Episode 370 · Sunday, 1 January 2012

Tag and Track

The signing of the NDAA 2012 signals a new era of military detention as global energy choke points and advanced surveillance grids redefine the limits of civil liberty.

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President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 over the holiday weekend, a move that effectively codifies the military's power to detain U.S. citizens on domestic soil. While the White House issued a signing statement expressing reservations about H.R. 1540, the law establishes a permanent legal framework for the drone kill chain and civilian contractor involvement in lethal strikes. This legislative shift suggests a strategy to sunset the Patriot Act by migrating its most aggressive surveillance powers into the annual defense budget.

In international developments, Egyptian military forces conducted raids on 17 non-governmental organizations, including the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the National Endowment for Democracy continue to face scrutiny over the use of taxpayer funds for soft-power initiatives like the $188,000 Make Chai Not War comedy tour in India. Meanwhile, Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz have triggered a geopolitical standoff over global oil supplies, mirroring the political upheaval surrounding the Nord Stream pipeline project in Europe. In the United Kingdom, the deployment of Tag and Track CCTV software now allows authorities to reconstruct the movements of individuals across 4.2 million cameras using unique digital identifiers.

The transition of New Year’s Rockin’ Eve from Dick Clark to Ryan Seacrest highlighted a shift in media presentation, while CeeLo Green’s performance in Times Square drew criticism for its perceived hypocrisy. In Iowa, the decision to count caucus votes at a secret location to avoid Occupy movement disruptions has fueled theories of a rigged process intended to marginalize Ron Paul. Judge Andrew Napolitano reflects on a decade of post-9/11 policy, arguing that the expansion of state power has fundamentally altered the American constitutional landscape.


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CHAPTER 01 / 39 Discussion

Skype Crash and Microsoft Software Issues

The program opens with technical difficulties as Skype repeatedly crashes during the initial connection. The failure is attributed to Microsoft's ownership of the product, with comparisons made to the "abort, retry, fail" errors of older operating systems. A full reinstallation of the software was required to stabilize the connection for the New Year's Day broadcast.

skype· microsoft· software crash· technical difficulties· voip

00:00 TMTV Awards, the Terrorist Music Television Awards. Yeah! Now there's our opportunity! There is the opportunity! Play- Al Jazeera would pick it up in a minute Adam Curry John C. DeVora It's Sunday January 1st 2012 time for your Goodman Nation Media Assassination Episode 370 This Is No Agenda Wow, well done. Way to kick off the new year rocking tight real tight John

00:46 What'd I do? Well, you just... The opening was kind of like ahhh.... You trailed off. We never start over?! No! No no are you kidding me we never start over ever. WHAT?! We NEVER start over. WHAT?! I keep finding example after example So we so Skype the Skype decided to crash on me upon usage this morning, which is I find very peculiar Well, it's a Microsoft product. So it doesn't surprise me at all that starting to suck the minute of date changes or something It happens all the time in my case just that they stops working as typical Microsoft It makes no sense that it would just crash

01:24 It was so well explained to people I was we'd call each other and then he'd say are you there? And I say yes, and then it would be disconnected. Yeah No, I hear you actually say yes, and then a dialogue would pop up that would say this program has crashed Would you like to a close the program B find a solution online? What is that supposed to... It's like the old abort, retry and fail. It's exactly what it is! Because you click on that and it goes like finding solution. Go solution online? You can wait for a long time because it doesn't find anything And in the chat room was like they're all coming up with so many different suggestions That it scrolls off too fast for me to click on any link whatsoever. Is completely useless. Like okay Anyway I reinstalled Skype

CHAPTER 02 / 39 Discussion

New Year's Eve Celebrations and San Antonio German Heritage

Observations from New Year's Eve include a trip to San Antonio, Texas, which is noted for its significant German heritage and settlements like Stittenhausen and Wagenburg. The city's River Walk is described as a mix of Venice and Amsterdam. Reflections on the holiday include the heavy police presence and the "amazing" buzzword used throughout television broadcasts.

san antonio· texas· new year's eve· german settlements· river walk

02:12 And now it seems to work. It's the big Skype reinstall of 2012, everybody! In the morning to you Johnny boy! In the morning to you Adam Curry and all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air and feet in the water. And of course human resources hung over but still kinda charged up in the chatroom noagendastream.com NoAgendaChat.net I guess you guys are all ready for another 365 days actually is less than that I think we're now 354 days Until the end of the world I don't think that many people hung over people were freaked out about going out because all the threats by the police state Did you know we're gonna arrest everybody drinking and driving? You're gonna get ruined your life. Did you go didn't now mean he forced you to go out last night Yeah, we went on a knife guy was the designated driver. I refused to drink on New Year's Eve Period except water what time did you get back in oh

03:06 I got back in we got actually we get backup. We went around did it went to dinner with them? Party and but we actually got back at the house that quarter to 12 because I have you know some champagne here And we get to watch the fireworks in San Francisco from the balcony so well, yeah We watched from our balcony. We saw the Austin fireworks. Actually we had did see it really from your place Oh, yeah, you're out in the middle of nowhere Yeah You see right over the ridge you see a doll popping up and stuff oh okay? Well we went to a san antone To have dinner. Have you ever been to San Antone? Yeah, I have it's a beautiful little town Well, it's not a little town It's like the the fifth largest city in the United States or something like that is pretty big actually was unfamiliar with that fact But they had the river walk which is kind of like across bunch of bars and restaurants. Yeah It is it's like it's kind of like Venice meets Amsterdam in a way

04:00 Yeah, and it was really nice. We had New Year's Eve dinner at the steakhouse Ryan there's a lot of German stuff I never knew this there's all these Germans settlements all over Texas hmm you have see all you drive to San Antone And you see like Stittenhausen Wagenburg. Really? Yeah, it's the craziest thing! It's weird because I don't see the Germans warming up to Texas necessarily there is nothing similar. No apparently there are a lot of German... Well they make some beers down there that are decent German style. Well it's Ostenbergstrom Airport so you know there's another Germanization for you

04:40 Anyway, so we got back and of course we're in the central time zone. And for those who have ever been to America you see on television that'll be out at 8-7 Central! So were the 7th part of that which is really weird because everything's an hour early for you. Yeah, and in California they delay by 3 hours so it's just like you pretend New York didn't happen but its happening all over again But we watched, we were actually bopping back and forth between the New Year's Eve programs. Highly entertaining I have to say! Did you watch? And now you got back too late right so you didn't see much of it... I didn't watch any of it. We're always a good got back in time to wash the fires but in them but between 12 just before the fire show still getting clips

CHAPTER 03 / 39 Discussion

Times Square Nivea Sponsorship and CeeLo Green Performance

The commercialization of the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is criticized, specifically the pervasive Nivea sponsorship featuring blue branded hats and stage props. Performer CeeLo Green is called out for hypocrisy after singing John Lennon's "Imagine"—a song about having no possessions—while wearing a full-length mink coat and a massive gold watch.

times square· nivea· ceelo green· john lennon· imagine

05:25 So, first of all... Times Square once again was sponsored by Nivea. Which is so disgusting! Remember last year we talked about this? This is their new thing and they have a stage with all these chapsticks With oversized chapsticks that look like huge tampons holding up the stage And then they have this kiss of the new year, and then they always have someone propose. It's all about kissing Nivea for their Chapstick product. And everyone is wearing big blue Nivea crazy like cat in a hat hats and they all have like blue... They're like dildos! Like they're waving blue dildoes on Times Square and it's the Nivea balloons so it's all commercialized

06:12 Yeah, well but it's gotten really bad and bar none the word of the evening Amazing. It's just amazing here is amazing Oh so amazing. I brought it is not amazing It was not amazing we had Anderson Cooper live on CNN with Kathy Griffin which was if there was ever a a team not meant to be together is Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. I can't imagine, i saw the previews they had previews of it yeah and which makes me wonder as they did last year because they couldn't have previewed how could you have previews of a show like that? And uh... I just thought they didn't work at all. No! Kathy Griffin's annoying. And then she was using the vagina thing the whole time and then Lady Gaga performed in it she took off her dress

07:04 I was standing there in her bra and panties, which actually have to say it was kind of funny because Anderson didn't know what to do with himself. He's like oh my God a woman don't know what to do on ABC Carson daily host. Actually have to say it's called Carson's countdown Now they had the Nivea sponsorship deal so they had the stage with the big tampons. And Carson I have to say, I like how he does it! He's very cool and a good host you know? Not like Ryan Seacrest over there on NBC doing... oh it was the other way around I think

07:44 and when I did Clark's rockin New Year's Eve that is NBC or ABC? That's NBC. No, no, no, that doesn't matter So Carson Daly is doing a pretty good job. But Carson Daly's doing a good job. I have to say, as a television host it was good and the guy is smooth... I've always thought Carson Daly was very professional. Yeah professional but he's got his personality is lacking he doesn't have the you know he doesn't have a lot of charisma It's okay because I just want the guy just like talk the bits together and hang out a little bit He did a good job but then

08:20 Just before midnight they have CeeLo Green. You know who CeeLo Green is? Yeah So, CeeLo Green gets on the Nivea tampon stage to sing Imagine and uh... Oh, brother And yeah he's singing Ima- by the way poor performance but you know okay i'll give him that because of you know the setting and monitors and everything but he didn't hit it just couldn't hit But I'm listening to this guy singing, imagine no possessions in his full-length mink coat with his huge gold watch. Like really? John Lennon spinning in his grave right now. Disgusting! I like the irony but then the funny thing maybe was supposed to be humorous

CHAPTER 04 / 39 Discussion

Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest New Year's Rockin' Eve

The transition of "New Year's Rockin' Eve" from Dick Clark to Ryan Seacrest is analyzed. While Seacrest is described as "hypey," the appearance of an aging Dick Clark following his stroke is characterized as uncomfortable for television. Lady Gaga's performance is also noted for her wearing a heavy, diamond-encrusted headpiece that hindered her ability to speak.

dick clark· ryan seacrest· lady gaga· television hosting· stroke recovery

09:05 I was laughing. Mickey and I were both like, oh my god! You have to see this guy's watch it's as big as my head And it is like gold. Yes you pretty big. And I got a big head So then we have Ryan Seacrest Who was so hypey and like... You want to reach through the screen just slapping He's doing Dick Clark's rockin New Year's Eve now dick Clark is a staple in the in the United States And he's always done live from Times Square for 40 years actually and and I like dick Clark. I've worked for his company couple times back in the day Okay, good guy you don't like him. I think it shouldn't be on TV anymore well Thank you This is the point so in in a time span of one minute

09:53 We have Lady Gaga who was wearing a diamond crusted dish on her head, which is so heavy because you don't see your face. In fact it maybe wasn't even Lady Gaga she's probably at home and just send some bimbo to wear this diamond dish on her head That's not a bad idea Andy Warhol used to send out Andy Warhol lookalikes give his public speeches Good! So I encourage this but unfortunately it probably was her This thing was so heavy that it's pushing down on the bridge of her nose and she's talking like this. Yes, Ryan is really great to be... It's really amazing. So she can barely talk and then they switch over to Dick Clark bless his heart who had several strokes and he's like... It was like the New Year of the retards! It was like please get this off my television

10:46 I loved it Clark, but he can't be on television anymore. It was horrible! He was born in 1929 so you can figure... and that's what he says he was born he probably fudges that But he had a stroke so he has difficulty speaking And he is probably 90 years old And its really uncomfortable You know because he... and then they cut away cause you cant watch him I guess Well they might as well put Michael Douglas's dad get a couple more of those guys. I mean if you're gonna do it go over the top Yeah, just have a whole slew It was really pathetic really really sad like Meanwhile while yours being distracted by this crap

CHAPTER 05 / 39 Discussion

Obama Signs NDAA 2012 and Civil Liberty Concerns

President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 on a Saturday during the holiday weekend, a move seen as avoiding media scrutiny. The bill, H.R. 1540, contains controversial provisions allowing the military to detain U.S. citizens on American soil. Obama released a signing statement expressing "serious reservations" about the detention provisions despite finalizing the law.

barack obama· ndaa· bill 1540· civil liberties· military detention

11:30 I was drunk. On a Saturday when everyone's watching football and getting, you know either watching college coming off College Football Day on Friday professional last day of the season on Sunday big day tomorrow on Monday a bunch of bowl games, BCS games all this New Year's New Year's New Year's on a Saturday with nobody looking Obama signs off on the mail. Signs the NDAA I know! How much coverage? I don't see any coverage of him signing it It's like...I'm looking at the front pages today's New York Times Nothing, there's nothing about Obama strategy for the 12 elections. Frustrated with GOP There is not one thing about him signing that crazy bill which now of course allows the military to arrest citizens of United States on American property It's even worse because he released a statement along with the signing of the bill A written statement This is Bill 1540 H.R.1540 Which he now says it 500 pages I don't know how that works cause' I read 900 And they pulled two quotes from his statement

12:34 So this is not you know I have no audio from this, but just his written statement Which is on whitehouse.gov? I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists That's so he's got reservations yeah This is his head so now this is hedge yeah And then I had reservations who knew so then further along in this statement Against our record of success, some in Congress continue to insist upon restricting the options available to our counterterrorism professionals and interfering with the very operations that have kept us safe.

