This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 1-5.
This is no agenda.
Requiring respect for my pronouns, Dave D. Dozey, Becky, make it tits, and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here from the capital of the drone star stadium.
Morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's a wreck on the freeway, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Uh-oh.
Wreck on the freeway.
Yes.
Did you hear my pronouns?
I like my new pronouns.
You rattled them off so fast I couldn't hear any of them.
I go by the pronouns Dave D. Dozy, Becky McIntich.
That's my pronouns now.
Okay.
That's a big callback for old people.
That's not even a callback for me.
You don't remember the band Dave D. Dozy, Becky McIntich?
Oh, man.
I know.
My credibility's gone to hell.
Yes.
Dave, it was just saying it as a disc jockey was important.
I bet it was.
If you could say that 20 times.
What's their hit?
Oh, I don't even remember.
Something lame.
I'm sure it's one hit.
Yeah, one hit.
Yes, one lame 60s one-hit wonder.
Exactly.
Oh, boy.
Well...
I tell you, Jean.
The alternative universes are just so apparent and prevalent today.
Yeah.
This morning, CBS This Morning, had a little piece, and they brought in Jane Pauly.
And who's the other?
Bring in the old hacks.
We can't get enough of our own hacks.
There's a reason for it.
And Ted Koppel.
That's right, Ted Koppel.
Oh, God, Ted Koppel.
Maybe this was ABC. That must have been ABC. That can't have been CBS. It must have been ABC. No, see, I... Isn't Koppel ABC? Yeah, right.
Pauly?
But Katie was...
No, Pauly.
Jane Pauly.
Jane Pauly.
I mean, Jane Pauly was traditionally...
Oh, Jane Pauly.
What was she on?
I think she was...
I just thought she was NBC. No, she's NBC. Wasn't she on the Today Show for a long time?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's NBC. Hmm.
Well, it fits right in with the whole theme.
I'm just going to play.
It was a 10-minute report.
It's in the show notes.
I suggest everyone take a look at it because you'll get a kick out of it.
As this past week's battle over health care reminds us, the great divide in American politics shows no sign of closing.
Whoa, you got butt slammed!
Yeah!
A divide in American politics shows no sign of closing or even quieting down.
Our cover story is reported by Sunday morning senior contributor Ted Koppel.
Increasingly, we Americans occupy alternate universes.
Booyah!
Booyah!
Right off the bat, Ted Koppel.
We're so early on this game.
We are good.
That's how good we are, man.
I hate to toot my own horn, but...
Let us continue.
Increasingly, we Americans occupy alternate universes.
To be honest, I inherited a mess.
It's a mess.
No, you inherited a fortune.
We elected a mess.
Isn't this great?
They are now making our point for us.
We don't even have to edit this stuff anymore.
They're taking the single piece of information, showing the two sides.
Thank you, CBS. What is this, a comedy show?
I mean, they're doing this on all these shows.
Not to interrupt your clip, let your clip play out, but I've got another example of what you just exampled.
There is very little common ground left, only battling perceptions of reality.
Neither side seems to have much use for the other, and in this age of the internet and cable TV, very little is out of bounds.
Donald Trump, America's wealthiest hemorrhoid.
Democrats want to dissolve the borders.
Is that what they want to open borders?
Is that what the snake Obama did?
There are legions driving the country further and further apart.
President Trump has still done more for this country in the last 40 days than Barack Obama did in eight years.
A Pew study finds 81% of voters say they cannot agree with the other side on basic facts, which may owe something to the president's campaign against fake news.
Came from the alternate universe.
There you go.
This piece was actually pretty serious.
Except they didn't take it as far as we do.
We don't say sides.
We talk about the actual dimensions of the universe.
They're so close.
If they only believed in science, they would actually present it properly.
Well, they don't.
They just talk a big game about science.
So you found some of this too?
No, it's this idea of...
And it's been going on in the mainstream for a while until you just...
I just thought it was...
I wasn't thinking of it as a bigger meme, but now that you played that, now I am.
So we have to look out for this.
And now I think about it.
We've been seeing a lot of this on the mainstream media.
And the curious thing is, I think it began at Fox.
This was a number of years ago.
I remember Fox doing this.
They'll be doing a whole serious piece and they throw it to one of the monologues of a comedian.
Yeah, well that's exactly what you do.
And by the way, CNN is also bringing back comedians.
Who's that Arab guy?
He's apparently a stand-up comic.
I've never seen his routine, but he always comes on and does political commentary.
Ah, damn.
I'll look his name up.
Doesn't matter.
Everyone's bringing comedians in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So let's see.
I've got the one here.
It is...
This was...
You know, they do this thing on CBS... Of course, this would be CBS. And it is a compendium of all the hot news stories of the weekend.
This is done on that morning show with...
What's his name?
Charlie Rose?
Charlie.
Charlie looks like he's been drinking too much.
And it was, here it is, CBS rolling news summaries.
This little ditty was dropped right in the middle of Mosul and something else.
The magazine published an interview with Donald Trump, and when they asked if he thought the false statements that he's made have damaged his reputation, Trump replied, I can't be doing so badly because I'm president and you're not.
I told my two-year-old daughter that he said that, and she was like, dude, grow up.
Yeah.
Now, what bothered me about that was, that was an...
I mean, talking about, you know, if you're going to call somebody a liar, don't be one yourself.
Because it's a lie that he told his two-year-old daughter...
And she said, dude, grow up.
Good point.
I think we can dispute that, yes.
It's very disputable.
Two-year-old doesn't care at that level and can't talk.
All it can do is say is, I want that one, that one, that one, I want that one, that one.
Did you have that same experience with your two-year-old?
That one, that one.
I never had that.
We had two things we didn't get.
One was that, and the other one was why.
Why?
Oh, no, I didn't get that.
We got a lot of that one.
I want that one, that one, that one.
Yeah, I never got that.
Anyway, so this is bullshit.
Yeah, it's a funny joke, but you could have actually made it somewhat believable if the kid was maybe...
10 or 12?
A little older, yeah.
And he doesn't have a kid that's 10 or 12, so that's a lie that way, too.
So that's a no-win situation.
But it seems to me, it's just a cheap shot.
Hello?
Of course.
Of course.
I have to say that I've been very disappointed.
I'm getting more than annoyed by this continued, arrogant, mainstream media telling us what to think, how to think, and lecturing us constantly.
It's just ridiculous.
It's never ending.
And the other side...
Well, trust me, they're getting very tired of you not following along with the rules.
As long as you're not a rule follower, they'll continue to be annoying that way.
Yeah, well, there's that for sure.
So what's on the agenda for today's No Agenda?
Well, I have an expose, of course.
An expose.
Oh, you're going to run it?
Okay.
Yeah, I'll get to it before the break and do a couple more lighthearted things.
Yeah, I got an Al Gore expose.
Worked on it quite a bit over the weekend.
Has he been making more passes than masseuses?
You mean humping masseuses like a poodle in heat?
I think that was her actual quote.
Yes.
I do have some hot-breaking news that we should be aware of.
Oh, hold on a second.
It's like, hold on.
Hot-breaking news!
We go over to John C. Dvorak.
John, what are you learning?
We're learning that they're giving up on Kony.
Play the clip.
Kony 2012.
Oh no!
Kony 2012!
...head of the U.S. Africa Command says the five-year hunt for warlord Joseph Kony is ending.
Kony and his militia have terrorized Central Africa for decades, forcing kidnapped children to serve as soldiers, and raping and slaughtering villagers.
But U.S. Special Forces helped to reduce Kony's army to about 100, and he is now said to be in poor health.
Wow.
For those of you too young to remember, back in 2012, my friends, come up on my knee, I'll tell you a little story.
There was a video that went viral, and we still don't know how it happened, and it was called Kony 2012.
The idea was this guy was so horrible, he was killing children, using children as child soldiers, and just horrible raping children, children, children, everything wrong with children.
And we had 50 million views overnight, we think.
That's what the numbers said.
It was phony views, but it was wild.
It just went completely crazy.
And everyone's like, yes, yes, we have to do this.
Yes, everybody was on board.
Everybody was good to go.
And then the guy who was running the whole campaign freaked out and ran around naked jumping on cars and flipping his Johnson around and just went completely apeshit.
And that kind of ruined the campaign.
But it was great for the show.
Well, this particular report concerns me because if they have the intelligence, they've gathered the intelligence that he's down to 100 kids and he's sick.
Give or take a few five-year-olds.
Yeah, and he's sick.
Why didn't they grab him?
Why can't they get him?
We have a security state around the world that's blanketing everything.
We see this Gorgon stare from the drones.
We can see down to 10 centimeters.
Nah, can't find him.
They can't find this joker.
I don't think the guy ever existed.
I think the whole thing was an act.
Maybe the gold mine they were actually looking for just didn't turn out to be that profitable.
Who knows what they were doing?
Drug running.
I don't know.
It doesn't sound like they were looking for this guy.
No, not at all.
That's for sure.
It was a good story.
Yeah, it was a great story.
And what a campaign.
What a campaign.
It was just a fantastic campaign.
I have a quick little ditty here, just a little update what's happening in the European unions of Euroland.
Everybody except for Theresa May, of course, all leaders of the Starfleet Command, headed off to Rome.
Wait, were they even in Rome?
Yes.
They need to re-sign the Rome Declaration.
She had threatened not to sign it, supposing a multi-speed Europe.
But now the Polish Prime Minister, Beata Shidlow, who'd feared the East would be consigned to second-class status, has put pen to paper to agree the Rome Declaration.
The final document doesn't contain any reference to a multi-speed Europe.
Instead, setting the principle, the countries continue altogether.
This is something we have to be very careful because I think that all countries in the European Union should be ready to continue together because I really cannot imagine that this mechanism, that some countries will go faster, can be the principle of the functioning of the European Union.
As Europe marks its 60th anniversary, Donald Tusk, born in Gdansk, reflected on his childhood and made a dig at those now ruling in Warsaw.
I lived behind the iron curtain for more than half of my life, where it was forbidden to even dream about those values.
Yes, back then that really was a two-speed Europe.
Looking ahead, the Rome Declaration concludes.
We have united for the better.
Europe is our common future.
So I didn't know this was going on.
I knew they had to celebrate the...
I didn't know this was going on.
You got caught me by surprise.
Well, I knew they were celebrating the 60th anniversary of getting this ball rolling.
So they had this full declaration that all 27 member states signed.
And it's pretty much a, hey, let's jerk each other off.
It says nothing.
We, the leaders of 27 member states of EU institutions, take pride in the achievements of the European Union.
The construction of European unity is a bold, far-sighted endeavor.
It's really just, oh, how good are we?
We're so damn good.
I do make a couple of points here.
You know, this European...
I don't know whether people took enough history to realize that This is not the first time, even though this is 60 years old, this is a celebration, I think, of the anniversary.
It's not the first time this was attempted.
Napoleon tried it.
Hitler tried it.
So now we're trying it again.
It never works out.
Well, if you just listen to the points they made in these times of change and aware of the concerns of our citizens, we commit to the Rome agenda.
Hey, we have a no agenda, they got a Rome agenda.
And they pledged to work towards it.
Here's what they pledged.
They got together.
You know they did a lot of drugs.
Drinking, whoring and stuff.
It's Rome.
It's great.
So they got together and they said, let's sign this.
Safe and secure Europe is their first point.
Huh?
Okay.
A prosperous and sustainable Europe, which creates jobs and growth.
Yes, very good.
A social Europe.
The union based on sustainable growth promotes economic and social progress as well as cohesion and convergence and upholding the integrity.
And a stronger Europe on the global scene.
Yes, we'll continue to support NATO. And then they just wind it up.
We will pursue these objectives, firm in the belief that Europe's future lies in our own hands and the European Union is the best instrument to achieve our objectives.
We pledge to listen and respond to the concerns expressed by our citizens and will engage with our national parliaments.
Thank you.
We will work together at the level that makes a real difference, be it the European Union, national, regional, local, and in a spirit of trust and loyal cooperation, both among member states and between them and the EU institutions, in line with the principle of subsidiarity.
We will allow for the necessary room for maneuver at the various levels to strengthen Europe's innovation and growth potential.
We want the union to be big on big issues and small on small ones.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
We want the union to be big on big issues and small on small ones.
We will promote a democratic, effective, and transparent decision-making process and better delivery.
We as leaders to conclude.
Working together with the European Council and among our institutions will ensure that today's agenda is implemented so as to become tomorrow's reality.
We have united for the better.
Europe is our common future.
But here's how you know that they were all plastered.
They messed up the signing of the document.
to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding treaty of the European Union.
Oh, sorry, that was the wrong one.
The hell?
Is this the right one?
Is that the same thing I just played?
No, that can't be.
Ah, yeah, bro, another builder.
This shows strength amid a time of turbulence.
Brisson, absent here, as it prepares to exit the block.
Here we go.
The centerpiece of celebrations, the Rome Declaration, which talks of peace and unity.
I will sign, my dear friends, the Declaration of Rome with a pen, he says.
I should say the pen used in 1957 by Luxembourg to sign the Treaty of Rome.
These are the signatures that last.
The leaders put pen to paper in the Campidoglio Palace, the very same place that the six founding states signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957, launching the European Economic Community, the EU. The declaration promises to listen to citizens, and some have lots to say right now, with anti-EU protests having been planned around the anniversary event.
Brexit has helped fuel Eurosceptic nationalists, challenging governments from Stockholm to Sicily.
Pope Francis said on Friday...
I should probably just go home when this happens.
Where your punchline was missing?
Yeah, the punchline is they all signed on the wrong line.
Guys were signed next to other guys' names.
And then they all wound up taking pictures of it.
They're all taking pictures of it going, oh, I completely messed it up.
I think you may be misinterpreting it.
One of the guys signed, and then when it said date, the guy's date signed.
Yes.
Exactly.
Would have been a better punchline if I had the right clip.
Oh, well.
So, that's what they're doing with your valuable EU tax euros.
Having a party over there.
They do a good job of spending.
When you get that much, I guess we've learned that lesson.
We know how to spend money.
Even more so we can spend that too.
We as in Americans, not we the no agenda show.
So that's for sure.
No.
But we as Americans, we know how to spend money.
Meanwhile, John McCain was over in Brussels for something called the Brussels Forum, which is, I believe it is financed by, oh, it's still the old Marshall Plan money, I guess, or Marshall Plan Germany, or maybe that's...
He just wanted to go to Brussels.
Yeah.
I ran into a bunch of documents.
I was going through WikiLeaks and found a couple of things.
And I was just looking at Maxine Waters.
She's like the junket queen.
Don't tell me you have a clip.
No, I don't have a clip.
Oh, that's too bad.
She's a junket queen.
She's in Peru one week.
She's very important.
And then she's in Paraguay of all places because there's about six or seven of these Democrats and one Republican who are all on this junket list and it's organized by one of the attendees and they create these phony baloney events and they go there.
And hang out and eat meat.
I have no idea.
Maxine has been a staple on the scene for years, John.
Yes.
Even in the 80s, the bands were singing about her.
Fantastic.
So McCain is on the panel.
He's actually there with, what's the guy's name?
Another senator.
Stanford?
Sanford, I think.
And I saw this tweet go out, people saying that he had mentioned this.
It took me a while to find video of it in order to get a clip.
I think it probably took me two hours to find a video and get a clip.
And no one else on any of the alternative medias who tweeted this even could find it.
So I'm pretty proud I have this bit from John McCain.
And, of course, we know he is a complete New World Order guy.
No nations, no borders.
He wants it all.
He wants it all.
And it was time for us to present some proof that he really is all in with this idea.
Senator McCain, the floor is yours.
On power?
Yes, well, on the future of America and American power.
Well, I think that we can't consider American power without considering the fact that the New World Order that was established following two horrific holocausts and the worst conflicts in history, if you want to gauge it by numbers of killed, size, dimensions, that New World Order...
Was established and functioned largely in the cause of peace and prosperity for more than 70 years.
We now see that New World Order under a type of strain that is never seen before.
I count three New World Orders there.
Do you think he's on board with the New World Order?
Oh yeah.
What he said was, that little comment he said at the end is kind of bullshitty.
Play the end of that thing again.
There's more if you want to hear it.
The world order under a type of strain that is never seen before.
It's a type of strain.
What I guess he has to be referring to then is the strain on the current new world order.
Because the strain, especially within Europe over the past, I don't know, 150 years, is...
Or longer.
It's been pretty intense.
And I guess it backed it off a little bit.
But I've said this before and I've said it in tweets and people always ridicule me for it.
I say, what really created this, the calmness and the lack of big wars are the nukes.
The giant bombs.
The H-bomb.
Yes.
That's what stopped everything in its tracks because no one's been able to figure a workaround.
Well, he says 70 years.
The New World Order, he says, was created 70 years ago.
So is he saying World War II? Is he saying that this is when it started?
Yeah.
Okay.
And then Truman came in with the security state, which he, in his deathbed, he regretted setting up the CIA, which I thought was interesting.
Yeah.
Because they just don't, you can't control them, as we are witnessing.
Yes.
And...
Yeah, but I'd trace it all to the H-bomb, or the original bomb they dropped on the A-bomb.
