Episode 382 · Sunday, 12 February 2012

Apathy Syndrome

A suspicious death in Hollywood masks a massive energy grab in the Mediterranean as bankers begin the systematic privatization of Greek and Italian state assets.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 382

About this episode

The sudden death of Whitney Houston in a Beverly Hills hotel room is framed as a strategic marketing event for the music industry ahead of the Grammy Awards. Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak analyze the rapid production of a Glee tribute special and Clive Davis’s immediate media appearances as evidence of a coordinated narrative shift. The hosts suggest the timing of the tragedy serves as a cultural distraction while global energy interests consolidate power in the Mediterranean.

In Syria, explosions in Aleppo and Homs are linked to the Leviathan Project as regional powers vie for control of gas pipelines into Turkey. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Cypriot officials to secure offshore gas fields, while the Nabucco pipeline project was scrapped in favor of a 540-mile undersea power cable. Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is characterized as a Goldman Sachs operative facilitating the privatization of national infrastructure. In Greece, the Troika has mandated the sale of state assets like DEPA, overseen by banking executive Costas Mitropoulos. Domestically, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Assistant Attorney General Tony West are tied to a 26-billion-dollar mortgage settlement that critics claim primarily benefits lenders through loan extensions rather than homeowners.

Reverend Manning returns in a high-production musical remix targeting Barack Obama, while a listener-submitted clip compares Middle East analysts to Admiral Ackbar. Adam Curry shares a failed McDonald's voiceover audition and defends the show’s value-for-value model against claims that selling karma resembles the sale of Catholic indulgences. The segment concludes with a look at the AA’s new TomTom-powered insurance tracking in the UK, which monitors driver behavior via GPS.


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CHAPTER 01 / 52 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 382 Introduction and Illuminati Banter

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 382 of the No Agenda show from Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley. The hosts exchange greetings and reference various conspiracy tropes including earthquake machines, moon bases, and the Illuminati.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· getmo nation· austin· silicon valley· illuminati

00:00 You're mentally ill, lady. Adam Curry John C. DeVore Act It's Sunday February 12th 2012 Time for your Get Mo' Nation Media assassination episode 382 This is no agenda Doing my best to ignore the distraction of the week here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state coming to you from Austin, Texas. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where things never change hey we started this show at 909 I'm John C Dvorak Yeah, there must be some secret Illuminati meeting to that. 9-0-9 everybody! And in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.

00:44 And all ships at sea and boots on the ground. Feets in the air, drones overhead, earthquake machines in the oceans, aliens underground moon bases on the dark side spooks in the wires bankers in the government special ops in the sand clones in the White House shills in the Congress shields on the hill stooges is in the media hackers in the bail-in the ballot machines sysadmins on the inside producers on the job knights in the service formulas in the propagations memes in the cold and fractals in the universe... ...and all of our uh Human resources in the chat room and no agenda chat to have a list No, agenda stream calm. I just made that up man. That's off of the top of my head That's the kind of professional I am And the list that I got So I'm really bummed because I played this awesome little Little diddy on the on the pre-stream before we start the show when we do it live Which we do every single Thursday and Sunday morning 9 a.m Pacific Time

CHAPTER 02 / 52 Discussion

Reverend Manning Musical Remix and Production Credits

A musical remix featuring Reverend Manning shouting about the Constitution and Barack Obama is played for the audience. The hosts credit an anonymous producer for the 30-second track and discuss its high production quality.

reverend manning· obama· remix· producer· show notes

01:38 But I was on like the backup server because of all the problems we had on On Thursday, so I'd like to play it again. And I think you will enjoy this as well John It's a little uh a little diddy one of our producers put together just how long is it 30 seconds? Oh that was that long song you were playing Get out there and whoop Obama's behind! Whooping whooping whooping whooping what a prostitution! Whooping whooping whooping whooping what a prostitution! That's one of the more musical things we've received. Who was that? Because he is obviously a DJ I don't know, um...I forget who sent it

02:34 I'll put it in the show notes. He did a couple other things, I thought that when he was like hey man i'm just trying something out hope you like it and I'm like like it! I love it pretty good yeah are you kidding me? Finish the show with that finish the show. I will It's awesome The Reverend Manning whoop-it with the constitution whoop-it whoop-it whoop-it Well, we're gonna... In retrospect the clip I played last week there's a guy sent a mix between if we had this guy see a seal on that was talking about what's going on in Syria. Yeah and so John upper sent in a clip pointing out the fact that this guy sounds exactly like General Akbar

CHAPTER 03 / 52 Discussion

Admiral Ackbar Voice Comparison and Middle East Hegemony

A listener-submitted clip compares the voice of a Middle East analyst to Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars. The segment overlays Star Wars dialogue about energy shields with analysis regarding the Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis and American hegemony.

admiral ackbar· star wars· syria· iran· hezbollah· middle east

03:20 from the star wars movie. Although the weapon systems on this Death Star are not yet operational, the Death Star does have a strong defense mechanism. You see Iran Syria and their ally Hezbollah in Lebanon that trio a sort of Tehran Damascus Hezbollah axis has in recent years been

03:58 be the main obstacle to American and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. It is protected by an energy shield which is generated from the nearby forest moon of Endor, The shield must be deactivated if any attack is to be attempted Once the shield is down, our cruisers will create a perimeter while the fighters fly into the superstructure and attempt to knock out the main reactor. There you go proof that you've been preconditioned for this to happen That's great It's him! it's totally him In fact he could have said those words and we still would like yeah, that's right Yeah exactly You know is so funny because

CHAPTER 04 / 52 Discussion

Leviathan Project, Aleppo Explosions, and Mediterranean Gas Pipelines

Explosions in Aleppo, Syria, are linked to the ongoing "Leviathan Project" involving Mediterranean gas pipelines. The discussion posits that military actions in Homs and Aleppo are strategically timed to secure energy infrastructure routes into Turkey.

aleppo· syria· homs· leviathan project· gas pipelines· turkey

04:44 After the the mammoth Leviathan Explanation I actually thought to myself you know what? I'm gonna cut that down to a YouTube video see if I could because it was like an hour that we discussed the Huge well, basically that what I'm just calling it. The leviathan project You know people probably in a few episodes from now be like what but the hell are they talking about and But it's if you haven't heard of episode 381. We had a pretty good conversation about What all this bullcrap in the Mediterranean the Middle East is all about? It's all about the gas pipelines, and so I'm sitting there actually editing and I always have here in the studio I always have I actually have two satellite feeds And I've got my iPad running CNN and Happen to be watching Sky News as well and

05:36 And the only thing we didn't discuss was this. I'm like, oh crap! Now we got to talk about it on the show so that i can put into this montage im making. Two explosions have killed at least 25 people and injured over 170 others in Syria's second largest city Aleppo. Im like, Oh man... We know that the pipeline goes into the Arab pipeline that goes to Turkey has to go from Homs where all of I'm sorry, where Assad is killing slaughtering the Syrian slaughter. He's killing his own people that it has to go through Aleppo like oh no we should have just said watch for something to happen in Aleppo We completely forgot and there it is a red book you would have nailed it totally nailed It the funny thing is this was an explosion of course as the pipeline construction that exploded And you know Syrian soldiers predominantly who died

06:36 And this report says, okay well we got an explosion in Aleppo. Now back to Homs. And now there are reports that Syrian forces are preparing to mount a final assault on the rebel city of Homs It's like okay something happened up there please please whatever you do don't look over there there's nothing to see there. Don't look over here! Nothing to see here Please continue to look at homes... Holmes? Hey homies, homes it was just uh just phenomenal to see these things unfold. And now, of course I'm like okay Whitney Houston's death i'm sure it's related to the pipeline somehow It's like everything I see is how does it relate to the pipeline? How? Well it doesn't. No, no please, I'm good. You may have nailed something. No, I'm good! I'm not that good. The Whitney Houston thing

CHAPTER 05 / 52 Discussion

Whitney Houston Death, Marketing Conspiracies, and Glee Special

The sudden death of Whitney Houston is analyzed as a potential marketing event for her final movie and the upcoming Grammy Awards. Speculation centers on the rapid turnaround of a Glee tribute special and the career boost for Jennifer Hudson.

whitney houston· grammys· jennifer hudson· glee· clive davis· x factor

07:31 I mean everyone who listens to the show knows that there's some basic things that we would assert, which is she just finished a movie. Yes probably a turkey sparkle well actually you know what the movies about yeah it's about her. Yeah its literally its literally what a drug addicted woman became a star exactly Three success, three sisters from a former successful singing group and must deal with the fallout of fame and drugs. Yeah so that movie probably is a turkey that needed a little boost? Yep Also somebody pointed out in this morning's email that on the upcoming Tuesday Glee... Yep they're doing a whole Whitney Houston special I don't know about you but you can't turn around this stuff that fast No it's so funny because i was sitting here with Christina last night

08:22 And uh, because she's visiting and then Miss Mickey is in LA doing some work. And so I'm like oh really this is all about the Grammys and... Did you get a boost? Well they need there are some other things that that I would mention here she also was just offered and it's funny because you know like two days ago there was news that she was offered a judge's position on The X Factor So, you know... Listen I'm telling you when it comes to just that alone. When it comes to the war between X Factor American Idol and The Voice. I can see it would be worth it to kill her not to have her as a judge? If she was a judge on The X Factor I'd watch that would be pretty funny! You know so I'm sure that alone would be worth it just to kill her

09:11 And Christina's so funny. I'm like, well you know do you really want to listen my conspiracy theory? She says that that's not a conspiracy theory That's marketing! I'm like...I love you so much You're so smart But even before it came out even before I saw interviews with Ken Ehrlich who I know is the guy who usually used to direct all these shows and I don't know if he still directing or just producing I was like, oh okay this is really obvious. This is to promote Jennifer Hudson and you watch as said she'll be doing the big tribute to Whitney and Christina's like how do you know? I said well it's this is how it goes this is exactly the marketing in fact Piers Morgan The Shill had Clive Davis on Clive Davis is the without a doubt...I think he actually loved Whitney Houston for awhile

CHAPTER 06 / 52 Discussion

Clive Davis Interview and Whitney Houston Career Retrospective

Clive Davis appears on Piers Morgan's program to discuss the legacy of Whitney Houston and the potential of Jennifer Hudson. The segment includes a 2002 clip of Houston's "crack is whack" interview with Diane Sawyer.

clive davis· piers morgan· jennifer hudson· aretha franklin· diane sawyer

10:05 Although he's gay, but loved as in a fatherly love. He was on Piers Morgan with Jennifer Hudson. What does this lady rank? She really ranks right up there for me I've been known to be involved with divas whether it started with DM Warwick which led to Aretha Franklin and then it led to Whitney and Annie Lennox When I saw that audition by the way, It's Annie Lennox if we're someone you claim to have discovered at least get her name right Clive For that movie part I saw a depth and range and soulfulness that really ranks at the top level. And that's why we've been working together ever since. I mean, I always assumed...and correct me if i'm wrong but it would be hard to beat Whitney at her peak. Hard! Right?

10:56 When I hear you sometimes, I do genuinely feel... and i'm not as expert like Clive is but.. I feel she's nearly there maybe as good now? Oh this listen it's hard to make comparisons for years. You know working with the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was always said well can Whitney compare with Aretha when they're old-timers and Jennifer definitely has that potential It doesn't matter it's a win-win for Clive because now of course Whitney being worth a lot more dead than she is alive Jennifer Hudson will shine at the Grammys tonight and Just to end this topic because it's annoying me to no end because all of a sudden nothing else was happening in the world The only clip that you will not hear on the news

11:43 And I couldn't decide what to play if i was going to play you know her not being able To hit the notes anymore she was all cracked out or this stellar piece that is often referred to In our interview with Diane Sawyer, but no one plays anymore because of course we have to honor Whitney Houston who was a crackhead First of all let's get one thing straight Crack is cheap. I don't need too much money to ever sell crack Let's get that straight okay? We didn't do crack and we didn't do that Crack is whacked. Yeah, so was that clip unfortunately now that was her saying crack is for cheap We're too rich we don't do crack crack his whack So I don't feel bad for Whitney at all in hindsight though I was thinking you know we started our careers around the same time and I work with her when I was 19 I think she was 20 maybe 2 I was 20 she was 21 and She was on the show. I was presenting at the time in

CHAPTER 07 / 52 Discussion

MK Ultra Allegations and Illuminati Sacrifice Theories

A host recounts a personal encounter with Whitney Houston in the early 1980s, describing her as a "mind-controlled" subject. The death is characterized as a possible Illuminati sacrifice intended to shift global energy and mindset.

mk ultra· mind control· illuminati· sacrifice· whitney houston

12:43 In Gitmo Nation Lowlands, and this was when she had her first hit I Want to Dance With Somebody. And I recall thinking wow she's really strange! She was a complete... in hindsight now i realize she was of course an MK Ultra subject She was completely mind-controlled, you know did whatever her handlers told her to do not a single smile You know and we were young. You know like when your young you supposed to be like man in this cool Can't believe that shit. This is so awesome the go we're doing We're on TV or singing? No just nothing just a complete non blink stare And if anything this wasn't Illuminati sacrifice, so I

13:21 Why don't you save this for the second half of the show? Well, I didn't even want to. I was still on Syria! You wanted to get that Whitney thing in there so we're done with her. Okay good So let me get back to Leviathan... I was expecting you to come up with The Hollywood Whackers No, I'm telling you it's an Illuminati sacrifice. This is to change the thinking and the mindset and the energy of the world There is something very important that's going to happen Save me for the second half Well you asked again! Stop asking me then Alright So back to what's...the real news What is happening in

CHAPTER 08 / 52 Discussion

Hillary Clinton, Cyprus Gas Discovery, and Mediterranean Diplomacy

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with the Foreign Minister of Cyprus in Washington to discuss regional energy issues. The meeting is framed as a move to secure gas fields discovered off the coast of Israel and Cyprus.

hillary clinton· cyprus· noble energy· israel· natural gas· washington

13:59 with this huge oil discovery in Israel. Man, Lucifer Clinton she literally didn't waste any time This week has been a very very very busy week for her You okay there? Go on As now, of course we know that we're going to have some form of transport of this gas through Cyprus into Greece. And I've got tons that I can talk about and will touch on some briefly. I don't want to repeat everything we did on 381 but guess who shows up in Washington? Oh boy! We have the foreign minister from Cyprus

14:36 with Lucifer and she does one of her little clippity-clop things where they both come out through the doors that open up like Darth Vader's entering. And here comes Lucifer, I have the clippity-clop sounds Very interesting first. We'll listen is it's very short a minute in total as Lucifer starts off with her reasoning how important that is that the Cyprus foreign minister is in Washington and then what the Cypriot foreign minister says is I mean It's if you now relate that to our pipeline theory, it's pretty astounding the things that are coming out of her piehole Welcome

15:15 another foreign minister and one with whom we work closely. And the relationship between our two countries is deepening and broadening all of the time. Deepening and broadening all of the time? Yeah, gee I wonder why! Is that because your buddies there of Noble Energy are in Cyprus Hillary? Is that why it's so important?! We're very pleased that we work together on regional issues as well as bilateral. Regional issues, okay? You mean like the big gas field in Israel, Lucifer there? And we will be discussing those in great depth. It's all about the depth by the way which I think it funny. Deep depth...it's all down low underground pipeline! and I want to welcome you here Foreign Minister and thank you for coming

