Episode 426 · Sunday, 15 July 2012

The Pipeline Report

A massive undersea gas discovery off the coast of Israel triggers a high-stakes corporate war involving the Troika, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Syrian pipeline infrastructure.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 426

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The discovery of the Leviathan gas field off the coast of Israel has fundamentally shifted Mediterranean geopolitics, triggering a corporate war for energy transit dominance. Hillary Clinton and Noble Energy are actively pressuring Turkey and Cyprus to secure undersea routes, while the conflict in Syria is reframed as a battle over the Arab gas pipeline rather than a domestic uprising. The escalation of violence in Homs and Aleppo serves as a tactical distraction from the strategic infrastructure required to supply the European natural gas market.

Greek Energy Minister George Papakonstantinou and Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy are identified as key figures facilitating the privatization of state assets like DEPA under pressure from the Troika. British security expert Patrick Seale argues that the Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis remains the primary obstacle to Western hegemony, while the Muslim Brotherhood gains ground during the Arab Spring. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faces scrutiny over US Special Forces involvement in Syria as the Nabucco pipeline project is abandoned in favor of a massive undersea power cable connecting Cyprus to the European mainland.

Media manipulation takes center stage as CNN reporter Arwa Damon and the activist known as Danny on Skype are accused of staging emotional reports to trigger UN intervention. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad challenges the credibility of Barbara Walters and the United Nations during a high-stakes interview, while Benjamin Netanyahu makes a historic visit to Cyprus to cement military and energy ties. The program concludes with a look at the Alaska model for resource wealth and a skeptical review of Angelina Jolie’s role as a UN ambassador for energy interests.


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CHAPTER 01 / 29 Discussion

No Agenda Special Presentation, Steven Anto Pipeline Clip Show

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak introduce a special presentation of the No Agenda Show on July 15, 2012, while Curry prepares for his wedding. Producer Steven Anto compiled a clip show focusing on the program's extensive pipeline coverage from episodes 381 through 384. The hosts explain that this episode will run straight through without the traditional donation segment.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· steven anto· pipeline· clip show· wedding

00:00 Adam Curry, John C. DeVorak. It's Sunday July 15th 2012 time for a special presentation of the No Agenda Show episode 426 This is No Agenda Still pretending to be live on the best podcast in the universe because I'm tossing my bouquet In the morning! I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I caught the bouquet What an arm! I'm John C. DeVorak This is Craig Vaught & Buzzkill Congratulations, mr. Married man no it's actually tomorrow I didn't know my own wedding date This is why we do the show live at a certain time because We couldn't fake doing this delay if we can't we're too dumb Face it. We're just too dumb

00:52 So we have a special show for everybody today. You want to introduce it and we're not going to do it, by the way this is gonna be a straight through show there's not gonna be a donation segment so I want to remind people of course that that we still need contributions and executive producers for the next show which will list all the people that came in during this last week. So get your executive producership at Dvorak dot org slash NA channel, dvorak dot com slash NA noagendanation dot com or noagendashow dot com and hit the donation button and that would help us out greatly and it also send Adam a congratulatory note Yes, and please send that to Miss Mickey as well. And so here is now I got to give props to a special producer who put this together Steven on tow which is a n T eau he says Adam I know you're looking

01:41 a day off or a week off or something like that for your wedding more power to you. To help I put together the clip show of your pipeline coverage from episodes 381-384 hearing it all in one place is jarring and very fun, and i agree! I liked it of course with John and I both screened it and we thought it was great and highly appreciated that we don't have to like figure out more things to do just to tide people over so Really appreciate it. I imagine you and John we want to do an opening but a helpless help Yeah, okay So here we are this is the opening so thank you very much Steven And I guess will pop back at the very end John just say goodbye before we before we leave yeah Okay, here comes special pipeline edition of The No Agenda Show

CHAPTER 02 / 29 Discussion

Syria Conflict, Natural Gas Markets, European Energy Dependency

The discussion shifts to the 2012 escalation of violence in Homs, Syria, framing the conflict as a struggle over energy transit rather than just civil unrest. Europe's high dependency on natural gas is highlighted, alongside Japan's increased demand for gas following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The hosts argue that the media hype surrounding Syria masks a deeper geopolitical battle over gas routes into the second-largest market in the world.

syria· homs· natural gas· russia· turkey· japan· fukushima· energy

02:24 Adam Curry, John C. DeVorek It's Thursday February 9th 2012 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 381 This is no agenda Spending my days with Leviathan here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state In The Morning everybody from Austin Texas I'm Adam Curry And plain and simple from Northern Silicon Valley I am John C. DeVorek It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Hey, Stinger. Uh we're gonna go right into your thing? Yeah it's uh it's gonna take a while but... Well how long is it gonna take? I don't know depends and you might immediately go ehhh! I might.

03:08 Alright, we'll start. That would be really unfortunate. I'll start asking questions Okay Well what is one of the the premises that we and we actually talked about this on 200 dot 5 One of the premises of our view of the world Yeah, there you go. What? Well what do you mean... You're asking me a question right off the bat I thought you were going to start eating into it. No it's a question and see I need to eat if you want to answer this question It's all about oil isn't that what we've always said oh yeah it's always about oil yeah that's one of our many many models well this is my end to take it to a further extreme it's about everybody else's oil we just want to keep ours and then break the world and then we have all this oil and we can be the number-one dog on

03:54 So I think... Which is fine with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah! I think we were a little bit distracted by the oil per se because what and it really took me and again i've been working at this 18 hours a day for three days straight And what I realized is It's no longer just about oil Oil of course, yeah important but what's going on? And I'll just give you a little taste if you haven't seen it If you haven't heard it This is the only thing dominating the news in America today. The shattering explosions come every few minutes in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, residents say government troops are using rockets and heavy artillery in a bombardment that has gone on for days as the shells fall the slaughter mounts another 60 men and women and children were reported killed today but residents say they cannot even count the dead anymore We can't even count the dead anymore!

04:52 Now, we talked on the last show John. We talked about why is this being hyped up about Syria? What is going on there's so much incredible hype that there must be something happening Did you pick up anything I mean we've been waiting for this in the New York Times Has anything happened with Syria Anything new? Well, no I mean have all of a sudden it seems like someone turned the on switch and pushed it towards 11 and said We've got at Syria. It's all about Syria! Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria, Syria Well, I have a bunch of thoughts on this too with a bunch of clips Yeah But I'm more now interested in what you're what you think you've dug up Okay, okay unnecessary All right So I'm going to tell you

05:40 that this is not about oil, this is about gas. And it only really struck me when I started to gather a couple of maps... Now John get your browser ready because I'm going to give you a URL. Okay browser ready boss! Is your browser ready? Browsers ready, it's up and ready Should I be in the Google box or should I be in the URL box? The URL Box. Put your cursor in the URL Box Alright, I'm ready Because once you load this You only have like 20 seconds and then rest of the listeners are going to go get it It's gonna crash the server Alright Ready Yeah Pipelines dot curry dot com You got it Pipelines dot curry dot com Tell me when you have the page loaded

06:26 Pages up pages up all right, so I picture you when your ten now scroll down a little Yes, that's it. It is his fault okay first and people at home can play along with this So I want to show you these are not maps. I created these are ones I got from presentations Don't scroll to the bottom just stay where you are okay? You're winning yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so the first picture here is shows The state of the gas it says oil and gas but it'll be about gas and you'll find out why so on the right here You see all this Russian region. You see bits of Iraq in Iran And you see that's the largest oil and gas sources of the world and the market The largest market is Europe, right? That's a second-largest market Of course we have other big markets But that is a huge oil market right gas market

07:17 And of course the natural route of transit is through Turkey. Going from, and a lot of this if you go to the second one, these are all pipelines So we have the pipelines, we have the South Stream, the Blue Stream and you'll see that a lot of this goes through Ukraine through Slovakia. They built the South Stream which is interesting which it goes to Greece and then from Greece it goes to Italy And of course Europe is highly dependent upon gas for number reasons. Gas became very important in this past year The reason... The gas has become also, we have to note there's a back your thesis up here. The recent memes about the cold cold cold weather in Europe and people dropping dead is one of these things that makes people start to think about this Well there is one other reason which I didn't actually realize

08:08 But Japan has a huge demand now for natural gas. Why? Because they no longer have their nuclear facility and the next option, next to nuclear when it comes to what is the cleanest, what is the cheapest and what is easiest to deal with is natural gas Now you'll recall that right after Fukushima, Germany said oh that's it we're shutting down all our nuclear plants no more nukes. So they need more gas to generate electricity and this is a side note but something to bear in mind. First of all before you continue

CHAPTER 03 / 29 Discussion

Leviathan Gas Field Discovery, Israel, Cyprus, Noble Energy

The discovery of the Leviathan gas field off the coast of Israel on December 30, 2010, is identified as a pivotal event that changed Mediterranean dynamics. This massive discovery allows Israel to potentially bypass the Arab gas pipeline and ship directly to Europe via Cyprus and Greece. Hillary Clinton and Noble Energy are linked to efforts to secure these resources through the Law of the Sea and diplomatic pressure on Turkey.

leviathan gas field· israel· cyprus· noble energy· hillary clinton· mediterranean· law of the sea

08:50 Our basic premise in show 200.5 that it's always about the oil, it applies to gas! It does but there's something else that happened that we have probably forgotten that changed the entire picture and will explain everything All right, and I think it's a model. We can apply to everything That's happening scroll down to the scroll down to name for this tile for this show already good scroll down tease Scroll down to the third map now This is the Arab gas pipeline You'll see the Arab gas pipeline starts down there at our ish, right? This is where Egyptian gas was shipped into a resh and then the pipeline goes all the way up passing Israel on the right-hand side actually bypasses bypasses Israel Damascus up to homes Gee wherever I heard that name recently every 10 seconds on the news scroll down to the fourth map. Oh

09:51 What's interesting is the Arab gas pipeline only goes to Homs. It's not complete because the mission is to complete the final 230 kilometers into Turkey, known as the Syrian-Turkey pipeline So what was happening is we had natural gas being shipped in and this is In a way, in many ways competitive To all of the Russian gas You with me? Although the Russians are in on it, everyone's in on it particularly Europe and the Russians are also in on this Syrian-Turkey pipeline. So this is the way that gas was flowing and we're going to relate this back to Arab Spring in a moment What happened on December 30th of 2010? I don't know you tell me Adam We discussed

10:44 But we didn't really think about what the true, and all this is in the show notes by the way. We didn't think about the true parameters of what this meant The Leviathan gas field was discovered This is the largest discovery of gas In our century And it's right off the coast of Israel The northern coast of Israel And it goes all the way, basically to Cyprus. Oh boy isn't that interesting? So all of a sudden the entire dynamics changed Israel which has always had to import their gas and they imported it by the way straight from Syria through that Arab pipeline Israel now will become one of the largest suppliers of gas

11:37 Now, if all of a sudden we have this huge gas field sitting right there in the Mediterranean and we have the biggest consumer being Europe. What is the most logical route? The most logical route is to go through Cyprus straight into Greece bypassing that entire other chart that you saw Bypassing this entire deal that you've seen with the Arab gas pipeline. Cyprus is owned by the Russians? Cyprus is owned partially by the Russian's, Cyprus is owned partially by Greece Turkey is very pissed off about the whole Cyprus thing But who do we see showing up in Cyprus? We see Hillary Clinton showing up There's a company there called Noble Energy

12:29 And noble energy has very tight ties to the Bush family and the Clinton family because Israel got a little bit greedy, and they said hey you know those laws we had in 1951 about how if we ever had any kind of natural resources we'd tax them really low. We're going to jack that up a little bit if you don't mind just a little bit because uh... You know we can make some money here Then Hillary Clinton immediately came out and said hey, you know This is no good. And then she started working on something called the law of the seas remember that the law of the seas which determines the Territory of each individual country and all the rest belongs to the UN or some other bullcrap like that Yeah good because who actually owns this well Lebanon says it's theirs

13:14 or at least part of it, Israel's like no no this is the promised land man. This is what Moses brought us here for. This is ours Cyprus is saying you know what? I think maybe it's ours, but we've got Noble Energy here. The Houston-based company will work with you no problem We'll be your buddies and we've seen a whole lot of really interesting things happen between Israel and Cyprus but also Greece Homs of course is really important because You want two things to happen. Gas is very cheap right now, so we can't just say... It's depressed actually Right! We can't just say oh here's all this gas you know because it won't even be worth it to export it but if we can create some kind of scarcity ie let's blow up some pipelines and what happens in homes? Pipelines get blown up continuously.

