Episode 343 · Thursday, 29 September 2011

ZomBin Laden

A physics graduate faces charges for a model airplane attack on the Pentagon while the Obama administration ignores human rights to finalize a Bahraini arms deal.

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About this episode

The FBI arrest of Rezwan Ferdaus for an alleged plot to attack the Pentagon using model airplanes packed with C4 explosives faces scrutiny over technical impossibilities. While the Department of Justice frames the physics graduate as a high-level threat, the hobbyist kits involved lack the payload capacity to carry twenty-five pounds of explosives. This narrative, amplified by Fox News and other outlets, serves as a primary example of media-driven fear-mongering regarding domestic drone warfare.

International tensions rise as the Obama administration negotiates a fifty-three million dollar arms sale to Bahrain despite the state's violent crackdown on Arab Spring protesters. Simultaneously, the Pentagon pushes a nine hundred million dollar drone deal with South Korea while the European Union faces an existential crisis. Nigel Farage confronted Jean-Claude Juncker and Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels, accusing the unelected leadership of lying to the public to maintain centralized power over national sovereignty. In the United States, President Obama faced a security lapse at a House of Blues fundraiser where a heckler calling him the Antichrist left a jacket near the stage, causing visible alarm for the Secret Service.

Cultural distractions reach a fever pitch with the Michael Jackson doctor's trial and the Occupy Wall Street protests, where NYPD officer Anthony Bologna was identified for pepper-spraying demonstrators. A BBC science program recently aired a segment designed to condition travelers to accept airport body scanners, while filmmaker Michael Moore faced criticism for promoting his anti-capitalist book on corporate news networks. The episode also features the first corporate knighthood for Upstart Ventures and an analysis of the Zombin Laden parody trailer.


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CHAPTER 01 / 42 Discussion

Introduction, Episode 343 and Live Stream Welcome

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open Episode 343 of the No Agenda Show on September 29, 2011. They welcome live listeners from the No Agenda Stream and chat room while discussing the local weather conditions in Southern California and Silicon Valley.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· hilltop watchtower· no agenda· southern california· silicon valley· no agenda chat

00:00 Who know what happened? Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, September 29th, 2011. Time for your Goodwill Nation Media Assassination Episode 343. This is no agenda. Adding the final dabs of glue to my homemade drone here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm telling you it's going to be boiling hot today, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. Not here my friend, SoCal is fogged in. Well, I think it's gonna be our last day of heat.

00:40 Yeah, it was beautiful when I was there last week. It was really nice. Well, this is no, this is hot, like literally hot. Oh, I feel so nice. OK. Hey, in the morning to you, John. In the morning, you Adam Curry and all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air. Yes. And ankles in the straps. And of course, let's not forget our human resources who are all charged up, ready to go in the chat room at no agenda chat dot net, no agenda stream dot com. Very nice to see all of you there. Hundreds and hundreds of people listening live. That's great. And this is the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe. That's what everybody keeps telling us. And boy oh boy, we were just talking before the show and I see that John has a clip of Palooza lined up. I also have a ton of clips and it's very obvious why this happens.

CHAPTER 02 / 42 Discussion

Rezwan Ferdaus, FBI Model Airplane Terror Plot Deconstruction

Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested for an alleged plot to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using model airplanes packed with C4 explosives. The narrative is scrutinized as a potential FBI sting operation, noting that the "drones" were actually hobbyist model kits incapable of carrying the reported 25-pound payload. Discrepancies in the technical specifications of the aircraft and the suspect's background as a physics graduate and drummer are highlighted.

rezwan ferdaus· fbi· pentagon· drone· model airplane· c4· lone wolf· jihadist· ashland massachusetts

01:30 It was non-stop Michael Jackson news everywhere. There was a lot of that, but the story that got my attention is this this lone wolf story. Oh boy, I've deconstructed it actually. Well I'd like you to do that, but let's go over the story first and let me just tell you what I don't even know. To me it's like it's so stupid. Well I have a couple clips and actually this was my lead story. Because we were so expertly set up for this. So expertly set up. And I actually had to... How's that? How do you see we were expertly set up? I don't think this story is even catching on. Oh yeah, yeah, no it is. I mean it's problematic because the Michael Jackson stuff is live and you know, people are more interested in that. But yeah, we... What?

02:21 What? Have you looked at these... this guy... I don't know where this came from. He's not real. That's a Facebook photo they found somewhere and they just... No, no, no. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about these airplanes. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. They have a picture of the guy behind a drum kit. and they pulled it from Facebook. No, I'm talking about the model plane. Yes, I know! And they have a picture of the guy who was set up by the FBI. Well, I'm not concerned about that. I have pictures. Reuters has outstanding photos of these planes. I would like you to explain to me as the aviator how these things are supposed to get off the ground. Okay, first of all, let me tell you how we were set up. And I went to the show notes and I went back to August 8th

03:03 8th, 2011, perfect, two months ago. Do you remember the story, John, of the hacker conference in Vegas when these two shills who work for a government contractor came out and said, it's so easy to build your own drone at home! Do you remember this? It was called WASP, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform. Remember this? At the Black Hat Computer Security Conference? Come on, tell me. Go on, this is not impressing me. Okay, so this is where it all started. This is where the seed was planted in your mind and it was everywhere. Everyone was talking about, ooh, wow, it's so easy to build a drone, build a drone, so easy to build a drone.

03:44 And then we have 60 Minutes earlier this week, 60 Minutes where they talk to Kelly, the police commissioner of the New York, well they call it police department but it's actually an army, a full army. Here's a little quote from him. Are you satisfied that you've dealt with threats from aircraft, even light planes, model planes, that kind of thing? There you go. He goes on to say that he can, well I'll tell you what he says, but light planes, model airplanes, it's all a setup, it's a complete setup for this. Just listen to 30 seconds of his answer because apparently he has all kinds of capability. Well, it's something that's on our radar screen. I mean in an extreme situation we would have some means to take down a plane.

04:33 Do you mean to say that the NYPD has the means to take down an aircraft? Yes, I'd prefer not to get into the details, but obviously this would be in a very extreme situation. You have the equipment and the training. Yes, yes I got everything I need. Now we have to listen to the report from the compromised mainstream media news sources to actually pull apart what this is about and as an aviator I'm not a remote control aviator, I'm not a hobbyist but I did of course do the logical thing which is go look at the specifications of said airplanes

05:10 And there's two kinds the pictures that were shown. We're kind of got mixed up. There's the $5,000 Carbon fiber version Which, uh, these things can go like 200 miles an hour, so they have a real jet engine in it. And then they have the Styrofoam model, which, which some stations were showing the Styrofoam model, which does probably about 30 miles an hour, and you can't do much with it. If you threw that against the Pentagon, it would do well. It'd just splat into a little piece of Styrofoam poop. But we have to listen to the report to really pick it apart because the wording is fantastic. 26-year-old Reswan Furtis went by the name Bollywood when he played in a Massachusetts band. But US officials say the drummer is also a self-radicalized jihadist intent on attacking Americans in the US and overseas. Furtis was arrested this morning and now faces charges of plotting attacks and supporting a foreign terrorist organization.

06:09 Furtis was arrested after he bought what he believed to be 25 pounds of plastic explosives, three grenades and six automatic assault rifles from undercover FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda operatives. I like that. The undercover FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda operatives which is by the way it's their moonlight job anyway. Over the past nine months agents recorded multiple conversations in which Furtis laid out plans for an aerial attack. He bought one small drone aircraft. for the F-86 that was depicted. You can buy these. It's a kit and it's, you have to put it together yourself. It's got a real turbine engine and it is about 1-6 scale model and it's not a drone, okay? It's not a drone. Drone is something completely different. It's a model airplane where you basically have to see this thing to be able to fly it. And plan to buy others which he then allegedly hoped to fill with explosives and fly

07:19 and flying to the Pentagon and the US Capitol from this Washington Park along the Potomac River. Okay, a couple of problems. Are you still with me, John? Yeah, I'm listening. Couple of problems. Fill it with explosives. Now they were talking about 25 pounds of C4. I doubt you could even put 4 pounds of C4 according to the specs that I'm reading. And it seems unlikely you can put anything. Those things are designed to run with zero additional weight. Exactly. Besides that, you kind of have to see it to be able to steer it. I've looked all over the hobbyist forums and there's no cameras in these things. No, but also people have tried to fly it with automatic GPS. The GPS will then basically make it fly a certain route and come back. I have not been able to find any successful attempts of such an event. Moreover, C4 is very stable explosives.

08:13 C4 doesn't, you know, you can throw that against the wall, it's not just going to explode. So it'd have to have some form of detonator. Well, they have changed the story. Ah, okay, good. What have you heard in the change? They had the original story was he was just going to let it crash into the Pentagon and the entire Pentagon somehow was going to blow up from a mere 24 pounds of C4. I don't know if he knows how big the Pentagon is. Well, he took pictures of it, the bastard, that lone wolf, self-radicalized, horrible man. They changed the story in the later reports from Reuters. Now he had designed a cell phone triggering mechanism that was supposedly tested in Afghanistan and killed four soldiers, whereby he commented that this is great. There's more to the story.

09:03 He traveled to Washington to do surveillance, snapping this picture of the Pentagon. It's called being a tourist, by the way. Now being a tourist taking pictures in Washington is called doing surveillance. Officials stress at no time was Furtis outside the control of his undercover handlers. Love that phrase, handlers. Now what do we always understand a handler to be? A CIA guy. Yeah, but a handler is someone who actually... Who tells you what to do. Yes, manages you, exactly. And these, I believe, the way the report goes, are the government's words. So in that sense he presented no actual danger. But he repeatedly told the agents that he was driven to kill Americans, which he called enemies of Allah. He told the undercover's quote, I just can't stop. There is no other choice for me.

09:50 Ferd is a US citizen, has a college degree in physics and apparently some proficiency when it comes to building explosive devices. We're told in the course of the investigation, officials say he converted eight cell phones into detonators which he thought were being used to trigger IEDs against US soldiers serving in Iraq. Bob, I wonder, since the FBI agents supplied the weapons as part of the Sting operation, what are the chances that Furtis will claim that he was in trap? Yes! Well, he's going to try, Scott, but the agents say that over a period of months they gave him multiple opportunities to back out. Here we go again. Now listen to this, listen to what their back out opportunity was. They would say, hey you might kill innocents. He was intent on going forward saying he didn't care. He saw it as his duty. Thank you, Bob. Hey, you know, you might want to stop because you might like kill people.

10:36 So did you, uh, one of the things I did is I went to Willow and looked at the guy's house. Oh really? Okay, cool. Yeah. He actually lives on 22 Coburn Street in Ashland, Massachusetts and people can look it up for themselves. He lives in a $560,000 pretty big place that is in an area that's very heavily, it's a beautiful area. Wooded, it's probably the prices of housing is not that great there and it's probably a million dollar mansion anyplace else. It makes no sense to me

11:12 that coming out of this this issue and all the pictures taken of these jets seem to be taken in some sort of a suburban environment not near his house which is very yes you can see what I'm and by the way notice the subtle playboy advertising on one of these jets with the playboy funny on the tail that's because that playboy new TV series isn't doing too well they need to find me a spec of it of that I have the spec. I have the spec. It's you can give me what's the wingspan? What's the length cuz this thing is huge now that they are about that size Videos of those things flying and they're not that big well, this is because you're seeing the picture of the styrofoam version

11:53 Because you're right the ones that the the jets that that are the carbon fiber that fly 200 miles an hour are not that big the styrofoam ones are that big and they basically have like a kind of a Ram air duct type engine system in it you can think is the size of a small car look at the car next I know No, I'm I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm not disagreeing. I'm only saying that that this is a, they're showing you a model that looks really big but one that actually can't do the job even if it was possible. The smaller ones are the ones that could maybe do it, but then again you can't pack 25 pounds of C4 into them. The whole thing is clearly a ruse. They have one guy who comes out and says, yeah, you know, he lived with me, but I'm not going to vilify him. So, you know, he just, we lived together for a few years. He's my roommate. And then he went on his merry way. That's all I'm going to say.

12:47 Nothing. And by the way, they don't talk to any remote control hobbyists or any about any any of the real possibilities of this happening. Is it a complete setup? A setup to get more control, more of the army or the US military drones in the skies so we can protect against these crazy homemade drones. This is the meme, homemade drones. The whole thing is barley. It's not really homemade, it's been engineered by somebody. No, no, it's a kit. You buy the kit. I have it, it's all in the show notes. I've got the links to the kit site and everything. It's about $5,000. You have to put it together yourself.

13:23 It literally doesn't need no mention of all about a payload because it can't really carry a payload But the carbon fiber ones can can get up to you know about two 200 miles an hour the one you're seeing the styrofoam one that's a kit for about $400 it's totally bogus the whole thing from beginning to end is bogus and I I don't think this guy is even real and He just posted some Facebook picture, some grainy picture of some dude behind drums. Yeah, I know, it doesn't make any lot of sense. And then this house he lives in doesn't make any sense either. No. Also, what is the deal with the... He's also supposed to have six buddies. They're all going to grab AK-47s for some... Yeah, this is really smart. Yeah, this will work.

14:07 And do what? We're gonna attack. You know, I think they need to, you know, whoever's behind this bullcrap, they need to get better writers. I mean, this is not even remotely believable. And what they'll do- It just sounds like the ravings of a lunatic. Oh, we're gonna- I'm gonna- First, I'm gonna blow up the Pentagon with 25 pounds of explosives, which seems highly unlikely. And C4, by the way, is not that much more explosive than TNT and 25 pounds of- And it doesn't blow up on- You can shoot into C4 and it won't blow up. That's the trigger mechanism. We got him covered. But then he's gonna do what? Take over the place with six guys in AK-47s? And a flag.

CHAPTER 03 / 42 Discussion

Dental Procedure Anecdote, Egyptian Dentist and CIA Talk

An anecdote describes a visit to an Egyptian dentist where a conversation about the CIA led to the dentist nearly pulling the wrong temporary crown. Observations from the dental waiting room suggest that patients watching Fox News coverage of the model plane plot were easily convinced by the media narrative.

dentist· crown· egyptian· cia· fox news· waiting room

14:48 That's all he needs. And a couple grenades. And a rubber knife and a compass. And the guy's all set. Does anyone believe this scenario? Yes, of course! No! No, listen, I was at the dentist's office yesterday to get the, you know, I had the temporary crown in and so Dr. G is gonna put the real one in. Oh, by the way, Just as a side note, so he comes in, he's an Egyptian. I'm having a great chat with him. We're talking about the CIA, you know, I'm laying my total smack on him. The guy says, okay, let's do this. He opens my mouth. He goes in with his, you know, forcep, whatever it is to pull out the temporary. And he starts tugging on the wrong side. I'm like, look, look, look.

15:31 I said, dude, it's the other one. It's on the other side of my mouth. He said, oh yeah. And then I got distracted. Great. Yeah, thanks a lot. But I'm sitting in the waiting room and there's two or three people there and they have Fox News on in the waiting room. And this report comes through and people were literally, John, verbally going, oh wow, no way. These stupid idiots! Literally! And I was biting my tongue, I'm like, I'm not gonna say it, I'm not gonna say anything. Then they're going, oh, and they showed the plane, oh! What's this country coming to? Oh my God, it's horrible. It's just, yeah, so the answer to your question is yes, people are stupid and they do believe it. And here's how it works. Just like the underpants bomber.

CHAPTER 04 / 42 Discussion

Umar Farooq Abdulmutallab, Underwear Bomber Trial and Video Evidence

The trial of Umar Farooq Abdulmutallab, known as the underwear bomber, involves the use of model demonstrations and "martyr videos" produced by Al-Qaeda. Legal concerns are raised regarding the use of simulation videos to show what "might have happened" to influence a jury, drawing parallels to fictionalized media.

umar farooq abdulmutallab· underwear bomber· detroit· al-qaeda· martyr video· pre-crime· judge

16:21 They're gonna figure out some way later and if that guy is real too. I don't know if any of these guys are real, if they exist. Where's his mug shot? I've never seen him do a perp walk. Where's his mug shot? Yeah. Now we know we have a drum shot. We got a drum shot of the drone bomber. And here's another issue. If his name is Bollywood, that indicates that he's an Indian. Indian, yeah. So how many Indian Al-Qaeda, whoever, whatever he's for? How many Indians are there that involve that level? I mean, there are Indian Muslims, but they're not a bunch of... They're not like... Self-radicalized! So here's how it'll work. In a year or two... I think somebody fucked up with the Bollywood thing, by the way. That's possible. In a year or two, we're going to hear a very similar report to what I have here about the underpants bomber. Listen to how they're going to try this guy in court. What they're going to... How they're going to taint the jury

17:16 influence them about this horrible crime which I guess wasn't even committed and the guy just burned his dick. Thank you. The man prosecutors say tried to blow up that Detroit-bound jet with explosive underpants is back in court again and of course prosecutors say back on Christmas Day of 2009 the suspect tried to ignite this bomb thing down in his undies on a flight from the Amsterdam. Officials say it could have killed close to 300 people on board if he'd had a clue and it exploded. prosecutors say they want to show a demonstration video to help prove it. Mike Tobin's live in Chicago. Mike, this is about whether they should be able to show a video of what might have happened but didn't happen, right?

