This is your award-winning Give One Nation Media Assassination, episode 1429.
This is no agenda.
Giving aid and comfort.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6, 8 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where gas prices are headed to $7, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Yeah, I got a new calculation from Europe.
You guys are getting close.
Europe is now about $8.25 a gallon.
It's the equivalent of $18 a gallon in Norway.
But it always has been.
Do they even drive?
Are they just the happiest people in the world?
Or is that Denmark?
I can't remember.
No, that's Denmark.
They're happy because they're not paying $18 a gallon.
And they have the most SSRIs in the world.
So, there's that.
It'll keep anyone happy.
Until they kill themselves.
I would, before we start, I would like to revisit a tweet from January 21st of this year from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
I brought it up on the show and I thought it was very interesting.
He says in his tweet, which is still available, Today, I urged all UN member countries to go into emergency mode around five action areas.
Action number one, fighting COVID-19.
Action number two, transforming the global financial system.
What?
Action number three, tackling the climate crisis.
Interesting.
Global financial system before climate crisis.
My favorite is number four, putting people at the center of the digital world.
And five, delivering sustainable peace.
I just want to say that my entire vision of what is happening is...
This is a psyop, Ukraine.
Sure, there's people dying, there's shit happening, but it's a psyop.
Particularly Western media is...
Propagating this, and the idea is to achieve number two on Gutierrez's list, and as we discussed several times in the last couple episodes, it looks like that's happening, at least starting to happen, nothing really bad has happened yet, with removing parts of Russian finance from the SWIFT network.
Have you seen any evidence of this being a psychological operation?
Because I've seen only this.
No, but I have to assume that your position is going to be what it is.
And in that regard...
I will take more of it as, let's say, I'm looking at things more askance.
Not everything.
More what?
As what?
What did you say?
Looking at what?
I'm looking at things askance.
What does that mean, askance?
Scants, like with a modicum of skepticism.
Okay, scants.
Now, I want to start with a clip that would be one of these.
And now, there's three or four ways you could interpret what they showed.
And this is the funniest clip, to me at least.
Whether it's real, phony, I don't know.
It doesn't matter because, unfortunately, you can't go see this.
You can't go back in time to look at this.
But let's play the Aaron Burnett in Ukraine 1.
Anything with Aaron Burnett is going to be good no matter what.
Because we never play her anymore.
Because she's a sellout.
And CNN's Erin Burnett spent the day with some of them.
She joined me earlier tonight from Ukraine's border with Hungary.
You began your journey to cross the border in Lviv 20 hours ago.
Tell us what happened when you headed for Poland.
What?
Now I stop it here because you have to see Erin Burnett in the middle of the night somewhere in Ukraine and the look on her face.
Yeah.
She is not happy.
She's not happy being there, or she's not going to be happy with how she looked?
No.
Well, there may be an element of that.
Okay.
No, she does not look...
She tells this harrowing story about going here 50 hours, having to get up and getting woken up, and going to a bombshell, a lot of stories.
But she looks like...
The look on her face is the same.
The look on her face says, Why am I here?
Okay.
And so she gives this report.
But now the problem, because thinking of New York terms, I'm going to just say, because we know CNN has done this before.
What's the possibility?
Wait, can I, John, weapons of mass destruction, aluminum tubes, yellow cake.
I mean, I could go on forever.
How about white helmets in Syria?
I mean, weapons in Benghazi.
I mean, come on.
No.
We're going beyond that.
We're talking about the time where the guys that correspond is yakking away from in front of Belgrade someplace and then the green screen goes back.
1990, CNN. Yeah, Gulf War I. Absolutely.
Boom.
Green screen.
Blue screen, actually.
So long ago it was blue screen.
Yeah, that's funny.
Yeah.
That's an inside joke people don't get.
But years before green screen, this specific color of green came around to chroma key on.
Everyone used blue and it used to be called blue screen.
Yeah.
But this one color of green turned out to be so much better and less likely to interfere with some clothes you're wearing or something like that because nobody wears lime green anymore.
Anymore?
Do you still have a suit in the closet that I should know about?
I never wore a lime green, I never will.
And so, but around here we've got Oakland A's fans that do.
So I'm thinking, at one point she talks about how bitter cold it is, yet there is absolutely no steam coming off her breath.
Hmm.
Now, that could be if it's dry coal, if it's like humidity is down to next to nothing.
Could be, could be.
But when you're out in the fields like where she is, supposedly, there's a lot of moisture.
Tule Fog comes from that kind of environment, so you get something.
And if you're not getting any puff out of your mouth for this bitter cold that she said, I know very few people that go into an atmosphere like that and don't bitch about their lips being cracked.
Would you say that it might have been a green screen situation?
Is that what you're saying could be possible?
Oh, wow.
Okay.
That's far for you.
Which would also make her irked, because now she's putting herself in a Jeopardy situation.
But she was irked, whatever the case.
And she gives this report, and I'll play the rest of it, and then I'll tell you some other issues I have with it.
But let's listen to part two.
So the first thing we did, we got up this morning, we had been down for maybe about an hour, awoken by air sirens down in the bomb shelter.
That's how it is now.
And then we began our journey to the Polish border.
And first we passed the train station.
And it is just hordes of people, Pamela.
Just hordes.
Of people.
It is indescribable.
People rushing to get on buses.
And as you said, it is primarily women and children.
The men, obviously many of them are not Ukrainians who are trying to get out.
And China, trying to rush onto those buses to get on to get over the border.
When we went to the border, we were stopped dead about 29 miles from the exact border.
Sorry about that.
And at that point, it just came to a complete halt.
Over the next two hours, we went about, or 90 minutes, about half a mile.
So it was running about 57 hours to cross the Medica border with Poland.
I mean, Pamela, it was incredible.
There were people, they would get there, stop.
Some of them even take bolts, which is what they use here instead of Uber.
They get dropped off.
And then they're walking.
Women with babies on the front of them.
People with pets.
Elderly women, people with toddlers and children, and they're getting ready to walk 30 miles.
I find it hard to describe sort of what we saw, and I think the numbers coming out of the UN are low from what we've seen at that border and others throughout the day.
So that's what we saw.
Now is the dog in the studio, do you think, or is the dog down the street?
Maybe they're shooting it in a kennel.
It's an interesting effect.
I have a couple of problems with the dog.
Hold on, let me finish the clip.
The clip's not done yet.
Well, wait, wait.
The dog is awful, awful echoey, and she's out in the middle.
Yes!
The dog is echoey like it's inside, and I have problems with the dog sound in the back.
And where's the dog anyway?
She's in the middle of the road somewhere.
That's what you heard earlier when a car went by.
Yeah, you hear the car go by, and then you hear a dog barking inside.
Yeah, let's continue.
Ready to walk 30 miles.
I find it hard to describe sort of what we saw, and I think the numbers coming out of the UN are low from what we've seen at that border and others throughout the day.
So that's what we saw.
Then when we finally decided, okay, we're going to turn around and try a different border.
We turned around and there was sort of a place to stop.
We went in and I ran into a woman in the bathroom.
Her English was absolutely perfect.
We were talking.
She was there with her two children.
She and her husband Pamela had spent the past couple of days at that border to cross.
When they got there, of course they knew about the martial law.
They knew that he was in the range, but he had work papers in Poland so they thought he would be able to cross.
He was denied that.
So the whole family turned around.
A couple of questions.
A couple of questions.
Did she at any point show any of these people?
Did she have any interviews, any B-roll, or just B-roll, I'm sure, but any interviews with any of the people she talked about?
Everybody and their sister who was shooting this footage for CNN, they were at train stations, they had people in front of them, they had B-roll up the ass.
Aaron had none.
Second question.
Did she at any point discuss the Nazi Azov battalion in western Ukraine?
No.
Okay.
Now, she did say, she said, I don't know why she, it's always interesting when somebody brings out some perfect, some detail that's like, who cares?
Why did the woman have perfect English?
Mm-hmm.
You know what I mean when you have this unnecessary detail?
Yeah.
It's just like...
Well, this is exactly my problem, and I know you're going to agree with this.
As television producers, media executives that we have been all our lives, it's the stuff that's out of place, and it's the stuff that's not in place, that's missing.
So my favorite example is I have heard now 200,000 troops...
I keep seeing these maps that people are tweeting around and it shows you everywhere on the map where an incursion or something has taken place.
My question is, if George Clooney has his own satellite to look at Somalian troop movements, why have we not seen a satellite view of the troops?
Ooh.
Yeah, I like that.
Now let's get back to Aaron.
For Aaron Burnett, but just about the dog, briefly.
The modus operandi for CNN is, and that was in 89, the Gulf War I, they put their people down below in the basement, nine stories down, and they had the blue screen there, and what they do is they just mix in The live video from the camera upstairs, in this case outside.
Erin Burnett is probably there, but she's in a studio or someone's house.
And I think I heard her being distracted by that dog as she was talking.
So that's their modus operandi, is keep our people safe, I guess.
And then phony it up with the green screen and with superimposed that looks like they're outside.
Yeah, I'm not saying that's what they did, but it's very suspicious.
Now, the other thing is, she says, besides that detail that nobody cares about that she spoke perfect English, she mentions he wasn't on the...
Who is it, the guy?
She had a little phrase at the end.
CNN never really explained this phrase.
Let's get it.
Let's get the phrase at the end here.
She and her husband, Pamela, had spent the past couple of days at that border to cross.
When they got there, of course, they knew about the martial law.
They knew that he was in the range.
In the range.
Okay, so what happened, and I don't know why they didn't bring this up, because it's brought up on NPR and elsewhere.
I got a lot of clips from RT, by the way.
Oh, you're allowed to access it?
Yeah, I'm allowed.
You're allowed to access it?
We have this third Aaron Burnett.
Yeah, I wanted to explain in the range.
Zelensky made an edict.
He said they played off as a request, but it was an edict, and that's why the Polish sent the guy back, because he had a work permit to work in Poland.
But no, no, no.
If you're between the ages of 18 and 60, you can't come in.
That's the range.
You have to go fight.
And that's in the range.
That's what they're talking about.
You have to get one of those fake wooden rifles they're handing out and walk around with that and protect your country?
Yeah, I guess.
Now, I'm going to bring something up.
My son's best friend lived for years and years in Ukraine, speaks fluent, still has contacts there, was hooked up with oligarchs, is in the process of getting people out of Ukraine, moving, getting them into Poland.
So I have some real boots on the ground reporting about some of this stuff.
And I tried to find this...
The Polish border, this is mentioned and it was like something I should discuss, which is that Aaron Burnett won't mention it and it won't be mentioned on any other reports.
The Polish will only let in whites.
Really, no.
Yeah.
And so I said, that's...
That's racist, first of all.
It's just a bit racist.
But in doing research, and then especially going to...
RT had a whole series of shows on this.
In Ukraine, there's this scandalous thing called...
They did a special on it called Voodoo Money and Sex Slaves.
Yeah.
Is that about Hunter Biden?
Yeah.
Could be.
And so what's happened is that the Ukrainians have an incursion of Nigerian voodoo shamans that have brought in a bunch of fat hookers.
And they showed these movies, and the place is crawling with these black whores.
And they're all sex slaves and they don't know what to do about it.
And so they're the first ones who kind of freaked out with the Russians and they headed to Poland.
And they couldn't get in.
And so Poland put the...
Because the Polish wouldn't let any Arabs in either.
Did it have anything to do with the fact they were hookers or was it just they were black hookers?
I think it was the whole idea.
It was the whole...
It was like a criminal organization.
The Polish just said, no blacks, nobody can't...
But this is the thing with Ukraine, which we have studied intensely since the original bull crap that went down, that we were in charge of the coup.
And Ukraine is...
Top of the list for weapon smuggling all over the world.
Top of the list for human trafficking.
Top of the list for cyber, nefarious cyber activity.
It's top of the list.
I mean, my goodness.
It's a criminal country.
Got paid millions and millions and millions of dollars for whatever was going on.
Yes, but that's so, you know, of course, and lots of people are emailing, oh man, I know you guys like to make light and make jokes about stuff, but think of the people.
Yeah, I got it.
The people in Ukraine, the people in Canada, the people in Australia.
Everyone's suffering right now, but it's not to the extent That we're being told, as far as I'm concerned.
Are the people running away to Poland really?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, and the footage of that is quite remarkable.
That footage we have!
That footage I see.
I don't see the big invasion.
Well, there's a couple of things.
Well, the invasion seems to be moving slowly.
But the...
So there's the white thing.
That's going to come out eventually.
They're going to be called a bunch of racists.
Only when it's politically beneficial.
Now, the guns thing, they're giving guns away.
That appears to be the fact.
Right, but it's our guns, I believe.
We're the ones sending them over.
Well, they keep saying they're AK-47s, and he says they're mostly American weapons.
Yeah, the AK-47s.
Fully automatic.
Yeah, you can get those here.
That's the whole point.
Fully automatic.
Yeah.
And he says, and they're just throwing them into streets and giant, in these crates full of them.
And remember, the pre-messaging was, oh, this will turn into guerrilla warfare, it's going to turn into guerrilla warfare, guerrilla warfare.
Yeah, if you throw crates of AK-47s full auto onto the street, you can imagine there will be some guerrilla warfare.
Probably people killing themselves.
He says that many of the Ukrainian gangs are grabbing most of the guns.
Oh, there's another fine thing about Ukraine.
You want someone killed?
I mean, Yugoslavia used to be the main place you'd call?
No, no.
The Ukrainians, they're the best.
Scooters, drive by by.
I know this from the Dutch crime country.
And the final little tidbit is that I guess we had a couple of...
USA had a couple of secret bioweapons labs.
