Episode 633 · Thursday, 10 July 2014

Reverse the Curse

Diplomatic ties between Berlin and Washington fracture over espionage as the neoconservative agenda for global intervention faces new scrutiny during the 2014 World Cup.

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About this episode

Germany expels the CIA station chief in Berlin following the arrest of a German Secret Service employee accused of selling intelligence to the United States. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland face mounting pressure as reports from the Washington Post suggest a second NSA leaker may be operating within German borders. This diplomatic rift coincides with the 2014 World Cup semi-finals, where Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil fuels theories regarding FIFA match-fixing and Argentina's sovereign debt crisis.

In the Middle East, the Israel-Gaza conflict intensifies as Hamas launches rockets toward Haifa and Tel Aviv, testing the technical limits of the Iron Dome defense system. General Wesley Clark's 2007 Pentagon memo regarding military intervention in seven countries resurfaces as regional instability spreads to Jordan, where the Muslim Brotherhood leads mass protests near the Israeli embassy in Amman. Meanwhile, Robert Kagan and the neoconservative establishment advocate for a permanent American military presence to maintain global order, even as Senator Bob Corker challenges the State Department on the efficacy of Russian sanctions.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak explore the oddities of Dutch birthday circles and the lost art of amateur radio QSL cards. The hosts critique Glenn Greenwald's latest Intercept report as a news turd while noting the TSA's new requirement for passengers to power on electronic devices at security checkpoints. Sir Anthony and Sir SaabSwiss receive their knighthoods as the show signs off from FEMA Region 6.


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CHAPTER 01 / 32 Discussion

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak Open Episode 633

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 633 of the No Agenda show, noting an unusually early start time. Curry discusses hosting Dave Jones, the developer of the Freedom Controller, and his family in Austin, Texas. Dvorak describes traditional Dutch birthday customs involving sitting in circles and decorated chairs.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· gitmo nation· fema region 6· austin· silicon valley· freedom controller· dave jones

00:00 Good to see everybody who loves God in different ways killing each other. Good work, everybody! Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Thursday July 10th 2014 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 633 This is no agenda Exercising deep decarbonization direct from FEMA Region 6 in the Travis Heights hideout in the capital of their own star state. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I've got to Redbook back from downstairs where I've kept it and I've got a lot of explaining to do. I'm John C. DeVore. Man! Early!

00:39 Don't lose time no, no we're early. We have not started before 11 o'clock at Central Time Yeah in Years yeah, we made it by two minutes Yeah, I mean that's earlier than then we actually where we normally starts about you know 10 after the hour And this is because you fill out a bed or shit pretty much I Think I might as well get up and so I was I was up early to me. I had house guests Oh! Yeah, Miss Mickey is off. She's in Mexico visiting her godchild which was her big birthday present to go to Mexico Second prize was two weeks in Mexico What? Old joke When was your birthday It was on the 8th so I have her in the birthday lineup Okay cool So yeah

01:35 So for her birthday she leaves you. Yes, well... At least in Mexico! Well you know how the Dutch are with their birthdays and I always have to do the decorate everything so I didn't have to do that this year I just had to get up at 430 and take... Right, supposed to decorate everything then the way I hear it described is everyone takes- You take chairs like as many as you have in the house and push them up against a wall No no big circle Big circle Okay and then big circle up against the wall And then everyone sits on the chairs and sit there silently for I guess one hour? Nononono I'm getting everyone comes in of course you congratulate every member of the family, so it's You would say to me Adam congratulations with your wife's birthday. Huh yeah, that's interesting pleasant Oh It's very pleasant and then you know you decorate the you have a birthday chair And that's decorated there's a bird here and the person has to sit in it yes absolutely

02:27 And what do they do? They sit there and they have to put up with what? Well, the same people who's... you know, you were at someone's birthday last week and they all come in. They sit in a big circle and talk about I don't know what they take for bad breath. It sounds like you might, oh I see why you're so amenable to the ham radio scene! Easy now... it sounds like the guys that are casually chatting on The Ham and uh no but it's kind of... And 14 Reflector yeah 14 Charlie oh boy Charlie Reflector 14 Charlie Oh boy someone's been listening

03:07 Anyway, so coming through town on his way...on their way to Houston Dave Jones and his lovely wife stopped by. And they stayed overnight kind of in between the boxes here Dave Jones is you know develop the Freedom Controller. He's the sole developer on that right? He's our developer guy Yeah, well no he's not a developer guys the freedom controller guy. Oh, yeah, he's the freedom controller guy It's not just developer guy But in your bloods developer guy freedom controller makes everything run it's what makes the show notes run if it's everything and fantastic And so took him out to dinner and was really nice there if she's from Alabama they're from Alabama No pleasant state

03:51 Sounds pretty cool. Oh, you've never been to Alabama? I don't think so Here's what your first impression of Alabama swingers not talking about the Hicks that are in Alabama or all the fireworks They sell when they're during 4th of July where you can buy like essentially a quarter stick of dynamite on the roadside Yeah sides that You're driving down these six-lane freeways. I swear, I did this once! I'm going up to some six lane freeway from somewhere to somewhere and there was nobody on either side of the road. I went into the fast lane stopped dead got out of my car looked around There was nothing. Did a little dance? Off i went. Did a jig

04:32 I could have. It was it's astonishing they have because of all the you know, the types of politicians they've had over the years They have just got the federal government to give them all kinds of infrastructure that is just like perfect Outrageous and then i look out the window here and you see the freeway stop dead um so different So um, they brought me a mccallan 12 as a gift as a house gift which was very nice Yeah, it would be good and you know they're they have three kids took me a minute to think of what you're talking about I was thinking is shotgun Metallica Callan 12-gauge yeah exactly. Yes right well. I'd had a sip of the last night he might as well be

05:18 And it was funny because they got three kids who they're homeschooling. So, good for them! Yeah and they were very happy to be away just the two of them Three kids home schooling... That's a lot But they assured me that never put a leash on their kids Good for them They don't go to airports a lot I guess they drive around They drive yeah exactly Alright John we need to figure out what is going on here Well, let's play the but I got the background clip. Oh hold on a second you might as well Play that just for a little slight intro. Oh, I'm not a little behind hold on a second I wasn't I wasn't prepared for that hold on sorry would um you're so early today? I'm just huh okay background clip does it say background clip no says Brazil oh okay There's something

CHAPTER 02 / 32 Discussion

FIFA World Cup Rigging Allegations and Argentina Economic Crisis

Analysis of the 2014 World Cup semi-final suggests the 7-1 defeat of Brazil by Germany may have been influenced by external pressures or gangsters. A geopolitical thesis is presented where Argentina is favored to win the tournament to stabilize its domestic economic crisis and sovereign debt default. The discussion explores how FIFA might prefer a European-South American final over an all-South American matchup to maintain global interest.

fifa· world cup· brazil· germany· argentina· ronaldo· cristina fernandez· sovereign debt

06:07 First it was a battering for Brazil. The World Cup hosts have been apologizing to fans after they crashed out of their own tournament in a 7-1 semi final defeat to Germany, a match that broke all kinds of records Miroslav Klose netted five goals in the first 29 minutes alone making him the World Cup's all-time top scorer. By the time Oscar and Claude won back in the 90th minutes, Brazilian fans were already cheering for the Germans and police were out in force around the stadium to prevent riots. Captain David Luiz has offered his apologies to all Brazilians while coach Scolari said it was the worst day of his life. Now before you say anything because I know you want to launch into something here

06:53 I have a feeling if we had had to show somewhere between Sunday and the game yesterday, we may have come up with some Alternative theories. I'm not trying to backpedal or anything, but the news that you're doing well then no because the news came out Monday in the Netherlands That the Dutch team had to leave their hotel they were only booked through the semi-finals because all the sponsors were coming in for the For the you know for the big final match And I'm thinking if those guys booked in and they knew there are getting kicked out by the semifinals that's kind of telling yeah

07:30 Well, it is kind of telling and it would have maybe led us to some new analysis. Maybe, maybe... And by the way I think that the one thing we can still agree on is this stuff is rigged! Well, I've gone through a number of iterations on what happened. Because I know people will probably bet on the game based on the fact that we're never wrong... Oh yeah! We do have some emails like, well too bad your donation is all gone. I bet the money away. Thanks. Boy there was one guy knowing he was betting on the game and he's gonna give us a piece of the action. He gave us some vig. Yeah.

08:08 Well, one thing that would be real insulting thing here which kind of gets overlooked is the German guys now the leading scorer in World Cup history and you know who he replaces the top scoring World Cup history was the very famous Ronaldo from Brazil. And I think that was not... Wait wait wait isn't Ronaldo Portugal? No, no. The Rinaldo of Brazil who led to Ronaldinho and some of these other guys who evolved from this character was really a great player. And historically Germany versus Brazil Brazil has always will always beat them. Always yeah, Germany one nil two one four one two one Yeah seven ones a bit much like we know what the hell were talking about We don't point that's all beside the point here's what here's when I first thought I thought that this game was rigged in favor of Brazil because Of the nature of the Brazilians and they're gonna wrecked a place and all the rest of it

09:04 and so they did the and what we didn't think about was the possibility that dead gangsters in were in brazil a corrupt country's got a lot of Erked gangsters who have been rousted from the favelas in the hills because you know, the Brazilians have been doing that they've been they've been tearing down those shanty towns which are on the sides of all them all the hills and with all the best views of Rio and every place in South Palo to a lesser extent. And so they went and they decided to rig the game and they just and to intimidate the team is we're gonna They broke one guy's back

09:40 Right, the Brazilian star player. The star player and then they also took the team captain who apparently the Brazilians felt was even more important he's out of the game and said there's probably you could have said we're gonna kill someone if you don't blow this game No, it will kill your family! The Brazilian say to themselves Yeah, the Brazilian players say okay We'll lose the game And let's just not play Which is what it looked like. Yeah, you know the game was horrible so they said we'll just lose big and so and they did And it became obvious that something happened Something was wrong because even if your a crap team You can defend play a very defensive game and keep the score down Especially if your at that level cause the Brazilians have a lot of great players

10:32 Okay, that was my first thought. And there's nothing you can do about that because we were thinking about the corruption at the FIFA level." Then I said well let's go up another notch and say it was FIFA. And here is the logic here... We say FIFA. Ah, FIFA, FIFA. It's F-I-F-A So here's the logic for this. Brazil has got to lose because the team that has to win, it's gotta be based on the same basic thesis that we've always had along the way which was the team with the economic strife and Spanish-like situation has to be the team that wins and that country is Argentina! I gotta clip? Good. It started peacefully enough, Argentine car workers protesting against layoffs but clashes on the Panamericana highway leading into Buenos Aires soon erupted as angry pickets confronted police The auto part company Lear has announced mass redundancies blaming them on the current recession Unions say it's the fault of the government pandering to American companies in unpopular debt negotiations

11:36 This is happening because President Cristina Fernandez's government is doing business and negotiating with imperialists to pay the fraudulent external debt, and for this reason it has to maintain good relations with the American company owners. Argentina has until July 30th to reach a deal with hedge funds suing for full repayment of sovereign bonds which the country defaulted on in 2002. It's been holding out but the American Supreme Court, where the case was heard ruled in favor of the funds Payments will send Argentina into its second default in 13 years

12:14 Exactly, and of course our hedge funds are pretty funny. They can get away with this but they did anyway So so the logic would be this you cannot have a final with Brazil in Argentina for two for a couple of different reasons One is that it doesn't it takes the European out I didn't I'd you know? I should have thought about this The audience's worldwide and you don't want South America to countries sitting right next to which just like it's like the the World Series in 1989 where the Giants play the A's. I mean, you go across a bridge and there is another team nobody is interested in this game except people in Northern California And so you got to keep one of the European teams in the finals and if you want Argentina to win that means it has to be Germany and you definitely don't want Argentina playing Brazil in the final because that would cause some riots and all kinds of strife and it would be bad to see these two countries budding right next to each other in the final

13:09 So Brazil had to be taken out. They decided to throw the game in a massive way, this is like the punch drunk fighter that throws a boxing match and the guy takes a wild swing at him misses him and the guy goes down and he's out That's essentially what we got to see. And so the winner, and I don't think we were thinking clearly...I also think that the FIFA people or FIFA they're not gonna be intimidated by Brazil and their threats essentially. We were actually buying into the idea that Brazil is gonna burn down the place if they don't win. And the Brazilians are saying the same thing.

13:49 They weren't going to be pushed around. You guys wanted the cup, you got the cup now just live with what we're doing which is making a political statement in favor of Argentina and there are elections coming up in Brazil right I know that's gonna be funny yeah some people think this overthrow the government whatever the case was I think if we go back to the basic no agenda thesis that we normally use to analyze these things, and we had recognized the Argentina situation a little. Since we didn't talk a lot about it, I think we may have gotten this correct right off the bat instead of picking Brazil... And the only reason we picked Brazil is because of the intimidation factor that they're going to burn down the place. Which is not happening!

14:36 Well, that's because if you get trounced at that level it's not like it was a close game and you could say... You just didn't play. You gave up! Whatever the case I think we out-thought ourselves and instead of really being objective like we've been in the past I'm sorry. I think we just got it wrong Well, that's what I mean because we test because I think we've had it wrong We weren't thinking along the lines that we thought of in the past well There's one other thing that now comes to mind Now we have a final with the two countries that have each have a living Pope and one is out and one is now The Pope yeah, that's funny mm-hmm

15:22 I don't know if that would affect the outcome of the game. The game's going to Argentina, that's all there is to it There's no way Germany is gonna be allowed to win this game That...if well? If they do win oh man! Well if they do then we can stop and just assume that this game wasn't rigged Because that way with us a bad assumption I find that hard to believe I mean in looking at the news about the Dutch game You know so Louis van Gaal, the coach, the trainer or the manager whatever for the Dutch. So he didn't do his switcheroo putting in the long tall goalie with a genius move that he made I guess he couldn't right? I don't know how this works but he didn't do that it didn't happen and now in the newspapers this morning He's saying two of the players didn't want to actually take any penalty kicks

16:16 They refused to do it. And so not all of his best players apparently or his best penalty kickers were kicking penalties. What? Yeah! I don't think so, coach... But you're our best guy! Nah, I don't feel like it. He says Rundflaer was not his first choice to take penalty kicks. That game was rigged too It was nil-nil Yeah, well Yes You keep the game nil-nil which is a soccer match and then you've had do these kicks in it The kicks determine who wins. And all you have to do is have the goalie in your pocket Well anyway so I agree with you. I think we still need to look at the geopolitical aspect for our prediction and In this case that would have to be Argentina since Germany just doesn't...well there's other issues going on with Germany but it does not have

17:09 the geopolitical issues and actual riots already taking place, and it would certainly calm everybody down considering what's happening. Which is pretty much the only thesis our predictions are ever based on. That would be... if we just stuck with that we'd be right instead of getting carried away with over-analysis which is what happened to us. And this will also give South America a World Cup which I don't believe they've ever won. I don't know either. Anyway, it'll be an... the good news is it'll be Sunday after the show so if anything happens that makes us change our mind we can still get to just before that happens yeah and Germany goes into depression. It's not gonna happen

CHAPTER 03 / 32 Discussion

German Espionage Scandal and US Intelligence Tensions

Tensions escalate between the United States and Germany following the arrest of a German Secret Service employee suspected of selling secrets to the CIA. Chancellor Angela Merkel characterizes the breach as a contradiction of trust between partners. Media reports from the Washington Post and CNN suggest the existence of a second NSA leaker beyond Edward Snowden, potentially operating from within Germany.

angela merkel· nsa· germany· spying· double agent· jake tapper· glenn greenwald· washington post

18:02 So there's some stuff happening with Deutschland. And by the way, this also falls into the get Germany thing. Yeah! Oh man. So Argentina has to win The Deutschland Blitzkrieg... This is crazy Now we have a second spy I didn't know. Yeah, right now. I just see this oh This is great. I got a couple quick clips here at sea Tensions remain high between the United States and Germany after another alleged case of spying 31 year old German Secret Service employee was arrested just last week he suspected of selling secrets to America well today Chancellor Angela Merkel made her very first public remarks on the case she

18:49 If the allegations are true, it would be for me a clear contradiction to what I consider to be a trustful cooperation between agencies and partners. Some politicians from Chancellor Merkel's own party are demanding that US intelligence operatives be expelled from Germany But the investigation into the alleged double agent is expected to take months. So there's a chance that political pressure may drop off unless there are more surprises in a city with a rich and murky history of spying. I love the way you do that! I smell Putin! PUTIN!!! Well, interestingly... so but lot has happened since this news broke which was yesterday or yeah early yesterday

19:33 And we'll be talking about Grand Greenvale Don Raff later on. But he's been doing the rounds about his huge revelation and we definitely need to analyze that, but... CNN with Jake Tapper. And this is one of those things where it's so obvious that Jake has been told you need to ask this question otherwise Glenn won't come on your show or whatever and he had to state this I want to get to your story, Glenn in a second but first Glenn you suggested there they're in a Wired magazine interview that there might be a second NSA leaker out there an addition to Snowden. I'm wondering has Snowden confirmed that?

20:14 It's not that it's confirmed, it just that there have been stories published by other media outlets about NSA using NSA documents that very notably didn't indicate that Edward Snowden was their source for the document. Snowden? I think to the reasonable suspicion that there is another source or sources providing documents to media outlets. All right back to your story. Right all right yeah I did whatever you told me to do Now there's a couple angles to this. First of all, this is based upon news that was reported in Germany which came from Jacob Appelbaum You remember this guy? He's the Tor guy... He's our favorite guy We all remember him As you would call him The Tor-phony Yeah well I've never called him that but i like it And as you might you might call him that and All of a sudden he's now former WikiLeaks and what?!

