Episode 335 · Thursday, 1 September 2011

Aardvark Effect

Federal green energy investments crumble as Solyndra collapses, while international maneuvers in Libya reveal the hidden hand of British currency and Chinese infrastructure.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 335

About this episode

Solar panel manufacturer Solyndra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, collapsing just eighteen months after President Barack Obama visited the facility to hail it as a beacon of American innovation. The failure of the firm, which received $535 million in federal loan guarantees, highlights a growing crisis in the green energy sector as the Chevrolet Volt and Warren Buffett-backed BYD struggle with low consumer demand. Meanwhile, Muammar Gaddafi's family has fled to Algeria, confirming predictions of the nation's pivotal role in the Libyan conflict.

Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika remains under scrutiny as China secures $20 billion in construction contracts within the country, signaling a shift in African economic influence. In the United Kingdom, the Royal Air Force delivered 280 million Libyan dinars printed in Britain to restock Tripoli ATMs, while the acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, was reassigned following the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. Further domestic tension rises as NASA Director Charles Bolden issues cryptic emergency preparedness warnings to employees, and the Department of Justice moves to block the AT&T and T-Mobile merger.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak break down the 'aardvark effect' of TSA security theater described by Michael Chertoff and mock Al Sharpton for his teleprompter struggles on MSNBC. The duo tracks the mystery of human feet washing ashore in Vancouver and analyzes the suspicious timing of a UN bird flu warning alongside the theatrical release of the film Contagion. This listener-supported broadcast recognizes executive producers Vernon White and Krister Headfors for their contributions to the value-for-value model.


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CHAPTER 01 / 40 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 335 Introduction and Algeria Prediction

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 335 of the No Agenda show on September 1, 2011. Dvorak is praised for correctly predicting the involvement of Algeria in the Libyan conflict. Reports indicate Muammar Gaddafi's family, including his daughter, have crossed the border into Algeria.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· algeria· gaddafi· no agenda· episode 335

00:00 The Pacer was an interesting car. It had, it was one of the most advanced cars you can imagine. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It is Thursday, September 1st, 2011, time for your Gidmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 335. This is no agenda. Preparing for the bird flu in theater September 9th and coming to you from the hilltop watchtower Crockpot command center in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. It's Thursday that means garbage day time to take out the garbage in northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Quick Mutt & Buzzkill. In the morning. That's right. It's Fridays here in Southern California for the trash.

00:43 No, well it depends on the neighborhood I'm sure. Really? In every neighborhood they can't take all the trash out in the same exact day of the whole area. That would be stupid. You take out a little bit here, over there, and a little bit over there, and one Monday get some Tuesday, Wednesday. Really? You know you should be in city planning. I am. John, you are the oracle. I will start off this program giving you the big props that you deserve. You totally called it man on Algeria. I mean like, there's two emails I've received the most of. Hold on, let me adjust something. That's my underwear. One is another foot found in the ocean. Oh yeah, the foot. The foot's in the ocean. And the other one is, holy crap, Dvorak called Algeria and he was right! Now that was spectacular. I had not thought about Algeria at all. That was really good.

CHAPTER 02 / 40 Discussion

Chinese Infrastructure and Political History in Algeria

Algeria is identified as a major African nation where China has secured $20 billion in government construction contracts for schools and roads. The country's leader, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has maintained power since the 1990s using state of emergency clauses similar to those in Egypt. The region's oil reserves and historical violence are noted as the country enters the international spotlight.

algeria· china· abdelaziz bouteflika· infrastructure· oil· africa

01:44 Well, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Actually, I did put an old fly zone over. Well, it's just about so of course what happened is apparently Gaddafi's kids across the border into Algeria, including his smoking hot daughter. Is she hot or what? She's very attractive. Oh man, she and she gave birth. I don't know if she gave birth in Libya or Algeria, but I think Algeria actually. So anyway, so you called this, I'm like, wow man. And Algeria is like one of these countries you don't look at even though it's huge. I think it's the biggest country in Africa actually, it's really big. And of course we haven't been looking at that because we were paying attention to Tunisia. And so I'm like, oh, I might as well go take a look and see what's going on. And lo and behold, turns out the Chinas have been there for quite a while.

02:40 And they've been building, let's see, they have 20 billion dollars in government construction contracts, they've been building schools, roads, of course all of this for the spoils of the country. And as it turns out, and this is what confused me, and maybe you can help me in the history, in the 90s, the dictator there, because of course they also have an evil dictator, not with a cool name though. Do you know the guy's name? The guy's name, who's on first? Yeah, exactly. The Algerian dictator? Not off the top of my head. He needs a PR, he needs Hill and Knowlton to help him out. Abdelziz Bouteflika. Yeah. It's not a good name. This is not Rolla. It's going to be hard for Don Lemon to remember how to say that. He won't be able to. I can't remember what you just told me. Bouteflika. Bouteflika. I don't know if it's Bouteflika or Bouteflika.

03:37 But he has ruled Algeria with an iron fist using the same state of emergency clauses that kept the Egyptian regime powerful for so long. And in the 90s, he killed 200,000 people. It's funny because I can't remember the no-fly zone in the 90s. Well, we don't do... apparently we're paying less attention. We didn't care about people. It was the go-go decade. Chicken and parties and dot com. I was just really surprised. So now they do have they got some goods there. They got some oil. I got some good stuff going on there.

04:19 I guess they're teeing him up, but wow what a call fantastic great job really good job on that and in the morning to you John in the morning to you in the morning all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet washing up on shore yes and of course all of our Human resources in the chat room at noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net all charged up and ready to go. And if you have your foot in the oceans, in case you hadn't heard, here's the official report. A chilling discovery today just north of Seattle in Vancouver, BC. CTV News reports a running shoe containing what appears to be a human foot and leg bones washed up in False Creek near the Plaza of Nations Marina. It's the 12th discovery of a human foot in the coastal region from BC to northwestern Washington in four years.

CHAPTER 03 / 40 Discussion

Human Feet Washing Ashore in Vancouver

A 12th human foot has washed ashore in the coastal region near Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seattle. Police suggest the feet detach naturally from bodies in the water and float due to being encased in running shoes or hiking boots. The hosts criticize the lack of updates on the community-run tracking website, noagendafoots.com.

vancouver· british columbia· seattle· forensic science· noagendafoots.com

05:01 So far police don't suspect foul play in any of the cases which are believed to be have been detached naturally It's like no foul play wait a minute showing up and it detached naturally what? They've made this case they made the case that that for some reason if it's encased in a shoe it's natural the fish and everything they kind of gnaw away and then they end up cutting the ankle bone off yeah and then the foot washers you know keeps floats off because of the shoe it's usually a that's why it's always a hiking shoe or like a jogging shoe that floats but how can you say floater how can you say the foot of float and it floats over to the

05:44 washes up. How can you say no foul play? It's a freaking foot! Well, I know the question is what's the foot doing there in the first place? Right, as no foul play. The foot was not harmed. It severed naturally. I don't know. But apparently they traced at least three of the feet to missing men in Vancouver. Really? And I'm pronouncing it correctly, Vancouver. Vancouver. So we have noagendafoots.com I don't know if it's been updated though. I did look at it yesterday and it had not been updated with the latest information so I'm not sure who... See, it's not updated. This is very bad. Last update, 8th of March 2011. Whoever is managing noagendafoots.com, please update your site. This is not good. It lost interest. Well, see?

CHAPTER 04 / 40 Discussion

Bird Flu Resurgence and Contagion Movie Promotion

The United Nations and World Health Organization are warning of a mutant H5N1 bird flu strain spreading in Asia. This news cycle coincides with the September 9, 2011, theatrical release of the film Contagion, starring Matt Damon and Kate Winslet. The timing suggests a coordinated PR effort between movie studios and health organizations to generate public anxiety.

bird flu· h5n1· world health organization· contagion· matt damon· warner brothers

06:34 This is what happens, just the drawback to volunteerism. Yeah, that's true. That is a drawback. If somebody gets a job or they lose interest, they get a new girlfriend. Yeah. What are you doing that for? Yeah, what are you doing that for? Don't you know it's feet? Pay more attention to me. Don't you know it's feet? It's not foots. What are you nuts? Noagenderfoots.com. But just in time, John, for September 9th. The United Nations is warning of a resurgence of bird flu and it's urging greater surveillance. The UN says a mutant strain of H5N1 appears to be spreading in parts of Asia. Last week a six-year-old Cambodian girl became that country's eighth victim this year. And for those of you who did not know, September 9th in theaters an all-star cast. We've got Matt Damon, Kate Winslet,

07:22 We've got what's the guy the the black guy Howard Jackson. Yeah, no no this guy Unfortunately she did die Mr.. Armoff your wife is dead. What are you talking about? What happened to her? What happened to her? Is there any way someone could weaponize the bird flu is how we're looking at someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu The birds are doing that yeah

07:59 Ha ha, weaponize the bird flu. So we just need to know which direction. On day one there were two people. There's that guy. Four and then 16. In three months it's a billion. That's where we're headed. They're calling out the National Guard. They're moving the president underground. People will panic. Get away! It will tip over. The truth is being kept from the world. Cook your samples, destroy everything. Yes, we're all gonna die. Lawrence Fishburne is who it was. Fishburne. Footburne. Whatever. So, wait a minute, let me get this straight. How does this work? You're telling me that the bullcrap news organizations out there are promoting this resurgence of bird flu, which we, by the way, could have covered a couple weeks ago. We did, no we did. We talked about contagion several weeks ago when this started to bubble up. Yeah, it's like, you know, it's a couple, apparently there's some activity taking place in Southeast Asia, but it's such, it's minor.

08:52 and isolated but you're telling me that they're doing this because there's a movie coming out so it's gone up to the top of the news? Well that'll be interesting when the New York Times picks it up then we know that movie's just about to hit. Yeah well September 9th is when it comes out so yeah it's bird flu and all of a sudden the bird flu picks up. This is I think it's just stupid journalism and I'm sure that the it's Warner Brothers this movie they've got a good PR team they know how to do it So they're out there, they've got their people in Asia. Hey, hey man, I think that kid died from bird flu. Make a news release, come on. But this does come from the World Health Organization, which we know is corrupt. So it's very possible that there's some funding going back and forth.

09:41 Like look, you know, it's time we got to get the vaccines. Of course, we have to have a vaccine that we got to have a new vaccine because the old vaccine this is a mutated version of the bird flu. John is not just the old H1N1 H1 5 and 1932. It's a new version. But there was the swine flu the bird flu. We never had a vaccine for right. Well, can't we develop one? Can we go into some kind of panic? Well, they've been trying. So, yeah, it's always just so conveniently coincidental how this happens. That's all I know. I'm looking for something to do. I'm looking for a coded message in today's times. I'm not seeing anything. Our president, our president here in Gitmo Nation West continues to try and, I guess he's got a speech coming up next week and he's going to tell us how he's going to get some jobs. You know the best way to keep your job?

CHAPTER 05 / 40 Discussion

Solyndra Bankruptcy and Federal Loan Guarantees

Solar panel manufacturer Solyndra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy shortly after receiving $535 million in federal loan guarantees. President Barack Obama had previously visited the facility in March 2010, praising it as a model of American innovation. Despite numerous industry awards and media accolades, the company failed to maintain operations.

solyndra· barack obama· bankruptcy· solar energy· department of energy

10:44 don't quit no is not to have the president show up at your company oh yeah that's hilarious this is uh... we are everyone loves this story yeah this is a march of two thousand ten the president in the northern uh... california a credible cutting-edge solar panels that you're manufacturing but also the process uh... that goes into the manufacturing the solar panels and it is just uh... to American ingenuity, dynamism, and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world. the best technology in the world and most importantly the best workers in the world and you guys all represent that's right you rock very much for that rock you rock you rock is dynamism a word is that a proper use of the word dynamism? yeah, yeah. so on the heels of this visit to Solyndra and five hundred million half a billion dollars five hundred thirty five million dollars in loans guaranteed for the company this past week Solyndra filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy

11:48 Way to go president a way to go dynamism. Yeah Flair rocking on the dynamism and by the way, it wasn't just the president who it was in on this scam Solyndra received numerous awards and recognitions, including appearing on the MIT Technology Review list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world, the Wall Street Journal list of top 10 venture-backed clean tech companies, and the Wall Street Journal, the next big thing, the top 50 venture-backed companies, and a 2009 Excellence in Renewable Energy Award from the Renewable Energy World magazine.

12:27 So what does that tell us? It tells us they were good at getting publicity for something apparently they couldn't produce. Yeah. Yeah, how come this is a suckers game? Yeah, this is not really been news though. It's a bit news locally and you know It's been new the right-wing guys are all really okay. I didn't know a big time. I didn't know them bah you know Hannity they're all Speaking of limbaugh now of course I don't listen I don't listen to any I mean I don't watch I listen to anything except C-Span and you know and the regular channels I think Rush Limbaugh listens to our show and And he, although he's a dick because of course he won't say like I was listening to no agenda and here's something that I heard. Yeah and he's got 400 million bucks he could cough up a $55 donation. He could buy a freaking challenge coin or something. So do you remember what I said on the last episode we were talking about Irene, what I did when I went to Weather Underground?

CHAPTER 06 / 40 Discussion

Hurricane Irene Wind Speed Discrepancies and Media Hype

Meteorologist Cliff Mass and other observers report that Hurricane Irene never reached sustained hurricane-force winds while moving up the East Coast. Data from Weather Underground indicated top wind speeds were significantly lower than the 75-100 mph reported by major news networks. Rush Limbaugh is accused of using this research on his program without proper attribution to the No Agenda show.

hurricane irene· rush limbaugh· weather underground· cliff mass· meteorology

13:25 And I was comparing what the CNN guys were talking about. It was horrible, horrible, horrible. And it was like 20 knot wind or something on the weather. Eight? Yeah. Eight at the airport that they shut down. Right. So here's Rush Limbaugh on his show previously in the week. Someone, one of our producers caught this and sent me, he actually sent me the clip which is nice. Because you got to pay if you want to hear Rush Limbaugh after the fact. You got to pay for it. Some guy did something interesting and I decided... Some guy. Some guy. Hey John, it's some guy and Buzzkill. I'm gonna check it myself. He's a doubter. Denying. And he's watching the reports of 75 to 85 to 100 mile an hour winds in Virginia, North Carolina. So he went to the weather underground site and he went to a bunch of cities. Now listen to his coded message to us though. He does throw in a little code but it's still pathetic. And towns.

14:22 That were where the hurricane was and the highest wind speed he could find was 33 miles an hour. Thank you Rush. We got the message dude. Next time send us 50 bucks will ya? That's a chicken shit thing. Well he is a douche. Of course, he takes our fantastic research which consists of going to a website. I'll be honest, it wasn't like a huge accomplishment. But yeah, it's horrible. He didn't do it? He didn't go to the website? He didn't do the footwork as it were? The footwork? Nah, it was like annoying.

14:58 Annoying. So the website people should go to for all this stuff is a weather guy that's up in the Pacific Northwest and my wife is just addicted to his site called Cliff Mass. It's Cliff Mass, C-L-I-F-F Mass, M-A-S-S dot blogspot dot com. And on his Monday, August 29th post, the title when did Irene stop being a hurricane oh he makes the point that it never was a hurricane that's what he says yeah he says there is really no reliable evidence of hurricane forced wind force winds at any time the storm was approaching North Carolina or moving up the East Coast

15:40 and he just excoriates the weather guys for saying, he says the fastest he could find was, he says first what is a hurricane? The official definition of a hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 64 or 74 miles an hour or more. A gust of 64 knots, 65 knots, which 64 knots is 74 miles an hour. A gust of 65 knots or more does not indicate a hurricane unless the sustained, sustained reach 64. Yeah, not the gusting. Yeah, I know. I know. It never and you know what? You sent me this link. Molly would even sent me this link. She's like, Oh my, oh my goodness. You guys were right. Never was. It never even was a hurricane.

