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Com-com-ertage.
Adam Couric, John C. Devorak.
And Sunday, May 22nd, 2016.
Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 827.
This is no agenda.
This is no agenda.
Tracking CVRs, FBRs, and R.E. Tards.
And broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State here in Phoenix.
It takes Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm trying to get my modem connected.
I'm John C. Devorak.
It never fails.
It never fails.
The old guy with the modem gag.
Well, speaking of which...
Have you ever had those days, you would know this, have you ever had those days when you wake up and one or two of the tops of your fingers is numb?
No.
Oh.
Like it has...
I've had my hand, I wake up with my hand, the whole hand is numb in the arm.
Yeah, it's just my...
You gotta be careful, you gotta, you know, you gotta wait for it to get some circulation.
Well...
That's happened.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Well, my fingertips are just...
A couple of fingertips are...
Numb.
Numb.
Is that bad?
Does it go away?
Well, no.
I wouldn't bring it up if...
I don't know.
And it's really odd when you use a trackpad and your fingertips are numb.
You've probably given yourself something.
You've probably given yourself...
What?
A carpal tunnel.
Oh.
I don't know.
Do we have doctors that listen that can tell you you might have diabetes?
Diabetes.
Your blood pressure is exploding.
No, this could be anything.
You might die.
Calm down.
Exactly.
Hey.
Hey, what's up?
I give it to you.
What?
That Brexit movie.
Oh, you saw it.
Oh, what do you think?
God.
Brexit the movie is what we're talking about.
Yes, everyone should go watch that.
Well, the Brits should really be the ones watching it, but we should watch it too, because what's going to happen to them is going to happen to us.
Interesting you say that.
Of course, we're not going to leave the European Union.
What do you mean it's going to happen to us?
Well, they're going to not be able to leave.
They're going to be stuck.
We're going to be stuck in our North American thing.
Oh, in all of our treaties, yeah.
Yeah.
Of course.
This movie...
I will say, as a piece of propaganda, it had a couple weak spots.
One, glaring, luckily it was early in the movie.
But it had, it was such a good job.
I don't see how anybody who watches that movie would vote to stay in the EU. Right, even though a lot of it's based on a lie.
I mean, Britain will never become Switzerland.
No, that's just not in the cards.
They were just showing that you can do very well outside the EU. Yes, of course, of course.
And Norway's the same way, pretty much.
Of course, they never went into the EU. Right, that's a big difference.
So it was, I just thought, an outstanding piece of propaganda for the Leave campaign.
Yes.
But even when you see it, and it really shows how Britain became their own slave colony after World War I, where the government, you know, they had done all these things to keep the British people safe, including rationing.
And then when the war was over, not only did the rationing not stop, but all kinds of regulations and rules came in.
That is really what modern Britain is today.
And the comparison they make in this, what's called a movie, is with Germany after the Second World War, how Germany just dropped all regulations, go ahead, we've got to compete, go for it.
And now, of course, Germany is the powerhouse economically and from a production standpoint of the European Union.
And they show the contrast with the UK.
which I thought was well done.
That was really the strongest part of it, yes.
Anyway, I just was convinced that...
Maybe the culture's changed over there and they don't have the stiff upper lip anymore.
Who knows what.
But it's pretty pathetic.
Well, a letter was just sent from 250 British celebrities.
Let's see.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter.
And they signed a letter urging Britons to vote to remain in the European Union.
Wow.
Yeah, 250.
I can't even name 250 celebrities worldwide, let alone just UK celebrities.
Yeah, those are all big names that you listed.
Well, those are some of the big names.
They might as well be traders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because what they're doing is they're saying, what we want to do is stay in the EU, we want to give up our sovereignty, we don't want to be part of, we want to be part of something bigger, and let some other people tell us what to do and we'll do it.
Which is exactly the point the movie makes.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
I've been saying all along, even though I saw that movie, and I would say that if everybody watched the movie, they might just leave.
It appears that YouTube has been selectively removing it from playlists, etc., Which, it's always sketchy, and it's always, oh, they're censoring!
Which I'm not so sure of, but...
Well, Eric Schmidt is on the Council of Foreign Relations, notorious globalists that all swore an allegiance to a one-world government.
Now, what's interesting, I saw this show up in the newsletter that you sent about the Council on Foreign Relations, which my uncle is a member of the CFR. Did you know that before?
Yes, because every single time I've brought up the Council on Foreign Relations in our eight-year history together, your standard answer is, and I'll do it for you, drinking club.
Well, there's an element to that.
Oh, so you are changing your tune somewhat.
Well, here's the reason.
There was another...
I saw another documentary that was quite good.
Ah, what was this?
And it was the same...
Kind of this...
A little bit rehashing the same old conspiracy bullcrap about banks.
What was the name of the...
I'd have to get it.
I can't give it to you.
Something you probably popped up after you saw Brexit the movie.
Yes, because I was on...
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, hey, let me watch this one.
Oh, Flat Earth Theory.
Oh, keep watching YouTube.
No, you get on that stupid YouTube, and the next thing you know, you're watching all kinds of crazy stuff.
And I have it hooked up to the Fire TV, so it runs on television, and it's high definition, as far as I can tell.
It just looks good.
But then something ends, and then, oh, something new starts.
Like, oh, okay, well, that's kind of interesting.
Oh, wow.
NASA? It's all Nazis?
I have mine hooked to...
Roku has a YouTube channel, and you can watch HD movies off of the YouTube.
So it's not, you know, it's very available on the television now.
Yeah.
Oh, it is.
Totally.
And I have to say, they have a pretty compelling argument about how the technique everyone's trying to use that's in for the one world.
You find the same.
Here's what bothers me.
The names on the membership list.
Which is a big list.
There's way too many journalists on there.
And they're all well placed.
Most of the government officials, not all the government people, but a lot of the government people that are in points of power are on the list.
What's odd is I could swear that Aaron Burnett and Brolf And Brolf Witzer were both on that list in the past.
I don't know why this list did not include that.
There's a number of positions you can have that are short-term, like four years.
Ah, maybe that's it.
But I don't know whether she's on the list or not.
She's not on this list.
This is the 2014 list, which we'll have attached to the show notes.
People should just go through it.
You might have your next turn.
And my uncle's right there, prominent.
And then you have guys like Farid Zakaria, who talks about, let's get rid of the Constitution of the United States and come up with something better.
Or just give up.
He's on there.
I mean, the kind of people that are on there are all in on one-world government globalism.
Yeah.
Now, the level of drinking club, I'm not sure, but I do know that they don't have any problem hiding in plain sight, and all the policy notes are all in their magazine.
And if you start reading it, the foreign policy or foreign affairs, if you start reading it, you can see where things are headed.
And these are the guys who, I don't know, I think they've somehow been co-opted into creating these wars.
I think these are also the warmongers.
I don't know.
It's hard to say.
I know a lot of people aren't on there, and that's what's even more interesting.
I was just looking through clips while you were chatting away there, and I have something here from 2013.
Richard Haas, CFR on Zakaria.
As you were chatting away, what you found is CFR Zakaria.
I think so, yeah.
Machiavelli once said that you can tell somebody by the people he has around them, well, this character, the countries that are potentially willing to take them are essentially outliers.
I'm not sure what this is about.
Tells you something.
They're really outside.
To the extent there even is an international Oh, that was probably just Richard Haass on Fareed Zakaria.
They're not part of it.
This has turned into a farce, but we should not forget, wrapped around this farce, it's a tragedy.
This guy is not a whistleblower.
He's a felon.
He committed treason.
And what he did will make...
No, I don't...
Oh, wait, I have it here.
Spitzer...
It's on Snowden.
Yeah, this may be it.
Welcome back.
Still with us, Freed Zakari and Simon Sharma.
So, the Tea Party's invocation of the Constitution.
Nah, it's too long.
I will find it, though.
I bet you we have a clip of him saying the Constitution was no good or we should change it because it's outdated and arachnism.
I can never come up with a word.
Anachronism.
Anachronism.
That's funny you can't say it.
It's a block.
It's a mental block.
Yeah, it probably is.
Because even when I say the word anachronism, I see the spider.
So I know that I'm...
Halfway through the word, I get confused.
What spider?
Well, what is fear of spiders?
Arachnophobia.
Oh, arachnophobia.
Yeah, so when I say arachn...
See, I can't say it.
Anachronism.
There we go.
Anachronism.
Sorry.
That's what it is.
Anyway, let's go back to the Council on Foreign Relations.
So this group is...
This is the...
It's a very interesting situation to try to really deconstruct the world, one world government people who want to, and again, let me also stop right now, stop myself and mention that my thesis, that overriding thesis, is not about anything other than one thing only.
And I'm going to say it, at the end of the day, it's about people who are loaded with Wanting to make sure that they get to die with all their stuff.
That their shit doesn't get stolen.
Yes.
Their stuff doesn't get stolen.
Because these wars and these events and all these bad things that can happen.
Yeah.
If not done properly.
If not done properly.
Yes.
And it's often other rich people starting the wars.
To get the other rich people stuff.
Yes, the Germans were a good example of that.
I mean, the amount of truckloads, trainloads, trainloads of riches stolen from rich people.
Paintings, gold, jewelry.
Stolen from rich people just straight up is outrageous.
And this is a good reason to say, I think we should have one world government and so no more wars because that way you just have controlled little skirmishes or something like that.
The problem is, you know, this is not going to happen.
This is just a dream.
It's a pipe dream.
But in the meantime, the attempt to do it Screws everybody.
I mean, the American public in particular has been completely hosed.
No, it's interesting about this list.
Chelsea Clinton's on it, Bill Clinton's on it, but Hillary Clinton is not on it.
Yes, that's peculiar.
I don't know why.
I don't know what Chelsea Clinton's doing on it.
Bill Gates is not on it, but Warren Buffett is on it.
Okay.
Balmer's not on it.
Barry Ellison's not on it.
You do not want Balmer in your drinking club.
The guy drinks everything.
We don't want it.
Hurst is not on it.
Well, he's your friend.
The whole Hearst family.
That's why he's out.
He's out of the Council on Foreign Relations.
It's all over.
The whole group of them don't seem to be on it.
I have to look at some of the board members.
But who's not on it is kind of as interesting as who's on it.
But the people that are on it are genuine.
They pledge allegiance to the One World Government.
Well, I'm glad to have you in the club, John.
This is what I've been saying for years.
Yeah, you've been saying it for years and I've been pushing it off as a drinking club.
It's a drinking club plus.
Well, it may not even be a drinking club.
Diane Sawyer's on it.
Paula Zahn.
Diane Sawyer's on it.
It's definitely a drinking club.
It's a good example of a drinking club.
What are you talking about?
Diane Sawyer, really?
Yeah, she's on it.
Paula Zahn, of all people, are on it.
And this just in tonight.
No, that's not the one.
That's where she's drunk.
Was it Drunk Again?
Dying Sorry for Drunk Again?
It's a very interesting list of people.
There's a lot of them.
Here it is.
Drunk Again.
Drinking sorry and dying drunk again.
Paula Zahn.
I have an autographed photo from Paula Zahn.
You do?
Yes, with her cello.
She's a cellist.
Oh, well, it's good for her.
And I met her back in the MTV days, and I kind of had the hots for her, I think.
Well, she was a cutie.
She played cello.
Hello?
Yeah.
Into those bass notes.
Speaking...
Oh, man.
It was a New York Times article.
You were talking about rich people stuff and, you know, it kind of ties into this, let's see, Bill Weld, who was running as...
Now, is he running as Gary Johnson's The running mate.
Yes, I think he is.
Oh, is that who it is?
Because I don't know who his running mate is.
Yeah, I think that's him.
And he was quoted in the New York Times saying, I can hear the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna when I hear Donald Trump talking about deporting 11 million immigrants.
And this interview was used on the face bag over the weekend extensively, extensively to prove that Donald Trump is creating the Weimar Republic and we're all going to kill at least one group.
It's not the Jews this time, it's the Muslims.
And, you know...
I thought we had gotten beyond the whole Hitler thing.
And you got Jews, I know Jews, I know, who are saying, yes, this is exactly the same.
It's like, no, it's not.
Exactly the same.
It's nowhere near exactly the same.
But then there's, and this is probably coming from, I don't know, this may be Hillary's techno experts.
So then they, here's how it works.
You point to this story in the New York Times, and then you link in the text of your story, and I've seen this a couple times, Say, well, yes, this is exactly the way it was.
Do you recognize any of these?
And then you click to this link called the Good German Syndrome.
And it says here, people still blame Germans for allowing Hitler to do the evil that he did, and in particular for pretending not to see the Holocaust as it occurred around them.
Germans at the time thought.
So you're supposed to read this list and go, oh, it's exactly the same right now!
So let's try it out, shall we?
Love to.
Germans at the time thought I didn't vote for him.
Most people don't support him.
I engaged in some forms of protest.
Although the forms of protest I engaged in were mocked and derided by the government and by those in the media, I did everything I could do and I felt good about myself as I protested.
Now this one already breaks down.
Since when has the government mocked and derided people protesting Donald Trump?
I don't even know what is this supposed to be.
None of this is true.
That's why I want to continue this list.
You know who did this?
Dave Weiner tweeted this in his blog post.
Oh yeah, Dave Weiner is so in on Hillary.
But he's a Jew, he should know better than this.
This is just simply not true.
People have a poor understanding of history.
Anyway, so I don't understand that one.
They don't want an understanding of history.
If it weren't for the fact that the government would arrest and possibly kill me, I would have done more.
I mean, it's not the government.
I guess this is saying, if Donald Trump is elected, then you're going to be arrested and killed if you protest.
Seriously?
I didn't see anything directly, so I wasn't sure of how bad it actually was.
People in high positions of high authority convinced me that whatever they were doing was for the best.
That sounds like the Democratic Party.
Sounds like they'll abolish me.
It does.
How many whistleblowers have they thrown in the slammer?
Really?
I live in a...
Twist this around a little bit and look at reality.
Here, check this out.
I live in a civilized, democratic country.
Certainly the most civilized and democratic that has ever been.
And my country wouldn't do evil things.
I think everyone in America knows we already do evil things.
We just choose not to talk about it.
Yeah, it sounds to me as though we're talking about current events, not Trump.
And by the way, Switzerland's much more democratic and civilized than we are by a lot.
Don't kid yourself.
Yeah.
Well, they have this referendum thing, which is way cool.
Where, you know, what do they have to have?
It's not a lot of signatures.
I think it's 40 or 50,000.
And then the government has to vote and they have to act.
There's a referendum.
And whatever the outcome of the referendum is, constitutionally, the government has to act on that.
