah, some men enjoy it, I'm sure. Maybe not.

CHAPTER 22 / 34 Discussion

Airport Security, LAX and Houston Customs

Personal experiences at LAX and Houston International Airport highlight the aggressive nature of airport security and the use of full-body scanners. One host describes a confrontation with a private security guard in a yellow t-shirt who demanded travelers "move along" in a restricted area.

lax· houston· customs· airport security· tsa

1:32:34 What idiots! It's unbelievable! Was she hot though? Was she hot? She's kind of cute but she's not weekday worthy yet. She's not weekday hot, she's weekend hot. So when we flew to Bonaire, LAX, which is not my favorite airport, they closed off the line so we were being forced... and by the way there's five TSA guys hanging around the closed line doing nothing. and not even taking a coffee break and so we were forced to go through the Gitmo scanner line and both Miki and I said no, we don't want to. We want to go through either the metal detector or pat down. And they did, I have to say, they did open it up but they, you know, with some chagrin

1:33:21 But funnier was coming back, we flew via Houston and of course you're entering the United States, you have to go through customs. And Houston customs, man, they have 62 booths. It's huge, yeah, it's huge. And a lot of them were manned, it went pretty quickly. But then I went through first, of course, American Passport, zoop, and we'd go right through and you know, Mickey, you know, you gotta check on these aliens, man, you know, make sure. And so it took her a few minutes and I'm standing on the other side of the booth and this fat guy and nothing that's fat people this is like really like this guy was 300 pounds and he had a huge obviously yellow t-shirt and he had all these like Gadgets on his arm that had blinking LED lights and little antennas, and it was just spooky

1:34:10 And he's like, you move along sir. I'm like, excuse me? I said, I'm just waiting for my move along. You can't stand here. This is and you know, and when you do that, it's you really it's really I get very very irritated and then and I start to what do you mean? Because when they scream at me, I can't that's the one thing that freaks him out is when you scream back, you know, like move along. So what are you talking about? He's like a restricted area. You can't stand here. You have to go back. Then who are you? I'm airport security! And I swear to God, the guy just had a yellow t-shirt that said airport security. And nothing else. No badge, no nothing, just a yellow t-shirt that said airport security. And I can feel my adrenaline rushing right now. I decided no. I have to be a good slave because we just wanted to get home.

1:35:04 But man, it's like these people and just because he has a bunch of gadgets with the winky blinky lights and a yellow t-shirt It was just some private security firm and I'm in America at that point, you know I've passed through and it's like you just yelling at me. It's just really really really gets my goat and It's just bad. There's no punchline to it other than I got really angry and decided to be a good slave. I guess it's working. Why don't you hit the douchebag thing anyway just to remind us. Douchebag! He's a douchebag. Total douchebag. Hey this is kind of interesting from Gitmo Nation Lowlands. Remember I was talking about the bait Jews that they were using?

CHAPTER 23 / 34 Discussion

Dutch Intelligence, Radical Muslim Website Honeypot

The Dutch internal intelligence agency (AIVD) reportedly operated a radical Muslim website for a year as a "honeypot" to gather information on its members. The operation resulted in the collection of data on 150 forum participants before the secret leaked to the public.

aivd· netherlands· honeypot· intelligence· muslim forum

1:35:47 They were you know, they've guys with Yamakas and I guess the they use some Orthodox bait Jews and they have little you know strings and braids and stuff. So apparently the the Dutch internal intelligence Operation it's called the AIVD. I'm not quite sure how to translate it they ran a radical Muslim website for about a year trying to get people to post stuff honeypot honeypot yeah total honeypot and that is now Leaked out how that information leaks out is always interesting But they did say they they got a hundred and fifty

1:36:34 Members of the forum and they've got all of their information. So if you posted anything on that expect to knock on the door One of these days. Yeah But nothing good nothing better than the the report that comes out of Gitmo Nation East This is a great story and there's some great video that goes with it, too Not appropriate to play on the air because if you don't see it, it's not really any good so the cops Stop this guy 70 years old for not wearing his seatbelt. And so they're gonna write him up and the guy's like, well, you know, I've had a heart attack and I need my heart medication. I don't feel very good right now. So, you know, I just, I gotta go. So the guys are writing him up for a ticket because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. And the guy actually thinks like he's done. He didn't know that they were writing him up for a ticket. He thought, oh, they're done, whatever. And so he drives off and they pursue him

