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March 8, 2009 - No Agenda
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78: The Great Daylight Savings Time Conspiracy or 100% Yanni-Free
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
Analyzing the globe armed with a compass and a rubber knife, it's time again for the two guys who don't know much about nothing.
This is No Agenda.
It's Sunday, March 8, 2009, coming to you from the Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation East, located in a blustery and wet southwest London.
I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in northern Silicon Valley, where it's beautiful today.
It's Craig Vaughn in the morning.
Yo!
I don't think you brought it up fast enough there.
Yeah, I was a little slow.
Well, I didn't know how you were going to end, because you didn't...
You're supposed to end with...
Like an ending.
Yeah, that seemed kind of like one.
Well, so I was waiting for it.
Oh, okay.
Well, one of these days...
Yeah, we'll get it right.
So, very confusing and perfect to jump right into our first...
Topic of conversation, daylight saving time.
Yes.
Because you sent me...
I was not even aware that it was changing in the U.S. today.
Of course, last year...
President Bush decided to move that up by about a month as compared to the rest of the world in changing the time.
And of course I went on my biannual search to find out the true conspiracy behind the daylight savings time.
No one agrees on this shit.
No one has a clear and cut reason why we're actually still doing this except for the 2005 Energy Savings Act.
So apparently we're saving energy, but I don't buy it.
Before you go into your conspiracy, which I will elaborate on once you establish whatever pattern you're going to, something is kind of galling.
I'm looking at my computer here, and generally speaking, Microsoft Windows changes the time for you automatically on daylight savings time, and I know that it failed to change it automatically, When it was supposed to happen, because they did change the day that they were going to do daylight savings.
They moved it up a few weeks or a week, and then they also changed it back to regular time a couple weeks later than they normally do.
And Microsoft has, every Tuesday, they have Patch Tuesday, and they patch hundreds of things over the year.
How come they have not patched this?
I thought they would have patched it after last October when the computers didn't change to the right time, and now I'm noticing this morning that my time on the computer is off by an hour.
Well, what didn't they patch?
The way Apple works, it just periodically checks its clock against the time server, and so there's no logic in the computer itself.
It's all based upon the time server.
Well, apparently it's not the same situation here.
The time server, I'm sure, the atomic clock has got the right time and this thing doesn't.
It's annoying.
I don't understand.
Why can't they do this?
How hard can this be?
Well, you know what happens every single time we have this switchover?
Because I live in a different time zone and we have two different calendar systems...
Well, really, we have Microsoft Outlook, which most people use.
And then a lot of people, because we're at least a 50% Mac-based company, use Google Calendar, and they'll sync that to their iCal.
But invariably, meetings get fucked up.
You're waiting there for 15 minutes before you realize that the conference call is not going to start for another 45, or you show up late.
It never works.
It never really works 100% of the time.
Yeah, I noticed.
I've missed plenty of meetings.
13 things you probably did not know about daylight savings time.
By the way, it's saving, not savings, I've learned.
That would be the first one.
Hold on.
Now, of course, the page is slow to load, as I set that up so beautifully.
But I did cruise around.
The best quote I got...
Was, this of course is, well, I'll give you the quote.
With the ability to set the clocks back, they have mastered the space-time continuum.
And now that they control all of the world's markets, the world's largest military, they are officially the masters of the universe.
Who's they?
Well, the evil Uberlords, of course.
But really, there's a couple things this could be.
One, this may be the day that the BIS, the Bank of International Settlements, does all of its settlements because, of course, all log files get screwed up everywhere.
You know, your stats get messed up because you lose an hour of stats.
So maybe there's all kinds of money transactions that take place in this lost hour.
Whoa.
That was loud.
Yes.
I can hear it from here.
But in general, I think it's just built to confuse us and kill more of us.
More people die.
This is the best you can do.
I thought you had some really good conspiracy.
Let me add a little dimension to this.
Okay, you're going to take us back to the Benjamin Franklin candle thing?
So, I think this was initiated, if I'm not mistaken, during the Roosevelt administration, which of course would kind of concur with some of the they notions.
But what was interesting about it was extremely controversial.
I mean, not just a little controversial, like now people just put up with it.
Maybe it was an attempt to see how much people would put up with.
Well, it's mind control, clearly.
I mean, someone is sitting there going, watch what I make these fuckers do now.
Pfft!
But when they did it, it was supposedly for the farmers, and it was done.
And the curious thing is, and I have a collection of these songs.
There's already disagreement about that, John.
I'm reading here that Benjamin Franklin came up with it, and it was originally done so there'd be less candle burning.
It's not the story I'm hearing.
But anyway, because I know during the Roosevelt administration, there were at least a dozen records that were cut.
Now, this makes no sense.
Maybe Franklin had the idea and then they passed on it and reintroduced it.
Because I have, in fact, I'll have to dig these up.
They're somewhere in my collection of songs done by famous artists during the 1930s Musicians, complaining bitterly, and Hollywood personalities, by the way, also, complaining bitterly about the implementation of this process.
And so why would they be complaining if it was Ben Franklin?
Well, because...
Why are they complaining in 1933?
Because the pretense is a lie.
I mean, it's clear that it has nothing to do with...
Well, yeah.
Yeah, that's a good one, too.
Thanksgiving is a crock.
Well, yeah, like we really sat down with the Indians and had a big feast.
Please.
We didn't even have a Thanksgiving.
We probably ate the Indians.
Come on.
Alright, onward.
It's an unsolved mystery and everyone has their view on it, but there really has never been, as far as my research tells me, other than the theft of time.
Absolute theft.
Yeah, I lost an hour and I have to fly out today.
I can't imagine how many people are going to miss this flight.
There's no other reason for it.
I dove into a couple of stories because I've learned now that when something shows up in the media evolving around politics and it's like a ha-ha funny, a dumbo story, there's usually something else behind it.
And I'm starting to learn that's maybe how disinformation works.
And we witnessed that with our very own story two shows ago, where what the mainstream media pulled out was, yeah, funny, but it had nothing to do with a rather serious topic at the moment, right?
Which one?
That was about the Peter from Fullerhove, the Dutch royal who smashed my wife.
Right, that guy.
So I've been looking into a number of good ones, including...
I want to do this right now, the Barack Obama helicopter.
So we talked about this story, it must have been the same two episodes ago.
At least.
And so the story is that Obama's Marine One, of which 28 have been ordered, the budget for that has gone from $6 billion to $11 billion, which is just an unbelievable amount of money for 28 helicopters.
And it turns out that this dates back to the war in Iraq, Do you remember the Niger Yellow Cake as part of the proof, John, that Iraq was coming up with weapons of mass destruction?
So, do you know where that proof, the so-called proof, came from about the Yellow Cake purchase?
I don't remember.
It's too far gone.
Well, I'll jog your memory.
It came through Italy.
When Silvio Berlusconi was still Prime Minister.
Before he got kicked out, of course, now he's back again.
And all the stories here, because, of course, the helicopter is not being built by Sikorsky, a fine American company.
No, no, no.
It's being built by Augusta.
The Italian manufacturer of helicopters, and apparently the original six billion...
Actually, it's Augusta Westland.
Remember, Britain also lied to get us into Iraq, so Westland is a British company, so it's the British-Italian Augusta Westland.
And that the $6 billion was a payoff for the lie and the so-called proof that Berlusconi provided.
So they had this huge fund of money going back into Italy.
You tell me this is a quid pro quo?
Yes, it is.
And I've got lots of reporting on it.
Well, there must be a bunch of coverage of this in the media.
There's no way they can get it with us.
You would think, John, but no.
I actually found...
I found a Dutch link, which was very interesting, and a, what is this, newamerica.org, but it has some really good sources that it points to.
So this is just, it's a payoff, and that's why it will happen one way or the other, because these guys don't forget.
