I'm just going to leave this here. Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, April 17 2016 time once again for your gizmo nation
media assassination episode 817.
This is no agenda,
flashing safe spaces everywhere and guarding reality for all
ages while broadcasting live from the capital, the drone Star
state here in FEMA Region six Austin teahouse in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where I have no idea what he's
talking about. I'm John C. Dvorak. Levin, Buzzkill.
One day you're going to come in on Sunday and say something
that's just gonna blow me away. Today is not That'll be the day
today is not that day.
A minimalist?
Yeah, no, yeah, my eyes are weird again. That's because
of the pollens it is hot in Texas, right? Isn't it hot? It's
well, we've had rain for the past two days. So it's very that
should have cleared it up then. Actually, the
mould is off the scale now. Because what happens
I believe, yeah, rain. I have no idea by the way, I'm just gonna
say this. Yes, but I haven't but what happens I believe Yeah, is
that it rains and then when it stops raining, there's a big
burst and explosion of mould of like the way mushrooms go they
get all of a sudden they boom they just blow all this stuff
into the air all at once. And that's what's going on. That's
exactly what's happening. So It's muggy it's it's you know,
near 80 degrees, but it's Oh 80
and muggy. It's like Florida in Texas. I've never never
experienced
gee, how could How could that happen? I was shocked I'm
shocked. There's mugginess going on there already?
So is this make your eyes itch? Are
you No no, no, no, you know it's the focal distance. So now I
have to get really close to the monotone enable to see
you need to get some reading glasses or some computer
glasses.
Believe me I've been trying to figure this out for a long time.
The variable is my eyes they change. I mean, I mean changed
on them and maybe you're an alien. I'm transitioning to
whatever. Exactly. All right.
Good stuff this week. Okay. Really got really boring debate.
At least I got into it a little bit.
There was at least a little bit of fire just just a tad. But
and it's funny to listen to people and unless it's some say
Bernie wants some say healer, I think Hillary one. Hands down.
Bernie's still there with his waving finger. You know, we'd
like he's like, call me next call on me next. There's nobody
else to call on.
It's pretty annoying when he does that. I mean, and what I
now do is when I watch any two people speaking, I always look
at the person who's not talking. And for as much as Bernie wagged
his finger everywhere. Hillary Clinton is smirking, and friend
like Lynn making little, little, little inside laugh motions. And
she's just she's she's pretty annoying to her.
He does it to
me, she's pretty annoying. But you want to start with that you
want to get some some election crap.
already. I might as well bring a couple items up writing. There's
one of the clips I have, which I don't think I wrote down yet.
Sanders. Oh, actually, let me start with the Well, here's the
Sanders Hillary Palestinian thing, which is the one again, I
thought most of the attention that wasn't that was kind of
new. He's kind of all in on this. And he talks about the
situation in Israel and Gaza. And she, when they throw it to
her it just a classic Hillary Clinton, she says nothing, sir.
Well, you had in the Gaza area, not a very large area, some
10,000 civilians who were wounded, and some 1500 who were
killed. Now, if you're asking me, not just me, but countries
all over the world, what's that a disproportionate attack? The
answer is I believe it was uh, let me say something else. Let
me say something else. Somebody who is 100% pro Israel in the
long run, and this is not going to be easy. God only knows. But
in the long run, if we are ever going to be bringing peace to
that region, which has seen so much hatred and so much war, we
are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect
and dignity.
For what is not to say to say that right now in Gaza, right
now in Gaza, unemployment is somewhere around 40%. A lot of
that area continues and hasn't been rebuilt. Gasoline
cylinders, you listen to this thing he's talking about the
Troy, how about East Austin?
decimated schools decimated, decimated the United States,
we know that only a reduction of about 10 out of 10 states
in the rest of the world, I've got to work together to help the
Palestinian people. That does not make me anti Israel. That
paves the way I think. Thank you, sir approach that works in
the middle of
this was Thank you, Senator get off the stage. Oh, he goes on
for another 30 seconds.
with Senator Sanders, Israel overreacts to Palestinian
attacks, and that in order for there to be peace between Israel
and the Palestinians, Israel must quote, and its
disproportionate responses.
I negotiated the ceasefire between Israel and November of
2012. I did it in concert.
Wow. She's she's saying that she negotiated peace. Yeah. Four
years ago.
Yeah.
Oh, how'd that work out? You know, she's
President Abbas, the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah. I
did it with the then was the Brotherhood, President Morsi,
based in Cairo, working closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu
and the Israeli cabinet. I can tell you right now, because I
have been there with Israeli officials going back more than
25 years, that they do not seek this kind of attacks. They do
not invite rockets raining down on their towns and villages.
They do not believe that there should be a constant incitement
by Hamas, aided and abetted by Iran, against Israel.
Because, you know, this is her but you know, I was listening to
Democracy Now. And they had I didn't, I clipped one thing, and
it was really long. And I couldn't clip all of this guy.
But Robert Scheer was on a very famous Left Wing Wing
progressive from the 60s. He's used to be the editor in chief
of ramparts magazine. And he pointed out that, you know,
Hillary is so full of crap. He hates her. And he says that
she's full of crap. And this and Morrissey, she cites Morrissey,
who's the who she was secretary of state where they ousted him
right in a decade. Right. And that was Hillary. And he
mentioned something i didn't know i. This is the part he
showed a clip, which is he went to USC. Okay. Morsi.
Oh, Egyptian president. Yeah. The Egyptians? Well, of course,
how else will you understand how to read the check?
No, I in America. Well, how does news elude me? I think that's
what we do on the show and make this stuff up. I mean, we did
it. We did dig it up.
I actually got a lot of news that has been elusive or
underreported. But I also picked up a few clips from the
Democratic debate. And I think that this one, one minute clip
here is is really all Hillary Clinton needed to do to convince
all women, I'm telling all women, that you really need to
hold your nose and vote for Hillary, you know, this is this
is the thing that she did that I think really made it work
certainly for female Democratic voters. And I presume there are
some Republican Democratic voters that are women. But this
is for for the women dems.
And I want to say something about this. Since we're talking
about the Supreme Court and what's at stake. We've had eight
debates before this is our ninth, we've not had one
question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about
reproductive health care, not one question. And in the
meantime, we have states governor's doing everything they
can to restrict women's rights. We have a presidential candidate
by the name of Donald Trump, saying that women should be
punished and we are never asked about.
I love how she just said, Trump says we should be punished. It's
somewhat of an somewhat of an abstraction but Okay, thank you
very much. So just a slight abstraction of what happened.
In my concern, Senator Sanders said, with respect to Trump, it
was a distraction. I don't think it's a distraction. It goes to
the heart of who we are as women, our rights, our autonomy,
our ability to make our own decisions, and we need to be
talking about that and defending Planned Parenthood from these
Sanders.
Now, Sanders, of course agrees with all this but she somehow
attacks him somehow I genius that Sanders is an idiot. I've
concluded that mainly because of the I have the clip on In this
this is the this is the Sanders VAT is the Vatican clip? Yeah,
this one
this whole episode of Sanders going to see there's hope. Okay,
all right played on who on Sanders
on Sanders is obvious? Okay so play this clip X overnight
Sanders flew off for a visit to the Vatican stuff don't is there
Senator Bernie Sanders arrival at the Vatican today created a
media frenzy step behind
what I received this invitation yeah I know it's taking me away
from the campaign trail for a day it was so moving to me today
that it was something that I simply not refused to attend.
In reality Sanders just brought the campaign trail to Rome,
Sanders, many of his same themes calling for a more just economy
using many of the Pope's words. This is Vatican City here this
is a house with a pope Bishop Marcelo Sanchez, Rondo invited
Sanders here, an invitation which brought world attention to
a usually obscure conference at an academy which advises Pope
Francis on issues like social inequality. Well by inviting
Senator Sanders. Here's his nameplate, you're really waiting
right into the middle of a major political
moment. That is important. The Pope the Pope
is already figured in this case, after Donald Trump suggested
building a wall between Mexico and the US went up better so not
a person who only thinks about building walls is not Christian.
Would you ever see a Donald Trump's nameplate here
Stopstopstop
Okay, did he ever actually meet the Pope? This is the joke of
it. He was never gonna meet the Pope to put this is some some
guy you can play play. I saw Vatican this guy.
Okay, yeah, that is important. That guy I heard
Mario that guy. Mario decides invited into some I can't even
describe secure Academy get the name of this thing. But if some
little this I guess a steering committee or somebody for giving
advice to the Pope, I fell for it. A fell for it. The old the
pope wants you to go. I think he honestly believed he was going
to meet the Pope. It turns out he wasn't never going to meet
the Pope. So he looks like a moron to be making this stupid
trip because it takes him right out in New York where he has to
worry it has to be of course while they're doing the report.
If you lose if you back it up from where you stopped. Sure
you're here. This is CBS CBS is probably the most in for
Hillary. There are so in for Hillary they slammed every day,
just as the most slanted news organisation have the three or
the four the five depending on what you want to include. And so
they slip in this little thing about these, like, news
organisations only do this to remind people of the what you're
supposed to be thinking about. The Pope said that building
walls means you're not a Christian. This is an old story.
The pope himself had said, Well, I don't even you know, I was
just talking in generalities. He kind of backed off on it. But
no, no, CBS has to bring it up again. It's got nothing to do
with Bernie going to Rome has got nothing to do with it. But
they bring it in anyway just because that's good. You know,
we can't take a chance we got to make sure Hillary wins this
thing,
an invitation which brought world attention to a usually
obscures it after this part. Yeah, we're conference at an
academy which advises Pope Francis on issues like social
inequality. Well, by inviting Senator Sanders. Here's his
nameplate, you're really waiting right into the middle of a major
political moment. That is important.
Love that guy. That is important that
the Pope is already figured in this campaign after Donald Trump
suggested building a wall between Mexico and the US went
up better so not gay. A person who only thinks about building
walls he said is not a Christian Morty. Would you ever see a
Donald Trump nameplate here? I don't see. You can find maybe
these guys are doshas. Ah, so who do you think set it up? Who
do you think set this up? Hillary is pretty good. I like
it.
She's been pulling some great stuff I have to say
you get the guy out of New York for this got to be least 72
hours all put together I mean, oh, and
in bed it's also tiring and makes you he's gonna be this
dragon his app. Does
Sanders have his own plane?
Guide Are you kidding? He probably took a boat. I wonder
he doesn't have his own plane. There was a New York Daily News
came out with an endorsement of Hillary Hillary by the way. I
think she's got henchmen or or build us that have gone to these
news organisations and made deals of I'm sorry, we're gonna
give you a lot of access going to be not going to be like, like
Obama and, and these guys have all fallen into line. Now there
was I was listening to Democracy Now and that Mexican, Juan
Gonzalez, who is actually a pretty decent column is right or
left progressive stuff. But he's been on the show for like, I
don't know, 1000 years, and he still can't talk without ABA. So
he doesn't explain things. Well, in fact, he talks a little bit
like Ron Paul, where he starts off on an idea. And then right
in the middle of instead of finishing the idea, he jumps to
something else. This kind of the way this guy is. It's like,
borderline stream of consciousness. But he talked to
me, he was in the meetings, where Hillary and the rest of
them came in to Hillary and Bernie came into two. And the
other guys didn't show up a sub Kasich, I think, to just discuss
with the candidates a topic, so they could endorse one of them
as and right. So he's, he says, this interesting thing, which
was that the news that came out of the meetings was all
distorted. In fact, he says, The editorial boards, I think it's
an editorial, play this editorial clip, and I will
explain what he's trying to say.
Thanks, leader who was killed just weeks ago?
Yes. And I did manage to get a question into Bernie Sanders as
well. But you know, I am not a member of the editorial board.
I'm a senior columnist at the paper. So I get invited, sort of
to watch and maybe ask a question or two, when the other
members of the editorial board have finished asking their
questions. But I do think that, generally speaking, the the
characterization of what happened in the Sanders
interview has been grown. Interestingly, several members
of the editorial board told me that they were surprised by the
fewer that developed afterwards, which was largely fueled by the
Clinton campaign and their surrogates, who began to spread
word through social media and others, pointing to what they
believe were these huge errors of Senator Sanders.
So these guys are working hard.
They are they really, and I don't think Bernie Sanders has
no idea how to handle this.
He's an idiot, you know, this, the fact that he got suckered
into going to Vatican because it was the right thing to do. Or
some committee meeting. I sure that it was presented to him as
though he the pope wanted him to come and go course. Yeah,
otherwise you Why would you do it? Do it. So he thought he's
going to meet the Pope is going to be important. He's going to
get some, some something he needed for the campaign. He goes
over there. The Pope is not interested in seeing him. Isn't
this stupid thing? No one's really reported how dumb he
looks doing.
I know. They should, though. I want you to do that. I got. So
there were I think two Bernie Sanders clips from the debate.
The climate change. Blocks, he went into a whole bunch of
things, but it just his analogies and his comparisons.
And the way he frames things. This guy's is a little odd said
that climate change is the greatest threat to our nation's
security. You've called for a nationwide ban on fracking,
you've also called for phasing out all nuclear power in the US.
But when those proposals drive the country back to coal and
oil, and actually undermine your
fight against global warming, look, look,
here's where we are, let me reiterate. We have a global
crisis club, Francis reminded us that we are on a suicide horse.
In fact, he did not remind me when I didn't see him.
Our legislation understands Earl, that there will be
economic dislocation, it is absolutely true. That's not
good. There will be some people who lose their job. And we build
into our legislation, an enormous amount of money to
protect those workers.
This is this is interesting, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary
Clinton, although I haven't seen his policy document on it. The
idea is to force everyone into higher energy cost with the wind
and solar to force force force, although Hillary is all in on
natural gas, which we've known for, I don't know, five, six
years. But then in to help to even it out, we're going to give
a lot of money as you just heard, to, you know, coal
communities. I guess that's like West Virginia or wherever else.
Coal is being is being dug out. And this doesn't seem like a
plan that's going to do very well. Long term, I think, trying
to re educate or retrain the coal workers into
a know what they're trying to do.
Just Hey, stand over here and blow it that windmill.
It is not their fault that fossil fuels are destroying our
climate.
It's not their fault that fossil fuels are destroying our
climate. This makes no sense. I thought we were all to blame.
But now there's a segment of the population who are not to blame.
But we have got to stand up and say right now, as we would if we
were attacked by some military force, we have got to move
urgency urgently.
