They should have started booing and throwing paper balls at him.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 4th, 2015.
Time for a Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 684.
This is no agenda.
Still shaking my head at those fighting ducks.
Live from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we actually don't call them the fighting ducks.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Everybody has to know that it only happens a couple times a year, and John will say, you know, this is an important football game.
Then I'll watch it.
Did you enjoy it?
You know what?
I did.
I did enjoy it.
I love a lopsided slaughter.
Oh.
I have no...
I think that's the American way.
I have no dog in that hunt.
But it was fascinating.
Yeah, of course.
I like football.
I understand how the game works.
And if it's an important game, I can get behind somebody and root for them.
You know, I saw the thing on the back of...
The Oregon Ducks we're talking about, for people out there.
Yeah, against the Seminoles, huh?
Yes.
The Oregon Ducks never wear the same uniform.
Oh, I didn't know this.
That green is not their thing?
Well, that's their color, but they'll have a completely different uniform next time because Phil, whatever his name is, who runs Nike...
Yeah, Phil Knight?
Phil Knight is a huge, he's an Oregon alumni, and he buys the uniforms for the team, and every game is a different uniform.
Because they're hurting so bad already in college football, there's just no money in it.
Yeah.
Seven and a half billion dollars a year or whatever.
So you look at the uniforms, some of them have been extremely weird.
Okay, I gotta give you some feedback on the game.
Okay.
All right.
First of all, I really love all the...
I look at it from a television production standpoint.
You have cameras flying on wires over everything.
There must be at least 10 instant replay teams setting stuff up and saying, hey, we're their own director and producer.
It's so obvious how much is put into this.
Oh, yeah.
And then you have the uniforms...
I mean, this is...
These uniforms, it's like gladiators, man.
These guys look good.
It's slick.
Everything is put together so well, right down to the Hershey's fan corner or whatever bullcrap sponsor.
Oh, that thing.
So to make sure you don't have some loser, you have actors.
They've hired extras and they put them in this box and then they know what to do.
And there's a producer standing next to the camera telling them when to scream and yell.
It's great.
It's very entertaining to watch in halftime.
Each of these bands they had must have had 100 people in them.
Yeah, they're huge.
I'm a sucker for a good band performance.
I really am.
The marching band.
The marching band, yeah.
And then it was just the score just got out of hand.
So in the second half, I'm like, whatever.
It was very comic, the way it got out of hand.
Yeah, well...
But anyway, so that was important, you said.
That's good.
I watched it.
Yeah, I think that was probably the game of the year.
I watched it.
I noticed on the back of this one-off jersey that they put fighting ducks.
Right, that's how I came up with it.
Yeah, I know.
I figured, because I saw that, too, when I said, fighting ducks?
When did that happen?
It's just the ducks.
But somebody put it on there.
I think it has to do with the...
The University of Delaware has some crazy name.
It's The Fightin' or The Angry or something like that.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
All right.
So anyway, thank you for that suggestion.
I watched and there you go.
I have a cough.
Yes.
Okay, so today we are flying without a net.
We have no spreadsheet.
Oh, wait, it just came in.
Hey.
The spreadsheet's not what we...
The show's not based on the spreadsheet.
Yeah, it is.
It's like a cornerstone.
Without the spreadsheet, I don't know when to go to a break, you see.
So we can hit the weather and traffic on the 8s.
I wouldn't equate that with flying without a net.
I know.
It's just, you know, I'm a creature of habit.
Yes, you're a neat freak because you have Tourette's.
I keep telling you this and you keep denying it.
Now, it's funny you bring this up because we had this conversation about my tics on the previous show.
No, no.
It was a couple shows ago.
I'm pretty sure this was the previous show.
No, it was the show after...
John, this is the one where I talked about snapping my feet, my toes.
That was this show.
No, it was the one before.
No, that was the New Year's show.
We didn't do it on New Year's.
Okay, it doesn't matter.
The last show was the New Year's show.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
The New Year's show.
So it wasn't the Christmas show.
It was the New Year's show.
The last show we did.
The previous show.
It was the show after the Christmas show.
Which was the New Year's...
Whatever.
Whatever.
Why am I arguing with the man who remembers nothing?
This is crazy.
No, there was a Sunday in between Christmas and New Year's, and that's when you did it.
I should not be arguing.
It doesn't matter.
Then I've had just weeks and weeks of people emailing me who are starting to become aware of their own tics.
Oh, you mean the unaware Tourette's sufferers?
Yes.
We prefer not to call ourselves sufferers, as you can understand.
But we're starting a movement.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
We have people who do the craziest thing.
And it's really nice to hear all these different strange little habits.
Well, what's the weirdest one you've heard of?
Well, the people who feel the need to roll a tennis ball over parts of their body.
Like in the...
I know.
Well, that's like the guy that we had the clip from.
Who says that he got this urge to blow on his hands for a while.
I said, I couldn't figure it out.
Then that went away.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, but it was just interesting how many people responded.
And I think the general advice I always give is, if the people in your surrounding, like your family, just don't think it's a big deal and they can laugh about it with you, then it actually becomes less and it starts to go away.
But I was just surprised.
The toe-snapping thing is not exclusive to Adam Curry, that's for sure.
I never heard of it before.
Well, yeah, but you don't have Tourette's.
The other reason that it wasn't the last show is because we reflected on it on the last show.
I believe you.
It's fine.
Okay.
I've lost all...
Look, what I do remember...
Is I proclaimed that I'm on Team Taylor on the last show.
Yeah.
And I... That was the show before again.
You've completely blocked out the last show.
It was...
I don't know.
And...
I have to say I did some research.
And...
You're right.
Her ass is so flat...
Well, she could wear some padding back there and it wouldn't make any difference.
And she's been...
And by the way, believe me, by the time she gets to be 40, it won't be anymore.
Yeah.
But I started to look at it.
I was like, um...
See, I'm a face guy.
Just look at faces.
I'm like, oh, you got a pretty face.
She takes the makeup well.
Yes.
Well, you can see that she does not have the lips that she draws on herself.
If you look at a close-up, you'll see that...
She overdraws.
Yeah, exactly.
The lipstick...
Well, not just overdraws, but she goes...
She creates a whole different form, a whole different shape.
That's why she has to wear the really bright red lipstick.
Yeah, that just blocks off her.
Well, I actually, as I've said before, I admire her.
And I admire the fact that she's gone in that direction rather than getting her lips pumped up.
Exactly.
Now, that would not look good, and that would ruin her.
No, but a lot of these women in show business, for some reason...
They get talked into it.
I don't know why they do it.
Oh, I can tell you why.
It always craps out.
Most women have a completely distorted self-image created entirely by the entertainment industry.
Mainly magazines, but I'm hearing more and more now that we've been talking about the Sony stuff.
I get more emails from people in the visual effects business You've probably seen that video that was going around for a while, I don't know, maybe a year back or so, which shows you how Hollywood Video Photoshop is what they were calling it kind of works.
Have you ever seen that one?
No.
No.
Oh my God.
I'll have to find it and send it to you.
So the way these actors look in these movies, it's not just lighting and makeup.
There is a lot of CGI and other tricks that are applied, particularly when it comes to bigger stars.
And you hear more and more about it.
And you're just like, wow, this is all so manufactured.
And it creates a horrible self-image along with how women believe they're supposed to look.
Or what is believed to be normal.
And it's inbred.
I don't think you can't get rid of it.
Well, it's part of the business is what you mean.
It's part of life.
Well, yeah, especially when you come on the air here and start bitching about her flat ass.
You're part of the problem, Curry.
But I'm still Team Taylor.
I didn't say that it was over.
I like her face.
I'm a face guy, I told you.
Anyway, very important.
I know we did not discuss this on the previous show because I didn't have all the information.
And of course, it's a brand new month.
It's a brand new year.
We have presidential proclamations.
The month of January is a very important month.
And as you know, when we go through these, it turns out that you don't just get a month all to yourself if you are, for instance, National Mentoring Month.
That's what January is by presidential proclamation.
In a nation of limitless possibility, every child deserves the chance to unlock his or her potential.
When young Americans have the support they need to make the most of themselves, they can achieve their dreams and strengthen our country.
Mentoring is just not for kids.
That's a good point, actually.
Mentors and caring adults serve as essential sources of inspiration, lifting up young people, positioning them to build the America of tomorrow.
That's not mentoring, it's life coaching.
Ah, here it is.
Okay.
You always have to look for the organization that's behind this.
The guys that say, hey, you know, we got a special month idea for you.
What do you think this relates to?
Well, let's see.
Does it involve food?
No, it's an acronym.
I don't know.
We are working with business to increase apprenticeship programs and connect groups traditionally underrepresented in?
Cheap labor.
Science, technology, and math.
STEM. STEM, yeah.
All right.
So this is the STEM month.
Why don't we just call it STEM month?
Stop lying.
Second, it seems like this comes around every three months or so, but it is, once again, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
No, it doesn't look like there's any hidden message in here.
This is just, you know, for slavery.
Just to be happy.
If you have slaves, be happy.
Congratulations.
And this is another one we've looked at.
National Stalking Awareness Month.
Now this one I think should be a prevention, not an awareness.
Prevention will be in June.
Why would they do this?
Awareness.
Awareness.
Awareness comes first.
And then once you're aware, then you can prevent.
This month, we extend our support to all those who have experienced stalking.
And we renew our commitment to shine a light on this injustice.
Well, I'm going to tell you now.
Let me read on.
This, of course, what this really should be called is National Stop Free Speech Awareness Month or Free Speech Prevention Month.
Listen to this.
Stalking is a pattern of unwanted contact.
Wow, this is a great definition of stalking, which can include text messages, emails, and phone calls that cause an individual to fear for their safety or the safety of loved ones.
While young women are disproportionately at risk, anyone can be a victim, including children and men.
Individuals who are stalked often know the perpetrator, but stalkers can also be acquaintances or strangers.
Yes, you cannot threaten somebody, but text messages, emails, I don't know.
This gets close to...
What can you do?
A comment?
Do you want to just add that?
Facebook posts?
Tweets?
That'll be next year.
Tweets?
Oh, he's stalking me with tweets.
You know, a lot of people bitch about getting tweets, unwanted tweets, and they...
Why don't they just block them?
Or get off Twitter altogether.
Yeah, there you go.
But it's funny, I had a note here.
You know, you are quick to block somebody.
Oh, yeah.
When you're sick and tired of them.
I'm called the hammer.
Where the C stands for hammer.
What's interesting about it is you block people who turn out to be very productive producers, contributors to the show, with information, sometimes with financial support, and they always wind up coming back to me to try and get a hold of me anymore.
To try and get unblocked.
And it's really interesting.
Some people actually...
Well, you know, one of the things that's kind of trouble for them is that I don't remember.
I block a lot of people, so I don't remember who I blocked or why.
I remember at the time, at the very moment, well, this guy is getting on my nerves, blocked.
And then a month later, he figures it out and bitches about it, and I have no idea why I blocked him.
So I usually go back and try to figure out if it's somebody, you especially, because it's like a knight.
Exactly.
But it's nice, because you block so much, now it all comes down to me.
People are like, can you help me get unblocked?
Or they'll say, well, John won't see this because he's blocked me.
And then I have to block people.
There's a reason I block people.
One, they're pestering me.
Two, they have snide remarks that I don't find appropriate.
They piss you off somehow.
I get irked very easily.
And I don't use Twitter for this sort of feedback.
If you have a complaint, email me.
Yeah, but you blog people on email, too.
Well, they keep emailing me.
But this does flow into a New York Times article I read, and it's really interesting how people are so brain-dead when it comes to the internet, particularly this issue of stalking, or if you look at it from another angle, censorship.
And the title of this, when was this published?
It was January 1st.
Web freedom is seen as a growing global issue.
And the problem of this article is right in the title.
Web freedom.
Remember, this went from internet freedom, which is Hillary Clinton doublespeak, to web freedom.
And in this case, this article is talking about government censorship, how Putin required Facebook to remove a page about some guy who was also running for mayor in Moscow, whatever.
But the whole idea that we have gotten to this place where people believe that the only way to do something on this vast network is through these apps or companies like Facebook and Twitter and Google or whatever else.
It's so discouraging to me.
It's beyond that, as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, I don't use Facebook, which is...
Which results in a situation like there was an article in USA Today that I wanted to comment on.
Okay.
I decided to start commenting and I did...
You'd like comment on the web or you want to comment about it on the show?
On the web issue of the newspaper.
There's comments.
They have hundreds of them.
Mark Pugman.
Well, I got my two cents.
I'm going to throw it in.
Okay.
But sign in with your Facebook account.
Yeah, exactly.
Now, this is also crap.
So why am I required by USA Today to have a Facebook account?
Well, you know why.
I mean, the answer is obvious.
Because they're part of the Beacon system, or whatever it's called today, then they get a lot of data from Facebook if you use your Facebook account to log in.
So they don't really care about comments.
No, they care about who you are.
They care about exploiting the readers.
Yes, exactly.
They throw up some cool ads for you.
Relevant.
It's relevant advertising.
Don't you want that?
Just when you're in the market for something, it'll pop up magically.
I've sold that lie to so many people.
Yeah, we can take all this data, you see, and we can...
Big data.
With analytics, with our advanced network analysis language.
We got big data.
We got big data.
With our locally managed network operating protocol.
All of that stuff, we got big data.
We can tell you exactly what shoes they want.
As the shoes communicate through the Internet of Things.
Bull crap.
So anyways, it's really disheartening to me that people are being raised now thinking that this Internet is just an app on your phone...
And it's whatever app it has to be.
And not that you can actually use this fabulous network to communicate in so many different ways.
It's just people give up.
They're like, oh, well, Facebook shut me down.
Facebook.
These are the people who have to be voted off the island.
Well, we're the ones that are going to get voted off the island eventually.
The FCC is saying they're going to vote on net neutrality in February.
Uh-oh.
I think I know what's going to happen.
Is this red book material?
Maybe.
The president wants, or he doesn't know crap about this, he really doesn't understand it, but the White House, the administration has said, we really want the internet to be regulated under Title II. And, of course, all of the internet companies, or what they would call information providers, Google, etc., they don't want this.
Because they know that that really, first of all, solidifies the position of the incumbent network providers, makes them a commodity.
So the business will not become interesting to invest in, which will ruin Google's idea because they just want to own the whole internet.
That's obvious.
They're in Austin.
Man!
