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112: The Doomsday Box
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's July 12th, 2009.
Time for your Gitmo Nation audio publication 112.
This is no agenda.
Hey everybody, coming to you from an undisclosed 17th century canal house location.
It is the Crackpot Command Center on remote.
Coming to you via WiMAX.
I'm Adam Curry.
Wow.
I'm here in the Pacific Northwest.
Gitmo Nation, Pacific Northwest.
John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, man.
The bandwidth gods have not been favorable this past week for me.
The cable went out here on Thursday.
And it's been out ever since, of course.
Talking to customer support is a big joke.
Do they talk?
Are they in India?
No, they're in Holland, but they might as well be in India because literally they go through this list and say...
They've hired Indians.
I was like, is the coax plugged in?
I said, look, dipshit.
Could you please put me through to an engineer who could actually, like, you know, check...
No, no, no, we can't do that, but we'll set up an appointment for you.
Would you like Monday?
It's fucking Thursday.
No, Monday between 8 and 1 or 12 and 6.
Well, give me between 8 and 1.
I'm sorry, that's not available.
Well, then give me between 12 and 6.
And it's so sad.
I said, well, you know, can't you get, it's like, you know, I'm sure that more of the block is down.
I mean, it just went out, you know.
There's obviously a problem at the head end somewhere.
I said, well, then you should go to your neighbors and ask them to call and complain too, because the more complaints we get, the quicker that someone will come out and check.
I'm like, okay, I'm just...
What kind of a business plan is that?
It's UPC. UPC, who I'd like to name and shame.
Universal Product Code?
When do they get into the business?
They might as well be the Universal Product Code.
So anyway, so there's this...
Kind of the new service, new WiMAX service in Amsterdam, which I have to say is pretty cool.
You go into the store, you buy the USB stick modem, and then you sign up online.
You can prepay, so I prepaid for a week, and you can decide what kind of bandwidth you want.
So I said, give me the max, which is 5 megabits down, 1 megabit up.
You plug it in, and the crap just works.
So, where do you pick?
So, if I was visiting, I could just go buy one of these things and then I'd be online while I was in Amsterdam?
Well, even better than that, you can use any WiMAX modem.
You know, it's just a modem.
Yeah, but let me warn you that WiMAX modems are incompatible with each other.
Okay, all right.
Well, so, in that case, yeah, you can come into Amsterdam, you pick up a WiMAX modem, which I think is 90 euros.
That's reasonable.
It's reasonable.
And then you go online.
They're paying $20 a day in a hotel.
Hell yeah!
And let's see, one week of the five down, one up costs $9.95.
And obviously, if you do a longer term, you can do a contract.
I did the prepaid.
You can do a longer term.
And I think the five down, one up per month, if you do a six-month contract, is like $14.95.
And it's awesome.
Of course, it doesn't give me, you know, porn on TV, because that's still out, but otherwise, it allows me to do the show.
Hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm pleasantly surprised, I have to say.
Of course, let me knock on wood, because you know that, of course, it'll crap out halfway through.
Probably.
Let me see how we're doing on the stream here.
Oh, yeah, lots of people on the stream.
Cool.
Oh, wait a minute.
Why does it say offline?
What the hell is that?
Let me go look at the chat room.
I'm listening to the chat room today.
Yeah, can people still hear it?
Because I'm getting like a...
So you guys still in the chat room there?
Yeah, hey.
Smackintosh, are you still hearing the...
Smackintosh?
Smackintosh.
Are these our dudes?
And Twisted Lemon.
I love it.
I love it.
So, do you want to start?
Yeah.
Well, we can start with your, you know, again, you know, I want to remind people and I think the guy says the stream is good.
Don't touch it, Adam.
Okay.
I want to remind people that we actually give them news before it actually happens.
You mean like Michael Jackson being murdered?
We've done this consistently, by the way, since the flying swoo.
The flying swoo, everybody.
We're all going to die from the flying swoo.
The swine flu to everything in between and the oil fiasco.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
But yes, that's exactly what I'm referring to.
Janet Jackson has come out and said she thinks her brother was murdered.
Yeah, duh.
Not just Janet, but Joe has come out and more members of the family and now the L.A. police commissioner is saying we're treating it as possible murder investigation.
Well, duh!
Duh!
But of course the only reason they did that, John, is they wanted to hold back because they needed to extend the real news a little bit to cover up what is actually happening in the world.
Yeah, well, that's a possibility, too.
And I'll be happy to...
So let's go over some of the possibilities, some real news, then, that's happening in the world.
Well, not real news, but news that's happening in the world.
Some actual news.
Well, we kind of glossed over it last week, or Thursday, if we even...
I hear the helicopters coming, by the way.
Are they black?
No, they're blue and they're bulkhofs.
It's just the Dutch police.
The news of the world...
Well, of course, what hits the news is they were tapping cell phones of celebrities.
And you wonder why News of the World always has the latest celebrity gossip first.
News of the World is a Sunday newspaper publication in the United Kingdom, Gitmo Nation East, that...
It does about 9 or 10 million copies per Sunday, per week.
So they always have the latest news about celebrities and sports figures.
But they were also tapping the phones and the text messages of a number of politicians.
That's why you do it.
Yes.
So, of course, the news is all focusing on, oh my gosh, they know all this great stuff about Elle McPherson.
But what's really going on, and I have to say the Guardian has been all over this, You have to understand some of the connections.
The conservative leader, David Cameron, so that's of the shadow government, as they call it, the opposition.
His director of communications is Andy Coulson, spelled C-O-U-L-S-O-N. And he was a deputy editor and editor of the News of the World at the time when this was taking place.
And now Murdoch, because of course News of the World is part of the Sun, which is all part of the Murdoch empire.
He's paying people off to the tune of one million pounds to stop the court cases.
And now I'm really starting to understand and connect all these dots.
Because...
world and so when you have blackmailing politicians that's why you do it i keep saying you know since the day that they started initiating these wireless you know these warrantless wiretaps you know that's what it's all about it's about blackmail and and and stock tips not about terrorism well let's keep it on the stock tips for a second because that's where it gets very interesting uh And I'll put these links in the show notes, obviously, at noagenda.media.com.
You can find it at noagenda.squarespace.com because it is connected to this code that was stolen, quote, stolen from Goldman Sachs.
This computer code, which actually has a name.
They call it, I think, the Doomsday Box or something like that.
Hold on.
It would come up with something like that.
Everybody's got a sense of humor.
My Russian sources, you know, they always come up with good stuff.
Hold on.
For some reason, 8 million browser windows just opened.
That was kind of weird.
Some kind of funny pop-up.
I'm going to get this story for you.
Tracking.
Adam Curry pop-up.
Yeah.
Tracking.
We're in command.
Yes, we've got him.
We've got him now.
You going, babe?
No.
Oh, I love you, too.
Sorry, it's my producer.
Did you throw up in your mouth again?
Go on.
Okay, hold on.
Keep digging where you're digging.
Okay, here we go.
All right.
Yeah, it is called the Doomsday Box.
So you have to understand that here's all these connections, and it eventually comes back to Murdoch.
The Israeli opposition leader, former Mossad agent Zippy Levini, T-Z-I-P-I, apparently turned over a complete dossier Which includes knowledge of this code, which was written by the ISA, which is the Israeli Security Forces or whatever it is.
Agency.
Yeah, agency.
Thank you.
And so there's a lot of confirmation.
