Fifth Column

00:00 Yeah, there's some really cool pictures of you with this hooker. From the sick bay to the city by the Bay and I'm live from FEMA region 6 in the capital of the drone star state Austin, Texas in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where they closed a Golden Gate Bridge on me. I'm John C Dvorak My voice crack in the opening sounds good oh man yeah

00:41 It's all a show to the crack brothers. So you had the, there you go... You had the lingering cough from the flu? Yes I still have it. Yeah oh really! Oh man this is now two weeks for you?! Well it was just a lingering cough no big deal. Until you start coughing and don't want too. For me it was ummm.. The sore throat Yeah, the sore throat. I had the sore throat during the process and it didn't get that bad but it was annoying It was one day of sore throat Oh just bad Hey um You still have a sore throat? Its just a little twinge then uh actually it was okay and then I made a huge mistake last night Okay I had a piece of bittersweet chocolate

01:28 But that shouldn't do anything. Oh, I didn't think it would do anything. Man! It just kicked in maybe there was something in it but... Maybe you're allergic or there's some allergen in the drug? There must be something in there and it just kind of brought everything back and I suck some lozenge lodging wondering how many people came back from CES are gonna be a hotbed of Activity yeah, well Christina's here. And I've just been trying not to get her sick But I don't think I was contagious anymore you probably and of course you know the kids here So I can't be laying around in bed being sick that's not fun right anyway Here's how it goes now. I'm fine Come on. Let's party

02:14 Hey, John. I think France is on board Francis's on board. I think we finally got him onboard Oh yeah you mean with the police state? Yeah security system. Yeah, I think they're on board now Time they were reluctant, but what I think we matter of time. I think they understand the message now It's like you've got to be on board with everything yeah my goodness it's a This is a, it truly and of course I'm following a lot of the European news through multiple channels. Through the Dutch channel is very interesting to see... Yeah that's probably a little skewed I would think Well of course it is! Of course But skewed towards a European perspective or maybe an anti-European perspective you could say this brings the whole immigration thing back to the forefront and right into the wheelhouse

03:15 Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen and others. You know the Nazis obviously that's what I'm sorry they're all Nazis and the UKIP racist Nazis racist Nazis horrible right? The biggest kick out of the way people always when you bring up a UKIP there are racist group their races races racist to be going on but there's no...I mean well there's members Party that yeah, but there's members of the Democrat party that are racist. There's members of the Republican Party That are racists sure so what here is Nigel Farage this kicked up some dust And it is one a phrase in particular which you can interpret in multiple ways What I thought was interesting all you have to retire you let's find a worse way to interpret Of course if this was sent to me well even David Cameron interpreted it in the negative way and this was sent to me as play this

04:06 Wait a minute, look at the voice. Play this so he is racist! We'll prove to you... I think there is a very strong argument that says that actually what happened in Paris today and as a result and we've seen it in London too as a result of now having a fifth column living within these countries You know? We've got people living in these countries holding our passport that hate us Now luckily their numbers are very very small but it does make one question You know, the whole really gross attempt at encouraged division within society that we've had for the last few decades in the name of multiculturalism. I want us to live in a Europe where we trade together, cooperate together and are friends together but what is happening in Europe

04:51 and we're seeing it between Greece and Germany with increased antipathy between those countries because they've been forced together inside the straitjacket of an economic and monetary union. And indeed I would argue that the free movement of peoples has actually increased tensions between European countries, and we are now further apart from each other than we would have been before. So not Nigel of course takes this immediately towards his platform Excuse me, but the term fifth column is what kicked up all the dust in the controversy yes Saying that this would be that they were The fifth column well I'm reading from the you know we haven't played the jingle in a while. We probably should do that to it Which we often do no Wikipedia

05:37 So the fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group, such as a nation or a besieged city from within. Now this can be interpreted in two ways one is it is paralyzing the nation that it is like an ant colony The other one can be deemed as a resistance movement So you can interpret it multiple ways and the person who really used this the most, most interestingly was credited with using the term Madeline Albright. For when what sense? Madeline Albright in a lengthy account of German sympathizers in Czechoslovakia In the first years of World War two Reserved it for the possible response to a German invasion many perhaps most of this Sudeten's Sudetens would have provided the enemy with a fifth column Okay, but anyway. I think what The way it is being interpreted is

06:41 all UKIP and Farage, and of course this goes for everybody else. Why would somebody think that this was bad what he said? Because they feel it is racist against... Where's the racism?! It's a misnomer because he what the problem is the polls who are working Italians everyone who was running into The UK on the freedom of movement and you know, the legality to work in any EU country taking away the British jobs. It's nationalism which is what it's about. Nationalism is different Yes But this being good as being called racism Mainly by people who are I think Polish who want to go work in the UK and take away the UK jobs That would be the people who are smart

07:33 Here's kind of a downside. My sister does that too, it's fantastic! I've heard this story no place else and this is the downside of one of these issues that are plaguing some of the EU specifically in UK. Play this clip traveling crime ring hitting London Low-cost flights and visa free travel may be enjoyed by tourists across the EU but now another kind of passenger is taking advantage of cheap trips. Travelling gangs are highlighted as Europe's new criminal threat. Laura Smith takes a look at why Britain is the new number one destination for this

08:16 Here at Heathrow Airport a plane takes off or lands every 45 seconds. They're carrying the usual tourists and business people, and another kind of passenger criminals. Cheap flights and visa-free travel inside Europe mean mafia type gangs are flying in criminals from Eastern Europe doing a spate of robberies and then flying them out again before the police can catch up with them According to the chief of Europol, organised gangs are bringing criminals from places like Romania and Bulgaria specifically to commit crimes particularly old school ones like house burglaries and jewellery store robberies. They can then get out of the country almost immediately to be replaced by other groups And there are unwilling participants too In December Scotland Yard revealed that trafficking victims were being brought over by UK based gang

09:10 for robbery weekends in London designer clothes shops. Plane ticket records suggested the gangs were block booking seats on budget flights." Hey John, let's go do a little road trip! Hey everybody it's the... Coming to Rob You in the UK This of course is stirring up a lot of noise and on MSNBC uh... this is christopher dinky do we know who he is calling this from newsweek no you know this guy none of the world he's he's analyzed it as such the bad news is there were attacks on at least three mosques uh... and prayer rooms in france over the last uh... last day day-and-a-half uh... and reaction obvious reaction to that early and all events and in a broader context

10:03 This is an issue that's going to be used very effectively and cynically by the far-right politicians, not only of France but especially in the rest of Europe. Places like Dresden places like The Netherlands where... What is their message? Their message is essentially that kill people They don't like immigrants. They don't like Muslims, they don't like foreigners Their message if you want to just take all the coding off of it is essentially racist and xenophobic But in order to avoid... There you go! Racist and Xenophobic This is where it comes from From a guy who I don't think lives in Europe

10:47 Racist and xenophobic. It's a very effective argument. It is one that has been politically very successful in the Netherlands, for instance and it is going to be fueled... Really? ...to quite hot level by this incident and any further incidents that take place Yeah well that may be the intent Has anyone thought of that

11:27 Maybe that may be the intent. Maybe that's just the intent Spain is now proposing to introduce border control between the Schengen countries just to Be a little background on the Schengen agreement this was a part of the Treaty of I want to say treaty of Rome But it all folded into of course the Lisbon treaty and what is now known as the EU 1985 is when this started with, I think the first five five-member states of the then European economic community. This is like boiling frogs, this has been going on for a long time bit by bit they moved forward. I always found it was peculiar when you...I mean the idea that the previous clip to one Iran which was the gangs yes which can now just

12:16 roam around freely and that report continued, and they discussed how the police in London...once the guys leave the country you have no idea where they went. And if he did know, they wouldn't get any help from these other people anyway. You can't do it. Romanians aren't going to give you any information. And now they're gonna bring Ukraine into EU? That will really make things funny. Well, they're not bringing Ukraine into the EU. That's not gonna happen. As you know, that's what they want. Yeah but that won't have... I'm just saying not now. It could take a decade. Okay well they got enough bad countries and bad countries that are kind of crime-ridden poorly managed crappy countries and Bulgaria Romania come to mind how many Romanians do we have that contribute to the show? I don't think there's any

13:06 Whatever they're not all the oh just because the Romanians, they're like all crappy and then all Well maybe I sound like a bow you can't racist John at curry.com Me that you're getting this systematic systematic problems that they're not resolvable in the structure that they have existing, which is the EU structure. Just no good structures stinks. Oh I agree but that's exactly what they're doing now is their They're saying, oh you know now we need political union. Now we need...so it had the banking union that's the most important one control of money and control everything but then it's going to be now we should probably have a like an EU police force or something recognizable by their fine looking arm bands. Well they did discuss in that report was something called EU poll. Yeah. Oh yeah. Interpol for EU. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. EU poll but there are like a bunch of ballers wonders I mean they don't have any real

14:10 But they eventually will get that. I mean, it's just like the homeland security in this country. Nothing going on overnight now they're running the place. It's gonna be fantastic! Well they even called already calling this the 9-11 for France. This said you know there's nothing... The most people killed in a single attack for 50 years and all the stats are out. This was truly the Merv Griffin show of terrorism. I mean we've got everything in this thing We've got Anwar al-Awlaki, the underwear bomber. Everybody's connected. Al Qaeda in... let's see AQAP is saying that they directed this and we did that and ISIS is saying yeah didn't we do a good job? Everybody just pile jumping which leads me to believe that this isn't entirely different group altogether that actually pulled this thing off. It depends on your definition of pulling it off well

15:08 But it was fantastic, man. With the big firefights and then of course now we bring in the Jews... It's really against Jews Yeah, we had the... Now they do according to this report if you want to play a backgrounder. Yeah I got one too. The Paris Report backgrounder there's a little tidbit in here i thought was hilarious Thousands of people leave flowers outside a kosher supermarket during a vigil to honor the four hostages who were killed at the store Friday The large crowd included members of local Muslim and Jewish communities In show solidarity after frightening week

15:49 We are in one of the most civilized countries in the world. There's always some kind of threat. Personally, I feel a little bit endangered sometimes. I don't feel safe. Meanwhile, a global search is on for Hayat Boumediene. Boy and that was beautiful! That... Voice let me just roll that back for a second. That sounded like a professional voice guy that was just thrown in there Well, he was translating so it was the transfer Okay, that's what I did. I feel a little bit of danger sometimes but that was with yeah, I'm not seeing the video Of course, I don't feel safe Doesn't matter really save doesn't it doesn't even matter because that's the kicker The effect is the same Yeah, I don't feel say while a global search is on for hiya to commit yen

16:32 Police believe she may have been involved in the murder of a French policewoman. Did you see the? The still graphics of this lady yeah, what is like the one where she's holding a little crossbow crossbow man pointing at the camera guy Fantastic that's good I like that mean can't beat it That Is great and beat it It's just unbeatable. This is good stuff! Whoever is producing this, it great.

17:11 Kind of like a perverted eye candy. Yeah, she completes the story yeah But some reports say she may have fled to Syria possibly before the attacks even started her alleged accomplice and who cares common-law husband Amity Kulibaly was killed when police raided the store A French radio station released a recording said to be Kulibaly in which he lashes out at Western military campaigns against extremists. I was born in France, if Muslims hadn't been attacked elsewhere, I would not have done this but they are attacking But many others including the brother of a policeman killed in the terror attacks are calling for calm and acceptance To all the racists Islamophobes and anti-semites extremists must not be confused with Muslims crazy people have no color nor religion

17:59 There have been massive demonstrations across the country to show support for the victims and a big unity rally is planned for tomorrow. expected to draw as many as a million people. Now, not only a million people which means it's well organized in very short amount of time we have Angela Merkel they already had their meeting this morning along with Cameron I don't know if anyone any other world leaders have shown up the brother of the cop In his actual statement, said something a little different than in that report? Amalgamate religion. Islam is a religion of peace, love and sharing It's not about terrorism. It's not about madness

18:44 We have nothing to do with that. My brother was a Muslim and he was killed by people who pretend to be Muslims, they are terrorists! That's it we would like to see all the pictures when we see my brother on the pavement dying being killed Two things here. Now, in context of what he said you can interpret it by saying maybe they were Muslims but because they were terrorists and killing people they are therefore fake Muslims? But using the word fake is a little different than saying these are not true Muslims And the picture thing is interesting as the French

19:28 Officials are refusing to release any photos of the slain terrorists. Then the brother is very upset, he's saying why can't we see the pictures of these guys that you killed when we saw my brother dead for laying on the pavement? We have the old missing dead guys. Yeah, it's that we're not going to show you the picture and why is that because just sweet Charlie? If you show the pictures then is going to incite more violence isn't that exactly the whole point is to not self-censor I just don't I'm not understanding that Netanyahu jumps into it. I think this is significant What is taking place now and I have two examples of

20:16 So first of all, was the French prime minister... They have a prime minister as well? Yes. The president is Oman and the prime minister's that other guy. And so he was standing which I thought was cool by the way. He stands amongst the people in the crowd which our politicians should do that instead of sitting with Brolf in the studio all cozy or at the Capitol on the remote go stand in the midst of some people And his quote was, today we were all French Jews. So he took it to the Jews even though there's no evidence I don't believe they were yelling death to the Jews Do we have any evidence of that? No Netanyahu says to Céline and all French Jews and to all European Jews I would like to say the state of Israel is not just a place which you turn in prayer The state of Israel is also your home

21:11 And the neocons here in the United States of Gitmo Nation, do you remember James Kirchick from the Foreign Policy Initiative? FPI. The neocon outfit I know. This is the guy who, this is the guy who orchestrated Liz Wall's exit from RT. Remember he was tweeting and it was all set up? Yeah right right right. And he's the drama queen that got kicked off RT for yelling about Putin's anti-gay laws and just went on and on and on about it. So he writes this article

21:49 Do Jews have a future in France? The FBI, these kinds of think tanks. They know how to get their message through they know how to publish and that this is on the Daily Beast and the guy's going to show up in interviews And he starts off, there is no future for Jews in France as long as Europeans refuse to confront the tacit acceptance of violence by many of the continent's Muslims. That an assault on Jews would follow an assault on cartoonists came as no surprise! Huh... Indeed there was a grim if not explicitly expressed foreboding in the aftermath of Thursdays attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that the Jews would come next

22:33 Did you know that? No. For satirists and Jews are markers of modernity, and it is modernity that the Islamist who committed these heinous atrocities detest most." Well that's an interesting meme because that was the meme that cropped up around 2002 in all the publications that were trying to analyze 9-11 and this modernity thing was a big issue, and it continued to be for a few years. And then it was dropped like a hot potato, I don't know why...and now is reemerging. Big time!

