Episode 721 · Thursday, 14 May 2015

Effer in the P Me

A legendary investigative journalist faces a media firestorm over Bin Laden raid claims while Amtrak infrastructure debates collide with the anniversary of the MOVE bombing.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 721

About this episode

Seymour Hersh faces a coordinated media backlash following his London Review of Books report claiming the Abbottabad raid was a staged intelligence operation. The veteran journalist alleges a Pakistani walk-in betrayed Osama bin Laden for a $25 million bounty, contradicting the official White House narrative. CNN and the Obama administration have dismissed the claims as performance art, while blogger R.J. Hillhouse suggests the core thesis was lifted from her 2011 research.

Tragedy in Philadelphia dominates the domestic news cycle as an Amtrak derailment results in multiple fatalities just days after an FBI warning regarding stolen rail equipment. The 30th anniversary of the MOVE bombing provides a grim backdrop to the disaster, while political figures like Luke Russert and Elizabeth Warren spar over infrastructure funding and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Meanwhile, Verizon’s $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL is framed as a strategic play for government broadband subsidies rather than a digital advertising expansion.

Prince Charles breaks royal neutrality through the release of his Black Spider letters, revealing aggressive lobbying of government ministers on military and environmental policy. In the United States, the Department of Defense faces scrutiny for paying NFL teams $5.4 million for patriotic tributes. Sir John Fletcher joins the No Agenda Round Table as a newly knighted producer during Palindrome Week, as the program tracks the rise of the FHRITP viral meme and Vienna’s new gay-friendly traffic signals.


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CHAPTER 01 / 37 Discussion

Port Angeles Foraging, Texas Rain, Puddles Pity Party

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program discussing the weather in Port Angeles, Washington, and the recent heavy rains in Texas that raised Lake Travis. Dvorak describes his trip to see Puddles Pity Party, a singing clown lounge act, while providing tech support for his wife's printer.

port angeles· washington· texas· lake travis· puddles pity party· tech support

00:00 Public Radio is ready for capitalism. FHR ITP meme and broadcasting live from the crackpot Kando Kando and FEMA region 6 in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and foraging in the forest of the Pacific Northwest. I'm John C. Dvorak You're no longer in the tower of terror no, I'm in the foraging forest foraging force of Port Angeles, Washington Yes, nice

00:42 So it's a sex week up there. It is a rain week. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I misunderstood what that was all about. Okay. It has a lot of, uh, I don't, it doesn't rain in California. So it actually took me a while to what's this? What is somebody spitting? What's going on? Huh? Oh, the rain. Okay. We've had nonstop rains now in our second, well, not entirely nonstop, but our second week of rain, they expect it to go on for another week here. It's just rain. We have flash floods every day. I thought Texas was always in a perpetual state of drought. No, no. It's been, so this is the end of our second week. We're going into a third week. You know, they're always complaining in Texas when it rains. Why don't they set up cisterns? I don't think anyone's really complaining. Not really. We're just, you know, we're a little tired of the wetness, but it's not, we're happy. Lake Travis was up a foot, which is a pretty big deal for us.

01:43 So yeah, what are you doing? They're just hanging out. What's the deal is it someone's birthday? Actually Eric's birthday is coming up. Oh, I don't know if I'll be here for that for Sunday or no I went up to we went up because the because puddles pittle pity party meaning is Puddles pity party yeah, who is puddles? This could this sing ah ah puddles is a singing clown oh Okay. Puts on a very unique, I would call maybe a lounge act, I'm not sure. He must be really good if you went up there just for him. Well, I was told he was really good. Oh yeah, have you seen him? I also need to come up here and get the printer working. That's it. That's another issue. You're actually just, this is marriage, man. This is marriage. Long distance. Tech support, that's what husbands do. We're tech support.

CHAPTER 03 / 37 Discussion

Amtrak Philadelphia Derailment, Infrastructure Funding Debate

A major Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia results in multiple fatalities and injuries, prompting immediate political debates over rail infrastructure funding. While Democrats argue the accident highlights the need for increased investment, Republicans maintain that Amtrak should focus on profitability, leading to media narratives blaming budget cuts for the tragedy.

amtrak· philadelphia· infrastructure· house panel· joe biden· train crash

05:24 to see what all the agendas were. Now whether this is... I have a different one. For the train? Yeah. For the train crash? I want to hear yours first, but mine's a little different. And it's just a coincidence that I even stumbled on it. Okay. So what do you think's going on besides? Well, I look, I'm an aviation guy. I'm not a train guy. So I don't, I don't really... The same thing. One's on wheels. It's not the same thing. They're in direct competition. I did catch a little bit of, well, the same messaging from the three big networks, CBS, NBC, ABC.

06:04 Because the timing of this, the timing of this event, however coincidental, was immediately turned into, well... Some of Amtrak's equipment has been charitably described as antique. But despite that, a House panel today cut Amtrak's budget even more. The 250 million people who ride these rails each year pass through tunnels and over bridges that are more than 100 years old. And look it, Amtrak estimates that maintaining and upgrading the Northeast Corridor

06:40 would cost to ages by the way ages some bridges point six billion dollars per year but congress provided just one point four billion this year for for all of them tracks operations from coast to coast next year funding will drop by nearly twenty percent despite an attempt by house democrats today to boost it now that was cbs here's nbc in the meantime there is a political element to all the all this hours after the tragedy here in Philadelphia, the fight over funding for Amtrak flared up. The shock and tragedy of what happened in Philadelphia made a longstanding battle over Amtrak funding more raw and emotional. Democrats wanted to see a big increase in funding and in fact they look at the accident and say it's an example of the need to improve our infrastructure. Republicans who always argued that Amtrak needs to turn a profit and not

07:30 My analysis, Republicans kill people. And Joe Biden has finally has a platform to run his potential campaign on. Because he's from Pennsylvania and he's Mr. Amtrak. That's all I could come up with. Well, that's the logic of the whole thing. I mean, but I think that's a bulb and reverse engineer. They had this disaster. They can't seem to determine where. Well, let's play. I think we have a democracy now clip of this. Well, we don't. I can just say it. We don't. Well, I don't mind the Amtrak rec clip.

08:20 Yeah, right, play that. At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded after an Amtrak train bound for New York City derailed just outside of Philadelphia. Eight people remain in critical condition and not everyone on board has been accounted for. The train had departed from Washington DC carrying more than 240 people. Six cars overturned with sections of the train so mangled people had to be rescued with the aid of hydraulic tools. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called it quote an absolute disastrous mess saying I've never seen anything like this in my life. The car

CHAPTER 04 / 37 Discussion

MOVE Philadelphia Bombing, 30th Anniversary Coincidence

The 30th anniversary of the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia is highlighted as a potential contextual link to the recent train derailment. Historical details are provided regarding the Philadelphia Police Department dropping C4 explosives from a helicopter onto a residential compound, resulting in 11 deaths and the destruction of 65 homes.

move· philadelphia· john africa· c4· fbi· police bombing

09:00 remains unknown. Okay, your analysis. So I got to the cause remains unknown and then I started thinking about what possibly is going on and is this possibly a protest of some sort, kind of in the same vein as the the bombing in Oklahoma years ago because of the Waco situation that took place where they attacked Waco. And just by coincidence, nobody's made this connection before, but But this is the 30-year anniversary of the Philadelphia bombing of MOVE. And we can play the MOVE Philly clip. MOVE, okay. Today marks the 30th anniversary of a massive police operation in Philadelphia that culminated in the helicopter bombing of the headquarters of a radical group known as MOVE.

09:50 The fire from the attack incinerated six adults and five children and destroyed 65 homes. Despite two grand jury investigations and a commission finding the top officials were grossly negligent, no one from city government was criminally charged. Here is how the bombing was initially reported in Philadelphia. I know nothing about this, John. I mean, I'm maybe not old enough, but I just don't know. No, no, you know nothing about it because at the time it was suppressed ever since. But this was they actually bombed with a bomb, with two bombs actually, which turns out as this neighborhood. And then the police department and the fire department let 65 homes burn to the ground before they did anything. Wow. Let me continue. On WCAU radio.

10:37 I've just been advised that we have new videotape of the episode that apparently ended, we think ended, the move situation tonight. The dropping of an incendiary device. Let's take a careful look at this. 527 PM. Wait a minute, this was dropped from an airplane? Yes, we bombed with this. Yes, it was a helicopter, but it was a bomb that was... Wait a minute. So was this an army? Was it FBI? It was... The bomb was from the FBI, they believe, and it was... But it was the local police who commandeered a state police chopper to do this. And then what kind of bomb did they throw out?

11:13 C4. Excellent. State police helicopter. There is the explosion. As you can see, a very dramatic explosion that occurs 30 seconds and really rips into the move compound. There you see the bunker, which soon will go up in flames. And that was the explosion close up. Now, if there's anybody there, standing there, it's obvious they couldn't survive that explosion. That was on the CAU TV, actually. We saw some video there. A MOVE was a Philadelphia-based radical movement dedicated to black liberation and a back-to-nature lifestyle. It was founded by John Africa, and all its members took on the surname Africa. In 2010, Ramona Africa, the sole adult survivor of the attack, told Democracy Now! what happened as the bomb was dropped on her house.

12:01 In terms of the bombing, after being attacked the way we were, first with four deluge hoses by the fire department, and then tons of tear gas, and then being shot at, the police admit to shooting over 10,000 rounds of bullets at us in the first 90 minutes. There was a lull. You know, it was quiet for a little bit. And then, without any warning at all, two members of the Philadelphia Police Department's bomb squad got in a Pennsylvania state police helicopter

12:41 and flew over our home and dropped a satchel containing C4, a powerful military explosive that no municipal police department has. They had to get it from the federal government, from the FBI. Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again. Excellent! I had no idea about this episode. Yeah, and this is the anniversary or was about the time of the within a day. Do you think it's related to the train? Yeah, I do. Okay. I don't have any proof of that. I just think the coincidence, you know, there's a little too much of one. Huh.

CHAPTER 05 / 37 Discussion

FBI Train Derailment Warning, Fiscal Hawkishness Narrative

The FBI issued a warning regarding the theft of "derailers" from rail facilities just days before the Philadelphia crash. Media coverage, specifically from Luke Russert, is criticized for suggesting that Republican fiscal hawkishness puts their own staffers at risk by underfunding the transit systems they use.

fbi· derailers· luke russert· cnn· terrorism· rail safety

13:21 And this was a mess of a train wreck. Normally they always have an immediate explanation. You just derail for no reason. I think they're trying to find the media, certainly trying to connect it to ISIS. Although there were... I had one article... Yes, here's your coincidence. This article is from, I believe, May 8th, so that's a couple of days ago. ABC News, FBI warns of train derailment threat on May 8th.

14:02 Devices that could be used by terrorists to derail trains are being stolen from rail facilities around the country the FBI warned Nine why are their devices to derail trains being stored in the first place by the railroad companies? Nine sounds like a bogus story right off the bat go on yeah, well It says and again. This is before this happened. Yeah, well Nine derailers a piece of railroad equipment used to derail train cars for safety purposes in rail yards Have been stolen recently, huh? so and and how does it derail or work is that does it

14:43 I don't know, it probably goes over the track, the train goes up and flips, probably got one on both sides of the track and one flips it lifts one side more than the other. I have no idea. Or just moves it off the track. I have no idea. We should look it up. Well, that's what I found to be a coincidence. Well, they could have been, you know, some of these radicals could have... Somebody stole the derailers. That would be the story. I've been waiting for that story to get out. It's a little bit too close to the actual derailment though. That's what's bothersome. So this is though the FBI stole the things and they're gonna stare behind it. Yeah, just the question of course is why and somehow you can relate this to the move bombing. No, I just think the move bombing was a coincidence. In so far as timing, this is the only thing that is coincident with the derailment both happening in Philadelphia. I mean, if it was someplace else, I'd think differently, but it was in the same area. And it's not unusual for people to seek revenge. You know, somebody's kid was killed or there's a lot of... Yeah, you always want to know who was on the...

15:48 the vessel. That's the other thing, yeah, we don't have that information yet. There's one VP of some bank, but nah, I don't know. Yeah, it's kind of hard to target anybody in a train. Most people get injured. Yeah, yeah. Unless, you know, unless they derail the train, there's an assassin on board and shoots the guy. But the confusion. But, you know, with with this, with the Republicans, you know, signing this, you know, cutting Amtrak's funding, that was extremely coincidental. That there was actually a funny clip from what's Tim Russert's kid's name? Luke, Luke Russert. And he was on I think this was CNN. And of course we all know we have to hate the Republicans, but he takes it one step further.

16:46 Remember in 2009 Metro had a deadly accident over nine people were killed. They want to cut that budget in half. So there really is no desire to necessarily help rail unless even if it's beneficial to their staff or even if it's beneficial to people who work for them because of this overarching idea of it's not in my backyard I don't necessarily care at this moment. Well and the fiscal hawkishness is is real. It's real. It's real. Republicans will kill their own staffers. Fiscal hawkish, I like. And I also like the way he describes desperately used. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like out of desperation, because that indicates these Republicans underpay their staff. Yes. Because they have to crawl

17:33 to the subway and desperately use it and they're willing to kill them. They don't care. They don't care. It's a good one. Yeah. Oh, keep our eye on this. I mean, obviously, CNN sees the value of this for ratings, but otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. So it could go on for quite a while. And in fact, if I were CNN, if I knew some things, I'd sit on it. I'd wait a little bit, drag it out until, you know, we'll see the quarterlies go down. You know that's what they're doing. Yeah. And then, pooh, bam, bring out some breaking new news. I just found it annoying. There was nothing else to see pretty much across all networks. But CNN was without a doubt the worst. A couple of things. First, a couple of follow-ups from the previous show.

CHAPTER 06 / 37 Discussion

Sofia Vergara Embryo Lawsuit, Nigel Farage Resignation Withdrawal

Brief updates cover the legal battle over Sofia Vergara's frozen embryos and the biological development of fetuses. Additionally, Nigel Farage's quick withdrawal of his resignation from UKIP is noted, confirming previous predictions that he would remain the party leader.

sofia vergara· embryos· nigel farage· ukip· resignation

18:20 We were talking about the embryos with that douche knuckle Republican guy who was suing the screwy actress. Vergara, the... Oh, Sofia Vergara and the Republican. Apparently, and I think this is true, browsing through the medical journals last night, that all fetuses start out in the female form. So for him to say, you know, these two girls, in that particular stage, he's correct. But they...but... David Gardner Oh, that's interesting. I never followed up at all on that. Mark Bailey Yeah, and a couple of people email me about that, so I appreciate that. But also, with us being from the future, from the near future in this case, Nigel Farage withdraws his resignation as predicted. I thought it would be September, but no, two days later, oh no, I'm withdrawing, I'm coming back. David Gardner Yeah, that's what these...you know, I guess the mechanism is I quit, and if everybody goes, okay,

CHAPTER 07 / 37 Discussion

UK Counter-Terrorism Bill, Extremism Definition Controversy

The UK government introduces a new Counter-Terrorism and Extremism Bill, which includes "disruption orders" to limit the activities of individuals deemed extremist. Home Secretary Theresa May struggles in a BBC Radio 4 interview to define extremism beyond "British values," leading to concerns about pre-publication police approval for social media posts.

david cameron· theresa may· extremism· british values· bbc radio 4· censorship

19:22 Then you quit. Yeah, but they went no we need you. That's what he wanted. Yeah tweets about it Oh, he can't he's the one responsible one guy said I've given to party to this a tweet I've given the party two million pounds because of Nigel Farage And so he's back which is good for us the good for the show big time I want to start off with Gitmo Nation East for a moment big things happening in in the UK with new legislation that has been... well it hasn't been introduced, they're only talking about it, it will be a part of the Queen's speech according to David Cameron. This is the new counter-terrorism extremism bill.

20:09 which, as far as I know, won't become really available until the 27th when we have the Queen's speech. But David Cameron has already listed a bit of the veil about what this will be. And again, there we are with our podcastlicense.com. This is going to become pretty useful. I'm reading now from, just from the Guardian, which is kind of the best I could get. The measures would give the police powers to apply to the high court for an order to limit, quote, harmful activities of an extremist individual. The definition of harmful is to include a risk of public disorder, a risk of harassment, alarm, or distress, or creating a, quote, threat to the functioning of democracy.

20:53 Wait for it. The aim is to catch not just those who spread or incite hatred on the grounds of gender, race, or religion, but also those, it should be height and age by the way, but also those who undertake harmful activities for the purpose of overthrowing democracy. They would include a ban on broadcasting and the requirement to submit to the police in advance any proposed publication on the web and social media or in print. So, the way I understand this is you get a disruption order from the Queen and you're, hey, watch out son, we don't like what you're saying. If you want to then post something on Twitter or Facebook, you have to have it approved by their police. Exactly. Now again, that's a trend.

