Episode 391 · Thursday, 15 March 2012

Simulation Investment

A new classification for domestic extremists emerges as global powers jockey for control over African oil pipelines and Israeli natural gas reserves.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 391

About this episode

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a joint bulletin warning of a rise in Homegrown Violent Extremists following a mass shooting in Afghanistan. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Attorney General Eric Holder are currently defending the administration's authority to use drone strikes against American citizens overseas. This expansion of domestic and international surveillance coincides with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordering Marines to disarm before a recent address in Helmand province.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron have implemented a defense trade treaty to harmonize military interoperability between the US, UK, and Australia. Meanwhile, the Levant Basin gas discovery by Noble Energy and the TAPI pipeline project are driving US drone deployments in South Waziristan. In the Republic of the Congo, massive explosions in Brazzaville have targeted Chinese-funded infrastructure projects as the US moves to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment to favor Russian trade over Chinese rare earth dominance. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland remains flustered over reports of Libyan weapons flowing to Syrian rebels, while the Middle East Partnership Initiative provides tech support to foreign activists.

George Clooney and John Prendergast face scrutiny for their Nuba Mountains footage, which critics claim serves as a distraction for strategic oil pipeline interests. Philanthropy fixer Trevor Nielsen is identified as the man managing the public images of Bill Gates and Madonna during international resource disputes. In a lighter moment, Adam Curry admits to reprising his MTV persona for a Mattel corporate video, and listener Sandy Stob is knighted after donating a rare 1884 Double Eagle gold coin.


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CHAPTER 01 / 53 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 391 Introduction and Donation Dilemma

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 391 of the No Agenda show from Austin, Texas, and Northern Silicon Valley on March 15, 2012. The hosts discuss a $1,000 donation from a listener named Eric, which is tied to a request for a specific story involving Dave Matthews.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· no agenda· episode 391· donations

00:00 Don't make this stuff too hot or it'll melt the bag. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Thursday March 15th 2012 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 391 This is no agenda Working on my HVE classification here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Texas in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley still raining I'm John C. Dvorak. Beware of the Ides of March as today right? Uh yeah! Yeah the Ides of March

00:43 I mean, so it means something historically. I'm not sure we have an interesting dilemma oh boy boy So the no agenda nation Came he would coin Eric no agenda nation. Oh David a Mayan coin thing yeah He donated they took $500 which she gives us a cut of all these sales mm-hmm and gave it to us instead he said He says it's another 500, but I don't see the first 500 and Eric is going to have to give me a date or something. Because he said...I don't know if this may not be kosher because this isn't the same as what we're asking for. What? He says that he donated another $500

01:25 To make it a thousand so you have to tell the Dave Matthews story. Oh, no no no no no no that's not how I was thinking. It says $1,000 straight up. No no no straight up. And none of this is collection. I'm sorry I even started this whole thing now. I am too! Yeah as I might have to withdraw it because... Well you can't. You can't withdraw it well you could do anything I want You don't have to tell the story. Yeah, just send your thousand dollars and I won't tell the story yeah that'll work that'll work That's what you should if Matthews ever listened to this show he would gladly send a thousand more. I might donate it myself no well what am i saying? Anyway HVE John do you have your classification yet are you studying for your papers for your HVE classification

CHAPTER 02 / 53 Discussion

Homegrown Violent Extremists (HVE) Classification and Fox News Report

A joint bulletin from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warns of the rise of Homegrown Violent Extremists (HVEs) following a soldier's shooting rampage in Afghanistan. The term HVE is identified as a new classification for American citizens suspected of carrying out Islamic Jihad on United States soil.

hve· homegrown violent extremists· fbi· dhs· afghanistan

02:13 the humanoid vehicle exam? Very close, very close. Now this is brand new just came over the transom this morning as I was scouring the Noah Jenna News Network and listening to the propaganda channels it just came out this morning This of course is all related to the soldier gone rogue in Afghanistan which I have quite a theory on But this of course will result in HVEs. I know you're puzzled, right? Yeah keep going! Well i'll play the clip for you and then uh... You'll understand how this horrible event in Afghanistan in Helmand province

03:04 will lead to HVEs. Islamic Emirate has decided to suspend all talks with Americans taking place in Qatar from Thursday onwards, reads a new statement from Taliban spokesman Zabullah Mujahid until the Americans clarify their stance on the issues concerned and until they show willingness in carrying out their promises instead of wasting time. Here it comes Finally, the Afghans' outrage over the Sunday shooting rampage has led the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to issue a joint bulletin to U.S law enforcement agencies warning that this incident could contribute to the growth of HVE's Homegrown Violent Extremists. Yay! Homegrown Violent Extremists? Where did you get that? What was that clip from? This just came off of Fox this morning

03:50 This is brand new. The report is brand new. It came out this morning. So HVE is an invention that's in the works? Yeah, brand new homegrown violent extremists Meaning American citizens who carry out Islamic Jihad right here on US soil YAY! Well, this is all part of a bigger strategy and this actually it was a clip on your Sunday before the show started I was watching my favorite Rubenesque woman Candy Crowley. I think she actually does she still qualifies Ruben ask or she just big

CHAPTER 03 / 53 Discussion

Harry Reid and Candy Crowley Discuss Targeted Drone Strikes

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appears on CNN with Candy Crowley to discuss Attorney General Eric Holder's distinction between due process and judicial process. Reid defends the administration's authority to use drones to kill American citizens overseas who are deemed operational leaders in Al-Qaeda, stating the process is currently in play.

harry reid· candy crowley· eric holder· due process· drones

04:26 Big woman big woman and she had Harry Reid on Harry Reid of course is the Senate majority that much been interesting side by side. He's a skinny They used to draw pictures of me and my girlfriend when I was 13 there would be a caricature of Harry Reid and And Candy Crowley Had kind of a plump girlfriend My First Love Barbara Weatherford was her name I have a thing for Rubinesque women and she asks not once, not twice but three times the question she poses to Harry Reid if it is okay to drone American civilians. Oh good for her! Yeah very good now she actually poses the question a little differently She had the exact same question i did John Is what is the difference between due process

05:16 And judicial process. Judicial, yeah. Which is what our very own Attorney General Eric Holder said at Northwestern University – the general as he's known in the circles. Let's see if Harry Reid even knows what that means? Let me ask you something about, uh... something the Attorney General said recently. He was giving a speech to Northwestern University Law School and he was suggesting um... he said people are arguing that for some reason the President needs to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a U.S. citizen overseas who's an operational leader in Al-Qaeda. Um.. he said this is just not accurate that due process and judicial process are not one in the same

06:02 Do you have, and this is creating quite a stir. Do you have any problem with that? Do you understand what that means exactly? No I don't but... I don't know what that means but he has some explanation. I do know this, the American citizens have been killed overseas who are terrorists and frankly if anyone in the world deserved to be killed those three did deserve to be killed they deserved to be killed John just cement that in your mind. If anyone deserves to be killed where have we come to? One guy was just accidentally there his son was a six-year

06:41 16 year old kid. Yeah, his son deserved to be killed. Deserved to be killed? Deserved to be killed. Now aren't these the same Democrats that are all against a death penalty? Deserves to be killed dude! Hey wait a minute I'm asking you this question and you have to answer it. It's a great question I just had a really... It's not a great question at all, but it is the question that i'd like to ask. Aren't these the same Democrats that are dead set against the death penalty which is done through criminal system according you know legal systems judicial system they are dead set against the death penalty but these people deserve to be killed? Give me a.. well tell me! No no no no. Explain to me. Its only these three people because if anyone deserved to be killed it was these three

07:25 I just had the weirdest sensation, John. I'm sitting in my chair... You know how you get in the car and you automatically put your seatbelt on? Yeah I just put your seatbelt on. Literally, I literally looked down and said what am i doing with a seat belt in this chair? I literally reached over my left shoulder for a minute like strap in this is going to be a bumpy ride! That was the weirdest thing ever all right so let's uh let's listen to him finish his answer because of course you know they deserve to be killed. I think Candy Crowley is good she tries it again is this okay for the president kill American citizens. The Attorney General meant by saying that I'd have to study it a little bit. Yeah, why don't you study that a little bit douche? That term before but i think the process is in play The process is in play hmm what does that mean the process is in play... I think its one we can live with and I think... Can you live with that John are you okay with that

08:40 Well, they haven't droned me bro. Can you live with it until they drone you? You can live with it right the process is in play! The international war on terror that's going on now we're gonna have to make sure that we have the tools to get some of these people who are very bad and comply with American law okay so here it is if you're very bad... If your very bad not just bad if your very bad Then we have the tools to make you comply with the law by killing you. Process in play, I think we're all comfortable with it. Candy Crowley try it one more time for me girl. And do you think that the president should be able to make that decision?

09:16 in conjunction with the folks in the administration without going to court, without going to you. Who are the fo-the folks in the administration? Folks! Hey who decided to kill that guy some folks some folks over there in the administration Valerie Jarrett and other folks well anything There is a war going on oh really it's not declared where's the declaration of war there is no question You have to listen what he says There is no question there's a war going on There's no question There's no question about that. No question about that? Are you questioning that? Yeah! No, no, no, no... You can't be in HVE? And what war is going on in Yemen?! It's the war! There's no question about that shut up! He was the commander-in-chief and there have been guidelines set and if he follows those I think he should be able to do it Okay

CHAPTER 04 / 53 Discussion

Hillary Clinton Addresses Afghan Civilian Killings

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issues a formal statement expressing shock and sadness over the killings of innocent Afghan villagers by a U.S. soldier. She emphasizes that the United States is committed to holding those responsible accountable and sends condolences to the families in Afghanistan.

hillary clinton· afghanistan· condolences· accountability· united nations

10:05 Hey everybody. Sorry, I don't mean to bring in a fat joke and as you know I-I-I- Yes that was but that was a bad one. That was about him But i love me some Ruben S woman. She has her own zip code! Oh hey now There's a million of these gags now but I love uh... I love her as a Ruben s woman she's my type of gal so anyway So why don't be an HVE

10:41 And because the president, it's okay. The process is in play whatever that means the process is in play and its all cool good to go rock n roll shoot you they deserve to die these three deserve to die who else deserves to die? Hey everybody's gonna be a great show strap in like I just tried to do. So since you brought up the killing, the Afghanistan thing, Hillary comes out and she makes a little comment and she got very interesting little turn of phrase in here Actually have two Hillary clips. Let me see which one it is got cold-blooded and you invoke all like what's the other one? You win vote WTF yeah, yeah cold blooded cold blooded alright let's play Lucifer cold-blooded good afternoon. Yeah this was the The presser after the UN thing right I saw this three won before I began

11:39 Let me say that like many Americans, I was shocked and saddened by the killings of innocent Afghan villagers this weekend. We send our condolences to families who have lost their loved ones and to the people of Afghanistan This is not who we are And the United States is committed to seeing that those responsible are held accountable Two things. One, how do they get these condolences over there? Over the television I don't think so. Those responsible...

CHAPTER 05 / 53 Discussion

Manchurian Candidate Theories Regarding Afghanistan Shooting

Speculation arises regarding the psychological state of the soldier involved in the Afghanistan shooting, with comparisons made to the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. The narrative explores the possibility of programmed behavior or a "Manchurian" style operation involving the military.

manchurian candidate· frank sinatra· angela lansbury· conspiracy· afghanistan

12:18 Well, you know the chatter on the interwebs in the circles that I travel in of the conspiratorial nature Is that this is a Manchurian candidate type job and by the way? I'm not talking about the Denzel Washington Manchurian candidate but the original 1962 movie which great movie that everyone should watch Angela Lansbury In that one Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra few times at Angela lands Barry plays an evil person. I think Kathy Bates was in that too a very young Kathy Bates, I can't be wrong I Was watching it like that Kathy Bates Frank Sinatra in there as well and The premise of that movie is not dissimilar to what could be going on And regardless of whether this was planned or not There is a means to an end and this has to do with

CHAPTER 06 / 53 Discussion

Obama and David Cameron Announce Defense Trade Treaty

President Barack Obama hosts UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House to announce the implementation of a long-awaited defense trade treaty. The agreement facilitates the exportation of specific arms and advanced technologies between the US, UK, and Australia, while also focusing on global health initiatives.

barack obama· david cameron· defense trade treaty· uk· australia

13:10 and this and the coincidence of the timing is very very interesting as David Cameradog The prime minister of Gitmo Nation East visited the president And there was a big big who-how at the White House, and everyone's all it's like. It's like royalty Everyone's oh this is so awesome man We had the red carpet arrival I was expecting Ryan Seacrest to be there interviewing people on the red carpet to the White House And of course all you really see on the news is a quick clip of David Cammerface going, I understand the alley-oops. It's like that's all the news can show you or we played some table tennis which the president calls ping pong but the important piece was this... David you've done an outstanding job in bringing the international community to support progress in Somalia including life saving aid

14:06 At the same time, we're renewing our commitment to improve maternal health and preventable deaths of children. And supporting the Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria so that we can realize our goal... ...and that's the beginning of the end of AIDS. Pay attention now! Let me say it is a tribute to David's leadership that UK will be playing a leading role in global partnership to strengthen open government upon which- Whoa whoa whoa WHOA! The Open Government John? Yeah, I heard that. What does that mean? Well the open government is part of the global army which is what this is really all about continue to listen human rights and development dependent finally I'm very pleased that we're bringing our two militaries The backbone of our alliance even closer as I told David I can announce that next month We intend to start implementing our long-awaited

14:58 defense trade treaty with the UK. Now, the president signed a few days before Cammerface's arrival he signed an executive memorandum regarding the... I have to see what it is called exactly It is 2010 Arms Treaty with United Kingdom which allows for exportation of certain arms they are specified quite specifically as to what kind of bombs and rockets etc including the transport of these two Australia, which I found interesting because Australia is where we have a large contingent of our troops now and Australia also in the news now apparently has SAS special forces all over Africa so I believe this is kind of a setup for

15:48 to moving guns and weapons, whether they're being used by allied forces or not into the African region. But it's a little more interesting than that. This will put advanced technologies in the hands of our troops and it will mean more jobs for workers in both our countries. And we are moving ahead with our joint initiative to care for men and women in uniform For decades our troops have stood together on the battlefield Now we're working together for them when they come home with new partnerships to help our wounded warriors recover, assist our veterans transition back to civilian life and support our remarkable military families. So let's review here for a second what we heard was more sharing of weapons

16:35 more coordination amongst our troops who stand shoulder to shoulder. I mean, they have like 5,000 British troops in the theaters that we're in so it's quite a small percentage compared to what the United States has but okay, it's a start caring for the troops caring for them when they come home all of this is about something called Task Group 120 and pretty sure you haven't heard of this yet Task Group 120 is a NATO initiative, and I have all the documents here. I'll just read couple of paragraphs. These missions like other military operations are undertaken by coalitions from diverse national cultures but also involve NGOs and private voluntary organizations such as change in global context demands new understandings of interoperability

CHAPTER 07 / 53 Discussion

NATO Task Group 120 and Global Army Interoperability

NATO initiative Task Group 120 focuses on "interoperability of the mind" and the harmonization of international military forces. The discussion suggests this is a move toward a global army designed to protect international banking systems and potentially unionize military personnel under a single regulatory framework.

task group 120· nato· interoperability· global army· ulsterman report

17:30 or the ability of systems, units or forces to provide services and accept services from other systems, units and forces to use these services so exchanged to enable them to operate efficiently together. An emerging U.S concept which describes the richer conceptual depth of interoperability needed is cooperability this term describes the shared understanding that cognitive and doctrinal interoperability can provide. In the UK this is termed interoperability of the mind so what this is about, is the creation of a truly global army which will protect the global banking system no doubt and what they're throwing on is very interesting is hey our guys need care we need to here comes John unionize our global forces

18:26 So we have not just a complete harmonization of uniforms, like blue helmets but also rules and regulations. And this is a real problem I was in Iraq in Basra and it was very difficult for the Dutch who could drink no alcohol The Americans had a two-can rule as in two cans of beer a day and the Italians they were just hammered They could walk around drink as much wine as they wanted all day long So this is a harmonization taking place which will focus on the poor troops who have post-traumatic stress disorder, but it will result in A very powerful force Which is something you know we've talked about and that Is the unionization in first in the first instance of the United States military. This is the plan Okay What do you think?

