they even know how to hold a taco. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak
and Sunday June 22 2014. It's time for your gizmo nation media
assassination episode six.
This is no agenda.
Dodging House Hunters here in FEMA Region 6am and Travis
heights hide off the capital of the drone star states. In the
morning, everybody I'm Adam curry
and for those are in Silicon Valley, where the Alameda County
Fair has finally opened. I'm John C. Dvorak Buzzkill.
Does this mean up? This is me gonna be getting cotton candy
later.
This is like anybody can I probably will go to the thing.
It's a nice fair.
I think I remember you going with Jada that I think I recall
you talking about that on the show to be what did they do they
have the bearded lady at this fair.
They might got a three five legged goat, you know, stuff
like that.
We have fairs like that here in Austin, we got all kinds of
weird stuff like that.
Actually, the really good one there in Texas is the Texas
State Fair and Dallas. I've been doing a couple total really?
Yeah. Dallas is it's just, it's Houston is a great ride. Dallas
is a bit too far. It's too bad. Three and a half hours. And
it's you went to Plano, which means you went through Dallas to
go further? Yes. This is why
I'm saying this is why I'm an authority on the topic. It's a
little bigger than the state fair, those Oh, you know, kind
of just so you know, it's something to do. Get up at six
in the morning, you're going to be there by 930 10 o'clock. Now
what you got to do is you do a show, you know, you edit the
show, you post the show, then you get in the truck and drive.
That's when we say that was a rough up there after the show?
Well,
you get a lot of good responses from people they thought it was
a good report.
Interesting. You say that? Yeah. A number of people said, Ah, we
want to hear more. And you should do a do a blog post to
help hands get started and like No, wait a minute. You can
google how do I get started? And there's a lot of information. I
don't mind passing on some of my findings from time to time, but
there's a lot you know, just
due to you as they want you today.
But is there a new module to
guide them? Is
there really such a need for that? It was at the farmers
market Harry the the the guy who the guy with the wife from the
Thai, that guy with the Thai wife? He's like, Yeah, we want
to have a ham radio out on the farm. So okay. What do I need?
So a lot of
this? Well, you know, there is this issue. I mean, with
podcasting, for example. It's you know, people want a podcast,
but they don't know what to do. If you know what to do, then you
realize you looking back on it, you go, well, this isn't very
difficult. You just need this piece of equipment and some
cables and a microphone.
Right. Well, but there's there's some differences. That's not
entirely true. I mean, even just setting, there's a difference if
you want people to want to do a podcast. Yeah. Because they
listened to Austin like, Oh, that's easy. Let's do that. And
then it turns out, it's not so easy.
Well, that's yes. That is the that is what ends up happening
because it's not
but I think the only way you really have to go out and
discover things for yourself. And that's the only way to
really learn I believe. I believe
my Yeah, well, I think you should work in the business.
I wanted to start off with something a little different
this morning just to just to change things up. There's this
blog I read a Dog with a Blog Dog with a Blog a dot Nolan. And
actually as I was reading this post that inspired me to play
this little clips. I now wonder if a dot Nolan maybe is female I
have no for some reason, I just kind of assumed odd to dude. And
now some from time to time I pick up some interesting stuff
particularly about Appelbaum and snowed in the Berlin cabal and,
you know, there's some interesting stuff that it's on
this blog. And and so this this, a dot Nolan person writes about
something that he or she calls the thinking person's sickness.
And it's not exactly what I that's not the definition I
would use, but posted the link to a clip from this woman, Dr.
Cathy McMahon, and she is a psych I know she's a
psychologist. So psychotherapist, anyway, so in
this, it's an older clip. But it kind of reminded me about things
that you and I kind of take for granted because we're we're
essentially immune for the bullcrap that most people get
spewed over them, like you know, just like vomit of fear and
things that are thrown at them on a daily basis. And this is a
little clip Sencha it's about peak oil. And so this is old
because of course now I think the whole world probably
recognizes Peak Oil was Bogut IV. There's nothing to it. It
didn't happen. This seems to be more oil than ever. In fact,
we're fighting over. There's so much oil. We don't know where
which war to focus on. There's so much of it. Correct?
Absolutely. All right.
But of course, when when this first came out this peak oil.
And this was what was this maybe three, four years ago when this
really when this really came into the forefront was being
pushed very hard. I
was before that. But we were doing our show it was already
getting falling apart. Really? Yeah. of peak oil. When I first
heard it. I was working actually at Union oil. And that was in.
Yeah, but I mean, really the mainstream Peak Oil. This week,
we caught it right, right at the right at the tail of the peak,
maybe? Maybe, but of course, you and I were like, whatever Peak
Oil? Sure. Yeah. In fact, I think one of our main theses
was, you know, peak oil is great, because then you know, we
don't have to worry about global warming, there'll be no no more
carbon fuel to burn,
says your gimmick, once you came up with this gimmick, which you
might as well reiterate, what became humorous was that the
gimmick stopped working within about a year of you developing.
So the idea was if someone is all in on peak oil, and you say,
oh, you know, global warming, climate change, global warming,
you say warming. Yeah, nice. Oh, man. So Peak Oil. You're all in
on that as well. It's uh, yeah, absolutely. We're running out of
oil, well, then you got nothing to worry about. A global warming
and climate change will solve itself. Once we're out of oil.
We might have to walk to work, but everything will be fine.
Right? And that'd be would be fuddled. He's nominee go
wandering off. Like, it's like a frog with a scrambled brain.
Exactly. It did work for about a year.
So I just want to play this clip. This is not so this would
be I would classify this person most likely as an Obama bought,
although I'm not sure that when the time this was recorded,
Obama was president. And it's actually two women and they're
doing a coffee clutch. About when they first heard about peak
oil. I remember the woman Dr. Catherine McMahon is a
psychotherapist or a psychiatrist, and she treats
people who have anxiety and fear and all kinds of emotional
issues.
My own reaction seems so crazy to me. What's your reaction?
We've been hearing the news morning about peak oil.
What was your own man?
I remember, like it was yesterday, actually. I had
moved, we were putting in a new floor in our bedroom. So I was
in a little room and my husband would print out material from
the internet. And he'd bring it into me and he'd say, Here, read
this. And I'd read it and I'd become increasingly like shocked
and appalled. And then after I was just about finished with
that he'd bring in another piece and say, Hey, I read this. And I
was like, completely overwhelmed. I was shocked. I
was I couldn't believe it. And yet I kept looking for credible,
you know, skeptics that I could believe. And I couldn't find
any. And so I noticed over time, I began to go through this
emotional process of saying, Okay, I have to collect food, I
have to madly, you know, I had went through what I call a salad
dressing period, I bought all the salad dressing. And then,
you know, a year later, I never used it because I started making
my own salad dressing. But at the point I just had to all of a
sudden feel like I had to accumulate everything in order
to be safe. So that
so you were accumulating hoarding all this stuff, because
the world was going to write the you know, the the grocery stores
magic
to happen. Any moment. This big drama was going to happen. I
sort of had that same feeling when I learned about peak oil is
like my first thought was, We're six miles from town. Okay, what
if we can't afford the gasoline? You know? Yeah. Should I be
growing food? Yeah, that kind of stuff.
And you had to do it all yesterday. Yeah, yeah.
Right now. Yeah.
So I think you and I sometimes overstep that, and don't realize
there are lots of people, how, how horrible it really is when
people are bombarded daily about your house is gonna burn down
from the fires from climate change, and your children will
never see snow ever again and they will die before they're 25
and just this incessant fear mongering and there you have a
two I would say intelligent women who were and there may be
some matriarchal feelings that are mixed in there. That's
pretty insane how frightened these women were. Yeah,
yeah, that's true. So I so age brings me to a clip if you don't
want me to Keep Yeah, same track, please. So I and this was
actually, the boss think it would be a really ideal Clip to
play just before one of our little segments where we're
thanking people for helping contribute to running the show.
Just as the Glenn Beck fail, Glenn Beck, I was listening to
this clip and he did some interesting he was he was
criticizing the Obama administration for capturing
this, you know, the guy behind then Benghazi when he
floated around free, the guy who had been doing all the
interviews with CNN,
yeah, without any, and then jump back pointed this out. And then
back at this is not too long, but it's a little long, but what
it is what the clip does is his Beck is doing it, I think,
reasonably, he's a little emotional, but he's doing a
reasonable thing. And then he flips into his advertising.
Okay. And the worst part about it is the fear mongering in the
advertising is shameless. And I think it is a straight
reflection of what these women were thinking. They're on the
other side of the political spectrum. But both sides of the
political spectrum are bombarded with this bullcrap. Play this
and you'll see what I'm talking about
the Benghazi ringleader, Ahmad. What's his name? Abu what's his
face? Who Khattala yet Thank you, I love him. Two years ago,
the President vowed to do everything he could to bring him
to justice. And yet, the guy did interviews in public in public
was CNN, The New York Times, other Western journalists. In
fact, if I, if I may, let me play a little bit of the CNN
interview.
US officials have often suggested that they would be
interested in speaking to a man named Muhammad, Abu Khattala.
About the events the night of the attack. He's really not that
difficult to find. We met with Ahmed Abu Khattala, in public at
the coffee shop of a well known hotel here in Benghazi for
around two hours,
makes it not hard to find, not hard to find. The President
hasn't taken any responsibility. The State Department said well,
it's easy for them to find it. It's harder for our Navy SEALs
to find him. Come on, come on. And this is only a partial list
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this. This is so sad when these guys do that. It's unbelievable.
I hear this all the time. It's like you were gonna die. 1776
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Yeah, no, I you know, it's kind of it's borderline pathetic,
because you know, they some of these guys actually do analysis.
That's interesting. And then they just blow it
up. And sometimes they have their own old crap. And
sometimes, I
guess, leave someone who says that the dollar is going to
collapse the Shah really?
Or at least listen to his show where there's two sides of that
opinion.
Not just one. It's horrible.
I you know, my obsession continues. I have to say my
obsession with the history of the Middle East. Is is so weird.
My mom was probably looking down on me going What? What you're
interested in what?
You are just a goofball. When you're a kid.
I was I was a goofball up until my 40s when I was a kid, and now
I'm just obsessed with with every day there's and it's not
just me stumbling upon stuff. We have a fantastic audience of
producers who will send me things and, and often in fact, I
got reminded by one of our producers, it's interesting how
sometimes it's female producers who like to go back and say Oh,
I had a maybe should look at revisit this. And I was very
happy. One of our producers said you should go back and take a
look at it. A Brzezinski saw the grand chessboard book and I did.
And because you know Brzezinski now, Zbigniew Brzezinski I think
we actually have done we have an official pronunciation for that
guy from somebody
that involves a lot of spitting.
Here it is. I've got the official pronunciation. The
beginning of G scare you guys the big new Brzezinski?
Yeah, we're not gonna be pronouncing it that way anytime
soon.
Whose daughter is Mica? There are mica there in the Morning
Joe Show and he calls in from time to time. Gorgeous and
chilly. He was Hey, Dad, how you doing? It's kinda it's kind of
cute. I have to say that. Even elitist can be cute. So I did go
back and I looked a little bit at some of the so here's a quote
from the Grand chessboard chessboard. This is from 1997. I
think, actually, the full title of the book is the grand
chessboard, American primacy or primacy and its geo strategic
imperatives. Now, again, not a book until I was doing the show
that I would go Oh, this looks like some nice reading. And
Brzezinski was, you know, uh, you know, I'm saying, right?
That's funny. This is some light ritual is ruined our lives. It
has, what am I doing? Now he was the was the Secretary of State
for Nixon. I know he was he's a he was a Carter guy. And Carter.
I'm sorry. He was advisor or sec, I think it was, was the
secretary of state
actually, while you're discussing this, I'll
look into you'll consult the book of knowledge. That's very
important. Okay.
Spelt, Prensky never hidden
Oh, it's b r ZEZ.
Right, B. r ZEZIN. Ski? Yeah, that's one name that just
doesn't No, no, it
does not stick in your deer ribs. I know. It's very hard,
very hard to remember.
Well, that's Yeah. And he's never identity thieves are gonna
have difficulty with that guy.
So while you're making that up, I'll read this, this paragraph.
But if the middle space and I'm going to add some explanations
to the middle space is Russia and the former Soviet Union,
rebuffs the West, that will be the European Union and the
United States becomes an assertive single entity, and
either gains control over the South, that's the Middle East,
or formed an alliance with the major Eastern actor that could
only be China, then America's primacy in Eurasia, synced
shrinks dramatically.
He was he was a national security and national security
adviser.
Well, he's the guy that brought the initial guns to the
Mujahideen, I think, maybe, I think so there's video of him
going out there and talking to these guys, like
you find is partially partially responsible for the financing of
them was Yes, exactly.
America's primacy in Eurasia shrinks dramatically. The same
would be the case if the two major Eastern players were
somehow to unite. Finally, any rejection of America by its
western partners, thus, the French and the Germans from its
perch on the western periphery, Europe, would automatically
spell the end of America's participation in the game on the
Eurasian chessboard, even though that would probably also mean
the eventual subordination of the Western extremity to a
revive player occupying the middle space, which, of course,
would be Russia. So when you read through this grand
chessboard, and you do have an it is, it's challenging to get
through it. I found. Essentially, what he is saying
is that everything in the world on this grand chessboard is all
about, essentially the energy business, who has it? Who supply
who sells it? And who needs it? Or who, who hasn't? Who needs
it, who supplies it. And there really are only two sides
momentarily. You have the US, the UK and the EU, and Japan, on
one side, and the other side, you have Russia, China and Iran.
And that's pretty much the game. And if you keep that in mind
with everything, things be so start to become very mean very,
very, very clear, particularly when you take into account our
recent knowledge, really, of how the energy flows, which is you
know, you'd grown up as a kid you see a big tanker. Oh, yeah,
it goes somewhere now, but it's really pipelines. And so this
most recent move in Kurdistan and, and Northern Iraq and Iraq,
and and of course, everything that's going on all over Iraq,
and now the expected expansion of this mobilization into other
places like Jordan, that might Okay, let's look into why why is
Jordan being pulled into play? Do you have do you have any idea
John, do you
know I mean besides the mean the standard litany, I read all of
material I could on isas and you know, Jordan is just as phony
state that they believe shouldn't even be there. So they
were just take over that whole area. But there's it's also
really an American ally. There's there's been a there's a
concerted effort going on to kind of get us out of the game
and I think that Zubrin skis book probably talks about some
of that I ran into a, an odd piece of or an odd scene, it was
the guard doing a press conference. And there's the you
familiar with the IMF reforms?
Yes. The 2010 reforms, the United States has not ratified
Yes, this is what will bring in the SDR. Yes.
Well, I don't see it bringing in the SDR of course, because I
don't think the SDR is the key here. But it is an attempt to
screw us. You taking
me off my oil thing, but okay, no, this
is about the oil. All right. Good. Because it's all about the
same thing. Well, anyway, I got this clip. That is interesting,
because I finally figured out what what's going on. And with
the reform of the reforms, Minsky's chessboard that is
about your oil sneaking So finish your oil idea. No, no,
no.
If you want to bring an IMF that's okay.
Okay, bring in IMF reforms. Yes. On the front.
Good morning, Stefan global you run us. The statement doesn't
mention the ongoing unwillingness of the US
authorities to support and implement the IMF reforms. Have
you given up hope on this? No way. No way
I would never give up, never give up. And, you know, I was I
was a player in this organization, except on the
other side, when the US authorities campaigned actively
for the reform. And I want to see it through. So I would
certainly hope that the authorities both at the
administration, as well as at the legislative level,
understand and appreciate how helpful and necessary it is to
actually implement the reform so that the IMF can continue to
play its role as prescribed by the articles. Okay.
So I was listening to this going, what's the big deal? Why
are we not signing off on whatever these reforms aren't?
Because of course, China
in in the hot seat
will know what it really does is it eliminates we have right now
to the IMF, we have to remember we keep forgetting. We don't
keep forgetting, but we don't bring it up a lot. It's we use
it as an implement for the economic hitman. So we can, you
know, be in the Middle East doing creating havoc, and
realizing and the only way we can do that is if we have veto
power. With the IMF does, yes. Right now we're right at the
point at we have 16.75% of the vote. When it cost them the
major decisions that the IMF have to be done with what's
called a supermajority, which is 85%. They want to bring in
Brazil, Russia, India and China into the IRA, the AI, the IMF,
voting bloc, this would reduce our our share to like less than
15%, which eliminates our ability to veto anything I
disagree. And that no. I disagree. That has been one of
the main promises of the of the ratification of the 2010 reforms
is that it would not remove the United States veto power Canada
in the future. Yeah, of course, it immediately gives us it's a
small percentage, but it gives the United States a smaller
percentage of the vote. But one of the big promises has been if
you look at the documents, it will not change our veto power.
But it does put China at number two and currently they're number
six, I think on the on the on the board. If you look at all
the voting, share, whatever it's called to the IMF, I looked into
this extensively when I was talking about the SDR to
you and your SDR thing is like well, you what you're doing what
you just did is that you denied the possibility
no evidence or argument I'm not denying the possibility. I'm
telling you what they're saying.
I know I know what you're saying. But I'm just saying
you're on the other side of this argument. I don't understand why
you I'm not support of the reform. I'm not
I didn't What do you think I have some fucking politician I'm
telling you what they're saying. I don't give a shit. I'm gonna
I'm like, Oh, don't touch my dollar. I don't care. I'm here
to tell you what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing I'm not here to
be on a side. Money. Excuse me. Did you? Did you wake up and
think I was Newt Gingrich on crossfire or something? No,
on go back to your oil. Thank
you. Yeah, you should be. Alright, have you ever heard of
the most is all Haifa oil pipeline
on this show? No. But I've yet I've never heard of this. Okay.
The mozal Haifa oil pipeline. And mozal, as you all look at
your maps is right smack in the middle of the Kukoc oil field.
