Episode 631 · Friday, 4 July 2014

Micro Propaganda

Digital giants manipulate user emotions through secret experiments while the highest court in the land redefines corporate personhood and religious freedom in a landmark ruling.

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About this episode

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg issued a public apology following revelations that the social media giant conducted psychological experiments on users to manipulate emotional states. The controversy highlights a broader trend of algorithmic priming where platforms and political figures, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, utilize visual cues and text-heavy placards to influence public perception. These tactics often rely on cognitive pre-programming to bypass critical thinking in the digital age.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, allowing closely held corporations to opt out of contraceptive mandates based on religious objections. While DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards characterized the decision as a war on women, legal analysis confirms insurance companies will bear the costs, resulting in zero loss of coverage for employees. Meanwhile, the Islamic State rebranded under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Kurdish oil exports began via Turkey, and the U.S. fined French bank BNP Paribas $8.9 billion in a move linked to Russian warship sales.

U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard earned the nickname Secretary of Defense while raising awareness for Tourette Syndrome following a record-breaking World Cup performance. The episode features a formal knighting ceremony for Nicholas Principe and Simon Bennett, alongside a de-douching ritual for Michael Andrews. Executive producers Ramsey Cain and Stephen Fettig also detailed plans for distributing thousands of No Agenda CDs at the upcoming Def Con 22 convention in Las Vegas.


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CHAPTER 01 / 28 Discussion

Facebook Psychological Manipulation, Social Media Experimentation

Facebook faced public backlash following reports of a psychological experiment conducted on users' newsfeeds to manipulate emotional states. Sheryl Sandberg issued a public apology, though critics argue that such algorithmic manipulation is a standard practice for advertising and engagement. The discussion highlights how mainstream media and social platforms consistently use emotional triggers to influence consumer behavior.

facebook· sheryl sandberg· psychological manipulation· newsfeed· algorithms· micro-propaganda

00:00 Islamic State, that would work! Exactly. Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak It's Thursday July 3rd 2014 time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 631 This is no agenda. I am but not cooperative here in FEMA region six in the Travis Heights hideout at the capital of their own star state in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where it's muggy I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill In the morning Why do I... What? Why do i feel obliged to give the weather report. Well, we do Weather and Traffic on the 8s! On the eights?! Haha, on the eights every s- And it's actually 908 Yeah you can set your clock by it Weather and Traffic on the Eights everybody Well John, we have a unique opportunity here Okay...? Yep, we have a unique opportunity And I'm a little dismayed that people didn't see the opportunity but I think we need to give our producers and listeners the tools

01:01 They need. Because, um... and you actually wrote a pretty decent article about this. Yeah I know surprising eh? The Facebook psychological manipulation. Oh Facebook! Sheryl Sandberg's behind it Let me uh so while people are running around saying the military industrial complex financed it they're trying to trick us People This is and this is actually this isn't good moment because this is where you can hit people in the mouth who say Wow, I can't believe Facebook manipulated my emotions. This was really an outrage um This is And what voice was that? That's the dumb guy voice wow I can't believe that Facebook wasn't manipulating manipulating my emotions in my newsfeed

01:57 I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. You're winning sir! Oh thank you very much This is what the mainstream media does all the... it's their mission in life this is what he does mainly to sell you stuff and this is a perfect opportunity to tell people Really? You think that this is not happening all the time in newspapers and television and radio, that your mood is not being manipulated so that right at the moment where boy meets girl or mother's about to die we stop for a commercial break. Are you kidding me?! People don't realize this! No... as a matter of fact they don't. It's uh- Wait a minute are YOU

02:47 as naive as they are to actually think what you expressed? What do you mean? Do you think that people are aware of the or could even possibly be aware of all this. No, this is why I'm saying it's a unique opportunity for people who do understand this or perhaps needed this little nudge of a reminder yeah to say hey um gee you think that Facebook by the way Facebook does 100 experiments a month They manipulate your newsfeed all the time. Oh, sure! They have algorithms that give you only things that are good for you or that you will be most interested in. Okay how about... BULLSHIT! Please? They will manipulate it to sell you stuff any way they can

03:39 So as we discuss this, I just happen to have my Twitter feed open because i retweeted. And here's Carlos Rodela We know him. We know Carlos yeah? And so he is tweeting away Oh no! Facebook is down You know a minute later Current facebook status possible service trouble DownrightNow.com Carlos! Really dude get alive Get alive I thought the funniest thing I read was Cheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook who says we never meant to upset you. No that's exactly what you did! What are you talking about? You actually did try to upset some people. Yeah well the manner of speaking right so but the whole thing is baffling I found it to be a

04:33 It's ludicrous. No, it's baffling! It's baffling that people don't understand... I do have a small issue with your column you say, you know, you mention micro propaganda. I believe propaganda is meant more to create a crowd of people and then you use emotional torque you know, to manipulate people. And I think that's a little different than propaganda. I think the propaganda is to get everyone saying hey man yeah that really sucks and then when everyone knows... What are you criticizing me for? That's specifically why i use the word micro! Yeah no but you call this micro-propaganda or you oh okay I see what you're saying so it's a subset of propaganda okay all right now uh I gotcha

05:18 So, people! Unique opportunity. Do not run around and fall into the conspiracy theory trap which is the only thing Facebook can do at this point to focus you away from... I got a kick out of seeing people on news channels going, Wow naughty of Facebook! What? Are you kidding me?! This is the time—I do it once a year—I put in the show notes Go ahead and try out these Zen TV experiment You will like it very much. And that's all I got to say on it Do not fall into the conspiracy theory trap of the government is doing it, the government financed it

06:01 The government finance. The government hires the same PR companies everybody else hires, they already know what they're doing. Exactly! What do you think? That the governments experimenting on public relations tricks? They have a lot of people that work within... I think there's thousands of people in PR within the Defense Department but they don't already know this stuff. Well at the CIA they have an entire division called Was it Project Pundit? Everyone you see who is either former CIA or military, or has a book... they write the books for them! The guys just go out and they're hitting the golf course. They're on the golf course all day, like you got a book out? Oh yes that's right! Time to go! My book just came out. How do we have time to write an 850 page book every year?! Time to hangout with Don Lemon I love it Well i got stopped in my tracks at the checkout line by The Enquirer

CHAPTER 02 / 28 Discussion

Bill Clinton Paternity Rumors, Hillary Clinton Presidential Ambitions

The National Enquirer published a story featuring former aide Larry Nichols claiming Bill Clinton is not the biological father of Chelsea Clinton. Speculation suggests these personal stories may be strategically planted to discourage Hillary Clinton from running for president in 2016. Bill Clinton reportedly expressed concerns for his safety, suggesting his death could potentially serve as a political catalyst for votes.

bill clinton· hillary clinton· chelsea clinton· national enquirer· larry nichols· blood feud

07:05 Oh, you know is this the one that says Chelsea? I'm not Chelsea's dad. Yes. I got the same one! I have it right here. I had to buy it too. A world-exclusive Bill stunning confession. I am NOT Chelsea's real dad But I was a little distracted by Kate Gosling's picture on the front cover. Well, this is you know that I've been thinking about this... She literally has blowjob lips there that's pretty weird. Well whatever the case i was thinking about this it seems to me that your I'm Not Chelsea's Real Dad story would be the cover story not the little teaser at the top right

07:44 Instead of inside who cares about Kate Gosling Inside Kate Goslings house of horrors eight kids living in hell Secret emails are not woman anymore secret emails unmask monster mom Well, you know what it worked. I bought it Well, I didn't buy it because of that. I was actually disappointed because of the cover. It would have actually been a frameable cover if it wasn't for this goss... No but there's a little thing at the top and I saw as I was paying, a little round red dot next to Chelsea's face looking all sad. Former Clinton aide tells all.

08:21 What's gonna be that book promotion again? Well, yeah. Well this is Larry Nichols. Yeah oh okay This is Larry Nichols as the aide The book promotion that you're talking about which is uh Blood Feud Yeah that one Uh dad actually in this in the Clinton or in the Inquirer on I don't know if you noticed it Or are you just hung up on the Gosling thing? I couldn't get past Kate Goslin John Which was the-I think the original story they were going to run before that I think this other one came in late Hillary's deadly health secrets. Yeah, yeah I saw that. She'll die in office if she wins! So first of all...I think i get the red book entry if we just go back for a second here but this happened between shows where Bill Clinton said If I die it is good for two million votes which what I said was he has to kick before the elections

09:17 Well, you're talking about...okay now we're not debating whether who first predicted that Bill's gonna be a target. We're still hung up on the timing of it. We can't find the entry on the timing, is it going to be this year or next year? I believe that this particular... Here's what I'm thinking now, I got new thoughts and I know this is maudlin and some people say oh this is sick these two guys but... Wait wait wait hold on a second! This is very important everybody stand back. I've got information man new shit has come to light Well, it's not news. Anything has come to light but... I just want to play a jingle! I'm rethinking this. I believe it's possible that Clinton planted the story about the- I'm not her real dad or got them to run it

10:11 to get Hillary to not run for president because he knows he's a target. He's trying to protect his life! He doesn't want to...he fears for his life Yeah, so that's why you talked about the two million votes. He's drawing attention to this thesis which we developed the thesis originally And now he's freaked about it. He doesn't need the guys living the life I mean, he's got this...He's got a half-a-billion dollars in the bank. He's scamming the Haitians. He's got hotels everywhere. The guy is private jets. He's having the time of his life! But he doesn't want to get killed so Hillary can become president? So i think this whole thing that just... This is a desperate plea to stay alive Yes

CHAPTER 03 / 28 Discussion

Elizabeth Warren Social Media Strategy, Visual Propaganda

Senator Elizabeth Warren utilized a social media tactic involving text-heavy placards that contained significant grammatical errors, which went largely unnoticed by supporters. This phenomenon is attributed to cognitive pre-programming, where the human brain fills in expected words. Such techniques are identified as tools used by propagandists to manipulate public perception through visual cues and psychological priming.

elizabeth warren· social media· propaganda· placards· cognitive bias· psychological programming

10:57 This brings a lot of interesting angles to the forefront, and I'm going to give this one to you. I see the Obots here in my life...in and around my life have completely swung towards Elizabeth Warren. Now you nailed that early on! I was not a believer And now we have, what's this headline? Hillary Clinton's presidential popularity sliding poll shows. But really where... and this was quite funny in this Hobby Lobby case which I do have a couple things to say about later and this was actually very strange people were reposting you know who i'm talking when I say people yeah the Obots and of course I had to check Facebook just to see

11:50 And Elizabeth Warren, what she does is actually it's a pretty smart social media trick since you're limited on Twitter and too many words are just complicated. Instead of posting words they make up a little banner like a little square placard if you will and it's a quote by Elizabeth Warren. Everybody in the artist and the brain surgeon his wife everybody's reposting this The funny thing is when Mickey read it to me because she discovered it first There is a huge grammatical error in it, which I don't think they've even corrected. But first I'll give you the quote, the way it's supposed to read...

12:54 Elizabeth Warren. Very scary. Oh, it's so scary! The funny thing is... What are we gonna do? I put this in the show notes how it actually reads and remember this is a placard. So they forgot the whole we word It's just not even in there what yeah, it says I cannot believe that We live in a world where would even consider letting some big corporation deny etc. Where would And no one sees this. Everyone's just posting this thing, they didn't even really read it I guess. It's like one of those...I don't know if you've ever seen this? I used to go to more these things than i do nowadays but there was a seminar given by some...there is one of these...I don't know what kind of a seminar this is or so... Swingers Convention?

13:44 No, I have never been to one of those. But it was one of these things and the guy shows he says it was about messaging or something...I can't remember what the theme was but I do remember him throwing up a sign and then he asked how many times there was something in there? And you could never guess it! And you could actually, with the sign up. It's like how many uses of the word are? I don't remember what it is. Somebody will know what this is if they've seen this gimmick before and you count them in the astrology. Oh yes! How many times... Yeah exactly. How many people saw five? How many people saw seven? And then people raised their hands. The thing is right there you can count them and its like nine or something and for some reason you can't count them your brain just won't do it

14:30 There's these moments like that and a lot of us pre programming in the end what we see with this particular thing You're talking about is the pre-programming of the word. In other words your mind expects it to be there exactly So it is there and it puts it there It makes it there and another example of the same guy did at the same speech, which I think was really good I love this one He got half the audience To look at a slide of a rabbit And he got half the audience to look at a slide of something else, like a flower pot or something. And then he had everybody look at the same slide which was kind of a composite rose shark test kind of thing just that kinda... You mean the ink spots? It was like an ink spot. Yeah and then half the audience said rabbit and the other half said... One half said it was a rabbit and the other half said flower pot or whatever with something else. Because you've been pre-programmed to look at that

15:23 And this is used by propagandists and douchebags forever, and it's a part of the culture. It just... Well I think when you show something like that it merely shows how easy it is to manipulate the human brain Yeah no, there was a long-winded explanation but yes its very easy and thats one of things we that people have to realize what we're doing on our show is trying to undo that programming. Or at least, yeah try and help... Reveal it! We can't undo anything. That's-we can't you just cannot do it but you can reveal it so at least your people are aware but yeah Elizabeth Warren. So I'd like to get through this just right off the top because it is important to show how

CHAPTER 04 / 28 Discussion

Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Ruling, Religious Freedom

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that closely held for-profit corporations can opt out of the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate based on religious objections. Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion relied on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Dictionary Act, which defines corporations as "persons." The ruling specifically addressed four types of contraceptives that the owners believed were abortifacients.

supreme court· hobby lobby· affordable care act· contraception· religious freedom restoration act· justice alito

16:17 Are you gonna do the Supreme Court thing? Yeah, I got to. Okay, I have a couple clips that do ancillary to your... You want to do that to lead in and then I can get to the propaganda and the programming and the analysis. Here's the intro to the story which is done on PBS NewsHour and you can play that. Oh, I have a question! Before the PBS NewsHour yesterday had some time they have something called The Nightly Business Review Do you have that in this report? Yeah. Yeah, do you have that at your place too it's a PBS right yeah But it's it's produced entirely by CNBC Yeah It's been bouncing around first it was independent so is it a long time Is this a pop I mean that means by definition. It's not public television programming oh no

17:10 I just sat down early yesterday and I said, wait a minute. This is just CNBC propaganda there's no real analysis here all i get as a bunch of guys saying Just because the market tied doesn't mean you shouldn't invest buy stocks now while stocks last it can still go higher Somebody should pay them money just because they're just boosters Supreme Court overview rap A sharply divided US Supreme Court today ruled that Sharply divided 5 to 4 is just a majority. Some corporations can opt out of the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage mandate because of religious objections, the five-to-four decision comes two years after the Justices upheld the President's health care law and it leaves the Obama administration to look for another way to make sure all women who want it have access to contraceptive care

18:08 As word of the decision spread, cheers erupted outside the court from opponents of the contraceptive coverage mandate. The main takeaway is that our government overreached yet again and our government cannot force individuals to violate their freedom of conscience and their freedom of beliefs On the other side supporters of the mandate voiced disappointment Clearly the court is just out of touch with the will of American people on this birth control is not controversial. It's really not except for a very small extreme religious minority." Two companies successfully challenged the mandate in the Affordable Care Act Hobby Lobby based in Oklahoma is a national craft store chain with more than 600 stores and some 15,000 full-time employees it's owned by an evangelical Christian family. Conestoga Wood a cabinet maker based in Pennsylvania

19:02 by a Mennonite family and has about 950 employees. Both firms argued that having to cover contraception violates their religious beliefs. Excellent I see you have one more. There was one this one woman came in with some some sidetracked analysis that I thought was not enough, if you're going to include any of this because it was most heavily said stuff I never heard so the court did the companies were saying we are being asked to violate our religious beliefs what in handing down this decision? What what does the court base the decision on? Well, Judy, the court starts with the law

19:42 the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. And that act prohibits the government from imposing a substantial burden on a person's exercise of religion unless the government has a compelling interest and uses narrowly, the least restrictive means to further that interest. So Justice Alito who delivered the majority opinion today for 5-4 court started with the language of the law are for-profit corporations, persons under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. He looked to what's known as the Dictionary Act that Congress uses to define certain words and statutes. Persons he said have always included corporations and he noted that nonprofit religious organizations have been allowed to bring lawsuits under this particular law That is a very good analysis it is only part of it though