19:25 Well, I know this unionization thing is kind of an undercurrent that's been going on. Not absolutely sure how that would work Well, it would start with you know all these guys are freaking out they need help we need to we need to help them You're hearing these noises continuously and the great thing about a union of course is the American military is several million strong Then they can collect Union dues and become as powerful As you know The United Auto Workers And of course they'll continue to vote for whatever the agenda. Is that not how it usually works? and support the candidates that brought them to unions. Over the years, the unions have been co-opted by the political system and are used as mechanisms but also by the mob Yeah And used as mechanisms for essentially I guess virtual banks because of union membership is a pile up money in some funny way yeah I don't know we're gonna have to mull this one over before

20:28 Wee, I have a mouse in my pocket. Before I can say anything intelligent... Right well I'm... Go away! There's a lot of joint task force 120 stuff here. Somebody is ringing your phone. Yeah, I don't answer them, I just cut them off Was someone ringing your phone too? No, but I decided to kick it off the hook. Yeah You're the only man I know who has a phone you can take off the hook. Yeah, I'd love that Click click click click click Operator well The task group 120 is real and you should read these documents and have highlighted some joint task force one time no It's not know it. No. It's not what there's in joint tasks task group

21:17 Task group not task force task group 120 and is this a NATO initiative? Yeah. Yeah, yeah a NATO initiative and I got this document right now you guys are the Ulsterman report Yes, of course. Yeah. Yeah, of course from the Wall Street insider Absolutely not The White House insider The Wall Street insider That's the probably the only link you'll find but I went searching a little deeper and You know, there's a whole bunch of links. You can see in the show notes at three nine or one dot na show notes calm Fascinating fascinating stuff if you're reading the Ulsterman interview right now, I can hear your brain reading it Stop my brain is too noisy stop that

CHAPTER 08 / 53 Discussion

Executive Producer Donation of 1884 Double Eagle Gold Coin

A donor named Sandy Stob contributes an 1884 Double Eagle gold coin from the San Francisco mint to the show. The hosts debate the valuation of the coin, estimated between $1,600 and $2,000, and discuss the tax implications of receiving physical gold versus cash.

gold coin· double eagle· san francisco mint· irs· numismatics

22:01 I think we should we should keep our eye open and keep her Keep focused on this and whenever we mention something like this on the show We almost immediately get a lot of military personnel who will write in and tell us different things about what's going on Also get that full-of-crap guys you guys are full of crap, but this is just drinking club. Yeah sure it's a drinking Club Sure could be speaking of drinking clubs So we do have some executive producers to thank. Exactly, that's what I was thinking! The Producer Drinking Club. So we have two executive producers and two associates today One of them came in... We'll go into some detail. I thought we had a bigger piece of copy on this Anyway, Sandy Stab or STAB And unfortunately don't know where he is from But he... Or she

23:04 Believe it's a he mm-hmm because he wanted to be a baron. Oh, okay? Yeah that would so the Baron wouldn't be more likely to be a he yeah He wanted to give us ten grand but he kind of ran out of money and he I think I won't do that all right So he says he He essentially had, he's retired. So he sent us a 1884 double eagle gold coin Oh wow! Is that a full Troy ounce? Yeah

23:41 And so, and it's in good shape. I would say it was in very good condition It does have a bite mark on it but except for that it looks pretty good to me Is it pneumostatically packaged? No Okay It's raw coin That's the gift that keeps on giving right there boy Well or not Oh, okay. This will be interesting because the value today would be about sixteen hundred and eighty five dollars I think yeah But as a coin is worth I've credited him with two thousand dollars Because that's a good as a collectible it's a San Francisco mint 1884 and it I don't think it works that way I think It's closer to like seven its 16 1700 bucks. I mean you all of a sudden now You mr.. Anti gold are saying? It's worth 2,000

24:33 As a coin I priced it. I went on the net and price. Oh, okay So it's worth between the raw the raw amount Why don't we just keep it at the raw amount? Change to spreadsheet and put in 1667 I think is what the wrong here's the question Here's the question if we would listen to you And your theory we should sell this coin immediately and take the cash That would be my way of thinking anyway. And if you listen to my theory, we should keep the coin... Yeah but it's such a pretty coin! Oh yeah oh no no then forget the prettiness of the coin

25:11 And by the way, I appreciate this type of gift because it's an annuity. It will continue to increase in value over time. We should suck this one away John and keep it for... I was going to get a laser cutter and cut it right in half so you both have half. That's okay! Yeah, I'm good with that. Anyways imagine... It'll work in like five years 2017 cycle concept I'll be able to buy a house with that with my half. Yeah, okay He gets his knighthood and And keeps us highly entertained although you know it's it will be we'll keep an eye on the coin and we'll love So we agree? We're keeping the coin

25:58 Yeah, we're keeping the coin. It's $20 essentially the actual donation technically according to one of our donors is that it's twenty dollars So we only have to pay taxes over twenty dollars Well, this is bullshit. If you want to go play games with the IRS with ideas like that... You're welcome to it! As far as I'm concerned it's stupid. It's not supposed to be. Hmmmm how come Curry made less than Dvorak? We know these guys split it How can that be?! There's a discrepancy here of $800 What is going on!? I think we should mark it down as 20 bucks for the IRS That doesn't work

26:40 No. You pussy! Now another, we got another donor, first I don't have his note on how to read it on Sunday who sent us two and it's not on here but is two ounces of silver in a beautiful silver coins that they're not numismatically fashion. So that's like... But they're beauties, they are beautiful I think they're a dollar or somewhere 20 bucks I don't know what they are. They're an ounce each? Yeah they're an ounce each. These are minted, I think these are American coins and when I think that they were worth 80 bucks the two of them

27:18 But anyway, we want to thank Sandy for being so generous with the coin. That's very kind and I... 1884 is a good number, it's slightly rare if anybody out there has any of these double eagles they want to send in that's fine with us but if you have anything that says Carson City on them we'll be really happy to see those Why is Carson City? Is that a really rare one? They're worth about 500 bucks on top of whatever the goal is. Some of Carson City coins are worth like four grand. Wow, where's Carson City? Carson city is the capital of Nevada and uh... is right near reno it's all of course i from reno no no and uh... cute little place and they had a mint there for a long time in the san francisco philadelphia carson city with a big dream uh... mints that made gold coins denver came along at don't know if they would go if they may be gold coins number day i think their leader man uh... anyway such your career lecturing on you

CHAPTER 09 / 53 Discussion

Associate Executive Producer Credits and Listener Karma

Producers Stacy Walter and Tim Sonder are recognized for their $200 donations. Sonder, writing from Tasmania, mentions the Kony 2012 viral campaign as his motivation for becoming a "No Agenda citizen," leading to a discussion on listener "karma" and "de-douching" rituals.

stacy walter· tim sonder· tasmania· kony 2012· karma

28:19 So anyway, so there are and our second executive producer is the no agenda nation. Well wait a minute How does that work? We gave us 500 bucks Okay, all right, so it would be an executive producer okay? We can't we can't night Instances we can't knight companies or things we've done it yeah But when we didn't like it in hindsight if you recall yeah, we decided never to do it again Well, whatever the case is we're not knighting Eric today. Oh okay It's not on there as a knight... well we'll knight him eventually I mean he probably should have been a knight for all the work he's done but it would be i was thinking of giving him one of Pellsmonker's knighthoods because that's kind of cool There you go

29:07 Anyway, C's note writes in coins are in production arriving 15 days coupon code for free shipping is Mayan Free or Free-Mayan and He also plugs his shirt new shirts. Yeah So that's a man coin calm my in coin I guess we're mine coined out mine I would I'm trying to get I got to get him to send Joe Engo one of our shirts because he wear actually wears these things Because these shirts are weird. I mean they're very funny to executive associate executive producer Stacy Walter and Tim Sonder Stacey Walton Lenexa, Kansas $200 our dad Alex Walter has been listening for a while now and even got us hooked on you Please wish our data happy birth 40th and give him some karma. That's right. He's he's on the list You've got karma

30:05 and Tim Sonder West Hobart Trans Tasmania somehow got us $200 from Tasmania for all those people out there who can't seem to get PayPal to work. Please de-douche me as I've been a long time listener but it wasn't until this Kony 2012 crap hit the interwebs that I realized had become a no agenda citizen My immediate reaction was to say, something stinks and it ain't Curry's cooking. Wow. Jeez is harsh. Yeah Please accept my donation. I'd like to request a Huntsman Karma for his colleague Kevin holding down the fork whilst i'm on long service leave he needs it as the drones are circling so he needs a de-douching for himself and then a huntsmen karma all right we'll rock that out right now oops that was my mistake no,no,no that was MY mistake That was from me! I douchebagged myself You've been DEE-DOOCHED you got Karma

31:06 Sorry. Need a little more room. And those will be our producers for show number three... That's it? Yeah, 391. Believe it's three nine one these credits of course will appear in the actual credits portion of the show notes at 3 9 or 1 dot n h na show notes calm actual credits real ones just like Hollywood except unlike those phonies if you need someone to vouch for you if you have some kind of a interview or some form of a question about your credibility then the famous John C. Dvorak and The infamous Adam Curry will be happy to do that and speak to anyone you wish Just to make sure they understand that you are an actual executive or associate executive producer

CHAPTER 10 / 53 Discussion

No Agenda Domain Names and Book Club Maintenance

The hosts review various community-contributed domain names that redirect to the main show site, including "thatcrappypodcast.com" and "wenchesandbeer.com." A technical dispute occurs regarding whether to use a wiki or a manual system to maintain the expiring No Agenda Book Club website.

domain names· noagendabookclub.com· wiki· tristan· simon

31:54 Absolutely, and please keep thinking of us. We'll take anything gold coins silver coins or paper? org slash a couple of PR mentions of Some fun domain names that are forwarding to know agenda show calm I really like this one that crappy podcast comm I guess that came up conversation though is it for that to somebody else. I like it as a podcast, you listen to that crappy podcast dot com people will remember that one very nice to see droneconey.com available and now pointing to noagendashow.com beautiful love that one

32:34 A whole bunch of October domains which could come in handy. Octoberwar.com, octoberconflict.com, octoberfight.com Thank you Tristan all those pointing to our noagendashow.com website and then finally a good one wenchesandbeer.com All the things I have We have all these domains listed somewhere? Yes domains dot na show notes calm I do we keep doing this anybody maintain yes. Yes, our buddy Simon takes care of all that he does it continuously Unfortunately how big is the list now? How many domains do we have it's must be near if it's over 900 so it's near a thousand unfortunately

33:15 Some of these are expiring, including and I was going to mention this later noagendabookclub.com which you can't register yet because it's marked as pending for deletion so if you are the owner of a noagendabookclub.com either renew it or get in touch with me. I'd like to keep that one going and particularly I would like the website that used to be attached too because I have a way that I can easily maintain that And I think its good You know It is part of the service So it's kind of unfortunate that we lost that one. Yeah, we need to go back up and it could actually go as a wiki if you didn't want to do any more work on it No no! We're not going to do a wiki You and your...you're a wikibigot I am a wikibigot I don't like the wiki I love the wiki Yeah well wiki this If you wanna go by hand then go ahead Because I have a system that is real easy I can do that in 10 minutes I can have it up and running And I can maintain it very simply

34:15 That's all part of what we do as a part of the service. So if you have knowagentbookclub.com, let us know If you don't have any of that there is still one thing You can do because the more people we get the more support for this show propagate the formula please our formula is this We go out we hit people in the mouth I just wanted to read one thing just throw back to or call back to Obama and Cameron They wrote an op-ed

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Obama and Cameron Op-Ed Language Criticism

An op-ed co-authored by Barack Obama and David Cameron regarding the Middle East is criticized for its use of the phrase "tighten the noose" around Bashar al-Assad. The hosts argue the language is racially insensitive and overly violent for a diplomatic publication.

barack obama· david cameron· bashar al-assad· syria· noose

34:56 Did you read their op-ed that they wrote? No. I thought it was really kind of harsh, just one paragraph is too... and this is the...I can just see them sitting down. Hey Cameron! Cameron let's write an article. Well Barak, I think it's a grand idea to write an article like these two guys sat down and wrote this As two nations that support the human rights and dignity of all people, by killing them. We continue to stand with those brave citizens across the Middle East and North Africa who are demanding their universal rights. It's not even a human right now it is universal rights

35:36 Having joined in the mission to protect the Libyan people last year and kill them, we support Libyan efforts to build democratic institutions and hold free and fair elections this year. We condemn the Syrian regime's horrific violence against innocent civilians and are focused on the urgent humanitarian task of getting food and medicine for those in need. And here it comes! With our international partners will continue to tighten the noose around Bashar al-Assad and his cohorts They let that one go in? They let that tighten the noose. Yes, we'll continue to tighten the noose! That is nasty language! That was written by a PR person who has no sense of propriety Well thats not political language... I mean noose is a thing you can use No but nooses implies lynching

36:30 That's what I mean. It's like killing! And we have a black president who is supposed to be hypersensitive... Hadn't even thought about that, yeah but it's not okay. They just let that slide? Mm-hmm We're going to tighten the noose You see, no one reads these things and if they read it they're like eh whatever Yeah I'm sure that No that's exactly what it is, yeah No one reads these, oh they wrote an op ed on Great Whatever I actually read these, it's what I do for this show I read all this crap Tighten The Noose That's horrible It's just not okay It's just not okay. The office of political correctness is going to get a nasty note So I was watching my favorite Spokeshole miss Newland from the State Department Oh, yeah And there's two clips that I'm just dying to play for you lamb so so someone lays in about Libya arming the Syrian rebels and she gets so flustered

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Victoria Nuland Flustered Over Libya and Syrian Rebels

State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland faces questioning regarding reports that the Libyan government is supplying weapons to Syrian rebels. Nuland appears flustered during the briefing, eventually stating there was "no indication" of such activity in bilateral meetings, despite persistent follow-ups from journalists.

victoria nuland· state department· libya· syria· weapons

37:32 She says something so unbelievable and no one even calls her on it So the first, there's a smart guy I don't know this guys name but he you know these are all very good journalists who sit in these state department briefings and he is basically saying wait a minute. He calls her out on a lie saying that's not what the Libyans said here is what they said and she gets all flustered and then lays a big fat egg Army has confirmed today that they received arms from Libya What your view on this? Well I think you heard the Prime Minister of Libya

38:10 when he was here deny those assertions that the government was supporting this kind of actions. Okay, so just because it's a little hard to hear in the audience... What did she say? She said I think you heard the Prime Minister of Libya when he was here deny that the Libyan government is involved in these actions The question was are the Libyans arming the Syrian rebels You with me? Yeah speak for what the FSA may believe it has, but with regard to the Libyan government's support

38:49 What they have told us is that they are supporting humanitarian relief. They're supporting the coordination and strengthening of a transition planning team and set of ideas among the opposition, but I can't improve on what the Prime Minister... I can't improve on what the Prime Minister...I love this language! That's not the big one though. This one works for State Department right? Yes yes You know, I've noticed this. I've been trying...I've been kind of tracking the personalities of people that these different members of the administration hire and the State Department generally speaking at least in the direct reports to Hillary are all these dipshit women Not all what this one is yeah Complete idiots Yeah well she's Because I don't think Hillary wants a smart woman in the room

39:44 Well, they need a smart one because they need to step it up. And I even predict she'll be on the outs after hearing this egg that she laid but very interesting says, I can't improve on what he's saying Instead of I can't comment. I mean just the whole word improved bug me a little bit, but that's nice So here comes this journal so what you do way it bugs you is because it implies that That this thing is scripted Yes correct and then we're writing the script for him yeah exactly I can't impress look he did a bad read What can I tell ya? I mean you know I can help with that He can't read The Prompter We had the words in there

40:20 Said when he was standing next to the secretary last week Prime Minister denied actually was not that they were supplying weapons But was that there were training camps that they were running training camps for them, okay? So here's a smart journalist said hold on a second. He didn't actually say that he said We're not running training camp she said nothing about not supplying weapons resistance fighters so did have the Libyans actually told you that they are not supplying and weapons, that wasn't a – the Prime Minister didn't address the weapons at all. MS. NULAND We didn't have any indication of that in our bilateral meetings. Did they deny bilateral meetings? It didn't, the conversation didn't go like that. And now the pile jumping on it... No! That's not how it went okay?! You weren't there The conversation went about the importance of supporting the friends of the Syrian people three pillars So you haven't had a direct denial even in private conversations Okay here comes There was no indication In the meetings that we had

41:25 government is arming the Syrian rebels. What? What did you just say, Ms. Newland? Did you hear it? Yeah but I think that was just she was just flustered and she just said Syria instead of Libya Oh okay No, really. I mean i'm gonna give her that one. You can jump on it but... ...I sense just a flub not a... People do that we do on the show every so often and I... Yeah but I don't work for the State Department and speak to the international press No, well she's obviously you're right but you mentioned this at the beginning. She was flustered by the first question and now she is getting all flubbed up. So no one calls her on it of course? In other words the question never came up so there was nothing for them to deny I'm not going to get into how the conversation was structured i am simply affirming for you that there was no sense that the government is arming the rebels. So this guy...I like him by the way..i got to find out who this guy is

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MEPI and US Tech Support for Arab Spring Activists

The Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) are identified as vehicles for providing tech support to foreign activists. This support includes seminars in Beirut on circumventing government internet blocking, which the hosts characterize as a form of covert operation or act of war.

mepi· drl· state department· internet in a box· beirut

42:26 He then goes into this whole techno expert thing and he tries to get her to say yes, we gave all this technology to the techno experts in all of the Middle East and we trained them so that they could start the so-called Arab Spring. Are you interested in that piece? Yeah I keep playing it! I like this stuff. On the support dating back Think it's almost two years now there was support pain when Ambassador Ford was still there, and he would go out to meet with the local coordinating committees The DRL was running programs that no I don't know what the DRL is you know what the DRL is? I couldn't figure out. What that was You don't know either. I'll try find it well There's another acronym that I did find not Syria specific but but maybe East generally around the Middle East

43:16 in which there was some kind of tech support that was uh... technically fixing their windows ninety seven as a text report that they needed their is that they did you provide any like uh... networking support it was offered to various opposition groups people who are in involved politically get out now and not just syria but other countries and wondering if he could is that because they're rundown what kind of what kind of support was offered in terms of communications, technology. There were seminars held in places like Beirut

43:58 public that we're known about publicly at which know how to get around certain internet blocking. Internet in a box! Yeah, I got the DRL for you by the way. What's DRL? DLR...DRL report would refer to a report out of the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor out of the State Department Oh okay So he's basically saying it was public that you train these people to do this. Yeah, like I read about it You got a little rundown for me Got a little list of what you sent over there and who you trained? I mean can we add in this guy is trouble, you know Clearly this guy's trouble lunch and he's gonna hound her for a minute here. Geez We're discussed Is there way we can find out exactly what it was that was provided to these people?

