Episode 316 · Sunday, 26 June 2011

Adios, MOFO!

A massive FBI scandal erupts over the Whitey Bulger capture as European nations pivot toward nationalism and the U.S. House of Representatives grapples with the Libya war.

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About this episode

The Federal Bureau of Investigation faces intense scrutiny following the capture of Irish mafia boss Whitey Bulger, with reports from the Boston Globe and New York Times suggesting the agency protected the fugitive for decades to conceal internal corruption. Allegations have surfaced that FBI agents utilized the long-term search as a pretext for taxpayer-funded international travel junkets while Bulger committed murders under their protection. This revelation coincides with a broader breakdown in institutional trust as the U.S. House of Representatives fails to pass resolutions regarding military intervention in Libya.

In the Netherlands, Minister of the Interior Piet Hein Donner announced a formal retreat from the multiculturalism model, prioritizing Dutch values and proposing a burqa ban by 2013. Meanwhile, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy is under fire for commissioning a 240 million euro headquarters, nicknamed "The Egg," while private banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan orchestrate a Greek debt rollover that shifts the burden onto EU citizens. Domestically, Representatives Barney Frank and Ron Paul have introduced a federal marijuana legalization bill, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo successfully pushed through same-sex marriage legislation with the support of libertarian-leaning Republican hedge fund managers.

President Barack Obama drew criticism from the 10th Mountain Division after a gaffe where he incorrectly identified a posthumous Medal of Honor recipient as a living soldier. The cultural landscape shifts further as Japanese pop group AKB48 reveals Aimee Eguchi as a computer-generated composite, signaling a future where digital avatars replace human media figures. This episode also features the formal knighting of Matthew Moss and Chris Ruddy into the No Agenda Roundtable.


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CHAPTER 01 / 29 Discussion

FICO Scores and Insurance Premium Gouging

California has implemented laws against insurance companies using FICO financial scores to determine car insurance premiums. Claims are made that insurance providers use diverse data, including grocery shopping habits from stores like Whole Foods and Safeway, to justify price increases. This practice is framed as a method for companies to gouge customers based on perceived lifestyle risks.

fico score· car insurance· california· whole foods· data privacy

00:00 Let's face it, he doesn't know what a hashtag is from Hash Brown. Adam Curry. John C. DeVorah It's Sunday June 26th 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 316 This is no agenda Distracted by legal weed here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gilmore Nation West, The People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where i'm cutting it close...I am John C. Dvorak. It is crackpot and buzzkill! Hey there. Hey, in the morning to you John. In the morning to you Adam, in the morning to all ships that see feet in the air boots on the ground and people in between? Yes all-all of those

00:43 And of course our human resources in the chat room at noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net all charged up and ready to go exactly the way their government loves them so we can suck the lifeblood out of them Yeah, indeed. It's a nice but by the way I picked up a dirt it's a good story I want to get right to it right away all right so one item just an item is an item that was in the paper Apparently now many states by the way California has made a law against this they use your FICO score No we've talked about this yeah to determine how much money you should pay on your car insurance What?

01:21 What? I don't understand. They figure that if you got a lousy FICO score, you're probably going to scam the insurance company so you need to pay more money Oh my God So this is the same company we discussed on the last show now have a FICO score to determine how likely you are to take your... It's the same score! It's your finance score. Oh they're using their finance score Okay because these people do not have a separate score How likely you are to take your meds Right, that's the new thing they're working on. No this is just the old score that the insurance companies are using which verifies as far as I'm concerned The fact that the insurance companies will use anything they can to gouge the customers including

02:02 and I'm this is the big one including all those shopping carts you buy from the various stores like Whole Foods or Safeway when you buy something it goes into a database everything you've ever purchased is in there so every bottle of beer that will eventually go as data to the insurance company that will say you're eating too much beer. Or drinking too much beer. Now if your, hold on, ah! You're blowing something up. Switch again hold on There we go. Yeah, stop eating beer there we go I'm back sorry Are you there now? Yeah okay anyway the point is is that this is just terrible yeah well welcome to get mo nation everybody and And get ready for a great Sunday as John kicks it off with the positive news of the day I'm here to please

CHAPTER 02 / 29 Discussion

House of Representatives Votes on Libya War Resolutions

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on two bills regarding the military intervention in Libya, both of which failed to pass. Representative Ron Paul argued against both resolutions, claiming that even those intended to limit the war would effectively provide the first formal Congressional authorization for the conflict. Representative Dennis Kucinich also spoke in opposition to the continued funding of the "wrong-headed adventure" in Libya.

libya· ron paul· dennis kucinich· house of representatives· war powers

03:05 Yeah, it was really weird. Now of course we had a short intermission between shows you know the Thursday to the Sunday and Friday was the big vote on not one but two bills in the house about the Libyan war that were now in and I thought it was very interesting. Of course, I watched all of the testimony and it went on for hours! This is all on C-SPAN and I'm sure very few people watch this because a couple of things happened first well

03:44 Maybe I should just play these two little quotes. So the two people kind of who are interesting to listen to in this entire debate are Ron Paul and Denis Kucinich, both against the Libyan war now the way it ran down in the the house is Ron Paul spoke first and then right after him came Dennis Kucinich, but I thought for purposes of what? I want to deconstruct. I want to play Dennis kucinich first they each got a minute And here's kucinich Taking off now there were two bills one was for It's a little complicated when I think one bill was for limiting the financing

04:30 And the other one was for limiting what the president could do in the war. Both bills failed, which I think is a very good thing but you have to kind of warp your mind around why it's a good thing We've been in Afghanistan for 10 years at a cost of over half trillion dollars, in Iraq for 8 years at the long term cost of 3 trillion. Those who told us the war would last days now want to extend it another year at total cost of billions. It is surreal that we could even be considering authorizing this war when the government is collapsing in debt Those who told us the war in Libya was to save civilians' lives quickly switched to regime change, with innocent civilians dying from NATO's bombs. Prior to NATO assuming responsibility we launched hundreds of cruise missiles and dropped tons of bombs on Libya. Since NATO took over the USS struck from the air at least 90 times including drone attacks

05:25 But these are not hostilities, claims the White House. So what business is it of Congress? We must put an end not only to the war in Libya but we must put an end to thinking that the Constitution is a doormat and our constituents must simply bear the consequences of misguided policies of this administration without this congress having any say whatsoever defeat the authorization for the war, vote for the Rooney Bill which limits the war and when we return let's vote for a total cut off of funds for this wrong headed adventure. Time has expired. Okay so now this came after Ron Paul So I believe one of...so Kucinich was sponsoring one of these two bills if not both of them

06:06 And of course the problem with both of these bills is not only by limiting how much money can go into the war on Libya, the non-kinetic war or whatever it's being called. Or limiting what uh what the forces can do they both do something very essential they actually justify the war right? Yeah I guess and so Ron Paul came first and he kind of said that Mr. Speaker, later this morning we will be debating and voting on two resolutions dealing with Libya The first one H.J. Res 68 has been said to be one that literally endorses exactly what the president has been doing and I agree with that even though it excludes ground troops it doesn't talk about special forces CIA contractors in unlimited bombing which is really what we have to restrict but the second one HR 2278

07:00 has been said to be more strongly worded in restraint on the President, and this is where I disagree. I believe the wording is different and it says no funds for ground troops but then it has exceptions and the exceptions are for all of things that we're already doing so I believe if we vote and pa- and pass the second one, it will be the first time this Congress has given authority to the President for what he is doing right now. So I urge my colleagues to look at both of these carefully. I have concluded that not only should the first one be voted down but it's very important that the second one be voted down as well." And so you know I thought about this...I'm like

07:44 That's absolutely right. Both of these bills, although under the guise of we're against it and we don't want it and Dennis Kucinich up front with his you know maybe his heart is in the right place but he really that stupid? I think the guy has got to be just a shill now And so Ron Paul of course is making sense and so what happens? I'm sorry but that's the difference between a left wing version of a libertarian and right wing version of a libertarian. It's interesting, exactly So of course Ron Paul is starting to make some sense and then just to confuse matters all of sudden Twinkle Toes comes out Barney Frank

CHAPTER 03 / 29 Discussion

Barney Frank and Ron Paul Marijuana Legalization Bill

Representatives Barney Frank and Ron Paul introduced a federal bill to legalize marijuana, a move characterized by some as a distraction from the Libya war debate. During an MSNBC interview, Frank argued that the public is more enlightened on personal freedom than Congress. Actor and advocate Tommy Chong appeared in media coverage to discuss the legislation, though he expressed skepticism regarding its chances of passing the Republican-controlled House.

barney frank· ron paul· marijuana legalization· msnbc· tommy chong

08:23 And what timing to introduce the, let's just call it the legalized pot bill that he and Ron Paul I guess had worked on together. Which in my mind was only meant to completely distract all attention from the Libya discussion focus it on marijuana because oh man the mainstream media they love them some good pot talk everyone had a pun everyone had like is this a half-baked idea is there not there's a lot of buzz going around in Washington then it's like they turn into blithering idiots

09:02 And Barney Frank actually tipped his hat that this was like the time to introduce now, but of course it was on MSNBC. And by the way maybe he's you know maybe I think he believes in a lot of rights for Americans because he wants the right to run a prostitution ring from his house and stuff You know all this stuff that he did So i'm sure he is no stranger to the wacky backie which I am of course a huge proponent even though I don't smoke anymore And once again gets on MSNBC and there's all the... Maybe I'm joking a little bit but some may be asking what you're smoking since this bill has no chance in the Republican controlled house. So what your argument?

09:47 Well, I'm trying to get used to the same puns over and over again. Sorry about that, Congressman! I guess marijuana is not habit forming but making puns about it is The answer is that everything has to start somewhere. I think the general public frankly on this issue is more enlightened than my colleagues In state after state, referenda have cut back on marijuana restrictions. We have a number of states that allow people to use it for medical purposes, a couple, Massachusetts and Maine where it's not a crime I don't think the federal government ought to be imposing that Personally as a resident of Massachusetts, I also voted to say if a 40 year old wants to smoke marijuana That is his or her business As to

10:27 Is it going to pass? Look, if I were only going to be talking about things that I thought could pass in the current Republican House. I'd take several months off! But the purpose of legislation is to begin a dialogue in some cases. Yeah... I think what my colleagues are gonna find is there are a larger number of their constituents who support personal freedom and that's why Ron Paul and I are together on this. And by the way, Ron Paul and i have been together in other areas like removing the restriction on people gambling on the internet he and I have been joined in opposing The Patriot Act we have a common interest in protecting people's freedom from unnecessary government intrusion but uh...the reason for filing it now was just to get this discussion going yeah! The reason for filing it now was distract from everything else

11:10 That's just so clear. And I think Ron Paul is like, oh brother he has to do this now? This douchebag! So what are you going to do John if your... Now of course you and me we're media sexperts and we know exactly how to run news channels etc. Who would you bring on as a guest if once again, if you wanted of course marginalize every other conversation anything that's important like killing brown people in deserts with our tax dollar funded hellfire missiles? Who would you bring on as a guest who will be the perfect weed guy? A weed guy after Barney Franks? Yeah I mean he is introducing the bill but if you...I mean we've got fill up channel with weed talk now

11:53 So who... Yeah, well actually if it was me I'd bring on Arnold Schwarzenegger but that's another story. Who would they bring? Tommy Chong of course! You gotta bring like the stoner dude in. Probably the most surprising story of this. Surprising is just ridiculous A very unlikely pair of political bedfellows stepped into the war on drugs today Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and Democratic Senator Barney Frank of all odd couples announced... Gay references, odd couples. A bill that would in effect legalize marijuana by doing away with federal laws and leaving the pot problem up to the states Ron Paul legalizing marijuana go figure on that one. The feds would continue in... What does it mean? Go figure on that one! Hold on a second

12:38 Well, he is implying with that go figure that because he's a Republican or right Exactly. He doesn't even know Ron Paul exactly all he knows is Tommy Chung What channel was this? What idiot was this? This is also MSNBC Wow. Yeah, they were all over that. Forcing international and interstate drug smuggling laws but states would decide for themselves whether citizens could grow and sell it this is undeniably a long shot in terms of legislation but it is true why is it undeniably a long shot in terms of legis- I don't see it's such a long shot we have legal marijuana in many states interesting that this comes up

13:17 Well, Buzz! Hilarious you script writers. So should we even consider legalizing pot? Here to take sides are actor and marijuana advocate Tommy Chong You all know him from the movies And Paul Chabot former senior advisor on drug policy To the Clinton and second Bush administrations Welcome gentlemen Tommy Let me start with you As far as I can tell you've waited a lifetime for this to come along How much confidence do you have that it'll make it now Now how did So first of all, oh so funny. I got Tommy Chong is perfect guy to talk about weed What do you think? Tommy Chong is gonna say he has not been briefed by the way Yeah, probably I don't know but this should be good It's great. I Think he before the interview he smoked the largest doobie ever Oh God

14:06 I don't have any confidence whatsoever. I think it's just a political like It's it's it's like the rest you know And that's how the whole interview goes Tommy just like So there you go complete distraction of the week, thank you very much everybody and I did total obvious hit from Whoever is running the real country to introduce this right now at the same day that we have this Discussion more important than the actual vote probably about Libya. It's just very disturbing Yeah, right yeah, yeah, it's pretty embarrassing in fact today The media just bought it hook line and sinker you know heck with the war who cares about that? Yeah, it's old news We don't have any good footage I was watching

15:06 Who's the douche? Um... Come on, from HBO. The talk show guy. Real to Bill Maher I was watching his show and his audience is now... You could actually watch it this time. You know why? No, because he's now saying hey wait a minute i'm really disappointed in what Obama doing what does this five thousand troops this is dumb and the audience you know they actually their own mind-controlled MK ultra slaves they all want to be like yeah Obama! And Bill Maher going like well this sucks and audiences not that like they don't know what to do there dumbfounded like uh

CHAPTER 04 / 29 Discussion

New York State Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

New York State legalized same-sex marriage following a push by Governor Andrew Cuomo and a group of libertarian-leaning Republican hedge fund managers. The discussion notes the irony of a Republican-controlled Senate passing the bill while Democratic-led states like California have struggled with similar legislation. Concerns are raised regarding the federal government's lack of recognition for these marriages and the potential for increased tax burdens on couples.

new york· andrew cuomo· gay marriage· republican donors· taxes

15:46 Seriously, it's very interesting what is going on. It was mind-boggling! Then of course New York legalized gay marriage? Yeah I got a gay marriage clip and this is one of the mixed messages when I do my New York Times take down in the second half of the show It's like, you know this is the first time that the Senate in New York State has been dominated by Republicans and it's the Republicans who pushed through the gay marriage thing which is loaded with mixed messages. And its kind of explained even though I don't think it's very well explained in this clip. Is this mixed messages?

