Episode 650 · Sunday, 7 September 2014

Summer of Blood

The final broadcast from Amsterdam dissects the scripted theater of the NATO summit, the rising Ebola crisis in Liberia, and the aggressive warmongering of the neoconservative establishment.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have escalated military rhetoric against ISIL, with Biden vowing to follow the group to the gates of hell following the beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. During a scripted press conference at the NATO summit in Wales, Obama utilized emotional triggers regarding the enslavement of women while appearing to confuse the FATA region of Pakistan with the Fatah political party. The summit itself featured cinematic staging and a physical barrier between the press and the podium, signaling a highly controlled media environment for the announcement of a new Rapid Reaction Force.

USAID Director Rajiv Shah, formerly of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, now leads the American response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa as the CDC warns the situation is spiraling out of control. In Monrovia, reports of escaping patients have sparked panic, while the Power Africa initiative involving General Electric continues to focus on energy infrastructure amidst the crisis. Simultaneously, the City of New York has launched a television campaign for the HPV vaccine, and Gilead Sciences faces backlash for the $84,000 price tag on its Hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi. In the Netherlands, Frans Timmermans rises within the European Commission as media outlets begin labeling radicalized regions the Jihad Belt.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak broadcast for the final time from the Amsterdam canal house, reflecting on the city's culture and the legacy of Dutch musician Toots Tielemans. The hosts analyze a listener's accusation of sexism from an adjunct professor named Antonia and mock Al Sharpton for a series of teleprompter gaffes on MSNBC. A personal discovery regarding a remote viewing superpower for television remotes provides a lighter moment before the show transitions back to Silicon Valley.


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CHAPTER 01 / 41 Discussion

Amsterdam Canal House Final Broadcast, Harmonica Inspiration

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the 650th episode of No Agenda, marking the final broadcast from Curry's Wi-Fi enabled canal house in Amsterdam. The hosts discuss Dvorak's harmonica playing, referencing Dutch musician Toots Tielemans and the theme from Midnight Cowboy. They also touch on Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home" as potential inspiration for future show segments.

amsterdam· canal house· harmonica· toots tielemans· supertramp· midnight cowboy

00:00 Come on, we've seen this. The most sophisticated terrorist group we've ever seen! Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak It's Sunday September 7th 2014 time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 650 This is no agenda With the final broadcast from the Wi-Fi enabled canal house in The Pipe in the heart of Amsterdam In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where there is no wifi I am John C. Dvorak I'll give you a 5 for creative execution on that. That sucked. Yeah, there is no Wi-Fi What does that even mean? It doesn't mean anything it was just dumb. Okay Thank you. Just want to make sure we're all straight on that

00:51 Okay, it's my last show from a joke of it. I do have one that so it's not very funny joke That was no is a bomb It was a complete total disaster we were listening to episode six four niner We miss Mickey and I she could not listen to it live And I think today we finally fixed it so she can she's in the bedroom, and she can listen to the show live with a little stream delay Which he misses it you know yeah? She does because that she gives her the opportunity come into the studio and punch you in the arm every so well exactly With a delayed reaction whatever. I say you know what's coming. Yeah, you're like three minutes ago Exactly why so we were listening to these

01:34 And I apologize, but I don't think that I noticed it about the birthday party. We had like a 30 minute thing about my 50th birthday party and how nice it was...and Mickey said that, he says, oh listen to John! He's playing Happy Birthday on the harmonica which I presume you had studied? Yes. Aww, yeah I see you did right? Sometimes you paid zero attention Yeah but it's...I'm a little trained to ignore the noise known as the harmonica so that i could continue with the program but I thought that was so sweet That I wanted to give you some inspiration for some other things I think you should play with the harmonica and it would come in handy during the show

02:19 I have a pen. Well, you don't need a pen just listen this is uh here's one i'd like you to be able to play Do you know it yet? I don't know how they get those piano tones out of the harp. If you can do that before... I don't know how they do it. Maybe its special. This is Toots Tielemans by the way Dutch one of the famous harp players Listen this for the theme from Midnight Cowboy It's such a classic John You could do that

02:55 It's all down. Don't you think that would be good? You could play that for me? Well, yeah I could do it. I can do an underplay while your... one of your sorry tales. Yes exactly or i have another one this is a little more contemporary but still from our youth now if you could do this Yeah, you think you could do this one down? Down down down down down You can't do that. I can do that the super tramp take the long way home

03:34 Yeah, you could just do that bit Hit me fat me That would be perfect if you could do that yeah it's all right in your time frame Good stuff. Just thought I'd give you a little inspiration my friend. Yeah No, I was hoping to give you some more harmonic cats There will be none of that no Yeah, the harmonic cats. That's what I'm going for well John. Let's let's get into some news here This is of course is my last my last show live here from Amsterdam will be returning back to home base Yes on Tuesday our last report directly from the feats on the ground in the eurozone Correct and there's a lot to discuss But the thing that is I'm feeling a little unsure about although you warned us months in advance Is this Ebola thing?

CHAPTER 02 / 41 Discussion

USAID Director Rajiv Shah Leads Ebola Response

Dr. Rajiv Shah, the head of USAID and former official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been appointed to lead the United States' response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Health officials, including CDC Director Tom Frieden, describe the situation as spiraling out of control, while Shah outlines an investment strategy involving 1,000 treatment beds in Liberia. The terminology used by officials, specifically the word "tamp," suggests a strategy of containment rather than total eradication.

ebola· rajiv shah· usaid· cdc· bill and melinda gates foundation· liberia

04:28 This is getting a little annoying. I don't know if you saw the... it's a link in the show notes, and it actually caught my eye because it was one of those listicles and you know how listicles work like uh must click and the listicle is 16 apocalyptic quotes from health global health officials about this horrific Ebola epidemic And it's from the Economic Collapse blog, which tells you kind of about the source. But they do have 16... Well this is not 33! No So I was reading through them and there is only one non-real obvious shill in this list but let me just give you a few and then I have clips and I believe you have some clips too so Tom Dr. Tom Friedman who was the director of the Centers for Disease Control

05:25 He says, it is the world's first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It's bad now and it's going to get worse in the very near future." This is where the Midnight Cowboy thing will be good. There's still a window of opportunity to tamp it down but that window is closing. And this quote...and there's from you know the Chan woman and all these different people all doctors without borders everybody's in a tizzy But it was this particular quote that sent me to go looking a little bit and Here is Sanjay Gupta, and he is you know who's from these two. He's the CNN Doctor guy and this is I think the intro he has on with him Rajiv Shah

06:15 And you know my take on this Ebola thing has been, this is a threat to African nations and it is our way of saying either you let us in or we're going to kill you with Ebola. Because clearly we can save our own people. We have the MZAP or whatever its called and there seems to be... No there's none left! You didn't get the latest. Oh I'm sorry well I'm sure we can make some more But here he is and this is when the lights started to go off in my head. We know how it spreads, we know how to stop it from spreading. The challenge is to do that everywhere that's needed

06:51 But frankly, I'm not entirely sure what that means. I think details really do matter here and we haven't heard enough specifics of the plan and we certainly haven't seen enough results. And in that vein, I want to bring in Dr. Rajiv Shah. He's the head of USAID. He is also fair to say the new man in charge of the United States Ebola response. Welcome back to the program, Raj. Okay! Alright... So now the head of USAID is in charge of the Ebola response from America? Not the CDC, no no. USAID well I'll let this guy talk for a moment then we'll talk about who he is Thank you Sanjay thanks for having me Let me just start off by asking a broader question What is the United States obligation in something like this and how and when does that get determined?

07:38 The United States obligation is actually quite clear. It's to mount and to help support an international effort, to help our Liberian colleagues get over this Ebola crisis. And Dr. Frieden is exactly right to point out with 3500 cases in 1900 deaths this is an urgent epidemic that demands an urgent and at scale response. At scale? We have a clear strategy that we're pursuing together with international partners to make sure that happens So this is he this is the guy we've talked about him before he came from the mill and Belinda Gates foundation

08:15 Ah, right that guy. He was the big guy on campus there and then he moved into 2009 USAID Big Pals with Hillary we've played several clips and he talks here now with Sanjay about the strategy and the investments in all kinds of very interesting words he's using to describe our how we are going to tamp these the Ebola crisis. There simply has not been nearly enough treatment available for people with Ebola, which is why we're now pursuing a strategy of getting 1,000 beds set up in Liberia to treat patients with Ebola and yesterday we noted an increase in our investment of $75 million additional dollars What do you think he means by that? Our investment It can only mean that if you invest

09:02 Do you expect to receive a bigger return at some nominal risk of losing all your money? But investing, to me sounds like there's something else going on. Do you feel this is just normal speech for USAID?" Yes, I do. I don't think it's a red flag personally. Especially if you came from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They talk that way. Valley bullshit terminologies to help make sure that is well resourced at scale and effective response You mentioned some of the specifics of the dollar amount The number of beds that will be created as a result of that What about the infrastructure overall? These problems that you describe

09:46 are not going to go away, right? This is a response to an outbreak right now. We know there's another outbreak happening in Congo, a different strain of Ebola. These happen all the time. Why won't each outbreak in the future be like this now? Is this the way outbreaks are going to be?" This should not be the way outbreaks are going to be handled. In fact, that's why we're putting in place a strategy that will tamp this down in West Africa." Okay so this is now the second time I've heard the word tamp and you will see... Yes, I've written both of them down. And it's annoying because... You guys are pipe smoker! Well, the word tamp by no means does it mean stop Ebola eradicate remove it from the face of the earth No, It just means pat down lightly

CHAPTER 03 / 41 Discussion

Power Africa Initiative, Ebola Patient Escape in Monrovia

The Power Africa initiative, a $6 billion U.S. government program involving private sector partners like General Electric, focuses on energy infrastructure in nations including Liberia and Nigeria. Meanwhile, media reports from the BBC depict dramatic scenes in Monrovia where an Ebola patient allegedly escaped quarantine to find food, sparking a panic in local markets. These events are compared to scripts from zombie films like World War Z.

power africa· barack obama· monrovia· liberia· bbc· quarantine

10:30 Why? And the director of the CDC also used this word. Why are we using the word tamp? I think that's an interesting observation. This is what made me feel that, that is a threat in a way it's like oh well just tamp it down but don't worry by the way in Dutch tamp has a whole different connotation there's also some thrusting stuff but But we have this like perfect storm of this combo of the Power Africa, which is the big initiative that President Obama had all of the African leaders over with their shaken sticks and their bacon hats and their capes. And all of this regal stuff they walk around in, and their supermodel wives

11:16 We have now confirmed Power Africa is a US government organization, has in total received $6 billion investment. Much of which is coming from the private sector as you can imagine General Electric it's very interesting little thing they've put together this power Africa and if you look at the countries And this is to power Africa. Well, it's to kick out the Chinese I guess. I don't know exactly what it is other than economic hitmen stuff. The countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia and Nigeria and Tanzania so we've got two down. I'm looking at Ethiopia, Ghana...I think Ghana already has the Ebola. Has Kenya received yet? No! So I'm keeping this list handy. We'll call it the Ebola 6

12:12 Ebola 6. Just in case, well it seems like a coincidence that parts of this list are now covered in Ebola and then we have these just fantastic videos for us although I think this is BBC This was really good. This was like right out of the World War Z zombie script. Dramatic pictures have emerged of an Ebola patient who escaped quarantine being chased by a panicked mob in Liberia. There's a guy walking around all sweaty and the mob is like... The man left hospital looking for food when he was spotted by people at a market. He armed himself with a stick and tried to run away from doctors who were called in to catch him After hosing him down, he was taken back to hospital More than 1500 people in four West African countries have died

13:04 I think we'll see more of this and I have a clip from last show. I carried it forward, you can play it. Another example of this sort of thing the public panicking. The Ebola guy here? Ebola guy. While working with patients in Liberia, while a man affected with Ebola managed to escape from the treatment center in the capital Monrovia sparking panic. Wait is this...this isn't a different guy escaping?

13:54 Yeah, this is going good. Oh, but I silly it needs to be a little more zombie like the population Yes The man in the red shirt has just escaped from quarantine center in Monrovia after testing positive for Ebola He's been roaming through local markets food. It's the same guy Same story though they have it they portray it differently. I like that You know, there's some dude who has chickenpox. He has a fever and they've made this great story out of it Slowly an angry mob closes in on the patient as he tries to push them away with stones This is bullcrap I would ended there what happened? I ended it Oh, I just wanted any was pushing him away with stones. I have a question for you

CHAPTER 04 / 41 Discussion

Africa as Testing Ground, Lab-Grown Virus Theories

Speculation arises regarding why major philanthropists like Bill Gates have not funded a total solution for Ebola, leading to claims that Africa is being used as a testing ground for vaccines. References are made to historical theories about AIDS being lab-grown at Fort Detrick to diminish populations. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan describes the current outbreak as the most complex in the 40-year history of the disease.

bill gates· fort detrick· margaret chan· who· aids· conspiracy theories

14:48 Of all the philanthropy going on, including in Africa and reading from...reading into and extrapolating from the comments from Dr. Rajiv Shah of USAID the price tag for stopping Ebola is about $600 million dollars This would stop it in West Africa It would stop it in Nigeria And it would certainly protect the United States from this. Why doesn't Bill Gates write a check? Well, I have a whole bunch of clips that are from almost two or three or four shows ago that I'm going to bring back into the discussion. I don't believe they want to stop it.

15:39 And I think what they want to do, and I got enough documentation. I think I can prove this or at least through clippage that they just want to turn Africa into a testing ground for Africans Benetech for Ebola vaccines and advanced forms of Ebola you know, just use the Africans as guinea pigs which is not something new. I mean there's lots of documentation in fact they have it printed out here and... Isn't that what they've been doing all along? The HPV which is killing people? Ebola has been a tough nut to crack because everybody thinks that the Europeans are bringing Ebola in right which may be true yeah and so they have to be convinced

16:29 of good intentions. And so I think they're going to let this thing simmer for a while." I don't see it that at 1,900 people... We remember when this began which was over a month ago maybe two months ago? It was a long time. They'll only have this many you know like less than 4,000 people infected in 1900 dead. Is disappointing to say the least It's very disappointing. It's much lower than you'd think if it was an out of control situation Although, I don't think I clipped this... This is from Yahoo and Ebola could reach the United States by the end of the month!

17:08 Yeah, right. It's already in the United States They brought some people in earlier although that could be bullcrap by the way And then they got some guy in Minnesota now for some unknown reason Anyway playing I get to Margaret Chan you know there are who? Nutball yes competent woman making some commentary and I think it's funny that this disease which is supposed to be Endemic to bats and all you know some other things which I still think was a created disease from Fort Detrick. I think she almost kind of says that when she gives this little report here. This Ebola epidemic is the largest and most severe and most complex we've ever seen in the nearly 40 year history of this disease no one

18:01 even outbreak responders would experience dating back to 1976, to 1995. People that were directly involved with those outbreaks none of them have ever seen anything like it. What you're saying is this version of Ebola was it for Dietrich creation or Ebola in general? Dr. Justin Marchegiani Well, I don't know where this version came from but this is a new version obviously because they just got a new name- Evan Brand 2.0. Dr. Justin Marchegiani Yes, 2.0 and its got–it's a little harder to contain although once he goes into the urban setting at the–I don't know, this whole thing is fishy. Evan Brand That's why I'm calling it the Ebola 6. I feel that yes maybe testing, yes always good to scare the public if they–you know these guys love it.

18:50 I think what they would like, even though this is a little second part of the show. And who was they? Who was they in this case? They, the shadow governments. Ah, The New World Order yes. They would like to get rid of Africans in some way that's extremely selective and then there's the Cibola thing because we had all these Caucasians catching the disease and then having to be brought back to United States for treatment so they could better study it maybe centrifuge a person. But why would we want to get rid of the Africans? Don't we need people to work there, I mean for the mining and everything or do we don't even want that

19:28 You know, you want some people there. It's right now it's just that it's not controllable The Chinese bring their own people into work Even the Chinese don't use many African workers The Africans are flying with it because of Chinese actually build roads and actually this really put you squarely in one of the largest conspiracy theorists camps That AIDS was created to diminish Africa's population and, well yes he says. Hello is John there? Who are you and what have you done with the real John C Dvorak?" This does fit in with what's happening with HPV. Was that Columbia?

CHAPTER 05 / 41 Discussion

New York City HPV Vaccine Advertising Campaign

The City of New York has launched a major advertising campaign on nyc.gov and television promoting the HPV vaccine for preteens. The ads claim the vaccine can reduce the risk of certain cancers by 99%, though critics note the lack of mentioned side effects in the promotional material. Reports suggest that parental resistance to the vaccine, particularly from fathers, is often framed by health officials as a religious or cultural issue.

hpv vaccine· gardasil· new york city· health department· advertising

20:12 Maybe they were testing it over there where a lot of Colombians had very adverse reactions. The HPV thing I think is just pure money grabbing. Pure money and profits. Now, you've got to play this... If you have more to talk about Ebola, you can do it after this but so I'm watching New York This is what's going on in New York right now on the television This is an HPV What's the name of this clip? HPV vaccine. Ah okay Today, you can help protect your preteen against several deadly cancers. Today you can save their life because today you can ask the doctor about the HPV vaccine

20:51 It can cut their risk for certain HPV-related cancers by up to 99%. So protect your preteen son or daughter with the HPV vaccine today. Talk to their doctor, call 311, or search HPV on nyc.gov. The HPV vaccine—one day it could save your child's life! Now this to me was... Wow This is the NYC dot gov. This is the City of New York's advertising Oh yeah they're all in on it sure And they're all in on this and this is a very expensive vaccine. I didn't even hear any potential side effects or anything like that, which seems to me if this is pretty much an advertisement for Gardasil...I don't think there's anyone else who...there is one competing one but even so Gardasil pretty much is the winner of the HPV vaccination shouldn't they say here are things, adverse effects you know if you have anal leakage call your doctor something like that?

21:51 I wonder, i'm wondering why it's not there. This is a straight out commercial, this is today, by the way every time they say today a big round logo shows up that says today written on it. I think there's some campaign that is going to use this logo, Today! Today! Today! And i thought it was an onerous commercial There was no nothing negative about it because which by the way if you think about it you're watching these types of commercials and get used to that little threat at the end to your health just because...and you don't get one on the show must-be safe

22:29 Because the question you asked is the question you should ask. Yeah, here... Let me see I had a... Hold on a second there. I did not clip this but there was a report and i don't know... Let me back up a second by the way my this concept of me being a crackpot because of this AIDS being created in the lab I'm not the only one who a that believes this is a possibility, but the New York Times itself in the 80s Said this. I remember reading really The Times itself wrote this yeah Oh well first of all and I'm not calling you out or some crackpot I'm just saying that in general if you went to a party with all your Your reporter friends and you said well This looks man-made just like AIDS to kill off Africans. I have a feeling you may get some strange looks

23:24 You know less than you'd think. Well, you have cool friends obviously That's not true I don't have any friends Well, I have friends but cool I can't find this report it was a video i did not clip But didn't think we would be talking about today but the context was They're doing and maybe maybe it was from New York It was some health official and they were seeing how many in classrooms, how many girls... They didn't even say girls and boys which of course you should give it to your boy because he's going to get ass cancer or throat cancer or something because of the HPV and his incredibly horrible ways.