CHAPTER 04 / 29 Discussion

Arab Spring, Pipeline Sabotage, Greek Energy Minister George Papakonstantinou

The Arab Spring is characterized as a series of events that destabilized gas competitors in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia shortly after the Leviathan discovery. Greek Energy Minister George Papakonstantinou's visit to Jerusalem is analyzed as part of a plan to make Greece a hub for Israeli gas transit to Europe. The transition of power in Greece is framed as a move to favor Israeli-Cypriot energy deals over Russian-backed alternatives.

arab spring· egypt· libya· greece· george papakonstantinou· netanyahu· pipelines

14:15 Three months after this discovery, three months the Arab Spring starts. I remind you that Egypt was exporting their gas into the Arab pipeline which bypasses Israel not only do we see the entire regime and the whole country destabilized but their pipeline was blown up four times during that time Libya, hmm. Libya was exporting their natural gas to Italy straight into Europe that stopped when all of a sudden we had the Arab Spring and the Libyan no-fly zone Stopped done No more natural gas was exported trying to restart that but they're not going to Tunisia Tunisia delivers

15:03 natural gas to Italy via Algeria. So this has always been about the gas Now let's check in on some of the elites and what they're doing This is where it gets really really crazy I have a clip here, this is the new minister of Energy for Greece It just gets too funny He used to be The economic minister for Greece and he is actually the ministry of the economy up until the crisis. And then all a sudden, he switched roles and became the Minister of Gas. Why? You'll figure out in a second. So he goes to Jerusalem

15:53 Because the Greeks of course, they want to have this deal. They want to have this gas coming in from this huge Israeli field To sell to Europe and basically shut everybody else out So he goes to Israel and he does an interview with The Jerusalem Post But the interviewer is like a 13 year old girl so he's really cavalier He'll just lay it all out there And things he says are Outrageously amazing. Here's a question one about exporting gas from Israel to Greece and then from Greece to Europe. Only a few weeks following the formation of the Greek unity government, Environment Energy and Climate Change Minister George Papakonstantinou is the first Greek official to visit Israel as representative of the new coalition

16:41 Is Greece considering importing Israeli natural gas? There is at the moment a big discussion on how to bring to Europe gas from a number of areas outside Europe and diversify sources. The negotiations for example on bringing gas from the Caspian Sea are now going to come to a conclusion We are trying to make Greece the hub for gas Transit to northern European countries either via Italy or through the Balkans and In that context, the discussions with Israel are ongoing on the possibility to bring in also

17:21 Israeli gas and these have been discussed at the high level in the past between the two prime ministers And At senior government level so this new Prime Minister in Greece is very interesting The old guy Papandreou he actually was trying to do a deal with the Russians for the Get the name of it here the pipeline Here it is the Burgas Alexandropopolis, which would come from the Russians through Bulgaria into Greece. So this is why he had to go because they it's like wait a minute we've got all this Israeli oil We don't want that stupid pipeline that's way too long! We can ship it right through Cyprus we own half of that anyway...we can still work with the Russians we can still put a deal together but we're gonna be the guys so they bring in the new Prime Minister

18:20 and this prime minister is all over that. The new Greek Prime Minister as of November 11th, Lucas Papadimos last week told Netanyahu that they're interested in strengthening relations with Israel what do you think he meant by this exactly? I have learned in politics to never interpret what the Prime Minister says however for the last few years starting with the previous government, George Papandreou's government. There has been clearly a new page opened in the relationship between the two countries and I think there have been many instances

19:01 There's been the visit, of course that has happened to Greece and a clear desire on both sides to move closer on a number of issues political economic etc. So Prime Minister Papademos is simply pushing that further and he spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu few days ago willingness to keep a corporation that is mutually beneficial. Yeah, mutually beneficial so all code words for hell yeah we're doing a deal with those guys you kidding me this is gonna be great for us one reminder once again about this guy this Greek energy minister Konstantino also served as the Greek finance minister until summer of this year

CHAPTER 05 / 29 Discussion

Greek Privatization, Goldman Sachs, Corporate Warfare

The economic crisis in Greece is described as a mechanism to force the privatization of state assets, specifically the public gas corporation DEPA. The hosts claim that former Goldman Sachs employees and individuals with ties to the Bush and Clinton families are positioning themselves to profit from the new energy order. The conflict in Syria is presented as corporate warfare between competing gas interests rather than a simple ideological struggle.

greece· privatization· goldman sachs· depa· noble energy· corporate warfare· syria

19:48 And he talked about some of the causes of the economic issues facing Greece. So, he was a part of the collapse of Greece and I believe that he was a true shill because what has been happening with Greece as they're trying to figure out their deals it's not... this is where i made the mistake I thought you know it's really all about the austerity measures no-no-no It's also about the privatization Remember we're talking about Greece selling everything off. So what is going to be privatized? Well obviously this transit of natural gas is part of this privatization deal so you don't have the government soaking up what's gonna be a bonanza and then passing it out to the public Right, so they are privatizing the airports They are also privatizing the port in general But they're also going to... I actually have the list here

20:44 concession of the ports and airports, Athens International sale in the stake of the public gas corporation. There it is! Also a sale to banks now the gas corporation, the electrical corporation is DEPA. The CEO of DEPA is a certain Mr Harry Sakchinis He was also group vice president of standards and pores. So I think what's going on right before our very eyes is they're trying to delay as much as possible

21:22 uh... the greek bailout because it's not about the deals with the pensions it's all about this sale of the of those state assets this is exactly what happened in russia by the way you see how they are sold off all their really great asset cities oligarchs who now our billionaires overnight mhm largely because of this uh... essentially taking what was in the public trust and instead of sharing it I mean is that we've seen evidence of many stories you talked about over the years about you know you know where some government like Ecuador for example wants to take their oil reserves and not give all the money to Standard Oil or Texaco but to pass it to the public. Right, the way they kind of do in Kuwait and in parts of the Middle East they share the wealth with the public at large I mean California for example if we did that here we'd all be rich so yeah

22:16 So this is a, actually I have some of the articles speak of the new energy order. And Israel is lit... and we use this for jet fuel and by the way wherever there's gas there's usually oil. If you look at the Leviathan field It is literally the mother load. Who was the first company? Now remember, noble energy is key here. Noble Energy, a lot of ties to Bush but also to Clinton uh... who was the first company to uh... get the offshore drilling contracts when uh... president obama opened up the gulf coast noble energy they're the first ones that all in line clinton uh... was a has been pressing turkish officials to back off from threats to send warships two waters around cyprus and dispute over their energy deposits um... she is completely protecting cypress

23:14 This is not necessarily country against country. This is corporate warfare between different gas and oil companies, depending on who they're affiliated with being fought with real guns against real people so this whole Syria thing is not necessarily Russia who are trying to protect them, but it's factions within Russia who are most likely working with the Russian Cyprus faction. Who are working with the Clintons and the Bushes on noble energy, who really just want to make sure that there isn't enough demand so let's ratchet down the gas to Europe and we've already seen that 30% less gases being transported

24:02 from what is the big Russian company I have it here somewhere. Yeah, yeah. You know they're all way... It's too cold here we can't send you enough We have pipelines being blown up continuously Well who is doing the blowing up of the pipelines and why? Simple! Because they need.. it's a very short pipeline They've got to build between this basically between Cyprus and Greece because they're not gonna that doesn't have to go from Israel its Cyprus to Greece And Israel is now building military facilities in Cyprus. Here we go, well it's all on the show notes at 381.nashownotes.com and this destabilizing of Syria is probably now just going into hypothesis mode is probably our promise and probably Clinton's Hillary Lucifer's promise like hey don't worry about it Israel

25:08 We're going to hook you up because we're all in on the back end of this. We're gonna make sure that gas is not flowing from Homs up to Turkey, we are not gonna have that happen So this whole thing, everything right back to the Arab Spring. This all started after this huge discovery of this Leviathan gas field in Israel and you can apply this to everything. Who's next on the list? Italy! And who do they put in there? Another shill. Goldman Sachs is in on this, by the way. I think it's a club of maybe of a couple hundred people and they're all completely in with the contracts They know who's getting what and they do not give a crap about people but they are pushing this theater into oh well we're not going to invade Syria There's no way The Russians are gonna take care of what they gotta take care of

26:08 And it's probably the competing Russians who are working in Cyprus, who also don't want to see this pipeline completed from Syria to Turkey. It becomes so incredibly clear you can almost relate anything we're seeing in the news back to this one thing right down to Romney and Santorum and Gingrich, who are all sucking off Israel they know! They know where the money is at. They know it Why is Israel so important? Well now it actually is. It IS important because its trillions of dollars perhaps and they don't give a crap, they will kill anyone. Well for that kind of money you would too...

CHAPTER 06 / 29 Discussion

Patrick Seale, Middle East Security, Muslim Brotherhood

British security expert Patrick Seale analyzes the "Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis" as the primary obstacle to American and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. Seale discusses the internal struggle in Syria, noting the power of the Muslim Brotherhood and the historical context of the 1982 Hama massacre. He suggests that the opposition's resort to arms has turned the conflict into a "kill or be killed" scenario.

patrick seale· syria· iran· hezbollah· muslim brotherhood· hama· geopolitics

26:51 So there's this guy Patrick Seale who wrote a bunch of books about the Middle East and he is an expert out of England. He seemed to have a grip on this whole thing, and he saw the action in Syria as pretty much... although he never talks about this field or oil gas aspect. He does have most of the players down and he does see it as a battle between the United States and Israel and on the same team obviously, on the same team against the Russians and the Chinas Yes, oh yes. You kind of left the Chiners out? No no the Chiners... Of course! But I want to play as a break here and I wanna play two clips from this guy one of both them are little long but they're very interesting and it turns out that it's very easy to do what you're describing in other words blowing up these pipelines because the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria which is another reason we can't get involved in this thing because they're gonna end up taking over the place if the civil war continues and then would get blamed

27:51 Now we already let the Muslim Brotherhood pretty much take over Egypt. And we want them to, John because they're just going to muck it all up as long as it slows down the gas! Right so anyways they've got a built-in situation and he explains that geopolitical part this is called the Syria on or Suril? Suril. It's actually Suril. seal on the Middle Eastern security and he kind of discusses the player so we have an overview. And by the way when you listen to this it's obvious that this is nothing we should get involved with any if you watch these idiotic presentations, and by the way there's one other element you've got to bring into this with this thesis

28:34 the British and British Petroleum and MI6 who seem to be stirring up the pot on a lot of these things. And I would like to hear your take on that, but let's play this guys' take on what factions are at work playing in that area? disputes going on in the opposition some say we must cooperate with the Muslim Brothers others says no, some say we must seek external intervention others say no. Some say we need a dialogue I believe... Is it that you're playing the right one? Are you playing seal on Middle East security or are you playing what's really going on in Syria? Yes, I'm seal on Middle East security is the one I am playing. Okay well then go on play. You want me to play the other one

29:14 No? Oh wait, yeah. Play the other one first I'm sorry that's the summary. What's really going on in Syria? That's the one you want me to play? Yeah play that sorry You see...I think to understand what is happening One has to see this as a concerted attack assault On not only Syria but Iran as well You see Iran, Syria and their ally Hezbollah in Lebanon That trio A sort of Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis has in recent years been the main obstacle to American and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. And the attempt now is to bring that axis down, of course they're fighting back with their allies, with their friends like precisely Russia and China so that's what we are seeing on that level internally in Syria it's a completely different struggle

30:06 Now, you see the main element in the opposition, the most powerful element in the Syrian National Council is the Muslim Brotherhood. Just the other day they celebrated a 30 year anniversary of the assault on Hama by Hafez Al-Assad, the father of the present president and in that struggle At least 10,000 people were killed in the city of Hama. Now we have to understand the background of that. Hama in 1982 was a climax of terrorist campaign by Muslim Brothers which began in late 70s to overthrow Assad regime at that time

30:51 And they seized control, the insurgents seized control of Hama. Butchered Ba'ath Party members and officials and it was only at that stage that the regime moved in and crushed that insurgency and killed a lot of people, a lot of innocent people The specter of what happened then, 30 years ago hangs over the present situation. And the Muslim Brothers have been outlawed for the last thirty years they've suffered all sorts of problems at the hands of the regime and they are thirsting for revenge so that's why I'm saying it is kill or be killed. The present government feels these are armed insurgents and the mistake of the opposition was in fact to resort to arms

31:37 Okay, who is this? Who is this guy again? What it where's he where's he from what does he do? He's from Britain. He's a book right? He's got a bunch of books on the Middle East I think he's a security expert and It seems as if that didn't take much more than for somebody I can't imagine who to arm the Muslim Brotherhood And of course we couldn't ever take credit for doing that because this is a group That really doesn't like us either and just let all hell break loose right in that one area like you said where the pipeline ends. Now they can't, the pipeline is stuck there while they're trying to deal with this crap and then of course their reporting on this it's just dreadful I was watching Anderson Pooper

CHAPTER 07 / 29 Discussion

Anderson Cooper, Danny on Skype, Media Manipulation

CNN's coverage of the Syrian conflict is criticized for relying on unverified YouTube videos and "Danny on Skype," an activist whose reports are characterized as staged or fraudulent. The hosts highlight a specific report involving a child in a field hospital to argue that the media is using emotional manipulation to push for UN intervention. They contend that there is a lack of credible, independent reporting from the ground in Homs.

anderson cooper· cnn· syria· homs· media assassination· propaganda· skype

32:14 I have a thing if you want to listen to this guy. He's got some guy named Daniel. No, he has no reporting on it! It's Danny. It's Danny on Skype. Danny on Skype now i've seen this is fantastic. This is a fraud hold on second where which clip? Is it which clip is it should say Anderson Cooper somewhere oh I don't see any Anderson that's weird Riley Nonsense is a writer, Maldives prexy, idiotic comment guns in school Did you forget to send it? Oh that's too bad. It's a bust I do have it oh no It is right the second from the top bogus serial report by Anderson Cooper now this this Pooper guy I mean this Danny guy I saw him this morning on with With The Morning Girl get it before I play it. I want to set this up. He's calling in regular reports

32:59 This idiot is calling in right, yeah. And by the way there's a clip of him talking about some dead kid and it's like... But you never see the picture? You see the same picture with this guy with his heel bleeding He makes a mistake Oh! In this?! Danny if you hear it, its very hard to hear but he says where is the US when we need them but he meant UN So he says where is the U.S., uh where is the UN when we need them It's a very interesting flub I'm sorry. But wait, a couple other things...I want to point out to people that in any armed conflict ever there's always reporters who sneak behind the lines and give us at least written reports that are highly accurate? None! There is nothing coming out of this area Not a single thing.

33:52 Oh, this is pathetic. This is pathetic reporting! There's no proof of anything going on I mean we do see some bombs going off here and there but you can't just report like this if you don't know for sure. I have some great clips that fit into this will continue. Ban Ki-moon calling the regime assault on Homs a sign of worse to come after four straight days of bombing and shelling it's frankly hard to see how things could get worse By the way, you only see two explosions and smoke in every single video. It's the same one over and over again. Right, in the one video where it shows the explosion first they have the camera pointed at where the rocket comes from... ...and then they follow it right to their point as if it was staged! Yeah well yes! Did you notice that when that was shot? Yes! Oh no dude we've got so much to talk about. Worse than this. Wooo!