44:44 Well, as you know we have MEPI. MEPI that is the Middle East Partnership Initiative link in the show notes. The mission of the MEPI as the website states ultimately MEPI seeks to transform the US relationship with citizens of the middle east and North Africa through MEPI projects We want citizens to view the United States as a partner in their efforts to create positive change in their own societies. This is the techno export organization. Let's see if she can answer the question. Programs across the region that are designed to help civil society

45:20 uh... to communicate its views to strengthen its capabilities to be an advocate for democratic change et cetera and i can take the question in terms of whether we have a rundown on those things but In general, we've also been very clear that whether it is in Iran or whether it is in other parts of the world that we support those folks who want to learn. Are those the same kind of folks who kill people in the administration? Is that those folks or these different folks? No, it's just folks. Folks. Learn how to circumvent government censoring of the internet and other things like that so but whether we're going to give a rundown on those programs I'm not sure i'll take the question

46:07 What about that type of technology to help the Syrians' opposition communicate better themselves? Because one of the things you've said is that they're not able to communicate inside or within themselves, or into the outside world because of the crackdown by the regime. Again, I think we've made clear that whether it's in Syria or other parts of the Middle East We are committed to helping groups who want a democratic future To be able to strengthen the way they're organized help them too to circumvent government efforts to That's an act of war in my book

46:49 She's going in like helping people circumvent governments. That's just an act of war! It's like covert operations, you can't be doing that and she's just not answering the question. And bragging about it. Yeah. I mean you could do it... yeah but she's like oh yeah we do- But it's only those folks who want democratic change you see then it's all good. Then it's everyone. Yeah then it's good uh 20 seconds left. Internet and other kinds of things uh you can understand that In some cases it's not in their interest or in anybody's interest for us to be talking about how we precisely... Did you hear that? Talking about. We're going to be talking about if she slipped there, I'm talking about Do these kinds of things but we are obviously committed across the region to helping those who want a democratic future deal with the kinds of government controls that are designed to squelch their activities Hey! I want a democratic future can I get a router

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Danny Abdul Dayan and Syrian Intervention Speaking Tour

Danny Abdul Dayan, a figure frequently featured by Anderson Cooper, is reported to be on a speaking tour across the United States, including a stop at the Boston Cultural Center. He is advocating for Western military intervention in Syria, leading to questions about who is funding his travel and appearances.

danny abdul dayan· syria· anderson cooper· boston· military intervention

47:45 Can you send me an internet in a box or something? Yeah, this is just hard disk. But it's... Terabyte drive It's unbelievable! That's pretty funny. MEPI I gotta give this guy props for trying whoever he is yeah well it's too bad we don't know because he probably got good columns and articles oh yeah well I'll find out meanwhile Syria Danny Danny Abdul Dayan Yeah, this was the guy who Anderson Cooper exclusively was talking to and you know of course off-camera The guy was like calling for noise and shoot it up boys So we can make it sound real good like warlike Like those Korean Dvorak guys do a you know only better sound effects make it real use a real gun He's on a speaking. He's honest he's not a speaking tour now I

48:34 Oh God. Yeah, he's on a speaking tour! He's going around the country talking about how we need Western military intervention. Who was paying for his speaking tour? Wasn't this just some schlub in Syria who was not a reporter and unaffiliated here he shows up at the... where it was the You see the Islamic centers in Boston The Boston Cultural Center, he's flying all over the place. He's doing little little gigs doing a roadshow Road show And no one questions this now like what and people I packs him in I bet it's great We should do a mic check on that guy hey Danny Mike check my check Sheila Rooney

49:23 Yeah, no the guy's working for someone. Just some agency yeah I'd You can never find out but i would say defense intelligence? Yeah probably so What was that about So i'm looking at today's new york times and they're interesting they're going after goldman sachs I think, yeah. I read this differently but what's your take on it? That the public rebuke of culture at Goldman opens debate? Yeah so this is the uh...this is the Goldman Vice President which is nothing basically everyone's a VP over there. I think its to draw attention to one of the greatest Twitter feeds

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Goldman Sachs Op-Ed and Elevator Gossip Twitter

A public resignation op-ed by a Goldman Sachs executive causes a stir in the financial world and a drop in the company's stock price. The hosts link the "Muppets" terminology used in the op-ed to the popular "Goldman Sachs Elevator" Twitter feed and suggest the event may have facilitated insider trading.

goldman sachs· greg smith· twitter· insider trading· muppets

50:01 The Goldman Sachs elevator? It's a Goldman Sachs elevator gossip. I have it up right now, let me read a couple No, it's uh... Read one or two and then I'll tell you what this is really about Classic number one Some chick asked me what I would do with ten million bucks! I told her I'd wonder where the rest of my money went Yeah Okay go on Now this is clearly a promotion for the Muppets movie He says right there, he says we call our clients Muppets. It's a Muppet movie promotion. The Muppets movie? If anything... I like the idea of that theory! You never know you never know. Just don't give it the top-of-the-fold on the front page a movie plug but well yeah but the whole point that yes those people knew about this this was uh this came out yesterday this op ed

50:50 And lots of people knew about it before it was published. And I bet a whole people went short on Goldman Sachs and made a killing, they dropped like 3-4%. Great! I bet people made a bundle on that thats insider trading. If you had enough money you would have. Yeah. Nah, I think its a distraction of the week personally It could be. One more elevator gossip. Alright, one more. Number 1- You know TV reporters are full of shit when they transition from NBA to WNBA highlights without losing enthusiasm? Just a little joke there for the sports listeners on this show. Wow! That went over my head didn't it?! Oh yeah... Yeah which tells you something. So there's a Santorum thing is also heating up in the paper I've lost so much interest in that reality show

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Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi's Mississippi Documentary

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi appears on Bill Maher's show to discuss her documentary work in Mississippi. The hosts criticize the segment for portraying residents of Mississippi as "toothless" and "racist," labeling the coverage as elitist propaganda.

bill maher· alexandra pelosi· mississippi· documentary· elitism

51:40 Yeah, well it's gotten pretty boring and then of course they had on the Bill Maher show And I couldn't really get a clip of this because it was nothing to clip but they had Nancy Pelosi's daughter Oh yeah, yeah filmmaker. Well or whatever she is She's a documentarian and she does these very very very Democrat centric so if you went to Mississippi to interview that folks And all she found in Mississippi apparently were toothless guys who are just racist, toothless guys talking a lot like this. You can barely understand the word they're saying but they don't like Obama. This is the elitist prick Bill Maher trying to show how stupid Americans are? Okay and funny thing is that at first he has it's so bad that he has to preface it with a disclaimer saying you know she went there and no not

52:36 She said every which she said that the 20 things that were on the cutting room floor with these same type of people That's all she could find Were these dummies because they'll apparently though state in Mississippi, which is known for you know having mansions and an upper-class It's kind of very class. They couldn't find any of those people because everybody miss it He's a dummy and and a hoarder Living in a trash heap and a prepper And you would say it's just unbelievable so no clip that you're just No, because there was nothing really to clip. I mean you have most of these... I can talk like the clip would go Listen man no one watches that show. I don't know-I never see it in the ratings no one gives a crap about Bill Maher He's a douchebag and a shill and he's pathetic Well.. I- And there goes my shot on being on the panel

53:28 Sure wouldn't be able to be on the panel. I think they test you to make sure you can do phony laughing Right mark comes at the end with his new rules and the rest of it He's not most of this stuff is not out loud laugh funny It's just now and none of these other guys these guys are there at their panel. Oh, that's a great one They're just yucking it up Yeah Not okay You couldn't do the panel because you wouldn't qualify so It looks like we're really out to screw the Chiners John. We're screwing them left and right We are kicking the Chiners out of everywhere. We can and Sorry, it's brings me to a clip Oh good I have a couple clips myself. I'd love to hear your clip first you have the George Clooney material I have all the Clooney material got from PBS from the yeah, I got from PBS I got it from hardball before we go to that then because this leads into that oh

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Obama Files WTO Case Against China Over Rare Earths

President Obama announces a World Trade Organization case against China, joined by Japan and European allies, regarding export restrictions on rare earth materials. The hosts argue this is a PR move, noting that China had announced its intention to reduce exports as early as 2009.

barack obama· wto· china· rare earth materials· trade dispute

54:25 Let's first listen to what our president had to say about the rare earth materials. This is very important because I look this up and he's not being completely genuine with us, surprise surprise. And when it makes sense to act on our own we will. I just signed a bill to help American companies that are facing unfair foreign competition these companies employ tens of thousands of Americans in nearly 40 states Because of subsidies from foreign governments, some of their foreign competitors are selling products at an artificially low price. That needs to stop! This morning we're taking an additional step forward We're bringing a new trade case against China and were being joined by Japan and some of our European allies

55:11 This case involves something called rare earth materials, which are used by American manufacturers to make high-tech products like advanced batteries that power everything from hybrid cars to cell phones. We want our companies building those products right here in America. But to do that, American manufacturers need to have access to rare earth materials which China supplies." Now if China would simply let the market work on its own we'd have no objections but their policies currently are preventing that from happening And they go against the very rules that China agreed to follow. So I look into this, and go to the World Trade Organization WTO and the Chinas are indeed a member. And I look for dispute resolution documents not available yet of course not! I mean we just...I filed suit but it's not available you can't see it yet The thing that I find though is in 2009

56:08 China announced globally they were going to reduce their rare earth exports by 30% between 2011 and 2013. This was known, everybody knew this! We've known it for years and now all of a sudden it's not playing fair? This is bull crap Because there was a lot of discussion about, oh we should start mining rare earth. There's one company I think in the United States that does rare earth mining and it's kind of a messy dirty process which is why we'd rather leave it to the Chiners but this is just a PR move this is not a surprise This is complete bullcrap And the president is standing there like these guys aren't playing fair So bull crap

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Angelina Jolie Attends ICC Conviction of Thomas Lubanga

Actress Angelina Jolie visits the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the conviction of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. She speaks to the media about the horrors of child soldiers and sex slaves, which the hosts interpret as a scripted performance for the "missionary industrial complex."

angelina jolie· thomas lubanga· icc· the hague· child soldiers

56:59 So that's one where we're just making the Chiners look bad. Then we move over to, we're gonna get to Clooney in a minute I have a new name for him by the way then we go over to Angelina Jolie. Angelina Jolie goes to The Hague and of course i am uniquely qualified to find all kinds of stories about her being in Gitmo Nation lowlands because I speak the language And she is there for the conviction of the horrible, horrible warlord. What's his name? Thomas Lubanga! Thomas Lubanga! Horrible guys! Mame children... another Coney thing here and she just happens to have time to go hurry on over to The Hague to check it out

57:47 Now I'd like to play for you two different clips. The first one is when she's speaking to CNN and she has a very hard time actually communicating English words And I believe this is because she's thinking, oh this is CNN. This is global. This is the real deal. I gotta stick to the script. I gotta keep it all right. I gotta make sure that I don't mess up. The most important thing...this a very young court. It's a very new court. Um..these uh...this particular... This is a very young court? No its not a young court. Its been around for quite awhile Ms. Jolie case was about a description of child soldiers and so many witnesses over 60 people came in young people came in and spoke about what happened to them because they were unable to

58:32 So not only is it bad audio, but she can't get a word- one sentence out completely. She's like ehh... Well luckily she's an actor So by the time she leaves, the Dutch media some of which actually would be calling to her from the back of the pack and say Angela Angela Which is just hilarious. Stupid idiot press in The Netherlands Her name was Angelina not Angela Douchebags

59:13 They finally catch up with her and now she has the script put together. But of course it's some Dutch organization who gives a crap about them. A little lead in from the Dutch guys." This time no rednecks or flashing cameras, but a serious case. She owes the trial to the Congolese war criminal Thomas Lubanga. He was on trial for molesting child soldiers in Congo. "...and the idea of taking children as young as 8 and forcing them to hold weapons and using them as sex slaves, and using them as combatants in human shields is just... I was speaking with many of the men here today who were in fact child soldiers. And they say it's hard for them to even imagine that there still asking the intercontinental community to enforce this ban but it just seems like something we shouldn't be asking for It seems so obvious that

1:00:03 It is so inhumane. It is so unfair disgusting and we must do something to try to just make sure internationally We take care of this and take care the children save the children that's a thank you That's all you were supposed to say You can take your check and go home now, you horrible MK ultra slave shill you save the children? That's what it's all about Save The Children Now I looked into the Congo There's a different parts to it the Democratic Republic of Congo etc. And I found a report from 2007 and this is Regarding some interesting activity that took place in Brazzaville Brazzaville the Congo which is a port town let's listen to our national public treasurer tell us what's going on there

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Chinese Infrastructure and Explosions in Brazzaville, Congo

Reports highlight significant Chinese investment in the Republic of the Congo, including the construction of a radio and television network and hydroelectric dams. A massive explosion in Brazzaville recently killed several Chinese workers, which is framed as part of a broader geopolitical struggle to remove Chinese influence from Africa.

brazzaville· congo· china· explosion· infrastructure

1:00:52 Just outside Congo's capital, Brazzaville alongside a dusty road and down the street from an open-air market. A sleek new building has gone up The front is all glass panels and concrete pillars It's the new headquarters of Brazzaville's radio and television network Congo's Minister of Information Alain Akowala will have his office here. It's finished now we're just waiting for the equipment coming from France The radio and TV headquarters was actually built by a Chinese company. Oh, really? The Chinese are also building the new foreign ministry here plus a massive hydroelectric dam about 130 miles north of Brazzaville. Oh, really? Minister Akwela says China makes Congo good offers.

1:01:35 The prices are low compared with French companies, etc. Actually it's not just the low prices China also provides cut rate financing for its construction projects So the Chinas have been in there and in 2008 they signed the Congo-China agreement multi billion dollar agreement for... ah gee John what could be four The Chinese did what? They signed the Congo-China agreement. Obviously for oils in general. For oil, mainly... Oils! Just for oils in general and what you didn't hear on the news

1:02:16 is that this horrible guy, so we've all been focusing on this horrible, horrible guy who's been dragged before the International Criminal Court and Angelina Jolie went over there and saved the children. But what took place in Brazzaville five days ago? These French doctors, including emergency medical technicians and surgeons have come to help Congolese teams overwhelmed by the number of wounded. Did you hear about a huge explosion in Brazzaville by any chance John on the news? Yeah actually that did show up on the radar Really?! Because I could only find it on France 24

1:02:54 I've heard, I think...I don't know where i got it but I knew about it. Well you're aware obviously well so there was a huge explosion and guess who got killed in the explosion? Some Chinese! A whole bunch of Chiners! Yeah that's what happened when we went to when we started the Libya thing we rousted the Chinese and I think closed their refinery blew it up yeah get rid of them So with Kony 2012 Now pretty much over. I mean, they've got to focus attention away They've closed on the comments on the YouTube video page You know this thing got over hyped it went way too fast It just exploded they were really happy and of course then who do you have to bring in but George Clooney? Do you like my new name for him

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George Clooney and John Prendergast in Nuba Mountains

George Clooney and activist John Prendergast release footage from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing the actor ducking for cover from alleged aerial bombardments. The hosts mock the production quality of the video and Clooney's proximity to an unexploded bomb.

george clooney· john prendergast· nuba mountains· sudan· satellite sentinel project

1:03:41 What was I thought? I heard you say George, George who George Clooney Clooney Come on Clooney Clooney come on Clooney. Sounds like a mispronunciation when he doesn't actually okay go on so Clooney comes out with the Prendergast and Always. I'm watching PBS, I'm watching the News Hour and there's Clooney coming on to yak about the Chinese investments in the oil or they're taking the oil out of northern Sudan's refineries

1:04:19 and they've invested 20 billion dollars in apparently oil. Well, no what happened? I think you know let me finish the wrong way around so he's yacking away and saying well this is interesting because that a big close-up of his head cuz i turned it on it good because I missed the very beginning so this is interesting this is the first time I've ever seen Clooney by himself and then boom! They pull out and the idiot is sitting right next to him. I know but what they did was He made a video, he made his own film which no one cares about it's so horribly produced and I clipped like 30 seconds of audio from it. It's hilarious So here is Cloney walking around the... what are they called? The mountains there? The Nubar? I think its the Nubar Mountains? I'll get in a second

