Episode 695 · Thursday, 12 February 2015

Democritate

A strategic coup in Yemen and a new American war resolution collide with a total collapse of trust in mainstream media anchors and international investigations.

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Houthi rebels have seized control of the government in Sana'a, Yemen, prompting the United States, Britain, and France to shutter their embassies. The strategic takeover of this critical shipping choke point on the Gulf of Aden occurs as President Barack Obama requests a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against ISIL. This proposed resolution seeks to codify military action while introducing the ambiguous term "enduring offensive ground combat operations," a phrase critics argue provides a decade-long legal framework for expanded warfare.

Global tensions escalate as CNN issues an apology for labeling Ukrainian forces as "pro-US troops" during a segment on lethal aid. Senator John McCain continues to advocate for arming Ukraine despite Human Rights Watch reports of the Ukrainian army using prohibited cluster bombs in civilian sectors. Meanwhile, the Dutch government released 254 documents regarding the MH17 investigation, though heavy redactions and 89 withheld files fuel speculation regarding Russian culpability. In the media world, NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for six months following revelations of fabricated war stories, while Jon Stewart announced his departure from The Daily Show.

Technical resilience defines this broadcast as the production originates from a dilapidated room in the Hotel Pennsylvania using a T-Mobile LTE connection. A visual effects professional deconstructs the Jordanian pilot execution video, suggesting digital compositing and Twixtor software were used to create a high-production propaganda tool. The show concludes with a deconstruction of California Psychics and the discovery of Apollo 11 artifacts in Neil Armstrong's closet.


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CHAPTER 01 / 38 Discussion

Comcast Connection Issues, Squirrel Damage and Cable Grades

A technician named Corey identified the source of long-standing internet connectivity issues at a residence in Northern Silicon Valley. The problems were attributed to squirrels chewing through the insulation of the outdoor coaxial cable, a physical kink in the line, and the use of outdated RG59 grade cabling instead of the required RG6. Additionally, the signal was found to be "too hot," requiring the installation of an attenuator to prevent feedback loops.

comcast· squirrels· rg6· rg59· coax cable· signal interference

00:00 Wait, hold on. He told us and then it happened! Oh my god that's amazing how that works! Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Thursday February 12th 2015 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 695 This is no agenda Hiding the bugs in the heart of FEMA Region 2, live from New York City. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where like every place else it's Lincoln's birthday take the day off! I'm John C. DuBois. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill...in the morning! I thought the first version was better no is more spontaneous for me if that's what you mean by better hey is everybody vaccinated ready to go

00:45 I want to mention a couple of things before you go off on it. What happened? Who got vaccinated? No, I'm just asking these days you have to be vaccinated and make sure everybody's vaccinated good to go. It's money making is making money. Well, of course apparently somewhere up the Pacific Northwest. I've got a note about this from Mimi that some people get these they get the mumps shot and then they get the mumps the next day. Well we know this because they falsified the data for their efficacy rate Well, it doesn't mean you have to get the disease because you got the shot. That's not good Well, you're shooting virus into you so you could imagine. It's supposed to be attenuated or dead or something. Yeah yeah. Whatever the case I'm on the Comcast connection today... Well that's good because i'm on my iPhone connection today! Yeah it's kind of interesting we have to go through- I just want to test if the Comcasting falls apart which I don't think it will but it might What did they do? Did they have to come out to your- I can switch back easily but finally a guy came out Corey

01:44 Uh, who found the problem that I was having for the last two years. Let me guess it was a physical wire problem outside? Yes... Squirrels! Ha ha ha! Squirrel! Really?! These fuckers are worse than ISIS So the squirrel ate a hole in the case you could just barely see, luckily he didn't eat through the middle of that copper in the middle but he had all insulation off to coax and this one guy who kept monitoring says you got signaling problems. So I will reboot the reboot the modem. It's your fault. You stupid stupid user you

02:25 Yes, I'm wrong in this so not only that but it was the line was also kinked and then at the top things off The actual coax they were using was the wrong grade Wow the guy there's a fourth wait. There's another one is that? I just want to what is the wrong grade? Yeah, I think it's called RG 59 it should be rg6 You should look up your coaxes because you may have the wrong grade. Wow! Because in the old grade, which is the one that was coming in the house it's not suitable for high speed even though this whole thing was wired from the get-go for high speed

03:02 Anyway, so there was that and then there was another item besides that. This is the only guy this Corey is the only guy who actually did anything The other guys come in and they are you need a new modem? You know what this is, you know what this is is You once wrote an article how cable modems would never amount to anything And at the time you were right and but these guys didn't forget that you see well Maybe when there it is that there was one more item which was that the line was too hot And so he had to put a little like, a choke or some sort of little... Because what actually happens is you can get a feedback loop I think. Yeah so it was way over the voltage it was just too hot and so yeah they attenuated with this little screw-on thing. Well we have only one... Good! It seems like we're good to go We only have one thing for the squirrels Only one thing

CHAPTER 02 / 38 Discussion

Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City Travel and JetBlue Delays

Travel to New York City was disrupted by a "snowmageddon" event, resulting in a canceled JetBlue flight and lost theater tickets. Accommodations at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania, built around 1915, are described as subpar, featuring small beds, stuck windows, and evidence of poor maintenance. Observations of the hotel include the presence of police tape at crime scenes and the smell of marijuana in the hallways.

hotel pennsylvania· new york city· jetblue· snowmageddon· travel delays

03:55 Bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them, we need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them, we need to bomb them. We need to kill them and bomb them again! This is a new thing where yeah isn't that good? That was good I like these musical interludes Yeah this is uh InstaNightMe who did that people are pulling in these clips out and they're putting them kind of into Song for song form yes, Sean song format. I would say yeah nice little show songs That's a good one isn't it great? I have an end of show clip which is a whole song which Which left to put on as well So I'm in New York City And I am the reason why I'm on the iPhone which I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised with the results We'll see Knocking down wood

04:49 And I am indeed in the fabulous Hotel Pennsylvania, which is in the heart of all the action. And so you got a free room? Yeah! It's not much better than the guy who's homeless in the lobby... except that he- I have sheets. A sheet. You have a sheet. Yes, and this is... Yeah the Hotel Pennsylvania. Okay I had people from New York emailing me saying really you lived in New York and you don't know about hotel Pennsylvania? No! Of course i know where it is but I've never been in there here

05:26 It's built in, what is it? 1915 I think. Maybe a little bit later. One of the oldest left hotels left in New York In fact the door which has around strange kind of piece on it...it has a plaque that says this valet original valet door was created and installed in 1919 Well, at least you're in a historical place. It's got to be interesting. But seriously the bed and the springs actually go boing when you turn around? Oh yeah! And I have... what is what is uh the smallest bed size you can imagine? Is it single? Is that what you call it? Yeah single. I got that one so my legs overlap the end of the bed by about my knees

06:18 And then the sheets are short, you know so you can't pull the sheets up and then I opened the window a little bit to get some fresh air and it's stuck. But it's only... was it 30 degrees? And Fahrenheit, so it's freezing outside and so I had to now to push a towel in where the window was Or wear clothes. There's this bridge you could wait a minute You're telling me you oh you crack the window no can not get it close Room service or room service? Oh hold on a second let me just call room service No, there's no rooms are maintenance. I come in this I check-in this hotel. I'm a day late because my flight got canceled

06:57 Because of the snowmageddon that's good. That screwed up everything because I want to do a meetup And I had I had theater tickets which it had you know dispose of and get new ones everything was completely hosed um, and then you know jet blue even if you think I was gonna fly I flew JetBlue and Booked the flight and I like to get the even more space so you get a little extra legroom You pay? I don't know depends. I think 45 bucks and that's worth it for me. Well, yeah you're six foot six! Yeah sure I'm not seven foot... And uh so i get a cancelation you know like oh you've been canceled? You fly tomorrow?! Oh well thanks gee that's such a matter of fact kind of thing

07:42 And, Tuesday... actually Monday evening I figured I'll just make sure everything's good. You think that if you have cancelled a flight and you're going to put the people on the same flight number at the same departure time next day isn't that just like copy paste of everybody? No, because the next flight...the flight to the next day has people that are booked on it too. You have to overlay. Right and true but I would feel like had some precedence because I booked to fly earlier. No you just...I would see if I was on a book than the second flight? I would think of myself as having precedent over you losers that came in from the other flight cuz you didn't book the right flight!

08:24 Well, uh... So you didn't get your leg? Well I did but it wasn't on there. It said change your seat and it was like one of those bad JavaScript games where you click on the seat and then you click OK and then it goes okay and then it goes oh sorry we had a problem You go back and see that what you just clicked is no longer available so you check another one And then says okay we're good now Oh I'm sorry Sounds like waxmol And they would call in which took 35 minutes to get someone on the phone waiting And the guy's like, oh. It's like I can do this? Oh well that's strange. Are you on the website? Yes wait a minute! I'm calling you and you're on the website too?! What is that don't have some access to the computer? Well this is the little known gotcha of internet commerce...I don't know..this began.... This is amusing because when in early days by that I mean 15 years ago people said

09:23 Don't give your credit card information on the internet. by then, within just a few years that when you called the 800 number they brought up the exact same website. Same page and put your card number in the website yeah my hand away You would have Yeah it was little bizarre but we got it We got to sort out so you know then The hotel was also another well I'm not going to show up because I my flight was canceled Oh well Well you have to make a new booking No no no no no It's free room

10:05 Yeah, but it was... It had been prepaid and was all this. It was complicated because then if you don't show up then they have the right to fine you or something But then the production couldn't actually... Pennsylvania? I'm telling you! They should be giving YOU money for not showing up! Ha ha ha yeah, you'll get one of those So I walk in like 630 quarter to 7 in the evening And alright good to go, check-in Nah, alright here's your room. I go up to the room and open it up and it's...I see trash and sandals like hello? The room wasn't clean but the sandals threw me off of like maybe someone is dead in here And its was very very small

10:49 I go, okay. Go back down... Oh, sorry about that! Get another ribbed... Anyway so I'm in and then people are so kind in the No Agenda audience So kind to send me Yelp reviews where people talk about the bed bugs And I swear to God the other night I went To go to the elevators and there was a police tape In front of two doors You know, the do not cross crime scene. Yeah there's a crime scene and every everywhere they're like you walk around and go through the hall and you see like 12 dudes going into one room and this big waft of reefer throughout the whole hotel I picked a bad time to quit weed man this would have been great it would be great for me

11:38 So yeah, it's very interesting and the of course I have my all my gear and I set up on the premium Wi-Fi. Premium mind you! You pay for three devices for 24 hours premium Wi-Fi 1495 premium Yeah And I was getting probably a whole 350 kilobits up and down. Premium makes sense. Plus if your on your internet. Yeah that was impossible And I have the iPhone, which i got now because you know now I'm a slave. You can't be single without a smartphone yeah if you'll be single for a long time if you don't have one

CHAPTER 03 / 38 Discussion

T-Mobile International Data, Tethering Limits and LTE Performance

T-Mobile's international data roaming and tethering policies are analyzed during a remote broadcast. While the provider offers unlimited worldwide data, high-speed tethering for laptops requires separate data buckets that can reach costs of $50 for 20 gigabytes. The performance of LTE in New York City is noted as sufficient for high-quality audio transmission without significant latency.

t-mobile· lte· data tethering· roaming· smartphone plans

12:18 And I tried the tethering and T-Mobile because they have the worldwide, you know... You never have to turn your data off. They degraded a little bit. I guess you get 3 1⁄2G or whatever in some countries maybe but you don't have to turn your data off. Do they leave? How long does it run for before it craps out? No that is unlimited Because I have unlimited data on my T-Mobile because I have do you have to remember I've got $30 plan But it has this is more expensive This is $80, but you get unlimited and then you get five. I'll tell what happens with the 30-dollar pen for people who... It degrades after you use your... No no it's worse than that! Oh. It actually does degrade it but it was very difficult to get it to degrade because you really have to use a lot of data before it degrades BUT if it gets to the point where you're at the degrade point tethering stops working That's the problem Okay so this is.. You're absolutely right

13:17 The tethering is all separate. So you get a bundle and you can get true unlimited, unlimited anywhere in the world or obviously where T-Mobile provides service but that is pretty much everywhere in the world certainly where I go And then you have to purchase your tethering data separately. I think I had maybe 3 gigs or something and last night, I'm starting to do clips and stuff...and then I get a warning. Ah okay so now I have 20 gigs a month or something. just for the tethering, for this purpose only. Which is really an extra 50 bucks which of course is outrageous. I will say this when my tethering crapped out in some situation because I overused the free unlimited they did give me a warning and I could have spent 15 bucks or something. You can upgrade on the spot. T-Mobile's great about that I have to say

14:13 And then it doesn't carry over. I mean, once you upgrade it for that... like you just pay to stay on the air this doesn't go on your next month's bill It just they don't it doesn't continue on and on and on forever Oh, I think this..I'll have to look at that Anyway, I'm just not taking any risk. I don't know what i'm going to be doing What is the max 12 gigabytes tethered give it to me? I just want to be on the air and we have tried my fi hot spots before um But this this is lte and I have two bars lte in the room And i'm you know yeah knock on wood of course but i'm very impressed I don't hear any delay normally You can have a slight delay if you're on 4g versus lte there's all kinds of package no you sound right on the money

CHAPTER 04 / 38 Discussion

Reality TV Production, Ugly George and Supermodel Scouting

A European reality television production in New York City involves a scout recruiting potential supermodels directly off the street for auditions with brands like Revlon and Avon. This method is compared to "Ugly George," a 1980s New York public access personality on Channel J known for approaching women on the street with a camera and a satellite dish backpack.

ugly george· channel j· reality tv· supermodels· scouting

14:57 No, I don't. What do you mean you don't? He said no, you sound on the money. I dunno it sounded negative to a positive. I dunno it didn't feel right. No, you sound good! No, I sound good. No, you- no! NO! Yes, no. Yes, no. I sound yes, I sound good Anyway... So it's very cold in New York but it's- They got the YES removed But so it's been nice. And the only thing that's messed up is just the opportunity because you know, I'm here as a guest and although shows you how they treat their guests... A guest of the production some high end reality show about girls becoming models. Did I tell you this already? About this show? Yeah! This guy, I think I'm going to make you a supermodel and this guy he's kind of the modern version of Ugly George. You remember Ugly George from Channel J in New York

15:51 Actually, no. Okay ugly George back in the early days of cable in New York I'm talking late 80s or mid-80s to late 80s you had maybe 20 channels and then you had the channel ABCD and then you had just lettered channels and Channel J was a local access And you had Robin Bird She would yeah she's always naked Yeah come on baby bang my box that was her theme song and then good ugly George and ugly George have this Cam, he was just a like a kind of grungy dirty looking guy with the beard and you know But he had this this backpack with a fake satellite dish And he had a camera and he'd go up to girls on the street He said hey I'm ugly George and I'm gonna make you famous and he get them to come back to Someplace and then they take his clothes off for him. That would be on Channel J Yeah, I vaguely remember that show there's a bunch of shows like that on that channel

16:42 Yeah, so this guy's is kind of like that he walks. He just stands in a busy street and goes you You are going to be the next supermodel And he literally like picks him off the street and then there's some judging portion or whatever and then they have now They're all in New York to do their auditions for Avon and Revlon and Nicole Miller and God knows what else? So That is the crew that has invited me here just because I know someone. I'm not in the show, although... So they're putting the models up at a Pennsylvania hotel? Yes! This guy's a cheap prick Uh-huh yeah, yeah, that'd be correct It's an European production man come on they got no money so everything else Oh, I went to um..so I did see you play a musical as you know I love the singing and dancing

CHAPTER 05 / 38 Discussion

Book of Mormon Musical, Broadway and New York Atmosphere

A visit to the Neil Simon Theatre to see the musical "Book of Mormon" is recounted, noting that tickets became available due to poor weather conditions. The production is praised for its humor and songwriting. Observations of the New York City streets during the cold snap include the freezing of waste and the reduction of typical city odors.

book of mormon· neil simon theatre· broadway· musicals· new york city

17:41 This is one you said I could never get into. I will say because of the weather conditions in New York, tickets were available... Oh right! The weather conditions. Yes people were giving up their tickets. And the show must go on. Book Of Mormon? Yeah Very happy I saw that man That was good. Good. I'm glad you saw it. I've never seen it You're going to have to run through San Francisco and check it out. Wow okay Well, any show that has a guy singing I have maggots in my scrotum just kind of... Yeah. I've never heard all the songs but they're supposed to be pretty funny Very good yeah very impressed and it's the Neil Simon theater is not very big but it's just beautiful

18:22 You just walk into old world, New York. There's not a lot of theaters that are that big there's a couple that are like 1200 seats the rest are smaller yeah The Sondheim theater is pretty big no actually yeah Probably this probably about eight or nine hundred anyway So there you are. And so... So it's cold and miserable? Yeah, pretty much. I love New York though because you walk around particularly in the cold and some people don't smell as bad on the streets. The streets in general just don't smell bad because they're all frozen shut. The pee is all frozen! You step in dog crap and it rolls away. It crunches.