Oh, my goodness.
This was my favorite.
I've gone down deep the rabbit hole and yet look at all these bioweapons.
It's about the bioweapons lab!
It's about COVID! No, no, no, no, no, no.
That's a distraction.
That to me, I can't find any evidence of this being completely true or even 50% true.
Well, there's some documents that are interesting, but let's go back to get Aaron Burnett number three out of the way.
I mean, it's just hard to even comprehend, Aaron, and you did a beautiful job describing what you have witnessed.
I'm just thinking of that image that you said of mothers holding their babies and walking 30 miles of road to uncertainty, not knowing what lies ahead, perhaps leaving behind a husband, a father to fight in Ukraine.
It is just unbelievable what is taking place right now in the humanitarian crisis.
You are close to the hungry border.
Tell us more about what it is like where you are right now, Erin.
The hungry border?
What?
That's what she said.
But that's not where Lviv is.
No, she's not there anymore.
She moved.
This story goes on forever.
But I like the fact that this Pamela Brown calls it the hungry border.
Hungry.
Hungry, hungry hippo.
But Lviv is, I'm sorry, Lviv is not on the hungry border.
Did she move to a different spot?
Yes, she did.
She turned around, if you listen to the story, and some of it was probably cut out because I cut it.
But that's like, but John, Lviv is like 150 miles south of where she, north of where.
She's not in Lviv.
She flipped around, drove around, and they found an entrance into Hungary with no long lines.
And so she talks about this new...
This is where people should be going, she says.
Never telling what road it's on or giving any real information.
Thanks for nothing.
But she says you should be headed to Hungary, not Poland, because Poland's where everyone's headed.
And Hungary's also opened its borders and probably with the same rules and regulations, and I'm sure there's...
No Nigerians allowed.
And that was the end of the report.
But it was silly.
And Pamela Brown's show is the worst.
I mean, it's like...
I had to watch...
Can't believe you watched it.
Instead of getting an expert on Ukrainian affairs, she has a PhD student.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And the students going on about Putinism.
So what I find myself doing, and this is now muscle memory, as of course I've been watching the coverage, immediately you have to go searching for the names of the people speaking.
And it's all of the same likely suspects right down to...
You remember for Syria, for that massive PSYOP, they had some Syrian non-profit and had a spokeshole, but the guy was basically in London?
I mean, this is the stuff that's happening.
What was...
Most damning for me was what happened last night.
The UK has an interesting news culture when it comes to late night news.
So the 11 o'clock news, typically, they will show all the front pages of the newspapers and have two guests on to discuss.
The BBC does it.
But Sky News, I think they really solidified that format.
And it's really good because, you know, they have so many different newspapers, all different or most different ownerships.
And it's very competitive.
But they all showed the same picture yesterday or last night.
Take a look at the headlines with me, the former defence minister, Anna Soubry and the Daily Mails.
Deputy Political Editor John Stevens.
They'll be with us from now until just before midnight.
Evening to you both.
We'll speak in a moment.
We'll just check out those front pages for you.
Of course, just one story is dominating.
The Guardian proclaims Putin invades, picturing a woman with a bandaged head and a blooded face after an airstrike.
The same woman is on the front of the Metro, which likens President Putin to Hitler.
With the headline, War in Europe.
Likewise, the Mirror, their headline, Her Blood, His Hands.
The Sun has a nearly identical front page to the Mirror.
In fact, the star also going with the Hitler comparison.
Similarly, the Express says the invasion redraws the map of Europe in blood.
Unfortunately, the woman they use, and you've seen this picture, the woman with the bandaged head, she got those injuries during a 2018 gas explosion.
So they already used her and somehow they didn't put a little check mark next to her as don't use for the next crisis.
You know, that woman's head, I saw that, and it was obviously shopped onto some other image, and it was really annoying that they're doing this.
There's no reason for it.
There's plenty of images if you want to dig stuff up.
But you know what?
No, there isn't.
There's a lot of self-care.
I'm just going to make my case for the PSYOP. I'll go through the things relatively quickly, then we can move on.
First of all, whenever Sean Penn goes to a country to do an interview with the leader, that's a PSYOP. He did it with Chavez, El Chapo, he was all over Haiti, and now he's on his way and he's doing a sit-down interview with Zelensky.
Okay, fine.
Hello, Sean.
We've been waiting for you.
This, though, is what really gets people riled up.
The Eurovision Song Contest announced today that Russia will not be allowed to have a team compete in this year's Eurovision.
And as Americans, we don't tend to care that much about the Eurovision Song Contest, but it is an absolute national obsession in Russia and across most of Europe.
Russia's been kicked out of it for this year.
And that gets people's attention.
And now you see that this has been...
What?
If that gets people's attention, what do you think canceling the Poland World Cup game with Russia would do?
Do you have a clip?
No, I don't.
I'm just telling you, that's what happened.
I think it's in one of the clips.
They cancel all the soccer games.
So now, I mean, soccer seems to be bigger than Eurovision because soccer is year-round.
Yes, but I don't have a clip of that either.
No.
But I'm just saying, the Snake Island, where supposedly 130 troops were killed, that turns out to not be true.
My favorite, which I think you've now seen, is the two MiGs doing a...
or a MiG in a dogfight getting shot out of the sky, and that...
It looks very clear to be from a flight simulator training video instead of real.
I love the...
Chernobyl has fallen.
Radiation spikes in the exclusion zone.
Okay, fine.
And we need to sigh up our people here at home in America.
Most importantly, we need to tug at all the heartstrings.
Because whatever you do, don't look at what's really happening.
No, no.
So let's open Saturday Night Live with some drama, shall we?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Ukrainian chorus Dunka of New York.
Live from New York, it's Saturday night. it's Saturday night.
Thank you.
Pathetic.
The whole thing was three times as long.
I had to cut it down.
That's the God Bless Ukraine song or whatever.
Okay, gotcha.
But for me, it was all solidified right down to what we're seeing because most of the footage that shows any actual war stuff, and this is what I pay attention to, is not B-roll from established organizations.
It's all cell phone footage.
It's all...
Videos that we really don't know where it came from.
This is Bellingcat level stuff.
Oh my goodness, another one with Russia, which has still not been resolved.
Who actually shot the Malaysian airplane out of the sky?
This thing has been going on for a long time.
Oh, Russia, you're not in the G8 anymore.
Oh, Russia, your athletes can't compete in the Olympics under Russia.
Come on, this has been building.
And then Hillary Clinton comes out.
Hello, Hillary.
Good to have you here.
I'm going to play these series of clips and I think it will show you what is going on for the United States people, how we're supposed to react to all of this.
Well, Mika, I do think it's important to support both the Ukrainian military and then, depending upon what happens and how quickly events unfold, supporting those who are putting up resistance.
But I want to make another point, which is that we have to also make sure that within our own country, we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately...
Being broadcast by Russian media, not only inside Russia, but in Europe, to demonstrate the division within our own country.
I just published an article about the national security emergency for democracy, and it starts here at home, where we have to be much more united in the face of what is a very real threat.
This is heartbreaking, but it's also dangerous.
And I think it's time for what's left of the Republican Party that has any common sense, not just to say, OK, go help defend Ukraine against Putin, but to stand against those people in politics and government, in the media and elsewhere in our own but to stand against those people in politics and government, in the media and elsewhere in our own country who are literally giving aid and Literally.
It can't continue because it plays right into the ambitions of not just Putin, but also President Xi of China to undermine democracy.
Hold on.
Stop, stop, stop.
Now, I only just caught this.
I never noticed that Xi did this, but a number of commentators are calling him President Xi instead of Xi.
Good catch.
And I didn't know that she was one of them.
And I don't understand.
Isn't that insulting?
Wait, isn't that insulting?
Didn't we learn that at some point?
Like saying she instead of she is an insult or means something else?
No, I don't know.
Maybe.
All I know is I've started noticing the pronunciation change.
They're always changing these pronunciations, especially of the letter X. Yeah.
Do you think it's code, like Kyiv?
I think it's code.
I don't know what it's code for, but it's code.
...because it plays right into the ambitions of not just Putin, but also President Xi of China to undermine democracy, to literally divide and conquer the West without ever invading us, but by setting us against each other.
So whenever I see or whenever I hear that she's swooping in, I pay attention, particularly when she writes something in The Atlantic.
There she is.
She's swooping in.
Alright, you nailed it.
Yeah, oh yeah.
What is this really about for Hillary Clinton?
Is it about the poor people of Ukraine?
No, I think it's political.
Well, you warned about this in 2016, and here we are six years later.
Russian disinformation has actually made it Disinformation!
It is now being replayed on Russian state television.
And there are also quite a few opinion makers who clearly are parroting Russian disinformation every day.
Who could you be talking about?
That's coming.
Members of Congress.
How has this happened?
Right.
Well, I think it's happened because starting with the ascent of Trump, there has been, sadly, a total loss of spine and conscience among too many Republicans who at first saw no harm in echoing and parroting the kind of crazy stuff that Trump would say.
I think they did.
I missed an opportunity she should have added, and the unvaccinated, also their fault.
Totally against history, against common sense, as you know so well.
And now they're kind of caught in a bit of a downward spiral where they're afraid to stand against even the most outrageous comments.
There's also another element, which is...
These people are naive in such a dangerous way.
They somehow believe that because Putin presents himself as a strong leader on behalf of certain values that are anti-gay...
Anti-gay?
She forgot the acronym.
Hillary...
Hey, Lurie, it's LGBTQQIAPK+. It's not just anti-gay, woman.
Oh, it's off point.
As a strong leader, on behalf of certain values that are, you know, anti-gay, that are anti-freedom and democracy that's so messy, that somehow, you know, that corresponds with the views of certain members and elements of the Republican Party.
They could not You could not be more mistaken.
She cracks up.
Let's see if we can analyze what happened there.
Our anti-gay, our anti-freedom and democracy that's so messy that somehow that corresponds with the views of certain members and elements of the Republican Party.
You know, this man is not, you know, he takes no prisoners.
Okay, so they could not be more mistaken.
And then she cracks up.
You know, maybe because she knows Putin is a gay icon.
Everybody knows that.
He is.
That shirt off on a bear back on the horse.
Ah, the boy's a bear.
Ah, the boy.
Yeah, the Russian bear.
Exactly.
Not, you know, he takes no prisoners.
He kills them, he poisons them, he imprisons them, whatever.
Oh, he poisons them!
Whatever.
That was fantastic.
He takes no prisoners, he poisons them, whatever.
This man is not, you know, he takes no prisoners.
He kills them, he poisons them, he imprisons them, whatever.
Whatever.
And I think the naivete that we saw starting with Trump, but which has now been accelerated, is really hard to understand, Joe.
But nevertheless, we have to deal with it, and we have to call it out.
Call it out!
More people in the press and in politics need to be doing that.
Hey, hey, hey, we need to call him out.
We need to call out my opponents, the people from the other team.
Call out Republicans.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Trump's fault.
Thanks, Hillary.
We all know you were supposed to shepherd the Great Reset, and I know you're pissed off about it.
And only two more here, but I think we'll get to the point.
Now she rolls out the talking points, which are repeated ad nauseum about the sanctions, what we have to do to go after Putin.
We don't go after Putin.
We go after his cronies.
His cronies.
I would hope that the administration...
And our European allies and others would move even more quickly to impose sanctions not only on the economy of Russia, but also on individual actors within that economy all the way up to Putin.
I think that the only pressure that Putin would respond to or that could have any kind of impact on his thinking would be those who he relies on to launder his money, to keep the funding going into his secret accounts robust.
We've got to go after those oligarchs who are supporting Putin financially.
They need to pay a price, whether their yachts are seized or their homes are seized or whatever it might be to get their attention.
This is a critical moment, and we've got to try to bring maximum pressure on Putin as quickly as possible.
Pay attention to the confiscate the yachts and houses.
That's the talking point.
We've got to get rid of the oligarchs, the horrible Russians that are putting money into Putin's secret accounts.
Okay, Hillary, a little bit of evidence would have been helpful.
Some evidence.
This final clip seals the deal for me because she's done it before.
She set it all up in the state when she was Secretary of State.
She is literally calling on war.
She's calling on cyber war.
And in context of the repeal of the Smith-Munt Act, this is what's happening right now to certainly...
United States citizens, but the entire West.
I'm convinced the British MI6 is running most of it.
That's why you see all these Brits on television with their analysis.
They're the ones that started it.
They're the ones that said it was going to happen.
Attack was imminent.
Now this is bullshit and I smell it.
But Hillary?
She nails it.
What can we do as a country to encourage and support those people?
David, that's a great question.
That's not a great question!
Even though I did not encourage the demonstrations back in 2011, I did point out on behalf of our country that they were in response to what was an obvious effort by Putin to stay in power and to literally rig his elections.
Now we are looking at Russians once again in the streets.
They don't want a war with Ukraine.
There's a lot of family and other connections between Russians and Ukrainians.
I think we can have both what I would argue for government support, but also non-governmental support.
There were reports overnight that Anonymous, a group of hackers, took down Russian TV. I think that people who love freedom, people who understand that our way of life depends upon supporting those who believe in freedom as well, could be engaged in cyber support for those in the streets in Russia.
We did some of that during The Arab Spring when I was Secretary of State.
I think we could be also attacking a lot of the government institutions and, again, the oligarchs and their way of life through cyberattacks.
And it will be difficult to get actual physical support, but I think we should be looking at that.
I mean, the old days of, you know, Radio Free Europe and getting and beaming in.
Accurate information into the homes of Russians.
We should be doing everything we can now online to replicate that.
It will be very difficult for Putin to plug all the holes in that dike.