And boldly what is Senator Josh jop jobs are one thing but with
less than 6% of all US energy coming from solar, wind and
geothermal and 20% of the US power coming from nuclear if you
phase out all of that, how do you make
it all out tomorrow? And you certainly don't phase locally or
out tomorrow but this is what you do do
I did like that I did like he said don't phase out nuclear
energy. That's good. And then what you do and then he said,
Hillary's just laughing when he says do do I don't know machine
fifth grade
tomorrow, but this is what your doo doo doo doo, doo doo, doo
doo say that we are going to have a massive programme but I
had introduced introduced legislation for 10 million solar
rooftops, a frequent input, probably millions of people to
work retro, probably probably weatherizing buildings all over
this country.
That'd be great. weatherizing, weatherize, get go and paint
that until there's a future of America weather has music,
Chinese insulation,
all over this country saving, rebuilding our rail system, our
mass transit system
that we don't have, do we have a national mass transit system?
No, no, no, I
mean, they still want to call Amtrak
we kind of makes it sound like we have to rebuild our mass
transit make the plane, the trains run on time, I don't know
what he's
rebuilding our rail system. Our mass transit system, if we have
a loss of speeds, as if we were literally,
I think we're gonna rebuild our rail system with wind and solar,
or mass transit system.
If we approach this arrow, as if we were literally in a war, you
know, in 1941. Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we move within
three years, within three years to rebuild our economy to defeat
Nazism. And Japanese Imperialism. That is exactly the
kind of approach we need, right? Leave the world,
leave the world thought that's what we didn't want to be.
Is amania lead the world leader?
One thing I gotta say? You had one point I really liked a lot.
Earlier this
week at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, you called out President
Clinton for defending Secretary Clinton's use of the term super
predator back in the 90s, when she supported this was, why did
you call him out?
Because it was a racist term, and everybody knew it was
gonna give him a point for that hold on, like him a point for
Bernie. Because yes, the Democratic Democratic Party is
incredibly racist. This is true.
Much of what Secretary Clinton said was right, the other crime
bill, I voted for it. It had the Violence Against Women Act in
it. When in mayor of Burlington, we worked very hard to try to
eliminate domestic violence. This took us a good step
forward. We're talking about the weapon that killed the children
in Sandy Hook, this banned assault weapons, not
insignificant, but where we are today used to piss. We have a
broken criminal justice system, and everything's
broken with these people. Everything's broken, broken,
broken, defined, broken,
we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth
doesn't
seem broken. Seems like we're doing exactly what we're
supposed to do with that particular system. It's working
fine. It was the way it was set up create a pipeline of human
bodies for the Corrections Corporation of America AVS
forum. Yeah, this is this is a riot and it caused a problem.
It's been jail systems
not broken. It's working exactly the way it was supposed to the
based on the setup.
And in my view,
Walkman put into play Yeah, well, that's what he's saying,
Well, what people in jail than any other country on Earth. And
in my view, what we have got to do is rethink the system from
the bottom on up. And that means for a start, and we don't talk
about this, the media doesn't talk about it. Oh, you got 51%
of African American kids today, who graduated high school who
are unemployed or underemployed, you know what I think maybe we
invest in jobs and education for those kids, not jails and
incarceration.
I'll tell you what else
was there. What jobs and I'll tell you what else, weatherizing
rooftops we have
got. This is a difference between the Secretary and
myself. As I understand that, we have got to have the guts to
rethink the so called War on Drugs so many lives, and then
trying to cut them off lives have been destroyed. Because
people possess marijuana millions over a 30 year period.
And that is why I believe we should take marijuana out of the
federal controlled substance.
I'm all for that. I'm all for that. That's good. I like that.
Now, the CDC has all but confirmed it. It can really help
combating cancer. Do you see this?
Just one of many things like that. I mean, the diamond minded
and when they interviewed Hillary, she said we need to do
more. I don't know what that's about marijuana. We need to do
more research. She says as if there's not.
No she knows. It was no, no, no, no, no, it was different
research. It was no it was different.
Or is it? She's, she's she goes harkens back to Nixon. I don't
know if you could find this that we never played it. But you
might be searchable. Okay, fine. I think if you look under Nixon,
it was on the CD CBS Morning Show and they added
54321 Forbes reports
on a remark by a former Nixon aide, hinting that the war on
drugs had a hidden purpose that President Nixon saw the drug
crackdown as a way to arrest blacks and anti war protesters.
Ehrlichman also claimed that the White House knew they were lying
about drugs.
Aha, that's a clip you wanted.
That's the clip I wanted dynamite. And that clip, it
shows the duplicitous in this of the government. And when it
comes to this, the marijuana thing in particular. And
Hillary's just part of that whole thing. In fact, the long
clip that I have, which is Robert Scheer is at the end of
the Democracy Now bit were sheer was discussing with this woman
who is I can't remember her name, but she's a famous head of
the Gay Lesbian Alliance. She's a she works with the supervisors
of Los Angeles. She's was a head of now, California branch, I
believe. And he goes off on her at the end, and it might be
worth listening to right now. Because he really does a good
job of summarising what's going on that nobody else seems to
want to come to grips with. Sanders is kind of approaching
it. But
there's one other thing we need to take into account. As I've
been. I've been doing as much research as possible. There is
no doubt that the heroin trade, and now crystal meth, which is
all coming from Mexico, it's propping up the 52% of
unemployed youth in our country. You can't you know, it's
unbelievable how much money is running through the United
States, it's drug money.
I agree. I think it is propping up to us. Putting them all at
risk, because you know, the drug dealers in the black community
can be taken out any minute.
I've noticed that drug dealers of any community are ready to
take you out at a drop of a hat. I don't think it's just the
African American community. True. All right. So this is
what's this guy's name on
his shirt when they do the side by side comparison that blacks
are the ones that get most mostly that were sentencing and
everything that's all been documented. Oh, yeah. No,
that's true. That's absolutely true. I
have a white colour coke dealer working in the Bank of America
building in San Francisco, selling to the secretary pool
rarely gets anything bad happening to him. While true.
So this is what's this guy shear, what is he again,
shear. shear is all a very famous editor writer. Goes back
to the 60s. He's written a lot of books. He is a classic, old
style progressive from California. He's 80. Oh, nice.
And he doesn't put up with anything
from Robert Scheer as we wrap up. Yeah, well,
I think this is how we got into this mess. Jerry Brown when he
was running against Bill Clinton said we're always faced with the
by these people with the not the lesser of two evils, but the
evil of two lessers. And so line, I'm picking from my wife's
book on California, and it's coming out, but it's a good
statement. They helped get us into this mess. Let's not miss
what this election is all about. On the Republican and Democratic
side. On the Republican side, you have a NEO fascist person
and Trump in the form of Trump and something of a religious
fanatic, Ted Cruz, but they are addressing real discontent
across the board. The economy is not working for most Americans.
Okay. And so there's a right wing populist appeal that is
wiping away the Republican Party. On the Democratic side,
much to amazement of everyone. Bernie Sanders has been able to
register a populist progressive dissent. Okay. He is a uniter,
he doesn't pay immigrants. You know, he understands The need
for unity a country but the fact of the matter is, if you go for
Hillary Clinton, you go for more of the same. I'll tell you my
take away from the debate. I want to tell you, my you are
winning get your GED, we'll you're winning got us. Winning
gets us into a war in Iraq, which Democrats supported with
Republicans.
Who's Who's Who's combating him.
That woman I described as she works for the supervisor. She's
the head of the Gay Lesbian Alliance.
Oh, now okay, I
got I got I gotta get her name.
If we do our work, the fastest sell out politics have made the
situation much more treacherous. And the reason the reason so
many young people
sell out politics. I like that. Haven't heard that one. Yeah,
like it's so odd politics.
reasons so many young people are against it is because they see
it doesn't work for them. And if you want to look at the record
of Hillary Clinton, for him with these problems, what did she do
if you talk about deportation? Yes. Obama's, on on immigration.
He has been called the deporter in chief. Yes, Hillary Clinton
as Secretary of State. She supported that policy. She
didn't take credit wage. You keep telling me Hillary Clinton
has evolved. The Clintons have been in power in the Democratic
Party for so long. Why didn't they move on the on the minimum
wage? Why didn't they move in? To push the issue or not
pushable they are sellouts supports it now because she's
going to lose the primary if she doesn't have as she did it last
night very halfheartedly. What you go down the road with record
if you go down the road, Hillary Clinton the right wing will be
stronger that's why that's not true. His Star Wars what's
happening in Europe now the fact of the matter is, if you do not
address the problems from a progressive side, which Bernie
Sanders is proposing, you're gonna leave people hurting now
hurting in this country you may not be hurting working for the
county and a supervisor part of the Democratic establishment I
know I can't even
take this guy seriously either if he thinks Bernie Sanders has
it has the answers to it and how to make it all work democratic.
Progressive can handle is it gonna be able to understand
anything in the moment?
She's interrupting as much as she can. It's quite an I just
like yeah, let's let's call this let it go to because it was a
you watch Democracy Now enough. They never all these duds, very
static and he's all worked up. But he's got a couple more lines
in here that are worth listening to
his Democratic establishment. And Los Angeles, by the way, has
a racist tolerated the supervisors a racist sheriff's
Police Department rush to occupy this stage the question whoever
knows we need more voters are rejecting more of the same
that's when you're going to represent more Hillary's really
and we're gonna leave it there. But
clearly there is
a lot to talk about in these coming weeks and months.
goes off. I mean, the whole thing.
That's pretty funny. And she
goes off on this woman who just the biggest hillary supporter,
well, if we're going if we're going to do that,
and she says by the okay, but before that, you have to
visualise this woman, you know, with all this background,
because I described her you know, she's the head of a gay
lesbian. They all she looks. She looks she's wearing a red dress
and she looks like a very reticent schoolmarm of the old,
an old style, he just looks like she just doesn't look like her
what her bio is.
At all. She kind of looks more like, like a like a conservative
mom. It sounds like
yeah, it looks very like a conservative from the 50s. Well,
if
we're going to talk about the surrogates, or people who are
out there talking bull crap, I have a couple of interesting
ones. This is MSNBC, I think, was this Angela, Andrea
Mitchell, I'm not sure but it was the CEO of Emily's list.
I've never seen her I get her emails all the time about how we
have to chip in for Hillary. So something interesting happened
in New York City before Bernie Sanders spoke, I think was one
of the parks in the city, a big crowd he had big crowd. But at
first it was some other guy who stood up. I think he's his name
is mentioned this report. And he said and he gave out a little
quote, which of course was not intended to necessarily
implicate Hillary Clinton, but more stuff that like we talked
about here on the show all the time. I agree with Secretary
Clinton that
Medicare for All would never happen if we have a president
who never aspires for something greater than the status of
Medicare never happened if we continue to elect corporate
democratic cores or otherwise.
So it was the the corporate democratic horse comment that
now of course, you know, actually this maybe it's CNN,
this reporter is asking surprisingly good questions is
countering this. This woman from from Emily's list? Pretty decent
way about and I liked the comment. I think it's funny.
That's something we would say corporate whores presstitutes
Yeah, they're all in the what did we call it sellout
politicians?
That's Dr. Paul song speaking there last night. He's a
physician and healthcare activist. He is the husband of
CNN host Lisa Ling.
That's coincidental. Little Lisa Ling isn't she the one that got
arrested? I
can't remember but I do recall that was
that was Lou Ling Lisa Ling is now remember
Ling Ling Ling Ling.
He made the comment just before Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd
huge crowd of about 27,000 supporters in New York City's
Washington Square Park. Song later apologised, saying that he
was referring to some members of Congress, not to Hillary Clinton
sounds right to me, but it's an opportunity to go and say hey,
Bernie Sanders in the house also bring on the shield. Stephanie
Shree Agha is the president of Emily's list. She's a Clinton
supporter. She joins us now Stephanie, nice to see you. In
more of his apology, Dr. Song said that he was not talking
about Hillary Clinton. In fact, his wife, Lisa Ling, defended
him on Facebook and here's what she posted. She says I know for
their said he would never refer to any woman as a blank.
She can't even say the word Horse. Horse. You can't say
horror apparently. What is this? CNN? You can't say horse? No,
yes. And the words on the screen. It's on the caption
core, but I have to say blank, this whole report is crazy. No.
Word. A W word. Yeah. Oh,
W word. And most people, most Americans will go, Whoa, done
that start with an age.
I know for certain that he would never refer to any woman as a
blank. It was a very poor choice of words. And Paul is extremely
regretful for using it. Most importantly, he is mortified
that such a word is being associated with Hillary with
Secretary Clinton. Do you think his remarks were misunderstood?
I mean, they're really disappointing. The kind of
language that we're hearing is just not there's no place for
that here in the Democratic Party and politics. And I am
glad to see Senator Sanders this morning disavowing these, but
what we're beginning to see regularly is a pattern by
Senator Sanders and his campaign, sort of leaning into
these insults.
Oh, gee, maybe we can compare him to Trump,
whether it was questioning Hillary Clinton's credibility or
her qualifications, ambition, things that are being talked
about, you know, some of it and maybe not last night, but some
of its really been out of the Republicans. Oh, thank
goodness. The Republican playbook Bernie's now a
socialist Republican. It
seems like Senator Sanders and his campaign are sort of cashing
in on decades of attacks of Hillary, let's focus back on the
issues. Yes, we can do this.
It's definitely again, to be fair here, though. It's not like
the Clinton campaign is entirely immune from surrogates saying
something that you wishes they hadn't. Good. And you remember
Bill Clinton's confrontation with with Black Lives Matters
protesters that happened just a few days ago. You remember
Madeleine Albright saying there's a special place in hell
for women who don't support other women? There was Gloria
Steinem's comment about Bernie Sanders supporters who are
female. So I think it happens on Wouldn't you say it happens on
both sides.
But again, we've you know, like I said that, you know, the the
senator addressed it this morning. I wish it would have
addressed it last night. I'm sure they were talking about it.
