Episode 227 · Thursday, 19 August 2010

Eat, Pray, Love. In The Morning

Military maneuvers in Iraq and domestic surveillance trends collide as the food supply faces massive recalls and global institutions prepare for a future of synthetic meat.

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About this episode

The United States military has officially withdrawn its final combat brigades from Iraq, a maneuver characterized by Al Jazeera as a tactical retreat under the cover of darkness. While President Barack Obama previously campaigned on a total withdrawal, 50,000 troops remain in-country for counter-terrorism and training roles. This transition occurs amidst heavy media embargoes and the deployment of Stryker combat vehicles equipped with controversial slat armor.

Domestic stability faces new challenges as the Juarez drug cartel, La Linea, begins deploying young women as assassins, while a massive recall of 288 million eggs due to salmonella hits the American food supply. In Northern California, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation recalled 3,000 improperly refrigerated vaccines, including H1N1 and polio doses. Meanwhile, the George Miller Children's School in Richmond has implemented an RFID tracking system for students, and the Royal Society predicts a global shift toward vat-grown synthetic meat by 2050.

Cultural oddities abound as Dr. Laura Schlesinger exits terrestrial radio following a Media Matters boycott, and Wyclef Jean appears in Belgium despite reports of him hiding from death threats in Haiti. Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak examine the rise of the zombie meme in university emergency guidelines and the strange marketing of gelato-scented body wash tied to the film Eat Pray Love.


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CHAPTER 01 / 34 Discussion

Introduction and Host Banter on News Cycles

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 227 of the No Agenda podcast from their respective locations in Southern California and Silicon Valley. They discuss the rhythm of their twice-weekly recording schedule and the density of news cycles between Sunday and Thursday. The hosts also acknowledge the live audience participating via the No Agenda chat room.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· no agenda· gitmo nation· media assassination

00:00 Chicks are crazy about this movie. Don't go see it then. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore Act. It is Thursday, August 19, 2010. Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 227. 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 last combat troop known as Adam Curry. And he's leaving in the dead of night. Here I am in Northern Silicon Valley, where there's no summer. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill! In the morning! Hot pockets! In the morning to you, John. And in the morning to you. And to all ships at sea. Yay! I got to say it!

00:44 And to all the human resources listening in. Yeah, the human resources in the chat room at noagendachat.net in the morning to y'all. That's where the party is when we blow it out on noagendastream.com Thursday and Sunday mornings. And wow, we haven't spoken at all again. I kind of like this. I like this relationship we've got going. I've always liked that. It's part of it. That's so nice of you. There's another joke in there. I won't use it. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, well, let's just think of the meetings you're missing. I know that's what I love so much about this is no meetings. I had a couple more meetings yesterday. I understand. Oh, really? Well, they're all phone meetings because

01:28 I was excluded. No one cut no one called me. I was excluded from the phone meeting well It was you know one of them meetings that I don't know I didn't get in on it either Yeah, we're good that way so um I find these the the time between Sunday and Thursdays They're really that extra day that we have of just stuff that happens. It really does fill up everything It's amazing things that go on in the world Well, the difference of course, you have to consider this possibility too. When we do Thursday, we have the next two days, there's Friday and Saturday, there's nothing going on. Yeah, it's true. We got big news days. Of course, Monday is a big news day. Monday is a big news day. Then you got Tuesday and Wednesday, big news days. And then, you know, so essentially we have

CHAPTER 02 / 34 Discussion

Mel Gibson, Chantix, and Media Speculation on Car Accidents

Speculation surrounds Mel Gibson following a recent car accident involving his Maserati, with the hosts suggesting the smoking-cessation drug Chantix as a potential cause for erratic behavior. They compare the effects of Chantix to Ambien, noting that media reports indicate no alcohol was involved in the crash. A host shares an anecdote about a casting director at E! Network whose husband had a negative experience with the same medication.

mel gibson· chantix· ambien· joy behar· maserati

02:16 Whatever happens today, which is winding down the week and then tomorrow. There's nothing Saturday's dead before we get to our producers Maybe we should just roll this out real quick now back to real Because the evidence is just stacking up with the Mel Gibson Chantix John. It's just stacking up now that he crashed his Maserati well you know I was watching the Joy Behar show. Ah, you were watching the beta test. As sans Joy Behar she hasn't been on the show for a while everybody's missing from all their shows by the way except on the right wing side but all the left wingers are gone there at some meeting. It is. I mean everybody's gone Chris Matthews is gone Joy Behar is gone Rachel whatever. But last night there was some substitute there was some other woman with like

03:04 I don't know who it was. It was a weird show. She wasn't on it. All the left-wingers, except for Thom Hartmann, are missing in action and apparently they didn't invite him to the meeting. Anyway, back to Mel Gibson in the real news category. Wait before you go on, because I know where you're headed, but I'm going to just mention what happened to the Joy Behar show. There was somebody on there, some woman, who's also thinking along the lines we're thinking, but she's thinking Ambien. She thinks because he fell asleep at the wheels what everybody believes that he was either sleep or sleep driving Or because you're a guy you know driving. He's a zombie Because that's ambient right that's the mammal yeah, but that's and then you wander around now That's yeah You know I was I had a meeting by chance actually more to promote my daughter with the head of casting at the e-network and

03:58 And it was actually a friend of a friend and she said, what are you doing? I talk about no agenda. I'm like, maybe I shouldn't go straight into chemtrails and Atlas shrugged with her. So I went in easy. I said, well, we kind of assassinate the media like Mel Gibson who's clearly on shantix and she does a spit take. Oh my God. My husband was on that. I had to send him to the desert. It was so horrible. I think you're right. You're on the money here. So I think we finally, we might see this crop up on E! News now. So I think we've done our job and if someone can actually get the... Well it took forever. Yeah, I had to go to the Comcast building to do it but there you go. Hopefully we can save Mel. Hopefully. But the report even says, you know, no alcohol involved. He was very courteous. No racial epithets.

04:53 And it didn't he didn't crash it by the way he you know he's just banged banged into the guardrail But he does say I don't know the car just went off the road. I don't know I don't know how to happen I just kind of went off the road Shantix my friends look it up, and if you're on it stop immediately well same with ambient don't take that either Yeah, this is true, but ambient is just you know that's that's your zombie which is different than making you crazy yeah Yeah, no zombies typically not crazy is what you're telling me. Yeah, you've seen Zombieland Yeah, they're not crazy. Yeah, this is hungry very hungry. Did we get any support and any love from our? Yeah, we got a couple of exact we have one two executive producers and a associate this week day we didn't actually do as well as I'd hoped in the last few days and I hope people kind of step up a little bit because we're falling behind and

CHAPTER 03 / 34 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits and No Agenda Funding Model

The hosts announce the executive producers for the episode, including Michael Garcia from Tokyo and Dennis Cruz from Oregon, alongside associate executive producer Matthew Carey from Australia. They discuss the "value-for-value" funding model and the need for more $5 monthly sustaining subscriptions to keep the show viable. There is a brief humorous exchange regarding the attribution of blame when donation levels fluctuate.

michael garcia· dennis cruz· matthew carey· value-for-value· donations

05:49 uh... michael garcia from tokyo japan is named at the net next night and executive producer by paul couture's program of uh... orders and swains yeah the uh... no agenda fans dot com he'll be a night in the order of the mint and uh... that by the other uh... executive producer will be dennis cruise from beaverton oregon dennis no stranger to supporting the show as far as i know he's been around he's a look at his a patron yes three twenty six twenty two we should be renamed people who to give more than three or four times patrons so they have a special list alright let's discuss that in the meeting and then to share with me so that the discuss in the next show and then uh...

06:34 For Associate Executive Producer we have Matthew Carey from Eastwood, South Australia. Oh nice. He gave us 200 bucks and so he's in. And that's it? Yeah. Wow. Okay, yeah, are we still kind of in the doldrums of summer here? Or are we coming out or is this I think we're generally coming out This was just I think it's low. I think maybe our last show was boring I was gonna say did the last show just completely suck. Yeah, so I think you know people get bored before we have the pitch I think with the things fall off so it must have been some of the beginning I think it's because you move the wacky part of the show to the beginning and

07:10 You know what's interesting? Because we don't have meetings, but you send email and whenever support is down, you always blame me. It's like it's always my fault. It's like, don't do this! You shouldn't do that! You're always blaming me. You never say, what? You're exaggerating. One time I sent you an email. One time? One time. Time to go to Snopes.com. See if we can debunk that if it's been one time. One time and I never hear the end of it. We'd like to thank Michael Garcia and Dennis Cruz as the Executive producers for this episode and Matthew Carey is our associate executive producer This is a real credit if you already have an IMDB listing you can add it to it. No problem You can put it on your business card and your email signature And if anyone ever questions it will vouch for you. All you have to do is call We'd be happy to do that all the rest of you out there

08:02 You can support us by propagating the formula. Our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth Still no duck call. I can't find it. It's bad. I know I got to get the duck call back in or it's very bad so Well, where was I? The fact that you blame me for everything? No, no, no. That was just one time and I'm sorry I did that because obviously you're oversensitive. So,

08:47 There's something I was going to bring up. I mean, I was looking at a piece. Oh yeah, Dvorak.org slash NA if you want to become an executive producer or donate or subscribe to the $5 deal, which we need more of. That really does work. The $5 sustaining ongoing monthly subscription. If we had Think was it seven times the amount we had now we'd be doing okay. Yeah, we just needed to have seven times more listeners I think yeah, that's all that it takes really you know speaking of zombies, and I think we talked about this and you said no it's gonna be vampires

CHAPTER 04 / 34 Discussion

Zombie Meme Proliferation and University Preparedness Guidelines

The "zombie" cultural meme is identified as a growing trend, highlighted by an upcoming zombie march organized by the Newcastle Undead Society in Australia. The discussion references a college that reportedly included a 15-page "undead attack" section in its official emergency preparedness guidelines as a joke. This is framed as part of a broader observation of zombie-related media saturation.

zombies· australia· newcastle undead society· meme· emergency guidelines

09:27 But the zombie thing is the meme really is catching on there's more and more zombie. This is your basic theory Yeah, in fact in Australia since we have an associate executive producer from down under Matthew Carey I can tell you that on What's the date here very soon? It is Sunday 24th of October these zombie March will be held and for the part of the Newcastle undead society and You can join them if you're in Newcastle, Australia, and you can march along as a zombie the meme continues Did we do this story? I think we may have or may not have but the story that I think it's like five or six months ago where some people are going to a zombie party and then they got into a wreck Yeah, I do I do remember something like that well

10:29 Sorry, oh, there's the 920 right on time. A while back there was a, um, it was a story that we didn't do, but there's some college And you know the college has guidelines for if there's like a terrorist attack, if there's a flood, if there's an earthquake. And I'll have to look up the story again. But as a joke, the guy who wrote this up also put in, in case the zombies, you know the attack of the undead. And he had like 15 pages of all the things you had to do in case the school was being attacked by zombies. I should look that one up. Yeah, it was pretty good. Speaking of trains,

CHAPTER 05 / 34 Discussion

Montecito Train Noise and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Criticism

A personal anecdote about staying in Montecito, California, details the disruptive noise of freight trains running through residential areas at all hours of the night. The hosts criticize Burlington Northern Santa Fe, a company owned by Warren Buffett, for the poor aesthetic maintenance of its engines compared to the "glamorous" era of Southern Pacific. They joke that the dilapidated trains are only fit for transporting citizens to FEMA camps.

montecito· santa barbara· burlington northern santa fe· warren buffett· freight trains

11:06 I was in Montecito, California Monday and Tuesday in which is commonly known as Santa Barbara which you're convinced is one big jinxed place. Yeah. And Dr. Laura Schlesinger's from there as well. Oprah's got her house there and so we were staying with friends who have like three acres of house. It's amazing. However, what I didn't know is that All day long, including 1230 AM and 330 AM, the train runs right through this place. And no matter where you are, even if you're Oprah Winfrey, you're hearing this thing. And it goes, bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

12:03 Not a lot of them, but at 3.30 in the morning, but they come through. But every so often one gal get a hair up his ass and start honking his horn at like 4 in the morning right through a residential area because he thinks it's funny. Yeah, no, no, these guys actually are doing it because it runs right through town. I mean, there's actual houses on either side. There's no reason to be honking the horn. You got a bell on the thing. It's not going through it a hundred miles an hour. Yeah, it was moving pretty fast and funny enough it that should be the southern something line, but there was a Burlington Pacific, but it was Burlington trains that were on the track. That's because they're all owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe and they were they're basically

12:43 Burlington Northern bought out most of the country's rail. Right. Right. And so they're using every trend. By the way, this company has obviously no, this Buffett company, it obviously has no pride or self-esteem or it has too much maybe. These trains, they're just mixing and matching the various engines. They're not repainting anything. They're not proud, obviously, of anything they're doing. They look like crap. They're dirty. They are just junk engines running up and down. I find it, in the olden days, when they had people, you know, these train companies, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, before they were bought out and all the rest of them, they were proud of what they were doing. And they had their engines, they were glorious, they were glamorous. These guys, they, you know, just junk, dirt. It's pathetic. It's embarrassing. Dirty windows.

