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July 16, 2009 - No Agenda
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113: Surviving The Swine Flu
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Listen to us, bitch.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
Ah, it's the 16th of July, 2009.
Time for your Gitmo Nation audio publication, episode 113.
This is No Agenda.
Ah, coming to you from the undisclosed loft location in Gitmo Nation West in San Francisco, California.
In your crackpot command center, I'm Adam Curry.
And don't kid yourself, it is disclosed.
Although it's not disclosed where in northern Silicon Valley I am.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Greg Vaughn and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yay!
And we've just decided that the new time for these shows on Thursday should be between 9 and 9.30 PST because we think you should be listening to the show at work.
And do not contribute to the economy.
Yes, it's kind of like a general strike.
Yeah, it's very French of us, John.
Yeah, and we do have a Paris listener, I understand.
Yes, we do.
I've been watching CNBC all morning as the former Secretary Hank Paulson is being grilled by the House committee.
He looks like a dour old man.
And have you seen the pinky of his left hand?
No, is it chopped off?
It's like the mob broke it.
Like, hey, Paulson, I'm not going to show you.
You better talk straight in that committee, boy.
Knuck!
I'm sure it's rheumatism or something like that.
Arthritis.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Arthritis.
But it looks really messed up.
It's kind of scary.
It's odd.
Rum salt has it as well.
Maybe it's part of some sort of a clique.
It's a club, yeah.
It's like you've got to break a pinky to be in the administration.
It's like the mob, the Yakuza.
You have to chop off a finger and you have to get tattooed.
Who knows?
They may be tattooed.
Can you imagine?
That's a sick thought.
Complete full body tattoos.
Yeah.
Is it just me, John?
Or does it seem like the walls are closing in?
It's just you.
Your walls are closing in.
Get out now!
If I could receive one more link or piece of the puzzle of the swine flu forced vaccination fiasco, I'm just going to scream.
It's just getting worse by the minute.
You're getting the same thing in email?
All over the world people are seeing the same thing where the Their governments are gearing up for forced vaccinations.
The mainstream media is over-hyping.
In fact, I just read this morning...
Oh my gosh, wait, I should sound the alarm.
Here it is.
Sherry Blair, the former Prime Minister's wife, suffering from swine flu.
Oh, really?
She has been forced to cancel her engagements after catching swine flu.
News that the former Prime Minister's wife had become Britain's most high-profile victim.
Hold on a second.
Let's analyze the story before you read the whole thing.
I just want to ask one question as a preface to you reading the story.
Ready?
Blair is pretty well connected.
Hell yeah.
And so his wife gets the swine flu, and she doesn't immediately go on a regimen of Tamiflu or Relenza, which would stop it in his tracks because it seems to.
Well, let me read the story.
Let me read this whole first part of the story because it's worth it.
News that the former Prime Minister's wife had become Britain's most high-profile victim of the virus came as figures emerged, here it is, this is the time, that the number of swine flu cases jumped by nearly 50% in a week time.
Hello?
Do that again?
Oh, great ringtone.
Mrs.
Blair started feeling unwell at the start of the week and received a diagnosis of swine flu on Tuesday, reported by The Sun, I might add, Murdoch's mainstream media publication.
She was given a course of the antiviral Tamiflu and told to cancel all engagements until she recovers.
Mrs.
Blair had been due today to pick up an honorary degree from Liverpool's Hope University.
That's the funniest part of the story.
That's why she didn't want to go.
Exactly.
And a staff barbecue has also been canceled as a precaution.
Oh, brother.
The newspaper said that her husband, Tony Blair, and the couple's four children have not been infected.
And then, of course, it goes on to talk about...
Can't be that bad.
Yeah, we're getting 100,000 cases a week and blah-de-blah-de-blah-de-blah-de-blah.
But what's funny...
I received an email, let me see if I can find it because I have so many emails, that doctors in the UK are diagnosing people over the phone that they have swine flu.
What's up with that?
Well, you know, it's the flu.
It's like a flu.
So the symptoms are pretty straightforward.
You don't need to bring them in.
Why don't they just have a message?
Click.
If you have a fever, press 1.
If you have the chills, press 2.
If you have the fever and you feel tired, press 3.
You know, I mean, that kind of thing.
Dave Ray.
They don't even need to answer the phone.
Screw it.
Dave Redfern said, a neighbor of mine who lives across the road in Gitmo Nation East in Birmingham, UK, has been diagnosed with swine flu, which got me thinking about how they come to the conclusion.
It's swine flu over normal flu.
After speaking with her, I found out she called the doctors over the phone.
She was asked a series of questions.
And from that, they diagnosed swine flu and prescribed Tamiflu.
Turn down your speakers!
Is that you, or is that a recording?
That is a recording from one of our producers, and I do mean it, though.
I'm getting some slap.
Well, you should tell me at the beginning.
I don't understand why you wait halfway through the show to mention that my speakers are loud.
I didn't hear it until just now.
Well, how does that work?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe you turn it up.
Maybe you start screaming when you're reading your letters.
It's possible.
I like that, though.
I'm still hearing myself.
Oh, you shouldn't now because this thing's almost to zero.
I can barely hear you.
Oh, all right.
Let me move the mic's axis.
Hang on.
The mic axis.
The axis of micage.
Well, sometimes it makes a difference.
Anyway, go on.
Well, just to get off swine flu for a moment, because I'm sure we'll get back to it later.
Remember, we were trying to figure out why the urgent need to switch off all analog television signals and get everybody jacked into...
Wait, wait, are you going to change the subject this abruptly?
That's what I said.
We'll get back to it eventually.
There's so much swine flu, we might as well just call it swine flu agenda.
Yeah, let's make a pact now.
No more swine flu stories.
No, we can't.
We can't.
We can't make that pact because there's just too much good stuff coming in.
But I'd like to pepper it throughout the show.
All right, we'll bring the Argentinian letter in later, which is the one you all want to wait for.
You have one?
You have a new one?
I got the same one you got.
Oh, okay.
So the reason that we switched from digital television to analog was because they wanted to take the bandwidth and use it and resell it and make some money for the government because the billion dollars that they'll make will really come in handy to that trillion dollar deficit we have.
That, of course, would be the simpleton explanation, John, which is what you always subscribe to.
However...
I subscribe to the realistic explanation.
There's no other reason.
Ex-IBM employee, 31-year-old ex-IBM employee, according to this ex-employee, the highly publicized mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies to make room for scanners used the highly publicized mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being Are you not shocked?
John?
I'm skeptical.
They can read RFID now just fine.
They were reading RFID before they took the signals off the air.
What's going to change?
Because this will be the more powerful version of RFID, which of course coincides beautifully with the real ID driver's licenses that are now being put out, with all of the RFID in everything, so that they'll literally be able to sit in the control room and say, Where's Gitmo Nation inhabitant John C. Dvorak 337945?
Ah, yes!
We see him sitting there across the river, the bay, whatever that water is.
It's water.
It's a lake.
Lake San Francisco.
Patrick Redmond.
Held a variety of jobs at IBM before retiring, including working in the company's Toronto lab from 1992 to 2007, then in sales support.
And he's given talks, written a book, a DVD, about the aggressive growing use of passive, semi-passive, and active RFID chips implanted in clothing.
Of course, they're in Gillette Fusion Blades and countless other products that become one's personal belongings.
I buy into this.
I'm looking at the frequencies that are employed by RFID right now from a website.
It's RFID-Handbook.de, which is the Radio Frequencies Identification Frequencies for RFID Systems.
So what's the UHF-VHF band range?
Because that's what got switched off.
Well...
I'm going to...
UHF is typically above...
I can't remember thinking of the number offhand, but...
800 megahertz?
Yeah, I think it is.
It's something like 800 megahertz, and RFID has an interesting one here, that 865 to 868.
Okay, thank you.