24:05 I know, I can find this clip. Actually it's worth just two seconds of me looking for this video because it was disturbing to hear what the conclusion was as to why only half of children have received this Gardasil HPV vaccine and I have it... Can you play a little harmonica? I could use a little harmonica at this point. This would really be helpful! Yeah, yeah...this is not going very well. Okay anyway so the answer is

24:58 or the big payoff of this piece is, this official says the reason why only 50% but he said unanimously the girls had not... The fifty percent of the girls who had not had the shot was because their fathers didn't want them to have it. They were apparently the father's then think if they get this shot that they will then immediately want to start having sexual relations because you're protected. Which is such a double crazy ass message, a triple really? It's a triple whammy one men suck! Well it also has the subtext... Yes which is okay go screw around because this is safe. No no the subtext is nutball Christians well yes

CHAPTER 06 / 41 Discussion

Listener Criticism Regarding Sexism and Professional Success

A listener named Antonia, an adjunct professor and former stripper, sends a letter accusing the hosts of becoming "sexist douchebags" and "pigs in human clothing." The criticism stems from comments made in previous episodes suggesting that beautiful women in media only achieve success through sexual favors. The hosts defend their right to criticize incompetence regardless of gender.

antonia· sexism· misogyny· media studies· howard stern

25:43 That's the sub that I got yes, they just don't want to say it. Yes well It's only these Christian nut balls They get who else would not want their kid to have sex but a Christian? I got a note which I would disturb me somewhat because I It was about you really and of course whenever it's about you the email me yeah Antonia Antony one of our listeners Antonio yes Antonio Dear Adam and John, my smart wonderful boyfriend who has been a monthly No Agenda donor for a couple years going alerted me to your best podcast in the universe several months ago. And I've abandoned this American life and TED talks to listen to no agenda religiously ever since! Think they got a copy of this? As an adjunct professor...and pro-hooker pro blow and ex stripper respectively She's a strippper professor?! I didn't get this note.

26:39 I got the pictures. She is an adjunct professor in media, I believe. In media? Media something... Media studies! Yeah as an adjunct professor and pro hooker pro blow and ex stripper respectively. Pro hooker?! Yes she's a pro hooker pro blow and ex stripper respectively. Ex-stripper okay well she stripped her way through college this is actually not unusual. No but we encourage this behavior if necessary Who teaches media writing. There you go! I value your cultural analysis and humor One of the things i love about you guys, particularly the dear bright John C Dvorak Yeah Is that you deconstruct and criticize all members of the media regardless of their gender

27:22 However, John... Uh-oh. Your desperation to be a more refined Howard Stern is turning you into a sexist douchebag par excellence lately! Especially in episode 648 AND in 649 Okay, although I am used to Adam being a tad chauvinistic the huge disappointment came when John fell for it He never does that well listen. I'm listening traditionally John shows self-restraint Thank you. You tell me not cowboy would sound great under this it would yeah He is not trying so hard to be cute. I guess that means like I am so he yes So we know never goes for sexual innuendo

28:07 But this last show, he was a total misogynist. He accused women of blowing dudes for gigs as if they have no other way to become successful if they are beautiful and now you are both on the boring pedestrian sexist same page Please refrain from being pigs in human clothing We women are counting on you and we're listening Respect your lady listeners So, I made some reference to...I think some person that I believe may be incompetent and could not have made her way to her position in life without giving away sexual favors. But apparently she was beautiful and therefore your assumption was that she could only advance herself

28:57 Professionally or in the class? I think that was a misunderstanding. I don't remember exactly what it was. It was a misunderstanding, there's plenty of smart beautiful women you know to put enough makeup on. And why did they... Don't send it to john at curry dot com not adam and curry dot com John and curry dot com but I find it so interesting. Never do I get an email saying, Hey man you really should stop saying horrible things about how John Kerry looks with his big watermelon head man that he's so dumb that he can only make it through his money and through his family connections

CHAPTER 07 / 41 Discussion

Michael Sam, Dallas Cowboys, NFL PR Management

The NFL and the Dallas Cowboys are accused of managing a "nightmare situation" by signing Michael Sam to a practice squad to avoid charges of homophobia. The discussion contrasts Sam's situation with former player Charles Haley, who reportedly engaged in lewd behavior during team meetings but was tolerated due to his talent. The segment suggests the league prioritizes public relations over meritocracy.

michael sam· nfl· dallas cowboys· espn· charles haley

29:38 Or I don't think we've ever said, and I've gotten an email ever about anyone who's cute and beautiful male or female that it's kind of one-sided. You know? Yeah no it's very sexist on her part to bring this up. I find it to be somewhat sexist whereas the real outrage that I have Is and it's a it's an area that is of great discomfort for me because I know nothing about it but I was paying attention to this Michael Sam being cut from the Broncos whatever team he was with and immediately the gay Sports press which is the out sports observer or something. We're saying sports press is pretty much most of the sports press

30:27 saying, well if Michael Sam doesn't get picked up by another team we'll know it's homophobia. And this was... that was so insulting! You want to talk about horrible insults but now listen to the NFL or on ESPN these are all paid for, it's all the NFL Here's what they say about this situation which has, you know now we have Michael Samson picked up to play on a training team for the Dallas Cowboys. By itself just hilarious that the big red homophobic redneck gun totin' killed the faggot state of Texas. Woohoo! I can't believe we hired one of them. On this kickoff weekend we turn now to Peter King and Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio guys

31:09 Dan, when the Rams waived Michael Sam, the first openly gay player trying to make an NFL roster he was unemployed for two days. During that time a league official contacted multiple teams asking if they had evaluated Sam as a possible practice squad player now Sam and the NFL avoided a nightmare situation when he signed with the practice squad of the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday, Mike. And what could that nightmare situation be? He didn't get a job. No the NFL avoided a nightmare situation not him Well, I mean to them and nightmare situation is adverse publicity and this to say that this the league is homophobic Yeah where the league is this or League? Is that I mean Michael Sam may not be that good as probably everything if some guy I Mean let's go in and I hate to even bring this up And we had a guy that was that was

32:09 The defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers named Charles Haley. And Charles Haley was a nightmare situation in himself, one of the greatest defensive ends to ever play ended up going to Dallas and they took them to a Super Bowl. He used to masturbate in team meetings and do all sorts of things like this. And he was just so disgusting... Really? Wait a minute. Whoa whoa whoa whoa! He would masturbate in the meeting, like in the meeting room with the conference session? Yes. And he was this massive guy that could beat the shit out of anybody and just a very strange person Yeah this is discussed by a number of ex-players they used to say jeez this guy no one knew what to do there it was like the millennials who don't know what to do when somebody cuts in line You don't know what to do when you have this massive superstar player

33:05 That's exposing himself constantly in team meetings because you just don't know what to do. I know what I do This is a sex crime is what I'd say, You are now committing a sex crime It just didn't work out. They traded, but that's what they did. Sex crime? And they traded him to what team? The Dallas Cowboys! Ohhhh... Okay. Just seems to me that the Dallas Cowboys pick up a lot of guys who are- They pick up a lot of gay guys. Do you really want to phrase it that way? No I don't want to phrase it that way. But like I said, doesn't fit in and I don't think Haley was anything but just weird. But ummm..I dunno. Really weird? Thank You.

CHAPTER 08 / 41 Discussion

The Fappening, Celebrity Photo Leaks, Internet Censorship

The massive leak of private celebrity photos, known as "The Fappening," is being framed by activists like Lena Dunham as a sex crime equivalent to rape. This framing is viewed as a potential precursor to new legislation that could be used to censor internet traffic and restrict free speech under the guise of stopping "unlawful content." The hosts argue the event is being used to establish government control over network traffic.

the fappening· jennifer lawrence· lena dunham· revenge porn· free speech

33:46 I appreciate that. Well, this...I'm glad you brought this up because this does play into...you brought up the fa-fa-fap. I'm reading articles about the fappening and how this is now being turned into the war on men and how the act of downloading and publishing these pictures is an act of violence towards women. Oh, these phony pictures? Is that back... okay! Well I'm telling you what what iIm feeling out there in the land and it's here..I have a quote here that was very disturbing how this is being picked up That this is because this wasn't a sex crime

34:35 Here it is. It's a sex crime issue... No, this is being called a sex- Women like Lena Dunham who produces girls and... Yeah, out lesbian. It doesn't matter but they're calling this particular... If its a war against men and it's an out lesbian I think it matters to know this. Okay? Oh yes! Was your premise. I didn't even know she was a lesbian. So they are now saying because this is a sex crime and it's a sex crime against your will it is being equated to rape Yeah, this would be typical. Yeah, and I find this wholly disturbing

35:18 Let's see, you take a selfie of yourself naked. Not in particular...you know, you have some butt plug when I never saw that picture. Well, but I got it. I've searched. Yeah yeah, I know. You would have sources different than mine. Buttplug.com or something? I'm not sure what he was. No no! Whatever the case most of these pictures the Jennifer Lawrence pictures were good examples as she just sitting there doing nothing and And it's not even a good, there is nothing pornographic about any of the pictures that have her that I saw. And uh...I don't see where this equates to anything but publicity stunt. Well but i think its very obvious where this is going to go

35:58 Now that this is being deemed, and I'm sure someone somewhere will actually put in legislation and say this is a sex crime. They're equating it to the revenge porn... And even though just publishing then there are certain rules for what you can and cannot do This is going to be unlawful content or unlawful network traffic. Oh yeah absolutely! So this is all part of the giant scheme to censor to free speech, is what it is. As far as I'm concerned its free speech. I agree! The fact that women do this as free speech? You can look at property laws but there's a lot to be said who owns the photograph and how that is being monetized and you know the legality of that which by the way the mainstream has very little regard for It's not like they're showing YouTube videos and sending a check to these so-called rebels in Ukraine

36:55 Thanks for letting us use that. But they may be sending a check to YouTube, I don't know who knows what those guys are doing." I think this is the biggest example of the mountain out of a molehill these photos. I don't think they were big deal. About half of them I never heard of But you can say that about most of the 10 worst dressed women at the Oscars and then you look a two or three of them. You never who are these people? And I just couldn't get into the story, and I'm not into the story. I mean, but no, but wonder why everybody is so fascinated by it because I believe there that if you looked at everybody's cell phone

CHAPTER 09 / 41 Discussion

Selfie Culture, Smartphone Addiction, Female Psychology

The rise of "selfie culture" is characterized as a psychological affliction predominantly affecting young women, driven by the feedback loops of Instagram and Facebook. References are made to Kate Bush and Louis C.K. criticizing the way audiences now experience life through smartphone screens rather than direct observation. The hosts suggest that societal pressure and unrealistic beauty standards in magazines contribute to this "zombie-like" state.

selfies· instagram· kate bush· louis ck· social media· body image

37:38 I believe pretty much every woman, and i'm going to say this very specifically. This is the letter to Adam. This is right! This is a predominantly female affliction and I am going so far as to say it's a psychological issue which could be... It's a dis-ease And you can see it, the combination of social media predominantly Facebook but you know... You can link your Instagram which is Facebook too. That with smartphones with camera capability and a social network with feedback which you click on like and then your phone goes bling because you've seen the likes I sent you an article ummm....I don't know if he had time to read that this morning

38:32 It's called Patricia Smartphone. I don't know if you saw that? No, I did not! It's a fiction little story about a girl and her smartphone and her weekend with her friends... And it's very correct, it is very true to a crazy degree of how women in particular are being, I think zombified into a state of suspended reality Kate Bush, who I interviewed when I was 19. God did I love Kate Bush when I was 19. And there's even video still on YouTube and she...I think she was 22 and this is the time of Wuthering Heights since she had done...she was sexy man! What an awesome chick that was? And I was like a penis in a bad fitting suit interviewing her

39:22 And she is now back out on tour, so I was interested in reading it. She says please when you come to my show do not use your smartphone and if you look at we've had the big summer festivals and concerts and You look at the audience The audience is witnessing the actual live show through their screen of their phone Right did a lot of people notice this? I mean I think Most people have noticed this that there in fact it was a Louis CK's current act I've not seen floating around on Showtime Discusses that you go to a recital of your daughter dancing on the stage and you look Around you and everybody's watching the recital

40:10 on the smartphone as they take a movie of it that nobody will ever play. And he says, your daughter's right there in high definition why don't you watching her? Like everyone Steven Spielberg all those and George Lucas Yeah what is this an illness now Now that part is across the board male and female but this the selfie I walked down the street and I walked past McDonald's and a couple of girls came in like maybe early high school, I don't know late teenagers and they come up and then there's three or four of them. And I hear hold on selfie. And I see people walking down the hall on selfie

40:50 It's a sickness and it's girls. It is a sickness, but I'm concerned for all of the flack that we're taking when we come across as misogynists which were not... We work with women well not anymore you know? We had to fire them all! We've worked with many women. We have promoted women specifically for no monetary gain have helped women along in their careers. But we do the same for dudes? No, no. John come on! You're right probably not yeah I really enjoy...I work best with women in anything I do this isn't this is such a

41:39 Um, this is such an exception that I can't get along with you. Actually we just do a show and we do a funny show for some reason it works out great comedy show I work with women. And so when i see this it hurts me and identify what is happening, and it's mostly with female human beings and I don't know exactly why its them. This is something that I would like to find out. Why is it mainly women? Well the self-image issue that women have because they're forced into this situation... Good point! Stop you got it. You got it. It's just a bit of..I'm looking around the place here

42:18 And I'm looking at the magazines, Harper's Bazaar... beautiful magazines. But wow! Is it unrealistic how these women look? Yeah there is your illness. There it is And this is building up by society and by the men, by the way. The men did...and you! Send pics, send photos, send photos You're the one that's doing this all time Who was it? Who was the producer that sent a note in complaining about me trying to be a cheap version of Howard Stern What's her name? Bob, do you want me to out her? No, I just want to know. Okay you didn't say her name. Antonia! Yeah she should be writing YOU notes why is she complaining about me? I don't even know what i did wrong. Because... Well of course that's the problem with bullshits man they don't know what they did wrong. There ya go we don't even know we did it wrong. Is something wrong honey?! You DON'T KNOW!? OKAY!

CHAPTER 10 / 41 Discussion

NFL Head Injuries, Remote Viewing, Tourette's Superpowers

The National Football League faces ongoing scrutiny over head injuries and steroids, while attempting to counter negative press with movies and PR campaigns about the benefits of football. In a personal aside, a host claims to have discovered a "superpower" related to Tourette's syndrome: the ability to "remote view" television remote controls to help a partner operate electronics from a distance.

nfl· concussions· tourette's syndrome· remote viewing· amsterdam

43:13 Yes, John This is our problem. We don't know what's good what we did wrong or what is wrong? We are stupid Now, I think that we managed to get off the Michael Sams thing which i think is a positive segue because that's like a dead end discussion. Well what's going on in the National Football League it's a corrupt operation big guys are getting injured with head injuries and now we're starting to see movies and positive public relations there's a number of stories coming out about how great football is for

43:51 For the young male, it makes him feel like he's part of something when in other ways be on the street robbing old people. It's not good? All this kind of publicity trying to get away from the fact that this game because of the nature of steroids and everything that is a part of the game has created head injuries that are unbelievable! Half the players, not all of them of course. A lot of them get through it without a problem but a lot of players are lame-brained after they played years in the NFL and to college same thing. Boy I'm sorry I brought it up Yes you should be Okay so I have two topics then at the top here and we'll move into something else One...I have discovered another Tourette's superpower that I have

44:40 Now let me step back and say that the No Agenda Tourette's Club is a very serious deal. We are discovering what our ticks are, and my ticks have been pretty good. How many members are in this club? Four And we have honorary member Tim Howard from the USS. There's got to be more than four Tourette's sufferers that listen to The No Agenda Show. Hello, excuse me? We do not like to be known as Tourette's sufferers. We'd like to think of ourselves as Tourettes benefactors yes? Okay there must be more than a few lucky Tourette's owners. Yes and in this at me as an owner of Tourette's

45:19 I have discovered another superpower. As you know, I can snatch things out of midair as they're falling off tables... I have an uncanny ability to remember certain sequences of numbers—not names—numbers and I can look at a spreadsheet or vast pieces of information like a neural network that I can hone in on something that is different odd or interesting from any perspective, I just have this ability. It's what I do with legislation and financial spreadsheets but now add to this list! Okay... I can do remote viewing Oh brother Yep Now i want you to know that I specifically say remote viewing As opposed to what? Remote viewing Wait a minute Here it comes let me explain Mickey called me yesterday I was out

46:14 And she says, okay how do I get the TV and the cable box to work? We're staying at a place that has a system that we're not familiar with. And I had... It's really not working for me right now. Okay keep going Because it means you're not listening! I'm listening yes so I'm changing the tones You were remote viewing, you got a call from Vicky. She's saying oh this cable box I can't figure it out how to push the buttons and then you visualized it somehow when you saw her finger headed to the wrong button. Stop stop stop! So here is my...I am able to when its specifically about remote controls I can do this

47:07 And I knew that there were three remotes on the couch. I was seeing the remotes before me, so I can't view a street scene but I can view remotes! You just saw them a few minutes earlier... No, I haven't touched this remote once two weeks ago. I haven't had the TV on and I was able to help her get it going in a matter of minutes. I'm telling you this is one of my superpowers Alright, well then tell me what I did with the printout that I just made. No it's not a remote control! I'm only good at remotes. But i can't actually... Oh I get it! Remote viewing now! It's fun! No it's fact! Yeah? I can do this!

