Episode 569 · Thursday, 28 November 2013

23 and Plea

Silicon Valley faces a regulatory reckoning as the FDA halts genetic testing, while geopolitical maneuvers in China and Iran reshape the global energy and security landscape.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 569

About this episode

The FDA issued a cease-and-desist order to 23andMe, halting the company's genetic health diagnostic services and labeling their saliva collection kits as unapproved medical devices. CEO Anne Wojcicki and investors like Sergey Brin face intense scrutiny over a business model that critics claim prioritizes the creation of a massive, salable genomic database for pharmaceutical firms over genuine consumer health insights. The regulatory crackdown highlights a growing friction between Silicon Valley's disruptive ambitions and federal safety standards regarding BRCA mutations and disease risk prediction.

International tensions escalate as the United States flies B-52 bombers through China’s newly declared air defense identification zone in the East China Sea. Meanwhile, the interim nuclear agreement with Iran reveals a complex regulatory framework allowing the U.S. to control global petroleum market access for companies like Shell and Total while permitting the export of American consumer goods. In domestic news, the final Sandy Hook report surfaces with inconclusive ballistics data, and Philadelphia becomes the first city to ban 3D-printed firearms, a move seen as a pretext to protect industrial additive manufacturing interests.

Adam Curry recounts a bizarre Facebook impersonation attempt involving a Dutch television star, while John C. Dvorak offers essential holiday wine pairings to survive the Thanksgiving season. The duo explores the "kale marketing scam" and the historical activism of Sarah Hale, who transformed a day of mourning into a national feast. From Mossad spies in Hollywood to the "Nordic Model" of prostitution reform in France, the global landscape remains as volatile as a factory-farmed heritage turkey.


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CHAPTER 01 / 34 Discussion

Adam Curry Cybersex Impersonation Attempt on Facebook

Adam Curry recounts a recent incident where an impersonator on Facebook attempted to engage him in cybersex by posing as a famous Dutch television personality he knew from the 1980s. Curry realized the interaction was fraudulent after contacting the real individual via email, who confirmed she did not have a Facebook account. He describes the encounter as a potential setup or attempt to humiliate him.

adam curry· facebook· amsterdam· cybersex· impersonation· social media safety

00:00 Yeah, we'll hit it. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, November 28th, 2013, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 5, S'wassanna! This is no agenda. And today I am thankful for your courage. From the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And, whoops, from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning. What did you lose your script? No, I was just looking at the Twitter because I tweeted right after you tweeted that we're on the air. Yeah. Then I noticed that there's a post by me that I'd never posted. Really?

00:46 Yeah, it's funny you mentioned this because yesterday and now miss Mickey is gone So I'm all alone here and I'm you know, I'm just what I do is I basically bring everything into the studio I don't need anything else. I don't need a house. We got that. I got the aero bed I mean, I'm living in the studio and you know I check Facebook to see if she's posted any pictures from from the gig that she's doing in Los Angeles and And all of a sudden I get a bloop. I get an instant message from this girl. Remember the girl that was at the reunion? I told you the reunion, the radio reunion in Amsterdam? No. You didn't tell me anything about a radio reunion, about the girl. Yes we did. I told you I had a reunion and one of the girls who was there was our assistant back in the 80s but she's now this huge television personality. How big is she?

01:41 Right. Well, she's very famous. Let's put it that way. Oh, I see what you're saying. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Right. And because, of course, I've been working out, doing this spin class for a couple months, I look... Oh, now you're changing the story. No, no, no, no, no. This was the entire reason to say yes. Because I knew all these people would be... To go to the reunion. Okay. Because I knew all these people would be overweight and wrinkled. I'm like, this is great. I'm going to walk in and go, hey. Yeah, you're gonna be looking good. That's right. Look at my girlish figure. So she was there and she's seriously a huge celebrity now. Like really, I told you this, like Oprah level almost. Okay. And for Holland, which isn't saying that much. No, it's a big deal. So, you know, it was great catching up with her. She literally could not keep her hands off of me. Understandable.

02:35 So Mickey I guess is flying to LA so she can't hear any of this. Oh no, Mickey's the one that said it's okay as long as you don't put more than the tip in it's okay. Welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen, you've not heard Noah Gentry before you're confused. But the point is, so I get this instant message from her saying something which is actually relevant to the conversation we had at this reunion and I'm like yeah and then and all of a sudden she's like trying to cybersex me. I'm like, hold on a second. Seriously, you know, like, hey, I'm not kidding. And I'm like, well, this is weird. And so I'm like real cagey. I'm like, what are you talking about?

03:23 She's like, you know what I'm good at. You know what I'm good at. I'm like, what do you mean? Why don't you tell me what you're good at? And it was back and forth. I'm like, okay, this is weird. So I email her. This is IMs or how are you doing this? I think it pops up as a message on. So yeah, I think it's like a Facebook. What kind of cybersex of these pop up messages? I know. And I'm like, this is whatever you're planning. I'm certainly not going to do it on Facebook. Yeah, so I email her and I say, is this you? Maybe she's got one of those shows to just humiliate people. Well, you know, I think something like that was going on because I emailed her and she says, no, I don't even have a Facebook account. I'm like, well, you may want to check this because it sure looks like your Facebook account and you're cyber-sexing me. Oh, somebody was trying to set you up. Yes, exactly.

04:10 And I was not having it, which I'm very happy about. Because you know how easy it is to be like, yeah baby, what are you wearing? I mean, you know me. Look at Currie, what a douchebag. You know how easy it would be to trick me really into doing that. I'd be like, yeah, yeah, cool. So, whew, dodged a bullet and I'm thankful for it. There you go, long way to go. But hey everybody. It is of course Thanksgiving Day, also Happy Hanukkah. Which I think happens once every 10,000 years that Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving. So not quite sure how that works. I don't know what it means, but it means something. I had a lot of people email me over, and I want to mention this before I forget, about, what's your turkey recipe? How are you going to have a special turkey recipe? You're going to send one out? Really?

CHAPTER 02 / 34 Discussion

Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes and the Kale Marketing Scam

The hosts discuss Thanksgiving cooking techniques, including the safety of stuffing a bird and a specific recipe for apple and cranberry dressing designed for a gluten-free diet. The conversation shifts to the rising popularity of kale, which is characterized as a public relations scam and a "money grab" due to its high price compared to other brassica vegetables like cabbage. They reference a Ugandan newspaper article promoting kale as a "friend with benefits."

turkey· kale· gluten-free· cooking· marketing· superfoods

05:08 Yeah, like more than five. Interesting. And these were no agenda listeners or just fans in general? Well, no. No agenda listeners are, you know, a lot of my fans are no agenda listeners and they're the ones who seem to be focusing on the cooking. Right. Well, there's so many, I just want to say there's so many. What I recommend to people is go on Google, and type in turkey, roast turkey, because that's, you know, I mean there's other ways of cooking it, but roast turkey. And then take, read five recipes and then just synthesize one. Essentially, you just have to season this bird, make sure you,

05:48 clean out his guts with some lemon juice or something and then either put stuffing in or not. A lot of people, oh you don't put the stuffing in you're gonna get, you're gonna die. Hey that sounds like my guy who's always weird at me. Oh don't put the stuffing in the bird you'll die. Yeah. Just like bull crap. Yeah. Yeah if you don't know what you're doing, uh you might. but you probably just actually just get sick of salmonella. Anyway, and then just do it. It's just generally 20 minutes. It's not that hard. It's not that hard. And by the way, seasoning, I just say salt, you know, just go with salt. Salt is the skin that works. And you got it. I'm going to do something interesting, though, and I will write it up if it's any good. JC's fiance is off of all wheat grain products.

06:40 Ah, this is good actually. Probably. And I was gonna put a stuffing in it. She was like, you're not gonna do that, I can't eat wheat. I can't have gluten! And I, she says, gluten. And so I said, well, it's not gonna be, I'm not gonna give you any of it, you know. And I said, nah, well, you know, maybe I should be creative here. I'm going to make a, a, a diced apple dressing. Oh. With dried cranberries, dates. Can you throw some quinoa and kale in there? No, no, that's a grain. Quinoa is a grain. Oh, that's right. Oh, that's not this verboten. I'm not putting kale in the dressing. It's verboten.

07:21 So it's gonna be an apple dressing and I'm gonna see how it comes out. It should be kind of like a applesauce. Turkey flavored applesauce that's hot. If it's any good, I'll write it up. If it sucks, you know, just... You'll write it up. If it sucks, we'll write it up too. No. But if you put some kale in there, you could call it a super stuffing. Maybe I should, but I do have some. I did buy some black kale, some dino kale to play with. And I realize now what the real scam is, because everyone's now there's, you know, I get a lot of emails. Look at this, another public relations thing for kale. Yeah. It's a buck 69 for a small bunch of kale, which amounts to, it seems to me about a quarter pound. I'm going to weigh it later. Cabbage, which is the same brassica family is about 69 cents a pound.

08:15 So this is a scam. It's a money grab. It's a total scam. It's a ripoff. One of our producers sent a camera shot of the newspaper Kampala, Uganda. And I'm not sure which newspaper it is, but it's under Health and Beauty. There's this half-page article with a little basket of kale on the side and two people sitting at a table. And it says, you can make juice out of kale. And the dude has a green glass of goop and the girl has a red glass of goop. I guess she doesn't have the kale. But the headline, Make Kale Your New Friend With Benefits.

CHAPTER 03 / 34 Discussion

Thanksgiving History and the 1971 Uniform Monday Holiday Act

John C. Dvorak details the historical origins of Thanksgiving, arguing that the modern holiday was largely the creation of activist Sarah Hale in 1863 rather than a continuous tradition from the Pilgrims. He notes that Thomas Jefferson originally opposed the holiday and that it was historically used to commemorate war dead. The segment also covers the 1971 law that standardized federal holidays to Mondays and Fridays to prevent mid-week work disruptions.

thanksgiving· sarah hale· abraham lincoln· thomas jefferson· uniform monday holiday act· 1971

09:03 Somebody send me this too. Friend with benefits. What, for the kale stuff? Yeah. Okay, so we probably got the same meme. I put it in the show notes just because it's so unbelievable you have to see it. Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's super bad. So should before we get into the meat of the show, should we at least talk about the Thanksgiving scam? The fact that this... Well, yes. No, this is a tradition here on the No Agenda Show. Every year on this fake holiday, John explains exactly why it's fake, how it's fake, what it's about. And this year, I'm going to add a little something. But first, Ladies and gentlemen your annual no agenda tradition John explains why Thanksgiving is bogative Okay, first of all they rich there was a couple of events that took place with the pilgrims and the Indians That were never called Thanksgiving and they only happened they were only documented twice and it weren't even consecutive times and I think they were in July or something like that, but somehow this woman

10:00 And then they were gonna try to make this kind of a regular holiday until Jefferson came around. Thomas Jefferson said, this is stupid. We're not gonna do a holiday. And so they bailed out on it. And there was never another Thanksgiving until this woman, Sarah Hale, came around in 1863. and she believed that there should be some sort of, she was like a religious person and an activist. She was an activist community organizer, writer, and she had some magazines. So she revitalized the whole idea and created, that's when it was created. Until then, all the thanksgivings were, and there were a few, there was maybe five or six from about 1770 to the 1800s, and they were generally commemorative events.

10:48 to honor the dead from various wars and this seemed like a good time to do it again after the Civil War. and uh... so they they put thanksgiving back into play so it is indeed recognized as a day another yet another day to uh... think about our warriors is is that's in fact in fact if you look at the you know they say well as only in the united states is that you can it has a thanksgiving and if you look up the wiki entry on thanksgiving in canada you'll find that it was also used as a way to honor the dead It had nothing to do with pilgrims or having fun with the Indians or any of that stuff at all This is such a disappointment because I have fun with Indians we have There was some some there's a couple of funny stories about how they when they did have their Their harvest festival with the Indians one year then within the next five years. I had killed all those same Indians Just a little side

11:49 Anyway, one documented Thanksgiving was for a one-shot celebration that was held in 1676. It was a generic term for an ad-libbed holiday. There's also during the Roosevelt administration they tried to move the Thursday up a week because Thanksgiving by then, by the 30s, had become exactly what it is today. Commercial. The date that marks, right, marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping holiday and Roosevelt tried to move it up a week. because there was a depression. What I understand is that 16 states at the time refused to move it so we actually had two thanksgivings in the United States. Well, it got so much, so many people objected to it because

12:33 So many people have been have bought into the bullcrap about Thanksgiving. Yeah that these idiots in some of these states is oh, it's a sin You know we're honoring the pilgrims and the Indians and the great seriously And so they so they wouldn't change it because they would be changing God's will or something it was unbelievable and so and Roosevelt got a lot of pressure so he moved it back and And now we just start shopping earlier. Now I think the real mark of the beginning of the Christmas holiday season is when all the decorations go up. Oh, which has already happened. Decorations are up. Yeah, I think so too.

13:10 I think Thanksgiving just makes it official, but Christmas shopping has begun, already begun. It began early in November. It's a bogus holiday. And by the way, one person said during the late 1800s that it was needed because we needed more holidays. We didn't have, at the time, we didn't have Armistice Day and all these things that happened after World War I and after World War II. So we were actually short holidays. We didn't have enough holidays. So they figured, okay, we'll put this in play and we're going to take a day off. And it was actually two days, it became two days off. And it's the only holiday, interestingly enough, besides Christmas that has, and New Year's obviously, that all the other holidays have been standardized to happen on a Monday or a Friday based on the law that was passed in 1971. What law was that?

13:59 It was the standardization of... Oh really? There's a law when holidays can be celebrated? Yeah, in 1971. I guess it was the Nixon administration. They were sick of the work... the corporate America was sick of these guys, you know, all of a sudden you have a Tuesday would be a holiday or a Thursday would be a holiday and then people take long weekends and It was killing us. The slaves weren't doing their job. They were taking off extra days. They were just taking too much time off and so we had to put a stop to it. I did that's why all the holidays are on Mondays and Fridays. I did not clip this but I just I'm just seeing now that the president released his podcast early and I just glanced at the transcript I think we should play the first 30 seconds of his Thanksgiving address to see if he has it all correct. Well, but before is he gonna let the turkey go? Please don't take me to there that's that's like the stupidest thing and it's so dumb. Let's hear this out.

CHAPTER 04 / 34 Discussion

Barack Obama Thanksgiving Address and Heritage Turkey Stench

The hosts critique President Barack Obama's 2013 Thanksgiving address for propagating traditional myths about the first harvest celebration between Pilgrims and Native Americans. The discussion moves to the culinary differences between "heritage" birds and commercial "butterball" turkeys, with the hosts complaining about the "stench" of factory-farmed poultry and salmon.

barack obama· thanksgiving· heritage turkey· farmed salmon· native americans

15:01 Hi everybody! Hi everybody. On behalf of all the Obamas... What? On behalf of all the Obamas, me, the other Obama... Sasha, Bo, and the newest member of our family, Sonny. I want to wish you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Okay. We'll be spending today just like many of you. Yeah. Sitting down with family and friends to eat some good food. Except you have a chef. stories, watch a little football, and most importantly count our blessings. And as Americans we have so much to be thankful for. Here it comes. We give thanks for the men and women who set sail for this land nearly four centuries ago risking everything for the chance at a better life and the people who are already here our Native American brothers and sisters for their generosity during that first Thanksgiving. See he's propagating the same bullcrap. Yeah it's total bullcrap. That their generosity. Hey thanks redskins oops.

16:00 Man oh man oh man all right well this it is of course still a commercial holiday so you might as well keep the dream alive I mean why not it's no different than Santa Claus it's fine by me. It's a little different than Santa Claus. Just that they're teaching it is kind of. So today let me read this last paragraph this is was a blog entry you read the various links. The holiday never existed in this form until Lincoln. That said, there were a few federal proclamations declaring Thanksgiving for celebratory purposes and that was the first was in 1777, then randomly in 1795, 1798, 1799, and 1815. Most of these were war related. I'm looking at the official proclamation which is real, which goes into the Federal Register, which is the real deal proclaimed by our president.

16:54 Paragraph 2, our annual celebration has roots in centuries-old colonial customs. When we gather around the table, we follow the example of the pilgrims and Wampanoags who shared the fruits of a successful harvest nearly 400 years ago. When we offer our thanks, we mirror those who set aside a day of prayer. And when we join with friends and neighbors to alleviate suffering and make our communities whole, we honor the spirit of President Abraham Lincoln, who called on his fellow citizens to, quote, fervently implore the interposition of the almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.

17:39 Now, get me some turkey, you Indian shit. Oh, I didn't say that. I'm sorry. So I've got a turkey here that is a heritage bird that weighs seven pounds. Which is light. That seems light. Yeah, it's gonna be great. When you get a good heritage turkey, the weird thing is I can see why these birds were popular probably from about 1860s. I don't know when they first became part of the deal, about 1880 I guess, through about 1950. Because one of these old heritage birds actually tastes more like pheasant than turkey. It doesn't have that stench, that real cheap turkey stench you get from a butter ball.