13:22 My administration has consistently opposed such measures. Ultimately, I decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides to our forces and their families—bullcrap! We know that's only like 18% of the money—and the national security programs it authorizes…yeah, like underwater sub-bases... but also because the Congress revised provisions that otherwise would have jeopardized the safety, security and liberty of the American people. What a hubris this is! Moving forward my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded. Values

14:10 Values? No, how about the Constitution. There's not a single thing upholds the values! This very very very tricky language that is being put out there Well it's just bull crap language he's saying this you mean like signs of bill that interns everybody well this is for the public good Even for the public good even worse doing it for their own for their own safety. We're you know this sort of thing I mean, it's unbelievable to me that this would happen and then of course it does and do it on a Saturday like this He's in Hawaii he's not back he's in Hawaii he's on vacation yeah well Yeah, he doesn't want to be around when you know just never know maybe somebody would protest now we were insane early Not we weren't saying Antone. I understood because San Antonio is like there was like two-and-a-half million people

CHAPTER 06 / 39 Discussion

Drone Kill Chain and Civilian Contractors

The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. military is increasingly reliant on civilian contractors within the "drone kill chain." Data suggests that operating a single Predator or Global Hawk drone requires significantly more personnel (up to 300 people for 24 hours) than a traditional F-16 fighter jet. This reliance on civilians in the decision-making process for lethal strikes is highlighted as a major shift in warfare.

drone kill chain· civilian contractors· air force· global hawk· predator drone

15:01 And now Mickey jumped into a liquor store to get some champagne to take back to the casa. I'm standing out there because i am smoking like... By the way, how far of drive is it from your house to San Antonio? An hour and 25 minutes. That's not too bad. No that great! And um..I'm standing outside and just observing people Oh man, they're all idiots. I'm just like well no wonder no one cares all these people there's guys hitting on girls they're heckling catcalls They got tattoos on their heads and four like dollar signs in their necks it's like wow really? No wonder everyone's hammered drunk just falling down Like you know what this is actually good lock these people up get rid of them! Meanwhile in The Los Angeles Times

15:52 Report that the military is now forced to rely on civilian contractors who are placed all along the levels of the drone kill chain. Because... Wait, wait, wait! That wasn't a word they used though? The drone kill chain? Absolutely Quote quote the kill chain. Quote I have it in quotes right here Um, Ron who's using the wordage? David S. Cloud. I mean that's the writer but where does it come from originally who first coined the we have to have somebody dig this one up well let me uh let me look up the whole article here i just have the extract um is from businessinsider.com according to clump well i have to go to his article now hold on a second let's take a look at it this is because yeah it's i mean it's in quotes The Kill Chain

16:45 Wow, the drone kill chain. I like it! Yeah, I like it too. It's really... Is that a keychain around your neck? No man, that's a kill chain. That's a drone kill chain So he talked to Major General Timothy McHale By the way someone right away should be going for that one DroneKillChain.com Absolutely So maybe he used it but I don't know But its good So the whole problem is that it takes so many people to fly a drone and more staff than an F-15. That you know, the Air Force... That doesn't sound right to me! Well when you think about it

17:25 Yeah, no it's only one dude flying and then they have operations. But why would they have more maintenance people than a regular F-15? Check it out! It's like down half the time with 1000 guys working on it pounding away. This is why the military industrial complex loves it because about 168 people are needed to keep a single predator aloft for 24 hours according to the Air Force The larger Global Hawk- Doing what?! You know, like a... Calibrating. The Global Hawk surveillance drone requires 300 people for a 24 hour period in contrast an F16 fighter aircraft needs fewer than 100 people per mission Even that seems a lot What are they doing? Anyway so that's where your drone kill chain comes from and so it's all civilians And we know its civilians because half of them listen to this show! Yeah

18:25 Don't drone us bro. Hey, don't don't don't drone me bro Please please don't draw me whatever you do So it's gonna be civilians in this drone kill chain making making decisions all along the way It's just it's a it's the year that we might the world might as well end so um Well largely has you know? My, Buzzkill Jr. and I were discussing some of this and he, uh...I think we came to the conclusion or he did that you know this NDAA may actually be because it essentially

CHAPTER 07 / 39 Discussion

NDAA as a Replacement for the Patriot Act

A theory is proposed that the NDAA's broad powers may eventually allow the Obama administration to sunset the Patriot Act. By moving the most aggressive surveillance and detention powers into the defense budget bill, the administration could appear to be restoring civil liberties by removing the Patriot Act while maintaining the same underlying authority through the military.

ndaa· patriot act· civil liberties· legislative strategy· obama

19:04 Makes it so that the Patriot Act's not necessary if you really look at it carefully And I'm expecting we're expecting you to read the whole thing mm-hmm both of us are by the way What what do you mean to read? What I've already read everything when he talked a whole thing, okay Well it said in ways written. It seems as though the Patriot Act could be tossed out and this thing could take care of it Oh yeah, yeah We don't need it So so I'm thinking that it's a prelude to Obama or some of these other douchebags coming out saying we're going to get rid of the Patriot Act. We're gonna negate it! Good idea, I like that because they don't need it anymore they've got this thing instead and it makes you look like a good guy yeah the patriot guy was a little... he's taking our freedoms away meanwhile we got a military state. I really liked that concept John hold on a second

19:57 I just want to set this up here. So there were a couple other things because i was actually doing some work believe it or not and my daughter was here and she went back, has been real busy sounds like it but what happened in the few days since our previous program was of course Something I love that we studied on this show and I had to bring back a clip just to look at it This is well, here's the report and they'll stop it after like 30 seconds or so you can talk about it democracy groups with American ties our world affairs correspondent Jill Doherty Is joining us right now. Jill what's the very latest on this on this issue?

CHAPTER 08 / 39 Discussion

Egyptian Raids on U.S. Funded NGOs

Egyptian military forces raided 17 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). While the U.S. State Department claims these groups merely support democratic transitions, they are identified as being funded by American taxpayers. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reportedly contacted Egyptian officials to express deep concern over the raids.

egypt· ngo· national democratic institute· state department· leon panetta

20:41 well what do you know this is an indication of how seriously this is being taken here in washington the pentagon saying that secretary of defense leon panetta spoke by phone with egyptian field marshal time tally and expressed deep concern about the raids thank time tell me for his decision to stop them but he also emphasize it's critical for a gift to continue on the path to democratic transition okay so this is uh... about uh... the egyptian military forces who of course are in charge Rating the 17 NG quote NGOs non-governmental organ organizations that this is very important the non governmental organization part and As we know these are basically spy Organizations who are outfitting the techno experts in all these countries and given them you know like Internet in a suitcase, it's completely sponsored by by the state. In fact literally by the State Department We know they have a 300

21:36 What was it? $300 billion budget. Yeah, a 300 billion dollar budget. No, 300 million. What was it? What did Lucifer get? I don't remember what it was but it wasn't 300 million. She got three hundred million. Three hundred million is just one weekend in Bermuda for Hillary. That's just for funding these outfits so they busted in and they took laptops and there's like an outrage and everyone on the news this is an outrage! These people are just trying to help democracy they're just trying to help So, you know me. I'm watching the State Department website and the spokeshole comes out and she gets a question about can you really assure us that these are really like aren't these funded by the State Department? Just for the record could you just tell us

22:25 often it is alleged that they are an arm of the US government. They do receive some type of funding from... By the way, if you go to NDI dot org, you can see that the State Department is funding it! It's not like alleged... You didn't mention NDI before? Oh I'm sorry, the NDI but it's not alleged they say it right there on their website. Foundation for Defending Democracies Is that what it is? What's NDI? National Democratic Institute. Yeah. Can you just explain precisely... Now by the way this is a script because immediately this woman starts reading the script about what the NDI is and what the relationship is with the State Department so she would know off to top of her head no, no, no This question is expected as script No I'm just saying this the woman would obviously there's

23:14 If somebody asked me about the NDI out of the blue, I would say I'd have to look into it. Right? No, here comes... What is their relationship if any with the US government and could there be any attempt to overthrow or do anything like that in another country? These are both non-governmental organizations they are strongly supported around the world with U.S. government funds Their primary purpose around the world is to support the development of democratic institutions. They work most actively, both NDI and IRI in countries that are in democratic transition they do things like train poll monitors... They train poll monitors? Okay this is really hard by the way democracy is really hard you have to train people how it works so you gotta train people how to stick their finger in the ink pot ...train poll workers

24:14 train political parties in how to mount their campaigns. They don't support any individual candidate, any individual party. He's reading this and all of their work is open to public scrutiny and to government scrutiny. And particularly in the Egyptian case extremely transparent they have been extremely transparent about the programs that they have in Egypt about who's participating etc.. Okay so I remember that Lucifer clippity-clop Clinton did a keynote on November 7th at the NDI. And of course, you know if you look to the news reports it was like this is Madeline Albright's non-governmental organization! This is so wrong but... Well listen to Hillary clippity-clop Lucifer

CHAPTER 09 / 39 Discussion

Hillary Clinton and the National Endowment for Democracy

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's support for organizations like the NDI and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is examined. These entities, often chaired by former high-ranking officials like Madeline Albright, are described as "soft power" tools used to influence foreign political landscapes. Clinton's speeches emphasize using these "family of organizations" to safeguard democracy abroad using taxpayer funds.

hillary clinton· national endowment for democracy· madeline albright· usaid· soft power

25:03 Just last week the World Economic Forum released a report on the remarkable benefits countries see when they bridge the social, economic and political gaps separating women from men. And helping them get there is a priority for the State Department and for me personally. Graduates of NDI training programs... Graduates of NDI training? What is this, a college now all of sudden? Wow! Let me interrupt for a split second yes and mentioned some of the things that because they non-governmental organizations which are huge, they're all over the place were generally started would be normally thought of something like Greenpeace or then The Olden Days. But this is a almost commercialized operation Madeline Albright's the chairman I'm looking at their board directors Tom

25:50 dashels like the vice chairman people on the advisory committee Mario Cuomo for example. William Alexander, the former Chairman Walter Mondale Howard Dean is on the board of directors I mean this is a as an NGO this is obviously a bunch of hired gun stooges yeah that are that know how to get money from from the taxpayer mostly and whoever else Gives them money. Well, let's listen imagine anybody voluntarily giving them money Oh no, this is a well yes contractors give them money of course. Yeah sure I'm sure your boys at Blackwater. Yeah you mean What's their new name?

26:31 or foe. No, they went from Z to... I can't remember what it was. Let me look it up. Freedom? It was like Patriot or something. Something really bad. But we all know a great deal of work lies ahead to help all people, women and men find justice and opportunity as full participants in new democratic societies. Along with our economic and technical help America will also use our

27:14 presence influence and global leadership but i thought it was just a train pole dancers an honest and now some reason influence in technical financial support okay to support change and later this week i am issuing new policy guidance for embassies across the region destruction our efforts mhm policy guidance across the region other words more spying more go go out and then make a ruckus In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya we are working to help citizens safeguard the principles of democracy. It's so hard! These cultures don't have a clue and they never will. They're sand bunnies they don't know anything That means supporting the forces of reconciliation The forces of reconciliation I love it these are great words Lucifer Other than retribution

28:03 It means defending freedom of expression when bloggers are arrested for criticizing public officials. So what are they doing? Like if a blogger gets arrested, they go kick some ass and free him? I mean what does this mean? It doesn't mean anything. Standing up for tolerance when state-run television fans sectarian tensions. And it means that when unelected authorities say they want to be out of the business of governing We will look to them to lay out a clear road map and urge them to abide by it. This sounds like a lot more than what the spokesholder just said. And on this journey that they have begun, the United States will be their partner. Check it out! And of the many tools at our disposal... Tools!

28:49 The National Endowment and NDI, and all of the family of organizations. The family of organizations! I love it that's like that's all of them all in the whole family is all paid for by who Lucifer? Were created three decades ago to help people make this journey successfully will be right there. I heard Madeline say when she introduced me that I defend NDI Well I do and also defend IRI. I defend those organizations that we have created, that the American taxpayers pay for There you go! Thank you The American taxpayers pay for a non-governmental organization I'm not an idiot This is really annoying That was a long road but i think it was worth it Well there's more to come So... I am watching this spokes hole And all of sudden

CHAPTER 10 / 39 Discussion

David Headley and Mumbai Attack Investigation

During a State Department briefing, questions were raised regarding David Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani), a U.S. citizen and alleged CIA asset linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Indian investigators have sought further access to Headley, who is currently in U.S. custody. The State Department spokesperson avoided confirming if any new requests for interviews or extradition had been received from the Indian government.

david headley· mumbai attacks· india· cia· terrorism

29:51 there's an Indian guy. By the way I want to stop you for a second, interrupt it and just mention because she did drop the National Endowment she says yes that refers specifically to the National Endowment for Democracy which is taking this right off of The Book of Knowledge. The US nonprofit organization that was founded in 1983 that would be during the Reagan administration to promote democracy is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress within the budget of get this, here's our buddies. Oh yeah! USAID There it is ladies and gentlemen USAID That's your economic hit man So then there are two Indian guys in the audience so yeah it's a little difficult because you know you have to kind of get into the accent It's short clip And the first guy goes off script and the woman is like She doesn't know what to say The second guy is on script that its funny but this first guy is like remember David Headley

30:47 Yeah. Who's David Headley? I just remember his name, let me look him up in the book of knowledge and you can tell me. No look him up in the book of knowledge he was the guy associated CIA asset with the Mumbai attacks Oh right right right right So this guy goes off the reservation The National Investigation Agency of India has charged a number of individuals, including several ISI agents and also LET connections. Including Mr. Hadley who is here in the US with the Indian official had already interviewed him in Chicago My question is that this is in connection with several bombings throughout India including Mumbai attacks

31:34 Have anybody contacted the US with this charge sheet which was handed over in Parliament this week? So essentially Om Malik here is saying, hey David Hadley needs to be questioned because the guy was clearly involved with the Mumbai attacks which it was pretty much certainly a false flag. Has anyone reached out to the State Department to interview this guy cause this is all wrong and this was not in the script Yeah, the David Coleman Hedley formerly known as Daoud Saeed Jilani that guy in Chicago. Yep, Pakistani guy Here's the answer and if they have requested any further interviews or getting Hadley to India for further questioning or to face charges

CHAPTER 11 / 39 Discussion

Make Chai Not War Comedy Tour Funding

The U.S. State Department is sponsoring a seven-city comedy tour in India titled "Make Chai, Not War" at a cost of approximately $188,000. The tour features Indian-American comedians intended to promote religious tolerance. However, excerpts from the performances include anti-British and anti-Western sentiments, leading to questions about the efficacy and intent of using taxpayer money for such cultural exchange programs.

make chai not war· india· state department· comedy· cultural exchange

32:23 I don't have anything in particular on that, Goyal. I will take the question if we have anything to share we'll get back to you. Yeah okay what are you doing? Now here comes the funny bit and it is a long stretch but it will pay off at the end now the real Indian guy who was supposed to ask the real question pops the question and she's reading all the answers once again and its an eye roller. You're sending a comedy group to India What is the comedy behind it? Okay, so just so you understand it. You're sending a comedy group to India what is the comedy behind it good question Well thank you for that to gender if we are and thank you for that to gender Thank you for getting us back on script deeds sending an Indian American comedy group

33:12 We are supporting a seven-city tour that they are making around India. They're called Make Chai, Not War and this is part of our regular global cultural exchange program that we do around the world. There are three Indian American comedians And the reason we decided to support this tour is because among the things that they are known for is their talk about religious tolerance, about the importance of breaking down prejudices and about the positive experiences they had growing up as Indian Americans.

33:53 in the United States. Okay, that sounds great! Make Chai Not War a positive group going around India American Indians so I go to their website would you care to hear one of their stand-up bits this positive politically correct... I'm sure it's a beauty I was in Washington DC three years ago and uh, went to this Smithsonian exhibit about diamonds. Diamonds from across the world throughout history and they had a picture of the Koh-i-Noor And a caption that read The Koh-i-Noor is one of the largest diamonds in the world It's found on the British Royal Crown and was originally founded India in mid 1800s Right! it was just FOUND IN INDIA

34:30 It wasn't taken from India. It was just founded because we didn't know what the fuck they were folks We don't know what the fuck diamonds were. We didn't know, that's probably reasonable. Look, but we're fucking eating them. We're fucking eating them. We didn't know. We didn't know! I'm grinding em up putting it into curry, you know? Diamond biryani yay! Thursday! Diamond biryani day. Fuck stovetop kids, we got diamonds. But luckily the British showed up and first they taught us how to use our opposable thumbs right? And then the Taurus started to walk on two feet. Then they took those evil diamonds away before we had something else to do with them Man, fuck the British! Fuck em'! I know it sounds ridiculous to be bitter but The Queen of England? Fuck the Queen of England There you go that's your politically correct comedy group that we are sponsoring So basically were sending over some Indian comics To breed more anti-Western hatred in their region

35:32 Now of course the question that arises in my mind is, well what does this comedy tour cost me as a taxpayer? As I said, in seven cities. In addition to doing shows they'll also be holding audience discussions on these issues of religious tolerance and doing workshops and... Religious Tolerance? Yeah yeah fuck the British! ...interviews with press. Which cities and what is the budget? Uhh..I believe the Full tour costs about $100,000. The US Embassy in New Delhi is supporting them with a grant of $88,000. $188,000!