It was so shocking to hear shocking. It
was shocking to hear what the truth that was shocking to hear
the truth. It's three o'clock. I wish he would have addressed it
at 230
She says it was so shocking to hear the words. Oh, corporate
Democrat democratic whore I think she's shocked to hear the
truth. The true democratic
before we get off to debase I do want to play the one rundown
clip, which is the one on the CBS show CBS debate rundown
because I want to, you know, I've been trying you know,
again, I'm trying to track these networks and who's supporting
who we know CBS is all in for Hillary is reflected in this
report. But ABC I've concluded now is all in for Hillary and
the reason I say that is because the graphics they show on CBS
does the same thing. They have their debate when they run the
debate they have a Rafik behind the spokes hole. And, and they
have a picture of the very flattering picture of Hillary
smiling and looking up at about a 45 degree angle. I did some
you know, like the second bit at the balcony. Sanders is got a
straw sneer Yeah. Grumpy looking. He looks like an old
fart. Both networks. I haven't yet I have to get on to NBC
next. Both networks run this graphic. They're not exactly the
same, but they have the same same set of images. MIT Sanders
looking like an old fart a grumpy old man and Hillary
beaming.
Looks like we're in Las Vegas.
Clinton was confident enough about her New York lead to take
a gamble today jetting off to LA for fundraisers. After a quick
game of dominoes in East Harlem. It was not fun and games in
Brooklyn last night, but you didn't answer the question did
we? Or Sanders said those fundraisers cloud her judgement?
Do we really feel confident about a candidate saying that
she's gonna bring change in America when she is so dependent
by big money interest? I don't think so.
This is a phoney attack. I stood up against the behaviours of the
banks when I was a senator. I called them out on their
mortgage behaviour.
For Terry Clinton called the house this was a good line. They
must have been really pushed by this.
His relentless focus on this issue has gotten traction. In
the latest national CBS News poll eight in 10. Democrats say
special interests have at least some influence on Clinton. But
in New York Wall Street ties are not as big of a liability, and
Democrats still see her as far more likely to get things done.
I don't take a backseat to your legislation that you've
introduced that you haven't been able to get past.
Sanders has been pushing Clinton to release transcripts of her
Wall Street speeches, but she noted last night that he still
hadn't released his tax returns. So today, Scott, he released his
2014 returns and says the 2015 ones will follow suit.
Okay, couple things. One, the Sanders with his taxes, that
stinks. Something smells bad. And he'd and he promised 2015.
But he gave 2014. And he says, Oh, well, Jane, does our town
taxes on TurboTax or whatever. Yeah, regime stinks. I'm telling
you. There's something about that. That stinks. It
could have been done overnight. Yeah. So
if you if you use TurboTax, you open the programme, you say, you
know, open up the file from Deb 2013 2012 printed copy is not
hard.
Yeah, I think you're right. There's something in there. That
is it's a minor thing. It's minor. So we can glom on to it
to distract everyone. And I'll repeat ever gonna release those
trends? No.
And I'll repeat, I don't think there are any transcripts.
That's the problem. These were just, I think straight out
bribes. Or maybe she wouldn't talk for 20 minutes or something
like that. I don't think there are transcripts. There's no
reason not to do that. And try and switch the conversation over
to taxes.
I think you're my that's an interesting perspective. It's
possible there were it was a meeting it was
B It was a meeting to pick up that big check is what it was.
It has a
meeting to pick up the big check. There's no there was you
never gave a speech? Just
no. Well, maybe she gave one but certainly I don't think she has
seven or eight. Is that the same speech?
She made $11 million in speeches last year. Alright, so that's 20
speeches, at least. or more, more, or less, or none?
When she gave me the same speech, she's giving the same
speech to every bank that she talks to.
Do you mean the same speech? Yes. Well, did you get one good
speech?
Well, Bill is now more and more of a liability. Here's a very
short soundbite. He was outside the maybe it was in Harlem. I
think it's an office there. And it's a little tough, but he is
he's talking about Hillary's opponent. Bernie Sanders and his
solution to Wall Street which Bill Clinton characterises a
little differently.
I think it's fine at all these young students have been so
enthusiastic for opponent and sound so good. Just shoot every
third person on Wall Street and everything. It'd be fun.
To shoot every third person on Wall Street that is the Bill
Clinton an extrapolation of what Bernie Sanders is say. I like
it. I like it. I like it. Quick. Entre mall from Nancy Pelosi,
who I don't know, maybe she is because we're getting closer to
the convention. I know she's in the news and she's all over and
she you know, she's an idiot, and really no comparison to
Bernie Sanders. But I like what she does here. She's going to
talk about how what a fantastic job President Obama did with The
with pretty much everything during his eight years. And but
she slips in a little something here that I think makes her
numbers and her assessment of the situation. actually true,
even though it's not the reality Listen,
differences to when President Obama took office and now in
terms of so many of the metrics, whether it's the ad you hear
that
so many of the metrics, yes.
So she's not talking about how good things are. Now, she's just
talking about the metrics, which okay, if you know, we know
metrics, you make metrics, that they're favourable for you.
Let's listen to some of these metrics,
metrics, whether it's the what we've been through it, the
deficit is seven 70%. Lower. The unemployment is half of what it
was the stock market's 10,000 points. More than 10,000 points
ahead. The auto industry is thriving when it was on its
heels. At that time when he took office. The 20 million people
now have health insurance, who didn't end those many who had
health insurance, have it in a better way, no stray existing
conditions, no. lifetime limits and being a woman is no longer a
pre existing medical condition.
Being a woman,
being a woman is no longer a pre existing medical condition. That
was a talking point from a couple of years back. They just
brought
that one back. And forget that one. I love
the metric say unemployment is down by half Sure. Have you been
outside Miss Pelosi? Have you talked to anybody on the street?
Go to the gas station, just see what colour for people you will
meet their colourful people. I tell you it's just fabulous.
Douche
it's interesting. That was a good clip.
We have the NAM we have Cruz Trump and Kasich we're all are
all in New York and ready for the big Tuesday night to primary
and so each of them also spoke at the New York Republican or
neoconservatives dinner I'm not quite sure what it was at home
game for Trump very easy. Cruise bombed and everybody's laughing
about it Yeah, how cruise the Cruise has his jokes. But he you
know and he's not he's not great with he's not he's no Rubio he's
no she certainly no Rubio and, and what happens when you when
you deliver a line and certainly if it's your opening line and
you fail,
it's gonna be the worst thing that can happen to you public
speakers know this, you might as well go home, you do a joke at
the beginning and you bomb and you can do some one of the
things I like to do is you can do light hearted kind of chat
with the audience before you actually begin the speech right?
And you can kind of test the audience and you get through
some material
and usually what you do there is you do like a low something
local like a local always local local joke local Joe
shares a fat guy isn't.
Always works. Well. The sheriff's a fat guy that works.
So if you try that in Alabama, go overwhelmed, tough crowd.
It's crickets for Ted Cruz in Manhattan. But Donald Trump is
speaking their language at the big party dinner. Cruz had a
terrible night at the Republican black tie gala here for the
state party. What happened when Ted Cruz tried to speak to his
own well, its own Republicans but they're not really his their
New York state Republicans and I guess they are New York values.
One of our embeds on the ground there called it a dead room. You
saw Ted Cruz delivering his usual stump speech with a few
changes. But his typical applause lines fell flat. His
laugh lines got no laughter people were distracted. A lot of
folks simply were not paying attention. A couple even stood
up and left. Oh, hey,
that. Oh, man. Oh, I don't know speaking or doing something
while people are eating is the worst gig in the world. And I've
done it a lot. It's horrible. They
have to either clear the plates. Yeah. Or I mean, you have to
have the it has no you can't do a while eating because too much
clinking and there's waiters roaming around. It always
happens. It's impossibly you shouldn't ever do a speech.
Well, there. I
know. I know. Ben Carson. Of course, surrogate for Donald
Trump. Went on Andrea Mitchell show on MSNBC. And this is kind
of an important to clip, a topic clip, etc. I think what we'll
find at the end of this election cycle is thanks to the internet,
mainly just because of communication in general. Some
portions of the American population are kind of slowly
starting to realise that this What's hammered into our heads
is kids. We have a two party system, which is not true. But
you know that these these groups known as political parties that
they are not actually a part of our election process. And, and
there's a lot it's probably even more confusing because people
don't well, yeah, I voted this is real voting, how come what's
going on? It's made to look like it's all official and a part of
the two party election system in the United States. But it's it's
a shame, it's a show. It's a show. And it's also the kind of
the same people operating under, you know, two different flags. I
think people might start to understand how that works. And
Carson has a little bit of ahead of himself, but he's trying to
open up that oh, gosh, conversation. Well,
where do you come down on Donald Trump's complaints about
Colorado, Louisiana, how the delegate process is working how
Ted Cruz is working the delegate system, because what the RNC is
saying today is, this is the deal. These are the rules,
they've been the rules. And every candidate was informed of
those rules.
So I'm not so sure it's about Donald Trump or Ryan's Priebus.
It's really about the American people and whether or not
they're being disenfranchised by a bunch of people who sit around
and create arbitrary rules that tend to benefit them. This
happens on both sides. And I think it's one of the things
that the American people are tired of. I think that's that's
why we're seeing people like Trump and Bernie Sanders doing
so well, because people are tired of the status quo. This is
how it's supposed to be with a few people sitting there and
making those decisions.
The Republican Party as is the Democratic Party is a private
organisation. And so what their rules are set by them. Sean
Spicer, the communications director could
barely even say she can barely even say it's not really an
official election. It's just the club is like a soccer club and
athletic club, a chess club that she can't she has problems
saying it so she's just like, of
course she does. She's like one of the one of the roadblocks but
it's like a club,
what their rules are set by them. Sean Spicer, the
communications director for the RNC wrote in this memo, the
rules surrounding the delegate selection have been clearly laid
out in every state and territory. And while each state
is different, each process is easy to understand for those
willing to learn it. Take note, Donald Trump is the PS unspoken.
During the Jim Crow era, those were the rules written everybody
knew about them didn't make them right.
I gotta say, You gotta love the black man who plays that card.
buco Ben Carson, that was great. No one else can say this. No one
else. Jim Crow, spring day. Everyone thought that was cool.
Well, good on your
rules, too. They were written everybody know about them didn't
make them right. And I'm not saying this is the same. But you
know, I think you get the point. Just because rules are there.
Just because they're written by somebody doesn't mean that
they're right doesn't mean that you can't review the system. You
know, there are a lot of things we need to look at, you know,
from a historical perspective, you know, why do we need the
Electoral College and stop and ask yourself, why was that put
in place? And do those same circumstances still apply?
Actually, they do not. We need to start looking at a lot of
different things.
And what's interesting is the electoral college the way I
think I understand it, as we've discussed on this programme in
years past, the entire point of there being an electoral college
is for the elites to stop crazy people like sands and Trump from
actually getting elected. That's the whole point of it, isn't it?
In fact, yes, it is. But that's one of the points of it. It's
also to kind of normalise the way he so you have an unbalanced
vote blocks in different states. It's kind of normalises it but
that I think that is the point that was actually brought up in
a almost a sick way by David Brooks, who, of course is a so
called he represents the Republican Party on on the news
on PBS, but he is a Trump hater to an extreme and listen to
this, listen to this little spiel by him, where he goes on
about. It's more amoral, but good and these rules and
regulations and he actually comes out and says the reason
for these things, and that would include the Colorado situation
is to keep Trump from getting any prevent Trump is the words
he uses our senses. It's
it's rigged. It's crooked.
Yeah. Well, as others have pointed out, he as a
businessman, he was perfectly willing to use the amoral
bankruptcy laws to his own advantage. And now he's what's
the
difference between a moral and immoral
a moral means without morals immoral means against the
morality of that you're in another a moral maze. You just
don't you? There's no morals. There's no morals to be immoral
that's
worse than immoral.
I probably is.
I says, it's it's rigged, it's crooked. Well, as
others have pointed out, he as a businessman, he was perfectly
willing to use the amoral bankruptcy laws to his own
advantage. And now he's just getting outfoxed. What do you
mean to a moral bankruptcy
loss?
Is he talking about the bankruptcy laws are not a more
they're actually meant totally moral. They're meant to keep
jobs. They're meant to not have companies fall over so we can
protect pieces of the economy.
Yeah, he's full of crap this this guy is getting on my
nerves.
Yeah, here. Yeah, he's perfectly willing to use the amoral
bankruptcy laws to his own advantage. And now he's just
getting outfoxed and the amoral delegate laws, I think they're
not a moral well, they're just the laws are the way they are
good point from blitzed and chatroom bankruptcy prevents
debtors prison. What actually is highly moral. If you think about
it,
they're gonna say nothing immoral. Well, they're just the
laws are the way they are. But I think a they're in touch with
the American tradition. We do not live in a straight up
Athenian democracy, we live in a republic, we have an electoral
college with the United States Senator, where the two senators
from Wyoming have the same power this two senators from
California, and we have in that tradition, and that spirit, we
have a delicate selection process, where it's just not a
straight up democracy, where as Ryan said, it's every big
organisation, whether it's General Motors or the Boy
Scouts, they have an organisational structure in
which they make decisions. And the people are more invested in
the organisation and more senior in the organisation have more
power than the people or not. And that's for very good reason.
It's because you want a party to have consistency over time. You
want it to have a structure where you people have to
compromise with each other. And basically, you wanted to have a
series of stability, so you don't get carried away by
monetary fads and crazy demagogues. So by some logic,
the structure exists to prevent Donald Trump and people like
Donald Trump who are of the moment so but
yeah, so yeah, it's exactly right. It exists to stop Donald
Trump people from taking over their club.
Now, the other approach to this that was actually interesting,
even though it just showed that Brooks was more of a douche than
I thought. But this is the CBS four this is the clip is called
CBS flawed Trump. I want to deconstruct this because this is
structured in such a way again, to make Trump just a just a
brainwash the public in very subtle ways, I think is really a
dynamite piece for that.
The Republican Party is not the scheming against Donald Trump.
That assertion came late today from the chairman of the party.
In an interview with Major Garrett Trump, the front runner
for the nomination claims that the GOP is plotting to trip him
at the finish line.
We have a rigged system, the Republican system is rigged with
the bosses pick the delegates.
Now why would he do this? I mean, do you think this has been
his tactic all along? He knew this was going to happen. He was
ready for this. And what exactly is the strategy just by by
yelling at them?
I think it's a vote getting trick. Because he's got a
disillusion group of people voting for him already. And now
they're all I think it's just a methodology for getting votes.