18:22 You know what I'm talking about. I know exactly when you walk in when you walk into the house. You're like you're just gagging Yeah, it's a stench. And this is the kind of this is the same with farmed salmon It's has a stink you can't and then a bunch of white milk comes out. Oh When you when you cook it in that white goo, oh stop, you know, you cannot eat salmon anymore You can't listen there is almost no Fresh salmon to be found. You can get it up in Washington State from the Indians. Well sure, sure. But you know what I'm saying. Salmon has just basically been ruined by the farming. Yeah, no, it stinks. It's got that white milk and it has that flavor that is enough to make you sick. I'm getting sick. By the way, I have a home for Thanksgiving today.

CHAPTER 05 / 34 Discussion

Austin Thanksgiving Plans and Rush Limbaugh Free Market Theory

Adam Curry describes his Thanksgiving plans in Austin involving a molecular biologist and a "cowboy" Fox News enthusiast. They contrast this with Rush Limbaugh's recent claims that the original Thanksgiving was actually a celebration of the emergence of the free market after the failure of a pilgrim "commune."

austin· texas· rush limbaugh· free market· pilgrims· thanksgiving

19:11 I'm going to my friends John, Chris and Fritz and they have promised me a Thanksgiving with cowboys and trannies. Cowboys and trannies? That's Texas! In fact the tranny is a very famous professor here at UT. Is he a tranny at school? Yes, no completely yes. Yes, she is. She is. So she is a, is she a transsexual or a transvestite? Transsexual, I believe. Okay. I don't know if she's, we'll find out. I mean, she's like a molecular,

19:52 biologist so it's gonna be interesting and then and One of the guys dad is the cowboy. He's like a total Fox News junkie, so It's gonna be funny. Yeah, it's gonna be fun for it'll be great Fox News run by the Democrats. Oh, yeah. No God, I don't know if I have the energy after the show. I to get into it. Well, it's tonight. You might just want to sit back and relax and watch this guy yak. We also have... Probably this is the Rush Limbaugh too. Oh yeah, yeah. It'll be interesting. By the way, Rush Limbaugh on the couple days ago had a big thing on Thanksgiving. Well, he has a book out he's promoting. Yeah, he's got a book out he's promoting that's got a little bit to do with it. But his Thanksgiving story, I said, oh, the truth about Thanksgiving, he says,

20:40 So I'm reading this thing. Oh, well, I guess Russia's finally read some of my material or or the other people that deep-lung Thanksgiving No, no Russia says the whole thing is misunderstood when the pilgrims and the Indians got together It turned out there were the pilgrims are trying to make it kind of a commune which doesn't work and the whole thing when they finally figured out free enterprise and they started Just doing their own thing in a free enterprise free market way. That's what the celebration was all about It was the celebration of the free market emergence Wow, it's like what are you insane? Yeah, of course he is it's not healthy to listen to people like this too much you can sample

CHAPTER 06 / 34 Discussion

FDA Shutdown of 23andMe Genetic Testing

The FDA issued a warning letter to genetic testing company 23andMe, effectively halting its health-related diagnostic services. The hosts discuss the regulatory conflict, noting that the FDA views the saliva collection kit as an unapproved medical device. They argue that the company's marketing of disease risk, such as BRCA mutations, is misleading without professional genetic counseling.

fda· 23andme· genetic testing· anne wojcicki· medical device· regulation

21:22 And you should be sampling, but my goodness, people get sucked into listening to crap like that. Yeah, I know. So of course, it's very hard not to gloat and the timing could not be, really could not be better as on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Looking for the jingle here. On Sunday we have another one of our annual, or of our monthly, very famous... It's another installment of... With the Obots! Now, I had said that it looked like it was all dead. That, you know, they're on to me, they're not talking to me like they used to. But I had quite a Twitter and even Facebook exchange with two of the main players, including the professor. When I somewhat gloatingly

22:19 posted the link to the fact that the FDA is shutting down 23andMe. And first of all, like props to the No Agenda Show for calling this stuff out for the parlor trick that it is. But I was flabbergasted, my new word of the week, when the professor and his wife, Mary Ann, posted saying, oh my god, Adam, are you actually on the government side on this one? I was like, wow, that's your response? That's your response? Did you read what the government said? Did you read that they're basically calling 23andMe out as regulation dodging sh- hucksters? Charlatans. Charlatans?

23:07 And so, but it's funny because I stayed on it. I was, I'm like, okay. And I really went very deep on what is this genetic testing? And what are they really doing and where is it coming from? And I'd like to, I'd like to share a little bit of my research because when you look into it, there's a lot more than I expected to find. And it's even worse than it appeared at the first glance. Glance here by the way is the core of the issue flipside of course is that gee it's great to be able to get information about my own health for a pretty reasonable price point without having to go to a doctor pay a ton of money and Have a bunch of regulators standing in the way That is of course the argument that 23 and 23 and me other companies like them make and it's a powerful one and

23:57 The problem is that our understanding of genetics, especially in the public, is very low and that these tests come not only with limited accuracy but also without the benefit of genetic counseling. So imagine that that you send your DNA away, you receive news back from 23andMe, this is the kind of information that they do provide, that you're negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2, those mutations that lead somebody more susceptible to getting certain forms of breast cancer. Well, armed with that information, the individual might decide to avoid getting mammograms. Well, that decision could be fatal. So not having those particular mutations, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 in this case, lowers your genetic risk from about 12.5% to 12.4% of getting breast cancer. And so it's clearly a mistake to avoid mammograms. But the information you receive back from a company like 23andMe doesn't tell you any of this.

24:58 So here's the things, and again this was very surprising to me that a professor who knows better, but this was pretty much what all the Obots were saying. Can I interrupt you? Sure. Don't the Obots have as part of their litany that government regulation is good and we wouldn't have had this depression if there was more government regulation and government regulation is good, it's great, it's helpful, it's useful, we need more of it not less of it. This is exactly what was so weird is that they were calling me out for being on the government side like you know it's crazy that you would be on the government side with this but here is the also completely false

25:42 So here's the posting. Download your 23andMe data ASAP if you haven't! The FDA doesn't trust you with your own genome! Which is not at all! What the by the way, that's a kind of a repost from discover magazine This is this is there this is the take on it that 23andme and and this is literally that's kind of a douchey way of putting it Don't you think it gets worse? worse than this by saying 23andme are democratizing health care. I'm like what? They're democratizing health care? So the thinking is that because you can download, you can get your genome and you can download it and analyze it, or in this case it's analyzed for you, that that somehow is a democratization of health care. I think it's improper use of the word democracy.

CHAPTER 07 / 34 Discussion

SNPedia and the Limitations of Genetic Disease Prediction

The discussion explores the technical side of genetic data using SNPedia, an open-source database of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The hosts argue that while companies like 23andMe provide "recreational data," the actual predictive value for most diseases is low because many conditions lack a strong genetic component. They mention the Promethease software as a DIY alternative for analyzing raw genomic data.

snpedia· promethease· genome· genetics· disease risk· big data

26:33 But when you look into what this analysis is, now the human genome was decoded in 2003 I think, and really what has come out of it, from all sides, there's been no real players. It's been really sad. Nothing has really emerged, but what we do have is a big database called the SNPedia, S-N-P-E-D-I-A, and interestingly enough, it's an open source database of these markers that help you understand what certain genes in your genome mean. And when you look through it, you know, it's a pretty small set. There's some really funny ones in there like RS9332964, which is the SNP for micropenis, which I gladly posted and I said, hey, Professor Russ, do you have this gene?

27:30 to which you could only say well played. But there's actually a desktop application called Promethease and you can download that and it takes about four hours on a modern powered computer and it will do exactly what 23andMe is doing is it'll take your genome and any of these SMPs it can identify, it will, and it'll show these to you and you can take it for what it is You know, it's like, you know, so I guess if you have the RS9332964 gene and you're going to have kids, well, your kid might have a micropenis. I guess that's the conclusion. But really these risk numbers is the problem with communication of issues in general that the public is now bought into. And this, we've been tracking this and identifying the 90% are in, 90% of

28:24 of scientists agreed. 97 now. 97, 98, 99. By the way, this is proven to work. We've known this since the 50s when advertising said 9 out of 10 dentists agree. That is better than 10 out of 10 dentists. This is advertising. This is marketing. It's well-known, well-researched, well-studied, that if you give that 10%, that one dentist, well, he's obviously a shit. Clearly this is good because you know it's science because it's one guy who's kind of on the fence or against it and this works and this is why it's being used. You know there's a crackpot out there. Yeah so the danger of course is and and this is all about the marketing if you look at 23andMe's website they are literally talking about

29:09 recommendations of things you should talk to your doctor about regarding certain brand name pharmaceuticals, not even the generics or other brands or even the medical name, the clinical name, the pharmaceutical name, only the brand names. And people do not understand how to assess risk. So it's the same with terrorism. You know, people think that we have to go through all these hoops at the airport because the risk of a terrorist attack is so high when of course your risk of actually dying in a terrorist attack is extremely minute. Yes, actually more likely to get struck by lightning. Logistically. Yeah, twice.

29:56 So when I look at what 23andMe A is offering, and they don't even do their own tests. They hand it out to CLIA approved laboratory and it's the same as the $5,000, the $4,000 test. So I don't think they're even doing that. They're outsourcing it and obviously they're using their $100 million in venture capital to, I guess, to subsidize that. But they're making all these recommendations and that of course is the problem and that is also the danger and I've spoken to many doctors who say oh I get all these people with this 23 and me bull crap showing up like and he said the people are gonna get sick just from thinking about the stuff that they might have that they have a 56% or a 53% chance of of getting so it's it's it is indeed a

CHAPTER 08 / 34 Discussion

Silicon Valley Arrogance and 23andMe Business Model

The hosts criticize the "disruptive" mentality of Silicon Valley, specifically targeting 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and investors like Google's Sergey Brin. They claim the company's true business model is not providing health insights to users, but rather building a massive genetic database to sell to pharmaceutical firms.

silicon valley· 23andme· google· sergey brin· anne wojcicki· data privacy

30:46 a poorly marketed but of course you know if you really want to not poorly marketed at all right illegally marketed the main thing is if you want to be the player then be the player. You know, you got your Google money, you got your... because Google is also an investor, as is Sergey Brin personally. You can do it right, do it like all the other guys. His wife of course runs it. Ex-wife. But do it right. Go, you know, go pay off everybody the way you're supposed to. Do the big test, pay for it. Really go in, because otherwise someone else is going to come and eat your lunch, which is happening now.

31:27 And, you know, someone forwarded the email to me from Anne Wajishishiki, who is the CEO. Dear 23andMe customers, I wanted to reach out to you about the FDA letter that was sent to 23andMe last Friday. It is absolutely critical that our customers get quality, get high-quality genetic data they can trust. We have worked extensively with our lab partner to make sure that the results we return are are accurate. We stand behind the data that we return to customers, but we recognize that the FDA needs to be convinced of the quality of our data as well, which is a lie because this is not what the letter says. I read the letter and the FDA is not questioning

32:16 They're testing, they're questioning what they are marketing and this is where you get into philosophical discussion which I find the only interesting part is can a test, basically a test tube of saliva that is sent off in the mail, can that be classified as a medical device? Because that is the law that the FDA is pointing to and I think that's a conversation worth having. Yeah, the device argument's a little weak it seems to me. I think if they went after them for diagnosis without having an MD kind of thing or this sort of blanket, I mean they go after websites to tell you to take two aspirin. They go after individuals who are natural, you know, these natural... Exactly, you can't do any, yeah, of course there's no science behind it. You take more vitamin B12, boom, knock, knock, knock, hey, you can't tell people to do that.

33:16 So here is one paragraph of an analysis that I got from someone who's in the field about the risk. So while 23andMe can tell you you have risk-based on genetic information, they can't tell you absolute risk in any meaningful way because the vast majority of diseases people are interested in don't have a very strong genetic component. even when hereditability scores are high, the linked genes are very weak associations. So these guys are selling a product to diagnose health and make health decisions which has not been approved by the FDA. The product is questionable and wouldn't actually pass muster as a diagnostic test even though they aren't even all that rigid about those kinds of tests, the FDA. This is a no-brainer. They should have been shut down a long time ago. As for if the data you can get for this price is any good, we won't even get to that step if you even

34:12 Even if you assume the data is perfect, they can't do what they are claiming to do. And if they could, they would need FDA approval to do so. So I think the data may be reasonable. I've seen a lot of people who have compared it to other expensive tests. And it seems like the data is consistent. Well, they may be outsourcing it and getting a bulk rate. And I'm sure that if it's done by one of these major firms that normally charges $5,000. The reason they were charging $5,000 because there wasn't a huge demand for this sort of thing. There was a demand for identification DNA, which is a different thing. And it's interesting, the other companies that were doing this, Navigenics was one company. They were acquired last year by Life Technologies, so that's off the market. These really are the only guys left. And I did put in the show notes an article from 2009

35:02 from the New York Times where it specifically talks about how genes show limited value in predicting diseases. So the hereditary stuff, it's interesting, you know, I'm part Neanderthal or whatever, you know, that's sure, if you care, but really in predicting diseases it's still a pipe dream. And while I'm excited for people who want to know and think this is great democratization of health care and you'll have some personalized medicine in the future, you know, it's a little early to lay this on to the public because the public is dumb. Yeah, yeah, this is an unfortunate situation. Yeah. Seems to be true. Yeah. So it will be very interesting on Sunday because I was just gloating. I'm just like, you stupid recreational data.

36:03 Recreational data. Recreational big data. That says it on the... 23andMe has a disclaimer. It says, oh this is just a game? This is like the disclaimer Horowitz and I have when we pick stocks. Exactly. We may or may not hold these stocks but we're really just crapping around here. Yeah let me see where their... I have their disclaimer here on the website somewhere. It's just a game. Yeah, that's exactly... I didn't know that for some reason. I don't know why but yeah. The old disclaimer, well you know they come out of Silicon Valley thinking so everything's got a disclaimer. You know and if you hurt yourself using the product then you're done. You know the company's not liable we say so right here and there's a EULA. Yeah I think what really irks me about the reason why I'm irked about this company

CHAPTER 10 / 34 Discussion

Willie Brown on San Francisco Tech Class War

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown wrote a column addressing the "class war" in the city caused by the tech industry's impact on rents and culture. The hosts discuss the gentrification of Market Street and the isolation of tech workers who use private buses and Uber, leading to a "cocooned" environment that avoids local issues like homelessness.

willie brown· san francisco· gentrification· real estate· tech industry· market street

40:30 I'm looking for it right now. Wrote an article about San Francisco saying, you know, you tech companies and particularly, yeah, Willie Brown says techies have started a class war in San Francisco. Yeah, I can buy into this. Let me, I guess he has a column in the In the newspaper, I don't know that he does but okay. It's called Willie's world Yeah, and Any he says there's a war brewing in the streets of San Francisco and a lot of people could get caught up in it if the tech world doesn't start changing its self-centered culture Every day and every way from rising rents to rising prices at restaurants to its private buses, the tech world is becoming an object of scorn. It is only a matter of time before the techies youthful luster fades and they're seen as just another extension of Wall Street. Hell yeah, Willie!

41:19 Right on. He goes on to say, you know, the tech world needs to nip this thorny plant in the bud. They need to come off their high cloud efforts to save Africa or wherever they take adventure vacations and start making things better for folks right here. They need to start helping in Hunter's Point and in Chinatown. Most of all, they need to start hiring locals. Yes! Very good. Well, they had a one of the things that what they've done in Twitter is one of the and Facebook are both offenders here. But there's other companies that are in the city that just almost as bad. But they're right down to they were given a sweet deal.

41:59 to put their operations right in the middle of like Market Street where it's just a slum. I mean our main street in San Francisco, Market Street, is a slum. Yeah, it is. So they put their operations there, but they essentially put guards and they shuffle over to the you know they and they use a lot of uber cars and they they essentially do not spend any time on the streets these people and they go straight into the office yeah and where it's a completely you know kind of a it's a cocooned environment and they didn't go out mix or deal with the homeless or anything uh and then they've jetted because they're all

42:39 seem to be renters, nobody seems to, except a very few, have a clue about the benefits of property ownership with their kind of money they have. So they've got all these, so the city's overbuilt with extremely expensive apartments. I mean if you go past one of these real estate companies and you look at the prices on these apartments, we're talking about an apartment that Or actually, I guess they're kind of condo-like apartments. Maybe they're condos, but whatever they are, they're millions of dollars. Have you looked at the real estate prices in San Francisco? I'm waiting for you to get the hell out of there. You got to pack up before this thing goes bust, man. It's still going up. It's like your own personal Bitcoin. You got to get out, John. You got to cash in now. I mean, your house, which honestly was, I mean, it ain't all that, but it's probably a $2 million house now.