CHAPTER 07 / 40 Discussion

New Jersey Flooding and Political Optics

Flooding in New Jersey following Tropical Storm Irene is described as a recurring issue rather than a unique hurricane disaster. Critics argue the storm was exaggerated by the Obama administration to create a favorable comparison to the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina. The closure of New York airports is cited as an unnecessary economic burden.

new jersey· barack obama· chris christie· fema· tropical storm irene

16:19 But I think I've got this figured out because of course... Go ahead. I want to add one more thing to this which is on the clips. Yeah, I probably have the same clip. FEMA? Well, this clip, I kind of caught it while clipping it kind of thing. But there's one clip on there. This, they're discussing on one of the stations, some woman is in waiters and stomping around the floods in New Jersey. And she just casually said something that just caught my attention. Do you have it, the one there about New Jersey floods, a woman in waiters, I don't have the list. Out of their homes three times?

17:01 Well, just to give you a sense of where I am, I'm standing on the ledge of one of those vacuum cleaners at a car wash, now dipping into the water so you can see how high the water is. piece of paper in there to show you how fast the current is flowing. It's cold here. Yeah, there are like 18,000 people in New Jersey who have remained evacuated. 3,500 of them remain right here in this county. So they're out of their homes and they don't like it. But Anderson, you know what? This is like the third time for some of these people that they've been out of their homes this year. First time for a hurricane, two other times because of just bad storms. Yeah, well, thank you.

17:38 I lived in New Jersey for 12 years. It flooded all the time. All the time. The mall would be flooded, you know, the Willowbrook Mall, the Livingston Mall, you know, the parking lot would be flooded. It flooded all the time. Of course. Now they got another flood because this was a tropical storm with a lot of rain. Yeah. It wasn't a hurricane. They exaggerated. They closed down the airports unnecessarily in New York. It cost the people lots of money. It cost the economy lots of money. This thing was a fiasco, was a scam. It was designed to make Obama look like some sort of a genius because you know he could handle a massive hurricane hitting the East Coast unlike Bush who couldn't handle the one hitting New Orleans apparently. Although they didn't do shit.

18:20 The FEMA people didn't do anything about this either. But it was like bogus, it was completely bogus. And of course we got some email from people saying, you know, people died. You know, by the way, I should mention that 6,500 people in the United States die daily. 150 or so from car accidents every day. And yeah, some people died, but they... It wasn't because there was a hurricane, they died because it was a bad storm and some other issues. And I also love the 3.3 million without power and it's never specified as a three point first of all it's 3.3 hello coded message 33 is that 3.3 million homes I

CHAPTER 08 / 40 Discussion

FEMA Funding Disputes and Ron Paul's Critique

Governor Chris Christie requested $10 billion in emergency FEMA funds for New Jersey following recent storms. Representative Ron Paul criticized the federal flood insurance program, arguing it encourages risky building in floodplains and is currently $20 billion in debt. Paul advocates for a return to private risk assessment rather than federal bailouts.

fema· ron paul· chris christie· disaster relief· homeland security

19:10 And of course the cable went out. Well, geez, cable goes out here five times a week in Los Angeles. Right, under clear skies. Yeah, and the cell phone was working. But then it comes back like, they have power but 80% of our mob doesn't. I'm like, how do we even know 80%? You know, it's like so much disinformation. And I just... What is the point of exaggerating this drama? I know why. I know why. It was a bad storm, okay. I know why. I know why. Remember we have the Council of Governors. This is a new thing that President Obama set up at the beginning of the year and it's a homeland security thing. That's why I see Lucy Napolitano and of course she's in charge of FEMA. It falls under Homeland Security with that FEMA guy, the bad dressed. Couldn't the guy like have a uniform or something? He's got like a patch.

20:00 is that not very good looking and this was it's really a bailout for the states Chris Christie of New Jersey asking for 10 billion dollars in emergency FEMA funds. Oh you wait for the floods that already happened twice before and you didn't get to ask the money so this is just a big money grab scam. Yes and okay so here's here's a little bit on FEMA because of course And I wasn't really aware of this until I started looking at some of the websites and there's some funny ones that we could even take the little test because you know if you answer 10 questions right, you are eligible for money.

20:37 This is for the stupid slaves in the nanny state to go out and say, I deserve some money because I live on the coast and I live in the floodplain. So here's FEMA who of course has no money because where does this money come from? It comes from us. Carolina, he is on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. This is a douchebag, I think, representative from New York. And of course he's on board with the program because he wants money. Which is responsible for FEMA's budget. Representative Price, thank you for your time today. You saw this funding crunch coming. What did you and your fellow panel members do about it?

21:14 Not enough, I'm afraid. I have said for weeks, as we've had disasters throughout the country and now of course faced with this Irene disaster all up and down the eastern board, that we simply must replenish the disaster relief fund over at Homeland Security. And what's more, we need to We need to designate this, as the law provides, emergency spending. This is a genuine emergency. The notion that we would hold this up until Republicans can prompt another budget fight and figure out what they want to cut. Yeah, and blame it on the Republicans, whatever. So the only guy who was calling this correctly, of course, is Ron Paul.

22:00 And he's been on almost every single show and it was too long to play and I couldn't really clip anything. He got into an argument with Anderson Cooper about it. But no matter where he is, now this is the, although I think it shows how incredibly intelligent and right this guy is, it is probably the death knell for him because now everyone is, every stupid slave is thinking, how can anyone in our government, in their right mind, deny money for victims of this horrible disaster storm, disaster storm? And of course that's exactly what he's doing. He's saying this is ridiculous, this is totally stupid and it's setting people up to take advantage of the system and well here he is on I think Caruto's show which wasn't quite as annoying.

22:49 Well, who's FEMA? I mean, it's the people, it's the taxpayers. The question is, do we want to go further into debt to bail out the people that we encouraged to build a dangerous place in? The whole program is wrong. They've distorted completely the concept of insurance. Insurance is supposed to measure risk. Instead, we guaranteed that if you did risky things, we would bail you out regardless. And the flood program, the insurance program, it's bankrupt. I think it's around $20 billion in debt. So it's just another program. But FEMA happens to be one of the worst.

23:28 There's no other program or bureaucracy that I had to deal with in Congress that I got more complaints for than FEMA. People really don't like it. And I've never supported this, and I live on a coastal district. I've gone through these hurricanes. We go to bat for the constituents because they've been told, you know, get in the programs and we'll bail you out. But they don't get bailed out. All they it is an invasion of national people. You know, the bureaucrats coming in and interfering. And it's a disaster they create. But what happens? Well, what happens? You know there's going to be a call, a cry, a hue and cry. More disaster relief, whether it's FEMA or not FEMA. Let's spend a lot of money to bail out Hurricane Irene, which was very difficult in many places here on the East Coast. What is your response to that? There's going to be a call for emergency spending.

24:16 right and there's one way i would actually vote for and i propose this way and then he goes into a a whole way that he would do it but Essentially so he's going that wasn't caboodle. That was the guy I actually like on CNBC whenever his name is yeah that guy yeah, so But he's right. I mean FEMA is a sense of first of all you're right It was completely for Obama to look great He's in the war room with Lucy and FEMA and we're checking right we're all over this yeah We came back early one day from vacation right right right now. I'm so awesome. I And then on the other hand, these governors are like, I got a broke-ass state. Let me see, what does New Jersey owe? Chris Christie's a good example. He's also a threat to run for president. Most people think he could easily beat Obama. This is a good quid pro quo. Look, you give me the 10 billion bucks, I'm out. I'm out. And then I have one more short clip from C-SPAN, of course, that is above all the best network on television. And this is one of their own programs, which you know that you're not allowed to, this is not

CHAPTER 09 / 40 Discussion

Climate Dynamics Specialist on Weather vs. Climate

A climate dynamics specialist appearing on C-SPAN defines the difference between weather and climate using a quote from Professor Lorenz: "weather is what you get and climate is what you expect." The hosts mock this definition as meaningless drivel that serves to protect government funding for climate research.

c-span· climate change· weather· mit· professor lorenz

25:18 It's not public domain, their own programming when they have an interview. That's like... Yes, it's very clear on the website. Yeah. So, arrest me. It's still fair use. Yeah, it's fair use. What you can do with it, the difference in this case with C-SPAN is that you can like take their whole programming of Congress and put it on your website and kind of promote it without even promoting C-SPAN, but if you're gonna use their material you got to get permission to do the exact same thing, but you can always clip from it. Okay, so I've clipped from it. This is under the fair use doctrine. They have the government climate, what do they call him, climate dynamics specialist. Yeah, exactly. So these are the guys that are in charge of telling FEMA amongst others and the government what to expect.

26:07 But he comes up with such a gem, I'm like the whole climate change debate is over after you hear this. We study the atmosphere, the ocean, the land surface, including the biota, the organisms that live on the land surface, and we try to understand how they all interact. to produce the sorts of variations that we observe. Why is there a difference or why do you differentiate between climate and weather? Ah, this is the big one, John. The difference between climate and weather. I've always been, apparently a very smart man already answered this for us, and this should be an evergreen clip. Well, weather, I mean there's a famous quote from Professor Lorenz from MIT who says that weather is what you get and climate is what you expect. And so, what that means is that, I mean if we look out the window today we see that the weather here in Washington is beautiful, sunny, calm day. The temperatures are going to rise into the mid-80s and that's exactly what we expect for late August. But if you go back a week,

27:04 We were having torrential rain, it was cloudy, the wind was blowing very vigorously and that's not what we expect. So in principle we could say Irene was the weather and today we're getting the climate. Just so I understand, that's what you expect. That is the most meaningless piece of drivel I've ever heard. It means it absolutely has no function in the world. Yeah, exactly. But he's got a good gig. It's just total bullcrap. He's got a good gig, but we need one of those gigs. Oh yeah, this guy's making hundreds of thousands of dollars with this crap. 174 probably. No, it's awesome. It's completely awesome. It's so bad, man.

CHAPTER 10 / 40 Discussion

Al Gore's Comments on Racism and Climate Change

Al Gore is criticized for a speech equating climate change denial with historical racism. Gore shared an anecdote about his parents explaining discrimination to him as a child, claiming modern racism is "different and much better." The analysis suggests Gore used the tangent to align the Democratic Party's history with moral authority while ignoring the party's past.

al gore· racism· climate change· democratic party· civil rights

27:44 Yeah, climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. Well, so climate change then is what we expect but not what you predict. And please. Whatever. So, uh, well on the subject, the right-wing guys this week were all over Al Gore equating racism. Yeah, hold on a second, we play the... The science is in! Science! So I was listening to the clip and I kind of gave up on trying to make the equation because it was just basically gore rambling and he brought up this racist anecdote about how when he was a kid he couldn't understand racism but his parents or some elders

28:29 told him what it was all about and so I saw when you just deconstruct what he has to say here in this clip because when you do it really it's got two points in there about racism and about him and about the southern mentality at least his southern old plantation mentality that have nothing to do with climate but it's interesting in and of itself and listen carefully to what he says My generation asked older people, explain to me again why it's okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different? And when they couldn't really answer that question with integrity, the change really started. And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better.

29:14 Okay, so racism today is different and much better than the old-fashioned racism. So that's what he says and he says also that the only people that if anyone answered why we discriminate against black people if they had integrity which is exactly what he said then their answer was okay because he's very carefully says you know the people with integrity had an answer and it was actually you know because they're inferior who knows what but he had to be people with integrity meaning the politicos or his family I don't know. But then but the smart people smart people, but then he goes on and says that today's racism Racism as much but this to me was just as a standalone Was much more interesting than his anything they had to say about climate change or that fact deniers are racists Which he never actually says well He says right after this clip actually says and we have to win the conversation on climate. So he kind of bunched it together Yeah, he just jumps to the next topic, right? Right

30:10 But it seems to me that he went on a little tangent here and the tangent was more revealing in so far as what he the way and I think that someone was pointing this out that the Democrat Party in general which has always been the oppressive party to blacks have somehow cajoled blacks into Accepting the way their racism is which is the new better racism. I guess it's wait a whole lot of second and now new and improved It's better racism brought to you by the Democratic Party So I found that highly amusing. I love it. Nobody has deconstructed that by the way. They just went on because they're all like, you know, this climate change thing is so at the top of the list of the right wing, you know, knee jerks that they missed the funnier part. I don't know. Well, that's why we get paid the small bucks. Yeah. Rush Limbaugh makes $400 million. Yeah. And steals our material. And then, hey, thanks Rush.

CHAPTER 11 / 40 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits and Donor Recognition

The show recognizes its "producer class" of donors for a thin week of contributions. Vernon White, Krister Headfors, Mark Borghese, and David Koss are credited as executive and associate executive producers. Donors receive "karma" for their businesses and personal lives in exchange for their financial support of the value-for-value model.

vernon white· krister headfors· mark borghese· david koss· donations

31:07 Thanks for the donation. Yeah, you know, I mean he pays more than he pays more than $55 for his cigars. Yeah. So anyway, let's give thanks to a few executive producers. We have one executive producer and three associate executive producers and I will tell people out there that considering this is a Thursday, it's bad. This was a very thin week. Very thin. Which was the one that Pelsmarkers were predicting on Sunday. Well, Pelsmarkers is on board with the program. He wants to keep our show on the air. He gets it. Yeah, well these other people, except for our donors here, are lax this week, at least for the

31:47 period between Sunday and now. Vernon White though, a black knight apparently from Pearl and Texas, he'll get knighted later, needs Karma for his new gig to help me not have to deliver pizzas. Donated $3.37 by the way. Maybe no more unemployment after 24 of the last 26 months. Wait a minute, he's unemployed and still donates to the show? Yes, he's a good man. Let me just, let me hand out some karma for him, hold on a second, he really deserves that. You've got karma. By the way, he already is a knight, sir. Oh, well, we have him down. Well, you show he's a birthday. He's the black knight. He just had his birthday. I misread the icon. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here. I'm glad you are here. Krister Headforce, Headfors, I guess, Headfors and Jarfala. Where is that? Where's Jarfala? I don't know. We have to somebody look it up in this chat room. Two hundred fifty dollars uncommented.

32:42 Mark Borghese in Las Vegas, Lost Wages Nevada. Sweden, Jarfala is in Sweden. Oh, nice. Oh, Krister, okay, that's good. Sounds like a Swedish name. Lost Wages Nevada, due to, because of listening to your show I was able to see in advance that the Hurricane Irene was a bunch of bull crap. when my parents were concerned about their condo in Ocean City, Maryland I offered to pay for any repairs from the hurricane if they agreed to pay for plane tickets for my family to use the condo next summer. All I can say is thanks for the free trip to Maryland guys. Right, hey so that's good, he gave us the equivalent of half a plane ticket, that's nice, thank you. Yeah it's not bad. That's awesome.

33:25 David Koss in Ulis, Texas, $200. He'd like to, uh, an extra dose of karma for his business. Uh, Kossom.com. K-O-S-S-O-M-E. Pronounced like Kossom. Here we go. You've got karma. Actually, I know David. He's been helping me, uh, with some stuff. He's possibly about to close on a huge contract and really needs the car me which he just got it will give him more time with the family and thanks for hitting him in the mouth on a regular basis and that's all we got for today's producers. The producer class of listener, one executive and two associates and when people remind you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA channel Dvorak.com slash NA

CHAPTER 12 / 40 Discussion

No Agenda PR Initiatives and Domain Names

Listeners have created several domain names that forward to the No Agenda website, including rickperryisanidiot.com and courseofcondemnation.com. A Canadian listener successfully placed a "no agenda" reference on a CBC radio show via Twitter. These grassroots marketing efforts are encouraged to help grow the audience.

rickperryisanidiot.com· cbc· twitter· domain forwarding· marketing

34:07 noagendanation.com and also noagendashow.com where you'll find donation buttons you can track us down. And usually we just try to program your brain so close your eyes open up your mind and listen to this. Dvorak.org slash N A. And we have a couple of PR initiatives that have come in. To the system. These are typically domain names that forward to know agenda show calm you can use these because you say hey you should listen to these guys should listen to these guys and It's like no agenda show me that might be too complicated for someone to remember so you can now just say Rick Perry is an idiot calm Right just go to Rick Perry's an idiot calm and you'll find us yeah, I

34:53 Or team os2.com which I find you know it's just like a really old kind of technical guy he might appreciate that We also have we must win the future.com. Oh, yeah, it's a good one. We missed that one. I don't know well It's there remember that that was a meme that Obama kept trying to Promote during one of his state of the year winning in the future winning the fuel actually it was a member Austin Goolsbee said it was the the marketing guys Yeah, the messaging guys. That's what the messaging guys of the White House, not Obama's, the messaging guys. WTF, win the future, winning the future. Well that didn't work out. No. Because WTF stands for you know what? Yeah.