And I don't think he's doing it as much as the media is making
it sound like they're the ones that are exaggerating this, I've
seen his various clips where they've taken from two or three
speeches to make selling the raving. And if you listen to the
very beginning of play that very beginning, this is not the way
you do it. The way you do a setup is if you want to make a
point that you're you're saying something like Donald Trump is
an idiot. And that's what so and so says. I know what I mean it
we shouldn't be so and so's it. Now if you did it right, as a
reporter, you'd go so and so says that Donald Trump's an
idiot, right? Then you know what's going on. But you if you
start off with Donald Trump's an idiot, and that and that's like
your assertion. It's like your assertions like what you're
that's what gets pounded into the human brain. And then you
mentioned it was said by someone else, when in fact, it was set
by you. And this I thought was a chickenshit report in every way,
of course, Major Garrett, and I don't really blame the guy
reporters like to do
this. Now. This is why this is what you do. This is their job.
And he has a grudge
against Trump because as you recall, we've mentioned on the
show before we played the clip, in the very early days of the
campaign before the first big way before the first primary,
Trump insulted Garrett on the air and they ran it I mean, CBS
ran it so everyone you would know from now on out that it
means war. And he's called him a jerk or they said something like
you know if you knew what you were doing it with your job you
know, something like if some one of his early insults were just
going off on everybody like dead like Katy Tur he did that. He
did that with her too. Right? That you're no good you don't
even know how to do An interview and he then they ran it they run
these things there's which I don't know why they do that, but
they did it just to make a point that he's in and aihole but so
Garis got to get him and you can just hear it in this report this
the snide commentary that route.
Well, you know these guys and gals, they think it's their job
to save the country.
They do and voting for Hillary is a way to save the country.
Apparently well
hold your nose and vote for Hillary. That's how you save the
country.
The Republican Party is not scheming against Donald Trump.
That assertion came late today from the chairman of the party.
In an interview with Major Garrett trump the front runner
for the nomination claims that the GOP is plotting to trip him
at the finish line.
We have a rigged system. The Republican system is rigged with
the bosses pick the delegates, and the people never got to
vote,
Donald Trump continued his week long assault on the Republican
Party nominating process. In a Wall Street Journal op ed Trump
wrote, I for 1am not interested in defending a system that for
decades has served the interests of political parties at the
expense of the people. Republican Party chairman Reince
Priebus fired back
and all of the candidates use the same rules in order to
compete in each of the states.
Are you saying that Trump is essentially advancing a phoney
argument leading because
we like doing that. It's how we're
tremors said that he was. He never said that.
No, it's great. This is why Come on. He's doing his job and
Trump is essentially advancing a phoney argument.
Just because someone doesn't like the kind of rules in
particular States doesn't necessarily mean that the rules
are rigged, it just means they wish that the delegates are
awarded a different plate different way.
Ted Cruz has been following those rules in an effort to win
enough delegates to deny trump the nomination before this
summer's convention.
Donald is unhappy with how they voted. He's entitled to be
unhappy. Senator, we're focused on earning votes from the
people.
But Trump maintains a huge lead in New York. And today, the New
York Post endorsed the front runner ahead of Tuesday's
primary as a candidate, quote, inspiring people who've given up
on ever again having a candidate who would fight for them.
You know, why doesn't trump just say, because he's kind of
muddling the waters, he's, and maybe I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure
he's doing it on purpose. They Well, you know, the process is
rigged. And you know, this is kind of what the whole thing is,
but it'd be so much better for everyone if, and he's one of the
you can say it. Like, this is not part of your official
American political process. This is not, you know, this is not
how we choose this. You don't have to do this to choose
presents is not in the Constitution this way. You could
just explain that and say this is just he could use the Boy
Scouts, the clubs
liked about parole when he was running, he would actually buy
airtime. And I've always wondered why people don't do
this more often. He would buy airtime and put himself on the
air with a bunch of flashcards.
God I remember God Yeah. And then
he showed a put the card and say, here's what they're telling
you. And here's what was really going on in each show on a on a
you have a graph or something. And he explained it. And it was
absolutely fascinating. And it was very, I think most people
because it was simplified, but it was graphic. Yeah, it wasn't
some guy waving his arms and it worked.
And it worked. It worked like a champ. That's why he got it.
That's why he got the horse head in his bed. Yeah. You really do
until one has
done that. They don't really mean just outside of Glenn Beck,
who has his Blackboard and he just pretty much puts George
Soros his name on there was a bunch of arrows pointing toward
him. He did and that's his idea that guy over the explanation,
but he can't do it. He didn't nobody can. These guys are
all he could he's he's the only guy who could he's just do that,
hey, this is just this. Just the club. This is not part of your
political process. But the same people are running the other
one. So just saying something like that. It is I have a one
piece of underreported news. It was a news conference from the
state's attorney. This is about Trump's campaign manager. Corey
Lewandowski I think is his name and the the little girl who got
so beaten Nowitzki THAT GUY Yeah. And the reporter from
Breitbart who
you know don't quit in a huff Yeah,
well they quit and a half and there was you know, there were
charges and you're suing you etc, etc. So the state's
attorney came out and it was probably it was 30 minute press
conference with all the you know, they were talking about
the video the surveillance video is so American, and this guy
loved it, of course, but I just pulled the relevant 37 second
quote out
law enforcement arrests
are based upon probable cause. state prosecution, however,
relies upon a good faith basis. That's sufficient evidence
exists to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. This includes
consideration of any apparent defences. Although the facts
support the allegation that Mr. Lewandowski did grab misfields
arm against her will, Mr. Lewandowski has a reasonable
hypothesis of innocence. There is insufficient evidence to
rebut these defences Therefore, although probable cause exists
the state will no file this case
no file they will not even take it to court no file and the
reason why which he explains and if you want to it's in the show
notes 817 dot no agenda notes.com is because she was
asked kindly by the Secret Service to get out of the way
she circled around came back she penetrated the bubble as they
call it a bubble, the bubble. And it is not uncommon and it is
accepted by the Secret Service for inner circle operatives have
the protected politician to participate in crowd control?
Yes, and then the kicker was that again, I mentioned this she
touched him first. She touched him. Yeah,
Trump met him when I was six years old. My parents did this
with me and my sisters. It talked about physical contact no
physical contact they would all be add them no physical contact.
And that's when I got the lecture on assault and battery
and what assault is and what battery and assault and battery.
Six years old. Yeah, it's the same thing.
Yeah, well, apparently this girl never got the lecture. I don't
know. The whole thing was Trump trumped up Yeah,
but of course whenever there's a correction, you don't see it. I
do you see this news?
This ran on Democracy Now. So I did see okay, all right. So you
and five other people address me and five other people. How many
people watch that show? Well, because you do that.
I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning
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at Apsley Natalie show 818 Which is kind of a sad little
ditty little ditty here. I found something which I think warrants
our deconstruction here was one of those things where the no
agenda spidey sense was tingling in the back of my head. I didn't
quite understand what what was going on. You okay. Yeah, I'm
fine. Are you okay? Never. Okay.
It started actually, when I was watching the daily press
briefing at the White House folks hold Josh Earnest received
a question about the Zika bill, which I want to discuss right
now.
Darlene I hate to disappoint members of Congress. But the
passage of that bill that you described as a Positive but a
rather meagre accomplishment we were talking about earlier. In
some ways, it's akin to passing out umbrellas in the advance of
a potential hurricane. So an umbrella might come in handy,
but it's going to be insufficient to ensure that
communities all across the country are protected from a
potentially significant
impact. Now, as I'm watching this all the way to a bill pass,
I don't know about it. The first thing I always do is look at
congressional dish, see if Jen has done anything, though, she
hasn't done anything. This is a very, very, very, very tiny
bill. And the reason why is all this attention being spent on
this, this is regarding Senate Bill 2512, which has now been
passed and has been handed over to the President. It is actually
I have the text here. So
it's easy to read for this. There's a House Bill, she will
cover it.
Yeah, we'd already went through the house. Obviously. The short
title is adding Zika virus to the FDA priority review voucher
programme act. That's all that it is it's just designate
subparagraph R of that act and inserts Zika Virus Disease,
which makes it eligible for fast track financing for a vaccines.
But this is of course, not at all what the White House wanted,
we're not quite sure what's going on. Let's listen to more
of Josh Earnest before we start to get some clarity.
That's what we're focused on. Web familiar with the expression
of being a day late and $1. Short. In this case, Congress is
two months late and $1.9 billion short. All right.
Let me give us quick what I think right away. Yeah. They put
for one thing this there has not been a case of Zika in the
United States, inherent to the United States, right? In other
words, nobody's got Zika. Right, from well being in the United
States, in under any circumstance, and
but there's also no conclusive evidence that Zika creates
microcephaly?
Well, there's been a lot of discussion, indicating it and
there's some sort of faux proof. I haven't seen any real proof
well, but
maybe I can just make this observation. When he says, This
is crap. We really were there late, we need $1.9 billion.
As soon as he says that I'm thinking what scam is going on?
And bingo, boom, Shakalaka. That was exactly what I'm like, what
scam is going on? So let me take you down the rabbit hole being a
day late and $1. Short. In this case, Congress is two months
late and $1.9 billion short in providing the assistance that
our public health professionals say that they need to make sure
that they respond appropriately to the situation. The bill that
that Congress passed yesterday doesn't include any funding. It
certainly doesn't. So that's not going to do anything to help
local communities across the country that carry this virus.
Okay, it's carrying the virus, I don't know local communities
everywhere have this probably what he's doing is he's covering
by saying this is so important, children are going to die,
people are going to die, we have to get the money 1.9 billion or
fight the mosquitoes that carry this virus. Oh, we have to know
it's actually I'm sorry, that was an important point. He says,
fight the mosquitoes that'll that will come back at some
point in our life. I'm not sure where that's coming from
this virus or fight the mosquitoes that carry this
virus?
Or where are we going to? Are we going to create a vaccine?
Because that's what the bill did we're going to create a vaccine
or do we want to fight the mosquitoes? Is it a war on
mosquitoes? This is confusing to me or fight
the mosquitoes that carry this virus. It's not going to expand
access to diagnostic tests that would allow people to more
easily get tested and get a prompt result from that test
that whether or not they have the Zika virus. All of these are
steps that are critical to ensuring that we're protecting
the pregnant women and their newborn children from a virus
that we know has a potentially devastating impact. So no, I'm
not prepared to give Congress credit for that legislation. It
is a positive step, but it's a far cry from what our public
health experts tell us is necessary.
Okay, so I went on on a hunt for seeing what the public experts
were telling us was necessary to combat the secret virus. I'm
sorry.
Public health experts. Yeah. What did I say? You said public
experts.
Is there a difference? Yeah, public health experts are okay.
And I came across a report from CBS and that really got my Alma
got me on my way. Mr. Speaker,
do you believe the White House when it says it needs the full
$1.9 billion to fight Zika over and beyond what has already been
allocated with Ebola?
The money's in the pipeline. In our appropriators app,
did you hear it? Did you hear it? Did you hear this is where I
this is where I figured it out. He dropped a word of boldly.
Yes, he did. Yes, he did listen again
for $1.9 billion to fight Zika. over and beyond what has already
been allocated with
Ebola. The money's in the pipeline, our appropriators are
going to address this issue if the need arises, our appraisal
dressing the appropriate
but the money will be there eventually, Congressman Tom Cole
chairs an Appropriation SubCommittee considering the
administration's request, who decides whether it's truly
needed to leave the NIH to believe they do believe the
NIH and we do believe the CDC but we have to use the resources
that we have wisely. We need
the money now,
Democrats in the White House favour an emergency request,
which doesn't need to be funded at the expense of other
programmes. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
the budget process takes a long time would be practically nine
months before we could ever get any.
So what you're hearing here is a sense of urgency. The urgency is
we can't wait nine months, we've got to get this money, we got to
get this money and people are dying. Children have little
hands of
other programmes. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
the budget process takes a long time would be practically nine
months before we could ever get any other money. And there's no
guarantee that you have it at the money at the end of the
year, at
the end of the day, that money will be there or it won't be
there.
I don't know. I honestly don't know. And that is what is the
has this very concerned.
Okay. So now this $1.9 billion, and the slight mention of Ebola
brought me into a really down into the rabbit hole, the
President have sent out a an executive order and a funding
request letter, actually to Congress. And and all of this is
in the show notes. Paraphrasing. He has he's already transferred
$500 million. That was in the Ebola rescue fund over to the
Zika rescue fund. And what he is asking for is for the remaining
Ebola rescue fund to be transferred to the Zika rescue
fund. So two things one, that clearly means Ebola is linked,
like good deal to this is a lot of money for something that
we're really not sure of. And it turns out that this $1.9 billion
that the President is asking for is exactly the amount of money
that has not been received from pledges to the Ebola rescue
fund. So how it works is everybody sends out a press
release. Oh, we're gonna help with Ebola. Put us up for $25
million. Okay, good. So they have all this money. And then
it's supposed to be 5.2 billion, but the 1.9 billion shy because
people have not paid yet. And the President is now saying, I
want that money. I need it because people are dying Zika
virus baby small heads. Now, I have the entire rundown here
from the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations
Special Envoy on Ebola and I can tell you who has donated what
and who is still outstanding on their money who are essentially
being called out by the President to pony up because
this money needs to go to fight Zika but I also found where the
money goes so that that will kind of help us and the numbers
are weird. If you look at who's putting what kind of money so
Australia they have pledged $30 million. Austria $3 million. I
play a game with the John How much do you think Belgium?
Considering Austria put in three Australia put in 30 How much is
Belgium the little tiny country of Belgium put in for for Ebola
now for Zika 40,000,056 56. And they're they're pretty much
current. Canada had pledged 96 They are still 13 million short.
They're short. They're in arrears. China 120,000,120 5
million. They're paid up. Good to go. France, they pledged 189
million have only delivered 96 Hello, Frenchies, step it up.
Now here's a tough one Germany had pledged $391 million has
only delivered 134 I think that's problematic. When we look
at Ireland, put in 73 and use all these amounts. You've got a
question? Like why so much money and why are some people not
paying the United Kingdom is a big problem this they promised
$1 billion have only delivered on 516 million bastards now the
USA we pledged 2,364,000,000 We have paid 2,000,000,360 4
billion the European Union itself pledged 939 billion a
million have only delivered 750 set up this scam the United
Nations Now Now here's some individual corporations who have
pledged yet not donated again, they were brought in to pledge
for Ebola. They said, We're gonna get this money, and that
is now being transferred to Zika, which I'm pretty sure most
of the people who pledged the money are saying, Wow, what kind
of bullshit is this? Here's a couple other organisations which
have not yet ponied up. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
promised $58 million. They're 6 million short. And check this
out. The Google Larry Page Family Foundation, pledged 25
million so far delivered 0.0 million. Know why that's an
outrage. It's a total outrage. And how about the silicon?
