Episode 818 · Thursday, 21 April 2016

Document 17

A declassified link between the Saudi Embassy and 9/11 hijackers triggers a $750 billion financial standoff while domestic primary scandals and the death of Prince dominate the headlines.

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About this episode

The declassification of Document 17 and the potential passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) have ignited a diplomatic crisis between the White House and Saudi Arabia. President Barack Obama faces a $750 billion threat to U.S. Treasury bonds as the Saudi government warns of massive financial retaliation if 9/11 families are permitted to sue the kingdom. Press Secretary Josh Earnest signaled a veto of Senate Bill 2040, while State Department spokesperson John Kirby dismissed further inquiries into the 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission Report as a fool’s errand.

In domestic developments, the New York primary is marred by allegations of voter disenfranchisement after 150,000 residents were purged from Brooklyn voter rolls. Bernie Sanders supporters reported malfunctioning Diebold machines and conflicting instructions from poll workers, while CNN exit polls utilized leading questions to frame Donald Trump as a frightening candidate. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group announced its withdrawal from most Obamacare exchanges despite reporting a $53 billion gross profit. In Europe, Chancellor Angela Merkel authorized a criminal inquiry into satirist Jan Böhmermann for insulting Turkish President Erdogan under an obscure 1871 law, and the European Commission leveled new antitrust charges against Google regarding its Android operating system.

The program pauses to acknowledge the sudden death of the legendary singer Prince at his home in Minnesota. Amidst the heavy news cycle, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is called out for a staged quantum computing demonstration that distracted from a 26% decline in the Canadian dollar. The CIA venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, is revealed to have invested in skincare technology capable of painless DNA collection, while Bill Nye issues a $20,000 climate wager to Joe Bastardi.


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CHAPTER 01 / 42 Discussion

Ambergris Trade, New Zealand and Whale Puke

A discussion regarding the discovery of ambergris in England leads to an exploration of its historical trade center in New Zealand. The substance, described as petrified whale puke or a gallstone from sperm whales, is highly valued in the perfume industry.

ambergris· new zealand· sperm whales· perfume· london telegraph

00:00 foil hat, conspiracy theory and truther. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday April 21st 2016 and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 818 This is no agenda Barely keeping my head above water in the great state of Texas and broadcasting live from the capital, the drone star state here in FEMA Region 6 Austin Tejas. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where we have no ambergris John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill! I bet you do have ambergris You just have to go to the beach Whales puke everywhere don't they? I have sperm whales They're all the ones that cough this stuff up Oh okay

00:46 Exactly how New Zealand became kind of a trading center. You're starting on people have no idea what you're talking about Somebody found a big chunk of ambergris in England and they described it very carefully in a London or Telegraph article. I never heard a good description of it before, It's like a rock and the guy wants to sell it he keeps mentioning New Zealand so I'm looking around saying what has New Zealand got to do with this? And it seems to be one of the places where there is trade open and there was market out here. And what did you do with ambergris? Juiced and perfumed somehow. Petrified whale puke

CHAPTER 02 / 42 Discussion

Bernie Sanders, New York Primary Voter Irregularities

Reports of widespread voter disenfranchisement in the New York Democratic primary surface after Hillary Clinton's victory. Allegations include the purging of 150,000 voters from lists in Brooklyn, malfunctioning Diebold voting machines, and poll workers providing conflicting information to Bernie Sanders supporters.

bernie sanders· hillary clinton· diebold· brooklyn· voter purging

01:25 It's like a it's like a gallstone or something. Okay, and I always thought it was Harry Hey wait hashtag fun fact there you go yeah all right Jean-Claude How are you doing in the morning to ya? In the morning to you and in the morning to Bernie Sanders who had been scammed Oh what happened is this the voting thing Yeah You want talk about it Well, it looks as if I mean Hillary just beat him badly in New York. Yeah But the curious thing was all this cities that would have these voting machines and anything that could be rigged Went to Hillary yeah And then Bernie got every rest of the state every single county with that with maybe a couple of exceptions voted for him and so this article comes out and i think It wasn't reddit it wasn't one of these

02:14 news consolidators talking about how the Diebold machines were rigged in Chicago, and they had documented an election where Bernie had won 57% of the vote. And the machine came up with 47% with Hillary winning. And these, particularly the Diebold or Die-bold I don't know how it's pronounced those machines have been under a lot of scrutiny for a long time also the ownership of the company which i think goes back to Romney there's a lot of stuff that's... electronic voting is not we can't even keep our bank accounts secure We can't keep anything secure. The government can't keep anything secure, we're gonna do online voting? Bad idea. No! Bad idea.

02:56 Every time online voting comes up in the conversation, people bitch about the Voting Rights Act. Oh we didn't reestablish it! One of the things that was going on I guess it was in the South after the Civil War is that the votes were stolen from the people you take somebody and say are you going to vote? Yeah well I'm voting for ya and they go in there and illegally vote for the guy right and then that would be how you get a lot extra votes Well, that had to be stopped. And so it was with various laws." Well you're just asking for nothing but trouble... Hold on, hold on, John. Hold on. This is not a real election. But would you be interested if you thought there were some irregularity in the Boy Scouts of America? This is not an election. There's no rules. There are no federal laws about what happened in Brooklyn or anywhere else in New York.

03:52 There's no law. No, I know but there are laws that are passed to keep these sorts of elections honest. No! I'm sorry, I don't think there is any law for these sorts of elections. I don't think so. There may be rules within the Democratic Party Okay, you might be right on that because the national but the national elections are what we're talking about in the end of The day no wouldn't yeah. Well if yes, that's the ones that the laws were written for Yes, if this would happen during a general election then it would be a big deal. Yeah But that's what I'm kind of getting around to all right because you brought up something had nothing to do with the elections Which is online voting and online voting is? I mean if I was if the online voting came to be The first thing I would do especially, you know either party

04:38 You would find out, you'd just go from door to door with a computer saying did you vote yet? I disagree. It should not be on the computer ever! I'm all for what they do in Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern nations. You walk up, get your finger dipped in ink, you voted! It's much more sophisticated than our system Well it does run together then you have that instead of having their little I voted button, or just have a yeah You just haven't just have an income. Hey Come on man we've been technology and computers for all our lives no absolutely no

05:21 You can't do them. So many technologists are advocating it constantly because just because they want jobs or they wanted It's cool I don't know, but it's not logical thinking It's just not logical thinking look at this Look at the cyber security issues for having our government who I guess with the government would be involved in running the general election somehow Government officials as laws etc now. I'm very much against electronic voting and And not also not someone come by with a laptop. No because that's when it can get compromised It's so easy I mean relatively speaking you only have to go buy with the laptop You just fake them in results with a phony algorithm Do you want to play this do you have a clip for this irregularity?

06:07 I have a bunch of clips, i'm not sure if I have one. Well actually what then let me... Yeah here it is voter yeah says this nobody really covered it very well except Democracy Now and that this is only a piece of what they said because they're all in on Bernie and they thought he got ripped off there were also reports the polling staff's were unable to operate voting machines gave out conflicting information and erroneously directed voters to alternate sites Sounds like a legit system. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a statement Tuesday decrying the disenfranchisement, writing quote it has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting list Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders expressed concerns about New York's voting process late on Tuesday after rival Hillary Clinton won the state's primary

07:01 Now, what exactly did he just say that happened? Did the people never...did they vote for their fair favorite candidate but it didn't happen or got deleted or is that clear at all what exactly happened to them. They just said the block was deleted. There was a series of events one 150 thousand people were disenfranchised they weren't on the list anymore to vote and it was random. Ah okay there's a Democrat you have to be a registered Democrat in order to vote Yeah, and they were. They were registered Democrats and then they went there was no... Oh you're not on here get out of here. Okay I gotcha The other one was oh the voting place wasn't working

07:41 And they said, no you go over here and the place that you go over there is not... No. You're not supposed to be here and they get the runner up. And these were of course all Bernie supporters? Yeah well... Of course! It's impossible to tell but it was probably Bernie supporters since Bernie is beating Hillary when they really have a honest thing going back and forth. Then Hillary got in as a senator Twice so she had a term and a half or something and She you know they have New York's got in the machine, and she's still part of it I guess go in there and exploit the machine. Oh hell yeah get all these votes I think it's probably how she got in in the first place whose day after rival Hillary Clinton won the state's primary While I congratulate Secretary Clinton I must say that I am really concerned

08:29 about the conduct of the voting process in New York State. And I hope that that process will change in the future, and I'm not alone about my concerns. The control of the city of New York talked today about voter irregularities and about chaos at the polling places New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said his office had received reports of polling stations that failed to open on time and poll workers who were unable to tell voters when they would be operational. Stringer ordered an audit of New York's election authorities, citing deep concern over widespread reports of poll site problems and irregularities. And again this is not an actual federal or election that is regulated by any laws as

CHAPTER 03 / 42 Discussion

Republican Nomination Process, Tom Ridge and Cleveland

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge explains that the Republican primary process is governed by party rules rather than federal laws. The discussion highlights how delegates can become unbound after the first ballot, leading to claims that the nomination process is a "game" or "charade" rather than a traditional election.

tom ridge· donald trump· delegates· republican primary· cleveland

09:20 pointed out by Republican Party insider Tom Ridge, who was he? I think he was the Homeland Security for W. Bush right yeah so he's a he's an insider and he was questioned i think on CNBC about you know how this process works in that Trump is saying it's a scam no he's saying something more egregious he's saying its rigged And, of course he's... Trump knows exactly what is going on. He knows the rules of the Republican primary. Well stop for a second and consider what Bernie had to say I mean this was the most milquetoast response that i could imagine Yeah, he said blah blah blah It doesn't happen again Maybe he isn't convinced there was any hanky panky going on other than people were disenfranchised because they couldn't vote in their little club meeting

10:09 And of course, the Republican nomination process is also a little club. But at the end of this clip here there's a kicker where Tom Ridge kind of just explains what it is. Listen I mean people at home just heard what you said and he essentially said It doesn't matter who has won these primary contests. It only matters if you can get the delegates on to third or fourth ballot ballot to vote for you. I can go bankrupt. There's nothing like a Beatles reference in 2016, is there? Good work sir! But i have no obligation to repay some of the people that suffered when I went bankrupt what the rules are they have to vote for me on the first ballot but philosophically politically and personally there may be some people

11:09 states who are obliged to vote for him on the first ballot but they're no longer obligated. That's why it can be a very interesting process. Why even have primary contest then? You just wasted the voters time time, just have a bunch of delegates that are picked behind the curtain and have them go to Cleveland. You're starting to sound like Donald. No I'm standing with one of his supporters! The process is the process he does it in life when he wins he's happy when he loses he's not so happy this is the way the game has been playing for a long long time yeah It's A Game This Is The Way The Game Has Been Playing It's not an election, it's a game.

12:02 I don't know, we're not going to make any difference. But the American people when you just say it would when they understand that this is not an actual election yeah you're electing somebody but this process is a big charade It's a game its ratings, money, PR, marketing and people really believe in this idea even propagated by us sometimes without stopping saying No! Its not an actual election there are no laws over You propagate the idea of a two-party system. And that's the whole idea, is to keep two parties run by the same people with stupid game that they play. They go back and forth too? Yeah, of course! So it looks like my wife is going to run for County Commissioner...

CHAPTER 04 / 42 Discussion

Local Politics, County Commissioner Race Anecdote

A brief update on a family member's potential run for County Commissioner following a previous unsuccessful bid for City Council. The conversation touches on the persistence required for involvement in local government.

county commissioner· city council· local politics· election· candidate

12:49 That's nice. Well, she hasn't decided yet, but didn't she already run for something or is this what she's ran for the City Council? Okay, how'd that work out? This is it She didn't she lost okay But but she didn't lose to anyone she didn't like so she's and she's been you know She's been hanging in there with the local politics and now she's moving to the next level I can't wait to find clips from her so we can scoff at her. I'll be great She's pretty, uh... Well if she's good then we won't scoff. We have no agenda when it comes to politicians. Yeah well

CHAPTER 05 / 42 Discussion

CNN Exit Polls, Anti-Trump Propaganda Tactics

Analysis of CNN exit polling in New York suggests the network used leading questions to frame Donald Trump's candidacy as frightening. By asking Republican voters if they were "scared" or "anxious" about a Trump presidency, the media is accused of generating anti-Trump propaganda.

cnn· donald trump· exit polls· propaganda· republican voters

13:27 I saw on the primary night, just flipping through all the channels seeing what they were doing. And of course because you have no data and it's not an official election until they start counting these votes and start reporting they do exit polls. Exit polls are in this case doesn't seem like they even asked anyone who they were voting for. They asked other questions CNN did a survey that they only did for Republicans regarding Trump. They didn't do it for Hillary or the Democrats at large, only for Republicans specifically Trump and they asked people if Trump becomes the nominee and the president are you somewhat scared? Scared? These levels of how frightened you will be

14:19 As a Republican, if Donald Trump becomes the nominee and vice president. You mean they didn't go to the... as they out... what's it called again when you ask questions after they voted? Um..you just said it a second ago what is it called? I have no idea what your saying! The poll? The exit poll? Exit poll. So the exit poll, they didn't say... They didn't come up with you guys and say so are you going to be a little happy? Real happy? No there was no happy. Somewhat happy? It was like anxious uh you know unsettled well listen And that's in a state Danibat Why wouldn't they ask if you're gonna be happy real happy somewhat happy Because it's CNN and they're against Trump

15:09 Just a thought, just of a president trump yeah and and whenever we see that word scared and it's even close to twenty two percent which has been in some other states even though he is nothing one it's kind of remarkable uh... to see that i mean that that that is the very aggressive passionate response to somebody who is a potential nominee of your party especially place like new york where was a closed primary meaning only republicans rather

15:50 Yes, very worrisome. 22%! You went up to everybody on the street and said, took any question or person and said are you going to be scared? Somewhat scared or not scared of this person? You're gonna get 22%. That's low. Well, but it was Republican voters only. It was not for anyone... No independents or Democrats. You're still going to always get that number if you ever... I've seen these wild questions and there's a range of answers and there's always one out of... This is two out of 10 people that are gonna say yeah, I'd probably be scared, I don't know.