And it's also going to be the new capital according to
Kimberley,
which, yes, so it's very much in play. Initially was constructed
in 1932. I think it was it was commissioned in 1932. And it was
in full swing in 1935. Haifa, for those who don't know, is in
Israel. And for
more than it also the High Tech Center in Israel. And for
more than a decade, oil was being pumped from mozal now
known as the capital of Kurdistan to Israel.
No, no, that wouldn't be Kurdistan. It's going to be the
capital of the ISIS territory.
I'm sorry, I stand corrected. But it is it is Kurdish oil.
There they Well, they claimed the oil to own this now.
Yeah, no, this is yes. Of late.
They've got quite the website, by the way. The Kurdistan
Regional Government, they got a news agency, they got
all kinds of things. Just one of the big PR companies. They even
they even were bitching about Bloomberg reporting of cheap oil
that were selling to Israel. They're pretty incredible.
Anyway, so this, this was a pipeline that was encased in
cement and ran underground. And it was the lifeline for Israel.
It was decommission it, I think, around 1954, this thing was
essentially done with had been blown up in many, many parts.
And I think within 48 to the Arab Israeli war, that's really
when the when the pipeline kind of ended. And looking back in
the in my research, Bibi Netanyahu apparently made some
big blunder around 2003 when George W. Bush and cronies said,
Hey, let's go liberate Iraq. And he said, Ah, oil will flow once
again, the throne from Mosul to Haifa. And apparently, that was
like a big nono, because that was exactly the plan. And if you
and now in hindsight, if you look at this pipeline, you'll
see that many of the bases the US bases were along this route.
And the beauty of the mozal Haifa pipeline, which is being
is right now, version 2.5, essentially is being built was
the commission went to hunt oil. And you may remember hunt oil,
it was talked about a lot back in the day, and was one of
George W. Bush buddies. Yeah, HL hunt in the bush. Yes, exactly.
And if you look at their website, you know, the same
people
behind hunts foods. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't think there
anymore, if you
look at where they're where their big oil exploration and
production is. So it isn't, it's not they're not just out there.
poking holes in the ground, they actually do the production and
run the stuff. Headquartered in Dallas, of course, they also
have huge operations in Romania, Yemen, and Kurdistan, of course.
So these guys are still kind of in on that game. And the way the
pipeline ran, and the way it's supposed to run again, is
through Jordan. And that's why Jordan is now in play.
Right? But that would make sense, right? So it makes more
sense. And the memes. Exactly. So
I pick up this, this little piece from a much longer piece,
about a minute and a half of Brzezinski. He's on the Morning
Joe Show with the his daughter. And of course, and there's a
couple of these I don't know, I didn't even write down the names
of these guys were also on the show. But it becomes very clear
if you just now that you have this knowledge of this pipeline
running from mozal, in the Kerkhoff oil fields through
northern Iraq, which is now being protected, essentially.
And being distracted by the ISIS calamities, it's all distraction
to the crude oil can now run nicely through Jordan, right
into into Israel, it may not be Haifa, where it comes out again,
but into Israel, with that knowledge. Now listen to these
analysts who probably they all know what's going on. None of
them actually say it, and Brzezinski is the one who even
pulls back and says, Wow, you know, you guys shouldn't be
talking about this. How
much are they there to work with the Iranians and the Iraqis to
keep Iraq intact? And that's a question that did not emerge
clearly from yesterday's press conference. And I would simply
say I do not think it is any more in the interest of the
United States to do that the days of an intent to do what to
keep Iraq as a single nation state. I essentially think that
has been eclipsed by history. Dr. Burzynski Will you agree
with that?
I agree with it, but I wouldn't be saying it's formally insofar
as United Stage is concerned. I think that is a fact of life
however. So we have to prop up what can be saved, we can
prevent perhaps Baghdad from falling. But Iraq is an entity,
viable entity and national entity was somewhat of a
fiction. And we demolished it starting with 2003. So listen to
the hawk to listen to you, doctor, the priorities, the
unspoken priorities right now would be saved the Kurds in the
north, there are allies, take care of our friends, the Kurds
in the north, take care of Jordan, make sure that Israel
doesn't launch on its own a nuclear strike against what's
going on in Iraq, and basically partition off Iraq and let them
go at it is that the deal and some accommodation with Iran
because Iran can become a source of instability in the region, if
things get worse between them and us, or it can find some
merit and its own national interest being served by some
accommodation with us. And of course, as we all agree, I think
Jordan has to be propped up as much as possible. And what
happens across the Jordan River is very important for Jordans
stability.
Okay, so he's laughing at he's like, Yeah, we kind of get all
this in play. The way
he said demolished. It's just
another word for verbalized. So he now he says something very
important that now the pieces start to fall into place what
Kerry has been working on so hard to the point where people
are calling him a douchebag is this Palestinian deal with
Israel? Today in the news, Robert seri. Now, Robert Serry,
where have we heard this name before? He is the United Nations
Special Coordinator. We heard this name up more than six weeks
ago, right after Victoria Newlands famous at Ft. Eu quote.
And she was saying, Yeah, we get Yes, we'll bring him in. And I
hear we've even got Robert salary coming in. You remember
that? No. Okay. Well, we looked him up. And he's a Dutchman. And
he is a United Nations Special Coordinator. He was the guy that
tried to come into Ukraine and was then held and rejected and
they would they held him for like 24 hours. This is right in
the beginning of the practice. Now, you may not remember, we
don't well, he now shows up as the United Nations Special
Coordinator for the Middle East process, which is all part of
the same thing, the Ukraine, and it's all about the same energy
blocking Russia and China in Iran. And he is accused of
trying to funnel $20 million to Hamas against Israel's wishes.
And they apparently Hamas apparently has a payroll
problem. That's literally the report here. We've got a payroll
issue, we need to bridge. I'm not kidding, this is the real
reports. We need a bridge loan. And Israel said, No, you can't
do that. And he tried to do an end around and have Qatar
transfer it. So they're trying to make peace. Not not
necessarily with Hamas, but with the Palestinians. Because of
this, this ultimate goal of this oil coming in which they will
have to share with their neighbors to make it a again,
that's that's all that this is about. All of this Jew Arab
stuff, you know, Arab, Arab, you're Sunni, sushi, whatever.
It's bull crap. All of that is bull crap. And it's proved, it's
proven when you see that. The Kurds, the Kurds, they currently
have a pipeline that goes to this port of se han, which is in
Turkey, and you need to go to Kern oil.no. Agenda notes.com
John? Kurd oil KURDO. I l.no. Agenda notes.com. And there we
have a good overview of the oil fields, the gas fields, the
current Kukuk se han oil pipeline, and then you'll see
the what they call this map calls the pipeline under
construction. And that is the essentially the mozal Haifa
pipeline 2.0 That is now under construction. And who knows is
doing that, you know, that could be Breck tell for all I know, we
don't know, Bechtel Bechtel. Yeah, those guys. So this is
this is what this entire thing is about is what 2003 was about.
But now we just have a different way of going about it. And that
is we have created this ISIS group and make no mistake, we
have created this ISIS group. And they are the big distraction
and while this happens, you can see right there what Kurdistan
is doing. And I encourage everybody to, to go to the
website. It's very interesting to read what they have. Let me
see what is the what is the actual website they have here?
Because they're KR g.org There you go. That is the Kurdistan
Regional Government website I got it in English and it got
multimedia. Like they got some JavaScript going on and it looks
looks pretty legit. These guys know where they went and they
got all their statements and they're pissed off, you know
crazy to think that Bloomberg would actually report that we
sold a whole tanker full of oil at half price to Israel, please
that as an insult. Damn sure the Israelis did some kind of deal.
But here's the end game for for this piece of the of the chess
game at least the Iraqi oil gets pumped to Israel, Israel, and
who are now building a pipeline is on to Italy. And there's
another pipeline to Greece through Cyprus. They are
building the infrastructure into Europe circumventing turkey.
This is why Turkey is so pissed off and all this. And of course,
we've been trying to cause havoc there. I think that's where
Petula Gulin. You know, his his the reason why he is in
Pennsylvania, this is the so called cleric in Pennsylvania
with all the all the charter schools. And you know, like 1200
people have been fired from Turkey to the Turkish
government, because they're all Gulin shills trying to upset the
applecart from the inside. And I believe Erawan figured it out.
And he's and he's thwarted this. But it was essentially, you
know, a regime change or mobilization plan from the
western partners. And the whole idea is stop anything coming
from Russia. We've successfully done that in Ukraine, Belarus,
be on the lookout. And now, and now there's this fight between
Russia trying to connect a pipeline through the South
Stream, which goes underneath that video, which goes through
the former Yugoslavia and Republican they're trying to get
into Europe that way. And Europe now saying, Oh, no, no, no,
we'll we'll do a deal. We'll, we'll take your gas directly.
And we'll if if Ukraine wants anything, we'll reverse the
taps, and we'll we'll sell it back to them. This whole thing
is about stopping those guys, everybody, every single person,
maybe we'll do a little deal with Iran, maybe you know, that
might be fun to play with them. But Israel, that's why they've
been so incredibly quiet, is just waiting to get their oil so
they can sell it into Europe and other western partners. That's
all that this is about. That's what 2003 was about. And, of
course, all we get here is well, here's this I got the Anne Marie
slaughter clip that I want to play. She is a version of
Kimberly Kagan, as she is the CEO of the release the at the
New America Foundation. I think she's taught your typical
elitist on the she's on the what does that thing the Council of
Foreign Relations, and she was State Department adviser to
Hillary Clinton. And now she's running this big NGO funded by
Eric Schmidt and mill and Melinda Gates. And listen to the
disdain in her voice as she's explaining to the NPR person, I
only clipped out a little bit. And she just had she's laughing
at every question. Like, you stupid idiot. Don't you know?
You know, it's because of course, this is not about
anything but religion. And we need to save people. So if the
US goes after ISIS and Assad, that's confusing, because ISIS
is kind of our friend in Syria, because the United States
opposes Assad, but isI s is our enemy in Iraq, because they're
fighting the government that we helped put into place. Right?
Well, they it's always confusing in the Middle East.
But the way to think about so confusing for up on this
is, is is is certainly not our friend anywhere, but neither is
the Syrian government.
Except when they were our friends. They were she was in
Vogue magazine, and Brad Pitt and Angelina hung out with them.
And what I was arguing in the times is you can't talk about
Iraq and you can't solve Iraq without recognizing the roots of
this problem in Syria.
How can the United States attack Assad and try to get help from
Iran? I mean, they're close allies.
So that is unquestionably complicated. And one of the
arguments for not using force in Syria has been if we use force
in Syria, it will torpedo our negotiations with Iran and we
are talking to Iran about this whole tangle I think that's
smart policy. But I think we also need to signal to Iran that
we are in fact prepared to use force two, three.
In fact, prepared is this thing she laughs in the middle of his
sentence. Yeah.
We are prepared because you stupid or radians, tonchi? No,
we will kill you. If we feel like
protect the Syrian people and the Iraqi people. How do
you No and Marie slaughter, how do any of us know what the Iraqi
and Syrian people really want? Well,
in the first place, the Syrian people have been begging for our
intervention, the majority of the Syrian people, I don't think
it takes a great leap of imagination to know that they,
they no longer want barrel bombs dropped on them, they want an
end to the killing. And similarly for the Iraqi people.
And my point is, there are things we can do, there are ways
we can use force that or change the situation on the ground
enough to force a political negotiation that she has it
sounds like she has that the same laugh, and she has the same
cadence as Hillary, exactly, oh, there was there were worries.
Every once in a while she sounds actually sounds like Hillary,
she
sounds a little less ragged than Hillary. So she's a little more
cleanliness to the cut of her of her speech, when she's finishing
up, she'll do another little chuckle
here that gets a decent government, and that allows
multiple nations, then to fight a terrorist group that we need
to take on.
It's a difficult situation and doesn't really look like there
are many good options.
While they're there, I think we have better options. Well, then
we recognize it's very hard. I'm not faulting the president for
for, you know, not immediately knowing what to do. But what I
am saying is, you cannot say for two years, as he said that Syria
is not in our vital interests, so we shouldn't use force and
then turn around and say, against the very same group, it
is in our vital interests to use force in Iraq. This is the same
problem.
So I find it very interesting. These she's obviously one of
these Uber Uber liberals running in the Uber. I mean, when you
have Eric and Wendy Schmidt, donating over a million dollars
to your NGO, and mill and Melinda Gates doing the same and
you know, all this, you are in the top echelon of Obama
madness. And then they are now trying to find beautiful words
and ways to explain why we need to go kill brown people in sand.
Because that's what she's saying. Limited strikes. I
haven't heard the surgical yet. But I'm waiting for that
as more of a Republican term. But
she said, but it's the same thing is oh, just limited and
we'll just know just hit up, blow a couple people up and, and
we limit civilian casualties. These people are just as as war
mongering, hungry as any Republican. Oh, at least. And
now, here's Ted Cruz, who also and again, it's so disappointing
that no one just really says what it's about. And I think
this is going back to the beginning of the show. If people
really knew what this was for, if every single war is always
about turf and resources, and maybe a hooker, too, we really
would protest this. But now when you bring in patriotism and be
afraid, it's a launching pad for its jihadi Disney Land, they're
going to come and kill you in America. And oh, and the Britons
are they're going to kill us in the UK. And oh, it's the
putative Think of the children the humanitarian crisis bull
crap. I don't know if Cruz is onto it, but at least he's
calling out some spades,
indeed, an obvious question that the administration should
answer. Is, has the Obama administration ever armed ISIS?
Has the administration given lethal weapons to ISIS? We are
doing so to rebels who are fighting alongside ISIS in
Syria. And it's an obvious question to ask whether we have
in fact, armed these radical Islamic terrorist as well. ISIS
is much more than a local or even a regional threat. They are
among the worst of the radical Jihad ease who attacked us on
September 11 2001. Oh, and again on September 11 2012.
This is this is now the new meme isn't these guys? They're not Al
Qaeda. These guys are so bad that al Qaeda is afraid of them.
Yeah, that Eric Ben did they tried to make this Meme stick a
couple of times. The first time I saw it, they played with it
was in 2006. When the Washington Post did an article with it with
the I think the initial I think it was the initial article where
they said oh, well, they're a part of our they were an
affiliate of al Qaeda and they al Qaeda people didn't want to
have anything to do with them because they were too brutal too
crazy, which makes which of course is the idea is to get the
public freaked out about these guys, because how could you be
more brutal than al Qaeda? Data
Well, there's one other term we got to throw in there. It always
worked so
bad in fact, that the quote core al Qaeda core al Qaeda, as
President Obama likes to call the terrorist cells in Pakistan
and Afghanistan, have renounced them. Their goal is to establish
a new Islamic Caliphate. There it is, ladies and gentlemen
it is everybody. Gotta get that in.
Thank you very much. Roberto Suarez, Jason Scott and everyone
sending in caliphate jingles now. But it's that's it. And
this is this is nothing but unhealthy for you.
It's horrible for the poor public. I want to mention one
little thing since you brought that in. I didn't clip it. I
should have I had it somewhere. I just didn't get to the clip.
It was one of the shows on fox, fox news. And then they said, Do
you think that there's anything we should do about? And then
they described the ISIS thing as the al Qaeda army. Really? Yeah.
That is the term used on Fox was the elder army.
Interesting.
I thought that was interesting. I
haven't heard that one yet.
But well, I think it has to do with you know, can you? I'm
guessing it's possible, like when they did the study on the
global warming phrase as opposed to climate change. Right. Right.
Yeah. Somebody said you know this ISIS ISIL
that's not working. Just call it the al Qaeda army.
So let's change it to al Qaeda army. Have you had a scare the
people
it's so have you done a recent Google search on that?
No, not really. That just came to mind.
You may want to use a proxy. Let's see al Qaeda army are
already listed. Let them go. Here it is. Oh, Riley. Okay.
There's it's a fox meme right now. Oh, Riley expect Obama to
start bombing al Qaeda army.
Okay, this wasn't this wasn't a Riley. So now we know it's a
network wide phenomenon. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. So that seems to be Mike Rogers. There's an al Qaeda
army on the move.
Mike Rogers Hold on, buddy.
But see this was on. You want to hear him say that? Or he just
yeah, if you got it. Yeah, hold on a second. I can I can play I
can. I can. I can patch it
through with ISIS moving so fast. Do we have several days
for him to review options? And he said, basically, it was
contingent on Maliki reaching out. If Maliki does not reach
out to the Kurds into the Sunnis and decides to stick with a Shia
base. What does the US do then? Well, again, leadership is
important absence of leadership and decisiveness is important.
Yes, it's too late to have long political reconciliation
meetings that will last weeks or months to try to get through
even the finest points of difference. You have an al Qaeda
army on the Moon
Well, he's uh, he's on board. He got the memo. Yeah, so
we're going with that the other thing I've noticed which is
another good catch, by the way very another slight meme which
is they're describing their their actions of the al Qaeda
army as they took over in a blitzkrieg fashion. Oh,
nice. Nice callback. Right, let's create they must be
hidden, they must be Nazis.
So you use the Blitzkrieg and that immediately brings to mind
especially after all these recent celebrations about the
day and all the rest of it a lot of world war two specials are on
so now it brings to mind the hort the atrocities of the
fascists and so lovely. So do you see that word blitzkrieg,
which was a specific type of thing the Nazis did a very
unlike what these guys are doing.
Blitzkrieg was like, this was almost like, it was like the
shock and awe of the day shot. Yeah, shocked. Yeah, it was the
germ. It was the Nazi shock and felt shock
troops. Yes, that mean come and Storm Troopers,
the ISIS shot troops. We can also write it. We can always we
should be working for the government.
What else can we do? Public?
We would be great writers.
So they're voting for us or vote us back in because they'll be so
scared.
Well, luckily, somebody in this whole thing has some humor. And
I'm enjoying it thoroughly because now we know that ISIS
are. These of course are social media experts.
Government forces battle Islamic militants for control of Iraq.