16:08 Madam Secretary, thank you very much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here with you and discuss I think a very interesting and important agenda that we have in front of us. Those cameras are so annoying! And why don't they mic these people? These are digital cameras... You don't have to make any noise at all it's so annoying. Somebody has mic'd the cameras Yeah well it's so I guess that's what we don't hear because she's giving away a lot dealing with issues of common interest and... Issues of common interest? Hmm, what could that be John? What common interest do we have with Cyprus? None! None in reality. Concerns primarily in the Cyprus question, issues about our presidency, the European Union

16:52 The Middle East and our neighborhood in the north part of Africa. Oh, it's all about North Africa and the Middle East and the Mediterranean? Uprising... And the Arab uprising? You mean all about that Israeli gas? The cameras are so annoying, I didn't even realize how annoying it is. So along with this comes some interesting news There's now you know we've been talking about the pipeline Cyprus is probably going to get a Natural gas terminal will be a floating natural gas terminal This did all of this in the show notes of course 3a 2.na shownotes comm even more interesting though Today or actually yesterday came word that then Ibuko pipeline, this is the pipeline Which was Europe's flagship? project

CHAPTER 09 / 52 Discussion

Nabucco Pipeline Cancellation and Undersea Power Cable Project

The Nabucco pipeline project to the Caspian Sea is declared dead as plans emerge for a 540-mile undersea power cable. This "energy bridge" would transport 2,000 megawatts of power between Asia and Europe at a depth of 2,000 meters.

nabucco pipeline· caspian sea· cyprus· energy bridge· undersea cable

17:53 The gas pipeline to the Caspian Sea is definitely off. It's not that the project is dead Gee, I wonder why it's dead and what's even crazier These guys are they're so into into getting this done that they're now talking about The world's longest undersea power cable Cyprus could become an energy bridge between the European and Asian continents by installing a 540 nautical mile undersea power cable that would transport 2,000 megawatts of power at a depth of approximately 2000 meters. That's pretty rare I'd have to say they really want to get this power into Europe and they really want to do it quickly

18:47 That seems like that's a really easy, I don't know about undersea power cables. Yeah can imagine somebody blowing nothing up you have a lot of electrocuted fish. Be fish forever that's for sure! Maybe it's down there just to block the fish from coming in from the Stargate? Thank you and then comes news yeah really um...that there will be i'm sorry the offshore Israel liquid liquefied natural gas infrastructure contract has been awarded to an Italian firm. Well, that's very interesting! An Italian firm so all eyes now on Italy because if we are already bringing in the new oligarchs in Greece who will take over the infrastructure Italy will be next it's not going to Portugal is not going to be Spain We have to take over Italy and who shows up in Washington this week John?

CHAPTER 10 / 52 Discussion

Mario Monti Washington Visit and Italian Infrastructure Takeover

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti visits the White House and State Department to discuss economic cooperation. The hosts characterize Monti as a Goldman Sachs operative facilitating the transfer of Italian infrastructure to international interests.

mario monti· hillary clinton· italy· goldman sachs· greece· infrastructure

19:45 My goodness the the attaché from Italy yes, the Italian foreign minister with Lucifer doing her clippity-clop Clip it up Fucking cameras. Well, good afternoon and we are delighted to be welcoming the Prime Minister to the White House this afternoon for his meeting with President Obama and the Foreign Minister who is well known in Washington... Well known! Oh yeah, we know him quite well! Here to the State Department in his new capacity

20:21 United States and Italy have such a strong friendship and alliance, and we are working on a full range of important issues. Very important issues! Hmm... What could those be? Pizza imports?! From our common efforts in Afghanistan to our concerns over Syria the economic issues that will be the topic of the conversation. As we take over all your crap with the president, but I want to underscore how confident we are in Italy's future and the extraordinary commitment that Prime Minister Monti and his government are bringing to the challenges confronting Italian people and in the Italian people themselves

21:09 So it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome you back, Minister. Wow! Is she blowing him or what? And you know it's like please this is a you know the Monty of course is a Goldman Sachs shill who was brought in And if you relate this to how the power has to flow from Greece through Italy, it makes total sense that Italy is next. Thank you very much, I have a great pleasure and honor to be seated here in the State Department and I believe we are going to have a very interesting conversation about political issues which are... Yeah right! I'm sure we talk about political issues no but divvying up the goods. ...common concern for both our countries where we are involved

21:52 Mediterranean issues hmm you just have to reply and every single time one of these douchebags says political just think commercial if they say you know the people think us yeah just replace all those words I was thinking about this over the last couple of days and You know, Sarah Palin used to who was at CPAC but Sarah Palin used to brag about how it was set up in Alaska where the people got the money. The people got you know they had a lot of oil up there that gets pulled out and it gets divvied up everybody gets a check for couple grand at least everybody in the whole state and their tax rates are low because it helps pay for the taxes like you have a natural resource that's specific to that state

CHAPTER 11 / 52 Discussion

Natural Resource Wealth Distribution and State Sovereignty

A comparison is drawn between Alaska's oil dividend system and the lack of similar benefits for citizens in California. The discussion explores how nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia distribute wealth to maintain social stability.

sarah palin· alaska· california· kuwait· saudi arabia· socialism

21:09 So it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome you back, Minister. Wow! Is she blowing him or what? And you know it's like please this is a you know the Monty of course is a Goldman Sachs shill who was brought in And if you relate this to how the power has to flow from Greece through Italy, it makes total sense that Italy is next. Thank you very much, I have a great pleasure and honor to be seated here in the State Department and I believe we are going to have a very interesting conversation about political issues which are... Yeah right! I'm sure we talk about political issues no but divvying up the goods. ...common concern for both our countries where we are involved

21:52 Mediterranean issues hmm you just have to reply and every single time one of these douchebags says political just think commercial if they say you know the people think us yeah just replace all those words I was thinking about this over the last couple of days and You know, Sarah Palin used to who was at CPAC but Sarah Palin used to brag about how it was set up in Alaska where the people got the money. The people got you know they had a lot of oil up there that gets pulled out and it gets divvied up everybody gets a check for couple grand at least everybody in the whole state and their tax rates are low because it helps pay for the taxes like you have a natural resource that's specific to that state

22:40 since we are a federal style government where the states have these powers you just say hey this is stuff that belongs to the people of the state and they share it even though, you know I can see well that's just a bunch of communists. It's socialism! Communists? Commies damnit! It's communists but the thing is... It belongs to the people of course it does. California has always irked me because even though and I'd worked for an oil company Union Oil in California And I was always thought it was unfair that we not only had oil, that was being pulled out of the ground just underneath everybody and privately owned. We not only got no benefits from this as a state, we got very little tax income because were broke

23:29 But they would also have the highest gas prices. I mean, during the crisis in the 70s and one more recently our gas price is like right now it's like $4 a gallon It just like we pay more! We get screwed twice! It's unbelievable You know this is why you wound up at the end of your career doing this show And you're not some elitist with a billion dollars because your thinking is all wrong Yeah, no my thinking is totally wrong. I'm a communist! Stupid! Stupid communist! Now listen... So it's like these countries that have always had that idea, I mean Kuwait shares the wealth with its citizens they have you know their higher standard of living

24:17 Saudi Arabia every time they have some issues going on. They just write a check to everybody Hey calm down people here's the check what do you want? Yeah five grand yeah, it was five grand shut yep Okay five grand right so they do that we don't do any of that because we're taught that this is not right It should all be owned by a guy who scams everybody cuz he's got the government on his side it's just like it's always but some of these countries like Greece and as we've every is a plan the last show and and it's uh... lesser extent italy but definitely cyprus they always had this common ownership idea but now they're getting screwed out of it there by the by the uh... the true uh... elitist the pro-capitalism people really run the world with thirty more seconds on the menace that of the foreign minister from italy patiently development in the societies which are leading to all sorts of democratic institutions and which which are

25:11 sense of the Arab Spring but you're also... See he's also talking about the Arab Spring so it's all code for we got it, we're in that pocket. ...about developments in Syria and Iran and that is something where we should have a common purpose and a common understanding on how to proceed Oh yeah! We have an understanding sure you do! I'm looking forward to it! Thank you all very much! So applause yeah, exactly. It's like good job boy Good job all that camera action so I look at what kind of shots do they expect to get? Yeah really And why is it so loud and why aren't they Mike? Yeah, it's very annoying

CHAPTER 12 / 52 Discussion

Greek Bailout Package and Troika Privatization Mandates

The Greek government faces austerity mandates from the Troika (IMF, ECB, and European Commission) requiring 50 billion euros in privatizations. Targeted assets include the national gas company DEPA and the gas grid operator DESFA.

greece· troika· imf· ecb· privatization· depa

25:55 So of course the stupid slaves in Greece are rioting and protesting once again. And this is about the new package from the Troika, and it's gotten pretty bad in Greece but of course the Greek government doesn't actually give a rat's ass about the people they care about the bailout package I looked at the package you know we all talk about it and they just talk about oh the money the money the austerity I'm like, well what actually is in this package that they have to sign? And I was able to find a list and here it is from Reuters. So there's fiscal adjustment

26:32 Before any funds are dispersed under the bailout, the government must pass a supplementary budget including spending cuts. Bank recapitalizations i.e., give money to the banks taxpayer money to the banks and then here it is privatizations this is part of the mandate from the European Union and the Troika Starfleet Command The troika being the IMF, the European Central Bank And what is the third one in the Troika? I don't know. Darth Vader. Council? Darth Vader or Darth Vader here it is cumulative privatization receipts

27:13 should be at least 4.5 billion euros by the end of 2012, 7.5 billion by the end 2013 12.12 billion by 2014 and 15 billion by 2015 an initial privatization target of 50 billion euros should be achieved over the medium term. Point two, increased powers for Greece's privatization agency to sell assets in pieces or liquidate it if it cannot be sold in its current form It's very important this little ditty here. And the third point, the list of companies whose full or partial privatization will be launched in 2012 include gas company DEPA, gas grid operator DESFA and the refiner Hellenic Petroleum. So there it is! There it is black and white

CHAPTER 13 / 52 Discussion

Greek Privatization Agency and Banking Sector Influence

Costas Mitropoulos, a former banking executive, is named to lead the Greek privatization agency. The hosts argue that the appointment of bankers to sell off state assets mirrors the Russian oligarch model of the 1990s.

costas mitropoulos· greece· eurobank· hellenic petroleum· privatization

28:08 forced on the people that their ownership in the most important... Their ownership of these about to make a lot of money operations is now done. And then I see and I'm like, oh okay so they got more power? The privatization agency well it turns out in July Greece named a new team that will head up the privatizations agency that is set up to undertake these billions of euros and at the sale of billions of euros. So who's in it? Well, let's see... Finance Minister picked Eurobank Equities Executive Costas Mitropoulos as the agency's Managing Director so that's a... Let me see is that a banker yeah that's a banker A private bank I might add He also named Yanis Koukiadis a law professor

29:08 former minister and European Parliament deputy as board chairman. This is getting pretty good we've got some really partial guys on here this sounds really good other board members Andreas Toprances, former CEO of Hellenic Post so they'll probably sell off the post office former chief executive of Athens Water. Yeah, Chris, but don't forget we're trying to do the same thing here with our post office! Yes of course so but when now now when you look at Greece you just say that's the new Russia this is it everything fits and... No, the Russian model works very well for certain groups of people that were well connected look I'm well connected I need to get something from my all the work I've done for the you guys

29:58 Yep, everyone's connected and they're doing it right on the backs of the slaves. And they give them all kinds of little things like elections. Oh you can go elect... pretend to elect somebody and all kinds of little... Oh no, the public is just completely out to lunch on this whole thing. All the protesters they don't know anything anyway they just throw stuff and get it out their system. The real troublemakers get isolated and thrown in jail and that's... Or worse! It's almost like a... Shut up slave! It's almost like a honeypot And I had mentioned on the previous episode about you know how this relates to the Arab Spring

CHAPTER 14 / 52 Discussion

Anonymous Hack of Syrian Ministry and Media Manipulation

The hacking group Anonymous reportedly breached the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs, leaking emails about media strategy. CNN reports on these emails, claiming they show how the Assad regime attempts to manipulate the American public.

anonymous· syria· bashar al-assad· wolf blitzer· cnn· propaganda

30:38 pipeline Had been blown up as well Actually, I found an article as I was researching for my video Egypt's gas export pipeline in 2011 was attacked ten times ten times Ten times it is so obvious what is going on and then just just to make it completely crazy? I think you call it risk recursion. Maybe we call it fractal a But the script leaked out for the reality show. That is this interview with Assad, I'm sure you saw this maybe you didn't Is just a one that you played in the last show? No no so what happened is Anonymous oh those awesome dudes at anonymous whoever they may be

31:32 apparently hacked into the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs email system and exposed emails which showed that the Assad regime is out to propagandize Americans who are so stupid that they can be manipulated by the media. So this was so mind-boggling I want to play this report from Wolf Blitzer, and what's crazy about it is here's a report that is supposed to tell you that you are being manipulated

32:10 By the Assad regime, but of course this is actually manipulation in itself and we're buying into it This is how stupid we are Syrian opposition group is reporting as many as a hundred and thirty seven deaths at the hands of government forces today And now we're getting a shocking inside look at how the Syrian government shocking there's allegedly spinning the crackdown to the outside world the source secret emails post secret email secret John there's secret they were secret if they were secret it would be called cables the secret emails stood by the notorious hacking group anonymous Bryant Todd is here he's working this story for us so Brian what exactly are you finding out well one person we know who is connected to that hacker group anonymous says one person

32:57 You mean your CIA handler? Is that who you're talking about? It could be anybody. I mean, you can say that yourself That's so far...I'm gonna say that all the time And when i was talking to Anonymous the other day These emails appear to be authentic and if so it does not look like Bashar Assad's aides have a very high opinion of Americans It's days before a big interview with an American network. Barbara Walters and Bashar al-Assad is being coached to spin this crackdown one eight rights don't talk reform Americans won't care or understand that The aid advises the Syrian president to talk about quote mistakes blame his own police American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are quote mistakes done and now we are quote fixing it so this is the point where my mind is boggling us am I really hearing a report meant to manipulate the American people that is actually saying that someone tried to manipulate the American people. It is, it is So mind-boggling this has taking place

CHAPTER 15 / 52 Discussion

Barbara Walters Assad Interview and Scripted PR Tactics

Leaked emails suggest that Bashar al-Assad's interview with Barbara Walters was heavily scripted in coordination with PR advisors at the United Nations. The hosts argue the "leak" itself is a meta-propaganda effort by Western media.

barbara walters· bashar al-assad· abc news· united nations· pr script

33:56 Here's what Assad then said about the crackdown in that early December interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. This is individual and that's what I call, what I describe as individual mistakes. Okay done by the military or done by whom? We don't know everything but some cases are done by the police in some cases done by civilians That email on What to Say was apparently from Sherzod Jafari press attache at Syria's mission to the UN To one of Assad's press aides in Damascus The hacker group Anonymous posted the email passwords of top Syrian officials. Hackers like this one cited by Foreign Policy magazine claim to have downloaded the emails and posted them online