And there's really good links in these articles that I'll put up in the show notes, including Bloomberg, about, here's a quote, never let it be said that the Justice Department can't move quickly when it gets a hot tip about an alleged crime at a Wall Street bank.
It does help, though, if the party doing the complaining is the bank itself and not merely an aggrieved customer.
Sure.
Another plus is if the bank tells the Fed the security of the U.S. financial markets is at stake.
This brings us to the strange tale of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
and Sergei Alenikov.
So Elenikoff is the former Goldman computer programmer who was arrested on charges July 3rd as he stepped off a flight at Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, which was two days after Goldman told the government that he had stolen its secret rapid-fire stock and commodities trading software in early June.
So Obviously, and the point is very clear, that when the bank says to the feds, hey man, he stole some code, I mean normally you'd have like a normal path of investigation, but no, they get this guy within two days at the airport, right?
They jump all over him because they know what's really going on.
This code is now pretty much confirmed to be the black box that sits in the middle really before the trades are executed, and it was being used for this rapid-fire trading where you can do a trade in a millisecond and make 0.5 cents, right?
0.5 cents per trade.
Now, of course, if you're doing computer trading, you can do 8 million of these trades a day.
Then it starts to get a little bit more interesting.
Or you could do 800 million of them.
What this does is it creates two things.
One, it's very little incremental pieces of margin that you're making on these rapid-fire, quick trades.
Make no mistake, the computers that run on Wall Street are huge.
This is just massive iron that they're running.
But it also gives a fake sense of liquidity in a stock.
Because when you hold a stock, you say, you know, I'm going to buy into the stock because, look, there's like 80 million shares being traded every single day.
But it's being done at a very, very, very small margin.
So the Doomsday Program, according to these articles, was created by the ISA programmers, who were then working under Chairman of the Israeli National Security Council, Dr.
Uzi Arad, Let's see who else was in this.
His wife, Dr.
Ruth Arad, Vice President, Chief Risk Officer of Bank Leumi, L-E-U-M-I, and Jacob Ezra Merkin, who bought the bank from the Israeli government, which was then headed up by Ariel Sharon.
And Finance Minister Ehud Olmert.
So, what this comes back to is that Jacob Ezra Merkin gave this code or allowed access to it to his long-time business partner.
Who could that be, John?
I don't know.
Who do you think?
Bernard Madoff.
Huh.
And he used it for his own personal gain, you know, to take the $50 or $60 billion.
So how long do you think Madoff's got to live?
Oh, he's going to go any minute now.
He's going to be heart attacked within seconds.
It's a new verb, by the way.
You can get heart attacked.
Actually, I don't think he's going to be the fake heart attack that we might be looking at with the Enron guy.
You don't think so?
When this kind of stuff starts coming out and there's all kinds of connect-the-dot problems, you've got to break the chain someplace.
It's just the way it is.
Sorry, Bernard.
Well, so anyway...
It'd be easier anyway to do it that way.
At this point, you know...
Well, it depends.
He's got a lot of dough sitting around.
Of course, he did send that money off.
I would presume, and there's been lots of speculation, that where did all the money go that he stole?
Well, of course, he sent that to his buddies in Israel, I guess.
Um...
But now Murdoch, of course, knows everything because he tapped everyone's phone calls and probably everyone's phone calls around the world.
Yeah.
Yeah, Murdoch's in the catbird seat.
He is totally there.
He's reminding me of the character in the James Bond movie.
Which one is that?
The one where this guy, this publisher, tries to take over the world and he looks a little like Murdoch.
Interesting.
Which movie was that?
A couple of movies ago.
I think it was the last one.
It was either the first one with the new guy or maybe the last one done with, what's his name, the good-looking British actor that he got fired.
I'm sorry, I don't know.
Oh, we can't remember anything that's pathetic.
I don't know anybody.
Somebody in this chatroom, who was the name of the actor that, what was it, somebody in the chatroom must know this James Bond movie I'm talking about and they can cite it.
So anyway, so it seems like...
I don't think this chatroom really listens to us, by the way.
No, no, they're just sitting there bitching about, how come I'm and John do the show together in the same location?
They should have dinner together and record it.
That's what they're talking about.
Ah, Pierce Brosnan, right.
Yeah.
So, I don't know, man.
Just take a look at the Obama administration.
Take a look at all of the Goldman Sachs executives who are in there and have been in there and how rampant it is.
In fact, this report even says that economists around the world are now calling Wall Street the fourth branch of the government, which I think is kind of funny.
I like it.
Well, here we go.
Well, since we're on that topic...
Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion.
They've been refusing that for months.
They're refusing now a new Bloomberg suit.
But no, the big news is not that so much.
It's the fact that they tried to slip in an audit, the Fed.
Oh, right.
They tried to attach it to another bill?
Yeah, and it's just, no, it ain't going to happen.
This whole thing ain't going to happen.
Well, they do have enough to pass the House, but what I did not know is even if you have like 280 people or whatever who co-sponsor a bill, it still has to be introduced, right?
Nancy Pelosi would have to introduce this bill.
How does that work, John?
No, they kept the writer out of the bill.
By the way, it's Tomorrow Never Dies, seems to be the movie.
But tell me, how do you get a bill onto the floor of the House?
I mean, is this like some magical process?
No, it's just, it goes through it, first it's written up, and then it goes through a committee, and then the committee has to submit it to the House, and then the House has to accept it, and that's done through various, it's just a bureaucracy until it gets to the floor, and then when it gets to the floor, it gets voted on, after debate.
Okay, so, but it takes a long time, by the way.
Can it take years and years?
Committee is where all the action is, it's the committees, the committees, the committees, the committees are the ones who make the decision whether it's going to be put out or not.
And it usually gets you to think, killed in committee.
Because the committee just says, no, we're not going to do it.
And when you have it, the committee's dominated by the party in charge, so the committee maybe had nine people, and it's five Democrats and four Republicans, or six Democrats and three Republicans, and if the Democrats don't let the bill go out, boom, stays as killed in committee.
Well, that's kind of a weird process.
That's a good process.
It slows things down as much as it can.
The problem is there's all these people adding things to the bill at the end.
Right.
The bill comes out of committee, the fine bill, and then people start slipping in the bullshit.
Right.
Well, how come this can't be slipped in as bullshit on some other bill?
They're going to try.
But it's obviously, if can't get slipped into as bullshit on this bill, it's going to be just as hard to be slipped into as bullshit on any bill.
It's not going to happen.
That's so disappointing.
Our system clearly doesn't work.
Well, no, that part doesn't work.
It's corrupt.
It does work if it wasn't for corrupt politicians.
And the fixes in, and the fact that the whole country is being run by public relations departments, you know, the only thing that's actually saved us is the fact that the public relations departments, which were just before the internet came along and the web started taking over, essentially the public relations departments to all these large corporations were writing to the newspapers.
Newspaper people weren't reporting on anything.
You're so right.
But now they can't do that anymore because they don't know who's the movers and shakers out there.
I mean, when's the last time you were called by a public relations person regarding this show?
They don't even know it exists.
So along those very lines...
We, by the way, have an audience as big as most newspapers, so we're screwed up.
And we actually make money.
We're not actually losing money on the deal.
We have to beg for it, but we do make some.
Yeah, I mean, we're not losing a million dollars a week.
Like our local paper in San Francisco.
Kerry, our New York research department, Kerry Lutz, sent, I think he sent it to you as well, John, an article that ran in the New York Post, which of course is a tabloid newspaper.