17:59 Right, and now the judge is going to allow that evidence. The jury's going to see a model of what the underwear bomb looked like before that unsuccessful death. So not going to show the actual underwear bomb, it's going to show a model of the underwear bomb. A nation that only succeeded in burning Umar Farooq Abdulmutallab. And then what you were talking about, they're going to see a a model of the bomb and show what it will look like on video if indeed it was an entirely successful detonation. Not only that, the jury is going to get a look at what's often called the martyr video, shaheed video, what a bomber will make before he sets off on a mission. And what's interesting is Abdulmutallab argued that the jury shouldn't see that video because non-Muslims wouldn't be able to understand it.

18:41 And there's one more video that was produced by Al-Qaeda. By the way, Al-Qaeda is now producing half of this season's ABC lineup. Did you know that? They are the new Chuck Lorre of television. Seems so. Yeah, Al-Qaeda is producing. It shows how Abdulmutallab was able to circumvent Western security. The jury's going to see that as well, Shep. Oh, man. It's a crime. It's pre-crime. So here's a question I have for you. So wait, wait, hold on a second. By this logic that means that now when somebody is accused of armed robbery they can show a picture of what would have happened if they had actually shot everybody in the room. Yeah, no, they'll show Ocean's Eleven and they'll hand out popcorn. It's like, here's what could have happened. Here's what the plan was. And now, now please. Find him guilty of murder. He looks like George Clooney. I understand that.

CHAPTER 05 / 42 Discussion

Michael Jackson Trial, Media Distraction and Nikita Drone Promo

The 24/7 live coverage of the Michael Jackson doctor's trial is contrasted with the lack of transparency in terrorism court cases. The discussion links the cultural obsession with celebrity news to a broader "Matrix" of distraction, noting a promotional tie-in for the TV series Nikita featuring drone warfare.

michael jackson· conrad murray· ktla· nikita· drones· iphone 5· media distraction

19:31 No, that's exactly the way it's gonna go. But here's my question. Why is it that we have this court case of the underpants bomber? The guy who was gonna blow everything up. And we have no live cameras in the courtroom, yet we have 24-7 live coverage of Michael Jackson's doctor's trial. Why is that? Why do you think? Welcome to the Matrix. This past week was beautiful. I mean the KTLA morning show which I watch for the happy puppy news and Mark Christie with his weather report which is rarely right. They would stop at 815. They said that's it for our morning show we're gonna go live to the Michael Jackson trial. It's just unbelievable and everyone in this town in this douchebag town that's all they talk about. Like did you hear that audio of Michael Jackson slurring?

20:31 It was pretty funny. I actually tried to speed it up see if it was like spun down or something and that didn't work out too well, but I Had my doubts about that, but it changed pitches. Yeah, but it may have been a pitch pitch and speech Yeah, there seems to be a lot of people who happen to have screenshots of their iPhone and videotaping their iPhone and recordings on their iPhone What is this an iPhone 5 preamble? It's just nuts and there is actual stuff going on in the world. So I wonder what the movie is with the guy and these models. There's got to be some movie coming out where the lone wolf is gonna... with model jets. Well, no, yeah, no, there is. It's... hold on a second. I have it right here. It's the TV series. And the TV series is... I didn't clip it because there's not much to hear.

21:21 Nikita here we go oh yeah Nikita supposed to be I haven't seen it but this season supposed to be loaded with the no drones yeah they got drones here here's the here's the YouTube video you can you can kind of hear it this is one of our producers actually went through the trouble of clipping this over of getting this video and putting it up on YouTube for us. Incoming! The drones are coming in. And they're shooting at the drones, the drones are shooting back and winning! Take that you terrorists! We're droning you! They blew up the propane tanks! Drones. Yeah, oh, they just flew under a bridge. And they- whoa! They did an impossible maneuver there. They're dropping smoke bombs, tear gas, sleeping gas apparently. Yes! Drones. Drone Nation. Nikita, that's the big promo. So, uh...

CHAPTER 06 / 42 Discussion

Samir Khan, Al-Qaeda PR and Criticism of Iran

A New York Times report details Al-Qaeda's criticism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding his 9/11 conspiracy theories. The segment introduces Samir Khan, an American-born Al-Qaeda propagandist in Yemen, and predicts his name will become a prominent fixture in future intelligence-led news cycles.

samir khan· al-qaeda· iran· mahmoud ahmadinejad· yemen· osama bin laden· admiral mullen

22:14 Alright, so we know this is bullcrap. Now there's an interesting story in today's, this morning's New York Times in the international section on A6, which just seems like some sort of an intelligence plant and we've got a new name, a new guy to follow. Oh good. I'm sure you haven't gotten this guy's name. The title of the story is even Al Qaeda is criticizing Iran's president over 9-11 claims. This is the best story ever. Al Qaeda publications Al Qaeda PR a subdivision of it. No, no the new all the new crap that they're doing I have graphics heavy So they get some guy guess they're using Ogilvy or somebody to do their power point outs their PowerPoint

23:01 Another article said to be written by Osama bin Laden before his death was more characteristic of the Qaeda publication which is believed to be the work of Saudi born, here we go, Saudi born American Samir Khan who moved to Yemen in 2009. So we got Yemen, Saudi Arabia, American and some guy we never heard of. And Lone Wolf and a lot of PowerPoint. Yeah, no, it's fantastic. My prediction is this guy's name will start cropping up in the next month or so. Of course! Just like we predicted Haqqana, which was getting a lot of PR, they're now top of the list with some... I don't know if you've been following that, but Admiral Mullen said, hey, these guys, they're terrorists! They got links to Pakistan! And then the White House is going, oh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, Ixne and the Akistani pay, dude. Don't say that yet, it's not time.

23:59 Yeah, it's just it's it's crazy. The net is closing in around us while we're being well not we but while we're being distracted by Michael Jackson gibber the guy's dead. Okay dead. He was murdered. That's all you can think about stupid douchebags. That's not such a big deal up here. uh... okay well it's a it's a real big deal seriously in fact i did i picked up last night and because i think we should do a segment of the show if we have time which seems unlikely of the devore akka korekori devore akka media consulting firm that i have the four teasers from the four major hollywood shows

CHAPTER 07 / 42 Discussion

Hollywood News Teasers, Curry Dvorak Media Consulting Analysis

The hosts perform a "media consulting" critique of entertainment news programs including Access Hollywood, The Insider, and Entertainment Tonight. They analyze how these shows use sensationalist teasers about Charlie Sheen, Nancy Grace, and celebrity weight loss to promote network fall lineups and corporate products like the Fiat 500.

entertainment tonight· access hollywood· the insider· billy bush· nancy grace· jennifer lopez· charlie sheen

24:44 uh... extra and being the best of the teasers then entertainment tonight being the second best in the other two which is access hollywood and why don't we do one of the whole on why don't we do that now because uh... that wanted to help everyone understand how lucky they are to be listening to the best podcast in the world and not being distracted no None of our listeners actually watch this crap. It's actually a service. I think this is a very good service you've done here. Well, we can do that. It's going to take a few minutes to go through these clips, but let me just preface the clips with the fact that I don't think Michael Jackson was mentioned on any one of these shows at all. And these are the national shows. They do have a slightly twisted look at everything.

25:28 You have to remember entertainment tonight, which is the oldest of these shows is all bought and paid for so it's all it's serious selling movies selling TV shows Selling selling selling the other ones try to put in some some Celebrity crap that is not it's also paid for but it's not so much about television and movies It's sometimes just about you know the record business or just to keep people in right? These these so-called entertainment news programs are all about the promotion. It's all about selling the new the new fall lineup and if you want to go through them, before we go to our producer segment, you want to start with the worst and go to the best? Yeah, sure, sure. Well, the worst is a toss-up. Access Hollywood and The Insider. The Insider used to be good. I would say Access Hollywood right now is absolutely, guys, has the worst teaser they could use

26:20 The Curry Dvorak Media Group to help them improve this because it is just no good. Okay, so we'll handle this as the consult the Curry Dvorak Media Consulting Group as we are going through how they need some to work on their actual teasers. Access. Here we go. Here we go. The highest attended funeral of all time, you know? Charlie Sheen on men's record-breaking premiere. It's exclusive. I'm Billy Bush. So is Charlie taking this like a man? It was a little bizarre watching it. J-Lo embraces the single

27:01 life does this include a lap dance well I gotta stop here so first we're promoting the new season of of two and a half men then we're promoting that stupid Fiat 500 car that JLo has done the video for so that's the second commercial A rare style showdown for Jennifer and Angelina. I'm Sean Robinson plus Bieber's grand romance. That's a showdown for Jennifer Angelina that is to promote Brad Pitt's movie. A gesture for Selena guys. Do not let your girlfriend see this. I do feel confident to come back. Busted then a breakdown it's Misha Barton back from the brink. Jill Martin has her riveting cautionary tale of fame. You almost can't help but go a little nuts.

27:42 I remember every single thing about that day. Nearly killed in Iraq and now dancing. J.R. Martinez gives Kit Hoover every extraordinary detail of his ordeal. My hand is burned and my arm is burned, but my wrist isn't. Yeah, that's actually quite interesting, the Dancing with the Stars veteran. Have you followed that at all, John? Yeah, I have a little bit. Dancing with the Stars promotion this year is absolutely extreme. But I think they have to go up against 2 1⁄2 men if I'm not mistaken. No, no, no, no, no, it comes on later. It comes on later. No, but they've got Nancy Grace, that turd. Whose tits showed the other day and that's big news. She has an areola the size of a garbage can. This is not okay. That was insulting. She's got it way the size of a garbage can, of a garbage truck. Alright, let's move on to the end. So Access Hollywood is not even doing a good job of promoting the things they're paid to promote.

28:40 How about insider is that next on your list the insider would be next on the list and by the way? You have to note that of all these shows. There's only two with actual celebrity hosts and one is this Billy Bush guy who's very Milk toasty and then the top guy which is on extra which is Mario Lopez everybody talks about and he's actually kind of it Don't drag it out too long. Let's get to the segment quick Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol striking back after her mother is called a devil and much worse we have her response. Plus the weight wars behind the scenes on tonight's Dancing with the Stars. I'm Brooke Anderson. And I'm Kevin Frazier.

29:18 The Insider is on. I'm bruised, I'm banged up, but I'm shrinking. We're doubling down. Nancy vs. Ricky. Who could steal Kirstie's title of Dancing's Weight Loss Queen? It was dramatic, you know, I'm just like slimming down. Plus, the personal heartbreak that inspired Ricky to dance. My grandfather died of AIDS. And China Phillips, the sectomy bet with husband Billy. You know what? I take it all back. I don't think I can do it. It's too painful. I don't think so. There's a couple of the guy, but you have to leave sure let that last part well For the purpose of the following Baldwin if I get the trophy he gets the snip Stop it. What kind of a woman did you hear what she said? Yes, if he gets a trophy and then I'll blow him no She he has to have a vasectomy if she wins Oh

CHAPTER 08 / 42 Discussion

Michael Moore, Capitalist Critique and Book Promotion

Filmmaker Michael Moore is criticized for appearing on Fox News to promote his new book while maintaining an anti-capitalist stance. The discussion highlights the irony of Moore profiting from the capitalist system he critiques and his attempts to align himself with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

michael moore· capitalism· flint michigan· fox news· book promotion· occupy wall street

30:14 Is that sick? Yeah, the whole thing is sick. And but this, okay, Michael Jackson or not, this is what people consider news. This is what they're watching. Oh, and by the way, the Bristol Palin thing at the beginning, they don't mention it. I thought it was very slick the way they did it. She's got a reality show coming up. Of course. Of course. Well, you know who else? And then we do have to get to our producers. You know, the most disgusting thing I saw when it comes to promotion This week. This is the thing that really irked me and we need to talk about it a bit more after our After our producer thanks our credits this douchebag shows up on Wall Street who is promoting his latest book I'm glad that Fox is here

30:56 There is a God in heaven! Movie maker Michael Moore was delighted to see us and engage in a spirited debate over his anti-capitalist philosophy. And these people and the people across this country have no say in how our economic system is run. Is capitalism good to you? Capitalism has hurt, capitalism destroyed my town, Flint, Michigan. I'm talking about you personally, though. You personally? That's me personally. That's my town. Those are my family. Those are my friends. People have suffered as a result of the greed from corporations. You've earned a lot through capitalism, right? You know, I have actually done pretty decent because people come see my movies.

31:32 Michael Moore says he hopes the day comes when he doesn't have to promote a new book or movie. I totally reject the system that you've made a lot of money. A happy day for me is when I'll be unemployed. Yeah, we'll all be dancing on your grave, Michael Moore. Okay, here's one. Since you brought that up, you have to play this clip, which is Michael Moore has tried to co-op the Occupy Wall Street thing. Yes, for promoting his book. asshole. Yeah, to promote his book. But here, you've got to play, this was done on Democracy Now!, which I have a number of clips from because it was so funny this week. But this ludicrous Occupy Wall Street story, you probably haven't seen this, this is hilarious.

CHAPTER 09 / 42 Discussion

Occupy Wall Street, Human Microphone and Signal Suppression

The Occupy Wall Street protests are analyzed, specifically the "human microphone" technique used to bypass PA system bans. The hosts argue the movement is being co-opted and ridiculed by mainstream media, suggesting that protesters should instead focus on "breaking the third wall" of live broadcasts or using branding like V for Vendetta masks.

occupy wall street· cornel west· human microphone· liberty park· v for vendetta· signal suppression· greece

32:16 The Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan has entered its 11th day as hundreds of people continue to camp out just blocks from Wall Street. On Monday night, filmmaker Michael Moore visited the protest encampment. Police have barred the protesters from using any form of public address system at the encampment, so the crowd repeated Michael Moore's comments. Whatever you do, don't despair because this is the hard part. You're in the hard part right now. But everyone will remember, three months from now, six months from now, a hundred years from now.

33:03 Yeah, this was the thing that because they're not allowed to use a PA system They're doing this repeat thing and you know else was down there co-opting the movement Cornel West Oh that guy. So if you don't know who Cornel West is, he's a professor right? Is he a Harvard professor? He's the dumbest, seemingly dumbest professor I've ever heard. He's always on Fox. Yeah and he's... I think he's Harvard. He's an elitist. He is part of the problem. He's a total elitist. As far as I'm concerned. So he goes down and he does exactly the same thing. The elites will tremble in their boots. The elites will tremble in their boots.

33:57 and we will send a message that this is the US This goes on for like two minutes. So here's the question. What kind of protesters are these? If they say cops, they can't. Why doesn't somebody just get a bullhorn in there and get arrested? What difference does it make? This is bull crap. I have a theory on this. So first of all, it is, I truly believe that people are just fed up, got no job, nothing better to do. Let's go down here and let's start something. But of course, immediately after we all bitched and moaned about mainstream coverage, well, be careful what you wish for because now you're getting all the mainstream coverage you want and they're ridiculing the entire idea. It's stupid, they have no direction, here's CNN laughing about it.

34:46 And that was another ironic moment there. Josh talking about how he pretty much ditched his job, paid a $250 airline ticket to come to these protests. And a lot of these protesters are actually protesting the fact that they're college educated and they can't get jobs. Yet this guy left his job because he says that he believes in the cause. And we can understand that. People did you talk to I mean we heard from three who didn't seem to have it all together frankly But there are plenty of others down there. I talked to a good amount of people I also talked didn't have it all together. Yeah now of course they don't have it all together now people I Have I have to make a call to arms here. This is pissing me off you by the way. I think you've nailed it what I think

35:27 I think you've nailed it. This is the, this not only be, the co-option is all part of a, of a, of a technique to slam the whole thing. Yes! It's all part. To make them look like a bunch of idiots. Exactly. Which is exactly what's going on. It's all part of the ridicule. Completely stupid. Fail, capital F fail this Occupy Wall Street. Here's what you need to do. And I'm calling out to my sysadmins uh... the uh... no agenda militia if you want to make any type of statement you need two things first of all you need branding this is the curry consulting and media group curry devore a consulting media group here And media consulting. The best branding we have, which I like a lot, is the V for Vendetta face mask. That's good because it's kind of scary, you know, everyone kind of gets it. It's like, it's a faceless thing. That's very good. So these masks, and by the way, shout here to Eric the shill, I want to be selling these masks. I want one myself. I want a couple of them.