CHAPTER 06 / 42 Discussion

Donald Trump, Teleprompter Use and Foreign Policy

Donald Trump plans to use a teleprompter and speechwriters for an upcoming major foreign policy address, marking a departure from his usual improvisational style. Critics like John Avalon label the candidate a "celebrity demagogue" while Trump previously mocked Hillary Clinton for her reliance on teleprompters.

donald trump· teleprompter· foreign policy· john avalon· daily beast

16:26 The point is it's propaganda. It's anti-Trump propaganda. The points made, CNN hates Trump! Yeah like this morning... Word is Mr. Trump will try a little discipline with his language he will deliver a foreign policy speech next Wednesday and the Wall Street Journal reports he will use a teleprompter and also someone will write this speech for him or at least help him write it Oh no! How could that ever happen? That speech he'll use a speechwriter. With me now John Avalon, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast and CNN political analyst Good morning John So Trump's use of a teleprompter would not be unprecedented but it would be a departure for Mr. Trump Listen I don't have teleprompters Right? Right? I've always said

17:11 If you run for president, you shouldn't be allowed to use teleprompters. You shouldn't be allowed! I don't read the speech... I don't do the teleprompter thing which would be so easy. Wouldn't that be easy? I have two teleprompters. I watched Hillary the other day she's the biggest teleprompter I've ever seen In fact if you're sitting on that side of the room or that side of the room you can't even see her. Okay so... The whole morning after every clip of Trump she's It's funny, you have to admit. But he is going to use a teleprompter to deliver these major policy speeches so he has changed his mind clearly why? Well because you can't celebrity demagogue your way through policies Good term! I like it You can't celebrity demagogue your way through Now is that a verb now? It's a verb Yeah, you could make it a verb Celebrity Demagogue

18:03 I like that term. The callousness. Our spray tan friend from Fifth Avenue. Oh my god, what a bigoted group! You know I say one thing about anything and get the wrath of hell but it's okay to say they are spray-tan friends from Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue realizes he has got to up his game and become more professional if he actually wants to get this nomination done and have a shot at being the next president

CHAPTER 07 / 42 Discussion

Peter King, Ted Cruz and Cyanide Comments

Congressman Peter King expresses intense vitriol toward Senator Ted Cruz, stating he would take cyanide if Cruz won the Republican nomination. The exchange highlights deep divisions within the GOP and King's disdain for the Texas senator's appeal to New York voters.

peter king· ted cruz· republican party· homeland security· cyanide

18:49 Oh, gee. Surprise surprise! Peter King who we've often listened to on this program with some chagrin because he's an a-hole and I believe he is on the Homeland Security Committee? Yeah, I think so. He's on one? No, yeah he is. It's either that or this... no i think it's the other one. The CIA group whatever its called. Not Homeland Security but... Oh intelligence something. Intelligence, yeah. I'm looking at demagogue and not saying you can make a verb. Well we can do it! Well no, HE did it. Peter King his problem is Ted Cruz. He's got to get re-elected. Money

19:32 Money. Special interest money. Money, money. Rig voting machines and money. Next question! He has a hard-on for like and I get he hates Ted Cruz so much. So in fact Here's actually a quote from Congressman King about Ted Cruz any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined Okay, well there's a little turnabout What happens tonight on the Republican side? How big does Donald Trump win? First of all in case anybody gets confused. I am NOT endorsing Ted Cruz And I think I'll take cyanide if he ever gets a nomination. Wow, good! We'll be waiting now i want Ted Cruz to win just to get Peter King to take cyanide right guys uh lots of spokes like to see Trump was to see all these people gonna move to Canada yeah they're leaving the country that's right moving the kind of leaving the country oh yeah I'm going to remind several people that they need to leave the country

CHAPTER 08 / 42 Discussion

Hillary Victory Fund, DNC Money Laundering Allegations

Nomiki Konst deconstructs the "flow of money" between the Hillary Victory Fund, Super PACs like Correct the Record, and the Democratic National Committee. The discussion alleges that legal but "shady" funneling of money allows the Clinton campaign to bypass traditional donation limits.

hillary clinton· dnc· super pacs· correct the record· nomiki konst

20:30 if that would ever happen. Yes, but keep your list handy! Yeah okay not we'll see lots of spokes holes everywhere for both candidates in New York it was interesting just to watch all the back and forth got a little heated and this is Spokeshold for Sanders no Miki const and I will end and she's she's arguing with some guy who was a what's-her-name Const K o n st. No, no Miki NOM iki no Mickey const But I had a nice little rundown of Hillary's crimes. I liked it. This is not true! Well, let me explain why... No you said it was legal! Well it is legal but what you're not checking is how they are funneling the money So Hillary Victory Fund is buying ads on Facebook trying to target donations that go back into the Hillary for America fund Brad, your part of Correct The Record Correct The Record receives money from Super PACs Correct The Record then gives money to the DNC and then the DNC gives money to the General Fund We know how this works It's called flow of money And we have the best lawyers in the world

21:30 By the way, your lawyer Hillary for America's lawyers are the same lawyers for the DNC. That should be shady in itself You know there's a lot of proof here that yes it might be legal but Hillary has the best lawyers now aside from that Aside from that sh** these decisions. We're trying to win an election, Namiki. We're trying to beat Republicans. It is not the cool kids table this is a competitive primary This is a competitive primary Hang on a second, Brad. You know all you have to do on the Hillary side is reach the 2383 number That's what you have to do and right now at this pace with the margins The difference in the margins of pledge delegates Hillary Clinton at this rate will not reach that 2383 pledge victory. That is blatantly untrue I mean that is blatantly... Alright! I like how the money flows would she call it? The flow of money? I like that

CHAPTER 09 / 42 Discussion

Hillary Clinton, Health Concerns and Beijing Speech

Observations of Hillary Clinton's physical condition during a radio interview suggest she may be suffering from a respiratory illness or exhaustion. Despite her failing voice, she references her 1995 speech in Beijing regarding women's rights as a cornerstone of her political identity.

hillary clinton· health· emphysema· beijing· women's rights

22:16 I didn't know how that sounds. She sounds like she's on speedballs Well, Hillary is not on speedballs She had another fit and you know and everyone said oh she still has it was from allergies It was uh You know its allergy season but when you listen... Its not allergy season well maybe its in some parts of the country When you listen to this poor woman someone needs to take her out of this race Yeah This is a radio interview. There's always the threat of sexism and unfair treatment, but you've got to learn to deal with it which I have over the years. You know she has her hand John on her chest

22:58 When she's talking and she can't speak, it's like she can't breathe. You have to watch this video! It's sad man. She has emphysema or something. This lady is ill. Sexism and unfair treatment but you've got to learn how to deal with it which I have over the years My voice is failing here but let me just quickly say I went to Beijing in 1995 and said women's rights are human rights. 20 years ago in Beijing! Isn't that sad though? Isn't it sad that the woman can't talk? I've been pushing that message ever since as Secretary of State, I went to 112 countries and I can tell you I raised women's issues, the oppression of women everywhere I went. Yeah well she needs to rest

23:43 That is it when you can't breathe like that. You can speak us is not good She needs definitely a little bit of arrest well I think was you know that clip that which was sent to us? Uh, I was I was under the impression she had her coughing getting a coughing fit But dude, I didn't find it in there no It wasn't a coughing fit it was that's why I thought it was actually interesting It's not the coughing fit, it's the complete constriction of oxygen. I don't know what is going on but that does not sound... The chat room all says coke throat but I don't think so! Our chat room obviously has a lot experience. You know there wasn't rumors about Bill being sort of a coke head and she would follow suit. The chatroom might actually be onto something. Could be. I have to say though

CHAPTER 10 / 42 Discussion

Infrastructure Issues, Potholes and Chicago Freight

Hillary Clinton highlights the economic impact of poor infrastructure, noting that freight trains take as long to cross Chicago as they do to travel from the West Coast. The discussion shifts to the personal cost of potholes, which reportedly cost commuters $1,500 annually in vehicle maintenance.

potholes· chicago· infrastructure· freight trains· transportation

24:34 Hillary Clinton, in some ways could be your candidate. Mine? Yeah! She has one of your biggest issues on her agenda Okay Can take nearly as long and I want you to hear this because i was shocked when I learned it It can take nearly as long for a freight train to cross the city of Chicago as it takes to get to Chicago from a factory on the West Coast. These delays raise the price of everything from food to furniture

25:15 Potholes and traffic jams cost commuters an average of $1,500 a year in maintenance and fuel. There you go! Potholes? Potholes! Somebody picked it up. Yeah I think she might be the candidate for you now. I'm thinking what happened is that this is what happens with the pothole really...it comes to you as It's like a light in the sky. You're driving along and you hit one of those axle-busting potholes, and it just shakes the car and you think your car is ruined! And then you find out that oh man I didn't ruin the car but that happens way too often. It happened to her obviously in her limo

26:01 And yeah, 1500 bucks in a limo for an axle. Yeah possible that's how she came up with the number you think? She was driving back from Oakland The limo hit a pothole okay. There's potholes every place but Alabama Oh really well Chicago I mean Chicago um Texas doesn't have any potholes on the highways certainly not oh That's good. You know we have great. I like our roads most people think they're shit and Well, most people don't like them because they're clogged so often. Yeah correct every time I go to Texas and always get stuck in one of these traffic jams are terrible well you totally definitely don't want to come right now what's going on now? People are dying again it's flooding everywhere mainly Houston mainly not even Austin though No but it is very wet that's for sure It's alright i got the aero bed its already inflated So if it gets up to my floor then ill just float out

CHAPTER 11 / 42 Discussion

Justin Trudeau, Quantum Computing and Media Swooning

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is criticized for a "staged" explanation of quantum computing that captivated mainstream media outlets like NPR. While journalists "swooned" over the performance, critics point out the stunt distracted from serious questions about terrorism and the 26% decline of the Canadian dollar.

justin trudeau· quantum computing· molly wood· npr· canadian dollar

26:55 You're on the 60th floor or something, I believe. Yeah in the skyscraper correct In the skyscraper Overlooking an alley Show us the video there's an alley right outside your window There is an alley that's correct yeah The view you get for being a podcaster So i was trolling the facebags as i do Looking for idiots and Molly Wood popped up And I haven't really spoken to Molly for a long time because, you know... She just listened to the show anyway. No! But after the divorce she was Team Mickey so I didn't know you had to have a team but okay fine and she posted this video of Trudeau... Team Mickey? Yeah. She posted this video of Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Candanavia and if you haven't seen it John it's about him explaining quantum computing

27:51 Yeah, this was always... most people believe this was rigged. This question and answer were both staged Well that's exactly what I was going to show But what was egregious is Mollywood and other NPR women going Oh Swoon! He's so cool! Oh yeah! What? he does that?! Boom! Mic drop! Fuck! Are you women idiots!? This was a set up, the guy is at a computing center to give 50 million to the computing center for quantum computing. Yes?

28:30 And he even said, no one watched the whole speech of course but here's what he said earlier. I was excited to deepen my knowledge of that this morning. Yeah, so what he said is exactly what happened that morning He had taken the tour he got a one-minute explanation That he memorized he did very well in fact the journalist wanted it You know asked him a serious question instead of what? The Prime Minister asked him to do wasn't ask you to explain quantum computing but

29:10 When do you expect Canada's ISIL mission to begin again? So he is asking about terrorism. An important question, so I was going to ask you how it will be doing Are we not doing anything in the interim while we prepare? Okay very simply normal computers work by... And everybody buys it including Three or four people who work for NPR who were glad to post this on and worked for a money show on NPR It's flabbergasting. I'm glad you got this because, I was uh...I didn't have any uhh.. Any uhh... Inkling that anyone didn't know this wasn't a set up Oh my god! And then-and then to boot, I said Would it be okay if i posted on Facebook? Ohh Swoon she so hot would that been okay? Or would you've been up my ass

30:12 What do you think? She said thank you for pointing out my ongoing hypocrisy. Okay, fair answer! Yeah that was a good answer yeah But still, it's pathetic. That's what you're trying to say? What's pathetic is that the media bought into this a serious question was not answered and it was a setup! It was a set up and the guy is like Obama he's doing this...it's the same playbook. He even says I'm a geek okay all right maybe he is I don't know but it was irksome. Well he's kind of geeky yeah it doesn't matter that

30:50 I don't care otherwise, but we deconstruct media and here's the media all in such an easy one. He is so cool headline! It was not okay." Well i can tell that you didn't care much for it. No well it was more the mainstream media response propagating that on... They're propagating him yeah the guy is a goofball I mean, look at this photo stream of the stuff. He takes pictures of himself and selfies all over the place. He's a goofball! I don't know how the Canadians... I mean this is the same... This is like Rob... What's his name? The Toronto guy who just died recently? Rob Ford

31:35 Rob Ford the mayor this is I don't know what's wrong, but Canada the Canadians are voting these clowns in instead of swooning over your prime minister then Letting him get away with you know funny cute PR. Why didn't you ask him about your Canadian dollar? What's up with that did people in Canada are heard about something collapsing? This is ridiculous It's it's horrible. What does it add today hold on a second book of knowledge God what is the current exchange rate of the Canadian dollar one dollar is worth one Canadian dollar and 26 cents 126 so 120 so it's twenty six, it was ahead of us during but just within if few years ago Yeah And now it's plummeted so its 26 percent lower than

32:24 In value than the dollar. Yeah, so you go So if you go to Canada which is the time because now it's a time to go yeah at the various stores there They got a lot of nice malls and yeah my stuff, so that's all right be asking That's what you should be asking your prime minister about ya just a thought Mm-hmm okay? Where do you want to go also? Do you when? You know it disturbs me that This has been brought this first came to mind during the first Bush Not the first board. Yeah was the first bush who had wasn't it? The blood guy who became they headed a Vice president of GW Bush the blood guy yeah, it wasn't he yeah the blood guy Who's the blood guys asked asked him with a book in our shoe did who the vice president for GW Bush was Oh Cheney No no that's George Bush

CHAPTER 12 / 42 Discussion

Dan Quayle, Vice Presidential Intelligence and Perception

A brief retrospective on Dan Quayle's tenure as Vice President under George H.W. Bush. The discussion contrasts his public image as a "goofball" with reports from associates claiming he was actually quite intelligent.

dan quayle· george h.w. bush· vice president· intelligence· public image

33:23 I'm talking about HW. Oh, HW? Yeah. It was... The Blood Guy! What is the vice president? Quail, quail. So they ran the campaign... I'm off today apparently They ran the campaign and they chose Quail who just was a.. I've heard from people that actually know him say he's quite intelligent Well he's also running one of the largest companies you know financial firms in the world Oh yeah But he was a goofball As the Vice President He said stupid things And it was just crazy He was a little uncoordinated

CHAPTER 13 / 42 Discussion

Harriet Tubman, $20 Bill and Hamilton Musical

The U.S. Treasury announces that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reportedly decided to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill due to the immense popularity of the Broadway musical "Hamilton," while other bills will be updated to feature suffragettes.

harriet tubman· andrew jackson· alexander hamilton· treasury department· jack lew

33:59 And, but when I was listening to the analysis of why they chose him in the first place it was all because he's a good-looking man and that's what women vote for. Possibly? Well what you just talked about is an indication of yes which is... Let's start talking seriously about removing the women's right to vote maybe that would be a good thought use that as evidence Just saying, because there's a lot of talk about the new dollar bill or the new trade order. Oh yeah! This is... It was going to have a bunch of suffragettes on it and then they finally came up with this... Harry Tubman, yeah. Now Harry... Harriet I said Harriet. Oh you did? Sorry. Harriet Tubman who I never heard of and I took history. Cal. I never heard of Harriet Tubman during my entire studies and I studied the Civil War mostly Really?!

35:00 Yeah, it's how could you not have first heard of Harriet Tubman about 20 years ago and It was while watching Jay Leno show where he used to do jaywalking And he would stick a mic in people's face and ask him questions that were That should have been easily answered. And one of them was who freed the slaves? Mm-hmm and this woman I think I don't know as a black or white girl She said Harriet Tubman And I said to myself, who the? Harriet Tubman. How did she free the slaves that you know Harry Tubman freed a few slaves

35:38 Oh, that's not what the... What is being written today about her. It was being written that she was the most successful conductor on the Underground Railroad Yeah well she may have been but I never heard of her and so i had to look her up and it was like oh Harriet Tubman, well she didn't free the slaves because she was an important character in the underground railroad thing And you know then they had to come with a picture and all pictures usually have her with horrible grimace on her face And like they show some of these, it's like holy crap you when you get your 20s out of the cash machine. But I also saw this morning that the 5 and 10 will have women... Suffragettes mostly Yeah on on the back of the bills yeah they're gonna put women all over these bills Now is the 20 with Harriet Tubman on the 20 does that mean its only worth $17?