They got billboards and t-shirts and teams, street teams, and you gotta sign up and vote for your Fiberhood so you can get rolled out first.
Fiberhood?
Fiberhood.
Yeah, these guys are good.
You enter your address and then it zooms in and shows you your exact district by Fibernode.
Is it F-I-B-E-R or F-I-B-R-E? That's a good question.
I have a feeling, let me see, if I can find...
I'm guessing ER. I'm looking at...
Yeah, ER. Fiber hoods.
Google even has little...
Hello, Austin.
And people love Google.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah, of course they do.
Hello.
Um...
What was I going to say?
Something about the Fiberhoods, about all the billboards.
No, just the people.
Move in like banshees.
The people just don't understand.
People walking around with t-shirts on, signing up on the street.
All right.
So we have all that.
And then we have Wheeler, who says, okay, we've got to vote on this thing.
And I believe what's going to happen, there is legislation which has not been made public yet.
Which, let me see what this is.
This is the Republicans in Congress who are putting this together, and they are working on something known as Title X. Wow, they're so stealthy there in Congress.
You sure it's not Title X? Well, it could be, but it just says Title X. Which is 10.
Yeah.
Why would it be 10?
There already is a Title 10.
If you look at bills, they have one, then they have two, and then they have one.
I understand.
I think they already have a Title 10 as they have a Title 2 in current legislation.
It might be Title 10.
This would apparently enshrine elements of the tough net neutrality principles.
This is who wrote this crap.
Washington Post, of course.
They have no idea what they're talking about.
This would enshrine elements of the tough net neutrality principles called for by President Obama last month.
For example...
It would give FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler the authority to prevent broadband companies from blocking or slowing traffic to websites.
This metaphor is fucked.
Stop this.
So dumb.
Educating people completely incorrectly.
Or charging content companies such as Netflix for faster access to their subscribers.
A tactic known as paid prioritization.
All this discussion and the journalists, the free press has learned nothing about how this works.
Nothing.
So these new powers would come with a trade-off, according to insiders, in exchange for Title X or 10, the FCC would refrain from regulating net neutrality using Title II of the Communications Act, a step favored by many advocates of aggressive regulation, including the President.
Broadband providers have strongly opposed aggressive net neutrality rules, and everybody's got their own agenda here.
I like the idea of a Title II. Title II would make no sense, except for the lawyers, because that'll just be litigated for the next 20 years, and I don't see that being anything effective.
This is a government takeover of the Internet.
Yeah.
Well, regardless of what it becomes, it will say all over it, ISPs may not block unlawful content or unlawful network traffic.
And that's the last one that scares me.
Unlawful network traffic.
So what will that be?
Peer-to-peer.
How does that work?
Well, peer-to-peer could be traffic.
It could be...
Yeah, it's going to be peer-to-peer.
Voice over IP. I think so, too.
Voice over IP. But again, the ultimate solution for all of this is the distributed hash table.
You'll see.
We'll be in that.
That's how we'll be distributing whatever is left of us.
That's how we'll be doing it.
Damn.
Okay.
What else is on the list?
Of Obama's proclamations.
No, that was it.
That's all the proclamations.
Well, of course, he did an executive order while he was on vacation there in Hollywood.
CNN actually has a pretty good background.
Hold on.
This was so brazen after the entire technology world pretty much agrees that the forensics of the FBI to prove that North Korea was behind the Sony hack, along with the timeline, along with the ransom they initially asked for, the fact that along with the ransom they initially asked for, the fact that they never really talked about this movie until the media picked it up, which was part of the big promotional
That the president, the administration and the president double down by saying, oh, we stand behind our analysis from the FBI and you don't have the secret evidence that the FBI has.
Oh, I'm sorry.
The secret evidence.
So this is misused, misused, abused evidence.
Secret evidence.
To put more sanctions on North Korea, which is what I really focused on.
The new sanctions ordered by President Obama are being dubbed by the White House as broad and powerful, and only the initial U.S. response to North Korea's alleged cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
Senior administration officials say they're aimed at any and all officials of the North Korean government, its political hierarchy, as well as the heart of Pyongyang's shadowy cyber operation, and the money that finances it.
Specifically blocked from any dealings with U.S. financial firms, the RGB, North Korea's intelligence operation, COMID, its primary arms dealer, plus a chief defense research and development firm.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the President said his executive order adds to sanctions already in place and is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others.
Let's look at the executive order first.
You know, this is like candy for me.
An executive order.
I print it out and go take it with me while I'm pooping.
I love these.
Listen to this language.
I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, find that the provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies of the government of North Korea, including its destructive, coercive, cyber-related actions during November and December 2014, actions in violations of the United...
This is the UNSCR. What is UNSCR? United Nations...
Give me the numbers.
Security Council Resolution 1718.
1874.
Oh, there's too many, John.
I want UNSCR. UNSCR, yeah.
United Nations Security Council Resolution.
UNSCR. Oh, okay.
And Commission of Serious Human Rights Abuses.
constitute a continuing threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13-466 of June 26, 2008, expanded in scope in Executive Order 13-55-1, and relied upon for additional steps in Executive Order 13-57.
Oh, this is like dominoes, man.
This is so cool, the way they link all this stuff together.
It's a lawyer's dream.
So the sanctions that were put on are very interesting.
Then I think the press is really getting away with really shitty journalism as usual.
Because what is this COMID? It's no journalism.
Yeah.
COMID. What is COMID? How do you spell it?
Well, K-O-M-I-D. COMID is...
Let me...
I think there's even a wiki page.
So COMID is, and I didn't know this, is the military industrial complex state-run weapons manufacturer and sales arm of North Korea.
I did not realize, I always thought Iran was giving stuff to North Korea, but it's exactly the other way around.
North Korea sells things that they're asked to manufacture.
So they get plans or they'll rip off some missile that they've been given.
They'll manufacture and they'll do that in high output and send that to Iran.
But also, they have a sales office in...
Syria.
Huh.
Huh.
North Korea mass-produced missiles.
Smoke-screened.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Sony thing.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it has nothing to do with it.
In fact, the president even said, I think in the letter to Congress...
I have that here somewhere.
He says, you know, this is not necessarily to target because of.
It was really stupid the way he wrote that.
Coma stands for Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation.
Right.
And I find them all over the place also getting precious metals and minerals and not just manufacturing.
And the name kind of implies that.
So there's a lot more to this COMID, and three of the people who were also placed under sanctions that was new work for COMID or are sales guys.
So this is all, as usual, this is all about...
Ah, there we go again.
Yes, about defense industry.
Yes, as usual.
So these guys are selling...
They're selling bullets?
We're going to sell more bullets by putting them out of business.
You can't be selling in Syria, you idiots.
This is not how it works.
That's our turf.
We distribute the arms to everybody in that.
That's our corner.
I think they were just waiting for an excuse to do this because they were just, oh, this is great, let's do it now.
Let's look at some of these 10 North Korean individuals.
You'll see that they're all related.
Yeah, Jang Song Choi is a co-mid representative in Russia and an official of the North Korean government.
He's working with individuals in Sudan who are procuring materials from him.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Kim Jong Choi Chol is a co-made representative in Iran and official of the North Korean government.
Yeah, this is just part of this.
Here are their export partners.
These guys are like gypsy cabs.
They're the Uber of the military industrial complex.
Here's your guys, Ryu, Jin, and Kane.
There's two people operating in Syria.
Here are their customers.
The Wikipedia has a list of their clients.
Pakistan.
North Korean entities continue to provide assistance to Pakistan's ballistic missile program.
Egypt, they've received technology and assistance for making the Hwasong 5 and Hwasong 6.
Iran, as previously mentioned, were the first countries to buy North Korean missiles.
Libya, we cut that one off.
Syria.
Oh, Syria originally obtained Scud B from North Korea.
And apparently North Korea has assisted Syria in development of the Scud C and Scud Ds.
Well, we were led to believe Scuds are just Russian.
Yeah, well, they have manufactured.
United Arab Emirates have purchased some Hwasong 5s.
This is a while ago.
This is a good product.
Yeah, I got to check this out.
And Yemen.
So wherever North Korea has a sales office, we're droning people.
Sales guys.
Hey, Ahmed, look, he has his brown shoes on.
He must be sales guy.
Fire.
Now, who was that you were imitating?
I don't know.
It was...
The guy at Nellis in the cargo container shooting the thing?
I have to tell you, that was one of my worst imitations ever.
Yes, I... It's real!
It's real!
It's real!
Sorry.
First and only time I play it.
Was that you?
Or was that...
That was the seed guy.
That was funny.
You're not that far off.
Yeah.
So anyway, we of course are being sold, as usual, a load of crap about this.
And what is the big news?
I think this was good.
Because, you know, the whole thing was sketchy.
We knew that, and we knew it was bullcrap.
But I never put together the Colmid thing.
That's because, and this is what angers me so much.
I need to know, is it...
Do the journalists just don't think about it?
They're not interested?
They don't have time.
I don't know how we have the time, but somehow they don't have the time.
This is all I do.
I just do show prep.
DVDs of the interview will be airdropped on North Korea.
Thanks, Engadget.
Who is going to do this?
This is bullcrap.
Of course it is.
They're saying...
I got a kid guy when I saw that one passed a wire, too.
I was like, right.
I was thinking, first thing I thought is, gee, I hope to get the country code right.
Who is this Park Sang Hack activist who is doing this?
What CIA shill is this guy?
This is so dumb.
Let me see.
Park Sang Hack.
Who is he?
He's the guy that says, I'm going to make this happen.
All right.
Yeah, you go fly your little auto gyro with your DVDs.
So he defected to South Korea.
How many people in North Korea have a DVD player?
I don't know.
Well, they have 3G and I think even, well, certainly 3G networks.
It may not be that, you know, who knows?
We're certainly not supposed to think they have that.
We're supposed to think they're all, you know, in chains.
Gulags.
Pounded rocks.
Anyway, I find it brazen, just brazen for anyone to say, we stand by the FBI because we have secret evidence.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Secret evidence.
This is the lamest thing I've ever seen.
The whole story is lame.
And now that you brought the Comed thing, now it kind of makes sense.
But is that the best they could do?
Well, I've been searching and searching.
I'm pretty sure there's something that we still haven't figured out about the Comed deal.
Something is going on.
And there's very little to be found just by searching around for Comed.
There's a couple other companies that use that same acronym as a name.
I don't know if it's the same one or if it's a subsidiary or whatever it is.
Here, what the FBI is saying is that they tracked Sony hackers for years.
Well, then why didn't you stop what they were doing if you're tracking them for years?
And all these things come together.
We've got the movie Black Hat being rushed out, which looks pretty good, by the way.
Yeah, it does.
Is that a Brad Pitt vehicle?
Is he in that?
I'd have to look.
Because the trailers are so quick.
Yeah, I know.
This is one of those, which means it may be a piece of crap, too.
Yeah, it could be.
But if Pitt's in it, it's usually pretty good.
Yeah, I'm a Brad Pitt fan.
No, I don't think it is.
It's got good taste.
No, I think it's Michael Mann.
No, it's Chris Helmsworth and Viola Davis.
No, he's not in it.
It doesn't mean he's not producing it.
I don't think so, either.
It looks good.
Yeah, it's probably crap.
But it's all coming out all kind of at the same time.
We have to have all these things happening.
Believe me, the reason why this vote for the FCC vote is coming up, it'll be tied into it.
We need to have better security to protect our people.
Well, I'm thinking, by the way, that there's going to be some incident since the Obama administration is still in power.
Some incident before March.
I think it's March when the...
Homeland Security needs to be refunded.
Oh, it's coming up.
Because the Republicans tried to pull the financing for 2015, so it's just going to expire, to get back at Obama for his cavalier allowing illegals to come wandering over.
Right.
Spoken like a true Hannity fan.
So the way...
We don't even get Fox anymore.
I haven't seen Fox for a while.
They took it off.
They took it off the dish.
It's improved the IQ of the dish with listeners.
Yours.
So, anyway, they're hoping to put the squeeze on Obama, but all they need is an incident.
I'm going to put in the book that I think there will be a security incident at an airport just before this thing fails.
Yeah.
So, that way, there'll be no argument.
That's the easiest way, because that's what the public really understands, and that's what the Department of Homeland Security stands for.
Even though, interestingly enough, when the President and everyone else talks about, and this irks me, about our quote-unquote broken immigration system.
This has now become the meme, or just the narrative, that our immigration system is broken.
That makes so little sense.
What does that mean?
It's broken.
Is it in pieces?
Yeah, do we have to glue it back together?
What is broken about it?
I can tell you, but we all know it's broken.
No, no one really understands what's broken other than Department of Homeland Security took over.
The whole thing became a big money-grubbing administrative scam.
It's just impossible to wade through the paperwork with forms named 420.
Yes, you need to fill out form 420.
You need to send in the $420 payment.
This is true, by the way.
I know, it's a great gag.
I think it's very funny.
But this is like the Pentagon cannot seem to do an audit on itself.
Well, no.
And this has been the case for years now.
We can't do an audit.
And I always like reminding people that...
Why is this?
I always like reminding people that on September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld said, you know, there's about $2 trillion unaccounted for in the Pentagon.
We don't know exactly what happened to it.
You remember that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I want to find that clip.
It may be a Rumsfeld thing, Sam.
I may have that as an evergreen thing.
Hmm.
No, I don't think so.
No, probably not.
Because I don't care that much.
So NPR did an interview with the president.
And they did...
First of all, I find it interesting that they did not air this on...
It was about 45 minutes on NPR. In its entirety, they chopped it up into a million bits and used it as...
Well, because you've heard Obama...
I think it's still interesting to listen.
They released a video.
I watched the entire video.
I pulled a couple of things from it.
And it was really more...
This is pretty in the beginning.
I'll play them throughout today's show.
Just one or two.
When I listen to him, he sounds so disrespectful of the function he holds.
But it's an arrogance, almost.
And I never really...
I have felt that so much as in this particular interview.
Just listen to what he says here.
I don't know.
Maybe it's me.
Maybe I'm the patriotic Yankee doodle dandy living in Texas who doesn't like it.
Yeah, well, here's what I do think is true.
That, by the way, is one of the best performers I've ever heard.
Here's what I do think is true.
Wow, so whatever you're about to say doesn't matter.
You think it's true, maybe.
Yeah, well, here's what I do think is true.
That I have spent six years now in this office.
We have dealt with the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression.