How did the payoff get to $11 billion?
Does that mean they actually have to pay for the helicopters on top of the payoff?
Well, it could be.
First of all, you don't need $6 billion for 28 helicopters either.
I had the most expensive non-military helicopter from Augusta.
It cost like $4.5 million.
So, you know...
Factor of 10 for all the James Bond shit.
And it's still, you know, there's no safety in a helicopter when it comes to an RPG. Anyone can blow you out of the sky, which is why the president has multiple helicopters, because you never know which one he's flying in.
At least that's what I'm told.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I think it just, you know, the budget just ballooned.
That's what these companies do.
Hey, here's your budget.
Go ahead and build a $6 billion new helicopter line, because it may cost billions to create a new helicopter.
But they've already started to pay off this money.
$2.6 billion already transferred.
So total quid pro quo payoff.
This is like a complete scandal.
It is, and it's not being reported.
A quid pro quo payoff after screwing the American public and breaking the country with this crazy war.
Go ahead and give them some more.
They're just asking for more.
Thugs, man.
Freaking thugs.
So, but it was fun to kind of say, hey, you know, there's something going on, people are laughing, you know, even...
Yeah, no, you've been preoccupied with this helicopter story since you first looked at the numbers.
Because I couldn't believe the numbers!
You know, everyone takes it for granted.
Oh, $11 billion.
I go, that sounds right.
No, it doesn't sound right.
It does not sound right.
That's not what a helicopter costs.
A couple billion to develop a new one, sure.
Maybe...
Maybe $2, $3 billion, but then to deliver, you'll need $1 billion to deliver all of them, and you've got some change left over, enough to save health care.
Yeah, well, health care is going nowhere.
That's a scam.
So we were looking at...
Yeah, go ahead.
We were looking at...
My wife came up with this one, and then I started following up.
There's kind of a scandal going on, and I Twittered it, and everybody's like, you know, up in arms about this H.R. 875.
Oh, this is the organic food bill.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, this is nasty.
They want people to register.
This is basically register everybody, and the organic food people would think that this is just an attack on them on behalf of big...
Big Ag.
And also Big Organic, which is, you know, the fake organic that everyone's being sold.
So the woman who I just sent you a picture of, Rosa DeLauro, is the whore.
I hate that.
And I don't normally rag on somebody's appearance.
But this is the ugliest woman in the history of the U.S. Congress.
Nice teeth, though.
If you go to that Wikipedia page on her, they have a picture of her cackling at the podium about something or other.
I really don't like to besmirch somebody.
Judgmental or for any reason we should not be laughing.
This woman looks like a witch.
Yeah, she does.
So the untold part of the story...
Is that, just mentioned casually in the Wikipedia thing, she's the one who initiated this bill and got a bunch of people to go along with it.
Her rest of her bills all have to do with women's rights.
And so she comes up with this ag bill out of the blue.
And so it says she's married to political strategist Stan Greenberg.
If you look up Stan Greenberg, you find out that he was either working for directly or a lobbyist for Monsanto.
Monsanto, of course!
Ha, ha, ha!
Actually, I did the Google for...
I couldn't find a cross-reference.
I was looking for HR 875 and the Codex Alimentarius, because I'm sure somewhere...
Yeah, I knew that you would do this.
Yeah, and I was looking for the correlation.
I couldn't find anything, but I did read through this bill.
and it does some very interesting things.
Legally binds state agriculture departments to enforce federal guidelines, so the states should then effectively have no more power, and they just become the food police.
Criminalizes organic farming without actually using the word organic, so it's very broadly written, and affects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.
I mean, essentially, you could interpret some of this language to, hey, you know, you can't grow something and eat it yourself.
You certainly couldn't sell it.
You definitely cannot sell it to your neighbor.
Yeah, and farmers, you might as well just shut down every farmer's market in the country.
So Stan Greenberg...
He's a little nebbish-like character to himself.
He looks like Woody Allen.
I'm just looking at some pages here.
God, so what are his ties to Monsanto?
Well, let's see here.
The one was...
For those of you who haven't been listening...
He's the founder and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a polling and consulting firm and co-founder with James Carvell of Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization which produces left-leaning political strategy married to so-and-so, his corporate clients.
He's just a British Petroleum, British Airways, Monsanto, and General Motors.
Unbelievable.
And I don't understand how nobody's linked.
This is an obvious conflict of interest.
Well, he's just my husband.
My ass.
Well, I'm starting to give up on complaining about the news not bringing us the news and maybe just start to prepare people for the inevitable because these jabronis are not doing anything good for us.
You're talking about the media?
The folding media?
Yes.
The ever...
The shrinking media?
Complicit, shrinking, bullshit, lying media.
They're worried about their jobs.
They don't have time to actually do any research.
So no one is patriotic in media.
No one just stands up and says, hey, screw it.
This is just the way it is.
Not that it would even make it on the air unless you're in a live situation.
Well, I don't know what patriotism is when it comes to the media.
I'm not one of those that thinks the media should be pounding the drum for the government.
No, but isn't the media...
But they're not even doing...
I mean, they maybe don't...
It seems to me that, you know, there is...
People say, well, you know, it's a liberal media.
And they've done a lot of research, and it is a liberal media.
They're all union members, and most of them vote Democrat.
And, you know, you can go into the newsroom.
I've told the story before.
I'll tell it again to some of our newer listeners.
I went and gave a speech in...
To a group of newspaper editors, a couple layers of editors, and there was probably 100 people in the room, and I was casually mentioning this issue, and nobody disagreed with me.
And I said, how many people here, for example, would even think of voting for John McCain?
Out of 100, two hands went up.
Wow.
And then a guy comes up to me after the speech and says, you know, I just want to let you know that I would have raised my hand, but I didn't think it was a good idea.
And he said, you can see the reason why.
And that's just it.
I mean, that's just the way it is, and nobody, you know, they don't think twice about it.
You can't be anything but a liberal in the newsroom.
Half the people on television, particularly, who are just reading the news.
I mean, they're just like President Obama.
They're just reading from teleprompters.
By the way, he'd be a great news reader.
He would be a great news anchor.
There is definitely a career for him there.
There's a Dutch YouTube video, which I never queued up because it's obviously in Dutch and it's a video, but I will put it in the show notes.
It's of a Dutch newsreader, a girl.
A young woman.
And it's before airtime, so it's an off-air check.
And it got out.
And she's literally futzing with her hair, because that's all she cares about.
She has to look good, not bump into any furniture, and read the news, or read whatever's on the teleprompter.
And she's adjusting her breasts and opening up her button and saying, oh yes, it's all about the boobies, and if my mom sees too much, she'll be angry.
I mean, complete, totally breaks down the wall.
If you've ever seen this woman reading the news.
And people don't realize.
Though they don't stop to realize.
Yeah, well, news readers are what they...
They're readers.
That's what they are.
They're news readers.
They're just good readers.
And Obama's a really good reader.
There's been more stories about him.
Now he's getting so dependent on the teleprompter that he brings it with him everywhere.
Even when he gives like a two-minute thing where he says, I'd like to introduce so-and-so who I believe is going to be an outstanding secretary of blah, blah, blah.
He has to have a teleprompter for this.
Yeah, there's a story in the show notes that's linked that really breaks down his use of the teleprompter.
It was pretty good.
Was that Politico, or what was that site that you said?
Maybe, but a lot of people have been picking up on it because it's getting a little tiresome.
Yeah, Politico.
One of the problems that he has, I don't think for one thing, I don't know, he's so dependent on it, it's ridiculous, because I've seen him.
I said, well, this guy can't, you know, and people believe that during the debates where you couldn't use a prompter that he was going to just show himself to be a stammering, you know, fool.
But I saw him ad lib fine, and I've seen him on Letterman, I've seen him on Leno.