So they let them run everything.
But then when something they feel is important, hey, you know, we'll go direct democracy.
Speaking of democracy, and I apologize in advance for...
Weaseling in on your beat here, but it was so refreshing to hear this on Democracy Now, which to me has always been cringeworthy to watch.
I don't know how you'd do it.
And Amy Goodman is really...
She's turning up the vocal fry these days.
Have you noticed?
She's falling apart.
Stop, you're right.
She's falling apart.
She's falling apart, I tell you.
She had on Bob McChesney...
Yeah.
Oh, Bob McChesney.
Yeah, I saw this, actually.
This was actually a decent interview.
Yes, yes.
Yeah, McChesney was, uh, has really...
Are you familiar with him?
You know this guy?
You know McChesney?
Yeah.
Any relation to Kenny?
No, and he's no relation to the other McChesney that's on PBS a lot.
Kenny McChesney.
Yeah, I got Kenny McChesney.
Yeah.
But, so he's a professor.
Hold on a second.
Well, you're doing that.
Let me get the list of counsel out and look up my chest.
Ah, now you're talking.
Hold on.
We have to start doing this routinely.
Yeah.
Well, we could also...
Book of Knowledge.
Oh, the Book of Knowledge is down.
Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, she's having trouble.
Book of Knowledge.
Oh.
Book of Knowledge.
Disconnected from Bluetooth.
Oh, what?
Book of Knowledge!
Wikipedia, Robert Chesney.
Robert M. Chesney is an American lawyer and the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, where he serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and teaches courses relating to U.S. national security and constitutional law.
I don't think it's the same guy.
Yeah, it is.
That's the guy.
Sure?
Yeah, he's a professor.
Yes, this is the guy.
I know, he's a professor.
Okay, anyway, he's not a member of the...
Okay, so he could be one of the good guys.
He does a nice deconstruction.
Right there on Democracy Now!
The only thing he didn't do was call out Amy Goodman personally.
He could have done that.
He just says how...
Actually, he talks a lot like us.
This election cycle, we're the happiest we've ever been.
I mean, it's sad what's taking place.
But the opportunity to not only uncover what is really being said and what is really driving people, but then to just have this barrel full of fish of media lying, covering up, protecting corporate interests is a beautiful time to be alive.
Yeah, and what's curious to me is that occasionally people misinterpret our intentions.
Well, this is the illness we have to deal with.
And this is, at our level, imagine when you're really in mainstream media, it's a wall of sick.
A wall of sick.
Nick Chesney and John Nichols recently co-wrote the book People Get Ready, The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
This, by the way, is a book I've ordered.
I can't wait to read that.
People Get Ready.
I'm guaranteeing it's depressing.
Well, yes, that's why I can't wait to read it.
Let me hear that again.
People Get Ready, The Jobless Economy.
What is it?
McChesney and John Nichols recently co-wrote the book, People Get Ready, The Fight Against a Jobless Economy in a Citizenless Democracy.
Yes!
That's the future.
Damn it, he stole the title of my book.
So what do you think of the media's coverage of this presidential race?
Well, it's been deplorable, even by the standards that we've talked about this in past years, grading with the curve, allowing for bad coverage as a rule.
This has been, I think, an all-time low by mainstream corporate media and NPR.
I'd toss right in there.
You know, you have in the Sanders campaign, whatever one might think of Sanders, As a journalist, you're looking at one of the most extraordinary political stories in decades that's come along.
You have someone who's galvanized young support on really an entirely different vision of our society like no other candidate again in decades.
If as a journalist you'd think this would be heaven on earth, this is the greatest story you could possibly have to cover.
You'd look to the sky and say, thank you for putting me here in 2016.
Yes, this is what I do every Thursday and Sunday.
I look up at the sky and say, thank you.
Thank you for putting me here.
Yeah, what we've seen is the Sanders campaign's been largely neglected.
All the data shows that it's barely covered.
And the coverage and the framing of it has been largely through the eyes of the establishment through the Hillary Clinton campaign.
This guy's a nuisance.
He's a pain in the butt.
He's getting in the way in front of the real candidate, the presumptive nominee.
Presumptive going back to the very beginning.
And when you see Sanders or one of your surrogates on the air, generally the tenor of the question is, what would Hillary's people want to ask him?
You know, it's never like, let's take these people on their own terms.
So you put it all together, it's been pretty distressing and a source, I think, of frustration for a lot of people that they've not really had a fair hearing and a fair exposure to people who rely upon cable news networks and the mainstream media to learn about politics.
The other issue that's really crucial here, and it gets to the Nevada issue, is that it's also brought to the front just how little actual journalism goes on in American mainstream journalism, how much of it is simply regurgitating what people in power tell them, how much of it is simply predictions that are mindless.
You know, there's all sorts of crucial issues everywhere you turn that journalists should be diving into, looking at, like the claims about Nevada.
We had all this reporting about purported threats and violence in Nevada, but it was all based on basically taking at face value the words of one side and dismissing the words of the other side.
This is videotape.
They could actually go in and interview people, talk to people, and get to the bottom of it before they announce the result.
Well, that would make no sense.
You can't be doing journalism.
Stupid professor.
Might interfere with Hillary's taking over the place.
You know, it came too early.
This is not the event.
This is not the October surprise, obviously, because it's in May.
But boy, did Donald Trump grab MS-804 by the horns.
So today we had a terrible tragedy, and she came up and she said that Donald Trump talked about radical Islamic terrorism, which she doesn't want to use.
She used a different term.
Because she doesn't want to use that term.
She refuses to use that term.
And I'm saying to myself, and it's a terrible thing, and he essentially shouldn't be running for office.
He doesn't have the right to run for office.
And I'm saying to myself, what just happened about 12 hours ago?
A plane got blown out of the sky.
And if anybody thinks it wasn't blown out of the sky, you're 100% wrong, folks, okay?
You're 100% wrong.
Here's Trump doing a media trick.
Here he is.
This was way before even any so-called wreckage was found.
Then he's just planting this in everybody's head.
Because that one attack on U.S. soil or one of our allies, Egypt doesn't really count.
Europe would be better.
And the guy's in.
And the guy's in.
Well, I think it's interesting how they, after he made these commentaries, that they, all of a sudden, out of the blue and bingo, they changed the narrative to being a fire on board.
Ah, ah, ah, hold on.
Let's just do one more thing before we get to that.
We'll wrap up this segment about media, poor media.
Here's Hillary Clinton responding to Donald Trump and his tweeting.
And just listen to what she brings into it.
Without any interruption, any stopping.
Like, hold on, Madam Secretary, that's not exactly the way it went.
Well, first of all, he says a lot of things.
He says a lot of things that are provocative, that actually make the important task of building this coalition, bringing everybody to the table, and defeating terrorism more difficult.
Well, for example, when he says, bar all Muslims from coming to the United States, that sends a signal to majority Muslim nations, many of whom we have to work with in order to defeat terrorism, some of whom are already among our strongest allies in this fight.
It sends a message of disrespect, and it sends a message that makes the situation inside those countries more difficult.
For them to go all in the way we need them to go all in.
To the Americans that that message resonates with, where they say, well, these attackers always do seem to be Muslim, and they're coming in here, and Comey, who's in charge of vetting them, says he can't vet them.
Trump calls for a temporary ban.
It seems to make sense to people.
Does it make sense to you?
No, not at all.
I mean, let's remember what he's called for and to sort of break it up.
All right, let's break it up.
She means break it down, but she's going to break it up.
He has said all Muslims should be barred from coming into the United States.
All Muslims.
No.
Nobel Prize winners.
Entertainers.
Listen to this.
Nobel Prize winners.
Entertainers.
Sports stars.
You name it.
The new mayor from London.
All Muslims should be barred.
Now, when confronted with the new mayor from London, who, as you know, is the first Muslim elected to be mayor of London by the people of London, he says, well, I'll make an exception for him.
I mean, the whole approach is just incredibly provocative and wrong.
I think this has all been hashed out and that this is obviously about unknowns, but okay.
And look what he's done just in the last week.
All right, here we go.
He has attacked our closest ally, Great Britain.
Did you see him flying the drone?
No.
He attacked our closest ally.
What a douche.
Does he have an army?
I guess.
I don't know what he did.
What did he do to attack our closest ally?
Just in the last week, he has attacked our closest ally, Great Britain.
He has praised the reckless dictator in North Korea.
No, he didn't.
He called the guy a nutjob.
Yeah, he called the guy a nutjob.
How is that praising him?
He actually called the guy a nutjob.
Yeah.
This woman is unbelievable.
And Cuomo just sits there and does not contest it.
No, of course not.
He's all in.
Is Cuomo on the list?
Let me look on the list while you're doing that.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, that would make sense, wouldn't it?
He may or may not be.
What was it she just said here?
Hold on a second.
He has attacked our closest ally, Great Britain.
He has praised the reckless dictator in North Korea.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I think...
I thought we had clips from that.
Didn't we have from the previous show?
What?
Trump saying he was a nutjob?
Scott Cuomo was the only Cuomo.
So there's something there.
Yeah, there was something.
I don't have the clip list.
But there was something in North Korea.
It would be North Korea something or other.
If you can find it.
North Korea...
Anyway, another one I'll look for.
Let's continue.
He has said we should pull out of NATO, our strongest military alliance.
He never said that.
He never said that.
He didn't say that.
What he said was, if NATO falls apart, he said something that indicated he didn't care much about NATO. What he said was they should pull out.
What he said was they need to pay their fair share.
Yeah, that too.
Here it is.
Well, I think it's a serious problem because he's probably on the wacky side.
He certainly could be a total nutjob.
Yeah, sounds like he was praising him to me.
He has advocated...
If you're in the nutjob division, maybe it is.
Strongest military alliance.
He has advocated for more countries having nuclear weapons.
No, he hasn't.
He said, look, if they don't want to pay us to protect them, then maybe they should do that themselves.
That kind of unpredictable...
dangerous rhetoric and the policies that he throws out there for whatever hope he has to get people to respond to him make us less likely that we're going to be as effective as we need to be going forward in assuaging the concerns of people that we want to be working with us to deal with this threat.
Okay, fine.
So there you go.
Just wanted to let you hear it.
And that's just how it works.
Those things will stick around forever.
They will never go away.
The problem is her supporters are lockstep and people don't like her, don't like her, no matter what she says.
She's very ineffective.
By the way, I'm looking down this list again.
I hate to keep changing back to this.
This is just going to be a one-time thing.
Why is Chelsea Clinton on the Council of Foreign Relations in the first place?
Because she is part of the Clinton Foundation now.
Her name is on the Clinton Foundation.
There's plenty of Foundation members that are here and there and they're not on this thing.
She's being groomed, John.
She's being groomed.
Somebody has to take over the family business.
Well, I give up.
Clooney.
Oh!
Why is Clooney?
George Clooney, an actor.
Why is he on the Council of Foreign Relations?
Is Angelina Jolie on it?
She must be.
She must be.
She might have got him on.
I have to go look.
This thing is huge.
I want to get into MS-804.
I know you have clips, which I want you to...
Well, I have one clip that I think is a good intro.
I have a clip that made a good intro clip.
Maybe a little better.
This is the ground zero moment, which came very early on.
This is three days ago.
And before, there's still not, as far as I know, I haven't looked at the news in the past half hour, but as far as I know, there's still no actual data.
And we can get into that.
But the narrative immediately went to act of terror.
Oh, it must be act of terror.
It could be a lot of things at this point, but still act of terror.
And this was passed down from U.S. officials, unnamed officials.
This was a story that was given to the news media.
And you can hear it happening in this segment from CNN with Brooke, whatever her name is.
And we are now also getting word from U.S. officials who say their early theory is that the bomb, indeed, told.
I presume that they got this from somebody.
When they say U.S. officials and they don't mention the name, then that's a leak and that's intended to be a leak.
It's not just some...
I'm pretty sure that these are leaks.
Yeah, they were called up.
And not some staffer's assistant.
These are real leaks.
They got a call and here's what we're being told.
But it's interesting how Brooke and whoever the reporter is in this segment kind of question it.
Offhandedly.
And we are now also getting word from U.S. officials who say their early theory is that the bomb indeed took this plane down.
For more on this revelation, let's go to our justice correspondent, Evan Perez.
Tell me why, Evan, U.S. Intel believes this was likely an act of terror.
Well, Brooke, it's partly because of things that they are not seeing.
You know, this is one of a theory that's based really right now on a lack of information.
They don't have a lot of information to go on.
So no information is a terror!
I'll tell you this, they've looked at the idea of perhaps some kind of mechanical failure, and given the fact that this is a fairly new aircraft, it appears to be very well maintained, the fact that there was no Again, told by authorities this aircraft is unsinkable.
The plane is designed to keep flying, certainly at 37,000 feet.
That's the expectation.
There's a lot of suspicion here now simply because of the circumstances we're talking about.
Not only the security situation in Egypt with the rise of an ISIS affiliate there, We've had multiple terrorist attacks there.
We've had concerns about the Paris airport.
It is generally viewed as a very secure place, but that is most likely where investigators are going to start.
They're going to start looking at the people who want access to this aircraft.
Okay, so short follow-up.
You heard the question, explain to me exactly why the U.S. believes it was terrorism?
And the reporter says, well, because they have no information.
That's why it's automatically terrorism.
But the follow-up from that also came early on, right after this, from the Egyptian foreign minister or minister of travel, Who made it very clear?
The Minister of Travel, as I recall.
Yeah.
But if you listen to the nuance and listen to the context in when he said it, it is not the weight the news media gave to what this man said.
There's no way in proportion to what he actually said.
If you analyze the situation properly, the possibility of Having a different action or having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical...
So what he's saying is, if you evaluate the situation properly, the possibility of this being a terrorist attack is higher than it being a technical malfunction.
Yeah, mean time between failures.
Yeah, I mean, sure that's true.
Of course that's true.
But, you know, that's also true that more people die in the shower than from terrorism.
That's for sure.
So, you know, he puts an interesting twist on this and says, well, air travel, he doesn't say it, but air travel is so safe that, you know, logically, if you're 37,000 feet and all of a sudden you're off the radar, then the facts point to it probably being more likely terrorism.
He was responding to a question, of course.
But it did not warrant, in my opinion, the news media to say, Oh, it's terrorism!
Besides what the defense officials told the news media to say.
And then I want to slide into your clips.
Well, okay.
But before we do, we need to remind everybody of something extremely important, and I need to read this.
Tina did not know about this.
So I had to dig up the article from...
Hold on a second.
The article is from, I think, 2008.
Yes, April 19th, 2008.