CHAPTER 05 / 28 Discussion

Political Reactions to Hobby Lobby Decision, War on Women

Democratic leaders and activists, including Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood and Terry O'Neill of NOW, characterized the Hobby Lobby ruling as a "war on women" and a form of gender bigotry. Critics argue the decision is being used as a political mobilization tool for the 2014 midterm elections. Despite the rhetoric, the legal reality ensures that insurance companies, rather than the employers, will bear the cost of providing the contested contraceptives to employees.

cecile richards· planned parenthood· terry o'neill· national organization for women· ruth bader ginsburg· midterm elections

20:35 But that... Take it, maestro. Okay so the analysis is I'll do the analysis at the end because that's kind of funny when you hear what this is really all about but I'm pretty sure that the Democratic Party, the White House administration who are desperate to try...I mean we have an election coming up midterm election. Are very desperate to put the opposite party even though you can have many more in America but the Republicans known as the GOP To make them..put them in a harsh light as possible and this is they could not have had better outcome really

21:12 Because in the end you'll see that it doesn't matter, the women who work at Hobby Lobby will still receive their birth control. And it's important to note here that there is a difference between contraception and birth control... ...and these two terms even in the dictionary are mixed up all of time What the case is about, as this woman pointed out correctly, is a for-profit corporation allowed to have religious freedom. I.e., the government can't force them to do something against their religious beliefs according to the law as a person and the Dictionary Act... And this is what everyone laughed at Mitt Romney about

21:56 Corporations are people. When the law in America says a person, that means corporation of any kind of grouping... your Boy Scout troop is a person by the legal definition in the United States so these things are written into law very specifically it's not an oversight or mistake kind of irrelevant for the propaganda of this case. And some of it was fantastic, so you could really take this any way you want. You could have a war on religion one way or the other way and you could say that left is waging a war on the right. You can say though to the right is waging a war on Obama that he's a heathen It could be a war on women

22:42 all of these things. And what I saw on the news channels kind of ran the gamut So here's Terry O'Neill to kick one off. She is from the National Organization for Women and she added another little bit to it was just, just fantastic in the I believe invasion of human rights of the American public for sure with this terrible propaganda being thrown at them But let's be clear The men who wrote this decision Right there Apparently, there is a difference between Supreme Court justices. If they're men then you know then they're assholes because they have no business writing any laws that have anything to do with women apparently On behalf of the Supreme Court have entered into a war on women They have become a blatantly politically activist anti-woman political organization

23:40 There are some beliefs that are so heinous that government should not respect them, no way. No how. Apartheid in South Africa was justified on religious grounds. The Southern Baptist Convention justified slavery and later Jim Crow and segregation on religious grounds. We don't accept that as a society anymore and we should not accept plain out gender bigotry. Withholding basic health care from women is bigotry, plain and simple we should not accept it no matter how sincerely the belief is held. So there you go...it's racist? Uh, they're Jim Crow laws? War on Root? What are you doing in that pot? It's fantastic. Apartheid? Apartheid! Throw everything in there Wow That is borderline clipping Oh, dude Dude I'm not even gonna roll it out

24:31 Now, just very specifically about this case. Hobby Lobby said they did not want to be forced by the government to pay for insurance coverage that specifically provided for the purchase of four medical treatments—I'll just call it that—that they believe is killing a fertilized egg which they believe is life 16 others, so the pill and condoms and all that. I can't even name 16... RU-486 is one of them Well that's one they don't want You're right Yeah but the 16 others which i can't even name 16 ways of... 16 types of contraception No everything else is okay But okay And so that is the difference between birth control

25:23 Because it controls a birth. It's the correct word! It's very interesting if you look up birth control in the dictionary I looked at four dictionaries online they all say contraception, I think there is a difference Contraception stopping conception is different from birth control But okay and they didn't... now they would still cover The doctor's visit everything except for the actual purchase of that That's all that this is about and the Supreme Court only had to decide on one thing. Can a for-profit company claim this religious freedom right as A nonprofit corporation already can? That's something I like about the lady that you had in your clip who analyzed that, that's all... The only difference if you're a church if you're any type of nonprofit organization On religious grounds you do not have to pay for birth control

26:15 A contraception by itself is not in the discussion. Okay, now we have Amy Goodman, The War and Peace Report, and she's in Bonn Germany of all places... And it's only about the losing party and everything I see posted is a Ruth Ginsburg's dissent. What a great... she wrote it! No one's talking about what the actual opinion was, and why it was voted this way So Amy Goodman has Cecile Richards on She is the daughter of Ann Richards A great-great governor of the state of Texas who was beloved Democrat And she is no longer with us but Cecile is the CEO of Planned Parenthood

27:05 And here she is mixing metaphors of birth control and contraception. For many women in this country, birth control is something that they couldn't afford and in fact more than a third of women say they have struggled to pay for birth control and had to forego it because they needed money for rent or groceries I think Justice Ginsburg really hits it on the head here, which is one of the most effective forms of birth control and IUD. The upfront costs are sometimes prohibitive for women that are making a minimum wage and yet it's a very good form of birth control that is very effective in preventing unintended pregnancy. Unfortunately this decision means that women who work for Hobby Lobby will be unable to have that covered in their insurance plan." Yes, but doesn't mean however

27:50 that they will have to pay for it themselves. So I want to be very clear, the way this is propagandized is either women are not allowed to have it at all even if they could pay for it which you... That's the thing no access! Get out of my vagina! You can't have this even though that is not true you can pay for yourself And here is Cecile Richards saying, oh they won't be able to buy groceries and no rent. All of that is absolutely not true according to what's really going on in the decision But here is Cecile Richards with the ultimate conclusion for what this is really about for her Also I'd say for Amy Goodman and for the Democratic Party who are waging a propaganda war and abusing women by the way

28:34 abusing women in this case for their own political means. So, this is the highest court in the land what does it mean for women around the country when it comes to reproductive health care and these years to come? Well I think what this means is that women better pay attention to who's running for office in November As we know, the Senate will determine the next nominees and confirmations on the Supreme Court. We can't afford any more folks — justices on the Supreme Court who are so out of touch with women's needs, women's health care and women's rights. I think this is a clarion call for women and men who care about women's health to make sure they vote this November." Alright, there you go! That's what it's really about from her perspective

CHAPTER 06 / 28 Discussion

Frank Schaefer Critique, Religion in Republican Politics

Author Frank Schaefer appeared on Al Sharpton's program to criticize the Supreme Court as being comprised of "GOP lackeys" who use religion to manipulate voters. Schaefer, a former evangelical turned progressive, argued that the religious right uses these legal battles to raise money and oppose the Obama administration. The discussion also touched on the media narrative framing the conflict as a choice between religious belief and scientific fact.

frank schaefer· al sharpton· evangelical· tea party· science vs religion· gop lackeys

29:20 Here we have, this was without doubt one of my favorite people who weighed in on this. Mainly to sell his book but the guy is fantastic I was unaware of Frank Schaefer are you do you know who Frank Schaefer is John? No. Frank Schaefer has written a number of books also became a quote-unquote Hollywood film director and he was...I guess his dad was a big evangelist And it's kind of like he flipped. He went from being a Republican Christian nutjob to a Democrat Christian nut job, but he is all about debunking and you know well... he'll talk about his book it's all about he's just selling a book but he is all about debunking how the Republicans use religion to get stupid people who believe in stupid things like God

30:19 to vote Republican. And of course if you're going to have this kind of message and you want to try and sell your stupid book, You're gonna go on Al Sharpton's show And this is one of the best things I've ever heard when it comes to outrageous crap. The far right has used religion to try and take away people's rights! This isn't about a war on religious freedom, it's standing up for women's rights or gay rights or civil rights! Let's bring in gays and stuff. It is always good out. Joining me now is Frank Schaefer, a former evangelical turned progressive. Frank! By the way, evangelical turned progressive? Are those opposites all of a sudden?

31:02 This is crazy. What is this talk of the president's so-called war on religion really about? What are we really looking at here? You're looking at a group of people who raise money for religious organizations and get votes for Republican Tea Party candidates by lying to the American people about our our first African-American president who they have hated in an unchristian, despicable and vile manner since day one. This is great! So this Supreme Court decision is now about Tea Partiers hating the black man in the White House? There you go! I'm riveted and ready for more, Rev! So this is just the next thing he wasn't born in America He's Kenyan. He's not a real American Oh...and by the way

31:52 is against religious liberty. This war on women and the war on gay rights, which they're also launching has two parts... Stand by John! Keep your eye out there launching the War On Gay Rights apparently. They, they... Parts one to raise money for evangelical and Roman Catholic organizations. Two to keep people fired up so they can win elections from people who would rather believe lies knowing full well they are lies, then look at the humanity compassion and decency of an American president who cares about my wife my daughter my two granddaughters and wants them to have access to contraceptives. What's shocking is not that these people lie about the President. The Supreme Court that supposed to be a serious organization is now run by a bunch of GOP lackeys! And as anybody who has read my book Why I'm An Atheist Who Believes in God will know these GOP lackeys are people either

32:45 I worked with as a young man is... Hold on, I just have to break for a second. God jeez what is wrong with this guy? The Supreme Court Is nothing but a bunch of GOP lackeys! Alright enough of him But he's very funny now So we have to kind of put all of this into perspective without a doubt that lot of this is a war on religion and Carol from CNN Facebook.com slash Carol CNN Carol Carol I like her she she really summed it up She gave it to us loud and clear You cannot believe in God well the other part Jonathan that's interesting, and there's like Hobby Lobby doesn't object to all contraception right just emergency accomplished contraception for specific kinds that Hobby Lobby says can cause abortion in essence right but science doesn't

33:37 support that. So if the court rules in Hobby Lobby's favor, isn't it saying that religion can make those decisions over science? Man there is is! That's really what it is... Your new religion IS science you can't believe in something It's not allowed we don't want that You can have religion ruling over science Shut up already Science is amazing And to wrap this up, we have... and she knows full well what the score is. Ms Wasserman Schultz, the current leader of the Democratic Party I guess? What is she...? A head of the committee. Head of the committee whatever that means. Democratic National Committee. She's the one who's behind when somebody gets a bunch of money so they can run for Congress. Right

CHAPTER 07 / 28 Discussion

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Claims, White House Response

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed the Hobby Lobby ruling would allow corporations to block all forms of healthcare, a claim contradicted by the specific narrowness of the Court's opinion. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated the administration would work with Congress to ensure affected women maintain coverage. The administration continues to emphasize that for-profit owners should not impose religious views on employees regarding federally mandated benefits.

debbie wasserman schultz· dnc· josh earnest· white house· affordable care act· healthcare mandates

34:28 And she knows the score, she knows what this opinion of the court really means. But she's going to... She's not really going to explain it but of course I will This is a stifling decision Stifling? Shut up women! For American women It's a decision that blocks women from being able to make their own healthcare decisions Not just reproductive health care decisions healthcare decisions in general. Now you'll see those companies that want to claim a religious objection really trying to push the envelope on so many different types of health care I mean Peter they're organized... I just have to stop right here, the actual opinion of the Supreme Court specifically states

35:11 This opinion is for one specific thing and one thing only, and that is these four types of birth control. It may not be applied to blood transfusions it may not be applied to anything else the Supreme Court is very very specific about this in their opinion And she is lying! She's lying right now by saying oh well you let this go Well, then they're just crazy! They're gonna have everyone coming out of the woodworks to stop everything. Companies that want to claim a religious objection really trying to push the envelope on so many different types of health care I mean Peter there are organized religions... I love this term by the way but i've not heard this used organize religions is not all religion by definition organized? Well it used to be a popular term I don't know why it's not used anymore

36:02 So organized religions implies that there are... Well, organized religion implies the big ones. I think when in her context it's implying it's controlled and run by the Republicans that's what I think she is trying to say. I really do think that. Peter there are organized religions that oppose health care treatment And this is really why your concern is just a potential implications of a decision like this so finish that thought This is deeply troubling because you have organized religions that oppose healthcare healthcare period. Then let's discuss the practical challenge I don't know of any organized religions that have opposed health care, period!

36:40 This is bullshit. ...the administration now faces and what you think their resolution to this should be, what should the administration do now? Should they pay for coverage for these individuals... Uh-oh! Here comes a big question! ...who can no longer be covered through their companies much in the same way as individuals, employees of churches and church groups are covered? Well I'm confident that the Obama Administration is now going back go back and revisit how the rule was issued attempt to make sure that we can cover all women when they want to make a decision to use birth control. Yeah, humina-humina-humina-humina She knows the answer but she doesn't really want to say it let's then... Well hold on a second I keep playing these clips but i have to ask you a quick question here in the middle sure

37:25 We have Amy Goodman, we have this guy. How come nobody ever asks these yammerers a direct question about the specific four items that don't have to be paid for by these people? By the winners of the suit and be a little more specific, and then letting them ramble on with what you like you pointed out is just a lie. You can point that out if you're sitting there interviewing somebody. A logical conclusion would mean that the person sitting there asking the questions had actually read the Supreme Court opinion. Somebody in the staff could have read it and had the question ready? They were all so busy reading the 35 pages of dissent by Ginsburger, that they forgot to actually... Ginsburger.

38:20 that they forgot to actually read what the Supreme Court said, which is what I focused on. Her nickname is Kiki by the way. Kiki Ginsburg? Ginsberg! Oh whatever... So now we're getting down to the end last clip and then I will unveil because Josh Earnest I love that guy's name, who is now the spokeshole for the administration. He knows the answer too! He knows really how it's working but he's actually going to... well, the president is going to use his pen and a cell phone or whatever but the question of course is now that this opinion has been published and been made public Now what? Now what happens? This is what no one seems to want to say because if you knew the answer

39:04 Then there would be no more conversation, there would be no discussion. We couldn't yell at the Republicans and crazy believers in God As millions of women know first hand contraception is often vital to their health an well being That's why the Affordable Care Act ensures I think... Is this guy who used do voice over for West Wing Week? It sounds like it, doesn't it? Funny voice. Yeah He sounds like he's doing a voiceover Of course he is reading directly from his nose As millions of women know firsthand contraception is often vital to their health and well-being That's why the Affordable Care Act ensures that women have coverage for contraceptive care

39:40 along with other preventative care like vaccines and cancer screenings. And again, the Supreme Court specifically said this opinion does not count towards cancer screenings, vaccines blood transfuse or anything We will work with Congress to make sure that any women affected by this decision will still have the same coverage of vital health services as everyone else Yes they will President Obama believes strongly in the freedom of religion That's why we've taken steps to ensure that no religious institution will have to pay or provide for contraceptive coverage. We've also made accommodations for non-profit religious organizations that object to contraception on religious grounds, but we believe that the owners of for profit companies should not be allowed to assert their personal religious views to deny their employees federally mandated benefits." Now we'll of course respect this Supreme Court ruling

40:32 And will continue to look for ways to improve Americans health by helping women have more not less Say over the personal health decisions that affect them and their families. Okay, so he knows the answer too and now I'm going to go briefly with you through the Supreme Court opinion and I love reading these things I Told Mickey hey when this came out like oh I'm so happy, it's like Christmas in July. I get to read the Supreme Court opinion is lovely

CHAPTER 09 / 28 Discussion

Corporate Personhood, Media Revenue Models

The concept of corporate personhood remains a central point of political leverage, though it is foundational to the American legal system's ability for entities to sue and be sued. The hosts contrast their listener-supported "value-for-value" model with mainstream media, which they claim cannot provide honest analysis of the insurance industry due to corporate sponsorship. They argue that mainstream outlets prioritize protecting the financial interests of large banks and insurers over constitutional rights.

corporate personhood· tom hartman· insurance industry· advertising· value-for-value· first amendment

49:41 Thank you very much. Very disturbing, I actually knew that as good as it was, it was very...I found it I found it disturbing. And the thing is, it does fall into place with a lot of other stuff going on. The corporations... There's the Dictionary Act as it likes to be called that has it which corporate... Otherwise corporations can't sue and they can't do a lot of stuff if they're not quote-unquote people even though there are different kind of persons. It's not like walking talking humanoid But the Democrats have been using this as leverage because they know it's never going to change. You cannot change the corporations are people idea. No, it ruins everything! It will work but they like to use it as leverage and the worst case guy in this regard is Tom Hartman

50:34 No, no. Boy are you gonna hurt me? I don't have a Tom Hartman clip. You're lucky But I did have one that was gonna play last time but he won the talkers award for being a free speech guy of some sort and it just disgusted me because the guy is a Lacky for the Democrat Party and all he does is just slam Republicans Yeah He's essentially more soft-spoken version of Al Sharpton And so I thank my lucky stars, and this comes up more often than not in recent shows. The only reason we can actually have this conversation is because of our model of the audience producing this program

51:25 We could not have... even if the advertisers agreed with the analysis, even if they were... and even then. Insurance companies, by the way are just banks. It's you know it's not like some Some corporation is sitting there giving a shit about you Just a bank and people invest in insurance companies Warren Buffett Invests in insurance companies insurance companies is called reinsurance right? It's just money as just banking as Joe You have to assume at this point that the only reason that this story was covered the way it was, which was to slam the Republicans and war on religion. Amen! And all the rest of it... This is important to me. Equate religion and belief with crazy talk that should never be anywhere above science and just crazy. I don't go to church, I don't pray but I do believe in people's

52:31 Right to do whatever they want and have them if you want to believe fine I'm not gonna jump around and tell you what to do. So, I defend that on base on the basis of the Constitution playing by the rules. These people are trying to strike that out, and I don't like it one bit. It's just as you know First Amendment Second Amendment Fourth Amendment 21st amendment all very important amendments to me. And they can all by the way get away with this on the mainstream media because they know they've got the green light as long as they don't go the other way and turn onto what this really is about which again is these insurance companies, which have all the money. I don't think we can emphasize this enough... We probably in fact that's why you probably haven't heard it anywhere, probably could not do that analysis if this was a commercial venture because somebody would say something to someone and we'd lose a sponsor. And we'd be boycotted! Boycotted? We have people rioting in the streets. Seriously?!