Should we listen to the rest of his spiel here?
Whether it be refugees, whether it be the breakdown of the rule of law, whether repression of freedom of the press, governments becoming more and more dictatorial, even...
In Europe, the rise of China, the 6 million refugees and 400,000 killed in Syria.
I do like the 6 million meme.
This is new.
I've not heard this number specifically.
I do like it because it's an obvious callback to 6 million Jews.
Exactly.
Keep your eye on it.
400,000 killed in Syria and all of the old standards that we observed for 70 years, which made the last 70 years one of the greatest periods of peace Hold on a second.
Stop, stop, stop.
You can't go on about, I don't know, 100,000 dead here and 100,000 dead.
I don't know how many were killed in Iraq.
He says 400,000 in Syria alone, which is the number from the Syrian observatory.
I guess over a million killed.
Yeah, it's small potatoes compared to World War I and World War II, especially combined.
But it's not peace.
Yeah.
It's New World Order.
Years which made the last 70 years one of the greatest periods of peace in the history of the world.
Yeah, he conveniently forgets Korea, Vietnam.
There's a lot of things he's forgetting there.
Is now under strains that...
Bosnia.
I believe we have not fully appreciated the dimensions of, nor are we right now adequately addressing.
Okay, thank you very much, John McCain.
Appreciate your commentary.
New York!
Well.
Yeah.
He's a New World Order guy.
The New World Order.
You know, I'm almost now getting more and more convinced.
I didn't get this clip.
I can get it if you don't have it on the Bill Maher show.
Yeah, I do have a Bill Maher show clip.
It may not be what you're talking about.
Is it Mench?
Yes, Mench and Chris Hayes about Islamic tolerance.
Yeah.
I have that.
I am thinking, this is kind of a far out, but With the influx of Muslims into Europe and then Erdogan.
And by the way, this clip needs to be played.
Let's play this Erdogan going nuts clip as kind of a prelude to what I'm going to say.
Turkey's president issued a stark warning to European states today.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that they stop barring Turkish government officials from rallies of Turkish emigres.
They are meant to drum up support for expanding Erdogan's powers.
In Ankara today, the Turkish leader said that Europe has to change its ways or face the consequences.
These incidents are closely followed.
If you continue this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets.
If you stay on this dangerous path, you will sustain the biggest damage.
Turkey holds a referendum on expanding Erdogan's powers next month.
Wait a minute.
Them fighting words right there.
I think.
Dang!
He said, you won't be safe, you Europeans?
Yes, Europeans.
What a douche.
I'm going to douche that guy.
Douchebag!
I got some more about him, but let's stay with the New World Order.
Well, then he goes on and says that Muslims, Turks in particular, I guess, should all breed three to five kids, and then they can just push the Europeans and the Westerners out of the picture.
Which was a conspiracy theory ten years ago.
Yeah, there's a conspiracy.
You were crazy if you said this.
Are you insane?
You're telling me they're going to take over by breeding in our country?
Are you nuts?
Nah, that's not going to happen.
So he's advocating that.
And it seems to me that guys like McCain, who don't really care...
I mean, if you're one of the...
And I've said it before, again, I'm not repeating myself, but I'm just saying it differently...
Is that these rich guys, and McCain would be part of the elites, they just don't want their stuff taken.
And as far as they're concerned, they don't care.
But the populace has to be controlled.
And this latest thing, when Trump wins because of a bunch of uncontrollable working class people who are scum.
Cannon fodder.
They should be dead.
They're no good.
These people, what are we going to do about this?
Well, let's You know, long-term strategy, even though we're going to be dead, but our stuff will be intact.
And our children, our offspring, our offspring will have our stuff.
They'll have the stuff, and they'll keep it.
Let the Muslims take over, because they run a stricter ship than we can.
We can't run.
We have too much freedom.
I mean, the Chinese know how to run big operations, but we don't.
No, no.
We're crazy with the freedom stuff.
It's dumb.
Yeah, it's dumb.
Chinese know how to, they've got the workaround, they know what they're doing, as far as we can tell.
So I guess what you want to lead into here is Bill Maher had Louise Mench on, and she is, as far as we know, British intelligence, or was.
She's one of the people who claims that all of this, the Trump dossier is true.
And she's on with Chris Hayes, the other lesbian from MSNBC. And I say that with love.
And they're talking about tolerance.
And of course this is where people in Dimension B, their brains start to fry because Bill Maher is supposed to be a Dimension B guy.
And we have to realize that Maher is a religion hater.
And he particularly dislikes the Muslims.
And it's like, by the way, I think it's going to get him killed.
It could.
In fact, he ends this and walks off the set in a huff.
He's so pissed off about what's taking place because these are his people who are against him.
Yeah, well, he walks off the set.
That was on the after show.
But that's the piece I have.
Maybe you're looking for something else.
Oh, the piece on the show itself is actually quite good.
But Chris Hayes is such a weenie that he just kind of defers to Mensch, even though he tries to get into the conversation.
Yeah, I'll play this.
Let's see if this is what you're talking about.
I clipped it because I thought it was interesting.
Let me ask this.
I've asked this question before.
If a European country sometime in the future became 51% Muslim, would it be the same country?
Would it have the same values, the same laws?
Would laws change?
Would you ask that question about Jews?
I will.
Would you ask that question about Catholics?
This is the thinking.
I asked that question, and the answer is it wouldn't change, because they're already the fucking majority.
But Muslims are not.
You're telling me that if a European country became 51% Muslim, it would basically be the same country you grew up in?
The problem would not be Islam.
It would be homogeneity.
It would be homogenous.
You're talking about everything where everybody is one faith group.
But I'm talking about our fundamental principles, like equality of women.
Separation of religion and state.
Respect for minorities.
Rule of law as opposed to religious rule.
Do you know about the Westboro Baptist Church?
There are a whole bunch of fundamentalists.
Again, this false equivalency.
Matt, please.
I'm going to hurt your reputation by helping you.
I'm from Kansas.
I know what that is.
Look, we have to call things as they are.
So Matt, will you tell me this?
Can you explain to me the structure of the government of Indonesia?
I can't.
Okay.
Do you know that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world?
Yes, we do.
So if you're telling me you don't know anything about the way that the largest Muslim country in the world...
Oh, I could give you statistics about Indonesia.
I could tell you that in Indonesia, if you want to be a woman policeman or a woman military person, you have to undergo the two-finger test where they tell if you're a virgin.
Right, but that's Indonesia's problem.
Is that true?
That's pretty cool.
That's badass.
Those guys are doing that.
Hey, hey, Sergeant!
Future Sergeant, come over here!
Damn, is that true?
They'll have blasphemy laws in Indonesia.
Had you heard of that?
I have not heard of that, but Mar would probably have that fact correct.
But I think it was kind of...
Oddly pretentious that Chris Hayes, out of the blue, asked the other guy who was supporting Mar, the other guy's a Republican, he asked him, do you know how the government of Indonesia works?
What does that have to do with anything except just to prove that somebody doesn't know something?
That is the kind of weird, odd style of arguing that is very difficult.
You have to understand, though, people like Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow as well, but also Ezra Klein, Are held up on such a pedestal by Dimension B people.
And I know this because I see it all over the face bag.
As if Ezra Klein knows anything.
It's disheartening, kind of.
Now, of course, what happens, and this went viral over the weekend, you get the real Brits out there on the street talking to the media.
Of course, this guy's obviously a nationalist, a white supremacist, a Nazi, just a horrible, hating, hater, hate, hate, hate, hate guy.
We have over 3,000 Muslims who are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Every week.
It costs £9 billion a year.
We're following and waiting for them to do this.
We have had 450 ISIS fighters been allowed to return to our country.
They've gone and fought for ISIS. They've been in training camps.
They've been beheading people.
They've been raping people.
And they're walking the streets of our capital city.
They're living with us.
Living.
Our government have failed us, Theresa May, because you haven't been strong.
You've been weak.
You've showed cowardice.
He's very quick to label this as a foreign terrorist.
Because my head is not up my arse.
My head is not up my arse.
This is an Islamic jihad attack.
The man that done this would have either been radicalised in a prison or he would have been radicalised on the streets of the UK with full knowledge of our government and our security services.
They will know who he is.
- Do you have information that no one else seems to hear? - Yeah, mate, I have information that shows there was four terrorist attacks last week in France.
Four in France.
There was 12 planned last year.
Driving your car like this man has done is exactly what the Inspire magazine, which is Al Qaeda's magazine, which was downloaded by 50,000 British Muslims last year.
50,000 British Muslims downloaded a terrorist manual in our country.
50,000, not 10, not 20, 50,000 people who wanna see exactly what you see there.
They want war, they want death, they want destruction, and we keep on pandering, like you just come up to me, saying it's got nothing to do with Islam.
It's got everything to do with Islam.
It's got everything to do with Islam.
I'm simply asking how you're...
I'm on the reality.
This is the reality.
The reality is this is a war.
These people are waging war on us for time.
This has gone on for 1,400 years.
This is nothing new.
And the whole time while this goes on, police leaders or political leaders want to invite more!
They want to invite more!
My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
I don't know why, it just seemed to fit.
It just seemed to fit.
It sounded the same kind of tone.
So it's actually, you're like mixing records at this stage.
Let's, I just want to go back and mention the Mar thing that was on the show, which was bad enough, where she goes off and again, Hayes is there kind of trying to support this crazy woman.
She comes off and says this event in London had nothing to do with Islam.
Yeah.
Well, there you go.
And that was her position.
And she maintained it no matter what March.
Really?
Yes.
Oh, jeez.
I have to get this clip.
I can't watch the show.
It's hard for me to watch anything anymore.
Well, you don't really have to watch it anymore because people are dogging it so you can get these clips anywhere.
But she goes on.
You can get this clip right now within five seconds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But she goes on about it.
It had nothing to do.
And what Mar was red in the face, and they're going back and forth, and she's just maintained her position.
She says, no, you're full of crap.
This has nothing to do with, you know, nothing to do, nothing to do.
And Hayes was like bobbing his head, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was really funny because this is, Mar has got to be beside himself as a kind of a progressive liberal.
Religion hater.
And a religion hater combined, which if you think about it, mostly the progressives, generally speaking, are atheists.
Mar being a great example of that.
And so he would see this as a religious situation, because all these bad things are from religion.
And she is also, although she was a member of the Tory party when she was an MP, she would go on with this, no, it's got nothing to do with it.
And then what did it have to do with?
We don't know.
But the guy's dead.
Well, amongst this, something else cropped up, which was pretty easy for me to deconstruct into what was going on.
And it just kind of slipped in there.
But luckily, a report from...
I think this is a report from BBC... It's right in the report what's going on, and then I was able to kind of deconstruct what was happening.
This is about the laptop and tablet ban, which I had to really go back.
I had to look at DHS. I had to look at all the rules.
Where did this come from?
What are they talking about?
What are the rules?
Well, I do have an intro clip for that.
Well, I'm going to play this because this is intro clip and it has all the clues right in it.
So if it doesn't suffice, we'll pick up yours.
Saturday was the deadline for Middle East Airlines to implement new rules regarding certain electronic devices in aircraft cabins.
Ten airports across eight countries are covered in a ban on large electronic devices like laptops and tablet computers.
The UK announced similar restrictions, naming entire countries.
On the first day of this electronics ban being officially implemented here in Turkey at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, things seem to be running smoothly.
We spoke to passengers there.
Some expressed some frustration with this, but they did seem, for the most part, to accept this as a new reality.
I just want to make sure you heard in the beginning there that it's not just the U.S., but also the U.K. has this same ban in place.
A lot of people miss that.
In fact, I know they missed it because I'm now seeing the Trump laptop ban.
No, no, no, no.
It is a unified ban.
The U.S. and the U.K. both are banning, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to give you, I'm going to make a wager, take wagers for a buck.
We're going to see France and the Netherlands join this laptop tablet ban very shortly, and I'll tell you why in a minute.
New reality of travel these days.
Turkish Airlines, one of the airlines that is impacted by the ban that is enforcing it right now, is also coming up with innovative ideas to try and make this less stressful for their passengers, try to keep them happy, and also to make sure that they don't lose business because of this electronic ban.
Right now, they're also giving passengers the option of rather than checking in these devices, that they can keep them on them.
Until the last possible minute and when they are about to board, that is when they can hand them over to airline staff who will put them in bubble wrap and also in hard cases and hand them back to the passengers after they land.
For their part, Turkish officials believe that this ban is unjust and unfair.
They say that there are enough and sufficient security measures already in place at Ataturk International Airport.
So they say they are going to be talking to U.S. officials about reviewing this and reassessing having Turkey on that list.
Now, so I'm guessing where you're going.
I'm no weapons expert, but I'm pretty sure that if you're afraid of laptops and tablets and passengers, and they have video of this, hand them off while walking onto the plane and they're put in bubble wrap and then stored down below, effectively creating a nuclear-sized bomb.
If, let's say, there's three laptops that are explosive, they'll all blow up together, which sounds like a really good idea.
Makes no sense.
Makes nothing but sense.
But the clue is in that, obviously.
And I think this is a total Trump move, and it's coordinated, and it boils down to this.
This is not a country ban.
This is an airport ban, specifically flights that originate at these airports.
And the airlines that originate at these airports are Emirates, Etihad Airways, Qatar.
I think those are the main ones.
And these airlines, all of them, have recently expanded their service into U.S. cities, Chicago, Washington, D.C. Of course, Etihad Airlines is a major advertiser at the Verizon Center there for the Washington Wizards.
And this is nothing more than making air travel shit on these airlines so everyone will choose the U.S. carriers.
Now, the U.S. carriers don't actually fly.
They share codes with Air France and KLM, which is why I predict that France and British Airways...
That France and the Netherlands will soon join up with this.
This is nothing but squelching competition, making it crappy for travelers because you can only take your phone.
You can't take your Kindle.
You can't take your laptop.
You can't take a tablet.
In fact, anything bigger than the iPhone 7 Plus and I guess the explosive Galaxy is still allowed or the new version of it.
This is just purely to squeeze these guys out of the market.
I hope you're right, because my thinking is different.
And I agree with you 100%.
This is not anything about safety, because putting these things in the hole...
Bundled!
Bundled!
Yeah, even worse, bundled.
I think this is a...
I don't know how they're going to implement it, how they're going to do it, but I think it would be doable.
This is a way to target people.
Get a hold of their laptops legally and go through them.
Look for stuff.
Find stuff.
Whatever you can.
Download the whole laptop.
I don't know how many they could do on a flight, but once you check it in and check the luggage, as it happened to me the other day, I opened my luggage and there's a little piece of paper in there telling me that they've been going through my stuff.
And I think you can go grab, and especially if you know who the people are that are checking in, you say, oh, this guy.
I've always wanted to see what's on his laptop.
No, that's just true.
I'm sure that is being seen as a nascent benefit.
That would be the way to go, it seems to me.
And now you can grab the laptops and the phones.
They didn't do the phones, but they should have.
They should have done the phones, too.
Because that's even better.
I think it's great.
And since we already know from the WikiLeaks that they have all the back doors to all these things, so you can't really block anyone from really...
And if they did have some really great encryption, then you get even more suspicious and demand to see the laptop on entry to the country.
Or you could plant some kiddie porn on one of them.
That's another great thing to do.
Oh, you definitely have to plant kiddie porn, yeah.
That's another great...
That's a great...
It's one of their favorites, actually.
It's a great thing, yeah.
Meanwhile, we have troubles with our friends up there up north with Scandinavia.
This is very, very, very sad because, you know, I'm just saddened by this news about the border.
I thought we were pretty cool with our northern neighbors.
Turns out we're not.
In the meantime, uncertainty over the travel ban has Canada's largest school system in Toronto taking measures.
Until further notice, all future trips to the U.S. are halted, their students and staff.
Paul, is this a political decision or a practical one?
I mean, the school board's very clear that, look, this is a practical decision.
You're talking about, you know, a quarter million students possibly affected.
And as you know all too well, Jonathan, this is a big tradition for a lot of school groups.
I didn't know this.
This seems to be a big tradition that, you know, when you're in high school in Scandinavia, then you come to the U.S. and you go, I don't know, shopping or something.
That's what you do, by the way.
But they go to the United States.
Not with your dollar.
Sorry, Canada.
Traditions that have been going on for decades.
The school board saying, look, we cannot take the risk that a student or staff member will be left behind.
And the reason this is happening is anecdotal evidence from the border that at certain times people are held behind, questioned, and then not allowed to enter.
And you can imagine, Jonathan, the kind of situation that people believe may happen where you have...
Here in Canada, as you know, very diverse population.
You may have a child who perhaps was not born in Canada.
And they just don't want that feeling that one child was singled out and left behind and would have to then be picked up at the border by their parents.
They've decided that for this moment in time, until everything is clear, with or without a travel ban in place, they are canceling all trips to the United States.
How about that?
Well, a couple things to note.
Well, first of all, we all know that Canadians disguise their terrorists as children.
We all know that.
The point is that the border guys are generally speaking, on the Canadian border specific, dicks.
And by the way, that's going both ways.