1:05:09 The Nuba, the Nuba Mountains which is important and here's what he- and here's what he saying. Okay so there's like incoming fire yeah we're moving we're moving away as George Clooney's under attack from incoming fire. Yeah that one was a rocket it just sailed over there see if you can see where it hit. See all the kids look over here Take a look over here, this is everybody's hands. Look everyone! Everyone is running away I'm George Clooney and I am not afraid of the Antonovs. Yesterday 1030 right? 1030 in the morning 15 bombs hit this tiny village where everyone was hiding in the rocks And this an unexploded bomb it's buried up to its neck He standing next to an unexploded bomb

1:05:57 He's literally standing next to it and the guy rakes like a brush over it. And Clooney is standing two feet away from the unexploded bomb Yeah, right! Right... I love the music doo-doo-doo-doo That's what you do That's what you do with an unexploded bomb so he is George Clooney. He's the hero now I'm happy to listen We probably pulled the same the same clips But I think do you have the oil clip where he starts talking about the oil because I think that's where he messed it up? I think he made a mistake You think so yeah, I think he did play play you had probably no longer version of the clip play the thing and show me Where that X I didn't notice this grew up

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Nuba Mountains Pipeline and Ancient Society Claims

George Clooney claims the Nuba people represent the oldest society on earth according to the Bible. The hosts dispute this, suggesting the Sumerians or Greeks hold that title, and argue the real reason for the conflict in the region is the presence of a strategic oil pipeline.

nuba mountains· pipeline· sumerians· bible· sudan

1:06:49 Well, so I'm not sure what to say. Here's clip number one that i have It is an interesting thing people sometimes you'll see in recent news articles you hear about the Nuba Mountains and you see all these people Now you hear about the Nuba Mountains The Nuba Mountains quite important by the way In these caves some people sort of assume this is the cave people of Nuba They are not they live in villages They are the oldest society on earth if you read the Bible Is that true? I know of yeah, I mean that. I thought the oldest society was the Sumerians oh no wait a minute It's the Greek it's like everywhere in the news That's the oldest society ever so apparently if you believe and you read in the Bible there You know by the way just as this is little off but I've noticed this other phenomenon And I've run into this

1:07:40 Over and around the world you run into it. There's a little area that's like a natural rainforest mm-hmm And they end up guides and locals will say this has the most rain per year of any place in the world. Yeah, have you ever been to San Francisco douchebag? But I ran into this and they say it about the whole forest up in Washington State They say it about the rainforest on one of the islands Kauai I think yeah they said all over the place you run into this comment It's like really well how come there so many of these number ones He is just pontificating And let me just say the Nuba Mountains

1:08:18 Is a... The reason for the conflict is that is where the pipeline runs. Okay? This is why people are blowing it up, they're trying to blow up the pipeline They don't care about some people running around who hide in the caves Don't give a crap about them Play the pipeline jingle Oh shoot Where is it? You brought it up I don't know what's called I know, I suck. Ah here it is again. I'm sorry. I should have that one stand by hadn't expected it here we go a Long way to go for follow the pipes so Clooney's gonna talk about this horrible horrible events for these people

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Sudan Oil Dispute and CIA Intelligence Cooperation

The conflict between Sudan and South Sudan is framed as a dispute over oil transport fees and infrastructure. Historical context is provided regarding the CIA's long-standing intelligence relationship with the Khartoum government, despite public declarations of genocide by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

sudan· south sudan· oil rigs· khartoum· colin powell

1:09:04 They've been living there a long time and they're hiding in those caves because every single day, ATNOBs are coming by and dropping bombs on them. And if they're not killing them they're hurting them. John Prendergast you hold the government of Sudan President Bashir responsible any doubt in your mind that their behind this? Well, it's a pattern. It's the way they fight wars don't answer the question please We've seen a war between the government in Sudan and this South the southern part of Sudan The southern third of Sudan which went on for 20 night he's boring so then then totally boring He's just there to keep an eye on Clooney well, so we and he's such an evil-looking guy what's funny is so

1:09:48 They did this with a satellite interview, right? On the set and then Hardball Chris Matthews did the interview right after this. So first here's Clooney I think messing it up he shouldn't have gone there and then he tries to retract that on hard ball so here is on PBS people around him who are behind this. Well, in the first instance we'd like to see him held accountable for the crimes against humanity that he's committed and so we would love to see at some point someone execute the arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court has issued. Oh there is that thing again! Yes take him to court let's do a big show again lets put on the theater performance. If that doesn't work though

1:10:29 in the immediate term to save lives now a diplomatic process that leads to a peace, comprehensive peace agreement that allows for transformation in Sudan and peace in Sudan. Or at least it at least at the very least a humanitarian corridor so we can get some aid to these people before they die. Alright George. Because thats... So this is all good? So far so good There's a bigger issue that we have to address because we cant just keep putting band-aids on this but there's a band-aid that is going to be needed pretty quickly. He is struggling now and Prendergrass is going like, what are you doing man? Shut up! Shut Up! And your talking about putting the squeeze on the government of the Khartoum government getting the Chinese involved What why is it in their interest to help? Well its easy... Oh John supposed take that question not Clooney

1:11:21 built about a 20 billion dollar infrastructure in oil. Oil rigs, pipelines, refineries... And that pipeline happens to go through the Nuba Mountains? Mostly in southern Sudan where most of the oil is Right now, for instance the South who has the oil and the North who gets it in the refinery and then keeps most of it and keeps the money and buys bombs and bombers and equipment to actually attack this out or The south just turned off all the oil Yeah, okay. So why did the South just turn off all the oil? Well that is because of a dispute with Northern Sudan who all of sudden raised the price of transport! This has nothing to do with anything but

1:12:10 Blocking the Chinese pipeline, block the pipeline no matter what and who is involved? We go back to 2005 our national public treasurer. Last year then Secretary of State Colin Powell told senators that genocide had taken place in the Darfur region of Sudan The word genocide has legal ramifications and using it is hotly debated Now another debate is brewing over the increasingly close intelligence relationship between the United States and that East African nation. Washington says the Sudanese government has been cooperating in fighting terrorists who threatened the United States. Many say this will surely complicate discussions between the two nations on issues of human rights So, with the CIA has been in there for years getting ready for this

CHAPTER 23 / 53 Discussion

Chris Matthews Interviews George Clooney on Sudan Motives

During an interview on Hardball, Chris Matthews questions George Clooney on the specific motives behind the violence in Sudan. Clooney suggests the government wants to clear the land for "good farming," a claim the hosts find absurd given the desert terrain and the presence of oil pipelines.

chris matthews· george clooney· sudan· genocide· farming

1:12:58 And then finally Clooney and Prendergast, we got to come up with a better name for that guy. They go on hardball with Chris Matthews who to his credit just says he asked two simple things who is doing this and why are they doing this? Fair questions George Clooney Who is doing this? You're really starting at the beginning on educating us to what's going on over there, on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Who's committing genocide against whom and why? Well it may be too soon to call it genocide I know we do know as its certainly war crimes and atrocities but what we... What it is, is that it's the same people who did in Darfur

1:13:41 President Omar al-Bashir, it's Haroon, it's the defense minister Hussein. All three men charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court are the exact same people who are indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians all through the Nuba Mountains So you don't think that they're bombing a pipeline or anything George? No no why are they doing it? Why are they doing and I ask Is there a recognizable motive is just tribalism is just hatred Oh no, there's a recognizable motive. The motive is you want to get the people out You want them to move off the land First of all it's good farming and they...

1:14:20 It's good farming there in the desert. Oh yeah, it is a dream come true for farmers First of all there is good farming there I was thinking about building a ranch there in the Nuba Mountains. First off its good farming and they would like to sell some of that off but alot of it is there is a rebel infighting going on War they way way off script here. He's completely lost performance is really bad I'd miss this yeah, it was poorly done Oh, yes six more seconds But they're not bombing where the war is going on they're bombing the people They want to get the people leave believe then the rebels will be there's like ten People in this shot in his video then a bombing the people Clooney their bombing the pipeline you douchebag You shill unbelievable

CHAPTER 24 / 53 Discussion

Madonna and the Malawi Oil Pipeline Connection

Madonna's philanthropic involvement in Malawi is scrutinized following a school construction scandal. The hosts suggest her presence serves as a distraction from Malawi's significant oil reserves and a planned pipeline through Mozambique, where European royalty reportedly holds property.

madonna· malawi· oil pipeline· mozambique· kabbalah center

1:15:15 They're bombing, it's because it's good farming. That's why. I was going to follow up on this so I looked into these celebrities and actually you had given me a... You forwarded a note to me from our economic hitman not the economic hitman but our economic hit man and he said Malawi And I read his note and so I started to look into Malawi and when you say Malawi what is the first name that comes to mind? But nothing comes to mind. Madonna! Oh right, she went to Malawi. Yeah, Madonna there was this huge scandal with the... She stole a baby. She went to Malawi and stole a baby and rushed out of town where the parents were going hey! Hey wait a minute! Where's our baby? Damn it that white witch took it

1:16:09 So this was a, this scandal was quelled very quickly I might add. Yeah by some cash... Well now I think I've figured it out So there was like 2.8 million dollars and none of it went to this She's gonna build a school and a whole compound and all of this And so her job basically was to cover Malawi because Malawi is exactly the same script The Chinas come in they want to take everything and we just don't have a boogeyman there yet But we're gonna and then when we get that boogie man who? You know, of course will be the reason to go in and drone and you know, it's very easy to bring

1:16:48 are drones from Djibouti because Malawi has a long-standing agreement to ship their oil, which they have a lot of oil there out through a pipeline through Mozambique and which interestingly is where the prince of Gitmo Nation lowlands has a vacation home in Mozambique. So I'm looking like, you know. So how did she get out of this trouble? Why did that get there was part of the Kabbalah Center and all those things just kind of died away up pops the name Trevor Nielsen when you spell it n e i l s o n an he is The founder of something called the global philanthropy group

CHAPTER 25 / 53 Discussion

Trevor Nielsen and Global Philanthropy Group Fixers

Trevor Nielsen is identified as a high-level "fixer" for celebrities like Madonna, George Clooney, and Bill Gates. As the founder of the Global Philanthropy Group and an advisory board member of Wikimedia, Nielsen is credited with managing public scandals and scrubbing negative information from the internet for his elite clients.

trevor nielsen· global philanthropy group· fixers· bill gates· wikimedia

1:17:34 But this guy is, this is the real guy. Prendergast? He's nothing compared to this guy. From their website Trevor Nielsen is president of Global Philanthropy Group which he co-founded in 2006. He works at the highest levels of business government and philanthropy and has served as an advisor to many leaders among them are Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Bono... oops Bono? Hello. Sir Richard Branson, Howard Buffett, Madonna, Shakira Ashton Kutcher Demi Moore George Clooney Angelina Jolie He has been involved in the creation and implementation of many of the world's most respective philanthropic initiatives And his extensive experience addressing global and domestic crises including disease poverty education blah blah blah

1:18:26 He, so Madonna called him in. Now this guy used to be a staffer for Hillary Clinton he was the Gates Foundation director of PR and he is also and this is what really got me on the advisory board of Wikimedia So if you're in trouble, you just call the philanthropic... A fixer. Yeah he fixes it! He scrubs the wikis. He's a fixer? He is a total fixer and oh also I might add a member of the... And curiously his wife is a co-partner at this operation Yes Why curiously Well because normally you don't see when you have this global anything You don't have husband and wife team as two partners He is also a member on the Council on Foreign Relations

1:19:16 And there's an hour-long video of him from the CFR which you put in the show notes, which you should definitely watch. By the way, the wife Maggie is also a communications management person she was done stuff for United Nations Amazon dot com Rachel Ray The Cobalt Group that Global AIDS Fund and the E&J Gallo Winery Now this guy does everything. Jay-Z? It's him He is the guy, he does everything Why do you think Shakira sang the opening song at the South African World Cup soccer game? It's all this guy This is the guy to watch Prendergast is a fool

1:19:55 He's just he's a low level. He's the handler, he's just the guy yeah low-level but this guy Trevor Nelson we don't even know what he looks like. Yeah sure he looks real white bread straight looking suit guy not none of this long hair bull crap like Prenton Gast. Come on his counsel on foreign relations which is Angelina Jolie as a member of the council on foreign relations. This is Such a combined such a commitment. We can follow this guy for the next yeah year and probably get good material Well, we need help from our producers To help us follow this but yeah Oh Yeah This guy is he's the real deal and he's in the middle of all of it And look what he does he's the whole Madonna thing went away gone The whole Kabbalah thing you don't hear about it anymore

1:20:41 The IRS investigation. This guy looks like the head of some fraternity, I'm looking at his pictures and there's pictures if you just go to images and see him you see some of the strangest Pictures with here there he is with Bono There's a just a straight shot of Madonna. There's another shot of Madonna. There's another shot of Madonna Yeah, you nailed it that this is exactly what happened? This is the guy yes Is the guy Meanwhile, I was blown away John. Blown away by a report on Fox News! It's like someone was sitting there saying hey have you heard that No Agenda podcast? Uh... what? Yeah go to rickperryisanidiot.com You'll get it Go to that crappypodcast.com You'll get it It's like they copied us word for word The Middle East is so important of course Is oil There may soon be another Chief Washington correspondent James Rosen tells us what it is

CHAPTER 26 / 53 Discussion

Levant Basin Natural Gas Discovery and Noble Energy

Fox News reports on a massive discovery of natural gas in the Levant Basin by Houston-based Noble Energy. The Tamar and Leviathan fields are estimated to contain 123 trillion cubic feet of gas, potentially making Israel energy independent and a major exporter to China and India.

levant basin· noble energy· israel· cyprus· natural gas

1:21:38 Brett, good evening. We are all familiar at this point with the scenes of carnage and upheaval that have been playing out in the Middle East for decades now but there is one revolution in the Mideast presently underway that you're not seeing on television and it has to do with the all-important area of energy production...this theater of the new revolution is the eastern Mediterranean Sea and specifically, the area known as the Levant Basin where an oil & gas firm based in Houston Texas Noble Energy has been busy building offshore wells. And has discovered huge fields of underwater natural gas reserves The US Geological Survey estimates there to be 123 trillion cubic feet

1:22:14 coverable natural gas here. To put that in perspective, that is equal to 20 billion barrels of oil more than 20 times the inventory of our own strategic petroleum reserve now two of the fields under development by Noble Energy Israel and Cyprus are nicknamed Tamar and Leviathan they alone contain an estimated 24 trillion cubic feet gas. Israel hopes that within five years Jerusalem and Cyprus will start bringing this gas online, that Israel will become energy independent and through pipelines become a gas exporter to the likes of China and India. A major geopolitical shift not going unnoticed in Tehran." Hey! I was blown away by that yeah some actual reporting going on well they eventually catch up to us it's a month two months later yeah i'm sure anyone watching that is like

1:23:05 What do I fill in this bracket? I don't understand. What's this pipeline business, I don't get it. What does geopolitical mean? I don't get it. Too complicated for me man. And let me just finish up with one last little news stinger... This was kind of funny Let's not report on it, let's give you the headline. In 11 seconds! A US drone has killed five militants in a remote tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghan border The attack on a vehicle traveling along the border took place in the Drainishta area of South Waziristan. Yahoo! South Waziristan right north of Balochistan right where the pipeline goes It's just so easy to see what is going on

CHAPTER 27 / 53 Discussion

Drone Surveillance and the TAPI Pipeline

A US drone strike in South Waziristan, Pakistan, is linked to the protection of pipeline routes. The hosts discuss the transition from manned helicopter surveillance to drone patrols for gas and oil infrastructure, specifically mentioning the TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) pipeline project.

drones· tapi pipeline· south waziristan· pakistan· surveillance

1:23:48 Hmm just drone. Oh, you know I used to fly pipeline missions in Holland Yeah The the gas company of course this is business that's going away because now with these drones Why pay an expensive helicopter crew to do it? Oh yeah screw that just use the drones yeah You have a helicopter its outfitted with actually some pretty cool equipment That knows exactly where the pipeline is and basically you fly at like 150 feet And you go really slow, which is very boring because you do it for like five hours. And just watch for anyone doing anything near a pipeline the gas pipelines. But don't look... Oh yeah! You're doing gas pipelines? Because I know the oil pipelines are also looking for leaks No no well you can't really see the leaks in the gas pipeline but again looking for like a guy who's digging near a pipeline and we would land there was this guy with a backhoe he was like dude you're about to hit a pipeline Go away

1:24:45 So, um... You know I'm sure we're just doing drone surveillance over the pipeline. The one that we want gone because this is the peace pipeline We don't want this thing This is not good. We want our TAPI pipeline so hey there's some guys down there or maybe there's no guys Hey! There's a piece of pipe. There's a whole pipeline blow it up South Waziristan Are we at war with South Waziristan all of a sudden? We are at war with everyone It's uh.. yeah It's legal Let's just kill them I'm so ashamed. I see that Trevor Nielsen is also serves on Bono's one policy board Oh he set it up yeah, it used to be called Dada I think was the name originally was the name of the... This guy's good! No this guy's fantastic He's very and what a racket It's $200,000 retainer just to get started with the guy