Both sides have claimed the upper hand. Terrorist supporters
are also waging a profit And a war online posting a
photoshopped mockery of the First Lady's Twitter campaign to
free those girls kidnapped in Nigeria instead of saying Bring
Back Our Girls. That hashtag reads bring back our Humvee, a
reference to ISIS is threat. Theft, rather of a truckload of
us made Humvees that happened last week.
So whoever's running that show has some humor. And it's
clearly, obviously there's someone in some meeting
somewhere going, Oh, I got an idea. Let's do this. And oh, by
the way, where where's all the outrage about our girls that
that got dropped pretty quickly, didn't it
never got any. It never got any traction. It wasn't working.
They so they dropped it. Even Michelle Obama, who went on for
hours about women being denied education, oh, well, whatever.
Screw it. I'm running for Senate. Who cares? Here's the
president. I feel I have two, two clips back to back the
president. And then Carl Levin. And this is about the 300
advisors now. And people need to listen very, very closely what
is being said here? This is the military industrial complex.
This is not yet.
I want to mention something I was reading some research on
this too. We we left 6000 people there.
And we I think we have 6000 of
them. They have new titles. They're not soldiers anymore.
Yes, they need 300. More for its show. It's showboating. It's
complete showboating is to show us it's 275. And it's a small
number
75. These are right out of one of the Kimberly Kagan Yes, they
did an operation. Yeah.
And that but they're not US military. And he's the President
is very clear. This is going to the commercial companies. By the
way. It's it's not caaci. It's khaki, khaki, you pronounce it
khaki. We've learned
we got a bunch of letters from Merck insiders.
We appreciate it. And we learned something this week. That's a
good name, check it, get
it, get it.
So listen carefully to what the President is saying what he
isn't saying. And then we'll have Carl Levin's
interpretation, he's a real Bobe. He just he just comes out
and says it like a moron,
the United States will continue to increase our support to Iraqi
security forces. Were prepared to create joint operation
centers in Baghdad and Northern Rock
joint operation centers what we have that here in Texas, this is
intelligence centers everywhere joint operation centers, where
it's just like Iraq here to share intelligence
and coordinate planning to confront the terrorist threat of
ISIL.
Okay, and notice, he's saying is i L. This is not insignificant.
There's a reason for this. I believe you're right. I believe
that the President will soon pivot towards the Iraqi army.
He's not going with the plain army, oh, kite army army. Thank
you.
Through our new Counterterrorism Partnership Fund,
we're the new Counterterrorism Partnership Fund. That is the $5
billion fund that is intended to be used for counterterrorism.
And it goes to commercial companies it otherwise he would
just say it's coming out of our regular Department of Defense
Fund. No, it's coming out of the new Partnership Fund.
Through our new Counterterrorism Partnership Fund, we're prepared
to work with Congress to provide additional equipment. We have
had advisors in Iraq through our embassy and were prepared to
send a small number of additional American military
advisors,
American military advisors is not the same as advisors who
work for the American military is very different
up to 300. To assess how we can best train, advise and support
Iraqi security, security forces going forward. American forces
will not be returning to combat in Iraq. But we will help Iraqis
as they take the fight to terrorists who threaten the
Iraqi people, the region and American interests
as well. And you were completely correct, John, when you say we
transferred, it was five or 6000 enlisted men and women to come
and they're now making three or four times as much as they were
in working for Uncle Sam. And they're now working for private
contractors. And that is all around the largest embassy, I
think in the world. Yes. The the Baghdad US Embassy is
unbelievable in scope. And here's Carl Levin, who comes out
and of course, he has to do some kind of speech. Like he does a
15 to 20 minute press conference. I'm all on board.
I'm all in kids. I support the strategy that President Obama
outlined yesterday, and here's why. And here's also the factors
that I believe should govern our approach. Moving forward. The
decision to send a small number of US non military advisors is a
prudent decision. See non military advisors he says it
prompt really, they're not military advisors, people. This
is the military industrial complex going in to steer the
operations here. Let's make sure hey, we're building a pipeline
over there, move you're fighting over there, they can help assess
the situation on the ground. That's right lead of poor Iraqi
efforts to defeat the Islamic militants that Iraq faces and
help the Iraqis make best use of the ample intelligence support
that we're already providing. So Mala he's out, Maliki didn't do
his job. Mala key should have helped with this operation with
in mozal. Where apparently also, that's where they got the $400
million, or whatever they got in gold or whatever it was
still, you know, this is another thing I was trying to do some
work on this. I got nowhere. It's hard for one thing, but
know what modern banks have that much money cash I read, there
was a lot of gold. Well, there's a lot of good, yeah, you read?
Yeah, there was a lot of gold. And there's also a lot of gold
in town. I mean, most of these Middle Eastern, if you've been
to the Middle East, and you go to the cities, there's gold
shops. There's like and that's all they do is sell gold. And
you if you're the rate, here's your rating the place you just
bust into the gold shop and just steal all the gold. You say give
it give us the gold. And these guys are out of business now.
And I'm sure they did a lot of that and it's and if you were
started looking into it, these guys are like classic like mafia
style mobsters. Yeah, in the old Syrian sense, because the
Syrians used to do this as a state sponsored terrorism
operation years ago before the new Assad came into being. And
so it's not like that none of these methodologies are
completely alien to this, these people that are involved with
this with this gangsterism and but still the $400 million, and
apparently their net worth their total nut that they have access
to, according to some sources is $2 billion.
No shout. Oh, well, yes. Yeah, it's but that's only that's not
even half of what we've actually made available. With the 5
billion anti counterterrorism counter terrorism. They got
plenty,
they only get a chunk of it. And so using like a scam of the
highest proportion, so
using that as leverage, hey, we got a cosigner
we stole it from the bank. I don't believe this. No, I
agree. I agree. No,
it nowadays, banks, you know, they only have safe for people
with safe deposit boxes. They don't carry any money that
everything's done electronically.
In fact, this has probably been launched into the world as a
ruse to empty out some slush fund. Oh, they stole it. I had
it sitting there in mozal. What do you know? They got to me.
They stole it.
Yeah, it was a money laundering scam.
So with this, we can learn that if you look at history, you can
see that it pretty much always repeats itself. Certainly if
people don't read history, it's always going to repeat itself.
And the grand game is very clear. It's all the same people
to the north and to the south. blockout Russia, lockout. Well,
by proxy Iran, this Emory slaughter, she's all over
bombing Syria, apparently. I'm not quite sure what her beef is.
But sure, we have to bomb Syria. And why not? We had nukes just
nuked the whole place. Oh, no, that might disturb your actual
oil transport. But just keep your eye on Israel's moves.
Because they're the they're the recipients. And they are the
traffickers. They're going to traffic it up to Europe. We cut
everybody off. Next move I think is in China. You know, it's it's
China has been doing some interesting things. Of course,
they now are hooking up directly with the Canadian tar sands. I
guess we've waited long enough on that.
For but
the Yeah, they're running up, I think a pipeline from Alberta to
the coast. Yeah. And in there the other way as opposed to
Keystone, which I think one of the reasons we were were you
have so many people pushing for keystone to finish it is selling
to China. No, because that's going down to the I don't think
so. I think that's the sell to Europe. Okay. So can away from
time and we're in the deal if we're selling it to Europe, but
the Chinese deal would be straight Canadian to China
sales, we'd have nothing to do with it.
And it looks like they've got a done deal. Now Canada approves
new new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast.
Yeah, that would go out to probably Yeah, Vancouver. The
big port is in Vancouver. And so they would haul big giant
tankers full. I don't know how deep that port is if it's a
super deep water port, but they can dig it up.
In the Chinese, they're sly man. So here's a couple other
headlines. There. I tell me you gotta watch you keep your eye on
them as today they sneak very
sneaky sneaky bastards. Chinese Premier Premier, a premier MBA
vows to invest in greek railways to improve transport link to
Europe. So you know what, if we're not going to bring it into
your well, at least we'll transport it through Europe.
Okay, really don't care. China also agreeing to design and run
the new United Kingdom nuclear power plants. What's Yeah, China
wins stake in British nuclear power and high speed rail. The
Here you go. Well, that one
snuck by us and uh huh. Let me see who's reporting that on the
evening news. That's a big deal.
It is a big deal. Well, then we got Sheesh, China's China's been
given the chance to take a decisive stake in the next stage
of Britain's energy and transport infrastructure, as
Chinese companies won the right to own and operate a nuclear
power station and to help build high speed rail lines. Well,
listen, Nothing can be worse than that virgin crap. So you
know, people are probably so exasperated like, Okay, well,
we'll take it.
Why would you use the Chinese technology as opposed to the
French technologies? When the French are the inventors of high
speed rail, they still have a very, they have a beautiful
network that and it works on both high speed and low speed
tracks. They have it figured out and they are the really the
engineering. Well, experts in this regard
Well, this is interesting from a geo political strategic
standpoint. The agreements were among trade deals worth 14
billion pounds agreed with Beijing during the visit of the
Chinese Premier Li Qing Zhang, which prompted David Cameron to
declare Britain is playing a part in the rise of China, which
he calls a defining event of the 21st century. The Prime Minister
voted out the well yeah, the prime minister said quote, ours
is truly a Partnership for Growth reform and innovation.
Our partnership goes well, let me finish the quote, our
partnership goes well beyond the economic field. The UK
recognizes the rise of China is one of the defining events of
our century sounds to me like someone gone is on his back and
put his legs up in the air and went do me.
Okay, so here's what happened. They put they needed, they
wanted to put some high speed rail and because it was the
thing, right? The England is so small, that you don't need high
heat by the time to train gets up to speed, you're already
there. It's useless. I mean, the difference between high speed
rail they had this and I had I took the high speed train in
Sweden, between Stockholm and Gothenburg. And they took this
when the train stopped in the middle of the in the middle of
the trip because there was a cow on the track. But be that as May
the old train was oh, it took like an hour longer and it was a
luxurious train this train they have which is one of the ones
that swivels on the track makes you sick when you get on it.
It's like a nauseating ride is horrible. They don't need these
kinds of high speed rails in these very short trip areas. I
mean, where are you going to be going from and to that you need
high speed rail in England I you can think of a place I can't
Oxford to London new key
we need to we need to go to new key to party.
It doesn't make it this just said so but they put it out
anyway because it was important because there are all these you
know, it was again the liberals in the parliament thinking
that's a great thing to do. They put it out for bid the French
came in with a reasonable bid and probably what it would cause
it would have kept the money within the EU because there's
supposed to be all these partnerships that go on within
the EU and the friendship
I can I can I can give you the answer. I can just give you the
answer now that I've found it. Yeah, okay. That was one side of
the deal. On the other side of the deal, up to 12 billion
pounds close a gas supply contract was unveiled by major
UK firms during the permease visit the deal will provide
state owned China National short off offshore oil Corp cnoc With
liquefied natural gas for 20 years. Meanwhile, Royal Dutch
Shell extend an agreement with C NOC to work on energy projects
around the world. In other words, it's about the gas it's
not all about the stupid choices.
Okay, this brings in two other points which is just about the
gas I also think the Chinese low balled the French I mean there's
no way the French are getting oh no
but they do that everywhere Of course they'd love Of course of
course
whatever it is we'll just lower the price hell with it we don't
care and Rolls
Royce also got a deal to build stuff for the nuclear reactor.
Let's get it well they're putting new nuclear reactor in
the Chinese are taking this get that that means there's going to
be fracking all over England. Yes. huge scandal. If you watch
the for overseas report. Yes, French will not do this. No, no.
The French have said no to fracking. So they're not going
to have their country all shaken and rattling and rolling. Now
this is a mess that what is wrong with England?
Rob, have you ever been there? Doesn't take long you live there
for a couple of years you figure it out. Isn't there's no more or
less as wrong here. It's just we're much bigger, which is
bigger. When Yeah, we're fracking all over the place, but
doesn't really bother me here and we can put
the high speed rail and you know, we have that high speed
rail line they want to put in between San Francisco and
Bakersfield. Yeah, that's gonna pack them in.
Yeah. Big hit.
Yeah, and what are you going to do this afternoon? I'm going to
take the high speed rail to Fresno. What are you gonna do in
Fresno? Well, nothing.
Well, this is very interesting. The things that are happening.
It's just staying in Europe for a moment. And then we should
thank some people but now there's there's two major
presidencies up for grabs and I think I made a mistake. The
night I believe that hella thornleigh Your grandson,
whatever her name is. The girl from Denmark that she will
become president of the EU but she will not. The two jobs that
are up for grabs are haiku. Herman's job, that's the one
that she will get. Then the other one is Burroughs job. And
that is the one that Merkel who of course, really is the
president of the EU, she's really running the show. She
wants John Claude Juncker Juncker the European Central
Bank dude to take over the Broto job which Cameron doesn't want.
And Cameron is not saying oh, we're gonna leave the EU if you
bring that in that guy and in fact today now the now the now
the press is getting in on it, because that has to be fun.
Cool, quick, which? Which article is there? This is the
Daily Mail. Of course. She wants something accurate, is quoting
the Cameron campus saying this John Claude Juncker guy, he
drinks cognac for breakfast. He's a drunk. We can't have him
running the EU and have a picture of him. You know, eating
and there's his wine glasses being filled up and he's ogling
this wine glass. Like fill it up more, more. I want more. Like
calling him a drunk.
That's good. Little slander a little a little smear. It's
good.
Yeah. So Cameron is me he might as well just get ready to leave.
He has to leave the EU, not the UK. He has to get out. He's
completely messed it up. Then we have and I'm a little concerned
about this. The Euroskeptic parties have not completely
joined all forces as Nigel Farage and UKIP now that was the
whole point is to have all these Euroskeptic parties bond
together in the European Parliament have a block vote
that they could take over some power. Now unfortunately LePen
and builders have been cut out of the deal. So now it's Faraj
with you Kip and the Swedes and some French members of European
Parliament but not LePen and builders. So that's an and now
you've got a question Faraj Why would he cut those guys out of
the deal?
Well, that is a good one. And I don't know why.
Well, well for one I know one thing he's not going to get as
big a block as he wanted. I thought lapins party was pretty
powerful. What because of because people call the her dad,
a neo Nazi because wielders is you know apparently hates
Muslims I mean what is the deal all of a sudden now he's holier
than Now
will he I know that Faraj is paranoid about about the name
calling you know when they say it's a Nazi Party is a fascist a
bunch of fascists you know they're essentially a form of
libertarianism the way I see it, but there's a lot of skinheads
in the you Kip and that sort of thing and I think he's like so
he wants to distance himself because I think he's series more
interested in the English success in England so he can
become Prime right?
Yeah, good point. Good point. And
he gives us he doesn't even care about the you know about the
things that you use a bunch of bullcrap. Anyway.
Good point. Well, there you have it. That's all just stay. Let's
keep it at that analysis. He doesn't really care about
Europe. EWeek only cares about England. Quite honestly, that's
all he ever talks about.
Yeah, no, he's a nationalist.
And then in Poland, this is pretty cool. You won't hear much
about this. There was audio tape revealed by a Polish magazine of
the interior minister of Poland and the central bank chief of
Poland. In this recording, which was made last Jul in a private
room of a Warsaw restaurant the two men were discussing how the
central bank would help the government out of its economic
troubles. If it's heading for election defeat kind of stacking
the deck, like hey, we'll do this for you guys if you did
this for us and so it looks like we might have snap elections
very quickly in Poland because this is a huge scandal. And then
the authorities tried to raid the magazines offices and grab
all of their files and, and of course, rightfully so the the
editor of the magazine is making a big stink about it, though.
Okay, what are we now in Nazi Germany? Ah, yeah. Well, that in
that makes sense. And now we should be investigating all
central bankers and their connections to political to the
political establishment. Yeah, well
include us. Big time.
All right. Well, I'm tired now.
Okay. Well, let's just take a look at it. Let's think some was
good. Well, it was a pounding the same oil drum. But Uh huh.
Hey, hey,
hey, oh. I hate to say it, but I wish I wish
your evidence leads to the same thing. That same oil drum and a
pound it's turf, its resources
and
hookers. No choice.
I wish we could find it. Some of the hookers that it was about
isn't that we don't seem to pop up anymore.
These guys. Yeah, hookers thing is Yeah, no, it's it's actually
makes it less interesting. All right, let's thank a few people
who gave us some help. We got a lot of executive producers
today. And there was seem to be looking like a run. A bunch of
people realize that for $200 they can take and take and they
can get get us to say stuff. Yeah.
Oh, I was at one of those. All right. So there was
a number of interesting $200 donations that came in and but a
lot of the donations have these, these messages. So when we are
obliged, by our own rules to read them into debt will take up
some time.
Yes. So to reiterate, executive producers and Associate
Executive producers, these are the people who have helped out
the most on each individual episode, just like Hollywood, we
give you a credit. If you know, after the opening of the show,
we're still in somewhere after the opening of the show. There
are actual legitimate credits. And in our case, since we don't
have you know, you can't hang out with the actors or anything.
We will read your notes on the air
and really do edit some of them you know a little bit because
some of them get burdensome ly weird. I wanted to mention that
there anyone who gives anything at $5.10 and 12. We look at
those I mean, those are all on people put notes there sometimes
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they're just as useful and I don't want to dissuade anyone
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longtime Boehner and my wife has been the voice of guilt about my
lack of donations. We both decided to forego a couple of
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Absolutely. It's Marvin and Peggy Britton from Bellevue
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you have you all received any more kale and you're healthy
surprised lately, she's a subscriber. I haven't I suspect
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courage and karma. These give producer credit to my husband
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row rush ticket karma and a worked out there's no tour this
year. There is time to direct my Yeah, this is the guy who wants
to know what you think of rush the band. Anybody wants to
direct his hard earned money to the best podcast in universe
especially after listening to John give us the alternatives of
what we'd have to listen to if this show were to go away in
Episode 625. I want to avoid this and any douchebaggery that
comes with not donating Can I get a don't laugh jingle and
don't laugh. I told her off and a gentle karma for everybody.