He was very funny.
He had good lines.
He's a little hesitant when he speaks.
There's an obvious reason for this, John, and I have something to prove it.
I have some proof for you today.
The obvious reason is because, first of all, again, this is the fail culture we have, where everyone is sitting on top of everyone's every single blog post, Twitter wording, or soundbite to pounce when you did something wrong, or you said it wrong, you're wrong!
Ah, we got you!
You failed!
People love doing that.
That's all they sit around all day.
And because this is stuff that deals with billions of dollars, hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars, it's because of the lawyers.
They are so afraid he would actually say something like he said this morning in his address...
To the people of the United States and the world, his weekly YouTube radio address, listen very carefully to the wording about our jobs.
...
of new lending so that families can finance a car or college education, and small businesses can raise the capital that will create jobs.
And we've already begun to implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a plan that will save and create...
Did you hear it?
What?
He said save and create.
Yes, save and create.
It was save or create.
It's been save or create for months, John.
Oh, he made a huge mistake.
He made a huge mistake.
Save and...
I'll play it again.
Save and create, he's saying, for the first time.
...so that families can finance a car or college education, and small businesses can raise the capital that will create jobs.
And we've already begun to implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a plan that will save and create over three...
Save and create.
So now you're just exhibiting the characteristics that you criticize the public at large for doing, which is picayune, little nitpicking of just a parsing and then saying, well, he's changed the word or to and.
That's significant.
Yes, and I totally agree that what you're saying is exactly the same.
But there is a little bit of difference when people are pouncing on someone to say they jumped the shark, and a guy putting $800 billion of printed money into the economy to save or create, now he's saying save and create.
Does that mean we need another $800 billion?
And by the way, the jobs he has saved, he proved it.
Our president went off to the academy for the police and said, these 25 cadets' jobs were saved by the stimulus package!
25 jobs!
25!
How much tea did you have this morning?
And then, so I go to recovery.org,.gov, and then there's, oh, 3,000 aviation jobs.
Of course, my eye catches that.
Wow, that's interesting, aviation jobs.
Yeah, for the Department of Homeland Security, for the TSA. So we now have 3,025 jobs that have been saved.
Those jobs weren't saved.
They were created.
They were saved.
No, no.
The 3,000 were created and the 25 were saved.
And he did a whole press conference.
It was live.
I watched the whole thing.
I know.
I saw this press conference about saving these 25 jobs.
Yes, it was 25 jobs.
Hundreds of thousands of people being thrown out of work on a monthly basis is the most ludicrous thing.
I don't understand why people aren't up in arms about this.
Because people are stupid and they are hypnotized.
I don't know.
When I count to three, you're going to be awake.
One, two, three.
Wakey, wakey, wakey.
Okay, you're up.
And you're awake.
Okay, you're going to start the show?
And you're cognizant.
And you know what's going on around you.
This is the funniest, though, John.
So, you know, of course there's been this minor international flap, probably under-reported in the United States, but we definitely in the United Kingdom feel that President Obama shined our Prime Minister, who went to Washington with a lot of big poo-ha noise.
Stiffed him.
He got completely stiffed.
Well, the White House has responded.
The reason?
Oh, there's a new reason?
Other than when it was snowing?
No, no, no, no.
Mr.
Obama and his staff have been overwhelmed by the economic meltdown and he was tired.
The new president is not getting enough rest.
He went to a basketball game.
Yes, every night he's got earth, wind and fire.
Stevie Wonder.
He's got the Jonas Brothers.
They're all hanging out.
They're having cocktail parties on Wednesday night.
He's going to basketball games.
He was too tired?
Now, it gets better.
So Gordon Brown, love him, hate him, I don't care.
They're all over this, by the way.
People should know this, our listeners, that in the British media, they are just on the story.
Because it means a lot, which of course I'm going to get to.
But first, let's do the trivial shit.
So...
Gordon Brown did something very English and very British and very proper.
He brought along a gift, and the gift was a pen made from the wood from a ship that was one of the first ships that stopped slavery.
I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but well thought of.
You know, hey man, this will mean something to this guy.
You know, it's a personal gift, it's a pen, it's made from the same wood the president's desk is made at the White House.
So a lot of thought went into this.
What does he get?
He gets a goodie bag of DVDs.
And of course...
Wait, and the kids, the two kids, Gordon Brown's sons, each got a plastic model of Marine One.
Oh, the irony.
Well, here's the real irony.
If he gave those DVDs, because of the nature of the MPAA, are not playable in England.
It changes region code.
So I was looking up the region code.
So he gave him a bunch of DVDs that are basically just pieces of plastic.
Unplayable.
They were bogus.
Because USA's Region 1 and England, I think.
Region 2.
Region 2, I think.
No, no.
Region 2 is Japan.
Oh, yeah, Europe.
That is so funny.
And to make it even worse, they have over the last year or two, a lot of people haven't, nobody's really discussed this too much, but they've added another layer to the region code thing, which DVD players have to look at the region code and see if they can legally play the disc.
Well, they've added another layer, which I'm looking for the name of it, but anyway, it's another layer that only applies, by the way, to Region 1 disks, because this is the only important disk, I guess, you have to be careful with.
And the Region 1 disks will now not play on the systems that are region-free.
You can buy these DVD players.
Most of them come from China, but they're around.
You can buy them.
They play all the discs from all over the world.
So if you have a Region 2 disc, you can play it.
You can play a Region 3.
This doesn't make any difference.
But now Region 1 discs won't play on these devices.
So essentially, he gave him discs that are no good.
This, by the way, is our tech-savvy president.
Yes.
So it was a set of DVDs.
It was 25 classic American films.
And Brown also gave gifts to the kids.
He outfits from Topshop, which of course is a very British clothing chain, and six children's books by British authors, which are shortly to be published in the U.S. So this clearly has importance, and I can boil it down to the following.
Can you turn your speakers down just a tad, John?
Yeah, it's down pretty low.
Well then turn up the hearing aid.
What?
Are the lights still on?
I believe that at this point in time, and just look at all the signs around us, with the auto industry now really on the imminent precipice of demise, not just in the United States, but across Europe.
We've got huge industries that are set to fail.
The derivatives scandal that is wrapped up in AIG unwinds.
Another layer comes off every week, which is another $10, $20, $30, $80 billion.
All Obama's administration is doing, which of course he is communicating through reading, is keeping the shit afloat just a little bit longer.
They've got the plunge protection team in there working on the markets every single day.
You can see what they're doing when it shoots up and then it goes back down to the level it was at.
I mean, it's all so obvious that the whole scheme is coming apart and all they're doing is trying to keep the shit together until they come out and it might happen in April.
With the G20, that they will announce the new monetary fiscal, as Gordon Brown said to the joint session of Congress, the new global economic system.
And I think it's going to be the IMF, John.
They're the ones making the most noise, making the most moves.
They've now passed legislation, so all members of the IMF, which is all countries, basically, that matter, To create SDRs, Special Drawing Rights, which is a phantom form of spreadsheet money.
It's coming, baby.
It's happening.
And there's nothing that Gordon Brown clearly is going to do with Obama.
He doesn't give a shit about Gordon Brown.
He poops on him.
He pooped.
And he did.
I poop on Gordon Brown.
I poop on Gordon Brown.
And there was an ad for a book in the Financial Times.
The title of the book, Gordon is a Moron.
I mean, it doesn't get much cleaner than that, does it?
So that's where all of this is headed.
Every week I'm like, God, man, it's Monday.
What is going to fail today?
Who's going to be in huge trouble?
I'm blaming the British for all this.
Well, of course, it is the evil British bankers who are really...
And I'm not talking about the Bank of England.
Here's one from our files of ongoing topics.