For those of you who are now watching this coverage on CNN, you will see Richard Quest.
He's the British guy who is the aviation expert.
At CNN. Your favorite guy.
Yes, and here's why.
This is the report from April 19, 2008.
CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law enforcement sources said.
Ahem.
Quest, 46, was arrested around 3.40 a.m.
after a cop spotted him and another man inside the park near 64th Street, a police source said.
The criminal complained against Quest and said the park was closed at the time, something Quest should have known because of all the signs saying park closed 1 a.m.
to 6 a.m.
Quest was initially busted for loitering.
Aside from the oddly configured rope, the search also turned up a sex toy inside one of his boots and a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket.
It wasn't immediately clear what the rope was for.
So here's a guy who has...
Who has a rope around his neck and around his genitals, has a dildo in his boot, and the criminal complaint says the officer at the scene was able to ID the drug because of his, quote, prior experience as a police officer in drug arrests, observation of packaging, which is characteristic of this type of drug, and the defendant's statements, who, as they were leading out of the park, said, I've got some meth in my pocket!
So...
Please enjoy these jollies whenever you see him talking about aviation on CNN. I just can't.
Just always imagine him with that rope.
Roger's neck.
All right.
I, of course, have done my research on the topic.
So you tell us how you want to get in and what you want.
What do you want to know?
What are you learning?
What am I learning?
What are you learning, John?
I was hoping, I was just going to wait for you to roll this out.
Oh, I can.
Oh, I can.
I thought you had clips that you wanted to talk about.
Oh, no, I have a couple clips.
I just wanted to...
Where are my clip lists here?
I've got a mess on my desk.
Because I've set us all up, and now I'm going to get into what we actually know.
But if you have some clips you want to...
Well, I just wanted to get the introduction clips out of the way, but I don't know if I really need to.
Let's take a look.
Um...
The one thing I did want to mention is that I had clips and then...
Here, play this one.
This is the last playing clip.
This is the fire story that just came up.
I played...
I recorded clips from like a day ago.
Then last Friday or even Saturday, the story changed, which I found distressing.
And now they're like so adamant about it, CBS in particular.
But here, play this.
This is the last...
This is the ABC clip.
This is the last...
Turn to another breaking headline at this hour, this one involving the crash of that passenger jet, Egypt Air Flight 804.
Tonight, there are now reports that there might have been smoke and a fire on board in the moments before that jet vanished from radar.
The red-eye flight from Paris to Cairo disappearing from radar about 175 miles off the coast of Egypt.
ABC's David Curley this evening on the signal sent minutes before that jet went down.
This jetliner apparently sent data before disappearing, suggesting there was smoke and possibly fire in the all-important equipment compartment.
The Airbus A320 had a data transmission system known as ACARS, which sent signals of smoke in the lavatory and avionics smoke, which would be the equipment bay below the forward lavatory, a bay that contains the jet's electronics, which control the entire aircraft.
This is a major clue as to what happened.
This is a major clue.
I would personally say at this point, I'm going to come off the bomb theory and I'm going to say that this was a mechanical failure caused by a fire.
The messages obtained by the website Aviation Herald and not confirmed by ABC were over a three minute period before all the data stopped.
That's when the jet plunged into the sea.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, this is bullshit.
Well, what do you think they did that for?
Well, okay.
Let me give you the data points that we know of.
First of all, what we absolutely do not have is any actual radar data.
Everything you've seen on television is not radar data.
None of it.
Because the only radar data, as far as we know, that exists is in hands of the Greeks.
And they have only told us that they saw the plane.
And when they say that, what they're really saying is the transport, you know...
And I don't even know if they mean that in this case, but I would presume they say the transponder, but if it's actual radar data, then maybe they see a blip.
Of the aircraft turning 90 degrees right, and then left, and then 360 right, which, believe me, that's no maneuver that you practice at almost 500 miles an hour.
It's just not one you do.
So we've only heard this, and people are drawing graphs, and CNN has their 3D studio showing how...
No, it could have been just...
A ping or a transponder or a piece of equipment floating in the air does not mean the plane actually did that.
The first thing that bothered me, and I got a lot of this data early on, is that they were talking about this being a Boeing 737, which is the equipment used regularly on this flight.
There's about four flights a day.
And it's almost like an easy jet deal where you fly the plane from Cairo to France and Paris and then Paris back to Cairo.
And so they were reporting this was a Boeing 737 before they said, no, wait a minute.
Actually, the company said, Egypt Air said, no, it was an Airbus 320.
There was a switch of equipment.
And it may have been planned.
I've been hunting around.
I've asked questions.
I can't get any answers to this.
But typically, if you have a crew that's ready to fly at 737, if the crew is also checked out on a different aircraft type, which may be true for flight attendants, but flight deck, certainly not all pilots are certified and can switch back and forth.
At a moment's whim.
It had to have been a scheduled change, I think, but it's out of the ordinary.
In addition to that, when you have 55 passengers and you have three Sky Marshals, which we've heard nothing about since we found out that there were three Sky Marshals on board.
Good point.
We have not heard anything about the three Sky Marshals.
Very irritating.
It could have been two Sky Marshals and a special secret shopper they were taking somewhere.
I don't know.
But not hearing anything more about that is problematic.
Then we go on to, we found the wreckage.
This actually happened while we were doing the show on Thursday.
And, oh, we found the wreckage, and then it was, oh, no, that's not the wreckage from flight MS-804.
What was the wreckage of then?
We never heard that.
Usually it's like, oh, it was something else.
It may have been from a ship.
They could have said anything they wanted to, but now authorities say it's not the right wreckage.
What was it?
I only say this because there was, unfortunately, the day before the final naval training With Egypt and Greece, an Egyptian-Greek maritime military exercise held in Egyptian regional waters on the beaches of Alexandria concluded Monday, according to Armed Forces Spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammed Samir.
You know, it could have just been that maybe someone was flying back, or God knows what, it could have been a mid-air collision.
Just by not telling us what the actual debris was, it doesn't help understanding what happened.
And then they show the debris they have found.
Give me a break.
So there's like five torn t-shirts, a purse, and then a beautifully laid out, completely...
Pristine condition.
Even the straps are...
I don't think this thing was even wet.
A yellow life preserver that says Egypt Air on it.
Everything's tattered and torn and this thing is laid out perfectly as if you'd taken out of the bag and laid it on the deck of the ship.
Not to bring in conspiracy theories, but I just don't see it.
Now, the Arcas stuff.
Every commercial aircraft has an ACAR system, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System.
And it sends messages that are an aggregate of lots of log files.
The Airbus is completely fly-by-wire.
A hundred different systems all have to work pretty much in concert.
For the plane to function properly.
But the ACARS messages don't tell us that there was a fire.
No, it is, in fact, these messages will typically come after there are multiple sensors that can sense condensation, which they could also mistake for smoke.
So if there was a decompression...
Which is a bad event at that speed, at that altitude, then you would have received the same type of message that there was something detected.
It doesn't necessarily mean smoke.
Then you get messages all the way forward where the right window opened, the left window opened.
That is immediately concluded somehow to be, oh, there must have been smoke.
What, are they sticking their heads out the window at 500 miles an hour?
Yeah, okay, I think not.
But that's the stupid reporting we get.
But more likely is that is the aircraft breaking up in flight.
There's a lot of...
So we really don't have any information, but these are the data points that we do have.
And I still need to see some actual wreckage.
It would be nice to have the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder.
That will help us a lot.
Although these days, the past, what, six major incidents, nothing is ever released.
Oh, we can't let you hear the guy committing suicide on the plane because it would be too jarring.
Remember all that?
And this is an odd airline.
They've had a lot of problems, including that fake terrorist that everyone was taking selfies with.
That was also Egypt era, wasn't it?
I don't remember.
I think it was.
I think it was.
That's funny.
And they've had, go back in the 80s or 70s, they've had hijackings and people got killed as security forces went in.
So there's some issues.
And then the most egregious part, and talk about timing, the TSA is like, oh, well, I mean, you know, you really want to be safe, don't you?
So I'm sorry about the three-hour lines that you're waiting in, but come on, this is for your safety.
And we need more canines.
Canines.
We need more canines.
Why?
Now, also, as far as I know, we've had...
So I'd like to know more...
I'd like to have a passenger manifest.
I saw CNN or MSNBC do a...
Let's take a moment of silence and remember the crew when they put up, you know, the ten names.
But I'd like to know a bit more about the passengers and about the Sky Marshals and, you know, what was going on with that.
But why has no terrorist organization claimed this?
Yeah, that would have been done by now.
I mean, but the question remains.
Even if I'm bullcrap ISIS, why, if no one's coming out and saying, hey, we did this, but everyone's saying it's an act of terror, why wouldn't you just say, yeah, booyah!
We did that shit!
Yes, exactly.
In fact, I thought about that myself.
If something bad happens like this, and you're one of these dozens or two dozens of terrorist organizations sitting around here and there, you look left, you look right, you look left, you go, did you do this?
No, I didn't do it.
Well, let's take credit for it.
Let's give it a day and take credit for it.
Yeah.
So why don't they do that?
Somebody should have done it.
Well, to me, it means that it's the same people saying things and not saying things.
This makes no logical sense in a war of ideology, a war of internet, a war of tweeters, a war of information, that no one would take this and just go ahead and grab it?
And claim it?
What was I watching?
I watched The Correspondents.
Have you seen that movie, Ricky Gervais?
No.
So they're radio correspondents, and they are supposed to go to Nicaragua and report on an uprising.
Long story short, they wind up not being able to go, so they kind of fake it like Peter Arnett in Iraq, those videos on YouTube, if you've never seen them, in front of a green screen.
But this audio, so it's like us.
Like, we do our reports.
They sound pretty damn accurate.
Yeah.
What was my point?
I was going to say something about that.
Something about a fake...
Right, right.
So why isn't ISIS... Maybe it is controlled by CIA. They're telling everyone, shut up about this.
This is not yours to grab.
We've got to put this on something else.
Someone's controlling that message.
Yes.
It just makes no sense.
You're right, because if this wasn't a controlled message, they would have just blurted out that they did it.
Of course.
Of course.
Yeah, that's actually a very interesting point.
The message is so controlled coming out of ISIS that it's very suspicious.
And I'll give you another piece of messaging which kind of floored me as we've been waiting for something to happen in Europe again.
So there's a new...
And of course it came to us from Sight Intelligence Group.
There is a new Rita.
Rita Katz.
New video of not one, not two, but there are three...
Beheadings.
Actually, there's one beheading, one shooting in the head, and one killing with a rock to the head.
And it's a beautifully produced video, once again.
Slow-mos, long distance, you know, focus.
What do you call it?
But the depth of field, you know, is beautifully pulled.
Bokeh.
Bokeh, is that what it's called?
B-O-K-E-H. Bokeh.
Which means your subject also has to stand on his or her mark, you know, otherwise you can ruin that pretty quickly, so...
Well done, well produced.
Change, although they still have beautiful brand new prisoner outfits on, we've gone from orange to blue.
Change of format.
And I think this is significant.
We need to keep our eye on it.
It probably is code.
So it's kind of a light, like a sky blue, really.
Now, a little darker than a sky blue, but it's very blue.
Not dark blue, but blue as in a lightish blue.
He must have been getting some sort of reflections or shadows that were on the orange that had a hint of green, the shadows that have a hint of green on an orange background, and that would screw up the green screen.
Ah, could be.
But I don't think this is green screen.
What they've done now, in the first video, it kind of looks like the same guy.
They're hostage.
He's not a famous reporter or westerner or anything like that.
It's just some stand-in stunt guy.
No SAG-AFTRA. This is not a union gig, this one.
There's no speaking rule.
At least not audibly.
So in the first video, they're cutting his head off.
Now, this is, if you really, and it's in the show notes, of course, 827.noagendanotes.com.
Look at the tubes.
One is spouting blood, and the other one is out of his neck as they're pushing this knife in.
It's supposed to be sprouting blood, but it's a pure clean liquid coming out of it, just spewing.
And I think maybe they had the wrong bag attached or something, because I don't know of any...
They could have re-shot that.
What do you mean?
They could have re-shot...
I don't know.
It looked good, but that was a real giveaway.
Like water.
What?
Water?
Yeah, so there's one...
He's cutting in his neck, and then you see some red blood spewing out of one tube.
You see the tube, actually.
And then there's a tube under it and it's spewing water.
Just clear liquid.
There's no clear liquid that goes to your head.
Is there?
No.
Oh, no.
The guy sweats a lot.
And then the second one, you see the guy sitting, and then you see a close-up of the guy shooting him with an AK, and you see explosions around him on the ground, and then he's down, and then you see a whole new shot where his entire head, the guy's bald, looks like it's made of rubber, and And then there's a big hole in it, and then four feet further up, there's a little glob of what is supposed to be his brain.
No stem, nothing attached to it, just a glob of hamburger meat that blew his brain out.
And then the third one, which is really the most disturbing but the most well done, is a bludgeoning with stoning the guy to death.
On his head and be whacking him really hard.
And then they did some pretty good stuff with a whole piece that is opened on his head, but not in.
Like it would happen with a rock, but it's opened up.
It's all these fabulous things.
It's gruesome.
Yeah, if you're a fan of cinema, you'll enjoy looking at their quality and also some of their rookie mistakes.
But then right after that, they've got this jihadi coming on.
And I'm looking at the subtitles.
What is this guy talking about?
And all of a sudden, I start to understand what he's saying, John.
He said, this is a message in Dutch to all the Muslims in Europe, especially in the Netherlands.
Now, there's some Arabic, which I don't understand.
He's going very fast, but he's saying this is what happens when you don't live according to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad's wish.
You have been ordered to do this.
But anyway, all of a sudden this guy is speaking in...
It could be...
It sounds really like a Dutch guy, not like a Belgian.
And he's saying, hey, this is all going to happen to you.
Attention, the Netherlands.
He said it twice, specifically for the Netherlands.
And anyone brought this up at all?
You're kidding.
I haven't heard anyone bring it up.
Maybe it'll be big news tonight.
I don't know.
Any Dutch people in the chat room will let me know, but I don't think so.
Predictive programming, whatever it is, but just to switch into this small country's language, the peace-loving nation of Gitmo Nation Lowlands...
Huh.
Wow.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Very disturbing.
On many levels and dimensions.
Well, remember, all we need is one in Europe to secure the Brexit.
A good one.
Make it the UK. Um...
Alright.
The only other thing that happened during all of this melee is a little underreported item.
Families of victims of damn Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have launched a lawsuit against Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.