Just don't pledge anything. If you're not going to give
anything and keep your name out of it. The
president should call these fuckers out, you know, who else
pledged 25 million and didn't end delivered zero? The Silicon
Valley Community Foundation? I didn't even know that existed.
Oh, and it's a bunch of VCs and a bunch of a holes. Now, where
does this money go? Okay, this is this is why I think it's easy
to see why we have to get this $1.9 billion, because it's going
to everything except to Ebola or Zika. And the companies that are
receiving the most are Liberia, they will get to $668 million.
Guinea gets 835. But the countries don't get this money.
No NGOs within the country get the money. John, this is all NGO
know why we don't start an NGO and just go for
it. Did you and women get a million dollars of this? How
does that have anything to do with Ebola or Zika? How does it
have anything to do with it?
It's just pots of money. Give away? Yeah. This is like the
Haiti thing with Bush and Clinton. Yeah, let me give all
that money. Let me give you some of it got distributed to the UN
Women? Well, let's
run down these NGOs. acdi VOCA have no idea what that is the
American Refugee Committee, seven mil Catholic Relief
Services 14 million I'm sure these people are doing real
work. Samaritan's Purse saved the children World Vision others
pretty big, others bigger and everything I'll put together
others half a million, half a billion dollars. But check this
out. The Netherlands is go to the other shard the Netherlands
is has pledged $82,000,000.80 $2 million there about 2 million
shorts, I've got another payment to go probably whatever. But
what's returning to the Netherlands as from this fun,
because countries also get money back. I lost my place in the
PDF. Here it is. The Netherlands Ministry of Defence receives $7
million from the fund that their own country just put out there.
The US Department of Defence receives $631 million of the
Zika fund or a bola who the Department of Defence
what are they getting the money for? Because this is a haven't
got enough money. This is laundering money.
Here. This us Centres for Disease Control CDC $800
million. They have and they've already received a lot of this
money. Then we have oh who else? The African Union receives
money. The World Bank receives $50 million. This is white,
because they were promised the money. This is the way I see it.
This has got to be we've always questioned the Ebola crisis. So
this is payoffs. This is payoffs to countries is payoffs to NGOs
that are controlled by other operations. I don't see huge
medical Yeah, I see a lot of research. You know, there's a
billion and a half of research that are looking at which part
of this money will go to but this is this is bullshit. I
mean, what the what is the Dutch Ministry of Defence have to get
a 10% of the money their country paid in the first place? Stinks.
If anything, if anything, maybe this is how you slush a billion
$2 billion out of the country for then your friends to use it
to? I don't know vote for Hillary. I don't know what's
going on. But it's bullshit. They are taking the the Ebola
crisis is over, take that money, put it into Zika. We know very
little about Zika we're scaring everybody. Well, there is no
case of microcephaly or any related Zika deaths in our
country. As far as I know.
I should have mentioned a couple of other things. One when we've
talked about this at the beginning of the prices, and now
they don't talk about it anymore. The specific mosquito
which I actually have the name of here it's called a Addis
Egypt tie. The A E D S A.
And by the way, John this this virus has been known since the
50s
Yes, and this mosquito doesn't exist in the United States
because one of the dead carries certain specific things, which
we never have in the United States. It carries Dengue gay.
There's no gang gang ever in the United States ever. It carries
yellow fever. We don't have to get shots for yellow fever.
Yeah. So this mosquito that carries this, this little thing
doesn't do that. Well, maybe it'll jump species. You know,
there's a bunch of bullcrap. They're just lying to us. But
you're on to something. But what
I don't know, but I have another occurrence. Another oddity to
add to this mix. And I my conclusion I'll tell you up
front is I think that in these last, you know, the last few
months the President has, he's got to make good with everybody,
all the things he promised and he's got his he's got to do and
mainly for special interests. So
this is Joshua and Josh Earnest in that press conference was
irked. It was as though he was scolding them for not for not
what they're supposed to do, which is give out the money.
Yeah, yeah. Or move the money around legally.
The point is, this money is clearly not going to doctors in
tents with hazmat suits are going to solve the shrink
shrunken head problem. This is not what's going on. This money
is being distributed. And the President did his podcast today,
which is the weekly address. And it was all about one thing,
which to me is like, okay, it's obvious, this is another quid
pro quo, or maybe for the EU maybe as to do this for, you
know, for Hillary or the Democratic Party. But listen to
this sack of crap.
One industry that's ripe for change is cable TV. Right now,
99% of cable and satellite TV customers rent set top boxes
from their providers. According to one survey, this cost
households an average of more than $230 per year, we spent
some $20 billion to rent these devices. While we have almost
unlimited choice in what we watch on television, from
traditional programming to online content, there's next to
no competition to build a better user friendly product that
allows you to easily access all this content in one place of the
president here, and with everything going on in the
world, is advocating for standardisation of video
entertainment to the home.
So most consumers just rent whatever the cable company
offers, because we have to. That means
you don't have this bullcrap. Go on sorry,
content in one place. So most consumers just rent whatever the
cable company offers, because we have to. That means companies
have little incentive to innovate. As a consequence, we
need multiple devices and controllers to access content
from different sources.
We need MO Yes. What is the President's problem more than
one remote control? Is that what he's complaining about here?
That makes no sense makes no sense. So my administration has
encouraged the FCC to remove the barriers to competition that new
players from offering innovative cable box options to consumers?
Somebody did Comcast or Warner didn't cough up some money. We
know that. This is a call out for being bribed. Let's start
with stop and discuss a couple of things. One is bullcrap. You
do not have to use their gear, you can put a TiVo on there, I
run my cable TV stuff through a sling box, and I accept accesses
that way I, I do not rent the cable box for my television
through cable, I just don't know. And I'm not paying a
monthly fee. And with the Dish Network 90% of the time, you can
find some receiver for that. You don't need to write necessarily.
Can I tell you somebody bases you but if you
want to it's very convenient to use their bikes because you can
get it fixed and get it swapped out. You can go in the local
Comcast service centre and have it looked at or whatever if you
can't use it, they'll show you how. So there's a lot of so this
is not this is bullcrap, I
will not surprise you that what the press the words coming out
of the President's mouth have nothing to do with the letter he
sent to FCC. This is not about what you know the issues you
just had with what? What he stated and I'll tell you what it
is after he's done
new players from offering innovative cable box options to
consumers. We know this works. For years, Americans had to rent
our telephones from the phone company. This was a while ago.
But when the FCC finally unlocked competition for home
phones, the marketplace was flooded with all kinds of phone
options with new features and different price points.
Consumers suddenly had many options and the whole industry
move forward as a result. The same can happen with cable boxes
and in dozens of areas of our economy, all of which can make a
difference in your everyday life. The bottom line is
competition is good for consumers, workers, businesses
and our economy. So I'm going to keep doing everything I can to
make sure that our free market works for everyone. Thanks and
have a great weekend. Thanks, Obama
said the president is actually lying. Surprise. He is not
trying to make the playing field more competitive. Now this
pertains to the downloadable Security Technology Advisory
Committee and technology and technologies associated
technologies. What this is, is the FCC corralling all video
providers. But I think they're working on behalf of most likely
Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu, maybe. But Amazon and Netflix
are on the committee. Then the the Silicon Valley's over
represented, well actually, let me tell you what we have here
with AT and T Sony Electronics DISH Network Amazon. Public
Knowledge, not sure who they are. Vizio. And then we do have
Comcast. I don't see Netflix on it. Oh, wait, there's more. The
Motion Picture Association of America Google, of course,
they're also big player in video, Samsung. Evolution,
digital, TiVo, etc. They are trying to force a common API for
DRM. That's what this is about. Nothing else. So the President
with all this bullshit about you won't have to have this many
remotes, I'm actually waiting for him to say that exact
sentence. You know, like you won't have to take your shoes
off taking the train, you'll only have one remote control
vote for me, this is a great idea. It is it is entirely
politically motivated. And and then the
Hollywood pulling the strings,
Hollywood pulling the strings there. So a lot of services have
put the and I was against this one. The Mozilla Foundation
started doing this. They're putting there's DRM digital
rights management in in HTML five. I think it's EME or
something like that. That's called. So what they're trying
to do is they're trying to get everybody to come together on a
common API. So that they can then have what they call
competitive navigation systems. They just want all the money to
flow properly and no trend. It's not. It's anti competitive. In
my mind, verse it is. So he's the President is very
disingenuous about this.
I think he should just tell the truth. I don't think it would
bother most people. Yeah, I mean, it bothers to the whole
tech community because the tech community is very knowledgeable.
Dead. You know, this is a DRM play. Yeah. And so they get
irked by this every time it happens, but I think the public
at large doesn't care.
The public at large is going to buy his message and if you add
to that only one remote oh my god, people will freak out one
remote. Are you kidding me? One, but this is I think this has got
it
Emmys one remote, you gave really screw around with your
buddies. This has
got to be quid pro quo for Hollywood. And I'd say for
Google and Amazon and and other Silicon Valley companies should
be Yeah, I don't I think
maybe the whole rest of his the rest of his 10 year will be just
these deals. It's very possible. The Zika thing is a little more
interesting to me than the why No,
but I'm just saying that it seems like right now. He's doing
a lot of these things. He's just racking it all up. I gotta get
this. I gotta do this. Gotta do that. I gotta figure this one
out.
So we can get to continue as donations to his presidential
library. Yeah,
exactly. I got another little deconstruction. You had the
great clip on Thursday about the Russian jet fighter. No buzzing.
The one there was actually two of them have their buzzer ship.
Yeah,
I have another Josh Earnest clip downplaying the event.
Can you offer any details of the contents of the defence, attache
his message to Russia.
I don't know that the details of that message. I don't know
exactly how that information is transmitted. What I do know,
though, is that that is a routine channel of
communication, that the defence attache in Moscow, is
responsible for communicating with his counterparts there on a
regular basis on a wide range of issues. And it is not uncommon
at all to use this channel to raise our concerns about this
kind of conduct from the Russian military. We've seen these this
kind of these kinds of acts, from Russia military pilots, for
example, in the past, this is the channel that we have used to
convey our concerns. So it is not at all extraordinary that we
would be conveying our concerns about this incident through that
particular channel.
But the incidents those settles on Monday and Tuesday were not
routine.
I've never I've never heard this guy talk. This is a character in
a cartoon. He looks like a character in a cartoon. Even
I've seen him before, but I've never heard him speak with a
public question as we know all these are scripted, so it would
make sense your
channel. But the incidents themselves on Monday and Tuesday
were not routine. I'm not understanding the video or
photos like that of Russian aircraft bazooka United States
warship
what I understand to be true.
Another good one, I got to use that what I understand to be
true is I did not take the cookie from the cookie jar.
That's how I understand the truth
is that the incident that we saw is not routine, but certainly
not unprecedented.
Does the United States believe that Russia violated the
incident at sea agreement.
Now this is interesting, I've not heard of this one, the
incident at sea agreement. And this stems back to 1972. When
this was passed, there was an agreement between the United
States and Russia. I'll just read from the State Department's
website here in the late 60s There were several incidents
between forces of the US Navy and the Soviet Navy included
plane to the two nations passing near one another ships bumping
one another, both ships and aircraft making threatening
movements against those of the other side. In March of 1968,
the United States proposed talks on preventing such incidents
from becoming more serious, the Soviet Union accepted the
invitation in November of 1970. talks were conducted in two
rounds, one in Moscow and then 72 of the room was signed, and
specifically the agreement provides for steps to avoid
collision, not interfering with the formations of the other
party avoiding manoeuvres in areas of heavy sea traffic,
requiring surveillance ships to maintain the safe distance from
the object of investigation. It's odd that we've never ever
heard of this before. There's never been a reference to this
one. There were close incursions or anything like that. It's the
first time this has been brought up. And this guy clearly was
ready to pop it and Armel you
said like you said it was scripted. Maybe they couldn't
get anyone else to ask that question. We've never heard this
guy before. So he's obviously planted to ask this specific
question, to bring it to the fore.
And this and it's propaganda. I have received multiple emails
and encrypted messages from boots on the ground water under
the seas. And they say this happens all the time. In fact,
we do it even better. We send our attack helicopters to buzz
the Russian ships, I put a picture in the show notes, you
can see it for yourself. This happens all the time. It's hot
dogging. And that's why there's no pictures and no one's
swinging gun. No one's swinging guns around or taking no
pictures of defensive moves. Because it's done all the time.
This is what we do. It's like Top Gun. Hey, hey, guys, look at
me. This is nothing out of the ordinary, except that is now
being propagandise to make Russia look like a scary scary
entity. It's bullcrap.
Good one, I'll give you a clip.
I wouldn't even accept it. Because it's not a clip.
By this kind of propaganda, I got a clip that's kind of
interesting. This is a clip that I believe and I started thinking
about this. The idea of cognitive dissonance actually
being created by the structure of news media since the era of
this journalism school, the J school where you're required to
have one positive one negative and one neutral on
hold on back it up. You got it. I don't know anything about
this. When did J school start? And is this the rule?
I don't know when J school started? That's a good question.
But that is a rule of generally speaking and you take journalism
classes or you talk to journalists, you there's a rule,
it's kind of a, it's a written rule somewhere. But it's one of
the textbooks someplace I don't, I'm just going to tell you what
it is and not going to document. When you do a story you're
supposed to use a structure for this story is supposed to exist.
And it's been it's been diluted by the internet, but it's still
kind of there you had all the information in the beginning,
you have something called a nut graph, which has all the
information throughout the article, put into one paragraph,
which you can find and use it as a summary to understand what
they're talking about. But in their summary, you're supposed
to have people who comment on it.
And where do you put the You won't believe what happened.
Next line?
Yeah, that would be
what happened next will blow you away. I
don't think that's in a bar. I'm sorry. I thought that's how you
have the you have to have a couple people chiming you have
somebody saying, Yeah, well, the way I see it is not the way I
worked. It was the other way. And then somebody says, I don't
know. I have no clue. And then you have a third person. Yes,
they're absolutely correct in this I should have done this as
long ago. You have this supposedly somebody disagree,
somebody that doesn't know what he's talking about, and somebody
who agrees, and it's kind of in general. So you have these these
conflicting quotes, usually, and they're gratuitous 90% of the
time. Yeah. It's like, you know, they never and they're always a
joke. And that goes around to journalism about well, you know,
you can't do that with Hitler. I was going to survive Hitler was
a good man.