43:29 Not quite. Well, you gotta set a line in the sand and get out. I need a backup plan. My rich friend John. Get out. You probably own that thing. You're old enough. You've lived there long enough. No, actually we always take money out of this place, but we never take so much out because as a writer, they won't give you the deal. No, you don't get any. You take a lot out. Yeah, you don't get any deal. They always assume, yeah, you know, you're a bum. Well, I got all this profit going to the place. Yeah, you are. You are a bum. So they don't give you, they won't, they give you enough that, you know, you can do some maintenance, but it's not like, so yeah, most of the places paid for. And then I have a,

CHAPTER 11 / 34 Discussion

Open Source Genetics and Silicon Valley Data Exploitation

The hosts reiterate their preference for open-source genetic analysis over commercial services that mine user data. They link the arrogance of 23andMe to broader tech industry trends, including Google's data practices and the monetization of NSA documents by figures like Glenn Greenwald.

open source· promethease· data mining· glenn greenwald· nsa· silicon valley

44:07 My mother's old place. Oh, right. And then which is gonna be worth something eventually. You could put 20 Python programmers in there. Mimi wants to build these mini houses for people. Oh, and why don't you just call it Mimi's Agenda 21 dot com. That would be great. 23andMe services are for research, informational and educational use only. We do not provide medical advice. Which of course is the rub because they are. This means two things. First, many of the genetic discoveries that we report have not been clinically validated and the technology we use, which is the same technology used by the research community, to date has not been widely used for clinical testing. Second, in order to expand and accelerate the understanding and practical application of genetic knowledge in healthcare, we invite all genotype users to participate in the 23andWe research participation. And this is really what it's about. This is why 23andMe bugs me because they are the Twitter of health.

45:12 They essentially are making you pay for them to build their database to go and sell to really big firms or themselves sell out to be a big firm because they have a million different genetic profiles. That is their game. They don't care about you and they'll give you anything, any shiny thing that you think is awesome like the chance of you having micropenis or your kid. If you have micropenis you probably know by now, you don't need the test. So I'm very happy that this has happened and I'm very curious to see what the next step will be. I personally am very interested in using the open source stuff.

46:02 That I think is kind of cool. This Prometheus. Get your results and then throw it into the other system. Yeah, and they're accessing the same SMP data, you know, so you can analyze anything and make your own, you know, it's fun. You chart it, graph it, do whatever you want. But, you know, but these guys are charlatans, I tell you, charlatans. Anyway, but I thought it was quite funny, particularly with the dinner coming up. That should make for an interesting little little table discussion. I don't know how you take it. Food is always good. Yeah, I guess that helps. And I really like these people. It's not that hard to like people who just differ in opinion. You just got to stay away from certain topics. Well, yes, you see, you don't live in Berkeley. No, because you're surrounded. It would be different. You are surrounded. Well, they're all hummers, which makes it more annoying. But, you know, Austin is its own little Berkeley in Texas.

47:03 There's no doubt about that. It's very much... Deborah Sterling, who is a runner of GoldieBucks, doesn't really... she doesn't have much of a background. She has just essentially just graduated from Stanford in 2005, worked at a couple of companies for a couple years and then she came up with this idea. It's very actually difficult to find uh... much on her she looks like he keeps them for a time now or sand for a decade she's one of those she has a yes she almost has exact same look uh... and i'm all for what i'd like her product i like the idea of selling spray private this idea of the of exploiting you know i've been good going off the reservation pulling a stunt like this and then suing the beastly boys is really uh... it's abhorrent yes

47:55 Yeah, well that is the arrogance of Silicon Valley and we see it everywhere and It's the basis of this whole Snowden thing. Everything points right back to Silicon Valley with Google's arrogance that, you know, they provide you with all the best things in life and you don't need to pay for it and, you know, they're selling your data out the back door and meanwhile feigning some great insult at the front door. You know, the NSA documents have been being capitalized upon by Glenn Greenwald with a Silicon Valley insider. They're selling it in bits and drips and drabs. The whole thing, the whole place is disgusts me. However, it's Thanksgiving and all I want to say John is thank you for your courage and in the morning.

48:47 Yeah, in the morning to you Adam Curran. I also want to say in the morning to all the boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there. Yes, and in the morning to everyone in our chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net. Thank you all for showing up on this Thanksgiving day. Those of you in America or in Candinavia, I guess you celebrate on a different day. Also, thank you to our artists. And let's see, we had Nick the Rat bring us, he broke the hat trick. Martin JJ's hat trick on three album arts in a row and of course no agenda art generator comm is where you can submit your artwork and it's there for everyone to see all of the submissions to use of course however you feel fit they also show up in the newsletters etc so it's it's not like you don't get on the yeah in the mp3 it's over and today I think we have a couple of

CHAPTER 12 / 34 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and Knighting Ceremony

The hosts acknowledge high-tier donors who support the show through the "value for value" model. Notable contributions include $569.69 from Mark Abbott and $569 from Duke David Foley. Several listeners are granted knighthoods for their financial support, including Sir Brian S. Hall and Sir Jeremy Johnson.

value for value· donations· knighthood· mark abbott· david foley· no agenda

47:55 Yeah, well that is the arrogance of Silicon Valley and we see it everywhere and It's the basis of this whole Snowden thing. Everything points right back to Silicon Valley with Google's arrogance that, you know, they provide you with all the best things in life and you don't need to pay for it and, you know, they're selling your data out the back door and meanwhile feigning some great insult at the front door. You know, the NSA documents have been being capitalized upon by Glenn Greenwald with a Silicon Valley insider. They're selling it in bits and drips and drabs. The whole thing, the whole place is disgusts me. However, it's Thanksgiving and all I want to say John is thank you for your courage and in the morning.

48:47 Yeah, in the morning to you Adam Curran. I also want to say in the morning to all the boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there. Yes, and in the morning to everyone in our chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net. Thank you all for showing up on this Thanksgiving day. Those of you in America or in Candinavia, I guess you celebrate on a different day. Also, thank you to our artists. And let's see, we had Nick the Rat bring us, he broke the hat trick. Martin JJ's hat trick on three album arts in a row and of course no agenda art generator comm is where you can submit your artwork and it's there for everyone to see all of the submissions to use of course however you feel fit they also show up in the newsletters etc so it's it's not like you don't get on the yeah in the mp3 it's over and today I think we have a couple of

49:44 Yes, we do. We have some executive producers and associate executive producers. These are the people who keep the show running by doing exactly what the future of all media will be. We need to be funded directly by the people who are enjoying the product. It's value for value. No network is necessary. We don't need to have someone like promoting us or us to promote other things. It's just us. Us and you. And if you don't like us, then there'll be no us. Well, we had a good turnout today. Thank you for this holiday. I think a lot of people do appreciate the fact that we work on Thanksgiving. While everyone else is sleeping in and watching football. So we have a couple of big donations that were suggested in the newsletter. Mark Abbott came in with $569.69. Wow. Because this is show 569. Wow, so he's episode

50:44 member yes the five six nine getting rarer as this episode yeah yeah yeah these should Reese reboot these these clubs are not large started 100 yeah I was over a Hot Pockets tour to Canada donate in person but instead I'll just donate online this will finish anybody's in Alberta where all the money is yep as this will finish off my knighthood we have on the list nice uh... it has executive producers well as hopefully the sixty nine club i feel it's a triple win yes as i cannot care about the xbox one i'm showing support for what i do care for uh... that's very cool and market is x-axis actually edmonton is not in alberta he's in the classy little town of edmonton is the xbox one that expensive

51:32 So he doesn't want an Xbox one. No, no way. So here we go with the Baron of Silicon Valley Sir David Foley from the Lost Cat. Hold on. He is a Duke. He's not a Baron. I've had email correspondence. He puts, somebody puts Baron. You're right. He's the Duke. He's a Duke. And somebody, somebody puts, keeps putting Baron in the spreadsheet, which is factually incorrect. He's $569. Oh my goodness. ITM John and Adam, this is for providing the best podcast in the universe on Turkey Day. And I just want to say I am disgusted by all of Silicon Valley except... Whoa, what did you just do? John? What? What are you doing? I didn't do anything. Well you walked away and something like brought your volume up and I heard you, I heard the guy coughing on the street.

52:29 Wow. Anyway, I was saying that I loathe all of Silicon Valley except for Sir David Foley, our Duke. Would you look in at Peerage? No, it's not the point. I have a note here and I gotta go find it. Oh, okay. This is a note from Brian S. Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan, who has his accounting and brought in Came in with $533.33 to become a knight. There's an accounting on the back and this is a small note so I'll dig it up for the mid thing. Do I have it? Was it an email or? No, no, no, it's a written note. This came in as a check. Okay. Alright, Scott Bennett, we'll get back to you Brian. Scott, it'll be Sir Brian by the time we get back to him. Scott Bennett, 401-23 Orangeville, Ontario. No note.

53:23 Jeremy Johnson at 338 88 in Port Angeles Washington or Port Angeles. Happy Fakesgiving. To the best podcast in the universe, no better way to piss off the relatives than to make them call you sir. Now where are the hookers and blow? You should ask your relatives for that. Next time he's in Port Angeles nuts. Please make it rain for Sir Birch and Eric the Shill. Oh, okay. Write that down. Are we bringing them up on stage or do we just... No, I'm not going to bring those two guys up. I think for this we should call them to the champagne room. Because we have someone waiting. Sir Birch, you lost your wallet. Exactly. In the champagne room. In between the couch. Okay. Thank you, thank you, Jeremy. Scott in Herndon, Virginia, 33333. Don't read my last name.

54:23 I read good, R-E-E-D, cuz of common core. Value for value to the best podcast in the universe. I was writing a war and peace note but my machine kernel panicked. Thank you for your courage. Wow, thank you, Scott. James Spitzer out of Jamaica Plains, also 33333, and he sent us a note which I sent to you. We usually try to find a restaurant open on Thanksgiving and always leave a much larger than normal guilt tip to the servers who are giving up their holiday to feed our pie holes. I can do no less for you. Gertrude and Heathcliff.

55:05 I'm sorry, that's our names, Gertrude and Heathcliff, for working while we enjoy the holiday napping for humanity. This year, instead of going out to a fine restaurant, we will be gathering over our spiral-cut honey-baked spam with slices of mac and cheese and kale to thank you for your courage. The tip lost to the server's meager income will be your gain. As always, we will tune in to listen to the annual story of Thanksgiving which never ceases to inspire no matter how many, many, many times we hear it. Yours, James, Baron of Jamaica Plain and Surrounding Plantations. I've met Sir Jim and I have to say Miss Mickey and I have a little crush on Sir Jim. What's he got going on? He's just, he's got it going on.

55:50 Yeah, he's I got the letter here from from Brian Moses Hall who's actually a ham Kevin ate this is yellow Kevin ate this is yellow. This is a new one We've gone from blue dot fire hydrant to Kevin ate this is yellow check in the morning skipper and Gilligan and close find of donation 533 73 which by my calculation brings me to he wants to be Uh, Sir Ludark Ba- What? He wants to be Sir Ludark Ba-Bark Fudge Fountain. Sir Ludark... What? B-A-B-A-R-K Fudge Fountain. A good friend overheard an eccentric co-worker uttering these words to no one in particular. Sir Lucark Ba-Baburk Fudge Fountain? Yeah. Okay.

56:51 In spite of the scatological undertone, which I confirmed via Urban Dictionary, we have found this cryptic utterance deliriously funny. I suspect ELF. They work for large corporations, which shall remain anonymous, building MRI coils. So go figure. Yeah, those guys read the poop. In lieu of requesting a clip, may I suggest that along with the mutton meat and other goodies, I could easily go for some librarians and Jaeger bombs. Okay, we'll add that to the list. That's all he's got to say. Yeah, I got it. It's all written down, codified. Spitzer was last. Nolan Conrad, 33333 from Vancouver.

57:42 British Columbia Canada. Hey, Crackpot Buzzkill. I was on the 11-11 month and got kicked off. I'm back on it now. Figured I would get make up for lost time. I will turn 33 in January and plan on becoming a knight before I turn 34. I would like some karma from my friend Jeff Richardson and a war on chicken sounder if that is still around. Yeah, of course it is. Don't mention this on the show. I think, but I think it's... I'm reading it now. All right, let me... Oh, okay. We won't mention it. The War on Chicken. You've got karma. There you go. And thank you for your courage and your support of the program. That'll be our executive producers. On to associate executives for today's show, 569 Anonymous in Mill Valley, California, $250. Tom McBadrick, $246.90 in Nutley, New Jersey. The dollar amount above

CHAPTER 13 / 34 Discussion

Associate Executive Producer Credits and Holiday Wine Tips

The hosts read donations from Associate Executive Producers and discuss annoying Christmas gift ideas like the Otamatone or drum sets for children. John C. Dvorak provides wine recommendations for Thanksgiving, suggesting champagne, Beaujolais, or Pinot Noir over Cabernet, noting that champagne should be treated as a dinner wine.

donations· wine· champagne· otamatone· christmas gifts· value for value

58:43 Amounts to the cost I paid at a local Granger for one lousy circuit breaker. Wow. After learning my company would cover the expense, I chose to pass the bucks to you instead. After all, thanks to JCD's musical talents and his cultural ear to the ground, everybody on my Christmas list will be getting the Otamatone. It may not be the next Tickle Me Elmo, but I'm sure to make an irritatingly memorable Christmas dinner. Just hand it over to your family's kids and watch the fun. And by the way, what we like to do in the Dvorak family, you have like, Eric's got his kids, so what you want to get the kids is like a drum set.

59:27 mechanical machine guns. A Vuvuzela? And since he's got different kids, you want both of the kids to have the machine guns. The ones you pull and then you shoot, and it makes nothing but the worst sounding racket. But a drum set's also good. A Vuvuzela might not be bad, but the kids probably won't be able to get enough volume on that. Oh, that's funny. You really do that, don't you? That's the kind of gift you want to get. You actually do that? Yeah, I bet you do. You're an a-hole like that. You are. Let's get to Eric's kids. Says you. Paul Richardson, Richfield, Minnesota nuts. 220-222. It's been a while since my last contribution. I'm feeling a little douchey, so here's a bag of deuces. Thank you.

1:00:15 Joshua Dietrich in Kirkland, Washington 220 222 the fact that Paul and I donated $2.99 in November 10th show was pure coincidence despite the jingle by the way thanks for playing the in the morning song this Sunday I run a half marathon for the first time ever I plan to listen to show while running so some karma would be fantastic right now At approximately 10 minutes 30 seconds per mile I hope to finish the run at 2 hours 22 minutes and 22 seconds. Let's know how that goes. Thanks for taking time out of your Thanksgiving to do this show you guys are great. That's nice Josh here's a little bit of running karma for you as requested. You've got karma. We got Arliss Vanonymous.

1:00:59 In Mechanicsville, Virginia, 22222. Make it rain twice for my super hot petite milf Janine, who is in Austin for Thanksgiving, but I'm not. Uh-huh. Tired of being a boner and looking for some karma for the holidays also wanted it sounds like a commercial Really? What is what is that tired of being a boner looking for some karma for the holidays? Check out the no agenda show at no agenda show calm so We're gonna do the make it rain during the the regular segment right well do yeah, okay? You are you writing these names names down Janine you got Janine you got to call her to the main stage should I got it earlier cuz I already got a script, but okay, okay?

1:01:38 Did you have writers on this thing? I have a team. Your team. Your writing team. He says, I want to suggestions for cooking a Thanksgiving meal I can make while my wife is away. Turkey sandwiches. Go get a turkey loaf that's already cooked. 1-800-DOMINOES, my friend. And wine selection, you know, turkey's great because it goes with everything. So you can have champagne, which I would recommend. Which is what I got from my friends upon your recommendation. Yes, you got some Paul Roger. Yeah. Champagne is a winner, Beaujolais is a winner, Pinot is a winner. Actually of all of them, Cabernet is probably the weakest one. I think a good Chardonnay would also work. I really liked your suggestion of the champagne though because it's like yeah, I can see how that really goes well with turkey. Although I think people would like, most people are not the thing, oh but we're not celebrating anything.

1:02:35 No, the champagne people are irked about this meme by the way. The celebration thing? Yeah, the champagne should not be seen as a celebration. I mean you can if you want for some celebration, but champagne is a dinner wine. It's a very specific dinner wine. You can have it any time you want and it goes with pretty much everything. You know, it goes great with Janine in the champagne room. It would. But that champagne is usually junk by the way. They don't have a good champagne in those joints. Depends on who you know. Sir Brian Ferguson in Foothill Ranch, California also to 2222 he's on the Sunday show I made a simple comment. I am a knight not a new knight is wanted to be called sir Brian. We reunited him He reunited me it felt kind of weird. I have a ring already so Thursday show I'm a double knight after this contribution Baronet just figured out how close I wasn't it was so close to two times make it rain What the heck so my two names are my two ex-wives Shirley and Donna

1:03:37 Write them down. Perfect. Perfect. Well, that's a good... that's a... thank you. If people want to know what I'm thankful for besides the two beautiful women in my life, my daughter and my wife, I am very thankful that there are people out there who give a crap about what we say and actually listen to us and are interested in helping us. Yes, I appreciate that to an extreme. I want to thank everybody who became a producer or an executive producer for this show and I want to remind you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA to help us out for the show coming up on Sunday which is essentially the end of the holiday weekend where people be driving back and we are working again. That's right. That's right. That's all right because it's what we do.