Information going into Russia about what Putin is actually doing with this unprovoked attack on Ukraine can keep people energized and I think that's something that we should be doing, as I say, both through our government, but also individuals who have the capacity to do that.
Our tech companies should not be aiding Russia in this attack in any way.
They should be aiding those who are standing for freedom, which, after all, is something that they're supposed to be on the side of.
And there it is.
Propaganda online.
There's thousands of people at the State Department who did this.
She set it up herself, the techno experts.
Did you hear the thing she said at the beginning?
What was that?
She says, oh, I didn't organize the 2011 protests.
And she's talking specifically about the protests that took place in Russia, which kicked off Putin that was organized by her.
That's when he kicked out all the NGOs.
Yes, when he kicked out all the NGOs because there were just a bunch of spies.
And what are the chances that the $6.8 billion President Biden has just called for is going to go to NGOs to go do more crap?
Hunter Biden knows them all.
Well, Hunter Biden's in the cat Bertsy.
But Hillary, when she says that, it's like, wait a minute.
Why did she even bring it up?
And why did she make a point of saying you didn't do it?
Thou protestest too much, perhaps?
I had nothing to do with it.
This is my favorite from that clip.
It will be very difficult for Putin to plug all the holes in that dyke.
Coming from you, Hillary, that's hilarious.
No!
Yes.
Yes, I did it.
Perpetually 15.
I can't help myself.
I'd like to hear some of your clips after we just get a good feel for how frightening it's all supposed to be.
This is an ABC News Live special report.
The Ukraine-Russia crisis.
Tonight, new sanctions on the Russian leader himself and his foreign minister.
But the U.S. has sanctioned dictators in the past, like Syria's Bashar al-Assad, and it rarely changes their behavior.
Putin has also buried his wealth, making it difficult to freeze his assets.
Do you think it will actually have an impact on Putin, given the uncertainty about the extent and location of his wealth?
What we are hoping the world takes away from this is the unity through which the United States, President Biden, is working with our European partners and allies.
President Biden spoke by phone to Ukrainian President Zelensky, vowing to offer more support.
And as U.S. troops and helicopters arrived in Eastern Europe, the Pentagon confirmed the U.S. is still shipping arms to the Ukrainians.
We're continuing to provide ways for them to defend themselves.
Realizing they need to act more quickly, given the Russian advance on Kyiv, NATO activated its rapid response force for the first time ever, with 40,000 troops on call.
We must stand ready to do more.
Yes.
Even if it means...
We have to pay a price because we are in this for the long haul.
The White House tonight also praising the courage of the anti-war protesters in Russia, where over 500 were arrested today.
Putin!
I'm curious what other clips you have.
When we get to Swift, I have some stuff to say about it.
Yeah, well, I get a kick out with this clip that you just played, which are in Britain.
Um...
It kind of sounds like, you know, Biden had something to do with anything.
Of course.
When it turns out he had very little to do with anything, and he's going to probably think or promote the fact that he did.
But since you had those Hillary clips, and she brought up Anonymous and all the something in there, this is off to the side.
But you've got to hear this.
I'm sure you're not aware of the new...
Alex Jones special coming on CNN. Play the Alex Jones trailer.
I've heard it's coming.
I have not seen the trailer.
I'm excited!
How would you describe him?
How do you explain something this crazy?
Alex Jones, once on the fringes, now the king of conspiracy theories.
The QAnon group, the anti-vaxxers, he's the foundation of all this stuff.
Could he be a threat to American democracy?
There is a war for your mind.
Go inside his misinformation empire.
CNN special report.
Megaphone for conspiracy.
Alex Jones story.
Tomorrow at 10.
Oh my goodness.
Misinformation empire.
Oh, wait, what was that thing?
They claim that he's responsible for Anonymous, Q, and all anti-vaxxers stem from him.
Anonymous is doing good work, Hillary just said.
They've never...
If it wasn't for Alex Jones, there would be no anti-vax movement.
Forget Andrew Wakefield.
It's all Alex Jones.
Andrew Wakefield has nothing to do with it.
Because you brought up Biden, Pooper had someone on CNN and voice a messaging here.
Essentially saying, this is Joe Biden doing what Joe Biden does.
Yeah, well, I never imagined how quickly this would all unfold.
The person they sold on the campaign, the nice old, you know, moderate grandpa who just wanted to help everybody get along and compromise, is not what we got over the last year.
He has no mandate, really, to do much of anything.
It's amazing that he got a couple of things done.
When the mandate was really pretty clear, 50-50 Senate, a near 50-50 House, and a pretty close presidential election, the mandate was simply replace Donald Trump and don't do anything drastic or stupid.
And Everything about this agenda is extremely drastic.
And he's been angrier than I think people expected.
He's been more divisive.
He's been more partisan.
You look at the issues.
We built five years of coverage on Trump out of Russia, COVID, and democracy.
The president at his press conference invites Russia to invade the Ukraine.
We got more deaths under Biden than Trump.
And now we have the president and vice president and leading Democrats question the legitimacy of the 2022 election.
Are we any better off?
Yeah, sounds like the media are the a-holes in this bag.
Oh, they are.
So, just to stay with the CNN to get her out of the way, Pam Brown had this, they have their military experts, ex-Air Force colonel.
Oh, I had this, this guy was everywhere.
Is this, what's his face, Steve Ganyard?
I don't know what his name is.
Okay.
But listen to this.
This is kind of funny because he's just making it up as he goes along or he's being told what to say by some intelligence organization.
He's hardly an independent.
If this is Steve Ganyard, he's ex-CIA too.
You know, I don't know if it was Ganyard.
I don't think it was.
Okay.
But just play him.
But also, are you surprised that we haven't seen more of a full-fledged assault on the capital city?
Well, I think that's a great question, Pamela.
Because when you look at the types of things that have gone on here, it's basically a situation where we've got the precursors to an invasion or to a further escalation in violence.
So the airbase that was hit is a little bit further south than this dot, but I'm just putting that on there for visual effect.
That airbase that we had in the earlier reports, that was the one that lit up the sky with the explosions of the fuel storage tanks at the Vasilev airbase.
That is something that all of these, it's very symptomatic, let's say, of all of the things that can happen as part of this stage of the revolution.
Of the invasion process.
Now, as far as what will happen next, what I would expect them to do is to go in and try to hit as many of the basic bridge links that you have right through here.
What that does is it cuts communication off.
And what they'll also do is they'll try to perhaps couple that with cyber attacks on specific Ukrainian entities.
They've done some of that already, but we haven't seen too much of that, at least not as much as we expected.
Hold on a second.
Let me see if it's the same guy, John.
No, I don't think it is.
Well, let me see.
Let me just listen to the voice.
We'll know.
And he's blinded by his inability to see the determination and resolve of the Ukrainians.
No, not at all.
Okay.
So this guy's talking about blowing up bridges.
Yeah, that's the bridge from Crimea.
Somehow it cuts communications.
I guess they got wires going over the bridge.
Yeah, oh sure.
Tin can and a string.
Yeah, and he's on board with Hillary's plan.
Cyber, I'm to death.
If any country has more cyber capability to cause damage, it would be Ukraine more than Russia, as far as I can tell.
But that's okay.
Let's go to...
Let's go to RT where we can get...
They're actually the most objective of the group.
They're always...
It's funny to listen to them because it's like, well, we have a picture of the thing blowing up.
We have no idea where this came from.
It's probably just could be old, could be new.
We don't know.
They emphasize it.
You've seen that all of Silicon Valley is...
Either annotating or blocking links to RT. They're under a DDoS attack.
They're being called out as misinformation agents.
By the way, Max Keiser, huge Russian disinfo agent right there.
His RT show.
That guy, I mean, he's carrying water for Putin!
Well, I actually have here, play RT block to get a little of that.
Okay, hold on.
YouTube has blocked access to RT videos in Ukraine and disabled the monetization of all RT channels.
This comes after several European countries took our broadcasts off the air.
And earlier on Saturday, Australian TV service Foxtel announced that it will no longer distribute RT due to the situation in Ukraine.
This is an outrage they're doing this.
So we're not allowed to read or watch anything with maybe a counter-opinion.
It's outrageous that Americans accept this.
It's outrageous.
I agree.
What's wrong with...
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid we're going to learn?
What are you afraid of?
Yeah.
It's going to screw up your plans for the total sigh up here at home?
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
So let's listen to some of the coverage.
Yeah.
Um...
And we get to see where most of some of the action is really coming from.
And this is the Vandalion.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
I have a clip of her too.
Okay, what do you got?
There's a bunch of clips of her in these clips.
This is Vandalion.
Vandalier.
Vandalion.
Vandalier.
Pulls plug on Russia, RT. Britain's Prime Minister has branded the removal of Russia from the SWIFT program as a stepping stone, with more sanctions on Russian finance to come.
This comes after the President of the European Commission confirmed the EU and Western allies would freeze the assets of the Central Russian Bank and disconnect select Russian banks from SWIFT, a major tool for being able to operate in the international transaction system.
RT's policy here has more.
It certainly is very significant.
If you remember, there has been some discussion between European capitals for quite some time now as to whether or not remove Russia from the swift international monetary system.
The UK has already made that move and we're now hearing from the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen saying that they are now moving ahead and disconnecting some Russian banks from SWIFT so that they won't be able to operate globally.
It was issued as part of a joint statement that was signed off on by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
Take a listen.
I will now propose to EU leaders the following measures.
First, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of Russian banks are removed from Swift.
This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.
Second, we will stop Putin from using his war chest.
We will paralyze the assets of Russia's central bank.
This will freeze its transactions, and it made it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets.
Shall we circle back around to that after you're finished with these clips so I can do my Swift stuff?
Sure.
Okay.
Let's go to the second part of this, which is the...
This is interesting.
Do you know what a golden passport is?
I do, actually.
I think that's in several countries you can buy citizenship.
Is that it?
You should be able to do that in Canada, too.
You can do an El Salvador with a Bitcoin.
You can...
I guess it was a scandalous situation.
Vandelion's putting a stop to it.
Here is part two.
Now, she went on to also say that they were looking at limiting the sale of citizenship.
In other words, what is known as golden passports that allows wealthy Russian businessmen who are connected to the Russian government become citizens of European countries and in that way gain access to Europe's financial markets.
We will work to prohibit Russian oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets.
All of these measures will significantly harm Putin's ability to finance his war.
this coming week, there will be a transatlantic task force that will be set up whose primary goal will be to ensure the effective implementation of these financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned individuals and companies there will be a transatlantic task force that will be set up whose primary goal The organization will also set up coordination against disinformation and hybrid warfare.
All of this coming on the back of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing that the UK will now accept refugees from Ukraine.
Oh, add that to the mix.
Add that to the mix.
By the way, you'll notice there's very little mention of Biden having anything to do with this.
This is an EU thing.
Well, okay.
I'll wait.
I'll wait.
Well, let's go to part three, and then you can go on with your vandalier.
Vandalier.
Yes.
Economist Richard Wolff claims that borrowing Russia from the swift banking system would cause huge financial problems worldwide.
In a global world, more globally interconnected than ever before, if you block the swift system, you are declaring a kind of economic warfare that will damage and destroy all kinds of economic relationships.
The reason Mr.
Schultz in Germany did not want and stopped the attempt to freeze Russia out of swift was because it would throw the price of oil and gas up into the roof beyond what it has already been.
Because you couldn't pay Russia for the oil and gas through SWIFT, and they wouldn't send it anymore, and no one knows where that's gonna go.
So if they do that, if they actually go through with that, they will disrupt global trade, they will drive inflation through the roof...
And let me remind everyone, Russia, China, Iran, and many other countries don't like the domination the United States has over the SWIFT system, and it really is only a matter of time before there are multiple systems.
So this would be a very dangerous step because it would accelerate the end of the SWIFT monopoly.
Ah, good clip.
Who was that guy?
This is a guy, I think his name is Wolf, and they introduced him.
But he's been on a lot of stuff.
He's an American commentator that you don't see that much because...
No wonder.
He's got the wrong commentary.
He goes against the grain of the narrative.
Yes, he is obviously...
Giving aid and comfort to Putin.
By telling us the truth of the matter, by telling us or revealing at least his version of it, this is giving aid and comfort.
This is ridiculous what they're doing to cut down the information flow.
Alright, I'm going to focus on this for just a second or two here.
More than that.
So this was already rumored.
We talked about it, I think, two shows ago that they were talking about cutting Russia off from SWIFT. I'm going to explain what that means.
But first, before this, and it happened really quickly because I think this was only Friday when President Biden said this.
There is also a communication issue here on talking about sanctions and what they're meant to do and how they have been talked about.
Some confusion.
Take a listen.
We've said all along that these are going to be crippling sanctions.
If you pull the trigger on that deterrent, well then it doesn't exist anymore as a deterrent.
The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrents.
No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening.
So they fucked up messaging, or I should say Kamala did.
My God, they must hate her.
They must hate her so much.
It's just so obvious that she messed it up.
Here's the Wall Street Journal, pre-Swift blockage.
Mr.
President, you didn't mention SWIFT in your sanctions that you announced.
Is there a reason why the US isn't doing that?
Is there a disagreement among allies regarding SWIFT and whether Russia should be allowed to be a part of it?
The sanctions that we have proposed on all their banks have equal consequence, maybe more consequence than SWIFT, number one.
Number two, it is always an option, but right now that's not the position that the rest of Europe wishes to take.
So that's not the position the rest of Europe wishes to take.
And that changed really quickly.
And I'm going to play the full van der Leyen comments, which is only a buck and a half.
But we'll just have to stop and just comment on a few of the things she said.