But in these days, I would say that you'll probably get more real news from the tabloid newspapers than you'll get from any other source, which of course they're the only ones that can actually print it because it's so outrageous that it gets written off as crazy talk.
Yeah. - Yeah.
Yeah.
Apparently, Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a post within the Obama administration that will grant him powers, as the article says, that are merely mind-boggling powers.
It explicitly supports using the courts to impose a chilling effect on speech that might hurt someone's feelings.
So this is how he's working on stifling free speech on the internet.
Yeah, it's a good effect.
It's a...
It might work.
It might.
He has a new book, which is coming out, advanced copies, of course, were read by the journalist who wrote this article.
His book is called On Rumors, How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.
It's gone out to reviewers ahead of its September publication date, but considering the prominence with which Sunstein is about to be endowed, and he has been chosen by President Obama to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
John, finally, the Ministry of Truth!
It's here!
It's about time.
The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
This has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, but of course you haven't really heard about this because we're more concerned with Michael Jackson's murder.
And let me see if I can find...
Here we go.
He worries, that's Sunstein, that we're headed for a future in which, quote, people's beliefs are a product of social networks working as echo chambers in which false rumors spread like wildfire.
That future, though, already here, according to Sunstein, we hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet.
We live in that world.
What might be done to reduce the harm?
Well, He questions the libel standard.
Basically, it comes down to a notify and take down.
That puts you and myself in the driver's seat when it comes to some of those early lawsuits.
Yeah, well...
There's always somebody saying something nasty about us.
Yeah, right.
And it hurts my feelings.
It hurts my feelings.
My feelings are so freaking hurt, John.
What he's going for is a libel.
So a system of...
Notify and takedown.
So a takedown notice is for untruths on the internet.
So if you write an untruth...
Notify and takedown.
This is going to be the government dole because they're going to have to hire millions of People to do this.
I want a job.
I got to study some law.
I got to pass the bar.
I got to get into some kind of law program.
Take down notice.
And by the way, how does that work with global warming?
Oh, well.
Oh, geez.
Well, of course.
If you say that global warming doesn't exist, you'll get a take down notice.
Yeah.
You'll get a total take down notice.
We were talking about...
What's her name, the weird chick who was testifying?
We had a sound clip of her last time.
Janine Garofalo?
She looks a bit like Janine Garofalo, but no, that's not the one.
The other one.
Uh...
The Lisa Jackson.
Lisa Jackson, yeah.
And I'm just skimming through my email to find this clip.
How come I can't find this now?
Let me just search for it.
So apparently two years ago, the Supreme Court passed a ruling that said that the EPA, which she now heads, would be allowed to create legislation to stop greenhouse gases.
But there were several other memos that basically said there's no science to support that greenhouse gases are creating global warming.
And I can't believe that maybe this wasn't the same hearing, John, that you pulled the clip from, but I have a YouTube video here.
And it's the same.
You have to add to this to give you more background.
There's also a proviso within that scenario you described that she, the head of the EPA, or any head of the EPA, not just her, can define, and they talked about this in these hearings, can define anything as a greenhouse gas if they want to.
Yes.
Helium could be a greenhouse gas.
Yes.
Well, I think CO2 pretty much covers most things since that's the shit we're exhaling when we breathe.
So I think they did a pretty good job.
There's going to be attacks on that.
You're going to have to hold your breath.
And in fact, that's where the saying will come from.
Don't hold your breath.
There you go.
So there's a smoking gun memo.
And Barrasso actually questions her on it, and I think we should listen to a little bit of this clip.
Stop me when it gets too much for you, John.
I appreciated Senator Whitehouse's comments that we need lawful, fact-based regulation.
So this is Barrasso speaking.
Ms.
Jackson's comments that she wanted to make sure that we did this without overburdening small businesses and others.
Okay.
And that brings to my concern and the question, Ms.
Jackson, about the EPA recent proposal finding greenhouse gases, as you said, are a danger to the public health and welfare.
Oh, I know why, John.
This is actually from May, this hearing.
So I guess we missed this one altogether.
It's the Environment and Public Works Committee.
It really appears to me that that decision was based more on political calculation than on scientific ones.
In a memo that I received this morning...
And it's marked deliberative attorney-client privilege.
Nine pages.
You are mentioned on every page of this memo.
It is a White House memo.
Counsel in this administration repeatedly, repeatedly questions the lack of scientific support that you have for this proposed finding.
It's here, nine pages.
This is a smoking gun saying that your findings were political, not scientific.
Here, page two.
There is concern that the EPA is making a finding based on harm from substances that have no demonstrated direct health effects.
I love that.
Such as respiratory or toxic effects.
You then talk about regulating greenhouse gases and the economy.
Dow Jones Newswire this morning.
U.S. regulation of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is likely to have serious economic consequences for businesses small and large across the economy.
That's what a White House memo warned the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year.
Here it is.
Making the decision to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act for the first time is likely to have serious economic consequences This is really important stuff because people don't realize what's being voted on and how it will indeed completely tank every single company because of the high prices of energy costs, which will include just turning lights on.
How do you square that when you say, I don't want any overriding effect on the economy of small businesses?
But this own internal document marked deliberative attorney-client privilege says everything you're proposing is going to have serious economic consequences for our businesses in this nation.
Charlie Munger, who was Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, He was recently on CNBC. He said an artificial market and government-mandated carbon credits would be, quote, monstrously stupid to do right now.
He added that the move is almost demented to other nations' intention to continue industrial development, emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
I could go on, but I am fascinated to see what you have been saying and yet to see what the White House has been writing and where you're on every page.
Would you like to comment?
Certainly, I'd like to comment.
Is she Latina?
She's mixed.
You can't tell.
She looks like she kind of has a...
I don't know.
She's maybe half-black, half-Latin, or Puerto Rican.
She might be Puerto Rican.
I don't know.
Your voice just went up like four octaves.
That's pretty cool.
How do you do that?
Is someone in the house downloading porn again?
No.
Might be something going on.
Anyway.
You sound horrible.
Do I? Just all of a sudden?
You went up three octaves, I swear to God.
I wish you could hear it.
Well, let me see what I've got going and maybe there's something downloading.
Nope.
Well, I just sound like this all the time now.
I like it.
What did you do with the real Dvorak?
Who are you?
I've got him.
I've captured Mr.
Dvorak.
All humans must die.
I don't have that document in front of me, so I'll comment generally on any of the issues you bring up.
May I just inquire if the senator intends to make that document a matter of record?
Hell yeah!
With your permission, Madam Chairman, I would be happy to do that.
That way we all know what we're talking about.
Oh, she makes a face?
Oh, man, you just want to hate her.
She's a horrible person.
Yes, she is.
I'm sorry if I hurt her feelings by saying that.
Oh, you could get a takedown notice for saying that, dude.
I will answer briefly, Senator, because I suspect we will have this discussion many times.
I disagree with several of the characterizations.
The first is that the endangerment finding is a scientific finding, mandated by law, mandated by the Supreme Court.
Which, by the way, is not true.
Because if you look at the documents, and I'll put those in the show notes as well, The Supreme Court actually did not say you have to make regulations.
It says, well, you know, you could if you wanted to, but it has to be based on scientific fact, which of course is what the big dispute is.
The Supreme Court ruled two years ago that EPA owed the American people a determination as to whether greenhouse gases, either in whole or individually, endanger public health and welfare.
That analysis had been done Really, before I took the oath of office.
Oh, that all happened with someone else.
I wasn't a part of that.