CHAPTER 14 / 34 Discussion

Georgia Jury Form Slave Occupation Glitch

Officials in DeKalb County, Georgia, discovered a glitch in an online jury form where selecting "S" for sales resulted in the occupation being listed as "slave." The hosts speculate this was a "No Agenda" style Easter egg planted by a rogue programmer and criticize the media's racial framing of the technical error.

dekalb county· georgia· jury duty· easter egg· slavery· mainstream media

1:04:27 Miss Mickey is out in LA. She's you know she did her shoot on Wednesday. She's not coming back until Saturday hmm How does that work you got the sexter the sex texter? I Want to thank clearly a no agenda producer for putting in a great Easter egg PR moment, although, you know, it's been completely misinterpreted by the mainstream media, obviously, but people in the know are clear that the person who does This particular computer programming is a listener of the best podcast in the universe. Georgia now where DeKalb County officials are scratching their heads over a drawer form. The online form lists slave as an occupation. Potential jurors who fill out the new form said they selected S for sales, but what they got was the occupation slave. Yeah, I was going to clip that too. It's very funny. You know that's got to be that's got to be a no agenda producer. I hope so. Yeah.

1:05:28 But the funny thing is... You know they just slipped it in at some point. It was a total Easter egg, a bomb. It's like one of those things you kind of do, nobody can catch you there. They're gonna look into it! But here's the crazy thing is that I saw at least four reports, mainstream media reports, and they're showing or asking people on the street but only black people. How do you feel about that? It's like, but slave, you know, slave is... I saw they had a couple white people on one of the stations and they laughed about it, thought it was hilarious. Yeah because I mean everyone's, this is not, the term slave, and this is, this is I guess what I'd take an exception to this, for some reason whenever you hear the word slave we could, we're only allowed to think that is the black man

1:06:11 working for the white man on the plantation. Whereas we had slaves in Egypt, we still got slaves everywhere in the world. Slaves, you got slaves, we're slaves, we're slaves to the man. That's it's a generalized term and I we have to take that back a little bit I feel. We can't let that just be one type of visual for people. That's maybe just me. No agenda people know what it's all about. And why don't you go out and find some of your fellow slaves and propagate our formula? Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. There we go. Because Mickey was out of town, I had a lot of time to look into stuff. A lot.

CHAPTER 15 / 34 Discussion

Iran Nuclear Deal and Enrichment Rights

The hosts analyze the interim nuclear agreement with Iran, focusing on Secretary of State John Kerry's statements regarding uranium enrichment. They express skepticism about the "trust" involved in the negotiations and suggest the deal is more about managing the supply of centrifuge parts and plutonium reactors than preventing a bomb.

iran· john kerry· hassan rouhani· uranium enrichment· nuclear deal· p5+1

1:07:17 Yeah, she's not running you around the town. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, well, what'd you find out? Well, I looked into a number of things. You want to talk about Iran? I always I love talking about Iran. Iran is so we had this deal this all of a sudden this big deal and and I think that people are getting a raw deal in general About what this is really about because if you listen to the news then it's only about you know The bomb and you know the making the bomb and we can't let them have a bomb and it's all about the bomb So let me play a couple of these things And there was some confusion, of course because there's actually no deal. Nothing is nothing has really happened here is See which order should I play this and I think this is

1:08:08 Kerry with candy Crowley talking about what this deal is not so you at this point trust Hassan Rouhani the new president in Iran To be able to follow through are you convinced that he has the power to do so because you know that the hardliners in Iran Certainly are singing a different tune That has been sung at the negotiating table absolutely Absolutely, we're well aware of that. And the simple answer to you is none of this is based on trust. It's not a question of trust. Yeah, that's what I'm like, oh really? Is this guy, by the way, this guy, that little tongue thing he does. He's still happening. Yeah. Does that bother you? It creeps me out. I learned a long time ago from a CIA agent

1:09:01 that when you are meeting with someone and when they do that, when they stick their tongue out like that, whatever that preceded that motion was a lie. That is how I've been taught to interpret the tongue. And if you look at his speech, I want to play a little bit of that as well, here he is explaining, let me just see, Let me see right here. Iran has the has no right to enrich yet they can, which I guess he's doing with Stephanopoulos. Every single time a lie, there's something that you would even think is a lie, the tongue comes out. It's not consistent. It's not like always licking his lips or anything. It really is when right after he tells a lie. What is the U.S. position? Does the U.S. respect and recognize that right of Iran's? Yes or no?

1:09:52 No, there is no right to enrich. We do not recognize a right to enrich. It is clear in the NPT, in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it's very, very clear that there is no right to enrich. However, but under the terms of this agreement, there will be a negotiation over whether or not they could have a very limited, completely verifiable, extraordinarily constrained program where they might have some medical research or other things they could do, but there is no inherent right to enrich

1:10:31 everywhere in this particular agreement it states that they could only do that by mutual agreement and that nothing is agreed on until everything is agreed on. Okay, and so here I'm like all right what is this really about? I'm starting to get interested. Then he does a little video which was published on video.state.gov which was meant for Congress But it was published for the public and he's talking to the Congressmen, women, and senators as if they're morons by the way. So well, maybe rightly so. And here is his explanation of enrichment and there's a couple things he said in here that maybe go down the rabbit hole.

1:11:16 We are eliminating Iran's stockpile of already enriched, 20% enriched uranium. By the way, the fact that he's saying Iran and not Iran tells us, as KnowAgenda producers and listeners, he's not really in on the deal. Because we know that people who are really in with what's going on, who are really doing the business, they say Iran. Yeah, it's almost a code. It's code. Their centrifuge program, where it is today... Now hold on, listen to the words he's using here. Uranium. We are holding their centrifuge program. We are holding their centrifuge program. Where it is today, and we are stopping them from using their most advanced centrifuges. These are centrifuges that can separate uranium very quickly and do the enrichment very fast. So they're very risky. And that's why we keep them away from that process for now. We keep them away from that process for now. On plutonium,

1:12:17 We're putting on hold the most... We're putting on hold... We're putting on hold... Meaningful parts of their reactor that's currently under construction in a place called Arak, Aram. Now this is their most likely source of plutonium and that's why it's something we are absolutely determined... So he's talking like he's a supplier of parts, which in fact is exactly what's happening. This is about, so this agreement which we don't really have truly the written agreement, nothing has really been set in stone, there's been all kinds of back and forth. The news media in their typical political oscillation are showing you this is about stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon or creating a bomb or killing everybody in the Middle East, which of course is ludicrous.

CHAPTER 16 / 34 Discussion

Iranian Sanctions and Global Petroleum Market Regulation

The hosts argue that the 80-page sanctions document against Iran is actually a tool for the U.S. to regulate which global companies and countries are allowed to trade in Iranian petroleum. They list exempted companies like Total and Shell, suggesting the "deal" is a way for the U.S. to dole out market access to allies while maintaining the petrodollar system.

iran· sanctions· petroleum· total· shell· petrodollar· john kerry

1:13:13 you know, to be frightened into something, to believe this bullcrap. I went and I found the sanctions as they stand against Iran. and held that against what was published on whitehouse.gov as to what the our end of the bargain is going to be. And here's the way you have to look at this, and this will be a conversation for you around your Thanksgiving Day table when everyone says, boy, we're so happy that President Barack Obama and John F. Kerry are saving us from the evil Iranians. This is not what that's about. This is about determining who gets to do business with Iran and in Iran. Because this isn't... the sanctions are 80 pages. And if you look at what they're saying in their so-called deal memo, John, this is only about who gets to buy petroleum and petroleum products from Iran. It's... these sanctions are not against Iran. These sanctions against other countries. So, to give an example,

1:14:17 We have the companies and countries that are allowed to buy from Iran, that we have somehow determined are allowed to buy from Iran, exclude A whole bunch of other countries. It's really quite funny when you see who is and who isn't allowed to buy. So we have, since 1998 by the way, these sanctions have been going on for a long time because it is a regulation of a market. This has nothing to do with terrorism or nuclear warfare. Since 1998, the companies that have a waiver for sanctions are

1:14:54 Total of France, Gazprom from Russia, and Petronas from Malaysia, exempted are Statoil from Norway, E&I from Italy, Royal Dutch Shell from Britain and the Netherlands, sanctioned however Belarus. Belarusnef, no you can't buy oil. sanctioned petrochemical commercial company International Bellwick of Jersey and Iran, Royal Oyster Group from the United Arab Emirates, Tanker Pacific from Singapore, all the Monaco, Venezuela, all these people know you can't buy the oil. This is, and by the way it's not oil that goes into your truck or your car, these are petrochemical products that are necessary for life as we know it today.

1:15:41 It's the light, sweet crude that is really necessary for products. Correct, John? Well, sweet crude or heavy crude or any of them or go through a refinery and then they can be made into anything from gasoline to kerosene to jet fuel to plastic. Right, but we've already determined that a lot of this is not necessarily about stuff that is going into your car. It is the derivative petroleum products that Iran has in abundance that we really need. Well, not really. That would be, most light crude tends to end up as diesel or gasoline. I don't think it changes your thesis. Okay. There's a change in some of the rules. Iran may not accept gold for payment for their oil and petroleum products.

1:16:38 This is stipulated so... Well that's again, yeah, well that's actually a good catch because you know there's a there's all this fear, petrodollars. Yeah we need to keep them on the dollar of course. Yeah of course. And we, the United States, we are regulating the money because we have it all locked up you see. So if a company is going to buy some oil or petroleum products from Iran it runs through us It is a great, for some reason, someone decided, hey we need to open that up a little bit. But the United States, we, and I guess somehow through John Kerry, are determining who gets to buy this and who doesn't get to buy this. And these sanctions, this is kind of, I don't know if you saw

1:17:25 Like they were all congratulating and hugging each other and you had Carrie hugging that no neck, no chin monster, the high representative Baroness Ashton. They're all high-fiving. What qualifications does she have to be in that job? Well, the reason why she was there of course is these are all people who are part of the Security Council. It's the p5 plus one which is the big five and oh yeah, we'll add the krauts in there get my nation Deutschland is the plus one or the eu3 plus three all these code things But this is all about who gets who gets the oil who gets the it's the sanctions are not against Iran the sanctions are against the all the other countries and we're determining who gets to have some of it and

CHAPTER 17 / 34 Discussion

Israel Leviathan Gas Field and Geopolitical Posturing

The discussion shifts to Israel's opposition to the Iran deal, with the hosts suggesting that Israel's "saber-rattling" may be tied to its need to secure energy export markets for the Leviathan gas field. They question whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's public stance is a coordinated "front man" act to keep global focus on the nuclear issue.

israel· leviathan field· natural gas· benjamin netanyahu· iran· energy exports

1:18:10 But we're being misled into believing this is like some deal and everybody on television, all the talking heads are talking about bomb this, bomb that. It's bullshit. We know from Iranians that in Iran people are like, they're all on the same page, the Americans and the Iranians. It's a big show. deconstructed this enough or have you to determine what is Israel's role in all this because they seem to be the most bent out of shape about it. Well I think they're bent out of shape because they've got the Leviathan field which is gas and oil and you know and they need to sell it. They need to start up the, they need to start sales. That's the only thing I can I can see you know this is

1:18:53 the discovery of the Leviathan field really turned Israel from a net importer to an exporter and they need to get going particularly to countries that they have relatively close access to outside the Mediterranean which you know through Cyprus and Greece and or even Italy would be... Yeah I went over this a million times but I just it just seems to be and not being convinced of the this being the sole purpose of their their objections in their saber rattling and well and do we did have you figured out why these countries that have been kind of circumscribed from uh... the uh... ability to trade with iran what i'm sorry one example of one country why we hate them well i'm sorry i it's funny you say that because i didn't say i didn't mention the country's i mentioned companies

1:19:43 And these companies are in particular countries. It's just ownership. We don't own any of this Venezuela crap. So no, not in. Denied. It's Total, it's BP, it's Shell, it's the Seven Sisters or whatever they're called. It's those guys. They get to participate. Everybody else, F off. It's our, we control it. The United States runs Iran. That's just what I'm going to have to state. We're running it, we own it, we determine who gets what. This deal is not about nuclear weapons, this deal is about who gets to have some. And who is Barack Obama doling it out to today?

1:20:31 On March 20th, 2012, the Secretary of State announced the first group of 11 countries that had achieved an exemption for significantly reducing oil purchases. So here are the countries that reduced. Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Britain. The exemptions for these 11 countries were all renewed. So, you know, who's renewing it? We're the boss of this. We say you can't take from Iran and then people do it. Now we say, oh, you can have a little more. It's like four billion. annual sales, which is nothing. But you know, so maybe it's being misused to change the the news cycle since it is a relatively small, a small deal. But the funny thing is, you know, you think that it's a deal with Iran but it's not. That's why everyone's like hug and carry. Oh thank you! Oh thank you! I can have more oil now! Thank you so much! I appreciate it! That's what it is! It's crazy!

CHAPTER 18 / 34 Discussion

U.S. Corporate Exports to Iran and TTIP Negotiations

Despite public rhetoric about strict sanctions, the hosts point out that U.S. companies like Kraft Foods and Wrigley are permitted to export consumer goods like ice cream sprinkles and bodybuilding supplements to Iran. They suggest the recent diplomatic thaw might be a "fig leaf" to appease the European Union during TTIP trade negotiations.

kraft foods· wrigley· mccormick· ttip· european union· iran sanctions

1:21:30 A-holes. We rock! We really do! And when Hillary Clinton gets in, she's president. Oh yeah. She'll up the ante on all this stuff. Oh yeah. Well she laid the groundwork. She'll actually want to be called the Queen Empress. She's gonna change her name. She's gonna do that. She's gonna be like Ming the Merciless. Well she deserves it. As you know, I'm a big fan. I think we should... It's important people understand. that we have to make it worse before it gets better. So we got to get her in. Anyway, the on-hold thing, there's a lot of GE parts that they need for their reactors, for their centrifuges. And GE, you know, gets to sell some but not all. So this is, it's all controlled. We've been controlling parts for their aircraft, for their, let's see,

1:22:35 We even control the EADS parts for their air buses, which apparently they have a few. We control it all. This document... Maybe Netanyahu's just clueless. You think that's possible? No, no, no. It could be he's just... Maybe he just wants a reality show. I'm not completely buying his position as whatever. Well, we had the... It could also be, John, Let's look at it from a different perspective. Remember he held up the drawing of the Wile E. Coyote bomb at the United Nations with a little fuse in it? With the arrow. So maybe he's just the layup man. Maybe he's just setting it up for us to hammer it in to keep people focused. Oh yeah, he could be the setup guy. Right? That's a possibility. Front man. Yeah, just keep everybody focused on the bomb, the bomb, the bomb. Meanwhile, don't look at other exporters to Iran. Let's see, I have a list here. It's in the sanctions.

1:23:36 Here are the companies who have been allowed to export to Iran. Mars Company, Kraft Foods, Wrigley's, McCormick & Co. So they've got candy bars, chewing gum, mac and cheese, and some spices. They have plenty of spices in, I think the McCormick deal is to get McCormick insulin, they get spices out. Well, so now what's happening, yes, well now what's happening is you're seeing, because these sanctions, you're seeing companies everywhere freaking out because they all want to get in. Because it's going to be a Libya-like bonanza without the bomb dropping. Without the war zone. Without the war zone, yeah. So here's the OFAC had approved exports to Iran of condiments such as ice cream sprinkles.

1:24:28 Hey, hey, Mohammad, Mustafa, you Persian, how's your sprinkles? Enjoy the American sprinkles, hot sauces, bodybuilding supplements, all being exported to Iran. You wouldn't think it though, the way you hear everyone talking like they're the most crazy, crazy, gonna kill us, blow us up. So that was an eye-opener for me, that it's just like, oh, this deal, we're seeing it all upside down. This deal is not about a bomb, it's about who gets to profit from Iran. And looking at the people who are jumping up and down, looking at Baroness Ashton, I'm thinking this might have been a little bit of a fig leaf towards the EU for our TTIP negotiations. Could be.

1:25:21 But it's not, repeat not, about terrorism and some bomb... None of this stuff's about terrorism. I mean the public, you know, it's just like you think that you'd let the American people in on some of this action. Can you imagine how great we would be if people actually understood this? We'd be all for it. I think Congress would get something done. People be like hell yeah, you wouldn't have to spend all the time bullcrapping the public in this or scaring them. Yeah You're gonna get killed. Yeah Exactly, they wouldn't then making it worse by bringing in this common core and some of these other Initiatives that just are obviously intended to dumb down the public. It's funny, you know for today's show I wanted to do something upbeat. I know it kind of wrecks our model and

CHAPTER 19 / 34 Discussion

Steve Jobs 1995 Interview on Education and Common Core

The hosts play clips from a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs where he discusses the failures of the American education system. Jobs argues against the idea that computers alone can fix schools, emphasizing the importance of individual teachers and criticizing the "monopoly" of institutionalized education and unions. The hosts use this to critique the modern Common Core initiative.

steve jobs· common core· education· bill gates· teachers unions· monopoly

1:26:16 But specifically regarding Common Core, I wanted to bring in a voice from the grave, someone who I have always held in high regard. And it's from an interview that from 1995, two years before he returned to Apple to make it legendary again, Steve Jobs talking about education. And I have three quick little clips I've taken. This is a pretty well-known interview. I think it was, I'm sure you've seen this, John, this interview. It was like PC Magazine or something, 1995. They were trying to codify people from the beginning of Silicon Valley. Do you know this interview of Jobs? If I hear it, I might have heard it before.