16:31 Yeah, is it? Yeah I don't know. There were actually though Maureen some influential Republican donors who played a big role in getting this passed Yes, and you know it's fascinating that the year this goes through in the New York Senate is the year that the New York Senate is controlled by Republicans. Andrew Cuomo worked really hard with a group of powerful libertarian leaning Republican donors particularly hedge fund managers who were donating a lot of money both to fight against the campaigns of those who had opposed the original 2009 bill and also to encourage Republicans who are willing to flip sides, say that we're going to campaign for you if your willing to flip sides and vote for the gay marriage act. So it's like I guess libertarian gay hedge fund managers. It is kind of one of the messages. The other message is that the Libertarians are good guys which is a good message but there's also the messages that the Republicans will do anything from money

17:31 Yeah, well and... And the other message is that the Democrats can't get anything done. And by the way I want to mention something here which is just another pet peeve of mine which I'll bitch about over the next number of years California which is dominantly a Democrat state with a Democrat assembly in a Democrat Senate and now a Democrat governor which is pretty typical they can't pass gay marriage in the senate and house here even though they keep putting up for it at the electorate keeps voting it down. They can't do, they could do it in the legislature they won't do it and then with the entire state which is a state full of Democrats won't even the entire State of Democrats after moaning and groaning for years will not even legalize marijuana what is wrong with these Democrats? Yeah I you know

18:17 As a bi-curious male, I'm very conflicted about the whole thing. So this is... The two things we've received this year one is the so called repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell and my brothers and sisters... Which is bogus Yeah it's bogus but my brothers and sisters don't know better they think its now okay for gays and lesbians to be in the military which is not Wait a minute your brothers and sisters? Yes I am a bi curious male I don't have to tell you this So your now putting yourself into that camp Yeah, so yeah and by the way I think that uh... i feel slighted that in gay lesbian transgender week month bi-curious was not included but uh... i'm confused because why are we all partying? In New York today it's going to be complete pandemonium there is huge parties planned everyone's gonna be partying on the streets drunk and you know when you get married. In New York you get to pay extra taxes when your married congratulations

19:16 You know, don't ask don't tell. Hey now you can go get killed in the desert! Congratulations!! This is a powerful mojo I understand why we feel that we should be treated equally but why celebrate this? John, you and I both had long lasting marriages multiple And at the end of the day what is it? It's a pain in the ass Isn't it a hassle? Well, it is from the perspective of the government intrusion. Yes! My point exactly and and then it's like well I... It's sad to me that people are all happy about this you don't know what's coming And it's something very powerful You know this is a big power that's been that's now in the hands of The state officials they can take it back They can change things They can do all kinds of stuff

20:12 I just wouldn't be all that happy about all the extra taxes. By the way, who sent us that note? Is it not discriminatory where since gay marriage is now recognized in the state of New York but you won't have to be subject to an extra marriage tax on your federal income because the federal government doesn't recognize it?" Does that mean... I have no idea. I'm not a tax lawyer and don't purport to be one. But you know what i am saying right? You know, I did once go through the tax uh... uh... certification process. You went to school for this really?! To get a taxer so you could do taxes that you I was certificated as a tax expert

CHAPTER 05 / 29 Discussion

California Use Tax and Out-of-State Purchases

A resident of California received a surprise "use tax" bill for 9.7% of the value of art shipped from the Netherlands for an expo. The tax applies to items purchased over the internet or from out-of-state sources, functioning similarly to a sales tax. The recipient describes the difficulty of fighting the bill even after the unsold items were shipped back to the artist.

california· use tax· sales tax· customs· mickey curry

20:56 And to be honest about it, I couldn't do taxes today if i wanted to. Because every time they do the Tax Simplification Act Congress does it and they simplify and simplify The tax code gets bigger and bigger and now its impossible. I think what is it now? 1600 pages or something? Its ridiculous If they would just go flat-tax on this whole thing It'd be great In California...I don't know how much longer we can live here You know Mickey had that art expo right And she had art come in from the Netherlands, from a Dutch artist. It was insured and it had I think an insured value of $92,000 or something. She shipped it over straight to the venue and Mickey had to sign for it. You know what shows up yesterday? A bill! For use tax!

21:43 Use tax. Use, use! A use tax? 9.7% What's a use tax?! It's exactly the same as a sales tax In California if you buy stuff over-the-internet or otherwise from out of state even if it's from overseas whatever You have to pay a use...a USE TAX almost 10 percent It's unbelievable. Every time you turn around, there is some tax, some fee... I literally thought it was a joke! This is like a scam. Someone knows how to track customs or something and they just send this to you thinking if your stupid your going to send off the check but its real! Now of course we sent everything back excluding what was sold

22:29 You know, so they said oh as long... Now you gotta go fight it. Yes! It's well as long as you can prove that it was shipped back and the same value-you know is going to be a nightmare I know it. It's gonna be a nightmare. A use tax? I don't understand how do they come up with this stuff got to move That's weird thats from the state of California State of California yeah Yeah great state I might add maybe we should move to Texas maybe thats better Texas is a lot better. You know we got we got Rick Perry there, and you can always follow me on Twitter He had an that's the problem with Texas right yeah summarized it he had another one So this was really funny I guess apparently he called some journalist a mofo Adios mofo Even know what that means Well, he knows where the tweet is you can always follow me on Twitter

CHAPTER 06 / 29 Discussion

Rick Perry and Chris Christie Political Maneuvering

Texas Governor Rick Perry is highlighted for his social media presence and a specific incident where he used the phrase "Adios mofo" toward a journalist. Meanwhile, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is identified as a rising figure in national politics. The commentary suggests these governors are being promoted for their budget-balancing tactics.

rick perry· chris christie· texas· new jersey· twitter

23:28 Mario's mofo, that's a great clip. Isn't that great? Well and but this is not... Is this from his gubernatorial campaign So it's uh... apparently it's not new. Adios, mofo! Play that again just too funny It is one of my favorites actually. Adios, mofo? Adios, mofo I've been practicing I'm practicing him but I think he's out now Now that he did the tweeters now it's a Christie from New Jersey now he's the new Well Christie has been promoted for quite awhile so that's why I don't consider that new He's the new boy

24:04 Yeah, I don't know cuz he paid balance the budget or something by screwing everybody. Yeah by screwing Hey, you know what? Screw ya okay. Hey Anyway, so it was there was a lot going on there really was and quite interesting but man that testimony in in the house about Libya Oh about three hours It was. Did you watch any of it? No, thank God! Yeah I watched just about everything. I got a lot of clips but i didn't really spend as much time on C-Spend as normal. I did get a couple...I ended up watching some movies and I got some old movie stuff

CHAPTER 07 / 29 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits and Karma Requests

The show acknowledges several executive producers, including Matthew Moss, Matt Coughlin, and Chris Ruddy, for their financial contributions. A donor from Whitehorse, Yukon, requests "karma" for a new relationship and a business venture. The hosts discuss the "316 Club" and the importance of listener support in maintaining the program's independence from traditional vocations.

matthew moss· matt coughlin· chris ruddy· yukon· podcast license

24:49 great some bad acting I got into the whitey bulger story because it's I don't understand that what should we do thanks and producers first and then get into the wood I don't understand this whitey bulger story have no idea what its about yeah it's a Betsy it's a monster story for for very interesting reason let's start at this thank some of our executive producers for today show we have one two three four five six Executive producers including Matthew Moss, Long Beach California. Donation for show 333 a podcast license and 617 to blow on some hookers. I need a shot of karma to help me get downsized. You've got karma. You mean to help him with the downsizing or he wants to get downsized? There's a check roaming around here somewhere that needs to be reissued

25:42 Matt Coughlin, Crescent City California. Matt Coughlin 3333 he's got a note we'll have to dig up for the break Chris Ruddy New York, this is a check that came in for 316 that should have made him a knight if he hasn't already been named a knight. And the problem is we're having these two channels of incomes that don't necessarily end up on the spreadsheet properly. Russell Keller 316 Glendale California these are both for show 360 club yeah which is great just realized I've been

26:21 Please accept this attempt to make up and de-douche me. Absolutely, happy to do that. You've been de-douched! And Veran van Pelsmacher has decided to come in from Belgium and give us 316 he likes that number so he's a member of the 316 club in the morning gentlemen reminder told douchebags who listen and don't contribute it is never too late to change your ways you'll feel better I promise you uh... whereas can i get this quality of analysis where are asking us thank you so much and there is a fan pels markers at baron of belgium by the way erin of belgium exactly

27:04 and Janice Kang who's a given before I think she's been knighted you're gonna have to look it up and She is in for $300 also one associate executive producer Jeff juniper whitehorse Yukon Canada, I would appreciate some karma for a new relationship in the long term sweet You've got karma Relationship with a long-term sweetheart in a new business venture. Oh great also also he wants you to toss in a chemtrails That would make his day by your command by your command my friend buy your come one more time

27:48 I haven't yet. I gotta tell you, i have not seen any in a long...I guess there's no airplanes flying apparently now? Yeah, I guess the moisture content of the air is down quite a bit. Or they just aren't can-trailers! Thank you John and Ed for your excellent work and entertainment Best regards your friend in the Northeastern Yukon White Horse Yukon Can you imagine?! And that is our executive producer list May have one more here that came got mailed in What Chris Janice and no that's it so that'll be it for today's show 316 we have three members at 316 Club want to thank everybody who donated that much and It's yeah, it's what supports the show. It's what keeps the show running which keeps us watching c-span without having to have any other a certainable vocation

CHAPTER 08 / 29 Discussion

No Agenda Community PR and Domain Forwards

The No Agenda community has registered over 450 domain names that forward to the main show website, including humorous entries like SandTacos.com and Alqaedaipo.com. The "No Agenda Stream" has transitioned to an all-talk format, encouraging listeners to contribute mp3 files through the news network system. The hosts celebrate the one-year anniversary of the community-run entertainment site.

sandtacos.com· alqaedaipo.com· no agenda stream· domain names· pr

28:37 Slash and a and then a couple of PR mentions happy birthday to know agenda entertainment.com one year old today They are celebrating their anniversary And this is Dave Bryan very happy to be part of the community that you and your listeners build I say the listeners have built obviously And this came through the Twaters. This came on the Twitter. You can always follow me on twitter. It came through the twiter and let me just see if I can see who tweeted it because usually people will say something on email, it's from GLM216 on tweeter. Adam, I cant believe this wasn't registered as a throwback to previous show!

29:21 I can't believe it. SandTacos.com now forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com Very nice this of course and tacos and tacos Wow, that's a good one. Yeah I can't believe it wasn't registered so if you make good name of restaurant sand Hey, I'm Adam This is John we want to welcome you to send tacos That's right We have 30% beef an 80 percent other stuff some call it silicon we call it san San Tacos enjoy That was pretty good. See if someone can get us wood tacos where we're at it. Wood chip tacos! Well, I'm gonna put it on poopburger.com We have-I have poopburger.com Yeah you got that one though didn't ya? Yeah yeah I nailed that one He grabbed it So the BS filter which translates the internet to what it really should be has moved location We are now hosting it

30:19 The human resource who was maintaining that really didn't have time to maintain the website But he will continue to maintain the filter so you can now find it at BSfilter.nashownotes.com site for all things show notes related. Today's show notes for today's episode can be found at 316 dot NA show notes dot com and then finally this is pretty much my favorite domain name forward and by the way we're of 450 domain names and counting now registered by independent producers of the program

30:55 All pointing to no agenda show calm right and we're believing this may be a Guinness Book of where somebody suggested This one of our producers. Yeah, maybe a Guinness Book of World Records These are not things that were forwarding to ourselves like it's like the douchebags that do this sort of thing these are people that have Created it and they're forwarding it to us so I mean there said these aren't owned by us So yeah, they'll be great if we could get into the year. I think once you give her 500 is pretty substantial I'm just checking to see if because when i say these things and people go to the website like brings down the entire site it's crunching. Yeah we got that many people in chat room now we're doing pretty good so this has gotta be my mostest favorite-ist

31:43 This is from Ryan Hoskins. After listening to No Agenda episode 314, hearing that clip where the new leader of Al-Qaeda al Zahari is being called the new CEO I was thinking the next step is very obvious for Al Qaeda so I purchased a domain name and forwarding it to noagendashow.com Alqaedaipo.com That's right these guys you know what they're gonna go public It's so beautiful. That is funny, that'll get a knock on the door What do you mean? I don't know i just get the sense of humor down at the State Department Yeah like hey man thats not funny man But wouldn't it be cool if they actually went public? Like Al Qaeda Why not they have a magazine They got a magazine and a CEO And a website Who was the CFO of that puppy Absolutely

32:39 So we appreciate all this fantastic PR work. Anything else you can do is always mentioned at the top of the show and, of course thanks to our Associate Executive Producer Jeff Juniper, our executive producers and 316 club members Matt Coghlan, Chris Ruddy Russell Keller Baron Stephen Pelsmachers and other executive producer Matthew Moss for supporting The NO Agenda Program without you it cannot be done uh... it is uh... the model that we've chosen and at least were living the american dream which is barely been getting by and uh... so the president should be proud of us for a dot org slash in any day now you can always do one thing to help us out and that has propagated our formula are formally is this we go our we get people in about

33:42 Quick note that we flipped the switch on Saturday and noagendastream.com is now all talk, and we don't have enough programming Obviously, but we had to flip the switch sometime. So if you have an account on the no agenda news network system No agenda news network calm you can contribute just by when you make a new Post just click the enclosure button add your mp3 file and it'll automatically flow into the system Of course are the usual suspects have been all over at Rhino the bearded We've been playing at Dvorak Horowitz which people like yeah Dvorak Horowitz unplugged

CHAPTER 09 / 29 Discussion

Whitey Bulger Capture and FBI Corruption Allegations

The capture of Irish mafia boss Whitey Bulger is scrutinized, with claims that the FBI's official story regarding a PSA-driven tip is "fishy." Reporters from the Boston Globe and New York Times suggest the FBI protected Bulger for decades while he committed murders to prevent him from exposing agency corruption. Allegations are made that FBI agents used the long-term search for Bulger as an excuse for taxpayer-funded international travel junkets.

whitey bulger· fbi· charlie rose· boston globe· irish mafia

34:21 And the den man he has a great voice you should hear this guy's pipes. Yeah, it's like this is the dead man I'm gonna talk to you about cyber security It's really cool so No more no more illegal music it's all talk no commercials No agenda and if you want an account just hit me up, and I'll be happy to say yeah, so Why a bulger? Yeah, tell me about this story. Okay Whitey I'll...I have some clips but we can just kind of summarize a lot of this The FBI if you know it had an announcement they put out as thing out-of-the blue they decided to do public relations things trying to capture this guy Whitey Bulger's been on the run since about 1995 he was ahead in the Irish mafia and and he was the main character that was portrayed in the movie The Departed

35:19 I didn't see the movie, unfortunately. The Scorsese movie where there's this huge head of a big crime syndicate who is also working for the FBI Uh-huh. And the FBI protected this guy all the years while he was killing people, especially people that had any evidence against him that the FBI would find. The FBI would find some guy who was like hey I think this guys gonna try to testify against you in a case and Bolger have him killed in the process. Bolger also killed a lot of innocent civilians which puts the government at huge risk for liability issues and so they it's been supposedly Department of Justice has been covering this up

35:54 because they were you know they set up one of their own couple FBI agents as stooges to take the fall for what appeared to be like a whole bunch of people that were involved in this, you know weird scam. And it was explained in great detail on The Charlie Rose Show recently by two columnists one for the Boston Globe and one for The New York Times both them saying that this they that something's fishy about this capture of this guy Well, you can play one of the clips that shows it's fishy. Play the PSA not heard in LA. Oh crap I'm so sorry my