34:40 Incoming artillery rocket fire on several... That's not incoming by the way. ...the neighborhoods, especially Baba Amr where this video was taken today more than five dozen people killed reports of field hospitals and medical professionals are being targeted along with the wounded now the killing the atrocities unfolding despite Al-Assad commitment or stated commitment to ending the violence He made that promise to Russia's visiting foreign minister only yesterday. He has made that promise before, of course and that promise has always been broken. By this morning his sincerity could be measured in dead men, dead women and dead children." Which we have not seen any proof of. The activist and opposition member known as Danny has been risking his life daily bearing witness to all this posting videos on YouTube

35:24 He filed this dispatch just after today's shelling began. Now before we show it to you, I want to warn you... Graphic! It is not especially graphic and certainly is horrible. It also the saddest... Not graphic! It's just horrible! Listen to me slave, its horrible! You will think it's horrible! ...reality in homes right now. This is a field hospital. It's still very poor. And this is in charge. He's about two years old He got hit with this water bomb at his house. Is this what the UN is waiting for? Is this what the UN is waiting for, to inflict any more children left until they kill all the children and kill all the women? This child lost his brains A bomb landed in his house he lost his whole brains Two children were killed him and his sister What has the UN waited for

36:15 We've been trying all day with no success to reconnect with Danny. We thought we had him several times Communications are extremely difficult the streets or deadly just before airtime, we managed to get in touch with another activist named Abu Abdo who had just witnessed our friend die so I gotta say a couple things here So for anyone in that region to say I've seen more video of this guy, who by the way is getting the two book deal out of it. He's going to do great and he saying we need the UN, did you know that Barbara Walters sat down with Assad and had a 45 minute interview? Somehow we missed this. It wasn't recently.

CHAPTER 08 / 29 Discussion

Barbara Walters, Bashar al-Assad Interview, UN Credibility

Excerpts from Barbara Walters' December 2011 interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad show him questioning the credibility of the United Nations. Assad demands concrete evidence for allegations of crimes against humanity and accuses the UN of having a double standard regarding Palestinian suffering. He claims that neighboring countries in the Arab League are following a specific political agenda rather than genuine concern for democracy.

barbara walters· bashar al-assad· united nations· syria· human rights· arab league

37:00 Was it, you sure? Yeah. December. I thought it was a couple years ago No! It's December Well I did see it and saw the interview And do you want to hear what Assad thinks about the UN yeah i've heard this last week and independent united nations commission who interviewed more than two hundred twenty five people issued a report but it said was that your government committed crimes against humanity and they went on torture rape and other forms of sexual violence against protesters including against children what do you say to them i mean what i'm saying again in the game is that protesters were

37:42 were beaten, things happened to them. Do you acknowledge that? Do you acknowledge what the UN said? Very simply I would say send us the documents and concrete evidences that you have and we'll see if it's true or not. You have lot of allegations now Did the UN not send you these documents? Nothing at all. You mean they don't even have their names and this is true i've read the u n documents and just like libya they have no one dead in libya was like all these people getting raped and they had one woman who later said that i don't want to get let's not forget the viagra bull crap yeah exactly or the rape people who are there but also people of it we don't have anything division sorry mister president they have issued this report they have accused you must be true when your regime according toward

38:31 Well, according to what they said it's 225 people witnesses men women children That is a lie because they have no names and witnesses in the report I've read the report whom they interviewed and identified And that's when they called it crimes against humanity. We are government we have government we have institution this will send us the documents, as long as we don't see the documents and evidences. We cannot say yes that's normal. We can not say just because of United Nations who said that United Nations is a credible institution? Who says that United... Who said it? We know you have double standard in world in the United States policy and United Nations control by US and US so has no credibility

39:16 So, it's about evidences and documents. Whenever they have we can discuss it just to discuss the report that we don't see any reality related with. It is a waste of time You do not think that the United Nations is a credible organization? No. For one reason, they haven't implemented... They never implemented any of the resolutions that related to the Arab world for example, to the Palestinians and Syria. Why don't they? If you talk about human rights what about the Palestinian suffering in the occupied territory. What about my land and my people that left their land because it's occupied by Israel? Of course not! For every citizen, it is not for me as president I'm telling you about the perception of the whole region

40:00 You do not think the United Nations is credible? No, never. It's not something before my generation. It is something we inherited as a concept and belief. You have an ambassador to the United Nations... Yes it's a game you play. Yeah! It's little game we play. Which is a fact and of course we just mentioned earlier in the show about the United Nations voting, you know A million to two to get the US has stopped your embargo on Cuba. I said We just tell them to shove it so Assad although I do believe what he's saying You know This is terrorist acts taking place well and then the expert from London says it's just as the Muslim Brotherhood trying to

40:46 do their job. They're doing their job, they have to blow up the pipelines. However... Yeah but they are doing a good job So even though Assad is telling the truth here he's a player He is a player in the game and lets it slip in this clip What's the biggest misconception? Why is there this misconception in USA and the country is stable, we have some factions. What's the misconception? First of all who are most of the world? Most of the West you mean? Not just the West Turkey... Turkey, Jordan, that's not the west The members of the Arab League they are saying to you they're imposing sanctions Some of them telling you to step down These are your neighbors

41:32 There's agenda for those countries. It is not a political game, it is not because they don't care about killing or democracy Most of these countries have an agenda I'm not going to talk about the town and their agendas Yeah, we're not gonna talk about the agenda because he's in on the game Obviously But again this is not just about countries This will relate back to your question about the British and MI6 You can't see it as just the British and MI6 It's the corporations. BP has their own agenda, ExxonMobil has their own agenda, Shell has their own agenda so whoever has the right people in the right place this is corporate. The government... Yes, Chevron and Uniqel are also players and also Gazprom or wherever it is out of Russia. So obviously... Wait before you go on with this I want to throw another just another wrench into the works

CHAPTER 09 / 29 Discussion

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Turkey, Secularism Meme

Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses expanding "the West" to include Russia and Turkey, a move the hosts link to the strategic importance of gas pipelines running through Turkish territory. The hosts dispute Brzezinski's characterization of Turkey as a "modern secular democratic" society, arguing that the public is increasingly moving toward Sharia law. They suggest Brzezinski represents the elite interest in a unified energy transit corridor.

zbigniew brzezinski· turkey· russia· world governance· secularism· hillary clinton

42:28 So, while there's a bunch of this propagandizing going around especially on the news shows about this Syria action and you see pictures of Hillary in the UN who by the way she does not look good. No no All of a sudden out of the blue comes Brzezinski Your buddy! My pal Yeah, just listen is that the cue? I mean. I don't know what to make of these two clips that I picked but I mean he essentially always keeps going back to world governance which again is code for let you know we want to get in on this action too uh-huh yes the elites because what you're describing is a huge multi trillion dollar money making scheme Yes Which would makes sense if people wanted to get in on it

43:15 But he's trying to, he is making assertions and other commentary that I think it just doesn't sound right but in the meta view that you're giving us it actually makes a little sense. And I don't know which one of these to play first but play Lost at first. Collectively address the problems that the world faces One of those is too, is to I think in your term expand the West To include places like Russia and Turkey Absolutely. I think that it's in the vital interest of the West to do so and i think drawing in Turkey, drawing in Russia would greatly increase the vitality of the West and after all the Turks in the course of the last hundred years have demonstrated a determination to be modern secular and democratic So they're really part about value system

44:14 In Russia today, we see for the first time the emergence of something we can call a civic society. Okay, so what's happening is he... and we're going to put names for these eventually We will be able figure it out And by the way, he is on that side of the equation Yes! Oh yeah now we're gonna be able to figure it out because what he saying is Russia Turkey Europe That's the way should go and I'm just gonna relate that to the pipelines cause there is this South Stream There's the Blue Stream There are all these pipelines run through Turkey So he wants turkey turkey turkey turkey turkey how many times has Hillary Clinton been to Turkey she's been trying that too but now by the way let me give you something on this meme he just said he said it's a modern secular democratic yeah for the last hundred years they have been fighting this, the public in Turkey are fighting and he says they share our value system. They are 100% Muslim society that would love to go Sharia! They don't share any

45:08 It's bull crap. Yeah, the elites do but this is not... I was thinking when i first saw this before I'm starting to think about this other thesis Was that what does he.. This guy has he not been to Turkey recently? Has he not been to Istanbul airport? I mean it just short of having goats in it I mean it is, all the women are covered up and this is very extreme. You'd think that you're in Saudi Arabia... There are a lot of places in Turkey where the burkas come off and the girls go crazy. Well actually in Istanbul, the party section there is beyond compare. They know how to party in Turkey but they don't say that's not true! But that can end at the drop of a hat with one new government

45:50 And I just don't see that what he's saying. Turkey is obvious, well Turkey is obviously against the whole Israeli thing in fact Turkey... It has to be! Yeah they're saying hey Cyprus you know we that our territory you can have that this been this a whole history of Cyprus and Turkey but again just and if you haven't seen it yet please go to pipelines.curry.com where all of this is headed and the shortest route from all this wonderful resource replacing nuclear energy going right into Europe. Something very interesting happened though during a recent Spokeshole Carney press event, so he gets asked the question by Jake I like Jake because he's kind of compromised but he always comes up with a great question

CHAPTER 10 / 29 Discussion

Jay Carney, White House Press Briefing, Russian Reporter Andre

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faces questions from Jake Tapper and a Russian reporter named Andre regarding the legal grounds for US sanctions against Syria. Andre challenges Carney on the principle of non-interference in sovereign states and asks for assurance that US Special Forces are not operating inside Syria. Carney avoids a direct answer, which the hosts interpret as a tacit admission of covert military involvement.

jay carney· jake tapper· white house· syria· international law· special forces

46:38 And so he's saying, look we don't really have any official reports on what is happening in Syria. You know, so what is really... Do you guys have anyone there? Do you really know what's happening in Syria which is kind of like a softball for spokeshole Carney to lob it in and tell you how horrible and crimes against humanity. And then something very funny happens but first the setup with Jake in the spokeshole. And just follow up on the Syria question earlier from Nora did um... There've been reports that because I think it's homes. Really, do you think so?

47:20 premature babies. There we go, there's the premature babies again! Incubators were back we got it! I don't know if that is a true story or not obviously in situations like this there are a lot of rumors does the White House... By the way rumors in the general media have now been replaced by bloggers Bloggers and youtubers. This is this is the big trick in the media so instead of saying we heard rumors now We have a blogger there or a youtuber this is very important for media assassination Factually people on the ground there to a degree or another are we monitoring exactly what has happened well

48:05 I can say that we have all here seen the reporting and some of the horrific... No, there's no reporting. We see YouTube videos. There is no reporting absolutely of the escalation of violence that is taking place in Syria over the last few days and it has clearly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians Clearly! Clearly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of...Clearly!! and been accompanied by troubling statements from senior regime officials who have pledged to cleanse the country of renegades and outlaws. Oh, cleanse! There you go nice little genocide meme throw it in there pour it on Carney That is hardly reassuring

48:51 reinforces the fact that the Assad regime is engaged in a brutal campaign to slaughter its own people. That's exactly... He's Hitler! It's a fact, he's just engaged to slaughter like cattle A people that has this process began when when the Syrian people peacefully demonstrated in support of reform and transition to democracy Bullcrap So I don't have any details to impart you on kinds of information we might have with regards to what's happening in Syria beyond the news reports, but the news reports are bad Bullshit the news reports are bad enough then something really funny happens. There's a Russian reporter I don't know how he got in but Carney is not loving this guy

49:38 And the Russian reporter is calling bullcrap on Carney from the beginning and he winds up finally asking his question, which Carney just completely ignores. But it's a I don't know something wrong happened something went horribly wrong and this guy snuck into the White House press corps. He's Alex Alex from Russia Press. That'll be the last time you see him by the way Oh yeah no this guy this guy is dead now already. He does-I don't think that guy lives. Believes they were the right decisions Andre. Andre, that's his name. Back to Syria please. Of course the Russians and probably the Chinese too say that they are not supporting the Syrian regime but they are supporting as the international legal regime, the international legal norms that exist in relations between states They do not want anyone including the United States to pick a regime they don't like

50:34 inside, rebelling against that regime. You understand what I'm talking about? So it may be hard to hear what he's saying is you know the reason the Russians didn't want to join in on the veto is because they follow international law which is like don't meddle with another country of course its bullcrap but don't meddle with another country's business just stay out you know what I'm saying spokes all Carney right Basically what you just presented to us was rhetorical, political and even economic aggression against that regime. My question is very simple What are the specific legal grounds on which you do this?

51:13 Very good question. What are the specific legal grounds on which you can go and place sanctions and try to threaten an entire country like Syria? What are the legal grounds? I would refer you to the United Nations, our commission there but...and to the State Department The President is saying this dude! You're supposed to say it! But what you saw today is a broad international consensus against the behavior of the Assad regime, the brutal... BRUTAL killing of the Syrian people. We think that's wrong and we agree with many of our partners and allies around the world and in the region when we say that I think again that the images that we've seen just this weekend demonstrate He is struggling now he is like oh man how did this guy get in? Let me get back to the images ...demonstrate that kind of behavior

52:12 being carried out by the Syrian forces under the control of the Assad regime is vile and unacceptable. So that is why we supported the United Nations Security Council resolution, and it's why I will continue to work with our allies and partners to further isolate and pressure the Assad regime to allow the Syrian people the opportunity to choose their own future that's the approach we take. Okay, Andrei is not done. If I may, one additional question... I actually wanted to ask you, to remind you that lynching... He says lynching... ...illegal in the United States You need to have a court of law but I will not ask about it, I will ask you but can you tell me... Andrei, I feel like it might be 1982 and its uh...

