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You've got to have a positive attitude.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, October 5th, 2014.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 658.
This is No Agenda.
Proudly broadcasting from FIFA Region 6 in the Indispensable Nation.
From the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin, Texas, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's become an oven, classic California summer in October.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Blood and Boneskill in the morning.
Mike was complaining about the weather at the beginning of the show.
It's what we do on the 8s.
And on the 6s, too.
No, it's traffic and weather on the 8s.
We don't do anything on the 6s.
Nothing.
I can do anything on the 6s.
I'm watching a guy now on CNN. He's part of the NBC freelance camera crew, of which the cameraman has Ebola.
This guy's on Skype, and he's coming in from Ebola quarantine.
That's pretty funny.
Oh, he's Skyping from Ebola quarantine?
Yeah, he's in a hotel room, and so he's being quarantined from Ebola.
They're feeding the guy.
Oh, man, this is great.
Well, it's getting funnier.
Yeah, the Ebola thing is fantastic.
They had the guy, and the other story was the guy in Newark at the Newark airport.
Oh, so the guy pukes on the plane.
It never happens.
Yeah, no, that's never happened ever.
And immediately, let me see, I think I have a clip of that somewhere.
Hold on a second.
I didn't necessarily mean to start off that way, but...
We start off the way we start off.
That's true.
Here it is.
Yeah, this was the Fox fear porn version of it.
Very funny.
Fox, we look for you right now.
You're taking a look at a live picture of Newark Liberty International Airport.
Live picture, because you know this is really important.
And that flight is a United flight.
United!
That just arrived from Brussels.
It is flight 998, and it is being held right now there on the tarmac.
Tarmac!
Because they say there is a sick passenger on board.
Brussels, of course, at the same airport.
That Thomas Duncan used to board his flight to fly to Dallas, now in critical condition, with Ebola.
United does say, confirming there is an ill passenger on board, but they don't know yet if he does have Ebola.
They are now waiting, they say, for the Centers for Disease Control to arrive at the airport and analyze that passenger, keeping everybody on board, isolated at the moment.
An indication of what we're facing as these flights arrive here into our country from abroad.
Ebola.
It is scary and wretched and miserable.
It is gross.
Now, I listened to a report.
I didn't clip it, but I listened to a report where one of the passengers, actually not one of the passengers, but the guy sitting next to this guy.
Oh, he must be in quarantine now.
Well, here's, he told the story.
He says, and now I remember it pretty clearly.
He says, first of all, they let everybody off the plane except the four rows forward and back of this guy on the same side.
They kept all those people.
So it's like, I guess it was two and two or something along there.
Right.
And it would be like, you know, two, four, six, eight, about 12 people that kept on the plane and let everyone else go.
And then they decided to check this.
They brought this guy off.
They kind of put him in the back and then they were going to bring him off.
They let these other guys go and they let him go through, check through.
And the guy bragged about having the global entry.
Wow.
So I had global entry.
I was almost about to leave the airport.
Good way to get your global entry card revoked.
You almost left the airport.
And then they commandeered the people around this character, the puker.
And...
Kept them in the airport.
They took them off the plane, no matter what everyone else says.
This guy had a really good account of it.
He says, and then they kept us there for two or three hours.
And he was irked about that because there was nothing going on.
And then they let them all go.
Well, most of the cases, I think we've now up to 15 or 20 Ebola reports in the United States.
All of them, of course, are false alarms.
And it's interesting.
I've been reading up on this a little bit.
Now, of course, I still maintain that this is nothing more than a reason to have combat troops in these countries in West Africa, which have traditionally, you know, the West Africa, we've got blood diamonds.
We've got internal, continuous internal strife, regime changes all the time.
And, of course, all the new oil in the past, or not all, but at least a third of all the new oil has been found in West Africa.
And we're now in there.
And it's a perfect way to, you know, to strangle these countries.
And the IMF is now coming in with emergency loans.
It's the new version of the economic hitman.
All right.
Wow.
That doesn't sound good, John.
I ate oatmeal.
Now, this flight being from Brussels was interesting.
As I was reading the...
Let me bring it up here.
This is from the EU, from the ECDC, the European Center for Disease and Prevention Control.
So we're so incredibly worried about a potential case of pukin coming in from Brussels, from Belgium.
But this kind of went unreported.
And this is from...
September 13th.
Accidental release of 45 liters of concentrated live polio virus solution into the environment in Belgium.
Did you know about this?
Wow, this is a great catch.
As reported by the...
How did something like this happen?
Well, I'm going to...
It's a human error.
As reported by the European Center for Disease and Prevention Control, which is an official EU entity, by Belgian authorities on September 2nd, 2014, following a human error...
45 liters of concentrated live polio virus solution were released into the environment by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in Rixensart City, Belgium.
The liquid was conducted directly to a water treatment plant.
And released after treatment in the river Lasne, affluent of river Dial, which is affluent of the Eskout-Schreit river, Belgium's High Council of Public Health conducted a risk assessment that concluded that the risk of infection for the population exposed to the contaminated water is extremely low due to the high level of dilution and the high vaccination coverage, which is really the clue, the vaccination coverage.
ECDC's assessment is that the accidental release in the environment of large amounts of live polio virus represents a risk to public health if susceptible populations, such as areas with low polio vaccine coverage, are exposed to contaminated waters or mud.
That's one way to get rid of some of the Muslims over there.
I'm telling you.
How does that happen?
45...
Oh, sorry.
What do you want to do with this stuff, Bill?
Why do they have it in the first place?
Why does GlaxoSmith climb?
That's probably what someone was asking when they found it.
Hey, Bill!
What is all this bottle that says polio liquid?
I don't know.
Flush it down the toilet.
I don't know.
Just dump it.
But no one, you don't hear anyone about, that's a reason to be a bit worried.
Of course, only if you're not vaccinated against polio.
And then I was reading about the National Center for Medical Intelligence.
This is, and it's a part of the, let me see, I believe it's a part of DOD, but it also has direct reporting lines to the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center.
And these guys are supposed to oversee...
I presume some of these people are now in West Africa.
And guess where they are based?
Well, if I were to have a real joke guess, it'd be Zug.
But I'm sure it's not that.
No, for Dietrich.
Oh, for Dietrich!
Oh my God, those guys.
This is where we believe it came from, this whole Ebola thing.
Yeah, it was where it was invented.
Yeah.
So, interesting things popping up.
Now, just to put some more fear, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the nation of Islam, Let's see if I have the exact quote.
The deadly disease ravaging parts of Africa and now diagnosed on American soil has been designed by white scientists specifically to kill off blacks.
There you go.
That's a stereotypical response from him.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
Let me see.
This is...
Whenever you have a crisis like this, why let it go to waste?
You can use this for so many things.
You could use it for...
Here's an idea, kids.
You could say...
I didn't do my homework because, you know, my grandmother has Ebola.
We all had to go into quarantine.
You can use it for a lot of different things, like what Charlie Rose and his CBS reporter did there the other morning.
So we have the Ebola virus in Africa, and we now have this virus.
What's going on?
Well, the world is flat.
Right now, anybody can get on a plane and end up anywhere in this country and spread these viruses.
And we have to be aware of it.
We don't know exactly why there was a dramatic spread this year, but something is happening now.
We have multiple viruses, and together with global climate change, things are changing in the virus world, and we have to pay attention.
Ebola.
Of course it's climate change.
That's obvious.
It's so obvious.
How could I think otherwise?
Now, I'm always looking for reasons to, obviously, to put some meat behind my theory that this is really about getting a foothold in West Africa with actual soldiers.
And I'm also hearing this global health security thing, and I'm hearing more and more about, you know, they don't have a health care system, but I'm almost wondering if Obamacare is going to be exported to Africa.
You know, there's something afoot about this.
There is way, yes, there's far too many stories about the health care system used in those terms in these areas.
Oh, the health care system, the health care system, it's collapsing, it doesn't exist anymore.
Yeah.
Here is the healthcare system.
This was an interesting piece of video.
This is in Monrovia.
And the ABC reporter does not have a garbage outfit on.
Because these are not hazmat suits.
I want everyone to realize, what you're seeing on television, there's a ski mask.
The Uvenix, I think that's what it is.
That's on the band.
These are ski goggles.
This is not a hazmat suit.
It's a rain slicker.
And God knows where the hundreds of billions of dollars are that we're supposedly, or hundreds of millions, but I think we're close to billions, that we're sending over there.
Crap, 3,000 people, 3,000 combat troops alone is $10 million a day.
It's just crazy.
So this guy doesn't have any.
He just has a shirt on.
He's standing maybe 10 yards away from the action of...
Well, you'll hear it in this report.
This was very strange.
Here in the street of Monrovia, there's a body here.
Maybe Ebola, maybe something else.
The burial team has come.
They're busy spraying down the area where the person is.
they're going to wrap in plastic and take away.
But I was talking to someone in the community, and they had someone sick here yesterday.
They didn't think it was Ebola.
They thought it was something else.
And they called for help, and no one came.
They called again, and no one came.
And not until he died, a 37-year-old man, not until he died did they come.
And then they called, and within one hour, the burial team is here.
So he's still on the street.
You You're seeing these guys behind him, two guys picking up this corpse, which has some rags over it.
And by the way, none of these people who are dead on the street, none of them have boils that are exploding blood.
I don't see any of that.
I see no evidence of what Ebola should look like.
On a dead person.
Because you should have boils and leaking sores.
Yeah, you should be bleeding all over the place.
None of this.
This is a place right now where if you die of Ebola, they're very quick for you.
If you're living and you need help, there's really nowhere to go.
This is interesting.
If you die, they're quick to help you.
But if you're sick, then there's really nowhere to go.
How does this make any sense?
Alright, here comes the big reveal.
He's not dead.
He's not dead.
They were wrapping him up to take him away, but he's alive.
He's moving his arm.
They almost took him away to the crematorium.
And they notice he's moving his arm.
I don't know where they could take him.
There are no hospitals to treat him.
Now the first responders, the ambulance is here.
They're trying to get them to stop to take him to somewhere where he can get some care.
So this guy, all of it, so they're wrapping him up.
And then his hands...
Funny Python you're watching.
Yeah.
And then his hand starts moving.
Yeah.
Come on.
Maybe it's just napping.
This is getting ridiculous.
And you see, it's not like lesions of bloody goo dripping off of it.
I'm highly skeptical.
And when you listen to Here's Erin Burnett on the CNN with her friend.
They're just shooting the breeze about how none of this is working and none of this is fitting together.
None of the precautionary measures seem to be in place.
And they're wondering why.
And I'm thinking to myself, it's because it's bullcrap.
None of this is really true.
You know, several things have gone wrong, and two of them, they've attempted to fix them because CNN brought it to the authorities' attention, which is a little disconcerting.
They didn't sort of do something on their own.
First of all, the sheets and towels that you mentioned that were soiled, you know, once we put that on air, all of a sudden the CDC says, okay, we're going to go.
This is about the guy in Texas.
Where he was staying, and I guess he puked on these blankets, and CNN said, Hey, where are the blankets?
Who cleaned all that up?
She quarantined them!
And the authorities go, Oh, yeah.
Get those?
We've got a medical contractor all lined up, although, as you said so far, that hasn't happened.
But why did it take CNN going on air and saying that this was a problem?
The other one, Aaron, is something that was reported first on your show on Tuesday night.
I said, Hey, I just came back from Liberia a couple of days ago, Stop!
John, before we continue with this show, I need to know.
Were you exposed to an Ebola patient?
Not that I know of.
Okay, then we're good to go.
...on what exactly I was doing there.
I wasn't told what symptoms I should be watching out for, even though this has been known to have been an issue for months and months now.
And then all of a sudden, the Customs and Border Patrol people say yesterday, hey, we've got a pamphlet and we're going to start handing this out.
Pamphlet?
I think, you know, why does it take us going on television saying these things to have action taking?
You sort of are wondering what's going on, what is up with this?
It is pretty frightening.
And our understanding at this point, Elizabeth Wright, is that they have not...
I mean, we're finding out right now, CNN had reported those soiled sheets and towels were there, I think, six or seven hours ago.
They said they're sending someone, and now we're hearing from the father of one of the children in that apartment that he said 40 minutes ago they're still there.
Right, I mean, I've definitely talked to some experts who say, you know, look, public health time is sometimes a little bit slower than, you know, that on-the-ground time, that there's sort of this feeling of, you know, when this kind of thing is happening, they just need to move much more quickly than they usually do.
Erin, newsflash, it's all bullcrap, girl!
That's why this is real.
You know, people look at me like I'm on fire when I say these things.
Well, you know, I think you're on the side of the evidence.
Thank you.
And, of course, CNN folks, and I use the word folks, they're actually part of the problem.
They deliver the bad news, and then once in a while when they actually look into it...
Yeah, hey, wait a minute.
They discover this, and they get all panicky because they actually did their job once.
The reporting from the Wall Street Journal about...
They'll back off, by the way.
Oh, yeah.
Of course.
Reporting from the Wall Street Journal regarding how this gentleman could go to the hospital and then be sent away.
With two aspirin and call me in the morning.
You know what their answer is?
It's the standard answer these days.
And of course, the Wall Street Journal does not just say, oh, okay.
I'll read you the relevant paragraph from their article.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said it has determined that it failed to detain Mr.
Duncan when he initially sought care on the night of September 25th because his travel history wasn't relayed to doctors due to a records glitch.
And, you know, once someone says it's a glitch, back off, bitches!
Don't ask questions.
It's a glitch.
I find it...
Reprehensible.
That journalists do not, or that journalists accept this as an excuse.
You did.
I know.
I know.
I've been doing it.
It's okay.
We can live with it as long as we're aware.
Self-awareness is the key.
I'm thinking that there's a couple of things that come to mind.
One is the push toward greater record keeping.
I mean, that record story is like, well, let's spend another billion dollars on it.
Because like you said, when you went to your global entry computer.
Bull crap.
Bullcrap.
It wasn't obvious.
It didn't have time to check anything.
Nope.
Took a picture of your gut, you know.
To be honest, it got my chin.
It got a little bit of my chin.
Actually, send me that thing and you put it in the next newsletter.
You got a big piece of your chin, because you're too tall for the camera, and it doesn't tell you to line up with anything.
There's no feedback monitor.
It says, put your face in the square.
Oh, I got an update.
So when Mickey came in to the global entry, and she came in Los Angeles, initially, it said she had a big X on her printout ticket that said, no entry.
When she did the global entry.
And then she took that ticket.
And then the guy that I had in New York, the guy was kind of leisurely leaning back.
He took it from her and went, uh-huh.
And he just crossed it out and said, okay, you're good to go.
You'll have no problem.
Yes.
That's what she...
Yeah.
The only reason you do that if you were in the position of that guy is because they're just randomly coming through with that X. I think so, too.
So the guy sees another one, and he goes, oh God, I wish they'd fixed this thing.
And then they exit off, and in you go.
Which shows, of course, the whole system is flawed.
Completely.
Completely.
So, yeah, it's theaters.
They gotta, you know, yeah.
It's just a shame that...
Just a couple more things on Ebola.
I've just been collecting stuff, all of this in the show notes at 658.noagendanotes.com from the official World Health Organization Ebola fact sheet.
Quote.
They have a different name for it, EVD, which is Ebola viral disorder, or disease, I think it is.
Yeah, it better be disease.
Yeah.
It can be difficult to distinguish EVD from other infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, and meningitis.
Yeah, did you know Clooney had malaria and just...
No?
Yeah, he went to South Sudan on one of his little jaunts.
Oh, with his buddy from the New York Times?
Yeah, that Prendergast guy.
His handler, yeah.
His handler.
Who's been swapped out for the new handler.
Oh, yeah.
She's much more attractive.
Yes, she gets to watch him 24-7.
I don't know if he has sex with her or not.
Well, I have something coming up in the next newsletter that will frighten everybody, and I hope people get on the subscription list.
It's always on the front page of the show notes.
It's a teaser.
Oh, nice.
Did you see that Mickey sent you a note about the newsletter?
Yeah, she thought it was very aesthetically pleasing to her.
And she's an artist.
Yes.
This is good.
I find that a high compliment.
It is a high compliment for the newsletter, but I want to remind her and you and everyone in between is that aesthetics does not sell chickens.
Okay.
Thank you.
Most of the people, it is an overlooked aspect.
People out there are small businesses and they always want to get an advertiser and they end up getting some guy who wins a lot of awards.
That doesn't mean advertising is any good.
Exactly.
It looks pretty.
It wins awards, but...
Yeah, it doesn't sell anything.
Yeah, it was nice.
Okay, a couple more just to wind up Ebola.
And again, I'm only seeing evidence that this is...
We are in West Africa with 3,000 troops.