13:35 What's okay, they only need boxcars in the future to transport us to the FEMA camps. It'll be okay No, they use the boxcars or something because they're not using them for freight anymore So I don't know where you'd want to start today a lot of research Been has been done by our producers for those you new to the program. You're not a listener. You're a producer on The and I've been corrected. It's not the by company at by comm it is commonly known as bi And there's a bracelet operation. Yeah, the gitmo jewelry company And would you like to start with that? Would you just like a couple of couple of pieces of this research? So just kind of I can make it we push that off a little bit and talk about the big news Which is the fact that we've snuck out of Iraq

CHAPTER 06 / 34 Discussion

US Combat Troop Withdrawal from Iraq and Al Jazeera Coverage

The United States military has officially withdrawn its last combat brigades from Iraq, a move characterized by some media outlets as "sneaking out" under the cover of darkness. Al Jazeera's reporting is analyzed for its use of the term "resistance" instead of "terrorism" to describe local insurgent activity. Despite the withdrawal of combat units, 50,000 U.S. troops remain in the country for training and counter-terrorism roles.

iraq war· al jazeera· rachel maddow· combat troops· democracy now

14:21 Yeah, combat troops only yeah, I know but we snuck out it was all done at the dead of night I got a couple of clips that kind of discussed this I thought the best reporting on this I hate to say it was democracy zero. Oh Of course because Al Jazeera has a bunch of little interesting usages that they when they're talking or discussing anything they uh... this is a little say stuff like well americans are jerry's battling so-called terrorists or the americans are battling what they'd like to call terrorists or you know there's always this little there's always a uh... a qualifier that they tend to use in the as they report and this funny thing i was a day i've noticing an interesting meme on the left wing side of things uh... they're trying to get that slip this because there's a huge report uh... that showing up on democracy now is showing up on uh... the free speech tv group which is all very left-wing stuff

15:19 And there's this one thing on Arabs and terrorism, and they're trying to slip in the fact that none of this is terrorism. It's all resistance. Oh, it's a new word. It's resistance. Oh, that's interesting. Resistance to us, I presume. Well, resistance to occupation. Anyway, it's quite interesting. I'm working on some of the more unique propagandistic aspects of this. But they're gonna promote it. But they're doing the Al Jazeera, and as they do their news reports, they've already slipped this meme into the way they report. So there's a note of resistance. But at the same time, I have to say, they have some amusing coverage

16:06 the way the troops are leaving and they're all basically have left as of last night. So let me just because I didn't watch Al Jazeera I wound up seeing Rachel Maddow in Iraq with the last battalion and... Why does she have to be there? Because she's a part of the propaganda machine clearly clearly There's no other reason for her to be there. And yeah, so it wasn't like, it clearly wasn't sneaking out in the dead of night, John, if she was there, they called her up. It's like, hey, come on over, we're leaving. Yeah, but they were sneaking out in the dead of night. Play a couple of clips or play Drawdown from Al Jazeera, which is the opening report.

16:46 It means that we finished the mission and I'm proud to know that our brigade was the last combat brigade in Iraq. We finished with honor and we finished with dignity. Most importantly, we left capacity with the Iraqi security forces so they can take the lead from here on out. Seven and a half years after the invasion, Iraqis are now for the first time since Saddam in charge of their own security. Some Iraqi army officers say they're unprepared Earlier this month, Iraq's top army officer, General Babakir Zabari, said his soldiers would need 10 more years to be ready. A senior Iraqi intelligence officer who asked us not to use his name for fear of his life told us he believes the Iraqi army is unfit, incompetent and unprepared to take over. He said he had detailed information about high profile attacks to come and most damning of all he said the downward trend in violence over the last few months is actually a result of under-reporting. He was being prevented from reporting some of the violent activity in his area. Iraq, he says, is in the throes of a surge of violence.

17:53 Even as the U.S. heralds the departure of its combat forces, there remains a massive infrastructure of military bases and 50,000 U.S. soldiers. Their stated role is to act as trainers and advisors and to continue to counter what they call terrorism. With the government in stalemate, increasing violence, and senior Iraqi army concerns, the question is, will this milestone mark the end of the war or the beginning of a new period of violence? So they say, this guy has the gall to say, hey, we need 10 more years of training. And what I saw in 2003, they needed 10 years then.

18:34 There was a, I think we've talked about this before on the show. Yeah, they're shooting their guns into the ground. They're like about face, half of them turn right, half of them turn left, you know, bumping into each other. I mean, they weren't just not well trained at all. I guess you only need, what is it? What is it? What is it? Do you need 10 years? Don't we do basic training with some of the dumbest people in the world? 60 days or something? And be careful what you say about some of the dumbest people in the world. There are some of the dumbest people in the world that are easily trained in basic training. Okay. That's a different way of saying it. I'm just watching your back, my brother. That's fine. You can send me an email if you don't like the comment, but I'm sure anyone in the army knows there's some dummies in there. They have to work with them. But the point is that we can train some of the dumbest people in the world to be reasonably good soldiers. Why does it take them 10 years? How dumb are they?

CHAPTER 07 / 34 Discussion

Media Embargoes and Obama's Campaign Promises on Iraq

The timing of the Iraq withdrawal is described as a tactical maneuver to avoid attacks, with mainstream media outlets like MSNBC agreeing to an embargo on the story until the troops were safe. A 2008 campaign clip of Barack Obama is played to contrast his promise of a total troop withdrawal with the reality of 50,000 personnel remaining. The hosts question the definition of "counter-terrorism" as a loophole for continued combat operations.

barack obama· pentagon· media embargo· withdrawal· campaign promise

19:27 That's the point. So anyway, so now meanwhile, I don't see that the way they report us leaving, which is essentially sneaking out under the cover of darkness. I thought was pretty humiliating, but it's also kind of funny. You can play the sneaking out of Iraq clip because it actually wasn't even a single... They didn't just leave. They snuck out under the cover of darkness and then when the sun came up they all parked themselves in another camp and then waited for it to get dark again. And then snuck out. Let's listen to that. Josh, as you mentioned, this is all taking place two weeks ahead of schedule. It's only some 450 troops or so, which suggests that they were pretty much at 50,000 troops anyway. Do we have any more insight into the timing of all this?

20:14 Well the timing is tactical. They were worried about attacks on the way out of the country. So they did it, hopefully to be out of the country before the, you know, what they would call the enemy would even realize that they're gone. So while media had been along on the ride, they had to embargo the story until today. There you go. The media had been along, the media knew it, they were sitting there and they, oh embargo, come on Rachel, come in a couple days early, but be quiet now. Yeah, they all followed orders. Yes sir, yes sir, we'll shut up, sir! And also you notice the guy says what they call the enemy, this is a little Al Jazeera propaganda, reverse propaganda. Nice. But the point is, yeah, everybody was in on this. This is completely underreported. I don't know, did Rachel mention that they were leaving under the cover of darkness in the dead of night?

21:00 What I do know is that it is very treacherous, this journey they make, because I made it, you go from, this basically is an eight lane highway that goes all the way to Kuwait City. And that's where, and it's literally eight lanes. And you have to drive in the middle because there's you know all kinds of IED stuff possible on the side because I did that well, we actually flew back in the helicopter when we went up to The Baghdad direction we drove in the middle of the road and then you know, it's like 400 miles So he had to pee at a certain point And when you get out, and of course the troops get out first to make sure there's nothing's going to blow up in your face or blow your schlong off. And then you go stand at the side of the road and within five seconds, John, just all these people start appearing out of nowhere. And it's desert. And like, and they just, there they are. So it is a treacherous road. Certainly something that

22:00 Well, I don't blame him for leaving it under the cover of darkness. I think it should have been reported to the public, A. But B, you know, if this was such a victorious, glamorous thing, we're supposed to be greeted with roses and posies. You're leaving, hooray, hooray, your job is done. I guess what they didn't want is they didn't want people waving goodbye. Like, yeah, get the hell out. So this whole thing was a fiasco, and this just epitomizes it, in my opinion. Can we just for historical sake listen to the take it to the bank statement by the president? Let me just see what he promised to do. Because I literally do not remember what he said, but I have the quote here. I will promise you this. What happened there? Sorry. Hello. Yeah, something weird happened. Let me try that again. I will promise you this. That if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president,

22:59 It is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. Notice he didn't say combat troops. No, he said troops. He said troops. There's still troops there. There's 50,000 troops left. Yeah. And that's what they say. And that's what they say, John. That's what they say. I know there's a lot of hell knows the rest of the clip. And there's some other details that are interesting. Okay, hold on. We were about. here, sorry.

23:47 and then leave the next night at 11 again. We in fact, as that package just said, were on that journey with them two nights ago. And were you given any more insight into what counter-terrorism operations means? That's the phrase that Gets those who are normally quite suspicious about the Pentagon raising an eyebrow because that could perhaps mean anything really. Hey, he's looking at us John Well, of course, you know and that's what they're saying is like these these civilian civilian force I think if I even heard it called They in in a heartbeat they can turn into combat troops, you know It's like well if there's any trouble then it's just a matter of you know stepping into the phone booth and then it's all of a sudden their combat troops and

CHAPTER 08 / 34 Discussion

Stryker Combat Vehicles and Military Propaganda

The design and utility of Stryker combat vehicles are questioned, specifically the "slat armor" cages intended to deflect RPG rounds. The hosts mock the appearance of the vehicles, comparing them to equipment from Mad Max, and suggest they look like mobile billboards. They also criticize Rachel Maddow's embedded reporting as being part of a government-sanctioned propaganda effort.

stryker· rpg· rachel maddow· pentagon· military equipment

24:26 It's a double speak at best. I also want to mention something. Is that the whole clip? I think so. Yeah, that's it. These strikers, we never really talked much about this and I didn't even think much about it until they started showing them going off. these strikers which look like equipment from the movie Mad Max. And how does that cage stop a stinger missile? Here's a link to a one copy of what most of them look like. Because a lot of these, when they show them to the public, they're all cleaned up. But the ones that they have over there are covered with all kinds of garbage.

25:12 that are, I don't even know, some of it's just shading. It's camouflage. Yeah, it's camouflage. Well, no, it's not camouflage. It's like a tent. You know, something to keep the sun from killing you. There's a whole bunch of weird, probably practical reasons that these things are all gussied up. But they're not, but most of them look really, they look, I mean, they really do look a lot like, here's one right here I'm sending. Well I saw it because Rachel Maddow was in one. Oh she was in one? Oh yeah, everything I saw was about the strikers, the strikers, the strikers. I think that they have a cage on the outside of most of these things and I think that's just for billboards. Verizon Wireless. I think there was a bunch of billboards on the side that said like wireless or Coca-Cola or Pepsi. This war brought to you by Verizon Wireless. I mean I can't see any other reason for the cage.

26:04 But the bottom... The one I sent you has a tent over the top which is like... No, according to the Rachel Maddow report that is so you cannot see that there are troops in it and looks like something different from the air. Like the Iraqis are in the air. But the Iraqis are in the air? What so-called terrorist is in the air? They're kite surfing. That's how they get up in the air. But the overarching thing here is that, you know, so 50,000 could be 500,000 for all we know and it's are they actual enlisted men and women? Well I know that a battalion from California went over there just last week so I know that there are some actual enlisted servicemen and women. But we're gonna be there for the next 10 years, maybe 20 years. We're still in Okinawa, Japan! That's 65 years ago!

26:55 It's an empire and we can't afford it and it's dumb. It's dumb that we're there. Eric mentioned that this little cage around the outside so if somebody throws a hand grenade it likely is to hit the cage and then bounce off. In the report literally and I don't I have a hard time believing it literally the sergeant major I forget his title His rank said that's if someone shoots a not a not a RPG an RPG. Yeah, so one shoots an RPG then it'll hit the grading and apparently it won't blow up the striker But I think billboards are a better use of it. I think billboards Oh, you know what it should be. Oh, it's so clear. How can I how can I didn't even figure this one out? This roar brought to you by Hot Pockets

27:43 Right. So, yeah, but that's that's pretty much everything that that was being said. Rachel Maddow was over there. Yeah. No, it's not. MSM did the government pay for that? I mean, why is it seems like if you're running a network that that's the biggest waste of money you can imagine. Unless you have a correspondent and you already already have correspondents tons of them over there Why do you have to send your your or maybe trying to kill her? Finally something good hits the wire nice Alright, let me move a little bit closer to home unless you have more on no I'm done with this farce on this frickin farce We should be I mentioned the fact that there was only really 400 troops that snuck out in the dead at night because all the other everyone's already gone and long since Disappeared yeah, and and and I heard 50,000 heard 56,000 I heard 57,000 I heard less than 50,000 nobody no one has the answer we don't know now This is closer to home closer to the border. I

CHAPTER 09 / 34 Discussion

Juarez Cartel Female Assassins and Finland Smoking Ban

Reports from the El Paso Times indicate that the Juarez drug cartel, known as La Linea, is employing young women as assassins to distract targets. In international news, Finland has announced plans to completely phase out smoking, a move the hosts view as a precursor to potential alcohol prohibition. A BBC clip featuring a defiant Finnish cigar smoker is used to illustrate the cultural clash over the ban.

juarez cartel· la linea· finland· smoking ban· bbc

28:47 This is from the El Paso Times and they've got a video of this guy with his testimony. I don't speak a Spanish so I cannot tell you if what is written is exactly what he says. However, the La Lina drug cartel, that's kind of the, I guess that's their brand name for the Juarez drug cartel. I don't know. I'm just saying. Have hired beautiful young women to work as assassins. for the group like hot chicks because they figured out that when you have hot chicks the guys their targets get distracted and it's easier for them to take the hit out. Didn't the Russians know this forever? Yeah, they work like any other hitman he says. However, here it is. Hate to get one of those girls angry about some sexual harassment by one of these cartel dudes.