35:33 of condemnation dot com thank you very much uh... i'm sure lucifer clinton will be very happy that we are promoting her uh... her somewhat mangled uh... mean she's she's got a wrong couple times but it is course of condemnation dot com and that's not for me to know jim show dot com uh... i think we might have mentioned this on the previous show in the donation segment but uh... where we now have courtesy of our loan squirrel of course does Excellent mixes for us every week. We have drone wars dot us homemade drones calm do-it-yourself drones calm And all of these are forwarding to a notion no agenda show calm. We think those are excellent Down under thank you very much for doing this Julian and Melbourne no agenda show calm dot a you very important So it feels like there's a homegrown vibe to it

36:23 Then we also have FTEnow.com. There's also some bumper stickers that go along with this. FTE is fix the economy. FTEnow.com. So that may be a meme that... and we have info.net and .org. This may be a meme that catches legs. I don't know. This one, I don't understand... Catches legs? Gets legs. Catches air. Runs fast. Loses foots. Colin F. I have no idea how he got this but in the morning everybody.com is now forwarding to the show and then from Canadia from our buddy up there who was listening to the CBC's

37:12 And let me see, this is the show, what CBC show is this? David Gray. The question is, what do Canadians want and expect from a political leader? Now when you, when you, so he didn't actually call into the show, it was a show with with calls but they I guess they also take tweeter messages I was kinda cute what he got done email to check up at CBC dot CA we've been active conversation going on Twitter is well here's a message that just came in saying oddly I seem to like our political leaders once they are out of politics they're always better than the current leaders interesting also a second caller a second Twitter message saying I'm looking for a leader who will wake up in the morning and have no agenda except working for Canadians

37:55 It's cute, you know, it doesn't really promote the show. It's kind of funny that the guy like, I want political leaders to get up in the morning and have no agenda. Nice, it's nice, but we really need like, you know, rickperryisanidiot.com or anything. We need to, you know, the best thing you can do if you can't support the show financially is to Is to get more people to listen and I don't think anyone responded to our call out to get on the C-SPAN open phones. I don't think anyone did that. I think our listeners are shy.

CHAPTER 13 / 40 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony and Producer Benefits

Vernon White is officially recognized as a Black Knight of the No Agenda show. The hosts explain that listeners who donate significant amounts can list "Executive Producer" on their business cards or IMDB pages. They offer to vouch for the credentials of any listener in the producer class.

knighthood· black knight· imdb· business cards· producer class

38:32 Well, they're definitely the ones that I met most of them are introverted, but once you get some alcohol in them, it's okay Maybe we should we should make them drink more Sauce them up. Well, you can do that which is more bad news sauce them up. Let's just do nothing but depressing bad news We'll drive them to drink that'll put them on the air, right? Hey I'm on the Democrat line I know I always going as a Democrat. Rickcarryisanidiot.com. All right so we thank Vernon White, Sir Vernon White to you and me, Black Knight of course as executive producer of this program. Krister Hedfors is, Krister is an associate?

39:17 Chris is an associate executive producer, Mark Borghese also associate executive producer, and David Koss, associate executive producer. Thank you very much for giving us some hope this week of food. That's highly appreciated and as always this is a real credit You can put on your business card if you have an IMDB you can put it there I mean look at look at the what what this company had you know all their awards which were completely meaningless This is something real and unlike the phonies in Hollywood We will actually vouch for you if you need to someone just call us up and we'll say yeah He did it everyone else propagate the formula formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth and

CHAPTER 14 / 40 Discussion

Syrian Rebel Battery Charging Hoax on PBS

PBS aired a segment featuring a Syrian rebel claiming to charge cell phones by soaking batteries in a glass of water for 30 minutes. After Gizmodo proved the method was scientifically impossible, PBS issued an apology claiming the water was actually a dry mug used for concealment. The hosts dismiss the apology as a cover for poor journalism and a fake story.

pbs· syria· duracell· gizmodo· journalism ethics

40:04 I got a call I got a I'm sorry what do you call that not a callback do we call it is a callback to a previous show is a callback when you get what when I go back to something we discussed in a previous show you always keep correcting me is it a yeah it would be a callback callback callbacks are usually short little references to something that happened earlier okay so this is something that happened on episode three two niner and it was from a PBS program with a dude in Syria and then actually became the title of that episode. Let me remind you of this fantastic invention the rebels in Syria being interviewed in Turkey have come up with in order to charge their cell phones while in the field. With batteries because our batteries are running out and no electric to recharge your equipments.

41:07 So for phone calls we create a new way, it's actually a simple way to recharge your phone. We use a glass of water with two batteries, Duracell or something else, already exist everywhere. We use it to keep the batteries in the water for one hour or 30 minutes, then you put the USB adapters inside the water and start charging. Right, so of course the PBS interviewer, what's his name, McLeod? McLeod? Laps it up like a dog. Doesn't, yeah, just doesn't question it whatsoever. Laps it up. Then of course Gizmodo post this three days after our show and they tried the experiment, didn't work. So now on PBS.org there is a response. The creator of this piece

42:09 Omar emailed me back over the weekend, I spoke to him and yes, there has been a misunderstanding over this battery charging description for which I can only apologize. The glass used for charging was actually a mug and didn't contain water. Water wasn't used to charge the phone at all. All they did was put a battery-powered portable charger inside a mug which they carried to protest and that way it wouldn't look like they had a charger, it was concealed in a mug. I mean, you're telling me, how stupid does this get?

42:45 How do you get from point A to point B with this story? It's a lie. It's a lie. The guy is clearly saying they put batteries in the water for a half hour to an hour. Yeah, you played the clip of the guy specifically saying batteries in the water. Yeah. And here and then the USB cable. Electricity had been cut in Daraa for the best part of the week. Omar explained that the batteries on their BlackBerrys and other phones would often run out during protests so they needed a way to recharge on the go. However, they couldn't carry any bags with them as that would draw the suspicion... But they could carry a coffee cup, I guess they were in the office. I'm not a protester. I'm drinking coffee. So these guys can't even admit that they were stupid and so they make up something even more idiotic. And by the way, how does a mug plug into the wall? I mean your battery chargers need to have some power source.

43:42 I just break this is PBS though this is the public broadcasting system of America that the government gets money from and people donate to yeah just send us your cash oh my goodness so as I said Omar was really troubled by this and I have absolutely no reason to doubt it was anything but a mistake with language really it was pretty clear to me I don't believe these young activists have any incentive to elaborate on the tough conditions they face, knowing as I do from three years living in Syria, just how ruthless the security forces are there. Oh crap! Totally just, ugh! Play it again. I mean, it's so clear what this guy is saying, and he is lying. He's just making something up. Here we go. With batteries, because our batteries are running out.

44:37 and not electric to recharge your equipment. So for phone calls we create a new way, it's actually a simple way to recharge your phone. We use a glass of water with two batteries Duracell or something else already exist everywhere. I think he's getting paid for Duracell. Oh that's a Duracell plug. It's a plug, that's what it is. Hey man, give me like a hundred bucks, I'll plug your name on PBS. We use it to keep the batteries in the water for one hour. or 30 minutes then... It's very clear, battery, batteries in the water. But one hour or 30 minutes. Very clear. You put the USB adapters inside the water. In the water, in the water! This is so clear! And start charging. It's a magic. That's how we charge. That's how we charge, it's a magic. I mean, we have a cup, and we have in the cup we have...

45:34 I'm waking up, there's fluoride in my cup. That's what you must be drinking to believe this apology. Well, not only that, but I mean the original thing, the fact that he didn't catch the stupidity of what is nothing more than a short circuit under any circumstances. Have you ever been to like third grade? is like classic PBS and I guess the public you know I don't know anyone else who noticed this they just lap it up he laps it up they lap it up it's unbelievable what does it take to just go wait a minute this doesn't make any sense so there's a couple of things going on as

CHAPTER 15 / 40 Discussion

AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Obstacles

The proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile is facing regulatory hurdles from the Obama administration. Speculation suggests the Department of Justice's opposition may be a tactic to extract more lobbying funds or campaign donations from the telecommunications industry. Senator Al Franken is noted as one of the few vocal critics of the deal.

at&t· t-mobile· barack obama· al franken· lobbying

46:11 And we do have some foreign news, but there's just so much interesting stuff going on here in the United States of Gitmo Nation. The President, of course, is trying to raise money to win the future. And I believe, and maybe we should start off with that, this AT&T T-Mobile merger, which now apparently is on the rocks, I believe, John, just looking at it on the surface, and you may have a different take, that this is the Obama administration putting the screws to AT&T to cough up some money. Like, we're not going to approve your merger unless you donate.

46:48 Do you agree? I would have, I don't, I have written about this merger talking about how bad it is but uh and only Al Franken is the only one seems to have any balls to to fight it. He's on the committee right isn't he uh in charge of, isn't he on the committee for this? He's on that committee yeah and everyone else is just oh how thank you for being here. Awesome awesome and thank you for your service to the communications industry. I think it probably is a gouge why not? Well this so I mean that's all I see right is like this has to be a gouge because of course everyone I mean AT&T spends a lot of money on lobbying all the telcos do and to me it just seems like there's no other way that this can be taken and will so I presume you predict it's gonna it's gonna go through right? Yeah eventually. It's gonna go through. So that to the detriment of the United States public

CHAPTER 16 / 40 Discussion

Obama's Rose Garden Speech on the Transportation Bill

President Obama delivered a speech in the Rose Garden urging Congress to extend the federal transportation bill to prevent job losses. He was joined by Ray LaHood, Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, and construction workers used as props. The hosts criticize the staged nature of the event and the influence of labor unions on the legislation.

barack obama· ray lahood· afl-cio· transportation bill· unions

47:37 So of all the things that are happening right now, the president comes out into the Rose Garden and this caught me by surprise, a couple of things caught me by surprise. He brings up the transport bill which we just went through before his vacation. And by the way, Michelle did take the other 747. He took his plane, she took his other plane. to Martha's Vineyard. Yeah, they have to sleep in the same bed. $50,000 a week. And they're not paying for that themselves. At least, you know, screw George W. Bush, but at least he went to his own ranch. I wasn't paying for that, was I? No, probably not. Probably for the security, though. Yeah. Oh yeah, of course. So he comes out. He's going to talk about the transportation bill, which of course basically just got kicked down the road just a little bit.

48:32 So everyone can go back and enjoy their vacation. Now, you'll probably recall that when I looked into this extension of the FAA, appropriations bill and that which is a part of this whole transportation act which has to be renewed it always gets renewed the really underneath the covers is a huge union thing because the unions have been wanting to get delta airlines uh... into you know get them unionized and of course obama has to pay back the union since they they contributed so much money uh... for his previous campaign and now they're back on deck saying uh...

49:07 Hey, yo son, son, time to get that done, son. You want some money right now? You want some money? So, um, he's gonna speak on the transportation bill. Comes out into the Rose Garden. This is... I didn't, you know, maybe it's because C-SPAN that it has the, and I was never watching C-SPAN with previous presidents, and I just never noticed it before. But listen, I mean, this is the Rose Garden, right? It's like, so the only thing that's there is press. We're sitting there, they're just, you know, they're sitting there with their cameras, and then first a whole bunch of dudes come out, and we'll find out who they are in a second, and then this. So listen. Also reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, that reauthorization expires in mid-September. While we wait for the president,

49:48 Actually, the president we expect in just a second here. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. So since when does this happen in the Rose Garden? He gets an announcement like there's a PA announcement for him to come trotting out. Does he trot out with his hands up in the little squirrel like walk? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does a little jog down the steps. Yeah, with his hands up kind of up near his collar? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good morning everybody. Please have a seat. Good morning everybody. Good morning everybody. Please have a seat. So he gets an announcement in the Rose Garden. I want that. You know when I have guests over I just want to walk into the room it's like, ladies and gentlemen, the crackpot.

50:34 I just need an announcement like that. So I'm looking at all these guys like... And by the way, does anybody that's there at the Rose Garden not know who this guy is? Excuse me, who are you? Who's this guy? Wait a minute, I recognize all these other guys. Hey Ray LaHood, I see you. How you doing Ray? Who are you? Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. A little Caesar-esque if you ask me. So, uh, so there's like a, so I recognize and who these dudes are Ray LaHood's there. And there's another dude who I'll get to in a second. And I'm like, who are these other dudes? What are they doing there? And if it's delayed even longer, almost 1 million workers could lose their jobs over the course of the next year. That includes some of the folks behind me today.

51:23 You've got Adam Vensel and Chris Negley who are with the Federal Highway Administration. We've got Hector Sealy and Austin Anderson who work for the Fort Myers Construction Company. If we don't extend this bill by the end of September, all of them will be out of a job. That's me. If they can live it up sitting around the Rose Garden behind Obama and hanging out with the guy, I think they're in pretty good shape. I'm gonna get fired. So that was a very disgusting tactic to me. I can just see like Plouffe or whoever it is, you know, saying like, let's put a face on this. We gotta put a face on this. And these guys look kind of sad. You know, they're kind of scrawny. These are construction guys. I've never seen such scrawny, lanky construction guys.

52:23 or going to get fired and then he pulls out uh... the american dream right now is when we need to be making these decisions now's the time for congress to extend the transportation bill keep our workers on the job now's the time to put our country before party and to give certainty to the people who are just trying to get by give me some certainty prayers i can't believe he's staying with that in the in the more More I think more disturbing to me is the fact that the Republican Party has not picked up on this meme and thrown it in his face

53:02 Just get by because no one actually listens. No one listens to what's being said. Well that too. It's the same people running both parties and so now I'm looking at these dudes I know who the so these are the fired guys these are the kittens who will get shot who and that's this one guy look he looks like a Like a football coach like I know this guy. I know this guy from somewhere this transportation bill has been renewed seven times in the last two years alone and That's why my Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, a Republican, is with me today, along with David Chauvin from the Chamber of Commerce and Rich Trumka, AFL-CIO. That's the guy, Rich Trumka from the Union.

53:47 So, it's so bad now that the president of the union goes into the Oval Office and says, you get your ass out, I brought some dudes here, you get your ass out there, you tell people these people are going to be fired, and by the way, you better get that transportation bill signed with my union demands in there. The guy is up there and he's standing next to the president. Next to him. Well, that's disturbing. Yeah. So, Obama is out to get money. That's what he's doing. And the governors are all there trying to get their piece? With the fake Irene? Yeah, the fake Irene. Anyway. So, let's see what we got. It's not depressing enough. I have tons of depressing stuff. Well, I got a good one. The Tripoli Zoo is doomed. Oh no! Don't tell me Lions stood still or something like that. I'm getting enough to eat.

CHAPTER 17 / 40 Discussion

Starving Animals at the Tripoli Zoo

Reports from the Tripoli Zoo in Libya reveal that animals went without food for seven days during the conflict. Staff members have returned but struggle to provide enough meat for big cats and clean water for hippos. A prediction is made that the zoo will eventually face a scandal involving feeding smaller animals to the predators.

tripoli zoo· libya· animal welfare· lions· hippopotamus

54:51 Suddenly, we get some answers. The zookeeper has just arrived, so I'm going to ask him about the animals. As-salamu alaykum. How are you? Fine. Fine, fine. So what about the animals? Are they getting enough food? The lions, the tigers? He tells me for seven days, the animals got nothing. Now, ten of the 200 staff have returned. They're trying to feed all the animals. The big cats get only half the food they need. But their biggest problem is water. He takes us to see the hippos. Of all the animals, they seem the most forlorn. The keeper tells us that he tried to get some more water in here. He even laid this plastic pipe on the floor right into the tank here with hippopotami, but it didn't work.