We did review it, as I promised to do at my confirmation hearing.
We reviewed the science of it.
We reviewed the science.
You look like a scientist, Miss Jackson.
She looks like a...
Like a what?
She doesn't know anything.
I don't know.
You know, she used to be the head.
She got the job because she was the head of the New Jersey.
She worked with the governor's office or something.
She was the head of the New Jersey Air Board for a while or something like that.
So she somehow, I don't know how they picked her, but it was ridiculous.
And I'll tell you this.
I used to work at one of my many jobs.
Of course, I was an air pollution inspector.
John, hold on a second.
Something really weird is going on because, first of all, the voice is killing me.
Second of all, you even look like you're offline on Skype.
I'm on Invisible, but I do that.
Go on Invisible for a second and let me call you back because this is not okay.
Can I still call you?
There you go.
Say something?
And yes, you can, by the way.
You can call me when I'm invisible.
Let's try it right now.
All right, you're back, and the question was, who is this Lisa Jackson?
Yeah, she was like the head of the New Jersey Air Board for a while, and she's a bureaucrat.
And I don't think she even has a science degree or anything, so I don't know why she's the head of the EPA. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
There's probably plenty of very qualified people, but they've got this woman.
But the Jersey connection is always a little sketchy.
Go easy on Jersey, man.
Go easy.
Just saying.
So I worked for the air pollution district as a young man, and we had some guys from Jersey that were part of this.
And they said that basically, essentially, when they went out and did their job in Jersey, they were air pollution guys, it was all payoffs and buyoffs.
There was no real work.
It was all grease.
And so now this is the woman coming from a story.
She's brand new, right?
She was just appointed the new head of the FDA. Oh no, EPA. EPA. She's reasonably new, isn't she?
Yeah, she's brand new.
She's Obama's man.
And man she is.
And I just don't trust her.
And I don't like her.
I don't like the smugness.
I don't think a government servant should be talking down to everybody the way she does.
She's incredibly glib and smug and arrogant.
She's creepy.
Yeah.
Well, let's listen to some more of that glibness.
Agency review through the White House.
So, again, I'm not sure what that document may say.
It's deliberative, so obviously it's people's opinions.
It's people's opinions.
Yeah.
It does not mean regulation.
I have said over and over, as has the President, that we do understand that there are costs to the economy of addressing global warming emissions and that the best way to address them is through a gradual move to a market-based program like cap-and-trade.
Oh!
Oh, my God!
Ugh!
There's a difference between a cap-and-trade program, which can be authorized by legislation and is being discussed, and a regulatory program.
It is true that if the endangerment finding is finalized, EPA would have authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and what I've said in that regard is that we would be judicious, we would be deliberative, we would follow science, we would follow the law, and I would call your attention to our greenhouse gas registry rule, where we particularly didn't look for small businesses to register Or have to report emissions.
If you want an indication of where we know the significant sources of greenhouse gases are, they're in transportation and the utility sector.
So what she's saying is she's actually turning it around and she's saying, oh, well, you know, small businesses won't have to pay for cap-and-trade, but she's avoiding the point, which is the whole cap-and-trade program will raise energy prices to an extreme degree.
That's what she's avoiding.
Yeah, well this is because she, you know, I don't know if she's being insincere or she's an idiot.
I'm not absolutely sure, one of the two.
But there's an article that people should try to track down.
I'll send you, make sure it'll be in the show notes, which is the Telegraph's article on July 11th, 2009 just came out.
Climate Change, the Sun and the Oceans Do Not Lie by Christopher Booker.
And he goes on and on and on with what a crock that this seems to be, especially the cap-and-trade.
But let me just read this, a very funny first paragraph.
The moves now being made by the world's political establishment to lock us into December's Copenhagen Treaty to halt global warming are as alarming as anything that's happened in our lifetimes.
last week in Italy the various branches of our emerging world government G8 and G20 agreed in principle that the world must by 2050 cut its CO2 emissions in half Britain in the US already committed to cutting their fossil fuels by more than 80 percent short of an unimaginable technological revolution this could only be achieved by closing down virtually all of our economic activity no electricity no transport no industry
All of this is being egged on by a gigantic publicity machine, by the UN, by serried ranks of government-funded scientists, by cheerleaders, which is Al Gore.
Last week, comparing the fight against global warming to that against Hitler's Nazis.
Oh!
Go telegraph!
And by politicians who have no idea what they're setting and training.
This makes it even odder that the runaway warming predicted by their computer models simply isn't happening.
This, by the way, is being pointed out only by...
There's somebody the other day that said, you know, right-wing talk radio listeners get...
This kind of information.
And it never goes into the mainstream.
And people are always baffled.
And they cite like the Duke University student fake rape charges that everybody knew was phony that listens to real news.
But the New York Times was still promoting running these kids out of school.
And it's just typical.
This particular stuff right now, I'm hearing a lot about it, They have not been able to confirm any warming whatsoever over the past five or six years, and there's no sea level rising.
There's nothing going on.
There are 30,000 scientists, led by the guy who started the Weather Channel, who are suing Al Gore and the UN about the so-called science of global warming.
You don't even hear about that.
No, of course not.
30,000, of which 8,000 are PhDs.
30,000!
Nope.
You know, I want to get that Janine Garofalo clip so we can play it over and over and over again.
Which one is that?
Where she says, the Janine Garofalo clip that we played a couple weeks ago where she says, everybody's in total agreement about this.
Okay, hold on.
I can find it.
I know I can find it.
Everybody's in total agreement.
Everybody.
Yeah, everybody.
Yeah, we played that.
That was a while ago, wasn't it?
It's back there.
We need to get a database for some of these.
Because the one I really want to play over and over is jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yay!
Jobs.
You know what, Janine Garofalo, I think she's just misguided.
She's not a shill, she's just dumb.
She is dumb.
Want to listen to a little bit more of Ms.
Jackson?
Oh yeah, might as well.
Don't call me nasty.
One last quick question, Madam Chairman, if I could.
Could you please explain then by what authority can the EPA decide to not include all of these other emitters of carbon dioxide who do reach the admission thresholds set out in the Clean Air Act?
I mean, how can anyone in your administration decide where to draw that line?
The law, as you just said, is clear.
So how do you not go after everyone or expose yourself to lawsuits for all of those others?
Senator, I know this has been an issue that we've gone back and forth on.
It's one I look forward to having continued dialogue.
Oh, typical spin answer.
We'll keep going on back and forth.
If it comes to that point where we're into a regulatory mode on greenhouse gas emissions, I will say only the following two things.
I'm not prepared here to outline the legal strategy.
Certainly it would be one of the things we would propose as part of a regulatory agenda.
The second thing I would say is to remind you that we, under the Clean Air Act, have the potential to regulate all those sources you talk about.
Yeah, we can regulate everybody, including your fart, Senator.
...for other contaminants, schools, and hospitals, and farms, and Dunkin' Donuts, and...
Did she just say Dunkin' Donuts?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Yeah, she did.
Let's listen to that again.
Now, for other contaminants, schools, and hospitals, and farms, and Dunkin' Donuts.
I say short Dunkin' Donuts.
And we don't.
I'll tell you this.
Well, either that or she's shilling for Dunkin' Donuts.
I would be skeptical here because it's...
Sarah Palin could get busted for wearing a logo on her shirt.
Why is this woman plugging Dunkin' Donuts?
And she doesn't even come up with it.
If you're using an example, you almost like will pause for a second.