That would be right in the band.
But what's interesting about it is...
In fact, there's another one from 865.6 to 868.
What's interesting about it...
This is actually kind of...
Interesting?
Yes, thank you.
No, no, you're not hearing what's interesting yet.
It seems to be...
100 milliwatts, which is a lot of power.
500 milliwatts, which is a lot of power.
Wow, is that half a watt?
500 milliwatts?
It's a half a watt, and it's in Europe only.
And then there's another Europe-only band that runs with Listen Before Talk, RFID only, UHF, which is 2 watts.
Gosh, 2 watts.
So wait a minute, the chip is 2 watts?
Well, I'm guessing if it's RFID, in other words, it should be, it has to first, you know, RFID is a technology, generally speaking, that accepts a...
A signal and then bounces it back.
That's the passive.
The signal fires it.
The signal is actually used as the energy to make the chip work.
Right.
So they can produce a chip that can receive enough energy to produce two watts of output?
That's outstanding.
Well, what's interesting is there's actually a 5.7...
They're also using the 5.7 as 5.8 gigahertz.
Isn't that UHF or is that VHF? No, that's up there, up in the...
That's like cell phones.
It's up in the high Wi-Fi.
What's the 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi thing where you're, you know, that 8 to 11?
WiMAX.
WiMAX is 3.6 gigahertz, I think.
Okay, well, anyway, this one is a USA and Canada, and this one will deliver 4 watts.
You can talk around the world on 4 watts if you have the right antenna.
This is actually SFA. This is not RFID. This is something else.
No, the highest wattage it looks like for RFID itself, UHF RFID, is the European one.
The United States one, actual RFID, which is a.5 watts.
Is in the 800 megahertz band.
Right in the sweet spot of all the TV signals we turned off.
800 hospitals are now chipping their patients?
Yeah, well.
Hospitals in Puerto Rico putting chips into arms of Alzheimer's patients?
Oh, here's an interesting one.
Hold on.
At 902 to 928 MHz, there's a UHF. Oh, there's an SRD. This is different.
But it's fascinating because it's 4 watts.
Again, spread spectrum.
I'm sure that some of our producers out there have plenty of information on the different types of...
Well, you've seen the videos of guys driving through the streets of, I think it was, I want to say Chicago maybe, with an RFID reader and just picking up passports and credit cards and all kinds of stuff.
Shit works, man.
It's a good technology.
And they have the RFID dust that you can literally sprinkle on someone?
Well, that's bullshit.
Okay.
The Automatical Vehicle Identification is another one of these uses.
This one here, there's a 4 watt system that's available at the 2.4 to 2.5 gigahertz microwave range.
I think this is about the time where I say we all should be folding our tinfoil hats.
Wait, hold on a second.
Yours isn't on?
No.
I'm sorry.
Are you wearing yours?
See, I don't believe half of this crap.
There's something to this, John.
There's really something to this.
Well, you know, they may have to track pets.
My pets are all chipped.
Yeah, you don't have any pets.
My ex-pets.
So you'll find the article in the show notes at noagenda.com.
Are your pets chipped?
Yes.
So in other words, you've actually helped contribute to the cause because essentially what you've done, if nobody ever chipped their pets or used this technology, they'd stop making it.
Yeah, but then I'd have to kill my pets and I didn't feel like that.
And it's not just that.
It's in your passport, it's in your driver's license, or it will be.
It's everywhere.
You can't get away from it.
Yeah, you can protect yourself against this thing.
You can get one of the wallets that is available with the...
Yeah, but isn't it interesting that all the stuff that has been talked about for a decade, that people have guffawed and scoffed at, is now actually happening.
We're being conditioned to accept chipping.
Oh, you can track your kids.
You'll never lose them.
All this stuff, it's coming true, dude.
Dude?
Dude.
It's so coming true, dude.
So, okay, it's a good story.
I'll give you five points for that.
Thank you.
Okay, it's time to wrap it up.
And that's it, everybody.
We're all going to die.
A story from...
The San Francisco Examiner, which of course we hold in high regard.
If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again.
President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors.
But Bush was doing this since the get-go.
Yeah, but now apparently there are 250,000 private contractors spread out between Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's where the money is, by the way.
Yes.
And, of course, it's Blackwater, now known as...
What's our new name?
Blackwater's new name?
Prince.
No, it was Zing or...
Zing.
Something ominous like that.
Bing.
Something very ominous.
But, yeah, so this is how they get away with saying, oh, we're withdrawing the troops.
And, of course, we're withdrawing the actual troops, but we're replacing them with missionaries.
Mercenaries, I should say.
Missionaries is funnier.
Missionaries with guns.
Here's a news report about this.
It's been revealed that the number of private security contractors working for the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan has greatly increased.
While troops are being pulled out, a Pentagon report says that the number of contractors working for the U.S. Defense Department has increased by up to 30% since President Obama came to office.
This figure has now swelled to some 250,000 working for companies such as Blackwater and Triple Canopy.
Well, for more on the story, let's now cross live to the U.S. where...
Triple Canopy?
Who's Triple Canopy?
Let's look that one up.
It sounds good.
Yeah, it does.
Oh, Triple Canopy.
Isn't that an outfit from Denver?
I don't know.
Yeah, I think it is.
I've never heard of them.
Hello to you, Marina.
So what does this rise in so-called private armies mean for Obama's promise to withdraw from Iraq and for the surge in Afghanistan?
Well, the rise in these so-called mercenary armies in Iraq and Afghanistan is being dubbed as a privatization of war.
Yeah, alright.
It is.
A privatization of war.
Yeah, well, it says it's a Bush specialty and Obama just picked it up.
Obama's actually better than Bush at this stuff.
Oh, of course, because everyone loves him and he's doing great interviews.
He's never in the White House.
He's just never there.
I think he's afraid of getting, you know, I think he may be fearful.
Or maybe he doesn't like the food there.
I have no idea.
Yeah, no, he's never in the White House.
He's always out and about and talking to people.
He sent me an email.
Did he now?
Yeah, I got an email from Barack.
What did he say?
President Barack Obama.
Give him money.
I bet you he's still looking for money.
This guy never gives up.
And his email, by the way, so it's President Barack Obama sent from info at messages.whitehouse.gov.
I feel so personal.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Yesterday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee and moved another step close to taking a seat in the United States Supreme Court.
So it's basically him begging to call your representatives and get her signed up.
Why?
What's the point?
The Democrats run the place.
They can just push her in any time they want.
This is nonsense.
Here's what it is.
This is fake participatory democracy.
It's a done deal.
He's a Democrat.
Congress is all Democrat.
So they don't even have to have these hearings.
They can just say, screw it, you can put her in.
They just do them because it's just a courtesy just in case they get kicked out.
So they're doing these things.
But then when the vote comes down, it's just the Democrats are voting her in and the Republicans, half of them are probably going to vote no.
Who cares?
So the point is that what he's asking you to do is nonsense.
It means nothing.
It's going to...
Absolutely.
Account for zero.
Zilch.
But it's going to make you, I suppose, some sucker.
I feel good.
I feel good now.
I feel good.
You feel like you had some say in it.
Yes.
You have no say in it.
No matter what you do.
The president sent me an email and I feel good about it, dammit.
No matter what you do, it's going to have no effect whatsoever if it was done in mass.
So that's the way I see it.
The...
Now that I've learned, thanks to you, John, how the system works, that bills don't actually come to the floor unless they go through committee.
Thank you for explaining that.
Yesterday, the Committee on Healthcare, what's the name of that committee?
The Committee on Healthcare.
If only it were that simple.
If only they called shit.
It was like, oh yeah, I know what that is.
It's the Committee on Healthcare.
I'm looking for the story here.
I'm a little discombobulated.
Health and Human Services, I think.
Something like that.