Especially you too. I don't know what I do without the show.
So do I have to answer that about?
Yeah, I think so.
I like Rush. I'm not a Rashi I'm not one I'm not one of those
people who are
Canadian group. It was still in business, I think right? Oh,
yeah.
They tour all the time. That's what they do. And then people
who are really into rush, proclaim them without shame or
question as the best band ever.
Yeah. Yeah. It's always been baffling to me that anyone would
make that assertion. John would ban but I don't see
john@curry.com Everybody.
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Helen barber in Wilmington, Wilmington, Perth, Western
Australia, our favorite place to 3678 23678 There's donations to
mark my birthday on Monday to 123678 hence 23678. I want to
hear Adam talk about oranges. The New Black. John, you keep
shutting him down each time he tries to talk about it. One or
more of its writers is clearly a member of the no agenda family.
Did you see the episode about Cindy? The TSA agent?
The dope smoking TSA agent? Yeah. And iPad stealing? Yeah,
so that's the last episode I've seen. I've seen episodes up to
episode six. And I guess there's I guess there's 13 in this
series. And quite honestly, we haven't sat down to watch any
more yet. It's it's not been compelling.
Do you see any possibility that they're one of the writers is a
no agenda listener? I mean, they they would usually they usually
signal it somehow in some shape or form?
No, not yet. I have not because the signals would be very
obvious there would have to be a 33 in the morning combo in the
morning, that would do it. Yeah, in the morning with a 33 combo,
something like that. Yeah, that would be the key. But just
because other people are on to this fact that if a TSA is not
necessarily there to protect you from Box cutting boob bomb
wielding terrorists, that doesn't necessarily mean they
listen to no agenda. I would just say be happy at least some
people also have a clue. But mind you, this is on Netflix.
This is not on ABC or CBS or NBC. It's Netflix. And that
should give you a clue. Yeah, you're not going to see this
necessarily on on the big networks, where you are meant to
remain indoctrinated and kept stupid.
Ryan splits are in Midland, Michigan to 2222 I wanted to
show my support after show 625 Zach and producers what you guys
do on a twice weekly basis saves me tons of time, not to mention
my sanity by not having to watch the lamestream media. Glad to
hear the synergy project came up on the show. Wow.
A lot of people responded to that. Yeah.
fellow developer and a heavy user of the synergy program and
like it looks like this show Oh It deserves the support of its
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Absolutely. Ryan Thank you very much for mentioning that. Yes
support your independent developers people George Clooney
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Rob Wales in Concord west New South Wales another Aussie
coming in at 2022 back home and oz after a three week holiday in
the States. I have a few observations to make chemtrails
everywhere criss crossing this guy. All right, working well.
Everyone was polite, friendly and calm. Almost no aggro at
all. Medical marijuana in California also working well the
homeless just get stoned and hang out sell a bit of their
stash to make some easy money. Coffee very ordinary. I couldn't
get a rich creamy cappuccino anywhere in the coffee when you
went to Starbucks. The coffee wasn't bad but nothing to write
home about perhaps they should introduce real unadulterated
cow's milk to the market. Hello. You'd love to taste a full cream
milk. Medical adds on to okay you love the taste? Well, you
would actually when you go to Italy and you have a cappuccino
is made with oh my god and they make it with 2% at the Starbucks
and all these other pieces because it foams up faster.
However, Chino machine I have done this with a real fool with
all that grease and normal milk it takes forever to film it up.
However, when you order a cappuccino in the in the Italian
cafeteria, they do give you that look like why are you ruining
this perfectly good coffee with milk?
If Well, they'd prefer you to drink double espresso. Exactly.
Medical ads on TV. They work my son in law was wanting to buy
one of the drugs being promoted, and he reckons it sounds cool.
pawnshops and payday lenders everywhere seemed like there was
one on every corner in some places. There's a sign of the
times ever there was TSA varies from place to place coming. I
liked this report. It was a good report. Yeah, TSA varies from
place to place coming in took hours to get through immigration
to baggage by the way,
I need to say something important people. TSA is not the
same as Customs and Border Protection. Okay, the people who
look at your passport are not TSA this this. I'm always
baffled by people that TSA calligra You shit when you come
into the country now TSA is Transportation Security
Administration for internal use before you get into the safe
side of the terminal. Customs Border Protection CPB they do
work for the Department of Homeland Security, they have
guns and they're the ones sitting in the booth being rude
to you when you try to enter our country. How dare you?
Right? Well, anyway, he seems to be going from place to place
within the country. So those are mostly TSA comments. Bob Hope
and Burbank was great reminding me of travel pre WT see bombing
Vegas was a pain or line was so long for the body scan machines.
The lady decided to put us through the metal detector which
moves much more quickly. He says
mental detector actually but he says mental.
Still I had to take off my shoes and belt, SFO and lax. Same
thing lines everywhere people in fancy in a fancy dress, ie
military uniform shouting and waving everywhere and I nearly
lost my pants when I had to take my belt off. I go to listen to
the show live for the first time but I'm not happy with John. I
was staying on a houseboat in Sausalito kept waving across the
bay but he just ignored me and then wave back. Okay. He may be
Rob Wales and
people do love you. It's obvious.
I like to wave at me. Get out of the way. Hans Peter. Gelb.
Hans Petter Fjeld
the old homes in Oslo $200 Thank you for your courage at the door
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been boning you guys for so long I'm lucky this isn't a child
support payment decided to send you what you I would have spent
on beer and wine had England made it any further See I told
you World Cup fans
disaster that they ran out of cocaine in the UK
Yeah well that's why they couldn't get anywhere in the
world cup you get my coke out of the car my car got the car in as
Chandler Arizona in the morning I just short note to thank you
for the great show and call out people who make a producer level
donation. There's he says he wants to make a call out to
people who make a producer level donation Few things are as
thrilling as being able to make your favorite host read your
note on the air. I can even make John say I'm a little teapot.
Wait a minute. You didn't do that. I listed that with a
little echo just to make it cool.
You want me to do the echo? You want me to do the equity I
I'll do the echo you do the read. Okay.
Few things are as thrilling as my element your favorite hosts
on your air. Say your read your note on the air. I can even make
John say I'm a little teapot.
And it was funnier the first time
I could have done it myself. Great work and some general
karma to all the listeners. Absolutely. Thank
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Or Lee to Thor came in with $200 He said in the Morning John and
Adam longtime Boehner first time donor thanks for a great show
and got to say thank you for relieving me of reading
mainstream media and for the laughs Oh my god, that's
amazing. Cracks me up to and I believe it's from Borderlands
two or it sounds like Ashly Burch who is voice acting tiny
tiny in Borderlands two. Now we
might as well talk about this briefly here. This is from the
cartoon Archer. And archers. It's kind of a wacky cartoon. I
think it was like an adult swim or something. And it's
interesting because there's a callback to ISIS in there. They
have like the International spies intelligence service or
something right because there's a lot of stuff that kind of
crosses over and someone just clipped this one particular bid
out and sent it to us but it works really well. That is from
Archer.
Yes, that's one of our favorites. Onward. Last but not
least, this is actually his real name is Sir face of FEMA five. I
think that's what the name he wants us to use. Okay, and he
sent a note and this came in over the mail. It's been a
couple of months since my last donation and my Boehner was
starting to show along with my donation you shall find a no
agenda. Coffee Mug Yes, he said the coffee mug is very pretty
one two sorry, Adam. I only had one to spare that's all right
man. I get it that's another one I got the coffee mug now get a
jobs karma and don't RAF writing you from FEMA Region Five
Chicago where the speed cameras keep the slaves in line. Okay.
Okay, so who wants a don't draft and jobs karma?
Yeah, I guess so.
Okay, we can do that another property
graph. Why are you laughing? Shut up.
You've got karma Shut up jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote
for
you find it odd. I mean, this of course, is a function of the
random number theory that we do get these multiple requests are
the same out of the blue sound effect had dolt wrath for weeks
on end. Well,
that's why I'm convinced that people sit around going Amen. He
didn't play don't Raph again, I gotta go request it.
Anyway, that concludes our group of great associate and Executive
Associate producers, executive producers and Associate
Executive producers for show 628 We do have a show coming up on
Thursday. 629 dvorak.org/and A would be the place to go to jump
on board.
Yes indeed. And we say congratulations to Stephen
Schwartz. Kill alpha five whiskey Juliet Yankee Adam and
John you inspired me to get back into ham radio after several
years off the off the air today I passed the exam for extra top
of the bill thank you for your courage 70 threes to you Steven
key to alpha five whiskey Juliet Yankee. That's right. The no
agenda show single handedly bringing back ham radio into on
Vogue
and I'll give my call letters to Kevin Johnson six liquid natural
gas.
It's John really gonna get on D star really? Do you think he's
gonna Hang on disturb me. DICOM guys raise like, Hey, is John
getting on
ds.com guy can set me up.
You have no shame
perfect.org/and
A are there, buddy, please continue to do one very
important thing. Your mission is to go out and propagate our
formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the
mouth
shut us. Before we continue, I see you've got some fun clips.
Which of course I didn't. And then I never hear the clips
before the show. I have no idea what they
what. I got a couple of fun because you want to use a little
segue, some humor. I was
just going to throw a couple of things by just to wrap up some
housekeeping. Okay, one. Thank you, everybody for letting me
know. And apparently reminding John, that the Reverend Melissa
Scott, who sounds like Kimberly Kagan used to be a porn star who
went by the name of Barbie bridges. And special thanks to
the producers who took the extra effort to send me pictures. You
are You are good. doobies indeed. It's funny. And John
says, oh, yeah, I knew that. What? You didn't bring that up
on the show?
You know, for some reason I lost track of it.
I didn't know it, though. Wow. And that's true. She
really wasn't porn star. Yeah, that's how genes gotten better,
safer, to administer as she got saved. All right, that she did.
Thank you again, to everyone who's been working diligently on
having all of our all of the plethora of podcast apps update
to our feed our new feed, which has been new for over two years.
And thank you too well, the Roku app now also has been updated.
And sometimes it's a pain like the Roku guy. He had to resubmit
his app to have the feed updated. And he says it could
take two weeks anyway, they got fixed. So that's updated. Farmer
Chris says, yeah, hey, he's very happy, because now he's getting
the show on his, whatever the name of that app was. I forget
the name. And very important news, a bit technology oriented,
I learned something which I actually wrote about and blogged
about it. And you probably didn't see it, John. And we've
been we've been using BitTorrent Sync for quite a while now and
promoting its use as the future of large media distribution. And
I think it's been working quite well, people have been,
I've heard no complaints from anyone who's gone on board.
Well, there's a problem. Oh, when I received an email from,
and I replied immediately, but have not heard back from someone
that's a bit torn to support. And here's what she said,
analyzing my debug logs made me think the problem and the
problem was apparent, a lot of people are setting this up, and
nothing happens, nothing comes into the folder. The problem is
caused by maximum number of peers allowed to connect being
reached. This forced me to write you in order to investigate this
issue. I don't think this person is a native English speaker. The
thing is only the thing is that only 50 peers are allowed to be
connected to one share. In other words, once you have created a
secret and shared it with others, only 50 devices can get
connected to it. I suppose you spread your podcast all over the
world. And it's popular with a lot of people, I receive reports
from the United States, Australia all over the world. So
when some US clients close their devices or get disconnected,
then other people like people in Australia can get connected and
vice versa. I hope the situation is clear. Well, hello
BitTorrent, unfortunately, the situation is all too clear. What
the fuck the whole idea of it, you should name it something
else other than BitTorrent Sync. The whole thinking is if we all
keep our clients up and running, we're actually going to help
propagate the network. But if you have a 50 peer limit wallet,
no wonder it's not working. I turned my my BitTorrent client
on, it fills up with 50 people in three seconds. I think maybe,
maybe you can then get bounced around and pick it up from
another one. But I'm here and everybody's got at least 50
peers connected to them all the time. So either there's, at
best, there's a marketing mistake you're making here. Or
you I thought that they were doing something really great. It
turns out that just doing kind of a Dropbox. What is this? This
is very
disappointing. I didn't know this well at all news to me. And
if
you look into the documentation, it mentions nothing about a
limitation. Nothing in the FAQ is I found nothing on the
forums. Of course, would
they do that because Bitcoin itself doesn't have a limitation
does it know
that I and just go off. So the only thing I can think of, and
this would be very disappointing, but the only
thing I can think of is that there's a business model in here
in there for him, Oh, you want more than 50 people now you have
to pay for it. That's all I can think of why else would you do
it? And is it 50? Only to the originator of have the secret
key? Or is it 50 For every single peer that's connected,
and maybe we just we do indeed need more peers? Because I know
it can't would this problem really only started to get
serious in the past couple of weeks, we've had more than
because we got more people using it. But we've had more than 50
people for a long, long time. 50 was maybe the first show even.
So it must be 50 per person who's actually connected. So
either. I don't know if it helps if we can get more people we
need more people sharing or or have more people disconnecting?
I don't know. And, and,
you know, we have a discussion underway. Are you in talks with
the No, because
I replied immediately and said, Oh, well, holy crap. What do we
do? What's the deal? What is the limitation? I get no reply. So
then I write it up on my on my blog, I tweet it, I direct my
tweet at the CEO of BitTorrent who has raised his hand in the
past, he's gone silent. What is weed like the number one
promoters of this, and I feel boned? Well, you
know what, hey, you know, actually what happened? Right?
You did make the fuss, you didn't point it in the right
direction. They did get the message. And now they're having
meetings as a company now, well, can they? So nobody's saying
anything? And they're until they're out of the meeting?
Okay, well, I hope they I hope they understand that. I love
this idea. And I'm okay with, you know, if we have, like, I
don't mind paying for software development or something. I
mean, it was going to be a license fee, that's probably not
going to work for us. Because the the whole idea of
broadcasting podcasting is that the more people you have on
board, the less your distribution should cost. And of
course, it's exactly the opposite. With bandwidth as
well, the more listeners you have, the more infrastructure,
the more bandwidth, the more you have to pay, which we do
ourselves.
I might Yeah, we have a system. Yeah. But it still has, it does
have an upside limitation. And then it gets starts to become
outrageously expensive. I mean, you can be see, would you know,
you can't do it, you can't do anything. I mean, you can do
download and play, but streaming, and then are this
sort of distribution mechanism, where you'd hope that it was
some sort of system that people shared. I mean, essentially, you
know, the idea between BitTorrent is that there's so
many people that are out there, they'll have this piece of a
file and they share it.
And what's interesting is, I'm just, I'm just looking at the
chat room, this I know you need to see it, you need to seek no,
you don't understand, this is not the same as a torrent.
Apparently, we've been misled, I don't think on purpose. But the
whole because the name, BitTorrent is in the head, the
way I viewed it is, this is essentially BitTorrent, where
instead of going through the hassle of creating a torrent,
uploading the torrent to a tracker, you know, it's pretty
much killed, and then having someone you know, download with
a client, it's crap, it's just you install this thing. It works
and feels and smells like Dropbox beautiful, except it
works like BitTorrent. That's what I understood this to be.
Now it turns out, they have a limitation on it, which is, in
fact very similar to Dropbox, where there is a limitation on
how many people you can share your your box with unless you
get into enterprise level distribution. So if all I need
to know is a, is this limitation removable? If yes, what are the
resources and our costs associated with it? I say
resources specifically, because maybe the way it's set up, you
know, it would flood mine. I don't know, who knows, let me
know, be? Can we help build the distribution by indeed having
more people connect and have their 50 Fill up? Or do we need
to have people disconnect, so that other people can come on
board, which is kind of the message I was getting, is until
you until people get kicked off or leave other people can't come
on, which is counterintuitive to this thing that lives either in
your system tray or in your Applications menu. And it's kind
of supposed to live there all the time. So you don't turn that
off. So yeah, so I hopefully,
this will resolve it, you might I think your initial kind of
sense might be correct. It's a business model. They see the
success of Dropbox and they really don't have a business
model for BitTorrent per se and that would make anyone a
billionaire, which is what you want to do if you're living
around here. Apparently it's only way to get you can get by
and they may have something going on and we're just not
aware of it. Now we're going to find out you It'll be within the
next couple of shows we'll have an answer back. I think they're
just they're formulating something to tell you.
Okay. And then I just have one thing for you, my friend. So and
I haven't pointed to it, I won't tweet it. I don't like that they
do this particularly. But your your most recent speech in
Detroit was videoed and put online. Okay. And I'm not gonna
say what it was because then people could find it. And I
don't like that, because I feel that's kind of proprietary to
you. And it's kind of your speech, and you're going to do
it more times.
Well, there's two things. One that day, I agreed to do that.
And I don't normally like the idea either. But one of the
things that goes on with speakers Rose and I haven't been
doing a lot of speeches recently, because the speaker's
bureaus, they change their style. I mean, this happens all
the time. It's like, no, well, we do but we need a video of
you.
Oh, they need to have that. Right. Oh, so we can show that
how incredibly great your pen joke is.
So the so they need a video. And so I I'm always looking I had
some old videos, but they're so dated, I mean, you know, and
then there will be a Macintosh available to all? Well, I do
have to don't take the lease that will no longer be sold.
I do have a comment on your speech. It made me very sad.
Oh, yeah, it was a depressing speech.
Yes. And you email me separately, I had even told you
about this. And it's somewhere in which sometimes we have a
little back and forth about a clip or something. And you said,
Yes, we are minutes from the meltdown. Luckily, I don't see a
triggering mechanism yet. And I'm just like, and I had to
think about this. And I've been walking around for a day or two,
thinking, you know, it really is the crux of the conclusion, I
think of a lot of what you were saying in your speech. And it's
a very good speech. It's fun, because you, you take us through
a circular journey, where if you don't mind me, just
paraphrasing, where we start out where we we, as computer users
were mastered, we know we had to suck the dick of the masters of
the computer in the cloud, to get it to get computer time. Or
please read my punch card. And we've come full circle. And it's
gotten so bad. We now don't even use a computer, we use a little
tiny piece of glass that hits fits in our in our hand. And
we're still slaves to the master of the cloud. Yeah, has pretty
much the story. But of course, the way you tell it is
beautiful, but very depressing.