55:39 and they're just left with that rank fetid water that even they don't seem to want to go into. They're struggling to keep up. So many animals to feed. Hyenas, bears, monkeys. Dear emus, but it's the big cats, the meat eaters, they can't feed enough. Water is these animals most pressing need, but it seems without help in these sweltering temperatures, all the animals here are going to continue to suffer. Okay, I have a prediction. Yep. And it's going to become a scandal. Okay.

56:18 They're gonna feed the other animals to the tigers and lions. And they're gonna do a feed off. So they're gonna feed the gazelles and the antelopes to the tigers. And then they're gonna feed some of the dogs to the bears. How about some of those black dudes? They're gonna start feeding the animals to each other. And somebody's gonna get wind of it and they're gonna make it a big, it's gonna be a big to-do. You watch. No, you can put that in the book. It's in the book the rhetoric is really they're really turning it up and and this is one And the BBC is the worst so now of course we have all of these weird correspondents who Are none of the main anchors? They're all you know we had on the last show we had what we found Gaddafi's RV and look he has food and he has toilet paper and

CHAPTER 18 / 40 Discussion

Media Tours of Gaddafi's Compounds and DHS Headquarters

BBC and CNN correspondents have been touring abandoned government buildings in Tripoli, including Muammar Gaddafi's residence and the Department of Homeland Security. The hosts point out that many "secret" documents and signs found in these Libyan offices are written in English rather than Arabic. They question the authenticity of these media reports and suggest potential intelligence agency involvement.

libya· bbc· cnn· nick robertson· tripoli· espionage

57:08 And this woman from the BBC. I was watching more of this this week. They're going through the house and the house is not, it doesn't have like Van Gogh's on the wall. No, it's not. They have a couple bottles of scotch and this is a scandal. It's horrible. It's Johnny Walker Blue, I tell you. He has a couch. How can this man have a couch? He has a swimming pool. We'll have none of that. Yeah, the peasants don't have couches. They don't have walls. I mean it's just it's ridiculous because he doesn't have it's not like Saddam's mansion Yeah, this is anyone he has a nice place on the beach Which by the way is a tool used to be a great tourist resort you could you could go to Tripoli? It was beautiful there on the on the beach yeah

57:51 It was. It was, yeah. So now here's this woman from the BBC and she's inside the Department of Homeland Security in Tripoli. What's interesting though is just like all the graffiti, all the documents are in English. And I'm going to actually watch the video and tell you what I'm seeing while it plays. The regime kept many of its secrets here. And this is a new thing they're doing, she's like rattling on the gate trying to get in, you know, it's all drama dramatized and they're inside they have like a flashlight, you know, they're using and she's lit with a flashlight like all of a sudden they didn't they didn't have a light to light her properly. You got lights all over those cameras, are you kidding me? I'm gonna read these documents that she's finding and the stuff that's on the wall because it's all in English, it's all in English look. But today we were able to walk right in to the Homeland Security headquarters.

58:43 Testaments remain to the dark arts. Okay, here it says, help keep our classified business secret. Don't discuss classified information out of the HQ. That's on the wall in the Tripoli Homeland Security office. English? Alright. We found operational charts. Okay, operational chart. Possibility to locate any person owning a cell phone. Accuracy around 200 feet. This is all in English! By tracking anyone with a cell phone anywhere in the country.

59:18 and guidance on identifying new potential suspects. Here, features recording targets communications, social network for targets, search in the past for newly identified targets. What? I don't understand. My mind is like turning into mush. What do they speak in Tripoli in their government? Do they speak English? Apparently. I mean, the only thing I can think is that this is CIA. I mean whose headquarters are we talking about here? Nothing is in is in Arabic. No, what is it Cyrillic? Is that the script? It wouldn't be Cyrillic. Yeah, squiggly lines. Squiggly, no squiggly lines anywhere and the best is yet to come.

1:00:00 This is where Colonel Gaddafi spied on his own people. In English. And it seems... The guy couldn't speak English out of a paper bag. Right, the two languages that's spoken in Tripoli specifically or actually all of Libya is Libyan Arabic which is a specific version and Berber and the official language is Arabic. Isn't Berber where the carpets come from? It's a type of carpet. Yeah, those are really nice carpets. Well that shit's over. Alright, so listen to this. Now she's lit by... You have to see this video. By the way, Libya, I'm just looking at this wiki page. We always forget that Libya was relinquished by Italy. So if there was going to be some sort of throwback language it might be Italian. Or French. Or a little bit of French. I just put it into the chat room so people can play along. So now she's lit by a flashlight.

1:00:58 You should see it, it's hilarious. How stupid do you think we are? And she's holding some printout, some papers that are printed out. This is the BBC. Yeah. This document was just lying in the corner by the printer I guess. They appear to be a record of intercepted emails. You can see here, interception poor, interception zero, interception open. She's reading the English. Interception poor, interception zero. Now what's interesting is that a lot of the names in these documents are foreign and a lot of the phone numbers are in the UK we pushed in deeper, but there are deeper Cages look the elevators I can't get in sure what they lead to no we've been told there are detentions well shame on you BBC for this over dramatized piece of crap reporting that you've put out there and

1:01:53 It's just unbelievable. And here the lights are all on, but we're in the secret cave, then we have to have the flashlight. Like there's no light on the camera? What kind of camera guy you got there? He's got these flame throwers on those cameras for night use. So now we have Nick Robertson. Now Nick Robertson is billed as the senior international correspondent for CNN. If you look into his biography, he was... What's the name of the guy? Nick Robertson. I told you about this on a previous show. He was Wolf Blitzer's satellite operator during the fake Gulf War I. So what he did was literally set up the dish

CHAPTER 19 / 40 Discussion

Discovery of Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

CNN's Nick Robertson located the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, in a comatose state at his home in Tripoli. The segment discusses the controversial 2009 release of Megrahi from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds. The hosts suggest the original conviction was a political maneuver and the current media coverage serves to manage public outrage.

abdelbaset al-megrahi· lockerbie bombing· cnn· nick robertson· libya

1:02:39 and established connection with CNN from their green screen in Riyadh or wherever they were. Remember all of those fake videos? So now the guy is like the senior international correspondent and he's dramatizing as well. So he finds just in time by the way the Lockerbie bomber Al McGrahy. Oh yeah this is hilarious. But listen I don't know if you saw the the whole setup, so he's trying to get into the compound. It's like to catch a predator. I mean, it's exactly the same camera crew and editing.

1:03:29 Hello for 15 minutes or so nothing. I'm not sure if they've heard me So let's try the last ditch means which is just now they have him climbing up the wall Hello, hello, and this was you know that this was shot all after they already did the footage inside This is just like b-roll was like now. We got to dress this a report up a little bit Let's pretend like we can't get in and all of a sudden someone comes Nothing prepares me for what I see McGraw he apparently in a coma his aging mother at his side so I mean I don't even know if this is McGraw he

1:04:10 This, yeah, you know, you almost get the impression that the idea was this McGraw-Heap fiasco, which we believe, if people have listened to the show long enough, was part of a quid pro quo based on the fact that there's evidence to show that it wasn't Libya that did the Lockerbie bombing. and it was some sort of a CIA thing that went wrong. Right, with the drugs, with the coke that they were transporting. And there was a lot of evidence, if you go back to the period that it happened and start reading the news reports in the London papers, they really got into it and then it was shocking to the Londoners, especially the press there, that they came up with this McGraw-y idea. And then they did a kangaroo court and pushed the guy in the jail before they could do anything because there was a kind of a, I guess, a little battle going on politically with the Qaddafi in the United States. And this was the way to get, you know, to get the

1:05:10 level playing field with Libya so we could do some deals with them and so they just so the whole thing was covered up and then it's assumed that there was the evidence that finally came out because there was some threats of trying to Reopen the case and the next thing you know they let the guy go out of the blue They just say okay. You can go home because you're gonna die And of course the guy, then the guy never even showed any signs of relapse. And now it's becoming a problem because of this, this recent Libya activity. They got to get rid of him. They got to get rid of him. So whether he's dead or not, they show a guy who's dying set up by the satellite operator who's trying to get into the compound with six security cameras made by Logitech, by the way, bunch of webcams hanging around.

1:05:52 And they show, every news organization showed the guy in the bed. So to assuage the public, which is especially the British public, was getting irked by the fact that this guy's still floating around and now, oh, he's dying. Okay, I guess that's good. Let's go back to work. So the only thing I'm missing, because of course this is what's so outrageous to me, is we have these elaborate BBC reports. We've got hours and hours of b-roll footage of rebels shooting around. They've got their 50 caliber on the back of trucks, on the back of pickup trucks. Now we have flown, I have the number here actually, I believe

CHAPTER 20 / 40 Discussion

NATO Bombing Campaign and Civilian Protection Mandate

NATO spokespeople maintain that the bombing campaign in Libya is strictly for the protection of civilians under a UN mandate. Despite thousands of sorties, the hosts note a lack of video evidence showing the actual impact of the bombings. They criticize the use of "human shield" rhetoric to justify strikes on mosques, schools, and hospitals.

nato· libya· united nations· human shields· propaganda

1:06:35 three to four thousand sorties and Carpet-bombed this country. I have yet to see one One piece of videotape of the bombing. Have you seen any any bombing of Libya whatsoever? No, not a single thing Everyone has a cell phone in that country with a with ability to take videos not a single Video has been published that I know of or even posted if it was posted I'd love to get all we get to see is a guy's either shooting Kalashnikovs into the air or shooting him at a building that would you never get to see the building by the way my favorite ones those guys running past the building and shooting aimlessly and but then no one ever turns the camera to show us what they're shooting at

1:07:24 No, because it's wag the dog. It's all fake. There's nothing. There's shooting at nothing. And then those guys on those trucks, boom, boom, with those anti-aircraft guns just firing away at God knows what. They never show the other end of that. But this is how television works because your brain fills in all the rest. This is what we know. This is how television is put together. And we've become so conditioned by movies and television series that, oh, of course I saw it. Well, yeah, I mean, I saw the rebels fighting, you know, but not for one second have you seen these thousands, thousands drone attacks, carpet bombing, and it hasn't stopped. I now am subscribed to the NATO channel, natochannel.tv I think it is, and they've got a spokeshole and a half on this thing. And she comes out and she's clippity-cloppity, clippity-clop, she's got the red jacket on,

1:08:20 You the Hillary jacket. She's got the she's got the full regalia She's got the the necklace with the big big blue stones on it weighing her neck down You know I can barely keep my neck up I'm astounded by what I'm hearing Here we are the NATO mission is important It's effective, and it's still necessary necessary in order to protect civilians. I'm to protect civilians John That's why I got protect civilians As long as threats remain, there's still a job to be done and we will get that job done. Now what was the job? What was the job that had to be done? Well the job originally was to protect some town out of the blue. No-fly zone. Right. And somehow has morphed into getting rid of Qaddafi in days not weeks.

1:09:15 and uh... dennis i don't know i have no idea what the whole is a little bit about a subject to secure the country first for the forces of the europeans well it's near a little bit more from the spokes all the wrap it up with what it's all about The mission will continue in full compliance with the United Nations mandate for as long as it's needed, but not a day longer. Days not weeks. By the way, they had a, the whole mandate was no fly zone, but I guess that included just bombing everything. It looks as if we're nearly there, but we're not there yet. Nearly there, John, not quite. Little more bombing left to do.

1:09:57 In the last week we've seen vivid reminders of where the threats are coming from. We've seen the grim pictures from Tripoli. Now words matter. And the allegations. Allegations. Of mass graves, executed prisoners. and a hospital full of dead patients. Now did you see any of this? Did you see the hospital full of dead patients? I have not seen the hospital full of dead patients. Mass graves? Did you see the mass graves? So you go in, you go into the hospital, help, let me, can I come in? Yeah, come on in. And you go in and the whole hospital is filled with dead patients. They didn't have the wherewithal to leave the hospital, they just stayed there and died.

1:10:37 We've seen... I think you can go to Kaiser over here and go to the emergency room and they've got probably a few dead patients sitting there. ...thoughts of how the regime has been using mosques, schools, and marketplaces. She forgot the Viagra part. What is this? This is old. They're using an old script from the Bush administration about using all these, you know, shields, human shields, mosques, shields. We can't bomb a mosque. You know, it still works though. That's why. No one questions this. We must make sure that these threats are gone and that they're gone for good. So we have to get rid of the mosques, the schools and the hospitals. We've got to bomb them. Those are the threats apparently. Civilians and cities in Libya are safe. So that the Libyan people can build a new future based on democracy, reconciliation and the rule of law. Once NATO's job is done, it's for others to take over the lead in supporting Libya.

1:11:38 We expect the United Nations to take the leading role and we've already seen that it is doing so. NATO could support upon request. Last week, as you know, the North Atlantic Council agreed that any possible future supporting role for NATO must satisfy three criteria, a demonstrable need, a sound legal basis and wide regional support. I must stress though that no decision has been taken and the focus for now remains very much on getting the job done under the current mandate of the United Nations Security Council. We will get the job done. Sick hell! We will get it done and we will not a day longer or less, we will get it done. We have ways of getting it done. This woman is a Nazi.

CHAPTER 21 / 40 Discussion

Printing of Libyan Banknotes in the United Kingdom

The Royal Air Force has delivered 280 million Libyan dinars to Tripoli to restock ATM machines. These banknotes were printed in the United Kingdom, highlighting the international control over Libya's central bank. The discussion touches on the security features of modern currency and the coding of laser printers to prevent counterfeiting.

libya· central bank· banknotes· united kingdom· currency

1:12:28 The whole NATO operation is Nazis. Yeah, well the whole EU action is Nazis. So a couple of things and then I'll just get off of this topic. So the RAF, the Royal Air Force, has flown 140 million pounds worth of Libyan banknotes, which is the equivalent of 280 million Libyan dinars, to go fill up the ATM machines. But here's the kicker. The cash was printed in the UK. How does that work? They're just printing up money, again from the BBC by the way. It's the first tranche, which is an investment term, of 950 million pounds that will be handed to Libya's central bank. So this is like, hey, you got any toner in that thing?

1:13:16 is printing up money and then they show pictures of a woman like at the bank I'm so happy I have I have my dinars which kind of proves that this whole thing was not was about oil but also about the about the central bank and about the money so I guess the Brits are just printing up the money now which kind of kills me. Well it's possible that some of these smaller countries use offshore facilities to print their money secure ones I mean I would assume that you know not everybody has a the wherewithal to print the advanced kinds of notes that are out there in today's world. You just need a laser printer. But probably, you know, I want to remind people out there if they think that laser printer is going to do the trick, you can make a note. Laser printers are all coded. Not only that, but most of them now will actually, like if you try to

1:14:02 Print from Adobe Photoshop. If you copy a banknote into it, Adobe Photoshop will say you're not allowed to do it. A warning pops up in Photoshop. I'm reliably informed. Well, the fact is every printer has a... on every sheet of paper it prints... has a code... puts a series of... yellow... impossible to see yellow dots. Right. Yeah. And I think the way you get around is you run... not that I'm advising people to do stuff like this, but I think if you ran the sheets of paper through five or six different printers, there'd be so many dots on there, no one would ever figure out what it was.