36:19 Wow, John good gig and they get to float around India and eat on the tap. Dude we've got to get into this scam yeah well we just have some nasty comedy it's unbelievable 188 000 and of course by then I'm like NDI who cares? This is crazy! They're sending out completely anti-western culture anti-British comedians to have talking sessions about political correctness Make shy not war and by you know the guys started some of this stuff is actually I not It's just crazy well until we get our comedy troupe together. We're going to have to Continue to just get by with the help of our producers Yeah, we do have a few let's name two ones that would just name our executive and associate executive producers before we get on to more Yes more topics of interest. Let's do

CHAPTER 12 / 39 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and No Agenda Mugs

Executive producers are recognized for their financial support, including Jason Hoffman serving in Italy and "Big Ass Blonde" from San Antonio. The hosts discuss the "value-for-value" model and promote official No Agenda merchandise, specifically highlighting the quality and size of the new tall coffee mugs available at NoAgendaNation.com.

jason hoffman· oleg rakatini· san antonio· no agenda mugs· value-for-value

37:13 We have three executive producers and two associates today. He's beginning with Jason Hoffman, who is a Somewhere parts unknown essentially got an APO addresses it. Well he says he's from right now He's in pizza pie Italy Serving in the United States Army here in Italy and let I give a shot to begin it become an executive producer after listening To your show for several months have decided to stop being a boner become a donor yeah, though I'm proud to say I've been propagating the formula wherever you get the chance make sure that puts we need some stickers They'd be posted in Italy uh... yeah for sure and uh... it loves the insight thought-provoking uh... commentary create with your media sess nation shield deconstruction of all the douche bags out there vying for control a plan as a security police member in the air force today i do find that when you talk about police and military action tend to be wrong about eighty percent of the time i know it's more like seventy nine percent i think i don't think it is seventy eight yes we're wrong

38:10 You're wrong. Okay, we don't all right how I think this is bad I think this is give Adam plenty of ammunition to go on his highly entertaining rants about how ridiculous he thinks their actions are I do admit by myself though think some of the recent events To be overboard however I would like to give the following douchebag call-outs to my dad Do we have the rest of this because this is? Truncated on my thing. Let me see if I can scroll down a bit hold on a second what happens when you have oh, yeah It's it's weird online generally puts in so much people shouldn't write these memos to be this long Hold on a second. I got whoops where to go well He needs a douchebag call out to a couple of people yeah well hold on let me see To my dad Kip For turning me onto the show last summer but still hasn't donated My good friend

39:02 Yeah, and then it goes all haywire on me. Hold on maybe I can make it smaller... Yeah we gotta do something about this. Uh... No I mean the problem is you have to- Here we go! My good friend AJ uh... I punched in the mouth several months ago and converted to The Cause but despite plenty of warning still let me beat him to the donate button And To You Too! DOOSHBAG! Why did we get douchebagged? Why did WE get douchebagged?! I don't know $370.37 you can call us to douchebag it's like sitting in the dunk tank for Jason yeah really and but he doesn't actually say how we're wrong 80% of the time no it is typical this is a guy who knows were right percent of the time but he knows we're gonna mention his name so he wanted I covers but he doesn't, but he's part of the system he's part he's a cog in the military industrial complex wheel taking orders He's apart of the drone kill chain

40:05 for the drone killer jane he's blaming us and we're just a messenger is there by the way according to shield ron kill chain dot com now uh... redirects in no agenda show dot com are right this year at that point the greatest onward to justin bach gay or but probably barking because it's a lafayette louisiana my country mccain argues got some money for christmas dot i and and i thought what the fuck i'll produce an episode of the greatest podcast in universe thanks to the great can do it he's a nice and thanks for the great show happy distracted new year justin bach hey uh... lafayette louisiana where he used to own your own i'd like it thank you so much and our third executive producers all by share media which is actually sir lennart aren't come out and uh... grown engine

40:56 Just crediting Lenhardt with no comment, which actually screwed us up this morning because JC says he was stuck on this. It was $320 and 12 cents I want to thank him for that because the fact that there's a comment in there Can't mean no comment so it makes no sense to type No Comment in the comment box. Okay, that's just JC being a computer engineer... A chip maker! Oleg Rakatini, Sir Oleg, in Richmond Hill Ontario I'd like to make a birthday shout out to my brother and we'll have that later uh... he which is for the january first we've got to be miserable at midnight of new year's eve it usually goes happy new year and happy birthday also i'd like to request karma for him in the rest of the family a new your thanks to keep up with good work on the best podcast you've got car my sister tiffany actually celebrates her birthday on january first and it is a big pain in the ass she hates it

41:55 And then finally our last executive producer he came in Ole Gunn to award 20 cents and two hundred one. Well, that's 2012 is what he did I like it. 2012 right Jerry Jones missed that but she come in with $201 and she said a car just came in the mail uh... and she said that she calls herself a big ass blonde. She's from San Antonio! And if you look at the mail came in on the return address it was B dot A dot D, and then her address. First I heard of the Noah Jendis through PID radio, a Christian conspiracy webcast. Really? Yeah

42:37 Cool. Well, she props out to them I'm not complaining It says that i've listened to the show religiously while i'm working at my government job Oh yeah big-ass blonde government well you know san anton is a big military town Really? oh yeah they got air force navy all kinds of stuff there it's crazy and says in lieu of karma would you consider redirecting your shine hannity we can't because The Sean Hannity thing is that it would really screw us up on the SEO. That's the only thing we're actually getting SEO on, is seanhannity.com So instead of in lieu of karma will give you some karma you can have that Absolutely here ya go Big ass blonde Karma You've got Karma And I'm gonna give her a... Milk? That one mother I'd like to feed

43:26 I think she deserves it. So we want to thank all these executive producers for sponsoring today's show and want to remind people that this is the new year, which might as well start thinking about how are going make it through to the end go to Dvorak dot org slash NA channel Dvorak dot com slash NA noagenda show dot com and NoAgendaNation dot com where the mugs by the way are fantastic and you should buy one yes please let me point Aren't they nice? The mugs are very nice Yeah, yeah And they're big. They're not like the little no no they're tall their tallest with that not big They're tall well they hold at least a cup and a half of water yeah or coffee as you wish very nice I like them a lot and I need to program your brain for seconds who open up those gray cells Dvorak org Slash n a donating is loving and some PR initiatives Andy is it? No wait a minute It's

CHAPTER 13 / 39 Discussion

No Agenda Movie and PR Initiatives

The community's promotional efforts are highlighted, including the registration of the domain noagendathemovie.com by a film music editor named Andy. Other initiatives include "The Judge Owners" website and a Squarespace comic site by "Supermom" that directs half of its proceeds to the show. The hosts encourage further "propagation of the formula" through these listener-led PR missions.

noagendathemovie.com· squarespace· pr missions· community projects· film music

44:26 Okay, first we have Andy from Gitmo Nation East. I'm a future film music editor composer and occasional movie producer in Gitmo Nation East big fan of the show I too was inspired by the open-the-door Mr. Curry clip to contemplate how great a movie could be about two cult podcasters on the run from them But unlike the guys from Australia I had done nothing about it yet except buy the domain noagendathemovie.com Which is currently forwarding to noagendershow.com But as and when the guys complete their movie I'll reassign it to them in the meantime if they require a musical score and some sound work, please pass on my details I'll do it for nothing If you and John and the show in general get to benefit further down the line So I think that's very cool He also says thank you for the birthday card. I recently received from you guys It made my day another donation coming soon so thank you very much Andy producer and get more nation East And then I received funny email and a picture from Stan

45:20 It was registered. Stan the man, yeah he has registered TheJudgeOwners.com and he's putting together a picture website of all of us No Agenda producers who own The Judge He sent me a picture wearing like a beanie You guys don't get on the watch list after this We're totally getting locked up And then finally we have another PR Mission done by Supermom. I think formerly known as the crazy shanty chick remember that one Oh, yeah And she's created a Squarespace site super mom comic dot squarespace calm where I guess it's an episodic and episodic comic and and she says here and basically the whole thing is a donation solicitation for for the show

46:17 So right there nice. Yeah, we the month of January be giving half the donations received the no agenda show podcast starring John C DeWark and Adam Curry It's an awesome show No, it's not awesome. It's the best podcast in the universe But we appreciate that so that's very cool And of course We have other people out there who can always do one very important thing you can go out and propagate our formula Our formula is this? We hit people in them out Take off your t-shirt at noagendination.com Shut up, slave! Dvorak dot org slash N A Donating is loving Mickey says we're not doing that well yet She says and we're not saying it with conviction

47:12 I can't imagine anyone saying it with more conviction than you. Well, she says maybe you're not there yet Maybe she should come on the line and say it because they would have a good with this sultry voice Okay, give her a couple shots of whiskey first so she gets a little gravel in here She only needs two Oh yeah Yeah we gotta get some consulting gigs in this year Yeah because otherwise It's gonna be sad It's gonna be very sad. So I got a couple of things that I've kind of deconstructed actually, and I was watching the Fox... No really? And ended up with a scripted... You mean the Hot Legs Network

CHAPTER 14 / 39 Discussion

Judith Miller and Iran's Strait of Hormuz Threat

Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller appeared on Fox News to discuss Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz. Miller argued that while Iran is under pressure from internal dissent and the "Arab Spring" movement, closing the strait would be economically suicidal as half of Iran's budget relies on oil exports through that passage. The segment is analyzed as a scripted briefing for the public.

judith miller· iran· strait of hormuz· fox news· oil exports

47:55 the legs network and I caught a scripted bit. Oh! I mean it was almost as though, it's really beautiful because the guy who is a weekend warrior wasn't one of the normal guys comes on and he has Judith Miller on and you remember her she was in New York Times reporter that got fired because she was like planning stories for the CIA Yeah no wait, wasn't she the one that reported weapons of mass destruction? In Iraq which is all phony She was working for the government some funny way and now of course she's landed on, you know instead of being a journalist. Shamed! Now she is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Oh nice And she is doing their magazine for probably twice as much money that Times is paying her and she has got that shitting grin on he face because of it Most importantly

48:43 But she comes on and she essentially came out to do a briefing. The way I see this was, this was the scripted bit that guy asked the question, she succinctly answers it in four parts and they're very... They cut right off. It's not like an interaction there is no normally when you go on these talk shows as a guest you will be some interaction of talking and he talks to you talking and it goes back and forth a little but this was know this was up like a scripted questions scripted answer scripted question and it gives us a little insight as to what might be going on in our in iran and what we're gonna do about it fellow at the manhattan institute and they consider one right straights of her most estimating that i first contributing editor of its magazine city journal june great to see you know your honor has made this threat at least twice before to shut down the street of harm lose they never followed through because

49:33 they would guess kind of be shooting themselves in the foot right if they did right exactly trace well half of their ron's uh... money that it needs for its budget comes from those oil exports that move through this trade and hormones and if it shows to sabotage that passageway it would in effect he sabotaging itself and source of income doesn't mean it won't do it. It's done a lot of crazy and unpredictable things in the past, but mostly for the moment US analysts think that its just a lot of saber rattling. Okay so what we have here is an introduction to the basic fact of the Strait of Hormuz threat which is that it makes no sense for them to do this

50:20 And so we're gonna let you know that as a moment of information for people who can read between the lines. Now, then you dropped the little bombshell in there which I don't...I like to see deconstructed by her which is they've done a lot of crazy and unpredictable things in the past! Yeah but but you know what? They come out Iran comes out and says that they are monitoring in fact surveilling the United States military What does that tell you?! you?

51:03 the The Iranian regime is under enormous pressure also from its own people. Remember, the Arab Spring did not start in an Arab country it started in 2009 in Iran and had to be ruthlessly suppressed so this is a country that's desperately looking to flex its muscle and tell its own people and the world don't

51:40 take us for granted don't think we can fight and are prepared to defend our interests because we will. Okay the Syrian regime has collapsed there John that's what she says it's collapsed and she also makes a point like a long number of points there for one thing rival power like Russia I mean when is where how are they arrival part they make rugs in Russia no right Persian rug And I mean, Arab Spring was not even coined as a term until it actually happened in Arab countries. And now to back...to kind of back it up to that little incident that was hardly like what happened in these other countries is kind of sketchy and then of course she uses the word instead since there really wasn't that much activity except large protests

CHAPTER 15 / 39 Discussion

Geopolitics of Oil and the Nord Stream Pipeline

The tension in the Strait of Hormuz is framed as a geopolitical struggle for control over global oil supplies. Comparisons are made to the Nord Stream pipeline project, with claims that the project influenced political upheaval in Poland. The discussion posits that whoever controls these energy "choke points" effectively controls the economic stability of Europe and the world.

strait of hormuz· nord stream· poland· geopolitics· energy security

52:31 ruthlessly suppressed. Ruthless, ruthless yeah we're getting a kind of an interesting briefing that has kind of two layers of information one is the is the real information that we need to know to make decisions as whatever you know analysts and the other one which is the propagandistic stuff which is for the public's consumption in the typical Fox viewer But Iran has been flexing its muscle, Judith now for years and years and years. I mean they threatened us like four or five times a week why this time are we paying such close attention to this threat? Well because in fact one-fifth of all the world's oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz And because let's face it Trace if they actually carried through on this threat

53:16 it would be regarded by many states as an act of war and this situation could escalate very very quickly into full blown military conflict in a very sensitive part of the world so it is something that the administration's watching very closely now here's the interesting thing we're getting ready for the end, you know where thats leading Let me get one thing out of this. He says, you got to get this one. This is like that idiot border guard who was arrested two or three spies and terrorists a day. Iran has been threatening the US four to five times a week! Really?