36:30 Yes, exactly. And that joke by the way has been going around... Oh I hadn't heard it yet! You're closer to the right number people have been saying 12 No no it's 17 So they found a pretty good picture of Harriet Tubman and I put in the newsletter and of course I couldn't resist because she looks like a metrosexual in that picture if there ever was one back in 1800s Like a black Chris Hayes But this whole thing with women throwing their weight around and the war against men seems to me, and they've countered to that of course is deny them the right to vote. With all the cisgender and everything else you're never going to make that work because you can't figure out who's what unless they have to strip at the polling place. That'd be kind of interesting

37:18 But there's this war against men is cropping up and I think this whole thing with not necessarily Harriet Tubman who probably should be recognized, but with all these extra women they're gonna throw in the back of the bills and all the stuff. So just gratuitously it just seems to me to be some sort of a slight... What i thought was interesting as you know they were always talking about the $10 bill first which would have been Hamilton reporting that Jack Lew didn't want to change that because of the success of the musical Hamilton I believe that to be true. In fact, they have a clip that kind of backs that up. Which is idiotic if you think about it but where is this clip? This would be... Yeah when I think about it yeah so it's pretty darn crazy. Hit the Tubman clip maybe that'll do it

38:04 Okay, alrighty. For generations, this has been the face of the $20 bill. But tonight a major facelift! The Treasury announcing Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson the former slave taking the spot of the slave owning president A woman was expected to replace Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill but then...

38:47 This happened. The smash success of Broadway's Hamilton sparked a wave of popularity for the nation's first Treasury Secretary, the show's creator even lobbying the current Treasury Secretary during a recent visit we asked the secretary about his controversial decision did you ever expect a Broadway show to impact the plans of the US Treasury? If you look at what the show has done, it is very complementary to what we're doing in this whole undertaking. It brought history back into common conversation Tubman is an American hero escaping slavery and risking her life helping countless escape through the Underground Railroad. And she isn't the only woman we'll see, take a look at what the other bills could look like The back of the 10 will honor female leaders of the suffrage movement while the back up to five will highlight historic events at the Lincoln Memorial

39:40 Of course, this is really all just set dressing and making money look pretty because these dollar bills in the 10 and the five they're just going to be a collector's items like the Franklin Mint. You don't use money This is if anything, it's kind of laughable. And I'm sure people at the Treasury are laughing like these stupid fools arguing about money they don't even have in their pocketbook anymore. It's all digital but what will happen guaranteed Visa will come out with the Tubman visa card. Oh yeah guarantee that's coming to book. Oh yeah it's all going to be so Tubman visa card? Yeah

40:16 Everyone will be taking these suffragettes and Tubman and using it for digital cash. Because that is, that's the joke of it all. And if they were alive today they'd be swooning over Pierre Trudeau It's a good little sleight-of-hand like hey look at this argue about the money you don't even use argue about the money you don't have in your pocket Well, I thought it was interesting that the networks caught on to the Hamilton...the play. Yeah well i think Jack Lew might have said something about that our Treasury Secretary he might have mentioned it when he mentioned in their piece now talking talked about it right oh there you go now they irony did the whole thing of course is Andrew Jackson which we just I think most people know this but then listen to this show but Andrew Jackson was the I think as the seventh president he was dead set against central banking

41:10 Yeah, that's right. It was this so he's not a Federal Reserve note kind of an embarrassment Yeah, yeah, he had to go he had the guy I don't know and I think that's better than Hamilton Yeah, Hamlet it was all for it. Yeah, well Jackson just goodbye Finally we got rid of that a-hole who was against our system? Yeah, that's exactly right exactly right I like the Harriet Tubman Visa card. One of these guys, either MasterCard or Visa, one said immediately or even American Express should immediately start promoting this. It's a great idea! This is one of those great ideas. It's my once in decade idea? No it's just one of those meeting ideas where if you're working for the company and come up with that idea you get a bonus. I would get an attaboy

CHAPTER 14 / 42 Discussion

UnitedHealth Group, Obamacare Exit and Profit Margins

UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest health insurer, announces its withdrawal from most Obamacare exchanges due to financial losses. Despite claims of losing money on the exchanges, the company reported a $53 billion gross profit over the last 12 months, leading to skepticism about their motivations for pulling out.

unitedhealth group· obamacare· health insurance· net profit· risk management

42:00 Well, that's what they call it an atta boy in Attaboy. Yeah you can just wait for it Meanwhile very under reported although It was certainly reported wow wow wow I mean like Wow Wow Wow United Health Group making good on a threat to pull out of Obamacare the nation's largest health insurance provider announced Tuesday That as of next year it will no longer participate and President Obama's signature healthcare exchange Okay, but I didn't know that was part of the deal. I mean, American citizens can't pull out of the Obamacare deal yet the insurance companies are allowed to pull out of the deal? I don't know...I've heard this story and didn't fully understand it. I thought they were just going to pull out a few states and maybe maintain themselves someplace. I have no idea- Well this story is pretty good explanation of it but

42:54 The reason Good old-fashioned math, says Reuters health and pharmaceutical correspondent Caroline Humer. They're losing money on Obamacare and they have been for a while and they basically say they can't make money in this business UnitedHealth will stop providing coverage in most states leaving nearly 800 thousand people scrambling to find another way to pay medical bills

43:35 but united health i love that would just let that in there now it's not a way to pay no medical bills is a little way to get insurance for your medical bills and other things rambling to find another way today medical bills by united health swans are largely self-inflicted rather than indicating the problem with obama care the whale mama cares set up you do better if you have more customers the more customers who have the less risk you have, the better you do. This is not entirely true The way Obamacare was supposed to work is premiums were changed for people who already had insurance

44:11 And that would go to subsidize the people who are now going to receive Obamacare insurance from the government. So UnitedHealth thought they were gonna get a lot of customers, they thought that they could manage the costs and risks around all those customers but...they priced high and when you price too high you don't get the customers Now let me say something UnitedHealth is an insurance company. It's a bank, all that insurance companies do is manage risk all the time. You're going to tell me that one of the largest insurers did not foresee the risk?

44:55 I'm just not going to buy that. That's all they do, all day! All day!" is, oh well you know that so it's the free market. There are only three companies really insure everybody So that's free market huh okay A big percentage of the nearly 13 million Americans using Obamacare went with other cheaper insurers Those who are now being dropped by UnitedHealth can sign up with another Obamacare insurer willing to take them on Willing to take them on? Is there going to be a problem

45:46 I don't know, but this... to me it sounds like the insurance companies made their money and they're out. It's that simple! I think that might be more... That might be an accurate analysis. I'm just looking at their stats right here United Healthcare had a gross profit over the last 12 months of- Let me guess how much? Okay go ahead No, guess A twelve month profit? Well i think i heard you say either 15 or 50 so i'm biased Yeah, 53. 53 billion dollars profit net profit? Net profit yeah oh that's gross profit uh revenue it is on revenue of 157 billion. Oh that's 30% to the bottom line or to the gross and that's not bad That's I wouldn't mind being in that business

46:39 We've got 12 billion in cash, and the bank. There's no reason... This whole thing is something I think you're right something fishy about this they took their profits and just closed it said you know? And maybe aggravating or maybe see the writing on the wall that somethings gonna change in the future they don't want to get involved I don't know! And mind you the insurance companies wrote this legislation They wrote it. Something very, this is why I didn't follow up on it because I knew it would be a rabbit hole and there's something very... Well yeah, I've got my nets and my hooks out. The stock is selling for $133 a share. It has got a net worth of 146 billion dollars enterprise value which is more than the market cap. And outrageous! So enterprise value was more than the market cap? Is that what you said? Yeah, that means they owe money. Right

CHAPTER 15 / 42 Discussion

Prince, Death of the Singer

Breaking news reaches the program that the legendary singer Prince has died at his home in Minnesota. The hosts express shock and briefly discuss his legacy as a creative force and a nice individual.

prince· death· singer· paisley park· breaking news

47:29 Or they could be undervalued. No, enterprise value is just a calculation based on market cap minus debt. Well it could also just be you know they've been threatening this so maybe they just finally said... You know what's possible? The president is busy he's got a lot of stuff coming down in particular this 28 pages which I would like to talk after I say In the morning to you, John C. where the C stands for Captain of Industry Dvorak! Well in the morning to you Mr Adam Curry also in the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground feet in the air subs and the water all the dames and knights out there Wow wow low energy I'm just because I'm looking for this spreadsheet Yeah in the mornings everybody in the chat room no agenda stream calm hey did Prince just die holy crap what Prince just died

48:27 Prince? Prince, the singer. Prince! He just died you sure? Yeah yeah Well that's a nice way to start the donation segment Oh man holy crap I wonder what happened Well why don't you look it up while i start the thanks Well let me first thank everyone in the chat room who have alerted me to the fact that Prince is dead NoahJennerStream.com Thankyou very much to our artists We want to thank in particular the artist for episode 817 Sellout Politics That was Mark G That was nice This guy makes nice pieces No, he's an artist. That was the Ebola serial graphics artists with the I would see Kazika virus as fantastic Fantastic very very good no agenda art generator commas where you can submit where we always pick a piece of art for the album art And and we always take it right after the show so get in as soon as you can We appreciate all the work that we are fortunate enough to have done on our behalf here at the know agenda show

CHAPTER 16 / 42 Discussion

No Agenda, Executive Producer Donations

The hosts acknowledge financial support from the "No Agenda" community, including significant contributions from Sir Dwayne Melanson and David Drews. The segment covers the "Small Boob Donation" challenge and the impact of tax week on recent funding levels.

donations· executive producer· karma· tax week· 420

49:20 Let's start with Sir Dwayne Melanson, who is our Archduke of the Pacific Northwest. Says he's tardy in donating but helping my mom with the aftermath of my father's demise. Oh, sorry! You have been producing a particularly fine product of late especially the analysis of miscellany edits in show 813 add me to the 818 club Which is good luck. Yeah, nice! And karma to all so he's contributed $118 on his way to Grand Duke He says I don't understand...he says the analysis of misleading edits Oh that was the Rachel Maddow Hillary Clinton thing oh okay now I understand what he's talking about

50:09 Remember with misleading and yeah, well we could do that. This is the show on misleading edits side Karma to all the nights hold on karma to all this karma to the night Now you have Pull on one we have David Drew's is one of the editors over Dvorak uncensored blog in Henderson, Nevada who felt obliged to give $404.40 with a note that he sent in which I'll read. Let me get my act together here. John, I just sent a donation for the show this PayPal and then it goes on whether it showed up or not and it did

50:54 Letter please use my uncle Dave is the way he wants to be called Some of your listeners may remember me as Uncle Dave one of the editors at John's blog although I rarely contribute items do it anymore? I still send John various things at times both for the no agenda show like artwork and otherwise, but I've never donated Feeling that I was doing enough. I was wrong I've prided myself, based on the lessons both of you have provided over the years as being able to fully deconstruct the crap shoveled down our throats as news on a daily basis. But on The Beyond Outstanding show on Sunday April 17th so we have two people complimenting that show... I realize i'm still a student to you! To the masters! Ah snatch the pebbles from my hand Grathaba

51:46 You were able to dig out some unbelievable gems of truth and stories I had myself read or heard, but missed what was really going on. Yeah well... As a result i feel compelled to donate please accept my donation of 440 cents $400.40 This is henceforth to be known as the small boob donation Oh man! Both because it's half of a full boob Which is 808 80 donation plus the fours could be looked at as small pointed perky breasts and now challenge other never donators to match my donation of $400.40 to make it a full- We're sliding down the slope, John. Boob donation. I can tell you this that the boob donation newsletter was not such a huge hit really?

52:37 do well. Nobody cares about boobs, no agenda show. You know you want to do it keep up the insanely great work guys and if you would play the following uh don't eat me Hillary the scream get out of my vagina uncle david henderson nevada. Don't eat me Hillary Clinton! Get out of my vagina! Alright, back to the other screen. Todd Troutman in Austin Texas becomes a dissociative executive producer at $200. Wedding karma needed? No rain on Friday in South Austin! Okay man we'll be praying for you. I will not touch the rain stick on your pants. I won't touch the rain stick either but it's not looking great just think of it as liquid sunshine and those are our three

53:39 contributors to show 818. We're having people who do another show coming up this Sunday in a short turnaround so you can go to dvorak.org and help us out, this is also tax week so it was I think was part of the problem and yesterday was 420 which was another part of the problem. I celebrated! That was strong. Well, I was gonna donate for boobs but then i just decided to have marshmallows. That's okay. We appreciate everyone helping out these of course are our executive producers and our associate executive producers They really keep the finances going can't wait to thank everybody who came in at $50 or above later on in the broadcast I highly appreciate it, and of course as always these are Factual credits you can use them anywhere that credits are recognized Devorak dot org slash N A

54:36 And between now and Sunday, you can always go out there and do the important work of propagating our formula. Our formula is this... We go out we hit people in the mouth. Order! Order! Sir! Hey citizens Shut up, slave! Hey! Very nice Uh yeah The 28 pages is uh It's all over the place now thanks to a bill that has been introduced known as the Justice Against Terrorism Act. And this is obviously the reason why President Obama hurried off to Saudi Arabia, to have a meeting... I'll stop you right there! Can you find me a clip where anyone has said that? Where anyone has said what? That this is the reason he went to Saudi Arabia Absolutely not

CHAPTER 17 / 42 Discussion

Saudi Arabia, 9/11 Families and JASTA Bill

President Obama visits Saudi Arabia amid tensions over the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The bill would allow 9/11 families to sue the Saudi government for allegedly financing the hijackers, a claim bolstered by the classified "28 pages" of the 9/11 Commission Report.

saudi arabia· 9/11· jasta· barack obama· 28 pages

53:39 contributors to show 818. We're having people who do another show coming up this Sunday in a short turnaround so you can go to dvorak.org and help us out, this is also tax week so it was I think was part of the problem and yesterday was 420 which was another part of the problem. I celebrated! That was strong. Well, I was gonna donate for boobs but then i just decided to have marshmallows. That's okay. We appreciate everyone helping out these of course are our executive producers and our associate executive producers They really keep the finances going can't wait to thank everybody who came in at $50 or above later on in the broadcast I highly appreciate it, and of course as always these are Factual credits you can use them anywhere that credits are recognized Devorak dot org slash N A

54:36 And between now and Sunday, you can always go out there and do the important work of propagating our formula. Our formula is this... We go out we hit people in the mouth. Order! Order! Sir! Hey citizens Shut up, slave! Hey! Very nice Uh yeah The 28 pages is uh It's all over the place now thanks to a bill that has been introduced known as the Justice Against Terrorism Act. And this is obviously the reason why President Obama hurried off to Saudi Arabia, to have a meeting... I'll stop you right there! Can you find me a clip where anyone has said that? Where anyone has said what? That this is the reason he went to Saudi Arabia Absolutely not

55:34 That's because I can't find a clip. I've got clips of...I've got two or three clips of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabia trip and the message you get is they snubbed him? Yes! And he said they're freeloaders. Free riders was his exact quote. Yeah free riders. Which is pretty much the Trump talking point interestingly enough Well, I have a number of clips because this ties into the 28 pages of the 9-11 Commission report which we are awaiting approval.

56:09 We're waiting for these to be released. Actually, you know what I have? I have a clip from former New York City deputy fire chief who lost his son in 9-11 and who was active he's one of the first responders and it was on with Don Lemon and Lemon has this late night talk show or later night talk show which is not even on all the time because of the elections but when you catch it It's either funny because Lemon is just such a moron, or sometimes he has good guests on. And this is a little long but it really walks through everything including Obama's reception in Saudi Arabia and what this is about and we'll have to talk about the...what people are asking for

56:52 But this act would allow US citizens to sue other countries for actively financing or assisting terrorism. And the 9-11 families want to be able to sue Saudi Arabia specifically because they believe that the 28 pages, which they also want released and there are separate bills for that The 28 pages will show that there was at least financing of the 9-11 terrorists by Saudi Arabia. So here he is with Don Lemon, it's an interesting... I mean take his position into account he lost this kid, he lost his friends and co workers And here is what he said They told us that ground zero the year was fine Everybody got sick, I was in a coma for 16 days They have some nerve We should be allowed All we're doing is looking for right to sue You know they can go to court

57:45 And what they're doing now is they have sovereign immunity. So, they give a blanket statement this JASTA law will wipe out the sovereign immunity and we'll be able to go to court and sue them if they abetted, aided, financed or funded their terrorists. What do you say to Lindsey Graham though? Who was the co-sponsor of the bill who's saying this could open up the US up to legal attacks I say, I don't know what happened with him. He sponsored the bill and now all of a sudden maybe Saudi Arabia has seven firms that lobby down in Washington. Maybe he got a piece of money or something? Do you think that the White House—and now, Lindsey Graham, do you think they're looking at a bigger picture or something else is at play here? I think they're looking at something else between Saudi Arabia and them. They ought to think of the American families who lost their loved ones that day. Three thousand people died.