34:36 CNN has seen the emails. They appear legitimate, though we cannot independently verify their authenticity." The email apparently from Jafari advises Assad on a quote to give Syria doesn't have a policy to torture people says he can contrast that with the US and mention Abu Ghraib Referring to Assad as H E for his excellency It says at one point H E was viewed as a hero and in other times H E was the bad guy Americans love these kinds of things and get convinced by it They think that the American public is really stupid. I'll hand out... No, they're right! They're absolutely right! You are totally right. Totally right. But so what? You know what I mean this is like nothing... Everybody does this. I got a punchline. ... who says he was once imprisoned and tortured by the regime This is how- What they taught us at school The Americans didn't know anything about the word

35:24 They really enslave their people. The worker has no rights in the US and they really think so, they think that Americans are easy to fool. David Kenner of Foreign Policy Magazine says the email reflects an amateurish effort to present a serious case to the world What is their current media strategy? Honestly I think at this point they have lost Western Media, they've lost the United States Alright, so of course I went and looked at these so-called emails that were posted to Pastebin by Anonymous. And very interesting because if you actually read the email that was sent which

36:09 You know, here's how it starts off. Hello dear comma so I guess this person forgot to say and this by the way is coming from the Syrian attache at the United Nations The most corrupt organization in the world where the script was written now i'm going to read This opening paragraph to you johnny. I think you'll agree with me that something else is going on Please let me know if you need anything else. Barbara will be here on the 2nd and the interview will be on the 4th because she's leaving on the 6th so that would give you some time to do the editing, thank you." But this... they're just handing the script from The United Nations! This is not propaganda! This was a script that was written in collaboration with ABC News They had a meeting at The United Nation

37:01 and said, okay listen. And this is from the person at the United Nations saying Barbara's going to be here I guess you mean this person means in Syria Here's the stuff you should talk about because we've already done the pre-interview and you'll have some time to edit it all together This is the stuff that's important to manipulate the American people It's a script! It's not like some big crazy conspiracy It's just a script like everybody does and Assad is a player. Like Barbara Walters is a player, well she's more of pawn but she's a player But yet this has spun into like oh the propaganda it crazy they fooled Barbara Walters You know and of course we're on to this crap And just about the time that were starting to understand what was going on and expose it then all of sudden Let's change the news and kill Whitney Houston So uh

CHAPTER 16 / 52 Discussion

ABC News and Yahoo Media Partnership Strategy

A PR briefing for the Assad interview highlights the reach of the ABC News and Yahoo partnership, claiming access to 100 million people. The document outlines key talking points including the Syrian crackdown and army defectors.

abc news· yahoo· pr briefing· media strategy· reach

37:57 I wonder why trying to find looking at some articles about some previous public relations ploys by the Syrians. I'm wondering who there's obviously a, there's two groups involved is that and i think the oil interest may be one of them or the gas interests whatever same thing yeah Same guys who are the you know there's they're taking two sides It's interesting because it's like a public relations battle that they've they're losing with this story because this story is a bogative Story, totally bogey really is designed to just make everything They do look crappy like they're just trying to manipulate as they suck. There are horrible people and you should all get a different firm

38:38 And nobody considers the scripted aspect of it, the United Nations aspect or the Barbara Walter aspect. Or after-the-fact editing which is considered no we can't do that even though they apparently do it all the time But this a briefing from a PR agent here at the end of this briefing and this is something Lois would give us if we were to do an interview Key points The government's crackdown The bloody regime Civil war Security forces and violence tanks, the YouTube torture clips President Assad ignores. The bloodshed and the help of other countries in the Arab League army defectors Robert Ford's returns to the US for security reasons Syria is an authoritarian government so these are the key points they know that Barbara Walters is going to focus on And then at the end the broadcast hours and channels and they give the whole rundown The interview will be broadcast across ABC news platforms including World News Good Morning America This Week I mean it's a piece

39:36 briefing ABC not NBC I thought I said ABC yeah ABC which mean it is a full-length treatment across the digital space this is PR talk for ABC News this now includes Yahoo as well which means you can reach us really interesting ABC and Yahoo which means you can reach as many as 100 million people ABC News and Yahoo recently joined forces which is another reason why so many people now bring their interviews to us really This is a PR briefing. And you're right, and so what? Yeah I know so what But there's more PR going on, I just caught this this morning on CNN I mean CNN itself does these Thank You Well here's CNN playing along nicely CNN next Sunday night at 8 Eastern A collapsed cooling tower Leaky pipes

CHAPTER 17 / 52 Discussion

Atomic Rod Adams and Nuclear Energy Advocacy

Longtime listener Atomic Rod Adams provides insight into the future of small-scale nuclear reactors. The hosts discuss the pro-petroleum bias in mainstream media that portrays nuclear energy as inherently dangerous.

atomic rod adams· nuclear energy· navy· propaganda· clean energy

40:27 Why is this nuclear power plant still online? So no one's gonna talk to us? No. CNN presents Nuclear Standoff next Sunday night 8 Eastern bad, bad, bad. Actually we got a... both of us got an email from Atomic Rod. Yeah we did which was really beautiful because he believes there is and I think he's got his very Set opinions about energy. He's atomic rod Adams who was a longtime? supporter of the show Was on the nuclear sub for many many years and he does work in In the Navy, he works in the Navy and he says look man backyard nukes are not far away It's clean then you know did all this

41:18 Propaganda propaganda, it's all proper now. Of course rod has his own agenda And I wish see if I can make a combustion engine here at home right? I mean I can get some lawnmower and I get some parts together and I can create a generator If I could do that if I can split a couple atoms here at home You know and I wouldn't die from it then we would have a different story but you know it's so embedded into the psyche of people. Well and you heard it in that teaser where they said why is it still on land? Maybe because this just producing energy and not doing any harm, maybe thats why its still on... But this slanted pro-petroleum which you know were petroleum economy and anything that threatens it as always like

CHAPTER 18 / 52 Discussion

Green Energy Investment Cycles and Oil Price Manipulation

The discussion posits that high oil prices are used to lure investors into green energy before prices are crashed to bankrupt those competitors. Germany's decision to shutter nuclear plants after Fukushima is cited as a victory for the petroleum lobby.

green energy· oil prices· fukushima· germany· rick perry

42:03 it's always like meets with ruination. Always! Yeah, nuclear you're gonna die. The thing that happened in the 70s which is going to happen again you can count on it which is the... No no we don't it only has to happen every 30 years We had Fukushima and its done It won't happen for a while I'm talking about the clean energy movement that takes place with the wind power and all these other things You do the thing you do as you jack up the price of oil as high as you can up, because it really should be selling for 25 to $40 a barrel max instead of 100. So you jack it way up and then all these other things look like, well this is affordable we should do this. And you get everybody to invest their money into all this green stuff and by the way those funds are all underwater. Put all your money into green stuff then pull the rug out from under them I've seen this happen before boom! The price of oil goes back down where it belongs $25 dollars All these companies go broke overnight and they just set some back

43:01 2030 that they can't threaten again. It's just a real common situation because we got so much oil That it's almost crazy to do anything, but burn it yeah But we've been mind-controlled dude We've been mind controlled that were of course you know the work we're killing the earth We're killing each other and all the recoil all this stuff Yeah, I'm gonna die And now nuclear, and of course I'll reiterate that right after Fukushima then Germany said we're shutting everything down. No more clean beautiful nuclear energy. Right and if you can be one of the guys involved in a... since you're not sharing the wealth when you find all this oil You just control it somehow

43:46 You can make a heck of a lot of money just pumping stuff out on the ground. I mean there's no work involved except putting in the pump and you hire somebody to do that It's a killer money maker, that is why we have all those rich guys in Texas. They are some of the dumbest people who've ever met Rick Perry case in point So anyways there are lots of links in show notes 3a to that any show notes calm under the heading Leviathan there's a whole bunch of contracts that are up and those companies mentioned so Those of you who understand this business and understand buying stocks And investing in companies, you know if you're doing it anyway look at some of our research and if you score send us some dough I

CHAPTER 19 / 52 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and Dame Astrid

Dame Astrid from Tokyo contributes $500 to the show, expressing her appreciation for the hosts' humor. Scott Hankel of Sunland, California, donates $214.12 following a series of vehicle accidents involving his family.

dame astrid· tokyo· scott hankel· california· donations

44:35 We're basically your research arm here and we're happy to do it. Yeah, we got some good insight on this stuff you might as well become an executive producer Do we have any today? Yes, we do. We have some nice executive producers that came in to help us and we have one executive executive producer the top of the line our old buddy or your friend Dame Astrid Oh! Dame Astrid from Tokyo Tokyo oh awesome Came in with $500 dearest John and Adam donating his love or not I love you guys I cannot live without you, nor less of you. Should you go to one show a week all dames unite for this and never happen again at night with my earbuds in i fall asleep listening oh this is great she's falling asleep over we put the weird stuff at the end too what he dreams of us

45:23 Yeah, I guess so. and Adam who likes my mom would say a dog that barks doesn't bite and most importantly you make me laugh like no other happy Valentine's Day from Dame Astrid. Do you think she is asleep already? Listen to this, she probably isn't. She already like... Like oh that's really interesting. You know what she's probably going to wake up with some weird ideas if she's sleeping. Hold on a second. Dame Astrid I don't recommend it. Wait wait wait wait. I'm gonna talk to her now in her sleep. Dame Astrid we love you too

46:10 And we're here with you. Wakey wakey! Yeah, it's definitely cheaper than anything else out there. Scott Hankel sir Scott Hankel in Sunland California $214 and 12 cents a Valentine's Day donation thanks for the karma shout-out in the last episode I was not what

46:50 For what Adam alluded to, which he mentioned was relationship issues. It was stupid slave issues. Oh I'm sorry my mistake A week ago some moron driver coming in the opposite direction failed to yield the right of way and turned left in front of me Collision ensued No! This past week my wife stopped for traffic and was rear-ended by a city worker And her car was hit too apparently Fun times yeah, thankfully everyone is alright But vehicle damage and dealing with insurance companies such a joy any how keep up the good work love hearing you twice a week Hopefully the donations pick up to get your guys past Keep you guys busy providing the best podcasting. Well then let me let me hand out rekarma guys I'm gonna recarme recarmalize him You've got karma it's caramelizing not karma ties carmelized been caramelized

CHAPTER 20 / 52 Discussion

Palindromic Donations and Karma Shout-outs

Multiple producers send in donations of $214.12 and $212.12 to match the palindromic date of February 12, 2012. The hosts grant "karma" to listeners seeking job promotions and political candidate Gary Johnson.

chris eisbach· brad doherty· gary johnson· palindromes· karma

47:41 Chris Eisbach in Cheshire, Connecticut 21412 not sure whether it's ever make to the show list but I did see a comments area to include a note with my donation nation. It was moved to donate a palindromic amount on this palindromic show date. By the way all of 2 1 1 1 2 and 3 all through the 19th are all palindromes It's nice to know other people find that cool. I love a little karma add to my chances for the promotion i've been hoping for over the last few years, I've been listening to talk For years starting with art bell moving to glen beck and now no agenda Starting to think maybe I am the cracker. No, I think you've upgraded yourself My friend that's what I think here you go. You're getting caramelized. You've got karma

48:23 And that's the 21412 very nice and also Brad Doherty in Brooklyn, New York at 214 12 without comment Tom trobo or troba in Austin grow Watching you with binoculars as we speak 212 12 which is today's date long time listener first-time donor love the show need some karma to get some new projects going keep up The great work your neighbor in Steiner ranch. Oh, he must be loaded if he's in Steiner ranch That's where that's that's where the mother loaders don't want it be from a great deal. Yeah You've got Steiner rants just move back up we're actually that is very close to where I live but

49:03 Uh, it's... Robert can he hit you with a mortar is the question? Easily. E-heh, easily! One of those boomerang drones you could shoot right out of the tube and would take three thirty seconds for it to fly over my house Devin Ostendorf in Arvada Colorado 212 12 Hey citizens ITMD you both although I made my first... Just last month they felt strongly compelled to lob another one Why? Because show 383 a nice palindrome falls on 2-12-12 an even nicer palindrome which happens to be my birthday. Wow! But it's actually show 382, which is... hmmm

49:40 Well you can, yeah so it's not really the palindrome of the date and your birthday is great but I thought this was 383 myself. No this is 382 sorry. So why is there any other reason that I'm donating? Great question insert JCDs that's not a great question clip here as a matter of fact there even implicit karma appears to work as since my last donation I've acquired a new job that i'm very excited about so here's the donation 212 12 which together my donation from early January of 120 121 takes me 2333 33 the third-of-the-way tonight hood cheese yeah let's give another karma shot to Gary Johnson and I'd love to see him debate Obama and whomever the GOP nominee ends up being okay well caramelized Gary Johnson

50:25 You've got karma. There's something else there at the end there, thanks again for... Yeah, then Ostendorf pronounced like the capital of the drone star state get Monation craft beer. Hervada Colorado Hey citizen! Alright Gil Froyd in uh in where's this? Gainey Tickva N A uh... and australia to tensor on a citizen donate why because it's an excellent question someone has asked the questions not asked by the lame stream media and those are some ones are used note that no original content using this message dammit if you're gonna donate use original content harvey lee at federal way washington two twelve

CHAPTER 21 / 52 Discussion

Associate Executive Producer Jason Brooks and Double-Speed Listening

Jason Brooks of Antioch, Tennessee, becomes an Associate Executive Producer with a $200 donation. He requests his name be read slowly to catch the attention of listeners who consume the podcast at double speed.

jason brooks· tennessee· associate executive producer· podcasting

51:13 21012 with no comment. And finally, our last associate executive producer for today's show 382 is Jason Brooks Antioch Tennessee $200. Two hundred and zero dollars and zero cents because round numbers are good for your cardiovascular system and libido so I've heard. Proud to be an associate executive producer for the show and so appreciative that you guys are doing all the work out there. All I ask is that John say name really really slow during the credits so that people who are fast forwarding will hear it in real time and do a double take. Jason Brooks, thanks for all you do to make my weekly five hour drive that much easier. That's cool man! That's funny there are lot of... People listen the podcast at double speed Yeah yeah lot of people do and if you have the right device is very you can actually you can hear it You can understand Of course

52:10 Well, that's very nice and we'll bring you in as an associate executive producer. We appreciate our other associate execs and our executive producers No different from Hollywood by the way if you're going to watch the Grammys tonight If you listen to this show live You'll see the list of executive producers and associate executive producers And these are people that benefit they get value from the show They probably get to bang some of the singers Yeah, they're lucky. I want to remind everybody go to vorac org slash na channel Devorah comm slashing and a Dvorak or the No agenda show calm and no agenda nation Calm when you also pick up a cup which are nice by the way cup

CHAPTER 22 / 52 Discussion

Domain Name Contributions and Art Generator

Listeners contribute domain names including dronepilottraining.com and newenergyorder.com to the show. The hosts also promote the No Agenda Art Generator and encourage Valentine's Day donations.

drone pilot training· new energy order· valentine's day· art generator

52:51 Those are nice cups a mug the cup is something you use when you're on this actually it is Couple of PR mentions Thank You very much citizen Harvey for forwarding the domain name drone pilot training calm to our no agenda show comm website That'll come in really handy. I guessed also You have another one yeah drone pilot training and drone pilots are us calm so I should we ever get into the business, and that'll be just groovy. I misread the The xxx top-level domain name we got on the previous show Yeah, I said it was what I see it was released dot XXX. I have no idea what I was thinking well Maybe I do