The legal action filed in the European Court of Human Rights is seeking almost 9 million euros in compensation for each passenger killed.
In all, 33 next of kin from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia You gotta love it.
You gotta love it.
Yeah, you gotta love it.
So they're suing Russia and Vladimir Putin, even though there still has not been a conclusive report with radar imaging, etc.
But hey, that Dutch guy, that Max Verstappen, he sure did beat everyone's ass with Formula One.
They're still celebrating.
Oh, he did a 45-minute interview on live TV. Forget how you're being screwed, people.
This is a prime example.
Why would you have a 45 minute interview with a car driver?
He's a hero.
What he did is crazy.
Just the margin that he won by.
Yeah, it happens once in a while.
It was a horse race this weekend, too.
Also, the MS804, it disappeared on the 33rd parallel, which is just annoying to me.
33rd parallel.
Yes, it did.
It's super annoying.
I hate it when that happens.
Yes, the 33rd thing has always been annoying.
It's our bane.
So that's where we're at.
When more comes out, I'll know, but everything you're hearing right now is just conjecture and information told by officials that they're supposed to say.
Of course, we'd never want to implicate Airbus as being a plastic airplane that has lots of wires attached to it that the pilots are barely flying themselves.
Sorry, I'm biased.
Of course we couldn't have that.
But I'd like to have those two questions answered.
Why the equipment changed?
Because that could show a setup.
And why three sky marshals?
Why?
Where was the equipment changed?
In Paris.
So their plane flew from Cairo to Paris, but the return...
Okay, so that's interesting, because that means that half the reports that we've been seeing are bogus.
In what way?
They show, especially one of the reports...
Oh, they'll make it even better.
The plane that flew back came from Tunisia to Paris.
Hello?
Actually, Eritrea, or Eritrea, or whatever, the way they're pronouncing this is beyond me, because I always thought it was Eritrea.
But it went to Ytria, and then Tunisia, and then to Paris, and then they make it sound as though then it went from there, because when they were discussing on specifically ABC, they had a guy in Paris, in De Gaulle, and he was saying, well, this plane could have been planted with a bomb anywhere along this route.
And that's bullcrap if there was a new plane right there at that route.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, it's a little different.
Because I immediately did the same thing.
I went to, you know, FlightAware or Flight SkyRadar, which is all ADS-B.
It's not actual radar imagery.
And it said plane has landed.
But that was the 737 that flew first from Cairo to Paris.
Typically, the plane turns around and flies back.
But this time, the plane flew there, did not turn around.
A different aircraft, which had come from Tunisia to Paris, was flown back.
And that was unscheduled.
Okay, so that was the plane that was flew around.
But that was, it was an unscheduled change.
It was not, yeah.
Why?
Well, you plant a bomb in Tunisia or wherever.
There you go.
Or Ytria, wherever.
And you leave it in there, you put it in the plane in such a way that it doesn't look out of place.
Well, we know that Tunisia is next on deck.
We know this is where the Arab Spring started, but now Tunisia needs a little come-to-Jesus message.
Literally.
Maybe it's a setup for them.
Who knows?
But bottom line, it's a waste of time.
And we've already spent too much time talking about it, really, for what it is.
Yeah, people like to know, though, so they know they're being buffaloed.
As always.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for climatologist Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
And all the days and nights out there.
Yes, in the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
Good to have you in the chat and listening to us simultaneously.
Good number of you showing up once again.
Also, thank you very much to Nick the Rat.
I mean, when Nick gets it, he gets it, man.
Back on the track with the album art for episode 826.
It was, of course, the Book of Knowledge with the 404 as she completely broke down on us.
Still have.
Apparently you tried it earlier.
Well, no, she did okay.
She's had some glitches.
Just little glitches.
Little glitches.
Little glitches.
And we appreciate all the work that is done by our artists.
And we do have to remind...
I had something here.
Oh, yeah.
So first of all, noagendaartgenerator.com.
Please upload your art.
We'd love to pick it right after the show.
And I have a note here to ourselves.
Remind producers to repost the show.
What were we talking about?
I was talking about how people have been stealing pieces from the show.
And I said I'd rather people just, if you have a blog or if you have something like that and you have a player that you know how it works and you can implement it.
It's probably a plug-in like in WordPress or something.
There's a bunch of them.
We'd like you to post the show.
Yes.
On your blog.
In its entirety.
Yeah.
Yeah, just put it up.
It gives you content?
It makes people think that you've got something going on?
Now, I don't mind...
You say stealing, but I really don't mind.
I never said it was stealing.
You just said people are stealing our show.
Clips from our show.
No, people are stealing pieces of the show.
Yes.
That's the part...
They're taking a chunk of the show and a chunk...
But that doesn't...
And then they're just incorporating it as those...
We don't get any way of getting any recompense for it.
There's one show that I heard...
If you posted the whole show, our pitch is in there.
Yeah, or just...
Credit us a little bit.
Well, that would help.
Yeah.
I mean, we make it so easy.
Look, here's all the clips.
Just take those clips.
The show is open source, so it's not really being stolen.
Of course it's not being stolen.
I mean, someone even put us on Google Play.
So, there you go.
I'm not complaining.
I mean, I sure hope we don't get commercials played all around our show, but, you know, it's your show.
And people help us in many, many different ways.
In this case, we'd like to thank the people who are our executive producers and associate executive producers.
And we thank them at the beginning of the show, kind of like Hollywood.
What are you doing?
Alright, let's thank a few people.
Dave Thompson right at the top of the list in Kirchner, Ontario, Canada, who came in as an insta-knight.
Nice.
It says a thousand here.
Insta-knight.
Knight me.
Based on your value-for-value model, he writes, a quick back of napkin calculation puts me in arrears to the tune of a knighthood.
Thanks for putting out a quality product.
I started my own engineering business eight years ago and typically listen to the show during work hours.
Actually, they're all pretty much work hours.
As such, I'll consider this a licensing fee, similar to what they charge here in Canada for background and hold music used in the workplace.
Yes.
There you go.
That's an interesting point.
It's done everywhere.
You have to pay for that in every corporation.
Yes, you do.
If you're playing a radio station, that's illegal.
That's right.
The show has kept me smiling through the challenging times and remains a highlight in my week now that times are good.
I hired two young engineers last year, have another starting out next month, and I'm actively recruiting for a fourth.
Please throw out some jobs karma for my new recruits and the ones I have yet to find.
Finally, on behalf of my fellow Canucks, Allow me to ask that poutine and rye whiskey be made available at the No Agenda Roundtable.
Ah, yes, Dave.
We shall do that for you.
Poutine and rye whiskey will be available.
And thank you for your courage.
Instant night ceremony coming up later.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Here we go.
Thank you, sir.
Let's scrounge around for my keyboard.
Whoa!
Uh-oh.
Something fell over.
All right, now we have two big-time donors.
Sir Tyler Fox, $662.13 from Munich.
Wow, interesting number.
Why?
$662.13.
There must be something in there.
Just in case PayPal screws it up again, I live in Munich, not Michigan.
München, yeah.
This donation should finally, after six years, kick me well into barren territory.
Since Bavaria is already taken, and I'm overlooking right now, I'm overlooking it.
Apparently it's in Bavaria right now.
While ramping up for job hunting at a trade show, I have to email you guys in a couple of weeks to figure out my protectorate.
Alright, we're here.
For now, please give me some job karma and aim it at the next couple of days.
Okay, hold on.
Let me turn it around.
About 13 degrees to the left, guys.
Also, any listeners living near Munich should check out the Meetup website.
A small group of us from Munich and Austria are starting up a six-week cycle of meetups.
We've...
We've already had two, and it's a great crowd.
Hey, hey, stop.
You're pointing it in the wrong direction.
It's Munich, Germany, not Michigan.
Okay.
As always, thank you for all the great work in keeping my wife and I laughing insane despite all the insanity.
Love and lights are Tyler Fox.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Right on target.
I like the idea of them having these meetups there.
Yeah.
All right.
This is Kieran Cassidy in Demirne.
Demirne, Netherlands.
I think I'm close.
Demirne?
Demirne.
Demirne, yeah.
But I don't have a note from...
I do.
Oh, okay, good.
Thanks, John and Adam.
Been listening for a while.
Must have been just before one of your last twit appearances when Leo admitted he never listens to Noragenda.
How rude.
You were the only source of some much-needed pessimism on that show.
We moved to the Netherlands some years back, and I finally found a radio station I could listen to, hosted by our Adam, talking about what was going on during the com-com-ertage.
K-O-M-M-E. K-O-M-M-E. T-I-D-J. Ah, Comcomertide.
Ah, Comcomertide.
Comcomertide.
Comcomertide.
Yeah, beautiful.
Excellent stuff.
Needless to say, it didn't last very long.
What's she talking about?
He, she.
Kumkumertijd is a phrase in Dutch which means, what is it when it's a slow news day?
Yeah, I guess.
Slow news day.
Yeah, but when it's a whole, like a whole week, we say slow news week.
Well, they say it's cucumber time, which means they'll be reporting on cucumbers instead of anything important.
So that's what they call it.
Kumkumertijd, so cucumber time.
Okay.
Possible show title.
I think that...
Well, now that we've gone on and on about it...
So what does the word actually mean?
Cucumber?
Yeah, komkommer.
Cucumber time.
Yeah, komkommer.
Cucumber time.
Komkommer time.
But I like komkommer time.
Yeah.
Stop putting podcasting down.
Podcasting is the future.
Podcasters are placed well above radio presenters, in my opinion.
If you listen to any public radio, you'll realize it's 99% complete crap.
I'm amazed that people even aspire to be radio presenters in the first place.
I guess the actual workload is pretty light.
You get told what to say, and the pay is good for the actual number of hours worked.
You should really see this movie that corresponded with Ricky Gervais.
Because, of course, Ricky Gervais looks like the saddest mofo in the universe, and he's the engineer.
And then at a certain point, they ask what they do.
It's like, well, I'm not even a radio presenter.
I'm a radio engineer.
There's a whole level before you get to podcaster.
It's so low.
We're beneath Ricky Gervais, the sad radio engineer.
But that's only in the view of the mainstream.
Of course, we all know there's something different going on here.
It's not a podcast.
This is a network.
Let me do that again.
This is not a podcast!
This is a network!
There you go.
Anyway, love and light, and then there's no request for anything, but I think a...
A karma is in order?
Yes, I think so.
You've got karma.
And Archduke Dwayne Melanson from Tigard, Oregon.
PayPal glitch means I need to send this direct.
Greetings from the Archduke of the Pacific Northwest.
Please keep up the great work and let's hope the producer donation levels are up.
Your superior product deserves it.
Please give karma to all the knights with a resist we much and a good to be here brof.
Okay.
Anything else or just a karma?
Yep, that's it.
Oh wait, that's the song version.
Hold on.
Let me get the...
How about we play this one?
But resist, we much.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
Good to be here, bro.
You've got karma.
Yeah, I love it so much though.
David McAnally in Rome, Texas, 33333.
Uh, please send hugs and a shot of karma to my smoking hot best friend.
Um, P was PJs PJ PJS.
PJs.
She's coming out of a dark period in her life and could use all the love and positive karma she can get.
I'll be experiencing my 60th birthday as I listen to the show today.
We have them on the list, I hope.
Let me check.
Yeah, I believe so.
I look forward to the next 60 years.
Soundboard jingle attached.
Hey, citizen.
Two to the head.
Boom shakalaka little girl.
And yay.
Little girl yay.
Oh, yay?
Hold on a second.
That's the one.
Little girl yay.
So, hold on.
Yay.
Okay.
Let me finish this note.
Thank you both for your entertainment and analysis.
I'm no longer a slave.
Just one of those non-inevitable workforce dropouts and enlightened listeners of the best podcasts in the universe.
Best regards in 73, Sir Davey, the Sooner State.
Hey, citizen.
Boo choco laca.
Boo choco laca!
Yay!
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
And finally, one associate executive producer, Christopher Dolan in Brookline, Massachusetts, and that's $200, and he says, No Agenda Karma has been helping me with the ladies.
Please give me another shot of karma.
Please let us know exactly what part of No Agenda helps you with the ladies.
This needs to be replicated.
This is the karma.
Oh, just the karma.
Oh, okay.
All right.
You've got karma.
Very nice.
Let me finish this up.
He wants another shot.
He just gave it to him, so it may continue.
Keep up the good work, and thank you for the best podcast in the universe, and that should do it.
All right.
Thank you very much, and thank you to all of our nice list of executive producers today.
That's grand, I would say.
That's a beautiful thing, and our sole executive producer.
Real credits.
This can be used anywhere.
Putting on your LinkedIn seems to happen somehow.
It seems to work.
People get more.
Wasn't it people looking at your profile or whatever it's called on LinkedIn?
But above all, know that you have...
Totally supported us in our mission to do this kind of work, and the only way we can do it, which is without any commercial interference.
And of course, we'll be thanking everybody coming up later on in our regular donation segment, and another show coming up on Thursday.
Please remember us at...
Dvorak.org slash NA My mouth is a little bit glued shut today.
Hey, please go out there, propagate the formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, play.
Shut up, play.
And, indeed, Angelina Jolie is...
Ah, yes.
Why does that not surprise me?
Amidst all of this interesting stuff that is being psychologically burned into our brains, wouldn't the world be better off if people were not watching any of this crap on mainstream?
It's so unhealthy.
Yeah.
It's so unhealthy.
It is.
And face bags, you just gotta look at it.
Actually, it's been proven to be unhealthy by some studies.
Yeah, we had that in the show notes on the last show.
But, you know, we kind of knew that.
Kind of knew it.
Um...
We were talking about UBI on the last show, but the universal basic income can also stand for other things, actually.
It's like unconditional basic income.
That's an organization in Europe, Unconditional Basic Income Europe, UBIE. And then there's the Basic Income Earth Network.
And this is all pretty much just a millennial-filled group, or all of these groups.
And one of them popped up on, what was this?
I'm trying to think.
I don't remember exactly what this was, and it was a long interview.
This is from Canada.
So there's a Canadian party who is getting this started.
They are the UBI group.
And for those of you who don't know, the concept of UBI, which kind of ties back to that professor, you know, the jobless economy and the citizen-free democracy.
Yeah.
Citizen light democracy.
Let's put it that way.
You know, there's all kinds of thinking about, well, how can we change the way things work?
And one idea is, and it's being beta tested in some countries.
I'm not sure it's actually rolled out.
Did they do that in Switzerland yet?
I know they were talking about a trial.
I don't really know.
Well, apparently Canada has, or one particular province or one area has said, okay, we can do a trial.
There's not much more known about it.