23:17 Kind of made sense in 2002 the way because of the presentations that were being made from both sides But then it kind of died because it wasn't necessarily Accurate and maybe bull crap from the beginning, and so they was just completely Swept under the rug another bringing it back out for some reason and not yeah You know these guys I mean The ISIS people who are probably the epitomized... They're killing Muslims, they're not killing Jews. Well they do that too but they have rationale for it that is reasonable but the modernity argument I never heard in a sense really for almost 10 years It's kind of the reversal of what Pim Fortuyn was talking about when in 2000

24:01 before he was assassinated and he was devout anti-multicultural society... for integration of the immigrants in the Netherlands, which really is the problem. How the multicultural theme integrated these new immigrants and by the way these countries that that was talked about, it was the Newsweek guy or whoever. These countries have no problem with immigration. The Netherlands as an example has had Brits, Italians... They were always called guest workers we had Turks we had Surinamers We had Moluccas. We had some problems with the Moluccas they took the train hostage and that turned out bad

24:46 But, and the Turks came after that actually. And the Turks have completely integrated because they integrated! Now with the Moroccans it's been a huge issue now going on 15 years. What Pim Portain would say is they are a backward culture And so it's kind of reversing by saying... But yeah, that was modernized. Yes. So instead of exactly instead of saying... Nobody says backwards anymore I mean I did a few minutes ago when I discussed the Bulgarians but I of course I was active side there was... But you're racist not your race is xenophobic. It's obvious besides that

25:28 I was channeling a UKIP representative. So they've changed from backwards, and my mother used to use that term all the time too—all those people are backwards—and then that morphed into this rejection of modernity. And then that disappeared and now it just went completely away and now...I don't understand the point in bringing it back into conversation because it really doesn't fit." Well, the only thing I can imagine is because Netanyahu's now involved in this is to somehow bring in more attention to Israel, that you know Israel's going to be attacked. I don't know... Why else is Netanyahu jumping on this? Well possibly when you go back your original argument which is that we've gotten France to come over our side maybe explaining a lot of this You might want to play this clip which is another one to scare the public So let's play sleeper cells activated

26:26 Developing news out of Paris tonight where there is a worldwide manhunt for this woman, A fourth person French police believe was involved in recent terror attacks. Also today during high-level briefings French police were told terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours and that officers should erase their social media presence, and carry their weapons with them at all times. This comes as France and its supporters around the world are mourning those who lost their lives this week." The supporters of France or the supporters of the French? I'm not quite sure but that's a short list

27:03 So we ended with it, but now we got a bunch of cops armed or floating around. This is gonna be great I'm sorry if that I have to top you with this Mike Rogers who has just said did you see his teary goodbye in the house? I wish I had oh no you don't 38 minutes of I promised myself i wouldn't do this! I didn't have time to cut it down But he did a stylized piece on CNN because of course as you know he is a disc jockey. Now he's a broadcaster! That's right, a broadcaster yes...a pronounced-icator so he will be doing some kind of radio show and he is also now officially the terrorism correspondent and resident expert for CNN And they've done a stylized piece with him like hanging out in some swanky CNN backstage kinda set

28:02 And he's leaning against the table and he always wanted to be in show business. He has a whole little lead-in music here, check it out! And he is going to scare the bejesus out of you people We know that in places like Syria and Iraq with ISIS members That they are encouraged either stay home at a place like France or go back home To a place like France to conduct terrorist activity It's very, very difficult. There are thousands of individuals we believe from all over Europe and the United States by the way Canada and Australia who have traveled to Syria and come out It's hard to say that it is a failure if they don't get everything exactly right. What it was, we just didn't catch up in time to this individual plot. Oh! You didn't catch up in time? This isn't not a failure?! I've been concerned when I was chairman and am still concerned today that the sheer volume of those possibilities are just one plane ticket away. They fight in Syria... Now when he says that, then just one plane ticket away, they cut from a side shot to him close-up

29:06 It is truly programming. then they're gonna be allowed to come back to the United States. That's very, very concerning and candidly it is a matter of time before something like that happens in the United States. Candidly? Candidly some inside dirt? It's just a matter of time.

29:54 Did you notice that other meme that was, I didn't think much about it until I started hearing Rogers here but now I'm thinking about it. Is the again like you said your thesis at the beginning which is we've got to get France into security still. Get them all on board. Is this meme which is well The United States had these two men on their no-fly list. And unfortunately, nobody paid any attention to it." This is bullcrap! This is a lie! Let's look him up... No for one thing they don't do whatever their names are could be a million variations which is the real problem with no fly lists. Spelling and all that stuff yeah. So why would they be on the list in the first place?

30:41 They kind of hint to us that we have our, you know, our tentacles are all over the world. And these two Frenchmen who've never been to the United States that have somehow put them on a no-fly list... I'm not buying it! I think is just a bold faced lie. And MSNBC Ed Schultz is preparing you for The police state. How much more can we tighten the grip on society to prevent things like this? I mean, there's a great deal of pervasiveness that is going on right now that a lot of people object too but now when something like this comes up when you start talking about the militarization or police you start to understand it a little bit or maybe view it in a different light your thoughts

31:27 Well, you know as I was listening to Heather's very wise comments. Yes these attacks were professional but they reminded me of many of the massacres we've had in the United States in the last few years that have typically had about the same number of fatalities and sometimes more. We're old hat! We know how to do this. The attack had more Newtown had more Oh yeah Yeah so you look at it a different light yes I'm starting to get it Now I understand why we need SWAT teams and giant army tanks in every little town to protect the French. Issue a warrant for somebody's arrest for not paying his traffic tickets? That's why we need the militarization of the police department, so they can bust in and say you owe us money for our traffic ticket! You've been podcasting without a license Well that's coming

32:19 Yeah, you know it is. So Ed Schultz is all in on this? Well now... It makes sense to me that we have because of this what has happened in the United States of any consequence especially statistically that involves terrorists Arab terrorists Or Muslim terrorists? And the things he cited, you know the shooting from I guess one of the towers, the tower shooting at Virginia's University of Virginia. Newtown which is bogus and all these other ones where was the Muslim terrorist thing? I don't see it. Open up the door Jim Dyer! Open the door man, better stop it. Actually sounds pretty good. No but its not there, its not there but this is... But Ed Schultz sees it

33:07 Yeah. The visionary! This is what I'm worried about, there's nothing we can do about... There are obviously still people following that didn't really shoot the guy on the ground and yeah all of that is true We need to move beyond that kind of stuff because this is moving at breakneck speed They expect 1 million people maybe they already are? But the French like big events That's true And rightly so. What are you eating? They go on general strikes in France, it's against the law of the United States to have a general strike. Oh you can't do that! Okay whatever you say I won't do it because it shuts down things and you can't shut down things and in France if they just go general strike everybody takes their day off Can I ask you a question? No Yes What are you eating?!

33:59 That's a lozenge so I don't cough. Okay, fine just... I put it in my mouth and then i take it out so you don't constantly hear the clunking against the lozenge against my teeth Oh because I hear you taking it out of your mouth and putting it back in and I hear the ruffle of the bag Is that more annoying than the thing just leaving it in there? I hear the bag ruffle No this is what you're hearing I don't let you hear the bubbling of the bong. Come on, man be professional! You're more professional than I am. There you go... that's it. Interesting response from Zbigniew. So they put some oxygen on him and snapped him out of it and he came out and said something? I think they actually wheeled him into his daughter's studio, Mika.

34:50 I'm liking her more and more. Yeah, you keep saying this she is something she must be doing something hypnotic and you're like if you're falling for it yeah If only she could sing then i could switch from team taylor to Team Mika This is the big new Brzezinski of course famous as national security advisor He was Carter to Carter. Yeah, and he there's video of him You know touching down his books well, there's a great video of him

35:27 His chopper touches down in Afghanistan and he's riling these guys up, saying all this land is going to be your land. We're going to help you take care of it. You're going to take your land back? And this was the Mujahideen who we armed and set up and later arguably became Al-Qaeda. So he was deeply involved in non pacifist activities And of course, yes his book The Grand Chessboard I think is the most famous one. Yeah it's the one you refer to or used too. Right which...you know the pieces of that game as described in his book are fitting nicely into every single slot but he if this was a beginning kind of World War II

36:17 where, you know we've got all kinds of things happening. He would be the Chamberlain arguing for appeasement to go easy on the terrorist elements. But we have to be patient and realize that this is going to be a long haul challenge to us and do we have to be also very measured in how we conduct ourselves The most important thing we have to do, in my judgment is to avoid becoming the enemy number one of Islam in the eyes of believers in the world of Islam. And I think that we have to draw clear lines and be patient and also be responsible. We have to preserve our rights – that is to say freedom of expression and freedom to express our views

37:07 But at the same time we must avoid being provocative and unnecessarily nasty because some forms of humor directed at, for example profit in recent times and some publications in Europe We're extraordinarily provocative because obviously we are democracies, we have that freedom of expression. But it doesn't do any harm to be measured even in humor and to avoid engaging in forms of humor, sardonic or whatever that then becomes profoundly offensive to the deepest religious motivations

37:46 of people who are insecure, who are confronting modernity for the first time. There it is! Who easily interpret slights into offensive intolerable acts and can then be swept up by a fanatical movement I hadn't heard it the first time there it is this happens a lot by the way on the show yeah So the modernity thing, that and Zbig doing that now it's a thing. Now its a thing. Yeah apparently its been brought back into the meme fest, the meme go round. Modernity.