CHAPTER 10 / 28 Discussion

No Agenda Meetups, Def Con 22 CD Project

Executive producers announced a No Agenda meetup at Def Con 22 in Las Vegas on August 7, 2014. Ramsey Cain and Stephen Fettig are coordinating the distribution of thousands of No Agenda CDs featuring tech reporting and show clips to convention attendees. Listeners are encouraged to visit noagendacd.com to access clips for propagating the show's alternative media analysis.

def con 22· no agenda cd· ramsey cain· las vegas· meetups· podcast art

53:30 So with that I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John C. Dvorak And in the morning to you Adam Curry, In the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water Also the dames and knights out there! And in the morning to everyone there in the chatroom noagendastream.com No agenda chat net at chat dotnet and thank you to all of our artists We had a lot to choose from on the last show. Patrick Bausch came through, we liked his art and we put it on as if it's always a crapshoot I guess is hard too Hard to figure out why we something strikes our fancy, but often it is the opposite of the title that we choose. It's on-the-fly! It's a...it is part of the performance actually. The show does not end when we hit stop on the record system if we actually hit record in the first place which also... Well did you do that today? Yeah I did. Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find everything

54:28 I know. We appreciate the work that our artists do, and i have it pretty much working now on all podcatchers and people are really happy when they see that new art and i've been checking it I have the podcast app and I try... Yeah, the art's part of this show. It's really cool because you open up your app and you see everything is the same except our art! And sometimes it changes right before your eyes because it updates a little slower when you open the app? And it's an eye-catcher. It's like oh something new here. It's a big part of our show and artists need to understand that's why they get a full on credit everywhere we really appreciate that That's them yeah

55:06 And also we use alternative pieces in the newsletter. We do? That comes out on Wednesday and there's art there too that is often a little more evergreen in style but it's always eye-catching Always Let's thank a few of the executive producers here for show 631. We actually had no auto executive producer, so we have to take the top associate donation which was a tie! So we have two executive producers. Excellent. Stephen Fettig and Simon Bennett-Fettig is in Darien Wisconsin and he sent in $250

55:43 Through PayPal in the morning, noagendaCD.com team is going to be at DEF CON 22 this year and we're going to have a No Agenda meetup! Wooo! On the evening of Thursday, August 7th. Nice! We'll decide where we're going to get together after we've gotten some feedback and have an idea how many there will be. We'll be handing out massive stacks of No Agenda CDs for everyone to pass around at the convention. Anyone that would like to join us should email noagendacd at gmail dot com so we can plan ahead regarding a venue and how many discs were to bring

56:22 You also got a note from Ramsey Cain about this. Begging us to mention this because they don't want to be stuck with 2000 CDs. NoahjendaCD.com, I'll read his in the morning. The new Noah Jenda CD's are now available on the site noahjendacd.com They're heavy on tech reporting because Steve and I are going to Def Con in August and then Noah Jenda meetup. He says kind of the same thing... It will know the meetup will not be in the convention so anyone in Las Vegas is invited and not just Defcon attendees Yeah, obviously and again. He says no agenda CD at gmail.com And we really appreciate what Ramsey and Stephen are doing this is it's a big help these CDs really do work People like it you know they're pretty too They're pretty and also on no agenda cd-dot com You can just grab clips and play them for people

57:11 And it does often get people interested and I think, I'm hoping that today's opening will be something that you can use to get people interested in an alternative analysis to the micro propaganda and macro propaganda they are exposed to which of course is a severe violation of their human rights. Yeah Absolutely Okay, let me get back to this. By the way on Eric's... I moved my email going off. Is it Eric mentioned have Simon Bennett as a knight today? I believe so. Let me double check we have three i think today Actually there is four. There was another one that came in by mail that I didn't forward to Eric. Simon Jason and Brad yeah. Yeah Simon okay there's another one too you're gonna have to put on their which will talk about discuss later all right

CHAPTER 11 / 28 Discussion

Producer Credits, Peerage Honors, Moving Plans

The hosts recognized top donors including Stephen Fettig, Simon Bennett, and Josie Lane for their executive producer contributions. A "de-douching" and karma ceremony was performed for Michael Andrews' 39th birthday. Additionally, one of the hosts announced a planned move within Austin, Texas, scheduled for July 15, while acknowledging the ongoing support of the "Gitmo Nation" peerage.

executive producers· donations· peerage· gitmo nation· austin· moving

58:09 Okay, Simon Bennett came in. He doesn't have anything for us to read but he did this effort as accounting $250 Ipswich and Suffolk and he Came with 250 so those two will be our because they're the highest donors in the group above 200 So they become executive producers by default one of them had done 251 He would have won the whole thing Josie Andrews in San Francisco California 239 dollars do I have a note from her? Sorry is that a check that came in I don't believe so, that's why we're gonna look in my email. Well... The check that came in was Josie Andrews PayPal My short comment about my donation Josie Lane is a different person Okay ummm.... I do not have anything for Josie Let me take one quick look at her and now it stopped working okay never mind Josie will say what you need later You mean your squirrel mail stopped responding? I hear ya, I hear ya Hey!

59:15 There it is. So her email is Josie... Josie? Oh, this is Josie Lane! Oh there you go. Josie Lane. Josie Lane my short comment about my donation I just donated $239 to the show but in my haste I forgot to add my short comment so here it is My wonderful husband Mr Michael Andrews will be celebrating his 39th birthday on July 2nd Do we put him on- okay obviously have to put him on the list Hold on a second What's his name? Michael Andrews. Do we have a number? 39. So he says, yeah he's been listening to your show religiously for over a year now! His life is made all the better if you can get me and the kids to listen too

1:00:03 Isn't that nice? That's nice. Donating to the show is the best present I could think of for him, so please would you give him an associate executive producer credit send some karma his way and a don't eat me Hillary He could always use a good birthday de-douching as well So he needs those three things happy birthday To Mike from your extremely patient intolerant wife Josie and your wild and wonderful children Julia and Adam Okay, so it needs a karma a don't eat me what else And a de-douching. A de-douching, okay! You've been de-douched! Eat me Hillary Clinton! You've got karma! Yay! Alright... Okay I'm glad we did that Yep, me too Zachary Ziesler? Zeisler was... I would say Zeisler In Omaha Nebraska where all the money is He says dear sirs... Okay you're gonna have to do this one Adam Oh

1:01:01 I don't have it in front of me. You're gonna have to deal with it. Drunk donation, if you would please say the following in an accented German voice? Okay! And this phrase is infotainment to the max. Infotainment to their max! How'd that sound? It was better than mine... yeah, I could probably do that. Infotainment to their Max! Yeah, that's pretty good That's uh, you know okay. I hope he still drunk when he hears this otherwise it may not be that funny I don't know He says he needs a de-douching and a karma shot now we can totally hand you that my friend You've been de-douched You've got Karma

1:01:47 Aaron Ramroth in Amsterdam $200 and he let me take a look if he's got anything I'm sorry to do this on the fly What happened? I didn't expect so many blanks to come up. Well again, people weren't putting the comment in the comment box and they sent us an email... Yeah well that's funny because if they send us quote-unquote us email i'madamandcurry dot com he's john at curry dot com I always forward it to Eric to put on a spreadsheet and I believe everything I forward to him does get on the spreadsheet Do you forward everything you get to Eric? I do when i get it. The Josie thing was missed because she has a different name Correct And there's other issues, I guess and that I didn't forward it to anybody because I didn't see it It's all right

1:02:37 It's not your fault. So Aaron Ramroth, there is nothing I can find from him and $200. And finally Wesley Young in Jamestown New York 200 bucks and I believe that did come in as just one of those one-of-them-there checks but just to be since I've been doing this all morning I want us to do one more young y-o-u-n-g and that is Wesley Young And again, nothing. So we want to thank all these people for helping us with these executive and associate executive producer donations and remind you to go to DeWart.org slash NA for the Sunday show which is going to be well it might be okay if we get everyone

1:03:21 Just to think about us for one more show at the work org slash na channel of org comm slash na no agenda show calm and no generation Calm both have donation buttons. You can click on and also get to us that way Also a quick thank you to sir AJ rice dots who has it was the first baronet of treasure valley, Idaho in Gitmo nation He maintains the peerage map ITM that I am slash peerage And to answer the question for baronetics, can a baronet claim a protectorate? All baronetses are distinguished by having a territorial designation. A territorial designation is an aspect of the creation of modern peerages that links them to specific places or places so that it's true

1:04:03 And there you have it. If you are a baronet, you get to claim... You have a territorial designation which will be a portion of the protectorate of the Baron or Grand Duke And this shit will matter one day. Yeah, when the whole world collapses someone's gonna find this map and go, oh, this lineage okay well yes you do get to see the acreage young lady at least we got related to them At least we know who's in charge. FNPA.org. France slash N-A. And of course we need your continued help with propagating the formula Our formula is this We go out...we hit people in the mouth

1:04:52 Yeah, so today is the third tomorrow of course very hard day for For us for the four these for donations certainly because people are all partying this fourth of July and then that always puts a little kink in everything but there you go and we're not I mean We're having dinner with some friends. But oh We were in the you know we're moving. I don't know if I mentioned this on the show we're moving July 15th, I believe is when we move your out of there yeah now it's been Challenge oh by the way You have a little just an all staying in Austin by the way just everyone knows would you move into a different place? Yeah, we figured then Maybe one more time and also then you're moving out of the country That's that's what that's what the current book after the war The book is that yours leaving after the war

CHAPTER 12 / 28 Discussion

Data Brokers, Hospital Tracking, Loyalty Cards

Bloomberg News reported that hospitals are purchasing consumer data from brokers to predict patient illness and treatment costs. This data is harvested from drugstore and grocery store loyalty cards, tracking every transaction a consumer makes. The hosts warn that this information is shared with insurance companies to potentially adjust rates based on purchasing habits, such as food choices.

data brokers· bloomberg news· loyalty cards· health insurance· gps tracking· consumer privacy

1:05:47 I just want to play this clip. It's a little thing and maybe it kind of relates a little bit to the Facebook rant and the stuff we said at beginning in the show, but I just wanted to play this clip so that I can remind people with my attitude about cards those you know oh Safeway club card! I've always said don't use these cards And here is the reason Tracking consumer Oh i'm sorry I had no idea where you were going A story published a few days ago caught our attention and described how hospitals buy information about you to determine how likely you are to get sick and what it will cost to treat you. For more, we're joined by one of the co-authors Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg News so what are they buying? And who are they buying it from? Well they're buying the same type of data that retailers have been using for years to target products at you. What were talking about here is information thats collected by companies called data brokers

1:06:40 which can track every transaction a consumer makes, every purchase they make with a drugstore or grocery store loyalty card. Yeah! Loyalty card! Yeah now this goes to the insurance companies too don't let anybody fool you and if you start buying too much butter you will be, your rates will go up. This is and we have talked about this for years We've been talking about this and started with the... that prediction came true this thing of GPS trackers And now you already get a better deal with Progressive started with that in America if you put your tracker in the car That's just the beginning of it. You know? That's just that's just the very beginning and everyone was like oh I get a cheaper deal But you know It's the same thing

1:07:25 With all, you know with like Facebook as an example. You take your free trinkets Like a dumb Native American and you give away like the whole country because you have a shiny mirror Dumb Do I have a little? Dumb A little thing that can go off on? I don't think they're dumb anymore They just got hoodwinked by the fact that- No no you're taking that back It came out wrong it came out wrong! I didn't mean it that way it came out wrong Adam at curry dot com It came out wrong You know what I meant. Yeah, what you meant was they shouldn't have given the island of Manhattan to her. Of course you don't even know that they did that it could be just one guy taking advantage of this situation some probably from God yeah give me some BGS This is all yours which led to of course people sell the Brooklyn Bridge exactly why not?

CHAPTER 13 / 28 Discussion

Global Soccer Corruption, Match Fixing Scandals

A Real Sports report detailed widespread corruption in international soccer, involving players, referees, and Asian gambling syndicates. Former defender Carlo Gervasoni admitted to taking bribes to fix matches in Italy, while fixer Ante Sapina confessed to bribing a FIFA referee to manipulate a World Cup qualifier. In one extreme instance, a completely fake team was hired to pose as the Togo national team for a rigged match.

world cup· match fixing· fifa· carlo gervasoni· ante sapina· togo national team

1:08:19 Alright, so wait how we doing with the soccer? How are we doing with this soccer go ahead and boom shakalaka brother well interesting I do have some some comments on the soccer. Okay, before you do that I want to go into my little thing that was just run on Real Sports and i've come to a new conclusion about this all this promotion for soccer and when you hear about... This is a long 20-minute report took three clips from it in the series called On The Clip List is Soccer Is Rigged

1:08:54 And I want to play these three clips before we start talking about soccer. We begin tonight with a global game that's on everyone's lips and everyone's TV these days, and that is soccer or as everyone outside of the United States calls it football. It is played on every continent in every corner of the globe And as the World Cup unfolds in Brazil, the depth and breadth of soccer's appeal is pretty obvious. But amid all its success... ...the world's most popular game is being increasingly compromised by widespread corruption the likes which no major sport has ever seen In an effort to better understand the depth of the problem we traveled to six countries over the past year To learn just how much match fixtures have compromised the sport's integrity and enriched themselves doing it

1:09:37 To those in attendance and watching on TV, this looked like a typical soccer match in Italy. And it many ways it was. It had thrills and energy and passion only the outcome of this game was never in doubt Because the game was fixed. That was the perfectly manipulated game because it wasn't just me, other teammates were also being paid Of the 22 players on the field how many were in on it? Three were involved in my team. Carlo Gervasoni, a defender was one of several players who had accepted bribes to lose the game so when it appeared that Gervasoni was doing his best to defend his goals he was actually doing the opposite by intentionally committing a foul you decked an opposing player in the box

1:10:29 Was that part of the plan? Yes, because we needed the other team to score a goal. His hit led to a penalty kick for the opposition All that was left for Gervasoni was to pretend to be upset about it I love the outrage you show here I had to do my part You're a good actor Of course it didn't hurt that the supporting cast in this on-field charade included his goalie, who was also in on the fix. The goalie almost fell into his own net. Yeah of course because he was one of them who got the money How much did you get for that game? It was a lot more than $100,000 just for me

1:11:18 Love it. Love it, good! And so they go on and they show a lot of this They show that this is all mostly from Asian Yakuza and other gambling interests in Asia Yeah And they showed us this interesting point They discussed about little bit what was going on with the Asian soccer Nobody's even going to the games anymore They're so bad, there are so rigged But anyway but the big games that we're talking about Are still kind of you know people are still popular I'd say So let's play Soccer Rig 2 I think half of them. A soft-spoken Croatian appears to have even reached the very highest levels of the sport in Berlin we met a man named Ante Sapina, a soft spoken Croatian who from the comfort of this sports bar used to run the biggest match fixing ring in all of Europe what's the most you ever bet on again? Ever!