53:00 lynching is illegal. Many like-minded people form a posse, hunt somebody down... I have a question. The question is can you assure me that we are not working inside Syria through your special forces whatever it is they're working militarily? So he's saying, can you assure me that there are no special forces from the United States working inside Syria to stir up this crap and blow up the pipelines? Can you assure me that? That is the question. I'm sorry what is the question? Are we... Is the United States..can you tell us if the United States is not taking any military steps to undermine the government? We made very clear that we are pursuing a political and diplomatic course with regards to Syria

53:50 and we will continue to do so. Wow! So he doesn't answer the question? No, actually he did answer by not answering He couldn't say no Because that would be a big fat lie because were there We're part of this. We have promised Israel to do this That's why they made this idiotic vote when they had no concerns about Cuba to vote with us on that stupid resolution. Exactly! Yes, Israel we vote no And Iran by the way ships gas to Turkey as well Well this is interesting let's go back again back to Searle not Searle but Seeley and the summary that you started to play because this is kind of interesting because

CHAPTER 11 / 29 Discussion

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nuclear Sabotage

The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is discussed as a distraction maintained by Western interests to prevent the two nations from forming a regional energy alliance. The hosts argue that "sabre rattling" about Iranian nuclear weapons is used to frighten Saudi Arabia and keep the region divided. They note that Ron Paul is the only political figure advocating for a withdrawal from these entanglements.

saudi arabia· iran· shia· nuclear weapons· sabre rattling· ron paul

54:37 It's quite likely, when this is over I will explain or you can figure it out but it's quite likely that all this action about Iran has something to do with this. Now is the Middle East security or what really going on in Syria? The one that was the Middle East security summary Yeah, because you played the other one. And because it's possible that we're kind of missing the point of Iran too Oh yeah! I think... Listen to this theory this guy has There are disputes going on in the opposition. Some say we must cooperate with the Muslim Brothers, others say no. Some say we must seek external intervention and others say no. Some say that we need a dialogue I believe dialogue is the only way out of this And indeed Russians have suggested to both sides come to Moscow and start a dialogue But the opposition says No! We can't dialogue with Bashar al-Assad he must be toppled first Well thats dangerous position to adopt

55:35 Now, Saudi Arabia is the Arab world's heavyweight. It is the great financial powerhouse but it doesn't particularly like Iran. It sees Iran as a regional competitor. Its frightened of Shia power and fact that Shias have come to power in Iraq as well and so it would rather like to contain Iran however there are some Saudi some senior Saudis who understand that Saudi Arabia and Iran Already partners they share a responsibility for the security of the Gulf region We should start a security dialogue That's what they need to do rather than being dragged into this quarrel United States and Israel on one hand, Russia and China on the other. Yes The new energy order has made

56:28 the Iranians and the Saudis, natural allies. Now everyone is against Israel because Israel's got the mother load and these guys are sitting like wait a minute we're here in the freaking sand and these guys are gonna be sitting in the catbird seat they're exporting everything We gotta work together here! And way to keep that from happening Is to keep Sabre rattling claiming they got nukes because it's been said in many a we've seen a couple of these security sessions on C-SPAN where they talk about you know the real problem even though we now assume because all the security agencies claim or say, all of them say that Iran's not working on any sort of nuke. No but you want to make it seem so because it frightens Saudi Arabia because if Iran actually got a nuke every other

57:26 country would have to get one because they're afraid these guys are nuts because it is Shiite thing but the fact as this guy expressed is those two countries that maybe what's...this is just to keep them from ever getting together by scaring everybody with this bull crap. Exactly Oh, you know Israel's gonna bomb them. Oh we got to go in! Bomb bomb bomb and all of our candidates except for Ron Paul who seems to be the only one that would just love to back out at this deal. He is the only one that is honest about it these other guys are just full of it Well they probably have backend deals dude Do you know, I mean if you look at... Oh yeah. What am I thinking? Hello! Yeah Ron Paul 76 he's set for life and doesn't care. Noble energy is the one to look out for By the way in Iran we have had all kinds of things happening little terrorist attacks little explosions I'm reading from a report August 12th last year

CHAPTER 12 / 29 Discussion

Standard & Poor's, Greek Energy, Global Gas Demand

The hosts connect the potential upgrade of Greece's credit rating by Standard & Poor's to the privatization of the Greek energy company DEPA. They argue that the global shift away from nuclear energy after Fukushima has artificially increased the demand and value of natural gas. Israel is reportedly already making deals to ship gas to India, further cementing its role in the new energy order.

standard & poor's· greece· depa· goldman sachs· fukushima· india· noble energy

58:21 An explosion Friday at a gas pipeline that runs from Iran to Turkey has disrupted gas exports. The explosion occurred early in the morning as part of the pipeline that is Turkish territory near the border with Iran, this is happening on an increasing level And we can apply, I'm thinking now John seriously. Yes Europe is in trouble absolutely but when you put together and by the way this is what tipped me off with one of our buddies he sent me a note and said I can't believe it but standards and poor are thinking about upgrading Greece

58:58 This is a rumor that's out there, they're thinking and this was on Bloomberg. That they want to upgrade Greece but when you understand that the CEO and president of the if it isn't already 100% privatized soon-to-be completely privatized DEPA, the Greek energy company which will handle all of this gas which they'll ship off to Europe used to work at standards in port This is, the whole thing is an inside game. And who was it that actually screwed up Greece? Goldman Sachs! So Goldman Sachs puts in a Goldman guy, he's right at the head. The minute this guy is in all of a sudden Greece and Israel they're visiting each other we're hanging out yeah we're having discussions Italy Goldmann guy why because it has to go from Greece to Italy to Europe there come these are warring corporations Corporations I tell you not countries corporations It's crazy

59:52 We just have to figure out which ones so we can invest in them and ride the gravy train. I've been looking up this stuff, well Noble's already got it. It's a hundred bucks already you can't get into those guys. There are probably two or three of these players that you could sneak into on. There's investment opportunities. That's what the show is about So anyway, that's what I this is what I've been spending my week on and And the more I look at it and you know The more just like oh this makes the whole Arab Spring It was about stopping the gas to do sit because you can't have

1:00:31 Gas coming in from everywhere, then you know the gas becomes so cheap that you can't make any money on it Syria by the way is not by the way also this explains why we've done nothing about Bahrain Qatar any of these other No gas no interest. No no gas. No care NGNC, that's your hashtag. No gas no care You got no gas? I don't give a crap about you! You're not important But think about... and this is my crack pottery Think about Fukushima All of this happened after this discovery Hey man what are we going to do with these nuclear plants Well i'll tell ya what Why don't we make it really scary and really dangerous And there will be more demand for gas Japan can't get enough gas India

1:01:15 Israel is already putting deals together to ship their gas to India. India's freaking out, they need gas! Who is going to send it? Israel, they're doing deal right now. It's all on the show notes 381.nashownotes.com You know you think with the food they eat that have all the gas should ever need... Hold on Simultaneous dingage. So, but I just look at the Arab Spring and like it makes so much sense John Yeah no that's as good i think this analysis we should just keep this is our basis for watching this action going on in Syria and elsewhere And we've got to be able to put the corporate names to the shill so Hillary Clinton we know she's in with Noble

1:02:01 And even Bill Clinton came out and started yapping about that. But we know the Clintons really work for the Bushes, and this is a Houston firm so duh! Really simple. But also the Far East Energy Corporation which is owned by the Chiners They're also involved and I think they're in the Clinton Bush camp. I'll just say, you know a Clinton Bush Obama because it's not Obama It's whoever is running the show with him because he immediately the first company the first company to To get offshore drilling in the Gulf noble energy never heard of them guess where they have connections You're gonna love it Switzerland Zuke Zuke Switzerland Glencore Mark Rich Clinton

1:02:47 Connect all those dots and I think if we just keep this in mind you and I because we'd kind of gotten away from it Because we did overlook the gas thing, you know It's like gas and whatever. I had no idea and we had actually discussed this Leviathan field but we never thought about the implications now going back and I actually did a lot of the search on my I have one those Yasi search engines so it filters out all the bullcrap from Google that just gives you kind of Part sparse results, man. I found so many amazing articles about how huge problems have been predicted between Lebanon and Iran and Israel because of this gas and the Maritime borders And who really owns it? And again that's why you get the laws of the sea That's what Hillary Clinton has been spearheading herself Well You know This is who really owns it and this belongs to them and then Cyprus and you know but its

1:03:44 It's corporations because you have Russians who want to ship the gas through the Arab pipeline and you have Russians who are in Cyprus and want to get it from Israel. And it could be the same guys for all I know, they're just a hedge, they don't give a crap! They don't give a crap about people... Well then he doesn't want anybody else getting it that's the problem Of course of course! Now for once I can say yeah Israel is really important For douchebags Let's take a break and for the moment then we'll get back. Doing my best to ignore the distraction of the week here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state. Coming to you from Austin, Texas in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where things never change hey we started this show at 909 I'm John C Dvorak

CHAPTER 13 / 29 Discussion

Aleppo Pipeline Explosion, Media Focus on Homs

Reports of explosions in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city, are linked to the Arab gas pipeline that runs to Turkey. The hosts observe that the media continues to direct public attention toward Homs to distract from the strategic importance of the pipeline infrastructure in Aleppo. They also jokingly suggest that major celebrity news, like the death of Whitney Houston, serves as a distraction from these geopolitical events.

aleppo· homs· syria· pipeline· media coverage· whitney houston

58:58 This is a rumor that's out there, they're thinking and this was on Bloomberg. That they want to upgrade Greece but when you understand that the CEO and president of the if it isn't already 100% privatized soon-to-be completely privatized DEPA, the Greek energy company which will handle all of this gas which they'll ship off to Europe used to work at standards in port This is, the whole thing is an inside game. And who was it that actually screwed up Greece? Goldman Sachs! So Goldman Sachs puts in a Goldman guy, he's right at the head. The minute this guy is in all of a sudden Greece and Israel they're visiting each other we're hanging out yeah we're having discussions Italy Goldmann guy why because it has to go from Greece to Italy to Europe there come these are warring corporations Corporations I tell you not countries corporations It's crazy

59:52 We just have to figure out which ones so we can invest in them and ride the gravy train. I've been looking up this stuff, well Noble's already got it. It's a hundred bucks already you can't get into those guys. There are probably two or three of these players that you could sneak into on. There's investment opportunities. That's what the show is about So anyway, that's what I this is what I've been spending my week on and And the more I look at it and you know The more just like oh this makes the whole Arab Spring It was about stopping the gas to do sit because you can't have

1:00:31 Gas coming in from everywhere, then you know the gas becomes so cheap that you can't make any money on it Syria by the way is not by the way also this explains why we've done nothing about Bahrain Qatar any of these other No gas no interest. No no gas. No care NGNC, that's your hashtag. No gas no care You got no gas? I don't give a crap about you! You're not important But think about... and this is my crack pottery Think about Fukushima All of this happened after this discovery Hey man what are we going to do with these nuclear plants Well i'll tell ya what Why don't we make it really scary and really dangerous And there will be more demand for gas Japan can't get enough gas India

1:01:15 Israel is already putting deals together to ship their gas to India. India's freaking out, they need gas! Who is going to send it? Israel, they're doing deal right now. It's all on the show notes 381.nashownotes.com You know you think with the food they eat that have all the gas should ever need... Hold on Simultaneous dingage. So, but I just look at the Arab Spring and like it makes so much sense John Yeah no that's as good i think this analysis we should just keep this is our basis for watching this action going on in Syria and elsewhere And we've got to be able to put the corporate names to the shill so Hillary Clinton we know she's in with Noble

1:02:01 And even Bill Clinton came out and started yapping about that. But we know the Clintons really work for the Bushes, and this is a Houston firm so duh! Really simple. But also the Far East Energy Corporation which is owned by the Chiners They're also involved and I think they're in the Clinton Bush camp. I'll just say, you know a Clinton Bush Obama because it's not Obama It's whoever is running the show with him because he immediately the first company the first company to To get offshore drilling in the Gulf noble energy never heard of them guess where they have connections You're gonna love it Switzerland Zuke Zuke Switzerland Glencore Mark Rich Clinton

1:02:47 Connect all those dots and I think if we just keep this in mind you and I because we'd kind of gotten away from it Because we did overlook the gas thing, you know It's like gas and whatever. I had no idea and we had actually discussed this Leviathan field but we never thought about the implications now going back and I actually did a lot of the search on my I have one those Yasi search engines so it filters out all the bullcrap from Google that just gives you kind of Part sparse results, man. I found so many amazing articles about how huge problems have been predicted between Lebanon and Iran and Israel because of this gas and the Maritime borders And who really owns it? And again that's why you get the laws of the sea That's what Hillary Clinton has been spearheading herself Well You know This is who really owns it and this belongs to them and then Cyprus and you know but its

1:03:44 It's corporations because you have Russians who want to ship the gas through the Arab pipeline and you have Russians who are in Cyprus and want to get it from Israel. And it could be the same guys for all I know, they're just a hedge, they don't give a crap! They don't give a crap about people... Well then he doesn't want anybody else getting it that's the problem Of course of course! Now for once I can say yeah Israel is really important For douchebags Let's take a break and for the moment then we'll get back. Doing my best to ignore the distraction of the week here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state. Coming to you from Austin, Texas in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where things never change hey we started this show at 909 I'm John C Dvorak

1:04:52 Yeah, there must be some secret Illuminati meeting to that. If you haven't heard it episode 381 we had a pretty good conversation about what all this bullcrap in the Mediterranean and the Middle East is all about. It's all about the gas pipelines and so I'm sitting there actually editing and here in the studio two satellite feeds and I've got my iPad running CNN, and happen to be watching Sky News as well. And the only thing we didn't discuss was this, like oh crap! We gotta talk about it on the show so that I can put it into this montage I'm making. Two explosions have killed at least 25 people and injured over 170 others in Syria's second largest city Aleppo. I'm like Oh man

1:05:42 Well, we know that the pipeline that goes into... The Arab pipeline that goes to Turkey. That it has to go from Homs where all of this... I'm sorry! Where Assad is killing, slaughtering, the Syrian slaughterer he's killing his own people. It has to go through Aleppo Like, oh we should have just said watch for something to happen Aleppo. We completely forgot and there it is. Would've been in the red book would have nailed it. Would've totally nailed it The funny thing is this was an explosion of course the pipeline construction that exploded And you know Syrian soldiers predominantly who died