CHAPTER 06 / 38 Discussion

Real Estate Cycles, Economic Depression and Urban Migration

A theory on economic cycles suggests a potential depression within two years that could lead to a collapse in real estate and rent prices, particularly in overbuilt markets like San Francisco. Advice is given to accumulate cash and wait for this market correction before attempting to purchase property in expensive urban centers like New York City.

real estate· san francisco· new york· economic cycle· rent prices

19:11 And, uh... yeah it's good. I like it! I have to say. Why don't you move to New York? I think we should move back Wait is that before or after my sorrow tour of Hot Pockets? No the sorrow tour first because thats a winner Exactly The Sorrow Tour and then Boogie To New York where a studio apartment is $3,000. I know it's unbelievably good, Rick. It's just... Well wait till the... Here, I got an idea. Okay. This is based on the Dvorak cycles not my cycles but just some I observed so there'll be a depression in about two years that we could mark everything will collapse upon itself including real estate prices I presume? No real estate price but rent price will go down with real estate

19:58 will probably level off except in places like New York and San Francisco where they're overbuilding. Like, San Francisco they're building condos everywhere. So this can't be sustained. Real real estate like the houses and things like that should be stable because they already had their crash in 2008 it only happens once every 50 years or so anyway... So you get in your Airstream hit the road you go floating around for two years save as much money yeah save as much money as you can wait for the collapse now you're gonna have a little pot of cash I got likes I got ten grand now Sell the Airstream, take that money back. Sell the Airstream and then go into New York and pick something up. Wow! You have my life mapped out. This is fantastic. Yeah I do that's what i would do And then you can be just become a new yorker. You know boring and full of himself about New York has greatest city in the world. Angry dude rude angry screaming rude talking about the hot dog prices going up it's a big used to

21:03 a dollar and now they're like two. Of course few people who are in New York are actually from New York No, and in fact they were smart money New Yorkers all live in Brooklyn. Oh even that's too expensive yeah anyway so but there's really no news per se from New York That's a disappointment It is it is a bit disappointing this just really...it's cold people are pissed you know the news is there's another cold front coming through I don't think it's snow necessarily but they're talking extreme very cold extremely cold temperatures Get out of there Yeah well yes tomorrow Tomorrow I'm out. So you're right again it is and now everybody's pronouncing it who these ah Yes You notice this yeah, no but I do recall where I said its h o u th is and who sees fees oh

21:59 And there was brown who teases as though the th was like spaniel who tease right ease, right? And no it's who sees everyone's pronouncing in who sees and there's a lot of news about them because they took over the place Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is Yemen we need to clarify yes, they took over Yemen mm-hmm I couldn't now what people should note about this little news item is that until they took over Yemen, we never heard of these people. This is the kind of how everyone's keeping us up to date all the mainstream media folks they're keeping us apprised of what's actually going on and it's such a joke now I have two clips i should have cut one down. Now the Houthis don't...they aren't necessarily our friends but oh okay that's the interesting thing about this one clip do they steal our weapons yet?

CHAPTER 07 / 38 Discussion

Yemen Political Coup, Houthi Rebels and US Embassy Closure

Houthi rebels have seized control of the government in Sana'a, Yemen, leading the United States, Britain, and France to close their embassies. New York Times reporter Rod Nordland reports from the ground that the streets remain relatively calm and that the Houthis are attempting to reach out to the U.S. for diplomatic recognition. Despite their official slogan—which includes "Death to America"—the Houthi leadership claims they are willing to cooperate against Al-Qaeda.

yemen· houthis· sana'a· rod nordland· al-qaeda· iran

21:03 a dollar and now they're like two. Of course few people who are in New York are actually from New York No, and in fact they were smart money New Yorkers all live in Brooklyn. Oh even that's too expensive yeah anyway so but there's really no news per se from New York That's a disappointment It is it is a bit disappointing this just really...it's cold people are pissed you know the news is there's another cold front coming through I don't think it's snow necessarily but they're talking extreme very cold extremely cold temperatures Get out of there Yeah well yes tomorrow Tomorrow I'm out. So you're right again it is and now everybody's pronouncing it who these ah Yes You notice this yeah, no but I do recall where I said its h o u th is and who sees fees oh

21:59 And there was brown who teases as though the th was like spaniel who tease right ease, right? And no it's who sees everyone's pronouncing in who sees and there's a lot of news about them because they took over the place Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is Yemen we need to clarify yes, they took over Yemen mm-hmm I couldn't now what people should note about this little news item is that until they took over Yemen, we never heard of these people. This is the kind of how everyone's keeping us up to date all the mainstream media folks they're keeping us apprised of what's actually going on and it's such a joke now I have two clips i should have cut one down. Now the Houthis don't...they aren't necessarily our friends but oh okay that's the interesting thing about this one clip do they steal our weapons yet?

22:48 No, this is a... You gotta hear this. This is long. Alright I'm good. They're gonna break it up now first is this is the..this is....I got two reports. I got one from Democracy Now! but I have the one from PBS where they interview The New York Times reporter who is their man on the street right now It's not Richard Engel or one of these correspondents in one of the networks. It's a guy that's a writer And he tells a tale that is nothing that you've heard before, and it's long but is well worth listening to. He says that the Houthis are... You just have to listen to it. So play the clip that's just marked Houthis. In Yemen, Britain and France joined the U.S in closing their embassies as turmoil spread in the capital city. Crowds protested today in Sana'a against Shiite rebels who took over the government last week. The rebels patrolled

23:39 the streets and there were scattered reports of beatings and even stabbings. Rod Nordlund of The New York Times is in Sanat, and I spoke with him a short time ago." A question right there... When's the last time you heard a news report from the Middle East about stabbings? Who cares?! Yeah well that tells me- That seems strange! Well i think that who cares comment is apt what this tells me The level of violence is so low that they have to count stabbings. That they have to count stabbings, which could've come from any number of criminal actions. So that was the first hint I had that something was strange about this

24:24 But let's continue with the interview with this guy from The New York Times who pretty much, I think tells us the true story that we're not getting from anywhere. Rod Nordland welcome! We understand not only did officials at the U.S. Embassy close it down they've also abandoned cars at the airport in Sana'a left weapons in the cars What is the situation on the ground now? Well, they did but they also left in an orderly way. They went into the airport and got on commercial flights And the Houthis who are in control of things here say that they're just taking those cars for safekeeping and they're following Yemeni law and they're doing their best to try to prevent it from blowing up into any bigger incident than it actually is. Hey hello! Hello New York Times man this not scary

25:13 Well, this is why nobody else... How can it be a long report if he's not scary? He's not doing it right. The surprising thing is that it's actually really pretty calm on the streets inside of these states. No! Get this guy off the air! What would you say the attitude is of this new Houthi government toward the U.S.? Well they're trying desperately to reach out to United States and try to persuade them We're not talking to them. La la la, I don't hear anybody. The other report that came in on democracy now says exactly that. I love the la la la we're not listening Houthis! We only know Hoothies who don't know who these are. They want to be on friendly terms and they haven't had much success doing that i think the americans want to see a government in place and one that the Houthis agree with other parties and not one this is completely dominated by

26:06 by the way, how do we get along with Saudi Arabia? They don't have a bunch of different factions running their government. Why don't we just have a bunch of factions? Oh, we can't just have you. We have to have some of our... This is the problem with American diplomacy. These guys take over the place kick out these corrupt individuals including our buddy, the guy running the place and these guys say this is crap and they take over this as a real revolution of a higher... Yeah now this is a true coup. A true coup! And there in that taken over

26:44 I did get over and they but they you know, they're there. They're protecting property They're keeping the people's cars safe Yeah, I'm pissed because it was a clip that I think actually recorded maybe I have I think I trashed it And it was Jen Psaki and she was a I can't believe I tried. I'll see if I could find it." And she was saying, well you know they took some of our weapons and we're asking them to give it back to us It was very strange but in context of this would have been better to have it But I just wasn't thinking that was interesting because it kind of hanging out there Let's listen the rest is good This a very very astute report We know that the US and the Houthis are

27:25 on the same side of the fight against Al Qaeda, could that make for... Yeah we've already heard this. This is their whole thing that we're on the same- We hate each other but they want to get rid of al Qaeda too. Cooperation? Well we seem to hate them more than they hate us. Well, I think it's already making for cooperation. You know the Houthis have long campaigned against American drone strikes even though they're against their bitter enemies al-Qaeda and since taking control they've done nothing to interfere with those in fact They've dialed back the anti drone and anti American rhetoric so wrong with no US embassy there how are they trying to reach out to the u.s what is the message ham radio or they just go they tweeting are they just tweeting we want to talk this is what Isis does this ISIL doesn't IS does this al-qaeda does this

28:16 Everyone's tweeting, they're on the social media. Is it so hard? Email? Well I interviewed their leader here a couple days ago and he was very adamant about trying to have better relations with the US He even went so far as to pretty much repudiate their slogan which includes death to America What is the slogan actually of the Houthis? Death To America?! Wait a minute, he said their slogan which includes death to America. I'd love to know the whole... hold on what is the Huthi slogan? If you don't mind i just want to check this out. They're going to promote our site Here it is! I have it. Okay. Huthi official slogan Death To America Death to Israel Damn The Jews

29:02 God is great. God is great death to America, death to Israel damn the Jews power to Islam Look the curry Dvorak consulting group is available because this is not a catchy slogan No no and it's certainly nice if you're trying to reach out To I don't know America It's top of the list! Death to... oh no, I'm sorry. God is great that's the top death to America death to Israel damn the Jews power to Islam now there's a funny thing this guy now wanna talk? Wanna talk? Hold on, do they finish this up? Yeah well know the guys now it gets funny because he confronted him about the death to America thing This is very funny

29:49 Let me roll it back a second. He even went so far as to pretty much repudiate their slogan, which includes Deaf to America and say that's just the slogan we don't mean it literally. We want to be friends with the United States and other countries in the region. And he even played down their connection to Iran—it is widely believed that the Iranians financed them—but he said that wasn't true and they didn't want to see Iran make headway in Yemen either. So it's a very reassuring message, but it is hard for the Americans to take that seriously when first of all they don't have an actual government to deal with here. Whether its Houthi or other governments including the Houthis and I think they want to see that before they move forward. Outstanding! That's a great report. So we had like this screwball situation developing And he said go ahead you can drone these Al Qaeda guys It saves us money

30:42 And they're just anti-Al Qaeda and of course Shiites, so they're not...and the Al Qaeda guys are Sunnis. So that fits into the scheme of things. I'm sure that they're probably nativists. They really are Yemenis and don't want Iran to be coming in there and mucking things up. It's almost like a little slightly anarchistic operation and it sounds like a winner to me, but you know we're gonna be dicks as usual. There's a line in the Book of Mormon where Jesus comes down and says to one of the... Hey this is spoiler! He says, You're a dick

CHAPTER 08 / 38 Discussion

Gulf of Aden, Strategic Shipping Choke Points and Djibouti Drone Base

The strategic importance of Yemen is linked to its location on the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, serving as a critical choke point for global shipping. The U.S. maintains a drone base in nearby Djibouti to target Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Historically, the region has struggled with extreme poverty, particularly in the former South Yemen.

gulf of aden· djibouti· red sea· shipping lanes· al-qaeda· drones

31:26 That was kind of good. I had to be there all right let's move on to the Democracy Now Amy Goodman who sees yeah, this is the same report But this is done without any without that New York Times guy that just this is a more typical report We've been what people will see on their own on their so-called trusted media The State Department has closed the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff, including the ambassador amidst a political insecurity crisis in the capital, Sanaa. Crisis! Yemen has been in limbo since Houthi rebels forced the resignation of the Yemeni cabinet then seized power last week. In Washington, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki declined to share details of the embassy closure with reporters

32:10 The safety and security of U.S. personnel in Yemen is our top priority, and we are always evaluating the security situation on the ground and taking steps to mitigate risks We have been reducing staff in Yemen over the past few weeks as all you know given the volatile political and security situation We have nothing further to announce over and above what we have previously announced The Houthis have dissolved Yemeni parliament and named Mohammed Ali al-Houthi as the new president, in place of the ousted Abdurabdu Mansour Hadi. The Houthis' move comes as they take part in a new round of U.N.-brokered talks. I love how those guys always adjust their name. So he's now hookah to hoodie to hoodie—the Houthis? He's the new president? Yeah.

32:57 Yeah, that's pretty good. That's slick. It's a different naming convention than we're used to and it is hard to pronounce. Not slick. Okay so that is... Now the reason why Yemen is important to us this of course is not because... I don't know if any reason. Well I... Because Al Qaeda hangs out there and we have the bomb on them? Well I think... And so Gulf of Aden is now... Yes! ...it sounds like a shipping area. Yeah was right across the puddle there from Saudi Arabia Is it not? No, no. It's at the tip of Saudi Arabia. Yeah let's look at the maps yes this is a good thing to do Yemen map let me see yeah so it's Gulf of Aden where the Stargate is but okay So of course Djibouti is where we have our drone base that's why it's in Djiboutis to go drone the Al-Qaeda in Yemen or the Arabian Peninsula right however I think

33:51 But that choke point there at the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, yeah this is... That's the problem. We have to you know if somebody gets in control of that then we're screwed because yeah that's the main shipping pass-through Yeah so we have Djibouti so we were good shape there I tapped out Djibouti You gonna give yourself a uh... No And, uh... They must have pipelines going through this place too. I'm sure. I don't know why? Well doesn't Yemen have any resources? Not that i know of it used to be traditionally the poorest country in the entire Middle East. Oh they have the cot, of course they have the cot The drugs. The cot? Yeah, don't they have the cots? K-H-T Okay so I'm seeing we have

34:45 And we do have the Yemen natural gas LNG company, but that's way the hell over. That's nowhere near No I don't think it's anything but that but the access to the did today dead just just let get to the Straits there must be straight does that call the straights of something? It's a Yemen I have no idea is of straights of jibrizy know what its called Let's find out by enlarging the map Anyway, there's so that and Yemen use traditionally the poorest country in I'd love to visit there by the way They're supposed to have some great picturesque villages and old abandoned cities And then at one point before with the recent before our show and sometime before that There was actually two Yemens which combined to make one big Yemen but the worst for you South Yemen Which is dead?

35:32 the southern part down over by the water in the corner, was considered the poorest country in the entire world. Wow! Conveniently located to places like Ethiopia. They could just swap out poor people. If you're hungry... Swim! If you're hungry, Ethiopia is not the way to go. Interesting. Yeah, I don't see anything... Because we've been just killing people left and right with the drones! And by the way, I think the reason that we do that against especially Al Qaeda is because I think al-Qaeda wants to take over that area and pull some stunt at the bottleneck Well okay so this does fold into a larger picture which includes ...and i think..I've been trying to watch as much news coverage as I can although people are extrapolating from it but I don't think anyone has actually

CHAPTER 09 / 38 Discussion

AUMF Joint Resolution, ISIL Definition and Military Force Authorization

President Barack Obama has requested a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, specifically using the acronym ISIL. The resolution cites threats to regional stability and the deaths of U.S. citizens like James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Critics point out that the resolution relies on "inherent rights of self-defense" and poetic license regarding the group's depravity.

aumf· isil· barack obama· joint resolution· military force· syria

36:26 read any of the language of this joint resolution which the President Obama wants Congress to ratify, I guess. A joint resolution... Well there's enough people reading it to say and i haven't read it because i know you'd read it yes is that its too general It doesn't really focus on anything and you can take over You could run troops into Iceland if you want to Yeah Because it's only two-and-a-half pages I think we can just highlight a few things and let the producers, listeners of the show actually listen to what is being proposed and make their own decision. It's not... Or read it? Yeah well of course we have it marked up in the show notes um and it's a joint resolution which is interesting. It's not like a law or anything but as a joint resolution uh to issue authorization

37:20 use of military force. Do you mind if I just read some of the highlights here? So, as with every joint resolution we see this a lot... As with every resolution, and we see this a lot in the European Union and United Nations. They start off with a lot of whereas so that's all the facts that they're placing down so whereas the terrorist organization has referred itself to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and various other names and please pay attention in parentheses it says In this resolution referred to as ISIL So there can be no discrepancy news people

37:59 If the joint resolution specifically speaks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, referred to in this resolution as ISIL. ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic state are not valid! And I think that's just as egregious as Brian Williams lying is when... The document says this and people use a different word Why? Why is that?! Well, we've been trying to figure that out for a while on the show. Other than they don't want to be complicit in this huge scam that's being pulled off? Well, that could be but what difference does it make whether they call it ISIS or ISIL if it involves the scam and scams the scam? I'm just saying it is specifically mentioned in this resolution referred to as ISO. I think its code. It poses a grave threat to people and territorial integrity

38:58 of Iraq, Syria. Regional stability and the national security interests of the United States and its allies and partners." What is the difference between ally and a partner? An ally I think is formalized one way and a partner's formalized another. And I also think allies refers to war status so...I think you'd have trade partner but not somebody that's gonna go to war. You know what I think Russia is a partner, for example. And it's an ally? I don't know. It's bullcrap." Yes! Whereas ISIL holds significant territory in Iraq and Syria and has stated its intention to seize more territory and demonstrated the capability to do so. Whereas ISO leaders have stated they intend to conduct terrorist attacks internationally including against the United States, its citizens, and its interests. But I think that's pretty bold...