And the idea is there's no welfare services, only one.
You get a set amount per month.
And although it's explained a little differently in this particular clip, which is short, it's often explained to me as everybody gets that, whether you work or not.
So you just get that as basic, be able to survive income.
And, you know, so you just...
In a twisted way, you're just kind of food for corporations.
Because, you know, you don't do anything necessarily.
Although you could do a lot of things.
You could volunteer and you could get a job or whatever.
But if not, then, you know, the corporate world is just out to take that money from you.
So it's nice to know.
Once you've got your program, then we know you'll be good for two grand a month.
We'll be taking that from you.
Oh, it was Thom Hartman, I'm sorry.
It was with Thom.
Yes, Thom, who of course is all in on this idea.
Definitely, Switzerland had a referendum, and I think there's some people who are continuing to explore the idea in Switzerland.
Oh, that's right.
Switzerland, the referendum did not pass, but they're trying it again.
A very powerful group of people interested in Finland and the Netherlands right now.
And so we're part of an international network of, you know, each country has a group much like ours that is part of this international network.
So we work with them closely and we support their efforts.
But, you know, each country is unique and each political landscape is, you know, difficult to predict.
So we wish them the best of luck in...
Yes.
And I think we'll have to wait and see.
Now, I got an email from one of our producers who wishes to remain anonymous, but I think I should share this with you, John, and anyone else who cares to hear it.
It gives us some insight.
Adam, of course, please keep me anonymous.
In your latest show, 826, you mentioned confusion as to why, quote, everyone is so hyped on UBI. This is a paraphrase, he says.
I think there are two primary contributing factors.
First, firstly...
Now, him saying, firstly, should give you a clue he's a millennial.
Firstly, as a millennial, at least in my friend groups, if you bring up topics of automation or the future of careers and potential in the workforce, there is one resounding consensus.
Hopelessness.
Wait, that deserves it.
Put an echo on that.
I know, what am I thinking?
Let's do this again.
Uh, There is one resounding consensus.
Hopelessness.
Beautiful.
We all see automation as a foregone conclusion.
Everyone is essentially used on purpose in a state of existential listlessness with regard to their future.
I have friends, smart friends, friends with electrical engineering degrees from top 50 universities who work for minimum wage and coffee shops.
We're all clamoring for the few jobs that exist while knowing in the back of our minds the majority of us are and will be unemployed.
Forever.
Yes.
So whenever someone brings up UBI, the thought process says, wait a minute, I don't have to have a Pyrrhic work-life...
What does Pyrrhic mean?
Not Pyrrhic.
Pyrrhic.
Pyrrhic?
P-Y-R-R-H-I-C. Pyrrhic.
You know, that's funny, because that's a word I know the meaning of and I can't define.
Book of Knowledge.
Definition of Pyrrhic.
The term Pyrrhic has several meanings.
As an adjective, one, of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece, two, of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables, three, of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits, especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans, especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans, and as a noun, one, a metrical unit with unstressed unstressed syllables, two, an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of Yeah.
Is that it?
Yeah.
The Greek dance.
I know they use the word Pyrrhic victory.
I think it's where you lose.
Yes, Pyrrhic victory.
You lose, but you somehow win, technically.
That's Bernie Sanders.
Yeah.
No, Hillary Clinton.
She loses and somehow wins.
Okay, onward.
Wait, I don't have to have a Pyrrhic work-life balance?
I can actually do things I enjoy and don't have to return to my parents in shame and debt?
Yeah, sign me up!
That is why millennials love UBI. We see the job market as bad and only getting worse, and UBI offers us something other than shame, debt, and starvation.
Oh, man.
Make no mistake.
Shame and resignation of the future are the two largest descriptors of millennials.
I'm sure you can trace other seemingly anomalous aspects of millennial behavior to these, such as the needs for distractions, alcoholism, etc., The second reason is more sinister and maybe a bit crackpot.
Okay, I'm game.
I believe some of the hype for UBI is being manufactured and integrally related to the ideas of Black Lives Matter at all.
Let's assume prima facie.
My God, what school are you in?
What is prima facie at face value?
At face value, yes.
That the U.S. doesn't want its people to revolt.
I think that's a reasonable assumption.
If the powers that be know some heavy bullshit is coming down the pipe, they would want to stop us as much as possible, stop the people from revolting if it will be seen as the government's fault.
Keep in mind, the U.S. has a society primed for revolt.
As you might note, it's in our DNA. Our cultural narrative is that of rebellious heroes.
Americans love an underdog for exactly that reason.
So there's two things here going on.
And I think the first one certainly is true.
And the idea that this is being set up and being crafted makes nothing but sense, really.
Well, I've never been a big...
Negative income tax is very similar to this idea.
And Nixon proposed it.
It's not a new thing at all in American consciousness.
But of course, he did it during the last depression, which was in the 70s.
And this depression that we're in now, these kids are thinking it's the way it is when it's not.
But as a student of economics and, of course, geopolitics, with your master's, And your thesis on Russia and the West.
What do you think?
Do you use the vinegar book?
Yeah, that one.
Yeah.
Well, there's also the egg book, which I know you co-wrote that with your wife, but it was still a genius piece of work.
Believe me.
What do you think?
Will this happen?
Will it grab hold?
Do you think this is something that could actually take place on...
The logic of it is, hey, you get rid of all these government programs, you pretty much save all the money you need.
It's too practical.
It's too practical.
Yeah, I think so.
Because we need bureaucracy.
We like the bureaucracy.
We like the misery that is creating...
We like the rules, lots of extra rules that aren't really caused by anything Congress ever did, but there's just new rule-making bodies that are out there.
It's just part of the system to turn us into, going right back to the original thesis of the show, this is part of the system that needs to be in place to give us a one-world government.
Now, it could be used to leverage that.
If you're all in on the one world government, you'll give you free money, which is a bribery technique to get people to vote.
I'll say.
I don't think we're that far along to go there yet.
This is years away.
Well, there was something else that happened, and I did not see this as a political event.
I saw this as a millennial event on both sides of what took place.
How old is Justin Trudeau?
How old is that guy?
I think he qualifies as a millennial.
Book of knowledge.
How old is Justin Trudeau?
Justin Trudeau is 44 years old.
No, I guess not.
He's just beyond.
Damn!
Damn!
But he acts like one.
He acts like one, yes.
He acts like one.
So there was a scuffle.
Like the old man with the ponytail.
Yes.
And Trudeau at 44, I'm thinking vasectomy.
Oh, that's a possibility.
Well, you're the expert.
Well, I am the expert in this crowd of ours because nobody seems to pay much attention to this whole thing but me.
I also think, by the way, I was thinking about this.
I think Clinton is a victim of a vasectomy at probably in a very early age.
And I think that's a way to put it now.
This is why Webster-Hubble had to father Chelsea because Bill had his tubes cut.
The reason I think it is because Clinton was raised during that era, that 60s, early 70s, that specific era where it was that men were hounded by their women, by strong women.
Strong women didn't just show up last week, but the strong women back in the day, the intellectual crowd, the people that went to the big colleges that had the Rhodes Scholarships and the rest, Harvard, Yale, this type of thinking.
They were hounded by these women to get vasectomies because this was the era of the population bomb.
Ah, yes, that's right.
Paul Ehrlich's book came out right in the 70s.
It talked about the population bomb and we're having too many people.
We're all going to die.
We're all going to die from population overgrowth.
We're going to have too many people.
The Club of Rome said we're all going to be dead by the year 2000 because we can't feed ourselves.
All the rest of it, get a vasectomy.
Do the world a favor.
Get a vasectomy.
I'm pretty sure Clinton did it.
Good.
But I agree with you.
And he looks like he's got that look, that funny look.
Yes, the lesbian look.
Yeah, old lesbian.
So, the way he speaks, talks, acts, I'm going to verify him with an official no agenda check mark.
Verified millennial.
Hey, that would be cool on Twitter.
Verified millennial.
I like that.
Age not a problem.
Now, the politician on the opposite side of the House there in the parliaments of Canada, Scandinavia, was also a millennial, a woman.
And in case you had not seen it, here is a play-by-play from the BBC of exactly what went down with the elbowing...
Justin Trudeau elbowing a woman.
He elbowed her off.
Elbowing a woman.
MPs were coming in to vote on the physician-assisted dying bill, many angry that the liberals had cut off debate.
Now watch this.
The man in the front is the conservative whip.
He can't get by a group of NDP MPs, including leader Tom Mulcair.
Now, what you're not seeing is this guy's trying to move forward to vote.
Then the guys in front of him are blocking him.
They're going left, they're going right, they're going left, they're going right.
Because we have this great vantage point in the video.
Then Trudeau gets up and comes over because he's going to, like, bust some chops.
On the left, the prime minister comes striding over to intervene.
He has words with Mulcair.
At the same time, he clearly also makes contact with MP Ruth Ellen Brousseau.
Okay, now this contact, I had to look at the video several times.
Hey, hold on a second, because I'm glad you did, because I looked at it several times and saw nothing.
Because they have the circles, but the circle distracts from what's actually happening, and I can clearly see.
He elbows her right in the boob.
And I see her responses telling me, oh my god, it was an elbow to the boob.
I know this face.
This is a very, very sad state when this face is on the opposite side of yours.
Because it's like guys falling on the, you know...
Falling off the bike saddle.
Onto the bar.
Tripping and falling into someone and grabbing their boobs.
No.
An actual hit, like an actual elbow to the boob is painful.
Yeah.
And this girl makes that face.
So it happened.
And that is not just an accidental thing.
It happened.
But what happened then...
You think he gave it to her?
Yes!
Oh, absolutely.
Boom.
Just get out...
I mean, not like he looked at her, said, I'm going to elbow you in the boob.
But she was...
She was in his space and just moved.
Like a millennial would.
Like a little millennial with a bitch little attitude.
Get away from me!
That is what I saw.
That's what Trudeau did.
You saw that from the girl or from Trudeau?
Trudeau.
And then the girl responded.
I forget her name.
Let's look her up.
See how old she is.
Hold on a second.
What's her name here?
Let's get this.
...words with Mulcair.
At the same time, he clearly also makes contact with N.P. Ruth Ellen Brousseau.
Ruth Ellen Brousseau?
Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Book of Knowledge.
How old is Ruth Ellen Brousseau?
Hmm.
I can't find the answer to the question.
Thank you.
Good work.
But she looks like a certified, no agenda verified millennial.
Trudeau walks away.
You can see Broso angrily telling her colleagues what transpired.
And she's going, Oh my God!
Oh my God!
You can just see she's doing that.
These are little millennials fighting.
Disgusting.
That's what I saw.
As Brosseau leaves, Trudeau comes back.
Mulcair is enraged.
Trudeau appears to be headed after Brosseau.
And they're yelling, shame!
Shame!
And Mulcair and Trudeau shout.
How dare you, elbow woman!
Order!
Order!
Listen to this.
Emerson put away their black...
He wants to say, put away your blackberries, but he realized that he is now the anachronism of Canada, because, of course, no one uses a blackberry anymore to take pictures, but...
Mr.
Put away their blackberries.
I'm not allowed to take photographs.
Then it was time to parse what happened.
He elbowed the member from...
You did!
You did!
The speaker, he manhandled the whip of the official opposition.
Manhandled!
Oh, manhandled!
Oh, this is great.
The whole Canadian Parliament is millennial douches.
Physical force!
Physical force!
Physical contact!
My sisters used to do that.
Mom, Mom, Mom!
Physical contact!
Physical contact!
Adam did physical contact!
Physical contact!
My sister was Marge Simpson, by the way.
In this house is never permitted, is never welcome, and it is entirely inappropriate.
I admit I came in physical contact.
I came in physical contact!
With a number of members as I extended my arm into her boob.
Including someone behind me who I did not see.
But I felt the boob.
If anyone feels that they were unfettered.
If they were hurt, if anyone has hurt feelings about this.
Impacted by my actions.
I completely apologize.
It's not my intention to hurt anyone.
It certainly wasn't.
Oh yes, take the high road.
Now we need to hear this girl.
They then voted.
But this wasn't over.
The Prime Minister physically grabbing people.
Physically grabbing people.
Pulling people.
Not only was this the furthest thing from a feminist act.
Yeah, remember when he said he was a feminist?
Yeah, elbowing in the boob, you really have no idea what a feminist is or being female.
Then Brousseau spoke.
Here she is.
Now this is great.
Tell me this is not a millennial.
This is the girl who got el-boobed.
New term!
Hold on.
I like it.
Let's write it down.
It's a possible show title.
El-boobed.
Then Brousseau spoke.
I was elbowed in the chest by the Prime Minister.
Um...
Two?
What?
She says elbows.
Elbowed.
Oh, I thought you said elbows.
Yeah, elbowed.
I was elbowed in the chest by the Prime Minister.
And then I had to leave.
It was very overwhelming.
It was overwhelming.
Oh my God.
I had to leave.
What?
It was overwhelming.
Hello, Canada.
And then I had to leave.
How am I safe space?
How is she going to take on ISIS as a politician if she's overwhelmed by an L-boob?
I mean, it's not fun, but come on.
Oh, I had to leave the room.
I was overwhelmed with emotion.
And then I had to leave.
It was very overwhelming.
And so I left the chamber to go and sit into the lobby.
I missed the vote because of this.
Oh, I missed the vote because of this.
I missed my vote!
I was in my safe space!
I missed my vote!
Um...
I just wanted to clarify and make sure it's clear to all the members in the house that that did happen.
Really?
That just happened?
She should have said that.
That would be funnier.
That just happened, members of the house.
That's what she should have said.
Yeah, this just happened.
And by the way, when she was walking away after getting el-boobed, the first thing she was doing was tweeting.
She was on her phone tweeting about it.
The first thing she did.
OMG, just got el-boobed.
Clarify and make sure it's clear to all the members in the House that that did happen.
Thank you.
She couldn't say anymore.
She had to stop.
Thank you.
Thank you.
My goodness.
Now, now, we can still go back to get one more millennial moment from the feminist.
Thank you, Mr.
Speaker.
I want to take the opportunity, now that the member is okay to return to the House right now, Because, you know, her feelings are restored.
To be able to express directly to her my apologies for my behavior and my actions, unreservedly.
Okay, well, it's all settled then.
All right?
How come he doesn't come out and say, hey, grow up!
Because he is the same.
Here's a slight lisp I find very annoying.
I mean, really.
It was just...
So where does this come from?
It's fun to watch.
Yeah, or ridicule in your case.
Yeah, of course I'm ridiculing it.
I would never do such a...
No.
Well, you will in a moment.
This is a new video.