21:50 Well, you always talk about the UK being the beta test for the rest of the universe. Now... Worked out well for them, we should do it too. Theresa May, who is the interior person, she's in charge of Homeland Security, the British equivalent of Homeland Security. A fantastic interview of her on BBC Radio 4, which I listen to at night when I go to bed because it's morning, I get kind of the, you know, I can, I think I pick up a lot of it in the middle of the night. And it's a 12 minute interview which hold on a second you're telling me that you go to bed And you leave the BBC on all night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is I don't know let me think about them Okay, go on well clearly the the sound is getting into my ears. I don't know my brain. I have weird dreams though I would think so I feel so British So Theresa May was on BBC for rated radio for and

22:47 The host, John, I forget his last name, good guy, he is trying to get her to explain the definition of extremism, which will be the mitigating factor in this bill where you are You know, we're going to be restricted from broadcasting. I presume that also includes podcasting, just posting anything on the website or social media without your messaging being approved by the politik operacik. So I thought it was very interesting to display two clips from this interview where Theresa May is trying to talk about this extremism. And the way she... And by the way, extremism does have a definition, which is belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable. Which, by the way, is pretty much everything on this show, if someone listens to it who is all in. Not with us.

23:47 I would think so, yes. And she takes this back and tries to explain it. She can't necessarily explain extremism, but she can explain what is not extremist behavior, which includes, of course, British values. First of all, the reason for doing this, John, I mean, you talk about tolerance and intolerance. I mean, there are people out there... Well, you recall, we read in the EU, European Union documents that tolerance was going to be big on the agenda, that you have to be tolerant, which we probably should look up that definition as well while we're at it. Sadly, who are seeking to divide us. We are a government of one nation, we want to bring people together to ensure we are living together as one society, but there are those who are trying to promote hatred and intolerance.

24:33 seeking to divide us into a them and us and undermine our British values. And what we are proposing is a bill which will have certain measures within it, measures such as introducing banning orders for groups and disruption orders for individuals. For those who are out there actively trying to promote this hatred and intolerance which can lead to division in our society. This is fantastic. It is. It's great. Hey, I hate you. Douche. it

25:20 ever question what exactly are British values? Luckily it's the BBC. And understanding acceptance of different faiths. And freedom of speech, an essential prerequisite of a tolerant and decent society. And if you ban groups of people from getting together and talking about the things that worry them about the way our society is heading, don't you become a part of it? No, well first of all I would say that your description of what we're proposing to do is not right. Well you're talking about banning groups of certain groups of people getting together. We're not talking about banning groups of people getting together who are simply talking about problems in society or what they perceive as issues that need to be addressed. So when do they step over the edge? Good question!

26:03 extremism of all sorts, Islamist extremism but also other forms of extremism like neo-Nazism. Where's climate change denial? That should be extremism pretty soon. That is seeking to promote hatred, that is seeking to divide our society, that is seeking to undermine the very values that make us a great country to live in, that make us this great pluralistic society. You know, having lived in the UK for about five years, they can just arrest everybody I know because they're all racist. If they're hatred filled, not all that's an overstatement, but man, oh man, this is lots. This is very lots, extremely lots. Or as the the marketplace guy would say, gajillions. He keeps saying he said it again the other day.

26:52 Second clip. So again we want to know about the line, how do you cross the line into extremism, which again has not been defined by Ms. May. But the reason we're doing this is first of all because we do need I think to ensure that we are together as one society, we are one nation, we are working to ensure... Speaking with one voice? Is that speak with one voice? Is that like a Nazi reference? One nation, speak with one voice. I have no idea. It is a reference. It's a reference to something. There will be different views within that nation. Of course there will be different views. Nobody is suggesting that different views cannot be expressed. Yes. But one of the reasons for looking at this issue... Exactly what they're saying. Yeah, you cannot, as long as you're in line with everybody else. ...of extremism, is the path down which it can lead people.

27:39 And what we can see often is that this extremist preaching, this message of hatred, this message of intolerance... My God! People should be up in arms about this! You should be able to hate someone. You should be able to divide. It's crazy. ...can actually lead down a path of radicalization... And what I'm trying to get you to define is At what point it strays into that area? At what point it doesn't become just a disagreement with you or me or the bloke next door or the woman next door. It becomes something that should worry us to the extent that it should be banned. That's what I'm trying to get at. And what... And by the way, he tries this eight or nine times. It was just boring. Her answers were funny because she never got to the answer. But I just wanted to pick up one. At what point does it qualify for being banned?

28:28 Obviously when we introduce the legislation which has these banning orders, one of the tasks in that legislation will be to ensure that we have the definitions. You don't know this? We have a definition of extremism which we have in our extremism strategy. But you're saying you'll know it when you see it, which is a bit unsatisfactory, isn't it? know it when we see it. Pelosi is all over the place. John, the whole process of introducing legislation in this country is that actually you start off with the principle of what we want to do which is to ensure that we can promote British values, the values that unite us as a society. It's a woolly phrase isn't it, promoting British values. You can't have legislation to promote British values can you? A law that says these are our values and if you don't agree with them then well, well what? You're going to jail? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

29:12 Yes, you nailed it! You promote British values in a legalistic sense. I think, I suspect that there are many people listening to this program who feel that actually we haven't as a society... This is the dangerous bit because of course there are lots of older British citizens who don't understand, they're mad about everything, the country is not the way it used to be, which always happens when you get older. And she's now talking directly to them. These people of course also vote and will go out and say, yeah, we're all for this. about the values that unite us as a society. But what does that mean? Forgive me for using the phrase again, but that's a bit woolly, isn't it? Positive. I mean, I could run out into the street now and you couldn't say, look, these are the values we all stand for. Wonderful, wonderful. Somebody else would come along and say, rubbish, I believe in something different. Now, at what point, and what I'm really puzzled by, is how you get to define the line, you draw the line at which you've crossed over that line, and it's unacceptable, legally unacceptable.

30:14 Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework. We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for... In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people. In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms. Protect their freedoms. Protect their freedoms. Protect their freedoms. You know, this legislation could be solely created just to arrest Nigel Farage. Now I think about it. I, I, yeah, I, I think that's a stretch. But I think he's part of the system. But I really, I really, probably, I really like the, uh, the getting permission to post on social networks. I think that's fantastic. You guys think that's the way it ought to be. UK is way ahead of the game. Good work. I have people should be protesting, be roaming the streets out of pissed off them.

CHAPTER 08 / 37 Discussion

Prince Charles Black Spider Letters, Royal Neutrality

The release of the "Black Spider" letters reveals Prince Charles's active lobbying of government ministers on issues ranging from military equipment in Iraq to alternative medicine. The correspondence suggests Charles may become a more activist monarch than Queen Elizabeth II, challenging the traditional neutrality of the British sovereign.

prince charles· black spider letters· queen elizabeth· tony blair· neutrality

31:15 Well, I think something's up with the...or in the UK, it's always something's up. But I had this...I've got this clip which is about neutrality. There's a thing called neutrality when it comes to the royal family. And the idea is that they will not get involved in public affairs taking care of by the... Is this about the Prince Charles emails or letters? Yeah, this is what I want to play. I'm glad you looked at that because I didn't. Because one of the things that seems to be... I think that this is a foreboding. This was... The only reason that this is a news story, because to me it's not, is to warn everybody that we're getting an activist monarch coming your way.

32:01 And he's not going to be like Queen Elizabeth, who's done a good job of kind of staying out of it unless she has to come in. And we know that she does. And I didn't know, but she has a meeting, weekly meeting with the prime minister. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I knew this. And things are discussed. But this guy looks like he's a little more...he's not like the guy who's just going to sit there and let things go. He seems to me like an activist and I think that's what they're trying to tell us in this clip. Hi, well this was about neutrality, Jenna, and of course the letters show that Prince Charles is not neutral at all, but a lot of people here, commentators, are arguing that that is not necessarily a bad thing. That at least he's not a dissolute heir to the throne or a party prince. He is someone, they say, who is quite passionate about a number of issues, from the British armed forces to hill farming,

33:10 to architecture and alternative medicine. There were no surprises in as much as these were all areas the public knew Prince Charles was very interested in. Now spokespeople for the Prince of Wales at Clarence House have said that he cares deeply about this country and tries to use his unique position to help others. The notes were ominously called the Black Spider letters. But just because of the wispy handwriting the prince is famous for, most of what has been released, kind of disappointingly, has been typed up. The 27 letters went out to different government ministers years ago, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair. In one, Charles pleads the case for better equipment for troops in Iraq, saying he fears Britain's armed forces are, quote, being asked to do an

33:54 extremely challenging job without adequate resources. In other letters he lays out ways he thinks the government could better help British farmers. Now in Britain the sovereign as well as the heir are expected to be above the fray but the Queen does have weekly meetings with the Prime Minister and Prince Charles will too. Being from the future I can put something in the book for you. William is going to be the king but Prince Charles will not be the next king. You think so? Why is this? Unfortunate polo accident. Well, that would be in line with the British monarchs. The way of doing things. To kill somebody off. Yeah, it's very common throughout history. We always ignore history.

CHAPTER 09 / 37 Discussion

Seymour Hersh Osama Bin Laden Report, Narrative Inaccuracies

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh publishes an explosive report in the London Review of Books claiming the official account of the Abbottabad raid is false. Hersh alleges that a Pakistani intelligence "walk-in" betrayed Bin Laden's location for a $25 million bounty and that the subsequent firefight was a staged fabrication for political gain.

seymour hersh· osama bin laden· abbottabad· cia· barack obama· zero dark thirty

34:38 When we all as the mod we're in 2015 something like that would never happen This that was in the 1600s. Yes, I'm glad you bring that up because I am dumbfounded Then I actually had dinner last night with my ex New York banker friend there who of course is an Obama bought an all-in And what does he start off with what does he start guffawing and laughing about right away? Republicans? Seymour Hersh. Oh, well we got plenty on that. That's why I wanted to bring it up because and I want you to lead it off. The thing that bothers me is no matter... this is all Obama bots, all Democrats, but they're all in on this guy being a conspiracy theorist, but he's a Pulitzer Prize winner.

35:29 Well, he's also highly regarded. Yeah, but there's off the rails. He'd completely not. He's in wing nut. Oh my God. See what happened to see what they poisoned him. Not for one second. Has anyone said, Hmm, maybe there's something to it. Okay. The story is there's a couple of angles in this. It goes in different directions. First of all, Explain the background of the story. Well actually I have a background clip here. I love it. Summary intro I'm presuming. More insults. Summary intro I'm presuming.

36:04 That would be that would be it. More sources are confirming a key claim in an explosive story challenging the Obama administration's account of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported this weekend a former Pakistani intelligence officer disclosed bin Laden's location to the CIA. Hersh said U.S. claims that found bin Laden by tracking his personal courier were false. NBC News confirmed Hirsch's claim of the informant through three different intelligence sources. Now, the Pakistani newspaper, The News, reports Pakistani officials are also acknowledging the story and have identified the officer as Usman Khalid. Hirsch's story says the officer received a $25 million bounty and is now living under U.S. protection near Washington. Carlotta Gall, a New York Times reporter who spent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is also now claiming she heard from a high-level Pakistani source that Pakistan was hiding bin Laden and later that an officer had told the CIA. Gall says she did not publish the story because she could not corroborate it in the United States.

37:02 Meanwhile, national security blogger R.J. Hillhouse is pointing out she reported some of Hersh's key claims four years ago. Wow, they're already going down to bloggers, huh? In August 2011, Hillhouse wrote on her blog that the informant who led the CIA to bin Laden was a walk-in. in seeking financial compensation, and that Pakistani officials were keeping bin Laden under house arrest with Saudi financial support. Before you give your analysis, John, I have three quick clips that I think provide even more background and also a little bit of the mockery of Seymour Hersh. as he appeared on Anderson Cooper's program on CNN. So I thought I'd just play those, if you don't mind. So, Mr. Hersh, you assert that the official American version of what happened to Osama bin Laden is almost entirely false. You said that the Pakistanis were hiding bin Laden, that they knew about the raid, that there was no firefight in the compound, that the Saudis were fronting bin Laden's expenses, that the U.S. didn't bury bin Laden at sea, they tossed it.

37:58 what remained of his body basically outside, out of the helicopter. What motive would the U.S. have for lying about this? And not just the U.S., but the Pakistanis and the Saudis. Most of what you said is pretty much what I write. In this most recent article of mine and all I can tell you Is as far I think the simple way to describe it The president our president did authorize the raid the seals carried it out They did kill bin Laden. They got in and out successfully and the rest of it is sort of hogwash and here is the the conspiracy mean but but why I mean why Would there be this, what you're alleging is a massive conspiracy involving what would have to be dozens of people. This is impossible! How could it ever happen? I love this one. So many people were involved. Somebody would have leaked it. It can't be true. In three different countries that has sustained itself until now, what would be the motive for setting up this elaborate hoax? Hoax! The critical thing, Anderson,

38:59 that happened is that we weren't supposed to go public with the raid. The deal with Pasha and Kiani and the rest of the staff of the upper reaches of the Pakistani military community was that the SEALs were going to go in, kill this guy, grab the body, take it out, seven to 10 days—I've had two different numbers—and Later, the president—we were going to announce—President Obama was going to announce that, oh, my God, we did a drone strike in Waziristan, the sort of no-man's land between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Hindukush Mountain area. We did a drone strike. And, my God, we saw this big guy. He looked familiar. We took pictures. We took DNA. We got bin Laden.

39:41 Instead, the night of the raid, the president, for the only thing the people talked to me—obviously, military and intelligence people—their belief is he did it for political purposes. I don't know what was in the president's mind. He announced and said immediately that we got him. Look, there are plenty of people who share your skepticism, but in this situation, I mean, there are actual members of SEAL Team 6, Matt Bissonette, Robert and Neil, who have gone public, have said that the raid did in fact happen basically as the government said. Their comrades put their lives at risk, were shot at in the compound, there were bullet holes all over the place. Are you saying they're lying? I'm saying—I can tell you one thing I don't know about O'Neill. O'Neill said we went in thinking we were going to die, which I think is a great exaggeration. And Bissonetti, who also wrote the book, I think, No Easy Day or something like that, certainly was not telling the truth about that, absolutely. I think that his book was—there was a lot of stuff interesting in his book, but there was a lot of stuff, operational stuff, that everybody, most of his fellow SEALs sort of laugh at. All right. I'll skip the third clip. That one was longer than I wanted it to be.

40:42 Actually, I heard Hirsch on Democracy Now! and they let him talk. And he said the same kind of things. He's kind of fine-tuning it. But he talks too long. But I do have a short clip of him giving a kind of a similar to one you just played but kind of explaining what happened was that Obama And it makes sense. I mean, I don't see why Cooper can't see the logic. The political, the political re, that is so obvious. We even on the shows, oh, this is coincidental. We killed the dead guy again just before, you know, we're ramping up for the reelection. Right. That would be one thesis. And there's none of this happened in any way. We have, and we also have the two seals who both claim to have killed Obama, which people just don't. Which by the way, seals, they're not football spikers, you know?

41:32 That's another thing. We had the Pentagon colluding with Hollywood on Zero Dark Thirty. We never had photos of the burial at sea or anything. We had a lot of internet memes. Play Hirsch yacking. He said, as you said in the introduction, there was a firefight and Bin Laden was killed in it. That's to cover the idea that it was an out-and-out murder. And he said also in the fight—he also said a treasure trove of material was recovered. We have yet to see it, and I raised a lot of questions about what was covered, what was collected. At one point, the SEALs were said to have taken 15 computers out of there. But if you read everything that was written, it also was written and said many times there was no Internet connection in Abbottabad. There was no sign of any operational capability of bin Laden at all.

42:22 And one of the problems with protecting the walk-in, when you had to protect the walk-in—one of the reasons you didn't want to talk about a walk-in was you don't do that. And so, we had to protect that. You mean the guy who revealed to the U.S. walking into the U.S. Embassy? Yeah. Yeah, they call him a walk-in. And the president actually said in his speech, we had a lead in—he said, we had a lead in August of 2010, which, really, for a lot of people in the intelligence community, that was too close to the mark. A lead means something specific happened then. And that's when the walk-in went to see a guy named Jonathan Banks, the station chief, a very competent guy from everything I hear, the station chief for the CIA in Islamabad. And we had a call, and lie detector people from Washington had a fly in to debrief the guy, conclude he was telling the truth.