1:27:03 And as it relates to Common Core, it's very interesting to hear him specifically say some things about education and really how the educators today and the Governor's Association and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, all these people who are all in on Common Core and the testing and the standards and turn teachers into test takers and data analyzers are wrong. Now here's what got Steve Jobs interested in what he's doing today through education. In fourth grade I encountered one of the other saints in my life which was... they discovered they were going to put me and this guy Rick Ferentino into the same fourth grade class and the principal said at the last minute, no, no, bad idea, separate them. So this teacher Mrs. Hill said I'll take one of them and she taught the advanced fourth grade class and thank God I was the

1:28:00 the random one that got put in her class. And she watched me for about two weeks and she then approached me, she said, Stephen, I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal. I have this math workbook and if you take it home and finish it on your own without any help, And you bring it back to me, if you get it 80% right, I will give you $5 and one of these really big suckers. She bought it, she held it out in front of me, one of these giant things. And I looked at her like, are you crazy lady? You know, nobody's ever done this before. And of course I did it. And she basically bribed me back into learning.

1:28:42 with candy and money and what was really remarkable was that before very long I had such a respect for her that I sort of reignited my desire to learn and she was remarkable. She got me kits for making cameras, you know, I ground my own lens and made a camera and it was It was really quite wonderful. Real education there. And I like it because as you know I am a big fan of bribing kids with hookers and blow. It works. Now this interviewer goes into this next bit and says, you know, well you're famous for putting computers in the K-12. Computers of course are going to solve education which is where we are at right now today. So what is it now, 20 years later

1:29:34 And interesting that it's Bill Gates, the arch nemesis of Apple and of Steve Jobs to a certain extent, who is now doing this, basically saying that big data and computers, that's going to fix education. Steve Jobs, not so on board. The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what's happened. and teachers can't teach, and administrators run the place, and nobody can be fired, it's terrible. Some people say that this new technology may be a... the network world, if you will, may be a way to bypass that. Are you optimistic about that? No, I absolutely don't believe that. And as you pointed out, I've probably helped put more computers in more schools than anybody else in the world, up until this point in time, and I'm absolutely convinced that

1:30:31 That is by no means the most important thing. The most important thing is another person. Another person that incites your curiosity, that guides your curiosity, that feeds your curiosity. And machines cannot do that in the same way people can. It's no wonder they hated each other. He's so on the opposite side of this and that by the way if you look at all the money that's going around in common core was enough to kill him just for that attitude. And I'm thinking more and more that There was no reason to help him out. Let's put it that way final bit in our happy upbeat little Steve Jobs clip-a-thon His his ideas about how school should be run right now You know if you ask who are the customers of education the customers of education are the society at large employers that hire people right things like that, but ultimately I think the customers are the parents and

1:31:26 not even the students, but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools for the most part. And gave their kids to the... Well, what happened was that mothers started working and they didn't have time to spend at PTA meetings and watching their kids school. Schools became much more institutionalized and parents spent less and less and less time involved in their kids education. And what happens when a customer goes away and a monopoly gets control, which is what's happened in our country, is that the service level almost always goes down. I remember seeing a bumper sticker when the telephone company was all one, AT&T, the Bell system. I remember seeing a bumper sticker with the Bell logo on it and it said, we don't care, we don't have to. And that's what a monopoly is. Yeah, there you go.

1:32:28 Yeah, I'm not buying any of it. I'm not buying him grinding his own lenses in the fourth grade or any of that crap. I think it's bullcrap. Oh, really? Don't be a little romantic, John. What is this? The customers. The women started working and it's gone to hell. Yes! About the self-esteem movement and some of this other stuff that those same women were promoting. I'm not, I think he's, I think the guy is an uneducated character who is just like Gates. You know, he's never, Gates has never gone through college. He doesn't know what the processes are, what you get out of it or what you don't get out of it or what, where's the bogusness is. Oh, I can dream. And he's just now, but he's a big expert. So I feel the same way about jobs. I'm not buying any of it.

CHAPTER 20 / 34 Discussion

Common Core Delays and Student Data Privacy

Massachusetts and New York are seeing pushback against Common Core implementation from school principals and boards. The hosts also highlight privacy concerns regarding Code.org, an initiative backed by Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the platform collects and repurposes student data. They conclude by recommending homeschooling as an alternative to "slave training" institutions.

common core· massachusetts· new york· code.org· data privacy· mark zuckerberg

1:33:09 It was a good series of clips. Apparently you seem to get something. I'm a big fan. I've always been a fan. Little Common Core. Let's go. Three quick headlines on Common Core, then it's yours. Okay, let's finish the Common Core thing because I want to go to France where we have no customers ourselves. Hold on. Massachusetts has voted to delay implementation of Common Core. Good on you. New York school principals have written a letter which I've put the letter in the show notes. Massachusetts nuts happens to have one of the best state-run educational organizations and they know this is bullcrap. In fact, if we modeled everything after what Massachusetts is doing, we'd be much better off than doing this crazy thing that you know the Bill Gates Foundation's dreamed up. Well, it's the heavy hitters on the Board of Education in Massachusetts are saying, hey, we gotta stop this or slow it down or whatever. They do not want to implement so

1:34:09 There's hope there. New York school principals have written a letter of concern about Common Core testing. I put it in the show notes, you can read it yourself, but actually it's not just concern, they're kind of like, yo dude, we can't do this crap. And there was an interesting article about Code.org, which is the educational outfit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey and other douchebags. Apparently, they, when you sign up for code.org, I think it was Valleywag, if I can find this here, who discovered that they take all of your kids' data and use it for other purposes. So, you know, this education thing, ever since it's been institutionalized and we have a Department of Education at the federal level, it's a big bonanza. It's a big, big moneymaker. And while you still can, the No Agenda Show recommends you homeschool.

1:35:12 Yeah, which they're trying to outlaw in most states. Oh, of course. We can't have that. Is it John Taylor? I'm looking at it. Is it John Taylor? What's his name? John Taylor. I want to say Gotti. Let me see if that's the guy's name. John Taylor. I think it's John Taylor. Gotti. G-O-T-T-Y. Gatto, John Taylor Gatto. Very interesting guy. You can google around and look at some videos, but he's... for most of his life he's been writing about the history of how schools came to be, and if you follow his logic, they truly are designed to be slave training institutions. If you look at where the... his history of where schule, and that of course it comes from Germanic, schule, where that comes from.

1:36:02 And I'm, I kind of like a lot of his theories. I think it has been set up that way. You yourself know that the education system is set up to create dumb slaves. You have first-hand knowledge? Yeah, in fact, I've always said the worst writers, if they try to get away from the newspaper business, which is dead, by the way, journalism school is designed to create essentially drones. Xerox machines. That could go in and follow a certain style of writing, which is voiceless, neutral, and they could work at any newspaper because they were all the same type of person. They were cogs in the wheel.

1:36:41 If many of them they always think that well I can go off and do it on do something on my own they never can because it's been drummed out the ability to do Distinctive singular works has been drummed out of almost all everything there's a few that thing manage and and if you look at the the common core stuff it seems like you're real people are being kids are being set up to Become wonder when someone sent in an interesting note under the slave training Kids are being trained to hear antelope center high school trained students to handle a call calls emergency calls like they're at a call center like they're nine. Yeah, no this is the training this is the training kids are getting.

1:37:22 and they actually do it in the classroom. Ring, ring. 911 what's your emergency? Yeah this is what we're training our kids to do. Okay try this out. Hey Billy let's try this other script. Okay uh you want fries with that? Do you want anything to drink? We have a special on chicken wings. We have a special on the small pie. And meanwhile didn't President Barack Obama promise a whole bunch of like educational stuff? Did that not happen? Or is this Common Core, is that what it is? No, no, Common Core is what it is. Producer Andy sent me a clip from C-SPAN which was funny in two regards. What are the Obama administration's second term priorities going to look like in education policy? Are they going to continue to push in the direction they pushed early on with Race to the Top? Or are we going to see more of what

1:38:17 seemed to take hold during the campaign which was promise of a hundred thousand more teachers and smaller class sizes. I'd like to get the panelists, starting with Rick maybe, to weigh out on which Barack Obama will we see in the second term on education. There you go. They know it. They know there's more than one. Which Barack Obama? I don't know. The one who got the... The guy that's in the closet. The guy who got inaugurated in secret. The gay one. The gay one. Oh, nice. I think by the way that Hollywood did something wrong or they haven't been on their game like a whole bunch of messages went out to Hollywood just this past week. Let's see we had Did like this whole story about animals that were hurt and killed the making of movies and you see these stories? No, I didn't I missed this. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see. I have a couple of them What do we have life of Pie Tiger damn near drowned?

CHAPTER 21 / 34 Discussion

Arnon Milchan Mossad Spy Confession and Hollywood Espionage

Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan recently admitted in an Israeli television interview to being a Mossad spy and arms dealer. The hosts discuss the long history of collaboration between intelligence agencies and the film industry, referencing Chuck Barris's claims of being a CIA assassin and George Clooney's "message movies" like Syriana.

arnon milchan· mossad· hollywood· robert de niro· george clooney· chuck barris

1:39:17 Dog punch repeatedly in popular Disney movie. Spielberg protected by cover-up of the war horse death. Like all this like Hollywood you suck, you're horrible. And of course the president was going out to Hollywood. I have a feeling there was a message. You know, it's like, hey, you know, you really you guys really got to get on the stick here. And then of course we had this story. Milchan indicated other big Hollywood players were also involved saying quote, when I came to Hollywood, I detached myself completely from my physical activities to dedicate myself to what I really wanted, filmmaking. This is about Aaron Milchan, the Hollywood producer who

1:40:07 all of a sudden in an Israeli television interview comes out and says, I was a spy! I was a spy! I was a Mossad spy! And I'm thinking he did this to preempt whatever was coming. That would be a good idea. And this is not news by the way. Everybody has known this guy was an arms dealer since 2000. I've found articles about it. This is nothing new whatsoever. But all of a sudden, I guess he didn't want to be shamed or I think something was going on. But sometimes it gets mixed up.

1:40:42 The 68-year-old Milchan owns New Regency Films and has produced more than 120 movies, working closely with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone. He forged an especially close relationship with actor Robert De Niro, who was also featured in the Israeli television program. I did ask him once we spoke about something and he told me that he was an Israeli and that he of course would do these things for his country. So you want to come to Hollywood and act like a big shot without actually doing anything? In a story that seems reminiscent to last year's Oscar-winning true-to-life film Argo that depicted the CIA-Hollywood collaboration to rescue US diplomats stuck in Iran, it's a safe bet Hollywood execs will be fighting to bring this story to the big screen too. Yeah, well of course there's always that angle and let's chuckle about this you moronic news models.

1:41:39 Now, we reached out to Milchen today for comment, Jim, but we were told he is traveling in Europe and unavailable. You know, I have been covering all things Hollywood for a while, Jim, and not much surprises me that goes on there these days, but this, this is a wow story. This is, and it's too bad he's unavailable. When he is available, he should come on the Situation Room and tell his story to Wolf Blitzer. I'll pay my own fee. Put it out there, baby. We'll get him. Yeah! He's unavailable. Oh, it's too bad he's unavailable. What, do you have to lick his ass because he's like the king of Hollywood? George Clooney! George Clooney! George Clooney! Is a spy. That's right. They're all spies and in service. Which brings me to Chuck Beres. Ooh, how nice. Chuck Beres, of course, who did The Gong Show. There was a movie about him, and I think Clooney was in it.

1:42:31 And, uh, but it was produced by, I think, pretty sure it was produced by Clooney. Or is directed. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, where Barris comes out and says he was an assassin for the CIA for all the years that he was doing that show. Oh, really? You ever seen this movie? No! This sounds like a good one. Oh, you're missing one of the most entertaining films you will ever see. Oh my goodness. He wrote a book about this, that he was a hit man. And then he went on and on. And this guy was seen by everyone who knew him from his show days. And then the movie was done again. Clooney does all these movies that are either, you know, they're message movies as far as I can tell. He does all of them. The American where he plays an assassin. It's Siriana where he's talking about the drones killing princes, all the rest of it. Well, let's see, the cast of this movie Confessions of a, let's see, Dick Clark played himself. Sam Rockwell played Chuck Beres, Michelle Sweeney, Drew Barrymore. I do not see Clooney.

1:43:25 Clooney on this one. He directed it. Oh really yes. No it says stars George Clooney hmm. Yeah, okay? All right, so Clooney's in on this any drug. Yeah, okay? So I you know you have to watch this movie, and I recommend it to everybody because it's extremely entertaining and and it's like it's either the just a guy who's diluted or a guy who actually was a hitman and And I don't know why he even confessed to any of this, but you know, it's like the confessions of an economic hitman as it were. Another situation where a guy had to tell all. Who backed off on all that, by the way. Well, you would too, if you had a gun pointed to your head.

1:44:06 No, no, I'd be like, shoot me, damn it! I have principles! He backed off big time. I mean, he did, yeah. Oh yeah, he, you know, yeah. I think it wasn't that, I think they let the book slide. The confession, you know, the book came out and that was fine, but then he started to do volume two. Right. And then he was on the road doing speeches. Well, then all of a sudden he stopped everything. That's because he was getting carried away. It's the same with, uh, with, uh, Tim Weiner who wrote the, Legacy of Ashes CIA book which was you know is almost almost like a Bible it got me started in in media assassination and understanding you know what what the CIA really is about and then as FBI book came out it was like all in it's like you know like he was sleeping with the with the dead body of Hoover it was disgusting it's just lame totally lame and I think he got called to like yeah I'm not gonna do one of those books about the Bureau

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Russ Baker and the Suppression of Intelligence Memoirs

The hosts praise journalist Russ Baker and his website Whowhatwhy.com for investigative work on the Bush family and intelligence agencies. They discuss the difficulty former agents face when trying to publish memoirs, noting that the CIA often blocks or heavily redacts manuscripts to protect institutional secrets.

russ baker· family of secrets· cia· fbi· publishing· intelligence agencies

1:45:04 Yeah, we saw the other book. We didn't like it. No, I read it and was horrible really No, I'm talking that would be this the FBI guys calling him up. Oh, yeah. Oh exactly. Yeah, I mean parking tickets Do you want a month? Hey, you like do you like the IRS? It looks like you're speeding again according to the satellite that we have looking at you now The IRS it would be very nice. Yeah There's a lot of ways you can stop. They let him do one product and then that's it. I think you can control it at that point. The only guy that I think is slightly still I think got more to tell us is the guy who did the Bush book, which is another book everyone out there should read. Well he has a website. He's got a great website. Yeah, he's got some good stuff on there. I like what he's doing. What's the name of the website again?

1:45:55 uh... was his name now you get by typing in family and secrets and may even point right to that website uh... who was he again family of secrets dot com ross baker Yeah, Baker, who's a legitimate high quality high-end journalist. He's not like a slouch. Whowhatwhy.com. That's his website. Whowhatwhy.com. You can find it at familyofsecrets.com. This is the guy, you know, follow this guy, not Glenn Greenwald. This is the guy who's really doing some good stuff. Of course, he doesn't have the documents that were stolen from Snowden. But, you know, Uncle Don has written a book called

1:46:41 I think it's called shards or something. Shards? Shards of my mind or yeah like like fragments shards not shart like although that would be it would probably get published quicker if I sharted in the CIA but he can't get it published And I have not been allowed to read it. That's probably why you can't get it published. Nobody's allowed to read it. Yeah, well, no, the thing is the agency is taking exception, I think, or they're blocking it or whatever. Well, obviously that's what's going on because anyone would love to publish a book like that. Yeah, from him. I mean, he's famous. Well, he could just, you know, do a giblet.

1:47:24 Well, I gotta go to New York. I gotta go talk to him. Go there, say hey, we can do a giblet for you. No agenda press. He'll probably be like, Adam, this is like from my kid's retirement. I'm not gonna do like no agenda giblet press with fricking bitcoins. Get out of my way. It's gonna hate me. Right now they're gonna get nothing. Yeah, that's true. I'd I need to visit him and regardless we got to go we have to go he's 84 now It's getting up there. I gotta go yeah, he's getting there that book somebody should at least have a copy of it somewhere buried Yeah, well you know I wonder what's in there that the agency's irked about He told me some stuff which I can't repeat because you know that would kind of circumvent the whole idea of the trust relationship But

1:48:17 I don't know. I mean, but I agree. I would like to have at least a copy of it so I could you know and that's all I want like dude just give me a copy for safekeeping and give me the raw unedited whatever. Yeah, it's not a bad idea. You should do that. I'm going to. I have well go John. I'd like to report that Adam Curry's house was detonated by a bomb. Apparently local racists. No no no no no no no. Unfortunate gas leak. Borsig Gasly. Kaboom! Kaboom! Leveled the whole neighborhood. The Mythbusters couldn't do it, but for some reason it happens with increasing regularity. Before we get to the money part of the show, let's talk about France. Now France has got a big deal going on here, as you can tell by my clips.