Yeah, I think it's HHS. They passed, which I guess means it now comes to the floor for a vote.
Here it is.
The health care bill.
And what's interesting about this is that millionaires, i.e.
everyone making over a million dollars, will pay a 5.4% surtax or a tax to contribute to the government health care system.
It's a sliding scale.
I think if you earn over $500,000 a year, you'll pay 3% extra.
So if you add it all up, millionaires...
And by the way, being a millionaire is not such a big deal anymore.
No, today's millionaire was a few decades ago was $100,000 per cent.
Yes, exactly.
It's 10 to 1.
They're typically entrepreneurs, i.e.
the middle class people who make the economy actually run.
And they're now being hit with...
And by the way, Mevio has healthcare coverage for every single employee, including dental.
Do you take advantage of our healthcare plan, John?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
And so, you know, I could be paying myself $200,000 more a year if I didn't do that.
I don't.
You know, we put that money right into our employees.
I didn't get no bailout.
But now I have to pay again.
Not that I make a million dollars a year, but I'll be paying something extra.
And, of course, it's going to be highly unpopular to say this is bullshit because whenever you say, you're a fucking millionaire, man.
You should spread the wealth around, dude.
You've got to do that.
Somebody make a clip of that little ditty.
You like that, huh?
Well, it's just something funny about it.
You're a millionaire, dude.
You should be contributing to society, dude.
This is what you hear.
You can't even fight it without getting pelted with eggs.
You don't get pelted with eggs?
Of course, it's un-American.
This is not the way the system is supposed to work.
No, no.
The American system is that we soak the rich.
But the joke is that people have to always note that these are not the rich, the millionaires.
Go up to the people.
Here's what you should do.
Find all these venture capitalists that are worth like a half a billion dollars and above and take away half their money.
Yeah.
Now you're talking.
They got plenty of money.
That's a good idea.
You don't need more than five million in the bank.
So the...
Hey, babe!
Hello.
My producer just returned from Los Angeles.
Hold on one second.
And there he goes.
There goes the show.
Hi, John.
Hello.
Hello.
Just don't crank up the cappuccino machine and I'll be a happy camper.
He would like you to make me a cappuccino, baby.
Do you want one, John?
Yeah, yeah.
I'll take mine.
Let's see.
Tepid.
Because that's the way it'll be by the time I got over there.
Let's see.
Speaking of...
There's a chat for the show, by the way, for people who want to visit it, which is...
Noagendachat.com.
Is there anything good going on there?
I don't know.
I'm going to go to it in a minute.
Speaking of ringtones, as you know, I'll send you that little ditty and you'll have it as a ringtone.
I really love this.
This is such a great story.
It just shows you how out of control things are.
ASCAP, better known as the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, has filed a lawsuit against AT&T in which it told the federal court that ringtones fall under public performance copyright.
Yeah, we talked about this on No Agenda last week.
No, we didn't.
We didn't talk about this.
Not you, your No Agenda, the one that before, the week before.
It's not a news story.
We didn't talk about this.
It's been talked about, believe me.
But not on No Agenda.
No, what am I saying?
I'm saying cranky geeks.
Oh, okay.
I'm getting my shows mixed up.
I'm an idiot.
Yes, you are.
Turn down your Mickey!
That's what somebody said in the chat room.
Turn down your mickey.
Watch out, baby.
I'll slip you a mickey.
Here's another chat.
I shouldn't go into the chat room because I end up reading the chat instead of talking and doing the show.
At least some people are at least coming on to the chat room.
We have to mention the chat room and some of these other services that we have.
We have noagendaforums.com.
Actually, there's some pretty good stuff there.
There's some pretty good conversation.
We have the drop, which is drop.io slash daily source code, where you can get tons of amazing stories.
So many stories there that I source for the show, and it really can't even get to all of them.
And a lot of them are really wacky, but fun.
In fact, I'm reading it right now.
Federal tax receipts plunged 31%.
Whoops.
Well, that doesn't surprise anybody.
Right, but...
You got nobody making any money.
Right, but this is the problem.
This is why I say it feels like the walls are kind of closing in.
You know, everything's just kind of happening at the same time.
Oh, I know what I wanted to play for you.
So yesterday, I think it was yesterday, or the day, no, yesterday, and it was not on C-SPAN. They were, so the same House committee regarding the, I guess it's the financial committee and they're talking about the bailouts and yada, yada, yada, whatever.
Thank you, darling.
They were grilling Shapiro.
Um...
About Madoff, that's what it was.
And of course Shapiro, she is now with the, is she now FDIC or is she now SEC? Shapiro, which one is she?
Which one is she?
She just got appointed.
Isn't she now FDIC but she was SEC or she was supposed to oversee the dealers and traders?
I don't know.
She's SEC now.
What's your name?
First name.
Helen.
Helen.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
Shapiro, you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, I do, but I haven't been following her career, if that's what you're wondering.
I recall this because you were actually really pissed off at her because she was the one that was supposed to be overseeing the traders and dealers.
I was pissed off at her.
She's like one of about 13 women in this administration that I don't seem to like.
Alright, so she's running the SEC. Is she the one that came over from that other agency that was supposed to do something and she did nothing?
Yes, that's the one.
She's the new SEC woman.
And so they're asking her all these really boring questions.
And of course, half of the committee is like, oh...
Mary Shapiro.
Mary Shapiro.
You're doing such great work and blah, blah, blah.
So one representative, and I don't know...
Right.
She came over from the FIRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
That's it.
Right.
She should have done something about something.
She did nothing.
And then they give her the job at the SEC. It was hilarious.
Right.
Okay, so now listen to what comes.
This is the only thing that was...
And I watched the whole thing.
It wasn't even on C-SPAN. I had to record it off the web.
This is the stuff, by the way, that we do for you listeners now not working and listening to this show.
Listen to the conflicts of interest that are brought up and listen to her response as to what should be done about it.
I'm concerned about what I perceive to be a potential revolving door problem at the SEC. Whether he was involved or not in decision making, the attorney that was overseeing the Madoff case ends up marrying the niece of Mr.
Madoff.
Did you know that?
Yeah, that was one of the big news check boxes.
Gets better.
Who was also employed at the business.
Another firm was being scrutinized.
The particular lawyer, I believe, at the SEC, then leaves the SEC and goes to work for that particular company.
Well, that's pretty common.
I do not believe that any SEC employee who has had a responsibility over an enforcement action should be allowed to go and work for that company in the next two years.
What is your opinion?
So, now mind you that she has a really detailed response for every single question.
You know, praises all these people who work at the SEC and we don't have enough people.
We need more staff.
Who's asking this question, by the way?
I don't know.
I don't know her name.
So here's the response.
It's a very fair question, and the revolving door, it's a problem for many agencies.
Oh, she talks like this.
You just want to bitch slap her, don't you?
It's really a problem.
Let me just ease your fears.
Yes.
There's nothing to see here.
Just move along.
Problem for the SEC. She's breathless.
Listen.
The bank agencies have some limitations on your ability to leave Here's my dilemma.
I need to get the best and the brightest to come to the SEC and do what we do.
Well, you got them, baby, that's for sure.
And I fear that if I put too many limitations on their exits down the road, they might not be willing to come in the first instance.
So I'm acutely aware...
So in other words, if we can't use the SEC as an agency to go make yourself fucking rich by scamming the whole thing, no one will come.
Yeah, duh.
Of the revolving door problem, and I'd like to find a solution to it, and I haven't figured out the correct balance yet.
The correct balance!
She's perfect!
She finishes up, it's great.
Rating agencies.
I was astonished to find out that when they testified before our committee, they take the information that the issuer All right.
Okay.
So, you know, John, I'm seeing...
I got a flashing light here.
I'm just going to change my mic battery real quick, so talk amongst yourself for a moment.
Well, as Adam changes his mic battery...
I have to change, too.
...on the Sony.