38:25 So what do we have to do? Be less modern, be nice. I'm not sure I understand... Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about but you did mention something and now I have to relate an anecdote which is that I was watching television the other day Oh no! This is not what we do And I'm flipping around and see the James Bond movie The Living Daylights This was a Timothy Dalton Bond movie, wasn't it? You have great memory. Yes this is the Timothy Dalton dogs of the Bond series but in this movie which was done in 1987

39:03 That's when we were, that's when Reagan and the boys were supporting the Mujahideen. Which I never pronounced correctly. And they would go...and so he is in the Middle East during this story. This is a movie worth renting just to see what was going on. The entire... uh... the it did would became al-qaeda operation which was fighting against the other russians largely because the russians are totally corrupt right and they were fighting as a rush is that we're finding with it was run by the british m i six like top atop but there have been guys who read with a very rich accent on ice

39:41 Yeah, it was very funny. Like wow this movie because it was all pre the switcheroo Well yeah context 1987 so this was before The wall came before Hasselhoff brought the wall down. Yes before a lot of things changed So it's a very interesting film I think is one of them more revealing in terms of the structure of things then. I mean, the other movies are so much fantasy it was like out of control but this was less fantasy. I think it was just they were trying to do with Dalton trying to bring him down to earth And this was very...I would recommend to people watching this if they have a couple hours on their calendar. Adam, let's see storyline James Bond's mission is to firstly organize the defection of a top Soviet general when the general is recaptured Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues take him to Afghanistan where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker

40:39 Everything eventually reveals itself to bond. Yeah, though Oh this was you and Kirby was in this one Dutch guy a Dutch actor huh okay that you're right That's worth the now on that note Christina And I went to it's raining here in Austin is freezing rain at night actually It's really crap ass crap we so what are gonna do? We went to recycled reeds And I think we talked about this. This is where I brought half of them when we moved to the new place in Austin, this is where I brought half of my books and you know it's connected to the Austin library and then they clean them up, they categorize them... Oh yeah, recycled reeds! I was thinking what are they take clarinets and sell them for the poor? R-E-A-D-S Recycled Reed Yeah there's a or I have a read... Not quite

41:36 So you can buy a book there for $1.00, paperbacks 50 cents and the cool thing is everything benefits the library so what you typically do is go and buy a crap load of books read them bring them back give them back at the same time they have some money and then sell the book again it's not a bad idea I'm roaming around picking up this book thinking that's kind of interesting maybe I should buy that It's called The Arabs A Short History And what's interesting, and this needs to go on the list. This was published in 1937 and it was a kind of a fluke...this professor from Harvard, Philip K Hitti, H-I-T-T-I, and his buddy they really had didn't ...they were just looking for something to do and they said you know why don't we put together a little history on the Arabs

42:29 I'm sure that's the way they pronounce it, too. And they threw this book together and right around that time maybe a couple years later there was an insatiable need in the United States specifically for knowledge of the Middle East. This was now kicking in and nobody knew anything. What is the writer's name on this? Philip K Hitti. H-I-T-T-I. Yeah. The Arabs A Short History. Now you got it on Google Books I'm looking at. And so this thing became an overnight classic, well not overnight a year later or so. A super selling book they've done multiple revisions it just keeps getting published over and over again. Yeah it's been recently published by Regnery and everyone familiar with that publishing company in 1996 yeah the one I have is the 96 but it's a 2002 printing that I have okay

43:26 Here's what's interesting about it, and there is an introduction—an intro that kind of explains the history of how the book came to be. And it goes through 800 years leading up until the 50s I think now with the reprints and new editions but 800 years of the Arab in the Middle East But skips 400 years in the middle, which is the Ottoman Empire. Just completely ignores it! Which is interesting because it makes the book a lot shorter... Yes, it would! But also when you think about it that's really a whole separate deal that just almost stands by itself but when you look at all leading up to the Ottoman Empire

44:15 So many inventions and science and poetry, so much came out of this region. And by the way Syria? That greater Syria as it's still known you start to get some context about what is happening today truly was Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel. It was the whole region so when you talk about Islamic State and what they really want... Yeah that's what they're trying to push back together. And then it came into context for me and I'm almost done with the book it's really easy to read but you just sit there go oh wow okay

44:54 Now I get it. Now you understand a lot better the differences and, you know, the Semitic which is of course all people from the region anti-Semitic not just anti Jew in the difference between the Arabs and Jews and if you really start to get a feel for it... And now I understand when the president says degrade and ultimately defeat ISIS He's really saying we want the three-state solution of the Middle East. We want Kurdistan, we want Iraq and we want this other thing Islamic State which would be Syria basically but just throw everything else in

45:36 And in my view, that's purely for pipeline reasons or whatever. But you have those guys manage it but they're not that important. It would be a transport thing only and Kurdistan needs to... the Kurds need to be independent and needed to be protected and Iraq needs to be protected. You can see this is what the deal has been all along and it really comes into focus by reading this book I highly recommend it! It's a great book And it's just, I was... It was complete karma. I don't know what it was. It was magic that fell into my hands. Serendipity is the word you're looking for? That is the word serendipity. All right well look I'll look for it yeah but I recommend that it said because he wants so complicated we know what do we know about any of this stuff

46:21 No, no crap. We don't want it that we don't want people knowing about these things Well know that would that would ruin it then? We can't tell them what it is and you can't yell at the UK for being racist and all the rest of it Bummer hey by the way just going back to this to the Charlie thing I'm not sure if this if it was happened or not if it's being covered up Helric Fredu is apparently was one of the, if not the police commissioner or one of the lead investigators committed suicide during this whole ordeal with his service weapon at his desk. What? I know and it's only being reported kind of by... It's not really a mainstream reporting so where do i get proof that this really happened

47:13 But when you search around, Helric, H-E-L-R-I-C Fredou, F-R-E-D-O-U. H-E-L-R-I-C Fredou? F-R-E-D... O-U What? O-U Yeah So they're saying Have you gone to google dot fr and looked around there No no I haven't done that Here it is Another Mossad victim. Well, you see this is I see that's the stories that keep bumping up like okay fine? I would just like an official report that says the guy killed himself from you know blank France 24 or Lamont or give me someone

47:53 Who's really reporting not so yeah, I guess you what the point of this is they're trying to okay? So this guy Yeah, I know it's all I know what the point is trying to say the most odd way Is just to make it look as though this entire Charlie Hebdo thing was Mossad Oh sod stir up shit between the French which has a huge Arab not Arab but Muslim population and then also huge Jewish population and a huge Jewish probably stir-up shit mm-hmm to make, you know...to get things to come to a head or maybe even to get Netanyahu re-elected which is going to be something of a challenge. This is another thing this is another thing but I think this is just after the fact bullcrap and I don't have any real evidence that this actually took place by it just can't find a report that I feel comfortable with The guy committed suicide? Or did he even existed? Yeah! That's dead or anything

48:47 Now, mind you I was still recovering from the flu. Got my daughter here so it's a little weak on the deep dive...I did deep dives on some things but not on this. I figured it would be better to throw out to the producers. No rush! It'll be around. We'l figure it out later. This thing is going to be around. Take a look at Google.fr and see what they get. Let me see couple other things that I had on this In the Netherlands, according to The Telegraaf which got it from Bildt German publication which I would say is reasonably respectable. Former US General Michael Flynn who i believe at one point was DIA Director of Intelligence he was clear in telling Bildt

49:46 that these brothers had contacts and were in contact with other like-minded terrorists everywhere, including the Netherlands. You're next Holland! You are next be afraid which honestly you should be because this will happen more is on its way there's... it has to this is the theme you know, just scaring people. And of course now we've got a lot of these laws in place... Let's not forget that we had what's her name? Theresa May! Time to play that one I love that one. This legislation is important the substance is right

50:36 The time is right. Oh yeah, timing is everything. And the way in which it has been developed is right It's a properly considered thought through set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger. It has been drawn up in close consultation with police and security services In an open and free society like ours we can never entirely eliminate threat from terrorism but we must do everything possible consistent with our values as a country to reduce the risk presented by our enemies. It is a struggle that will go on for many years, and the threat we face right now is perhaps greater than it ever has been." And we must have the powers we need... Well they got the powers they need and if there was any question would you need more of them?

51:28 Think this for do guy may have been another victim of a chemical drug induced suicide Suffering from depression Depression and all the rest and next thing you know he kills himself in the middle of writing their report This is comes from there is but if you go to the google. I'd have fun guys There's real reporting on it good good yeah hmm anyway onward Yeah, unless you have anything else. Well I mean...I think that's all i've got it wasn't prepared to do too much on the French thing since this is still developing and but I think your initial thing was the... On board! France is on board! Was getting the French to get into a police state like ours yeah mm-hmm and I have to say that they'll be very interesting because the French really do you know they kick up a storm man what do we do?

52:31 And I just have all these thoughts as I'm going through it, you know. The French still go out on the street and of course they...I don't know what the internet usage is in France? I'm sure it's retarded compared to the United States although they were very forward thinking with the Minitel systems back in the day which always thought was pretty cool But they also kept the Minitel for a long time while people were saying, hey, we want AOL. We want America online please. We want France online if we can have it.

53:08 But in America, this is the moral self-licensing. You just go on there on your Facebook and you say, hey you damn you we want back down freedom of speech! And then you go and smoke some crack or meth or whatever and you're done because that's all we got to do here. We don't actually have anyone doing anything because you've given yourself the moral self license. Hey I screamed? I yelled at him? Then i'll show those terrorists Yeah, I posted. I changed my icon and not a lot of people changing the icon to the Prophet Muhammad as I suggested which just shows me... I think somebody else had a good one which was changing it to Mohammed Ali. It's kind of this strange irony even our super what's her name? The guy who did Felix the cat what's his name?

53:59 I don't know. Yeah, the American guy, American cartoonist is famous! Yeah, I know Felix the Cat. Who did that? The guy's not still alive. Ah... who's the guy...? Um okay now you're- Felix the cat guys gotta been dead for 20 years. Who is the uh American Cartoonist in France he lives in France now this guy is yeah this guy This guy what's his name Robert Crumb Robert Crumb lives in France now? Yeah. Huh, Felix the Cat. Fritz the cat! I'm sorry, Fritz the cat... not Felix, Fritz the cat. They keep on truckin', that's what he says. Yeah, Robert Crumb, I met him once. What a character. He was just looking at me like it looked like a character. What was the context of your meeting?

54:51 There was something going on when they were revitalizing the San Francisco Examiner and Hearst took it over, and they had this big party. And he was one of the guys there. I went up to him to ask if would do an illustration for a book that I was working on. Did he shine you? He told me to fuck off basically. Seems like that kind of guy. Not so many words. And then he did an illustration exactly what I was looking for, for someone else. Another douchebag. Okay now we know what he's made a maid of. So it was your made in no end and he uh... So he was pressured that people were saying hey man. He is the genius there's no doubt about that. But he was being pressured? He was being pressured. Hey man how come you don't do a Muhammad thing man come on man what are you doing

55:38 And then he copped out. He did a Muhammad's ass with like, a hairy ass with flies flying around it and then underneath is like you know not... You know there's like Muhammad my friend or maybe even said Muhammad Ali something stupid like that didn't cop out. A Muhammad Bakshi I'm sorry the ass of Muhammad Bakshi. Okay well yeah well he doesn't need the aggravation No, nobody needs the aggravation. But you know the question is... And he's an American underneath it all. You can live in France all you want and do you still have American? I don't think so. It was a good idea. Yeah well, that is true in our completely politically correct world of the United States of Gitmo Nation. Yeah. I think even we're politically correct at some level. Absolutely yeah no I think you're right. That's fact. At what level do you think that is?

56:43 It's a really low level, thankfully. But it does exist I don't think it hurts the show necessarily and makes the show probably more palatable Yeah there are limits but that is...I'm only thinking of the listener on not really thinking of anything else Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. It's all we think about We're doing this show for a group of people that are listening to it and they want us to do the show They want us to do the show for a number of reasons one of the reason is because we do give bring some Insight through research that they don't have time to deal with But they have suspicions that a lot of this stuff is bullcrap And now they got a show that tells them it is bull crap their suspicions are confirmed

57:28 And on that note, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John Charlie Dvorak and in the morning to you Adam Curry Charlie In the morning to all the ships at sea by the way We also have boots on the ground feet in the air we have subs in the water lots of subs James and nights out there Lots of subs in the water will be talking about that in a bit as well in the morning to the chat room everyone checking us out on the stream NoahJendastream.com is where you can find both of them and in the morning to our artists, so it was 20WattBulb again who came back with the artwork for episode 685 and that was the self-censored graphic nice piece by the way yes I agree it was a nice piece

58:19 No, I bought ball by believe also sent us a voice at me at least a Some graphics for our and I told him we're never gonna do this. It just was some idle chatter that we Tend to do on our show there's things that we'd like to do or maybe you wouldn't like to do it like to talk about So he said it's a Golden Globes red carpet art. Oh is that tonight? Yeah, it is tonight. Yeah yeah that's gonna be great. It's gonna be good. Christina and I are going to a chicken shit bingo You're going to bingo? Chicken shit bingo What does that mean Oh you're not familiar with the chicken shit bingo No and then you can keep saying is I'm still not gonna be familiar until you explain it Okay this is bar And then there's a big bingo board on the ground you know with numbers

59:10 depictions of prizes or anything, but it's typically a number like big like a bingo sheet and there is a cage around it. And you know there's a chicken in there and the chicken walks around him and he takes a dump and then whatever he dumps on that's the next number. The chickens dump a lot. This sounds this sounds like a Texas thing? It is! You could be there all night brother if the chicken has constipated. No then we'll get a new chicken yeah and you feed them things too throw things at the chicken and you've got to entice him yell out hey man poop over brother. And there's alcohol involved? Yeah, I'm sure probably given some to the chicken wouldn't hurt all right we have a few people to thank for the show 686 palindrome which sounds a little palindrome nobody picked up on it also sounds a lot like an intel processor and i'm running at 686 really good for you

1:00:07 This is getting to be a slow time of year. It's pretty obvious that we're struggling a little bit, I would hope people would pick up the pace somewhat. Anonymous from Orange County in New York came in at the top as the executive producer at 34567 and he first and foremost caps locked Dvorak for your courage and all the work you do for the best podcast... I'm gonna have to expand this a little here hang on First and foremost, thank you Podfather Curry John Capslock Dvorak for your courage and all the work you do for the best podcast in the universe. Oh I see that, I get a C for Capslock Curry. Jesus this goes on forever! I should open it with something else...I can't even get it on the screen. Really? I'll read it, I'll let you work on that.