Now, this is a throwback.
Maybe a call...
No, it's more a throwback, I would say.
Callback, throwback.
It's a new version of the animated sketch, which you really despise.
Fff, fff, fff, fff.
Oh, the guy drawing the little pictures on the screen at high speed.
Yeah.
I do.
I hate that.
So they're going back now.
Wait, the other thing I hate?
Slow words that crop up on the video where somebody talks over him or just words.
I hate those videos.
I know.
I see like video here of someone saying something totally nutso.
I'm like, oh, this is going to be great.
Click on it.
It's just like a bad, super bad Final Cut Pro track with big words.
Blech.
Okay.
But this is some of the teaching that goes on.
And instead of the sketchboard, the throwback is to claymation.
Remember those great days of claymation?
Love it.
Stop animation.
We used to do it all the time.
So now that has been modernized and it's being put into videos that explain things.
And this comes from tolerance.org.
And I got this tolerance.org after reading a separate report about a school system that is now...
Forbidding teachers to have any materials that are contra to the global warming climate change narrative.
Actually, it's Portland.
Portland School Board.
Bans climate change denying materials.
And from that, I got into this other group, Tolerance.org.
And when you look into it, it's our old friends from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Woohoo!
And they are going to teach us about intersectionality.
Ooh, there's another name.
Actually, let's try this one.
Book of Knowledge, define intersectionality.
Intersection has several meanings as a noun.
Yeah, I don't want you to hear intersection.
No, I don't want intersection.
We don't want intersection.
But oddly enough, they start out explaining...
Do you know what intersectionality means?
Until you mention it, I've never heard of this one.
But I will in a minute.
What was that?
Uh, stop.
Yeah.
Yes, you will now.
Intersectionality.
Have you heard this word before?
No.
Even if you have, you might not know what it means.
Let's take a look at it.
The first part's easy enough.
Intersection.
A place where things come together.
Intersectionality.
I love little Spike Jonze.
We should help him out a little.
Let's help him out a bit.
Intersection.
A place where things come together.
Intersectionality refers to the reality that we all have multiple identities that intersect to make us who we are.
There you go.
We all have multiple...
This is bullcrap from the get-go.
We all have multiple...
We're all psychopaths.
We all have multiple personalities.
But sometimes they come together.
And so we can be like somebody who's normal looking, kind of.
It gets a little worse than that, but you're on the right track.
I just made that up.
...that intersect to make us who we are.
It also gives us a way...
Actually, I'm going to roll that back.
I want you to hear the definition again because I think that's important.
A place where things come together.
Intersectionality refers to the reality that we all have multiple identities that intersect to make us who we are.
It also gives us a way to talk about oppressions and privileges that overlap and reinforce each other.
This term dates back to the 1980s and legal scholar Kimberly Crenshaw.
Now, did you know any of this?
Of course not.
Who'd know this?
This is all bullshit.
It's just like crazy stuff that somebody's putting together.
But it's probably true.
It probably was Kimberly Crenshaw.
Yeah.
Well, again, Southern Poverty Law Center, which has about $700 million.
A crazy amount.
They have so much money.
She noticed that we didn't have an effective way to talk about how the experiences of black women are different from the experiences of black men.
Pay attention.
And of white women.
How?
Black women endure both gender discrimination and racial discrimination.
Aha!
You see, this is where the intersectionality comes from, because you have all kinds of things that you're getting fucked for.
Or, you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have any of this.
And this is what tolerance.org is teaching our children.
Over the last 30 years, scholars, educators, and activists have expanded the use of...
What did he say?
Did he say scientists or just scholars?
What did I hear?
And racial discrimination.
Over the last 30 years, scholars, educators, and activists...
Scholars, educators, and activists.
That sounds like a fine bunch.
Have expanded the use of the word intersectionality to talk about identities beyond race and gender.
Let's look at a few examples.
Jerry has a disability and his family lives below the poverty line.
This little clay guy on crutches.
He's hobbling along in his claymation with his crutches.
Poverty line.
He is the oldest of ten, which requires him to...
This guy has loser written all over him.
First, he's a cripple.
He has nine brothers and sisters and lives below the poverty line.
Yeah, he's asking for trouble.
I think he's got some...
And his family lives below the poverty line.
He is the oldest of ten, which requires him to do a lot of caregiving, and sometimes keeps him out of school.
No one in the school counseling office has talked to Jerry or his parents about his plans for after graduation.
He has applied for several jobs, but never gets called back.
Fatima is Muslim and recently came to the United States from Somalia.
She finds that many people...
Is it Fatima or Fatima?
I wondered about that.
I think it's Fatima.
I think it's Fatima.
Fatima's the newest way to pronounce it, you don't know.
Yeah.
They keep moving stuff around the sea.
We can't keep track of it, I know.
...jobs, but never gets called back.
Fatima is Muslim, and recently came to the United States from Somalia.
She finds that many people...
I know, she gets the bird sound effects, that's interesting.
I noticed that too.
Like Fatima shows up and all of a sudden, why do birds suddenly appear every time you are nearly asleep?
And recently came to the United States from Somalia.
She finds that many people at her school make assumptions about her values and abilities before they speak to her.
Many of her classmates think she shouldn't be at their school at all.
Greta comes from an affluent family.
Both her parents and grandparents went to college and her father owns a successful business.
And notice she's white.
She doesn't think about her identity very often, but she does think of herself as someone who will go to college and get a good job once she graduates.
Think about Greta's situation as opposed to Fatima's or Jerry's.
Fatima and Jerry are members of marginalized groups.
They don't get to choose whether or not to think about their identities.
Greta, on the other hand, can ignore intersectionality if she wants to.
Life isn't the same for everyone, even for people who share identity characteristics.
By adopting an intersectional lens, we have a better opportunity to understand why and to change the institutions that help and harm us based on who we are.
Want to learn more?
Read our story, Teaching at the Intersections, in the summer 2016 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine.
And there's that subliminal Hillary Clinton dog bark, which whenever I hear dog bark, I think Hillary Clinton.
It's become a thing now.
There you go.
So there is your definition of intersectionality as being propagated by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
What did they expect to leverage this into?
I don't see the gain here.
It's claymation.
It's fun to watch.
Kids love that stuff.
What I mean by it is I don't understand what they're up to with this.
Well, there's some screwball stuff.
Let me play this clip.
To change words, maybe.
Just to train you in a new language.
I don't know.
Intersectionality.
I'm sorry.
They're talking about racism.
It's kind of like white privilege is that you don't understand intersectionality.
You don't have to think about your identities.
I have to think about my identity all the time.
Well, the cis and all the rest of that crap, that's getting on my nerves.
I think one of the schools says you have to find out what people want to be called.
Z or whatever the...
All these different kinds of words.
It's bleu with B-L-E-U-H. Like, hey you.
We're all going to go back to that.
Remember I told you about the North Carolina bathroom bill, what it's really about?
Yeah.
Okay, here it is, HB2, part two.
This is the part that no one on television talks about.
All they talk about is where you can poop.
But no, part two.
Statewide consistency in laws related to employment and contracting, section 2.1, as rewritten.
Short title, legislative purpose.
Here we go.
This article should be known and may be cited as the Wage and Hour Act.
The public policy of this state is declared as follows.
The wage levels of employees, hours of labor, payment of earned wages, and the well-being of minors are subject of concern requiring legislation to promote the general welfare of the people of the state without jeopardizing the competitive position of North Carolina's business and industry.
The General Assembly declares that the general welfare of the state requires the enactment of this law under the police power of the state.
In other words, you cannot jack up the minimum wage under the power of the state.
What's that got to do with toilets?
Nothing, but that's why this bill is...
That's what's going on.
It's not about the toilets.
It's about something much bigger.
A standardized minimum wage.
So, before you go, we talked about that in the last show.
Well, this was the part that we...
Before we leave Canada, I got Canada stuff.
Good.
Hello?
Yeah, I said yes, good, I'm listening.
Hello.
Hello, I'm here.
Um...
So they had on Democracy Now, again, back to millennials, back to Canada.
They had this group.
Apparently the Black Lives Matter people are so bored or well-organized or they want to get other people.
They've decided to join the Canadian, Native American, Native Canadian Indians in their...
So it's all going to be one big happy family.
And so they brought these people on the Democracy Now!
show, including some Black Lives Matter folks.
Was this one big panel?
Yeah, four people.
And they had this woman on who was the American Indian representative.
I keep saying this.
Canadian.
The Canadian native woman on it.
Indigenous persons from Scandinavia.
That's it.
We need a little acronym or something.
Anyway, so she comes on and she sets the stage by telling the Black Lives Matter people and everyone else that this whole debate is moot.
Dealt with the fact that you guys are on our land.
Get out.
Yes, it's moot because the native inhabitants were the ones who got gypped in the first place.
Yeah, so here we go.
This is the Indians in Canada telling it like it is.
We welcome you all to Democracy Now!
Erica, why don't we begin with you and talk about the protests and the occupation you are engaged in and the issues you feel are critical to raise for people, an audience that's global.
I think that recognizing that we're on stolen indigenous land is the key to understanding solidarity between these movements, to understanding why indigenous youth are being pushed to kill ourselves in a colonial context.
And to recognize that police violence is impacting black lives, indigenous lives, and racialized lives in this country.
And sometimes we don't even think about the history of resistance.
And so to see the occupations of INAC and see the occupations of the police department is an example that we're taking back this land and we're taking back our lives.
Wow.
Yeah.
A little aggressive.
Well...
We're taking back the place.
We've had it with you idiots.
I remember in the 70s this cropped up again.
It's probably a cycle.
Do you remember Redbone Wounded Knee?
Do you remember the Alcatraz takeover?
No.
Tell me about that.
The Indians took over Alcatraz.
What year?
Well, I'm going to have to look it up now.
Because I remember...
Well, I look up Alcatraz.
Actually, ask the Book of Knowledge.
Okay, well, what?
Book of Knowledge.
When was Alcatraz taken over by Indians?
When was Alcatraz taken over by Indians?
Hmm.
I can't find the answer to the question.
Ah, you suck!
Um...
Well, we don't know.
But in a strange way, it's kind of cool because if this follows through and catches fire, which I don't think the community is big enough, the Native Americans or Canadians, we could actually have an NFL where all the teams are just, you know, the Braves, Redskins.
I mean, that would be just, and they would get a piece of it.
This is it.
There you go, Washington Redskins.
1969.
Right, so just around the turn of the century.
A century, turn of the decade.
Turn of the decade, the decade, the decade.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I remember there was a number one hit.
Let me see if I can find this.
Oh, the Indian Reservation song?
No, it was Redbone.
Redbone, we were all wounded.
No, there was a bunch of songs during that period.
During the late 60s and early 70s, there were a slew of songs that were Indian-based.
There was Wichitai Taito, or whatever it was, was a song a friend of mine actually produced.
Right, here it comes.
Let me see, this is it.
Oh, why is this not playing?
Hold on.
What year was this?
This is...
Let me see if it says that.
But, of course, I need to play it for you first so you can actually hear it.
Hold on.
I think this was set one, maybe?
Hold on.
Output.
There we go.
Okay, now let's listen again.
We're all wounded at Wounded Knees.
You and me.
Thank you.
You and me.
America's destiny.
Okay, that was a big hit.
I had a sense of a little sliced stone funk in there.
Yeah, 73.
73, that's when it was.
We were all wounded.
I think this is a cycle.
And they tried it then.
They tried it then.
And how'd that work out?
They try it every so often.
A bunch of kids come up.
They don't remember what happened in the past.
I do like it, though.
A bunch of kids.
Here's another vision.
But hold on.
We need to have a stock answer for our producers, for our network, when someone talks about Black Lives Matter.
I mean, do we just say, yeah, Native American Lives Matter.
I mean, is it that simple?
I think it is, almost.
Yeah?
How about Native American Lives Matter?
The original Gypteese.
Yeah, they were the original ones that got screwed.
They got screwed first.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So whose land is it?
That answer is too flip.
Too pat, yeah.
Too flip.
Well, you got a better one?
No.
But now to think this is a challenge, we should all work on one, getting a good one, just a one-liner, boom.
Because no one's come up, all lives matter.
No, no, that's not going to cut it.
That All Lives Matter thing was a bad idea to begin with.
Because you didn't get the whole point of anything.
Right.
Not about anybody's lives, to be honest about it.
No.
All right, let me get my last thing out of the way here about the millennials.
All right.
So if you looked at last week's newsletter, you might want to bring it up if you can.
Okay.
I had written...
Let's see if I can find it.
Which one was this?
This was the one with the...
What was the title?
Do you know the title?
Oh, something about...
I just had it here and I just...
Important note about the show.
Does this answer your question?
Yeah, important note about the show.
Important note about the show.
Okay.
Okay.
I want you to look at and read I think it's like when I start being cynical about people that we bring stuff out The susceptibility of the general public to this idiotic, repetitive public relations technique is shameful.
Yes.
This is where you have a picture and it says, chocolate bar is $1, chocolate bar is $1.
Are chocolate bars also $1?
Right.
Now, can you just read it?
It's very short.
So just read it and I will tell you when to stop.
Stop just before the next photo.
Okay.
The susceptibility of the general public to this idiotic repetitive public relations technique is shameful.
Soon you believe that Hillary's email scam was a harmless convenience.
Donald Trump said all Mexicans were rapists.
Bernie Sanders schemes are not affordable.
He's a kook!
And it should be mentioned that while the supporters of once-fringed candidates Trump and Sanders are massive, this does not mean the smear machine has not lost its effectiveness.
It just needs retuning by better propaganda experts.
The latest meme floating around concerns Bernie Sanders' somewhat dowdy wife.
The message is that she...
Are you before or past the Snowden bit?
Where is the Snowden bit?
Maybe before that.
I had it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay, I want you to play the two paragraphs before this note and then talk this note and bit too.
Something weird happens.
Assad uses chemical weapons, for example.
Maybe there is a strange terrorist event that makes no sense.
Only the No Agenda show will deconstruct it.
And even when deconstructed and verified by experts and re-reported by the media, they always revert back to the originally intended meme.
This happens a lot.
If you repeat the old meme enough times, people forget the actual story.
Nothing changes for the materialists.
All right.
So, did I make a point of calling Snowden a traitor?
No, no.
No, you were being facetious, and it's actually a link.
Very facetious.
No, it's not a link.
You've emboldened it.
To mean that this is what they would be saying, who they would be saying, calling him a traitor.
Yes, I understand it completely.
Yeah, that's exactly the way any normal person would read it.
So when a Joe, a millennial, writes in, just simple, best and simple, you call Snowden a traitor, then have the nerve to ask for donations?