It doesn't go over well doesn't play well. So
I have noticed that this has devolved into a moment of
creating the way news story, especially in the broadcast
media is creating cognitive dissonance, ah, by giving you
different information and never given you a conclusion
as it's, it's messing with your wiring.
I am absolutely convinced. And I think the model of the pro and
con quotes is part of the problem. But the way they do it
now, it's like they've this a little more complex. And it's
harder to deconstruct. But you can, when you see one of these
pieces in this piece, ran in on think of CBS would can tell us
as they start talking, or ABC, and when you listen to the
piece, it's like, why are they even telling us this? It's
stupid. It's a stupid article, or broadcast package. But in
there, there's this conflicting information that has has to
leave you the listener confused at a deep, subconscious level,
which is where I think they want to keep the entire public. This
is the piece and you can listen for it yourself. This is the
speed limit report, talking about the pros and cons of highs
of setting the speed limit at various, higher or lower. And
it's right list washers pieces. So this is confusing. They never
really say. And they then there's contradictory
information. The whole thing is designed, I
believe, can Can I Can I interject something? Yeah, just
before I've no idea what the report is about. But I always
learned that the initial 55 mile an hour speed limit was
implemented to help the nation save gas in the 70s.
Is that was that was the original? Right? Well, the way I
remember it, they did it to to help save gas. And then they
noticed that there was less traffic deaths. Hmm. So they
left it, let it go. And then but now we got all kinds of
contradictory information. And it's just fed into the
subconscious with no cut. It's just I think this is a classic
example of the news media creating this crazy. And I think
this all stems from the DEA, we used to have newspapers that
were this so and so Democrat, that's so and so Republican,
right, and there were newspapers with points of view that has
been dissolved. There's no more newspapers with points of view
the whole thing at least not blatantly. Well, they have they
still can't get around it because everyone has points of
view. They won't admit it. But the real guy think the
underlying goal here is to create just a dumbed down public
that doesn't know anything. Listen to this report.
This week. We asked transportation correspondent
Chris Van Cleave to fill us in
Montgomery County, Maryland Police Captain Thomas didone
sees the danger of speed daily
feed is a determining whether a crash is an injury or property
damage, the faster someone's going, the more likely that
someone's gonna get hurt.
Don't it's also personal to his 15 year old son Ryan died in a
crash where the driver was going at least 20 miles over the
limit. If he had been
going the speed limit. There's not a doubt in my mind. Every
kid would have been home safe,
but speed limits across the country have been going up since
the federal government repealed the mandatory maximum of 55. In
1995. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found those
increases have caused at least 33,000 deaths over a 20 year
period. With every five miles the speed limit rose deaths grew
by 4%. On freeways it jumped 8% Charles farmer authored the
study
for this few minutes that you're saving by going faster, you are
increasing your risk quite a bit. There are people dying out
there.
But the national motorist Association says speed limits
work best when approximating the natural flow of traffic, which
may be higher than the posted limit. The nma is Gary below.
fatality rates overall have dropped dramatically to the
point where in the last couple of years, they're the lowest on
record. So as states have continually been raising speed
limits, their safety statistics have actually gotten better.
Researchers estimate 1900 people lost their lives in 2013.
Because of the higher speed limits. That's almost as many
lives as were saved by frontal airbags that year. Scott, seven
states have speed limits of 80 miles an hour or higher in parts
of Texas. that limit is 85.
Chris Van Cleave, Thank you Christian. We'll be right back.
Yeah, that's because what I heard was study shows that for
when you increase the speed limit, more people die, and then
right after that, less people dying every year. Yeah, well,
that's crazy.
This is a story designed to create cognitive dissonance
is I'm just putting myself in the in the shoes of the reporter
or the person who made this package which probably The
reporter did some production himself, you know, board,
outline the story. I think he just like you said he just went
through the J school just put boom, boom, put those two
opposing pieces in and didn't even think about even saying,
Wow, that's weird or huh. This is no, this is no investigation
done. I think he just put in pro con done. It creates cognitive
dissonance, but I don't know if it was done on purpose.
It may not Well, I don't think it was done on purpose. No. I
think the model itself is the price setup. Yeah. Okay, I
see what you're saying.
But this example, I would listen to this thing. They go on and on
about more deaths and everyone's gonna die. And then now they the
other guy says no, it's just the opposite. And then they just
drop it. They don't even comment on the Dunda discrepancy.
There's a discrepancy Hello. And discrepancy is rarely commented
on using this model. It's just that they leave it as a
discrepancy for you to just be confused by what good is that? I
was typically I'm going to you know, I just journalists who
listen to the show. What good is it to throw in a discrepancy of
that sort? And just just let it lie they
lie in there. Yeah. It would have been okay, if you use the
face bag quote. I'm just going to put leave this here for a
bit. Here. We're saying this. No, I don't receive face bag
people on the face bag. And then they they post an article and
let's say I'm just going to leave this here. What's the
point? What's kind of, it's kind of like this is so obvious that
you that you're so stupid. I'm just gonna leave this here. So
you see how stupid you are? It's so obvious. You're stupid. I
don't have to report on it. That's kind of what No, I don't
know anything about I will point out as a as an airman. Speed
does not kill. Lack of speed kills. It's true. Oh, I just got
I just got a new clip. And whoa, whoa, whoa, check this out. I
haven't looked at it. But uh, hey, what if some of that Zika
money might go to one of our favourite organisations in
America? Think babies think of women. Planned
Parenthood.
Zika has made a long standing public health crisis, impossible
to ignore, and demonstrates the critical need of government
support for sexual and reproductive health care.
So I think we've heard many, this is a woman from the CDC
speaking folks speak
much more eloquently than me that the ability to decide if
and when to have children is basic health care, but it's a
basic human right as well. And yet it's not realised for so
many women across the region and which this outbreak is making.
So crystal clear. I would I want to articulate those at the same
is going to be true in the contiguous United States as it
becomes more prevalent here. Women with the least stability
to plan their families, the least access to health care
generally will feel the outbreak of the impact of this outbreak
the most. And in fact, if we look at some of the states where
we're already seeing the highest number of Zika cases, Florida
and Texas, both are states that have recently flashed slash
their reproductive health programmes, Texas over a series
of bills, one of which is before the Supreme Court right now. And
Florida just last month, defunded Planned Parenthood. So
this is the opposite of what we need to be doing as we're
gearing up as a nation to tackle this epidemic as it comes home.
They're probably Yeah, they're epidemic. They're probably gonna
get a little bit that cash. Sure, as the way it goes. I have
to say something to my LGBTQ IAP brothers and sisters, you're in
dire dire danger, you're at great risk. And I've been saying
this for years on this programme. And when I heard this
report, it's like Chase can please listen. Prep. Okay. Prep
is not going to save your life. You know about the prep, John
prep is the you know, this is the you won't get AIDS if you
take PrEP pill. I don't know anything about it. We've talked
about this a lot.
Prep pill
prep, yep. PR EP. Yeah, I figured that. We've talked about
it quite a bit. Yeah. Okay. So prep, P S, capital P, capital R,
small e, capital P. is being prescribed as well. It's, I
guess, usually meant for couples, and one may be HIV
positive. But if you just say, Oh, I don't need condoms, I
don't need to protect myself or anything. I can just go to the
club and do whatever I want to do. You're gonna run into other
problems. People are callous about the risk. Here's the
report from the CDC
concerned about our high levels of syphilis among men who have
sex with men. Really, we're back to the level of disease burden
of disease in gay men that we're seeing before HIV in this
country. We're concerned about the erosion of the public health
infrastructure, and how this is impacting our ability to respond
to these epidemics and endemic problems with it reduction in
boots on the ground staff and closure of STD clinics
so yeah more money
well more money but they're also the LGBT community is getting
old school diseases. That syphilis not in fun.
I think they are trying to kill them off.
It seems that way. Yeah. Oh, it's just yeah. Oh my god I all
that it's everywhere. But oh project, take PrEP. It's It's
overwhelming party time. Celebrate. No. Prep is also not
100% effective. I'm just I did a lot of propaganda. But when it
comes down to this, this is one of the worst. This is good. This
is going to kill people. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
All right. I'll open up the climate gate for a second before
we do anything else. Where's that? The gate to the gate to
the clinic? Yes, we have our favourite scientists. Bill Nye
is of course the science guy. And he's in the news as a
climate guy. He's the climate guy, maybe kill the sceptics guy
or throw him in jail.
He interviewed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the
environmentalist here at the People's Climate March and 2014.
Whatever. He said that the climate deniers his word energy
CEOs belong at The Hague with three square meals and a cot
with all the other war criminals. What is your thought
on that? Do you think some of the rhetoric on your side as I'm
sure both sides but some of the Vatican just had to get too
carried away? I mean, what's your thought on jailing sceptics
as war criminals?
We'll see what happens. Was it appropriate to jail the guys
from Enron? Interesting. Okay, right. So we'll see what happens
if was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette
industry? who insisted? And did
anyone from the cigarette industry go to jail? Not that I
know I don't think that's true. They got fire and
run guys were because they were committing fraud is illegal.
There's nothing illegal about being a climate science sceptic.
Unless you're a whole like this guy. Obviously has no concern
about what should be legal or illegal because this is so
important.
Okay, right. So we'll see what happens. This is horrible.
This. This is unacceptable behaviour.
These only 30 seconds.
jailing sceptics is war criminals.
We'll see what happens. Was it appropriate to jail the guys
from Enron? Interesting. Okay. Right. So we'll see what happens
if it wasn't appropriate. We'll see what happened happened.
Maybe he would have right in jail, too bad. Maybe
he knows something we don't know about from
the cigarette industry, you insist that we make camps
insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and
so on. And you think about a 101 In these cases, for me is a
taxpayer and voter. The doubting the introduction of this extreme
doubt would go with extreme doubt about climate change is
affecting my quality of life as a public citizen doing that. And
while he's going to tell you so I can see where people are very
concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations
as well as as well as engaging in discussions like this. No.
Yes. Very good. Bill Jayla mall, throw us in jail. throw us in
jail. Please listen, Joe. Your friend Barbara Boxer showed the
back of her tongue up on the Hill earlier this week. She was
not happy. Now can we confirm that she's a moron.
Whereas I can tell ya You know her right. You
know her? I worked?
Yeah. When she did the air pollution district when she was
one of the on the board. I ran into a few times and said hello.
Yeah, but I didn't know her the way some of the other inspectors
apparently apparently knew her quite well. We were having to
drive her home. This isn't the 70s of course when she was a
little more sexy. Sexy.
Yeah. And then we always will tell the story that everyone's
heard it.
Our boss used to come to these these meetings that she was on
the board of the air pollution district was a regional
government and she would always try to find someone to drive her
home to at the time I think she was either a supervisor or a
congresswoman I'm not sure she wasn't a senator at the time.
And I was sure everyone who was you know amongst the group of
efficient you know, the in you know, room herbs or like any
farming community, amongst the inspectors, it's a huge mess.
You want to go to bed with Barbara Boxer. You never don't
want to drive her home because you've propositioned everybody
and just tickles
me. Just the longer story and
when I come in,
hey, why don't you want to win a night cattle?
You had to really be careful. It's the rat far as I'm
concerned sexual harassment.
Of course. So of course, of course, it's sexual harassment.
No, of
course not. So we, on the other hand, nobody was complaining. I
mean, they were complaining about being propositioned if
they'd want to be, but they weren't, you know, charging or
the other guys were put. Hey, I'll take your home.
Yeah, they were just laughing behind your back the way you're
supposed to.
They weren't it wasn't a laughing matter. Gotcha. Oh,
laughing going on.
So she's in the, what is it? I wrote it down the Environmental
Public Works Committee. And there so of course, it's
Democrats and Republicans, and this is about global warming and
climate change. And she has I guess the Republican senators
brought in two priests, one of which is father Sirico and he
works for the Acton Institute. Now I'm presuming this as some
right wing Think Tank bullcrap outfit the Acton Institute Are
you familiar with the Acton Institute AC t o n book of
knowledge. What is the Acton Institute?
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and liberty,
the Christian conservative think tank whose ideas influenced by
natural law theory, Christian social thought, and free market
economics.
Sounds like a right wing there.
Creationists that believe in the free market. Okay, there you go.
So you guessed right. Yeah,
bullcrap. Right, right wing think tank, but it made for fun
on the hill. made fun. Because, you know, of course, Barbara
boxer who let me guess. Is she a scientist, John? No, no. Well,
she didn't like that. There were non scientists as witnesses.
That's for sure.
Thank you very much, Senator Boxer. Thank you.
Mr. Epstein. Are you a scientist? This
is the other this is the first president. The other father
comes up in a second.
No, philosopher, you're a philosopher. Yes. Okay. Well,
this is the Environment and Public Works Committee. I think
it's interesting. We have a philosopher here talking about
an issue that's to teach you how to think more clearly you don't
have to teach me how to fit by running for the Senate on your
platform.
Oh, I love that. Try running for the Senate on your platform.
It's like the way if you do if you're against climate change,
try running for the Senate. You'll never win. At least
that's the way I heard it. That's the way she said it. Oh,
my God. This is this is this is her and this is Barbara
have to teach me how to you don't have any good by running
for the Senate on your platform at Reverend Nelson, perhaps the
most? Well, this is the place to have a philosopher not a
scientist. It's perfect for this. Republican. You don't have
to integrate that into anything. I'm telling you. That all you
have to know is you're a philosopher, not a scientist.
And I don't appreciate getting lectured by a philosopher about
science. I just
love just bitching at the priest. This is great. I
want to talk to you. Father, this was kind of interesting.
The Acton Institute strong support for Catholicism and free
market economics has come under strain as Pope Francis has
actively criticised global inequality and unfettered
capitalism. In May 2014, the Pope's Twitter account posted a
tweet the Pope's saying, quote, inequality is the root of all
evil. So
what she's decided to do is she's decided to put these guys
in their place by quoting the Pope and what is going on in our
government? Do we just have to
save this pope is a plague.