43:09 It was a big piece of evidence. Anyway, but you have to get around that story. You create the courier story, that the CIA, with brilliant work, and initially they wanted to say through enhanced interrogation, found out about a courier who led them to bin Laden. That is such a—that is really an outrageous story. And they sold it to a movie called—what was it? Zero Dark Thirty. Zero Dark—that was the thesis of the movie that also included the torture element. Absolutely not so. All right, John, your analysis. Well, there's a couple of things going on. One is the possibility this whole thing was a misdirection. He was fed all this information and wrote a very long article with some pretty juicy stuff in it. It was very...and a more logical explanation. But the problem I have with the story besides the potential of it being

CHAPTER 10 / 37 Discussion

R.J. Hillhouse Plagiarism Allegations, Bin Laden Death Theories

Blogger R.J. Hillhouse claims Seymour Hersh lifted the core thesis of his Bin Laden report from her 2011 blog post. While the media uses these allegations to discredit Hersh, the discussion explores the possibility that Bin Laden died years prior to the 2011 raid and that the entire event was a managed intelligence operation.

r.j. hillhouse· seymour hersh· plagiarism· intelligence· walk-in

44:03 kind of planted with him to keep us, keep this Obama killed by the Seals at this moment alive when it's possibly he was already dead. is the fact that he, and he talks about this, I couldn't reclip it because it was just part of a longer exposition. He does discuss that, oh, and they've accused me of plagiarism. By the way, I sent you the two links. I got the links, yeah, in the show notes. There's this woman that was mentioned in the earlier piece named R.J. Hillhouse, who's a very screwy person. And she's like an independent contracting spy of some sort. And she wrote the main points that are discussed by Hirsch were discussed by her on August 7th of 2011 in an article she wrote on her blog, which is called The Spy Who Billed Me. And the blog is mostly about outsourcing spy work.

45:05 And this blog, which is titled, Ben Laden Turned In By Informant Courier, was cover story. This was in 2011. And in here, the main points that Hirsch makes are made by her. They're made by her in a blog post, which is probably... six hundred words long not ten thousand and and it's done in a kind of a no agenda style of snide you know uh... ridiculing the snide in the obvious question are we very sure this is this was posted in two thousand eleven and i think that i would mention that i would mention that that is possible this was posted later but the way it will well she claims and i think there's a i i i will believe that this is true because she claims that

45:48 In 2011, and I guess there's some documents we could look into, it was some people were pointing to it. Because Hirsch says he never saw this article, doesn't know anything about it. So now they're not only...they're gonna brand him a conspiracy theorist, but also a plagiarist. You might as well just chop the guy's head off. The problem is it's not plagiarism. Okay. It's lifting a thesis. It's not plagiarism in any way. Plagiarism is when you copy somebody. Copy somebody, verbatim, yeah. And I think then he was irked about being called a plagiarist already, and then it was then people kind of ignored the rest of the story, which is that maybe he's not a plagiarist, but he lifted the thesis. Regardless, this little bitch fest results in obfuscating what I believe to be the case

46:36 that bin laden died many many years ago he's been dead and just being held up as a boogeyman for the right moment before you know ever since 9-11. I think there's evidence of that but there it you i think to look at you want to look into something you have to get a hold of like did somebody get 25 million dollars or a portion of it yeah uh which Everybody seems to say they somebody did you want to see the we want to find out the guy over there in the bottom? Bod no he's oh no he's an outside of Washington DC now With a Ferrari that's the guy you want yeah look for the Ferrari standing driving around a fancy car driving uber

47:11 But she comes to all her conclusions by looking at what we do, which I kind of admired, the logic of some of the stuff. And let me just read a paragraph from this particular post. The cooperation was why there were no troops in Abbottabad. They were all pulled out. It had seemed very far-fetched to me that a helicopter could crash and later be destroyed in an area of high military concentration without the Pakistanis noticing. We discussed this during the interview. But then it seemed even wilder to believe that a US Navy SEAL, Dev Grew, actually shot a woman who rushed them in the leg. Yeah, right, I know these guys. The only way they'll shoot a woman in the leg is if they are double tapping a head or chest and the leg got in the way. Dev Grew shoots to kill. Agreed.

47:59 Yeah, and anyway, this is the kind of thing that she's doing. She says the cover story was going to be a drone strike in Pakistan, which is all again reiterated by Hirsch. Things went south when the helicopter crashed. The White House freaked and the cooperating Pakistanis were thrown under the bus. And it was obvious, it was logical to... And you can imagine, I've always had the sense that Obama is not the kind of guy who you could fully trust in some really elaborate operation in terms of not throwing you under the bus to get his, get an advantage.

48:37 I could look into the August 7, 2011 posting, see if it was past posted, but I get the sense that it wasn't. Mainly because of the sight, she seems really adamant, but she is kind of a freelance spy herself and she'd probably do anything for money. But Hersh is staking his reputation and what's left of it on...and Hersh is...I'm a fan of this guy, but he's done huge stories. Huge. But this one is just... Yeah, I'm a fan of this guy too. Now, I think he was... I think this was a setup in some way. Much... I don't even know... This may have been given to him on a silver platter. I have no idea. But we know that intelligence agencies do that with all these writers. Well, I mean, I haven't paid attention to his... What is it? What's the name of it? Whowhatwhere.com, I think is his blog.

CHAPTER 11 / 37 Discussion

Media Mockery of Seymour Hersh, Peter Bergen Critique

CNN and other major outlets mock Seymour Hersh's report, with Anderson Cooper and Peter Bergen dismissing his claims as "performance art" and "conspiracy theory." White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest joins the dismissal, while the hosts suggest Hersh may have been set up to destroy his professional reputation.

anderson cooper· peter bergen· cnn· conspiracy theory· josh earnest

49:27 Maybe they were just annoyed by him in general, just get this guy out of the way. Let me just play this quick clip. I don't think just to hear... See, I don't believe that either. I don't think they're getting him out of the way. This is not... The amount of damage to his reputation is minor. And you have this woman who nobody knows, Darja Hillhouse, nobody reads her blog. It's just not, it'll just blow over. In fact, the whole thing will blow over. I think even the White House in there, I have a White House clip on this. Is this Josh Earnest? Joshie. I can tell you that the Obama White House is not the only one to observe that the story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.

50:18 The former deputy director of the CIA, Mike Morrell, has said that every sentence was wrong. And... You stop right there. There's another one that comes up after that. Every sentence was wrong. That's not even a possibility in any dimension. But saying every sentence was wrong doesn't mean it was inaccurate. No. If you think about it. But there is... Oh my God, this is, you know, it's like they say something, it's an assertion of some sort, and they say, oh, this is wrong, this is wrong, they shouldn't say that. Oh, that's wrong. That's wrong. Oh no, they said bad things. That's wrong. I'm going to agree with you that it was not set up to discredit Hirsch, but I think the media is very happy about that and it makes everybody happy to turn him into a kook because without fail, this is being called a conspiracy theory. The only thing worse is to call someone a Republican. That is what is being said about him.

51:15 And I'm just surprised, he went off into his own little independent venture. Well, I find it, I'm surprised that you have Democrats like the banker, because you get the sense that Amy Goodman is not thinking that way on democracy now. They just give him talk, here you go, take as much time as you want. But the Democrats that were... He's upset by the My Lai massacre, which is where he got his start, by revealing that. And his mostly, during the Bush administration, condemning Bush's, you know, everything from the Patriot Act and on, and Cheney. I mean, Hirsch was just...Hirsch is actually anti-administration, no matter who was in there. But during this little period where he sounded really nutty...

52:07 They're all in, oh this guy, look, he's proven that Bushism is horrible. He's dumb. He's dumb, he's smart, he's dumb, he's smart. Oh, I should have remembered that. Yes. I see, he's the only guy who said George W. Bush is dumb. Yeah, he's dumb, but he's a genius. He's an evil genius. Well, no, it's Cheney. The whole thing was ridiculous, but nobody was criticizing Hirsch then, but, oh, say something bad about Obama or Obama lied. Oh my God, the guy's a kook. He's a conspiracy theorist. I think this is more a function of these Obama bots. But here's, so Anderson Cooper does this interview with Hirsch, then he brings on their expert

52:47 This is, I think, Peter Bergen. Of course, he's a Brit. You see, if you want it to sound credible, you gotta have an English accent. Then, to me, oh yes, he must be right. Peter, you've heard what Cy Hersch had said tonight and also in the article. And I'll remind you, Anderson Cooper worked at the CIA. He's got a tremendous history as a journalist. He's broken important stories years ago. What do you make of this one? Notice that years ago, back when he wasn't, before he was insane, years ago. That was a good catch. He's broken important stories years ago. What do you make of this one? That's all true, Anderson. But I mean, the firefight that took place at the Bin Laden compound is just sort of incontrovertibly true. The idea that this was some kind of piece of performance art cooked up by the United States and the Pakistanis is not, there's no evidence for that. He also never said performance art, but I like the discredit to Peter Bergen. In fact, there's a lot of countervailing evidence. You mentioned in your interview

53:36 You have the two seals on the record explaining about the firefights I saw with my own eyes. The damage that this very violent raid inflicted on the compound before it was demolished. He's saying there were no other shots fired other than the shots that killed Bin Laden. That's right. And you know, that's just, I mean... Hear this? This is it. This is the mockery. This is the mockery. You saw bullet holes. Who is this guy again? He said they're experts. Peter Bergen, Brit. He was probably also an engineer before he... Put him in front of the camera. I mean, you know, there was quite an intense exchange of fire with one of the bodyguards. Which now the guy's talking like he was there and this is all true. I don't know, dozens of bullet holes in one of the houses in the compound before they even got to Bin Laden. So, you know, that sort of factual element just is we can set aside. Factual. There was a firefight. This wasn't some sort of setup between the US and the Pakistanis.

54:30 As he as which is one of the principal claims of the police. Shut up, Slade. Shut up. Fine. I agree. I think I think it was duped. It was duped. But it was all just to keep the the Osama bin Laden is alive meme going. No, you mean dead. No, that he was still alive and then they killed him. Oh yeah, that he was still alive at the time, as opposed to already being dead for years. And how many SEALs died in that helicopter accident who were apparently there, then the SEALs crashed? Well, they were there when the first story came out, they were there. Then the second story about it, they weren't there. They were a different group.

55:12 The whole thing is messed up. Yeah, there's too many, you know, there's like and I think the her point about This woman being shot in the leg. Yeah Well taken yes a few other one of these but again, these were these were not much of it wasn't she doc she said she had some people in the in the intelligence community that told her this story and It's a good thing to read. It's a very short piece, like 600 words. And she says, begins with, forget the cover story of waterboarding leads to courier leads to bin Laden, not to deny the effectiveness of waterboarding. So she's all in on that. Right. It's just not applicable. Sources in the intelligence community tell me after years of trying and one bureaucratically insane near miss in Yemen, the U.S. government killed OBL because a Pakistani intelligence officer came forward to collect approximately $25 million reward.

56:08 in the Rewards for Justice program. We talked about that. Rewardsforjustice.net. Yeah. All right. So we remain fans of Hirsch. Yeah. But we think he was duped. It can happen. Happens to us all the time. Of course it can happen to anybody. Yeah, of course. And why did this run in the London book review? No one else would publish it. That's what I heard. The New York Times wouldn't publish it. No one wanted it. Why don't... well, that's another... that's very suspicious because this guy's money. So it's like, you know, these... it's like these valuable football players, you know, they get kicked off of one team and everybody just clamors for them because it's money. You got a Hirsch article, you make out. I mean, you get your name out there, the people... he gets a lot of attention, we know that. And this was a good story. Even though it is likely untrue,

57:05 I do like the fact that we're so badass we just kick the bits and pieces of the guy out of the helicopter. That's the story I like. Well, Hirsch talks about this. I think somebody else did too. Get the bitch out! That he was not only shot, he wasn't shot in the head, but he was shot throughout the body to the point where his neck was severed and his head was off. And one of his arms, I guess, fell off. Because he was just riddled with these... machine gun fire or whatever they were using. And so he was just, they had to put him down here in a suitcase to... And her head is gone. To get him out of there. That's very colorful. All right. No other conclusion?

57:49 Not really. I don't know how long this is. I don't think this has that much leg. Well, one thing's for sure, from this day forward, whenever Cy Hirsch has a breaking story, it'll be preceded by, you know, the conspiracy theorists about Osama bin Laden not being killed the way it was. Yeah, that guy has a story. It's going to be... You know, one of the reasons, if you read that second article, the more recent article by this woman, bitching about her being ripped off, She says, and it's a very funny article because apparently Hirsch claims you can't really use the internet that well because you would have discovered this article, she says. I'm thinking, which leads me to believe that this might have been something of a setup because

58:37 Hirsch as and any me for example if I was gonna write this story And I had run across this woman's article which pretty much says much the same thing doesn't talk about a lot of the stuff He discusses, but the main thesis is all here. You would have read credit her of course of course you just say oh and and so on so this is this isn't even new this was first discussed in 2011 by RJ Hill house, and you're done And that's what you do to get around, if you're lifting as a writer, if you're lifting somebody else's idea and you want to expound upon it, expand upon it, you want to say, well, she's got some of this, most of this right, but she's not talking enough and there's not enough details here. You credit her and then you go into the stuff you want to write about and you're clear. And the fact that he knows that and he knows how to do that, and everybody does,

CHAPTER 12 / 37 Discussion

Radiotopia Knight Foundation Grant, Public Radio Capitalism

The Knight Foundation invests $1 million in the Radiotopia podcast network, signaling a shift toward commercial models in public radio. Ira Glass expresses hope for public radio to embrace capitalism and the free market, a move the hosts argue will compromise editorial integrity and destroy the traditional listener-supported model.

radiotopia· knight foundation· ira glass· npr· podcasting· capitalism

59:31 He would have done it. He didn't do that. So I get the sense that something else was up here. He was set up. Yeah, he's too much of a pro to let this sort of thing happen to him. All right. Anyway, before we get to our opening credits, I did want to mention something that popped into the news feed about the Radiotopia. This is the podcast network. Another one well. No this is the one that has mmm. What do you call it? Cereal is in here and the 99% invisible yeah, right so the night foundation

1:00:14 has invested, is the title, one million dollars in, so they've donated that I presume, to Radiotopia. So he's a podcasting network who just received a million dollars from the Knight Foundation. What is interesting about this is what you're seeing now is the people who make this public radio programming, this also includes American Life, and all of this is commercial companies that make this. They sell it through the National Public Radio Foundation, who then distribute it to radio stations. We know that they all have advertising up front, and they're doing live reads, and they're going way above and beyond anything that NPR

1:00:59 can do on the radio by law, by the definite, their statutes. That's how they receive government funding and how they remain non-profits. But now you're seeing these guys are also hyped up and excited that, saying, hey, it's time for capitalism to come to public radio. We need advertising. Yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you the, who said this? It was Ira Glass. My hope is that we can move away from a model of asking listeners for money and join the free market. Public radio is ready for capitalism. Great! Ira Glass, he's an old public radio hack from forever, and he would do that? That's just a sellout. It's a big sellout. The interesting... You can't expect their information to be accurate if they're going to have a bunch of advertisers. This is the point. Thank you. Thank you.

1:01:54 I love this shift, by the way. It's making Lee Masters, Bjarrel Morn, my old buddy from MTV who is now the CEO of NPR, it's put in a difficult position for him because if these guys are taking money off the table, then nothing goes to the stations. And by the way, a million bucks or two million bucks, whatever you have, I'm going to be very honest here. You think you're going to build a podcasting network. It doesn't work. There's no reason for networks anymore. There's absolutely, there's no value add. You don't control the distribution. You can only help by providing services. You don't have a bunch of CBS affiliates. If you do central ad buying, by definition, the creators, as they call them now, we're a podcast creator.

1:02:42 They don't get the full amount because, in fact, they'll get a very small amount of it because the network needs to, you know, they employ people. I've done this. We spent $50 million and couldn't do it. It doesn't work anymore. There's no value add. Zero value add. This will fail. Now, if you pull each individual piece out and these become producer, listener supported. And with supported should not only just be financed, but also really the way our show works. We have, I mean, it's collaboration. We're miles ahead of these Yahoo's by the way. We've got artists, we've got jingle producers, we've got a financial support, we've got information. We have a network of experts which we could sell to any outlet and make our producers rich. By the way, this is a business that is booming.

1:03:31 But we don't choose to do that because we don't want to be compromised. Now, will you still be able to be multi-millionaire doing a podcast? No. No. Those days are over. It's over for most entertainment. We've talked about this many times. They said Puddle's pity party. Well, there's him, of course. So, but I encourage it. Please, please go commercial. Go to capitalism, please. Because it's going to destroy public radio. Yeah, well, you know what the problem with public radio to me because I watched it as it got from or went from cut from when it went from actual listener support to underwriting to now these what are essentially advertisements and the thought that they're advertisements, the consideration that they're advertisements as we have from that clip where the head of the NPR

CHAPTER 13 / 37 Discussion

No Agenda Executive Producer Credits, Knighting Ceremony

The hosts thank top producers, including Seth Griffin and Sir Chase, who promotes his "Trailing Stops" financial app. Meteorologist James Spann is acknowledged for his support, and the segment concludes with the announcement of a knighting ceremony for John Fletcher following his "Fletcher Fest" initiative.

seth griffin· john fletcher· trailing stops app· james spann· donations

1:04:27 Interchanges the word advertising for underwriting. Yeah, where is that clip whatever you want to call it? Yeah, where is that is the reference? Yeah? Bag does it's been so long since we've played that I don't know where it is. No good dig it up So we play sometime. Yeah, let's thank a few people that are well. You can't do that You can't do that. Why? Because I first have to thank you for your courage. Oh! And say in the morning to you- I always forget to get thanked. In the morning to you John C, where the C stands for Capitalism, Dvorak. In the morning to you Adam Curry, in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feedin' the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to all of our native advertisers in the chatroom.