By the way, she's about three feet tall.
They had her walking in, and she has kind of clippity-clop type heels, just like Hillary used to have.
She has nice hairdo, too.
She's got the dynamite shit that Pierre in Paris does.
That's who they all go and visit.
Yeah, Pierre, that guy.
All right, here she is.
So some of this is repetitive, but I think the full context is good to have.
In coordination with President Biden, President Macron, Bundeskanzler Scholz, and Prime Minister Draghi...
So there you go.
There's the top guys in consultation.
But she's running it.
This is a globalist's mission here.
I agree.
That's why I think it was kind of emphasized that Biden, that's why I was emphasizing Biden was kind of left out of the picture.
Because I think it is a globalist, this is a globalist move.
And they say, okay, if you don't want to do SWIFT, we're going to do it.
We're letting you know.
Yep, exactly right.
In coordination with President Biden, President Macron...
Bundeskanzler Scholz and Prime Minister Draghi, as well as Prime Minister Prudeau and Prime Minister Johnson, we considered a significant tightening of our international response.
The European Union and its partners are working to cripple Putin's ability to finance his war machine.
I will now propose to EU leaders the following measures.
First, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of Russian banks are removed from SWIFT.
This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.
SWIFT is the world's dominant global interbank payment system, cutting banks off We'll stop them from conducting most of their financial transactions worldwide and effectively block Russian exports and imports.
Second, we will stop Putin from using his war chest.
We will paralyze the assets of Russia's central bank.
This will freeze its transactions.
And it made it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets.
This is actually a big deal because the way you pay for your military, the way we pay for it, is by printing money.
And so when you freeze the central bank of Russia and she says they cannot liquidate their assets, what she's saying is they can't sell their dollars because they will be disconnected from this.
And how that works, I'll explain.
They'll be disconnected from the system.
That's critical.
That's a critical blow.
And finally, we will work to prohibit Russian oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets.
All of these measures We'll significantly harm Putin's ability to finance his war.
And they will have an eroding, severely eroding impact on his economy.
Putin embarked on a path aiming to destroy Ukraine.
But what he's also doing, in fact, is destroying the future of his own country.
And that was interesting because that was kind of the narrative previously.
Like, oh, he should focus on his people.
They have COVID, but they can't use that anymore because they had to get rid of COVID. So COVID is not just gone.
It's over.
We don't really need to talk about it.
But we still want to tell you, oh, Russian people, we feel bad for you, but not really.
So now there's this cutting off of certain banks.
What does that mean?
No analysis.
Just keep repeating the statement.
The U.S. and European partners really trying to up the anti here.
They're trying to look for ways to cut the Russian government off from the international financial system and make sure that the sanctions they already put in place hurt.
First, like you said, after a lot of political pressure, they're announcing that they are cutting off some key Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
That helps large banks send international transactions, so cutting them off could really isolate them.
And second, and this is a big one too, the White House says they will put some restrictions on the Russian central bank.
The Russian government keeps a lot of its national savings, its rainy day fund, if you will, in banks abroad.
And now the U.S. is saying that they will try to keep Russia from being able to access these international reserves to try to prop up its own currency.
And you know that the Russian ruble is already trading at record low against the U.S. dollar.
And last, the U.S. and these countries announcing a new tax force.
It's going to look for and potentially seize material assets.
Think jets, yachts, fancy homes of some of those Russian elites that have already been sanctioned.
Okay.
So, if you look at the list of these banks, I'll explain the SWIFT system as I understand it.
The SWIFT system is really just an intranet.
It's for communicating transactions, and it's just the messages.
There's no money or no coins or dollars being sent through the SWIFT network.
It's a messaging system, yes.
It's what they call a messaging system, and it does...
I think it's some astronomical amount of 8 billion messages per month or something.
It's crazy.
And it's not a U.S. product, although we are one of the most important members.
It is owned by the member banks.
It's headquartered in Belgium.
It was started in the U.K. And the way it works of these 2,000 or so banks that are connected to it, when you want to send dollars, is what's important here, from one country to the other, from one bank to the other, Since you're not sending money, every bank has an account with all the other banks.
So the message will go through the system saying, okay, you've got to transfer $100 million from this account to that account, and they'll literally take it from box one on their end and put it in box two, and the bank in the US, as an example, does the reverse.
And just so...
It should be noted, it doesn't have to be $100 million.
In fact, you can use SWIFT to transfer money with a bank transfer to the No Agenda show as a donation for just a few hundred bucks and it goes through.
Not from Russia.
Not from, well, this is true, from Russia, forget it.
But so as an example, Apple Pay and Google Pay, they no longer work.
You can no longer transmit money through this system because that's who they're connected to.
But when you look at the list, you'll notice that the banks that work directly with the energy sector...
They have not been cut off because the EU, before this all went down, bought $700 million worth of energy, mainly gas.
So they were prepared for this.
So when they say imports and exports, that's bullshit.
They will still be able to purchase gas.
So there's some gaming going on here and only the people who take the time to look at it will understand.
Now, the SWIFT system, just as an aside, is a problem because George Bush and the NSA and CIA were called to task by the New York Times, actually, because they had the terrorist finance tracking program in place on SWIFT and they were spying on all of the international payments.
They got caught and that became, you know, an international scandal.
Swift actually was kind of in trouble at the time.
Remember, the Europeans wanted to start their own network, and they did.
But doing this is very risky.
If they cut off the energy part...
Then I believe that we can speak of the trigger for the Great Reset.
And it's become clear to me now with the whole idea, as I go back to the UN Secretary General who said, right now we have to transform the global financial system, and after that we're going to tackle climate change.
It's kind of, they're related and it's happening in reverse order.
But I believe the plan is to skyrocket energy prices.
European natural gas already up 60% just because of this invasion, incursion, invasion, whatever the heck it is.
It also dawned on me why in the Netherlands, it's so simple that I couldn't figure it out.
So many people have EVs in the Netherlands.
The growth has been exponential.
And they're not Teslas.
They're small cars with batteries that have limited range but enough for a smaller country.
And I finally understand it's because they literally cannot afford the gas.
Now, gas is already going to be sparse.
Whatever happens in Ukraine, that's a major throughput for the gas itself.
With Nord Stream 2 not available or capable, I think the prices are going to go up so much that people will not even be able to charge their EVs at a certain point.
They're going into lockdown over climate change.
Whatever this energy price is, they are trying to screw it up.
Now the Fed doesn't have to raise interest rates.
We need to print money because we're at war.
They're extending the death knell of our current, and this is my opinion, of our current financial system.
And they had to because it's completely out of whack.
And I think that now they're just going to say, you know what, screw it.
This is all Trump's fault.
Our prices are out of control.
We've got to get to wind as soon as possible and solar.
But we have to get rid of this nasty-ass petrodollar because that is the plan.
If oil is no longer desired, then what does that do to the petrodollar?
It's not important anymore as the world's reserve currency for exactly the way it's being used now in a blackmail scheme, saying, hey, you better shut up or we'll turn off these other banks and then you won't be able to sell your stuff because it's all priced in dollars.
And then we see who wins.
Is it Chi, who comes out with his digital remnibee?
Can the Federal Reserve still throw a central bank digital currency into the mix?
I think we're at the cusp.
I think this is exactly where it is.
And let me just add to that.
Hair on fire!
Yeah, my hair's on fire.
I've been looking at basically all the financial moves, but you've got this...
Here's what I did.
I went searching for Transform the Global Financial System.
That's what Guterres tweeted.
And I find top hit for that...
And literally, here's the article title, UN-backed banker alliance announces green plan to transform the global financial system.
And this is a bunch of bankers, I'll give you the names in a moment, and they started the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, GFANS, which has been around.
And lo and behold, there's a pledge here, and it's for all people in financial companies and organizations to pledge that every investment they do, everything they advise their customers will be about net zero, 20, 50, or before, as soon as possible.
It's a dire emergency, and they're signing pledges.
That they will do this.
And who is at the head of this club?
Mark Carney.
He's the co-chair.
He's the former Bank of England, their Federal Reserve chairman.
Mike Bloomberg.
Oh, yeah.
He's right there.
And I think he's there to make sure China is in on the mix.
And we have the CEOs of the following banks.
Allianz, Aviva, AXA. Banco Santander, Banco Colombia, Bank of America.
Oh, there's the Fink, Larry Fink, BlackRock, CEO of Citibank.
They are out to ruin the petrodollar, whether it's by making it impossible to pay for petroleum products with the dollar, or whether it's just by removing petroleum products altogether.
It won't be necessary.
So there's got to be someone with a plan.
And I really think the way they love what China does, they might want that digital revenue to be the new world reserve currency.
And that's not necessarily the government.
That's the banks.
They're on fire.
Backslash.
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Why would you be sorry I feel that way?
It's a great time to be a Bitcoiner.
I'm happy about this.
Okay, well, that's good.
You have nothing to say about that?
You have nothing to say about that.
I just don't have confidence that these guys can pull this off.
Well, just a little bit of feedback would be nice.
You don't have to agree with me.
I'm just curious if you see that.
I'm not disagreeing with you and I'm not agreeing with you.
I don't have any comment on that because it's not in my wheelhouse.
I don't think the world's coming to an end or these guys.
I know that they're always wanting to do this and they want to do that and then they die because they die of old age.
You only have so many years on earth.
That is annoying.
That is annoying.
And then they drop dead, and that's the end of that, and the next guy comes along with some other idea, and they never quite pull it off, even though they always want to.
And that's what I'm saying here.
I have one other clip about the sanctions just to show you how much theater this is.
And Matt Lee is back.
He had a little relapse there where you had clips that you didn't even put him in the clip on the last show.
No.
He's back now.
And Ned handed out a list of exemptions to the sanctions because there's not just financial sanctions.
There's sanctions about who can meet with who.
I don't know if I can actually call Sir Gene.
It may be illegal by the sanctions, but they have made a number of carve-outs, and Matt Lee was trying to get Ned to just admit this is a scam.
Because I think I asked the wrong question.
I should have, instead of asking you what is exempted, because I've seen the list of exemptions, and it's frankly huge.
Can you give us an example of the kinds of talks that now are no longer going to take place?
I You're asking me to...
Are we talking about cultural exchanges or what?
Because if you look at the list of stuff that's exempted, you start with the JCPOA, you go to climate, you go to COVID, you go to anything having to do with consular affairs, you go to anything that the seventh floor...
You will see a focus on our core national security interests.
Contact with the Russians at every international organization is carved out.
It's exempted from this.
Matt, I'm not sure this question...
From the ICAO to the Arctic Council to the OSCE to...
We are going to pursue...
So what has been banned or halted because of this directive?
We are going to pursue what is in our national security interest.
Some of the things you just listed are fundamental to our national security interest.
Just because Russia has taken this action doesn't mean that we should stop caring about our own security, the well-being, the welfare, the safety, the security of the American people.
You've seen for yourself at least what purports to be a list of areas where we need to engage, we might need to engage to pursue those core national security interests.
I will leave it to your well-informed imagination.
What might not meet that criteria?
I'm just wondering, can you point to something specific that is now no longer able to be talked about with Russians bilaterally because of this?
Because it just seems like almost everything that one can imagine, except for, I don't know, licensing for artwork to be loaned to a museum is included.
So, everything is excluded except maybe artwork from Russia.
I believe it.
This is a game they're playing, and a dangerous one.
And they're insane.
I have...
Well, that...
There you go.
What?
They're insane?
Does that help?
They're totally insane.
Well, you got Hillary.
I'm telling you, those Hillary clips that you played, it makes, you just visualize, and I'm sure everyone out there did the same thing, you visualize those worst pictures of Hillary with her eyes bugged out in the bags under the Sith look, and she's just like spewing venom.
She just sounds nuts.
I have four short clips, each about 25 seconds, of Abe Lincoln, our Secretary of State.
And this is how insane they are.
This is what they believe is happening, what's going on, and this is the narrative, I guess.
Joining us now is Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Mr.
Secretary, thank you for your time.
Good to be with you, Nora.
Thanks.
Well, there were a number of alarming developments today.
Do you believe that Ukraine's capital of Kiev could soon fall to Russian forces?
Well, it's certainly under threat, and it could well be under siege.
This is the opening salvo of a massive invasion, and we see this continuing in Kiev and threatening other major cities in Ukraine.
Yeah, massive salvo.
What?
He says it may be under siege.
We have intelligence organizations.
If it was under siege...
We'd know.
You'd know that minute.
All I see is reporters with helmets and flak jackets on saying, boy, it was really rough here a little bit ago, which I don't have for you.
And then they're showing B-roll of rockets flying through the air in the corner.
And there's people walking behind them.
There's people looking over the railing.
I'm not stupid.
I have eyes.
When President Biden addressed the nation today, he said that Putin wants a new Soviet Union.
Is there intelligence to suggest that President Putin will advance beyond Ukraine?
You don't need intelligence to tell you that that's exactly what President Putin wants.
He's made clear that he'd like to reconstitute the Soviet Empire.
No, he hasn't.
He'd like to reassert a sphere of influence around neighboring countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Now, when it comes to a threat beyond Ukraine's borders, there's something very powerful standing in his way.
That's Article 5 of NATO. An attack on one is an attack on all.
Alright, so this is the trope, and they talk about Putin's 5,000-word article where he allegedly said, and everyone talks about it, but I have yet to see an official original copy of anything, that he said, it was a tragedy!
I want to restore the Soviet Union to its greatness!
Now, what I do know he said is, very short line, those who do not mourn the passing of the Soviet Union are heartless.
Those who want to re-establish it are mindless.
That's what he said.
And he said a lot more.