CHAPTER 24 / 34 Discussion

Police Misconduct, 70-Year-Old Driver Chase

Two police officers were removed from duty after a violent arrest of a 70-year-old man following a low-speed chase. The man, who was driving 40 miles per hour and seeking medical help for a heart condition, had his window smashed and was forcibly removed from his vehicle over a seatbelt violation.

police chase· range rover· seatbelt· police brutality· misconduct

1:37:28 at a high-speed chase, the high speed being exactly 40 miles an hour, which was the speed limit, the guy's driving in his Range Rover, and he's driving along the country road, and they got, so you have the in-car cop video, and the siren's wailing, and they're like, he's doing 40! He's doing 40 miles an hour! I mean, he's doing 40! And so the guy finally pulls over, thinking that they actually were giving him an escort because he felt like another heart attack might be coming on, And these cops, they jump out of the car, one jumps on the hood, the other one comes over, smashes the guy's window with his baton, and like they rip him out of the car. The guy's 70 years old, they just talked to him. They're completely out of control over there. And luckily another report did come up now because people are outraged over this, that they've removed these two officers from duty. But when you see the video, you can just see how out of control these cops are.

1:38:25 Of course, it's not all cops, but oh my god, a 17 minute chase, the guy was doing 40. And when you see, it's just violent, it's so violent. It's just out of control. That is bad. And if you're not a good little slave... That's like the idiot that busted some kid for the lemonade stand. Another... Oh yeah, because she didn't have the necessary... Paperwork. Yeah, she didn't have the permit. They're walking around a fair, like, busting kids with a lemonade stand. Go, you have to have a permit, you stupid slave kid. It's amazing. Yeah, well this is just getting worse by the minute.

CHAPTER 25 / 34 Discussion

Enhancement Technology, Ritalin in Water Supply

A white paper discussed in Wired Science proposes adding "enhancement technologies" like Ritalin or Adderall to public water supplies. Proponents argue that increasing the population's IQ through such methods could lead to significant reductions in poverty and incarceration rates.

ritalin· adderall· water supply· wired science· cognitive enhancement

1:39:07 Here's a classic, here's a story for you. This showed up, apparently some people are seriously proposing that because fluorides work so well... Wait, don't tell me you're going to bring up the lithium again. No, no, they've gone beyond that. They're thinking of actually putting Ritalin in the water. Where's this? Where's this supposed to be? Well, I'm just reading, it's a white paper that came out. There's a very long piece that's in the Frontal cortex. It's actually in wired science wire. Of course when wired says it's good, right? No wire doesn't say anything. This is a guy who does he got belabors it with his blog post but he talks about it some white paper somebody did think it's a pretty good idea and

1:39:56 It's called enhancement technology. You put these things in the water and you can end up with including, there's a couple of things they can put in, modafinil, ritalin, Adderall in the water and you can get memory improvement for the populations. Could do them a lot of good. And studies based on removing lead which reduces cognitive ability from the water and pain have estimated that three point IQ increase would lead to 25% reduction in the poverty rate. Excellent. 25% fewer males in jail, 28% fewer high school dropouts if you start doping the water. We just have more people who can't get a job. What are you talking about? This is a ridiculous report. I'm just thinking, well, there you go. That can happen any minute. That's great. That's just awesome. Oh, now lithium, forget that. That's nothing. You just put straight drugs in the water. Yeah, Adderall and Ritalin. Awesome.

CHAPTER 26 / 34 Discussion

Mortgage Forgiveness, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Rumors suggest the Obama administration may order Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive portions of mortgage debt for millions of "underwater" homeowners. Critics view the potential move as a massive bailout and a political bribe ahead of the upcoming elections.

fannie mae· freddie mac· mortgage forgiveness· obama· bailout

1:40:50 There is, on the financial front, rumors running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. This is a bailout of epic proportion, John. They're never going to do that. Well, they're talking about this would be Obama's August surprise, of course, you know, just in time for the elections. That's basically a bribe. Well, yeah, it is a bribe, of course. This would be trillions of dollars, I think, potentially, just an amazing amount of money.