CHAPTER 28 / 53 Discussion

Keystone XL Pipeline and PetroChina Acquisition

The Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation sells its remaining interest in the McKay River project to PetroChina. The hosts suggest the US opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline is rooted in an anti-China strategy, as the oil is now 100% owned by a Chinese state entity and will likely be diverted to British Columbia for export.

keystone xl· petrochina· oil sands· canada· british columbia

1:25:43 And then he'll manage your philanthropic... You know, he was actually defending Jay-Z. Yeah because people say hey how come my Jay Z's not actually paying for you know why isn't he putting any money into his uh into his own charity and then this guy says no no man it's you know his celebrity he's bringing a celebrity to the game like please and I want to thank the producer who sent me this little ditty so The Keystone XL Pipeline Which is not going to happen, I guess. That would be bringing the dirty sands oil tarp... The crap! The crap from the Elk. And only to bring it down to a refinery to export it's not even really anything we'd use. Right. The whole thing's a joke Well do you know why? I think it's pretty obvious why we're not gonna do any business there

1:26:39 The Athabasca Oil Sands Corporation has exercised its option to sell the remaining 40% interest in the McKay River oil sands project to the PetroChina corporation. It's now 100 percent China! Yeah, they'll just put a pipeline over toward British Columbia and drop it off on the edge Right but that's why we didn't want it... no Chiners It's a whole anti-China thing. I think we're really going after the Chinas, get them out! This has been our theme since if you remember When they first started bombing or when Egypt first started going ballistic with the Tunisia deal We immediately picked up on China thing and we've been thematically like bringing it up, and the Chinese are you know? Doing what they can to fight back with the rare earths And what other bull crap is going on it's back-and-forth Until I guess until Petrochina starts playing ball with the big sisters. I don't think I don't know where this is gonna wind up but

1:27:41 It's not good, that's for sure. I don't think they want to play ball and I'm pretty sure China has a lot more problems than they're letting on. Everyone is like oh China is so great and doing so well but I am not buying that anymore No it looks like there is a slowdown going on and they still have those giant ghost cities they built for some unknown reason thinking it was... Thinking it was a good idea Yeah unfortunately there is maintenance problem You can buy a mansion, kind of a falling apart mansion all over the world. They're all over the world for sale for next to nothing. Yeah but you gotta keep... And it seems like a good idea until you realize that it costs more in maintenance on a monthly basis than you paid for the place! Just mowing the grass

CHAPTER 29 / 53 Discussion

Jackson-Vanik Amendment and US-Russia Trade Relations

The 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, originally passed to pressure the Soviet Union over Jewish emigration, remains a hurdle for US-Russia trade. With Russia set to join the WTO, there is a push to repeal the legislation to allow American companies to compete in the Russian energy market.

jackson-vanik· russia· trade embargo· wto· human rights

1:28:25 So the Chinese have built these cities, huge and you can look it up and people can Google this and find go cities China. And get these overhead shots from Google if they're quite interesting. Yeah. There's a lot of shots there are some people living in there but generally speaking their abandoned and it's a maintenance issue. Their grass is coming up through the pavement weeds are everywhere So, following on this logic Syria must in some way be related to the Chinas. We know that they got some Chinas out Well, there's a lot of activity. I kind of was following the Russian stuff going on this week There's a lot of movement in the I think unfortunately these clips are so long You know sometimes you just got to do that this we can cut down few but the Russians seem to be The center of attention over this thing called they're trying to get this one law eliminated that has changed these called the Jackson Vannick and

1:29:26 and I believe it was passed in 1974, you can look it up. It was designed to get...it actually hampers trade with Russia. Our trade with Russia is virtually non-existent. Right well they're also not a World Trade Organization member They're not a member of the club Not yet. They're going to be this year, perhaps in June they're going to be accepted as a memory and there's still this debate over Jackson Vanik it has to be repealed What is this Jackson Vanik? Well here's a good one I think the long question about Jackson Vanik kind of explains that you can stop playing this clip when you think that when the explanation is ended or would make sense to you

1:30:09 You mentioned the statement put out today by Nemtsov, etc. calling for abolition of Jackson-Vanik and making the point that failure to do so plays into the hands of those who are anti American and they specifically made reference to President Putin The high hard one is as follows The closest analog I'm aware of is back when the US had the famous Helms-Burton legislation. Helms-Burton then against Cuba, it's kind of like Jackson Vannick against Russia and the Congress sent a study team to Havana to assess the impact on U.S interests of the Helms-Burton legislation which of course tried to tighten the embargo and limit the economic exchanges with Cuba

1:31:06 The congressional delegation came back and said, we came to one main conclusion. The Cubans that are on our side the U.S side want to get rid of Castro want to democratize Cuba etc., tell us that legislation in Cuba is widely called the Helms-Burton-Castro legislation because it strengthens the hands of Castro enormously. This is not helping me. Let me try to summarize in the 70s, the Russians were harassing the Jews who are getting higher educations in the Russian schools and then they would get to apply for this special visa and then immigrate to Israel and leave Russia so the Russians decided to start gouging them

1:31:53 for their education the so-called diploma tax is what they called it and so they started gouging the Jews Who were getting these higher degrees for doing this stunt? So we came up with this well, the weekend you know We couldn't allow like let this continue because it was a it wasn't yeah. It's a human rights violation so we essentially created an embargo of of sorts similar to the one he mentions in Cuba that we have against Cuba, that limited trade with Russia to hurt the Russians. But then this situation with the Jews ended in the 90s and now there's no reason for this legislation even exist meanwhile were not trading much with the Russians I think this is a hate to bring say this but I... Oh wait it's about Gazprom let me guess

CHAPTER 30 / 53 Discussion

Michael McFaul and the Shift Toward Russian Goods

US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul discusses the administration's perspective on repealing Jackson-Vanik. The hosts predict a shift where Russia becomes a manufacturing alternative to China, leading to an influx of Russian-made consumer goods in the United States.

michael mcfaul· russia· gazprom· manufacturing· ak-47

1:32:41 Yes, I believe that behind it the whole thing is gas prom. Yeah no problem. And they're trying to open up trade and because once again the WTO everyone's gonna be able to trade wildly with the Russians who have all this energy except us! Uh-huh...and so we're gonna have to pull a plug on this thing it's a big moment of debate you can hear our this guy who was our ambassador to Russia Did make a comment I thought was weird. This is short clip, McFall is the guy's name he's a character himself on Jackson Vanik he kind of expresses the administration's perspective I think in this clip. Our governments...I don't see anything wrong about that what do you think is wrong? Is when it's not conversation based on facts

1:33:30 Right, so when we heard and I heard time and time again that you know McFaul is paying for the political... No no this is the wrong clip. Oh I'm sorry oh I'm sorry I got it here um yeah two clips repealing, lifting, terminating whatever the right language is. Jackson Vanik how that helps the cause of promoting rule of law democracy and human rights we just don't see it that way and so we want to use other venues other mechanisms and other instruments again listening to those after all on the ground in Russia not just what we think but what they think and thats our answer in terms of that piece of legislation

1:34:12 That's good. They essentially they they're trying to pass the get this thing repealed because it'll help supposedly human rights issues in Russia I'm sick and tired of human rights well, they've dropped it in fact even Clooney dropped it on that thing he did with the uh... on pbc mentioned that the human being now they can talk economics with the china's rather than you know i was not getting them anywhere along watch out for universal rights though that's the new one universal right yeah so anyway so the idea i think i think is what's gonna happen if it had a kid get this this piece of legislation nobody's ever heard about us and now began a year eliminating we're going to open white gold wide open with trade with russia and i think it's all come he's gonna start but i think the rest of the

1:35:00 economy is gonna start. We're going to start seeing Russian goods, we're gonna see it as an alternative they're gonna set up factories as an alternative to the Chiners because they got enough you know people in the middle of... Yeah they've got a lot of slaves perfect! They have a lot of slaves so that I really think within the next couple years were gonna see lots of Chinese stuff. Russian stuff you mean? Yes, lots of Russian stuff and its gonna be made in Russia. Have you ever seen anything that said made in Russia ever?! yes my AK-47 Does it actually say made in Russia on it? Yeah, it says made ski and ruski. That's a wait a minute so wait a minute wait a minute following that logic maybe we are blowing up Syria for the Russians

CHAPTER 31 / 53 Discussion

US-Russia Missile Defense Cooperation and Syria Proxies

Ambassador Michael McFaul expresses optimism regarding missile defense cooperation with Russia. The discussion explores the theory that the US and Russia may be acting as "bestest BFFs" behind the scenes, with the US potentially serving as a proxy for Russian interests in Syria to secure energy ports.

missile defense· russia· syria· michael mcfaul· tartus

1:35:50 Think about that. Because then the Russians meanwhile are, oh you shouldn't be doing that and they'd... Of course! But they haven't really done any there's a lot I was listening to all this Russian stuff and this this McFaul guy had a lot to say about he's the ambassador About a lot of them he says don't believe what you hear You know he was mentioning in fact just a good example of this is the if i got it on here social media clip No no social media clip is a piece of humor for later Who is Heather protesting Russia? Well, let me just say what it is. He was talking about the... Cooperate with Russia? That's probably the clip you mean. Operate with Russia. Yeah try yeah hit that

1:36:33 Missile defense, yeah we've had some disagreements. But I gotta tell you, I'm an optimist on missile defense for a couple of reasons. Yes we do not have missile defense cooperation with Russia in the year 2012 but we've only been trying to that for just several months. Let's remember this was an issue of confrontation fierce confrontation for three decades So why should anybody be surprised that we haven't been able to get this done in a cooperative way in a year? Yes, we have the public statements about this and that. But when you talk about the facts and when you talk about physics as opposed to politics…

1:37:18 I think this is actually a place where with time and with effort we're going to be able to cooperate with Russia. He says, you can stop it... This is a believe me listen there's hours of this. You hear a lot of talk they are yakking about this in other words there's a lot of bull crap being expressed just for posturing purposes. And I think that could be happening in Syria with the Russians... That makes a lot of sense, John. I think you've hit this one, John! I think you've knocked this one out of the park because if anything Russia needs- This would be perfect for them Because they own the port in Syria

1:37:57 They own that port. So if they don't have to deal with any of that bull crap and they got their port, they can go straight out they can bypass all the Leviathan crap which will take another five years and then you've got the Nord Stream, the South Stream, they've got a straight from the port, they can export to the Chinas Wow! Maybe we're best as buddies I gotta tell ya, I like Russians actually I have to say I wouldn't mind it if we teamed up with the Russians Well, you know they this this McFaul guy sat the more I listened to him that he is there's interesting things going on and he made a long commentary. I'm not gonna don't necessarily play this but He says that you know They've been blaming him for the Russian protests He actually defends the Russian government regarding the protest and say these are not overthrow the government type protest or just complainers

CHAPTER 32 / 53 Discussion

North Korea Free Trade and Vladivostok Pipeline

A new presidential proclamation regarding a free trade agreement with Korea is analyzed. The hosts theorize that this could open the door for a pipeline from Vladivostok to run through North Korea into South Korea, further isolating China from regional energy markets.

north korea· south korea· vladivostok· pipeline· free trade agreement

1:38:46 that are out there protesting exactly the same way they occupy Wall Street. People are, they're not trying to overthrow the government and he says it's the same thing, the Russians are really come around. He is very pro-Russia. Well he doesn't want to get killed I mean hell yeah! There is that but he can always quit But the point is that there was a lot of weird stuff in this conversation that could lead me to believe we're actually proxies for the Russians and the Syrians Well hold on a second if you stay with that something that of course was under reported North Korea, we got a presidential proclamation with a free trade agreement with Korea. Section 6 of the Implementation Act authorizes the President upon receiving requests from an interested entity Russia to determine that a fabric yarn or fiber is not available in a commercial quantity in a timely manner the United States as it will anyway bullcrap

1:39:50 We just did a free trade agreement and perhaps, perhaps John with this group of six. Perhaps we are now opening the door for North Korea to allow maybe it was exactly the opposite of what I said a couple weeks ago To allow the pipeline from Vladivostok which is right there near the northern Korean peninsula Go through North Korea, we already own South Korea. We got Japan, we have bases on Japan and then we'll gouge the Chinas again! This is a great theory I'm really liking it. Gouging the Chinese? No, the Chinas... It's Chinas And you know what let's be honest I'm sick and tired of them. I'm sick and tired to those China selling us crap

1:40:39 Everything is China, China. I don't want to get too... actually i'm not going to bring this next point up. Economic hit man? Yeah do it man! Do it, do it, do it, do it. He's he-I was talking about in correspondence with him about the basic dishonesty of certain cultures and then I've talked about it with other people too. Yeah that was in his email and a lot of these cultures are liars, they're lying sacks of crap. Well they lie a lot of times for cultural reasons They don't want to admit that they can do something or there's just a lot of losing face I was citing specifically the Indonesians because i had some issues over when I was floating around with people telling me one thing and not doing anything

1:41:21 and a lot in fact not just one guy but everybody's like a cultural thing right and he said yeah well it is the Chinese are the worst. Yeah, they're liars! They're big liars and they sell us junk and quite honestly I think this is a good development It's too bad we have to kill so many people We could just come out say hey we're gonna work with the Ruskies you know and the question is kind of out there. Do we really like Putin or do we still want it? Because you know, of course Gazprom has really medvedev he's the real...he was the big Gazprom guy so I'm not sure if Putin is in or out that to me is.. Well we won't know for a while but when the Chinese opened the door for Nixon to open relations with Mao Zedong and Kissinger who snuck over there unbeknownst to American public and

1:42:16 The insiders, the people that do Chinese studies believe that the Chinese were freaky about the potential of the United States and Russia. At the time we're shaking our swords at each other but they were always worried apparently the Chinese were worried sick that we would eventually team up with Russia to screw the Chinese. Hell yeah! Now, they must have that in the back of their mind still which would make it so we have to keep this somewhat quiet. Mm-hmm So, so how quiet are we not doing such a good job by blowing everybody up people like limbs flying off the relationship. Our relationship with Russia is still not fully known by anybody We don't know what I mean this this McFowl guy yeah McFowle that's a good one Yeah, uh, McFawles is pronounced but I think McFowls Mcfowl yeah McFowl is like kind of a student of Russia and he is

CHAPTER 33 / 53 Discussion

Russia as the Second Largest Rare Earth Producer

As China restricts its rare earth exports, Russia is positioned to increase its role as the world's second-largest producer. Russian deposits of metals like cerium and terbium are critical for technologies ranging from cell phones to missile systems, sparking a global battle for "metals of the future."

russia· rare earth metals· china· cerium· technology

1:43:19 kind of, it seems to me that they're cozying up to them in ways that we're not publicizing. And I think but the thing is the Chinese must spot this a mile away. So let me ask you this... This is something's, uh, this is a problem and when they come into WTO, the Russians? This is not going to be a good situation to watch! It's gonna be a trade war Let me ask you this does Russia have the capability to produce rare earth materials? I don't know Hold on a second Let's see first article I hit here from the book of knowledge about its Africa Russian well, of course Russian rare-earth deposits may be higher than estimated December 2010 this so just take into account This may be the beginning of the PR. So take into account that

1:44:11 We already knew that China said they were going to reduce their rare earth material exports by 30%. They said that in 2009. Everyone knew about this, there was all kinds of talk in Congress etc So now it's like, oh these damn Chiners. This is the public facing part of the deal The back door is blow them up in Brazzaville Get him the hell out of the Congo get him the hell out of Malawi get him the hell out of Uganda Get him the hell out of Libya out of Egypt get them out get him I'll get him out and maybe the public is well You know what? It's so nice that our friends the Russians are

1:44:47 Dave said you know what we're gonna work with you guys. We're gonna your on your next iPad will be called an iPad ski The ipad ski I'm telling ya here it says I was reading this That the reason why China wants to reduce? This is from 2009 that are reading this the reason why they wanted to reduce the Their exports is so that they can move up the food chain from just providing the raw stuff to actually providing assembled Stuff to assembling it and you know really exporting the full the full gear So, you know it no longer will let's say, you know manufacturing in China assembled in Cupertino. It'll just say Assembled, you know made-in-China dot period

1:45:40 Okay, so here we go. I got the voice of Russia's the Voice of America analog in Russia It says as for Russia it remains the second largest producer of rare earth metals after China and they're gonna crank it up China has announced a restriction This isn't from June 28th of last year has announced a restriction by the way again You know we talk that this is not new good This is a year old China's announced the restriction of rare earth metals pointing in this connection to Russia's soon-to-be increased role in the rare earths metal market of which China is the leader. Right now, Russia has a whole array of deposits which includes cerium, erbium, terbium which is widely used in technology applications raised then they have its typo here it says ranging from LSD

1:46:23 and cell phones to missile systems. Hey man I'm doing this turium shit but i ain't getting high man it aint working. So the next few years according to this site, the next few year may see a global battle for possession of what is billed as metals of the future So we got that in Uganda. We've got that in all over particularly South Africa, south and we've got Djibouti you got all of that? All we have to do is kick the Chinas out and their manufacturing will crumble This may be the big game John this maybe the really big game