39:58 Yeah, apparently not in that order. Whereas ISIL has committed despicable acts of violence and mass executions against Muslims regardless of sect who do not subscribe to ISIL's depraved violent and oppressive ideology. Boy some conjecture there huh? That's poetic license people! Whereas ISIL has threatened genocide and committed various acts of violence against religious and ethnic minority groups including Iraqi Christian, Yazidi and Turkmen populations. Whereas ISIL has targeted innocent women and girls with horrific acts of violence including abduction enslavement torture rape and forced marriage! Well how about Pakistan? How about India for force marriage? You know that was a big deal all of the sudden

40:47 whereas ISIL is responsible for the deaths of innocent United States citizens. This I found to be interesting, for the mention of the innocent United States citizens in this resolution are only those citizens who have been killed without actual video evidence of their killing because it includes James Foley who we did not see his head actually cut off Stephen Soltoff we did not actually see a beheading Abdul Rahman Peter Kasig, we also did not see an actual beheading. And Kayla Mueller we have no evidence other than hearsay that she is dead. None of...no one else! No other beheadings, no other immolation, nothing at all is...of course that would be the Jordanian guy but there's no mention of any other Americans only the ones who had bull crap produced videos

41:41 Then we skip a couple of things here. Whereas the United States has taken military action against ISIL in accordance with its inherent right of individual and collective self-defense I love this line, and i'm not quite sure where that... Where is that inherent right documented? Is that just unknown? It's inherent Does that mean...? How do I interpret that? Does every country have the inherent right of individual and collective self defense I would have to say yes to that. If one country does, all countries should have that. And that's inherent? Which means... Well it means you have the inherent right to breathe. Yes okay, I do. I think its a weasel word they put into something like move along. Now we get to the actual resolution

CHAPTER 11 / 38 Discussion

Visual Effects Analysis, Jordanian Pilot Video and Wag the Dog

A visual effects professional analyzes the video of the Jordanian pilot's execution, suggesting the use of digital compositing and "Twixtor" software for frame interpolation. The discussion posits that such highly produced media serves as a "Wag the Dog" style propaganda tool to build a coalition for military intervention in Syria and the eventual removal of President Bashar al-Assad.

visual effects· twixtor· jordan· propaganda· wag the dog· bashar al-assad

49:02 Holy inappropriate. I don't know if they're going to change this resolution, I'm not quite sure if you put amendments or how that works exactly with this type of document procedure... Oh they'll add a few amendments and boom unanimous except for maybe three people. Because it's not really a bill, it just has the resolution. So already we are now preparing the public and this is where it all comes together these videos the highly produced videos so I spoke to a couple of people on The Production TBR who had consulted earlier about the Jordanian, the Burning Man video. I said you know holy crap this is...you know tell me what this these now I'd sent this they don't yeah they're from Europe so they don't really all pay attention but they thought that The Burning Man video was a reenactment done by Hollywood to show what had happened with the Jordanian pilot

50:01 I said, no you don't understand. This is what the president of the United States says is proof that they burned this Jordanian pilot because that was him and they're like are you fucking kidding me? I said no really this is and everyone falls for that in America? I said well apparently so do you stupid Holland um... And then I got a email about an actual about some of the processes which then light started to go on. This is from one of our producers, Nathan who has a he's a professional in visual video effects He says Adam and John what is this talk of high-end Macs and fire? Please consult a real visual effects artist instead of these jabronies who are just pasting Google links at you Let me explain

50:47 You can take pre-shot elements and digitally composite them into the shot. The CG fire takes very experienced artists and high end boxes to run it on, and he has done an analysis. He said check out the slow mo you can actually see vector stretching which is done by a program called Twixtor that draws frames in between frames. And if you look at the slow-mo, you see weird and wavy when it's too heavy to computer can really estimate what's going on between the frames and stretching it out. He says dead giveaway this has been created digitally but based on this bullcrap that we now have Jordan attacking Syria, that we are building a true kind of a new coalition. We are speaking of having it all be Americans because we'll have

51:35 you know, we'll have for some time enduring time. We'll have some combat boots and advisors and consultants but we are just going to go and create this entire wag the dog...you mentioned that last show very important people watch this movie again in order to sell to the world that it's okay what we're about to do which is annihilate Syria really kill Assad who is now desperately trying to do interviews with the BBC Yeah, I noticed. In a shitty suit too! Did you see his suit has gotten crap? And his shoes are not shined and it was very peculiar If that was him... Get the fuck out Well he has been invited, there's a known invite A permanent invite to move to Russia with this pretty wife Well yeah I don't know why hasn't done it by now Consolidating his banking plans Can you imagine if Assad went to Russia that would be perfect

CHAPTER 12 / 38 Discussion

Rear Admiral Kirby, ISIL in Afghanistan and Targeted Killings

Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed the killing of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee in Afghanistan who had recently pledged allegiance to ISIL. Kirby described the ISIL presence in Afghanistan as "nascent" and "aspirational" rather than a deeply rooted network. The justification for the strike was that the individual was "planning operations" against U.S. and Afghan personnel.

john kirby· afghanistan· gitmo· targeted killing· nascent

52:32 Oh yeah, perfect for us. Perfect for us! Oh let's bomb Moscow! It's war proof! Alright here is Kirby, Rear Admiral Kirby and apparently they killed some guy who was a former Gitmo detainee but they killed him in Afghanistan because he was up to no good And I think this is a precursor to helping us understand why we need this authorization of use of military force for ISIL. So, we can just go kill anybody wherever we need to whenever we feel the urge... The way I would describe ISIL in Afghanistan is nascent at best and... Nascient?

53:14 Nacient, I think is the best way to pronounce it. N-A-C-I-E... So that means very little almost not there. Nacient? I think it means developing let's look it up! Yes that's a great thing about our show we can actually look stuff up. I'm just gonna go with the definition yeah and a n-a-c-i-e-n-t define Uh, this adjective? Yes. Just beginning budding developing growing ah fresh infant newborn fresh the way I would describe

53:52 ISIL in Afghanistan is nation at best fresh. I would say more aspirational than anything else at this point I by the way, it's nas C and T. There's no I interesting so Aspirational at best just now did so there's a guy who aspires to be alka ISIL in Afghanistan Guess what you got killed? This guy could beam We assess this guy could deem dead guy this guy is such a mobster This is the no schwackin. Guy whatever it was a swaggin Oh, yeah, I decided to swear allegiance to ISIL probably no more than a couple weeks ago. Oh, oh

54:34 I love this! There you go. Two weeks later, dad... You kids take this message home. Do they have a swearing in ceremony? Like a blood handshake or something where you pledge allegiance? Yeah, yeah, yeah carving X in your palm and then shaking hands. It's like I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of ISIL. What is this?! Anything else at this point? This guy, Kadeem, we assess that he decided to swear allegiance to ISIL probably no more than a couple weeks ago. He didn't have a whole lot of depth in any network resources or manpower when he did it I'm not diminishing or trying to dismiss at all

55:21 the threat that ISIL poses and wants to pose. What I'm telling you is here in this case it's nation aspirational, and that would be an aggressive position right now. This reminds me, what comes to mind is the These movies or these videos that these guys are, that I don't know who's producing it could be us. And is always the same there is a big room filled with guy wearing all kinds of rag tag outfits and they're hanging out covering their face and then they all raise the gun in this room and this like the recruiting room or something oh! And then have these never ending

56:03 Oh, there's so many foreigners coming over to join. Oh wait 30,000 foreign fighters and they all you see only ever see the room Yeah The rule the room and a couple of Toyotas he and his associates were targeted because we had information that they were planning operations against US and Afghan person when when I'm killed John Please make it not acceptable for the reason to be, uh... Yeah. He was planning... This is so disgraceful! We killed human beings Yes? Killed them and the guy who has to explain why can't really remember. Stammering! He doesn't know why. He doesn't remember! Play this short clip ISIS and the foreign fighters meme Okay

CHAPTER 13 / 38 Discussion

Foreign Fighters, Intelligence Failures and Global Banking Dominance

U.S. intelligence reports indicate that 20,000 foreign fighters, including 150 Americans, have joined militants in Syria. Skepticism is expressed regarding the NSA's inability to track these individuals despite widespread surveillance. The broader geopolitical strategy is characterized as a combination of global banking dominance and the authority to conduct drone strikes anywhere in the world.

foreign fighters· nsa· intelligence· banking· derivatives

57:05 The bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq has done little to stop foreign fighters from joining the Islamic State. U.S. intelligence leaders told a house hearing today that some 20,000 foreign fighters from 90 countries have joined the militants. That includes up to 150 Americans who have tried to reach the war zone inside Syria. How do we know this? We counted them. How do we know there's 150 Americans trying to reach the war zone? Why don't we just track them down and arrest them? The NSA is listening in on every conversation that anyone is having about their love affairs, and meanwhile they can't find these 150 guys and throw him into slammer?! You know how I know this? Common core math my friend. Operations against...

57:54 uh... that uh... u.s. and afghan uh... personnel there in afghanistan they were planning on something against person is associates for targeted because we knew they were planning attacks as i said before here down now we got into this whole rhetorical debate about the taliban and taliban whether or not with the full alabama will continue to go get about it alabama after him given that when a new mission and i told you then and this is Proof of it today. Well hold on he told us and then it happened oh my god, so amazing other words We're gonna continue to go after them Given that we're in a new mission And I told you then and this is proof of it today They're gonna threaten our interest our allies our partners in Afghanistan their fair game, and they're fair game bullshit Mark the time

58:45 Because you made a sound that I've never you done this a couple of times okay You made some court sort of a weird sound that is perfect beginning of the show clip, okay? All right 103 yeah, but it's before obviously before you go. It was like Tourette's thing no it was this crazy You just want me to be the opening for the show okay, well dad when I just did as possible too That's not as funny, believe me. So let's go to this fits in with your clip that we just heard about all these foreign fighters and this is... Despite by the way despite the bombings and the death and all the rest are still joining like crazy there is a meme that is being presented for a reason Yeah so that we can yes of course it's the same as the videos The whole its' all about just make sure

59:40 John, we already have the banking dominance in the world now that we know from our Wall Street former banker. So that's all set. We have all the trillions of derivatives or whatever but where we ruled the banking world were screwing Russia was screwing the euro everything is going swimmingly well. All we need now is just to set it up so that we can kill anybody anywhere in the world, for whatever reason by drone or any other way we want with boots on the ground for 13 years. By authority of the president only which will carry over into one year of the next presidents dominance rule and if the American public wants to their representatives to approve this well you get the government you deserve and I hope they drone you

CHAPTER 14 / 38 Discussion

FBI Counterterrorism Testimony, Schengen Agreement and Travel Restrictions

FBI Assistant Director Steinbach testified before Congress regarding the difficulty of tracking "broken travel" routes to conflict zones, such as those utilizing the European Schengen area. Steinbach noted that while the FBI does not currently curtail the travel of legitimate citizens, they utilize "tripwires" and social media monitoring to identify potential threats. The goal is described as achieving total "under control" status through a surveillance state.

fbi· counterterrorism· schengen· travel rights· surveillance

1:00:30 It's disgusting. Disgusting! Here is how Steinbach, who was Counterterrorism Assistant Director addresses the issue of not being- and this was in congressional hearings- not being able to yet... And listen to the arrogance of this fuck! Sorry Not yet tracking people who are flying out of the country who then are going to join The fight in Syria because of the broken travel which means you fly to Amsterdam and then you can drive You can drive to Turkey if you want do many different ways to get there, but listen the arrogance of this guy about Americans traveling abroad foreign fighter travel

1:01:15 Travel to a conflict zone in support of foreign terrorist organizations against the law so the FBI has lead on that. Wait a minute, so is it traveling to a foreign conflict zone Is against the law? I guess it is he said it was by... Let me just listen again. They got a lot of stuff thats against the law. I'd like to know where this law is. Foreign fighter travel which is a cruise line travel to a conflict zone in support of foreign terrorist organizations against the law. Oh, in support of a terrorist organization? Well yeah! So I would say that the travel is not against the law...I don't think it's against the law

1:01:57 supporting a terrorist organization as we know is going to be punishable by death, by drone. I don't think it's against the law to travel however this guy... So the FBI has lead on that? We got the lead bitches! The question is when you look at the broken travelers Mr. Herb brought up earlier when you look at the ways to legitimate citizens traveling abroad is not something that we choose curtail. Okay, oh thank you very much! What a dick! Oh they're not gonna curtail our travel that's so nice. No he chooses not to curtail because we could choose to curtail whenever we want? That arrogance

1:02:40 is, listen to the rest of this. So if you take travel to destinations like Europe where you can then take a visa waiver with the Schengen process... Here's the Schengen we've been talking about the Schengen agreement This is going to be reversed this is about the open borders of Europe so he's mentioning this but he swallows it and moves on down to Turkey so its more about identifying the multitude of ways that these individuals in the US are committed to travel using good investigative processes. Are they going up to Canada? Are they going down to Mexico? How are they getting to, how are they using lawful process, lawful ways to get to... You mean like inherent rights of a citizen to travel which he calls lawful process this is

1:03:22 If it weren't so horrible. Now the funny thing of course we have to realize is this is a classic government screwing with the numbers, if there's only 150 Americans who have not met most apparently and not even made it there but attempted to supposedly out The hundreds of thousands of travelers that the United States has on a monthly basis, and we're dealing with 150 and they're talking like this. This is sick! Yes, sir. These locations so it's not a function of not having the tools... We have the tools we can do whatever we want with citizens Just as much creativity as we do and they've got a lot of support So they reach out on social media on platforms Talked to people who've done it and made it And then followed the travel route so we've gotta stay on Let me ask Can you read tweets Mr FBI man? If this is where their tweeting on social media

1:04:24 And finding people who did it and then they follow their routes. Yeah, can't you do this? It's so hard to crack! I don't know what we're gonna do Maybe the maybe ISIL blocked the FBI on Twitter and like oh crap No We can't read what they're saying Top of that and use tripwires The intelligence community Tripwires The 17 thousand state local and tribal law enforcement agencies To develop a understanding of what the landscape is Now So wait a minute there are seventeen thousand People trying to develop with the landscape is and for tripwire can't read tweets and they're trying to catch 150 people it's 17,000 why don't we just find these 150 people and give them 10 grand each until I'm gonna stay home. It would save so much money

1:05:07 So the message I'm getting... Are you thinking of becoming a terrorist? Come on in for your check and stay home. ...from you here today is that you feel like we've got that under control or...? This is great, this was a wrap up hold on this is uh I forget which senator this is but it was kind yeah do you think we have this under control? The message I'm getting from you here today is did you feel like we've got that under control Hold on a second! The message this guy's getting as US representative a Senator the message he got from that spiel is You have this under control Really? Mr. Senator! So the message I'm getting from you here today is that you feel like we've got that under control or doing the best we can We don't have it under control. Absolutely we're doing the best we can If I were to say that we had it under control, then I would say I knew of every single individual traveling or I don't and I don't know every person there and I don't know everyone coming back So it's not even close to being under control But thats what their goal is? To have it all under control! Under control means they know everything

1:06:03 person coming in and out of the country, and what they're up to. And that's why we need the NSA in a surveillance state because the definition of under control doesn't mean that they stopped anything. It just means they know everybody and what they're up to. Meanwhile... Let's put chips on everybody and get it over with! So meanwhile something very curious has happened where what the FBI and the NSA and everybody can do is now have the group known as Anonymous And they are claiming, they're taking down all social media accounts of terrorist organizations such as ISIL.