We've been talking a lot about medical marijuana in California, and there was a lot of hubble-aboo recently when the, was it O'Brien?
Attorney O'Brien had directed to stop the rating of medical marijuana, I guess, growers and shops, etc., So it was O'Brien who sent out that memo.
He overturned it on Friday.
Wait a minute.
Back up.
I knew you weren't listening to me.
I was listening.
Okay, so Thomas P. O'Brien sent a confidential memo to prosecutors.
I heard the entire story, but I'm not believing what you said.
I think you must have made some error here.
Okay, well this is from the LA Times, the Los Angeles Times.
And I'll just...
I thought, oh wait a minute, stop it, before you go, let's give some background here.
My understanding that, or your understanding, because you're the one that keeps bringing this topic up, Obama was elected by saying that he was going to do something, and he got a mandate to do it, and now you're telling me that he did it for like five minutes, and then said, ah, screw it, I'm going to go back to the George Bush way.
Yeah, more like three days.
So let me just read the first paragraph verbatim here.
The U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles sent a confidential memo to prosecutors last week ordering them to stop filing charges against marijuana dispensaries.
Then abruptly lifted the ban on Friday.
O'Brien, of course, declined to comment on why he has rescinded it.
And it was literally two days after the Attorney General, Eric Holder, Said that medical marijuana prosecutions would not be a priority.
But this is pretty consistent, John.
You say on day one, you say, no lobbyist in my administration, here are the rules, and then two days later you quickly go and break the rules.
That seems to be the modus operandi here.
Well, you know, he can at least say that, yes, I did that.
Technically, it's that lawyer shit again, man.
Technically, I did exactly what I said I would do.
Well, I guess he did it just long enough for his boys to get their stash.
There's a new conspiracy theory in Europe.
Alright.
There is no such thing as Americans.
They are all actors.
Working for Disney.
That's right.
And we're actually backstage right now.
Did you know, I don't know a lot of people know this, but Disney, when they set up shop in Florida, they wanted to, you know, Florida had all these strict labor laws.
And Disney said, you know, we don't really want to deal with these labor laws because they're just going to cost us too much money and it's not going to be any good.
We need some way around this labor law thing.
So people that work at the Disney industry, Disney World in Orlando, they're not working for Disney.
They're all considered cast members.
Cast members, yeah.
And in fact, you'll see, instead of where it says the employee lounge, it just doesn't say that.
It might as well just cross out employees.
It actually said that they're backstage.
Yeah, backstage cast members only, because the labor laws don't apply to actors.
In Florida.
And this includes, by the way, the guy who scrapes the bubble gum off the ground.
Yeah, he's an actor, for sure.
Yeah.
I'm going to send you this link just to get back to it one second because, of course, we like to identify trends.
The first trend we've identified is that when there's a crisis abound, the government will create a website, whether it's recovery.gov or whether it's realhelpnow.gov.uk.
The next step in this trend is you need an emblem.
A downloadable emblem.
Oh yeah, they always have to have the logo.
Oh, this is their new logo.
This is the new logo, the recovery.gov emblem.
And you can download a high-resolution version.
Wow.
They're really into this imagery.
Well, someone should, I'm sure someone will, should dissect this because it's got a lot of, I like the gears on it.
You know, what is the gears thing?
Well, that's the end.
We've got agriculture on the left.
People will look at this later.
It was a circle that's cut in half, and then on the bottom are two quadrants.
One of them shows a leaf.
A couple of three leaves actually indicating agriculture and it's on a green background.
And the other one shows two gears against a red background.
Communist, by the way.
It's a socialist color.
I mean, symbolically.
It's a total communist thing.
Yeah.
And then above that is a whole half circle that says recovery.gov and then one, two, three, four, five, six, eight stars.
Two stars break the circle, though.
What's that all about?
I'm sure that's an Illuminati signal.
Two stars break the circle on one side, and so does one of the gears and the base of the stem.
I don't think that's significant.
I think it just happened.
It's actually sloppy.
It's just shitty.
Well, maybe not.
Maybe it makes the circle more...
Yeah, I don't know.
Wouldn't that patch look great on a denim jacket?
I think as an armband.
I don't know.
There we go.
Where's the armbands?
I'm waiting for these.
They're not out yet.
I keep looking at the rights for these things, and every time they design one of these things, if you start really digging into it, there are rights associated with it, so you can't make it into an armband legally.
Well, this is ours.
This is from the government.
This is not from BarackObama.com.
This is from the U.S. government.
Maybe this could be done.
You may be able to do an armband with this.
Maybe we'll do an armband.
It's not as jazzy, it's not as fascist looking, though, as the Barack.
I'm sure they hired the same team, though.
The logo design team.
They're out of Chicago.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
Something interesting happened.
You know, I'm not a big sports guy.
In fact, I really don't give a rat's ass.
I'll watch the championships and the final things of the Olympics.
That's about it.
But I've been following what's been going on with Major League Soccer in the U.S. for two reasons.
One, David Beckham, of course, arguably one of the world's best players, was bought and installed there.
But also one of the world's former best players and great coach, Ruud Gullit, who was a Dutch player.
Gesundheit.
Yes.
Gullit, most people would say.
Okay.
And this was big news in the Netherlands because he was moving there and his wife was moving there.
She's a kind of famous girlfriend-wife type vibe and she always has all the bling and, oh, we'll be hanging out with the Beckhams.
So I follow that a little bit.
And, you know, Beckham has done nothing but lose.
Not necessarily Beckham, but the LA Galaxy have done nothing but lose.
It's been a total PR nightmare.
It has not worked at all.
And all of a sudden, Ruth Hill, like maybe two months ago, said, screw it, I'm out of here, I'm cutting my contract, I'm gone.
And I've just now...
I learned after hearing that David Beckham was so anxious to leave.
He was on loan to AC Milan, the Italian team where he's played before.
He was so anxious not to go back to the United States.
He actually contributed to some of the money that AC Milan has to pay the Galaxy so he can stay on playing with AC Milan.
Now that to me was very interesting.
I'm like, what?
Take my money.
Take my money.
This is like working for a company and then giving them money so you don't have to go to work.
So the story is, and this is coming from, you know, it's obviously it's third, fourth hand, but it's through my Dutch channels, is that Hullet discovered...
That the whole thing with Beckham and him and MLS and the LA Galaxy was intended to kill Major League Soccer because basketball, baseball, and football in the United States need all the help they can get.
And because soccer is such a worldwide sport, they want to kill it.
And that's why these guys bailed, because they figured it out.
This whole MLS thing is just to never make it successful.
It's almost like a disinfo campaign.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
They're doing a good job of killing it.
Yeah, well, mission accomplished.
But what's there to kill?
The American public has never gotten into soccer.
It's considered a girls game.
But think about the setup.
The setup of having Beckham and Posh Spice and the whole Hollywood vibe with Cruz and everyone was trying to make it work, but they were probably putting something in their food because the team, whether you had Beckham or not, the team was just sucking.
But for Beckham to pay money to not have to go back was astounding to me.
Good story.
Thanks.
Okay, so I'm going to jump ahead here with this.
Here we go.
You've been waiting for it.
The public needs to know.
We don't know anything about this.
I just got an email from somebody.
I don't know that I got permission to use his name, so I'm not going to.
We'll call him Adam.
Was I copied on this?
Yeah.
It says right here, you're actually the first gal got it.
Adam and John.
My boss's wife works as a project manager for Utah's largest private construction company.
Her company just won the bid to build a new eBay data center call center going up in Tule, Utah.
It's pronounced Tu-il-uh.
Okay, Tu-il-uh.
Obviously an Indian tribe.
She was looking over the blueprints the other day and noticed something strange.
There is a fence that surrounds the entire perimeter of the grounds.
Next to the entry gate there is a security station.
Next to the security station there is what looked on the blueprints to be some sort of an elevator that pops out of the ground.