54:04 Four to five times a week we are threatened by Iran? Yeah, it's like the three terrorists from Canada every single day. You sons of bitches! We're going to kill your kids! That's number one... you sons of bitches! How many threats can they make?! So that by the way, that makes about 250 threats a year. Yeah so okay now we'll wrap it up and you tell me do you make the conclusion of what do you think this really all means? That has to be my next question Judith I mean you brought it up where talking about some pretty tense times here are we nearing military conflict with Iran in your assessment we know a lot of the congress really wants that to happen they say that even if these sanctions proceed, succeed in putting pressure on iran it's not going to be enough to dissuade them from pursuing their nuclear program. That is the goal all over this pressure and sanctions and talk and if that doesn't work the issue is if united states doesn't strike now it will be facing a nuclearized country

55:08 still irrational and still wants to throw its weight around. So many in the Congress say if we're going to have a confrontation, let's have it now that in my view is rather dangerous course of action but many people believe that that's been the wisest course Wow. Now I think they're doing it all wrong, they need to send an American Iranian comedy troupe to Iran. It's the wisest course! You know it's a bad idea but as the wisest course there is almost contradictory what she says so I've concluded that you know they would like to take action for one reason only and I think its coded in here information we

55:49 You know, we went into Iraq and now it was for the oil after all. As you noticed in the last couple of clips that we did a few weeks ago. It was for the oil... Well, yeah I guess it was for the oil. We, United States and I think its gonna be a mess to do this because I don't think we can get away with it but I think is going to be interesting attempt. WE want to control the Straits of Hormuz! Because that way we control all of Europe's supply of oil. I mean, this is the geopolitics that the Germans were working on in the 30s and 40s because they know all these different choke points

56:29 and you figure out what... nobody talks, nobody's used the word geopolitical much. But if you start looking at modern geopolitics that straight of her moves is such a key choke point that whoever controls it controls the world. This ladies and gentlemen concludes our broadcast from the Observatory for Human Rights dot com go to observatoryforhumanrights.com for more Now it's well of course you know the whole problem is there's a competition with that Nord Stream I think it's called that's running from Russia across Poland remember they had to kill all the Polish government had to kill the entire Polish government Yeah, we haven't forgotten that by the way that little that little diddy. They killed The entire Polish government so that they could run the the Nord Stream pipeline

CHAPTER 16 / 39 Discussion

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Arab League

The activities of the Arab League observers in Syria are criticized as ineffective and prone to manipulation. Reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming the regime changed street signs to confuse observers are dismissed as absurd propaganda. The hosts joke about starting their own "Observatory for Human Rights" to capitalize on the demand for such reporting.

syria· arab league· human rights· propaganda· observers

57:17 through their territorial waters. So that's the whole competition that is going on here, at the end of the day once again it is all about the oil. Interestingly as a part of all this in this collapsed regime we have the Arab League observers And the Arab League, if you've been following this it's very confusing but the Arab League observers and by the way Arab league is a bunch of dictators. Yeah that creep from Sudan? Yeah all of a sudden these are the good guys so they can't find anything like we don't see any real problems oh I got some shaky cell phone or cell cam footage The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which is not affiliated with the observatoryforhumanrights.com

58:07 They claimed that the Syrian regime had secretly changed the street signs to trick the observer teams. So they went in the wrong direction like Wile E Coyote! Oh no, you need to go that way. Use Google Earth! Other rebels claim the government had pulled its tanks out at the last minute and that they had released four thousand... Yes it's so easy to do They'd released 4,000 prisoners from jail and hid them somewhere This is literally what the Syrian Observer told me It's like I'm sorry That's just like the Libyans raping people with Viagra this is so stupid

58:49 So stupid. Anyway, ObservatoryForHumanRights.com will become a true website That's one of our New Year's resolutions because it is a great domain name and we could get some dough. We could get on the BBC, we'd be espousing all kinds of stuff John. Maybe you can get some gigs where we have to go observe human rights. Yeah as long... You know from the Four Seasons Hotel in one of these places. They really don't treat their help here very well. It is not good. And if you push the button then The Butler doesn't show up for an hour! This horrible this what a suppressed collapse regime were living in

CHAPTER 17 / 39 Discussion

Texas Carrots and the Road to Iran

A brief interlude focuses on the quality of Texas carrots from Red Rock, noted for their sweetness and density compared to northern varieties. This leads back into a discussion on the "Road to Iran," with the hosts suggesting that the planned destabilization of the region has been complicated by the messy outcomes of the Arab Spring in Egypt.

texas· carrots· agriculture· iran· geopolitical strategy

59:25 I would like you to take note of the following, Mr. Dvorak. So you have a crunchy carrot? Is it real sweet? This is very sweet. This product is an even... Is it a Texas carrot? A Texas carrot from Red Rock. Even better than your product, listen to it. I doubt it! Well now listen to it That sounds pretty crunchy. An outstanding product, just wanted to mention that because I felt a little... You got this from the farmer's market? Well they have that sandy soil in Texas it should grow decent carrots but these carrots up north are extremely dense! My goodness what a product. Did you break a tooth?! An outstanding product. Yeah all right that was my intermezzo. No it's good it worked out so anyway So what do you conclude from all of this

1:00:19 We're gonna, well I think there's still up for, I think the whole thing. I think there is a little battle going on about what we are supposed to do about this Iranian thing so were creating phony baloney scenarios where saying that Iranians are doing this and that they're not you know i'm sure that their...we need to get somebody to translate better because these would yeah we're told the Iranians are telling us in threatening it one thing but we'd like to see some documentation on the other side well i have a man who's still about all i'm not absolutely convinced that we're gonna build it because of these other idiotic wars and i think the the arab spring screwed things up i think the road to iran that we talked about from the clip for that uh... was a lot are made yeah i think he was supposed to be a little smoother than this i think it's got another egypt thing is business which was not on the list you know it wasn't on the listen the each of guys are going hey hey

1:01:12 And Egypt is a mess and it's going to foul up the whole plot. I think Egypt is going to foul up the plot, and I don't think we're going to be able to pull off any Iranian thing. I think they're gonna try but I don't know if they'll be able to do it." Well, the only time to do it is October Surprise! That's the time to do it. Yeah well October's gonna be... Yeah, we'll work our way up to October shows. And when that happens by the time we get to September- If we're still alive! We're gonna see it's going to be obvious what's gonna happen in October if anything. Something has to happen or Obama is not gonna get in unless he can somehow pump up the economy through you know printing a lot of money or doing what Clinton used to have methodologies for this and maybe he's going to learn from him Which brings me to the Iowa caucus

CHAPTER 18 / 39 Discussion

Iowa Caucus Predictions and Secret Counting Locations

The upcoming Iowa caucus is scrutinized following news that votes will be counted at an undisclosed secret location to avoid "Occupy movement" disruptions. Predictions for the outcome include a Mitt Romney win, with Rick Santorum surging as a "buffer" against Ron Paul. The hosts suggest the process is being rigged to marginalize Paul's grassroots support.

iowa caucus· mitt romney· rick santorum· ron paul· election fraud

1:02:01 Yeah for which is be held on Tuesday yeah, Tuesday the 3rd of January For those outside of the Gitmo nation of United States. The way it works is We have we have to first select our Republican nominee because of course there's only two parties no one else can win in this in this x-factor and very interesting to see that the fix is now completely in as the votes will be counted in an undisclosed secret location because they're afraid the Occupy movement might try to mess it up. What Occupy movement? They are in New York, they are in various large cities what are they doing in Iowa? Well they say that the Iowa State Republican Party representatives

1:02:57 say that we're going to count the votes at a secret location off-site from the GOP headquarters because activist groups including on the Occupy movement indicated they'll attempt to interrupt in the closing days before the caucus. Which means I guess they're gonna go phony up the votes, isn't that what that means? How is this transparent It doesn't sound right. Well, it's not only right...it- it's fixed! It's rigged! They're taking they're taking it off so we're gonna count over here One for Mrimm one for Ron Paul three for Mitt one for Ron Paul three from Mitt That's how its gonna be. Its gonna be one big phony... Okay let's make some predictions We got oh damn I got the new red book but it's downstairs and I'm not going to go down and get it Uh..I'll have to write on a piece of paper and slip it in Prediction? Oh I can give you the prediction right now

1:03:49 Okay, give me your prediction. Okay Mitt Romney wins number two Rick Santorum Because they've just all of a sudden he's surging in the polls So the fix is in on him They gotta have it they got to have a buffer between him and Ron Paul Ron Paul will be third Even though of course you will win the election The nomination or the caucus You'll actually win it but they're gonna fake it up and it'll be Romney Santorum then Ron Paul and have you noticed by the way how all of a sudden on CNN and Fox they've got all especially Fox They've got the beautiful black women now. You never see black women on Fox All of a sudden they're talking about how important the black vote is. No, that's not true There's a lot of black people I have not seen that last week's clip like the woman that was jacking away there Yeah but i'm seeing like panels of them yeah There's a lot of blacks on fox

1:04:44 Okay, well maybe that's my own color blindness then I just don't even see it. Well you know watches Fox as much no I didn't correct Anyway, yeah, I tend to watch Anderson Cooper He's so hot Anyway, the Iowa caucus is not... I have two possible outcomes to predict. Go ahead One Ron Paul wins outright and the whole thing is marginalized which is Romney comes in second Right The second one is Romney wins by a hair over Ron Paul showing that he has the ability to win at a place like there was no way Ron Paul comes in third Okay, we shall see I like your first prediction because if we listen to the mainstream media. I have a little compilation clip

CHAPTER 19 / 39 Discussion

Media Marginalization of the Iowa Caucus

A compilation of mainstream media clips shows pundits preemptively dismissing the importance of the Iowa caucus in the event of a Ron Paul victory. Commentators from various networks suggest that a Paul win would "discredit" the caucus system or render it "irrelevant," highlighting a perceived media bias against the Texas congressman's candidacy.

iowa caucus· ron paul· mainstream media· election coverage· political relevance

1:05:29 of the Iowa caucuses being irrelevant, insignificant and not important. So I think that plays right into your prediction number one Ron Paul sweeps it but it doesn't count How much are the Iowa caucuses really like the rest of how we vote in America? How democratic is the Iowa system? If Ron Paul wins some Republicans are going to say who cares about Iowa Do you think that it is American in the modern era, that Iowa gets to go first? And I think we might actually be seeing something bigger in the works here. The demise of Iowa. The hard truth here is that Ron Paul winning Iowa itself would not matter very much. If Ron Paul wins here what then?

1:06:12 The Ron Paul people are not going to like my saying this, but to a certain degree it will discredit the Iowa caucuses. But I wonder if there is an extent to which the organizational principle of Iowa does make it no only less democratic, less representational but a little bit more corrupt? I mean, if Ron Paul wins then what? Then Iowa doesn't matter. At the end of the day, Iowa doesn't matter. Start from scratch in New Hampshire? Totally agree with that. It would make the caucuses mostly irrelevant if not entirely irrelevant...if Paul wins! That result would also mean roughly nothing to the rest of the presidential race

1:06:52 He doesn't like Ron Paul and he's not gonna like Iowa if they have the bad judgment to vote for this guy All this noise is going to come to an end relatively soon. Maybe Ron Paul wins, Iowa but who cares? Iowa is not only a weird system for picking somebody, they are non-representational systems. Okay to get the point... Okay now let me make you couple of comments which now brings me another thought which is that it's possible that there's enough Ron Paul loyalists within the Iowa system That THAT'S the reason they're grabbing voting boxes and taking them to secure location To protect Ron Paul if he does win

CHAPTER 20 / 39 Discussion

Rachel Maddow and MSNBC's Ron Paul Coverage

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is criticized for her aggressive stance against Ron Paul, while PBS Newshour is praised for a more objective analysis of the Iowa electorate. New NBC/Marist polling is discussed, which labels Paul as an "unacceptable" nominee to 41% of likely voters, a framing the hosts view as a "concrete ceiling" manufactured by political reporters.

rachel maddow· msnbc· ron paul· pbs newshour· polling

1:07:39 What do you mean to protect him? To take the votes away from all the local guys where you might have a local corruption or anything that could skew The vote. Ron Paul people now have the boxes and they will make it a legitimate vote That's an interesting theory I of course thought completely negatively but your thinking non-bogaty if your thinking this is to protect it, to make sure he wins To make sure he wins IF he does indeed win Right Well, what now I want to make a couple of or at least one comment Rachel Maddow who should be ashamed of herself. What is her problem with Ron Paul? She's the one of all the commentators on MSNBC who is pounding they hate Ron Paul drummed the loudest Yeah, she said she's a mind-controlled MK ultra

1:08:27 lesbian model. Now the funny thing was when you ran that which is on all the commercial networks, PBS did it kind of a little differently on the NewsHour show where you can run it's an Iowa rundown clip and what it was is the sound as though they're gonna be, when I started recording i said oh this could be another negative thing that's going to pound Ron Paul but the two commentators which is Brooks and his other guy a Democrat or Republican actually turned it around and made it seem as though Iowa was even more important with a bunch of interesting statistics about the thing. It's a little long of a clip but it really stopped this uh... lair in its tracks and he had give in.

1:09:29 Yeah, I still think so. This is still my favorite place to cover a political race It's not the way it used to be it's not just George HW Bush driving around in a station wagon with one aid and maybe a press person now there are clumps of people there are big buses but its more retail the people really run through their paces Perry tried, couldn't make it here. Michelle Bachman we saw what happened to her among voters here I think it's still a good testing ground is that the most representative state in the country? Maybe not but I still think it's a practiced knowledgeable electorate who are very good at putting candidates through the ordeal of running and I do think it's a legitimate way to screen out candidates and give a couple chance to move on

1:10:11 You agree with that, don't you? I do Jim. Iowa is unrepresented but has the fourth highest literacy rate of the 50 states it has the third lowest divorce rate it has the sixth highest high school graduation rates higher than the coastal smug states of Connecticut New Jersey Virginia Maryland Massachusetts Oregon Washington and people take it quite seriously Crystal the coastal smug states. I love that don't you yeah, that's very good well It's funny because that was PBS you said Yeah, that was the news hour. I thought it was very objective and gave him kudos for that. I think MSNBC just has some marching orders because this is from think this morning or yesterday. Our new NBC News Marist Poll shows Ron Paul running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney but there are also plenty of Iowans who have big problems with the Texas congressman more than 40% of likely Iowa voters believe that Paul is an unacceptable nominee

1:11:09 nominee putting a concrete ceiling on how high he can climb in the Hawkeye State. NBC political reporter, Domenico Marconi... So unacceptable! Unacceptable 41% whatever this poll is unacceptable and then they go to a guy who's at a newt rally he's literally here's the expert he's had a newt rally with people with newt signs behind him. ...Tanaro joins me now thank you so much lots of activity going behind you I know where you are your in Des Moines Absolutely. As there is a new event underway right behind you about to start I guess so let's talk about Ron Paul though, so here he is at the top of the polls only a few days ago and some people obviously love him and how can have so many powerful negatives amongst Iowa voters? And what are they that make him so unacceptable in their view

1:12:03 Well, you know it's interesting last night even I was out at a Romney event and a lot of the people there they were about 400 people or so but a lot of them were undecided. I talked to some of them to see what they thought and some of the people most of the people who said that reason that their actually looking at Romney now even though they might like other candidates and had been with Herman Cain They said look we don't want Iowa to go down in history as having voted for Ron Paul So the thing i wanted to lead up too though is I also have a compilation of the mainstream media talking about Iowa in 2008.