CHAPTER 15 / 38 Discussion

Anonymous Operation, Anti-ISIL Cyber Warfare and Branding

The hacking collective Anonymous has declared "war" on ISIL, claiming they will take down social media accounts and expose members online. The group's messaging, which includes slogans like "United as one, divided by zero," is criticized for being inconsistent and potentially serving as a front for government operations.

anonymous· isil· cyber warfare· twitter· social media

1:06:45 And so they, you know...in typical anonymous fashion. And who knows who this is? Although they say- Right! The anonymous guy whose operation was pretty much shut down. Well in his video they say, you know we're Christians Jews Muslims were rich were poor or blue collar where there were everybody except the terrorists and by the way I'm a little tired Anonymous of your big bombastic boom boom boom boom This is V I've got the mask bum bum bum bum bum bum I don't- We are anonymous. I think this is an effort, this is the government operation. Like it's never been that. United as one divided by zero. United as one divided by zero common core math! We are anonymous remember the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State ISIS Are not Muslims. ISIS we will hunt you take down your sites accounts emails and expose you

1:07:39 From now on, no safe place for you online. You will be treated like a virus and we are the cure We own the internet Now some of ISIS Twitter accounts that were taken offline by anonymous Red cult team! You will find the link in the video description Also, you will find some Facebook accounts suspected to have been keeping contact with terrorists ISIS in Syria and Iraq Won't hurt to keep an eye on them ISIS. We are anonymous, we are Legion. We do not forgive- we do not forget. Expect us." Here's some free advice... Free advice, Anonymous. PICK ONE SLOGAN! Pick one! You know? United by all divided by zero. We are Legion, we never forget. Please just pick one slogan and use it and stop with all the ppbppbbbpahhhh bblrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlr

CHAPTER 16 / 38 Discussion

Jon Stewart Resignation, The Daily Show History and Career Moves

Jon Stewart's announced departure from "The Daily Show" prompts a look back at his tenure and the show's origins under Craig Kilborn. It is suggested that Stewart's personal brand became inseparable from the program, making it difficult for a successor to maintain its success. Stewart's move toward film direction is viewed as a natural progression following the success of his peers like Steve Carell.

jon stewart· the daily show· comedy central· craig kilborn· viacom

1:08:37 And then, you know... this is like The Verge. They publish this crap in the comments. Yeah! This is so awesome! This is epic! Yes! Anonymous are gonna save us!" It was the same people who were crying that Jon Stewart resigned. Ha ha ha! That was everybody? Yeah! Wow! So that-that was it huh?! You know, it's new what happened they had to take him out but he was making too much sense. Jon Stewart didn't quit for his health actually did quit for his health Yes. I'm so sad, who's going to take over? No one can take over that show with Jon Stewart. I think he ruined it...I've said this before, I think he's ruined the show and not that is a bad show but he made his show The Jon Stewart Show which is how it started It was originally The Jon Stewart Show on MTV. No! Was it? Yes it was on MTV. No no there was a show that Craig Kilborn ran called The Daily Show that

1:09:38 took over. I know there was a Jon Stewart show because i used to watch it, but he quit that show to become the head of The Daily Show. It was that his show morphed into... I'm sorry Comedy Central is owned by Viacom MTV Network's as to be specific same company and I was there when this happened This is just MTV? No! I was there when..it's the same people. I was there when this happened so I can speak with some authority The Jon Stewart show, the Kilborn was doing the Daily Show but then they- and it's the same. They moved people over from the Jon Stewart show okay? It always was the Jon Stewart show, but it just didn't have that name. But what happened to Kilborn's show? The Daily Show? They took the name, but it became...Stewart is the guy! He's the guy. Yeah, it's the Jon Stewart show. Yes I agree with that yeah, but they plugged it into The Other Show and so he ruined The Daily Show because you can't put anybody else in that spot and there would be crap. It's gonna be crummy And at a certain point with cable, you could only make so much money

1:10:43 There's only so many viewers you can draw to a cable channel. And Stuart, I'm sure that he just wants to do more... but i also think there is an element of it. He likes movies! He directed a film this year and liked it, enjoyed it. He gets to deal with starlets. And he can be his normal horndog self He can go become a movie director, and he'd be fine with that and this thing was a dead end yeah And meanwhile everybody around him Steve Steve Carell and everybody else they all got out of it Never doing better things, and he's not he's the schmuck. I'm sorry I got off on the tangent cuz I just want to finish up you brought it up then I said I'm sorry

CHAPTER 17 / 38 Discussion

Rand Paul, Kurdish Armament and the Seven Countries Memo

Senator Rand Paul advocates for directly arming the Kurds and involving Arab troops on the ground to fight ISIL, while criticizing Hillary Clinton's foreign policy record. This is contrasted with General Wesley Clark's famous 2001 memo detailing a Pentagon plan to "take out" seven countries in five years, including Iraq, Syria, and Iran.

rand paul· kurds· turkey· wesley clark· hillary clinton· neocon

1:11:22 I just want to finish this up. Rand Paul interviewed about the, because now we have to look at who's going to authorize this. Rand Paul not entirely on board yet with the authorization for the use of military force not for the reasons we mentioned which are quite obvious. I think what we need to do and what we really could use is a president like the first George Bush who put together a coalition of dozens of Arab countries including Arab troops on the ground. I think the only way this battle ultimately is won, is with troops on the ground but they need to be Arab troops." And how come these guys are all such experts now in military warfare? Why do you need troops on the ground to go kill Assad?!

1:12:00 I don't know why you just bomb his palace. Can i point something out this guy's accent gets on my nerves Because where is it from and? And, I will say he sounds a lot like Glenn Greenwald in the way He has these crazy pauses and yeah say the pacing and the cadence is nice from Texas. I mean it's from Texas That's not a Texas accent. He was born in Texas, he should be sounding like this maybe. Oh yeah, like I sound. They need to be Iraqis they need to be Kurds one of the things we could do is directly arm the Kurds and i'm in favor of this right now we're making the arms go through the Shiite government in Baghdad

1:12:39 Pay attention to this, this is very interesting. And I'm concerned that adequate arms aren't getting to the Kurds Right now we're destroying our own weapons in Afghanistan Maybe we oughta think about taking some of the weapons if were no longer using them in Afghanistan and transferring them to the Kurds We prevented the Germans from arming the Kurds directly We tell the Germans that the weapon have to go through Baghdad The Kurds are the best fighters over there. I think we really need to incorporate them and give them the goal of a homeland, and I think they'll be even more fierce fighters. Turkey's a NATO ally. We need to incorporate Turkey, and Turkey needs to have troops on the ground. The Jordanians are fired up, and- Fired up! He's using Obama talk now that... They're fired up over this! You know he's running for president. Ah yes he is. Wait no Yes he is running for president

1:13:31 Part two of this. They have been pushed back, I don't think they're gaining ground... ...I think it's worrisome the fighters coming in and one of the people I blame for a lot of this frankly is Hillary Clinton The disaster that is- What a dick! He has a- now you're a dick Mr Kentucky You take this to move towards political smash against Hillary? Oh man Yeah he's dickish Now he um I mean the reason we don't arm the Kurds directly with a bunch of stuff is because the Turks would not put up with that. No, of course not! The Turks hate the Kurds. The first thing that'll happen is the Kurds will turn on the Turks and take over part of their country they think they own

1:14:12 It's a real disaster. They're getting messed up with this Middle East stuff... But he is really propagating the original plan since, you know, the original Desert Storm. He thinks he can get that neocon money? Yeah! And that's to break up Iraq into three pieces and then end of…and the third piece is Iraq and Syria which requires us cock blocking Putin while we take out Assad and take over the joint or the Jordanians whoever else are going do it for us It's so obvious, which is also the case... It was taking forever. This is the problem isn't it? Go as planned! I mean if you listen to Dave Clark 7 You end up with this... Yeah let's listen to the Wes Clarks. I like the Dave Clark 7 better So I came back to see him a few weeks later

1:15:06 And by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, are we still going to war with Iraq? He said oh it's worse than that! He reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper and he said... ...I just got this down from upstairs meeting the Secretary of Defense office today. This is a memo that describes how we're gonna take out seven countries in five years. Starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon Libya, Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran You know what's crazy? Is that even when these guys have the largest weapons manufacturing in the universe When I say these guys obviously go back to you know to the Bushes And they claim everybody really They set a plan They got goals Let's take out seven of these countries In five years And now it's 15 year later

CHAPTER 18 / 38 Discussion

Media Subversion, Celebrity Culture and Independent Analysis

The distinction between independent analysis and mainstream "celebrity" news is discussed, highlighting the reliance of shows like "The Daily Show" on large writing staffs. An anecdote involves a media professional who expressed fear that listening to subversive independent content could lead to legal repercussions or deportation, illustrating the perceived boundary of acceptable discourse.

independent media· celebrity culture· subversion· mainstream media

1:15:54 They can't even do that right. No, no... No! Anyway this true analysis and I think we've done a pretty good job by what gee you know we actually read the document that everyone's talking about we've now deconstructed what the word enduring means this is not something you're going to get pretty much anywhere else as far as i'm concerned I'm not gonna get any of it. Not on the daily. No, it's not even possible! You know what? No one could even do... A couple things we said in this discussion could not be even said on any other media outlet. Certainly not on The Daily Show. Advertisers. Yes and everyone should be really... you know, when we stopped talking about The Daily Show and the chat room kept going for 10 minutes

1:16:37 I know. It's the celebrity culture of the United States, it's disturbing there is nothing we can do about it and it just the way it is and Jon Stewart more a celebrity than he has anything else you have to remember that he got like 12 writers Jon Oliver got like 8-12 writers on his one half hour once a week show on Showtime And, you know this is...and to create the celebrity of John Oliver I'm sure he's editor-in-chief of the editors and what's funny and what's not. But we don't do that. We do all the work ourselves because you can't hire people to do this because nobody they're all they figure they'll never get a job again. The time I told that cute little correspondent that works at E! Network when I was in Los Angeles

1:17:26 I met up with some friends and she was there, and we chatted. And I talked her into watching the show... And she watched this show- You mean listening to our show? Listening to our show. Right, listening. Well it's always kind of so visual the way we do it but yeah, it's listening. She listened to this show and couldn't even get through one episode. My feedback from was that if she was afraid, if she'd listen to this show, she would be arrested! Yeah. That's what the feedback was, she couldn't listen to the show because she was fearful that someone would track her. She was listening off a CD? What? She could even be tracked it was a CD And she would be arrested because we're so subversive. Apparently the show, in her mind she's British, Cockney... The show is so subversive when it's not re- I mean it's subversive to the mainstream media but it's not subversive to reality or the truth It's so subversive that she would figure she'd actually get deported! Well anyway thats what you work for E

CHAPTER 19 / 38 Discussion

Executive Producer Contributions, Knighting Ceremony and Soundboard Requests

A knighting ceremony is held for high-tier donors Ryan Merritt, Samir Bhatti, and Philippine Flossman Vinke. Soundboard requests include clips of UK Home Secretary Theresa May and anime references. The "value-for-value" model is emphasized as the primary support mechanism for the program, allowing for independent deconstruction of news events.

knighthood· value-for-value· theresa may· isis· donations

1:18:30 Let's thank a few people. Well, as I was going to thank you first for your courage and I was going to say in the morning to you John C where the c stands for celebrity Devorah. You were going to say in the morning? Well, I want to say in the morning to Adam Curry also in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air The subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there And in the morning too almost everybody in the chat room noagendastream.com Except for that one dick. There's always one guy who is like, oh it's a thank you segment time for shower Such yeah, go take your shower. I also want to thank our artist Martin JJ had our artwork for episode six nine or four and And I think we again we went through a couple it's hard you know when you have a title We try to make the title separate from the art Or the opening clip and so Martin JJ was definitely the best choice no agenda Artgenerator comm is where you can find all of the artworks a lot of it also winds up in the newsletter and

1:19:29 You can see it all at the Art Generator, and it's good stuff. And without that our show would certainly not be as successful. Proof we have proof of that. I agree! Nothing like some art to spice things up is important people should remember that. I mean you look at...I don't want to call out any podcasting operation because you condemned me when I tried to play clips but there's a number of them and they have their art is just same stagnant thing forever Yeah, it's over and over and I always test when I've published a show. I take my either my iPod touch or my iPhone And then I can see the art changing and I was looking at all the other things like that Dvorak Horowitz unplugged same static art over and over again. I have no idea if there is any... Did you do that show anymore? Well there ya have it

1:20:26 I sent myself off. Yeah, you did! Fool... That was worried about it as i was saying and I said you know this asshole is probably gonna call me out for the Department of Corporate Show. All right, we want to thank a few people who profusely helped us. Ryan Merritt for starters who's a knight now he's actually been a knight for awhile I believe I always call him so i think i've been calling him sir ryan Hoboken New Jersey finally said he's gonna give us 700 and said in the morning boys i'm a long time listener long time donator I have been donating for roughly as long as I have been listening no d

1:21:03 Eat Ooshing necessary. Unfortunately, I've also been a deadbeat in both the writing to the show along with my knighthood accounting like a spoiled brat! I've kept the value for value exchange curt and superficial. I throw in my more than fair share financially to keep the good stuff coming. To continue the brat metaphor, my knighthood contribution amount is way flush enough to cover my knighting but with the exact amount unknown to me. It's just the nature of a relationship, and it shows the time he goes on." Okay. With context summed up let me say you two have the best delivery for... The best delivery and the best info of any... Stumbling over the words? Yeah that is what I'm thinking. You have

1:21:49 the best delivery and the best info of any media outlet. I'm so sick of all those super serious life or death alt-media voices that result in such a heavy hearted, sky is falling broken record of news. You two dissect this disinfo perfect! You both select and deconstruct the most significant angles and events with striking relevancy. Your track record that is being built as we speak will one day hurl paralyzing fear into any and all politicians that receive your focus, most importantly deliver these truths with

1:22:34 with the moxie of a person who enjoys life every day and knows what it is, and none of us make it out of this thing alive. This all one sentence by the way. So we all might as well chill the fuck out and take it like a So, you know what that is. That Indian term... Nobody else appears to even be capable of thinking or attempting this. This is true. Thank you for all your hard work Ryan Merritt. Please knight me as Sir Smoke-a-Lot Smokes a Lot." And Adam, what happened to the meetup? Yeah well the weather messed up the meetup. Sorry I'll come back when it's a little warmer. There are always meet-up issues. I've always wanted to have a meet-up at The Train Museum. Roy Pierce in Fort Pierce Florida 334

1:23:26 And he actually mailed a check in, no note. He doesn't...Sir speaks a lot because I'm pretty sure it's Sir Roy Pierce too. Samir Bhatti in Langley Berkshire UK 33334. In the morning all you courageous bastards out there this episode happens to follow my birthday so what better way to celebrate than have you two schmucks and the No Agenda family and by my making another donation with more of that Langley money which brings me up to knighthood. Langley, Berkshire that is. Do we have him on the Knights list? Yeah I think it's yeah let me check this will surely perk me up after having a look at myself in the mirror this morning and asking myself where does the time go sound board requests as a slave of Gitmo East UK i'd like Teresa May's powers we need clip

1:24:19 to remind me how lovely my government can be. Follow up that with pigs in human clothing, which is from the anime called Kill la Kill, which I wholly recommend anyone who likes crazy action and plot finish it off with two clips of your choice preferably something we don't hear often enough General Karma to all hold on so i was looking for his if he's on the list he is on the list what did you want he wanted marching pigs but before that what do you want first you need Ah, Theresa May? Yeah. Okay... And then a couple of you pick'ems and finish it off with two clips of your choice, gourmet mac n cheese, finally I like to be known as Sir Paranoid on my Android. Anything in particular that you want? You like ISIS in America which is getting hotter I think we're going to talk about that more and more. Yes please! That would be my pick. That would be your pick

1:25:14 Let's play the new one. Oh, the new one? Okay hold on a second. The new one. Obama. And here we go! This legislation is important. The substance is right the time is right 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 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

1:25:52 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... ...to defend ourselves. Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them! You pigs in hues! ISIS We will follow them to the dark! ISIS

1:26:39 Bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them, bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them, bomb them. We need to bomb them again. You've got karma. Not so many long ones in the future. Yeah, that's too much Philippine even though they did go together Philippine Vlasman Vinke Philippine Flossman Finca Finca and Hulshorst Hulshorst yes 250 hey dudes hey you don't have to play jingles though I love them just knight me Dame Phil of Hollyhurst

CHAPTER 20 / 38 Discussion

Valentine's Day Donations, Japanese Traditions and Family Milestones

Donors contribute Valentine's Day themed messages, including a description of Japanese traditions where only women give chocolate on February 14th, followed by "White Day" on March 14th. Various "karma" requests are fulfilled for listeners facing job losses, divorces, and new births.

valentine's day· japan· white day· karma· donations

1:27:26 And maybe one of the producers can help me out with the Freedom Controller. I'd like to use this outstanding product to create content for my website, like Adam does for The Show Notes! Keep up the good work! Philippines send me a note and i'll get you an account so you can do it...you can use this. Thank You! Steve Roy Stichton? Is it Stickton? Yeah, Stichton in Houston Texas 250 And... Note? Any notes from his check? No, but I thought there was somebody that left a note. What happened to your system? Well so there's only one note so this system doesn't apply and but i don't see any notes that says there is a note and I put note So I don't see which one that it is It was anonymous There's an anonymous donation maybe its down further

1:28:23 Because we have a lot of thanks, Valentine's things. Anyway Steve Roy sticked in Houston Texas 250 Dean Roker in East Grinstead West Sussex 214 33 long time listener regular $5 month owner feel I could do more to support the best podcast universe my wife and are expecting new human resource any day now and also in the process of trying to find a new house to raise our human resources We could use some karma to make both of these events happen quickly. Could I have a MILF shout out for my wonderful wife Simone, an LGY and Karma shot? Please! Going up, upping my $5 donor to $33 dollars a month. Thank you very much sir. MILF! That's one mother I'd like to f***ing- Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs You've got karma

1:29:14 And now we have Dame Astrid Klein and she did send a note, and you have it. Viscountess of Tokyo I'm supposed to have this? You don't have it? Well...I have an email somewhere Yeah Oh okay well I can get it quick Umm..I had closed my email but I can certainly find it for you No no no yes yes yes Here it is, Valentine's. John C. Dvorak with a C stands for chick magnet and Adam C. Curry where C stands for crystals I love you guys in Japan He says I love you guys is what she says So I love you guys, big giant type In Japan Valentine's Day is not reciprocal but I put this in the newsletter But I'm gonna read it anyway because its supposed to be red

1:30:07 In Japan, Valentine's Day is not reciprocal. Only women express their love and appreciation in the shape of chocolate towards their men and in their lives. This extends beyond the romantic man to all male friends even the boss so in two weeks leading up to Valentine's day department store food halls turn into chocolate malls with hordes of frenzied women frantically looking for just the right chocolates." Wow! Sounds like a winner. Men in return are supposed to show their appreciation on March 14th, a day called White Day when white chocolates or other white items with white chocolates or other white items of course by then is mostly forgotten and we women once again feel gypped." She writes gypped as J-I-P-P-E-D. I looked it up! It's actually legal Oh so that's much better than Gypt G-Y-P Yeah but if you look it up the definition of JYPPED is the same

1:30:59 It's an insult to the gypsies. I am, but if only i could find a Viscountess for myself in Japan... ...I would be set for life! Viscountesses are required to drink tea with their pinky extended And we will be investigating if you do this. We'll be checking with countess inspectors. Make sure you do this! Thank You, Daymaster. That's very good. Baron Borislav Marinov

1:31:36 Hey in Tropico Canyon, California 214 to my wife Rosie pronounced like bossy So it's Rossi but with an R in front and my wife Rossi. Thank you for Being with me for over 20 years And for the three no agenda nights that you have given me and please send some job karma to me and all of my grid stones Colleagues that got laid off or fired this week man Okay, any more is that the that's a note. That's the end of jobs jobs Jobs and jobs let's vote for John You've got karma And yeah, that's what I was doing obviously He has a record of 33 wins zero losses and one draw

1:32:30 He is the Grand Duke of Belgium and France, Sir Stephen von Pelsmacher! Okay. Alright. Stephen Pelsmacher sir. Yes 214 in Belgium. Happy Valentine's Day. Grand Duke of the United... of Belgium and France As a matter of fact, happy Valentine's Day especially my dear friend CV who is in desperate need of good divorce karma. So we got divorce karma coming so that she may walk away safely from the douchebag she's with and find a better life with a much better man. And lots of good karma to the producers and creators of the B-P-I-T-U

1:33:16 Best podcast in the universe just keep up the fantastic job. Thank you so much our grand Duke he is the man Divorced a douchebag karma All right Dave Bozeman and Wilmington, North Carolina 214 no note Karen Van Heidsma, in Omaha, Nebraska 214. Thanks to my cousin Paul who kept hounding me... There's another note that was in the newsletter. Another thanks to my cousin Paul who kept hounding me to listen to your podcast I finally did and I'm hooked! Thank you Adam and John for voicing what I've been thinking all along." Ah let's write down her name because one of us dies she might be a good replacement.