47:57 Okay, fantastic. If anybody has a problem out there that you lost one of your remotes fell behind the couch or something like that... Call John and he'll play the harmonica while you look for it. That's what you need to do people. It was an observation. I'm putting in on the list. Just an observation. And here is the BBC. I've been watching a lot of BBC. The television in Netherlands, Miss Mickey and I agree universally It looks like you're watching East Block shit. It's horrible. Eastern European. Yeah, but you know like in the 80s? Well if you would ever see it... You're talking about the productions made in Holland? Yeah just the- In general The tell of the news So it's a sleazy low end crap look? It's not even- It's high def and its got all the bells and whistles But for some reason Its just not slick Its stiff Its awkward

CHAPTER 11 / 41 Discussion

NATO Summit Staging, Summer of Blood Narrative

The BBC is criticized for promoting a "Summer of Blood" narrative to describe global conflicts in Gaza, Iraq, and Ukraine. The recent NATO summit in Wales is described as a highly scripted and staged media event, featuring cinematic lighting and a physical barrier between the press and the podium. The hosts note the use of the term "OTAN" (the French acronym for NATO) and the professional production quality of the briefings.

nato· bbc· barack obama· wales· press conference· otan

48:59 Did you see...I don't want to change the topic, but since you changed it. Did you see the NATO press conference? Yes! Well this is a lot of what I've been watching yes let me get into the BBC's view of the world for a moment this will kind of explain how the citizenry of the EU are being tortured by their government and associated media partners It's been a summer of blood as bad as anything in recent times. I mean it was the worst of times, it was the best of times. What? It's been a summer of what?! A Summer Of Blood! This is the B- Summer OF Blood The BBC... this is The Summer Of Blood That's a good title for show

49:44 It's been a summer of blood as bad as anything in recent times parts of Gaza City now look like Berlin in 1945 You have plotted against us and journalists have been murdered gruesomely on camera simply for being American Innocent Iraqis had been targeted for not being Muslims New and ultra violent groups have blazed their way across the region Quiet towns have been destroyed and the inhabitants murdered or enslaved. A commercial airliner was blasted out of the sky by a rogue missile, and everybody on board was killed. Over the summer it really has looked as though a new world disorder is establishing itself

50:36 And the report goes on for ten minutes after that. A new world disorder, I say! The Summer of Blood coming to a theater near you So I'm watching this NATO press conference. I want to ask one quick question of you, what is OTAN? NATO spelled backwards. I've wondered that too! Is that because when you take a selfie... it's reversed! You take a selfie in the mirror... OTAN! It's like for little kids, that's what they would call it. I believe that it is... you know, I really don't know

51:14 So I'm watching this thing and it was a very well, especially on here. I don't know what feeds they gave you but it was extremely well produced the script. The press conference was incredibly scripted and it was well lit. It was like it was with lit like a law and order or like NCIS actually better is more now I think about it was like CIS It was lit like a CIS show where they go into the offices and everything is got spotlights and highlights. I saw it, you know? Otan by the way John, that's the French way, Organisation Transvestuelle

51:54 Something like that. Yeah, okay it but it's also It's a it's an it's a neurological trick I believe I Believe so too when I saw what I said this is just like you you your head cocks and you're kind of boo You shake a little bit yeah? I think something Yeah. Okay, so I'm watching this is very well produced and the lighting on the press conference was like do it This was like high. Well they were even calling out the right press people at the right time and the key light was on him i saw that too Exactly! They call out somebody The camera was already positioned right on them They had a microphone in their hands They were lit beautifully I've never seen anything so spectacular What I forgot to evaluate Were the journalists wearing makeup?

52:38 I couldn't tell. I thought about the women were, but i didn't notice it. Which would not surprise me now the other thing that was peculiar was that when they pulled back from the whole shot and you had this darkened room and a lit podium there was like a fence Between the reporters and the stage yeah, it was like a roadhouse like a Texas Road house So you don't like throw beer at the performers? No. You know what it was It was this same kind of fencing they use at TSA oh Those little things to pull when they lock together right oh yeah Yeah They had a whole they had a whole TSA like a whole line between The press conference people and the stays why I

53:29 Are they gonna charge it? This thing wouldn't stop anyone from doing anything by the way, because you know what it's like. Shut up slave! Just stay in your place slave don't move anywhere just wait till you're called upon slave something like that perhaps I would have to assume that's the reason because there I can't think of anything else but i just found a whole thing to be so staged and so they had...so I have one clip which is The New York Times reporter was called on. Beautiful blue background and deep blue, you can see a camera guy fooling around back there in kind of that Y style where it's fuzzy it's like a lot of bouquet all the right things you'd want to... Yeah I know it was perfect! I noticed it, I noticed it. It's perfect. Yeah just going oh man these guys are just somebody is doing their job

CHAPTER 12 / 41 Discussion

Obama's ISIL Strategy, Roughshod Etymology, Enslavement Rhetoric

During a press conference, President Obama discusses the goal of dismantling ISIL, using the term "roughshod" to describe their movement through territory. The hosts analyze the etymology of the word and criticize the President's rhetoric regarding the "enslavement of women," suggesting it is used as a specific emotional trigger. Skepticism is expressed regarding the ability of the Free Syrian Army to effectively combat ISIL on the ground.

barack obama· isil· syria· free syrian army· etymology

54:16 So let's take a listen to, um... This may be the same question that I clipped actually and answer. It was probably the same one. Scripted question for Obama? Is that the one? Yeah. Let's play it. Let's see what it is. Julie Davis! Now I have to mention something and you must've noticed this too with all of the slick lighting, the beautiful staging and everything they've got a line buzz as a ground loop somewhere and I think... It's a ground loop on Obama. Yeah, it was because of the electronics in his head who knows what is going on there? By the way i think that we're doing the real problem they were having is they had Obama over-miked and when you listen to this scripted question you can hear Obama going uh huh yeah but he would have to disagree he's miked wirelessly

55:14 And there were also two desktop mics so he could read the prompter, so we can go from left to right. But I think I remember a lav... and regardless it's-a ground loop is a ground loop! There's just no reason for this other than that there's an incompatibility that is also our lectern. It's possible that we bring our lectern in? that he speaks from and our audio. If I were the president, I'd have my own audio guys believe me everything i'm not going to leave that up for somebody to show. This guy sucks then! Yeah so maybe who knows? But you can still hear Obama mumbling. Yeah it was weird anyway play it and you can hear the ground loop It was not weird Thank You Mr President I want to follow-up on what you're saying about ISIL and ask if you think

56:04 The objective here is to destroy and degrade them. Are those the same thing in your mind? Is the goal to ultimately... Secretary Kerry said that there's no containing them, so is the goal to ultimately annihilate them and also you talked about the importance of expertise on the ground and building up capacity on the ground Do you think since airstrikes are not going to do it here if I have a different question by the way, which is good ultimately action is needed in Syria Can you realistically expect the Free Syrian Army to do what's needed on the ground? To really destroy not just push back ISIL You can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory rough shot definition

56:56 Uh, like berserk? Etymology. Etymology of rough shot I think it goes back to some cowboy term Yeah yeah so there are a bunch of cowboys Exactly Running rough shot Do you mind if we just take a moment Rough shot Ruff shod Shot No it's ruff shot No its ruff shod Ruff shod? Yeah with a D Really? Yes I'm glad I took a moment Rough shot is one word Having shoes with nails heads pretty mobile on second roughshod. This is interesting It's an adjective of a horse having shoes with nail heads projecting to prevent slipping

57:44 Rough shot. I think he says rough shot! No, he doesn't say it. He can't. Nobody would use that word. I thought it was rough shot. I've always thought it was rough shot with a T. It's always been rough shot. Like you know like... I mean rough shod? Rough shot. Without thinking or caring about the opinions rights or feelings of others Marked by tyrannical force is another definition. I John, I'm telling you I always thought it was rough shot two words second word and in a tea I'm sorry how dumb am I? Apologizing I am apologizing this is an outrage. I think he says Outrage yes I think he's saying rough shot with the team You realistically expect the Free Syrian Army to do what's needed on the ground to really destroy not just push back ISIL

58:30 You can't contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc displacing that many people. killing that many innocents, enslaving... What? Yeah. Enslaving that many women the goal has to be to dismantle them and why do they only enslave women are they better are they stronger than men

59:06 I mean, this is not a good version of slavery. No that this isn't...this is innuendo obviously because our civilization at this point enslaving women generally refers to sex slaves! Yes whereas the good slaves that we had were men who were strong and could build things and drag things and could take a beating Yeah, right and keep on eating. No but this is it is all innuendo and it is fantastic to be able to document this and I think we're probably the only people in the universe even listening to what is being said

CHAPTER 13 / 41 Discussion

Obama's FATA Gaffe, Al-Qaeda Base Confusion

President Obama appears to confuse the "FATA" (Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan) with "Fatah" (the Palestinian political party) when discussing the historical base of Al-Qaeda. The hosts highlight that the mainstream media failed to correct or notice this significant geographical and political error during the scripted press conference.

barack obama· fata· fatah· al-qaeda· fallujah· gaffe

59:47 I, that might be true. That might actually be true. That's the reason we have people that listen to our show because i think the public is hungry to hear at least an honest discussion of what's going on around them that points these things out and if you look at what happened with Al Qaeda in the Fatah where their primary base was You initially push them back. You systematically degrade their... Stop, stop! I know but I didn't even want to stop it but i know exactly what you're going to say. We pushed them back? No no that's not what I was gonna say. With this dodgeball?! No play this back he says that the Al Qaeda was primarily in al-Fatah which... What the hell is he talking about!? What is al-fatah

1:00:42 Well, you can look it up. It's a political party! What about Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula? Back it up and listen to this. The Fatah. He says THE Fatah. In the Fatah. He says Interfatah. Interfatah? Let's listen... No, he said FATA. That's the party that's the Fata Party. Let's listen again If you look at what happened with Al Qaeda in the Fata where their primary base was How is there base there? how was their base in a political party in the Palestine in the Palestinian Political Party how was their base in the fatah

1:01:23 I'm asking you. Well, excuse me am i his speech writer? I'm googling it! I'm trying to figure out... You're making me nervous! Because I'm listening to this and he says that and then I go to myself. John, this is without a doubt... I mean like seriously just did he mean this?! I don't know what he meant, but nobody said anything. They didn't say it in the media they didn't say that this press conference he just says this and everyone goes yeah right boss of the fatah if people don't know the fatah is the formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement so he is now saying that that the Al Qaeda grew out of

1:02:15 Use their political, their primary political base. Play that whole thing again and then carefully listen to what he says there And he said that's how we got them or something I don't even know what... It's just nonsense it seems like just babbling I'll play back even more this is very very interesting To be uh..to dismantle them I think i should go back more sorry this is just too good killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them and if you look at what happened with Al-Qaeda in the Fatah where their primary base was You initially push them back, you systematically degrade their capabilities, you narrow their scope of action

1:03:13 You slowly shrink the space, the territory that they may control. You take out their leadership." Do you think maybe he meant Fallujah? Well, he didn't say... He obviously said Fatah with a hard T and I don't think Fallujah was their base was it? Fallujah was a big... Let's see if it's let's see what The Book of Knowledge says if the Book of Knowledge considers Fallujah to be the original city. Of course, this isn't Iraq... It's a city? You got that much? A variety of sources report the city was controlled by Al-Qaeda and its affiliate ISIS which I'm sure is a new reference but you can't trust this Wikipedia crap people add into it every day. This is changing before my very eyes, this thing

1:04:09 I, you know...I have no idea. I've no idea. Okay well here's the problem with that it's an Iraqi city yes we know for a fact that had nothing to do with Iraq ever right until we made it have something to do with and we said it has something to do with it but that was all nonsense so just get the public on board with attacking the place so that can't be yet So no, I don't know what he's talking about and i'm stunned that nobody picked this up. Well it's a scripted news conference these women all they're doing the women who are asking these questions they're just concerned about their key light if they don't stumble over the question the three questions that each woman from The New York Times that's all she did was stump me! I got the woman from

CHAPTER 14 / 41 Discussion

Ukraine Ceasefire, Russian Sanctions, Petro Poroshenko

President Obama expresses skepticism regarding the ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, asserting that U.S. sanctions are the primary reason Russia is negotiating. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is described as appearing visibly shaken and nervous during international appearances. The hosts argue that the ceasefire is a tactical move rather than a permanent solution to the civil war.

ukraine· russia· sanctions· petro poroshenko· ceasefire

1:04:57 AP who was the first one he called. The other one I have is the woman from the Wall Street Journal but i actually don't remember the AP woman so play that clip do you notice that it's all women who are asking questions here Well, they probably were the ones that went to the briefing. With respect to uh... the ceasefire agreement obviously we are- This is about she asked about the ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine which you put in the newsletter and this is why I'm leading into it And the president answered this question about the cease fire and how he felt about it and how long would last? With respect to uh... the ceasefire agreement obviously we are hopeful but based on

1:05:37 past experience also skeptical that in fact the separatists will follow through and the Russians will stop violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. So it has to be tested, uh...and I know that the Europeans are discussing at this point of the final shape their sanctions measures It is my view that if you look at President Poroshenko's plan it is going to take some time implement And as a consequence, for us to move forward based on what is currently happening on the ground with sanctions while acknowledging that if in fact

1:06:22 the elements of the plan that has been signed are implemented, then those sanctions could be lifted is a more likely way for us to ensure that there's follow-through. Now here it comes! But that's something that obviously we'll consult closely with our European partners He stumbled through that but I thought it was very interesting what he was trying to say You know, well maybe we'll figure out and if something happens that maybe they can turn him back but I don't really know what I'm saying is what he was... Did you hear him stumble through that? He stumbled through all the answers in this because he didn't…I don't why. Once in a while he thinks he can actually ad lib these things and it would look a little suspicious to be reading the answers from a press conference off of prompter. Well here was even the scripted part which is just so inconvenient.

1:07:12 incredibly untrue. Well before you go there I want to mention something he says the ceasefire we must it has to be tested what does that mean? It means you got a fire and see if anyone fires back yeah that's what i'm thinking. To determine, uh...I do want to point out though let me be clear I wanna point it out pay attention to me here comes a lie! That the only reason that were seeing The ONLY reason this ceasefire at this moment is because of both the sanctions that have already been applied and the threat of further sanctions, which are having a real impact on the Russian economy.

1:07:49 Okay, so he is saying the only reason there's a ceasefire is because of the sanctions that apparently the United States sanctions have been levied upon Russia and they're so desperate So desperate at this point to to negotiate their way out They've called for a ceasefire because it's killing Russia and have isolated Russia in a way that we had not seen In a very long time. Oh yes The path for Russia to rejoin the community of nations that respects international law is still there. The chat room was suggesting he said Interfada, it didn't sound like it to me Well even if they said Interfada doesn't make any sense No It's not a country no It's not an area, it's not something where you could start to pick them off Interfada is a movement

1:08:44 There's no country called Intifada. What is the chat room talking about? They're just trying to be helpful Okay, I'm sorry. It just irks me that listening to him say something so stupid and then know when to say anything Well of course... Oh okay whatever oh yeah makes sense all right So this NATO business which is... I'm sorry? You get the same sense of Poroshenko is like constantly we ever see this guy that's a head of the new president, El Presidente of Ukraine. He just seems like a nervous Nelly, he expects to be assassinated any second. Oh yeah! Do you notice this when you see this guy? He is visibly shaken If he walked down the street... he may have Parkinson's

CHAPTER 15 / 41 Discussion

Stephen Cohen on Ukraine Civil War, Proxy Conflict

Professor Stephen Cohen appears on Democracy Now! to argue that the conflict in Ukraine is a civil war precipitated by the overthrow of the elected president in February, rather than a simple Russian invasion. Cohen characterizes the situation as a proxy war between the United States and Russia and notes that the Kiev government is currently suppressing democratic elements, such as the Communist Party, within its own borders.

stephen cohen· ukraine· vladimir putin· civil war· amy goodman

1:09:33 No. If you walk down the street, I would not and then bumped into him...I would not notice. I know Yatsenyuk said hey aren't you the guy who played for Spargo in the 70s? Okay so i want to stick for a moment with the EU and with NATO and then we think should circle back around to ISIS there's definitely some stuff to talk about. Well before you circle back around I do have a couple of clips from our buddy Professor Cohen Exactly about this topic. Okay, about ISIS or about Ukraine? About the NATO... That would make sense, yes. ...Ukraine and about to this and about that. Bring it on. Let's get it all in after we'll take a break after EU and Russia. Well let's try what are the ones I have here my printout screwed up by lots of prints. Let's go on the Cohen on

1:10:28 Let's start with this one. Let's do these two Cohen on the Ukraine civil war. Not the, but just... Yeah it says on Ukraine. It was Eastern Ukraine it has been the pro-Russian separatists who are encouraged by Russia financed by Russia trained by Russia supplied by Russia and armed by Russia And the Russian forces that have now moved into Ukraine are not on a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission. They're Russian combat forces with Russian weapons in Russian tanks." Wow, the professor sounds a lot like Obama these days. That was the lead-in! That's President Obama, Professor Stephen Cohen. It certainly is Professor Obama... President Obama Here is the underlying problem What Obama just said implies if not asserts that if it wasn't for Russia Ukraine would be stable. That Russia has destabilized Ukraine No serious person would believe that to be the case. Ukraine is in the throes of civil war

1:11:30 which was precipitated by the political crisis that occurred in Ukraine last November and then this February when the elected president of Ukraine was overthrown by a street mob. And that set off a civil war primarily between the West, including Kiev and East but not only there's a central Ukraine it's here in there The Civil War then became as I said It would or might when we first start talking earlier this year a proxy war between the United States and Russia. Now it's absolutely true that Russia has made the destabilization of Ukraine worse, it is also absolutely true that the United States has contributed to the destabilization of Ukraine but if tomorrow the United States would go away and Russia would go away, Ukraine would still be in a civil war

1:12:20 And we know what civil wars are. We had one in our country, Russia had one and there were many civil wars around the world in the 20th century and elsewhere today. The point is that the only way you can end a civil war either one side completely conquers and the other side gives up as happened with the Confederacy of the United States or Or there's a stalemate, or somebody says enough killing because these are brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers that are part of the same family. And you negotiate. So we will see later today perhaps or tomorrow whether this ceasefire comes and if it holds. Now negotiating a civil war is terribly complex

1:13:01 Okay, and I think that's accurate yeah, of course. It's a civil war And then he has this nice little commentary on democracy in the in Ukraine Based on Obama's commentaries okay, and in this case the government in Kiev is trying to conquer where the rebels, so to speak are located. The problem is that the rebel provinces do not recognize the legitimacy of the government in Kiev. The United States recognizes a legitimacy but that doesn't make it legitimate now let's go to what's going on in Kiev Obama also said and I kind of chuckled and cried

1:13:43 We are helping Ukraine build a democracy. What kind of democracy is unfolding in Kiev? They had a presidential election, about 1 5th of the country couldn't vote. Now Poroshenko has called a parliamentary election in October, a month from now but the war is in the south and east they won't vote So you're going to end up with a rump country, further dividing the country. Meanwhile they are shutting down democracy in Kiev. Communist Party is being banned. Another party that represents the East is being banned. People are being arrested and there's censorship kicking There's no democracy in Kiev because it is a wartime government. You don't get democracy, so these assertions by the United States that we're democracy builders were virtuous and all Putin's fault This is worse than half-truth It's actually a falsehood Why do they allow this man to speak like this on mainstream television? Why there has got to be reason