She asked her boss, the founder of the company, what the elevator was.
He didn't know, so they contacted some folks at eBay who told them that it was a.50 caliber machine gun turret.
As if that wasn't strange enough, there's an enormous building.
Sorry, I don't remember the square footage.
This thing only has 75 parking spaces.
Well, it's a data center.
You don't need a lot of parking spaces for a data center.
True, you don't.
Well, it's also a call center, I guess.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and he does say, I'm looking at the mail now, data center, call center.
So the call center, you know, still maybe only, but 75 is...
So the folks at eBay said that this is, that's a.50 caliber machine gun turret.
Yeah.
What do you think that could be?
Is this like a prison they're building?
There's a lot of dual-purpose buildings going up here and there.
Are you sure it was eBay, not FEMA? I mean, you could get it kind of confused, but...
I don't know.
Maybe.
Unbelievable.
Something else happened over here that may have made the press, which I just want to comment on.
The business secretary here in the UK, Peter Mandelson, was attacked by Plain Stupid, which is a green group, and they threw green custard all over him.
Did you see any of this at all?
No, I don't know anything about this.
So it happens in the parking lot, and there's a couple of things that are really astounding.
So first of all, Plain Stupid, they were one of the most vocal groups who wanted to stop the approval of a third runway at Heathrow.
So there's all kinds of cameras, and the guy drives up to Whitehall, and he gets out of his car.
The camera's always a little distant.
And this woman just walks up to him, and he leans over.
He's kind of a tall guy to hear what she has to say.
And then she has a cup of what looks like coffee in her hand, and she throws this right in his face, and it's green custard.
And so this whole thing has been one big joke.
It's being laughed off.
He laughed it off.
This woman, by the way, just walks away.
You know, the cameras follow her.
So she throws this custard in his face.
No one apprehends her.
No one jumps on her.
She just walks away.
And two days earlier, she was in some public meeting place.
It was a very funny idea, by the way.
But she had an air horn.
And whenever someone said something she didn't like, she'd toot the air horn and said, Oh, I'm sorry.
That's my lie detector.
I forgot to leave it at home.
And so she kept tooting, which is very funny.
That's a good gag.
I like it.
But she's terrorizing.
Let me say one thing.
Throwing something into someone's face is a hugely aggressive act.
And I really am severely against it.
And I've seen this happen.
This is Pim Fortin before he was assassinated by an animal nut.
Shot six times in the head, Dutch politician, two weeks before he was going to win the election, which he did posthumously.
They threw a cow pie in his face.
This is extremely aggressive behavior.
I don't care what your point of view is.
That is violence, and I'm really against it.
And the government, laughing it off, are a bunch of tools and idiots.
Good point.
I'm not going to argue with you on that.
Links in the show notes at noagenda.mevio.com.
I have some maybe related news.
Anthony Weiner.
It's funny that his name popped up in this research.
Weiner popped up?
Pun intended.
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat from New York, who I interviewed for CNN when he was just starting out in his political career, very young guy, tall guy, has been arguing for H-1B visas for models.
He feels that 1,000 H-1B visas, which allows foreigners to work in our country, in the United States, he says, you know, it's a real problem if we can't get these models in.
We need at least 1,000 models a year to have reserved visas, which I'm like it.
I think it's pretty funny.
But it got me into a whole bunch of other pieces of research, and I stumbled upon something that happened just yesterday, because of the rumors about this company that had been going around for so long.
Thank God the mail was all on top of it.
The CEO of the Elite Modeling Agency was arrested on cocaine charges in Paris, but the guy was using...
He had just bought 120 pounds worth of cocaine, but consumed it before the police got to him.
Holy crap!
So the police seized 150 grams of cocaine, 150 grams, 750 grams of cannabis.
There is a huge scandal to be unearthed amongst what's going on in the modeling and fashion world.
You know, we've got fashion models committing suicide.
Just look at them on the runway.
They look like they're drugged out.
Yeah, well, maybe that's the case.
If you can't cover it up, turn it up.
This is one big...
If you want to go after slave trade and prostitution, bust open the fashion world.
It's atrocious what they're doing to these 14, 15-year-old girls.
And it's douchebags like this, Hennett.
Mr.
Hennett, 35, chief executive of Elite World Models.
They are the ones that are at the center of this trade and it needs to be exposed.
Bertrand Hennet.
I hope you got that off your chest.
It's horrible.
It really, really is horrible.
Just look at one of these runway shows and these models, they look like they're coked up.
Yeah, yeah.
And the smart thing the fashion industry has done is, let's just make the raccoon look and the wiped out mascara that makes them look like heroin addicts.
That's just to cover up the fact that they're heroin addicts.
Heroin addicts.
Another guy, Anand John, was found guilty of sex abuse on models.
There's an Indian guy who was...
Also running models.
I mean, it's between 14 and 21 years old, these girls are.
It just pisses me off.
It really does.
So on a lighter note...
Well, I thought that was pretty light.
We talked about models.
So Wiener's in this scandal, clearly.
He's trafficking the girls in and handing them off to the drug dealers.
What do you need to bring more models in?
For there's so many models in this country already...
Well, that's because he needs to get the foreigners in, man.
With no history, no papers, no backgrounds, you can trade them easier.
Yeah, that sounds like it.
H-1B. The justification for H-1Bs in this job market is really on thin ice.
Microsoft, for example, is going on about, well, you know, we have to lay off a bunch of people.
We've got to keep our H-1B people.
Why do you think that is?
Because they're cheaper?
Because they're the world's greatest coders?
Well, that's what Eric Schmidt says.
Chase, what are we looking at with these products they produce?
So I installed Ubuntu.
Oh, really?
It's a fun OS. I've done that in the past.
It's really nice.
I'm actually impressed with it.
What's cool about it is that if you get 8.1 and you download the ISO and make a CD out of it, the thing is not only installs from this disk, but you also act as a live CD. Yeah, you can plug it into any Windows machine.
Even a Mac, I think, you can put that CD in, too.
And it'll just boot up Ubuntu.
And you can put it onto a thumb drive, and then you can have your own customized desktop.
It's quite advanced, and it comes with good tools, and it kind of just works.
Yeah, I was impressed.
So people, in fact, they just wrote a column that's going to run on Monday, PC Magazine.
So, hey, Becky Worley showed up.
She's working on ABC News now.
Oh, yeah?
So she's been assimilated?
She's been assimilated, but she did a story on Nightline about teenagers being addicted to text messaging.
Yeah.
And then they highlighted one girl who apparently did last month I don't know how the parents knew.
Text messaging costs a lot of money.
Well, you get your bundle.
You get X amount for free.
You get $500.
Last month, she did 36,666 text messages.
Was that just sending or receiving or both?
I think it was sending.
Which is a thousand a day.
A little more than a thousand a day.
Jeez.
So how many is that an hour?
That doesn't make sense.
You just have to be texting all the time.
But she showed her she's so good that she doesn't have to look at the keyboard on the little device she's got.
And she can do it behind her back.
She's like Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar.
These are star children, John, just because they've adapted right out of the cradle to the new forms of communication and interfaces, whereas we had to not just learn, but in some cases create The forms of communication.
It's been handed to them on a silver platter, and they grab it, and they're super intelligent beings.
I do believe in evolution.
They've got to be smarter than me, just like I'm smarter than you, just purely because of evolution.
So somebody just sent me a note saying it's $30 a month unlimited on T-Mobile.
Okay, so anyway, the other story which they didn't bring up for some reason, I couldn't believe that the Nightline show run, but the guy that's, I can't remember his name, who's the host, he's just this dour Indian guy who's just got no sense of humor whatsoever.
They did a segment on how these...
Titty Bart-style restaurants like Hooters are actually making money in the downturn, and then they mention two specifically new places that are opening up in Texas.