CHAPTER 21 / 39 Discussion

Media Flip-Flop on Iowa's Importance

The show contrasts current media dismissals of Iowa with the 2008 election cycle, where the same pundits described the caucus as a "huge" and "pivotal" test. The sudden shift in narrative is attributed to the fear of a Ron Paul victory. Additionally, the rapid disappearance of Herman Cain from the political radar is noted as an example of managed political theater.

iowa caucus· 2008 election· media bias· ron paul· herman cain

1:12:41 Now do you think that Iowa counted and was it important in 2008 in the previous election, John? Well it always has an impact on all the elections. For a top story for a moment and to be honest its very likely tomorrow night's top story and the next night The once every four years Iowa caucuses We're all watching what happens there because so much rides on the people of Iowa Uh huh! For state with fewer than three million residents Iowa packs a big political It is not only the first test, it's the first real test after months and months of talking. Iowa caucus voters do care about who is going to win in November. Iowa will play a huge role in the 2008 race This is the big day in Iowa, this is the big caucus day in Iowa You have more influence on who the next president of United States is gonna be than anybody else

1:13:35 So, what effect if any of you think that tonight's numbers and the results of the caucus are going to have on the upcoming primaries in New Hampshire? Huge. I mean it... And that as clearly as anything else speaks to the importance of the Iowa caucuses just six and a half weeks from today manages goes on and on it was really is there was plenty of some of the same commentators are now who put exactly this isn't that they want to buy their ways should be ashamed himself besides rachel is chris uh... wallace wallace and what is what his problem he said did there aren't john this is why we have any other question i want you to answer

1:14:13 This is why we do a media assassination. We just want to show you that it's all bogative It's all bogative the whole thing is rigged from beginning to end And I gotta say, I love Ron Paul who once again this morning on Candy Crowley Which is just funny show State of the Union Candy Crowleys Yeah, I know let's not talk about physical appearances Let's just say she wouldn't make it on Fox You know, once again Ron Paul said that he says I will never unequivocally state that I will not run third party. But I think you're so he's not he's never ruling it out but uh i think his whole idea is just to keep propagating maybe Iran has grabbed the baton or something you know maybe that's the idea but

1:15:06 Left right or whatever. He has woken a lot of people up he has changed some mindset Well, he's gotten his memes into the mainstream Yes and the fed that's the key and that's I think that's really they're gonna be the net result of the whole thing because since The beginning I've always thought there were thing was rigged but I'm now beginning to think he's gonna still win Iowa and which seemed apparent but what I get a kick out of is the fact that if you remember these, uh...I think we had clips of it where this douchebag on CNN was talking to somebody and said well don't do anything you want go talk to Sarah Palin when she shows up just don't even bother with Ron Paul. Of all things then he laughed

1:15:48 You know, he says ha-ha-ha I don't have to talk to Ron Paul because he's an idiot. Let me see if i can find that It was almost a while back but it was like wow what kind of you know the slant why didn't they just maintain that style? Just shutting up about Ron Paul now they're all freaked out and they're wringing their hands over him and then they're criticizing him for stuff he got nothing to do with Well, it's a... there is fear. There is fear I mean uh..I still think that the black and Latino vote comes out and they just hammered And they just pushed this guy all the way through. I'm certainly hoping We're not gonna get that with guys like Morgan Freeman Was that one of your clips you think? That Palin clip? Palin will run or won't she was that maybe No when their bus was going to show up somewhere

1:16:44 I could save the best question for last, but we have a straw poll coming up tomorrow and you're here at the fairgrounds. And i think a lot of people might want an answer to this one question um are you considering a run for the presidency in united states? I am still considering a run John. You know I think that you could do a man on the street here you can ask anybody here and I think that no... That wasn't it. No it wasn't it but it's funny Forgot about that. Yeah, and how about sperm and Herman? He's just disappeared off the radar amazing They got rid of him he was doing too well is getting too much attention I love how they did this all sounds like hey you know we gotta get theater We got to get some ratings let's throw Santorum in there yeah, yeah, that's cool

CHAPTER 22 / 39 Discussion

Government Domain Names and Submarine Operations

A federal webmaster provides insight into why government agencies are moving from .gov to .net or .org domains, citing an Obama administration freeze on new .gov registrations. Separately, a former submariner explains the constant presence of nuclear subs near U.S. bases and the exorbitant costs of naval parts. Finally, a report from OpenSecrets.org regarding the wealth of Congress is discussed.

.gov domains· .net domains· us navy· submarines· opensecrets.org

1:17:40 I love it. It is, it really is highly entertaining. It's just you know too...I don't think its highly entertaining but it gets ya worked up especially the Rachel Maddow stuff and some of these other... But no one watching that so doesn't matter You're watching it! I have a couple of producer feedback memos which I think we should just read briefly Hi Adam, regarding the last episode other federal webmasters have probably already let you know i.e this is a federal webmaster because we have them you know the guys who make the 18 million dollar websites but we seem to be using .net slash dot orgs now that Obama suspended all the new dot gov domains

1:18:26 Remember we were looking at the... Yeah, yeah. That one the other day? Yeah the rewardsforjustice.net So the reason why is because remember this was like to cut down on government waste We're gonna have less domain names because it's so wasteful It's such a waste of resources Now they actually have to pay for the domain names Because of course the government controls dot-gov You don't have to pay for a .gov domain They get them free! Well now they gotta pay for em How is that saving money?! For us in the Virginia area our shining example is maketheconnection.net I haven't actually haven't looked at the website, you know There's something else behind this well That's that's what our insiders are saying here make the connection dot-net shared experiences and support for veterans I think there's some laws about how what you can do with a gov site that You know involve

1:19:19 the non-corrupt practices and things like that, that aren't applicable to the .net site so they come up with this? No. I don't think so John. Our insider is literally saying we're not allowed to use dot gov domains Yeah but why there's got to be some other reason than that because as you just pointed out it costs more money You're right maybe there is a legal thing. Rob says Adam & John listening to 369 heard you discuss this submarine that almost collided with the cargo ship John asked what the ship was doing submerged in US waters as a former submariner I can tell you that at any given time there is at least one nuclear sub at sea near every submarine base and they stay either submerged or periscope depth mostly submerged 99% of the time

1:20:04 The subs are usually out for either training or testing, but they are out there and the amount of money that gets sunk into just one boat is ridiculous. You wouldn't believe the amount of money that the US Navy will pay through their own supply system for the simplest of parts." Now we would believe that actually and we know you totally believe it now that they're building a underground submarine underwater submarine base And then finally Burton says he found the open the Soros funded OpenSecrets.org report Remember this about Congress, that they're all rich? Yeah. This New York Times that they just went ahead and just you know... That they're in Soros's pocket Apparently the reason why I couldn't find it is the report was published in November Huh So he says so it took The New York Times a month to get the data which is just as interesting As them having access to the data that we don't Well I think that IS kind of interesting They had it for- It was available for a month Hmm Who knows Who knows

CHAPTER 23 / 39 Discussion

Eurozone Debt Crisis and the Return of the Peseta

European leaders like Angela Merkel and Mario Monti warn of a difficult 2012 as the debt crisis continues. Italy's borrowing costs remain dangerously high despite "encouraging" bond auctions. In Spain, a local village has begun accepting the old peseta currency again to boost the local economy, reflecting a broader trend of dissatisfaction with the Euro.

angela merkel· mario monti· italy· spain· peseta

1:21:12 I look at this Make the Connection site trying to see something that might be hinky. I knew you would be looking and saying, how can i figure out what's going on? This is what we do! There's got it... oh here's an interesting one. Oh yeah, here's a... oh, this is very interesting. Maketheconnection dot net slash events spirituality treatment got him from rock bombed to living well Robert was a young medic whose experiences witnessing death in treating severe combat wounds made him face the hard truth that he couldn't save anyone That's interesting. Meanwhile, over in Gitmo nation Euro land European leaders have celebrated the new year by warning of a difficult year ahead. Herr Merkel says well we experienced one of the most severe tests in decades but were growing closer to the debt crisis this year thanks Angela! They have done a beautiful job I think you have to give them credit for kicking the can down the road better than anybody

1:22:08 Yeah, Europe is broke. Yeah, we're broke too but it were less broke we got here Super Mario Mario Monty the Goldman Sachs shill who now runs Italy. Italy's borrowing costs fell from record highs at its latest government debt auction but cautious investors still demanded interest rates of close to 7% for the 10-year bonds that's the level at which other eurozone countries had to seek bailouts and it raises questions on how Rome will finance its public spending in the next few months At the same time, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti called for the Eurozones bailout fund

1:22:47 beefed up. He said the European financial stability facility needs significantly greater resources, but refused to say how much more. Commenting on the debt sale Monty said as you know the treasury bond auctions that took place this week went pretty well and this is encouraging however we absolutely don't consider market turbulence to be over there's still a lot of work to do. Indeed analysts say there are too many risks and uncertainties surrounding Italy and buying its long-term bonds is a leap of faith. The Italian treasury has the challenging task of raising around 450 billion euros next year." So, essentially this auction failed? Oh no it did fail! It's like hey that went pretty well... Hey that went pretty well! They didn't raise what they needed to raise Spain now

1:23:38 has come out and of course we have another shill in you know, we've had three leaders like just all changed Greece Italy Spain they say well our Our deficit turns out to be a lot higher than we communicated earlier as they announced the first nine billion euro austerity measure package. Spain is doing some interesting things though, I like this This is what's happening in a small village. Residents from neighbouring districts have been coming to Salvatierra de Mino to support the project, which is organised by the local Chamber of Commerce. The programme has been extended from one month to three and we want to extend it again as long there are people from other places to buy with the peseta, the programme will go on Most shops in town have joined the scheme especially as it's the chamber of commerce that collects the pesetas and takes them to Madrid to exchange them for Euros

1:24:52 People are very happy about the programme because we can use the peseta again. It's like we can buy things for free! The Chamber of Commerce says that project has proved an effective way to boost the local economy, but it doesn't mean that whole Spain will start using the peseta again. I don't know... be careful about that And this is a trend you watch. Every country's going to start doing this because they still have this year, I think, to... Well the French franc stops being exchanged for euros in February of this year so most of these countries believe that will be the case it's gonna be in the next few months with their this is over

CHAPTER 24 / 39 Discussion

Cashless Society in the Lowlands and EU Leadership

The Netherlands is transitioning to a mandatory smart-chip card system, moving closer to a cashless society. Meanwhile, Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark takes over the presidency of the Council of the EU. Economic pressures in the region are leading to the elimination of student subsidies and loans, which the hosts suggest is a move to favor more "docile" international students.

netherlands· pin cards· helle thorning-schmidt· denmark· education subsidies

1:25:32 But not if everyone keeps using them then you have to force the bank. The bank can change his mind Well, you gotta come out and drone some people You cant be using other old money fools Gidmonation Lowlands is by far the most interesting For 20 years they've had this system called PIN which started as Bayonet, but actually it's a very interesting system. It's like a debit card but it doesn't work anywhere else in the world only in the lowlands so you swipe your card and then you type in your PIN, your personal identification number So they...as of today it is now officially over and everyone has to use the new card which has a smart chip in it

1:26:24 So they're completely going into the cashless society and everyone's like, yeah this is really handy. It's good for my security! Yeah this is really good... so there's chip thing of course and I think it's the same people who make the chip uh.. The um... They use that crappy encryption that they use for the public transport Okay So it was completely bogative but more important we now have a MILF as the president of the council of the EU Yes, Denmark. Who did she replace? That wasn't Herman. No no this is the president of the council. They got too many of these people! Everyone's a president. There was a bunch of bosses. Yeah look up Helle Thorning-Schmidt she is the Danish... I think it's the first female president of the Council

1:27:18 And she is now the Prime Minister of Denmark and for six months I believe, the Danes will hold the presidency at the Council of the EU. So we'll see how they do but she's pretty good looking. Take a look at her. It depends on how she has her hair. Well of course! Of course even Hillary can look good when she has her hair done Which hasn't been... She really needs it. She's looking worse. I don't know what's going on She really last shots. I've saw her there. She looks really beat yeah, she does it's not good Not good this woman does not look like a brainiac so I guess the bottom line is that Europe is failing its broke They keep calling on countries under the ESM which we accurately predicted the European stability mechanism Which is different from the ESF s

1:28:14 which forces all of these member states into sending tax euros to Brussels to bail out all these other countries. And people don't get it yet, but they will slowly. They're going to say hey hold on a second how come you know the school kids now in the socialist lowlands no more student loans? No more money? No more subsidies You know, these kids they get I think it's like 300 euros a month in subsidy to go to study. To go to university that's the talking about ending that and ending all loans you can't even get a student loan if you want one well they got to make room for the Chinese students yeah

1:29:02 Yeah, yeah. They don't need a bunch of locals! This is gonna cause trouble once they get educated. They start listening to No Agenda...they put two and two together... It's just trouble! It's just trouble! The Chinese are always docile. They do what they're told and you bring them in that's what they've done here at the University California in Berkeley. Yeah it's almost mostly Asians. They don't even want us to talk about balancing multiculturalism anymore because Asian kids open this huge new building I don't know how much money they spent on this Asian studies like you know so the because if you're gonna bring students in from overseas, you want to put some Asian Studies program that's massive because it's like it's like you going through the sore bun and taking England

CHAPTER 25 / 39 Discussion

San Francisco Art Institute and Educational Real Estate

The Art Institute is identified as one of the largest real estate owners in San Francisco, allegedly using educational zoning to secure low tax rates. The discussion touches on the "dumbing down" of the American public through reality television and a failing education system, which facilitates the passage of restrictive laws like the Patriot Act without public outcry.

san francisco· art institute· real estate· education· zoning

1:29:47 You know or American history I mean you already know half of it so you get your ace it, so that keeps you in the school. So you keep brings your GPA up because it's all easy It's just a kind of a freebie and the whole thing is scam. It's ridiculous. I think we discussed this before but the largest real estate owner in San Francisco It's the Art Institute. Yes, the Art Institute exactly! So that whole thing is a real estate. Very smart by the way. Right by the Neveo office there is the bus stop for The Art Institute? There are actually two of them one across the street and another one right and there's about 2 or 3 new buildings they're always getting busted for misusing the buildings because their zoned for education so they get low tax rates and just keep collecting property so when the property values turn around they're just selling everything and walking

1:30:37 There's always a Asian chicks. Oh, there's all foreigners with big way that goes there They come to San Francisco they go to that school because you can buy your way in and it's expensive and you know Almost all the editors at media are from there from The Art Institute Yeah, the all the guys who use Final Cut Pro really another another gig we can get into teaching Asians Final Cut Pro Yeah, well this is more yeah than everybody else anybody overseas. I'm telling you we are doing it all right We want to keep the Americans dumb You know if you remember that clip that I dug up just or a quote I dug up a long time ago about the The general who said during there? I guess during the Nixon administration So we have too many you know if we keep the population educated We're gonna have too many of these protests and these there's all these problems were gonna have with the public let's just dumb down our own public and

1:31:33 You know, which we've seen happen with the reality shows and the rest of what we see on television that passes for entertainment. Keep the public stupid and you were just talking about that earlier in the show at San Antonio looking around with guys with tattoos on their faces. Not a good look. Dumb! Just a bunch of dummies then we can just do what we want so you pass The Patriot Act who even complains about it? Nobody knows what is or means And then they whine when they get arrested Hey man, that's unfair! That's unfair man. It's not right. That's not right man And we had another crazy accident Another crazy... I think could have been a two to the head exercise here You know this is one we haven't played that in awhile

CHAPTER 26 / 39 Discussion

Ammonix CEO Plane Crash and Stimulus Funds

The CEO of Ammonix, a solar power manufacturer that received $25 million in federal stimulus and grant funding, died in a twin-engine Cessna crash in Northern California. The crash occurred during a "long final" approach after the pilot reported engine trouble. The hosts speculate on the timing of the accident given the company's involvement with government funds.

ammonix· solar power· stimulus funds· plane crash· northern california

1:32:26 This happened up in Northern California. I got a little clip of the news thing here. Emergency responders say by the time they arrived on scene, Robertson had already passed away. He was from Huntington Beach California and was the CEO of Ammonix a commercial solar power manufacturer Okay so that of course my head whipped around ammonix ammonix dot-com Let's see They received 9.5 million dollars in stimulus funds as part of the recovery act

1:33:10 and $15.6 million in grant funding through the Department of Energy. So let's see what happens to that company. Oh, that's interesting! This could be another Cylindra. They think I was going to blow the whistle? Well it said... so he was in a twin-engine Cessna And fairly safe plane. Yeah, so on he was on long final from what I understand and he did radio it of course you know I have no real information because they don't know how to do that in the mainstream media on Long Final and he said look I have engine trouble with one of the engines and then his plane spiraled down and crashed and burned if when you train for twin-engine you train for exactly that scenario

1:34:03 So, you know a day wrecker for sure but suspect in my mind Because you know You can only imagine if if you have two engines and one quits then you know what happens? You know If you don't know what you're doing Then yeah your your plane can start spinning around and you can spin out of control so I don't know anything about his record how many hours he had or whatever but it's uh, you know was by himself III think I'm ever gonna go fly again ever. Uh It's just not a good idea. I mean, I do like doing the show and it would not only be a day wrecker for me but it would ruin your income. Yeah! It'd suck. So yeah... I wouldn't do this show by myself. No, no. I need you more than that. I'll just do one more clip show then I'm done. Yeah nor would I. Actually maybe a couple of clips shows Meanwhile remember that other great company that received half-a-billion dollars in loans?