58:27 I picked up the parts down there. They're worried about the Saudi feelings and how they're gonna be with, they are probably threatening them with $750 billion dollars let them do what they want we have to stop the terrorists with the funding and everything else. Okay so this is important just a stop here to get the whole story regarding the 28 pages, but really now being pushed over to this new act is what Saudi Arabia is responding to. They're not saying don't release the 28 pages and they are saying hey you can't be suing us for anything that won't work if you want to do that we're going to sell all of our treasury so they are threatening a little bit which Another reason President Obama probably went over to talk. Do what they want, we have to stop the terrorists with the funding and everything else and right now we're not doing it. And President Obama was going to reject that bill he didn't even read the 28 pages in The Classified Report Now this is what's interesting about this bill it is mainly a Democrat bill Cornyn Schumer Grassley Feinstein

59:23 There's a, how many more sponsors? Like 20 different sponsors on it. And he is saying that we're going to get routine lawsuits. 9-11 was not routine It was a major major attack We need legislation to prevent countries from doing this. Otherwise, Paris is going to happen again, San Bernardino and 9-11's are going to happen again and again unless we hold these people accountable." You said that you believe the president didn't even read the 28 page classified report but you want that report to be released why is it so important? It's so important because we want have the right to sue me also wanted to bring this information into court if you look at those twenty pages some of the people who've read

1:00:01 There's been doubt in San Diego embassies, money exchange hands between handlers and the 9-11 hijackers from the Saudi embassy out there. They treated these people with kid gloves. The Bush administration flew 100 people right after 9-11 of the bin Laden family that was the only plane allowed up back to Saudi Arabia while we the firemen were down there digging. You know I love this it's only taken 15 years but now someone can actually say on CNN That the Saudi family were the only plane that was allowed to leave on 9-11, the only aircraft that was not grounded. If you said that five years ago... Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory and truther! Now it's just like oh yeah okay Don Lemon doesn't even respond I mean Oh I am? Well maybe... I AM?! Oh hell yeah People are like what is that man conspiracy It was discussed when it happened

1:00:57 Everything was discussed briefly when it happened. WTC7 was discussed when it happened I'm just talking about what's happened in the decade and a half since then Uh-uh, I know you could not bring it up You're saying that Cheney and Bush did an inside job? Yeah yeah That was the response she would get I've been around The Bin Laden family These people with kid gloves, the Bush administration flew 100 people right after 9-11 of the Bin Laden family that was the only plane allowed up back to Saudi Arabia while we the firemen were down there digging our loved ones looking for our loved ones. If you're allowed to sue what does this do for you? What will you sue for? What will the family sue for? What do you want

1:01:43 I'm not even, we're not even thinking about money or anything like that. We want accountability. We want it to be known that Saudi Arabia if you look at these pages they said it doesn't affect national security but that's the reason they held them Why did they hold him up? Why was because Bush and them had oil ties with the king of Saudi Arabia? We have to ask these questions why do they protect them They had numerous things in his 28 pages where local police departments had information and the FBI squashed it. They said, no no it's the Saudis leave them alone this is all that's in those 28 pages let's release them you know but at this point just goes to show how good we are classifying stuff in the United States government everybody knows almost exactly this is a new piece of information I didn't know that in the 28 pages it possibly also spells out

1:02:33 How people just say, that's the Saudis let him go. Don't worry about it. The Saudis leave him alone This is all that's in those 28 pages Let's release them Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it But we're never even gonna get to know the history if they hide it from us Have you been paying attention to the president's trip now? And what do you think of it I just saw that he got a cool reception at the airport And I think you ought to put them, you know, put them right in their place and say listen if you're not guilty You have nothing to worry about. And that's that the families deserve this 3,000 families heartbroken We read our hearts pour out every day my son is never gonna walk back in the door we deserve to know what happened we deserved to see two twenty-eight pages and JASTA would be a good law To prevent future attacks in the future like Paris San Bernardino 9 11

CHAPTER 18 / 42 Discussion

Iran Asset Seizure, Supreme Court Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a judgment requiring Iran to compensate victims of the 1983 Beirut bombing using $2 billion in frozen assets. This legal precedent for seizing foreign funds is compared to the potential financial fallout facing Saudi Arabia if JASTA passes.

iran· supreme court· beirut bombing· frozen assets· terrorism victims

1:03:21 So I did some work on this because, you know it involves law and bills. And I like to read these things. What the overall though what's interesting to me is this idea of suing people who financed or countries who finance terrorism which is obviously happening because we just went through... We completely deconstructed the 150 billion dollars from Iran Right, in fact let's play a little clip that is prelude to your discussion here which is the Iran sued clip. The US Supreme Court has upheld a judgment that forces Iran to compensate victims of terror attacks they include relatives of 241 U.S Marines killed at a Beirut bombing in 1983 their families will collect from nearly two billion dollars and frozen Iranian funds held in the u.s

1:04:16 Yeah, so we went through it. We went through all this and we saw exactly how it worked. We saw the lawsuits and really what this is... So we're not going to sue I mean the suing is irrelevant It's about freezing the assets which is exactly what we did with Iran. We froze all the assets from Iranian based assets that were in the United States And we held on to that money until we had District judges and courts say, oh you obviously have a right to go after some what was the word? Retaliation is not the word but you deserve some compensation. And what we'll do is since we have this money under control, you can now access that money because you sued them successfully. But what is mind boggling to me how did we go...and maybe of course every single politician these days is a lawyer

1:05:11 When someone would like be involved in killing your people didn't we just go and like start a war and kick their ass What is this suing bullshit? I'm gonna sue you if you do that. I mean, I miss you. I'd get better lawyers It seems to be it seems to be more politically correct I think is the big part of it The second thing is it's one of the new ways As you know, we've stolen money before. That's what we do! We steal money this is what you do if you're the empire... Remember the Russian? No hold on Russian money was locked in America? We held it! It still under sanction Yeah and we look for a way to steal it yeah like a lawsuit

1:05:58 Lawsuit would be good. This is one way of making the stealing look kind of legit And I do want to point out because i just read the names this is a Jewish sponsored bill by the Jewish fraction in the government and it's sponsored by a lot of other people But it was, it was similar. Anybody should be going after Saudi Arabia is the Jews. Yes. Saudis who promote this will hobby mosque building all around the world they just do nothing but spew anti-Israel anti Jewish and you know what? They've bought up a whole bunch of property and land in the Baltic state in the Balkans and the Balkans, the Baltics, the bulk, the Balkans

1:06:45 No, the Balkans. The old Yugoslavia is that the Balkans? Yeah. And they're building mega mosques right on the border of Europe and yeah they're preaching the same stuff! Death to the Jews! So yeah now very interesting timing. And also government sanctioned. Very interesting timing is, you know as we're looking so the idea would be we have Saudi money and what they're saying hey if you gonna pass this bill were taking our money out that's pretty much what they say. You can call treasuries whatever you want however you wanna position it They don't want their shit to get frozen by us and then subsequently stolen because if you look up United States on Wikipedia says yeah we're pretty good at stealing your money I hate to say that

CHAPTER 19 / 42 Discussion

John Kerry, Iranian Sanctions Relief Discrepancy

Secretary of State John Kerry claims Iran has only received $3 billion in sanctions relief to date, contradicting previous estimates of $100 billion to $150 billion. The discrepancy raises questions about the actual financial terms of the nuclear deal and the "stealing" of Iranian funds.

john kerry· iran· sanctions· state department· nuclear deal

1:07:26 So we saw this money, it was a hundred- first it was 150 billion then 100 billion. This is all Iran and then Kerry timing as everything says this yesterday two days ago Despite the skeptics most dire predictions We are in a place that some people thought was unimaginable and others unacceptable You remember the debate over how much money Iran's gonna get? you heard sometimes you hear some of the presidential candidates Putting a mistaken figure out of 155 billion. I've never heard we never thought it would be that although others thought it'd be about Although this exactly what they said in the State Department document, so that's a lie ever thought it would be that Others thought it would be about 100 billion because there was supposedly 100 billion That was bowed and so forth

1:08:17 We calculated it to be about 55 billion dollars when you really take a hard look at the economy and what is happening. Guess what, folks? You know how much- What kind of math is he doing?! Yeah! It was 150... This another way of stealing the money But wait until- How much do you think they actually got Of the 150 billion originally reported? How much did Iran get? Sounds like they got 100 billion somehow No listen Take a hard look at the economy and what's happening Guess what folks Do you know how much they have received to date As I stand here tonight, about three billion dollars. Okay, no wonder they've got S-300 rockets aimed at us! We stole their money! Crazy... So this came up of course at the State Department and uh oh i'm sorry this is the White House Josh Earnest uh regarding and the White House is very much against this and so here's a rift which has not been reported as but this is a Democrat party bill um there are Republicans on board

CHAPTER 20 / 42 Discussion

White House, JASTA Veto Threat and Document 17

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest signals a potential veto of the JASTA bill, citing concerns over reciprocal legal risks for U.S. diplomats and service members. Meanwhile, "Document 17" is highlighted as a declassified record linking 9/11 hijackers to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

josh earnest· jasta· saudi arabia· document 17· sovereign immunity

1:09:16 But it is not a Republican bill, and it's the Senate bill from the Democrats. And the White House is against it and the only way I can see that is if you know the President is worried about being sued then he's clearly worried about his money somewhere else being frozen and stolen. That's what would come down to. We don't need this because we clearly know how to do it somehow we were able to do with Iran there was no mention of Iranian hijackers, but yet we stole their money and there's Document 17. This is what I wanted to bring up document 17 a Is mentioned in the 28 pages but has been available Pretty much since the 9-11 Commission The document 17 it's kind of like a mini 28 pages and

1:10:20 Uh, where was this? So this has been public knowledge. Let me see... I don't have a copy of it here with me but the terrorist one of the terrorists who apparently went to flight training school and magically learned how to go from a Cessna 152 to a 757 and fly at above physical speed for the aircraft into two tiny buildings—at least that's what it looks like from the air—received his pilot's license indirectly from the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington. I had never heard about this! I've never heard about this, A and B if you look up document 17 on the wiki page it's very hard to find anything It has been washed or held quiet or...it is a long time ago too Document 17 came out after 9-11 commission The internet was just kind of getting going People forget things very easily Anyway here is Ernest from the White House Well hold on a second

1:11:28 Now I'm on his page, The Real Independent News and Film. It says document 17 has just been recently declassified." It's it's been available since then that's my understanding but doesn't matter nice to know about it now too! I don't care that's fine you know if that's the official story then you know let's roll with it and say hey how did they because when you get your pilot's license you know they're going to send it to the address that you register yourself at and he must have registered himself at the Saudi Arabian embassy That's interesting. It was just declassified in July of 2015, so it has been out for... I think i can find evidence that was available much earlier We'll look for it Anyway here is Ernest, they don't want none of this! Well Josh what you just described uh..is a scenario where Congress would open up the loophole that would allow individual Americans no matter how justified they are and having sustained harm

1:12:29 being given an opportunity to sue another country. And it certainly is plausible, Josh that other countries when they're implementing these laws would not tailor them so specifically and that does open up the United States to a unique degree of risk in putting our country our taxpayers our service members and our diplomats in legal jeopardy in that way is contrary to our interests It's unwise Why? So what he's saying is, if we open this up then other countries are going to sue our politicians. What kind of world are we in? What happened to good old terrorism and blowing someone's country up? We're gonna sue you?! Is this how we sneak the International Criminal Court into the equation and we all become used to the idea of just suing our enemies? This is odd! Let's look at the bill for a second

CHAPTER 21 / 42 Discussion

Senate Bill 2040, Saudi Treasury Threat

A detailed reading of Senate Bill 2040 reveals the legal framework for holding foreign nations accountable for terrorist acts. Saudi Arabia has reportedly threatened to sell $750 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds if the bill is enacted, a move that could disrupt global financial markets.

senate bill 2040· saudi arabia· treasury bonds· sovereign debt· congress

1:13:28 So this is called, right now it's Senate Bill 2040 to deter terrorism provide justice for victims and other purposes. And then we have all of the sponsors and co-sponsors that I mentioned... ...and then we have to go down because this is the bill where they crossed out all the original stuff Okay, so this act may be cited as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act and then they have some findings. International terrorism is a serious and deadly problem okay? The Constitution confers upon Congress the power to punish crimes against the law of nations and therefore Congress may by law impose penalties on those who provide material support to foreign organizations

1:14:08 engaged in terrorist activity and allow for victims of international terrorism to recover damages from those who have harmed them. So they're saying this is a constitutional right that Congress has? Maybe, I'm not so sure...I guess..I don't know International terrorism affects the interstate and for commerce. Yeah, it's our interest some foreign terrorist organizations acting through affiliated groups or individuals raise significant funds outside of the United States for conduct directed and targeted at the United States." Yeah I know we-I can barely send money to my daughter anymore without Department of Homeland Security intervening. Hey! Why are you sending this to someone with the same name? That's suspicious

1:14:48 It is necessary to recognize the substance cause of action for aiding and abetting. Okay, and then they point to the United States Security Council declared in resolution 1373 adopted on September 28th 2001 that all countries have an affirmative obligation to quote refrain from providing any form of support active or passive to entities or persons involved in terrorist acts to ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning preparation or preparation of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice. So now they're bringing in the UN but the purpose of this act and they say it purpose

1:15:33 is to provide civil litigants with the broadest possible basis consistent with the Constitution of the United States, to seek relief against persons entities and foreign countries wherever acting and wherever they may be found that have provided material support directly or indirectly to foreign organizations or persons that engage in terrorist activities against the United States." Now there is really no language uh...in this document that explains the mechanism other than the one we saw take place with Iran. It does have though, and that's why it was a little incorrect what was just said there

1:16:16 No action may be maintained under Section 233 against 1. the United States, 2 an agency of the United States or 3 an officer employee in the United States or any agency in the United States acting within the official capacity of the officer employee are under color legal authority so if you're a let's say from Syria and your United States is a hey you guys blow my family up but you can't sue the United States that's how the law would work which I think it Beautiful. Not at all unbalanced! We're so good at this! I think this is, if anything a distraction John for the 28 pages take the focus away that's all i can think of. I disagree with that and the reason I disagree with it because all the news stories and everything and I think this has included all focus on the twenty-eight pages The twenty eight pages are part of the conversation I think the opposite

1:17:13 I think they're bringing the focus onto the 28 pages to make the American public demand to see the 28 pages. And then, and then... okay. And i think there's something screwy going on with Saudi Arabia that's beyond what we think. Well isn't it, well isn't the 28 pages just aren't we using that as a threat against Saudi Arabia? Isn't that kind of the whole idea I think there's, i think the 28 pages are going to come out. I think something else is going on with Saudi Arabia including... Now I don't know that you could get away with pulling this stunt because I know we have a lot of money and most of the American debt is owned by the American public A lot of people do not realize it but these outsiders do have a big chunk of it Saudi Arabia has 753 billion If they did what they We may actually be goading them into selling those bonds