Mary Shapiro graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1977.
In 1980, she earned a doctor's degree from law, J.D., From George Washington University Law School.
I'm bored.
This is interesting though.
Franklin and Marshall College, abbreviated as F&M, is a four-year private co-educational residential liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
It's the 25th oldest institution for higher education as well as the 17th oldest college in the United States.
Right.
Batteries have been switched.
Ranked 40th in the country by U.S. News and World Reports.
Of 215 liberal arts colleges.
So this is what happens to your liberal...
People say, why do you get a degree in liberal arts?
I don't need a degree.
What are you going to do with a degree in liberal arts?
What good is it going to do you?
You go into government and you make yourself fabulously wealthy.
Yeah, no, it's a smart way to go.
She was no dummy.
A little interesting ditty I picked up from Christopher Booker, who writes for The Telegraph, who's been writing some fantastic global warming stories.
We talked about one on Sunday.
And the headline here, crops under stress as temperatures fall.
For the second time in a little over a year, it looks like the world may be headed for a serious food crisis thanks to our old friend climate change.
In many parts of the world recently, the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers.
After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest.
In Manitoba last week, it was minus 4 degrees centigrade.
North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
So...
Read that article, which you'll find in our show notes.
It's quite lengthy.
But there you go.
Once again, global warming.
Well, you know, global warming could result in colder weather in some areas.
Al Gore was interviewed in Australia.
And actually, the interviewer was quite good.
She brought up the fact that Gore was brought before the British High Court.
Or not necessarily Gore, but an inconvenient truth, his movie.
And the high court found at least nine significant errors and exaggerations.
Just nine?
Well, just nine.
And I don't want to play the whole video for you, but it's funny when he's sitting...
You'll find it in the show notes.
And he's being interviewed.
And this interviewer, you know, she kind of...
Goats him along, you know, making him feel really good, and he's doing his jokes.
Well, I actually thought I won the...
I thought I was president.
And then she brings this up, and he says, oh, well, you know, the ruling was in my favor.
This guy just changes the truth right before your very eyes.
Hmm.
You're underwhelmed.
Getting anything?
No, I didn't want to play the whole thing.
He's annoying to listen to.
Yeah, I agree.
So it looks as though, according to at least some, I don't know, the sources, it's slash dot...
That the UK was likely the source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular websites in the US and South Korea, the ones that all got blamed on the North Koreans.
Because them North Koreans, you know, they're wily.
So they brought down almost all of the government websites in Washington, D.C. Did they bring down recovery.gov?
They probably didn't bother with that one.
Who needs it?
and then the Washington Post but it was an analysis that performed by Vietnamese computer security researcher that contradict some of the assertions made by the US and South Korea that blamed on North Korea and now that I think about it you know North Korea is getting blamed for a lot of hacks I don't do they even have a pipe going into that country yeah there's a there's a dot K our domain so I'm sure it goes somewhere Well, is.kr not Korea?
Yeah, I thought it was.
Well, this is North Korea.
They'd have their own domain.
Ooh.
I don't know what to...
It would be NK or something.
I don't know what their domain would be like.
I'll look it up.
Maybe someone in the chat room knows it.
But, John, isn't it so obvious that all the bullshit in the media about Iran, all the bullshit about North Korea, all this axis of evil, isn't it just obvious that this is just a setup to justify isn't it just obvious that this is just a setup to I'm paraphrasing.
KP. It's time for a new direction to show countries like Iran that we mean business.
It's saber-rattling.
It's getting ready to invade some more countries or do some more evil shit.
So it looks like North Korea's KP. And these guys are so behind the times.
It seems as if that the...
I'm not sure.
I have to do a little more work.
But it seems as if they only got that domain in 2007.
Probably comes in on the phone line.
Yeah.
You wouldn't think that there'd be real sophisticated hacking going on there.
This just makes no sense.
Anyway, in the broads, you know, and we've had 128 people died in riots in China, no coverage.
You know, one person dies in Iran, and oh, everyone change your icons to green, you fools.
You should take the swine flu shot first.
I'm going to protest Iran.
They're so evil.
I've got to change my icon to green.
John, have you changed your icon to green?
I changed it to blue for Billy Mays.
Next, I gave up on all that stuff.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time once again to look at our old friends.
So that's your new jingle.
Play it again.
Play it again.
Here we go.
Monsanto is resurrecting its efforts to genetically engineer wheat.
Five years after resistance from the food industry led it to drop its work on the world's most widely planted crop.
The move eventually could help slower reverse the decline in the size of the wheat harvest on the Great Plains, where many farmers have abandoned their traditional crop to grow plants such as corn and soybeans.
It will be genetically engineered to grow easier.
Wheat, isn't that pretty much in everything?
Wheat's in a lot of stuff, yeah.
Wheat's pretty common.
But that's bread.
I mean, wheat is a staple.
Wheat and rice are the two, and corn.
Wheat, rice, and corn, although according to Michael Pollan, the omnivores dilemma guy, he thinks that Americans in particular are such corn eaters, in terms of how much corn we consume, that you can actually do a study, because corn has certain...
A certain kind of molecular makeup that when you eat it, you know, part of that goes into your system and you can put somebody into a MRI or some device or you can inject them with something.
You can figure out how much percentage of corn you are after eating all this corn all your life.
We're corny.
And we're totally corny.
It's like everybody's loaded.
We're actually walking corn.
Cornholio.
Proteins and everything is coming from corn, so we're just a bunch of corn balls.
Hey John, shut your corn hole.
Buenos Aires!
Monsanto has unveiled a transgenic soybean seed, it says, will sharply boost yields in South America, but Argentina will miss out if the company can't find a way to get farmers to pay for the technology.
Argentina, of course, is where Monsanto...
I like the way they, like, kind of, what is that called when you...
It's not like blackmail, but it's when you get people to give you money.
It's not intimidation, it's...
Coercion?
No.
Somebody out in the chat room should know the word I'm looking for.
That's okay.
Keep talking, I'll come up with it in a second.
I'm a little slow today.
That's okay.
Two beats slow.
You went to bed too late.
Argentina will miss out.
You'll miss out if the company can't find a way to get farmers to pay for the technology.
Argentina is where Monsanto first introduced genetically modified soybeans to the continent over a decade ago.
But it will not get the new beans if current legislation allowing farmers to use the seeds held over from the prior crop isn't modified.
Do you hear that?
Do you hear that?
That's unbelievable.
So they're actually putting a law...
We've talked about this a number of times and here it is in black and white.
They want to introduce a law that farmers cannot use seeds' nature held over from the prior crop.
Monsanto got burned on their first attempt to collect for its seed technology in Argentina and has vowed to not make the same mistake twice.
I guess maybe you're looking for the phrase, an offer you can't refuse?
It's close.
But I'll tell you, that's unbelievable.
If farmers cannot use the seeds, and of course Monsanto and others design these seeds now so the plants can't Can't make a seed that works.
Nature.
Nature that works.
They've broken nature.
Extortion.
That's the word I'm looking for.
Extortion.
Thank you, chat room.
Well, Santo has submitted the technology for approval in Brazil and Paraguay, the world's second and fifth largest soybean exporters.
The company plans to start marketing the seeds there during the first half of the next decade.
Here it goes.
In January, the European Union approved the import of the new soybeans from South America.
There you go, Europe.
How did that happen?
I thought the European Union was a little sharper, had more on the ball than that.
Guess not.
It's all about Argentina, this whole thing.
First Argentina, then Brazil, then one country after another.
I mean, these guys, it's fairly well documented that these sorts of...
Monsanto initiatives, and they're not the only company doing this, by the way, have pretty much bankrupted half of the Indian independent farmers in India.
I mean, India is going to end up with a...
I don't know, maybe this is one way to starve out the overpopulated countries.
It seems like it's about the exports from these countries.