1:41:30 Well, well, you know everyone's so quiet about this Fannie and Freddie thing because of course they are the so-called GSEs, the government-sponsored enterprises and are we good for it or not we good well obviously we are but there's just trillions of dollars on the books and if he would do that I mean that's an outrage. I mean it's besides the financial hit we take it's just like what? It's like so now it's really true you just go ahead and screw up the government will bail you out. Yeah, well they haven't done it yet. Well the rumors are real. I mean even the Wall Street Journal is writing about this and actually the article I have is from Reuters from James Pethacoucas. Hmm, I wonder. We got to call these guys out man, these douchebags. He writes for everything. He writes for MSNBC, Fox, Fox Business, CNN, Nightly Business Report on PBS. The guy's everywhere. He's from the Medill School of Journalism and he was a 2002 Jeopardy! champion. Oh.

CHAPTER 27 / 34 Discussion

High-Speed Rail, Warren Buffett Freight Interests

The push for high-speed rail in the United States is analyzed as a potential subsidy for freight companies like Burlington Northern, owned by Warren Buffett. The hosts argue that the public will pay for new tracks that will ultimately be used for moving freight rather than passengers.

high-speed rail· warren buffett· siemens· stimulus bill· freight

1:42:31 That's on his bio? Yeah, it's on his bio. That's great. That's just awesome. Okay, I think we should do a little bit here. All aboard! Train's good, plane's bad. Got a couple of great little stories, good little ditties for ya. First of all, I noticed both at LEX and at Houston International, that is known as George Bush Airport, the signage for Siemens trains. It's really, it catches your eye. These are big plasma displays that are strategically placed. They're not fixed, they are on stands. And you walk by and you see this train, from left to right on the screen, and it says the economy grows at 230 miles per hour. They are really plugging it big time.

1:43:19 And it works because you catch it, you know, you're in the actual airport looking at a promo for trains. Just wanted to point that out. China, now rumored that the maglev trains in China within three years will hit 1000 kilometers per hour, which is, wow, that's like 400, no, that's like over 500 miles per hour. 1000 kilometers is more like 700 miles an hour. No, it's 1.8. So yeah, well you're right 1.6, that's fast let's put it that way. Yeah that's going to be some mess when it piles up. Yeah, Delaware study examines north-south passenger rail. Apparently there is a nationwide study that has been commissioned under the stimulus bill. I'm looking at the, so they're spending a million dollars to examine the feasibility of rail service from Newcastle County south to Dover which I guess is

1:44:21 Small little thing here. Where is the part here? Oh here it is. Finance mostly by the federal government. It's all a part of the the stimulus package. It literally says here there's a national call that everyone has to evaluate high-speed rail. That certainly didn't sell it to me that way. The best anti-train clip or news would have to be from what happened to the unfortunate travelers in the Eurotunnel. who went from Folkestone, which is where the British side of the Eurotunnel originates, over to France. And they went right back because, and that's Calais where the train ends up, because apparently the crew forgot to let people out. So they took them to France and then took them back.

1:45:17 Hey, wait! They didn't unload a whole wagon full of cars. We didn't realize it wasn't empty, they say. And then our friend John Stossel on Fox Business, which of course nobody watches but us, he had an interesting little ditty about how good trains will be and maybe just listen to this clip for a second. And so they just let it decline. Yes, sir. My question is for Mr. Gazzetti. I live in California, one of these proposed sites for a high-speed rail link, and I'm curious what my incentive to take it is when I can fly for probably, I would assume, less money for a shorter time.

1:45:56 It sounds like one of your kids there asking the question. John, someone making sense. That's a real smart question. Why pay more and take longer? Just comparing it to the Acela, which is very expensive and kind of not that great. No, okay. It's Acela and the plans for the California project are going to be priced to market. So it's price to market Yeah, the market in my pocket what the market will will bring Yeah, some people sometimes the train trip even if it's maybe a little slower It might be the better trip door-to-door it gets you Center City to Center City There's certainly a lot more space to operate in and it's a comfortable ride if you give people all those amenities They'll choose to do it on their own. Yeah, just so you know slave shut up. Here's the deal so

1:46:45 I'm coming up with some things to do with my daughter when she's in California and so I'm thinking the last step, well let's take the train from Berkeley to Sacramento which is about two blocks from the train museum in Sacramento. It'll be a nice little ride. Of course you know, I'm sure she rolls her eyes when I suggest going to the train museum. It's a boys thing. But anyway, so it's 50 bucks. round trip which is about a hundred which is a hundred dollars for two people to get there it takes a little longer than it would take if i drove And if I drove to Sacramento, this is 90 miles. If I drove to Sacramento, I would use probably a half a tank of gas round trip, 180 miles, about a half a tank of gas, which is about 25 bucks. So I would have spent 25 bucks. I would have had a car in Sacramento. I would have gotten there faster and I would have saved $75 on the train trip.