29:51 I just thought it was interesting. They're taking the scene right out of the playbook. Yeah, it's out of some movie. So beware of hot Mexican chicks, I think is the overall message. Stay away. Kind of frightening. Trip around Gitmo Nation. Finland. Is Finland... They're in the European Union, aren't they? I believe so. Yeah. Well, let's look it up. Look it up. Well, once you look it up and I'll play this a little bit of from the BBC actually, Finland is planning to stub out smoking. Actually, they call it the smoking habit entirely. So they want to essentially ban smoking in the entire country. And so the BBC puts this little clip together with which is just great when you listen to what's being said.

CHAPTER 10 / 34 Discussion

Alcohol Prohibition Memes and Tequila Parody Commercial

The hosts explore a perceived media trend toward alcohol prohibition, citing plotlines in "Days of Our Lives" and "Entourage" that portray alcohol as a "gateway" to harder drugs and career ruin. A parody commercial for tequila is played, listing absurd side effects like "dancing like a retard" and "naked twister." They suggest that these media portrayals may be influenced by political figures like Rahm Emanuel's brother, Ari.

tequila· entourage· ari emanuel· prohibition· hbo

30:46 And you actually have to see the video and I'll link to it in the show notes at noagendashow.com To the guy at the end of the clip who's the guy who is of course promoting smoking. It could have not made it any better. Finland's in the EU and also part of the Eurozone. Here we go. Hold on a second. Let people do what they want to do. They're not, you know, giving us limits about alcohol. It's a very bad habit to everyone and I don't want kids, I have two kids, I don't want them to smoke. I think it's pretty damn good because this is a stupid habit. They make everybody to be afraid of death. I'm not so afraid of dying that I would ruin my life.

31:30 Because of that I enjoy smoking my cigar So I I sent you the link John and I put it into the chat room so so essentially what they've done is there's two things in this clip which I like one is Oh, it's not like they're banning alcohol so beware my friends because you may be against smoking But they're coming for your booze next trust me Then they put this guy at the back who's got like this crazy beard and a crazy hat and his eyes are all wild and he's smoking a stogie and he's like Like you could not make smokers look any more Ludicrous and putting this guy into the clip. It's so it's so obvious What is going on here? And I'll just say it again yet smoking Yeah, it's a filthy habit and it'll kill you but you know, you'd be very careful

32:21 For those of you saying, yeah, get rid of all the smokers because they're coming for your booze next. I swear to God. It's gonna be all over. In fact, Days of Our Lives is even propagating it. Here's a clip from a recent episode. Don't you get it? That could have been me. You don't do drugs. Yeah, but I drank It's pretty much the same thing Pretty much the same thing as drugs They're coming for you. They're putting it in the media is getting out there you beware then we do have some counter Programming. Oh really nice nice nice. Yeah, it helps a little bit not probably not as much but but because it's so so funny It might be very useful to play the drug commercial that I have

33:13 Do you have feelings of inadequacy? Do you suffer from shyness? Do you sometimes wish you were more assertive? If you answered yes to any of these questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist about tequila. Tequila is the safe, natural way to feel better and more confident about yourself and your actions. Tequila can help ease you out of your shyness and let you tell the world that you're ready and willing to do just about anything. You'll notice the benefits of tequila almost immediately. And with a regimen of regular doses, you can overcome any obstacles that prevent you from living the life you want to live. Shyness and awkwardness will be a thing of the past. And you'll discover many talents you never knew you had.

33:55 Stop hiding and start living with tequila. Tequila may not be right for everyone. Women who are pregnant or nursing should not use tequila. However, women who wouldn't mind nursing or becoming pregnant are encouraged to try it. Side effects may include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, incarceration, erotic lustfulness, loss of motor control, loss of clothing, loss of money, loss of virginity, delusions of grandeur, table dancing, headache, dehydration, dry mouth, and a desire to sing karaoke and play all night rounds of strip poker, truth or dare, and naked twister. Warning, the consumption of alcohol may make you think you're whispering when you're not. is a major factor in dancing like a retard. It may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you're in love with them. It also may cause you to think you can sing. Alcohol may lead you to believe that ex lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at four in the morning. Alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting. It may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster, and better looking than most people. And it may lead you to think people are laughing with you. Alcohol may cause pregnancy. And it also may be a major factor in getting your ass kicked. So what are you waiting for? Stop hiding and start

34:50 living with tequila. It may get your ass kicked. You know, it's I was listening to that and like, oh my God, there's another huge piece of anti-alcohol propaganda going on right now. You probably don't watch Entourage, which is the highly successful HBO series. I've seen episodes of it and I think it's very enjoyable. It's just something I don't feel like getting into. Right. So I have I usually miss it on Sundays, but we have it on the on the DVR. And so what's happened is Vince's, you know, a turtle, the buddy there, he starts a tequila business. There's a lot of memes in this now to think about it with some like, you know, some guy who totally looks like a Mexican drug dealer, but he's, you know, so he's manufacturing the tequila. And of course, he wants Vince, the star of the show, to

35:39 You know put his his brand Vince on this tequila to make it really popular and it is and people are standing in line But this meanwhile is bringing down Vince's entire career because he's gone from tequila to coke and sleeping with porn stars So I would be interesting to watch Sunday night Maybe this is a whole nother part of the mean and of course we know that the show is loosely based around Ari Emanuel Rahm Emanuel's brother, so maybe there was a call there and I don't know. Yeah, well, you know, but it's always something suspicious going on. It's definitely an anti I think it could be a big anti-alcohol thing interesting Meanwhile, you're prohibition nearly 1 million children in the United States have potentially been misdiagnosed They probably have ADHD. That's right. They probably didn't have it. That's what I said Misdiagnosis having a I'm sorry misdiagnosis having ADHD attention deficit

CHAPTER 11 / 34 Discussion

ADHD Misdiagnosis and Sutter Pacific Vaccine Recall

A study suggests nearly one million American children may be misdiagnosed with ADHD and unnecessarily medicated with Ritalin. Simultaneously, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in Northern California has issued a recall for 3,000 vaccines, including H1N1 and polio, due to improper refrigeration. The hosts speculate that the recall is a ruse to distribute excess H1N1 stock before it expires.

adhd· ritalin· sutter pacific medical foundation· vaccine recall· h1n1

36:36 What's the H for? Hearing disorder. I have no idea what the H is for. Attention deficit hearing disorder. And of course they've all been smacked on Ritalin. Oh yeah, that could be wrong. And all of those kids are all strung out on drugs now, the ones that were when they started on Ritalin years and years ago. They're actually on drugs. Yeah, they're actually, now they're completely ruined. But the legal drug... Anybody out there lets their kid get put on this crap because they have, first of all, they have a bad doctor and they are just ruining their kids' lives. Meanwhile... You got a hyperactive kid, just slap him around. Bounce him. Hello? Yeah, just put up with it. Meanwhile, the legal drug industry, no one is up in arms about that whatsoever. Did you hear about the huge vaccine recall in your backyard, Mr. Dvorak?

37:33 Why would I have heard about it? Because it's on your local news, which I have. It wasn't on my local news. Okay, well let's have a listen and you might be surprised what's going on. As it may have handed out a bad batch of vaccinations, how bad thousands of people could be impacted including many school children. KTVU's David Stevenson live tonight in San Francisco with that story. David. Mike, that's right. Souther- excuse me, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation officials say they're particularly concerned young kids and teens may have gotten weak doses of vaccines. The scariest thing would be thinking that you did the right thing by getting them their vaccine and then finding out later... Now notice they haven't said what vaccine yet, but that's still to come. The vaccine may or may not have protected them.

38:17 For parents, it's a nightmare. Between January and June, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation says about 3,000 of its patients in the North Bay and San Francisco may have gotten bad batches of vaccines. An estimated 70% of those affected are children. The potency of these vaccines are in question, but we don't know whether the effect of them and at the present time there is no good way of being able to tell you yes this vaccine was effective or not effective. Just watch and see if your kid drops dead or starts walking spastic then that's probably uh then your kid got one of them. The problem began a month ago when Sutter officials discovered temperature fluctuations in a vaccine refrigerator similar to this newer. A month ago, a month ago.

39:01 And this is now on the news. No one's up in arms. No one's running around. Have you heard your neighbors like rushing out into the street? Oh my god, I got a bad vaccine? This whole story is weird. Go on. Well, of course, you know what the solution is, right? Yeah, get another shot. A survey of refrigerator logs in 14 clinics found too much heat or too much cold may have damaged vaccines for polio, hepatitis, H1N1, whooping cough and other illnesses. You are fucked. Everything, everything you got a shot for, you're screwed. We have no evidence that anybody who was immunized against any of these illnesses has come down with that illness as a consequence of this.

39:43 Still, Sutter on Saturday began sending out letters to the thousands who may have gotten weak shots, asking them to come in for free re-immunizations. San Francisco school officials say kids affected by the Sutter vaccines should be re-immunized as soon as possible. So, let me ask you a question. If a vaccine essentially goes bad because it's been heated up too much, isn't that life-threatening? I don't know. Why would it be? I don't know. You have to catch the disease. I don't know. I mean do you... The whole thing is crazy. Well, the whole thing is... I don't even really believe it. I think it's just, hey, we still got some H1N1 hanging around here. Oh, no. They know that they have to get rid of their H1N1 stock because apparently it's going to expire in the next six months. Exactly. And there's so much of it left because nobody bought into the fear tactics of that crazy old lady at the WHO.

40:37 Yeah, I think you're right. I think this is just hey we do we've got to get rid of more of it It's and it's it's making money these vaccines. It's gonna make money. They may give it free someone will pay for it tax taxpayers will pay for it John Thompson, producer, says, my dad works at Purdue University. We get these flyers all the time from the Human Resources Department. Make sure you're nice and warm. About health and things of that nature. One of the perks is that he and my mom get free flu shots every year. We got a flyer about this year's flu shots in the mail. Guess what? This year's shots will have H1N1 vaccine built right into it. My mom, who's a big No Agenda fan, said she ain't getting one.

41:14 No word on John's mom, dad there, but at least his mom is on board with the program. But yeah, this to me seems like a great way to do it and maybe this will crop up in other parts of Gitmo Nation where they'll go, oh, something went bad, you've got to come back. Because they do have to get rid of it. We have to, yeah, and I think people out there should, you know, one of the things about our show, because it's international, is that we'll bring something up and then there'll be parallel stories around the world that are never hooked together as one giant worldwide story. And that actually happened in this last week when I was just coincidentally

CHAPTER 12 / 34 Discussion

Global Salmonella Egg Recalls and Food Supply Concerns

A massive recall of 288 million eggs in the United States due to salmonella concerns is linked to similar outbreaks in the United Kingdom. The hosts observe that these parallel food safety issues are rarely reported as a singular global event. They express suspicion regarding the timing of these outbreaks and their impact on the availability of natural food products.

egg recall· salmonella· iowa· united kingdom· food safety

41:53 uh... running a blog item about the two hundred and eighty eight million bad chicken eggs so yeah this is the big recall that came out of iowa and apparently you know uh... safeway albertsons all the big stores rouse even rouse which is here in l a l carried these eggs of course i a m you know we need the dvorak house you lay your own eggs we have our own chickens yes and uh... that we have another batch of chickens down here in albany now that uh... One of our friends has loaded up his backyard with, and I'm gonna get eggs there. But the point is, so I'm looking up, I'm doing the story, I figure, well, I'm looking for some artwork, so I'm looking at images under the term poison eggs.

42:36 Well, lo and behold, the exact same story crops up in the UK and all around the world. Really? Yeah. Bad eggs. UK here and there. So what could that be about? Doesn't know something's wrong with the eggs or they're trying to keep us from eating eggs I don't know. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it Wow it's rather peculiar I thought that there was one outbreak after another of these bad eggs around the world But no one's put two and two together all at the same time, huh? Well within the same six month period well It's funny because I had a similar experience and just like you said John sent by two different sources from our producing audience so the story that

CHAPTER 13 / 34 Discussion

Wyclef Jean Death Threats and Belgium Performance Discrepancy

Despite widespread media reports that Haitian presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean has gone into hiding due to death threats, video evidence shows him performing at a festival in Belgium. The hosts characterize the "hiding" narrative as a PR stunt to avoid difficult interviews regarding his bid for the Haitian presidency. They criticize the Associated Press and Guardian for failing to verify the singer's actual location.

wyclef jean· haiti· belgium· death threats· presidency

43:21 everyone is the most emailed story I received. Wyclef Jean in hiding after death threats over Haiti presidency bid. Yeah I got that one too. Right so he's you know he's gotten death threats and he's hiding and he's in a secret location in Haiti. Well not so because here I have a YouTube video with actual proof of him performing in Hoogstraten in Belgium during a festival week two days ago. He's not in hiding, he's hiding in Belgium. Yeah, living it up. In Hoogstraten, which is where I used to have the curry castle. Which, by the way, you might as well be hiding. I mean, I agree with that. But the guy's, he's doing shows. He's not hiding. This is total bullcrap. Total bullcrap. All he wants to do is hide so he doesn't have to do interviews. Because people are on to him.