That's what it looks like to me.
It's like you've got to go right to the source, and then those countries export this stuff to the West.
Maybe.
To the Northwest, I should say.
I wouldn't want this stuff.
I think this is a bad idea.
Let's go back to swine flu for a moment.
Well, we might as well stay in Argentina.
Well, we talked about that on Sunday.
We read the letter that Argentina is freaking out now that all the mainstream media there is talking nothing more about all the people dying from swine flu.
It's now showing up in mainstream media in Europe.
As another part of proof that we really need to take the shot.
You need the shot.
In the United Kingdom, a bishop has advised that holy water must be removed from churches in a bid to halt the spread of swine flu.
The water in stoops can easily...
Hey, it's holy water.
It's been blessed.
How can it give anyone swine flu?
The water in...
Is it a stoop?
Is that what it's called?
A stoop?
S-T-O-U-P? Stoop?
Is the thing that holds the water?
Yeah.
I didn't know that, actually.
It's a stoop.
It can easily become a source of infection and means a rapidly spreading of the virus.
In a directive to Priest in Essex, he added, it is not our intention at this stage to cause panic.
I think they should chlorinate the holy water.
That would stop it.
Don't worry, it's pretty chlorinated.
It comes right out of the tap that way.
It's all set.
Chlorinated and fluoridated for your protection.
There's tons more swine flu stuff if we really want to talk about it.
Back to Monsanto, I'm going to read a sentence here.
Germany published an article about the toxic nature of Monsanto.
That's because somebody in the chat room mentioned that I keep talking about bees, but I never bring it back up.
But since we talked about Monsanto, I should read this quote.
Please do.
Germany published an article about the toxic nature of Monsanto's triple hybrid GM corn and its effect on bees in 2005.
Why wouldn't the media here mention that GM corn is the likely cause of the bees disappearing?
Could it be that Monsanto is a massive multinational corporation with a market capitalization of $30 billion?
Anyway, there is some issues with some of these crops and the fact that these bees have disappeared.
And then now we have this other anomaly, which all these bats are dying.
We don't really need to have our bees and our bats dying.
No, they're kind of handy to have.
I think that should be top of the news.
I think that the journalists in this country should be doing nothing other than covering that story.
It's like the end of humanity story, but no, we're going to be covering Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson, yes, exactly.
Meanwhile, and they're still baffled over this fungus that is attacking bats and has hit pretty close to most of the states so far.
And it's just something that gets on the bat's nose and it kills them.
And I know that we have bats around here once in a while.
Bats are unbelievable.
They absolutely do a wonderful job.
I mean, they eat like their weight in mosquitoes every day.
It's just an amazing animal.
Could it be that the bats are susceptible to dengue?
I don't think it's dengue causing mold on their nose.
No, but if they're eating mosquitoes, isn't that how you get dengue?
Not by eating mosquitoes.
How'd you get dengue?
I had a snack of chocolate covered mosquitoes yesterday.
I guess one of them had dengue.
Alright, well the bees is more worrisome than the bats to me.
I think they're both very worrisome.
But I do like the concept that they're eating or they're pollinating Monsanto genetically engineered pollen and it's killing them.
I mean, it makes sense.
How many tests have they done with rats and mice and they feed genetically engineered corn and wheat to them and these fuckers turn over and die within 48 hours?
I mean, this is no surprise.
Think about it.
The really disconcerting one is the ones that have been genetically engineered to resist certain kinds of toxins, like the Roundup Ready.
Roundup Ready.
So you can spray Roundup, which is not the safest thing in the world.
And of course, that movie, The World According to Monsanto, which everybody who listens to the show has to watch.
And it's variously buried on the internet here and there because it's been suppressed.
It should have been played on every PBS station in the country.
And it hasn't been played hardly anywhere.
You can catch it on Google, though.
Google has it under some other title, but you can figure it out if you type in Monsanto and kind of fool around.
The only stations that will play something like this are those crackpot stations like Free Speech TV. Link, maybe, which is less crackpot.
But free speech TV is basically just a quasi-Marxist station, and everything they play is alarmist.
And so this stuff goes into that mill of people who see everything in one way, and it just goes in one end and out the other.
And the general public, who's the people who should be watching this, don't get to see it.
John, the bottom line, and this is why I started the show like this, the walls are closing in, and it is futile for us to try and warn anybody.
Everyone's been so programmed and so massaged into exactly what you're saying.
Oh, it's a crackpot.
Oh, it's a conspiracy theorist.
Oh, give me a break.
We're just at the end of times here, and the people who are enlightened, the 400,000 who listen to this show on a monthly basis, you'll be able to steer clear of some of the obvious traps, and you will live longer, not as long as you'd like to probably, but longer.
And you'll be happier, especially if you get your headphones on and you're in the office.
Listening to our show instead of contributing to the fake economy.
Well, you know, the other thing is you're probably going to have some excuse not to go to a meeting.
You know, we should change the name of the show that shows up on the MP3 ID tag to, you know...
Something educational or something like...
Something educational is like, you know...
How to become a better manager.
Yeah, management...
Yeah, modern management techniques.
Volume 6.
I don't know.
13 doctors now in the UK are mounting a legal and political campaign to overturn the suicide verdict in the death of British doctor David Kelly, who was found dead in the forest near his home in Oxfordshire.
This was, of course, the guy who was blowing the whistle on the fake weapons of mass destruction.
And said they're going to shoot him in the woods.
Yeah, he actually said, I'm going to be shot in the woods once they figure out what I've blown the whistle on.
I think sometimes you get an assassination like that, where the assassins, again, the sense of humor of the criminal mind, they say, oh, he thinks he's going to get shot in the woods because of what he did.
Yeah, let's get him.
Just take him to the woods and shoot him.
Right.
Which is what's so sad because when they finally find us, John, and when we have two to the head and the story will be that we shot each other, you know, everyone...
Twice.
It'll pass by.
It'll be like, John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry shot each other twice in the head.
In other news, Michael Jackson's royalty payments, you know, and it'll go right by, no one will even notice it, no statue, no nothing.
Well, luckily, the one thing that we're doing right, besides being kind of buddy...
Oh, wait, wait.
Nikki says that she'll stand up for us.
I'll build you guys.
Yeah, sure.
She'll build us a statue.
A fountain.
A fountain.
Oh, nice.
She may be the one with...
She may be the assassin for all we know.
That's right.
She is the undercover assassin.
She's actually the one that's going to do us.
But she's doing you.
That's how they operate.
So anyway...
As I was saying, the thing is that we haven't actually found any, we don't have like the smoking gun that everyone's trying to hide.
We're just relating publicly known information that nobody seems to read.
Yeah, this is from the Daily Telegraph in the UK, and here's the, and that's not really smoking gun, but, quote, the bleeding from Dr.
Kelly's Ulnar artery is highly likely to have been so voluminous and rapid that it was the cause of death.
That's the highly unlikely, I'm sorry, to have been the rapid cause of death.
David Happen, one of the 13 doctors, told UK Sky News, no fingerprints were found on the knife.
A man sweating with the fear of death confronting him would have definitely left fingerprints on the handle of the knife.
And it just goes on and on.
They did a crappy job if they couldn't wrap his hand around a knife.
Was the knife thrown down as an afterthought?
I'm not getting how these guys were competent.
Of course, but this was in the throes of 9-11.
The whole world is still in shock.
You know, it's like, and we bought anything.
Well, I think they did a sloppy job.
Have you ever read his book?
Have we ever read...
Did we ever...
Didn't he write a book?
What did he write?
No, I don't think so, did he?
No.
He was always a weapons inspector.
They don't write books.
They inspect weapons.
Where did he write that they were probably going to take him into the woods and kill him?
Yeah, no, here it is.
I think he just said that he had been working on a tell-all book about the lack of weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, right, the book that disappeared, right.