That's more, apparently, than we have sent to...
than advisors we have sent to help combat ISIL. So you tell me what's going on with that.
Here are the notes that I'm receiving.
We have...
One of our Dallas producers, my accountant friends in Dallas tell me their friends in Deloitte Risk Management have an Ebola vaccine on their books.
Right.
That was just somebody tweeted the picture of the vaccine.
Yeah.
And then they said coincidence.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But for that to be from Deloitte Risk Management is interesting.
I have...
Could be a bonanza definitely for people traveling to and from Africa.
Yep.
Dogs eating corpses of Ebola victims in Liberia.
I like that.
I like it too.
Don't pet the dogs.
Oh, no.
Don't want to pet a dog that's been Ebola-ized.
And what else did we have?
Apparently dogs can carry Ebola, supposedly.
Oh, yeah.
Bats and...
Bats and dogs and...
I think that is...
Oh, no.
I had...
Did you get the zombie story?
Well, it's confirmed.
What's that?
What's this?
That's a bunch of YouTube videos.
My daughter knew about this.
Everybody seems to be in the millennial group.
Their access to news feeds is limited to YouTube.
And BuzzFeed.
YouTube, BuzzFeed, and Facebook.
Right.
And so they get all the news from these sources, and it's strange to hear what the news was, and the zombie story, which apparently was a known hoax, but the way it's always presented, yeah, there have been three Ebola patients that have apparently gotten up after being dead.
Yeah, no, I did hear about that.
Three confirmed.
Fact!
Fact!
Back.
Here is...
Follow up on the vaccine for Ebola story.
I think this might be from CBC. I've got a couple of good things from Canadian broadcasting for this show.
We've been asking the Public Health Agency of Canada for months what it got from the two companies that it sold the commercial licensing rights to for the experimental vaccine and the experimental drug ZMAP. Now this is interesting.
From everything I've seen, there is a patent on Ebola itself Which is owned by the United States government.
You've seen this, right?
Yes, and it's in the patent.
It's in the patent trade-off, yeah.
So that is interesting by itself, but now I'm hearing in Canada, apparently the Canadian government owned the rights to the vaccine ZMAP, which I thought was an American vaccine, at least has been presented that way.
I thought it was a cure, not a vaccine.
Did she say vaccine or cure?
Let me back up.
I think everyone said, you know, the problem we're having today because of the media being idiots and going along with the program regarding what's a vaccine, thus you can have a quit-smoking vaccine, right?
Yep.
And I used the word right in there.
Yeah, no, that's okay.
But you can use, you know, you can, so the vaccine, cures and vaccines have somehow now been intermingled somehow.
Right, right, right.
And, you know, I think in an earlier era, if we had already been along these lines, we would probably be calling penicillin a vaccine.
We've been asking the Public Health Agency of Canada for months what it got from the two companies that it sold the commercial licensing rights to for the experimental vaccine and the experimental drug, Zmap.
We wanted to know if Canada still has any voice in the development and dissemination of the treatments.
We got back emails saying the contract is confidential that Canada still owns the patent and the intellectual property.
That's now being questioned by scientists around the world who are waiting to do clinical trials on the vaccine.
This Berlin-based journalist wrote the article.
The scientists I talk to are unhappy.
They feel it could have gone faster.
Who is in control of this process?
Everyone figured this outbreak would be long over before a vaccine could be developed.
But with the number of Ebola cases doubling every three weeks, and scientists around the world saying it's out of control, the need for a vaccine is growing.
Meanwhile, up to a thousand doses are in cold storage here at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg.
I do wonder whether it isn't possible to somehow cut through all that red tape and try to help get this vaccine on the road really as fast as possible.
They report that African trials of this Canadian vaccine have in fact been delayed, not because of logistical problems but over an intellectual property dispute.
The company that owns the commercial license for the drug is said to be dragging its feet.
With thousands of lives at risk, can the Minister of Health explain what Canada is doing?
The only answer Ottawa's given so far is that all of this is in the hands of the World Health Organization.
Oh.
Oh, those clowns.
Well, then we know what time it is.
Then I run across this interesting article from the Journal of Pineal Research.
Maybe that's for Pineal.
Pineal?
Pineal, P-I-N-E-A-L. Yeah.
Pineal Research.
Looks like an official thing.
Abstract.
The purpose of this report is to emphasize the potential utility for the use of melatonin in the treatment of individuals who are infected with the Ebola virus.
The pathological changes associated with an Ebola infection include, most notably, endothelial...
disruption.
Yeah, now you know how I feel when I try to pronounce a Dutch name.
Yeah, that's right.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation and multiple organ hemorrhage.
Yeah, that's not good.
Melatonin has been shown to target these alterations.
Numerous similarities between the Ebola virus infection and septic shock have been recognized for more than a decade.
Moreover, melatonin has been successfully employed for the treatment of sepsis in many experimental and clinical studies.
Based on these factors, since the number of treatments currently available is limited and the usable products are not abundant, the use of melatonin for the treatment of Ebola virus infection is encouraged.
Additionally, melatonin has a high safety profile, is readily available, and can be orally self-administered.
Thus, the use of melatonin is compatible with the large scale of this serious outbreak.
Well, how about that?
I'm looking at a paper now.
We can sell melatonin pills.
Well, I'm sure that the melatonin pill sellers are already all over this.
You're right.
It's real!
Ebola's real!
I'm getting masks from my family and some melatonin pills!
Took me a while.
Sorry.
Your imitation of the pill seller or the seed seller.
It's not apparent.
It's not apparent.
It really needs a lot of work.
I know.
I know it does.
While you're looking at that, I'll play my final little ditty here.
This is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, as we know, which comes every month, every year in October.
And I don't know how this happened.
I think this must have been Fox News.
Never let a good crisis go to waste to come in and promote your bullcrap company.
How does this even happen that this guy can get on the show?
And it was an eight or nine minute segment, which I cut down, to be able to promote his bullcrap based on Ebola.
Well, this starts National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we have a really interesting story.
Our guest here, Gary Malefsky, is with the company Snoop Wall.
Snoop Wall.
Already my ears are perking up.
Okay, let's see what this guy's about.
Barry, thanks for being here.
It's an interesting and alarming story that you have about this study.
I think this is bigger than Ebola right now because 500 million people are infected and they don't know it.
Oh!
Oh!
What?
What?
500 million people are infected, don't even know it!
What could it be?
Oh, John, what could it be?
Maybe we're both infected.
I'm riveted and I'm listening.
But it's not them.
It's their smartphones.
Oh.
So tell me the breakdown.
How does this happen?
Break it down for me.
Break it down.
So let me give you an example.
If you went to the hardware store, you'd buy a flashlight.
All right, hold on.
But let's just assimilate this information.
We go to the hardware store.
We buy a flashlight.
Are you with me?
Yeah, I got one here in front of me.
I have a flashlight at the ready.
Okay, good.
Then you're on par with the story.
And you turn it on and you use it to find your car keys at night or to do some work.
Why don't you just turn on the lights?
I like using it for some work.
Honey, can I have the flashlight?
I need to do some work.
I gotta do some sawing.
Well, turn on the lights at the garage, honey.
No, no, I want to use the flashlight.
We've all installed a flashlight app on our phones.
Ah!
Have you installed the flashlight app on your phone, John?
Of course.
Yeah.
This is the app that you put on and it just goes up.
It mentions like thousands of these apps.
Yeah.
Flashlight.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And instead of being a normal flashlight, when you hit the on button, this flashlight app is kind of like a real flashlight from the hardware store, except it was made by Mr.
Gadget.
And it opens up...
Is yours made by Mr.
Gadget?
No.
Are you sure?
I never heard of Mr.
Gadget.
I'm sure it's Mr.
Gadget.
And it opens up and it says, Brett, can I have your name, address, credit cards, bank account information, family, did it ask you for all this information?
No.
Photos, videos, where you're located right now, and all your friends and contacts, and can I send that out over this little satellite dish attached to the flashlight?
You probably wouldn't buy that flashlight.
You know, when it comes to the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group, when we look at metaphors for explaining things in the media, The idea of a flashlight with a little satellite dish is a bit of a stretch.
I'm not sure you want to use that.
And you wouldn't hit the on switch.
But that's what's happening?
That's what's happening.
Yes.
The top ten flashlight apps today that you can download from the Google Play Store are all malware.
They're malicious, they're spying, they're snooping, and they're stealing.
Duh!
What are they stealing?
All your credit card information.
I don't have credit card information on my smartphone.
What idiot would do that?
So, where does that information go?
What happens to it?
Oh, where do you think it goes, John?
This being Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
To the Ukraine.
Oh, come on.
Give me three countries.
Okay, Bulgaria?
No, come on.
Think big.
It's got to be Russia.
Yeah, that's one.
China.
That's two.
And the third one would be...
Come on.
I don't know.
So I've been tracking down where it goes, and I've found three countries so far.
China, India, and Russia.
India.
Duh-uh.
These people, for real.
We're out to get these guys.
Oh.
And they use it for various purposes, I guess?
No.
Yeah.
No.
Various purposes.
They use it pretty much, it seems, for criminal purposes, but if a nation state wants to collect a lot of information on Americans, this is a great way to do it because everybody installs a flashlight app.
Yeah!
That's right.
Wow, what a fantastic discovery this guy's made.
I'm glad he's on Fox telling us this.
Us stupid Americans, we all installed a flashlight app.
So what do you tell people?
Brett is having so much difficulty with this storm.
So what do we tell people with this...
This information.
Don't install flashlight apps, period.
That would be a good start, Brett.
In some cases, you actually have to not only uninstall it, but you have to factory reset your phone because they install Trojans.
The Trojans?
When you uninstall some of these flashlight apps, the Trojans are still installed, waiting to run and operate in the background while you're doing important things like mobile banking.
Important things like mobile banking.
Oh, please.
So this guy got on as part of the Ebola segment?
Yes, to promote his company.
They should have shot him.
This has got to be either paid, this is either native advertising, or the producer of the show is a moron.
Yes, to all the above.
Did you finally read Harrison Bergeron?
No, I didn't have time.
I was too busy.
I got good news for you.
You don't have to read it.
Now why?
There is a movie coming out based on this short story.
Oh, no wonder you found out about it.
No, I just found out about the movie.
No, I'm just saying, you got the story in front of the movie, and next thing you know, after promoting the story...
I was duped.
I was duped.
You was duped.
Well, it gets better.
The motion picture will be named 2081, which is the year that this story was set by Kurt Vonnegut.
Okay.
Stars James Cosmo, I have no idea who that is, Julie Haggerty.
And guess who is the executive producer and who paid for it?
Clooney.
No!
No!
Koch brothers!
Elizabeth Koch is the executive producer.
How funny is that?
I got duped by the Koch brothers.
You did.
Well, everybody gets duped by the Koch brothers.
That's why they're so notorious.
The story from Vonnegut is still a good story.
And finally, Equal.com is the website.
You can see the trailer.
It looks dynamite.
It really looks beautiful.
Looks like a real movie.
Well, of course.
It's our buddies there.
Coke Brother!
How come we don't get any Coke Brother cash?
They don't care.
Because they're above the fray.
They don't care about us.
We're the fray.
Quick note that I don't know if you got that.
We were talking about, we knighted one of our producers as Sir Upper Decker.
Right.
And we both assumed this was about baseball.
I just said it was about baseball.
I didn't assume anything.
Oh, did you know that there's an urban meaning to this upper-decker?
No.
No, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't a sex thing.
A number of people set me straight on this.
Thursday show, United Gentleman at Sir Upper Decker.
You and John assumed that he was referring to seating in a stadium.
However, it is widely known under a different meaning.
Apparently not to old fogies like you and me, John.
We are stupid.
Well, everything can be a sexual thing.
I mean, I could have also said it was the upper deck of a 747.
The guy likes to fly a business class.
Why are you saying it's a sexual thing?
I didn't know why he's calling himself that.
Why are you saying it's a sexual thing?
I didn't say it's a sexual thing.
I am.
I'm saying it's a sex thing now.
No.
I know what it means.
You do?
No.
I have no idea.
An upper decker is when you remove the lid off the toilet tank and poop inside the tank and replace the lid.
Not long after, said poop becomes putrid and very foul.
A good prank to pull on someone you're not too fond of.
That's a great prank!
They flushed the toilet.
This is not funny.
This is lame.
Is this an American...
It's sick.
Is this what we do in the indispensable nation known as America?
Is this what we're all about?
I can say this much.
The two farts that do this show...
Don't know about it because we come from a more civilized era.
Who would have thought of such a crazy idea?
Well, only in the industry.
When I was a kid, the concept then was to get a good cube, probably like I say, a square inch cube of metallic sodium and flush it down the toilet.
We did cherry bombs down the toilet.
Cherry bombs don't compare to what a cube of sodium metal can do.
You flush it down the toilet, it gets pretty far down, and it just blows up the entire sewer system, throws crap and everything out of all the toilets, and makes a complete mess.
That's the kind of thing we used to do.
Not the same crapping in the upper deck.
I can't believe someone came up with that.
How pathetic is that?
Well, and then it caught on!
And it has a name!
And we got duped again!
Again we got duped!
Coke Brothers!
They're pooping in our toilet, they're making us promote their movies.
But yes, ladies and gentlemen, only in the indispensable nation will you see people being upper deckers.
It gave me an idea for a product.
Somebody removes the lid of the toilet and an alarm goes off.
Okay.
That would stop them.
I want to mention something about the Ebola before we get completely off of it, which is just a slight prediction.
Okay, is this a Red Booker?
Yeah, in fact, I'm putting a thing around it right now.
People, people, if you knew about this, you need to be ashamed of yourself.
What about Upper Decker?
Is there anyone who has actually either A, done this or had this done to them?
In our audience?
What, are you kidding me?
Of course.
Wow.
Alright, here we go.
It's not funny.
No, it's sick.
Particularly in the Netherlands, you can't even do it, because their flush tanks are at ceiling height.
That was probably the reason.
Maybe this was back in time.
This was something that began in the 20s, and then they moved the tank way up in the air.
Hey, Hans!
Hans, we can't let them be pooping in our upper deck.
We have to put it upstairs.
That was my German, not Dutchman.
I don't know what happened there.
I don't know.
It didn't work out.
Alright, what's your prediction?
What's your Ebola prediction?
I want to hear it.
Homeless person found with Ebola.
Oh yeah, good one.
And we're looking for his dog.
Or something.
And the next thing you know, the homeless have to be rounded up.
Oh.
I mean, the whole thing has got...
And this, John, oh boy.
Hold on a second.
Wow, this just changes something.
Let me go to search.nashownotes.com.
This was executive order.
Man.
What was the executive order?
I'm trying to find it in the show notes.
Where the president changed the rules on what can happen with people who have a contagious disease?
Come on.
We talked about this.
I don't have the number on the top of my head.
I might.
Let me see.
I'm looking at the revised list of quarantinable communicable diseases.
I think this was the executive order.
Let me read it.
God, this search.na show notes is so good.
This is by the order vested in me.
I hear by order.
Amendment to Executive Order 13295 based on the recommendations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Okay.
Further amended.
Here we go.
Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia and other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted.
Okay.
And that are either...
That either are causing or have the potential to cause a pandemic or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.
That's Ebola.
Yes.
General provisions.
And so then we have...
Oh, crap.
Then we have to go into the other executive order.
I think what this was, as we reviewed this, that...
I guess I have to go to 13295 then.
Damn.
I believe this is the right to just pick you up.
And you're right.
So this would fit right in with cleaning the homeless up off the street.
Which is one way to do it.
Yeah, just put them all in quarantine and then kill them.
Let me see.
Hereby ordered as follows.
Here we go.
So I went to the 2003, and this of course was an executive order put into place based on SARS at the time.
And consultation with the Surgeon General, and purposes of...
Okay.
Communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.
And Ebola was functionally added to it with that wording.
Apprehension, detention, or conditional release.
This is in the Lisbon Treaty, which is viewed as the replacement for the European Constitution.
In the protocols, it specifically states if you have a communicable disease, you can be detained and apprehended and detained, indefinitely detained.
So this right is now worldwide.
It's a good idea.
In San Francisco, they like to grab the homeless and then they ship them, I think, over to Richmond or...
FEMA camps, man.
Marin.
Well, right now, they're just practicing bussing them out of the town.
Yeah, in the Google bus.
That's what that's all about.
Hey, Bill, this bus stinks.
What are they hauling in this thing?
Crazy.
Okay.
And as I was...
I did a lot of this basic...
Poking around.
Well, I... Okay.
All right.
Well, it's a two-part.
Maybe we should just, for one second, thank a couple people.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on a second.
You were going to say what?
I was going to say in the morning...
You were going to say...
I'm sorry.
You'd say it is slow down.
As you get the spreadsheet?