1:12:05 I think half a million. Half a million? Half a million euros? Yes In 2009, Sapina worked with the Asian syndicate to even rig a World Cup qualifying match It was a game between Finland and Liechtenstein which Sapina rigged not by paying off players but by bribing the one man who could virtually guarantee the outcome The referee We made the arrangement for two goals in the second half. Do you remember how he went about making sure that there were two goals in the second half? He gave a penalty for Finland in the second half and it was not really a penalty As an expert, you could sit there and go that's my guy In this game he earned some money Another referee subpoena bought fixed about 20 other big games often by awarding one team penalty kicks

1:12:58 Or by tossing the opposing team's best player out of the game for no apparent reason. There were two games where he really made some I don't want to say miracles, but it was. I'm curious of the people you approached would most say yes? Most of them Yes a FIFA referee doing an international friendly His income is around about 500 euros for that match if he fixes that match It's normally about 50 thousand. I have one little problem with this report John and I do want you to wrap it up

1:13:36 This is now being portrayed as, oh it's these teams and it's these individual players and some refs when I believe It is a structural business run from the top. Yeah And this has been argued that and I wouldn't make the argument against that thought in there But they do have a FIFA clip which we call it FIFA. We call it FIFA fine But now the last one of the yeah, no I agree. I think that whole thing it's a fractal but they're making it sound like oh They're not really if you watch the whole thing It just makes it look like everybody's Africans and a lot of it is Africans as the Africans definitely a lot of Africans That's why they had to rouse them but here's there Here's the best example this involves not really African team, but the Tonga national team

1:14:21 And this is, now this clip is just kind of funny. How extensive a problem are we talking about? Almost half the countries in the world have experienced match fixing in football 35% of Eastern European players have all been admitted being approached by match fixers So brazen have the fixer's become that on at least one occasion they didn't even bother buying players or refs They just created a fake team to do their bidding This team in yellow was purported to be the national team of Togo. But in truth, the entire team all of them were imposters hired to do this. A fake team can you believe? A fake team! The boss tell them we want you to walk into the football pitch with one mindset that you are going to be beaten

1:15:12 So before the game you already lost. Bingo! Boomshakalaka! And then people say I'm crazy with two Obamas. The whole team is fake, of course. That's great. Well the FIFA thing is...I agree but I'm just wanted to, my conclusion to all this is the only reason that we're promoting... The game is such that it's a game that is asking for it. And that's the point I'm trying to make. I don't care about the endemic corruption which is horrible But the game is asking for it. When you have games that go nil-nil, and one nil, and two to one... And two to one's a high scoring game! That has gotta be the easiest thing to rig! And what happened is that American gamblers have been left out of this

CHAPTER 14 / 28 Discussion

Tim Howard, Tourette Syndrome Awareness

U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard, nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense" following his record-breaking performance in the World Cup, is highlighted for his advocacy regarding Tourette Syndrome (TS). Howard describes TS as a neuropsychiatric disorder involving involuntary motor tics. One of the hosts shares a personal connection to the condition, noting that the disorder does not impede high-level performance in sports or broadcasting.

tim howard· tourette syndrome· world cup· goalkeeper· everton· neuropsychiatric disorder

1:16:02 Wonderful, but then because they don't know how to there's no spread. We don't we can do points in the second It's not power is not our culture of gambling for a way of winning it So they were trying to popularize the sport so we can get in on the action That's the only reason that people sure soccer to take off here in the United States I agree again mean I'm incomplete agreement and I am very happy to say that I have a personal hero in soccer He is now dubbed the Secretary of Defense, which I think is hilarious because if you go on the street and you ask someone what is the name of the American secretary defense? I doubt many will be able to say Hagel. They would say Tim Howard who is the goalie for the American team and he plays in the UK for... forget which team, Ipswich maybe And he has Tourette's!

1:17:01 And not just... Well that's probably why he is so good. Not just any kind of Tourette, he has the exact same Tourette I have! Really? Yeah which is not the cool kind where you say curse words all the time and you're on a plane and you say bomb and terrorist Right It's not that cool but it started... They do not get on a lot of flights Here's a little ditty, I didn't even know this, I didn't know that he was uh..and by the way You don't suffer from Tourette's, okay? It's not like I'm suffering. Oh! I'm suffering from Tourette's Which is he's a tourettes sufferer or as and he actually comes up with the term I hadn't heard TS which is uh...Tourette syndrome. I'm a TS sufferer

1:17:44 And this is, I love this because I was a lone voice in the wind telling all the parents to their kids don't worry your kid's not you know you don't give him pills whatever and now... Yeah geez. ...and now that yeah oh this is what the doctors prescribed although I have a feeling he may be taking some stuff but anyway here's a little bit of Tim Howard The Secretary Of Tourette's But Howard plays on an even bigger stage off the field Oh! Because it says such a burden He never asked to be put on but one he takes very seriously. He suffers from Tourette's Syndrome. What's with the music? Because he is suffering from Tourette's Syndrome!

1:18:23 I love it! Oh, but it's an even bigger game. I have to play on John when the show is over... ...I go through life as a Tourette syndrome sufferer. Inherited neuropsychiatric disorder? It's a neuropsychiatric disorder! With one psychiatric part?! I don't know! It's a neuropsychiatic- psych- I can't even say it! A neuropsychiatric disorder And you have to have sad music for that because... Have pity on us. He suffers from Tourette's syndrome, an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood. It's defined as involuntary motor tics and twitches if you like some of it is blinking clear my throat

1:19:12 different muscle tensing of different body parts. As I grew up, it became different at different times one year it was this the next year was that and in every case there's a little bit of difference but for the most part on very similar to most people who have TS His condition hasn't stopped him from being one of the top goalkeepers in the English Premier League, playing for Everton since 2006. It's between these white posts where Howard stands the tallest This is his office, his stage and his place to live out his dreams But as he plays in likely his last World Cup, his legacy off the pitch may live longer than anything he does on the field

1:19:55 If a kid wants to look up to me, then I think that's pretty awesome. You know? And I've always tried to live my dreams even if they were too big for me to even fathom but with Tourette Syndrome that was never...that was never a stop sign for me it was always just a little bump in the road that I would just keep going and it wasn't gonna stop me from achieving my dreams and I try until you know all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or whatever they want to be, tell them that they can do all of that because TS won't stop them. It was funny because I told Miss Mickey this last night and i said, hey did you hear this uh... Howard is a be- he suffers from Tourette's Syndrome.

1:20:36 And she said, really? Oh that's interesting. He started when he was nine with me it started around eight or nine and it moves around your arm but your leg gets your eyes yeah oh yeah it moves right and can move around from week to week sometimes maybe just got some some some animal living in there gerbil and uh what was funny she said well but how can you how can you play world cup soccer with Tourette's What? I know, are you kidding me?! This is why he's so good because he wants to jump right to catch the ball and his head goes left and he... It's because of the unexpected. How can you play World Cup soccer? I said I do a world class podcast with my Tourettes okay? Amazing! But I love the sad music though. The sad music that's pathetic that report. That manipulating this bull crap. Yeah this is why I play it

CHAPTER 15 / 28 Discussion

World Cup Predictions, Geopolitical Banking Fines

Speculation regarding a fixed World Cup final suggests a Brazil vs. Argentina matchup to boost FIFA's standing in Latin America. Meanwhile, the $8.9 billion fine imposed on French bank BNP Paribas is analyzed as a geopolitical retaliation by the U.S. for France's refusal to cancel the sale of Mistral warships to Russia. Vladimir Putin has publicly supported this theory, suggesting the fine is a tool of American diplomatic pressure.

brazil· argentina· bnp paribas· vladimir putin· mistral ships· fifa brackets

1:21:30 I love it. I love it. I love it. Tim Howard, hero of the tics! Apparently he broke the record for saves which tells me that the team really stinks So here's what here's the one thing I have and this is very strange okay? Very very strange a Brazilian ambassador in a country I cannot name because would give away who told me this story One of our producers had a dinner, sit-down dinner private dinner with an ambassador to Brazil from Brazil in this country. And the ambassador said the World Cup final will be two to one Brazil winning over Germany which is not even possible! Which tells me that something is going to happen

1:22:22 that somehow Brazil and Germany... I don't see how that's possible either, even though this was my prediction. Exactly the same 2-1 But that is not.. That can't happen according to the way the pool is set up so maybe someone would have to forfeit or something weird would happen there might be some strange condition Well there's another possibility here which was that was the original layout And it got changed at the last minute because they wanted a different Brazil versus something. And I'm thinking the following, this is a possibility if i'm not mistaken you can look at the brackets or people can jump to conclusions and start tweeting before we finish the show uh oh by the way people please do not do that because when you send us an email saying I heard you say this you stupid idiot

1:23:13 So and we are, we read the email saying, oh gee if the guy had only listened for like 30 minutes more. And then you send another email which is your apology email now You've wasted my time twice right Brazil versus Argentina Yes I think we mentioned this didn't we? Yeah and i think uh... 2-1 Brazil wins over Argentina yeah and I think it's because they will..I think they're trying to assuage South America which has always been given a short stick on these things because everyone knows that South America is a huge soccer mania all the way up through Mexico.

1:23:57 And I think this will be one of the really great, and this'll draw a lot of fans to watch the match and even go to the place. To the stands from Argentina because it's not a short drive you have to fly in even though it's right next door. And I think it'll just be a boost for the league or FIFA FIFA in Latin America is important a great rivalry. Brazil and Argentina have always hated each other, I agree And so it'll be of nice match as opposed to yet another European can now the French i think is a possibility I think that French can go in To the finals France or French are very very good and they're kind of they just slide in there But the French are being you know beaten down for number reasons

1:24:47 And it's funny because I you guys talked about on DH unplugged this the BNP Paribas, the French bank has been fined some massive eight or nine billion dollars. 8.9 something like that. 8.9 and they're not allowed to trade in US dollars and all this stuff which Putin says our buddy Putin is because the French were still going to sell their battle warships to Russia and they said to America, like yeah we're still gonna sell these ships. And America said oh yeah? Oh! Yeah it's time to fine you and kick your bank out of doing business in American dollars. I think there is some validity to that. I actually don't think... my theory on this fining is different

1:25:36 I mean, I think there may have an element of truth to that. It may look like a good explanation but my explanation is more along the lines of that we were getting tired of our companies getting fined by the EU. Oh, similar. Picking on Google picking on Microsoft and just stealing money. Similar, yeah similar. Billion billion billion you just take a bunch of billions so well you know we can play that game too And so they would you see oh by the way, do you think 8.9 billion will get your attention? Actually no don't care We don't where's bank doesn't care now Where can I send the check is what the bank says here you go how much do any more yeah we got we gouge our cut off a me these things this amazing these banks The American banks in the first quarter of this year it did something like 50 billion dollar in profit What on fees

1:26:30 But whatever the case, whoever ends up in that, there's geopolitical reasons for it. I think the best match would be Brazil-Argentina because it would get a lot of attention even though we'd probably lose some of the audience in Europe But whoever it is Brazil's winning. Yeah, that has to be that That's the best bet because we cannot have otherwise Brazil will just keep the whole country will be on fire Yes, Brazil has to win and to assuage them and get ready for the Olympics And then you write in the keep there yeah look how well We did in the World Cup and you know so they don't keep the public from going berserk And that'll be that. That's why it has to be rigged, I mean you have to rig these games for these political reasons The last one was the last one Spain won when they had all of these issues and problems When Spain was falling apart? Yeah It's gotten a little tougher to predict this because every country is essentially falling apart one way or another But nothing would be as disastrous as Brazil losing So just out of the blue but I think I figured out why

CHAPTER 16 / 28 Discussion

TSA Security Fees, Airport Terror Threats

The Department of Homeland Security issued warnings about new "non-metallic" explosives developed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) that could be hidden in everyday items like toothpaste. This surge in terror rhetoric coincides with a July 21 increase in TSA security fees, which will rise from $2.50 to $5.60 per flight segment. The hosts argue the threat narrative is manufactured to justify the 110% tax increase on travelers.

tsa· dhs· security fees· al-qaeda· aqap· non-metallic explosives

1:27:32 We just started hitting the American public with reports yesterday, just terrorizing people. Just terrorizing people with unbelievable lies. The Department of Homeland Security is beefing up security at America's airports amid fears terrorists are developing new weapons. Top security officials fear new technology is being used to develop devices that can be smuggled past screening systems It's a concern that some say could lead to longer lines and security checkpoints They are Homeland Security most dreaded threats Explosive devices hidden in objects from shoes to toothpaste tubes and undetectable by airport security. Now the US is considering new airport security measures due to increased concerns that terrorists from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are developing new bomb designs to fool current security screens. We remain concerned about the capability of some of these elements to develop weapons that could be thwarted by our current security systems

1:28:36 Officials tell CNN there is no immediate threat or plot. However, an additional vulnerability has been identified. What? Exactly so this is continuously... Threat or vulnerability, but everybody so I don't know what station that was. I'm gonna move over to CNN now Everybody was showing bombs explosions Jihadis training and it was here at CNA just a terrorist maybe on this new generation of bombs that could be smuggled onto a commercial airplane Without being detected by security. This is what we're hearing from US officials telling us at CNN, the US is considering new airport security measures because of these rising concerns that members of the terror group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are developing explosives designed to avoid current airport security screenings. So let's go Washington to our chief national security correspondent Jim Shields. Again they say no threat nothing at all but all of this

1:29:33 terror. Well, this has been a long running concern for a number of months. U.S officials have been concerned about and warning about particularly AQAP as you mentioned and their master bomb maker that you may have heard of before Now we know this because we had Nancy Pelosi weeks ago saying the master bomb maker they've got plans We've seen there they've got any other trying to blow up truck bombs new bombs new crazy new bombs So this is not new but for some reason which I think I know This has to be packaged right now! Al-Assiri, developing bombs that can get past security screening. They don't have a lot of metal parts so they can get through both the pat downs but also... Hey not a lot of metal parts what does that even mean? One little part will trip it off

1:30:21 of You know, they've been concerned for a long time. Aaron I've heard this Brooke you know number of times...Aaron Brook whatever your name is? And now clearly that concern is raised to a level where they're trying to consider what they can do about it. I'm thinking it's a holiday week people are flying on how soon they will be doing anything. Yeah that's when you want to terrorize people! That's the best time! What are you hearing from DHS? It won't come that soon something they're considering now it's not going to inflect July 4th weekend

1:31:07 Oh, okay. So that's at the end of the report ABC packages something up for all their stations to play Iraqi military video showed a Russian cargo jet with the first delivery Of 12 warplanes The Iraqi government has bought secondhand from Moscow The ground attack fighter jets are the latest effort by the Iraqi government in the tide of battle against Islamist Sunni invaders. Now see what we're doing now is we're turning the news in Iraq, we're trying to meld that into terror in American skies! Terror, terror be afraid citizens. Syria who have overrun much of their country. The planes will be used to support ground troops such as these Iraqi state TV shows the counterattacking in an effort to retake the town of Tikrit One machine gun and he's shooting at a tanker to try and blow it up which side has the upper hand

1:32:01 Come on! Take it home, baby. Armed drones! Spike? Spike in fear... Yeah you're causing the spike in fear. Our homeland is at risk Wait a minute, back that up. She said it's going to overflow into American soil? Yeah! Oh yeah. Does anybody working these networks actually understand geography? They don't care they don't care it's just and I have the reason why but I want to draw it out as long as possible

1:32:38 Okay, milk it. Flow onto American soil. We gotta hit the top of the hour Johnny I can milk it! I can stretch this segment all the way to the news and weather on the 8th. Stretch it! Could overflow onto American soil Oh what's that? Looks like some spillover from Iraq Our homeland is at risk. I love that and they put Lindsey Graham his only quote our homeland is a risk listen to this assholes. Our homeland is at risk. I think when i'm gonna be um Could, could i have two loaves of white bread our homeland Is at risk and i'd like some croissants European and us passports could get on commercial flights carrying a new generation of non-metallic explosives disguised as innocent everyday carryons toothpaste

1:33:34 Describe this innocent everyday carry-on disguise this toothpaste clothing cosmetics designed to be smuggled past airport security, uh-huh There's also at least a hundred and so 100 plus Americans who are over there in Syria right now. So any of these people here can go back to the United States and they can carry out the type of attack. They kill you! Giving Homeland Security officials plenty to lose sleep over as the July 4th holiday approaches. Daria Alvinger ABC News New York That's right, that's right. You see an ordinary carry on be afraid so what is the TSA going to do? They're gonna if course excuse me

1:34:12 They're gonna do something that I find very, very annoying. We're told that this will not change what passengers can bring on board flights for instance laptops or iPhones but passengers will see additional screening of shoes and electronics they'll see additional screening for explosive residue those swab machines you now familiar with it You should be familiar with that slave They may also see additional screening at gates Brianna sometimes on flights in addition to the screenings we go through just after check-in When you get to the gate, they might look at your bag again or swab you again. And I'm told that this is really about AQAP and them always refining bombs that get past security fewer metal parts less explosive residue and that's the real thing behind these threats No it's not That is not the real thing behind these threats So when you're going to be at the gate You've gone through security Your shoes will have to go through three times apparently You can take out your laptops and there'll be oh

1:35:04 Looks like got some non-metallic parts in there that could explode. All this just over and over, and then you're at the gate... And they come over like a swab you at the gate! Like a fucking slave I'm so mad about this It makes me really, really angry. Sorry it's the Tourette's. So what is it about? You had a conclusion to this report. The September 11th security fee that helps fund the Transportation Security Administration currently its $2.50 per segment upto a 10 dollar cap On July 21st, it's going to $5.60 for a one-way ticket so they've made it a little simpler rather than per segment they're looking at one way tickets but you could just trip out and back nonstop that was five dollars is going to eleven dollars and twenty cents And that per ticket cap is being eliminated correct?