Yes, so that's what we need to find, is that book, if we can.
Yeah, you know what they do.
Nobody keeps that stuff.
The smart money, if anybody kept that book and didn't shred it immediately and burn all copies, they'd be found dead in the woods.
I'd like to ask you one question, John.
You don't leave that stuff floating around.
I'd like to ask you a question.
I'd like to ask you a question.
You are breaking up a little bit, by the way.
You are too.
Okay.
Sorry.
Could you please explain to me what is the difference between a crime and a hate crime?
And why should there be a different bill for hate crimes versus regular crime?
Isn't a crime just a crime?
Well, a hate crime is motivated by hate.
Specifically, a bigoted hate, generally speaking, toward a minority.
Okay.
So, a crime against...
Like, if you beat some person up to an inch of their, you know, inch of their life, you know, you beat the crap out of somebody, that...
Say, you know, but if it happens to be a gay person that you beat up, and you are known to hate gays and just want to beat them up, that's a hate crime.
Right.
Because you go out and shoot blacks in the woods, you know, and it's a hate crime because, you know, you're...
Okay, I got it.
No, I got it.
That makes sense.
It's a categorization, but why do we need...
I mean, are you going to get punished less if you just shoot any random person in the woods?
No more.
No, no.
Just going out and shooting people is better.
Thank you.
I just wanted to have that clarified.
So as long as you don't hate the person you're shooting, which apparently there is a difference, then you're going to get less punishment.
That's what I'm understanding here?
Pretty much, yeah.
This doesn't make any sense to me.
This was done for some...
If you want to try to deconstruct the reason for the hate crime law, I think it wasn't so much for killing somebody, because you're going to get heavy...
Punishment.
It's more for the minor things.
It's like, you know, pushing someone off the curb.
And instead of it being a misdemeanor, you know, you can make it a felony because it's a hate crime because you push them off for some reason.
So, um...
So you can make it...
In fact, one of our ByteLaw fellow just mentions hate crimes are actually thought crimes, if you think about it.
Are you uploading something, John?
Are you downloading something?
No, no.
Do you want to reconnect?
Not really.
Do you want to reconnect?
Well, I hate reconnecting because then I have to reinstate everything.
As long as I'm not sounding like a chipmunk.
Which everyone loved, by the way.
Yeah, they did.
Yeah, it sounds crappy.
Shall I try a quick reconnect?
Oh, hold on a second.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I'm seeing something weird here on my end.
Hold on.
It could be on my end.
Let me just see what's going on.
I seem to have high processor activity.
Let's see what's crunching here.
Probably that virus is acting up.
It's kind of weird.
What is this?
Let me quit this.
Let's see if that makes any difference.
Get rid of that sucker.
Okay, talk.
Testing 1, 2, 3.
I don't know.
I can live with it.
So, in real news...
Yes?
A Polish mom sued an Egyptian hotel after claiming her daughter got pregnant using their mixed swimming pools.
13-year-old daughter came back on the holiday expecting a baby.
Tourist authorities in Warsaw confirmed they'd received the complaint, which states that the girl conceived because of stray sperm in the pool.
Is this for real?
The mother is adamant that her daughter did not meet any boys while she was there and is determined to go ahead with the case, said one trouble in the...
All right, I'm going to reconnect with you because I can't take it anymore.
I'll call you right back.
Sounds good.
All right.
I hate this.
Are you downloading porn, hon?
Yeah, he has a deep breath.
Deep throat?
That's not porn, baby.
That's educational.
You have so much to learn.
You have so much to learn about porn.
Hold on.
Let me see if I can bring this man back into the fold.
Yeah, kind of.
How come I'm not hearing him now?
Oh, here he goes.
You there?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, let me jack in.
in hold on testing one two Thank you.
John?
Yeah, testing one, two.
Okay, yeah, I guess it's a little better.
I'm telling you, you're downloading porn again.
I'm not downloading anything.
The only thing that I have on the whole machine is the chat room.
Who wants me to sound like a chipmunk.
It sucks, man.
All of a sudden, I just got shit.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
It's baffling to me.
You sound good coming this way.
Yeah.
Well, get back to what you were saying.
I was just saying that this Polish mom suing an Egyptian hotel after claiming her daughter got pregnant using their mixed swimming pool from stray sperm in the pool.
You think this will be a real news story somewhere?
It's on Ananova.
Okay.
Those guys are never wrong.
None sues over...
Here's a line of stories from this operation.
None sues over naked Facebook photos.
Wait, do you have a link?
None is suing her ex-boyfriend in Italy after he uploaded pictures of her naked.
Awesome.
Do we have the pictures?
I'm looking for the pictures.
I'm not seeing the pictures.
No, they don't have the pictures.
But I'm sure somebody out there in the chat room can find these pictures of a 31-year-old woman who lives in Turin.
So she was devastated when she saw pictures taken in the summer of 2006.
Apparently she had no clothes on.
Well, why did she take her clothes off and let herself be photographed in the first place?
I've always wondered about that.
Does anybody out there but me wonder, who are all these people?
That are on all these porn sites and just doing the weirdest things?
I mean, there's millions of them.
Who's not doing that stuff is what I'd like to know.
I'm looking at another Al Gore quote here.
Al Gore says the Congressional Climate Bill will help bring about global governance.
Yeah, no.
Everybody, I got a bunch of people that sent me that clip.
It's actually, I will cut it, and we'll cut it out of one of the speeches.
That's exactly what Al Gore said.
He says that the climate bills, these climate bills are important because they will help us get to global governance.
Yeah, as in new world order.
And why is anybody putting up with this?
The video is offline.
Why is this guy even in the news anymore?
Let's move him out of the picture.
He's a nutball.
He's in the news because the cap-and-trade bill is because of his movie and his Oscar that he won for it.
And the Nobel Peace Prize, don't forget.
Yes, let's not forget the Peace Prize.
And of course the whole actual trading system, the NASDAQ of bad air is...
It's partially owned by him.
It's going to be his exchange.
He's going to be the made-off of CO2. And, of course, everyone's sucking up to him.
It's unbelievable.
back to real news a group of freemasons spent a night in jail in Fiji after local villagers complained that they were practicing witchcraft The fourteen men, including eight Australians and a New Zealander, had been holding a nighttime meeting on Denaru Island.
The New Zealand man told reporters he'd spent a wretched time in jail and blamed the mix-up on the actions of dopey village people.
The village people are back?
Police also seized wands, compasses, and a skull from the Freemasons' lodge.
A skull.
It was probably, what is it, chief sitting bull or whatever?
It was his skull.
Oh, man.
Fiji's actually become kind of a weird place.
We've talked about eminent domain.
Yes, I got that story from that eminent domain guy in Denver.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
Yeah, well, eminent domain has been abused.
In fact, there's a local fellow down here, down by where I am now, down the street from my house, who had an apartment building on the corner of some couple of streets down where they were going to build a freeway.
But they never, and so they, about five years ago, or ten years ago, it was ridiculous, a long time ago, they confiscated his place.
And told me he just had to move out because they're going to tear it down and build a freeway.
And they were moving the freeway around.
Okay, so here's what happened.
So he took a spray can and said, they're stealing my property on the side of this place for about six months.
They laughed at him for six months and then they stole his property.
They laughed at him for six months and then tore down his place and stole his property.
We should explain eminent domain for the Europeans who don't understand how Gitmo Nation West works.
Eminent domain is the ability of the government to seize your property and give you what they consider as a fair value in exchange, which may or may not be a fair value.
Generally, it's not.
Mark to market, no doubt.
It's an inconvenient situation, whatever the case is.
For various reasons.
One, because they're going to put a highway through there and they need that property.
Or they need a right-of-way through it.
Or they consider it blighted.
And they just want to tear it down and put up housing that's going to be blighted.
There's a number of reasons.