1:47:39 and I'm thinking, okay, so even if you have high-speed rail, the thing's gonna stop here and there, even though there could be a non-stop to Sacramento, it's still gonna get there. I still get there on the car just about within 15 minutes and I have a car, and it's not gonna be $50 on the high-speed rail, it's gonna cost more, they're not gonna give you a better deal. Even on a short trip, it's impractical. I can predict it right now John. I know why if when you make that decision whether you're gonna drive in the car or whether you're gonna take the train do you know what the deciding factor is gonna be? You can eat in the car. Is that what you're saying? No, you're gonna have a hot... Stop it in and out burger on the train. The train is gonna sell you Hot Pockets. Yeah, well that's probably true.

1:48:22 But anyway, so there's no practical, I don't know, this is all bull crap. And for people who just started listening to the show, here's the thing. They want to set up high-speed rail because the Burlington Northern Corporation and the- Owned by Warren Buffett. Owned by Warren Buffett. They don't want to spend their own dime putting in some new, laying some new track so they can move freight faster. They're going to put it on the public dollar we're gonna pay for the whole thing nobody's gonna take the high-speed train in the freight guys that brought brody doors that can we use the track since you guys aren't using them and they're just gonna move all the freight on these tracks and that's gonna be the end of it but there is a win there's a big win for for for planes John and you as an aviator I love it when we've got a big win there's a new movie coming out

CHAPTER 28 / 34 Discussion

Unstoppable Movie, Super Train TV Series

The upcoming film "Unstoppable" featuring a runaway train is discussed alongside the obscure 1979 TV series "Super Train." The hosts view the movie's portrayal of train disasters as potential reverse psychology regarding the safety of rail travel.

unstoppable· denzel washington· super train· nbc· disaster movie

1:49:09 And I've got the trailer, I only need to play a little bit of it, but when you hear it you'll be like, yay, go planes. Because we are pulling ahead of the Hilton-Kabal to shove trains down our throats. I'm Luke Colson. We're working together today, train 1206. Is there a problem? I just don't like working in a damn daycare center. I don't like working at a retirement home, so... Alright. 20th Century Fox presents Unstoppable. Out here you get killed. Married? Sort of. It's a long story. How about you, are you married? I've got two beautiful daughters. Wait for it. Inspired by true events. What do we do when we get to a railroad crossing?

1:50:01 We have an unmanned train rolling into a highly populated area with no air brakes. It's about a runaway train. With the number 777 by the way. It's great. Killing the kids. But of course, you know, we've learned by now that if you really want to get someone to take something that's not good for them, you want to just point out all the bad things. So it's probably reverse psychology at work and doing a great job. There used to be a TV series called Super Train, which I wish somebody would go dig up and post somewhere. Super Train? Yeah, Super Train. It was about, it was like the love boat on a train. Really? Super Train? Yeah. Here it is. From 1979. Yeah. Nine episodes were made.

1:50:53 Huh, anyway, Super Train Clips. Okay, should we listen to a bit of Super Train? Sure. Okay, here we go. Super Train. It had one season, nine episodes, and was cancelled due to lack of popularity. This is as the real train will be. Oh, this is an old clip. Cool! Disco! I'm fuckin' you! This is great I love them. They should bring this back. This thing looks great

1:51:37 This is the opening I guess? I guess. Is there any dialogue? Just shots of the train going. This thing looks futuristic man, it's awesome. Wow! I gotta put this in the No Agenda TV section, hold on a second. That's awesome. Why not put it in the planes? planes and trains Wow no it's just a whole series of the train this thing looks great though it looks like a DeLorean it's going really fast oh yeah it screams

CHAPTER 29 / 34 Discussion

Carbon Taxes, Volkswagen Bio-Bug

International panels are proposing new taxes on airfares and cross-border money movements to fund climate change initiatives. Meanwhile, a Volkswagen Beetle dubbed the "Bio-Bug" has been modified to run on methane gas generated from human sewage.