So when someone says, I have spent six years in this office, it's like he sacrificed himself.
I've spent all this time as my own commodity, my resource.
I've spent better things to do.
I would have preferred to hear the president say, I have served the American people in this office for six years.
Is it just me that this sounds irksome?
Do all presidents talk this way?
Have I just missed it?
I can't say one way or the other.
Does it bother you?
Well, now that you mention it, it does.
But he slipped it by me.
But the way he says it, he's like, I have spent six years It's like he's doing time.
I could have been doing blow with Larry Sinclair in the back of the limo.
Yeah, well, here's what I do think is true.
That I have spent six years now in this office.
We have dealt with the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression.
We have dealt with it.
International turmoil that we haven't seen in a lot of years.
A lot of years.
Yeah.
I love it when he doesn't really have facts.
The lot of years.
You know, we've been doing this ever since a lot of years.
I don't know.
It just bothers me, this guy.
That, and I typically don't have a problem with him, but this, wow, man.
Could we just have a little bit of respect for the office of the president?
Yeah, he doesn't seem to have much on his own.
I caught Glenn Eiffel.
Glenn, Gwen.
Who is the hagiographer for the president.
And I've been a huge appalling.
I can't believe that the keeper let her stay on.
I mean, I can kind of...
Usually, most of the people that are the liberals that work for the NewsHour are not so blatantly obvious.
And I have a clip which is...
Oh, where are you?
This is your evil phone ringing.
This is your evil phone ringing.
Answer it!
Answer the phone!
Wow.
Nice, huh?
Yeah, that's good stuff.
A little interlude for you.
Yeah, I can't find it.
I obviously didn't make this clip.
Good work.
Okay, on the other side of the coin.
Good work.
On the other side of the coin, though, we do have these sorts of calls, which just brings to mind, in my opinion, that more people from the No Agenda show should call in C-SPAN. Because if somebody can get a call-in like this, which is just a rant, and the guy just listens to the whole rant and then goes to the next caller, it's just that you can say anything on this call-in.
Redline.
America resurgent.
Obama tells reporters.
Batavia, Illinois.
Rick's on the Republican line.
Rick, what did you think?
There you go, Rick.
Go ahead.
I thought press conference was a disaster.
You know, like most of Obama's press conferences, they seem vague, but in essence they are meaningless.
Obama has appointed himself a dictator.
He thinks he's the poor man's Castro.
I mean, who does this guy think he is?
Executive action?
That's nothing more code word for tyranny and lawlessness.
You know, Obama should be impeached.
His Castro policy, first of all, isn't going to get anywhere because he can't end embargoes.
I don't know where he thinks he is.
Second of all, he cozies up to dictators, thugs, and all kinds of Islamic terrorists.
No questions about his Mideast policy, which is in the tank.
Look at Egypt.
Look at Syria.
Look at the Palestinians who are bloodthirsty.
I mean, everywhere this guy touches, there's a disaster.
Obama is incompetent, and he should be impeached now.
To Daphne, Alabama, and Bolton is on our deck.
All right, now on to the weather.
Yeah.
People should definitely call in, and always call the Democrat line.
That's the rule.
Yeah, you treat it slightly different, not like a nutcase.
Now, somebody did call in and mention something, and then the guy confirmed it.
Obama, in his press conferences, when he's taking questions, Lately.
Oh, well, yeah.
Lately, and the last one was a good example.
He only calls on women.
Yeah, this has been discussed quite broadly.
And at the very last one, he calls on one man.
Actually, it was a list of who's naughty or nice that was given to him by Josh Earnest.
That's what the president said.
So the list, he blamed Earnest for the list, but it was indeed all women.
Yeah.
All right.
Sexism.
Sexism.
Yes, total sexism.
And two wrongs don't make a right, is what I was always taught.
But that's okay, because when it comes down to the American public, John, I have a new noodles kid for you.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
This is...
Here's the millennial.
The millennial of the decade.
Happy New Year's everyone.
This, by the way, is one of those YouTube videos where the kids are just talking.
Right?
One of those YouTube kitties.
Oh, you know the kind, John.
The kind that you send me to piss me off.
Yeah.
Here's one for you.
Happy New Year's everyone.
I hope you guys have a safe, fun day.
And, like, you guys need to be more appreciative because this earth is, like, 2014 years old.
Like, that's a long time.
Like, nigga, we made it.
Like, the presidents, like, they fought for freedom.
Whoa.
Like, without the president's help, we would not be free right now.
So, yeah.
Instead of, like, just partying and stuff, you guys should actually, like, be thankful and, like, pray to the, like, presidents because they actually, like, gave us freedom.
Yeah!
So, bye.
Yeah!
I call bullshit.
Bingo, boom, boom.
You watch the video.
It's real.
It's real.
You watch the video.
It's real.
I don't believe it.
The Noodle Boy, I do believe it.
The Earth is 2,000 years old.
2014 years old.
Yeah, 2014.
John.
Send me a link.
I'll look at it.
I'm not buying it.
You just did this to get back at me.
I'm telling you.
It's real.
It's real!
I've got to stop doing that.
I'm walking down the street and I'm doing this.
People look at me like I'm crazy.
I've got a couple of classics.
Before you do that, I want to mention a TV show since you brought up...
Fox.
Fox.
I found this on the Roku.
I don't know.
Maybe it was...
There's more weird crap.
If you ever really got onto the Roku and spent some time digging through the menus, there is some crazy stuff on there if you dig deep enough.
Well, this actually, now that I think of it, came from my Amazon Fire TV stick.
Okay.
Which I like.
I have to say I like it.
Have you ever seen the television show Drunk History?
No.
This is an outstanding product.
What they do is they do stories about history, and they have actors who are miming the words as they're being told by the narrator, who are semi-well-known people, like authors and But they're drunk.
Like, completely hammered.
And I only saw four episodes.
In two of them, the narrator puked.
On camera.
And it really is one of the best shows I've ever seen on television.
I don't know if this is a good thing to be promoting.
You watch this, you will love it.
Well, it sounds like television the way it ought to be.
Yes, exactly.
This is why...
I've always had this desire to do a show, kind of a roundtable talk show, called Legally Drunk.
Yeah.
And it starts off with...
The scene begins with each of the presenters blowing into a...
Alcohol.
Alcohol.
Breathalyzer.
Breathalyzer, yeah.
They blow into it and you watch the thing go up to the legally drunk.
And then the next one.
And then when everyone's legally drunk, then you start discussing current events.
You know, why don't you and I just do that?
Yeah, we could.
Yeah.
Of course, we first have to get my original show on the air.
Which was?
We haven't talked about this in a long time.
Win, lose, or drone!
That's right, everybody.
Once again, it's time to play Win, Lose, or Drone.
Are you ready?
We got Muhammad, we got Ahmed, and we got some dudes from Yemen.
They're all going to be right here on Win, Lose, or Drone!
And let's go to John, who has the score!
Adam...
We got Bill with 30 points, Sally with 10 points, and Ahmad with 50 points.
That's right!
On to round two!
Win, lose, or drone!
This is the elimination round.
Bill!
We could do it.
Yeah, well maybe.
But the video's all there.
It's made for it.
We got videos.
We got profiles.
Boom.
It's perfect.
So the Chinese are into the drones.
I got a drone clip.
So we can keep up with what's going on in China.
This drone that they showed on CC whatever TV. CCC TV. CCCP TV. This thing is just an exact copy of one of our drones.
But it's huge, even though they say it's small.
And other stories we're following for you.
Drones are increasingly common.
Li Chun takes a closer look at how far Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles have come after the debut of Chinese drone Wing Loan at an aviation exhibition in 2012.
This is the first flying practice for the Wing Loan team in 2015.
A drone takes off after a 700-meter prowl on the ground.
It joins another one in the air, a big challenge for the control system.
On unmanned flight, the operation system will adopt what a pilot must do according to the programming.
We can monitor the drones during the whole process and correct each and every movement.
The homemade unmanned aerial vehicle is capable of reconnaissance and assailment.
It can also carry out civilian tasks like patrolling and monitoring.
As a small-sized drone, Winlong is designed to be light and agile.
However, lightness also means difficulties in keeping balance during strong turbulence.
Remember when we were just starting off years ago talking about drones, and we predicted all of this.
We see exactly how this is going to go, and here it is.
And it's just like boiling frogs in water, man.
Except we forgot to jump out.
Well, one of these days we're going to have, I don't know what they're going to do when these drones start attacking, you know, one country attacks another using drones.
I mean, yeah, it's easy enough to do in Yemen because they got nothing going on there.
But what happens when a swarm of them come over in New York City?
So that is exactly, what was the kill decision?
Was that it?
Yeah, kill decision.
Yeah, Daniel Suarez's book.
It's a very accurate depiction of what drones can become, and the swarm is one of the features of these drones in the book, where there's these smaller drones that do have weapons that can shoot conventional rounds, but they find each other, and then they create this swarm, and then they all synchronize.
It's like, there's no escaping it, and there's no turning it off.
Well, they're going to come with some EMTs or something that just knock these things out of the air at the same time.
Well, there will be a big market for it.
So I have a little side thing here if you want to do it.
Okay.
It's not Ask Adam, it's kind of Ask Adam.
I want you to guess the country.
I have a new story that's pretty obscure, but you have to guess where...
They don't tell you where this is taking place until the end of the story instead of the beginning.
So I thought this was a good possibility, especially leading into our donation segment.
Okay.
For you to guess the country.
Well, I'm going to do the question anyway, then, since we're...
Hey, come on.
When John C. DeVore has got a burning question, what should we do?
Ask Adam.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yes, the problem is not a burning question, because I know the answer.
Five men have been arrested and charged with kidnapping.
Belgium.
I'm just trying to jump the gun.
More points if I answer before the clip is over.
Repeatedly gang raping and extorting money.
London, the palace.
From a 22-year-old Japanese tourist.
The young woman was held captive and repeatedly assaulted over several weeks.
It's the latest case to underline the soaring levels of violence against women in India, despite toughened rape laws.
Doesn't she say India, or did I misunderstand?
You played the wrong clip!
You do this on purpose.
No, no, I'm not.
I'm not.
What are you talking about?
What country?
Question for Adam.
Oh, I see.
What country?
Answer.
I'm sorry.
I played it in the wrong...
I'm so sorry.
You're right next to each other, aren't they?
Well, the what country question for Adam is below the what country answer.
Sorry.
It's alphabetical.
Yeah.
If you numbered them, then it would have been...
I could number them and say something.
I might start doing that.
I'm sorry.
You did this on purpose.
That is not true.
Why would I do that?
Why would I do that?
Just to screw up the segment.
No.
I love these segments.
I really love answering these things.
I didn't do that on purpose.
I'm sorry.
I could have pointed it out.
Yeah, well, I was waiting.
You would have told me to stop if you...
Answer.
I'm sorry.
I didn't do it on purpose.
Okay, well, anyway, it was a good story.
It was India.
Well, I feel bad now.
I mention that because we get no donors from India.
Do you want to do it over?
I'll just edit it in and we'll pretend like it never happened.
No, no.
We don't do that.
We've never done...
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 fab.
John, seriously, I really feel bad about that.
But I feel worse that you are accusing me of doing that on purpose.
Or you're just making a joke with me.
No, no, I'm dead serious, because you've done this before.
I've never done that on purpose, ever!
I never said you did that.
Why would I do that on purpose?
Because you hate this segment.
I love these segments!
You're crazy.
No.
It's right there.
There's two clips right next to each other.
One says, question for Adam, what country answer?
It wasn't a stretch.
I went down the list.
Whatever.
Sorry.
I didn't do it on purpose.
I'm not convinced.
We do have three people to thank for today's show.
If this is your idea of a bit, I don't like it.
Yeah, it's what I said.
No, if it's your idea of a bit of blaming me that I did it on purpose, I don't like that because it's not true.
Well, anyway, India was the answer.
We have three people, one executive producer and two associate executive producers.
None of them from India, by the way, which was kind of the point of the gag.
John White, $333.33.
I cannot find anything from John White.
Oh.
Did you get something?
Yeah, I might.
Hold on a second.
It may also be a different name as we know him.
Hold on a second.
I think I have it here.
Well, maybe not.
No, I don't.
Hey, so listen, just before you go on any further, it makes no sense for you to say that I would ruin the segment as it would have been a perfect segue into thanking the executive producers.
Why would I do that?
I don't know.
I think it's Tourette's.
I just get the sense that you've never liked the Ask Adam segment.
I love the Ask Adam segment.
I love guessing the movies.
I love that.
I love challenging my intellect.
And it doesn't come along often that you actually do.
This is trivia pursuit.
It's not intellect-oriented.
Trivial pursuit.
Where did the gang rape take place?
Oh, let me think.
I know the answer to this.
You wouldn't normally say India.
That's where all gang rapes seem to take place.
Anyway, I have nothing from John White.
I don't like being accused of things I didn't do.
Okay, I take the accusation back.
Thank you.
Hope that makes you feel better.
Much better.
Intel Armor LLC, $201.02 in Portland, Oregon.
I wanted to start off the new year with a donation of the best podcast in the universe.
Thanks for all the hard work you guys do.
The only request we have is to hear Adam's favorite jingle because it seems...
This is bull crap because it seems like John gets all the love.
Most of the requests are for Adam's favorite jingle.
Oh.
Thanks.
I don't know what it is today.
I don't know if something was off.
You didn't get your croissant.
You didn't get your bubbly water.
I got the croissant.
But it's, I mean, really?
Well, did this have a...
You're telling me I'm wrong.
I don't know what dates I'm talking about.
You're telling me...
Oh, no, the date thing, believe me.
And that people ask for my favorite jingle?
Really?
They have.
All right.
What is your favorite jingle?
That's like asking me what my favorite song is.
How the heck can anybody know?
Currently, my favorite jingle has got to be...
It's not just jingle.
What do you mean?
It could be just a little ditty, like it's real.
That's not my favorite one.
Oh.
No.
This would have to be mine.
This is the favorite one I have.
That's how we won.
And that's the story.
Really?
No.
I just picked one.
Uh...
Okay, he didn't ask for karma.
IntelliArmor LLC in Portland, Oregon.
I'll give it to him anyway since, uh...
You've got karma.
Associate Executive Producer.
Now we have the last person on the list, which is Baroness Monica of Pembina River Valley.
$200.22.
She's in Alberta or Canada.
Happy 2015.
Keep up the great work.