1:34:04 This is my first, she doesn't voice though. She just thinks this is my first donation but following your value for value model you owe me some more values so make sure the show stays at three hours thanks for all of your time and thought. Already demanding Gerald which is fine Gerald Howard in Montclair New Jersey 214 the Valentine's donation from my fiance Don D-A-W-N. He's easily the coolest person I know. I love her to the moon and back Please put her on the birthday list as well, Friday the 13th and give me... Give her some Birthday Karma. Jingle request? Just take your medicine and just take your meds slave." Okay. I hadn't heard that one in a while. I like that one

1:34:58 Christopher Dechter in Richland, Washington. 214 John I don't have a note Chris you got something this you can always send us another email if you sent one John Porter and Paisley UK I didn't know there was a town called Paisley which is interesting to me yeah there's 214 my beautiful wife Andrea haven't donated for awhile so cleared out PayPal thank you by the way people should just do that you guys deserve it thank you for your courage John Porter. Is your window open now or the fan? No, nothing's changed I haven't moved a thing Why is it making a buzzing sound? I just hear whoosh in the background Don't worry about it, don't worry about it, it's good Production notice Jason Kirk in Williamsport PA 214 Melissa who on January 6th of this year will give birth to our son Please also throw on some no agenda parenting karma so I don't screw him up

1:35:53 Please play the little girl boom shakalaka and LG why thank you both Hold on a second. Yeah, it's I'm missing a few monitors when I do this on the road So just takes me a second it was uh well. Well. I'm sorry what was it take your man? Oh no? Boom Shakalaka LG Y got it okay all right here we go You've got karma. Sorry, took me a minute. All right now opera goes from parts unknown to 14 I have a note handwritten note which is gonna be difficult not too hard to read but he's a knight I'll mention that

CHAPTER 21 / 38 Discussion

Net Neutrality Skepticism, The Vergecast and Domestic Updates

A donor expresses skepticism toward the mainstream "net neutrality" narrative promoted by tech outlets like The Verge. Meanwhile, a new "Domestic Update" CD is announced as a companion to previous international updates. The segment concludes with a reminder of the upcoming Sunday broadcast and the "propagate the formula" call to action.

net neutrality· the verge· nilay patel· gazprom· podcasting

1:36:38 He's really paranoid and I can see why by the way. I've been in the nature of interviewing while holding a job, I asked to be kept anonymous, I started listening to this show about a year ago and I've been hooked since if not for your analysis I'd still be a net neutrality zombie. worried about the fast lanes or the slow lanes. Someone sent me a link to The Verge cast, I'm going to tear about these guys because they're arrogant. Oh yeah! So Nilay Patel and they do this podcast and they're very funny and they all talk through each other okay we have to talk about the absolute silly

1:37:18 And he talks about how crazy it is all about lawful devices connected. That's old school, but he's all for this fantastic great thing and finally we'll have net neutrality and here's a lawyer who doesn't even pause to look at the wording of lawful content But then somewhere in like, and I had to listen this whole thing. Well you know the tub...I think maybe that was Leo who was talking about lawful couple but they won't really do that no they just up just you know for porn yeah okay fine it's just for porn yeah it's just for porn okay good I'm making this 2014 a $214 donation to display my love for the woman I've been with for six years and counting ah one more to go

1:38:06 She is my... Inna Mortata or something. I can't remember, and I don't know what that means And i love her with all my heart and soul she doesn't listen to the show But I hope this small expression of my love can be one more reason to get her to listen This was the whole point with these Valentine's Day donations and a lot we got from our Viscountess We got some real love from her and this is love for his woman I expected a little more of that. I request to interview Karma for myself and JobKarma for those who need it, and thank you both for your deconstructions, and I wish a happy Valentine's Day to both of you. Oh thank you very much! And come up with a combination of funny jingles for Adam to play. Let's just play the Karma. Do you want something? Is there something we need?

1:39:00 I think we were overdue for a mac and cheese jingle. Oh, yes! Okay... Mac and cheese... Always fun. You slaves can get used to mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and cheese. Cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. You've got karma. You know what jingle that we haven't played for awhile? No And i don't think you can even find it It's the Menomina song. Oh, did somebody put together? Yeah but that had a different name I don't know what this name of the song is. Well yeah it's a good one...I don't know. A little challenge we haven't played that forever and finally Claudia Gerber who i don't think i have a note from let me look and she's in Lisbon Ohio

1:40:00 $200 and she finishes off the collection here which of great producers, associate executive producers and executive producers. Claudia C-L-A-U-D-I... While you're looking for that I do have one quick additional PR mention which we like to do in this segment. This is from Ramsey Kane. Of course now we have the new No Agenda CD he says just there's a companion disc This is a companion disc to the previous disc which was the international update. This one is called, creatively, domestic update So please remind people that CDs are also available as a podcast That's right You can grab them from iTunes or the podcast app and also noagendaCD.com Is where you can find out the link to that And he said if I could trouble you for some other side karma for my cousin Xavier Javier... Xavier Kane

1:40:53 He died last night. Yeah, oh shit of course other side's gonna be nothing but virgin you've got karma good times Sorry about that Ramsey. It's that's what he won other side karma That's what it is may your other side be gruvalicious all right Give Claudia and the other people who did left no notes a shot at Karma will close this segment good idea You've got Karma I was going to throw the plug in before you threw the jingle on me, which is remind people that we do a show on Sunday and we always just short part of the week. It was a good segment of people that want to double producership so they came with $214 and then Sunday will be the Valentine's Day show

1:41:43 I remind you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Yeah, thank you very much to all of these associate producers...associate executive producers and executive producers they are real credits happy to vouch for if anyone asks you about that. Dvorak dot org slash N A And of course everybody out there can always do one thing which is propagating the formula! Our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth Shut up snake

CHAPTER 22 / 38 Discussion

Ukraine Proxy War, CNN Gaffe and Pro-US Troops

CNN issued an apology after a news banner mistakenly referred to Ukrainian forces as "pro-US troops" during a segment on whether President Obama would send arms to the region. This slip is characterized as an accidental admission of the true nature of the conflict in Ukraine, which involves a government heavily influenced by Western interests and finance ministers.

ukraine· cnn· kiev· proxy war· gaffe

1:42:23 Nice. Thank you all. Beautiful, beautiful! So there were a number of different things that were kind of going on... I found this to be interesting. You know how the meme is pro-Russian separatists? Pro Russian fighters? Pro Russian this and pro Russian that? That's what it's all about right Well, of course this is a proxy war and if you look at what's really happening in Ukraine the Ukrainian government is filled with shills. Most notably the finance minister who was given a passport overnight and she's an American hedge fund manager and she's ransacking the funds. And so now where there has been ongoing talk but now there is very serious talk of arming

1:43:19 the arming, the Ukrainian forces. Arming which is code for let's send some troops in and you know and go kill the pro-Russians but CNN messed it up or maybe they... The Chiron they threw out was it wasn't just a lower third like the crawl It was a true lower third not like the crawl that have at the bottom And as it was so bad that people started noticing what the way it was characterized And Carol, Carol CNN, facebook.com slash carolcnn she had to apologize for this gaffe. Yesterday we ran a story about the debate among western leaders about whether to send arms to Ukraine during that segment our banner mistakenly said Obama considers arming pro-US troops well

1:44:06 The debate in Western capitals is actually about whether the United States and other NATO countries should send arms to the Ukrainian military, which is trying to protect its territory from separatists whom the government in Kiev says are backed by Russia. The recipients of any military equipment and aid would be the national military of Ukraine certainly not pro-US troops I regret that error. I regret that error! Yeah, you should. That's a beauty. That is borderline clip of the day. That is a fine gaffe for somebody who was back in the back room and said this is bullcrap we're putting this up. Pro-US troops. Jeez... But it's the truth finally there were some truths and now they have to go all apologize for it

CHAPTER 23 / 38 Discussion

John McCain, Cluster Bombs and Ukraine Military Aid

Senator John McCain advocates for providing defensive arms to Ukraine to increase the military cost for Russia. However, reports from Human Rights Watch indicate that the Ukrainian army has used prohibited cluster bombs in civilian areas. McCain argues that if the U.S. had provided better weapons earlier, the use of cluster munitions might have been avoided.

john mccain· cluster bombs· ukraine· human rights watch· military aid

1:44:49 Well, here I got a clip with McCain promoting weapons to Ukraine. Yeah, yeah this is his thing This is this is his baby. I mean he's McCain's all over the show He said it he set the whole thing up him and Noodleman and this is their this is their thing Republican Senator John McCain who chairs the Armed Services Committee argued that arming Ukrainian troops will aid diplomacy Increase the military cost of the Russian forces that have invaded their country How long can Putin sustain a war that he tells his people is not happening? That's why we must provide defensive arms to Ukraine.

1:45:30 Did they just rip up an explosion or a jet blasting off what the heck was that they showed it I'm gonna roll it back. I want to hear it again Yeah, they show a bunch of rockets going It's like you see a shot and there's a bunch of rockets shooting off to the left in another shot with a bunch Of rocket shooting off to the right so that's the kind of arms are talking about this is not our plan yet This is this is like actual Are these ballistic missiles that are firing off? Do you think we've got to bin like about 16 rockets with a bunch of holes and a device, and then shoot all these rockets at once. Those things! Oh okay yeah the array on top of the truck. Yeah the array. Defense in line for Ukraine. In eastern Ukraine today fighting raged again as two sides fired rocket barrages at each other

1:46:20 Yeah, way to go. We want more of that. And this is from when, this clip? This is from a week ago. Oh okay. Russia continues to escalate the conflict. Russia and the separatists are seizing more territory. Terrorising more citizens As you know the Russians have continued to supply heavy equipment tanks armored personnel carriers artillery Aggressive actions we have seen of Russia in Ukraine. Russia's aggression against Ukraine

1:47:04 is a heinous and deadly affront. Heinous! Facing such accusations, Russia's foreign minister says it's a trend to blame Moscow without providing any solid evidence. Yeah, it's trendy In every destabilizing situation our US partners blame Russia The US says it has evidence against Russia without specifying what it is That statement came during the Munich security conference on Saturday where the Ukrainian crisis dominated. Peter Oliver has the details Well, we've been given a little glimpse into what the latest peace plan will entail. This all came from comments made by French President Francois Hollande there will be a demilitarized zone between the forces supporting Kiev and those forces from the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country this demilitarize zone around 50 to 70 kilometers also coming out from this is want for more on

1:48:02 more autonomy for these self-proclaimed republics. Now, Francois Hollande was saying that these people had been at war for so long they needed to have this level of autonomy if they were ever to try and let the wounds heal and get back some kind of semblance of peace Russia has said it is willing to act as a guarantor for any agreement that can be made between those self proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine and Kiev I have a background to this. I have been looking quite a bit at what's going on, these Normandy talks were interesting between Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, François Hollande and Petro Poroshenko...I'm trying to do all the accents. So they had this big conference which we really weren't in... Edwin Price I thought it was Minsk? George Skies It's about the Minsk agreement. Edwin Price Oh, I thought they were in Minsk

CHAPTER 24 / 38 Discussion

Minsk Agreement, Normandy Format and Putin's Press Statement

The "Normandy format" talks between Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and Petro Poroshenko focused on the Minsk agreement and a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Putin's press statement expressed doubt regarding the status of surrounded Ukrainian troops and called for a political settlement to avoid further bloodshed, a stance contrasted with U.S. accusations of Russian aggression.

vladimir putin· minsk agreement· normandy format· ukraine· angela merkel

1:47:04 is a heinous and deadly affront. Heinous! Facing such accusations, Russia's foreign minister says it's a trend to blame Moscow without providing any solid evidence. Yeah, it's trendy In every destabilizing situation our US partners blame Russia The US says it has evidence against Russia without specifying what it is That statement came during the Munich security conference on Saturday where the Ukrainian crisis dominated. Peter Oliver has the details Well, we've been given a little glimpse into what the latest peace plan will entail. This all came from comments made by French President Francois Hollande there will be a demilitarized zone between the forces supporting Kiev and those forces from the self-proclaimed republics in the east of the country this demilitarize zone around 50 to 70 kilometers also coming out from this is want for more on

1:48:02 more autonomy for these self-proclaimed republics. Now, Francois Hollande was saying that these people had been at war for so long they needed to have this level of autonomy if they were ever to try and let the wounds heal and get back some kind of semblance of peace Russia has said it is willing to act as a guarantor for any agreement that can be made between those self proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine and Kiev I have a background to this. I have been looking quite a bit at what's going on, these Normandy talks were interesting between Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, François Hollande and Petro Poroshenko...I'm trying to do all the accents. So they had this big conference which we really weren't in... Edwin Price I thought it was Minsk? George Skies It's about the Minsk agreement. Edwin Price Oh, I thought they were in Minsk

1:48:56 I could be wrong. I thought they were in Normandy, quite honestly. Oh, I'm sorry it's my mistake. It's the Normandy format talks. I'm sorry it's a format no idea what that means but Putin did make a statement for the press, which I... yeah why don't you do that. It is about it is about the Minsk agreement which is where in Minsk where they agreed to stop killing each other here is Putin's statement for the press which I think warrants reading since no one else will tell you what he said and he speaks Russian so who understands this crap right we proceed from the notion that all parties will show restraint until the complete ceasefire

1:49:34 The problem here was that representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics claimed that in response to the aggressive actions of Kiev authorities, they not only held back the Kiev forces but also managed to mount an offensive that surrounded a group of 6-8 thousand servicemen. They proceeded from the idea that this group will lay down arms and stop its resistance We nevertheless call on both sides to show restraint and in order to avoid unnecessary excessive bloodshed and casualties, they should do everything to ensure that the separation of forces mainly the heavy equipment is conducted without unnecessary bloodshed.