53:39 Actually the domain name registered is realsex.xxx Which is actually better than release.xxx And finally unbelievable, but it was available Thank you very much mark from Indian Trail North Carolina new energy order calm Oh yeah. Now pointing to the noagendashow.com website which makes total sense and is an easy one to remember actually, newenergyorder.com And I want to remind people that there is a Valentine's Day coming up with a 2-14-12 donation that you'll see listed on the website So what are we going to do? We're gonna mention these posthumously after the 14th Yeah

54:27 They say, I mean to do the lucky thing right you do it right on the day. Remember nothing says i love you more than a donation to no agenda and i would also like to thank all of our artists who never get enough props who uh diligently create artwork for us for every single program noagendaartgenerator.info is where you can see all of the artwork ever created um and it's great because you know it's very hard for us to make a choice But we do have to make one choice for each episode but there's lots of really funny stuff and really cool stuff to look at on that website and We highly appreciate them. Of course, we always put credit in the show notes for our artists because it happens all after the fact they don't usually get recognized as much as they should And that's quite an effort that goes into that So thank you all very much. Of course everyone else out There can go out and do something important which is propagate our formula Our formula is this? We go out we hit people in the mouth

CHAPTER 23 / 52 Discussion

Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda Merger Announcement

CNN reports on a formal "merger" between the Somali group Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. The hosts mock the corporate terminology used in the news coverage, comparing the terrorist alliance to a reverse merger or an IPO.

al-shabaab· al-qaeda· cnn· merger· ipo· terrorism

55:31 New Rose! You know you're a slave. Shut up, slave. And before you say anything John I want- did you get in on this big business news? No About the big merger What merger Don't tell me you didn't have stocks in this. Ugh Come on man, Ewan Horowitz do his show about the financial news. You should've at least put it on your- There's mergers all the time which one are you talking about Wow news news tell me news that al-shabaab long associated with Al Qaeda But never formally welcomed into the family has gotten the blessing from Al Qaedas leader and has merged with the organization Oh brother a merger who are these guys kidding? I mean, this is about obvious media scam Literally called it's on CNN. It's called a merger Yeah, I wonder if it's a reverse merger

56:33 I'm waiting for the IPO. People that people follow these things will get a kick out of it. That was yeah, thank you. I made a funny on you. Yeah, that's a funny idea. Reverse mergers for people out there don't know what they are is like your company and you know if people want to go public And so you make, they make a big stink about it. But your company is so screwed up that... You can't actually file a document that would make any sense? Yeah, you can't do it! So you buy a company that's already public but its selling for like a penny a share

57:10 And you buy them up and you take the whole company over, and then you just make... You change their name to your name. And you have reverse merged and now a public company. Companies do this constantly and that's one of the reasons that people like the toy in penny stocks because if you find a company out there that is selling for like two cents or a penny or less than a penny many times it is like a tenth of a cent You could buy it looks like a reverse merger candidate you buy that company because when they do the reverse merger the Stock stays the same so when the company comes out and be five or six bucks to share I mean, you can make a killing final line in this CNN report. This is funny Intelligence sources tell CNN the merger announcement was expected weeks ago. I guess we missed that filing

57:55 They filed their s1 finally. Yeah, there's a red herring The terrorist red herring report so what so how can we make money on the next merger? Maybe I think if there's gonna be an IPO it would be the next group It could know they're just gonna go public if they should do an IPO like I'm sorry Facebooks already going public. It's the same thing now kida and Al Shabab merger So now the question is, will they come up with a new name Al Shabob? Or are they going to use the acquiring firm's name. These are all questions that are very... It could be Kebab Sheba. Kebabshabob How about shish kebab how about that for a name I think that would be good what would the ticker symbol be Yeah shish shish shish shish Again is it shishtalk man yeah baby so uh so I was doing some research

CHAPTER 24 / 52 Discussion

John Huntsman Gay Rights Advocacy and Bain Capital

John C. Dvorak presents research into WikiLeaks cables regarding John Huntsman's interest in gay rights issues in China and India. The segment explores Huntsman's Mormon background and his father's business ties to Bain Capital.

john huntsman· india· gay rights· bain capital· mormonism

58:56 Sorry that just tickled me. Yeah, apparently so I'm doing some research I'm going through the you know The WikiLeaks cables are still there and they're dead keep put There's more in there so you can do these searches and you find different things So I was doing some work research on Valentine's Day to see what was going on around the world And it turns out this holiday is huge everywhere yeah, and in India It's actually quite interesting because in India its kind of a gay holiday Oh really? Yeah. So isn't gaydom like not, isn't that frowned upon in India? Well that was interesting so I started doing a little research and came up with two things and found out that it's legal now to be gay in India according to this one cable there was briefing for the State Department confidential by the way And I did a little work on that too This is what great about it see I did a whole bunch of research on Leviathan and now you're like just

59:53 clutching for straws. I am! You come up with gay Valentine's Day. Good work, John! This is my answer! Good work! So gay Valentine's Day... so anyway apparently the Shri Ram Sena SRS a small fringe Hindu extremist group which has spent the past year engaged in isolated violence against young men and women celebrating Valentine's day He doesn't understand this situation. I don't want to say, i don't want to come on the show and make this statement that someone might think John Huntsman is gay. Oh! But he really goes out of his way to cover gay issues in China when he's over there. The whole big memo on the Mr Gay China pageant

1:01:06 really? I mean there are many a cable about what's going on in the gay community and i think well what's this all about and he was the one endorsed by the log cabin republicans above all the others, and there is couple of other gay groups that have promoted him. He's Mormon so his father... So I started looking into it maybe he's gay and married to some woman who You know, he adopted a lot of kids and there's some crazy pictures of him. They've adopted kids from all over the place and his father I didn't realize was a 70 which is one of the Mormon elders at the highest level like a cardinal in the Vatican only in the Mormon Church in the Mormon church major league borderline Apostle

1:01:57 And it's a very interesting thing and if you start looking at, looking into it I think... Really? ...I think someone could come to this conclusion. So what you're saying is all this research you've come up with is a flaccid allegation that John Huntsman is gay? Very! Great that's right but it has also been on the domestic front is a specifically because of some are greater lgbt community governor mrs huntsman particularly supportive of our issues wrote more in consultant who was involved g o p gay rights group known as the log cabin republics and the other day i actually kind turned up is that uh... huntsman dad partnered with a guy named gay robert c j okay alright you're going to be a huntsman gave global capital

1:02:45 But what's interesting about this is that Gay was a, uh... Was one of the executives from Bain Capital which I now believe is apparently a highly Mormonized operation. Oh well that doesn't surprise me. That doesn't surprise me. Now do you relate this back somehow to your Bahrain Valentine's Day clip? Is that anything worth listening to or... The Bahrain Valentine's Day clip. I don't know, play it. Oh okay. Take human rights activist Nabil Rajab He has been to jail where he says he was beaten Says he was beaten A visit to his house reveals windows that have been smashed and attacked by security forces Okay so just stop this and i'll give you a setup

CHAPTER 25 / 52 Discussion

Bahrain Uprising Anniversary and BBC Reporting Bias

The BBC reports on the one-year anniversary of the Bahraini uprising, focusing on the economic impact and allegations of torture. The hosts critique the use of "skeptical" language like "claims" versus "says" in mainstream reporting.

bahrain· bbc· shia· sunni· human rights· torture

1:03:28 This is the B- the Bahrain story is starting to crop up again. I saw it in the Washington Post too Yes, MI6 has decided they've been covering it up and now they brought it to the fore and this a BBC report but they're still rather skeptical about that whole thing and when you listen some of the take on it. It seems to be a borderline civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites in Bahrain, and this is the Shiite's bitching and moaning about the Sunnis not giving them work, not getting them this, not get that you start hearing this meme over and over again and there's all this skeptical reporting from the BBC where they say well this person clay... You know the way you're supposed to report this by the way officially when someone says they've been beaten in prison? You use the word

1:04:20 says or allegedly. Allegedly is usually we're involving a legal situation where you can't just like you can't call somebody a crook but in general straight reporting if your You would generally say says he was beaten or alleged, you could say alleges he was but but you don't ever use the word claims. Because claim has negative connotation so if you hear anybody saying claims oh he claims to be an alien! You know that the person giving their report is skeptical of the whole thing and it instills that skepticism in there in the listeners brain and its incredibly unfair reporting and I just want a point at the BBC does this a lot

1:05:04 Okay, continue. Now you see the high rate of unemployment among Shias, high rate of people with no houses among Shias You see how high rate of people with no nationality amongst Shia's? You come to the Shia areas and you'll see how much they are suffering Pro-government sources say that economy has not been greatly affected by the protests While some businesses have relocated to nearby hubs like Dubai and Doha, others are filling the void. Like fund management business Nord Stuky. We were looking for a robust regulatory framework which we find that it's been offered by the Central Bank of Bahrain It has an excellent infrastructure

1:05:46 and the proximity to Saudi definitely is another reason. Still, around the financial district there is anecdotal evidence the economy is suffering. Building projects look stalled in the streets of the capital souks Western tourists are markedly absent and many who sided with the opposition have lost their jobs leading those still at work to save money rather than spend Dr. Ala Shahabi has a PhD in economics and was fired because of her associations with the protest movement Her husband was jailed by the police I lived through this nightmare My husband came home for lunch, he left and was ambushed and kidnapped from his car park He was in jail for 10 months. He was sentenced to 3 years in military court

CHAPTER 26 / 52 Discussion

Iran Internet Kill Switch and Valentine's Day History

Reports indicate Iran has restricted internet access and banned the sale of roses ahead of February 14th. The hosts review historical events occurring on that date, including the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the nationalization of the Bank of England.

iran· valentine's day· fatwa· bank of england· knesset

1:06:34 I had very little access to him. He was tortured, severely beaten up and he still lives with his scars and his wounds." With the one year anniversary of the uprising coming on February 14th it's possible that tension bubbles to the surface once more Yeah, it's funny that you bring that up because I did do just by coincidence. I was looking at February 14th because I got a note from one of our producers who said that word on the street is they have now flipped the kill switch in Iran and on the internet and that you know in order to keep out the techno experts and their propaganda But there is also now forbidden in Iran currently to sell roses For Valentine's Day or end just no roses which leads me to believe You might want to slip this into the red book in pencil That there is a new color revolution planned

1:07:32 for For the 14th and that it's going to be a rose revolution color red, but if you look up February 14th in the book of knowledge 2011 and this is the book of knowledge So it's highly edited by whomever as part of the Arab Spring the 2011 Bahraini uprising Let's go up a little bit further There were some other things In 1989 Iranian leader Khomeini issues a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. It's an interesting date, 1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House which was a big deal

1:08:20 I remember my parents talked about that, even though i wasn't around. 1946 the Bank of England was nationalized 49 the Knesset, that's the Israeli Parliament convenes for the first time... Let's see what else? This is an interesting date! Must be some... Of course we celebrate it presume for the st. Valentine's Day massacre of Al Capone's gang that's why I sell a part celebrated well it's just you know Arizona admitted as the 48th state voting machines approved by US Congress for use in federal elections in 1899 really 1890 now what kind of machines were these there was they still used here and again there wasn't any giant hand had the big lever Alexander Graham Bell applies

1:09:23 Interesting day. Maybe we shouldn't overlook it just as like some... There's gotta be some undertone meaning to all of this that we're just not realizing and somewhere a couple elites are going, Yeah celebrate our holiday you suckas! So in the process of looking at all these cables and ending up with all this stuff about lesbians in China, which took me off the track. I finally got into looking at... there's a mention it was noticing that at the top of the cables there is this crazy little moniker on The Huntsman memos that said classified by political ministers counsel Aubrey Carlson for reasons 1.4 B D

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Executive Orders and Document Classification Procedures

An analysis of Executive Order 12958 reveals the specific criteria for classifying government documents as Top Secret, Secret, or Confidential. The hosts discuss how low-level bureaucrats can unilaterally designate documents as classified when superiors are unavailable.

executive order 12958· classification· top secret· confidential· bureaucracy

1:10:11 So I decided to start looking into what is that. So it turns out then in 2003, March 28th there was an executive order which was amended... It was Executive Order 12958 amended to Executive Order 13292 this is your stuff and they have all these sections and those are the sections that discuss how to classify documents Yeah, and so this is what I thought was interesting. They did there's essentially Section 1 point forward is the classification categories it has all these different things you have things have to be considered for Classification for all these various reasons and then they talk about top secret Secret and confidential are the three and they all tend to be about the same thing It's gonna cause unauthorized disclosure which would reason be expected to cause serious damage right in the national security But what's funny about this? And the thing I think is the kicker

1:11:03 Is that there's these people that are designated, it is very specific in this executive order. People who get to make these determinations There is like one guy at the council at the embassy who... The memo has to go through him and he has to determine if it has to be confidential or secret or top secret But the kicker is if there is nobody around No wait a minute So if everyone is out playing golf Who determines the classification? Yes, so when there's nobody around the author or anybody can essentially determine a classification and they could say it's top secret and it becomes top secret until somebody one of these other bureaucrats gets hold of it and re-designates which is a paperwork issue that they're not gonna do.

1:11:57 Wow. So any bonehead who writes one of these stupid memos... Just put Top Secret on it, you're done. They put secret- at least they put secret on there because they're afraid that if they don't, they'll get in trouble because they want to get this thing published. But now there's different- You have top secret, you have for your eyes only, There are all kinds of classifications No those aren't part of this. There is only three designations that are a part of this That is Top Secret, Secret and Confidential Those are the three. That's it Everything else is just bullshit But if you're doing one of these memos and you have suspicions that it should be, we automatically put confidential on everything or maybe secret on everything because there's nobody around. You don't want to go through channels and once it gets on there, most of the documents are taken out in a public view because of this bull crap! Because what are you going to do? You write in a memo... It is top secret! Top Secret!