1:05:10 That would be, because they do provide native advertising for the program, our human resources, noagendastream.com. Either morning to Sarcast Squatch, new artist on the scene who provided the artwork for episode 720. And Martin JJ provided the artwork for the newsletter. Great work, I like this Sarcast Squatch. So sketchy. He's a pro, you can tell. In fact, we looked at his website, which is linked from the show notes on 720, and he is a pro. That's what he does for a living. So we really appreciate that. Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can submit, where you can look at all of the art, where you can download it, print it, whatever you want to just enjoy it. A lot of it's just funny. Funny to look at. Very, very enjoyable. I agree. I agree.

1:06:00 So let's thank a few people who are the producers and executive producers and associate executive producers for this show. In this case, we have three executive producers and nobody else. It wasn't the best of weeks, but it was, you can get by. Seth Griffin, of course, gave us 550 bucks from South Elgin, Illinois. Dear John and Adam, I received John's letter about the elites wanting us to eat bugs, and I'm donating $550 out of spite for their outrageous contempt. I love bugs! Bugs, bugs, bugs!

1:06:42 Please enjoy a tomahawk steak on me. Thank you. And feel free to pass on the caterpillar mashed potatoes. I also believe that this brings my total contribution to the level of knighthood. Thank you so much for all the hard work. Keep it up. It does indeed. Sincerely, Seth Griffin. It does indeed. Today we also shall be knighting John Fletcher. for his Fletcher Fest initiative, which was very successful. Everyone downloading the Fletcher Fest shouts from the 720 show notes, 720.knowagenthenotes.com. And thank you, Seth. And I'm looking forward to seeing you at the round table. Also coming in with $400 from the DC area, Sir Chase. ITM to you and the fantastic producers of the No Agenda Show. I'm a long-time listener who's pulled time and funds together with friends to produce a financial mobile app. It's geared toward people with stock portfolios. The app allows you to easily apply and track a trailing stop for each stock.

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1:08:20 You've got karma. I know how hard that is. And finally, for $345.67, one of my favorite donations, James Spann in Birmingham, Alabama. I host a podcast called Weather Brains and happen to be an AMS certified meteorologist. Okay. You guys are spot on when it comes to climate change. I got a clip for that today. I also want to call out the news anchor that works for with me Dave Baird as a douchebag Loves the show nice. There's a lot of meteorologists that Know it's oh yeah. Oh, yeah, very it's not uncommon. Let's put it that way and that's it That's all we got I want to remind people do a show coming up on Sunday. It's a short list goodness No is no associate execs No

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CHAPTER 14 / 37 Discussion

Hurricane Drought Statistics, CNN Preparedness Narrative

CNN reports on a record nine-year "hurricane drought" in the United States, noting that no Category 3 or higher storm has made landfall since 2005. Despite the lack of scientific explanation for the lull, the report emphasizes the need for continued fear and preparedness, while the hosts clarify that Sandy was a superstorm, not a hurricane.

hurricanes· cnn· climate change· hurricane wilma· superstorm sandy

1:10:10 Hey citizens! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! Alright, since it came up, since we have, uh... Since we have, uh... We just discussed some of the, uh... climatology, weatherology, and agenda 21-ology. We have two things to listen to. One is this report from CNN. We've been talking about this for many, many years, about the lack of hurricanes, which were all predicted as part of initially global warming. Oh, it's going to be all nonstop level five hurricanes. Now, these were all predicted, so they don't fit in with the predictive models.

1:10:51 What I like very much about this report, and this is one of those things they put on the website where it's not just a news anchor talking and giving you the story, but they do it from side angles. And in this case, she is looking ahead. It's kind of like an in-studio kind of thing. It's very produced. You'll be surprised by what actually has thwarted or not enabled the hurricanes as expected according to the models. It may be hard to believe, but we have not had a major hurricane. We're talking about a category three or higher.

1:11:27 strike the US in the past nine years. That's the longest hurricane drought ever. The second longest drought we had was back in 1861 to 68. That drought lasted eight years. The American Geophysical Union did a study to try to find out what causes these hurricane droughts and how often we may have them. They found that that it's likely to happen only once every 177 years. But what's more impressive is that they couldn't find any link to scientific evidence of why this happens. It basically boils down to luck. So the last major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma. That was back in 2005. That doesn't mean we haven't had destructive storms since. Hurricane Sandy. We've also had Ike that impacted the Gulf Coast.

1:12:15 Oh, by the way, it was not Hurricane Sandy. That has to stop. It was Superstorm Sandy. It was not a hurricane. We've had some major damage from storms since 2005, but we haven't had any with a category three or higher intensity. Always remember that the hurricane drought can end at any time. Be afraid! It's always important to be prepared. Be prepared! Be afraid! Alright, I don't like the laughing kid. It's creepy. It's creepy. It's just creepy. I don't want to hear the laughing kid. It's creepy. Okay, can I have it do some talking? You always make me happy. What is this? Is this a doll that you're pulling the string on? No, it's actually an electric bear called Little Bear that talks. Yeah, you know, I'm going to start agreeing with people who are wondering if you have the onset of dementia. This is a very good day.

CHAPTER 15 / 37 Discussion

John Christie Climate Model Testimony, Funding Cuts

Atmospheric scientist John Christie testifies before Congress, presenting data that shows 102 climate models failed to accurately predict actual atmospheric temperatures since 1979. The discussion suggests that recent scientific "backpedaling" on climate change may be linked to $340 million in research funding cuts by Republicans.

john christie· ipcc· climate models· c-span· global warming

1:13:07 Now we go to the Hill. That would be where Congress convenes in the United States of Gitmo Nation. Atmospheric scientist John Christie was, and of course this is set up by GoMert and this will not be shown anywhere, you will not hear of this even though it happened, he pulled out the climate models, all I think 102, 120 climate models that are computer models developed by the IPCC which are the basis for the the fear of everybody dying because of man-made global warming, thus climate change.

1:13:43 Very very interesting presentation only on your no agenda show I am one of the few people that actually builds these climate data sets from scratch So that we can see what the real climate is doing. Well, I understand you may have a slide that compares I love how it's so set up. I understand you have a slow me to slide man. You're not doing it right various climate models Yes A lot of targeted monitors there. So this is a target. That is the trend in the atmospheric temperature that has happened since 1979. That's the target that you want to hit with your climate model. So it's like we give someone 102 bullets to shoot at that target. Okay, go to the next one. And that's what they got.

1:14:30 that not a single one of these climate model projections was able to hit the target. That is the basis though on which the policy is being made, is on those climate models, not on the evidence before us. Do you have another slide that... Hey man, hurry up with the presentation, I'm trying to make a point where the other slide... ...shows a difference in what's projected and what's real? Or this is the one you were showing a while ago? Yes, that... I think everyone here in this room can understand that slide. And I think they would understand something is wrong with the scientific theory we have about how greenhouse gases affect the climate. No one has said this slide is wrong. It's been a very good example of what we've seen.

1:15:17 from these models just blew a big hockey stick which we've all seen and then you see all the models that he's pulled together and they're very far from what has been predictable for over two years or over a year it took me a long time to build it because that's downloading 102 models and so on But that is the way I understand it. The extreme claims about climate change are based upon what those models, what that red line is showing and not on what the real world is actually doing. I'm shocked, shocked to find that climate data is being manipulated around here. There you go. You will not, by the way, it's worth looking at that clip. It's a C-SPAN clip. You can find it in the show notes so you can see the actual model. You can pass that around to people. They won't believe you anyway.

1:16:01 That's futile. Futile. It's the funny part about it. It's you just keep Al Gore began it, of course. You keep pounding and pounding, and Al Gore did it for the...to hopefully clean up on the cap-and-trade scam. And so you just keep pounding and pounding, and you get a group of people like the liberal Democrat types, the Bill Mahers, who's so all in on this, who have no scientific training whatsoever. None, zero. I don't even think he has a college degree. But you find these guys and you just and then you start pushing it more of this at them and then they pass it on to others who clap and it just gets worse and worse and you end up with just a bunch of robots.

1:16:50 that are jumping up and down, and, oh yeah, we're all gonna die, and how can anyone deny this? Hands clapping, thumbs up. That's right. 97% of all this, these memes just come blurting out of these people. I think the tipping point though is what we talked about on Sunday's show, where we're now seeing a kind of a safe zone that because of climate change denial and man-made global warming denial, a lot of scientists are backpedaling on their facts and their evidence, ball by, you know, we talked about the three different reasons, but all, you know, pressure and they don't want, you know, they feel like they're in the minority. Don't forget the real reason. The $340 million that was pulled by the Republicans from climate research

CHAPTER 16 / 37 Discussion

Verizon Acquisition of AOL, Broadband Subsidy Thesis

Verizon's $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL is analyzed as a strategic move to capture government broadband subsidies rather than an advertising play. By converting AOL's remaining 2 million dial-up customers to broadband, Verizon could potentially access billions in FCC funding intended to expand high-speed internet access.

verizon· aol· fcc· broadband subsidies· dial-up· tech news

1:17:37 Uh-oh, our money's going away. Let's clear our names. Ah, interesting. That, by the way, is also what I... I'm gonna do a little tech news without the jingle. This merger or acquisition of America Online by Verizon? Yeah. I think everyone's analysis is wrong. All right. What are they saying? It's buying the ad network, you know, we're putting content with the pipes. No, no. I believe this is purely for the dial-up customers and the $1.9 billion in broadband subsidy was made available by the FCC late last year.

1:18:34 $4.4 billion, not a lot of money to Verizon. Certainly if you can say, hey, we have 2 million customers they have or 2.5 million dial-up customers. Hey, we got these customers. We wouldn't mind having a little bit of broadband subsidy. And these guys, Verizon is known for taking this subsidy to build out their broadband network. I think it's totally all about the dial-up. That's an interesting thesis. Let me see what the... I don't know how you can prove the thesis, but it makes sense. Well, let's see what happens when they get to the... here it is. U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to shift $9 billion over five years from traditional telephone subsidies to broadband subsidies in an effort to bring high-speed internet services to 5 million U.S. residents who don't have access. Expand the network! That's the only profitable piece, I guess.

1:19:30 I don't know how HuffPo is doing and TechCrunch, who gives a crap, which will probably be spun out anyway. I just, I went looking for a reason pretty soon. I said, well, this makes total sense. Take a piece of that nine billion over five years, get your money back, expand your network, and then sell people all kinds of stuff. And you could probably, you're right, you can probably dump TechCrunch and the HuffPost for what there was paid for them at the beginning with was quite a bit, but you can probably dump them for a couple mil or bill, I mean, a couple of billion dollars because of the way things are going until the economy collapses. You know, somebody will buy them. Yeah. Now you may have beyond the sometime. I like it. I can't see why it wouldn't be that because there has to be better explanation for this than it did. Everybody in the tech

1:20:20 writing community, kind of looked at us, oh these guys are idiots, why are they doing this? They're an idiot, that's dumb. They never looked beyond that. Quick kind of analysis to me. It's just numbers when you acquire something particularly as a public company There's a lot of reasons to acquire something that has certain type of asset or if they're profitable Because it's all accretive to your to your numbers. I Co-ran a public company so I know about some of this certainly about acquisitions at 4.4 billion is really a

1:20:56 a joke. It's just, it's nothing. If you take into account that they do probably two to three hundred million dollars a year just on the dial-up. You know, there's a value to that. You assign a value to those customers. But again, it's just like, it'll pay for itself. We need people to get that funding for. You know, really, Verizon is basing their business, the future of their business on content and an ad network? Nah. Then you're idiots. How many times has that been done? It makes and it doesn't make any sense. That's what that's what the tech press was right about. This doesn't make any sense. Well, help me do the math for a second. If you have 20 million dial up customers paying $20, 20 million, I'm sorry, 2 million, two and a half million. We'll just take two, 2 million dial up customers paying about $20 a month, right? So how much is that a year?

1:21:50 Okay, that's what the $20 a month would be, $240 per customer, 240 times two would be 480 million. Right. What would you pay? What multiple would you pay on each subscriber? Well, if you play a multiple of 10x, that's your 4 billion right there. Thank you. That's it. Well, it's it, especially if you get the money from the government to convert these. these 2 million to 2 million broadband users, which has to be another, that's got to be worth probably $100 a head. I mean, a deal may be worth 40 billion if you... When you think of it, we look at it that way. Yeah.

1:22:35 I was just surprised to see this immediate analysis of, oh, it's all about mobile advertising. Mobile advertising is about, I'm almost ready to break my iPhone. Why do these websites, you know, Guardian and all, you know, they add these, buttons on about an inch of the bottom of your screen so you can share to Facebook and Twitter and email. I don't need this from you. The screen is already small. You're taking up this real estate. Now we have these slide over JavaScript ads popping up on mobile. It's useless.

1:23:13 It's useless. I have not seen a slide over Java. I saw one just yesterday. Just yesterday. Flash or whatever they're using to move probably JavaScript. Incredibly annoying. All right. But you won't hear that optional analysis, I don't think, anywhere. It just seemed these guys are known for taking the money and taking the money. They're known for doing it. And not in a pretty way, actually. Yeah. All right. Very good. We'll close out the segment. The only good phone's a landline. It's made out of Bakelite. There you go. And then came the news and then I wanted a clip and so I went to the best source I could find, an old favorite of this show who went away and we no longer play clips from him, Keith Olbermann.

1:24:00 on something that has irked us for a long time. We begin with an NFL scandal that in some respects is more cynical, more disturbing, and certainly more influential than Deflategate or Ray Rice or the tragedy of player brain trauma. The salutes to the troops, the flag-waving patriotic tributes by NFL teams at their games to active US military service personnel. Government records now reveal many of them, probably most of them, are bought and paid for by the U.S. military, by the Defense Department, most by the National Guard. They are not organic, spontaneous recognitions of personal sacrifice and valor. They are not a high-profile way of saying thank you. They are not the responses of one sport to the public mood. They are recruiting stunts, paid for with taxpayer dollars, your dollars, $5,400,000 of your taxpayer dollars just since 2011, given just to NFL teams who then waved the flag

CHAPTER 18 / 37 Discussion

Kim Jong-un Execution Reports, Media Sensationalism

Fox News and Democracy Now! report on the alleged execution of North Korea's defense minister via anti-aircraft gun for sleeping in a meeting. Monica Crowley and Gretchen Carlson are criticized for their speculative analysis of satellite imagery that provides no concrete evidence of the event.

kim jong-un· north korea· gretchen carlson· monica crowley· anti-aircraft gun

1:26:36 Good. It's so it's so Deutschland ish of us. Oh, yeah It really is the only dish they should do play Valkyries right at the Valkyries before each game and then bring in the military and some armbands for everybody Then we're good. Yeah. Well, they're gonna give the armbands are coming Man oh man There's a couple of things that went on. Let's play this. I want to get this kind of amusing. Here is the Democracy Now report that apparently Kim Jong-il had some... Yeah, this is another... At this point, I think...

1:27:16 No agenda producers and listeners alike are just rolling. I got it. I got the whole thing laid out. Here's the normal kind of normal, even though I think this is a bogus report. I think all these reports are bogus, but this one is the DNMK. It says NK execution. Play this. This will be the staging. of the next clip. Now, what I heard is that they shot him in public with a .50 cal. Well, that's where we're moving. So we're going to take this out of Democracy Now! Simple Report to the outrageous Gretchen Carlson and Monica, whatever her name is, the blondie that used to work for Nixon.

1:28:17 They have an analysis which not only goes beyond... First they have the bogus part of the story, which is what you just said. And then they decide they got time left. It's the block is like... It's the C block but they didn't have enough to fill it. Yeah, so they're gonna do a little analysis... And by the way, let me tell you what happens on set. There's a floor director standing next to the camera and he's with both hands he is pretending like he's stretching some saltwater taffy. Or they may even be in the prompter to say, stretch, stretch. Right? Well, that talk amongst yourselves. I mean, I think what it was, they had the segment, they gave the bogus story and then they brought Monica Crowley on and she is going to add color. And so she decides to go off the deep end with an analysis. And the analysis is so crazy. And then Gretchen, who's, I believe, is an idiot.

1:29:12 She goes, oh, that's fantastic. That's all. Now I understand the whole thing. Here we go. In the meantime, a new report from South Korea's spy agency revealing North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has publicly executed his defense minister with an anti-aircraft gun. Well, it's the man that you see right here. The alleged reason? Sleeping on the job. talking back and complaining about the young leader. Let's bring in Monica Crowley, online opinion editor for the Washington Times and a Fox News contributor. So I guess if you fall asleep in a meeting after serving your country for decades and decades, they off ya. Well this is how communist dictatorships behave. They operate by intimidation, fear and terror. This is not the first time Kim Jong-un or his father or his grandfather has publicly executed somebody who they thought

1:29:59 was being insubordinate to the regime or talking back or falling asleep allegedly in a meeting. This is how tyrannies behave, not a surprise. All right, I want to show our viewers a satellite image. This is of the execution site in North Korea. This comes from a human rights group. So apparently, Monica, they're able to capture, to say that this is where the public execution was when the anti-aircraft shots came in. Yeah, now usually when you see something like this from North Korea and we have very little intelligence and very little information about this regime, it's called the Hermit Kingdom for a reason. It's the most reclusive regime on the face of the earth. But if these reports are true, it indicates a couple of things to me. First of all, there could be some political chaos, maybe upheaval within the regime and he is really trying to consolidate power, send a shot across the bow to anybody who might be thinking about challenging him for power.