I'd like to do a karma request for Ken, please.
Baroness Monica of Pembina River Valley.
Don't mention my last name.
And then, I don't know what that point of this little last thing is.
What do you think?
That is actually the next line on the spreadsheet.
It's real!
You've got karma.
That's it.
We're done.
And you know what?
The thing that bothers me is because of all this about your segue and telling, blaming me, I didn't get to say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Oh, that's very funny.
Well, that's the reason.
In the morning, John C. Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames.
And we do have subs in the water, apparently, and all the dames at night.
I do, indeed.
I got the email as well.
And, of course, I didn't have my pancakes, so that's why I'm all off kilter here.
So, just so you know.
In the morning to our artists.
So, first, let me say hi to the chat room in the morning there, noagendastream.com.
Nice to have you all helping out on today's program.
Our artists...
Noagendaartgenerator.com.
Thank you very much, 20WattBulb, who we unanimously agreed this was perfect.
Two to nothing.
Right.
Well, that's a unanimous vote.
And there was some good art.
Yeah, 20WattBulb's got a real professional quality when he feels like it.
Yeah, he's got some stuff going on.
I agree.
We figure he has his tools.
Yeah.
That art piece is not...
It was beautiful.
It was nuts and you can just throw it together.
I'm thinking he has clients.
He might have done something with that tool or that process.
Yeah.
That's what I'm thinking.
He's not designing tools for us.
Thank you very much to our three producers here.
Of course, executive producers, associate execs, two, and our...
Top executive producer John White.
These are obviously real credits.
That's why they appear earlier on before we do our full segment.
And they are accepted wherever credits are accepted by Outfits.
Unlike Hollywood, we'll, of course, gladly vouch for these credits as executive producer.
Please consider us for Thursday's show.
This is looking pretty thin.
Dvorak.org slash NAP. And we always need you to be out there calling C-SPAN, propagating the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order!
Order!
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
All right.
So I had a...
Why don't we do that back-ass word?
So I had a really strong sense of indignation.
And it carried over right up into the show.
Apparently.
And it was pretty much about you getting fired by your voice agent.
Yes, yeah.
Well, I never got a gig from my voice agent.
You never got a gig.
I want to play...
This is on one of the football games with a national audience.
And this is a commercial.
I just want you to listen to it.
This is the San Antonio voiceover?
Yes.
And this is...
I'm thinking...
This guy...
Listen to it carefully.
And this isn't even the whole thing.
It's about a minute and a half.
Actually, a very long commercial.
With this guy yakking away.
Here, exotic is the standard.
Inspiration abounds.
And at every turn, there's something new and amazing to discover.
This is unforgettable San Antonio.
It's a land of art, history, and culture.
With World Heritage-nominated missions, art museums and galleries, and the world-famous 15-mile-long Riverwalk.
It's a culinary scene bursting with flavors and dishes from around the world, prepared by some of the best chefs in the country.
It's a destination packed with adventure, featuring hundreds of festivals, events, and attractions, like Six Flags Fiesta Texas and SeaWorld San Antonio.
That's right.
Come on down to the 15-mile river walk.
Yeah, it's me.
I could have done it easily.
Again, play this sub clip, Best Chefs.
Okay.
Best chefs in the country.
Yeah.
Best chefs.
And you couldn't get any voiceover work?
No.
No.
It was an abomination, that voiceover.
Really?
The guy had cotton balls stuffed in his mouth or something.
I have no idea how you even talk like that.
So it's Saturday night.
You're sitting at home.
You're mad that I didn't get voiceover work?
Yeah, after hearing this guy.
Is this what happens to you?
Yeah.
Well, that's kind of nice.
Now I feel much better.
Well, you should.
I think you should get another agent.
Use this clip.
Use this clip as an example.
I wouldn't be talking about best chef.
No, I quit.
I'm done.
I'm done.
No more.
I've never, ever, ever gotten any voiceover work.
And of all the television and movies I auditioned for, of course, the swamp thing doesn't really count because they just wanted someone who could remember a line and not bump into the furniture.
I did get into the final round of the new WKRP in Cincinnati.
Oh, I didn't know this.
To be the Dr.
Johnny Fever.
It was me and one other guy a long time ago.
And I didn't get it.
There you go.
And it got cancelled after four episodes.
Something showed up in the news which is going completely viral.
Something that I immediately got to work on with Brian the Gay Crusader.
He had his take on this, but I have something else I'm always looking for and it did show up once again.
This is the transgender girl who committed suicide.
After her crazy religious parents would not accept him wanting to be a her.
Did you hear about this story at all?
Only vaguely.
Okay.
Well, this kind of package is going around.
Is this the Texas story?
A petition gaining momentum online tonight.
Roughly 60,000 people calling for the family of this transgender teen to put her chosen name, Leela, on her tombstone.
This after the 17-year-old born Josh Ryan Alcorn apparently committed suicide over the weekend.
I hate the fact that he had to live in a home that didn't support him.
Alcorn lashing out against her devout parents and society in a suicide note on social media.
What?
The life I would have lived isn't worth living in, she wrote, because I'm transgender.
Adding, she felt like a girl trapped in a boy's body, but that her family wanted me to be their perfect little straight Christian boy.
On Facebook, Alcorn's mother made no mention of suicide but wrote, My sweet son went home to heaven this morning.
He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck.
According to a survey from 2010, 41% of 7,000 transgender people questioned had attempted suicide.
Alcorn's death now grabbing attention around the world.
Actress Rose McGowan tweeting, fly free baby girl.
Meanwhile, Dan Savage, the founder of It Gets Better, a video movement intended to inspire lesbian, gay, bi, or trans teens facing harassment.
There is nothing wrong with you.
There is nothing wrong with being gay.
Is calling for Alcorn's parents' arrest, tweeting, In her note, Alcorn wrote she wanted her death to, quote, Let's have a conversation about this, John.
This is an Ohio.
Yes, I need to have a conversation.
First of all, this is exactly why you can't be saying tranny on the show.
But Brian the Gay Crusader had a very good point.
He said, the way the press is reporting on this suicide is really beyond any journalistic integrity or even the written and somewhat unwritten rules of how you are supposed to comment on the reason why someone...
Committed suicide, which you really...
I read the...
Is Pointer, is that...
Are they kind of a...
Any kind of standard?
Well, no.
Who would you...
What school or...
Well, I can ask you, because you're a journalist.
Most of the edicts come out of Columbia.
In general, is it not incorrect to come right out and say, because...
His parents wouldn't let him be a her or whatever.
That's why this kid committed suicide.
I don't think that's good journalism.
Well, you know, there's a couple things here that I want to mention.
One...
I don't think anybody has...
I don't like, whether you do it or anybody else does it, the pontification about what is good journalism and what is not good journalism.
Because it implies that there's some sort of rigid rules that are government edicts at some point.
This leads to licensing of journalists.
I disagree 100% that it's good or bad journalism.
It's just the way it's done by this person.
There's some belief that there are actual rules, even though the idea of journalism and the free press is defined by the Constitution as just doesn't have its vague.
But over the years, there's been all these rules that have evolved usually out of Colombia.
That you're supposed to do it this way or that way.
And a bunch of newspapers have also adopted these.
You're supposed to do it this way or that way.
This is all bogus.
At the end of the day, it's going to mean that bloggers, because they don't do it a certain way, aren't journalists.
And diary keepers aren't journalists.
Anybody is a journalist and they can do it any way they want.
In reality, this is all an attack on freedom of speech.
So there's no right way to do these things.
And I've always been annoyed to an extreme about, oh, that's bad journalism.
It's always said by somebody who's never been a journalist, usually just some citizen who's out there pointing the finger, oh, they didn't do it the right way.
Oh, that's bad journalism.
Because I've had myself accused of it many a time because I write opinion journalism, which is by many standards, oh, that's bad journalism.
You didn't quote anybody.
And that sort of thing.
And I find it extremely, it's repelling to me.
I don't like this imaginary good versus bad journalism thing because it's bogus.
It's totally bogus.
And I could not agree with you more.
I stand corrected.
That is not what I meant by saying that.
Okay.
I wasn't attacking you.
No, no, I know.
The concept.
What I said was attackable.
It's true.
You're absolutely right.
We're journalists.
I'm a journalist.
I feel like a journalist.
You're more of a journalist.
The way I see it, you're more of a journalist than most of the reporters because you reveal interesting stuff that is being ignored by people that don't want to put the extra research in.
And that's as good as it gets as far as I'm concerned.
In many ways, you're a better journalist, quote unquote, than I am because of the way you approach stories.
But that doesn't mean that you're a model that everyone should copy.
And if you don't do it this way, then it's no good.
Yeah, I fell into a typical trap the way it came out, but what I meant was I am very disturbed by, and this has been disturbing me Ever since this first started with this bullying, cyberbullying of gay, children, transgender, whatever it is, usually around sexuality, homosexuality, or any other of the LGBTQIAAP acronym, And it's always, oh, because he was bullied.
Oh, because his parents hated him because they were crazy Christians, crazy religious freaks that wouldn't recognize.
And I'm always looking for one thing in all these suicides.
And here it is.
I read from the...
I can guess what it is.
Don't, because it'll be so much fun when you hear how blatant it is.
Carla says in the interview that she had never even heard her daughter use the name Leela before, seeing it for the first time when her suicide note was posted on Tumblr after her death, and claims that her daughter, this is the transgendered boy, had quit talking about being transgender recently, this as she was put on medication to treat depression.
Journalists of the mother effing world, please go after this story.
These children are being put on antidepressants and SSRIs.
I think it's a serotonin thing.
Yeah.
And if you listen to any of the advertising disclaimers about these very products, the number one disclaimer is, it might give you some thoughts about committing suicide.
As we've talked about, and we've had many a clip on the show about how it also relinquishes the common sense that you might have thoughts about suicide, but you lose the common sense not to actually do it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I don't see any reason I shouldn't do it.
Boom.
The only thing I haven't seen yet is the lawyers for the pharmaceuticals that show up who want, you know, oh, we need to have anti-bullying laws in Ohio because, you know, the kids are killing themselves.
And these lawyers always present themselves as, well, I'm helping the family out pro bono.
Yeah, it is SSRI. So they can deflect any focus away from these horrible antidepressants that these kids are being put on.
That is why they're committing suicide.
Even Brian the Gay Crusader didn't catch this one.
He had a lot about, you know, why.
But when you're on some kind of drug that, as you point out, John, actually makes the urge to not kill yourself go away, this is what's killing our kids.
Well, it's responsible for an awful lot of suicides.
Every single story.
Yeah, they tell you, they warn you.
We used to, the whole year of 2010, or I'm sorry, 2011, because I was going over old clips again, was nothing but these clips of people, oh, and it could cause thoughts of suicide.
Call your doctor.
You know, by the way, call your doctor.
Try calling your doctor.
It's always bullshit.
Don't call your doctor.
The doctor never answers the phone.
No.
And you have to pay for a doctor phone conversation, is my experience.
Remember the doctor used to make house...
Let's not do that.
Let's not go down that road.
That's no good.
Sound like two old farts.
Yeah.
Newsflash.
Yeah.
No, that's it.
Yeah, so...
It's another one of these no agenda things.
You know, to me, it's another classic no agenda meme.
When you see one of these stories...
It's just the drugs.
It's drugs.
We don't have that many formulas to deconstruct these stories at the end of the day.
Maybe there's 20.
Oil pipelines, horrible drugs.
Or actual drugs to sell to the people on the street.
You know, there's some of that going on.
It's really, really, really so simple, yet so frustrating.
Because it's all out now.
It's just all out completely.
Nobody cares.
I see people who understand that they're being hoodwinked, but they don't have the...
The No Agenda show is a good kind of like a little back support, you know?
You're not the only person thinking differently, that's what I mean.
You're not the only crazy one.
Well, you're not the only one that sees the old logic.
And it becomes baffling that everybody's spewing this illogic and nobody's questioning it at all.
Nobody ever asks, wait a minute.
They don't.
They just blow out whatever it says on the prompter and that's the end of it.
That's bad journalism.
I mean, you can say that.
But what's really bad is this flows over these stories into social media.
I've just given up.
I'm just looking at Facebook all the time now.
It's become an obsession of habit study to me.
And how people, the comments they make, and how these stories get around, it's sad.
It's really sad.
There's no thinking, oh, rest in peace, rest in peace, my RIP, my little transgendered beauty.
The kid was killed by the pharmaceutical industry.
What can I say?
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
Let me see.
I have a couple of things at site that go off to a little segue stuff here.
All right, cool.
This happened this year, as far as I can, or last year, and we forgot all about it.
Is this something from the Classic Clips folder?
The Classic Clips.
I put them in their own folder today, so I can't...
Yeah, well, they came in separately.
I thought it might be easier.
Thank you.
Very helpful.
Let's try this little ditty that's come and gone.
We've forgotten all about it.
This is all in February of last year because we're trying to keep anyone from going to the Sochi Winter Games because we hate the Russians.
Yes, and Putin's got to go because he's not playing ball.
No.
So here's one of my favorite ones.
I said, I forgot all about this.
This is very funny.
And of course, nothing came of it.
Latest TSA threat.
Warning about terrorism just as the Winter Olympics are about to begin.
It involves, of all things...
This was great.
I remember this came out on a Saturday, maybe, just before the Sunday.
Everybody was showing toothpaste blowing up in cars and all this B-roll.
Tubes of toothpaste and the Sochi Games that start on Friday.
KTVU's Patty Lee is live now at SFO. She learned it has no direct flights to Russia.
So, Patty, given that, how are passengers reacting?
Well, they are still afraid, and it's mostly because if explosive materials are hidden inside travel-sized tubes of toothpaste, it wouldn't take much for a determined terrorist to sneak them on board.
It's real!
Toothpaste tubes could be used to smuggle bombs onto planes.
That warning came from Homeland Security today and is for airlines flying direct to Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
It's the type of venue where You know, terrorists kind of gravitate to it.
Rick Smith is a former FBI agent and head of security firm Cannon Street.
He worries about the safety of the Winter Games, which terrorists have already promised to disrupt, recently unleashing suicide bombers in other Russian cities.
They're going to require passengers to, you know, put the liquids in the checked luggage.
They've got to adjust based on the intelligence.
And unfortunately, the passengers are victimized by all this stuff.
Homeland Security's warning was directed towards U.S. carriers, namely Delta Airlines, which runs a direct flight out of New York.