21:10 What happened there? And of course he lives in Berlin with the entire, you know... faction of whatever they are. and now we have a second leaker and it's coming from Germany You watch! This is going to swing around We've got everything is all anti-Germany We're now scrutinizing Commerzbank which is Germany's second bank I think number two bank over there just like the French that were dealing with Iran, you know illegally because we said you can't do that. I think we're dropping hints about some things that show up in these news reports this is from The News Hour This is the clip NSA WAPO. This was just a little explanation of that article that ran in the Washington Post with a couple

22:01 It was very weirdly presented because it kind of talks about the NSA collecting all this stuff on everybody, you know. Right. You know Twitter photos selfies and all the rest... For some reason by the way do not post pictures like that! Anyway so they end but they drop a couple little tidbits in here that I think were put there just to get attention It was a signal to somebody for something. In an article published today, the Washington Post said it reviewed more than 160 thousand emails and instant message conversations and another 8000 documents that were collected between 2009-2012

22:36 The paper says ordinary internet users, American and non-American alike far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency. The paper reports that nearly half of the files contain details that the NSA identified as being from US citizens or residents The report also found that some of the communications captured by the NSA did contain significant intelligence value, including quote a secret overseas nuclear project double dealing by an ostensible ally and the identities of aggressive intruders into US computer networks.

23:18 So we have three items that they just dropped in with no anything. We got no details, which I find offensive by the way it doesn't take that much work. Somebody's doing a secret nuke which i believe could be Israel or China or who knows who Japan could be anyone The double dealing has gotta be Germany and then the third one what was the third one? It was Oh yeah, people spying on us. We got their names... So okay fine but the secret nuke and the double dealing was the two that got my attention with no details! Who are these people? Why provide details this is no good you know

23:59 That whole, the whole article The Washington Post they say all that you know They just say this stuff but they say well we can't publish this. We're not going to show you this The State Department or the Department of Defense asked us not to do this You know now it's even though we know from very early on when Guardian editors were talking with Charlie Rose that all these outlets pretty much always Go to the government first to say can we publish this daddy? Can I go out to play and stay in? So, I would presume that

24:41 You just gotta think everybody is in play in this. It's a script, it's a big spectacle and the latest of course...this actually the second report that came out this morning now we have dudes in uniform in Germany Actual dudes in uniform going in front of the press talking about this spying. An employee of Germany's defense ministry is at the center of the latest investigation, his Berlin home and the Ministry offices have been searched by police The German media says that alleged spy is from military and worked in a department dealing with international security

25:20 The official response to those reports has been short on detail. I can confirm that there are investigations of the federal state prosecution which fall into the defense ministry's area of responsibility, but cannot go into further detail because I can tell you that we are taking this case very seriously. And so are the country's lawmakers. This espionage activity causes enormous diplomatic damage. We can't see what information is supposed to be collected in this way, but what we can see is substantial damage in public opinion." Now that's interesting! They say substantial damage in public opinion? Oh really?! So do the Germans now hate us?

CHAPTER 04 / 32 Discussion

Sarah Harrison and the Courage Foundation in Berlin

Sarah Harrison, a British journalist and WikiLeaks associate, is analyzed regarding her exile in Berlin and her role in the Courage Foundation. Her keynote speech at a Deutsche Welle conference is critiqued for its focus on "unaccountable power" and its criticism of the United States. The narrative examines her legal status in the UK and her public positioning alongside Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

sarah harrison· wikileaks· julian assange· edward snowden· courage foundation· deutsche welle· amy goodman

26:14 I don't know. I haven't noticed, though...I haven't seen anything about the public opinion. I mean if- I think that's what they're trying to twist it that way Exactly! This is clearly- Because those double dealing Germans you know are working with Putin That's what is and you know what its all about in power politics It's about Snowden You know we don't have a Merkel shout Merkle? MERKLE!!! Oh, this is no good. This is no good! Well... So we're gonna just flow into something else that happened. Um so now we have of course we still have Sarah Harrison writing her book in Berlin and Now let's recap Sarah Harrison she came to WikiLeaks as an intern And rumored as far I'm pretty convinced about the evidence she was Julian Assange's girlfriend

27:10 And now she is a living in exile investigative journalist. Which is okay, I've never called myself a journalist, I'm still a disc jockey... That's a record Adam! But she is... what? You're a legal groupie as opposed to an illegal groupie. What kind of a groupie are you? No, like law-groupie. Like a lawyer groupie yeah Yeah, I suck up to lawyers like that's cool Now so she just to make matters worse even though she is British She was with

27:51 Edward Snowden in the Moscow airport, then she was in Moscow with him for... And she was well groomed. She looked great! She had a sexy, sexy-ass black dress on Oh by the way I have the title for her book now it's official Okay Blowing The Whistle No That's a good one though So she's in Berlin and she's now confronting this phony baloney courage foundation, which is essentially a way to take money away from Assange. Right, we were talking about this on our previous show I think it just genius. Now Assange can't do anything about it! No no no... And here's what's troubling

28:38 She... the story has gone from she doesn't want to go back to England because of their Section 7 rule, which is the one that they used on Glenn Greenwald's husband and detained him for 12 hours. And then, of course let him go even though he had apparently a USB stick encrypted with stuff on it. She says she would be afraid she would incriminate herself or what, you know. No one has said you can't come back into the country I don't believe that has happened She is claiming that she can't go back because she doesn't want to get into trouble There's no one who has said we're gonna arrest you or anything like that And will get into trouble for what? She has some phony lame reason but this is nonsense Now here's the setup So there'd be so much spotlight on her it'll just such an extreme thing Exactly Nothing could happen

29:27 And, you know her parents are from elite circle. She's from Seven Oaks well known spook territory. MI6 So, the Deutsche Welle German broadcasting who by the way also hosted Amy Goodman when she had her interview with our friend Sarah Harrison. You recall that? Yep! When there was a lot of bogativity in that industry we played clips from that so they had the global media conference this is kind of like Le Next Web German style Der nächste Web

30:04 And it's a big to-do and she does the keynote, which of course I watch. She does a lot of ummm...ummm....ummmm...and have very small part for her but what i wanted to play for you was the intro this is the woman from Deutsche Welle German broadcasting and her introduction of Sarah is very very telling connection and relationship she has currently, and also you'll hear later the disdain for the United States. She's an interesting piece of the puzzle which I think will unfold. Wonderful good morning ladies and gentlemen wonderful good morning sir! Wonderful good morning this is how we should say it. Wonderful Good Morning John! Wonderful Good Morning! John wonderful good morning how are ya? Good Morgen John! Jan huh wonderful morning

31:00 Wonderful good morning ladies and gentlemen, wonderful good morning Sarah. And we are going to go into the third day after a brilliant boat trip last night. Brilliant boat trip? Oh how can a boat trip be brilliant in any way?! At least it wasn't a train trip! This is good news it was just about a brilliant... So if you know getting right into the aspects that we have started and that we have continued to focus on the last couple of days, the NSA scandal and before that WikiLeaks. You may remember

31:37 just sort of two male names associated with the whole thing. First of all, Julian Assange and then of course Edward Snowden. Yesterday morning we had the greetings of Glenn Greenwald but ladies and gentlemen for them to do what they did they also need counterparts They need people that work together with trusted people competent people People who are brave just as much as they are Okay, this is interesting. This is good positioning. Oh yeah brave brave Brave people who are just as brave as they are hmm. Why is this conference in English? because it needs messages

32:18 And she doesn't speak... It's in Germany, right? There are deviants in Berlin. That's a German conference! Why is she speaking in English? Because she's introducing... First of all the Germans speak perfect English She's introducing Sarah who's going to... Yeah but why would they do a conference in English I don't care if they speak great English It's a message for the rest of the world. Oh, I'm sorry. What was I thinking? Yes and she will make mention that Sarah's German is not quite good enough but almost to do this which is another age it's all messaging And today we have a lady here who has been incredibly brave Incredibly brave Hmm. Not only has she worked together with Julian Assange on WikiLeaks as both a legal advisor and a journalist- Excuse me? A legal advisor?! What?? What??? I'm sorry, she's a lawyer now? Uh... Let me think let me look at her- No! not according to her own Wikipedia Legal Advisor

33:16 Hmm. So, it's positioning here and investigative journalist all right But then she said well I'm gonna help this guy Edward Snowden get out of Hong Kong try and find somewhere to stay and the backlash of that is whilst One would think that the UK is just sort of easy to go to or certainly if you have a European passport Sarah cannot go back to her home. What? She can't go back Sorry, this is not entirely truthful. In the UK she's been in Germany now for about nine months and almost getting ready to do this speech in German but she's opted to do it in English We'll now hear a very different story and afterwards there will be a little bit of time for Q&A so ladies and gentlemen welcome with me a very brave lady Sarah Harrison who was already

34:17 showing the Deutsche Welle logo on an interview broadcast yesterday on Democracy Now together with Amy Goodman and we saw Deutsche Welle sort of everywhere that was made possible by some of the colleagues. This is like, whoa! We're on Amy Goodman's War & Peace Report! Oh our logo good work! What is that about? I don't know, maybe it was in the quid pro quo free publicity for an exchange. Something like that. Thank you very much. Sarah, we're so looking forward to listening to your story and to see how we could progress it and how maybe you could get some support from the people here. Sarah Harrison

35:04 I have like a one-minute clip from her because their speech is boring. It's completely boring, it's just rehashing stuff but she starts off and it's all America shit! America is bad screw America and there... And just... Just about what you call it unaccountable power Is the title of her speech? So let's listen to her talk about America's... By the way, I'm not saying she's wrong I'm just saying this is all part of the blitzkrieg between America and Deutschland. This is, this IS part of that script. Unaccountable power when you're talking about governments? Well many people especially in the West will say well obviously... ...this is the case in places like Russia China places like that but here in the west we live in democracies We have many systems of checks and balances! We can vote so The question is Is this really true put your hand in the air if you have a phone

36:01 Oh, I have a phone. No! I don't have a phone actually. How many of you voted for that to happen? Not one. Okay, all right so... That's kind of specious. So here we have a power that is reaching into all of our lives can listen to everything and see everything that we're doing if they want to and yet none of us voted for it I would say that that's a pretty powerful A mechanism that has been not held to account until it came to Edward Snowden. I'm sorry, so we should have a vote on everything? Apparently she's implying yeah, let's have a vote can't and hey Can you turn on my thing by the way if you ever but dialed anybody yeah sure well And they oh you ever heard somebody but value Oh Yeah because more than then once because i'm always at the top of the list with a for Adam

37:00 Oh, have you ever listened in on a butt dial call? I am the go-to butt dial guy actually. Yes of course! Everybody listens in. I record it if I can sure. Most of the time its just somebody's in their pocket and you cant hear anything. Yeah exactly. It rarely sounds like that. So these guys are listening in to what? But okay, we'll let that slide. When Julian actually started WikiLeaks he thought that most submissions would come from places like Russia or China and we have had many submissions from all over the world including Russia and China but these were not our largest leaks And the other largest leaks in decades have also come from the same country that ousted it The United States

37:47 And through these... You hear this is the United States, United States. No mention of the GCHQ or anything or The Five Eyes which she is going to say now but it's all United States and then she has trouble remembering who else. We can see the truly unaccountable power of today. The United States working with its partners and allies especially The Five Eyes which is of course Canada UK, Australia, New Zealand with the United States. Yeah United States just remember United States. Meanwhile she's got her fingers going at one... two.. Okay now apparently and this is crazy Edward Snowden has 18 lawyers everybody is Ed Snowdens lawyer all of a sudden he has- Can I tell you something? yeah I'm Ed Snowdens lawyer

CHAPTER 06 / 32 Discussion

Israel-Gaza Conflict and Iron Dome Efficacy

The escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is examined through various media lenses, including MSNBC and France 24. Reports detail Hamas's increased rocket range, now capable of reaching Haifa and Tel Aviv, and the psychological impact on civilians. Skepticism is expressed regarding the technical efficacy and cost-benefit ratio of the Iron Dome missile defense system.

gaza strip· hamas· israel· iron dome· tel aviv· missiles· ronan farrow· nora erekat

40:24 And so now, you know this is now taking place. We can take a little side journey if you wish. Side Journey? It's and it's very interesting to see the reporting we have here's NBC taking the side of the Palestinians But in Gaza there were no sirens warning of Israel's assault on this trip A woman escaping with her children A man is heard shouting where is the world Others just running by the wounded. In the rubble of Israel's airstrike, a man is trapped with a little help he is rescued

41:06 The might of Israel's military unleashed on Gaza, targeting suspected launching sites and the home of suspected militants. Authorities there saying this one strike killed seven including three children. This future will be very bad and very harsh for us but what we can do? What we can do? That is so funny when he says what we can do I know so many Israeli guys and that is always they have always instead of what can we do they say what we can do It's something weird about their language, how it reverses. MSNBC also now this is a Roman media is generally on the Palestinian side of this art debate They won't go overboard and become things you haters right, but generally speaking well Well Ronan the Frank Sinatra kid over there on the MSNBC I know he had Nora a Rock hot on with some other dude. I don't even know who that was and she's uh yeah, she's a

42:08 scholar, Palestinian-American scholar of Middle East. You know the University of Berkeley and she pushes back but then he also says something very interesting here I just wanted to point out that it's actually misleading to say that this is an attack on Hamas. It's actually an attack on the Palestinian civilian population within the Gaza Strip, which is a good point what she saying there as if you look at the numbers 15,000 members of Hamas may live but which is home to about 1.9 million Palestinians and then as far far

43:00 And within the US legal system here at home. It's because of this us provided impunity because System yeah, what is a us legal system got to do with anything? I have no idea that just it's talking financial and military support That we see what you call a movie But actually would amount to a massacre repeating itself every few years and in fact for the u.s.. To be involved I say either suspend aid to Israel per its own laws, the Foreign Assistance Act or its military trade agreements with Israel that it had to abide by human rights law.

43:36 or that it remove itself altogether and get out of the way so that the international system can hold Israel to account. As the International Court Of Justice has tried to do. The point you led with there, Nora is one that... We could have an analytical discussion we could have a moral one we could try to combine the two look meanwhile back on planet earth a basic problem. Here it comes. Oh crap, oh man did I cut it off? So at a certain point he talks about this is like

44:22 Ah, screw it. I'm sorry this is...I'm confused on that anyway. Well give me a summarize. I got couple clips. So i have the other side of this in the house This is where one of the representative from Florida forget her name Ross Latina and I think She does her one minute, she requests a minute to talk and mentions something very interesting. She of course is as you're about to hear on the Israeli side... Mr Speaker I rise in full support of our friend and ally the democratic Jewish state of Israel Now that's an interesting term The Jewish State Of Israel This is what they've been pushing for They've been pushing for this This has been an issue that has not been resolved where

45:10 Yeah, I know. We have to discuss this in more detail at some point when we actually get a better grip of it. Well what i'd like is...I'd like to have our knights—we have knights in Israel, of course we have Sir Jonah the Knight of Zion and we got lots of knights! And they've been completely silent. I hope they're okay? I hope they're not bombed away or whatever. I doubt it but They haven't come back. They had not a peep and we need some boots on the ground information Well, I have a couple of clips from... Is that clip done? You're done. She just keeps on going obviously the point was the Jewish state I thought was interesting Yeah the Jewish State thing well this has become a bone of contention amongst Israelis themselves

45:51 But let's play a couple clips from France 24, because there is some interesting information in here too. This is about... this is the clip Hamas versus the Iron Dome which is something we forget about it which is that there was an iron dome. It doesn't always work! While many Palestinians in Gaza have been cheering the rockets as they are launched into Israel, militants say that a nuclear reactor in the desert at Dimona is one of their targets for long-range missiles. It's widely suspected that atomic weapons are being developed on site. Hamas' reach is now stretching ever further into Israel with a rocket hitting Zishron Yaakov, a town which lies well over 100 kilometers to the north of Gaza. Cathy Clifford tells us now about Hamas' military capability

46:41 It would be the furthest distance a missile fired from Gaza has ever reached. Israeli media reported two rockets crashed into the sea 165 kilometers north of Gaza at the port city of Haifa on Wednesday, this after the town of Hadera, at a distance of 116 kilometers was hit today earlier The last Israeli offensive against Gaza in 2012 was meant to have severely daunted Hamas's capabilities But less than two years later, the group's range of rockets and distance they can fire to is increasing. Their Iranian-made Fajr 5 missiles have a range of 75 kilometers. And their Syrian M302 rockets have a range of 160 kilometers. Specialists say they're capable of hitting major Israeli cities. Both of those have the capability

47:31 not only the cities in southern Israel, which Hamas has been battering in recent weeks with large numbers of missiles but also the major Israeli cities such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Hamas's rockets are all unguided but are being fired at an intense rate in a bid to overwhelm Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system Experts say Hamas could keep going at this rate for around six weeks. They believe the group has an arsenal of some 10,000 missiles. Hamas's ability to maintain a high rate of rocket fire has in fact increased over the years after each conflict

48:12 Hamas's strategy is to engage Israel in limited conflicts and then expand its military capability again. I got to tell you, there is nothing like this particular issue that gets people riled up against each other. And it's...I'm just seeing the chat room alone! It's really amazing. You know what is funny about these new missiles, especially the Syrian one? This is like me... let's say Hamas was in San Francisco That means they'd be pounding Sacramento and anyone who has got familiar with the distance which is about 90 miles away

48:58 You could be pounding Sacramento from that distance. This is not a trivial situation, especially when they're firing 200 missiles an hour or whatever the number is it's I think that was the number and they got 10 000 missiles to fire you can do a lot of damage you can see why these guys would be uh little irked about this so if we play part two and you get kind of You have to imagine being in a situation. Yeah, you're probably gonna do more damage to the other side But which is what they want you to do because for publicity purposes is because Hamas doesn't care about the Palestinians but that's been my opinion but let's play this verse Hamas versus Tel Aviv report and you get just like I think a little I think this needs to be Understood a little bit Tlaib once again under fire this morning How are people feeling over there in Israel?