Joe Carter, a senior editor at Acton tweeted in reply. This is
to the Pope saying inequality is the root of all evil. Seriously,
though, what was up with that tweet by the pontiff? Has he
traded the writings of Peter and Paul for economist? Pickety? I
mean, so do you disagree with the Pope when he says that
climate change is one of the biggest issues and we have?
Senator, I'm very
I'm very grateful for your defence of the Pope. Perhaps not
in all of his magisterial authority and the cherry picking
of this or that
I can ask you what I want do with the Pope on climate change?
It's a simple yes or no, no, this
is I was her tactic. Pope says be careful yes or
no. When the Pope says things that have to do with science. He
does not speak from the magisterial authority of the
Church when he's on moral issues, such as abortion and
contraception and the like. Then he speaks
cherry picking. You're saying that when the planet is facing
all these problems is not a moral issue.
I don't I never said that. Where did I say? Did you give me that
quotation? Senator
said it sir. I
did not talk to me, John. The church is just as hijacked as
everything else. Yeah, totally hijacked. This is missing. It's
co opted. Yeah, it's co opted. This really shows it I happen to
agree with what he's saying to a large extent I don't care that
much about the religion part. But come on, get this guy out of
the field to
Sir, you receive money from the Koch brothers from Exxon I agree
with. I never said I don't think you want to have a talk with God
who is by the way not a scientist who's slammed her what
I was trying to do is put into perspective. The notion of how a
an institute is funded and by the way, it's not just an
educational institutes like ours, its political campaigns
like the senators and what
Democrats make a pilgrimage to Tom Steyer, his house in
California who promises $100 million to their funds,
including members of this committee, that would might be
something I'm just
going to stop,
delete just a bunch of bickering. Did these guys have
anything better to do with their time? No. And what was the
point? What was the Barbara boxer's point? She just wants to
lean on climate change fine. Yeah, but she wants to destroy
the rating some poor bastard
to discredit. And oh, but also he's not clean either.
No whole thing is just ludicrous. That is the anti Clip
of the Day. Jingle
tie clip of the day, I can try it. I gotta see if I can do it.
anti
anti clip I have a couple of screwball stories. I could do a
clip blitz after the next thing if you want.
Well, do you want to do clipless at the end? Or do you want to do
it too? Before we before we go on? Thank people. Well, I don't
know. You know, you're confusing me. You're off format.
I'm not confusing is cognitive dissonance. That's confusing.
It's working. No, actually, I do. I can do yeah, I'd like to
do a clip blitz at the end. Your marketing clips that would go
well at the end. Okay. To Blitz.
Okay, well, then. Let's just do one. No, actually, why don't we
Why don't we thank our donors. This is definitely time John's
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It's I keep realising this. So it was what a stroke of genius
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John Buford Jr. was a Union cavalry officer.
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Well, apparently it was something named after a cavalry
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somehow we messed up on on our newest night, therefore he is a
black knight. Good to have him aboard. So here's something
interesting or humorous. I'll say that was a part of my
Tourette's. I've had this sniffing issue for a long time.
Yeah. Sniffing Yeah, people, some people have bitched about
it. Yeah, I to be honest about I'm gonna say, I don't even
notice it. I do notice you're coughing into the mic. But the
sniffing I have never noticed it. Well, you
notice nothing today. And the reason for that
is it before so it doesn't really make a difference to me,
but Okay, tell me what happened.
I bought a what's the problem? I have a cough switch. I can.
Okay, first of all, it's a compulsive issue. It's something
it's really strange. It has to do with the noise gate. And
it's, this is part of what Tourette says Like if I have to
sniff but I want to try and sniff so I don't crack the noise
gate. Of course, I always do. This is what happens in my head.
I can't explain it any other way. But here's the odd thing.
And we you and I discussed this because someone sent an email
and I was like, oh, man, so just it's compulsive as issues go
went off. Yeah. And it's it's truly a compulsion. It's a It's
Tourette's as OCD, whatever it is, I know it's compulsion. So
what I do is what yeah, go right. So what I do is self
aware. I'm very self aware. And of course I have a a cough
button that I can use, but it requires a it's some it's a
button that it pushes my finger and so when we're doing the
show, and I'm grabbing clips I'm monitoring levels I'm hitting
the jingles whatever. I'm a hand short so what do I do? I bought
a foot coughs which which is fantastic because it because
right now I can just press down here. I'm just that's me hitting
the coughs coughs, which
was nice doesn't click it doesn't have any, you know,
wish, of course a cough switch has to do. You can't ever make
it noises right.
The funny thing is, now that I have the cough switch. I don't
have the compulsion anymore. Ah,
fantastic.
So odd. It has saved me. It has truly saved me. Now, that's
interesting.
So here, so here's, here's why also bring this way. Hold on
a second. Well, you there's something contradictory here.
Which is if you have this compulsive behaviour to start
doing like that, yeah, yeah. How could you ever hit the cough
switch in time, because it's a compulsion. You can't go oh,
here comes the compulsion. Click this switch, and then you're
good to go. I don't have an I'm coughing. It's like, I'm gonna
have a little coughing thing going on here. I can hit the
switch. I don't have one button. It hit the switch and just cough
away. That the coughs coming. Right. But if it's a compulsive
thing, yes. Like, say, as I'm talking, I talked like this. And
I could make that sound. Yeah. And some people do talk like
that, by the way. Yeah. Well, they make that sound. Yeah. It's
a compulsion. I'd never know to hit the switch. Yes.
But this is the point. I got this switch to do anything I
can, because it's certainly annoys me, really annoys me. But
the minute so the switch is not helping me.
No, I understand. But the compulsion changed the way your
brain works. Yeah. It's fantastic. That's funny. Now
here's,
here's the part that really bugs me about and it's moving away.
But staying with the footswitch something changed with
amazon.com. And this came up the last night and night before Tina
and I were talking about you know, the the Amazon Alexa, the
echo thing that I have here. And she did she jokingly says, oh,
you know, of course they're listening to us all the time.
And I said, you know, no, and she she's a she's a marketer,
she I'm the Communications Director, she understands how
you could call data and can find out things about what people
want or what they've purchased and what you might want to
recommend. In general, when you buy something off of amazon.com
and I buy almost everything off of Amazon. I liked that they
have other people bought that's kind of a good recommendation
engine. We all know that once you buy something particular on
Amazon the product you bought will follow you around the
internet trying for you to buy it again. But now they've gone
one step further you know the recommendation emails you get
from Amazon I don't get them okay, without fail now every
product I buy I get this email. So here it is. Adam curry based
on your recent activity, we thought you might be interested
in this and they show me the exact product I bought the
rolling the rolls mm 11 Pro switchable microphone new talk
switch.
Yeah, you could you need two of those.
But they're doing it with everything they're recommending
so I'm just going to assume that Amazon really knows what I'm
buying because I bought it from them this is an email from them.
They know that I bought this they the payments went through
them Yeah. They have absolutely no clue and I think no interest
in really these these stupid emails must work somehow I
don't understand why take a chance.
But everything I'm getting here ad for basketballs i Why would I
want a basketball?
I don't know why you'd want a basket. I'm just saying dribble
to the store. Go check it just dribble a ball around.
Adam curry amazon.com has new recommendations for you based on
items you purchased or told us you own. I've never told them I
own anything. And what are they suggest for me? Eclectic supply
of lip balm empty container tubes translucent. A Come on.
These guys are incapable Big Data is is is a myth.
Ya know? Yes.
So I bought I bought a new coffee machine. It's pretty
simple one but I want one with a timer that can flip on the
grinds the beans and you get coffee. I buy this it arrives
the next day. Oh high customers who have shown an interest in
espresso machines might like to see our best sellers and it's
not an espresso machine. They show five espresso machines and
then the one I just bought how can how can anyone think Amazon
could do anything with their information?
It's very peculiar. I agree. I have no I mean we everyone who's
worked with Amazon is noticed this, but this is the over and
over. It's not just one When you're online, it's like over
and over and over again
that I understand because that's just following. And that's
cookies and tracking and stuff like that. And Facebook is, of
course, a big, you know, they have a lot to do I move
my cookies on a routine basis,
but it's like us sending an email to everybody who just
donated $50 and say, Hey, how come you don't donate? $50? I
mean, this stupid, actually, we kind of do that, don't we? Yeah.
Let me see. Oh, before we go anywhere else. We have something
from our favourite department, which we don't get to talk about
enough on this show. Let's see a Why didn't that work? Oh, here
it is.
He says
yes, we have the 28 pages, which we've been following for a
while. 20 pages.org?
Yes. It's cropping up a lot in the news. It is it is.
And this, of course, is the secret 28 pages that were
excluded from the nine 911 Commission Report. Several
Congress members have seen this. They say Hey, we should really
get this out there. This information needs to be known.
There's no reason why the American people don't have a
right to know this. Leading the charge is Senator Bob Graham,
Democrat from Florida, I think. And he does something
interesting in this interview, which I don't know who
interviewed him. But he pretty much even though he's been sworn
to secrecy, and you know, he isn't that you can this has been
classified. He pretty much tells us what's in it's
not Graham is the former chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the former co chair of the
bipartisan joint congressional inquiry into intelligence
failures surrounding the 911 attacks. Great to see you, sir.
Thank you for being with us. If you want these 28 pages
released, you've seen them? What are you at liberty to tell us
about them?
Not much, because I am still under a oath that I took not to
disclose a classified information. But it's it has
been said publicly that this chapter primarily relates to who
financed 911 and that it points a finger at Saudi Arabia,
when you look at that statement that was in the 911.
That's kind of saying what's in it isn't it isn't it just kind
of
sounds like it to me.
That's exactly that's
criminal to who financed 911, and it's pointing a finger at
Saudi Arabia.
When you look at that statement, that was in the 911 report,
saying We found no evidence that the Saudi government as an
institution, or senior Saudi officials, individually funded
the organisation, you can drive a truck through that sentence,
there are a lot of holes in there senior Saudi officials,
which doesn't rule out non senior Saudi officials, or the
government as something other than acting as an institution.
And one of the things that makes this even more confusing is that
the concept of sovereign immunity that is that the king
can do no wrong and therefore you cannot sue the king has been
used by Saudi Arabia, not only to cover the official
government, but also charities, private foundations, religious
organisations, all had been put under the umbrella of sovereign
immunity. So the question of where does the government and
then the rest of the Saudi society begin is very murky?
So that explains their motivation for trying to, you
know, potentially obfuscate the facts, but what is our
motivation? Why would the United States not be releasing this
information and letting us all know whether our allies were in
fact behind this attack?
John, why why do you think?
Why do I say that? Why
do you think we don't want it? I want that to be out there.
Maybe they're working in cahoots with us,
or with the Bush family, perhaps, or with
the some of the Fed Federal Reserve or who will let gold
that was somehow disappeared? It was melted. There's a lot of
sketchy stuff about this event.
And this attack magazine.
I think that's inexplicable. There were some reasons to
suggest why, under the Bush administration, they might have
wanted to have avoided this disclosure, such as we were
looking to Saudi Arabia for a substantial amount of
intelligence and other assistance in the period after
911. The Bush family had had a close relationship with the
house of sowed going back for three generations. But why under
the Obama administration, they have continued this policy when
there is mounting evidence, not just the 28 pages, but other
issues that have involved the Saudis in 911. Which to me makes
it not only really disrespectful to the American people, not to
allow them to have that transparency of knowing what
their government has done in their name when it does not
involve a national security risk. And in fact, I think it
actually increases our vulnerability because it allows
the Saudis to continue feeling that there's no sanction against
them to fund terrorist activities and to train the next
generation of terrorist and mosque and Madras is schools
that are financed by Saudi Arabia.
The White House is reviewing it, again, to see whether
declassification is appropriate will stay on it. Senator, thank
you for being here.
So the New York Times wrote about this. And Saudi Arabia has
responded to the idea of this. There apparently is a bill going
through Congress that would allow these 28 pages to be
published. The Obama administration is actively
lobbying Congress to block the bill's passage, the most
transparent administration in history. Mind you. We want to
just make put that out there. I'll leave that right there. And
the official is
this administration that was going to post all bills on on C
span or on the web 72 hours before anyone did anything, all
of that.
Several outside economists I'm reading from the times are
sceptical the Saudis will follow through because they're saying
they will be if you publish this, or if you pass the bill
that allows these 28 pages to be made public. Saudi Arabia will
be forced to sell up to $750 billion and Treasury securities
and other assets them's fightin words.
I think that's the will a
quarter of a trillion dollars. And the headline actually is
Saudi Arabia warns of economic fallout if Congress passes a 911
bill. So there they are saying if you do that, we're going to
screw you up. I don't know they can. They can. I don't know if
they can, but that the Obama administration is trying to
block this is an outrage.
The whole thing is an outrage.
Good news for dudes named Ben out there. The Department of
Homeland Security is now considering flexible hiring
paths for cyber talent. Under the phrase, this is not our
grandfather's government anymore. Angela Bailey, chief
human capital officer. My goodness, we have a human
capital officer in government that that I know of? Yes, we do.
She is the Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of
Homeland Security.
She's one of the thing that Chief Human Capital Officer,
kind of a bogus bullcrap tie what can you imagine given that
cart, somebody handed me a card that said that I'd laugh in
their face and flip the card into their right atom boom,
it's like like a ninja star. It's it's like Chief Revenue
officers another one of my favourites. But you just didn't
count the money coming in. So the idea is to have a passport
approach for IT jobs that are gonna allow tech and cyber
workers to move between federal and commercial jobs more
flexibly. Hmm implied in
that'd be the first thing that gets hacked
and implied is implied although nuts said out loud I think is no
we will probably take if you work for a company and they're
okay with you. You won't have to do the drug test. I think that's
where this is headed. That's what they mean by flexible you
don't want to be a little more flexible. So if you're smoking
we
need to be more flexible. Guys who are really good good dudes
name ban are of course not all of them. But a lot of them are
sketchy and they're very talented
extremely. Then one final bit, I just had something that
we had and we got to use to interrupt you just on that
topic. You might as well play this clip, which is this is what
was on the CBS News because they were promoting was going to be
on today's 60 minutes. Oh about hacking phones, which I thought
was kind of interesting, but I don't know what they're up to
with this with this with this report, but play this CBS phone
hacking clip, but one
security expert told us there are two kinds of people, those
who know their phones have been hacked, and those whose phones
have been hacked but don't know what to share. And Alfonso is
investigating for this Sunday's 60 minutes. Is everything
hackable? Yes, everything does.