1:06:24 And this report says, okay well we got an explosion in Aleppo. Now back to Holmes. And now there are reports that Syrian forces are preparing to mount a final assault on the rebel city of Homs. It's like okay something happened up there please please whatever you do don't look over there there's nothing to see there. Don't look over here! Nothing to see here! Please continue to look at Holmes. Holmes? Hey homies, Holmes. There was just uh... just phenomenal to see these things unfold. And now of course, I'm like okay Whitney Houston's death is related to the pipeline somehow it's like everything I see is how does it relate to the pipeline? How? Well it doesn't. No please, I am good. You may have not known that. Well you know what I was still on Syria and you wanted to get the Whitney thing in there so we're done with her Okay good So let me get back to Leviathan I was expecting you to come up with The Hollywood Whackers

CHAPTER 14 / 29 Discussion

Hillary Clinton, Cyprus Foreign Minister, Undersea Power Cable

Hillary Clinton meets with the Foreign Minister of Cyprus to discuss "regional issues," which the hosts interpret as the development of the Leviathan gas field. The Nabucco pipeline project is declared dead, replaced by plans for the world's longest undersea power cable connecting Cyprus to Europe. This "energy bridge" is intended to transport 2,000 megawatts of power at extreme depths to bypass traditional land routes.

hillary clinton· cyprus· noble energy· caspian sea· undersea cable· energy bridge

1:07:23 No, I'm telling you it's an Illuminati sacrifice. This is to change the thinking and the mindset and energy of the world. Something very important is going to happen. Save it for the second half! You asked me again! Stop asking me then! Alright so back to what's real news... What is happening in with this huge oil discovery in Israel. Man, Lucifer Clinton she literally didn't waste any time This week has been a very very very busy week for her You okay there? Go on

1:08:02 As now of course we know that we're going to have some form of transport of this gas through Cyprus into Greece and I've got tons that i can talk about, will touch on some briefly. I don't want to repeat everything we did on 381 but guess who shows up in Washington? Oh boy! We have the foreign minister from Cyprus with Lucifer and she does one of her little clippity-clop things where they both come out through the doors that open up like Darth Vader's entering. And here comes Lucifer, I have the clippity-clop sounds Very interesting. First, we'll listen to this. It's very short a minute in total as Lucifer starts off with her reasoning how important it is that the Cyprus foreign minister is in Washington and then what the Cypriot foreign minister says if you now relate that to our pipeline theory its pretty astounding the things are coming out of her pie hole.

1:09:01 another foreign minister and one with whom we work closely, and the relationship between our two countries is deepening and broadening all of the time. Deepening and broadening all of the time? Yeah! Gee I wonder why is that because your buddies there of Noble Energy are in Cyprus Hillary? Is that why it's so important We're very pleased that we work together on regional issues as well as bilateral. Regional issues, okay? You mean like the big gas field in Israel, Lucifer there? And we will be discussing those in great depth. It's all about the depth by the way which I think it funny. Deep depth...it's all down low underground pipeline! and I want to welcome you here Foreign Minister and thank you for coming

1:09:54 Madam Secretary, thank you very much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here with you and discuss I think a very interesting and important agenda that we have in front of us. Ah those cameras are so annoying! And why don't they mic these people? These are digital cameras... You don't have to make any noise at all it's so annoying. Somebody has mic'd the cameras Yeah well it's so..I guess thats why we dont hear because she is giving away a lot dealing with issues of common interest and... Issues of common interest? Hmm, what could that be John? What common interest do we have with Cyprus? None! None in reality. Concerns primarily in the Cyprus question, issues about our presidency, European Union

1:10:38 The Middle East and our neighborhood in the north part of Africa. Oh, it's all about North Africa and the Middle East and the Mediterranean? Uprising And the Arab uprising? You mean all about that Israeli gas? The cameras are so annoying, I didn't even realize how annoying it is. So along with this comes some interesting news uh... there's now you know we've been talking about the pipeline cypress is probably going to get a uh... and natural gas terminal via floating natural gas terminal others did all this in the show notes of course three eight two dot any shown on stock on even more interesting though that today or actually dead yesterday came word that uh... than a book o pipeline this is the uh... pipeline day which was europe's flagship pro project

1:11:39 The gas pipeline to the Caspian Sea is definitely off. It's not that the project is dead Gee, I wonder why it's dead and what's even crazier These guys are they're so into into getting this done that they're now talking about The world's longest undersea power cable Cyprus could become an energy bridge between the European and Asian continents by installing a 540 nautical mile undersea power cable that would transport 2,000 megawatts of power at a depth of approximately 2000 meters. That's pretty rare I'd have to say they really want to get this power into Europe and they really want to do it quickly

CHAPTER 15 / 29 Discussion

Italian Foreign Minister, Mario Monti, Mediterranean Issues

The Italian Foreign Minister meets with Hillary Clinton in Washington to discuss "Mediterranean issues" and the economic challenges facing Italy. The hosts identify Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti as a "Goldman Sachs shill" brought in to oversee the privatization of Italian infrastructure. They argue that Italy is the next target for the corporate takeover of energy transit routes from Greece to the rest of Europe.

italy· mario monti· hillary clinton· goldman sachs· mediterranean· privatization

1:12:33 That seems like that's a really easy... I don't know about undersea power cables. Yeah, can imagine somebody blowing nothing up and you have a lot of electrocuted fish. Be fish forever! That's for sure Maybe it is down there just to block the fish from coming in from the Stargate Thank you And then comes news yeah really that there will be I'm sorry the offshore Israel liquid liquefied natural gas infrastructure contract has been awarded to an Italian firm. Well, that's very interesting! An Italian firm... So all eyes now on Italy because if we are already bringing in the new oligarchs in Greece who will take over the infrastructure, Italy will be next it's not going to Portugal is not going to Spain We have to take over Italy and who shows up in Washington this week John?

1:13:31 Oh my goodness! The attaché from Italy. Yes, the Italian foreign minister with Lucifer doing her clippity-clop Clippity-clop, clippity-clop and uh... we're delighted to be welcoming the prime minister to the white house this afternoon for his meeting with president obama and a foreign minister who is well known in washington. Well known, oh yeah! We know him quite well here to the state department in his new capacity The United States and Italy have such

1:14:10 friendship and alliance, and we are working on a full range of important issues. Very important issues... hmmm what could those be? Pizza imports? Hmmm From our common efforts in Afghanistan to our concerns over Syria to of course the economic issue that will be the topic of conversation as we take over all your crap with the president But I want to underscore how confident we are in Italy, in Italy's future. In the extraordinary commitment that Prime Minister Monti and his government are bringing to the challenges confronting the Italian people and in the Italian people themselves So it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome you back minister Wow! Is she blowing him or what?

1:15:03 And you know, it's like please this is a you know the Monty of course is a Goldman Sachs shill who was brought in And if you relate this to how the power has to flow from Greece through Italy, it makes total sense that Italy is next. Thank you very much. I understand that it's a great pleasure and an honor to be seated here in the State Department. And I believe we are going to have a very interesting conversation about political issues which are... Yeah right! I'm sure we talk about political issues no but divvying up the goods. ...common concern for both our countries where we are involved You know, we are particularly engaged in Mediterranean issues. Mediterranean issues? Hmm... you just have to replace- and every single time one of these douchebags says political just think commercial if they say the people think us Just replace all those words! The funny thing is I was thinking about this over the last couple days

CHAPTER 16 / 29 Discussion

Resource Wealth Sharing, Alaska Model, State Ownership

A discussion on resource wealth compares the Alaska model, where citizens receive direct checks from oil revenues, to the lack of such benefits in California. The hosts argue that while sharing resource wealth is often labeled as "socialism," it is practiced in places like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to maintain social stability. They contrast this with the Western model of private corporate ownership backed by government interests.

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

1:16:00 You know, Sarah Palin used to who was at CPAC but Sarah Palin used to brag about how it was set up in Alaska where the people got the money. The people got you they had a lot of oil up there that gets pulled out and it gets divvied up everybody gets a check for couple grand at least everybody in the whole state and their tax rates are low because it helps pay for the taxes like you have a natural resource that's specific to that state since we are a federal style government where the states have these powers you just say hey this is stuff that belongs to the people of the state and they share it even though, you know I can see well that's just a bunch of communists. It's socialism! Communists? Commies damnit! It's communist but the thing is... It belongs to the people of course it does. It belongs again said California has always irked me because even though and I'd worked for an oil company Union Oil of California

1:16:54 And I was always thought it was unfair that we not only had oil, that was being pulled out of the ground just underneath everybody and privately owned. We not only got no benefits from this as a state, we got very little tax income because were broke But they would also have the highest gas prices. I mean during the crisis in the 70s and one more recently, our gas price is like right now it's $4 a gallon It just like we pay more! We get screwed twice! It's unbelievable You know this is why you wound up at the end of your career doing this show And you're not some elitist with a billion dollars because your thinking is all wrong

1:17:40 Yeah, no my thinking is totally wrong. I'm a communist! Stupid! Stupid communist! Now listen... So it's like these countries that have always had that idea, I mean Kuwait shares the wealth with its citizens they have you know their higher standard of living Saudi Arabia every time they have some issues going on. They just write a check to everybody Hey calm down people here's the check what do you want? Yeah five grand yeah, it was five grand shut up Okay Five Grand right so they do that we don't do any of that because we're taught that this is not right It should all be owned by a guy who scams everybody cuz he's got the government on his side it's just like it's always but some of these countries like Greece and

1:18:29 as we've every is a plan the last show and and it's a lesser extent Italy but definitely Cyprus they always had this common ownership idea but now they're getting screwed out of it there by the by the the true I elite is the program happens to be bill really run the world with 30 more seconds on the minutes of the foreign minister from Italy patiently developments in the societies which are leading to all school for democratic institutions and rich rich area the sense of the Arab Spring, but you're also concerned... See he's also talking about the Arab Spring. So it's all code for we got it! We're in that pocket! ...about developments in Syria and Iran and that is something where we should have a common purpose and a common understanding on how to proceed so... Oh yeah, we have an understanding sure you do! I'm looking forward to it! Thank you all very much!

CHAPTER 17 / 29 Discussion

Troika Bailout, Greek Privatization Agency, Costas Mitropoulos

The "Troika"—the IMF, ECB, and European Commission—is forcing Greece to sell off 50 billion euros in state assets as a condition for its bailout. A new privatization agency led by banker Costas Mitropoulos has been tasked with selling the gas company DEPA and the refiner Hellenic Petroleum. The hosts compare this process to the post-Soviet Russian model of creating billionaires through the sale of public assets to well-connected oligarchs.

troika· imf· greece· privatization· costas mitropoulos· depa· desfa

1:19:23 So like applause. Yeah, exactly it's like good job boy Good job all that camera action so I look at what kind of shots do they expect to get yeah really And why is it so loud and why aren't they Mike? Yeah, that's very annoying So of course the stupid slaves in Greece are rioting and protesting once again. And this is about the new package from the Troika, and it's gotten pretty bad in Greece but of course the Greek government doesn't actually give a rat's ass about the people they care about the bailout package I looked at the package you know we all talk about it and they just talk about oh the money the money the austerity

1:20:06 And I'm like, well what actually is in this package that they have to sign? And I was able to find a list and here it is from Reuters. So there's fiscal adjustment before any funds are dispersed under the bailout, the government must pass a supplementary budget including spending cuts. Bank recapitalizations i.e., give money to the banks taxpayer money to the banks and then here it is privatization this is part of the mandate from the European Union and the Troika Starfleet Command The troika being the IMF the European Central Bank

1:20:47 and what is the third one in the troika? I don't know. Darth Vader. Council? Darth Vader or Darth Vader here it is cumulative privatization receipts should be at least 4.5 billion euros by the end of 2012, 7.5 billion by the end 2013 12.12 billion by 2014 and 15 billion by 2015 an initial privatization target of 50 billion euros should be achieved over the medium term. Point two, increased powers for Greece's privatization agency to sell assets in pieces or liquidate it if it cannot be sold in its current form

1:21:34 It's very important, this little ditty here. And the third point, the list of companies whose full or partial privatization will be launched in 2012 include gas company DEPA, gas grid operator DESFA and the refiner Hellenic Petroleum So there it is! There it is black and white forced on the people that their ownership in the most important... Their ownership of these about to make a lot of money operations is now done. And then I see and I'm like, oh okay so they got more power? The privatization agency well it turns out in July Greece named a new team that will head up the privatizations agency

1:22:22 that is set up to undertake these billions of euros and at the sale of billions of euros. So who's in it? Well, let's see... Finance Minister picked Eurobank Equities Executive Costas Mitropoulos as the agency's managing director so that's a... Let me see is that a banker yeah that's a banker A private bank I might add He also named Yanis Koukiadis a law professor former minister and European Parliament deputy as board chairman. This is getting pretty good we've got some really partial guys on here this sounds really good other board members Andreas Toprances, former CEO of Hellenic Post so they'll probably sell off the post office

1:23:19 and former chief executive of Athens Water. Yeah, Chris, but don't forget we're trying to do the same thing here with our post office. Yes! Of course so but now when you look at Greece you just say that's the new Russia this is it everything fits and... No, the Russian model works very well for certain groups of people that were well connected Look I'm well connected i need to get something from my all the work I've done for you guys Yep, everyone's connected and they're doing it right on the backs of the slaves. And they give them all kinds of little things like elections. Oh you can go elect... pretend to elect somebody

1:23:56 and all kinds of little... Oh no, the public is just completely out to lunch on this whole thing. All the protesters they don't know anything anyway They just throw stuff and get it out of their system. The real troublemakers get isolated and thrown in jail. Or worse. It's almost like a... Shut up slave! Almost like a honeypot And I had mentioned on the previous episode about how all this relates to the Arab Spring pipeline had been blown up as well. Actually I found an article as I was researching for my video, Egypt's gas export pipeline in 2011 was attacked 10 times! Ten times! It is so obvious what is going on and then just to make it completely crazy...I think you call it recursion maybe we call it fractal

CHAPTER 18 / 29 Discussion

Anonymous Hack, Syrian Email Leak, ABC News Scripting

The hacking group Anonymous reportedly leaked emails from the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs, which the media used to claim Assad was manipulating the American public. However, the hosts argue the emails actually reveal a standard PR script coordinated between the Syrian UN attaché and ABC News for the Barbara Walters interview. They contend that the "leak" is itself a form of media manipulation designed to make the Syrian regime look amateurish and deceptive.