49:45 I think people here are feeling fed up because every so often their lives are put on hold. This is a repeating pattern as we know, a cycle that goes back to 2005 when Israel left the Gaza Strip but 2009-2012 They're frightened and they're tired of it, and they actually support their government's very tough operation in Gaza because as they all say we want this to end. We want our lives to just be able to continue One of the startling images from yesterday I think is a woman abroad who found her wedding interrupted and she goes down to the bomb shelter to complete her wedding vows. So there is that feeling here someone said it's as if we're living in a reality TV show called Gaza which repeats itself and of course for people in Gaza, it's the same feeling only more deadly they've been reports about the children on both sides both having bedwetting problems both having trauma related issues so I

50:46 It doesn't seem to end and it traumatizes everyone on both sides of this line. Oh, won't somebody please think of the children? Yeah exactly that's what we end up with it's uh the thing that gets me wasn't Hamas broke there wasn't that what they caught that guy trying to was it the ambassador trying to do an end around to get money to Hamas because they couldn't make payroll I don't remember that. Yeah, yeah, they have... Well they're apparently spending all their money on missiles like sure those little missiles that they use from the Iranians and the Syrians aren't cheap.

51:30 Well, okay. So you could do have an analysis of this because... No my analysis is that I think this whole thing it's just as a taunting. This isn't..I mean I think they hum us people with their missile. Yeah there are two things I want to point out one is with the spies in the sky and the clear skies you have over that area most of the time maybe they're only launching these missiles when there's overcast it's possible I don't know no one has ever told said anything about this when did he launch the missiles Because it seems to me that you'd be able to pinpoint in real time where the missiles are being launched from with spy satellites, and then you could send drones immediately to that spot. And yeah its probably in a neighborhood and its gonna kill all kinds of collateral other people but you could take these missile launchers out

52:17 It seems to me, but again I'm not sure because of when the launch times are. But this is... Yeah but okay hold on a second They gotta do something you can't just let somebody fire 10 000 missiles at you without taking action or would you just sit back and say well whatever? No iIm not saying that at all! I'm going back to 1919 when all this bull crap started This whole thing. I think it started actually biblical times, but that's another philosophical story way back. Yeah okay that's right God drew the line and this is where it starts.

52:58 Hallelujah, everybody. Good to know how we're gonna have good good to see everybody who loves God in different ways killing each other Good work everybody screw all of you kill each other fine now I don't see what that well how this involves us and I don't understand that woman We built the Iron Dome That involves us. We give billions of dollars, we sell stuff to them. What do you mean? And one of the clips says, yesterday they fired 200 missiles at Tel Aviv or someplace and two were shot down. They were so proud of it! This Iron Dome is not a great thing that we're doing I'm thinking two? What?! Yeah... That's just a rip-off No it was a total scam! Iron Dome! But geopolitically in this entire region

54:02 It's so complicated, I have no background. No education will not ever be able to understand this and quite frankly have no desire To even create an opinion other than it is all related And it is all...all the pieces are coming in rubble You know what? Rubble lies the entire area as far as I'm concerned That's what going on just screw everybody and everything Well, they're getting there. There's a report I don't know if i have this one... I've got to find that thing that I was reading where when this escalated with Israel and Palestine or Hamas or whatever you want to call it the Jewish state versus the Hamas

CHAPTER 07 / 32 Discussion

Jordan Protests and Muslim Brotherhood Activity

Protests erupt near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, organized by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Riot police arrested dozens of demonstrators during the rallies. The segment highlights the potential for regional instability and "rubblization" spreading to Jordan.

jordan· amman· muslim brotherhood· palestinians· protests· riot police

54:44 The Gaza people's whatever. Whatever It's this cannot be good No, it can't be and here's the other thing that I think of its being overlooked Which i think is more important because you don't want to rubble eyes these guys But this gonna happen perhaps play the Jordan being set up clip yeah no we knew this was happening Protesters have rallied near the Israeli embassy in Jordan, in support of Palestinians chanting we are going to Gaza millions of martyrs. Riot police arrested dozens of anti-Israeli demonstrators on Wednesday in Amman. The protest was organized by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Opposition parties in Jordan are planning another rally in downtown Amman after prayers on Friday. All right is there a little thing there said Allah did you hear that?

55:29 No, I didn't hear when she says Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood And it was like a little background clip to get they snuck in just a little sweetening. Yeah, no play that again See if you can hear it hold on a second which one was it again Jordan being set up yeah? Protesters have rallied near the Israeli embassy in Jordan, in support of Palestinians chanting we are going to Gaza millions of martyrs. Riot police arrested dozens of anti-Israeli demonstrators on Wednesday in Amman The protest was organized by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Opposition parties in Jordan are planning another rally in downtown Amman after prayers on Friday. We should do that too, just be talking all of a sudden. Allah! What? It was cut-in! It was or it certainly jacked up the sound at the end That's funny I didn't notice that when I was clipping it Very very interesting Yes and look at that and that means rubalization is coming Did you read that Robert Kagan piece that I sent you

CHAPTER 08 / 32 Discussion

Robert Kagan and the Neoconservative World Order

Robert Kagan's essay, "The Allure of Normalcy," is analyzed as a foundational text for modern neoconservative foreign policy. The discussion critiques the interventionist stance that the United States must act as the "locomotive" of mankind to prevent global disorder. Connections are drawn between the Kagan family, Victoria Nuland, and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

robert kagan· new world order· neoconservatives· project for the new american century· victoria nuland· isolationism

56:33 He probably didn't have a chance. No, I didn't have a chance! I was going to... And this is being hailed as... Biden forgot about it Well, I need to remind you of that kind of stuff. This is a piece written by Robert Kagan... KAGAN! And it's being hailed by the neocons as THE piece. You must read this. Now i feel bad about this. It's in the show notes. It's called The Allure Of Normalcy What America Still Owes The World

57:11 Oh, yeah. It's a beauty and I'll just read a little bit so these are the now the Kagans These are the people who got us into Iraq in 2003 You know wrote The Project for New American Century before 9-11 happened they were all over this and now of course Yeah This is their goal we have noodleman the vice ambassador of state kings or the rubble Isers Hold on a second, we have rubalization. We got all kinds of clips for this I just never get to it now hold on a second here we go Yes Rubalize the place There you go So just-I'll just read the first paragraph or so just to get an idea Almost 70 years ago A new world order was born Right there? I'm hooked right? I'm already in and like yeah

58:04 From the rubble of World War II, built by and around the power of the United States. Today that world order shows signs of cracking and perhaps even collapsing The Russian-Ukraine and Syria crises and the world's tepid response The general upheaval in the greater Middle East and North Africa The growing nationalist and great power tensions in East Asia worldwide advance of autocracy and retreat of democracy. Taken individually, these problems are neither unprecedented nor unmanageable but collectively they are a sign that something is changing and perhaps more quickly than we may imagine They may signal a transition into a different world order or into a world disorder of a kind not seen since the 1930s

58:52 And then it goes on from there. Oh, you can keep reading as far as I'm concerned It's a breakdown in the world order that America made is occurring it is not because America's power is declining America's wealth power and potential influence remain adequate to meet the present challenges It is not because the world has become more complex and intractable The world has always been complex and intractable and it is not simply war weariness strangely enough It is an intellectual problem, a question of identity and purpose. Nice! That's a good spot to stop. Okay, so here here's what the article is about and he goes back into history and says America has traditionally always been isolationist and you know And we didn't want to get involved in World War one then we got involved We didn't want to get involved in World War two then we got involved and we always got involved because like well Nothing can happen. We're protected here. We've got two oceans and what? What Japan's gonna attack us?! You know So this is how these people operate

59:53 And the sad thing is that Kagan, the Kagans and the neocons and the people from Yale and Kerry and all these people they truly truly truly believe that America should be doing this. Having bases everywhere, arming people shooting people up killing... That it is our job! If you really read through it throughout history We never want to do it, but we're always pulled into it because of some emergency that proves that we have to be involved. Which of course Pearl Harbor is obvious and 9-11 is obvious and then that is misused... he doesn't say that but that has been misused for decades as the reason why And it just never stops until there's a new generation and ah! Well we will create a new reason

1:00:50 The entire mission of the Kagan's and the Neocon is, we are the policemen of the world. We maintain the world order Team America fuck yeah! This is exactly what this-this is And uh... The people who you'd expect are loving this WOOO HOHO RIGHT ON NEW WORLD ORDER OWWW A new world order, he says it's not new. It was a new world order after the Second World War We just have to make sure it doesn't turn into disorder And they truly, they really truly believe that they're doing the right thing. By the way I have no proof that they're not! I don't know...I mean what happens if we actually did nothing? Maybe the world would go to shit?! I don't know! Well here's my problem is these guys and this is why I don't trust anything they say or do. Well their assholes are- For one thing well they're transpolitical

1:01:45 They're liars, I mean without question. Look at what Noodleman was doing in the Ukraine and we didn't have nothing to do with it! It's like the bad wrestler in an old wrestling match. I didn't hit you illegally? Well no...it's worse than that! People forget! Yeah, there you go. We can't forget that! People don't mention that anymore. Right...although that's key and it has something to do with this German thing going on so these guys are trans-political and that kind of bothers me they started off as borderline communists coming out of college

1:02:28 and they were all Democrats, and they could not promote their agenda which was a very aggressive war-like agenda. And they switched the Republican side during I think late in the Reagan administration now there are all new cut new neoconservatives who are all They switched from being neoliberals to neoconservative. They just changed their name, they're not conservative." I mean they didn't want to do a lot of war spending...they're not conservative by any means there now they're Republicans and then they brought the Republican Party George Bush literally on a platter which helped you know, seal their position within the party. It soon became apparent that these guys were bad actors and now from all accounts that I can tell they're very slowly gravitating to the Democrat Party. Oh completely! President Obama quoted Kagan in his State of the Union.

1:03:16 There you go. Yeah, and so the Democrats are gonna be stuck with these a-holes and they're nothing but troublemakers They they're the ones who would there essentially? You know of old form of Leninist They really want to take over the place and run it and they and their horrible people their warmongers Yeah This is nonsense by the way about oh, we only reluctantly did this and we reluctant as bullcrap We would enter World War two because we were attacked by the Japanese And we really didn't have what wasn't that reluctant everybody in their sister son

1:03:52 No, no. What he's saying is we didn't want to get involved until that happened and then we... Of course you didn't want it! We don't want to get involved? That's what we've always been like this has been the country where if you read the early founding fathers they said don't get involved in this stuff But so what he's saying and this is when I try to convey because you didn't read the piece but he's saying If we don't get involved early, some shit's gonna happen to us. He's essentially turning it around and we pretty much know that or at least I believe that these types of attacks are planted in order to get us involved

1:04:28 For a number of reasons, I would say mainly financial for you know... Bankers. Yeah all wars are banker wars It's very well documented it was the bankers bail out British banks if we don't get involved the British banks are gonna go down and we're gonna take the brunt of it so We had to bankers that's when we started our propagandists That's when propaganda really took it took that you know Let me read another piece from this let me read another passage Roosevelt and other American statesmen originally hoped that the... Remember, he's a historian John. And he who writes history gets to write history. Roosevelt and other American statesman originally hoped that the United States would not have to do everything by itself. Roosevelt planned to share global management among The Four Policemen! The United States Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China. And Truman in 1945 was bound and determined to slash the defense budget and bring as many troops home as possible What a stupid idea!!

1:05:22 They make money that way. Yet within two years after the war ended, the new... this is his words! The New World Order was already teetering on the edge of collapse along with hopes for global partnership with other great powers Britain quickly signaled its inability to play its historic role even in the Mediterranean China descended into civil war and revolution and the Soviet Union emerged not as a supporter of the new order but to Americanize it's greatest opponent which was of course a scam set up. The result was the disheartening realization the United States was going to carry the lion's share of the burden, just as Taft had warned. As Ashton later put it, the United States is going to have to be the locomotive at the head of mankind! Well I need to do that one again...

1:06:09 That's a fantastic little ditty there. The locomotive at the head of mankind! While the rest of the world was going to be... THE CABOOSE! I'm telling ya. Rubble, brought to you by Clan Kagan These people and i guess-I mean what is it now? Maybe since nobody seems to care about Iraqis and we're like, oh we're war weary. Again the same thing maybe we have to make it about Israel? That maybe that's why this is happening so that we do go in and you know is that what what is at play here? It could be I mean I don't know I'm just guessing. That's going to be tough because we have uh...the country's divided on what side to take

1:06:57 And there's always this belief that the Israelis are taking advantage of us and all the rest of it. I don't think, and it's also just this never-ending conflict that's been going on like you said since 1919 minimally. Yeah. And I don't think that's it. It's gotta be something else. Jordan we'd probably have to do something about that if they start to rubbleize that place because that's a major ally that is not Israel. I don't know, I have no idea! They're dreaming crap up there trying to get us involved in Ukraine. Syria they tried to get us involved in Syria they couldn't get anywhere with that. Noodleman then goes into the Ukraine tries to get stuff started there. I don't think there's a good spot maybe Canada? Let's listen to the Wes Clark 7

CHAPTER 09 / 32 Discussion

Wesley Clark Seven Countries Memo and Oil Interests

General Wesley Clark's 2007 claim regarding a Pentagon memo to "take out" seven countries in five years is revisited. The analysis links these military objectives to international oil interests, specifically citing new petroleum refining infrastructure moving from Dubai through Turkey to Kurdistan.

wesley clark· pentagon· middle east· oil· turkey· kurdistan· distillation tower

1:07:55 So I came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. And he said, oh it's worse than that! He reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper and said, I just got this down from upstairs meeting the Secretary of Defense office today. This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran. Jordan not on the list! Well which means we wouldn't rubbleize him we just have to do something though of course Jordans got a police state so they usually can take care these problems by themselves So every time I listen that clip i'm always thinking what... The one thing he never says

1:08:45 The answer to the question I believe would be oil is why? What is the point? Yeah, well I do want... The Kagan's are up to it with the oil thing too. I would like to get a better connection between them and international oil. The Kagan's? Yeah Hmm Well, I mean Noodleman of course is directly connected but I don't know, it may not be that easy to prove but the oil is clear what's happening with the oil. Turkey is preparing for the Kurdish energy future we have a huge refining tower on its way going from Turkey to Kurdistan, the Islamic State now I guess we call it

1:09:45 from a giant petroleum refining tower dispatched from Dubai to Turkey, to be transferred to northern Iraq. Where did it come from? Dubai! They don't make that stuff in Dubai Let me see if I can find out who made it. It's gotta come from China! Could be... Or anywhere, I mean there were-I think we can still make those towers Really expensive? They're distillation towers they're just a giant 70 meter long 250 ton tower Right and the inside that's where they boil the oil then they take off cuts and then the cuts go in get separated And so it's like essentially a still. It's a giant

1:10:20 petroleum still like you'd make alcohol. Okay, we had- we finally so at least someone's listening live We get a note from Israel I have a feeling it's not going to be very flattering towards us because yeah Yeah of course we were haters or whatever So here it is this is from Pavel and Pavel says some info from Israel first of all first off Iron Dome works Get your facts right It only shoots rockets headed towards populated areas and it's quite accurate. At the moment, out of 350 rockets fired over three days it intercepted 90 of them in only a handful direct hits." So that doesn't work I guess? I don't know... Most of them close to Gaza where it's almost impossible to intercept in time Well then it doesn't work!

CHAPTER 10 / 32 Discussion

Listener Feedback on Iron Dome and Patriot Missiles

A listener in Israel provides a firsthand account of the Iron Dome's performance, claiming it successfully intercepts rockets headed for populated areas. This is countered by a historical comparison to the Patriot missile's performance during the first Gulf War, which was later revealed to be less effective than initial propaganda suggested.

iron dome· pavel· israel· scud missiles· patriot missiles· propaganda

1:09:45 from a giant petroleum refining tower dispatched from Dubai to Turkey, to be transferred to northern Iraq. Where did it come from? Dubai! They don't make that stuff in Dubai Let me see if I can find out who made it. It's gotta come from China! Could be... Or anywhere, I mean there were-I think we can still make those towers Really expensive? They're distillation towers they're just a giant 70 meter long 250 ton tower Right and the inside that's where they boil the oil then they take off cuts and then the cuts go in get separated And so it's like essentially a still. It's a giant

1:10:20 petroleum still like you'd make alcohol. Okay, we had- we finally so at least someone's listening live We get a note from Israel I have a feeling it's not going to be very flattering towards us because yeah Yeah of course we were haters or whatever So here it is this is from Pavel and Pavel says some info from Israel first of all first off Iron Dome works Get your facts right It only shoots rockets headed towards populated areas and it's quite accurate. At the moment, out of 350 rockets fired over three days it intercepted 90 of them in only a handful direct hits." So that doesn't work I guess? I don't know... Most of them close to Gaza where it's almost impossible to intercept in time Well then it doesn't work!