CHAPTER 22 / 40 Discussion

African Economic Independence and Raw Material Exports

An analyst on Russia Today argues the war in Libya is fundamentally about preventing Africa from developing its own manufacturing base. By keeping African nations focused on exporting cheap raw materials rather than finished products, Western powers maintain economic dominance. The US is criticized for using military force where China uses economic "finesse."

africa· libya· manufacturing· raw materials· russia today

1:14:37 So to wind this up, just a little, if you look at the Wikipedia page, the book of knowledge for Libya, there are a couple of things that are very interesting. You know they've also changed the anthem? It used to be Allah Akbar and now it's Libya, Libya, Libya. I'm trying to get a sound clip. What is it? Who wrote this thing? Steve Ballmer? No. That's a good one. We should make that. Libya, Libya, Libya. Yeah, no, I don't know who wrote it probably The same guy who writes Rihanna's hits. I don't know but there was a guy on Russia Today which

1:15:18 Of course, everyone has their own agenda, but I do love it when they bring in the dudes via Skype. And in one minute and 15 seconds, he tells us exactly what this is all about and what the whole Libyan thing is. And it's worth listening to. You could actually share this with your friends and tell them they can hear more of this good stuff by going to rickperryisanidiot.com. And to understand why they did that, we have to understand that this war is fundamentally a war to maintain Africa. the and

1:16:21 manufacturing investment is going to do is potentially allow Africa to export finished products rather than having to constantly export cheap raw materials. Now, how has the US decided to deal with this in the only way it knows how? Militarily. I really love that. That makes sense, like, thank you very much, that's it. It's like we want to keep Africa's stupid slaves and we want them to just give us raw material. What, you want to make products? No, son, that's not how it works. And the Chiners, you know, the Chiners are, I gotta tell you... They're causing trouble, those guys. Yeah, they're causing a lot of trouble. But I have respect for them because they don't go in and kill brown people, they just trick them.

1:17:01 Yeah, they're very good at that. It's a little different, you know, and I love how this guy says, you know, the Americans go in, the only way we know how to do is we kill them. Yeah, we don't have a lot of finesse. We don't have any class. We just don't. We like to blow things up. I mean, we celebrate our anniversary as a country by shooting off things, blowing things up. We're not that much different actually from our brothers and sisters there in Libya. You know, they like to shoot too. Yeah, shoot in the air bullets. Finally these guys I like the one day BBC reporter they go there's all these crazy Libyans are behind or just standing around behind them then the Tripoli shooting their Kalashnikov straight into the air and she said well, you know, whatever goes up must come down. Oh, yeah No, lots of people get killed from the bullets coming down. Yeah, they're just shooting like crazy boom boom boom boom. Yeah anyway backslash Libya so

CHAPTER 23 / 40 Discussion

Jersey Shore Popularity vs. Global Awareness

A "man on the street" segment highlights the disparity between the public's knowledge of the MTV show Jersey Shore and basic government facts. While interviewees can name every cast member of the reality show, they are unable to identify members of the presidential cabinet or define the ATF.

jersey shore· mtv· pop culture· civic literacy· man on the street

1:17:55 There's a couple of things I got here that I wanted to go into before we take another break. Wow, is it that time already? No, we got a little time. We got a little time. Well, first of all, Have I just took this clip is a kind of an amusement clip which we could play anytime, but I might as well play it now This is a somebody on what you know I'm fortunate get the guy's name But he was doing a little piece for one of the news channels on the Jersey Shore becoming the number one cable show above all those you know Fox News and all the rest of it Jersey Shore is the number one show on all cable and And so this guy went out with this camera. I mean anyone can do what this guy did but it's always funny to hear it when somebody goes out and asks questions about you know the real world and then Jersey Shore and the and the idiots on the street they don't know anything about what's going on in the world let alone Libya but they know everything going on at Jersey Shore. What's GTL stand for? Jim Tan Laundry. Jim Tan Laundry. GTL baby. Jim Tan Laundry. What does ATF stand for? At the...

1:18:59 Food? I can't remember what that stands for. Alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Can you guys name for me the Jersey Shore cast members? Pauly D, Vinny, Snooki, JWoww, Ronnie. Can you guys name Obama's cabinet? Oh, it's a cabinet. What are they famous for again? Drinking, partying, and getting themselves in trouble. Some of the girls get crazy in the hot tub. Is that how it is down here at the Jersey Shore? I'm from Jersey, I would never do that. You don't pass out drunk and get arrested? I don't get arrested. You just pass out drunk? Sometimes. We're doomed. That is the American public we are doomed doomed I tell you the thing is you could take that that the camera on the streets and do that anywhere anywhere and 90% there are people that know you know you know that yeah, but we don't put them in we don't put those into the I Don't care. You know you don't put him in it's true. You make up you make light of the whole thing by us and

1:19:56 But the fact of the matter is even if you put him in it would be a small minority Yeah, I do have an ATF clip since they were taught since the what is it the the food industry? What was 80 at the food at the food? Is that a new fast-food restaurant at the food? This is about the Fast and Furious. This is Obama's Watergate, which he might get away with, by the way. Right. Two big changes here, Chuck. This involves something called Fast and Furious, which is an effort by ATF to try to trace the flow of illegal guns from the US into Mexico. And what they did was they would watch these illegal buyers

CHAPTER 24 / 40 Discussion

Operation Fast and Furious and ATF Resignations

The acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, was reassigned and U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke resigned following the fallout from Operation Fast and Furious. The botched program allowed thousands of illegal firearms to flow into Mexico, some of which were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The Justice Department describes the operation as a mistake rather than a crime.

atf· operation fast and furious· eric holder· kenneth melson· dennis burke

1:18:59 Food? I can't remember what that stands for. Alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Can you guys name for me the Jersey Shore cast members? Pauly D, Vinny, Snooki, JWoww, Ronnie. Can you guys name Obama's cabinet? Oh, it's a cabinet. What are they famous for again? Drinking, partying, and getting themselves in trouble. Some of the girls get crazy in the hot tub. Is that how it is down here at the Jersey Shore? I'm from Jersey, I would never do that. You don't pass out drunk and get arrested? I don't get arrested. You just pass out drunk? Sometimes. We're doomed. That is the American public we are doomed doomed I tell you the thing is you could take that that the camera on the streets and do that anywhere anywhere and 90% there are people that know you know you know that yeah, but we don't put them in we don't put those into the I Don't care. You know you don't put him in it's true. You make up you make light of the whole thing by us and

1:19:56 But the fact of the matter is even if you put him in it would be a small minority Yeah, I do have an ATF clip since they were taught since the what is it the the food industry? What was 80 at the food at the food? Is that a new fast-food restaurant at the food? This is about the Fast and Furious. This is Obama's Watergate, which he might get away with, by the way. Right. Two big changes here, Chuck. This involves something called Fast and Furious, which is an effort by ATF to try to trace the flow of illegal guns from the US into Mexico. And what they did was they would watch these illegal buyers

1:20:34 purchase guns in the US and then take the guns into Mexico, but agents were instructed not to try to stop the guns because the theory was that you would see how the system worked. Well, it went awry, thousands of guns, nearly 2,000 weapons ended up in Mexico and two of them were found at the scene in December of last year where a US border patrol agent was killed in a shootout. It was widely criticized. There have been a number of hearings on this in Congress. And today, the man in charge of ATF, the acting director, Kenneth Nelson, was reassigned to a policy job at the Justice Department. And out in Arizona, the U.S. attorney, the top federal prosecutor there, Dennis Burke,

1:21:13 uh... has resigned uh... senior justice department official says in essence that the attorney general eric holder had lost confidence in the two of them and that he thought a fresh start was what a tf needed here so this is the latest fallout over this uh... this operation that everybody the justice department now concedes was a mistake so they didn't fire anybody they took the guy uh... responsible and reassigned him Yeah. Really? This is classic. This is typical government work. You can be the biggest screw up in the world and threaten the presidency but you don't get fired. Nobody gets fired. It's just unbelievable.

CHAPTER 25 / 40 Discussion

2012 Presidential Election Strategy and Ron Paul

Speculation regarding the 2012 election suggests both parties may be hesitant to win due to the looming economic crisis. While the media focuses on candidates like Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, there is a growing movement for Ron Paul. The hosts discuss the possibility of registering as Republicans to vote for Paul in the primaries.

ron paul· mitt romney· rick perry· 2012 election· barack obama

1:21:52 I think that this is not going to become Obamagate. I mean it should. It's definitely should. Because it's obvious Obama knew about this. And it's totally illegal and everything they did was wrong and bad and bad for the country and bad for the war on drugs as it were and all the rest of it. And it's going to be swept under the carpet by the mainstream media who just will not do anything to go after Obama. Another thing I'm observing which is kind of interesting is that the real party leaders on both sides the aisle are trying to lose the next election. What do you mean by that? I think they want to lose the next election because everybody looks at the economy and they know it's gonna really go into the tank after 2012 and it's gonna hurt them, whoever's in office. So they just don't want to be a part of it. And so the Republicans are trying to find some

1:22:44 Might as well say it's some loser like Rick Perry who couldn't get elected if he wanted to or Michelle Bachman who's pleasant enough But she's not electable They they want to run one of those two they don't want to run anyone who has a shot at and that you keep and especially Mitt Romney They don't want to run because he could win and if you listen to the Democrats they keep promoting the idea of that the Republicans should be running Mitt Romney why do the Democrats care about at all. The Democrats would be highly critical of Rick Perry. Oh, he's terrible. He's a terrible guy. They shouldn't run him. They should run Mitt Romney because they know Mitt Romney could beat Obama. This is becoming a let's try to lose the election election. And I think that it's going to be interesting to see how it comes out, but it's going to be

1:23:26 It's going to be a very, in fact I'll make this prediction now, the turnout for this election will be one of the lowest in history. Well that's good, that's actually very very good. Well it's still going to be, whoever it's going to be, I think Obama's going to get re-elected. Oh wow, well here's what I'm going to do, and here's what I would recommend, because we really, I think I only have one more shot in this lifetime, who knows if this show will be on the air in the next presidency, we'll probably have to have some kind of license and we won't we won't qualify or whatever. So this is the only shot I got. I have to say I'm going to go register Republican and vote for Ron because you can't even get Ron Paul, you have to get him into the Republican nomination first. In California you can't be an independent and vote for him. You have to be Republican so I'm going to have to go against all of my principles obviously. Yeah I'm going to register as an independent, I'm going to have to

1:24:23 re-register as a Republican so I can do the same thing. And there's a lot of people, there's a big movement afoot amongst the Democrats, young Democrats, to register this one time as a Republican to vote Ron Paul in, at least in states where you can do that. I really don't like promoting an agenda on this show, but I have one now. I mean, really, Ron Paul is, and I hear really smart people saying, this is what they always say, You know, Ron Paul, he really talks a lot of sense, but he's crazy! He's just, that's just crazy talk! He's crazy! He's just crazy. Yeah, and I think the Republicans would like to run Ron Paul knowing that he'd lose and Obama would get in again, but there is a long shot possibility that Ron Paul could actually win. Yes, and I'm reading more and more of this, people actually in mainstream saying... They're scared to death of him, that's why they want to get him out of the picture. Hell yeah. They're gonna have to do what they did with

1:25:19 With Ross Perot and some guy in a black suit came up to him and said, hey look, look at these pictures. They're gonna kill you if you keep running. Yeah, look at this, you see this? You see Libya? Uh-huh. How do you like that drone, son? That drone is gonna come to you. You'll never hear it coming. You'll never hear it coming. Before we get to our donation segment, there is one more thing I wanted to point out which was quite distressing to me. Shadow Puppet Theater! The president made a nomination for a new shill and new shadow puppet in his cabinet. Did you know Austin Goolsbee was out? He's gone, right? Austin, the debate winner. So there's a new guy. He was on the Stewart Show the last day of his job and he was just happy as a puppy dog. Oh yeah, he wanted to be out so bad. And well, here's the nomination, then I want to talk about this guy.

CHAPTER 26 / 40 Discussion

Alan Krueger Nominated as Economic Advisor

President Obama nominated Alan Krueger to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. Krueger is notably the author of "What Makes a Terrorist," a book that examines the demographics and motivations of terrorists through an economic lens. The hosts find it significant that an expert on "lone wolf" domestic terrorism is now a top economic advisor.

alan krueger· barack obama· terrorism· economics· lone wolf

1:26:14 And that's why today I'm very pleased to nominate Alan Krueger to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. Come on down here, Alan. Come on down here, son. Alan brings a wealth of experience to the job. He's one of the nation's leading economists. For more than two decades, he's studied and developed economic policy both inside and outside of government. In the first two years of this administration, as we were dealing with the effects of a complex and fast-moving financial crisis, a crisis that threatened a second Great Depression, Allen's counsel as chief economist at the Treasury Department proved invaluable. So I'm like, always interesting, whenever there's a new guy in, particularly the chief economic advisor,

1:27:01 And of course his credentials come, I don't think they're so great, but he was in the treasury advising all that great stuff that got us to where we are. So do you know what this guy is famous for, John? This Alan Krueger? Root beer? No. He wrote the book on lone wolf terrorism. What's it got to do with being an economic advisor? You tell me. His book, and you can Google this, it's all over the place. What's his name again? Alan Kruger. K-R-U-E-G-E-R. The title of the book is What Makes a Terrorist? And...

1:27:40 He has in this book five myths about terrorism. Oh god this picture in his wiki page He's got he looks like he's criminally insane. Just take it. You have to look at this picture. No, I've seen it obviously So here it is number four terrorism is mainly perpetrated by Muslims wrong says Alan B Krueger. No doubt religion has a monopoly on terrorism every major religious faith has had followers involved in terrorism Sri Lanka for instance. Can you go back far enough the Rosicrucians had terrorists. After all he says it was not long ago that homegrown villains homegrown villains homegrown Timothy McVeigh and the so-called Unabomber were the most notorious terrorists. That makes sense. The vast majority of terrorist incidents are local, motivated by local concerns, and carried out by natives. Even international terrorist events tend to be local affairs, most frequently carried out by local militants who target foreigners who happen to be in their country. And you will read in this book, which I of course have read for you, and you can actually read through a lot of it on Google Books,

1:28:42 Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle class and often college educated backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues that if we are to correctly address the root causes of terrorism and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do. This guy is, he wrote the book on the lone wolf, white male, middle-aged terrorist! He wrote the book on it! Yeah, I guess so. And he is now the economic advisor for the president. I don't know, it just, to me, it just,

CHAPTER 27 / 40 Discussion

Listener Donations and Bank of America Issues

The show processes a series of donations from listeners in Arizona, California, Chile, and Israel. One donor shares a story of Bank of America losing paperwork during a home purchase, leading to a discussion about the bank's poor reputation. Other listeners request "karma" for law school, new businesses, and personal relationships.

bank of america· donations· karma· israel· winnipeg

1:29:35 Astounding. Astounding. I mean, it's so blatant now. Can we just go after everybody? Yeah, just shut down the country, make every American citizen a criminal, or treat them like one, and pat them down, x-ray them, and let them go. Pat them down, x-ray them, let them go. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. There are no agendas. Like I said earlier, we don't have a lot of donations for some reason. I guess the Sunday show wasn't very good. Keith Edwards at Gilbert, Arizona gave us $111.11 as did Taylor Stewart, Sir Taylor Stewart actually from Calabasas.

1:30:19 who says, it's been said before and it's worth saying again, karma works. My wife and I got some karma for house hunting. We found our dream property later that week in the woods outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for 35% of what it sold for in 2006. Good deal. A lot of good deals to be had in Arizona. But now we need more karma, brother, to help finalize our escape from behind the iron curtain of mother California. That's gonna be tougher. Hold on, I need some of that myself. Here we go. You've got karma. Good luck on that. Good luck. I got the karma. But anyway, we've been living in a hotel with two 70 pound puppies. Stop feeding them and a 10 week old kitten for a week because the Bank of America whom we are buying from the home from lost the paperwork and didn't register the deed.

1:31:03 when they foreclosed. Oh no. They didn't notice until our deal was ready to close two weeks ago. 50, this is the Bank of America by the way, they are the worst corporation in the world. I hope they go broke. Well, didn't the Chinese, the Chinas just buy half of them? I think the China... No, Buffett bought a bunch of them. No, but after that I thought some China... I haven't heard that. To top it off, the movers are showing up with our stuff today and we don't have a house to put it in. Please send some Karmar away. Well, he's got it. Get this mess straightened out and please call the Bank of America as the douchebags they are over this and for everyone they've screwed over. They're just grabbing property, the whole thing. Where's our government? They're supposed to be doing something, our great government. Here we go, it's the douchebank of America. Douchebag!