If somebody tells you can't do it. I don't believe it. John
herring offered to prove it. So he gathered a group of ACE
hackers in our Las Vegas hotel. Each of them A specialist in
cracking mobile devices and figuring out how to protect
them.
Hold on a second Hello, yeah. Is this as hackers as hackers here
I need some as hackers for this presentation I'm giving to the
government. Can you give me a couple?
Hey Jenny, who's available for a Windows CBS or some I don't know
who this asshole is but he wants a bunch of he wants a couple of
teams that have ace you guys have
do you have some with beards? goatees? You know maybe the big
biggest face here you got some with vapes being a fat guy with
a with a butt crack. You got one of them.
You got a fat guy with a butt crack was very erudite. He's
good. Does he ask the gun? Does he
do emacs or Vim? Emacs or Vim? Very important.
You know. Hey, Janet, you know Bros is emacs or Vim. Vim, Vim.
No good. We need an emacs guy with a neck beard.
Oh, geez. You know, we had a guy like that who quit? To work for
the defence department
gathered a group of ACE hackers in our Las Vegas hotel, each of
them a specialist in cracking mobile devices and figuring out
how to protect them.
Would you put your money in a bank that didn't test the locks
on there, so we need to try to break it to make sure that the
bad guys bad guys to break the phone right now. Very easy,
because you've seen pretty trivial, don't need to connect
to it. Okay,
it started when we logged on to the hotel Wi Fi at least it
looks like the hotel Wi Fi. Herring had created a ghost
version. It's called spoofing. Backup for
the spoofing because man oh my god
did when we logged on to the hotel Wi Fi. At least it looked
like the hotel Wi Fi. Herring had created a ghost version
basically called spoofing. I mean, this looks legitimate,
it looks very legitimate.
So you can do you think he created the name FBI van, do you
think that's what he surveillance or FBI surveillance
van, this looks legitimate?
It looks really legitimate. So you're connected. I am. And I
have your email.
You have access to my email
coming through right now. I actually can say now have a ride
sharing application up here. All the information that's being
transmitted, including your account ID, your mobile phone,
which I just got the mobile number. And then more
importantly, I have all the credit cards associated with
Oh, I know. I know what this is about.
The hack you saw only took a matter of minutes. And I was
fooled by that fake Wi Fi.
This is about HTTPS Everywhere. This is what this is about.
Yeah, this is about HTTPS Everywhere.
HTTPS Everywhere. Yeah. Maybe Yeah.
You know, that. I've just learned this. AT and T is now
they've have gigabit fibre thing that they're offering. But yeah,
but they're offering it at reduced price. And it's very
hard actually to opt out of this. It's called Internet
preferences. So you get for $60. You get basic TV phone service,
and and then the gigabit The Gigabit gigabit speed. But
that's only if you don't opt out. And it's the opting out
cost you another $60 A month because they are going to be
changing ads on the fly as they come through to your browser
and be hijacking the abnormal ads putting their own in
Yeah, well, Google is also doing this where they give you the
free gigabit internet connection. If you allow them to
do the same and analyse you but 18 T is just blatantly saying
oh, we're going to replace ads.
This, isn't it? You can't do this. Yes, you can. Of course
you can do it. No, it disrupts the entire advertising revenue.
Yeah.
Yeah. This is why it has to be done. This is very good.
Yeah, Bentley Mac, but
who owns the final piece? You know, the publisher thinks
there's this magical agreement where everybody will Oh, look at
all your crap just to see your crap. Yeah. Oh, you have an
agreement? No, the
reason that the model that we employ direct support instead of
advertising is superior. Exactly. Exactly. Let's let's as
the show goes on you here. And you should buy you know, some
voice cuts in and takes our donation segment away. I wanted
this is all web stuff, mainly mainly. But if it's HTTPS, if
it's encrypted, then they won't be able to as far as I know they
won't be able to intercept and and change on the fly. We'll
see. We will see. I wanted to make one comment about this
issue, which also came up in the debate. I forgot to clip it
because Clinton lied about it. All the I think CBS ABC did add
this in their new legal
Victory for families of the children killed in the Newtown
Connecticut school shooting. A judge has ruled their lawsuit
against the company that made the rifle used in the attack can
proceed. The judge said a law protecting gun makers from
lawsuits does not prevent the families from arguing that the
Semi Automatic Rifle is a military weapon and should not
have been sold to civilians military
weapon. So actually, I did clip this bit from the from the
Democratic debate, but I did it on my record, I forgot to pull
it off. Hillary Clinton said, this is the only industry in
America that enjoys this kind of protection. Do you remember her
saying that? No. That's shit. I should have pulled the clip that
she said twice. She said the only only industry in America
that you about the press.
Well, how about the pharmaceuticals with vaccines?
Oh, yeah, they have 100% indemnification from lawsuits.
Yeah. She's not going to mention that because she's in their
pocket. Yeah.
So I so if anyone has asked about this issue, the correct
answer is yes, we should consider that once we make sure
that all industry can be sued for their product including the
vaccine industry, which by their own admission, doesn't does not
have 100% failsafe methods, particularly the newer vaccines,
you know, you get mumps vaccine, you get mumps, get measles
vaccine, you get the measles is there's no you should be able to
sue if we can do the same for gun manufacturers.
But I would say yes to that. I have a clip.
Well, hold on you ready for the Blitzer. And
no, no, I this is too long for the Blitz. I just want to get it
out of the way because it reconfirms my my thesis. This
came in from Gasperini, who lives in England. This
reconfirms my thesis that Brexit, the Brexit is going to
fail. And this is shows up apparently, it's almost three
minutes long if you want to play the whole thing. But this shows
up as pre roll, apparently, a lot of YouTube videos. And this
is Cameron on the Brexit.
Good afternoon. Last night in Brussels, I set out Britain's
new settlement with the European Union. This morning, I've just
chaired a meeting of the cabinet in which I updated them on the
special status we have secured for Britain. And the cabinet
agreed that the government's position will be to recommend
that Britain remains in a reformed European Union. Now I
want to speak directly to the British people to explain why
they bought YouTube pre rolls for this. Yeah,
we are approaching one of the biggest decisions this country
will face in our lifetimes whether to remain in a reformed
European Union, or to leave.
Notice that God is the new buzzword he likes to use
reform. Yes, reform the European Union. Yeah, that is new.
The choice goes to the heart of the kind of country we want to
be and the future that we want for our children. This is about
how we trade with neighbouring countries to create jobs,
prosperity, and financial security for our families. And
it's about how we cooperate to keep our people safe, and our
country strong. I know there will be many passionate
arguments over the months ahead. And individual cabinet ministers
will have the freedom to campaign in a personal capacity
as they wish. But my responsibility as prime
minister, is to speak plainly about what I believe is right
for our country. I do not love Brussels. I love Britain. I'm
the first to say that there are still many ways in which Europe
needs to improve. And that the task of reforming Europe does
not end with yesterday's agreement. And I will never say
that our country couldn't survive outside Europe. We are
Great Britain, we can achieve great things. That is not the
question in this referendum. The question is, will we be safer,
stronger, safer, better off working together in a reformed
Europe or out on arm?
You can stop it? Yeah. You
know when I'm thinking
he promotes a safety thing. What are they under attack? Yes, yes,
they're under attack. Yeah, so the Muslims
bullcrap this guy says, Reagan, this whole thing is going to
they're not going to pass it. Well,
I got one of two things must happen to change the course of
the world. One of two things. And if not, I'll be I'll be sad
because, you know, we probably won't see any significant change
in our lifetime. One would be the Brexit. I think that would
really change. Yeah, they happening The other one is Trump
is president.
doubting that one. I'm doubting
that too but everything else is business as usual. Yeah. And you
know, here's an opportunity for
him to Europe. Give me a break. What does that even mean? I
don't know. I don't know. All right. All right. Sorry, where
are we doing frozen turkey.
What frozen turkey. Here we go. This
next story is bizarre. San Francisco Police are
investigating an unusual case of assault involving a frozen
turkey. They say officers were called to a home on Kirkwood
Avenue in the Hunters Point area because a woman was hit on the
head with a frozen turkey. Officers say the two women
involved were friends and one of them grabbed the turkey from the
freezer, used it to hit her friend and then tried to steal
it. And when the victim tried to stop her Police say the suspect
bit her friend's finger. Yeah.
It's a very very interesting case one of a kind. I can think
of incident where I recall someone being struck with a
turkey or frozen turkey especially amongst friends
having such a melee over over Turkey.
The victim was treated for head and finger injuries at San
Francisco General Hospital. Police had the suspect drove off
with the frozen turkey and they say when she's caught she'll
face assault charges route 33.
Auckland
United Nations Commission says the Falkland Islands should
belong to Argentina, with this Prime Minister David Cameron
dismisses these findings. The ruling harks back to a bitter
and bloody war over the Falklands but has now taken on a
crude dimension.
Argentina has never relinquished its claim to the Falkland
Islands, which it calls them all Vinos the archipelago lies about
500 kilometres off the Argentine coast. Britain first asserted
its sovereignty in 1833 and the islanders are descended from
British settlers. In 1982. Argentina occupied the Falklands
with its army and Britain fought back after a 10 week long war
that cost almost 1000 lives. British troops triumphantly
marched into the capital Port Stanley, Argentina refused to
give up its claims and kept pushing to expand its
sovereignty. Now the UN Commission on the Limits of the
Continental Shelf has recommended that Argentina's
territory in the South Atlantic should be expanded by 35% to 350
nautical miles. That decision would put Argentina's maritime
domain well over the current territory claimed by Britain as
the Falklands. When is Aries a plot at the UN recommendation
you see Davis
Newly disclosed documents show the University of California
Davis spent at least $175,000 to try to scrub the internet of
criticism following the 2011 pepper spraying of student
protesters by campus police. The school made national headlines
after video showed police spraying seeded students
directly in the face at close range. The Sacramento Bee report
UC Davis paid consultants to improve an image and park by
scrubbing negative search results related
to the Pepper Spray Incident.
UC Davis is a public university supported by taxpayer
Can I can I insert one? Can I insert one? All right. This is a
teacher with privilege.
The form was handed out in a Spanish class to seventh and
eighth graders at the top asking how privileged
are you? I'm not even sure where that comes from Regina Stiles
daughter is in the class. She has ADHD. And apparently the
teacher said there are some kids in this class that are ADHD and
ADHD is a mental illness. And so that's why she circled that. And
to mean that ADHD is not a mental illness is something she
does have
other sections included religion and gender where kids were asked
to circle cisgender, transgender or gender queer. Did she know
what some of these terms meant? No,
she's 12. We've had something that should be talked about at
home
after Stiles, along with several other angry parents question the
principal, he launched an investigation.
This is not a district form. This was a teacher generated
form and it was without principal consent. at the
district level. We do not collect that kind of
information. The students
were not required to turn in the forms. The teacher says the goal
was to teach them about diversity and equality.
To me that has nothing to do with Spanish. You're here to
teach my child a foreign language not anything else
due to Egypt protests
There have been angry protests in major Egyptian cities in Giza
in Alexandria and in the capital Cairo, where security forces
detained over 100 people and fired tear gas to disperse
demonstrators. The outcry is in response to a government
decision to hand over to Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia.
gret freedom These islands are Egyptian protesters chants 1000s
gathered in Cairo and the nearby city of Giza. The first
significant wave of protests since former army chief al Sisi
became president in 2014. Ostensibly, they're angry over
LC C's decision to hand over to Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia.
The Egyptian government maintained Tiran and Sanafir
belong to the Saudis who asked Egypt to protect them from
Israel in 1950. But the protesters aren't buying it
through through.
Last one. Last
one. TSA report,
TSA report is less than equivalent
to those long lines at America's airports. Passengers stuck in
line waiting to go through TSA screening. Well, it turns out
one major airline is now joining those passengers in complaining
ABCs David Kerley and the sheer number of passengers who've
missed flights because of those long delays and those lines.
Lax today. Long snaking security lines, Spring Break travel wait
times across the country of one, two, even three hours. Pain, I
don't understand. Passengers. We missed our flight and we're told
there's nothing they can do. Airports are angry to a letter
to TSA from Charlotte complaining of a negative
economic impact of 600 ms flights. Seattle announcing it
will hire 90 contractors just to help the TSA officers and the
airlines American saying nearly 6800 passengers Miss flights in
one week.
There you go. It's a fine state of affairs as usual.
Yeah. We will have to delve into the Egypt protests because it
appears they are somewhat predictive of some action that's
going to take place the public in Egypt has all bent out of
shape about a lot of things. Also, the
fighting season is starting up again in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That's why they call it the fighting season.
That's because there's when they're picking the pocket,
right? It's good.
You're right. It coincides with the poppies, right. You look at
in the show notes. I've got the poppy dates and the spring
offensive from the Taliban. Perfect overlap. $5 for a
balloon of heroin in the United States of America. Are we great
or what? Shoot I believe shoot our kids shoot up kids. Enjoy.
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on Thursday right here. On no agenda. Adios mofos Yeah, that
was crazy.
Why NPR and radio in general is you're seeing it now. It will
take another 1020 years before it's really completely dead.
Maybe there's some alternative use found for the transmitters
that will be hanging around. But here's the thing. People in the
industry don't understand. The reason why they were able to
make money. So fabulously for such a long time is because they
control the network. Classic Network, Classic Network. Now,
once you put that onto the actual network, which is the
internet, you cannot monetize that network. You cannot
monetize the network. The old system was you have the network
and people really cannot get programme. And so you also were
forced into your network, your listeners or viewers at that
point. And then you control everything so you can control
advertising. How does making sure that and by the way as the
television measure was any better than podcast? We can
still download tracks and sitting with your eyes on the
screen. The network builds itself around you and then it
supports you in whatever way is appropriate for the community
that level Have you built so for us destinations and songs
channels ideas inside inside the inside the inside out take
advantage of the technology a lot of interesting because
they're not honestly underwriters advertisers.
They're crashing ocean and it's very it's very very slow motion
which makes it more fun to watch. Real time slow
motion is fantastic. I bet that's the problem it's not the
business model is the actual concept of whiteboard support
was such
a business opportunity to facilitate supporting podcasts
through your system. Just like revolution revolutionised the
music business, burning into the ground and revolutionise
something that is already smouldering and needs to catch
fire. It's so
not took you 10 years Give me a break is personnel.
Sciences in the sciences
on a quarterly call.
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