CHAPTER 27 / 39 Discussion

Fisker Karma Recall and Clinton Foundation Fundraising

Fisker Automotive is recalling its Karma luxury hybrids due to fire hazards. This is followed by a critique of fundraising tactics used by the Clinton Foundation and NPR, specifically the use of "anonymous matching donors." The hosts deconstruct how these "matching" pledges are often used as shills to create a false sense of urgency and encourage more donations.

fisker automotive· clinton foundation· matching donations· fundraising· npr

1:34:55 Yeah, which one? Fisker Automotive. Oh, Fisker the guys with the electric car! They're recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrids because of a fire hazard. Hey good job everybody there you go that's perfect and then tell me how this works I've heard NPR do this and now i got a letter cuz you know I subscribe to the William J Clinton Foundation And NPR does this all the time when they're doing like their, we need $30,000 in the next hour. And then so this email comes through from Chelsea by the way, Chelsea sent the email

1:35:42 Supporters like you are fueling our work to combat climate change and economic inequality, and improving millions of lives around the world. By the way that should be our slogan. No Agenda Show! Combating Climate Change & Economic Inequality And Improving Millions Of Lives Around The World I like it maybe we can get somebody to do a jingle for us Thousands of individuals Just that one exactly say it again The NO AGENDA SHOW Fueling... oh sorry The NOAA Gender Show, working to combat climate change economic inequality and improving millions of lives around the world. All we have to do is say that over and over again that's what were all about Well...we have to add one more trick She says now until midnight tonight ALL CAPS a generous donor has offered to continue President Clinton 2 for 1 matchmaking gift with additional pledge to triple your donation

1:36:35 I find this... You get the triple your tax write-off? I find this highly suspect. And NPR does this all the time, a very generous anonymous donor. Matching donator! Anonymous for that they usually down there on their local shows they have a matching you know but yeah name of the guy no I've heard it all over here mostly as long as some hardware store or something like that. I've hear to be anonymous lots of times in LA. A lot of times here's where it works I call in and say, yeah, Joe's Hardware. I really love your stuff. I want to give you guys $10,000 to help you go... Oh no! Don't give us $10,000. I'll tell you what do it as a matching donation we'll use you as a shill

1:37:16 We'll take your $10,000 and then we'll match you know it will be up to 10,000. Everyone who gives money will use your money as matching money we call it a matching thing would you do that? Oh sure I don't care So wait a minute so we can get one of our patrons to do a matching donation does it work? Does it really result in more? It won't work for us but It sounds good, and you're doing a live broadcast where there's all this frantic energy in the phones ringing ring ring Ring ring in the background. Yeah probably does work But not for us we don't do that kind of thing hold on a second let me get some phones ringing Where's our ringing? You just have a whole ringing medley yeah Let me see if I can find some from ringing phones here now on a second oh

CHAPTER 28 / 39 Discussion

New Year's Donor Shout-outs and Supermom Comic

A series of donations are acknowledged, including a "de-douching" for the owner of the "Berkeley Hummers" fantasy football team. The "Supermom" comic project is promoted again, with the creator Emily Christopherson pledging half of her January proceeds to the No Agenda show. Listeners are encouraged to support the show's "value-for-value" model during the holiday season.

scott hankel· thomas nussbaum· berkeley hummers· supermom comic· knighthood

1:38:04 Hi, this is a show I'm sold by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that! Oh yeah that'd be fab! On No Agenda! Match it now in the morning! We just gotta keep that going. Ryan Srinth, Reese Witherspoon. Would you call to donate to Help for Haiti? Hi, its Sean Penn. Yeah... Crap... The Haitians are pooping You should donate to No Agenda. They're the only guys who actually help anybody wait a minute, hold on a second the phones are ringing off the hook here So let's thank a few of our donors Scott Hankel sir Scott Hankel in Sundland California congratulations on successfully you're hosting The Best Podcast In Universe May 2012 bring both of you every time I see that I think may 2012 is like something going on in may

1:39:01 Bringing both of you more outstanding podcasting universe as well all around karma for all in one day just a karma shit general lies karma You've got karma Also Sir Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm obviously tongue-tied today 123 dot four five thanks much for everything hugs and kisses from sir nussbaum and st Nicole oh that's so nice it's nice to have them check out Oscar Nadal into caddy California would you do you have to wake up was that Hey man, the phones are ringing off the hook with our matching donors. Uh, Tecate California 1111? Hey guys can I get a karma shot to my friends in the Pharaohs, Jedi Knights, Heat Seas Westside and Flying Elephant Scooter Clubs Yeah hold on we got a busy signal We don't have enough incoming lines You've got Karma

1:39:57 Norman Pearson III in Macon, Georgia. $111.11 and in honor of my fantasy football team the Berkeley Hummers winning the championship... The Berkeley Hummers! I decided to finally become a donor not a boner is this enough for a de-douching? Absolutely! You've been de-douched! Absolutely! I think we should have t-shirts with Berkeley Hummers. Dennis Hartle in or Hartley Harrell Hardell or Hartley Titusville Pennsylvania's calling into $100 I figure I better donate been enjoying your show for about seven months now since you haven't been shut down Levi Prinzing in Denison, Minnesota. So I think I have to read this one don't I? Oh

1:40:48 $100 yes. I'm not drunk this time at least not yet anyway give me a few hours hundred dollars close to the knighthood and i have a request i need karma and a plug for Emily Christopher Christopherson's comic Yeah, that's the Supermom comic that we talked about in the PR segment. It's at supermomcomic dot squarespace dot com She just recently started it needs a little more exposure Plus she needs job badly I don't know if she sent you a note or not She said for any donation she gets in January half of will be sent to you guys So absolutely there's your plug not drunk And so it is kind of a funny comic though If you read it I'll go check it out after the show

CHAPTER 29 / 39 Discussion

International Fines and Lapland Snowmobile Policing

A donor from Norway and a story from Finland highlight the extreme nature of Nordic traffic fines, where speeding tickets are calculated based on the offender's annual income. One individual received a 680-euro fine for a minor speeding violation in Lapland. The hosts also discuss the heavy police presence and speed limits for snowmobiles in remote northern regions.

norway· finland· speeding tickets· lapland· income-based fines

1:41:29 Black Knight, George Vanderhorst from Katzhovel. Katzhovel? Hoval the cat and Colin. Cat hump is the cat hump. $100. Cat home? Cat hump. Cat hump. Mike Potter Lake St Louis Missouri $75 over the transom from The Tug Nuts this was a message must be code for someone Brian Hay in Morgan Hill, California just down the road from me $70 to John and I'm donating in the last hours of 2011 asking for a de-douching as a longtime listener first time donor Give him a deduce You've been D douched it's one of our IT consultants his company is BH consulting drives

1:42:16 drive a bit, a crazy show keeps me sane. He drives a bit so the crazy show keeps him sane and drives me crazy at the same time I know i'm not the only one who sees through this charade that is our two-party system And then you shine the light on the corrupt douchebags in Congress and that drives me crazy. We don't see eye to eye all the time but this show makes me deconstruct all of the news including the show itself I've purchased noagendaninja.com since your media assassin is a perfect fit. Nice, thank you He's also going to buy some merchandise and donate some of the profits for the show $70 is really 33 dollars and 30 cents for podcast license so make sure you can do that he's gonna take get us more eventually Sir Schnorrestine

1:42:56 In out there in the middle of nowhere Norway North Pole man North Pole man 5555 six weeks into the dark season I send regards to my no agenda friends and producers. I want to kill you all Say that He says happy 2012 The snowmobiles are out and running come visit sir Schnorrer You they drink, you know we've decided that is the vitamin D and the vitamin A in fish oil, and cod liver oil that settles down that nuttiness you get when you have these dark periods. these areas of the world like if you go to an Iceland grocery store for example in the supermarket there will be an aisle that is as far as I can see a varieties of fish liver oil and fish oils. They just drink this stuff, you know by the blah blah blah and it keeps saying it's good for people who have that disorder from the nun of light maybe we should mention

1:43:55 I don't know if he sent a donation, but we got that note from Von Der Helm. I think he did yeah and uh is yeah did he donate? i think so. He's donated before anyway... So he's in Finland where they also have that you know the six months of darkness or whatever And he says you have trouble donating because he had a speeding ticket of 680 euros. I thought LA was crazy, 680 euros? and it's because he drove 124 kilometers per hour on 100 kilometer-per-hour motorway in Lapland the way they do that in Finland the level of the fine is dependent upon your income based on last year's tax filing Is that amazing?! That's outrageous!

1:44:45 Yeah, so in other words if you got no income and you're poor You can travel as fast as you want. It's just encouraging poor people to kill themselves. Well okay there ya go enough said Enough said yeah that was terrible That's a thousand dollars essentially for a speeding ticket that wasn't even that big of a deal it wasn't like he was going 200 kilometers an hour 124 on 100 kilometers well its stops its shuts you up What is 100 Um, 124 is basically like 70 miles an hour. And 100 is... Yeah I'm gonna do the calculation. Ehh, I think a hundred is like 60? A hundred to 62 so there's 60- So the speed limit was 62 miles an hour You know it was you know 60 basically for all practical purposes and he went 73 74 Hold on a second Shut up slave! That's what that is

1:45:45 My goodness. No kidding! In Lapland, okay? Lapland. Yeah in the middle of nowhere you know when I was up there I was in a uh in Lapland and we were on snowmobiles driving around and I was told that I ended up seeing them they actually have these roads for the snowmobiles and they have speed limits and cops are all over the place They'll try to get your ticket for speeding in a snowmobile When we're driving back from San Antone all San Antonio is like Gitmo. Here in Austin it's like drive safely, that's what you see on the highway light signs and San Antone is like drink, drive go to jail! I'm like you skipped a step there get caught. Jeez anyway let's onwards Scott Rzepka in Villa Park or Via Park would be in California but Villa Park Illinois I'm sure it's not via

CHAPTER 30 / 39 Discussion

Drunk Donors and the Milf Jingle

The New Year's broadcast features several "drunk donors" calling in or sending messages during their celebrations. Robert Cain from Alabama requests a "de-douching" and the "Milf jingle" for his wife after a humorous exchange about his support for the show. The hosts play various soundboard clips to celebrate the contributions.

boise idaho· ron paul· milf jingle· de-douching· holiday drinking

1:46:40 5510, drunk with one hour before New Year's and almost forgot to donate. Happy New Years mofos! Check out my buddy Parth as a... Call out my buddy Parth as a douchebag. Hey Parth you're a douche bag. Hey we need more drunk donors Yeah Chad Nelson Boise Idaho he is also succinct as a drunk Chad Nelson, Boise Idaho double nickels on the dime. When not reaching my goal of knighthood this year and daily being reminded of this fact by my liege Sir Rice Dad I have high hopes for the new year please send karma in the hopes that more faithful will go to vinyl rocket dot com slash na and get a no agenda no gender sticker no agenda sticker this directly supports the show and i pull these purchases and eat the shopping for the best podcasting universe eat the shipping actually uh

1:47:27 Eat the shipping, not the... Look it's the first time I was doing champagne. Alright here comes Robert Cain Wait wait wait Karma karma karma karma You've got Karma Can't forget the Karma Rob you got it he's got the Karma now Robert Cain and Columbia Alabama, double nickels on the dime. Dear media assassins my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told her the fact of the matter is... I want to be a donor not a phoner! And to give them do the best podcast in universe she rolled her eyes and said not those crackpot and bug killer guys you're always going crock pot and bug killer guy are always going on about yeah crock-pot and bug kill

1:48:11 I corrected her slight mispronunciation. She rolled her eyes again and said, whatever! A few days after Christmas I was telling her about your segment on how Ron Paul isn't so short and she says oh yeah? I forgot to tell you that if you want to get a boner and donate to those crack pipe and buzz saw guys you can I ran straight to the computer singing Dvorak.org slash in ink the whole way if you would please de-douchify me and play the kids singing The Milfs jingle for me For she who must be obeyed 73 Robert Kane n4 ixt Hold on a second what does he want now? He wants a deducing douchebag idea No, he wants a deducing Mills combo

1:48:58 That's one hot loaf, baby. You've been de-douche'd! That's a fine woman right there that's a fine woman. Married to the handshake. It takes two in a relationship. Yeah. Bug kill? Yeah. Rock pot Kent O'Rourke, Frostburg Maryland. Thank you once again for the best podcast in the world double niggles on the dime Adam Shastad in Knoxville Tennessee 5311 thank you for taking my money several shots of whiskey and tequila to make me kind of man You want me to be karma works? Yes Clinton's loose pronounced loose forever and always due to the show as that shastikals Adam Shasta received karma for a raise And I did

1:49:49 Wow. He's drunk! He's drunk? Eric Merchurly at DOOSHBANG! Jason Hill? DOOSHBANG! Cory Finton? DOOSHBANG! Jason Sanders? DOOSHBANG! And since I'm drunk, I think i've missed a few others. I'm sure I have so to recap... I needed a meal from my wife, I was doing some dooshbag callouts Oh wait a minute, I already did those dapes Don't forget to call yourself lotionally It's very important Rompall 2012 2016

CHAPTER 31 / 39 Discussion

App Developers and Yo-Yo Documentaries

The show highlights diverse producer projects, including mobile apps from Celtica and a documentary titled "World on a String" about the world yo-yo competition. A new resident of San Francisco is welcomed to the community after moving from New York, and Brian Barrow is recognized for his upcoming knighthood.

celtica· iphone apps· world on a string· yo-yo competition· san francisco

1:50:40 Thank you that I love the survival place we can go visit nice Celtica calm and Zurich 5151 please give a karma to this Celtica apps available for the iPhone iPad and iPod touch Oh, I know who that is. That's comic strip blogger You've got apps Yeah He makes apps Why does he do it for them for the Android? I think he only, uh...I don't know if he does a-uhh..I dunno. Let's take a look. Celtica dot com? Yeah C E L L T I C A Ahh let's see what kind of apps he makes. Waiting for Celtica to-ohhh Of course we've uhh We've crashed his site now. What five guys?! The entire chatroom! Oh he's got the iPhone apps and iPad apps. He's got a Jeff Smith app

1:51:40 He's got a tilt to photo app, a cartographer app, XSLT app Swiss German and you've got a Mevio app. Really? That's odd. All right onward Thomas Starkweather Brooklyn New York 5115 like the request karma for his girlfriend Dawn she's a documentary filmmaker and in the process of applying for film festivals her film world on a string is brilliant And I'm obviously biased, but it's the best film on the world yo-yo competition that exists. Worldonastringfilm.com Also a birthday greeting for my friend Dave we got him listed and it happens to be his birthday and the reason he is working on this birthday... I am also the reason why he is working on this birthday but.. I only like to hire the best photographers I know to work with me Give her Karma Don You've got karma

1:52:34 Hold on, hold on. It's the trailer. No for World on a String? Yeah it's not gonna be any spoken word oh that's crazy! It's like being in the world series but for yo-yoing. Just like being in the World Series only different. All right just got more Richard in San Francisco 50 bucks I... RM and Tech on Twitter.