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Obama and Putin Basketball Diplomacy Prediction

The hosts enter a "Red Book" prediction that the public will soon see a display of camaraderie between President Obama and Vladimir Putin. They envision a "shirts and skins" basketball game used as a PR tool to solidify the new US-Russia alliance.

barack obama· vladimir putin· basketball· red book· prediction

1:47:11 Well, something's up and I guess we're sick and tired of the Chiners screwing us by underpricing their goods. They've basically ruined our manufacturing in this country because they essentially have undercut everything and then they won't adjust their money that's the big complaint we have well it is there own fault them? Well that's a way we see it God, we're good. No we are good Too bad that we have to kill so many people to get there The killing part is a bad part of it and then now were so blasé about it We're going to kill our own citizens at the drop of a hat which is not a good thing So we've become I think hardened by this By our killing Which is not good because you know It's hurt us but whatever its an interesting... We'll have to follow this Well write it down on the Red Book I think it's a red book entry worthy

1:48:09 That the next announcement you will hear about rare earth is that we have struck a deal with the Russians our new friends and of course new president, you know the whole thing. You know Putin he's a handsome devil too. He's like I betcha we will see him and Obama playing basketball With an F with that in the book shirts and skins, and guess who's gonna be skins? You know Putin is gonna have his shirt off in a heartbeat I'm gonna show my support by donating to no agenda imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, they'd be fine All right so we have a number of people to thank

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Doritos Pouch and Austin Charity Event

Adam Curry describes a "Doritos Pouch" meal served at a charity event in Austin for musicians. The dish consists of chili, sour cream, and cheese served directly inside a small bag of Doritos, a snack also known as "goulash" in some prison systems.

doritos pouch· austin· taco bell· south by southwest· goulash

1:49:03 including Scott Schwarzenberger from Livingston, Montana who came in with $150. Hello John and Adam I'd be interested to see if you tease me about my long Irish surname Schwarzenberger? Whittier too Schwarzenberger! You'd be amazed at how many people don't get that joke I think we got the joke. Yeah, yeah...I'm still laughing. I could use any karma you can spare a slide whistle karma would be really cool ready? Here we go. You've got Karma! I do miss the original no jingles and no prep show that started it all oh yeah yeah go back and listen to episode one and see how cool it really was this wasn't good 20 minutes of just blah

1:49:52 May the Schwartz be with you. Thank you Stefan in Lindale, Texas right up the street from you Yeah under $12 and 35 cents in the morning from Z rich Zurich Switzerland's in Zurich Switzerland right up the street from me You are in Zug I'd like to send a hey citizen and douchebag To my brewski Don or Dan for one introduced me to show a few weeks back and two not donating first We really enjoy your media analysis and have already begun using some no agenda slang in our everyday conversations. I could also use a shot of karma for my grad school application at big school in the capital of the drone star state, I could hear back in the next few weeks all the best! So let me give him a... so it's a hey citizen douchebag for Dan hold on a second Hey Citizen Douchebag And then a karma for your UT application You've got Karma By the way Little intermezzo

1:50:54 Have you ever had a Doritos pouch? Not yet. So we were invited to benefit... This is a Taco Bell product you're talking about! No it's not, almost as bad We were invited to Ham the Health something Austin music It's like a charity for... South by Southwest for people who like to eat No, it's actually very cool. It was an invite party only and they raise money for a charity that gives medical attention...it's like Music Cares. It gives medical attention to musicians who are dying in the street because there is no...yeah it's bad gig And so there was food and they had this thing which everyone knew about apparently called Doritos Pouch

1:51:42 And what it is, it's a single serving size Doritos bag opened up and they got a whole bunch on the table. They take the bag, they plop chili in there into the bag right on top of the Doritos with this sour cream with cheese and then they stick a fork in it and stir it up and that's a meal! In a bag! It's a it's fantastic. Sounds terrible. It's fantastic Oh, I'm sure is well actually yeah chilly kinds of things are always tasty But they are just a terrible terrible idea. What's the heart attack in the bag worst kind of cheese? I'm sure that can be no no No, it was sour cream and then the greasy chili The whole thing was gourmet it was really it was beautiful. It was gourmet but then they had been a bag

1:52:27 But you know, there's only like 10 Doritos in the bag. Right? You know it's all air so they just open up the bag and they got beautiful chili was outstanding plopping on top sour cream cheese boom stick a fork in it here you go here's your Doritos pouch and I'd never heard of it It's like it's great for you ever heard of it. It's great for your phone to Doritos pouch Yeah Texas Rangers ball games. I mean it's a it's a good from it's a great snack snack don't make this stuff too hot or it'll melt the bag it's lovely all right so that was my little aside you ate that I had two

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Maxwell Fry and the Mannequin Arousal Story

Listener Maxwell Fry from New York sends a $100 donation and a detailed letter about his long-term celibacy and an incident where he was momentarily aroused by a store mannequin. He requests "get laid karma" to help him break his streak of bad luck with women.

maxwell fry· new york· mannequin· karma· get laid karma

1:53:08 You had two bags of Doritos? There's nothing, there's ten Doritos in it. Oh these are little bags! Yeah... Oh it's not like a big giant bag No, no, no It's a one-shot meal you know so it's the little dinky bags by the little ones like an ounce yeah yes they're like 10 Doritos in there and just throw the chili on top I was like wow what a genius idea only some Texan would come up with that now that's why we rock baby Maxwell Fry in New York New York New York $100. I'd love to get some of that Get Laid karma, I hear so much about it's sadly been over a year since the last time i got laid. Oh no!

1:53:46 And without any karma, I fear it'll be another year before my train goes through any kind of tunnel. Lately I've been working so late that when I get home and am too tired to even make the bald man cry let alone actually meet a babe." Make the bald man cry! This is a new one... "...It's getting so bad that one night I left the office late and was aroused by a mannequin that I saw in the window front. In my own defense, this mannequin was hotter than any other mannequin I have ever seen!" The breasts look pretty real. I did a double take, but it was quickly ashamed when I realized that it wasn't a real lady If I'm not too tired and don't have to work on the weekend I might be able to go out But the chance of me meeting a babe is unlikely because I am fat now from sitting in the office all day and night

1:54:31 And I can't go around the office trying to pick up baes because everyone will think i'm some sort of creep and they'll can me like they canned the last creepy guy who got fired. That's our audience ladies and gentlemen. Then ill be back to square one broken unemployed, that certainly not going to get me laid We need to help this guy John Yes, he says karma may be your only hope. Alright enough complaining I gotta get back to work. Slave to the grave! Alright here we go man We got to get you some karma pronto some get laid karma my friend You've got Karma Make the bald man cry So, what is that on the time? Good luck Maxwell. Ryan M Reich from Brooklyn New York. Another guy... $100 ITM thanks for all the great analysis I've been hitting people in the mouth for you by the time this is read I will have had an interview for some freelance work that would really like to get can I get some see something say something karma we haven't heard that for a while interesting and a birthday call is he on the list do we have him no better put them on the list let me let me do the karma first here

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Unclaimed Property Checks and Slide Whistle Karma

Steve in Seattle reports receiving a $1,600 check from an unclaimed property website mentioned on a previous show. Other listeners receive "slide whistle karma" for various life events, including job interviews and St. Patrick's Day celebrations.

unclaimed property· seattle· slide whistle· karma· st. patrick's day

1:55:36 If you see something, say something. You've got karma. Put him on the birthday list Ryan M Reich. Steven Walker in which I don't find it hard to believe that's the spelling of his name but it is possible Seattle Washington uh oh here we go again yep It never ends 6969 Steve in Seattle, I'm donating $69.69 as your finder's fee for informing me about the unclaimed property website a number of shows back. I recently got my unclaimed property check for nearly sixteen hundred dollars! Well...I think we got jipped then? Yeah, I'd say that is delivering some real value to your listeners. I like to take this opportunity call out some other listeners as douchebags. Derek

1:56:28 Douchebag! Stacey? Douchebag! And Chris are no donors for the guys non-existent boners. Thanks Brian Dennison in Bristol Connecticut 6969 in the morning John and Adam Bryan in Connecticut here a longtime bonerman needed some job karma in order to decide whether or not to set out for the greener pastures literally to become a farmer Hey I know you there's some good land for sale in the Nuba Mountains So please give me a de-douching and karma shoutout with the slide whistle. You've been de-douched. Okay, David Hanley... According to the chat room, the Doritos pouch is also served in jail where they call it goulash. David Hanley and Orrin Moore Galway

1:57:27 6969 at Arrmagen. Huh? Hello? Uh oh, John? Oh wow internet connection problem hmm that doesn't happen often does it let's see Wow that's the first time in a long time we've had that happen here he is what was that I don't know Internet connection problem is what Skype said no well you sound you don't sound as good as you did yeah it'll pick up

1:58:05 But it was the beeping. I didn't hear any beeping oh yeah, no i got a beep Well that's skype with their new uh Back door they've built in David Hanley and oh that's what we just did sorry david Uh he need does he need a car more anything you didn't do it You cut off at air my my again That's where you cut off? I did yeah happy st patrick's day go okay Oh, huh. Happy St... I read all the way through that whole thing. Well you were talking to a brick wall my friend! Apparently happy St Patrick's Day from Gitmo Nation Guinness it was nice to hear Adam talking about the president in episode 387 we found 50 and the old hand-me-down pair of pants not knowing who previously owned the pants they decided to donate before the euro collapses next week like this happy birthday my brother the donations for his knighthood so get a slide whistle karma

1:58:53 For me and two slide whistle playing brothers. Oh, I need to help to get meet You guys should get together and they could form a group okay? We'll do a side whistle karma ready Wow what you mean wow awesome is that good yeah, you should come to Austin in the south by Southwest there we're in need of more slide whistle Maybe we can uh, can't we do a cowbell slide whistle combo thing together you and me I mean if i just give You the beat can you do okay? Okay, Mercedes in Miami Florida 6969 to need us some major karma for after his ex-girlfriend left Me heartbroken and depressed oh no

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Joshua Theodorsen and the MILF Karma Request

Joshua Theodorsen from Perth, Australia, donates $69.69 and requests karma for his brother and father, who was recently diagnosed with bladder cancer. He also asks for a "shout out" to his wife, whom he describes as a "smoking hot MILF" who is skeptical of the show.

perth· australia· milf· stevia· cancer

1:59:51 The only thing that keeps me sane through this time has been your show. So I decided... You must be really down! Yeah, really? Our uplifting information. What does he want here? Karma? Yeah. You've got karma. All right and then we had Joshua Theodorsen in Perth our favorite place Western Australia 6969 Wow Hi guys, okay. Maybe I'm slightly drunk on a few wild turkeys and homemade fluoride free stevia sweetened colas Stevia Stevia Stevia

2:00:32 But my smoking hot milf wife says I should be donating to my three month old human resource and not no agenda. Another woman against us. Yeah, it's a cabal I tell ya! She obviously doesn't realize that by donating i'm loving AND ensuring a balanced future for MY spawn. Am I wrong? Of course not. No Without no agenda, all my daughter has to look forward to is a New World Order shill speak like Sesame Street, Crazy Eyed Dora the Explorer and video hits. So please give my unconverted MILF wife a shout out to hopefully turn her tide and also a de-douching to me as this is my first real donation after many hours of entertainment courtesy the NOA Agenda show. I'd love a shot of karma be sent to my constantly struggling older brother John who put me on you guys about six months ago and never looked back, also my dad has just been diagnosed with bladder cancer so huge screw cancer from Adam would be awesome so thanks so much for the enlightenment

2:01:29 Alright, so we got a MILF and then we've got a dedouching and a karma and fuck the cancer karma. Okay here we go You've been de-douched you've got Karma By the way, speaking of milk did you get that email I forwarded to you from one of our associate executive producers from last week? No. The female listener? No! You didn't forward it to me. I certainly did forward it to you...I didn't see it. She's not only is she smoking hot but she sent a secret link to her website apparently she's in the business Oh and one of our listeners yeah she's not only she's smoking hot but

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Ron Paul Supporters and Japanese Yen Donations

Gerald Small encourages Ron Paul supporters to attend the Missouri caucus. Meanwhile, Brandon in Japan donates in Yen, leading to a discussion on the cultural significance of bilingualism in political candidates and the translation of Japanese phrases.

ron paul· missouri caucus· japan· yen· bilingualism

2:02:14 You could use her donation, let's put it that way. And get some services... But you should look at the- I can't believe you- I'm like- I'll go back after the show and we'll find out if it's actually there. I think the note I said to you was We rock! This is our audience Yeah Good Yeah very good, we appreciate women of the profession Raphael Tassilets Obe I don't know, you give it a shot. You missed Gerald Small, I think Oh, I'm sorry Gerald. Oh yeah, Gerald Small in Chesterfield Missouri 6789 small donation to help with the cause and get a request to call out all Ron Paul supporters Get out to the Missouri caucus this Saturday The 17th and make a Ron Paul statement to the mainstream media It's two hours out of your life And a lifetime of pride for voting for the only guy who gets it America needs no agenda AND Ron Paul That's right No agendas should be vice president

2:03:08 Now, give me a pronunciation of Raphael. Maybe? Albany New York in 6111 birthday call out to Charles Hamill another birthday we missed really put it in Charles Hamill from Raphael I have to scold Buzzkill Jr. for missing two. Oh god, now I have to read that name Raph... I'll just say Raphael your buddy Raphael because i'll just stumble over that for five minutes To Charles Hamill Okay yeah? And you need some karma to have MILF For the upcoming new human resource and a de-douching for himself You've got karma You've been de-douched Okay Ann Beck

2:03:56 L Beck from coming rock come and knock come a knock come a knock hello East Irish are our air sure air sure $61 please mention Nerida Ian Sufi Scott Ramsey as he enters the 64 first year on March 19th were regular listeners in the lowlands of Scotland hey great show from his wife these yeah it's on the list Brandon in Chiba which I assume is Japan. 5650, yes! Greetings from Gitmo Nation Sushi first time donor with about 446 thousand 46...

2:04:40 49 yen for 1649 which read you could tell John never gets to count into the thousands no we don't make enough money we don't get the count thousands I'll get the count thousands which red and Japanese can sound like your oh shiku which is basically a universal conversation ending which basically means i leave it in your hands really thanks in advance almost like asking for karma okay maybe that's stretch but I never did quite get why speaking in Chinese was such a big deal for a candidate isn't demonstrating being bilingual a good thing but thank you for all the amazing shows and your euro shi-shi ku your oh she cool put honey out yet you get ching-ching I'm sorry this Chinese does he have they know it did you have in the morning in Japanese um no only Chinese really is this it's the same thing same thing

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Premature Twins and Saudi Arabian Business Ventures

Juan Carmona from Corpus Christi requests karma for his twin daughters born eight weeks premature and currently in the NICU. Fieras El Thabani in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, also receives karma for a new business venture.

corpus christi· nicu· riyadh· saudi arabia· karma

2:05:31 Philip Gretch in the hillside Victoria 5555 love to show can I get some karma? I've just started a final year of university. Here's my money would have spent at the pub. I don't have the class Monday morning Also quick thank you to my hot girlfriend DeRosa for listening to that podcast while driving You've got karma Juan Carmona, Corpus Christi Texas down the street from you 5510 love to show need a de-douching will never view the mass media again the same way of course getting married soon we're adopting two brand new twin human resources of our own but they are eight weeks premature and stuck in the NICU for awhile please send some MILF karma their way known the girls a week and I can't imagine my life without them keep up with the excellent work watching boring crap okay that's one mother i'd like

2:06:21 You've got karma. Chris Potter, Elmira Ontario double nickels on the dime looking for some work overtime double time karma so I can get to knighthood faster and out from under the oppression of our friends at Visa please note Elmyra is pronounced El-MY-rah all the rest gentlemen and the great work on The Best Podcast in The Universe you've got Karma Chris Witten in Huntersville North Carolina 55 I've been listening since December is my first donation. I'm donating because i truly value the work you do and your honesty in reporting the truth

2:07:01 The truth is out there. Yes, I also donated because I badly need my side business to take off So you don't have to keep working like a slave for close to nothing Please give me and my wife's businesses shot at karma and give him my wife a hey citizen milf combo of Also had an idea that might get more donations if you could create a bunch of bumper stickers that say I Donated the no agenda before it was cool and slap them on cars everywhere. Or at least people could make up that status or tweet it away. That's a pretty good idea, before it was cool Well...that'll be the day. Hey citizen! MILF! That's one mother I'd like to meet You've got karma. Wrapping up here we got David Yeagley in Pleasanton California 50-50 being conflicted as to whom should donate to you guys or Ron Paul decided to spread the wealth and give a 50-50 split If I could I would like to shot of karma to Ron Paul