But a lot of these small communities and states have noticed that they can pretty much do anything they want with this law.
So they're just confiscating stuff left and right.
So meanwhile, this guy had his place confiscated and they tore it down.
And then it sat there, I swear to God, for a good five or six years, because they hadn't started the freeway project, just as a big, empty, blighted lot.
It was blighted now.
And then they never did put the freeway there.
It's still down there as a lot.
Crazy.
So maybe they just wanted to get that guy.
A lot of people believe eminent domain is used for political leverage to get the guy.
There's some belief that that takes place up in Washington State in these little towns.
There's a bunch of guys that have some jerk-off that doesn't like him, so they start finding things wrong with your property and then condemning it.
It's very easy to condemn property.
So the...
The thing in Colorado that the story is about from the Denver Post, it's about trails.
Hiking trails.
Yeah, they want to take some guy's property with eminent domain so they can put in a hiking trail.
What is up with that?
In Colorado, because you know what?
Colorado doesn't have enough hiking.
Well, you know what this is?
Of course, we know that Colorado is going to be the new seat of the government once everything shuts down.
That's where they have all the secret underground bunkers.
I'll bet you they're building a bunker or some shit like that.
They're covering it up with hiking trails.
But it's got to be something bigger than just trails.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense.
Colorado has got too many hiking trails already.
Why would they want another one?
Well, I think that central government thing you're talking about is located at the airport outside of Denver.
Oh, yeah, but that's just one part of it.
I mean, come on.
Well, this is in Boulder, I think, right?
Where's the story from?
Boulder?
Yeah, I believe so.
Boulder's the college town.
Well, maybe it's just an underground prison so they can take the college students from...
Which, by the way, most of the Colorado students probably should be incarcerated, so...
It's not really a bad thing.
Yeah.
Alright, we can talk about...
Oh, a follow-up on Lisa Jackson.
We played the clips of her, and remember when she mentioned Dunkin' Donuts?
Yeah.
We questioned why that rolled off the tongue so easily.
Roy Houston, one of our producers, says, Adam, this was not a casual reference during her rebuttal.
The production of donuts creates enormous amounts of CO2 relative to the sales output due to the process of yeast making the dough rise.
Cap-and-trade could seriously affect any company which utilizes yeast and its fermentation processes, i.e.
beer, wine, and spirits producers, and farmers who turn the waste product called corn stalks into silage for additional feed.
Producing silage requires piling the spent corn stalks into the great piles and covering them with a tarp.
The natural sugars in the stalk then begin to ferment, releasing vast quantities of CO2 while breaking down the cellulose structure in the stalk, So that the cows can then consume it for additional foodstuffs.
Cap and trade will certainly put the creation of this virtually free source of livestock food stocks off limits and create additional demand for that wonderful, yes, you guessed it, that wonderful grain from Monsanto.
So, I guess that would also mean bread making, which is like a staple.
Yeah.
So bread making, which employs yeast, would be...
Yeah, she probably did have...
She probably was thinking somehow, how can we screw people who make dough?
Whether it's money or just bread, as long as it's dough, let's screw them.
I like it.
It makes sense to me.
Generally speaking, you don't throw some word out out of the blue or a company name unless it's sitting there on the tip of your tongue for some other reason.
I mean, she didn't throw something completely off base out there.
Yeah, that probably is exactly what it is.
Anyway...
And I'm looking for a story here about the recent...
It was a really good analysis one of our producers sent in.
We spent almost a billion dollars of our tax money on preparing for the imminent swine flu crisis.
Well, while you're working on that, I do have to mention the chatroom gag.
Somebody said, will there be a tax on yeast infections?
Okay.
Oh, boy.
I guess it's all guys in the room, as usual?
It's the difference between cap and trade.
Oh, man.
Okay, here it is.
And I really like this analysis.
This is from John Seck.
And the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. to buy H1N1 vaccine components from four firms, the number one firm actually being Novartis.
And it says, Adam, as you recall from John's prior explanation of the 1976 swine flu immunization problems, when a large percentage of immunization recipients contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome, Yeah, you remember this?
Is that how I pronounce it?
Gillian Barr?
No, you know, I've never gotten a good pronunciation for it, so it's fine.
So the point is, the cure is sometimes deadlier than the disease.
So what scientists do know is that the body's immune system begins to attack the body itself.
At any rate, if you read the above Wall Street Journal article, which will be listed in the show notes at noagenda.mevio.com and noagenda.squarespace.com, you will discern a likely reason for this happening then and now.
And once again, it boils down to money.
So here it is.
If you research Guillain-Barre syndrome, you'll find that it is an autoimmune disease wherein the body's disease-fighting systems are overstimulated.
So the H1N1 vaccine is composed of antigen and adjuvant components.
The antigen is the antibody.
The adjuvant is the hamburger helper, which stimulates the body's immune system whether it needs it or not.
And only enough antigen for 200 million.
What do you do?
You add more adjuvant, the hamburger helper.
So his point in his analysis is, if many of the people who receive the added adjuvant don't need it, and their immune system goes into high gear, when it should be in low gear, what happens?
Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Are you following?
Totally.
Then that makes nothing but sense because when you have to rush out a vaccine, you won't have enough of the actual, the right components.
If any of the right components.
Well, let's assume that you do.
Let's assume you've got ten molecules of it and you need five to get to the point where it's going to work in your system as a vaccine.
But you have 10 people that need to be vaccinated.
You've got 10 molecules.
Each of them need 5 molecules.
So you give each of them 1 molecule and throw in some booster that is some other weird chemical that screws your body up and it takes the 1 molecule and tries to make it work.
So this makes total sense as to why early news reports were saying that the swine flu is going to kill young, healthy kids, typically between 12 and 19 years of age, because these are the kids that don't actually need any of it.
They're getting this adjuvant hamburger helper.
Their body goes into high gear and starts to kill itself.
That's a good theory.
I mean, I'm sure there's somebody out there who's rolling their eyes, but I like it.
Well, but just listen to this passage from the article.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that the department will commit $884 million, that's almost a billion, to buy supplies of the two ingredients for the potential H1N1 virus.
So from Sanofi Aventus and AstraZeneca, along with GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, the government earmarked $1 billion to be spent on vaccine development.
The bulk of the additional contracts announced Monday went to Novartis with a contract worth $690 million.
Sanofi's contract worth about $61.4 million.
I guess they didn't blow somebody.
Glaxo is 71.4 and AstraZeneca is 61.
So antigen is the active ingredient in the vaccine, but they bought all this adjuvant stuff from Novartis.
So they didn't buy the vaccine, they bought the hamburger helper part, a huge amount of it.
So somebody sent me a note about Sebelia saying that she's in the Bilderbergers.
Gee, why does that not surprise me?
I find it hard to believe, to be honest about it.
I'd like to see some documentation for that.
Do they have a guest list?
No, John, funny enough, they never publish the guest list of who's coming.
No, how interesting.
Let's take a look, though, at how many videos have been submitted for the $2,500 prize to create a great public service announcement for the shot.
And there have been 10 videos submitted so far.
We should do one.
Well, it's not going to get on because if you look at the comments, everyone's saying, every funny video that's uploaded is getting booted out, is getting removed.
Let's do one that's really serious.
But we have to have some kind of...
We have to have an undetectable virus in there.
Something that will get into people's minds.
Something that gives it away that we're not serious?
No, it shouldn't.
Actually, it might be something that really, like some kind of NLP type thing.
Or maybe we put in subliminal messages that are flashing really quickly.
Subliminal messages that have them listen to the No Agenda.
Actually, I'll just put a plug for the No Agenda show at the end.
They'll never go there to find out what that's all about.
They'll cut that out.
They'll cut it out.
Let's just listen to one of these fine, fine PSAs.
Okay, let's not listen to that.
It's all kids.
It's all kids.