Well, I thought yesterday, I don't know how well the mic, the
audience was Mike. But I got we got some good questions. It's
some good questions at the end. And I had a lot of people
laughing at my material, which is what the goal is, you know,
if I don't get a laugh, I'm always a little bummed. But it
got a lot of response. everybody was in agreement with the
thesis, which is that, you know, and we've talked about on the
show that we've devolved, the whole scene has devolved into
Facebook, to eat and you know, just nonsense. Everything would
you like to do? Would you like to sign in using your Facebook
is the thing that the more recent thing that bugs me the
most, I go to somebody's website, and they say you have
to register? You can look at this stuff. Okay. Would you like
to use your Facebook decided? No, this isn't Facebook? Why
should I even think about that? By doing it, what does anybody
asked that question? What kind of deal does Facebook do with
these little websites? To scam?
Well, yeah, there's a lot going on there, obviously. But
which I said, that's nice. Netflix, and Facebook is all is
about? We've just deteriorated and all the tech reporting now
it's just about what color the new phone is, and what new phone
just came out. And what new feature this one phone and who's
got a 3d stream? Go on and on about it
was really sad is that if you know the, really the history,
and that's what you tell so well, because you witnessed a
lot of it, the history of the personal computing revolution,
and how we were going to have such control over what we could
do with these nifty devices and how we have let that slip away
so easily into, you know, the worshipping apps. It's just sad.
Yeah, it's sad.
Anyway, the good to download a copy of the good news
is, on this show, we still have such an instantaneous
communication mechanism. And it's working so seamlessly that
we can get this kind of thing while we're doing the show live.
Oh, there you go. Foley, John Fletcher to the rescue.
John Fletcher are men who can scream scream better than
anybody, essentially John Fogarty.
And I have one final and then I'll shut up. I spoke to a guy
who had not spoken from a long time. He's kind of a New York
media executive. I knew from the MTV days he Call me on something
unrelated. And he, you know, we're kind of catching up and he
says, oh, no, I did this documentary that never saw the
light of day to what is and this is an Emmy Award winning guide
to what is it? It was John Kerry, and was called inside the
bubble. And and we were following him when he was
running for president. And but of course, you know, he didn't
win. So no document and no documentary, which, which tells
me Carrie was financing it, but I didn't ask him. I said, Well,
tell me you know, I My impression is the guy's dumb is
would. He says, You know what? Here's the thing with Carrie,
the more you get to know him, the less you like him. Like, I
need to quote you on that in the show. So yes, apparently we're
pretty spot on with our analysis and get to know Mr. Carey. But
also he said the secretary of state he said that the amount
just the jetlag alone. He says the guy he can't be normal. He
is a walking zombie. He says there's no normal human being
can actually live that life and be any more than the zombie.
That he is. In fact, I wasn't gonna do this. Here's a doer
that lame joke to carry pulled out a couple of weeks ago about
Churchill when people gave me standing a standing ovation.
Remind me here's like Winston Churchill said the only reason
people give you a standing ovation is to shift their
underwear. And then he went on to say, but I'm sure I'm sure we
have much more noble reasons to give me a standing ovation. Now
Carrie is late everywhere. And he's always blaming it on I'm
sorry, I can't help it. I'm busy. I'm trying to save the
world and Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. And he did it again. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I love it
so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, I love
you. I love me. Yes,
thank you. Love me. Love me.
Love me. I'm awesome. Listen to this, and this adulation is
sickening.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. I remind
all of you that Winston Churchill said the only reason
people give a standing ovation again. They desperately need an
excuse to shift their underwear.
Then works again. I have to do this all the time. But wait,
I'll continue. I'm on a roll.
Right here right. He said that I'm privacy.
I'm proud. He said that would
but I know you had a much more noble cause. Which would be me
Of course. You actually love me.
I was really baffled standing up here for a moment. I'm staring
at this elephant. I kept looking around for the donkey. I can't
find the donkey.
Now people just laughing because like That's dumb.
Hilarious. Let's do more. I'm an equal stuffed animal
opportunity.
I'm an equal stuffed animal opportunity guy. What? A but
let's laugh anyway. Ah, I
walked into the whole room back here where I had a chance to say
hi to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and
I mean those guys who take money from anybody Serene Highness
and others and at least they had the goodness to put us in a room
where the sign above it said mammals All right.
What a dick.
He's just trying to get a laugh. I don't think he's a dick.
I'll pleat Come on. Do an old material.
Well, I don't understand why he would do that because he gets
recorded everywhere
he goes because he's so insane. To travel that much
to write to buy a joke writer. Well, that's the
way he thinks he can do it because he's getting that kind
of laughs He's like, Oh, I can do this. I got this. I got it
nailed.
So there was an event this weekend or this week that was in
Washington DC It was done by your buddy Rex Reed or whatever
his name is my buddy Well, you know you brought him up into the
conversation a couple shows ago that guy Rex is Rex is not Rex
Rex Reese the gay do movie critic it's this other guy.
Whatever is Harry Reid no no read the kid the the Christian
gay kid that would that got busted because he was involved
with the lobbyists scandal. Okay, well, whatever. The guy
can still throw in events read this big event. They had Barbara
Bachman and Barbara Bachman. Actually this is a little clip
of her speech. She was actually getting the sheet they had gave
the best speech. It was actually a rousing speech. But there was
that she did. She still makes these interesting little flaws
where Hillary Clinton's foreign policy has gotten us today in
the United States. Terrorists are on the march in Iraq. It was
last week this morning when we woke up and found out that the
worst of the worst terrorists so brutal, so violent, that even
our Qaeda has renounced them. They're called ISIS or ISIL.
These terrorists virtually in a blitzkrieg took over Iraq, in a
stunning display, where they have taken not only America
tanks, American trucks, American high powered weapons, they're
also now reportedly taking over chemical weapon caches as well.
chemical weapon cache.
She was on a roll until she hit the we're sorry, we have to vote
you off the show. Cache. How's your cache doing?
Oh has the chemical weapon cache? Yes. Love that cat has a
very
that's a good buzzer by the way. I need to because my buzzer
doesn't like that. Mine is I like that buzzer better. Ah, let
me just hear this. You can you send me that buzzer because I
wouldn't mind using my copier hanging
over chemical weapon caches as well.
It's a very good buzzer John. Yeah, I saw I saw parts of that
speech. I didn't see that. But it all she missed was saying a
rakia the al Qaeda army. Yeah, she didn't say that. She got
everything else that I recall. She got everything else. Right.
So I've got a couple of I get just a little break. This is the
lighter, lighter part of the show right here. I want you to
determine.
I thought the Iraqi the ISIS army was the al Qaeda army was
the light part of the show. Yeah.
I got a couple quizzes for you. Oh, good. We love God. What is
the network? This is a show that's called it's about the
aliens when they invade and what we're going to do about it and
all the rest of it. Okay, and here's the clip. Tell me the
network that it ran on beyond Okay.
All right here we got Siri histological probes landed on
the moon three years before humans did. NASA has sent probes
to every planet in the solar system and beyond.
If the aliens are not biological, the harvesters may
not be collecting Earth's organic material for food. But
for fuel. Processing our planet's life forms into long
lasting biofuel. If the invaders are simply drones, that is why
they never answered our pleas for peace. That's why they
display indifference at the destruction of intelligent life
forms. If the aliens are machines, this may offer another
tactic. In the case of non biological attackers, there is
one final step in the plans to fight the alien invasion.
Somehow we got to get some troops inside the technology to
shut the technology down. And a mission like that is definitely
gonna be high risk.
The plan is simple. low tech and suicidal next
well, this is an easy one. Okay, clearly this is the Home and
Garden Television Nope. Close. I would say the History Channel
probably.
Well, you know, that wouldn't make sense because most recently
they haven't done anything on history. Yeah. Except unless it
involves Nazi flying saucer techno
which is always nice.
So this no, this is, I think another fine example of where
this country is headed. This is the National Geographic Channel.
Wow, Nat Geo. Hmm, interesting.
So instead of actually providing us with any useful information,
we're actually doing reports that might have something to do
with the National Geographic magazine. Or at least the way we
what happens is it would happen the naked brown chicks and we
used to watch for the boobs we will get the magazine. Hey mag
my parents got National Geographic magazine ism naked
boobs in there.
Anyway, so I just thought that was well just to give you Okay,
so she got that one wrong and I have to do one more. Oh, no.
Yeah, one more. This is what is the movie? Guest the movie. Oh,
whoa. We
have a we don't have a jingle for that. Yeah, we do. Hold on a
second. Here we go. Guess that movie? Yeah.
And it's time for another episode of guests that movie All
right,
everybody, time for guests that movie. It's the show where if I
get wrong, my nuts get electrocuted.
This has happened before 1000s of years ago. And the ancients
were there to see all the great constructions. The Mayans, the
Chinese Egyptians, they made use of the gravitational effects of
the convergence. And unless there's a map, Stonehenge
Snowden great or these are all coordinates taking us here.
Greenwich,
the walls between worlds will be almost non existent. Physics is
going to go ballistic, increases and decreases in gravity,
spatial extrusions. the very fabric of reality is going to be
torn apart
Well, this is another obvious one, you make it way too easy
for me. You haven't been right ever. Clearly this is Ferris
Bueller's Day Off. Or it could be Journey to the Center of the
Earth. Or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Yeah. That's at the end. So no, this is Thor The Dark World.
It's on HBO are starting to see your son now as we speak not
seeing that. Oh, then
you're not keeping up
by the way. Wag the Dog apparently is playing that this
month on HBO. If you have not seen wag the dog. It is very
apropos. And perhaps somewhat of a coincidence. I think not that
it is playing right now on HBO. Some message. Here is a quick
clip. Speaking of conspiracy theories, we have a new spokes
hole in the White House administrasi on for those of you
who are not savvy to the American lingo, when someone's
name is Josh Earnest. It is kind of like a disc jockey being
named Bubba the love sponge so earnest mean someone is a
forthright, upright honest and Josh is pretty much taken from
the to Josh someone or to rib someone or to poke fun at make
fun of or perhaps maybe lie a little bit. Have I explained
that properly. That's good for me, and this is regarding the
IRS emails. And now the reason I will stay on this on this
particular topic, in fact, I'm very happy someone sent me a
link to steve stockman. steve stockman is a congressman and he
has an AD This is on his Congressman
website@stockman.house.gov And he has a is it a little joke he
says start here's that I'm reading from so this is an
official government website. The Stockman bill allows taxpayers
to use same lame excuses at IRS Stockmans bill will be known as
The dog ate my tax receipts act and taxpayers who do not provide
documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following
reasons one dog ate my tax receipts to convenient
unexplained miscellaneous computer malfunction three I
traded my tax receipts for five terrorists for burned for warmth
while lost in the Yukon five left on table in Hillary's book
room six received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy's
car. That's pretty low by the way. Seven forgotten gun case
sold to Mexican drug lords eight forced to recycle by municipal
greens are nine were short on toilet paper while camping and
10. At this point, what difference does it make? I
thought that was kind of cool. And I am as American
David Letterman Show All of a sudden here that's
what this is Stockman I like it. What who was he? What is his?
He's always from Texas. Oh, there you go. That's why I like
because, of course, they're claiming they're claiming a
computer glitch. And if anyone who anyone who has dealt with
the IRS in any capacity, and believe me, I can't remember the
last time I got a check from them. Yeah. But I have gone
through the middlemen. And in fact, they came with guns in
hand to my office because I yeah, I gotta tell again,
because I hate they couldn't find my tax returns. Even though
I'd pay taxes in Europe. And it took me years and salary. What
do you call it? In? Yeah, where they grab your grab your money.
You know, so but they apparently can get away with murder and it
pisses me off. So anyway, that's a couple
of things. I wanted to take the other side on this. Okay. Now I
there's two things. First of all, the question that everyone
really has to ask because there's all these hearings you
have, and I have a bunch of clips too. So we will talk about
this for a few minutes. Where is the IT guy testifying? Well, he
hasn't been subpoenaed. What Oh,
I think this is going to happen. You've probably seen now that
multiple tweets and blog posts regarding the actual company,
which is let me see Sona soft, who actually promoted the fact
that they are they have been working for the IRS since 2005.
And 2009 is when they started tweeting about it, that they
provide the email archiving solution, which is, quote, ideal
for small medium business and government agencies. So you
would expect this outfit to get subpoenaed very soon, I
suspect they should have been by now the other thing is, anyone
who's the real Joker, this is the is the hard drive failed
failures. I work with Drive savers in over in the Marin
County a couple of times in my life. And there's, I think,
three companies that do this, they have it literally taken
drives from a burning building, and they can still retrieve it.
And they put them in a clean room and they put to get you
know, and they they take the platters out and then they
reconstruct the derive this done it for years as data is very
rare that there's a Crash Drive they can't fix so so that's
nonsense.
If I if I can just say the press because that's really comes down
to the media accepted the whole concept of a glitch with
healthcare.gov. And no one really did anything about that
bullcrap. And so now they are very, it's very easy to say what
you've never you would have never had a computer crash.
You'd never heard of a glitch before. So this is actually I
blame the technology reporting press and media for this. Okay.
You got a clip?
Yeah, I thought you had more. You said?
Well, here's the other thing. So they got this new guy. That's
the the new commissioner, this guy who's been around the block.
He's done a lot. He's a hitman he used to. He's a corporate
turnaround guy. He's one of those x guys that comes in and
this guy is named John Koskinen. He's frightening. He is looks
like a lizard. Yep. He doesn't blink. doesn't sweat. Right
doesn't move his head. He doesn't grimace. He doesn't
smile. He stares and watches and listens and can counter this
guy's the greatest guy ever.
He's pretty cool as a cucumber laughable. He's cool cucumber.
He just sits there and listens to these guys throw it animal we
will the Democrats of course are defending him. But listening to
I got a couple of clips that we had to play call him. Mr. Cool.
Ah, okay. So Mr. Cool. Here's the initial exchange. And Mr.
Cool who was nicknamed Mr. Slapstick just didn't care.
Do you know who and Treasury told the White House? Yeah.
This is a great clip. I
have no idea. I have no communications with the White
House.
Well, you're the head of the IRS. You don't know if something
this important contacts between your agency and the executive
branch. you're unaware of them.
We are part of the executive branch. We have regular
communications with Treasury we issue regulations. We review
them. We're in the process of reviewing, for instance, the
regulations on the 501 C issue. We have regular communication,
particularly between our Counsel's Office and the
Treasury Council
IRS knew in February or maybe even March, and Treasury and
White House knew at least in April, but Congress and the
American people didn't find out till June. We purposely not
telling us No. purposely not revealing this to the American
people.
I told you my my proposal wasn't in fact, our original thought
was to complete the lowest learner email production,
complete the review of what other custodians had a problem
and produce a report to you laying it all out. So
why did you tell why did the IRS inform the executive branch
agencies the executive, the White House, the administration,
but kept it secret from the Congress who was conducting an
investigation?
We were not keeping it a secret. It was our public report to you
that in fact, provided you this information. There's been no
attempt to keep it a secret. My position has been that when we
provide information, we should provide it completely. If we
provide you incomplete information, people sometimes
are tempted to leap to the wrong conclusion, not based on any
facts. So we thought it would be important to give you the full
disclaimer. It's okay for
them to leap to conclusions. It's okay for the White House in
Treasury to leap to a conclusion six weeks before the Congress.
But my question also is, yeah, it was pretty good.
He also would say pardon when he wanted the guy to repeat, which
is kind of like a snide question. It wouldn't do it
gourmet. Yeah. It's like, what do you what do you say too much
of what do you hear he is where he's called a liar by Paul Ryan,
which everyone's heard about this clip, but no one's ever
heard it.
Monday, our investigators asked your agency, whether any other
hard drives crash and we learned that six other hard drives of
the people we're investigating. Were involved. You didn't tell
us that.
This must be some really shitty hard drives man who makes those
things we
told you on Monday on Monday. And what did you do with it?
Because we asked you right and what did you do with that
information?
You told us on Monday because we asked you whether any other hard
drives crash. This is unbelievable. We asked who told
us on May 8, you're gonna give us all of Lois Lerner's emails.
And you learned in February that this crashed.
I did not learn in February was a crash. And we you know, on
Monday,
I'm not asking you a question. I'm making a statement. My
apologies, you are the Internal Revenue Service. You can reach
into the lives of hardworking taxpayers and screw them up the
anal cavity and with a phone call and email or letter, you
can turn their lives upside down.
Let's go get that curry guy.
You asked taxpayers to hand us seven years of their personal
tax information in case in case they were ever audited. And you
can't keep six months worth of employee emails. And now that we
are seeing this investigation, you don't have the emails, hard
drives crashed. You learned about this months ago, you just
told us and we had to ask you on Monday. This is not being
forthcoming. This is being misleading. Again. This is a
pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior that is not giving us
any confidence that this agency is being impartial. I don't I
don't believe you. This is incredible.
I have a long career. That's the first time anybody has said that
you're not believe me, I don't believe you. That's fine. We can
have a disagreement. I'm willing to stand on our record, I'm
willing to remind you that it was not buried in 27 pages. Most
of that 27 pages is the exhibits. When asked about the
custodians, we advise you being
forthcoming which we knew for one day being forthcoming is to
say I'm sorry, you know what investigators Congress was
investigating me let him answer the question. I didn't ask him a
question. Yeah,
I feel I feel this one all you know, all the other stuff.
Whatever. This one it makes me angry. It really does. It really
does. The arrogance the hubris of this guy
this guy's this guy's outrageously talented at doing
what he does. And I'll say that
I have had to work with IRS agents and inspectors. Oh, you
know, once you get the accused and you shoot us in you have to
prove that it's not so you know, and then you come up with it I
found them to be reasonable. And um, but I've I've had a lot of
issues not just with the American Internal Revenue
Service but certainly with the Dutch Internal Revenue Service.