They're two-way dicks.
They're dicks going in.
The Canadians are dicks.
They're weird dicks.
And so I think they're legitimate fear.
I think it's a legitimate fear.
Let's hold this one kid back.
Of course.
This will piss them off.
Hey, okay, Abdul, you have to stay in the closet over here.
Just stay put.
Okay, you kids can go through.
I mean, I can almost see it, having been a government worker, of doing that as a joke.
Yeah.
It's sad is what it is, man.
It's sad but true.
So sad.
All right, here we go.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
That's right, everybody.
We are going to the climate gate.
We're going to ground zero of the climate gate.
That could only be one and only Mr.
Former Vice President Albert Gore, who is back on the scene.
He's back on the scene.
He's got a new movie.
The movie is an inconvenient sequel, Truth to Power.
That's right.
Ten years after the original.
Is the name Truth to Power or Inconvenient Sequel?
It is the pre-title, as he says it.
The pre-title is an Inconvenient Sequel, Truth to Power.
That's very creative.
I like that.
I like that too.
Now, I need to give a little background, my own personal background.
In 2005, we had started Pod Show.
This was with Venture Capital Money, something I'll never do again, but it was fun, with Kleiner Perkins.
And Kleiner Perkins, they had a CEO weekend.
And we all went to Pebble Beach, which was really, really a horrible weekend for me.
Because, of course, what everyone does at Pebble Beach is, let's go golfing!
Of course.
Yeah.
Well, guess what?
You don't golf.
I don't golf.
And Ray Lane, one of the general partners, said, hey, I got you some shoes.
You're coming with us.
And that evening during the final...
You don't really, by the way, you don't really need Spike's shoes to golf.
Well, I still have them, though.
I have golfing shoes.
Yeah, okay.
So, you know, they were wrapping this all.
And this is CEOs from every big Kleiner Perkins company you can imagine.
Right up to the Google boys.
And then all of a sudden, and we have a special award for Adam Curry.
And I'm getting up out of my seat.
I'm like, wow, I got an award.
For the most strokes ever at this golf course.
It was the meanest thing anyone had ever done to me.
Oh, that's cute.
All of Silicon Valley was laughing at me.
Thanks.
Thanks, douchebag.
But at this get-together...
You got humiliated.
Yes, yes, I did.
You were the butt of a joke.
Yeah.
You got butt slammed.
All I did is...
I got super butt slammed.
Whoa!
You got butt slammed!
But it was fun.
You make fun of the MTV guy.
Make fun of the guy with Tourette's, okay?
Thanks.
I can't play golf because I have Tourette's.
Alright, the cat is out of the bag.
I should have had my t-shirt on.
I have a new t-shirt I'm working on.
Tourette's.
It's what makes us tick.
That's very cute.
I think somebody else wrote that line.
Of course.
You think I wrote that?
No.
But, at that three-day weekend, they showed us an inconvenient truth from Albert Gore, who came on via satellite.
He couldn't be there, of course, unfortunately.
Oh, why couldn't he be there?
I know he worked for...
I don't know if he still does.
Oh, he is still a general partner at Kleiner Perkins.
We'll get to that in a moment.
Because that is his game.
He's the one who broke the company.
They've lost all their mojos because of him.
Right.
But if you look at the regeneration...
I call it degeneration, but regeneration partners.
You look at the portfolio of Kleiner Perkins, which Gore oversees all of the solar and wind.
So whenever he's talking about renewable energy, he is promoting businesses he is invested in.
That's just a fact.
Yeah.
Fact base.
And so he went to Adweek Europe.
In the UK. Then he had a nice little sit-down with a cute little girly there who had pre-written questions written by Gore or Gore's people, no doubt.
But before we do that, we need to revisit the reason why this is coming up at all.
It's because I was brought to my attention.
He said something in here that I wanted to bring into the show.
And then I decided to watch this whole hour-long thing.
And wow, I got a couple clips for us to have fun with.
So we're going to go back to...
Our report from, this was from Thursday, the BBC about the fish swimming on the streets of Miami.
Rising sea waters and recurring flooding is turning Miami Beach into a modern-day Atlantis, a city being submerged by water.
And even on sunny days, it can get inundated because it's built on porous limestone and water seeps up through the ground.
Now, that was important.
Important is it's built on porous limestone, and that's why water seeps up to the ground.
It's not like it's overflowing from the beach, overflowing the roads onto the streets.
And I believe the way it works in Miami, it's a capillary effect.
So it's not as if you need to have the water table at that level like you do in some places.
We have an issue in Albany with the water table issue.
The water table rises and falls, and sometimes it rises and floods basements, even though it hasn't rained for months.
Right, it just comes up from the bottom.
It just comes up from the bottom.
But I believe with...
I could be wrong if somebody can correct me, but I believe it's a capillary effect that literally sucks it up.
Oh, okay.
That's even better.
But this has been a meme, and we were looking for the clip.
Many people sent it to me.
Thank you for that.
This is President Obama.
As people start realizing that even today, you can put a price on the damage that climate change is doing.
You go down to Miami, and when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day, the fish are swimming through the middle of the streets.
There we go.
There they are.
There they are, John.
We have video.
The fish flopping around.
But you hear the insinuation.
At high tide, the water's flowing into the streets.
Not entirely true.
A bit disingenuous, I would say.
So, let me find, here we go.
Here is Albert Gore, and I might as well just start off with this one.
People are noticing the largest downpour in the history of the UK was just a year ago last fall, and there have been wave after wave of these downpours.
The sea level predictions in low-lying coastal areas, not least on the banks of the Thames, are ones that people are now taking into account.
I was in Amsterdam earlier this week.
Smoking it up!
Believe me, they're looking very...
By the way, let's just go back to the beginning of that.
You didn't catch it, and I was hoping you would.
Listen again to what he says.
People are noticing the largest downpour in the history of the UK was just a year ago last fall, and there have been wave after wave of these downpours.
The sea level predictions in low-lying coastal areas...
He didn't say the sea level.
He said the sea level predictions.
The predictions are what's making everybody worried.
Not the actual sea level.
This guy is so good.
You'll hear this throughout these clips.
Well, predictions in low-lying coastal areas, not least on the banks of the Thames, are ones that people are now taking into account.
I was in Amsterdam earlier this week, and believe me, they're looking very carefully at this.
I believe you.
In making this movie, I went to Miami Beach.
I saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets of Miami Beach during the highest of the high tides.
That's happening on a regular basis.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, so you've set the stage for us, Albert.
Thank you very much.
Let's listen to a couple things.
But what he's up to specifically and what this movie is going to do and what he's going to do with his portion of the proceeds, because of course this is not a not-for-profit outfit, skull.
He might say that, but they like to make documentaries, so they have to take some profit.
But Gore?
No, he's doing something special with it.
When they introduced me to John Shank and Bonnie Cohen, who are the co-directors of this movie, I knew that it was going to be in good hands.
And so, for the last couple of years, they traveled with me all around the world.
It's a somewhat different approach to a movie than the last time.
It has elements of continuity, as those of you who see it will find.
But it's more of a cinema verite approach.
What is cinema verite?
Is that cinema truth?
Or does it mean variety?
Or what is it?
No, it's a style.
It's a style of movie.
It's like film noir.
It has a certain quality to it that is...
I'll look it up while we continue.
Cinema verite approach.
The reaction in the screenings has been extremely positive, I'm happy to say.
I'm looking for wood to knock on.
But I hope that it will have the same kind of impact.
The first movie, let me just say this, 100% of all the profits that I would have otherwise gotten went to the Climate Reality Project.
I trained thousands of climate activists around the world.
The same will be true for this movie as well.
I just want to make sure you know what he's doing.
He's training climate activists.
Yeah, he's got a huge operation of training people.
Cinema Verite is a...
It's funny you kind of nailed it.
Truthful cinema is a style of documentary filmmaking invented by John Rauch and goes on and on about other people that do this.
It combines improvisation...
Improv.
With the use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subjects hidden behind crude reality.
I would suggest, based on that definition, that those characters, and I can never remember their names, who go into the Planned Parenthood.
Yeah, that's Veritas.
Project Veritas.
Yeah, well that's Veritas.
Cinema Veritas.
Probably refers to the concept of Cinema Veritas.
Yeah.
And it says here, it says Cinema Verite can involve stylized setups and the interaction between the filmmaker and the subject, even to the point of provocation.
Beautiful.
I'm glad we caught that.
So that's what he's doing.
He's doing the same thing, those characters.
Deceptive editing is what he's doing.
Just deceptive filmmaking, but okay.
I'm a little sad that you...
I said it was funny that I had actually gotten it right, which is clearly a microaggression.
Well, you want to take a little break and play the microaggressions clip?
Sure.
Well, the latest thing in campus victimhood is the microaggression.
Because you are not aware of your own sexism or racism.
You don't realize that some of your comments are...
Aggressive acts.
Microaggressions.
Stephen Colbert asked one of his guests about it.
So what's a microaggression?
It's some of the faux pas.
It's sort of like being shocked that a black person is articulate.
So microaggressions are not the same thing as racism.
It's covert racism.
It's sort of racism that's hidden under the surface.
I get that saying to a black person you're so articulate is obnoxious.
But what I don't get is like some of the other ones.
Give me some examples.
America is a melting pot, for example, that was listed as microaggression.
Yeah, what's wrong with that?
I guess it's because the implication is that people should become part of a melting pot.
I don't even really understand that, what I've got to say.
I think the one that the person who has the most merit got the job, which these are all listed by the University of California system, by the way, is actual microaggressions.
You should not say that the person with the best skills got the job.
Exactly, because that's insulting to the person who didn't get the job.
That's a microaggression.
They also say you should not criticize race-based affirmative action.
Right.
And they extended it to political opinions.
And they didn't seem to see anything wrong with taking things that are flat-out political opinions and saying, that's actually, by the way, a tiny form of violence against victims.
And yet it's confusing to me.
There's an inconsistency.
Some college students are so sensitive that these microaggressions hurt them, but others embrace very honest, edgy talk about things like racial differences.
They go to movies like this one.
Dear white people, please stop touching my hair.
Does this look like a petting do to you?
The show is racist.
Black people can't be racist.
You've got a thing for Taylor Swift.
I know, because my Mac picks up your Mac's library.
We're so careful.
You don't understand.
Girls like me have to pick a side?
When I was in college, that would have just been taboo.
Well, I mean, microaggressions are interesting things to study, but the problem is schools like Ithaca College, for example, are starting to police them.
They're trying to set up reporting mechanisms so you can actually say, oh, there was a microaggression committed against me.
You could post it on the internet.
Exactly.
And what's so funny is they seem to think that this is going to increase dialogue along lines of difference.
If you have to walk on eggshells, if anything unconscious you can say can be a tiny form of violence, then people just aren't going to bother talking to each other.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Let me hold on a second.
Uh-huh.
I've got to do this properly.
I just have to do a little tweet.
Okay.
At TheRealDvorak just committed a microaggression against me.
Perfect.
Just tweeted it out.
Now, the funny thing about that little piece, which is kind of way behind the curve, because we've talked about this over years ago, actually.
I didn't know that the University of California has a list of these things, including melting pot, which I went to Cal Berkeley and we talked about the melting pot.
Yeah, it was the whole America.
That was the whole point.
Yeah, but now you can't because it's a microaggression.
All right, can I move back to Al Gore?
This is really bad.
Yes.
Okay, back to Gore's microaggression.
Hold on.
Now, where the hell was I? Oh, yes, here I am.
Okay.
Here we go.
Listen to the words very carefully, and listen to the analogy he is making here between Moore's Law, which we know is broken, and by the way, Moore's Law specific, and this is why it's broken currently, specifically states that Twice the transistors, same space, half the price every, was it 18 months, every two years?
18 months.
18 months.
So that's been broken because of the cost.
Well, it's been broken.
I did a calculation, wrote a column on this.
It's never really been true.
It's okay.
Because if it was true, the amount of transistors we'd have on a circuit a certain size is just astronomical by now.
Just take the analogy for a moment, tech boy.
Just take the analogy.
Listen.
You know, the atmosphere is a very thin shell around the planet.
Watch this meme.
Watch this meme.
The atmosphere is a very thin shell.
It's very thin.
It's very fragile.
Watch this.
You know, the atmosphere is a very thin shell around the planet.
We're putting 110 million tons a day of man-made heat-trapping pollution.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Man-made heat-trapping pollution.
New one.
I like it.
And it doesn't mean CO2, by the way.
It can mean a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
So we're moving away from CO2 to man-made heat-trapping pollution.
And it's raising temperatures quite dramatically, melting all the ice, raising sea level.
Except for Antarctica, but okay.
Evaporating much more water.
Same with my mudflats.
This hasn't raised it to one inch.
Exactly.
Temperatures quite dramatically, melting all the ice-raising sea level, evaporating much more water off the oceans, causing these incredible downpours, such as the ones the UK has been experiencing in the last few years.
These climate-related extreme weather events have It's gotten much more frequent and much more severe just since the first movie came out.
Oh, convenient.
And the spread of tropical diseases into higher latitudes and deeper droughts as well, political disruptions.
But for all of the shocking consequences of the climate crisis, this movie is extremely hopeful because...
There are also shocking, pleasantly shocking developments in the field of technology where businesses have now found that just as with, you know, computer chips came down so dramatically in price, even as the computers got faster and better, mobile phones, flat screen TVs, turns out solar panels and windmills and battery storage the same way.
And now it's getting Cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from burning dirty coal or gas or oil.
Dirty coal.
And so we have the solutions available to us.
Now, this is very interesting to me, because he will come around to this again in a bit.
I'm glad I didn't listen to this.
He is saying that renewable energy sources are now cheaper than dirty coal.
Dirty, dirty, nasty, whore coal.
Love to see the math on that one.
Well, there is math, and he's...
Not really being untruthful, although of course it's complete bullcrap and I'm going to show that to you.
But first, let's take a connect-the-dots voyage with the former Vice President.
Because this global warming stuff, it is ruining the whole world.
No!
The whole new world order.
I was just in the Persian Gulf region.
Getting my hair done.
And the scientists, for the last couple of years, one of the lines of investigation they've been pursuing has led them to the conclusion that significant areas of the Middle East and North Africa are in danger of becoming Uninhabitable.
And just a taste of this, to link it to some of the events that the UK and the European Union are going through, and I know that's another source of stress because we're now on the eve next week of the Brexit process.
But think for a moment about what happened in Syria.
Get ready.
You know, we look at the gates of hell opening.
They've long since opened.
But before the gates of hell opened in Syria, what happened?
I didn't get the memo on that, by the way.
I think there should be video available of the gates of hell opening.
I'd like to see that myself.
I mean, we have the gates of hell where Joe Biden's going to follow ISIS. But I did not see the gates of hell in Syria.
Hell opening.
They've long since opened.
But before the gates of hell opened in Syria, what happened?
A climate-related extreme drought.
And the scientists have published these peer-reviewed studies for several years now, showing exactly why it's related to the climate crisis.
From 2006 to 2010, 60% of the farms in Syria were destroyed and had to be abandoned.
Oh, okay.
80% of the livestock were killed.
The drought in the eastern Mediterranean is the worst ever recorded.
The records only go back 900 years.
By the way, when climate changes and livestock dies, they die.
They're not killed.
They die.
It's just a minor difference.
But it's not like climate came along and went, hey, cows!
No.
They died.
They weren't killed.
They died.
But it's historic.
And one and a half million climate refugees were driven into the cities of Syria.
Oh, no.
Where they collided with another million and a half refugees from the Iraq war.
And WikiLeaks revealed the internal conversations in the Syrian government where they were saying to one another, we can't handle this.
There's going to be a social explosion.
There are other causes of the civil war there, but this was the principle one.
And those in the region recognize that.
And it has unleashed with other factors this incredible flow of refugees into Europe, which is creating political instability in Europe, and which contributed in some ways to the desire of some in the UK to say, well, we're not sure we want to be a part of that anymore.
Wow.
Climate change responsible for Brexit.
I don't think I could have done a better job.
No.
That's really good.
You could not have done a better job by any means.
Some people call that a conspiracy theory.
But okay.
Nice dot connection, Al.
Okay.
I was ready to wrap this up.
Okay, let's listen to this last little bit he's got to say.
But he mentioned something right up the road from me, which I had to go and investigate.
The state of California, the state of New York, quite a few other state governments now have the bit in their teeth, and they are moving much faster than the former President Obama's Clean Power Plan would have had them move anyway.
There is a growing list of cities in the U.S. that have decided to go to 100% renewable energy.
100%.
Another one just achieved renewable energy two weeks ago in Georgetown, Texas, a fair-sized city in Texas.
And more and more cities are doing that.
Students are now demonstrating for universities to go to 100% renewable power, and many of them are doing it.
So they're...
And businesses, of course.
You mentioned Apple.
It's one of the consumer-facing businesses that is at 100% renewable power in the U.S. and soon will be 100% renewable globally.
Others are making that commitment.
When the economics of making the right decision reward you instead of penalize you, that makes all the difference.