1:50:15 Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities believe their troops have not been surrounded and therefore think this process will go sufficiently smoothly. I have some initial doubts that i can share with you if the troops really had been surrounded then logically they will try to break free while those who are on the outside will try to arrange a corridor for their trapped servicemen here's Putin saying, You're full of crap Eventually, we agreed with President Poroshenko that we will instruct our experts and I'm ready to do so. To establish what is actually going on there in addition? I will repeat We will try to develop a set of measures to verify the implementation of our decisions by both sides I would like to call on both conflicting parties once again to stop the bloodshed as soon as possible and proceed to a truly political process of long-term settlement Thank you for your attention And for your courage and so what I what I feel

1:51:06 is, here is Putin being more honest than we are really about Russia's role in what is going on with equipment and troops. But he's also saying hey you know our guys if we put them in there they're not our guys because we're not pussies. If they were our guys we'd like shoot our way out and we'd have people come from the outside to break open a corridor but he is pretty much saying you know we'll put our experts in and figure out what it would really happened here which is completely contrary to the United States position, which is that of lying and setting everybody up. And it's true... Yeah, setting everybody up and screwing the whole place. Well, that's because we said the whole thing was a scam when we started. And really nothing good is coming out of this for us. It's just a waste at this point. It really truly is a waste

CHAPTER 25 / 38 Discussion

MH17 Investigation, Dutch Redactions and Russian Resources

The Dutch government released 254 documents regarding the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, but 89 documents remain withheld and many others are heavily redacted. The redactions are attributed to a desire to avoid "provoking" other players, leading to speculation that the evidence does not definitively support the narrative of Russian culpability.

mh17· netherlands· redaction· black box· russia

1:51:57 The president had Angela Merkel over Who can't she has to have a trade the English translated I find that Interesting, but I don't know many Germans who can't at least speak some she doesn't like she likes. I don't know Maybe she can't elucidate this certain things There's maybe some more complex things you only explain in German so here is uh? I didn't clip this But here's how our president speaks. With regard to Russia and the separatists it supports in Ukraine, it is clear that they have violated just about every commitment they made in the Minsk agreement instead of withdrawing from eastern Ukraine Russian forces continue to operate there This is a blatant accusation which is not proven Training separatists and helping to coordinate attacks Oh well that's kind of what we do I think

1:52:50 Instead of withdrawing its arms, Russia has sent in more tanks and armored personnel carriers and heavy artillery. With Russian support the separatists have seized more territory and shelled civilian areas destroyed villages and driven more Ukrainians from their homes." These are the facts! Alright here's Normandy format it is hard to explain Okay And there is no definition there is no wiki page on it but apparently when you get the presidents the top people and push them into a room or through phone... series of phone conversations Phone booth? A phone booth?! So you don't, in other words you have Merkel, Olan, Putin and if he was involved would be Obama would be there as opposed to John Kerry showing up with the meeting. He is only the top guys. Right here is a piece that was most disturbing to me that I came across an of course because

1:53:41 I grew up there and speak the language, it's easy for me to receive these messages. And people happy to tell them what is going on so Malaysia Air MH17 which was downed would be the proper Are you changing the topic? No, it's about Russia. Okay because I have one more clip Yeah this is about Russia This was the Malaysian air which contained mainly Dutch passengers Which was downed because we were told it was shot by a Russian Russian separatists using Russian gear. Yeah, we also heard that it was actually a Russian guy operating it and of course we deconstructed very differently about some electronic warfare and looks like there was spoofing going on. It looks like there was a Ukraine jet

1:54:25 Ukrainian jet that shot them down. Well, finally the Netherlands who's been running lead on a lot of this investigation... Wait a minute! Stop! Why don't we just look at the data in the black box? Oh well I'm so glad you said that John because they have now released their report with 254 documents regarding everything they know about the black box about the flight data recorder voice cockpit recorder not much on that They have 254 documents, the Dutch government. 89 of those will not be released to the public. 19... Wait! Why? Because that is not necessary for us to know

1:55:08 Don't you find that suspicious? It was only necessary for internal discussion. Maybe it's just boring is what you're saying I think yeah, it must have been boring okay so 254 documents 89 will not be released 19 of these documents are being released and They're pretty much black Everything the huge entire pages have been redacted with black ink And I'm translating on the fly. It is some of the...

1:55:44 Information in these documents that have been redacted and not released at all might have been seen as provocative towards other players, i.e., Russia, in the entire conflagration and therefore the citizens of family members who have perished really will not know what happened because it's so secret that we have to withhold all this information because Russia didn't do it! Well, it seems to me the logic is missing here. The logic...we already have blamed Russia and everybody thinks Russia did it and all the official announcement is that Russia or their stooges in the separatist movement, the pro-Russian troops did it with a rocket launcher that's Russian. We already had that so now if this information is confirming that Russia did it

1:56:41 then it would be a plus for the people against Russia in this regard. Now, if they're blocking it out because they don't want to provoke people against Russia what sense does that make? Or maybe it says gee! It was shot out of the sky and there's you know there's now a Ukrainian pilot...this is I had no proof of this but the stories are out there Ukrainian pilot who landed with his we forget what aircraft it was without his missiles. He left with them, but he came back without him which was some problematic in the accounting department So I'm sure it does not say that Russia was directly responsible That's just a logical conclusion But where are the Dutch? Are they out on the street revolting and pissed off about this No of course not because they need to shut up Because that's... The Dutch economy runs on Russian resources

CHAPTER 26 / 38 Discussion

Turkey Stream Pipeline, Greece Energy and Cluster Bomb Manufacturers

Gazprom and Turkey have finalized plans for the "Turkey Stream" natural gas pipeline, which is intended to bypass Ukraine and deliver gas to Europe via Greece by December 2016. In a separate investigation, Honeywell is identified as a manufacturer of cluster munitions, such as the MK 20, which are at the center of international law controversies.

gazprom· turkey stream· greece· cluster bombs· honeywell

1:57:43 And then finally for Russia, Cyprus apparently has now given Russia access to its ports and airstrips. The Russian military will be using Cyprus as a base." Of course the Russians are already in Cyprus to an extreme before all this crap. Right well if you look at now the so we finally know the Turkish stream which formerly South Stream... But before we go away from the war here I'm sorry well it was part of yeah okay please I did want to mention since we're still talking about arming both sides, or arming one side or the other and McCain being behind it. for all practical purposes, this clip indicts the United States for using cluster bombs which is against international law. Now the Ukraine folks have been using cluster bombs on these people down in Donetsk and that area and of course they should be taken to International Criminal Court but McCain has a whole

1:58:43 rationale here. Why it's good? He is going to say it's good? Yeah, well that kind of a twisted logic but its definitely worth listening to. This guy is fantastic! Again this week we've seen the skies over Donetsk It's suspected that could be incendiary munitions which international conventions ban from use in civilian populated areas Back in July, they were reportedly dropped on cities controlled by anti-government forces. Well international observers have previously caught the Ukrainian army using prohibited weapons. The use of cluster bombs in populated areas was confirmed by the Human Rights Watch in October. The watchdog's report stressed this could amount to war crimes But for some US politicians Kiev's use of cluster bombs is justifiable

1:59:31 I think that if we would have provided them with the weapons they need, they wouldn't have had to use cluster bombs. It's partially our fault." Who makes the cluster bombs? It's our fault! But... We didn't give him the right bombs. No he said it was our fault and should be indicted. Yeah but we didn't give him the right bombs. We didn't arm them. Who makes cluster bombs? I think..I don't know who makes them. One of the US companies make some and they're not Chinese Somebody makes them. I never it's a good question who makes cluster bombs let's find out i'm looking at cluster munition That's the same thing be I think bae chat room saying bae systems development Hmm, there might be a look at the wiki. I think I think Microsoft probably makes microsoft makes Oh so while you're doing that I will tell but we'll talk about um

2:00:35 It relates to Greece and Cyprus. We now have seen the big meeting with Gazprom and the Turkish Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, they have decided where the new Black Sea natural gas pipeline which was going to be the South Stream which will now be the Turkey Stream...I think that's a code name for it...where it will come in then more importantly where it will flow out? And it looks like Greece is the target And also they're still looking at the Trans-Balkan gas pipelines. 2016, December 2016 is when this will be done and it will be huge, huge, huge, huge 63 billion cubic meters a year. Well there's something else going on in Greece Yeah yeah there's a lot of a lot going on actually Did you? Yes well that's true but did I did you get to hear

CHAPTER 27 / 38 Discussion

Greek Debt Crisis, IMF Negotiations and FBI Tracking

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde expressed a willingness to listen to the Greek government's proposals for renegotiating their bailout deal. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is noted for his unconventional style and refusal to sign standard agreements, leading to rumors that Russia or the BRICS nations might offer alternative financial support to Greece.

christine lagarde· greece· imf· yanis varoufakis· bricks

2:01:36 What the IMF chief, what's her name? Lagarde. Fifi Lagarde? Yeah, Fifi Lagarde. No, which is... Comments. It was kind of interesting I don't know who these were aimed at but i'm guessing Germany Do you have a Fifi's... Let me guess Greece? Grease rap Another momentous meeting played out in Brussels as European finance ministers focused on Greece and its debt. When it was over, the two sides disagreed on whether they'd made any progress but earlier the head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde said she would consider the Greek government's ideas for renegotiating a bailout deal

2:02:18 They are absolutely competent intelligent. They've thought about their issues We have to listen to them we have to start working together, and it's a process that starting and it's going to last a certain time Greece is current bailout ends on February 28 So here's the way I heard what went down? We had German finance minister Schauble showable, then he was meeting with...people are now telling me the finance minister for Greece, the guy that we were laughing at, that he might actually be a good guy. And I'm willing to accept it of course. Whenever we see an American educated shill you know, we kind of have to chuckle like okay- Who kinda looks like a gangster? Kinda!

2:03:05 Well that I think is... It actually looks like a hit man. I like that part of him to be honest, I think that's cool you know? Can you imagine if Cohen our treasury secretary looked like a gangster he doesn't it looks like a pussy Jack Lew No not Jack Lew Is it Jack Lew no I thought oh no Cohen is uh but nice who was he you're right Jack Lew well he looks like a pussy too they all look like pussies so they had this big meeting um and The idea was that they had an agreement, and I think what happened is Schauble left after six hours of meeting. And then Faroufakis...I don't know if that's the way to pronounce it

2:03:53 said, you know what? Yeah we're not going to sign any agreements. Screw that! We want to just bust this thing open and then all of a sudden we see that Russia might bail out Greece which would make a lot of sense or...and this is just what I love, you know, I love this kind of story that the BRICS collectively might say, You know what? Greece should use this SDR thing That, I think would be pretty cool if that happened. I haven't seen a lot of stories but i like the idea of just bringing them right into the fold bring it bring bricks into the... Bring grease into the bricks and let them use the bricks gold and whatever basket backed SDR what difference does it make? Well they can use anything I guess If they really decide to leave the Eurozone

2:04:49 Yeah, that's true. They're not going to leave the Eurozone. That's not gonna happen I think everyone has agreed on that including the Greeks but they are definitely doing some deals outside that will help them pay it is gonna be a... It's a mess! Well someone is offering them a good deal there's no other reason would FIFI say yeah we're willing to talk about that you know so they finally have the SSM this single stability mechanism for the European banking sector, they have the banking union. No one is accepting Greece's bonds anymore. There's nothing...it's toxic-toxic even though they're euro backed or euro based so they can't there isn't I don't think that the Euro controlled banks can really do anything at this point because then they would have to do this for everybody you know if they did Italy will be like hello Spain Portugal

2:05:45 You know someone has to put the hammer down on and otherwise it will crumble very quickly I think you're not being an economist or anything Anyway, the cluster bomb is the rock guy And I you cannot find a manufacturer. I look in at page after page They talk about the thing in great detail But they don't say where you can go buy one it's American-made that we know that right hmm Now there's a bunch of them There's a CB u84 Well, that sounds like an American-made thing. They're all American made! Yeah well if they're illegal by international law... Well they are apparently illegal to drop into a civilian area they're used legally as anti armor weapons so you drop one near a tank or group of tanks and it takes most them out right? Right And here's another one that is anti runway cratering bomb

2:06:44 Blows a bunch of holes all over the place. Oh no ruins at airports good stuff good stuff We got some great ideas But I can't find the manufacturer unless there's a company named rock guy, which I don't think so anyway Well somebody will get it to us oh no doubt no doubt in the email somebody who works there yeah? Yeah, hey we make selling a lot of these things would you like a sample pack Actually little model for your desk would be cool. It'll be mini one okay Yeah, that's so that's kind of what I have. It's well the 28th is when it all something has to change but

2:07:23 But guaranteed, this is not default. This month it's going to finish off with a bang we're gonna have that there's a number of things expiring including the Greek deal We have the end of the six-week cycle which means something should happen around last February 1st Well but seeing as we have the FBI counterterrorism assistant director talking about not having all these you know every not tracking every citizen's free travel movement I would say we need something to get that going for the next six-week cycle. Strike by the FBI. That would be good! Something that we can then, you know move towards... You have to register when you go somewhere This is already happening. Yeah, no, you have to log. You have to log your... Yes! Citizen where's your log from your travels? Citizen where's your smartwatch that logs everything? Citizen where's your Fitbit

CHAPTER 28 / 38 Discussion

Brian Williams Suspension, NBC News and Media Trust

NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for six months without pay following revelations that he misrepresented his experiences during the 2003 Iraq War. Colleagues across NBC and MSNBC, including Rachel Maddow and Al Roker, expressed "best wishes" and "remorse" for Williams, while Lester Holt took over the anchor chair. The situation is described as a major blow to the "truth and transparency" brand of the network.

brian williams· nbc news· rachel maddow· lester holt· suspension

2:08:22 You watch. Here's I found this interesting, I don't...I just stumbled onto this This is about Brian Williams Don't want to talk about it Yeah i do! I do! I feel like... Okay well let's say here's the thing that gets me here's the one I wanted play This is Rachel Maddow giving a little rundown on it And I wanted to remind people The reason why we are talking about this Is this is interesting This does show you really how corrupt it is and I think it's just hilarious what is going on, which I will go back and say the network wars is now for sure a part of this. Well not only that but CBS just lost its long time foreign correspondent on a freak accident. Yeah they killed him they killed that guy with an Uber. And then Williams is out and this is all ABC as far you know if we're gonna go to that theory uh-huh which I'm gonna go too because they're the ones who busted Disney yeah

2:09:21 the other two networks, so now they're in trouble. Now let's...but this is Rachel Maddow who I believe really thinks she's more...she thinks to herself that she's more important than she really is and she calls out her own bosses in this report Because she can because she apparently runs idiot and the suspension is severe and appropriate Brian's life work. Excuse me, Brian's life's work is delivering the news I know Brian loves his country NBC News and his colleagues he does hold on I do gotta stop for a second His life's work is delivering the news like a paperboy

2:10:00 Let's just be honest about what we're talking about. A guy who reads the news... Brian's life work is delivering the news, I know Brian loves his country NBC News and his colleagues he deserves a second chance and we are rooting for him! Brian has shared his deep remorse with me And he is committed to winning back everyone's trust What does rooting for him mean? When your kid lies do you then say You know what Kid? I'm-I am uh I'm grounding you, but I'm rooting for you kid. I'm rooting for ya It's crazy again that statement from Steve Burke who's I know why the head of NBC Universal But again the breaking news tonight NBC News announced tonight that nightly news anchor and managing editor Brian Williams suspended without pay four six months

2:10:44 And here's the awkward part for us. I said at the top this was a little awkward Here is why this is awkward for us on the show and for me as its anchor So we are MSNBC The NBC in that We are Legion That means that we operate under the NBC umbrella There's a good reason why you see so many faces from NBC News on our air It's because we really are working partners with them. We are working partners, we're a partner organization that with them like Al Qaeda within the news division but tonight even as we are reporting on this breaking news about the news division of which we are apart no NBC News will not make anyone available to discuss this story with us on the air now that may change in days ahead

2:11:29 You'd think that if they're going to talk to anybody about this, we might reasonably get a leg up on getting interviews with any NBC News executives to explain this decision. If only because we're right down the hall? But so far no one." Okay all right well thank you! We didn't need that I hate Rachel Maddow She is a horrible person and now she's works for him. What is the point of that even bringing it up? Distraction! I'll tell you, I have three quick clips in succession to show you what is going on here The fear of God has been put into everybody The fear of God

2:12:13 Let's start first by listening to Brian Williams' replacement, Lester. And now to the story many of you are talking about tonight and one that for us not only hits close to home but in our home. Brian Williams anchor and managing editor of Nightly News has been suspended by NBC management for six months without pay In a statement NBC News president Deborah Turner said on Friday January 30th Brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq war in 2003 It then became clear, she says that on other occasions Brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. She adds this was wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in Brian's position

2:12:53 In a statement, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said by his actions Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News. Apparently they made someone available for NBC News just not for Rachel Maddow But he added Brian deserves a second chance and we are rooting for him We're rooting for him! She used the same term Now if I may, on a personal note say it is an enormously difficult story to report. No it's not you lying sack of shit! Brian is a member of our family but so are you and our viewers Oh? And we will work every night to be worthy of your trust Okay... I find this beautifully funny

2:13:31 And now we have the Today Show. Everyone has to do this, and it's going to become very apparent why everyone is rooting for you. Oh yeah! So this is Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie, Woody Guthrie's daughter, and all the people... I think we all are feeling that it is a difficult day here, and we are certainly sharing Our best wishes with Brian. Best wishes, like he has cancer! We certainly share best wishes with you. We're sorry your child has cancer, Brian." The guy lied! It's a tough day... it's very hard day I know why it's a hard day. It's a tough time for him and his family. His family is devastated but we hope and pray for the best

2:14:17 There are two parts to it, there's professional and personal. Wow, professional and personal. I agree with that. Of course. Yes of course. I think the decision on the professional angle you cannot mislead this is what we do truth and transparency is our trade. Truth and transparency is our trade John! I think our show over the last seven years has proved that's not true. Truth and transparency, it's our trade It's what we...it's our Guampum On the other hand Brian is a friend of ours We're just...we'll be transparent about that too We like Brian a whole lot Yeah! I fucked him up He better go to his house for dinner Thanksgiving? I don't think so. And it was not for dinner! Have you been there for Thanksgiving that's a friend otherwise just an acquaintance. Yeah, exactly. A whole lot. Frenemy. This is the job he wanted all his life and the job has been great at and now something that's been taken away from him

CHAPTER 29 / 38 Discussion

Joe Scarborough, Richard Engel and Sochi Hacking Fabrications

Joe Scarborough defended Brian Williams by citing biblical verses about "casting the first stone," while simultaneously hinting that many in the industry have secrets. This occurs alongside criticisms of other NBC reports, such as a Richard Engel segment during the Sochi Olympics that allegedly fabricated a story about immediate hacking of mobile devices to create a sense of danger.

joe scarborough· richard engel· sochi· nbc· fabrication

2:15:09 I'm telling you, it's like a cancer. Now I'm going to tell you what the problem is. Everybody knows, and I've said this and you disagreed with me but these people they all are lying all the time about well we know they're lying with whatever their reading as the news but they have embellished, they have made themselves look good and this is Scarborough on The Morning Joe Show who is so afraid that he now even takes it one step further Brian Williams

2:15:55 Did he make one mistake, John? Was it one mistake?" No. He made a bunch of mistakes like Whitehouse. I mean... In this case now that's not being suspended without pay but for one thing for the helicopter story right? Right and he did that story at least three times Now listen to Scarborough who himself is so afraid of being found out, he's pretty much pleading saying you know you have to give people a second chance if they make a couple mistakes. They were bad mistakes and guess what? And he would say that Guess what? He says that

2:16:35 We all make bad mistakes. I just, you know one of the things uh one of the verses in the bible that always... He's gonna quote scripture now! Scripture? Always Because don't fire me when you find out how i'm a lying sack The bible says so Makes me a little nervous before I start judging other people is the one that says, that you will be judged and you'll be given the mercy. That you show others I think we should all step back and ask whether we are so perfect that we want to be the ones to cast that first stone let he who was out sinned cast a first down i'm in no position to cast... Wow did that bitch just say what?