1:53:14 I've been following your show for a while. I decided to donate, just moved to San Francisco from NYC which is unusual and was going the other way as my mother and sister recently passed away and came back west to be near the remainder of my family for now. I'm an IT slave and landed a job in the city. I wanted to donate earlier but my family expenses moving in the rest of it has a number excuses keep up with great work John and Adam your show is the best at weeding through the BS that is being fed to us. Thank you very much." Even though he didn't ask for it, I'm going to give him a little karma shot. Yeah good idea. You've got karma. Here's another 50 terms, my number one source of information to keep you guys on the air. Also start off my wife Maura's Damehood I don't count toward your Afro-American listenership but keep your black British count in it too at least one. Give her the great work and best for 2012 at least until the world ends. Doesn't Brian become a knight?

1:54:18 Today? I believe he becomes a knight today. Let me check, but he's gonna be black knight looks like it should have been on night couple weeks ago yeah awesome and finally last but not least Greg Brunstle in Kenosha Wisconsin $50 and we want to thank them and everyone else who has helped us on this show today reminding you go to Dvorak dot org slash NA channel Dvorak dot com slash NA NoahGenTheShow dot com and NoahGenTheNation dot com there is a donation button there too Right. And what do we have to remember? What? Donating is loving! Donate... donation is love. Dvorak dot org slash N A Please continue to support us through the darker days of the year when most people are not listening

CHAPTER 32 / 39 Discussion

No Agenda Christmas Ornaments and Knighthood Ceremony

The hosts admire a custom No Agenda Christmas ornament sent from Manitoulin Island. The show concludes with a formal knighthood ceremony, inducting Dame Ashley, Sir Brian Barrow, and Sir Oscar Nadal into the No Agenda Roundtable. Issues with the international mail system in Canada and the UK regarding the delivery of merit rings are also discussed.

manitoulin island· christmas ornaments· knighthood· dame ashley· black knight

1:55:09 This showed up late, I know you got one as well and I'm sorry. I hung it in the tree two days ago when i got it so its still in there. In the morning Adam West here from Gitmo Nation Freshwater that's Manitoulin Island Ontario. Using the shape of Manitoulin on the design there are ten islands. Yes, very interesting I like it's a duck. It is actually quite pretty. It is 99% of time I'm listening to Noah Jannat and don't know how could do without you guys. I would go nuts or cut my finger off listening to Alex Jones So I would like- well you could store that. Storable food? So, I'd like to have this ornament as a token of my appreciation for all you do. I wish you very Merry Christmas and have an unbogative New Year Maybe next year we can come up with the No Agenda Christmas Ornament for the shill to sell. I think it's a great idea! Wes thank you very much. Extra Karma Shot from Minuteman Oscar Nadal

1:56:08 Aka the romantic Hispanic can I get a karma shot to my friends in the faros Jedi Knights heat seized? Westside that we did that. We did that yeah, I think so really was in the list Yeah, I'm sorry. I was too busy eating my carrot Well, that's lame then. I'm sorry did we give him a car? Okay, do we give me the pharaohs or Jedi knights heat seize west side flying elephant scooter clubs that we did that Oh, it was way at the beginning he's getting his knighthood today right okay It was way at the beginning Bonehead. All right, so sorry about that, sir. Oleg congratulates his brother Sir Constantine Rakitine who celebrates his birthday today January 1st 2012 Thomas Starkweather congratulates his buddy Dave on his birthday and that's all I've got on the list And of course as always cards will be on their way happy birthday from your buddies here at the no agenda show Better known is this podcast you get a verse? Yeah, I couldn't it was

1:57:11 I don't know. Did you get the one birthday thing? Which one, which one? Were there three? No, I only had two Oh did you look at the one that's on the show ReduxRedux We had one... I thought we did ReduxRedux You missed one I guess. No no, I copied ReduxRedux Hold on Open it This does not bode well No this is just beginning of year, we got off to a rocky start! I have Redux. I have Sir Oleg... No, Redux Redux! Redux Redux? I don't have Redux Redux You should it's the higher up is the last one Well you know come on no there are only two birthdays there I have Redux Redux That's Redux but Redux Redux has three I have Redux Redux! I have Redux Redux right here Redux Redux What do you have then what's that what's the third birthday? Unfortunately i'm looking at one of these idiotic websites and trying to get back to them

1:58:11 big talk there I mean you know, i was just trying to save the day for this poor girl that was not getting mentioned. Well who was it then? Ugh! Sucks. Hold on, gotta reopen my email and find Redux Redux Luckily there's no spam in there There isn't yeah, daughter Ashley for Sir Tom Derry Alright we'll say it again Sir Tom Derry, daughter Ashley's for his daughter Ashley. He sent us a request the other day and apparently it was in I don't know where it ended up so he sent another note in saying that we missed him miss his daughter's birthday oh no I'm sorry this is the okay that's the best tonight

1:58:57 Do you think- Okay, okay. I'm sorry... It's my fault! Can you do you think you can get your blade out without cutting yourself? We have to dull that thing down. You know, I don't want you hurting yourself now. My goodness All right sir Tom Derry would you please have your daughter Ashley step forward thank you Brian Barrow Come forward you black knight, you and Oscar Nadal. All of you have supported the No Agenda show The best podcast in the universe any amount of $1,000 or more so I hereby proudly pronounce thee Dame Ashley Sir Brian Barrow Black Knight and Sir Oscar Nadal all knights and dame on the no agenda roundtable come on over Red boys and Chardonnay hookers and blowin hot pants and booze for you

1:59:43 And of course a ring on the way now that they're in, The Shill has informed us by the tweeters. That uh... the new rings are in which is great! Yeah and that means we'll lose another five to the mail system in Canada and another three to the mail system in the UK It does happen it does happen You get maybe... Eric DeShill was complaining about this but he says what's weird I think we have like a couple of Nights in Africa that you know go by the eat them mailing address of you know the Congo The Congo, you know general delivery to Congo No problem getting there right but then but the North Dakota problem Oh North Dakota is okay. It's when it gets Canada In the UK are the two worst

CHAPTER 33 / 39 Discussion

Kim Jong Un's Public Appearance and Uncle Don

Observations on Kim Jong Un's recent public appearances suggest he looks out of place, with the hosts noting his Swiss education and time spent in Paris. This leads to a personal anecdote about "Uncle Don," a former high-ranking official who reportedly watches mainstream news with the same skepticism as the hosts, identifying "CIA scripted messages" in real-time.

kim jong un· north korea· paris· uncle don· cia scripts

2:00:36 Well, the UK is clearly censoring our shipments. How about the North Koreans? Did they ever get their t-shirts and stuff that we were have yet to find out? Yeah, I don't know if they got him or not. You're not communicating with us No, well you know they fired off that ballistic missile in Iran maybe those guys were on it Oh, I don't know maybe did you see the pictures of or the movies or the BBC report on Kim Jong Un No. And the poor kid, he looks like he's just out of place and he has some weird haircut He looks like he is pooping in his diaper doesn't he? And he has some weird hair cut that is like something pumped or shaved on the side and a big thing hanging down at the front I think it could be a new look

2:01:23 Well, it's pretty weird looking. I don't think he's... When he is looking over the crowd of like hundreds and thousands people standing there stiff He is just imagining him thinking how do I get out here with some money and live in Paris? Maybe I can call Hillary Because apparently he spent a lot time in Paris And was even educated for couple years in Switzerland So really he is not clueless as to what's wrong So I'm looking at yeah, it is kind of a quick. I like kind of the shit It's got like a fade like a shaved fade on the side and it has a fate is I'm surprised he hasn't got some logo This dollar sign tattooed on his head That's exactly like those guys in San Antonio look like yeah, it's totally new Look, I gotta talk to uncle Don about what this all means Yeah you should it was funny He sent out a Christmas letter

2:02:19 And it had like pictures of stuff. I guess it snowed in October up there, and then Upstate New York. He has a picture of two feet of snow on everything outside and it says October Surprise! Very funny Uncle Don. It's a weird- You gotta get him to listen to the show. I don't know if he still...I think Aunt Meg listens, I think she might listen. Nah, he doesn't listen. No, no, he's annoyed by it! Just..I'm sure he is annoyed by it why wouldn't be? It's annoying, the show is annoying But he also looks at eh, I watched actually observed him watching news now people have to know my Google Donald Greg you'll know who my uncle is So he watches ABC and he just sits there like me and you by the way oh crap

2:03:03 CIA bull crap is like CIA scripted message and then he switches over to PBS. Let me be like, huh? Man that guy's an a-hole And these, Israel is starting to piss me off. Hey Ehud used to be a good guy and what happened to him? It's funny he's a reality show it really is. Yeah no that sounds hilarious but that's what we do when we watch the news in fact my whole family now yeah we all do that I mean that's why JC came up with it but there was a little more advanced I mean he's looking at the where why the legs are now positioned on the left hand side of the Fox News broadcast instead of where their logo is, which I still think...I was watching it again and they've kept Guilfoyle over there. She has really got some dynamite legs, I have to say." Well that's what you do in news man! That's how it works

CHAPTER 34 / 39 Discussion

TSA Explosives Test and Terrorist Music Awards

A soldier returning from Afghanistan was found with C4 explosives at a Texas airport but was not deemed a security threat, leading to speculation of a TSA "test." This transitions into a satirical proposal for the "TMTV Awards" (Terrorist Music Television), mocking a report that groups like Al-Shabaab are using hip-hop and YouTube to recruit Western youth.

tsa· c4 explosives· al-shabaab· music videos· tmtv awards

2:03:51 This was a report that I didn't understand. Well, New Year's Eve started with some tense moments at a Texas airport The Midland Airport was evacuated after a TSA agent found explosives on someone in a checkpoint the airport is now back to normal operations CBS News reports the man was a soldier recently back from Afghanistan and Was not considered a security threat Okay So there's a soldier Recently back from Afghanistan with C4 explosives, but he's not a security threat. What is this report telling us? Test of the TSA? What was he doing with the C-4? Was he going to go blow up some chickens? I don't know! But what does it mean and why they always the soldier oh that's okay that's all right then he's a soldier that's all good. I found that to be very strange

2:04:42 And no follow-up of course. That was weird... And then NPR, our national treasure! My goodness this was hilarious this whole report From Pakistan to the web now where it wasn't hard this year to find a terrorist group John did you know that? This year in 2011 last year wasn't fine hard to find a terrorist group on the Web There were Al Qaeda videos on YouTube On YouTube?! Did you see the al qaeda videos on YouTube Facebook pages by Islamic militants in Somalia and webzines by Al-Qaeda affiliates. Webzines! It gets better, it gets so much better. Webzines yes web zines you know web zines You've heard of webzines?

2:05:27 The Temple Raston reports that terrorist groups have not quite figured out how to use social media John here's another business opportunity for us. They haven't quite figured out Hillary will take care of it their advantage if there were an award for the best-known terrorist music recording It'd probably go to the Somali group al Shabab for this YouTube video I think we should do the tea TMTV awards the terrorist music television awards yeah now there's our opportunity play Al Jazeera would pick it up in a minute and this year ladies and gentlemen Al Shabaab wins once again then we have like Jay-Z like you know no what was the guy who interrupted Taylor Swift

2:06:14 Right, Kanye West. Kanye West? We're in that mood play the AVN awards clip so we know what it's gonna be like We're gonna do this! We are definitely doing- I'm going to produce this. Best porn star website Joanna Angel, joannaangel.com Lisa Anne, lisaanne.com Jessica Drake, jessicadrake.com Lupe Fuentes, ilovelupe.com Jenna Hayes, jennahayes.com Sunny Leone, sunnyleone.com Wait! Boom who will win? And the winner is... And the winner is Al Shabab! Joanna Angel

CHAPTER 35 / 39 Discussion

Al-Shabaab Hip-Hop and Recruitment Propaganda

The use of hip-hop beats and English lyrics by the Somali group Al-Shabaab is analyzed as a recruitment tool for Westernized youth. The hosts search for these videos online, finding a mix of ideological PDFs and low-quality musical propaganda. They mock the idea that these "webzines" and rap videos are effective at winning "hearts and minds."

al-shabaab· hip-hop· somalia· recruitment· propaganda

2:07:04 That's great, we're gonna do that We can- we can produce that. Oh yeah! Let's listen to our winner here from Al Shabbat. I was actually humming it to myself just the other day. Why is it in English? Why are they in an English I'd like to know Because we're recruiting the kids dude Recruiting at Western American kids. We can then go drone through the drone kill chain, but wait there It's been covered this cover versions now who added hip-hop beats and rap lyrics All right stop everything gx2

2:08:04 We totally need a terrorist rap with the hip-hop beat. Don't do it! And Sir Jeff... Nobody gets the joke, don't do it GX2 I can't believe this is on the radio and to say like yeah It's number one hey number one would what morons? Hello everybody, it's Adam Curry here with the Terrorist MTV Countdown. Number 40 on the chart we've got Al Shabab who are back with a remix of the hip-hop beat all the kids are loving it! Let's check it out as they go to the east and west and bring down the capitalist pigs... We should do that show

2:08:43 Yeah, it would be a little segment. I mean play some of this crap! I wonder what other junk they've produced? Well apparently it's not hard to find because you know was all over the web in 2011 Plus what sounds like from that report?! I never heard of this! Wait let's consult the book of knowledge hold on one second Let me see Al Shabab music video hip hop well of course its... I mean Al Shabab Hip Hop is that where your looking at up yeah do you think that Hillary needs some help If this is the best she can come up with, then she really needs it. News for El Shabab Hip Hop Somali hip hop band fighting El Shabab for hearts and mind Oh there's a couple as a competitive group Wait a minute we have a contest Yeah that means there is potential for an award show I don't where do you see the uh... What did you Google? I looked up El Shabab Hip Hop and just went straight to web search