CHAPTER 28 / 52 Discussion

Anwar al-Awlaki Droning and Congressional Oversight

Senator Ron Wyden challenges Attorney General Eric Holder over the legal justification for the drone killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. Holder maintains that the Department of Justice is not required to provide formal legal opinions to Congress on the matter.

anwar al-awlaki· eric holder· ron wyden· drones· department of justice

1:12:54 It's funny because Senator Wyden had sent a request to Attorney General Eric Holder, or as he is known, the general. As well as James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence requesting the chain of decision for the droning of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki And what came back from Holder is that he does not have the authority to provide formal written opinions of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel to Congress. And Dennis Blair said, if we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific information permission to do that and

1:13:57 Widen in regard to that wrote Holder and says That the executive branch it is an interesting quote indefensible for the executive branch to claim that intelligence agencies have the authority to knowingly kill American citizens Subject to limitations that have never been described publicly while at the same time refusing to provide Congress its legal opinions on this Authority so essentially what's going on here is we have a little tit-for-tat of With the intelligence agencies saying, we don't have the authority to do that. That comes from the president which we have the clip of that. It comes directly from the president I find this disturbing obviously

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Obama Scandal Preparation and MISO Psychological Operations

The hosts speculate that recent media focus on the sex scandals of JFK and Bill Clinton is a "MISO" (Military Information Support Operations) tactic. They suggest the public is being conditioned for a forthcoming scandal involving President Obama.

obama· jfk· bill clinton· miso· psyops· reggie love

1:14:44 Yeah, well I'm still wondering what the real... there's some behind-the-scenes stuff here that we have yet to uncover. There is something else going on that I realized there might be another psychological operation going on What was the name of that department now they've changed their name? From PsyOps? Remember when they changed their names? Yeah let me see if you can figure it out Boy! I am so stupid. I need to remember this So these two things hit the news and almost watching for this One is some woman, Mimi comes out and says yeah JFK had sex with me when I was 19. You saw this story right? This was all of a sudden oh the new woman comes out! JFK slept with me there's also way I think it's like a four-hour documentary coming out about Clinton

1:15:35 And of course, all the rehash is coming back into the news about Jennifer Flowers and of course Lewinsky. And I believe this is being bestowed upon us because military information support operations there you go miso soup that was a nice so he's so I believe this is happening because something is going to come out about Obama We're being prepared because you know you look at JFK seen as great president Clinton seen as great present even though we know is a douchebag You know even in this documentary it I haven't seen it, but I'm just reading reviews It comes out and says well. Yeah He was still he did great things here. We had a flaw or two or whatever so I think someone has the goods on Obama and

1:16:23 And something's coming out and we're being prepared for this. That's an interesting theory I'll put that in the Red Book you might as well, and I don't know if it's a Reggie love thing or maybe it's that Crazy guy who says he had oral sex and did coke with Obama in the limo that guy dead yet? Yeah, I haven't seen much from whatever happened that guy is he dead yet. I just Bought him off and told me get lost oh And we can take one out of the red book hold on a second this was a great PR Thank you very much for the multitude of people who sent me this trailer of the forthcoming movie iron sky This is of course not only explains

CHAPTER 30 / 52 Discussion

Iron Sky Movie Promotion and Moon Base Theories

The upcoming film "Iron Sky," featuring Nazis on the moon, is identified as the likely source of recent "Dark Side of the Moon" news stories. The hosts suggest the film's marketing campaign is leveraging existing conspiracy theories.

iron sky· nazis· moon base· dark side of the moon· pink floyd

1:17:06 our Dark Side of the Moon theory as being a bullcrap news story to promote this movie, all of sudden oh it's so important! Dark Side Of The Moon. Now I thought it was relating to the re-release of The Masters of Pink Floyd album turns out this movie is filled with and there's another little extra meme in there just for us. Where are we from? THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON This is about Nazis who have moon bases, of course. I knew that! And they're from the dark side of the moon and they're coming to attack the world and the kids like... The dark side of the Moon is like awesome now listen to the extra little ditty in this uh.. I just clipped a bit of the trailer Who are these guys anyway? Nazis from the Moon One word from me and the invasion from the moon begins

1:18:09 Oh, that's beautiful. All presidents who start a war in their first term get re-elected which of course is a big part of the Iran Saber rattling And, uh... that would make a lot of sense. We've- this is a Red Booker Um.. but I do like the Dark Side of the Moon being a PR initiative for this movie Very good! Good job guys Whoever did that? Brilliant Brrrilliant, I tell you There always tends to be movies And you can take one out Uhh..I don't know when we put it in But we said Judge Napolitano's show would be cancelled and lo and behold Cancelled!

CHAPTER 31 / 52 Discussion

Judge Napolitano Cancellation and John Fleming Onion Gaffe

The cancellation of Judge Napolitano's show on Fox Business is discussed alongside Congressman John Fleming's social media gaffe. Fleming reportedly shared an article from The Onion about a "Planned Parenthood Abortionplex" as if it were real news.

judge napolitano· fox business· john fleming· the onion· planned parenthood

1:19:03 Yeah, he's still working for the Fox people and I'm still my original thesis was they were just testing him there and then they're gonna give him to Glenn Beck spot. And uh...I think No he was off the reservation man! He was going way off. That's right i think you went a little bit too far with his libertarianism They don't like that. No. And Stossel is stil got a libertarian show but he's kind of like so nutty enough that He's got a once-a-week deal they can put up with that. They don't need that and talking about dumb Americans you mentioned this earlier in the show no I didn't, I said we are dumb! I didn't say this there's not as dumb as all of America is dumb except for the people who listen to the show. This week's award goes to Representative John Fleming who is a congressman Republican

1:19:55 who apparently posted a horrible, I mean just ranted on Facebook because he's an idiot for being on Facebook linking to an article about the Planned Parenthood abortion plex which was an onion story That was bogus. Well you got, you got punked by that too recently so yeah you do also qualify as a... I'm not a congressman! You're dumb American though Oh yeah totally Yeah I joined the ranks of the dumb Americans Yeah I wonder if it was really him or some idiot in his office Well see he from looks at its probably him and uh

CHAPTER 32 / 52 Discussion

Facebook Laptop Shooting and No Agenda News Network

A viral video of a father shooting his daughter's laptop after a Facebook post is debated as a potential hoax. Adam Curry explains the technical benefits of using OPML files for the No Agenda News Network aggregator.

facebook· laptop· viral video· opml· rss· news aggregator

1:20:40 And there's one YouTube thing going around that's also on my blog, you should check it out. Have you seen this? The dad who goes nuts about his... Yeah His daughter writes something on Facebook and then he blows up her laptop with a 45 and the whole thing is like Kent do you guys ever sit down for dinner? That's a spoof that that is it. I don't believe that's for real Yeah, I put the hoax I put in fact in my post I said maybe this is an elaborate hoax because the it does seem hoax alike Now why would you blow up the laptop when you could sell it on Craigslist for a couple hundred bucks? I mean, it doesn't make sense. It's... You know, because I saw that come through on noagenthenewsnetwork.com Because anyone can put an RSS feed in there, noagenthenewsnetwork.com There is a link right at the top of the menu that shows how to do it Why don't you have an RSS feed out?! Why!?

1:21:33 It's a- we have an OPML feed, so you can take that OPML feed and you can import it into your own Feed Reader And have all the feeds and remove the ones you don't want. That's the way it's supposed to work dude Yeah well it doesn't And, oh well what do you mean it doesn't? I'm just telling ya. No no you're misunderstanding how it works Yeah obviously This is an aggregator this is a public feed reader Yes I understand So instead of giving you an RSS feed of RSS feeds I give you an OPML file so can import that and you can subscribe to whatever you want and then have your own It's much better! Yeah well thats according to you and your other OPML fanatics

1:22:17 Well, what do you mean? What's your problem? No no I want to talk about it on the show. It's a waste of everybody's time. What do you use? Google Reader that fan... Look! You have a read all you have to is load a page Oh so much work Hit a bookmark and then you get all the news you want In fact you don't need to read it you don't even have any other news than that That's the only site you need what else are you reading? No I agree with that you could live on that site Yeah yeah What else are you reading nothing Alright and although this Cables Cables okay From the BBC News, The Automobile Association is set to launch a new insurance policy which uses sat-nav technology to track driver performance. Well this was cut... This is not a Red Booker we've predicted this. This is a close the red book on it. Well there's one extra little bitty little ditty bitty who was going to provide this sat nav technology for them? This is this is the one that I think is that is

CHAPTER 33 / 52 Discussion

TomTom Insurance Tracking and Telematics in the UK

The Automobile Association (AA) in the UK is launching insurance policies that use TomTom GPS technology to monitor driver behavior. This "pay how you drive" system tracks hard braking, cornering, and speed to determine premium rates.

tomtom· insurance· telematics· black box· uk· privacy

1:23:21 Oh now TomTom is arguably the most successful satellite navigation company so they're now in because of course they had They signed huge deals with the map companies there. It's a Dutch company originally I think it's still Dutch although probably public at this point And they have now signed up with the insurance company to use their technology So I am here's that here's the Red Booker part, I'm going to predict that within our lifetime certainly, but within a reasonable amount of time all TomTom navigation systems will receive an update have some kind of interface. They're embedded everywhere so they are the key into it every single navigator that you have will now become a spy apparatus

1:24:17 whether it's for your insurance company, which you'll have to do. You'll have to do it otherwise your insurance rates will just be too expensive Yeah no it is obvious and this is the thing that insurance companies have been angling to get the goods on the public forever I mean because they're just... where they see it as like oh this person's a risk we don't have to insure him That's what essentially Progressive began as a company that did know more than data analysis of very large databases to figure out how much at risk a person was and they could do it by your background, where you lived how many wrecks you've been in what kind of ticket history you have and everything else. And then you can say well this guy's... You know you could charge him this much money because you'll make money on him if you charge them less you'll lose money. That is one of the reasons that I don't even trust a safe way

1:25:02 Card you know those cards that you go to the grocery store And then they do get an extra nickel off if you if you have the card You join their little store club, and they record every purchase. You make it It goes on your record The insurance companies would love to get a hold of this and who knows that they're not getting all over just say well This guy buys an awful lot of potato chips I think we should jack up his rates right And the funny, by the way for people out there that don't use these cards myself included you see these things it's on sale. You take it through their and say well you get your card? You say no I can use this person to person behind you they'll be glad to take run their card forward or usually the store itself will just give you a discount anyway but... But listen to this so I love this BBC report

1:25:50 Information will be transmitted remotely to the insurers can also be accessed by users via a website which gives information on overall performance warning them if they are likely to Be moved into a higher premium. This is you are enslaved with this Listen, the system will detect sudden hard braking Extreme speeds will be greeted with a quote stern email to the driver Can you imagine? You know when you stopped hard for that cat going across the road We didn't like it the pay how you drive system is what it's going to be called Of course gonna save you a lot of money initially. Yeah, right They're calling it telematics or black box insurance These are all great words And I think there was more on

CHAPTER 34 / 52 Discussion

Mandatory GPS Monitoring and Smartphone Navigation

The hosts predict that GPS-based insurance monitoring will eventually become mandatory for all drivers. They discuss the transition of smartphone navigation apps into "spy apparatuses" that provide real-time feedback on driving habits.

tomtom· google navigation· android· insurance premiums· telematics

1:26:45 It's like how they're gonna track your cornering, your braking, your speed. Maybe even if you fart in the car... This is being implemented where? This is in the AA which this is the biggest Basically the AAA of the UK. Where everyone gets their... So this is the UK we're talking about right now? Yeah, this is UK so we already have progressive in United States who have an option but this is going to be mandatory I mean there's no way around it Drivers on the scheme will be given a TomTom Pro 3100 as part of the package The device will include active driver feedback This is great!

1:27:34 Oh, hold on a second John. We have to active driver feedback? Oh my goodness! What uh... Can I have some old woman's voice? You're going too fast! Slow down! Let me try this. Slow down slave. Oh slow down slave This is just- it's really- let me see They also have live services. Yeah, here it is! Live services went to warn drivers when they were cornering too sharply or braking too hard So those of us that have cars with nice tires that are designed to corner fast You are braking too hard We want to make a nice fast turn because its kind of fun when you get on the freeway to let it rip This is now... my insurance rates going up because I can't corner? Kidding me

1:28:35 Your farce smells. Oh my goodness, from December insurance companies will be barred from basing premiums on gender so no longer can you... No they don't have to anymore because these... The black box'll know it's a woman driver. I know somebody emailed me. Slow down Here it is Yo bitch slow down Woman driver It's uh this is wow and then how long until you get an upgrade

1:29:14 Your smartphone. I mean the only thing I still use from Google is their navigation, which I have to say is an outstanding product I know you're a fan of it as well Oh yeah, I think it's them sell they can sell that navigator on the Google Android phone is Astonishing it so great It's really really good and then when you get to the location shows your picture shows your picture But it also does something that a lot of sat nav don't do what she says You know You know, your destination is coming up on the right. Thank you! A lot of them don't say that and you're like what side of the road? It's an outstanding product but soon it just... you're gonna get an upgrade And literally it's... you'll be using your phone and then all of a sudden your phone is just going to say, YOU ARE BREAKING TOO HARD!!! And then your information will be sent somewhere We gotta get off the grid Johnny boy Yeah

CHAPTER 35 / 52 Discussion

Brokered Convention Speculation and Jeb Bush

Political analysts suggest the 2012 GOP primary could result in a brokered convention, potentially opening the door for Jeb Bush. The hosts argue the media benefits financially from a prolonged election cycle and encourages the drama.

brokered convention· jeb bush· gop· mitt romney· rick santorum

1:30:10 There's you know leave the thing at home. I don't drive that much Disconnect it yeah, no it's hooked up could you explain to me a what the brokered convention? Terminology means yeah please it means that they're gonna go with that means that there's nobody with a clear majority of votes to win the nomination for a candidate the candidacy for the president and so now you start doing deals and And that's the brokering part. You're just, well we'll give you our some of your trade for your starting to trade votes like a break of stock broker you trading and this happens at the convention itself yes it happens on the floor so Al Cardenas

1:30:58 Who was the head of the American Conservative Union, who actually was running that CPAC thing that Sarah Palin and all these idiots were talking about? Douchebag fest. He says it's very possible that Jeb Bush... Jeb Bush would emerge as a possible alternative party nominee and it could all come to ahead in a brokered convention Yeah I think yeah i don't want to say too much but I do think I kind of predicted that was no you did but he did about a third three four shows ago so it doesn't matter when you said it you know I should actually could have done that so doesn't count but no accounts it was is definitely winner %uh I don't know who be jeb bush but the possibility does exist at somebody %uh is not going to get this thing the way its going but I didn't know I still stick with my thesis %uh that

1:31:50 Wait a minute your thesis was Romney Santorum. That's your original thesis, which no no my original thesis my original Perry and I think that's done but But my secondary thesis, which I think has been in play. Which is that the media and all the powers that be get all the money The media gets all the money They are manipulating the election so it drags on So more and more money gets spent And they're trying to keep it as even as they can until the very last minute When one guy runs away with it then that's the end of the gravy train Right Well its funny That why they keep drawing attention to these super PACS Oh look at this super PACS! Look at all the money

CHAPTER 36 / 52 Discussion

Maine Caucus Results and Super PAC Funding

Mitt Romney is declared the winner of the Maine caucus by a narrow margin over Ron Paul. The discussion highlights how Super PAC funding from donors like Sheldon Adelson keeps candidates in the race to generate advertising revenue for media outlets.

maine caucus· mitt romney· ron paul· super pac· sheldon adelson

1:32:31 going into him you rich guys you could put money into one it's terrible that you're doing that send his money money money money. It's like I was before we got rudely interrupted last night, I was watching the returns of the Maine caucus which is a caucus it's not a vote. Not an elected classic elected vote? Yeah just part of the show doesn't really count And so the votes counted. Well, yeah but so the difference was like a hundred and ninety votes and then the guy who's in charge of that in Maine says well we're just gonna call it for Romney you know yeah there's no we could still do the remaining 10% but it's gonna be Romney doesn't matter

1:33:16 You know, it's like Ron Paul is like 194 votes behind. Of course it matters! And this is just like oh it doesn't matter even if we count him- Ron Paul you have to remember is marginalized by the media and everybody in between because he doesn't have these super PACs There's no money that you're gonna make no money from this guy Ron Paul so screw him Yeah Keep them out of the way and let's put the guys with they were drawing all the cash He's got no dough You know, take the big money. These guys who are you know like Shelly Adelson is just pumping money in a new Gingrich's campaign and where does that money go? It goes right to the newspapers and the TV stations. That's right So let's keep him in the race if we can because there's more money coming from Shelley