1:00:57 You bestow some N.A. karma for my father who is flying today, January 11th to the belly of the Gitmo beast Washington D.C., to compete to be selected as a representative for America's road team captains." Okay I'm back. This is basically the Super Bowl being a truck driver and it means... And it means yeah it means the world to him to take to be able to take part in Hit him in the mouth a few months ago, and I know that he listened to the show every week And he drives doubles. He drives doubles is gonna drive triples you what those are right? Yes two two treasure two trailers Yeah You ever seen the three no The triples well you can't drive a triple in and out of New York City. I don't think Double is even crazy you can drive them. I think it Oregon is that they're legal It's frightening when you drive by one of these things yeah

1:01:50 Anyway, he knows a shot at karma will give him the courage to do his best this week in DC and emerge victorious. And then he sends a link to what his father is competing in... Ever heard of this? A trucking...? Well there's lots of trucking shows. Some sort of competition. I like it! Yeah. Truck drivers are the backbone of America everybody here comes the karma for your dad. You've got Karma. Father Anonymous What? WinFnoAgenda Put a in the mornings thing on your rig, on your rig. Patricia Worthy, $250 from Miami Florida. JCD has note. John and Adam I wrote for Karma for some family members before Christmas and I'm back. It's in...I'm back in hopes of finishing that job okay this is vague

1:02:50 Well, this seems a little like buying indulgences. Somebody picked it up she's the first one to notice this. Explain? Well in the Catholic Church you got your reputation at some point for you know you go in and buy give money In this case for karma and they would give you a blessing or something or other because of your donation And essentially It's time to say said this essentially twice in the same I'm not gonna stop you go ahead. I'm saying you should I'm just saying I'm telling you, I noticed this and

1:03:28 It amounts to indulgences of a modern sort. By the way, I want to mention the people out there who notice these kind of religious connections like this particular one... it was never our idea to sell karma! We're not selling it! It's not being sold! Not selling karma but it was never our idea even indulging giving people karma. It was the listeners who demanded it Yes we only did it once in awhile just as a little joke and people wanted and for whatever reason Seems to work for him. Yes, we have a lot too many anecdotes to ignore the And I thought I think it's a it's a global You know Matrix type herd connective thing gets the magic of the jingle well there's that yeah

1:04:16 It is a magical jingle. I'm requesting relationship karma for my grandson, he needs a new girlfriend and job karma for my daughters they're going in the right direction but let's give them a little push. Huh! I also think donation puts me over the $1,000 mark and that uh...and if i'm picking my new name you have a pen? Uh it's not on the list I presume okay um hold on I have a little mini pad actually for this now because you Patricia of Biscayne Bay. Okay, hold on Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay and she has her accounting looking forward to each edition of the No Agenda show thank you for liberating me from listening to the news happy new year everybody and everyone in the agenda family

1:05:09 Let me hand out the karma there relationship karma for her grandson. Is that what she said? Grandson and then job cover for our daughters jobs Jobs, jobs and jobs let's vote for John You've got karma. Nice! Then we have plain old Davey here from Texas 23456, I wish to make this donation anonymously and he goes on the donation should put me over the threshold for knighthood we have you down as attested by my county attached it meets your approval please knight me a Sir Davey of the Sooner State My great-grandfather was detained as a sooner in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, so I thought it would be a fitting title. You know what this Sooner's refers to? No, I don't.

1:05:54 Okay, they were getting this is that one of those periods where the government was gonna say okay We're gonna recording off this state Oklahoma in this case and then at midnight or noon or whatever time it was Everyone's can go grab some property and it's all yours. You can homestead it Oh cool And so there was a group of cheaters from Texas whom probably but they took off early They didn't wait for the time. That's un-American, man! And they were called Sooners because they went too soon and they were detained...they were arrested

1:06:34 And a lot of the irony of this story, depending on who tells it is that a lot of the seniors were arrested but then they were later allowed to go grab some property because nobody took the whole damn state. You got so many acres I believe, I don't know what the number was and they got the worst part like what's left over, stuff that nobody wanted which turned out to be the places where most of the oil was. They got detained. Anyway... I'm starting a new adventure with my smoking hot best friend. She likes oaky Sooners, a lot more than Texans." Another reason for the Sooner reference is in my title request. Yep! I donated a smaller amount October hoping for a shot at karma when she and i got together for the first time in more than 10 years although you were unable to completely honor the request all due to my short-sightedness by the way... Short sightedness?

1:07:23 The karma came through anyway. We renewed our friendship and now I'm on my way back to continue that renewed relationship, thank you and thank you for the best podcast in the universe! Yay! Send a picture of her So i guess we need some karma for him Yeah of course, happy to do that for him You've got it You've got Karma Yo yo yo Uh... Sir Sheets, Esquire. 23456 in Brewerton New York. Lads you rock! Stay loud and proud. A suggestion we have nights and black nights recently there was a posthumous night could you call it posthumous night? A white night may I ask for some relationship karma Rock on I remain schwacking for freedom sir sheets the no white night now i don't think so could be uh silent night yeah that's kind of this red lame i agree

1:08:15 Alright, uh yes. We don't have the ability to count every nose that we schwack. You've got karma. Schwacking for freedom! Schwacking karma and finally Sir Stuart Rushing in Corvallis Oregon he comes in with a check I think almost monthly and No note and I didn't know you emails once in a while, but nothing related to this particular donation when I thank him and all the rest for contributing to show 686 and remind people that we do have another show coming up on Thursday Thursday and mark org slash na is your target location? To visit will be halfway through the month already by then go so fast

1:09:03 Too fast or is that just as you get older it seems to go faster, which is what I think. I don't know why There's a rat there's actually a Reason for that okay? I don't know what it is But if the chemical reason there's something that doesn't in your system It goes at a faster pace or something makes things seem like you're going time is going faster than it is okay So yes as you get older and seems somebody can explain it to us in a note And then we'll read it I'm very interested in older things go by fast as ludicrous actually and especially makes you wonder when you go to the store And he got this old woman who's probably a time must be flying here comes taking forever to get the panty out it's like lady swipe already no sense of time here things are pre-swiped lady

1:09:57 I want to get to my complaints today, by the way. Okay well first let me thank all of our producers executive producers and associate executive producers for helping us out that was a...I know it was very we were in deep trouble until John sent out the newsletter which these are works of art by the way. Oh! Now i have to tell you its works of art I really enjoy what you're doing with the... You know it's, yeah. Well I appreciate that compliment but let me just there is something I find peculiar. Now we push everybody to get on a newsletter list and of course then they have to tolerate the newsletter which is a work of art and some people don't like art

1:10:38 But to me, we promote, promote, promote. People donate... Here's what I do. I have the main mailing list and it comes in automatically because as people subscribe it goes into the MailChimp automatically and gets added And then I go to PayPal and every couple of months, I scrape all the people that donated and put them on the list. So everybody who donates is automatically put on the mailing list eventually not right away. We get a lot of donations some are five bucks some are very 10 but every month it amounts to about 100 new people

1:11:21 And so I pull in, because when he pulls in it does a merge purchase. It says oh there's 100 new names! Why didn't these people subscribe themselves? It just befuddles me I don't know. You know what i'm saying? You want to say like, i'm stunned well Okay Every time I bring the hundred and a new hundred people And I look at how was 100 people that didn't subscribe to the newsletter But they donate it which makes no sense to me but that's just the way it is I guess um, I think people are you know They expect The way people usually get on email lists and newsletters is spam Like more cam how did she just be here already So, I don't know.

1:12:13 And it's just interesting, but yeah. It's always baffling you again Thank you Not that we don't mention that they should subscribe to the newsletter and if the link is everywhere on every single show notes page Everywhere you can find no agenda You'll see a link and I need to do a quick plug one more time for Noah gender player calm This is the best resource we've ever had for this show in this category. We've had people doing translations, transcripts of all kinds and that usually it peters out when people find out that crap that's a lot of work but this is...it's kind of like

1:12:52 In fact, it's very much like a SoundCloud where it's annotated but not necessarily by people going, whoa funny hey cool little comments and little blips. But it's annotated by topic and you can go in... And I'm not sure who is doing the annotation? I believe anyone can do it. You click on it and it goes right to that spot on the show. You could tweet a link or copy the link from there and send it to somebody. It's brilliant! Brilliant, I tell you. A great resource and highly appreciated of course. We don't do any of this work, this is all part of you the producers will be thanking producers later again thank you to the associates and executive associate producers real credits accepted anywhere credit are accepted because they're real unlike the phonies in Hollywood we'll be very happy about for you. Devorak dot org slash N-A And of course we always need everybody to do as much as they can to propagate our formula Our formula is this...we go out

1:13:48 We hit people in the mouth There we go, you pope Oh So let's kill two guys this week. You almost killed two guys Yeah to like real guys like a like human being people that would be amazing Okay, what I'm bicyclists? Oh I'm going down the road and then there's this crosswalk

1:14:27 And some idiot shoots in front of me, through the crosswalk as fast as they can on a bicycle. They're not on the road! They're on a sidewalk and you don't have time to see this guy... The person was not even in view and shoots across the... Crosswalk in a situation. This is these bicyclists are all over that they never stop They're supposed to be aren't they supposed to follow the rules of the road, aren't they supposed to stop at stop signs and red lights? Yeah No, they go right through the red light and they make the lead. They just go on as though they own the place Yes The cops do nothing about this These bicyclists want all these oh I want my own lane. I want this I want that And then they don't obey any rules

1:15:09 It's just it's an and then you do hit him almost hit him every so often Yeah, it's just you'd find this to be the case in Texas. It is a it's a in San Francisco now There's more bicyclists screwing up things because they don't follow any rules what they're going in the middle of the intersection there They got cars going every which way they're working their way through the cars I am a, obviously come from a biking nation. I've learned bicycles as transportation for from a very young age around seven which was a radical departure from the bicycles that I had when I was before seven riding around in Maryland Kensington, Maryland on the sidewalk and had one of those Schwinn with the banana seat and the chopper version remember that? Oh yeah! Those were cool man you have to playing cards in your spokes

1:15:59 But you had to ride on the sidewalk. You couldn't ride on the streets because it was like a recreational thing and the Dutch bicycles are sturdy, they're like tanks. You have big spots for milk crates in front of you to put stuff into carry to transport your kids whatever and it is a biking culture. This is the mistake that the pro bicyclists make we have in Austin, a huge bicycle movement I like the idea just like in New York City and Manhattan We have the city bikes It's very effective And you can grab one You can bike you can park it you know? It's even free if it's under 30 minutes that you use it however it is a drastic mistake

1:16:39 To think that anywhere, that you can just put in bike paths even and it's all going to work. It will take decades for the culture of biking to be embedded into the psyche of the population when I drive... ...To this day when I make a right-hand turn I am always looking in my right hand mirror to make sure I'm not about to cut off a bicyclist or drive over one These things take decades before that kicks in. Here in Austin, yeah you can ride a bike and you'll be accepted and of course we have a biking culture from Lance Armstrong but now we have bikes really not just as racing but as transportation. And the good old boys after like one in the morning... You do not want to be riding your bike down Congress because the good ol' boys in the trucks are going to coal roll you

1:17:35 because it's not ingrained yet. So, it'll take a long time and people... And you can be arrogant like that in the Netherlands! No one... The bikes they don't pay attention to lights or anything but it flows. It works and no one gets mad. No one gets mad like I helped oh fuck I'm sorry man bumped into you whatever It'll take a long time and you and I, well, I think we will have expired before. I think that it'll never happen in this country... It's possible! ...and by the time it does approach in some areas happening—and by the way part of this is a

1:18:16 kind of a liberal idealism. Oh, they do look at Amsterdam! I went to Amsterdam for the first time and oh these people are on bicycles it is so much better... It will not happen like that. We're our car culture we use a lot of oil yeah this would solve the problem of energy yeah and it's all bullcrap and we're a huge country You could literally bicycle across the Netherlands if you wanted to. I've done it! Yeah? I have bicycled across the Netherlands as a young man. People are always trying to shoehorn what must be better, it's gotta be better. Tell that to the Dutch when their bicycles were stolen by the Germans how much better it was. Didn't work out that well. It's the same with electric vehicles our country in United States is too big for electric vehicles

1:19:13 It's just too big. It works great in smaller countries, yeah you can drive an electric vehicle across the Netherlands not back again but you can drive it across once now it's true we are a nitro burning crowd pleasing bunch of... What other culture has drag racing to such an extreme? I don't think any big tournaments is there drag racing anywhere else have 10,000 horsepower cars that should tell you right there where we're coming from

1:19:51 Get over it. Get over this, you people out there that think we should all be on bicycles You know the arrogance of these assholes too was they used to have they don't have it so much because I think they arrested The leader but this Critical mass which was a thing? They would do on last Friday at the month or some Commute day and they were just always bicycles would come out of the woodwork in San Francisco and clog up traffic Right and everyone's dressing in costumes And just to make everybody's life miserable. And then one time I was in the, I swear this was funny. This is about 10 years ago though they stopped doing this. Again they arrested a leader and that was the end of it because there are always some one guys who got a lot of charisma against people who do this stuff. I'm shopping in the vegetable section of Andronico's store in Berkeley and here comes about 500 bicycles into the store