36:21 We have to get on to the live shows. So when you have a live X Factor, when you have a live American Idol, when you have a live news shot, when you have a live result show for Dancing with the Stars, this is when you have to get in and you have to start making a presence. You don't have to say anything, just a presence. Next. Please somebody get me a transmitter. How hard can it be to stand next to a news truck and to beam into the signal? It can't be that hard. We've got tons of ham radio guys. This is not that difficult to do. We need to suppress the signal. We need to be jumping into live, live broadcasts. This is what has to happen. You've got to get to the Matrix, not some stupid Liberty Park.

37:10 Being co-opted is idiotic. It's completely idiotic. It's completely idiotic! And I'm happy to write the scripts and produce the video. It's completely idiotic! It's completely idiotic! You sound like stupid drones. You sound like stupid drones. This is really not a good idea. Here, here's how the Greeks do it. Hold on a second. Because the Greeks, you know, they got their crap together now. Yeah, this is uh... This happened on live TV. No wonder the Greek news presenter was looking nervous. His state TV bulletin was about to be sabotaged by students protesting a higher education reform. The program was promptly pulled off the air and the uninvited guests denied the chance to voice their grievances live on screen. But of course they did get in. It was scary because people find that very frightening when you

38:07 Break down that third wall and you see the news guy and you see him starting to sweat and he looks off to the left or to the right and you see this whole crowd of people. That gets attention. That is scary. You've got to break through that wall. This is what has to happen. I'm all in. I'm in. I'll produce videos, audio, I'll break in live, I'll go down with my own news truck. I just need a little bit of technology. It's not all that hard. And get in, if you can sing, get into the auditions, go to the semifinals of X Factor. And then do it. Someone, please! Not this, this is so, so, this is such a fail.

38:44 Such a thing. It's getting worse by the day too. And it makes us all look like idiots. But the fact that they won't have the guts to actually put up a PA system because the cops said not to. Yeah. That's the end of it. I mean, and then this is idiotic. It sounds like you're in, you're being sworn into some public office with this repeating thing or you're at church. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's ludicrous. Or a Nazi. Yeah, Nazis. It's just, it's dumb. Unbelievable. Really really disappointing as disappointing I might add as that bogus Traitor that everyone did another my dentist said this Hey, man, did you did you see the traitor from BBC? He was talking about Goldman Sachs running the world. I love that traitor Oh, are you kidding me? Yeah Horowitz and I discussed him. No, really Horowitz nails it. Of course the guys he's not even a traitor Is he is he a real traitor?

CHAPTER 10 / 42 Discussion

Alessio Rastani, BBC Trader Hoax and Market Sentiment

Alessio Rastani, an independent trader who claimed on the BBC that "Goldman Sachs rules the world," is identified as a self-promoter rather than an institutional insider. The segment deconstructs his motives, suggesting he was seeking to steer market sentiment for personal gain after missing the 2008 crash.

alessio rastani· bbc· goldman sachs· stock market· cnbc· leading trader· 2008 crash

39:36 Well who knows, according to Horowitz no one's ever heard of him. He's probably trading, home trading outside in his basement. He's got no credibility, he's got no standing to make these comments. He's just some guy who they dug up when no one's ever heard of him. They put him on the BBC He does a whole rim to fire and brimstone speech which everybody wants to hear because they hate Goldman Sachs and everybody else and the whole thing is bogus and every single one of our well not everyone but a lot almost almost all of our listeners All the tweeters like the tweets I get from the tweeter. They all won't listen to this Oh, this guy's telling it like it is the guy is a nobody. He has some guy I could I mean I've been saying kind of the same thing but with you know What I at least when I produce some some document I'll have some information that this this guy doesn't know anything. It's just some guy he has a website called leading trader comm and

40:30 And I think what if it was any good he'd be working for Goldman Sachs believe me. He's a he's a consultant. He's just a consultant and he does like speaking engagements for you know, for companies and talks about bull crap. Horowitz pointed out, he says that if you really listen to him, you've deconstructed all the guy's doing is talking about himself. And if you carefully listen, apparently he missed the last downturn and now he sees an opportunity to go to short the market and make some money on the downside, which a lot of traders like to do. It does go down. It does go up. And he says but this guy is just there's just about him. It wasn't he wasn't giving anybody any real information He's just making illusions and the fact that people Lapped this up like it was going out of style is beyond me well here so from his own website leading trader calm he even said this is posted way before the interview which is probably where either either a some dipshit and

41:26 BBC producer thought this was great because the guy is quote an experienced stock market trader speaker and mentor so he might have seen the guy speak somewhere or he was a plant to rile people up. And here it is, one of my biggest regrets is that I did not make as much money as I should have done in the crash of 2008. I did not do too badly though. I managed to capture the most of that year's trends but I got sucked into the fear and the waiting for the news BS that everybody else was getting sucked into. I made a promise to myself never again! That year taught me to stick to my trading plan and just trade the nice trends like a good trader.

42:05 The guy, he had it on his website months before that. The exact same thing. He just wants to make money. And by the way, it kind of helps if you can start to steer sentiment. So stupid. No, the real stock trader who was on CNBC, he had this to say and no one talks about this guy. solutions. Joe, great to see you. Obviously a lot of eyes are on euro-US dollar. Some people are saying that we could test 2010 lows in the next couple of months. What levels are key to you? Well, if you're looking at the euro, I would look at 130. I think we're going to get there. You know, Art was absolutely right. What you're worried about now more than anything else in the markets is the financial system. It's what's going on in Europe. There was a story out in a German newspaper this morning

43:01 talking about more than a trillion dollars supposedly unconfirmed of hidden losses in German banks. This is what's driving people to the treasuries and driving people to the dollar. I actually believe this guy, even though he disclaims it by saying supposedly unconfirmed, but that the German banks have a trillion dollars in exposure. That I believe. So for those of you who don't know, it's in the show notes. 343.nashownotes.com. You can see this BBC trader. And I am... You can also go to dvorak.org. I've got him on there. And then you can listen to the DHM Plug Show where Horowitz... I'll play it right after today's NOA agenda. I'm just... I was disappointed, literally disappointed by our own audience. I hate to say it because you guys are pretty switched on. You send a lot of good stuff. But this is like, really?

CHAPTER 11 / 42 Discussion

US Post Office, Union Issues and Media Mind Control

A brief look at the financial crisis facing the U.S. Post Office and the media's failure to provide high-level analysis, often relying on local shop stewards instead of experts. The hosts warn listeners that they are being subjected to sophisticated media "mind control" tricks across both TV and the internet.

post office· usps· democracy now· bbc· union· mind control· media tricks

43:51 Please and did anyone even Google Alessio Rustani before you started tweeting that? Yeah, yeah, this is this is the same. This is a problem But this is the way, the only reason that we keep doing the show is because it's almost like you have, maybe we should do three shows, because they need to be reminded over and over again that most of this is bogus. And the fact that the BBC, the BBC is disgusting. I mean, they just, you know, I mean, there are good, I was watching, in fact, the Democracy Now, I've got a clip for later in the show about the post office, which is a scam. They're trying to

44:29 screw the public with this post office deal. She couldn't even get a read, she got some, the guy was okay, but he was a union guy, post office union guy, but he wasn't like a high guy, he was like some local steward, shop steward, and he could barely, I mean, these big operations that they, not so much Democracy Now!, but the BBC can get anybody to come on their shows, and they get this guy? Yeah, they can get anyone and it was like it was a wasn't a news night or something It was like a like news night. That's a possibility on the flagship show. I think that was one of that she was like, oh really?

45:08 I think this person in the chat room fruity something whatever who's saying you know Adam is you know whenever it's popular Adam says it's just wrong By the way, it's Adam and John saying it's wrong not just Adam Because you know you have a little more credibility perhaps in this area but this is all we do on this program is help you see through the mist and the miss that is the media you're being given and it has totally translated to the interwebs and that's in some cases is even worse than television and radio that just propagates these complete mind control tricks. You are being tricked. You are being tricked. I'm sorry.

CHAPTER 12 / 42 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits, Upstart Ventures and No Agenda Card Game

The show acknowledges high-tier donors, including Sir Dwayne Melancon and Upstart Ventures. A discussion ensues regarding the No Agenda Card Game and a "make good" donation from Sir John Smith, who was accidentally credited twice in previous episodes.

sir dwayne melancon· upstart ventures· no agenda card game· knight· donation· goldman sachs

45:51 You're just being a trick. And the guy also looked like a douchebag. Yeah. Okay, yeah. We want to thank some executive producers for today's show. We got two executive producers and three associate executive producers. And the top executive producer is Sir Melancon from Tigard, Oregon, right there next to uh... we need to prove itm jents from sir dwane john my copy of win cds takes forever to connect is what's the deal what is that what is win cd is that something you as as as as he did something you're on you had in the book is that i have a lot of the forties anyway here's my a my early entry for the three four five dot six seven club and i said this will get me to my third knighthood stay tuned if you want proof goldman sachs rules the world here's the clip

46:42 And guess what Clippy gives us? Yeah, I know. I can only imagine. Joshua and Upstart Ventures in Windsor, Victoria. 33333 donation from Josh at upstart referenced article email to John and Adam with a subject line donation article in the morning up Josh from upstart here's wishing to share to share a portion of my slave allowance nice I would like you both that's what these are slave allowances I'd like you both take a look at the attached propaganda article national newspaper the Australian Financial Review 9 11 11 titled terrorist group may have short shorted stricken airline stock Well, he was said stuck so vague given any this well we we that's that's been discussed and we all know that He needs a shot a shot of karma meanwhile for her Sammy you've got karma Sammy keep your head up. We love you, bud Thanks you both for providing critical thinkers of the world an outlet that stimulates and educates for the crew at upstart You are our lighthouse as we sail the dark seas of misinformation propagated by you know who hey and doesn't doesn't China

47:45 What? It says vagina. Oh, that's our new tagline I guess. We just say vagina since that's now allowed on ABC. Yeah. Is that the... isn't Upstart Ventures, isn't that the first company to become a knight? uh... we resist and we will be discussing during our okay i don't know if it was upstart that day and i did just check out anyway but no agenda card game dot com san jose california twenty two twenty two is twenty percent of the uh... process in the first six game decks rounded up to the nearest magic number it also sent a free game deck to one lucky ten dollars stream donor chosen randomly who donates for show three four four so in other words

48:28 If somebody donates $10 because Adams gonna make a plea at the end of the show. Yeah for these $10 donations one of them will get a free deck. Okay, so when a 222 22 and the only set the six game decks Well, it's like they gave us everything I guess that's 100% awesome. It's a go check out no agenda game card calm They are very really beautiful actually I don't have a deck, but there's some good depictions on that website and you help out the show with that as well That's pretty cool Kristen Herzog in Elwood, Illinois, $210.98 with no comment. John Smith, Sir John Smith to you. St. Petersburg, Florida, just as no agenda does, their make goods. I noticed while catching up on the podcast that we mentioned this. He was accidentally named associate producer for the 915 show. So this is his make good for accidentally being named associate producer two weeks in a row.

49:25 Hopefully I'm not cited again this week or I have to pay again. That's pretty awesome. So we goofed up somehow and named him associate producer twice in a row even though he had supported only once for an associate producer. And because of that he comes back and makes good. That is awesome. Yeah, those are our producers. Those are the good guys. Okay, so we want to thank them and everybody else and we'll get to our regular donors later in the show but I want to thank these five particularly for their help. Yes, and of course your help is appreciated. The only way that we can actually make any money on this show and we don't go around promoting television shows like all these other douchebag news programs and you do it by going to... Devorac.org slash N-A

50:12 Just a few PR mentions, websites forwarding to the noagendashow.com website. Goodhair2012.com is now forwarding to the site which I think is pretty cool. And after you thought SeanHannity.com was a cool website forwarding to our No Agenda Show podcast website extravaganza, how about HardballWithChrisMatthews.com? This is where you go wow. I just ran and got a drink of water. I was being parched, you have to say it again. Hardball with Chris Matthews comm forwarding to the show right now I Actually like that came back for that yeah, yeah, that's a good one. I think Chris Matthews Oh, maybe he'll watch listen to the show one of these days. I think he's lost. He's a dick I love it when people listen to the show and then come up with the cool domain names like podcast of character comm

CHAPTER 13 / 42 Discussion

Domain Forwarding, Chris Matthews and Stealth Helicopters

The hosts list various creative domain names purchased by listeners that forward to the No Agenda website, including HardballWithChrisMatthews.com and NoAgendaStealthHelicopter.com. They also discuss the concept of "No Agenda Karma Cards" for social interactions.

hardball· chris matthews· sean hannity· karma cards· stealth helicopter· douchebag cards

49:25 Hopefully I'm not cited again this week or I have to pay again. That's pretty awesome. So we goofed up somehow and named him associate producer twice in a row even though he had supported only once for an associate producer. And because of that he comes back and makes good. That is awesome. Yeah, those are our producers. Those are the good guys. Okay, so we want to thank them and everybody else and we'll get to our regular donors later in the show but I want to thank these five particularly for their help. Yes, and of course your help is appreciated. The only way that we can actually make any money on this show and we don't go around promoting television shows like all these other douchebag news programs and you do it by going to... Devorac.org slash N-A

50:12 Just a few PR mentions, websites forwarding to the noagendashow.com website. Goodhair2012.com is now forwarding to the site which I think is pretty cool. And after you thought SeanHannity.com was a cool website forwarding to our No Agenda Show podcast website extravaganza, how about HardballWithChrisMatthews.com? This is where you go wow. I just ran and got a drink of water. I was being parched, you have to say it again. Hardball with Chris Matthews comm forwarding to the show right now I Actually like that came back for that yeah, yeah, that's a good one. I think Chris Matthews Oh, maybe he'll watch listen to the show one of these days. I think he's lost. He's a dick I love it when people listen to the show and then come up with the cool domain names like podcast of character comm

51:10 Which is perfect since we are a winner. That's a winner Zombie Chaney calm now forwarding to the show and we talked about the no agenda karma cards I got a lot of feedback on that people sending me The places where you can order them so essentially it'd be a card where it have a nice little thing on the front like hey I know you're down. I got something for you open it up, and then you basically hear the jingle you've got karma Alternatively, hey, you know, you left your socks here, you weren't good in bag end anyway, you open up the card and it's one of those. And so we have douchebagcards.com is now also forwarding to the show. And then my favorite for the week, noagendastealthhelicopter.com.

51:59 This is exactly what we need. Hey, thanks to our executive producers. Once again, Sir Duane Melanthon and Upstart Ventures and our associate executive producers, NoAgendaCardGame.com, Christian Herzog and Sir John Smith. We highly appreciate all of the help. And of course, these are real credits. We will vouch for them, unlike those phonies in Hollywood. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Come on chat room, yell it with me now! Shut up, Sleaze. So, um...

CHAPTER 14 / 42 Discussion

European Union Crisis, Nigel Farage vs. Jean-Claude Juncker

Nigel Farage's confrontation with European leaders Jean-Claude Juncker and Jose Manuel Barroso is detailed. The discussion focuses on the Eurozone crisis, the admission by Juncker that officials sometimes "have to lie," and Barroso's call for more centralized power in Brussels at the expense of national sovereignty.

nigel farage· jean-claude juncker· jose manuel barroso· greece· eurozone· brussels· sovereignty

52:45 A lot of stuff going on with the President of the United States of America and then a lot going on with the multiple presidents of the United States of Europe. Our good buddy Nigel Farage is back on the boat. Oh yes, yes, yes. I don't think this was his best work and he seems to have lost weight by the way. Really? I thought he actually had gained a little after his attempted assassination in that airplane. Well he had, there were two. Maybe I missed a good one because the other one seemed a little dull. Did you see the one where he lashed out at the president of the European Central Bank Juncker? That's the one you probably didn't see. Play them both or play one of them. Here's Juncker. Mr. Co-President Nigel Farage.

53:31 Mr Juncker, as president of the Eurogroup, your detachment from reality is almost unbelievable. I mean, you're behaving like a political ostrich, pretending none of it's happening. You just told us a few moments ago that Greece fundamentally has no problems because she's a member of the Eurozone. I mean, it's just deluded. And you wrote recently that the Euro's 13-year history is a success story. Well, it's a very odd kind of success, isn't it? And actually saying that frankly beggars belief and I think hardly makes you credible. I think it's about time that you and others in this room woke up to the fact that we are inflicting misery on millions of people through unemployment, through poverty, through a lot of democracy, and that it's an error to try and keep countries trapped inside the euro prison.