1:30:51 The other thing too is that most of the global news, Gretchen, has been concentrated on the Iranian nuclear talks and on Russia and Vladimir Putin's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine and elsewhere. It could be that now he's a little jealous that he is not the center of global attention. Also remember about a week ago he did a missile test and it got very limited. attention in the West and so now he's probably saying hey look I'm still here and one of the ways he tries to get global attention is by executing a member of his cabinet. Unbelievable. Monica Crowley, we have so much breaking news but thank you so much for your analysis. Makes nothing but sense. Unbelievable she says, Gregor says, unbelievable. It's great, yeah.

1:31:30 Unbelievable, but fantastic. Thank you so much. So we have two idiots just rambling on, making stuff up as they go along. None of it makes any sense, by the way. Then they have a satellite picture of the strike zone. They have a big satellite picture showing, by the way, it shows nothing. It doesn't show, it's just some distant satellite photo. Any blood or anything? No, it was like, it was so high up that it was like a, it just, it was like, It was bull crap. Just so here it is. Here's what happened. You don't know that. But like his like his other the what is the other guy he fed to the dogs which turned out to be not true. And there was a guy who was also killed by flamethrowers. Hmm. Lovely. Yeah, the dogs one was good too. Yeah. I wanted to move to the the USA Freedom Act.

CHAPTER 19 / 37 Discussion

USA Freedom Act, Corporate Data Retention

The USA Freedom Act is framed as a deceptive piece of legislation that ends government bulk data collection only to shift the responsibility to telecommunications companies. Under new cyber-sharing agreements, companies like FireEye are indemnified when sharing this retained data with the government, creating a less transparent spying apparatus.

usa freedom act· nsa· section 215· fireeye· edward snowden

1:32:22 which is another one of these interesting pieces of legislation we've been following. And I want to remind everybody that when it comes to Section 215 of the National Defense Authorization Act, that... When did Snowden come out? When did Snowden come out with his revelations? What year was that? Two years ago? It was two years ago. So that would be 2013? Let's take a look and get this correct. And the only reason I say this is just so you know, your NOAA agenda show on May 28th, 2011 registered section 215.org. That's how long we've been tracking this.

1:33:02 Now, I haven't kept it up to date because we got kind of tired of it after a while, but the bulk data collection from Section 215, we were talking about four years ago. John Maxwell Yeah, that's probably true. June 2013 is when they nailed Snowden. Adam Chapnick Right. So here we have... let me see, where do I put all of this? John Maxwell By the way, if you search for Ed Snowden, people also search for... Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Chelsea Manning, and... No agenda show! Anna Chapman. Oh. This is funny, there's some blonde or some redhead bombshell here. What is this connection? I would like to explain, and I think people appreciate this deconstruction of why the USA Freedom Act, which

1:34:00 stops the government collection of mass collection, bulk data, is a total setup for even more spying. Everybody, oh, this is great, you know, they're going to do away with this. No. And I have copies, of course, of the USA Freedom Act, which passed the House. I think the Senate is voting on it tomorrow? I don't know. Yeah, I think so. So it passed the House. And let me explain why this is only going to create more covert trolling of everybody's data. So the Act, and we discussed this when we saw the first draft, the Act takes the collection, no more collection by the government, however, the telecommunications companies will now save all of this data,

1:34:54 and we'll save it for an X amount of time, then access will be granted. Now, here's the thing that I find, where I think there's basically, they've set up a backdoor to everything. We have the cyber sharing agreement, which indemnifies any company from sharing their information with the government. And we have companies now, what was that, FireEye, who have already been pre-approved, it can all roll... The middlemen. The middlemen can go all through them, so you can't even blame these companies. To me it seems, this is perfect, this is beautiful! Oh no, we can't do bulk collection. But in the meantime, these companies have complete free range to hand over all that data to the government. It's like covering up the obvious.

1:35:52 Yeah, we talked about this in the last show. It's classic. It's totally classic. Yeah, not only that, but I think that was genius for the set up this little fire eye operation. And they did all this in the right sequence. So we've already forgotten about the Cyber Security Sharing Act. We've already gotten past that. No one really complained about the indemnification because why would we? Same for vaccine companies. Who gives a shit? If you die, you can't sue anybody, so what? The public doesn't even know what indemnification means. There's that. Oh, they indemnified? Okay, uh, does that mean they get, does that mean, is that free lunch or what does that mean? I don't know. Yeah.

1:36:31 So for everyone jumping up and down saying, oh, this is so fantastic. No, it's not. It just made it worse. It's completely untrackable. I don't even think there's reporting requirements, although companies will now be out there. Google is all in on this, by the way. Big blog post. Thank you so much for passing this. We love this idea. I bet you do. I bet you do. And along with this comes a report, and it's about cyber, but it's also about Iran. And it comes from one of our favorite guys. This time from Frederick Kagan, not Robert Kagan. And he works for the, what is it, AEI? That's, what is it, American? American Enterprise Institute. Yes.

CHAPTER 20 / 37 Discussion

Iranian Cyber Threat Report, Norse IPViking Map

Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute releases a report on the growing cyber threat from Iran, utilizing data from the cybersecurity firm Norse. The hosts critique the "IP Viking" live attack map as a marketing tool designed to secure government contracts by reclassifying routine port scanning as "cyber attacks."

frederick kagan· norse· ipviking· iran· cyber warfare· aei

1:37:19 And together with a guy named Tommy Stianson, who we'll find out who he is in a moment, created a report titled, The Growing Cyber Threat from Iran. Initial report of Project Pistachio Harvest. They're running out of ideas for code names. Pistachio Harvest. And collecting little nuts they have to open by hand. Wait until you hear who's involved in this. So the BBC interview, a lot of BBC today because you're right I was watching way too much MSNBC.

1:37:56 BBC does a big report on cyber warfare. I think the title was, is cyber warfare really that scary? They have a couple of people on and I pulled out the Kagan quotes from Frederick Kagan himself. You know, I was one of the people who advocated the surge in Iraq early on and good work familiar with much nastier attacks and criticisms than I've received on this report. This is Frederick Kagan, director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, an influential conservative think tank in the US. The think tank that produced that divisive report. Our report looked at Iranian activities in cyberspace.

1:38:36 And what we saw is that the Iranians are developing a significant stockpile, basically, of cyber infrastructure that they can use to attack Western infrastructure. To find out what the Iranians were up to, they looked at data gathered by Norse Intelligent Network. Ah! Do you remember the Norse Intelligence Network, John? I'm afraid I don't. The CTO is Tommy Stianson. So he works at this, the Norse NORSE cybersecurity firm work directly with AEI and Kagan on this. He's the guy from the IP Viking.

1:39:14 IPViking live, that fantastic map with all the cyber attacks occurring in real time. All right, that phony baloney map. Yes, these are the guys. It's map.ipviking.com and it has all the attacks and where they're coming from and pew pew pew pew pew. In fact, I'm looking right now, number one, China, number two, US military gov. By the way, I don't see any Iran in their mapping, but apparently they're the number one cyber threat. So this otherwise beautifully executed, very scary looking map where all attacks are coming from other countries into the US. They're shooting at each other. Yeah, it's fantastic. So this is the co-founder. For some reason they're just pounding Seattle right now. A cyber security company which has several million sensors around the world. Yeah, these sensors, the million sensors. These sensors are designed to look like websites for banks, power plants or universities.

1:40:12 They're honeypots to lure a would-be hacker. What the hell does that mean? It doesn't mean anything. Some systems based in Iran to identify vulnerabilities in western systems that would have allowed the Iranians to take full control over those systems if they had been actual systems and if the attacks had been successful. This is where the controversy begins. Our first expert witness, Robert Leem, says that to call this kind of cyber activity an attack is misleading. I'll say BBC had a very balanced piece with an expert who said this is all bullcrap, but we play that role. We didn't need him for it. Instead, he describes it as scanning. Someone looking for access to websites. Port scanning, yeah. While some scanning has malicious intent, it's not in itself an attack, he says.

1:41:13 It's like a burglar scoping the outside of your house, looking for a way in. He hasn't stolen anything yet. Well, the main body of that criticism actually misrepresents our report. We don't anywhere say that there were thousands of attacks on industrial control systems, for example. We identify 65 attacks on an industrial control system. So do you stand by the use of the word attack to describe those 65 activities that you just mentioned? I absolutely do. We use the term in accord with standard industry definitions that include collection of information and not just damaging systems, and that's part of the standard NSA definition for attack. I love that. Collecting information on port availability is defined as a cyber attack by NSA. I didn't know that. Can you go to that map for a second?

1:42:08 Yeah, hold on. I want to ask you a couple things. Okay. It's very heavy on resources. Okay. It's all right. I don't see how that can be, but I guess it is. Just go there for a minute and you can kind of hook it in. Yeah, it's coming up now. Map.ipviking.com for some reason. Oh yeah. Is it coming now? Yeah. Yes. All right. Got it. Okay. At the very bottom, there's some in the middle of the ocean near the Antarctica. There's a spot that's just got tons of activity. What is that? Ship I see what you're talking about it has a little like an octagonal yeah icon. I don't know yeah, is it clickable? Never thought of that expect it to be clean. Oh, no. Oh yeah It is and what is when you when you put in you put this cursor on it shows you its main targets, right? But what is it? Who are they you click? It doesn't do shit hmm?

1:43:05 I don't know. Here's another one. Go straight up from that and there's a thing outside, kind of in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast. Yeah, I see that too. What is that? A pirate ship? Maybe the mapping API is off. That's a good question. I don't know what those are. Now here's another last question. You see China? And the Korean peninsula? Yes. There's nothing going on in China, are you kidding me? I have one blip up there. Yeah, there's one blip and it's not doing anything. And of course, immediately as chatroom will say, well, you know, they can mask IP addresses here, duh.

1:43:49 And there's nothing in the last one either. This thing is bulk. It's a beautiful setup. All the money is right here in the honey pots. This map is what does it. Yeah, and here's the money thing on the right. It says attack targets, number one in the world with 578 as we speak. United States. Yeah, the second attack target is the dot mil dot-gov United States and then as we go from 600 to a total of 800 attacks going on against us right now And then Russia has 28 attacks against it China's got apparently none This is just a thing to set up to get money all these bull crappers that you know Oh, let's say we got a new cyber billions of dollars need to be spent on

1:44:35 Here is the pitch that Kagan provides why we need to, I guess, engage Viking Norse, the company that wrote this report with him. Put screenshots of that attack map in the report. And this is all related to Iran. Look, I've spent this discussion with you trying not to overhype the cyber threat. But the reality is that a very skilled and determined attacker who spends a lot of time preparing for an attack can do an enormous amount of damage to our critical infrastructure and Cause a lot of people to die and do a phenomenal amount of economic damage. Did you hear that cause a lot of people to die? Who has died from a cyber attack so far it would cause a lot of people to die

1:45:21 Please make it very difficult to recover. So are those scenarios of a cyber Pearl Harbor plausible? Could we have a massive cyber attack that did a huge amount of damage and was a surprise? Yes, absolutely. We could. Governments might not plan this kind of attack from a standing start, he says. Rather, it could come about through rival states testing each other's boundaries and slipping into cyber war. The scenarios that keep me up at night are scenarios of miscalculation. There's always this probing around perceived red lines and there's always the question of what do we think we can get away with and in the context of a world that has become incredibly violent, the risk of miscalculation is high.

1:46:05 That's right. You got to get your calculus in order. I guess so we don't do it. Why take the risk? Let's just get some security buy some stuff. Why take a risk? Why take a chance? I take a chance Precisely there was a way you were Reading or playing that clip. There was a massive cyber attack that took place I mean it was so much red it almost covered the complete screen all aimed at Seattle huh and then it just it's dropped off and Well, good work. Always good to know the Kagan's are on the case. Setting up Norse. If there's money to be made, if there's government money to be had, as simple as writing a check, we need to get in on this deal. Well, we could have known. We were on this Norse deal a long time ago. We're just dumb.

1:46:52 No, maybe. And I'm not dumb, we're lazy. We're just lazy. We're actually not dumb, but lazy does apply. Because after the show, I'm done. We're not lazy either. We just aren't... I don't know what it is, why we... I think we just can't... I don't think we need to get on the scam bandwagon yet. And I think that's what it amounts to. Right. Well, time for a podcast to embrace capitalism, John. Yeah, well it would be living the life for Riley getting on this bandwagon. I'll kill this thing. Boom. Yeah. All right. What is this Kim and Rodin follow up? It's a clip I put here. I don't know. That's Kim Jong-un, I'm sure.

1:47:37 I don't know. Is it? You want to go back to that? I don't mind. Just play it. A former government contractor whose case ignited a controversy over the Obama administration's targeting of journalists has been freed after 10 months in prison. Stephen Kim was convicted of leaking documents on North Korea to Fox News. Kim was charged under the Espionage Act, the nearly century-old law which was also used to classify Fox News reporter James Rosen, a co-conspirator in the case. Kim has always maintained his innocence. The president had a very interesting, he was on a panel, which was the poverty panel. That wasn't the exact title, but that was the topic was poverty. And I can see our president, as he's on his way out, he is really making his mark. And I believe the racism that is definitely being hyped by the entire administration and followed on nicely by the media.

CHAPTER 21 / 37 Discussion

Obama Poverty Panel, Fox News Criticism

President Obama participates in a poverty panel where he criticizes Fox News for portraying the poor as "leeches" and "sponges." He argues for a wealth tax on "society's lottery winners," specifically hedge fund managers, to fund early childhood education, while the hosts dispute his characterization of financial success as mere luck.

barack obama· fox news· poverty· hedge fund managers· wealth tax

1:46:52 No, maybe. And I'm not dumb, we're lazy. We're just lazy. We're actually not dumb, but lazy does apply. Because after the show, I'm done. We're not lazy either. We just aren't... I don't know what it is, why we... I think we just can't... I don't think we need to get on the scam bandwagon yet. And I think that's what it amounts to. Right. Well, time for a podcast to embrace capitalism, John. Yeah, well it would be living the life for Riley getting on this bandwagon. I'll kill this thing. Boom. Yeah. All right. What is this Kim and Rodin follow up? It's a clip I put here. I don't know. That's Kim Jong-un, I'm sure.

1:47:37 I don't know. Is it? You want to go back to that? I don't mind. Just play it. A former government contractor whose case ignited a controversy over the Obama administration's targeting of journalists has been freed after 10 months in prison. Stephen Kim was convicted of leaking documents on North Korea to Fox News. Kim was charged under the Espionage Act, the nearly century-old law which was also used to classify Fox News reporter James Rosen, a co-conspirator in the case. Kim has always maintained his innocence. The president had a very interesting, he was on a panel, which was the poverty panel. That wasn't the exact title, but that was the topic was poverty. And I can see our president, as he's on his way out, he is really making his mark. And I believe the racism that is definitely being hyped by the entire administration and followed on nicely by the media.

1:48:35 is a big part of what he wants to leave as his legacy. Like, I helped black Americans. In addition, uh, you know, I killed Osama bin Laden, obviously. Um, what else would be in there? Um, oh, just let's, uh, bitch about Fox News while we're at it. Did you see this, this panel that he was on? Yeah, I have a clip. I have, well, let me, I have four clips, short ones. Okay, well, why don't you play, you got more clips, play them. Okay, well, I'll start with the Fox News one. It was funny. The Fox News, yeah, funny, but no, I actually don't think it's funny. Doesn't he have better things to do? I think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don't want to work. Now, is he confusing Atlas Shrugs with Fox News? I don't think I've ever seen anyone anywhere on American news

1:49:34 So-called news programs ever say the poor are leeches and sponges. That's directly from... It's also very old the phraseology that my dad, World War II vet would have said sponges. But nobody says but even your dad does he talk about the poor that way no he would talk about just friends of his that were sponge right, but apparently Fox News these calls Poor people sponges and leeches according to the president of the United States. Yeah, I don't I've never heard that We'd have a clip of it. Yeah, we would enforce it be funny or don't want to work or lazy you know are undeserving got traction

1:50:19 And look, it's still being propagated. Where do they get traction? I'm not seeing it. I mean, I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu. They will find folks who make me mad. I don't know where they find them, right? They're all like, I don't want to work. I just want a free Obama phone. Whatever. And that becomes an entire narrative, right? That gets mucked up. Right? And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress, which is much more typical, who's raising a couple of kids and is doing everything right but still can't pay the bills. Actually, I see a lot of that everywhere. That's the one thing I do see. And so if we're going to change how John Boehner and Mitch McConnell think, we're going to have to change

1:51:18 how our body politics thinks, which means we're gonna have to change how the media reports on these issues. Okay. So I thought that was funny that he saw the Obama phone thing that was okay. That's funny, but then he goes into Well here it is people don't like being poor. It's hard being poor people People don't like being poor and it's it's time-consuming. It's stressful. It is it's hard and so it's hard being poor Hello captain obvious over time families frayed men who could not get jobs left

1:51:57 Mothers who are single are not able to read as much to their kids. So all that was happening 40 years ago to African Americans and Now what we're seeing is that those same trends have accelerated and they're spreading to the broader community But his messaging here is it was just black people now. It's everybody Yeah, that's called... What kind of thinking is going on in his head? Well, this is not... When I became president, it was just black people. Now it's everybody. Good work. Yeah, put that on your library. All right. How do we talk about rich people then? This would be interesting. 25 hedge fund managers made more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country.