1:14:42 You know, this is a question that I wonder myself. And in fact, they figure he has a message that we've heard him before essentially says the same thing. He's also highly criticized. They believe it is a part of their war and peace report. I think it's part of their belief that, democracy now folks believe that they're the representatives of peace in the world and this guy promotes peace. Now there was another clip that we'll play after the break which is nothing to do... well, it does have something to do with Ukraine. It talks about the Malaysian airline thing and this was off script. Okay so before when this went off script it made Amy very nervous. All right don't stop with the setup! Stop with the setup I want to do that after we take a break. I do want to play a little bit of humor because you totally hijacked my flow

CHAPTER 16 / 41 Discussion

Marie Harf vs. Matt Lee, NATO Rapid Reaction Force

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf engages in a heated exchange with AP reporter Matt Lee regarding the provocative nature of NATO's new "Rapid Reaction Force." Harf dismisses Lee's questions as "Russian propaganda," while Lee argues that military exercises near the Russian border are inherently confrontational. The hosts mock Harf's vocal delivery and the defensive posture of the State Department.

marie harf· matt lee· nato· state department· russia

1:15:39 Yes, with the guy who talks like this a bit of proxy war Yeah, I didn't like the micing on us very bad This is the Matt and Marie show come on We need to jingle the matt and marie show marie harf spokeshole for these United States and matt diplo AP at bat diplo ap our matt mats Matt what's his last name at the AP writer? who always is fun and he questioned the rapid defense force of NATO

1:16:15 which as you know is one of the big things that they've, they put together a rapid deforce fence and they're connecting all their wires and, and digits and job blitz and gooblies and widgets. And this of course is going to cost billions of dollars and everybody has to ante up people. Yeah. Everybody has to ante up there. They're 2% of GDP which is, people are talking about this here in the Netherlands. The Netherlands does about 1% GDP for uh, war financing, whether it's NATO or whether they do it internally is irrelevant. I think it's not like the right a big check yet to write a check to Raytheon or Boeing, or Airbus maybe but probably more likely Boeing. And it was yes we need to go 2% bankrupting the country more on stupid war stuff to kill brown people in the sand but anyway so he says what is that isn't that kind of aggressive you know how can you say this is an aggressive move? To be talking about getting together and where would you stomp on us will kill you with five people article 5

1:17:15 And so Matt is very asmarian today. Isn't this a little aggressive? Everything that we have done with NATO since Russia's intervention into Ukraine has been of a defensive measure to be able to protect uh, NATO and our members and also working together to help countries like Ukraine there is nothing confrontational about it It is not designed to confront anyone That's not how its being used That's not how it was designed I, in no way...I just don't understand logically how you can look at what something NATO is doing to protect our countries and compare it in any way to Russia sending, y'know, surface-to-air missile systems across the border into Ukraine which are by definition an offensive weapon. Those are just categorically different things Matt! And your buying into the Russian propaganda if you appoint them! By the way for anyone to say that to any journalist Is very insulting

1:18:07 Oh, it's totally insulting and it really would make a guy like him mad. Well he is like me and he laughs at her which is kind of good Those are just categorically different things Matt And you're buying into the Russian propaganda if you equate them quite frankly No no I'm... well no Well you are actually I think The tone of the question does But you say our countries. NATO? Yeah, and Ukraine is not a NATO member. I understand that! So the point of my question is why is it that you can't see or why do you reject out-of-hand the Russian complaint that this creation of a Russian reaction force... Because there's nothing offensive about a rapid reaction force

1:18:47 It's a defensive tool. How can that be threatening to Russia? Not necessarily threatening to Russia, but provocative That's what I think. I'm not buying into anyone's propaganda, that's the whole point. You are? I actually think one of your questions on these exercises has been a little bit. I think there is absolutely no equivalence between countries taking steps to protect themselves their partners and their territory against someone who is sending arms and troops and men over over the border into another country. They're wholly different things, no one's gonna sit by and not stand up for our principles and say go ahead Russia we're not going to take any steps to protect ourselves. You guys object to other countries objections about your military exercises all the time And you think that they are perfectly legitimate

1:19:40 It's I love those two they should but I hope they're screwing that it would that would only complete the vision. I have of how everything Yeah, you need to have this some sort of a vision like that. I can't see it in a million years personally And by the way when she when your first turn her voice on to the stream mm-hmm. It is actually jarring She has the she has this when you first hear it. You get used to it Yeah, but when you first hear her voice It is so squeaky and high-pitched in and and just sounds bad as a bad. She's a bad sound Let's listen again I think you're right this exact Well with that John I'd like to say thank you very much for courage and in the morning to you John C Devorah

CHAPTER 17 / 41 Discussion

No Agenda Executive Producer Credits, Birthday Donations

The hosts acknowledge the artistic contributions from the No Agenda Art Generator and thank donors who support the show through the value-for-value model. Specific credits are given to Simon Moon for his 52nd birthday and Ara Dedarian, who requested "job karma" for his daughter. Sir Jimmy from FreeHoloBooks.com offers a promotion for producers joining the "666 club."

value-for-value· executive producer· donations· karma· knighthood

1:20:29 And in the morning to you Adam Curry and into morning to all the ships at sea boots on the ground feet in The air subs in the water and all the dames and all the nights out there. And in the morning too everyone in this chatroom have been Pretty helpful today and know what Jenna stream calm fan merci beaucoup for being here, and thank you to our artistes 20-watt bulb nailed it man has been its we almost want to start discouraging people I think We want to mention to him that he has to be careful about using small type fonts. Yeah, yeah... Your image will be shrunken down. That's specifically for album art in players it was usually not that big you just have to be aware of sizing and I see something here is a bit too small is just too small because it will just it's just too small

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CHAPTER 18 / 41 Discussion

Robert Kagan's Call for Military Force, 1930s Comparisons

Neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "America's Dangerous Aversion to Conflict," arguing that the U.S. must embrace "raw power" to maintain world order. Kagan compares the current geopolitical climate to the 1930s, citing the actions of Vladimir Putin and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as threats that require a hard military response. The hosts characterize Kagan as a "terrorist" for his aggressive warmongering stance.

robert kagan· wall street journal· brookings institution· warmongering· 1930s

1:27:35 We hit people in the mouth. Before you get us into what we talked about, I did want to pew things of notes some homework for you to look at in these show notes which is 650.anashownotes.com or actually that before if you go to archive noagendanotes.com and can get everything from there NATO declares cyber attacks to trigger military responses. So there's your rapid response force if there is a cyber attack, then we of course will go in and do whatever we need to do A lot of talk here in the EU about Putin's nuclear option which I believe to be total terrorism of the people Noagenda... wait archive.noagenda? noagendanotes.com

1:28:40 No agenda. Oh, I can't put show in there sorry yeah Yeah, I don't have condemned. I'm working on it work on it working on it Okay So they're terrorizing the public with frightening scenarios yes And then Robert Kagan in The Wall Street Journal now we know who Robert Kagan is Yes, Robert Kagan is running this Ukrainian situation. Well yeah not just him I mean it's the whole clan yes. It's Nudelman Newland is now her name and of course Frederick Kagan these are they're running at least they're running a lot of this Ukraine stuff and he has written an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal

1:29:29 America's dangerous aversion to conflict and I implore everyone to read this how the this scholar, I think it has...what's his credit here? I think they say that he is...let me check the bottom of the piece here. He gets some kind of credit about what is... What is with these people? This is John McCain, Lindsey Graham, these warmongers. Mr. Kagan is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and the author books including Of Paradise and Power most recently The World America Made. And this entire article is explaining how we must fight That if we do not fight then everything you know, you get the world disorder

1:30:14 I don't see that our fighting has done anything but make the world worse. It's rubbilized these places, it's made a mess? Well he...I think he wants more. Here is the subtext. The US increasingly yearns to escape the harsh realities of war but as recent events make clear raw force remains a key element in international politics This guy is just a terrorist He wants us to go and kill people for no apparent reason well. He might know because we disagree is what they're up to

1:30:52 What's the point? I mean, why does he want us to kill people. Well, I'll tell you... Are we being attacked or if anything we're being attacked by a hordes of illegal aliens on the southern border that are just coming in and not sound like a right wing nut but they're coming in and using resources. You can play the harmonica and I shall read from The Stylings Of Robert Kagan But Americans, their president and their elected representatives have accepted this gap between strategy and capability with little comment. Except by those who would abandon the strategy it is as if once again Americans believe that disillusionment with one of force somehow means that force is no longer a factor in international affairs

1:31:39 In the 1930s, the illusion was dispelled by Germany and Japan whose leaders and public very much believed in the utility of military power. Today as the US seems to seek its escape from power others are stepping forward on cue just how effective raw power can really be. Once again, they are people who never accepted the liberal world's definition of progress and modernity. Who don't share its hierarchy of values They are not driven primarily by economic considerations They have never put their faith in the power of soft power Never believed that world opinion no matter how outraged could prevent successful conquests by a determined military They're undeterred by their McDonalds

1:32:25 They still believe in the old-fashioned verities of hard power at home and abroad, and if they are not met by a sufficient hard power response they will prove that yes there is such a thing as a military solution. What? Oh yeah. Ready? That is the craziest thing! This lesson won't be lost on others who wield increasing power in other parts of the world and who, like Vladimir Putin's autocratic Russia and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's fanatical Islamic State have grievances of their own In the 1930s, when things began to go bad they went very bad very quickly. Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 exposed the hollow shell that was the League of Nations a lesson acted upon by Hitler and Mussolini in the four years that followed then Germany's military successes in Europe emboldened Japan to make its move in East Asia on the not unreasonable assumption that Britain and the US would be too distracted and overstretched to respond

1:33:24 The successive assaults of the liberal aggressors, illiberal aggressor and the successive failures of the liberal powers thus led to a cascade of disasters. Let us hope you could look back on history and rewrite it any way you want. He's a historian by the way, let us hope that those who urge calm are right but It is hard to avoid the impression that we have already had our 1931 as we head deeper into our version of the 1930s We may be quite shocked just as our forebearers were at how quickly things fall apart Come I love reading

CHAPTER 19 / 41 Discussion

MH17 Black Box Secrecy, Stephen Cohen Speculation

Professor Stephen Cohen suggests there is a mutual agreement among major powers to suppress the findings from the MH17 black boxes, implying the data does not support the narrative of Russian or rebel culpability. Cohen points to reports from Germany and the lack of released air traffic control conversations from Kiev as evidence that the official White House version of the shoot-down may be false.

mh17· black box· stephen cohen· malaysia airlines· ukraine

1:34:08 Thank you a nice accent so this is and it's the Wall Street Journal This is what the elites the globalists. This is how they think and this is in there way above anybody said, this is him But basically fapping off in front of his buddies look what I wrote Well Interesting do you want to talk about the MH 17 black box? And the true reasons perhaps behind the temporary ceasefire Yeah, there was so I'm watching this thing with Cohan Cohen the professor Stephen Cohen and he they asked him something. He just in pays talking about the Ukrainian situation And then he just drops a little gem in there and she asks him about it Goodman Amy Goodman Warren P. Sigmund yeah, that's only showy really shows up a lot on ya and

1:35:08 She asks him, what are you talking about? And then he goes into this little thing about the black boxes and then she kind of stumbles out of the show. We gotta go bye! Oh one of those get them off the air, off the air, off the air, let's just get em' off the air. I don't know that she wears an IFB but she might. You can tell with that hair of hers. No no lets not be misogynistic I'm just you know she has to she has a self-image problem as a woman completely Irked and urged on by the fashion Industry which is making her feel bad about herself find it hard to believe that She's affected by any of that at all. There once in awhile Oh

1:35:53 What? There's nothing wrong with it. You bring Ukraine into NATO, and all this stuff will be up and ready, and then it'll just take the shoot-down of a Malaysian aircraft about which everybody has forgotten—still nobody knows who did it—there seems to have been an agreement among the major powers not to tell us who did it would suggest that wasn't the rebels, wasn't Russia after all. But they would take something like that which can happen in these circumstances launch something that was unthinkable. What do you mean there seems to be an agreement between the major companies? Stop, stop, stop! It took her forever... To hear that it's well this because she's wearing the IFB and so on. It took her forever to come up with this little he says it then he goes on and on and on and on and then she said wait a minute but anyway back at him again I won't interrupt again okay

1:36:51 I'll go back about 20 seconds almost on that. She was thinking about booking her vacation I've had this happen where I've been interviewing people and just my mind is like what? Have you never had that be interviewing somebody and you see the mouth move. You hear the words, but you're thinking God I want a pizza This has happened to me

1:37:32 It happens to everybody. Adam Brett So in this case... Well, I wanna hear the rest of his analysis because we've got us work on the audio on this. This is really crappy. Somehow his range... Dr. Justin Marchegiani No, they have him something's wrong with their—it's them. I can do it by myself. Adam Brett No no, I understand. He's talking too low. Yeah, he's got his mic funny. He's got it's just horrible In addition to the insurance company for the airplane which technique has legal responsibility The major companies good countries that are doing into Britain as the black boxes There was a report the other day that these parties these states have agreed they would not divulge individually

1:38:20 what they have discovered. Now, they've had plenty of time to interpret the black boxes there are reports from Germany that the White House version of what happened is not true therefore you have to look elsewhere for the culprit who did the shooting down They're sitting on satellite intercepts they have in the MHS they will release the air controllers conversations in Kiev with the doomed aircraft why not? Did the pilot say, let me speculate? Oh my God we're being fired on by a jet fighter next to us. What's going on because we know there were two Ukrainian jets flying. We don't know but somebody knows. You might ask you might get somebody who has been investigating this to find out what they actually know. Well I want to thank you very much. Cut him off and go commercial. No that was... Let's get out

CHAPTER 20 / 41 Discussion

Dutch Gullibility, Joan Rivers Death, Frans Timmermans

The hosts discuss the perceived gullibility of the Dutch public and their tendency to follow official narratives without question. This is illustrated by the local reaction to the death of Joan Rivers and the political rise of Frans Timmermans, the Dutch Secretary of State, who has been nominated as a top official in the European Commission.

netherlands· joan rivers· frans timmermans· european union· media

1:39:14 Yeah. Now this is the same here and I would, while that was playing, I did another scan of the most recent article I can find about the black box in the Dutch media is from a 30 48 hours ago. That's the most recent one couple of a couple of reports which it would be more mainstream and then Elsevier four days ago. This is very typical for the Netherlands. The Dutch they are, they give up You know, the Dutch are so gullible. Let me give you an example of the... First I'll tell you what's happened with this with the black box and the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. And the Dutch like well we have to wait for the official but you know the official news and... Can you just... Can I stop here for a second? You have to stop clearing your throat because every time you do it

1:40:03 Or go away from the mic because I'm just waiting for the bullshit that guy to come on It makes me jumpy okay, I'm sorry It's also because I'm sitting down and don't have the standing desk like I normally do so this phlegm. Just builds up phlegm Nothing you need to know The Dutch are very gullible. They want to believe, they're rule followers... Yes not a problem we'll wait for the report and in the meantime Frans Timmermans the Secretary of State of the Netherlands who I know this guy he's a total shill but he knows his shill and i like him for it

1:40:45 We talked about him on the previous show. He has now been nominated, I guess as Junker The Drunker's number two man which means he'll be doing all the work so... Nice! Yeah how perfect does that bring him in? Then we have the Dutch authority that is evaluating of this, they evaluate accidents in general. And this is a very...this to me is a complete corrupt organization used to be run by the old Prince Peter van Volehove he was the board of I forget what it's called the Board of Accidents or Board of Safety Board whatever it's called so there's total just whatever the media says people believe it

1:41:30 And here's an example of how this works and how unbelievable it is. Joan Rivers dies, Everybody's an expert on Joan Rivers. Now the only thing I believe the Dutch know Joan Rivers from is from Fashion Police, which airs here They have no idea about her background they have not it it is impossible that people have this level of love and knowledge for Joan Rivers And her career and what she really stood for the way many people in the United States

1:42:07 do and understand. But it's everyone goes, oh Joan! Everyone goes all they're just regurgitating whatever the press says and it's disturbing to see in before your very eyes so that the Dutch will say nothing which is why they were chosen for this exercise They're perfect And nothing comes out of it. Nothing is, no one, no outrage, no protests the victims' families have private meetings with the Prime Minister and oh no he's going to have a secret meeting about everything and press is not allowed. Well why don't you give us when we first dissected this shoot down

CHAPTER 21 / 41 Discussion

Electronic Warfare Exercises, Radar Spoofing, Scrubbed Reports

A theory is presented regarding the MH17 disaster involving electronic warfare exercises (NuFIP) that took place in June 2014, which caused planes to vanish from European radar screens. The hosts claim that reports on these exercises have been scrubbed from sites like Reuters and The Guardian, suggesting a cover-up of technology that could have been used to spoof radar and paint the Malaysian airliner as a military target.

electronic warfare· radar spoofing· the guardian· reuters· mh17

1:42:56 You had the only logical explanation for what actually went down. And if you could just summarize it, I think people may not have heard it. I can try one of them any by the way, I should mention this is one of the many things that we've dissected over the years that we have to kind of assume that the listeners are somewhat aware of it. I don't want to encourage people who listen to old shows but yeah But I don't recall exactly which show it was but it happened. It was right after the accident There you go, right after the accident and you had done to cover some paperwork about spoofing Well that we have a worldwide intelligence. We have a worldwide intelligence network and this is interesting you bring this up The Worldwide Intelligence Network alerted me to a specific exercise that was done

1:43:46 between, I think it was June 5th and June 9th. I am paraphrasing and we probably everyone heard about this when the European air traffic control screens just blanked and planes were just vanishing from the screen for several minutes And this was... Was it NextFin? Is that what it's called? I'm trying to remember what the... I can't remember Well is kind of important Hold on a second I think it was next The next thing... let me see. Why do I think it was that? Someone in the chat room will know this and it was a war games, electronic warfare were war games that were going on and there was a German document which we had and we had the translation which explained what is you know this blanking out of planes on the radar uh was because of this jamming technology they were using NuFIP thank you very much I knew it Nufip

1:44:45 New FIP. Here we go, and it was episode 636 if you want to have it so you can get the document and all the other parts of the show notes there. And that document which we still have in our archive... If you go to The Guardian on June 13th where they had an article which we linked to about this new FIP Here's the headline of The Guardian website. And it was from Reuters in Vienna and Prague. So, Reuters has scrubbed this article about this particular exercise and the theory that our global intelligence network came back with as you know many of them in government and military and intelligent actual intelligence is that the Ukrainian plane jet fighter

1:45:53 about four kilometers behind and we knew plenty of eyewitnesses, lots of people know there was a plane there but it jammed the radar spoofed it and made it look like something else which is this was basically... I hate to use it. Which was the painting of the target for the surface-to-air missile on the ground and in 636 we go into a lot of detail about exactly how that worked. But the one thing that did not happen, if not some guy running around with a vodka bottle... Hey Boris! And just shooting planes out of the sky which is what you were led to believe it takes 12 people to properly operate the book system