No way.
No agenda, my ass.
Your right-wing slant is very obvious to this kid, at least.
Wow.
Oh, that's sad.
Yeah.
So I was very depressed by that note.
Yeah, no kidding.
I mean, do I have to spell stuff out like you were a third grader?
Yes.
But in general, and this is a millennial issue, and Tina and I talk about this a lot, we have lost such a richness in the way we communicate with each other.
I mean, my daughter and I, I force her to do a FaceTime with me.
I try to get her to do it once a week, but I time it around, you know, when her rent is due.
I'll be like, oh, you need some money?
Yeah, okay.
It's a very easy way.
You know, I don't feel bad about it.
We have a transactional relationship at times.
It's fine.
It's what it is with kids.
But just this text, what you're missing is you're missing nuance, you're missing context, you're missing...
What I see happening all the time is someone will send someone a message, and I'm guilty of it as well.
And I will receive that message, not with the context in which it is written, but I will receive that...
Of course, it's all abbreviated because it's a text message.
We can't be writing a war and peace because you get called out on writing a war and peace.
You receive that in the context, the frame of mind that you're in at that very moment.
And of course, we all become mind readers.
Well, gosh, she seems pissed off.
Like, I can see my daughter read it, but she didn't reply yet.
Like, she hates me, and then she'll reply, and then, you know, I'm already receiving that she hates me, so I'm thinking, oh, she's saying something nasty to me, where it's completely innocuous.
You don't know this at all, and it's so poor.
So when you get into anything, anything that deals with how people are being communicated to these days, I can see where this kid was in a certain frame of mind, read that, with the filters for which he views the world.
And this is a big problem.
Your eyebrows are not just for keeping the sweat out of your eyes.
They help you communicate.
Yeah, that's why emoticons usually are used in these instances.
Think about how poor we've become in our communication skills where we have replaced such beautiful subtleties as hand motion, body language, facial motions, with a very limited...
Kiss to the left?
Heart eyes?
Heart?
Heart eyes.
Heart eyes.
Martini glass.
Champagne glass.
My favorite, raindrops followed by eggplant.
What does that mean?
Raindrops followed by eggplant?
Yeah.
Yeah, everyone knows what that means.
No, they don't.
It's usually what you get in return after you send a dick pic.
What does it mean?
Ah.
Do the emojis.
Tell me later.
It sounds rude.
It's very rude.
But it doesn't matter.
All the subtleties are gone.
This is bad.
So this kid read it in the frame of mind.
And the kid is obviously hurting.
He's a child in pain.
A child who knows there's no future for him.
Except, can I have your order?
Or, thank you for using Favor.
It's got to be my favorite.
I love Favor.
What is Favor?
Oh, it's an app, and then pretty much you can order food from any restaurant in the area.
Oh, we have at least four of those places.
Yeah, and then some other kid picks up your order, and it's like, oh, Jason S. is running.
I always feel good.
That's the thing about these operations.
If I get...
I got like two or three of these solicitations from these different companies.
One of them says free shipping on first order.
Yeah.
Is the shipping what the guy gets?
The delivery guy?
Right.
The kid gets screwed on the first order.
So the kid gets screwed.
The company doesn't eat it and give the kid money.
I'm sure of that because you know the way these companies operate, these Silicon Valley operations.
Take it or leave it, kid.
You want this job or not?
All they want is the data.
Yeah, because the only one is the data.
What does everyone eat?
Yeah.
So they can sell ads to the restaurants or whatever they do.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's atrocious.
Well, that's just the way it goes.
How did we get on that topic?
What were we talking about?
I was talking about millennials and Canadian millennials and we talked about this millennial and then I figured I ran out of millennial material because people love it.
Don't you think?
Millennials have become like a hot topic.
They should be aware of it too because they like to talk about themselves and many of them send us memos.
I have a memo that came from Gitmo Nation East.
Man, I have such pity on our producers there.
So they're all in now.
Finally, we have the government ID. It's actually called gov.uk verify.
This is your mark of the beast, UK. This is your identity card.
Let me see your papers, please.
And they have a promo reel promoting this national ID, and you'll hear it in the promo.
The way it works is everyone has to get the ID, which is verified by a provider.
And in the video, you can see a couple of logos, but you see Verizon at the top continuously.
Verizon, the company that is known, certainly in the United States, for giving up the most information ever to the feds without telling anyone about it.
Am I correct on that?
I believe so.
Right out of this office over here on 2nd Street.
Yeah.
So, for the public now, you will be forced to use government services and, wait for it, services from other governments...
With your approved gov.uk Verify ID. Heil to you, slaves.
Gov.uk Verify is a new, more secure way to prove who you are online.
It stops someone else pretending to be you and helps prevent identity theft.
It's being built by the UK government.
At the moment it's available to people using some digital services, but soon it will be open to all.
It works like this.
You choose from a list of certified companies and set up an identity account.
Certified companies have to meet high standards.
They have to prove that they can look after your personal information.
They'll ask you some questions to establish that it's really you.
I really like how...
They have to be approved so that they can protect your information, your identity, yet the governments themselves are incapable of this.
The UK government continuously, people leaving laptops on trains, in the back of cabs, USB drives going lost.
That's alright, we're from the government, trust us.
They'll ask you some questions to establish that it's really you.
This is my other favorite part.
So now I'm giving information to Verizon.
Information like, you know...
My family history, my children's names, my...
Social security.
Social security number, all in Britain.
Middle name of your mom.
Yeah, all of these great...
It's not just password recovery things.
It's age, you know.
Yeah.
I don't know the full list, but it's just some...
So if I could steal that file from them.
Dynamite.
Dynamite.
We're back to normal.
What the hell has changed?
And you're probably going right into the...
What do you call it?
The credit score database.
I'm sure that's being tapped.
It's always part of it.
Let's continue.
And the insurance companies, of course, soak off that.
Oh, yeah, of course, of course.
They'll ask you some questions to establish that it's really you.
For example, they might ask you for information about your passport or driving license or payment cards.
No, payment cards.
Yeah, sure, here's my credit card number.
Give him everything.
Yeah, he's my driver's license.
He's my passport.
Would you like my birth certificate?
Yeah, this is all dynamite.
This seems totally like something that just...
We're from the government.
We're building at the government.
It's all good, people.
Just you can go back to playing your harpsichord.
Passport or driving license or payment cards.
Setting up an identity account usually takes about 15 minutes.
Once it's done...
That's a lot of time for the setup.
You're getting a lot of documents to them in 15 minutes.
I'd like to have a fly on the wall picking off that information.
If you want to deal with identity theft, you've got it made.
Beautiful.
Just send a fake letter.
Sign up, everybody.
Phishing will be beautiful for this.
Tell everyone exactly what it's going to look like, what they can expect.
You can use your account to access an increasing range of government services.
Eventually, you'll be able to use it with other organizations and even other governments.
Other organizations and other governments.
What does that mean?
What does it mean when you say government and then other organizations?
Hold on a second.
about 15 minutes Once it's done you can use your account to access an increasing range of government services Eventually, you'll be able to use it with other organizations and even other governments other government other organizations and even other governments New World Order Well, it's definitely New World Order stuff, but Then the other organizations I guess would be banking or whatever it all be in the great.
It's just like this stuff doesn't work.
I Well, hold on.
Personal information is only shared when it needs to be.
No single company.
Only when it needs to be shared.
What does that mean?
Well, exactly.
When the authorities say, hey, where was that slave?
Oh, you mean slave 372596 Bravo Bravo Delta IV? Well, let's take a look.
This needs to be shared.
Even other governments.
Personal information is only shared when it needs to be.
No single company or government department knows everything about you.
Golf.UK verifies being tested in public beta. That means we can gather feedback from users and continue to make the service better.
In the world.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, the criminal element must be thrilled.
Notice she didn't say anonymously.
She said privately, not anonymously.
You can't do anything anonymous.
That ends.
That's got to go.
Yeah, good work, UK. Good work.
I'm telling you, the criminals in the UK have got to be just drinking champagne.
Especially once that file is compromised.
Not the one where, you know, the individual little files that get shared around, but the big file in the middle.
Yeah.
Where everything's shared because it's all in that file.
Yes.
That's got to be a great target for people.
Target that file and just get it.
You have everybody's, all the goods on everyone.
Yeah.
Dynamite.
There was one thing...
Let me see...
I wanted to talk about...
Did you see the story that is not getting a lot...
Associated Press published it...
About the money being funded from the Plowshares Fund into NPR? No.
Is that the $100 million?
$100,000.
$100,000, not $100 million.
$100,000.
I thought there were some millions going into them from...
Well, it's been $100,000 a year.
Is this the deal for the Iranian?
Yes, yes, exactly.
Okay.
Yeah.
Which I thought, you know, people really don't understand how this works, but, and I don't know how, was it Ben Rhodes who blew the lid off all of this?
The guy's got a big mouth.
I have no idea.
I can't remember.
I thought I had this story, but I don't know.
Yeah, so the New York Times Magazine article, Rhodes explained how the administration worked with NGOs, experts, proliferation experts, and friendly reporters to build support for the seven-nation accord that curtailed Iran's nuclear activity and softened international financial penalties on Tehran. and friendly reporters to build support for the seven-nation accord We should have a hit list of these, not a hit list, but a list of, a watch list.
We should have a watch list of these reporters.
There's a bunch of them.
They just do the bidding for so many people.
It's unbelievable.
Derode said, we created an echo chamber.
Outside groups like Plowshares helped carry out the administration's message effectively.
And here's how it worked.
So these NGOs receive grants, and Plowshares got a huge grant, and Plowshares grants $100,000 annually to NPR, and here it is.
The Ploughshares grant to NPR supported, quote, national security reporting that emphasizes the themes of U.S. nuclear weapons policy and budgets, Iran's nuclear program, international nuclear security topics, and U.S. policy towards nuclear security.
It is common practice for foundations to fund media coverage of underreported stories, Ploughshares spokeswoman Jennifer Abramson said.
Funding does not influence the editorial content of their coverage in any way, nor would we want it to.
Yeah, right.
All right.
Plowshares has funded NPR's coverage of national security since 2005, the radio network said.
Plowshares' reports show at least $700,000 in funding over that time.
All grant descriptions since 2010 specifically mention Iran.
So how it works is, they receive money from government grants, and then they turn around and say, okay, NPR, here's a grant, but you have to cover these topics.
Now, you can do it however you want, but we're pretty sure that you'll like our experts here who will help you with this.
Here's General Scuba Dabi.
Here is Lieutenant Commander Flukman Bapadup.
And they've also written some books.
And they're very credible.
And I think it would be great if you would use them from time to time, or all the time.
Because we'd hate to have to see the funding go to...
Podcasts.
That'll be the day.
Although, the podcasters, at least many of them, not us, because we would refuse to do such a thing.
But I can see somebody just taking the money, and what do you want me to say?
Yeah, I'll interview your guy.
Podcasts, it's the next frontier for propaganda.
I don't understand why they're not all over this.
Maybe the tech community understands it.
They just dangle some fancy objects and a free pass into the whoop-de-doo event of the week.
You want to go to the Google I.O. event?
Yeah, hey.
Hey, let me get your front seat.
Exactly.
You going to say good things about us?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, great.
Hey, how about a free phone?
How about early access to the APK developers?
APK. K-P-D-P-K. I forget about it.
I'm going to show myself old 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.
And we do have a few people to thank.
And let's begin with Dennis Kovel in North Tonawanda, New York.
$121.
Christopher Bede in Indianapolis, Indiana.
$100.
Dallas Spongberg.
We haven't heard from him for a while.
Sir Dallas.
Yeah, nice.
Sir Dallas.
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada.
$72.15.
Is he saying anything there?
He's got a long note.
Well, I'm looking at Dallas.
I'm looking at Dallas's note here.
Meanwhile, give Spongberg a de-douching.
Uh...
Yes, okay.
I think that's...
Yeah, Dallas Spongberg.
You've been de-douched.
It's a little confused who you're talking about.
Give Spongberg a de-douching.
Wait a minute, I'm looking at Dallas' note.
Yeah, it's the same guy.
Hey!
Hey-o!
Yeah, we're hanging in there.
Shane Lougheed.
It's got to be Lougheed.
He's in Queensland, Australia.
Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6432.
Eric O'Callaghan in Verona, New Jersey.
Hold on a second.
Verona, New Jersey.
I used to live in Verona.
On Afterglow.
No, not Afterglow.
Where do we live?
I forgot the street.
The corner of Afterglow.
Then he says Hillary's secret is Mary Cheney.
Why?
Because she's...
Yeah, we talked about that before.
Because she's lesbian?
Yeah.
What's the secret?
Oh, she's done the nasty with Hillary?
I guess.
No.
I think we've talked to this before.
No, I've never heard this.
I like it.
I've heard it.
I like it, but it's kind of a Richard Gere Dribble thing, if you ask me.
Could be.
But then again, he had some guy tying his dick around his steering wheel and wandering around with a bunch of drugs in his pocket, and he's on CNN. I got meth in my pocket.
Ignore the rope.
I know there's a rope around my neck and my balls, but I got meth in my pocket!
Gregory Keir, 5858, parts unknown.
Robert...
Dieter in Sacramento, California, 5510.
Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan, 50.
The rest of these are all 50.
We don't have a big list.
That's not a big list, no.
No.
And the rest of these are all 50.
I'll name their names and put their locations if there is one.
And at first I will try to get this thing working.
Hang on.
Well, I'll do Daniel LaBoye, and we did him.
Okay, you've got him.
He's in Bath.
Then we have Christine Codega in North Dartmouth.
Let me read her notes.
Hey, John and Adam, I've been an avid millennial listener for about 40 shows now.
Thank you for deconstructing the brainwashed bullcrap news that the media gives off.
I'm a first-time donator, and your last show had me laughing so loudly at my cubicle.
I know what.
I know what it was.
I've got a lot of response to this.
What?
It was, although I kind of stepped on it, but your genius delivery of the last line of the men's song was really, I really did.
Yeah, that really did it.
You didn't step on it enough to ruin it.
No, but you are a comedian.
I don't know why that was even funny.
It was just like you were singing Men, Men, Men, and I just had that thing up.
I got a couple notes, too.
Oh, what else did you get?
No, I'm saying somebody said.
Yeah, you nailed it.
It was funny.
I'm thinking, I know when we're funny, we do some stuff that's kind of funny once in a while.
But I didn't see that as being hilarious.
But okay.
Patrick Maycomb in New York, New York.
Sir Patrick to you, by the way.