And in the business world, when there is a new product, like renewable energy, when there is a new product competing with an old legacy product, it turns out to make a difference if the new product is more expensive than the incumbent or cheaper than the incumbent.
That difference It's a bit like the difference between zero degrees and one degree.
That's a difference of more than one degree.
It's the difference between ice and water.
And in markets, it's the difference...
Notice he doesn't have an example that is warm-related.
He doesn't have an example that is, oh, that's the difference between hot and boiling.
No, it's ice and water.
Just a point.
Water.
And in markets, it's the difference between capital that's frozen up and liquid flows of new investments chasing new opportunities.
That's the inflection point that we're poised on right now with renewable energy that is cheaper than the old dirty polluting energy.
Oh!
And once these solar panels are installed, by the way, there's no fuel cost for the next kilowatt hour.
It's zero marginal cost.
There's no pollution involved.
There are no moving parts.
And adopting a slightly longer time frame for the decision making, you say, well, wait a minute.
It's not just the cost this year or for the next year or two.
It's the lifetime cost.
We make a lot more money, we save a lot more money by shifting to the non-polluting sources.
Okay.
Also, by the way, these panels aren't made for free.
No, let me deconstruct it for you, John.
Because there was some very specific claims made here that...
We're contrary to what I understand about renewable energy.
And, of course, I consider nuclear to be the true renewable energy, but that's scary.
He's saying, and thank you, by the way, for the lesson in business economics, Mr.
Gore.
You're telling me that it makes a lot more sense if you can buy energy cheaper.
Why wouldn't you do it?
Of course.
Of course.
That is the difference between water and ice, Mr.
Gore.
Between loss and profit, I think is what you meant to say.
So this claim is odd to me because every single study I've looked at, every piece of research, and just doing the numbers myself is not that hard.
The cost and the ongoing maintenance, but particularly the cost of setting up solar and wind, is prohibitively high compared to other sources of energy.
And then there's another little annoying point, is that there is a time in Texas, not necessarily, because we do have a lot of wind here, and a lot of this wind that we're talking about is generated in West Texas, and it is quite remarkable.
That's T-Boon there, T-Boon Pickens.
But, you know, there are times when there's just no sun, at night particularly, and times when there is no wind, and there's times when there's none of both.
So to say that an entire city, Georgetown, now we have Georgetown up until this report, which you're about to hear from NPR, I considered to be part of Austin.
Now it's like, you know, but we all consider, hey, Georgetown's part of Austin.
We're big, you know, we're inclusive.
It's all fine.
So I wanted to understand how they could switch to 100% renewable and still keep the lights on.
Do they have huge battery storage?
The claim is really out there, and the reason they did it is because of money.
Here is a recent NPR report about Georgetown, Texas.
Today, we're going to visit one of the first cities in the country to be entirely powered by renewable.
Remember, this is the claim.
This is NPR. It's Al Gore NPR claiming 100% renewable energies.
I don't think they're ever going to accuse Georgetown of being the next Berkeley.
Georgetown, Texas.
Population 50,000.
The mayor is Dale Ross.
We're about 30 miles north of Austin.
Austin's phrase is, you know, keep Austin weird.
Now, what we say is, Austin, keep your weird.
Oh, hey, hey, hey, mayor?
Suck my dick, alright?
You're no longer a part of Austin.
Mayor Ross wears a lapel pin from Trump's inauguration.
He's sitting on a park bench in Georgetown's historic town square.
You know, it is a great city on planet Earth.
So I think people all over the country wonder, how is it that such a red city like Georgetown, such a conservative place, was one of the first cities in the country to be powered 100% by renewable energy?
Yeah, because it's our love of green.
Green rectangles and green energy.
Green rectangles meaning dollar bills.
Yeah, and if you've got Andrew Jackson or Benjamin Franklin on, I prefer, you know, Benjamin Franklin's my favorite.
But really, first and foremost, it was a business decision.
When the old power contract was up in 2012, Georgetown city managers sat down to look at their options.
They realized that wind and solar power are more predictable.
The prices don't swing up and down like oil and gas.
So the city can sign a contract today and know what the bill is going to be for the next 25 years.
That's especially appealing in a place like Georgetown, where a lot of retirees live on fixed incomes.
We're driving up to this municipal building in Georgetown, Texas, and the roof is covered in solar panels.
Hey there.
Howdy.
Chris Foster.
By the way, this is put in there, in this report, just as a little bit of color because it has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
But the report says, oh, look at it.
The rooftop is covered in solar panels.
It has nothing to do with how they're getting their energy.
It's just all for color and for lying.
This is a lie, this whole report.
It's covered in solar panels.
Hey there.
Howdy.
Chris Foster.
Chris Foster manages the city's energy usage.
He presented a bunch of options to city managers, and when they picked 100% renewable, Foster realized this could be a big deal.
Only one other American city has done this, in liberal Vermont.
The wind energy that Georgetown buys is produced hundreds of miles away, in West Texas.
The city can only get that energy because of changes to the electrical grid that former Governor Rick Perry put in place.
The mayor says Perry deserves credit.
I truly believe he was a visionary because under his leadership, those transmission lines which run from West Texas and the Pan Amel, if the state hadn't put those on the ground to transmit that energy, we wouldn't be having this conversation today.
Now Rick Perry is the Energy Secretary.
And Rick Perry is part of this scam.
Even though I'd love to have a beer with him, seems like a fun guy, this is a scam.
And I'm going to break it down for you.
So first of all, it is true that they purchased renewable energy from a company known as SunEdison.
And they started this deal in 2015 when SunEdison's stock was up around $20.
If you look at them today, they've been delisted from NASDAQ. They are a bulletin board stock for $0.09.
And on the brink of bankruptcy.
On the brink of bankruptcy.
So the first lie is this 100% renewable energy.
You just heard him talk about the grid.
What happened is the windmill parks farms in West Texas were connected to the Texas grid.
So because there are no direct transmission lines from any solar farm or any wind farm run by Sun Edison or anyone else directly to Georgetown, it is a lie that they are 100% on renewable energy.
It could be that way if they had about, you know, $9 billion worth of batteries, because 155 kilowatts is being delivered.
It's not a big town.
But I hadn't heard nothing about this investment in batteries.
What is happening is, this is the grid scam, and this is all over Europe.
You know, you can buy your energy, the energy markets, which are deregulated.
You have a company that has windmills.
They feed their windmill energy into the grid, and...
Yeah, it gets mixed up with all the others.
It gets mixed up with everything else, exactly.
To start off with, it's a complete lie because they do not have power at certain times, but you're buying from them with a consistent price.
You could be getting coal energy, gas energy, nuclear energy, and if you look at the overall statistics, which I did for Texas, Only 10% of the entire energy supply that is from renewables is in the grid.
So all energy in the Texas grid, the percentage of renewables is 10%.
So it's a lie, a bold-faced lie, that they have 100% renewable energy.
They buy from a company that provides renewable energy.
But let's see, how does SunEdison do this?
Because that's the part that freaked me out.
How can it be cheaper?
How can they provide this cheaper?
SunEdison used to be a Monsanto company, just to show you where their corporate leadership comes from.
They are in the business of creating something new called a yieldco.
And the yieldco, they have two of them currently, even though they are a nine penny delisted stock, they have two yieldcos, currently one at $12 and one at about $18.
The yieldco is where the energy properties are stored and they go public with these yieldcos.
They're called yieldcos.
It's basically a derivative with huge tax advantages because of the way it's structured as an investment.
And the yield co buys up bankrupt solar and wind farms that are operating, but they're bankrupt.
So they buy them pennies on the dollar.
Therefore, they have zero, almost zero of the investment cost.
And yes, every kilowatt hour after that is, of course, at a hugely reduced cost because you didn't pay for the initial investment.
Upfront costs, which, by the way, the American taxpayer did most of.
We paid for Solyndra and all these companies that are now bankrupt, and these companies are putting into yieldcos, therefore able to provide this energy very cheap.
But unless we have a complete supply line of bankrupted companies to pull into the yieldcos, this is not going to end very well.
Look at their stock price!
And then just to add insult to injury, They were promised, the city of Georgetown, they would be able to sell their excess energy back into the grid.
Well, it's amazing.
With this great deal they did, it turns out that Georgetown lost $6 million on this deal last year.
Why?
Turns out that the energy they purchased...
Is the most available.
They have excess at peak times when there's just tons of energy.
So when the wind is really blowing or the sun is really shining.
But guess what?
Everybody connected to the grid.
Do I have to guess?
No.
Everybody on the grid has excess energy.
There's no place to sell it.
There's no buyers.
So they lost $6 million on this stupid deal.
A complete scam and lie.
Okay.
And that will be that for today's show.
I think there's some money to be made in this deal, it sounds like to me.
Yes.
What we need to do is set up a yield code.
That's what we need.
That's what I'm thinking.
It's a new kind of derivative.
People are very excited about them.
Huh.
Well, I've never heard of that.
Well, I thought that was a good presentation.
I think it was probably five minutes too long.
Yeah, it was.
But it was still worth it.
I think it's because you let too much of the Al Gore...
Well, he had all these different points to make, you know, that I thought...
Yeah, it was beside the point, mostly.
But the fact that you did this digging, and that you got this information, and you're not like...
I'm not like NPR... Yeah, you don't have the resources of NPR who go in and give us a bogus report just to back up more of this global warming bull crap.
With the lie that is now 100% renewable energy, and it's cheaper!
Well, I think the big scam is that They're buying from the grid, but they're doing allocation.
Yes, of course.
The farms are saying, yeah, somehow magically through the grid, our energy, which is mixed with the rest of the energy, somehow goes straight through the pipe and then comes out in Georgetown.
Exactly.
It's dirty energy.
Dirty.
Don't keep that dirty whore energy away from me.
So anyway.
So all you've done was Prove to us something that I think that everyone knows in their gut.
Yes.
That this is all bull crap.
Yes, but it's going to increase.
It's going to get ratcheted up.
The movie's coming out.
There's going to be a lot of promotion.
You will hear the two memes.
Cheaper than Dirty Dirty Cole and...
It actually runs, you can do 100% renewable without direct transmission lines or without batteries.
It's amazing.
It's just amazing how that works.
You can do a lot with batteries.
Yeah, you can.
And that's not cheap.
But 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 covert racism.
Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning to all the ships on the ground and boots in the air and subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there while I go get the spreadsheet.
Good.
In the morning to everybody in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
You guys are doing good.
One-liners rolling off your tongue.
Good, good, good.
Appreciate that.
Doing well.
Doing well.
They're doing good in my book.
In the morning to the man in the sewer, Nick the Rat, for the artwork for episode 9014.
Fact-bath.
Fact-based.
This was a very intricate piece.
We had a Barbie wearing the happy hijab, drinking a glass of racist milk, sitting inside of an orb.
It was a beautiful piece.
A geode.
A geode.
Yeah, that's what it was.
Dynamite.
Well done.
Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload.
Yeah, it was a very close call because there's a lot of good art that came in.
But this one, it combined so many elements subtly.
Yeah.
And it was just fun.
And then now Nick the Brat's all jacked up because I listened to his show.
Oh yeah, he's off the rails now.
Oh, he's...
I met the guy.
He's a nice...
He's like a normal person.
I met him too.
He smokes a lot of weed.
Yeah.
Makes him a friend of mine.
I guess he does.
Alright, well let's thank a few people for today's producing show.
What is it, 914?
I think so.
915, John.
Is it 915?
915, yes.
915.
Okay, well, let's thank a few people.
And we have a couple of big donors right off the top, including Milton Cuevas, who came with 915.
That's the show number.
That means he's the show.
He's a one-man member of the club.
Yes.
Very interesting that we've had so many of those recently.
After reading your plea for donations, my Catholic guilt kicked in, and I figured I better help the poor.
This donation takes me over the threshold necessary to achieve knighthood from this day forward.
I like to be known as Sir Zacchaeus.
Zacchaeus.
Zacchaeus.
Zacchaeus, enforcer of the taxable actions.
He must be a tax collector or something.
Keep reminding everyone that the world hates truth tellers and President Trump is doing more of it than anyone else in our nation's capital.
Unfortunately, sometimes he...
What?
I don't know why.
I can't read this part.
It's off the side.
Unfortunately, he tells it the way your drunk uncle does, unvarnished and laced with insults about your mom.
Yes.
Nice.
Keep up the good work.
Can you give me...
He wants the formula.
What is the formula?
What is the formula?
Our formula is this.
I'm not going to play that twice in a row.
That makes no sense.
Why would he want?
No, he knows that you're going to play it anyway.
Oh, I got you.
Okay.
All right.
Got it.
So what does he want?
Bush, Cash.
Yeah.
Thanks, Obama.
Yeah.
Nancy's Jobs Karma.
Uh-huh.
And then Karma.
That's it.
All right.
I know I'm asking a lot, but I'm working.
It's all right.
He's working.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
Thanks, Obama.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You got it, sir, Zacchaeus.
Look forward to your ceremony later on, sir.
Now we have a normal knight who's now decided to become anonymous, and I just got lucky noticing in a parent and parents.
Yeah, you got to put this up front of your notes, people.
Well, it's actually up front, but it's like over on the side and kind of not the first thing that he says.
Or she.
Yes, or she.
Donation amount puts me in at baronet level.
It's $620.01, which is nice.
He sent another letter via email for an additional info.
I'd like to request a dedouching boom shakalaka and karma.
New peerage level baronet.
And he wants to be the baronet of the ADF. I'll see if I can find his note.
Okay.
You can play those jingles.
What was it?
It was dedouching boom shakalaka and what?
And karma.
You've got karma.
Alright, almost there.
Oops.
His name doesn't...
Timothy Kiernan.
His name...
Hold on.
Here we go.
Whoops.
No, there's no note here from him.
From whom?
The guy that says there was an email note.
The anonymous guy.
Oh.
Who I know his name because it's on the check.
Okay, well, we'll just have to move on.
Move forward.
Move advanced.
Forward motion is good.
Timothy Kierman, 34412, was another executive producer.
Fellow Michigan producer Brandon Toy's $50 gift toward my knighthood in episode 912 inspired me to pay off the balance.
Thank you, Noah Jena, for years of media deconstruction.
Again, what do I have this...
And thank you, Brandon.
Please give him some karma.
And we will, of course.
Also, can we send some karma to producer Jeff Lundberg, whose Michigan email list enables us to have meetups such as the one producer Phil is hosting in the Lansing area after Easter weekend.
Perhaps our list link could be included in today's show notes.
Yep, I'll put that in.
If it's not already taken, it would like to be known as Sir Timothy of No Fixed Title.
Pretty sure that's available.
This allows flexibility in how I introduce myself in various social situations, which is useful when hitting people in the mouth.
At the round table, I would like to partake of...
Malt vinegar and manual transmissions.
Finally, I'd like to hear our very own Sir Kevin's jingle, Fake News, based on Bob Seger's Night Moves, followed by John's Gonna Hum the Sunday Times.
The ultimate would be for Adam to visit Michigan in the airstream of consciousness.
John lit the fire here.
Adam can pour on the gasoline.
Nice.
Alright, onward.
Now I've got to find the jingles, which normally...
When you're reading it, I've been looking them up, so now I've got to do that.
What did he want here?
He wanted the fake news, and John's going to hum the Sunday Times.
That's it.
Yeah, well, if I could find it.
It's not so easy, you know.
The Sunday Times thing has been out of play for a long time.
Writing up some fake news.
Trying to get cheap clicks and top page views.
Writing up some fake news.
Oh, it's propaganda time.
John's gonna hum the Sunday time.
You've got karma.
Boom!
Good work.
Now I've re-jiggered this thing.
You re-established the connection to your Libra office?
It's Office Libra.
I'm sorry, Office Libra.
Dame Tanya, the Viscountess of New York.
I'm all in on the dead man's income tax refund donation, and I figured I was overdue for another producership.
I also ordered the special edition Asserting Silver Night Ring.
Can't wait to get it.
Can I get a war on chicken, crazy preacher, I'm pointing out the problem, Ebola number five and karma.
What?
I don't know what the crazy preacher I'm pointing out the problem is.
Or Ebola number five.
A war on chicken...
I got that.
I got that.
Crazy preacher.
I think she means Manning.
I think.
Pointing out the problem.
Oh, well, let me see.
Pointing out the problem.
Pointing.
Let me see if I... Oh, I have something here.
Yes, I have something.
Pointing out the problem.
Okay.
And then...
Ebola number five.
Ebola number five.
Number five.
Number five.
Oh, we do have that.
People know the jingles better than we do.
Okay, Ebola number five, and then what?
Ninja Karma.
Anikarma.
Okay, let's try this.
Here we go.
The War on Chicken.
I'm pointing out the problem!
Ebola.
You've got karma.
I don't know what that was.
It said Ebola number five.
Maybe that was Ebola clip number five.
I don't know.
Is that what the word was there?
I need more preparation for stuff like that.
That was a lot.
Matt Mariotti in McKnight, Pennsylvania.
263.33 will be associate executive producer for show 915.
Celebrating 33rd birthday with no agenda show.
Show on 33rd birthday.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Thanks for the amazing...
Thanks for being amazing.
Can I get a 33 magic number?
And Obama, you might die.