44:17 But but you know it's it's fun to see that word Guardian BBC the first graph of the APN stories a pop star and Haitian presidential hopeful Wycliffe John says he's gone into hiding after getting death threats Yeah, no death threat. He's performing in Belgium link in the show notes. You could see him right there He's on stage doing a show Because of all the death threats you know those Belgians. They're pretty mellow. Maybe he's visiting Haiku Herman hanging out hanging out in Belgium. It's total bullcrap And and I have a clip by the way I'm not gonna I don't want to play it at the moment We have played if we really run out of material about there was done on the military channel about about Midget submarines they call them and they were like one-man subs that would carry a bomb and

CHAPTER 14 / 34 Discussion

Dr. Frank Ryan Death and MTV Texting-While-Driving PSA

Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan died after his Jeep plunged off a cliff in Malibu, an event MTV News immediately framed as a warning against texting while driving. The hosts note that Ryan had tweeted just before the accident, but they criticize the rapid pivot to a public service announcement. They list several of Ryan's famous clients, including Heidi Montag and Gene Simmons, who expressed grief over his passing.

dr. frank ryan· plastic surgery· mtv· texting while driving· malibu

45:13 You know one torpedo and these guys would sneak up on ships and it literally like attached the torpedo to the ship And then sneak away and then blow up the ship yeah, and the Japanese It's a person talks about the Japanese version of the of the midget submarine the Japanese guys were suckered into becoming suicide midget Torpedo guys. Yeah, they put him in the thing and then they they weld them into Sayonara And it was actually quite funny because the guy the Japanese guy says we were misled by the government Yeah, I guess it does happen everywhere. I think people should note that those of you who listen to the show routinely

45:59 At least the way we, I mean I don't think we're, I mean we're as susceptible to being misled as anybody. But generally speaking, the two of us do not really buy into most government propaganda. I don't care, you know, if the greatest nation in the world lies to you. Anyway, just a point. I'm looking for the story, an important plastic surgeon died. I don't know if anyone sent that link to you. Oh really? I didn't get that one. Yeah, this is uh, and for some reason I now maybe I know where was he from? He's from California. He's the guy that did

46:43 What's her name Katherine Heigl who got like ten surgeries in a row he did Janice Dickinson? Did they gather as the head of MCI who did the phony heart attack that guy no no not? Well so you immediately start to think it's like okay Who did he do in the witness protection program that he had to get to to the head for? but then MTV News Maybe I put it under Ministry of Truth. That would be where I put it probably. Geez. Well somewhere in the show notes is the link about this guy. But he, you know, people are like really sad because he helped so many important celebrities really better their lives with plastic surgery.

47:26 So how old was he? He was young. He was probably about 38 something like that. MTV News though knows how to spin the story into something into a very important public service announcement. A new development in the untimely death of celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan has emerged. Ryan was reportedly tweeting just before his car plunged off a cliff in Malibu on Monday. He tweeted, after 25 years of driving by, I finally hiked to the top of the giant sand dune on the west of Malibu. Much harder than it looks. In the state of California, texting while driving is against the law.

48:06 This tragic event brings to the forefront once again the dangers of texting while driving. Earlier in the year, Oprah launched the No Phone Zone campaign, which urges people to sign pledges not to chat or text from behind the wheel. Distracted drivers... It sounds like a whole... like a whole PSA campaign! Who is this kid? He sounds like he's 12. I don't know, he probably is. ...are blamed for an estimated 6,000 deaths and half a million injuries a year. So, celebrity plastic surgery... A year, he's blamed for a year. A year. Dr. Frank Ryan was involved in a car accident and died on Monday after his car fell from a cliff in Malibu on Monday. Oh, Mel Gibson drives off, this guy falls off the cliff in Malibu. This is not... it was a Jeep Wrangler. Well, there you go. Those things are dangerous.

48:50 But some of the people that he worked with, so the Hillstar Montag, Vince Neil, Motley Crue, Gene Simmons of KISS, Adrienne Curry, no relation, Lorenzo Lamas, and everyone's just devastated. And there will be a vigil, a vigil for Dr. Ryan. So yeah it was a clearly vigil, a candlelight vigil. So clearly it was a case of Twitter texting while driving. Death by texting.

CHAPTER 15 / 34 Discussion

Dr. Laura Schlesinger Resignation and Media Matters Boycott

Dr. Laura Schlesinger announced her departure from terrestrial radio following a controversy involving her use of a racial epithet and a subsequent advertiser boycott led by Media Matters. Schlesinger claims her First Amendment rights were "usurped" by activist groups. The hosts discuss the incident as a primary reason why they avoid commercial sponsorship, which subjects broadcasters to the whims of "gatekeepers" and corporate interests.

dr. laura schlesinger· media matters· first amendment· larry king· censorship

49:28 So that's how MTV needs to respond. A simple SMS, you know, I am on the phone is rough enough. Yeah. But why would you do it on a windy road in Malibu? You gotta have both hands on the wheel and be kind of freaked out. I've been on those roads. Yeah, but you sound kind of like the PSA now, John. I mean, it just blew me away that, you know, someone's dead and then MTV spins it into, don't text while you drive, kids. This is really bad. Yeah, well, MTV. All right, what else we got? I got tons of stuff. Maybe you want to thank some people? Yeah, let's thank them for contributing and also when I mentioned the people that should be involved with this show because it's listener supported. And we do have a clip actually, which I did. I upload this clip to you, which is the Dr. Laura clip.

50:20 It's funny you mentioned that because I was going to say that that is you may not have but we can talk about it anyway because She's yeah, you don't have the clip. Can you send it to me? Cuz it'll be well worth it if we play it But once you tell everyone what's going on what's on your mind cuz I kind of have it figured out Well, dr. Laura comes on the Larry King show and moans and groans about her being you know, essentially she says that commercial radio is no good and because you can't do anything off the you know you there's a very narrow path you have to walk and if you don't walk it there's these uh... pressure groups in the case of doctor laureates kind of interesting you may have a list of them here uh... it seems like you know pressure groups including media matters as a gay and lesbian alliance and all these people had because she uses the n word i don't know what the media matters are the gay and lesbian allies in a read this uh...

51:16 Dr. Schlesinger, this is in the New York Times, took a different tack, blah blah blah. She apologized on her blog in the air for the next day. Still a day after her apologies, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America posted audio of her original comments, you know, and called for advertisers to boycott the program. The movement gained traction as General Motors, OnStar, and Motel 6 both, you know... They pulled, right? They pulled. Yeah, they pulled, which they should be ashamed of themselves. uh... pulled their sponsorship because why is this she the ministry of truth that this is a day that you can see if you have a general motors that's for sure like a year cars are junk you know if we had general motors is a sponsor we could make a new life for you know i general motors car in the thing with the wheel fell off we couldn't talk about it you can talk about it

52:06 Anyway, Motel 6 and General Motors OnStar specifically withdrew according to Kareem Baldassano, Senior Vice President of Dr. Schlesinger's Production Company. Ari Rabin-Havitt, AVT, I don't know how you spell that, how do you pronounce that, Vice President at Media Matters, which by the way is kind of a Clinton liberal phony baloney media watchdog. said this incident quote should serve as a lesson to radio hosts. No you listen up you! That their words matter. Shut up Schlee! They can and should be held accountable for what they say on the airwaves. Thou shalt repent! Mr. Rabin have it said. He's the media matters VP so these guys are

52:52 These guys aren't watchdogs, they're gatekeepers, they're creepy gatekeepers. Oh, wait, is there a douchebag involved here? Oh boy, it's funny you mention that. Douchebag! Dr. Laura says, quote, my first amendment rights have been usurped by angry hateful groups who don't want to debate, they want to eliminate. Thou shalt not debate, thou shalt eliminate! I've decided it was time to move on to other venues where I could say my piece and not have to live in fear anymore. Well, I think that sounds a lot like noagendastream.com. Exactly. In fact, people have actually sent me email. People actually sent me email. Hey, is Dr. Laura coming to your stream? It's gonna be very interesting to see if she can do it and if she can pull it off and how she will do it. Well, she's worth so much money now that I don't think she

53:44 Needs to do that much work, but she's still doing books. She does have a podcast I mean she does stream her other previous show I think so probably back off a little bit and probably do less work But which will be said she was leaving at the end of this year. Yeah, well she could be hounded back You know, they could all apologize and beg her to come back for more money. Well of course she can't quit because she's under contract. That's why she's, well I'll do it at the end of the year. She can't because then she'll get sued for breach of contract. Right. But I bet you her program's gonna be pretty tame for the next couple months. Why? Because, you can't do that. You can't, if you are sponsored by corporate money and advertisers, you just, you can't go on and every word she says will be watched from now on. It's been watched for the last decade, ever since she came out against... Yeah, but when General Motors pulls out, that's when station managers start to take note.

54:40 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and that's exactly why you lose some stations in the process. That's exactly why we decided not to take commercial money or run advertisements on this program. And I am delighted we made that decision. yeah well i mean it's because you don't have to you don't have to keep you know how to stop the show the other thing by the way is it gives the the listeners another twenty or thirty minutes uh... because most of the our our today's today's radio is uh... two minutes of program in one minute of commercials and that's just a bit the model in some cases is worse but the fact of the matter is you who needs to be will have their time wasted even though i would assume some people think that that us begging for money is time wasting too

CHAPTER 16 / 34 Discussion

No Agenda Donation Segment and 10-10-10 Event Planning

The hosts read a list of donors and "de-douched" listeners who purchased No Agenda challenge coins. They discuss the upcoming date of October 10, 2010 (10-10-10), noting its historical significance in Chinese culture as a lucky day. They solicit ideas from the "producers" (listeners) for a special event or promotion to mark the date and help fund the show through the next tax season.

reddit· challenge coins· 10-10-10· donations· value-for-value

55:24 Oops, did I lose you? John? 100 bucks and David Dole. Hold on a second, John. Hold on a second. Yeah, I lost you there. Come on back and get into the list. Let's go back. We had David Fannin, Dublin, California, $100. David Dolson, curiously another David. Houston, Texas, 66-66, no commentary. Paul Couture, double nickels on the dime. He bought himself a Minute Man double nickels on the dime since for his birthday yes his birthday it was uh... two days ago but will uh... will celebrate that in a moment and uh... vicious and knighthood layaways ricky pearson larry corby was still on the program uh... troy a rudder uh... aims iowa fifty dollars also a regular supporter of the show thank you choice comment and uh... and then then finally brian denny who uh... was just a mention no ed agenda

56:24 reddit.com which is a reddit thing. Do you use reddit? He says you can also go to reddit.com slash is it T or R slash in the morning? R. I think noagendaredit.com is easier. I've never really used reddit. Have you ever used it? No I haven't. That's what I was asking you. I would also mention he says for my free open source Android tipping calculator tippy tippy tipper and like to de-douche my brother Scott and co-worker Dale because they've been de-douched. Sorry. They bought the No Agenda Challenge coins despite having not donated before so they're de-douched. We also have a note from Brian Boatwright

57:11 he wanted to call out his friend this happened as we missed this in the last show call his friend jeff thompson for being a douche bag and not buying a no agenda calling hopefully this public shaming will change his mind the coins are sold out by the way so uh... and and and i'd love to see another program come on board because the minute all twelve of the order of the midnight's have been knighted in our comfortably seated at the uh... at the roundtable donations will be way off. Let's be honest. Then we're gonna be like crying again. Right now we're kind of happy-go-lucky. The big thing is coming up. We have to come up with a program and we're gonna ask people for some help here. You can email us. You can get our emails, you know, very easy to come by at adammevio.com and johnatdvorak.org

57:59 And you also go to devorek.org slash NA to donate, but we look for some suggestions because we have a unbelievable date coming up which is unprecedented in our entire lifetimes. We'll never experience a 10-10-10. Date again, which is a October 10th 2010 and 1010 day is historically a Chinese lucky day And in fact, they have a Chinese New Year's like party in San Francisco's Chinatown on 1010 day It's a huge deal amongst the Chinese and so there's obviously some some magic to it and so we've got 1010 10 coming up so we need some ideas as to what

58:37 you know we can do that that that would sell it out there were just really blow it out that it would be so awesome I got bills to pay it would be great if we could just blow it out just just take care of me until tax day so anyway so that's uh... our uh... weekly pitch uh... the work that works last year you know agenda show dot com and channeled of or act dot com slash in a uh... please help us out this week we are uh... not to the government's mouthpieces and or anybody else's for that matter that at least that that we know of and if we are we usually get caught in a dozen last long

CHAPTER 17 / 34 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony for Sir Michael Garcia

In a formal segment, Michael Garcia is knighted into the "Order of the Mint" for his significant financial support of the show. The hosts use dramatic music to induct him into the No Agenda Roundtable, granting him the title of "Sir." The segment concludes with a humorous letter from a paranoid listener who is unsure if the food they are eating is actually food.

michael garcia· order of the mint· knighthood· no agenda roundtable· challenge coin

59:19 All righty, let's see. Birthday shout out to Rebecca T. Mull of Markham, Ontario, Canada. She turned 33 on the 12th of August and we apparently missed her birthday during a donation segment. So happy birthday, Rebecca. And of course, Sir Paul Couture, super patron, Order of the Mint. I actually spoke to him on his birthday. That's what we do here when we have people who support the show. We'll call you up. We'll bring you birthday cake, we'll do all kinds of stuff, particularly with the help that he's given us with the No Agenda Coin Challenge. Sir Paul, happy birthday, thank you so much. And we have one night left. Yeah, I'm ready. Here we go. Here, let me get it out.

1:00:06 It's the wrong one. Oh, wait a minute. You need to do that. Oh, that's the one you need. Yeah, beautiful. All right, we would like Michael Garcia to step forward, please. Michael, you were one of the recipients or are one of the recipients of a No Agenda Challenge coin which you purchased for $33.33 and you have been chosen, my friend, to represent the round table as one of the Knights in the Order of the Mint. Michael Garcia. We hereby knight thee, Sir Michael Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable. Please join us here with other knights and dames. Protect your country, be free, and enjoy our hookers and blow.