Not too much but I've had my my brushes with the with the UK
look, I'm not an interesting guy. It's exactly me who they go
and pick on I'm not picking on other people and it's always a
smaller guy and I've been no knock on wood it's been many
years since I've had a problem but when you hear this it's like
yeah, I want these I want heads to roll I really do
and I feel that he heads are gonna roll zero Exactly.
But let me let me play my clip now before you go to your I
think you ever wind up with Mr. Cool I have another Mr. Cool
clip let me slip in this. So this is how the now we pop up
one layer up to the daily briefing done by Josh Earnest
Bubba the love sponge and his so first he's the guy that in the
press gaggle as they call it on Air Force One said, but you've
never heard of drives crashing doll it happens you know it
happens
I shouldn't mention this. I didn't have that I don't have
the clip. I don't think when Mr. Cool out of the blue is that
there's an awful lot of drives crashing and Mr. Cool says after
warranty is up on a hard disk drive crash rate is almost 20%
bullcrap. Does he drive a Range Rover to by any chance? I have
no idea. Really. We have to get that clip. That's hilarious.
Oh, I see. It's findable. Okay, probably hasn't listened to the
whole hearing. But yeah, it came with this 20% is 10 to 20% of
the drives fail after they're out of warranty. That's
nonsense. time between failure. That's what they use. That's the
real
metric. Yes. Anyway, and go on. Alright, so he's Mr. Cool.
Here's Bubba the love sponge, our new spokes hole for the
White House. And he's he's just going into this. This is just
conspiracy theories of the emails was did the investigators
or the White House Counsel look at overlooked for emails between
the White House and
the chief of staff or other aides?
So basically the reporters saying hey, wait a minute, you
know, doesn't there's another end there's another side to the
email when an email is sent. It sent to someone. Yeah. Hey, Has
anyone at the White House perhaps looked for the Lois
Lerner emails? Maybe you guys have it on your end?
Are you asking about emails that would have been exchanged to
learners chief of staff or for other aides? Well, I guess I
wasn't aware that that was a specific request from
Republicans. And they asked for them? I don't know. I'm asking.
So I don't know if you're floating another conspiracy or
if this is a request from Republicans who are floating a
conspiracy or what exactly the suggestion is, but the fact of
the matter is, we've cooperated extensively. And, and despite
that cooperation, we've seen continued allegations of
Republican conspiracy theories that that just never pan out.
How can you say, there's been extensive cooperation? If two
years of me emails are just missing? You don't seem to be
taking that point? Seriously. If the emails are there, you could
show Hey, there's no conspiracy. That's the question. I
understand. You want to keep saying it's about the
Republicans. But well, I think Republicans have emails missing.
Because there was a, the computer crashed. And what we've
seen is a demonstrated effort, by this administration, by the
IRS to try to cooperate with legitimate questions that have
been posed by the Committee on this. What's just as important
for people to understand is that despite all of the data that has
been provided to Congress, there's not a shred of evidence
that substantiates Republican conspiracy theories.
Now, this is an insult to people like me, who actually come up
with conspiracy theories. I'm very insulted. First, by lumping
you in with the now conspiracy theory is by definition
Republican. That's very, it's very insulting.
There's never been a Democrat ever the conspiracy. Conspiracy
Theory is just the worst term. And a conspiracy is like, you
know, as a number of people gathering, you know, to blow up
Parliament or something. I mean, it's like the whole idea that
I've had somebody say, Oh, it's just a conspiracy. You're Joe
conspiracy theory. They say, well, let's see the you have a
situation, let's say you have a guy who is an administrator, and
he shreds all his documents. And when they come in to investigate
the guy, the guy's got nothing. And then you say, You know what,
the guy shredded all his documents. That's what happened.
Oh, conspiracy theory, what conspiracy was involved? Some
guy shreds documents. It's not a conspiracy when one guy does
something. Well, it's all my emails away. And you know, it's
not just no conspiracy involved. But everything has to be a
conspiracy theory. You know, it's just like, I just don't
like it. And there's nothing you do about it gets caught is
become a national meme. Well, unfortunately,
you know, this is what the public is trained to do.
And it wasn't to help by Jesse Ventura and his show conspiracy
theory.
No, no, this is what the public is trained to do is now to laugh
about it. We listen to every single Oh, but you know, the
punch line is now but even our chat room, just as the NSA,
they've got copies. That's so disheartening, and so sickening,
that that is come to that, that these blatant violations of all
kinds of laws and and citizen rights and constitutional
rights, and perhaps even if you believe in them, human rights,
are now decimated down to a punch line. The eating of that
is pretty much you could hear on Duck Dynasty, you know, yeah,
it's demeaning. It's very demeaning. It really isn't.
Nobody
wants to talk about the issues, that which is again, people are
afraid.
They're afraid they're afraid to be called out and say, hey,
look, this guy that you voted for, and the people that are
working with him are just as big as assholes, everybody who's
ever been in there and they don't care about you. They just
don't care never have never will. It's frightening for
people. It's very this is this is the problem. Mickey explained
this to me very well. When I said to sub to someone somewhere
sometime I questioned the moon landing theory. This the initial
Moon Landing I questioned the story. That's That's my stance.
I question. I got lots of questions about it. I'm not all
in. What happens is I I blow up a bubble of millions of young
boys who have now come of age who dreamed of becoming an
astronaut, who dreamed of being Neil Armstrong. And when I say
this, I pop such a huge bubble that people don't know how to
handle it. I'm a bubble popper. Bubble.
Well, something to be poppin I'm trying. I'm watching this Mr.
Roboto. The cool. And so they do C span plays a promotion for
what's not going to be on later today. And I would recommend
people watch his Sheryl app added
Oh, this is is the woman who who left CBS,
she did a good looking CBS correspondent who quit CBS
because they wouldn't cover Benghazi. Right. And I get it. I
had the sense that she knew something about what we've
always discussed about Benghazi, which was, it was a scam. And so
she just quit CBS. And so they have a teaser, and you have to
play the teaser because it kind of wraps up the IRS conversation
and a lot of other stuff. I'm going to definitely record this
thing tonight.
Well, an F on transparency and freedom of the one
Cheryl Atkinson. That's the yes, it doesn't say teaser. That's
why Okay. Well, an
F on transparency and freedom of information. And I think my
colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade, whether
they're liberal or conservative. The Freedom of Information
process has become a joke. It was already well on its way
prior to the Obama administration. But this
administration has perfected the stall the delay, the redactions,
the excuses. And really, it's shocking, because I feel very
strongly that the information that they withhold and protect
many times belongs to the public, we own it, but there's
no sense of that when you ask for it. They covered it as if
they're a private corporation, defending their trade secrets
rather than understanding that what they hold is information
they've gathered on our behalf.
What difference at this point does it make Ghazi Benghazi,
Benghazi? Well, she
says it perfectly right. It's too bad. She
nails it.
It's too bad. She works for the Heritage Foundation. Now. I
think that is very disappointing that she essentially has gone to
work for the Republican Party. Yes. Well, because that I think
that that discredit or that discredits everything she now is
about to do that is completely it has nothing to do with
independence. Sorry, Cheryl. I like you a lot. But you know,
where will you be with it? Now, whatever. i That's she should
have done a podcast and if she had taken a vow of poverty would
have been more into her.
Yes, podcasts. There you go. That's the way to go. We need
more podcasts.
What can I do? And amidst all of this actually is quite
interesting. At least Jordan has been doing the rounds. Elise
Jordan is the widow of Michael Hastings. Oh, good. And she is
now promoting his book, posthumously. And this book is I
think it's called the last edition or something like this.
It's it is a as and she's she's on every single AlJazeera CNN
MSNBC everywhere she promoting his book. And, and apparently,
the story she's saying telling is that a colleague called her
up and said, hey, you know, on Michael's hard drive, which
didn't crash, we had there's this book he was writing and you
should have a read. And she reads it. She read it in one go.
And she's now got it published. And she is the editor of the
book. She edited it. And it's now published. And it's, as she
says, and everyone else agrees thinly veiled about the last
days of Newsweek where Michael Hastings worked. What's
interesting is the coincidence of timing of this book, which is
entirely about the days of was really about the Iraq War, and
how all the Liberals are trying to cover up their tracks. They
actually voted for this and said it's a good thing. Let's go in.
Add to that the coincidence of the Beau Bergdahl interview that
Hastings did, which really is getting no traction for some
reason. I'm not quite sure what what's going on there. But he he
had interviewed Bergdahl and his family had written a huge piece
for Rolling Stone about this years ago, before anybody even
had heard really of the Bergdahl story that is rarely brought to
the foreground. And I'll remind everyone, that the way that she
is she's dropped a gorgeous is Elise Jordan. And they met in
Iraq, or Afghanistan as a one of the two after Michael Hastings
girlfriend was killed in an unfortunate ambush attack. And
we have seen interviews with them before. And my my immediate
impression was wow, she's his handler, no doubt about it.
Right. That was your first impression. Yes. And so now,
this is a year later, and she's out promoting this book, which,
okay, I can see where she's just like, you know, I can only
imagine myself, you know, if I lost my spouse, how would feel
would I be ready to go promoting a book? Only a year later? I
mean, you can ask all kinds of questions, which I'm not
qualified to answer. But here she is. I think this is maybe
this was on AlJazeera. It's kind of a compilation of what she
said on a number of interviews. It's all the same.
I'd love to ask about you, too, as a couple because I was
fascinated by the two of you. When you worked in the Bush
administration. We talked about you being speechwriter for
Condoleezza Rice.
Do you have to point this out? out as well. I didn't actually
realize that she was that close. She was the speech writer for
the Secretary of State. She's She's not just a fly by night.
Yeah, she's not a slouch. In fact, that is the exact word
which you will hear used in a moment.
And then his life and Afghans I mean, how did you tweet and get
together?
We actually met soon after he came back from Iraq I had been
interact with at the US Embassy, he had his girlfriend had been
tragically killed in an ambush tragically,
just the words weird John, some of the words she's using. Is
there an undergraduate killing? Just
we met, I introduced family friends, my best friend from
college as parents. And then we stayed in touch and then we
started dating about three years later, we both were in
Afghanistan. So it you know, it was I was so lucky. I this past
year has been horrible, but I wouldn't. It was worth it just
because being with him for even a short time was absolutely
everything I've read about from you about him has been just
beautiful. And extraordinary.
Loyal. Lots of weird words in here because of the controvert.
Thank
you.
Yeah, so you've been loyal. Everything you said has been
loyal. And no
one for even a short time was
absolutely everything I've read about from you about him has
been just beautiful. And extraordinary. Because of the
controversy, though, around particularly the McChrystal
article in Rolling Stone that surrounded him, there have been
all sorts of conspiratorial theories about
where we go conspiracy it's even better though if you say
conspiratorial theories. I think I shall use this. Don't call me
a conspiracy theorists call me a conspiratorial theorist, please
by its proper name. Okay, so let's get into that. Now, this
is something I did not know had not heard about find various
territorial theories about what happened to him. And do you care
to address those? I mean, is that something that you
investigated as well? Yeah,
I hired an independent private investigator and really just
went over everything about the accident. I just because I mean,
I, I wanted to know, to try to have, you know, some sense of
closure for yourself. And, you know, it really was just a
tragic accident. I think that he.
Wow. So she hired a private investigator to get some
closure. And it really was just, it really was just a tragic
accident. Okay,
I I wanted to know, to try to have, you know, some sense of
closure of yourself. And, you know, it really was just a
tragic accident. I think that he was such a larger than life,
character. And he did such important work that sometimes we
would like to make things have more meaning than they do when
and explain the unexplainable and unfortunately, it just was a
tragic accident.
Well, all this interview about Michael, we should say that
you're no slouch yourself. So what is next for you?
I don't know. I'm kind of I'm enjoying getting to talk about
how wonderful Michael is and the work and getting to focus on the
work and how this I mean, it's been amazing for me just you
know, the Beau Bergdahl story that he wrote the original
Bloomberg, but for well ahead, prophetic almost exactly. Yeah.
14 is stood up so well. And then this MAC is this book right now,
the last magazine at this time, pivotal time we're discussing
going back into Iraq, and what he is talking about in this book
about the drumbeat to war, and all the liberal hawks who
suddenly wanted to race from the stage that they had ever
supported the war. That's what's happening right now. So it's,
it's so amazing what his legacy and I look forward to seeing his
legacy develop even in the years to come. Wow.
You know, the only thing I missed there was, was her saying
that is coincidental that a former insider of the Republican
Party, has this book coming out from the dead husband from a
tragic accident that is coincidentally all about these
eight holes trying to reverse their policies. And
I don't Yeah, I don't like the first thing I thought of too
when I'm listening to her and remembering what we initially
surmised, which is she was a handler I mean, she's what she
you know, she's in Afghanistan. She works in the embassy, she's
in Iraq, she's speech rush, she's got all the earmarks of
somebody who's spoke, spoke. Was there something that in the
original manuscript that they had to remove?
And there's Yes, and there's also I know, it's just read that
book, and we're not going to you know, we're not going to get
anything, so I get a link between somebody and somebody
else.
But I wish so she she should put to bed the conspiratorial
thinking, perhaps it would be easier. I think if she said, you
know, not just it was a tragic accident. So here's what
happened. What actually happened. I'd like to know what
happened. Why did he hit the tree by himself going 90 miles
an hour?
And then why did it explode?
Didn't that way all these questions but she had to shut
up? You can't question a widow obviously, it's almost as weird
as this news that came out this morning, Connecticut State
Police major William pod Gorski died at 49. Monday following a
brief illness and surgery, which normally you would think okay,
you know, just to just a half tragic, tragic accident. Even
more tragic that he was a the lead investigator of the Sandy
Hook investigation. That's kind of tragic. Tragic to pass it 49
After a operation and brief illness, very tragic.
What was the operation for what was the brief illness?
This has not been disclosed his illness or the operation has not
been done? He was a hero, though. But this is this is not
being disclosed by request from the family.
All right. So I got the things I promised last show. I want to
plan before we go take our little break. All right. This is
the climate another climate change. These things are going
on every week and other climate change thing this time was with
White House, a guy for the idiot from Rhode Island. The senator
from Rhode Island who was just all in and he's not, he's not
gonna listen to anybody say anything about anything. So
there's a three parter here. I've got climate change with it,
we get to introduce Botkin, who's this professor emeritus at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, who's part of the
97%
a question or 98 or 99. If you believe John Kerry
sticks with the old school, which is 97%. And he let's just
play these clips in order, then you can see what a douche bag.
Senator Whitehouse actually as climate change one, please.
Thank you very much. So Dr. Botkin, you'd be one of the 97%.
This talked about and certainly, you know, you're you, you feel
like man is contributing and this and that, but certainly are
not one that feels like the models are acceptable. And I
suspect that you have many of your cohorts that are in the
same in the same camp?
Well, I think the key thing here is that science is not a real by
majority method. That's the important discovery. And I'd
like to quote, Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine,
he said, I get into dialogue, a dialogue with nature, and put
the question to nature, not to my colleagues, because that's
from whence the answer must come. And that's what I do. I
always look at the data. And also Richard Fineman, one of the
great 20th century, quantum physicists said, science is the
belief in the ignorance of experts. So to keep saying it's
a majority, that's not a scientific statement. And it's
not correct. I've spent 50 years working on climate change in a
very constructive way. And what I can tell you is that since
about 1990, the data has started to move in the other direction,
away from an important effect by human beings. And that's just
what the facts show.
I'd like to just reiterate, because I don't know if it was
clear, John, from your intro, this is Dr. Daniel Botkin. And
he has reversed his stance on climate change. And he has now
said to us, this is the part of the hearings. I'm a skeptic. I
think the IPCC report has errors. And he is this is why
he's important, because he is saying no, I don't think that
this is manmade global warming,
correct? Yes. Okay. He does about the manmade part. Yeah,
the manmade part exact now. So he did his his clip to there, it
gets a little bit little, some of the input from one of the
other sides.
It's unacceptable that scientists like Dr. Botkin, and
others are being adversely treated as a result of their
statements and scientific research. That sometimes
contradicts the powers that be so thank you. Already.
Quiet Man.
So that every every Republican and every one of these brings
this issue up every time they have one of these hearings. And
so here's the way it ends when White House decides to close the
whole thing. And this is how he would he this is the to me. What
you just heard was just nothing compared to how this this
asshole White House finishes the discussion.
This was not a hearing on the science. It was a hearing with
the experience of previous administrators. If we were to do
a hearing on the science, then I think we'd be adding the
scientists from NOAA and the scientists from NASA and the
scientists who back our United States. needs defense
establishment and a great establishment of scientists
every major scientific organization in the country,
perhaps. Dr. Botkin is right. They are all wrong. But I'm not
sure that would be the prudent course for our country. Thank
you very much. We are adjourned. Sciences in Boston talk off?
Yeah. Yes.
It was possible that bodkins, right. And all these other
people are all wrong. Exactly. sciency sciences, Science,
Science, Science that the White House guy is such a dick. Oh,
and Marquis. The other one. They're both this is the Senate
of course, which is run by the Democrats. So they get the head
these committees, right. And so you have these How
dare you question NASA. They've been to the moon and landed
there. You know? That's part of the problem. If NASA is wrong,
baby proof. Look out. I'll be I'll be hosting to it. There you
go. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's pretty sad. But of course, that never
makes any headlines, any kind of news anywhere ever. Because the
only people and it's happening in plain sight. The only people
who even come close to vaguely reporting on it as we can by
playing you clips from the actual people saying the actual
words is us. I don't know of any other place where you can get
this other than spending the time yourself. You know,
watching it, which of course is ludicrous.
And why would the media bother covering it? They have their
agendas. And that's what they go by their little script. And
that's the end of it. Whatever the PR person tells them to do
they do it their parents.