One of them, Bone Daddy's.
Bone Daddies.
Yeah, Bone Daddies.
And Bone Daddies, which has four stores doing $6 million a month, has some of the best-looking waitresses I've ever seen.
I mean, unbelievable.
And then the other one, the other chain that's opening up in Texas, again, because they've got a lot of good-looking women down there so they can do this, is called Twin Peaks.
That was a pretty funny name.
And Twin Peaks is an operation that's moving into the various Ruby Tuesdays that are folding all over the state.
That are moving into their premises?
Yeah.
And anyway, so at the end of this segment, this guy doing the packages has himself...
Showing himself with all the girls around him from each of the restaurants.
And so they show him with a group of babes and him with another group of babes and him with another group of babes.
And then they go back to this Martin Bashir, who's this host of Nightline.
And that was so-and-so.
It was the funniest thing you've seen for a while on this show.
And this guy can't break a smile, can't say anything funny.
It's just the worst show, this Nightline, with this guy.
It's imaginable.
Anyway.
So what they missed on the Nightline show was another trend which they're starting to talk about.
And the new term is out there.
The new meme is sexting.
Oh, yeah.
Sexting, yeah.
Instead of texting.
And sexting, which I was just stunned that they didn't even bring it up, is these kids, again, teenagers, who just text message constantly, sending lewd pictures of themselves to their friends.
To their girlfriend or whatever.
Which, you know, girls are now being arrested for because that's child pornography.
You're actually storing and transferring child pornography if you're underage.
And they're being arrested for it.
I know.
There's a bunch of arrests being made.
These kids are going, arrested for what?
Yeah, because you sent a naked picture.
That's child pornography right there.
Wait a minute.
It's my own picture.
You can't send it to anyone.
That breaks all the laws right there.
I know.
These kids are befuddled by this.
And there's some kid that was thrown in the slammer.
Yeah.
Girls.
13-year-old girls.
Yeah, but there's also boys that send pictures of their dick.
Oh, no.
But they get a criminal record.
And, oh, they're sick.
And they have to go to the psychiatrist.
And Child Protective Services will come and take them away.
It's just another reason for all of that shit.
You know, I like to stick to the Apple community.
We have something called iCheat.
What's iCheat?
Well, you know iChat?
Yeah.
Well, so that's iCheat.
You have sexting and you have iCheating.
Oh, okay.
Because it's a full-on video, audio, great quality experience with chroma key backgrounds.
Oh, you can do chroma keys with iChat?
Well, yeah, it's a kind of chroma key.
It's automatic.
It says step out of the frame, and then you step out of the frame, and then it keys.
It's best if you have a white wall behind you, obviously, or some even color.
And you can do a QuickTime movie or just a picture.
It's pretty cool.
You can really customize your experience.
And you can have multiple people on.
You can share the desktop.
It's iCheating.
Now, brought to you by Mattel and Apple.
Eye cheating for kids.
Well, they should throw all these kids in jail, apparently.
All right, so the big topic for me, which I'm pretty sure showed up on Dvorak.org slash blog as underreported news, is Baxter International, the flu virus vaccine company.
Who sent a lethal mixture of flu vaccine and bird flu to, they say four, but I'm pretty sure it was 18 European countries, to distributors.
And one of the distributors, for whatever reason, maybe just because you've got to test this shit, tried it out on some ferrets, and the ferrets died immediately.
And it turns out that they were sending out flu vaccine mixed with H5N1 virus known as bird flu.
Yeah, well, here's the problem, Adam, and you have to agree with me on this one.
You know, this bird flu thing just kind of didn't go anywhere.
We were hoping for the outbreak so we could have a pandemic, and it never happened.
So the thing to do was to load up some vaccine and send it to Europe and maybe get this thing started.
Right.
That's exactly what this is, John.
I'm glad you laid it out so clearly.
Because we know that the thing that they haven't been able to do yet with bird flu, and yes, all pharmaceutical companies, and I'm the dick that goes in and reads the 10 Q's and the 10 K's, they all boast about their half a billion or billion dollar pipeline of flu vaccine.
And specifically, avian flu vaccine.
You can see it right there.
It says, we have avian flu vaccine and we have a contract with the government.
The stimulus bill has actual billions of dollars appropriated for avian flu and other...
Airborne illnesses written right into it, but they can't get it going because it doesn't transfer from human to human yet.
So clearly the theory is if you mix it in with the flu vaccine, which John, I might point out, you take every single time it's available, and then it's mixed up with bird flu, you could get a hybrid that is an airborne version of human to human H5N1 virus, i.e.
human bird flu.
Right?
Anything's possible.
So, is this being reported at all in the United States?
At all?
I've seen a couple of mentions of it, mostly on blogs.
It's not all over the news that I can tell.
It's Europe.
It's Europe.
Who gives a shit about Europe?
That Gordon Brown guy, give him some DVDs.
Who cares about Europe?
Where's Amy Weinstein when you need her?
Amy Weintraub.
That's even better.
*sigh* So, John, give me some feedback here, man, because I'm really outraged by this.
And I've put a whole bunch of links in the show notes.
There were some homeless people in Poland that did trials on them with flu vaccine, and these homeless people died.
And so now that's been exposed.
So, you know, how does bird flu get into flu vaccines?
How does that virus get in there?
There's supposed to be a BioLevels Hazard 3 operation, which makes it virtually impossible for anything like this to happen.
Yeah, it's kind of peculiar.
Peculiar?!
It's very peculiar.
And by the way, I don't want to go in here and start pounding the drum to get people to donate to this show, but this is the kind of stuff that we talk about.
By the way, I was watching public broadcasting.
We'll get right back to the story.
I was watching public broadcasting.
They keep having these fundraisers, and of course, they get a lot of money.
We are trying to get some so we can do this for the public as opposed to for a sponsor.
Monsanto, send your check.
We'll change our tune overnight.
If it's 100,000 bucks, we'll give them one minute of disinformation, which will have a header.
Disinformation in the morning.
That kind of thing.
Which is fine.
Hey, cornstarch is good for you, kids.
High fructose corn.
HF, whatever.
CS. Which I think is funny.
They use that moniker.
Anyway, this kind of information is what I think is interesting.
I mean, I'm interested in it.
This bird flu story is a great one to talk about.
So it's dvorak.org slash na.
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But, um, this is, uh, this just blows me away, and, you know, Baxter International is a publicly listed company.
Its stock actually went up when they admitted it.
Yeah!
I didn't notice that.
It went up like 90 cents.
They admitted, oh yeah, we messed that up.
Oh, everyone was like, yeah, these guys are doing it!
They're on it!
Quick, invest!
It's a good way to go!
Make some money!
Yeah, they should probably be thrown in jail.
I'm going to make a prediction right now.
Remember I told you about that Jade Goody?
The girl who's dying of what initially was cervical cancer?
The Big Brother celebrity?
Oh, right, right, right.
So, my prediction is...
And it's horrible, but somewhere between this program and it won't probably take more than four to six weeks, they will start using her death, her imminent death, as a reason for people to go get this bogus HPV vaccination.
Which, of course, might be mixed up with bird flu!
If they start doing that, make some clips on the show.
Some clips of what?
I think you're absolutely correct, and why wouldn't they?
Yeah, exactly.
And it's disturbing, John.
It's just fucking disturbing.
That bird flu thing is pretty bad.
How did it get in there in the first place?
What was it doing?
What were they doing playing with it?
I don't get why the media wasn't all over this thing and trying to follow up and doing some investigative reporting.
What were they doing with bird flu in the first place?
There's nothing.
We get nothing.
These guys are horrible.
I mean, it's gotten to the point, you know, where, like I was mentioning earlier, the stuff that they're doing is so lame and shallow now that it's just pathetic.