Were they all in a bucket?
What is the deal?
Yeah, it's all like 10-year-old kids, and it's all like showing you how to sneeze and wash your hands.
I think we should have a...
Well, listen, I have studio time today.
You want to come by the office and we'll do something today?
John?
Good.
We need it.
Weeping over the death of one of her kids because of swine flu and don't let this happen to you and the worst thing can happen, you know, and then show a, then pan back and then show an entire scene of desolation.
The entire country is dead.
No, that'll never make it all, man.
It's got to be really, really lame.
It's got to be really, really low-key.
It's got to be lame.
I'm showing the entire country dead.
I mean, do they want to sell us flying?
No, you're missing the point.
That's not what they want.
They want little kids going, wash your hands, take the shot.
We should actually get Jeff Smith to do a song, and we could make a video to it.
Wash your hands.
Take a shot.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I will say, John, you, my friend, are in really, really good shape.
I'm going to Skype you this picture right now.
It's important that you take a look at this.
Hold on.
Because you are completely...
You are not going to die.
Here it comes.
Could you just grab that JPEG I'm sending you?
Yeah, that'll do wonders for the bandwidth.
Here we go.
No, it'll be fine.
It'll be fine.
So this is from CNN. It's Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room.
I'll wait until you've downloaded it.
And on the screen behind him, the huge screen, I'm trying to time me reading this, you getting it, otherwise the payoff just won't be quite as good, because you are safe, my friend.
I'll wait until you get it.
You know, it seems as though...
See, can you hear me?
Do I sound good?
No, of course not.
You sound like you're downloading a JPEG. Tell me when to open it.
Okay, open it up.
Swine flu can ravage the lungs, spreads through respiratory systems, causes lesions, doesn't stay in the head like seasonal flu.
And here it is, John, proof that you will be safe.
Survivors of the 1918 flu are immune.
You are going to live, my friend.
How can they even put this graphic up?
Survivors of the 1918 flu, which by the way was called the Spanish flu, are immune.
Now doesn't that tell you something interesting though?
It tells you that these people are insane.
Maybe that's the joke of that slide.
You're going to post that, I hope, on the...
Actually, let's make this the artwork for the show.
Done.
Consider it done.
Although people did send us some really good ones.
Some really good swine flu.
Can we use the really good ones next week or Sunday?
I'm sure.
Well, the one I like is the one of the beware of swine flu and there's a pig on the beach and you have the president's faces buried underneath the sand with masks on.
Now, we'll use this one.
I like the Wolf Blitzer one.
It's kind of funny.
So I just got somebody sent me a link to the Bilderberger participants.
Yes.
Oh, do tell.
And, well, I don't see her on there, but there's an interesting number of presidents.
Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, George Stephanopoulos.
Yeah, the Queen of the Netherlands.
Yeah.
Of course, it was...
Enoch Powell.
It was her dad.
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher.
This is just a drinking club.
Yeah.
No, they don't discuss killing us at all during the Bilderberg meetings.
Just remember, if you see the Bilderbergers...
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Ooh, look at that!
All right, John, let's wrap this up with a plea.
Well, we...
With our begging for money.
Yeah.
We're kind of hanging in there.
We could use some more people sending the $1,500 and maybe another night would be good.
We do bring you, I think, kind of a take on things and information, although sometimes it seems a little off the wall.
We have been ahead of the news so often.
Consistently.
Consistently.
It's almost kind of scaring me.
Which makes me, I'm wondering, you know, if there's somebody feeding us stuff that they shouldn't be feeding us, or they're going to say, here, let these guys have it first, and then we'll actually do it.
But anyway...
We'll give them some credibility.
Cool.
Thank people who have helped us out, because I know we have a lot of listeners that can't, because of the economic situation, because they get a lot of apology emails, and I wish I could give you money, but I don't have a job.
Yeah, and by the way, if you don't have a job and you can't give us money, totally understood.
That's okay.
Just tell a friend, get someone to listen to it at work, spread the news.
Right.
And, you know, if somebody sent me an email saying, well, you know, the show seems kind of lightweight because of the cornball opening, which I think the opening's fine and we're not changing it, but, you know, so I have to force people to listen to more than the opening, but they like the show, and I'm thinking, well, I just want you to make a copy of the show and take the opening out and give it to you.
And by the way, you're free to copy this program, post it on your blog, burn it to CDs, transcribe it, send it to Oprah, anything you want.
It's completely yours since you're paying for it.
Now, the thing you should know, we did have a couple people write in and say, well, I would like to post it on my blog, like you just said.
What do I need for permission?
Because I think it would be cool to have, you know, with the player on their blog.
You can do that.
Just do it.
Take the, you know, recommend, you take the link from...
From Adam's site, curry.com.
I think we also have the direct link to the MP3 file on...
The Squarespace site.
Noagenda.squarespace.com.
Which is also a place you can donate, by the way.
You can just put that in one of the WordPress players or whatever blogging software you have and just run it.
Run our show notes.
Somebody else has to say, we run all these great links that Adam comes up with.
He has actually way too many links for any normal people to actually go through in three days.
I mean, it's like lots and lots of interesting links.
It's better than probably any just set link list ever.
Seriously, good.
Just take them.
Take them and put them up and put the list.
Just give us credit.
If you don't want to do that, that's fine, too.
Just try and get people to tune in to what's really happening.
You might actually save someone's life.
Go figure.
Mickey will build a fountain for you.
Just don't give her the address.
No.
Anyway, but we could use some help.
Noagenda.meba.com is the main site, but Noagenda.Squarespace.com has a donation link.
Dvorak.org slash NA has a donation link, and you can subscribe.
And by the way, this...
The system we're using, which is PayPal, some people don't like.
You can always mail us money.
But they do take debit cards.
Somebody was shocked that their debit card worked.
Oh, that's cool.
That's cool.
Debit cards do work.
I was asked to do one thing since we're using all of Mevio's infrastructure and they're getting no benefit from it whatsoever.
Well, they're getting numbers.
Yeah, well, we're using the Squarespace site, which I think is pretty good.
And I've been asked to extend an offer to our producers.
And if you don't like this, let me know if you think it's wrong for us to do this.
But we're getting no money from this.
Zero.
Zilch.
Nada.
But if you use our code, which apparently is Agenda, when you sign up for Squarespace, you get a 12% discount on what you pay them forever.
Which is a pretty good deal.
Yeah, I actually wouldn't mind soliciting or asking people.
On these websites, I don't think it's an issue to have, you know, maybe advertisements or links because that's not what we're talking about when we're saying we're commercial free.
We're talking about being able to do a show for an hour, two or three times a week, where we're not being interrupted by endless commercials.
We are going to talk the whole time.
And then we're going to end the show.
And that's what we're talking about.
So I don't see anybody really objecting to having some ads on the Squarespace site or even the Curry site or whoever.
Well, we're actually using Squarespace and it's working out pretty well for us.
And as I said, Mevio gets absolutely nothing from this show.
And it's the biggest show.
It's one of the biggest shows on the network and they can't take advantage of it.
It must be galling to more than a few people.
Yeah, well, tough titties.
Tough titties.
We're saving the world.
We're working on our fountain, dammit.
If we don't save the world, then there won't be any...
Fountain.
Squarespace.
That's right.
Save Squarespace.
Anyway.
All right, John.
So, Sunday, you in town?
I'll be here, and I'll be looking at the dvorak.org slash na page.
Okay.
And look for us to appear on the stream somewhere between 9 and 9.30 on Sunday, which seems to be the good time for people to get on the stream.
And we'll do some more.
I'm sure there will be information and news to talk about.
Clips.
Yes, clips.
Nice.
Coming to you from the undisclosed loft location in the...
Gitmo Nation West Crackpot Command Center.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Buzzkill Corner in the Pacific Ocean nearby Silicon Valley North.
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