1:00:55 Is that music different? Yeah, yeah someone sent it in. It's a little more dramatic. I kind of like it. I kind of like it. It was kind of nice. A little segment I want to do at the end of our donations each week because we have been known to bum people out which I think is part of what the show is. But I got this from an anonymous producer in fact he says please do not give anybody my name. Dear Adam, I am I am extremely high and paranoid at the moment and I am listening to the latest NOAgenda. I cannot really tell if the food I'm eating is going down my throat and if so, I hope to God it really is food. Sincerely. The likelihood is zero. So as long as you can still hear the sound of my voice, you're okay my friend. It's okay. It's gonna be alright. Have a sugar cube. It'll all go away.

CHAPTER 18 / 34 Discussion

Scram Alcohol Monitoring and the Privatization of Incarceration

The "Scram" ankle bracelet, famously worn by Lindsay Lohan, is highlighted as a tool for the privatization of incarceration through home monitoring. The hosts examine the website jailovercrowding.com, which promotes alcohol monitoring as a solution for bankrupt states like California. They argue that this technology effectively turns private homes into "personal jails" and creates a profit motive for continuous surveillance.

scram· b.i. incorporated· ankle bracelets· lindsay lohan· prison overcrowding

1:01:41 We have to calm these people down from time to time, John. It's... You're the one that bums them out. Yeah, it's really getting bad. Okay, some research has been done on the Gitmo Nation jewelry which... It's always nice when it's just corroborated. I would like you to go to jailovercrowding.com, John. This is the website that Scram has put together. Scram, of course, are the people who gave Lindsay Lohan her beautiful ankle bracelet. And right here on the home page are alcohol offenders overcrowding your jails and prisons. And then you can select your state. Well, let me go to California. Should be a lot of numbers there. Yeah, it's beautiful.

1:02:24 Vacancy it says So as predicted Corporations like scram and by even though that's supposed to be bi the by corporation The whole idea here is to make your home your personal jail Yeah, you're bursting at the seams the United States in prisons significantly more people than any other nation in the world in fact They're even proud of this. In fact, the Pew Center on the States reported in 2008 that an astounding one in every 100 adults in the US now lives behind bars! Exclamation point.

1:03:03 How is that even... You know, this is so humiliating that the fact that the public isn't outraged by this. We not only have the most prisoners, but we have the most prisoners per capita. And it's supposed to increase in California by 13% this year. Yeah. Yeah. Because we've been trying to incarcerate our way out of crime for so long, federal and state prisons and county jails are experiencing near crisis levels of overcrowding. At the same time, operating budgets have been severely cut. That's our profit, by the way. As funding to build new facilities and over the next two years researchers predict the situation will get even worse. We must enslave you, slave in your own home!

1:03:42 So the thing is, they got the thing at the top which is kind of noteworthy, which is the total number of prisoners in California, 174,282, but the total cost per day. California, a state that is bankrupt and should declare bankruptcy on a daily basis in California, it's costing $11,352,729 a day. $11 million a day. They should be donating that to the show. And this of course is for people who also have smoked three joints. Oh yeah. Or pick up a hooker. Oops. So anyway, the problem is, they want to fix this, our fine friends at Scram and the Buy Company.

1:04:30 By identifying offenders with alcohol misuse issues, screening, assessment, evaluation tools and programs, sanctioning alcohol offenders for criminal activity, providing them with the treatment they need, and monitoring them to ensure rehabilitation. We need to monitor them. That's right. We'll just monitor you. Don't worry. You'll be a slave in your own home. And so yes, you're right, people should be outraged by this, John, but they're not. No, they're not. In fact, in fact, 11 million dollars a day. Forget the money. Well, how about the whole slavery aspect of being kept a prisoner in your own home? But they're not because it's actually good because this technology, John, the same people who bring you all like the drive by the by drive by from B.I. Incorporated and the Scram Bracelet.

CHAPTER 19 / 34 Discussion

RFID Tracking of Children in Richmond Schools

The George Miller Children's School in Richmond, California, has implemented an RFID tracking system where children wear jerseys embedded with sensors. While officials claim the system saves "man-hours" on attendance and improves safety, the hosts condemn it as an "inventory system" for children. They express outrage that the technology, funded by a federal grant, treats students like trackable assets.

rfid· george miller children's school· richmond· tracking· surveillance

1:05:22 They're protecting your children John. These are good people and the proof once again is in San Francisco High-tech way to keep track of students is being used right here in the Bay Area Now the technology is expected to lessen the teachers responsibility and hopefully increase students learning KTVU is Ken Pritchett is live now in Richmond with more on how this system works Ken Well, the children wear this tracking device on their clothing and it will alert if a child leaves campus. But the county says one major benefit of this technology is for teachers because it will allow them more time to teach.

1:06:00 It is nap time at George Miller Children's School, a brief moment in the day when children can relax, a rare luxury for teachers such as Simone Buford. Checking papers all day long. Checking papers, checking papers, checking papers. What is she checking? What papers is she checking? Is this grades or is this housewives? She's checking papers. Checking papers, checking papers. This is really great. All day long. All day long. I'm checking papers, checking papers. I need to It's amazing, you have to see this video how this school is hooked up. Teacher must write it down, but embedded in what looks like a tiny basketball jersey is technology that may change that. So now, when we feed the children lunch, we just have to push a button and it's done. If you feed the children lunch, you just press a button! John, it's wonderful! We just press a button and we can feed them. Next what will happen is not only will you just press the button, but then the food will actually be shoved into their face. Like, drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

1:07:10 You're fed child fed next job This is an alert to the no agenda movie guys and the entertainment guys the movie would be Charlie Chaplin's modern time modern times yes indeed my I got a continues report. It's just too good the maker of this technology also speaks in a moment when we feed the children much We just have to push a button and it's done so we don't have to check the paper check the paper check the paper check the paper check the paper the paper, check the paper. John, did you check the paper? John, did you check the paper? No, I didn't check the paper. Inside the jersey is a radio frequency tag that also uses Wi-Fi, which is monitored by sensors planted inside the school. Each dot on this map represents a child or teacher. Parents digitally sign... This is beautiful. You actually see these dots roaming around on the screen. It's like Pac-Man. It's like Pac-Man. Feed the children. Check the paper, check the paper.

1:08:09 It's great, you see all the little, and the teachers are different dots. Because the teachers, they see this is what they don't get. They're also tracked. They've also got to check the paper thing. In and out a child seen on this screen, saving teachers from hand filing attendance records required by the state. With an idea we could have completely pay off for this system with saving. This is probably Vivek Kundra's cousin. How is there a payout in any way, shape or form? What do you mean? He says, oh, by the end of the year we'll have a complete payout for the system. This is the kind of bull crap- For him! No, it's for him because the state is paying for this. He'll have the payout. They say that at the end. The report says that the state is paying for it. The complete, complete payout will be for him. But let's listen to what he says. Vivek Kundra's brother. I don't know that for sure, but he could be. ...pay off for the system with the savings, I mean from the savings that we have from the staffing.

1:09:06 What did he say? He says we get a complete payout from the savings we get from the less staffing. So somebody's gonna get fired. That's right. The check the paper, that check the paper woman is getting fired. She should be out of there. From the saving that we have from the staffing. Sung Kim with the county's Employment and Human Services Department says 3,000 man hours could eventually be saved with this $50,000 system. You're right. Someone's getting fired. That's exactly right John. So they start off by saying, oh teachers can spend more time with the kids but really you're getting fired check the paper lady. That's what's happening. Which was paid for by a federal grant. We are the first child care center that implementing with this technology but it's already proven technology. In the end the tracking... You sound like out and out morons. No he's a foreigner.

1:10:00 Why are foreigners then coming over here to tag our children? Tag our children? What's wrong with us? This is what I'm trying to say. Please stop the Gitmo jewelry. Maybe, I just had a business idea. Maybe we should just start making fake Scram bracelets and idea and RFID bracelets we could turn this into a fashion trend before it hits Because you know Lindsay's gonna be in vogue with her scram bracelet This is gonna be a huge fashion thing and maybe we can just start making them This is for maybe no agenda stuff calm or someone we should be able to make look

1:10:38 a Gitmo Nation bracelet which is a nice statement I'm thinking of a big bracelet, a big metal looking Gitmo Nation bracelet that has a bunch of LEDs on it but instead of the LEDs that are just on and off it should be one of those LEDs that actually spells things like fuck you check the papers, check the papers, check the papers no it should say in the morning hit you in the mouth and stuff like that, programmable it should be programmable it should be programmable Like we can do the pocket no agenda thing so we can change the message. Ooh, that would be that would be that would be mint wouldn't it? And oh, by the way, once you put it on you can control it once you put it on it doesn't come off Unfortunately, we weld it shut just like the mini sub guy So let's finish up this report in the end The tracking tags are a security feature and something akin to an inventory system that free Your children are inventory

1:11:37 That's what they are. It's an inventory system. What a bunch of cold-blooded a-holes. Your children are now inventory. Inventory system that frees teachers for more important things. I spend more time with the children. I spend more time with the children. I spend more time with the children. Checking papers. An inventory system. I beg you. Please, I beg you. To hell. Is it out of control or what? That's totally out of control and the fact that people aren't screaming their heads off in that school district, it shows you there's something's wrong with those people. Well I think we definitely screamed our heads off about this and we'll keep on keep on going. A note about the

CHAPTER 20 / 34 Discussion

B.I. Incorporated History and Raw Milk Dangers

A listener provides background on B.I. Incorporated, noting its origins as an agricultural company before moving into prisoner surveillance. The discussion shifts to the FDA's aggressive stance against raw milk, which the agency labels as "inherently dangerous." The hosts question why the government is so focused on restricting raw milk while ignoring issues in the commercial food supply.

b.i. incorporated· fda· raw milk· surveillance· agriculture

1:12:23 About the BI corporation, they actually started as an agriculture company. Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Somebody sent us a note telling us the background and they also mentioned the fact that I think the apparently these bracelets are hackable. Really? He hinted at it. Yeah, yeah, he did hint at it. There is a way. Let me see, I have the note here. I'm not gonna say any more about it, but... He says, and yes, there are ways to fake the system, but you need to know more than what I'm divulging to you guys. We used to have fun with some of the units at the office. I can just see him laughing away. Needless to say, I'm not eligible for the Lilo Scram fashion accessory.

1:13:04 He does, in other words he's afraid to tell us how you can circumvent the system. Yeah, well that, you know, if these things get too popular, that will have, that will be in the public domain overnight. I sure hope so. Yeah, these guys should be hacked and this system should be defeated immediately. But get ahead of the game kids and let's make our own Gitmo Nation jewelry and let's come up with some cool bracelets. I mean, and there's plenty of pictures. Plenty of pictures to so you know what it looks like and And we should get in on the fashion before it actually hit a black hat and the Defcon conference guys who every year You know show different kinds of hacks should could should take this on immediately. I think things are ridiculous Lady Gaga will be wearing one next watch

1:13:56 I have to turn the air on, John. Mickey left for the gym and it's like a thousand degrees. I have to turn the air conditioner on. Can you give me just a second? Well, while you're doing that, why don't you drop a clip which is the one we're going to listen to is Democracy Now on Haiti. Ooh, but I don't want to miss the clip. Oh, you can't hear it from the button? Well, not when I'm walking over to turn the air on. All right, well go on. Go walking away. No, I'll play it. No, it's okay. I got something to read. Okay, read. Apparently there was a blog post that's kind of interesting on the Rachel Ray blog done by Josh Ozersky. I'm writing an article for Time Magazine on raw milk out of my depth for sure, but I like it. I can't just keep going on the same narrow round of unironic Wonder Bread appreciation candidate. He goes on and on and on.

1:14:47 had tried some raw milk but it wasn't even very good raw milk apparently. By the way, I'm a big raw milk promoter. I'm back. Because we have a great dairy in Washington State that is the first raw milk dairy in the state. But he made some interesting comment here about the FDA and raw milk. Okay. He says, the FDA, I just want to find it, The FDA tells us it's an absolute necessity to keep dangerous animal molecules out of our bodies, which are in raw milk. They don't leave much doubt as to where they stand on the subject of raw milk. Raw milk, they say, quote, is inherently dangerous and should not be consumed by anyone at any time for any purpose. It's dangerous, I tell you. So why are they saying this when all the proof is in that it's not?

CHAPTER 21 / 34 Discussion

Royal Society Report on Vat-Grown Meat by 2050

The Royal Society has published a series of papers suggesting that by 2050, the global population will need to consume meat grown in vats to ensure food security. The hosts criticize the "media-government complex," noting that the Royal Society's website directs readers to a Guardian write-up rather than encouraging them to read the scientific papers directly. They view this as a coordinated effort to normalize synthetic food.

royal society· vat-grown meat· food security· the guardian· 2050

1:15:41 Well, you know, maybe tell me maybe this is a whole chicken eggs and milk thing. Maybe they don't want us to have pancakes Okay, so let's play the anyway, that's just a commentary But before we get to Haiti then could I just jump into the food thing for a moment kind of about the the raw milk? There's a the Royal Society And we've heard, I think we've played a clip from one of these women from the Royal Society who are just these incredibly arrogant elitist pricks in the United Kingdom. But the Royal Society is kind of like, what do you call our...