And karma for my upcoming trip to Gitmo Nation East.
And he wants to know if there's any good places to eat.
Well, you'll have to take care of that separately.
Yes, I was.
You've got karma.
All right.
Thanks.
Thanks, Chris.
Onward to Chad.
I guess it's Syker.
Syker.
Syker.
200.
That'll be our last associate executive producer for today's show, 915.
Gentlemen, you were above and beyond.
You went above and beyond to help me out on Thursday's show, and you made my son Caleb's birthday.
You made Caleb's day with the birthday shout-out.
Oh, good.
It is yet one more reminder that No Agenda really is the best podcast in the universe.
I'd like to add my oldest son, Isaiah, to the birthday list as he turns 15 on Tuesday the 28th.
Ah, yeah, you gotta keep it fair and square, Papa.
See if it's on there.
Oh, I'll check in.
Isaiah's another fantastic young man.
In fact, he is homeschooled and uses the show as part of his current events curriculum.
Nice.
There you go, and there you go.
Nice.
He is also responsible for hitting his mother in the mouth.
And she has become unconscious.
Oh, no.
She's become a regular listener as well.
Your show is now a frequent topic of family conversation.
And the family that listens to No Agenda together stays together.
Oh.
I think that's probably true.
Yeah, I agree.
Now with all this, this reminds me of those meetups they have in Michigan.
I mean, those people didn't know each other before the No Agenda show.
Or it's like Adam Kay down in Los Angeles says he can go to dinner with people...
We're not having to worry about arguing about Obamacare or arguing about Hillary or whatever.
Or perhaps worrying that you aren't completely dimension B and yet gay at the same time.
And that you're microaggressing.
I am.
I'm totally microaggressing.
Now with all this value, I cannot figure out how the support can be down.
Because it fluctuates.
Yeah, it does.
It's time to write the value for value scales and ensure that no agenda is around for the next generation.
So, in addition to today's $200 donation, I'll be setting up a $4 per week, 75 cents an hour value for value subscription.
And I challenge the entire no agenda community to do the same.
Let's do this for the children.
No more excuses.
Yes.
Hell yeah.
He wants some homeschooling karma for his son and his smoking hot wife, who is his teacher, Sonia.
Sonia, yeah.
Play something quick from Reverend Manning, dealer's choice.
Well, it just so happens I have a new clip from the good reverend.
There you go.
Looking for a way to bring it in today.
Here we go.
I meant to make this announcement.
Please forgive me for being so tardy in bringing forth this announcement.
Remember Kellyanne Conway on the sofa there in the Oval Office with 100 black men standing around her and she got in her money-making position.
Shake your money, make a hell!
She got that money!
That's a sure enough money shot!
Woo, Jesus!
Woo, Lord!
Look at that!
That's a money shot!
Kellyanne Conway is a money shot!
But you know, I forgot to inform you that the reason why she got into that money shot without being asked is that Kellyanne Conway has got jungle fever!
She couldn't stand herself!
Jungle fever, jungle fever, jungle fever. Jungle fever, jungle fever. Jungle fever, Kelly and jungle fever. Jungle fever, Kelly and Conway.
You've got karma.
Oh, man.
I love that guy.
That's a good explanation as I've heard.
I also ISOed it for us.
I thought it might be a good idea.
That's a Shona money shot!
Woo, Jesus!
Woo, no!
Look at that!
That's a money shot!
Kenan Conway is a money shot!
You got about three ISOs in there.
Oh, my goodness.
That guy is the best.
Thank you, Reverend Manning, for keeping our show real.
And thank you, Chad.
And you got a lot of splaining to do there, Sonia, in your lesson to Isaiah.
Yeah.
Well, let me explain the money shot to you, son.
All right.
Was that it?
Yeah, that's all we got.
That's a good group.
I want to thank each and every one of them.
We have more to come.
We have more producers.
Yes, we do.
We'll do that to everyone who came in, $50 or above.
And thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
And, of course, we have a special show donation with that 915.
Really appreciate that.
And this is our value-for-value model.
This is the only way we survive, and I think we've made it very evident it's the best way to do it.
It's a seesaw, it's a yo-yo, it's a rollercoaster ride, but it is still the best way to do it.
We stand by it.
It's a value-for-value proposition.
And another show coming up on Thursday.
Remember us at...
So you have basically four days to go out there and propagate our formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
That's a shoulder money shot! .
Shut up.
My cheeks hurt from that one.
That guy makes me laugh.
All right.
Well, let's take a look at some Chinese stuff.
No, no.
This is not being discussed.
Let's not look at some Chinese stuff.
What do you got?
Okay, let's look at some Chinese stuff.
I'll do it later.
What you got?
You got cheap Chinese stuff?
Well, I have to...
This is not being played in the Western media whatsoever at all.
And that is the preoccupation that's gone to an extreme about one belt, one road.
One belt, one road?
Major, major, major, major, major, major meme on all the Chinese news shows.
Never discussed.
Never discussed.
One belt, one run.
Nobody knows what you're talking about.
China's plan, known as the Belt and Road Initiative, is expected to be the major driving force of globalization.
I think the One Belt, One Road Initiative is extremely important for not just China, but also the rest of the world.
I think from that point of view, it's very beneficial that China is trying to expand its global footprint in a measured manner, and I think that's very important because if it's done in a measured way, there won't be overheated markets, and that's really what the world wants to see.
Zhang also said reforms and innovation are urgently needed.
He added that countries in the region should jointly maintain peaceful and stable development strategies for the environment.
In the wake of a growing criticism on globalization, China has given its answer by raising the One Belt, One Road initiative.
The delegates here at the forum believe that the mechanism will help to promote economic integration among Asian countries and also help achieve a more inclusive globalization worldwide.
Is this like...
Is one belt, one road?
Is that like two girls, one cup?
Or is this something else?
Definitely not that.
You're on a roll today.
This was introduced in 2013 by Xi, and he was the...
New Silk Road is what it is.
Yeah, but the one belt is weird.
I don't know what the one belt is.
This is something I believe it means probably more in Chinese idiom than it does when you say it in English.
But it's still referring to their trade policy.
I think the one belt is that beltway that's a train that they run all the way from China to Europe.
Well, here is the Book of Knowledge entry.
Okay, I see how they're doing it.
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, also known as the Belt and the Road, One Belt, One Road, and Belt and Road Initiative, is development strategy and framework proposed by Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping.
And the strategy underlines China's push to take a bigger role in global affairs.
It doesn't say anything about the train, although I'm sure that's what it's about.
Well, that's part of it.
Yeah, it's got to be.
Yeah, bigger role.
Because of all things, China really needs a bigger role, it seems to me.
Yeah.
So let's listen to the Chinese, one of their TV shows with some guy who's always been, to me, a stooge for the Chinese government, interviewing the former Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr.
And this would be China, Australia, China buy-in one.
Some of the uncertainties concerning our bilateral relationship.
Australia rejected aligning a $5 billion The state infrastructure fund with China's Belt and Road Initiative during Premier Li Keqiang's Canberra trip this time, the Financial Times reported.
Why has Australia rejected the development of infrastructure cooperation with China?
Is it a zero-sum mentality that is ideologically driven?
No, I don't think so.
I think the Australian Government has got to explain the reasons for the rejection.
I think the way of approaching it is to forget the branding, one belt, one road, and to talk about it in a different way, to give it a different branding.
I think Australian business and Australian Government still need to be persuaded that doing something on Australian soil Requires being branded as being part of One Belt, One Road.
But I think there are other ways of doing it.
And don't forget, there is now a lot of Chinese investment in Australia.
It's still only about 3% of the total.
But it is growing markedly.
And there's a lot of room.
A lot of room for more of it.
And we expect more of it.
We expect more of it.
I think the Chinese have found a way of addressing Australian concerns about the loss of sovereignty through the purchase of Australian assets, including prime agricultural land.
And that is for Chinese investors to form a consortium with Australian partners and to settle for 50% of the Melbourne ports or 49% of Australia's biggest rural property.
The Aussies are selling out.
These are selling out.
And here's another example of this, from that same group, play clip zero that says zero, Bob Carr.
And that, to me, is a standout fact.
So three American admirals have said to Australia, it'd be good if you joined us or ran your own patrols, and Australia's not done it.
And that is because the government in Canberra is giving a weighting to its relationship with China.
And it's not prepared to damage or immolate that relationship at the request of the US. Now, I think there's an opportunity for China here.
I'd strongly advise China not to do anything preemptive in the South China Sea.
For example, not to build up Scarborough Shore, which is so close to the territory of the Philippines, and which both China and the Philippines...
But China says over and over that we will not endanger the freedom of navigation and overflight.
No, I understand that.
I understand that.
But if China were to dredge at Scarborough Shore...
Well, dredging would be enough.
I think China would lose the diplomatic coup it scored with the new Philippines president and the relationship it enjoys with him.
I think China's now got the nations of Southeast Asia negotiating one-on-one with it over disputes over maritime territory.
I think China would be ill-advised were it to do anything at Scarborough Shoal that threatened that new approach, that new equilibrium in the South China Sea.
If I were the Australian Foreign Minister again, I'd be speaking to the Chinese off the record, in private conversations, saying you've gained...
You've gained strategically in the South China Sea.
You've got the states of the region talking to you one-on-one directly.
America runs Freedom of Navigation patrols, but they don't alter any of these diplomatic realities.
But if one thing would change the situation, it would be China dredging at Scarborough Shoal.
So a bit of restraint from China would be in everyone's interest.
Now the guy, the other guy comes on and he says, they went to a break and he comes back.
He says that, well, you know, China's going to do what it's going to do.
So I don't think that anyone's going to listen.
It's at the point now where the Chinese have stopped listening to advice.
Yeah.
Yeah, completely bought a port up and they and they're telling the Americans to get lost.
Yeah, which is a switcheroo.
Yeah.
And then they're saying, well, look, the Americans tell us what to do.
But the Chinese give us, you know, they give us money.
People generally like the Chinese deal better.
They still think it's a better deal.
Although, long term, it doesn't turn out to work that great.
Yeah, but the Chinese say, hey, you know what?
We're going to give you money.
We're going to build hospitals, roads, schools.
They do that.
And then they put their own people in there, and then you get cheap Chinese crap everywhere.
The U.S., we come in, we say, we'll do all this for you.
We don't, and then we kill you.
That's kind of the difference.
Yeah, it's a slightly different approach.
We'll overthrow the government.
We drone you.
I was like, hey, dude, back off.
Meanwhile, Canada's gotten in on this, and there's one other Chinese report, which is the AIIB report.
We don't talk about that in the mainstream media at all.
Why would we?
Is it information that's useful?
We shouldn't be giving that to the slaves.
This is, of course, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is competing with the World Bank and that other one.
And it could very well be the vehicle that President Trump will use to rebuild our infrastructure.
It might be, but we haven't joined, although I'm curious that of all the countries that have joined, and it's a spotty group, it's like Ireland, and there's a bunch of countries that...
For the AIIB? Yeah, you should look it up.
But the one that joined recently is Canada.
They're all in with the Chinese, so that's an interesting...
Turncoats?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but here's a little report on what they're up to.
Spontoshun reports the bank expects to welcome more prospective members through the year.
This is the first time the AIIB has welcomed new applications, including five regional and eight non-regional prospective members.
Unsurprisingly, Hong Kong SAR is in as are Afghanistan, Armenia, Fiji and Timor-Leste.
Canada is now the first North American country to get on board.
In Europe, Belgium, Hungary, and Ireland have chosen to join, as have Peru, Sudan, Venezuela, and Ethiopia.
Some of them could be joining because they want to be part of the conversation that's happening over here in Asia.
This is a growth region, it's an exciting region, and so some of those countries, they want to be part of the development discussion.
For other ones, they see trade opportunities.
It is within our articles of agreement, and it's not going to happen in the immediate future, but we could approve loans in countries outside the region if there is an immediate economic or an obvious economic benefit to Asia.
And so some of those countries could be looking at it for those reasons.
These 13 countries and regions will officially join the AIIB once they complete the required domestic processes and deposit the first installment of capital with the bank.
Their shares will come from the bank's existing pool of unallocated shares.
In 2016, in its first year of operations, the bank approved US $1.73 billion in loans to finance nine projects covering energy, transportation and urban development, many of which are along the Belt and Road.
If there are projects that are part of One Belt One Road that make sense, that meet our standards for financial viability, environmental sensitivity, and our mandate to improve social and economic development in Asia, we'll absolutely be considering those for funding.
The AIIB is a new multilateral financial institution which was founded to bring countries together to address infrastructure needs across Asia.
The capital of the bank is 100 billion US dollars, Do you think we could get some funding for our podcast from this outfit?
Not unless we're one belt, one road.
I'll wear the belt.
I'll wear the road.
We'll be here all week.
Now, the thing is, of course, this is not being reported.
This is all part of a globalization movement.
Well, also, John, you kind of see that Trump has been harping, carping on China and China for such a long time.
He's going to turn out to be right, of course, in the end.
These guys are the ones you've got to watch, not Russia.
These are the guys we've got to watch.
They're doing something...
Yeah, they're very aggressive.
They're doing a lot of good work from their perspective.
Of course.
They're expanding.
They're moving now into Australia.
They're taking over Africa.
Italy!
They're taking over Italy!
Yes, they're taking over Italy.
I mean, think about that.
It's like...
Can you imagine a Ferrari?
I believe this is underreported because it's part of the globalism that the media and the progressive liberals want us to just fall prey, to just give up being a country, no borders.
John McCain's on board with all this.
That's why he's fighting Trump, because Trump's flying the ointment for all this stuff.
Yeah.
Now, all of a sudden, when we had all these schemes and everything since World War 70 years, as McCain would put it, now it's like, you know, this guy's mucking it up.
Yeah.
And, of course, there's two other elements that should be mentioned.
One is that we think we can run, run, we think as Americans, we can run, run the global government and we'd be in charge.
And so what difference does it make whether we have borders or not?
Because we're in charge, although we couldn't even maintain the Internet as being in charge of that for that long.
So that's bullcrap.
We can't do it.
And the Chinese think the same thing.
They figure that they've got the balls to take over the whole world.
Yeah.
They're all in on globalism.
Yeah, but they're actually doing it very slyly.
They're doing it.
Very, very slyly.
How's Mimi doing?
Is she having withdrawals?
Is she okay?
Why?
She's trying to get off Facebook.
Is that what you're referring to?
Oh, well, I think today is the day without face bag.
I was wondering if she was having withdrawals.
She's kind of weaned herself, so I don't think she's having withdrawals yet.
But you can be sure that she's going to...
Everyone who gets addicted to Facebook is doomed, I think, to a miserable life.
So here's the latest copy-paste that's going around.
Virtue signaling instructions.
Of course, this shows up on everybody's timeline.
It does go viral pretty quickly.
I'll read it to you.
A day without Facebook.
Facebook upholds systemic racism by banning those who are fighting for equality.
The Facebook community standards and algorithms have been abused by white supremacists to silence us by banning those who are calling out problematic people in their behavior.
And Facebook refuses to acknowledge this.
People who are banned use Facebook not only to connect with community, friends, and family, but also to run their businesses.
I'll stop right there.
If your business needs Facebook, you're an idiot.
This is not a way to build a business.
In the meantime, Facebook makes money from us using their system, and we are part of the problem because we continue to use Facebook even as it supports and promotes the behaviors that silence us without any punishment to the oppressors.
For 24 hours, let us show solidarity to our friends and family members who have been banned or are currently banned during this time.
Turn off commenting in the groups you administrate and cease from posting any pictures or comments.
Don't answer any private messages.
If you've been banned in the past, feel free to post a screenshot if you have one.
If you've reported content that is racist, sexist, homophobic, or along all those lines, and Facebook said it doesn't, go against community standards, feel free to post that as well.
So I'm sure it's shut down.
It must be a ghost town right now.
Sounds like it.
No, of course not.
And also, how stupid are people?
Do they really, what, they think this is like a government resource or something?
That you could, oh, they're oppressing us.
Oh, they're jack-in-the-algos, dude.
Jack-in-the-algos.
Jack-in-the-algos.
Stop jack-in-the-algo!
Well, there's a lot of jack-in-the-algo going on.
Play this clip about bots that came off of CBS. It's actually a promotion for the 60-minute show, but it's still interesting.
News articles, outrageous and salacious, bedeviled both presidential campaigns.
Now, in an investigation for 60 minutes, we have looked into how nonsense on one website breaks out to become a trending article on Facebook or Twitter.
We discovered that some fake news publishers use fraudulent computer software called bots to make the articles appear to be wildly popular.
Bots are fake social media accounts.
Jim Bidmar knows all about bots.
He's a consultant who helps products or people.
Is this a bot master they're interviewing?
No, this guy's some promotional guy.
He's like a PR guy who illegally uses bots.
People get noticed on the internet.
So, when we're talking about these bots, these are Twitter accounts masquerading as real people.
That's right.
By the thousands?
Millions.
We did an experiment with Vidmar's help.
We bought 5,000 bots from a Russian website.
They cost us just a few hundred bucks.