2:07:54 You can do that and then... You've got karma. Jason Burke, Richmond Texas $50 Chris Lewinsky Sir Chris Lewinsky actually in Sherwood Park Alberta $50 Anonymous Staten Island New York $50 needs a karma shot for an important meeting today it sounds like getting the donation in before our podcast sometimes gets the karma going in advance hoping so in this case keep up the good work you guys have a combined chemistry does not exist anywhere in the media today You've got karma. Yeah, that's true. Sir Mike Westerfield $50 and finally in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Oh Ridia! I'm Gridia. Fieras El Thabani Thabani he needs some karma he is beginning a new venture and needs all the help he can get Absolutely would love to give you that

2:08:51 You've got karma, and I don't leave out George Scanlon from Carpentersville Illinois who also came in with $50 as a good group want to thank them all and everyone else are Donating to helping us do this show you can go to no agenda show calm and click on the donate button No agenda nation comm and click on the donate button Dvorak org slash na and channel of work comm slash na And that would be of great benefit to everyone so um as you know since Our donations are barely supporting the entire work week for us. I've been looking for gigs on the side Oh no, you're not gonna play another clip are ya? I got one! I got a gig! Oh you did?! You're gonna do a voiceover!? Not exactly... You're gonna be a bartender? Not exactly Uh oh $1500 and yeah and the agent will take a fee of course An in-house video for Mattel For the sales team

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Adam Curry's Mattel Sales Video Gig

Adam Curry reveals he took a side job performing as his former "MTV News" persona for an internal Mattel sales video. He expresses personal embarrassment over the gig, which involved introducing a "We Are The World" style video for the toy company's global brand team.

mattel· mtv news· simon waldron· voiceover· green screen

2:09:50 Oh, sales video. Now I'm like... Wow! You know? I got a gig! I got a gig! Would you like to hear the gig?! What can you imagine if they want Adam Curry the no agenda media assassin is that who they want for this gig? I don't know Alright Here we go Hello everybody, I'm Adam Curry and this is your MTV News. Inspired by the successes of Band-Aid and Hands Across America the Wheels team at Toymaker Mattel have decided to start focusing on some issues and causes very near and dear to their own hearts emerging markets international clusters and of course increased profitability

2:10:29 Restructured and suddenly freed from the shackles of the North American division, this global brand team or GBT is comprised of pop superstars from around the world. Italy Afghanistan India Venezuela Spain I mean even some made-up countries like Canada And they've all come together thanks to the vision of one man Simon Waldron So they made me stand in front of the green screen With my MTV leather jacket, with my hair all poofed up to introduce a fake We Are The World video by the sales team. That's the level that I have sunk too... To make ends meet How sad is that? How fucking sad is that? Yeah well I think it was priced awfully low They wanted to pay 500 bucks and I said- Ludacris And I said no What do they think you're a whore

2:11:25 Well, clearly all I had to do was ask for more. How sad is that? And because we did this during South by and Mickey and Molly Wood were like doing my hair all poofy Oh yeah you have to have the hair i mean that's what they're paying the money for how sad is that I'm so sad I'm pathetic That's the only gig I can get I'm 47 and they're still making me do MTV News guy Hold on a second. I'm gonna shoot myself. Oh... I hate myself Well, whatever Yeah well whatever Do you understand?

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Knighting Ceremony for Sir Sandy Stob

The hosts perform a formal knighting ceremony for Sandy Stob in recognition of his donation of an 1884 gold double eagle coin. He is dubbed "Sir Sandy Stob, Knight of the No Agenda Round Table," as the hosts reiterate their willingness to accept gold and silver as donations.

knighting· sandy stob· gold coin· double eagle· no agenda

2:12:11 And I can't, it's like we do all this... You do a lot of public speaking and stuff. I mean it's just- I do zero public speaking! Well you don't have a speech to sell? I got nothing to sell all I got is the show this is what it is and every morning I wake up well I hope we get support because that's all I got is this shows I have nothing there's nothing else I'm good at nothing. Yeah you're a good talker should be in Talker magazine Well anyway, we did get some support for this show so hopefully people will come in for Sunday and continue to help us out. And I would encourage anyone that has an old coin or something they want to send our way to throw in the pot and we'll take that. Devorak dot org slash N A It's your birthday! Birthday!

2:13:03 On no agenda! Alright, happy birthday Ryan M. Reich as we just heard Stacey Walter congratulates dad Alex Walter turning 40 today David Hanley's brother Joe Hanley turns 25-ish on Monday Anne L Beck says happy birthday Nerada Ian Sufi Scott Ramsey turning 61 on Monday Andrew Gardner congratulates his birthday Elliot Gardner on the that was yesterday for his birthday and Raphael says happy birthday to Charles Hamill Congratulations from all of your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe And, uh... I guess we have a- Well because Sandy sent in the coin. Regardless of your value or my value of the coin it's over $1000 so that warrants a knighthood So let's get our blades out here John Here comes Your blade sounded a little rusty there It is! We're not getting enough knights Sandy stab Or stob I think stick with stob Rhymes with

2:14:10 Come on over here, kneel down Sandy. Because of your donation of one gold coin which equals certainly more than 1,000 Federal Reserve notes we hereby pronounce thee Sir Sandy Stobbe Knight Of The Noah Jenner Round Tape Hookers and Blow Rent Boys And Chardonnay Hot Pants & Booze And Beers And Wenches For you my friend! Thank you for that support in setting a precedent of sending gold and silver coins. We'll be happy to accept those as donations, unfortunately we will have to report the full value amount at time of receipt because that's the way John has now set it up

2:14:46 And you can always do this at devorak.org slash N A or channeldevorak.com slash NA, or of course go to knowagenthenation.com Thank you so much for the support keep me away from the internal sales videos I'm actually disgusted by myself have to say Yeah what did it take? 15 minutes No it was a lot of text and didn't have a teleprompter So yeah Well you had to memorize the whole script Why did you just have a prompter? Well, I did this at home. Oh You're going to get it home against your own green screen. Yes, so basically it was like 400 for me and 1100 for the production That's funny oh yeah hilarious. Well. I think it's kind of somewhat amusing

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Department of Interior Reports Record Domestic Oil Production

A Department of Interior official reports that domestic oil production is at an eight-year high and gas production is at its highest level in recent memory. The administration highlights a 55% increase in operating rigs and a significant reduction in foreign oil imports, though the hosts suggest this information is being downplayed to appease the liberal base.

department of interior· oil production· gas production· gulf of mexico· drilling

2:15:34 Right. Hilarious. So, uh well you know it gets ya out of the house but didn't even do that much No cause they originally offered 400 bucks and I had to fly to LA I'm like it don't cost me more to get there Oh really? Good luck Yeah how sad is it And this is Mattel! This is like a huge China corporation They got tons of money Yeah they got lotsa dough Hey can you be MTV guy again haha love you really cool haha So I'm listening to um Carney comes out. Spokeshole Carney? And he introduces somebody, he looks at has a look of disgust when he brings this woman out her name's Heather something

2:16:15 And they never put a lower third down on the screen, this is on C-SPAN so they say who she was. But she's apparently some pre spokesperson for the Department of Interior guy who is a lot different than that Chu dummy... Yeah. ...who won a Nobel Prize and shouldn't probably be in government at all he should be doing basic research? The guy who wants to make sure we pay as much money for gasoline, he said so publicly, as the Europeans pay? Well, if you listen to the interior guys completely different we're going nuts Drilling and drilling. I'm sorry. Sorry. I jumped the gun he's go Oh yeah, the gun that's for oil is the clip right? We're going nuts drilling and drilling And this I believe is just a setup of

2:16:59 for the presidential campaign so when they put Democrats come out with their you know all we know where true there won't let us drill I this is if this if you listen to this that were not getting the right information sorry playing who was Heather or gone oil nuts I think what play who was Heather just saying listened to this woman and I'll take questions on other subjects and with that I think I'll turn it over to Heather will get started Thank you. As Jay said, the president today received a new progress report showcasing the administration's historic achievements in securing our energy future

2:17:35 The accomplishments in the report, which represent the efforts of six federal agencies underscore the administration's commitment over the past... I can't stand this. She is horrible! She is horrible and she stutters and she's reading so let's play the gone oil nuts. This is the Department of Interior guy telling us what actually going on it's not really being reported Thank you very much, Heather. I think it's important for all of us to note that the domestic oil production is at an eight-year high in the United States of America. Domestic gas production is at the highest level that we have seen in recent memory and as Heather just said, we are importing the lowest amount of oil that we have in 16 years to the United States of America

2:18:18 For me, for my time as a U.S. Senator and watching this debate now over the last 30 years remembering back in 2008 when we were importing 57% of our oil from foreign countries to today when in 2011 we're importing only 45%, is a dramatic achievement and one that we are very proud of On the level of activity that we have underway in the United States, we had a 55% increase in number of rigs that were operating onshore for both oil and gas as well as significant number operating in the outer continental shelf including in the Gulf of Mexico where the Gulf of Mexico is back to work again and oil and gas production is taking place there.

2:18:59 On federal lands and water, we have moved forward in the last three years with a 13% increase in oil and gas production just from the federal lands themselves. Gas production in 2011 was one of the best years that we've had in the last decade And the acreage that is being allowed to be developed by industry now includes about 72 million acres both on the land and in the sea where they currently are not developing. That is, 72 million acres that have been leased oil and gas companies where they currently are not developing We have moved forward Yeah, we're doing lots of stuff. We're going nuts! They don't want to report this because this gets the liberal base you know which is an anti-oil group all worked up you know because they want the alternative this and that but when they when the election finally rolls around they're gonna you know then the Republicans go on with this with the patent bull crap that they're saying oh you know they don't like you know we're trying to go alternative energy in wind power we're not doing anything with oil it's not true

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2012 Election Predictions and Eric Holder's Firewall

The hosts predict the 2012 election will be the most expensive in history but will have the lowest voter turnout. They discuss Attorney General Eric Holder's role as Obama's "firewall" and speculate on internal military opposition to the administration.

mitt romney· barack obama· eric holder· election 2012· voter turnout

2:20:01 Now I'm going to make a prediction about the election. I actually put this in somebody else's email and said, wait a minute! I should make this prediction for the Red Book and the predictions are following... I am sticking with the Romney versus Obama thing even though it would be funnier if Santorum was running but whoever runs is going to be the king of things that happen One it will be the most expensive campaign in history the United States elections gonna cut there's gonna be more money spent and there was curious that CBS just reported a hundred and sixty or one hundred eighty million dollar profit yeah that they credited to all these campaigns. Political campaigns, yeah Yeah which is then so they're the media is all for this no yeah it's the second it's gonna be the most money spent and here's the kicker to the prediction It is going to be the lowest turnout in the history I believe that too I think of elections absolutely right

2:20:58 Absolutely right. Because nobody cares, nobody cares these day whoever they run the Republicans it's the same guy you might as well just leave Obama in you know what difference does it make? Yeah well yeah Well there is still... So I'll go further and predict that Obama is gonna win so.. Yeah I'm very afraid of that but it seems like a now as we discussed on previous show that looks like the Republicans are just about ready to throw in the towel and just throw the election give it all up There is a faction out there and you know I follow the White House insider and the Wall Street insider, the Olsterman report which is linked in the show notes to give them credit. And I do believe that these people are real and they're really... They're still trying to remove Eric Holder

2:21:47 Because he's like the, he is the blocking mechanism. He is the firewall Obama's firewall and also according to these insiders there's a growing faction inside the US military which is now basically trying to screw up Obama I don't know if they're going to... Which is why you get this idea that this Afghanistan thing was rigged? Yeah, rigged Manchurian whatever possibly Possibly. It does make sense when you look at what the Joint Chiefs of Staff says and it's basically the drones against the rest, right? Obama has got his drones doesn't give a crap about... we don't need military anymore! We don't need boots on the ground, we've got the drones that is why he loves it so much He sitting up there in his second story office making the bald men cry thinking about his drones I'd be very sad if that happened because no matter what they gotta get him out

2:22:50 And, uh... Well it'll all be good for the show. It doesn't matter you know we- If Ron Paul became president it would be fantastic because then we'd actually get an invitation to the White House and we'd go Yeah! We would get an invitation which means we're gonna- Oh yeah Which means we began of course I get this Miss Mickey wants me to kiss her in The China Room In The what? The China Room Is that slang for something? Uhh..it's a movie reference Uhh..and y'know but I'm sure with it will be great It will be a frickin party man We have a good time You know we can invite it But yea Yea Yeah, we're not getting invited by this crowd. These folks I don't think these folks don't want us hanging around. Panetta meanwhile was went to and this was all part of it you read that he went to the Helmand province and they made the Marines lay down their arms You heard about this right? Oh yeah This is right after

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Leon Panetta's Disarmed Speech to Marines in Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visits the Helmand province in Afghanistan and delivers a speech to Marines who were reportedly ordered to disarm before his arrival. The hosts criticize the speech as "boring bull crap" and note the lack of applause from the troops.

leon panetta· marines· afghanistan· helmand province· disarmament

2:23:53 soldier went rogue and shot up a bunch of people, then Panetta shows up our new Secretary of Defense ex-CIA and they make them disarm which tells you something right there. They're afraid that someone's going to go shoot up the place and shoot up Panetta so he does this speech I'll give Rumsfeld this and all these other douchebags and Robert Gates at least they look like military guys trying to rile up the troops This Panetta. Especially Rumsfeld. This Panetta, man... I got a little clip here from him If you think- I mean, I can just imagine First of all he's introduced No one claps There is no like WOOOOO! No one He is that asshole Sorry And uh..he lays out the biggest bull crap and you know these poor boys and girls who are over there gotta be thinking You're so full of CRAP

2:24:57 You are so full of crap. Listen to his speech, it went on for 30 minutes here's an excerpt We're obviously working to try and stand together with the Afghan people we're fighting for a common cause To try to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven from which terrorists can launch an attack against our country 9-11. What? Oh yeah, no no it's keep listening! It's crazy! It was an attack against all of us. It was an attack against all who believe in freedom and in democracy And the reality is that All of us stepped forward to try to ensure that what happened on 9 11 does not happen again and try to build an Afghanistan that ultimately can secure and govern itself

2:26:04 That's the mission that we're involved with. Mission not only to make sure that we go after Al Qaeda and their terrorist allies, but we go after all of those who would support that kind of terrorism and the key to that is in Afghanistan that can secure and govern and control its own country." You lying sack-of-crap! I mean, how can anyone in that audience be saying yeah that's right. Yeah this is for the... we never want terrorists to come out of here and strike America. It's all about 9-11 Oh! I'm sorry my shoe slipped off. Hit you in the head you douchebag That is so unbelievably... We should be bombing Hamburg

2:27:04 We should be bombing... That's where most of the plotters came from and there was, and of course Saudi Arabia is where the guys actually came from. Yeah. This whole, I mean no this Afghanistan was a safe haven for one guy for awhile we think we don't know We did find him in Pakistan. Yeah, which is probably where it was where everyone thought he was anyway So the whole thing is bogus and those were poppy these boy a pop Well that's the fun the CIA and their drones but they know Helmand province It's on the pipeline everyone knows why they're there then not stupid yeah They're trained to be killing machines But they're not stupid just I just like you know like

2:27:45 You gotta be careful, man. I'm sure there's a lot of grumbling after that speech. There was like no applause No nothing just like everyone like why did he do it? Well because yeah It's his job But why did he do what you didn't have to give that speech well Because they had just had the big shootout and he had to go down there And you know Like if you and are running a company and one of our employees kills 16 customers you might want to think about you know Riling up the troops Yeah, well that wasn't Riley. That wasn't getting anybody jacked. First he disarms everybody so they don't shoot him in the spot which was probably a smart thing to do and then he gives a boring talk about

2:28:29 It just sounds like bull crap. And it didn't get anybody all worked up for sure, he never got any applause or anything He had to be there for some other reason and then he just did this speech as kind of a window dressing for the real reason that he was there Well no, well he met with Karzai right? That's the whole thing No he met with Karzai and he had this whole thing Oh we're so sorry With a briefcase full of money I unfortunately yeah really, I think we're looking at we're gonna see a lot of senior guys getting popped. We already know that we had it was it a colonel and a lieutenant and like two high-ranking officers got shot?