anonymous· wolf blitzer· cnn· barbara walters· syria· abc news· propaganda

1:24:54 But the script leaked out for the reality show. That is this interview with Assad, I'm sure you saw this maybe you didn't Is it just one that you played in the last show? No no so what happened is Anonymous, oh those awesome dudes at anonymous whoever they may be apparently hacked into the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs email system and exposed emails which showed that the Assad regime is out to propagandize Americans who are so stupid that they can be manipulated by the media. So this was so mind-boggling, I want to play this report from Wolf Blitzer and what's crazy about it is here's a report

1:25:48 that is supposed to tell you that you are being manipulated By the Assad regime, but of course this is actually manipulation in itself and we're buying into it This is how stupid we are Syrian opposition group is reporting as many as a hundred and thirty seven deaths at the hands of government forces today And now we're getting a shocking inside look at how the Syrian government shocking there's allegedly Spinning the crackdown to the outside world. The source secret emails post-secret

1:26:23 Secret emails! Secret, John. They're secret. They were secret if they were secret it would be called cables the secret emails by the notorious hacking group anonymous Brian Todd is here he's working this story for us so Brian what exactly are you finding out? Well one person we know who is connected to that hacker group Anonymous says one person You mean your CIA handler? Is that who you're talking about? It could be anybody. I mean, you can say that yourself That's so funny...I'm gonna say that all the time And when i was talking to Anonymous the other day These emails appear to be authentic and if so it does not look like Bashar Assad's aides have a very high opinion of Americans

1:27:01 It's days before a big interview with an American network. Barbara Walters and Bashar al-Assad is being coached to spin this crackdown one eight rights don't talk reform Americans won't care or understand that The aide advises the Syrian president to talk about quote mistakes blame his own police American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are quote mistakes done and now we are quote fixing it So this is the point where my mind is boggling us am I really hearing a report meant to manipulate? The American people that is actually saying that someone tried to manipulate the American people. It is so mind-boggling This has taking place

1:27:42 Here's what Assad then said about the crackdown in that early December interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. This is individual and that's what I call, what I describe as individual mistakes. Okay done by the military or done by whom? We don't know everything but in some cases it was done by the police in some cases done by civilians That email on what to say was apparently from Sherzod Jafari press attaché at Syria's mission to the UN To one of Assad's press aides in Damascus The hacker group Anonymous posted the email passwords of top Syrian officials. Hackers like this one cited by Foreign Policy magazine claim to have downloaded the emails and posted them online

1:28:22 CNN has seen the emails. They appear legitimate, though we cannot independently verify their authenticity." The email apparently from Jafari advises Assad on a quote to give Syria doesn't have a policy to torture people says he can contrast that with the US and mention Abu Ghraib Referring to Assad as H E for his excellency it says at one point H E was viewed as a hero and in other times H E was the bad guy Americans love these kinds of things and get convinced by it They think that the American public is really stupid. I'll hand it out... No, they're right! They're absolutely right! You are totally right. You are totally right. But so what? You know, I mean this is like nothing... Everybody does this. I got a punchline. ... who says he was once imprisoned and tortured by the regime This is how- what they taught us at school That Americans don't know anything about the world

1:29:10 they really enslave their people, the worker has no rights. Yes! Yes yes! And in the US and they really think so They think that American is easy to fool David Kenner of Foreign Policy Magazine says the email reflects an amateurish effort to present serious case to the world What is there current media strategy? Honestly I think at this point they have lost western media They've lost United States Alright, so of course I went and looked at these so-called emails that were posted to Pastebin by Anonymous. And very interesting because if you actually read the email that was sent which

1:29:55 Here's how it starts off, hello dear comma. So I guess this person forgot to say and this by the way is coming from the Syrian Attaché at the United Nations The most corrupt organization in the world where the script was written Now i'm going to read this opening paragraph to you John and I think that you'll agree with me that something else is going on Please let me know if you need anything else. Barbara will be here on the 2nd, and the interview will be on the 4th because she's leaving on the 6th so that would give you some time to do the editing. Thank You." But this... they're just handing the script from The United Nations! This is not propaganda! This was a script that was written in collaboration with ABC News They had a meeting at The United Nations

1:30:46 And said, okay listen and this is from the person at United Nations saying Barbara's gonna be here. I guess you mean... This person means in Syria Here's the stuff you should talk about because we've already done the pre-interview and you'll have some time to edit it all together This is the stuff that's important to manipulate the American people It's a script! It's not like some big crazy conspiracy? It's just a script like everybody does and Assad is a player Like Barbara Walters is a player, well she's more of pawn but she's a player. But yet this has spun into like oh the propaganda is crazy they fooled Barbara Walters and of course we're on to this crap and just about the time that were starting to understand what was going on expose it then all of sudden lets change the news and kill Whitney Houston So I wonder why trying to find looking at some articles about some previous

1:31:48 public relations ploys by the Syrians. I'm wondering who there's obviously a there's two groups involved is that and i think the oil interest may be one of them or the gas interests whatever same thing yeah same guys who are they you know this is their taking to side this interesting because it's like a public relations battle that they've they're losing with this story because this story is a bogative story that only bogey really is designed to just make everything they do look crappy Like, they're just trying to manipulate us. They suck! They are horrible people and you know they should all die.

1:32:24 and nobody considers the you know the scripted aspect of it, the United Nations aspect or the Barbara Walter aspect. Or they're at...or the post fact..or after-the-fact editing which is considered no we can't do that even though they apparently knew it all time. This is a briefing from a PR agent here at the end of this briefing and this is something that you know Lois would give us if were to do interview key points The government's crackdown on bloody regime civil war security forces in violence Tanks the YouTube torture clips president Assad ignores the bloodshed and the help of other countries in the Arab League army defectors Robert Ford's returns to the US for security reasons Syria is an authoritarian government So these are the key points they know that They know that Barbara Walters is going to focus on And then at the end The broadcast hours and channels, and they give the whole rundown the interview will be broadcast across ABC news platforms including World News good morning America this week. I mean it's a piece

1:33:22 briefing ABC not NBC I thought I said ABC yeah ABC which mean here it is a full-length treatment across the digital space this is PR talk for ABC News this now includes Yahoo as well which means you can reach us really interesting ABC and Yahoo which means you can reach as many as 100 million people ABC News and Yahoo recently joined forces which is another reason why so many people now bring their interviews to us really This is a PR briefing. And you're right, and so what? Yeah I know so what! But there's more PR going on... I just caught this this morning on CNN. I mean CNN itself does these. Thank You. Well here's CNN playing along nicely.

CHAPTER 19 / 29 Discussion

Nuclear Power Propaganda, Atomic Rod, Green Energy Rug-Pull

CNN is criticized for running "Nuclear Standoff," a program the hosts view as propaganda to facilitate the transition to a gas-based economy. They discuss an email from "Atomic Rod" regarding the safety and efficiency of nuclear energy compared to petroleum. The hosts also theorize that "green energy" movements are used to encourage investment before oil prices are lowered to bankrupt the competition and maintain petroleum dominance.

nuclear power· cnn· atomic rod· green energy· oil prices· peak oil

1:34:13 why is this nuclear power plant still online? So no one's gonna talk to us? No. CNN presents Nuclear Standoff next Sunday night, 8 Eastern. Nuclear standoff get rid of all nukes because gas is coming! Gas will save you get rid of nukes! Nuke bad nuclear power plants bad bad bad bad bad Actually we got a...we both of us got an email from Atomic Rod Yeah we did which was really beautiful email Which went on about this because he believes there is and he's you know I mean I think he's got his very set opinions about energy. Well he's, Atomic Rod Adams who was a long time supporter of the show was on the nuclear sub for many many years and he does work in the Navy He works in the Navy and he says look man backyard nukes are not far away it's clean then you know all this

1:35:04 propaganda again it's all propaganda of course Rod has his own agenda and I wish see if I can make a combustion engine here at home right I mean I can get some lawnmower and I get some parts together and I can create a generator if I could do that if I can split a couple atoms here at home you know and I wouldn't die from it then we would have a different story but you know it's so embedded into the psyche people and you heard it in that teaser where they said why is it still on line? Maybe because this just producing energy and not doing any harm. So maybe thats why its still on, but there's this slanted pro petroleum which we're a petroleum economy and anything that threatens it as always like

1:35:49 it's always like meets with ruination. Always! Yeah, nuclear you're gonna die. The thing that happened in the 70s which is going to happen again you can count on it which is the... No no we don't only have to happen every 30 years We had Fukushima and its done It won't happen for a while I'm talking about the clean energy movement that takes place with wind power and all these other things You jack up the price of oil as high as you can up because it really should be selling for $25 to $40 a barrel max instead of 100. So you jack it way up and then all these other things look like, well this is affordable we should do this. And you get everybody to invest their money into all this green stuff and by the way those funds are all underwater. Put all your money into green stuff then pull the rug out from under them I've seen this happen before boom! The price of oil goes back down where it belongs $25 dollars All these companies go broke overnight and they just set some back

1:36:47 20 or 30, they can't threaten again. It's just a real common situation because we got so much oil that it is almost crazy to do anything but burn it. Yeah but we've been mind controlled dude! We have been mind controlled of course you know the work were killing the earth, were killing each other, peak oil and all this stuff yeah are gonna die And now nuclear and of course I'll reiterate that right after Fukushima then Germany said, oh we're shutting everything down. No more clean beautiful nuclear energy. Right and if you can be one of the guys involved in a... since your not sharing the wealth when you find all this oil

1:37:29 you just control it somehow. You can make a heck of a lot of money just pumping stuff out on the ground, I mean there's no work involved except putting in the pump and then hire somebody to do that! It's a killer money maker, thats why we have all those rich guys in Texas. They're some of the dumbest people you've ever met. Rick Perry case in point Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday February 16th 2012 time for Good Monation Media assassination episode 383 This is no agenda Going generic here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state Austin Texas In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry

CHAPTER 20 / 29 Discussion

LeviathanPipeline.com, Democracy Now, Homs Pipeline Attack

The hosts promote "LeviathanPipeline.com," a listener-created site that aggregates their energy transit research. They play a clip from Democracy Now reporting on the continued bombardment of Homs and an attack on an oil pipeline in the city. This is presented as further confirmation of the "Curry Theory" that the Syrian conflict is centered on energy infrastructure.

leviathanpipeline.com· democracy now· homs· syria· pipeline· amy goodman

1:38:12 And from Northern Silicon Valley where you can't tweet anymore without hitting the feather button. Whatever is that? What's a feather button? I'm John C DeVore. LeviathanPipeline.com which is a PR effort from one of our producers, which is now forwarding to 381.nashownotes.com. LeviathanPipeline.com Which is a great one so easy to remember if you said hey You want to learn about something cool then go to leviathanpipeline.com I want to mention that when you came up with your thesis, which is actually reality it's not much of a theory

1:39:03 at this point. And you still find a way to downplay it no matter how good it is, that's just kind of reality It's reality! I've been on the lookout for some confirmations of your theory There are everywhere. Just reports and even though nobody there reports something as soon they do it... I'm sure our listeners did the same thing go ah! Yeah but this goes right over their heads Boom! Here play this from Democracy Now Okay and then I have a couple more I just want to reconfirm what you were thinking. Okay, well what's the name of the clip? Confirmation of Curry Theory! Hello? Hello? ...activists as the bombardment of the city of Humps continues for a twelfth day

1:39:44 Syrian tanks have reportedly shelled areas of Hama, Syria's fourth largest city. Raids against opposition activists have also been conducted in the capital Damascus In Humps an oil pipeline was attacked earlier today setting off a major blaze I know...I got a couple clips as well that i had to play I know it literally is like I tripped on the stairs see the theory works works I mean it's crazy there is reality everything has reality it's a reality theorist mm-hmm not very anymore I mean without their new boarded and they don't think twice about it yeah I know then I want to here's one that everyone can go what's going on with with Syria because a lot of and it's not it's all related to Iran of course as well

1:40:32 You had that Syrian pipeline clip. Here's my Syrian pipeline clips and you saw how it's nighttime now in Syria It's actually just before 11 o'clock there 11 o'clock at night, but much earlier darkness clouded the city In fact these are images this is the daytime look at the sky pitch black That is because of this oil pipeline explosion optivision opposition activists say the Assad regime Is to blame but the government has a different story different story. Why would the Assad people be to blame for blowing up their own pipeline? But and they, and the way she says it though the government has a different story like they're lying, you know they're lying there's totally lying it can't be true I'm a journalist so now we have this new woman

1:41:21 Here's Anderson Pooper with Arwa Damon. Just the setup alone is hilarious. Particularly harshly on Holmes which has become an opposition stronghold, 11 people were killed there today according to activists. Arwa has crossed into Syria we're not going to say exactly where she is because it's in the studio next door She is for her own safety and the safety of her team. Safety of her team! Her Team? She had no team. She played baseball, what's the deal? Nah she got a whole team there apparently I spoke with her just a short time ago Opposition groups are reporting that at least 30... Opposition groups are reporting You gotta listen to what these people are saying Opposition groups are reporting What opposition group?! We have CNN Syria Who are these reporters People have been killed today in Syria What're you seeing on the ground

1:42:12 Well, we're basically in a safe house. So I'm seeing nothing? We cannot disclose... I can't disclose because i'll be killed! And there has been a non-stop flow of traffic here from members of the Free Syrian Army who have just defected The Free Syrian Army?! The non stop traffic!? She's not on the ground she's holed up somewhere if she is actually in Syria and it's just talking out of the side of her ass About yeah, all these guys came in and told me what was going on. So let me report that as truth to you pooper Also in this location at the scene of what is a medical clinic however because Area that we're in is effectively under siege as are many effectively under siege Huh? The other areas around it A lot of those In need of medical treatment have not been able to reach this particular location What's the level of org- big edit by the way The whole thing is edited cuz she's and I'll tell you who she is

CHAPTER 21 / 29 Discussion

Arwa Damon, CNN Syria Reporting, Al-Qaeda Vacuum

CNN reporter Arwa Damon is scrutinized for her background and her reporting from a "safe house" in Syria. The hosts compare her coverage to the allegedly staged green-screen reports of Peter Arnett during the Iraq War. Damon's reports on the Free Syrian Army and the potential for Al-Qaeda to fill a "security vacuum" are characterized as a narrative shift to justify Western intervention.

arwa damon· cnn· syria· free syrian army· al-qaeda· peter arnett· green screen

1:43:07 Arwa Damon, born in Boston Massachusetts. She graduated from Robert College in Istanbul Turkey...in Turkey! Her father a teacher at the American Community School of Beirut she's an asset and we've never heard of this woman before I've never seen her anywhere but here is what very interesting She covered the Middle East as a freelance producer working with CNN, PBS Fox News and others. She began her journalism career at Camera Planet working to get correspondence for Peter Arnett's team into pre-war Iraq." Well you remember Peter Arnett literally... And there are YouTube videos everywhere of Peter Arnett and his team sitting in a green screen!