2:17:22 This is an admission. No, yeah listen he's saying it right now he's in no position. That first stone let the he who was out sin cast the first stone I'm in no position to cast the first stone and quite frankly in over a decade in this news business It is fair to say looking straight into the camera I've seen a lot I know a lot. And i know about you, colleagues! So don't try and out me because I'm looking into the camera and I'm saying I've seen a lot? I know a lot, don't fuck with me. And I know that there are very few people in this industry are in politics that could live by the standard of perfection. Cast the first stone, I would be careful. I think right now the entirety of everything that Brian has done including the Peabody Awards that he won for his remarkable

2:18:15 Katrina coverage should be taken into effect and people should consider again the totality of a man's life and not one or two mistakes Not only is he afraid, but he is threatening people by saying I am looking straight into the camera and I know a lot. I've seen a lot whether you're news or a politician. I would not cast the first stone which is in the scripture somewhere. I'm not quite sure exactly what verse that might be but I know it's a Bible thingy because the president used it the other day. They are afraid man!

2:18:53 People are afraid of being well that's because they're all full of crap. Yeah, here's a one February 6 I read it as a little test earlier NBC story 100% fraudulent February 4th NBC News this is uh Yeah, it ran a story. This was in February during the Sochi Olympics and I Ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone we talked about this or laptop to the Sochi Olympics It'll immediately be hacked We mocked this story Yes The moment you turn it on The story was fabricated than technical details relate to going to the Olympics and cyberspace visiting websites And not not going there in person and using their local wire but they didn't get rid of angle

2:19:33 The story shows Richard Engel getting hacked while in a cafe in Russia. And then the details were they weren't in Sochi, they were in Moscow 1,000 miles away. The hack happens because the website they visited but not their physical location that results would have been the same in America. The phone didn't get hacked to Richard Engel initiated the download of a hostile Android app and it goes on. But what's Engel still doing there? That's a complete... NBC has got all kinds of problems. But no, this was to get rid of Brian Williams as part of a scheme they knew this was going on. He could be doing MTV Spring Break? He might end up doing that I want to put down the red book he is gonna commit suicide. Oh, I think it is too easy to write that down but.. I did, I wrote it down in three leaves Do you think he will be suicide really? Just a long shot and putting LS near it

CHAPTER 30 / 38 Discussion

Final Donor Acknowledgments, Divorce Karma and Job Requests

The final segment of donor thank-yous includes a tribute to Gary Milton Carter, who passed away from malignant melanoma. Requests for "job karma" and "divorce karma" are processed for various producers. The hosts reiterate that the show's survival depends entirely on these voluntary contributions from the audience.

donations· karma· divorce· melanoma· value-for-value

2:20:35 a long shot. Okay, story and thank you producer Mike the cluster bombs Honeywell MK 20 made by Honeywell Oh Honeywell okay well they boy they sure kept their name out of all these stories but you know Hollywood Hollywood honey Honeywell stands for quality Honeywell, it used to be a computer company. Yeah! Honeywell Bull. It stands for quality. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah that'd be fab On NO AGENDA! We do have a few people to thank and let's thank them Gary Yadovitz in Forest Hills in New York 1-2-3-4-5 one of my best he says thanks for the great show and newsletter I love kittens

2:21:30 Chris Daly in Beaverton, Oregon. My local public radio station is whining about pledge driver's donation this week I much prefer to be a producer of the best podcast in the universe. Berkeley Hinton Fremont California $111.11 so we have a couple call outs it looks like Where is it? I don't see any. You guys have a good view of this show Tom Place put me onto the show two years ago and hasn't donated shit! DOOSHBAG! Okay, that was the one John Knowles in Muffresboro I think i know how to pronounce that but im not pronouncing it right $111.11 John Sterken Stad Sweden

2:22:25 $101, sorry. France Gleitscher in Fremont, a hundred dollars. Dennis Sterko in Seaside Park New Jersey, a hundred dollars. John Huss in Lost Wages Nevada, a hundred dollars and we go to Dave White in Chicopee Massachusetts Nuts and he's in for 7770 and loves the show of course. Sherry Lori Seaholm, Victoria Australia sent an email in that we read. $75 I think she's a dame. iMagination Ltd Auckland New Zealand 7070 Sir Herb Lamb and Sugar Hill Georgia 6950 Mark Carter in Corona California 6666 Keith Ryan in Bloomfield Connecticut 5678 David Dietrich

2:23:22 in Round Hill, Texas double nickels on the dime. And we have a clarification about that by the way do you have that note? No I don't but apparently the official double nickels on the dime is indeed 55 but i think it was Sergeant Fred who started with us then doubled nickels on the dime is $55 and 10 cents and that's just what it will have to be from now on No, no. That wasn't the letter at all! Then I don't know what you're talking about. It was Sergeant Fred. It was a guy saying it was him and he gave the exact time and date... Well why don't you read the letter John? Let me finish these things then I'll get to the letter later because obviously I don't have the letter right in front of me thinking that you might've had it but obviously you didn't

2:24:03 I'm not in charge of donations. I've made assumptions which makes an ass out of you and me, mostly me. Christopher Dolan, Berlin Connecticut double nickels on the dime Thomas Mosier Bloomington Illinois 5510 Andre Peters in Nijmegen Nijmegen! Nijmegen You know these, Nijmegen 51? I don't know that name. Ney-N-I-J That's Holland Jaron, Jerome Timmer in Wagenborgen. Okay. Wait wait let me get at least the name of the city right? Wagenborgen Close! Wa-gen-bor-gen Okay And his name is Jeroon Jeroon Timmer Timmer First used the show to fall asleep finally woke up and saw the true value of this show

2:25:03 And that, my dear sirs is the first donation. Ah you should get a de-douching for this. You've been de-douched! Very good Scott, Howard are in Garland Texas 50 these are all $50 donors who've gotten to the fifties quickly uh Jacob Wojciak in North Vancouver Wojciech maybe These are all 50s. Paul Webb in Twickenham, UK. Sir Paul Vella in Milton Keynes. Antonio McMullen, parts unknown anonymous in Corona California and David Pete in Aubrey Texas Dan Tantalo in Lakewood Village Texas two places to Texas and finally sir Brian Navarro excuse me Los Angeles California I want to thank all these folks for contributing

2:25:54 I don't know what the number is. You've really lost track a while back, six nine or five? That's because at the top of the spreadsheet it used to always say Microsoft Excel show number and i would just look up but then I got used to that to such an extreme that I never bothered memorizing the show number And now its not there anymore for some reason along with apparently line breaks and So it makes it difficult now is number three Eric put something in here about line number 32 Can you read line number 32 go back to line? 32 yeah, I don't mark Carter and Corona my father Gary Milton Carter died Malignant melanoma requested by donation be remembered for him. I'm also going through a divorce yes

2:26:40 Same time, I feel sorry for you Adam. So i'm so very sorry my only previous donation was with 3333 If you toss in a penny or bring me to 100 and 1 10th knighthood You got as a result like the claim the temporary title of night decimate It will be make knighthood eventually thanks for your courage Don't change change the show please play fuck cancer for my father requesting job commerce Or I might get out of the er into clinical educator Okay see I knew we had to do something there Okay, let me do that very sorry to hear that and at end and we'll have a cart jobs cover for everybody Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. And we thank everybody who came in with amounts under $50 of course 49 is a very popular one for reasons of anonymity but also people are on the monthlies there are several

CHAPTER 31 / 38 Discussion

Newsletter Marketing, Selfie Backlash and Hotel Room Photos

A discussion regarding the show's newsletter reveals that a "selfie" of a host at a theater led to a temporary drop in donations, as some listeners perceived the host as "living it up." In response, a new selfie is taken in the dingy Hotel Pennsylvania room, featuring a towel stuffed in a window, to prove the lack of a "lavish" lifestyle.

newsletter· marketing· selfie· hotel pennsylvania· poverty vow

2:27:39 monthly donation programs you can get on. You can find that at... And I want to thank you, John! It was kind of interesting. I do want to give a little inside baseball for everybody. John always writes the newsletter and then he'll send it to me in part for proofreading feedback and I said oh are you gonna put the let me put that selfie picture in there? He says nah its kinda icky. Well yeah if you think is not right don't put it in which I was okay with And boy, the newsletter went out and like people berated you. Yeah! They were like where's the selfie pic you promised? Yeah all over Twitter I was getting emails... I'm so disappointed Well i'm disappointed in it In some ways we've almost as though he can't lead-I knew what was going to happen when I sent a newsletter out

2:28:33 I'm going to talk about this for just a minute because this has to do with donations. And, I knew this was going to happen and it did happen which is that once I sent the newsletter out and I want to kind of scold a few members of the audience or maybe the audience in general about this because we have people...we do have a life to lead. As soon as the newsletter went out zero donation came in. As you can tell from my selfies Zero donations came in. Zero, nothing for the rest of the night and that is because there seems to be some sense that Adam's living it up with hot blondes at the you know at the theater doing whatever he's doing. At the cover band show?

2:29:13 Wait a minute the little of the small theater in Austin, Texas Living it up with the big shit-eating grin on his face and a hot blonde at his arm And you know and it was like the feedback was like It was just not good. It was like y'all know you can't no vow of poverty You can't go to a play you can't date a woman you can't do anything you can't stay at the hotel Pennsylvania part two Part two of the problem was, what happened to Mickey? I've been a little behind on this show but what happened to Mickey. He's a cad to be going out with pretty girls when he has got a wife at home! So there is that and it is like a loser to send that thing out

2:29:56 My initial impression, so I made actually three mistakes from a marketing perspective. One, you kind of jointly came up with the idea of putting it in the newsletter to get some more people to subscribe. A total of 20 people subscribed. The second one was, this selfie's not that cool but then bitching and moaning, okay I'll send it out against my better judgment and then they just dried up and I think we're gonna have a lousy Sunday if you wanna be associate or executive producer for a Sunday show You know 201 bucks. You'll be in I just love the fact that people think I'm living it up. I think that's hilarious Well, you got a big smile on your face. You're at the theater with a hot blonde. You're living it up Yeah Hell yeah guys any money cuz Adams is gonna spend it on hookers Adam C curry where the sea stands for playa? play

2:30:54 I feel really good about that. And by the way, Nurse Trace is not a hooker and I know she doesn't... No, no she's not. That's what I'm thinking going on here. Well that's...no one said it. In fact she got compliments! Oh she's very pretty and she's very...I think she's more...I think she's extremely photogenic She is She's pretty. So you should take more pictures with her and then eventually put an album together or something I can do it, an iPhoto book one day! Selfies from Adam Curry competing with John Furtwange No go away there will be absolutely no Cardinal book like that.

2:31:35 Well, I'm glad y'all think I'm living it up here as I am sucking a hotel Pennsylvania bed bugs are us Wow happy birthday Sonny your body who will be nighting in a moment Gerald Howard says happy birthday to his fiancee Dawn John celebrates tomorrow on the 13th and Andre Peters also had a... It may have been for himself or Andre will have to get back with us, let us know. It has a question mark here Happy birthday from all your friends here at the very lush and lavish offices of The Best Podcast in the Universe Living it up! I'm gonna take a picture

2:32:13 I'm going to take a picture of my... You should take a selfie in the Hotel Pennsylvania with the window cocked open. Well, you know just kind of like it all right here we go about yeah with a towel stuffed in the window make it a very picture great picture well I'm just gonna do it right now so everyone can can know that this is no lie hold on a second and this okay this may be in the next news level exactly oh I'm not guaranteeing anything Okay, that was selfie number one of the towel in the window. Send me a picture of the bed and then I'll figure out whether it's useful It's already done! It's done. Oh? Done. It's done. That makes me...a little

CHAPTER 32 / 38 Discussion

Table of the Round, Knighting Ceremony and Hotel Logistics

The official knighting of Sir Smokes A Lot and Dame Phil of Hollyhurst is completed. The hosts marvel at the ability to broadcast a high-quality show from a small, poorly equipped hotel room in New York City using a T-Mobile iPhone connection.

knighthood· table of the round· hotel pennsylvania· connectivity

2:32:53 Little like really okay, okay? You look at the pictures and meanwhile I do have a got a picture here geez which is the picture per half of your head It's crooked open if you tap on the picture. You can see everything in it. That's very simple the way it works Yeah, but it's not just that very well. That's not okay never mind never mind Ryan Merritt, Samir Bhatti and Philippine Floss Monthinka. Please step on up people! You have all contributed to the best podcasting universe in the amount of $1,000 or more and we are very very happy to introduce you into The Table Of The Round with the Knights In The Names and I pronounce the game hereby Sir Smokes A Lot

2:33:33 night of my android and Dame Phil of Hollyhurst. Please welcome, and grab your hookers and blow your employees in Chardonnay, your sake and sushi root beer pepperoni pizza, Balkan barley and hops whiskey and wet wipes. Vodka vanilla bong hits and bourbon or maybe just the mutton and mead And thank you very much. Nice to have three joining today, nice to see Philippine there as well and go to noagenenation.com slash rings and register so we can get that out to your ASAP and remember to tweet a picture of your hotel room I mean if your ring and your certificate but are still with me John? Oh yeah! Okay you got the pictures? I got the one picture... There's two Yeah i sent them by just tweeted the bed picture

2:34:17 Oh, oh no. I closed it let me go back and look. Okay. Yeah one picture yeah It's just kind of a picture of the there is nothing not much to it and... Oh there you are! No? That somebody else this is..no that's not it You can see the bed. Okay I see the bed but oh yeah this is uh you're in a very small place Look at how narrow that bed is I like that big table The one that the phone is plugged into the lamp? Yeah, it's high class operation. There's no agenda show everybody thanks And then you're apparently using the outlet plug that's on the lamp Oh yeah because its so well geared for professional travelers they have so many outlets and everything is really well arranged It's great for podcasters

2:35:12 Yeah, livin' it up with hookers and blow. It's a miracle! You got such good signal. You know what's the miracle? Do you know what's the miracle?! It's a miracle that someone like Nurse Tracy will even go out with me Well there's that Now she sees this she's like oh... Well at least she knows your not in there in a big giant bed with some bimbo Well its unmade Fine. You can't have sex in New York's always fun, so I'm glad you're there Yeah exactly no i'm happy but i'm just uh you brought something up that touches a nerve what it is like you know like chomping on tin foil

CHAPTER 33 / 38 Discussion

California Psychics, Economic Scams and Cold Reading

The resurgence of "California Psychics" commercials is identified as a cyclical phenomenon often tied to economic depressions. The business model, which starts at $1 per minute but can escalate to $14 per minute, is deconstructed as a classic cold-reading scam that uses basic personal information to create the illusion of supernatural insight.

california psychics· scams· cold reading· depression· dionne warwick

2:35:50 That's the worst. Yeah, it's horrible something about it all right so I there's a big trend is starting up again this is a sign of something as one of those things like beanie babies these crop-up in cycles uh-huh and when I saw this I went oh no I know you have to now trace back when when the cycle I think this is a depression thing Okay, play the clip. This is just starting now as you're starting his beginning it'll be a sweep in the nation if it takes off which I think It will because of the well the dumbness of the public but play California psychics California psychics. Well, we can't Talking to a psychic over the phone

2:36:31 personal. It can't be for real, can they? We let these skeptics try California psychics and here's what they had to say. You know it was probably the best psychic reading I've ever had! Gosh, I got everything I could imagine from my readings. She's telling me all this stuff and I'm like how could you possibly know that?! Call now to speak to a psychic for $1 per minute and if it's not the best psychic reading you've ever experienced...it's free!! I wasn't sure about the relationship that I'm in but now I know he's the right one. It was specific to me, she picked up on so many things that there is no way she could have picked up on. I've always had a passion for fitness and she saw me in my own yoga studio. Speak to a psychic for $1 per minute. Readings are secure and confidential if it's not the best psychic reading you ever experienced its free! She had names, she had so much detail. She really just reassured

2:37:17 I'm on the right path. I've never had a phone call make me so excited for the future California psychics the best or it's free call today, I think i'm gonna have to agree with you. I remember uh was it Uh deon warwick psychic yeah And wasn't that after the big 87 crash? Yeah You know, see that's what I said. I have to start looking into this phenomenon. And there was that crazy Jamaican woman who kept the big black woman and she goes, oh now you can do this and that... She was of course a phony. Now I want to point something out about this is it's $1 a minute And as soon as for your first hour max, and then if you want to have any further consultations. Most of these people are pretty good at keeping you on the line is $14 a minute which amounts to $840 an hour. You can have a team of psychiatrists helping you for $840 an hour and a lawyer. I can tell you how I would run this

2:38:17 If I were to... and this is, there may be something else to it. I think technology has caught up where this is a great It's a classic classic scam So you go ahead You call up and I'll be your psychic friend Let me see Do we have any psychic friend music? Hmm that'd be nice if I had some. I could play a little no No, you know you're calling up You are if you can't do that you are a no no we did just being anonymous it wouldn't be me doing this Ring the bell Okay Hello Noah gender psychic friends Network yeah hi, I'm Calling about getting the free reading oh yeah, hi sweetie How are ya? What's your name?