I believe the games will be safe, but we're in a very different setting in Sochi than we were in Salt Lake City.
Sochi is a very dangerous neighborhood.
Mitt Romney today called for more information about the specific intelligence to help the TSA, airlines and passengers prepare.
But Rick Smith says it's likely on a need-to-know basis.
I'd like to think that there's more specific intelligence on what they're looking for, other than just a toothpaste tooth.
If someone could bring it to a toothpaste, then it's scary.
So, yeah, I don't feel safe at all.
SFO had little to say about this terrorist warning, only that it didn't have any information to share.
So here at SFO and at airports across the world ahead of the Olympics, there's a lot of trepidation, preparation, and hoping for the best.
Live at SFO, Patti Lee, KTVU Channel 2 News.
It's real!
Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
It's real!
Yeah, you know, this was a long report.
Two minutes.
Yeah.
Can I play something to hook into this?
Or this is a theme.
I have one more Soshi clip.
Oh yeah, it's good.
As long as it's Soshi.
Yeah, this is a Soshi clip.
If that wasn't bad enough, if that didn't deter you from going to Soshi, because everything was about, you know, they're killing dogs, they eat gays.
They're eating gays and killing dogs.
I can't remember.
Yeah, and there's the other one, which is the slamming Soshi.
And even though opening ceremonies for the Winter Games are scheduled for Friday, not everything is ready.
Construction work is still being done on several hotels, and a lot of journalists are reporting their rooms are lacking many of the basics, such as light bulbs, shower curtains, locks on the doors, not to mention heat or internet access.
And in places where there is running water, we hear that it's not drinkable.
Yeah.
Wasn't it a hashtag?
SochiProblems or something like that?
It was a big hashtag.
It was bullcrap.
I was listening to an NPR interview with this guy, Joe Weisberg.
Joe Weisberg consults, maybe produces now, The Americans.
You ever watch?
It sounds like something you might watch, actually.
Yeah, I think I've seen it.
It's kind of, in a way, it's analogous to the hot Chapman, redhead Russian spy.
What was her name?
Anna Chapman.
Yeah.
They moved to America and the whole idea is they're spies.
And what he says is kind of interesting that because he is formerly from CIA, whenever he comes up with, I guess he's the producer, storyline or whatever, maybe he's the writer.
I'll have to look it up.
Joe Weisberg.
He has to run it by CIA in order for them to be approved of the storylines he's putting in there.
Earlier in my career, when I was writing certain things, I did have some trouble with this process.
I, for example, one time wrote a treatment for a show and sent it in to the Publications Review Board, which is a part of the CIA that handles this, and they just wrote...
Write that down, by the way.
Publications Review Board.
Yeah.
I hadn't heard that actual...
You can't do that.
So now in the end, I was able to sort of make some changes and massage and work it out with them.
But over the years, I started to figure out what types of things they have problems with and what types of things they don't.
What do you think?
And this leads into Joe Weisberg.
That's what I said, Weisberg.
Okay.
And he's the program creator.
Okay.
Created by.
So what do you think the one thing is CIA does not let you talk about in the shows?
Oh, you know, this came up on a previous episode of No Agenda.
Really?
Yes.
Was this a Christmas show?
Everyone loved that Christmas show.
Yeah, I know.
I'll just play it.
I would never guess.
So the process has been very smooth on the Americans.
What kinds of things would they say no to?
I don't write anything about cover, because I know from experience that details about CIA cover, details about how cover is...
Meaning the fake jobs that people have.
Exactly.
Details about that.
Journalists.
Yes, journalists and public relations.
That's exactly what the cover is.
Yeah.
Public relations, number one.
And also diplomats.
Yeah, well...
Yeah, of course, an ambassador can be station chief or, yeah, diplomats, but I'd say public relations is probably bigger even than the journalists.
Think so?
I think so.
So this guy, this is, I love it when they do this, when they just blatantly come out and tell the exact truth.
Because, you know, here we go.
His storylines are being checked, certainly.
Perhaps even suggest, he doesn't say this specifically, but perhaps even massaged.
In some way, to fit whatever is either coming up or whatever is necessary.
We have, of course, from the Lear Foundation, we have this classic evergreen clip, which proves that the government is always working with Hollywood on scripts.
So in the course of our work, this is in the two years, 11 to 13, 335 storylines that we worked on have been aired.
We've worked with 35 networks in the past four years, 91 different television shows.
And you wonder if the Americans was one of them when you listen to this funny little banter, but it's not so funny when it's actually the truth.
You're starting your new season after the Winter Olympics in Russia.
Is that going to be good for you as people are thinking about Russia and thinking about this newly belligerent Putin-esque kind of pseudo-Soviet Russia?
You know, the moment it struck me that I realized that that was all coinciding, I thought it was pretty great, and we're going to have some commercials on during the Olympics, and I thought, oh, it's all coming together nicely.
Putin is helping you.
It's all part of a cross-promotional marketing plan.
I wonder all the time what Putin would think of the show.
I can't figure out the answer to that.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Uh-huh.
Yeah, it just came together like that.
Isn't that fantastic?
Yeah, timing was unbelievable.
Cross-marketing campaign.
Yes.
The Americans.
Yeah, it's on FX. That's right.
I have one more clip from that interview.
Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are two KGB spies.
Are they KGB or the FSB? There's no KGB anymore.
It's set in the 80s.
Okay.
So it would be KGB, and the main thing that is so cool, the guy said, I've done a clip of this, is that there are no cell phones.
He says, today, when you look at CSI or NCIS or any of these shows, Scorpion and all that stuff, there's always a cell phone involved because that is, of course, the slave tracking device that everybody has, and that's how they always find everything.
So they had to write these storylines set in the 80s where there's more traditional...
What do they call it?
Tradecraft.
Tradecraft.
But there is some truth to this marriage and KGB coming in and kind of doing the Anna Chapman thing.
One of the things in the show that is based on historical fact that seems like it might be a TV thing, but really the KGB encouraged their officers to use sex to gain intelligence information, and perhaps most startlingly of all...
There's a spoiler for anybody who hasn't seen the show.
You might want to start humming for just a second.
But Philip eventually marries his asset, Marsa.
Who is a secretary to an FBI official.
Exactly.
And KGB illegals actually did that.
They actually married women.
Usually secretaries to important men who the KGB wanted information from.
So the KGB legal would marry.
Marry the secretary without the secretary having any idea the person was KGB illegal.
These marriages lasted for years, and the men would get intelligence from the secretary.
I'm glad you told me that, because I really did think, yeah, nice, no.
I wish we could have made that up.
And I want FSB to know I am completely open to hot sex and change for anything you want.
FSB doesn't listen to this show.
Really?
I'm pretty sure.
The CIA listens to this?
We have that one guy who keeps...
Whenever we say something positive about Russia...
He's so unsubtle that I don't believe...
I got a hard time believing that too.
Just a couple quick F-Russias.
Oliver Stone is now coming out and saying the truth is not being told in America about Ukraine.
He has our model.
He does.
Exactly the same as us.
But he is already pre-perceived as a crackpot nut.
Which keeps him alive.
That's how you live long.
You live long in the business.
Oliver Stone is just crazy.
He used to be heralded as the genius filmmaker.
Yeah.
Now he's crazy.
I don't think studios even want to work with him anymore.
Well, he's a little annoying if you've ever seen.
He's always on Democracy Now.
I think he's probably hard to work with.
I could be wrong.
I mean, he might be the easiest guy in the world to work with.
But it just seems to me that he's not.
The Lada is no longer, we talked about the Lada, no longer the best-selling car in Russia.
Why?
Kia has overtaken them.
Wow.
Yeah.
A Ford product, I might add.
Kia's not a Ford product.
Isn't Kia made by Ford?
No, it's owned by Hyundai.
Hyundai, I'm sorry.
You're right, Hyundai.
Hyundai is what, Japanese?
No, it's Korean.
It's falling apart here.
And what's falling apart?
The connection?
No, no, you.
Okay.
You made a number of errors in a row, which I find very unusual.
Ford, Hyundai, Korea.
It shows what I know about automobiles.
You don't care.
Not anymore.
You can always tell what you don't care about.
I am stunned that you watched the Oregon Fighting Ducks.
Yes.
Why?
You said I should watch.
You said this is the game to watch.
Now you have to watch the final game, which is on the 12th of January.
Which will be the Fighting Ducks against...
Right, the Fighting Ducks.
Against who?
Crimson Tide.
What's the Crimson Tide?
Alabama.
No, I'm sorry.
What am I thinking?
It's Ohio State.
What kind of mistake is this, John C. Dvorak?
Ohio State beat...
Well, everyone just assumed Alabama was going to win.
It's just stuck in psyche.
But Ohio State, which is a...
I think that if they would possibly win this game, it would be an abomination.
But they are called the Crimson Tide, or is that Alabama?
That's Alabama.
Okay.
What is Ohio State?
What are they called?
The Buckeyes.
The Buckeyes.
Okay.
All right.
I'll watch that game.
That game will be worth watching.
I'll be very hyped.
And when is that game coming?
On the 12th.
Okay.
Good.
Which I believe is Sunday night.
No, Monday night.
It's Monday night football.
Well, you called me on.
You said you don't watch sports.
That's why you don't know about Turducken.
I mean, I pay attention to what you're saying.
No, I'm glad you watched that game.
That game, to me, was a good, entertaining game.
Guys backing up drops the ball.
There's a lot of fun stuff in that game.
I'm telling you, the TV production, outstanding.
And did I see there's, like, hot little girls now in the coach's area with headphones on there on the sidelines?
Oh, yeah.
We've always been these kind of female assistants.
I don't know what this is.
Yeah, this is good news.
And a couple of them are pretty cute.
Yeah.
I love me a hot babe with a headset on.
I'm looking good.
Okay.
All right.
Onward.
Okay.
Agenda 21, the European Union, has a nice video they've made to explain the goals and what they're going to do for climate change.
Wait a minute.
This can't be.
Agenda 21 doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't have any impact.
Nobody believes in it.
No, of course not.
There's no documents or anything.
Not at all.
It's a cute animated video, and it really is meant to get you ready for the resilience actions we will be needing to take in the European Union.
I mean, if it wasn't enough for you to be in total austerity, we'll talk about Greece in a moment, if it wasn't enough for you to have GMOs coming in, if it wasn't enough for your banking sector to be taken over by Brussels, well, now listen to this.
Are you worried about your future?
Yes!
Yes!
And is climate change one of your concerns?
Top of the list!
How about we tackle all these problems at the same time?
Yes.
Yes, it's possible.
That's why the European Commission has proposed new climate and energy targets up to 2030.
This music is killing me.
This is meant for imbeciles.
Really?
By firstly cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels, with the ultimate goal of reducing them by at least 80% by 2050.
Does this sound a bit ambitious to you?
Well, we've already lowered our emissions by 18% since 1990, while our gross domestic product has grown by 45%.
So even if fighting global warming is a real challenge, it's an opportunity for our economy as well.
First of all, it will be good for competitiveness and innovation.
Many sectors will develop quickly in the coming years, such as sustainable construction, clean transport, energy-efficient products, renewable energy.
This is such a scam of such huge proportions.
But I have to say, if you need to create something that will just make an economy, who cares if it's based on bullcrap?
This is all going to happen.
Right?
There's going to be sustainable...
I'm not buying that.
Why not?
If there's stimulus coming from the government to build sustainable things, subsidies everywhere for green energy and all this, that does create an economy.
Yeah, it's a version of...
But it's vapid.
I mean, it can't last because eventually it'll just be, you know, the house of cards, I think.
For instance, green jobs already increased from 3 million in 2002.
Hey, John, you got a green job?
I'd love a green job.
You got a green thumb.
To 4.2 million in 2011.
Yeah, that's 4 million bullcrap jobs.
People doing something green.
That's good.
That's good.
And that's just the beginning.
Secondly, by favoring renewable energy and energy-efficient solutions, we also reduce our dependence on imported energy.
With this, our oil import bill, which is 1 billion euros per day.
The EU is not alone in taking climate action.
Many countries are on the same track, but Europe is clearly leading the way.
From now until 2020, at least 20% of the EU budget will be spent on climate action.
There you go.
Climate action.
20% of the EU budget.
This is bonanza!
That's around 180 billion euros.
So, tackling climate change means business.
Yeah!
Good business.
Yeah!
And it's everybody's business.
Yeah!
2030 goals for climate and energy.
Europe is showing the way towards a safe and prosperous low-carbon future for our planet and our economy.
There you go.
180 billion euros.
Ah.
That's good money.
Yeah.
And then they complain about the Koch brothers.
Koch brothers!
Yeah, no, those guys are outspending the 180 billion euros from the EU. Sure, sure, outspending them.
Really good article I read about, and this has been irking me for a while, and I really want to get into that this acidification of the oceans.
You know, the oceans are 30% more acidic.
Right.
As compared to what is the question?
Then whatever.
All of this data, the NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Apparently, their chart, which they show this acidification, which means that carbon dioxide is not able to get out past the greenhouse gas blanket, and therefore is going into the ocean and causes acidification of the ocean.
Yeah, making carbonated water.
Interesting.
Why don't they just say carbonated?
Why do they say acidified?
Well, carbonated water is acidified.
But it sounds so much like acid, like battery acid.
Yeah, it does.
But what it is is Coca-Cola.
Good.
Well, this is good.
Diet Coke?
The charts they use only start in 1988.
This is just another version of data falsification.
And they do have data from at least 100 years earlier than that, but they're not showing that because then the hockey stick doesn't work so well.
So I'm looking into finding more ways to debunk this acidification bullcrap.
I don't understand why all the algae, which there's tons of in the ocean and all the other plants don't suck up all that CO2. That's never been explained to me.
Yeah, I really don't know.
And then we have these huge algae blooms, which seems to me that really require a lot of CO2, and they'd suck it all up.
I don't get it.
What do they mean by acidification?
Total acid or pH?
I'm going to read the relevant paragraph according to Jane...
By Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it is, quote, climate change's equally evil twin, unquote, because of the disastrous consequences it may have for everything from the navigational systems of spawning salmon to the health of coral reefs.
There you go.
Well, I'm on kind of a mission now because this is being thrown in my face more often now.
Because I see it too and I... It's annoying that we don't understand.
I don't understand science.
I'm trying to learn.
Well, that's why you'd be better off looking into it because you'll find out.
Science!
Yeah, exactly.