1:52:43 So, I'm not, when I say that, I'm not saying that because I dislike hedge fund managers or I think they're evil. I'm saying that you're paying a lower rate than a lot of folks who are making $300,000 a year. You pretty much have more than you'll ever be able to use and your family will ever be able to use. There's a fairness issue involved here. And by the way, if we were able to close that loophole, I can now invest in early childhood education that will make a difference. That's where the rubber hits the road. Institute of wealth tax. Where the question of compassion, I'm my brother's keeper, comes into play. And if we can't ask from society's lottery winners... This was interesting.

1:53:41 Society's lottery winners. My take on this, first of all, a hedge fund manager is not a lottery winner. He works hard and he has to learn a skill, even though it's a skill that I'm sure a lot of people can learn, but it doesn't just fall into the money. A lottery winner is a guy who invests a couple thousand dollars into a startup and then next thing you know, he's a billionaire or a hundred millionaire like overnight when he didn't, that's a lottery winner and there's plenty of them. But to call the hedge fund guys a lottery winner, I think I mean, they make a lot of money or they're a lottery winner because they got into that business by accident, perhaps. This bull crap lottery winner. Well, he brings it up again in his discussion. This is about making...there's a fairness issue. So I guess you have to distribute it, which is where you get the wealth tax from, which we don't need to go into that again. Very controversial, by the way, your viewpoints on that.

1:54:43 But he brings it up again here in talking about how money with the lottery winners that has really ripped apart our society We don't dispute that the free market is the greatest producer of wealth in history it has lifted billions of people out of poverty we believe in property rights rule of law so forth, but there has always been trends in the market in which concentrations of wealth can lead to some being left behind. What's happened in our economy is that those who are doing better and better, more skilled, more educated, luckier, having greater advantage... Luckier. ...are withdrawing from sort of the commons. Kids start going to private schools. Kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks.

1:55:46 an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together. And that in part contributes to the fact that there's less opportunity for our kids, all of our kids. I mean it's really like he's like he read Atlas Shrugged and just want to... all of this comes directly from that. Maybe Red Atlas shrugged. And it's in an interesting way, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has a thought of what to do with these kids that we can't send to early education, then who are clearly because apparently only today's rich people have private clubs.

CHAPTER 22 / 37 Discussion

Arne Duncan Public Boarding Schools, After-School Programming

Education Secretary Arne Duncan proposes the idea of "public boarding schools" where the government would have certain children "24/7" to provide a safe environment. The hosts highlight Duncan's use of the word "programming" when discussing after-school activities as a Freudian slip regarding state indoctrination.

arne duncan· education· boarding schools· programming· vocational training

1:56:41 No, I don't think that's true. Poverty today is very different than poverty in the past because, well, we have, you know, Kardashians. At least you're entertained while you're eating wood chips and crickets. That's kind of a private club. Yeah, very private club. This is Arne Duncan about what he believes The federal government in the United States should do with poor children. I think all of our schools should be community centers. Our schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day with a wide variety of after-school programming. Thankfully in the vast, vast majority of communities around the nation, our schools are actually safe havens. Very little violence happens in our schools. It's really happening, the vast majority is on the streets. If we could keep our kids, they'll

1:57:23 They're longer. We think that makes a lot of sense. Keep the kids a little longer. More vocational programs, more chances for folks to figure out what they're learning in school, how is that relevant to where they go the rest of their lives. And one idea I threw out, I wanted to sort of road test it with the kids, is the idea of public boarding schools. And that's a little bit of a different idea or a controversial idea. But the question is do we have some children where There's not a mom, there's not a dad, there's not a grandma, there's just nobody home. There are certain kids we should have 24-7 to really create a safe environment and give them a chance. Yeah! Yeah! Put them in shulah! You hear his little slip at the beginning? At the very beginning? Yeah. I guess not. Go ahead. I'll tell you what it is. You can listen for it. After-school programming

1:58:14 Oh my goodness, I missed that. Nailed it! Nailed it! Good catch! Yeah, and he means it, by the way. It's not a slip. No, it was not a... he didn't stumble. He went right into it. After-school programming. That is... You will obey. Yeah, you will obey and come to the Schule. The Kindergarten, the Pre-Kindergarten. We grow the children in the Schule 24-7. And I like the, we should have those kids 24-7.

CHAPTER 24 / 37 Discussion

Obama Library Location, Apple and the Ant

The selection of Chicago's South Side for the Obama Presidential Library is criticized as a poor choice compared to Hawaii. A brief tangent features a children's cartoon titled "Apple and the Ant" that coincidentally uses the name "Adam," which Dvorak jokingly presents as a No Agenda publicity stunt.

obama library· chicago· south side· children's show· adam curry

2:07:04 Well, yeah, that before we move into you seem to install out here. Let's play I have a number of things just didn't quite know where to go. So I'll let you well, let's play this talk about the Stupid location for the Obama library Obama South side clip. Mm-hmm with a library and a foundation on the south side of Chicago, not only will we be able to encourage and affect change locally, but What we can also do is to attract the world to Chicago. Now, Southside Chicago, I don't know if you've ever been there. I have been recently, but I've been there, and it's a crap hole. It's a shit hole. It's gonna, this library's gonna be the only one in the country with graffiti all over it. So I just thought that was the dumbest thing, and it's that some dude was helping Rahm Emanuel. Because he had his other choices. Hawaii's the place to put it. They don't have it, and they'll never have an opportunity like that. Okay, I got another one. So I'm watching a kids' show.

2:08:07 And I'm thinking, oh, somehow Adam's gotten us some free publicity. Adam, me? Yeah. And I'm thinking that we wanted to congratulate you because the show is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this little show. And look at, play Apple and the Ant. You have to tolerate it. It goes 40 seconds, but Apple and the Ant. We begin with the letter A. A. A is for ant. Ant! The ant found an apple. Apple starts with A. Uh-oh, what is the ant going to do now? It's jumping on the tree. Stop or the apple will fall. Oh no, the apple is falling. Oh, somebody caught the apple. Who has the apple now? Look, that's Adam. Adam has the apple now.

2:09:15 You're right. I was genius. How did you get that in there? You're right. And as soon as I saw that, I said, no agenda came right to mind. You're right. I'll say that you're right. 40 seconds of my life. Oh, amen. Thumbs up. Well, we do have some people to thank for show. What is this? 721? 721. 721, including Cole Callistra in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

CHAPTER 25 / 37 Discussion

Listener Donations, Palindrome Week, Douchebag Callouts

The hosts read a list of mid-tier donations, noting the occurrence of "Palindrome Week" in the U.S. calendar. Several donors request "douchebag callouts" for various entities, including Humana Insurance and the State of Illinois, while others seek "job karma" for their legal or professional careers.

donations· palindrome· illinois· douchebag· karma

2:09:58 He wants some jobs jobs jobs karma will put that at the end there's one two three four five and also from Dame Elizabeth Borazan who? Gave me a check for one two three four five at the twit cottage Oh, how nice got to say hi to her that it was that when you took the show off the rails Yeah, well I always take the show off the rails good work. I must be banned yeah, yeah And so she left me a note, which I conveniently lost. But she wanted, and I think since she's a dame and she did this in person, she wanted some general karma for some specific thing. You've got karma. So Reddy Kilowatt, aka John Grumling from Battlement Mesa, Colorado, nice name for a town, 7373.

2:10:47 Yes, I will do it today. I'm sorry, I messed that up. He wanted me to record a PSA about Field Day. It's happening today after the show. I apologize. Just... Oh, well, 73 is to him. K-O-J-E-G. Right. Kojeg. Richard Altman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, $63. Sir Nick of the Southside, Herndon, Virginia, $55.14. Green Team Cleaning in Manchester, New Hampshire, $55.10. Sir Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, $51.15 to celebrate the Oxymoron Week, which is kind of oxymoron. The palindrome week is an unusual week.

2:11:30 of palindromes. Every day is a palindrome. According to the US calendar it is, yeah. Yes, I said that specifically. I know, I know, very good. Ralph Massaro in Kirkland, Washington, home of Costco originally. Kaylin Nistor in Northville, Michigan, 5515. Joe Wagner 5515 Atlanta, Georgia. He also has a douchebag callout? He's got a douchebag callout. Let's see where is it. Please call out Zach and Mike as douchebags. They listen regularly, Zach and Mike do, and I've never heard their names in the donation segments. I would recommend you confirm that they're douchebags by asking them.

2:12:18 Which would be a douchebag check. Douchebag check. Exactly. Matthew Mullen in Brick, New Jersey, 51-15. Anthony Garlanger in Downers Grove, Illinois, Downers, which is a cow that's dead in the field, 51-15. He's got another douchebag call. Let's see what we got here. Douchebag check! Douchebag check! Douchebag check! Douchebag check! Alright, can I get a douchebag call out for Humana insurance? Douchebag! The state of Illinois. Douchebag! That's a big douchebag! And Kyle, the whole big douchebag. And Kyle Shepman. Douchebag! He's going overboard, he never donates. He's going overboard. He doesn't have to donate. Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas.

2:13:12 5115 Matthew Mungan in Baltimore, Maryland. I'm gonna go down here, Baltimore, Maryland, Brad Bauer in Chicago, Illinois, and he's got a... Please call out... This is Douchebag Day. Please call out... No, no, no. Matthew has something else. Oh, that was Brad Bauer. I'm sorry. Brad Bauer. Wait, but I wanna read... Matthew says, giving you a portion of the first money I have made as a lawyer. Nice. Nice. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you. Brad Bauer is calling out... Mike Hernell steve bag And we'll put some job karma at the end for you Bradford Ramsey and Wichita Falls, Texas 5115 Aaron rush for 2115 Avon South Dakota Arthur Santos and Stanmore Middlesex UK 5115 and the rest of these are $50 donation starting with Charles Evans of Hawthorne woods Eve's Oh Eve's Charles Eve's in Hawthorne Woods, Illinois

2:14:15 Sam Minkinen in Espoo, Finland. Brian Matthews in Belbrigan, Dublin, Ireland. David Pete in Aubrey, Texas. Grab the street from you. Sir Mike Westerfield, $50 from Parts Unknown. Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida. Brandon Savoie, $50. Jacob Wozziak, not sure. North, I should know. North Vancouver, BC, Vancouver. John Anderson, Youngsville, Louisiana.

2:14:58 Sorry, Matthew Livingston in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. John, is he Sir John Streg? I don't know. It sounds right. Yes, and then San Antonio, he concludes the list. of donors for show 721, which is now listed up there again with a number. And also we need to credit Chris Male. He was credited as Tiny Progs, but it was Chris Male for his... We did put it on the list. In the credits, yes, of course. But we didn't call his name because we were confused. Shit happens, that's what happens. Yeah, but thanks Chris. That's it? That's all she wrote. I got an email from Annie.

CHAPTER 26 / 37 Discussion

Media Mind Control Curriculum, Search No Agenda Notes

A student teacher named Annie shares her "Breaking the Media Mind Control" curriculum, which tasks students with analyzing the dehumanizing language used during the Baltimore riots. Adam Curry encourages the use of the "search.nashownotes.com" engine as a research tool for such media literacy projects.

media literacy· baltimore riots· arne duncan· search engine· student teaching

2:15:41 Annie get your gun. Hi Adam and John Noah Jen has inspired me in the classroom for my final week of student teaching I collaborated with my mentor teacher to do a mini unit called breaking the media mind control Wait a minute. We should that differently breaking the media mind control We're going to have students compare the words and phrases being used surrounding the Baltimore riots from different sources. They will look at the words used during other riots in the U.S. and compare how people are being categorized. Nice. The end result will be deciding if using the word thug is intentionally used to dehumanize these people and diminish the importance of their poverty. Thank you, Annie. This makes me very happy.

2:16:29 And particularly on a day where donations are still low, I like this. This shows that we're making a difference for the young people, John. Well, for some, for some young people. And I think it's great that some teachers have picked up on this because it's more entertaining. The kids, I believe, if I was a kid and I had a teacher that was going to have me do this sort of analysis, And I could find little things and talk about, oh look at they used this term instead. That was the, what's his name, Sonny Farms guy who said the head of the Department of Education. Arnie Duncan? Yeah, Sonny Farms. He, and when he says programming.

2:17:07 And after-school programming, I mean, come on. This is a gem. Kids love that stuff. Kids love to discover. Then I would encourage your kids in this mini unit to use search.nashownotes.com. Every single article we have ever had in the show notes, and a lot of them discussed, but certainly not all, all all have offline copies stored in searchable format through search.nashownotes.com. Years of it. Years of, not all, because we didn't really start with a good system until a couple of years into the show, but it's a good reason. I got, something with Rackspace happened and I got an email, one of those innocuous emails, like there's a ticket for, and I have three servers at Rackspace, I have no idea what's going on. So by getting to bed,

CHAPTER 27 / 37 Discussion

Birthday Announcements, Knighting of Sir John Fletcher

Birthdays are celebrated for several listeners and Dame Francine Hardaway. Seth Griffin and John Fletcher are officially knighted into the No Agenda Round Table, with Fletcher specifically recognized for his "Fletcher Fest" contributions to the show's community.

birthdays· knighthood· john fletcher· seth griffin· mutton and mead

2:17:52 I'm tired. I've been doing prep. I've been listening to douchebags. It's 1.30 and I see a tweet saying, oh man, search.na show notes is down. And the server had stopped responding or whatever. So, you know, up until 2 in the morning, I'm restarting this and getting it all set up again because people really use it. It's a valuable resource. All a part of the No Agenda Show package. It's your birthday, birthday. I'm no one's champion. Today we say happy birthday to Sir Nick of the Southside celebrating today. Sammy Minniken says happy birthday to his son Lassie, turns 9 on the 15th. And although she didn't request it, we say happy birthday to Dame Francine Hardaway from all you buddies here at the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah.

2:18:47 Hey, hey Dame Francine she will not request it herself, but I caught it so I'm happy for you happy we can say it happy birthday to her two nightings today, so And a very important one with sir John Fletcher so grab your sword there Johnny boy got it. Okay. That was the short version Seth Griffin and John Fletcher, step on up, gentlemen. You are about to become knights of the No Jenner Round Table. Very proud to pronounce the Kate thee, Sir Seth Griffin and Sir Fletcher of Cockermouth Castle. Damn, for you. Bookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Whiskey and Wet Wipes, Three Geishas and a Bucket of Fried Chicken, Hot Pants and Booze, Fruit Beer and Legos, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Porn Stars and Pot,

2:19:34 But of course, for you, always the backup, Mutton & Mead. Thank you, Sir John Fletcher, for contributing very significantly to the program with your FletcherFest shoutouts. You can find them at 720.noagendanotes.com. The previous episode, we had an entire bundle of them all that were put out there. And if your name is one of the names, kind of like the license plate that you see in tourist shops, then you're in luck. You get a freebie. And did we want to continue our pie donations with the the shocked?

CHAPTER 28 / 37 Discussion

TPP Secrecy, Barbara Boxer and Elizabeth Warren

Senator Barbara Boxer criticizes the secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, describing the restrictive environment for reading classified documents. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren feuds with President Obama over the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), leading to a debate about whether the disagreement reflects a genuine rift in the Democratic Party.

tpp· tpa· barbara boxer· elizabeth warren· barack obama· trade deal

2:20:10 Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, I'll put it in the newsletter. I want to be next to the next, not the Saturday newsletter. I'd like to get it rolling properly. I think it's a good idea. So it has to be thought out in some meaningful way, but it'll be another pie. And here is the jobs karma that is often requested. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Yay. Okay, I believe it would be prudent to talk about the TPP, since it is being so mischaracterized in the press. Where I've even seen articles saying, the house, you know, they're going to pass, which they didn't, but they're going to pass the TPP. And your girlfriend, you know who she is, here's your girlfriend, Barbara Boxer,

2:21:08 She stood up in Congress and said crazy things about this TPP. Let me get this sentence straight. Barbara Boxer said crazy things. Let me write that down. I preface it by saying she's your girlfriend. Yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, you're welcome. I appreciate it. And of course, Elizabeth Warren is now in a public feud with the president about the...and it's not the TPP that's being voted on, it's the trade promotion authority, which...and I read the document, it's 133 pages. It's kind of a guideline to set out what will be negotiated from the United States side. I didn't really see anything nefarious in it other than, yeah, obviously it's part of the New World Order program, and duh.