1:34:00 That's right a real amazing obvious money grabbing Ron Paul is not one of the money guys. No you get from Ron Paul is That's not good enough for CNN, yeah, oh you need money Super PAC so they're so terrible Well we had an interesting little to do that very interesting Houston yeah Yeah um so First we had an interesting little thing happen. The US Navy named a ship, a combat ship after Gabrielle Giffords the USS Gabrielle Giffords which I still think is in play with my theory that she's going to be very important in the upcoming election

CHAPTER 37 / 52 Discussion

Jeffrey Zaslow Death and Frank Luntz Word Analysis

Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow, who co-authored Gabrielle Giffords' memoir, died in a car accident. Separately, the hosts analyze Frank Luntz's focus groups regarding President Obama's use of the word "revenue" instead of "taxes."

jeffrey zaslow· gabrielle giffords· frank luntz· revenue· taxes

1:34:50 As you know, let's just use gonna be the nominee. This has been the book Yes And hey in a brokered In a brokered convention who knows what can happen? Yeah so Jeffrey Zaslow Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the book about Gabriel Giffords died He was driving on a snow-covered highway in northern Michigan when he lost control and was hit by a truck This is how the Russians used to do it But he didn't only write that book. He also wrote Sully's book. Oh! Uh-huh, so maybe he was getting a little too big for his britches... Right? Yeah it's a good one yeah I'm not calling coincidence on this i'm saying you know lost control while driving hit by a truck come on man this is how the Russians do it all the time So obvious in my book In our redbook

1:36:01 So, uh... what the? Oh. I got it now. I'm digging through my no agenda fodder and finding all these old stories. I can't figure out what happened to the ones that did Well let's say-I want to play one more of your clips It's about time. It's about time. I'm bored with myself Okay, what do we got? Let's see, gotta get back to the mail Words Matter looks like a good one Words Matter! Uh this was yeah played Words Matter its interesting And so it doesn't connect You gotta set this up. I have no idea what this is, you gotta set it up. Let me set this up. You know this guy Frank Luns, Lunce whatever his name is he does all these analysis No. For Fox and he does all the- He puts people on...you know he's the one that does that little chart that shows people are more interested or less interested during a speech It's on CNN all the time They're showing the speech and then you see these two are red in a green line And they're fighting with each other for who...what women don't like what this guy says The men don't like him anyway but he does all of this stuff

1:37:02 But I keep calling him Lutz because he looks like, I didn't realize but he looks like the bonehead that's in the 30 Rock show. He is a writer on the show but anyway so he came on and just discussed some Usages that I just thought it was kind of interesting. This is a filler clip It's nothing special, but it's it's worth noting as essentially he's bringing out research data That is essentially what we say on this show and we've been talking about for the last five years And so it doesn't connect Alright, well let's break down some of the phrases they use. I notice President Obama never talks about taxes he talks about revenue constantly because nobody wants to pay more in taxes it's okay for you John Stossel to pay more but i don't want to pay more so when you talk about revenues everyone thinks its somebody else who is going to get hit

1:37:51 Taxes, I pay revenue. It's everything from somebody else Exactly So we don't have a tax increase We have revenue enhancement Exactly They always try to find ways to soften the negative or strengthen the positive In order to strengthen the State of Union speech The President said no more bailouts No more hand-outs No more cop out Now think about that phrase First off it is appealing It is appealing When we tested this for Fox News That was the number one phrase Of this entire speech No more bailouts? He's the one who gave the biggest bailout to the banks. Right! Okay, so now... No more hand-outs? So he just goes on and now he's grousing it. Anyway that was just a kind of short clip Now I've got this thing open so i can see what we've got Uh..I thought this would be the most interesting thing I saw was uh... A round of applause for Sarah Palin

CHAPTER 38 / 52 Discussion

Sarah Palin CPAC Speech and Crony Capitalism

Sarah Palin's speech at CPAC regarding "crony capitalism" is criticized for failing to credit David Stockman for the term. The hosts compare Palin's current political status to that of a "nincompoop" and the "Whitney Houston of politics."

sarah palin· cpac· crony capitalism· david stockman· whitney houston

1:38:40 Stockwell, the guy who used to be the head of budget under Reagan wrote a book called Crony Capitalism. He was interviewed on C-SPAN like about two or three... it's actually quite a good interview and he talks about crony capitalism He brought crony capitalism back to the forefront Palin gives a speech at CPAC as if she invented the word And she gets it because his audience is so brain dead they give her a huge round of applause. Nobody ever credits Stockman for you know popularize, repopularizing the word and I just found it quite annoying but here's the reaction she got under To serve the common good But this Washington Is a place where politicians They arrive as men and women Of modest means And they become plutocrats

1:39:25 The money-making opportunities for DC politicians are really endless. They don't just enrich themselves off of you, for themselves they spread the wealth around to their pals and this has a name it's called crony capitalism. You know I defended her somewhat in the beginning because i did read her book and was basically defending the reading of books because people are like, I can't believe you read a book. And well yeah of course i read her book and of course she didn't write that book we have their author's name now no it was soon to be hit by a truck on a snowy road paid the extra money to keep his name off the cover if you don't know how this works you uh... you can write your hire ghostwriter right writer you know your higher ghostwriter and you get do you pay him one or two fees either paying them extra money but their names off the book

1:40:18 Or if the U won't put out the extra dough, then their name has width and it has their name. The person who actually wrote the book and they get on the cover Well, the problem with Sarah Palin is of course what she's had some weird work done probably on her They've probably implanted a chip but anyway She to me now is the Whitney Houston of politics Just total nincompoop Well, she's definitely doesn't look her best. Her old makeup artist isn't around anymore No, I don't think she can afford it! That's the problem...I think she is broke. She just does anything for money whatever they want If she is broke then she ran through an awful lot of money quickly Again, The Whitney Houston of politics I'm gonna show my support by donating to KnowAgenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab

CHAPTER 39 / 52 Discussion

Listener De-douching and Beer Machine Success

Producers Jake M. and Warren Carroll receive "de-douching" for their donations. Carroll reports that a bottom-filling beer machine previously featured on the show has now been installed in 100 locations, including the Super Bowl.

jake m.· warren carroll· beer machine· super bowl· kickstarter

1:41:11 Well on the subject of being broke, we're still working our way up to some solvency. Jake M., we have some donors that we want to thank. Jake M., $150. Thank you for providing the best podcast in universe and would ask that you de-douche me. It's been a long time listener boner Yeah, here we go. You've been D-douche'd! He wants us to send some karma to Matt and Sarah as they continue producing more slaves They sent some karma our way a wife on a few shows ago And since then I had this significant raise and my wife Kirsten Locked in her number one choice for her medical residency program glad I found smoking hot chicks

1:41:59 Hot sugar mama with a found a hot smoking sugar mama with brains. I think that deserves a milf karma shot. Milf! That's one mother, I like that. You've got karma. There you go Good one thank you very much appreciate that. $130 from Warren Carroll in Des Moines Washington It's been 18 months since my last donation so can i get de-douche'd? Mmhmm absolutely. You've been de-douched I know you guys say that karma only lasts about seven days, but when i last donated I asked for karma from my friend's invention beer machine that fills through the bottom. Oh yeah! That was... Yeah, I remember that a couple years ago and they now 18 months later have machines installed in over 100 locations and had machines at the Super Bowl Wow! So Karma can last at least eighteen months! Shhh! Ixnay on the 18thntmay

1:42:55 Michael Voss from Parts Unknown, $121.12 Jesse Wilson Hobart Indiana $111.11 and then Anonymous from Brownsville Texas I'm at a hundred two dollars and fourteen cents as a financially strapped schmuck! I already regret parting with this money but i'm donating anyway because Thursday's show was awesome! Cool Whether or not listeners consider this show to be a bunch of crock... A bunch of crock I'll be damned if Crackpot's crap about Leviathan wasn't convincing, entertaining and terrifically depressing. We're all screwed! John is not getting any better with the slide whistle. Yeah bullcrap! I know what i'm doing! ReadNoAgenda.com is amazing when I checked it out I was pretty impressed that a similar podcast transcription tool had not been made previously. It was created specifically for No Agenda apparently check it out slaves

1:43:57 For a point for his best podcast in universe give a karma shot to the guy who made read no agenda comm fanscribed at golden spud GLD and spud on Twitter. Yeah, absolutely Karma yeah I put that in the show notes now every single time I've got at the top of the credits or the show notes I put transcribed transcription so this will be 382 dot read no agenda calm you should definitely pitch in on that it's great Ryan Breedlove Amory Mississippi $100 Rhino the bearded aka Ryan breed love dis donations for a double shot of karma one is for John Adam and the rest of the know agenda community as it thanks for all you've done to help make me accomplish and help me accomplish in the past year

1:44:46 You have made me a better human resource and I thank you for that. Second is for some karma from my new agenda, Best Podcast Universe Award Show Kickstarter I am running. Wait a minute we have an award show? Yes Do we get a tribute Maybe. Remember for less than a cup of coffee you can enter douchebag ways and help two podcasters live the American dream of just getting by, it can be found at ITM dot IM Kik2 which is... You're gonna have to link it And the donation segments are always one of my favorite parts of this show Never get rid of them! You've got karma. You know I gotta kind of just interject from now Bookmark, I want to say something about that after we've thanked everybody sir Ryan a barrow of Wooten Bassett $100 they'd like to contribute to keep Adam from having to do voiceover work as ever keep up I should find another one for the show

CHAPTER 40 / 52 Discussion

McDonald's Voiceover Audition and Canadian Tax Court Victory

Adam Curry plays a failed voiceover audition for a McDonald's commercial. Sarah Morrill of Montreal donates $99.99 after winning a legal battle against the Canada Revenue Agency with the help of "No Agenda karma."

mcdonald's· voiceover· sarah morrill· montreal· canada revenue agency

1:45:45 It seems to work. Yes, well hey it brings in you know if that's... Go to Old Navy for puffery! Pufferizer. Pufferize yourself I'll find another one while your talking Andrew Seuss $100 also have a little one here hold on a second What would you like? Michael Miller we got he needs a call out in Karma for his wife Catherine $126 and he needs a he wants a it's hey citizen karma call out for his wife. Hey citizen karma okay? Hey citizen! You've got Karma He is over there on the other side of the bay, actually can watch me with his binoculars Would you like McDonalds? Sorry? Would you like McDonalds

1:46:40 Why would I like McDonald's? Would you like to hear my McDonalds audition? Oh God. Which i didn't get. Adam Curry, Vox Agency... McDonald's early adopter Now by the way this is what I resort to when donations are down You always have to be the first in line! You got a smartphone back when everyone else's phone was just sort of clever Your in before in is even in and now your determined to be the very first person to try whats new at McDonalds Come rain or shine Or a ring. So wait a minute, was the script actually using the clever joke? Yeah that was the script. So they came up with a joke that says when smartphones were just clever... Listen to this The simple joy of being first Oh god It's so bad! I listen and do these with earnest If you get one commercial

1:47:36 You can make a lot of money on a national spot. Yeah, well especially if it's video How many commercials do you think I've gotten? None! Yeah exactly zero A big fat zero You have to keep trying Well i'm gonna have to Sarah Morrill in Montreal Quebec says no $99.99 I donate today with a happy heart and the tale of supreme no agenda karma success another one for the past two years i've been battling revenue Canada because they wanted to tax me personally on an arts grant that I received in 2003 which is usually tax-free now has asked to pay a large sum which included heavy penalties and much arrears interest I received no agenda karma at each step along the way after the audit upon objecting to the reassessment and finally when I submitted my case to the Tax Court of Canada well third time lucky

1:48:23 I won. The judge says that the Canadian Review Agency's case against me would not hold up in court and they were ordered to pay back the thousands of dollars that they stole from me! So I donate again to share the wealth and thank you both for the countless hours of witty and intelligent banter that helped me get through my hellish ordeal. And also like to wish my partner in crime Valentino a happy birthday which will give him all about... That is so nice, and that was Sarah Morley In Montreal Thank you! That's very generous of you too uh to share in that thank you so much I appreciate it Yes and a John Adam this is Michael my atico in Milton Ontario another Canadian nyan 56 6556

CHAPTER 41 / 52 Discussion

Penetration Tester Career and Global Donations

Donations arrive from Ontario, West Yorkshire, and Zurich. One listener, Michael, requests karma as he trains to become a "penetration tester," prompting jokes about the job title and the future of the No Agenda "Roundtable."

michael myatico· stephan· zurich· penetration tester· hacker

1:49:08 Hey John and Adam, listening since episode one. I have not donated in a while but i had to go...I just had to after that mind-blowing episode on Thursday's show Can I get de-douche'd? And he liked some karma for me and my family How about a double? Yeah you got it. DOUCHEBAG! Woah woah woah! No no NO! Oh no no! I'm so sorry. Aww, I take that back Let's do it properly now. You've been de-douche'd, Karma! Sorry I was off... Okay but you get the douche bag button ready because he has a couple. He would like to call out Joe Lamorte as a douchebag for listening and not donating and Christopher Richards as a douchebag for not donating in awhile please note that i have forwarded the following domain to knowagendashow

1:49:57 Unseeninternet.com Thanks for that's not bad yeah I like that thanks for keeping us slaves informed keep up with the great work thank you so much and now Stephan in Wakefield West Yorkshire dear John and Adam please don't mention my surname Time to pay up. Been listening for a year and it's time to de-douche me. Okay. You've been de-douched. That dedouching costed $56.78. Celtica.com, Celtica c-e-l-t-i-c-a in Zurich. In Zurich. Please pass my apologies to her and give good karma sounds to Mickey. Mmm. Alright. 5555

1:50:48 You've got karma. I'm not sure what that's all about, but you might be right. I do, but he didn't want me to say anything. Robert Gold Toronto Ontario Double Nickels on the Dime Special Double Nickels on the Dime Minute Men donation for new listener Bill Madigan of Toronto and Gitmo Nation Sunshine State Hey Bill! Welcome Bill and i'd appreciate a hey citizen call out for bill who happens to be coming around to Ron Paul's way of thinking. Hey Citizen! Kelly McCulloch McCulla Kelly McCulla Mechanicsville, Iowa. Double nickels on the... Greetings from the Corn Belt! Long time listener no time donor love the show can I get a de-douching need some karma as a little extra never hurts i also subscribe to The Dollar an Hour program keep up the good work signed Kelly thank you very much You've been dedouched. You've got karma. Lovely IntelliSolve Corporation Wildwood Missouri

1:51:47 Kara of rust from Wildwood $50 plus three dollars and eighty one cents for the show number. No, it's a little late It's 382 but that's okay happy we'll put in the dollar Happy birthday to me giving myself the gift of keeping the greatest podcast in the multiverse on the internets Michael pocket and felt them middle sex 52 10 Sorry I've not donated a long time but times have been hard. I'd like to dedicate the donation to my amazing girlfriend Gemma who has now become a loyal no agenda listener I got Gemma listening to no agenda whilst on holiday the food whilst while it was wild that's one hot milk baby on holiday lounging by the pool and she now this is the show in her long commute to work and she loves the show and thinks you're both amazing