36:35 My fingers are too fat. Here we go I was just gonna say that I had heard some of the same things that Kevin was talking about earlier today from some people in other law enforcement agencies saying that they just don't buy for a minute That this is the FBI story is actually how this came down For what it's worth, they just think it's impossible that 48 hours pass after the latest attempted a publicity campaign and there have been several, and the magic bullet tip comes in. And you know some of the theories were that it was actually an informant that wanted so much protection that they went ahead and made up this uh... this story about the tipster in the PSA campaign. Who knows? The PSAs didn't run, I'm sorry Abby, I didn't mean to cut across you. The PSAs didn't even run in the Los Angeles market Right! They ran in San Diego and San Francisco apparently but not in Los Angeles

37:33 The special agent in charge here refused to confirm today whether the tipster had actually heard the PSA. Why is she almost crying? She is a nervous wreck! Yeah, New York Times... She's a New York Times reporter who is so... I've worked with people that get nervous on television when they can't... Oh and they get all red and flustered and they start to sweat and it's like ha-ha-ha and then shake But lot of them you can't even unless you're on the set You don't notice how nervous they are if you're watching them this woman must have been shaken like a leaf. She sounded like she was in tears, she was a wreck. She's never gonna get invited back, she can't do TV." But but she had some good points... And the problem is when when she's doing it and she's screwing it up she's like I'm never gonna get back on this show! I'm never gonna get back on this show! It just gets horrible although I have to change the topic just for little inside baseball. I do remember this one incident I had when I was at TechTV doing Silicon Spin

38:29 and I had this woman on who froze. Literally? Yeah, she froze and she was just completely frozen and she couldn't even move her head. Could she breathe barely? She was glued to the table, she couldn't move her head and she couldn't say anything but yes or no if you asked for anything so we had four guests instead of a smaller group so it was easy just bypassed because in my IFB I got She's frozen, you don't talk to her. Skip to the next guest, John next guest camera 3 on the next guest go! We basically did voider for the whole show she comes up to me afterwards and says wasn't I great? No that was really fun i hope you'll invite me back. Let me think no wow

39:19 So this poor woman is shaking like a leaf, but this other guy he's just... Both of them are saying this is a bunch of bullcrap. The PSA wasn't even run in Los Angeles where it came and the whole thing was something fishy that's going on because It appears as if the FBI has uh... Something to hide? You think? Yeah they got a lot to hide! But the funnier part of this whole episode was I got this bulger world travel clip this is the funny part because I think one of the other things that was going on is that, well just play this clip and ill explain. I wrote a column a couple years ago saying you know they have sightings of him in London and Dublin and Rome why is there never like a sighting of him in Ponderosa Montenegro it's always in these beautiful places that they have sightings and you know FBI agents who jump on a plane and fly out there

40:10 We've always questioned, were they really looking for him? And you know the special aide in charge of the Boston office here addressed that today and said he knew that people didn't believe that they were out there or that there were some people who didn't believe the FBI was really out there looking for them. But he contended that they never wavered and I always looked at it...I know some guys on the task force They called me over the years asking what i knew especially when it came to this idea that he would go to Ireland, which is patent nonsense. The last place Whitey Bowser would have went to hide out is Ireland But, you know I have no doubts that the individual law enforcement officer on that task force to find him wanted to find him. The question is how much backup was there in pay grades above him? And was...the Justice Department has absolutely dragged its feet on many of these cases in which victims' families have been seeking justice and apology and compensation

41:06 let me ask you a question what does the irish mafia actually run what is there was their uh... they're racist like any other mob but only they were running boston did that use this again rebuke all the mobs in the country where battalion basis at the irish mob and so this has got to have something to do with all the mob roll ups then demanded that something there is something going on that would be very something or not we have not anyway so that the funny thing about that clip was apparently the FBI would get these supposed tips and then they take a junket right we need a yacht we need to pose as rich guys on a yacht yeah so how much taxpayer money was sent shipping these FBI guys around on vacations oh man we should get in there is a horrible horrible scam and this is finally being wrapped up

CHAPTER 10 / 29 Discussion

Netherlands Abandons Multiculturalism Model

Dutch Minister of the Interior Piet Hein Donner presented a new integration bill signaling that the Netherlands is stepping away from the multicultural society model. The government plans to prioritize Dutch values and implement a burqa ban by 2013. This policy shift coincided with a court ruling finding politician Geert Wilders not guilty of inciting hatred, though his statements were deemed "on the edge."

netherlands· geert wilders· piet hein donner· integration bill· burqa ban

42:00 up but it's just going to continue for a while unless they kill the guy. He'll go in jail in a heartbeat. Eee, Whitey! Oops sorry didn't mean that Unbelievable. Anyways, that's kind of the story and it says it's ongoing and has to do with the corruption in the within the agency been looking at Gitmo Nation lowlands a couple things happened that were very interesting one is you know Geert Wilders who was being sued for inciting hatred well now of course as we knew was just one big distraction The court ruled not guilty of inciting hatred but some of his statements were on the edge

42:44 The on the edge, how does that what is it? That mean gives a crap but but this comes at the same time and this is very interesting because the Netherlands is of course known as One of the first I would have to say one of the first countries in United States of Europe that embraced the multicultural society The idea of you know with the Dutch. Of course, I've pretty much always just been Dutch and And then they started letting Well, they've always had immigrants Italians British but then it Became luckers which of course is a part of a protectorate and somehow the Dutch owned all this stuff But then in came Turks Moroccans and stuff started to kind of become a little weird. And now there's a new integration bill

43:33 and the Dutch Minister of the Interior Piet Hein Donner, huge evil elite by the way presented this bill on June 16th and he read in his translation of course The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society." And I think this is a big, big story! I think so too! Not that it's being covered anywhere, of course... Yeah

44:17 continues, a more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens. It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually goes apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands. The integration will not be tailored to different groups which is exactly what it was and you have signs in Arabic and signs in Dutch And uh...and it's not a typical immigration country. It's a very small country And people, so they can't absorb that. You might as well just... I mean these are the old warring nation and they're just absorbing people left and right then they have to have signs in Arabic? So now we get the Burqa ban

45:02 will go into place, not until 2013. But this all kind of comes at the same time that Geert Wilders gets his get out of jail free card with basically a stern little warning saying hey you know you can't do that and I just think it's interesting because in all of Europe was kinda the whole idea was the multicultural society and for The Netherlands to step away from it first I think is pretty big deal Yeah, well I'm surprised that the EU doesn't step in and tell them they can't do it. Yeah well the EU's got some other crap going on...I think. Haiku Herman came! Haiku Herman did you hear about this? They had this meeting. Did you hear about his egg?

CHAPTER 11 / 29 Discussion

European Union Debt Crisis and "The Egg" Building

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, nicknamed "Haiku Herman," faced criticism for promoting a new 240 million euro headquarters nicknamed "The Egg" while Greece faces severe austerity. The EU's plan for Greek debt involves "voluntary" rollovers by private banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Critics argue this effectively forces the citizens of other EU states to subsidize Greek debt while banks avoid significant losses.

greece· haiku herman· european union· goldman sachs· debt rollover

45:46 No, this is great. So they have a lady gaga exactly They had this meeting of all the finance ministers and haiku Herman thought it was appropriate to hand out a folder Like a four color brochure which by itself cost a hundred thousand euros to print up this brochure Yeah of what they're calling the egg It's the new Starfleet command center building which cost 240 million euros to build, a quarter of a billion euros so half a billion dollars almost to build and it looks like an egg. And he's like hey I just want to keep you guys up-to-date. So here they are they're discussing Greek slaves eating rats

46:34 To pay off the banks and haiku Herman's at this meeting handing out four color brochures About the egg where the Starfleet command council is going to see and it's being built already So just like here's a little update everybody I mean how disgusting is it to have this happen? And even though yeah, even I think Baro so even when like Okay you should fit in. This thing needs to get done quick and just X no quietly Let's get it done shut up tyco 240 million euros to build an egg and while the people of Greece starve. Here's a Hermes It's kind of hard to understand his atrocious English, but he's trying to trying to say that it's all under control

47:15 Extra money for Greece will come from both public and private sources spreading the risks and costs. The Euro area heads of state and government agree that required additional funding would be financed through both official and private sources. Okay, official and private sources what does that mean? They endorse the approach decided by the Eurogroup on the 20th of June as regards to pursuit a voluntary private sector involvement in the form of informal and voluntary rollovers of existing debt. So let me just explain what that means, that means the slaves of other states will pay the additional 30 billion euros Greece needs just to make their latest car payment

48:01 but the banks have a voluntary option to take a haircut. So it's unbelievable that no one explains this. And I think the Greek, they actually understand what is going on so the banks who are owed this money and it is Goldman, it is JP Morgan, it is the French and German banks who are members of the European Central Bank commercial banks who should just be taking a shafting for it instead they're given the option if they want they can roll over a little bit you know just give a little break and don't pay now but then again to do that So once... Of course not! It's voluntary, rollover of the loans. Please! Meanwhile excuse me I have to get back to my egg where i ride my haikus They should go there and blow that egg up Someone has gotta do something about this This is nuts Do you think they'll ever get it? Well the Greek thing is really interesting There was a good uh.. There was some woman who was on the Greek, I guess she's a Greek politician in the Communist Party

CHAPTER 12 / 29 Discussion

Elites vs. Political Elites Rhetoric

A shift in rhetoric is identified where political figures like Hillary Clinton are now using the term "elites" to describe those who manipulate public opinion, effectively distancing themselves from the term. This is framed as a protectionist measure to deflect public anger in places like Greece and Pakistan away from politicians and toward the financial class. A Greek politician on the BBC program Newsnight argued that the Eurozone is being used as a weapon to colonize poorer countries.

hillary clinton· greece· newsnight· elites· arab spring

49:08 And she actually made the most sense, and she was on that show Newsnight. That thing that's on once a week at the BBC which is kind of 60 Minutes of England. With Jeremy Paxton? Yeah with Paxton he was grilling everybody and they had a conservative from the UK and her, and they were in agreement on everything. It's kind of like watching Kucinich and Ron Paul agree on certain things but play the... you know just a couple of little feeling for this Greece thing why don't you play Grease Rant 1? I wonder how far do you think the elites in Europe are disconnected from the people in Europe And that is true of your government as well it's true of the goverment of Greece

49:50 Definitely they are completely disconnected. I think that it's like an autocracy and we're going back about 300 years, we lose every working class right We're losing things that European people fought for that And there is no future My dear Eurozone is not a state It's just an area. Some make money, I think that the North is making money while the South loses You can't have the same currency The same measures with exporting countries like Germany and importing countries like Greece And after all you can't have people saying I did a mistake! I trusted you, I put you in If you go to any bank in London

50:38 You know there's a meme here, which I picked up on if I can just interrupt your two Greece clips. There is something going on in Amongst the elites they are now segregating Elites from the political elites and I caught this with Lucifer Clinton Oh really? Yes I did and you're seeing this pop up everywhere. Now the politicians are calling out the elites where of course the politicians actually are the elites but if you don't have a political badge so there's like some kind of thing going on listen to it. Well, let me play the clip. You might be right because here we are listening to Newsnight and the host is using the word elite

51:18 And which is I thought was actually kind of unusual to begin with and not you mentioned it They're obviously gonna bring by the way. We've been using the term a long time a lot of years Yeah, since the beginning of this show specifically referred to the same people they're referring to here so yeah and but they've now it's becoming did their moving it over for some reason you're probably right but exactly what does maybe is a battle of the elites or whatever the case this is definitely something we have to keep an eye on she was you know that would she had to talk about another do with what we were you noticed by let me play the lucifer clip in the weekend back to Greece now she's talking about the Arab Spring in relation to

51:57 I can't remember if it was Libya or Syria. Does it matter? No, Pakistan! That's right, Pakistan this was all part of the financing bull crap and what I think John is because people...the common man like you and I The common douchebag with the podcast are Saying elites elites elites and they're hearing this now after all these years like well We better deflect some of this and make sure when people say elites are talking about The same peep the people who finance us, but don't have the political badge listen to Hillary now I would argue that is only part of the story because clearly there is a

52:41 at work in Pakistani society and particularly among the elite, which let us remember manipulate public opinion to a great extent. To further what they view as either national or sectoral or even personal interests So I think we have to recognize that the over... There it is. She just described herself, basically. Yeah. And she says remember like oh sorry is this a history lesson somewhere that I had to remember about how what elites do? I'm watching you do it Hillary! You have to play that clip over again. I gotta hear from beginning okay hold on let me play for ya Now I would argue that as only part of the story

53:30 Because clearly there is at work in Pakistani society and particularly among the elite, which let us remember manipulate public opinion to a great extent. To further what they view as either national or sectoral or even personal interests. Yeah exactly! Let us remember... What? What do we have to remember? It's very interesting. That clip is interesting, that clip is deep Yep! That's why it caught my eye or ear rather So there is something going on with this anti-elitist movement and I believe its a protectionist measure of the political elite to deflect the anger towards the

54:24 You know, the people who finance them essentially. Yeah they don't want the mobs running up into Hillsboro California and burning down the rich peoples homes. Exactly And I think of course Greece is... you have to start doing this now because you gotta throw some water on the fire. They're going crazy and they're gonna be throwing bricks through your window. And then you got the Spanish that are ready to do that because they've got, you know borderline if not already rioting going on I don't know about the Portuguese cause nobody's there talk about Portugal but they'd never report anything in the same with Irish we don't know what's going on nobody reports anything now Well CNN actually, you want to play the Greece rant too? Is that something we want to listen to? Yeah the Greece rant is just good backgrounder that I think people should... this is just something you should consider. This was I think at the real rant about you know the way people are handling and talking about Greece's woman I think has a good argument to make. ...loud into the euro in the first place! You didn't meet the conditions and now it's obvious why?! I've been listening about mathematics

55:26 And I've been listening about economy. You cannot judge a country like if it was a big company, huge company like Lehman Brothers This is the country this is the state and this is the state of living human beings very hardly working people so when Lehman Brothers fell down and blew out the whole system nobody accused The employees of Lehman Brothers. They accuse the system, they accuse their directors so it is a political problem! and I've been listening about 27 democracies, with what kind of growth? What kind of economic system? Some of them were created after wars. We had the Yugoslavia now we have three four five different states! We've got different economies, we've got different interests and we cannot have a Europe that uses euro as the weapon to colonize

56:22 Poor countries or different system countries. So the problem now for Greece It's not only surviving it's designing the future You cannot expect anybody to have a state with no future Okay, we'll leave it there. Thank you all yeah cut her off Yeah shut up you're making too much sense Shut quiet Get her off cut her off now Yeah Oh well. You know that reminds me of the way they cut her off and I saw, I've been watching a lot of people getting cut off on the CNN report but also with Charlie Rose in those Whitey Bulger quotes there was every time they'd go into the FBI and the corruption potential corruption big shots that need to be brought down Rose would change the subject too so how is right whitey bulger like the guy in The Departed? He's just throwing questions about

57:17 Movie right and right back to the yeah, exactly. Tell me about this sexuality It's in your DNA. That's right as a real Charlie Rose question right there So so with all of this actual news going on and people I was trying to explain to my neighbors And they had us over for cocktails last night cocktails yeah my neighbors are nice the Gaber's we call them hope they're not listening because they will never invite me back no they don't care now they really don't but it's funny because you know there are two middle-aged guys like was 60 clothes yeah close to sixty And, you know they I think they voted for Obama but you know they're like kind of They really are kind of right-wing conservative in a lot of their thinking. It's very interesting and on this said hey have you read that economic hitman book? Like pour me another drink bitch We got to talk

CHAPTER 13 / 29 Discussion

CNN Investigative Journalism and Economic Psychics

CNN is criticized for airing a three-minute segment featuring psychics and astrologers to predict the future of the U.S. economy. The report included an analysis of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Scorpio moon sign and a tarot card reading to determine if job creation would improve. The hosts characterize this as a failure of modern journalism and a waste of broadcast time.

cnn· ben bernanke· tarot cards· astrology· unemployment

58:10 But so all of this stuff is going on, all this news and people are kind of catching on. You know we're not the only alternative media outlet but meanwhile CNN you know they apparently can't do the reporting themselves anymore This blew me away! So we've got like You know, what is the Fed doing? What is going to happen with joblessness and this all about the United States. We can't report on it so CNN puts together the following awesome journalistic package. Psychics. Our first stop, Karen Thorne. He has one of the best charts Reading the astrological signs of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke she sees hope for the global markets even as key fed economic stimulus ends Did you see this report by any chance? This is no but I would have recorded too. This is pathetic His moon sign which is a person's other side

59:07 is Scorpio. So the markets may not fall at the end of June when things are... No, because I see him having success primarily in July August and September and October John just so you know he's gonna have success In October, but it gets better. This next guy is even better in October He's really really happy I don't think he would be right if things are going terribly this says new people using cards He's used to tell the fortunes of stars like Princess Grace and John Lennon and yeah how'd that work out for those two? You'll have a long and prosperous life both of you Oh also sees hope for the US economy.