54:24 The recent proposal is that Greece should write down her debts by 50% and remain a member of the Eurozone. Surely, Mr Juncker, if that happens, the same would happen to Portugal and Ireland too. So he goes on for quite a bit here and then Juncker gets up and he refers back to, and by the way, Juncker is a German and he stumbles around in his German first by saying, if we're talking about reputation, I'd rather have mine than yours. And then Nigel comes back and says, you know, you actually told people to lie or you said, you know, we need to lie. Let me see if I can just get that one little bit because I don't want to play all of that other douchebags. President, you just quoted a newspaper which wasn't actually British. It was a German newspaper saying that when things get tough,

55:14 we have to lie. Perhaps I should actually quote what I said in the language of the newspaper which you've referred to. So I'm speaking German, that's why you get the English translation there in the Tower of Babel. The quotation was correct to some extent but taken out of context. In Brussels I was speaking to the pan-European movement. These are people who believe in Europe. We have to speak to them sometimes as well. In previous years, back in the days when I was just a European finance minister, Every few months we do there was talk about valuing or devaluing currencies in the European financial currency system so back then We often used to emit on Sundays for example or just before the markets closed and at such times It's very difficult for us to tell the truth however the mistake I made

56:06 was that by trying to honest actually used a form of words which paved the way to your supplementary question. So, essentially what the guy is saying is well sometimes we had to lie but I didn't say you know I shouldn't have used the word lie because that let you trap me on saying the word lie that we were lying. It's just unbelievable what's going on there and most people in Europe are like when's the iPhone 5 coming to Europe? Now the thing that was the blew me away though, and I think we should play the other Nigel Farage clip Maybe it's end of show because it's rather long but he really slams at the whole institution is Baro so the who of course is the unelected president of the I think he's the

56:50 President of the Parliament because they have like five presidents president the council president Commission president the Parliament as you just heard Nigel Farage is also a co-president so Borosso gives his state of the Union state of the Union of the European states and And he says exactly what I predicted. We now have, because of this crisis, we now have to bring all control to Europe into Brussels and we have to manage everything for you. Give up all of your sovereignty, give up your own taxation. All your base belong to us. The European Commission president has called for more economic integration to tackle the eurozone crisis. In his State of the Union address in Strasbourg, José Manuel Barroso vowed that Greece would remain in the euro but had to implement its commitments. Amid much criticism of his leadership and doubts over the EU's ability to control events, he said the intergovernmental approach hadn't worked. What was needed was a stronger, centralised European Union. For the euro area to be credible,

57:52 And this is not only the message of the federalists, this is the message of the markets. We need a truly community approach. We need to really integrate the euro area. We need to complete the monetary union with the real economic union. There you go. As predicted. Integrate everything. Bring it into Brussels. Good night. Good night, Europe. Enjoy your civil war. Yeah, well that's as depressing as it gets. The Greek by the way, they got the right idea. Some Greek protesters would like to hang their politicians. A graphic illustration of how angry some of them are at a deeply unpopular property tax forced through Parliament.

CHAPTER 15 / 42 Discussion

Bahrain Arms Deal, US Military Sales and Human Rights

The Obama administration's plan to sell $53 million in military equipment to Bahrain is criticized following the state's crackdown on protesters. The sale reportedly includes bunker buster missiles and armored vehicles, raising questions about U.S. foreign policy during the Arab Spring.

bahrain· obama administration· arms deal· bunker busters· human rights watch· shiite protesters

58:38 Many Greeks think they're being asked to sacrifice too much in the repeated attempts to balance the books. We won't pay, say posters around Athens, but they may have little choice since the tax will be collected through electricity bills. That's a good one. I love that. That's almost as good as having an RFID chip in your arm with your money on it. It's like, do you like, let me see, do you like electricity, slave? Wow, then you just pay your bill. You don't want to pay your extraordinarily high bill which includes your taxes in there? We'll just turn you off. That's how you do it. So while that's going on, we've talked about this. I had a clip from weeks ago about the Bahrainian situation in Bahrain, the rioting and essentially the protests and the crackdowns going on that's not recovered at all by any mainstream

59:31 news outlet. But it is covered by Democracy Now! and there's news coming out of Bahrain which is now kind of shedding some light on this problem. Hit it. The Obama administration's announced plans to sell 53 million dollars worth of military equipment to Bahrain just months after the Gulf state brutally cracked down on Shiite protesters. The proposed sale includes bunker buster missiles, armored vehicles and wire guided missiles. Maria McFarland of Human Rights Watch criticized the arms deal. McFarland said, quote, this is exactly the wrong move after Bahrain brutally suppressed protests and is carrying out a relentless campaign of retribution against its critics. So I thought we'd keep up with the kind of what's breaking news there for the Arab Spring, I think it was called. Yeah.

CHAPTER 16 / 42 Discussion

South Korea Drone Deal, Defense Industry and AOL

The Pentagon is negotiating a drone sale to South Korea, with the price reportedly escalating from $500 million to $900 million. The hosts mention Defense.AOL.com as a key source for tracking the burgeoning international drone industry.

south korea· drones· pentagon· defense.aol.com· global hawk· military sales

1:00:24 Oh wow. I also just read that we're selling a whole bunch of drones to... Now who was it? South Korea. Oh yeah, well that makes sense. And it was supposed to be for half a billion dollars and the South Koreans are like, you know, but we want luxury interior, we want all this extra stuff. And the Pentagon, it's the Pentagon by the way who's doing this deal. They come back and say, well it's 900 million dollars and the South Koreans are like, dude, no. So they're going back and forth. These defense websites, there's

1:01:01 Defense.AOL.com. You've got to follow this. They have all these, it's incredible. It's all about, it's, and it's, it's apparently it's like a white label or something that AOL does just for the defense industry. This is a nice business, this drone industry. I think we should get into it. Curry Dvorak drones. We make drones as good as the rest of them. We could just OEM some drones out of China. Yeah, exactly. Just slap a sticker on it. Yeah, slap a sticker on it and sell that. It's perfect. So, you're talking about Obama helping the Bahrainians keep their population under control. This was taken off of one of the late night comedy shows, but it's an actual news report. Unfortunately, it has laughter over it because of the comedy show.

1:01:48 But it was an actual news report from one of the local news channels. I think it was down in LA. But play this Obama supporter story. Well, Hollywood was certainly a campaign ATM machine for Barack Obama, the candidate, but maybe not so much for Barack Obama, the president. In 2008, President Obama had the support of the Hollywood elite, including Robert De Niro and Matt Damon. Last night, his celebrity backers included Screech from Saved by the Bell. The Fall Guys, Lee Majors, Eden from Toddlers and Tiaras, and a special performance from Vanilla Ice. Well, he was in Hollywood, the president, much to all of Los Angeles' dismay. They started cutting off Sunset and Santa Monica. Oh yeah, can you imagine? Early in the morning. You could imagine, you were there. I lived it, I lived it. So the traffic was just horrendous. And he did basically two public gigs. One is at the Fig and Olive, which is a way too expensive douchebag restaurant.

CHAPTER 17 / 42 Discussion

Obama Heckler, House of Blues and the Abandoned Jacket

During a fundraising event at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, President Obama was heckled by a man claiming Jesus Christ is the only God and calling the President the "Antichrist." The segment focuses on the security lapse where the heckler's jacket was left on the floor near the stage, causing the President visible concern.

barack obama· house of blues· heckler· secret service· antichrist· vanilla ice

1:01:01 Defense.AOL.com. You've got to follow this. They have all these, it's incredible. It's all about, it's, and it's, it's apparently it's like a white label or something that AOL does just for the defense industry. This is a nice business, this drone industry. I think we should get into it. Curry Dvorak drones. We make drones as good as the rest of them. We could just OEM some drones out of China. Yeah, exactly. Just slap a sticker on it. Yeah, slap a sticker on it and sell that. It's perfect. So, you're talking about Obama helping the Bahrainians keep their population under control. This was taken off of one of the late night comedy shows, but it's an actual news report. Unfortunately, it has laughter over it because of the comedy show.

1:01:48 But it was an actual news report from one of the local news channels. I think it was down in LA. But play this Obama supporter story. Well, Hollywood was certainly a campaign ATM machine for Barack Obama, the candidate, but maybe not so much for Barack Obama, the president. In 2008, President Obama had the support of the Hollywood elite, including Robert De Niro and Matt Damon. Last night, his celebrity backers included Screech from Saved by the Bell. The Fall Guys, Lee Majors, Eden from Toddlers and Tiaras, and a special performance from Vanilla Ice. Well, he was in Hollywood, the president, much to all of Los Angeles' dismay. They started cutting off Sunset and Santa Monica. Oh yeah, can you imagine? Early in the morning. You could imagine, you were there. I lived it, I lived it. So the traffic was just horrendous. And he did basically two public gigs. One is at the Fig and Olive, which is a way too expensive douchebag restaurant.

1:02:52 uh... in uh... in in hollywood but he also went to the house of blues where the ticket price was quite low was two hundred and fifty dollars and he got heckled i don't you i'm sure you heard this you might have seen this. Oh yeah, it's hilarious. uh... but i actually have the full clip and it's a little weird at the end. We must have some members of congress here. First of all he's looking for members of congress at the house of blues. Well there you go Dennis. Where where? Hey, how are you? Hey, how you doing? How are you? How are you? Members of Congress, how are you? Hey, hey, thanks for coming out. Where to start this? God is the one and only true living God. Heaven and the universe. So just for those of you who can't hear, the guy is saying that Jesus Christ is the Christian God, the creator of the universe. Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ. He's saying Jesus Christ is God. And then the crowd takes over the chant.

1:03:57 And then he says, you are the anti-Christ, which is a popular meme amongst people who I guess don't like the president. Now listen to what happens. The guy is now being shuttled away. You can barely see it in the video, but then the president starts to say something interesting. Is that his jacket? Is that his jacket? So they take the guy away, but his jacket is lying on the ground.

1:04:46 And I think the president was actually concerned. I think he's like, dude, who knows what the heck is in that jacket? I'm right here in front of the stage. The thing might blow up or something. He sounds concerned about this. Yeah, and it does. And it seems like the security guys screwed it up. Is that his jacket? First of all, I agree Jesus Christ is the Lord. I believe in that. I do have a question, I think the young man may have left his jacket. And uh, it's kind of freaking me out right now, because it might uh, explode. Wow, you mean to tell me that the Secret Service wasn't all over that jacket? No, no, they just left the jacket and he keeps saying it. Thank you, darling. And he keeps telling them and they won't do anything? What kind of- No, nothing. They don't do a single thing, the jacket's laying on the ground, ticking. I'm sure that he gets his jacket. Get his jacket! That's yours, hold on, hold on, hold on! It's hers! Woo! Woo! Dodge the bullet!

CHAPTER 18 / 42 Discussion

Presidential Gaffes, Janitor vs. Jew Freudian Slip

President Obama's speech to the Black Congressional Caucus is analyzed for a potential Freudian slip where he appeared to say "Jew" instead of "janitor" when discussing tax rates for billionaires. The hosts speculate on the President's mental state and the influence of teleprompters.

barack obama· freudian slip· black congressional caucus· billionaire· janitor· warren buffett

1:05:48 It's hers! So that was a poor performance by the security as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I may be a fan of this president, but come on, can you at least guard the guy and make sure that if you think someone is extremely dangerous for saying you're the Antichrist, and this guy probably will turn out to be a lone wolf terrorist, then you know, at least get the guy's jacket. Now, The president had a couple of gaffes this week which of course there was no time for it amidst all of the new, every new show this season is apparently Mad Men. We have Mad Men in the Air, that's Pan Am, we have Mad Men in the Club, that's Playboy, everything's Mad Men. And then poor Drew Barrymore who comes up with, can't even watch 40 seconds of this Charlie's Angels crap. So they had no time to

1:06:41 to really pay attention to the gaffes. A lot of you probably heard this one. This one was kind of interesting as he's talking to the black congressional caucus. Folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more? Give me a break. If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor... Now, I love Freudian slips. And it sure sounded to me like the president said if asking someone to pay as much as a Jew. Yeah, that's what he said. So what was on his mind? How do you get that? He's reading off the prompter. How do you get the word Jew out of the written word janitor unless it's something on your mind? Well, let's listen again. Hold on, let me go back one more second here.

1:07:38 asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a jew, as a janitor. So maybe it was the word billionaire and then the Warren Buffett, I don't think Warren Buffett is Jewish by the way, but Warren Buffett, something flashes into his brain and he says Jew. And I think that warrants dissection. It's weird, it's a weird Freudian slip. Yeah I found it to be odd when I heard it. Now of course you know there's this... But I never made the connection with Buffett but that's funny it's probably He's probably thinking Buffett's a Jew or something, I don't know, but it did come to his mind. Then he was at the LinkedIn headquarters.

CHAPTER 19 / 42 Discussion

LinkedIn Town Hall, Google Shill and Tax Hikes

At a LinkedIn town hall, an audience member who identified as a former Google employee asked the President to raise his taxes. The hosts characterize the exchange as a staged setup, noting the President's lack of surprise and the questioner's specific mention of Pell Grants and infrastructure.

linkedin· barack obama· google· pell grants· tax cuts· silicon valley· town hall

1:08:19 Oh yeah. I talk about a promotion for LinkedIn and by the way, was that the CEO of LinkedIn who was there for like... The guy with the five o'clock shadow? What is that douchebag all about? He's a total... I mean that's the most douchiest performance I've ever seen and by the way I don't know what kind of... you probably didn't see the Jon Stewart show. Yeah I did. Jon Stewart had a very good remark. He said, not working out so well that LinkedIn seeing as no one there had a job. That's because they played one person after another came up saying I don't have work, I don't have work, I don't have work. Except for the one shill in the audience and I want you to really pay attention to this it kind of this works well in audio as well as video You probably heard about this, but here comes a question from an audience member. Thank you, Mr. President. I don't have a job, but that's because I've been lucky enough to live in Silicon Valley for a while and Work for a small startup down the down the street here that did quite well, so I'm unemployed by choice and

1:09:18 My question is, would you please raise my taxes? Now this is very interesting. So this is clearly a plant to go for his, you know, I'm rich, please make me pay more. Which by the way, there is a... He says he's not working by choice. What taxes does he pay? He's paying capital gains on his Google stock, which he actually doesn't mention by name. But the president Doesn't respond when it would be normal to respond to this Statement he waits for the guy to deliver the rest of his lines listen I would I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants and so when the guy says that raise him how come the president just sits there stone-faced and doesn't respond

1:10:17 When he said he waits for the guy to come back and bring up the Pell Grants and all this other stuff? Who would say that? Really? Taxes. So this is where the presidential respondent is saying, alright! Right on, my man. Good. Buenas tardes. I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell Grants and infrastructure and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am. And it kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cut set has been benefiting so many of us for so long.

1:10:59 So that to me was clearly a setup. Clearly. And the president just sat there and waited for him to deliver all the lines and then he comes into the little joke here about where he made his money. I think that needs to change and I hope that you'll stay strong in doing that. Well I appreciate it. What was the startup by the way? You want to give me a little hint? It's a search engine. Worked out pretty well, huh? Yeah. All right. Yeah, here's what I got for you Wrong you shill is what you are in that now now here's something that one of our producers put on no agenda newsnetwork.com Which I thought was very fascinating. He makes another Freudian slip that maybe not even Freudian, but he certainly flubs the line when it comes to the

CHAPTER 20 / 42 Discussion

Warren Buffett's Secretary, Tax Rate Rhetoric Flub

President Obama is caught in a rhetorical flub regarding the "Buffett Rule," stating that Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a "lower" tax rate than Buffett, which contradicts his intended message. The hosts attribute these errors to the President being "run ragged" by his schedule.

warren buffett· tax rate· barack obama· prompter· economic policy

1:11:53 Buffett's secretary paying more taxes than Buffett. Listen to what he says. He is doing their fair share. I've said this before, I'll say it again. Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't be paying a lower tax rate than Warren Buffett. Hold on a second. Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't be paying a low... No, that's... Huh? Huh? Let's hear that again, Presidente. Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't be paying a lower tax rate than Warren Buffett. And no one no one sees this Come on. It's a slip. Well the more he talks the more these are gonna happen. I you know seriously This is the only thing he's really hired to do is to read the prompter campaign Read more prompter. You know like any good actor look pretty know your lines and don't bump into the furniture, and he's he's

1:12:55 You're not doing too well. I think they're running him ragged is the reason. Well, they're definitely running him ragged. I mean, I can just, I can not, well actually I can't. I can't, Los Angeles is bad enough, but with a, with a traffic problem, I can't imagine what... Who's calling you on the cell phone? It's not my cell, JC left it in here, I'm just killing it. Throw it against the wall. Damn kids with their cell phones. That was good. So, um, well there's another little thing going on that you probably didn't catch this one. Uh, Dick Wars. Dick Wars?

CHAPTER 21 / 42 Discussion

Dick Cheney Protests, Vancouver and Ottawa Demonstrations

Protests in Vancouver against former Vice President Dick Cheney are discussed, including a news slip calling him "former president." The segment also highlights the "polite" nature of Canadian protests in Ottawa, where demonstrators used stepladders to cross barricades for arrest.

dick cheney· vancouver· ottawa· canada· war crimes· police· protests

1:13:42 Yeah, dick wars. So I go sterling Charlie in Vancouver the signs, you know saying dick wars and they're then they're trying to play dick wars and you can get the story hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Vancouver Canada Monday to protest a visit by former US president vice president Dick Cheney protesters called on Canadian authorities to arrest change crimes and torture So, do you notice that she made this slip saying former president?