That's right. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
It's easier you're getting paid you know you're not there's no
real you know, there's you don't get any, you know, especially
reporters, they don't get big bonuses or anything for doing
anything. They just want to go home. No one ever
made it rich by chunker. No one ever made a rich by telling the
truth, John, what a mistake that is.
I'm going to show my school by donate to no agenda. Imagine all
the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
A few people to thank for show 628 came in with all kinds of
varying amounts of money. And we always thank the ones that
donate $50 or more. Nicholas Smith, McFaul in Herndon,
Virginia and ESA, more than Virginia money $125. He, usually
one, let's see what he said here.
Well, he got some useful information from the show. One
is using hay in the subject line to get someone's attention to an
email. And of course, after hearing the advisors being sent
to Iraq, he felt that he got some value. And seriously, these
at this point on Friday, which I always say Fridays my day off,
and you know, but of course I wind up watching stuff and doing
more than ever. And Mickey did a good thing. She said no. You're
the first you're going to the spin class. Yes, yeah. And then
there. And then we're going out on the boat and Dr. Ryan who is
who's a via her back cracker, and his beautiful wife and their
eight week old son and he has a boat, a wake wake wave riding
boat. And so we're on the on the lake all day. You know, Greg had
tremendous experience, which included the kid having
explosive diarrhea all over me, Abraham. We were the beautiful
women on the boat. And then C span now the beautiful women on
the boat like hey, you hold the baby. Oh, doesn't look cute.
holding the baby or the baby looks so good, are you it's like
me, Ryan and the kid. We're all in the water washing Kupala
anyway, but it was so nice to not have to know it was off.
There was no interruption. And I advise anybody, twice a week.
Listen to our show. Get what you need. You can hold a
conversation easily. You will stand miles above anybody else
who's bickering about stupid crap. And you can just you don't
have to say you just sit there and smile because you know, you
are healthy. You are not affected by or
care about the Kardashians? Well, there's that. Kristen dren
zek in Palmer, Alaska, Arkansas. No, Alaska AK. Yeah Palmer
Alaska $111.11 outstanding show she says his donations not
nearly a month. Enough
also bladed Happy Father's Day first Father's Day to her
husband, Tim. So,
Tim, Sir Keith Edwards in Gilbert, Arizona. 105 33. Did
you read that? It's one of our donations. We had the special
event for donations of the temperature. Yes. This was new.
I liked that a lot. Yeah. And he got the high number of 105,
which says he's in Phoenix.
But you know, this is not so I see what you're trying to do.
But I think you're on the wrong track here. Okay, because with
global cooling, this is only going to drive the numbers down.
It's gonna go broke. The more correct we are, the less money
we get. This is not a good idea, John.
There's that mic metal metal Loni. It's $100 from Chicago,
Illinois. Keep doing what you're doing. James wells Flagstaff,
Arizona. 100 Harshad Patel in Bilston, West Midlands, UK 100.
These are all hundreds Jai Kumar boodle Jai Kumar in Beverly,
Massachusetts. That's 24 I'm sorry. 2400.
I'm gonna take you back, John. I'm sorry. I'm just reading this
note from Mike. Yeah. Did you see what happened here? Now tell
me. I need a job karma from my wife. When she gets a new one.
I'm hoping Suazo enough follows a few weeks back you call Dame
Jennifer from Charleston a swinger?
Oh, right. Yeah, I wanted to read this. She's not swinger. I
don't remember us calling anybody a swing. Probably me.
She's I ran into her and her husband here in Chicago the week
after your accusation. And we got a good laugh, though. Her
husband was confused.
He doesn't listen to the show. Well, you better send them an
apology. Give him an douching or something. Yeah.
You've been de deuced?
Sure, it was me. It sounds like something I would have said. No,
I wouldn't come I can't see saying that about somebody just
offhandedly. That's only me. Yeah, we're sorry. Are he sorry?
Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina 9380. Jason Daniels in
Dallas, Texas. 86, which is the temperature. That's
right. Hold on. 86. I rainstick. Dallas,
you better. It sounds like you're frying an egg though. On
the sidewalk. Brian Hopkins in Honolulu, Hawaii. 82. By the
way, which is the temperature in Hawaii all the time? If that's
true, yes. 8282 82, which is 82.
That will be known as the Hawaiian donation. Oh, yeah.
The Hawaiian donation is 82. Armando gara geek Guerra yo,
guerre. I think
this is our local postal carrier. Oh, as Armando and he.
So he, I don't think I've discussed this on the show yet.
We're moving. Yes, we found another place, which is cheaper.
Thank God. And it's only five minutes further south. And so
Armando rings the bell because we got a sign in the yard
because, you know, obviously, you know, we're only renting so
that, you know, we got people locked into the house. You know,
it's like, because, you know, the we're trying to help our
landlady sell the place. She wants it out of her life. I
understand. So we're really trying to work with everybody.
You know, 10 o'clock this morning an hour before I started
people with their architects, you know, oh, yes, we will trash
this. We will just flattened all this will do it ever. To our
mando rings a bell? He's like, Ah, you're moving. So yeah, ha,
man. The only thing we're bummed is that, you know, you're our
guy says, Where are you going? I said, you know, like, three
minutes away so I can get that added to my route. Ah, yeah, I'm
really hoping that we're and congratulations on your
nuptials. Armando got married didn't even tell us.
Oh, that man should have invited. Yeah. Well, just
celebrities there.
I think there's reasons why
he didn't. These guys
want these guys. All right.
Do they even know how to hold a taco?
Let me write that down. Perfect. Was that 246? Okay.
Not because Armando sounds Latino that he's tacos. No,
you said no. You said it. You're gonna have the entire La Raza
after your mind.
Anyway, he donated 78 for the 78 degrees. It was in Austin
because it's old bill 72 Is 72 Apparently and Harrison, Oregon.
That's right. And then we have 6969 which I'm sure it's not the
temperature in Warrenville, Illinois. From Gregory Lawrence.
Did you get 78 in beauty? Oh, that was that was Armando.
Sorry. Okay. Armand.
Yeah. Daniel Kepler in Phoenix, Arizona. 6336 which is not the
temperature No sir skits double nickels on the dime. Also in
Phoenix go incidentally. Kevin Hein and Auckland divide 10
Steven Schnell occur in New Haven, Indiana double nickels on
the dime, Brandon and these are all fit Dollar donors Brandon
manque. In Tempe, Arizona, Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas, T A
bell in Berg field, Berkshire Daniel De Graaff in Westminister
Colorado. He's a big fan of mine apparently.
Which is good. That's easy to understand.
We have here in Westminister Colorado. No Eric VT in Dublin,
California which is down the street from me Sir Alan being in
Oakland, California Bogdan law trend row in Irvine, Texas and
nine that's it there we just have an anonymous donation and I
do have a letter I want to read
by the way I stand corrected your your temperature donation
is genius. I only got a few it's gonna be great this winter.
This winter genius idea John. You're gonna get a lot of low
ballers. So this comes in from I think it's okay to use his name.
It says Josh Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina one
of the listed there but here's his note. First off the analysis
of ISIS Iraq going on Iraq going on. You guys have provided on
the past few shows has been top notch between the Kagan web of
control and profit that encompasses the whole thing and
that most humorous geopolitical ramifications. It becomes
unbearable to hear any more newsreaders talk about how it's
all about religion. Excellent work. And after your tirade
against Lindsey Graham, unfortunately, my US senator
from South Carolina, I thought you'd get a kick out of this
little anecdote. My wife and I attended a local Scottish
festival Highland Games event here in Furman University in
Greenville, South Carolina a few weeks back being just before the
South Carolina primary, Graham was invited to give a brief
monologue during the opening ceremony about how long
tradition of militarism read killing people and how important
it is to continue the fight and read vote him in again.
Afterward, I guess he was roaming around kissing babies,
but without my realizing it, my wife and I found ourselves
standing right behind him as he was signing an autograph. Having
my phone in hand and my trusty pocket no agenda app, I thought
it would be funny to hold it to my ear like I was on the phone
and hit the douchebag jingle douchebag as if I had called him
by a childhood nickname he's been around for the source and
cut both of us by surprise. When you're a douchebag you answer to
the call. Oh by the way, if you have time, I personally like to
call it Senator Graham as a douchebag. And on the show.
Happy to do I don't mind doing well. I also
have one quick note I'd like to read from a monthly donor like
to pick them up from time to time. This is from Tim and
Burks, UK in the morning to you Adam and JC I'm a regular $50
donor but don't normally send a note not sure my donation will
arrive but hope you don't mind this out of sync note. If you'd
be so kind of like a de Deus thing is I've never asked for
it. And some jobs karma as I'm contracting as a programmer
these days and have had a bit of a rough ride this year. Keep up
the good work. I owe $50 A month a sufficient value for value.
Well, that's up to you, obviously. And for us. It's
fantastic. I would hope that you're getting enough value. I
don't have time to listen every episode probably one in four if
you have a way for me to send GBP that'd be good. So yeah, so
And do you still have that on the site? John, this does that
work that international? transfer some money for
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out the same information again. I'm still working with it.
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which those are actually $4 a week.
Oh for a week. Oh wow.
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Okay, I got one here for Helen barber who celebrates on Monday
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I on the last show you said no birthdays came in. I turned 27
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birthday so while we're happy to do it for you then Craig from
Newcastle upon Tyne happy birthday from all your buddies
here at the best podcast in the universe. And we do not have any
any title changes or any knighthoods did find this
interesting survey, which I thought would kind of fit in of
online advertising, particularly on video 56% of viewer Skip
online video ads. Almost half of people say any ad over 15
seconds is too long. You know, this, this advertising thing not
gonna work out too well in the future.
Well, once they gotta do some work, they got to study this
these advertising agencies, they're just, they're taking
clients money and throwing it away. Client somebody's got to
crack down on this. I think it's these big agencies, they try to,
you know, they try to gouge the client. Whether these giant
agencies are older they will boldly different advertising
agencies that have similar clients that compete with each
other all part of a big Umbrella Corporation, which I think is a
conflict of interest, but Okay, and so then they they take their
money as much as they can they take a piece of it the 15%
Commission, or whatever it is to place ads everywhere. And these
ads are useless. They it's like, you know, if these guys I don't
know, it's pretty much yeah, pretty much it's the online
advertising is just a joke.
I love it when someone people are tweeting all the time. Like,
I just tried to book a hotel. The hotel was full, so I
couldn't book but now every webpage I go to as an ad for the
hotel that I could not get a booking it. Yeah, this is
genius. Big Data strikes again. And I got an email from Sir rod
Adams. Over there at atomic insights.com. You brought to us
a story that the French are planning on doing away capping
off the nuclear program. And so we have experts, we have experts
in pretty much every field you can imagine. He responded John,
Adam and John, I heard your call out on episode six to seven for
insights into Francis energy programs. See how he does that
his website is atomic insights. He's kind of like He's slipping
it in his marketing. Alone and his Socialist Party ran on a
platform that included scaling back Frances dependence on
nuclear energy. It was not a very popular part of his
campaigning pitch. But sir cozy was such a flawed candidate that
Holanda won anyway. Balanta is trying to follow through on his
promise, but there are plenty of well connected and resource
people who oppose the idea. And he has a link which I have in
the show notes to an article that points out some of the
considerations actually, atomic rod wrote a quite a blog post
about this on atomic insights, I got a link to that as well. He
says it is probably possible to trace some of the socialist
partying Fundy party funding to Russian natural gas interests.
Ah, Russia loves its own nukes, but spends quite a bit of time
and money spreading propaganda or FUD about the nuclear
programs in its customer and competitor nations. The
unreliable industry, the unreliable industry is also
that's interesting. That's a good term. The unreliable
industry is also well known for its complaints that nuclear
crowds them out of the market. They're working hard to force
middle aged nuclear plants to shut down merely because they
were initially licensed for 40 years. That period has nothing
to do with the design life or the ability of well maintained
nuclear heated steam plants to last at least as long as coal
oil or gas fired steam plants. There you have it straight from
the horse's mouth, so to say, yeah, and then there's
play the Putin thing.
Yeah, it's sad how Kagan's have kind of eked Putin out of it.
Yeah, well, there's another one too that came in. I just haven't
had the chance to use it yet live. Life. Anyway, atomic rod
has, has a pretty good blog post, titled alarms proposed cap
on nuclear electricity capacity. And you can find out in the show
notes six to eight.no agenda notes.com.
Here's an interesting little tidbit that came in off the
local news about the kill switch in California. Ah, yes.
Oops, oh is crediting Kill Switch technology for reducing
cellphone thefts by as much as 40%. Tonight to more companies
have had a change of heart. Google and Microsoft have both
agreed to add kill switches to their phones right now.
Voluntary kill switches require users to opt in by downloading
something or turning it on. But a bill being proposed by
California lawmakers could require kill switches come pre
installed if you
have to opt in you may not know about it. You may not know how
to do it. It has to be opt out.
But if the bill passes it would find retailers for selling
phones without the kill switch.
Fabulous it's time for all you practical jokers out there. Hey
man, I lost my phone. What do you have any? Oh no, it's gone.
I don't have the serial number because it's stolen. You gotta
stop it quick. Killer number sir.
Yeah, that's how it'll go.
That's what I do.
I mean, does anyone see the the obvious thing that is in play
here that this is intended to be able to kill your phone whenever
it's handy for other people. Just to stop thieves and Does
anyone see what's next a kill switch on my car?
Yeah, absolutely you nuts course. This curry I don't know
that stop,
stop, stop and find out. This is the point where I recommend
everyone go and read the Unabomber manifesto once again
it's it's quite an interesting document that pretty much
describes exactly where we are right now. For instance in this
world where we are today, if your kid went to school, John,
your kids are grown up like mine but let's say a buzzkill Jr. As
you know, he's in fifth grade, fourth grade, and he takes a
little water pistol to school and, and he's playing at recess
around in the yard and he says, Hey, if you guys write anything
bad about me on the bathroom wall like you're I'm gonna kill
you. You're gonna die. You get it? What do you think what
happened to him and today
oh, they throw him in the slammer? Well,
I want this is Joe Biden the Vice President of the United
States. His annual retreat there where he invites the press to
come have a picnic with him and he's walking around the yard
with a supersoaker and says the following
picture we do this. God won't matric not rising. Anybody
writes a bad story about me is that we're not going to get
around about this right guys.
That's your example.
Well, he should be thrown in the slammer.
I agree. Of course, he actually means it. Possible. He's not
joking. I will have to kill you if you write something bad about
me because I am running against the what do they call her now?
The hill the beast? The de Ville de beach? No, the hill the
beast. The Hill, the beast. This is this new book? calling
Hillary Yeah, this new book? The Beast. There's a new book out. I
haven't read it. Let me see. It's this is the promotion for
the new book. Obviously. It's pretty good. The Hill The Beast
book. Hold on. I spilled it held the beats. That's no good. Hill
the beast. What is the name? What's the name of this book?
John?
I don't know. I don't know anything about Hilda beast.
Okay. It's
a book about the Clintons. And the Obamas. Now I cannot find
this.
I guess I'll have to go do
it. Yeah, I'm really sorry. I'm not finding this. Now. This was
it's all over the news today. Okay, so it's a book that
certainly I don't know who it's meant to discredit or what is
supposed to do.
To heal the beast returns Esquire. Lots of book the hill
the beast walks at night. According to the book HRC and
his new
book, The blood feud. That's what's called blood feud. Okay,
blood feud. new book on bitter feud between Obama's and
Clinton's Clintons. I hate that man. Obama, more than any man
who ever lived says Bill. This is great.
He said that really?
Oh, yeah. In this book live, who wrote this book, veteran
journeyman, whoever lived? This is written by Edward Kline.
veteran journalist Edward Klein.
Let's look him up.
And in this, apparently, the Michelle Obama and Valerie
Jarrett sit around at the end of the day drinking Chardonnay in
the corner. I believe that laughing about Hillary Hill, the
beast, as they call her.
Very believable.
Shirt is the hill. It's so sad that you know the what's the
name of the show? The the spacey show?
The House of Cards? Yeah,
it's real. It's pretty real. It's exactly what it is. Yeah,
most evenings Michelle Obama and a trusted adviser Valerie
Jarrett met in a quiet corner of the White House residents. They
usually open up a bottle of Chardonnay catch up on news
about Sasha and Malia and gossip about people who gave them
heartburn. They're for their favorite bet. Anwar was Hillary
Clinton, whom they nicknamed Hilda beast.
Here's his bio. He's got a blog, of course, it's Edward
klein.blogspot.com. So he's not right up to speed. But Edward
Klein was born in Pittsburgh in 1946. After graduating from high
school, in which he learned nothing of value.
Oh, hold on a second Pittsburgh, so he's a Joe Biden guy.
With Kobe, and a stint in the Air Force he pursued his
ambition to become a novelist. He's a novelist, his first
detective novel detective novelist, there you he was first
novelist first prize was published in 1988. So he's a
late bloomer. Its first suspense novel 9092. For first Pride
published it and today's a novel He's a writer, American, and
he's got a blog post. His latest blog posts is journalism's jihad
against journalism's journalists journalism's jihad against
journalists. Okay. And he goes on about this so I don't know
that he is not an insider. He would wear it in imbroglios just
not a storm in a teacup between a White House underling and a
liberal journalist that dust up and he goes on about
politicians. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, I don't have
a handle on him. It's just
I don't think it's something I want to read. It's just a bunch
of I'm sure it's to discredit the Clintons. And it's you know,
it's good for Biden. Is it Pittsburgh guy that has Joe
Biden written all over it? You know, you know, he's walking
around. Screw that hill did beast Well, I wouldn't guess it
sounds like
his last blog post was in March of 2013. Yeah, way to go. I
would guess that this is one of those books that was handed to
you. Why would he
Why would this guy Oh, no. Why your why would he have this
inside info? No, I agree. Of course. Why would
he have anything? And who is uniquely
qualified to have that kind of information? Biden Biden. He's
walking around and he's lurking in the corner. Are those beaches
I hear you talking about shielded beach
right those they won't even offer me any sharp edges
well, here we go. As we get closer to the FAA trying to
figure out if it's safe to have drones flying over the United
States of get Monet's year long investigation
by the Washington Post exposes the dangers of opening the
American skies to drone traffic. The fact that hundreds of large
military drones have malfunctioned and crashed into
homes, farms, runways, highways around the world since
2001 2001. Rather, it raises some serious concerns about
their use here in the US and that use is expected to surge.