But it rolls right off her tongue like she's been talking about it.
And Dunkin' Donuts, indeed.
And Dunkin' Donuts.
And we don't because we use, we make regulations smartly to address the threats in the best way possible and with an eye towards understanding that we don't want to unduly affect those who can least afford to pay.
So I do believe that the regulatory process allows us the opportunity to make those decisions and to do it, but we're not at that point yet.
Thank you.
Okay.
As we move on to more crackpot news.
Should we have a little interlude, John?
Something that I picked up on YouTube, which I think is well worth playing a little piece of.
This is a little bit of music for you, everybody.
Put the needle on the record.
When the drum beats go like this.
The only way that a human being can get a bird flu or a swine flu is if it is injected in them.
This is Trillion featuring Pataphysics and NRT. It's called Say No to the Vaccine.
Oh, God.
It's a great clip.
All right, okay.
You gotta listen to the lyrics.
You gotta see the video.
We'll put it in the show notes.
Make sure that's in the show notes.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff going on.
I mean, it's getting, actually, it's going beyond crackpot, the vaccination stuff.
And by the way, we are aware of the fact that we talked about when we had that woman do her pitch about, you know, what the government's going to do, that she is an anti-vaccination person running an anti-vaccination site.
Our concern is that, or at least mine is, is the site is so slick.
Well, not only that, but the site is registered.
It looks like a honeypot to me.
I have to agree.
A lot of people are saying, oh, you should do your research.
The MVIC, it's an anti-vaccination organization.
Yeah, it's an anti-vaccination organization.
Two things I don't like.
Three things.
One is it's very, very slick.
Two, it really doesn't have a donation page.
Now, I don't know a lot.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
We got big star buttons to click on for our donations.
They don't really have a donation page anywhere.
We have to really go to the site overview and somewhere hidden in it, there's like, here's how you can donate $25.
On top of that...
Which makes no sense at all.
They're asking you to post your personal information.
Yeah, they say they won't do anything with it, but they do ask you to post it.
And third, they're registered in Virginia.
Okay?
Okay.
Now, why are they in Virginia?
Home of all spooks, I might add.
Why are they registered in Virginia?
All things spooks are in Virginia.
All things spooks are in Virginia.
If you're going to set up a non-profit, wouldn't you want to set it up in anywhere but Virginia?
It just doesn't seem like the right place to do it.
And I'm very, very concerned about the stuff they're asking people to do.
To give them the information that they're requesting.
Then again, let's point out again, it's extremely slick.
It doesn't seem to be really begging for money like you'd think.
There's something amiss.
Now, she may be the most sincere person in the world.
She could be very much into what she says she's into, but I'm just not happy with what I'm seeing.
And so we're skeptical, that's all.
Yeah.
We're not idiots.
Oh, you don't do your research.
Oh, my favorite.
You're not doing your homework.
Your homework.
I'm not in college.
I'm not in high school.
I don't do homework.
Oh, John.
It's my favorite new jingle.
You will obey.
You will take the shot.
A form of the Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and pose a new risk to humans, reports the BBC. The Ebola Reston virus is...
Everything's going to mutate and kill us all.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Well, we need to have a backup plan.
You know, if people don't go for the swine flu, Ebola already has kind of that deathly thing to it.
Oh yeah, Ebola's bad.
Yeah, researchers are concerned that pigs might provide a melting pot where the virus could mutate into something more menacing for humans.
Hey, BBC, how's it feel being on the payroll of the CIA? The new discovery in the Philippines is featured in the Journal of Science.
Is that a real publication, the Journal of Science?
Oh yeah, no, it's a big one.
However, the researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed that the virus, at present, appears to pose no risk to humans.
Right.
It's just the setup.
It's the setup.
It's the pre, you know, you telegraph your blow.
It's code.
Yeah, you're right.
Got a great report from Abel.
I don't know if he wants me to mention his name.
No, he doesn't say anything.
I'd just like to read this for a second.
And I really appreciate he wrote it in English.
It's not his native tongue.
and he gives us a report from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
And so he loved the show, blah, blah, blah.
You guys are crazy, but you're spot on.
I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Everything here is the same, only on a smaller scale.
The mass media is mainly controlled by one big multimedia.
They own the largest newspaper, TV channel, news cable channel, two cable networks, and an ISP, among other things.
Now, if you start wondering if allowing such a concentration was a good idea, yes.
And they focus on drilling their political opinion.
Real news, of course, Michael Jackson is the big story.
Britney Spears also shooting a new video and, of course, putting as much fear into the people as possible.
The fear comes mainly in the form of crime news.
But now, a new star is born in Buenos Aires.
Swine flu!
We had election a few weeks ago.
The flu was a minor story on TV and papers, but when elections was old news, the swine flu hit the big time.
It's called influenza A here, as the suffix H1N1 is too long for the idiots on TV here.
The rest of the news, banging, is staggering.
People are freaking out.
Some stuff is out of stock, like cleaning gel with alcohol and surgical masks.
But this is not the worst.
Remember, this is a report from Buenos Aires, okay?
So this is a report from a real producer listener who listens to this show, one of your colleagues.
This is not the worst.
Schools and universities have been suspended for a couple of weeks now to avoid the transmission risk.
Cinemas and theaters are closing as well.
The general idea?
You catch this flu, you die!
The number of victims is also sketchy.
The official count right now is about 80, but hey, a lot of people die here.
Most people die here.
Poor people die of hunger, a country with 10,000 yearly deaths just from car accidents.
Bear in mind the total population is only 40 million, a country where dozens die from.
Dengue.
Yes, of course.
These are very poor people in the north, close to the border with Bolivia and Paraguay.
Paraguay, of course, where the bushes are going to move to.
So no one gives a shit about them.
Besides, the dangerous there's there.
It doesn't spread or threaten good and remote cities like Buenos Aires.
The media rarely, if ever, covers these deaths.
They're good cities.
In conclusion, we don't even need a compulsive vaccination.
People will happily form queues and pay for it.
Nothing like a nice and feared middle-class asshole.
The people behind all this count on them.
Last topic, Monsanto.
I won't bore you with the details.
Monsanto has a legal dispute with our country claiming royalties for the GM soybeans as they didn't have much luck here.
They tried to get it in Europe from the buyers.
Keep up the good shows.
I'm going to go with a $24 yearly subscription.
Hey, I'm from South America after all.
Abel, thank you very much.
We highly, highly appreciate your report.
Very, very important, this kind of stuff.
It is.
We need more stuff like that.
Meanwhile, Bill Gates is in the news.
This is a borderline real news story.
Oh.
You might want to.
So apparently some patent watchers found that Bill Gates has reportedly filed several patents aimed to stop hurricanes.
Thank you.
Gates and other inventors plan to use large fleets of vessels to mix warm Gulf of Mexico surface water with colder water under the surface.
Conduits would extend from one vessel beyond the ocean's thermocline, which is an invisible line separating the warmer mixed layer of waters closer to the surface and the cooler and calmer water that is seen further below.
Huh.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Isn't this tampering with Mother Nature?
Well, yeah, it is.
Shouldn't he be doing carbon swap-outs or something to even do this?
Or even talk about it?
I don't know.
Well, I think the whole joke, of course, is that the government has the ability to control the weather.
They've had it for many, many, many years.
Oh, here we go.
And, well, please, once again, go look at the weather maps on September 11, 2001.
You'll see that there was a huge hurricane just off the coast of New York.
No one ever talks about it.