1:14:20 Oh, I didn't even notice that. She said, former president. Really? Oh my goodness. Another slip. It's funny because I didn't catch that part of the dick wars. I did catch the part about how well trained our Canadian brothers and sisters are when it comes to protesting. Here's how they protest in Canada. CW's Don Martin joins us now. He's keeping an eye on the demonstration. Don, we're looking at what's going on. What more can you tell us from there? Well, Brad, it's the quintessential Canadian protest. They politely walk up to the barricade. There's a little step ladder on one side and a little step ladder the other. And as they climb over it, the police put plastic cuffs on them. A few, not everybody. March them over, put them on an Ottawa OC transport bus, take them away to book them. So they actually go up politely to the fence. They go up the step ladder down the other side.

1:15:14 This is the Ottawa protest, this is different than Dick Wars. This was a march on the parliament. Well it's funny regardless. We have protests everywhere and in fact a couple days ago the New York Times had a big headlining story. outlining where all these protests are going. This is going this way and the one in Libya has gone to this and the one in Syria has gone to that and they have all these huge lists and they leave out all of the ones that are going on in the United States and Canada. Gee, I wonder why. I mean this is one of the reasons I'm stopping the subscription to the New York Times. They won't even cover the stuff that's going on that affects us on a day-to-day basis or the traffic situation in Los Angeles because the president has to go around and be called an anti-Christ.

CHAPTER 22 / 42 Discussion

Secret Service Helicopter Lawsuit, ITV Video Game Footage

An airport is suing the Secret Service for $650,000 in damages caused by helicopters during an emergency drill. Separately, an ITV documentary on Muammar Gaddafi is exposed for using footage from the video game ARMA 2 and presenting it as real-life rebel combat footage.

secret service· gaddafi· itv· arma 2· video games· documentary· helicopters

1:16:00 Did you hear about the one airport that's suing the Secret Service for about $650,000 for wrecking the airport with their helicopters? Yeah, $670-something million dollars or thousand dollars and it actually plays right into what I was talking about. The reason they made that landing is because he had to do the emergency drill into the bunker. That's what that was all about and so they weren't prepared and they were driving trucks and stuff all through the grass and mangling it up. Yeah, and the government just says screw you we're not gonna pay you anything. Yeah, fix it yourself. Yeah, yeah, what's your problem? We're not gonna pay for any of that. No, no, no, no. Hey, just while we're deconstructing some media, did you follow this story about this ITV documentary?

1:16:52 Now this is something you have to see, it's in the show notes, 343.nashownotes.com. This is a piece from the documentary and it's about Gaddafi and it is apparently showing some footage of rebels shooting down a helicopter. Here we go. With Gaddafi's heavy machine guns, it was possible to shoot down a helicopter as the terrorist's own footage of 1988 shows. This was what the security forces feared most. It may have been a lucky hit, but for the army and crew, once was enough. No one died in this attack, but there were many other deadly arms to fear. Now the reason why no one died in that attack is because the footage they were showing was actually video footage from a video game.

1:17:42 And so they literally did a screen capture of ARMA 2, R-A-M-A 2, which came out in 2009. And in a couple of videos, it's all on the YouTubes now, they literally lay the two side by side. Because it looks like really shaky cell cam footage. But what it is, is they literally just took this took some screen grabs from someone playing the game and it is exactly the same right down to the puffs of smoke coming out of the helicopter as it goes down and they use this in a documentary I mean

1:18:22 Maybe they thought no one would notice yeah, because you know games are only for kids right and you know one of the funny this new group of media people They really don't realize how you know they've got they got to go see the documentaries Trekkers about the Star Trek guys You know all these kids where they were the kid will come on say I don't know but that I noticed that the Star Trek uniforms of sergeants the emblem was off two millimeters to the left and and it was poorly done and it was the wrong size. You know people, there's people out there that are just all over this stuff. You can't pull this crap. But of course no one actually, it's ITV by the way.

1:19:01 Yeah, they're not like a small-time operation. Go hire some CG, go get industrial light and magic to make something special for you. Go make your own fake video. Make your own fake video, don't steal stuff that these kids are gonna notice. Idiots. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Truth Department, even after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the Justice Department attorneys have said the CIA has 52 photographs and video recordings of Bin Laden's killing and his death. But they will not release these, they're going to be kept classified and withheld from the public to avoid inciting violence against Americans overseas and compromising secret systems and techniques used by the CIA and military. Even though the secret stealth helicopter is on the SEAL Team 6 challenge coin. We can't see it. But there is a movie promotion, there's a tie-in, John. Brand new.

CHAPTER 23 / 42 Discussion

Bin Laden Death Photos, Judicial Watch Lawsuit and Zombin Laden

The Obama administration refuses to release 52 photos and videos of the dead Osama bin Laden, citing national security and the risk of inciting violence. The hosts contrast this secrecy with the release of a parody movie trailer titled "Zombin Laden."

osama bin laden· cia· judicial watch· top secret· zombin laden· seal team 6· clandestine service

1:18:22 Maybe they thought no one would notice yeah, because you know games are only for kids right and you know one of the funny this new group of media people They really don't realize how you know they've got they got to go see the documentaries Trekkers about the Star Trek guys You know all these kids where they were the kid will come on say I don't know but that I noticed that the Star Trek uniforms of sergeants the emblem was off two millimeters to the left and and it was poorly done and it was the wrong size. You know people, there's people out there that are just all over this stuff. You can't pull this crap. But of course no one actually, it's ITV by the way.

1:19:01 Yeah, they're not like a small-time operation. Go hire some CG, go get industrial light and magic to make something special for you. Go make your own fake video. Make your own fake video, don't steal stuff that these kids are gonna notice. Idiots. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Truth Department, even after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the Justice Department attorneys have said the CIA has 52 photographs and video recordings of Bin Laden's killing and his death. But they will not release these, they're going to be kept classified and withheld from the public to avoid inciting violence against Americans overseas and compromising secret systems and techniques used by the CIA and military. Even though the secret stealth helicopter is on the SEAL Team 6 challenge coin. We can't see it. But there is a movie promotion, there's a tie-in, John. Brand new.

1:20:02 In this French, beautiful island, a young couple will find something terrible. Oh my god! What happened to him? I swear to you, I know this guy. Who? The doctor? No, honey, no. The body. The fuck? The dead guy, honey. Look at the... Oh my god. I got it. I fucking got it. It's a fucking Somme Bin Laden. Somme Bin Laden.

1:20:46 This is the new movie Zombin' Laden. where two kids find his body and... Sounds like something you produced. I mean it's horrible. Zombie-lotted. The trailer is like three minutes long, it's very funny. And he's back, he's thirsty, and he's pissed off. And there's like guys on the beach going, hey what's up Osama? What's up? The guy's a zombie. It's very humorous. And we need things like that in times like this. We need to have some of those funny things I'm very happy with that. I liked it a lot so I have the clip that kind of explains the top secret thing, but it's not important the yeah They've decided that the pictures are now top secret. Yes, so everything's top secret I mean this whole and nobody does anything about this classic Categorization of everything is top secret. It's just

1:21:45 So we'll never see these pictures which probably are pictures of somebody else anyway. Papers filed late Monday night revealed the Obama administration's refusing to release photos and videos of a dead Osama bin Laden following a Navy SEAL raid in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in May of this year. According to CIA National Clandestine Service Director John Bennett, the intelligence agency has 52 photos and or video recordings of the slain al-Qaeda leader. The imagery is reportedly classified as top secret and the Obama administration says its release would reveal military and intelligence secrets and could lead to violence against US personnel. Don't show it! We're the most transparent administration in the history of the entire world! National Clandestine Services? Yes. NCS. No, NCIS maybe. I don't know.

CHAPTER 24 / 42 Discussion

Ron Paul on Jon Stewart, Big Pharma Censorship

Ron Paul's appearance on The Daily Show is analyzed, with the hosts claiming the most substantive part of the interview—concerning the war on drugs and the pharmaceutical industry—was cut from the broadcast. They argue Jon Stewart is beholden to corporate sponsors and drug advertising.

ron paul· jon stewart· comedy central· big pharma· war on drugs· censorship· prior restraint

1:22:42 I never heard of that division. They got all kinds of divisions. All kinds of stuff going on. That's just another way to hire more people. So we got a... actually this was a tweet that both you or an email that both you and I responded to that Ron Paul was going to be on Jon Stewart and I decided to watch it live which I don't have the East Coast feed so I was just watching at 11 o'clock which is late for me and Miss Mickey actually stayed up too to watch this and so the two segments The first segment that Ron Paul came on was essentially like, hey how you doing, jokey jokey. And then Stewart went into this long skit about, you know, you don't look right and he had his head plastered on Chris Christie's body and yeah, like, ah. So the first segment was contentless. And then, like, okay, the next segment will probably be better. And just before they hit the next segment, Jon Stewart comes in with this.

1:23:40 Did you see Congressman Ron Paul on the show? You didn't see the whole interview? There's more on the web. HUUUUB! So he was clearly uncomfortable doing this, but he had to because they cut out what I think is actually the best part of the entire interview. And the reason why they cut it out, if you want to hear it I'm happy to play it because you never saw it on television, was essentially Ron Paul slamming the war on drugs, the pharmaceutical industry, and you can't slam big pharma.

1:24:16 And I think what happened, I'm calling douchebag on certainly Comedy Central but in a way also Jon Stewart, just shows he has no say in the matter whatsoever and Ron Paul actually brings it up in the last 10th 10th the last 10 seconds of the clip listen to what Ron Paul says about freedom of speech and freedom of markets the best example for this is the way we treat people in the media and comedians I think I want to eliminate all prior restraint. How would you operate if you didn't have, if you had prior restraint and we had to monitor your program? You probably wouldn't be allowed to have me on your program if it was prior restraint. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. But I don't believe in any... I'm a very brave man. You're not, Jon Stewart. You're a weak douche.

1:25:06 Because they cut out the entire content of the interview. And they made Jon Stewart go back and cut that thing and say, it's on the web! That's where you can see the extended interview! And it was just completely contentless. So Jon Stewart in the douchebag hole now. What choice does he have? He's running a commercial show that has sponsors on a network that relies, like everyone else, on drug advertising. What's he supposed to do? He could take the donation model And make less money. I mean, I don't know what you expect the guy to do. He has no choice in the matter. He is like everybody else in the media, everything that people watch out there is bought and paid for by big pharma. Big pharma is right now probably one of the biggest advertisers. They're making so much money on some of these sketchy drugs.

1:25:54 that you know you can't say what uh and then you have the vested interest of the war on drugs yeah you know which uh Ron Paul strikes out against he wants to legalize this and that Napolitano came out with a legalized marijuana thing over the last couple shows but yeah I mean you can't what are you gonna do this is the problem people have to realize when they listen to this show you we don't go for we don't We're not beholden. We don't have to worry about it. And of course, you know, you can get shut down other ways, but you know, we keep our, we not by any reason because we want to keep our load, our numbers low. But the fact of the matter is we don't have enough listeners. No.

1:26:33 You are correcting your calculation You've done very well you added it up and went hmm. This isn't right is it yeah? but it's important for people to know because Jon Stewart does come across as The voice of reason is guy yeah, and but he's not he too is beholden to the pharmaceutical industry in this case and it's a six-minute clip So I'm not gonna play it, but there's a link to the actual video In the show notes 343 at any show notes calm and in it Ron Paul is making of course a lot of Ron Paul sense And it was the best part of the interview they could have just taken that part and cut the stupid part out if it was about time, but it wasn't it was purely about the wrong message to the audience and it's it's good to know that I'm sure the audience was applauding him and

CHAPTER 25 / 42 Discussion

Tony Bologna, NPR Ombudsman and Robot Calls

The NYPD officer involved in pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters is identified as Anthony "Tony" Bologna. The segment also covers the NPR Ombudsman's defense of the network's lack of protest coverage and an interruption by a telemarketing robot call.

anthony bologna· occupy wall street· npr· ombudsman· robot calls· telemarketing

1:27:19 Yeah, well it was he had like teachers in the audience or something. It was a stacked audience to remember Sam knows You don't do that. By the way, talk about the stupid names like Sam Nose. Did you notice the coverage of the riots and the police brutality on the Occupy Wall Street? And they come up with a guy, that guy in the white shirt, who supposedly was beating the women and shooting mace in their faces and the rest of it. And the guy's name is Anthony Bologna? Yeah. Tony baloney. Tony baloney. I know I caught that too. I was like why don't they just throw it in our face? This is bullcrap the guy's name is Tony. We took Tony baloney and we fired him Just throw it in my face. Will you please? Tony baloney is not working for the force anymore Anthony baloneya. I know that's so funny. Tony baloney. Oh It saddens me. It really does

1:28:23 Oh, by the way, I did get a tweet from, uh... from the ombudsman from NPR. Ooh! The Ombudsman does not really have that big a following, like 4,000 followers or something. Well, that's what Ombudsman... Ombudsman do not get enough attention. Yeah, and he said, well, we're gonna cover it on all things considered tonight. Well, it's not even worth playing because it was only about... it's the same ridicule as everything else. But in... let's see if I can find it here.

1:29:00 Here we go. He said that the criteria for reporting on something had to do with either size of the crowd, arrests made, or prominent people being at the protest. Did you get the numbers? Throw that thing against the wall. This is the real phone. Well, who is it? I don't know. I'm doing a show. I have no idea what John is doing. You know, it's like I thought maybe... So here's what's happened. Just to mention it because I just got that call.

1:29:37 So apparently they got these systems, I guess you buy a T1 or whatever and so they just put robot calls on. This is a robot call. Trying to sell me credit card services. And they just spam me. It's just like email spam because they're not paying anything for these phone calls. Yeah, I know. They're plugged into the network and they just spam away with these phony calls that people that I get. Yesterday I got one from, oh, since your mortgage is underwater, my mortgage is not underwater. It's just a, it's like spam. You know, the more they say, ooh, your bank account at United Bank is a password's been lost. I don't have an account at United Bank. They just want to steal my password if I, if I happen to. This is, this is getting on my nerves.

1:30:23 So here's the ombudsman and this is kind of important to understand. Here it is. Oh, it's not scrolling. So did they give you the numbers? No, of course not. Of course not. Well, I want to know what the numbers are because they've already arrested over a hundred people. Here, we asked the newsroom to explain their editorial decision. This is the ombudsman. Executive editor for news Dick Meyer came back and said, quote, That makes no sense.

1:31:01 It makes no sense at all. It's totally bogus. So all of a sudden, so in other words, when you had like the Detroit riots back in the 60s where they literally burned down half of the city, there was no, I mean, that was covered. That wouldn't have been covered because there was no theme. There was nobody famous. That's the point. And there weren't that many arrests. Right. They didn't even say arrests actually, the news guy. It's just there's no disruption. And no prominent people. So I guess you have to have prominent people. And then they bring in prominent people and then they just ridicule. Because the prominent people are in there co-opting. Crazy. Anyway, Sam knows. This cropped up a while ago. There's something in the European Union that is important as it relates to this. Sam knows is the government, our government,

CHAPTER 26 / 42 Discussion

SamKnows Broadband Testing, Government Internet Monitoring

The European Commission has appointed SamKnows to distribute "white boxes" to citizens to test internet speeds. The hosts warn that this technology, which is being baked into consumer routers, is a tool for government monitoring of internet activity, playing on the name "Sam Knows" as a reference to Uncle Sam.

samknows· broadband· european commission· isp· monitoring· white box· uncle sam

1:31:53 is try to get everyone to order one of these SamNo's routers so that the government could then test your... I love this... Oh right! Test the quality of your broadband. And this is from SamKnows.com, now Brussels is saying, seeing a need for accurate measurement of internet services across the European Union, the European Commission has appointed SamKnows to make its white boxes available to citizens across the EU. The key technical challenge of this project is how to accommodate the different access technologies across Europe whilst making sure that the methodology is consistent for each country.

1:32:33 With the benefit of the previous projects in the USA and the UK, Sam knows has developed a standalone white box which any consumer can plug into their home network to test their ISP. Well John, this sounds like an incredible benefit. I think I should get me one of these. Why do I want to test my ISP? You don't. This is how the government can control your entire internet ongoings. Why would I want that? You don't! But that's not why it's being sold. It's being sold as a consumer benefit that the government is now going to make sure you get what you're paying for. Well guess what? I'm not getting what I'm paying for. We all know that. Yeah, what is the government gonna do about it? Nothing! But this Sam No Stuff is going to be baked into every single router you buy off the shelf. Baked? They're gonna bake it? They're baking it right in. And it's concerning.