1:36:02 Yeah, the cap is being eliminated. It's interesting that it wasn't in the legislation before but the administration had imposed the cap as a practical matter No more cap That's something that I think is still under discussion A little controversial there As of July 21st your tickets will become more expensive with a 100% increase, in some cases 110%, now no longer capped for a security fee which is intended to fund portions of Department of Homeland Security specifically the TSA. So I wager that when this news comes out and everyone's looking at their ticket and seeing these outrageous fees per segment

1:36:50 So a total fee of a ticket could be up to $100 if you're talking international. Extra as a security fee, I wager to say that this is all this fear is now being put in place so you don't question that! Do you not want to be safe with these non-metallic objects that can blow up like a regular carry on? From the bombmeister. From the bombmeister in the Arabian Peninsula which might spill over into our homeland? Do you question that person, citizen?! That is what this is about

1:37:28 These bastards, I mean they just tax us every way they can. It's a tax! It is a tax literally... This goes right to the government's coffers. I will say- And of course they probably will buy a few more machines by the way They need this extra money because for example They spent hundreds of millions dollars on those puffer machines which are all now in a warehouse someplace Remember? No no there actually all those machines well not the puffer specifically The puffer is in a warehouse. The puffer was never sent back You know the other ones are in prisons now. The ones that have too much radiation? That's the Rapidscape Yeah, we use those on prisoners now Okay...that makes sense But anyways you're right it's just unregulated x-ray machines Good comment in the chat room How else are they going to fund ISIS? A good point I will say someone has been listening to this show and have always said if you really want to get the American publics attention about terrorists

CHAPTER 17 / 28 Discussion

Seattle Murders, Radical Jihadist Motives

Ali Muhammad Brown was arrested for the murder of two gay men in Seattle, with investigators alleging he used the dating app Grindr to target his victims. Sources claim Brown is a radical jihadist who underwent training in California and targeted the men due to their sexual orientation. The hosts note the shift in media focus toward domestic jihadist attacks targeting specific social groups to garner public attention.

ali muhammad brown· seattle· grindr· jihadist· hate crime· lgbt

1:38:23 Then you have to do the following. A national manhunt is underway for Ali Muhammad Brown. Brown is accused of murdering two gay men in Seattle earlier this month What we learned today about brown's possible motives have many in the LGBT community very upset sources Tell me brown as a radical jihadist who targeted the victims using an app popular among gay men yeah invest Investigators believe Brown used Grindr, an app that lets gay men use their cell phone's GPS locator to meet other gay men in the area. Detectives say Brown met up with Saeed and Anderson Young after they left Our Place a popular gay bar on Capitol Hill. Sources tell Q13 Fox News Brown underwent jihadist training in California in April. And sources also believe the two men were attacked simply because their sexual orientation offended Browns radical Muslim beliefs. Finally! Finally you're... finally

1:39:12 It doesn't matter what's going on in Syria. You need jihadists killing the gays, that's how you get people's attention! Very smart people very good now let's point out a little interesting... Oh this Jihadi school in California? It's a charter school I'm told. Jihadist School and California Charter School It's funded by Gates. Yeah, Bill Gates common core jihadi style I want to know what it was there a mention specifically where this jihadist training is going on in California No, no, that's just the drones everywhere finding these Madrasas in the middle of nowhere Pakistan we should be able to find one if it's in Marin County Yeah It's hilarious. I love it so much

CHAPTER 18 / 28 Discussion

KLM Twitter Controversy, European Cultural Sensitivity

Dutch airline KLM faced backlash for a tweet featuring a Mexican caricature after the Netherlands defeated Mexico in the World Cup. The incident sparked a broader discussion on the differences between American political correctness and European cultural attitudes. The hosts cite a Kardashian episode in Vienna involving "blackface" and the use of racial slurs by Austrian comedians to illustrate that European societies often lack the same linguistic taboos found in the United States.

klm· mexico· blackface· kardashians· vienna ball· cultural marxism

1:40:02 It's so funny. That is borderline, yeah. No it's all borderline. I want to ask you a question because you're Dutch in culture. Well no...somewhat yes So what is wrong with these people? Did you play the Dutch do it again Mexico incident. Oh, I have no idea what this is. Dutch national airline KLM is at the center of lively debate online over a Twitter message posted this weekend celebrating the Netherlands victory over Mexico in a second stage knockout round to the World Cup The mocking tweet came with a picture showing an airport departure sign along with a pictogram representing a Mexican complete with sombrero, moustache and poncho. The post was meant to be funny but it's not had the desired reaction of web users. Far from it!

1:40:53 Mexicans have taken to social networks in their droves, slamming the airline and voicing their outrage over the tweet. Many are particularly offended by the picture posted by KLM saying it's making fun of Mexican culture Viewers are also saying they will not be flying with a Dutch air company in the future. Okay, I think I can answer this because this came by the way before you give us the answer which is going to Be very interesting i'm sure Why aren't the aren't the dutch instead of? I mean why aren't the mexicans upset about the match and it was rigged

1:41:29 so the Dutch could win. It was a nil-nil tie until the referee got involved! This is what they should be outraged about, not a pictogram of a Mexican in a sombrero!" Well you know how sports fans are even if you win like you go riot and burn shit but this all micro propaganda now let me explain what's going on here if this came up Interestingly enough, I will admit. I watched this particular episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians because i had heard about this and wanted to see how they put it on television where Kim and her mom, Chris were paid I believe it was $500,000 and they got first class airfare a great hotel to go to Vienna. And I know these kinds of guys who do this you have a quote-unquote entrepreneur and basically he's whoring out Kim because they're prostitutes in their own special way

1:42:24 to, you know do book signings and open some stores and the guys charging everybody. It's a very very well-known business And that's...and the Kardashians this is the business they're in Brand-kid Vienna knows who the Kardashians are the whole world knows who the Kardashians are okay? And so they're going to the Vienna the big Vienna ball, which you know the president of everyone's there It's a big deal and there's some guy. There's two things happen one is a guy who is They describe it as being in blackface But he's not because doesn't have the red makeup lips and the white around that he just is He's made to look black make up his whole face and hands and arms

1:43:07 And this guy is obviously some comedian or whatever and he's like, hey Kim it's me Kanye. And the show actually stops with a voiceover This was so shocking to us because for someone to show up in blackface and believe me In Europe they don't know what black face is They don't know that Al Jolson they don't understand that the history of this but The Kardashians then did a minute-and-a-half showing the history of blackface You know because black people couldn't perform so white people made fun of them by having, by making their faces black with big red lips which this guy did not have. So they immediately said this is unbelievable racism how can you show up in black face?

1:43:50 And then there was a an interview which was live on Austrian television and another comedian was there, and the guy makes a comment as they're interviewing Kim and Chris. He says oh yeah but the ball is about to start we're just waiting for the niggers in Vienna! Which is a joke... A pun on Kanye's song Niggers In Paris which you know it's called Niggers In Paris. And then I'm so shocked he said niggers!! Here's the problem here's what's going on There is such a lack of that particular... there's all kinds of problems in Europe with xenophobia, but there is no actual racism as we think of it in America today. Where the word nigger doesn't have that connotation and words in general don't have that heavy weight. There's no ban on words That I know of not the way the PC police work in United States and actually

1:44:49 A guy saying, you know who's made up to look black and saying I'm Kanye ha ha ha. Although it is a lame joke It is not seen culturally as racist And so when the Dutch make a joke about the Belgians or the French or the Germans Or the Mexicans...it literally is not in their culture a racist feeling The way we are overly sensitive in the United States Does that make any sense? Yeah, they're behind the times. They are actually far more advanced where people can just... No no no I disagree! I think Europeans in many aspects are... They have no sensitivity, they need sensitivity training. Really, the 50's, 1950's. No they are so advanced... They would say go when it comes to this sort of thing. They are so advanced....I'll tell you another story

1:45:46 Mickey before I knew her or I knew of her of course black Pete goes away in the next 20 years. Yeah, no It's good side of it going away believe me is going away When Mickey moved to the States in, I think 2002 or...I can't remember when it was. When was the OJ thing? When did that trial take place? Was that...? It's a long time ago. The 90s and late-90s maybe? Well let's see, OJ Simpson trial... No it must have been the 90s not the 2000s. Yeah I think it was. So she came to Los Angeles as an actor actually started very well But when she arrived in America, she kept and she knew heard about of course the OJ Simpson thing 1994 yeah 94 95 She Heard everyone talking about the n-word and she thought that The N word was for Nicole. She didn't understand. You know people why don't why won't people talk about Nicole Brown? Why did that's why they're so sensitive about the n-word. She didn't understand because these words are

1:46:45 I truly, in my heart, do feel Europeans are actually were... it's gonna change. They're being brought back but they were so advanced that people would just say hey cripple! Hey ugly! Hey shithead! Hey Belgian! Hey kraut! Hey Jew! Hey Arab! Hey towelhead! People didn't get all upset. This argument of yours stinks! It's not even close to being any good... It is the truth, so in today's politically correct world cultural Marxism this is where they run into trouble on a global scale But it comes from a very childlike almost good place of exactly the opposite and I know it sounds weird, but I grew up in this and I feel this we never Talked about white or black. It was never felt that growing up in the Netherlands never okay? Okay III think there was a little long-winded, but I'll just will stop it I do have to make a correction for the show

1:47:47 Because I'm looking up something and it's apparently France is playing Germany thus cannot play Brazil in the finals. The only countries that can play in the finals against Brazil are France, Costa Rica... No! France is playing Germany in today's match or tomorrow's match. Well someone wins can't they then go to the finals? No this is that's a semi-finals then they played Brazil who goes to the finals France Germany plays Brazil. The winner of France, Germany plays the winner of Brazil Columbia Okay Then that team goes to the finals right? The teams that will be playing each other that are would be in in this deal By the way, Brazil may be playing Germany and win two-to-one But that's not the finals either has to be Argentina as which is my prediction Belgium Netherlands a racist and Netherlands a team game

1:48:44 Or Costa Rica? Could it be Netherlands-Germany, is that a possibility? Yes. Since you're going with Brazil I'm going to say something goes horribly wrong with the match fixing and the racist Dutch come out against the Nazi Germans Well, that would be ironic. That would be great! They're not going to take a chance on that if Brazil loses... Yeah it's gonna be bad news I agree. ...the state in that the finals are gonna be played and we'll be burnt to the ground with all 100 thousand people inside. I agree, I agree will be very very very bad

1:49:22 Very bad. All right, well so now somebody's probably written us already about it Yeah, no I'll do you though do your friends and do the voice to the voice You guys said Brazil Brazil is gonna play France in a finals. You don't know anything your idiots That's what this other guy said literally we're true idiots We are idiots my audience advance for yes, but I will say one thing oh I personally really like the game of soccer when it's at this level. I do not enjoy watching...I don't watch any sports ever for any reason, but when we're in a competitive World Cup thing like this and it's a team that I care about which would either be the racist Dutch, the Tourette's King hero of the ticks, the US team

CHAPTER 19 / 28 Discussion

Amy Adams First Class Seat, Media Sentimentality

Actress Amy Adams received widespread media praise for reportedly giving up her first-class seat to a U.S. serviceman on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. While framed as a selfless act discovered by a fellow passenger, the hosts suggest it may be a managed publicity stunt. They also note that TSA and airline regulations typically make such seat swaps difficult to execute in practice.

amy adams· detroit· first class· social media· publicity stunt· tsa regulations

1:50:08 Then of course the finals. I'll watch that you know, but yeah Yeah, I do enjoy it to people who think just because we don't oh this is another thing You don't know shit about soccer and no kidding duh No, we don't and I don't care to know a shit. I just care because of my political understand cricket And then there's that what's in over? I can't figure that one out Oh please John at curry calm do not send me. I don't care Don't send me how it works. I don't care Really don't okay clip quick quick clip. Yes, Amy Adams does good deed who was Amy Adams? She's an actress a very pretty actress he's reading for USA I think we can all get together on this one and say well done alright Actress Amy Adams is winning a lot of praise this morning for a first-class move she was boarding a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles And that is when she noticed in America

1:51:00 service men sitting in coach so what did she do? She gave him her first class seat. She took his seat back in the coach section of the airplane best of all all this is the part I like the most Amy, the daughter of an American officer-an army officer excuse me did not seek any publicity for this deed. It was a fellow passenger who shared words of her selfless act on social media. Somebody else spots it happens? She wasn't trying to get attention for it. No but hope it catches on though. Her publicist was like yes! Wow story

1:51:41 Let's keep the public amused with this bullcrap. By the way, have you ever tried to stop? Stop, stop, stop! I'm going to give it to you because you deserve it for that. I'm sorry. That was well deserved. Well deserved. I'm in a denial on this one. No, this is disgusting clip That's why it's so great This is such and this goes right back to what we talked about the beginning of the show And this is a big part of the micro propaganda the mood manipulation that Is can did they go to a commercial break right after this by any chance to sell you some hot pockets? Yeah, sure they did Oh, oh, I'm so So emotional. I need a hot pocket This is how it works. That was a great combo of

1:52:24 a combo of, of...a poop sandwich. Just beautiful. Poop sandwich? By the way if you ever try to give somebody your first class seat I did with travel with the family once and well i get first class because somebody's paying for it now again my somebody in the back I said come on you go sit in first class this stewardess gets all over now you're assigned at first-class seating and TSA won't let you change! And boom shakalaka brother! That is exactly right you can do that you can even have you can even talk to someone in front you can even poop in the first class toilet So that's bullshit. I mean the other question is what was Amy Adams doing in Detroit? But it's another, i don't want to get into... That's a whole nother thing. That's the clip and that's what I got. Very good! I like that a lot yeah. I'd like to turn our attention to well obviously we had some serious things happen although it's not like we haven't been predicting this for

CHAPTER 20 / 28 Discussion

ISIS Rebranding, Kurdish Oil Independence

The militant group formerly known as ISIS or ISIL has rebranded as the "Islamic State," declaring a global caliphate under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for Kurdish independence, aligning with Israel's long-term interests in the region. This shift occurs as Genel Energy, led by former BP CEO Tony Hayward, begins exporting Kurdish oil to international markets via Turkey, bypassing the central Iraqi government in Baghdad.

isis· caliphate· al-baghdadi· benjamin netanyahu· kurdistan· genel energy

1:53:21 Jeez, how long we've been predicting? Well here's the jingle. Caliphate in Iraq I think i'm gonna crap my pants That's right! CALIPHATE! We've been talking about the caliphate and here it is everybody not only was there a caliphate but there was a meeting A meeting um let me see if we can do this Let's see how we- let me see if I can do this John hold on a second Hello? Hello! Hello, Ahmed. It is Al-Baghdadi here

1:53:58 Ah! Al-Baghdadi here. We have a problem, we have a big big problem Yeah Everybody can't figure out are we ISIS? Are we ISIL? Is it al-Sahad? Is it Levant or... We need to rebrand, we need rebranding for the corporation Yeah yeah I think we've got ideas for you Okay First of all Yes Let's cut down something short Something easy something people can remember IS IS I like it what does that stand for It could stand for a lot of things. IS could be is... I have an idea! How about, let me think... Ah! Islamic State that would work! Exactly! Islamic state very nice very nice Now we're gonna have to make some changes one of the things you'll have to change your name from al-Baghdadi?