1:18:05 So we can pick them up at a better price. hand really we just have we don't even have to do it. If we can absorb the 753 billion, which would probably be down to 600 I mean who knows what would happen but it would disrupt the markets and that depends on how everybody else reacts it could actually cause that depression I keep predicting but it was not may not be a bad thing either from the perspective of the government oh I like that let's listen to the

CHAPTER 22 / 42 Discussion

Saudi Arabia, Treatment of Women and American Expats

An anecdote from a British expat describes the plight of American women married to Saudi nationals who face domestic abuse and are unable to leave the country. The American Embassy is reportedly limited in its ability to intervene due to local laws and diplomatic agreements.

riyadh· hijabs· domestic abuse· american embassy· expats

1:18:50 A couple of things here that give me pause about our relationship with Saudi Arabia. I have three clips. How about the fact that they demean women and chop people's heads off? I question our relationship over that. Well, that is something that we have to deal... Yes, I agree with that. That is the problem. Demean is not even the word for it. When I was in Dubai, I had discussions with the British expat who used to, and he was all over the place. I think he was...I don't know, I'm just guessing he was smoking the cot? Someone. What a spook! Spook! British style. And he said that if you go to Riyadh and you go past the American Embassy You will see that there are There's a line like a Star Wars movie line of women

1:19:42 American, ex-American women in hijabs lined up around the block trying to get back into the United States because their husbands just beat the crap out of them. And nobody does anything about it because it's okay and part of the rules and part of the game you get that crap beat out of ya constantly. And there are American women who married some Saudi and they fell in love with some Saudi. It was just the greatest guy in the world clubbing in Los Angeles, but then when they moved back to Saudi Arabia he's a wife beater because all his buddies are too. He says...and the American government, the American embassy can't do anything about it

1:20:23 some agreement and so the women can't get out of the country they're stuck over there and he just says it's just horrendous. It's a horrendous... Well, of course the state department are the ones who give them the visa to go in the first place So yeah why would they stop it? They're probably over there in the harem So there's a bunch of stuff like that going on, which is... I think there is something to this. Play this clip here! This is the PBS version which would be the more official version of Obama's visit And it's the shortest of all the clips because they didn't have anything to say except that, you know, it was a little awkward. President Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia today hoping to reassure a skeptical ally. Tensions were evident as the president arrived

CHAPTER 23 / 42 Discussion

Obama's Saudi Visit, Media Coverage and Arms Sales

Media reports from PBS, CBS, and CNN analyze President Obama's "chilly" reception in Riyadh. While the networks focus on disagreements over Iran and Syria, the underlying tension involves Saudi Arabia's status as a major purchaser of U.S. military hardware and their recent pivot toward Russian weapons.

barack obama· king salman· riyadh· arms sales· syria

1:21:11 and was greeted by the local governor, and not King Salman. The two leaders did meet later and offered smiles and gracious words. The Saudis have opposed the president's outreach to Iran and his approach to Syria. Yeah... uh... didn't say anything else! All the networks, that's all they reported. They all said it had to do with Iran and Syria and that was that. They didn't talk about the threat of selling the bonds. They didn't talk about its 28 pages. They all...all of them including DW which I have a clip from too avoided the topic listened to Saudi visit as reported by CBS

1:21:49 President Obama met for two hours today with Saudi Arabia's new king at a time when the friendship between our nations is strained to say the least. Margaret Brennan is there for us tonight in Riyadh, Margaret? Well Scott, President Obama was met by a small delegation not the usual pomp and ceremony often given to visiting world leaders. His arrival wasn't even broadcast on Saudi TV senior Saudi officials have made clear that the relationship with the US will only improve after President Obama leaves office. The Saudis are particularly angry about that nuclear deal with Iran and they believe that only the next president whether it's Hillary Clinton or even Donald Trump will be able to restore Saudi Arabia status as America's key ally in the Mideast. Saudi leaders also flatly reject President Obama's description of them as free riders, too reliant

1:22:42 on American military might. Most importantly, Scott because they say the US needs Saudi Arabia to help defeat ISIS and Al-Qaeda." You want to hear the CNN version of the report? Yeah! "...talks of reshaping U.S relations with Mideast nations... The crowds loved him less than two years later..." "...the same city his host President Mubarak overthrown in the Arab Spring uprising..." how Obama responded to the fall of his allies, set the tone of his relationship with the region since... It wasn't so much that they fell. There was so much how the US went by it and that's what really is the beginning of this schism Schism! A schism! The rupture with the U.S.-Iranian new- Schism? Is a schism...? What is a schism?! It's not a chasm! It's like tearing a sheet of paper in half Book Of Knowledge What is the definition of schism

1:23:42 The term schism has a couple of uses as noun. One, division of the group into opposing factions. Two, the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences." So you become opposer...opposing sides in the schism? Yeah big yes. Ah divorce is like a schism A schism that grew to Russia, the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal. The Saudis were furious. They believe Barack Obama has sold them at the altar of his own rapprochement with Iran their archenemy In response to all this Saudi Arabia has ramped up its armed forces overtaking Russia to become the world's third largest defense and security spender

1:24:33 And last year formed a 34 nation Sunni Muslim coalition to follow Saudis lead. As a result of their mistrust of Barack Obama, the Saudis now have adopted a more muscular form policy they are on the attack in Yemen and other places and they're trying to counterbalance Iran in the region The Americans really have lost control Where they needed control the most, solving Syria. Saudi's new king is a very impatient ally He wants Assad gone now and Iran's influence removed That course going to change now if there is a new president that more amenable to Saudi interest I don't think so The ship has sailed

1:25:16 But for all the strains, both sides still need each other. Saudi Arabia needs US weapons. Obama wants regional stability His time in Riyadh will not be about divorce but easing the estrangement Also, no mention of 28 pages 750 billion in treasuries or lawsuits or anything like that. Zero But I did like that Saudi Arabia is the biggest purchaser number three on the list and of course they purchased that from mainly from us So Obama may also be looking to make sure the sales pipeline continues Well, that's the only kind of thing that kinda screws my theory except for the news that came out

CHAPTER 24 / 42 Discussion

State Department, John Kirby and 9/11 Litigation

State Department spokesperson John Kirby refuses to "re-litigate history" when questioned about Saudi involvement in 9/11. He dismisses further debate as a "fool's errand," insisting the public record is already exhaustive despite the 28 pages remaining classified.

john kirby· state department· 9/11 commission· saudi officials· conspiracy theory

1:26:00 Saudi Arabia buys Russian weapons. Oh, okay. Reported in Moscow Top News. I have a... Saudi-Russian Iskander arms deal facing ISIS is nothing could prevent Saudi Arabia from buying Russians a bunch of... The 28 pages or no the JACTA, the Justice Against Sponsored Terrorism Act did come up in the State Department briefing with Kirby who's back! Goodness It may have even been the hot Russian chick who asked the question. Oh, no it wasn't. Yes it was! ...believe that no current or former Saudi official or member of the royal family was in any way involved in the 9-11 attacks? Look I'm not gonna relitigate history here... You can go online and see... Shut up! Go online yourself. The internet! Go to the internet you can find out what happened will ya?!

1:26:54 That's pretty blazing. Hey, I'm not gonna re-litigate this! Go get online do your research people he actually sounds like a conspiracy theorist here. I did the research i've seen the documents The story of the attacks and uh And how it happened and who was responsible? Um, and i'm not going to relitigated but can you say that no, uh President Obama- As it says in the report, there's no indication that Saudi officials or the Saudi government was behind or supporting in any way those attacks. It's all there... The public record is all there for you to see. You said the record is online? There are 28 pages but not online. Finally! Hey, the 28 pages aren't online

1:27:38 Well, look. Again the 9-11 Commission report is pretty exhaustive No it's not It states clearly who was responsible for the attacks on 9-11 That's one of the thinnest books I have in my bookcase For us to sit here this many years later and try to debate it I think is a fool's errand Oh! Fools errand Are you crazy? Water under the bridge There's nothing go look online. What are you talking about? It looks like the last big purchase we uh that Saudi did from us was 60 billion in 2010 and then they've been kind of oh it's time for it's time to re-up this is why this is obscuring story that says Saudi to purchase Pakistani nuclear weapons which is another thing that we can't tolerate well how about this so hmm

CHAPTER 25 / 42 Discussion

Deutsche Welle, U.S.-Saudi Schism and Regional Stability

Analysis from Deutsche Welle suggests a permanent "schism" in U.S.-Saudi relations as the U.S. becomes less dependent on Saudi oil. The Saudis have responded by increasing military spending and forming a Sunni coalition to counterbalance Iranian influence in Yemen and Syria.

deutsche welle· saudi arabia· syria· turkey· military spending

1:28:28 I'm just trying to connect some new weapon sales. That's going to be more important, look we know that... Well $750 billion of treasuries is pretty important Sure, let me just play my last clip here which is the one this was the end of a long discussion This is the end of Deutsche Welle's Saudi Arabia analysis that they went on and on I just wanted to kick get the end of it because they had a couple things there They kind of caught me You know where you got concluded them. Yeah, you know yeah, I didn't think of it that way but okay Let's see what you think You have to tell me what the name of the code is end of DW Deutsche Welle Saudi analysis. I've got it are all right facilities have supported the same groups like the Americans have Namely, the FSA with some exceptions but the Saudis have adopted a more aggressive That's the free Syrian army policy last year together with Turkey and Qatar supporting

1:29:22 Salafist Islamists militants in the north of the country and that has provoked the Russian intervention in the country. That has provoked, of course American criticism Before we run out time All of this almost animosity that we're seeing right now between the US and Saudi Arabia Does it signify a shift in Saudi? American relations a permanent shift Well, I think it does because Saudi Arabia is still dependent on the US for security but the US is not as dependent in the past. That's horrible! Yes and that is the new development and that is why all these animosities... Wait wait wait what did he say?

1:30:04 What did he say was the new development? I just want to roll back a second. Yes, and that is the new development and that is why all these animosities over political systems culture become more important and that is why so many Americans especially in Congress right now have become more critical of Saudi Arabia. And rightly so, it is a brutal dictatorship and especially religious rights are a problem in that country to an extent that we do not see in any other country worldwide. OK, how about this? Forty percent of our economy is military stuff makes that kills people. And we like brown people in sandy areas

1:30:48 40% is the financial sector and then 10% is everybody washing each other's car and driving each other around. So this probably started off with Saudi Arabia welching on some payments, It's time, free ride. All this stuff the president was saying hey mofos you got to start buying some stuff this has been 2010 since we last saw it and then Saudi Arabia says hey cool your jets dude but maybe we should take our money out if you're gonna be such a douche and then everything comes into play It seems like a sales, like a spring clearance sale for weapons first and foremost. But then you know with the oil prices and just every everyone's on edge and we spiral down into a pissing match And then somewhere along the line 28 pages or this lawsuit came up in Saudi Arabia is like hey So I think we're probably How does that sound? It sounds probably as good analysis as anyone can do it's pretty reasonable

1:31:51 Yeah, no. The argument would be that's a logical thing that would be underlying what is going on but it is definitely something going on It's not like the way PBS reports it Oh there was a little chilling going and they didn't greet him with a band at the airport And nobody played... They were all messed up about that. We're just like BAND! Well, that is fun times but it's just hard to get a lot of... There will be some regime change coming up. And I want to say to our- That country is rife with the bags that need to be removed All of our producers who are listening to the program These are the days when its incredibly important to be looking the other way We had Prince die This is going on for at least week It's gonna obfuscate everything Shit happens during these periods people

1:32:52 Yeah, please be on the show. Did you you must have been in this slide looking for find out how Prince died? It wasn't that old I have I've been did this happen during the show. I had no idea what happened So it always happens during this show and I guess I I have only one collection of vinyl records And that's all of princes records. I'm a big fan and I met him he was nice guy He was like yeah, he is supposed to be a nice guy very creative but you can't But you just got to move on love and light move on because this shit's gonna happen. It's gonna be much more important than Prince Yeah, well there's definitely a bunch of weird stuff that suit that's coming down And it's showing up a lot on our show yeah

CHAPTER 26 / 42 Discussion

Gun Manufacturer Liability, Marketing Tactics Lawsuit

A lawsuit in Connecticut seeks to hold gun manufacturers like Bushmaster liable for "militaristic marketing" that allegedly targets unfit individuals. Critics argue this legal strategy threatens the First Amendment and could lead to similar lawsuits against other industries, such as fast food.

bushmaster· ar-15· connecticut· marketing· first amendment

1:33:37 Oh, so you wanted to see a distraction of the week. Well before we do that can I do one more lawsuit? Since we're on lawsuits? One more lawsuit very interesting lawsuit as you know there's a lot of talk about making gun manufacturers liable if one of their guns kills somebody because of course guns do that And it's claimed that this is the only industry in America that has these protections, which is false. The pharmaceutical industry has fantastic... they can actually experiment on you. Hey! Try this experimental gun if it kills you and you can't sue us. That sounds far more onerous. Somebody has to pull the trigger on the guns so now that we have all of these lawyers They figured out a way to sue them

1:34:24 Anyway, because they won't sue them for manufacturing the guns. What do you think they could sue them for John? Promoting the guns? The parents are trying to get around this They're saying that the gun manufacturers should be held accountable For what their calling in very strong words Unethical oppressive and immoral marketing tactics Yes please allow this man Let's just get rid of the First Amendment to start with. Yes, definitely get rid of the First Amendment. And let's do this to all advertising! Shouldn't we? Let's listen more... If you do this to one advertiser, if it is going to be about marketing, you're leaving it wide open

1:35:09 Let's listen to their background. firearms. In particular, the lawsuit... So they're targeting people who are not fit to carry these military style weapons? That is marketing right there man! In particular the lawsuit itself puts a very fine point on it if we can take a look at a full screen it says The Bushmaster Defendants Militaristic Marketing in free militaristic marketing ah yes this is gonna be just a terrorist marketing that would have been much easier

1:35:54 easier. prominently feature AR-15s and rewards players for headshots and killstreaks. So they're going at it saying that this was negligent marketing, and also that it violates a Connecticut statue about unfair trade practices." Wow! Well... Connecticut! You get Clip of the Day for that. Oh thank you very much I wasn't even expecting it honestly. That's the best kind like the knockout punch Yeah wow militaristic marketing

1:36:45 Well, yummy. I can just see the OB suing McDonald's for their advertising. That's right! They were targeting fat people. Oh that's right. Oh i can't wait. That'd be fantastic You could sue...I could just see everybody getting sued. Advertising being what it is Yeah This is a bad idea Bad idea If I was in the advertising council any of these operations that are lobbyists, I would be having a meeting right now about the implications of this. Of course! It's not a good thing. Taking money... Actually, the new season of Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus where she is president for this season there is a lot about the industry and how it works in there. It's pretty good even for comedy. Not bad.

CHAPTER 27 / 42 Discussion

White House, Chinese State Dinner Preparations

Details emerge regarding the elaborate preparations for a White House state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping. The menu features "pumpkin mooncakes" and Colorado lamb, highlighting the use of "culinary diplomacy" to foster international relations.

michelle obama· xi jinping· state dinner· mooncakes· culinary diplomacy

1:37:39 She's funny. You know she's a billionaire. Yeah, heiress yeah and to be because she's talented so to be talented And then you know I'm sure she went through a lot of bullshit with people hating her cuz she was already rich coming into the game I think she'd covered it up a bit for a while for sure I don't think I knew until you mentioned it yeah well why didn't Noah during her era at Saturday Night Live and it was after after the Seinfeld show closed that I found out oh Oh, you had a little entremont? You wanted to slip in there because I would like to move to a new topic. But if you got something fun to swing us around... What is this thing that says Sanders visit PBS? Is that what goes on there? I'm not sure with it. Oh yeah! Let me finish off this because all the news that happened there's one thing i could not find anywhere It was like one of most important events to take place in the United States at least at the presidential level

1:38:39 It wasn't covered anywhere. In fact, it hasn't happened yet. Maybe it'll be covered today if they happen. They didn't cover because it was still in the future! Well, no. They didn't cover the... It's important enough that you'd cover it that is going to happen. Okay gotcha. Like you covered that Obama was going to visit Saudi Arabia before he actually go there and get snubbed. Right okay I gotcha gotcha gotcha. State dinner! And then I had to go to Chinese news to get this story What can you tell us about elaborate preparations for that? Well, it's really clear that First Lady Michelle Obama wanted very much to reciprocate the kindnesses of Madame Peng Liyuan and President Xi Jinping in hosting the whole family over the course of last year. There was, of course, that visit by Michelle and the girls and her mother at the invitation of Peng Liyuan to The Pandas, to many other sights and sounds of Beijing. And so no detail essentially has been spared in the preparations for this state dinner. Take a look!