2:09:39 Web search or video search? Web search. Oh, hold on a second. And then it has all this like Guardian has the big article on it. Hold on a second here's from September 20th This is Alex group member hip-hop in... Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage at the Terrace Music Television Awards Alex Group member hip-hop Ez El Shabab! We're back again with a young man from the youth as we say in all our shows. Okay well it wasn't that good I don't see any videos It should be so easy to find No there's one Alex group member hip hop and Ez el shabab Yeah but that's an interview Oh Here why yaha jacoba al shabab

2:10:19 This is bogative. Here's a PDF of Al-Shabaab, this is the Justice Minister in Denmark, the Al Shabaab PDF The ideological foundations. What is this El Shabaab? You know, we didn't... Two years ago no one ever heard of El Shabaab. I think it was a chicken place that used to serve barbecue now it's this big terrorist organization This is bullcrap! It's not-it's not a terrorist organization. It's a hip hop organization Here we go. I've got one. Waihaa Kassoub Yo, yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo. Pump it up, yo! Give me 50 Cent. 50 Cent. Awesome! From the get now... Go Gitmo! Hit your birthday. Kanye West is in the video

CHAPTER 36 / 39 Discussion

UK Tag and Track CCTV Technology

Great Britain is deploying "Tag and Track" software across its 4.2 million CCTV cameras. The system assigns a unique identifier to individuals, allowing authorities to reconstruct their entire journey across a city instantaneously. The developers claim the system can integrate with other recognition sensors, effectively creating a seamless surveillance net.

cctv· tag and track· great britain· surveillance· facial recognition

2:11:17 Now man, I can see how that could get the kids all interested in blowing up stuff got me tapping my toes Wow Alright, now on to some serious stuff. Hello Gitmo Nation East! Hello Gitmo Nation East A report about the CCTV tag and track Have you heard of this new wonderful technology they're deploying there John? Uh no but I'm sure i will Great Britain may be one of the most watched nations in the world a rough count by police earlier this year estimated there were 4.2 million cameras in the country that's nearly 1 for every 15 people

2:12:02 And now there's a piece of software that lets them know exactly who you are. Tag and Track identifies individuals when they enter a camera network, assigning them a unique identifier so it knows where they've been, who they've been there with and where they are now Ipsotech, the software's developers have also created systems that catch casino cheats and detect car crashes. But they say Tag & Track is the one that could change the way surveillance works Andrew Eggington is the company's finance director When you want to go back and suddenly either locate a person or find out where their journey went, you find them in a slot of video. You do a simple click and it's like doing a Google search on the data so you get an instantaneous result which tells you this is the person's whole journey This is every clip of video that they appeared in Every camera they were in front of And if they're in the city centre at that moment It will tell you this is where they are now So

2:13:00 Really like this because the memes are subtle, but when he says it's like a Google search So of course I'm like yeah all you have to do is integrate that with Google search and how about Because you know google plus now has find my face. Have you seen that? Yeah? I have as a matter of fact find my face so find my face and And of course Facebook has this very same tagging technology. So you're gonna walk into frame, one camera for every 15 people and it's going to go... John C. Dvorak Al Shabaab hip-hopper CCTV is probably the most visible form of surveillance that's around at the moment But I think in some ways that probably means its the least insidious

2:13:48 This guy represents the CCTV user group, which I guess implies the people who are being spied on. But i think it's actually the operators. I mean a recent survey by the CCTV user group um, showed that there's massive support for public space CCTV. So I'm not convinced that there is a concern. Massive support! Massive support everyone loves it! IpsoTech claims that Tag and Track could seamlessly integrate with information from other recognition sensors... Or other sites? There you go, that's it. You're done, you're toast

CHAPTER 37 / 39 Discussion

Hat Bans and Surveillance Avoidance

In response to increased CCTV surveillance, some UK pubs and schools have implemented "hat bans" to ensure faces remain visible to cameras. One case involves a 13-year-old boy with alopecia who was punished for wearing a cap to school. The hosts argue that these bans are a form of "baldist" discrimination intended to facilitate state monitoring.

hat ban· yorkshire· cctv· alopecia· surveillance

2:14:27 This is exactly what the show, which I recommend people start watching. The new J.J. Abrams show Persons of Interest is all about and they turn it into entertainment! Yeah There's so much we need to do in 2012 John there really is There's so much we need to do We can do this entertainment You know what my prediction will be? My prediction is what this is gonna create, is a new trend toward men wearing hats. Oh that's already forbidden! What do you mean it's forbidden? Yeah it's forbidden you're not allowed to wear your hat in banks and grocery stores... What?! You can't wear a hat!? Yes sir oh this isn't the US! But if I'm bald then you want to wear a hat! This is in the U.S already! Hats

2:15:22 Forbidden. I'm going to... Yeah, hats forbidden! It's everywhere! Hats forbidden Let's just do banks In banks And uh... Of course now i can't find it Yeah this is- there already- Wait Huh? You dreamed this No I did not dream this Dreamed that hat are forbidden No, I did not dream this This is a Wow, now I can't find it of course. Hold on a second let me look at news... I'm telling you this was-this was a news story awhile ago. There's some really nice hats in this forbidden planet site. Just ones that have a face on the hat! I wanna get one of these. There are some really nice, REALLY NICE HATS! Like they'll be forbidden John A Sonic baseball hat where you have Sonic the hedgehog ON THE HAT

2:16:31 Now don't confuse these things. It's cold some places, it's cold! I just bought a new hat as a matter of fact to replace a cap by law so not a cap but a fur hat that you know when your in real cold climes you have to have a hat on your head You can't not have one. Freeze to death. I'm telling you hats... let me try Hat Ban UK maybe thats it Hats ban from Yorkshire pubs over CCTV fears Why is it a fear? Fear of what so that you can't See they can't see. Oh who's afraid oh, I'm afraid my CCTVs not gonna work Yeah Because you can't identify the suspect because your suspect here pubs in Yorkshire Your suspect just go into a pub with a hat on Pubs in Yorkshire have been ordered to ban people from wearing flat caps or other hats So troublemakers can be more easily recognized

2:17:27 Why can't the pub guy respond to Troublemaker? Isn't that his job, he's the bartender. What kind of wimps live in Yorkshire that put up with this crap? Do we have any knights or contributors from Yorkshire? Probably not! No they ain't wearing hats Meanwhile they have this article you're talking about and there are two people standing there with hats That's okay. Peter Salas left the BBC last summer wine epitomizes Yorkshire flat cap tradition Yes, that little flat cap dead guys drive around and when they're driving an old MG Yeah, how is it you can't identify the guy who's got the flat cap on no technology Is this boys family angry over hat ban? Let's see what this is

2:18:12 Parents of a 13 year old schoolboy are angry that his school is making him take lessons in isolation. Hey slave shut up and sit in the ISO cell because he turned up wearing a baseball cap He has alopecia, poor kid. She's going bald you can't wear a cap show your bald head slave That's basically it His mom says it's like putting him in solitary confinement punishing him for being bald They're not that bald they're Baldists! Baldists This is not okay. Hey man, stop harsh on our baldies okay? This is just not okay. Oh boy the Boston... Speaking of slaves the Boston Consulting Group has now come out with a report and says don't outsource to China Mississippi Alabama and South Carolina are going to be cheaper

CHAPTER 38 / 39 Discussion

National Slavery Prevention Month and Arkansas Blackbirds

President Obama has proclaimed January as "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month," which the hosts interpret through a cynical lens regarding the "slave nation" economy. The segment also notes the recurring phenomenon of dead blackbirds in Arkansas on New Year's Eve, jokingly attributing it to HAARP testing or "elite fireworks."

barack obama· human trafficking· blackbirds· arkansas· haarp

2:19:14 That's where you should be working your slaves. But isn't this kind of like the whole idea behind this, the whole crash of our economy is to make us the slave nation? Yeah there is a... There is a, I'll have to read this little more but there's a book out by the Slovenian philosopher Zizek on Iraq and his thesis is that the war against Iraq was actually if you really deconstruct it properly was a war against the US public.

2:19:51 to get them to knuckle under all these crazy things so we're essentially, uh...we've been under siege by these douchebags. What's the name of this book? Is it a book you said? Yeah it's called Iraq I'll get ya the name and put in show notes that talk about it more. Yeah I wanna read this, I wanna read this. Well anyway its actually quite readable It all fits in nicely This is of course his promotion as starting today by presidential proclamation I shall read the first paragraph from our president. My administration continues to implement a comprehensive strategy to combat human trafficking in America by coordinating response across federal agencies, thereby as the power vested in me is presently the United States, I now pronounce this National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month." So you all are slaves and we're not selling you, I think that's what that means. National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

2:20:44 And he's got to be pissed off that Demi and Ashton are divorced because they were the spokesholes for this. Oh yeah Hey, by the way I want to mention there was another dead blackbird. Same thing as last year New Year's Eve Yeah and somebody you know maybe it is some crazy...I think the Chinese have been doping their fireworks with some sort of chemical No no no this is because someone fired their harper right that's why we got that warning shot off Japan Why would they do it on the same day every year at New Years? Well, it's their version of fireworks. I mean there's a bunch of elites... A version of fireworks? Sitting around drinking champagne like, Eh John come over here let me show you what i'm going to shoot off this new year Watch Japan Wait a minute wait a minute wait for it Oh by the way extra bonus watch the blackbirds in Arkansas That's what they do

2:21:44 That was another... It was a shallow earthquake, by the way. They say it was like very deep but it wasn't. It was only 9 kilometers under the ocean bed So this thing skips around the ionosphere and so it hits Arkansas goes from Alaska bounces down to Arkansas zaps the birds Bounced off the birds Yeah bounced off the birds And then zapped Japan Poor buggers It's telling you this, their version of fireworks is what they do. So are they? I have it in the show clip if you want to play it or not Yeah I'd love too What is it? Its one of those long but always entertaining Napolitano rants about how we're screwed and the Patriot Act stinks and its unconstitutional nobody doing anything about it Okay

2:22:37 So basically more of the same. More it's the same thing, I've now come to conclusion that he is just a honey pot to get people like minded individuals who think that Constitution is being abused and obliterated They just go gravitate to that show and they think something is being accomplished when nothing is being accomplished He's just letting off steam but still entertaining As entertainment, it's a plus. in between watch and C-SPAN. Coming to you from Camp MOFO, in the capital of the drone star state here in Austin Texas In the morning everybody my name is Adam Curry And from sunny northern Silicon Valley where this was a nice new year I think we're gonna have a great 2012 everybody! I'm John C. Dvorak Well it'll be our last year that's for sure and will be back again on Thursday with another episode at The Best Podcasts in The Universe Please join us then right here on NO AGENDA

CHAPTER 39 / 39 Discussion

Andrew Napolitano on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

A segment featuring Judge Andrew Napolitano reflects on the decade following the September 11 attacks. Napolitano argues that the government has used the tragedy to justify an unconstitutional expansion of power through the Patriot Act and illegal surveillance. He highlights Ron Paul's alternative proposal to use "paid assassins" to target Bin Laden under the Constitution rather than launching trillion-dollar wars.

andrew napolitano· 9/11· patriot act· civil liberties· ron paul

2:23:57 DC and New York City murdering more than 3,000 Americans. The government responded by launching wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and bypassing the Patriot Act a reprehensible and unconstitutional piece of legislation that granted federal and local authorities truly unprecedented and unconstitutional powers to conduct searches without warrants we gave up a great deal of liberty in response to these horrific attacks but what do we get in return? Are we really any safer? Are we any freer?" In this argument, I looked back on the 10-year anniversary of the attacks on 9-11. Take a listen... Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?! Is the loss of life on 9-11 a justification for the loss of freedom that the Bill of Rights have guaranteed? Tonight, Life, Liberty and Truth! Sunday is the tenth anniversary of 9-11

2:24:50 One decade later, Americans are still struggling to understand exactly what happened. What will we remember? And what will future generations come to believe about 9-11?" Will it be the loss of life on that day or will it be the even greater loss of life in the global conflicts that directly ensued? Will it be short-term security precautions such as orders to shoot down any planes carrying innocent civilians, or will it be lingering destruction our rights to privacy from unlawful government surveillance. The institutionalization of government torture and the government generated semi nudity and near sexual assaults at our airports

2:25:28 Will future generations ever know the full truth about the events that led to 9-11? Or will they accept the government account of what happened, an account that CIA's own bin Laden unit chief Michael Schoer calls quote a whitewash from top to bottom. In years preceding 9-11 Osama Bin Laden was young freedom fighter who promised American officials he'd help them out the Soviets from Afghanistan Following the defeat of the Soviets and the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism was triumphant and communism was gone. But in 1991 when the United States invaded Iraq for the first time we established military bases in a land revered by Islam furious at the American government for desecrating their lands bin Laden and his maniacal associates began plans that would lead to the clash civilizations that culminated in the tragic events of 9-11

2:26:23 But the signs of trouble were apparent after the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the initial bombing at the World Trade Center in 1993. It has now become increasingly clear that the Clinton administration should have done something Michael Schoer claims that Bin Laden was identified as a mastermind for those attacks, and was targeted multiple times, and could have been captured and tried for these assaults but President Clinton himself said no Last year, retired Army Colonel Anthony Schaefer a career intelligence officer wrote a book entitled Operation Dark Heart in which he shows that during his time serving on the secret Able Danger Project he and his colleagues identified Mohammed Atta the key 9-11 hijacker involved in the planes that struck the towers. A year before he struck! And they found him here in America

2:27:14 Although Colonel Schaefer brought this to the attention of the 9-11 Commission and was told he would testify, He was eventually turned away. And none of this intelligence was given to the American people It was literally the politicians covering for each other because they failed to protect us Question. How many government agents and bureaucrats have been fired for being asleep at the switch on 9-11? Answer, none. How many persons have been prosecuted for failing to do their duty in the years preceding 9-11? Answer, none. How many persons have been tried for committing the attacks on 9-11? Answer, none. Why is the government afraid of the truth?

2:27:56 In the days after 9-11, while the country wept and the Warhawks screamed for blood one quiet voice rang out from despair and offered a simple solution to solve our problems in a manner set forth in the Constitution. Texas Congressman Ron Paul offered legislation to authorize the president to send paid assassins, to capture or kill Bin Laden and his cohorts. It would have cost just a few hundred thousand dollars instead of the two trillion dollars that presidents Bush and Obama have borrowed and spent on our wars in the Middle East But that voice was drowned out in the ocean of tears and cries for blood, occupation and regime change. The bill failed and the wars came and the blood flowed and the borrowing of cash couldn't come fast enough Now here we stand a decade after the attacks with thousands more dead And a bill for two trillion dollars that needs to be paid What have we learned America?

2:28:54 Do they truly hate us for our freedoms or for our presence in their lands? Have the terrorists won this war already by getting us to surrender our most basic rights, in return for a false sense of security. Are the Constitution and our economy stronger now after this tragedy or are they infinitely weaker? We will continue to ask all of these. I have two words for you... Predator drone! We can't wait!