1:00:07 Wow, he's a clairvoyant! Oh my gosh. And now the best one she has to pick a card from the tarot Feel it and then gravitate to the card that you think that's going to answer that question is there gonna be job creation? Enough to change the jobless number or the unemployment number I should say and that people will once again feel confident And have money in their pockets. What do you think is gonna be John she pulls the card which card Do you think it is what will the card reveal what will this investigative journalism from CNN tell us about the future of employment in our country

1:00:50 Well, if the tarot reader is any good she's gonna say well it looks like we're going to have continued unemployment for about eight years. Pull out a card. It's volatile and this is a four of cups card so it's running all on emotions and the emotions of people are angry skeptics may scoff. It's the four of cups! So what? What does that mean?! It's volatile The market's volatile, that's interesting. Never heard of such a thing Can you believe that this is news? The fact that they would waste time on it you mean? The whole package was three minutes A three minute package They've done it like the bullshit show that is called Bullshit I think On Showtime with Penn and Teller

1:01:42 And just be, you know shown... evidenced that these guys were full of crap over the years and show if they had done it as a story like that with that conclusion I would have said that was pretty good. But if they play it straight like the way you describe it It's repugnant! Oh and good word. Man we have a jingle for that. Turn off your television There ya go from Paul The Book Guy Jeff Smith, you know who's running that place CNN yeah I know We aren't because she was not hot if we were running it. We'd be oh we could do it all right Well, we'll have to do this this segment then okay But at least make her hot before getting anything else This is something I didn't quite understand You know I of course went the white house gov as I do was a good human resource and citizen of

CHAPTER 14 / 29 Discussion

President Obama's Robotics Speech at Carnegie Mellon

President Obama visited Carnegie Mellon University to promote the National Robotics Engineering Center, jokingly stating that one of his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief is to "keep an eye on robots." The speech is analyzed for its commercial tone and the President's struggle with local names during the introduction. The hosts jokingly suggest the President's repetitive delivery points to him being a "Manchurian Robot."

barack obama· carnegie mellon· robotics· pittsburgh· commander-in-chief

1:02:40 Gitmo Nation. To watch our president and to see his weekly address which is again all about manufacturing, we gotta get more slaves in the factories! Which is where this whole anti-college meme is coming from But then he's... We got no factories to put the slaves in. Well, yeah I mean we have factories but they're all there's not any new job No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no It's not a state college if that's what you're asking. No, I mean but you pay...I think it's uh- It's a private university Right so it's $52,000 dollars a semester for the fall semester. No, it can't be that high. I looked it up! Fall 2011. For it's like 48 thousand and then if you add the 6 000 room and board is like 52. Wow Yeah for undergrad um So the president at Carnegie Mellon

1:03:52 And you know, he basically it's a commercial and it's a commercial for the robot school at Carnegie Mellon. Yeah I actually visited that robot school Well listen to what he says so first of all He's clearly on a sales mission because You know how if you're doing sales and you go around and you have little cheat sheet about who you're supposed To thank at the local thing and he screws it up. He doesn't even know the guys name He's like, uh... Thank you. Hello Pittsburgh! Hello Pittsburgh! Buenas tardes It is good to be back thank you Senator Casey and Mayor Ravenstahl County Executive Dan Onorato State Auditor Jack Wagner Jack Morgan and Wagner Hey buenas tardes And all of you for having me back here at Carnegie Mellon

1:04:51 It is good to be here. And it seems like every time I'm here, I learn something so for those of you who... Seems! Words are important he's not really learning something but now listen to the pitch and then listen to the weirdest comment ever Are thinking about Carnegie Mellon? It's a terrific place and and you guys are doing just great work I just met with folks from some cutting-edge companies and saw some their inventions here in your National Robotics Engineering Center. But that's not the only reason I'm here you might not know this but one of my responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief is to keep an eye on robots now when he says that, my head whips like really? You mean the other robot that's programmed to go around the country? Is it... well and he says more! Wow And i'm pleased report

1:05:50 The robots you manufacture here seem peaceful. Oh, what's he trying to be funny? And we can put in one more! At least for now My goodness Yeah There you go Proof The president has a robot double The Manchurian Robot from Pittsburgh Hello Pittsburgh Buenas tardes Guten Abend I'm telling you it's programmed people don't believe me or you is your theory that there's two Obamas just now. I'm adding to it the one a theory He actually he actually

CHAPTER 15 / 29 Discussion

Presidential Gaffe Regarding Medal of Honor Recipient

During a speech to the 10th Mountain Division, President Obama incorrectly stated that Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monty was the first living recipient he awarded the Medal of Honor to, when in fact Monty received it posthumously. The error drew criticism from veterans who felt the President was being blasé about military honors. The segment also mocks Obama's description of his time as a presidential candidate as "service."

barack obama· jared monty· medal of honor· 10th mountain division· gaffe

1:06:40 He did screw up something really big and you know I think for, you know the news media when Sarah Palin screws up something like Paul Revere or whatever. I don't even remember what the whole thing was. Oh history lesson! We have entire short form programs. A whole week of it. So the president goes to see the 10th Mountain Division, I believe. And this actually got a lot of servicemen pretty riled up about his... and this was like an eight-minute speech and it was broadcast live on television and of course if you want you can go back and take a look at the video it's in The Show Notes at 316.NAShowNotes.com Have a listen to this

1:07:30 first time i saw a tenth mountain division of you guys were in southern iraq when i went back to visit uh... afghanistan you guys were the first ones there um... yeah i had the great honor of seeing some of you because uh... comrade of yours that jared monti was the first person who i was able to award for the medal of honor to who actually came back and wasn't uh... receiving it posthumously now unfortunately Monty actually was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously at that very ceremony the president is talking about when he gave I think it's private Guanta the medal of honor who was alive. So, he's screwing up the names you know like oh i've got your back and I remember so well and I'm completely with ya

1:08:31 Yet he messes up the fact that Monty was alive and received the Medal of Honor not posthumously while he actually did at that very ceremony. And people are very angry about this! Well, veterans would be they get angry about this stuff but you know because the guy seems to be blasé But you know their factor in the matter is You got this guy who's never at the White House, he's on the road constantly and he's doing probably a speech a day. We only see a few of them because every once in awhile you turn on CNN or C-SPAN and there is given to talk to somebody in some high school

1:09:13 like has to be an actor because they have to brief him just before the here's who you gotta make sure you thank this guy, this guy, this guy, this guy. This guy don't give them pronunciations and the guys gonna botch it And he tries to memorize these things and... He is tired let us be honest! This is not the robot. He's the tired. Yeah You know, they're giving him like sleeping pills to sleep on the plane and then you get confused. Yeah that's why these guys get so old so fast or they dope them up That's right now listen just before that he said something wasn't necessarily a gaffe but I was like really? Throughout my service first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate That's service

1:09:55 A presidential candidate, that's part of your service? Wow. Excuse me? Ten point catch I like it That's part- hey darling how'd it go? Good Okay Part of your presidential service is presidential candidate? I'm sorry Let's just... Just don't see anyone serving the servicemen- ah! Service men and women anyway, so I love it that Services presidential can't my service is taking a nap Does not compute hello everybody Buena Stardust good nabim Bienvenue Ville common welcome to the White House. My service is presidential candidate. Hello everybody Hey Pittsburgh how you doing? That's a good catch yeah well

1:10:46 That one I caught. The other one was of course at least five service personnel who listened to this program, who say you know this is pissing us off and what's even making us more angry is no one's talking about it You know the guy should be called on it! He should say I'm sorry But not pontificate and say like, oh yeah I got your back when i was presidential candidate. I got you back! I have no greater responsibility and honor than to send you to war in harm's way What was your name son? Weren't you dead? Sorry Beep boop beep boop beep Yeah good one Yeah I hate to say it but uh... I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab

CHAPTER 16 / 29 Discussion

Podcast Licenses and Father's Day Donations

The hosts discuss the popularity of "podcast licenses" and share an anecdote about a visitor from Corpus Christi who believed they were a legal requirement. Various listener donations are acknowledged, including a $333.33 birthday contribution and a Father's Day shout-out for Aaron Spears of NoAgendaFilms.com. One donor from Detroit admits to supporting the show despite it frequently making him angry.

podcast license· corpus christi· paypal· detroit· aaron spears

1:11:32 Before you start John I'd just like to mention that the podcast licenses are a hit. People are loving them, some-I spend as much time on the show notes as i do now on-cause it ya know, a podcast license is not just out of thin air You know, I have to create it. It's relatively simple but it is still manual labor because I have to create the domain name and make sure that I don't misspell it. I think we had 30 podcast licenses and Christina was here my human resource and she brought her quote friend over Juan. Juan? Yeah nice kid from Corpus Christi

1:12:19 Mexican kid but from Texas and I immediately went hey, I got a message here from your governor. And you can always follow me on Twitter? And he went like yeah that's our governor on Twitter an idiot y'all he said he's an idiot And he said, and I was talking about it with Christina. He said what's a podcast license? You don't have one? I had him going for like five seconds. What do you mean? In order to listen to podcasts you have to have a podcast license. It's like really? Then he's like oh wait a minute. He says yeah it's probably gonna happen. I'm like smart kid. I like this keep him around Christina. I'm liking this kid. He's good so they're on fire people love them. Glad that you got that off your chest

1:13:06 So, let's thank a few people. But I want to go back up and talk...I mentioned Matt Coughlin who sent us 333-33 for this episode and he did send a note in because he needs to be dropped on the birthday list. Oh okay! It is his 33rd birthday on June 27 which is tomorrow I believe He says that he has a feeling that he will have a good year but he needs a little karma Okay lets hit him with that right now You've got karma. And he's doing something a lot of people are doing I want to mention, he says, I'm also upgrading my $5 a month subscription to the more numerologically appropriate 11-11 and uh... he says he'll be at night any minute now. And this is Matt right? Yeah okay. Matt Coughlin. Yep let me make sure i got him on the birthday list. From Crescent City which used to be Floodsville which seems have been moved to North Dakota

1:14:07 Lee Callaghan, Kilgallen in Feltham Middlesex UK which is nice we don't get as many UK donors as I'd like made a donation of 121.76 for this one glad my grandma's bra story was a giggle that's where it came from This is absolutely true as well. By the way, it reminds me of the breaking TSA story where they took some 95 year old grandma and made her... Take off her adult diaper? Yeah Yeah, awesome work guys. Good work! Way to go. Nobody could... of course you know this continues to occur. He's got 12176 which includes the 5510 double nickels on a dime 3333 for our podcast license You gotta put them on the list. Yep. 3333 for the cost of my 10-10-10 ring I got one and know how much work you guys put in to cover the cost of getting it sorted

1:15:06 What 1010 I think he means the 10-10-10 coin, okay? About time. I caught up some dough can also get a little karma uncle's been diagnosed with terminal cancer Sorry so it like to go like to go to hit give him the karma in this family once again Okay, well wait sorry no that's okay given that then did he needs a de douche But they don't need to be at the same time now. I want to give a separate Karma for his For his uncle you've got Karma And then the de-douching for Lee himself? Yeah. You've been de-douched! Now Lee's good to go Don Hurto in Homer, New York which I think is a great name for a town $75 James Briscoe

1:15:58 who may or may not be a black knight but he's not on the list at the moment. Bayshore, New York. Heya JCDAC and friends I mailed in a fun donation about two weeks ago yes we did get it whereupon i donated about one thousand rupees yeah after hearing Adam loudly proclaim send us your rupees on show 310 Hoping to hear it read aloud. It was only $20 on the show in return for an executive producer level donation dream on I got a shut up my guess this is not my no choice I guess my either My handwriting was too bad by the way your handwriting it was he I do have his note here His handwriting wasn't too, but it was typed Really shitty typewriter and type of handwriting horrible

1:16:45 I've anyway it's just 1000 to 1,000 rupee note which is now behind a frame and when another thousand comes in no you would they don't make it easier for this to split the bill also enclose another train schedule from Rona Coco or something. I don't have it in front of me but he wanted me to pronounce because he know I'd mispronounced so I just decided its Ron con com Which is Ron Concom, some branch somewhere on the Long Island Railroad. Anyway he's felt a need to donate to make up for some truly awful things I've said in the past through the love of my life by earning some good karma. Okay that means a shot right there! You've got karma

1:17:28 He doesn't want our karma. I can take it back now 7381 from Briscoe Mark Magapio in Cerritos, California needs a birthday shout out to his cousin Pip Yeah we got that one lined up Pip who's turning 30 on the 24th That's almost as bad as Henry And Pip needs an In The Morning Alright Pippi Then we have $50 from Arthur Kessler, George Vanderhorst, Black Knight Vanderhorst to you. A couple of 50 dollar donations will check on those and make sure that wasn't a mistake John Mazarella in East Boston Massachusetts who must know all about the Whitey Bulger thing Hey guys I'm a new listener and loving every minute of your show please accept my initial donation request for de-douching You've been de-douched

1:18:22 He recently graduated and is starting a job at an estate organization. The only way I can accept money from the government with a clean conscience, is if I donate some of it to you guys. And finally John, which is thank you very much John! And the other John is John Tirada in Pasadena California who's donated 50 along with Peter Totes in Sugar Land Texas. And that'll be our... Oh we do have a couple that came over the transom and want to thank these people. Brian Lastin, double nickels on the dime. He wants a shot of karma and a douchebag call out to Noodle's Kid. Douchebag! You've got karma Now we have $50 it looks like from Waldo in Gitmo Nation Big Pharma Where is that? Oh yeah he is the one who wanted the douche bag call to Noodle's Kid. Yeah, I don't have that clip