I mean, a huge one.
And right after the attacks, the buildings came down, it went away.
This is what HARP is, of course.
H-A-A-R-P. Go Google that.
They have this capability to create hurricanes, so I presume that they also have the capability to divert them or destroy them.
So I don't know why Gates is doing this.
Yeah, you'd think he'd know better.
Yeah.
So, here's another story.
I couldn't...
This one here is...
This ran in the blog, devork.org slash blog.
Uncle Dave found it.
I thought it was a classic.
You probably haven't heard this one yet.
Recovery.gov...
By the way, they never bothered to get recovery.org because they're too dumb.
Recovery.gov...
It's going to cause a...
They're going to make it or they're going to redo the site and they're going to...
Just to redo a site, a website, they're going to drop $18 million.
Who has been awarded this contract, John?
I wish it was me!
We could set up a Squarespace site in seconds and make it really rock...
The contract calls for spending $9.5 in January.
In other words, they're going to drop $10 million in six months for a website.
What is...
This is our new...
Has this got something to do with Obama's superstar, you know, tech guy?
That's the czar of tech?
What is the deal here?
You can find three coders in a basement that can do a better job than these guys are going to do, and it's going to cost you nothing, a couple hundred thousand dollars max.
John, you've got to go to the website of the company that was awarded this contract, Smartronics.com, Sierra, Mike, Alpha, Romeo, Tango, Romeo, Oscar, November, India, X-Ray, And, wow, this is like a total militaristic site.
NetOps, providing net-centric enterprise services to operate, defend, and assure the global information grid.
Oh, my God.
Smartronics.
Smartronics, yeah.
Yeah, I'm looking at it.
They actually have two sites.
They've got one spelled with a C and one spelled with an X. Well, it's the one with the X. That's the parent site.
According to this thing.
Wow.
Why are...
So these guys...
Here it is.
Smartronics is honored to have been selected as the GSA Alliant Prime.
Wow.
GSA. GSA. GSA. This is...
GSA is like...
Government Services.
Yeah.
But it's...
Wait.
It's GSA Alliant Prime.
It's not...
What is this?
A science fiction novel?
What are they coming up with these names?
Yeah.
John.
Play the you will obey thing again.
Hold on.
Yeah, we definitely need that.
Hold on.
Let me get through it.
You will obey.
The GSA Alliance Prime, in support of Recovery.gov, a formal press release was soon to follow.
Not one newspaper has picked up on the fact that this is a fiasco.
You will obey.
$18 million?
$18 million to do a website?
Ah, Enterprise Software Solutions.
But they're like, what is NetOps?
So they do...
NetOps.
They got a lot of interesting Ajax on this site.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not like obviously they know what they're doing, but they know what they're doing in terms of design, except the way they switch pages could be better.
But they know what they're kind of doing in terms of design, but they obviously really know what they're doing when it comes to working within the government framework.
Let's see what jobs are available.
C&D lead analyst.
Two nerds at minimum wage to do the site.
Here, web developer.
Here we go, web developer.
They're hiring one guy.
That's all you need.
That's the point.
We're looking for a developer that has two or more years' experience in web development that includes at least one year experience in application development for SharePoint.
Oh, God.
SharePoint?
Yeah, they're building on ASP. Oh, that's hilarious.
Jeez.
$18 million.
So the initial outlay, which will be $9,516,324.
Oh, why don't you put 75 cents in there as well?
Are you kidding me?
Here comes.
Covers many facets.
Redesign and construction of a new website.
Installation of hardware and software infrastructure.
Hosting and operations for the website.
More robust data storage.
An enhanced content management system.
And contract labor support and other features.
If the Recovery Board exercises options under the contract, the cost could total $17,948,518 over a period ending in January 2014.
2014!
Oh my God!
Oh, this is cool.
With the assistance of GSA, said Earl E. Devaney, the Recovery Board Chairman, we proceeded in a careful fashion to find the best value for the taxpayer dollar.
Unbelievable.
He went on to say, in the end, this website, above all else, must be user-friendly and provide the public with necessary information on how its money is being spent.
Unbelievable.
This is the scam of the decade.
Oh my God.
Was there an open tender for this?
Could we have put in our Squarespace skills?
I mean, please.
Go to noagenda.squarespace.com and tell me we couldn't have built a greatrecovery.gov site with the Squarespace technology.
Or WordPress!
Or WordPress!
Wordpress.com.
Free!
Free!
You can get free hosting even.
Yes.
They'd love to do the government site.
Oh, here it is.
Devaney and the 12 inspectors general who comprise the recovery board, let's find out who they are in a minute, describe the contract as firm fixed and competitively bid for operations and maintenance providing a full solution package to include...
Develop the next generation of Recovery.gov, which will be visually pleasing, user-friendly, and highly interactive.
Dude, we wrote this crap in 1997, and we scammed companies then.
Here, a mapping capacity that allows users to search for spending all the way down to their own neighborhoods.
Oh, it's called Geoinformation Services, douche.
The capacity to store and easily download massive amounts of data.
A state-of-the-art security platform that will protect the integrity and the availability of the data and a backup system in the event of a major catastrophe such as 9-11 or a large-scale power outage.
Contract support to perform a wide array of hosting, maintenance, and operational services.
Why did they mention out of the blue a large-scale power outage?
Or 9-11 type event.
Here's the board.
Let me see who's on this freaking board.
Who are these people?
Members.
Who are the members of this board?
The Honorable...
Oh, my God, John.
Oh, jeez.
You've got to see these people.
Where are you getting that?
Where are you?
I'm getting it from recovery.gov.
Here's the link.
Oh, the board.
I see it.
The Honorable Earl E. Devaney, who looks like a judge in a hick town where you get arrested for speeding.
He does.
And he's proud of that look.
Okay, what is his deal?
He was...
He's leading the board.
Yeah, but what's his background?
Oh, I'm going to now...
Read more.
You're now exiting the recovery.gov website.
You will now access something or other.
It's a site that doesn't work.
Doing.gov?
No, I came up.
G-O-I-O-I-G dot gov?
Yeah, it's working.
I have no idea what that is.
It's the Department of something.
Uh...
Here he is.
Here's a picture of him.
Oh my goodness.
You have to click on that link when that thing comes up.
Yeah, I did.
He's a law enforcement guy, police officer.
Yeah, there you go for some hick town.
Some hick town in Massachusetts.
Oh my goodness.
Graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1970 with a degree in government.
He became a special agent with the United States Secret Service.
There you go.
So he's the head guy?
Yep.
He's the director of the Office of Criminal Enforcement.
They're going to have a real user-friendly site to be taking names and numbers.
He oversaw all the EPA's criminal investigations.
These are all law enforcement people.
Look at them.
Yeah, what's this got to do with recovery?
Why aren't we having economists?
None of them is an economist.
They're all Treasury Inspector.
The Inspector General of Homeland Security is one of them.
The Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture, Fong.
What's that got to do with recovery?
I don't know necessarily.
Check out the Honorable J. Russell George.
These are all Inspector Generals.
These are all basically cops.
This guy, Russell George...
He was nominated by George W. Bush as the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Prior to this role, Mr.
George served as the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Oh, my goodness.
Mary Mitchelson?
She looks kind of like Esther Dyson.
Oh, this is more like John Markoff.
And then Mary L. Kendall, who could be hot if she had a different hairdo and a big rack.
Well, she also has her neck is too thick.
She's also an attorney for federal law enforcement.
That's really weird.