1:16:18 Our science is at the Science Institute or the Institute's what we call Academy of Science National Academy of Sciences, right? So I think that's kind of comparable only this of course is royal Ergo, I would presume sanctioned by Her Majesty the Queen. Oh, yes, they have published a set of 21 papers As scientists from many disciplines and countries say little more land is available for food production but add that the challenge of increasing global food supplies by as much as 70% in the next 40 years is not

1:16:53 insurmountable by 2050 we must be eating meat grown in vats in order to feed the 9 billion people expected to be alive by the middle of the century. Vat meat. Vat. Vegan vatness. This is really good vat meat. So of course I want to read the science because it's clearly in so I go over to the Royal Society website and it is, it's 21 papers so it's gonna take me through the weekend to really read it and see what it is but what cracked me up is on the Royal Society website, royalsociety.org

1:17:36 where they have the headline, seven days in science, 17th of August 2010, Royal Society published a report on food security and this week's philosophical transactions. Brrr! Each of the 21 papers from the report, Food Security, Feeding the World in 2050, are available online. And then it says, visit guardian.co.uk for a write-up of the story. Which, and that's where they get the whole, from these 21 papers they pulled this one thing we'll have to grow meat in vats but the Royal Society is colluding with the Guardian. Yes, they're colluding with them and they're saying don't read the 21 papers and you have to like, you have to go to another page to actually find the link to these 21 papers. Don't read that. Visit guardian.co.uk for a write-up of the story.

CHAPTER 22 / 34 Discussion

Bill Clinton, Haiti Reconstruction, and French Debt Controversy

Former President Bill Clinton, acting as a UN envoy, has approved $1.6 billion in new reconstruction projects for Haiti. The hosts criticize the lack of transparency regarding the funds collected by the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund. They also discuss a petition for France to repay an "independence debt" of $40 billion to Haiti, though they note the news regarding France's debt cancellation is several months old.

bill clinton· haiti· france· earthquake· debt repayment

1:18:24 And I was like, wow, that's pretty amazing. This is the media government complex. Thank you. All right, Haiti. So we're back on Haiti. So I, you know, I, as everyone knows, I rotate my viewing habits now because of the, you know, try to go from one thing to another. So we have a little balance in the show. So now I'm listening to the, and this was actually a pretty good Democracy Now show, because there's three items I got from it that are all hilarious. The first one, of course, is the Haiti report, and Democracy Now and that Amy Goodman person, they never ask a simple question, like, you know, they never go into anything, they just give kind of left-leaning clips and then they go on to the next topic. And it's kind of ridiculous, but this one cracked me up and you'll be amused yourself.

1:19:09 Haiti's interim reconstruction commission has approved over 1.6 billion dollars in new projects for the country's rebuilding following the January 12th earthquake. The commission's co-chair, former president and the current UN special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton, said the project's approval should encourage international donors to fulfill their unmet pledges. Almost every one of you in the press has done at least one story about how a lot of money was committed at the donors conference but not much money has been given. And you have reported that many of the donors say, well, they weren't specific enough about what they were going to do with the money. We have cured that problem today. Nobody can use that as an excuse.

1:20:00 Jeez Louise, this guy never gives up. It's unbelievable. Here's the report I did Bill, former President Clinton. You have not yet released your 2009 financial statement. Would you please put that on your website? Would you please let us know how much money you collected? By the way, convenient that they turned the earthquake machine on January 12th, which means he won't have to report that money that he and George W. Bush took until 2011, which they probably won't release until 2012. By then we could all be dead or eating meat out of vats. It drives me nuts. These elitist pricks.

1:20:37 He took the money! He took the money! Shysters show up and take advantage of people's goodwill and generosity. Just send us your cash. So, uh... Bastard. So now we have... So then, further on in the day, uh, democracy now... But wait, there's more! There's a Haiti factoid that I was unaware of and I was scratching my head afterwards. Here we go! In other Haiti news, the French government has rejected a petition from a group of leading activists and academics calling for the repayment of an independence debt imposed after Haiti successfully won independence in 1804.

1:21:13 Haiti was forced to pay France around 90 million gold francs up until World War II, which after interest and inflation is valued today at around 40 billion dollars. On Tuesday, French officials dismissed calls to repay Haiti but refused to comment on whether the debt was legitimate. That news is three months old. I never heard that story. Yeah, oh no the French came out maybe it's even older than that and they said are they playing it like yesterday? Well in other Haiti news it's like they had a Haiti story they go through the database they probably googled Haiti and saw a story and forgot to check the date. That's pathetic if true. Okay let me let me just check make sure I'm not full of it but I know this story is old let me see Haiti debt repayment I swear to God this is months old here May 29th

1:22:01 2010 May 29th is when we made 28 democracy now is dredging up old stories because January 30 here January 31st they even that's when they first started started talking about it but May 28th apparently is when France said we're not gonna we're gonna cancel the debt and the IMF also cancels their debt. There's no debt to cancel they got paid. No no it's all the gold coins It's the gold they had to pay back for their 1803 independence. Oh, but they weren't going to pay anything back. No, but France, big gesture, big guys, like, hey, sacre bleu, let them have, let them eat. Hot pockets. And keep your gold.

1:22:46 Anyway. Yeah, no this is a May 28th story. That's not the way I'm understanding the story. My understanding was they paid France a bunch of money now they want 40 billion dollars back from France. No. That's the way she presents it. I don't think so. Play it again. I shall. In other Haiti news. ...to the petition from a group of leading activists and academics calling for the repayment of an independence debt imposed after Haiti successfully won independence in 18... Well that's really weird. Because I have stories here that say that France said oh you don't have to pay that money the independence payment Maybe this maybe there's two going on. Maybe there's maybe there was like a like a huge amount I have to look it up. I'm gonna look this up because this game researchers out there help us out on this We'll figure it out. Yeah, this is I want to just do the other one this one here is tell me you heard this story which is the last democracy now clipped and

CHAPTER 23 / 34 Discussion

US Military Access to Colombian Bases and Hugo Chavez

A Colombian court has suspended a deal that would have granted the U.S. military access to seven bases within the country. The hosts suggest the military presence is aimed at destabilizing Hugo Chavez in Venezuela rather than fighting the war on drugs. They highlight the provision of "diplomatic immunity" for the 800 U.S. troops and 600 contractors involved in the deal.

colombia· venezuela· hugo chavez· military bases· diplomatic immunity

1:23:42 on Colombia. I am unaware of this situation. I think I would have heard about it and now I'm wondering why we're doing this in the first place. This is a screwball story. Colombia's constitutional court has suspended a deal giving the US military access to at least seven Colombian bases. On Tuesday the court ruled the deal is unconstitutional and ordered the Colombian government to submit it to lawmakers for approval. In addition to opening the bases to the U.S. military, Colombia also agreed to allowing up to 800 U.S. troops and 600 military contractors and granting them diplomatic immunity. The deal has come under wide criticism in Latin America from countries including Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, as well as from several human rights groups.

1:24:30 Yeah, sure. We should be there. That's probably under the war against drugs or something we made some kind of deal. No, I think the drug thing is over. I think it has something to do with Venezuela. And that maniac Hugo, we've been trying to kill him for years. Duh. I mean he's cited in the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman because he was apparently targeted. They tried to kill him when he was, you know, during his first iteration as a ruler there and he got away somehow, got paranoid, freaked out, decided to become a communist because he didn't want to get help from anyone he could because he felt the USA was trying to kill him, which they probably were.

1:25:09 And now I think we're gonna go back and try to kill him again. Right from the base. And what I really like about this is they're gonna send all these soldiers in and they're gonna give them all diplomatic immunity so if they kill him or kill anybody, that's tough. So they can actually park in front of the presidential palace without getting a ticket when they go in and off him. That's what those CD plates give you, man. Free parking everywhere. Yeah, that's great. Not reported by anybody but but but the way democracy now just throws it away is kind of funny Oh, no, it's terrible. They just throw everything away with no analysis if they you know, they say they get it from the you know The communist news network and then they run the story out there and then they don't say anything There's no why are we doing this aspect to this coverage is terrible communist news network So

CHAPTER 24 / 34 Discussion

History Channel Ancient Aliens and Geoengineering Theories

The History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" program is mocked for claiming that 14th-century health epidemics were caused by "noxious mists" from UFOs. This leads to a discussion on "atmospheric geoengineering" and persistent contrails. The hosts recommend an article on the subject but acknowledge the controversy surrounding the term "chemtrails," which often triggers email filters.

history channel· ancient aliens· geoengineering· chemtrails· contrails

1:26:00 I got an out there clip for you that I think you'll like. There are other channels besides C-SPAN which we watch so you don't have to of course. And there are other shows besides the joy Behar show, but probably the most interesting channel although I usually I just can't watch it because it's it's just so Propaganda eyes because if you really want to spread some propaganda then you change history Isn't that the easiest way John just change history and make it really just change it just change it so that didn't happen Yeah, yeah, did I was there no no didn't happen right so that's the history channel and

1:26:38 And for once I agree with them this will take about a minute and a half, and then I'll cut it off according to ancient astronaut theorists The UFO shaped objects found in medieval paintings aren't the only evidence of an alien presence during the era No, wait wait wait. It's not about by the way. It's from the show evidence of ancient aliens Uh, but listen to- listen to what the aliens did to us. It's true! It's on the History Channel, dude! It's the truth, so be quiet. ...book, The Gods of Eden. Author William Bramley cites private journals and other publications throughout Europe, which contain accounts of cigar-shaped flying objects emitting noxious mists. Ah-ha! The first reports of this kind began during the mid-14th century.

1:27:30 Closely corresponding to the outbreak of the worst health epidemic in human history. There you go. There you go! Finally proof! The aliens are spraying it! Actually, I do have a very good article which I'm sure you didn't read read John and although I know it was sent to you you go like oh brother called Atmospheric geoengineering and I recommend everyone have a look at that. It's under a con trails in the show notes I put it under contrails and what I like about the article which is why I think you should read it John is they don't speak about chemtrails they speak about persistent contrails and

1:28:14 Which I thought was a very good take on on the issue and People can I know that you do you have a filter now if someone sends you an email that says chemtrail does it just? It gets put into the bit bucket It's alright. They do a lot of that persistent con trailing over San Francisco, so you'll be one of the first Yeah, yeah, you'll be one of the first checking the boxes. I'll be pushing the button and paperwork paperwork paperwork is too much paperwork but anyway it actually is a it is a very interesting read and along those lines and I'm pretty sure you received this as well this goes right along with my theory about Ted Stevens Russian scholar warns of secret US climate change weapon

CHAPTER 25 / 34 Discussion

Russian Scholar Claims US Climate Change Weaponry

A Russian political scientist has claimed that the United States is using "climate change weapons" to cause record-high temperatures and destroy Russian wheat crops. The scholar points to the secretive X-37B spacecraft as a potential component of this arsenal. The hosts note that wheat and barley futures have skyrocketed as a result of the crop failures, threatening global beer supplies.

russia· climate change· x-37b· haarp· wheat futures

1:29:07 As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed that the United States may be using climate change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries. This is exactly what I said about a week ago now. You and Russian crackpots are right in the same boat on this one. Yeah, but I was saying it before this article came out and wheat futures have skyrocketed. And we'll be eating meat from vats. And the vats meat, we're gonna have to be stuck with that. But the point, you gotta, the thing that's really dangerous here about this, what's going on with the wheat fields is also the barley fields are going out of, uh, Oh, there goes our beer.

1:29:47 That's your beer. That's our beer. Now it's time to panic. Beer is already skyrocketing in price. Seriously? And by the way, I have a beer tip for people because they always want to say, you know, tip, oh, here's a tip. So, and I got a beer tip for people. It got a very low rating. I talked to my son about it because he's a kind of a beer connoisseur and he really can't understand why it got a low rating by the beer, what he calls the beer, uh, I forgot what there's a term for, beer geek. But you should check this beer out. The problem is I think it's got to be extremely fresh, but it's a beer called Hummer. And it's actually Anchor Steams beer that was made, I think, in 1972, 1983, something when they first moved to the new facility, they had this one beer formula and this is it. It's absolutely delicious. It's amazing how you get me off of these amazing topics.

1:30:41 Amazing topics. Yeah, the the article that this, what do they call him, Russian scholar, he also references the x-37b spacecraft, the one we know nothing about, that was a shot up from Vandenberg Air Base, an orbital test vehicle that the Pentagon launched back in April and Arashev, this Russian scholar, believes that the x-37b perhaps carries weaponry that could be a key component in the Pentagon's climate change arsenal. The Pentagon declined comment. Of course. I went to Stonehouse restaurant in

CHAPTER 26 / 34 Discussion

Santa Barbara Dining Review and Gordon Ramsay Themes

A review of the Stonehouse restaurant at San Isidro Ranch in Santa Barbara describes the food as overly complex and "shockingly expensive." The host compares the experience to a recurring theme on Gordon Ramsay's shows, where chefs over-complicate dishes with too many ingredients. Despite the high cost, the ambiance and butternut squash soup are praised.

stonehouse restaurant· santa barbara· gordon ramsay· fine dining· yelp

1:31:31 In there Santa Barbara since you were on on beer and food for a second. This is a five-star restaurant This is the restaurant to go to in Santa Barbara Stonehouse you never heard of it. No. Oh, oh, this is this is like I try to avoid Santa Barbara Yeah, I know, but I just wanted to say Company that we were with fantastic I love the cucumber mojito, but But the chef went a little overboard on what he had Sam He had like a million different things around this piece of salmon, and it was just too much. It was overkill You know how that sometimes you could just get too many things It's a mushroom thing and a pancake thing and then some salad stuff, and it was just it was too much It was too much going on on the plate. It was tasty, but it kind of ruined the this is one of the themes that

1:32:19 that uh... gordon ramsey has as a recurring theme which is that these guys they get carried away as it takes a real skill to be able to pull off uh... the overdue loading up the the plate with all kinds of weird crap because you can and uh... i would uh... yeah i like my food to be a simple jay and i also think the days of really overly complex food or or over and and i hate and i hate saying this because i'm sure that our host for the evening are probably listening to the show and you know and i i really enjoyed it but you know i did it just as a reviewer as something that that you and i do from time to time it was over and was way expensive i mean

1:32:57 Outrageously expensive of course I didn't pick up the tab which was good Doesn't have the full five stars on Yelp. It's got four and a half, which is high yeah, and I mean well the ambience is beautiful. It's in the mountainside You know it's got wood-burning fireplaces everywhere. It's got you know It's a gorgeous place, but I was just like well. You know too much the guy just did too much He just put too much into it however the butternut squash Soup was excellent. We only have 18 reviews. This place must be fairly new, but it's not because here's a review from 2008. No, it's not new. It's just way expensive. That's why Yelpers don't visit it. They can't afford it. Well, this one gal gave it three stars. Stephan K in Pasadena says the restaurant is at the shockingly expensive San Isidro Ranch. The restaurant has a beautiful balcony. Try to get seated there if you can. Like the hotel, the restaurant is very expensive, perhaps too much so for the price, but the food is top notch.