carbon tax· climate change· volkswagen· biogas· human waste

1:52:15 They got bowling alleys on this train and everything. Really? What do you say there's a remake? You know, we could probably get government money to remake it. That's good thinking. Yeah, if we have- The whole series, you know, while they're getting's good. Super Train 2010. Let me just see what other things we have to wrap up here before we- Oh, by the way- Yeah, anyway. Go ahead. Well, I think I do. I have one more clip, I'm not sure. No, I don't think so. I don't see anything. No, I don't think so. Okay. Okay, from the science. Okay, United Nations panel, new taxes needed for a climate fund. Oh yeah. They're trying to get us to pay international taxes. We're not taxed enough in this country. Now, I think I have said on several occasions we will wind up paying carbon taxes and we will wind up paying those to the

1:53:16 The bank the bank will either be the IMF or the World Bank or you know, maybe even the Bank of International Settlements Who knows but we're gonna wind up paying these taxes carbon taxes to a bank It's not gonna be you know to any organization. It's just gonna be to a bank you watch this is going to happen British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday, government regulation and public money also will be needed to create incentives for private investment in industries that emit fewer greenhouse gases. Carbon tax add-ons to international airfares, which of course is already happening. A levy on cross-border money movements, because of course money is really, you know, there's a lot of carbon in that.

1:54:02 in those computers sending money back and forth. Oh yeah. Those are ways being considered by a panel of experts, leading economists from the world to raise a staggering 100 billion dollars a year to fight climate change. Desertification of Nebraska not enough to convince climate change deniers says our favorite fast company. So I guess Nebraska is desertifying. Well that could happen. Yeah but that isn't enough. The tipping point that turns skeptics into believers seems nearly impossible to reach when it comes to climate change. Who wrote this one? Ariel Schwartz. Hold on, hold on, let me give you the... ARIEL SCHWARTZ ALSO HAS WRITTEN... Let's see...

1:54:47 Doze $1 billion clean coal project mutates once again BP wants to keep drilling Iowa the wind energy capital of the United States Greenopia's green beer rankings power plant waste could clean up oil from BP disaster total shill stink bug Oh interesting Volkswagen Beetle powered by human waste makes debut. Hmm. I think I need to get me one of these. Oh That's kind of cool. What is that story? How did we miss it? Here it is. The stink bug. It says stink bug. Electric cars seem downright inefficient compared to the bio bug, a Volkswagen Beetle rigged to run on biogas or methane gas generated from human waste during the sewage treatment process. I want me one of these, John. I want a poop beetle. That's great.

CHAPTER 30 / 34 Discussion

Michelle Obama, Marbella Vacation Controversy

Michelle Obama's vacation to Marbella, Spain, drew criticism for the high cost of security and transportation, including the use of an Air Force jet. While the administration claims she is paying for personal expenses, the scale of the "posse" and luxury accommodations remains a point of contention.

michelle obama· marbella· spain· ritz· air force two

1:55:37 What else is Ariel written? Ariel, Fast Company man, no wonder they're still around. No wonder they hire people like Robert Scoble. It's clear. It's clear that the Ministry of Truth sends these guys cash. Home appliances, okay, douchebag. So I guess there's a big stink talking about stinks over Michelle Obama going to Malaga on one of our Malaga Air Force. Malaga, no Marbella, Marbella. She went to Marbella. Oh yeah right, the monsters on Marbella. Oh really, there's a stink over that? Yeah because this jet cost $178,000 to

1:56:17 to go over. And she's staying at the Ritz in a, I don't know, like a $2,000 room. Oh, it's more than that. It's more than $2,000 if you get a nice room at the Ritz. And of course all of her posse. And she's got a huge posse. Yeah. And since there was this stink about it, they claim that she's paying for it out of personal, she's personally paying for the whole thing. Well yeah, well they're multi-millionaires because they invested in the right funds. Oh yeah, of course. Multi-millionaires the Obamas are. Strange how that happens, how a community organizer becomes a multi-millionaire.