2:21:57 But all this yelling and screaming and Barbara Boxer even says blatantly untrue things, but apparently she went to a TPP meeting. She wasn't allowed to take notes. And here's what she was talking about. Well, let me tell you. Let me tell you. What you have to do to read this agreement. She's talking about the TPP, which is being negotiated in secret, not the TPA, which is what is being voted on. Follow this. You can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance because God knows why this is secure. This is classified. It has nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS. It has nothing to do with any of that. It is classified. So I go down with my staff that I could get to go with me. Here's the scary thing. This woman has classified clearance.

2:22:58 That was frightening. Well, you can take notes, but you have to give them back to me and I'll put them in a file. So I said wait a minute I'm gonna take notes and then you're gonna take my notes away from me And then you're gonna have them in a file and you can read my notes not on your life So instead of standing in a corner trying to figure

2:23:40 to bring a trade bill to the floor that doesn't do anything for the middle class that is held so secretively that you need to go down there and hand over your electronics and give up your right to take notes and bring them back to your office. They ought to come over here and figure out how to help the middle class, how to extend the highway bill, how to raise the minimum wage. how to move toward clean energy, how to fix our currency manipulation that we see abroad. Alright. So, I think she's confused. I don't even think she knows what she's talking about. The Trade Promotion Authority has been commonplace in the United States government since I think 72 or 74. It is not an abnormal thing. For some reason everybody's got their panties in a bunch about this.

2:24:32 And by the way, the TPA specifically states that negotiations from the US side will be about currency manipulation. So she hasn't even read the fucking bill. Get this woman out! Why is everyone all freaked out about this, John? And I saw, what's his name? The union guy, not Ditka, Mitka. Well, that's one of the things, the union guy. They believe that this enactment, there's two problems. One is they're going to give a fast track ability to Obama, that's what he wants, so then he can just take care of this without a bunch of fuss. But I just want to stop you there. I read this thing and it addresses all concerns and clearly states what the United States position will be in the negotiations.

2:25:19 It's not just, oh, you can have a...do whatever you want and there's an up and down vote. No, it's 100... David Gardner What is it she's talking about that she can't read...she can't take notes of? Is it... She's reading what she's talking about? Ben Lutken I believe she's talking about...I think she's actually...she's talking about the specific...the actual deal, the real TPP. David Gardner Yeah, that's what she's talking about. Nobody seems to be able to look at this. I think they're...I think it's just a secrecy thing. I think they're fed up. It makes total sense. No wonder raps. It makes sense to me because you'll never get anything done if everything is in public. It'll just go on for 10 years. Well, it's just it's somehow it's bothersome. You're like a senator. Let's say you are.

2:25:59 And you can't do anything. This thing is going on, it's super secret. You want it to go on for 10 years. I mean, one of the reasons that we have the government set up the way it is, is so to really make it difficult to get things done. Because when you just start doing stuff willy-nilly, it never works out. It's always crap. It's because you all...and then you got to do more stuff to fix what you've screwed up to begin with. And that's the way the system works. The system is like...that's when people say, oh, these government workers, they don't do any work. I'm always of the opinion. In fact, when I was a government worker myself, I promoted this idea, is you don't want them working. It's kind of a form of welfare. You just work, you know, you go shopping, let them go shopping, because if they're working, they're causing trouble.

2:26:44 And I think that's the case with this and the normal situation would be exactly what you said. It would never get done. Maybe it shouldn't get done. Maybe that's the point. Okay. I mean, it's just I know it's an off-the-wall theory. Well, again, I'm all in. I love it because we need to get to this point much faster. I want to witness the New World Order and the collapse and the fight and the revolution. If it works out properly, you're not going to manage it because it's never going to happen because of these guys. Like you just said, I think you maybe hit the nail on the head. If everybody was in on this, it would never move along. It would just be...

2:27:21 And so, you know, because right now, they just passed this thing and we did this trade deal. That's why the Democrats turned on the president. And then Elizabeth Warren being one of the leaders... And she has to apologize. She has to go to...she has to apologize to the president. Well, the president insulted her, kind of. And they had to address this in the press conference with your buddy Jason Eves. Yeah. Josh Earnest. What's his name again? Yeah, Josh. Josh Earnest. Yeah. Jason Eves. President insults Warren. So you see there's a mountain out of a molehill. One more on the trade question, the specific, the substance of what Senator Brown said. He said the president had been disrespectful when he suggested that Senator Warren was just another politician. First of all, can you take that part of it? What's the president's response to the allegation that he was being disrespectful?

2:28:17 I believe that that specific reference, I should have brought the text in front of me. But I think that the President in the interview was asked directly about Senator Warren, and the President noted that Senator Warren holds elective office as the president does. The president included himself. A politician, I think it was, though, yeah. Yeah, a politician, like, and I said something like... Like the president. Like, well, I think he said like the rest of us. Yeah, right. And I think that's an indication that the point the president's making is that she's making a political argument. The president's making a political argument, too. And we can have a robust difference of opinion and a robust debate. And the point is, though,

2:28:54 that this doesn't reflect a difference in values. I believe this will ultimately lead to a splintering of the Democratic Party, if it continues, where Elizabeth Warren has only said she wasn't, she can always decide to run for president. And Maybe that's why this trade deal, which, because we don't know what's in it, we don't know what's in it. Yeah, there's leaked stuff, fine. But until we see it, it doesn't exist. And maybe that's why the Democrats have voted against the president. Not so much to be against the president, but to have a secret weapon to get the defiant child, Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren, into the fold as the savior of America, the savior of

CHAPTER 29 / 37 Discussion

Hillary Clinton Family Scandals, Tony Rodham Gold Mine

CNN panels discuss Hillary Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, and his business dealings in Haiti, including a controversial gold mining permit. The media coverage is criticized for framing Rodham's use of the Clinton Foundation to secure jobs as a relatable act of "helping family" rather than a political scandal.

hillary clinton· tony rodham· haiti· gold mine· cnn

2:29:38 of the unions who are huge in supporting democratic campaigns, certainly presidential elections. I'm not saying that I'm convinced, but it could be a way to do it. Well, there's got to be something down there because Hillary is... people are taking a dislike to her over all this stuff going on. I didn't get any good Hillary clips. I have a couple of Hillary 2016 clips, not related directly to this, but the first one would be the... now this is about her brother, Tony Rodham.

2:30:15 We first heard from our...we had discussed it previously, but our Uber sources reiterated that Hillary Clinton's brother received...a company he's working with or consulting with received the sole license to extract gold from Haiti. And so now he's... Adam Bateman Right. Something we pointed out on the show a number of times. Robert Spano Nobody else talks about this. Adam Bateman So here is a CNN panel And they'll talk about everything except for the gold in Haiti, of course. And they'll also kind of say it's okay. The allegation is that Hillary Clinton's younger brother has parlayed his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton throughout the years to come up with some sometimes dubious business deals for himself.

2:31:00 Maggie, you just laid it out pretty well right there. I mean look, there has been an ongoing focus on the brothers Rodham, right? On Tony and Hugh Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brothers. What was striking about the story that my colleague Steve Eater did is there are these court transcripts where Tony Rodham openly says, I leaned on my brother-in-law to get help me. I went through the Clinton Foundation. He says this. That type of stuff I think is very unhelpful. That you were going to see in attack mailers, you were going to see that potentially in ads. It says here, when Mr. Rodham was short on cash in 2010, Mr. Clinton helped him get a job for $72,000 a year raising investments in Green Tech Automotive, an electric

2:31:39 car company then owned by Terry McAuliffe, an old friend of Mr. Clinton's and now the governor of Virginia. Don't we all help our brothers and sisters? I agree with you. What's wrong with that? I was going to say, what's wrong with that? No, that I think people will forgive helping us. He's not a politician, right? Bill Clinton is not in office. It doesn't seem to conflict with her job as Secretary of State. If Bill Clinton helped out the brother-in-law, I don't see that as a scandal. To me, if there's any issue, I totally agree. I think that people forgive. You help your family. You help your brother. I think that the more you see things of, I went to the foundation for help. Now, the foundation says,

2:32:14 there's no evidence that we've got anything that he said but it's just it's not great. Isn't it nice how that works? Just obfuscate. Wow. Talk about taking the thing from you know you're driving on a bumpy road. And you could go into a ditch, which would be discussing the gold mine deal. But no, you pull off into the freeway and you're home free with it, like actually a nice story. Oh, he needed a job and nobody was affected, but somebody gave him a job. His brother hooked him up and helped him out. Which anybody would do. Anybody would do that for their brother. He needed money. So that's some running interference is what we call that for the Clintons. Then this other story.

CHAPTER 30 / 37 Discussion

Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill, Hillary Clinton Support

A campaign to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill gains traction, receiving public support from Hillary Clinton. The hosts suggest the move is a calculated political maneuver to secure the black vote and distance the Democratic Party from its historical ties to slavery.

harriet tubman· andrew jackson· currency· hillary clinton· abolitionist

2:32:55 uh... which i've been waiting to figure out what is going on the story's been around for a while and finally uh... night i figured out where this is coming from you've probably heard this uh... somewhere in the past week before the train derailment and a group looking to replace andrew jackson on the twenty dollar bill with a woman has now chosen a successor abolitionist harriet tubman won an online vote the group now hopes the six hundred thousand people who voted will help pressure the president to make the change So this group, the women on the $20 bill, and they had a vote and we didn't really discuss much of this. The woman who set up this foundation, I believe her name is Barbara Oritz Howard, she worked for Hillary Clinton during her previous presidential campaign. So this would be a great issue

2:33:52 that the American people will be able to get behind. Because unfortunately, that's how stupid we are. Yeah, man, that's unfair. We put women on the... So they want to remove Jackson, put the... put... well... Harriet Tubman. Yeah. Now, it's perfect for... by the way, if anyone should be on the 20, it should be Hillary. I mean, she deserves it. Let's put her on... She deserves it. And how does that actually work? As far as I've been able to find, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing decide what money looks like and this woman on the $20 bill is calling for the president to change this, which I guess could be... I think he can direct the Bureau of Engraving to change. Would you like to do that? I think so. But it would be fantastic for Hillary to say, look, when I'm president, I will change that. People will love that. Well, Hillary is in the news for just that.

2:34:53 As a matter of fact, it's in Time Magazine two hours ago. Hillary Clinton shows her support for Harriet Tubman on the 20th. Well, there you go. There you go. Done. She's all in and this will get her to the black vote that she needs. It's a perfect combination. So Obama... Was Tubman gay by any chance? Was she a lesbian? That would be perfect. Maybe. She did have one child, Gertie Davis, so it's possible that she wasn't or was. I don't know. So, Hillary, now this will show you whether Obama is or is not pro-Hillary, because it could be a nice issue for Hillary if Obama doesn't do it. Right. So he's going to have to be torn, because here's a black woman who is a notorious abolitionist. I would think all black people were abolitionists during that era. It would seem like the right way to lean. She's a noteworthy one somehow.

2:35:49 want to be a slave. Some one of those man on the street things that may have been Jay Lennon or something say who's freed the slaves and did nobody knew you could know it wasn't it was a functional thing, but Lincoln generally gets credited Yeah, so who fleet free to save and nobody said Lincoln they said all kinds of things in this one black girl said Harriet Tubman freed the slaves

2:36:31 And then I saw, then I also started seeing that meme floating around. It was last week, showing up Harriet Tubman and she freed the slaves. And now she's gotten herself. Well, we can't have anyone knowing that a Republican freed the slaves. Well, that's Lincoln. Harriet Tubman. Yeah. And so now if Obama wants to play politics and say, okay, Hillary, you should win, even though he should be supporting his vice president. He won't do this and he'll be out of office and Hillary can use it as her platform. What do you think she's going to do? I think we should have, just to go with the whole meme.

CHAPTER 31 / 37 Discussion

Rick Santorum Presidential Run, War on Radical Islam

Rick Santorum enters the 2016 presidential race, using aggressive rhetoric about "bombing ISIS back to the 7th century." The hosts question the financial motives behind his campaign, suggesting he is running to secure funds from the military-industrial complex despite having no realistic path to the presidency.

rick santorum· 2016 election· radical islam· military industrial complex· bombing

2:37:11 We should have an $18 bill. Put Tubman on that. You know, women deserve less. They make less than just subpar citizens in America. That's right. And then finally, that good old boy, Ricky Santorum is back. Ricky Santorum. I don't know why we haven't done this. This is bothersome. I've been doing this. I've been highlighting the potential. I want to know what the scam is. How much money can you scam When you run for president, there's no way Rick Santorum is going to win anything. He's annoying, he's too tall, looks like a goofball, and he's very, he's always, even though I've seen him smile and have some fun, he's serious and a drip.

2:37:55 And nobody wants him as president. So why is he running? Well, if there's money to be made, he's making it from the military-industrial complex. And I'm very disappointed. He's a religious man. I remember him talking about praying with his family what they should do. A big believer in the church. And then I heard this little riling speech he did. I have been one who has actually even lectured a previous president. on saying that this isn't a war on terror, but it's a war against radical Islam. Terror is a tactic. Islam is an ideology. And we need to be honest with the American public about who the nature of our enemy really is. If these folks want to bring back a 7th century version of Islam, then my recommendation is let's load our bombers up and bomb them back to the 7th century. Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again. Yeah!

2:38:54 That's the old bombing them back to the Stone Age meme. Yeah, which we've been doing and if anyone hasn't noticed, we pointed it out, that Iraq has been pretty much bombed back to the Stone Age and if we're not doing it, somebody else is. I think it's a policy and he's just expressing it. Not noticing that it's actually going on. Yeah, but it's also, it's just, it's not, no, no, who does that? McCain does that. All of a sudden this guy is now like McCain? Ugh. Disgusting. He's always kind of been like a lot of but kind of a crossover memes colliding here with the F Russia and LGBTQ QI AAP Vienna and this is something I follow every year Vienna will be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year and everybody's ramping up and to promote the openness of Vienna they have installed a number of

CHAPTER 32 / 37 Discussion

Vienna Gay Crossing Lights, Swedish Singing Sailor

Vienna installs same-sex pedestrian crossing lights to promote "open-mindedness" ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest. In a related story, a Swedish peace group installs an underwater "Singing Sailor" neon sign that broadcasts Morse code saying "this way if you're gay" to deter Russian submarines.

vienna· eurovision· gay rights· sweden· vladimir putin· singing sailor

2:39:50 crossing lights which feature gay pedestrians. I'm sorry? Yes. So you have instead of a little red man standing still there's two red men one with his arm around him and then when... This is bullcrap. It's BBC and they're showing a picture of it. No this Vienna is doing here officials they talk about officials said these signals are a sign of Vienna's open-mindedness. Come on, we know what this whole song contest is about. Dude in the dress one last time. Come on. Conchita Wurst. Vienna's gay, straight and lesbian crossing lights show all walks of life. And this is in The Guardian. So they're going to vary these? Oh, here's one with two women walking across the street holding hands with a heart in between them.

2:40:48 This bull... City installs pedestrian signals showing same-sex couples but right-wing politicians come out in opposition. Well, it sounds like they want to just put a little message... There's the guy, he said, it's funny. So the go light is two gay women, the stop light is two gay men. I have one with two gay men with a little hard-holding hands walking as well. Oh, okay. I just thought it was interesting, cultural Marxism, just getting everybody into thinking differently. I find it very strange. Finally, staying on the gay tip, ISIS fighters have listened to the show. I've told them they should, you need to start killing gays if you want to get any traction in the US media.

2:41:29 And the latest example of ISIS's barbarity towards gays, members are pretending to make passes at suspected homosexuals to draw them out only to kill them. I'm sure that's happening. And then the double whammy, of course we all know that Vladimir Putin hates gays. Hates gays, hates gays. All of Russia hates gays. Can't do it, just can't be gay and speak Russian. Hates gays. And Sweden has some activist group, the, what are they called? The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society. Voices in Sweden are being raised to rearm, increase the military budget with 1.9 billion dollars.

2:42:21 The Swedish peace and arbitration society wants to discuss a more effective way than violence and aggression to solve conflicts. Instead of... So just I should have set this up better. This is based on the multiple reports that were Russian submarines off the Swedish waters, which was never proven, but was hyped quite a bit in anticipation, I guess, of more defense spending. Right, this is a month ago or something like that. Yeah, and so this is the the solution that has taken place. Angry threats. Any visitors will now receive a warm welcome. The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society proudly presents The Singing Sailor. Now did you see this thing, The Singing Sailor? It is a watertight

2:43:08 neon sign of a depiction of a gay sailor, you know, moving his hips, like the neon flashes back and forth. And there's a little code. It's underwater. I'm sorry, they've got this disco music. Sailor sends out a Morse code to any visitors nearby. And the Morse code says, This way if you're gay This is their big big way to stop Vladimir Putin from sending Russian submarines they're going to distract them with the underwater gay sailor Wow You gotta see this thing. Yeah, definitely. We'll go back and look at that is outrageous

CHAPTER 33 / 37 Discussion

John Kerry Meeting with Vladimir Putin, Ukraine Crisis

Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Moscow for a "frank and constructive" meeting with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The visit marks the highest-level U.S. diplomatic engagement with Russia since the start of the Ukraine crisis, though few specific details of the discussion are released.

john kerry· vladimir putin· sergei lavrov· moscow· ukraine

2:44:08 Yeah, well, anything goes. Despite our white paper that Brian the Gay Crusader put together, you can find that at search.dimashonis.com. You know, the ruling is not the way it has been portrayed, but okay, that's fine. Well, then I have Kerry was in Russia though and he met with Putin. That was all up and never really explained it. I don't think he... Did he meet with Putin? I thought he only met with the foreign minister. Oh yeah. He met... It was a meeting with the foreign minister character. It was underplayed, that meeting. And then Putin, he had a long meeting with Putin. He talked about a long meeting. In fact, just to prove it, Kerry and Russia, play that clip and we'll get that out of the way.