1:43:56 You've seen these right John? You've seen the green screen video. Yeah, yeah and pretending like oh there's another one! There's another bomb! And then the camera kept rolling... ...and they were sitting in front of a green screen with plants they took from the hotel lobby She's she's a phony! Organization that you're seeing uh in among opposition forces There is a fairly impressive amount of organization Fairly and so the video is guys getting into a Toyota Blue Toyota with with ak-47s and masks on their face impressive organization Anderson Love will be free Syrian army units on the village to village town to town level appear to be fairly well organized They are of course lacking in weapons. They can't really conduct offensive operations

1:44:40 This is a little code, of course they're lacking weapons so it would be good if America sent some weapons over there. And then the activists themselves are incredibly well organized whether it's trying to disseminate... Incredibly organized? She's seeing all this from her undisclosed location where she hasn't left the room with the crack in the wall behind her I love that that's great Her team has did well Hey let's get that crack in the wall behind you That makes it look like your in a bombed out place It's good To get information around there is a constant flow of information.

1:45:26 Is there any truth to that? Oh, oh okay. Al-Qaeda behind it. Hmm let's listen. You do see weapons and the largest weapon we've seen has frankly been an AK47 and after that a rocket propelled grenade really no match for what the government has at its disposal yes People say there's been a very slow trickle of weapons coming across various borders, but it really isn't going to be putting the opposition fighters in a sort of military stance. And what we keep hearing reiterated time and time again is that the opposition, the fighters even themselves

1:46:05 do not want to and did not want to have to pick up weapons but it has been the regime's brutality that has forced them into this position. And when it comes to the issue of Al-Qaeda, look even the US has said that they believe some sort of al Qaeda linked group is perhaps behind those mass bombings in Damascus behind a bombing that just took place in Aleppo but they also do believe that this simply because Al-Qaeda being the network that it is one that is fully capable the kind of security vacuum that exists here but it is in so there's the there's the shift in the story. The shift is, because there's a vacuum in authority, a vacuum in the regime that's why Al Qaeda is coming in because they blow up stuff for a living that's what they do essentially well I did a bunch of work on this too and I kinda went in a different direction

CHAPTER 22 / 29 Discussion

Arab League Observer Report, French Media Skepticism

A leaked Arab League observer mission document suggests that many international journalists have had access to Syria, contradicting the narrative that the country is closed off. The hosts cite reports from French publications and Russia Today's Elizabeth Phelan that challenge the Western media's version of events. They suggest the Muslim Brotherhood is the primary force behind the regional uprisings, aiming to implement Sharia law.

arab league· russia today· elizabeth phelan· france· syria· sharia law

1:46:59 I went to, there's a document floating around which is a leaked document from the Arab League that the Arab League observing mission you've seen it. And there are couple of things that were interesting in it One was a list of all these journalists from around the world that were brought into look at basically look around and it would be lies the argument no journalist can get in Well there's journalists from everywhere and they're all over the place. There is good documentation of them right up to TBS Japanese Broadcasting Network 3-1 2012 sent in Italian official television, French journalist Hervé Degal

1:47:41 and one after another so I decided to start looking at the some of the French. Actually, I looked at any number these people including one woman who was listed as... we got her name right... yeah Elizabeth No, this is a different one. Elizabeth Palmer... I don't have her name but anyways, Elizabeth Cocker So you couldn't find her because her name was actually Elizabeth Phelan This is the old maiden name they had on there so I finally found her stuff She works for Russia Today and a bunch of other Canadian outlets And she says the whole thing that's over there is a bunch of bull crap and they won't print any of it

1:48:23 And so then I said, well let me just look at some of the foreign publications. And so I started looking at the French stuff but going through a bunch of different translators. I actually re-translated most of these documents three different times to figure out what the hell they were talking about and the French guys were saying this whole thing is crap. They kind of shut down somebody or another started attacking them and they all grouped together and met, a number of French guys met at a nun's place out in the middle of nowhere as it was a secret meeting to discuss what's going on with this Catholic nun who

1:49:01 French that's living in the area and she goes on this long tirade about this is all a bunch of bullcrap dreamed up by Western media. She doesn't know why, and this is all reported in La Vie among other French publications so I'm thinking this whole thing is just...I mean we can't even use anything because this is all bull crap Well, I mean it's such bullcrap that even the stuff that we try to deconstruct is just completely off the rails and the people behind this by the way they've been this This rating of Syria. It seems to me if you start looking at the public relations agencies involved are All stem back to the Muslim Brotherhood

1:49:42 These are the Muslim brotherhood taking over the area. They've taken over Egypt, they're taking over Syria looks like they're trying to take over Tunisia there was a really good report over the last few days about what's going on in Tunisia. They're trying you know there's a big battle where they should put Sharia law in. But wasn't that the whole point is to have everyone freaking out and so that if... Yeah exactly! That's what the point of The Leviathan Project is. So then you can just run the Israeli gas into Europe and everybody's happy campering meanwhile Israelis are surrounded by a bunch of maniacs Well, so this is where it gets very interesting back to the Leviathan Project. So first of all we had... Very interesting! We had Bibi show up in Cyprus. Bibi Netanyahu made his first visit to Cyprus ever by an Israeli Prime Minister this week

CHAPTER 23 / 29 Discussion

Bibi Netanyahu in Cyprus, Chinese Investment in Greece, Haiku Herman

Benjamin Netanyahu makes the first-ever visit by an Israeli Prime Minister to Cyprus to discuss energy exploration and military cooperation. Meanwhile, Chinese firms like China Three Gorges are finalizing multi-billion dollar purchases of Greek energy infrastructure. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (referred to as "Haiku Herman") is heard welcoming deeper Chinese integration into the Eurozone economy.

benjamin netanyahu· cyprus· greece· china· herman van rompuy· energy exploration

1:50:36 He said that he and President Dimitris Christophoulias discussed a variety of ways the two countries can work together in agriculture, tourism science and oh yeah energy exploration. Really? It's always last on the list. Yeah both leaders declined to speak publicly about it. Maybe nobody will read that far So of course this relates back to Greece and on Sunday's show while we were wrapping up the show, Greece was on fire essentially just on fire. A couple of interesting things happened well here is the first one that got reported on Monday I think it is quite serious make no mistake Hugh that EU officials are playing it tough I think for a moment certainly this second Greek bailout

1:51:28 is on hold and the reason for that is that the EU officials do not believe that Greece has met conditions, crucial condition. They want key political leaders to give written guarantees after elections in April they will fully implement these new austerity measures they also want further budget cuts but I am detecting growing tension between some Greek ministers and some European minister's one Greek Minister today did say quite simply the Greek people have had enough and can't take any more. But also some European ministers are discussing the possibility of a Greek default in a way certainly they weren't a year ago, the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble said

1:52:12 compared to two years ago, we are much better prepared to survive a Greek default. Now against this background the Greek economy seems to be collapsing in the last quarter of last year it contracted by 7%. Right So what is happening here? And there's a document floating around now I read a blog by this guy named John Ward and John ward was a big advertising executive in the 80s and Early 90s in the United Kingdom, and he has a blog called The slog. He's retired You can find it at hat for UK WordPress calm hat number 4uk WordPress calm and he has a lot of friends on the inside and he posted today about

1:52:57 Greek default exclusive senior US bankers give an explicit timetable for Athens default and by the way lots of countries default It's not like you know the end of the world but March 23rd is And apparently Barclays has it in one other Bank who he can't mention But I trust this guy, he's been right about a lot of things. March 23rd they close the business that's a Friday and Monday the banks will not dispense money in Greece so that'll be the 26th And everyone has been kind of waiting for this moment and the reason why is the privatization deals are done China three gorges G-O-R-G-E-S

1:53:41 has finalized their purchase of the stake in the EDP, the Greek Energy Company $3.5 billion dollars The committee that was appointed just a few months ago has said you know what we're probably going to have to have the state give up every single bit everything all of their stake in the Greek energy infrastructure and it's the Chinese Although there is one Azerbaijan company who was also in on it, but the Chinese are the ones that are purchasing and buying all of this up. And that flows right in... There's another Lucifer-Clinton connection there. That's the Far East Energy Corporation So I think this has been a total Chinese setup

1:54:34 for purchasing the assets, as the deals will be done and then it's just like screw them. Let them burn! Just let them burn and Italy will be next because Italy already has a pipeline by the way that was built in 2010 they have the pipeline with Greece and Italy will be the next country that we'll have to privatize everything That's really what these austerity measures are about No one in the elitist world or oil cabal gives a crap About the people it's all about the privatization of the companies and then we had haiku Herman And for some reason I can't find like where's my clip of Haiku Herman. Let me grab it from YouTube Haiku Herman was let me see where was he? Oh gee, do you think he was in China this past week It becomes so transparent He was in China why the Vice Chairman was in Iowa is that right? I don't know about the vice chairman

1:55:38 But here's Haiku Herman talking to the Chinese at a press conference. Listen to the words that he is using, it is quite impressive. We welcomed the declaration of Premier Wen last week in which he said that China will consider to be involved deeper in European integration Yes by buying Oliver Sheet we take note of it and welcome it Noted! Second point is in the past already China have shown in a concrete way its interests in the Eurozone by investing in sovereign bonds of individual countries and by investing in European stability instruments. Third point is it's up to China to make its own decisions in order to contribute to the stability of the Eurozone, as Premier Wen said

1:56:41 Just a few moments ago, we agreed that we will consult and cooperate with each other in these matters. So Haiku Herman basically went on his knees and blew the Chinese. Please hook us up! Come on man you're gonna get the infrastructure just come on in You've got to participate in the ESM, the European Stability Mechanism. Please! But of course the guy... The only guy who really has a story straight and what's really going on is our buddy Nigel Farage

CHAPTER 24 / 29 Discussion

Nigel Farage, European Parliament, Greek Default Theory

Nigel Farage delivers a speech in the European Parliament criticizing the "Troika" for destroying Greek democracy and driving the country into a death spiral. The hosts propose a theory that the Greek collapse is a setup to allow the government to eventually nationalize the assets currently being sold to the Chinese. This "South American trick" would effectively screw the Chinese investors while returning the infrastructure to Greek control.

nigel farage· greece· european parliament· troika· privatization· china

1:57:18 It's always fun to hear a little bit of Nigel bitching at the European Starfleet command. Well, Commissioner you picked the right man. Puppet Papademos is in place and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away He said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country What democratic country? He's not even a democratically elected Prime Minister. He has been appointed by you guys and Greece isn't run through democracy now, it is run through a troika three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and cant do The violence and destruction that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly because people are having their democratic rights taken from them What else can they do? And I must say if I was a Greek citizen I would have been out there

1:58:05 joining those protests on Sunday, I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. And in his efforts, in the puppet's efforts to get the MPs to vote for the bailout package he warned them that if they didn't do so there would be a dramatic decline in living standards. Well has he looked outside the front door? Has he seen the fact that 50% of young people are unemployed already? Has he seen the fact that the economy far from stalling has contracted for five years in a row and is now accelerating on a downward death spiral, a contraction Percent per annum Greece is being driven into the ground and I think frankly when it comes to chaos You ain't seen nothing yet. I love that reference That's gonna be the new theme song, I think you're missing the whole point on this one, I don't think so

1:59:16 Well, let's take a look at this what's going on. You're taking the perspective that they're gonna just let Greece fall apart and fuck these guys? No! Let me just tell you what is really happening here This is a complete setup There's no way that the Chinese are gonna be allowed to own this thing because the Chinese are out of the picture We don't want them in North Africa we definitely don't want them in Greece This whole thing is designed to create a collapse of Greece, a revolution, a re-foundation probably kick them out of the EU. Refound the government nationalize all that stuff that they privatized and go right back to square one the way the Greeks always operated and they've done this before! They have had these revolutions in Greece over the years

2:00:00 And they nationalize everything. That's an old trick that's done in South America and that gets the Chiners out. Well, bear with me! Then you're taking it one step further so it is correct They're bringing the Chiners in right now I mean the press releases are there they've purchased the assets And then they go and nationalize and kick them out. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that way they get the money... I like that! They get their pipeline back, they get their old system back, and then there'd be you and maybe make friends afterwards. This whole thing is designed to screw the Chinese. Nice! No, I'm liking that one

CHAPTER 25 / 29 Discussion

Angelina Jolie, Bosnia Pipeline, UN Refugee Ambassador

Angelina Jolie is identified as a "confirmed asset" for her role as a UN refugee ambassador and her public calls for intervention in Syria. The hosts link her film about Bosnia to the Ionian Adriatic pipeline project, suggesting her humanitarian work serves as a cover for energy interests. They also engage in a brief tangent regarding her physical height and public image.

angelina jolie· bosnia· syria· united nations· al-baradei· brad pitt

2:00:40 Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. And Sunday February 19th 2012 time for Gizmo Nation Media assassination episode 384 This is no agenda You know you're not on the Horowitz show, right? I just read that was the top hit. And then you have people who support the bullcrap like Olbermann

2:01:21 It's gotten worse. Angelina Jolie is now confirmed to be an asset. Unbelievable! So she does this movie about Bosnia and wasn't Bosnia, John? Am I crazy in not remembering... Wasn't that also about a pipeline? I think there may have been a... well we, it's..I'm sure there was a pipeline. Wasn't that a Balkans pipeline type thing deal? It could be. I mean sure it wasn't no one... Well let me look it up for you. The elitists don't really give a crap so anyway she does this movie where she says she financed herself uh big fun big a lot of chunk of change you know probably 15-20 million dollars wait a minute before we go on

2:02:02 There apparently now there's a new initiative the Ionian Adriatic pipeline going through Bosnia which is a natural gas proposed pipeline. Which may have something to do with your other... The Leviathan Theory, absolutely! Well she's not coming as part of the Leviathan theory she's now coming out and says it's this Angelina Jolie it's time to intervene in Syria hmm isn't that interesting And then she's at an awards... What does she got to do with it? Well, people listen to her. Come on man! She's hot! Sexy! Is she gonna steal some kids or what's the deal? No no no, remember she is the United Nations ambassador for refugees so she's a confirmed asset

2:02:55 Quote, I think Syria has got to a point sadly where certain we're certainly some form of intervention is absolutely necessary Jolie told Aljazeera Balkans in an interview shown on the channels internet site. It's so sad it's so upsetting it's so horrible what's happening at this time We just must stop the civilians being slaughtered and then she goes to Egypt and We have the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also a Nobel Peace Prize winner and shill of the Crisis Institute. The guy who was supposed to go in and become president of Egypt, Al-Baradai! And al Baradai gives her some award and kisses her.