1:19:22 Handy and finally I think that's about it. Well, I have a make good here that and this was during the transition between Eric and buzzkill jr This is for Kelly Spears This was supposed to happen on Father's Day So we give Kelly Spears want a belated Happy Father's Day shout out to her wonderful husband Aaron Now Aaron does noagendafilms.com, he constantly raises the bar on what a father should be and I'm very very thankful to him for having him as a dad she also wants to say that she bought two books from freehollowbooks.com for her dad and for her father-in-law they're awesome all producers should check it out so we apologize Kelly that we didn't get that on Father's Day but of course Fathers' day itself is a retail scam

1:20:09 So I think every day can be Father's Day. So we hope that we make up with that. There was a, I like to pick things out of the bag from time-to-time In the morning Adam and John says BK, I decided to give PayPal another chance and start a $5 month subscription which we appreciate when people do that so I can get regular, you know. Since times are tight, I resorted to some creative financing. I love Make Magazine but i can get it all at the library so I cancelled my subscription there. I really like Leo and all he does but he has some pretty substantial sponsorships so I canceled my monthly subscription there All I have to do is kick in a few more bucks and I can cover for the year If we get our pay cut back in July as promised

1:20:55 I'm looking forward to my first producer credit. Sad to admit, to paying for something that really pisses me off but No Agenda really does piss me off at times! I get so pissed you have to report on this stuff if i were a younger man I would surely turn to anarchy from listening to no agenda Anyway, he's in Detroit. We're trying to be funny here trying to make a turn anyone into a radical I want the FBI and other people listening in the note that yeah we are well we are kind of like you can find us always follow me on Twitter that's right that's where you can find us everybody so let's do some birthdays here for a second

CHAPTER 17 / 29 Discussion

No Agenda Knighting Ceremony and RV Tour

Matthew Moss, Chris Ruddy, and Russell Keller are formally knighted into the No Agenda Roundtable for their $1,000 contributions. The hosts discuss the upcoming "Hot Pockets 2008" RV tour starting July 15th in Virginia. Concerns are raised about the maintenance of the vehicle, specifically the tires, as the hosts prepare to meet producers across the country.

knighting· matthew moss· chris ruddy· russell keller· rv tour

1:21:36 Alright, this is what we just talked about. Mark Magpio says happy birthday to Pip who turned 30 on the 24th and Matt Coughlin one of our executive producers today is celebrating his birthday tomorrow on the 27th Happy Birthday from all your friends here at The New Agenda Program And of course the way to support this show and keep it running is by going to one address devorek.org slash n a should you have some troubles with that? You can always go to knowage in the nation dot com at devorak calm org sometimes is filtered out for

1:22:18 inappropriate language and nudity. There's no inappropriate language nor nudity on that site, but the word uncensored tends to get some ISPs to just block it without ever looking at it this is all mechanically done... It's a scandal! It's abhorrent Now did we deem Janice Kang? Because I recall that we kind of..I think we did so I'm not sure But she's on the list again That's my mistake. Okay, so but if she's not then it's your mistake as well right? So we should becomes a black knight see that's even better right But we appreciate every form of support for the show no matter how large or how small Particularly our $5 month are 11 dollar and eleven cents those are the lucky subscriptions Of course the podcast licenses and the mothership boarding pass

1:23:06 and the numerology stuff is really good make sure that if you can you want to get on the 333 and remember we've got our night rings yes John oh yeah okay what were gonna say? I have a note, handwritten note from Brian Laston who gave us something ok great yeah check that separator why don't you just grab your blade Okay here Matthew Moss Chris Roddy and Russell Keller, please step forward the three of you have

1:23:42 Supporter of the No Agenda podcast program in excess of $1,000 or at least $1000. If it's 999 we throw in the extra penny Therefore we proudly knight thee as follows Matthew Moss Sir Matthew Sir Chris Ruddy and Sir Russell Keller you are all now knights of The No Agenda Roundtable Please take your well-deserved seat Extend your finger for the ring It is made of white gold and tungsten When you hit someone with a mouthful it leaves a lasting impression If you want to see him, check it out at rings.nashownotes.com We're going to have to do another order I think pretty soon. Really? Yeah, I know. What we saved for it... It took us like six months to get these out! Well yeah but- These Chinese vendors are inconsistent with the way they produce stuff and you know you can't find an American company that'll make these rings anymore

1:24:37 Well, Jostens makes rings but we can't we can they're all outsourced. I guarantee their yeah No, I know they are But besides that we can't put in an order big enough at a Jostens because you know We just have a small select group of nights, but it's great and I can't wait to be meeting all of you on the road We're only a couple weeks away John July 15th is when Miss Mickey And I take off and we start in Virginia at the at the The protectorate of Baroness Maggie Vincent of Virginia. She sent me a fun little note, says hey you know I'm looking at the RV and uh... You might want to like not go over 55 because i'm not too sure about the front tires. Alright Maggie

1:25:24 Just I'll pay for him put them on put some new tires on please now. I'm worried Look at the front tires yourself she might be conservative women have mixed they're not Women out there, but you can tell it doesn't matter. I told her Tires all around put the type wouldn't I mean any you know? I'll figure out a way you might as well put a couple of cars yeah Of course of course I think she spent Some real money on she said she kind of neglected it so the couple things that had to be fixed up like the story slowly changing It looks good on the outside

1:26:00 No, it's gonna be it's gonna be great. So we're very excited and if you Have an idea for us for a stop along the way please email miss Mickey It's Mickey at curry calm mi CKY And you should also put in a little details she asked specifically because people just saying hey come by I'm here so a couple of details are appreciated. And I also on the HotPockets2008.com website, I put up a picture of the map she's got a physical map with pins in it now And, uh... she's very serious. She is spending days on this now. Yeah you might want to also consider an alternative site since we keep plugging Hot Pockets 2008 Tour in case you get a cease and desist from Kraft or whoever makes that stuff I think it's Nestle Foods Oh well they take them years to find out about what were doing They're like, that's an old site! It's 2008 what are going to do about it? Doesn't matter now

CHAPTER 18 / 29 Discussion

New York Times Analysis of Natural Gas and China

The Sunday New York Times is deconstructed, focusing on a front-page photo of Governor Cuomo and a story about the "natural gas bubble." Another article highlights that the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is being constructed using Chinese steel and labor. The hosts criticize the lack of domestic steel production and the promotional tone regarding China's move up the global economic value chain.

new york times· andrew cuomo· shale gas· bay bridge· china

1:26:59 And for those of you who are wondering, the reason why it's 2008 is because our president apparently has been reprogrammed to 2008 as he signed the guest book at the Westminster Abbey during his 2011 visit. Barack Obama 2008. And now ladies and gentlemen it's time for our favorite topic on a Sunday afternoon, the only part of no agenda where we actually do have an agenda! John's gonna harm the Sunday Times So if you can get a hold of this morning, Sunday Times The photo or go on the internet and see if you can find the photo because every Sunday they have the worst photo

1:27:37 And this one talks about behind gay marriage and unlikely mix of forces, you know, with all these mixed messages about Republicans. Are they gay? Or why did they do what the Democrats didn't? But when they show these guys who are I guess behind it, they showed a bunch of fat Republicans, fat white old men that just look like a bunch of douchebags. It's just unbelievable and... What the title of the story? I want to see if i can find it. The title is Behind Gay Marriage or A Persuasive Cuomo Right, I can't find it. The headline across the top of the paper is behind gay marriage and unlikely mixed forces then below that the story's titled a persuasive Cuomo rich Republicans in a shifting political dynamic and the story is filled with memes and I don't even know...I can't even deconstruct it because it so confuses me And they're all like twiddling their thumbs and holding their hands Yeah there you go It's like a sweaty picture

1:28:37 It's just a weird picture to have on the front page is not flattering no shows Cuomo surrounded by these guys I mean it could be a how many of them. Do you think are our? Bicurious, I think the one in the middle Cuomo look at the guy on the right that guy yeah He's a bear Total Bear So, uh, then okay. Here's the story is there just nothing really to get into except you just as on the superficial basis There's nothing really good on this front page at all I mean it's actually kind of pathetic Insiders sound an alarm amid natural gas rush they're talking about shale

1:29:17 oil that is always never a good thing to extract and they're trying to say that there's a natural gas bubble in the market which makes no sense as natural gases were the most depressed energy sources in terms of price of anything available so I I'm not getting what the point of that is. A top TV sets a power drain runs non-stop? This is a story about how set top boxes are chewing up like, uh... What? Let me get a number here. Yeah, so you have 446 kilowatt hours a year. About 10% more than a 21 cubic foot energy efficient refrigerator who cares

1:29:58 Really? I don't know what the point of that one is. A construction boom in Gaza's lingering ruins is a real interesting story to me because this is kind of making it...I don't know if this is pro or anti-Israel, but they're trying to make it sound as though there building...there's a building boom going on in Gaza which is like..is that a good message or bad message versus anti Israel? I'm not sure. The New York Times is notoriously anti Israel so I can't figure out And then finally, the last story which is an old story here in the Bay Area. I don't know why it's so promotional. The bridge they're building here... we're building a new span to the bay bridge

1:30:40 Which is way over budget cost. Hasn't they been building that for like 10 years? This guy, it's not gonna be done till 2014. Anyway so they're building and building and all the pieces are from China And this has been a scandal because every once in awhile piece comes over That is like not welded right Luckily we have good inspectors who check the welds and look at them and say this is no good Is that actually what they say This is no good. I was an inspector once that's what you say, you also write it up. You got to write down this is no good! This is no good so the welds were no good and so I don't know they shipping this thing back and forth and back and forth I'm not sure whatever the case is we don't apparently have steel workers here anymore So all the steel is being made in China And then there's articles a very promotional piece about it then it's written out of Shanghai by David Barbosa

1:31:36 And he says, talk about outsourcing at a sprawling manufacturing complex here. Hundreds of Chinese laborers are now completing work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and he goes on to promote the fact that China wants to become largest part of China's continual move up the global economic value chain from cheap toys to Apple iPads to commercial jetliners well that's interesting what commercial jetliners are the Chinese making? None that I know of, but it's apparently a hint. As it aims to become the world civil engineer which is not a good thing for anybody Well the Chinese are making jets right? We know they're making jets and they've got an aviation department somewhere Yeah they're making these mediocre jets at second rate I wouldn't fly it! But you know yeah they could probably improve because they used...you know They steal our technology then just incorporate

1:32:29 But I don't know anything about, maybe they're making some parts of a Boeing jet. I detect an undertone of anti-Chinaism John. Don't count on it! From cheap toys to Apple iPads to commercial Jetliners What commercial Jetliner is the Chinese making? Well we'll find out and if it flies like my iPad then were in for fun I still have the iPad. That's the whole front page with the biggest Citibank ad at the bottom Yeah, that's great There is nothing this was a really boring week And this is the actual paper paper? Yeah, yeah I have it right here in front of me Hear it Alright so that concludes today segment

CHAPTER 19 / 29 Discussion

Power Grid Frequency Experiment and Renewable Energy

A year-long experiment by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will allow more frequency variation in the U.S. electric grid, potentially causing clocks to run fast. Officials claim maintaining the standard 60-cycle frequency is expensive and "needless effort," especially as renewable energy sources like solar and wind cause momentary fluctuations. Critics suggest this could be a mechanism to gouge customers or affect public behavior through frequency manipulation.

power grid· 60 cycles· carnegie mellon· solar power· ferc

1:33:10 John's gonna harm the Sunday Times Now I've been looking at a story, John that is it bothers me and you can probably almost immediately figure out why it bothers me This is for the It was the title of this this came out on Associated Press. So we know what's the truth? It's about the power grid experiment And I don't like experiments in general when he I was like oh We're gonna experiment on something And I don't know if you heard about this, a year-long experiment with America's electric grid could mess up traffic lights security systems and some computers and make plug in clocks and appliances like programmable coffee makers run up to 20 minutes fast.

1:33:54 So apparently, yeah. How does a coffee maker run fast? Well that means it'll make the coffee 20 minutes early so this is about the frequency of the power grid which we run at 60 cycles in in United States of Gitmo Nation and let me just read some of this article and then maybe you can explain to me what's going on here This is the US Naval Observatory, who are quoted here. Since 1930 electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the electrical current that powers them which I believe to be true at least the ones you plug into the wall

1:34:32 if the current slips off its usual rate like happened in Sicily. We were talking about this just a couple weeks ago where Sicily clocks were running like 15 seconds fast because they're not on their own grid or they don't know that I know what they do, they got hamsters and a wheel or something down there So if the current slips off its usual rate, clocks run a little slow or fast. Power companies now take steps to correct it and keep the frequency of the current and time as precise as possible. The group that oversees the US power grid is proposing an experiment that would allow more frequency variation than it does now without corrections and the reason for this is to make

1:35:10 the power supply more reliable, save money and reduce what may be needless effort. And this is supposed to start mid-July! What do you mean needless effort? Well apparently it's a pain in the ass to keep the thing running at 60 cycles. That doesn't make any sense it's not like some guys there with a big lever and he saw our big steering wheel... Oh we're at 59! Come on row faster! Row faster slaves! Really?! I mean what effort does it take? Well, tweaking the power grid's frequency is expensive and takes a lot of effort said Joe McLeeland head of electric reliability for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Is anyone using the grid to keep track of time he said let's see if anyone complains if we eliminate it! I don't get it this doesn't what this sounds like to me is they're regulating the frequency of the power grid to regulate the slaves

1:36:12 Because I but that's something you'd come up with well. I totally believe this to me is though there Here's what? I would think immediately mm-hmm There's some way of saving energy by changing the cycles per second but still be able to bill the public for full amount. In other words, gouge the customer through some mechanism that someone came up with Look if we do this at 58 cycles We could actually make an extra $100,000 a month from these idiots But it could actually be detrimental to some engines like your mixer for instance

1:36:49 I mean, these things are tuned to run at 60 cycles and they could run hot. And there's a lot of stuff...I think it's weird that they're just gonna do this and let's just see if anyone complains! And I remain that electricity runs all around us it's at a constant rate. I have a feeling that if you tune that down or tune it up you can affect people's behavior Yeah, you would think that Well can you combat my theorem? Yeah, it's bull crap Okay, I do like your idea of hey let's just run this thing slow and charge him more. That's it? That's what all everything else is doing us with the whole thing is just to gouge the public the poor public has Just taken it up two shorts nobody says anything cuz nobody's smart enough to think to complain I don't know well he literally says

1:37:45 It's about making the grid more reliable. How does it make it more reliable? I don't know! And that correcting... Does this make sense though, its all over the place The scope is all over the place and its more reliable. What makes it more reliable? I'm gonna give you what they say Correcting the frequency for time deviations which is not true Its a frequency deviation Can cause other unnecessary problems for the grid Apparently the adjustment making- Making the hamsters run faster and the slaves row- rows faster is bad for the grid. Correcting DV- here