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Quran Burning Incident and Trash Disposal Setup

The hosts analyze the Quran burning incident in Afghanistan, suggesting it was not a deliberate act of desecration but a result of soldiers burning trash that included religious texts. They speculate the event may have been a "setup" facilitated by local workers to incite protests.

quran burning· afghanistan· trash disposal· provocation· setup

2:29:08 Remember you had that story. It was just two guys there were two high-ranking officers right that got shot by a guy in a soundproof room Right so he could walk out of there and This it seemed more like an assassination Specific to these two guys I'm not sure it was part of the yeah, but that was like if the excuse was the Quran burning But I am NOT buying Well, you know the Quran burning. You know what that actually was don't you? It wasn't like a bunch of soldiers standing around a campfire going like yeah Let's burn these Korans! That's not what it was. You know what it was right do you know? Yeah, they were collecting a bunch of trash Essentially notebooks there were just burning trash. Yeah, they're burning trash

2:29:48 Then all of a sudden it became this huge thing just because they did we obviously so naive about it and shows out dumb these guys No, I don't think you had a bunch of locals helping them And then apparently as they were shoveling the trash into the burner. They wouldn't get there was a train in there So what do you guys keep burning the Quran? Sounds like a setup to me and how does that jive with the following one of our producers at one who is always use an anonymous remailer, sent me a link to fedbizops.gov for a tender or solicitation. So he's in the defense industry? Yeah he is in the industry some way shape or form No doubt about it and this is a tender let me see if it has a name for the SMS text message program

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DARPA More Eyes Program and SMS Psychological Operations

A solicitation from the Combined Joint Psychological Operations Task Force reveals a program called "More Eyes." Developed by DARPA, the initiative uses SMS text messaging to track the attitudes and demographics of local populations in Afghanistan and potentially other regions, including the United States.

darpa· more eyes· psyop· sms· regina dugan

2:30:42 And I found this interesting for a number of reasons. I read the intro here, which i will share with you mainly because it is meant for Afghanistan and other places so that means it could be used anywhere introduction The Combined Joint Psychological Operations Task Force...I thought they had changed their name but apparently the combined joint psychological operations task force doesn't use the what was the acronym again? The MISO Yeah, miso soup. They don't use miso anymore is responsible for planning and executing theater wide psychological operations. Psy op it literally says psy op in this document I love this and programs and objectives

2:31:26 As the lead organization for nationwide PSYOP campaign execution, the CJPOTF requires the means of delivering tailored messages through various forms of media such as print radio television billboards to target audiences throughout Afghanistan. To achieve its mission, the CJPOTF seeks to exploit a program developed by DARPA and this becomes important in second called More Eyes as in more eyes, that involves generating data about local populations attitudes and views through the use of SMS text messaging. And then it goes into a couple of things that the vendor has to be able to do

2:32:09 Develop a database of the populace to include demographics about age, occupation location phone numbers etc. Track coverage produce tailored surveys to find target audiences it's like advertising gig in order to extract relevant information support campaign and program assessment message regional audiences to inform local populous about ISAF or insurgent incidents develop a platform to message target audiences after transition takes place etc., etc., etc So the two things that were interesting to me, one was this More Eyes program called DARPA. The DARPA program called More Eyes and the fact that it states that this is for Afghanistan and other places which I'm thinking could be...I don't know America as a thought? Yeah iIm just thinking maybe it's America well I mean they but I don't think so because already that's already been in play but listen

2:33:05 the Thermopylae Sciences and Technologies Corporation who have actually responded to this, and they say they have a great contact with DARPA and Google. And will be perfect to implement this program." What did we just hear about DARPA? Google?! Yes! Jeez... What did we just hear about DARPA? Yeah The DARPA director Regina Dugan is going to leave DARPA and go work for Google. Thank you! For the More Eyes program, watch this code name More Eyes. Is it two words or one? Two words... More Eyes So it seems to me and this is sophisticated stuff they're they're going to be correlating text messages to find out attitudes of people

2:34:01 And of course all five of the mobile networks in Afghanistan are cooperating. Well, we know that they're all cooperating here in the United States so I think more eyes is going to be implemented here and that's the code name More Eyes Yeah yeah it was probably to catch those whatever those evil or whether The violent, what's that the new term coming up? Oh the HVEs. HVEs Homegrown Violent Extremists Yeah so the more eyes will counteract them Yep Now talking about this type of subject So I found this very weird The US ambassador to Russia has a Twitter account He's gone twitter nuts And play this clip US Ambassador on social media

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Ambassador McFaul's Twitter Diplomacy and Bill Gates Style

US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul discusses his use of Twitter for "public diplomacy" after being barred from social media while working at the White House. The hosts note his mannerisms and presentation style closely resemble those of Bill Gates.

michael mcfaul· twitter· public diplomacy· russia· bill gates

2:34:48 Okay, and that's why things like Twitter and Facebook are tremendously interesting tools for me. I only got on Twitter six weeks ago I've never had a Twitter account not allowed to when I worked at the White House And I was given very explicit instructions to use whatever means available To do what we call public diplomacy right? So I use the media. I've been on Russian television, on state channels Russia Today as well as opposition. I think engagement is the right policy because we don't feel like we have anything to hide in terms of what were trying to do

2:35:23 And I found Twitter to be a really interesting way to engage with Russian society. If you're not on Twitter, and I'm not going to ask for show of hands because I don't want to embarrass people that are closer to my age than Josh is but...I gotta tell you, I felt like I knew something about Russia before I moved to Russia You know? I'd worked on it for a bit, written some books and been working at the White House for three years uh... the amount that i have learned in the last eight weeks by just being on twitter is just shocking to me and never ever expected it while things were weird about that one is this defected he's taking twitter seriously man and they couldn't do it use if you're in the white house why don't know why because and also the other thing about this character he has got all the mannerisms and style of bill gates

2:36:17 He does, oh that's a good call. Yeah good call totally he has a Bill Gates type of presentation if you kind of squint a little bit he actually looks like Bill Gates he got the same gesture style and the pausing and stuttering in the whole thing which I find interesting yeah guess he was a professor at Stanford some point but i kinda like this guy Well, let's keep our eye on him because he'll be our key to knowing when Russia becomes our bestest BFF. Yeah and he is going to be part of the deal. So a couple of Haiti things you know I love to talk about Haiti 2009 we had the horrible earthquake caused by the earthquake machine the entire country has been raped Bill Clinton moved in whole shillages in so he now bringing his solar companies

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Haiti Cholera Vaccine Controversy and WHO Approval

A controversy emerges in Haiti regarding a mass cholera vaccination program. While critics argue for clean water and sanitation, the World Health Organization has approved the vaccine, which some locals still fear is an experimental medical trial.

haiti· cholera· vaccine· world health organization· bill clinton

2:37:09 Yeah, we're doing great. We're setting up solar panels for the hospital." Hey that's not a good idea Bill because if there is no sun one day then what? The ICU shuts down like that A-hole is just trying to you know more money for bogus green companies that don't need it but NPR put out a report that blew me away Now of course we know after, it wasn't enough to have hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the dirt eating mud cakes. We had to come in with the United Nations and give them pooping disease documented that oh yeah I'm sorry we had a couple guys with cholera Yeah we brought them along anyway we didn't notice they were sick we didn't notice they were like shitting their brains out about to die Didn't notice that No! And then he pooped in everybody's water and everyone got cholera and remember what they did? What'd they do

2:38:01 What did they do? They didn't do anything. They came out with an experimental vaccine against cholera. Oh right, yeah they came up with some bull crap, yeah Remember it was an experimental vaccine Yeah that gives them...they got a free audience there they can test it on the poor people in Haiti Has really imploded but thats what they've been doing for generations You know I was talking with your editor Richard and he mentioned that he sent you down to Haiti to be there for the start of this vaccine program But I gather while you're ready to see it their not actually ready to do it No, they're very ready to do it. It's just that there has been a big glitch lately that has held it up. There are two medical groups who have been working for most of the past year to vaccinate against cholera but there is controversy about whether its a medical experiment or not and so they are having to work through that.

2:38:49 vaccines by the millions all the time. It's good! Vaccines are good, I'm at NPR, vaccine is good we know that with public media my vaccine is good! Would it be controversial to give a vaccine... Why wouldn't the stupid sick Haitian people want vaccines? Stupid stupid mud-eating people for cholera Well, a couple of things. Some people think that the effort should be spent on getting clean water and sanitation... Well there's a concept! Wow! Who would have thunk that? What idiot came up with that concept?! No this is not- no don't do that shoot him up but secondly- Shoot him up and let it eat crap There's been concern that this vaccine was experimental and that's been really just a confusion of timing. Last year when they originally proposed it, this vaccine was not approved by the World Health Organization now it is but lately people have said this is an experiment so they're trying to work that out and make it clear that it's really not an experiment This is a certified safe and effective vaccine Yes! Certified safe and effective It's a fact

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Eurozone Debt Crisis and Fiscal Consolidation

Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, addresses the Eurozone debt crisis in a vlog. He admits the problem was caused by bailing out insufficiently supervised banks and advocates for "fiscal consolidation," which the hosts interpret as the centralization of European wealth in Brussels.

eurozone· greece· herman van rompuy· fiscal consolidation· bank bailouts

2:39:48 It's a fact. The Haitians are like, you ain't sticking that needle in my arm with that experimental crap and then the World Health Organization says oh no it is good is good as she's a shield at woman how horrible is this? It's unbelievable and we got to wrap things up but I want to go to Euro land for a moment We're coming up on March 23rd when of course we will see the entire Eurozone implosion which will start with Greece, but they will not leave the euro I'm telling you they will not leave the euro. They will just kill the Greek people there The Greek people that are just out on the street There's more than 50% unemployment People have no food and all you get from Europeans and I met a couple of Europeans

2:40:43 By the way, I want to say hi to Sir Anthony from Australia. He came up to me at South by and he's one of our knights from down under and just wanted to give a shout out to him before I forget but I saw a couple Europeans and you know they've been so indoctrinated they're like well you know yeah we got problems you know it is lazy stupid Greek people that's literally how they talk about them and I you know I'm sorry to say but You know, we... that's not how you talk about your brothers and sisters who are being screwed. They're really they are dying out there and you live in a third world union so Haiku Herman I never noticed by the way the Greeks and I fairly well traveled

2:41:26 That the Greeks are any lazier than the Swiss. No they're not! It's a propaganda, it's a bull crap campaign. You can see the Germans thinking everyone is lazier than they are I mean that's not an unusual attitude but that's bull crap too But everybody is like everything sucks because of the Greeks and people are dying Suicide rates are up its really bad this is really really really bad And I pity everyone in Europe So Haiku Herman, the president of the United States of Europe does kind of his State Of The Union. Oh! Yeah it goes unnoticed because no one knows the guy It goes unnoticed? Didn't interrupt my broadcasting network viewing No well luckily he has a vlog Oh I see He's got a vlog It is actually called The President's Vlog which i think is a venereal disease Is that thing inside the toilet? yeah it's the thing that goes inside the thing that goes inside the toilet the vlog

2:42:27 So first he explains how we got into this mess in the first place. Can you guess what, how this happened? What is... How this mess happened? What can we blame this on? Well if I was going to blame it on...I don't know! I would blame it on the United States if I could but no that's not gonna do that. I wouldn't blame it on the Chinese. Who would you blame it on? You have to blame it on the Greeks No, no. He's actually pretty honest about it but it is quite incredible he just comes out and says it. What had been a solution became a problem. The reasons behind the debt problem are diverse in most cases it is not because of gross profligacy in public spending. In some it is because of large banking sectors insufficiently supervised which collapsed and had to be rescued

2:43:22 by the taxpayer. Oh, okay! Did anyone know that in Europe? Did you realize that you bailed out the banks and that was what it was? Well... Apparently I don't remember anyone else saying that ever. It's obviously what it is he's right Now wait until the end as Haiku Herman in this clip explains how we're going to fix it And the real fix of course gives a whole laundry list of stuff and the real fix is the last three words We approach your question from many angles Making sure that at the same time as we bring deficits budgets under control, we keep investing in our future. In education, in research and development... Pay close attention to what he says here hold on a second let me back it up. In education, in research and development and listen to this word. Research and development, innovation, simulating investment Simulating investment

2:44:15 No, no. He doesn't say stimulating he says simulating. He says simulating but he meant stimulant. Okay all right looking closely. But now keep listening. At expenditure making assistance to the unemployed more proactive looking at revenues, for instance by tackling tax evasion and tax fraud. Ah we're gonna come down on you bitches! Yeah. ...exploiting to the full the single market especially the services and digital markets as emphasized again in a letter by 12 colleagues reducing the tax burden on labor, especially on low-income earners. SLAVES! Increasing trade opening sheltered sectors such as professional services and retail. SLAVES! Improving the best business environment cutting red tape and paperwork thanks to digital public administration in short making the right choices for jobs and growth in the midst of fiscal consolidation. There it is Fiscal Consolidation

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Seattle Hospital Drill Scenario and Gunshot Wound Training

A listener reports on a planned drill at Seattle hospitals involving a scenario of multiple local attacks downtown. The training focuses on managing hundreds of victims with varying degrees of burns and gunshot wounds, leading to host speculation about potential "false flag" events.

seattle· hospital drill· gunshot wounds· burns· false flag

2:48:38 You were tweeting about it. Yeah, it's because I'm disgusted by the fact that we have a athletic conference out here on the West Coast It just stinks and I believe is because the guy running it He's just a marketing guy doesn't know anything about sports he's just letting the thing languish So if we have any candy stripers or doctors or nurses in the Seattle area I'd like to get some information from you one of our producers and this will be my last one One of our producers who is very afraid to send me the email because she says, look I'm a single mom. I can't risk losing my job so I can't send it to you and she has not encrypted her email or anything like that and I understand that's cool Here's their note to me Adam got an email about a drill scenario at Seattle hospitals who were asked to participate

2:49:29 The drill's- quoting the email, so he only gave me a quote. The drill scenario is a series of local attacks occurring throughout downtown Seattle and hundreds of deaths and injuries have been reported at multiple locations Area hospitals have been asked to surge to respond to those events and provide care to victims We are now preparing for an influx of patients Most of the victims have varying degrees of burns and gunshot wounds Hmm And I can't find anything about this on the web. Hmm... Burns and gunshot? Well, maybe our listeners can help us on that's this one How about burns and gunshot wounds though what kind of disaster would that be? Burns and gunshot well that would be uh Is there is it's got to be movie or the shi- It gotta be shooting in movies somewhere Yeah, probably what i'm not liking this I didn't false flag Maybe I don't know who knows

2:50:36 Alright, well that was fun. Oh no it's a blast I always love talking to you John as long as it's uplifting yes Guns and guns and burn wounds finish with it like some scenario We don't even know anything about it could happen any minute I could always play my Mattel Hot Wheels MTV News segment if that'll make you feel happier No, no it makes you worse Today's show coming up at three o'clock Eastern time I guess that's just about now See the other side of live with motivational speaker podcast personality and self-help author are Mordent Mayan Armor Damon is how you pronounce it okay? Arm or Damon

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Kony 2012 Satire and AFRICOM Commentary

The episode concludes with a satirical segment regarding the Kony 2012 viral video. The sketch features a fictional "General Baxter" from AFRICOM discussing how the video helps justify defense budgets and US military presence in Africa under the guise of humanitarian aid.

kony 2012· africom· joseph kony· satire· child soldiers

2:51:24 That'll be on the stream and it airs weekly Tuesday nights 930 p.m.. Eastern time Make sure you catch that and we'll be back on Sunday with more uplifting news from all around Gitmo nation check out no agenda News network calm and from Camp Mofo here in the capital of drone star state in the morning everybody My name is Adam curry, and from Northern Silicon Valley I'm John C Dvorak talk to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda Welcome dear viewers to the show. It's only the start of 2012 but already coast-to-coast we hear reports that humanity has evolved globally now that we know the cause of all our woes, Joseph Kony! The world is now on a better path and the panacea seems to have come from this hero white man here

2:52:22 Whose internet video played a vital role in highlighting the plight of Uganda's child soldiers. It went viral and spread with unprecedented speed, shared over Twitter feeds and endorsed by celebrities To tell us more we're happy to have him on it's General Baxter representing AFRICOM! General Baxter good to see you Right back at ya Tell us what does all this signify for Africa? Well Robert I can tell you for a start Kony 2012 really made me appreciate art When my son showed me this clip, my heart was stirred I whispered to Action to right the wrong that occurred Tell us your feelings General. Be honest! Since we killed Osama there's been a hole in my stomach Sorry to hear that...I miss him Why? Because we desperately need new dark-skinned Disney villains So we can justify defense budgets of trillions In an ever ending quest to kill em

2:53:10 And this time it's African soil where we need to get him boiled and quick before China gets all the oil. So this Kony is a perfect gift then? He looks like a bad guy AND he hurts children! Kony 2012 was an experiment, was it a success? Yes kids are begging the US to bomb Africa next Check this out let me introduce you to Gavin my son Gavin what does daddy do? Kill poor people with gas Yeah now look what happens when I show Gavin a picture of an African Who's this? That's a bad guy. That's right, and what do we do to bad guys? We use drones and armed forces To kill them And take their resources Yeah see Robert even a four year old has got it This makes me so proud

2:53:53 Sorry. And what will you do once they've been caught? Hand them over to the International Criminal Court. You mean the same court which the US refuses... ...to submit to for its own war crimes and abuses! Is that hypocrisy?! Robert, honestly, the ICC only prosecutes dark people's atrocities. Okay, I hear there has been criticism of the video's accuracy, fallacies and neo-colonial fantasies Don't have such a heart of darkness, Robert

2:54:35 Join the missionary industrial complex Save poor Africa from burning Accept the white men's burden Plus, 90 million Americans now know that Africa exists That's good, no? I suppose so Alright General Baxter Thanks for appearing tonight to explain the facts in black and well mostly white Some might disagree with this call to make Kony famous What we've witnessed this week is nevertheless momentous. A demonstration of this Internet's potential abilities to instantly inform and engage tens of millions, and a willingness of those millions of people to engage passionately with something more meaningful. Combined these are promising signs of the potential energy that lies dormant and primed ready to rise when the moment arrives what that moment will be? We shall see in time.