1:20:47 And so these bicyclists are everywhere and they're yelling at everybody, telling us to get out of our cars and get a bicycle. And I'm saying...I'm on my feet picking vegetables! I don't know what you guys are talking about? You're crazy!" Then they would just harass everyone then they all took off like a rocket it was like... Everyone just shot out of the store after making everyone miserable for a few minutes. It's these guys. Alright alright. You don't like the bicycles, I get it But anyway, I'm sorry. No it's okay. I understand. I don't hate the bicycles. I know how to live with the bicycles and come from that culture but it is just not that simple and that is what you said this liberal idea

1:21:32 which of course Austin is extremely liberal, which I like. This liberal idea of we'll put the bike paths in and oh! We have bike paths and it's all gonna be great. I'm getting a little involved in local politics. It's so small you can't see people. There's a bike path on Marin in Berkeley. People should go check this out. Didn't mean to set you off. All the way up Marin from Buchanan there is never a bike on it. The President's Podcast Yeah, I had to take a little germane. Yeah, I had to take a little clip of this because he is touting his numbers how great everything's going here which arguably is true the numbers are good there's people starving it's not great

1:22:25 There's people with no jobs, you know and then people falling off the end But he needs to tout it and he's really he's out He's listened very carefully on how to communicate his message these days too two other Broadcasters which I like but of course as always we have to start off with this hallmark. Heil everybody everybody about a year ago I promised that 2014 would be a breakthrough year for America And this week we got more evidence to back that up It's been six years since the crisis Those years have demanded hard work and sacrifice on everybody's part. So as a country, we have every right to be proud of what we've got to show for it America's resurgence is real It's REAL! That'll be the focus my State Of The Union address in a couple weeks IT'S REAL! I couldn't resist

1:23:17 It's real. Yeah, you just played that just to do that gag? Yes I did. I know. Lord walk... I'm sorry. You should be. I should be sorry. I got an interesting report that was... I don't want say one thing about every single podcast the president does is always off balance The left channel is always almost 50% louder than the right channel. I don't understand why. Because nobody knows how to turn a knob! No one's paying attention. Hey, Barack just read that. Yeah they just push a button and they leave the room. You're right you're right okay hit it so we have all this stuff going on with Russia and sanctions and then Merkel we know is a pal

1:24:10 Yes of Putin's like a buddy and they talked both in both them talk both both of them And Russian, and they have a direct pipeline with each other literally yes They liked to chat But she said she went all into some extreme on the sanctions and even though she was against it but then as you know is hurting Germans economy more than anybody's because but she still all in and there makes no sense and So I found this report on the Russian television, RT. And they...they think are baffled by it too and so they deconstructed what they believe might be going on with Merkel and this kind of explains it all although I think is a bit of as...I'm not buying in 100% but I liked that at least gives us something to think about. Okay. The deconstruction

1:25:02 Political analyst Naborish Malich thinks that Germany is following America's lead on sanctions because of Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal ambitions. What is the next step from being chancellor of Germany for somebody who obviously Obviously not ready to retire, not ready to relinquish the limelight. Not ready to relinquish some sort of power and influence in the world." The rumors in German newspapers about how she's eyeing the spot of U.N. secretary general—which according to UN custom belongs next to a European—certainly suggests that they fit the entire story. They fit the facts. They fit the behavior.

1:25:42 If Angela Merkel wants to become the next U.N. secretary general—and we all know that anybody who has incurred the wrath of the United States will not stay long in that position, or even get elected if they don't have support from Washington—then the appeasement policy towards Washington for lack of a better word suddenly starts making a whole lot more sense. From the phony anger over phone taps to the persistent damage to Germany's economy and this US engineered conflict with Russia... Thank you, RT! Why would you want to be... by the way another non-English speaking Secretary General yeah that's what we need can we get someone who just speaks English for once?

1:26:29 I don't think Angela is very good at English. I never heard her speak English No, no, I don't think she is either but she's not stupid Why would you want to be secretary general? It seems like a shit job We may be wrong about this Is there real power in that job I mean, you get to hang out with movie stars and stuff. That's cool! I mean, I get that... Yeah so it's a ...I don't know now that you mention it is possible that we're overlooking the hidden power of the Secretary General of the United Nations. Well, I'm skeptical. He could be wrong, ya know? But when it comes to the Security Council yeah, I understand because we're ...yeah, I understand how that works but hmmm... Seems like just a big bureaucrat but I couldn't ..we don't know

1:27:18 We could be just... the entire American public and much of the world might be completely off base when we think, if you just think that you've got Banky Moon these other clowns that have been in there. And Uncle Don is like really he speaks very highly of Banky Moon which may just be a hierarchy thing but even then Really? I don't know i find it strange just seems... maybe, well we know there's going to be a next United Nations. I mean that is clear when from League of Nations, United Nations we need the next one when the Trilateral Commission decides to truly implement the New World Order. Okay here's where my research went and it wasn't even that hard actually when it came down to it

1:28:11 Russia will not issue driving licenses to transsexuals or transgender people following a recent government order. According to a report by Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed off an order last week indicating people could be banned from getting driver's licenses based on their sexual identity and orientation The order also bans Russians with so-called fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism and paedophilia mental disorders obtaining an automobile license. Moscow has not elaborated on how exactly the law will be enforced but says it's necessary to try to stem the large number of road accidents in Russia. Around 30 thousand people are killed every year in Russian road accidents according to government figures. Human rights groups have deplored the Kremlin's crackdown on LGBT community

1:29:00 Okay, so this is before you say anything. This is a report according to the bullcrap artists from us This is a report from American radio Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty And I believe that they instigated this This this reporting which is very good because the BBC actually pull up the BBC They don't have a video report And it's not an attributed article, which... I didn't know the BBC did that. It doesn't even say that it came from a news organization or not. They do it when they're told to. Russia says drivers must not have quote sex disorders, Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licenses fetishism exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as mental disorders now barring people from driving the government says its tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents

1:30:00 pathological gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list. And of course they go into in 2013 Russia made promoting non-traditional lifestyles illegal! and then they go in here, they say they're not quite sure how it's going to be implemented. So whenever we get the Putin hates something and we always love Putin hates gays... And now Putin hates the transies! He hates the transexuals gotta go this is affecting him and this is now catching some speed so before goes completely and utterly viral which I expect it to do just depending on you know what happens

1:30:43 Just sweet charlie land. Let me give you the background so you can amaze your colleagues friends and family with your No agenda knowledge John, I think you'll appreciate this too. I'm all ears And there's a copy of the translated copy of the legislation in the show notes at six eight six dot no agenda notes calm it is Russian Federation law one six four four zero There's a paste bin of it the government... hmmm, the approved detached list of medical con-train... de... contra... constraints to management of vehicles. Listed medical indications for motor vehicle means. Listed medical restrictions to driving agent and they say in I'm going to paraphrase in this document that you cannot have a mental disorder and be an operator of motor vehicle which

1:31:38 arguably makes sense. I'm not quite sure how we get around that in... Do we have questions in the United States? Or do we test if you're insane or if you have a medical disorder, I don't know if that takes place anywhere. I haven't taken a test for awhile and I don't know what they ask. So are you nuts? Yeah! For standing in line In the legislation it says you must not have any mental issues and these mental issues are listed as defined by ICD-10 Mental and Behavioral Disorders, as determined and codified by the World Health Organization. So Russia has not made this list The World Health Organization has made a list of mental and behavioral disorders definitions thereof

1:32:30 And that is what Russia is touting as the true list of disorders you cannot have. Now, it says specifically that just being gay, transgendered, bisexual lesbian whatever you LGBTQQIAP by itself is not a mental disorder. Says it specifically in the list that this law refers to however they do have a number of caveats where you can be severely depressed as you're going through a transgender a reassignment of gender reassignment transformation and that's where all of these different mental disorders are codified. You can have a severe gambling addiction and that can bring on other mental traits that would make you ineligible to operate a motor vehicle if diagnosed by a professional so

1:33:32 In no way, in no way does this law say if you're trans or gay or lesbian, you cannot have a driver's license. It says if you have a mental disorder and it shows the ICD-10 from the World Health Organization which lists a lot of things not just this then you can be deemed ineligible and this has now been turned around without anyone that I've seen yet in mainstream saying that this is actually a list from the World Health Organization And that is where the mental disorders are coming from. So even the BBC is just writing down, oh you can't be gay. I'm stunned! That we'd be lying about Russia and its motives

1:34:27 I am stunned. For once, I am stunned! The previous thing that Brian the Gay Crusader did with the white paper on really delving into the law about the promotion of alternative lifestyles was a lot more complicated. This is simple it says it right there and by the way we may use the same standards for certain mental health disorders and qualifications...I'm not sure I'm not sure what we use as the standard, but the World Health Organization is kind of the global standard and they're using that. They are referring to it in their law and now everyone's like, oh Putin hates trannies man! Go look at Joe Ingoe's Facebook. You don't have a Facebook right?

1:35:20 New law includes... Joe, we're all bent out of shape about this. Of course! Why don't people just listen to our show so they get the facts instead of being pushed around by the media using you? The media uses you if it can't. It's called abuse. Abuse is not just use. Abuses and uses. Yeah, no it's terrible abuse and its abuse of my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters in my trans friends This is lame. And this should be you should be outraged Seriously outraged and someone needs to call these people to a tone Nobody's outrage now I know I know boy. You'll hey I said it on the podcast. I'm done My moral self-licensing go. I'm good. Yeah Who needs any more? I did it. I said it I swacked the nose

1:36:13 Since we're on the topic of Europe, let's go back to Germany. Yes and really Germany is going to sacrifice courses us again I think we're trying to ruin them in some funny way Well yeah if you ruin them you ruined the euro we rule yeah make sense Yeah Everything is working out this looks like so We have a number of things going but a lot of it has to do with nuclear energy and just energy in general. And Germany apparently has a lot of energy problems because the country is apparently run by, I don't know idealists or so green nut balls. Can i give you a background?

1:37:00 Germany said, we are going to shut down all of our nuclear power. We're going all renewables wind solar etc and now the manufacturing in Germany is dying because of the cost of energy that's being spent on this. And so what do you think about that? I mean, it's a very interesting question. Because it's just so incredibly expensive, half of it is being subsidized and they want to turn it back because its killing the country. Well, it's going to get worse before it gets better let's play Energy Problems 1 This is the most comprehensive climate protection package that a German government has ever presented

1:37:42 After saying no to nuclear power by 2022 Germany is now aiming to go even more green by getting ready to say goodbye to coal as well. As part of the ambitious plan to cut co2 emissions by 40% to 1990 levels about 45 percent of power generated in Germany still comes from coal and as the government aims to reduce this dependency, the question isn't only about what to substitute it with but perhaps even more importantly how much it will cost in a country where energy bills are already among the highest in Europe. Indeed, German consumers have already spent an extra 106 billion euros since 2000 to cover cleaner energy initiatives via a charge added to their bills. Germany is Europe's industrial powerhouse with the biggest appetite for energy on the continent

1:38:30 The government's ultimate goal is to switch to renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass currently generating around a quarter of the country's needs. But skeptics warn no matter how green they may want to go a fossil fuel backup is vital to keep industries working. Yeah, it's idealism. Yes agree. They're pushing them in this direction and they're all going getting sucked down the hole a lot of investments now with big industrialists in Germany are taking place here that BASF and I think one of these reports mentions It is opening at dropping three billion dollars in America because we're not America

1:39:11 in America because we can get, because the energy to run their factories. They're a chemical company. It's cheapest in the United States so we're getting a lot of foreign... This is why there are stock market by the way but I don't understand what this stock market going up? This is part of it! We're scamming everybody and we're largely behind pushing a lot of this stuff. In fact at least I was listening to some C-SPAN that was And I want us to talk about the hypocrisy, and I wanna mention to people you'll notice that the United States always signs on it like Kyoto. Yeah yeah we'll do it then we never ratify. We never ratify, never. We never ratify ah well its because of the Republicans. It's always something.

1:39:54 And then when I heard...and blame the Republicans. The Republicans, fine! Just don't do it. We'll take the blame. We hear these phonies like Bernie Sanders go off against what we should really be looking at is nuke power of course but listen to Bernie Sanders and they have a comment about this. This is the Bernie Sanders clip before you go back to Germany. Whether within his definition of the kind of energy system he on point four that he hopes to transform our country to whether that includes nuclear power which today produces 60% of our carbon-free electricity. No. Senator Sanders?

1:40:42 I have serious concerns about nuclear power. Find it hard to understand how people want new nuclear power plants when they will be the most expensive form of new electricity production in the country, far more expensive than wind and solar? And also, wanting new nuclear power plants at a time when we don't know how to get rid of the very substantial waste that we have right now. So I ask my friend Senator Alexander, my hope is that over a period of time, we will phase out nuclear electricity and power electricity in this country. Don't vote that guy back in!