1:39:35 At the state dinner for President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan, no detail is too small. Each table will have one of these candy Chinese gardens and a row of miniature moon cakes just in time for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival When I was thinking about what I could also include that is a compliment to China, I read about mooncakes and that the festival is coming next week. Mooncake? And wanted to include something President Obama likes and he likes pumpkin so when I decided to make them, I included them to be pumpkin mooncakes. More than 200 guests will enjoy this Colorado lamb entree, Maine lobster and some traditional rice noodle rolls made by a Washington DC noodle maker. Head chef Chris Comerford says the kitchen is open

1:40:24 conscious that diplomacy is the main course. Of course, culinary diplomacy is the best achievement so if we could make our guests happy with our food hopefully they'll be happy for the rest of today and kind of like that's really where their goal is This is the second time US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have hosted a Chinese leader on a state visit. President Hu Jintao arrived for a state dinner in 2011 China is the only country in the world to be honored with two state dinners under this administration Just last year, First Lady Michelle Obama her daughters and mother were the guests of China's first lady Peng Liyuan. Now White House aides say the Obamas have a chance to plan something special in return...a gesture of things

1:41:10 Okay, it sounded good. Sounded tasty monster monstrous event I got a look at the menu holy But this would be something you want to attend and also they have baby pumpkin mooncakes pumpkin mooncakes But they their wines are interesting They got pride mountain cab which is one of the best you can get but they also they have an Oregon V on yay as one Of their opening all I love beyond yay that's a white I'd mention it wait which one was it It's some obscure Oregon winery. I didn't get the name, but I'm going to go back and get the name. Yeah! I'd love to try it out. Well you won't be able to get it. Hey, Tina actually mentioned it... The second time she mentioned it to me, I was like okay, I'll try this. And ever since then

CHAPTER 29 / 42 Discussion

No Agenda, Listener Donations and Knighting

The hosts process a series of listener donations, including "boob" and "tit" themed contributions. Tim Conner is officially knighted as "Sir Connor" for his significant financial support of the program, and various "de-douching" requests are fulfilled for long-time listeners.

donations· knighting· karma· sir connor· de-douching

1:47:03 In Munich, Deutschland. 8008 is what it was. Don't mention my name just call me Wu Cash please send some karma to my lovely wife and our first human resource put that at the end. Reading from Gitmo Nation, Weisswurst. Ah! Weisswurst? White sausage? Which could be any number of sausages. Could be a number of things yes. The Germans make great sausages I have to say And they're very well copied and mocked to perfection in Wisconsin. Lots of Germans in Wisconsin, and Texas also has lots of good sauces because the Germans here. Good products down there! Outstanding products I had a one time...I've never seen this anyplace else but I bought some in Texas they were called Coarse Grind Hot Dogs Fantastic product Alright Jason Denny in Madison Alabama

1:48:01 Boobs he needs a de-douching because he's donated a few times prior, but has forgotten to request the d douching He's gonna be overseas You've been D is he's redeploying so we'll give you karma at the end his ninth deployment ninth deployment. Holy crap Yeah, it's a lot of work Thanks, Obama Eh flute art fluttered lutert flutered in Leiden uh... boobs last boobs he has a callout? He's a douchebag call out for Jan Theis. Jan Theis, right. I got the Theis part right. He introduced me to the show but has never donated by the way my name is well we already get your name Ernst Flutart. Thank you very much Ernst. Tim Conner in Edmonton Alberta $78

1:48:57 He's got a birthday or something coming up. Yeah, he also um... He should be on the night list! Yeah why is he? Is not on it I don't think. Hold on yeah yeah no become Sir Connor yes he's on the night list good ceremony coming up great uh i see what Eric's done now he's got a combo color so you get both It's to mess with you I'm sure Eric just like No because I was bitching all the time that if you get one color you don't notice the other thing I think this is just a good, as i like it. But if you got three things to do, I don't know what's going to happen. Robert Burke in Woodbury Massachusetts Minnesota $75 He needs another de-douching we'll put the de-douching... I'll do one! You've been de-douched Yeah we haven't gotten that many donations today anyway Thanks boobs

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1:50:46 Only women can make those kinds of donations as far as I'm concerned. So then we'll have none. It's so misogynistic, yeah well that will end it too. Let's just say... They will not take part. Boobs and tits only. Especially after my initiative to remove the right to vote. Good work John! Raymond Bressler, I'll take it over. They get over it. Raymond Bressler they're forgiving as a forgiving sex Raymond Bressler in Arlington Washington 6933 Sir Rick is his name and you didn't get that in there I don't remember oh that was my fault sir Rick

1:51:22 Nobody knows him otherwise. Stefano Sischi, Sisschi? Sissy? Sissy? Sissy? I don't know. It's a vision from Groningen-ing-ing-ing-ing. Groningen! Yeah, Groningen-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing. Double Niggles on the Dime Dean Roker, Double Niggles on the Dime Parts Unknown in UK Matt Seaver in Knoxville Tennessee... Knoxville Tennessee is 51...Double Niggles On The Dime 5150 Onward to Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia. A regular he is at in it 5432 the following people are all $50 donors

1:52:02 and they will be read in order, name and location. Starting with Daniel Laboe in Bath Michigan Bill LeClair in Riverdale Michigan two Michigonians right next to each other there's a little random number going on Andrew Haversand in Gravenhurst Ontario Canada Michael Gates in Colorado Springs Colorado Chris Moore in Indianapolis Indiana Diana Carruthers in Tumwater, Washington which used to be notorious for making a good beer or bad beer depending. Ryan Curie in Lowborough Leicester or Leicester Great Britain UK

1:52:41 Steve Winslow in Bristol, Avon UK another random number combination. Sir David Trotsky in Romeoville Illinois and that's it! Our $50 donors and the rest of them are all thankful profusely It was a bad day but okay we'll blame it on the taxes and 420 I think the boobs is a big problem, but it's always okay if you say hey man i wanted to donate but i smoked it Smoked it. I think that's a... The prices you get at these places, you can see that happening! Alright we'll have another show on Sunday thank you all so much for producing this program in the true meaning of the word in all facets of it and of course will be back on Sunday with another episode. Devorak dot org slash N A. To the karma for everybody who needs it out there You've got karma Yo-yo-yo

CHAPTER 30 / 42 Discussion

Zika Virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sexual Transmission

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH discusses the expanding threat of the Zika virus, including new evidence of sexual transmission. While the risk remains low for those staying in the U.S., the CDC has issued travel advisories for pregnant women visiting South America and the Caribbean.

anthony fauci· zika virus· cdc· sexual transmission· nih

1:53:41 It's a birthday party, oh no Alright, quickie list. Just like the donation Samuel Dank says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife Carolyn Coon who turns 34 on April 23rd and Tim Conner will also be celebrating on the 23rd We're gonna knight him in a moment so happy birthday first from all you buddies here at The Best Podcast In The Universe! All right just very very quickly if you can get your yeah we got it very nice Okay, it's always good to add a knight to the No Agenda Roundtable where the knights and dames always take place. And we want to thank Tim Connor who please step up to the podium here as you have donated to The No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more and therefore I proudly pronounce the K-D Sir Connor! Knight of The No Agenda Roundtable for you my friend We have hookers & blow, rentboys & chardonnay

1:54:33 Crickets and cream DMT and astral travel. We've got cheap wine and chili dogs raspberry pies of breakfast burritos pork ribs in pale ale we have a girlfriend experience and good bourbon porn stars and pot makers mark and mushroom whiskey and wet wipes three gashes in a bucket of fried chicken sparkling cider and escorts ginger ale and gerbers breast milk and pablum and mutton and mead And head on over to references to whisky yep, and beer I don't make it up This is what if you want someone wants something added will just add it No, I'm just... Every night brings that to the table. And so they have to share with everybody else Yes Alright Let me see, I had a couple of things I wanted to talk about Ah yes This is the first one here Found little interesting research Oh not really research, I connected a few dots for us regarding the Zika virus So we do have We're ratcheting everything up

1:55:36 And if you listen to this report, this is Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci? Yeah that's... isn't it the douchebag who made all the money on uh... No yeah he made a bunch of money doing some sort of- He had patents on the vaccine for swine flu and he's also the guy who said brolf Ha! Yeah let's hear from Mr., let me see where is it, brolf Here he is. Good to be here, Brolf. Yeah that's him. Good to be here, Brolf. Brolf...him. So this guy is no good because he participated in ratcheting everything up making everybody afraid and then he was pocketing money it may be totally legal I don't know but he had the patent on a vaccine he made a lot of money

1:56:23 Now he's back and he is the director of allergy and infectious diseases at the National Institute of Health who are set to receive about 700 billion dollars if we get everyone to pony up, move the 1.9 that was pledged or Ebola, which the president now has moved over to Zika. Everybody has their handout! Like hey where's my money? Bevin Wayne we're dying over here. You went through the list a couple shows ago or last show I don't remember which about what a scam this is yeah it's just giving money to NGOs non-governmental organizations them who support those NGOs they're giving seven million dollars to the Dutch military... He's got Zika shoot him

1:57:08 Maybe true. Hey, here he is! From the public health perspective what should pregnant women or women who are thinking of becoming pregnant in the United States... So the only mission here is to scare people that's all that this Fauci guy does? What should they do well if you're staying in the United States right now there are no local transmitted cases so women in the United States getting pregnant should not be worried about anything regarding pregnancy If your pregnant thinking about becoming pregnant might be pregnant definitely you should not travel to the areas where there are outbreaks such as South America, the Caribbean and Central America. So the CDC travel advisory should be adhered to by pregnant women

1:57:46 What if there do because it does become a local case in the United States? Does that totally change the equation well yeah, it depends on the extent of local case in the United States If you just have a couple of clusters that you can you can essentially He's already using clusters. It's one of those great words You see and like movies like contagion stuff and didn't he consult on contagion some So I think he also consulted on it. Yeah, somebody did. If you just have a couple of clusters that you can essentially sustain the suppression of it by not allowing it to become widespread very likely any major change there but if we do get widespread changes then we're going to have to re-examine the CDC in real time always examines what the situation is and makes recommendations accordingly for example We just found out over a period of several weeks

1:58:35 that there is now sexual transmission from men to women. So, there is... and from men to even a male sexual partner. There was a case of that. So the recommendation now if you're a man and go to this area and might be infected and come back, you should refrain from sex or use safe sex for at least six months If you don't have a pregnant partner Or if you have a pregnant partner For the entirety of the pregnancy so one should follow those recommendations That are very well delineated by CDC Yeah, so if you're a pregnant man you shouldn't have sex with the man. Good to be here bros! Alright thank you very much Mr Fauci So what is happening here? The response is interesting and I don't like it...I'm very worried about the response that I am seeing I think this starts off in California...so actually no its Florida, in the Florida Keys

CHAPTER 31 / 42 Discussion

Genetic Engineering, Oxitec Mosquitoes and Gates Foundation

Florida officials consider using genetically modified mosquitoes from the company Oxitec to combat the spread of Zika. The technology, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, involves releasing self-limiting insects to reduce the local mosquito population.

oxitec· genetic engineering· mosquitoes· bill gates· florida keys

1:59:25 So, apparently as you have researched and discussed we don't really even have this type of mosquito in the United States that carries this virus? Exactly. This is the same mosquito I'll say it again that carries dengue. We don't have dengue fever. And yellow fever's the other one if we had this mosquito around here delivering yellow fever we'd have to get shots for it It's a horrible disease Interestingly enough though States like Florida are now talking, and of course they do this all the time. You know spray from mosquitoes particularly when there's the red tide but now they want to use this genetic engineering in order to make sure that the mosquitoes will be self-limiting

2:00:13 So, you know the bad ones die off even though we apparently don't have these types of mosquitoes. Hold on I'm not done. Yeah i just wonder why you mentioned the red tide? Oh because I was in Florida once with a red tide and when I was a kid and mosquitoes were horrible they flew over and sprayed the beach really close like really really close oh it was it was the mosquitoes were as big as your hand unbelievable the Red Tide So I remember, this was not just guys in hazmats. It was planes flying at 300 feet or lower just dropping this shit Maybe that's where i got my Tourettes from. So now states are talking about spraying to get rid of these mosquitoes and this would be done by a company known as Oxitec which was purchased few years ago by Intrexon Oxitec their technology is

2:01:08 genetically engineering mosquitoes and was financed, of course by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. So now we have money from the Gates' who've been on this genetically modifying of mosquitoes God knows it might have... that modification may be responsible for Zika in the first place I don't know and now were being frightened into You know, oh your kids can you're unborn child is a danger. Think of the children yet to be afraid you can't even have homosexual sex because you're passing on the... I probably want to have a kid with a small head but you all be very afraid! I think that this would be perfect. Perfect setup To say, you know what? Nothing will just spray everywhere to make sure these mosquitoes are gone. Can pray lose. You can wait for it

2:02:00 Yeah, long road on that one. I tried all right well Holy crap there's something so wrong with your audio today it also starts over modulating It's strange yeah you should have called me back no it's alright You keep saying that okay well then it's okay and then it isn't I don't think calling you back will help Okay well it might Okay I'll call ya back No problem Two seconds One two Okay you called me back

CHAPTER 32 / 42 Discussion

Angela Merkel, Jan Böhmermann and Turkish Defamation Law

German Chancellor Angela Merkel approves a criminal inquiry into satirist Jan Böhmermann for reciting an offensive poem about Turkish President Erdogan. The prosecution invokes an obscure 1871 law criminalizing the insulting of foreign leaders, sparking a debate over free speech in Germany.

angela merkel· jan böhmermann· recep tayyip erdogan· germany· satire

2:02:36 I needed the call. Let's play, this is a clip i've been saving and I keep forgetting to play it but this is something that you don't wouldn't know about generally here there's not something they cover but if something that's kind of disconcerting This is the 1871 German law Moving on to other news now. Here in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved a criminal inquiry into a prominent talk show host who poked fun at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Last month Jan Böhmermann recited a poem on live TV that mocked Erdogan with crude references to bestiality This prompted Turkey to seek his prosecution invoking an old German law

2:03:21 that criminalizes the insulting of foreign leaders. I do want to pause for a moment and give you exactly what the disparaging remark was, he said he was a goat fucker which is a slur for Muslim Arabs i guess Angela Merkel took a week to respond to the explosive request from Ankara and had three of her government's ministers examine it. She has now cleared the way to launch a criminal probe against television satirist Jan Böhmermann Under the rule of law, it's not up to the government but rather it is up to prosecutors and courts to weigh freedom of individual against freedom of press and artistic expression. Böhmermann has been at the center of much political and public discussion since the end of March