Non-science stuff.
Meanwhile, big...
This is interesting.
What?
Lubchenko went to St.
Mary's Academy, a Catholic girl's school, studying Ford Independent Studies at Colorado College.
Got a BA in biology.
Colorado College, which Jay's friend attended.
Is that the weed school?
No.
Colorado College, if you actually start looking at it, it's a feeder school for CIA government diplomats.
It's a feeder school.
It's like Berkeley is secretly.
So this is questionable right off the bat.
She did go to graduate school at the University of Washington, which helps a little.
She already has...
She got an MS in zoology, then moved to Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in 75 Marina College at Harvard.
Once you get on the track, you can go to...
Yeah, you just waltz into these schools.
When was she nominated?
When was she brought into...
Do you get nominated for that or do you just get hired in OAA? Do you have to go through some kind of thing?
I don't think so.
I think you just get hired.
Wow.
Another gig I'll never get.
No.
No, you won't get the voiceover either.
Instead, there'd be a guy who says, Chef.
Chef.
Chef.
It wasn't even that.
She's interesting.
Yeah, I'll look into her.
I love doing this, by the way.
I do live for this kind of thing.
Alright, onward to the Eurozone, Euroland.
Big news as we go towards the snap election.
When does this thing do, this Greek election?
It's coming up the 25th, I think.
Yeah, it's this month.
Yeah, I think it's the 25th.
Let me just check.
Yeah, January 25th.
And according to the polls, which means nothing, the anti-austerity guys, looks like they're now ahead 3-1.
And their platform is...
Screw the EU. Screw austerity.
Screw the loans.
We're not going to do it anymore, which would ultimately result in a possible default.
And the word is back, the Grexit, the Greek exit from the Eurozone.
Angela Merkel is all over this.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes the Eurozone could cope with a potential Greek exit, according to the magazine Der Spiegel.
It says her government considers a Greek goodbye almost unavoidable if Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is replaced in power by the left-wing Syriza party in this month's election.
This will be quite interesting to watch.
I think they've been anxious to get rid of Greece.
They cook the books.
They don't give them the right numbers.
They're unreliable as a partner in the EU. They want to get rid of them.
Right.
It's all geared up for them getting tossed.
Then they'll make them suffer for a while.
I would think that you're probably correct now that all the assets have already been distributed.
Remember that corporation that came in to sell off all the assets?
I forget the name of it.
But just like East Berlin, when they tore down the wall, then they had these companies come in, and all of a sudden, all the cool stuff that you really want is in hands of Russians.
Including the oil facilities, gas facilities.
I don't think it matters to them anymore.
Like, ah, screw those guys.
We'll write it off.
But what are Greece's options?
Do they go back to the drachma?
It's become a country.
Yeah, the drachma and their own central bank.
And they have to pick up the pieces.
It's going to be a mess.
Yeah.
We should go visit if it's going to be so messed up.
We should go check it out.
We should.
Things will be cheap.
It'll be fun.
Well, things already are cheap.
I think we've missed that boat.
Yeah, well...
Greece was doing fine before this all began.
Yeah.
Thank you, Goldman Sachs.
But they were lying on their paperwork.
Yeah, the guys who did the deals with Goldman were lying.
Yeah.
Yeah, meh.
Meh.
I know.
But I find it...
This has been on our radar for years.
We've seen all this happen.
We've continuously said the whole thing is bullcrap and the trifecta of the commission, the IMF, and what's the third one?
World Bank.
USAID. I don't know.
So I got a letter anonymously from a guy who used to work at CNN. And this is a note that says, concerning the president's...
You have this note.
Yes, I do.
Concerning the president's statement about self-censorship, which we discussed on the show, which takes place commonly with journalists.
And this was him talking about Sony and warning that we should, as a country, particularly journalists, not start any self-censorship.
Right.
And I said this is bullcracker.
Because the terrorists win, then.
The terrorists win.
The terrorists win if they have a TSA. Right.
Used to work at CNN in May 2005.
We broke the Great Firewall of China story.
This was that Yahoo, Microsoft, Google were helping China censor the internet for its people.
This was when Google said, don't be evil, and we're reportedly holding back anonymous search engine data on pedophile searches from the U.S. government.
Yeah, my favorite.
Almost seems fictional at this point, knowing what we know.
So the story was the T1 story on CNN.com.
Top story on the site.
T1. Yeah, and they were rolling it every 15 minutes on the air, right?
Yeah, and on the ticker of every CNN channel.
They talked about it every 15 minutes.
Within 24 hours, it was stripped from the site and programming.
From the internal journalist software and even from the Wayback Machine.
How do you do that?
I don't know if he meant his Wayback Machine or the actual archive.org.
No, it has to be.
He has to be referring to the Wayback Machine, I think.
I could be wrong.
Rumor was that China would close our bureau in Beijing if we did not pull the story.
Another unpopular history...
But that's not really self-censorship.
That is blackmail.
Yeah.
Or coercion, at best.
Well, I think this is what...
I think Obama's referring to this, too, when he's bitching.
Another unpopular history item was the op-ed in the New York Times from Easton Jordan in 2003.
The news we kept to ourselves, quote unquote.
He used to be a CNN bureau chief in Baghdad.
Hard to tell how much of it was true, but it was timely in that it was written shortly after W gave Saddam his ultimatum.
Same theme, but better details.
If that is true, and it is indeed his real name, maybe he also has a second source of income.
A wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
So anyway, the point is that self-censorship lives.
Censorship lives.
And extortion lives.
We have unfortunately neither here at the show.
No, we don't have enough.
No blackmailing, no extortion.
We're just saving the world one person at a time.
And I hope the people out there appreciate our work.
Yeah.
I was looking at people who have done this in the past.
I would say, do you remember John Lennon when he and Yoko put up those signs on Times Square?
No.
Yeah, this was not long before he was killed.
Love is the answer.
It was the whole Yoko Ono plastic band.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Imagine, of course, was exactly about this.
But he started to put his money and started saying, I'm putting my money into making peace and love.
And I think that's when they said, let's get Chapman to go kill him.
Well, Chapman did seem like a MKUltra character.
There's a lot of evidence pointing towards that.
So yes, what you're referring to is correct.
There is absolutely no way that we could be doing this show if we ran by any of the traditional models, which is why we have your donations.
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 fab.
Yeah, on no agenda.
In the morning.
I figured we might as well do it now.
It's going to be short.
Yeah, we have a short segment here.
Let's begin with the one I read already.
Accidentally, Alex from Montevideo, Uruguay, who wants to remain anonymous because of all the Uruguayans, I guess.
$111.11.
Thank you, sir.
We need some karma.
Request for Ken.
We'll put that at the end.
I'll do that for sure.
That's the wrong one.
Don't mention my name.
I'm sorry.
It always says don't mention my name.
That's not the karma.
We did the karma.
Cameron Dodd, $100 from Houston, Texas.
First time donor.
He requests a dedouching.
We'll put a dedouching at the end for sure.
Austin Voss in Calgary, Alberta.
$100 LGY. Candace Hart in Austin, Texas.
Oh.
Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.
Nine, nine, nine.
And she has a birthday present for her boyfriend, Nicosi.
Aw.
His birthday was January 2nd.
I'm sorry for being late.
I would love to send him some job karma.
We'll put that at the end, just before the birthday thing.
And at one time at band camp.
I'll do the band camp.
When a girl is asking for band camp for her man, I mean, come on.
Yeah, definitely.
And that's so amazing.
Okay, good.
We'll do that.
Marco Strauss in Ithaca, New York.
He's got $500.07 total, but $96.69 on this one.
He says, the worst year of forever.
We need some karma.
He lost a girlfriend.
He's a country song, man.
This guy.
Lost my dog.
Lost my girlfriend.
Lost my job.
Hey, I'd say things are looking up, man.
Good start for the new year.
Who needs all that?
Dame Beth Borazan in Tucson, Arizona.
8888.
Adam, why would the Wall Street Journal run a story about AirAsia flying an unapproved route if not to offer an explanation for the apparent boo-boo?
Yeah, this is now all of a sudden some story that seems to be important, but it's not.
It's not like an approved route.
All of that was approved.
The flight plan, everything was filed.
The government doesn't want them to fly that often, but it doesn't mean that it has any bearing on the accident at all.
And by the way, this plane came apart on the way down.
Nicholas Oman in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, 777.
Lauren Smith in Blyton, Lincolnshire, UK, 75.
Got a birthday in there.
Dave Carey, 6969 in Clermont, Florida.
Michael Gonsalves in London, 6969.
Got a birthday in there.
Jared Wolfe in Appleton, New York, 6622.
Tabitha Binkley in Eagle, Colorado, 55-55.
Steve Bottoms in Reno, Nevada, 51.
Oh, we do have a douchebag call-out from Tabitha.
And Steve will become a knight.
Yeah, let's do Tabitha's douchebag.
Yeah, Tabitha's got, for late Christmas and to start the ball rolling for my husband, Billy Magruder, please give him a de-douching and call out Bud Magruder, who got us into the show as a douchebag.
Hey, man.
Douchebag!
It's no good.
We'll put the dedouching falls at the end.
I do as long as the karma.
Steve Bottoms at night.
Matthew Januszewski in Chicago.
50.
These are all 50s.
They're up to the 50s already.
Adam Beck in Las Wages, Nevada.
Steve Milliken in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Scott Wallace, San Antonio, where they have a lot of nice chefs.
Soren Jersgaard.
What do you think?
That sounds like something you could pronounce.
I'd say...
Kjarsgaard?
Okay, that sounds good.
Kiarzgaard, Kiarzgaard.
And finally, Jason Deluzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania, along with our regular Sir Mark Tanner from Whittier, California.
That concludes our list.
I have two...
For a show, 684.
I have one, let me see, this is from Sir Kyle Kinzel.
My donation of $50...
Oh, he said on 682...
I already wrote him.
Oh, are we good?
Yeah, well, you talked about it.
Don't you remember the guy and he wants the thing to be blasting out over the...
Did we do the douchebag call-out?
I don't know if we did the douchebag call-out.
But we can do the douchebag.
Oh, no, we did.
That was the chairlift operator.
You're right, I'm sorry.
Yeah, the chairlift operator.
We wanted him called out on the speakers.
You remember it?
Yes, you remember it.
Because it was a funny story.
I remember.
I remember.
Then I have a check.
This was interesting.
This came to the house with a Christmas card with a $250 check, which I'll send to you.
It says no agenda show on it, so I guess I can't cash that, can I? You can send it to me.
It's fine.
Well, yeah.
Box 339 El Cerrito, California.
No agenda show.
Box 339 El Cerrito, California is where checks go.
And this is from the Big Ass Blonde.
Do you remember her?
I think she's making a pass at you.
Well, I hope so.
She is currently living on an island in the Pacific.
What?
Yes.
I'm not allowed to say what island.
How did she get your address?
Well, we met her at the meetup before we did the Hot Pockets tour.
Because she's from San Antonio, she came up and...
Do you remember?
She's an insider, man.
I vaguely remember.
Yeah.
And she's big-ass blonde.
That's exactly what she is.
Fantastic.
And she invites us to come to her island.
Okay, what island is this?
I'm not allowed to say.
Oh, okay.
Well, you can tell me later.
I will most definitely tell you later.
Does she own a whole island?
No.
Oh, she has a place on an island?
Yes.
Okay.
Let's just say she's stationed on an island.
Does that help?
Oh!
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't remember the whole story about the big-ass blonde.
Anyway, I will put her as an associate executive producer for today's show.
Okay.
And this check came.
It's actually sent it to our old address, and it got forwarded, so I'm glad we got it.
Thank you, everybody.
Even though it's a short list, and we do have a show coming up on Thursday, of course, more deconstruction, more, oh, I don't know, proper journalism is what we'll try to do.
Proper.
Proper journalism.
We're really trying hard.
Dvorak.org slash N-A Oh my god, that is amazing!
Oh, and this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
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And her head is gone.
Yay!
Hey, here's the list.
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Nkosi celebrated on the 2nd.
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She's celebrating on the 5th of January.
And Miguel Gonglaves says happy birthday to Lou Garcia, 42 years old today.
Happy birthday from all your friends here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
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We'll get him up on the podium.
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Yes, with a picture.
Yep.
Very cool.
We like that a lot.
You can just upload right there.
Well, I was, you know, as you mentioned, this journalism, what's journalism, what's good, what's bad.
I know one thing for sure that I would agree with everybody on, which is if you ask a question...
Yeah.
And then the guy goes off the deep end, doesn't answer the question in any way, shape, or form.
It seems it behooves the journalist to say that wasn't the question I asked.
I want to answer the question.
Nobody ever does that, especially in the White House or the Defense Department or the Department of State, because you will be disinvited.
You won't be able to go back.
So this is the way that works.
Right.
So I found a couple of classics from 2000, I think, 11.
There's two clips.
One is the amazing BS or attribution question.
Now, this one, the woman asked a very straightforward, very interesting question.
And the guy does one of those, you know, trickerations.
Well, you know, the question you should be asking is...
It's not that quite.
It's not quite that blatant, but it might as well be.
And this guy is one of the, I think it's the State Department, one of the tech experts, talking through his hat, making stuff up as he goes along with just a ridiculous answer.
Rafael, I'm going to push back on you just a little bit on the attribution question, which you don't see as that big a challenge, I guess.
If I bought a laptop with cash...
And I created malware.
And I stripped all the identifiers out of it.
And I then traveled to a foreign city.
And I went into an internet cafe with unsecure Wi-Fi.
And I launched my malware.
And I then erased my disk.
And I dumped that computer in a dumpster.
That malware in that one computer could be enough to bring down the critical infrastructure of a city.
Could you track me down?
Could you find me?
So let me answer your question by actually tying into something that the general was talking about.
I think we forget that times of conflict are generally a great catalyst for technological and organizational advancement.
We saw the emergence of the concepts of air-land battle, for example, coming out of World War I, developing through World War II, through the Cold War era.
I think the main innovation coming out of the last 10 years of the global war on terror has been a revolution in the way that we apply intelligence and warfare.
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, currently the head of the DIA, but previously Director for Intelligence with JSOC in Afghanistan and Iraq, said, and I think quite presciently, In the 21st century, in the cyber era, intelligence and information are maneuver and fire.
The ability to be able to generate data from vast distributed services, to aggregate it, to correlate it, to share it effectively, to create actionable items, is a huge advancement, which was responsible for, for example, the ability to interdict IED networks in Iraq before they were able to form.