1:41:17 What a douchebag homie let me douche bag that guy Well, I think it's just bullcrap anyway. He's I just want to say one thing the new reactors can in fact take the waste existing waste and use it Yes, we know. We keep up with this but Sanders is a phony and so I got to this thinking because White House, this guy White House... I'm going to shut up! But i just want anyone who thinks that they are in tech Okay, anyone who does a tech show Tech this Tech that ladies if you're doing tech you need to understand the technology of the new nuclear reactors. Otherwise, you are not in tech your full of crap

1:42:03 All these guys are talking about is tech from the 50s. This has changed! We're talking about 50 years of research, it's not the same as it used to be but so this guy Whitehouse who I'm always complaining about because he won't be the head of anything anymore as a Democrat but he's always talking about oh we've got to get renewables, we gotta do this, although tides are going up, global warming and all that somebody... One of our producers, I guess in the DC area went and did some research and found that most of his investments are in old-fashioned energy. Oil. But they talk a big game so this is going... but we're not as an entire society suckered by the bullshit

1:42:49 We tend to like, that's why we don't sign these agreements. Oh yeah we'll show up at Kyoto and we'll show up at these various conferences called whatever they're called that they have every year in some place or other. That one in Copenhagen... The COP stuff. We show up and then you know whatever you say. Meanwhile these other boneheads like Germany seem to take this stuff in hook, line and sinker because of the greenies actually being taken seriously. It's greed John because in Europe certainly in the Netherlands I saw it I know how it works I actually once had to move a windmill power windmill

1:43:25 at great expense for the heliport in Amsterdam. And then I found out these are all little LLCs or BV's in that case, and their share structure is owned by amongst other people former politicians current politicians other little LLCs that are owned by politicians because it subsidized its license to print money and just stealing from the people same in Germany So let's play German energy number two. Germany needs a certain base load of electricity that has to be always day and night, 24 hours per day seven days per week available and this base load is about 40 percent of our total electricity demand

1:44:05 So this base load, it's impossible to provide this by wind and sun. Substituting coal with natural gas is another option but that would also mean a bigger dependency on energy imports and once again more figures on those costly energy bills The private consumer has to pay the bill in contradiction to the big companies who get these exceptions or they just leave the country and go into North America where energy prices due to conventional gas and oil sands is quite cheap.

1:44:42 I couldn't really hear the end there. It was a little tough to focus on it. Well, he said that these companies are all packing up and going to North America... Yeah? ...the United States and Canada mostly where the energy price is cheap. That's what we've done. We've created this situation. I mean, we always try to tax it and screw the public but compared to what you pay—and this has been the case since, 50 years or more where you gasoline for example is discouraged its use is discouraged in most of Europe and it's extremely expensive because of the taxes. If there's not one thing, that's another over there well let's play part three and then I can wrap this up. One of the biggest chemicals producers in the world has already invested over five billion dollars into facilities in the US some analysts warn unless Europe stops lagging in energy production and the price gap remains wide

1:45:31 we may see a chain reaction of more investment to American shores and Frankly, it's unlikely that saying no to both nuclear energy and coal will help keep this money at least on German soil No don't count on it. Don't count on it Did I talk about Iran and the Azerbaijan pipeline on the last show? I was so out of it. Yeah, but I don't remember you might have. Yeah, I've always been trying to figure out why are we cozying up to Iran and why are we trying to get them all involved...and I think I might have talked about it doesn't matter just want to reiterate quickly Talk about it again! That Iran is now joining the EU gas race

1:46:16 They want to, and this is kind of the funny thing because the whole Syria issue started over a choice of pipelines. The West and Western oil companies wanted Qatar up North through Syria, Homs Aleppo all those towns that we called months before anything happened into Turkey or off to the left there into the Mediterranean, into Italy or Greece or Cyprus. And that's the pipeline but really through Turkey that was intended to happen. The Arab... What are they calling it? Well, it is the Iran-Iraq Syria pipeline. That's the one we had to stop and in a strange twist of fate maybe it was plan B or maybe it was the idea all along It seems at that pipeline and certainly if ISIS

1:47:09 can protect it for us may actually come into play as Azerbaijan will be pumping their gas through Iran and then they want to complete the pipeline. And there's a number of options for the pipeline, it can be the Persian pipelines what we would call that one. There is also the Southern Gas Corridor which is US-British French initiative Now now I understand Why we're trying to make friends with Iran because we want to bring them back into the fold under our complete control Of course, and I'm pretty sure that the nuclear thing is Really too slow them down to say hey man You know like you don't get so popular with your nuclear energy here. You know, you're gonna make that stuff Complicated yeah, but you got to push that back We won't just want the gas to flow

1:48:00 But there's interesting new reports coming in about Iran entering the gas sector and really wanting to sell their gas as well as from Azerbaijan, which we own. That's Hillary Clinton's... that's where we had the Eurovision Song Contest. Baku! This is a this is... We own a lot of that so they're coming into the fold and I find that of course fascinating Along with this, let me see. We have an interesting speech from Elizabeth Warren and completely misinterpreted by everybody in the mainstream of course which is why you listen to this show, this podcast

1:48:48 As the House now filled with Republicans who have the majority passed a bill that would allow for the construction of this final little itty-bitty piece of the Keystone XL pipeline. And we know that most...this thing is already running, this is a little piece and really the only reason why this is being debated Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, big Democrat supporters. It is huge for them! They're train running the oil in and out of Canada And that cannot be disturbed. It's a bonanza for those guys, really truly is. They don't even want... Farmers can't even get a freight train or a car to move their stuff anymore." So Elizabeth Warren talks about- Yeah I know that it's actually a huge problem for the American farmers and by the way I wanna mention this since you brought this up

1:49:44 A Buffett has come out and publicly came out in support of the pipeline, which is bullcrap. This is typical of these guys they say one thing... Liars! They work on making sure it doesn't happen So when you hear Elizabeth Warren with her allegations, and by the way the respect that she's getting for this is John you called it early on. She's a real contender with this and I believe she's a contender because now she has Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in her pocket based upon this two-minute speech. Senator Warren, thank you very much Madam Chairman and also congratulations on the new post I'm very much looking forward to working with you on energy issues when i'm president and with our ranking member Cantwell um You know we've heard a lot about uh today about some of the problems with the legislative proposal And by the way just listen to this and think of the obots they'll be like yes Yes she's so right

1:50:43 Screw those Republicans, horrible people that's rotten to the core. To force the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline... My question is simpler I want to know why the pipeline is the very first number one item on the agenda in this new Congress Is this about jobs? The number of jobs the pipeline will create is disputed, but most estimates put it at a few thousand or less. What if we focused on highways instead of pipelines? We urgently need to pass a permanent highway bill. Hey John there's your pothole bill!

1:51:19 She's a good one. Yeah, she's hitting all the points. The American Association... Stop it for a second! I just want to point out that Elizabeth Warren who I follow closely because i'm convinced she's gonna do something drastic like run has always talked big game She's always talked to big, oh, consumer protection. As soon as I get in office we're going to fix consumer protection." She doesn't do anything! She is a biggest phony Big Talker, great talker gets everybody all worked up and doesn't do anything. Correct because we've read the scammy notes that I've received here at home.

1:52:02 Capital One and all these guys. It's all still small print scamming, you get screwed so she as far as I know nothing really happened. No nothing! State highway and transportation officials says it would create 8 million jobs Okay but she is now just saying oh yeah if we had a highway in road bill or bridge in tunnel It doesn't say how much that would cost or where it was coming. That's just rhetoric, I guess. Over the next four years... And by the way, I'm all for it! Let's print up a whole bunch of money and put 8 million people to work? Yeah, I'm good to go but shut up and do it. These roads around here are horrible. They're worse than LA. There is is. If we could pass a highway bill

1:52:46 We could put people to work in good jobs and fix crumbling roads and bridges. So is the pipeline about lowering America's energy costs? Evidently not, even its supporters admit that much of the oil in the pipeline would be exported for use outside the United States so it's not about jobs It's not about energy Why is this bill so urgent Let me ask you the question, why do you think it's urgent for the Republicans to pass? Well I would think true politics would be to screw over Buff and Gates. That's what I think! Or get some of these trains that'd lower the cost of food because now they have to pay a premium now to put some weed in it cause they're using these things for oil to such an extremeness all of them happening in the Midwest is the problem. A weed shortage?!

1:53:40 Weed yeah weed and the wheat time to panic. Oh, we are sure that's pretty weak wheat yes Well now I think if it's true politics. I think they would only be doing this to blackmail Buffett to get some campaign donations. That would be part of it, yeah? Well, whatever the case is, let's continue with the crap. The answer is money and power. The pipeline might not do much for the American people but it is worth a whole lot to the Canadian oil industry according to an analysis by the way supply most of our oil

1:54:18 Which nobody... Yeah, they're the number one supplier of America. That's our first supplier of foreign oil suppliers. ...by Politico since 2009. Let me ask you another question? Since when did Politico become like a reference point? Because everything else has become so lame It just did by default. I don't know that it knows anything more than the New York Times. Well, that's my point. It used to be the New York Times or maybe The Wall Street Journal, maybe some institute perhaps a research operation? Now its just Politico and everyone goes oh well Politico, oh well Politico. Is Politico making money isn't one of those things its funded out

1:55:03 Some rich guy's pocket. Yes, that thing is making money. I have no idea. In the oil industry according to an analysis by Politico since 2009 TransCanada has spent almost seven million dollars in lobbying expenses related to Keystone So much money industry-wide is being spent that Burdett Loomis, a political science professor at the University of Kansas previously described the Keystone XL bill as quote a lobbyist support act and now TransCanada wants what they paid for.

1:55:41 Who does this new Republican Congress work for? Foreign oil companies or the American people. Today their first priority is to advance a pipeline that means a whole lot to an army of well-paid lobbyists and a whole lot to a giant foreign oil company But we know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much to help the American people. I didn't come here to do favors for TransCanada Republican leaders may disagree, but i'll be voting no on this

1:56:17 Oh, it's the Republicans. Yeah, Republicans and by the way there are 2 million miles of pipeline in America. France spent 7 million on lobbying that is a spit in the bucket I can't imagine what...I'm looking for but I can't find it well here's Just a few of these things are like 10 in the billions for highway lobbying. Oh yeah, of course it's much bigger. So this bull crap, this argument is specious! Yes. They're spending 7 million and they're buying our votes if there's not spending enough? Yeah I know and then i think she's being... She's a phony Well then she's probably being supported by Buffett & Gates

1:56:58 I'm sure she's gonna be. With that kind of talk... Oh, no she's definitely a winner! Never ever! It's...I think we're the only people to talk about Gates owning most of the Canadian railway? She's a huge shareholder and Buffett owns Burlington Northern. He owns it outright! Not a shareholder in that case. It's his little toy train set. I know, it looks great He must have a private car that is dynamite Oh, a private railcar? Yeah, it must be nice. I would love one of those

1:57:36 Yeah, they're cool. I have to say that is the ultimate. I'm part of a consortium and own part of one There's no home club of these people after the jet and all that now you got to have that shit yeah Well he owns of net jets. That's his he does yeah Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah, oh yeah Net Jets mm-hmm amidst all of the Everything has been going on we see CISPA being revived and I think if they really introduce the bill, I think it'll pass this time. Oh really? The one that all the techies are all against yeah, but this is a change your icon Yep Dutch Ruppersberger well It wasn't just changing your icon you'll recall Wikipedia went dark Actually was dark dark like not accessible. I think it's that not true There were couple places that just maybe Craigslist. I doubt that will happen again

1:58:39 No, you can't. They give up! Ah we did that already. We stopped it. We stopped it. Yeah this is Dutch Ruppersberger the old coot. Another one needs to be voted out and he of course is referring to... This is all about cyber sharing that's really what the CISPA deal was about I'm gonna bring him back up if they show I don't know if it's going to be a revamped version or exactly the same version He says he's putting the bill in, he doing it himself reintroducing the bill and he bases that on the Sony hack attack. Hackers hacked!

1:59:20 What would this bill have to do with Sony? Nothing. But it's about... the bill is about share, it's not SOPA, it's CISPA Oh this is that bull crap where they want everybody all in on it Yeah they've been promoting this with the Sony You know if you guys are working with us This wouldn't happen! Yes Working with us Share your data. Yep, that's it. Let our guys get into the back end of your machines there and you wouldn't have this problem because we'd be able to stop it." Sure you would! And the Admiral there over at NSA Michael Rogers is saying well yeah you know the FBI... We did all that work for them. We partner when they ask us for our technical ability. We specifically did that. We provide our technical expertise to prove that it is North Korea NK

2:00:09 We're part of a broad interagency effort. Yes, we're part of that! That's how we do it. That's how we roll." No I wish... These guys are smart! Let's not give those no-agenda A-holes more content I don't have a clip of that, unfortunately. And this is their rundown of the FBI collecting calls. They're welcome back, the FBI says it doesn't need permission to listen in on cell phone conversations in public places A report claims the agency and other law enforcement bodies are eavesdropping on calls using light aircraft circling cities The system was reportedly designed to pinpoint criminals but its somehow

2:01:12 known how many innocent people's private chats are being listened to. Marina Portnire explains. You know we talked about this on Thursday right? Yeah I know okay, but...I just like the Russian report. No so we'll do the report. The US has more than 325 5 million mobile phones in use. And if they're being used in public spaces, the FBI says it doesn't need to obtain search warrants before scooping up private phone calls and text messages with interception devices. According to the Wall Street Journal, the federal government is using devices that mimic cell phone towers to dragnet data from thousands of phones while hunting for a suspect. The devices known as stingrays or dirt boxes attached to planes and cars tricking cell phones into reporting their unique registration information. This sheer amount of data that can be pulled is raising concerns. There's no reason to suck up 10 thousand innocent people.