1:52:45 Please tell Gemma that I love her lots. Can you give her a Hey Citizen shoutout and a Karma as I'm sure she needs it putting up with me all the time? Yeah, no doubt! Hey citizen... You've got karma He also wants Karma as he's waiting to hear if i have an interview for a new role this week I am currently studying toward becoming penetration tester Wow, a penetration tester Sounds like a good gig to me There is a slide whistle when I need it uh... possibly the first no agenda hacker of the roundtable in the future like it also late you know is not too much trouble for car mashup my friend john robinson's got me listening to this show and hopes to see more i would just seem or i think he got a karma shot so we can share and share please expose the keep exposing the corrupt douchebags yeah we try

CHAPTER 42 / 52 Discussion

Grad School Karma and Handmade Furniture

Alexander Munoz, a seminary student in Arkansas, requests karma for his grad school studies. Another producer promotes "Yendra Built," a shop in Fort Collins creating handmade furniture and board games.

alexander munoz· arkansas· zachy· fort collins· etsy

1:53:39 Lauren the Lauren DeBruin Lawrence de Brown Lowen Lowens the brown What? Keep going strong time Hey, John and Adam instead of some lame-ass card. I'd like to make this a Valentine's Day Did they donation to my dear little? Wife Astrid and get Monation Deutschland he says Malworth what is that no Mala worth oh I don't know. I'll look it up. Mowl or if it's probably something... Some slang she's the only slave, I've been able to bring on board although she has some trouble How many how many do you need? What does it mean? Oh no Slave She has some trouble following the show due to your accents pop culture references and in jokes She nevertheless seems to be on the crackpot side of things Please give us some karma not sure if the last batch worked. Love382

1:54:39 You've got karma. Oh, my worth is German for mole maybe it's endearing I guess Alexander Munoz Monastery in Hot Springs Arkansas 5050 in the morning citizens last time I asked her Karma for a job the job sucked Not that karma's fault, I wasn't specific enough. So i went back to school and now im a seminary student asking for some grad school karma to keep me through my systematic theology by the way John if you can correctly say my name ill donate another 50-50 next week but i give you a 50-50 chance Alexander Munoz You've got Karma It's gotta be it

1:55:31 You know, Ash in some place or other 50-50. Hey citizens new listener first time donor giving as Giving is loving and all that I know it's limited, but hopefully my 50 bucks will help support the thing inside the thing inside the thing That you spotted Danny and Syria He's definitely playing out this script whether he knows it or not sky news over here and get mo nation East gives him nearly five minutes of airtime completely unchallenged by the presenter where he doled out a series of completely unsubstantiated claims with no footage backing it. I know we should do man I mean, i got a green screen. We should uh... we should become like correspondents. Yeah when they say bullcrap? You know just to like grow the beard and stuff and like uh... A thousand! WE CAN'T COUNT THE DEAD!! And have a lot of clicking and stuff on them. Just call in all these stations the guy's making a killing Anyway if you can give me a hey citizen karma that would be lovely

1:56:30 Hey citizen, you've got karma. Tight tight tight tight Tyler Crothers in Lincoln Nebraska $50 and 33 cents my last name is pronounced cruthers like brothers I've been listening since show 198 definitely need a de-douching And please send some karma to his... well, give him a deducing and separate karma to his friends. You've been de-douched! And uh... Karma for Zachy builds amazing handmade products in Fort Collins I'm gonna give him the karma first while we're looking at this. You've got karma. What does he make? Etsy dot com slash shop slash This is really catchy

1:57:12 Yender well yendra built in probably Googleable. Yes look at that after we finish up Zoneplex Los Angeles $50 need karma for his board game he has on Kickstarter fellas slaves know of its home at zoneplex net give about pyramids and stargates and curry isms oh very nice can't wait to check that one out you've got karma $50 from Christopher Witt in San Francisco. In the morning I need a de-douching for not donating, the second i started listing in December I graduated last May and still looking for work. I recently applied for some jobs that look promising or appreciate some job karma." So he needs a combo douching... Oh, dedouching? Okay. You've been DEDOUCHED! Good old Jordan. You got Karma

CHAPTER 43 / 52 Discussion

Mr. Fucker the Cat and Wedding Karma

Chad Biederman reports that his cat, Mr. Fucker, has recovered from illness thanks to show karma. Kristi Gurnett donates $56.78 and receives a "Hot Pockets" jingle to celebrate her recent engagement to David Fox.

george scanlon· chad biederman· jeff daly· kristi gurnett· hot pockets

1:58:01 Good old George Scanlon in Carpentersville, Illinois comes in with $50. Martin Peters! Martin Peters? In VNN... Vianen Utrecht. Vianen Utrecht. $50 please give my hot milf Mikey is it Mike how do you pronounce that? Micah. Micah a birthday shout out for the 12th of February. Milf?! That's one mother I'd like to f*** We have an anonymous donation from Kyoto for $50. Damon Estevez and Isabella Puerto Rico, $50 is my first time donating but don't de-douche me since I've been listening for a year and kept procrastinating so i pretty much deserve it instead I'd like to ask for a shot of karma I'm a college student need some divine intervention the pass the test this Tuesday's donation comes via my part time job as assist admin well you do have to kind of study for the test

1:58:58 Here's the coin L. I've got karma, and it's just karma It's not like you know like yes a test sat aid or something Tristan Wilson Kerrigan in whoo I thought they were in Wagga Wagga, but I guess that Padre $50 Chad Biederman in Round Lake Illinois $50. I'm a believer no agenda Karma works a few weeks ago. I asked for karma for my sick cat Mr.. Fucker Two days later, the vet finally discovered the problem and Mr. Fucker is fully recovered. Please send out a shot of karma to my fellow donors for supporting the best podcast in the universe. I'm Fucker.

1:59:42 Was it the stuff that guy makes? Yendra built. It's nice stuff! Fucker He makes furniture Oh, okay well I'll check that out Yeah beautiful furniture Malcolm Blair on Kalamazoo Michigan $50 and that will conclude our donation segment I want to thank everyone who helped us out here and remind you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA channel dvorak dot com no agenda show dot com NoGeneration.com and we have a buttons, we have some make goods Jeff daily so I would we're not sure if we mess these up or not but they come in from buzzkill jr who i would like to thank by the way for doing such a great job he's been doing really good on on the accounting and everything particularly all the paypal crap going

2:00:27 Jeff Daly donated $6,789. He just wanted karma for his wife she's trying to get into vet school so I want to make sure she gets her karma. You've got Karma! And Kristi Gurnett or Gurnit as we'd say here in Tejas donated fifty six dollars and seventy eight cents five six seven eight Congrats on your engagement Adam having recently gotten engaged myself i would like to ask for smooth wedding karma for you and yours and me and my amazing husband-to-be David Fox He loves your show and if you go down to one show a week he wouldn't know what to do with himself. Oh, one more thing Can I get a Hot Pockets jingle just for me? Why don't we do a Hot Pockets Karma jingle combo for ya? You've got karma

CHAPTER 44 / 52 Discussion

Value-for-Value Model vs. Indulgences Criticism

The hosts respond to an email comparing their "karma" system to the sale of Roman Catholic indulgences. They defend the value-for-value model, emphasizing that the show is open-source and listener-supported without mandatory fees.

value-for-value· npr· indulgences· donations· open source

2:01:13 Perfect and I did once. I got a strange email John which I didn't respond I didn't copy you on the response because it kind of made me mad And when I do that, then you always say why do you deal with this? Why don't even answer them so Do not exactly what you have to some sort of an ogre behind the scenes your a buzzkill Behind-the-scenes by the way love this cube table from Yen yendra built my stuff So this person was saying, I mean he was trying to ask it and you know what? I should actually...I should almost like just get the email because it was trying to be coy but really really kind of irks me. Yeah okay get to it But it was about the donations and saying you know your selling karma like

2:02:08 Uh, here it is. Okay I get the listener supporter model you and John use now listen to what he's saying. Not true! I want to reiterate our model. All we want is people to support the show with the value they think that they're getting from the program and we make suggestions, and this is very different from like NPR you want to take the NPR logo and go sell some mugs? Want to see what happens? You'll be sitting in jail mofo! Anyone can take our show they can do whatever they want. We have no you repost it open source people to put it on their blog Take logos, whatever you want and if you make money off of it It would be nice if he sent us something no obligation we have no Connection to these products If a list now here's the question if a listener or syndicate Of listeners were to pay you and John to stop begging for donations Would you do it? I would

2:03:05 I was offended by that. We're not begging for donations, it's a value-for-value model and 99% of our audience listens to this on a podcast if it annoys you to listen to this and by the way sometimes I think it's funny to listen...I think we try to make it entertaining. I think our donation segment is sometimes the best part of the show but once in awhile yeah You can fast forward through it no one's forcing you to listen to the segment or to the show at all go away And then he says, would you stop the modern day equivalent of early Roman Catholics selling indulgences? You call it karma. The modern Pentecostals call it word faith giving they are both offensive to intelligent people who under other circumstances would support you. Bull crap! That's bull crap We had a guy that right there's one note that we both got from some guys is, you know, you guys should only do one show a week

2:03:59 I'll give you, I'll donate if you go to one show a week. But over the years the first thing that we learn is these guys who promise to do something if YOU do something. They never do it and they're just trying to get you to do what THEY want And it's like they're always scammers, they're basically the scammers trying to push their weight around and trying to trick you. Well here's why don't you do this and then I'll get... Remember there was one guy that used to be some guy in Holland by the way who disappeared he stopped listening but he would donate a nickel I had to look at this all the time. He'd do it like he donated a nickel about 10 times per day for like, a couple months and so the PayPal thing would have the nickel in and the nickel out because it was costing him. Because of the cost of the nickel? Right you get nothing. Yeah they wouldn't charge me more than the nickel but they would pull the nickel back and I never got a nickel just zero. Literally never got a nickel from the guy And the guy sent a note in and says...and he had all these things that he would do. He said if you guys stop asking for donations then I'll donate!

CHAPTER 45 / 52 Discussion

Anonymous Income Streams and Media Production Reality

Adam and John reject the idea of a single anonymous donor funding the show, arguing it would compromise their independence. They discuss the "hard work" of media analysis and the misconceptions people have about the ease of content creation.

anonymous donations· advertising· peter guber· sony pictures· hard work

2:04:57 Oh, really? Yeah. Well now this guy then tries to trick me He says in return for a truly anonymous income stream that did not depend on anything but you simply dissecting the media IE your show without the offensive beg fest Would you do it if so what is the magic number give us the dollar amount and let me just say we would never do that A, all of the support for the show is completely transparent. We tell you the numbers and give you the amounts right here we know who's donating with it. We don't want anonymous and if we actually oh You know what? Let's not talk about our value-for-value model let's just take this big chunk of money from some anonymous sources that's the easiest way to kick us off the air or compromise us because all they have to do is say Oh, we're not going to pay you this month

2:05:47 And then we'd be screwed. So, we're never gonna do that! I didn't like what you... Well he's already offended by certain aspects of the show so you already have a bad advertiser somebody who has got nothing good to say is moaning and groaning this is exactly why we don't take advertising because there's no such thing as a good advertiser they always well ya know we are big supporters of Ron Paul and or we're supporters of Mitt Romney and we don't want to hear bad things about him right oh we don't like that they we don't like or you're not doing enough of this why don't you just do that? We've built this model over five years

2:06:27 And you're wasting your time by sending these complaints. You are, Ian! Well they're wasting everybody's time I'm reminded of Peter Guber once had this uh... They had this great show called Shootout with Peter Bart it was on the AMC and Sunday mornings that was inside it was about the movie business and it was all inside stuff but Guber talked about when he was running the Sony Pictures and he had business Right yeah President CEO so they came back after year and they have like They did like 20 movies and there were two mega hits. And it goes to these Sony executives who are saying, what's wrong with this movie? That movie didn't do very well. This movie didn't do very well. This one did okay and then this was a big hit and this was a huge hit! The Sony executive with the straight face says I have it, I know what to do. Do more movies like these 2.

2:07:16 What an idiot you know do more of these why are you doing these other movies that aren't making money? Just do these two over. You know in different ways It's like you don't get it I'd like to well and also people think it's the same with us people think it's so easy, you know They're like man. I can't believe you talk about Whitney Houston. And it's like it's yeah, it's real easy I just sit here all week and make up the great stuff. I just make it up. This is hard work that we do Hard work. It's also boring at some times Yeah, very less deadly. So it's like a good trade-off you know we Enlighten people's lives particularly people who drive a lot and commute a lot And they like it and they get entertainment out of it And they work hard at their jobs, and we share in it and now we're commies It's great I love it it works. That's perfect We're commies all right if you want to support the show There's only one thing I have to do is program your brain to remember this Dvorak org slash n a

CHAPTER 46 / 52 Discussion

Birthday Shout-outs and Obama Campaign Finance

The hosts read birthday wishes for listeners before pivoting to President Obama's 2012 campaign fundraising. They discuss the record-breaking spending expected in the election and the role of Super PACs in the billion-dollar race.

valentino· devin osterhoff· barack obama· super pac· campaign finance

2:08:16 It's your birthday, birthday On no agenda Alright and of course people always like to donate some cash No blankets or water thank you very much just cash To hear their name mentioned on the show in relation to a birthday Devin Osterhoff congratulates himself He celebrates today Happy Birthday Sarah Morley Congratulates her partner in crime Valentino Born on the 14th hmm wonder how they came up with that name Christopher Witt Witte Or Wit Hey!