1:33:31 Faced with the need to produce industrial quantities of magic boxes for a variety of ISPs and government clients, Samnose has developed a technology which popular manufacturers routers It says which can, I guess turn, which can turn popular manufacturers routers into a Sam Knows enabled measurement device. This concept is still based around Sam's original recipe of tests, see that's the baking thing, although Sam and now his team of professional programmers have made numerous improvements to his original bedroom version. So Sam refers to Uncle Sam? Of course! The first... So now Uncle Sam knows what you're doing. Exactly. And who the idiot is gonna put this on their system? They throw it right in your face by calling it Sam Knows. That's a hard work of tapping the line. But they actually call it Sam Knows. I mean how stupid... we are stupid. It can't... there's no other way John. It has to be that the human resources have diminished to jello.

CHAPTER 27 / 42 Discussion

BBC Science Show, Naked Body Scanner Conditioning

A BBC science program is criticized for a segment designed to condition the public to accept airport body scanners. The hosts point out numerous inconsistencies in the demonstration, including claims that images aren't recorded and that operators are always the same sex as the passenger.

bbc· radiation· body scanners· privacy· airport security· conditioning· bits and bobs

1:34:29 Sam knows I mean like uncle Sam okay, okay? It's a good thing if I hook it up is it a good thing yeah, okay? I'll do that. I'll hook it up and then and then what and then what should I do? What should I do then what should I do then Sam knows Sam knows good is that good is it good that Sam knows yeah? Okay, if Sam is good that Sam knows and it's good that I do it. That's right you pass Anyway, yeah, yeah, so now now that's good. That's going to be mandatory. I'm sure in the United States of Europe Yeah, it's a mandatory BBC by the way was Doing something funny. You know the scanner debate is now ongoing in Gitmo nation east as they had these cute kids With the show was called the thing is called the Big Bang or something. It's a science show and

1:35:21 Big Bang Theory is one of the shows. No, it's not the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory with the nerds and blonde. It's a Big Bang or something. Well, it is two nerds and a hot brunette. This is very sexy. And so it's a 15 minute piece of video on the show notes. Thanks to Robert Leather for capturing that and putting it up because of course we can't watch the BBC iPlayer here. And so first they go through literally eight minutes showing you, they're on the street and it's like, do you think that these nuts are radioactive? Do you think this salt is radioactive? Do you think this granite is radioactive? And of course the whole point is to condition you to know that all kinds of things are radioactive. So I shouldn't be afraid of radioactive things. What? Yeah, yeah. It's eight minutes. They're on the street. Of course the nuts, of course they put the Geiger counter there. Oh look, it's radioactive.

1:36:11 And then they put now this is so inconsistent. It was just funny Then they the hot chick goes through the full naked body scanner. Oh, this is what it's all about. Oh, yeah This is exactly what it's about now I will have to stop this clip to point out a couple of incredibly weird inconsistencies, but she goes to the naked body scanner and then looks at Essentially a recording of her picture which is the first funny thing and she has a fake knife on her to see if they can detect it and of course the picture is not you know of her like really hot naked they only show the back and they've blurred the screen a little bit and it's just that kind of oily like Dark outline. It's not the gingerbread. It's kind of the first version that we had here But listen to what what the the actual verbiage is suck in my belly though? Okay, so he's the image

1:37:01 of your entire body. But have you found my weapon? I think so. Have you? Okay. Go on. If we turn it round, I believe you've got a knife placed on the small of your back, but between your bras. Well done. It is. It's actually a knife. It's a ceramic knife. Ceramic knife which I could I could I could totally bust through the cockpit door with a ceramic knife No, it's because the ceramic knife can't be picked up by the metal detector. I understand obviously no good But noticed you know the whole thing of the bra and everything is to get your mind in like boning her

1:37:36 that I stuck into my brass trap. And the radiation, reflected radiation found it. They really did. Excellent stuff. Excellent stuff now. She's back in the studio with the Nerd Boys. With a new generation of scanners rolling out at airports across the UK, checking in has never been safer or quicker. It's an amazing bit of tech, but it does raise the obvious privacy questions, because there's going to be people at home watching that who are going to be thinking, I am not going to walk through that. I know. Do you know what I mean? It is understandable, absolutely. But for those scanners, first of all, the operations of the visual part of the scanner, OK, the imaging, are nowhere near the scanner. So they never see the individual that goes through. Well, OK, so the guy is standing right there.

1:38:19 You just have to replay in your mind. He's standing right there watching her come through the scanner and the image is right there on the scanner. So, lie number one there. The actual scanner. They're always same-sex operators. Same-sex operators? It was a dude in case you didn't notice. A woman goes through, a woman operator looks at the image. The images are never recorded and also... They're never recorded yet they were looking at a recorded image! Because the whole scanning technology is based on contours, your underwear is so close to your body that it kind of helps conceal the more detailed bits of your anatomy. Your bits and bobs. This is what it's about John, your bits and bobs. How's your bob doing?

1:39:03 I think you should stop playing the horn and start playing the douchebag. I like the horn. Douchebag. I mean it's fair enough there are still people who are going to be worried about this so my question is is it going to be compulsory? Well so far these canners haven't been rolled out across the UK and the guidelines haven't been all set in stones and ultimately it's going to be down to each individual airport to decide. Liz, something I was a bit more curious about is the safe exposure limits. Right, bring it right back around after we've shown you 10 minutes of radiation experiments on nuts and salt. Bring it back to radiation. Are we afraid about this? These things. I mean, say for example I was a frequent flyer and I was going through these things 5, 10 times a week.

1:39:45 Is that too much? I fly a lot for my job and I had the exact same question and these scanners have been rigorously tested and the results are... By who? Who? Who's been rigorously testing these scanners? What independent testing facility has tested any of these scanners? Did she say? Do you not understand my bits and bobs are all excited just looking at her. I don't care. That's how it works. Negligible.

1:40:21 What is she an expert and who is it with let's see the testing results. Oh you get the point obviously What douchebag show was this is BBC BBC These people should be ashamed of themselves. Yes. Well. They're not Newsflash they don't give a crap But it's, you know, because this is now they're talking about the scanners. They want to put them in everywhere. They've got to condition everyone to get ready for them. So let's understand radiation. I mean, it's a beautiful piece. The Curry Dvorak Media Consulting Group could not have done a better job, although we probably would have had a blonde. But she's smoking. She really is beautiful. And she's got the thing in her bra and she's like... What? Safe. I think you could have also dealt with some of the inconsistencies in the story a little better.

1:41:12 What do you mean? They could have had a woman instead of the guy looking at the thing. And by the way, how does that work that only the women see it? What, they have two people? I mean, somebody's coming, they... We got a woman coming through, switch! Switch! Exactly, switch! Okay, the guy, switch! Close your eyes, close your eyes, don't look, no peeking! Yeah. But the funny thing is, the funny thing is, is like, the guy is standing there watching her and the screen is right there. She says, the operators can't see the person, but she's standing right there watching it. And I've seen this at the Amsterdam airport is the same thing and the UK airport. They're standing right there watching. Then she says it's not recorded yet. She's watching a recorded image. It's stored on something because she's not standing there anymore. So it was at least temporarily stored.

1:41:59 And then she says it's only going to be gender specific. I mean, there must be something in the psych warfare book that tells you that if you make the lie right there in the explanation, then people are ready to believe it. You know what I mean? It's a possibility. There may be some trick we're unaware of even though I would suggest that the curry Dvorak consulting consulting group would know this and Of course we do we would have known it if it was true So unless there's some and I doubt that they have knowledge that we don't have so I think it's just a screw-up No, no, I know I I think that it's done purposely to condition you I think it's sloppy Okay

CHAPTER 28 / 42 Discussion

FBC Media, Guaranteed News Placement for Microsoft

Documents reveal that FBC Media, a production company for the BBC and CNBC, sold "guaranteed distribution" to clients like Microsoft. This pay-for-play arrangement allowed corporate branding to be inserted into news segments about Malaysia and Russia without disclosure to the broadcasters.

fbc media· bbc· cnbc· microsoft· pay for play· journalism· malaysia

1:42:42 Well, they're not that good. They're not that good. It's what you get when you hire a second-rate media consulting group. It's what you get. They're just not that good. Silly frogs. All right, before we get into our donations, an interesting thing that just kind of flew under the wire about this FBC Media Group. Now, FBC Media Group makes television programming for the BBC and NBC, specifically CNBC. And The Independent, a newspaper in Gitmo Nation East, Got a hold of some emails and documents that shows that this program which is supposed to make You know in news programming news news programming, which is broadcast by the BBC and CNBC We know CNBC is corrupt with BBC. It's always fun to pick on him and

1:43:30 They were going to do this piece on, I think it was Malaysia, and they promised in the piece, in exchange for money, guaranteed coverage of the new Microsoft office that will be opening up, actually is Aachen, Germany, and the second one in St. Petersburg, Russia. And it was, and they actually titled the document, FBC Guaranteed Distribution Placement. So while the BBC is assuming they're buying a news piece about something that's taking place, oh and by the way they also produce for PBS our national treasure, they are on the back end selling the exposure to Microsoft to show their flags and their brand new office and their center and everything and it's important you understand that this is how the news works. Yeah.

CHAPTER 29 / 42 Discussion

Donor Segment, Black Knight and Karma Requests

The hosts read a long list of donations and "karma" requests from the No Agenda community. Highlights include a student donor from Pennsylvania, a "de-douching" for a Danish listener, and a request for a "MILF" soundbite followed by a slide whistle.

black knight· karma· donation· student· de-douching· milf· slide whistle

1:44:28 Have you ever done that? We've... no, never. There's no... I wouldn't do it. I would... in fact, I think the fact I'm doing this show proves that. Yeah, sure does. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. But of all things we will do, we will promote the people who contributed to the show, including David Murkowski. of Gastonia, North Carolina, $111.11 without comment. Christian Winter, Black Knight Mechtank, Venice, California, 100 bucks. Please play the original We Told You So jingle if you can. You know, we did away with that, the We Told You So, and we actually

1:45:17 One of these things we had a meeting about, he said, it's ridiculous. Why would we, I mean, you might as well play the thing all the time, but it's like, it makes no sense. You know, sometimes by the way, we're wrong. Uh, well, we always talk about it. Yeah. But if, you know, if, if you think we told you so then tweet about it, throw it on the tweeters or something. So we, yeah, the, the, the clip we'd like to, uh, black night, but, uh, we don't have it. No, I love the show. Gentlemen have to get cable because my darling wife and I are expecting some, some Some come November. I was still donate despite all the iron chefs. I will watch by proxy Now what does being pregnant have to do with getting cable? I have no idea Matthew black Blake burn in Monroeville, Pennsylvania $100 in the morning John Nana wanted to give myself a present for my 21st birthday on the 28th by donating to the show for the first time as a first as a full-time student

1:46:08 and manager of a portrait studio, a shot of Karma couldn't hurt. Thanks for the show, keep up the great work. We really appreciate that, especially from a student. You've got Karma. It's a big deal. That really means a lot when people do that. Mikkel Mørch in Ullberg, Denmark. $83 which is probably 20 bucks in euros I think. In the morning sirs, the time has come for shrugging off the douchebag title I rightfully earned a few months ago while things are not all rosy hill here in Gitmo Nation Little Mermaid. I think the time has come for me to become a donor to kick off my 3333 monthly subscription. I make this donation for two reasons. First I'd like to request some karma for Soren Larson. I'll do it in a minute. I'll do it in a double shot in a minute.

1:46:53 And it was nice enough, listen to this people out there, and nice enough to call me out as a douchebag. I'm sure he will find some use for the karma. Secondly, I like a podcast license. Never know when such a thing might come in handy. Thank you for offering an entertaining and interesting alternative to the swill that passes for mainstream news. He deserves a de-douching and a karma double shot. De-douching for himself and a karma shot for Soren Larson who called him out as a douchebag. You've been de-douched. You've got karma. Thank you so much for your support of the No Agenda podcast.

1:47:31 Good old sir James briscoe's back in town from Bayshore, New York 71 91 hey guys psycho Long Island night checking in Donating the amount I just spent to fill up my shiny Altima hybrid Which is a damn fantastic hybrid car take that curry I'd like to give a mention to retro gaming radio.com the only guys I know that did a podcast in real media format That's funny. You know, I think the EU dot int still uses real media. Is that wild? Yeah. And anyway, and you click on it and then it says we'd like to install some stuff, take over. You always got to upgrade associate, associate all media with us. Yeah. Like no, no cancel, force quit, go away.

1:48:24 Real media. No, I don't think so. Please give him a bit of karma for the love of my life and her consistent life of toiling away programming until 5am every night. I do love her so. He says love the show guys. She deserves that karma. You've got karma.

1:49:05 Jaap Geelhoed. Geelhoed. Geelhoed. Yeah, Gesundheit. In Antwerp, 6666. Yellow hat. Karma because of the criminals of the BNP Paribas Fortes Bank did cancel my account because I was buying their gold bullion for years. I'd forward some URLs for you guys and no left... No bank left behind dot com? Okay, carpet bombing for peace calm. It's a good one ministry from VAR heights Punta Nel which means ministry of truth in Dutch and Keep it just getting by tail hoot. Oh, yeah, there's a pronunciation guide for you. Hail the foot. Yeah Hold on. You need some karma here. We're not a hoot. You've got karma fail hoot translates directly to yellow hat

1:50:03 Sebastian de Stigter. Let's try it again. Sebastian. Sebastian. We'll do it like Occupy Wall Street. Sebastian de Stigter. Sebastian de Stigter. In Delft, Zuid-Holland. Delft, Zuid-Holland. Very good. Hi guys, donated a long time ago, 5678. Sorry for the delay on this one. I need the karma for a difficult career choice. Hope this works. Fingers crossed. Love the show. Sebastian from GN Blood Diamond. You've got karma. I love it. Brian Johnson, Madison, Wisconsin. Double nickels on the dime. I want to say thanks for changing the way I see things as I go from boner to donor and please send a shot of karma to my dear friend Jillian as she lives by the American dream of just getting by. We're so happy for you Jillian. Here you go girl. You've got karma.

1:50:53 Another new donor, Charles Hickman in Grove City, Ohio. Double nickels on the dime needs some karma to clean up a mess I made and since this is my second donation I think a douche, de-douching's in order. Everyone can afford double nickels on the dime when they cancel their cable. Turn off your television, it's killing you! You've been de-douched. You've got karma. Interstate deals in Ventura, Florida, 55 bucks. Thanks for continuing with What's a Great Show. Continuing with What's a Great Show, here's to Adam being happy. Please give a shout out to our website. Let everyone know that we have the best prices on iPhone replacement screens. iPhone4parts.com. iPhone4parts.com is what it says. We ship internationally. Any getmonation. Also, if it's not too much to ask, some of the guys in the packing room would like to hear a MILF. Immediately followed by a slide whistle.

1:51:43 Oh, okay. I'll do the milf, you do the slide whistle. Ready? Here we go. Oh well. Andrew Kirby, Covington, Louisiana. Double niggles on the dime. Art Stanton, Cumming, Cumming, Georgia. Long time listener, second time donor, been a contractor for over a year now. Wouldn't mind some karma to make sure my work keeps up. Curry, Dvorak 12, adios mofos. Yo, there you go. You've got karma. And then we have a bunch of $50 donors including Eric Andreas Haaland in Bergen, loves the show. Jason Stevens, Sir Jason Stevens, New York, New York, dear John and Adam, when the last time I left you guys I was traveling for work.

1:52:27 to which I came back to find out that I have become another victim of the economic recovery laid off. However, out of the blue I got this job interview on Monday which sounds a lot better than the old job if you could throw me some karma on this one I'd appreciate it. Absolutely, you're gonna get it my friend, this is what karma does. You've got karma. Matthew Schoyer in Winthrop, Minnesota, $50 you don't have to mention the donor in the donor segment, too late for that. Just give my friend Curtis Begum in a birthday call out we did that or we're gonna do that I do it on the list sir sir P snakes in Amsterdam 50 and Peter totes $50 and that will cover our group and though we although we do have a topic to discuss I want to thank everybody who donated everyone to donate lesser amounts but we do want to discuss whether or not a corporation can become a knight and

CHAPTER 30 / 42 Discussion

Sir Upstart, First Corporate Knighthood Ceremony

In a first for the show, a corporation—Upstart Ventures—is granted a knighthood. The hosts discuss the legal fiction of corporate personhood before pronouncing "Sir Upstart" a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable following a $1,000 collective donation from its employees.

sir upstart· upstart ventures· knight· corporation· roundtable· donation

1:53:17 because one corporation has requested that. What do you think? It's a... Well, so the way it kind of worked a little bit differently. This is the... What's the name of the company here? Upstart Ventures. So the way it turned out is that different people, I guess it's a startup, it's a small company, and multiple people within the company donated to the show. So Rudy and Michael and Sam and Josh and they all donated. So I think they're sitting there, I have no idea what Upstart Ventures is. What is Upstart Ventures? Maybe we should investigate first. Is it a venture firm? What is it? I don't know.