2:38:59 My, uh... you know, well okay. John? John! Okay and your last name John it's important for the chart I need to know when you were born What is your last name John? Smith No John, give me- You're gonna give me your name what is your last name that you committed you can say Dvorak Dvorak. Ah, John Dvorak okay when were you born? You'll give me your date and everything I'm doing...and meanwhile I'm looking up...I know um okay John. You're what? You're looking at what? No i'm looking into the charts okay and uh I'm thinking hmm oh wow this is very interesting this is very very interesting

2:39:37 Why? Well, I'll tell you what I'm seeing. As I'm pulling up your chart here John and I have a feeling... Hold on! I'm seeing a... Wow! I'm seeing a sea I'm seeing, wow. I'm getting a very strong feeling about Corey is there a Corey in your life? Does the name Corey mean anything to you? Well as matter of fact he fixed my internet connection and is- And I am seeing little things running nuts. I am seeing squirrels does squirrels mean anything to you? Squirrel! Yeah, squirrel ate through my internet connection. Wow okay! That's before he came to fix it I have a very good connection so now I'm feeling... There is no way you could know this No of course not this is why we are the Curry Dvorak Psychic Friends Network and do you have a thing with Uma Thurman?

2:40:28 There's something about no, but I that's funny to ask though because I just posted a picture on my Twitter. Oh you're on my Twitter feed Yeah, I'm sorry your free consultation is now over please be prepared for $14.99 for the next minute That's how I would run this thing yeah it work. Yeah, it's perfect little myth What are you doing tweeting? You complain about me with Britney Spears hmm Really? Mm-hmm. Have a screenshot of that I'll put it in the next newsletter

CHAPTER 34 / 38 Discussion

Neil Armstrong's Closet, Apollo 11 Artifacts and Lost Footage

The widow of Neil Armstrong discovered a bag of space artifacts in a closet, including a 16mm camera used during the Apollo 11 moon landing. This discovery is significant because much of the original high-quality recording material from the mission was previously thought to be lost or destroyed by NASA.

neil armstrong· nasa· apollo 11· lunar module· 16mm camera

2:41:16 Second half of the show. The second half? That's the second half so far in time! Yeah, well it's because we have some news John there has been a new discovery as you know one of the most irritating things for me and moon landing deniers worldwide is the fact that all of the recordings of the actual moon landing have been lost destroyed or taped over It's now filled with reruns of Gilligan's Island This has been very annoying because, you know the people can't really show the video anymore. Well guess what? We got an email from Mrs Armstrong saying that in cleaning out one of his closets she had found this bag with what looked like space materials and it would be interested in... I hadn't heard this guy's list when they cut the clip Space materials It was a bag with space materials In cleaning out one of his closets She had found this bag with what looked like

2:42:12 materials and would we be interested in those things as well. Of course that was a little bit more exciting to me, and immediately I recognized potentially what this was and that there this satchel, what they jokingly called the purse which had been included in all of the lunar modules beginning in Apollo 9. The camera itself is without the cartridges you can see where the cartridges fit in and each cartridge was labeled separately with a serial number that was used and some of the cartridges are among the prize sort of film cartridges that NASA has. So hold on a second...

2:42:57 Is he telling me that this, and you see this camera in this piece. You can see the full video in the show notes 6... 9 or 5 dot n noagendanotes dot com? You see this camera which kind of looks like one of those old super 8mm cameras that your dad would have running around with no sound This apparently is a 16mm camera And if I understand what he said it sounded like they had some cartridges still left over Or did they find those in Neil Armstrong's garage I don't know this part of the story. The only clips I saw was that first part of the report, they never got to the camera part. I don't know where he even got that." Oh no... Somebody screwed up, I think? Yeah! It would actually make sense if they found film of the moon landing in Neil Armstrong's garage. That makes sense. That's where they shot the video in the first place. Less than 10 minutes to go

CHAPTER 35 / 38 Discussion

Ebola Extinguishing Phase, USAID and Vaccine Shilling

The Obama administration announced a transition from "fighting" to "extinguishing" the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. This is met with skepticism regarding the narrative provided by USAID officials. Simultaneously, Senator Patty Murray is criticized for "shilling" for the Gardasil HPV vaccine by citing unacceptably low take-up rates.

ebola· usaid· vaccines· gardasil· hpv

2:43:57 It's like the squirrel joke somebody called me out on Twitter when I said squirrel. This is a long Dog story squirrel as the punchline when you've been on it, but we were doing a show long enough You know eventually you know that whatever John and Adam are saying the punch line is well That's it that's all that's all we got really We just do that Okay, we got a couple of last things here. I want to go on and i have that end the show clip which is a song which is kind of fun Is this another song? It's a no agenda song. Yeah, it's a long one though We're looking for that but let's play the Ebola update and keep up with what's going on What are they doing with the troops? Ebola Update The president said that the US operation will soon enter a second phase after a dramatic change in the trajectory of new cases Of a disease that has killed more than 9000 people Wait a minute! New cases...9000 people Our focus now is getting to zero

2:45:00 Because as long as there's even one case of Ebola that's active out there, risks still exist. Every case is an ember that if not contained can light a new fire So we're shifting our focus from fighting the epidemic to now extinguishing it And joining me now to discuss the past present and future of the US Ebola operation in West... Hold on a second I just need to understand the metaphor We're no longer fighting it, we're extinguishing it. What is the difference? Which is impossible because its endemic now to bats. West Africa is Rajiv Shah of USAID and... Oh USAID guy! Yeah that's our friends right there. Welcome to you Today signals the end of one phase of the fight what does that mean? Is it a moment of triumph how do you describe it Well it's a moment of transition and I recall when I visited the west African countries with Ebola in October

2:45:51 There were more than a thousand new cases a week. I met mothers who are holding their children who were literally dying in their arms." I ended on that because the guy goes on and on with all this USAID bullcrap. But the story that he was visiting some mother with an Ebola baby, dying in her arms is bull crap! Yeah of course it is we have not seen any evidence of this show me please just show me one person in a tent that says USAID on it has blood coming out of this persons eye sockets and anal cavity then

2:46:26 And I'll believe that you got some...9,000 people. It's a round number now by the way just 9,000 they've been through 8642, 8793, 9,000. John Maass Now they finally made 9,000. I do have a vaccine thing regarding this. This is Senator Murray, a democrat from Washington State, I believe? Isn't that Murray he's up there? Oh, maybe if it's the congressman. Senator, senator... It's a she! No no. It's a she. Maybe there is some... Maybe it's possible

2:47:06 shilling for vaccines and my favorite in particular. But recent news about the measles outbreak in many states, including in my home state of Washington made clear that vaccine preventable diseases are still a threat and that we can't afford to become complacent about protecting the progress that we've made. Bottom line this means children... I think she said cant but I'm happy to listen again are still a threat and that we can't afford to become complacent about protecting the progress that we've made. Bottom line, this means children across the country need to be vaccinated it also means we need to be vigilant about breaking down any barriers that families may face when it comes to accessing certain vaccines and we need to ensure that in any case what certain vaccines can you think of John?

2:47:58 PAPs, the thing where take up rates are low. We're providing information and spreading awareness so that more people can be protected. The HPV vaccine is a great example. It prevents life-threatening cancers including cervical cancer which impact thousands of lives in the United States each year Despite that, CDC reports that take-up rates for the vaccine are still unacceptably low meaning people continue to be exposed to deeply harmful illnesses that could have been prevented. Yes! Yeah absolutely! It's real! It's real! Who would elect someone who can barely read? I know... And all she is doing is shilling for Gardasil which yeah that's wow okay

CHAPTER 36 / 38 Discussion

Keystone XL Veto, Jen Psaki and Transparency Questions

President Obama is expected to veto the Keystone XL pipeline bill, officially to allow federal reviews to finish, though critics suggest it is to protect the interests of rail-owning donors like Warren Buffett. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki faced difficult questions from reporter Matt Lee regarding the lack of transparency in the agency review process.

keystone xl· barack obama· jen psaki· transparency· epa

2:48:46 They got a marketing budget that'll knock your socks off. I forgot to play this for you since you had the Ebola, uh, the Ebola clip. Quick update, no one really talking about this but the bill passed it was already passed in the Senate and in the House so its obvious what's going to happen now. The house gave final approval this afternoon to a bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline It now heads to a certain veto at the hands of President Obama He has said he wants the federal review process to play out The pipeline would allow oil from Canada's tar sands flowed to Gulf Coast refineries Now this was actually

2:49:32 interesting for a number of reasons. First of all, the president does have to kind of explain why he's vetoing and we all know the reason is because he cannot shun his biggest donors Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who are running all of the oil through the trains right now which they own that is the real reason why this is going to be vetoed but I will be very interested to see what kind of excuse he gives us for this. Well yeah, I've heard the excuse He says he would like the bill, it's possible there is a bunch of testing and studies and other federal processes that should be gone through. Yes all the agencies have to do this. And he wants that process to be complete before... You would expect that process to be what is the word they always use?

2:50:25 Transparent? Extradited. Dastrack. Transparent? Dastrack. Transparent would be the word they would have used five years ago and here is Jen Psaki I'm telling you, you have to look at the blue outfit There's something with her breasts. She looks like she gained 100 pounds in that blue outfit! But if you really look closely, the shape of her breasts are very pretty and her nipples are visual and in a nice place but they're way out to the side They're like, you know if she lifts her arm up it'll be on her back or something. It's really strange. I'm telling ya, I think she looks fat in that. Yeah! I would advise different clothing. Yeah, unless she's just chubbed out. I mean it's possible. Well chubby is...I didn't even say that

2:51:15 It's not flattering what I hate to say and I hate to say it because it sounds like I'm just a pig Yeah, but we're looking at this from an media perspective as producers who look at us in front of a bunch of cameras And people started maybe she's trying to distract people with her newfound weight Well so Matt who of course you know every night. I go to bed, and I'd say a little prayer Oh Matt Please ask some funny questions And this was good because he just wanted to know about what agencies have put in their review documents. They're not mandated by the executive order to provide their views on the national interest regarding the proposed project, but we were required to request their views. There's not a deadline or timeline of course their views will be factored into the consideration process. Did all eight actually submit?

2:52:04 We're not going to confirm we treat them as internal recommendations. Well, I'm not asking what they say however the EPA has already put theirs out so...I understand that well it's pointless for you guys to keep them secret right? Well we treat them as internal recommendations. That's fair enough but i just want to know if all...I don't see that as pointless go ahead well it's I don't understand why you can't say if all eight submitted there or not? Because they're internal recommendations and I'm not going to confirm whether or not we've received them. They're not mandated, the ones we receive will be factored into the consideration process. Do you feel that these have a balanced representation? As I mentioned then, we treat them as internal... What happened with this transparency idea? I don't get it-I'm not asking what's in the report if an agency wants to put their own report out

2:52:53 and make it public, that's fine. That's up to them. Well just to be clear the EPA didn't put their recommendations out publicly they put out their views on the final SEIS its something different but that is an important distinction Go ahead Roz Shut Up Mat with your transparency questions I love that guy! What happened to this transparency idea? It's not like he actually means that. He is just saying, geez lady your boobs are on your back and you're talking crap! I only have one... I think they've taken a dislike to her Oh nooo Noooo I like her. Noo she is cool. She is cool. I only have one more thing that I want to do and this stuff I wanna carry over to Sunday We got a few more things Do you have anything else you wanna poop in? Well I gotta talk about Mugabe

CHAPTER 37 / 38 Discussion

Emoji Terrorist Threats, Anti-Semitism and Internet Asbos

A Brooklyn teenager was arrested for making a "terrorist threat" after posting a police officer emoji next to gun emojis on Facebook. While the threat charges were dropped, the case highlights a lack of legal precedent for emojis. In the UK, discussions are held regarding "Internet Asbos" to block individuals from social media for persistent hate speech or anti-Semitic content.

emoji· nypd· hate speech· asbo· social media

2:53:46 Yes, it's taking over Africa like Hitler. Thanks to the Chinese I think this is all a ploy of course in Union at all now yes yes yes yes yes And the Chinese are behind you but your community won't do that now we keep that for Sunday not doing on Sunday Okay and then? Got there some guy got went to jail for using an emoticon which they've you know more advanced formed emoji where what country was this But I think in the United States play it played a clip Hmm, okay. This is interesting I hadn't heard about this one now everyone knows that putting a happy sad or Angry icon at the end of your message is nothing more than a bit of fun really but for one teenager That simple action landed him in a whole lot of hot water

2:54:33 Brooklyn teen Siriz Aristi posted on Facebook a status like this. Only instead of an abstract face he used a cartoon representation of a police officer. Days later the NYPD arrested Aristi for making a terrorist threat A grand jury has thrown out the charges which carried up to seven years in prison but Aristi is still facing time for illegal gun possession. The NYPD say they found a weapon in his bedroom when they came to arrest him. The teen's lawyer told us the case is just bizarre There's no precedent, there is no legal precedent for equating emojis with terroristic threats. And I think that is part of the novelty of this case it so unusual It hasn't happened before What exactly was the emoji? I don't understand He had a picture he had a bunch of little emojis you know different little stupid things Yeah I know what an emoji is A cop head... I learned from Film Girl

2:55:33 A cop head. Yeah? It was like a policeman, you know, he's like a guy with a security cap. Oh! A cop head and then a little gun next to it? And couple of guns next to it...to the right. Wow! Well, this is... it's not like we haven't predicted- A terrorist threat! And of course then they go in his room to arrest him and then they oh just coincidentally see the ditched gun somehow through magic eyes. Which they probably had themselves. Planted gun. It's so it's the oldest trick in the book Oh yeah Brooklyn come on All right, that's all I got. This is mine kind of ties into this is the BBC and they have Rabbi Goldsmith on the show talking about of course the rise of anti-semitism all over Europe you know that Muslims be hatin' on them haters be haters the haters be hating

2:56:25 And he has some novel ideas about how we get everybody to... Shut up, slave! Just talk for a second about this idea of so-called internet Asbos. Are you blocking people from social media sites if they put anti-Semitic material up there? No, I mean it's funny but it's anti-Semitic material to get Asbo. So if you say something anti-Semitic on social media Which, is that illegal in the UK? Is that an illegal... Hate speech! Is that workable because presumably if you get blocked under one address You just find another one and sign up that way. Well there is a precedent so there are prevention orders in place for perpetrators of sexual offences And what the report says is that There's an application here The MP believe there's an application For those perpetrators of hate crime So

2:57:15 So for the most persistent and determined offenders, when they go to court the judges or the prosecuting authorities would have the option of laying down this prevention order which would stop them going online. If they then did go online, they'd be back in court? I think that whether hate crime is happening on Twitter or Facebook or whether it's happening in newspapers or whether its happening leaflets – it's the same thing. It just simply moved to a different media. So I do think that people do need that sense, that wherever you spread hate... That's not going to be legal. There is going to be action and it is going to be found out." There ya'go! When you spread hate? That will not be legal. Nope. You can just wait for it Just wait for it

CHAPTER 38 / 38 Discussion

Show Sign-off, T-Mobile Performance and Final Mix

The broadcast concludes with a final praise for the T-Mobile connection's stability throughout the three-hour show. A custom musical mix featuring show memes, "predator" quotes, and a Joe Biden clip serves as the outro. The hosts announce their return for the following Sunday.

sign-off· t-mobile· joe biden· end of show· mix

2:58:00 And as long as we are deemed legal, and will continue to bring you this program Which some have dubbed the best podcast in the universe? Yes We wear that as a badge of pride. And it could be illegal content someday Unlawful at best all right everybody hope you enjoyed the show I'm glad to thank you very much T-Mobile for keeping most of it going with my Non-multitasking iPhone I'm impressed. I'm in for I actually am impresses work pretty well It's a very good connection for you, and as I'm sure your

2:58:37 Descoralized Comcast connection has something to do with it as well. No, I switched over when you get disconnected just in case okay? Well this time on the back sounds good as well. It's a normal one sounds good So we have a little song As the final clip and of show clip from Sir Terry and i'm coming to you today from fema region 2 In the capital no in the heart of New York City In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where i'm telling people to go take the day off it's Lincoln's birthday! Used to be a holiday when I was a kid...I'm John C. Duborak We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda

2:59:23 Bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them! We need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them, we need to bomb them... We need to kill them and bomb them again. There's no real conflict! Boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka! Darling Adam who can I turn to? You give me something I can hold on to Coke Brothers! With all the memes that try and pull me on down With no agenda, I finally can turn it up Our formula is this No Agenda Trying to keep us sane Listen to NO AGENDA in O-

3:00:37 I have two words for you. Predators won't miss. You will never see it coming! I'm telling you... The brilliance of the instruction is why we all cry out It was worth it. It's much worth it I've got information, man! New shit has come to light! I'm Joe Biden and thank you for taking the time to listen Adios mofo