He said, hey, you know, these regions, it's the same as Georgia.
We're protecting the people who want to be with us from the Ukrainians.
The people in western Ukraine, they're being attacked by the Azov Battalion, the Nazis, you know, the ones that John McCain drafted to shoot civilians and military on Maidan Square.
We continue with Anthony Blinken.
So on that point, while U.S. troops are not in Ukraine, they are close by.
So what's being done to lower the risk of some accidental escalation with Russian forces?
Well, you always want to make sure that you don't have miscalculations, accidents, and so one of the things we're looking to do is to be in communication with Russia on a military basis to make very clear what it risks if it miscalculates.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new Hillary Clinton.
I mean, I'd rather have Hillary than this guy.
What a wuss.
Just a wet noodle.
Now, of course, we have to scare America.
I want to ask you about some of the troubling words from Vladimir Putin's speech.
He warned of consequences never seen in history.
I want to ask you about some of the troubling words from Vladimir Putin's speech.
He warned of consequences never seen in history.
Was he threatening a nuclear attack?
Well, I can't begin to get into his head and to say exactly what he means by those kinds of words, that kind of bluster.
But again, we've been prepared for whatever course that he chooses to take.
We were prepared to engage diplomatically, if we could, to divert him from the aggression that he's pursued.
We are also equally prepared now that he's committed that aggression.
We're prepared.
First strike, nuclear.
Oh, yeah.
This is it.
We're all going to die.
World War III, it's happening.
I got a call from a dude named Ben, protector of the megawatts, who works inside the critical infrastructure security business.
And he says, you know, the company he works for has probably the largest intelligence agency in That is hired to protect critical interests.
That's mainly cyber.
And they also have a huge array of risk management analysts.
And he said, I've never seen this before.
He called me.
He's never called me.
He said, I've never seen this before.
All the intelligence guys are saying, this is bullcrap.
And all the risk management, the analysts, they're like diving into the bunker saying World War III is coming.
So he says, I've never seen that divergence between those two groups.
But maybe it has something to do with the SWIFT system and oil.
Russia's economy is fueled by gas and the U.S. is a consumer.
So would the U.S. consider cutting off oil and gas purchases from Russia?
Well, what we're doing, Nora, across the board, is making sure that we inflict maximum pain on Russia for what President Putin has done, while minimizing any of the pain to us.
We're in full coordination with other countries, both consumers and producers alike, to minimize any impact that this may have on energy prices and on gasoline.
Well, how's that working out, Blinken?
Seven dollars almost in California.
It's so bad...
And I am so convinced that they're going to price energy just off the radar as they're planned for whatever change they might not make because they die because they're too old.
I actually called my guy over the weekend.
Greg, he's a blacksmith.
I said, have you ever made a gasifier?
And he said, oh crap, I was just about to call you.
Look at all this stuff.
I have plans and everything.
And this came to me as, you know, I have the generator which runs on propane.
I'm seeing everywhere, oh, we should get rid of propane.
First of all, the greenies are after propane.
But it's already $2 a gallon.
It's crazy.
So I have to fill up my 500-gallon propane tank?
It costs me $1,000?
You know, that could double.
And I remembered a conversation from nowhere.
I was thinking steam engines.
I don't think the batteries are going to work.
And we talked about gasifiers, about wood-burning trucks, 12 years ago.
You remember that?
Yep.
Yep.
And he's going to build me one.
The gasifier where you burn wood and it's going to...
I think this is appropriate.
And it's going to power my existing generator.
If anything, I think you should power your truck.
And that was the second thing.
I'm not going to wait to buy a flying car.
I'm going to get an old flatbed Ford that has a tow hitch so I can drag the burning system behind me and drive with it.
This is the way I've always seen you going out.
What do you mean going out?
I don't want to die.
I want to drive.
Gasification systems are cool as crap, and we have so much wood around here.
And he told me about a buddy of his who has actually done this with his truck, and he says, I can go about 15 miles on a dead cat.
He said, you can throw anything in there.
You can throw whatever you want.
As long as it can burn, then you can drive on that.
People, you've got to look it up.
Gasification.
It was in the Great Depression when they did this.
It wasn't done in this country so much.
It was done in Europe and other places during war times.
Right, yeah.
Well, isn't that where we're at now?
Well, according to you, this is all a PSYOP. No, we're not there.
We're not even close.
But we're there with the oil.
We're there with the oil and the prices.
It doesn't work out, believe me.
Okay.
You know what?
I don't want the world to come crashing down, but I am preparing myself.
Yeah, you are.
Yeah, I sure am.
Absolutely.
Okay, let me get back to my RT clips, because there's some good stuff.
There's actually, when Blinken, A. Blinken says...
It's irresistible.
Once you've seen it, you can't not see A. Blinken.
Once he says that, oh, we've got to punish Russia for what Russia did, what did Russia do?
I'm asking you.
What Russia did is, in the narrative or for real?
No, what did they do?
Even in the narrative, what did they do?
I'm just saying, I'm asking what did they do?
They invaded Ukraine!
To do what?
What did they do?
Did they kick anybody in the butt or did they shoot someone in the head?
I saw that missile, but that's questionable.
You said Kiev airport was attacked.
That missile wasn't even...
That was Lviv.
Well, the Kiev airport, and then, of course, since they never showed us one way or the other about the Kiev airport, they're talking about the Antonov.
It was retaken somehow.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So we don't get it.
But what would logically happen is Putin would install a pro-Russian government.
Oh, no.
They're accusing, you know, that's what they're saying is, oh, he's going to take it over.
They actually have done something.
First of all, let's listen to this on RT. I'm going to find I got the one thing here.
Here's what they actually have done.
This is RT News Tidbits.
It shows a dam being blown up by Russian forces.
It was built back in 2014 by Ukraine to block a canal supplying water to Crimea right after the region became part of Russia.
Crimea had suffered severe water shortages ever since, but the Russian Defense Ministry says that supplies will soon be restored in full.
Meanwhile, all is calm in the Chernobyl exclusion zone around the remains of the nuclear power plant.
Two days ago, it was taken under the control of Russian forces, and now Ukrainian and Russian forces are jointly together keeping it secure.
The facility's safety personnel continue to serve there, and radioactivity levels are reported to be normal.
I read it, and I have a quick clip from a TikToker about the dam, which has some extra info.
Why would Russia want to invade Ukraine?
My take is not what you think.
This is the Northern Crimean Channel, which runs from the Dnipro River all the way to the eastern point of Crimea.
Completed in the 1970s, it provides about 86% of the fresh water to the peninsula.
But following the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Ukraine turned off the flow of water by constructing a dam.
This effectively killed agriculture in Crimea as the cultivation area shrank by 90% in just two years.
Additionally, this resulted in severe water shortages, with water only being available for a few hours a day.
While Russia invested billions into Crimea, this will not fix the water issues.
Recent groundwater projects are starting to run dry.
Russia repeatedly applied pressure on Ukraine to reopen the northern Crimean Channel and even threatened to use military force in 2017 if Ukraine doesn't comply.
Letting the Crimean population of 2.5 million people go thirsty is not an option.
This conflict is not about gas, but water.
I'm surprised we missed it, because that to me was like, holy crap, I didn't know any of that was going on.
Yeah, choking him.
They'd starve him to death.
Well, no wonder.
I mean, yeah, so they blew up that dam.
Okay, that makes sense.
RT had a movie of the dam getting blown up.
But it's interesting that RT has the story, but so does the Chinese TikTok.
Yeah, but we don't get that story in the United States.
Nobody knows that.
That has to get deplatformed, brah.
That's what we got at the platform.
The platform.
So now the other thing was the takeover of Chernobyl by the soldiers and then in agreement with the Ukrainians.
What kind of a – were they doing a joint venture on the side?
Chernobyl has fallen!
Russia had some sense that they were going to sabotage.
Somebody was going to sabotage.
Yes, of course.
And so they got to lock that thing down.
Yeah, because they already put the cement dome over it, so we don't want anyone cracking that thing.
But you know, I see on the kind of the periphery, I see Article 5, they're trying to figure out how can we implement that.
And that's the military-industrial complex speaking, because there the shills are on television.
Yeah, they can't do it.
Well, if there's some radiation from Chernobyl that goes to other countries, that would trigger Article 5?
Yeah, this is a good one.
Well, that's not going to happen.
But cyber?
Cyber?
If it's a cyber attack on a neighboring country that's NATO? A cyber thing is dubious.
Well, of course, but that's why it's so obvious that they can trigger whenever they want.
Just say, cyber.
Turn off the lights.
Say, cyber.
Here's a clip.
This is from Al Jazeera.
Oh, how are they doing these days?
How are they doing these days?
They're not doing much, but this is the Russian sanctions clip with some information kind of from their perspective.
Western nations are uniting to cripple Russia's economy and its ability to finance the war in Ukraine.
Certain Russian banks are to be barred from the international finance system, and that means they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide.
The targets include Russia's central bank, which holds reserves worth $600 billion.
We commit to ensuring that a certain number of Russian banks are removed from SWIFT. This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.
SWIFT is the world's dominant global interbank payment system, cutting banks off William Black is an economist and professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri.
He says Russia is ill-prepared to cope with sanctions.
If you keep the sanctions on economically within the next two to three years, they will have a very substantial fight.
And by the way...
The things that Putin has been doing to supposedly prepare the Russian economy for being sanction proof are actually very harmful to the Russian economy.
And the Russian economy is incredibly weak relative to its military power.
So Putin does have to worry considerably that this becomes his Afghanistan economically and politically.
Putin has shown repeatedly that the a la carte are useful in making him very wealthy, but that he can and will break them, have show trials, Put them in prison, literally kill them in prison, and devastate them economically.
So I think the United States has it wrong in believing that if it goes after the cronies, it's going to make life difficult for Putin.
You know what I'm missing?
Again, speaking as television executive, I'm missing Russian-Americans saying something.
I'm missing soundbites from Russians.
I'm missing soundbites from people in Moscow.
There's none of that.
There's quite a few on the CNN report.
They have quite a few of soundbites from Ukrainians in America.
Yes.
They're protesting.
They're at the White House today protesting.
They're all over the place.
Yeah.
And they got those soundbites, but they don't have soundbites from the average Russian.
Yeah.
I got a note from an average Russian.
I got a note from an average Russian.
Sir Gene, he just gave me an update.
The European Union has now announced they are banning Russia today, Sputnik, and their subsidiaries.
The European Commission chief also said the bloc will be shutting down its airspace for all Russian-owned, Russian-registered, or Russian-controlled aircraft.
The ban of its skies will include passenger jets and private jets.
They mean business, man.
Yes, sounds like it.
I like it.
Back to Al Jazeera.
There's your Ukrainian rundown.
This is the Al Jazeera's look at this.
Hold on a second.
Boom!
Good one.
The moment a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
The attack's evidence, say the Ukrainian authorities, are Russia's willingness to hit civilian targets.
We managed to escape.
We were in kitchen.
We were lucky.
It was a direct hit in the living room.
My wife and the elder child have their legs broken.
Our young child was taken somewhere by rescuers.
Ukraine's president had warned of a difficult night, and for many it came.
This, the aftermath of fierce fighting close to people's homes.
The Ukrainian army said it had destroyed a Russian military convoy trying to enter the city.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy affirmed Kiev was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities.
Good morning, Ukrainians.
There has been a lot of fake information online saying that I'm calling on our army to lay down arms and to evacuate.
Listen, I am here.
We will not lay down any weapons.
We will defend our state because our weapon is our truth.
And the truth is that this is our land, our country and our children.
And we will defend all of that.
That's all I wanted to tell you.
In the village of Bakhmash in northern Ukraine, Russian forces were met by angry civilians.
One man trying to stop an advancing tank with his bare hands.
And in the city of Kharkiv, a Russian missile landed in a children's playground.
Russia, meanwhile, appears to be sending even more troops and hardware across the border into the country, while insisting it's not targeting Ukrainian cities.
So, one, I love the Tiananmen Square vibe of one man trying to stop a tank.
Two...
And actually, I will say this.
RT played this too.
And that it was a tank, some Russian tank, with the guy sitting at the top.
It wasn't like they were hiding.
Right.
And a little, very small crowd yelling and screaming at him for being a dick.
Right.
And so some guy gets in front and pushes on it.
It doesn't stop.
And he finally stops.
The guy gets on his knees right in front of the tank.
And the Russians yelling at him.
That's the photo op.
That's the photo op.
That's what they're going for.
Perfect photo op.
It wasn't very good.
It was mediocre.
Well, no, they screwed it up, of course.
And so then a bunch of his friends grab him because he was drunk, I guess, and they pull him away.
And then the tank goes off.
And the tank is a turret of a tank.
It's smoke and belch and smoke.
I mean, it's polluting.
I mean, this thing should be sidelined.
It ambles up the road.
Well, that's interesting.
We got a note from one of our producers.
I think you were copied on this.
Let me see.
Where is it?
Well, keep going.
I'll find this note.
Anyway, so that...
Well, why don't you play part two of this Al Jazeera clip, and then you can look for the note.
According to Western intelligence, the capital's not yet surrounded.
Those Russian troops that have made it as far as Kiev are thought to be Russian special forces and saboteurs.
But larger Russian battle groups are getting closer, encountering stiff Ukrainian resistance as they approach.
Elsewhere, the Russians have made more decisive gains.
This is the city of Melitopol in the country's southeast, where the Russian flag now flies over a local police station.
This video, shot by Russian state television, shows Russian tanks on the move in Ukraine's east.
This is Europe's largest ground war since World War II. Vladimir Putin and some of these troops believe history's on their side.