Jason Daniels of Parts Unknown.
Brandon Mink in Tempe, Arizona.
Sir Benjamin Smith over here in Oakland, California.
Joshua Defabo in San Francisco, California.
Aaron Held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sir Mark Tanner, who's twice a week, twice a month.
In Whittier, California, 50 bucks.
And last but not least, Sir David Trotsky in Romeoville, Illinois, 50 bucks.
I want to thank all these folks for helping us produce this show.
Yes.
And super thanks to everybody who comes in under the $50 level, typically for reasons of anonymity, but also a lot of people on the subscriptions.
If you donate to the program, please consider one of our subscription options.
That's the stuff that when it's low on above $50, it kind of keeps the servers running.
Although, man, we had a big server bill recently.
Holy crap.
What happened?
Don't you remember?
We bought that new server.
Oh, right.
With the VA, you look at a server, it's like, okay, that's about what a server costs, but then you realize you're buying it in Europe.
Boom, 21% value-added tax.
Yeah, value-added tax.
That's almost a quarter of the amount.
Like, holy crap.
19% on top of that for the exchange rate.
Yes, exactly.
It was horrible.
It was horrible.
Anyway, so we appreciate that.
And just everyone who does anything for the program, whether you're an artist or where you make jingles or end-of-show clips, it's all highly appreciated.
This is how the network is supposed to work in the jobless economy with citizen-free democracy.
Dvorak.org slash N.A.
It's a birthday, birthday of no budget.
Well, pretty short list for today, all right.
All we have is one entry.
David Minnelli is celebrating his 60th birthday today.
And of course, we say happy birthday from all your friends here in the Staff Management, the best podcast in the universe.
Let's see, we have a title change.
Sir Tyler Fox becomes a baron today.
Congratulations, sir.
And of course, you can check out his peerage.
But he said he didn't know what his peerage was going to be yet.
Wasn't that what he said?
Yeah, he's looking around.
Okay, so he's on the prowl.
He's looking around for a land grab.
He's on the prowl.
On the prowl for a grab.
Alrighty, if you have your sword, sir.
Yep.
Yep, nice.
I got mine here.
There it is.
We have one nighting today, and this, of course, was from our insta-knight, Dave Thompson.
Dave, very happy to see you come in here, and if you wouldn't mind standing next to the lectern on the podium, thank you very much for your support of the best podcast, a university amount of $1,000 or more.
Therefore, we are very happy to welcome you to the table that is round of the Knights and the Dames, and I hereby pronounce the KB for Thompson, Knights of the Noah General Roundtable.
For you, my friend, we have...
Poutine and rye, whiskey, meat and water, garlic and broccoli, espresso and hemp milk, cheap wine and chili dogs, ass cream with bear fillings, maker's mark and mushrooms, red boys and chardonnay, hookers and blow.
Of course, we've always got some muttony meat around, hanging around the place.
Go see if you can find some and know at agendanation.com slash rings.
And Eric, the shill, we'll get everything out to you as soon as possible.
Thank you, everybody, for supporting us.
It's appreciated.
Big time.
Much.
Much.
We resist.
We much.
Much.
Here you go.
We had a clip on the last show.
I was kind of baffled by it.
About the report that came out that said, oh, you know, this genetic stuff is great.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hold on one second.
Did Sir Davey have a donation?
Sir Davey?
Yeah.
Who's Sir Davey?
I don't have a Sir Davey on the list.
Well, somebody had a donation and sent in a jingle sequence, so I'll just do it.
Hey, citizen!
All right, for Sir Davey.
I'm sorry.
Someone went through the trouble, I want to make sure.
Oh, I saw that, right.
It was Dave Thompson.
Was that Dave Thompson?
Okay, I'm sorry.
But yet he's Sir Thompson at the round table, so that's why I was confused.
My mistake.
You always change it.
So we had this clip about how...
I thought it was crazy.
It was on Scott Pelley.
It's going on about how frankenfood's good and blah, blah, blah.
Meanwhile, so they, the next, we do another show, the next show, they come out with this story about frankensalmon, which I thought was just a prelude to set people up for this horrible animal that they're developing.
What's the name of this clip?
Franken-salmon.
It's all caps.
I should have known.
Meanwhile, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has approved a genetically modified salmon for sale as food.
It's the first genetically modified animal approved in Canada.
Aqua Advantage Salmon was developed by Massachusetts-based Aqua Bounty Technologies.
They grow twice as fast as natural salmon.
That doesn't sound very good.
Do we want these out in the wild?
We don't want that, no.
Growing twice as fast, eating up the whole place?
I got a sour stomach just thinking about it.
I'm sure it's not even tasty.
Oh my goodness, no.
No, no, no, people.
Hey, I do some good news though.
The World Health Organization is helping everybody out, getting that Ebola money, moved over to the Zika fund.
It's about time.
Yeah.
How do you think they did it?
It was a simple one.
You and I could have known.
It was so easy.
The Brazilian strain of the Zika virus has been found for the first time in Africa.
The World Health Organization has confirmed an outbreak on the island chain of Cab Verde, which has reported three cases of microcephaly.
Oh, beautiful!
We got everybody there anyway.
That's how you do it, people.
No Ebola?
Just move Zika over there.
That's odd.
That may actually work, but this is the current update because they keep trying different tricks every time.
This is the Zika update with another new angle and another beg for money.
Coming back home, the CDC said today that 279 pregnant women in the United States and its territories have tested positive for Zika virus.
The number suddenly tripled because the government changed the way it is reporting cases.
Dr.
John LaPoop is following this.
Dr.
John LaPoop?
Yeah, John LaPoop.
Dr.
John LaPoop, what can you tell us about this stinker situation?
Dr.
John LaPoop is following this.
And this one's a little girl.
All pregnant women who test positive for Zika virus, with or without symptoms, will now be included in a federal registry.
Dr.
Denise Jameson is with the CDC Zika virus response team.
At the beginning of the outbreak we were hoping that women without symptoms would not have adverse pregnancy outcomes.
And since we now know that adverse pregnancy outcomes can occur in women without symptoms, we felt it was really important to start reporting these numbers.
The CDC is now monitoring 157 pregnant women with Zika infection in the 50 states and another 122 in Puerto Rico and other US territories.
In the US, most cases were acquired from travel to affected areas and a few through sexual contact.
The CDC says most of the women are still pregnant.
It's too early to know how often the virus infects the fetus.
We know of less than a dozen cases of pregnant women with Zika who've had adverse outcomes, including miscarriage and birth defects.
In February, we met one of those women, Samantha Mejia, at her home in Illinois.
She had recently miscarried after becoming infected with Zika virus while vacationing in Honduras.
They didn't find a heartbeat, so that was really hard.
Zika was found in the placenta.
Finding out how often the virus causes miscarriage and birth defects is one of the main purposes of the registry.
This registry will follow the women and their babies for one to three years.
That monitoring will require extra resources.
Just one reason the administration asked Congress for $1.9 billion.
That was 88 days ago and still no new funding.
Thanks.
They can't let up on this thing.
They can't.
They can't.
Every story's got that kicker.
Every single story's got that kicker.
No more money.
Where's the money?
And by the way, they slipped in the way they reported that story.
Women had known to have this.
They never talked about the little heads.
In the whole story, they never talked about the little heads.
And I think that's a shame because it's such great B-roll.
They can't get anybody to get little heads because it's obviously Zika not causing these problems.
They're going to have to make a little head.
They're going to bring a little baby over with their little head or something.
They've got to do something.
Wait a minute.
I thought they had one.
It's not going fast enough.
They're all in Brazil.
They've got to get some real white kid, little baby.
Or a black kid.
Anything but a Brazilian.
That's...
They need a little baby with a little bitty head and then they can say, oh, Zika.
You're going to do it.
You watch.
It's going to be within the next month.
I agree.
The problem is we only have black Zika babies.
It doesn't play, dude.
It does not play.
We need a white Zika kid.
Yeah, YZ kid would be funny.
No, no, no.
That doesn't play.
We need to play hard.
Yeah, YZ kid.
What?
A gay small head kid.
Yeah.
That'd cover a lot of bases.
I cover a lot.
Oh my goodness.
Okay, here we go.
We've got to get this story out of the way before we finish the show.
Just so we know the kind of hell that's breaking loose in Turkey and what they're up to and the fact that the EU is a bullshit organization.
Come on, become a member.
This is the latest, Turkey Cracks Down on Itself.
In Turkey, the parliament voted today to strip lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution.
Pro-Kurdish legislators charge that the goal is to prosecute them for allegedly supporting outlawed Kurdish rebels.
It is the latest move against political opponents of the Turkish government.
Yeah.
Now I have this Uber story that...
I could almost do a clip blitz today.
Let me see.
Well, if you want to.
I mean, hold on a second.
Do we have enough time?
Yeah.
Let me see.
I had...
What else did I have?
It's not even that important.
I think we should do it.
Red 33!
Do you have a time once again to go through the Clip Blitz, John C! I said Blitz, Clip Blitz.
Uber story.
Uber story in the Clip Blitz.
And Fortune reports that Uber is testing a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh.
The ride-sharing service equipped Ford Fusions with radars, lasers, and cameras.
Pittsburgh was chosen because Uber's Advanced Technology Research Center is based there.
There reportedly have been no incidents involving the cars.
Man, 33.
Weather is not climate.
I'm playing it, but it's not doing anything.
In India, a severe heat wave has shattered the national benchmark for the hottest day on record as the temperature in the city of Falodi topped a staggering 123 degrees Fahrenheit.
Several hundred people have died so far from the extreme temperatures across India.
increasingly deadly heat waves have been linked to climate change.
Red, 33!
Yo, yo, clear the plans, we're all gonna die!
Do you need to defend Hillary?
Do you ever feel compelled to defend your honor, the honor of your husband, with statements that he's making that go to the core of the relationship?
No.
Hillary says she won.
Clinton today declaring that race is over.
So you get into the general election if you're the nominee for your party?
I will be the nominee for my party, Chris.
That is already done, in effect.
There is no way that I won't be.
Bernie Sanders doesn't see it that way.
Tom Yama's with us live tonight.
And Tom, Hillary Clinton talked today about her own supporters eight years ago, some who said they wouldn't support then-candidate Barack Obama.
David, there's some concerns that Bernie Sanders supporters won't support Hillary Clinton in the general election, but her argument is that back in 2008, 40% of her supporters said they would never support a then-Senator Barack Obama, and we all know how that race ended.
David?
Tom Yama's with us again tonight.
Thank you, Tom.
All right.
One more, maybe.
Red, 33.
Keeps sue over climate change.
Four teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit over climate change.
In a case brought by the teenagers and environmental groups, the Massachusetts Supreme Court found Massachusetts failed to fulfill its legal obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.
In a statement, 17-year-old plaintiff Seamus Miller called the ruling a, quote, historic victory for young generations advocating for changes to be made by the government.
The global climate change crisis is a threat to the well-being of humanity and to my generation that has been ignored for too long, Miller said.
Oh, yeah!
Nice!
One more.
Oh, okay.
Well, now, this one needs a setup, though.
Okay.
So there's not going to be a piece.
Okay.
All right.
This is Valerie Jarrett is going to be on 60 Minutes.
They took a clip from this.
And she's going to be interviewed by someone I completely lost respect for because I'm now convinced she's an idiot.
And that's Nora McDonald.
The pretty girl on...
One of the shows.
She's on the CBS. Pretty girl on one of the shows.
CBS morning show.
Yes.
And she asked the stupidest question in the world.
And then they use this as the highlight of the interview.
So the whole interview is going to be dynamite.
She's got Valerie Jarrett and apparently what had happened...
And let's just say Valerie Jarrett is the personal advisor to President Obama, also known as the real President of the United States.
And she's been doing this for 25 years with him and she's outlasted everybody.
And she...
Apparently, Obama has decided that he's going to move, after he's kicked out of the White House, he's going to move to Washington, D.C. and live in Washington, D.C. I'm sure this has happened before.
Yes.
But this is staggering, apparently, a staggering concept to Norah O'Donnell.
She just is befuddled by this.
It's where the money is.
What is he talking about?
It's where he's got to be.
Yeah, I think he's going to have that.
My brother, my keeper.
My brother, my keeper.
He's setting some shop up there.
Yeah, the Clinton Obama Foundation.
Nora is completely, what?
How could this even possibly happen?
And so this is how it goes.
So that means you're going to have two presidents in the same city, the former president, Barack Obama, and whoever has elected the new president.
How is that going to work?
President Obama will be the former president, and he'll be a citizen just like everybody else, and he'll behave accordingly.
Of that, I'm sure.
Meaning what?
One of the things that I would compliment President Bush Four is, and not just President Bush, but several members of his team as well, who've said to me, we had our eight years, and now we owe you our silence.
And I think that's just the way the president will behave in terms of Washington.
But does that mean that he has a platform on which he can do great good around our country and around the world?
Sure.
But he will leave being the president to the new president.
Red, 33!
Red!
Nice one, Johnny Boy.
That is ridiculous.
Did you listen to her question?
Oh, yeah.
How is it possible?
She says.
That's pretty much what she said, yeah.
Hyperventilating.
How is it possible?
Uh-huh.
Well, we will return on Thursday to bring you...
Another episode of the best podcast in the universe, which is your production.
You're the producers.
We're just channeling for you.
Something like that.
Billboard Music Awards, I think, tonight.
I'll look for the Illuminati messaging.
Do they do them there?
Always.
Always.
Well, good.
You're going to be running that one.
I'll be running that one.
I'll be watching the Warriors.
All right, you do that.
You do that.
And thank you all very much for supporting the program.
Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. We'll be back Thursday.
In the meantime, coming to you from the Crackpot Condo in the Skyscraper in downtown Austin, Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, FEMA Region X, John C. Dvorak.
We will be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
Adios, mofos.
Hey!
Music by Ben Thede.
Yes, the beaches are back open!
Woohoo!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Classified!
day.
Oh my God.
That's classified.
I think she should have been.
What happened?
Classified.
Person.
I have you at the end of the day.
Classified.
Person.
Now they're classified.
Whatever has been secretary.
Now they're classified.
Whatever.
Classified.
Whatever. Classified. Classified.
Classified.
My God.
What happened?
Nothing.
Classified!
Have you ever been a secretary?
I have no question.
I don't know.
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Now here we have ham radio, guys.
Ham Radio is the public service network of last resort.
When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
Hillary Clinton.
I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message.
DH Deutschland, here is the hub.
Adios, mofo.
Okay, you know what?
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game on you under my sharia law you westerners will crap your pants under my sharia law we're going to blow up Paris' fire France.
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