Yeah.
Well, the spreadsheet shouldn't be in by now.
It's in.
I've got it open.
I'm good to go.
And I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
You're saying in the morning to me.
That means I must say in the morning back to you.
And also, by the way, in the morning to all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and all the knights out there.
I'll go a little slow so you can get prepared.
In the morning to all of the human resources.
In the FEMA camps.
And in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
Thank you to our artists.
We thank Michael Jed, who I do not believe has had a piece of art chosen previously.
Now, this was an evergreen.
We went back.
This is what happens sometimes.
There were tons of submissions, and none of them hit the mark.
None of them.
For that show, right?
Yeah, for 657.
So then we dig through the evergreens.
I went all the way to page 6 of the evergreen.
6, 7 or 8, yeah.
Yeah, 8 maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're digging all over the place to come up with this.
Yeah, the guy might not even be a listener anymore.
He may be dead.
He may be dead from Ebola.
Who knows?
Well, sadly, we lost Michael due to Ebola, but we honor him with his artwork.
And noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the artwork submitted for every single program.
It's a big part of our success.
Bad art is bad donations.
We know that for sure.
Yes, well, that must mean that the last art from whoever it was was not hitting the mark, although we do have a couple of interesting donations.
And by the way, I want to remind, there's somebody out there that sent in a direct donation to a wire transfer, and we will credit them probably next Sunday.
Okay.
And the reasons for that are mixed.
Unknown.
They're known.
Thomas Gaskin.
InstaNight.
Oh, okay.
InstaNight.
Nice.
From Bentley in Western Australia.
Oh, I'm seeing what this guy makes sense.
Our show is made for this guy.
Yeah, $111.11.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 When I was here alone drinking,
before Mickey came back, I listened to our entire show.
Wow.
Just critically.
Did you donate?
I got very upset with myself, I'll tell you that.
What did you do?
I'm listening to myself and I'm saying, oh, self.
Oh my God, you suck.
I'm hearing, oh man, why am I doing that?
Only recently started listening thanks to John's visit to the Twit Sunday show.
Oh.
There you go.
We still get strays.
Fine.
I'm getting much more entertainment and value from you guys, so I wanted to show you some support before I start saving for a house deposit.
Wow.
Thank you, Thomas.
Yes.
Does he have a specific name he wants to be?
He doesn't say.
He's just going to be himself.
All right, Sir Thomas Gaskin from Bentley.
Okay.
Now we have...
Oh, boy.
I'm sorry.
I'm...
Woefully unprepared.
Let me see.
We have...
I can fill time.
Well, I wanted to do a...
We have different ones.
Hold on a second.
Keep feeling it.
You're doing good.
Keep it up.
Here's the word.
I have so many...
Yeah, I'll do this one.
I'll do something.
I'll actually play a song.
I love that people make jingles for producers on this show.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
That's beautiful.
Well, they have a good shot at getting it on, especially since you like to play all the different ones they get.
I try, yeah.
Sent in.
I think it encourages our Grand Duke to remember us.
Yeah, it's useful.
I think it's a good idea.
So Foley, actually, you got a 34567.
One of your favorite numbers.
Absolutely.
He says it's one of my favorite numbers in his note.
But he was more concerned.
He doesn't really have a note to read.
But he was concerned because he was randomly selected by the PayPal police.
I saw something else happen first.
Because he had, I believe he donated, and in his note, he said this is for, I think it was for Dame Angela's son.
This is the producer in Vegas when he was in Vegas.
And then he made a donation in her son's name, I think.
That could be, I can't find that note.
Well, I was on some back, you know, some backtalk emails.
And then PayPal said, oh, you know, we have to, you know, in accordance with anti-terrorism laws, we have to check something.
Can you give us, and then the kid's name, his birth date?
I mean, how insane has this become?
Yeah.
It's insane.
Yeah.
You have to now do this, otherwise you...
The note must have flagged something.
You know, the little box that you put in the instruction box where people put the notes.
Yeah.
I believe they have it.
Jose Gonzalez of Las Vegas.
So, he said, please credit the enclosed donation towards the knighthood of Jose Gonzalez of Las Vegas.
Lost wages.
I think he is related to Dame Angela.
I'm not sure.
And then I see these emails.
The email from eBay is saying, please, we have to identify who Jose is.
But it's not going to Jose.
It's going to us.
So it's like, I think they read code.
Oh, Jose goes up.
Jose Gonzalez of Las Vegas means we bombed the Pentagon.
Or who knows?
Peanut butter.
Code.
Caliphate!
It's a code that's used by ISIL. Yeah!
When they have the FBI expert, they're trying to bust people left and right, so they get some guy.
And he says, okay, here's what you wrote.
Dear Bill, I'm going to be at the McDonald's at noon.
Can you meet me there?
I'll buy you a burger.
And of course, they've decoded this to mean they make up something.
Here it is.
We are here, hashtag America, near our hashtag target.
Soon.
Yeah, that's it.
Thanks for the donation.
So Foley got busted by a keyword that's in there.
We don't know what the keyword is.
It could be Las Vegas.
It could be Gonzalez.
Who knows?
But he was irked.
Yeah.
He was very irked.
And that's the story.
Yeah, that's the story.
So thank you very much, Sir David Foley.
And let me go get the notes.
You got a note?
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, while you're doing the note, I'll play a little jingle.
That's how we roll.
Who sent that in?
That's the story.
Somebody sent in Porky Pig to mock the President of the United States.
Moses Hall sent that in.
Don't you like it?
That's a good one.
I have another one, too.
Yeah, play it.
This is from Secret Agent Paul.
That's how we roll.
That's how we roll. - I like the Porky Pig better.
We have the best producers in the world.
See the Porky Pig.
No wonder they show us.
That's how we roll.
And that's the story.
That is good.
That's a keeper.
I agree.
That's funny.
The other one's funny, but this one's good.
Who was that again?
That was Moses Hall.
Moses.
Good old Moses.
I'm putting him in.
Okay.
Maury Stone sent in $200 by mail, and he sent a note, which I think is amusing to read, in Stowe, Vermont.
John and Adam, here's a donation to the best podcast in the known universe.
Please never talk about cell phones.
Just...
If you can read this, you must be over 40 years old.
Signed, Maury.
Now, the reason this is funny to me is because it's written in longhand.
Ah, okay.
Got it.
And that's the reference.
And I have to say, it's very readable longhand, but it's very sloppy, messy longhand.
But it's readable.
I've had other longhand that's neater looking, but it's hard to read.
But the message is...
Don't talk about phones?
Pretty much.
I got them all again.
I have the full one here, too.
The way I see it, the only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
Oh, that's the tech grouch.
That's our tech news intro.
Yeah, the tech grouch guy.
I remember him.
He was pretty funny back in the day.
All right.
And that was it.
My phone, my phone.
Okay.
That's it.
That's it.
And that's the story.
Yeah, that's all we got.
We got three guys.
All right.
It doesn't look like it's much better further down the list.
No, it was a bad day, and I looked at the numbers coming in.
Yeah.
Hey, so much for that Great Aesthetics Newsletter.
You know, that's funny because the newsletter open rate was extremely low.
It was like 37% as opposed to the normal 52%.
Wow.
Okay.
That's disappointing.
Now, that could be because a lot of the newsletters ended up in spam or the headline was no good.
I think the headline was acceptable.
There's about unemployment.
The unemployed don't have enough money to read the note.
And then the people that are employed don't care.
I guess not.
They don't care about their fellow man.
I guess not.
Whatever the case, yeah, it was a very short week.
Okay.
If it wasn't for the InstaNight, we'd have nothing.
Well, and the InstaNight is getting the value he needs for his long commute.
And this is really what radio has always been about.
I consider this to be under the header of drive time radio.
That's what I've always thought that audio products were for.
I agree 100%.
I think that's ideal for this.
And we produce this specifically for...
For continuous listening.
That's why if you look at our waveform, we're flatter than a pancake.
Which was nice to have him again today, by the way.
We're flatter than a pancake because the worst thing you can have is that you either have earbuds in or you have a player on the table or you're in the car and you can't hear it and you're continuously having to adjust the volume.
A lot of podcasts are that way.
So there's pros and cons to the way we produce it, and mainly because we don't have airtight studios like the $200 million NPR studios.
We don't have that.
And I don't like that sound anyway.
I agree.
Screw their sound.
I like our sound.
I have the insulation.
I can insulate the little area around me and I can get one of those little reflectors that the singers use that suck all the sound, the back sound.
I know I can make that dead sound of NPR, but I never liked it.
I kind of like ambience.
I like a little window open noise.
I know you like the window open, honey.
I like the window open.
I know you do.
Yeah, okay.
I know.
Well, anyway, we're going to...
Stereotype.
We will be doing another show on Thursday, and we do need real support from our producing audience.
You're the ones that make it happen.
Consider this the value we're providing to you, two, three hours per show, six per week.
If you've listened to this and just compare it to anything else that you spend money on, your entertainment products or even your health products, which I'll talk about in a moment, please go to...
And always be on the lookout for people who might be good for the choir to propagate the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
And along those lines, I wanted to start off this portion of the program, I wanted to start off this portion of the program, the B Block, as we call it, by reminding everybody that we are living under
which means the American government is allowed to propagandize its own people.
And I've done some research on this.
Well, you know, I was looking into this, and I was, the way the law is written.
They can't actually spend real money to do this.
Well, now this, where this comes from is the Broadcast Board of Governors.
And this, you can find it at bbgbravogolf.gov.
And I'm bringing up here the facts about Smith-Munt modernization.
This is what we're talking about.
This is what was changed in 2013 under the National Defense Authorization Act.
I'd just like to share a little bit of it, and then I also got their strategic plan.
Ooh!
Ooh is right.
Ooh is right.
The strategic plan is for the years 2012 through 2014, so a lot of it is already been put in place.
I'll just read some of this.
This is very important.
This is due to a law that went into effect on July 2, 2013, amending the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 known as the Smith-Munt Act.
Amending Smith-Munt for this purpose was part of the strategic plan adopted in 2011 by the governing board overseeing the BBG. And then they go into a number of FAQs.
And the top one is meant to address our concern.
Q. Can the BBG now focus its broadcasting on the United States?
Answer, no.
There's been no change to the Broadcast Board of Governors enabling statute, the U.S. International Broadcasting Act of 1994, which authorizes the agency to create programs for foreign audiences.
The BBG is not authorized to begin broadcasting or to create programming for audiences in the United States.
We do not seek to change that.
BBG continues to focus on overseas audiences.
Well, yeah, that may be true, but what changed is the information and programming they create, which says right at the top, broadcast quality upon request within the United States.
They make packages.
And you can subscribe to their packages as a news organization, and they will send you their news packages, which you can broadcast in the United States.
And I believe these packages are free.
Completely free.
And people have to realize how this works with the local stations especially, is they don't produce the whole show...
On a day-to-day basis, it's too much work.
And especially if they have a more, you know, they have a news at 5, news at 6, news at 11.
So they usually have three blocks during the day of the programming day where they suck up anywhere between two hours.
It depends if it's like, typically the news at 5 would be an hour, news at 6 would maybe be an hour or a half hour.
Then you have the network national news, which uses some of the packages from the local station.
So occasionally, and a package is a produced segment.
It's a Sometimes it's interactive where you can drop in the local guy saying, and what about that?
Like the phony interviews that you used to do when you were in radio.
So you can have those kinds of packages.
Sometimes the local affiliate or whoever will alter the package because they don't like just running packages full of cloth.
That's pretty rare.
Most of the time, they just take the package, they do an intro, which is usually written for them, and it looks like people are eating more bugs today, Jim.
Really?
Where's that?
Well, that's happening in South Carolina.
In South Carolina, people are eating more bugs, according to...
That's how it works.
And then they go to the package and they run the package and then they can run to the bathroom, do whatever they want.
The packages go maybe from three to eight minutes.
And so these packages, now there's a bunch of expensive operations that we've actually discussed on this show.
The budget is $700 million a year.
For this little BBG. That's nice.
And let me give you a couple more of these FAQs.
So what does the new law allow that wasn't allowed before?
Well, this is a very valid question.
The new legislation eases Smith-Mund restrictions and allows the agency and its broadcasters to respond positively to requests from within the United States for their content.
Much, but not all of this programming is now available online.
Additionally, the BBG can consider domestic requests for ongoing subscriptions if doing so falls within the agency's mission and other statutory authorities.
So you can now, as a local station, subscribe to the packages and request it specifically.
Yeah.
And there's even a fact.
We could sign up for it, too.
We should.
Yeah, we should.
Okay, so I was just looking, and I marked this up.
People can check this for themselves in the show notes.
I marked up this strategic plan for the Broadcast Board of Governors.
I'll just read a couple of things here.
The preface, Which I find interesting.
The first strategic plan was titled Marrying the Mission to the Market and called on U.S. international broadcasting to adjust to major market forces with the end of the Cold War, specifically to distribute programming across ever-larger networks of affiliate stations as such outlets were exploding in number and influence.
So that was the marrying the mission to the market was the first plan.
It was timely in aiding the BBG to meet post-9-11 challenges.
Producing mission-driven products.
This is great.
That could attract significant audiences.
Okay, and then they added Middle East, Radio Sawa in Arabic, and Al Hura TV.
I've never heard of these, but I'm sure they're out there.
The second plan built on first taking stock of the world affected by extremism, but by persistent authoritarianism as well.
In the dynamic of market forces and mission imperatives, it recalibrated BBG's approach to renew emphasis on the latter.
From 2001 to 2009, BBG's budget grew from $425 million to more than $750 million, and worldwide audiences surged from $100 to $175 million.
Distinct legal frameworks and personnel and administrative procedures across both federal and non-federal entities, language service duplication, and complex chains of command have inhibited operational effectiveness.
This was their pitch.
Remember, this was written in 2011, to have the Smith-Mund overturned.
Now I'm going to forward ahead a little bit.
Here's an updated mission statement.
Always good when you read a mission statement.
In light of the new operating environment, which includes the internet, this is their big thing, they're saying we have to overturn the Smith-Munn Act, otherwise we can't propagandize on the internet since it's available in America.
And of course we need to overturn that.
My goodness, we trust you guys.
We know you're only targeting external countries.
Yeah, no, we mean well.
It's obvious.
In light of the new operating environment, the BBG has revised its mission statement to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.
We could have that for our show.
The mission upholds the agency's role as a journalistic organization and advances the utility of accurate, credible news and information to support democratic transformation across the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere, to counter extremist propaganda in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and throw a light on human rights abuses in Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, North Korea, Russia and beyond.
Boy, are we the indispensable nation or what?
We are so great.
Okay, then I'm moving forward.
Strategic and performance goals.
To become the world's leading international news agency by 2016.
Huh.
To reach 216 million in global weekly audience by 2016.
Huh.
To meet these targets, BBG will pursue an implementation plan that combines both restructuring and growth steps.
Then they've got a whole bunch of stuff which you can read through yourself, and I'll just go down to the next thing I put in red here.
Oh, yes.
They will be a leader in internet censorship circumvention and anti-jamming.
How ironic.
I know.
BBC also seeks to raise a strong voice on the international stage in order to expose the issues of satellite jamming, censorship, and internet blocking.
BBG's efforts are complemented through close coordination with the State Department.
Yes, that would be the internet experts.
And then here was the main goal of this document at the time.
We will seek the repeal of a decades-long ban on domestic dissemination contained in the 1948 U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act, Smith-Munt, adopted in the age of cross-border communication via radio.
This act did not envision either the Internet or satellite broadcasting, which do not honor national boundaries.
With all the BBG's 59 languages available via the web, the agency cannot comply with this outdated statute.
In addition, to the extent that BBG-sponsored programming should be available to significant expatriate communities in the United States, we are unable to do so without acting counter to the limitation.
You see what they're saying there?
We need to propagandize...
Yeah, what they're saying is that the State Department's taking this independent agency over.
And we need to propagandize people who have immigrated to the United States, which is pretty much everybody.
I mean, America is an immigration country.
So they're saying, we need to be able to focus our propaganda on Iranians in California, Iraqis in North Carolina, Pakistanis and Indians in Silicon Valley.
That's what we need to do.
It says it right there, black and white.
To remedy this disconnect, the BBG has proposed and the administration approved draft legislation to repeal the Smithmont domestic dissemination ban as it applies to the BBG. Okay, now here's something that there's a lot of...
Just read through that.
It's a good read, and I've highlighted pertinent bits.
But what is creepy is if you go to the website, you do need to go to bbg.gov to see who these board of...
Governors is...
Hold on a second.
...and the new CEO is of great importance.
B-B-G-G-O-V-G... There's a.gov?
I thought it was an independent agency.
It's.gov.
.gov means they got money from the government.