We've been waiting since 2014.
Finally, I'll throw away this gun and we'll live peacefully.
Amidst the fighting, a light-hearted exchange between a Ukrainian driver and some stranded Russian soldiers lost and out of fuel.
Ukraine's won.
You guys have surrendered, says the driver.
Can I tow you back to Russia?
The truth is, the conflict's far from over.
Ukrainian troops in the capital are fortifying the city.
Soon, in hours or days, Moscow will have to make a decision.
Sit outside the capital and engineer some political arrangement with the Ukrainian government or bring in troops and heavy weaponry and do it in an even more destructive way with the possibility of mass civilian casualties.
The Kremlin has the capacity for both.
So whenever I hear the Southeast, yeah, that's disputed territory.
That's the same thing as Georgia.
And I put it in the Red Book, I guarantee you.
Two years down the line, we'll learn that it was actually the Ukrainians, Ukrainian army, attacking the Russian separatists.
And you'll find that the killing going on in the western Ukraine was the Azov Battalion, who are Nazis.
They say they're Nazis.
They have Nazi shit.
They're Nazis.
And all I see in the center of Kiev and the square is YouTubers.
Well, here we are in the square.
Everyone's gone.
Nothing.
Here's the note.
In the morning, Adam and John, given my military background and knowledge of the Russian military in Syria, I have a few thoughts after your last show.
The Russian military is not as good as everyone thinks, but they could have crushed Ukraine by now if not for the U.S. equipment and the training provided over the last eight years, so-called advisors.
The Russian tanks, even the T-90, can't match our old TOWs, which are the 1990s wire-guided missile that we gave to the Syrian Free Army.
The Javelin, anti-tank-guided munition, that are now free to any fighting-age males in Ukraine willing to fight means Russia could pay a high death toll and equipment loss.
The problem is no one is trained.
That means they are basically $200,000 fireworks.
Which...
We trained a group of 30 Syrian civilians.
This is where it gets serious.
Farmers, smugglers, criminals for three months.
We watched in real time as they tried to assault an ISIS-controlled town.
The group was quickly pinned down with enemy fire, killing about five in the first burst of fire.
Within 20 minutes, we watched another 10 to 15 get shot or wounded.
The remaining men managed to get a few of the wounded out.
Only seven survived the night.
Later, we watched three ISIS fighters appear and shoot all the bodies, got into a truck, and drove away, and a hellfire ended them shortly after.
Civilians with military equipment are just cannon fodder against any trained military men.
It's a waste of money helping the military industrial complex make more money.
Yep.
It's totally, and the shills are out there.
Here is, I'm going to play this one, former CIA agent, General Jack, what's his name?
Oh, this is a different guy, Jack Keen.
And he's blinded by his inability to see the determination and resolve of the Ukrainians, who will eventually become his worst enemy, the Ukrainian people.
Remember, it was the Ukrainian people that ran Yanukovych out.
They didn't fire at him.
They ran him out by demonstration.
He fled to Russia.
The same people we're dealing with here eight years later, whose resolve is actually more determined than it was eight years ago.
Yes, eventually he will collapse this government.
He will put a stooge in to take its place.
But he will have to occupy the country if he wants that government to stay in power.
And I hope that...
Our Central Intelligence Agency provides assistance to the Ukrainians covertly to assist them in overthrowing that stooge government.
Because it worked so well last time.
It was fantastic.
He's basically saying we need another Maidan.
Let's get out there.
Let's do what we did last time.
That was great.
So the guy who was at the London University, I think, we had a clip of him who kind of soft-pedaled what was going on and said that the Georgia situation was the Russians coming in to move these guys out of this area and then leave right away.
I think we're seeing a duplication.
They're going to blow up that dam, protect the Chernobyl, probably blow some other things up that they need to blow up.
Okay.
Yeah, why not?
Well, you're there.
And then leave.
I think they're going to be gone by July.
Oh, possibly.
I don't know.
But what would they stick around for?
I mean, it's not like...
I still don't understand, except for blowing up the dam and a few other things they need to do.
I don't see why they're there.
Well, the result was predicted.
By the way, they have been trying to get negotiations started, the Russians have, which jacked up the stock market, but the Zelensky guy won't do it because we haven't given him the go-ahead, apparently.
I'm all in on the idea that they're just a vassal state of the United States.
Oh, yeah.
Well, so unfortunately, by dropping AK-47s, by all of this talk, by all of the non-stop M5M, like, oh yeah, look at the Ukrainians.
They're not letting that evil Putin take their country.
They're going to kill themselves.
This is pretty much what our military analyst producer says here.
It's like, this is a very bad idea.
And in 2015, after the Maidan FDEU, where the U.S. under Obama installed a total puppet government, there was – And the joke of it, of course, the puppet government was voted out in favor of a comic, a stand-up comedian.
John Mearsheimer is a political scientist, and he held a speech in 2015, and here's a little bit of it.
But I actually think that what's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the Primrose path.
And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked.
I believe that the policy that I'm advocating, which is neutralizing Ukraine and then building it up economically and getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side and NATO on the other side, is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians.
What we're doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians.
We're encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the West because we will ultimately defeat Putin and we will ultimately get our way.
Time is on our side.
And of course the Ukrainians are playing along with this.
And the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy.
Well, as I said to you before, if they do that, the end result is that their country is going to be wrecked.
And what we're doing is in effect encouraging that outcome.
I think it would make much more sense.
For us to work to create a neutral Ukraine.
It would be in our interest to bury this crisis as quickly as possible.
It certainly would be in Russia's interest to do so.
And most importantly, it would be in Ukraine's interest to put an end to the crisis.
Thank you.
Yeah, great idea, but no.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to Rubbleize!
Rubble on the double!
Who was that guy?
That is, um...
Hold on a second.
His name is...
The whole speech is interesting.
John Miersheimer.
Oh yeah, the professor.
Professor, yeah.
Yeah, he has a lot to say about Ukraine.
He does.
And he's right.
That was the only sensible thing I've heard in the series of clips we both played.
In terms of like some realism.
I really miss Professor Cohen.
Yeah, it's too bad.
That guy, man, he would have...
Well, he would have been an RT in Unseen, of course.
I only have a few more.
Have you got anything else?
I got a few.
I don't have the one I wanted.
I seem to have got lost in the shuffle, which is the...
How about the thermobaric bomb that they're supposedly bringing in?
Oh gosh, I missed that story.
I do have an RT clip I want to play, which is the idea that...
You realize you're now giving aid and comfort to Putin by playing these RT clips.
I'm playing these RT clips because they're giving us information we're otherwise not getting.
In America, that's called aid and comfort.
That Ukraine's not a bunch of innocents sitting there, especially those Nazis you talked about, but they've been shelling Rostock Which is on the other side of the border.
They've been shooting.
They're not pounding away.
Who's shooting?
Ukrainians are shooting into the Russian homeland.
Yeah.
But it's kind of like Hamas shooting those occasional bombs into Israel.
It's firecrackers, yeah.
Firecrackers.
I got a little clip of it.
This is a guy that's reporting on it that's shelling on Rostock.
Okay.
Hold on.
Where is Rostov?
That's southeast?
It's over by...
Yeah, it's over by the...
Where the shit has been going on since 2014.
It's never stopped.
Luckily, nobody was injured.
Infrastructure wasn't damaged either.
It landed in a forested area.
Now, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says that its military has not been shooting at the territory of the Russian Federation, but this is not the first instance in which bombs have fallen here.
Yesterday, in this very same region of Rostov...
At least 14 artillery strikes took place on border areas within the region.
And right after the beginning of the Russian military offensive, there were other such instances.
In Bransk region, there was shelling there where houses were destroyed and three people were injured.
The same thing happened in Belgrade.
Infrastructure was damaged, shelling happened, and three people were also injured there.
Interestingly enough, more recently, near Belgrade region, a Ukrainian soldier had been trying to escape to the Russian Federation, trying to basically defect, and neo-fascist groups there that had their hands on artillery batteries had fired at him and unfortunately killed him and injured another serviceman in the Russian Federal Security Services as well.
Because of this violence that's actually been happening on the Russian Federation, the authorities have taken measures.
They've closed down Russia's southern airspace.
Basically, there's going to be no flights out of this area.
There's 12 airports in Rostov region alone that will not be having flights.
Another thing they've done is close down all the schools that are located in border regions that border the Donbass People's Republics.
We have to remember that There are at least 3,000 children from Donetsk and Lugansk alone that have evacuated that region to the Russian Federation and are connected to educational institutions in these border regions.
So that's another task the Russian authorities now have on their hands.
What are they going to do?
Where are they going to put them so that they can make sure to continue their education?
Education.
Make sure the kids get...
I like the way we do it.
Yeah, right.
We just throw diapers on their heads and put them in front of a computer.
So important, education.
Yeah, so these little skirmishes, I guess, have been going on for a while.
Forever.
Forever.
That whole area is...
And it's the Ukrainians shelling the Russians.
It's always been that way.
It looks better when you say, oh, look at this war-torn area.
That must be Putin.
Back at home, CNN is where we could...
I'm sorry, C-SPAN is where you can always hear the real opinion of the American.
And my concern right now...
The biggest concern is nuclear holocaust.
We are so on the verge of having a nuclear holocaust.
We will not have World War III. We will have a nuclear holocaust, and Russia will be the first one to do it, because he's not going to stand by and just take it.
I'm serious.
I'm so worried.
But I'm thankful I don't have any grandchildren, because if I did, I would be scared to death.
Well, you can see why she has no grandchildren.
John, you don't know anything about her.
Of course, you're listening to a podcast, an independent production.
Don't expect to see any of this deconstruction on Facebag.
Facebook taking action overnight after Russia announced it is limiting the social media platform.
Deirdre Bolton is here with that part of our coverage.
Limiting!
Good morning to you, Deirdre.
Good morning.
And you're right.
Overnight, Facebook releasing this statement saying it is now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetizing content on the platform anywhere in the world.
It is also going to continue to apply labels to content.
So those changes rolling out over the weekend.
The move made after Russian authorities demanded that Facebook stop independently fact-checking and labeling content posted by four of the country's state-owned media organizations.
Meta, that's Facebook's parent company, refused.
So Russia says it's now enacting a partial restriction on the platform.
No one exactly knows what that means.
Meta also launching another laugh.
What is this?
They say she's laughing at the restrictions because no one knows what that means.
Is she not a reporter?
Is she not a journalist who would then go and find out what that means?
These laugh tales are getting on my nerves.
Can you play that one again?
Partial restriction on the platform.
No one exactly knows what that means.
Meta also launching a new...
Are you just reading press releases?
That's what she's saying.
I read a press release that I saw this morning.
Facebook put it out overnight.
And they say this.
And I didn't call them.
I didn't ask them.
I have no contacts there.
I'm just on ABC Good Morning America.
I don't have any poll.
I can't get anyone.
I didn't even ask.
Why would I ask?
I'll just read the press release.
Don't you think that's what's going on there?
And she's laughing at herself, you think?
She's laughing at the situation?
She's laughing at something.
I think she's laughing at the fact that if you ask Facebook anything, they won't talk to you.
They don't talk to the media.
They don't give statements.
When they do, they get in trouble.
And so they've just given up, you see.
War or no war, they've just given up.
...state-owned media organizations.
Meta, that's Facebook's parent company, refused.
So Russia says it's now enacting a partial restriction on the platform.
No one exactly knows what that means.
Meta also launching a new feature in Ukraine that allows users to lock their profiles, significantly limiting what information is publicly visible.
That is an extra layer of security.
Since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Russians are posting expressions of shame and anger on social media and, of course, human rights activists in Russia voicing concern that the Kremlin would crack down on freedoms in the wake of the invasion.
So it just shows us how these situations with fluidity and, of course, this social media overlay, so important for people's safety.
Absolutely.
Yes, you see, the social media companies, they need to do this for people's safety.
We can't...
It's for safety.
We're keeping you safe by not letting you access information.
And the BBC screwed up big time on this agreement.
They brought on, and it was like a nine-minute interview, and I encourage everybody to listen to it.
The clip, the audio clip will be in the show notes, nashownotes.com.
They had on a Ukrainian, I think it was a member of parliament, Fatali Melinov.
And I'll just play the beginning of it just for a bit so you can hear because it's completely a different narrative.
And on this program, we've been hearing in the past half hour a number of voices from Ukraine describing what's happening.
We're going to spend a few minutes now hearing from Russia and a Russian politician.
I'm sorry, Russian politician.
Vitaly Milanov is an MP from the ruling United Russia Party.
There we go.
I asked him why, first of all, Russia had invaded Ukraine.
For many years, you've been trying to use this poor territory with a weak state to As anti-Russian force.
And now it's a small payback time.
It's like a reasonable reaction towards the aggression.
Ukrainian, so-called Ukrainian military forces, as far as I can call these people, running as fast as possible towards Poland now.
These people, you know, being used by you, Europeans, you did it.
I don't understand what you used in what way.
I mean, Ukraine is a sovereign country and it has a right...
To self-determination.
And it's made its choice to become a democratic country that looks to Europe and the West for support.
You used to call Ukraine as a sovereign country only when it's important to call them sovereign.
But you're making it sound like it's a sort of puppet government of the European Union.
Yes!
What it looks like is about to happen is that Russia wants to create a puppet government in Ukraine.
No.
No, no.
We felt ourselves quite comfortable with Ukraine as a sovereign state, being a neighbor, a peaceful neighbor of Russian Federation for many years, right after your best...
...started to make politics there from the so-called revolution in Ukraine.
Right after your unsuccessful attempt to make your poppy state in 2014, they became a country with a very aggressive position.