And I'm going to tweet from my account what happens when 60 Minutes investigates fake news.
So, tweet that out.
And there it is.
Normally, I would expect real people to retweet my message a few dozen times.
Vidmar programmed our bots to retweet my message, and then he turned them loose.
Hit it with everything you got.
Hit it with everything we got then.
He got 3.2 thousand retweets.
Wait a minute, I went from 300 to 38 thousand?
Uh huh.
3,400, now it's 4,400.
Now it's 4,400.
Yeah.
And that matters because Facebook and Twitter base their ranking of trending subjects on their popularity.
The retweet of a bot looks just like the retweet of a person.
On Sunday on 60 Minutes, we'll show you how fake news publishers turn fake boosts from bots into real money.
Well, I can't wait for the expose when it turns out every single one of the news organizations does the exact same thing around earnings time.
It's true.
This is a known fact.
Everyone does it to boost your numbers.
Oh, we're trending up.
It's looking great for next quarter.
Great quarter, guys.
Good.
Yeah, great.
It won't bring that into the conversation, I can assure you.
No, you're right on that.
You know, we have a nut guys named Ben.
I mean, I've got some...
Yeah, I know what's coming.
Where's our bots?
Where's our bots?
Where's our algo?
I mean, there's some algo guys that know how to do this stuff.
Yeah.
Tina's still stuck in her egg algo.
It's really bad.
What do you mean?
Well, you know, she has ovumphobia.
She has an issue with eggs.
Yeah, and she's seeing eggs everywhere?
Yeah, because on Instagram, because she likes cooking shows and baking shows, she'll see a video about someone putting an egg on a pizza, which she hates, but then she'll stay there going, oh, look at this, this is horrible!
And the algo goes, you want more?
So they give her more.
But it's a thing, we already identified this, and the most recent issue of Bon Appetit magazine, do you receive this?
No.
Right there.
Cover photo.
How do you like yours?
Put an egg on it.
And we know that this is the Egg Council of America.
This is their new slogan.
And there it is.
Yes, and they've done a wonderful job.
Wonderful job, yes.
But it's this...
Not as good as that English operation that is the one that...
Popularized kale.
They did a great...
Kale was a...
But, you know, that's...
They ran its course.
Kale is out.
But they have a piece of burnt toast here with radishes and then some green paste.
And on top of that, a fried runny egg.
Mmm!
Yum!
That sounds great.
Yeah.
We can do the odd report on the Intel Committee switchback presentation.
This is an interesting one.
I'll do a little deconstruction here.
You know, I have, in the leaner report, there's always this mixed feelings about ABC. Yes.
And that's leanerreport.com, for those of you wondering what that is.
Oh, it hasn't been updated, so you're not going to get the latest ideas.
But ABC's always been kind of problematic.
It's like, do they like Trump?
Do they not like Trump?
Because they're on board with all the Trump hate that goes on.
But they're Disney, so they have their own agenda.
And they got some other agenda than the other guys.
And...
And there's a bit in here.
This is a report on the fiasco, you know, that was the bill, the health care bill.
Yeah, that's good.
I want to talk about this.
Which now everyone's going, oh, oh my God, Trump, they're blaming Trump for everything when it's really a House bill.
Well, actually, actually, that shifted.
They're blaming Ryan, and that is a reason for that.
Well, I say they're still blaming Trump more than Ryan.
Sure.
Of course, he's incompetent.
We all knew that.
Now...
This has got a little gotcha in it.
This is a very interesting...
This is not about the healthcare.
This is about the...
Oh, the scandal because the one guy, Nunes, went over to the White House and told Trump about something before he told that creep, Adam Schiff.
Yeah.
Who, by the way, you know what Tina said yesterday?
Huh?
He's a reptile.
I can see it now.
I think so, too.
I can recognize him now, she says.
This girl.
Yeah, she's got a big giant head, he's got a funny face, and he's got no shoulders.
Yeah.
And I agree.
Look at his eyes.
The guy's a reptile.
Yeah, I think he is.
Because I thought he was from the Schiff.
Only on the No Agenda show where you get this kind of conversation.
Well, originally I thought he was from the Schiff banking family, which is one of the three, you know, Lube, Khan, and whatever.
That's the Schiff's own that.
I can't find a connection between him and the original Schiff banking family, not through Wikipedia at least, but I have a feeling he may still be related somehow.
Or there he hatched from an egg.
President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, volunteering to meet with the committee investigating Russia's interference in the election.
ABC's senior justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas, outside FBI headquarters.
Hey, Pierre.
The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee appearing to back down from his claim that started a political firestorm.
Can you clarify whether Trump and his associates were monitored or just mentioned in these intelligence reports?
We won't know that until we actually receive all of the documentation.
Chairman Devin Nunes had gone to the White House Wednesday to brief President Trump before talking to his own committee.
The President needs to know that these intelligence reports are out there, and I have a duty to tell him that.
The investigation started after the president's infamous assertion that Obama tapped his phones during the election.
Nunes saying there's no merit to that claim.
There was no wiretapping of Trump Tower.
That didn't happen.
Tonight, Democrats are fuming.
That effort to defend the indefensible has led us down this terrible rabbit hole.
Committee members further raised that Nunes...
Did you notice this?
The rabbit hole?
No, did you notice the switch back?
Oh yeah, of course.
It didn't happen now all of a sudden.
How does that work?
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm talking about the way they presented it, the way ABC presented it.
It's very interesting, and I'm very, I'm always very, very, very, very, very, very interested in ABC's presenting stuff like this.
What they did, and I stopped it right after they did it, which is they said, They put together two different threads.
They started with, oh, he didn't, the Trump Tower was never tapped.
And then it goes to, and the Democrats are fuming over this, that it wasn't, they're implying that they're irked about it wasn't tapped, it should have been or something.
Very confusing transition from it.
Interesting.
It wasn't tapped.
Oh, and the Democrats are bent out of shape now.
Why are they bent out of shape?
Let's listen to it again.
I want to hear it again.
I rolled it back a bit for us.
And I have a duty to tell him that.
The investigation started after the president's infamous assertion that Obama tapped his phones during the election.
Nunes saying there's no merit to that claim.
There was no wiretapping of Trump Tower.
That didn't happen.
Tonight, Democrats are fuming.
That effort to defend the indefensible has led us down this terrible...
That's very interesting.
Do you think that was...
Yeah, it must have been purposeful.
That's strange.
It doesn't make any sense otherwise.
You can't put...
Unless you're drunk...
You know, in the avid room where you're doing the editing...
Which may, you know, I don't know, was Diane Sawyer editing?
You never know.
It's a possibility.
But they go from a desertion that Trump didn't do, that didn't happen to Trump, to the Democrats are now mad?
Yeah, I don't get that.
Do they want it to be tapped?
I mean, it just creates a point of confusion in your brain.
Yes, and that could be purposeful, but man, you give them a lot of credit.
Well, I do give them credit.
I give all these guys credit.
This is the top, this is the high end, this is the peak.
These three networks and Fox, to a lesser extent, are the peak of propaganda issuance in this country.
They're controlled by intelligence agencies, at least one of them we know pretty much.
And then the other one's just a bigoted bunch of people, the NBC crowd.
Yeah, well, CNN is also a complete surprise.
Well, yeah, but CNN, nobody listens to CNN. It's, like, not worth deconstructing because the influence is zero.
I mean, these broadcasts have 10, 20 million people listening.
CNN's got, like, less than 500,000.
300,000.
300,000.
So what?
And they're all wonks, you know?
What are you learning, bro?
I'm learning no one's watching.
So, anyway, to me, that stood out like a sore thumb.
I call it a switchback because it confuses you, doesn't make any sense in context.
It's unbelievable.
Effort to defend the indefensible has led us down this terrible rabbit hole.
Committee members further enraged that Nunes is postponing a Tuesday hearing with three former top intelligence officials.
He, it seems, continues to be more loyal to the president than our duty to have a search for the truth that is independent and collaborative.
And now former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to testify.
Sources tell ABC News former Trump associate Roger Stone may appear as well.
And Pierre joins us live now from FBI headquarters.
Pierre, Director Comey went to the White House to meet with President Trump today.
Do we know anything about that meeting?
Comey was at the White House for a scheduled meeting of national security officials, but we're told he did not meet with the president, Tom.
Pierre Thomas for us.
Pierre, thanks so much.
Yeah, thanks so much.
I have a couple clips that fit into this that I'd like to share.
With the group?
Yes, Cher.
Regarding this, first one is Lindsey Graham, who, he is a little confused.
He is now, he's worried, it seems, and I wonder why.
Well, I don't wonder why, because he's in cahoots with McCain, and these guys are just evil scum.
But I guess here's the question for me.
Does this fall into the category that the Trump campaign was surveilled?
I don't think so.
Does it fall into the category of being unlawful?
I don't believe so.
Is it disturbing?
In this regard, it is.
I meet with foreign leaders all the time as a senator.
I wonder if My meetings are being surveilled by our intelligence community.
If so, I think when I'm involved, that would be inappropriate because I may be talking about things of policy that I want...
Talking about things of sexual nature.
I want the executive branch to know about.
The FBI director and the National Security Agency director, they were testifying up on Capitol Hill before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday and said none of this.
What does that tell you?
It tells me that there's no evidence of surveilling of the Trump campaign, where a warrant was issued or requested by the FBI, that the NSA was never involved in surveilling the Trump campaign, ordered by the Obama administration.
Now, we surveil foreign agents all the time, foreign leaders.
We surveil people as part of intelligence gathering.
The one thing that is a bit disturbing is that a transition team you expect to be talking to other countries.
What I want to know is when a transition team member talks to a representative of another country, what are the procedures to make sure that that is confidential in terms of the interaction between our government and a foreign nation?
So Lindsey Graham is worried about wiretapping because now...
About something specifically.
Yes.
And it's probably Ukraine.
I'm not sure.
But...
The reason why he's worried is because he knows the truth.
He knows that this wiretapping thing is all just a big smokescreen.
And I had to remind myself of this, that wiretapping is not necessary in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
Everything is recorded.
Everything is on a disk.
It's in the big data centers.
This is what we have to come to realize.
The information is there, all that needs to be done.
And I think this is why Trump only felt partially vindicated, because there probably was not a FISA court warrant against him.
But everything is tracked.
Everything is stored.
All you have to do is go up, enter your selectors, saying, okay, I want X, Y, and Z. So you can even select, I want Trump.
You'll come up with a call or an email or whatever it is that is connected between him and a foreign national, and then that name gets masked.
But it's all there.
You don't have to go in and plant bugs anymore.
It's just all there.
As explained once again by our friend, Binnie, Bill Binney, who you and I both feel is very credible, he was the first whistleblower.
He's the one who designed the system.
The Stellar Wind, I think it was.
He designed there on 2nd Street in the AT&T building in San Francisco.
They had the fiber tapped and was just sucking in soot.
All of it.
Now here's Binney from two nights ago on Tucker's show.
Considering what you just said is that the NSA has all the information.
So presumably they could prove or disprove the claims about Russian tampering in this election.
They could prove or disprove Trump's tweet about being spied upon.
Why wouldn't they?
That would get into the extent of which they've penetrated the network inside the United States.
There's another program going on here.
I think he's correct.
They can't actually admit to what's going on and what's happening because that would show that everybody and everything is tracked and recorded.
Not too many people are talking about it.
They're not even addressing it.
I think you were trying to get at it.
Inside NSA there's a set of people who are, and we got this from another NSA whistleblower, Who witnessed some of this.
They're inside there.
They're targeting and looking at all the members of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress, both House and Senate, as well as the White House.
And all of this data is there inside NSA in a small group where they're looking at it.
And the idea is to see what people have power over you or what they think you should be doing or what they're planning to do to you, your budget or whatever, so you can try to counteract it before it actually happens.
This bulk acquisition, by the way, is inhibiting their ability to detect terrorist threats in advance so they can't stop them.
So people get killed as a result, which means, you know, they pick up the pieces and clean up the blood after the attack.
That's what's been going on.
I mean, they've consistently failed.
So if the president of the United States, for whom they work, to whom they report, says, look, I want everything you have on X, Aren't they required to give it to them?
Yes.
But again, he'll never know if they do because they don't necessarily have to do that internally.
You see, you had Nunes and others saying that they never really got to see the raw data.
So it's a question of whether or not they pull out the raw data and give him that data or anything, any reports generated off that.
They don't have to.
And they've been lying to them consistently for a very long time.
It's like the Praetorian Guard.
You know, they're going to determine what the Emperor does and who the Emperor is.
Well, I think that would be spot on.
I think, absolutely.
I think he would be right, Mr.
Binney.
Very, very disturbing.
I'm surprised they let Binney live.
You know, as I was clipping that, I asked myself the same question.
You always have to wonder, you know, why, why, why?
I think I know why.
Why?
There's nobody but this No Agenda show and maybe a few other people give a crap.
Give a crap about it, man.
True.
Final clip I have is something Trey Gowdy said when he was interviewed on Fox.
I thought it was an interesting point.
So what did we learn from yesterday?
What did Trey Gowdy, the prosecutor, learn from yesterday?
I learned it's really tough to run serious quasi-criminal or criminal investigations in a public setting, which is why it's never done, except in Washington.
I think the most troubling part for me was when Director Comey would not He would not assure us that there's a leak investigation.
He was more than happy to assure us that there's an investigation into the potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, which may or may not be a crime.
Leaking classified information is a crime, but he would not confirm that investigation.
Interesting.
Yes.
I noted that when I was listening to the hearings.
It's douchey of him.
Yeah, something's very suspicious.
Meanwhile, we have the...
The other side of that group, the Democrats are all lockstep against Nunes, and they're trying to get him out and get that independent thing going, which is never going to happen the way I see it.
Independent investigation.
Counsel and prosecutor.
So let's listen to this.
So this is a new meme, I believe.
They're ramping it up.
The Democrats still butthurt over Hillary are ramping this particular meme up to an extreme.
I mean, first one, it was like the Russians hacked, the Russians hacked, the Russians hacked.
And now we got Russians attacked.
And this is the second in command on that intelligence committee.
This is some other stooge who comes out.
He's been on a number of clips.
And this is the new litany.
It's investigating Russian meddling in last year's election and alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
Now the very direction of the probe itself seems in question.
Here for some more on this is one of the committee's Democratic members, Representative Eric Swalwell of California.
Congressman, you've said before that you feel the chairman, Devin Nunes, has a conflict of interest.
Do you think he's taking orders from the White House?
I think he betrayed the duty to conduct an independent collaborative investigation.
We were attacked by Russia this past election and our constituents are counting on us to get to the bottom of what happened.
He is going off on his own and receiving classified information, not sharing it with members of the committee, taking it to the White House where the president's campaign is currently under criminal and counterintelligence investigations.
I think what we need to do is he needs to find an on-ramp, because this investigation must continue to go forward, and he must work with Democrats.
Otherwise, our constituents are going to ask, how can you conduct a credible investigation into the largest attack that our elections have ever seen?
Yeah, that fits in perfectly with the McCain clip here.
And, by the way, the Russian attack also fits in perfectly with the Jackie Speier commentary and some others that we've heard.
Oh, yeah.
Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi.
Let's have war with Russia.
Let's nuke them.
Let's listen to John McCain, who was questioning General Curtis Gapparotti.
Commander of U.S. European Command.
What's your idea is how to counter what has emerged as one of the greatest threats to stability in Europe?
One of the greatest threats, John?
Is it nukes?
What is the greatest threat?
Chairman, I think, first of all, we have to confront this threat as it is, be sober-minded about it.
We have to.
We have to do it as an alliance and with our partners.
It's a huge threat.
And we have to call it out.
We have to confront it.
There seems to be a reluctance in many of the nations to actually confront it when we see it publicly take it on.
And I think we, as partners, have to form together and begin to do this.
As you said, it's prolific, and I believe we've got to confront it.
No, we countered Russian propaganda during the Cold War with Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.
What do you think we need to do there to have our own counter, effective counter message to be sent?
And I know that's not exactly in your area of responsibility, but I think it's a kind of warfare.
Sure is.
Sure is.
Sure is, says the army guy.
Sure is.
It's warfare.
What do we need when we have this kind of new warfare?
What could John McCain need?
If only I could remember, what is it he's always looking for?
To do there, to have our own counter, effective counter message to be sent.
And I know that's not exactly in your area of responsibility, but I think it's a kind of warfare.
Sure it is.
The Russians see this as a part of that spectrum of warfare.
That's their asymmetric approach.
I'll start here.
We have informational operations that are military, and I have those that are countering malign influence in Europe.
But what we really need is we need a whole-of-government approach, a whole-of-government information campaign, of which I'm a small part of that.
We need somebody in the lead of that.
Isn't that called propaganda?
If it's a whole of government information campaign, isn't that propaganda?
Or is that just fact-based?
I'm confused.
And then we need to finance it and form a government strategy.
Oh, yes!
Finance!
As you said, in the Cold War, we had one.
I don't think we're as...
Get to the money!
There is a start on that.
We have what's called the RIG, Russian Information Group, which is the beginnings of that.
But that has to be reinforced.
It has to be financed.