They're so brazen.
They're just out in the open.
You know, it's climate change.
Everything's happening around you.
We're entering into that phase where there was a great article.
I think someone copied you.
There was an email from Nancy Levant.
Let me just bring this up for a second.
It was called The United Shame of America.
And I'd never heard this term before, but she talks about green communism, better known as communitarianism.
Had you heard that term?
No, no, I don't remember this one.
I like it.
Communitarianism, so that's basically green communism.
And it really talks about how, and she's talking from the U.S. perspective, and I think it kind of goes for most countries where people are listening, is that we want it this way.
We let it happen.
Because we just can't be bothered.
We'll just give it up and let someone else do it.
We'll take it.
It goes.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude doesn't mean that we can't be in servitude.
It's just not involuntary.
And her point of the article is, it's voluntary.
And that's just who we are and who we've become.
I'll put the link in the show notes, but it's a pretty good article.
I thought you were copied on that.
I figured you would have read it.
No, that one's got me.
But I think communitarianism is a good one.
That's a good word.
I like communitarianism.
Because it really is much closer to what's happening.
So, just mention one thing, get it off my list of stuff.
So, I guess of the five science advisors...
The most interesting one is this Sharon Long.
L-O-N-G? L-O-N-G. She's a former Stanford professor.
She's now on the Obama administration.
And she was, before she went to Stanford for a very short stint, about a year, she was on the board of directors of Monsanto.
Oh!
You're kidding!
It's another episode of Shadow Puppet Theater with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak in the morning.
And most people think that he was planted in the Obama administration or brought in so she could straighten him out.
Pun intended.
Planted.
Hello.
Yes.
And so they could straighten him out about labeling because the biggest thing that Monsanto tries to do, and they tried to do this and they ruined the careers of some radio personalities in Florida.
I think they sued him into oblivion who were making a fuss about the fact that Monsanto was going around from state to state to get this local...
This is why they wanted, by the way, to federalize all this agriculture stuff and make the states stooges so they don't pull this kind of crap, because that way you only have to go to one source to get the law the way you want it, instead of state to state to state.
So Monsanto was going around.
This was a few years ago.
Making it illegal for people to put on their milk cartons does not contain any milk from cows given BST, which is that bovine, whatever it is, that makes them produce more milk.
It's a shot they give these cows, and the next thing you know, they're cranking out tons of more milk.
By the way, I've tasted the milk from that process.
It tastes like shit.
No, it tastes like water.
Yeah, that would be shit.
Yeah, it's just watery.
It's like, what is this?
What's the point?
Why don't I just drink water?
How did the radio hosts get into trouble?
I don't see the connection.
Apparently they got sued, just a nuisance sued from Monsanto, and they just started making their lives miserable.
They got them fired.
There's a story about that.
We'll have to dig it up, and we'll go over it in detail, because it's a disgusting tale.
Sharon R. Long, Ph.D., very interesting.
Her current research as of this writing...
Uses molecular, genetic, and biochemical techniques to study the early stages of symbiosis.
Says he's a gene splicer.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, the idea is that she's coming in the Obama administration to make sure that...
Because Obama, among his other promises that he is reneged on, he's promised that genetically modified foods will be clearly labeled.
Yeah, and dangerous.
But as long as they're labeled, it's okay.
Right, the danger, well, yes.
But they have to be clearly labeled.
Monsanto does not want them labeled at all.
No.
Duh.
Because their argument is, you know, their argument is, there's no difference between the genetically modified food and regular food.
Except that 50% of mice die after eating genetically modified food.
There's no difference otherwise.
Well, you know, there's a mice.
Anyway, so she's in there as the stooge for Monsanto, while there's other woman, this congresswoman, whose husband has got connections.
It's a total takeover.
It's an amazing operation.
I mean, it's astonishing to me that they are as good as they are in terms of this kind of thing.
How are they doing as an investment?
Probably really good.
I don't know.
It's definitely got the corner on the market for this stuff.
I have not been able to prove this.
I would have talked about it as a story item.
Supposedly, they're only using Monsanto seeds or some genetically engineered stuff for all the new agricultural plantings going on in Iraq.
We'd give money to everybody, but they have to use these.
I'm sure it's one of the strings that are attached.
Here's the money for your new crop, but you have to use these seeds, of course.
But this is happening everywhere.
You can't get away from Monsanto.
You just can't get away.
And if you think you can, they'll spread some seeds on your land, and they'll come by, and then they'll fine you for it, unless you start buying licenses.
Yeah, no, I know.
That's ridiculous.
I don't understand how the courts can put up with that, and they do it consistently.
Well, because the courts and the judges are all paid and bought for.
It's all done.
Okay, so Monsanto had a high of 140, and now it's sitting around...
It's got to be a lot lower than that.
It's got to be 30, 40s.
No, no.
It's still in the 70s.
Really?
Well, there you go.
71.65 as we speak.
But let's see what the numbers look like.
Let me just think one quickly.
I don't want to make this a stock market show.
No.
But the peg is right on the money.
This company, that's what the stock's worth.
So they're doing fine.
Yeah.
Yeah, you mean the book value versus cap?
No, the peg is the price-earnings growth ratio.
In other words, you see what it's going to look like.
The old rule, some investors believe in this rule, which is that the price-earnings should reflect the growth rate.
And so the peg essentially tells you it does it.
If it's one, it does.
But it's tricky because lots of companies acquire other companies to really fuck with their PDE ratio.
Yeah, it's an old trick.
A couple updates.
I know you're on a tight schedule because you're leaving, so I just want to rush through a couple things.
We talked about the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who said, hey, we're going to run out of money if the banks don't pay us some more, then we won't be able to guarantee the $250,000 you have in your bank account, citizens.
Of course, this is definitely...
Everybody's walking around with a tin cup out.
Yeah, well, $500 billion has been moved by Christopher Dodd, the Senate Banking Chairman Committee, to allow the Treasury to lend $500 billion.
That's another hole that is just going to walk right through.
$500 billion, half a trillion dollars, to insure your money.
So your money insuring your money.
Go figure.
How does it work?
How does it work?
Moving right along, European banks.
Looks like the total nut is about $2 trillion.
America, thank you.
You're going to pay for that.
You're paying for it through your contributions to AIG, which there will be more.
Just a funny trend.
Both Clinton and Obama now saying, never waste a good crisis.
This is kind of a theme that you'll read more and more.
That politicians say, hey, you know, a crisis is really good because then you can change a lot of stuff.
And so now they're just saying it just as boldly as all this other bullshit.
Yeah, well, why not?
You know, the public seems to be, you know, for one thing, they're not being informed about anything.
Right.
I mean, how many people, I mean, we have a couple hundred thousand people listen to our show, and they probably get irked by these stories.
But, well, you know, let's just spit in the bucket.
You want to go back to Amy Weintraub?
That's fine.
We're happy to do news about her.
Have you seen Britney Spears, by the way?
She's kind of chubby again.
She is, I think.
Because the last time I saw a picture of her, you know, she looked pretty good.
Well, you know, but, you know, picture.
I mean, it's like, you look at pictures of magazines on newsstands, you don't think every single one of them is manipulated?
Further corrupting the young women of the universe who believe that that's the way you're supposed to look?
Yeah.
She does not look the way she looks on the magazine.
Here's, by the way, the Associated Press has to spend their time on this story.
Associated Press, breaking news.
One hour ago, Britney Spears visits sick kids in Miami Hospital.
Hold on a second.
We're not...
Pop singer Britney Spears made a surprise visit to a group of sick children at Miami Children's Hospital.
The 27-year-old Spears posed for photos with the children on Saturday.
She's also donating $100,000 to the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program, which brings clowns to young hospital patients.
We nailed it.
Totally nailed it.
Good job.