1:38:22 More oh in the future even know that they I didn't even know that they did this you're telling me so we get this cycle per second slowdown and Somebody comes in in the morning is oh my god We got to crank it up to 61 cycles for a while thing. So people's clocks could be more accurate Apparently in the future more use of renewable energy from the Sun and wind here Yeah, here It is will mean more very a will mean more variations in frequency on the grid Solar and wind power can drop off the grid with momentary changes in weather. Correcting those deviations is expensive, and requires instant backup power to be always at the ready." Hmm... Oh! But coincidentally this is all coming from Carnegie Mellon where our president just was And all this stuff always fits together one way or another Weird Yeah Well I'm sure we have some- I know we have some electrical engineers out there who know about this stuff and I'm sure they'll be weighing in and helping us

CHAPTER 20 / 29 Discussion

John McCain's Egypt Delegation and LulzSec

Senator John McCain tweeted about a business delegation in Egypt featuring executives from General Electric, Coca-Cola, and Exxon Mobil, which is framed as the "elites" taking over after the revolution. The discussion shifts to the hacking group LulzSec, which is characterized as a "lone wolf" distraction used by political entities to release documents or create chaos. The hosts question why the government hasn't taken down the LulzSec website if they are truly a threat.

john mccain· egypt· jeffrey immelt· lulzsec· lone wolf hackers

1:39:20 Well actually I need to find out too because it sounds like a column for me. Oh yeah, instant column is like Instant Karma only different. Insta-column! So here's the most disturbing tweet of the week and this to me was more disgusting than anything at Rep Weiner could have tweeted of his boner Did you get this on your own tweeter account? In fact, and you can always follow me on Twitter It was retweeted to me. This is from Senator John McCain His tweet from the tweeter Let me read this tweet for do and then see if you can keep breakfast down in hashtag Egypt

1:40:04 for biz delegation with Jeff Immelt at General Electric at Coca-Cola at Bechtel at Marriott International at Dow Chemical at Boeing corporate at Exxon Mobil So this douchebag is in Egypt with Jeffrey Immelt and And General Electric, Coca-Cola, Bechtel which as we know from the confessions of an economic hitman is the economic hit man company of choice. Marriott International, Dow Chemical Boeing and Exxon Mobil doing business. The elites! Total elites doing business in Egypt after proponents of getting toppling the regime Is this not a textbook example? What's the point of the tweet?! He's a dick

1:40:58 I think or somebody in his office is you let's face it he doesn't know what a hashtag is from hash brown. Wow nice quote! What, I mean this is... It made me sick to my stomach so first we participate in helping to throw the guy out of Egypt Well, we're good bad or indifferent. Maybe not our business then we take over the and then we take over the place with Jeffrey brings me to a clip Oh thank goodness what you got going on brother play the wiki leaks clip because it brings up a bunch of issues WikiLeaks clip for issues. ...behavior harder to commit... But it was embarrassing behavior... Local officials less likely to share information... Embarrassing behavior is just this side of abusive behavior Only 12,000 out of a quarter million diplomatic cables have been published so far but they've already had consequences

1:41:57 A dozen cables from Tunisia exposed widespread corruption there and helped fuel a revolution, and arguably had a domino effect. I mean, I don't want to give WikiLeaks credit for the transformation of the Arab world but you know to the extent that Tunisia influenced Egypt these cables played some role in the overthrow of the Mubarak regime And these things are having an impact that I don't think any of us imagined at the time when it was just somebody handing us a huge trove of secret documents. Oh, exactly! By the way... So i'm listening to this is an old front line report that came out way back when WikiLeaks was in the news so I'm asking and doing ask Adam. You always catch me off guard.

1:42:51 Brother. So anyway, so here's an ask Anna for you WikiLeaks shows up in the news they over do Arab Spring begins because of some of these memos There was a big stink about the 250 thousand is chasing this guy Assange around the world all the rest are you always? Suspected that the guy was a agent of some sort and they did his publicity around the Tunisia thing creates a Tunisian situation and then Egypt falls. And then what happened to Wikileaks? What happened to the WikiLeaks story and all the rest of these memos and stuff I haven't heard an Assange, I can dig through The Sunday Times there's no Julian Assange article in there but why is it not a continuing story why was it why is that all of a sudden suppressed now we're off to something else oh well I can answer that so first of all unfortunately have to say

1:43:38 that Wikileaks and Julia Assange complete CIA asset set up. It focused too much on the guy, he went awry, he's like getting laid, all kinds of stuff that was cute for a while And then they had to resurrect it in a new form because of course it was misused to kickstart the Arab Spring. By the way, the vendor who lit himself on fire that has now been debunked The guy doesn't exist It never happened essentially There's like no evidence of this guy Of this vendor who got slapped It turns out to be a myth in Tunisia that started the Tunisian-Arab Spring So what do they do? They bring out a new group LulzSec

1:44:24 And now LulzSec, which by the way whose website with offending and illegal copyrighted music of The Love Boat is still up and available. You know, it's a... yeah it's registered through someone in the Bahamas. Big deal! It's not like the government can't change the DNS servers like they do for every other thing that infringes upon copyright No they're not doing that! It's still up They have not subpoenaed tweeters For uh.. for the account information of LULZSEC Yet their starting to release information on Arizona Like and now there disbanding So this is the new way it goes We have the lone wolf hackers out there Literally call them lone wolf hackers AHHHHHH

1:45:03 We've got the jester written in hacksaw and they steal documents, and they publish stuff from Tony Blair by the David Cameron one of his guys just committed suicided himself in In Glastonbury at the festival on that I'm in the toilet. You know a heart attack no we think it was suicide okay get it he would suicide by pooping in a plastic box And this is the new... So basically, the guy- yeah I didn't know this story. This just broke. Yeah Christopher Shale. So the basic so the guy goes to a festival to kill himself he just doesn't stay at home? No it goes exactly like you know I want to go kill myself so i think i'll go kill myself in the plastic poop box of Glastonbury please yeah and literally says well you know he did heart attack no way was suicide suicided

1:45:54 But this is the new thing. Now, LulzSec is disbanding... No! We're disbanding So this is the way it goes now The techno experts who work for Lucifer Hillary Clinton are in there they whatever needs to be stirred up They stir it up They release documents for you know I guess Arizona we have to take care of this whole FBI Fast and furious things we've got to either create a distraction or someone's gotta hang for it so that's why doc you watch these documents have been released this is the new way to do it just blame on some hackers, hackers. Then you can go out and say I ain't got nothing to do with it! I got nothing to do with it right? Hackers it's all hackers lone wolf hackers the jester

1:46:38 You got Rachel Madcow doing this whole, hackers, hackers, low security. How come you don't take down the website if you're so all over this? And the way that news is propagated gets worse like broke into the servers of the website and it's like please what does that even mean? So yeah, Wikileaks was used now its not important anymore I think they did see some reports they released on Haiti Saying like something like yeah, it was profiteering by American companies. Duh huh? Yeah It's funny how they never break into Bill Clinton's foundation website and release some information from there Huh I call upon all hackers to now go to the Bill Clinton Foundation Website hack in there and expose all their financial information. I can easily say because it won't happen

CHAPTER 21 / 29 Discussion

General Wesley Clark's Seven Countries Memo

A recording of General Wesley Clark recounts a 2001 Pentagon memo detailing plans to "take out" seven countries in five years, including Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran. The discussion links this to current reports of mass rape being used as a weapon in Iranian prisons and Gaddafi's alleged use of Viagra for soldiers. These reports are viewed skeptically as propaganda intended to justify military intervention.

wesley clark· pentagon· iraq· syria· iran

1:47:35 This is not going to happen because this only happens to enemies of the Clintons. I'm gonna go to hell for that. So, I just found it interesting because I was right going through my DVR cause it's chewing up so much juice apparently that I ran into this old front line about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and I realized that this guy has not been discussed for weeks and weeks in months But meanwhile they have this little bomb in there about the fact that he may have been the one that's you know these were some of these leaks about the Tunisians got The whole thing started or at least contributed to whatever was being planned. This whole thing is being orchestrated Yeah, thank you deftly should we play the clip again from General Wesley Clark just so people remember Oh might as well and as well I think I love it about ten days after 9-11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw secretary Rumsfeld and

1:48:27 And Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me. One of the generals called me in and he said sir you gotta come in and talk with me a second. Well your too busy. No no. He says we've made the decision were going to war with Iraq this was on or about the 20th September. We're going to war with Iraq? Why? He said I don't know! He said I guess they do not know what else to do So I said well did they find some information collect connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda? He said no, no he says there's nothing new that way. They've just made the decision to go to war with Iraq He said I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists But we got a good military and we can take down governments And he said I guess if the only two you have is a hammer every problem has to look like a nail so I came back to see him a few weeks later and

1:49:28 And by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, are we still going to war with Iraq? He said oh it's worse than that! He reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper and he said I just got this down from upstairs meeting the Secretary of Defense office today This is a memo that describes how we're gonna take out seven countries in five years Starting with Iraq then Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran It looks like we're pretty close to Syria, which is on that list and Iran. So you know that the International Criminal Court which the elites in the United States of get momentum do not recognize because if they did they'd have to go there

1:50:09 and get locked up. Indicted! They get locked up so they don't recognize it however its kind of convenient that Lucifer Hillary Clinton is now saying well you know the International Criminal Court is saying that Gaddafi's making his soldiers use rape as a weapon of war, tool of war and handing out Viagra to make their penises weapons of war And now we have a new report Prison guards in Iran are giving condoms to criminals encouraging them to systematically rape young opposition activists locked up with them. Can you believe this report? Stop insulting me! They might as well say 33 condoms, slap me in the face with it. This is from The Guardian by the way. Fine journalistic publication

1:51:03 Smuggled letters allege smugly. It's like oh real ledge a love that ledge Authorities are using mass rape as a weapon this is the whole meme inside Iran's most notorious prisons Seems like they're just trying to any old prison by the way they have to be in the Toria Toria's it's yeah, thank you and says under the It's actually, you'd love this article. You can find it in the show notes at 316.nashownotes.com A series of dramatic letters written by... Dramatic letters? Love the adjectives Yes Written by prisoners and families of imprisoned activists allege that authorities are intentionally facilitating mass rape Mass rape! What is this like- Is that like a flash mob? It's 1215 Time to rape And using it as a form of punishment

CHAPTER 22 / 29 Discussion

U.S. Embassy in Iraq and IDIQ Contracts

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is identified as the largest in the world, housing 8,000 people with plans to expand to 17,000. The architecture firm Burger Divine Jaeger (BDY) is highlighted for its "Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity" (IDIQ) contracts with the State Department and Army Corps of Engineers. The embassy complex in the Green Zone is compared to the Vatican due to its size and self-contained infrastructure.

iraq embassy· green zone· bdy· idiq contract· state department

1:52:01 It sickens me. Well, while we're on this topic... I was watching the McLaughlin report and he had a rundown of all the money were spending in this Iraq-Afghanistan... Bye bye! I'm doing my McLaughlin's That's not bad. A fiasco but he puts it talks about this which is also discussed quite a bit in The New York Times and elsewhere and people aren't paying enough attention to it but play world largest embassy in Iraq Oh, yeah. We should talk more about this Iraqis and we are talking about some kind of an residual American presence in terms of helping them with beyond December 2011 Some believe that we are sinking our roots in Iraq And all the signs point that way The US embassy in Iraq Get this Is the largest embassy in the world With a current population of 8000 people In the embassy

1:52:52 And the embassy soon expects to build that 8,000. Get this up to 17,000 people! The US Embassy also has 19 planes and 24 helicopters The amount of U.S dollars spent in Iraq since day one is now more than 806 billion dollars Hey who runs the embassies? Let me think hmm could it be Lucifer Why do we need 17,000 people in any embassy let alone one out in the middle of nowhere-sville Iraq? The size of the embassy is huge football field. It's like bigger isn't it bigger than the Pentagon No But as getting to the size of the Pentagon and it's in the middle of the green zone which are gonna have to maintain at a very expensive

1:53:39 it's very expensive to maintain that whole green area, which is just completely you can't get in and out of. It's like a little city within...it's like the Vatican in Rome! It's a city within a city. That's actually a great analogy. IT IS the Vatican in Iraq. Yeah, it is the Vatican. And then it's in the middle and they've got this huge embassy with its own choppers and airplanes and landing strip I suppose. Golf club? They gotta go there. Oh, couple golf...gotta be at least two golf courses in there. Why To issue passports. Why else do we have an embassy meanwhile? Meanwhile you're in Spain in the civilized world and you can't get a passport for three days because the Embassy is closed Oh, yeah, it's closed It was like a little back off how big was that office on the Spanish holiday Recognize in the u.s.. Its

1:54:31 out of control. Apparently the Americans in our embassies take off all American holidays and all local holidays, they're off half the time then! Do you think there's a picture of the Iraq embassy? I haven't been able to find one. Here is the other thing, the Iraq Embassy looks like all the American embassies It's ugly! We have done nothing in terms of getting an architect to make these things so that once we get run out... I guess maybe it's because they always expect us to get run out and don't want anything pretty Hey its irakiembassy.us Oh wow! Look at this

1:55:12 The embassy. Nice! We can get an internship there. Let's see if they have... Oh, here is a little uh... I'm sorry this is the wrong one That's the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq Now if you go to Google The Googles on the Twitters And do Iraq Embassy and then click on images I think this is uh Here it is, the US Embassy in Iraq It's pretty nice looking dude Wow, this thing is... Oh! Here's a rendering of it. Is this the one rendering on the left? I'm looking at eradica dot US. The problem it's uploading every image before you can actually start doing anything else. Okay here the architecture firm in charge of the design Burger Divine and Jaeger This is good now I need to do some research into this now This is gonna be my new Sunday thing Gotta look at this

1:56:16 Wow. Let's see, planning sustainability... These guys are big about BDY I wonder who is on the board? You think there could be any shills in here for any reason? Where are they located? They must have some connection. Do you think? Selected clients include US Army Corps of Engineers US Department of State There ya go Perfect. How about planning? Our architectural knights might give us some insight They know, they know for sure Usually what you do is you can go to the... and they're so proud of it like they'll just blow the whistle Yeah I know, they blow the whistle on themselves Federal government let's see what they've done for the federal government Partnerships with US Corps, hmmm, what have they done? Send me a link to that site It's burgerdivinyager.com

1:57:15 BDY has completed U.S Army, U.S Army Reserve projects in partnership with the US Corps of Engineers at Kansas City Omaha Fort Worth Savannah Louisville Tulsa Middle East districts including our ongoing projects in Iraq and Afghanistan Our government contracts yield contract vehicles include Kansas City District indefinite delivery indefinite quantity what is that? Indefinite? This is a great contract to have. Yeah, we're on board with that indefinite delivery and definite quantity contract Wow! It's called IDIQ Northwest Regional Multiple Award Task Order for Barracks & Company Operation Facilities and U.S. General Services Administration IDIQ and US Department of... IDIQ this is great indefinite delivery indefinite quantity could you make it any more apparent crazy absolutely crazy