We have to have the authorities that they need to lead that forward.
And the lead on that would probably be the State Department, right?
It is.
The RIG is co-chaired with UCOM and the State Department is the lead.
Yes, sir.
So it wouldn't help you any if we slashed the spending for the State Department.
Oh.
No shirt.
Damn, man.
It's always about the money.
It's always about the Benjamins.
John Benjamin McCain right there, ladies and gentlemen.
What a douche.
That's very fun.
That's a good clip.
Yeah.
And before we take a break, I'll just play this just to let you know where the next Russian problem is coming from.
Police in Minsk have arrested hundreds of people during a mass rally organized to mark the 99th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic.
It always starts with something.
It always starts with something else.
But you watch.
Within seconds, we'll see that Russia is going to be invading Belarus.
Many used the occasion to denounce an unpopular new tax on those not in full-time employment.
At times, special forces deployed to the streets of the capital forcibly removed protesters.
And they were removing old people, John.
They were pulling down people in their 70s and hitting them with clubs.
You can even hear it here.
Passersby and at least 10 journalists were reportedly also detained.
Oh, there's your journalist meme.
Public anger has been steadily rising amid falling living standards under two-year-long recession in Belarus.
The demonstration is the latest in a series held since February that posed the biggest threat in years to long-running President Alexander Lukashenko.
He's been seeking to improve ties with the West and the EU as relations cool with former Soviet ruler Russia.
Oh yeah.
You watch.
You can put your money on it.
Russia's going to be responsible for this.
Putin, specifically.
That's a good one.
You're right.
And Belarus.
Look at the map, people.
Look at where Belarus is.
It makes nothing but sense.
It's right above Ukraine.
Connects to Russia.
Perfect.
Kagan!
The Kagans are back, indeed.
And we'd like to stay back.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda.
Whoa.
In the morning.
Let's start off with Phil from Minnesota.
All right.
Came in with $133.33.
He has a couple of call-outs here.
I'm not sure we got him in there.
Maybe.
I think we did.
I wanted to donate $333.33 for my wife's 33rd birthday, but I threw in another $100 to make sure you had read my note.
Not necessarily on the air.
Can I get a birthday wish for Melissa on 4117?
That is on the list, I'm pretty sure.
Yes, I'm pretty sure.
He wants a de-douching, and I think we should give him one for that.
And karma de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
He says, thanks for giving me a window to the world without any bias.
Well, you're welcome.
You're more than welcome.
$100 comes from Adam Barrett in London, UK. Eric Mack, M-A-K-J, 80-0-8, boobs.
William Smith, boob, from Sarasota, Florida.
This list is very short, so we'll get right through it.
William Smith in Sarasota, Florida.
Ryan Quick in Oceanside, California, 77-33.
Michael Gonella, a 69.
Candice Blaney in Toronto, Ontario.
6666.
That's kind of cool.
Anonymous.
6666.
It says Anonymous should be a dame by the end of the show.
How about that?
Okay.
Patrick Lebon in Panania, New South Wales.
Is that right?
Well, hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
Let me just double check this dame thing.
I think it's on there.
I was mentioning something about it.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
An anonymous dame and an anonymous baron or something else.
Yeah, we're good.
Patrick LeBon, 66.
Brian Sidowitz, 66.
Thanks for the shout-out for something.
Oops, what happened?
Why did this thing jump?
Hold on, let me just...
We got Richard Capels from San Jose, California, 5678.
I wonder if he was at the party.
Maybe.
I don't remember.
Might be.
Josh McDonald, 55 double nickels on the dime.
Ben in High Point, North Carolina.
It's actually Sir Bob of the Dude's name, Ben.
Yes.
55-10.
Eric Makarowitz, I believe, 55-10.
Scott Shelburne in Omaha, 55-10.
Charles Kraut, couch, couch, 5280.
Eric Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland, 52.
Just one thing about Scott Shelburne.
He says, I was hit in the mouth eight months ago by the recently knighted Sir Moser, the Moserian, and I've listened to every episode since.
I was cynical before in regards to the media, but through your show, I have gained a new clarity of thought.
And he has a birthday.
It makes him more cynical.
That's right.
Correct.
You are now official.
Apparently, at least it's consistent enough it gives him clarity, which is what we do.
Yeah, we like that.
Dude named Muhammad's back with 5150.
Mitchell Kaufman, the following people, all $50 donors, name and location, if it's available.
Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsborough, Oregon.
Joe Schwarzbauer in Florissant, Missouri.
James Butcher in Dalwini, Washington.
Really?
No, Dal...
Dull Walling something in Washington.
No, he's in Washington.
Jeffrey Walso in...
What's SK? Sweden?
No, no, no.
That would be...
No, no, no, no.
Switzerland is definitely not.
Switzerland is CH. Right.
It's not Switzerland.
What's SK? Maybe it's Saskatchewan, Canada.
Okay.
Maybe.
Yeah?
Maybe.
But maybe.
Slovakia.
Slovakia.
Oh, cool.
Thank you, chat room.
Slovakia, which is great to visit.
Ryan, what is this, Curie?
In Reading, Berkshire?
I think it's Curly.
Oh, is it curly?
Curly or curl.
Increase the font size.
Libra.
Matthew Durney.
Do you have fonts Libra that go with Libra Office?
Office Libra?
Do they have fonts Libra?
Go to Big Fonts Libra.
Big Fonts Libra.
Anonymous in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Continues with the $50.
Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida.
Probably Pasteur.
I love that name.
Like Al Pistor, but he's Louis Pistor.
Louis, yeah.
Al Pistor.
People would get a kick out of that if they ever had a good taco.
Anonymous in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I'm sorry, Bryn Evans, Parts Unknown.
Tim, what is this?
Bryn is in Australia, actually.
Oh, it doesn't say that on here.
Oh, AU, Australia.
Oh, it doesn't say that on my spreadsheet.
All right, anyway.
Tim Pierce, Bryn Evans.
Tim Pierce in Austin, Texas, your buddy?
Yep.
Okay, you got some comment there about something.
Nils.
Oh, man.
Bonacker?
I think it's Bonacker.
I guess it's Bonacker in Hamburg, Deutschland.
And last but not least, Stephen or Steffen.
As you don't know anymore, Powers, and he has a very long note.
Oh, but he actually says he has a birthday here, which he calls himself Steve, I guess.
So, yeah, you're on the list, Steve.
Good.
Yeah, he's on the list.
Good.
Thank you.
And that concludes our well-wishers and contributors, everyone over the price of $50 for helping produce the show.
Yeah, and I think, didn't we have a knight today who was on the layaway plan for 20 months?
Yeah, I think so.
I'm trying to think who that was.
We do have a make good from Sir Dennis Cruz, a.k.a.
The Den Man.
I did not see a place to leave any type of message in the interface.
Thank you, PayPal.
So I thought I would say, hello!
I appreciate the work you both put into the show, especially with such exhaustive efforts to locate those wondrous photos of Trump actually touching Merkel.
Sarcastic tone implied.
This is why I support the show, and since the very start, old fogey here, Please give a mention to the Den Man Show featured at hotcoffee.org.
That's hotcoffee.org.
And Carmen Hall.
And I have to agree that the nyet, nyet, nyet grated on my last nerve.
You know, people really get horribly triggered by some of our jingles.
I know.
You know, the Yoko thing.
I have to announce it or people go into epileptic fits.
And then they get all pissed off about it.
Why would anybody get pissed off about the Yoko thing?
It honestly makes me want to play all that more.
Yeah, that's the way you are.
I'm not a rule follower, my friend.
I'm getting that.
All right.
Thank you all very much for continuing to support the program.
As producers, this is your show.
This is the big secret that we're not making a big secret.
Why does everything else fail?
Why will all these podcast networks go nowhere?
A, because we've done it before.
John and I have lived through it.
You can't monetize the network.
But when you have the community and you're all responsible for the program, it turns out reasonably well for all involved.
And we appreciate and actually, no, we thank you for your courage.
And please remember us for our show coming up on Thursday Dvorak.org slash NA. I'm sure somebody needs some jobs, Karma.
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We start off with some belated ones.
Sir Mark Tanner says happy birthday to his granddaughter, Georgia Quinn, Negrete, or Negrete, April 22nd.
Oh, that's a pre-announcement, actually.
Ned Jeffrey is first born human resource.
Arlo turned one on March 25th.
William Smith says happy birthday to his brother, Gene Smith.
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Steve Powers celebrates today.
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Matt Mariotti, 33 today.
And Scott Shelbourne celebrates on March 29th.
Happy birthday from all your friends here in the back office of the best podcast in the universe!
Happy birthday, yeah!
Alrighty.
We have...
Oh, we do have one title change here today.
So let's pull out...
My title change!
Anonymous becomes Baronet of the ADF, and that will be reflected on the peerage map, itm.im slash peerage.
Now we have one, two, three, four, five, one, five, four, one, two, three, four, five, six.
We have four knights and two dames, John.
It's a big day here at the show.
Yeah, I want to see you get through this one.
Taking a deep breath.
Show me your blade.
Show me your weapons soon.
Jerking on.
Come on, Milton Cuevas, Timothy Kiernan, Anonymous, Niels Bonnaker, Karab Blevins, and Jeroen Sloat.
Join me here on the podium, please.
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Ooh, I ran out of music.
The fanfare, the band, wanted to be paid more.
That's what I was thinking.
Well, we made it.
Right, kind of, somehow.
Go to knowagenternation.com slash rings and, uh...
Please let Eric DeShill know where we can send off and what size.
Two notes today that I'd like to share with the group.
One from Allie.
Hello, John and Adam from the best transgender producer in the universe.
Calling out here for the best podcast in the universe.
We have the best producers.
There she goes.
Always have to tell you guys are absolutely right on the transgender views you guys have.
They, them, Z, all bullshit.
They screw things up for us normal trannies.
Lol, yeah, normal, with a little giggle.
She has an awesome mini, by the way.
I think she has a 33 on the side.
Like a racing number.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, blue and white.
But as a person that both went through and is still going through the transmedical world, I gotta tell you, there is a lot of dollars in therapy, which is usually set by the therapist, how much you need until they feel they can offer you the doctor's note.
We discussed this on the previous show.
How the doctor, you know, in order to receive any kind of transitionary therapy, medication, etc., you have to have notes from the doctors all the time.
And apparently, they charge you $200 when you get the note, $160 appointments, $200 letter, then you get an endocrinologist and give them money for your first appointment, your new scripts, and now for the rest of my life, every six months, I have to go back to the doctor, ask questions, check my refill, pay for the note, scam!
And there you have it.
Scam.
From a, quote, normal transgender.
And then this one was fantastic.
This is in regard to Hidden Figures, the movie we're talking about.
And this comes to us from one of our longtime producers, John Calvin Jones, Ph.D., J.D. He's currently in Mexico.
In terms of NASA, my father worked in the aerospace industry at JPL, Jet Propulsion Labs, and with NASA. After the Challenger explosion, my dad, Thomas Baines Jones Jr., who specialized in rockets and fuel cells, was put on the job.
My father concluded that due to a faulty design, wherein the fuel would leak from the tank on takeoff, the shuttles would explode regularly.
After presenting his findings to his bosses and the NASA military reps, my dad was fired.
He never worked again.
As a senior black man in the aerospace industry at the time, putting in 25 years of service, my father was well known.
He was not fired for being black, but dismissed for putting NASA funding at risk.
So I can vouch that NASA was a great place to work that gave people of merit a chance, but would crush anyone who used their engineering knowledge to challenge their pet program.
Now you show me any news outfit that has that kind of people participating.
That's a great story.
It is a good story.
It sounds like a story that needs to be told in detail.
And I would like to know, how come only the women are highlighted in the movie?
How about the black men?
Are they no good?
This John Jones professor sounds like an interesting story.
He would fit right in with the whole thing.
Hmm, that's an interesting point.
And I'm sure there were black guys there that were marginalized just like those white women, or black women.
Yeah, who gives a crap?
Men.
Yeah, who gives a crap about the black men?
Now, the Trump cast this weekend, mind-boggling, John.
I was hoping it would happen, and you gotta leave it up to this guy as president to do it.
I mean, these...
I call them the presidential podcasts.
They're usually quite boring.
It's the president.
He's sitting in the same room.
You know, they cut up the little spiel there, reading from prompter, blah-de-blah-de-blah-de-blah.
It's always been boring.
Well, in comes our consummate television professional.
And this is how the podcast started today with imagery of space.
That's one small step for man...
My fellow Americans, this week in the company of astronauts, I was honored to sign this week in the company of astronauts, I was honored to sign the NASA Transition Authorization Act right Are you feeling this, John?
Imagine you're seeing the president fade in and fade out as we're seeing rockets launch and we're seeing ticker tape parades.
Wow, they're making a production out of it.
Yeah!
Yes, finally!
We got all the music going on.
We renew our national commitment to NASA's mission of exploration and discovery.
And we continue a tradition that is as old as mankind.
It's completely like, you know, he's in the right stuff.
Curiosity.
You know, it's like, look at America!
More than two decades ago, one scientist followed this.
Now, they've got a lot of work to do.
And I'm not going to play the whole thing.
It goes on for five minutes.
And they have work to do.
But it's a good start.
I mean, I've been waiting for stuff like this.
Change it up.
Shake it up.
Do some production work on this thing.
Get the guy.
Can the Jeff Smith do a little jingle?
You know, I think you're nailing it.
I never even thought about this.
But Obama did it and Bush did it.
It's stupid.
They're just sitting at a desk reading from a prompter poorly and sometimes there's some edits in there and it looks like it doesn't look good.
Yeah, put a little effort into it.
You've got plenty of talented people out there and just put some production values in it.
Make it Make it entertaining.
I mean, this was purely done on iMovie.
I mean, just like slap that under and fade it in and out.
It can be done so well, CurryDvorak.com.
We could do such a great job on these podcasts.
Get the Jeff Smith.
Sir Jeff Smith, do a little jingle, you know.
Bum, bum, bum.
It's a Trumpcast.
I don't know.
We'll do something.
The Trumpcast.
Trumpcast.
We'll come up with something.
I want to get this one thing out of the way, the health care thing.
Yeah, I have something to say about that, too.
Okay, well, let's start with Boehner's comment on health care, because I thought this was a good introduction of what I'm going to present.
Last month, former Republican Speaker John Boehner said this.
In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like.
Not once.
Scott, it appears that record is still standing.
Woohoo!
That's just a slam because this is CBS. Yeah, of course.
But let's listen to the healthcare defeat rundown, and this gets us up to speed quickly.
What's next?
That's a big question following President Trump's stinging defeat this week on healthcare.
Stinging!
Mr.
Trump, who's spending the weekend in Washington, wants to move on to the next item on his to-do list, tax reform.
But his failure to rally Republicans behind a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare has raised questions about his ability to clear legislative hurdles.
We have two reports tonight on what's next for health care and the president, beginning with Chip Reid.
On Twitter today, President Trump tried to rally his deeply disappointed supporters.
Obamacare will explode, he wrote, and we will all get together and piece together a great health care plan for the people.
Do not worry.
But an explosion of Obamacare is far from guaranteed.
After canceling the vote on the Republican bill Friday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said this.
Obamacare is the law of the land.
It's going to remain the law of the land until it's replaced.
We're going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.
He suggested that the House will return to health care, but gave no hint as to when that might be.
That is not the end of the story, because I know that every man and woman in this conference is now motivated more than ever to step up our game, to deliver on our promises.
But that will take cooperation from the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, which gave President Trump a standing ovation Thursday.
Do you have the vote?
Then on Friday played the leading role in the president's humiliating defeat.
They oppose the bill because they say it doesn't go far enough to repeal Obamacare.
In my judgment, this was the killing of bad legislation, in which case it would be considered a good day for America.
Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks is a Freedom Caucus member.
I'm optimistic that we'll do better in the future having learned from this experience.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi literally jumped for joy after the Republican bill died.
She says it's time for the Republicans to allow Democrats to have a role.
So far, they've been almost entirely excluded from the process.
We have a responsibility to find common ground.
Democrats are now worried that the Trump administration will use its control of the federal health care bureaucracy to try to make sure that Obamacare does fail, an eventuality that they say would be devastating for millions of Americans, Democrats, and Republicans.
Rena?
A little dig at the end, but it wasn't as bad.
A little dig, but this is better.
He blamed the Democrats.
This is Scott Pelley, who comes on the air, and he just throws this little gem out there just to give him a real punch in the gut.
The Capitol, the president who fancies himself a master of the art of the deal, is still an apprentice in the science of politics.
But he didn't blame himself for the defeat today.
He blamed the Democrats.
Robert Brennan is at the White House.
We call that the mainstream pun, John.
Corporate media pun.
That's so funny.
That's so funny.
Now, the last short clips I've got on this is that...
So we go to the PBS NewsHour.
They bring pretty much the same report.
But they do their Shields and Brooks bit.
And Shields rants about this whole thing.
And it's completely illogical.
And I want you to play just an illogical Shields rant.
This is the first one, which is just I stop it midway through because I'm going to ask you a question.
We have a protest president.
We have a protest party.
It's not a governing party.