1:54:44 No, no. It's gonna be Khalif. You're gonna be the head of the... Ah! Khalif! Yes and I will be ruling! That'd be Khalif Abraham. Khalif Abraham yes? Because that's the first guy. Yes very nice- I am the top dog! Top dog! Top Dog! Khalif Abraham of the Islamic State Everybody now has to talk to you. Yes! I'm the boss! KHALIF! I AM THE BOSS! Okay boss anything else? And that's pretty much how we think it went. It had to! Fantastic, I really love that they've just gone ahead and said all right this is now our turf and we're good to go um...and thank you very much President Obama for the 500 million dollars that really helped

1:55:36 which was clearly just given to them. They've already got over a billion in the bank, I don't know how much more money they need! What what i found very nice because it completely justified my theory of the Kirkuk Haifa pipeline that was the entire reason for the 2003 Iraqi invasion...to resurrect that and you recall we talked about Bibi Netanyahu At the time saying, well good we'll have Iraqi oil flying flowing through Israel again. And then everyone said shut up idiot don't tell anybody about that

1:56:16 And so Netanyahu is now back. As fighting between Iraq's rival factions splinters the country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his support for Kurdish statehood. Regarding the Kurds they are a fighting people that have proved their political commitment, political moderation and deserve political independence. Israel has quietly maintained military and intelligence ties with the Kurds for decades seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab adversaries. We should support international efforts to strengthen Jordan and support the Kurdish aspiration for independence. Israel's position appeared to clash with that of its close ally, the U.S..

1:57:03 Washington, particularly Secretary of State John Kerry has pressed Kurdish leaders to stand with Baghdad. You see because whose oil belongs to who? This is really the problem then I predict there's going to be a little rift Because I see no people on the board of Janelle energy that are American. I see only Brits and And I see an inside job and we were not invited to the party. With Iraq on the brink of all-out civil war, oil giants such as BP and Shell pulled workers from oil fields in the south and east of the country earlier this month but north of Kirkuk, the semi autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan is an oasis of tranquility

1:57:48 and smaller British oil companies are reaping the benefits. Take for example, Kenel Energy run by former BP boss Tony Hayward The company recently started pumping oil from its brand new KRI pipeline which runs from the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan over to Turkey Say Han, Turkey! From where Kurdish oil and gas can be sold to Israel international markets Iraqi Kurdistan insists that they have and constitutional right to export their own oil with Gannell, bypassing the central government. Gannellenergy.com John! Golf echo November echo Lima echo November echo Romeo golf... Yankee? Gannell Energy Let's see Tony Hayward executive director and CEO They just everyone from BP essentially left BP and started their own little company

1:58:45 Well, they were rousted from BP after their screw-ups. Oh well yes of course here is the independent chairman is Rodney Chase who served on the boards of Petrofac, BP TNKBP He retired with full time employment from BP in 2003 We have let's see Julian Metheral he is from Goldman Sachs Jim Leng Director and Chairman, let's see he was HSBC Bank. Sir Graham Hearn...he was the... The old boys network! Well he is the shipping guy so he is the chairman of Bremer Shipping Services but we need to ship it you see from Sahan to Israel. George Rose, he is a...let's see he is from BAE Systems of course

1:59:41 All these like they've got a great little thing going on here. Yeah, I don't see Clinton But I don't see Kerry. No one's been invited. I don't see any Bush people in here Fantastic these are the guys that are it's not you can call it a small energy company all you want And this is a boon for Israel and I think there's a rift because of all this I think this is a real problem and people getting pissed off And now the United States and the douchebags who are fighting this crap, inciting all of it... ...are stuck with Baghdad where it's going to be a mess. Which is where everyone goes, oh go Baghdad! Please pay no attention to the semi-autonomous region What does that even mean? It's a caliphate dude They have a ruler His name was the Caliph They've rebranded they got stickers they got Twitter apps They got social media people

2:00:43 it seems like. Now, a new era in which Muslims will ultimately triumph. It is the promise from the leader of the group now calling itself just The Islamic State which has taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued a call to jihad, holy war and message lasting nearly 20 minutes urging Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the caliphate it has declared. The response to that from the capital Baghdad

CHAPTER 21 / 28 Discussion

European Jihadist Returns, Mike Rogers Warning

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers warned of the threat posed by Western citizens returning from training camps in Syria and Iraq. Rogers emphasized that individuals with U.S. or European passports can easily transit through Turkey to join militant groups and return undetected. The intelligence community is concerned about the "Indiana-sized" safe haven established by the Islamic State across the Syrian-Iraqi border.

mike rogers· syria· turkey· jihadist training· national security· safe havens

2:01:27 Well, chaos as Iraq's new parliament broke up with lawmakers walking out and making threats despite calls for the urgent formation of a government to combat that onslaught. The three main blocks didn't reach resolution. Well this is indeed the message we're supposed to focus on please pay no attention to the oil flow A Colorado woman aimed to go to Syria for jihad. ISIS in Arizona, in the Netherlands! More girls planning jihad trips to Syria. Urgent action needed to stem radical Islam risk. Dutch security service receives 25 million per year extra to stop the jihadis going to the caliphate to fight and of course they will all come back here

2:02:21 to kill American citizens. Now we have seen a rise in Europe within the last months, arrests of individuals who had trained in Syria who have come back to their host countries who have talked about conducting events and then you go back and lay this template over and some suspicious things start to appear the British soldier that was killed in 2011 There was some connection now that appears to the Syrian training camps. Then you look at even May of this year in Brussels, the attack on the Jewish Museum... Jews! Jews! ...there seems to be a relationship in Frankfurt Germany where they killed two US soldiers. Perpetrated by people who were trained in Syria. Clearly yes there's clearly some tie and now we've seen other arrests

2:03:06 significant arrests around Europe in a tempo that is very concerning. Bullshit! Really? Seems, appears... He's just making it up Very concerning I thought this uh- That was Mike Rogers by the way The future disco jockey Yeah, I thought this was- Mike Rogers is the worst. I thought this was kind of funny but he makes an analogy here which is interesting It's the easiest route today to fly into Turkey and disappear for a while come off the grid spend as much time as you want in both either Syria or Iraq Or both And then come back and fly out of Turkey that wouldn't necessarily rise to the standard Remember these are US persons These are US citizens That's what the challenge is Or they're British citizens Or they're German citizens Or they're Spanish citizens

2:03:52 That raises a level of difficulty for US intelligence services in the way we haven't seen in the numbers that they're trying to figure out who these people are and what their intentions are. allowing them to pool up in Syria, allowing them to have safe haven the size of Indiana between Syria and Iraq. And I say they mean Al Qaeda. I love allowing them out of safe haven the size of Indiana means. Yeah yeah so he's off topic here because he should be focusing on what we want to do which is isolate and blamed Germany for everything. He only got a little bit of that in him, yeah he only got a little bit. He mentioned Germany but I think this is the way he's gotta go! Yeah, he's out, he's no good. He's out because he stinks, he's no good. No good, I agree. He's not doing his job anymore But that does bring me to Germany if you're interested Definitely Well back to Amy... Is the Pope a Catholic? Back to Amy Goodman Oh, Amy Where was Amy

CHAPTER 22 / 28 Discussion

Sarah Harrison, Courage Foundation, WikiLeaks Internal Rift

Sarah Harrison, an editor for WikiLeaks, has launched the Courage Foundation to raise funds for whistleblowers like Edward Snowden. Critics suggest the foundation may be a rebranding of Julian Assange's defense fund and could be diverting resources. The discussion also revisits the 2013 grounding of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane, debunking claims that it was "forced down" by U.S. jets, citing air traffic control recordings of a requested landing due to a fuel gauge issue.

sarah harrison· edward snowden· julian assange· courage foundation· amy goodman· bolivian president

2:04:56 Bitching about the Supreme Court. Amy was in Germany yes in Bonn in Bonn and when in Germany What would you do? You meet up with Laura Poitras for one no not with Laura Poitras You need to meet up with the new girl with a new princess girl on the scene. Oh, who's the new pretty girl? Sarah Harrison is investigative editor of Wicked Leaks and acting director of The Newly Formed Courage Foundation. Ho ho! This got me very interested Of course The newly formed courage foundation The courage foundation thank you for your courage Yes Thank You for the courage foundation so I of course spent a

2:05:38 Too much time. Yeah, obviously but you know I like this story...I like this girl because she's obviously an intelligent shill one way or the other Seven Oaks You know we should know those uh.. But now here's what we know she was Julian Assange's girlfriend She was an intern at WikiLeaks and now she is not only the investigative editor of WikiLeaks Let me just hear that again. Amy actually, I think she says it differently. Sarah Harrison is investigative editor of WikiLeaks and acting director of the newly formed Courage Foundation. And let us go to the Courage Foundation just for a moment... What is The Courage Foundation? And what do you do? You can find under the FAQ section of couragefound.org. We've got a lawsuit brewing

2:06:32 The Courage Foundation has actually already been formed. It's in New Hope, Minnesota. Well... It is called the Courage Foundation and the URL is THEcouragefoundation Yes It's different than her courage foundation which is at couragefound.org Now What is the Forged Courage Foundation? What do you do? The Courage Foundation is an international organization that supports those who risk life or liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record. We raise funds for the legal and public defense of specific individuals who fit this criteria, and are subject to serious prosecution or persecution. We also campaign for the protection of truth-tellers and the public's right to know generally... blah blah blah blah blah. Courage is based in Germany, the UK, and the US

2:07:18 So I start to really look into this. The Courage Foundation is just a rebranding, since we're doing rebranding... It used to be known as the Journalistic Source Protection Defense Fund which was essentially the Julian Assange slush fund set up for people to donate money to Julian Assange While he's in In the embassy there and in the UK poor guy is not out of the story here. It is yes Oh, yeah He's been screwed it is not I quote specifically Not a non-profit you may not deduct anything this money goes literally into if you look at their She's on the same page. I think

2:08:07 They use this to raise more funds. They use this money to do little speeches and talk, and also support the people who are running the foundation which would be pretty much Sarah Harrison And they so far have raised $12,000 and this money goes... Oh, it's up to 14? As far as I can see this money goes to Sarah Harrison. To keep her... I guess uh... Traveling No she is in Germany and she says that she can't go home because of this Bull crap Now remember she was Wait a minute so what are you telling me? Wait! You cant do it yet Okay I think know what she is up too

2:08:58 So here she is in Germany. Now remember, according to her own wiki page which I assume people who work at WikiLeaks would know how to keep a wiki up-to-date She was an intern. It doesn't say she was Julian Assange's girlfriend per se, but we pretty much know that and we know that Julian was pretty mad when she went and spent all this time with Snowden And we're pretty sure where she had that hot little black outfit on as you just sitting hanging out with him in the airport for 40 days and then in Moscow for four months Believe me! Snowden put the tip in nothing more but something like that happened And now, all of a sudden, her history changes. You're an investigative editor? What does that mean? How did you end up working with WikiLeaks? I had previously been working as an investigative journalist. Oh really?! For what—for when you were an intern at WikiLeaks?

2:09:49 Was it the New York Times, The Guardian? No. Sorry Sarah you're making up your own history now. WikiLeaks for me has not only that element in it of journalism publishing but also the way in which it does it with its the concept we have a scientific journalism. Scientific journalism John! What?! She is Totally speaking crap. I find very important and really appeals to me that all of the source documents should be there, the concepts of preserving history collating full archives making them as usable as possible so she's done none of this public have access to them i really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with

2:10:34 their own history and we've actually seen that a number of the largest stories that have come out of our publications are because people finding them themselves or people who were involved in maybe a court case then they have some more evidence for their court case. They're able to try and get justice. Oh, I know this is war! Blah blah blah blah... Our show notes do more than you're doing darling i'm sorry I got a couple more things because i know what she's doing. I'm on to her game but so here is one of the things that The Courage Foundation is doing, they have their first campaign which is... I stand for Snowden! I stand for Snowden and Sarah Harrison and there are all YouTube videos

2:11:19 And she stands for... Does she stand for Snowden or...? My name is Sarah Harrison and I'm WikiLeaks investigation editor, and escorted Snowden to the safety of temporary asylum in Russia. Snowden and other whistleblowers do this world a great service, and they should be protected around the globe The United States government though would like to make an example of Snowden and put him in prison for decades This is just hearsay by the way We have to support him and show another example Snowden took great risks to reveal important truths to the world. We should stand with Snowden Berlin stands with snowed in Berlin stands with snowed in what yeah, Berlin stands with snowed in Berlin represents Berlin yes she does apparently

2:12:07 OK, now just to show you the bull crap that all—that Amy Goodman is, the bull crap that Sarah Harrison is. We get to reach back into The No Agenda archives. Ah good. Yeah. But first let's hear the bull crap. When was it within this period of going to Russia Bolivian President Morales' plane was forced down in Austria by— Forced down! There were jets flying by, forcing the plane down. Land or we'll shoot you out of the sky, citizen! —the U.S. government. Well, we were still in the airport. There had been a number of presidents that had been in Russia meeting with Putin. There was—and Morales was one of them. President Morales is one of them. And when his plane took off, there was the allegation that Snowden was on the flight

2:12:56 And the airspace around Europe shut down— Not true. —while he was trying to get across the continent. So, here you see an extraordinary example of the U.S. dominance where they're able to get other supposedly sovereign nations to close their airspace because supposed intel that they have. And a president's plane, violating international agreements is downed and was forced to come down in Austria— All of these different countries participated? Yes, a number. There was Spain, Portugal, France. There were a number of countries that participated. And, of course, Austria had to accept him at the airport. Yeah. I don't think they'd go quite as far as having his plane run out of fuel and just crash to the ground. Ha-ha! Quite so far. Lying sacks both of you. Liars.

2:13:45 I would like to reach back in the Knowagen archives and play for you the... the audio of Foxtrot Alpha Bravo 001, this is the Bolivian president's plane who landed in Austria. I believe at the time we... The way we deduced this is that it was all PR and even the Bolivian president was in on it whether forced or not but he was not forced out of the sky airspace didn't there wasn't like some magical electric fence that closed off around all of the European airspace No! In fact They requested to land in Austria. They made up an issue with their fuel gauge, and as you will hear—and I love playing this—at no point is there any inkling of evidence of a forced-to-land situation. Control, good evening, F-GZC1. F-B001, good evening! Information Whiskey, expect ILS runway 16.

2:14:49 Do you need any assistance when you land? Is everything okay? At this moment we need to land because we cannot get a correct indication of the fuel indication. So as a precaution, we need to land." So it's not uh... We're being forced to land! We've got F-16s on our wingtips! WE GOTTA COME DOWN THEY'RE GONNA SHOOT US!!! No, he makes up something. Oh we can't really get an indication on our fuel gauge so we need to land and check it out because we have to do a press conference! Now of course they don't leave it there they just make some more jokes about this obvious lie this huge lie that they're both involved in It was obviously extraordinary and still is that the president's plane would be downed Downed? Downed!