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French Prostitution Bill and the "Nordic Model"

The French Parliament is debating a bill that would criminalize the purchase of sex while decriminalizing the workers, a shift known as the "Nordic Model." The hosts compare this to Germany's liberalized "Teutonic brothel" system and debate whether the move is truly about stopping human trafficking or if it is a moralistic socialist agenda.

france· prostitution· nordic model· germany· human trafficking· socialism

1:49:07 And but to introduce it to people because it hasn't been played up at all here in the United States, look go to the Hooker's overview part one so we can see what's going on in France. French daily Libération slapped it on its front page this Wednesday. Prostitution the world's oldest debate The French Parliament this week discussing a bill that would shift the burden from the sex worker to the client with 1,500 euro fines for soliciting the services of. The same bill would overturn legislation passed in 2003 that punished prostitutes for curb calling. That's because of European guidelines that consider prostitutes to be the victims.

1:49:50 Before you do anything, I'm a little upset you didn't prepare me for this because, you know, we have a jingle for this. I forgot about the jingle. It's okay. So here's what the EU thinks, this is why the EU now, this is a woman who kind of represents the EU, I think she's French, and they're talking about what the way they see things. And by the way, this is implemented by the socialists, who used to be always considered pro-hooker, as opposed to the right wing, which is always considered to be, oh you know, it's a sin.

1:50:34 Why now? Why is this bill being brought before the French Parliament at this particular time? One of the co-sponsors, socialist Catherine Coutel, explains. Prostitution in France has changed enormously. Most people working as prostitutes have been trafficked here by mafia organizations. It's modern slavery of people who come from Africa, Eastern Europe and China. People who come here to try to live. to survive. We say that prostitutes should not be seen as criminals but as victims and that the client, the one buying sex, is the one fueling prostitution. All right, I got to stop right here. I got to take some exception of what's going on here. This is, this by the way, is not just happening in France. This conversation has been started up in the Netherlands as well. Now the Netherlands, anyone who is 40 or over

1:51:29 Will will know that if you say Amsterdam or Holland people go ah weed and hookers And the Netherlands was proud Proud I tell you of its extremely liberal stance on recreational drugs Specifically in the smoking of a plant and of their prostitution sector which was out in the open and not behind closed doors, in fact in windows where the prostitutes pay taxes, where they have free yet mandatory health care and checkups. And this was always seen as a great liberation or a proof of how liberal and open-minded, and by the way, not just female hookers, there's all kinds of hookers,

1:52:21 And now, I'm just not buying the statement that all hookers are traffic sex slaves. I just don't buy it. I know lots of prostitutes who like what they're doing temporarily. And just as it's anyone's choice to have a baby or not, or do whatever you want, this is your choice too. I know it's not popular because it's always, oh trafficking, sex slavery. I'm not so convinced that this is taking place everywhere in the EU.

1:52:58 Well, on VanCat they had a debate with a feminist. They had a guy who wrote some manifesto saying that this is bullcrap. They had a woman who represented hookers on the horn in London. Unfortunately, her sound was crappy. Then they had a professor, who I have a clip of, who from Sweden, because Sweden apparently has made it illegal, and they made a big fuss about it, and they showed a map And what's interesting is that there's a distinct separation. Sweden, Norway, prostitution is really bad, Great Britain it's on the map, bad, bad. And then France is trying to do this and then Iceland. But on the other hand there's Germany and then you end up with a list of these numbers on this clip, hookers on welfare.

1:53:43 There are those countries like Germany where since 2002, it's forbidden and punished and we can also call up a graph of the sex trade has been completely liberalized. Now, that in Germany particular has been sparking a backlash. It was reportedly even included in coalition talks that have been going on between the CDU and the SDP. The Economist newspaper called it in a recent article a giant Teutonic brothel, writing that the best guess is that Germany has about 400,000 prostitutes

1:54:39 catering to one million men a day, mocking the spirit of the law. Exactly 44 of them, including four men, have registered for welfare benefits. So it's a great thriving sector. In France where they're complaining about it is 20,000 was the estimate, 20 to 40 thousand prostitutes in the country. Germany's got 400,000 with a million customers a day. It's got to be like a lot of income flying around here for these women. But they don't... It's not just women. Let's just say it's not just women. 20% men. Male prostitutes too. Yeah, 20% they estimate. At least these guys. The guy, the one guy was saying, well, you know, most of these figures and numbers are bogus. The studies have never really been done right. They're always done by some pressure group that wants something. But here's another little interesting one that just really got my attention. Play this hooker's huge brothel being built.

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Prostitution Legalization in New Zealand vs. European Restrictions

The hosts contrast New Zealand's successful decriminalization of prostitution with the restrictive measures being adopted in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. They speculate that the crackdown on the sex trade in Europe may be an attempt to appease growing conservative Muslim immigrant populations in those countries.

new zealand· sweden· iceland· muslim immigration· prostitution· safety

1:55:32 You really did some work here. Just over the border in the French region of Lorraine, the local press has honed in on plans for a 6,000 square meter five-story brothel called Paradise Island in Saarbrücken. The locals also say liberalization, despite the fact that there's been all these measures taken to bring it above board and to have it sanctioned, has drawn more prostitutes to the streets. Five five-story brothel I mean, please that's got to be something actually my friend has been there my friend my British gangster friend and He says it's it's outrageous. He said it's like it's like a mega club You've got food, you know, you got just you know, like nightclub. It's just it's an amazing place He says huh? And he says it's really affordable. I

1:56:30 Yeah, no, the prices they gave the women in Germany supposedly, it's just, yeah, it's a lot less than it is in Las Vegas, I'd say. So let's play one more clip. This is the hookers in New Zealand, which is, this is the woman from England who came on and said that, you know, that these people are all full of crap and these girls do what they want to do. You know, they have some instances they have really no other choice but to do this because they said, because the one feminist is, well, they're only doing it for the money. And the guy comes on and says, I think most people except Bill Gates do everything for the money. So what's your point? What has been mentioned tonight is what they've done in New Zealand where they decriminalised prostitution 10 years ago.

1:57:10 And first of all, and importantly, it has made it safer for women to work. Because if women are attacked, they can come forward to the authorities and report without any fear of arrest. Whether women are working on the street or are working indoors. And we think that governments really should look at what happens in New Zealand where it is shown that it has made it safer. And safety has to be the priority. So anyway, so this is reasonable voices and I'm not gonna play all these clips, but I do want to I definitely have to play the Swedish professor. Yeah before we get I just want to say that I think this is the media always likes this story which is why it gets played out so big because they're prostitutes but they don't get to have sex and

1:57:59 And they get, the people who are doing television news are more abused than any prostitutes I know. I would like to add a few things to this discussion here. The first, Mr. Mihaly, he said that prostitution is just like any other job. Poor people have, they're not free. If you compare prostitution to say, working at a fast food restaurant, people working at fast food restaurants, they don't have post-traumatic stress disorder or other mental disorders that are just as high as treatment-seeking combat veterans or victims of state torture. That's the level of abuse that women in prostitution face worldwide. There are numerous studies showing that

1:58:45 whether they are prostituted indoors, in strip clubs, even in pornography, on the streets, the majority have suffered from mental disorders and a number of physical violence exercised by clients. None of these conditions occur in other regular low-wage jobs. Really? Really? So this guy claims that all the, according to the Swedes, and they've been pushing this, all the hookers have post-traumatic stress disorder, they have the same mental foundations as a torture victim.

1:59:25 all the rest of it. I'm sure you could find some that are that fall into this category but it doesn't sound that way in New Zealand where you can actually go to the police and get somebody to get arrested if something weird happens. Well anyway this was a very interesting kind of debate that I thought was... If I look at the countries that now we've covered, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, France, all countries with huge Muslim immigrant populations. That's a very good catch because that's my thoughts too. This looks to me to assuage the Muslims.

2:00:04 or to keep the Muslims from because they are traders in white slavery to keep them from Doing their business. I don't know what it is, but it there is no coincidence except Iceland pretty general statement there John Six trade slave slave traders well, there's a damn damn that is a generalization then it only applies to a very small group of Muslims but they do have a even I think as a whole I think the Muslims would like to do foundational changes in the moral code of some of these countries yes well that's we know that I think that's a generalization that holds up for the majority of Muslim yes interesting that's like there yeah well it's okay in situ the two Muslims who listen to the show except now we got a lot of Muslims in this show

2:00:55 In September 27, 2013, the Reykjavik City Council approved a building permit for the construction of the first mosque in Iceland. It's starting there too. So that coincides nicely. We know that Sweden has huge, huge Muslim, angry Muslim population. France. So, You know, this is not, these things cannot be overlooked. These things are not just coincidences. But these things... And Great Britain. Oh, and Great Britain, totally. They have... And Great Britain's on their map. Their map showed Sweden, which is largely Muslim in the south. Norway, which I don't know what the connection is there because we don't have a lot of... somebody in Norway listens to the show, I have to tell us. You can tell us, yeah, someone will tell us.

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Final Donor Credits and Birthday Celebrations

The hosts conclude the donation segment by reading names of producers from Norway, North Carolina, and beyond. They perform a "Make It Rain" routine for specific donors and conduct a final knighting ceremony for Mark Abbott, Brian S. Hall, and Jeremy Johnson before transitioning to the next news topic.

donations· birthdays· knighthood· value for value· no agenda· producers

2:01:43 The Netherlands was not on this map with the highlight. Yeah, but when I was there I saw a couple stories. I kind of ignored it a little bit, but now it all fits in. So regardless of what is going on, all of these stories, all these countries, all individually are all part of... It's the Wimbledon Currywurst! I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Alright, we gotta start off with James Allen Loddeberg in Rijksstad, Norway. Who should tell us what's going on in Norway regarding this? There you go. It's his 40th birthday, we got him on the list. He's got a 111.11 to make it rain, 33.33 to give me the knighthood. And he likes the, he wants an in the morning with a train whistle. I've got the in the morning if you've got the train whistle.

2:02:50 Do you have your... You're so prepared for the show. It's perfect. I didn't put it aside. Hold on a second. Just talk about something. Uh... Gee. Talk about something. I don't want to waste any of my precious material just on air while you're looking for your train whistle. Here's the problem. So I had three train whistles in this house. In my office I had three train whistles, I can't find one of them. I'm so sorry about that. I'm going to play a harmonica. Oh, I know what I'll do. Are you ready? I think the A harmonica played a certain way sounds like a train whistle. Alright. I'd be asking for my money back. Alright, alright, alright, alright.

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2:10:30 Portlandia, Oregon that would be a group for today. Well turn good turnout. Thanks everybody Yes came in and helped us out for show five six nine and this is It's really nice. This is a I don't think it was like this on last year's Thanksgiving John We had a nice turnout and good and worth and people were thankful and we could be thankful. Yeah, you know Okay, the trains going back in the trains going back org Slash and a please keep it up people keep supporting us It is necessary for us to continue the work, and I think you'll enjoy we have in the second half of the show so

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2:12:10 Jeremy Johnson. All of you now Knights of the Noah Jenna Roundtable. For you librarians and Jaeger Bombs, opium and Warren Warren shoes, geishas and a bucket of fried chicken, Rubin S. Woman and Rose, vodka and vanilla bong, hit some bourbon, spartan, siren escorts or just some mutton and mead. And thank you very much. Go to NoahJennaNation.com slash rings to pick up your well-deserved ring as a knight and you can hit more people in the mouth with that snugly fit on your on your fist. On your fist. Nice, thanks guys. Hey, the war on printers heated up all of a sudden. The war on printers? Yep, the war on printers. This was, this is being covered up of course as the war against 3D printed guns. Oh, the war on 3D printers, yes. Yes. And I actually was keeping this particular clip of Representative Steve Israel

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Philadelphia 3D Printed Gun Ban and Technology Restrictions

Philadelphia has become the first U.S. city to ban the 3D printing of firearms. The hosts argue that the "scary gun" narrative is being used as a pretext to restrict 3D printing technology more broadly, protecting the interests of large corporations like GE that are moving into industrial additive manufacturing.

philadelphia· 3d printing· firearms· steve israel· additive manufacturing· ge

2:13:04 Who brought this up again, but I but I can actually now bring this back to what's really going on. It's important Well, you know Chris, you're right. The clock is ticking and every day that goes by Makes the situation much more dangerous for the American people. So what are we talking about here? What he is talking about and What is the cover for this? ultimately war on 3d printers these printers will be outlawed and Or there will be such restrictions put on them that it will be almost impossible to acquire without all kinds of licensing and proof. is the undetectable gun law. I think that's what it's called, which is set to expire and of course it'll get renewed. It's very simple to do that. There's not a lot of problems with people saying, hey you shouldn't have a gun that is undetectable even though these guns that are undetectable pretty much blow up in your face. So here's Steve Israel running cover. In 1988 we passed the Undetectable Firearms Act because we did not think that it would be a good idea to allow

2:14:06 bad people to smuggle firearms through metal detectors on our planes and in high security environments. That was done in the Reagan administration. It was renewed in the Bush administration. It was renewed in the Clinton administration, renewed again in the Bush administration. When we renewed that law, the prospect of a 3D printed plastic gun was science fiction. Today it is It is a reality and we are only two weeks away from the expiration of that loss. Okay, so that's the cover So what is the news that comes out yesterday? He is about to become the first city to ban the printing of 3d guns It might seem crazy but working guns can be made using a 3d printer so the city's in the process of passing a law to prevent guns and parts of a gun from being made by anyone other than licensed

2:14:54 Philadelphia puts this law down which is 130584 and it literally says use of three-dimensional printer to manufacture firearms should be forbidden. Firearm any device design made or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy generated by an explosive or burning substance or any device readily convertible to that use so it will be a restriction on use no person

2:15:30 shall use a three-dimensional printer to create any firearm or any piece or part thereof unless such person possesses a license to manufacture a firearm. So this is, you know, how are you going to enforce that? But more importantly, why? Why Philadelphia? And this is proof of my original theory. Remember Cody Wilson, who now has pretty much gone away from the 3D printed gun scene and is now selling a Bitcoin wallet. that's his new thing, because he's a whore for whoever pays him to do stuff. He only needed to bring this up to the forefront so we could all be afraid of 3D printed guns to restrict these printers. Why in Philadelphia? Because it is in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania one of the three locations for the Department of Energy and Department of Defense's additive

2:16:28 manufacturing centers. You remember the president talked about 3d printers and how exciting they will be in his State of the Union. We played all those clips for you when we first came up with the idea that this is about restricting 3d printers. And so there's a lot of money involved. There's multiple universities in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a major hub. In fact, I have an article here, Pennsylvania to play a major role in 3D printing explosion. So we need to limit the slaves access to this technology. And if you look at what's happening now, GE in the next five years, they will be producing aviation parts with this technology.

2:17:11 with additive manufacturing and I have a couple of links in the show notes. So if you look at Rapid 2014, well Rapid 2013 was the main additive manufacturing conference which was just held in Pittsburgh The next one is in 2014, will be held in Detroit, so I fully expect Detroit to be next on the list with all kinds of banning of 3D printed guns. But, we have this in the book. Mark my words, there's going to be licenses and restrictions and maybe a test for you to have a 3D printer, and this is because the big business doesn't want you to have this technology.

2:17:57 And it's all under the guise of, oh, you're going to print something scary. So what will it be next? What will the next scary thing be that you can print that there's going to be some restriction on? A hand grenade? No, it'll be something. It'll be, you know, it's coming. So, of course, these printers you can buy now, most of them are kind of for entertainment purposes, I think. Oh, they're junk. Yeah. But it is eventually going to be something really cool, but you're just not going to be allowed to have it unless people start getting in, you know, I think that this is a bad law.

2:18:42 Everyone thinks, oh of course, but if you can get one law pushed through that restricts using something for a certain purpose, which you don't need because there's all kinds of laws about manufacturing things and how many and for what use. You don't need an extra law to forbid the printing of gun parts. What, I'm gonna have the the Stasi knocking on my door to come and check and see if I don't have a lower receiver I printed? Yeah, no, it's something... I think that... I don't know if you've hit this one, but there's something screwy about this. I'm telling you, John, it's to outlaw this technology. Well, I'm not buying into this at all. Okay, well, it'll take some time, but you... This has been my theory, and now all of a sudden Philadelphia, one of the three major hubs of 3D printing? Coincidence is rather large. Mmm... I guess. I was stunned by a piece of news today.