1:54:01 We need none of us had bothered to look although I have to say that none of them have it. They said made by upstart.com Use their domain name as upstart ventures, but made by upstart.com would be I think the thing to look at let me look Oh made by upstart.com yeah, that's made by upstart.com so the question is can We build stuff great you know yeah, I think I This has such a great website. I think they totally deserve the knighthood. Well, I think since the corporation is a person, we might as well give them a knighthood. So it would be SirUpstart? Yeah, I love the website. It says Upstart, we build stuff. Contact us at hello at madebyupstart.com. Yeah, you got it. Hey, this is rocks.

1:54:55 We build stuff hey build me an anti-gravitational device. Will you I'm looking for one of those I'll fly it He needs to be sitting on a ceiling. No. I'll fly it. Thank you very much for your support so unlike you know BBC and this FBC media and And PBS you know we don't take money from sponsors who we're not going to report on by the way, please notice the amount of Boeing Corporation commercials recently and I can tell you and by the way these are not you know like by a Boeing. These are complete positioning at Boeing we know the future blah blah blah. Yeah, they're gonna get into the drone business if they're not already. Well they also just delivered the 787 Dreamliner and they don't want any negative reporting.

1:55:40 Right, that's why they buy commercial airtime late and the outsource it cost them tons of money because they were stupid and there's pieces Leftover that they don't know where they go. Nobody knows where they go. There's actual pieces left over like I don't know where this goes man Forget about it. So that's why they buy Yet you can you can you can set your clock by it The 787 Dreamliner all of a sudden increased commercials on PBS and NPR, your national treasures, about Boeing, just positioning pieces so they don't say anything negative because that could impact severely. Whereas we say something negative or wrong or something the audience doesn't like and we get impacted immediately and we get hit severely. So we know that if we're not truthful and we're not out there bringing the best that we can, the best product, not making you the product, that we get punished.

1:56:29 So we bring you the product that you are actually asking for. And it's a truthful product. And you can support this product here. Do you want to add any domains to that? And I want to add, yeah, you can also go to channeldvorak.com slash NA or noagendanation.com and buy a mug or a slave t-shirt. And you can also go to noagendashow.com which has a direct link to the donation pages. And I would go to the donation page every once in a while because they do get updated. There's new offerings and ideas that are fun. Yeah, the 345.67 is a cool donation amount. That's going to be a fun show.

1:57:07 And someone, there's all kinds of great ideas coming in for the store, which I kind of like. And we got 11-11-11-11 coming up. Yeah. Yeah, that is coming up. In a month from now, or a little more than a month from now, we're going to have 11-11-11. I mean, that's a big deal. Yeah, it's going to be extremely lucky. We're going to be pushing that. Absolutely. Happy birthday Matthew Blakeburn. He is congratulating himself. He turned 21 yesterday, finally legal in the United States of Gitmo Nation. Matthew Shower says happy birthday to Curtis Begeman. Also his birthday was yesterday on the 28th. Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.

1:57:50 And then for the very first time ever John you might need your extra big blade for this one there you go Because we'd like to have upstart ventures Made by upstart.com step forward extend your ring finger As of our very first time, a corporation of which the parts consist of human resources has donated up to $1,000 in support of the No Agenda podcast. Thereby, we pronounce thee Sir Upstart! Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable! I don't know if you can handle our hookers and blows, but there they are at the roundtable. Have a seat.

CHAPTER 31 / 42 Discussion

All Nippon Airways, Rudder Trim vs. Door Lock Error

An All Nippon Airways flight nearly flew upside down after a co-pilot allegedly mistook the rudder trim knob for the cockpit door lock. Adam Curry, an aviator, deconstructs the report, arguing that the tactile differences between cockpit controls make such a mistake highly improbable.

all nippon airways· boeing 737· pilot error· rudder trim· cockpit door· aviation

1:58:31 Happy to have you aboard now someone asked About the we told you so jingle we're not gonna play that but I would like to do this As part of the drone nation programming that is going on for your brain a lot of people pointed this out to me as I think his moto did the big story on it and completely unbelievable But you know so I think that if you look in the red book is it in the red book John I think in the red book I I said be on the lookout for stories that show pilots screwing up because of course you bid That's it all over the book because you've been saying that for I don't know six months right and now the drones are are being integrated into our daily life and vernacular because yeah, even the terrorists are making them now and

1:59:20 An all Nippon Airways passenger plane carrying 117 passengers on board experienced a little bit of a scare earlier this month. Why? Oh no, what happened? Because a numb-brained pilot... A numb-brained... This is great reporting by the way. It said that? Yeah. A numb-brained pilot accidentally almost made a Boeing 737 fly belly up as in upside freaking down. So here's what happened according to the report. The cop... Please. Airmen. Listen to this, you will love this report. The co-pilot mistook the rudder trim knob for the cockpit door lock switch. So when he quote opened the door for his captain, he actually caused the jet to roll and drop 1900 meters in 30 seconds, according to internal investigations.

2:00:12 The narrow-body aircraft continued to roll until it reached 131.7 degrees to the left, leaving it almost belly up, its noise pointed down as much as 35 degrees at one point. Now, this is hooey. I cannot believe this actually happened the way it's reading back. A rudder trim knob. Have you ever been in a cockpit? There's one thing you'll notice about the controls. They are oversized and weirdly shaped. Have you noticed this, John? Like the gear. Yeah, they're big. Well, like the gear for gear down. They're not little bitty things, that's for sure. What does that knob look like? The gear down knob. The gear down knob, that is... It looks like a big wheel.

2:01:06 It's like a big... Well, I've seen it in the cockpit of a 47. It's the same. It looks like a rubber... Like a rubber wheel. Yeah, but it's not... But very important is it's a rubber wheel. When you grab onto that, it feels like a wheel and that is done for a purpose just like flaps. The flaps knob is a very thin broad knob which gives you tactile feedback telling you it's flaps. Now I'm not familiar of course with the 737-700 series, but this mistake seems highly unlikely and

2:01:41 I'm not sure about the performance, but this is essentially the same as hitting the left rudder with your foot really hard I guess and I guess for some reason that's possible at at these speeds if I do it in in my aircraft I Could I probably have a good chance of snapping a cable if you do it too hard? But it will make it will totally unbalance the aircraft, but it's not going to make it fly belly-up and in fact even these 35 degrees pointed nose downward is not belly up anywhere near it or 131.7 degrees left. Well I don't get is why the door lock the cabin door lock would be right there. I don't know but it's beyond the point. I think you made your point. Yeah bogus report. Numb brain pilot that's what it's all about.

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Canary Islands Volcano, El Hierro and Tidal Wave Predictions

Volcanic activity on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands has prompted evacuations. The hosts revisit an old prediction regarding the Canary Islands breaking off and causing a massive tidal wave, noting the "pre-alert" status of the regional government.

canary islands· el hierro· volcano· earthquake· tidal wave· seth rogen· prediction

2:02:28 Now it is second half of the show so time wait a minute what I think we should begin the second half of the show then with something that will highlight where you're gonna head okay And this is just a crazy clip I picked up a Jon Stewart because you know people have funny laughs Jon Stewart is for boat and now on this show you know this isn't about him. It's about Seth Rogen And there's two clips don't play the long one play the little one. It says Seth Rogen and that this is a deal-breaker I don't know how many people have interpersonal relations But you did person that you're with that have a laugh that is so weird that you really probably couldn't spend a lot of time with them Yeah, this is Seth Rogen's worst laugh in the world clip. He does it he literally is like did you learn nothing from? As I'm like smoking a hamburger

2:03:14 I think that's nice. This kid will, I gotta tell ya. applies to whatever it is you're going to the second half of the show. Not at all. Keep it in your heads people. No, not at all. Residents living near a volcano on Spain's Canary Islands have been moved from their homes because of fears it's about to erupt. The Pico de Malpaso on El Hierro

2:03:54 The Aero Island has been rumbling and spitting rocks since July. The regional government says it's on a state of pre-alert and are stocked up on medical supplies and water. Yep, get ready for the Canary Islands to break off and cause the tidal wave and make everyone move to West Virginia. This has been predicted. It's coming. Actually, this is funny because this predates the Red Book. You had predicted the Canary Islands specifically. I think about two to two and a half years ago, three years ago. And then you pulled the prediction because something happened. It was either the Chilean thing or something else happened and you pulled the prediction. Really? Yes, you did. Well, how silly of me. It has to be back on the table.

CHAPTER 33 / 42 Discussion

Solar Flares, Sunspots and Ham Radio Preparation

A massive solar flare recently grazed Earth, causing the Northern Lights to be visible in Southern England. The hosts discuss the potential for a "direct hit" from future flares to fry satellites and power grids, leading to a discussion on using Faraday cages and Ham radio for emergency communication.

solar flare· sunspot· nasa· ham radio· faraday cage· aurora borealis· communications outage

2:04:46 But we did talk about this in the past few weeks. But it was an earthquake in the Canary Islands, not a volcano. Right. But the whole thing is volcanic and I guess you get the volcano, you get the... Yeah, just food. Alright. Then that crazy guy. Remember the cra... This is so funny because I was looking for it, of course it didn't happen. Remember the crazy Asian scientist guy who's always pushing a book who said we're going to go try and replicate crop circles with microwave ovens? I do remember that. Yeah, well where's that test? He said it was going to be the end of the month, that was two months ago. Where is it? Of course they didn't do it because they can't because the crop circles are real. Just as real as the sunspots, which is actually a pretty decent report.

2:05:34 We have seen them, we've got pictures of them, thankfully, from NASA. We can't really predict when they're going to erupt? No, but we dodged the bullet. This past weekend a gigantic solar flare just grazed by the Earth, lighting up the skies over southern England. They saw the northern lights light up because of the aurora borealis. and that sunspot on the sun is still shooting solar flares at the earth the sun is taking pot shots at the earth the the sun does rotate just like the earth does and i And I guess we were lucky, you said it was a glancing blow, it basically wasn't aimed at us. But it is kind of spinning more toward us. That's right, there's a sunspot eight times bigger than the Earth, which just opened up just a few days ago. And it's erupting by shooting solar flares like a rifle pointed at more or less the direction of the Earth.

2:06:24 But because of the Earth's spin and because of the Sun's rotation, it was a glancing blow. Otherwise, all hell would have broken loose over this past weekend. And because, I mean, talked about power outages, that kind of thing, communications outages because satellites get fried. We're talking about some potentially very disruptive problems. I'm always amazed that no one ever says, hey we just had a huge outage across three states in the southwest. Could that have anything to do with sunspots? No one ever follows up on that. And I'm pretty sure that's what it is. And I'm pretty sure that we are going to see big communications outages. We know that Fox has moved a lot of their transmission from satellite base to IP base. Not that those things won't get fried.

2:07:07 And I'd also like to thank the anonymous donor who has sent some certain type of radio broadcasting equipment to my house which you need to be licensed for. And I'm putting it in a Faraday cage. You should put your computer in a Faraday cage where you're at or actually get some just you need some you can get some small amounts of lead foil. You could put one, make a lead foil hat for yourself and then you should put... A hat? Thank you, really? I need the hat, uh-huh. You need a hat and then you should put some around your computers. Okay.

2:07:46 Well, I'm going to put one around at least one of my computers and around some particular transceiver equipment that I am in possession of, which I think you need to be licensed for, which I won't do anything with unless it's necessary. What are you on, good buddy? Are you on the 2 meter or the 400 band or whatever? Which one will be better for us? Why? Well, in case you mean for us, we can't talk to each other. If we're going to go VHF, which is what we're talking about for the lower licenses, you gotta go through repeaters and the repeaters will get blown out we're gonna have to get a you have to get a general ham license which I'm gonna have to do to broadcast on AM so you can get that long shot I can shoot straight to you. So what frequency is that? I just need to know the frequency I don't care about the license. It's not frequency it's a range of frequencies. What's the range? What's the meter band? Well for the AM stuff let me get it for you so I'm not saying anything wrong.

2:08:43 I should know this stuff off at the top of my head of course because that's how you have to know it when you take the license but it's easy to forget. So let's see. Long distance short wave propagation. I think you can 200 meters would be good. Okay got it. You can get is that yours does that? It will. Okay, and I get just and just string up a lot of wire right with 200 meters apparently right But I just string up a lot of wire right 1,500 kilohertz is a good good number 15 other killer hurts. Okay good. That's important Something funny Department of Homeland Security's new headquarters do you hear about this no so there? This is this is where Janet Napolitano will be seated

CHAPTER 34 / 42 Discussion

Department of Homeland Security, Insane Asylum Headquarters

The new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security is reportedly located in a former insane asylum. Additionally, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act is noted for allocating defense funds to the Department of Energy, which manages sites like Area 51.

janet napolitano· dhs· insane asylum· department of energy· area 51· defense authorization act

2:09:39 It used to be an insane asylum apparently. What did? The new build, it's the building where the Department of Homeland Security's new headquarters will be located. They didn't build a new one. This is where Janet's office will be. It's an abandoned insane asylum. Really? Yeah, you can't write this stuff. It's perfect. No! It's perfect. And then I was looking at HR 1540. which has been referred to the Senate, National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. And it's a very interesting document. Particularly this line, which includes a number of billions of dollars to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy.

2:10:36 I thought that was kind of weird. Why does the Department of Energy need defense activities? The Department of Energy runs Area 51. Oh, Janet Airways. Hmm. But they said they need to defend it? There's nothing there. It's not important, right? I don't know. The Department of Energy is pretty suspicious. The fact that they run Area 51, it's not a military installation, it's the Department of Energy controls it. Anyways, a very interesting bill. It's very long, very, very long. But they've got, it's just, the amount of stuff that is in here that we're buying, it's just wow. I want some rides on that stuff, like the Advanced Rotorcraft Flight Research and Development. I want to do some R&D on your advanced rotorcraft. But Department of Energy getting defense activities. Everybody's getting into the act. Yeah, they really are. It's concerning.

CHAPTER 35 / 42 Discussion

Listeria Outbreak, Cantaloupes and Raw Milk Regulation

A deadly listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes is discussed as a potential pretext for further crackdowns on raw milk and independent food production. The hosts link these events to the "Codex Alimentarius" and increasing food supply regulations.

listeria· cantaloupe· raw milk· fda· food poisoning· codex alimentarius

2:11:41 So I have a couple more clips. No, I thought you were going to tell me about the cantaloupe. The cantaloupe? Yeah, it's killing people. What cantaloupe? You don't watch anything, do you? I will just watch C-SPAN. There was nothing about the cantaloupe on C-SPAN. 14 people dead because of listeria food poisoning. Oh, listeria. Yeah, that's another attempt to ban raw milk too, by the way. Oh, cool. Tell me about it. So what it was... Well, listeria is one of those crazy micro diseases that's attributed to raw milk a lot of the times. That's why they get to shut down these guys.

2:12:16 So we can drink the crappy pasteurized stuff that's been there. Okay, so it's not about okay. Thank you for helping with that. So it's not about the cantaloupe. It's actually purely about the listeria, which is just related to raw food, which is another part of the codex alimentarius. Exactly. Okay. Thomas, by the way, responded. Remember, we were talking about Obama's yawning deficit and a lot of people think by a better dictionary, yawning means yeah. But I think you and I are typical listener that is a typical bitchy. I always say to these people have you donated yet? No, okay. Those people never donate now just complain just complain But I think you also you are much more of a linguist than I am we agree that the usage of the word yawning was kind of weird in his speech

CHAPTER 36 / 42 Discussion

Berkeley Hikers Release, Iranian Prison and Scripted Commentary

The release of two American hikers from an Iranian prison is analyzed for scripted elements in their public statements. The hosts point out a technical glitch in the audio and a strange reference to a "sunset" that appeared to be a reading error from a teleprompter.

berkeley hikers· iran· prison· sunset· prompter· spies

2:13:06 Yeah, it makes no sense anyone would use it. It's just like it was put there for a reason. Well Thomas from Gitmo Nation Deutschland said, you know I was wondering about this, in German we say Gehende Leere which can be translated as yawning emptiness. He says maybe he has German speechwriters. I'm like that could be, there could be something to that. Nazi speechwriters. Some guys left over from Operation Paperclip writing the speeches for the president. Which is a direct translation apparently. Hey look at this speech Adolf did. Let's use that one. Did you hear the speech, the written speech that was given to these two Berkeley University California student hikers? Spies?

2:13:48 I have, they actually mispronounced the word. There's a gaping hole that I thought was just part of the transmission but then I looked at it on the Audacity and it obviously was cut out so there's something they said that's missing from the commentary. But then they're reading this, you know, now that they're free and they misuse, just play this and tell me what he says at the end. Just hours after we left prison, we were able to swim in the Gulf. We stayed up all night With our loved ones and we watched the most beautiful sunset we've ever seen Okay, there was a there was there was a hole in a thing, but he said they saw the most beautiful sunset Really, what is the sun set?