1:58:14 Not seeing any. These guys are based in Kansas. Anyway, do you know what the standard form 33 is? You ever heard of this? No! What is it? Someone sent me this link if you go to acquisition.gov. Solicitation offer and award so the government...the form For an offer and a bid, and reward of government contract bid is called Standard Form 33. Please! No that's funny. Insult me more could you please? Standard form is like when you take when you're getting free money on the indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract as we now just read to your live indefinite delivery indefinite quantity doesn't mean forever

CHAPTER 23 / 29 Discussion

U2 Tax Protest at Glastonbury Festival

Protesters at the Glastonbury Festival launched a balloon targeting the band U2 for moving their royalty operations to the Netherlands to avoid Irish taxes. Security guards reportedly deflated the balloon and wrestled protesters to the ground. The incident highlights the tension between lead singer Bono's activism and the band's financial practices.

u2· bono· glastonbury· tax avoidance· netherlands

1:59:03 Yeah, well indefinite. Yeah it means as long as you want it to forever and ever so yeah forever Forever never It's called the standard form 33 And there's a very small form by the way There was some kind of funny that happened in Ireland you were talking about Ireland So we've got glass and berry happening right now my daughter's bum she wanted to be there But this is probably good You're not there because you know people are like pooping on pooping and dying there isn't that good? So U2 is playing at Glastonbury and there's the anti-capitalist group Art Uncut inflated a six meter balloon emblazoned with the message, you pay your tax too. Because we know U2 has moved their royalty operations out of Ireland into the kingdom of The Lowlands in The Netherlands where you pay almost no tax on royalties

2:00:05 So these guys make like 200 million dollars a year and people are like hey you're full of crap Bono And so they blew up this yeah, and it's like you with the U. And the two were the number to You pay your tax to security guards wrestled them to the ground before deflating the balloon is taking it away Because you can't insult King Bono You know, King Bono Al Gore's buddy investment buddies over there at Kleiner Perkins Unbelievable shut up slave. You can't have a balloon Pop your balloon take it away Thought that was kind of cool good on you We got to call out these elites and by the way as you know elites are not the same as political elites just so it's very very clear also in

2:00:58 In Ireland now, everyone's warning for bean sprouts. Irish consumers have been urged not to eat raw bean sprouts after an E-coli outbreak in France similar to the one in Germany I think five people have died in France from getting one nation stinky cheese so the e coli thing is not gone. Never thought much of the French eating beansprouts but I guess... Well it's raw beansprouts Of course its only organic raw beansprouts And the Food, FSA which I guess is Gitmo Nation East. Yeah food standards agency says it is revising its guidance on the consumption of sprouted seeds in light of an outbreak of E-coli and France! And the Russians by the way have banned all vegetables from Europe now Which is a big export for the United States of Europe

2:01:52 So that's like a huge hit to farming. Monsanto is coming in everybody! Heyyyy! I just want to say one more thing about the burger divine Jaeger Yes So I while you were talking, I was looking him up and then I found that I went to the corporation wiki which is this interesting site that takes any company or person and then drops them in a visualizer. And it shows all the weird interconnections all over the world. Oh yeah! Yeah, love that. Yeah. You drop in what do you think? Nothing. No connections. No known connections. Yep no one knows anything about him

2:02:32 Uh-huh. No, we got to do some work on burger divine Jaeger This is interesting and they had this interest in definite delivery indefinite quantity contract for the Embassy of Iraq 17 football fields was it 17? That's what you said no I said eight Oh, I thought you said seventeen or seventeen thousand people oh seventeen thousand people eight football fields Yeah, but it's within the green zone which is bigger than the Green Zone I'm sure in size of not a Minneapolis And I'm sure that they got you know they got just like in Egypt. They've got coca-cola there Marriott International Bechtel who's doing all the construction? I'm to the people of Gitmo nation outside of United States again. I apologize for what we are doing to you It's just stupid

CHAPTER 24 / 29 Discussion

Japanese Virtual Pop Star Aimee Eguchi

Japanese pop group AKB48 introduced a new member, Aimee Eguchi, who was revealed to be a computer-generated composite of other members' features. This "virtual person" is seen as a precursor to virtual news readers and politicians. The hosts discuss the high quality of modern animation, including Pixar's water rendering, and suggest that human news readers may eventually be replaced by union-free digital avatars.

aimee eguchi· akb48· japan· cnn· virtual idols

2:03:27 And I got to... Yeah, go ahead. Go on! No please Well one weird story came up this week that i thought was interesting we probably should discuss because it is a...I don't know what it says but its...but the story about Amy Oguchi Who's that? The AKB 47 singer who's a big hot pop star in Japan Oh she turned out to be a robot She's a robot I have a clip where they discuss it a little bit here on CNN. First glance, but there is something odd about this isn't it? Do we want to hear it?

2:04:06 Okay, Maureen. What's going on here? So this is Aimee Iguchi She is the newest member of Japanese pop group AKB48 which is a group of almost 60 idols and there are five main characters or people that lead this group on the same songs all that this news member had a huge high-profile on campaign with a candy company and initially when people saw her they thought how did this girl rises from its a quickly how can we don't know anything about it we don't know anything about our background as it turns out she's actually a computer generated fake she's a virtual person took the best features from the six main members of this large girl group put them together and turned them into this woman. So now amazingly, this isn't even Japan's first virtual pop idol they actually have another pop star who performs via hologram at concert stadiums. Alright so it is certainly strange yeah we're out of time here because I know i want to see what's going on in US. Yeah we are out of time

2:05:07 We're out of time, we got to do 25 commercials so get off the stage. Well this is a setup obviously where conditioning people to accept virtual news readers, virtual politicians... This woman is actually she's very attractive she is a uh the animation is you would never know it wasn't a person They got the head stuff down. I sent you a couple of links No, i've seen it. I've seen a couple of the videos. I've seen the youtube video Yeah and she's um It's amazing and yeah that says obviously this is and the japanese are obviously the testing ground You know don lemon in that clip is don lemon is freaking out he's like this is why he cut her off He's like shut up We're next

2:05:51 Well, that's a good point. I'm sure that's not why he cut her off because i'm sure someone was yelling in his ears, eh we're over time or maybe they're yelling just to get her off because we don't want Don to realize that he's next. Donna is waking up everybody quick slipping an Ambien and in his diet coke and let's go to commercial! Yeah, no. I mean why would you take a look at this woman? People...I recommend people go search seek out AKB48 robot and then find some pictures of this Amy person and what look at her say well You know if she was the newsreader for Russia Today that ratings would go way up

2:06:28 Yeah, and we could do a hologram which is doing location stuff. It doesn't cost anything as low budget You just have a couple coders to make sure you know you have that once it's all set up He should be able to get her to do all kinds of stuff But just the news writers then they're never gonna be unionized and yeah well I think you're right. I think news is first and politicians are next it's easy We can do it with this quality the quality of this outstanding. It's absolutely outstanding when you really really look at it You know, it's like maybe the lips are a little out of sync with the ears are weird-looking and she blinks in weird intervals But I mean it doesn't fixable Yeah totally you and I could sit there and just but you know There's like no rack in fact Lasseter well, you can put a rack on her Lassetter over here at

2:07:20 What's the name of the company that Disney owns? Pixar. He was talking about, they have a new movie coming out and I saw some clips from it he was on some talk show and they have gotten water to an unbelievable, I mean this splashing and stuff they've done the coating for water that is so amazing that you would never in a million years not think it was real water being splashed or sloshed around. There's no reason they can't... these people are news readers

2:07:56 With the exception of you and I, because we have Doug that could replace us. What do you mean can? Doug couldn't replace us but the fact is...I think this puts us in an interesting premium spot because The show that we do is a premium show cause were actually thinking We're not just reading some crap the PR person puts infront of us That we have to read off a prompter That job is done Let me just evaluate We just said Has no rack. You'd never get on a real show. Yeah, you wouldn't get on a real show!

2:08:35 I'd have to tell people you know that yeah, we don't care because we're not too worried about some because when we ask for donations DeVorek.org slash NA and the No Agenda show noagendasnation.com and NO AGENDA nation go to those sites to help us Because if you were listening the last show We did go back and listen at the end of the show we played the complete tape of the bigot in the airline cockpit oh yeah and that whole clip was interesting and oddly amusing but there's nothing that will ever get played on any mainstream show anywhere right ever so uh... yet now your news is going to be animatronics completely then this is just getting ready getting you ready for can you keep it here site i mean i would rather listen to her read the news and john lemon russia today or don lemon

2:09:28 or Don Lemon. Yeah, and the guests will be that way too it's gonna be you know what? Oh I think to get that's great they have just robot guests because you don't know them right so just and you can have them on via satellite we'll just call it satellite now it's going to be perfect It's gonna be great! We're going into a golden age of television a golden age I'll tell you. Yeah, there was something that happened and i was kind of afraid to ask you and actually I thought that maybe it would be like... It might get this... I'm sure we'll get discussed on this week's upcoming episode of Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged which can also here now on the NOAA Gender Stream

CHAPTER 25 / 29 Discussion

Strategic Petroleum Reserve Release and QE3 Predictions

The Obama administration's decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is analyzed as a political move to lower energy costs ahead of the 2012 election. Independent oil traders expressed concern that the news was leaked, allowing for insider trading before the official announcement. Predictions are made that the government will soon initiate "QE3" (Quantitative Easing 3) to artificially stimulate the economy.

spr· oil prices· barack obama· qe3· insider trading

2:10:07 As we're all talk, no commercials. No agenda This is about the release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves The thing they call it the SPR And this was a clip that I grabbed from The Financial Channel It must have been CNBC This is...I forget his name He's one of the largest independent oil trader And he is pretty concerned about what happened from two perspectives. The upside has now been accelerated in terms of where we may go on the upside as a result of this release today, in what was not a market that you felt needed intervention. You know the interesting thing is sort of like when the Swiss central bank tried to control the price of the Swiss franc versus the euro currency

2:11:01 That didn't end right, and I think this isn't going to end right either. The only thing it got that people aren't focused on yet is if you look at the price of crude at $230 yesterday, this information in my opinion for what it's worth was leaked. Yeah, I was wondering about that Mark. It was morning before it came out we had crude down 4% already! You know, it's interesting because I think the CFTC has done an admirable job investigating price anomalies...I mean this is a layup I mean, what happened after the close of 2.30 when you closed on the highs and you're merely 70 cents off the high in about five minutes and I don't know if you can bring up a chart of what happens... We did yeah It's kind of crazy Somebody knew something And I'd be shocked to see

2:11:45 A week from now, a month from now or two months from now when an investigation is conducted somebody from the IEA leaked this to somebody. So two things in this clip one is he's saying they are so clueless they have nothing left to control anything in the economy with that they released a portion of the strategic petroleum reserves God forbid we have an actual disaster and need it for something else And the second thing he says, which he's clearly irked about. He was saying there was insider knowledge of this that someone leaked that this was happening and people... I guess he didn't but people were trading on it. Yeah John what is the point of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and this release which happened at a kind of interesting moment? By the way its been tapped before Sure it has no its been tapped several times sure even Clinton tapped it. Here's what I think.

2:12:37 I'm sure you would. Here's what i think is going on, I think Obama is uh... you know at least the Democrats are worried about the 2012 elections because there's this old rule about anytime the unemployment is over 7% the incumbent president never gets re-elected. It's never happened in history, although you know these things are vague but with the fact is that they got to do something about this unemployment problem and the best way to do it is lower the cost of energy because energy actually makes some things run and its a profit driver if you've got cheap energy and you can make the machines produce products and doesn't cost much to do so because energies cheap even though

2:13:17 This apparently was not even the right type of crude. It wasn't even the right stuff. It doesn't make any difference because the crude goes into the system, it's not...it doesn't make any...that's minor issue because once it goes into the refining system it comes out anyway you want to do. It just cost more to do but not that much. Anyway so the point is I think they're doing anything they can Jack up the economy somehow and I would almost predict there's gonna be a qe3 to which is a quantitative easing the third version Just to get this thing so it so that's so the trends are right by the time of the election comes around in 2012 because they've only got a year well year-and-a-half to get things turned around or or the Democrats are going to be out on their asses an

2:13:57 mass and this is I think this is all part of this ploy. I don't think it's got anything to do with anything else, you know we got plenty of this oil it's not like you know we have just not like its...I don't think it's as big a deal as these guys are making out to be. I think it's just the ploy and I don't think it's desperation either. Hmm but okay so it's a ploy but at the same time they They let people in on it so you know some of their buddies could get rich. That's just some jerk and you know I mean that doesn't mean any the government was behind that the leaking because there's no benefit to that, unless they're trying to benefit somebody's buddy but that's just a normal leak that happens all time It could have been from gossip it could have been from all kinds of different things who knows? I mean it could've been for years like The Print Shop You print these papers up and someone at The Print Shop reads them

2:14:48 I mean, you never know. They'll track it down, but that's not important. It's just that one guy complaining about it. Okay. So quantitative easing number three, QE3 which would definitely affect the market? That's just another printing of money right? That's where they print more money and... Essentially yeah And then they buy up themselves or whatever. They've got to do anything they can because this economy is in a doldrums It's gonna stay that way for the next 10 years from the way or not the next ten but at least in the next eight. But so they can create these artificial situations by running down, if they get their price accrued down to 50 bucks or less things will be looking good for a short term ride on

CHAPTER 26 / 29 Discussion

UN Global Drug Report and Climate Change

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report showing that new synthetic drugs are offsetting gains made in controlling cocaine and heroin. The report notes that heroin is cheapest in Belgium, at 23 euros per gram. Additionally, a discussion with Professor Kurt Stager touches on the "height of absurdity" in climate science, where carbon emission cuts today might not show effects for 100,000 years.

unodc· heroin· afghanistan· global warming· kurt stager

2:15:35 So here's what I'm working on this week as we have our long intermission in between now and the show on Thursday. The brand new UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC has come out with their report so i've got to comb through that just a couple of highlights that I have off the bat New drugs Are offsetting cocaine and heroin gains. This is the you know, yeah Oh yes So this is gonna be a problem This is actually it's an industry report for the for the elites who deal in this crap In you know the poppy trade in Afghanistan and the CIA coke transport

2:16:12 So now this is the bath salts and stuff that people are getting all freaked out about. But the most interesting news I would have to say, where do you think heroin is the cheapest John? Of all of the places in the world... Where is heroin the cheapest? New York City? No! Los Angeles? No! Moscow? No! Afghanistan? No! Okay where? Belgium Oh really? Well that's a weird one. No wonder Haiku Hermann seems like he is out to lunch. 23 euros a gram in Belgium apparently

2:16:58 That's pretty good, right? I don't know what the price of heroin goes for. I've never even thought about it. I think it's 50 bucks a balloon in Los Angeles And what's a balloon? No idea! I don't know man It's like you get your bus tokens, your Diet Pepsi and a balloon...I have no idea what that goes for but interesting that they've done that analysis and this is the same report last year These are the guys that reported that all of this drug money was actually whitewashed through the banks. This is the same report, so I'm sure there's going to be more damning evidence in here and no one will do anything about it. The UN actually...I have to say they do some interesting reports!