2:15:48 was downed, people! I think that it is something these sorts of extra legal and extraordinary actions is something that WikiLeaks has seen a number on a number of occasions. You haven't seen that because it didn't actually happen honey? The financial blockade when we were publishing the war logs that started and started publishing Cablegate there was an extralegal financial blockade against us the fact that financially supposedly independent financial companies will just cut off because cut off the publishing organization because of pressure from the U.S. government is, again, another extraordinary act that shouldn't be happening within a rule of law? You're talking about PayPal— PayPal and these masks up? Cutting off any ability for WikiLeaks to get money through— To receive donations direct to us or actually via third parties that were collecting money for us. All right.

2:16:36 There is a rift going on right now. It's all on message boards and there's a lot of history between Cryptome.org and Wikileaks, I'm pretty sure. There was also, uh, Grengren Raf was supposed to release this big fireworks thing you remember that? That was one of his... when his book came out he said on June 27th the big fireworks everybody will know and of course nothing happened then he's tweeting that oh this is because the United States government is blocking me and in fact here I have his tweet here. After three months working on our story, the United States government today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing." So he still hasn't published and then Cryptome they're tweeting oh maybe the EFF will publish all the withheld Snowden documents to forestall war by releasing all documents to go beyond polite public debate

2:17:37 And then they're talking about some war that might start on July 22nd or something. So there's something going on, but somehow Sarah Harrison is involved in this and I think the only thing she's going to do and put this in the Red Book? Kiss-and-tell! Her book is gonna be the book. I slept with Snowden Oh yeah, she's writing a book. That is why she is in Germany She has taken her time and being funded by this bull crap courage organization Well basically this bull crap courage organization is essentially stealing the money that was supposed to be going to... Yes! To Wikileaks! Yeah, Assange So she some piece of work

CHAPTER 23 / 28 Discussion

PCLOB Report, Section 702 Surveillance

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released a report largely endorsing the government's surveillance programs under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper welcomed the findings, which claim the programs are vital for preventing terrorism. Despite previous skepticism from some board members, the final report offers minimal resistance to ongoing NSA data collection practices.

pclob· fisa· section 702· surveillance· james clapper· privacy

2:18:24 And for an investigator— He's stealing Assange's money. Yes, yes! Stealing his money and she's running it — she's using — hanging out with Snowden. Here is a little thing that I found very interesting see if you catch this and why this investigative journalist who uses science journalism didn't catch this mistake or correct Amy Goodman? You're living in Berlin Germany right now but your from Britain why not go home Britain has a terrorism act which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country and this allows them to question people on no more than a hunch

2:19:14 giving them no rights to silence. It also was the case of no rights to a lawyer as well, although that's starting to be changed but you're compelled to answer their questions All the legal advice received is that the likelihood is very strong Schedule 7's, detained under this and questions. Because of my work with WikiLeaks and Snowden there are certainly answers for source protection reasons that I would be unable to answer which would make me committing a crime upon returning home. This is what happened to Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda. Exactly. Glenn Greenwald who met at—of course with Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras in Berlin and wrote the first articles about— Did you not catch it?

2:19:59 I'd have to think about it. It's all right, i'll replay it for you that last bit. David Miranda Glenn Greenwald who met of course with Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras in Berlin... Oh yeah! Right? Yeah they met him in Berlin?! Yeah that's really by the way we have... well don't forget that we have theorized the possibility that Snowden is in Berlin yes And listen to No Correction. He wrote the first articles about the documents Yeah, he was actually just transiting through the country. He was through the UK. He had been in Berlin and he was going back to Glenn in Rio in Brazil Interesting So no correction. Oh no Snowden didn't meet with him in Berlin That didn't happen in Berlin Yeah yeah this whole thing this whole thing this Courage Foundation is one big honeypot

2:20:58 Yeah, definitely. Definitely a honeypot. And you can... I slept with Snowden. Slept with Snowden? I think Lindsay Lohan can play her. Well, tell all... It won't be called that of course. If i was marketing it would be! Yeah, it would...I'd have to think about it. Or how about Sleeping With The Enemy? That's already been used. No that's no good. Fifty Shades Of Snowdon

2:21:35 Now you're talking. Fifty shades of Snowden. Breakfast at Berlin's? But this is, this whole thing stinks. The Sarah Harrison business is bull! Yeah no I agree with you 100% with this And then and then I'd like to finish up just because it's Snowden related the intro how crazy this sounds but the privacy and civil liberties oversight Board which I had some reasonable high regard for with Who was the guy at the the? The main guy David and what's-his-name Mivin midden minden. I forgot it. I don't know You know who he got thrown into the basement whenever we wanted to talk about something because he was essentially saying hey This is not okay, you know you've got a stop with With this listening this you

2:22:38 the surveillance of American citizens. Well, they come out now and they have a...of course they have to release this I'm bringing it up right now They come out with their report Report on the surveillance program operated pursuant to section 702 with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act And they're all in Everything's good now Oh it's okay don't worry about it No problems The whole report is saying everything's beautiful Go for it Even the clapper comes out. We welcome the report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act In this important report, PCLOB confirms that Section 702 has shown its value in preventing acts of terrorism

2:23:24 And the only thing this Miven guy got to do is he got to put a little separate section in the report that says, well um I still don't think you know we should look at some of this stuff maybe kind of. They got them so bad and and so yeah this is uh completely... they must have threatened the guy with something remember? He was all against all of this? Yeah yeah no they probably got their goods on him So this report says nothing but ha-ha let's go for it just go ahead Completely pathetic. Okay, well I can change the pace or we can take a break.

CHAPTER 24 / 28 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, Birthday Shout-outs, Karma

The hosts conducted a formal knighting ceremony for Nicholas Principe, Simon Bennett, Jason Fortin, and Brad Doherty in recognition of their financial support. Birthday wishes were extended to several listeners, including Sir Bernie and Michael Andrews. The segment concluded with a collective "karma" grant for job seekers and a request for "no-rain karma" for a community block party in Fitchburg.

knighting· nicholas principe· simon bennett· jason fortin· brad doherty· karma

2:24:20 I think that's the way to go. or Principe, which I think I call it Princi-pay but yeah, it's Princi-pee. Anyway he was in Raleigh North Carolina and he writes the following... Yes, I got my pen. Go! First John find and close by check for 15290 This should by my math be sufficient to raise me to knighthood without Adam having it throw in a penny He's got some accounting Oh if the name isn't taken i'd like to be the night of the numbers I once Got a fortune from a fortune cookie that read don't let statistics do a number on you

2:25:16 After nine years in the storage performance engineering, I can assure you that the statistics have done a number on me. I've become unable to do basic math without using Excel." Second John and Adam if you remember near the end of last year I sponsored the screening of The Black Cat in the name of No Agenda Show. Here's another result of that sponsorship of The No Agenda Show listed as Vampire Slayer. Did you get your brochure? No! I got the brochure from the film festival. It's got our name in there. Oh, nice! We're on the Vampire Slayer level donator. First resolve of the sponsorship was a title card before the movie, Adam played it clip on the show. No agenda is listed at the bottom or first page of the first column." Okay we got it. Nice! Lately as always thank you for your courage, you've got to pronounce this. My birthday is 7-9 and he'd enjoy a shout out. We'll give him two today. Oh so not only does he become a knight but also has a birthday shout out? Neither which was on the list

2:26:17 Because I have the letter right here. And I wasn't going to type all that stuff in and send it to Eric. How old is he? He doesn't say. What was the birth date? July 9th. Yeah, we'll give it to him today...in advance. Anyway, that's him. Sam Lung in Toronto Ontario 14771 He is always coming in Sir Sam as a matter of fact Don Rosacus Hey Montclair New Jersey Smile. New Jersey, Joy-Z. My old hood man Montclair because she calls this the Boom Shakalaka donation. Bingo boom shakalaka Love Slave D So what is that number then 101? That's bingo boom shakalaka I guess so 101 we'll make it official

2:27:10 Sir Jono elder of Zion yay in Israel $100. He's been very helpful by the way he says thank you for your roughage He's been extremely helpful With a lot of the Middle East stuff that's been going on It was good because I know you can just email him and say what this with Jews He doesn't get offended. Israelis are hard to offend. What's up with the Zionists? Graham Scott in Australand Sir Dr Sharkey in Jackson, Tennessee 9880

2:27:47 He had an idea here, by the way. Yeah? He said instead of doing the temperature donation why not-of the uh... Of the temperature where you live Why not donate your body temperature he says it could be a real winner doing flu season because it'll go up to 102 to 103 degrees Guy's a genius Yes Paul Tittle in Hamilton, Ontario $88.19 and now we have our 4th of July callouts of 74 dollars and 14 cents from the following people Matthew Januszewski in Chicago Illinois Sir Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach Virginia Jeffrey Fitch in Winter Garden Florida John Anderson in Youngsville Louisiana Eric Kittnik in San Francisco

2:28:38 Viscount Robert Gashko in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Mac Tank in La Jolla California Jason Fortune in Geneva Illinois He becomes a knight today with this donation and he's a knight today Maurice Tate in Vallejo California the city that started it all Shane Pedden in Cartersville Georgia Dwyer James in Hong Kong Sam have home have home in the cotton in New York Yeah Jaron you room your own your own and then Bosch then boss then Bosh Yorun, and then Bosh No he has a birthday. Oh well it's I'm sorry got the colors wrong yeah that sent

2:29:38 Dharma's damar Damar. Yes, and tomorrow This is an Indian guy Vasant that Sant Damara Damaraj Damaraj Sorry in San Jose California Brad Doherty in Brooklyn New York Harvey Lee and federal Brad Brad's gonna be a night today Oh Brad is gonna be a knight he says I'm a knight You will be but this is note. I'm a knight Where was I, Brad Doherty? Harvey Lee in Federal Way Washington. Lai Chin Chow in Daly City California did send a little note and he wrote this up where are the notes yeah anyway he said something yes He said hi Hi to you too Here it is Chow's note

2:30:42 Lie, I think is it's got a nose like lai could be a girl Enclosed is the lucky fourth of July donation You a check to bypass PayPal anyway. I was recently laid off So can you please send me some job hunting karma? You know this is an example somebody laid off and Still taking part. Yeah, we're going to give karma and jobs karma at the end of this list obviously because we just can't But people know we don't read all the notes out loud anymore for the regular donation segment We do read them all we love what you're writing to it. She'll get her thing as soon I said lie lai look it up see if it's a female or male name in

2:31:28 Mandarin or Cantonese. Sir James Mann in Ringle, Louisiana and he gives his call letters are KF5YAE Yankee Alpha Echo Kentucky Fried 5 U Arab Emirates Now I'm looking at...I did Lai Qian and then hit images there's about an equal amount of dudes as gals Wow all Chiners And some of them I can't even tell what they are. Well, there's that Jean-Pierre Fassette in Ottawa Ontario Oh, I'm sorry This is the this is the Canadian we got two Canadians that came in on the first of you know The first of July their day which we didn't mention I think I did in a newsletter Yeah

2:32:18 So in the newsletter we got that two Canadians came in, that's how celebratory they are in Canada. Two! John Pierre Fissette 71-14 and Chris Terhart in Abbotsford BC. A lot of Dutch up there. Okay onward Robert Cobb 5555 in Brandon Florida Jesse Simonen double nickels on the dime Stephen McConnell, Double Nickels on the Diamond, Cortlandt Ohio. Joshua Mandel Greenville South Carolina $55.10 and these last ones are fifty dollar donors there's only a few Eric Broun West St Paul Minnesota Steven Milliken in Corpus Christi Texas Greg Brunsell

2:33:04 Believe is a sir Kenosha, Wisconsin and finally Brian Navarro who comes in monthly through the mail from Los Angeles California and then as we get ready for our For our general karma special call out for Sir Mark Tanner I would greatly appreciate if you give us a happy anniversary shout-out for 34 years of happiness with Lady Beverly mmm 34 years Is that anything? Is that like Is that a wood? No. 34? 34, yeah I think for that It's the lug nut Also please send a little good luck car our way as we are headed to Vegas soon

2:33:41 Thanks as always for the great show. I'll be sending an extra contribution Thank you very much. It's a July 5th, and then I did receive this morning Although the donation won't come through until Sunday from Janet's I just made a donation in honor of Sir Bernie Atoma's birthday on July fifth Included a note with my PayPal pound But I thought it also email you to be sure our shout out made it on the show sir Bernie never misses your show We will mean a lot to him so I had it back and forth And I said well You know cut off his midnight but of course First of all, it's Sir Bernie and second of all how lovely for you to do this for him as far his birthday. So here is a shout out I also enjoy listening the show its informative and entertaining It's awesome! I got a letter from Devin Chapman that you got too He just wanted us announced they moved the block party to Saturday Oh so he wants some no rain karma which will conclude with job karma at the end here I don't have a rain thing Fitchburg

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CHAPTER 25 / 28 Discussion

PBS NewsHour Transition, WETA Takeover

The production of PBS NewsHour has transitioned from MacNeil-Lehrer Productions to WETA, the Washington D.C. public television station. This change follows years of influence from the Gates Foundation, which has provided significant funding to the program. The hosts express concern that the move further centralizes the program's journalism within the D.C. establishment, potentially compromising its original mission of independent, in-depth reporting.

pbs newshour· weta· macneil-lehrer· gates foundation· cnbc· public broadcasting

2:37:50 And we again highly appreciate your support of this program. Pretty much nothing we talked about today, right down to Tourette's even quite honestly you would only hear the sad music. Ooh suffering from Tourette's off the field! When Adam is not doing his award... I mean I can't say award when Adam is not doing The Best Podcast in Universe he suffers a- He carries a much heavier burden as a sufferer of Tourettes Syndrome. Probably get some ink for that I should. Top story? Former VJ suffers from Tourette's, how did we never see it?! EPA employees told to stop pooping in the hallway! Oh god this is two weeks old stop of this story it's dumb How about this enough said Norway is talking about banning circumcision

2:38:45 This is a thing that crops up from time to time, particularly in Europe. Well in America it certainly was for awhile our culture had nothing to do with religion as far as I know... ...to circumcise boys and this is now becoming a big deal and it's like no don't mutilate the children! And well I don't know what you know where this comes from? Do you what this is about?! It's been going on for a while. I believe it comes from the women's movement. Oh, female circumcision is a problem with the Muslims? Well then they figured men shouldn't get into something like that...I'm not sure we should look into it! I don't think its got anything to do with oil pipelines. You know what, I bet you with a little bit of work I can make it come right back down to a pipeline. Newtown Connecticut

2:39:43 I didn't realize there was a Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime. And... I think I knew that! ...and they hand out money. Woo, money! And so Newtown received 1.5 million dollar grant from the office last year The public school district received 3.2 million and now the victim families are receiving 7.1 million dollars in federal grants to support the victims Interesting Sounds like shut up money to me It's called hush money. Yeah, oh it's the same thing which is very strange I mean do if something bad happens to you? Do you- Is it normal we all just get money from the government If your loved one gets shot to death do you get money from the government? No they're not throwing a lot of money into Oakland where there's a lot of people getting shot to death That's why I wonder how does this work or how do you qualify? I don't know Weird Maybe worth looking into but we probably won't

2:40:45 No, we won't. You're right. Why bother? Here's something that disturbed me and they played it up as happy news Oh This is the NewsHour apparently the production company is changing hands And that's the NewsHour for tonight. But before we go, we would like to salute Robert McNeil and Jim Lehrer For their service in the United States Marine Corps Our founding fathers Tonight is a last edition of this program produced by the company they created To support what we call McNeill-Lehrer journalism As of tomorrow We welcome WETA The Washington DC Public Television Station as it takes over

2:41:27 Robin and Jim, we know you're watching. Your legacy lives on our journalism will remain the same and you have our everlasting thanks. It'll remain the same? You just won't see it on the show! Wow that's exactly right So the journalism will remain the same, but they're not going to be putting any of it on the air. Do you have any backstory on this? No I just found out about this played yesterday! Wow... And i went what?! These are two guys used to be called The McNeil-Lehrer Report and the whole idea was to get away from the mainstream media people that are propagandizing the public and try to deliver some real news and do it in an hour package instead of a half hour

2:42:05 quick bites. So you can play some stuff for a minute or two, yeah? And so they would do the more in-depth stuff and then slowly kind of... Then the Gates Foundation is not exciting enough! And I think the Gates Foundation is somehow behind this whole thing. They dumped the production company! Huh? They basically fired the production company and put in the local PBS affiliate in Washington DC, you don't think that's slanted?! Yeah what are the call letters again? WETA. W E T A estimated time of arrival... hold on a minute let me just tell you here's what you do W E T A Gates Foundation

2:42:41 Come on, John. You could have done this. Why am I doing all this? You could have done it yourself. Well there might be a connection... Oh gee! The Gates Foundation grant will enable... Let's see that's an old story. This is not that hard to do but if you do W-E-T-A the Gates Foundation they're all over this Yeah well the Gates foundation is behind us and we didn't even have to do that already said it yeah but it's nice if we had like me know something like a little background on it alright well you got Crazy. Soon to be produced by CNBC maybe, how about that? Why don't you just do that people? No, that's not going to happen yet. Jeez, jeez I tell ya! There is a new Polish member of the European Parliament... He did coffin up 3.6 million to the WTA operation. I'm sorry? There is a lot of money going over there. Hello?!