September 23, 2014, the Broadcast Board of Governors announced today it intends to hire...
Nice job at JavaScript here, folks.
...it intends to hire respected journalist and media executive Andrew Lack...
As Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Agency.
Gee, where does Andrew Lack come from?
He doesn't have a lack of credentials.
Andrew Lack has huge credentials.
He was...
Oh, let me see.
We'll just go down here.
He's the Bloomberg guy.
Yeah, Bloomberg.
But before that, NBC Universal, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment.
He was the chief operating officer of NBC. This is one of the top douchebags of media, of entertainment and media.
He knows how to do this.
Yes, he is the guy you would want.
And the chairman of the board, so this is the CEO, the chairman of the board is Jeffrey Schell.
Who?
President Comcast Programming Group.
These guys don't work cheap.
No!
No!
And they don't work to create bullshit.
I mean, they do, of course.
But they know how to do it.
These are professional entertainment propagandizers.
You might as well just call them Jeffrey Goebbels.
He was also at CBS News, where he created and served as the executive producer for the groundbreaking news magazine, West 57th.
I remember that.
He joined in 76.
This is a long time ago.
Next year, he became a prominent producer of 60 Minutes and subsequently senior executive producer of CBS Reports.
Mr.
Lacks Broadcast at CBS earned numerous honors, including 16 Emmys.
Yeah.
These guys know how to do broadcast propaganda.
In fact, we should call it the Broadcast Board of Goebbels, BBG. From 1993 to 2000, I'm reading from his own bullcrap summary that he put on LinkedIn.
About himself?
That's cool.
About himself.
Yeah, nice.
From 93 to 2001, Mr.
Lack was president of NBC News, where he transformed it into America's most-watched news organization.
Woo-hoo!
He hired Matt Lauer.
There you go.
Okay, well this guy's no slouch.
No, these guys are the real deal, and you're right, they do not work for free.
I didn't look into financials of the organization, I was just so blown away by everything on this website.
And if you look at the stories they're pushing, let's just do that for a second, then while we're at it, just go to the homepage of bbd.gov, gee, let's see, what are we pushing?
Putin foe speaks to Voice of America, F Russia.
Voice of America's Heather Maxwell travels to Rwanda and Cameroon.
Pakistan, audience realities in an unstable media landscape.
Voice of America goes to the heart of Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Keep your eye on this.
I've done Voice of America a couple of times over the years.
We're in Washington, D.C. The facilities are fantastic, even back then.
This was like 20 years ago.
They have a big building, and they've got a whole bunch of studios, and a whole bunch of people who work in different languages.
They broadcast in all of these languages.
I did get from them, because they were modernizing, I talked to one of them, they're sending me a surplus IBM clock.
Oh, nice.
One of those that's connected to a central atomic system?
Yes.
Yeah, I know.
Those are beautiful.
Those click, click, click.
And it's right on time.
So when it hits the top of the mark, that is the time.
And where is it in your pile now?
It's in the pile over here behind the desk that has the printer on it.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay.
Now, moving forward, I told you I was checking a lot of Canadian broadcasting.
You fall into these rabbit holes.
And CBC had an hour-long program...
Which was about a study done by multiple professors from Duke University.
And it is about manipulation of will.
And the focus of the study and the focus of the report was about elections and are we really choosing elected officials out of our free will or is something else at play?
So the voting part didn't interest me that much, but of course the idea that we think we're choosing what we want to choose when really we're being manipulated, and it turns out quite easily that Was a fascinating story.
It's well worth listening to the whole hour.
I pulled three short clips from it.
And the reason this guy started off...
This was on the CBC and what was it titled?
Um...
Hold on a second.
Ideas from the Trenches is the name of the program, Too Dumb for Democracy.
Okay.
And at a certain point, what they discover in this...
Well, first of all, the reason he decided to study this and make this his dissertation, it became a big deal, and a lot of professors jumped in on this from neurology.
Duke University is a real institution, right?
It's because he was running for class president his freshman year, and he decided that this would be his campaign.
He would hand out candy To everybody.
And his slogan was, I don't have a girlfriend, so I can spend more time working for you.
And then he had nothing else.
That's all he had.
And then he won.
The landslide.
Nobody asked him what he was going to do.
The candy and the slogan was all he needed.
And he won.
And he thought to himself, he was very sad, of course, because...
I don't think he was that sad.
In his story, he says he was sad because he said, oh crap, democracy doesn't work.
We're too dumb for it.
So here is just a couple of clips which explains, I think, in the no agenda way of thinking, it's so important for us to be aware of what is happening with propaganda, with things like the broadcast board of Goebbels, because it affects us in ways we don't even expect, and it's very simple.
So the autonomous part is...
Are you aware of all the factors that gave rise to your judgment?
Or is there some deception?
And if there's some deception involved that you're not aware of, then it's not autonomous.
And the rational bit is a question of, is this considered position something that's logical?
Is it consistent?
Is it a considered position about the world?
And it turns out that, in a lot of cases, it's not.
And that's important because when people said, hey, democracy, let's try that, it would be a really good idea, there was this premise.
Yeah, I mean, part of the bargain that was made over time was that we're going to transfer some of this authority to the people.
But one of the assumptions underlying that bargain was that the people have some sort of capacity to self-govern.
And democracy was supposed to be the vehicle for taking the popular will and turning it into some sort of outcome.
But now we have to ask ourselves, what is that will?
Where is it coming from?
How is it formed?
And does it really reflect people's true preferences and priorities?
And it seems to be the case that sometimes it might not.
Okay, so that's Professor David Moskrop just kind of setting up this manipulation of free will.
Now we have another professor on the study, Tanya.
Here's who she is.
Tanya Chartrand is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University.
Okay, so that's a real professor.
You don't become that just by being a douche knuckle or bringing apples for the teacher.
And she spoke specifically about this test they did, and it's frightening when you hear how easily manipulable we are.
One of the studies that really got people really interested in this was a study done by my PhD advisor John Barge and Mark Chen and Laura Burroughs.
It was published in 1996, and they did this study where they had people complete these scrambled sentences, and so they had to unscramble some words to form a sentence.
And embedded in that task were either words related to the elderly, you know, words like gray, bingo, wrinkles, Florida, or in the other group of people just got neutral scramble sentences with no words like that embedded. or in the other group of people just got neutral And then they just timed people to see how long it took them to walk from the lab room to the elevator.
And they found that people who filled out these scrambled sentences that had words like gray, wrinkled, bingo, Florida, they walked more slowly to the elevator.
Because they thought they were old.
Yeah, behaving in line with the stereotype of the elderly.
There were no words like slow.
It was just words related to this elderly stereotype.
And so people couldn't believe those results when they were first published.
They thought, this is crazy.
Yeah.
I didn't know this.
This to me is...
Wow.
That's all it takes?
It's a great to know agenda shows because we give people a brighter look on life.
And that is exactly what my final clip is about.
How important it is to combat...
This messaging, although, wow, if just these words like slow, gray, Florida can make you actually act old and walk slower.
How difficult would it be for us to open that up a bit and recognize the automatic background processes in our brains and become more conscious of our decisions?
You know, in theory, one could try to recognize one's own non-conscious processing and then try to correct for that.
But there's a lot of research showing that it's hard to correct appropriately for automatic influences because...
Now listen carefully.
This is why you have so much trouble and why it is virtually impossible to convert someone to...
If you have a true robot, as an example, you can't just go up to them and say, hey, those beheadings aren't real.
It doesn't work that way.
We may not know the direction of the influence on us.
Or even if we do know the direction, we may not know the magnitude of the influence.
So we end up correcting for it, but we could either overcorrect or undercorrect.
You know, that said, change can only come with awareness.
You have to become aware of what these influences are on you first and And I think that there is some evidence now that with practice at thinking about these things, people do show signs of improvement, that they're better able to kind of identify how they might be influenced outside of their awareness.
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Well that's for sure.
Yeah.
I have some thoughts on this.
Okay.
First of all the concept that you know the democracy is crap because people are so easily influenced kind of It's crap for other reasons, but it also works better than other systems, even with this in play, because the political philosophers on either side of an issue spend all their time working the room.
Working the public, sure.
And so the thing balances out, and somehow the public at some point gravitates to one argument or the other, and yeah, it's like a big experiment.
It's maybe like rats in a cage, but it does have...
Generally speaking, the public chooses correctly.
I mean, for example, they did not pick John Kerry for president.
Because of Kerry himself, sometimes the messaging is subtle from the candidate that comes as, I don't like this guy, he's a creep.
Okay, but just playing kind of devil's advocate, the public, or part of the public, chose John Kerry to be the candidate.
Yes, that will always be the case.
That's how the whole system works.
You're going to have...
Right, you're going to have these idiots that are always going to be...
And some of them are just lockstep.
And they're on both sides, so it's like it's supposed to even itself out.
In an unbalanced situation, I suppose it could go too far, and you end up with Nazi Germany.
I mean, I don't see that that couldn't happen here, to be honest about it.
But there is an anti-democratic kind of thinking in academia that would result in this sort of thing.
I wanted to mention that the embedded in text thing, although we had clips about it, this is what's going on with common core testing.
Ah, yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
Yep.
Oh, you said right.
No, but I said right.
Oh, it was a question.
No, no, no, no.
I said right.
I'm sorry.
I take it back.
It wasn't just right as a throwaway.
It was right to ask you a question.
I take it back.
You buzzed me.
I'm sorry.
I take it back.
Okay, okay.
I'm just making sure you make that clear.
Yeah.
Common Core testing has this element in it where there's a lot of brainwashing that goes on.
I think this would be the case with a lot of testing in certain educational situations, which is what people complain about.
They don't only complain about the textbooks, but they complain about the questions that you ask.
Very...
Very common in a propagandistic environment.
And the last thing I thought was kind of interesting is the idea that if you hear enough bad things, this is what old ladies think.
No, I'm not going to listen to that.
I need a positive attitude.
The nutballs out there may be actually on to something based on this research.
The guys who take and put signage all over their room, think positive.
Life is good.
You know these people.
It works.
It probably works.
There's a book called Change Your Words, Change Your World, which I have been reading.
Very interesting book.
Where even just the way you speak, speaking more positively, can and often does affect not just your overall bodily health, But also the world around you.
Things start to happen.
This is along the lines of the book The Secret, in a way.
There is a huge downside to this.
Ah, okay.
But thank God there's a buzzkill.
The downside is these hopeless...
Hippies, unreconstructed hippies, old ladies at the Monterey Food Vegetable Market who've got that stupid smile on their face all the time.
They're the ones who bring the bags and they have a...
A forced positive attitude that is disgusting and it shouldn't exist where you're just smiling.
You've got a dumb smile on your face all the time.
Creepy dumb smile, by the way.
A creepy dumb smile and you're carrying a bunch of old Trader Joe's bags that are dirty and you get digging and you're holding up the line.
You're holding up production.
You're holding up production, lady.
Hey, lady, you're holding up the line.
That is the downside to this, which is creating a bunch of bots, obots, many of them.
Hope and change.
That whole group.
Zombie-like people.
But hope and change is not a positive thing.
Hope and change.
If you want hope, you can have hope.
Change doesn't mean change for the better.
It didn't say good change, positive change, change for the upside.
It's implied.
Okay.
Whatever the case.
So the downside to me is a creation of a bunch...
And they're just as dumb as anybody.
I mean, they just have a positive attitude.
Maybe they walk a little faster.
I don't see it.
But they seem to be slow-moving, if you ask me.
Well, one thing for sure is...
Well, let me just...
One other thing.
My mother, who I always consider one of the most negative people I've ever known...
Really?
Read nothing but...
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah, she would say stuff like, I've got to get to the lungs drugs and get some toilet paper because the Chinese are buying it up.
What?
This was your mom?
You grew up with this?
Oh yeah, it was great.
Can you give us one more anecdote?
This could be a feature segment on the show.
Here's another anecdote from John's dead mom.
I'd have to think about it.
Whatever the case was, she read nothing but Norman Vincent Peale, Positive Attitudes, all these books constantly.
She'd always talk about it.
She'd say, no, you've got to have a positive attitude.
I'd say, well, geez, of all the people that tell me this, she never had a positive attitude.
Did she actually say the Chinese are buying up all the toilet paper?
Yes.
It's one of the classics.
The whole family knows about it, and they all crack up.
She had this theory that if the Chinese were doing something, something was up.
And you know what?
She's right!
There are people all over Gitmo Nation who now have coffee on the inside of their windscreen because of what you just said.
That was a spit take if I ever heard one.
I like to witness that, by the way.
I try to pull it off.
If you're trying to be funny at the dinner table, always do it when somebody's taking a drink.
Man, oh man, oh man.
I love that.
Get out, Chiners!
That's your mom talking from the grave.
Yeah, pretty much.
Oh my goodness.
That's funny.
That was the Depression people.
You know, she was a Depression kid.
Oh yeah, of course.
So all these people from this era, and they were the greatest generation, and sometimes I'd say the worst generation.
They had a lot of interesting concepts.
I mean, most of them were just crazy, but the others, you know, it's like Ron Paul is one of these people.
And some of his stuff is interesting to contemplate.
I've been noticing, just speaking of...
I said propaganda!
Speaking of propaganda...
You loaded for bear with the sounds today!
Give me a whistle!
Give me that rolling thing, that spinning thing.
That's my favorite.
That is my favorite.
But you've got to do it from really low and then ratchet it up.
I said propaganda!
Perfect.
In the White House emails, whenever they talk about how great the president is, they capitalize Great Recession.
Capital G, capital R. Yeah, I've noticed that he's been saying that a lot.
They're trying to coin it.
Well, but I think it's a stylistic error at this point, but I guess they're forcing it.
When they write an email, Great Recession is capital G, capital R, like it's this thing.
Like, it's great!
Well, for sure.
I think that's the mistake they're making.
And I'm very worried right now, John.
I am worried sick about our president.
And I'll tell you why.
Yes, I'd like to know why, because I'm not really that worried.
Well...
Except for the Secret Service gaps.
Well, this is where I'm putting pieces together.
And we had another, like a fake congressman got him backstage at some fundraiser event.
Yet another Secret Service move.
Hey, I'm Congressman Curry.
Oh, come on in.
Here's the president.
Have your picture taken with him.
Another Secret Service snafu.
But what is the benefit?
If this president serves his term...
He will go down as a failure.
A failure because he did nothing but make it worse, put us back into more wars, and of course, no matter how many times you say the economy's great, it's not.
Everybody knows this.
No, I think that chart that I sent out in the newsletter, nobody opened.
Nobody saw it.
Shows that the trend is maintaining itself toward a depression-leveled unemployment rate.
I mean, just if you have ten people, and it's so bad out there, you can't get a job, they all want to work, and five of them say, screw it, I'm just going to live at home with my relatives, they're taking off, and now you have the other five working.
It's 100% employment.
That's not right.
That's not true.
That's the way the numbers are worked up today.
If the president serves out his term, his presidency will be deemed in general and will be abused by other political parties as a failure.
How did that work for you?
Are you happier than you were eight years ago?
You can just hear the campaign slogans.
What about Gitmo?
But, if the president were to not, I'm using careful terms here, if the president were not to complete his term, then he can be martyred.
He could quit, you know.
Yes, he could quit.
For personal reasons, which is one of the things...
We predicted this some time ago that he was going to quit to be with the family.
And this is an option.
But put together...
He could be forced to quit if it's so dangerous that they got these guys, you know, every time he turns around, there's some schmuck that's standing there with a gun.
This would be one of the ways that this is being orchestrated.
I'm afraid...
And I've seen...
I haven't recorded it, but I'm seeing it everywhere on television.
Do you think this is because he's a black man in the White House?
I'm seeing this.
This is what I told you.
I've noticed this, too.
They are cranking up the race issue, and even on...
Even on, but...
Bill Maher had Steele.
I saw this whole thing.
And Richard Steele, who's a Republican, is all in with this thesis.
I find it very discouraging, very un-American to even use this type of scenario.
It's called playing a race card.
It's purposeful.
It's been reintroduced in a big way.
The Democrats are all in on this.
They've always been in on this, as far as they're concerned, because it's great leverage for them to prove that everyone's, especially Republicans, all a bunch of a-holes.
And so that's always been, and it's always been a subtext, and they use it as an excuse for everything.
The Republicans, though, have not been using it.
They've been trying to say, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We want to have an honest discourse.
Well, of course.
Richard Steele comes out and says this.
He's a dick.
For the Republicans, it would behoove them to have the president serve as full term so they can say, how did that work out for you?
The only people that would suffer are the Democrats if he serves at the term and keeps making gaps and golfing all the time.
So here are the scenarios and the options.
The obvious one is the president contracts Ebola.
That would solve everything right there.
Yeah, and that's not going to happen.