2:03:50 So you know it's like anything to get a cheap kiss apparently she's like five foot three did you know this? She I thought she was well. This is the right all said this in a million Wikipedia I've been told that she's like just like one of these You know like pixie Well that could be because, I mean you don't know but it seems as if Brad Pitt is not a tall man. No he's not and let's see if we can get... look up Angelina Jolie height usually they have a few references thats always wrong by the way yeah Angelina Jolie weight cuz they lie you know she was but she's 5'5". I bet she smaller than that. No wait thats just somebody else. No its says shes 5'7". No!

2:04:36 No, no. I was speaking to people who have met her and they said she's like a pixie She is like a little teeny dainty little thing You just want to pick up between your thumb and index finger Like put it over there I don't believe she's 5'7". She is very thin. Well yeah, but that what it means she is like a little pixie But she is 5' 7", it says by the way Yeah, I do not believe that Currently recently she has down to like 100 pounds or something Now I do not have tell you how I know that a lot of these things are wrong but a lot of these things are wrong Particularly when it comes to height and weight and age But I say height and age are two most lied about thing on Wikipedia I think weight is right up there Maybe Here is one where he says

CHAPTER 26 / 29 Discussion

Doodlebops Aside, Hillary Clinton and Kathy Ashton

A brief aside notes a potential reference to the "No Agenda" show in the children's program *Doodlebops*. The hosts then return to Hillary Clinton's meeting with EU High Representative Kathy Ashton. They discuss the "clippity-clop" of their diplomatic meetings and Clinton's comments in Munich regarding Europe as America's "partner of first resort" on global challenges.

doodlebops· hillary clinton· kathy ashton· kosovo· munich· state department

2:05:20 Please no way that I know is not true. No way so anyway Yeah, we got it We gotta get because there is something else going on with Kosovo what's going on there? I keep reading about this natural gas Hold on a second cuz I'd actually didn't pull the clip but Lucifer clippity-clop Let me see. I bet you this is about it. While you're doing that, do you want to take a quick aside? I think somebody's listening to our show! You think?! Well because i watched the childrens' show Doodlebops... It's just the worst piece of crap ever produced for children. And there was reference to our show in there if you play the clip. Just as shorty tell them so they can spot it.

2:06:16 I'm Deedee Doodle. I'm Rooney Doodle! I'm Moe Doodle, and we're the Doodlebops! The Clippity-Clopps? Yeah, the Doodlebops! That's just silly... The Clippity-Clopps! Writers are writers that write for the Doodlebops who are listening to our show Hey, we're moving up in the world. Yeah, Clippity-Clopp was out there with um let me see uh let me see search for the word Kosovo There it is oh my goodness She was out with Kathy Ashton and they were like blowing each other again. I saw the picture of the two of them, man! I saw a picture of Hillary and Ashton recently That's what i'm saying those two They look terrible...they looked like gay lovers

2:07:04 They would make a handsome couple, wouldn't they? I think so. Let's see... Hillary doesn't look good she is gaining weight. She looks tired. They're trying to ruin her. Clippity-clop. It is always a pleasure to welcome my friend and colleague the high representative What does this high representative bull crap mean? The high representative means she stoned man! She stoned her goat! She's high! What else could it mean?! Kathy, man. Hey, hey man. Hi Representative! Pass on the crack pipe, man I want to get high too you can't be the only one who's high Union here in Washington we always have a lot to discuss and we are always relying on each other because as i said in Munich a few weeks ago Europe

2:07:52 remains America's partner of first resort on all of the global challenges we are confronting together. I know that Kathy understands the significance... If I can find it, it'll be good. Yeah, really? Here let's see if I can find it. Yeah by the way this was kind of weird... This Anthony Shadid deal

CHAPTER 27 / 29 Discussion

Anthony Shadid Death, Friends of Syria Conference

The death of prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid in Syria, officially attributed to an asthma attack, is treated with skepticism by the hosts. They suggest Shadid may have uncovered sensitive information about the conflict. Hillary Clinton's upcoming attendance at the "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia is framed as a move to intensify pressure on the Assad regime.

anthony shadid· syria· asthma· turkey· hillary clinton· tunisia

2:08:32 Yeah? So this is a prize-winning journalist who has been shot. The guy sounds like one of these characters you run into when you read about the Civil War and these guys that are basically running around with no arms or legs, and they're still fighting And so he's in Syria I see the guys from CNN are just now on the street in homes Not on the street but he had to climb through barbed wire through Turkey and come into Syria did you when you read the story of his passing because an unfortunate bout of asthma yeah, did you have like a hmm really? Two to the head. Yeah I mean cause the guy speaks fluent Arabic multiple dialects i'm thinking he found out what the true bull crap is and then like sorry man good work but I mean it's horrible well he may...I think we've already most people

2:09:32 Not most people, but at least listeners to this show and others have deconstructed some of this. I think there was something more than anything we've even thought of that he must have uncovered He's one of those guys who is digging around constantly Yeah, he's really digging deep. It means something that if anyone knew and obviously don't know what it is There would be a disaster for someone You know, who knows? He may have run into a whole... I have no idea. A poker party with Jimmy Carter for all we know. Who knows or maybe the third Obama! I have no idea Let's listen to Lucifer because she does mention Kosovo in this. ...the opposition and provide relief to the people of Syria. I will be attending the Friends of Syria conference in Tunisia next week. Friends of Syria conference?! Did you get an invite to that??

2:10:18 Oh, I got snubbed. A number of nations will work to intensify pressure on the regime and to mobilize the humanitarian... Yeah so here it comes. So she's actually there is something going on with Kosovo which we didn't which we weren't aware of and she's going to bring it up. I'm looking at the transcript since I didn't clip this so I am kind of filling time. Regime actions tear the country apart Here comes. We're looking for Let me forward it, here we go. Okay so what is going on? That must be the pipeline!

2:11:07 Yeah, obviously that's what she's all she's on right now is the pipeline stuff. Everything that she's doing if you we've just listened to the last five or six shows since and actually any shows after Leviathan always connected to this thing somehow well right with a noble oil thing I mean everything is connecting her to this and so I don't know, she may be the quality control person. The front man? The guy who goes ahead... advanced person She's the advanced man for everything Making sure all the ducks are in a row so nobody screws up when they put all these things together So there is couple of interesting news articles while we just stick on Leviathan for second and by the way It is the largest natural gas offshore discovery in the world in the last decades

CHAPTER 28 / 29 Discussion

Solar Turbines, Caterpillar, Russian-Turkish Confrontation

The company Solar Turbines, a subsidiary of Caterpillar, is identified as a major player profiting from the global expansion of natural gas infrastructure. The hosts predict a future confrontation between Russia and Turkey over Cypriot waters, which they believe will eventually lead to a resolution of the Syrian conflict. They conclude that the "Leviathan Theory" remains the most accurate model for understanding these events.

solar turbines· caterpillar· natural gas· turkey· russia· cyprus

2:11:56 It's a little long, but I like it So i've gotten a lot of insider emails and these come in encrypted you can use PGP encryption And even after I read it. I delete it And hopefully that protects you and me right? And I don't do any of that No Please don't send it to John whatever you do just in case so Solar turbines have you heard of this company I'm sure i will. So solar turbines is a was purchased by Caterpillar it's a caterpillar company and my source has a source well positioned at solar and so my source that's Adam here said to his

2:12:50 his person in that organization. So, um... How you doing with the... Because solar turbines sound so innocuous. Innocuous? Innocuous! Like it's about turbines for solar. Or something, yeah but apparently not! Apparently they're making an effing killing on their natural gas turbines. Huge! I'll read from their website... Products from solar turbines may play an important role in development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world! It's huge apparently Now Turkey, as you know Turkey is kind of got cut out of this Leviathan gas field in Israel and Cyprus deal. And Turkey here are now starting to freak out as Israel and Cyprus signed their agreement that will allow Israeli defense planes and ships to use Cypriot airspace and territorial waters

2:13:48 Turkey's saying oh, yeah. Well we're working on our ships around too so we could see an actual war happening there because Cyprus Part of that is is Turkish am I correct in saying that? Yeah So, here's the way this could play out. The Syrian thing is just a show to force the Russians to take some positive side in Syria or in the Cypriot action so Russia has got to do something... This will be my prediction for The Red Book There's going to be some sort of weird activity with confrontation between Russia and Turkey and when the Russians finally make the Turks back off then the Syrian thing calms down

2:14:33 That would be... The Russians are the one that's hurt most by the Syrian thing. Yes, yes All about Russia Well, thank you so much Stephen Anto for putting together that pipeline special. It really kind of covers all the ground Yeah I think this is actually another good introductory show to give us an eye opener right? So you did a great job and this is really on you more than anything because your pipeline analysis has never been done like this by anybody You nailed it. I have to give you kudos on that thing. Well, I have to say there's nothing that gives me... well, hmmm There are few things in the world that give me more pleasure than bringing something out that YOU are actually into and like

2:15:22 Well, thank you very much for the... Does that make any sense? The fact of the blather is you actually nailed it. You stumbled I don't know if how do you found this is original Leviathan thing It was astonishing and now of course we use it as one of our benchmarks We check that when you do our Google search we always like to put in something And then we have different code words that we put on our Google and you can now pipeline is always boom number 1 there's a pipeline excuse for something going on Oh yeah! It's actually ridiculous Well, it's ridiculous that we weren't on to it. You know like I don't know 15 years ago Yeah as investors yeah Damn another missed opportunity we missed out on that We missed out on the drones boy. We suck

CHAPTER 29 / 29 Discussion

Outro, Hot Pockets Tour, Sign-off

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak conclude the special presentation, thanking Steven Anto for the compilation. They announce the upcoming "Hot Pockets 2009" tour through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, and Idaho. The hosts exchange lighthearted banter about Dvorak's Skype profile picture before signing off from their respective locations in Austin and Northern Silicon Valley.

hot pockets tour· amsterdam· silicon valley· austin· skype· sign-off

2:16:05 So a reminder that this of course has been a slow week for us so we'd really appreciate if you could go to devorek.org and support our programs moving forward, we'll be very happy to thank everybody all the producers executive producers associate producers the upcoming no agenda podcast which will be this coming Thursday miss Mickey and I fly back on Wednesday, and you know I'm sure I'll have some store well. I know I'll have some stories from the lowlands because you meet a lot of people you hear new things Of course there's you know we're having this big party At the supper club with a lot of no agenda people will show up so yeah You get the locals man it's just like the Hot Pockets tour which i'd like to point out one week after we're back

2:16:52 We're on the road. I got to come to town and take Jay out. 21, i think. I have one question for you. Let me borrow your gun by the way. I have one question for you. Sure! Of all the things related to this show obviously is there anything that you would like me to change or do differently? Well it's catching me off guard because I have a laundry list somewhere now just kidding

2:17:40 No, I think this show is good to go for another few years. As long as people support us... It's not me that has the final say it's the listeners and so we always and the listeners mostly know that and we hope they stick with us Well that's nicely done but there is nothing if Curry would only no do that If he could only change this There's nothing huh? Well, you know the slide whistle copycat thing is a little annoying but I'll let that slide because you're actually pretty good at it. Yeah, I do have one thing for you there's only one thing i would like you to change uh-huh this is the set yeah well I gave you all the opportunity didn't I? Okay go yeah yeah well could you please for the love of god

2:18:24 Please Change your picture on Skype. I have to look at that stupid picture Photoshop the view with a mustache and I actually made about ten of those pictures up, I'm going to switch to number two I look at that picture five be five hours a week I'm pretty gruesome isn't it is more, but yeah But i've seen it for four years now oh Yeah, i'll change to the one in fact. I'm gonna make it the album like it anymore I'm gonna make it the album art so everyone can see what I've been looking at Who made that did you make that? Yeah? I didn't photoshop. It's horrible And otherwise keep it exactly the same ever-changing Exactly the same Don't go changing baby

2:19:16 Alright everybody! We'll be on our way back. Can't wait to be back at home base Camp MoFo again just for a week Hopefully we have a trailer by now I don't know, or have a week this sort something out So we are looking for that for the Hot Pockets 2009 tour Which will take us through... What is it? Oklahoma Kansas Colorado Montana Idaho That's kind of the route There's Mickeys all over that We're coming to you from the fake Amsterdam location, because I'm really still in Camp MoFo. In the morning everybody! I am Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley because I haven't moved an inch...I am sitting in the same chair. I am John C. Dvorak Looking forward to talking to y'all on Thursday here on NO AGENDA Shut up slave! dvorak dot org slash n a