For eight years, this...
Please, sir, can we just keep the language clean?
You want to hear more?
Yeah!
...Europe and Washington's fault?
Of course.
You use this country for your own personal political needs to act against Russia.
Haven't you foreseen this situation that if you're trying to push Russian bear for eight years, sometimes...
It can happen vice versa.
You're making it sound like Russia is the victim in all this, but it's Russia that's launched this military action.
No one else has.
Russia is sending pigeons of peace over Ukraine because I think that most of the Ukrainians are dreaming...
To kick out Zelensky and all your advisors sent by UK and European Union and United States.
People voted for President Zelensky.
Isn't that what Russia really hates?
The fact that Ukraine is a democracy and it's decided not to throw in its lot with Russia, but actually with the West.
And Russia doesn't like that.
People in Donbass and Lugansk, they have voted officially by absolute majority.
To go out of Ukraine.
Why don't you give them a chance to go out of this country?
Well, did we see that vote?
Did we know that took place?
Did they have some reference?
That was suppressed.
I didn't know anything about it.
Well, I was suppressed.
Why would you want to know?
Of course, of course.
It is a democracy, and it's decided not to throw in its lot with Russia, but actually with the West, and Russia doesn't like that.
People in Donbass and Lugansk, they have voted officially by absolute majority.
To go out of Ukraine.
Why don't you give them a chance to go out of this country?
Well, that is disputed, though.
I just need to ask you this, Mr.
Milanoff.
Is that the aim?
Is it simply to absorb the Donbass, Luhansk and Donetsk into Russia?
Or is it a full-scale occupation of Ukraine?
Look, you have to send your...
Reporters to the region.
No, we have cell phone video from Bellingcat.
We don't need that.
Reporters to the region.
They are there.
They will send you figures, right figures, with the people, with the flowers, welcoming the liberators from the Ukrainian Nazi regime.
And I'm absolutely sure that what Putin is doing right now is a very necessary and important job to clean Nazi Even feed it by European Union and Americans out from Europe.
So you have to make Putin the most honorable man in the world.
No!
Oh my goodness, there's more to that.
I'm going to cut it off here.
I have one last clip.
Well, there was one four-second response.
The BBC guy then had former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on, and here's what he said.
You put him on, and then you put me on.
It's here's one view, here's another view, and I don't like that.
What?
Yeah.
He said you put that guy on, and then you put me on.
You're using one view against the other.
I don't like it.
You put him on, and then you put me on.
It's here's one view, here's another view, and I don't like that.
Holy mackerel, what a clip.
Of course he doesn't like that.
There's another negotiation going on that is not being covered too much by our media.
Macron versus the nukes in Belarus.
Ooh, hold on a second.
Macron.
French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned a planned change in Belarusian law that would allow Russian nuclear weapons to be hosted on its territory.
Ah?
A referendum that's widely expected to pass is being held over the weekend.
Macron has asked Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from their soil and to come to the aid of the Ukrainian people.
Lukashenko had allowed Russian troops to enter Ukraine from his country.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
That's not good.
Holocaust.
Nuclear holocaust.
It's not going to be any holocaust.
The aliens will make those things ineffective.
They won't even fire.
We all know it.
Yeah.
They hover over the silos and then everything goes dark.
They can't fly.
And you should have...
You should carry signs around that say stuff like that while you're driving the truck with the wood-burning engine.
It's not the engine.
It's the fuel source.
It's syngas.
Good idea.
I'll do a rap.
I'll do a rap.
I'll do a...
I'll do a wrap around my truck.
I see these guys and this is where you're headed.
I'm proud to do it, John.
Proud to do it.
Anything else?
I was once a podcaster.
All right.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in aid and comfort, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning, all ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
Yeah, in the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Let's see how many we have in the troll room on this important day of war.
All right, hands up there, trolls.
Let's make sure we get everybody who's in there.
What have we got?
Didn't get a count.
What happened?
Didn't get a count.
Didn't get a count.
Not getting a count.
Why am I not getting a count?
Give me a count, troll.
Someone give me a count.
You want the count?
I want the count.
One, two, three.
No, I'm not getting a count.
Can someone please run the command?
Oh.
Whoa.
Is that the number?
No.
Geez, why am I... I don't have the power.
I used to be able to do that.
I can't count the trolls.
I've got no power.
This is bad, Mom.
I know what you're thinking.
This is bad.
I don't...
Ah!
2805.
Got it, finally.
Down.
Down.
No, they don't care.
We just spent two hours on Russia.
What a mistake.
They didn't come here for that.
Now I want more COVID news.
Well, if you want to be a troll, and I will say the trolls had some good stuff today.
They caught that Russian member of parliament calling it the puppy state.
I thought that was a good one, and I wrote that one down, trolls, as a possible show title.
And otherwise, they've just been trolling around.
And you can join them by going to trollroom.io and you can listen to the live stream Thursdays and Sundays, but also many other live shows that take place on noagendastream.com.
Go to trollroom.io.
You won't regret it unless you don't like being a troll.
Or you can follow us at noagendasocial.com, which...
Oh, my...
What?
What?
You wanted to say something?
No.
I didn't say anything.
Oh, I thought you made a noise, like a...
I did.
I went...
You can follow at John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com, Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
It's really a good place to get a lot of additional information.
And it's just, I don't know, I can't say enough good about the Fediverse and Mastodon.
We've been running it for now, over three years.
Aaroner has been running it, to be specific.
And it's just, it's a breath of fresh air.
If you're ever on Twitter...
Is somebody using this as a...
I got a note from my...
My email guy.
Mm-hmm.
And he says he's getting all these screwy forwarded messages that somebody's using at noagendasocial.com as an email.
Yes, we discussed this specifically on a previous episode.
Yeah, I forgot all about it, but what was it we said?
Well, when I say follow us, and I say follow Adam at noagendasocial...
No, this part I know, it's not an email system.
I'm explaining it to you.
Yeah.
I'm explaining to you what's going on.
Do you want me...
Let me finish.
When I say that, you can follow Adam at knowagindasocial.com.
What was happening is, and we know this because Erner put an email forward from Adam at knowagindasocial.com to Adam at Curry.com and John C. Dvorak at knowagindasocial.com to John at Dvorak.org because a lot of people were emailing, hearing that, thinking, oh, that's the email address.
And lo and behold, he was right, because a lot of people send email to that address, which is baffling to me, but at least we're getting them.
And that's what happened.
That's what your guy is seeing.
Does he not want to let them go through?
Well, he thinks that they're poorly structured.
Do you mean the email itself?
Yeah, it doesn't have the right kickback.
You know, there's all these little checks to make sure you're not getting spam, and there's all these.
And I said, it's not supposed to be used for email at all, as far as I know.
It's not.
But people were doing that.
I'm just going to tell them to kick them back if anyone sends one of those things.
Okay.
All right.
It is indeed incorrect.
He did offer to turn it into an email system if we wanted.
We don't want an email system.
That's what I said.
I don't want an email system.
But we do want to get the forwarded message.
I don't mind that.
I don't want to get just forwarded messages just random.
If they can't figure out our email addresses, which are open to the public...
And they're just making it up and thinking noagentosocial.com is some sort of email address.
I'm not for that.
These people can't even find Ukraine on a map.
They can Google it.
That's fine.
I don't mind it.
I personally don't mind.
I get a lot of email forwarded from different domain names.
And yours will kick back.
That's fine.
People will learn real quick.
He has to kick it back.
And it should probably say, hey, dope, this is not an email address.
Have them do that.
That would be helpful.
I'm okay with that.
Meanwhile, I'll just take them.
So, noagendasocial.com, where artists always congratulate each other.
On achieving greatness by being the chosen artwork for the No Agenda episode everybody's working on.
And for 1428, we titled that one Health Glitch, which is what one of the big tennis players of the world now has after his vaccination.
We chose art from Comics for Blogger.
We did.
And it was the alien throwing the coronavirus down to Earth.
And now let me go to the art generator and find out why this was the pick.
I can tell you a couple of things.
First of all, I had my heart set on the Build Back Better plane, which you'll find on page two now, which was the bomber or something.
It said Build Back Better, and it was a plane, and you thought that was...
Nah, you didn't think much of it.
It was another piece by Sir Ned.
And you had your heart set on the dog with the bone on his nose, and...
And then that was the one you were thinking was pretty cool, and I didn't like it because I didn't think the dimensionality was working well.
Oh, you mean with the capitalist agenda, with the Chinese sunglasses on?
I liked that one.
Yeah, you had that one.
You talked me out of it.
You talked me out of it.
I did because I said, well, let's look at this then, which is the alien thing that comic strip blogger did.
And I just looked at it because it's just above your piece by two rows.
I said, look at this.
And we both looked at it and looked at it and said, you know...
We can both agree on that.
Yeah.
So it was a compromise pick.
The other one I wanted was Swift, that I thought was interesting, but it was missing too much.
And I was also a comic strip blogger.
The big Swift with the red, you know, the big red design.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
Also, the overlay didn't work.
No, the overlay didn't work.
I agree with that.
I agree.
And it was just no good.
Um...
And it's interesting because I think that my objection to the airplane is kind of weird because we did not really talk about Build Back Better, but today I did.
You know, Build Back Better, the Great Reset, is a bomber over Ukraine.
But we'll have to get new art.
Sorry, it won't work.
No, we could go.
We've done this before.
We've gone back shows.
We might.
It depends on what comes in.
The dog pooping, that was not acceptable.
No, the dog pooping is never going to be acceptable.
Forget it.
Although there is always something vulnerable and funny about how a dog poops, to be honest about it.
But the dog pooping is humorous, yes, especially if it's a tall dog.
It's always funny.
Now, I picked the Nestworks Putin on the set for the newsletter.
Yes.
I just thought it was a nice, well-picked.
And I also like the colors.
No, no, you like that one.
You like that one.
I like that one.
But you weren't going for it under any circumstances.
Under any circumstances.
I'm just a douchebag.
I'm the worst to pick art.
I'm the problem, really.
Well, if that's where you feel.
So, the other one I kind of like, we didn't even talk about, which is Rick Harris's Biden-Ukraine playbook, which is a laptop, but I love cocaine.
I still think there's a funny piece.
I mean, we definitely are entertained by all the images.
I don't think there's a single piece we don't like.
And what happens is, Dreb Scott...
Well, the dog pooping, isn't it?
I think Dreb Scott, who does chapters, when we talked about your dog pooping, I'm pretty sure he put that image in the Podcasting 2.0 chapter.
And that's what it's good for.
So people still get that quick little dog pooping hit, even though it's not the album art.
And there's other reasons to get a new podcast of newpodcastapps.com.
Did you hear what's going on in social media?
Do you hear what Hillary Clinton begging Silicon Valley to deplatform and get rid of anyone who is aiding and comforting Putin?
You would not be hearing this show.
I guarantee you, Apple, Spotify, they're going to be taking down podcasts.
If you enjoy this podcast, make sure it doesn't get interrupted.
Just get a modern podcast app.
There's a whole bunch of extra features you'll find which are icing on the cake, but most particularly, it protects podcasts from being deplatformed for political, financial, and other douchebaggy reasons.
So, go ahead and do that.
Now, let's thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1429, and we kick it off with Anonymous.
Our top donor comes in with $911.72.
What could this numerology be about?
Anonymous, name and location, please play Mac and Cheese by Ayn Rand, and I got ants.
Oops, hold on a second.
I didn't get those jingles.
No, is that your dog, or are you with Aaron Burnett?
I got no dog here.
Oh, that's my dog.
My dog is barking.
I'm sorry.
And what is the other...
Oh, and I got ants for show 1429.
And I guess this brings Anonymous to a damehood.
I'd like to officially be known as Dame Lauren of the Pearly Crowns.
Shout out to my parents for putting up with me for 33 years, especially my mom, on her non-birthday tomorrow.
No jingles, no karma.
Except you do want jingles and karma.
You want Mac and Rand and a little bit of I Got Ants.
Mac and Cheese by Ayn Rand.
I got ants.
We'll be right back.
I got ants.
All right, Anonymous, there you go.
We'll see you at the roundtable.
And next on the list, we're skipping by request, and then Eric Nguyen.
I know how to pronounce his name.
I think it's Nguyen.
It's a Vietnamese name.
Nguyen.
I think it's Nguyen.
In Richardson, Texas.
I think it's Nguyen.
Nguyen.
One of the two.
I think.
333.
No note.
No email that I can find.
This is nothing with the name donation on it.
So I'm going to move on to Richard Unterberger in a mouse.
A mouse!
Now, I find it peculiar that we had no 333.33 donations.
Oh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
It's been a while.
Please douchebag Preston Hall, Patrick Doty, and Gary Smith for being a boner-biting douchebags.
Not just a douchebag now.
No jingles, but planned war karma for everyone suffering at the hands of our global keepers.
Thank you for your courage.
You've got karma.
Bo Cheminsky is in Calgary, Alberta, Scandinavia, 333.
And I'm presuming that is Scandinavian dollarets.
They are accepted at face value for reasons I cannot remember, but we love you.
Sir Aymoud and Fonsar is in Barnefelt, Wisconsin.
Interestingly, $300.
Hi, guys!
Oh.
Hey, guys!
Smash that like button.
Donation is for my son.
Please credit him with the associate producer credit.
Well, that's not an associate.
That's an executive producer credit.
His name is James Brown.
Hey!
All right.
James Brown on the switcheroo.
Very nice.
Requesting Job Karma for Son, Jingle, Donate to No Agenda, Gregorian Chant Style, and Rubble Lizer.
I think he means the...
Donate to a No Agenda.
They give us shows week after week.