That's probably not going to happen.
Then we have a security situation.
I'm afraid for my family.
There's a number of things he can say, which everyone, the way it's going, the way I'm seeing, the way this is being presented, which is completely abhorrent to presume that the Secret Service is not protecting the president because he's black.
This is...
It makes no sense.
Lots of African-American, black, brown, yellow, purple, pink people who are in an administration who have security details where this is not happening to.
The seven bullets that were shot into the White House that was only revealed in detail with recent hearings made it clear that one of the daughters was in the White House at the time and one of the bullets could have killed her.
So it could be a family member.
It could be one of those.
You know, I'm afraid for my family.
It could be that.
Or it could actually be, you know, a family member could be taken out.
The number of things that could happen.
I hate discussing this because it sounds so morbid, but I feel it's a reality with these clearly orchestrated security flaws.
This makes no sense.
It makes no sense what is happening.
On the other hand, of course, it's all theater, so maybe it is.
Joe, by the way, I think he's waiting for it.
He's in on it.
He's out there being Joe.
He was at Harvard, and some kid asked him a question, and he said, I'm the vice president of the student council.
Listen to this.
I'm a senior at the college, and I'm the vice president of the student body here.
Ain't it a bitch being vice president?
That's no good.
Yeah, Joe.
What an a-hole.
This is the a-hole.
He did a speech and he was talking about the tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
Missouri, which was, gee, was that three years ago?
I think three, maybe four years ago, the tornado.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if this was a Joe-ism or if it was in the prompter or how this happened.
Tens of thousands of cars tossed around like leaves in a fall windstorm.
161,000 brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents lost.
161,000?
Really?
What?
It was 161, but he just added thousands.
You gotta play that again.
Thousands of cars tossed around like leaves in a fall windstorm.
That's poetry, Joe.
thousand brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents lost.
Well, maybe he was referring to being lost because they got married.
No, no.
It was 161 people who died.
Just for some reason, he didn't think that was good enough.
Well, after he's been pretty much mentioning everybody on the list, mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, nieces, grandfathers, fathers, grandmothers, mothers, he's going to be over the 161 pretty soon.
I love it.
That was really good.
No, that's a good one.
That's borderline...
No, not really.
No, because it was so...
I don't know where you got that one.
That's a gem.
I had to find new health insurance.
Oh, that's right.
This is a problem for you.
Yeah, and it's a real problem because the exchanges weren't accepting anything.
This timing with all this.
This is the thing that bothers me.
The open enrollment.
Okay, you got to October 1st or October 15th for open enrollment.
What is the point of this?
I asked everybody, why is there a moment when you can do this?
Why can't you do it anytime you feel like it?
Because it's a scam.
It's a total scam.
It's a huge scam.
I want to buy auto insurance.
I don't have to wait.
Like, uh-oh, you can't have auto insurance.
You have to drive around without insurance because your open enrollment for auto insurance is between November 1st and November 10th.
This is exactly what happened.
And here's the message I got from Blue Shield, who we chose as the correct provider for us.
Why doesn't Congress ask about this?
It makes no sense to me.
And Blue Shield says, well, as of, and this was October, I'm sorry, September 1st, because, you know, bite-sized TV and all my insurance went away.
Everything I had, you know, it all went away.
So, okay, fine.
Oh, you do have a...
Cobra.
No, but you also...
Yeah, what a rip-off that is.
You have this little moment, I think, if you had insurance and you don't have insurance, yeah, you have to have a Cobra or something.
I think you can get in somewhere.
Well, I'm going to tell you, but you keep yelling about Congress.
Yes, well, I'm sorry.
The Chinese are buying it all up, I tell you.
So Blue Shield says...
Okay, you will be technically insured, and this is not cheap.
I'm 50, Mickey is significantly younger, but, you know, we're not 30 anymore.
So this is, you know, you're talking some serious dough here all of a sudden that pops down on my ass.
And they say technically you will be insured, but you will need to keep receipts because of Obamacare, they say Affordable Care Act, and the enrollment period and the backlog, you will not be able to actually have your insurance paperwork done for six weeks.
Isn't this what computers are for?
It's a glitch.
And...
And I'm just flabbergasted.
I'm sure that if something really bad happens, yeah, I'm sure.
First of all, is the hospital going to even admit me?
They can admit you on an emergency base.
You've got to find an ER. You have to go that way.
Do they take debit cards?
Exactly.
Just say that you have Ebola.
So the president was doing one of his little roundabout thingies at some metal workers, some factory, and a guy asked a question and I was blown away by this answer.
My name is Mihir Paranjpayee.
I'm the General Manager at Millennium Steel.
I'm very honored to have you.
One of the questions I had is about the healthcare costs.
We are seeing almost a double digit increase in healthcare costs every year.
So do you think that trend is going to go down and what can we do to control that trend?
I think that's really interesting.
You're going to have to talk to Henry.
No, no, no.
This is serious.
The question is whether you guys are shopping effectively enough.
You're not doing it right.
You're not shopping right.
That's a good one.
He has the balls to say this.
Because it turns out that this year, and in fact, over the course of the last four years, premiums have gone up at the slowest rate in 50 years.
Premiums?
Why are they going up at all?
Premiums have gone up at the slowest rate in 50 years.
That is just fucking amazing, Mr.
President!
Why are they going up at all?
They should be going down!
Wasn't that the promise?
Yeah!
So healthcare premiums have actually...
Slowed down significantly.
No, the guy just said, double-digit increase year over year.
And the president just says, you're not shopping right.
You are not doing it right.
It's your fault.
Talk to Henry.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, well, you're experiencing it, so this will be interesting.
Yeah.
It's already interesting.
Yeah, it's a big scam.
It truly, truly is.
The more doctors I talk to, Oh, all the doctors, the most liberal.
I have a very liberal doctor.
He's like a borderline communist.
But he's great, and he's into alternative approaches, and he's 70.
And he's into acupuncture, and he's into...
No, that drug isn't proven.
This just came out.
I wouldn't subscribe.
He's not a vaxxer, but he thinks people may get too many vaccines.
He's the one, one time, this was years before the show...
I went in, because there was a bunch of promotion, again, before we were doing the show, and I didn't spot, you know, I was stupid.
And I asked him, I said, there's a lot of publicity for this hepatitis vaccine.
And I said, should I get one?
And he says, what?
You're working with blood all day that you need a vaccine for hepatitis B? Are you a blood worker?
Is that what you're doing?
You're telling me you're working with blood?
Wow.
And I said, no.
He said, you don't need the vaccine.
Wow.
Right on.
Anyway.
I have lots of stuff, but I'd like you to get to some of your stuff here.
I was just relaxing.
By the way, we're...
Are you on the Barco lounger again, John?
We did the show an hour earlier today, as John has a flight to catch.
What time do we have to really be done in order for you to catch the flight?
As soon as I, right now.
I got some off clips.
I don't have anything that's thematic.
I do have the thematic.
I do have, where somebody's talking about ISIS a little bit.
I do have a very long clip, which is going to interest you.
Are you saying ISIS now instead of ISIL? I said ISIS. Yeah.
I made a mistake.
I noticed I wrote it on here as ISIS. Whatever the case, I have a long interview of a regular who shows up on the PBS NewsHour, Fred Kagan.
Oh, no.
Not those guys again.
Fred Kagan is a regular on the PBS NewsHour.
I know.
He's one of our guys.
He's a huge guy.
He's a big guy.
He's a big guy.
Big guy.
Big guy.
Big giant guy.
And he's a historian, you know.
Yes, right.
And let's just play their jingle.
The whole family has a jingle.
Rubble!
Brought to you by Clan Kagan.
There you go.
Well, we can start with that if you want it.
It's a long clip.
It's the whole thing.
Actually, I cut it off.
But I figured you could stop it at any time.
But it gives kind of a background on the gaffe.
I don't understand why they don't get rid of Clapper.
But Clapper comes out and says...
Well, the president tried to get rid of him by saying on the 60 Minutes interview it was his fault.
I don't know why they can't get rid of him.
Whatever the case is, 60 Minutes, even Obama said that, well, the intelligence network...
I can just imagine Clapper going, oh, really?
Well, I have the root password to everything.
There's something like that going on, obviously.
Or I have some lighter material.
As you prefer.
Or, that's the only way I got these other clips.
Maybe just play something.
Yeah, or just keep talking.
Yeah.
Let's play this odd fire story, which I thought was amusing, and I want to comment on it.
Firefighters in El Dorado County are expected to have the massive King Fire fully contained today.
The fire has burned nearly 98,000 acres and is 98% contained.
The fire, which has been burning for several weeks, has now destroyed 12 homes.
At one point, more than 5,000 firefighters were helping fight that blaze.
The Madera County Sheriff says last month's fire there was started by a man burning a deer carcass.
The sheriff says the man confessed to finding the carcass while doing construction work and says he set it on fire to get rid of the smell.
The fire destroyed 30 homes and burned more than 300 acres before reaching the edge of Bass Lake.
The Fresno Bee says the man has apologized for the fire.
So far he has not been identified nor arrested.
Well, I got this deer here.
What are you guys doing?
We're building this building here, but there's a dead deer.
Hey, I got an idea.
Why don't you torch that sucker?
It stinks, this deer.
It stinks.
Torch it.
Burn it.
Wow.
Okay.
Just the dumb fucks in California.
Yeah, and that was pretty dumb.
Now, here's another story that's kind of interesting.
Some American kid was an aid worker.
This is the latest thing that ISIS people are doing.
They're grabbing a do-gooder.
He's out in the open.
He's a do-gooder.
Let's kidnap him.
And then either chop his head off or get some money out of him.
So the parents of the kidnapped kids, come on, this is a story about it.
This is Peter Kasig, is who you're talking about?
I think it might be.
Whatever the case, I want you to tell me, if you see this package the same way I do, these parents were coached to say what they said, and I'm thinking, is this what, and it's got to be our people, like State Department, is this the message that you're supposed to send out to get your kid back?
I want to talk about this.
Well, the parents of an American hostage held by IS fighters have made an appeal for his release.
Their son, Peter Kasig, is 26.
He's an aid worker and he was kidnapped in Syria a year ago.
He converted to Islam during his captivity and his mother wore a veil during her video message to the captors.
We implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go.
We implore His captors to show mercy and use their power to let our Son go.
Okay, I have a lot to say about this, but I want to hear what you want to talk about.
I don't have anything to say about it.
It's obviously, Coach, implore your mercy, use your power.
All these code words that are used in this messaging, I think are...
Now explain to me how all this works, because I followed this trail, and we also need to talk about Alan Henning, who was beheaded.
I'm sorry.
There we go.
Peter Kasich was an army ranger, and he decided to help Syrian refugees, and he founded something called Sera, S-E-R-A. And mind you, in this story, they told you that he converted to Islam.
And...
He started this Sarah Medic, S-E-R-A-M-E-D-I-C.org.
And if you go to that website, it says, Due to the present security situation in Syria, Sarah has temporarily ceased its operations.
It doesn't say, our dude was beheaded.
Even our story, let's look into that.
It talks about...
Talks about Peter Kasig, former U.S. Army Ranger who served in the Iraq War.
Talks about their values.
And nothing about him being kidnapped.
Nothing about him being killed.
They just close this down.
And of course, Sarah is nowhere to be found as a 5013C corporation, non-profit.
They do have values.
Sarah conforms to the humanitarian charter and minimum standards in humanitarian responses outlined by the Sphere Project.
S-P-H-E-R-E. So I go looking at the Sphere Project.
My goodness.
The Sphere Project...
The Sphere Project Office works to implement Sphere's vision for improved quality and accountability in humanitarian response.
Staff include a project manager and five other positions.
And then they have all these accountability standards.
It's meant for non-governmental organizations.
And the Sphere Project Office is hosted by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies in Geneva.
Alright, off we go to Geneva, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, which is a huge organization, global network of non-governmental organizations whose mission is to make humanitarian action more principled and effective by working collectively and independently to influence policy and practice.
Hello, State Department!
Members of the ICVA allow smaller NGOs to have our voices heard internationally, thus bringing to the fore issues close to the hearts of smaller organizations.
And then you really look at what this guy was saying, this Peter Kasich, with his non-registered, as far as I can tell, S-E-R-A international non-profit.
He said, please send your checks to the Epworth United Methodist Church.
Which is this little rinky-dink church in his hometown.
For a Muslim converted Islamist to have checks being sent to the Epworth United Methodist Church for his non-profit, which has not filed any paperwork, is sketchy at best, people!
So let's go to Henning, which is the guy who was killed.
Where is this church?
It's a chain of churches.
What is Epworth?
Indiana, I think it is.
Well, there's one in Berkeley, there's one in Denver.
The one specifically is for Epworth United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.
And that's where you need to send your check.
And there's no news of this guy anywhere on this website.
So, I don't know what aid working, what was he doing?
As far as I'm concerned, he was on their team.
I can't see it any other way.
He converted to Islam, and now he's been in their custody, captivity, for nine months.
Well, I'd like to know, here's my question, and this is all great, it's interesting.
But what is the deal with these parents with this exact same wordage message?
Is it code to tell somebody something to emphasize it?
Is it both people say the same thing and then you've got to do this?
This seems like some sort of bag job of some sort.
Yeah.
And the mom's got a headdress on.
Well, let's follow the path.
Let's go back to Alan Henning.
Alan Henning, who I investigated when he was held up as the next guy to go, which, by the way, is before we have these two Cantlie episodes.
So Cantlie, the other British guy, he even did a second episode.
It was so uninteresting, you and I didn't even discuss it on the show.
It was so dumb.
This was supposed to be some kind of ongoing soap opera episodic thing.
It was going to be an episodic video.
And it's dumb.
It's just no good.
So this Henning guy, an ambulance driver, who by the way in every picture is throwing the Islam number one salute.
Is that the middle finger?
No, it's the, like, we're number one, but you do it in a certain way.
You point in a certain way.
This is the...
I do not know this.
Yes, Islam is number one.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, by the way, the guy who has been in captivity for a year, they've feeding him well because he did not lose a lot of weight.
This is a big guy.
He's fat.
A fat Brit.
And it's not like they're starving him.
So whatever's going on there, he's getting fed well because he did not look very starved.
And this, of course, is horrible.
Again, the same pattern for the video.
We see slice, slice, slice, slice, slice.
Everything is exactly the same.
A little shorter speech by the guy.
And then we see a Photoshop job of his head on his butt with some blood, but nothing like a bled-out head or body would be.
This is what I have from surgeons who just say, this is not enough blood.
It's just not enough blood.
The BBC... Kicks this up with this interview with Qasim Jamil, who was part of these aid convoys to Syria.
And he was his buddy, and it's a two-minute clip, and I'm trying to think how I want to set the listeners up.
Okay, just to pleasure me, please think of this.
Pleasure you?
I don't think so.
You will pleasure me by, just for this one moment, because it's going to be, I'm asking a big, it's a big ask here.
Think this guy is acting.
Just think he's an actor.
And then listen to the clip and then we'll talk about it.
The Captors knew that he was just an aid worker.
This was just a game for them.
They knew what Alan was about.
I thought getting to know Alan for such a long time, they would release him.
This was what we were holding on to.
Are you angry?
Angry?
Angry's not the word.
Angry's an understatement.
First and foremost, I'm distraught, as is everybody, even people that didn't know Alan.
You just need to look at one of his videos.
I'm absolutely heartbroken.
Not only have I lost a friend, I've lost someone who's closer than my own brother to me.
You know, being a non-Muslim, the amount of help he gave me on convoys, no Muslim.
And I'll openly say that no Muslim gave me the help on these convoys that Alan gave me.
Of course I'm angry, but I'm heartbroken.
I'm absolutely devastated.
I think a lot of people, as you say, that don't know Alan will be inspired by his story.
Do you feel like some positive can come?
Any positive.
And the BBC is reading a script here that has nothing to do with journalism.
This woman is saying, oh, I think people will be inspired by his story.
Thank you.
Can come from this.
Positive has to come from this.
The positive has to come from this, that this one individual has made such a difference.
The people in Syria didn't know Alan, and they risked their lives.
They risked their lives to try and find Alan whilst I was there.
The whole world knows Alan.
You know, would I have it any other way?
Because he's done more!
Here's what more than over one and a half billion so-called Muslims have done and ultimately paid the biggest price by sacrificing his life for the men, women and children of Syria.
Okay.
So, of course, I go and look into Mr.
Jamil.
Because this is the only thing I have to hold on to.
Then, Mr.
Jameel has been a member of these non-profits, the Aid for Syria Convoy, which is managed by charities such as One Nation, Al-Fatia, Global, and Aid for Syria.
These organizations, they organize fundraising events that invite radical preachers as guests.