1:11:10 In Israel, Iron Dome is considered the hero of the last three days. I was in Be'er Sheva when the alarm sounded and i photographed two intercepts so the Iron Dome works now it didn't before oh okay and the air force does shoot the rocket launchers but just keep in mind there are over a million people in Gaza gotta go keep you updated well okay all right we'll keep us updated yeah please uh but that sounds like the iron dome works some of the time Well, it could. Not all of them. But you know I remember...I'll go back to the first Iraq war where they were sending the Scuds over and we had the Patriot missile Patriots Yeah, I forgot about that. It turns out over time and we've reported this before and everybody knows it you can look it up They were showing all kinds of videos of the Patriot missiles blowing up You know there's another scud coming in boom they're went here way here is and it turned out oh wait here it is here I'm hearing a rock John Oh another scud launch

1:12:10 And Adam, what else you see in there? I see the Patriot missiles. They're... and it's a direct hit! Well it turns out that what happened was that this was all bullcrap The Patriots never had one kill The Scuds were so crappy they would go up and just break up In the sky Okay, so what your saying is It's a lot of propaganda The locals may be selling a bill of goods to their own populace because it would be kind of distressing to think that these missiles are just coming in randomly. This is very similar to the Germans bombing with V1s and V2s, the buzz bomb London! It just made people nervous. Here comes the buzz bomb and blows up something

1:12:58 It's very disturbing to have that happening constantly. Don't they need gas masks? Shouldn't we see that on the... shouldn't we have Anderson Cooper in Israel? The gas mask thing will be coming, you watch it has to come back. Good prediction! Yeah because it's always fun and makes for good TV. Hold on one second, we're reporting here from Israel where do we put our gas mask on? Makes for great tv all right let's uh well regardless Thank you for your courage and in the morning to you John C. Dvorak. In the morning do you Adam Curry, in the morning all ships that see boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there. Yes and in the morning too our artistes thank you very much Brandon F for your contribution to the show Oh also want to thank the artists of for the last newsletter I sent out oh yeah uh it was 20 what was a twenty I forgot his name is 20 century fox or whatever it is

CHAPTER 11 / 32 Discussion

Google Email Filtering and Newsletter Delivery Issues

Technical difficulties with the No Agenda newsletter are attributed to Google's aggressive spam filtering and "promotions" tab logic. A new scalable email template resulted in a significant drop in open rates, leading to a discussion on how major tech platforms control information consumption. Listeners are encouraged to whitelist specific email addresses to bypass these filters.

google· gmail· mailchimp· newsletters· email filtering· spam· net neutrality

1:13:54 Jump shot I can't He was an artist under me 20 20 point ever silly 20 pot yeah jump shot exactly 24 jump shot Thank You chat room in the morning to the human resources there at no agenda stream calm good to see all of you lined up or ready To go and of course we would like to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers. We do that more or less after the opening of every show in order to thank them because they come in with amounts that really help the show in great numbers, especially the previous episode you can hear by the way it sounds like today is a day we're going to cut the grass thanks guys

1:14:37 One of the things I should point out is that we changed the template, we've had nothing but email troubles. They sent a special note out to people and probably do another one. We've had...I changed the template because people go well make it so it's more readable on the mobile devices! So I found this terrific template that scales everything. Whatever you look at it on, pictures get bigger and smaller automatically and looks gorgeous on phone Android phone? well as an iPhone. Yeah, I know I've checked a couple of them...I am killing this template as of today it brings in it gets hit as you got to know what it is but its Google mostly Google and it either doesn't get delivered or google puts it into the spam box the return normally speaking we get between 45% and 55%.

1:15:28 opens on any email I send out, the newsletter. And generally recently it's been around 50-51%. Almost always with the old template. The new template which caused me to write the email 35%, that was it and then I got all kinds of feedback. I never found it, it wasn't in the spam box, it didn't even get delivered which is this how great Google is they didn't even deliver it And there was a bunch of those and one guy did find it eventually, and then I used his search tip with everybody. No, they still couldn't find it. No email from us coming in even in spam or promotions nothing never showed up thank you very much Google

1:16:12 The other ones, all of them were saying oh it was in spam. It was in spam and one my favorite is you know if it was in spam before and I keep telling it's not spam or like telling us not promotions that still ends up there so the Google system sucks well You know this is so we use a MailChimp I believe right? I do use MailChimping and Google should know MailChimp is very adamant about that Yeah but yeah But I don't know if MailChimp Is current on their payments because you know they may not be bribing Google enough. That's a possibility well It's not bribing, but there are white listing services which are very expensive we talked about this previous I know but this is a google issue specifically and Google does their own whitelisting stuff and Blacklisting stuff to have their own day really don't they they don't use spam anizer And all the rest of us they certainly could

1:17:01 They certainly control what goes through or not, for sure. So it doesn't go through and has all kinds of issues and the only thing I can see is this template which has a bunch of scaling code and all kinds of stuff in it that Google says oh, that doesn't look right, too complicated... No, no! It's basically telegraphing, oh this is marketing And then they say, let's- so skip logic John. Here's how it goes We receive an email okay? Where is it from hmmm It says Dvorak dot org but oh! Looks like a MailChimper Okay lets see OH No agenda Pffft HAHAHA Quick

1:17:39 Off with its head. Well, anyway besides that possibility... They're making money off of our infrastructure without paying us That's the bottom line we are not paying them to use their mail system You can say that if you want but I'm saying it way I see it is this I'm getting 50% I used this template once I get 35%. I use it a second time after telling everybody about the problem The second time which was sent out yesterday 32 percent I am not, i'm sorry mobile users. Your problem is with Google! I tried to send out a newsletter that's scalable and can run on any product. How about other free email services? Which of course is the problem here because you have no control. If I control what comes through on my server or not... So basically you think you have control because you have little buttons to push but you don't really have control You're not in control

1:18:35 They're controlling everything. And this is, my point which I make and I'm gonna write about this too because now I got some numbers that can use. This is Google's arrogance you know they just think that they own the place they do not even accept the fact this is a subscribe to newsletter that you cannot subscribe to very easily by going to the bottom of it and clicking a button your done your not on this newsletter thing anymore unless you resubscribe yourself they know this They know this but they're still you know that their code is so stupid that it's when it sees all this crazy You know JavaScript or whatever. So, well, you don't actually know that That's how its happening. I that's got a presuming I am presuming because that's the there's no otherwise It's a ridiculous coincidence Yeah, I mean yeah, it's more likely than they say oh and no agenda we can't send it to them Why don't they do that all the time? Why just with this template

1:19:29 I don't know. That's the problem, anyway... No no that is not the problem The problem is people decided long ago that it was groovy to use free email services You get what you pay for! That's it? That's the problem Well, that is a problem. Okay and they in Google's so I'm not complaining because that's think their stuff is I think they're worse than the other guys but I'm not I'm not complaining because That's the best that's the world And if you want to play if people want to play in the Google infrastructure then an ecosystem That's what you get You don't always get everything you want because you're at the behest of them right? What you won't get is a scalable newsletter that you can read on your iPhone then people want one They want this but I can't give it to him because nobody gets it

1:20:15 All right. Okay, fine! Anyway I tried yeah Fine that's a gorgeous i think is a really good looking uh presentation you take this very seriously You know people put alot of work in it I will say this is also a bit like from time to time we'll get an email that says oh NA show notes is blocked and I got one last week NA shows has blocked at work And then it says um... It's a park domain Because I always say, what is the error message? People would say it's blocked! No no please give me a little information. What does it say? It was like if an email gets rejected send me the rejection notice so there is some technical information in there and you know... So that note was essentially, it's been blocked give me another URL. And they're like, I'll do that but would you please take the time to contact whoever is in charge of this blocking mechanism and let them know that you think it's an error

1:21:12 People forget that you can contribute to fixing these things. And you must! You know, there is a way with Gmail you can fix this too. Yeah! Get off it! Stop it don't you? Well the people... you can say that all you want nobody is doing that. Well then there you go the internet sucks So if you put us our two email addresses j at Dvorak dot org and noagenda at dvorak dot org into your contact list Google says that this stuff will always pass through I don't believe that. I don't believe it either, but they say it will be if you dig around enough there is a filtering mechanism that Google has in their own Gmail. It's so complicated John. I don't care this people have to do care. I don't want to see 32% open rates. I understand that but this is not your fault people need to find a different solution for their email because it's only going to get worse

CHAPTER 12 / 32 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and Value-for-Value Credits

A segment dedicated to acknowledging high-tier donors and executive producers, including a new knight, Sir Anthony. Topics raised in donor notes include the John Birch Society, the Paris of the Prairies (Saskatoon), and a critique of Noam Chomsky's historical stance on political violence.

philadelphia· minnesota· saskatoon· karma· john birch society· noam chomsky

1:22:13 The meta issue is Google determines what you consume. Shut up, slave! Google determines that for you not you, Google. Facebook determines what you see not you, Facebook people figure it out already well so let's thank a few people who are executive producers for show 633 that did get through and paid attention Nathalie Colangelo in Mount Laurel, New Jersey is our top guy. Right on! Excuse me $600 and 5 cents finishing off my nighthood in a lump sum because you guys deserve it I recently moved to a new place directly across the street from the US Mint

1:22:58 in downtown Philadelphia. Oh yeah, oh beautiful! And there's a hole in the ground and I did go in there so I'm literally from where all the money is...I'll take a bingo boom shakalaka karma if it's not too much to ask and he's got some accounting. And you will become Sir Anthony this is fantastic as if I knew it was...and the Imperials! Whoa that went over a lot of heads And as if I knew it, we've got a brand new version! You've got karma. I'm sorry but...I love that version It's jazzy Well its ummm Was not was Walk the Doppelbergh Weida or weeda? Weeda I'd say weedah I'd say weidah You'd say weida and I'd say weeda

1:23:54 44443, been huddled in Manhattan for years listening to your podcast at late night. I don't agree with all who does though i do We don't agree with each other how can you agree with all of it? That's what I always tell people so we don't even agree with each other why would you agree with everything we say because actually it's impossible yeah because we don't agree on anything or a lot of stuff So why could you agree with any anywhere this is a philosophical thing he says He says he doesn't agree should not be using Gmail But your podcast has an important voice people need to hear. He's got no apparent requests that came in an email. And what is this number? 44443, is that a significant number somehow? I like it! That was the round off his... Oh okay Wait To round off The knighthood Because he's not in blue on the... In our coded system No Oh no, because the other guy was rounding him up. I don't know. He doesn't say

1:24:53 Hmm. If it's a night thing, he is going to have to tell us. Also Sir Anthony is also not on the list. Alright? Okay fine. Is Sir Anthony... No, not in the email. Doesn't matter don't worry about I'll fix it It says right there Yeah and its blue Go look at the email Nathan Newberg in Las Wages Nevada 33333 And I cannot find a note from Nathan Daniel Cerbus in Montevideo, Minnesota nuts at 3333 and I did find an email from him even though he sent this in by check. Jingles he wants a karma onto the polka clip from the last show yes it's a thing in them in Minnesota amongst people of a certain age reliving the dances they had in ballrooms decades ago if you'd like check out the old PBS Polka Show

1:25:51 Fun time polka. No, let's not do that and he has a link Oh boy you've unleashed the Polka in people this isn't that this is not good So used to be a PV a fun time polka on PBS right? Here's the karma I can't stand this polka. You thought the karma. No, we know polka I'm boy got it cheek in his armor. Um, I'm boycotting The pole pole. Yeah. Oh what are you some sort of a racist? Yes, I'm right here. Sorry again also three three a lot of 333 dot three threes today nice well a lot by one two three four in Fort Pierce Florida John and Adam value for value who besides the John Birch Society works to eliminate the Council of Foreign Relations There are they even have been in business anymore than John Birch Society as libertarian? I am not a good fit with them

1:26:43 With who? The Foreign Council of Foreign Relations or the John Birch Society. You don't tell us! It's a little unclear what you mean there... Very, very poorly written and no requests which is fine Nick Johannes in St Louis Park, St Louis Park in Minnesota nuts 333 dot 33 My beautiful wife Mary du charme de charm or do Charm A decided to bestow an associate executive producer credit upon me for my 31st birthday which was June 27th In an amazing act of kismet, or birthday terrorism I donated for my own associate executive producer credit two days earlier. Didn't think i'd actually do it myself she said

1:27:23 She said, I showed her. Okay? I showed her, I guess is what he meant to say. Anyway as PayPal decided to flag her payment as fraudulent... It only now just went through! With her approval, I've decided to upgrade to the full executive producership tell Mary I love her And please tell Eric Humphries is a douchebag again. Oh no So I guess we put Nick on the birthday list then if it didn't go through? I guess yeah, it's late belated birthday so he's 31 so put him on the list Okay, and I don't know what happened to the rest of the money okay This was always annoying by the way when this happens well We get there you go It's just like people use

1:28:07 Gmail you get crap and we use PayPal and sometimes we get crap is what it is luckily paypal works 99% of the time but, We do get a lot of checks which are very Very much better Roll SK in Saskatoon, the Paris of Canada. $316 and 50 cents. Roll SK here from the Paris of the Prairies. I'd like to dedicate this executive producership to some folks who have helped both myself my band and No Agenda Mr Oil get most slave and Void Zero help me in my band. The noble liars! But they all promoted my music on the stream and by providing hosting, they provided hosting for the site. No matter what happened on the back end they got it back up and running great! Thanks guys!" To me you CIS admins are wizards I knew you do a crap ton for this show too And as a lover of no agenda thank you for that as well Please send me some job Carmen as i've been laid off and out of work for three weeks

1:29:03 Due to the low resource prices in this so-called rich land, there is... well Saskatoon. Saskatchewan is not Alberta. There's a lull in demand for engineering services and I am forced to whore myself out for construction and project management! So please some karma it has always worked for me in the past thank you for your courage and ITM. Alright we'll do a little dude named Ben Karma. Dude named Ben. You've got karma. Okay Now you go to associate executive producer, well he's at...we'll give him his executive producer. Associate Executive Producer good old Andrew Lemanson in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Lemanson? What'd I say? Lemanson as always. Lemason! 2-3-4-5-6 were one of my favorite things now this is a good note it is a little long

1:29:54 but I have to read it. After hearing John talk about Gnome Chomsky, I had to investigate. I like language and i like to think I can smell a skunk. Gnome reeks! But I don't have much evidence. I picked up a couple of gnomes books and WTF? The man is unreadable take my money Amidst much protest, I found this gem from the 1960s and this is a quote. And I think...I sent him a note back saying that I think this is one of his rationales for supporting Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge! Here's Noam talking. If we're interested in let's say diminishing the amount of violence in the world

1:30:34 It's at least arguable and sometimes true that a terroristic act does diminish the amount of violence in the world. Hence, a person who is opposed to violence will not be opposed to that terroristic act." Whoa! That's deep. What a crock. He goes on... Andrew does This is not a good man. This is a long-winded circular logic condoning violence in the name of peace." This is what he does, obfuscation and sentences filled with the most amazing language you've ever heard! How could he be wrong? This piece was far more lucid and understandable than his recent work. Apparently, he was just cutting his teeth in the 60's

1:31:18 To quote John, you are lying liar! Napping for humanity. Baron and... So he's now a baron. Nice. Alright. Andrew Lemesony I'm just putting this in. Two more to go. William Doty in Mount Zion Illinois. I have the note. Hold on Okay? I'll be right there Uh huh Yeah, I'm back. The note was laying on the floor and you just can't go straight to the note so he wrote a handwritten this is long i'm not gonna read the whole thing but he says uh Heil Adolph Jebediah This is hand written by when I saw this I figured this man was completely nuts. Well hail everybody! Hail everybody So he writes this note take this poor priapism

1:32:23 Priapism stricken forever high school slave lit cash from my slave transfer celebration. Congratulations motto as a thank you, this is he's young for your production of the amazing product no agenda that he has the handwriting of a millennial It's, you know I blame the schools for this. There is no absolutely no reason that the schools don't teach penmanship anymore and you can do that if your homeschooled in fact go all away and teach calligraphy. That's what i think. And kerning

1:33:01 Cokernin, burnings and types. Production of the amazing podcast No Agenda I knew it was time to donate when an hour in the neighboring city one a our something went a whore in the neighboring city to Mount Zion Decatur vanished in a mysterious gas explosion that took out half of the neighborhood and blew out the water in the houses nearby. The firefighters are still confused as to its cause." Uh-huh. Anyway, he goes on about the... It's a drone strike! It's an object... It's a drone strike! Don't kid yourself. He did douche me and give everyone a Reverend Sharpton Wee Much Charlie Rose karma. Oh. In other words you want some Charlie Rose thing too? Be prepared to hear back from me after I transfer to Gitmo Nation Midwest Berkeley which is the University of Wisconsin Madison nuts for de-radicalization in August

1:34:02 Also, I did steal the intro to y'all's donation segment from my graduation speech. I'll send it to you all when it makes its debut in July. What did he do? What'd he steal? Prepare your cornholes! Thank you for getting some courage. I don't know what he did. This doesn't sound good, well at least hopefully he graduates and can get out of there before they lynch him whatever He's gonna do yeah, we'll see but resist we much We must and we will much about that Be committed tell me about this sexuality. It's in your DNA. You've got karma You know it's hard to believe he actually said those things Matthew Yates is our final associate executive producer from Fairport, New York at $207 Thank you for your analysis of the Christine Lagarde babbling like a witch about the number seven Yeah