1:31:45 Eric Brown felt in California $100. Palaio Besa in Santiago. I'm not sure where's RM you think? Oh, Chile. Chile. Chile. It means from Gitmo Nation minor distraction. This donation is for de-douching for me, Kaleo Besa, a douchebag call out for my brother Pablo. So de-douche him. Okay, let me de-douche him first. Here we go. You've been de-douched. You are clean, my friend. The vaginal irrigation sack is gone. And then Pablo gets a douchebag call out. Douchebag!

1:32:22 And we'll give him a birthday thing later. Anyway, he has a new child August 30th, only 10 more kids to go before a knighthood. He wants some karma for his kids, so let me hand that out as well. You've got karma. Pelayo Felipe. 5533 from Sir Michael Miller and Tiburon for my sip SIP from the NAPU producers in APU. You know they've had the no agenda PBX system is set up they've been beta testing they may even do it I don't think I do a show after today's program or not someone in the chat room will tell me this is actually pretty good John so every no agenda

1:33:02 producer can get an extension. So we basically have our own PBX. You get an extension, you can do conference calls, you'll be able to break in on the air live, you can leave reports. I mean it's really quite sophisticated. The Rev is in charge of that and a lot of other people working on that system. I'll look forward to it, it sounds cool. Also double nickels on the dime from Christopher Advent in Winnipeg. Keep up the good work on the show guys. Enjoy my donation of 55.28 Canadian or 55.10 American. I thought I'd donate again. This is ridiculous that the Canadians is beating us by 18 cents. I thought I'd donate again today. September 1st is my birthday and I could use some karma to find a job after I'm finished law school next spring. Yeah, here we go for your law school. Good luck with that. You've got karma. And he, she or he, he, Christopher.

1:33:54 is the founder of rickperryisanidiot.com. Robert Wood, also double nickels on the dime from Keller, Texas, tell the banksters at Chase to go plank themselves. Chase and Bank being another bunch of douchebags. Mitchell Featherston, Marietta, Georgia, 5133. Please mention my website, thepublicdomain.net. I wonder what that is. I don't know. Check it out when I read off Aaron Huber in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. $50, long-time listener, long-time douchebag. It's time for a change. I need some karma for my business. KYC Israel at KYCIsrael.com. I'm sure a plug won't hurt. Keep up the great work. Thanks. Let me just hand out the card. He's in Israel, actually. You've got karma.

1:34:36 Somebody's running a KYC probably Kentucky you go KYC I don't know what that would be but he's in it tickva Israel Anastasia pair of in Toronto $50 need some karma and you've got karma and Fine we have also Greg Brunsell and Kenosha, Wisconsin 50 Robert Durden 50 and finally Kenny and

1:35:22 Sponsor I'm based in Saigon as there is not San Leandro. I'm trying to get the love of my life back I lost because of the things I've done. I hope they have a chance to get her back Thanks, Kenny. Give him a karma and maybe you'll get all right for you. You've got karma And that's it for today's show number two whatever it is Now, hello 2011 calling, John. It's 335. And we want to remind people to go to noagendashow.com, noagendanation.com. You can also buy some mugs there I would recommend. You can put your battery there. And channeldvorak.com and you can donate there. We appreciate it. All the people who donate, even the smaller amounts.

1:36:09 Eric was very sweet he cuz you know I lost on my gold coin and my challenge coin from Iraq and my Original Noah Jenna challenge coin so he sent me a couple of challenge coins at 333 coin actually pretty nice No one that he that he made up the the black one. Yeah, that's a good skit. See a lot of enamel on it Yeah, I think I used to make stuff like that remember back in the day had an enamel kit Did you ever do that no I never did but I've always wanted to ever do tin soldiers I No, I used to do this time. I had a chemistry set. I had that too, but the tin soldiers I liked the most because you got to like yeah, yeah melt this tin and and and pour it into a mold and then yeah, I remember that now they won't allow any of these handled by kids. Oh, you can't melt lead. Oh, you know, it's dangerous. Oh, you can't have a chemistry set. It's dangerous. Burn yourself. Oh, yeah, let's not have any of that. We have a bunch of unemployed kids.

CHAPTER 28 / 40 Discussion

Value-for-Value Model and Birthday Announcements

The hosts reiterate that the No Agenda show is entirely listener-supported and free of commercial interruptions. They acknowledge the birthdays of several producers, including Vernon White and Pelayo Felipe. The segment emphasizes the "human resource" aspect of the global audience.

value-for-value· podcasting· birthdays· human resources· no agenda

1:37:01 So unlike the BBC who create complete drama and don't show you the pictures of the drones killing brown people in the sand, we actually try to uncover some of the stuff for you so that you are a little bit more educated and so that when you look at the news, you can chuckle. And I think that is surely worth a donation to support this program. As you've noticed, we have no commercial interruptions. That's because we Exist and we pay our bills completely from your financial gifts So we highly and by the way is not really gifts because we got to pay taxes over them But we highly appreciate that and to program your brain to vorac.org slash nn

1:37:38 A short list but always happy to say happy birthday to our producers out there. Vernon White is congratulating himself, which I think is illegal in 25 states. Pelayo Besa says happy birthday to Pelayo Felipe, born on August 30th, a brand new human resource, not an American one. I wonder if he's worth more in In pesos or whatever they use over there and Christopher advent Celebrates his birthday today on September 1st. Happy birthday from myself from John and and the the entire staff and management here at the no agenda show We're such a huge organization John second half of the show I've been with hands in a string second half of the show I've been waiting for this my friend

CHAPTER 29 / 40 Discussion

Comet Elenin and Emergency Preparedness Rumors

Rumors regarding Comet Elenin suggest a potential catastrophic event in September or October 2011. An anecdote is shared about a federal employee in Alaska abruptly moving to Colorado, allegedly due to inside information about the comet. While NASA dismisses the comet as a "fuzzball," the hosts remain skeptical of official narratives.

comet elenin· nasa· alaska· colorado· emergency preparedness

1:38:30 Waiting for well, I've been waiting to talk about this. I have held off on this for weeks no, nay months months I've been holding off on this because I just wasn't ready cuz I didn't you know, you know how you ridicule me I don't Yeah, you know, that's all right Sound effect device should I get out? No, you slide whistle comet Elenin So this is a I'll play a little clip and there's been a lot of discussion about comet Elenin coming Coming October 16th to a theater near you and I've been kind of avoiding this until I got on it Elena Elenin ELE NIN a Russian comet well, this is discovered by Leonid Elenin a Russian actually an amateur

1:39:20 stargazer who found this comet and what people are saying out there is that we're all going to die because of this comet. And they've put a date on it, October 16th. So I'm going to play two clips for you and then I'll explain why I'm bringing it up now and why I think there is maybe a little bit of concern, at least for something. This is Brooks Agnew. He's a writer. I think this is probably from Russia today. He'll just give you a little background on Comet Elenin and why it's somewhat disturbing. Well, that's a really good question. A lot of people are concerned about it. We've done a lot of research on comet Elenin and what we found is there's a lot of missing data on this comet. NASA claims that it's a harmless little fuzzball of ice, won't come any closer than 22 million miles to Earth. Others are saying... Are you like, do you have that thing in your face and you're just breathing and it goes off? Is that how it works?

1:40:18 that they're getting pictures of it, that it doesn't look like a comet, it doesn't act like a comet, it's coming in from an area that comets don't normally originate from. We have sort of a maelstrom in our galaxy where comets originate and this one's not coming from that neighborhood. So there are a lot of things about this comet that don't make sense. Couple that with the arrival of a very large asteroid along around the same time coming in from a different angle and the launch of the new emergency alert system on the same day of the arrival of that asteroid and you have some very strange coincidences that it seems the officials are not being up front about. So what incidents? I think not! So this has been going on for a while.

1:41:05 I've learned now, you know, particularly when NASA says it's just a little fuzzball That's when I got okay. Hold on a second. So once I was denying something I always got to pay attention to that and I I've been kind of letting it go because you know, what do I know? I'm not an astronomer and usually when there's a date, you know, it's like oh the Rapture is coming You know it passes by and then it's like well, you know, the Rapture will come next time. I But I, there's one of our very loyal No Agenda producers out there who I've been in contact with for many years. He sent me a note. His mother lives up in Alaska and her neighbor is a Fed. And he's up, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on up in Alaska. You know, particularly now that everyone's trying to grab the, you know, the waters up there. The Russians are trying to claim it's there. Everyone wants the Alaska oil and now that the ice has melted and the ships can go through. There's a lot of stuff.

1:42:01 And this guy all of a sudden starts packing up his house and he's leaving for Colorado. And so this producer starts to figure it out and he says, he asked his mom, so it is second hand, third hand. He asked his mom to ask him, are you leaving because of Comet Elenin or Elenin or whatever, however you pronounce it. And the guy says yes, because they were actually off by a month and something's happening in September, not in October. And so he's hightailing it out of there. He's packed up his stuff. He's moving to Colorado. And so I'm like, okay. I mean, I do trust our producer and I would presume that this information, maybe this guy is being fooled, but that sounds pretty realistic. And then I start looking around and I find a message, a video message from the director of NASA, Charles Bolden.

CHAPTER 30 / 40 Discussion

NASA Director Charles Bolden's Emergency Message

NASA Director Charles Bolden released a video message in June 2011 urging employees to develop family preparedness plans and emergency supply kits. Bolden mentioned the safety of people "off this planet" and the need to prepare for "unforeseen" attacks similar to 9/11. The hosts analyze the message for coded warnings about upcoming disasters.

charles bolden· nasa· fema· emergency supply kit· preparedness

1:42:55 And he sent this message out in June of this year to all of the employees of NASA. And there's some very interesting things he's saying in this that I'd just like to comment on. They've given me a few minutes just to talk to all of you in our NASA family about emergency preparedness. NASA recently participated in a FEMA exercise called Eagle Horizon that was a part of a continuity of operations in government. I always love it when there's an exercise and they're gonna test some emergency system. It's always kind of creepy because when these tests go on something often happens. Exercise that we do annually and I became aware of some things that concern me about our family preparedness and I wanted to talk to you very briefly.

1:43:38 You know, we at NASA, we're an incredibly unique organization. We're the only agency in the federal government that's responsible for the safety and well-being of people not only here on Earth, but off this planet. What people is he referring to that are off this planet John the people in the space station How about the moon bases man? Oh? Yeah, the moon bases That's a possibility just said and the astronauts in the International Space Station instead is like people off this planet So, my experience in the astronaut office, my experience as an active duty Marine, always talked about the importance of family preparedness and to make sure that we had a viable family support program. And I have concerns that ours right now is not as good as it ought to be. So what I'm asking all of you in the NASA family, whether you're out on the West Coast, here on the East Coast, along the Gulf Coast,

1:44:32 Notice he's only talking about the coast. It's only the coast. Anywhere there's water. Up on the, you know, the Great Lakes. Think about the natural disasters that could occur in your area. Think about attacks that could come like 9-11 from outside forces. Okay, this is what my brain hurts. Think about the attacks like 9-11 from outside forces. From the people from other worlds? Off planet? What are you talking about, dude? and talk to your family about your work and what they need to do to prepare for the unforeseen. Develop a family preparedness plan in your house. Have an emergency supply kit available. Most people who live along the Gulf Coast always have an emergency kit for hurricanes. I'm not sure whether people out on the West Coast think about earthquakes and the like, but have an emergency supply kit at your home.

1:45:24 Think about a family communications plan. By the way, family communications plan. I'd like you to do something for me, John. Could you please buy me a ham rig? I mean, I know I'm not licensed and anything. Just buy me a rig. Send it to me. I mean, I know I'm sure I can operate it. Just when the caca hits the fan, I just want to have one. Yeah, you should. Everyone should. That's why I think people should get their ham license. Yeah, screw the license. Will you please just buy me one? I won't use it unless I need to. Could you just send me something? uh... well i'm not going to agree to that on the air okay all right good there are we going to meet if an emergency occurs and we're all over the all over town uh... what are we gonna do what we're gonna call each other on the cell phone to know about ham radio things if you have pets self-assault work if you have pets think about a pet preparedness plan why do we why is the nasa guy worried about pets

1:46:15 Why? Because you gotta keep the animals alive so you can eat them later. How are you gonna make sure that they're taken care of when you're spread all over the place? So you can eat them. And then if you have family members who have special needs, special needs preparedness. Okay, I've had enough of this idiot. So, uh... By the way, I've got a plan if there's an earthquake. Get in your car and drive to Sacramento. Well this is not about earthquakes. I mean this is about the comments. Yeah, I know, but I'm used to the whole thing, this, you know, having all this food and stuff. I've always said the best, your absolute best way to protect yourself from starvation, and you can do this, you know, there's a number of sources of mailing lists, and you want to rent the mailing list of all the Mormons.

CHAPTER 31 / 40 Discussion

California Capital Gains Tax and Real Estate

A discussion about the difficulty of leaving California highlights the state's high capital gains taxes on home sales. An anecdote about a Los Angeles resident attempting to sell a multi-million dollar home illustrates the financial burden of state regulations. The hosts express a desire to relocate to more tax-friendly regions.

california· real estate· capital gains tax· los angeles· taxes

1:47:00 And then you'll have a list of everyone you know has one year supply of food in their basement. Right. And then you just go over there and sponge off them. So I'm thinking we need to get out of California. Well you need to get out of California for sure and I've been trying to get out. Really? So that's not a problem. You know what, I was talking to Sean, the guy who cuts my hair, because I had a main that we wouldn't quit. I had to get my hair cut. And this guy, by the way, is doing okay. He's putting his house up for sale. He wants to get out of LA. And I think his house is like, I think he bought it for maybe a million dollars. Now he's putting it up for six million dollars. I'm like, good luck with that. But he just took it off the market. He found out that apparently the state of California, on top of the federal capital gains, has capital gains themselves. Is that

1:47:55 Do you know about this? Is that possible? No, I don't know about that. But it wouldn't surprise me. He says that if he sells his house, he would have to pay 25% capital gains tax on his house. And then he went, and he's an Iranian, and he went nuts. He's like, wow, I'm headed up to here. Like, I'm just giving some money for what? For what? So they can go shoot people, drop bombs on them. I'm like, no, no, let me correct you. Drop bombs on brown people. It's not just any people. We only drop bombs on brown people. But this state of California is F'd. It's really F'd. It's not okay. Anyway, I digress. So what's your point? My point is I'm keeping an eye on Elenin. That's my point. It reminds me of the Nibiru collision that was supposed to take place in... It's Niburu. Whatever. That was supposed to take place in 95. I'll put money with anybody who wants to bet a thousand dollars that we don't get hit by a comet. I don't have a thousand dollars to bet. You apparently do.

1:48:57 I do, I have a thousand dollars. I always keep a thousand dollars for any comet bet. They come my way. Your comet stash. Well, I don't know. They're saying that the comet, not the comet that it'll hit, but because of the tail that it'll cause so much cosmic interference. Yeah, sure. They did the same thing with Halley's. I mean, every comet that comes by somebody comes up with some crackpot bull crap. Well, I guess it's my turn to propagate the message then. I thought there'd be a movie coming out. No, that's another reason for concern is there's no movie. Yeah, well, I think we just aren't looking deep enough. There probably is a movie. Okay. Hey, Al Sharpton's on crack. Hey, by the way, he's on crack? Yeah, yeah, I got proof.