2:02:13 I mean, it's bad enough that they're doing warrantless interception of one person cell phone calls. What the FBI is apparently doing if that report is correct is they are just throwing out electronic dragnet and everybody within reach of their fake cell tower, their stingray, their dirt box whatever the slang du jour for it is. They're sucking up everyone's phone calls. Sources tell The Wall Street Journal that the fake cell tower devices reportedly determine which phones belong to suspects and eventually lets go of the private data belonging to innocent citizens. Problem is it's not clear what steps are taken to ensure citizens' private data

2:02:56 Good news on this front, and I'm not sure if the Stingray is different from the Dirtbox of the dirt... DRT is with a Dirtbox. But we have a producer who has used a DRT in the field and he is going to be sending me details on exactly what it does Okay, good. So that's not gonna remind everybody that the reason for all this is Not to protect anyone from against terrorisms it's to create a web of blackmail Yes as far as I'm concerned starts yes where it starts get people in Congress That's just not about you necessarily the person on the streets now by you or you add me Or it's about Congress are people that have voting power to blackmail them so they get their way so they get more money and

2:03:43 And I don't think people even realize that that is or even it doesn't even cross people's minds. It's such the logical thing to do, you know? It's the most logical thing you can imagine. I mean, that's what you want to get all these years and by the way if nobody doesn't...if people don't realize this, the FBI is a blackmailing operation from years ago during the... Day one! That's what they do. He was keeping his secret records and he going that's how the guy stayed. In fact, the blackmail aspect of the FBI is why they passed a law saying you couldn't be FBI director More than 10 years. More than 10 years you had to leave, even though they extended it with the last guy! Yeah well he had all the... He could become if he wanted to run the whole country with blackmail

2:04:33 I mean, this is the reason for that law was blackmail. But no good guys you know they help us solve crimes now let's look at the current director of the FBI James Comey and why it might be interesting to have this capability of blackmail he comes from big ass business bab big ass business Besides being general counsel, vice president of Lockheed Martin. He was on the board of HSBC bank that was very good at laundering billions hundreds of billions of dollars. Massive corrupt bank massive he was a member of Bridgewater Associates investment management from very important financial firm very important firm

2:05:24 And he was actually in HSBC during all of these scandals of, you know, the LIBOR and the URIBOR. So this guy is...you cannot just say, oh but here he comes! He's always a lawyer, of course. You know, this is perfect guy for the FBI? Yeah with a blackmailing operation going on and not just that insider information if anybody thinks that that's not happening Well fine. The blackmailed Supreme Court or whoever said, yeah no you don't need a warrant to do any of this stuff. If it's a cell phone and you're in public well yeah... What if you're in a room by yourself because you want to be private? No, we get at all, we grab it all. The first thing I'd do is I would be right on John Doar's phone. Hell yeah! What deal was he doing? All the Kleiner Perkins phones listening to what deals they were doing to see if there was an M&A opportunity that I could invest in. Yes!

2:06:30 How about the Maverick? What's his name, Mavericks guy. I don't know there is a lot of these. The Shark Tank guy that guy Cuban yeah he has got all Cubans not a wheeler dealer like these others. There are wheeler dealers out there I mean Carl Icahn that would be one of those guys. I'd be all over that guy whatever he was talking about it would be an idea I wanted to be transcribed and on my desk in the morning. I want Taylor Swift photos oh sorry I'll make this personal so everybody understands how this really works. I believe there are people in our audience who have, either for your spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend maybe your kids you have gone onto the computer and checked out their Facebook then whether you had the password or not maybe we're still logged in maybe looked at some history in the browser what is he or she doing? And that's human nature

2:07:26 It's human nature to do this. And that's why it goes all the way to the top and when there are big bucks involved, it gets more interesting." I think everyone can understand that you're drawn to it like oh man, I really need to look at what could be going on. FBI, we're going to use that as our example even though I would say these other agencies do the same thing. But you're working in Silicon Valley and you're hanging out trying to do some work and these douchebags... And you meet these guys? They are the dumbest douchebags ever! They happen to be in the right business at the right place at the right time for some reason. Oh they don't understand it all now

2:08:04 Many of them are worth billions. And you look at this guy, why is this guy...I met this guy I've talked to him he's an idiot! Why am i working for the government? Let me just show you at some point you start to think about well how can I get a piece of the pie right and you could get involved in the blackmail it's a way to go but or spying and listening people seeing there's a deal you can do a stock pick I think stock picks are probably, for the average guy is more important than the blackmail. The blackmail's only gonna be targeting legislative people so you get your votes you know? You get your money, you get allocation. Yeah well I'm glad that you're gonna vote against it. Hey there's some really cool pictures of you with this hooker! And its always hookers! If we could just stop being uptight about hookers then there wouldn't be blackmail It's always sex that a blackmail isn't that strange

2:09:02 Yeah, well it's not that strange because there are a lot of married couples. A lot of women and men who don't like their spouse hanging out with hookers all the time. They just don't like it! They say I'm sick of you hanging out with hookers. I am getting divorced and taking half everything. I'm trying to say something different. It's like, that is the big moral crime where no one is saying hey you know that guy's killing people with drones and innocent civilians. Oh yeah well you're right on that. You know it's like... That's never the big moral crime No no no. What? You screwed a hooker?! Which by the way stimulates the economy as it is being counted towards GDP in all of the EU member states so you're actually being very patriotic

2:09:52 And while discussing this sort of thing where you're, you know the spying and blackmailing all the rest a lot of this stuff Of course A lot of people bring it on themselves. I thought the funniest story was this one which is the guy, The ISIS guy tweeting away like crazy leaving his geolocation information in the tweets. That he's in Washington DC Well, no. This guy was apparently floating... There's a good story. Play this tweeting ISIS dummy. Oh okay I had a different one Security agencies worldwide are busy tracking down foreign recruits traveling to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria but one Islamist has unwittingly made their job easier A New Zealander believed to be fighting with Islamic State has been broadcasting his whereabouts by geographically tagging his tweets

2:10:36 Well Mark Taylor made it possible for a Canadian intelligence group to track the route he travelled late last year. Geotags on his tweets revealed he was fighting in Kafaroma in October He then retreated to the group's stronghold of Al-Tabqa in early December. After realizing his blunder, Taylor deleted all of his tweets but it was too little too late and as if that wasn't bad enough for him in one Twitter photo update he revealed the face another fighter in the background. Yeah there was another guy another Islamist, you know, jihadi thing. This is maybe two weeks ago and the tweet location showed up as Washington DC. Yeah it's funny a phony but all even this stuff by itself you know do you think that it's not possible for the FBI to subpoena tweeters Twitter and get at least trace back

2:11:29 the origin of the IP, maybe it's this proxy. But yeah I mean it is like all of this social media stuff... They probably have a hose already! Exactly all the social media expertise of ISIS is bullcrap Yeah they are because Hillary Clinton trained them personally They're called techno experts in her book Well, I think it's also the...I think they'd call them these experts in...you take a group. You know this is the sociology of it. You tell somebody they're dumb and everyone tells him they're dumb, then they start acting pretty dumb. If you start telling these guys that there are the expert social media experts, they start believing it!

2:12:07 And so they end up doing a lot of dumb shit on social media by giving their positions away because they don't really understand any of the mechanisms. They don't understand about geotagging and who does? So, they leave all these things on or they like to take pictures because there are these social media... I think they've been encouraged to use social media not that they're actually experts in anyway for this particular reason is just cause they're dumb. It's just a giveaway. You know how that encouragement happens, don't you? Another like, fan or share? Do we need another post to show up everywhere?! There it is! I hope as we scatter that we never forget- Tristan Sochon! Sochon. You know, I could listen to that whole song you know... I got an email from Tristan My 12 year old son was in the car with me listening to the latest episode He says stop stop stop back it up What was that song thing

2:13:06 I explain about the song, move on thinking nothing of it. Get home next thing and hear the whole bloody thing blaring out of his room! I go in he's on his bed almost in tears cracking up can't stop laughing. He loves it." Of course... It was funny. Well actually when you see them actual YouTube video its like It's a jaw-dropper in so far as humor. And then of course the jerk that did it says, oh no no it was a parody we were just trying to get something to go viral... To show you how it works? Yeah, to show you how it works uh huh. Uh huh right yeah right. You can't..it's impossible too

2:13:45 It just doesn't work that way. Well, I love it! I'm very happy to exist and then... Somebody complained to me on one of the emails you must have got it One of our producers said okay I used to be sick and tired of that Isis song which I had running through my brain constantly should play that one too And then you start playing this now I can't I got rid of ISIS now I can't stop hearing this thing well let's play this one And then we had ISIS. You mean this one? The James Brown one. Oh, the James Brown one right right okay hold on a second what happened here oh sorry sigh yeah well it's been I'm really working on fixing you know the problems i've been having and has been good so far on the show I think except for this one little uh one little glitch

2:14:52 Is what we call it. Glitch! Yes, it was a glitch okay here we go. Ah man that's good the jingles are amazing! Great great little ditty yeah who did that? Oh um I don't know maybe it says it here... It's one of our better ones but this You have a lot of good if we just strung together all the songs and in little oh he jaws We could release an album on iTunes Actually now that I think about however, we prefer our traditional value for value method Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun

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2:26:01 And we want to remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA for show 687, so you have 678 in the next numbers 687678, it's important and a lucky number. It's not in the right order. We're headed to show 700 people! Yeah if you're going to Vegas Angela is the one you wanna hook up with for sure Well, thank you very much. And thank you everyone who came in with amounts under $50 mainly for anonymity reasons but also your on one of our programs and these programs pay off we keep getting more and more people now after months or in some cases some years are achieving the status of knighthood dame hood finally catching up to them yeah then that's it and then that makes me happy I means if people have been with us for a long time

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2:27:35 And Brian Churchill says happy birthday to his wonderful girlfriend Susie turning 33 tomorrow on the 12th. And Jos van Velthoven says happy birthday to his wife Tanya and it's his here celebrating August 1st Must have missed something somewhere. I gotta check that out if I can understand what's going on there He said it was belated okay, but well or early at this well it is both actually and not to mention it now we have

2:28:17 This was already in there, I guess. Baronet Sir Siswell of the Upper Horseshoe we have him that was from last week I guess like carried over somehow but then we have sir DH Slammer and what was his He became a baronet? Yeah, I think so yeah What he wanted and he wants to pick some area yes Was that again the Alps? Was at the alps let me double-check I think it was you just wanted to know if he could he didn't actually pick anything difference hmm We're talking about D.H. Slammer? Yeah, no he doesn't say anything... He doesn't say it now It was uh... That was the other guy Okay Now he wants to be known as the baronet of Santa Barbara County D. H. Slammer Hmm okay

2:29:08 There we go. Well, that's done the peerage will be updated then we have let's see one two three of Brian Williams Kilo Charlie nine Yankee Juliette Mike and Noah Jenningham there Patricia Worthington and Davey if all of you could watch out because as you're getting up on the podium here new whenever we draw our blades it can get a little dangerous All right Brian Williams, Patricia Worthington and Davey You all now enter the table that is round for the Knights and the Dames. I know it's in a round table, but hereby pronounce the Kate thee Sir Brian Green Knight of The Hams and Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay and Sir Davy of The Sooner State for you we have Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys & Chardonnays, Saki & Sushi, Root Beer & Pepperoni Pizza Puppies & Tailors Vintage Port

2:29:54 Malted barley and hops. You want some whiskey and wet wipes? We got it for you! We also have vodka vanilla, and mutton in mead. Thank you for supporting the program please go to noageneration.com slash rings fill out your information Eric DeShill will get right on that and when you receive everything which is a nice little package including your certificate the sealing wax and the ring please tweet a picture So we have that for prosperity and so the FBI has it. It actually goes into the Library of Congress, they have an entire...