2:17:43 You know, they've got the... No they do. There's a lot of good stuff that comes out of the UN Yeah like this Human Rights Commission that you know they went down to check on allegations of rape by Gaddafi in Viagra and couldn't find anyone yeah these reports if it doesn't fall into the right line of thinking then we don't get much publicity Right And I'm working on getting Ray Nagin is it Nagan? Nagan? Negan? Negan would be good The former mayor of New Orleans He has a book out, and you know I'm doing the Big Book Show and also putting those interviews on the stream now. He has a book out where he says that he was actually in a state of paranoia suspecting the federal government of trying to poison him

2:18:29 Brother yeah At one point he believed the city's wealthiest most powerful residents were trying to bug his hotel suite So I have to read this book and i'm gonna get him on the honker an interview decide. This will be fun And we'll get that on We should go get a couple clips off of that yep, I also have the global warming professor Kurt Stager, that's in the can. That should be produced and up I think Monday or Tuesday and put down on the stream as well. Fantastic guy! He is kind of like a crazy banjo playing professor he is all about saving the carbon and we're all going to die... And he walked right into my trap

2:19:11 I said, so do you believe in peak oil? Oh yes absolutely. And he said if oil ends doesn't the problem end? He says oh yes absolutely! So what is it well we have a choice we can party now or uh...you know or we can change the earth in 100 thousand years he says yeah I know they all that new number just came up recently yeah now he's cropping up everywhere Yeah he says if we were to stop all carbon emissions right now this very minute it wouldn't have an effect on the earth for another 100,000 years. Now he says you know he said well that's a choice what kind of earth do we want? A height of absurdity by the way What kind of Earth do we want in 100,000 years I'm like brother screw it! I'm partying! I'm just gonna party

2:19:57 Unbelievable, it's ridiculous. But it's great and I really like the guy we had a great chat And he actually said you know I really appreciate someone who has an You know a an anti stance on this and he actually is so I got you He's been quoted in the IPCC reports although. It was not one of the people who signed off on there was a part of it He says I really detest science being used as a weapon So they that's good. No. He's kind of a good guy in that regard Which a lot of I've gotten a lot of emails we have new listeners coming on board and that I don't understand your anti-vaccination stance. Please, we're not anti vaccination okay? We're not

CHAPTER 27 / 29 Discussion

BCG Vaccine and Gardasil Controversy

The BCG vaccine, traditionally used for tuberculosis, is being studied for its potential to treat Type 1 diabetes, though skeptics suggest this is a rebranding effort for a drug with an expiring patent. The hosts express strong skepticism toward the Gardasil vaccine, particularly its marketing to 11-year-old boys. They challenge the claim that 75% of oral cancers are caused by HPV from oral sex rather than smoking.

bcg vaccine· diabetes· gardasil· hpv· throat cancer

2:20:41 Well, it's clear that these are peer-reviewed journals on... what was that thing we had about... Yeah from the Lancet or whatever. The Lancet yeah! It's peer reviewed so you know what? Would you please don't email me and say that I'm crazy go look at the peers look who is getting money from where just really look into it Well ask him also how you have a vaccine against cocaine use. How's that a vaccine? This is bogus! I got a new vaccine for ya, hold on For about 80 years to prevent folks from getting tuberculosis doctors have used the vaccine called BCG but that vaccine is part of an important scientific question could it also help those with type 1 diabetes we're talking about treating people... Now is diabetes something that you need to be vaccinated against

2:21:31 Well, type 1 diabetes which is the type of diabetes where your pancreas doesn't work. Is an ailment like a missing finger I mean you can't take a vaccine and grow a finger back It's not a vaccine anyway it's not caused by anything that they know of its genetic This is a vaccine that they have for this With long standing diabetes trying to reverse the disease This teenager is among the millions who suffers from type 1, also known as juvenile diabetes. And to help you understand how it begins this is the cross section of a bone You can see the marrow releasing bad cells shown here in green which go on the attack and the pancreas killing other... By the way where did this come from all of a sudden? These nice little animations and stuff pre-packaged Critical cells that produce insulin Now I'll tell you what it is

2:22:22 What I think is going on here this vaccine as far as I can tell expires in 2012 the patent on the vaccine so they need to repatent it as a vaccine against diabetes. Oh, you mean some other drug? The BCG- You mean the drug that you're saying is going to be repatented as a vaccine Yeah No It Is A Vaccine The BCG Vaccine IS A VACCINE and it's running out of patents but it was never a vaccine for diabetes now they have this amazing finding a new all right like missing you know hey we just found out it's amazing but when you take this BCG vaccine it turns out that it may listen to the end of the report it may actually stop you from getting type 1 diabetes yeah I started going and as kind

2:23:12 Scary because I would have to have friends read things to me in turn diabetics have to give themselves regular insulin injections To keep blood sugar levels normal, but at this Boston Hospital in an early clinical trial doctors gave six diabetics Injections of BCG blood tests later showed their pancreas had had produced small amounts of insulin again. So that's pretty remarkable and we're encouraged It is thought the vaccine creates a compound seen here as bits of yellow Thought to destroy the bad cells before they hit the pancreas And allowing the insulin producing cells to regrow something they previously saw in lab mice

2:23:49 It doesn't mean it's going to be translated as a treatment for diabetes tomorrow or prevention for diabetes tomorrow, but it certainly is a path down which we need to go and study more. So there's the disclaimer so... It's a treatment not a vaccine even if it works! Exactly Why are our treatments now being called vaccines? This is bullcrap by the way I have a clip on about vaccines from an early 1950s Robert Mitchum movie when vaccines were seen which by the way this is all disappeared from the public consciousness vaccines were seen as sketchy. Mike you've got to listen to me alright then it's true I deceived you

2:24:33 It's true I was sent down to find you. Is this the vaccine? Hold on a second, that's not the right... Oh i'm sorry it's uh-I thought it was a 1950s clip my mistake well what what's the oh here it is yeah two 1950s clips my apologies Not anymore she's gone she got pushed around I wouldn't have stayed myself only if she got sick being vaccinated How come your asking? I want to find her You wanna find her for that man? No, for myself. Where'd she go? Maybe I oughtn't to tell nothin'. Maybe more harm would come to her if you didn't. She in harm now? I don't know...she disappeared! Yeah also I want to remind people that as they crank up swine flu again 1976 we had our first swine flu scare and they uh-I think a lot of people died from the vaccine then

2:25:20 And they, it was soldiers I think. Didn't they do like 500 soldiers? No no that was the public Okay but... But I had a guy work with at the government air pollution district who got sick from this stuff But of course, the only thing that's changed now. So anyway so to bring it all around we are skeptical about how the word vaccine is used I personally am extremely skeptical about the Gardasil vaccine i've had many doctors tell me that it certainly does not Combat all forms of HPV the fact now that they are giving it to 11 year old boys Saying that it will combat throat cancer because they are of course are going to be performing oral sex when they're eleven is crazy

2:26:09 I got a no you know, you know, I don't know why your your obviously were affected by some bonehead listener who's not a doctor another Someone who studying biology or as a molecular cell is being brainwashed by the system. Yes And it gets me right they go out as crazy clones looking for this sort of thing. This is like the warmists, you know the global warming people they're always looking for someone and saying something negative and then they jump on them like ankle biters they bite bite bite and so that shuts people up. You were given a letter to shut you up because obviously if anyone has listened to this show more than a few weeks

2:26:49 Which is most of our listeners. They know that's not gonna work, but some newbie would come along and think oh This is this is bad Let me send him in let me do my job and send him a nasty note Maybe it'll shut him up yeah I get too involved you're right You're right But here's a tweeter here's a tweeter that I got just this morning And you can always follow me on Twitter At Adam Curry brought my six-month old son to get vaccinated They tried to schedule Gardasil for some time in the near future told her flat out No, six month old now. They're dead This is the marketing budget for Garza We've been following this four years four years and if you really look at HPV its vaginal warts a lot of this goes away and

2:27:36 It really does. And I'm not saying that cervical cancer isn't real, but this Gardasil does not do the job! It doesn't do the job and it's just being pumped into everybody and now boys? Because you know they're saying oral cancer...I have the reports here 75% of oral cancer is from oral sex and NOT from smoking It's reverse. It used to be smoking that gave you throat cancer, now it's oral sex. Yeah it sounds like bullcrap. Does to me too! It is bullcrap... Okay I think the drop it because we're going to be talking about this a lot yeah

CHAPTER 28 / 29 Discussion

Margaret Thatcher on EU Integration and Licensed Journalism

A 1980s clip of Margaret Thatcher shows her early opposition to the European Commission's executive power, mirroring modern Euro-skepticism. The discussion moves to a Bill Maher segment where guests argued for "licensed journalists" to combat the "underwear-clad" bloggers of the internet. The hosts argue that the U.S. Constitution protects independent publishers from such licensing requirements.

margaret thatcher· european union· bill maher· journalism· constitution

2:28:23 Do have I don't know. I have a couple clips. Yeah, let's roll man. Let's say you wrote us out with some interesting I got a couple clips. I got an old clip This is kind of interesting to show how you know what who was the name of that crazy guy that goes in front? Of the EU we love to play his clips Oh and Nigel Farage Nigel Farage it did the Nigel Farage isn't not crazy No He's not crazy But he's portrayed as though he's right on the money but I haven't old Thatcher clip That goes back to the 80s when the EU was being founded and the Brits wanted to kind of get into it but they didn't want to get too much into it. And here's Thatcher basically being Nigel Farage, pretty much the same kind of thing and that the Brits have a tradition of this and I think there is one of few things they do right

2:29:11 As the European community flourished, even Britain decided to knit itself into this new creation. Self-interest was beginning to take over but for the British, the appeal lay in growing a single economic space rather than pushing forwards ever greater European integration The president of the commission, Mr. DeLaw said at press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community He wanted the Commission to be the executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate No! No! Well it's exactly what happened

2:29:54 I know, she did apparently. That's exactly what happened. No! Hey you old bat get out of here we're doing this Wow. Good one! Yeah, I was like wow that's interesting it's kind of a... Meanwhile the other 1950s movie clip will just get this out of the way because people are saying all the new journalists today there were just a lot of corruption and a lot of public relations doing all this you know stuff you know the TMC and all the rest of it and meanwhile there's this clip from a movie called Run to The Sun with Richard Widmark and Greer, I can't remember her first name. And this is a clip where she's apparently a reporter tracking this novelist and trying to write a story about him. This clip could have taken place... It just proves to people that things don't change that much or things aren't that much weirder. Play this clip and you'll see it sounds like yesterday. Mike, you've got to listen to me! Alright then, its true I deceived you Its true I was sent down to find you

2:31:00 What's even worse, it was my own idea. I happen to love your work and... ...I wanted to know why you quit? Mike a man of your talent has no right to quit! You can skip the literary criticism. What else could i do?! Just been honest honey And get my story!? You'd have kicked me from here to Halifax. You got your story Yes its terrific Do you wanna know something else? Im not gonna write it Of course not Mike It happens to be the truth! What do you know about truth Wow.

2:32:00 That's very good. 1950, huh? They were already complaining about tabloid journalism. It's funny because from the same Bill Maher show that I did watch... I think they said the douchebag elites are sitting at the table there And they're pretty much saying we need licensed journalists. It's a mouse trap, once you get in there it's like a road smoke tell you can't leave But there is also no credibility standards too when you go online and if you put in Barack Obama You don't know if your going to read something Most people aren't as concerning and don't know if their looking at the New York Times We are stupid!

2:32:37 We're stupid! Times or, you know their Aunt Tessie's website. You know? They don't know how to filter it No because we're stupid! We're stupid slaves There are a lot of people sitting at home in their underwear on their couch spouting out their opinions and spewing it out into the toxic universe I take offense for that and calling it news. Some people don't know the difference but what there's a dearth of, the evisceration of the newsroom means a lack of real investigative journalism The Anthony Weiner story? The internet can handle that beautifully But corruption on the local school board if the newsrooms been eviscerated There is nobody out there who is humping a story like that Humpin' a Story

2:33:21 And there you go, that's what the elites think of you. You're too stupid! Okay? You're too stupid and we need to have licensed journalists and people in their underwear just spouting stuff Don Lemon is sitting in his underwear I know that Yeah so yeah this is a trend but luckily the Constitution which course they are trying to get rid off keeps that from... The fact is that person in their underwear sitting there writing on publishing stuff on the internet is protected I know they're gonna try to beat that up. Yeah, no kidding well get your podcast license now so you can listen to our show legally

CHAPTER 29 / 29 Discussion

Judge Napolitano on Constitutional Presidential Candidates

In a closing editorial, Judge Andrew Napolitano argues that most Republican presidential candidates are "Democrat lite" and fail to challenge the status quo of government overreach. He identifies Gary Johnson and Ron Paul as the only candidates committed to returning the government to its constitutional limits. Napolitano traces the current economic and political crisis back to the policies of Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

judge napolitano· ron paul· gary johnson· constitution· fdr

2:33:59 I have a good editorial clip from Judge Napolitano if you want to play it after the show. As an end of show clip? Yeah, we can do that how long is it yeah no thats good what does it about promotes it's actually promotes Ron Paul and your other buddy. Kucinich? No no no the guy oh Gary Johnson Johnson is only real Republicans running for president they're not going get anyway. Of course not they get eviscerated by the party But I do like that people are waking up and, you know as long as we can keep our listeners awake and with it. We can all live the American dream of just getting by. And playing by the rules! And retiring with dignity! Buenas tardes! Hello Pittsburgh

2:34:48 I want to remind people to help us out for next Thursday by going to Dvorak.org slash NA and NoAgendaNation.com Yes, and right after the end of show clip The NO Agenda Producer Update here on the live stream as we've gone all talk no commercials no agenda Gitmo slave running the show so stay tuned for that And check in the NoAgendaNewsNetwork.com So you can participate in this free Coming to you from the great state of California, Southern California where we have a use tax. In the morning I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where i'm just getting by I'm John C Dvorak We'll talk to again on Thursday right here on The Best Podcast in The World No Agenda Constitution that was intended to limit rather than unleash the government

2:35:46 Giving away the store is where we find ourselves today. Today, we have a government in Washington that has us halfway to socialism. Today, we have a government that borrows more than it collects in taxes. Today, we have worthless money chasing goods in stores with prices that are skyrocketing! Now, this didn't happen overnight. It began a hundred years ago with Woodrow Wilson and was ratcheted up with FDR And every modern president since FDR has taxed more spent more borrowed more and given away more than his predecessors Now back to our question about Republican candidates for president. I think most of them are Democrat lite, most of them believe in spending more than they collect in taxes and letting the FBI spy on you without warrants from judges, in money that is worthless and a government that can right any wrong regulate any behavior taxed any event and fight any war the President prefers

2:36:40 Now they might not right as many wrongs or regulate as much behavior, or tax as high as the Democrats. And some have recently argued that we must bring the troops home but they generally see no moral or constitutional impediments to Washington doing whatever it wants Only Governor Gary Johnson and Congressman Ron Paul have consistently argued that the status quo must go, that the people are entitled to a government that stays within the confines of the Constitution. And that the Constitution means what it says and it was written to keep the government off the people's backs Perhaps some other candidates will pick up on these arguments as well. But as time goes by, as the campaign proceeds, as we get closer to the primaries themselves ask yourself who will continue the long march to government control of everything and who will make a U-turn and bring us back to freedom? Who will utterly reject the status quo with every speech in debate and op ed and blog

2:37:37 the answer will become obvious. From New York, defending freedom every night of the week so long America!