1:35:03 Just wanted to point out that local law enforcement agencies across the US are being outfitted with military equipment, yes of course through the 1033 program of the Department of Defense. Large following in Lagarde's math 1033 equals 7! Ah, drop the zero. I hope you use this donation to buy your seeds in iodine We got a lot of emails about that might as well tell you right now So remember when i said the seven years and something? That there's a... I had heard it..I knew about this and of course tons of email of the biblical context Genesis, Jacob interprets the dream of the Pharaoh and the interpretation... this is where it gets interesting. You would have seven abundant crop years followed by seven years of famine and what I got a lot of response from was people saying for Lagard to turn it around saying we had seven bad years now it's time for seven good years which is not according to Scripture is satanical! It's an old Satanist trick I'm told

1:36:05 I'm in too Everybody's like ah Oh, I've been found out. So Lord only knows what's going to happen on July the 20th which also apparently is the day when they want it was a hit they wanted to kill Hitler or Hitler's birthday and it was like there's a million things happening on July 20th and apparently sounds like a donation opportunity yes well anyone opens the email no wait Someone had a there was a funny it was like if you do I don't know if I save this one It was a donation amount here. It is Too complicated

1:36:48 Reverse Karma, 7 years times 33. 231 drop the 1 is 23. 23 times 104 is the number of Noah Jen episodes per year's 2392. Two plus three plus nine plus two is 16 one plus six is seven! Ha! So ask for this 231 donation you pick a swine that deserves it and give him seven years- Hey, he said there was a man putting in the newsletter so I'm gonna save it so it's... The numbers 231 And it is a seven years of crap for someone. It's a reverse karma! It's not very positive... Well then you can wish it on somebody! It's le 7 years de caca the sept ans de malheur. Because he's... So you had to send it to someone, then we could do this but there has to be some way of reversing the curse! Well here it is so this is a little... How did they reverse the curse? Here's a little Candanavian coup d'etat for question raised in 632 just to confirm In Quebec we actually use an expression concerning the number 7 in relation to coming bad period of time

1:37:45 For instance, if you break a mirror in public chances are pretty high some old lady will come to you often with fear in her eyes predicting seven years of bad luck. In French it would be sept ans de malheur so his suggestion for donation amount is a twist from French le seven years de caca and then he goes through that whole thing to come up with 231. All right well That's the kind of creativity we have in our audience. It's very creative, by the way he has never donated he says. Ah! Creative. What? Yeah very creative. Satan! Oh alrighty people

CHAPTER 13 / 32 Discussion

Swiss Knighting and SaabSwiss Birthday Recognition

A correction is made for a Swiss donor known as SaabSwiss, whose knighthood and birthday recognition were previously missed due to administrative errors. He is officially dubbed a Black Knight, and his appreciation for the show's closing music by David Marriott is noted.

switzerland· saabswiss· david marriott· black knight· paypal· birthday

1:38:28 I want to remind people that we do have another show coming up on Sunday. I'm guessing nobody's going to get a newsletter or reminder that it is the show, and so please go to Dvorak dot org slash N-A-N help us out in any way you can Thank goodness we have your ham radio working so at least we can grouse at each other over the repeater when the show falls to bits 14 Charlie indeed Thank you all very much, it's highly appreciated. Of course these are real credits and you can use them wherever credits are valid and we'll have a couple of night- Oh! There was actually one I needed to... We had a make good this was something weird happened i'm not quite sure And this is from Saab Suisse

1:39:16 And he... so, he had sent in a donation which would get him a knighthood. It was also for his birthday which is July 4th and it never made it anywhere! Didn't make it onto a spreadsheet or anything. Huh? Yeah and he sent this whole- Was it PayPal?! Yeah, and even sent the copy of the PayPal. Now, he's from Switzerland and it was $494.45 to complete his knighthood I sent Eric this whole note and Eric basically just ignores what i had to say. It's not anywhere, the note is not anywhere so im going to read this. I'll look into the Paypal bookkeeping. Please call me by my gamer name SaabSwiss that's my desired nightname SirSaabsWiss My birthday was 4th of July 1960

1:39:59 In the morning, Jon and I don't remember how we found the No Agenda podcast but it was over a year ago. The thing which immediately got my attention was the end tune on the seventh day by David Marriott It is simply a masterpiece! Which everyone always asks me that...it's on the seventh day, David Marriott Took me awhile to find out that the No Agenda show is at least as outstanding as this tune Since I'm a regular listener and do not miss a single show that you like to have as much instant nights as possible, but I think one has to stay a slave for at least one year to be able to really cherish the mercy of Noah. Yeah, I mentioned this guy on the last show about the insta night where he had to be a slave...I read his... That does sound familiar! Don't remember? But if you look at the spreadsheet it's not on the spreadsheet so where was it?!

1:40:45 Okay, we'll just keep reading because this is a good note. I decided for my 51st birthday the 4th of July would be the perfect day to become a member of The Noah Jenner Roundtable! I would like to ask for some karma for John and Adam David Marriott and all the listeners of the show and my friends from Sigarista Air Brigade. I don't remember that Something went wrong somewhere, but it's a he was really disappointed. So he's a knight and well then he's now black knights Yes Exactly night for over a year exactly and he gets his karma of course you've got that's right karma so becomes Black Knights or sob sweets

1:41:20 Yeah, which is you know we've done a really good job of not having a lot of black nights. That hopefully will make good for the fact that he got missed and his birthday too I feel bad! Well put him on the birthday list for today. I have him on there now yes This i think it's my fault somehow Oh I'm happy to blame ya Well, I mean you can blame anybody you want but because i remember this something okay well we'll just so it's resolved. We'll fix it and uh... So we of course have a show on sunday we need your support as always Devorak dot org slash n-a And of course we need you to always help us out getting more people listen by propagating the formula Our formula is this! We go out, we hit people in the mouth! Shut up! Ray! Shut Up! Awesome!!!

CHAPTER 14 / 32 Discussion

Ham Radio Culture and QSL Card Traditions

The traditions of amateur radio are explored, specifically the exchange of QSL cards to confirm radio contacts (QSOs). The hosts discuss the aesthetics of classic cards and announce plans to create limited-edition No Agenda QSL cards for listeners who interact with them on the D-Star reflector.

ham radio· qsl cards· amateur radio· d-star· signal reports· hobby

1:42:22 There you go. Nice! Okay, that's a good group Are we already at 143? Are you kidding me?! Because we started early My goodness Moving right along Yeah it's moving very very fast Well ya know so I got a QSL card From ke0amz. He sent one for you too, which was a mail to you. Have we actually QSO'd? Do deserve a QSL? This is part of the ham radio amateur radio culture where... I wanted to take a break and talk about this a little bit. Really? We have enough hams. Really? Okay. Just a little bit. Wow!

1:43:03 Well, let me explain this. It's not gonna be more than a couple minutes. All right go ahead He didn't send a donation he just sent in a QSL card and I was looking at it And it's like he's got his call. He's gotta psych. He's got Part of his own address, he needs to get a printer that knows how to print these things. It's got day 33 month 33 year 33 it's a joke QSL. Because the QSL card is essentially a confirmation that you had contact which we haven't had. I would recommend anyone going on Google and type in

1:43:40 or old, classic QSL cards and then look at the images and you'll see all kinds of cool ones. Naked women... funny cartoons... Ham Rig in the outhouse I mean there's a million possibilities Just so we understand this is the hobby this is what it's about You contact each other, you say what's my signal? Here is your signal. Here is your signal. What's my signal? What's your name? Here's my name and by the way, you can't say...you have to say the name here is. You don't say My Name Is Adam. The name here is Adam for some reason and the reporters always five nine it's never any different. It's always five nine at five nine And then you say okay great send me a QSL card! You got it?! Then you send a QSL car that says I talked to you on this day at this time 5 9 My Name Is Adam

1:44:29 Yeah, what she normally filled out is confirmation QSO with number your name, call sign, day month date megahertz where you found the guy that's a megahertz. You can put it on or not put it on. Found you on the megahertz yeah So what I would...I'm thinking this should be revived Well, it's quite lively actually. I'm getting... well if this card is any indication... For my birthday Miss Mickey has made me QSL cards Oh you've got QSL cards? She's yeah she so... I'm gonna have one of our artists make one for me Well i have one done personally by Miss Mickey So ha!

1:45:07 Well, I'm gonna get one of the guys to do one. All right and then i've decided to do them in limited editions Like maybe an edition of 50 And then that would be the end of that edition you send out a next edition Then people will try to get this set so they tried to collect all of them and you can find john on d star reflector 14 charlie Yeah, all right. Hey, so we had this election in uh afghanistan? And it has not gone the way we want No. So Abdullah, Abdullah? Abdullah, Abdullah could you imagine say you're calling me on the phone and my name is Abdullah Okay I'm gonna ask you about these elections okay let me i'm going to call you on the Afghanistan phone because it's a little older school there we go yeah hello Abdullah Yeah Abdullah Abdullah Abdullah who now I was gonna do that

CHAPTER 15 / 32 Discussion

Afghanistan Election Fraud and Ashraf Ghani TED Talk

The disputed presidential election in Afghanistan between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani is examined. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki addresses allegations of widespread fraud and ballot stuffing. The segment mocks Ashraf Ghani's 2005 TED Talk on rebuilding broken states, contrasting his academic persona with the realities of Afghan power politics.

afghanistan· abdullah abdullah· ashraf ghani· jen psaki· election fraud· ted talk

1:46:05 No, it's like this. Who is winning the election in Pakistan? Abdullah! That's me, what? Abdullah! Abdullah Abdullah. What?! Really this is bad Yeah well it would have been... So Abdullah Abdullah is not was he's not supposed to win No This is not the guy- this is not our guy No of course not Who's who are who's our guy our guy Ashraf Ghani yeah and uh and he's a former world bank Yeah, banker drug guys. In fact in the 2009 election he ran he got like three percent of the vote they called him Zana E Bush which means George Bush's bitch direct translation I believe is wife of George W Bush but a Zana E Bush i think is bush's bitch so he has now allied himself with some military dudes

1:47:04 And he is supposed to win and this is not working out so well, and there's like a recount and everyone's getting all upset. Of course this has to be explained in the State Department as Jen Psaki does her little show And it's quite funny to hear how she's explaining that, oh, you know clearly we have an issue with these elections. I want to reiterate that today's announcement is a preliminary results. These results are not final or authoritative because we have to go in and give them some democracy regime change and may not predict the final outcome. There are serious allegations of fraud which i think you referenced She should've said its computer glitch

1:47:45 But no, she misses the opportunity. They're and they've been raised in our view they haven't been sufficiently investigated right now our focus is on encouraging a full and thorough review of all reasonable allegations of irregularities we think that's essential irregularities that the Afghan people have confidence in the integrity of the electoral process We don't support any individual candidate as you know as we stated frequently But we have long stated our support for a credible, transparent and thorough process. And obviously there are additional steps that need to be taken in that regard." This is so funny! It's just as funny as Syria where you know... We just created a whole new government which we call the Syrian opposition but it's really just of these guys will talk with them and now they're electing a new president which will recognize

1:48:38 It's just, we're just pretend like Assad doesn't exist. No no no when we talk to Syria we talk to the new guys the new president and of course this is all backed up by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights The one guy in an apartment in London somewhere Who's always, you know... It sounds good. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." Well let's look at it from a logical point of view we got a lot of interest We got the drug business which were handing back over to the guy who took out of Gitmo Yeah Because they're pulling out so they gotta have some guy running that and he has to be in our pocket Now we also have issues with the Chiners coming in Hell yeah! because they want to take over that lithium area which is the northern part of the country Which apparently loaded with lithium That they can make into batteries for electric stuff

1:49:25 And we can't have that happen. We really don't, can afford to get this Abdul Abdul Abdul whatever his name is. Abdullah Abdullah! This is not good No we don't want that guy But I will say... That's gonna help us Here's the mistake that we made He has the better name Yeah, he's got a great name. I mean seriously? Abdullah is a great name He can't...he's memorable! I can't even remember-I just told you the guy's name that we're backing and i can't even remember his name Ashraf Ghani You have to look at it on a piece of paper you can't remember it It's Ashraf A S H R A F Ghani with an h in there so Ghahani It's a terrible name Where Abdullah Abdullah is easy But who are the marketing people in this country? I don't know

1:50:04 Abdullah Abdullah so so nice we named him twice. I mean come on it's easy Africa they had the two names that was supposedly killed and he wasn't killed and what was that guys? He had a double name like that uh Kony kony, you know actually something whatever the case yeah No this is Abdullah Abdullah. Well. You don't know why we couldn't have gotten him in our pocket to begin with it just That would've been the way to go well. I guess the Chinese bought him off Whatever the case is, this is going to be a mess. Yeah yeah so I presume...I mean the president's already gotten involved he's calling like hey you know be called both of them by the way the president in town here in Austin today oh it must be everybody must be giddy uh well um of course he'll be having dinner at a very important house that's how they own you and he's having dinner at the castle tonight

1:51:05 Robert Rodriguez film director in the castle no of course not Robert Rodriguez filmmaker Oh Rodriguez the filmmaker yeah, he did machete Yeah I know what he did. Yeah He said he makes me make schlock die well desperado at that but that was a while ago schlock schlock Afghanistan clip kind of brings us to ahead what we're talking about hold on second just their summary yeah No, that's good We need this Claims of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election must be thoroughly investigated. So says President Obama, who has told both candidates by phone that the country risks losing out on American aid if violence breaks out. Ashraf Ghani was announced as winner on Monday with 56% of the preliminary results

1:51:52 His rival Abdullah Abdullah has long complained that ballot boxes were stuffed with fraudulent votes as well as other kinds of irregularities Now the Afghan electoral commission itself has admitted to recording fraud by security forces and senior government officials Okay, so we stuff the ballot box. They caught us Dummies Yeah, we did that it's uh you know let's look at some pictures for a second here. Let's look at what? Abdullah Abdullah looks like let's just look he's a better-looking guy who is more like a Then and he was more Afghani than the other guy yeah, they got loose like a western banker He's kind of clean cut here

1:52:35 Yeah, but he's not wearing the banker suit. I like he has this pensive look where he is clutching his chin with his fingers Okay? And then Ashraf Ghani let me take a look at him It's kind of easy if you think of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghanistan. Maybe that's a way... That's an easy way to remember him. Here I got a picture of Abdullah Abdullah with his suit on He's got plenty of suits And he wears all kinds outfits Alright so Ashraf... A good looking guy! He'd be a good-looking corrupt president If you look at Ashraf Ghani, he looks like Dick Cheney The bald head

1:53:12 There he is. He's done TED talks, plays... Oh yeah this guy! He has a website! He's done TED talks? I think so yeah what is this how to rebuild a broken- Yeah Ted Talks! Ha ha he's done a TED Well there he is yes we got the TED talk it's here why don't you play a bit of it Hello Afghanistan surely you've seen me on my TED talk Alright, let's see. This is funny! I should have looked at this guy. He looks like the other guy and he has a stupid hat You mean made of the... The hat made of the... What is it made of? It's made of... Placentas Yeah no its calf fetus or something like that Some disgusting crap alright How to rebuild a broken state This is Ashraf Ghani from

1:54:00 What is this? July 2005. Alright, oh did we get a commercial first from Ted? Yes! Ted ideas worth spreading Yay clap clap clap Buffering Buffering buffering A public do we longer go observed is constituted through discussion and debate If we are to call the tyranny of assumptions into question. That's him? Yeah, it sounded like what's her name but Lagarde. Of the unquestioned then we must be willing to subject our own assumptions Sounds like a woman! Hook this guy It is in this spirit that I join into a discussion Give them some testosterone. Namely how to mobilize

1:54:57 different forms of capital. Here's the, here's what they say, Ashraf Ghani is passionate and powerful 10-minute talk emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states And was followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan. So everybody's in on this guy You know I was watching this political thing and not gonna be too You know get into this too much, but I just want to mention it. I mean this guy for one thing I swear to God when I first heard him. I thought he was being introduced by By Lagarde it sounds like a woman. He's dead which I could see why they call him Bush's bitch yeah Bush is very warm. He's got a womanly voice Very descriptive that Afghani slang

1:55:45 So I'm listening to this political thing that I pointed out to some people on Twitter. There's a political, they had a tech conference of some crap and they didn't know what they were talking about. Yeah phones? And for at least the first five minutes I swear to God I thought it was Rachel Maddow was the guy, the moderator. It sounded just like her with the same cadence, same voice, same pitch, same everything and it was some guy And I think this has to do with our food supply. Low tea? Yeah, but is it low tea in a 20 year old? Who knows... Anyway, just found it disturbing. I'm watching a replay of this C-SPAN thing on NSA surveillance and I just wanted to play the... C-SPAN always has an introduction It's like a three hour deal This will be 30 minutes

CHAPTER 16 / 32 Discussion

Michael Copps on Net Neutrality and Municipal Broadband

Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps discusses the negative impacts of telecommunications deregulation and the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in blocking municipal broadband projects. The analysis highlights how state laws are used to prevent local communities from building their own high-speed internet infrastructure.

michael copps· fcc· net neutrality· alec· municipal broadband· deregulation

1:56:40 Now a discussion on NSA surveillance, cyber security and internet freedom. We'll hear from Bruce Schneier. Internet Freedom! Okay... Got a couple of clips about that. About internet freedom? Did you see this thing did you watch this NSA? No I figured you were watching it and i was busy dealing with the email getting 32% of my time. So I got Michael Kops was on C-SPAN And he has a... Who is he again? He used to be an FCC, he's a blowhard. Used to be an FCC commissioner now he's with Common Cause and he's you know

1:57:20 It's just a blowhard, but he was on talking about all the net neutrality and all the rest of it. And I got two kind of semi-long clips from him but they're very interesting He thinks uh... he talks about deregulation About the phone companies taking over too much of business and the government has to get involved. Gotta get involved! For your internet freedom? To protect your internet freedom? Internet Freedom through Government Involvement Also he talks about political ads so i have these 2 clips and i want to play them because If you got anything from that NSA deal, this might work as a segue. Maybe not. Okay. But play this one and this is Michael Kopp's irony of deregulation and he kind of misses his own point So here in Colorado and other states legislatures are pushing to completely deregulate the telephone industry despite the evidence that in California for example

1:58:11 Prices went up over 250% in just a few years after deregulation. I just want to ask you your take on this argument pushed by companies like CenturyLink that consumers don't need oversight from the Public Utilities Commission or the FCC when it comes to our communications needs? So these companies basically want market power with no public oversight And if that's not a prescription for market control and gatekeeping power, I don't know what is. But this has been happening all over the United States of America For example there are now 19 or 20 states where laws like this have been passed that prohibit municipal broadband So say Verizon or Comcast or AT&T

1:58:48 Maybe doesn't want to build in a certain rural town, but they don't want anybody else in there either. So they go to the state legislature and all of these states have passed laws either making it impossible or downright difficult to do that so you're leaving whole communities behind on the broadband age and the internet age and who knows if those companies won't be back until they think they can make a buck there and make a dollar there. And that story has gone largely unreported until recently because there's so much less state news coverage. Excuse me, except for on The No Agenda Show... ...where it's Statehouse coverage than it used to be because of the consolidation of media and it's all one big set of problems. These aren't separable problems, broadband versus broadcast new media versus old media choose one or the other we live in one big communications ecosystem part of the traditional media is broken needs to be fixed but we also have to figure out where going with new media and the future of the internet and all the rest

1:59:46 So we need to report those stories. I don't think most Americans, if they really knew the power that something like the American Legislative Council had to not dictate but to really advocate on behalf of and push these ads to passage through their lobbying power...I think most people if they knew how extensive that was probably wouldn't stand for it. Okay so that's interesting And this is the part I didn't know. So we have of course reported on these municipal regulations, which is completely anti-competitive and if the people even know...the ones in the know or of course in city councils they're the a-holes making this happen and probably taking bribes free broadband to the schools so their government buildings for their offices God knows what but this was set up by...is this Alec? Is that what he said? Yeah!