1:56:53 It's amazing. Stanford researchers analysis colon scientific expertise lacking amongst climate change doubters. This is Professor Stephen Schneider. If the media, he says, if the media doesn't report that something is a way out option relative to the mainstream then how is the average person going to know the relative credibility of what's being said? Huh? What? Yeah, exactly. What the sky is a suggestion for the name of that that Volkswagen by the way the dung beetle Good one. I like it the best though. There's an Apple Dashboard widget, this is quite good. It's the NASA I'm sure this will be available on the iPhone if isn't already the NASA global climate change vital signs widget

CHAPTER 31 / 34 Discussion

Climate Change Widgets, Bluefin Tuna Fishing

A NASA dashboard widget provides real-time data on Arctic sea ice, carbon dioxide levels, and the ozone hole. In other news, an international panel in Doha rejected a proposal to ban the fishing of Atlantic bluefin tuna, despite concerns over the species' extinction.

nasa· ozone hole· bluefin tuna· doha· climate widget

1:56:17 to go over. And she's staying at the Ritz in a, I don't know, like a $2,000 room. Oh, it's more than that. It's more than $2,000 if you get a nice room at the Ritz. And of course all of her posse. And she's got a huge posse. Yeah. And since there was this stink about it, they claim that she's paying for it out of personal, she's personally paying for the whole thing. Well yeah, well they're multi-millionaires because they invested in the right funds. Oh yeah, of course. Multi-millionaires the Obamas are. Strange how that happens, how a community organizer becomes a multi-millionaire.

1:56:53 It's amazing. Stanford researchers analysis colon scientific expertise lacking amongst climate change doubters. This is Professor Stephen Schneider. If the media, he says, if the media doesn't report that something is a way out option relative to the mainstream then how is the average person going to know the relative credibility of what's being said? Huh? What? Yeah, exactly. What the sky is a suggestion for the name of that that Volkswagen by the way the dung beetle Good one. I like it the best though. There's an Apple Dashboard widget, this is quite good. It's the NASA I'm sure this will be available on the iPhone if isn't already the NASA global climate change vital signs widget

1:57:43 And this widget which hovers above your desktop shows you the Arctic Sea ice, which has a little down arrow, down 38% since 1979. It shows you carbon monoxide with an up arrow. What was this about the Arctic sheet? I gotta show you. It's down 8%? 38% Oh 38% since 1979 you got to see this thing this is this is amazing I where'd they get this data I don't know so there it's in your Skype it is currently 385 parts per million carbon dioxide the sea level is up 36 millimeters latest measurement global temperature

1:58:22 Up 1.3% Fahrenheit average since 1895. And the ozone hole is 8.5 million square miles. This is great. This widget has it all right there on your desktop. You can see your demise right before your very eyes. Wow, this is great. It's a great widget from NASA. Thanks guys. Ministry of truth. Like the ozone hole. Yeah. I want a dung beetle. Where do you... can you... where can you gas that thing up? It's bull crap. And the International Panel on Fishing, I guess, in Doha has thrown out the proposal to stop fishing for blue tuna, which of course is just about extinct now because we need it in our sushi. You're talking about bluefin? Yeah, bluefin. Bluefin tuna. Yeah, they have it. They farm bluefin now and it's delicious.

CHAPTER 32 / 34 Discussion

Valedictorian Speech, Milk in Bags

Erica Goldson, a high school valedictorian, delivered a commencement speech criticizing the education system for producing "slaves" rather than thinkers. Additionally, listeners from Canada and Russia confirm that milk has been sold in plastic bags in their respective countries for many years.

erica goldson· valedictorian· education· milk bags· canada

1:59:25 If you never had bluefin sushi, you're missing out. It's on its right face, but it's but they're dying off aren't they? There's apparently Atlantic ones at Pacific ones and then there's this farmed ones and there's apparently some variation between the two I think it's the Atlantic ones that are dropping dead But the fact that they're I'm telling you if you get a shot at it, it's great. Yum. I The thing, there's one thing we didn't talk about and then I'm gonna wrap it up. Although the story has been emailed to me several times, I think it's the sad thing is I don't have any video or audio of this valedictorian speech at Coxsackie Athens High School. Did you read about this? Yeah, I read the speech. The problem is I have with these things is that I'm always wondering whether they're legit.