1:46:34 And this is what we do in the analysis. And this is not being brought up anywhere, and I see now that the article about the war... electronic warfare exercise has been scrubbed from the web! This is interesting. This is news information now that the article is gone? Correct. I was alerted to this today. And by the way, this is nonsense that the copyright expired or their license expired This I'm not buying that well. I'm not either information man new shit has come to light I Well we can look around have been Someone sent me an email and said hey, it's missing here And but doesn't it seems like this won't see military blamed when we just take the headline? You know somebody's got a be lay a laggard in getting rid of it. Let's see here so here's the Guardian Well how about

1:47:30 Here's Reuters, I'll click the Reuters link and... The Reuters link seems to be- oh wait was this updated? They don't have the document. Yeah see the document is gone. Save pages people! Well we have a document if you go to 636 we've got all every single web page that we have an archive of in opml format which you can see in text or render in HTML but we have everything as part of what the service we deliver Well, definitely as a service that the show notes are one of the...even though this is the show is what gets everybody to help us through contributions and donations, producerships. But in fact, the real value long-term value of this show is the show notes and I would suggest anyone who's a student

1:48:27 to, you know, comb through these things or do searches if you're working on a topic. Search dot NA show notes dot com and this is all based on structured data every show notes for every episode going back hundreds of episodes not in the very beginning is in structured XML data and the format is OPML so it's an outliner format which is very handy for research and it's being parsed by search.nashownotes.com but you can also grab it and index it and do whatever you want with it here is a, here's the one thing that is not being brought up which I feel is significant

CHAPTER 22 / 41 Discussion

Euro Exchange Rate, Russian Sanctions Workarounds

The Euro has dropped significantly against the Dollar, falling from 1.39 to 1.29 in a few months, which the hosts suggest may be a coordinated effort to "F the EU." Despite official sanctions, European businesses are reportedly bypassing trade bans with Russia by shipping goods through third countries like Turkey. The segment also notes the deep linguistic and energy ties between German leadership and Russia.

euro· exchange rate· sanctions· russia· turkey· germany

1:49:11 This is my last election. After this election, I'll have more flexibility." This was President Obama's open mic with Medvedev and Medvedev said... He said yeah i'll pass it on to Vladimir. And I am just cynical enough to believe that this is still in cahoots to F the EU! that I have It is very easy for me to assume that Russia and and others are taking part together To ultimately squeeze the euro Squeeze it down, and it's happening. What do we add 128 today when we came over two weeks ago John wasn't at 133 yeah? What is it today? No? 128 let me take a quick look now Let me take a look too you're over so the doors the exchange rate 129

1:50:12 I think. 129, yeah do we have a chart? How's it been going so it was 138 in December It was one... So what's the peak here? 129 61 as we speak. It was 139 in May Yeah That's $1.40 Yeah, it's ridiculous. And now it's 129 that's what is that 8% loss? It's a lot of loss meanwhile I'm looking at my one of my pages here Sergey Brin just sold some Google stock to the tune of 96 million dollars Fine gets needs to get a new some new bathroom fixtures fine

1:50:56 So that is my feeling, although I have learned that those resourceful Dutch. You know, I was talking about how vegetables and dairy products and flowers are not being sent to Russia. Well this turns out to be total bullcrap here's how it works at least with tomatoes i've heard this firsthand you send the tomatoes to turkey they get a turkish sticker they get sold right on to russia Well, it gets Turkey... the Turks a piece of the action. Yeah! This is why Europe is just all designed to bypass these things that was the gray market during the black market during the wars. The Europeans know how to do this better than anybody

1:51:42 Yeah, yeah. It's never gone that side we should have thought of that when we heard about it. Yeah but I know it's cheating because you're supposed to be is supposed to be sanctions people sanctions sanctions this is what caused the ceasefire in the first place is the sanctions! I want to leave this topic with a little song. There was a TV show in Germany that kind of someone sent me a clip is like I'm no agenda light humoristic show

1:52:21 And the two, I guess they're actors slash comedians. Forgot the name of the skit or the outfits about 14 minutes and they you know, they're reading this F the EU from Victoria Newland and kind of playing it back the way we're thinking about many things. And as I think they got hassled and then they got reprimanded and I think that's going to pull something off the air and make no mistake people Germany is not your friend in Europe. It's not your friend, Germany is... I mean the German people are just as ignorant as everybody else and that's why we have Jacob Appelbaum and everybody they're all spies or spying on the Germans. Germans hey! Germans please Rebecca what's her name? Snowden's girlfriend yeah Laura Poitras

1:53:17 And they're hanging out with you and your chaos computer club, and they're spying on you. They're all... trust me for once their spies that are nice but they're spying, reporting back to home base there were the Russians Germany is Russia Angela speaks Russian oh by the way Franz Timmermans the Secretary of State he also speaks fluent Russian I found out. Yeah this is the thing everyone's speaking Russian Well, you know where their bread's buttered. Yeah! You know so Germany has the direct pipeline coming in through the north they got all the oil then all the gas they need... They're sitting pretty but no and and then you get the Polish guy as your new leader The singer Tusk who hates Russia again. Oh there is big trouble man. All the polish say that they hate the Russians for good reason It's so Hey I heard a

CHAPTER 23 / 41 Discussion

NPR Financial Deficit, Jarl Mohn's Advertising Strategy

Jarl Mohn (formerly Lee Masters of MTV) has taken over NPR and is tasked with addressing a significant financial deficit. Mohn plans to increase revenue by "optimizing" the price of corporate underwriting units, which the hosts argue is indistinguishable from traditional advertising. Mohn's refusal to address potential conflicts of interest with underwriters like Monsanto or pharmaceutical companies is highlighted as a threat to objective reporting.

npr· jarl mohn· advertising· underwriting· monsanto· public radio

1:54:18 an interview with our buddy Jarl Mohn on NPR. Who's Jarl again? Jarl is my old guy at MTV, better known as Lee Masters the top 40 disc jockey. Oh Lee Masters right! Yes, Lee Masters everybody and I thought...I felt like i would clip a little bit because this is now you know the honeymoon was over he's been in for six months And he's asking everybody for his opinion. Now, you know...apparently NPR has a huge problem. They have a deficit. They're running at a deficit. Wait a minute? Yeah. I think it's... They are making tens of hundreds of...what is their budget? $100-$200 million? In this interview which is about a half hour interview there was mention of the money that somehow they can't make ends meet

1:55:19 They can't make ends meet. So in this interview, a couple of things come up which I thought would be interesting... In a way this is what we're competing with and so Yarle Lee has come in and said look, I'm going to make this place more profitable but I have to make it more profitable. How do you do that when you have underwriters and sponsorships, and you're not selling commercials. How would you do that John? I mean this is a daunting task for our buddy Yarrow. How would you do that? I would do it with native advertising to an extreme. I will go all in on native advertising just slip into all the news coverage and he wouldn't have any interruptions that way. And then I'd run a bunch of these...I think Carbonite would probably cover the rest of

1:56:09 Well, maybe audio. Let me ask you... Let's just get something straight. NPR does not sell advertising correct? No that is not correct! But that is what they... If you went on the street and said, Does NPR have advertising people would say no. Most people would say no. That's what they'd say but we know it's not true they've said so themselves. Let's listen to that for just a moment just so we can uh wow I haven't played that in so long I don't even know where it Anyway, NPR advertising. He played you recently. Uh... Played you recently? No that's bad It was the former uh You know it looks like Former head of NPR says advertising or whatever you want to call it Yeah but it looks like its gone Like has been-like is deleted They've come in and scrubbed it They're scrubbed hackers They've scrubbed it from NPR hackers have gotten to Yarl I'm telling you Anonymous! They are all over the place I'll find out later So Yarl he's just so brazen

1:57:11 He is just he calls him units you see these sponsorship opportunities Then they're not ads these mentions are units. Here's his solution It's a website comment from a listener says no don't increase corporate underwriting decrease it, please I hate the commercials and foundation promos on NPR it really muddies and destroys the brand We're not increasing the amount at all we are simply do a better job selling it We have undersold it in terms of the value that we're getting. The amount of money paid for each mention, I think is really under optimized. We're not talking about increasing the amount where it uh... Of the announcements were trying to increase the amount of the money same number of units. Same number of units okay so hey! It's gonna cost you more but this is not going to work you see because people are gonna be like well then I want to have like my call-to-action which is not allowed

1:58:09 Well, yeah. I got plenty of examples where call to action is in these commercials especially on NPR more so than PBS. Right but this is my point that people are going to...now it's gonna become standard. So you can see how its going to play out now here's a Yarrow A caller calls in and what is one of the biggest problem with advertisers or underwriters or whatever you want to call them? The biggest problem is if you have an advertiser who spends money like Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it may be difficult for objective reporting to occur. This is what corrupts everything. This is why... Exactly, and not difficult this is actually impossible it is impossible to have objective reporting when there's advertising People don't believe that they feel that NPR has held to a higher standard and that they somehow can do it no matter who's advertising They will be objective and we'll do just as much

1:59:09 negative reporting if necessary that they would for any other news story. And you have to give them the public relations side of the business, you have to give them a lot of credit for propagating what amounts to bullshit! Yes I am concerned about corporate underwriting. I heard you just say that you're going be increasing the amount of money but not the number of units but some corporations we don't want them underwriting NPR all that much like pharmaceutical companies or maybe Monsanto can you speak to that? First let me play the jingle again Now listen now listen to y'all he hasn't really considered this question It's you know, I love that You silly fool Some corporations. You know we don't want them underwriting NPR all that much like pharmaceutical companies or maybe Monsanto Can you speak to that?

2:00:01 It's, you know I don't really have a well-formed point of view on that. It depends if they're advocacy commercials or if which we don't take...we don't do anything like that To be honest with you We have no idea what I'm gonna say haven't even looked at this has not become an issue internally than I'm aware of Not an issue internally That I am aware of Hey, we want to do this cool thing about Monsanto killing farmers. They're committing suicide. Can we run this report? No, well that would be true. You have no particular challenge with it you don't give a crap you just don't do anything negative about them Thank you for the call Alex There is a sense of more fun Being tied to maybe the kind of program has been very popular car talk for example Wow talking about changing in this subject That's why I left it in there

CHAPTER 24 / 41 Discussion

The Death of Public Radio Podcasting, NPR One

NPR is moving toward a proprietary digital platform called "NPR One" to better monetize its content and protect local station interests. The hosts predict this will lead to the "death" of traditional open podcasts for shows like "This American Life," as the network seeks to control user data and advertising metrics through an encrypted app experience.

npr one· podcasting· monetization· digital platforms· local stations

2:01:03 then the final. Hey guys, let's talk about car talk and there is a... wait wait don't tell me! Oh they talk about that too as one of just fabulous program that wait wait don't tell me it really is an expensive program I would point out That's a lie They got road budget always on their own to have set up shop in these different cities expensive facilities. They have to fly these people, all the guests and everybody out here and there then they have to bring them up in audience that costs money to manage that yeah because it cost a fortune to do that show. Here is the budget live radio show well we do a live radio show

2:01:46 The audience is here. We've flown the audience in. I said high budget, we flied the audience in to the chat room. We flew ourselves in! Here yes we do but here's the final one this uh you have to listen very carefully to what Lee is saying here let me jarl But I'm very happy about this. And I can tell you what's going to happen right now, if you liked NPR, if you liked This American Life on the podcast say goodbye! Say goodbye! Podcasts are going away on public radio because he knows they can't monetize them. They can't make money because they're running advertising and there is no way to effectively

2:02:28 monitor how many people heard an ad. This is, this is my life. You can say a million times that it's possible to track and how many downloads this is the biggest bullshit ever! It is not possible advertisers aren't comfortable with it they like in show mentions on podcasts what Leo does that works very well They like that with a very specific audience. And believe me, you're not going to get a lot of negative carbonite talk on this week in tech but that's okay for what it is but that's what works. That is the type of inshow, not even native advertising, blatant advertising which works and people are loyal and they support the program because of that but you can't un-NPR in a podcast have a Toyota commercial and the host talking about how great Toyota is. It's not going

2:03:19 So it's going to go away and here is proof. Well, podcasting and digital platforms are hugely important for us. Most of what we produce is Is available digitally But you get enhanced podcasting. Yeah, well we think there's a lot that we can do with the NPR one platform the digital platform Which KQED was a the NPR one platform? You know what that is a week-week app With proprietary crap it's gonna be encrypted you'll have to give your subscribe and all this information It's not a podcast

2:04:18 The NPR One platform. A big participant in, we it allows users to customize with them in a mobile digital experience. A mobile digital experience John! Do you have a mobile digital experience so you get? Listening to the local news and national news local stories national stories And so I think there's gonna be more in that regard, but we more than anything. We want to make sure that our local stations Have the ability still Garner a huge audience. This is what he's worried about too He knows that he cannot sell the idea of podcasts because the local stations don't get their local Advertising underwriter or whatever you want to call it dollars? He's going to have to kill the podcast this guy has to kill it, he knows it has to and And this is this is the core problem and he has no answer

2:05:11 This is the core problem, that distribution has always been where you make the money. This is why what we're doing is monetizing through a network doesn't work. If this American life wants to go off on its own and disconnect and just take donations it will work! There won't be billionaires But they will be able to sustain, they'll have to cut back. I don't know how big the production crew is there and maybe you have to have a smaller lease vehicle but you will be able to sustain but this is going to be pulled away people. This is not going to work! And the Kareem Dvorak Consulting Group would entertain helping you out with this

2:06:00 Yeah, they have their attitudes wrong. I don't think we could help them. That's why if you're going to go in that direction that we've heard it all before, we've seen this before with the same old tune. You don't want to face the reality of things have changed and we're gonna milk the old scheme as best we can and how are you gonna get more income with a waning audience? We're gonna up Jack up the rates. Yeah, jack up the rates exactly and maybe native advertising you know... You're right that may just come into it so I'm watching a New York station since we're on the topic of native advertising

CHAPTER 25 / 41 Discussion

Native Advertising, Whole Foods vs. Fairway, Tesla PR

A news report on WPIX is analyzed as a "native ad" for Whole Foods, disguised as a price comparison study. Similarly, the public relations strategy of Tesla and Elon Musk is examined, with the hosts arguing that the "outrage" over Georgia's car sales laws is a manufactured PR campaign designed to bypass traditional dealership regulations through social media manipulation.

native advertising· whole foods· fairway market· tesla· elon musk

2:06:39 And so I listened to this story, and this is the news on WPIX. And they run this story, this native ad, and I was just flabbergasted! They would actually... The funny thing is it was obviously editorialized a little bit because they submarine'd the purpose of the ad at the very end Well this next story may come as a shock to some shoppers in New York. A new study out there finds that Whole Foods is actually a bargain according to Bloomberg Intelligence, Whole Foods is a lot cheaper than FreshDirect and Grissides researchers took 97 items at each store and added up the prices the basket at Whole Foods cost $391 fresh direct costs $398 and at Grissides it cost

2:07:25 But you are probably better off shopping at your local grocery store. The study found that Whole Foods was about $50 more expensive than Fairway Market, which is always fun to shop at. It is indeed. Wait a minute! Fairway Market was the advertiser? No, it was Whole Foods. Are you sure? Because she really messed that up. That was really bad. Now if Fairway was the advertiser you wouldn't be emphasizing Whole Foods and the other Fresh Direct or whatever it is. It was obviously a commercial put in by Whole Foods to bump these other direct competitors. Fairway's not a competitor with Whole Foods, but these other two operations are that fresh direct or whatever it is... So they try to make it look like real content by throwing that in the end about you know with some non-competitive outfit? Yeah

2:08:13 Yeah, because people who shop at Whole Foods might be tempted to shop at these other competitive places. They're never going to go shopping Fairway or any normal place because the food's not organic there's not enough kale! There was a good article that I put in the show notes it was called Tesla Uber and Internet sales taxes quit being so easily duped on Peach Pundit. And it kind of starts off by saying, I don't even know what Peach Pundit really is but what's interesting is how the writer of this article—I don't know who wrote it—talks about how duped they get by the process of mainly PR companies

2:09:01 And the example they use is Tesla, which of course Tesla can do no wrong. You know it's the Tony Stark of the internet. Elon Musk is you know he walks on water or he pisses Chanel and I'll use this week story about Tesla wanting to sell cars directly to consumers as an example of how everyone gets duped It generally follows an accepted formula to help you engage on their behalf without letting pesky facts or shades of gray into your strong belief that Tesla is a complete victim of overarching government regulation and greedy auto dealers. The first step in this process is to get a new story that has originated, now we talk about this all the time... In cases where the company has a legislative interest at stake it's often with the help of a skilled PR firm

2:09:45 And in his articles, as news is rarely organic these days. PR folks help make sure that the right message gets to the right people then via the magic of social media which of course is all these PR companies those stories spread often with a unified theme In Tesla's case this is a company that does not allow you to sell cars in Georgia which is a violation of the free market Why isn't Tesla allowed to compete like a company should? Q outrage. And so it's a good article to read because it shows exactly how it works and in particular with online media, in particular is very sophisticated and I think the if you read that the bottom line is without people doing what we do your life will just be one huge stinking pile of bull crap you'll never get a different view on anything

CHAPTER 26 / 41 Discussion

Pierre Omidyar, The Intercept, Barbara Starr

The Intercept, funded by Pierre Omidyar, is criticized for an "uncomfortable level of collaboration" between its journalists and their sources. The hosts also mock CNN's Barbara Starr, characterizing her as a mere mouthpiece for the Pentagon who reads scripted information without actual knowledge of military affairs.

pierre omidyar· the intercept· glenn greenwald· barbara starr· cnn

2:10:42 No, I don't think people realize...a lot of our listeners do realize this to a point. But when we tell them to try and think what life would be like without at least a show like this, I'm sure there's somebody else that does this in some way or shape. I don't know if anyone puts as much effort into it as we do. And I don't know if anyone is cynical as we are and that we see more BS D at deeper levels also best job of that I think we also we've built up the worldwide intelligence network that our producers worldwide intelligence Network that we yeah, yes is a big deal so when I play this so I played his next clip which is 30 seconds Which was the big story on Pierre Omni guard drive my car don't wrap bring me welds 250 million dollar WordPress blog The Intercept there

2:11:31 There's no outrage. It's unusual for a journalist to try to curry favor with the source in order to get them to speak to you and help you with your story, but this really shows an uncomfortable level of collaboration for lack of better word. And it only shows a window of time that is very short. This was a couple months in 2012." Which means its rampant! Its rampant! Of course! Everything... You think Barbara Starr actually knows anything about the Pentagon or warfare?