That same kind of cross-disciplinary Polymorphic analysis made possible by the fusion of data.
Wait a minute.
Hold on.
Time to roll this back.
This is a good one.
The polymorphic what?
Analysis.
Cross-disciplinary.
This is good.
This is good.
I want to write this down.
This is good.
...able to form.
Okay?
That same kind of cross-disciplinary, polymorphic analysis made possible by the fusion of data and analytical systems...
Hold on.
Cross-disciplinary, polymorphic...
I gotta use this.
It's a good one.
Polymorphic...
I take it back to the Defense Department.
Which was responsible for, for example, the ability to interdict IED networks in Iraq before they were able to form.
Okay?
Okay.
That same kind of cross-disciplinary, polymorphic analysis made possible by the fusion of data and analytical systems is exactly what would solve the problem of attribution.
Made possible by...
That will solve the problem of attribution.
Great.
It dropped some malware into the public domain and then dumped the computer.
Could be found out anyway because of cross-discipline polymorphic analysis.
They'd figure it out.
Hold on.
There's one thing.
There's something in the end.
Cross-disciplinary polymorphic analysis made possible by the analytics...
It would solve the problem of attribution.
...by the analytics...
This is fantastic.
I'm just going to say this to people.
Made possible by the fusion of data and analytical systems is exactly what would solve the problem of attribution.
Fusion of data and analytical systems will solve the problem of attribution.
Great question.
That's not a great question!
Wow.
That guy should be...
That's what we're dealing with.
That guy should be shot.
I think we should just take him out back, shoot this guy.
Yeah.
This is what we're dealing with.
This is why we can make no progress in this country.
This is why the budget for the military has gone so high because of this guy.
And everybody just started booing him.
They should have started booing and throwing paper balls at him.
Yeah.
Well, he does another little one here.
No, there's more?
There's one little one.
And this is the BS Artist Part 2.
I shall take a listen to this because, as you know, the cross-disciplinary polymorphic analysis made possible by the analytics of the fusion of data and ARC analytical systems will solve the problem of attribution.
One thing I would say, I think the enduring lesson that comes out of Stuxnet and Olympic Games is that it proved once and for all that you can weaponize cyberspace and treat it as if it was any other weapons platform.
Meaning that there is propagator code that will deliver code which is finally...
I think it's nonsense to talk about cybersecurity without thinking about it in terms of offense and defense.
When we train our infantiers and send them on peacekeeping missions, they're not going to be moving backwards.
They're trained in advanced to contact as well as defensive.
We need to be thinking in terms of cyber in exactly the same kind of way.
Because cyber weapons are largely defined in terms of legal liability, what you're talking about, who they affect, what they affect.
And because code gives us the ability to actually make that quite precise.
Again, Olympic Games, I think, proves that.
I think it's a reality that we have to get over.
Oh my goodness.
Who is this guy from?
I believe this was a Defense Department guy, and I'm going to have to now...
He must be, but he's not in the Defense Department.
He's a sales guy.
He's got to be a sales guy.
No, I think he's in the public relations department.
They have like 10,000 people.
Okay, Bill, your turn.
Go up there and wow them.
Wow.
Wow.
I don't know.
Now I've got to do some research and find out.
I think it would be fun.
He's still doing it.
He's obviously still having the same phony baloney pitches.
Maybe we can just create a website that makes it look like we have a real company and just put this kind of crap in there.
Yeah.
There's plenty of websites like that.
I know, but it will be ours, and we can take retainer payments.
Retainers, that's good.
And then we'll just do, you know, we can stay at home, we can do, what is that, the GoToMeeting.
And, you know, John, what do you think, now that you've looked at the cross-disciplinary polymorphic analysis?
Well, I'm telling you, I've finally come to the conclusion that this cross-discipline is going to make it possible with the fusion of both data systems, big data.
Big data, yes.
Critical.
It's going to allow us to analyze to the point where we can actually find a man doing the coding in the country that he's at as he codes in real time because his attribution is available to us now that we have analytics.
Even if they strip out all of the identifiers, we still can find the propagation code or put our own propagation code in to have the attribution fall back through the cloud-based system that we have ready for.
Well, the problem in stripping out the identifiers is they don't know all the identifiers.
I think the analogy is the VIN numbers on automobiles.
There's two of them that are hidden, and there are plenty of hidden attributes Attribute data.
Dude, you're falling apart on the pitch.
I'm sorry.
There's plenty of other alternative attribution data within any code that's of any size.
In fact, for example, if I save a Word document, there will be my name.
Yes, yes.
Exactly.
John, this is a great analogy for you people here in the room as clients.
John, please continue.
So it is always possible to get the attribution.
It's never completely destroyed.
And then there is the signature.
Now, the signature may be the absolute easiest way to find attribution.
Everybody codes differently, and you run an analytical program on top of the code, and you can pretty much identify the person who wrote the code because everybody writes a little different.
It's exactly the same as handwriting recognition.
Yes, it's completely the same.
And we would like to start you off with our...
With our Doom Viking IP identifier cloud service, which runs $50,000.
It's reasonable, too.
It's only $15,000 a month.
$15,000 a month.
Plus $500 a seat.
And we have a setup fee, obviously.
But our team, I'll be there.
We'll personally be on site with the team, integrating, doing the meetings.
Of course, we have our handoff, and then we have our people who will continue.
Yeah, we do need an office on site.
Because we do not want a Sony thing here.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, come on.
Come on, Sony.
One word for you people.
Sony.
Sony.
And Regen?
Regen?
Regen.
Reg I think we could probably work on a pitch and probably have one down in just a matter of days.
If we had some PowerPoint.
And some PowerPoints.
Click, click, click.
Five slides.
More than that as you push it.
And then as our credentials, we'll show all of our challenge coins.
Let's wear them as medals.
We can't say we worked on these projects because you can see why.
Yeah, because we...
It's pretty obvious that we're...
We don't want to be thrown in the brig, you know.
We've got to be careful.
We could do it.
It's a backup.
Hey, I just want to talk briefly because I had the same response you did about this...
A picture that starts showing up of supposedly at the Pakistan school massacre.
There was a picture that was used as one of the faces of the kids who was killed, who was one of the Sandy Hook kids.
And I saw that photo.
I'm like, Photoshop.
To me, immediately.
I didn't buy it at all.
However, the thing that's interesting...
The BBC is showing footage with the same pictures in it.
And there's some website, what is it, World at School, which I think is a USAID-sponsored thing.
Well, there you have it.
Yeah, World at School, what we do.
And they're using the picture on their website.
It's kind of a, what is it, like a...
Yeah, code.
They showed a picture with the kid on the wall.
Yeah, that's the one the BBC was using.
That would take all the effort of printing the picture of the kid onto a piece of paper and gluing it onto the wall.
That's a lot of work.
And then having the BBC person come in afterwards and then putting another poster over it so it covers up a little bit.
Yeah, no, there's no way.
This is bullcrap.
This just reeks of bullcrap.
But all the sites, you know, your usual suspects are all over it.
And this is to me...
It's real!
This is to me is the marginalization of alternative sources of information.
Yes, this is exactly what you wrote in the newsletter.
It's exactly what it is.
Yeah.
It's to put everybody in the same pot.
Oh, these guys are nuts.
And, I'll take it one step further, I believe these things are introduced specifically for that reason, and look at where it's coming from.
Yeah, right, the sources.
Exactly.
Yeah, if people want to see who the sources are, you go and do a search on that picture and then look for the recent posts and you'll see the Free Republic, Prison Planet, two or three of these other guys that are always all in with any anti-government propaganda.
But what it really does is marginalize all the alternative sources of information that might be very accurate.
And that is the mission.
Yeah, that's the mission.
They're probably fronts.
They're just stooges.
You have to make up your mind.
What are they?
Are they doing it on purpose?
Are they doing it just to sell seeds?
What are they doing it for?
They do it unquestionably.
They don't even really suggest it's a hoax.
To me, it's been done.
It's being done to discredit all alternative forms of media.
And I've received this email and links about this over and over and over again.
Please, people, think for a second here.
I'm always disappointed when no agenda listeners, at least with any standing, in other words, they've seen the show more than two shows, send stuff like that in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On one of the sites, they also had the story, which I don't have a clip where there's no clip, but one of these sites, I think it was Liberty something.
Anyway, they had another story of the mom who turned in the kid, and this is in Snopes.
This doesn't take a genius to figure out this is bullcrap.
The mom who turned in Texas again, I think.
Mom turned in her kid for masturbating under a new Texas law.
Against self-rape.
Wait a minute.
What law is this?
Yeah, well, that's the point.
There is no law.
It's bullcrap.
But they play it straight.
Let's see if you can find it.
That shouldn't be too hard.
Self-rape.
You find it on the net, not on Snopes.
Snopes has it.
Christians are also.
Queerty.com.
Christians are warned against self-rape.
Here it is.
It's a YouTube video, too.
Mom calls 9-11 on own son.
Boy charged with new self-rape law.
Self-rape on change.org.
Everyone masturbates.
Change.org?
Really?
Did they fall for this?
Yeah.
That's pretty sad.
Hold on a second.
Let me find this.
Oh, there's Arizona.
It was Arizona self-rape law.
Hmm.
Um...
If you type in the search, I do just self.
Yeah, I got it.
This is a video that goes with this.
Let's see what the video says.
The video.
It's 58 seconds, so that should be good.
Or is this an ad?
No.
Oh, hold on.
What happened?
Oh, man, what happened here?
I know it's not playing.
I hear something.
Yeah, no, you don't hear it right.
Hold on.
What the hell happened there?
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's playing through the speaker.
It's not...
Okay, everything's frozen.
No, you can't do anything on that Mac.
It's not...
I don't know.
It's not funny.
You want to stop the tape?
No, no, no, no, no.
I just want to get this going.
Just take a second.
Okay, here's an interesting one.
This is actually on PubMed.
I have it if you want to take a second here.
Yeah, when I hear that.
Okay.
It was playing through the regular speaker.
It's my fault.
Okay.
But now, something's happening with the mouse.
It's getting stuck.
I don't understand why.
Probably something's loading on your machine.
No.
A Phoenix boy is behind bars tonight, turned in by his own mother.
Stay...
Oh, what is this crap?
Is this like Change.org's own news report or something?
This is lame.
A 15-year-old boy has been jailed without bail after his mother called 911 when she found him in his room watching porn and masturbating.
911, what's your emergency?
That's bull.
That's bull.
That's not real.
It's completely fabricated.
This is bullshit.
I think it's...
Alarming.
Yes!
They would fabricate the 911 call.
Well, it's poorly done.
Let's put it that way.
Oh, man.
I'm worried about this.
I just hope we get to the end of the show.
All right.
I'll close that out.
Who knows what's going on?
Back to that NPR interview with the president.
He did something very unexpected when asked about...
The terrorists.
And on the international front, even as we're managing ISIL and trying to roll them back and ultimately defeat them, even as we've been executing the drawdown in Afghanistan in a responsible way...
Why is he not saying Daesh?
I don't know.
Why is he back to ISIL? Everyone's using Daesh.
No, they're not.
Yes!
The State Department, the Pentagon, they're all using Dash.
You remember we had all these clips?
Yeah, but...
Okay, maybe...
I don't know.
I'm just trying to figure out...
Maybe the other Obama uses Dash.
Well, they need to brief both of them.
Huh.
I don't know.
These are things that bother me.
I'm sorry.
I don't know.
Here's what bothers me.
Here's a clip.
Well, back to the other thing, by the way.
There is multiple personality self-rape.
Is that illegal?
No, it's not illegal.
It's just a condition.
Apparently with people that are nuts.
I think I've suffered from that from time to time.
I like you, Hand.
Play this one.
This really is...
Wow.
New Shanghai boat.
Port.
New Shanghai port.
We stay in Shanghai, where the city is starting the fourth phase of the Yangchen deepwater port.
The port handling capacity will reach 6.3 million containers by 2017 when it's complete.
The fourth phase will adopt the latest automatic system to manage the port.
The advantage of an automatic system will allow a larger capacity of containers.
And after the completion of the fourth phase, the Shanghai port will have an annual capacity of 40 million 20-foot units, the standard unit for describing a ship's cargo-carrying capacity.
The number will beat the annual production rate of the entire United States, sharing one-tenth of the world's annual rate.
Wow.
So this one port...
That's kind of serious, yeah.
That's nasty.
Yeah.
These guys are serious about destroying us.
Does this fit in that Russia is going to build a new high-speed railway between Moscow and Beijing?
I don't know.
Probably.
Everything seems to be connected.
We know about the high-speed rail running the south route.
Yes, all the way into Europe.
Yeah.
They can't get that crap out of China.
And the country's not even at full employment.
Where's Shanghai?
Shanghai is up.
Up and on the coast, more or less.
In relation to Beijing?
I think it's on the same parallel.
Let me just take a look at the map.
Because this railroad they're talking about, which I guess would be part of the new Silk Road...
Manufacturing centers of China are not in Beijing.
No, no.
But we know that it's always, oh yes, it would be great for everyone who lives in Beijing, but we know it's bullcrap.
It's all about the goods that they can ship.
Let me see, Shanghai is there.
It's a very short ride, by the way, a very short airplane ride from Vancouver.
Really?
Yeah.
I would recommend people, if you live in Vancouver, I just go to Shanghai for the weekend.
Really?
Yeah.
This is interesting.
How do you, let me see.
Really?
From Vancouver?
Oh, I see.
Yeah, of course.
I've taken that route.
It's like, it's a very short ride.
It's not short, but it's shorter than going to London.
It's like, I think it's six, seven hours from Vancouver.
Six, maybe.
Yeah.
Okay.
We had a Twitter conversation.
I say you had a Twitter conversation.
I was along for the ride, and whenever I said something, no one responded.
So I guess I'm blocked.
I guess.
With Mark Cuban.
Oh, yeah.
This is interesting.
Mark Cuban has been out and about saying...
The way to...
What was he saying?
The big crisis is the student loans, and if you want to fix the economy, limit the amount of basically free money the government is handing out to students so that...
More money can go into the economy.
I think that's kind of what he said.
And then there was this conversation about the endowments and how much money these universities really have, which is just hundreds of millions of dollars.
Billions!
I think Harvard is $30 billion.
Billions of dollars.