CHAPTER 27 / 34 Discussion

ABC News Edward R. Murrow Awards and Entry Fees

ABC News and Diane Sawyer received multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, which the hosts dismiss as "pay-to-play" accolades. They reveal that the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA) charges significant entry fees, particularly for website categories, suggesting the awards lack journalistic integrity.

abc news· diane sawyer· edward r. murrow award· rtnda· journalism awards

2:19:45 uh... ABC News wins awards. ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, honored. Winner of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. ABC News, honored with five Murrow Awards. No wonder more Americans choose ABC News. Wasn't that the World News tonight that did the dog and the puppy story? Yeah. I think... No, I could do that. I could record world news tonight with Diane Sawyer every night and there's no world news in any of the stories. And it's always her, you know, breathlessly talking about something on Twitter. How does she win anything? Or this broadcast, it's won five or six... Obviously the Edward R. Murrow award is a piece of crap. Who distributes this award? I know Edward R. Murrow was out of CBS. CBS, right.

2:20:39 Some group, but yeah, but CBS isn't given ABC award. Is this the Protection of Journalism Awards? No, no. RTDNA. What is this? RTDNA.org. Here's Edward R. Murrow Award. Of course for this we just have to... Oh, there's several. They give it to the newscasts, not the person. She doesn't get the award, but their show does. You know, outstanding achievements in electronic journalism since 1971. Yeah, but who's... It's the Radio Television Digital News Association. They dropped digital in only recently. Wow. It's like the Webby's. Check here for rules and entry requirements. And so then they down... you download this huge... or not huge, it's PDF. Yeah. Which is... I'm gonna see what this is. I'll bet you it's one of those things you have to pay. Oh yeah. Oh, no doubt.

2:21:40 You don't have to pay for everything. They all have to pay, don't they? Ultimately, one way or the other. No, there's awards, legitimate awards. You don't pay necessarily to get an Emmy. You have to be a member. A member of the Academy, sure you do. Which is expensive. Yeah, you've got to be a member. I'll look into this. Yeah. Well, it's award season, you know. It's time. It's time. We've got to start doing stuff like that. Wait a minute. Website, who's eligible to enter this category? What do I need to enter? Five examples of functioning, cached or active URLs that demonstrate the exceptional news coverage in journal of the Dvorak Uncensored. Perfect. How about the show notes? We can send them... The show notes are stunning. We should enter the show notes. 569 links to stuff. Nuts. Not seeing that there's a fee here.

2:22:36 February 7, 2014 to get it together we can get it. Well let me... Oh, oh, oh, oh, entry fees. Oh, how much? Website, oh listen to this, if you're a radio station and you're non-member, or a member is high but if say you're a non-member, if your radio has cost you $120 to enter, if you're a TV it costs you $200 to enter. So what do you think a website should cost? Uh, five dollars? Two hundred and forty-five dollars. It costs more than a television station. Oh, that's funny. So the website's the most expensive. They don't want anybody that could possibly have a quality product entering this competition. The Edward R. Murrow Awards. When you hear about anyone winning them, it's another one of these things where you gotta pay to be eligible. This is bullcrap.

CHAPTER 28 / 34 Discussion

Sandy Hook Final Report and Inconclusive Ballistics

The final report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was released, containing a footnote (53) that states no positive identification could be made between the bullet evidence and the Bushmaster rifle due to damaged and corroded jackets. The hosts highlight this discrepancy, noting that the mainstream media has ignored the inconclusive ballistics data.

sandy hook· adam lanza· ballistics· bushmaster· connecticut· final report

2:23:33 and there you have it. I did some journalistic work and I think I came up with something that is a smoking gun like. It was not easy by the way, a lot of work that went into this and here's the clip. We're just learning that a judge has now ordered the release of 911 calls from the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. This just one day after a report revealed chilling new details of a shooter and images from that horrific day. It's all raising larger concerns about mental health in this country and whether it's in crisis Our Brian Todd is working on this part of the story. Brian, what are you finding out? Well Jim, experts are telling us they have no doubt that mental health in the U.S. is in crisis. They say that crisis is manifesting itself in rampage killings, other horrific incidents like the Newtown shootings. A new report, which includes some jarring photographs, addresses the mental health of shooter Adam Lanza.

2:24:25 The shot out windows of the entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Bushmaster rifle used to kill 20 children and 6 adults. Newly released bone chilling images of the crime scene in the Newtown shootings from Connecticut State investigators. Black plastic bags taped over the windows of his bedroom mirror the dark mind of shooter Adam Lanza. Just off his computer room, there's a gun locker, a gun still perched inside. The new report says Lanza did a spreadsheet on other mass murders, kept a newspaper clipping from an 1891 school shooting. Adam Lanza is sort of a black box in which we see the crash.

2:25:03 But we don't really know what happened that led to the crash. The report says Lanza had significant mental health issues, but the professionals who saw him did not see anything that would have predicted his future behavior. What may happen is that if you cannot definitively say that that patient is a danger to themselves or others or property, then and you don't turn them over to the police. This is a tale of two families and their struggles with mental health. Now pay attention to this because this is where we see the narrative morphing towards what it really is all about. Not about guns, but it's a war on crazy and so they take all of a sudden it's a story about two families, completely unrelated story, but it's all about health care,

2:25:51 How you take care of someone, how you, if they're crazy, what constitutes as crazy and be careful because you don't want to be labeled as crazy. A family whose efforts to get treatment for their son are unclear and the family of Virginia State Senator Cree Deeds. Their son Austin was evaluated for mental illness. He was released from a hospital a day before he repeatedly stabbed his father and then killed himself. released because according to the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board in Virginia, there were no psychiatric beds available. CNN later learned at least three hospitals in the state had beds. Now this is a very disgusting way of reporting. It's really, really not okay what they're doing, particularly in light of all of this so-called documentation that came out regarding Adam Lanza and

2:26:38 and the so-called Sandy Hook shooting. So there's two documents or two PDFs, and I have both of them in the show notes. And one is the final report, which most people are referring to, and the other is the compressed PDF with all of the pictures, the chilling pictures, which consists of nothing. First of all, you have to, you cannot open this compressed PDF unless you are using the Adobe Reader product. The Adobe Reader product is, which I did install in order to open the archive, is a piece of spying crap.

2:27:20 Which I in the show notes have also put section 7 of the terms of service which you have to agree to to use the product regarding connectivity and privacy which you pretty much don't have because this thing talks back to home base about what you're reading, how you're reading. It can pass passwords, usernames, all kinds of stuff so it's a spyware. The pictures they have in this, the ones you've seen on television, is pretty much what it is. There's a picture of a shot out pane of glass at the front of the school and then they show examples of doorknobs. They don't show the actual doorknobs. It even says in the document, example of a store a doorknob to a classroom, you know, classroom 8.

2:28:07 It's not even the real picture, it's just an example. So there's nothing. There's not a single picture in there of anything that shows that anything happened. Not even a picture of blood. Nothing, nothing, nothing. But what I found in the notes of this final report, very interesting, footnote 53 regarding the Bushmaster. This is the I'll read you what it says and then I'll read you the footnote that's referred to it. This is really all I need to say and then you'll know what's going on. Bushmaster Model XM15-E2S Semi-Automatic Rifle. The Bushmaster rifle is found in Classroom 10. The Bushmaster was tested and found to be operable without malfunction. All of the 5.56mm shell casings from Sandy Hook Elementary School that were tested were found to have been fired from this rifle. All of the bullets and fragments recovered from SHES and the OCME that were tested, with the exception of those mentioned immediately below, are consistent with having been fired from the Bushmaster rifle. Footnote 53. Footnote 53.

2:29:07 No positive identification could be made to any of the bullet evidence submissions noted. Let me repeat that. No positive identification could be made to any of the bullet evidence submissions noted. In 5.56mm caliber, the physical condition of the bullet jacket surfaces were severely damaged and corroded. They all lacked individual striated marks of sufficient agreement for identification purposes. The test fires also exhibited a lack of individual striated marks on the bullet surface for comparison purposes. This condition can be caused by fouling in the barrel, the rifle, etc. So, just so you know, no positive identification could be made to any of the bullet evidence submission noted. That's funny, I didn't hear anyone mention that. Other testing.

CHAPTER 29 / 34 Discussion

DNA Evidence Discrepancies and Sandy Hook School Demolition

The hosts discuss the discovery of victim DNA on weapons found outside the school and in the shooter's car, which investigators attributed to "accidental transference." They criticize the heavy redaction of the police timeline and the total demolition of the school building, arguing that these actions hinder public transparency and the investigation of potential child abuse in the community.

dna evidence· sandy hook· newtown· redaction· transparency· school demolition

2:30:00 In the course of the investigation swabbing to test for DNA were taken from various pieces of evidence in the case both at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Uganda Street, Yogananda Street. The purpose was to determine if anyone else had actively been involved in the planning or carrying shooting of the shootings. These swab were tested and compared to known samples. Two of the items examined from outside the building of Sandy Hook's Elementary School, one from the shotgun in the shooter's car, We saw that in the trunk, which was handled by the police officers. And a second from 36 Yogananda Street yielded DNA profiles consistent with the DNA profiles of two of the victims killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. One in each. It is strongly believed that this resulted from an accidental transference as a result of the unique circumstances of this case.

2:30:53 There's no reason to believe that either victim would ever have come in contact with these items. Yet, their DNA is on them. This stinks. We have DNA evidence of victims on weapons found outside the school, and we have inconclusive ballistics on any of the bullets fired. And they're all corroded for some reason. This is And yeah, and so there's tons of stuff in here that isn't discussed. I mean the things, the items that I find interesting that were found in Adam Lanza's room are documents about child abuse, how to live with child abuse. You know, this, who knows what may, you know, who knows what may have been going on at this school or in this community and what this kid was really doing. You know, there's a, remember, was it Dumblaine? Where the,

2:31:47 The Boomtown Rats song, I don't like Monday's, I think it was Dumb Lane. Where the now years later the story comes out that there was child abuse going on at this school and you know the guy went in he said he'd rather kill the children and put them out of their misery than be abused by whatever pedo bear ring was was in this community. This is an angle that that I don't have time for. But it should be looked into. Well, you know, you have to wonder why the school had that weird lockdown, prison-like quality. Because it had a locked door in the front, you couldn't just wander in like normal schools. If you're a parent, you can just go in. Is that to lock people out or to lock people in? You've always got to question that. Well, there you go. It could be either way, probably both.

2:32:34 And then you tear the school down completely because were there... Yeah, it's gone. It's gone. What was in there? Were there... If you're gonna bring it going to the direction you're headed here, were there some kind of chains and things where they hang the kids from your arms or... Who knows? Who knows? There could have been a bunch of dungeons in there for all you know. Which is, you know, look at the Isle of Jersey. at the hospice there. I mean, this really happens, people. Yeah, it does happen. And then you had that odd situation where the kids formed a ring in front of some guy's house and they were just sitting there chanting or something and we don't even know what that was all about. And then there's the... This whole story, I think you hit it nail on the head. This story stinks. And so another thing you can't do with the compressed report is you can't

2:33:28 do markups, unless I guess you buy some other tool from Adobe. So I made a couple snapshots. Everything, by the way, is redacted. It's really... Useless is the word you're looking for. It's pretty useless. Here it is. Example classroom restroom door lock exterior, but it's not the door lock. It's examples, which is done at like Home Depot. Then, you know, the, you know, where is Ryan Lanza? Is he, are he and Adam Lanza the same person? There's so many open questions, so many. And, you know, I think I've given, there's a lot of markups in the documents, but there's also, you know, as you pointed out, the tearing down of the school. And then there's the lawyer, Monty Frank,

2:34:30 This is, he's a lawyer for the Newtown Victims Association, I believe. None of these so-called foundations, I can't find them in GuideStar. I can't find their 5013C status. Maybe they had never filed, maybe they'd be late for the 2012 filing by now, but okay, I just can't find it. Yeah, I would be concerned about that, and I also understand that there are some efforts in the journalism community to try to release the rest of the information in the interest of public attention. Yeah, because we're missing some vital points. We're missing the police timeline. We're missing... Why would you redact the timeline? Well, because there's something to hide. To be brought to everything that happened. Do you see that as being an effective tool? Is that something that the general public really should know, the full scope of the investigation?

2:35:25 Well, isn't this the most transparent administration in history? I don't think so. There needs to be a balance between First Amendment rights, people's curiosity. and the rights of the community. Is it really all that important that the details of what occurred at the school come out? Yes. When it's only going to serve to, again, hinder the healing process in the town, cause people in the town to have to block out media. Today we had media trucks and helicopters hovering in town, and that only serves as a reminder of what occurred.

2:36:05 back in December. Yeah, I think it's very important that we know exactly what happened, particularly if you listen to Dr. Drew. Now this is not Dr. Drew on HLN, this is Dr. Drew on Love Lines or I think maybe the podcast, I don't know because he's dropping f-bombs and stuff. Dr. Drew is the spokeshole now for the war on crazy and he wants to, I think he essentially wants HIPAA to be amended or struck down so that a doctor who feels that you know you may be a danger for whatever reason you know that you can just basically be committed by well by Dr. Drew both that guy at Virginia Tech and the kid in Aurora Colorado and just about and the kid in Connecticut all had psychiatrists worsening mental health who couldn't fucking do their job because their rights and privileges couldn't be infringed upon you understand yes you understand my reason oh so this is interesting dr. Drew's angry about people having rights alright so here's what happened he was

CHAPTER 30 / 34 Discussion

Dr. Drew and the "War on Crazy" Mental Health Rights

Dr. Drew Pinsky is criticized for his public comments suggesting that HIPAA laws and patient rights should be curtailed to allow for the involuntary commitment and forced medication of the mentally ill. The hosts frame this as a "war on crazy" that threatens individual freedoms under the guise of preventing rampage killings.

dr. drew· mental health· hipaa· psychiatric illness· civil rights· medication

2:35:25 Well, isn't this the most transparent administration in history? I don't think so. There needs to be a balance between First Amendment rights, people's curiosity. and the rights of the community. Is it really all that important that the details of what occurred at the school come out? Yes. When it's only going to serve to, again, hinder the healing process in the town, cause people in the town to have to block out media. Today we had media trucks and helicopters hovering in town, and that only serves as a reminder of what occurred.

2:36:05 back in December. Yeah, I think it's very important that we know exactly what happened, particularly if you listen to Dr. Drew. Now this is not Dr. Drew on HLN, this is Dr. Drew on Love Lines or I think maybe the podcast, I don't know because he's dropping f-bombs and stuff. Dr. Drew is the spokeshole now for the war on crazy and he wants to, I think he essentially wants HIPAA to be amended or struck down so that a doctor who feels that you know you may be a danger for whatever reason you know that you can just basically be committed by well by Dr. Drew both that guy at Virginia Tech and the kid in Aurora Colorado and just about and the kid in Connecticut all had psychiatrists worsening mental health who couldn't fucking do their job because their rights and privileges couldn't be infringed upon you understand yes you understand my reason oh so this is interesting dr. Drew's angry about people having rights alright so here's what happened he was

2:37:08 on a held hold psychotic in a hospital released on a bunch of meds prozac one of them was allowed to return to school was mandated to follow up nobody checked so here's the deal the school should be held accountable like hey You have a chronic severe psychiatric illness which impairs you and endangers your safety and the communities in order to enroll at this school We need weekly to be able to see you're taking your meds or at least monthly sure else you're not enrolled here. There's nothing Can't infringe on those freedoms. Nice So so we need dr. Drew was saying that you know, of course we have 20% of all the kids on drugs We have the school has to check

2:37:50 The training facility will check to make sure you took your meds, which is exactly what they do in jail. And he's complaining. That people have rights that don't allow this to happen. Well if you remember, that's the fight I got into with Jon Favreau that gave me that panic attack back in Dublin. He was talking to a guy like your brother and he goes, don't let anybody tell you you should take meds. And I was like, whoa, hold on. You are endangering, I can't allow you to say that. And we cut each other's face over it. Really? Yeah, because it really got me. It's like you are endangering somebody's life. I was like, who the fuck are you? There it is, Dr. Drew.

CHAPTER 31 / 34 Discussion

Democracy Now Report on Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofits

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reports on "Spooky Business," a study detailing how corporations like Monsanto, Walmart, and Dow Chemical hire former CIA and NSA agents to spy on nonprofit groups. The espionage tactics include dumpster diving, infiltration by fake volunteers, and electronic surveillance of environmental and social justice organizations.

amy goodman· democracy now· corporate espionage· greenpeace· monsanto· nsa

2:38:25 Wants to drug you make sure you're taking the drugs and lock you up. It's got well there you go there You have it this guy's a danger to society that guys the guys should be locked up apparently yeah There's a couple interesting reports showed up on Democracy now I thought was interesting. There's a of course. This is like one of those watch that I can't watch it I not only can watch it but the clip I took I left in a little bit of the music so you could listen to Amy back announce it. Oh she's back announced? Where is Amy today? So here's what the thing is, this is like one of these, oh some lawyers are crooked, oh milk goes bad if you leave it out kind of stories. But it's still, this is Corporate Espionage Part 1.