2:12:20 She's like a female lurch, this woman. She comes from local stupid productions... This woman knows nothing about anything except she sits in that little box of a studio for CNN and they do breaking news and she reads some script about whatever the Pentagon tells her to do. Sorry! That's just what it is. And if she files a story, she'll have it all checked? Everything's checked You think that Glenn Greenwald hasn't had every- Glenn Greenwald, don't lie. Hasn't had everything checked and double checked and the Guardian? Yes! Yeeees! Yes there's no secrets it's all this is... It's all safe it's all contained for your protection Don't worry about not a problem

CHAPTER 27 / 41 Discussion

Obama and Cameron Op-ed, "Country of America" Gaffe

A joint op-ed by President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron in the London Times is scrutinized for its phrasing, specifically the reference to "countries like Britain and America." The hosts point out the technical inaccuracy of calling the U.S. "America" and the U.K. "Britain," suggesting the piece was written by a PR agency. A clip of Joe Biden referring to the "nation of Africa" is also played.

barack obama· david cameron· london times· nato· joe biden

2:13:00 And then you have stuff like this, which is the art. This was an op-ed bylined by Cameron and Obama Yeah I saw this yeah It was funny because it's presented on PBS I believe it's PBS I have the clip here from them introducing there was something in there that I thought was weird Ah! I heard it Yep There ya go I don't need when I catch myself I already hit the button. There's something that was very strange about this and it was besides the juxtaposition of who wrote this article, and we know neither one of these guys wrote this article but it was byline Cameron AND Obama so Cameron got top billing in The London Times That is...that's a interesting pecking order

2:13:44 Yes, I found that but it was London Times And I think they wouldn't allow it to go the other way because it would Because they're always accusing their prime minister being the lapdog for America right right so they would So they switched it up to make it this way But it's still bullcrap anyway, but play this clip and then a comment which clip is it? I'm a little America and NATO and the BS. I'm sorry that would be the one I'd be looking for The summit nations also mean to address the threat posed by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. In a joint Times of London guest article today, President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote

2:14:21 If terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threats, they could not be more wrong. Countries like Britain and America will not be cowed by barbaric killers." NATO Chief Rasmussen said the international community has an obligation to stop the militants from advancing. And he said allies would seriously consider an Iraqi request for help He also warned time is running out for a deal keeping US and other troops in Afghanistan past the end of the year. Yeah, so what I heard in there which I thought was odd and I don't believe it was written by either one of these because I don't think... Countries like Britain and America? Do you know if a country named America? Is there a country out there called America

2:15:17 Is Britain a country? I know there's a Great Britain. And the United Kingdom, which is the country we're talking about... Was this verbatim in the op-ed this week? Yes! They had it up on the screen and they were reading off of what was shown on the screen. It said countries like Britain and America Well, that's a very interesting question. Of course there is no America it's the United States of America That would be the proper or USA would be good or you know I think even the United States You can get by with but you there's no country America well as America the beautiful There's a song yeah? Well It's a start. I just found that very odd But um I don't know what it means I don't have like an interpretation and it didn't say No, but I what I did so then I got I'm not sure about Britain

2:16:11 Because it would be Great Britain, I believe would be proper. Yeah GB or UK United Kingdom right not Britain It's like Britain and America, the country of America. I mean this obviously wasn't... if this was written by Obama then he did it's nuts but it wasn't let's don't even think that this was written by some PR agency for NATO well let's listen to what the vice president thinks is a country The sky is the limit! There's no reason he was a nation of Africa, right? And the nation of Africa. I mean, so you know if that's what he thinks, well that's good. It's an idiot. That's different. I have a bike. So this is why I have the same clip but yes i'll get it longer version because the longer version the longer what's the size of yours uh okay i'll buy mine seven and a half inches well i so um i have

CHAPTER 28 / 41 Discussion

Joe Biden's Middle Class Definition, "Value Set" Rhetoric

Filling in for President Obama's weekly address, Vice President Joe Biden defines the middle class not as a financial bracket, but as a "value set" involving home ownership and college education. The hosts criticize this definition as an endorsement of "mediocrity" and argue that the true American Dream is about striving for greatness rather than just "retiring with dignity."

joe biden· middle class· american dream· podcast· economy

2:17:14 Hold on, my length is 150. So you have the long version I'd rather you play that because the long version which i had and I don't know what happened to it ended with a short version The long version invites A segment of the show called Drunk or Not Drunk Yes! It does! You are so right And it wasn't until I was clipping it That I was like oh my Because the longer version, he starts off... This is Joe Biden and this is talking about ISIS. Now Joe do you mind if I set it up a little differently? Well you mean as opposed to that my setup was that apparently there's a housing development in a town called Hell which I think is in North Carolina Oh I don't even know about that part He says they're all gonna end up living in hell Yeah no hold on but let's back it up a little bit Today this is important

2:18:07 Today, or this weekend our president of America... the President of America is presumably still in Wales. Or he's traveling whatever so he couldn't do his podcast which will not be you can find it on NPR one our digital platform and so Joe what does Joe get to do? Oh, does Joe do the... Is your clip a clip of the podcast? And I'm setting up the drunk or not drunk by going back. It's reverse chronology. Okay, I'm all in. You with me? All right. Yeah. So Joe gets to fill in for the president on the show. Now if you're doing a show, let's say it's Dvorak Horowitz unplugged, it would be unlikely but for some reason I would fill in for you.

2:18:58 You know, hey everybody this is an unrehearsed unscripted thing about finance and I'm filling in for John C. Dvorak my name's Adam Curry that's what you do on a podcast right? That's what you do on a radio show Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe Biden. I'm filling in for President Obama while he addresses the NATO summit in Wales Does Joe realize it? This is the president's address to the nation This is not a podcast or radio show But just up play a little bit more of this intro because he's going to use this typically this about three minutes He does six minutes of basically

2:19:36 Joe kicks ass and I should be your next president when the President Yes, yeah. Yeah so listen that listen to how his next line this was this is very well written this by the way Addresses the NATO summit in Wales when the president I took office when the president and I took office That's a nice way to put it like it yeah in January of 2009 This nation was in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression Our economy had plummeted at a rate of 8% I just wanted to hear what he's saying, how he is making it sound like... ...like HE took office and he is so awesome. A single quarter part of the fastest economic decline any time in the last half century Now listen to this Millions of families were falling underwater on their homes So I'm falling under water and I can't get up! This is not even correct Falling UNDERWATER On their homes This is not even English Joe And threatened with foreclosure

2:20:35 The iconic automobile industry was under siege. Really? Was there like a gate around Detroit with Japanese Toyotas making sure no laborers or food could get in? But yesterday, yesterday's jobs report was another reminder of how far we've See, now he's going to take credit for something that is just crazy. We've had 54 straight months of job creation... Okay if he says 54 straight months of job creation well yeah one job is a job created and that's the longest streak of uninterrupted job growth in the United States history That's different it's either job growth or job creation but not both

2:21:21 If one can beget the other. And that's bull crap, by the way. Of course it is bull crap! Because job growth only occurs after 150 thousand or 155 thousand... Thank you. ...gain of that much because that is the replacement gain that is needed on a month-by-month basis. Anything below that is job redraction so there's no chance they did that cause they had plenty of low numbers during that period including the most recent one which was 145. Now here, this is where... This is a lie. Oh yeah it's a total lie! This is really nice We've had this conversation before you will not want to play harmonica during this You'll want to have your undivided attention Sorry I'm just...I know I understand It's okay I just wish you had a song to play

2:22:05 We have often discussed, in fact I recall a whole episode about the definition of middle class. What is the middle class? Is that a number you make? Is that where you live? What is it and I think that was pretty inconclusive other than the conclusion is it's not a number or an amount of money you make Would you agree with that assessment of our conversation about that? I think more or less. If you wanted to revisit the topic, I would say that Marx probably discussed it...or defined it the best as just simply the bourgeoisie which is a certain group of people that aren't elites and they're not... You're not starving, you're not eating dog food and you're not an elite. That is pretty much the middle class but let's have Joe

2:23:01 Explain exactly what the middle class is. And this will be the only time I'll ask you to listen to someone and consider if you want to vote for this man or not. You know, the middle class is not a number it's a value set. A value set? It means being able own your own home raise your children in a safe neighborhood... How- Hold on a second! Wait now no just listen to it its only 24 seconds. Because there's a kicker at the end bro! Okay okay bro The middle class is not a number it's a value sets It means being able to own your own home, raise your children in a safe neighborhood. Send them into school where if they do well they can qualify to go to college and if they get accepted you'll be able to find a way to send them to college In the meantime, If your parents need help being able take care of them and hope to put aside enough money that your children will not have to take care of you That's The American Dream

CHAPTER 29 / 41 Discussion

Joe Biden's "Gates of Hell" Speech, Drunk or Not Drunk

In a highly emotional speech following the beheadings of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Joe Biden vows to follow ISIS to the "gates of hell." The hosts perform a "Drunk or Not Drunk" analysis of the audio, noting Biden's erratic vocal shifts, slurred words, and aggressive tone. They suggest the Vice President appeared "wasted" or overly theatrical during the public address.

joe biden· isis· james foley· steven sotloff· gates of hell

2:23:59 Oh, mediocrity is the American dream. Ladies and gentlemen we just be mediocre, be in the middle follow the rules retire with dignity no Joe Biden No! The American Dream is what I'm living. I am living the American Dream by providing an outstanding product with another small businessman and growing, and helping people, and feeling good about it. And only in America! That's the American dream to strive for greatness, to be the best podcast in the universe not the middle-class podcasts in the universe Joe Biden He has an un-American thing to say Un-American I say Okay then now you have the drunk not drunk one? Yeah of course I've got that absolutely When these barbarians

2:24:54 Replicate it with Steven what they did with Foley. I love this, but he talks on you drunk right off right now drunk drunk Then I love how he says Steven but he can't remember James his name or Jim Steve I think is Stephen instead of Foley Foley yeah When these barbarians replicated with Stephen what they did with Foley, who is from New Hampshire. Yeah. It was important votes in New Hampshire! I need to learn the tune How Dry I Am on the harmonica. Yes but listen... so in this piece what you're about to hear is very typical of a drunk person

2:25:50 where he all of a sudden, he kicks up like 500% in attitude and really just starts going nuts. Yeah! He's in the bar what happens at the bar? That's right so let's just take it back this is a good one we're in Cheers but if were into the Bar Cheers and Woody's there and Carla's there and Norm is there then you just end as a little bit of an echo just because that the joint is pretty empty and there's old Joe and ol' Joe sitting there And he's drunk. And he is angry, and he's gonna show them just how angry he is. When these barbarians replicated with Stephen what they did with Foley... Foley? Who was from New Hampshire They somehow think that it's going to lessen US resolve, frighten us Where was the bar cheers

2:26:50 Boston. Intimidate us, but if they think the American people will be intimidated... They don't know us very well. No! Ben, bring me another beer. No he's drinking straight shots this guy Here comes. Came back after 9-11. Fire! Here it comes. Where are we in cheers? We dusted ourselves off and we made sure that Osama bin Laden would never ever again threaten the American people. We came back Boston strong. Hell yeah, Boston! Cheers to the bar, Boston Strong! Blaming no one but resolve to be certain this didn't happen again today America may be grieving

2:27:46 Greedy greedy. He's like sour I get acid reflux grieving Is the puke is the bile is coming up in his throat? He's dry he's driving America may be grieving Still grieving Jim Foley, a native of New Hampshire as I said who grew up in Rochester. Which is not... Rochester's New York. But the American people are so much stronger So much more resolved Hold on a second! I need to pour myself a drink Than any enemy can fully understand As a nation we're united And when people harm Americans We don't retreat

2:28:32 We don't forget. We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished they should know... That we retire with dignity and send our kids to college! We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside I'm drunk! I am so wasted! That is- that's just inappropriate I don't know why the guy can not drink. He's gonna give a public address. I had to drink, I had to drink. He was just tired. I had to drink! I've poured myself a glass of the platinum label that we discussed. The platinum labels at Johnny Walker? Yeah 18 years

2:29:27 Should be quite tasty. It's very smooth Here's Joe's outro on his filling in just to bring it back around to the gates of hell He's not drunk here, by the way fellow Americans. I'm sorry that's the intro. I want the outro was that the outro? Yeah Sorry, this sounds like the intro is the same thing Americans we know how do this We've done before its the way we used to do business and we can do it that way again All the middle class in this country wants is a chance. No guarantee, just a chance. Americans want to work and when given a fair shot the American worker has never ever let his country down." Now this is what he should have used in his speech but he didn't too bad. Folks it's never good bet against American people that's what you should have said that would be today's of hell

2:30:22 Yeah, I know. Thanks for listening. Wait wait... There it is again! No he doesn't- He's gotta invoke God hold on a second and god bless you all and may god protect our troops. He's crying at the end here this is so beautiful how he does this listen to him again. Good bet to bet against American people thanks for listening and god bless you all and may god protect our troops yes So the middle class, you know get some money and oh yes protect our troops. This clown actually thinks he could run the country. Oh boy. I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah that'd be fab. On no agenda. You can go back and look at this video but then you will see that he is almost crying

CHAPTER 30 / 41 Discussion

Birthday Donations, International Producers, Global Intelligence Network

The hosts read a long list of donations and birthday wishes from the "Global Intelligence Network," including producers from Australia, Canada, Barbados, and the UK. Notable mentions include "Sir Inside Job" from Seattle and "Bogdan LeChandro" from Texas. The segment reinforces the show's reliance on direct listener support rather than traditional advertising.

value-for-value· donations· birthday· australia· canada· barbados

2:31:15 Yeah, he probably was taught that's a cool thing to do. Show your emotions. Yes. Do you want a glass darling? Huh?! Alright let me thank the few people who helped us out here on show 650 and I wanna apologize in advance for the people who sent in handwritten notes Because I'm not going to be able to read them because i can't find them. Oh no! Yeah well this is disappointing This includes Terry Floyd here, when I dig him up we'll bring him on the next show so stay tuned but let me just thank the people that came in here like Terry Floyd is uh I'm sorry there's actually Dimitri Rabinowitsch in Phoenix Arizona with one two three four phoenix arizona at one two three four five

2:32:01 He says, thanks for the complete unbiased analysis. Gentlemen haven't even hooked up the cable that's included in my rent because of you guys which is great Also, Terry Floyd who did send in a note at 1-2-3-4-5. Very pleasant note! 1 2 3 4 5 in San Leandro California Sean coffee $100 and 66 cents from Annandale New South Wales And he turned 50 as well as you did oh that's nice what a happy birthday Yes, happy birthday to everybody who turned 50 What is this? This is from Chuck Kendrick was this was this a long note was this Chuck Kendrick Oh Chuck sent the pictures of Oh yes, he needed some immigration karma because he wants to live in Candanavia. And he sent us which Eric forwarded very nicely on the spreadsheet email if you saw it all of the pictures of the beautiful woman he is moving to Candanavia for! Thank you that's how you get your note mentioned She looks like Jennifer Garner Yeah very good she does Ed van Dyck in Herpen

2:33:06 Herpen. 9978 is a birthday involved with him, Carolyn Peet in Aubrey Texas another fine note was sent in from Carolyn and Aubrey Texas right down the street from you 9454 Jamie Graham 77 Psaka 7s this all we got for the seven so far. Real estate karma will add that into the mix later Norwalk Connecticut Brian Klimczak in Naperville, Illinois. $75 no note Sir Thomas Nussbaum our buddy in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Oh this is it's not a it's not in yellow so let me copy the sir Nussbaum St. Nicole and Dame Sid sending a birthday shout out to Craig Dennis and Dennison go Jayhawks he does nodding what happened Eric missed it whoops I got it saved it saved it okay good we're doing good work yeah

2:34:06 Trevor Stasek in Mesa, Arizona. Trying to get his saying here... That platinum is good! But don't drink much of it you can't drink. Sir Dr. Sharkey just had... I'm just nipping at it. Stop stop stop. So Dr. Sharkey our buddy in Jackson Tennessee 5534 grant we had A very short number of... One double nickels on the dime from Graham Wolfe, from Wichita Kansas. Yeah, Graham Wolfe, Wichita Kansas. David Alston in Yukon Oklahoma He needs a de-douching we'll put a de-douching on the end at the list 5150 Chasen Rodilski in Saskatoon The Paris of Canada Thomas Nussbaum again Oh ho

2:35:01 Virginia Beach, oh it's because yeah we brought in the right this is he actually contributes a couple times a month. at 5033. Christopher Yagi in Kanata, Ontario David Overbeck in Brookfield Wisconsin 5030... These are all 5033s. This is for my birthday thank you all very much yes carryovers yeah David Overbeck and Brookfield Wisconsin Baroness Tanya Wayman in New York City which I have to check and see if the box is still working a slingbox Dave Marchi in Sunnyvale thanks for clarifying that! I had too sorry

2:35:37 Brian Massey in Hartford, Connecticut because you have a dirty mind. Damon Alleyan... Who do you think this one is? Alleyan, Alleyan, Alleyn. Well, you know, you were the one that told me that the president sets the tone. Bill Clinton made blow jobs okay. President Obama made tan suits okay. Joe Biden has made drinking on the job OK so I'm all for it! He's not the president. That's true. That's a mistake he just made. No, no, you're right. I'm sorry. You're right. Okay, Damien Elaine a l le y any I guess Bridgetown st. Philip Barbados alien is it damian? That's nice We got our barbados finally ice we got a place to stay Morgan and bow Dingley village Ambassador of Barbados are you talking about he's the ambassador to Barnaby no we know the ambassador whatever He is mayor so yeah, we do know the ambassador when you hang out whenever we want oh

2:36:35 Judson Noel in Oxford, Mississippi. Very nice place by the way Chris Terhart behind to heart to heart I would say two hearts perhaps Chris boot on let me just move this thing down a little bit. Yeah, you can track that thing now yeah, and now I gotta move it back up Oh moving up sorry Chris Bolton in Newcastle on Lyme in Staffordshire, UK. Thank you, UK. Joshua Dennis and Arrington BC. Whitney Jacobs, good old Whitney and El Cajón sometimes known as El Cahoney. Matthew Mathew-Helly in Quebec, Gatineau.