Mid-November, the Aid for Syria convoy had Zaheer Mahmood and Moaz Beg, who came in to speak and These are definitely, if you read up on these guys, Radicals.
Jamil's own Facebook, which I can't...
So I'm only going by what I have.
I can't prove any of this.
Of course, the profile is now deleted now that everyone's been looking at this.
It could be total bullcrap.
It could be the Koch brothers faking me out.
I don't know.
I'm just telling you what I found in my research.
On his Facebook page, he lauded Syrian jihadi martyrs, had some quotes by Osama bin Laden, such as, Our men love death like your men love life.
He's promoted excerpts from the Quran, which justify violence against Jews, who he describes as dishonest and enemies of Allah, claimed that Shia Muslims have defamed the mothers of believers.
So, it's very hard to take this seriously, particularly when looking at this video, As a video production professional, which I've been in my life.
It sounds like a BBC soap opera.
It does!
Because the acting, you know, in the soap opera...
It's always interesting to me, and anyone can pick up on this, is when somebody has memorized a script...
And then they execute the script.
Even a good actor doesn't sound natural.
Because when you see people with a camera, when they stick the camera in the face of somebody who's actually had a real tragedy, their house burned to the ground right in front of them, and the way they speak, their cadence, and everything that's natural about somebody who has a mic stuck in their face and they're not professional actors or presenters, and they're just talking like normal people, they sound different than this funny kind of pacing you get from actors.
And his lines about he paid with the ultimate price.
And the quoting of the 1.5 billion or whatever.
1.5 billion Muslims, yeah.
All the talking points are in there.
Yeah, you don't normally talk with talking points when you have a mic stuck in your face.
And you're crying and you're distraught.
And you're naturally distraught.
It's the last thing that comes to mind.
Now, it really doesn't matter because the president already put his statement out.
The president does statements about this.
The United States strongly condemns the brutal murder of United Kingdom citizen Alan Henning by the terrorist group ISIL. Mr.
Henning worked to help improve the lives of the Syrian people and his death is a great loss for them, for his family and the people of the United Kingdom.
I don't think it's the United Kingdom.
I think it's the United Kingdom.
Standing together with our UK friends and allies, we will work to bring perpetrators of Alan's murder as well as the murders of Jim Foley, Stephen Sotloff, and David Haynes to justice.
Standing together with a broad coalition of allies and partners, we will continue taking decisive action to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL. And let's see.
The president is...
I mean, everyone's out there working on this.
NPR... Have this fantastic, and that's our national public radio here, have this fantastic little report which completely fixes the Coruscant group lie.
The Coruscant Group is, the day after we had the White House fence jumper, the president started the attacks in Syria, but we didn't go after, we didn't have ISIL, we hit some group called the Coruscant Group, who did not have a Wikipedia entry until September 21st.
Right.
I think that mention of that group took everybody by surprise.
And here's NPR- We're fixing the problem.
One of the first targets of American airstrikes in Syria was an al-Qaeda unit that U.S. officials have called the Horasan Group.
Even now, there are many questions about the organization, including why the public hadn't heard of it until just before the U.S. launched attacks.
Rebels on the ground in Syria say they've never heard of it.
Others claim it's just another name for what's known as core al-Qaeda.
Okay, so...
We have some issues.
Let's bring in some spokesholes and let's wrap it all up in a neat ball.
Because NPR, when you ask an official spokeshole of the United States government and they give you an answer, you need to just believe this.
That's the terrorist group that the Obama administration said was decimated years ago.
NPR's counterterrorism correspondent, Dina Temple Rastin, explains how the Horasan group operates.
For weeks now, the Pentagon has been having to field questions.
Notice they bring the girl in who did the jihadi encryption thing.
That's her voice.
For weeks now, it's been really exciting to see what's happening with ISIL and the Horazon Group, which they pronounce as Horazon instead of Corazon.
I noticed that.
Horazon.
For weeks now, the Pentagon has been having to field questions about Horazon, including whether it even exists.
We've been watching this group for a long time.
I can't account for the fact that it wasn't a household name in America or elsewhere around the world.
That's Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby in a press conference this week.
The notion that we would just, you know, make them up or fancify the threat that they posed, you know, to justify military action is just absolutely ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous!
It's just, how can you even think of such a thing?
I should mention something.
If you read the Pakistani media or any one of these countries back there, all these groups have been identified by the press, the Middle Eastern and Far Eastern press, or the Near Eastern press, whatever you want to call it, the Southeast Asia press.
The brown people press.
They're generally in the CIA handbook.
Yeah.
There's no such thing as a group like this.
No.
Everybody knows all these groups.
Horasan is a region.
It's a region known as the Horasan region.
Groups in Pakistan is like 50.
There's none of these groups that are a big secret until the last minute when we decide to bomb them.
This is bullcrap.
Let's just roll it back a little bit just to hear him say that.
Because one day in the future, and I hope we're still alive, we'll make him eat those words.
Because these things do come out.
You know, it gets declassified and everyone says, oh yeah, well that was a long time ago.
You know, our government doesn't do that anymore.
To justify a military action is just absolutely ridiculous.
In fact, two intelligence officials confirmed to NPR that the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command felt that the horizon threat was serious enough to put together a target list.
Now, so this is not journalism.
You have the spokeshole say, that's just insane to think that we would make that up.
And then she says, in fact, two personnel, no names, Could be interns, could be the guy cleaning the bathrooms.
They confirmed to NPR. Do people...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is not journalism.
There's a line you can call and that's what you get.
Hello?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me give it a shot.
We'll try this out for a second.
Click.
Hello?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, hi, hi.
This is Dan Douchebag from NPR. I have a question about this horror song group.
Are they for real?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Thank you very much.
Yeah.
Justify military action is just absolutely ridiculous.
In fact, two intelligence officials confirmed to NPR that the U.S. military's joint special operation...
In fact!
This is...
People should be forced to resign over this report.
I'm telling you, this is...
Get a pay raise.
Give me a break.
...felt that the horizontal threat was serious enough to put together a target list in June.
That list included the group's leaders, who were embedded with other Islamist fighters near the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The mission didn't get very far because, at the time, the White House wasn't ready to launch strikes in Syria or Iraq.
Intelligence officials say that the concern was that the Horizon Group might be able to get hard-to-detect bombs onto airplanes.
In response to that threat...
What?
I thought those were the Yemen guys.
Yeah, that's the Yemen guys.
That's the Yemen guys.
You're confusing the story.
But in fact, sources have confirmed to NPR that everything you hear is absolutely true.
This is all a fact.
It has been confirmed.
Just take it from the yes-yes guy.
Yes-yes guy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a fact.
It's true.
The yes, yes, guy says yes, yes.
So therefore, it's a fact.
Yes, yes, guy.
Yes, yes.
The Transportation Safety Administration issued a warning in July for airlines to step up screening.
And the Horazon became a top priority.
And the Horazon.
And the Horazon, my ass, became a top priority.
I think they'd just all laugh and go, hey, let's just pronounce it Horazon like it's Horazon.
Yeah, let's make it Horazon.
Horazon.
Horazon.
Horazon, yay.
Right now, we're at the 13th green where the president is about to put in.
Let's talk to the yes-yes guy, see if it's a fact.
Is he putting?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like this guy.
Yeah.
I like the yes-yes guy.
He's pretty interesting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is a good guy.
Then we have...
Now, you know how I love to associate things and love to look at why things are happening.
I believe the towns you heard first ever on this program, before you heard them anywhere, were Waziristan.
No one had spoken about Waziristan, but we brought it up on the show because a pipeline runs through it.
Then we got all these drone strikes on Waziristan.
Also nailed the reason for Homs being...
Homs in Aleppo.
Homs in Aleppo.
And I could have called this one, but I didn't.
But it's okay.
Now let us again review part of the mission here is to thwart...
Gas slash oil, but mainly gas, coming from the Iran-Iraq pipeline through Syria into the Russian port to thwart that and to have the...
The pipeline from Qatar going up north, through Homs and Aleppo, by the way, which is the most direct route, into Turkey to circumvent the gas in there, which of course is all part of the Ukrainian issue.
This getting Putin out of our hair with his gas and all that stuff.
And we have something new happening in the region with ISIL... This is a rare look at the fighting in Anbar province.
For days now, Iraqi army and pro-government Sunni troops have been fighting against ISIL who are entrenched in Haditha town.
Helicopters fly overhead, launching attacks and providing much needed air cover.
The pro-government forces are inching ever closer to Haditha and are confident of victory.
In Anbar province, the Sunni troops and the Iraqi army seem to have been given a morale boost and a tactical advantage by the coalition airstrikes against ISIL bases.
However, there are significant numbers of ISIL fighters in the area.
Okay, so this is the Anbar province.
Anbar, which is the main hub for the Iraq-Jordan pipeline.
Now, normally you might not say, oh, gee, what's the big deal with the pipeline from Iraq to Jordan?
Well, it becomes interesting when you're talking to the State Department energy envoy, Amos Hochstein.
Good news.
Recently, you returned from Israel, where a deal was signed between Israel and Jordan for $15 billion worth of gas from Israel to Jordan over 15 years.
What's the significance of that deal?
I don't know.
The significance may be that we just have to make sure that we turn off the Anbar pipeline.
There's no more gas.
It can only come from Israel.
So let me just say that the deal was signed in Jordan.
Pretty close to a Jay Leno you did there.
Thank you.
The companies that are operating, the consortium of companies led...
Yeah, I can talk to the yes guy.
Yeah, Jay, talk to the yes guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're in between the companies that are operating, the consortium of companies led by an American company, Noble Energy, out of Houston, that operate the fields offshore Israel to supply gas to Jordan.
This is a letter of intent, and it follows a previous agreement for smaller amounts of gas.
I think that what's really important to notice here is to broaden the aperture a little bit.
Broaden the aperture a little bit.
This is how we speak.
This guy, by the way, was a lobbyist for gas companies before he became the acting energy envoy for the United States State Department.
Nice.
Yeah.
Imagine the cash this guy's rolling in.
Oh, and he looks like it too.
That's when someone says, let's broaden the aperture.
That's money talk.
That's how bankers talk, people.
I think that what's really important to notice here is to broaden the aperture a little bit.
And looking at the eastern Mediterranean.
Let's broaden the aperture of your sphincter as a sub-region.
On to its own.
And including in that Turkey and Cyprus and Greece and Egypt.
Do you hear?
This is everything we've been talking about is coming true with this huge, this bonanza of gas offshore Israel, Lebanon.
Hello?
Hello, Lebanon.
You're on deck.
This is so obvious.
And then we cut off the pipelines to Jordan.
People, can you not see it?
Israel and Lebanon.
And looking at an area that has new discoveries, some very significant discoveries in Israel and Cyprus, and there's more drilling going on, and potentially in Lebanon, Egypt will have as well.
Hello, Lebanon.
But it's changing the dynamic of how to look at energy as a tool for cooperation.
It's a tool for cooperation!
You will cooperate!
What we see as the reason that the State Department was involved in mediating Some of these deals, not just the one between Noble and Jordan, but others as well in the region, is to look at how can energy serve, after people talk about it for many years as a resource for conflict, to look at it as a resource for cooperation and integration.
A resource for cooperation.
As in, if you don't cooperate, you don't get none of this resource.
That's your State Department.
Yeah.
That guy's pretty cool, by the way.
You want to hear more of him?
Yeah, a little bit.
Because he talks about...
So here's the idea.
It's obvious that a lot of people are involved in it.
But this doesn't matter.
This is Houston, this noble energy who Clinton has been advising.
Not Hillary, Bill.
This is his big advisory.
And of course, it's a Bush connection.
It's all the same people.
They've been drilling in this Leviathan field, which is off Lebanon.
It's off Cyprus.
And by the way, we got Cyprus.
We nailed that bitch.
We got that with the IMF. We got Greece, which is right up above it, so we can pass everything through.
This is...
It's so beautiful.
And we got Turkey.
You know, we just...
We can get it into Turkey so we can get it into Europe.
The whole point is we got to get it into the customer's hands, which is in Europe.
And it's going to be a very cold winter, according to Amos.
Hochstein.
But he has teams on the ground.
Let's get back to Ukraine and the energy crisis there.
What more can the U.S. do to help make that country energy-sufficient?
And not only over the long run, but, you know, this winter.
So we have teams that have been working in Ukraine.
Oh, really?
What teams are these?
What are they doing?
What do you think these teams are, John?
Drilling experts.
The Department of Energy and the Department of State are working in concert to try to address some of the issues for this coming winter.
It's a challenge and we're trying to do as much as we can while we still want to support the process that the EU is leading and the Commission on the trilateral talks on resuming gas flows from Russia into Ukraine.
But obviously it's a broader issue and we want to make sure that we're putting as much effort as we can and teams are on the ground on a regular basis.
Okay, now he's going to say something very interesting about Europe and about the legislation.
We know that part of the big push in Europe, which is a huge issue, particularly for companies like the Netherlands, who are passed through countries, they take Russian gas, they take Russian oil, they store it, they store it underground even in the Netherlands to the detriment of the northern part of the country, which has earthquakes because of this.
Earthquakes in the Netherlands, can you believe it?
Then they pass it on.
We have the European Union, we have the Monetary Union, they're pushing for the Banking Union, and of course they want the Energy Union.
And there's legalities about gas that I didn't understand.
You can't just, if you buy gas from Russia, you cannot, if you're Bulgaria as an example, you cannot just sell that to someone else.
It's illegal.
Except if you have the sanction and the license to do so.
So they're talking about creating the energy union and reverse flows within Europe of people who have gas pushing it back to other countries.
It's fascinating.
It's a good point of departure to look at 2009.
And in January 1st of 2009, the Russians had shut down the gas to Ukraine over a pricing dispute and a payment dispute.
And a few days later, they shut down the supplies to the rest of Europe that gets its gas through Ukraine.
That dispute ended on January 20th of 2009.
The remarkable thing about looking at that period and looking at now when they've shut down the gas to Ukraine again is what a different world we're in.
And the reason we're in a different world is because both the EU as an institution and the United States have been working diligently and hard to fuck Putin for the last three, four years on this issue to make that difference.
Okay, so you gotta stop it there, because I think we don't want to overlook.
So this whole thing, this is Putin's fault.
Because I guess, what, they cut the gas off in 2009?
And they've shut it off again to Ukraine.
No, I know, but shutting it off again is not the point.
It was the initial shutdown when they started to put all these things into play.
Because you don't do these things overnight.
You don't shut the gas off.
Next thing you know, you have bypasses everywhere.
It takes years.
You've got to spend years and years and years developing schemes to bypass.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And, which was years ago.
And this used to be only about Syria, which was about Russia vetoing going in and removing Assad because it's Russia's business.
It has now turned into this whole Middle East thing, but we used to look at Syria only in terms of Russia because that's what it was about at the time.
Right, so this is a really elaborate scheme.
Huge, huge scheme.
It's a huge elaborate scheme because the Russians pulled that stunt in 2009.
The way the deal works is you do a deal and we'll give you everything you want, but you don't pull a stunt like that.
No.
Because you're now an unreliable customer.
If I have the diamond as big as the Ritz and I'm chopping pieces off because De Beers wants a certain amount every month and we agree that I'm going to chop off a pound a month and chop it into diamonds and give it to De Beers, I can't all of a sudden say, screw you, I'm keeping my diamonds.
Or I'm going to chop the whole thing up.
You do these deals with Western countries with it in mind that you're part of an evil cabal that is screwing the public, which is the way it generally works, and you can't pull a stunt like that.
Well, we know, of course, the reason why they turned it off is because Ukraine wasn't paying the bill.
That's the recent shutdown.
No, that was 2009.
It was exactly the same reason.
2009 also because they weren't paying?
Yes, they weren't paying the bill, and they were stealing gas that was meant for Europe, which was transiting through.
Russia could have done it.
They still had their little pipeline at the northern part, and they had all these other ways of getting it through.
They just had to deal with these criminals in Ukraine.
Yes, who were not paying.
It's not changed at all.
And I don't put it past...
By the way...
This plan went into effect in 2008, 2009.
It was Princess Leia who was running the show at the time, the gas princess...
Oh, right.
Tumashenko.
That crazy woman.
Yeah, she's a thief.
She's a crook.
She was stealing all this money from the Ukrainian people.
Look, Putin's not...
I'm not going to say anyone's good, but whatever the...
I don't even think this...
This is not retaliation.
This is just opportunism.
Hey, we have an opportunity here to grab at least 30% market share of the European gas flows, because we can't really stop the 40% that goes through the Nord Stream pipeline into Germany, which Germany uses mostly for itself, but they're now also benefiting because they can now transit this through their own North to South pipeline into the European grid tax-free, mind you, tax-free.