That's totally weird.
Why is recovery.org?
Because you're supposed to tell you all these things.
Dot gov.
I'm sorry.
Dot gov is probably a better one, which is somebody else has, I suppose.
Check it out.
The board has...
Go ahead.
This is fishy.
Now you've got 18 million bucks going in.
Now you're the money.
They always need 18 million bucks for all the law enforcement that's going to be going on.
So anyone who goes to recovery.gov and looks up something, they're going to be tracked like a dog.
Fuck yeah.
Hey, at least they're being transparent.
Yeah, the guys are there.
At least they don't have mysterious board members.
So, hello news organizations, mainstream media.
Would you mind for just a minute focusing on this and looking at the ridiculous?
You know, there is infrastructure.
You don't need new...
I mean, why does this site have to be so secure?
You know, it doesn't...
It's an information site.
It's a brochure.
Look at all the links at the bottom, John.
What is this?
USA.gov, GobernoUSA.gov, USASpending.gov, Grants.gov, FedBizOpps.gov, GoVLoans.gov, Benefits.gov.
It's spending a million dollars in logo design.
What the hell is this stuff?
Look at this Grants.gov logo.
This thing costs money.
That's not a cheap logo.
GovernmentLoans.gov, that's a nice logo, too.
Believe me, I can see a logo that costs money.
This wasn't done by one of the members of the committee.
Can we get a grant?
Let's go to Grants.gov.
Can we get a grant?
I think we should.
Let's see if we can get a grant.
Maybe that'll get us to shut up.
Yeah.
We will go away if you give us enough money.
Find, apply, succeed.
Grants.gov is your source to find and apply for federal government grants.
This bullshit about you're exiting this website.
You're exiting the website.
I hate that.
Yeah, I know I'm actually a new website.
That's the way the web works, you idiots.
Keyword search.
Okay, let's say.
Keyword search should be...
What's our search?
Money.
Anyway, search Grants.
Grants.
By the way, this site, this looks like it was done by one of these companies.
Oh, John, John, John, John, John, John.
I put in Grants.
It comes up with, did you mean grannies?
No results found.
Please rephrase your query.
No results found for grants at grants.gov?
Let me try conspiracy.
Hold on.
Conspiracy.
Let's see if that comes up with anything.
Conspiracy.
Oh, jeez!
Oh, my goodness.
What?
Well, you can go to Google.
No, I'm looking at the grant site.
We can get opportunity title, Liberia Civil Society and Media Project, Community Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission.
Yeah, that's conspiracy, all right.
Empowering Pakistan, Water and Sanitation Program.
These are all part, these will come up under conspiracy.
I don't get anything when I type in conspiracy.
While you're looking at the right place?
No, I don't know.
You hit the search thing at the top.
No, here.
No, no, no, no.
I'm doing the grant search.
Here's the link.
Oh, okay.
Grant search.
Basic search.
And I put in conspiracy and I get all this whacked out crap.
So you under the keyword you put conspiracy there?
Yeah, under the basic search.
Wow.
Okay.
I'm looking at that.
Wow.
Bangladesh, HIV, AIDS, follow-on activity, local governance, civil society, partnership to improve capacity for service delivery.
There's some serious money out there that we should be able to get.
It sure looks like it.
But this is all Nigeria, Thailand.
Yeah, we're sending money to Nigeria.
Local governance, civil society, partnerships to improve capacity for service delivery.
So the post office gets the letter?
Here we go.
Prepare for pandemic preparedness.
Where's this?
Which page?
Hold on, I'll send you...
Are you on page one still or two?
No, I already went further.
I'll send you the link there.
The synopsis for this grant opportunity is detailed below.
Eligible applicants, others.
Okay.
To be eligible for the cooperative agreement under this RFA, an organization must be a U.S.-based institution.
Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.
The USAID is launching a coordinated comprehensive program designed to minimize the impact of specific newly emergent diseases of animal origin, which pose a significant threat to human health and development.
The program must be managed by the USAID Avian and Pandemic Influenza Unit.
Huh?
USAID will closely work with international host governments, USG, and private sector entities to coordinate activities and ensure that USAID... Who is this USAID? That's an economic hitman.
Is that a company, USAID? It's an agency or something.
I don't know.
It's a good question.
I mean, as far as I... Every time I see it, it's...
It's the United States.
Here it is.
USAID.gov.
Oh, man.
USAID from the American people.
This is money we're giving away.
The U.S. Agency for International Development.
Yeah, that's what it is.
This is the economic hitman that we've talked about in the past.
That's what this is.
What is this web?
Oh, I'm looking at USA.com.
It's funny.
Nice move.
You don't know why the government doesn't grab these ancillary...
What is USA? These sites, by the way, are crappy.
You know what?
These are $18 million websites, John.
This is not just any old site.
It's unbelievable.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is an independent agency, independent, that provides economic development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, economic hitmen.
There you go.
Yeah.
Which is fine.
We have, you know, our foreign policy.
I mean, we are...
I don't have a problem with it.
A record of accomplishment.
More than 3 million lives saved or created every year through U.S. aid immunization programs.
Wait, wait, wait, stop.
I made that up.
I made it up.
But it does say more than 3 million lives are saved every year through U.S. aid immunization programs, i.e.
pharma testing.
80,000 people and $1 billion in the U.S. and Filipino assets were saved due to early warning equipment installed by USAID that warned that the Mount Pinatubo volcano was about to erupt in 1991.
Huh?
That's it?
Oral rehydration therapy.
Is that the best we can come up with?
Oral rehydration therapy, a low-cost and easily administered solution developed through USAID programs in Bangladesh, is credited with saving tens of millions of lives around the globe.
I'll give you some oral hydration.
Come over here.
I'll hydrate you.
Alright, let's move off of this because it's just driving me nuts.
Yeah.
Alright, so how are we doing for time on this show?
Yeah, I think we got like 10 more minutes and then we're done.
All right, well, there's an interesting story that cropped up about how apparently the Bush surveillance program went way beyond the Fourth Amendment.
They've killed it, you know.
Everybody's upset.
Now they're blaming Cheney.
He was doing a deal with the CIA, and the CIA was told to stop this program.
It's still a secret.
We don't know what it was about.
And apparently, according to reports, the CIA had no objection to stopping it because they probably felt that they had their tit in the ringer.
If this, you know, any information got out about what they were actually doing domestically, I'm guessing.
Yeah.
Now, so the question on my mind, when do they indict somebody from the Bush administration?
Well, they won't.
Why?
It sounds to me as though they violated all kinds of laws.
There are laws against doing a lot of the stuff they were doing.
It's just against the law.
I mean, isn't that a nation of laws?
Aren't there laws?
I mean, they had some case my wife was pointing out to me.
Some woman in Alameda, some kid had carved her name or just took a felt tip pen and wrote, I love Joey or something on the bench.
Joey.
On the bench at the, on an AC transit bench, and a cop picked her up, arrested her for terrorism and all kinds of weird, because they didn't, couldn't read her writing, and they thought it may be a threat.
And the woman's going through the whole, you know, system of, the justice system for scribbling, when in the olden days, of course, she would have made her clean it up and sent her home.
I mean, they're doing that, but meanwhile, people are violating the Fourth Amendment, breaking U.S. code laws left and right, and there's nothing?
Nope.
Nothing.
Okay, just wanted to get that straight.
We would be amiss if we did not mention, and this is a Bloomberg report, there's other sources with better pictures than the Bloomberg report.