2:44:49 Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin on a trip to Moscow. It's the highest level Russia visit by a U.S. official since the Ukraine crisis began over a year ago. Kerry said the meeting was frank and constructive. I'm grateful to President Putin for the significant amount of time that he made available to this discussion, for his directness, He didn't kill that. It's just him yammering. It says nothing. It says nothing. There was some meeting. They never said what it was about. That is interesting. Also that it was so underplayed is interesting. Oh, it's totally. Yeah. Only Democracy Now really played it up. I love that you do that. I never have to watch Democracy Now. It's really fantastic. I mean that. That's how the show should work. People do not have to

CHAPTER 34 / 37 Discussion

FHRITP Viral Meme, Reporter Sexual Harassment Debate

The "Fuck Her Right In The Pussy" (FHRITP) viral meme continues to plague live news broadcasts, leading to the firing of a Canadian man, Sean Simoes, after he defended the practice to a reporter. The incident sparks a debate over whether the meme constitutes criminal sexual harassment or merely rude public behavior.

fhritp· viral meme· sexual harassment· toronto· hydro one

2:45:45 Look at news. If you want to dive in deeper, that's easy. But if you want some headlines that make a difference, I think we're a pretty good way to go. For instance, this will be my throwaway, okay? This is my throwaway. Do you recall we were talking about the meme of people running up on live news camera shoots and yelling, F'er right in the pussy? Yeah, that was a short-lived one. Uh, no. Three victims were part of a CXS group. Fuck her right in the pussy! Oh my goodness, and it took crews longer than anticipated to find the crack in the 64-year-old pipeline. I'm standing here with Fred who says he was greatly impacted by the gushing of oil. Can you tell us a little more of what you saw? I sure can. I was sitting on my front porch, grabbed a beer, and fuck her right in the pussy. So this is non-stop. And CNN, I saw it this morning, this...

2:46:42 huge piece about some reporter who stood up to people propagating this meme. This is more family safe. I'm sorry, I should have pre-announced that particular clip. I was just trying to remind us of what this meme is. And you look at that on YouTube, it's all over. It's being done everywhere, everywhere in the world. This is being done. It's crazy. It's not even funny. Well, the people who don't think it's funny are the reporters. A lot of them... I would, if I was a reporter doing a live feed, a stand-up, I'd be very annoyed by this. Reporters are used to being interrupted. But this is downright nasty. It's happened to me about, I would say a dozen times. A phrase so dirty some reporters refer to it by initials. So the last time I had an effer in the pee as we call them. I like effer in the pee better actually. That's, that's lewd. Sometimes it even happens more than once in the same live shot. People having their, their good time on

2:47:41 Finally, there came a reporter who wouldn't put up with it outside a soccer game in Toronto. Hey City News reporter Shauna hunt turned from the offender to other guys She suspected were you guys waiting around to see if you could? Effort in the P me live on TV It's now a verb you can effort in the P me this is this is great. I love what this is going It's a disgusting thing to say it's degrading to women and you're gonna do

2:48:19 gonna do it. You would humiliate me on live television. Not you. Are you actually filming this? Well because you know what I'm sick of this. I get this every single day ten times a day by rude guys like you. I'm sick of it. And then this guy made the mistake of chiming in. It is f***ing hilarious. He even mentioned a vibrator. You're lucky there's not a f***ing But you know who didn't die laughing? That guy's employer, Ontario's electric provider, Hydro One, fired Sean Simoes from his $107,000 a year job, saying he violated the company's code of conduct.

2:48:58 Ontario's premier jumped into the fray, tweeting, whether or not it's caught on film, sexual harassment at work is no joke. So it's being combated under sexual harassment. Yeah, you know, I can see how you can think it was sexual harassment if you looked at just technically, but and it's, I would, I'm guessing it's mostly women stand-ups that end up with this. Not only that, no. Yeah, no, there's other, I say mostly, but It's not really sexual harassment. No, but that's where they're taking it. Well, that's one way to get rid of it. I think it's funny. I can't help myself. Not really what's being said. Well, you probably would have thought it was funny with all the Booyah guys that used to... Same thing. Baba Booey. Baba Booey. That's what it is. I wish people would say, F-er right in the noagendershow.com. Something like this changed up a bit. Just noagendershow.com would be great. Or in the morning. In the morning. Even that would work. Amen fist bump. Amen fist bump. We can even take some credit for that.

CHAPTER 35 / 37 Discussion

Posse Comitatus, Madison Shooting, Arab Summit Snub

Retired General Hertling suggests a "renewed look" at Posse Comitatus in response to social media-inspired terrorism. Other news items include the decision not to charge a Madison police officer in a fatal shooting and the "snub" of President Obama's Arab summit by several Middle Eastern leaders wary of the Iran nuclear deal.

posse comitatus· madison· wisconsin· saudi arabia· iran deal· barack obama

2:50:02 Final clip, General Hertling retired, said something. And of course, these guys are all...what is it? There was a name for them. It was a pensionatus. Oh, man, I forgot what it was. Guys who are on pension, who retired from the military or intelligence and they, except they're still on the payroll. Ah, Pensionistas. Pension, something like that. Pension, I like that the best. Pensionistas. Exactly. So he's one of them and And he just said something pretty interesting in this little CNN clip. The federal court just ruled that the way the NSA collects and stores certain data is illegal. So what is the government to do to combat this growing threat of what is social media inspired terrorism in many ways here at home? Social media inspired terrorism? Well, when you take a look at the decentralized kind of activities that are going on in this organization, there's very little control

2:50:59 over these individuals. I think the government is going to have to have some renewed looks at things like posse cometitis, the Patriot Act. Cometitis? Sounds like a disease. I got cometitis. I got cometitis on my posse. This is not right. He meant posse cometitis. But for him to say that is pretty big. I guess. If you live in Texas, it is because, you know, Jade Helm 15. Need I say more? Well, I got one thing just to make sure that we did. People know that we're on following it, which is the Madison, Wisconsin shooting some black guy in some situation. This kind of a background on it. Just no, I don't really have anything to say about it, but it looks to me they're going to try to keep this stirring up the race, race issues as much as they can. Sorry.

2:51:55 They're going. county district attorney said an investigation found Kenny was lawful in firing the fatal shots. Robinson's family members say they've been denied justice. This is Robinson's grandmother, Sharon Irwin. I will miss him the rest of my life when you guys go home and you don't deal with this anymore. This is a forever thing with me. And I just want to say this is politics and not justice. And why is this not getting a lot of traction?

2:52:45 Because I don't think anyone's burned a building down yet. I think that it could get traction. It could. I'm not sure that it will. And I think the reason I think it could is because it involves Scott Walker. Ah, yes, the dangers guy. The dangers guy. So you want to do something in his state, which is Wisconsin, to embarrass him and get him to not run for president. Okay, which is you know, I don't think you should run until 2020. So that's fine with me Last there was the meeting that Obama called a summit to discuss with all the Arab leaders. Yeah to deal with this Iranian agreement and

2:53:30 All of them except two guys said, nah, not coming. They kind of snubbed him. Snubbed him. And that's what everyone calls it. But the clip that outlines this is Summit Snub with Shep Smith. Oh, lovely to hear Shep. He did invite the leaders of six Mideast nations. They're to come speak with the president and try to work things out, but most of those leaders will not be attending, we now know. Analysts say it's a sign that those countries are worried about U.S. nuclear talks with Iran or mad at the United States. The White House said today, this is not a snub. Does that number present a snub to the White House? And if not, why not a snub? I think we've identified the word of the day in the briefing today. We continue to be confident that these are individuals who can represent the interests of their country and implement any commitments that they make in the context of the meeting.

2:54:17 Well, take a look at the wall over here. Only the leaders of Qatar and Kuwait have actually confirmed that they're attending. Officials in Saudi Arabia say the king is too focused on arranging a ceasefire in Yemen. Then there's Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, which have announced their leaders will not be attending without explaining why a couple of them quote didn't feel like it. And analysts say the ruler of Iman and the United Arab Emirates have been ill. Yeah. Important to point out here those nations are still sending other representatives to this summit but not the main guy. Yeah. What do you think? It's a snub. Yeah, of course they know what's gonna happen. They know that once we have a deal with Iran, then they're all gonna be under Iran's watch. That and there's gonna be a well as we point out on the show that the deep theorists say that this is going to allow Iran to get a bomb so everyone else has to get a bomb and the whole place just blow itself up and we get the money the benefit from the armaments. And the rebelization. The rebelization is a winner.

CHAPTER 36 / 37 Discussion

Cuba Lung Cancer Vaccine, Theranos Board, ICD-10 Codes

Reports of a Cuban "lung cancer vaccine" are clarified as a treatment rather than a preventative measure. The blood-testing company Theranos is highlighted for having Henry Kissinger on its board, and a new bill is introduced in Congress to delay the implementation of costly ICD-10 medical coding.

cuba· lung cancer· theranos· henry kissinger· icd-10· healthcare

2:55:20 Briefly, a couple of big big pharma things I'm working on. I find it interesting that we have this story. I think Wired broke it. Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine and we want to get it. But is cancer a virus now? Has it been deemed? Does the cancer vaccine shoot cancer into you so that you build up your immune system? This is not a vaccine. It may be a shot. Yeah, maybe it's a drug of some sort, obviously. Yeah, and what they say is it makes people live at least four months longer or something like that, but it's not a vaccine. This is... Otherwise you take it before you got lung cancer. Yes, it's very poor reporting.

2:56:03 Well, again, we have a group of people, it's like the global warmest, they have no scientific background. They don't know the basic terms, they use the word vaccine because the drug companies have decided to use it to exploit the public. The smoking vaccine is a perfect example. Yes. Remember that? Yeah. And the anti-cocaine addiction vaccine. Yeah, it's not a vaccine. It's a poison. Yeah, both. the cure and the reason. And then a company we need to look out for or be having our on our radar, Theranos, T-H-E-R-A-N-O-S. They have this lab test

2:56:51 where all it takes is a home kit, little finger prick, that's all, no more giving up vials of blood, and then they can scan that for, which is all secret technology of course, they can scan that for any number of diseases. And the reason why it caught my eye is their board includes Henry Kissinger. So that would be whenever we see Kissinger on a company's board, you know that you got to pay attention to it. It's probably some sort of There's probably some sort of poisoning involved. No, probably not, John. Yeah, well, he likes to read. He's all in on reducing the world's population. Wow. OK. OK. I mean, you poo-poo the idea. OK. And following in the ICD-10 codes, there is a bill, I think coming to the floor, H.R. 2126,

2:57:48 short title, Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2015, saying we don't want these codes, it has to be done by October 15th, we do not want these codes to be implemented. It will kill smaller health care providers and so that bill is coming to the floor but of course it calls for a study and eventually it'll be pushed through. Yeah, let me see who introduced this. Mr. Poe of Texas. I'm seeing a lot of more stuff they had. I didn't take any clips of it, but Tom Cotton seems to be in the forefront of a lot of news stories now. They're really setting this guy up. And I think what they're trying to do is set him up to run for vice, be the vice president candidate, and then they can out him. As gay. As gay. And then they can use the hypocrites. The Republicans are hypocrites. It's a good argument. Totally.

CHAPTER 37 / 37 Discussion

Mozilla HTTPS Enforcement, Certificate Authority Monopoly

The Mozilla Foundation announces plans to deprecate non-secure HTTP connections in Firefox, mandating HTTPS for all websites. The hosts argue this move, supported by the "Let's Encrypt" initiative, creates a centralized point of control over the web through certificate authorities and will break many legacy devices and small websites.

mozilla· firefox· https· certificate authority· let's encrypt· internet security

2:58:50 I've done something very important. I will hit the jingle for this Well, I think we're in big in big trouble John with with the web as the Mozilla Foundation and you will recall that the Was it the founder the CEO who got thrown out because he supported? political campaign against gay marriage. He was squeezed out, he was pushed out. Yeah, yeah. There's something about gays in this guy. Yeah, so something's happening there. It was minor too, I don't even think it was really... There was just something. Well, it was a push. We covered it and he was pushed out. So there's a... Yeah, he was pushed out. There's a new guy in town. But here's what the Mozilla Foundation announced. They are going to deprecate

2:59:44 HTTP and will enforce HTTPS, which on the face of it sounds like, oh, this is a good idea because the Firefox browser in the future will only support quote-unquote secure connections. And the way a secure connection is established with a web server is through a certificate that the web server holds, and that certificate is managed by a CA, a certificate authority, so that you know when you hit this website it is actually the website that they say it is. The problem is you create this single point of entry for everybody now

3:00:27 With and actually gets much easier because then you're completely trackable through this through this secure pipe If the certificates, the certificate authorities are compromised, enough, quite enough examples of that, certainly with that company in the Netherlands. But the foundation is going to work with a number of other sponsors on Let's Encrypt, where they will become a certificate authority for free. So I think the way it works is you're going to be able to get your CA, which is like, it's probably a couple hundred bucks a year if you want to have your own certificate.

3:01:02 on your own web server and now they are saying, oh, you know what, no problem, we will provide them for free, we'll be the certificate authority. Is this even necessary? This is bull crap. It's not only necessary, it's incredibly stupid and it's dumb. It's dumb. And also, does that mean that Internet of Things... I have all kinds of devices that don't have HTTPS. My light system, that's not secure necessarily. So everything has to be changed. And what they're saying is, yeah, it will change eventually, but they're not putting a timeline on it. They're saying, oh, it could be weeks, could be months. We'll see how we do. But we need a new browser company. We need a new browser that doesn't do these things.

3:01:47 This is one of the... Yeah, this is just a bad thought. So the guy was in April of last year, he apparently said he didn't like the idea of gay marriage and that was that. He had supported some anti-gay marriage bill or something. I don't know what it was. I think he gave money or something. It's hard to see. There's all these articles but there's none of them are... So on the board of Let's Encrypt... This guy says he has the right to fight gay rights. It's from The Guardian. They get the whole thing wrong. He's against gays. Yeah. This is the... so the letsencrypt.org is part of the Internet Security Research Group, a Section 501c3, who have

3:02:27 I don't know how long they've been in business, but they have zero dollars reported. They haven't provided zero information to anyone. So maybe it's just too new. Maybe they, I can't believe that they wouldn't qualify for the amount we have to report. Board members, ISRG executive directors, Josh Aas from Mozilla. We have Akamai, Cisco, University of Michigan, Mozilla, Stanford Law, CoreOS, and then EFF. So they're all in on this. And I understand that if you self-sign your certificate, that right now if you do that, then Firefox gives you a scary warning and you can continue if you want. My understanding is it will just not support it at all anymore. If you don't have an officially approved certificate from an authority. This is not going to fly. Well, what do you mean? They're doing it. What do you mean it's not going to fly? It's not going to fly.

3:03:28 They're doing it, they say they're doing it, they can't, they're not gonna, it's not gonna work. Because the vast majority of the people that just use the internet are just, you know, and there's a lot of websites and others that aren't gonna do this. And there's gonna be old ladies that are gonna click on something, they're gonna get this warning, oh no. Well, that's what you have now, but it'll be, you won't even, it will just break. Yeah, but then it won't work, and they're gonna get customer service calls. You're gonna be inundated with this. No, you can't do that anymore. It's changed. Well, I don't get it. It worked yesterday. No, we've changed it. We were going to HTTPS. Huh? HTTPS? What is that? It worked yesterday. Where are they gonna have a problem, John? These old ladies you just spoke of, Mr. Agist, they're only going to Facebook.

3:04:17 Where are they going to find a problem? Nowhere. They're going to click on one of the links in Facebook, which will be the Guardian or the New York Times. Please. They'll just give up. They'll say, not working, son. Can you help me? And that's not an ageist. I'm just doing what they sound like. And then the next thing she does is she calls Leo Laporte the tech guy. Well, they'll solve it. He has all the answers. I enjoy that show. There you go. All right. Alright. Groovy, everybody. We've covered quite a lot of ground today. Hopefully we can stop with the inflate gates and train derailments and get on some other stuff. In the meantime, you and I, John, and all of our producers out there, and all the ships at sea and boots on the ground will have their ears and eyes open for anything that is being overlooked. I appreciate you co-producing the show with us. Thanks to our execs, thanks to all of our

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