But then the opportunity for 30% of the European gas market, particularly if you have this huge gas field right to the south with our special relationship people, the Israelis, and we've already cleared the way in Cyprus.
We screwed the Russians out of Cyprus.
I didn't forget that.
All your money, frozen, gone.
We've got that.
Get out.
Russian's out of Cyprus.
Cyprus is clear.
Right underneath Greece.
Greece is clear.
It'll be bankrupt in 15 months.
Boop!
In we go.
In we go.
The U.S. changed its regulatory processes to make sure that gas can flow inside of Europe, even Russian gas, once it enters the EU, doesn't have what's called the destination clause.
This is important.
This is the destination clause.
So this is what we want.
We want to be able to put our gas in and it go to anybody, which is what the European leaders want.
They want this energy union so it's one big country negotiating for the gas.
Boy, do you set people up for bribery and becoming disgustingly wealthy.
I'd like to be on that purchasing committee.
That'd be nice.
Hi, I'm a buyer for EU gas.
Second, the reverse flows, interconnectors.
But we need to do more, together with the European Union, together with individual member states in Europe, to make it an integrated and interconnected market.
Gas needs to be able to flow in not just north to south, but east to west, west to east, interconnecting countries, so that there would be not only the ability to bring in other sources of gas into Europe in an easier way, and to have that flow throughout Europe based on need.
That will allow for diversity.
Listen to this.
Based on need.
They want to control it inside the EU even.
Do you have a need?
I think you could turn your thermostat down a little bit.
You don't really need that much.
You watch.
You watch this happen.
You have supply.
That's the way the computerized gas meters are for.
At an ultimate level, probably, yeah.
In an easier way, and to have that flow throughout Europe based on need.
That will allow for diversity of supply, diversity of transportation, and diversity of fuel mix.
Woohoo!
Fuel mix!
They're going to dilute it.
Yeah, there must be some other stuff coming in.
It's an odd thing to say out of the blue like that.
I have a final 45 seconds.
I don't remember exactly what it was.
Israel's energy minister, Sluvan Shalom, said his nation is becoming an energy superpower.
Woo!
Is that an overstatement?
I think superpower may be a little bit of an overstatement.
Well, because we'll have to tell him to shut his mouth next time, big fat...
Shut up, yo!
But there's no doubt that there's significant discoveries in Israel.
We avoid superpower in general as a term.
Someone's getting a memo.
Hey, hey dude, do not use the term superpower when you're talking about energy, okay?
But I do think that there are significant discoveries here.
But looking at it, the way I would differ with the minister is that this is not about Israel.
And it's not about Jordan or Egypt or Cyprus.
It's about the region.
It's about the region.
It's about the money.
Yes, it's about the corporations.
And there's not enough gas to justify every country having to spend $10 billion on their own infrastructure.
We have to look at it in a smart way, in a collaborative way, in a cooperative way.
Do what we say.
I like that.
You're not doing it in a smart way.
You might get a hellfire in your butt.
Who has infrastructure that already exists?
Who has the roots?
Who has the gas?
Who has the oil?
And see, how do you make this all work in a way that, at the end of the day, it's not about governments and not about politics, about generating prosperity for the region?
It's rubblized.
What kind of prosperity are we talking about?
It's about generating prosperity for the region.
Rubblize the place.
That's what it is, man.
Rubblize.
Rubblize the region.
If you rubblize it, you have to rebuild it and there's money in that.
Yeah, but the guy is literally saying, you know, hey, we've got to work smart.
When someone says to you, let's be smart about this, you should probably shoot him in the face.
It's a good idea, because that guy is up to no good.
Rubble eyes.
I'm going to write that down.
Hey, let's be smart about this, Bill.
Why take chances?
You know what I mean?
Hey, let's ask the yeah guy.
Hey, should we rebelize the region?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
Hey-oh.
Well, you know, this is an interesting day because this is the first time I've seen a spreadsheet that I don't have to pass.
You don't have to scroll, I know.
Yeah, the whole thing's here.
So let's thank a few people who did come up to the plate.
Stephen Chipman in San Rafael, California, who did send a short note in, so I'll read since he sent it in by hand.
I completely says, as part of my initial donation, I completely derailed Adam from pushing the karma button for me.
Apparently, he asked for karma.
And by having included a question in my note about his universal audio-based recording process, this launched him into full audio geek mode.
I don't remember this.
When did this happen?
I do remember, because you were in a zone.
Yeah.
Well, you know, people send me notes and say, hey, I'm starting a podcast.
Can you please send me your setup?
Let me know how it works.
It's ludicrous.
It's ludicrous.
It took me 10 years to figure this out.
You could teach a course.
You could do a seminar.
No, what I want to do is I want us to be selling the best podcast in the universe kit in conjunction with Universal Audio, who make the box that we're now using, and we could have our own plug-ins.
That'd be cool.
It would be the...
All the stuff you're doing...
The Dvorak Skype plug-in, the Curry Tourette's plug-in, Well, anyway, give him a karma that he didn't get.
I'm so sorry, that was unintentional.
That's okay.
You've got karma.
David Alston in Yukon, Oklahoma, 111 and 11.
Thanks for doing this show.
I'm also concerned about the volatility of donations and sustainability of this worthy venture.
The most underappreciated aspect of the No Agenda show is the stellar and artful audio engineering, which is well beyond the most major networks.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear exactly what he said there.
What did he say?
It was the what?
I can't.
Oh, man.
Something I got.
Adios, mofo.
It was just stellar audio engineering.
Thank you.
Thank you for that recognition.
It was just snapping again.
Spencer Sumner in Calgary, Alberta, where you just get these out of the $100.
Nice going monthly contributor.
Cannot do that anymore because PayPal has permanently blocked me.
What?
What?
How does that work?
I don't know.
Travis Benelli in the upper-decker, if you know what I'm saying.
There he is.
Escondido, California, $100.
And then he says, PayPal, cut off my last message.
Please view email.
Okay, we will.
That was probably him saying, ha, I gotcha.
Oh, the upper-decker place?
What do you want to be called?
I'm pooping in the tank.
We could call him Sir Pooping in the Tank.
Tank pooper.
Tank pooper.
Giles Pavot.
Gilles.
Gilles.
It'd be Giles here.
Gilles.
A French guy.
Gilles, a French guy from Paris.
Yeah, je m'en fous.
No, he's a good guy.
Long overdue donation.
Yes, there's one French guy listening, he says.
Nice.
Sir Chad Biderman, depending on whether he's one of our regulars.
So I have to, since he sent in a note, I'll just take a look at it.
He says he recently had to put his cat, Mr.
Fokker, to sleep.
But I had a few extra years with him, thanks to the no agenda karma.
Thanks again.
And so he got the karma on credit, he believes, and so here's $100 to make up for it.
Thank you.
Dan O. Dan O. In Washington State somewhere.
And he has a note, he says he's Dan O. I want to read this.
This is one of the notes I really did want to read.
John, she says, I appreciate your alternative thoughts about lateral thinking.
In other words, he wants me to comment on this, and you too.
I'd be curious to know if you have any thoughts on building a writing regimen and what yours is, as you have been consistently prolific at writing consistently good article over the years, 30-plus years, I might add.
Example, do you, or question, do you block out a specific day to write, or do you wait until inspiration hits you?
No, you do not write that way.
If you have any interesting thoughts, advice, okay, every writer has a regimen.
They write four hours a day, typically sometime, most of them from 8 to noon, every day.
8 to noon, huh?
Yeah, I do an 8 to noon, and most people do.
I'd say of all, and I've read about other ones, but I always ask writers this.
I've asked Anne Rice.
I've asked Ray Bradbury.
Really?
You've talked to Anne Rice?
Yeah, she was at a book signing in Boston, in the bookstore I happened to be in.
She was roaming around the bookstore in advance of the book signing, and I talked to her about writing.
Did you say, you look familiar to me.
Did you say that?
That's kind of funny.
No, I actually had to add, I don't know what she looks like, but somebody told me.
So I went over to her and I always ask the same question.
What word processor do you use?
At the time she was using WordStar.
And what's your regimen?
When do you write?
And she writes from 8 to 12.
And I had breakfast with Ray Bradbury once.
Wow!
I asked the same questions and he said the same thing.
Others have two.
Wow.
Now, can I ask you a question?
Sure.
What is your regimen?
Eight to noon.
And what word processor do you use?
I use Microsoft Word.
Do you use the ribbon?
I unfortunately do.
I do not like it.
It slows me down.
And what do you have for breakfast?
I usually have eggs or oatmeal.
I'm disappointed.
What happened to the croissant coffee and bubbly water?
I have croissant coffee for the show.
Oh, that's your podcast regimen.
Yeah, I have a croissant with jam and coffee.
Normally, I drink tea.
I use Vim.
You what?
V-I-M. Dim?
V, Victor, India, Mike.
Yeah, I was using Emacs for a while, but I think Vim is better.
Yeah, well, okay.
That's a holy word, Jihad.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I shouldn't have said that.
Before I go on, I have to finish the note.
I'm sorry.
He says, across the article, he read an article about lateral thinking.
Lateral thinking is one of his assumptions most people believe is true is challenged, leading to a new line of thought that would probably not have been considered elsewhere in this way.
And he goes on with Peter Thiel, who's not a writer, and as far as I'm concerned, just a really lucky person.
What is the thing you believe true that most do not?
I don't care.
It's probably pretty much everything.
Send me another email and I'll answer directly.
Okay, now you can write.
DUI with Ebola story sent to Adam.
Thanks, guys.
This is Alan Smith in Powder Springs, Georgia.
You didn't read his email.
Jose Riveros.
I got a lot.
Yeah, it was a very long note.
Yes.
Okay.
Something about Ebola.
Yeah.
Well, no.
Hold on, it's coming back to me.
That there was, yes, someone, they were afraid that someone who was arrested under DUI was probably puking in the cell.
They thought he had Ebola.
They locked everything down.
It's crazy.
Another damn story.
This is going to go on for months.
Alan Smith, Powder Springs.
That's Jose Riveros in New York City, 7777, which is congratulating us for his seventh year.
And Philip Rodon.
Rodeconicus, in Oak Hill, Virginia, finally a Virginia donation, 7777, guilted him.
He says 73 is KF5. No, that's Ben Smith.
That's the next line.
Oh, Ben Smith is 7373.
KF5SWC. I just want to say something about Philip.
He said, have you given any thought into organizing as a non-profit so that our donations would be tax deductible?
Yeah, we're never going to do that.
Can I give you a little inside information?
Yeah, please.
So we study how to do fundraising at the show and it was discovered actually when we were doing some very heavy research that in fact if you're a non-profit organization not just taking the money and giving it straight to the government like we do it turns out you get less donations.
Yeah.
We would actually get less money, according to all the research, if we were a non-profit.
And it's not like we don't have to pay taxes anyway.
What's the benefit?
There's really no benefit.
It's a benefit to the people donating because they can get a tax deduction.
But if you're only donating to this show, which is a part of your life, just to get a tax deduction, it's probably insincere.
Whatever the case is, the donations would go down.
That's fact.
It is.
It's actually a research fact.
Hold on a second.
Let me just ask them.
Let me check for a second.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah, yeah, guy.
Would our donations go down if we were a non-profit?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah.
It's okay.
You can hang up now.
Oh, you click.
And then people will get that reference.
Brian Brown, Orange, California, 6969.
Semi-drunk.
Some drunk donation will bring me to knight status.
Oh, he's a knight.
I would like to be knighted as Sir Brown Eye of the Orange Groves.
He's going to be upset when he gets undrunk and he hears that.
Brown Eye, really?
It's on October 6th.
I turned 33.
Do we have him on the birthday list?
I believe so.
Let me check.
Keep going with your drunkenness.
And he says, I have some job karma and hockey goals karma.
Jazzy bingo bongo boom shakalaka.
Send pics of Mickey.
Yeah, I don't think so.
We'll put the karma at the end.
Well, he becomes a knight.
Okay, well then give him some karma.
He wants the bingo boom shakalaka.
That's what he wanted.
And he wants a little bit of karma.
We can give him that.
He deserves that.
You've got karma.
Come on, man.
Drunk knight.
Drunk knights are always good.
Baroness Tanya Wyman of Manhattan.
5678 New York City.
5678?
Yeah, 5678.
Get some birthday shout-out.
We got you down.
All the best from Baroness Tanya.
Alexander...
That was a good one.
Hacopian.
Probably Armenian.
Houston, Texas.
Double nickels on the dime.
Oh, yeah.
He says, thanks for reintroducing me to the noagendaplayer.com.
Yeah, this is a good website.
Noagendaplayer.com is a good one.
Good.
Eric Ryan Osnes.
Double nickels on the dime.
He's in Lawndale, California.
Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia, $50.69.
Sir Inside Jobs in Seattle, Washington, $50.33.
And he also mentioned something about he believes that the burning down of Club 33 was an inside job, and he's completely upset by it.
We should talk to architects and engineers about that one.
Christopher Walker, exactly.
$50.
And these are the last of the donors, $50 each.
Christopher Walker, Parts Unknown.
Justin Flavin in Basingstoke.
That's GX2. GX2, UK. He wants something here.
GX2 is one of our...
Isn't GX2 a night by now?
Yeah, I think so.
Play Isis, Isis Baby, One Hell of an N.A. Jingle.
Here we go.
There you go, I'll play that one.
- Ice is, ice is baby.
- Aloha! - Ice is, ice is baby.
- That's pretty good.
Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, Illinois, $50.
Nicholas Speller in Oxfordshire, Oxford.
$50.
Sir Brent Farrell, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
And finally, Bogdan the Hendro.
He sent me a note.
He's in Poland.
He's Polish, but he's in Irvine, Texas, and he's now a knight today.
And he says in Polish, the CH is...
Now, this is interesting.
In Poland, the C-H is pronounced H, so it's Lejandro, not Bogdan Lechandro, like I kept calling him.
But it's Bogdan Lejandro.
And the C-H, it reminds me of the change in the way they're calling that organization.
Yeah, Horazon.
Horazon from Chorazon.
Well, it's a K, I think.
It was a Chorazon, but that would be a C-H in some languages, I'm guessing.
Something's up with this.
Strange.
Something's up.
Strange.
Maybe you point it to Poland.
That's all we got, yeah.
I do need to recredit James Cates' $100 donation to Andre Mickelson of Norfolk, Virginia in honor of his birthday last month.
Make sure we got that taken care of.
And we have a couple of nightings today, also some birthdays, but we do need to remind everybody that we need a better showing for Thursday's program.
We're here.
We're working it.
We're working for your health, for our own as well, but it's for your health.
And just ask the yeah guy.
Your health and your entertainment.
Well, entertainment, maybe that comes first.
Because if you laugh, you know, laughter is medicine.
Yeah, exactly.
Dvorak.org.
A little bit of karma for everybody there is requested.
You've got karma.
And now...
It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm so much younger.
And we'll start with Brian Brown, who will be knighted in a moment.
He's celebrating on Monday the 6th, and Baroness Tanya Wyman of Manhattan also celebrating Monday.
Happy birthday from your friends and your lovers here at The Best Podcast in the universe.
Three knightings to go here, and I'm very excited about that.
Many of these just came, except for our instant knight, Thomas Gaskin, came through after years of supporting the show.
And they will eventually become baronets and barons, as long as we're on the air, until the licensing regime.
Yes, but the information will be perpetual, so someday, a thousand years from now, their relatives may benefit.
That's right, and you will have a portion of the new subdivided countries, or something like that.
Oh, I see you have your blade, then let me grab mine here real quick.
Perfect.
And I'd like to ask...
Sir Bogdan Lehendro and Thomas Gaskin and Brian Brown to come on up to the podium here.
Gentlemen, all three of you support the best podcast in the university.
You might have won $1,000 or more, and we are thereby very happy to welcome you to the roundtable of the Knights of the Dames.
And I pronounce the Sir Bogdan of Poland, Sir Thomas Gaskin, and Sir Brown High of Orange Groves.
Gentlemen, for you, we've got hookers and blowers.
Rent boys and Chardonnay.
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It's always our favorite there at the end.
Go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
Pick up your rings and your sealing wax and you'll get your official...
The certificate of your peerage, and you'll be put on the peerage map.
And thank you for supporting the program.
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Okay, well, I'm dying here.
I opened the window again.
There's no air movement.
It's too warm.
I had this long clip.
Let's get a couple of news items out of the way.
Okay, let's do this.
Good idea.
Let's just start with Sarkozy in trouble.
This is interesting.
Nicolas Sarkozy's camp is in the spotlight once again.
Three of his allies were charged with forgery and abuse of trust following the so-called Big Million scandal.
Big Million was a PR company that dealt with Sarkozy's campaign meetings ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
But it's accused of faking its bills so that Sarkozy's UMP party could spend much more cash on the campaign than his rivals.