2:14:38 Well, I don't know, but the word stead is like a copywriting or a copy editing term meaning leave it leave it leave it Someone forgot to pull it out of the prompter. They just left the the copywriting notes in there Good Suns dead yeah, and they were they saying we were only captured because we were Americans well Yeah, that'll teach you to go to Iran douche Duh, don't do that. Spy. So we had a weird story here in the Bay Area that I think is an indication of the kind of wimpy politicians that we have. This is a story that took place in Sausalito and it was a long city council meeting and this woman

CHAPTER 37 / 42 Discussion

Sausalito City Council, Hand Slapping Incident

A Sausalito City Council meeting made headlines after Vice Mayor Mike Kelly slapped the hand of Councilwoman Carolyn Ford. Despite a public apology from Kelly, Ford filed a police complaint for battery, which the hosts characterize as an example of petty political conflict.

sausalito· city council· mike kelly· carolyn ford· battery· apology

2:15:25 During the council meeting, this guy's trying to say something and she shoves her hand pretty much in the guy's face and makes that shushing, quiet, quiet. Shakes it at him. Not a fan of that. And he slaps her hand and get it away from, get away from me with that hand. An apology tonight in the slapping incident at a Sausalito City Council meeting. It was the first council meeting since Vice Mayor Mike Kelly slapped Councilwoman Carolyn Ford's hand. It happened September 13th after Ford lifted her hand toward Kelly and shushed him. Kelly said the slap came after a grueling five-hour council meeting filled with considerable conflict.

2:16:04 This was truly uncharacteristic behavior on my part. I am deeply embarrassed by my action and I apologize to Carolyn Ford and to the citizens of Sausalito. Going forward, no matter how passionate or heated the debate, I promise to conduct myself in a respectful manner that befits the office of Sausalito Councilmember. Ford said she appreciated and accepted Ford's apology, but she has filed a complaint with police. She's charging him with battery. You slapped me! I can just see these, I didn't have to see the video to know what these women are like. It stuns me. Yeah. Go back to watching. You're gonna be hitting a woman. Yeah. Don't raise your hand to me. Hey, you know, there's a girl who comes up here from time to time, Laura.

CHAPTER 38 / 42 Discussion

Medical Privacy, DMV License Revocation for Seizures

An administrative assistant at the "Curry Compound" had her driver's license revoked by the DMV after a hospital reported a single seizure incident. The hosts discuss the privacy implications of hospitals automatically sharing medical data with motor vehicle departments.

dmv· seizure· medical privacy· hospital· drivers license· gitmo

2:16:59 She helps do our admin so she'll Mickey founder when we first moved here, and she'll take all you know the receipts and everything It's a very laborious task of course you know I'd like some other people I know filed an extension You know so the actual tax actually has to be paid in like two weeks on the 17th of October and she couldn't come for a couple weeks because she had had some form of seizure and And, you know, it was weird. She had a seizure. Who knows what it is, but she went to the hospital. They kept her there for a couple of days. And, you know, she's okay. I mean, who knows what it was, right? It could be from anything. But she doesn't have epilepsy or anything else. But you know what happened? She got a notice from the DMV and she has to go through a whole series of tests and her license has been revoked. Wow.

2:17:54 Well, I guess that's the thanks you get for working at the curry compound. No, but seriously, so the hospital when they see like a, I didn't know this happens, but when the hospital sees a seizure case, regardless of the outcome, they send it on to DMV and your license gets revoked. And then you have to go through all these tests to prove that you won't have that while you're driving. Now, first, I think there's a privacy issue in here, but that's kind of Gitmo-y to me. I think it might be illegal to do that because your medical information is supposed to belong to you and you only. You as a person. Yeah, that's what I thought. But I guess not. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. And he's looking into. And I guess there's two things we have to double back on. One is Don't Ask, Don't Tell actually went through. Oops. And I guess I was wrong on that. And John, I think you and I still kind of think that there's

CHAPTER 39 / 42 Discussion

Gold Price Drop, US Dollar Backing and Canadian Analysis

A significant drop in the price of gold is analyzed. While some attribute it to margin calls, a Canadian CTV report is mocked for claiming investors are fleeing to the U.S. dollar because it is "backed by the Federal Reserve," while gold is "backed by nothing."

gold· us dollar· federal reserve· ctv· margin calls· market manipulation

2:18:55 There's still something up and maybe we'll figure it out but it seems like I guess you can be gay and proud of it and be in the military so I never thought it would happen. I really didn't. I was quite surprised by that. You already apologized for this. No, I don't think I did. So there is a clip. There was one more thing I was going to say. So gold took a huge dump. Yeah. Which I believe was manipulated and I think it's a huge earning moment. Now if you listen to DH Unplugged, Horowitz makes such an elegant explanation for it that it makes perfect sense. So the explanation, of course I listen to Horowitz Unplugged, to Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged, and he says, you know, people had to, you know, they got margin calls, they had to get cash. No, it's more than that. No, the hedge funds all have to... I understand. People listen to that show. All I'm saying is

2:19:51 Believe and this is my own personal you you can believe you know, please put you on the BBC put all your money with Horowitz Please send all your cash to him. Let him make you a billionaire. That's fine I'm saying that this will go right back up. This was a big earning moment So everyone gets to buy in low again, and it's gonna go up and they'll sell again when it's higher than that but the The Canadian CTV gave a much better analysis than Horowitz ever could. Why is it not playing? This is weird. Hey. Oh man, I had such a nice setup too. Yeah it was, your timing was good, you were ready to rock. Here we go. Dead. Bridget joins us now. Bridget, overall how did today compare to yesterday?

2:20:39 The biggest surprise of today was definitely gold. It was down about $100 an ounce. That represents the biggest two-day drop in 28 years. There's a couple of things going on today. Some investors were selling off their gold holdings to try to make up for losses in other areas. But Todd Hirsch says there's something else happening here too. Some investors aren't confident with what gold is backed by or if it's backed by backed by anything at all as compared to something like the US dollar. Investors are comfortable that the US dollar is backed by the American government. So no matter what is happening to the American economy, something like the US dollar is backed by the Federal Reserve. That's going to be around a year from now. That's a much more comfortable investment for them. So she's a man.

2:21:23 Gold is backed by nothing, but the US dollar is backed by... What kind of a... What moronic show were you watching? This was Canadian CTV! But by the way, Bridget is hot. Smokin' hot. So it doesn't matter what she says. But it was... I was like... Really? The US dollar... People want to be in the dollar because it's backed by the US government. Which prints money. At least I've got a printing press. You're right, that tops Horowitz by miles. Meanwhile, breaking news out of Canada. Play the fireworks clip. Hold on a second. We've got breaking news out of Canada. Here's fireworks and furs burned to the ground. Animal rights activists are claiming responsibility for setting a fire at a fur retailer in Caldwell, Idaho early Monday. The fire occurred at the Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur Company, a company that buys coyote and bobcat pelts and sells trapping supplies. OK.

CHAPTER 40 / 42 Discussion

New Zealand Food Bill, Gardening Licenses and Water Rights

New Zealand is moving to pass a food bill that critics say will make it illegal to grow food without a license. The hosts compare this to laws in Colorado that restrict rainwater collection, viewing it as a global trend toward total resource lockdown.

new zealand· food bill· gardening· licensing· water collection· colorado

2:22:26 This was I guess not in Canada, but whatever. But what kind of a company is called Fireworks and Furs? And then they wonder why it burnt to the ground. Hmm, let me think. I have a great idea. Some guy smoking maybe? Maybe? John, this is a new business opportunity for us. Fireworksandfurs.com. Get yours now while stocks last. Fireworks and furs. That's great. Hey, shout out there to our friends and relatives in Gitmo Nation, Kiwi. They're ramming through this New Zealand food bill. You thought it was bad here with the propaganda about Listeria or Listerine or whatever is in the cantaloupes. They are absolutely making it illegal to grow your own food in New Zealand. And this is the... Yeah, it's the food bill. I kid you not. Why do people put up with this?

2:23:23 Well, they're friendly there in Kiwi. Here, we recommend the subclause be deleted and this subclause introduced to have a food business would capture people who do not trade in food but are directly or perfectly involved in facilitating the trade of food. This is all about not being, you have to be licensed essentially to grow food. This is coming everywhere. No, I think it's coming here in fact it's already been experimented with and in some places you can't even collect water from the rainfall like I think Colorado's got laws against that. Really? Yeah. And it's just a whole thing. It's just a lockdown. You know you're gonna you know that way they can starve you if they want to what's the only thing that's going to be left is is growing our own food and and Wherever miss Mickey and I wind up next and by the way Sunday after the show we're flying to Austin for a couple days to go and look at

CHAPTER 41 / 42 Discussion

Survivalism, Diesel Generators and Biodiesel

Adam Curry discusses his plans to move to Austin and his research into emergency power. He argues for the superiority of diesel generators over natural gas because diesel can be manufactured from various organic sources (biodiesel) in a long-term crisis.

generator· diesel· biodiesel· natural gas· survivalism· austin texas

2:24:17 Get the vibe I guess see if see how the trigger nice backyard big big gets a great big acre I mean I'd rather be living in a tent somewhere in fact we may just go look at land that RV life is okay I Just need some power and some land. You need a generator. Yeah, you know, Stek sent me... Cave! Look for a cave! Yeah, on Craigslist. Wanted. Cave in Austin. Stek sent me a link to... I guess Stek has money. And he contributes a lot of information to the show and he says, you know, all of us here and he's in Chicago, all of us are getting these particular types of generators and they're all natural gas and liquid gas generators. And I don't think that's a good idea. I think you should get a diesel generator, which is hard to come by.

2:25:10 I've been looking at generators, not that I can afford one, because a diesel generator is very expensive. If you want it to do a minimum of 8 kilowatts, which is kind of what you need if you want to run any appliance, it's like $4,000 or $5,000. But I'm like, if there's a real emergency, I don't think you want to be running off of gas. Why? Because gas lines get disrupted and you know... What do you mean gas? Natural gas. What about gasoline? What's wrong with that? Well because gasoline supply lines could get disrupted but diesel you can make diesel from all kinds of stuff. You can make it from plants. You can make biodiesel which is a which you did engine has to be adjusted for that's not that's not true. That is not true. I've had a lot of experience. The only thing that has that you have to do is if it's cold biodiesel will gel and will will not be liquid enough to be used as fuel but you don't have to a modern diesel engine needs no adaption.

2:26:09 I'm wondering about that because I think the modern diesel engine which is designed for the special low sulfur diesel which has been introduced a few years ago will not run bio... I don't... okay... I will remind you that I have that I had a biodiesel car. What year was it? What year was the motor? No, that's irrelevant. I did all the study and I'm a member of Biofuel Oasis there in Oakland. It's a garage and they had brand new Mercedes diesels rolling up, brand new Volkswagens. Actually, they were like a year old because they banned the sale in California.

2:26:52 But no, a modern diesel engine will burn anything, any kind of biodiesel fuel, not a problem. All right, well that's a good argument if you can get that. That's absolutely true. No conversion necessary. So you could make biodiesel from cooking fat, from poop, from hemp, from cottonseed. You can make it from all kinds. I think that's a much safer bet. Even though more expensive to run than natural gas or gasoline and it's probably why they're also hard to find. People don't want you having the good stuff. No, I would go with that then. But I'll look into it. But it may not be a bad idea to invest. I'm saving. I'm saving because I really want one no matter what. I have a bad feeling about these sunspots and everything. You watch and we won't be able to play the jingle because we won't have a show.

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Outro, Nigel Farage Speech and Final Credits

The show concludes with a final plea for $10 donations and a full playback of Nigel Farage's speech to the European Parliament. Farage compares the EU leadership to old Soviet leaders and predicts a "democratic revolution" in Northern Europe against the unelected Brussels bureaucracy.

nigel farage· european union· democracy· soviet union· sovereignty· adam curry· john c. dvorak

2:27:42 Well, there must be some way we had to think of a contingency plan if this if we get our our Electronics blown up because what happens once that happened you there'll be a shortage for it take months to get back online So what's your plan Stan? I don't have one. Yeah, that's what I thought Me neither Because we may have power with our Jenny's. Yeah, so what yeah, exactly All I need is to be able to eat Because, you know, we also won't have to pay rent and anything because nothing will work. So what's the after show clip? Would you want to do Ron Paul or Farage? You know, I think Farage is slightly more entertaining. We can always do Ron Paul. Okay, so this is Farage and he'll be talking about the crazy Europe and that there's no... that everyone's a president, which is kind of good.

2:28:38 For those of you who have been listening to this program all the way through, I think we're up to like nine $10 donors now, John. I think we've doubled it. Wait, did you count them? Did you count them? Let me look at the spreadsheet. You have... $10 donor. Well, John is doing that. The idea is if you sat here and you're one of the four or five hundred people who listened to the entire show live on the stream, was it worth ten bucks to you? Did you have a happy ending? If so, consider going to Dvorak.org slash NA and hooking us up with ten bucks. If everyone who was listening to the stream right now and listened to the entire program did that, we would be set.

2:29:14 And it would actually only take me three months to get the generator. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen! Out of five hundred! What's the percentage on that? Low. No, one percent would be five. So... Three percent. Three percent. And next, the next show, anyone who does this ten dollar gimmick, they get the opportunity to have a free deck of cards. Yep. We're just gonna pick one at random. Anyway, all of your support for the show is highly appreciated. Thank you students. Thank you to our artists who are always there with all the great stuff that really, without good art, we have very little hope of a good showing of support. And we're gonna go back to the C-spans. We're going to avoid all of the crap that the mainstream media is shoving down your throat, which has absolutely nothing to do with news. And I shall continue to put the final dabs of glue on my homemade drone.

2:30:18 Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, Give My Nation West, People's Republic of Southern California. For as long as I can stand it here, in the morning, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's going to be boiling hot today and then the fog will roll in and cool things off. And that's your weather report. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk to you again on Sunday, right here on NO Agenda. Co-President Nigel Farage, freedom and democracy.

2:30:56 Thank you. Mr. Barroso, you told us this morning that the European Union is an inspiration and whilst you admitted to there being one or two little economic problems, you made it perfectly clear that jobs and growth were to follow, that everything's going well. In fact, you painted a vision that a new period of European renewal is upon us. Now as a former communist yourself, You probably remember the old Soviet leaders getting up to give their speeches and telling everybody that there was a record harvest or that tractor production figures were terribly good. And they of course believed that history was on their side. In fact, President Khrushchev got up and said to the West, we will bury you. You know, so much did he believe in his own union. Well now of course we look back at that and we laugh. And I think in our tomorrows people will look back at you

2:31:48 and they will say, how on earth did this unelected man get all of this power? And how did Europe's political class sitting in this room decide that the community method should replace national democracy? I think people will look back in astonishment that we've surrendered democracy. What you want to do is to say, right, we have a European Union and what we're going to have to do now is have more of it. So as an architect, and you're one of the key architects of the current failure,

2:32:25 What we're going to do, even though everything to date has been wrong, we're going to do more of the same. Now I thought that was a definition of madness. I can't believe that is a rational response to any situation in which you find yourself. And far from it being a State of the Union, I would argue that the Union is in a State. Because just look at the confusion. We've got you as the President of the European Commission, we've got a President of the European Parliament, we've got my old friend Herman van Rompuy who is the permanent President of the European Council, we've got the Poles, they're now Presidents temporarily of the European Council, we've got Presidents all round this room, goodness me, even I'm a President. I mean I'm not sure.

2:33:15 I'm not sure what the collective noun for presidents is, perhaps an incompetence, I don't know. But certainly when you take away democratic accountability, it's clear nobody really is in charge. and it's developing as a union of intolerance. Anybody that stands up here and dares to give a political view that is different to the received wisdom is written off as mad, insane, violent, fascist. We've heard it for years from these people. And the intolerance is so deep that when we get referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland that reject your view

2:33:55 You see it as a political class, as a problem to be overcome. So I'm very worried about the whole root of this union. There is a new nationalism that is sweeping Europe. You want to abolish the nation states, in your case Mr Schultz, perhaps because you're ashamed of your past, and you now want this flag, this flag, and a new anthem to replace nation states, and you don't care how you get there. If you have to crush national democracy, if you have to oppose popular referendums, you just sweep this aside and say that it's populism. But it's not, it's democracy. And what is sweeping Northern Europe now, starting off in April with that amazing result in the Finnish general election, is there is a new democratic revolution sweeping Northern Europe. It's not anti-European.

2:34:46 It wants a Europe of trade, it wants a Europe of cooperation, it wants a Europe where we can do student exchanges, where we can work in each other's capital cities. It wants those things but it does not want this European Union model. Frankly you are all now yesterday's men. He does, he literally is like, did you learn nothing from what I went through? As I'm like smoking a hamburger. I think that's nice.