2:37:23 Eddie Martin in Morrow, California... Morrow, Georgia. Sorry and Jason Schrader in Greensboro South Carolina Michael Cross in Kanata Ontario Canada Richard Donovan in Richmond UK And finally for your birthday Sir Inside Job in Seattle 33 now we move on to Jeff Kenyon $50.21 from Klonparf I believe that may have been a 50-33 but because Because he's from Queensland, Australia. Maybe something happened to the rate. I'll accept that as a birthday for me. You have a call out? Yeah This one definitely wasn't which is Steve Winslow in Bristol UK 50 these are all $50 donors Eric Dutro and Flint Michigan fine town Ron Cedario in Tampa Florida Matthew Stevens and North Richland Hills Texas

2:38:17 Christopher Walker, parts unknown. Patrick Macom who's a every month donor in Long Island City New York James Butcher in Dalwallanoo in Western Australia 50 John McGinnis in Dingley Village Victorian but apparently also lives in Ringwood East so he comes twice. That's the definition of a drunk donation right there I forget, did I do that? Let me try this PayPal. Oh yeah! I think he just donates twice a month. I love you John thank you. Mark Raley in Germantown Maryland Philip Misan in Welshpool UK and finally Eric Mann in Spring Hill Florida Sukhovy Alexander Sukhovy That's right And Moscow

2:39:10 John Streg in San Antonio, Texas. Bogdan LeChandro with the best name of all these in Irvine, Texas and finally Brian Watson in Raleigh North Carolina and oh! And our anonymous lesbian came in with another note which I also lost that but it was a very pleasant note and... Let me guess let me guess hi anonymous lesbian here blah, blah, blah. John have a crush on you. Blah, blah, blah. Violin. Blah, blah, blah. Adam? No was much more it was much more pedestrian than that but it still said sanity on her check which I think is cool well and thank you thank you for appreciating what we do this is this is our model it's our motto it's how he is how we

CHAPTER 31 / 41 Discussion

Roadshow Plans, De-douching, Final Birthday Shout-outs

As the Amsterdam residency concludes, Adam Curry expresses excitement for future "roadshows" and deeper analysis upon returning to the U.S. The hosts perform final "karma" rituals, including a "de-douching" request and birthday congratulations for Simon Moon, Jake Kenyon, and others.

roadshow· amsterdam· karma· de-douching· simon moon

2:39:54 is how we make this happen. No podcast, one platform digital schmuck and luckin', more or less the same units, more money? No, no none of that. And as you see even the guys who really make the money they know they can do it this way they want to do it doesn't work! The compromise thank you very much thank you for understanding thank you for being a part of our global intelligence network Thank You For Producing The Program It Is Really Really Highly Appreciated And we're going to be doing more of these roadshows. I'm very excited about it, although this is the show that I wish would have been home because it's kind of done... I don't really have any more global intelligence to collect from here except you know

2:40:36 So you're good for if you're traveling. I know when I travel, like I can only take it so long. Sure, do a quick study or go around and run around like crazy to as much as they can get out of there. What did what point? Do you run out of When does it become less interesting? I mean, you've been there for a week now. Ten days! You can handle ten days. No when i return on Tuesday It'll be two weeks so 10 days but the way it works with travel and the show...I believe it is good to go back and have all the time ready to do more analysis and deeper work before the Thursday show just have a couple more just add an extra day really

2:41:17 But there's all you know the Amsterdam we this is what we have but it's a different type of show I think it's good people like it very much that they like the different perspective So, I'm very excited about where will go next which I don't know but we're definitely going to be working on and This will be mainly in conjunction with miss Mickey's work as well. Which is handy she can get us around Right. Thank you all very much, oh I have the big karma for everybody... was there an F cancer karma request? I'm gonna put it in there just in case No as a job but we need jobs and we also had a de-douching request But I'll do the de-douching but also the f-cancer because this certainly people around these parts that need a lot of help You've been de-douched

2:42:03 Dingo, boom, chugga-lagga-lagga, boom, boop-boop-boom, boom, chugga-lagga-boom. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! And for today we congratulate Simon who celebrated on September 5th. courtesy of Anonymous. Ed van Dyck, I believe it is or yeah says duck here but pretty sure was some dykes. Happy birthday to his brother Rob celebrating on the 9th Jeff Kenyon happy birthday to his son Jake Kenyon turning 21 tomorrow and on the 8th Rui Salgado 29 today

2:42:56 Jennifer Dupras says happy birthday to her boyfriend Ron Cedario celebrating on the 12th of September and Sir Nussbaum, Saint Nicole and Dame Sid sending a birthday shout out to Sir Craig Dennison. Go Jayhawks! And happy birthday from all your friends here at the Staff Management and the Global Intelligence Network of The Best Podcast in The Universe! That's that is pretty much all the jocking I can do. Yeah, well that was pretty good. I do like doing it But no nightings today none of that there will be new fun that way whatsoever However however however we do All these we do need to

CHAPTER 32 / 41 Discussion

CNN Fear Porn, ISIS 9/11 Anniversary Threats

CNN is accused of generating "fear porn" by reporting on potential ISIS attacks coinciding with the anniversary of 9/11. Experts cited in the reports claim that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is too "narcissistic" to share a date with Osama bin Laden's legacy, while the FBI warns of terrorists with Western passports. The hosts mock the lack of photographic evidence for al-Baghdadi and the use of "experts" to manufacture imminent threats.

cnn· isis· 9/11· al-baghdadi· fbi· fear porn

2:43:38 Talk about a few things and I will put us onto the right track here. Let me see, do i have this? Yes. We are here hashtag America near our hashtag target soon! That's right ISIS is coming to you they're bringing it to America they're coming anywhere CNN is just all over this They had a nice little piece, long piece. Cut it down. Man on the street? Always good to have some man-on-the-street stuff when you're worried about ISIS and being attacked here in America. Because public should really be the source of all knowledge. Yes. Just ask any guy walking down the street. Doesn't even follow the news but ask him anyway. Even better if you find an Australian visiting

2:44:27 Ask that person. Yeah, so three people met on the street This is how this is fear porn brought to you by CNN who I think They're on a good track for ratings. They they know what they're doing I haven't checked him in a while, but have a feeling there that this is as Jeff Zucker written all over this ice group They're smarter probably the most evolved terrorist group we've ever seen By the way get the gay guy to say this Isis group is the most sophisticated group. We've ever seen yes Smarter yeah, I screwed their smarter probably than most evolved terrorist group. We've ever seen don't you love it? The smart are come on. We've seen us

2:45:03 The most sophisticated terrorist group we've ever seen. I am concerned but i don't think we can gauge where it'll be or when it'll be the fact that we are still in an active time of war, I think you have to be careful with less than one week before the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks so you knew that was coming right? We have to throw that... we gotta get everyone a little crazy get you hyped up 9-11. Crazy, crazy, crazy! New York City is the US in a position to prevent another attack? The FBI has 80 offices outside the United States. FBI show talking obviously they're in constant contact with their counterparts and trying to see if anybody anywhere is picking up anything about a possible attack one

2:45:46 potential threat the seemingly increasing number of terrorists now with Western passports. Do you remember that Mohammed Atta had, I don't know a US passport? This is nothing new but okay! But according to experts there's an even greater imminent concern Even though ISIS has never carried out an attack in the West, some experts believe it would not tread on Al-Qaeda's 9 11 date because its leader al-Baghdadi wouldn't want to. He is very narcissistic and many believe that he may not want... He is narcissistic but doesn't wanna do anything on 911. He wants his own day! If he is narcissistic why does only have two crappy pictures of him? Do an attack on 911 anniversary

2:46:32 He has not been infected by the selfie meme, clearly. Very good point John I like that. How does 9-11 date? Because its leader al Baghdadi wouldn't want to. He's very narcissistic and many believe that he may not want to do an attack on 9 11 anniversary because of being in competition with the legacy of Osama bin Laden. He wants his own legacy. He wants to be regarded as the biggest baddest... This is FBI! This is just making crap up Yes, yes terrorists that ever lived but experts say that doesn't mean locations aren't vulnerable now

2:47:08 now. That's right, especially those that draw large crowds because the ideology experts say is like a germ you can't control it quarantine an idea that spread over thousands of websites YouTube and others here comes unlawful content on the internet there's no real ability to prevent that message from being spread okay neutrality will solve that problem Something you said earlier about the threat of the immigrants coming in across the border, which was echoed by my friend, the constitutional lawyer in Texas. My friend Eric who said I'm afraid of the crazy Muslims coming into the Mexican borders. He's a smart man. The man is a constitutional lawyer and he is one of the smartest people I know

CHAPTER 33 / 41 Discussion

Texas Sheriff Gary Stanky, Border Security Fears

On CNN, Don Lemon interviews Texas Sheriff Gary Stanky, who claims that ISIS is "already here" due to the porous nature of the U.S.-Mexico border. Stanky suggests that any of the 10 to 15 million undocumented immigrants could be terrorists. The hosts dismiss the segment as "disgusting" fear-mongering, noting that terrorists could more easily enter the country with legal visas.

don lemon· gary stanky· texas· isis· border security· mexico

2:47:58 just like the smart terrorists. And he is falling for this... Do you remember? When they can just waltz in with a visa anyway, to take a vacation, why would they have to go through the miserable trouble of coming across that Rio Grande? Why even try to rationalize this when someone with multiple law degrees very successful constitutional law practice Very successful. He's so easily duped. So he really believes that they're coming into Texas, the crazy Muslim ISIS and now Don Lemon will help everyone...Don Lemon found a Texas sheriff

2:48:48 Who was willing to go along with the here they come or there here whatever. So if you live here in New York, or if you've been here in the subway system and the road passengers are constantly warned If you see something say something If you see something, say something. That's the jingle they never want to license it from us but okay fine every one of us has to be on our toes on our toes are you on your toes Johnny? Are you on your toes actually no I'm not on my toes at the moment what does that even mean I can't be on my toes that doesn't make sense what does that mean on your toes You should be on your toes What is the etymology It means like when you're on your toes you're ready to make a move

2:49:25 Is that really what it means? It's why it refers to sports when you're on your toes. Well, I'm at work my friend. On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rogers Abbott and Hart while teaching this...this is not a background. On Your Toes was originally conceived as a film but there's a vehicle for Fred Astaire where do we understand how this has anything to do with terrorism? Just is don't question authority just go with And one Texas sheriff says he is ready for ISIS. We're joined now by Sheriff Gary Stanky. The guy's got a hat on, he's got the star, everything. He's ready for ISIS! County Texas. Good evening, Sheriff.

2:50:13 Good evening. How are you? I'm sorry, did i call you son or boy i forgot they could not get a this guy is perfect central casting great uh hope you're great as well you have said that you want to be ready in case of an attack by ISIS or by any other terror group what's your biggest concern Well, the fact that they're already here. They're already here? The fact that they are already here... I worked at the border for about eight years. There's places on the border you can walk across the river from Presidio

2:50:49 There's no water in the river. That's right is walk right through just come on with your eyes with you put your black The black outfit and you're white you white sneakers, and yeah And you told yo does it become over here behead bar bedding people? There's no fences there's nothing then nothing No fence nothing to come in here with that machete the little pencil knives they'd be beheading people in orange jumpsuits They keep you out So we've got what, 10 to 15 million that are undocumented aliens that are inside the United States. All of them could be terrorists every single one of them tend to 50 million undocumented ones could be ISIS and there's no doubt they'd have that or have been some people come in should not be here that are from places other than Mexico or Hispanic state but that's right. Be afraid see something say something behind your toes people behind your toes I tell you

CHAPTER 34 / 41 Discussion

Twitter Algorithm Changes, ISIS Account Purge

Twitter is reportedly moving away from a strictly chronological timeline toward an algorithmic feed to "jumpstart user growth." This shift is viewed as a way for the platform to inject government propaganda and "unlawful content" filters. The company has also begun purging accounts associated with ISIS, signaling an evolution from a "virtual soapbox" to a controlled media platform that defines which messages are permissible.

twitter· algorithm· anthony noto· isis· censorship· social media

2:51:39 This is so disgusting. But this is the report I like, the report about Twitter and this is interesting for a number of reasons one because Twitter...and you were complaining just before the show started John that even though it wasn't correct but we what came up and this is kind of tech news if you don't mind Tech News We do have a lot of phones coming out this week So it'll be an exciting week for Tech News Oh yeah It's gonna be great iPhone A lot of phones coming out Great, great. So Twitter is putting everyone on notice they've already started by adding things to your timeline that you are not subscribed to and of course the next step will be an algorithm It's not a timeline it's a feed They call it the timeline They do? I believe so! I don't think so... Oh, you think they call it a feed

2:52:34 I think they call it anything but a timeline is a Facebook term. Let me...here is the Wall Street Journal, do you think the Wall Street Journal's any good at all? No! Okay The Wall Street Journal Twitter hints puts...I'm sorry restatement Twitter puts the timeline on notice and hint of group chats let me see if there is a quote from... But it's a timeline on notice that means they put the time line of Facebook Yeah, I don't think so. Well just by... This is obviously a PR piece. A PR company put this together the who was this? Yuri Ko K-O-H. We think Yuri Ko just came up with this? Yuri Ko got fed this by some promotional person on Wednesday. Was it from the Kent's of America? No i don't know on Wednesday financial chief Anthony Noto

2:53:31 Offered some clues for Twitter's product roadmap as the company looks to jumpstart user growth. Speaking at the Citi Global Growth Conference in New York, which I apologize, I did not go look...I will do this for Thursday said the company's new head of product Daniel Graf has made improving the service's search capability one of his top priorities for 2015 quote If you think about our search capabilities we have a great data set of topical information about topical tweets Noto said The hierarchy within search really has to lend itself to that taxonomy. Taxonomy? Whatever! You're just saying Google were coming... With that comes the need for, quote, an algorithm that delivers the depth and breadth of the content we have on a specific topic ...and then eventually as it relates to people."

2:54:22 Okay. Twitter's timeline is organized in reverse chronological order, so the Wall Street Journal is writing it I don't think they actually said themselves you're correct but they talk about that they are comparing Twitter to Facebook for this very reason but Twitter... Well okay right so Twitter I think Twitter if they're gonna they are completely stupid although this is probably a good idea because they need to start injecting government propaganda into your feed we'll call it a feed Once in a while I do get something that's not anybody. I wanted to follow yes, so It wasn't from a retweet what the claim is is that they will be also developing an algorithm Which only Robert Scoble will be able to figure out to make it work By whatever you have to do favoriting or whatever their version of liking is RTing but of course Twitter is now part of all governments infrastructure and is probably

2:55:22 a long bet for the stock market. There is no way Twitter is ever going to go, Facebook will have issues, Twitter I think they solidified their existence with what they are now doing here's a little news report from CNN When the world was in conflict twitter takes center stage this is all you need to know buy that's a buy signal right there once just as social network twitters become a platform where democracies are born dictatorships overthrown Is it fascinating how a company that can, the dictatorships are countries are overthrown yet they can't make $1?

2:56:03 What is how can they not make any profit but during a summer of strife it's gone from carrying the message to defining When Isis broadcasts the gruesome beheading of an American journalist on Twitter The social net CEO took a rare stance vowing to suspend any account posting that video. Oh boy, because whoo Oh, God forbid we see how fake the video is. Twitter also pointed to their rules prohibiting unlawful use and direct specific threats of violence against others. Unlawful not illegal unlawful these words are important this is the unlawful content and unlawful traffic that will become a part of... They're going to suspend any account if somebody puts that video on there feed? Yep

2:56:50 the tech company acting more like a news organization an evolution of sorts from a free-for-all virtual soapbox to one that's more controlled becoming more aggressive in what its members see and suspending accounts associated with ISIS over the past 10 days There's been a purging of accounts, of Twitter accounts used by ISIS members. And so we've seen at least a short-term reduction for now." As the line between Twitter as a tech company and media platform blur, terrorists have taken note. Their recruitment videos once crude are now more polished. They're now in HD—even cable news style text at the bottom of the screen!

2:57:33 They aim to spread a well-produced message on Twitter and other social networks. Terrorists use the media in order to help spread terror throughout the broader population. ISIS, I think is particularly savvy with the media as the content involves that tech company that many would call a media company continues to evolve as well This is perfect So while everybody thinks that we're getting rid of ISIS because the tech company knows what they're doing, we are really propagating the true terrorist message. We are here hashtag America near our hashtag target soon be afraid hashtag America It's disheartening By the way that clip is a great clip Yeah but it's not Clip Of The Day

CHAPTER 35 / 41 Discussion

IKEA BookBook Commercial, Spotify "Spotilie"

IKEA has released a viral commercial parodying Apple's design videos to promote its 2015 paper catalog as the "BookBook," featuring "eternal battery life" and "no lag." The hosts also briefly mention Spotify, which they dub "Spotilie," regarding the company's claims about how much money musicians earn on the platform.

ikea· bookbook· spotify· advertising· apple parody

2:58:30 No, no not that clip. I'm talking about the clip you keep playing over and over about hashtag America That's Clip of Forever That thing is just Clip of Forever That's a great evergreen clip We have a... Are you done with the tech news? Cause that was- No! I am not done with Tech News we have two more pieces of tech news but here is what I have tell me if your interested One The Spotify CEO saying musicians were going to make alot of money with spotify I'm sorry Spotilie is what im calling the company now Spotilie! Hey Ring the bell. You want to hear him or not that interesting? No, no then I have very well the IKEA book book commercial which i thought was very cute you probably what the IKEA book book commercial Bookbook oh you didn't see this no Oh this is great Well the audio is it you don't see but you Don't really get the full effect with the audio But what they are promoting here in an apple esque type commercial

2:59:26 is their IKEA 2015 catalog, which is a book. And here's the commercial that goes along with it you can imagine what the visuals are... Here comes! You know once in awhile something comes along changes the way we live A device so simple and intuitive using it feels almost familiar Introducing the 2015 IKEA Catalog It's not a digital book or an e-book. It is a BookBook

3:00:07 The first thing to note is no cables, not even a power cable. The 2015 IKEA catalog comes fully charged and the battery life is eternal! Are you able to hear this? I don't find the audio that great to listen to... Yeah, I can hear it, I get it It's a funny joke that has probably been done a million times This one has NOT been done a million times And I won't play it to annoy you any further But when they get to the part where they're talking about how the interface works. It's actually, this one is written better than anything I've seen in this genre of joking about books versus E. And you know they get to... They say oh you swipe from right-to-left or left-to-right and then have you noticed this one thing? No lag! All the pictures are instantaneous in full HD color and it's not bad. The commercial is... That's cute yeah. Yeah. I probably written that column

3:01:03 Sure five times. This is why you're mad about it, but I get it because they well I'm mad about it cuz you obviously never read any of those Hilarious columns III will say I didn't do the lag joke haven't done that a lag joke was good I like the battery with the eternal battery life Batteries yeah, I like their multi-user They insert little little bookmark colored bookmark tabs and then sharing you actually share You see the hands handing the book over You know you haven't written this one in the era of social networking, I'm presuming. You've written this one many times. Probably right. So you can be a little mad because this is...I agree, this is your beat and think about it, the writers of this commercial—I'm not sure which ad agency did it but they got hookers and blow right now. This thing is viral

CHAPTER 36 / 41 Discussion

Gilead Sciences, $84,000 Hepatitis C Drug

Gilead Sciences is facing controversy over its Hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi, which costs $84,000 for a course of treatment in the U.S. While the company is negotiating a deal to sell a generic version in 80 developing countries, American patients remain stuck with the high price tag. The hosts describe the situation as "disturbing and disgusting," noting the disparity in global drug pricing.

gilead sciences· sovaldi· hepatitis c· pharmaceuticals· generic drugs

3:01:55 Yeah, yeah. They probably did okay for themselves so you're a little mad about that. That's okay. Okay? Yeah agenda 21 climate change anybody well I have something more matter about it want to play at first let's do it you can go to agenda 21 This is the most irksome thing I've heard on, and there's a fact that the entire news organization that relayed this story wasn't up in arms. But this is the future of the scam we call Obamacare and force us to buy insurance. This is the Gilead 84000 clip. You want to explain or is it all you need? Just play it!