2:00:30 So those guys, they're behind it? What a bunch of douche buckets! Wow I didn't realize that was structural. Oh well of course... But here's what funny about it he was talking about deregulation being a bad thing this is actually a form of regulation uh... that he's bitching about and because this regulation when you pass a law that says you can't do something to review all of the view this is not deregulation in the least deregulation means is wide open you should be able to put municipal broadband yes like it missed no so he misses his own irony of this complaining but there's two things does that is that mean she just doesn't figure out he doesn't understand the mechanism but did this this was interesting to me too that that alec

2:01:14 is behind these walls. Because if you're some little country bumpkin out in the... but, you know, not even a bumpkin! You own a huge cattle ranch and you're out in the middle of nowhere Wyoming just outside of a city limit that could have municipal broadband it could be sending you a signal and you can get high-speed internet And you can't because the state passed a law saying that no Is it states or municipalities? It's states. Interesting Well, this is being pushed for. As we know the... We read that document from the Council of Mayors who also want to push for this no municipal broadband Don't let the citizens get together and do a mesh network No! No! No! All part of the same thing Can't have that Why? Does anybody come up to these guys and say why? No because people don't... John, of course not Because what's happening all people hear is I'm on Netflix cause Comcast is evil

2:02:14 That's all they know. Net neutrality! That's net neutrality, that's all the people know and everyone is all in on this. It's pathetic. People do not take the time to investigate anymore Maybe it's never been that way. I don't know maybe, maybe... No it's never been that way the real- our show is one of the out- what disappoints me Is that the media supposed to at least give people a clue about a lot of this stuff We wouldn't be around if the media was doing their job we wouldn't be necessary! Doing the show? Yeah The media would have not only be producing entertainment segments with Lindsay Lohan and Dave Stewart. The Media has given up

CHAPTER 18 / 32 Discussion

Campaign Finance and Political Ad Disclosure

Michael Copps advocates for stricter FCC enforcement of sponsorship disclosure rules for political advertisements. The discussion expresses skepticism about the feasibility of tracing funding through complex chains of NGOs and "dark money" groups often associated with the Koch brothers or George Soros.

fcc· campaign finance· koch brothers· george soros· ngos· political advertising

2:05:34 Well, we're never going to get any sort of campaign finance reform because the media which is the influential number one influence in the world. They take all the money! They take all the money and they're not gonna give up that money and go along with these programs but we listen to Michael Kops again going on and on about naively I might add...going on and on about what's needed the and really force this disclosure. But you were just on NPR talking about this? Yeah, I was. Went over 400 stations just by this past weekend. There's tremendous interest in Congress when the new chairman of the FCC was

2:06:34 nominated and went up for his confirmation hearing. This issue came up in a rather controversial fashion, but it came up there is support for it What we're talking about here are those ads that were subjected to at home Let's say this message brought to you by citizens for purple mountain majesties and amber ways of grain And then might be a chemical company dumping sludge into the ocean or something You don't know because That's all you know. And what section 317 of the communications statute, going back a long way requires and has never been enforced is that you are told who is actually sponsoring an ad. So I want them to update the rules so they don't have to pass a law or wait for Congress to pass a law they're not gonna pass.

2:07:19 is on the books. The FCC can update the rules and have a requirement in place long before the 2016 elections if they really get off their duff, they could do it before the 2014 elections so that when you saw those ads you'd know who was trying to buy your vote or persuade you to vote and it might change your perspective a little bit on the messages they're trying to drill into your brain Okay, I got a question. Oh hold on a second there All right all right so he doesn't want the Sponsored by whatever the name of the NGO or whatever The group is he wants who's really behind now This is one of the specialties that of yours But I say I do I can do it but you really like to do it which Is the dig and dig and dig until you find out who's behind it because it's usually a chain It's like one of those

2:08:10 TV shows, one of those mysteries that are on television where they find out this company is owned by another company. There's an umbrella company and there's a company that owns that there's a company that owns the umbrella company there's a come... And then you find some guy at the end that happens to be the criminal right now. And by the way You know what? The answer always is. Don't you? Oh come on! Of course you know the answer! KOOK BROTHER!!! Always the Koch brothers. Or Soros on the other side, yeah it's always Soros or the Koch brotherhood but this isn't so non-trivial This is not you to get to the Koch brothers through some of these organizations It's like it's almost impossible and who are you to say I'm an organization? I'm an NGO called Americans for the you know for red dogs

2:08:59 And I get money from all kinds of people. Yeah, which you don't have to report it's not... And I don't have to report it! Well how do you get the real? You can't do it this is idealistic bull crap Yes If I'm the Americans for red dogs that's what its gonna- That's the only thing you can prove. You can't prove that Koch brothers gave me money Hey, you know what? If the Koch brothers gave us money I'd be dancing in the streets. Yeah well the Koch brothers don't even know who we are. Bring it on! So this is nonsense and it's not gonna ever... The FCC isn't going to do anything This is..I don't even know why people keep talking about it Well then let's not. I've stopped Alright Let us go to the war on men This a little after-jerk of the Hobby Lobby case

CHAPTER 19 / 32 Discussion

Harry Reid and the Hobby Lobby Ruling Reaction

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticizes the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, specifically targeting the "five white men" on the bench. The segment frames this as political pandering to the Democratic base regarding women's healthcare and corporate religious exemptions.

harry reid· supreme court· hobby lobby· contraception· five white men

2:09:48 As you know now, of course we're desperately trying to figure out how to pay for this even though We know that it's all in the insurance companies In their agreement that they have to pay and obviously when the Supreme Court Votes for your side. You'd great at these people have vision and when they vote against you then there then there Well Harry Reid sums it up And we have so much to do with this month but the one thing we're going to do during this work period sooner rather than later is is to ensure that women's lives are not determined by virtue of five white men. The Supreme Court is now about five white men, I mean that's pretty low! That is pretty low What does he want instead? Wait, uh... yeah, I don't know who cares it doesn't matter It's pandering to the base He wants them to get- it's pandering

2:10:47 He's a panderer. This guy is horrible! Panderer, I tell you... You know? I'm surprised he doesn't blame the Koch brothers. Uh not in that- I've never heard him blame the Koch brothers Not in that clip Actually it's the five white Koch brothers So Noodleman was on The Hill uh you know her as Newman Newman? Newland Newland, Noodleman, Newland, Newman Kagan um and of course now we're still all over Russia because because of BOOTING Obviously and it was interesting is it Corker's Bob Corker. Yeah, yeah Bob Corker he It was kind of cool He was just basically calling noodleman out saying you're full of crap the sanctions because there's always over doing some sanctions we have Categorical category sanctions or industry industry selective sanction but nothing's really actually happening other than just a lot of yelling

CHAPTER 20 / 32 Discussion

Bob Corker Challenges Victoria Nuland on Russia Sanctions

Senator Bob Corker confronts Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during a hearing regarding the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia. Corker disputes Nuland's claims about the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border, accusing the administration of providing inaccurate assessments of the situation.

bob corker· victoria nuland· russia· sanctions· ukraine· nato

2:11:48 And he kind of called Neutroman to it and was kind of funny to watch. As President Obama has said, we will judge Russia by its actions not by its words The US and Europe have imposed repeated rounds of sanctions to increase the cost Russia pays for its choices. Increase the costs, that's right. Increased the costs! And as you quoted Mr Chairman we are ready to impose more costs including targeted sector-specific sanctions very soon if Russia does not decisively change course and break it support for

2:12:41 Wake up in the mornings and look in the mirror practice talking, but no that nothing's gonna happen That's pretty bad Hey, you practice that this morning in front of the mirror and know that nothing's happening because you're full of crap. Thank you chairman well I certainly don't disagree with your assessment that we have not seen progress on any of the areas that i outlined We are continuing the conversation with the Europeans about the right moment for sanctions there was a moment where we had 40 000 Russian troops ringing the border we threatened sanctions and those troops moved back That is absolutely untrue that is absolutely untrue they stayed on

2:13:18 border weeks and weeks and they kept saying they were moving away and our NATO friends kept saying they're not moving away that is absolutely not true what you just said There was a moment when we had 40,000 combat units ready to move. A lot of them moved back but you're not wrong that we have a significant number returned." Wow! You're not wrong the humina humina humina. Wow! Liar. She lies. Now this Ukraine situation... Of course the focus is completely gone I think we're more interested in

CHAPTER 21 / 32 Discussion

Jen Psaki and RT Journalist on Ukraine Civilian Deaths

An RT journalist confronts State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki with graphic images of civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine allegedly caused by Kiev's air strikes. Psaki defends the Ukrainian government's right to maintain order while attributing the root cause of violence to Russian-backed separatists.

jen psaki· ukraine· kiev· civilian casualties· rt news· air strikes

2:13:56 three and a half billion dollars needed for to stop the surge of illegal children, whatever. I don't know what's going on is that everyone this the scripts are intermingling and of course we don't care really about Putin anymore at the moment at least however does not stop the fact that in eastern Ukraine We have people dying and being killed by Ukrainians, and this is... that person you just heard, Victoria Nuland put that regime in place. We know that because she said so in the telephone call where she said F the EU And these people are now killing Ukrainians This was not happening before Noodleman started handing out the pretzels Not like this

2:14:46 And this is brought up in the Jen Psaki show, State Department by an RT journalist I will say. Which is done specifically to put her on the spot. I have not seen this show up on RT so don't know if they used it but this journalist holds up pictures which you can find on the webs of citizens killed maimed ripped apart bombed to shreds And she says, how is this possible that America is all behind this Kiev, this government which is doing this? Can't you say hey enough. This is not okay! How would you answer this John if you were coaching Jen Psaki

2:15:28 someone confronted you with civilians being killed by a government that your boss put in place. I would say that these pictures are not verified, these could be fake they could be photoshopped we don't believe this is actually going on to this extreme the information we have from reliable sources indicates that a lot of this is not true! Oh you're hired Because someone gave her some bad advice. But it seems that you are downplaying the scale of the crisis there, you know? That's why I would show these pictures These are shots of civilians blown to pieces in their homes and backyards In the village in eastern Ukraine last week

2:16:21 And Kiev ordered these killings. Nobody else? What does the US do to stop Kiev from doing it, from the village of Kontrashovka? Excuse me. Finished? Go ahead I'm letting you finish your question. Oh little defensive! Go ahead and finish. Bella, go on our way for you to finish. These are gruesome pictures but it seems... To be clear on the ground uh the reports that we've seen and the vast majority of people who are reporting from the ground report that the Russian-backed separatists are the ones who are not only engaged in violence and efforts to take over buildings and attack people, innocent civilians. They have no place doing that in a country that's a sovereign country like Ukraine so- These people died in air strikes ordered by Kiev, not by Russia, not by the separatists

2:17:12 The government of Ukraine is defending the country of Ukraine and I think they have every right to do that as does the international community. And these people have a right to live, don't they? Well, I think the people of Ukraine have the right to live in peace and security without Russian backed separatists attacking their homes and going into buildings. Uh, and I think that's where the root cause of this is and we shouldn't forget that fact. So don't even deny that it's happening just say oh Putin Wow, that sucked. That stunk Yeah, its stunk but its also pathetic and of course the situation is pathetic their response was pathetic too yeah apparently they're not well this is the neocons have taken over the Obama State Department's hilarious Well

CHAPTER 22 / 32 Discussion

Obama Immigration Policy Shift and Executive Action

A comparison of President Obama's statements on immigration from 2011 and 2014 highlights a shift from claiming he cannot bypass Congress to announcing unilateral executive actions. The segment critiques the change in rhetoric regarding the limits of presidential power in a democracy.

barack obama· immigration· texas· congress· executive order· democracy

2:18:04 Not really. I mean, President Obama is having... He seems to be oblivious to this! What kind of meetings does they have with him? They just lie to him in those meetings and they don't let them watch television?! I don't think he cares. I really don't. He's probably a short-termer. Forget about it. Give up move on everywhere you go say well give an example then we'll take a little break Just say whatever whatever we tell you just say it So here we go. This is the immigration crisis, which is some trumped up bullcrap crisis Okay all of a sudden it's really important We've got kids and we've got videos just whatever you do just distract from everything else Here's the president in 2011 In Texas

2:18:54 Talking about immigration and Congress and what can be done. Sometimes when I talk to immigration advocates, you know they wish i could just bypass congress and change the law myself but that's not how democracy works Now 2014 in Texas Today I'm beginning a new effort To fix as much of our immigration system As I can on my own Without congress What? What? That's a good double. Did you get that from someplace else? I was prompted to do it, let's put it that way. Had to clip it myself but it was an obvious giveaway Yeah, that's a good one. So these guys operate It's really crazy Let's take a little break for second John we got plenty to do at home I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could deal with us Oh yeah! That'd be fab

CHAPTER 23 / 32 Discussion

Associate Executive Producer Credits and Birthday Announcements

A second round of donor acknowledgments for Associate Executive Producers, featuring listeners from various states and the UK. The segment includes birthday wishes for a two-year-old grandson and a discussion on the biblical significance of the number seven in relation to economic cycles.

seattle· wyoming· virginia· florida· nebraska· birthday· job karma

2:19:49 We have a few people to thank for show 633 and we're gonna thank them starting with I came trumpler in Hamburg or humbush Hamburg Deutschland 147 humble eyes daily commuting is so much more bearable since I listened to your show. Oh Which i think isn't true with a lot of people We played the Deutschland Blitzkrieg earlier and we will play it again before the show's over. Really? C-Squared Productions came in with $123.33, I don't see any comment from them. Maxwell Finn, $111.11 from Seattle Washington Still trying to reopen the club but it is not going to happen. You can keep trying Thomas Stanley, $100 in Cheyenne Wyoming Again another good note about his daily dose of reality

2:20:46 We'll give us some karma at the end of our listing here. But we're not daily? If you have a short commute, we are. Oh okay! You listen to half hour and then another half hour... Maybe he listens to us twice Some people do. One guy listens to us four times! Yeah, I've heard this. Allen Lowe in Troutville Virginia $100 Dave Carey 9905 in Clermont Florida And he will be coming out? This is his... He's gonna be the Sir Dingaling Knight of the I-4 Corridor Well since he's a knight and did send some mail we'll take a look at that

2:21:27 Dave Carey, on the first anniversary of my first donation I had to become knight with today's contribution. I want to thank you for an amazing year and i'm excited to see what the future brings! Go Hillary 2016!! I care only about the future of this show not so much of The Empire." Well that's true. Pocahontas will be fine we'll have a lot of fun with her too. Yeah she won't be as much fun Because there's no bill and there are all these things that could happen. Let this be a lesson to you douchebags and boners out there, you can become a knight over a years time and not break the bank! And you can take that to the bank!" And he started dingaling...and thanks for hitting me in the mouth. Mofos. He finishes with this little mofos thing

2:22:08 which we haven't played for a while. Richard Leiter in Lincoln, Nebraska 79-12 this is for his grandson Harrison's birthday and it is on the list and also we got some Job Karma coming at the end. Christian Jacobson charred Chard is next to kale in Somerset, UK. 7777. Bradley Selsor in LaGrange Kentucky 7777 isn't there some sort of a 77? No it's the sack-o'-sevens It's still a valid donation but no 7373 is a ham thing yeah I'll do the sound effects you do the jokes okay