2:00:16 Because I remember the time there supposedly there was you know you got once my one of these things goes through the net and it's Okay, well, maybe that's why we haven't brought it up, but if anyone has any audio of this is Erica Goldson apparently valedictorian in her commencement speech She essentially said I'm a good slave It's like I learned how to take test good. I didn't learn anything. I'm just a slave to the system. The system is broke. That's essentially what she said, which it was great speech if that's what she said. I agree. I would like to have a video and there's got to be video of it. There's always something. That's why it's kind of weird that it hasn't hasn't cropped up yet. Then from the milk in baggies.

2:00:58 uh... got a note from one of our producers in Gitmo Nation Red in Russia. They've had milk in bags for years apparently as has Gitmo Nation Great White North in Canada. Yeah, yeah the Canadians sent us some notes about this. But I don't know, you know I've been up there and uh... I mean I go to Canada quite a bit actually and I don't... and I go to the store all the time because I always like to drink something, but buttermilk usually locally. And I don't remember seeing the milk in the bags up there. When is this new? Because I haven't been up there for a year. Well, they say it's been going on for years. I don't know. Anyway, maybe what we're perceiving is in a bag is not what's going on.

CHAPTER 33 / 34 Discussion

Yogi Bear 3D, Pedobear Meme Comparison

The promotional poster for the new 3D Yogi Bear movie is compared to the "Pedobear" internet meme. The hosts suggest the design is creepy and speculate that the resemblance might lead to marketing issues for the film.

yogi bear· pedobear· 3d movie· marketing· meme

2:01:43 So I want to wind up today's show with a post-show clip which was sent to me on YouTube and it is titled, You are a Slave to the Government. I can't find where this is from, who it is. It's clearly some dramatized piece. It's well shot. It doesn't look very new. The posting of it is June 13th, 2008, but it's a beautiful little piece which I want to play after, John, I share with you the new poster for Yogi Bear the movie. And I'm going to give you this link on Skype right now and you tell me, you tell me that this isn't the most, is this Yogi Bear in 3D?

2:02:29 which will be coming out. By the way, somebody did send me the clip of the girl giving this speech. It's hard to hear her, but I think it's real. Okay. We'll send it to you next week. So take a look at this Yogi Bear in 3D and tell me that isn't the pedo bear. Look at it. Look at it, man. It's the pedo bear. I swear to God. Someone took the pedo bear. If you don't know what that is, Google it. And they made it into the Yogi Bear 3D. That's a billet. Look at it. Yeah, I'm looking. So? Does it look like the pedo bear or what? Well, now that you mention it, the Yogi Bear may have always looked like the pedo bear. This one's extremely different. It's kind of creepy, actually. It's frightening is what it is. It's out of control. And we are out of time. That's what we are. Are you doing Twit today?

2:03:34 And curiously the bear is with a little bear. Curiously. Yeah, I think this is going to be... I don't think so. I don't... Anyway, no, I don't think I'm doing Twit today because I don't have a camera here and it's video. I want to... Can you... I want to be on Twit. Can people please email Leo? Tell him I want to be on Twit. I want to promote the big app show. Everybody on to promote something? And I'm good. I can do this. I'm a good guest. Right? I will bring audience. You know, I'm still looking at this Yogi Bear thing that you brought up. It's disturbing. It's quite disturbing. I think it might get pulled. Well, you can... I think if the meme goes out that this is Pito Bear and he's with a little bear that's underage... The whole movie will be scrapped from the slate. It could happen. I mean, I think we should push it.

CHAPTER 34 / 34 Discussion

Modern Slavery, Government Control Monologue

A dramatized monologue explores the concept of modern slavery in America, arguing that government taxation and regulation represent a claim of ownership over the individual. The piece cites events like Waco and Ruby Ridge as examples of the state using force to suppress unorthodox views and maintain control.

slavery· irs· waco· ruby ridge· freedom

2:04:34 Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center, I am the patently unemployable former Soviet spy known as Adam Curry. And from Gitmo Nation's Pacific Northwest, where it's raining, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk to you again on Thursday, right here on No Agenda. I'm here to talk to you about the problem of slavery. It didn't end in the 1860s. It's a social malady that's with us today and it's increasing in its scope and virulence. The desire to enslave our fellow man is unfortunately intrinsic to the human character. It has been with us since the beginning of time on every continent and in virtually every culture, from ancient Egypt to Babylon to Greece and Rome, Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. Germany and Japan openly practiced widespread slavery only 50 years ago and the Soviet Union until less than a decade ago, China even today.