CHAPTER 32 / 40 Discussion

Al Sharpton's Teleprompter Errors on MSNBC

Al Sharpton is mocked for several verbal slips while reading the teleprompter on his MSNBC show, including referring to "genetically modified crack" instead of "crops." The hosts play clips of Sharpton's "mush mouth" delivery and question why the network continues to give him a platform.

al sharpton· msnbc· teleprompter· gmo· journalism

1:49:43 Here he is on his, he's moved up now. Doesn't he have like a special show now? They gave him a show, a complete show with a name to it and I, you know, we have played the other clip of his wonderful prompter reading which I would love for you, I was going to send you a note saying, take that clip up, I want to hear it again. I have a new one. Another one? A new Al Sharpton prompter mess up proving that he's on crack. Here we go. State Tennessee Congressman Steve Frenchett. I'm Stephen Fincher and I approve this message because my roots run deep in Tennessee, not politics. But Fincher's roots seem to be thriving in Washington. He introduced a bill to fast track approval for genetically modified crap, crops. And Fincher's gotten

1:50:31 Genetically modified crack hey wishful thinking Genetically modified crack this guy's a disaster. Let's do that again crops Roll it back a second. That's too funny. I can't get enough of this clip fast-track approval for genetically modified crack You know that, why does this come out of his mind? Because he's thinking crack. He's like, I can't wait till this show is over so I can have me some crack. A genetically modified crack, I mean crops. You know the guy's thinking about crack. Well he had to be, I can't imagine, I wouldn't, if I was looking at a prompt I wouldn't get

1:51:09 I would I'd see the word crops it wouldn't crack crack wouldn't come to mind. Genetically modified that's the best to be thriving in Washington he introduced a bill to fast-track approval for genetically modified crap I love it guys the old clip that other one where he says much much must much yeah I can probably find it for you I think that thing's just a gem um see Meanwhile, they give him this full-time gig and it's like the guy's a mush mouth so you can barely understand a word he's saying and he's just the same old knee-jerk Republican, or sorry Democrat, knee-jerk Democrat on MSNBC. I don't see where that network is, who's running that thing. So I did something new this week. I'd set up search.nashownotes.com

1:52:11 Which is pretty so if I just do sharp did let's see if this thing works this will actually prove that we did something good here Wow 329 sharp and teleprompter dot mp3 this is hey this thing is pretty good man this yeah but we that means we have to change the way we name our clips because you have to put the person's name on the clip well I know I always name it a pro come on I mean sharp and teleprompters the name of the clip is that I know but I don't do that yeah but I rename your clips John in case you didn't notice thanks for looking at the show notes my friend I've already heard the clips I don't go looking for my clips here we go

1:52:50 Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin a national drive to push back or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance. But resist we must. We must and we will much about that be committed. Hey, good work MSNBC. The guy's a genius. This is the guy you gotta hire. He's awesome. You gotta hire him. Yeah, hire him. That's fantastic. Unbelievable. There was one more thing that I got emailed a lot as an airman. I kind of expected it. This is, I'm sure you saw this note that came out. Automation in the air, dulls pilot skills.

CHAPTER 33 / 40 Discussion

Pilot Skills and the Push for Unmanned Drones

A draft study reported by the Associated Press claims that automation is eroding the flying skills of commercial pilots. The hosts argue this is a PR plant designed to justify the FAA's transition to the "NextGen" air traffic system, which favors unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They predict a future where commercial flights are fully automated and controlled by military-industrial contractors like Raytheon.

faa· drones· uav· pilot training· raytheon

1:53:44 Did you see this? I'm sure someone emailed this. You might have even brought it. No, I never got it. Okay. So this is a draft study, which means it's a PR plant because the study has not been published. Associated Press reports, pilots automation addiction has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don't know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in the airline crashes in the last five years. And then we have a quote, could someone answer the fucking phone?

1:54:23 What kind of a quote is that? I'm sorry, that's not what he said. I apologize. There's a phone ringing here. You couldn't hear it. Quote, we're seeing a new breed of... You're like Shelly Berman on the DuPont special. Whatever. We're seeing a new breed of accident with these state-of-the-art planes, said Rory Kaye, an airline captain and co-chair of a Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Committee on Pilot Training. Quote, we're forgetting how to fly unquote. Now, I have to respond to this because of course there's an agenda behind it. Remember, this is a draft study, which means the Associated Press was given something to see as a part of a PR effort and it was not a published study. This is an insult to ATPL pilots, air traffic pilots who are licensed to fly big planes.

1:55:22 This is total and utter bullcrap. In fact, I mean the automation that is, and I'm not talking about the messed up Airbus plastic airplane stuff to fly by wire, that I'm against, but flying on autopilot, GPS, all of these things, it's a part of what you train for. And it is total bullcrap for this guy Rory K to come out and say, oh, they're forgetting how to fly. Anyone who flies is outraged by this guy's comments. And for a captain to say this, I'm just like, this blew me away. So I'm like, why is this guy saying it? Well, the answer comes to us in another news report.

1:56:05 As the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration announced they are carving out between four to ten bubbles in civilian airspace above the United States to test unmanned aerial vehicles. And this is for the Department of Defense. This is so the drones, we know that drones, it's really the drones crash into things. and if you go back to Rory K, who was a Brit by the way, and I'll play a clip from him from 2005, this is all about... the next-gen system, which all pilots are against. They want to have total control over the airspace so their precious drones don't get in the way of commercial aviation. And you can hear this Rory Kaye, Brit, shill, dickwad, 2005 he's already shilling for the unmanned drones in this. And by the way, he thanks the sponsor for this event. This is from C-SPAN. Good morning everybody, thank you.

1:57:06 I trust you had a nice evening last night and we certainly thank EVUS for their generous sponsorship of last night's hospitality suite. Today is a very busy schedule and a very interesting one. We have three tech panels and we're also going to have a detailed and gripping presentation on United Airlines Flight 232, a situation for which there was no training other than effective cockpit resource management. That will be after lunch. In the meantime, we're going to get on with our first presentation. Pilot safety volunteers, along with FAA representatives, will now discuss current challenges facing our air traffic control system today and what solutions the future may hold. Now, coming to a flight level or altitude near you, unmanned aircraft and microjets. How will we deal with them and what impact may they have on flight safety and the way we do business?

1:58:01 Crowd control, managing congestion in our airspace, moderator Captain Larry Newman. So this guy has been a paid shill, and this by the way is a multi multi billion dollar change that they're trying to push through just to get the drone set up. And if you look at this AP article right there, it's talking about the FAA is moving from an air traffic control system based on radar technology to more precise navigation instead of time consuming fuel burning stair step descents. Planes will be able to glide in more steeply for landings with their engines idling. Aircraft will be able to land and take off closer together and more frequently, even in poor weather. Because pilots will know the precise location of other aircraft. But the new landing procedures require pilots to cede even more control to automation.

1:58:49 So these guys are trying, they're saying pilots don't know how to fly but what they're actually selling is a next generation system where you don't need the pilot at all. In fact, I predict in our lifetime, John, we will get on an airplane that has no pilot at all. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I think the first step though, you'll see which will be a big, there'll be a big fuss over this and you've seen this. they have gone from the three, the four people in the cabin, you know with a navigator and the copilot and the pilot and then they, and I think there's a, I think there's a radio, used to be a radio guy and then they went down to three and then they went, then it was a big stink to go down to two guys. Right. And now all the planes are designed for two pilots and the next step would be to go to one pilot and an automated system that the pilot's just there to make sure the thing works, he doesn't really fly anything, he knows how to fly but he doesn't fly.

1:59:39 and then you'll be at the fully automated plane, which is they do that right now with the AirTran in most of the little shuttles, the AirTran subway, it's like a subway, it's an elevated from JFK to Jamaica Station. It's got nobody in there. You're just in a box by yourself and the thing goes running down the track. Well let me tell you, the day that they take the pilots off of planes is the day I stopped flying. And this is it's just a Raytheon DynCorp big military industrial complex push to get drones in the sky Have it all controlled by the military all of it and and I'm flabbergasted that pilots aren't up in arms and they aren't lynching this guy tar and feather this prick send him back to Gitmo nation East and

CHAPTER 34 / 40 Discussion

Piers Morgan, Ariana Huffington, and Michael Jackson

The hosts criticize foreign media personalities like Piers Morgan and Ariana Huffington for their negative views on the US Constitution. The segment transitions to an Oprah Winfrey interview with Lisa Marie Presley, who claimed Michael Jackson feared he would be killed for his music catalog. Dvorak recalls being blacklisted from MSNBC for suggesting a murder angle shortly after Jackson's death.

piers morgan· ariana huffington· michael jackson· lisa marie presley· oprah winfrey

2:00:31 This guy is in charge. You know, I'm a little sick and tired and I'm just gonna play really douchebag American here for a second. I actually found myself watching douchebag Piers Morgan and douchebaggette Ariana Huffington, two foreigners, talking about how messed up America is. I'm like, get out, both of yous. Get out. Get out. Does Piers Morgan have a green card? I don't know. I want to see his green card. Guys, you know these guys they're very judgmental. They hate the Constitution. We've seen that that's a theme for our show for the next three years a car. Yeah, yeah with people like Fareed Zakaria promoting parliamentary systems

2:01:12 which are the worst compared to our system, the perfect federalist system. And the fact that, you know, we can't get anything done, which is, I don't know if you're people like myself who have worked for the government know that often not getting anything done is what you want. That's why it's set up that way. And I don't know. I mean, it's ridiculous on lighter news. Hey, do we have some real news or what you got? I got the Oprah doomed announcement. Do you know that's real news? All right, let's hit that I love that and now back to real news In fact, segment tonight, the new Oprah Winfrey cable network is not doing well. Reports are the own network has spent about 150 million bucks this year alone and has not succeeded in producing a hit program. No Rizzoli and Isles, no Jersey Shore, no O'Reilly Factor. So, Ms. Winfrey is turning to Rosie O'Donnell to try to generate some success. So that should be good for a fiasco. You know, I think that Anderson Cooper's new show

2:02:13 which starts I think end of this month, I think that's going to be a hit. Is she going to be on the OWN network? No, no, it's syndication, but he's going to have a talk show. He'll be really good at that. He can be the new Oprah. No, no, it'll be good. It'll be good. Okay, here we go. Prediction book. I say Cooper is not going to do it. I say Cooper will be a hit. The gay talk show hosts always score. Ellen, that's why Oprah's bringing in Rosie. It always scores. I have an Oprah clip as well, coincidentally. Edit. When was the last time you spoke to him? This is Oprah with Lisa Marie Presley. Coherently good. Who used to be married to Michael Jackson? Conversation was in 2005. I was very distanced and he was checking to get a read. You know, he was trying to throw a line out to see if I would bite. Emotionally I wouldn't. I was pretty shut off at that point.

2:03:11 And I don't even know how I managed to be like that, but I was. And he was asking me, he wanted to tell me that he, uh, that I was right about a lot of the people around him and that it had panned out to be exactly what he and I had talked about years ago. And he asked if I still loved him. And we went into a whole thing about that and I told him I was indifferent and he didn't like that word. And he cried and he was just trying to find out where I was at and how I could become so detached. And then the final part of the conversation was him telling me that he felt that someone was going to try and kill him to get a hold of his catalog and his estate. And I really didn't know what to do with that. So he actually gave you names? He did, and I would like not to say them, but he expressed to me his concern over his life. Lisa Marie Presley, not long for this world.

2:04:12 Well, she's already said this. Well, maybe. Yeah, because she's not naming names. She should have named the names. Well, I hope she wrote them down somewhere. So, you had predicted, you had, you were the first person in the major media to actually bring up the possibility of this. Do you have that old clip? No, you know, I never was able to find it. I had kept the clip on... It's on one of the shows. Yeah, I don't know where it is, but I actually played the clip where I was on MSNBC And this was when they were all getting ready for the big ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. And they asked me about blah, blah, blah, was it Michael Jackson to work with? And I said, by the way, how come no one has ever brought up the murder angle on this? And they hung up on me.

CHAPTER 35 / 40 Discussion

Green Economy Failures and the Chevy Volt

The "green economy" is criticized following the low sales of the Chevrolet Volt and the failure of Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD, which is backed by Warren Buffett. Despite heavy subsidies, there is little consumer demand for electric vehicles. The hosts compare the current hype for the Prius to the historical dorkiness of the AMC Pacer.

chevy volt· warren buffett· china· green energy· electric cars

2:05:00 They just slammed the door on you. It was hilarious. Yeah, they hung up on me. And you've never been called back. You'll never get invited. You're now blacklisted. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You think that's the only thing that got me blacklisted? I don't know. Well, there's a few other things. So I got a couple of clips that are kind of, they're just mildly amusing because you brought up the sales figures for this, for the Chevrolet Volt. the other day. Yeah, like 250? Is that their... So I want to play two clips. One is the green economy clip which leads into another Buffett scam clip. Alright, thank you so much David Lee Miller in Paterson, New Jersey with a raging torrent behind him. Well, the Obama administration is once again calling for more investment in the so-called green economy.

2:05:44 Okay, okay, so there's a green economy But I don't know why he doesn't get off this crap because they're Silicon Valley guys have lost their ass yeah, and and I mean and we lost 535 million dollars on that stupid company that he was so proud of right right exactly so now play another Buffett scam so you can see that like a lot of people are in on this and I always I just wonder what Buffett's up to with his thinking well the Obama administration is once again calling for more investment in these so-called green economies economy. Vice President Biden this week calling for a new clean energy policy for the United States. But there's at least one high profile example of a green economy that is not working. China has pumped more money into the development of green cars than any other nation and so far hasn't really paid off. So what does that tell us about the future of the green economy in America? Joining me now is Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China. Gordon, let's be honest here. I mean, we all remember the images of Beijing with the smog.

2:06:39 The Chinese government, they aren't interested in a green economy, are they? No, you know, China has the worst environment ever. 16 of the 20 dirtiest cities in the world are located in the People's Republic. And it just gets worse and worse and worse. So why are they subsidizing then the purchasing of these green vehicles? My guess is that this is all about exports. They want to dominate the global economy for cars and green cars are a part of it. So really what they want to do is this is export surpluses that they're talking about, not clean air. Well they have no, obviously you know it's a limited free market so you have to take that, take all their sales figures if you will with a grain of salt. But there's no demand in China for green vehicles is there? No, you know remember a couple years ago Fortune magazine had that cover of Warren Buffett in a car and it said,

2:07:24 Buffett has not only seen the future car, he's sitting in the driver's seat. Well that car was an E6, a Chinese electric car. Well since March of 2010, last year, Buffett's company has sold 53 of those cars. And almost all of those sales were to an affiliated company. Here's a prediction for you. In 20 years from now, there will be jokes about the Prius the way we joke about the Pacer today. We're like, hey, remember all those idiots driving in those battery cars? Remember that? Stupid. The Pacer. We had a Pacer. I'm sure you did.

CHAPTER 36 / 40 Discussion

AMC Pacer Features and Sonicare Toothbrushes

John Dvorak describes the unique features of the AMC Pacer, including its dome-like visibility and rotating driver's seat. The conversation shifts to a recent trip to Walla Walla where Dvorak received a sample of a new Philips Sonicare toothbrush that charges via USB.

amc pacer· wayne's world· philips sonicare· usb charging· walla walla

2:08:04 The Pacer was an interesting car. It was one of the most advanced cars you can imagine. For one thing, it was a dome car. So basically you were in a dome and you had the best visibility. For those who don't know, it is the car used in Wayne's world when Wayne and Garth are doing their... when they're driving and doing their... It is one of the stupidest looking cars ever, but it had some charm to it. So it had this big dome top so you could look all... you get great visibility. And it had, when you open the door, the driver's seat swung out. Oh, I remember that! It would turn left, right? Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, so you could just jump right out of your seat.