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2:25:21 and remind you that we do have a show on Sunday. Dvorak.org slash ANA would be the place to go to help us out, and keep this show on... On the road! Now on the road. On the rails. Should go on the road. On the rails. It's gonna go on the road. And of course we have our general karma job karma which everybody can use these days. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs And as I get into the birthday list we have a birthday repair request which i did want to honor John Adam this is from Rich Lighter. A few days ago, I sent a donation for 7914 with a request for a birthday shout out for my two-year old grandson Harrison who I said turned 2 on July 9 2014 Now get this John you'll like this because your granddaddy

2:26:11 Turns out I'm wrong about the date and my daughter reamed me out. Yeah, yeah...I would be that guy. Oh this is horrible! That's why put all these dates in Google Calendar He actually turns two on July 10th So please I know it's confusing but I appreciate your helping keep you keep peace in the family I initially suggested we change Harry's birthday to the 9th. But my daughter was not amused! Hey man, we understand so i'm very happy to accommodate no problemo Thank you all very much of course also everyone who donates lesser amounts under the 50 which is usually To be kept anonymous but a lot of these are of course for

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CHAPTER 24 / 32 Discussion

Personal Anecdotes and Parenting Skepticism

The hosts share personal stories about their children, including anecdotes about serving lamb disguised as beef and the inherent skepticism children develop toward their parents. The discussion touches on the generational gap in media consumption, noting that their children prefer celebrity gossip over the show's political analysis.

miss mickey· jay dvorak· parenting· lamb chops· skepticism· celebrity gossip

2:27:56 And we have Jay Dvorak, no longer a teenager turning 20 today. Happy birthday from your papa and your mama and they're very happy that you made it through your teens without being a horrible person! And I will say happy birthday to the lovely Miss Mickey celebrating in Mexico lots of love from all your friends here at The Best Podcast In The Universe! It's actually Jay's birthday tomorrow, but that's fine. I'm sorry she doesn't listen to the show and happy belated birthday to sob Swiss of course we talked about a July 4th She hasn't listened to the show that my daughter isn't listening either what my daughter doesn't listen either No, no, I think we're a-holes. No no no no not at all you know she actually

2:28:44 She's living in Europe and she'll say, oh dad I'm so happy that you told me what to look out for with this global warming crap. Because it's scary the way they make it sound but we're gonna have horrible storms and we're all going to die and we're living under seven feet under sea level... But I know that is not true because I know you But then she says, but I'm still pissed that you made me drink water out of the rain barrel. Instead of... What? Yeah in London I said, You shouldn't be drinking that water it's full of crap. He said drink it out here. I caught some rainwater She didn't- to this day. She's still angry about that. Why wasn't did make her sick and she didn't think it was cool This is dumb. Why is it dumb? It's perfectly good water generally speaking. I'm just telling him going through a

2:29:32 pollution cloud, but rainwater generally clears the air and then all the rain water is pretty tasty. It's got a lot of vitamin natural B12 She's also mad about the time that I served her lamb and told her it was steak You know these are things that kids hold on to for a long time If you get some really mild lamb it often tastes like steak Right It was just a texture thing. Kids when they're young, they're nutty about stuff like don't... I can't eat lamb! Okay whatever and then you know her mom was out and i cooked dinner and i made lamb chops. And she liked it? She liked what it was and then she got a stool to climb up to the stove to look into the pan and she went YOU SERVED ME LAMB?!

2:30:09 You couldn't tell by the smell? No, no because I did a great job. It was really perfect. She was like is this lamb? No it's nice beef Okay tastes good daddy but she didn't trust me. Kids kids well at least she's skeptical that's a good thing yes But she won't listen to the show God forbid you don't want to care about your parents You know you don't even talk to your parents after awhile Yeah, let alone listen to him blather on about world politics when there's good celebrity gossip that they can pay attention. It's bad enough when people... So Jay is over here cleaning in my office Right as we speak? Somebody no not as you threw yesterday and so I had that National Enquirer sitting down uh-huh on the thing that has the Kate Gosling House of Horrors and I'm not Chelsea's real dad

2:30:58 Right she picks it up, and she starts going through it page by page And she's just in she's engrossed these are articles but he was reading about the the Kate Gosselin yes Those guys know what to do man this She's reading then that she says all of these if she says look at this look at this one Yeah This is like a discussion look at this one of these two her edicts don't leave the television on when nobody's watching it. What's so bad about that? I don't see how that makes her a horrible mom because she wants the television turned off." Oh, right enough! Enough is enough. Oh by the way Nick Johannes, happy birthday from... we added him to the list and put in the wrong place from Mary

CHAPTER 25 / 32 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony for New No Agenda Knights

A formal knighting ceremony is conducted for three donors: Sir Dingaling, Sir Anthony, and Sir SaabSwiss. They are granted titles and invited to join the No Agenda Roundtable, with instructions on how to claim their commemorative rings.

sir dingaling· sir anthony· sir saabswiss· knighting· no agenda rings

2:31:42 The donation didn't come through. Alright, we have Andrew Lomessony becomes a Baron today and we have two knighting so if you can grab your blade... There it comes! Perfect, perfect. Dave Carey step forward and Sam Swiss come on down both of you are about to enter Also, Anthony Colangelo. My goodness we have three today! Gentlemen for your contributions to the best podcast in universe I hereby pronounce thee Sir Dingaling Knight of the i4 Corridor Sir Anthony and Black Knight Sir Saab Swiss knight of the Zurich Highlands For you we've got Cabanis...Cabinis? Cannabis and Cabernet Hot Librarians and Jager Bombs Hookers & Blow Ramp Boys and Chardonnay Geishas and Sake Or if you want we've got Mutton and Mead

2:32:30 And please go to noageneration.com slash rings, pick up your ring it's well deserved I think you now get a confirmation email there was an issue with that Eric is working on fixing that so if you don't get in immediately it will happen and the rings do come out as quickly as possible We highly appreciate your courage and contribution to the show None of this could be discussed or talked about in any manner First of all, if you're a journalist investigative journalist are you busy? You're busy doing appearances. You know meeting with sponsors Believe me the journalists have to do this particularly the people who are doing the news reading the news There's really no time to actually do any work now something happened yesterday over the course of the past two days which was very peculiar and I picked up on something which

CHAPTER 26 / 32 Discussion

Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept's "Turd" Story

Glenn Greenwald's latest revelation in The Intercept regarding the surveillance of five Muslim-American leaders is criticized as a "news turd" by Fox News' Shep Smith and the hosts. The analysis suggests Greenwald may have been "bought off" by Pierre Omidyar and notes that the targeted individuals, including leaders of CAIR, have long-standing ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that the mainstream media ignores.

glenn greenwald· the intercept· shep smith· nsa· muslim brotherhood· cair· huma abedin

2:33:25 I have not seen anyone talk about. And this is Grinwald Dunraff, who promised us fireworks and a huge finale as part of his book The Intercept which finally now has released another news story on his blog, his 250 million dollar WordPress blog and it is a turd! It's a total news turd complete fail. He's doing his best to talk to everybody, to hype it up and we- it needs analysis... So there are a couple of interviews that he did the real turd is Shep Smith now It's funny because here's you know here's two gay guys talking to each other And it's a little like meh meh well you meh well not but meh meh meh That I don't want to generalize but yeah

2:34:24 And essentially Shep Smith says, this is a turd man. What was up with this big thing? In case you didn't know what the story is and it's kind of important I'll give you the setup. Graham Greenwell has now released a document that in some way kind of shows that the NSA was eavesdropping on email from what he calls five Muslim American leaders And that is the headline. I think the leaders thing is somewhat misleading and it's kind of like, what? This is your fireworks?! What?? Now let's listen to this Shep Smith calling him out as being a turd story... Glenn Greenwald joins us now he broke the news on his website The Intercept He's also- I love his website! That's where it starts!

2:35:16 Oh, and website. Your website! Glenn Greenwald joins us now he broke the news on his website The Intercept He's also the author of the book No Place to Hide Edward Snowden The NSA And US Surveillance State Ed was on a you were on the program with us what? A couple weeks ago and then this got delayed a little bit You were talking bombshells and fireworks and all that Glenn to be quite frankly Frank in today's news cycle This is being played below President Obama being offered a puff-puff pass in Colorado I mean was there more and i'm missing it? It's gotten a lot of play we just posted it last night at midnight um you know the New York Times has a very long article on it that... Long article! They got a long article

2:36:03 I mean look, the fact is that there are people who look at the targets and will think oh that's only Muslims. And even though they're my fellow Americans i'm not really bothered by it This is a hey take that! Shep what you don't care about Muslims brother? I think sometimes thats part of it but...I think the implications are sinking in nicely Are there more names or more people where some wouldn't cooperate? Help me understand the bigger picture Yeah, we... I mean this is a really hard story to report. For one thing we wanted to make sure that anybody that we reported were very comfortable and weren't blowing up

2:36:39 legitimate ongoing investigation and at the same time a lot of people did not want to be publicly identified as being targets of the FBI or the NSA for fear of stigma that it would produce. This is very interesting, oh now there's stigma? Now you're protecting people all of a sudden because they didn't want to cooperate? Very interesting! And we wanted to honor peoples wishes in that regard and not drag them unwittingly into the public light especially if they were private individuals so all these five were people who were willing to come forward and speak out. We felt like they were very illustrative cases, five is a manageable number to report and our investigation into this list is definitely ongoing." Is this the finale? Is there more we're going to learn from the Snowden documents? In other words, yawn! Yawn what?! And listen to Greenwald come back... Or is it just the finish

2:37:28 No, I mean i have stories that are already written in fact that still will be published. Publish them! No no that's the worst thing you can say I have stories already written but not publishing them just yet. And you certainly won't be getting exclusive anymore, Shep Smith. surveilling all of us, but this puts a human face on the kinds of dangers that can be presented to dissidents or people who criticize the government from the most invasive forms of surveillance. So it's important but not the last." Okay now so it's-it's a dud from a news perspective I mean if you-if he could only have said the NSA was eavesdropping on Duck Dynasty

2:38:22 Or anything of that ilk. Or Kate Gosling! Anything? It would have been fabulous, but no he has none of that and what's worse is this story is really only slamming the Bush administration. Faisal Gill was a GOP operative and served in the Department of Homeland Security under Bush. The spying allegedly continued through 2008, in a joint statement the Department of Justice and the Director of National Intelligence say that government values privacy just as much as national security...and that it's entirely false that U.S. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political religious or activist figures solely because they disagree with public policies or criticize the government

2:39:21 So he's, yes. Well I was gonna say a couple of things one you expect these if you're in the government at the level of national security anything you have to assume that they're looking at everything you do. I mean it just makes sense to me. Well we are going to get to that now The second part is course...I don't know if you read this but But I don't know what the deal is with Paul Carr, the guy that the Pando Daily brought over. Yeah, and Carr of course has got some something about Greenwald. Stick up his ass about Greenwald yeah. And but it's great because it brings up the obvious. That's not... tell me the obvious but that's not the real kicker? What's the obvious in this case is that Greenwell only brought this up because it condemns the Bush administration he will not say anything bad about Obama administration right because Omidar

2:40:09 part of the Obama administration and then it's implied that Omidar has Greenwald on his payroll to shut him up because he is all part of the whole Obama deal. Drive My Car, is his name. Pierre Drive my car Yeah I don't use that Well yes, thats the obvious but thats not the kicker Now here what is... so whenever this happens The way it works in media land is they're looking for something to grab onto. What can we make of this turd, to dress it up and make into something that we can shout a headline? And they've only got one thing and it's very sad for Gregg Greenwell, don't Raph. Because it is just not important in the whole story. Well so let me just correct a couple of things in your report and one of your questions The list does talk about spying between 2002-2008 but the spying on these individuals who are in front you and also the other three we named

2:41:04 took place 2006, 2007 2008. So in the case of Faisal for example it was many years after he was ever at that council It was actually during a time that he was the Republican nominee for the House of Delegates seat in Virginia And so you know the question that you asked him about what about these clients that you've represented There are all sorts of people who represent highly questionable foreign governments Bob Livingston the former house speaker represented Muammar Gaddafi of is writing things like Mohammed raghead and using ethnic slurs against Arabs and Muslims, documents we've seen before from the FBI in the NSA raising further questions about what the motive is. So it's so dumb... Mohammed raghead? It's so dumb that the only thing that Greenwald could turn this into because he got called back or whatever- He was told to shut up You're right of course by DriveMyCar who was told to shut up by the administration no doubt

2:42:21 They hate Muslims, they call them ragheads. Towel heads! It's horrible I can't believe this!" And that's the only thing the administration is responding to saying well we have to have sensitivity training this is not good but here's the kicker John... I'm waiting Who are these people? Do you remember when there was a letter sent by the Senate Security Committee Unfortunately, Bachman was in there and of course she went over whatever she does is immediately deemed a nut job about

2:42:58 High-level Department of Homeland Security Consultants who had high level security clearance. All right, right, right? These are these guys Nihad Awad is the executive director of care CAIR the Council on American Islamic relations who were indicted as being a a front to raise money for Hamas. And this is 2012 that this has been taking place! These are the people that they've been going after and not a single person is mentioning this, and this guy Faisal who did not disclose everything I researched at Faisal Gill

2:43:45 He did not disclose that he had worked for the American Muslim Council before he took his job at DHS. And this is well documented, that they did not disclose it and that's why it became a problem and that's why the Senate Security Council brought this up in a letter and said hey we gotta be careful with this because you know this is Muslim Brotherhood stuff and they even came up with a bill, you know. I think there's a bill now to make the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. This is when it was all Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood and these people are all related to the Muslim Brotherhood...and now somehow they're getting put up as oh,

2:44:29 Oh, they were being called ragheads in the Bush administration. What is going on? Why is no one making this connection? You work for the Department of Homeland Security you know that this nation is under constant threat you have all people must understand sometimes investigators and look in places and they don't find anything but it's important for them to look. Absolutely, I have no problem with surveillance. Surveillance needs to happen but there has to be a reason for it There has to at least something in my background that would lead someone to believe that okay this person should be suspected of some questionable activities that I obtained my security clearance. So clearly all that was disclosed and it was proven that it was disclosed, there is just nothing there in my background and the other thing I would just say lastly is the FISA court has a very high success rate. I think like 99.6% or something ridiculous like that if you were to go to any county in the United States and look at the success rate for obtaining a search warrant for any crime breaking and entering robbery it would not be that high so clearly there's something wrong with

2:45:32 And just very briefly, you think it was because you're Muslim? I can't think of any other reason. Absolutely. No other reason. Yeah, we hate Muslims! So this is very strange and I do not understand why Jake Tapper, why Shep Smith. Anyway all of the no one is bringing this up and saying hey wait a minute aren't you the guy that you know that the Senate was going after because they didn't know what your background was? Muslim Brotherhood... What is this John?! Why is no one bringing that up? Is this to make these guys good or

2:46:10 This is, there's something going on here. Copy flat-footed because I don't know why they haven't brought any of this up? This has to... There's something nefarious about it. There's something amiss So first of all let's just analyze this in real time so there's no mention Of all of this stuff that was happening during the Obama years and by the way It's a perfect opportunity to slam Bachmann or any other Republicans isn't it? It's perfect It seems like a slam dunk, but they're not doing that. Instead they're saying well you know it's just because you're Muslim and your Muslim American...it's too bad Casey Kasem is dead because usually they roll him out he's like I'm an American first before my Muslim... You know this no one is saying anything about this and this was big! This was only year-and-a-half two years ago. This was a big deal in the connection to the Muslim Brotherhood and this Nihad Awad guy. Well okay here's one possibility

2:47:08 with Abedin or whatever her name is. Huma Abedin, yes. And her connection to the Muslim Brotherhood through relations and her insight into the White House at some point because she's got connections she probably... I think if you look deep enough there's a Valerie Jarrett connection and i think they've decided to hush this up because It's possible that they're still looking into something that is going on now with some people who are currently working within the White House or around the White House, or have some connection to it. And they've decided just not

2:47:44 discuss it because either they're in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood at that level, which is always possible. Or they just don't want to talk...they want to keep a lid on it because there may be something's you know they got their investigating something that needs further investigation so they're just gonna let it slide well So one of the two I don't see a third possibility I guess it may be a whitewash. Maybe there was new information coming out, you know... Play the new information clip! It's my favorite. It is pretty good. Yeah it was um uh you know that there were new investigations coming or... I've got information man! New shit has come to light! Something was going to happen and maybe it's the same old players again and Muslim Brotherhood connections who knows what? And then

2:48:35 I know that Greenwald delayed the release of this fireworks because... Right. He's been, he had this is he said because he's now apologetic This is not the Grant Greenwald who I know! Yeah well Grant, he also I think his good in a final throes of selling as many books as he can and he's done cuz I think he was essentially bought off Oh yeah no doubt It was like I don't know how much money would take to shut a guy up permanently but But I would guess five million bucks in his bank account in Brazil is to shut up and get out of town, stay out of town. Sign this thing and if you do violate this we will shoot you kind of thing. And here's $5 million dollars and just go away and stay away after your... Well I gotta do my book! I got a sell more books! Okay well let you go through that but then you're done. You're done. Your out

2:49:26 I think is a possibility. And this other thing, as obviously is...I think you've nailed it. It's covered up for some specific reason and in my opinion could only be one of two things. One the White House has knee deep in it they're all connected to the Muslim Brotherhood as we speak That's..I'm pretty sure that that has to be. That's a possibility and the other one is there was an ongoing investigation then they managed to put a gag on the whole thing Because this is a bullcrap story. It's fireworks! No fireworks, the fireworks probably would involve the White House. Yeah it doesn't even come close to the White House. And he keeps out of the completely away from the White House as much as possible which I think you know Carr noticed but yeah this is over for him. He's done and he's gonna work on some memoirs or something like that.