Good job.
That's the kind of news that people are getting.
So I've been talking about this AIG thing.
So it's very hard to follow this news because now it seems like every day on C-SPAN there's 18 different banking committee meetings and you don't know which one to follow and there's all these different C-SPAN channels.
But the big thing is, AIG being an insurer, these are the guys who insured all these bad investments, and also held bad investments, or basically spreadsheet entries of no value.
Right.
These billions of dollars that have to go in, there's all kinds of people like representatives saying, could you please tell us what we're doing with the money?
And the Treasury and the Fed are literally saying, we cannot tell you because it's counterparties.
So you make a deal, right?
You say, I'm going to insure you...
For this that you have over here.
So that person, that customer, if you will, is called a counterparty in banking.
And they are, of course, the European banks who are two trillion in the hole.
But your government will not tell you that your money, your tax money, and the money being created on the backs of your children is going to European entities.
And no one can, every lawyer's trying to get this out, they just flatly refuse.
Because, oh, you know, that could destroy the counterparty.
It is an unbelievable travesty that is taking place before your very eyes.
But what was going on with Britney Spears again?
She went and visited a kid's sick kid.
Sick kid, right.
Okay.
You know, you can't beat a story like that.
No, I mean sick kids, man.
I mean, shit.
Everything for the children.
There's Tim Geithner's choice for deputy.
Tim Geithner is the Secretary of the Treasury.
His assistant, Annette Nazareth, quit.
Another one.
These guys can't.
What's going on over there?
Well, this is kind of the political story.
Everyone's saying, hey, man.
And I don't get it.
In a country where we have to save and create three and a half million jobs, the administration can't seem to hire anybody.
What is going on with that?
There's a lot of people who I'm quite sure would be very capable of filling a lot of these positions, and if not by background and skills, certainly by pure spirit and motivation.
It's crazy.
Maybe they can't buy off people fast enough, but whatever it is, they're failing big time.
They don't have the house full.
They don't have everybody in.
I don't get it.
John, you're old enough.
I mean that in a good way.
Don't you just look at this and say, this is something very different.
This is just messed up.
You know, one of the newspapers in London on that thing with Gordon Brown getting snubbed, some columnist made some allusions that Michelle Obama is a Lady Macbeth.
Yeah, I read that.
And she's apparently, you know, she didn't want to see him or she, you know, didn't want to...
Explain Lady Macbeth, because not everyone understands that reference.
Well, that's a person who is...
What it implies in this regard is that she's a person who's behind the scenes manipulating things.
So she's the real boss.
She's the actual president.
Gee, not like that was the same with Clinton.
So, um...
So, and there was some thought that maybe it's because, you know, the British were slave traders or something, and, you know, she's still irked about that.
I'm thinking, you know, what is the possibility?
By the way, I did look at you and said, well, maybe there's something here, but I couldn't find any evidence of it.
But it's always amused me, the possibility, because you run into people like this.
My wife's run into him.
I run into him.
You just run into him over time.
You go, and it could be anybody in the administration.
It could be Michelle.
It could be Rahm Emanuel.
You go, and you start working there, and the guy comes up to you, and he says, by the way, if you do something like that again, I'm going to kill you and eat your eyeballs.
Which, by the way, Rahm Emanuel has been known to have these type of outbursts.
So, I mean, you've seen this happen.
You run into these people.
They exist out there and they come up and they get you alone and they threaten you in a very creepy way, out of the blue.
This has to be going on in this administration because there's no other reason for these people like the guy who was the Surgeon General.
Two days later, he says, I'm out of here.
I have personal reasons.
He leaves.
He walks.
Why is this?
Who went up to him and said, hey...
You know, if you think you're going to get my job, I'm going to kill you if I even see you taking a look at such and such.
You know, I mean, who knows?
I mean, there's somebody in this administration that's doing something, and he's got to be rooted out, and he's got to be fired.
Unless, I mean, if it was Michelle Obama, which I don't really think so, you're not going to get rid of her, but everybody else is up fair game.
Something's wrong.
The most famous Rahm Emanuel story of them all is the one that begins with the dinner the night after Bill Clinton was elected in 1992.
This guy's been in politics for a while.
Among those present at the dinner table was ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who watched while an overwrought and clearly exhausted Emanuel began ranting at a long list of Clinton enemies.
As he shouted each name, he stabbed the table with his steak knife.
Nat Landau, dead!
Cliff Jackson, dead!
Apparently others at the table joined in.
So he is a candidate.
Yeah, he's a candidate.
And he would have contact with everybody.
But what you're saying is, it's really, it sounds like the cloak and dagger stuff that you still see on these period piece movies, which always win Oscars, where you have some guy in the shadows with a cloak.
Cardinal Richelieu.
Right, and he comes out and is like, if you do that one more time, I will kill you.
You know what?
You will step back and shut the fuck up.
That's what you will do.
Or quit.
Yeah, or withdraw, as we call it.
Withdraw.
That's interesting.
So, wow, John, I like that theory.
It's the only possible explanation.
Well, I would look to the chief of staff to be the first possibility as the guy responsible for everything.
I don't think it's that Orzac dude.
He doesn't look mean enough.
Although, Lady Macbeth as Michelle Obama, maybe.
Maybe.
She looks like she could beat me up.
She could crush my head between her thighs.
Pop my head like a pimple.
Good point.
Two anniversaries that I don't want to have passed unnoticed.
It is International Women's Day today.
On the 8th of March, 2009.
And that's been going since the beginning of the 1900s.
But apparently, mainstream media doesn't give a shit about women.
So that's why you're not hearing about it.
But maybe more interesting for this program and audience, the Global Seed Vault celebrates its anniversary.
And of course, the Global Seed Vault is...
This seed bank in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, and its purpose is to replenish the world's crops in the event of a global catastrophe.
I think Bill Gates contributed to this, and there's a whole bunch of big companies, and people always kind of wonder what that's about.
There's been a thing floating around the interwebs for at least a year or so that supposedly a Norwegian politician I came out and told some conspiracy theorists, of course, some friendly conspiracy theorists with a website and a downloadable emblem,
that there's all these underground tunnels in the mountains there and the fjords and whatever in Norway, and there's trains that go at light speed, and there's all kinds of shit that's going on, and that's the place where all the people who are needed to survive...
The coming apocalypse, that they're all going to be transported there.
But there's all kinds of crazy things floating around about that, which I'm sure you've never heard of.
No, I haven't heard that.
I didn't know that Bill Gates was involved.
He paid for all the FedEx shipments of the seed.
Really?
Yeah.
Probably to get a discount from Microsoft.
By the way, that's how they ship vaccines as well.
Did you know that?
FedEx?
Yeah.
So that's what the bird flu went out, FedEx?
Mm-hmm.
When you absolutely, positively need your bird flu the next day, FedEx is there to bring it to you.
Sure, maybe FedEx can expand and they can just do the vaccinations as well.
You know, they'll bring the vaccinations.
Why don't they just arm all the FedEx guys and when they come to deliver it, they just shoot you?
Yeah, but that would be cheaper.
Yeah.
I think I've spent my wad.
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You know, I was going to mention that PBS has a bunch of this stuff, you know, where they're always begging for money, but PBS has deteriorated.
They had a Yanni concert on the other day, and then they came on asking for money, thinking, you better pay me.
But they've done the Yanni thing a thousand times.
Isn't that the same concert, or do they keep bringing him back?
I don't know.
I mean, it's just a horrible thing to watch.
Yeah, the Yanni concert's pretty bad.
The, um...
The Andre Rieu Viennese concert, it's actually pretty good.
I like, he's a Dutch guy, and he's very successful with the show that he does, which is just massive.
But still, a hundred bucks.
You know, we're a much better deal, and I think you get more bang for the buck, and less Yanni.
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