2:04:16 In his show, he said what happens next is something that satire in Germany is not allowed to do. And then the comedian recited a taunting poem about the Turkish president Erdogan. His response was a criminal complaint due to defamation Erdogan has invoked a clause that has existed in German statutes since 1871. Whoever insults the foreign head of state must face detention or fine. The German government would now like to get rid of this clause It's too late to relieve the pressure of the current situation Merkel's coalition partners, the Social Democrats have their own opinion. Our view is that the authority of the corresponding clause 103-4a should not have been evoked. Freedom of opinion and artistic expression are the most highly protected items in our constitution The majority of Germans do not agree with Merkel's decision some views from Berlin

2:05:14 It was bad taste, but artistic expression must somehow be protected. I think it's still just satire and since we still have freedom of opinion and freedom of the press here in Germany there is nothing to question here. I don't think her decision is right but she probably under pressure. But Merkel's decision won't stop the discussion. The opposition says... This is very interesting. Of course we talked about on a previous show about this happening with the comedian. First of all, Germany is a police state you know they're now forcing Facebook to delete posts continuously

2:05:58 There's a contest that has now been started, a poetry contest to write the most offensive poem about Erdogan. You can win £1,000. What I find interesting is the hypocrisy of everyone laughing about how great it is but when someone does a cartoon contest then everyone loses their shit Yes, which is odd. No it's because... well I don't know According to the fundamentalist Muslims it is a grave sin to portray Muhammad

2:06:37 The image of Muhammad is, can't be... you can draw a picture of him. You can make a fake picture and you can't do anything that's why there has been number movies where they supposedly put Muhammad in the lots of protests. But also according to Turkish law you can insult the president or prime minister. This other one is religion wide thing I think this is... Religion is not necessarily law last time I checked but yeah Well, it isn't. Where the Muslim thing is established there should be no difference between the lawmaking and the religion right so well I don't think that...I think there is a difference between the poems, the offensive poems and the imagery So well not in the sense of hey why are you poking the bear? You know this right that's what this is about we have huge problems with Turkey in Europe

CHAPTER 33 / 42 Discussion

EU-Turkey Migrant Deal, Visa-Free Travel and Funding

The European Union moves toward granting visa-free travel to Turkish citizens as part of a deal to stem the flow of migrants. However, tensions remain as Turkey demands the immediate release of 3 billion euros in pledged aid to manage the refugee crisis.

european union· turkey· migrant crisis· visa liberalization· syrian refugees

2:07:32 And we're in a fight right now. Huge, well we're in a fight! Here listen there's a fight right now. Fight, fight, fight. Turkey is moving closer to being granted visa-free travel to the European Union That of course has a distracting headline It could be in place by June The bloc's executive, the EU Commission has said it depends on Ankara meeting the remaining conditions contained in a deal with the EU over stemming migration into Europe. An assessment is to be presented in a report next month. The commission will present its third visa liberalisation progress report for Turkey on May 4th All-in all we need to remain alert

2:08:10 and monitor the entire process closely, particularly when it comes to ensuring rights and appropriate conditions for the most vulnerable such as women and children. However Turkey's foreign minister has called on the EU to improve delivery of a promised 3 billion euros as part of the deal which is meant to help Ankara manage the migrant crisis. There are problems in releasing the 3 billion euros that the European Union pledged to help Syrian migrants. And I underline here this money was pledged to Syrians, not Turkey This is not only Turkey's problem Europe has to be more pragmatic there are disruptions such as too much bureaucracy but there aren't any other problems in implementing the deal. Turkey specific complaint is that the EU is handing out funds project by project

2:08:58 but there are many other regular expenses such as the delivery of food. Hey, hey where's the big check? Where is that huge... The giant check you were bringing over By the way before we get too far away from the comic who made the slur they read the law and they said that he could be imprisoned or a fine and it would be so easy for them to just get rid of this whole problem by just give fining the guy ten dollars, ten euros or exactly two euro buck 25 cents. I mean and they'd be done with that you don't have to deal with leave the law there and just have a ridiculously low fine for somebody doing this insult yeah money in the coffers also in Europe although I do not have a clip Juncker Junker The Drunker

CHAPTER 34 / 42 Discussion

European Army, Jean-Claude Juncker and Russia

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker calls for the creation of a common European army to project strength toward Russia. The proposal marks a shift in European defense policy, with some member states like the Netherlands already integrating forces with the German military.

jean-claude juncker· european army· nato· russia· defense policy

2:09:50 In a, this was an interview. Let me just double check here This is from the BBC so it's pretty legit there But he said I think in that maybe it was a German newspaper He said we need a European army which of course was the promise It was THE promise uh, with its own army Europe could react more credibly to the threat to peace in a member state or in a neighboring state. He said... They want to attack Russia! Oh yeah he said an interview with German... You know they've been moving them NATO and we of course observe... Well listen but hold on I'm playing right into you He added, one wouldn't have a European army to deploy it immediately but a common European army would convey a clear message to Russia that we are serious about defending our European values. And as we reported months and months ago the Dutch at least part of the Dutch Army already has been grouped in with the German forces

2:10:46 They are the German forces. I'm sure the Dutch are just happy as clams to do that! The Dutch are unhappy about a lot of things, but this was a promise it was such a promise no we will never have an European army were not going to do it. We have to do something because those Russians yeah oh those Russian's are coming any minute Yeah, that's for sure. Well this was more European news we do have the Google versus Europe story Oh I've got that story too yeah The European Union widened its antitrust battle with Google today

CHAPTER 35 / 42 Discussion

Google Antitrust, European Commission and Android

The European Commission levels new antitrust charges against Google, accusing the company of using its Android operating system to stifle competition. Officials claim Google forces manufacturers to pre-install its search engine and Chrome browser, artificially excluding rival apps from the market.

google· android· antitrust· european commission· search engines

2:11:27 EU officials accused the tech giant of rigging the mobile applications market to benefit its own products. In Brussels, an EU commissioner said Google uses the Android operating system to freeze out competing apps. As a result of Google's behavior rival search engines, mobile operators operating systems and web browsers have not been able to compete on their merits but rather being artificially excluded from certain business opportunities. Google strongly denied the charges. So here's what they did... Hey you still got those Microsoft files! Search and replace! Scratch scratch scratch.

2:12:13 But that voice, it was very much like your kind of generic European Dutch voice. But that interesting guy who was interested in listening to it again after seeing it... That's a woman! Yes I think my clip has more of her. The men sound exactly the same Yeah, this is the woman who replaced Nellie Smith-Cruz I believe. Yes it is exactly so she's the anti competition person and they usually work for 10 years on a case and then do a Microsoft let me listen to my report maybe Let me see if there's more. I think there was more of her in that. Here we go Google is under fire again from the European Commission which claims it breached antitrust rules The tech giant, which said it behaved in good faith risks multi-billion euro fines and could be forced to change its business practices Google already faces EU charges of promoting its own shopping service and online searches at the expense of rival products

2:13:09 Now, the commission alleges it forced smartphone makers to pre-install the Google search engine and Chrome browser and prevented manufacturers from selling devices using rival software. More than 80% of smartphones worldwide run on Google's Android operating system. That's interesting. Have you ever bought anything from this fictitious Google store? When you search for something online, Google's got some stuff. Interesting you say that because what I presume you mean is when you search for something and it says shopping and yes i've clicked on that many times but it never goes to a shopping site...it always fails at least from my phone oh there's something else I wanted to mention just quickly

CHAPTER 36 / 42 Discussion

Google DNS, Twitter Connectivity Issues and Sabotage

Observations from "Curry Labs" suggest that using Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8) causes frequent failures when accessing Twitter and shortened T.co links. The technical glitch is compared to historical "sabotage" between competing telegraph companies in the 19th century.

google dns· twitter· open dns· telegraph· sabotage

2:13:56 I believe, and i've done just my own testing here in Austin. That's all the testing that I have. I believe that Google is purposely... The Curry Labs! The Curry Labs, I'm sorry. The Crackpot Labs. The secret crack pot lab at an undisclosed location in Austin When you use the Google name servers 8888 and what was it? 8822 I think Yeah something like that Twitter Fails frequently, but really really really frequently. Yes And I've tried the open DNS servers have tried my in my time Warner DNS Yeah It's eight eight four four eight eight eight and every single time you sometimes it won't even open Twitter itself But usually the T dot co links their URL shortener fails on On the Google DNS. I'm just wondering and I've been noticing this for a

2:14:55 Six seven weeks interesting. I stopped use I used to use the Google DNS service if I gave up on him Oh, yeah, I don't want to try that you can track so much about a person. I'm not gonna do that Yeah, this is not worth the trouble and but That's interesting because I didn't notice but it was before them Seven weeks ago that you saw this I ditched it But huh what would be what could that be? I don't know but it only happens with with Google's DNS servers I just ends up maybe, I don't know. Maybe well Google's in the area with their fiber maybe some sort of like cable cutting you're during the days of the uh of uh 18 i guess it was probably around the 1860s when they when there was competing telegraph companies all over the country they were stringing up our telegraph line from here to there and

2:15:51 People would you know buy into one or the other services they used to be like phone companies only were telegraph companies It was a big deal. Mm-hmm, and there's just not if you read the old newspapers from back then There's mmm I see every other day there was a report of some bad actors going out and chopping down all their poles Yeah And the Western Union ended up winning the battle and they were the big telegraph company by the time it was all over. That's one of the reasons that there was a lot of the polls... There was a lot of sabotage, absolutely! Yeah tons And if somebody is in Berkeley and you want to get a kick out of something, the old Telegraph Avenue was named because it was the avenue that the telegraph line ran down. Very famous street in Berkeley. Makes sense. If you are observant as you go down that street especially once you get outside the campus area, you'll see the old telephone poles they're still there and they're giant green colored metal poles

CHAPTER 37 / 42 Discussion

1988 Seoul Olympics, Brother's Home Abuse Scandal

A report uncovers the horrific abuse of thousands of "vagrants" who were rounded up and sent to the "Brother's Home" facility ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Survivors describe a "man-made hell" of slave labor and torture that was covered up by the South Korean government to maintain the country's international image.

seoul olympics· brother's home· south korea· human rights· vagrants

2:16:51 that are just, they're really high and they're up and down the street. And for some reason you, unless somebody points them out to you won't notice them. And they've left them there. Little travel tip for you. That's a fabulous telephone post. And they're made out of metal. A fabulous travel tip! Telegraph Avenue. All right well I got a report this is kind of a gruesome report it's a little long it's not too long but it's a little long but this is the kind of thing that catches my attention because it reflects on the Olympics. I think they're having problems with ticket sales in Brazil, are they not? Yes which is great although the Brazilians are going to go broke from these building all these special stadiums and do the same thing for the World Cup then now everybody's gonna be indicted or kicked out of office they're gonna impeach them finally impeached a woman and it's just a mess in Brazil this is like a horrible mess! And they've got Zika

2:17:51 Yeah, Zika. So you have this was Korea yeah, this is a horrible story about the Korean experienced during the 1988 Olympics and now they have all these people that are coming out of the woodwork to bitch about upcoming Olympics in Korea, and they're not gonna go quietly. This is a horrible story." But the world's spotlight was on South Korea during the 1988 Olympic Games where to clean up the city thousands of so-called vagrants were rounded off the streets Now most were children or disabled people And they were simply sent away Where they were raped

2:18:27 tortured or killed. Cover-ups at the highest level stop the full extent of the abuses from being known until now, we have this report. Choe Sung Woo was 14 when he says he was tortured into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. The police dragged him to an institution called Brother's Home where he says he endured five years of rape slave labor and daily assaults Did she say he enjoyed? Yeah, it was meant in the... I think there was a misdiagnosis of what he said. I mean enjoy meaning that he was either being sarcastic which seems unlikely or it was just that it was the way to translate It can only be sarcastically meant unless its just dumb. I think it's mistranslated Did you say enjoyed or endured? May have been endured maybe

2:19:21 Maybe I just could have been endured. Let's listen to brothers home where he says he endured labor and daily assaults What happened there was like something you would only see in a movie. A murderer dragged people around and beat them. Who wouldn't be frightened by seeing that? Especially if you were only 14 years old, it was horrific." Cho and Lee Cho Sik were among thousands of South Koreans who were forced into facilities for so-called vagrants in the 1970s and 80s. The roundup came as the ruling dictatorship prepared to bid for, and host, the 1988 Seoul Olympics. So they rounded people up and said hey there's a big broom and dustbin and just wiped all the vagrants up?

2:20:19 Yep. Brazil, you're in for a good time. The abuse first came to light in 1987. Prosecutor Kim Yong-won led a group of policemen there on a surprise raid after hearing about brother's home by chance. There was no sunlight There were lots of people crouching in the dark. There were many people and I realized they were waiting for death, not receiving any appropriate treatment. I realized then that they had established and been managing a man-made hell."

2:20:58 But Kim Jong-un's attempts to investigate further were blocked by senior officials at every turn, until he was forced to stop entirely. The government didn't want an embarrassing international incident on the eve of the Olympics The current government has refused requests to revisit the case, but the victims are refusing to be silenced. In two years' time, the eyes of the world will once again be on Seoul as it again hosts the Olympics. The survivors want the world to know what happened to them before the country's first games there three decades ago and they're determined to speak out for those who didn't survive Yeah, but let's focus on North Korea. Those bastards! I think Don was ambassador then... Oh wait 88? No no not 88 hmmm I should ask him about it You should it is horrible The International Olympic Committee is a huge corrupt money-grubbing organization who mistreats athletes It's what its all about. Its all about corporatism and money and you know..it's a scam But yeah we like to watch just what happens

CHAPTER 38 / 42 Discussion

Volkswagen and Mitsubishi, Emissions and Fuel Scandals

Volkswagen reaches a deal with U.S. authorities to buy back 500,000 diesel cars involved in the emissions cheating scandal. Simultaneously, Mitsubishi admits to falsifying fuel economy data for cars sold in Japan, leading to a 20% plunge in the company's stock.

volkswagen· mitsubishi· emissions cheating· fuel economy· japan

2:22:05 It's presented well. Not that we really like the watch. It looks like we're nearer to a deal with the Volkswagen Corporation Well, you know they keep stealing the money from our software company so we gotta get some money out of these clowns. Volkswagen has reportedly reached a deal with US authorities to buy back up to half-a-million cars that cheated diesel emissions tests and to compensate their owners The German carmaker which declined to comment on the Reuters report hasn't until Thursday night to propose a settlement The AP news agency said it could spend almost 900 million euros to compensate the car owners affected in the U.S

2:22:43 It's still unclear exactly how much each owner would get, but according to German newspaper Die Welt it could be over 4000 euros. If a deal is confirmed later in the day and US authorities are satisfied the company will avoid a trial. European owners of Volkswagen cars will also be watching. So they'll get off pretty easy? 400,000 they have to buy the cars back. I don't know exactly what that means but there was another one of these scandals with Mitsubishi Mitsubishi's shares plunged Sorry? Yes it's a new one yeah Mitsubishi's shares plunged by 20% on Thursday following the car makers admission that it faked fuel economy data on cars sold in Japan They'd already fallen by 15 percent yesterday Japanese transport ministry officials have inspected the car makers technical center

2:23:29 as they begin to probe the company. The government says it will submit a full report next week. Based on the findings from the raid and a report from the company, we would like to reveal the extent of the inaccuracies as soon as possible... We'll deal with this situation in strict manner and would like to make sure that cars are safe." Mitsubishi says it's investigating an apparent confession from a former manager that he instructed other employees to manipulate performance tests. The carmaker falsified the data for four models produced after June 2013, two EK models and two Days models produced for Nissan which noticed the discrepancies. Mitsubishi made a profuse apology on Wednesday. I always like this what happens in Japan because ultimately someone will kill himself

CHAPTER 39 / 42 Discussion

EPA, Gina McCarthy and Sustainable Prosperity

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy addresses the Sustainable Prosperity Conference in Canada, vowing to accelerate the administration's climate change agenda. She emphasizes that the EPA has no plans to slow down its regulatory efforts before the end of President Obama's term.