I'll put those in the show notes, of course.
Noagenda.mevio.com, Noagenda.Squarespace.com, the $18 million value we receive from Squarespace.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of $18 million.
A united future world currency.
Here it is!
Medvedev told reporters today in L'Aquila, Italy, after summit of the group of eight nations, you can see it and touch it.
The coin, which bears the words, unity in diversity, isn't that directly from 1984, John?
Isn't that actually...
Isn't that...
Maybe it was.
Maybe the coin's a joke.
Hold on.
Unity in diversity, 1984.
I think I read that in the book.
It could be, but I mean, there's something like it in the book, that's for sure.
The question on my mind is, they gave one of these coins to every one of the members of the G20, I guess, or the G8, or whoever the hell was meeting, whatever world government was trying to screw us.
Oh, no, it's called, no, no, in Orwell, the double-think was, diversity is unity.
It was exactly the other way around.
That's what Orwell wrote.
Diversity is unity, and this is what?
Unity in diversity.
It's freaking Doorwell!
He's quoting Doorwell!
How did they do this and get away with it?
And not one media outlet picks it up?
You know you're sitting there in the sauna, right, with their fat bellies and their dicks hanging down laughing about this shit.
You know they're just sitting there like, you are funny.
You make funny.
This is a good one.
Let's see if anyone picks up on this little joke.
That's pathetic.
Alright, well I'm sure our listeners will get a kick out of it.
In fact, if our listeners do get a kick out of it, we wouldn't mind getting a kick back from them.
Yes.
We do have a number of high roller financiers, producers that I want to mention from last week.
$50 and $100 donors.
Malcolm Blair, $50.
Martin Fassu, $100.
Christopher Malmy, $50.
Brandon Rolls, R-O-W-E-L-L-S, $50.02.
You want to give us two cents worth?
$50.02.
Hmm.
Okay, yeah.
Kevin Webb, 100.
Thank you, Kevin.
Oh, man.
Ashadawi.
That's it.
Ashadawi.
A-S-H-A-D-A-W-A. Ashadawi.
That's got to be it.
And it's I-Y-L-A. I'm sure she's in some...
I actually didn't look up her country.
I should.
I like to do that.
I keep forgetting.
She gave us $133.50, which I assume is probably a...
How much?
What's the amount again?
$133.50.
Oh, that's got to be a house resolution.
Oh, that could be.
$133.50.
Oops.
Daniel Harbold, $50.
Griffin Meineke.
I just love the name Meineke.
I think Meineke...
Meineke, yeah.
HR 13350.
Was it 13350?
Yeah.
A bill to authorize appropriations to the Energy Research and Development Administration in accordance with Section 216 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
Now, I think it's a stretch, John.
I don't think that's...
It is a stretch.
Anyway, Griffin Meineke gave us 60.
Oh, nice.
We liked the 60.
Mike Potter gave us 50.
And then our big contributor this week was Jeff Wolfers.
W-O-L-F-E-R-S. And he gave us a whopping $250, and we really appreciate that.
Thank you very much, Jeff.
Appreciate it.
Just to keep us on the air for another week.
A whole other week.
You know what I'm doing, though?
I'm going to take some of my portion of the donations, and I'm going to buy more gold.
Now that this diversity and unity coin has come out, you've got to expect people to move towards gold.
So I think that's going to be very important.
And I'm also going to purchase at least six months worth of storable food because I think we're getting within a year or two of something happening.
Yeah, I have a better solution for that.
What's that?
If you've ever been in the mailing list business, you would appreciate this.
Well, you know, the Mormons, I think their religion requires them to store in their basements a year's worth of food.
And so what you want to do is you want to rent a mailing list for something and just rent a Mormon list and then find out where all the local Mormons are and then loot them.
Oh, okay.
And loot them.
The opinions of John C. Dvorak are not necessarily the opinions of all of the hosts of No Agenda.
No, I'm going to buy some storable food and keep it for myself.
You know what's funny?
Mickey bought a...
She went to the Red Cross office and she bought a survival kit.
She said, you know, we should probably have one of these, and she said after the fact that I should have bought one for 36 people, but she bought the one for two people, because it's two of us, right?
So I'm looking in this survival kit, and when I'm back in San Fran, I get back Monday, so the show on Thursday, I will actually go through the contents of this Red Cross survival pack, because it will do anything but help us survive.
The funniest thing, though, it's a survival pack for two people.
It includes only one face mask.
Yeah, well, that's the way it is.
What is the message?
If you have a child, put yours on first.
It was for two people.
If it was for two people, then shouldn't you have two face masks in there?
I mean, come on.
What's the message?
Well, I'm sorry.
One of you's got to go.
Anyway, I forgot to mention NoAgenda.Squarespace.com to donate or Dvorak.org slash NA to donate.
NoAgenda.Squarespace.com or Dvorak.org slash NA. Either one will work.
By the way, somebody sent me a note on the chat room saying that United in Diversity is the official motto of the EU. Really?
Well, that's what he said.
We'd have to look it up, but what he said.
So that would be eu.int, I think is...
No, wait, what is it?
EU website.
Let's look at that.
That could be.
Yeah, so then they took it.
That's even more pathetic.
But hold on, the Russian guy is not a member of the EU. Is he?
Is Russia a member of the EU? No, no, of course not.
So let's look at...
Where's English?
E-N. Gateway to the European Union?
I don't see...
I don't see it...
Well, it's just type in the United and Diversity and then EU into Google and see what comes up.
Okay.
That's the fastest thing.
United...
Is it...
No, it's Unity and Diversity.
Hold on.
Well, he said...
Yeah, that could be what's on the coin, but United apparently is what's in the EU thing.
Let me look.
You look at United.
The motto, United in Diversity, Delegation of the European Union, is the motto of the European Union.
It first came into use around the year 2000.
It was the first time officially mentioned, so and so and so and so.
Yep.
Okay, so then why is the Russian guy showing this?
What's up with that?
You said it's unity in diversity.
It's different.
Well, in other words, they got suckered into using a variation of the EU motto just to give it to us.
One of those needling us.
See what else we can pull on these boneheads.
And then I would like to finally wind up my portion of the show with a story from central Gitmo Nation, east from the Netherlands, which I will be leaving very soon.
The Justice Minister, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, has said that, well, now that, of course, we have the legal right to keep all Internet activity for half a year, we have all your base belong to us,
we have your emails, your SMSs, we are now going to set up automatic alerts So, as an example, if someone travels to a country frequented by pedophiles, that will be an alert and they will be stopped and questioned.
For your trip to the Philippines.
I mean, come on.
They're profiling.
They're doing profiling.
And they're literally calling it profiling.
Well, that's what they're doing.
It's bank records, internet records, travel records.
I gotta get the hell out of here.
Hey, John, how long do you predict this show will be on the air?
I mean, really?
Well, if people keep giving us money, we'll be on the air for years.
But I'll tell you this much.
There's a couple of things we still need to talk about.
The bees.
Will we ever really do that?
Yeah, we will.
The bees and the bats.
The fungus killing these bats all over the place.
That's not good.
And also, and I'm going to tease this for the Thursday show because we have to do it on Thursday, your food experience at a raw food restaurant.
Yes.
Yes.
So until that time, coming to you from an undisclosed 17th century Canal House Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation East, smack in the middle of it, I'm Adam Curry.
And don't forget to go to noagenda.squarespace.com or dvorak.org slash na.
I'm in the Pacific Northwest, John C. Dvorak.
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