CHAPTER 27 / 34 Discussion

San Francisco and Amsterdam Rental Restrictions

San Francisco has begun enforcing a 1981 ordinance that prohibits residents from renting out apartments for less than 30 days, targeting short-term tourist rentals. Similarly, in Amsterdam, owners of second homes are being forced to make their properties available to the social rental pool. The hosts argue these measures are intended to protect the hotel industry and manage housing shortages for "slaves."

san francisco· amsterdam· rent control· tourism· housing ordinance

1:33:58 The menus hot, hot surf and turf. Yeah. Which is kind of... So here's another story that pops up in two places in the world in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, Amsterdam, Mochem as we say to be specific and San Francisco. Exactly the same story with a small variation. Bad news for those of you planning on renting an apartment for your next trip to San Francisco. It's illegal. What? The city's long forgotten ordinance against residents renting out their apartments to tourists has started to become reinforced. The 1981 ordinance prohibits landlords from renting out to a tenant for a period of less than 30 days. And the reason why this is happening, of course, is because there's not enough rental space for the slaves to wear their jewelry, their Gitmo bracelets. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, if you have a second home,

1:34:55 and it's in Amsterdam, you are now obliged, slave, you will obey, to make it available to the rental pool. Now what's interesting about this is the rental pool, so people register to rent a home in Amsterdam, and there's a waiting list, it's always been years, but you know, people do get on. It's rent controlled. So the maximum amount of a social rental dwelling in Amsterdam that you will pay per month is 548 euros which of course is a steal. Wow! Let's go! Well we'd have to be registered for about five I think the waiting list is five years now but if you have a pied-à-terre you may you may no longer just keep it for yourself you have to put it on the rental list it has to be made available so if you have a thousand euro mortgage. Is this bull crap? What if I don't want to rent my place?

1:35:52 It was the same thing what if you'd what if you do what you want to rent out your your own property in San Francisco for For a couple for a week. You can't do it illegal and this of course is because people are sleeping in tents There's nowhere to live anymore because the San Francisco thing I can appreciate what they're doing because they got the new intercontinental hotel and a bunch of other places that can't be possibly now who was you know the hotels are probably hurting a little bit and they're again and they probably should be because San Francisco is a miserable place for tourism. I bring this up a lot. It's miserable in general. It's a miserable place. Do not go there. There's bums everywhere. It's unbelievable. They murder German tourists.

CHAPTER 28 / 34 Discussion

Top Ten Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories and Patriotism

Fidel Castro has publicly praised Daniel Estulin's book on the Bilderberg Club, aligning himself with theories about a global shadow government. The hosts then analyze a "Top 10 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories" list circulating online, which includes chemtrails, FEMA camps, and the North American Union. They criticize the list for conflating "patriotism" with "conspiracy theory" to marginalize dissent.

bilderberg club· fidel castro· conspiracy theories· north american union· amero

1:36:43 If you're German, your target, you know, one step out of the hotel, boom, shot by some punks that can't even find anyone to indict. Fidel Castro has made a statement which a lot of people have sent to me. He says he read Astulin's book, The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, and Castro says, it's great! This is a fantastic book! It's real! It's not a drinking club! They want to take over the world! Good old Fidel. I love that you and him are in the same boat on that Well, there's a there's a story now circulating and I haven't quite traced the origin of it But it's you've probably seen this the top 10 right-wing conspiracy theories. So now if you have a yeah, if you have a theory good

1:37:35 Well, they're great. It's like, why don't they just say... Where's the aliens? I thought they had aliens in there. Take another look. Let's just take a look at the top ten for a second and see if we're in here. You know, Safari on the Mac blows chunks. They upgraded it to 5.1 or something and it quits unexpectedly. Beach balls, it does all kinds of crazy crap and I think that Steve Jobs made it suck on purpose to get everyone off a flash or something. Anyway, number one of course would be chemtrails. Right at the top of the list. But of course. But of course, or as we say persistent contrails. Number two, martial law.

1:38:21 You know, oh, there'll be martial law any minute now. I subscribe to that. FEMA concentration camps at number three. There's certainly some evidence of that. Foreign troops on US soil. Yeah, I've heard a lot about that. They're supposed to be in California, like Chinese troops and stuff. No real evidence. Door-to-door gun confiscations. Well, isn't that actually taking place in Chicago already? Amazingly, down to number six on the list, we should actually do this as a top ten list, 9-11 as a government plot. Amazing that that is only at number six as we come up on the tenth anniversary. Population control at number seven, well we know that the eugenics program is real.

1:39:07 We know, they say it, they say we need to kill people. Yeah, how's that a conspiracy? It's just a fact. It's a fact. Number eight, another fact, harp. they say the deaths and by the way what's interesting in this article is it's titled the right-wing conspiracy theory but then throughout the entire article it talks about the Patriot conspiracy which is really weird so if you're a patriot or you feel you're a patriot then you're conspiracy theorist it's like they're putting patriotism with bad basically patriots bad yeah number nine the Federal Reserve conspiracy oh my I mean come on

1:39:45 It's like, that's a conspiracy? Read a book! And number 10, the North American Union, which even you subscribe to. Yeah, I can show you the maps! And the Amero. But this is going around. But I find it interesting that they're calling it the right-wing conspiracy theories and then linking all of it to patriots. If you're a patriot. If you're a patriot, then you're a conspiracy theorist. Which is by definition an un-American thing to say. Yeah, this is just some left-wing idea. Yeah, but it's out there. It's out there. Yeah, well I'll give you another one that's out there that's kind of interesting. So this, I just sent you a link to this site.

CHAPTER 29 / 34 Discussion

Homeland Security Overreach on the Canadian Border

The U.S. Border Patrol on Washington's Olympic Peninsula is criticized for involving itself in local police matters, such as responding to drunk drivers and domestic disputes. Data suggests that none of the arrests in the Port Angeles area are related to terrorism or illegal immigration from Canada. Additionally, a report claims 91% of Canadians are "toxic" due to Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure.

homeland security· border patrol· canada· port angeles· bpa

1:40:28 secretive nature of homeland security on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Recent history, the US Border Patrol, what are they here for? What is the US Border Patrol for one thing, what are they doing up along the Canadian border and what are they supposed to do? Tell me. Keep them damn Canadians out. Well, whatever it is, according to all the reports, and I have a couple of my printed out US Border Patrol, the Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security has responded to the following a construction site theft, a coffee stand robbery, escape drunk running through the woods, a trailer park, domestic

1:41:05 domestic dispute. They're doing important work, John. A bank robbery, an armed assault, and a high-speed car chase. These are all with the help of the Border Patrol and Homeland Security. So why is Homeland Security involved with an escaped drunk running through the woods? They took their canine dog group and the Border Patrol's running up and down the woods trying to find some drunk. They don't have enough to do. Besides being a waste of the taxpayers money, I think this is not what they're supposed to be doing up there. Maybe I have an answer for you. Maybe this is what's going on. A report that 91% of the Canadian population, particularly teens aged 12 to 19, are toxic and they're intoxified with the industrial chemical biphenol A.

1:41:58 Yeah, which is in the plastic bottle. That's the plastic. That's the drink in the shit from the plastic bottles then and there in this report says that 91% of Canadian the whole Canadian population particularly teens aged 12 to 19 are Toxic so I think we need to keep him out Here's the thing, how many of these events are related to national security, homeland security, funding or immigration concerns? How many immigration arrests in the Port Angeles area are connected to the border with Canada? None. How many post 9-11 arrests in the Port Angeles area that are connected to the border with Canada? None.

1:42:35 So what are they doing? They're running around, this is a waste of the taxpayers money. No wonder the country's broke. That could be a terrorist running through them woods, son. Naked and drunk. Okay, he's a naked terrorist. He's got an underwear on. He might have a bomb in there, son. Are you crazy? Did you, did, uh, did Miss Mimi hear the, uh, the sonic boom? Not that I know of. Oh, this is great little aviation story. Uh, some guy and his, I think his girlfriend were flying around up, uh, near Seattle. And I guess the president was up there. I didn't even know he was up there. And he's flying his Cessna 180, his float plane, and he came within eight miles of some perimeter, I guess a temporary, a TMOA as we call it, military operations area where it's a no-fly zone. And you have to check your NOTAMs to know that that's in, because it's not like there's a big line in the sky that says don't cross here.

CHAPTER 30 / 34 Discussion

Sonic Boom in Seattle and F-15 Interception of Cessna

F-15 fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Cessna floatplane that accidentally entered a restricted no-fly zone near Seattle during a presidential visit. The jets broke the sound barrier, causing a massive sonic boom that shattered windows across the region. The hosts mock the extreme response to a "poor schmuck" in a small plane and doubt the government will pay for the property damage.

sonic boom· seattle· f-15· cessna· no-fly zone

1:43:30 And they scrambled F-15 jets and they scrambled so fast that they broke the sound barrier, shattering windows from... let's see... it was like all over the place. What, they couldn't intercept the guy at the... From Chihalas? Chihalas? To Seattle. Chihalas? Is that how you pronounce it? Well, now that you pronounce it that way, I can't give you the right pronunciation. C-H-E-H-A-L-I-S. There is a pronunciation, I'm just not coming up with it. Right. It's usually Chehalis. It's not Chehalis. The city of Chehalis, Washington. It's not Chehalis. It's Chehalis. What is it? Kahalis? Kahalize? Something like that. Something more like that. Right. Shattering windows, I tell you.

1:44:19 Well good they can go pay for those broken windows. No, they'll never pay for it. But I just wondered if anyone up there, any of the family had heard this. It's Shehalis. Shehalis. If anyone up there had heard the sonic boom as they broke the sound barrier scrambling for this poor schmuck with his float plane. Would you imagine that? It's ridiculous. Got these guys nasty. Yeah, I've got a new meme coming up. Uh oh. uh... and this is it you'll figure out just listening that that you take the tom hartman clip and go with it uh... second uh... what it it's got to be called something other than farm bloody blah no no raise ss flash telephone on farm farm on the ground so i got a so the new american foundation new america dot net is suggesting but at the same time that the obama administration has a bunch of you know that the best and the brightest examining social security

CHAPTER 31 / 34 Discussion

Social Security Reform and Net Neutrality Concerns

A discussion on Social Security reform explores the idea of raising the retirement age versus "soaking the rich" by removing the tax cap. The hosts also express concern over a Verizon and Google partnership that could undermine net neutrality, particularly for wireless networks. They argue that "managing the network" is double-speak for prioritizing corporate traffic and cutting off alternative media.

social security· retirement age· verizon· google· net neutrality

1:45:12 and also and well maybe we should uh... raise retirement age or maybe we should cut the benefits of any of what he bought a block in america foundation has done the math and they said that the seats traditional three-legged stool of american retirement of home equity that you could draw on in your retirement of savings of pensions that typically were provided by employers when ronald reagan came into office half of all working people in america have pension A quarter were unionized and half had pensions. Now it's what, 7, 8 percent? 9 percent? I don't know. It's very low, the percentage that have pensions. So it used to be home equity plus pension plus Social Security made retirement. Now, the home equity is gone. Average boomer family has lost $171,000. People over 45 or 50.

1:46:02 uh... so that's gone home equity is gone the average pension doesn't exist anymore and social security a pants squats they say we can double social security by simply getting rid of the cap that'll pay for two-thirds of it and taxing uh... for one case i raise those kind of things which are mostly used by by the upper middle class in my wealthy people and basically tax giveaways to the big banks i'm all over it i'm not going to take that to the fact So the meme is raise the retirement age no no Of course I listen to the clip the idea is to double anybody block The payout yeah, how does that work you just ding the dough you soak the rich? I mean come on we have given the rich a free Free ride for too long. It's time to soak the rich. Oh

1:46:55 The rich being those government workers who make over $125,000 a year on average? Or the ones out in Los Angeles that are getting $300,000 pensions. Do you have a link in the show notes for that? The number of pensions for the water company, water district is, you know, it averages a couple hundred thousand a year for what? Paper pushers? The people aren't going to put up with this much longer, these ridiculous, I mean these guys are making, you've got to see this list of the retirees, the benefits in the Los Angeles area, it's unbelievable. It's breaking the state, that and 11 million dollars a day for prisoners. We're broke. But the fact of the matter is we can soak the rich and pay everybody a lot of social security and they'll spend the money. The rich, here's what's bothering me about the rich, I'm going to go on a kind of left-wing tantrum here. They don't spend the money.