CHAPTER 26 / 28 Discussion

Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Zero Growth Movement

Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke delivered a speech in the European Parliament denouncing the "war on global warming" as a tool for achieving "zero growth." He argued that carbon dioxide is beneficial for plant life and that climate policies are a "humbug" designed to waste trillions of euros. The hosts link this to the 1970s "population bomb" hysteria and the Club of Rome's efforts to limit industrial expansion.

janusz korwin-mikke· european parliament· global warming· carbon dioxide· zero growth· club of rome

2:43:37 I'm sorry, you keep going back. 3.6 million yeah! That's just at a pop. Yeah... A new Polish member of European Parliament and i put the transcript of what he is-you will about what you're about to hear him say into the show notes um it's very-you have to kind of meld your mind to hear what he's saying but i think it's very important you do hear it And in case you didn't catch it all, I'll give you the transcript. Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen Among the major challenges mentioned in the appendix 1, I see a cost of energy But this cost is generated by EU thanks to war on global warming This war if effective would harm natural environment because what plants need most for growth is carbon dioxide

2:44:25 Fortunately, this war has no effect at all. But the countries occupied by the EU had paid tremendous price. The global warming if it is real is not anthropogenic in this homebook but it's an instrument to achieve a strategic goal – zero growth! At this goal a clandestine dream of some person sitting among us had been reached for two trillion euros spent and wasted. It's salony I hope on January the prosecution office of you will be at last established and the culprits, including pseudo-scientists who had in bad faith supported this lunacy will be found named duly prosecuted tried and put to jail. Okay so i need to read the second half of that because he says some good things it's very hard to understand well it's quite funny to listen to him The global warming if it is real is not anthropogenic It is humbug which she says humbug I like that humbug!

2:45:20 But it is the instrument to achieve a specific goal, zero growth. And this goal—a clandestine dream of some person sitting among us—has been reached! For two trillions of euro have been spent and wasted. It is a felony! I hope on January, it should be in January the prosecution office of the EU will at last be established and the culprits including the pseudoscientists who had in bad faith supported this lunacy will be found named duly prosecuted tried and put to jail I'm liking somebody's treat. This is speaking truth to power Yeah, the thing is we didn't understand what the fuck the guy said this is someone needs to train him because his words are powerful but when it was like geez there's no He needs to work on as an area addition yeah well I got kind of involved and you know I followed that by following my I did it I'm still working on this good job Poland You got a good guy there Good work

2:46:23 John I didn't realize you know we talked about global cooling and how it was a big deal in the 70s And and that but that wasn't the real analog for what we're seeing today with global warming, and I think this guy kind of made The point is about zero growth mm-hmm because there's zero growth movement actually began in the late 40s And then to it. There's actual movement called the zero growth moment if there wasn't it wasn't called that It was called population control ah And it took a...it began in the 40s and it developed into the 50's, and then by the 60s, the book came out. And now it's called Planned Parenthood? No no this is...no! It essentially I believe..I don't know like I'm not gonna get into it but I was doing all my research on this thing that was when it was taking place with Earhart and all the rest of it

2:47:14 on the zero population growth thing and the Club of Rome, and how we're all gonna be dead by the end of the president. Everybody was all in to such an extreme... it's the same exact thing as global warming. If you brought up in 1972 the idea that The population could double, world population could double and it would be fine. It'd probably be less famines than there are today you would be shouted down the same way you get shouted down for global warming. Right so this is now that was 40 years ago

2:47:50 I'm right. Yeah, people forget that's how long we have to deal with this global warming crap yeah Well look how long it take to took to evolve it started in the 40s and with a couple of reports government reports about The population being too many people and then either 50s It really started becoming an intellectual thing and started being discussed as a population bomb And then you ended up with the popularization of the books and and the Club of Rome, and all the rest of it. It was a 30-40 year cycle...it was in 50's to get there? All the fifties, all the sixties, and all the seventies. Thirty years of it before people stopped talking about it! And they still talk about it a little bit but not as much as they were talking about where you get shouted down. This is about the same we're probably about two thirds of the way through the global warming hysteria which is gonna last another decade. I'm so tired already

2:48:43 And there's a new meme, by the way that we can look out for. Since we failed at carbon neutrality the new meme is We have to go Carbon Negative! Put it in the book! I'm not putting it in the book, I'm putting it as a show title! We're going Carbon Negative baby That's how we roll carbon negative. That would create zero growth that would be a well But I think during the population boom, I think this is just an extension of that the popular the fears of world population Which by the way? So very interesting lecture on how it's gonna level off and then just basically go flat with X number of billions And what lecture was this can we find this somewhere have you had a clip in some show We never played it

2:49:30 But anyway, I think this is just an extension of the same thing. You know this desire by the rich to stop things from growing and you know it's too easy to lose control a war breaks out and people take their stuff. And what is the best way? Hey hey man don't take my Maybach! Don't touch my stuff! Yeah you're right now What is the best way to control the people in today's day and age what do you have to control? The water. No, that would be a good one! That's the latest one by the way the water scare I have this hold on I have it here It's easy to know the price of this around the world a bottle of water but not so much this

CHAPTER 27 / 28 Discussion

Council of Mayors, Common Core, Municipal Broadband

The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed resolutions reaffirming support for Common Core standards and the implementation of municipal broadband. While framed as promoting competition, the hosts argue that mayors often create local monopolies by granting exclusive rights to companies like Comcast. The resolutions also use "net neutrality" language that emphasizes the regulation of "lawful" content, raising concerns about future internet censorship.

council of mayors· common core· broadband· net neutrality· comcast· time warner

2:50:17 Water the commodity it is the most precious of commodities and in the future world population growth and climate change Could combine to make potable water much more scarce So now people are pondering a world a couple decades into the future where water could be traded on a futures exchange like oil or gold so that there's a more efficient pricing mechanism. Water is more challenging however than other commodities blah blah blah they said you're right It's already being put into place water commodity more precious than gold or oil, water. The thing you really want to control is the internet of course. Well that would be a useful thing. Two documents and that's all I'm going to do for today lots more on Sunday but two documents that correspond in some very very interesting ways one is we have this mayor's thing, the Council of Mayors

2:51:17 I think it's what it's called, and they apparently get together and then they make resolutions. And with these resolutions they go back and then they essentially ramrod things through their own cities as kind of a new world order of the mayors. They had a recent meeting and they released their resolutions which is 260 pages But well worth talking about just a few things. Of course, the main thing they're always concerned about is children health and human services And I just want to read this... So this just shows you how the Common Core is going to be ramrodded through no matter what you say No matter what you want

2:52:09 And the things that are in here are very interesting, where they say...it's just like the United Nations where they have whereas-whereas-whereas-whereas. It is therefore be it resolved? You know these kinds of documents? Oh yeah! So it was very kind of official looking so whereas officers demonstrate a locally led national movement of governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states whatever you're eating the packaging is making a lot of noise Sorry Whereas Common Core state standards are internationally benchmarked with top performing countries. Standards have been widely accepted among states, increased student achievement particularly for the most disadvantaged students so somehow that the poor suckers get a better for them... Somehow.

2:52:56 Therefore be it resolved that the U.S Conference of Mayors reaffirms its support for the ongoing implementation of Common Core State Standards in all available states, which are becoming less and less including the development of appropriately rigorous companion assessments and continued funding for professional development technology and broadband access." So we need some free broadband while were at it And thats really what I was looking for in this document because they have something to say about broadband. And this is very important because mayors really control a lot of the competition

2:53:39 that does or does not go into your local city based upon resolutions of carriage of wires on telephone poles, opening up streets permission to do all that. And and that is the real reason why there's little competition as companies like Comcast and Time Warner, they signed deals with the local municipalities saying okay we're going to invest in the broadband but you can't let anyone else put a wire next to ours on the pole. And this is the real problem so these mayors resolve under the heading preserving a free and open internet! A free and open internet which can be interpreted in many ways

2:54:24 And it's interesting because they use the exact same, to the letter the exact same words as the FCC. and they have a lot of whereas in here I like this Since interception The internet has existed based on principles of freedom and openness core values that have made it the most powerful communication medium ever known! Huh... I'm not so sure but okay More so than the human voice and the development of language. Yes, clearly! And the written word? Whereas the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC in 2010 determined that the long observed open internet principles of non-discrimination, non blocking transparency described below should not be declared an FCC policy statement but instead should be enshrined informal

2:55:10 rulemaking seeking to reinstate those principles. So they're all in on the net neutrality, in fact it says whereas these rules enshrine the values of what is commonly referred to as net neutrality and here is the sad part which I'm going to focus on um...in the second document we'll discuss whereas the second principle states that fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content application services or non-harmful devices. Mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or block applications that compete with their voice and video telephony services. And fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic." What does that mean? Lawful... We've talked about this a million times! I know but it's important that we bring this up again

2:56:13 Very important. To finalize this, it says lawful lawful lawful... In fact they do it continuously Lawful lawful lawful They have be it resolved the US Conference of Mayors supports securing a commitment to transparency the free flow of information over the internet including no blocking of lawful websites No unreasonable discrimination of lawful network traffic I ask you what is lawful network traffic? But most importantly Be it resolved that the US Conference of Mayors recommends the FCC pre-empt state barriers to municipal broadband service as a significant limitation to competition in the provision of internet access. Which means you can't just do something together like your own little deal there. It's very disturbing. Mesh network. Can't do it, illegal. Illegal!

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FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Lawful Content Definitions

The FCC has released a 90-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the "open internet," with a public comment deadline of July 15, 2014. The document repeatedly uses the terms "lawful content" and "lawful network traffic" without providing specific definitions. The hosts warn that this legal ambiguity will require deep packet inspection and grant the government the power to determine what speech is permitted online, effectively bypassing First Amendment protections.

fcc· net neutrality· federal register· lawful content· packet inspection· censorship

2:57:10 So the only reason I bring up those pieces is because the FCC finally, and you have until July 15th to comment, released their proposed rules for protecting and promoting the open internet. And I started to look at it, you know. I started to go through it thinking oh well let's see what we can find in here... This is the NPRM, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. It's released in The Federal Register. Haven't heard anyone talk- haven't seen a single website even point to this! We have the entire document 90 pages marked up in The Show Notes 631.noagendanotes.com and again you have until July 15th to comment. I've no idea how any

2:57:55 mere mortal can comment on any of this because it's so much gobbledygook crap about just bullshit. It's all bullshit, but the main thing and yes we talked about this but I think it's important we bring it up again Because this is the only thing you need to focus on. Not about fast lanes, not about slow lanes, not about packet inequality... none of that! You need to talk about and ask questions of who determines what is legal content? Who determines what is legal network traffic? What does that mean and who is going to determine that will be the FCC? Will there be Congress? What is legal

2:58:37 They will spin off a committee of FCC, it'll be FCC related. Like a steering committee or subcommittee of the FCC some group that's sanctioned by the FCC and they, the FCC has been trying to get its hands on the cable business forever because they can't censor it. They can censor broadcast TV if somebody shows a nipple like in find you $350,000 which has been done because they have their They got rules. And they've always been trying to get their greasy fingers in on other things, including the cable TV people because they're cussing too much on cable TV and it creates...because they're talking like real people talk, they cuss, they say whatever they want and it creates a disadvantage for the network TV folks which is really what this is all about which is protecting them, the big giant corporations that own the big three networks four networks including Fox

2:59:31 And so what you want to do is, the internet is a huge competitor to the TV networks. Massive! It's screwing them. People are watching more YouTube videos especially the millennials. We need some rules in place because there's a lot of illegal hate speech yes that'll be one hate speech will be one porn porn will be another to a lesser extent than hates how about saying things like jews and arabs and cripples it's hater reds eight-speed a whole speech and calling people names like watermelon head or hate speech now but it gets more interesting because the second the order they called the order

3:00:16 adopted anti-blocking requirements, the order is lawful content, lawful applications, lawful services and lawful network traffic. That's the one that really gets me so in order to approve network traffic as lawful and legal you have to look at it! You have to inspect every single packet We are the only people talking about this and there's of the 90 pages 60 of them have the word legal or lawful in them and Nowhere, is there a determination? What is legal what is lawful or who was going to mission no definition And who was going to determine that? government

3:01:14 Your governments, they're on your side Adam. They're not trying to do anything bad. I would like... They are not trying to shut down the show! I would like every person who, if you ever have a conversation about net neutrality... You need to say, I don't give a crap about fast lanes or slow lanes. The minute you allow any regulation it comes down to lawful and legal content applications services and network traffic I'm going to presume some kind of legislation is that there's gonna be some regulation. Are you presuming the same? Oh, I'm Presuming I've been predicting this for a decade podcast licenses blog licenses in Brazil For example you had to be a journalist in Brazil

3:02:11 You have to have a license. You have to be licensed to be a journalist and we've seen the push toward this They can't get around the First Amendment That's kind of the drawback would you trying to do but you can with something like the Internet? The internet is not protected by the First Amendment I mean, maybe it isn't in some Realm of thinking but it's almost like I don't think anyone was gonna fight it It's for the best For the best and about the fast lanes But that's that's the distraction And it's a brilliant one. Yeah, that's quite good But when you read through this document which I encourage you to do not you John you don't give a crap I'm not gonna read it now Why bother? That's why you have me People will see this is this is it's very very very sad It is almost as sad as the war on cash Which turns out...I didn't know this

3:03:10 I was laughing about this Oyster system, the Oyster card in the UK. Yeah! Oh man that's nothing DC has this Chicago has this and it's already being used as a debit card Lollapalooza this year launches cashless payments to lure in Millennials says Adweek How dumb are the Millennials to fall for this? They're all ambitious. I have my doubts about them! I think that the best thing we can do is when it all, when everything...when society breaks down we're going to have to eat the Millennials That's what's gonna come down they'll be that the most juicy they'll have the tenderest meat They'll roast real easy and you can probably convince him to hop on the fire

3:03:56 Right, just say that's where all the hipsters are doing it. All the kids are doing it! Jump on board I've got a quick clip that I want to play that I think is something as trending It's not trending massively but its trending enough that I think it's being held in abeyance To further scare of the public Oh well damn, I'm all-in let's go Ebola Yeah, I've seen this being rocked by Sanjay Gupta and yeah. of just one week, an emergency meeting of 11 West African health ministers being held today in Ghana in fact to try and coordinate a regional response. Yeah I've been watching this Keep an eye on it That's my pick the click Ok so there are couple things we'll be talking about on Sunday I've got actually a tonne of stuff Japan definitely some med stuff

3:05:13 DudesNameBen, got a lot of dudes named Ben we didn't get to have today. Yeah they're writing us about email policy retention and I have some insiders at the IRS who are telling me about how the systems there work so i think that'll be fun too to talk about and read them again all dudes name ben and if you have a dude named ben who works in your organization say hi tell him you appreciate what he or she does and tell them listen no agenda yes indeed For those of you in the United States of Gitmo Nation, enjoy the sail! This is a sail. It's...a white sail. A white sail? That is what we celebrate on the 4th of July and to you John I say thank you for your courage Thank you for your courage Adam And coming to you from the capital of the drone star state here in FEMA region 6 in the morning everybody

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