CHAPTER 27 / 32 Discussion

Social Media Working Group Act of 2014

The House of Representatives passes the Social Media Working Group Act, which integrates major tech companies like Facebook and Twitter into Department of Homeland Security emergency response strategies. The bill aims to leverage social media for information sharing during terrorist attacks or "climate change events."

dhs· social media· facebook· twitter· google· legislation· climate change

2:50:22 Back in Brazil. Yeah, so that's kind of telling right there... interesting You could live a pretty good life in the middle of nowhere Brazil if you're with five million dollars yeah, yeah and meanwhile The Senate committee has adopted the cyber just keeping this in the snow job stuff as adopt the cybersecurity bill which is the The witches bill what's her name? Which which? Not the Pelosi one, the other one. Feinstein... That's the bill that this is not the Freedom for America something or other act This is the here's what a journalist does act Well yeah so the committee has adopted that of course that doesn't mean it's through or done in any manner but you know what that means and the house and now the president actually let me see if I have this

2:51:23 No one talks about this at all. House bill passes a bill to boost Department of Homeland Security's use of social media in emergencies Did you see this? No It's really, it's sad So this is a bill Let me just see I want...it has a little congested here This is a bill that puts together a committee which will include no less than three members of the social media industry. Well let me think, what do we have? Facebook, Twitter and what should we throw in there just for good measure

2:52:13 Let's throw Google in for it. Why not? But it is no less than, so it could be 30. They will call it the Social Media Working Group Act of 2014 and we'll be a working group and essentially this is to determine Here, one review of current and emerging social media technologies being used to support preparedness and response activities related to terrorist attacks. Of best practices and lessons learned on the use of social media during the response to terrorist attacks that occurred during the period center etc... Recommendations to improve DHS's use of social media and to improve information sharing among DHS and its components, state and local governments, and the working group which is those companies you just heard of. A summary of coordination efforts with the private sector to discuss and resolve legal operational technical privacy insecurity concerns

2:53:09 And of course this will be, the intent is for the government department of Homeland Security to be able to use social media in the event of a climate change event. In an event of terrorists... What? Yeah, oh yeah. In other words, the next hurricane's not going to be a hurricane anymore it's gonna be a climate change event! This is a good one and terrorist attack or threat thereof. It could be a climate change event. Terrorist or threat, or other emergencies! Just anything so here's what's gonna happen people you are good here's how it's gonna go Attention attention this is Lindsay Lohan's Twitter telling you to cower in place cower in place

CHAPTER 28 / 32 Discussion

TSA Electronic Device Power-On Requirement

New TSA regulations require passengers on US-bound flights to power on their electronic devices at security checkpoints to prove they do not contain explosives. The segment mocks the "rule follower" mentality of travelers and questions the logic of the measure, noting that terrorists are now effectively warned where not to hide bombs.

tsa· airport security· cell phones· explosives· aviation· rule followers

2:53:59 Believe me, you're gonna be told by Lindsay Lohan and by Justin Bieber's Twitter that there is an emergency. And maybe Perez Hilton. Yeah, this is... Pathetic. You think? This is pathetic. Now so that's the legislation side But let's just, since we haven't discussed it of course you know we've had to terrorize everybody now. We have this uh... You need to turn on your cell phone and then let me ask you well I'll ask you a question after this um Let's play this This is an ABC package sent to affiliates around the Gitmo nation about turning on your iPhone before you go through security otherwise you can't get on the plane And that we have man-on-the-street which is my favorite so now you can guess what people will be saying

2:54:52 about this latest measure. Passengers flying into the US should prepare for longer security lines as agents check electronic devices with batteries, cell phones DVD players laptops and more must be turned on at the gate or else you can't board the plane it's just part of flying if you don't want to fly or if you don't want inconvenience don't fly I'm a rule follower so if the rule is that we have to do it then I'll do it! I'm a rule follower I am a rule follower. Do you tell me what the rules are and i follow them? Don't fly or if you don't want the inconvenience, don't fly! Well...I'm a rule follower so if the rule is that we have to do it then I'll do it. I don't necessarily like it U.S intelligence has learned bomb makers could be hiding explosives in those devices They are small items but it takes very little explosives to penetrate

2:55:46 whole of an aircraft and cause catastrophic damage. ever evolving, ever more sophisticated adversary. So I think the US has to step up its game. About 250 airports offer nonstop service into the US but TSA is not releasing which of those airports is asking passengers to turn their electronics on? Okay a couple questions one when was the last time you actually turned your phone off ever no one does not even an on and off button who turns their phone off or when you go through security you turn your phone off No Of course not

2:56:34 So who does that? People are like, oh I've got to keep it charged. Please when's the last time you ran out before you get on the plane? This is stupid! Two why don't we arrest every reporter there were telling the terrorists Don't put your bomb in iPhone I mean, does anyone see the... When's the last time a bomb was in an iPhone? Does any- Give some examples of iPhones with bombs or laptops with bombs. No! Don't ask questions but this is- I'm a rule follower This is so wrong. This is so wrong and don't people see that this is ridiculous do terrorists not know now that we're oh and by the way if you're TSA

2:57:28 I wouldn't want to... Turn your phone on over there, or else. I don't want it blowing up in my face! Yeah really? It makes no sense What is this?! How stupid do we have to be? Does any of the- Where's the TSI guy? Hey if you know your phone don't turn it on No no hey man step back Don't turn it on And who has a CD player Oh, I didn't notice that. Who has a CD player? What comes on with the CD player nowadays? Am I Walkman do have to show you my cassette tapes? I have uh, Dolby metallic tapes. Insulting this is insulting! Actually had that same clip

CHAPTER 29 / 32 Discussion

French Anti-Jihadism Bill and Website Blocking

The French government introduces a new bill to prevent citizens from traveling to war zones in Syria and Iraq. The legislation includes provisions to invalidate passports of suspected radicals and allows the state to block websites that praise or incite terrorism.

france· jihad· syria· terrorism· website blocking· passports

2:58:14 There's a couple of clips I want to get out of the way before we finish here. We're way overdue, Jean-Claude. First is the terrorist crackdown in France which i think is interesting because it reflects what we've been doing all along Here in France, fears that young men and women may be heading to Iraq and Syria to fight jihad have prompted the government to make changes to the law. Ministers have presented a new bill designed to give the state the ability to block radicals from accessing war zones. Shirley Sitbourne explains French Islamist radicals back from jihadi war zones have become a major threat. Mohammed Mira killed three children, a teacher and three soldiers in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012 Last May Mehdi Nammouche back from Syria shot dead four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum The French government says there are dozens of other potential terrorists like them in the country

2:59:07 Hundreds of French nationals fought in jihadist war zones. With its new bill, the government hopes to stop new candidates from following the same path. Everywhere in Europe there are citizens who enroll in overseas jihadist operations. There they see violence and barbaric brutality and when they come back they are a danger for security of EU countries If the bill is adopted, this state would be authorized to ban suspected radicals from traveling and validate their passports. Ban airlines from flying them abroad It could also block access to websites that praise jihad The bill will apply to suspected French radicals which the government believes can join terror groups abroad Excellent! Blocking websites! I like it You know this is uh... Where is it now? This is um

CHAPTER 30 / 32 Discussion

Blackwater Threats and Intelligence Authorization Act

A New York Times report reveals that a Blackwater manager threatened to kill a State Department investigator in Iraq with impunity. Simultaneously, the 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act is discussed, highlighting a peculiar clause that specifically excludes the FBI from certain whistleblower protections and limitations on authority.

blackwater· iraq· state department· fbi· intelligence authorization act· whistleblowers

3:00:03 Ah, maybe I don't have it. This was just in the UK they have these new emergency powers! Yeah, they're cracking down everywhere and on us it's with the phones you got to turn your phone on and The only other clip by anything that story kind of stands alone The only other clip I thought was is the is...I don't think we discussed it? I don't think the Blackwater story I just think there's something very funny about this story. I wonder if...I think we have... In more of the news that shaped the week, a top US war contractor in Iraq threatened to kill a State Department official. Yeah we played this similar clip couple shows ago. Okay. It's alright, we'll finish now. Looking into the wrongdoings at the firm which used to be called Blackwater

3:00:49 The New York Times has published a report which claims the manager gloated that there was little investigators could do about it because Blackwater was so heavily involved in US work. The document indicates too that Blackwater's top manager in a low, even tone of voice told one of the government agents that he could kill him without blinking an eye. State Department investigators who were in Iraq therefore had to curb any further investigation They described staff at the notorious security firm as out-of-control and it was operating above law but the American embassy sided with Blackwater I mean, yeah of course. Let me add to that the president just signed into law Senate Bill 1681 which is the short title of this act is the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014 and it's essentially the money for the following intelligence organizations which some I'm sure flows through to these guys just listen

3:01:53 intelligence and intelligence related activities in the United States government that we have. Can you name 16 of them? I can name about five. Okay, so we have Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, The Department of Defense, The Defense Intelligence Agency, The National Security Agency, The Department of the Army, The Department of Navy and The Department of Air Force, The Coast Guard, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, National Reconnaissance Office, The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and The Department of Homeland Security And of course there's a classified schedule of authorizations that goes along with Bill S. 1681, which you don't get to see because that's the real information and it's like the NSA is half a billion here half a billion there but this is what's interesting consistently throughout this bill I'll give an example section 604 policies and procedures non-applicability to certain terminations so lot of this about whistleblower stuff

3:02:57 responsibility of these agencies. So for instance here, covered intelligence community element defined in this section is the Central Intelligence Agency, intelligence national geospatial intelligence agency and everywhere throughout this document it says does not include Federal Bureau of Investigation and whistleblowers if you're at the FBI you're not included It's really weird. I've marked it up so maybe someone can give us some information, but everywhere in this document the FBI is specifically excluded from any kinds of limitations on authority or things they can do

3:03:47 It's very, very... So they're excluded from the limitation clauses. Yes! You can't do this you can't do that except the FBI. Yeah! Can't do this you can't do that except the FBI. Yes does not include the federal... Nice! Yeah it's very very weird. You can't gun run except the FBI. Except the FBI yeah I'm telling ya is really really weird huh well good for them All right, uh... We need a secret police. I just have one thing i want to wind up with because i've been saying it for years ever since we started this show pretty much from day one i was living in London and i think i told you many times the pedophile network in the UK, in the Netherlands, in Belgium and yes i'll take it all the way to George Bush's White House for sure as senior

CHAPTER 31 / 32 Discussion

UK VIP Pedophile Ring Allegations and Cover-ups

Long-standing allegations of a high-level pedophile ring involving British politicians, the judiciary, and the elite are gaining mainstream traction in the UK. Activist Peter McKelvey discusses the history of systemic cover-ups and the destruction of investigative documents. The segment expresses skepticism toward the newly appointed inquiry led by Baroness Butler-Sloss.

united kingdom· pedophilia· westminster· peter mckelvey· cover-up· baroness butler-sloss

3:04:35 And the remember the documentary, what was it called? Boy's Town. It's called Boy's Town? Yeah, Lost Boys or Lost Boys Town whatever. Which is still around which never aired. Watch it! The connection between the Bush White House and abuse of children and I've always said in the UK powerful elite, it is the politicians. It is the entertainment industry and it is the royals and this Elmshouse thing which has been consistently covered up is now blowing up in the UK And of course, you know we have like a new committee will be brought together and nothing will happen. Nothing will happen but the closest thing to anything happening I think is even just as a point or more are these apparently these women's shelters as it were for the pregnant women in the early part of last century where they would bring any pregnant woman in Ireland and they put her in the house and then they get sender off and kill her baby

3:05:34 They're finding all these mass graves. It's horrible! Well, let me just play this one clip because there are a couple but I'll only play one. There is some funny stuff where Cameron saying oh we can even...I'll give them power to investigate us right? So here is Peter Mckelvey who in 2012 and by the way the documents have mysteriously been destroyed of the initial investigation yeah no idea how it happened But here he is. He was the original exposer of this pedo-bear phenomenon in the UK and was ignored, and now he's back in the limelight soon to be dead I'm sure. I believe that there is strong evidence and an awful lot of information that can be converted into evidence if it's investigated properly That there has been extremely powerful elite amongst the highest levels of the political classes

3:06:26 for as long as I've been alive, and I'm 65 now. And there's been sufficient reason to investigate it over and over again certainly for the last 30 years. There has always been the block and cover up in the collusion to prevent that happening For the first time I have got a belief Survivors will come forward and justice will be served for a lot of survivors, but unfortunately it's been left so late that a lot of the abusers are now dead. but we're looking at the Lords, we're looking at the Commons, we're looking to Judiciary. We are looking at all institutions where there will be a small percentage of paedophiles and a slightly larger percentage of people who've known about it but have felt that in terms of their own self-interest and self preservation for political party reasons its been safer for them to cover up rather than deal with it Over many many years I have spoken to considerable number victims

3:07:23 and most recently victims of perhaps the most powerful elite group of paedophiles. And I certainly believe that what they're saying needs to be looked at in great detail, the problem is that they don't have the faith in the system that people will believe them because the worst part of sexual abuse is the power that powerful people have over them and they don't believe that, that power can ever be broken. And if they don't believe it then the power can come back to them. Help me understand what he's saying about what was done today? It's boring! Better stuff than guys killing kids on a boat

3:08:06 This is, of course... all you have to do is kill one of these witnesses and use him as an example for everybody else. And then he committed suicide. Yes. Then you say are we going to be a whistle? Are we really going to talk about this? Look what happened to Bill over here! Look what happened to Jim! Look at what happened to Freddie! They appointed Baroness Butler-Schloss to head the sex abuse inquiry. Wheel spinning of the highest order! And then her, it turns out her brother was apparently one of the abuses... One of the guys? Of course it's wheel spinning but of course it is But I just want to gloat for a moment and say that told you so Yeah but you've been saying this since the beginning of this show

3:08:54 You told us so, but there's nothing. What's come of it? Well we'll see... We'll have more dead people who will be like oh well he did it but he is dead This is the good thing He did and he's dead right? Yeah that one of the things he did and he's dead The other ones uh... All I'm waiting for they just need to get one royal One royal! That would be funny because then all the royals families will start blaming each other across the whole European continent Nooo You don't know you know they wind up dead Princess Diana was a royal and she wound up dead Yeah, cuz he dated the wrong guy or who knows why ah?

CHAPTER 32 / 32 Discussion

Deep Decarbonization Pathways and Show Sign-off

The show concludes with a look at the "Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project" (DDPP) report, which outlines radical methodologies for reducing carbon emissions. A rumored retroactive bank deposit tax in Spain is mentioned, and the hosts sign off from FEMA Region 6, promising a follow-up show on Sunday.

deep decarbonization· climate change· spain· bank tax· bill melinda gates foundation· fema

3:09:38 Alright, well I'm sorry you don't like these stories but I can help and bring it up. I got a whole...I have clips and stuff and it's all in the show notes. They're all dead ends. 633.noagendanotes.com And I don't mean that as a pun No, I know you don't. Okay there is a lot of stuff I am going to say for Sunday Show A lot of medical related news which is kind of interesting involving the Milam Belinda Gates Foundation Oh good The Haiti new virus in Haiti It's oh good as you're supposed to say. Oh good new virus in Haiti Yeah, they're doing everything we can to kill off that public do it going very well And this is something are you doing a no? You won't do that before Sunday at Dvorak Horowitz I heard but I'm trying to get it confirmed that Spain now has issued a retroactive 0.03% tax on bank deposits

3:10:32 Have you heard of this? No, but I'll look into it. Yeah i can't get it to confirm... Garcia would know! Which of course so goes back to January the what I'm hearing is that going back to January 1st of this year there's a 0.03% tax on all bank deposits which of course is stealing your money if it's really true Well, yeah it's stealing your money but and this if you're in a depends on ya there's an economic rationale for doing that But it's another story. All right? I look forward to discussing that and the Report which is several hundred pages which have started you can already start looking at the DDPP interim report which I have in the show notes. I don't even know what you talk What does DDPP be? I'm glad you asked

3:11:24 No, you're not. Pathways to deep decarbonization Oh my god! Oh yeah Where did this come out of? Well there's a new conference going on right now A new climate change conference and this is from the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations And they have come out with the Deep Decarbonisation methodology which we have to follow in order to not die from climate change I guess so...and this will be your meme Deep decarbonization, which has gone from carbon dioxide that you exhale to carbon pollution

3:12:06 And if you're going to decarbonize, isn't the easiest quickest way to decarbonize is just kill human beings? That would get rid of the problem. Right! Kill all humans. I think this is... Problem solved This IS the problem so 218 pages which I'm starting to read through it's a... It was released by who Well, it's the DDPP. It's the German Development Institute International Energy Agency... ...International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development and investments from the...

3:12:43 Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Deutsch is Germans. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. Soros. The German Environment Ministry, the Gross Family Foundation, the European Climate Foundation... Everybody was making bank but us! Obfuscation of who is behind it but okay. Alright I'm gonna be-I'll let you have that one. Oh yeah? I wanna learn something Well we start with people over 60 Coming to you from the FEMA region, which is in the numeral six here in Austin Texas capital of the drone star state. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C DeVore. We'll be back on Sunday Thursday Sunday Thursday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday episode of your no agenda Thank you very much for listening

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