gina mccarthy· epa· climate change· sustainable prosperity· barack obama

2:24:13 It's always cool. Less so now, this all stems from the unsustainable bullcrap regulations that we put in place for global warming? Everyone said sure Prez we can do that yeah no problem pfff we can't do that just rig it. EPA chief what's her name McCarthy was in Candanavia at the sustainable prosperity conference sustainable prosperity. He's not in jail? McCarthy? Oh, for the EPA in Michigan? No well she's in jail or she's in Canada! She ran away to Canada. She's on the lam in Canada picking up a couple extra bucks at the Sustainable Prosperity Conference. I want to move forward on these international commitments as fast as humanly possible and the more countries like yours and mine that continue to step up and lead the way

2:25:11 that others will follow and the smaller the challenge will be as we move forward in terms of the impacts that will happen if we do not take action today. So along with our federal partners, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been central in leading the effort on climate issues And make no mistake about it, we're continuing to move forward. Because I want to be very clear President Obama and his administration the EPA have absolutely no plans to slow down when the end of our race happens we are going to be running faster

2:25:50 than at the beginning of that race. Because this is a race for this country, this is a race for the future of our kids and health of our planet and we are not slowing down, we are keeping up our momentum and were going to do that all the way over the finish line because we need to give the next president a leg-up to keep that momentum moving forward Okay, clear very clear noise from Miss McCarthy there. Yeah should be singing on the other side of a bunch of bars or some sort of fence

CHAPTER 40 / 42 Discussion

Bill Nye, Climate Change Wager and Upton Sinclair

Bill Nye "The Science Guy" issues a $20,000 wager to meteorologist Joe Bastardi, predicting that 2016 will be among the hottest years on record. The exchange includes a misquoted Upton Sinclair line and highlights the ongoing debate over climate data and "belief" versus scientific understanding.

bill nye· joe bastardi· climate change· upton sinclair· nasa

2:26:27 from a facility where they lock people up. Well, Bill Nye of course as you know is all for locking up climate deniers which by the way... Does he say anything about locking up people who poison the citizens of Michigan? The state of Michigan? Oh I'll have to look for that clip yeah probably not i will say though um that uh this doesn't just come out of his you know his noggin democratic attorney generals Have done reports and had meetings about you know climate change litigation They have actually been investigating what they can do against the you know, I be free speech Okay. Yeah exactly So Bill Nye is that's what I have to deal with This guy is just flabbergasting this whole thing so he issued a wager to some guy who

2:27:22 the about you know he's predicting the future so we might as well play it and we could put it in The Red Book and then we'll see what happens but also this guy is just a douche. In an unusual publication called The Patriot Post, A bodybuilder and meteorologist named Joe Bastardi challenged me He challenged me to show a connection between carbon dioxide Notice how he says a body builder right off the bat You know they kind of discredit him that doesn't know what he's talking about Yeah He challenged me. He challenged me to show a connection between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the world's temperature, and he challenged me to make a forecast—a prediction I can't help but think about Upton Sinclair who said it's hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on his not believing it You know Bill that could say the same for you

2:28:14 It's hard to convince you that you're talking poop when your salary depends on it. Is this not your full-time gig now? So yes, I also think of Upton often when i look at you. To believe something when his salary depends on him not believing it. Now Mr. Bastardi, I cannot help but note that you've spoken at the coal trading conference, Nebraska Propane and the gas forum Where you speak is your business, but it also seems to be your business telling your audiences what they want to hear. That's your business too Bill! But all this aside let's talk about the forecast my prediction. So Mr. Bastardi I will bet you $10,000. I predict that the year 2016 will be among the top 10 hottest years ever recorded. You chicken shit

2:29:05 What is this top 10 years all of a sudden? Okay, he's got the Upton Sinclair quote wrong. Oh, whoa! Of course as soon as he starts quoting people like that... You look it up this is why we are the best hold on a second This is why we are It takes two of us! It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. He substituted the word believe, which I think changes the meaning of the quote a little bit. Well but it's in the context of climate change believer

2:29:51 Yeah, which is funnier because in fact the original quote I think would have been more poignant. Because you'd be arguing that he just doesn't understand it as opposed to the religious thing which we've gone over a number of times saying that this is not a scientific anything this is a belief system and he in fact actually proves it by using the word belief instead of understand. Alright, let's go back and listen to that quote. In an unusual publication called Joe Bastardi challenged me he challenged me to show a prediction I can't help but think about Upton Sinclair who said it's hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on his not believing

2:30:37 And the actual word is understand. Yes, understand not believe and believe of course is what? A religious term! Wow I'm gonna give you oh...I can't give you clip of the day because you didn't have a clip No it wasn't a clip Oh its true It was great what you did Well at the end of the clip we'll both take it Okay, all right now back to his wager $10,000 and he says uh Yeah, I'll bet that 2016 is one of the hottest years in the last 10 years. What kind of wager is that? Oh then they won't have bed will not take place because both are you once title get some documentation showing it wasn't hot and the other one

2:31:25 What's his name? The science guy. And NASA will have the number really high because they'll fudge it, you know what I mean? But he also doubles down to make it 20 grand This check could be yours! And he has a giant check John He has one of those giant checks, the one that Saudi Arabia... Where do we get those giant checks? I've wanted to get those so I can pay my bills with them They have one at the Ronald McDonald house You just wipe it off and write the new one for when someone comes by Really yeah, I was like that you use a race. It's like a whiteboard yes erasable fantastic everybody loves the big check It's a classic it's a classic course if you take the bet and it turns out not to be among the top ten hottest years But if it does and you take the bet you would owe me $10,000 wait I'll take it up enough giving him odds He didn't give him odds but he is gonna double down

2:32:22 I'll take it up a notch. I'll bet you another $10,000 that the decade 2010 to 2020 will prove to be the hottest decade ever recorded. Two bets of ten thousand dollars that-that you could win if you believe that the world is for some reason getting... Believe? There's his believe word again John! I'm glad you called that. You've got to believe. ...for some reason getting cooler instead of hotter. You believe in the wrong religion my friend So come on champ, show us how tough you are. Ah! Come on champ! Come on champ! So come on champ, show us how tough you are Yeah yeah yeah well we brought that clipper today for the... Clip of the day So come on champ, show us how tough you are. Yeah! Show us how tough ya are champ Champ Chump chump chump ha ha ha champ ya chump

CHAPTER 41 / 42 Discussion

In-Q-Tel, CIA Skincare and DNA Collection

The CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, is revealed to have invested in SkinCentral Sciences, a company that developed a skin-exfoliating "pen." While marketed as a cosmetic tool for erasing blemishes, the technology's ability to remove the upper layer of skin makes it a potential tool for painless DNA collection.

in-q-tel· cia· skincentral sciences· dna collection· exfoliation

2:33:17 Okay, so you know the company In-Q-Tel? Yes. In-Q-Tel is a venture capital firm and nonprofit venture capital firm mainly initially financed by CIA for startup to invest in startups mainly technology startups So they invested in this company and I have a complete different interpretation of what you're gonna hear This is the... everyone's all... rubbing their hands together all Worried sick walking in a circle over this new company is company skin central science. Oh Yeah, I read the article about this yeah All right This piece that you just wrote and this is from Democracy Now Democracy now with their one of their guys from The Intercept about the CIA's venture capital arm funding skincare products that collect DNA

2:34:13 What is this all about if you buy this cream that erases blemishes and softens your skin? We did a story on Friday that revealed for the first time that In-Q-Tel, which is the venture capital arm of the CIA had invested in SkinCentral Sciences. This is a company that developed special patented technology that combines water detergent and a pen-like device to rub against the skin and remove an upper, thin upper layer of skin in a painless way for diagnostic purposes. This could be used for medical purposes early detection of melanoma but also for collecting DNA for potential identification purposes or other purposes

2:35:09 As this company progressed, they realized that this technology also had cosmetic value. So the public facing side of this company has a product line called Clearista and you might have seen it on YouTube. They market it very heavily on social media and Oprah's magazine, The O Magazine in other places. And you know, this is an interesting product line but what hasn't been acknowledged or publicly reported is that this company also has a partnership with the CIA and the CIA is very interested in developing technology where they can use biomarkers to collect DNA.

2:35:54 So, explain more how it works. It's kind of like a Tide pen you know instead of rubbing this pen against your clothes to remove stains this is a special pen used to rub against the skin and removing a thin upper layer. So it removes the thin upper layer of the skin? Right! Clearly, it also has cosmetic value because folks have used it and its been modified to be used to erase blemishes. To get rid of dark patches on the skin but the CIA is also interested in ways to collect DNA although they haven't been more specific about their intent on how to use this technology. So it's called Skin Central Science? Yes

2:36:48 This company is one of hundreds of companies invented. He's sinking! Yeah, this is exfoliation this is not new here's the way I see it It's a new form of exfoliation. They're using some sort of organic detergent, they mentioned that earlier and those things can be nasty so you'd have to really be careful with them. Organic detergents are what are used in your fuel and gasoline that goes in there and cleans the crap off of a piston head stuff really I used to when I was at Union Oil they had organic detergent they use in their gasoline

2:37:29 Took a bottle of it home. You stole government property? No, Union Oil is a private company Oh you stole the company property I did but i took some home wasn't stealing it and um But you could use it as a detergent if you mix with some gasoline It was dynamite stuff that you buy in little containers for 3 or 4 dollars And then put it into your tank Yeah! It was a copy of F310, which is what Stan Rowe's using. And then I found that there was...there's a lot of things about these organic detergents that are very strong. So that's what this is. Here's what really happened the way I see it. They're developing this thing and they found its way to getting DNA samples maybe or something. They're fooling around. They invested in this company and this company says no,

2:38:13 We got, look what it does. And they showed it being used as a takes like liver spots off of the guy was 80 years old and puts it on his hand boom is gone. Takes it home to CIA guy, the guy one of the in-QTEL guys there's bunch of them and he takes him to his wife and she says you what do you think of this? It does this. She says holy crap! Look at what this thing has done. You've got to keep investing in this company This is dynamite. And so the guy, well okay... So they keep this thing going and now the Intercept is making a mountain out of a molehill over what I believe is actually what the product is It's like Viagra which started off as something for...I forgot what but it became something that noticed that every time you gave to somebody had a boner so they said let's just repurpose this. So they've re-purposed this thing as an actual... And what was the name of that?

2:39:06 Viagra? Oh, no. You said something rubbing something on the boner No Whatever it is I want to try it I don't know what you're talking about whatever the case if you get blemishes on the boner This is the way to go oh blemishes on the boner yes, I think they use this on babies Whatever the case, and I say that advisedly. Uh...I think it was just the CIA stumbled onto something that turned out to have a cosmetic benefit and now they're just regular investor what are they gonna do? Quit it but meanwhile anything they've invested in has to be some sort of spy craft! I can't tell you the exact circumstances but when I was a kid I remember- It's related to my uncle

2:39:50 I remember a similar, very similar situation when someone came home and said hey honey i've got this great stuff it's called invisible gloves. It's so good you don't need to use gloves anymore when you're washing the dishes and it also removes your fingerprints! Wow that's a good product Invisible gloves...I wonder if it still exists? I just think it's you know they've stumbled onto something and then there were now their investors so what yeah this is if anything it's a great ad. Yeah that's what it amounts to listen to the guy from The Interception then Amy going well, what do you think? What are they gonna do with that? I don't know what are we gonna do with it? He said he doesn't care! The world's worst report

2:40:40 Well, duh. Anyway I think this stuff would be fantastic you know when you go to the doctor or a dermatologist and they look at your arm and say oh these things if you have like anything like a little spot it's not a mole but just discoloration on your skin they bring out his can of liquid nitrogen or spray thing and then they spray that crap out of it and in the next thing you know you got a big scab into heels is fine and the whole thing goes away your hands look better. If you can avoid this painful experience, and it doesn't feel good by the way for this spray thing to hit ya', uh... This would be great! It sounds like a fantastic product. And there's our native advertising for this day. That is totally not native advertising. I was promising some native advertising break here but I forgot to move the clip over so that'll probably come later Oh wait was it one from the previous show? I think it was the show before that What was it called

CHAPTER 42 / 42 Discussion

Army Tanks, Pork Spending and Lima Ohio

A report highlights the continued production of M1 Abrams tanks at a factory in Lima, Ohio, despite the Army stating it does not need them. Lawmakers like Jim Jordan defend the $40 million in "pork" spending as necessary to keep the facility operational for future needs.

m1 abrams· pork spending· lima ohio· jim jordan· pentagon

2:42:27 Rogue One a Star Wars story wrapping up with 12 million views already fans combing through frame by frame. Is this it? No, I don't know what it is though. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Alright, well I'm sorry. That's okay it's not your fault Well you gotta and we got to end on an up note We need one more clip just to get us out make us happy. Let's see...I got a skin central tank There's uh, I got a gun no gun down is not an up note Is there anything positive we can play? I think the tanks in desert story is kind of fun. Tanks and Desert Story, okay. Tracking your tax dollars as we ask in part about 2,000 tanks just sitting in the California desert ABC's Mary Bruce says who's paying for it? It's all your money

2:43:10 Tonight critics on Capitol Hill are squealing that pork is back. Pork spending, that is. We must cut this out of control spending Funding for pet projects was banned five years ago but according to the annual pig book The Practice hasn't gone away. Here's an example they point to there are currently 2,000 spare tanks sitting unused in this California desert even though the army didn't ask for it last year lawmakers snuck in an extra 40 million dollars to upgrade some of the tanks they are made at this factory in Lima Ohio and Congressman Jim Jordan's district he said he had no time for an interview so we tracked him down why is Congress still funding this program?

2:43:51 You don't think the Army needs tanks? The army says they're gonna need them in the future and the idea was are we going to actually shut down a facility, the one place in the country. The one place in the country that still puts together tanks Do you think this helps save jobs I think it's just good policy And David, this fight has been going on for years but lawmakers say it would simply be too expensive to shut down the plant only to restart it later David As the tank sit there tonight in that desert Mary thing Ah what a waste We should go pick up a few Yeah, use a tank I can always isn't always room for an extra tank always alright buddy. Thank you very much Thank you very much No, thank you. Thank you and thank you to all the producers Reminder we do have another show on Sunday remember us at Dvorak org slash na We can always use your help

2:44:44 Always always yes, always you should help it should be down from the 420 high And you may be getting money back from the government. You might want to think of no agenda Yeah, always a good idea All right Well we'll try and keep our feet dry powder dry here in the crackpot condo skyscraper in downtown Austin the 63rd floor Something like that 60 I can imagine a 63 story building in awesome. They're building them they're building Oh, yes the tallest building besides of the Mississippi yeah Yeah in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and I am John C Dvorak And we'll return with another episode of The Best Podcast In The Universe on Sunday right here on no agenda Adios mofos So come on champ show us how tough you are

2:45:55 I know a lot of people want to send blankets, serve water. Just send your cash. Shut up! We just need cash. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I hope it turns out you were never gonna meet the Pope. Shut up! There are rules in the world so you gotta follow them. There are rules in the world, so you gotta follow them. There's advice at the summit? I can't even... It's so obscure, I can't read the text. Is there something... Is this like a steering committee or something for giving advice to the Pope?

2:47:07 The Pope wants to go to the United States, I think he does. The leader's gonna meet the pope it turns out he wasn't never going to meet the pope. He was never actually gonna meet the pope. Bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them. We need to kill and bomb them. Bomb them. We need to bomb them. We need to kill them, and bomb them again! Waiting for a turn down here Got some clips I'd love to share

2:48:15 I'm a little bit of a freak.

2:49:01 So come on champ, show us how tough you are. Adios mofo.