2:39:23 Mikhail Paskalev, I spy. This is Democracy Now! I spy! This is great! She's really good at that. Let me just play that again. That was good. I'm glad you did that. That's very nice. Hi everybody! It's E-100 with Amy Goodman. I spy! Mikhail Paskalev, I spy. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman as we turn to... She does that well too. This is Democracy, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. Hey everybody, it's 1.44 in the afternoon. I have a clip, I don't have it on this show, but I have a clip of her prattling off the end, at the end being really late, but still having to announce some people's names. Yeah. She is a world beater in terms of

2:40:11 Fast talker. She should do a like a time and temperature check at this. Hey everybody, Democracy Now, democracy now.org, War and Peace Report, 145 at 35 degrees here in Washington DC. I'm Amy Goodman. Democracy Now, democracy now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman as we turn to a new report detailing how corporations are increasingly spying on non-profit groups that they regard as potential threats. The report is called Spooky Business, Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations. It was released by the corporate watch group Essential Information. The report found a diverse group of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental, anti-war, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups.

2:40:55 Corporations carrying out the spying include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Walmart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald's, Shell, BP, and others. According to the report, these corporations employ former CIA, NSA, and FBI agents to engage in private surveillance work, which is often illegal in nature but rarely, if ever, prosecuted. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Mr. Dvorak, I think without a doubt... Not even close to being a good clip. It's a great clip! What are you talking about? It solidifies the theory completely. That the NSA is just spying for country espionage. Right, they're on... right. Or, well, blackmail too.

2:41:50 There was a heck some clip that was about blackmail that was... What's this number two? This is a long one. The number two is the guy, this is the guy, well it's long because this this hummer who's more of an uh uh uh uh I mean I'll ring the bell a few times but it's just like it's out of control is the guy who's partly responsible for doing the report I think his byline's on it. Do we want to, it's long, do we want to listen to it? Before we go to California where we're joined by the reports author Gary Ruskin. He's the director of the Center for Corporate Policy, a project of essential information. Gary, welcome back to Democracy Now! Explain what you found.

2:42:28 Thanks for having me on the show again, Amy. Yeah, we found a tremendous diversity of corporate espionage being conducted against a wide variety of civic groups across the country in the UK, a case in Ecuador and in France as well. So what we found was a tremendous variety of use of different types of espionage tactics, from dumpster diving to hiring investigators to pose as journalists or volunteers to electronic espionage, information warfare, information operations, hacking, electronic surveillance. And so this appears to be one

2:43:07 growing phenomenon, both here in the United States and maybe in other parts of the world as well. But our report is an effort to document something that it's very hard to know very much about. We aggregated 30 different cases of corporate espionage to try to talk about them, but really each of the cases we have very fragmentary information. And so it's hard to say what we have is a part of the iceberg, whether it's the tip of the iceberg or the tippy tip of the iceberg, we don't really know. Gary, let's go to 2000. Yeah, really, Gary, you're boring me. Greenpeace files a federal lawsuit against Dow Chemical and Sassol North America for engaging in corporate espionage. The lawsuit alleged corporate spies stole thousands of confidential documents from Greenpeace, including campaign plans, employee records, phone records, donor and media lists. Democracy Now! spoke to Charlie Cray, the senior researcher with Greenpeace USA at the time. He explained what happened.

2:44:01 KBI, the defunct private investigation firm, hired subcontractors, including off-duty police officers who went through Greenpeace's trash to find useful documents on a regular basis over two years. They did this almost twice a week on average. They also used subcontractors who had colleagues who attempted to infiltrate Greenpeace as volunteers. They cased the Greenpeace office looking for, we don't know what, but probably doing advanced scouting for people who would then intrude upon the property. We found a list of door codes. We found a folder that said wiretap info, which was empty.

2:44:50 Yeah, what's irritating again about this, John, the Center for Corporate Policy, according to their website, non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization, nowhere to be found with their non-profit information. There's no 990 information, there's no nothing, there's no entry. That's annoying. Well, sure that's not essentialinformation.org and they would be under that. Well, then... Essentialinformation.org has been around way too long to not have a 990.

2:45:25 Hold on essential information Well, then they're they're being sketchy at best. Well, listen more this guy and I'll look this up we know this company has subcontracted with a company called net safe, which is a Company that was made of former NSA officials skilled in computer hacking and things like that so we really don't know the full extent of this but what we've seen is incredibly shocking and Our goal is to bring this out into the light of day and to stop it if it's still going on. That was Charlie Cray, senior researcher with Greenpeace USA. Gary Ruskin, if you could respond to that and then go on to talk about Walmart and Up Against the Wall, the non-profit organization. That's good enough, you can kill it. I'm getting tired of it.

CHAPTER 32 / 34 Discussion

NSA Pornography Tracking and the Omidyar-Greenwald Venture

Reports indicate the NSA tracks the online pornography habits of targets to discredit them, a tactic the hosts compare to Glenn Greenwald's own reporting on politicians. They criticize the "privatization" of the Snowden leaks by Greenwald and billionaire Pierre Omidyar, arguing that the slow, redacted release of documents serves commercial interests rather than the public good.

nsa· pornography· glenn greenwald· pierre omidyar· edward snowden· journalism

2:46:13 Essentially way apparently this is a I think you know there I guess the NSA trains people and when they quit the NSA they go off and becomes What do you mean train country? This is all that's going on. It's moonlighting. It's like he's like hey, it's five o'clock. I'm going home What are you doing? It's probably pretty cool moonlighting job. Yeah, good come back to the office and look stuff up. Yeah A lot of police do yeah, absolutely It's Of course we had the news come out that the NSA apparently collected information on porn site activity. Oh yeah, you go to a porn site, you're now in the box. Here's what's interesting. The NSA is in this regard using, what would the term be, using behavioral patterns to discredit them.

2:47:10 is no different than what Glenn Greenwald does on a regular basis to politicians, Republicans specifically. Didn't he write a book even about how two-faced the Republican Party is because the Republicans talk a big game but they have gay sex and man whores and all kinds of crazy shit? It's the same idea. Yeah, that's why there's an attraction Right, but so for him to publish this is you know like oh look at it. You know it's like you do the same thing Yeah, no, that's the joke of it the whole thing's a big farce, and I'm getting really tired of the drips and drives You know the wikiLeaks is even getting in Greenwald's face a little bit about how that if I see one more report that says Edward Snowden who released the documents in the wild to the world I'm gonna puke

2:48:09 These are like big mainstream publications that keep repeating this farce over and over again So the New York Times got a copy of this whole pile Just remember when the Guardian was gonna have the guys come in and bust up the hard disks Yep, they sent a copy of the New York Times for safekeeping, which is what don't go Don should do by the way Yeah, not to the New York Times and I tend to us and so my friend Markov was in New York when the thing was still a secret. I think most people know it's there now. And he was allowed to, apparently everybody was just like a line of reporters that all wanted to look at this thing. So wait a minute, this is the 50,000 or maybe 200,000? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Okay. So he says, one of the reasons this stuff may be leaking out shortly, it's actually a huge document

2:49:03 Big giant database with a really crappy search engine Yeah, which apparently is the only thing you can use to access it because it's all this you know kind of like a binary file or something It's like a big buying a bunch of crap. So it's just like a hash code shit So he says it took him, he got in, he got his moment where he could look some, just do some fool around, look at the document. I said, and of course what did I say? What did you find out? There must have been some cool stuff in there. He says it took him six hours to find one thing that wasn't even interesting. He says he could not find anything. The thing was it's a fiasco. Interesting, now do you think that this is what

2:49:50 Maybe that's just what the times was given and that that there is individual copies available on the in the Berlin cabal of my thinking yeah, he didn't have a theory but my thinking would be the following which is that it had it's a you you get the pile of crap with the search engine right and then you are given a series of Specific codes to type in which will take you to specific documents that you can then ah Well, if that would make sense because there's no you'd have a key. Yeah, there's no way That Glenn Greenwald would let the New York Times have that or anybody because that's how he's going to become rich That's how that's what his movie is gonna be based on his book. That's why PO Pierre Omnidar is putting money into it because it's monetization. I

2:50:38 Yeah, my thinking was that the document the Times had is the document with the search engine, but no code So Reuters which means you could get it back if the rest of them were destroyed and you could still find your stuff because you had the keys Reuters has this to say British and US intelligence officials say they are worried about a quote doomsday cache of highly classified heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud and The cache contains documents generated by the NSA and other agencies, includes names of U.S. and allied intelligence personnel, seven current and former U.S. officials, and other sources briefed on the matter said. Of course, you know, these days you don't have anyone, no one talks publicly. There's, it's always sources.

2:51:22 The data is protected with sophisticated encryption and multiple passwords are needed to open it. Say two of the sources who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity, anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. The passwords are in the possession of at least three different people and are valid for only a brief time window each day. A lot of information here for something that is, you know, that no one can talk about. Yeah, but it does give you some indication of the way it's established. This is like You have all this stuff, but it's like it's useless. I mean, it's a...

2:52:00 It's just generally useless, but you with your keys or codes that can get to the specific places probably can make it useful. This is like, you know, taking an encrypted hard disk and just taking the data off. It's useless. But you know, I don't like this. I really don't. I don't either. The whole thing is fishy. Well, it's not just fishy. It's wrong. There's information that is available and is being kept. Because what? I'm not smart enough to read through a document? I beg to differ. I think I am smart enough to dig through something and to understand the opinions. No, you can only look at slide 57. Yeah, so who died and made these guys god that they can only... that they're the only... and by the way, why isn't the government killing them? That's obvious. It's all one game. They're all on the same team. If Glenn Greenwald really... I mean, we kill people for nothing.

2:52:56 We drone people because they have a signature of a terrorist and we're not gonna kill Glenn Greenwald who holds the secret to all of our national security. Please. Yeah, I know it doesn't make any sense at all. His book was Great American Hypocrites, by the way, toppling the big myths of Republican politics. Where he does the same as what the NSA was doing, purportedly was doing with the terrorists. But yeah, so I would like to know if my porn habits are being tracked. Sure. And I'd like, yeah, okay, it's easy to say yes. But I don't want Glenn Greenwald or Pierre Omnidar or anyone to be in charge of it. And anyone who joins that organization as a true journalist should be ashamed of themselves.

2:53:40 But you're all whacking off in your circle jerk about how cool it is and how much money you're gonna make. You're sad. A lot of money from Omidar. Sad and pathetic. That article on Omidar, by the way, which I read after the last show and put a link to it in the last newsletter, is great. There's another one because these guys... Coincidence, by the way, they run that article on Omidar and the next thing you know that thing is shuttered. You think that's a coincidence? Yeah, but now they're a part of Get This Pando Daily, which is insane because Pando Daily to me is a big joke but now they're published the same people published another article keeping secrets hold on a second which is really quite damning I'll give you the title it's the same guy from over at NSFW Corp Mark Ames keeping secrets Pierre Omidyar Glenn Grewald and the private privatization of Snowden's leaks it's a good article

2:54:38 Definitely something to look at. And it kind of goes into, you know, how other whistleblowers really let all the documents out. You know, they really... Daniel Ellsberg, you know, the documents were available and this is just not the case. And everything that comes out is one page, it's redacted. I mean, come on! When will people see this for what it is? Maybe never, whatever. We'll see it and whatever comes out will continue to continue to bitch and moan That apparently is what is to be an M show Bitch and moan everybody no, but I like doing it. I like I like Going through documents. I mean did no one on mainstream News media will tell you that there's inconclusive evidence on the Sandy Hook ballistics report completely inconclusive on all ballistics Yeah, that's unbelievable. Hello

CHAPTER 33 / 34 Discussion

China Air Defense Zone and U.S. B-52 Overflights

China recently declared an expanded air defense identification zone over disputed islands in the East China Sea. In response, the U.S. flew two B-52 bombers through the zone without notifying Beijing. The hosts question who is truly provoking regional tensions given the presence of U.S. aircraft carriers in the area.

china· senkaku islands· b-52· air defense zone· joe biden· japan

2:55:36 So, another thing that got my attention, I want to get it out of the way, is the... The Chinese came out with, did you hear this story? About the Chinese extending their rights to defend their territory past those stupid islands off of the Japanese. They drew a line on Google Maps and said, don't cross it! And then we flew across it. Yeah, but what cracks me up, listen to this report, I think this was on VanCat, and this is, we flew two B-52s, I didn't even know we flew those anymore, but we had a couple of them. over the area were supposed to check in and we decided not to just to see what would happen and there's a little ironic twist to this. His concerns to Beijing. The US vice president will confront Chinese leaders next week about their decision to expand the country's air defense zone.

2:56:23 to include two disputed islands in the East China Sea. The visit to China creates an opportunity to convey our concerns directly and to seek clarity regarding the Chinese intentions in making this move at this time. The so-called Senkaku Islands are controlled by Japan but are also claimed by China and Taiwan. Under China's new rules, aircraft have to provide a flight plan when passing through the zone or face defensive measures. The US says it still regards the area as international airspace And, as if to prove the point, on Tuesday it flew two B-52 bombers into the zone without alerting the Chinese. It accuses Beijing of trying to provoke an escalation in regional tensions. Okay, what's your take? Accuses the Chinese of trying to provoke. And we fly two B-52s over these islands. To be fair, the flight was scheduled many, many weeks ago. This is a pre-scheduled flight.

2:57:19 You don't think it would have anything to do with the fact that we have the world's largest aircraft carrier in the Sea of China. I mean, come on, we're being dicks. I'm just saying who's provoking who? Yeah, well, we're being dicks. Apparently. Yeah, we got our aircraft carrier there helping the Filipinos. Oh, that fell off the radar. Yeah, well, and then finally there's this thing going on, you know, the Scots, they're trying to separate themselves, by the way, and this is gonna fail. Yeah, but the thinking is, well, they have a referendum if they want to separate from the United Kingdom, and if they do, the thinking is... Well, they want to be a separate country. Well, company is right, because they have a lot of oil.

CHAPTER 34 / 34 Discussion

Scottish Independence Referendum and Show Sign-off

The hosts discuss the upcoming Scottish independence referendum, noting the irony that the "blueprint" for independence involves keeping the British pound and Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Adam Curry promotes his new "Daily Source Code" project on BitTorrent Sync before the hosts sign off for the Thanksgiving holiday.

scotland· independence· david cameron· british pound· queen elizabeth ii· bittorrent sync

2:58:04 and they won it for themselves. The Scottish government's revealed its blueprint for independence from the United Kingdom. Despite pledging to forge its own prosperity, the document suggests keeping the British pound and the Queen of a referendum due to be held next September. What is he, like, keeping the Queen? They're gonna keep the Queen! And the British pound! They'd take her to Scotland. Just like Canada, they think they're Canadians. They also kept the Queen. Yes, the Canadians still kept it clean. It comes over about once a week. Hey, that sounds like you on that little Obama tone thing you've got.

2:58:44 A symbolic stone marks the point where Scotland meets England. But could it soon become the border between two separate states? A new constitution would be written with the Queen kept as head of state. Also proposed a new Scottish defence force of 15,000, the removal of Trident nuclear weapons currently kept on the River Clyde and a new Scottish broadcasting service in place of the BBC. Causing the most controversy currency. The document says Scotland would keep the pound but London said this won't necessarily be possible. UK Prime Minister David Cameron's firmly behind the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence.

2:59:24 Its head, MP Alistair Darling, blasted the document as a work of fiction. It's a fantasy to say we can leave the UK but still keep all the benefits of UK membership. Instead of a credible and costed plan, we have a wish list of political promises. According to latest polls, some 38% plan to vote yes, while 47% would vote no. But they still have 10 months to make up their minds. Alright, well it's not going to happen. I think you're right, it's going to fail. Yeah, it's a dead end. I'm gonna do that. Okay. Yeah, can I just say something? Yeah, we're a little over time here. Yeah, I think it's time to kill the show. Let's kill something.

3:00:06 I got to like shave and get dressed. I got to post-produce everything. Oh, you got a big dinner tonight. I have to cook a big dinner. It's actually starting now at two o'clock our time. What kind of thing is that sort of? Well, I think they also there's a big football game and they want to go to the game. It's UT against something or other. Oh yeah, yeah. Dallas is playing Oakland or something like that. Oakland's playing... No, no, no. It's UT against... Whatever it is, we're for... Go UT! There's a college game you're saying. I think so, yeah. That's weird on Thursday, but it happens. Look, I'm just going for the cowboys and trannies. That's what I've been promised. I'm coming to collect. And I have released a new daily source code. You can find that only on BitTorrent Sync. Go to dsc.curry.com for more information.

3:00:57 As part of my becoming a Bitcoin millionaire before you're... As part of your Mickey being gone. Exactly. God, I'm so bored without Mick. I think I'm gonna have to do something else. I'm gonna do a daily source code. Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 and proud of it. In the morning, I'm Adam Curry. And from FEMA Region 9, if I'm not mistaken, Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on... Sunday, right here on NO Agenda.