And although I'm not sure if Cuban's thesis is correct that it will change anything, I dug up this quick backgrounder on what has happened since the government is now securing these loans for students.
We now have the federal government has a monopoly over direct student loans.
They used to have loans that private banks and lenders would put out and would be guaranteed by the federal government.
Starting in July 2010, thanks to language that was in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which was part of the Obamacare law, the federal government only loans the money directly to students.
So that $806 billion are loans that the federal government has made for students to go to school.
That's money owed to the U.S. Treasury.
$800 billion?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, they'll get it back.
Unless, of course, you volunteer for service.
You can never own a home or do anything they're supposed to do.
Right.
We had a guy who was about 30 years old.
He was working at Mevio.
He was one of the operators of the TriCaster and some other camera guy.
Oh, what's his name?
Yeah, that guy.
Yeah.
And I said, so where do you live?
Somehow in the conversation, he says he's, this guy's like 30.
Late 20s at least.
He's living, yeah, he's bitching about something.
He's bitching about his roommates.
Plural.
There's four, three or four guys living in this small place.
And he's moaning about it.
I said, why don't you get your own places?
I can't afford it.
I said, why?
He said, student loans.
Apparently all the money he made at Mevio had to go to pay off his loans.
And he just didn't have any money.
And he says, I don't know when I'm ever going to pit it off.
Well, this is like all the kids in L.A. who are Christina's friends.
None of them want to be on a real payroll job.
They want to do all kinds of gigs, I guess you'd call it.
Because the minute they get on some kind of payroll, they show up.
That's when the government comes in to take the money back.
So they just want little gigs, freelance type stuff.
Goofing around.
My advice to these kids?
You're down in LA. There's a lot of opportunities down there for what I'm going to describe.
Okay.
Fake social security number and false ID with a different name.
You can get the social security number for some dead guy.
Whatever the case is, start using that and then you can make some money.
And then the worst that can happen, you get busted for false identity.
What is that going to match?
I don't know.
That can't be good.
I think it might be bad.
Well, at some point you can flip it and go, I'm going to be myself again and ditch all the other kids.
No, the obvious out is go into government service.
That's how they, you know, do you do, what is it, five years, then 30% of your loan goes away?
If you do it for 10 years, 50% of your loan goes away?
For the government for the rest of your life.
Well, yes.
Just a bad gig.
Yes, that would be correct.
Exactly right.
Except you have to work with douchebag managers.
Mm-hmm.
Like the government worker, the classic bad manager is in the government.
This is pretty much a known fact.
What is coming up this week, John?
What do we got to be looking for?
When does everyone get back in session?
Is that coming up?
Because I'm so tired of nothing going on.
I mean, I need some legislation to read.
I need some documents.
Yeah, I know.
It's been terrible.
I think the show is suffering.
Let's see.
I wouldn't say that.
Well, okay.
It's not really suffering.
Legislative.
We always have good stuff.
Legislature.
I know in Austin they get back the legislature is coming back this coming week.
I met a lobbyist the other day.
I think they're coming back just in time to switch over to the new guys.
Yeah, oh yeah.
There's a lot of stuff that has to be done.
It's got to be this month at some point, maybe the next few weeks.
Well, what will be happening, this was kind of funny to see, we have new committees and New people running it.
We talked about that douchebag from Texas.
What's his name?
Hurd.
Did you ever look into him?
Will Hurd?
No.
I've been meaning to.
Congressman Devin Nunes.
I presume that's how you pronounce it.
N-U-N-E-S. Nunes, who is from California.
A Republican.
He will be the incoming chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
And he announced that Jeff Shockey will be the new staff director of the committee.
Shockey is a lobbyist for Academy.
What?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, but his firm, not a huge one, but his firm.
When are these guys going to, when is the public?
I thought that was illegal.
These guys out.
Yeah, probably.
I don't know.
His firm earned $80,000 in 2014.
That's not much.
No, it's a small time, but still, he's going to be staff director of the Intelligence Committee.
I guarantee you that the money number will go up.
Yeah.
He also represents, I don't know if he represents or must be represented.
General Dynamics.
Oh, of course, our favorite, Koch Industries.
Koch Brothers!
Northrop Grumman.
What's his first name?
His name is Jeff Shockey.
S-H-O-C-K-E-Y. Also, there was no Matt and Marie show.
There were no briefings.
Everyone just effed off and left us hanging.
U.S. lobbyist and congressional staffer.
Almost his entire career has been spent either working for a Jerry Lewis representative or the former representative Bill Lowry's lobbying firm Copeland, Lowry, Yakaz, Denton, and White.
He's in the middle of a federal investigation.
Well, that doesn't sound right.
Perfect time to bring a guy in.
Allegations of corruption.
Wow.
Well, there you go.
It's the Republicans' turn.
Shadow!
I don't think they're any better than the Democrats.
They're just as shitty.
Yep.
Elite news, real news, Harry, what's his face?
Reid, Harry Reid?
Yeah, he had a pretty bad accident.
No, I didn't know that.
Yeah, his face, facial bones broken.
I missed this.
Okay, so here's the excuse du jour.
Harry Reid accident.
Hold on.
Well, you can read it.
I can share it with the dog.
Broke his ribs and facial bones when a piece of exercise equipment malfunctioned.
That's what they call it.
Exercise equipment malfunction during a workout at his Nevada home.
From what I understand, it was one of those rubber bands, and the rubber band snapped, and then he fell, and then something fell on top of him, but he broke his face.
That doesn't sound right.
It doesn't sound right at all.
Most of those rubber bands, as far as I know, I know that's the case with many of them.
When they break, they don't break violently.
No.
But even those things breaking, I don't think I have ever really heard of that happening.
A number of ribs and bones.
Isn't this maybe just a message?
This is definitely a message.
Wow.
Huh.
But he's outgoing.
He's outgoing, but he's still going to be in office.
Oh yeah, of course.
Of course.
Yeah.
Let's see.
What else?
Oh, yeah.
Also, just trying to get some analysis on...
You can't go to a website and look at anything before some damn video starts playing.
Yeah, well, you've got to use Ghostery or some of those blockers.
Yeah.
That's interesting that Harry Reid got beat up.
The first thing I thought was...
Sounds like a beatdown, too, because all the face and the rib.
Get a couple of rib shots with a baseball bat and then punch, punch, punch with a brass knuckles.
No kneecap, huh?
Next.
He is in Nevada, after all.
I think someone roughed him up.
Yeah, that's what I think.
It could be from some Nevada politics, though.
Nevada.
Could be local.
This International Criminal Court is back in the news again.
He also had bruising around the eyes.
Just exercise equipment, everybody.
Dislocate his shoulder.
No, no, wait a minute.
I'm sorry.
This is in 2011.
He also suffered major injuries while slipping and falling in the rain while running outside his Washington abode, resulting in a dislocated shoulder and a bruise around his left eye.
This guy's a magnet for something.
Wow.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Politics getting hard and heavy.
Yeah, I guess so.
The Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, signed the Rome Statute.
Which means the Palestinian Authority now is a member of the International Criminal Court.
And that will be their idea with this, of course, is to take Israeli officials to International Criminal Court.
This thing is very...
And let us reiterate, no one has ever been convicted in International Criminal Court.
I think there's not a single case.
It's just a threat.
One of these days.
Yeah.
One of these days.
One of these days, and it's going to be something screwy, like they're going to take the international court and they're going to make it so the euro has to abide by it, and then they're going to have, then the Europeans will be, then George Bush gets arrested.
I tell you, no, no.
I think it won't be for that.
It will be for citizens, you know, who use the internet to bully people.
Maybe.
Send you to the international criminal court.
Yeah.
Well, I don't see Dick Cheney in any hurry to go visit France.
That's for sure.
And then this non-story, which I'm surprised everyone kept sending this.
Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein.
This is two years old, this story.
That this Epstein had underage girls.
And Clinton was there too.
This is an old story.
I don't know why it's cropped up again.
Why is Clinton not being named again?
He was there.
The article I read, he was named.
Yeah, but the headline is Prince Andrew.
Yeah.
Well, Clinton's a good man.
Yes, he is.
This Epstein's no good, though.
Man, what a douche knuckle.
He's a pimp.
If only everybody knew how things really, really work.
If only we could get some of that once in a while.
That's not going to happen.
Besides that, it probably comes in with a little of the Harry Reid action.
We don't need that.
I have a...
Oh, actually, I do have a...
Just because it's Sunday.
Are you going up today?
No.
I'm going to 11th.
Watch it dirty, leave it tough on that.
iPhone schmy phone!
And I actually have news about a phone.
Okay.
This is just a commercial that I heard.
When I saw this commercial, I heard it.
My ears perked up.
That is part of the new commercial, a tease for the brand new Asus phone.
Now, of course...
What did it say?
Well, I had to listen to it a couple times because it's going pretty fast and it's not really a standard tone.
Optical zoom is what that spells out.
Oh, optical zoom.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
I found it fascinating that they used Morse code in a tease.
Just to get the worst kind of nerd.
I mean, seriously, hams are cheap bastards.
Yeah, hams aren't going to buy that phone.
Why would you do this?
This is free.
Or is this to get kids going, hey, wait a minute, that's Morse code.
I can probably find a translator on it.
I don't know.
Why would they do this?
Maybe to promote the use of Morse code.
This is what you've been doing.
I wish.
You've been promoting it.
I got all the way to Honolulu on sideband with a new test I'm doing with an indoor antenna.
You're going to get a QSL card?
Yeah, heck yeah.
Yeah.
The 10-meter band has been off the hook.
Conditions are great, John.
Skip is everywhere.
Huh.
All right.
Give me something to play out, man.
Let's go.
I'm falling apart here.
Well, here's the migrants on the boat story, which has a number of little details I found fascinating.
...with Europe being a preferred option for some Syrian refugees, but this inevitably puts a strain on host nations.
Italy is now processing the 360 Syrian migrants who survived a five-day ordeal aboard the cattle transporter Ezzeddin, which had been abandoned by its crew, to recount an incredibly difficult journey.
The Ezzedine lies finally in dock, the blankets of its migrant passengers strewn across the deck, but you need to go inside to get a proper look at the terrible conditions on board.
The Ezzedine is equipped to transport cattle, with cages open to the outside.
360 people crowded in here in the cold and wet.
Personal belongings lie abandoned.
A stairwell is littered with rubbish.
Downstairs, the hold, where many of the travellers huddled in darkness.
The crew abandoned ship mid-sea, leaving the bridge ransacked.
Arriving in the south of Italy on Friday night, the migrants were tired but relieved.
The passengers all from Syria were finally on dry land.
The evacuation took more than three hours.
The end of an ordeal.
How was the trip?
It's very difficult.
But I'm 11 days.
11 days?
But I'm 11 days.
Families travelling together, many of them with babies.
These people have gone five days without eating, without any electricity.
It was really grueling.
Many passengers say they boarded in Mersin in Turkey.
Human traffickers had organised the trip at a cost of several thousand dollars each.
I paid three thousand dollars.
I paid seven thousand.
Italian authorities have now taken the migrants to be housed in welcome centres spread throughout the country.
Wow.
Welcome centers.
Man, that's New World Order doublespeak.
Yeah, that's what I'd say.
Internment canister more like it.
Whatever the case, I thought this was the most interesting scheme.
So you buy this probably as a salvage boat that was a cattle carrier.
Yeah, these guys make like 2 million euros doing this.
No, they had 300 people into $7,000 a pop.
That would be...
I'm just reiterating Dutch news stories.
Oh, okay.
Maybe it was $2 million.
Whatever the case, they buy an old piece of crap, which is a cattle carrier, and load all these people in for between $3,000 and $7,000 a head.
And then they all get in, and then they start shipping them across the water.
It's a big boat.
It's not like one of these junkers, a little ferry or anything.
I guess it's seaworthy.
And then they abandon ship and set the course.
I guess another boat pulled up alongside, and they all bailed out.
They stole what they wanted to from the ship.
And then they jump on the little other boat, and off they go.
And the boat's now adrift in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Actually, I heard that it was not adrift.
They had it on some form of autopilot, and it was steering towards the Italian coast.
Well, with no pilot, nobody on it.
I would still call that adrift.
But yeah, that makes sense.
And so then they...
I guess the Italians got wind of what was going on and got somebody on board to stop the damn thing.
It was coming close toward the, I guess, reefs or something, or whatever, some rocks and...
I mean, this is a story in Italy, because Willow talks about this all the time whenever we email, especially Lampedusa.
People have no idea.
The Netherlands is turning people away, and Italy, I have to say, okay, well, we can't let these people just die, so they keep bringing them in.
You know, the Italians need immigration, big time.
They have the worst population numbers.
They need these people there to do the jobs that no one can do and that are, you know, they're not having babies.
It's a dead country.
Wow.
I think it's probably a positive thing for Italy.
Do you think they're having lots of sex, though?
On the boat?
No.
The Italians on the boat.
I would assume.
No babies?
I mean, I don't know.
They're probably having lots of sex, sure.
It's a hedonistic sex.
No babies wanted.
Yeah, but this is...
And these people are from Syria?
I think there's some...
Mostly Syria.
Also coming from Libya still, or only Syria?
Must be honest.
No, they portrayed it as Syria.
But then it was taking place...
This whole scam was being done in Turkey, so Turkey's somehow behind it.
Yeah.
Because they don't want these refugees.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Italians...
No, Turkey is notorious for...
Stay there.
See that line?
Stay on that side of the line.
No, Turkey is not really nice when it comes to that.
Where's Angelina Jolie?
She's about there.
She's the high representative for evacuees and refugees.
She's working on a movie.
She's got the chicken pox.
Alrighty, everybody.
Luckily, legislatures come back.
Things will be happening, and I'm keeping my eye on Greece.
I still have some doubts about this AirAsia.
I'm working on it.
I don't want to say anything yet, because I don't want to sound stupid, but...
The CEO is a little irksome.
You know what I mean?
No, I don't know what you mean.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Okay, well, I'm working on some stuff, aviation stuff.
And of course, as always, we will be using cross-disciplinary polymorphic analysis made possible by the analytics of the fusion of big data.
And analytical systems.
That will solve all attribution, and we'll do that for you on Thursday right here on the No Agenda Show.
Absolutely.
With some skip logic.
Yes.
Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the drone star state in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again Thursday.
Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. We'll be back Thursday right here...
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Ow! ISIS.
Ow!
We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS. I feel good.
It's real.
We resist.
We much.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
It's real.
I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.