1:47:46 You know, there's all this money in circulation. So, well, let's start up the printing press as well. It's going to cause inflation. No, it's not because there's the money, the real money out there is not in circulation. They're not spending it. They just have it sitting in bonds or in the bank or in some companies that are, you know, not doing very well. But generally speaking, they have a big pot of money that's not in circulation. This is the problem. These rich people, where it happened to the Vanderbilt's, the old mansions. I'd like to see Bill Gates buying and building a mountain. You know, to spend some of that money, I have to admire Paul Allen. He has three ridiculous yachts, monster yachts, killer yachts. He can't be on those things at the same time, but he's employing a bunch of people. So he's spending money. I credit him for that. He owns two sports teams.

1:48:28 Keep going. That's it. I'm done. I'm done. You're obviously against me. No, I'm not. I was actually waiting for the cue. Yeah, no, I'm totally on board. And I think these rich people should also be supporting this show. They should be supporting all kinds of alternative media instead of investing in companies like Verizon, who, by the way, everyone's been complaining about the Apple and AT&T cabal for the iPhone. How nice to see Verizon teaming up with Google to screw us. You think our show's gonna load really fast, John? You think it's really gonna work well? We are getting pushed out of the market by Verizon that everybody loves. We're all the tech pundits on the whole Verizon thing now. You don't hear anyone talking about it. No one's talking about this. And they're literally saying, well, you know, everyone should be able to manage their own network. Bull crap.

1:49:19 That's total bullcrap managing their network. That's double speak for cutting shit off and particularly wireless. We're not going to get through on wireless anymore, not on Verizon. Yeah, I agree. I think the whole thing is a mess and the fact of the matter is you might as well just soak the rich, soak Verizon, get the money from these guys. They're just walking away with way too much of it. They're not spending it, they're not putting it back into the system. If they were, you're right. They would have been giving no agenda show. And what do you consider rich? What is rich? I think anybody with a net worth of over 10 million dollars. Yeah, I agree. I agree.

CHAPTER 32 / 34 Discussion

High-Speed Rail Propaganda and CNN Journalist Criticism

The push for high-speed rail in the U.S. is characterized as a PR campaign managed by Hill and Knowlton to make air travel look unappealing. The hosts specifically target CNN journalist Catherine Dorsett, calling her a "shill" for writing articles that mirror government talking points. They mock her previous work, including a book review of "Princess Bubble," to question her journalistic integrity.

high-speed rail· cnn· catherine dorsett· hill and knowlton· ministry of truth

1:49:56 I had that at one point and I started a whole bunch of companies and now I'm not rich. Well, at least you put it back in circulation and you're still working for a living. But I'm not rich. Well, you can be rich again if these guys will start coughing up some money to the no agenda show, Dvorak.org slash NA. Hey, okay, I got a funny bit to put at the end of the show here. We don't want to do a trains, uh, trains, planes bit? Oh, you might, oh no, here, I'll do it after trains, planes. All aboard, trains good, planes bad. In our never-ending quest to prove to the producers who listen to this program and participate that the high-speed rail meme being propagated and being funded by the United States government is bullcrap and not intended for your traveling pleasure but for transporting

1:50:43 meat in vats to where you live Yeah, and the fact that hill and Knowlton the Arguably one of the most successful PR companies in the world is all over the media making air travel look like crap and promoting train travel we from time to time put together a couple of links and Yes, I do have to interject. Okay. I was thinking about this this week about the trains planes thing and I kept saying to myself wait a minute I Why why what's missing from the picture that what's missing with the picture is the plane guys getting you know? Burst and Marcel or some of the other guys to fight back a little bit and put some pro airplane Memes out there, and then it dawned on me. They obviously bitching to somebody and they the plane industry was taken aside the air you know the air

1:51:33 industry was taken aside and said, hey look, this is a bullshit scam. Don't mess it up for us, okay? Yeah, don't worry about it. It's not going to hurt your business one bit. You're so right! In fact, they probably said, hey if you help us a little bit, we'll cut you a break on those carbon taxes. Yeah, we'll put you a little under the table. That's why the airplane industry, the airline industry, none of these people have said squat. Yeah, I think you're onto something there. I think you're on to something. Well, there's only two things I want to discuss briefly. One is CNN and this article written by Catherine Dorsett and of course Catherine is now officially a douchebag.

1:52:17 Um, a douche baguette. Is the US turning a corner on high-speed rail? This article is not to be believed. If you read it and story highlights, CNN is very happy to give us a little box here on the left. Washington awards 8 billion amongst 31 states to develop high-speed rail service. Opponents High-speed rail is expensive and won't save energy. I don't think we've said that. We said it won't be transporting people and it'll take too long and it will be too expensive. Supporters, trains would cut pollution and stimulate the economy.

1:52:53 And this article is like directly from the Ministry of Truth. And so I can belabor the whole article, but I thought it would be more interesting to look at other articles written by Catherine Dorsett of CNN. And she clearly is, I guess she just rubber stamps her name on stuff. She takes the copy and then puts her name on it. Daytime television host and author Rachel Ray joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers Thursday to unveil new child nutrition legislation in Washington. So this is the Michelle Obama, she just rubber stamps that. And then my favorite has to be this article, a book review.

1:53:37 Princess Bubble is a new book about a modern-day princess who also happens to be a flight attendant. Princess Bubble flies for the Royal Airline, H-E-I-R. In her first adventure, Bubble finds the true source of happiness ever after. And this whole review about Princess Bubble, this cannot be a serious journalist who actually did any work on this story about high-speed rail. She's a shill and a douchebag. at a baguette and then there's uh then we just call them baguettes yes baguettes and then there's this story which uh actually kind of uh comes into a gitmo nation category as well at some point it appears to be so frustrating and the mom may have yelled and may have even

CHAPTER 33 / 34 Discussion

Southwest Airlines Baby Incident and Hedge Fund Signals

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant reportedly took a baby away from its mother mid-flight after witnessing the mother slap the child. The hosts view this as a "disturbing" form of pre-conditioning for state intervention. In a separate anecdote, a host mentions a major New York hedge fund manager quitting his job to go surfing, interpreting it as a "canary in the coal mine" for an impending economic crash.

southwest airlines· flight attendant· child custody· hedge fund· economic collapse

1:54:24 slap the baby. A Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a baby away from its parents in mid-flight after witnessing the mother apparently slap the crying child. The plane was traveling from Dallas to Albuquerque when the incident took place yesterday. Police questioned the couple but the parents were not cited for the incident and the medical personnel that evaluated the baby determined that the baby was fine. Police say the flight attendant acted appropriately and neutralized the situation. I think It was a solid move on the part of the flight attendant to take custody of the child. It neutralized the situation. It calmed everybody down. I found this a very disturbing occurrence. Because of course we don't really know what happened. We don't really, we really don't, we don't know. I mean it was like they were screaming at each other, she was slapping the kid around. I mean it has a, it has a very weird vibe to it. And of course it all happened again on Southwest. Everything seems to be happening on Southwest these days. And it just didn't feel right, you know, to have

1:55:26 a stewardess flight attendant I should say take away a child it just didn't feel right it felt a little preconditioning to me like because she has stewardesses I don't think it's a big deal yeah right just called stewardesses how come they're not called stewardesses anymore they're not that's politically incorrect it's the it's the s-word you can You can't say stewardesses or stewards, it's flight attendant. They are there to protect your life and your baby, will take your child away from you. By the way that article on the train thing where they say it's going to stimulate the economy, you know this is pretty questionable because you know if I don't know if you know how modern tracks are laid but they tend to be laid by a giant machine. With reared in metal. It's not a, it's not you know we're not gonna bring a bunch of coolies over to lay track.

1:56:18 There's a, yeah, coolies? What is that? Is that a C word? That's what we did in the 1860s. We brought over the Chinese. They were called coolies because I don't know why. Doesn't sound very friendly. No, well, whatever. But that's the point I'm trying to make. I'm not trying to... Yeah, it's just going to be a big machine. It's not actually going to employ people. And will this machine run on magic? Well, a couple guys, you know, overpaid machine operators probably underpaid actually compared to the Los Angeles people. And it won't it won't spew any nastiness into the air? Probably will. So anyway, so as we wind it up, John, so I was having to play the one last. You know, we're going to play that. I just want to relate a personal story, human interest. So we were at Stonehouse and we were having dinner and the folks were having dinner with

1:57:12 The husband is a giant hedge fund manager in New York. He's a tall man, is that what you're saying? Yeah, he's a hedge fund manager of a giant hedge fund. Oh, I see, okay. And he's quitting his job and I take that as a signal. And he's going surfing. He's like, I'm gonna get out of the business. I'm going surfing. I'm like, okay, that would be like the canary in the coal mine for me. So it's, I think it's all coming crashing down very, very soon. That's good news for the Dvorak Horowitz podcast. Yes. Very good. And you can hear that at noagendastream.com.

CHAPTER 34 / 34 Discussion

Eat Pray Love Merchandising and Show Outro

The show concludes with a critique of the movie "Eat Pray Love" and its extensive merchandising on the Home Shopping Network, which includes "gelato-scented body wash." The hosts contrast this "chick flick" culture with the "value-for-value" support of their listeners. They mention an upcoming interview with adult film star Bobby Eden on the Daily Source Code before signing off for the Sunday service.

eat pray love· julia roberts· home shopping network· bobby eden· daily source code

1:57:53 So I this end of clip after credits or before credits it should be before because it's it's funny enough Okay, and we're gonna end the show then we won't have to do it after this is a little long But it's not that long, but it's funny. This was a clip. This is pieced out of a back in black yesterday's Jon Stewart show where Lewis Black, who's a comic, comes out and bitches about stuff. But in this case he complained about the mercantile surroundings of this crummy movie, Eat, Pray, Love. Can I just say one thing? Chicks are crazy about this movie. Don't go see it then. They are crazy about it because they've all read the book.

1:58:37 It's based on a true story and the woman who felt lost and yeah, I choose story my ass Julia Roberts stars. I'm telling you Mickey loves this book. She can't wait to see the movie and she's taking me with her you should resist You shall resist my son. Okay. Why is that bad? It's a piece of shit. That's why you seen it No, but I could tell immediately by watching this listen just play it okay, I But even worse than the movie is the shameless merchandising. They've taken a story about one woman's personal quest for happiness and turned it into a gay SkyMall catalog. The Home Shopping Network even dedicated 72 hours to nothing but EPL merchandise. This is our shower gel or body cream trio. This literally

1:59:33 has taken you through all three countries Italy India and Bali it smells like gelato which is Italian ice cream I know what gelato means I read the book besides do you know what ice cream scented body wash does to a man on a spiritual quest in the jungles of Indonesia And Eat Pray Love limited edition gelato body wash is just the tip of the crapberg. The Eat Pray Love Robin by Me and Ro Charm necklace $79.95. The cocktail napkins, these are dream journals. This one...

2:00:18 It's called female energy. These fabulous white pillowcases with the word L-O-V-E. Pray with the pink crystals, eat has the lavender crystals, love is the clear crystals. Celebrating eat, pray, love right here with the amazing Hutton Wilkinson. The whole thing is a celebration. Dear Dream Journal, last night I had the most wonderful dream. I was on the set of the home shopping network with an eat prey love machete and that bad boy did some damage. Wow, we've got to follow this. There's something going on with this movie. This is great. And you're gonna go see it. I'm being forced. You know how that works.

2:01:11 Well you have to report back. Because at dinner with this at the Stonehouse dinner the Mickey and and her girlfriend married to the giant hedge fund manager They were talking about this movie and like oh, it's so near the book was so beautiful I can't wait and this is the summer they actually said this is the summer blockbuster. I've said no, it's not To know so that's not a blockbuster movie have you and they got they got? Offended like well have you seen all the commercials. This is red. This is great. I'm like wow I haven't read the book. I don't know I mean I know what it's about but wow You know there is something we got to look into this this this somehow goes hand in hand with the Lady Gaga Vanity Fair interview

2:01:52 You should read that. Yeah, I guess I should. Yeah, because that also came up and they're like Lady Gaga, you know, she's great. She's helping people liberate themselves. She's a slave to Def Jam. What are you talking about? She writes all her own music. Yeah, so does Miley Cyrus like telephone telephone the chick wears a telephone in her head and plastic see-through dress It's like what is she liberating and but this there is a maybe it's some kind of pseudo neo Women's movement or something is going on John and we and frankly it needs to be stopped. I I'm telling you, I'm scared. I don't know if we have any influence at all on something like this. I think we're screwed. And the chick flicks that have been coming out, they've been coming out one after another. Death Race 2, go and rent it on DVD or buy it. It's coming out. Death Race 2. Guys, explosions, cars, hot chicks who are promiscuous. That's what we need. That's a summer blockbuster. Not Eat, Pray, Love.

2:02:48 Speaking of promiscuity, Bobby Eden is now in the chatroom at noagendachat.net. You can hear her interview from the pool here at the Watchtower on the Daily Source Code. We did that yesterday. And she is handing out codes for free viewing on her webcam show. Uh, right now. She's got like a hundred codes and she's giving them to exclusively to No Agenda listeners. It's value for value, John! This is a good counter to the eat, pray, love... Thank you! Perfectly timed. Could not have said it better myself. Dvorak.org slash NA we need all the help we can get please consider supporting us with a one-time donation a knighthood or even a $5 a month and coming to you from Gitmo Nation West where the pool is still slippery my name is Adam Curry slippery slippery slope and from Silicon Valley North I'm John C. Dvorak we will talk to you again for Sunday early morning service right here on NOAgenda