This is seen as a huge blow for the former French president because he recently announced his political comeback.
He's done.
I don't think you're coming back, my friend.
Goodbye.
So they decided to get rid of him, which is the way it happens.
It's like that fat guy who was going to be the head of the IMF. Oh, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Yeah, that guy.
This clip is WTF Mexico.
This is not being reported very much, but apparently most of the drug cartel people have taken over much of Mexico by taking over the police departments and the city governments.
And they end up with stories like this.
Around 100 officers cordoned off the area after authorities discovered fresh mass graves on Saturday.
They're located on the outskirts of the same village in southern Mexico where dozens of students went missing last week.
On September 26th, students from a Chilpachingo teaching college were protesting in Iguala.
After boarding buses in Iguala, the police fired on them.
Three of the students were killed and 43 remain missing.
One of the youths confirmed that the police drove off with students.
Yes, I saw around 30 or 40 friends being taken away by the local police.
On Thursday, thousands blocked roads in Chilpachingo to ask the government for help finding the missing and to protest against police corruption.
22 Iguala police officers have been detained in the incident, and investigators confirmed that the local police are linked to organized crime games.
Hey, but I thought there was an update to this story where they found a mass grave with the 43 kids in it.
No, no, the mass grave was found before.
Oh, okay.
That's what they triggered the whole thing.
They found the mass grave.
Oh, okay.
Before you go on to your next clip, because I know you're on a roll, but I did want to just say that, because a number of people have sent these news items to us, when Ferguson happened...
We both identified that it was being used to get people to vote Democrat.
Yeah.
And all the news articles, voter registration in Ferguson surges after the Brown killing.
Everywhere.
Exactly.
You nailed it.
This was your initial and correct analysis that this was all this talk about You know, horrible whitey, killing blacky, all of this stuff was all about getting people to register to vote.
They were out there while the protests were going, register to vote, vote often, vote Democrat.
And there it is.
It's successful.
Yeah, they do good work, those Democrats.
They do fantastic work.
I have.
In fact, talking about that, you might as well play this clip.
This was on one of the...
This, I believe, is Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff regarding when she was secretary of state.
Not chief of staff, but her foreign strategist or something along those lines.
But this is the America is screwed clip.
This is very interesting to listen to.
Well, I would love for national security to play a bigger role in general because I think we're a democracy.
The American people should have a say.
But our Congress is not now organized for the American people to have a say.
It's highly gerrymandered.
So districts are going to people who are of the party that has gerrymandered that district.
And that's pushing districts to the fringes.
And the way that the votes are being gerry-rigged is similar.
So you get a Veterans Affairs vote with an Iran sanctions vote stuck onto it.
Or a pull troops out of Iraq vote with a Iraq funding vote stuck together.
And these are gotcha votes.
The whole reason that these votes are being structured is so that an attack ad can be written later for whoever votes for or against the vote to get them in the midterms because of that kind of gerrymandering of the districts.
As long as we have a Congress in which you know that...
If you vote on a serious national security issue, there's going to be attack ads at the midterms, and you're going to be hurt in the polls.
You're not going to get serious thinking and serious debate.
And that's where we are right now.
So the politics of this issue suggests to me that we need to pull back on how politicized it is until we can change the politics.
And I think we have, what, eight more years until the census happens again?
And, well...
Hmm...
Just a little uplifting piece of information for everybody.
Where does the term gerrymandering come from?
It actually, you know, it may be a guy named Jerry Mander.
Let me look it up for a second.
I don't mind doing this for a moment.
Oh, here we go.
The word Jerry Mander, originally written Jerry Dash Mander, was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette in 1812.
The word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts congressional election districts under then governor.
Here it comes.
Elbridge Jerry.
So I guess they tacked Mander under Jerry.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was the first, yeah, 1812, so it begins then, and it just gets more and more fine-tuned to the point where some of these congressional districts in California, for example, have like, you know, a thin line through a bunch of communities and then up to a housing development.
And it goes maybe, you know, 50 miles long or 100 miles of this little thin line of people that live in certain kinds of areas.
So you have, they're going to, and California's been gerrymandered to death, but it's mostly to favor Democrats.
And so you have a state run by the Democrats.
Everybody's a happy Democrat.
I'm a real happy Democrat.
We've been redistricted here in Austin, I think.
It's always designed to screw the public.
Oh, yeah.
We were talking about the Department of Homeland Security and how messed up it must be.
And I found this article in the Examiner.
I just wanted to read to you what's going on in the Department of Homeland Security.
Because this is not getting enough attention at all.
You want a little rundown of what's going on in this outfit?
This 200,000 person outfit with the, of course this...
They're going to fold their tents and close up shop?
Yeah, I don't know.
A U.S. immigration officer was sentenced on October 3rd to two and a half years in federal prison for accepting bribes in the form of cash and egg rolls from applicants seeking citizenship and green cards.
She was in Santa Ana.
She said, hey, give me 300 egg rolls, and then told an immigrant applicant to pay $150 for it.
Bribery, though, is not uncommon in the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, ICE Special Agent James Dominguez, admitted guilt in his role in a bribery scheme that illegally funded confidential DHS records to a Los Angeles immigration lawyer.
Nice!
His name is Kwong Man Lee, who was a former U.S. immigration official, doctored information in secret government databases and sanctioned sham marriages involving foreign nationals.
The plea deal offered to Dominguez was a bargain, since it allowed him to be held accountable only for making false statements.
So he doesn't even go to jail.
Corruption in the Department of Homeland Security.
Former supervisor of the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, OIG, Eugenio Pedraza was found guilty of conspiracy and falsifying government documents.
He conspired with other ICE special agents to falsify investigative reports pertaining to bribery, drug and alien smuggling.
They were placed on administrative leave.
And reached non-prosecutorial agreements with the government.
All charges were dropped against them with prejudice, which means they can't be prosecuted, of course.
But this is a pattern.
Frank Johnston, former assistant special agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations, received 24 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice, giving false information to a federal prosecutor and a federal judge, and devising a scheme to have his wife paid $600,000 by the agency as a consultant.
24 months, that's a pretty good deal for $600,000.
Former ICE agent Richard Kramer, one of the highest ranking immigrant agents arrested on corruption charges, provided drug traffickers with confidential law enforcement background checks that help smugglers avoid capture.
He was sentenced or charged with multiple counts of drug smuggling and faced 20 years in prison, sentenced to 24 months in prison.
This is a great outfit.
Huh.
TSA manager Brian...
A lot of people smoke dope in some of these states and they get your life.
I think Texas is one of these states.
TSA, yeah.
TSA manager Brian Jermaine Livingston was running a prostitution ring out of a Chrome Plaza hotel in Maryland, pleaded guilty, no prison time, $500 fine.
Of course, the services were...
That was just somebody who didn't pay their bill.
There you go.
CPB Officer Manuel Salazar routed drug smugglers to transport 1,700 pounds of marijuana through his inspection lane in exchange for a bribe of $10,000, a 24-month probation.
This is really unbelievable.
Well, this doesn't even touch the surface of all the petty thieves that work for these operations.
They're stealing laptops, opening suitcases, you know, and taking stuff out.
There's so much of that that goes on.
I just cringe to think about checking luggage, especially if it has the camera in it.
Yeah.
Oh, no, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
And then my favorite article here, this is from The Independent in the UK's, The headline is, Scientists to Fast-Track Evidence-Linking Global Warming to Wild Weather.
This is really phenomenally interesting.
Scientists are to challenge the climate change skeptics by vastly improving the speed which they can prove links between a heat wave or other extreme weather event and man-made changes to the atmosphere.
It typically takes about a year to determine whether human-induced global warming played a role in a drought, storm, torrential downpour, or heat wave, and how big a role it played.
This allows climate skeptics to dismiss any given extreme event as part of the natural weather variation in the immediate aftermath, while campaigners automatically blame it on global warming.
By the time the truth comes out, most people have lost interest in the event.
The Oxford University scientists involved in the project say, hey, we've got an idea.
They're developing a new scientific model that will shrink to as little as three days the time it takes to establish or rule out a link to climate change.
Another model.
Well, this is fantastic.
Yeah.
This is great.
So they have a model, and the minute it rains, three days later they can say...
Shut up already, it's science!
That's right, kids.
Good work.
We had a guy, a local guy, got a lot of attention, a grad student, although they played it up as those guys like some sort of a world-class expert in climate science.
And he came up with a similar conclusion about local events like that.
I think he probably was part of this program.
And you tweak the model.
It's always a model, a computer model.
They can't predict the weather with a computer model for the next five days with any degree of accuracy.
I think their accuracy is 65%.
Yet, the computer models can do these fantastic projections, and they're not even close to being right both ways.
I received an email from one of...
This computer model thing bugs me.
Well, thank you.
I received an email from one of our producers, and it was from his cable provider, which is Optimum Cable.
And he says he's been with Optimum Cable for a long time.
I don't know where Optimum Cable is.
I don't have it.
Keep looking.
Keep talking.
I'll check it out.
Yeah, you check out where it is.
Optimum Cable...
And so they sent him an email...
Twice a year during the spring and fall you may experience some degree of television interference due to a phenomenon known as sun outages.
This Q&A will help you understand what they are and how it will affect you.
What is a sun outage?
A sun outage is an interruption in satellite signals caused by interference from solar radiation.
The interference is caused when the sun is in direct line with the communications satellite and the sun's radiation overwhelms the satellite signal.
How long do they last?
Interruption in TV servers due to sun outages can last up to several minutes a day.
How do they affect TV watching?
All the obvious things there.
But then they supply a spreadsheet.
So first they have outages here, and they have a little table.
This fall, sun outages are expected to occur between October 4th, yesterday, and October 12th during the following times.
And this is just a small table.
It says Saturday, October 4th.
Start 429 p.m.
End 523 p.m.
So they're predicting exactly when these outages are supposed to happen.
Let's just do Sunday, October 5th.
914 a.m.
is when it should start.
525 p.m.
So all day today you could have an outage.
And this is kind of a little table, but then they have a full schedule of sun outages.
John, they have it broken down by cable network and how many minutes and seconds they expect an outage.
I don't understand how they can do this.
I don't know.
They're geniuses.
And I put this in the show notes so people can take a look at it.
Just give me one.
Name a cable channel.
Anyone?
A cable channel?
Yeah, any channel you want.
ESPN. ESPN, okay.
We have ESPN... Do you want Zone 1, Classic, HD, Zone 2?
HD. That's 96.
Today you can expect it to start at 4.26pm and end at 4.34pm.
How do they know this?
I don't know.
You're going to have to ask them.
It's baffling.
It's baffling to me.
Optimum is in Long Island...
Part of the shore, the Connecticut shore, scattered about the New York area, is part of cable vision, which is why...
Science!
There's also a bunch of good...
I found that interesting.
Availability in Poughkeepsie.
Poughkeepsie, yes, of course.
I just found that to be fascinating that they could pin it down.
Yeah, I think you're stumbled onto something.
Baby Doc Duvalier is dead at 63.
Yeah, I thought he was dead already.
That's what's...
Yeah.
Yeah, well, but I'm sure it was convenient.
I'm sure we didn't need him testifying.
I think there was some testimony coming up for him.
So I'm watching, there's a crazy show on called Ford Museum or something.
Some very overproduced show on, it's on Saturday mornings.
Beautiful production.
But with some kind of a goofball, you know, science guy.
And they talk about, you know, the science of this and the science of that.
So they ran this story, which I was just an eye roller.
And this is the A-holes from Austin and their great invention.
Oh, thanks.
One of the biggest pains when you're grocery shopping is in dealing with the cart.
Yes, yes, they give you antiseptic wipes to clean the handle, but then you end up pushing it with your knee until it dries.
There's always one wheel that likes to mess with you.
But what if you didn't even have to touch that shopping cart?
What if it followed you around like a loyal puppy with a basket?
Here's Adam Yamaguchi.
Who doesn't know this drill?
Can you believe we've been pushing around this metal contraption since 1937?
But that shopping cart with the battery in your mind used, and her mom used, and Eleanor Roosevelt used, is still pretty much unchanged.
I'm baffled.
Today, they're building cars that dry themselves.
Why do we still rely on technology from nearly 80 years ago to help us gather our fruits, vegetables, and cookie dough ice cream?
That's all about to change thanks to creative minds like C.K. Sample and Eric Schneider at Chaotic Moon in Austin, Texas.
They showed me their prototype for a smart card.
It's a shopping cart with a brain.
And here it is.
Here it is.
So this is the next generation of shopping cart.
Yes, or at least one version of it, I would say.
Why did you decide that this needed to be reinvented now?
A shopping cart works for carrying things and helping you shop, but with all the new technologies that are out there, there's lots of interesting things you can do.
So if your kids are having too much chocolate or too much candy and you're having to restock every few days, Time to
move out of Austin.
Seriously, people?
What bullcrap.
This is internet of things bullshit.
You got too much chocolate.
What business is it of yours, chopping cart?
Well, I set it up with the profile for my children because I'm a moron.
I can't feed my children properly.
I'm sick and tired of this.
People, you're going to be so sorry when you grow up.
When you figure it all out, there's going to be this moment of awakening.
It'll be, I wasted all my life on this bullshit.
You stupid morons.
Here, listen to this high school.
This is the competitive world we live in, people.
Monday night's JV football game began just like any other game for Brandon Bulldogs quarterback Mason Matthew, and his team was up 21-0 against the Northwest-ranking Cougars in the second quarter.
Then the Cougars quarterback got hurt and couldn't continue.
They tried to play some different kids at quarterback.
Any other position would have been fine because you've got other linemen, you've got other receivers, you've got other running backs, but you only a lot of times have one quarterback.
The Brandon Bulldogs had two quarterbacks to utilize.
Northwest Ranking Cougars didn't have any.
So it was about this time Coach Peterson approached Matthew and said, we're going to keep you in this game, but as quarterback for the other team.
Here he is on the field, the only red jersey on the Cougars' side.
The other Brandon quarterback continued the game for the Bulldogs, and Matthew did well, clinching two touchdowns for the rival team and driving for a third when time ran out.
What is going on?
That is nuts!
Any of the running backs can play quarterback.
Most of the receivers can play quarterback.
This is bull crap.
You only have the one guy because everybody else on the team is too stupid to play quarterback.
Throw ball!
Can we borrow one of your guys?
Alright.
I have my final clip and I'm done.
That should have been your final clip.
That was a great clip.
No, this one's the best.
This is one of those the truth wants to get out clips.
From a politician.
And this is David Kamardong.
Oh, that guy.
That guy from Gitmo Nation East.
Listen up.
Citizens of Gitmo Nation East.
Here's how he really feels about ya.
This party is the union for hard-working parents.
For the father who reads his children's stories at night because he wants them to learn.
The mother who works all the hours God sends to give her children the best start.
This party is the trade union for children from the poorest estates and the most chaotic homes.
This party is the union for the young woman who wants an apprenticeship, for the teenagers who want to make something of their lives.
This is who we resent.
These are the people that we are fighting for.
Oh, brother!
This is who we resent!
The people we resent!
That's true!
It's the truth!
It came out!
Uh, okay, you can take Clip of the Day and we'll go off.
Ah, yes, I knew it!
Hey!
Clip of the Day!
I'll take it by save the best for last.
Like whipped cream on your banana split, which we're gonna make and get out of here.
I tell ya.
Hey, are you doing, uh, uh, uh, tech news twit?
Hello?
Oh, no, you're going to Los Angeles.
Of course not.
Duh.
No, of course not.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I forgot to say you're going to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles.
You can't come.
Right, I got you.
Sorry about that.
Hey, well, enjoy.
I was invited.
What are you flying?
I was invited.
What are you flying?
What airline?
I'm flying Southwest.
Oh, that's my favorite.
What's your boarding number?
Do you know your boarding number yet?
No, but I always pay...
I'm not like you.
I pay the extra $25 to get an auto boarding pass.
I have PreCheck.
I don't know what your problem is.
PreCheck doesn't give you a better boarding pass number.
It gives me a good feeling.
Yeah, well, that's true.
I usually get...
Coming to you from the capital of the drone star state, but we are looking for a low-risk patient with Ebola walking around right here in Austin.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's still hot, it's going to stay hot, and then I'm going down to Los Angeles, where it's still hot and staying hot.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
Remember, Dvorak.org slash NA. And that's the story.
If there's a need for a rescue mission, when the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
And that's the story.
This, I think, could be one of the most important things that we don't know that we don't know.
Right?
There's the stuff that you know you don't know, and there's the stuff that you know that you know, and there's the stuff that you don't know that you know.
But the most destructive can be, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, the most destructive can be the stuff that you don't know that you don't know.
Adios, mofo.
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