2:05:32 It's a disease of our human nature, and yet people are under the impression that it no longer exists. I say to you that in a subtle form, it exists in America today, and it's becoming less subtle and more manifest. Madison Avenue has just cleaned it up a little bit, dressed it up in new words. The slave master is now a big brother, someone to protect you, someone to confide in. But it's all the same. He owns your life. This may sound far-fetched, but I think I can prove it. When the IRS allows you a tax deduction, they and their congressional collaborators and the media call it a tax subsidy. In other words, they designate it as a gift to you, a subsidy. The only way they could conceive this terminology is by presupposing that they, i.e. the government, own all the money. Their view is that they're entitled to it all. That which they allow you to keep is their compassionate and generous gift to you. How can this be?

2:06:27 You create the money by your efforts, your sacrifice, your creativity, your risk-taking. So how can it belong to them? It's very simple. They own you. They own everything you produce. Your money, your house, your thoughts and ideas, your children. If you go to a foreign country to work, you still have to pay the US income tax. You could dig a hole in the middle of Siberia and they'd be entitled to a cut of your wages because in their minds, under their law, they own you. They create arcane and esoteric laws to criminalize you. You may try, but you can't obey them. You can't even understand them without a lot of professional help. You have to run around slavishly collecting little pieces of paper, receipts, seven years of detailed financial records because you might be called on to give an account of yourself to the big boss man. And if you've made a mistake, he can take everything you have. He loves it that way. That's total power over you. Slavery.

2:07:22 I don't remember when we the people signed over ownership of ourselves. It just gradually happened by them taking more and more of our freedom. But here's the worst part. It's really only just begun. In this modern age, the information age, getting your money is not enough even though money, don't let anyone deceive you, is the material source of your freedom. Now however, they want your mind. If you deviate in your thinking, if you commit one of the 10,000 taboos, and they perceive your actions as a threat, They'll come out and kill you. It was the thought police who killed the children at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Neither David Koresh nor Randy Weaver, whatever things might be said about them, had ever mugged anyone, robbed a 7-Eleven or committed forcible rape or murder. But they did have unorthodox views and therefore it was necessary to round them up and deal with them. Whatever their crimes were, they could have been arrested and tried openly in a court of law. But that was not the aim of certain factions in the government.

2:08:21 These statists wanted a massive demonstration of force to show who was boss. The penalty for resisting is death. After all, we're not free. We belong to the government and deviant thoughts will not be tolerated. In the aftermath of the horrible Oklahoma City bombing, government propagandists tried to intimidate the people into silence by recklessly linking criticism of the government to acts of murder. Some people ask, how can you fear your government and claim to love your country? Our response is how can you love your country without fearing your government? Who else holds a counterfeit license to kill, incarcerate and confiscate for non-crimes? Remember, America is about liberty first and last, not obedience to bureaucrats. The Washington power click wants you to shut up, get in line, do what you're told to do and most outrageously, think what you've been told to think.

2:09:15 We have hundreds of politicians and thousands of lobbyists crawling all over Washington thinking of ways to control you, to extend their will over you, to subvert your freedom and replace it with their will, to capture, that is, to steal your life force. And so we should all be very angry because anger is the engine that drives our will to resist. And without resistance, without awareness, they will take it all. that's not just politically perverse, it's a sin against mankind. Because freedom is actually sacred. Drop an ant into a jar and seal the lid. It'll spend the rest of its life trying to get out. It has nowhere to go, but it wants to be free. That is its nature. It's the way every living thing is made. Once, a long time ago, I saw something at the zoo. A wolf lying in its cage. I thought about how this magnificent animal is the end product of millions of years of evolutionary design.

2:10:16 A nose that could detect the faintest scent, ultrasonic hearing, eyes that could see in the dark, teeth and jaws capable of crushing thick bone, heart and lungs that could run him for hours in a sub-zero blizzard. And yet, there he was, lying forlorn and full of despair. He was well fed. He had a clean habitat and water and medical care. So what was the problem? He was sick with the knowledge that his wonderful powers would never be exercised again. And so he lay there, his head on his paws, staring blankly ahead at perhaps some imaginary forest that he could never reach because there were bars around him. They had not killed his body, but they were destroying his soul. God gave Adam and Eve freedom, even though he knew they would invite death into the world. That's how important freedom is in the divine scheme of things.

2:11:08 And that's why we urge you to defend it, always.