It showed itself unable to accept the responsibility and the accountability of governing.
This bill was not a bad bill.
This bill was just an abomination.
There was no public case that could be made for the bill.
There was no public argument that could be made for the bill.
It's because nobody knew what was in it.
Wait a minute.
Let's back that up a little bit.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let me hear that again.
Hold on a second.
There was no public case that could be made for the bill.
There was no public argument that could be made for the bill.
It's because nobody knew what was in it.
If nobody knew what was in it, and by the way, that's the way Nancy Pelosi presented their bill.
We have to pass it so we can see what's in it, if you remember.
Everyone should remember that, but they don't bring that up again.
But he says nobody knows what's in it, but yet it's an abomination.
How does he know if nobody knows what's in it?
It's magic!
With a K. Is that your best answer?
Well, I have a whole different answer.
No, of course.
Okay, well, let's play part two of this and then you give me the answer.
There was no public argument that could be made for the bill.
It's because nobody knew what was in it.
There was no public campaign for the bill because no organizations, every organization that was involved in medical care, whether it's the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, they were all against the bill.
It was a terrible bill.
There was nothing organized.
The only organizing principle was it was against Barack Obama.
Did those guys all know it was in the bill?
That's what he said.
Well, for me, it's only one very simple answer, and this was intended to never pass or never come to a vote.
It was intended that way.
It was, I think, Trump trolled everybody.
I think so, too.
I have no problem going along with this idea because I was watching Trump's reaction.
Let me just give you a little side piece of information.
Scott Adams had a take on this, which I thought was very interesting.
He said, Trump just gave himself an upgrade.
And I was like, what?
So I read on.
Trump now upgraded himself from Hitler to incompetent.
That is indeed quite an upgrade.
Because the meme of Hitler and kill everybody and white nationalists and everything is gone.
Now it's still Russia stuff, but now it's incompetent, rookie, loser, apprentice.
That's exactly what Scott Pelley said.
Yeah, exactly.
He says, oh, he fancies himself as a negotiator and he's just an apprentice.
And then he's, you know, and he blames somebody else.
But think about it.
The upgrade from Hitler...
To incompetent is quite an upgrade.
Yeah.
That's an interesting theory.
I like the theory a lot.
I think it makes a lot of sense.
Upgrade to incompetent.
Yeah, and now what Scott Adams is predicting, he says at the end of the year, it'll go from incompetent to competent, but I still don't like him.
And that could be possible, I'm for sure.
Well, there's a lot of time.
I mean, he's not as if he...
I would like to watch some of the left-wing shows because they're going, oh, this is another failure.
He fails at this, he fails at this.
And they have this little list that they have.
Couldn't get the Muslim ban done twice.
Couldn't do this.
And there's one other thing.
But they don't talk about him lifting the coal restrictions and putting workers back to work.
They don't talk about him dumping the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which was a total victory, and a bunch of other little things.
So there's just this very, very skewed Dimension B stuff.
It's like very difficult.
I don't know why.
I'm sorry.
I'm saying very throughout the show.
And I'm trying not to say...
What's the one you're working on?
Of course.
Of course.
Of course you are.
Yeah, I'm trying to not say of course a lot.
Yeah, so I'll try to minimize the very.
The point is...
There's more you can minimize.
I shouldn't say anything.
I'm stopping talking.
I've beat him, finally.
I've beaten him down.
Hey, what was the...
What's that chemical you think could partially be responsible for all the transgenderism?
Atrazine.
Atrazine.
I ask you, well, I mean, this may not, it could be totally unrelated to atrazine, but a study shows, let me see, who did this study?
Researchers from New York University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have concluded that in New York, they studied 4,600 girls, 46.6% reported having same-sex relationships.
That's high.
Well, do we know that that's high?
Because I remember even when I was in high school, and you can put that back a ways.
Yeah.
We never thought much about it.
We're just like, yeah, there they are.
Girls always dancing with each other at the sock hop.
Girls always kissing in the back of the bus constantly.
Good point.
There's always a bunch of girls back there kissing each other.
And then the guys, we're talking high school, we go, yeah, there you go, what are you going to do?
Didn't pay much attention to it.
The girls always claimed that they were practicing.
Okay, so maybe that's nothing.
I'll take that.
It may not be.
Good point.
Now...
There are a couple other things we need to mention in regard to the Clintons.
The first one, and this is very surprising to me, and this comes to us from the New York Post, Bastion of Truth, but they have photos to prove that Huma Abedin is now working very hard on her marriage with Anthony Weiner.
So it's been four times now that this douchebag has humiliated her with his behavior, and she's saying, no, we're going to try it again.
Wow!
Well, you know why?
Why?
Uh-oh.
They can't divorce.
Because if you're married, you can't testify against each other.
You can't be made to testify against each other.
Oh, you think that's it?
Hell yes!
Come on!
She's gay.
He's creepy.
But it gets better.
It gets better?
It gets better.
This guy, his name is Robert Mercer.
You know Robert Mercer?
Have you heard of this guy?
Yes, I have heard of this guy.
He's sketchy.
What's up with him?
I don't know.
It's the first word that comes to mind.
Okay, let me see what he is.
Well, he's a Trump guy, of course.
But he is the CEO of Renaissance Technologies, an investment management firm, major donor to Breitbart News, Donated to Super PACs, affiliated with Freedom Partners, Club for Growth Action.
Oh, right.
Mercer's there.
Okay, he's not sketchy, but he's kind of sketchy.
He's this rich...
This guy's name has just come up.
I think it's a meme.
This guy's name started cropping up, and it's all over the place.
He's the real money behind Trump.
Yes.
Yes.
Billionaire Robert Mercer.
No one's ever heard of him before.
That's why I think this is sketchy.
Well, democracy now takes him seriously.
They take everything seriously because they have no sense of humor.
Judy from Democracy Now!
and Jane Meyer on from The New Yorker discussing Robert Mercer and his belief in the Clinton body count.
Mercer's obsession with the Clintons, the whole issue that you write about, they're talking about their murderers.
I mean, really, I mean, one of the challenges of writing about the Mercers for me was to figure out Okay, so they're big players.
There are players in the Democratic Party who put in tons of money, too.
They're not the only people who put money into politics, but they're maybe the most mysterious people who put money into politics.
Like, nobody really knew what do they believe, what's driving them.
And so I was trying to figure that out.
And what I finally was able to do was talk to partners and people they work with in business and people who've known them a long time who paint this picture of them as having these really peculiar beliefs.
And based on kind of strange far-right media, among their beliefs are that Bob Mercer has spoken to at least three people who I interviewed about how he is convinced that the Clintons are murderers, literally have murdered people.
Now, you hear that out on the fringes sometimes when you interview people who are ignorant.
But these are people who are powerful.
That's funny.
That is so funny.
She could have said anything.
Racist.
You hear this a lot from people who are homophobic and hate Islam.
You hear this a lot.
But no, she chooses ignorant.
Convinced that the Clintons are murderers, literally have murdered people.
Now, you hear that on the fringes sometimes when you interview people who are ignorant.
But these are people who are powerful, well-educated, and huge influences in the country.
And And Bob Mercer was convinced that the Clintons are murderers.
Was?
Was?
Is he dead?
He might be.
He's got to watch out.
Oh, man.
Just Google, if you have not.
I've never done it.
Clinton body count.
Go ahead.
The list is up to about 170 now.
And many of those murders, including that poor bastard who was shot dead outside of the...
Seth Rich?
Yeah, Seth Rich.
Who is the one who probably provided the inside stuff from the Democrat committee, whatever.
Yeah.
Was shot in the head in an execution style.
Yeah.
Right after that file was published by WikiLeaks.
Yeah.
It's just a weird coincidence.
It's not been solved.
It's not going to be solved.
It's not a weird coincidence, John.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Less than ten minutes to go.
Okay?
All right.
John, we're rebranding.
Rebranding the end of the show.
Okay, what are we calling it now?
Because your clips, your clips are on the list.
These are the clips, your last time list.
If you forget to play these clips, you'll be a douchebag.
Lovely to have Hall& Oates as listeners of the show.
I didn't know.
When I was a kid, I was so poor, I only listened to Oates.
Hey now!
I stole the material, so I'll take it.
Somebody else came up with that gag.
William Thrall did that, one of our producers.
That is dynamite.
It's very good.
I mean, that's spot on the money.
That's like Hall& Oates.
So let me start with the clip on my list.
I have falsely tried to claim previously, although it was not fake news, it was a mistake, that we influenced Futurama into...
Using the face bag meme, I was wrong.
I have no problem admitting I was wrong.
However, once again, you, my friend, you are influencing media.
You.
John C. Dvorak has the knack.
I don't have the knack.
I come up with stuff that never goes anywhere.
You have the knack.
One more.
Gray, Tennessee.
Barbara, you're on the air.
Thank you for calling.
Hi, Tom.
Thank you for taking my call.
I feel that suppression of the press is leading us down the dangerous path in America.
One of the hallmarks of a dictator is suppression of information.
That's exactly what Trump is doing, and I feel that Steve Banyan is probably behind a lot of this suppression.
There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Steve Banyan.
Steve Banyan.
John, you've done it again.
You truly are a master.
I've met my goals for the month.
Steve Banyan.
Steve Banyan.
And, of course, not corrected, obviously.
Why bother?
Yeah, why bother?
What's on your list, baby?
Let's try hate bullshit, RT. Oh, this is one of those favorite things from RT. This past the hour here in Moscow, Israeli police have arrested a teenager on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers in America.
The suspect was identified as a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen.
Turns out he's Jewish himself.
His lawyer claims a brain tumor could affect his behavior.
Police say his motives remain unclear.
The 100 or so anti-Semitic threats he had sent since January had sparked panic in various Jewish communities.
In fact, some even criticized President Trump for an inadequate response and falsely blamed Trump's support for spreading hatred.
America has been gripped by a wave of bomb threats that have targeted the Jewish community.
Bomb threats across the country at a number of Jewish centers.
The number of bomb threats to these Jewish community centers just keeps going up.
Jewish Community Center in Birmingham, Alabama, a phoned-in bomb threat and evacuation.
This story fits nicely into a certain narrative.
No KKK! No fascist USA! That feel Hitler in these streets?
A mustache traded for a toupee!
You think you're being unfavorably compared to Donald Trump?
Don't get me wrong, Conan.
I agree with a lot he says.
A lot.
Like 90% of what he says.
I'm like, this guy gets it.
Their mantra is that Donald Trump is the new Hitler.
He is the odious cause of an odious effect.
That he is the reason that hatred is flourishing.
While the latest headlines seem to confirm this, a closer look actually shows that they weaken it.
A teenager who's believed to be behind the majority of the threats, hoax threats as it transpires, was arrested halfway around the world in Israel.
The 18-year-old holds dual American and Israeli citizenship and has no obvious connection with Donald Trump.
Another bomb threat suspect was arrested on U.S. soil.
He turns out not to support Donald Trump, but Bernie Sanders.
Seems to me that the left is showing more signs of fascism with their violence against free speech and now actual hatred against Jews.
I mean, this is awful and it's disgusting and it's amazing that they're the ones calling Trump Hitler.
Nothing from Trump supporters.
Nothing's been proven from Trump supporters at all.
All across America, people are faking hate crimes.
The diversity council at Gustavus Adolphus College admitted to posting racist flyers around the campus, supposedly to raise awareness.
In Texas, a young white woman reported that three black men had abducted and raped her.
In upstate New York, a Jewish man spray-painted swastikas on his own house and then called the police to report it.
Fabulous.
Yeah, this will get zero play.
I've been reading all these reports.
It's all from false flags.
Yeah, it's hilarious.
False flags.
Okay, on my clip list.
Brian Williams, skeptical of someone else's reliability.
Then we were in our last hour of coverage when suddenly the Republican who chairs the intelligence community in the House, the focus of our attention all day Monday as the head of the FBI and the NSA came to testify before that committee.
He says he is now in receipt of information.
It's intelligence information that he found alarming enough to go down to the White House and brief the president.
Not traditionally the role of the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
He has a lot of other people he reports to, Republican members, ranking members, the Democrats, Mr.
Schiff from California, the congressman we've come to see a lot of.
He's got an FBI director and an NSA director who are going to be real interested in exactly what he came to tell the president about, what the president or the president's people were caught up in that is part of some incidental intelligence gathering.
Central question.
Is what he has discovered at all confirmation of the president's tweets?
Is there wiretap evidence?
And we use that word as the president did.
Wiretap evidence.
He was asked that question and answered no.
But he could not have injected more suspicion into what he's discovered in the few minutes he strolled outside the Northwest Portico and addressed the White House Press Corps outdoors.
Brian Williams really is the Mel Gibson of news.
I mean, it's amazing.
He lies, he gets busted, he gets demoted, he gets thrown out, and he's back.
Like, no one questions it.
But he can question everybody else.
There's no credibility nowhere.
Girl!
You know it's true.
This is fake news.
Girl!
You know it's fake news.
Which brings us to this clip.
And I can leave it at the end as my last clip.
All right.
This is the Sandusky blowback CBS report.
You should know.
You would remember as they tell us what happened to one of these guys.
Today, former Penn State President Graham Spanner was convicted of child endangerment.
This was for covering up the child sex abuse allegations against assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Spanner could get up to five years in prison.
Oh, man.
Question 11.
You think he's going to get one day of jail time?
I would doubt it.
President, he's in the elites.
He's the president of a major university.
Well, you know, he does, there is a sad option that he could die.
I mean, this is exactly what happened to the other guy.
They are killing people in this case, you know.
They can't have people breaking down and opening up.
Well, that's always a possibility.
Final clip for me.
Just to wrap this up neatly, we all know that Donna Brazile took questions, verbatim questions, that were meant for some of the campaign debates in town halls and gave them to Hillary Clinton.
She is now apparently admitted to this.
We begin with some breaking news, a stunning confession from former DNC Chair Donna Brazile.
Donna is finally admitting to what we all knew all along, that she leaked CNN town hall questions to Hillary Clinton during the campaign, while she, Donna Brazile, was a contributor to the network.
Brazil confessed in an essay published in Time Magazine saying, quote, among the many things I did in my role as a Democratic operative and DNC vice chair prior to assuming the interim DNC chair position was to share potential town hall topics with the Clinton campaign.
My job was to make all our Democratic candidates look good, and I worked closely with both campaigns to make that happen.
But sending those emails was a mistake I will forever make.
Regrets.
Oh.
Oh.
Where's the outrage?
There isn't.
And I don't think anyone knew about this, that she's copped to it.
This has been pretty well publicized, at least in Dimension A. Oh, well, A, yes.
But B, no, no, no.
Well, I don't know what I'm going to do with the rest of my day, John, seeing as the face bag is pretty much shut down.
Ah, basketball.
Oh!
We're right at the end of the NCAA March Madness tournament.
When's the final?
When's the final?
When's the big final?
The final's coming up in a few...
Well, actually, we have the final four.
There's two more that need to be entered into the final four, which is the big deal.
And that'll run throughout the week.
The big final four is two more games before the finals, which I think is next weekend.
Okay, so next weekend.
No, these are the good games.
These games right now, from the Elite Eight on, are all good.
They're breaking, these guys putting out everything they can.
They're crying at the end of the game.
We lost.
It's unbelievable.
Is my brother from another mother playing today, Steph?
Tonight, yes.
The Warriors are playing tonight.
They're playing one of the teams that beat them a couple times.
I'll be rooting for them.
So that'll be a good game.
Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas in the Crackpot Condo here in the Skyscraper.
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Until then, good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the car crash that happened earlier has been cleared.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
Until then...
Adios, mofos!
Call me, call me Let me know you're still there Come now, won't you?
Free my spies Subpoenas Call me to find you Dear We're good
to get through to you.
What are you doing?
Oh, again.
A decadent elitist.
Oh, again.
A decadent elitist.
Oh, again.
A decadent elitist.
Oh, again.
A decadent elitist.
Oh, again.
We have to be twice as much from beginning early.
Stop it!
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Get to the rubbish sale. Get to the rubbish sale. Get to the rubbish sale. Get to the rubbish sale.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Trump now.
The drilling down must be done.
We must get to the sex action.
Sex action.
Trump now.
Trump sex now.
The drilling down must be done.
Trump sex.
Everybody wants to drill down.
Drill down.
Trump sex.
Drill down.
They're going to do the Trump sex.
They're going to do the sex.
If somebody says, why are we talking about all this?
And you are a female, but you don't.
The current conception of transition to father's daughter.
Why are we talking about all this?
With head teams, they are for people.
With head teams, they are for people.
I use the singular, you were born.
Okay.
Okay.
I use the singular they, then they're from.
Okay.
Because someone just says, because, because you don't hear.
I'm not someone just says, okay.
Someone just says, is the singular they, then you're from.
Is it both to, you were born?
Because you, because you don't hear.
I use the singular they, then.
Is this both?
Okay.
I use the, me, double that.
Because you don't, is it, if someone.
Because your clips, your clips are on the list.
These are the clips.
Your last time test.
If you forget to play these clips.
You'll be a deep guy.
Where's the big, where's the big, where's the big swingin' Johnson, bro?