3:02:35 Gilead Sciences is reportedly close to making a generic version of its $84,000 drug and that is where we begin tonight's market focus. The drug called Sovaldi cures about 90% of patients with hepatitis C who take it but its high cost has stirred controversy the company is said to be close to a licensing deal that would allow a lower-cost version of the drug to be sold in about 80 developing countries but not here in the US. Does anybody find this just disturbing and annoying and disgusting?

3:03:15 I got hepatitis C. Hey, we have a drug for you. It's going to cost you $84,000." And the generic version by the way will probably be $60,000. What is this? Is that for one pill or... Should be arrested! Is that for one pill or what is that? Yeah, yeah so there's treatment maybe two pills. So it's ludicrous. Then they're gonna make it before the poor countries everywhere else are gonna get a deal and we get no deal Deal deal we get no deal now. You'd have to go to Mexico to get your deal That's pretty bad that is I got a hand that one too, that's pretty bad But you know what? We have here whoa what is that well if that was weird yep sorry are you still there? Well, I didn't say anything No, I did I said weird you said weird yeah. Yeah, I said weird. Yeah, oh that was not good Let's roll this one out for a second Trying to get common core out there

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Common Core Math, "Friend 10" Methodology

A local news segment featuring teacher Eileen Ryan explains the Common Core method for basic addition, which involves "decomposing" numbers to find a "friend 10." The hosts mock the complexity of the method, arguing it is designed to confuse parents and potentially break the back of the homeschooling movement by making the curriculum impossible to teach without specialized training.

common core· math· education· homeschooling· base 10

3:04:23 Getting everybody all pumped up about how cool it is. There's a local campaign that has, uh... It's um... I believe these are packages that are produced in some cases on a national level, but it seems like every local station has their own version of it. I'm not sure if somehow... It's all the same but of all these lo- I'm not sure how it works. I've got to figure out who's behind this These are the Common Core Helper and there's a thing as a website for two. Hold on a second. Just a bag of rice it turns out

3:05:00 A bag of rice? What? Yeah, hamburger helper is just essentially a bag of rice. Oh yeah, you're right. So it's the Common Core Helper video series and here is one… this an example one these news reports I'm seeing them show up everywhere People say, oh take a look at this. But they're all on the local level and they have the local math expert or teaching expert. Yeah these are those advanced packages that you produce in some central location and drop your own little bits in there. Here ya go! And today our math teacher Eileen Ryan from Williamsville's Maple West Elementary teaches us basic math using a base 10

3:05:37 When you and I were in school, we used to just memorize 9 plus 6 equals 15. Not anymore with the Common Core students need to understand why that's the case and Mrs Ryan is here to explain Thank You So our young learners might not be altogether comfortable thinking about what 9 plus 6 is. They are quite comfortable thinking about their friend 10 Okay, John you ready? You want to pencil for this? No! You're gonna make me sick. You will want to have your pencil for your friend ten Are you ready? Oh my god This is calm though the thinking behind this campaign Is to enable parents to understand

3:06:18 the new common core methodology that their children are coming home with because they just really don't understand it. Well, the problem has been these kids are taught the weirdest stuff that makes no sense and then... I don't know if its weird Weirdest is not the same Oh okay But okay I'm sorry about this sniffing by the way This is like my latest Tourette's thing You got me three times today Yeah sorry Do you hear what I said? It's like sniffing. Yeah, I have a... No, no, it's like a Tourette's tick that i have now. I'm trying to sniff but not break the noise gate? It's stupid! I'm trying to...I'm working on it Well, it's not bothering me whatever it is

3:06:58 Anyway, the parents get this stuff and they say no Jimmy just looks so number six is looking you got nine items here and you got six put them all together. It's it's it's 15 You can count them No, they won't let their parents do any teaching at home that this is to me I'm starting to see this differently I'm starting to see Common Core as a way to break the back of homeschoolers Oh, that's an interesting observation. Besides the fact that there are hundreds of millions of dollars to be made in complete new curriculum and all kinds of other bullshit... And full school does not contribute it this fund Here we go Of course students need to understand why that is the case Mrs Ryan is here to explain Thank you

3:07:37 So, our young learners might not be altogether comfortable thinking about what 9 plus 6 is. They are quite comfortable thinking about their friend 10. Okay. My invisible friend 10 is here with me. A base ten system, John? Have you ever heard of such malarkey? So if we can partner nine to a number and anchor ten, we can help our students see what 9 plus 6 is so We're going to decompose our sex And we know decompose Wait a minute. Is it on the garbage heap? Is it this small there you'll do posting like I'd like a banana peel just all black and full of fuzzy hair 9 plus 6 is so we're going to decompose our sex

3:08:40 And we know six is made up of parts. One of its parts is a one." Six is made up of parts, John? Did you know that one of his parts is 1? Uh-huh... Never knew that. "...and the other part is a 5..." Nooo.... Okay. Really?! What happened to the 2? It's also made out of two and three! I think it's a two and three is how I think about five. Yeah, there's a 3 and another three or a 6 or 222 is a six. Yes So what happened with those? Why were they left out? They're not your friends They're not your friends, my friend. We are now going to anchor our- We're gonna anchor! Be quiet you! Hey! Dvorak... Last row be quiet You're disrupting the class we're gonna anchor something It's made up of parts One of its parts is a one and the other part is a five

3:09:28 We're now going to anchor our 9 to a 1, allowing our students to anchor to that 10. Now our students are seeing... What? ...that we have ten plus five. Having now more comfort seeing that ten plus five is fifteen. That's much more comfortable than looking at nine plus six, an isolated math fact. An isolated math fact! I wonder how she deals with 246 plus 632. Do you take a one away from that and try to find the tens? How do you do this?

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Al Sharpton vs. The Teleprompter

The hosts review a compilation of Al Sharpton's frequent teleprompter gaffes on MSNBC, including mispronunciations of "refuted," "dwindling," and "gelatin." The segment is presented as a humorous look at the decline of professional standards in cable news.

al sharpton· msnbc· teleprompter· gaffes· media

3:10:30 That is clip of the day, even though it was annoying. But I'll give it to you. Really? I get clip of the day! Yes for that anything Common Core usually gets a clip of the day Well thats very kind of you. You know what you get... This show has been going on forever It's time to go Do you know what you get when you have an entire population raised on Common Core rotten core no you get al Sharpton on television crown all day to we are watching that was a attorney general Eric called the ABD's about some Republicans at home

3:11:16 already beating the drums of war. Today, the Pentagon refuted that claim. The Penta-gon? And he said the American people do not want him to quote dwiddling... they do not want him dwiddling his thumbs! Don't dwiddle your thumbs! You can get a gig as a contortionist. Intravenous fluids and pills coated with gillette uh gelatin. Gillettin' We don't leave our women or men in uniform behind. It's a monument to the hubris of Dick Cheney, Representative Raul Arra Labrador. Years of abuse I personally apologize to Mr. Pevis Jose

3:12:02 Oh yeah, you're critics. No normal people who speak English Good counter-tourism. I love that people are finally clipping that stuff. I like count well This is a whole video series now this is the third is Al Sharpton versus the teleprompter Yeah, I know they're standing it's very good work It's really really good and it's about time It's done The only thing I have which I could save until Thursday But I'm a little worried because we have the big

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Al-Qaeda Expansion in India, "Jihad Belt" in Netherlands

Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced the expansion of Al-Qaeda into the Indian subcontinent to "raise the flag of Jihad." Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, media reports have begun using the term "Jihad Belt" to describe regions with high concentrations of radicalized individuals. The hosts also discuss the "ISIS flag," noting it is a traditional Islamic design that has been "stolen" by the group.

al-qaeda· india· ayman al-zawahiri· netherlands· jihad belt

3:12:55 Global climate summit 2014 coming up. This is the big this is the big one what days are coming up September 23rd? No, you don't need to rush and do it yeah I need to do two parts. I really do need to do two things all right well Let's do that because I have some stuff too, but I'm gonna put it off Do you want to do one thing? You wanna just do one thing, just make it feel good. I got my AQ India! This is the most important thing going on because we know that the Indias are being targeted by us Being teed up. I've already predicted the Ebola thing but apparently now they're terrorists are going after them with a bull crap story AQ India. Government of India placed parts of the country on alert today after Al Qaeda announced that is expanding into the subcontinent

3:13:36 The group's leader, Ayman al-Zawari issued a videotaped message. My Muslim brothers everywhere! I announce to all Muslims in the world and especially in the Indian subcontinent the founding of a new branch This is to help raise the flag of Jihad and return of Islamic rule on this subcontinent Al-Zawahiri charged that Muslims in India have long been subject to injustice and oppression by the Hindu majority. Al Qaeda has recently been overshadowed by the Islamic State, an offshoot with brutal tactics which broke ties with the main group last year. I think they're not doing it right. They don't know what they're doing? Listen to this story... So here in the Netherlands, they now speak of the Dutch Jihad belt

3:14:28 They have a jihad belt. A jihad belt? Yes, a belt that like... Is that something you wear? No it's like the Bible Belt and they in the Netherlands they're using English words Jihad Belt Well, where's the Jihad belt? It's about three different regions. They've got a... it's the Southwest with the jihadists from The Hague and Rotterdam Amsterdam Delft Soetermeer Gouda then they have a regional network which is Arnhem in Nijmegen and in the middle of the country they have the jihadists and the sympathizers from Utrecht Almere Hilversum Zeist & Huizen

3:15:07 This is just called Gitmo Nation Jihadis, man. Everyone here is just a jihadist." Well they should do something about it. I'm doing nothing! They should have a jihad there in Texas Is there a jihad belt in Texas? No but there was a dude arrested who had an ISIS flag on the back of his jacket Well, the joke of course is that ISIS flag is just stolen. It's not a... No it's the Raiders' Flag we know! Besides being a Raider's Flag, it's a traditional Islamic flag that just this is a general flag they'd ISIS didn't even design their own flag That's not as specifically new flag. No its dumb flag. Its an old flag. Not even good flag

3:15:53 No, it looks like a Raiders flag. If we had to make a flag we wouldn't make that flag? Nah nah I'd put the raider in the middle Sir Devon of the Denver Metro Foothills says... You guys are spot on regarding the farcical beheadings by ISIS-ISIL-IS advertising whatever you want to call it He has an idea he says why don't we try to rebrand them as the Arab super sinister head attacking terrorists or the all-star super heinous attack team instead of ISIL or ISIS. I thought that was a good one, it took me awhile to figure it out but when I had it I liked it! I liked it. Yeah the problem is the government is behind this thing somehow and we can't have any fun... And I guarantee there's a Raider fan involved We can't have any fun with those guys Alright so um

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UN Climate Summit, John Kerry's Religious Appeal

In preparation for the UN Climate Summit on September 23rd, Secretary of State John Kerry has begun framing climate change as a "religious duty" rooted in the scriptures of Genesis and the Quran. The hosts criticize the "fear porn" in the documentary "Disruption" and mock IMF head Christine Lagarde for wearing a "sash-like" scarf to project an image of royalty and stature.

climate change· un· ban ki-moon· john kerry· christine lagarde· ipcc

3:16:43 Final, I have to do this because we have this big thing coming up. It's the new IPCC report everyone will be talking about it. This is what Obama promised and there is a movie that just came out Disruption The Movie which will make you...just bile will rise in your throat! I need to play the opening minute and half of this movie which is available online Of course, it's from the 350.org people. The 350? Oh yeah! This is completely rife with all kinds of... in my mind criminal activity stealing money from people under lies and this just imagine fear porn things burning icebergs crashing kittens being chopped off their heads being chopped off and sodomized everything you could imagine as horrible as in this isn't the visuals of this audio. Can you hear me?

3:17:35 We're seeing New York exploding. There is new and dramatic evidence of what's happening to our world, and tonight we'll look at the impact already being felt. The red flags about extreme weather we've all endured together all across the globe We are literally engaged in an unprecedented experiment with the one planet that we know of that can support life. We will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations The big question mark is the future, of course, and a new kind of normal Things are gearing up

3:18:44 the UN-hosted Climate Change Summit in New York. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will host the summit. I will convene a climate summit for leaders at the highest level, I urge political leaders of the world to prioritize their political energy on climate change. We have to get serious about bringing real commitments to the table for that summit If things go business as usual we will not, we will die Well, you kind of get the idea there.

3:19:28 What did that guy say at the end of things? Do we do business as usual, or will you die? Oh yeah. This is complete super porn for the fearful now there and you'll recall Ban Ki-moon called for this I think it was from Davos sort of We had clips of him talking about the September 23rd And that's what Al Gore was on stage talking all his bull crap and what I found interesting in those clips with Ban Ki-moon The Secretary General of United Nations Christine Lagarde, the current director of the head honcho of IMF, International Monetary Fund is standing next to him. I've noticed now her uniform she has a red sorry an orange shawl kind of like a scarf which he has tossed over her right shoulder

3:20:17 Which is like some kind of military garb or something. Because, of course she has no military standing She has no royalty standing It's a sash! It's kinda like a sash but it's orange and she has it tossed over her right- You can see Google pictures and you'll see that she does this...it is so pathetic how this woman needs to be of stature So she can stand next to people and be her own royalty Just sad Then we have Kerry. Watermelon head, big doofus goofball Kerry who abused the most recent NATO summit to talk about climate change and to invoke or evoke religion as being a religious duty to fight climate change because it's in the Bible my friend. Our fates are inextricably linked

3:21:10 on any number of things that we must confront and deal with in policy concepts today. Our fates are inextricably linked on the environment." I think he also does not say, inextricably... I think he has a problem with this word! He has a problem with his word! "...for many of us respect for God's creation also translates into a duty to protect and sustain His first creation..." Earth The planet Before God created man, he created heavens and earth. Confronting climate change is in the long run one of the greatest challenges that we face." I find this to be a fascinating bridge between creationism and science

3:21:56 It's it's mind-boggling what he is attempting to do. What is the point of it? And it's all bullcrap anyway, the way He's presenting it well let's listen in the last 20 seconds and then we'll... Look if were the only people in the known universe who Listened to what these morons are saying I know its irksome. I know you're mad no No And you can see this duty or responsibility laid out in scriptures. Clearly! I was reading my Bible, as in the Quran yesterday as I was leafing through it Beginning in Genesis. I'm sorry, I mean... Genesis? He's gonna bring a Genesis to the Old Testament. This one should be a winner. Muslim majority countries are among the most vulnerable

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2050 Fiction News, Final Sign-off from Amsterdam

European newscasters are reportedly being pressured to record fictional news segments set in the year 2050 to depict a climate apocalypse. The hosts condemn this as the "lowest form of propaganda." The episode concludes with a final sign-off from the Amsterdam canal house, a Joe Biden impression, and a promise to return on Thursday from Silicon Valley.

climate change· belgium· propaganda· amsterdam· joe biden

3:22:46 He got some Genesis to my it doesn't give any just say they just said Genesis Muslim majority countries Just listen to him our response to this challenge oughta be rooted in a sense of stewardship Of earth and for me and for many of us here today that responsibility comes from God. That's right That responsibility comes from God Yahweh Jah the Almighty What is he angling for here? Trying to get the Christians on board or... I guess. ...Muslims on board, or who's trying to get on board? Jews? Anything to get people to believe in the next report from the IPCC then he...and this is my final bit. This has now happened in Europe there was an article that I read that was complaint...I think it was Grand Duke Stephen Pelsmacher who sent me this

3:23:44 that a Belgian newscaster or someone related to the newscast was complaining that the government or the climate change faction of whoever's in charge of, of that scam in Belgium had requested nay perhaps forced the newscaster —a famous newscaster—to record a news cast as if it is 2050. And of course the whole planet is on fire and we're flooded and everything's underwater, and we're all dying from the climate change. Remember 23rd September is when we have this new global climate change conference called out by Bunky Moon and Christine Lagarde with her scarf which PANACHE

3:24:34 Which of course is about the monetary aspects of everything. So they're the ones running this turns out the final product Has newscasters from all over the world well-known voices in Multiple languages and they have all been forced asked etc to do this for this and then and then you clip from that Well, they had they've put together a commercial about climate change Miami South Beach is underwater. The tide is going to come up to about here. The temperature is expected to rise. This heat wave has now entered the second week, the mega drought in Arizona has claimed another casualty. So if you do this

3:25:28 You are engaging in the lowest most disgusting despicable form of propaganda known to man and I'm outraged you cannot take people who? Are news personalities who you are supposed to be able to trust and make them say things that are outrageous if not, not only true but fiction. The fiction of the future 2050 is 35 years away from now we have no idea other than that oops I'm sorry it's the earth has not warmed for 16 years that is universally recognized by the scientists to do this in ramp up to this climate change conference

3:26:21 Yeah, but what was it? What's the word I'm worried for to use for this? It's unconscionable. Very good word. Unconscionable. I like that. I'll take that as the word of the opening that we need. Unconscionable and thank you Baron or Grand Duke. I'm sorry. Yeah grander doing that because that is a disgusting little segment there you put together. Yes how happy are you with that just a head shaker And that's where we're at. We are the guardians of reality, we attempt to dissect as much as we can It's even hard for us sometimes but... ...We really do try and bring it for you and I think we've- We also use the hive mind Is that good? Yeah The hive mind is a good thing for us to do? Well it is for us! Okay So our intelligence networks which is another way putting it And uh..the intelligence network is vast and very very VERY sophisticated

3:27:28 So I'm with the black box information to come out then all of them give us something to talk about They're never gonna reveal it. It's not gonna happen. I don't think so either There's no good reason to reveal it that would only create problems job that necessary job has been Completed exactly well coming to you from The Wi-Fi enabled canal house and the pipe in a middle of Amsterdam for the last time everybody in the morning I am Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I have nothing funny to say I don't know why, but these depressing fear-mongering stories are just what they are. They're depressing very depressing but i'll be happy on Thursday somehow and then you say... I'm John C DeVore. We will talk to you on Thursday right here on No Agenda. There's no real conflict! I am Joe Biden and thank you for taking the time to listen

3:28:25 Adios, mofo.