2:09:14 Nights? No nights. We haven't had nights in a while. Night hoods are kind of dwindling a little bit, it's okay we gave ourselves this month to evaluate and people got the message which is nice and it's appreciated and I feel loved then that when I feel love there I do good work I come up with Leviathan type stuff Or at least my eyes get open. You gotta beat it, you gotta do better Well I don't think i can beat the gay thing with John Huntsman That was really...you've raised the bar on me Hey somebody's got to do it! Well something interesting did happen and it kind of got snowed under And I've edited the compromised ABC News report from Diane Sawyer So we can listen to what is being said

2:09:57 And then I'd like to read the Bloomberg report that relates back to what this is, and I connected a couple dots. This has to do with campaign finance for President Obama who by the way doesn't seem to be spending a lot of money on anything yet. He didn't have any cash and he needs to get some cash Do you see any money flowing? I don't see any super PACs spending tons of dough. Well, he opened his SuperPAC. They're collecting a lot of money and if all goes well... He can not run for re-election and take the money home! Close to $1 billion dollars. Well, he needs to come up with probably 1 or 2 billion to really do it

2:10:36 to really make the media love him. He has to come up with a lot more money, because I'm sure Romney... Well the billion will be the record! No one's ever spent even a billion yet By the way if you just change two letters in Romney's name it says our money which i think should we should would you call them that? His name is Ah Money yo! Our Money You know what have you- It's like subliminal look at Romney and I keep seeing our money our money your money my money No, I see our money. Well now might start seeing that. Yeah you are but think about the connotation it's our money. The original gangster rapper our money y'all so here is of course we have the we've bailed out the banks who gave him almost we gave more than a trillion dollars we lent them trillions and trillions of dollars everyone was scamming there's in everything's a freaking scam they're sitting on no one goes to jail

CHAPTER 47 / 52 Discussion

Mortgage Settlement and Principal Reduction Claims

A $26 billion mortgage settlement with major banks is analyzed. While media reports suggest homeowners will see principal reductions of $20,000, the hosts argue the deal primarily involves loan extensions that benefit banks in the long term.

mortgage settlement· eric schneiderman· diane sawyer· fannie mae· freddie mac

2:11:35 Not a single, except for that one idiot who did like an insider deal. That one Indian guy? Yeah he's the skate coach. He's the patsy. The one guy I don't even know if...he may not even be in jail right we didn't even know if he was convicted then no one cares And this comes out the president makes a big deal about this which is kind of like I'm gonna open my stash and I'm gonna give y'all some money, and this is about the 26 billion dollar fine It's positioned as such in any end John you own your house right? You have a mortgage on it though, but you own it right yeah, do you have a mortgage Yeah So do you think that you're underwater no. I'm not under water

2:12:26 That's a bummer because even if you're one dollar underwater, I'm better off. Yeah probably but even if you're one dollar under water according to this new scheme the banks are going to help you so there's two parts of this I know what this is. They're not actually going to take any money off of your principal, that's a lie and you'll hear the Attorney General from New York in this report skirt around the issue What they do is let's say you have a 30-year mortgage they're gonna lower your monthly payments And the way you lower the monthly payment is by saying okay we will just extend your loan to 40 years

2:13:06 That's how they do it. They're not actually going to give you any money. Well, that's no good! Of course not but listen to Diane Schreier who is probably drunk again and then this guy talks... I've edited this down like a minute and half because there was a long report making it feel good It's just all kinds of weird stuff and then I'll read the Bloomberg report. They will also have to help a lot more homeowners renegotiate better mortgage terms. So tonight millions of American families are asking this, what does it mean for us? How much how soon and ABC's David Muir talked to the people who negotiated this deal today David by the way It's great isn't it like a man Obama he's coming through is gonna give me some of his stash yo

2:14:00 Screw that our money, bitch! Obama's gonna give me money. Diane as you know we've been reporting from day one here on homeowners struggling to get the banks to modify their mortgages and tonight Here's what's different about this landmark settlement These five banks have agreed to help homeowners across the board not just the ones missing payments all Homeowners who are underwater paying more on their mortgage than their home is worth Tonight those five banks have now agreed to spend that 26 billion dollars finally helped nearly one million struggling homeowners either refinancing their mortgage rate or modifying their mortgage altogether. Yeah that's it, modifying their mortgage all together which means just could be modified in time this is what the original plan was which no one bought into New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman helped lead to charge with all 50 states let's talk about the average homeowner when they hear about their mortgage coming down the principal how much is going come down? It's gonna be done on a case-by-case basis

2:14:56 Bullshit! 10,000 20,000. It could well be more. Wouldn't it be like some percentage or something? No... Could well be, could be more. Case by case. Bullshit! Economists tell us the average homeowner helped could see $20,000 knocked off what they owe and their rate the American homeowner paying a mortgage rate of say 7% 175 thousand in debt This plan could help bring their mortgage rate down to 5.5% saving them $250 a month 3,000 a year Yeah, but when you have extended payments then yeah, your percentage rate goes down but you're actually going to wind up paying more at the end. It's a trick I think. You were telling me earlier that even if you are dollar behind you could get a letter in some states? Yes the banks are being forced even if you're just $1 underwater on your mortgage to send you a letter say come on and let's take another look at your mortgage And what about those Freddie Mac Fannie Mae Yeah that is the other half of the population in this country Oh! I asked New York Attorney General he said their eyes are on Fannie and Freddie next

CHAPTER 48 / 52 Discussion

California Keep Your Home Program and Federal Funding

Bloomberg reports that the "Keep Your Home" program in California may use federal funds to pay banks for reducing mortgage balances. The hosts question why taxpayers are bailing out specific homeowners and banks in the Golden State.

bloomberg· california· bank of america· keep your home· housing market

2:15:56 So for homeowners watching us tonight stay tuned for that. Okay, so obviously it's only for half of the country now Here's here's what was kind of weird? so I'm trying to find out I'm trying to find a document of the actual agreement and producers bat signal two producers please find me an I love reading this stuff. If it's a thousand pages of legalese, I'll get through it! This is what I do so you don't have to. I want to read the document. I can't find it anywhere. You wanna read some cables from China about gay marriage? You've gotta keep busy somehow... So I'm reading a report on Bloomberg written by Steven Greenhut

2:16:48 And he says, I'll just read this to you. Why should a taxpayer in Houston or Wichita bail out irresponsible California homeowners banks and the state public employees retirement fund? Yet that's exactly what the Obama administration is looking to do in its latest effort to shore up a housing market that continues to sag as large percentages of Americans remain underwater in their mortgages The administration is pleased that California's Attorney General is now on board with the President's multi-billion dollar bank settlement after securing tougher measures to benefit individual homeowners.

2:17:30 More good news more good California based news for President Barack Obama Bank of America Corp has become the first large mortgage provider in the Golden State to take part in a federally funded Keep your home program that would pay banks to reduce the balances that struggling, California homeowners owe them So, apparently Stephen Greenhut has more information than I can get my hands on. It sounds to me like what ABC News is reporting as a penalty these banks will be just lopping off or depending on individual cases lopping off some money that California's actually getting the money from the government. I'll read that again

2:18:19 Yeah, you might as well. More good California-based news for President Barack Obama Bank of America Corp has become the first large mortgage provider in the Golden State to take part in a federally funded keep your home program that would pay banks to reduce the balances that struggling California homeowners owe them So I'm like, so i'm looking around. I'm trying to figure out what is going on? How come on one hand we're being told the banks are being penalized and the other hand it appears that this whole program is being paid for And then I see I notice because you know I'm all over this California thing because that's where I believe uh based upon all this ulster Report and insider stuff that i've been reading That obama's Previous campaign was funded through The um

CHAPTER 49 / 52 Discussion

Kamala Harris, Tony West, and Obama Bundling

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is linked to the mortgage settlement. Her brother-in-law, Tony West, is an Assistant Attorney General and a major "bundler" who reportedly raised $65 million for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

kamala harris· tony west· eric holder· obama· bundler· campaign money

2:19:08 you know, the corrupt bank out there in California that got federal tax dollars in the bailout and that money from Feinstein got stolen. I mean so the banks in California are highly suspicious in my book and it says The administration is pleased at California Attorney General is now on board with the president's multi-billion dollar bank settlement So who is the attorney general of California? Now remember this is the guy that the long-term Democratic insider fought against and got killed for. California Attorney General is Kamala Harris, right? So Kamala Harris says yep we're on board bring that money in! Interesting that Kamala Harris's brother-in-law is a guy named Tony West

2:20:08 who is an assistant attorney general working directly under Eric Holder. But Tony West in 2008 was a bundler for Obama, who brought in... are you sitting down? 65 million dollars! Now when you read about people who bundle donations for presidential campaign it's a million here and million there this guy brought in sixty five million dollars?! That is a big amount of money. So I'm smelling a big rat here that this money is going to go right out of the federal coffers or printed up at the Federal Reserve, be sent to Citibank and it's gonna go straight into Obama Super PAC Well that's a good idea Why didn't we think of it? so if anyone can find me documentation on whether this is truly

2:21:16 payment that these banks have to make or if they're getting much maybe it's a Maybe they're getting another you know 26 billion in really like zero interest loan That they can just borrow from the Fed and then they can use that I mean, I need to know what's going on here because of course Whitney Houston died so no one's reporting on it but this is very very suspicious And this Kamala Harris, who had to win and who the longtime Democratic insider who actually organized. The guy who saw that there were two Obamas or whatever he saw something and started talking about it got killed He's the guy that is now so I'm on board. And to be honest about it there was no reason Kamala Harris really wasn't very good at she was the district attorney in San Francisco

2:22:16 Wasn't very good at her job. Oh, I said she had no none of the Qualifications that actually get this other job and had a very strong Republican candidate from Southern California where all the votes are Was leaving the whole time and somehow she wins yeah? How does that work mm-hmm it was kind of surprised to me Well, great. Thanks! Well no it's my project for the coming week I'm gonna look into this you know? I love these documents please send me...I mean the president can't just say yeahhhhhh I did a deal with these guys 26 bill and not publish the documents You can't just do that well he can do whatever he wants obviously but you know what i mean It should be public shouldn't it? I cant find it! I cant find it! Maybe im not googling right

2:23:16 Somebody should be able to help me. What's it called again? Keep your home program Maybe I did maybe I didn't Google that term Let's see, maybe you shouldn't you shouldn't you may have to contract or contact one of the congressional offices to get somebody to help you from Inside yeah But which one is the is not dangerous to my health I think your local boy there in Texas Texas pretty safe keep your home California org ha interesting Okay So I'll be looking into that

CHAPTER 50 / 52 Discussion

Dr. Drew Gardasil Promotion and Anal Sex Discussion

Dr. Drew Pinsky is criticized for his aggressive promotion of the Gardasil vaccine on his radio show. During a segment about the risks of anal sex, Pinsky tells a caller it is "insane" not to take the HPV vaccine to prevent cancer.

dr. drew· gardasil· hpv· vaccine· anal cancer· shill

2:23:52 And let me just, I only got one more thing which is you know. I can't help myself calling out the shills who are telling you to take Gardasil. The dentist now telling you take Gardasil 55 year old women emailing me saying my doctor said I should take Gardasil yeah I haven't used that thing in years but now Dr. Drew the biggest shill in da biz uh so he's talking about the leroy 200 now i think i lost count how many children are going schizophroid crazy ticazoid

2:24:32 Here's a little clip one of my producers, that one of our producers sent us. My question is basically I've heard kind of like various different kinds of long-term horror stories for people who receive anal sex over the long term now...I myself have only given it and my question is Now did you hear what he said? I just want to make sure you hear what he said. Yeah something about she's always given it. Anal sex He says about long-term anal sex. This is a Dr Drew question on television. So he's talking about anal sex and he saying that, he only gives so it would be what we call in the business a top I'll play it again and listen to dr drews What business is this? Go on! My question is basically

2:25:24 Um, I've heard kind of like various different kinds of long-term horror stories for people who receive anal sex over the long term. Now, I myself have only given it and my question is is it really true that if you receive it like on a regular basis when you're younger that when you hit like 50 you're going to be wearing the pants? Now wait, it's a legitimate question. As a bicurious male my ears perk up I'm like okay you know i don't want to be wearing depends So how does Dr. Drew answer this? Well, normally you don't hit 50 if you've received it on a regular basis when you're younger because you get claimed by AIDS but nowadays... That's Adam Carolla by the way. Well let's be honest! The big thing to watch out for now is HPV You gotta make sure that you get that Gardasil vaccine Because the HPV is highly associated with anal cancer But also head and neck cancer so even if your just engaging in oral sex you got take that Gardasil vaccine It's insane not to take it

2:26:30 How about not penetrating your anus? That's insane. Not to take... You're insane! What are you engaged in anal sex?! You're insane not to take Gardasil, it will protect you. What a crock! Of course! You're insane Dr. Drew, you are the biggest shill in the universe That was bad It's horrible It's just absolutely, it's abhorrent actually. This is the definition of abhorrent Unbelievable! And this is the guy... Well that was a nice depressing clip I'm sure doesn't bother you What? The clip? Or these guys and Drew, he's not the worst He's one of the worse but I don't think he's the worse shill

CHAPTER 51 / 52 Discussion

Viagra for Rare Diseases and DSM-5 Mental Disorders

Viagra is reportedly being tested as a treatment for rare growths in children as its patent expires. Meanwhile, the upcoming DSM-5 is criticized for labeling common behaviors like grieving or shyness as mental disorders.

viagra· stanford· dsm-5· mental illness· apathy syndrome· psychiatry

2:27:26 That other guy who keeps wearing the smock. Sanjay? Show what? No, no it's not Sanjay I would put him under Drew. No there is this one guy he has got on some show He is like what...he is the Oprah doctor Oh Dr Oz! Yeah Dr Oz that guys terrible Well here is what they are going to be talking about They're gonna be talking about Viagra now being an effective treatment for A very rare disease in children. Of course, it's very handy that Viagra is running out of patent So we've got to find some other uses for it Stanford researchers have discovered a drug for a rare and often untreatable Disease that leaves children with massive and sometimes deadly growths on their faces necks and other parts of their bodies Here's the twist The drug is viagra I mean how do you discover that?

2:28:22 Hey kid, you've got this horrible growth on your face. Take this! Take this blue... five-month old girl here Lane stumbled upon Viagra as a possible... stumbled upon Viagra as a possible treatment and this is from the San Francisco Chronicle. SFGate. Lane stumbled upon Viagra as a possible treatment for that child of five month old girl by accident how does that happen? Come on And then of course we're looking at that time of year again the new DSM is coming out. This is the American Psychiatric Association they describe... Oh yeah, this is a good story! The mental disorders Everything now is a mental disorder That's right millions of healthy people including shy or defiant children grieving relatives and people with fetishes may be labeled mentally ill

2:29:17 Yeah, grieving is mentally ill. Somebody just died and you're like oh they died I don't know why but... You're mentally ill lady! You're mentally ill and if you have a fetish your mentally ill And of course we have the oppositional defiant disorder That's my favorite. I think I have that No! Yeah? You can't make me yeah, I want an iPad Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Apathy Syndrome And this is what the site, and of course I'm sure there'll be some lovely drugs for it. Vivance Adderall Whatever they come up with Viagra! I think viagra just give viagra to everybody What a wonderful world that would be Are you shy or defiant? Or do you have horrible growth on your face? Viagra! You're not fooling me people So in California might have mentioned this that they've decided to jack-up

CHAPTER 52 / 52 Discussion

California Prison Funding and Library Defunding

California increases its prison budget by $895 million while completely defunding state libraries to save $12.5 million. The hosts conclude the show by warning of Illuminati symbolism in the upcoming Grammy Awards performance by Jennifer Hudson.

california· prisons· libraries· jerry brown· budget· education

2:30:20 the corrections, another $895 million dollars to so it's 8.7 billion. What do you mean? This is what they're spending on prisons? On prisons are going to jack it up by another almost additional billion dollars and to do that they've decided to pull all the funding for the libraries killing a mere 12.5 million dollars so every library now is being defunded by the state so it could go into prisons this is like California Democrat dominated you know system we've got the governors at you know Jerry Brown all of us, so we're gonna... So the idea is just to give more money to prisons

2:31:04 And keep kids out of those damn libraries by shutting them down. Yeah, because that'll put them in prison faster! Yeah there's money to be made in prison Nobody makes money from a kid going into a library and reading a book that they could have been bought They could have bought You said I bummed you out with the anal sex thing? No reading no reading just go to jail Go to jail do some work in there There is alot of work to be done Alright we should get outta here John Because uh...you're bumming me out We do have a No Agenda Producer update coming. If you're listening to the live stream, they will be speaking about fixing the stream no doubt Not quite sure what's going on but we may be- What's wrong with the stream? I don't know it's like we're being jacked somehow And uh... About the new website which of course lots of- What new website Well the nag radio website Oh okay Baby gets mad

2:32:08 Yeah, when you hear that when you hear the show. You'll know what that was and This evening if you are going to watch I presume a lot of people will be a huge show predicting big ratings for the Grammys When Jennifer Hudson performs beyond look out for triangles pyramids all-seeing eyes and checkerboards Guarantee you they're gonna be in there Illuminati at after your ass trying to take your energy They won't get mine because I'm here at Camp MoFo in the Drone Star State on your side fighting evil every single day, in the morning. I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where not much is happening. I'm John C. Dvorak talk to you again on Thursday right here on NO AGENDA.

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