National reporter Craig Whitlock writes all about this in his
piece when drones fall from the sky. And Craig joins me now.
Greg, with a welcome to you. Why are these drones crashing? And
this is really great. Every single thing we've talked about
drones. And we've been on this way before anyone talked about
it, we were about the dangers how you really want a pilot in
in an aircraft. This is not a good idea. If it's an expendable
thing over some sandy place with some brown people will swap
whatever. But over the years over civilized areas, like you
know, America, you don't want this and here's why
is it technological? Or is it just not working?
There's three, three main reasons why the drones we looked
at crashed around the world. One is the satellite links, the GPS
links that the pilots use the pilots on the ground to fly
these things by wireless radio signal, they go down quite a
bit. So most of the time, the drones fine, just fine. But
sometimes they lose the signal. And they just they, you know go
where they're not supposed to. Oh, well. Another reason are
mechanical problems, just basic mechanical problems, electrical
problems in midair. And the third big category is pilot
error. We found cases of pilots flying drones upside down pilots
pressing the wrong buttons and the drones crashing. Pilots not
seeing where they were going. Just basic aviation mistakes.
Yeah. And now I'm starting to get a little because now the
number is 400. Apparently, which is really in, in aviation terms.
So what so it's, it's now 14 Is 13 years. So what is that like?
30 a year for new for new category more. And it's only
half of that has been crashing in the States. So maybe one a
month. But of course these are big drones. Right? These are
shadows and the big boys.
Yeah, the big ones predators. But
now Now this does give a little more credence to my theory about
some of these mysterious gas explosions. And we have these
all over the country and people really just don't question it
anymore. The house was blown to smithereens which is which even
Mythbusters could not recreate this is a Bourne Identity type
theory that a you can leave the gas on I guess you leave the
oven on. And somehow the house is so perfectly hermetically
sealed and then the toaster goes off. And that creates a spark
and then a the whole place is blown the Kingdom Come here is a
piece of that. So this happened in California just this week.
Another house blown to bits. Here is the directory. I got the
live feed from the helicopter pilot who's flying you know he's
one of the one of the first guys on the scene so this is not
actually on the news. This is him talking while they're
recording his footage. And I did chop it down a bit but listen to
his commentary
DABU seven you were looking at footage of the house explosion
in Thornton, Colorado. Right now there is no word on exactly what
caused the explosion. Some are saying it may have been a
natural gas explosion other people are just not sure they
have no proof of anything right now, except for the house is
complete. pletely blown apart. Now we've seen before in certain
explosions where they have certain characteristics like the
house will blow out and the roof will still be intact. And then
in different situations if the house is completely obliterated
like this, it could mean something else. You can see
debris sent all the way across the street on top of other homes
here. So you can see here, full sheets of plywood from this
house alone, clear over to this other house behind it.
What is going on people? I'm telling you, people are being
either drones or maybe armed drones are crashing I don't know
what's happening.
It could be destroyed a couple of ideas. When of course it
could be target practice because there's usually nobody home when
that happens. Right. But I'm thinking you got a good
practice. I'm thinking he's even more sinister, which is the it's
a mafia operation. And it's it's a version of Italian lightning
attack. Your brought your house has got a lot of mold problems.
issues with the neighborhood you can't sell the damn place. It's
in a bad neighborhood. You got some good insurance ready to go.
Boom.
John, I have never heard this phrase. Italian Lightning Yeah,
it's an old phrase.
I've never heard of this. No. And is this a new what is the
old version of Italian lightning?
There is no old version.
Just yeah, I was catching on fire
arson seems to me you could get a whole a couple of these things
and blow up a few you know for a few pennies. You blow the guy's
house to smithereens he collects the insurance they blame it on
the gas there's no way they're going to you know what else
they're going to do is what it is. Sounds like a good idea. I
was like business
under the vaccine heading for today, Doctors Without Borders
are now saying Ebola is out of control. Yeah, yeah. This is the
outbreak in Guinea Sierra Leone Leone and
place down there 400 dead so far. Yeah. So
what can you tell us about this? You being obviously the chemical
I don't know
anything about it. All I know is it spreads so fast and it hit
you so hard that is supposedly can't get out of control because
you die you get it and you're dead in 24 hours you so you
can't get on a plane and actually have the plane land.
Everyone will be dead on the plane to plane by the time you
get there.
Oh, interesting.
So I was supposed to be self controlling international
organization. If there's a new version of Ebola that that takes
like a couple of days to get John and I think it could be a
problem.
Let's see international organizations and governments
involved need to send in more health experts and increased
public education messages about how to stop the spread of the
disease, said Barney Johnson's sounds like a Dutch guy,
Director of Operations for the medical group in Brussels. There
you go. The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a
second wave. And for me, it's totally out of control and
quotes. Whatever be afraid, regardless people that's
important. The Ebola virus which causes internal bleeding and
organ failure spreads through direct contact with infected
people. There is no cure or vaccine so containing an
outbreak focuses on supportive care for the ill and isolating
them to limit the spread of the virus. The current outbreak
which began in Guinea either late last year, early this year,
I had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent
weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the
first time. Should be should we be afraid?
The experimental Ebola vaccine is being tested for safety and
over two dozen volunteers.
Who volunteers for that?
Will anyone in that area? It would? That's true. So there is
a vaccine they're playing with? I think this is a keep your IRB
scheme here.
Keep your eye on that.
It's still my Titus virus. Ebola vaccine is well tolerated
if you have official saying it is out of control. I mean,
that's quite dangerous to use those words. And I think it
should get more, more more airplay, quite honestly, unless
you want
to scare the public. We have to scare him about other things.
Well, the Gardasil virus I'm very happy to announce. We are
familiar with the HPV this was initially invented to prevent
the human papilloma virus HPV are also mentioned by some
people who I know a slug cancer this is a it's a which by the
way the whole thing is a scam. It doesn't really stop any. It
doesn't necessarily stop cancer. A lot of this is Jen. Have
awards which go away by themselves. You can test for
this with the vinegar that you really need to read up on it.
You certainly should think twice about spending $300 on the shots
for your daughter. And of course then it went to we knew that you
could get throat cancer from it. Oh, yes. So we have to we have
to give it to boys now as well. And now luckily approved by the
FDA for the prevention of anal cancer. That's right. Every
every and everybody should take your Gardasil isn't and I had to
lie when reading this
douchebag that was behind the whole thing that one of these
politicians remember we used to talk about him and then he got
left out of the conversation.
Oh, well, Rick Perry was one of them. Rick Perry was was bought
off. It was a big scandal here in Texas. He wanted to make
these shots mandatory for every every school child. And it
turned out he was you know, he got a payoff of 5 million bucks
somehow to his campaign and Oh, whoops, didn't mean that. Now
this Gardasil is a humongous scam, it certainly does not stop
all versions of HPV, which they admit readily. But you know, the
scam goes as follows. Oh, yes. You know, you have a looks like
you're precancerous. We saw on your your test? Well, we should
probably do, you know, do a biopsy. And well, you didn't
have cancer, so you only precancerous but probably should
take this, this fine Gardasil shot just in case for the
future. It's very disturbing. And of course, there have been
many documented cases of adverse reactions to it. So it's okay,
just all more stuff to scare you. Like Senator Tom Carper.
This is the last one I've got for the scare meme. Senator Tom
Carper did an hour and a half session with some douchebag
guests from Homeland Security and some other consultants about
dirty bombs.
Well, not again,
hold on a second, I meant dirty bombs, they will kill you.
And this is how you do it in your opening. This is his
opening statement.
A little over a year ago, the city of Boston as we'll recall,
was struck by a tragedy during the running of the 117 Boston
Marathon. To terrorists detonated the pressure cooker
bombs near the finish line. You would call the killed three
people they injured nearly 300 more. And by
the way, this is not all actually been tried in in court,
we don't actually hit this is not not the final summary of
this. But okay, this will be the lexicon that these were the two
terrorists and pressure cooker bombs. Okay, well, believe you
the horror this tag, which we've viewed again and again, on
television,
yes, that's how it works. You show it again and again and
again. And then you just tell people that we have video of
them putting their backpacks into the trash can even though
no one has seen the video, but just tell them you saw it and
they'll believe it eventually
and again on the first anniversary of the attack will
never be forgotten. Today as we strive to improve our
counterterrorism efforts, we have the opportunity to look
back at the Boston Marathon bombing and ask ourselves this
question.
Okay, what could the question be?
The question would be since we have so much security and, and
surveillance in this country by the NSA and others, others
watching our every move, the question would be how can we
couldn't stop these guys in advance?
What if the attack had occurred differently? What if it was even
more deadly? What if the pressure cooker bombs weren't
just simply bombs but dirty bombs?
What if the queen had ball she became
a dirty bomb is any kind of crude explosive device that when
detonated, disperses radiation round and beyond the blast. If a
dirty bomb successfully goes off, those who survived the
blast can be exposed to harmful amounts of radiation that could
cause sickness, or even death. Moreover, a dirty bomb could
render areas uninhabitable for not just days or weeks, or
months. But for years, making that particular weapon a highly
disruptive weapon. The Boston Marathon terrorists had turned
their pressure cooker bombs into dirty bombs, then the
consequences of that tragic day could have been multiplied by an
order of magnitude. I want us to think about that for a minute.
Yeah,
you know, what I'd rather think about is what what is the pit
terrorists had turned their their little pressure cooker
bombs into actual hydrogen bombs, and blew up the entire
city of Boston Whoa, that would have been terrible. And it's
just very easy to do. You can get one of these hydrogen bombs
from some other terrorists and it would be part of a network
and it could have blown up Boston completely. We have to
Take action now. Do
you gotta You didn't wind it up right? You gotta say I want you
to think about that and I
want you to think about that think about that for
a minute just thought differently and it takes us
pause if all you're thinking about it for a minute let me
think about
it. Think about the hydrogen bomb ideation I'm gonna
do a no The worst is and then I if I'm actually trying to help
I'm running towards the radiation Today's
hearing will focus on how we can ensure that this hypothetical
situation does not come to pass
bullshit you fear mongering a whole you Who is that guy that
is His name is Senator Tom Carper. Carper yes of Delaware.
C A R P Er
yes carpet well
he's a nobody
well he's trying to be a somebody with this
well, he's doesn't sound like Oh, this guy. Oh, yeah, Mr.
excitement
and but this is so wrong. And everyone on the panel is like
yeah, we need more security more police state we need scanners
everywhere hear about this thing and in Chicago. Now they have on
on the on the street lamps. Let me see where I have this. Here
it is. Sensors.
Yeah, the gun sound the gunshot sensors. Now these are
different. These the smooth perforated sheets of metal are
decorative. But their job is to protect and conceal a system of
data collection sensors that will measure air quality, light
intensity, intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, and
wind. The sensors will also count people by observing
cellphone traffic. It's a metadata sucking
device kits funny.
Hey, people opt out. You don't need a cell phone. I've been
living perfectly well, without what? Just some annoyance from
Mickey from time to time. She's a little annoyed that it's not
that easy to get
beck and call.
Yes, but I'm not at her beck and call. But in general, we get by
quite well. You really don't need this slave bracelet
attached to you. Get yourself a D star radio.
D de estar from icon
does not from you. Now you're really pushing it. You're really
pushing it now. All right. Besides that, of course, Google
acquired the skybox. Hello.
They acquire Skynet. Hola. Well, he goes on, on his merry way. I
thought
it was like you that was making somebody
somebody roaming around your house.
I had no idea. It was one it was one of those like someone I
don't know. It was weird. It kind of sounded like math to DC
for more for me then. Okay, so they Skybox I think is what it's
called, isn't
it? Today Skynet? No,
no. It's called Sky box. I don't know what it is. They acquired a
company called Sky box. And with this company they do. It will
make Google Maps images. Live in many cases, and yes, and visible
down to 31 centimeters, each pics so
I can go right now and go watch what's going on in downtown San
Francisco on a certain street to see if there's a long line in
front of a certain restaurant so I can go in there and get some
food.
That is the idea. They call it manhole to mailbox. And this
comes on the heels that kind
of coverage from the satellites.
Yes, that so the supreme the Department of Commerce. A week
after this acquisition, I guess Google knew was coming, lifted
restrictions on the resolution in the past collecting sub 50
centimeter resolution required Chartering and flying aircraft.
Now, we have here's a Digital Globe who also provides a
service we're very pleased and appreciative that the US
Department of Commerce has made this forward leaving leaning
change to our nation's policy that will fuel innovation create
new high tech jobs and events the nation's commanding lead in
this strategically important industry and that is the sub 50
centimeter resolution and Digital Globe and Skybox will
not be able to provide and or sell images that show features
as small as 31 centimeters. So yes, they will be able to see if
you add in theory in theory and Google
deal with they have a problem with this Google maps have It's
been deteriorating on a weekly basis. Well,
the the I was in San Francisco traffic directions have been
deteriorating, that's different. That's different. You don't like
the navigation feature. But
the navigation is off. But it shows me on wrong streets that
that's the that's more than that. Just the navigation.
That's how
they start. This is what they're doing. They're confusing the
Pete the public, John. They're trying to it's like an ant
experiment where Google is, hey, let's mess with the side of the
navigation. Let's let's see what happens.
Well, I do that with ants. Yeah.
It's like a It's the Google version that this is the Google
version of frying ants with a magnifying glass.
Yeah, well, that's what they're doing with their that's eventual
goal of the Google Glass. There it is. Skybox. Yeah, my
I find the Google Glass I find this interesting on one hand,
but on the other hand, of course, completely creepy. You
know that, that they can so eventually, I guess if you do
live, live video or maybe delayed with a snapshot what you
want. I don't want that. Oh, look
at him. He's coming out of his house. You think that's him?
Yeah, you can tell by the hair. Okay, there we go. There's Kim's
Mickey there now Oh, eight. Okay, they're getting Oh, that's
interesting. Oh, they're getting picked up. Hey, wait by Mo
that's an odd Mickey. Let's follow this. Let's follow the
limo and see where it goes. The limo? That's interesting. The
limo.
Where's the limo taking me please. I need to know how this
dream and
the airport. Oh, now you're gonna get you have trouble
finding? Well, now Nari is you can't miss him. He's, wow, that
hair really makes him easy to spot.
All right. Nice.
Which what plenty they get on I don't know that we gotta go to
the cameras inside the airport to figure that out. I'll wind
it up here with a little ditty from the United Kingdom. Which
just like as we know, Amsterdam, we track this. Going back a
couple of years where there is a complete war on cash. In many
grocery stores, you cannot even pay with cash. You cannot pay
with a credit card you have to pay with a pin card, which will
begin as the slave device will be introduced here in the United
States as well. And now they did a big experiment in in the
United Kingdom's of getting a Gitmo nation east. experimenting
and this is how it starts. Hey, let's do a cashless weekend.
Yes. On the High Street. Let's Let's interview people about
what they think about going cashless. Guess what? It is
fantastic.
Every business on this road which is lined with independent
stores and cafes now accepts card. Some do say more
reluctantly than others. But they're taking part in this
cashless experiment, as many shoppers now prefer plastic. Do
you prefer to use cash or card god it's much easier, much
easier
for the use of a card and it's less in my pockets. I use cash
for small amounts but a card if it's a bit more expensive.
Last year, spending on cards reached a record 500 billion
pounds here in the UK, cashews has dropped by 14% over the last
five years. But more than half of all small businesses still
won't let their customers pay by card. That's often because of
the cost of the store particularly if people aren't
spending much.
It's not ideal first to take credit and debit card says there
is a charge associated with them. It costs us 17 Pence for
debit card 1.6% for credit card plus a penny for authorization.
We normally charge that depends to the customer if they spend
less than six pounds. But today to encourage them to use cars,
we're going to waive those charges.
That retail experts believe advances in technology mean the
costs will come down encouraging more and more businesses to try
hard.
I think there will be a point when we don't use physical cash
anymore and I don't think it's that far away. We've reached the
point where we don't use
this as a retail expert and consultant of course anymore
I don't know the last time I wrote a check was and I think
that you know that the only reason we carry money around is
because it was the way to pay for things in the past. The way
to pay for things in the future isn't going to be with physical
cash so not long.
Cash is a way to pay things for things in the past
you old fashioned bastard.
I still write checks I love writing checks I write checks
like writing checks I only have three bills I think that come in
here and we have rent I write a check. We have utilities Water
and Power comes together. I write a check. And what is the
third thing
I think like to show yeah,
I love writing a check it also it reminds me that I'm that I'm
spending something I'm promising. I'm putting my
signature and saying I promised I will pay you this. It's like
my own little FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE. You know, I would prefer
to walk over with a bunch of cash and say here, which
apparently is no longer allowed at Chase Bank, we heard from our
Grand Duke, you cannot deposit cash in someone else's bank
account if you are with Chase.
And why might that be?
Because you're probably funding a porn operation or terrorists
or something else incredibly lame.
Don't do business with Chase.
Hi, John Claude, let's wrap it up for today. We got a lot of
work ahead of us for the coming week as we continue to evaluate
the work of the Kagan's the Neo cons, the caliphate. Anything
else caliphate, fate and anything else coming down the
pike will be all over it for you as we continue to also evaluate
who we believe will win the World Cup. Looks like Brazil is
still a pretty good pretty good contender considering the
economic state of affairs.
Yep, this is what it's all about with that one. But you may have
some other logic when we discuss it more seriously on Thursday,
you know what's
a long competition takes forever.
Get over with like a golf game, you know, just in a weekend.
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