2:30:34 Don't they have the host? Yeah, no. Is it a government record? Yes! Not yet, no yes! So you should definitely take a picture of the ring and that certificate and tweet it... And we'll retweet and then that means it will go even more It's in a permanent record In the Library of Congress You'll be famous 100 thousand years from now That's right Along with our peerage map. Can we submit that to the library? Oh, yeah, just tweet it You want to put something permanently into the Library of Congress true anybody out there tweet just tweet it I wonder what they're storing that on probably a large system Mm-hmm. I'm assuming they're storing the photos. No, I don't think so Mmm unless its I would be stunned

2:31:26 I would be stunned if they weren't storing the photos. Not all photos, maybe if you're using Twitter's photo system but if you link to something...I don't know. Well use Twitter's photo system that is what I do, just upload. Yeah, I don't use twitter at all, I do it through my freedom control. Oh and I upload because that way it comes into the tweets as a photo, it comes into streams got photo-photo-photo They want for you put a lot of photos in Twitter does that the way they can easily that way the government can track you better They can see what you're taking pictures of where you are there might be some good XF data in there. That's useful Finds you if they need it, you know What is it? You know do you want to do? The program you won't stir up any suspicion

2:32:14 I'm just wondering if they store the photos. Now you've got me looking into this." Well, you'll know by the next show! Well it's your question why don't you do some research? I don't care that's why... Okay ah all right what... You've been on rant mode today What are you going to say about this one? This is one that really gets me I didn't know this was going on, as a matter of fact. Because we've seen specials that sports show on HBO with Brian Gumbel and there's all these other reports over the years about... Speak for yourself! I don't watch that. Well, I do. And it says there's a lot of reports from here and there that have documented to an extreme that anyone accepting an Olympic bid for the summer games will more or less break their city's budget

2:33:08 It's a loser. You lose tons of money, you end up with abandoned stadiums it's just bad. Yeah look at Greece how'd that work out? Horrible they got a bunch of abandoned stadiums and just waste a lot of money when pretty much broke the country So I'm listening to the local news and this Olympics bid thing comes up, and I say what are we thinking? The Bay Area's dreams of Olympic gold were dashed today when the United States Olympic Committee picked the East Coast over the West Coast. It selected Boston as the U.S. bid city for 2024 Olympic Games San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C were the other cities in the running Boston's mayor says their goal is to host a summer games that is innovative and walkable Despite getting passed over San Francisco's Olympic bid committee seemed pleased with its pitch We're disappointed but you know what it was a tremendous effort by a lot of people brought a lot of folks from the region together so we have no regrets

2:34:04 The final selection is up to the International Olympic Committee. Boston will now be up against Rome, Berlin Paris Doha Melbourne and one of four potential African sites Hmm who would do this? Well it's a known loser Rio Of course is on deck for 2016 Oh yeah, this will break the back of the Brazilians. They've already got... they went did the World Cup and they had to build a bunch of stadiums that are unused and this is a country that has tons of football teams soccer to you yes And they can't find it used for these things China's stuff that lot of stuff they built for the winter Olympics is now falling into decay Nobody wants these things nobody want these right elephants

2:34:58 Maybe there's maybe no one has just thought about a great use, you know We can stack bodies of the like in Rio some prison internment camp at my work It's not big enough unless you're stacking Tokyo Of course is on deck for 2020 and they have perfectly they were I heard this from Mark and Astrid are Viscount and by countess they're in Tokyo They had a perfectly good stadium and there was a bid on between one crew who wanted to revamp the current stadium, which would have been the way to go. But oh no! Oh no we gotta build a whole new one. Which of course is you know with the current state of Tokyo or Japan this... And that's for 2020s when they have the summer games so this would potentially be for 2024 then I guess? Yeah yeah Wow

2:35:52 As we say in Holland, wie dan nog leeft. Which means? Well whoever's alive then... There's that. A Dutchism. According to my cycles theory it should be an exceptional world war going on during that period so they should really think this in advance. I got a note from Dane Bangbang and I put the entire note she did research for us on Uber in Santa Barbara California And I just wanted to give her the executive summary, but she did very interesting an entire research about...I think it's between Uber and Lyft. Yeah? And she says that actually Uber has been an incredible boon for mothers single mothers for good income flexible working hours and everything was going swimmingly well but now the crackdown is happening i'm hearing this everywhere

2:36:57 You have to have at least a 4.8 star rating otherwise you can get quote-unquote fired let go Every everybody hates the surge pricing because the drivers just get nothing but grief from the passengers or I'm sorry riders The system downtime affects the driver statistics negatively because you have to stay logged in for 50 minutes of every hour and you have to respond... ...to at least, I think 90% of all calls that are pinged on your device. This is of course is to keep people from driving for multiple services and it's going-I think it's gonna get very ugly very soon if this is not going to be uh... It's not gonna end well with the competition

2:37:46 Well, that would make nothing but sense if you think about it. Of course! It's the way things work. It was the American way for sure But the research and that she has in there and the questions And what came out of it I thought was interesting so look at that in the show notes 686.noagendanotes.com The best way to get everything is archive.noagendanotes.com Remind people of that Big changes with the Leviathan gas field. This is the one that we found off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean, which we've been running Noble Energy Texas firm with Bill Clinton on their board of advisors

2:38:37 And so, it's all been developed. Now everything is good. These guys have invested I think how much are they like $6 billion over a decade and a half? And now Israel's antitrust commissioner says he is going to recommend a breakup of this partnership because you just can't have one or two companies, a little consortium there having control over all this gas. You can't do that! So screw you is the message. That's a big deal.

2:39:24 And this is not going to make a lot of gonna make it difficult to do a lot of these joint ventures with Israel They're gonna pull that crap. This is the start and look like Russia. Yeah, sure would do yeah totally I'll keep my eye on that. Well, play the fracking going bus clip. Oh this is good okay. Elsewhere oil prices are continuing to tumble U.S crude fell below $50 this week its lowest level for five years non-conventional producers are already feeling the pinch on Friday a shale company in Texas became the first US fracking enterprise to go bankrupt The shale business is very costly and with declining oil prices some of the largest

2:40:05 drillers are cutting production. Analysts say it's proving particularly tough for small firms All forms of unconventional oil production now are at risk. Arctic oil, Canadian tar sands, deep offshore projects, oil fracking—anything that requires a price of $60, $70, $80, $90 dollars a barrel to break even—all these projects are at risk and many of the fracking projects in Texas and North Dakota are at risk because they can't survive with prices below $50, $60 a barrel. So I do think many of the smaller companies are going to go bust." Which would be what they want! If you want smaller companies to go bust and get them out of the way? Of course not. How long do you think this will last John these prices? I wouldn't be surprised if they were permanent

2:41:09 The natural price is 40. Right, which I think it will go to 40. The traditional historic price is 25! It's only an anomaly that they were up to 100. Yeah well this is good then? Well it's back to normal let's say good... But it's almost as though they, it was a Lucy and the football thing. I mean this is pretty much the fracking guys that get all carried away there, tar sands guys they all get carried away next thing you know they want this and they want that and they're going crazy and making money because its 100. And then pull of football way and back down to 40 and can't make a nickel which gives Saudi Arabia those guy who

2:42:00 I've talked to people about this, it's bull crap. But I'm telling you, I heard a Saudi Arabian expert say that they can pull oil and make money out of the ground at 10%. Yeah it's completely possible. There was a report that came out that I thought was interesting now of course it's a... what is the name in this outfit? The Drug Policy Alliance Who would be pro-drugs? Legalization of marijuana, let's put it that way. And they have a report on marijuana legalization in Colorado after one year but we are one year right? Retail sales two years of decriminalization and the way they calculate it I shall read this to you We have... This is executive summary

2:42:55 The state of Colorado has benefited from a decrease in crime rates, a decrease in traffic fatalities an increase in tax revenue and economic output from retail marijuana sales and an increase in jobs. It seems like a winner! Sounds like a winner to me now I don't know what's the problem? And violent crime of course is down for the first time in uh... a year yeah because you know despite what they will tell you on On the main street. When people smoke marijuana, they're just not really into killing people." Hey man I don't feel like killing anybody right now you got any snickerdoodles? We have one or two more yeah this thing about we should have talked about that in regard to the FBI The New York Times came out with a big piece and it's now everywhere FBI and Justice Department Now seeking charges

2:44:03 against General Petraeus, former General Petraeus. Oh yeah we have to talk about...we should hold that and talk about it with more detail because this is very interesting! Let's set it up because this will be something we can do on Thursday Yeah what did Petraeus do that all of a sudden now they've decided to charge him with the felony? I mean the initial thought... I know, he wants to run for president. That's what he did! Yeah that's the initial thing you would think is if he wants to run for president this will keep him from doing it as if he had a prayer. Um yeah okay So I think that's bogus Well he knows about- The thing with him is He knows about Benghazi Exactly, he knows what happened

2:44:43 Yes, he knows what happens. He knows the whole story and he is just being...and I don't know maybe he indicated to somebody that he was buying... Here's what I think. Write a book? Well yes well I think he was writing a book if you if he wasn't or if he didn't have someone doing it for him then he's nuts because it's free money in the bank The advance alone could be at least $1 million for a guy like that And I think that he was writing the book and someone got wind of it and said oh no you do not And he should have released a book a long time ago. He did, he's got to do it quick! He's gotta come out and do something quick and it would be... Can you imagine the Petraeus true story of Benghazi? It would protect him if he did because then if he gets killed well I guess it wouldn't protect him but there would be no reason to kill them then because the cat is out of the bag yeah

2:45:39 Anyway, so we'll have to discuss that a little bit. I do have a story that just a nice story to finish off the... Just to continue the...I think thematically today were talking about idiots a lot from The Bicyclist through the other idiots we discussed. Yes sir! Big headline The Telegraph on UK BBC chef Tom Carriage criticized for eating a puffin now Now this guy apparently goes to Iceland, and I've been to Iceland. Anyone who's been to Iceland knows this they eat puffin That's pretty much their main food They eat puffing burgers Explain the puffins explain to us a puffin A Puffin is very pretty little duck like creature that has got kind of a parrot-like bill beautiful head

2:46:27 And people just look them up and they're just considered so pretty. In Iceland, they are like pigeons. They are everywhere. You walk down the street you step on one and so they eat puffin because it's a decent bird to eat even though they eat fish, they don't taste fishy. They have puffin burgers and roast puffins and puffin breast and they have all these different puffing dishes and is absolutely fantastic as a delicious product. That's what they eat. They tons of puffin. So apparently this guy, who's a BBC food and drink chef is being just excoriated by the media by the liberals and all these people for eating such cute little bird. Oh how could anyone eat one of those puffins? The Iceland has... if you read from the article Iceland has the world's largest puffin breeding colony around 10 to 10 million of the 15 million population live there

2:47:25 Now the fresh heart of the seabird is eaten raw. Oh, I didn't know that! Eaten raw as a traditional delicacy The meat is also smoked So what's wrong with these people? Apparently Ramsey in 2008 ate a puffin and was criticized roundly by all these 42 viewers complained to Ofcom in 2008 when Ramsey caught and ate a puffin Are they tasty?! Yeah What do they taste like? It's all dark meat What do they taste like They taste like a duck, a little bit. A little bit like a chicken. So you could eat a turducken? You can eat a beautiful turdurken. People eat beautiful mallard ducks that's one of the prettiest birds in the world we eating mallards but no! You can't eat a puffin But who is saying that I haven't read this? This is not... It's just the BBC this is the British public

2:48:24 This Sarah Napton, the science editor wrote this column. The BBC food and drink chef Tom Kerridge has provoked anger after boasting that he ate a puffin in Iceland! I don't know what this is but let me ask you a different question... Food related Did i hear the foie gras ban has ended in California? I haven't heard this. Someone told me it ended. That's a lie Or as I know it has not ended. It just began! No, i think it just ended no it's just began it was on a hiatus I mean there was a long waiting time. Foie gras is back on the menu it says here

2:49:04 Yeah, but I can't believe...I know you're annoyed by me. Well i'm reading this too it's on NPR Yes. The chef celebrated the overturning of California's ban on foie gras. There you go! How did this happen? Well there was a judge Wilson rejected the ban as unconstitutional You should be able to eat whatever you want. I agree with the judge Me too Oh this would get everyone outraged They'll turn their anger against the puffin eater and back to the foie gras, people eating duck liver. And by the way, the foie gras in United States generally is duck liver it's crap don't even bother with it you want goose liver if you want good foie. We have one I think I've told you before we have one restaurant here in Austin Jeffreys and they serve foie gras which makes me cry why because of the way they prepare it first of all that is goose

2:49:59 I know the owners or the previous owners of the restaurant. Makes you cry? You against this? No, it's so good! It love...it's so tasty. Yeah real foie gras is delicious. And they have this little cake that it's presented on with some pineapple and then its just ahhhh....It's so nice If you ever come to Austin I'm treating you to that Okay. And then finally for my end I only have one thing there was a Sharpton I guess there was a... Finished the show with this Sharpton clip? Not a clip. It's just a little story. Civil rights lawyer Sanford Rubenstein's apartment was searched for by police investigating a woman's claim that he had raped her after Sharpton 60th birthday bash and in the apartment they found

2:50:56 Viagra prescription bottle with Sharpton's name on it. Oh, there's a photo In that great yeah, I like that a lot that was pretty funny Al yeah Alright everybody, plenty of work to do for the coming days. We hope you will support us in our value for value and remember to go to Dvorak.org slash NA It is what we do And that's the only way we can do it so that you are not compromised You are not the product you are truly the producers at the same time the recipients of What we'd like to think is an outstanding product

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