2:08:42 and it had other kinds of little features like that, it was just hilarious. Now did you pay for it or was that some shill thing you were in on? No we got it, it was somebody was dumping, somebody has used, we got a used one because somebody had to get out of town or something, we got it for damn near nothing and I couldn't resist because it was just so funny to drive it around and it was kind of actually a pretty nice car to have even though it looked so weird and dorky. There's a picture that was sent to me of you up in Walla Walla this past weekend. Oh yeah, good, tonight uh... sir birch was uh... and yet and he had a picture of you in his uh... many years he has a booster green many i think it is a greener black notice of the british racing grey at the a booster green which is the british racing green and that

2:09:27 And you've got a shit-eating grin on your face that is beyond belief. It is so funny. So anyway, so yeah, I want to also thank Sir Birch for he gave me a, apparently the dentists are getting these samples of the latest and greatest electric toothbrushes from Philips. Oh! Sonicare. And this thing's got lights on it. I have that. I use that. No, this is the one that's got a bunch of different, it said, does it say stuff like whitening and cleaning? It's got a bunch of wordage, and it's powered by USB does it have a happy ending it has a it has a USB attachment so you can power it from your computer

2:10:06 So, uh, that's actually quite cool because the biggest problem with the electric toothbrush is you take it with you on a trip and you don't want to carry along like another charger. You know, it's like, this is cool. I'd like to have one of those. Not that I'm asking for one, but. He gave me the sample so you can get one now. That's cool. I got a couple of clips I want to get out of the way. Unfortunately, they've been sitting, I've been sitting on it for a while, so I can't distinguish one from the other. You can, they're the chart off clips. Mm-hmm, and I've got chart office full of crap and chart office full of shit. So that's now I'm confused

CHAPTER 37 / 40 Discussion

Michael Chertoff on Terrorism and TSA Deterrence

Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is criticized for his comments at the Aspen Institute regarding "homegrown" terrorists and the "aardvark effect." Chertoff argued that the TSA is meant to deter rather than catch terrorists, comparing it to Fort Knox. Meanwhile, the 9/11 military commissions at Guantanamo Bay remain stalled ten years after the attacks.

michael chertoff· tsa· homeland security· 9/11· guantanamo bay

2:10:42 Whether he's full of well, I should play crap first, but it has a one on it So why don't we play chart off is full of crap and then I want to deconstruct what he has to say He's at the Aspen Institute Pontificating about security and a need for more spend more money on his crud his junk Yeah, we just have to say that Michael Chertoff was a the second I think director of Homeland Security He left to start the Chertoff group and has been selling stuff back to his own department without any shame whatsoever and everyone's just like sitting by and enjoying it. you've got a younger generation of folks. You've got a Alaki, you've got Shukla Juma. These are two guys who are... Tell us a little bit about them. Alaki is the radical preacher. Both lived a long time in the United States. Alaki is an American citizen. Shukla Juma I think has lived in the US for about a dozen years. A trained pilot. He's been on the wanted list forever. And these are younger folks. They're operational and they understand the United States and the West. And maybe most

2:11:50 significantly, they're not bound up in repeating the success of 9-11. You know, like anybody else, when you have a guy like Bin Laden who's done one thing where he succeeded, there's a little bit of a tendency to want to repeat it again and again. And in a way we've benefited from that. You know, they have focused, at least in the US, on very high-end attacks, which for the reasons Phil pointed out, are difficult to execute. But now you have a generation that may feel liberated from that and they may decide, you know what, we're going to go for a lot of small attacks. We're going to do Mumbai and we're going to do it, you know, five, six, eight, ten times. Yeah. This is bull crap. First of all, it's a known policy fact that of all the things that the Al Qaeda or Qaeda as the New York Times would have it, do.

2:12:41 is not doing the same thing again and again because it's so easy to repeat. They hit the World Trade Center with planes, then they go blow up a bunch of trains in Spain. It wasn't done by airplanes. There was nothing like it before that. They did it, they blew up an embassy with walk-in explosives, and they've got all these other plans. Where's the again and again and again bull crap? I mean, this guy is full, which is what the name of the clip is, full of crap. But it gets worse with the full of shit uh... and you see it in tsa but you probably see with a lot of other agencies in different walks of life and have to deal with a lot of transactions it is the art work effect are one anecdotal case where someone either messes up or the story doesn't seem right and it's used to argue the system doesn't work so i'm going to give you two i think important things to bear in mind when you look at tsa one is

2:13:34 your conception of or the conception of a lot of people about what a terrorist looks like is wrong. The people who have been homegrown in this country, like Colleen LaRose, blonde haired, blue eyed from Pennsylvania, Jihad Jane, not this Jane. Daniel Maldonado, who I think came from Long Island, Hispanic, converted to Islam. These people do not look like what you think a terrorist looks like. A 92 year old person? What was the age of the man who walked into the Holocaust Museum and started to shoot a gun at people? 92 years old. Children, infants, how many infants, how many children, including people mentally impaired, in different parts of the world have had bombs strapped to them and they've been sent out against American troops to be blown up? What about the couple that was going to get on an airplane in August 2006 with their one-year-old baby and blow the plane up? It would be nice to say that certain part of the population are out of bounds. We can't say that.

2:14:30 So I think the second point I'd like to make is this. I often hear the argument sometimes made by Jeff, TSA doesn't work because you've never caught a terrorist. It's not meant to catch terrorists, it's meant to deter for the reasons Phil points out. Fort Knox has never caught a bank robber. Does that mean Fort Knox is insecure or does it mean that the security deters bank robbers? I'm gonna bitch slap that guy if I ever see him. Now here, this began with the guy saying you know TSA took a 98 year old woman aside who crapped her diaper and they had to make her take her clothes off and all this other nonsense. Yeah. And so he comes up and says well that's the aardvark effect. What the hell? Aardvark? That is lame. So she says you're generalizing from one or two stories, one or two anecdotes, but isn't it, aren't

2:15:18 they the ones that are actually do, you know, this is like projection where you have, you know, you do something a certain way. And then when you see somebody else do something remotely similar, you call them on it. The fact of the matter is they're the ones who are generalizing from one or two things. We had a shoe bomber five years later, we had an underwear bomber. And before that we had, uh, the nine 11 incidents. There's been nothing for 10 or 11 years, except these, isolated incidents, the aardvark effect whatever that means takes place and now we have everybody's being patted down an x-rayed. They're the ones who are doing this. They're the ones who are generalizing from a very few episodes of terrorism. There is no, it's not like Nazi Germany bombing the crap out of everybody left and right on a daily basis. There's no daily basis anything going on. This is a

2:16:07 isolated in incidences that are now being used to terrorize the public the government terry because the terrorist terrorizing us meanwhile the nine eleven terrorists the ones who were responsible still not brought to justice this letter to the nine eleven families from the office of military commission says there is still no public timetable for the trial of the nine eleven suspects at guantanamo bay ten years after the attacks quote Although we are not able to give you a more precise answer on when to expect a decision by the convening authority, the body that oversees the military trials, we will continue to provide updates. Yeah, we'll give you an update on that. It's ten years. You know why? Because these guys weren't responsible. Because you're afraid, the United States government is afraid that what's going to come out is the truth. And that this, whatever happened, and I have my own thoughts which we won't go into, but World Trade Center 7 was weird.

CHAPTER 38 / 40 Discussion

UK Riot Sentencing and Facebook Incitement

Two young men in the United Kingdom were sentenced to four years in prison for inciting riots on Facebook, even though no actual disorder occurred as a result of their posts. The hosts contrast the Western support for social media "rebels" in the Middle East with the harsh crackdown on similar activity in the UK.

united kingdom· facebook· riots· free speech· sentencing

2:17:07 And these guys didn't crash into it. All kinds of stuff going on and we just haven't, these guys are still sitting in Gitmo, which the president was supposed to close. Take it to the bank. Yeah. First thing I do when I become president is close Gitmo. That's what he said. First thing he's gonna do. First thing and then after that he's going to bring home our troops. In 15 months. Yep. You can take that to the bank. Bullshit. Meanwhile over in Gitmo Nation East, they have convicted a number of these horrible horrible horrible rioters. Now of course when, let me just understand this just to set the stage, when you have people using Facebook and the tweeters in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Algeria, then it's called rebels and they're good and we've got to support them and carpet bomb the

2:18:04 uh... car car from the government when it happens in get no nation east in the united kingdom please listen to the sentence that these two kids got for posting on Facebook. It's right that we should allow the courts to make decisions about sentencing. You weren't sitting in the court, I wasn't sitting in the court, we didn't hear the evidence. They decided in that court to send a tough sentence, a tough message, and I think it's very good that courts feel able to do that. So a tough message, John, just a very tough message. These two gentlemen have been convicted, these two youngsters,

2:18:40 uh... what is the sentence and what is the crime let's find out what happened on our streets was absolutely appalling behavior and to send a very clear message is wrong it will be tolerated is what our criminal justice system should be doing the longest sentences handed down to these two men responsible for face book pages inciting violence abhorrent though the messages where they got four years not for taking part in but for encouraging disorder that never actually happened so they posted on face book go riot And they got four years in jail for it. They're gonna get a lot of rioting over that. How outrageous is that? So they used Facebook to... I haven't seen the pages so I'd like to see what they look like. It doesn't matter. No, I would still like to see them. I don't care whether it matters or not. I want to see what they look like because I'll bet you it's not even as onerous as people think. It's probably a couple of people complaining. But it still doesn't matter.

2:19:44 I mean, I don't understand. Don't you have freedom of speech? Not in England. No, apparently not. Well, we don't have it here either. Well, we're supposed to. But can I go on the Facebook and say, go riot? Or, I know, I guess I'm a terrorist then, right? Isn't that the new rule? You'd be a terrorist, yeah, or something. Something bad. Do I have any free speech in that regard? Not when it comes to advocating overthrow of the government. No, if I say riot that's different than from overthrow of the government I think you'd have to say it's a time for a peaceful protest and and just hope a riot breaks out I think that's all you can really get away with

2:20:24 There was some, this report... That's assuming you want a riot. Riots don't tend to work out to the benefit of people in western societies. It tends to be just a good way of getting your head bashed in. There was some kid who stole a $3 bottle of water, which by in itself is criminal. Six months in jail. Six months he stole a bottle of water that was just like laying around. No, but it's okay for bankers. This guy, this Bank of America anecdote that was played that I think we had it on the show where this guy had a He didn't even the Bank of America. He had to pay for his house outright, but the Bank of America decided to like foreclose him. Yeah

CHAPTER 39 / 40 Discussion

Global Nanny State and Child Protective Services

The "nanny state" is discussed through several news items, including a proposed "financial driver's license" in the Netherlands and police in New Jersey threatening a mother for letting her 10-year-old ride a bike to school. An anecdote about Child Protective Services questioning new parents about gun ownership in the hospital highlights increasing government interference in family life.

netherlands· new jersey· child protective services· gun rights· parenting

2:21:04 And he didn't even did he they didn't even have a deed they were just going to the sheriff and saying hey we're gonna take this guy's house screw that actually done it it would take the guy's years to get his house back and there's no proof they should throw that guy in jail that's the people those are your criminals so let me give you a couple more things just before we leave here just to just to lighten the mood get mo nation lowlands the financial minister de yachir who I have met and interviewed when he was the The assistant and he's just a Microsoft IT guy He literally all his only job was to shore up the IT infrastructure. You know the Minister of Finance He says there would have to be a license for consumers that would be you and me slaves to invest do any investments without a financial advisor and

2:21:54 You need a license. And he actually calls it the financial driver's license. So you're not allowed to make any... Where is this? The Netherlands. Get Monation Lowlands. Yeah. He says consumers will have to get a, they call it the financial driver's license before they can make any investments without a financial advisor. Then we have New Jersey. Back home. Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch line bullies in East Hanover in school can be reported to the police by their classmates through an anonymous tip to the Crime Stoppers hotline. Hey man, he cut in line, I'm reporting you to the police. Unbelievable.

2:22:45 Teresa Trion said, on August 25th my 10 year old daughter arrived home via police officer requesting to speak to me on the front porch of my home. The officer informed me that in his judgment it was unsafe for my daughter to ride her bike to school. 10 years old. Ms. Tryon called the chief police office in order to determine what laws she was breaking by allowing her daughter to ride her bike to school. Major Varon of the police department returned her call and said, He had spoken with the district attorney's office who advised that until the officer can speak with child protective services, that if I allow my daughter to ride or walk to school, I will be breaking the law and treated accordingly. The law she was breaking, child neglect. The child has to take the safe school bus. I mean, are we out of our minds? Well, see, a 10 year old, I think, is in the fourth or fifth grade.

2:23:45 Come on man, I walked to school when I was six. When I was in the second grade, because I lived in a little town that doesn't exist anymore, I would be biking around all over the place. Yeah, ten years old, are you kidding me? Mickey used to bike to school for an hour when she was ten, in Holland. You know, we were over at the Gaber's the other day, who were very kind to That's our neighbors. Very kind to pick up our mail while we were on the Hot Pockets tour. And one of them has kids and his grandson was there. And his grandson is like five weeks old. And so I'm talking to his son and his wife, very nice people. In fact, I'm pretty sure his son is listening to the show because he's like a total no agenda fan. I'm like, you need to listen to my show, dude. Go to rickperryisanidiot.com.

2:24:36 And so their son was born and he was basically born not breathing. It was very scary and so they threw him in the incubator and he was on a respirator and so he's okay now. But while they're in the hospital, of course they're all confused and everything, you know, because it's like a weird... you're kind of confused anyway when you have a kid. Child Protective Services started talking to them. You know, it's like, well, okay, we just want to talk to you. Do you have any guns in the house? Okay, yeah. Say, have you ever had any urge to like hit your wife? These are the questions Child Protective Services are asking. And then so they're like, you know, whatever.

2:25:16 And then they call up like a week later after their home and they say, hi, it's you know, so-and-so from Child Protective Services. I'll be coming by on Tuesday. It's like, what is this? What kind of Gitmo nation are we in? Is this normal? God, I hope not. I mean has Eric DeShill had any of this with his new kids? No, well you being in Washington State it's a little better right? It's a little better. I mean you know you can buy bullets or I mean they sell bullets at the counter at the checkout counter. At the hospital. At the hospital. Hey here's your kid and would you like some hollow points with that?

2:26:00 Alright everybody. They're not asking whether you have guns in the house and why should they be asking that? That's, it's a constitutional right to have a gun in the house. So why are they asking in the first place? What difference does it make? They have quotas. I think Child Protective Services has quotas. Child Protective Services is a notoriously evil operation in most states. I mean, Texas is one of the worst and you have your Rick Perry's, you know, are part of the problem. Absolutely abhorrent. This is California, man, the People's Republic and we got this crap going on? Child Protective Services asking if you have guns or if you've ever had violent outbursts towards your wife and then just saying we'll drop by on Tuesday? Get out of my face! That's really outrageous. I was shocked. I was shocked when I heard that. This is because we elect officials who are idiots and we don't care. Or we care more about Snooki. Jersey Shore.

CHAPTER 40 / 40 Discussion

Show Outro and Sign-off

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak conclude the episode by reminding listeners to support the show through the value-for-value model. Curry mentions his upcoming 47th birthday. The show ends with the traditional "Raritan Steel" credit and a sign-off from the "Gitmo Nation" command centers.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· no agenda· raritan steel· podcasting

2:26:54 Alright John, I think that just about wraps it up. I do want to remind everybody we came up short this week and the summer is nearing its end. People are getting back to school, getting back to work. Welcome back to the show if you've not been listening to it for a couple weeks there while you were off vacationing. Just getting by no doubt. We too are just getting by and we do not interrupt this program for commercial messages. It is all that we do. We have spent another considerable number of days, not weeks, in front of C-SPAN trying to assassinate the media for you, trying to find out what is really going on, bringing it to you. And if you appreciate what we're doing, we'd appreciate your support of the program since we have no other way of making income except for a couple of columns that John's writing, but he doesn't really share that revenue with me.

2:27:47 And rightfully so I'll take half the gold bar Now that half has already been taken Yes, oh my goodness so of course you can always find us at Borac org slash and a And a couple of short days coming up here. Oh by the way. It's my birthday on on Saturday I just throw that out there. Well. Happy birthday. Yeah, right. It's a such a non event 47 Yeah, I woke up and I'm 47. The heck happened to me? I'm 47, no one knows me anymore, and I'm doing a podcast. Podcast is the future. Yeah, until you need that license. Yeah, yeah, it's probably true. I've been predicting that for a while.

2:28:36 FCC will be, you know, no more cussing on this. People who cuss on the podcast, which a lot of people like to do, yourself included, will be fined. I would like to point out that you cussed more on today's podcast than I did. I'm just saying. I was reading my cussing. Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California, here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crockpot Command Center. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And here from Northern Silicon Valley, it's garbage day, time to take out the trash. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk to you again on Sunday for the early morning service, as always, right here on NOAgenda.

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