Donate to a No Agenda.
It's a show that's really unique.
Donate to a No Agenda.
Listen to John and Adam speak.
Donate to a No Agenda.
Science is turning into a clique.
India.
Hang out.
Mike.
Stand by.
33, 33, 33.
Globalizer out.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Andrea O'Hagan, $250.
This is a very short list today.
We didn't do that well.
Please name me a sir...
Oh, I'm sorry.
Please name me...
What?
Are you dead naming her already?
Please name me Dame.
Aquamarine of Lake Tanglewood in the Florida Keys.
Counting on email to Adam.
Okay.
I got it.
Veal Cutlass and Vauve Clicquot at the round table.
No jingles, no karma for all.
The birthday 228 biscuit for my birthday, please.
Andrea O'Hagan, future dame.
So it's officially Vauve Clicquot, not Vauve or anything.
We learned this from somebody.
Wasn't it our buddy, the bird?
You know, a lot of things are pronounced funny.
Yes, most definitely they are.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
We have no note from Ryan Story, $250, Associate Executive Producer Credit from Brisbane City, Queensland.
So maybe you can send that to us if we miss it.
Chris Breaux, B-R-E-L-U-X, is in Sour Lake, Texas.
Sends 228.75.
And that is for future Dame Angela Poppins, Keeper of Lists, in honor of her 29th trip around the sun.
Lovely love, Texas Chris.
She's on the list.
Why don't you get the next couple...
I had to switch something on my spreadsheet, so...
Anita Carrasco, 228.22.
These are interesting numbers.
No note.
Then we see Dame Sparkler of New Braunfels.
We know her.
She's in New Braunfels, Texas, 228.
This donation is to celebrate the birthday of the most generous smoking hot husband, no agenda night, and no agenda supporter, Ross.
He and I share the show each week.
week as everyone says he has given us clarity insight and friends to navigate the waters we find ourselves in now thank you for the hard work you both put into bringing us the shows each week i really enjoy curry and the keeper also we live in texas hill country such a great thing to share the sanity and support we have here in texas love and blessings dame sparkler of new bronfels jacob schlachter Third annual, he came with 227.87.
Third annual birthday, 35th trip around donation.
Jobs, karma, please.
Okie dokie.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You got karma.
I'll get the next one.
Susan Johnson, 227.22.
Oh, no note.
227.22.
Thanks, Susan.
You're up.
Same for Buddy Arsenault in Maurice, Louisiana, 22722.
This was a special promotion number.
This was one of our, what was this, one of our palindromes?
It's the date, yeah.
Date palindrome.
In the morning, Jen says, Buddy, no note, but can I please get some goat karma for all I need it?
Thanks for all you do.
Why, of course you can.
I'm happy to do that.
You've got karma.
Dana Hildale in Raleigh, North Carolina, 22722.
Hi guys!
Hey guys!
New listener since April sent from the Barnhart podcast.
Smash that like button!
Did you do the Barnhart podcast?
I know I didn't.
I have not done the Barnhart podcast that I'm aware of.
Well, I'm guessing that Mr.
Barnhart...
Talked about us.
Talked about us and told our friend here to come listen.
First donation, so requesting a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And he's already caught up with the jargon.
He knows to get a de-douching.
Love it.
Sending 227.22 for my birthday 227.
And my fabulous husband's, which was two on 224.
This is Dana and this is a female Dana.
I love your podcast and thank you.
No jingles, just some karma.
We got a whole bunch for you.
You've got karma.
Dame Sheila, the lady of Lisboa, is in Lisbon, Portugal.
2-1-2-1-2.
There's your palindrome.
Boots on the ground from Dubai, though, she says, and the Iberian Peninsula, and a bit of news from Hong Kong.
Just got back from six weeks in Dubai with my husband.
The place is booming!
People are escaping from all over the world.
The high-end hotels and restaurants are packed out and it's all very relaxed.
Oh, this is where the elites go when they know there's crap coming down.
Yeah, that makes total sense.
This is why donation segments are content, people, just reminding you.
Yeah, and they also buy some property in New Zealand.
That's right.
In New Zealand, if you're rich enough, they'll let you in.
People are escaping from all over the world.
Oh, I got that.
There's still a mask mandate.
Many people are complying, but I was mask-free everywhere except in the larger shops and malls, and even then it was under my chin, face fully exposed.
No one cared.
So very refreshing to be there, especially after spending so much of the last two years in Spain and Portugal where they've become addicted to masks.
It wasn't even the supermarket for one minute after I got back to the Algarve.
I can just hear the Robert Palmer song, somebody doing it now, addicted to masks.
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to masks.
There you go, there's your drop.
I wasn't even in the supermarket for one minute after I got back to the Algarve and the mask Nazi was on to me.
So that's been quite a big thing to note here, both in Portugal, also in Spain.
And to my mind, it does not really reflect well on the people.
This is a long note.
Regarding Hong Kong, they've gone into full zero COVID meltdown.
We don't hear anything about Hong Kong.
This is appreciated.
They're trying to admit every single person who tests positive into a camp or hospital.
Shocker!
That would never happen.
They are separating babies from mothers.
What, Trump is running Hong Kong?
And there's a link there, even.
They're making people wear tracking bands.
Everyone is masked up everywhere 24-7 with undercover police in plain clothes moving around, even on the hiking trails to make sure people are complying.
Hello, China.
Only two people can congregate together outside unless they are immediate family.
Oh, and the vaccine passports are in full swing.
I lived there for many years and still have family and friends there, and I'm not currently allowed back in, being an uninjected and such person.
So I'm about to lose my permanent resident status.
Oh well, somehow I really don't think I'll be setting foot there ever again.
Anywho, thanks for all you guys do.
It must be so tough.
It's relentless now.
I'm so sick of news.
I want the free world back.
You guys are doing God's work.
God is a podcaster.
There's a t-shirt.
God has a podcast.
We've got to work on it.
The problem is it's a takeoff on that CBS sitcom.
What's the title of the sitcom?
Somebody in the chat room knows.
It's off the air now, but it was on for about two or three years.
It was about some podcaster.
Of course, he auditioned to get the job.
He auditioned to get the job as a podcaster.
With Gimlet.
With Gimlet.
All his life he wanted to be a podcaster and he finally auditioned and he was so excited because he got the job of being a podcaster.
I just found the premise to be hilarious.
I love it.
And then all throughout his, while he's a podcaster, he kept getting these messages from God and he was an atheist so he's very skeptical of this.
And these messages were help saving people's lives and getting people to not go somewhere that got blowed up the next day and stuff like that.
Are you talking about God or Jesus?
Now you make it sound like Jesus was a podcaster.
No, I don't think it was a Jesus thing.
It was a God thing.
I don't know.
I think Jesus might have been the OG podcaster.
At least a blogger.
Well, it's possible, but I'm just saying this CBS show was being a little more universal.
Okay.
All I know is, when your name is still known after thousands of years, you were some kind of celebrity.
So, there's got to be something to it.
I've seen celebrities come and go, man, but that guy's still around.
Anywho, thanks for all you guys do.
It must be so tough.
You guys are doing God's work, and if you're reading this, it means I finally got a new way to donate since the Hong Kong credit card wouldn't work anymore.
You being right-wing KKK Nazi quadroons and all.
I'm working on that.
By the way, I just want to make it clear.
There's an international payment system I'm going to find that will work in those everywhere.
No jingles, only karma for us all.
God knows we're going to need it.
Oh, a final shameless plug.
We have a holiday home in Spain, which we just finished and have started to rent out.
Here's the link.
And it's at casalarosa.com.
C-A-S-A-L-A-R-O-Z-A.com.
John, check that one out.
Let me know what it looks like.
Wait, I'll do it.
I'll do it.
You do the next donation.
Yeah, I'll go to Amy.
You're done with the jingles and everything?
Well, did she want jingles?
She says, love and light.
Dame Sheila, Lady of Lisboa, currently in the Algarve.
I do not see a request for jingles, but thank you for the report.
It was useful.
Good report.
That was a good report.
Useful.
Amy Travers next on the list from Denver, Colorado.
$200.38.
And she says, this is for my smoking hot boyfriend Corey's 38th birthday switcheroo.
She does want him to be credited, so make a note.
This is a switcheroo.
Corey.
Does Corey have a last name?
Or just Corey.
Corey.
Hot Corey.
There it is.
Corey Tibbetts.
Tibbetts.
Okay.
T-I-B-B. Mr.
Tibbetts.
38th birthday switcheroo, I love you dearly and thank you for hitting me in the mouth.
I'm so lucky to have you.
Thanks, guys, for keeping us sane.
This is the first donation since he hit me in the mouth.
Can you imagine somebody just listening to this not knowing what's wrong with these people?
It's a misogynist podcast.
And then she's bragging about getting smacked in the mouth.
So I'm new to where I send the notes.
I wanted to get him something special he could use for the future.
So please make this executive producer donation a switcheroo to Corey Tibbetts.
Hopefully we can become knights and dames one day.
We also had our one year anniversary this week and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him.
Relationship karma, please.
Yes.
Thank you for what you guys do as it keeps us sane.
May we also get a de-douching?
Yeah.
You've been de-douched.
Mac and cheese jingle and anything from Al Sharpton.
Love is lit!
And thanks again.
Mac and cheese jingle and anything from Al Sharpton, which would have to be our favorite...
You slaves can get used to mac and cheese, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheddar melted together.
Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
Ha, ha.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
You've got karma.
Eli King.
Eli King.
$200.
Thank you for helping to make the parallel society we need.
I love this.
Christians are praying for our community and our world.
All glory goes to God should truth and love win out in the end here.
We love you both and thank you for your courage.
And thank you, Eli King.
Appreciate that.
Yes, we are building a parallel society in a way.
You know, the meetups, no agenda social.
Yeah, and it seems to be different than anything else anyone else is doing or thinking.
Yeah.
Wurt Fuller, I'm going to go with Wurt, in Batavia, New York, $200.
And he sent a note in a very small piece of paper.
And that's it right there.
Thank you, he says, for letting me listen for so long without donating.
Please de-douche me.
We can do that for you.
You've been de-douched.
He says the karma worked for Andrew Fuller, so thank you.
Please give me some goat best...
Give me some goat karma.
I think he wants goat karma.
And then he says, best pod ever.
Why do people...
Do they just want to hurt me?
I think so.
So he is a master sergeant, retired.
Yeah.
Alright.
I can't hear you!
You've got...
We've got a couple of notes that came in straggling from the previous episode.
Make goods here.
Jane van Weinsberge missed her note, but here's what she wrote.
Gents, take two on the note for my donation, and let's hear Adam say my last name in the original Flemish.
Van Weinsberge.
Weinsberge.
Van Weinsberge.
I did it.
Please accept this Rove Ducks value for value donation today on 224, my 51st trip around the sun, and it's my first, so please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
I was hit in the mouth of my human resource, Dylan, who is still a douchebag.
douchebag that was at the beginning of the plandemic and I have to thank you both for keeping my amygdala at the appropriate size as a native born Scandinavian and now Chinades Scandinavian or is it now Chinades or Chinadavian Chinades probably I like Chinadavian Chinadavian?
Let me write it down Chinadavian yeah because it's insulting but not quite I like it.
No, it's insulting.
Yeah.
No, no.
It's insulting.
Where am I here?
I was hit in the mouth.
I've got all that.
I have to express my disgust at the prime dictator, Trudeau, and I hope that my remaining family and friends, they will be okay.
Thank you both immensely for showing us all the actual truth that the M5M refuses to.
I'll close this note by asking for jobs slash lawyer karma for a new job, and the lawyer karma is due to my being fired for not bending to the will of my former employer to get vaccinated, whom I now have retained a lawyer to rub out.
Whoa.
You're right, JCD. That's one that needs to make a comeback.
Rub him out.
I think we have to reconsider.
For jingles that like screw your freedom, get vaccinated, no.
Finished off with the pasta glock.
Ah, yes.
The pasta glock is...
Locked and loaded!
Pasta.
Wait, what is...
What is the name of...
Noodle Boy.
Noodle Boy, that's right.
Thank you.
That's the one I didn't have.
Wait.
No, I think it's Noodle Gun.
It's Noodle Gun, not Noodle Boy.
Noodle Gun.
Noodle Gun.
There we go.
Ah, here it is.
Okay, got it.
Yes, the human resources love that.
Thank you for your courage, James.
Screw your freedom.
Get back.
No.
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist piece of shit.
I got my pasta clock locked and loaded.
Florence Jennings, the donation from Ross Jennings you announced in your episode of Thursday, February 24th, is my husband.
He wanted a knighthood.
Knight, are you insane, Cameroon flow?
I added a donation today for karma, health, and otherwise for his trip home to Singapore.
All the best from Florence.
So, of course, we'll add some karma there, the health karma.
You've got...
And an emergency urgent request for health karma from Sir Harry Pilgrim, and we do break for our nights.
His wife of 31 years, and they never had a fight, Jennifer Pilgrim, who's recovering from major surgery.
Can't share the details, however, I know the collective karma of the Global No Agenda producers will do its magic.
Thank you so much, Sir Harry Pilgrim, Baronet of Massaponics, Virginia.
Of course we've got a health karma for Jennifer.
You've got karma.
And that wraps it up for our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1429 of The Best Podcast in the Universe.
Thank you all for supporting us.
Interesting.
It was less than usual and the notes were shorter, but we appreciate everything you do.
And please consider becoming a No Agenda producer or an associate executive producer.
You can learn all about it at our website.
Dvorak.org slash n And thank you for bringing at least one of the three T's time, talent, treasure to the No Agenda show.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
You know, last night we, I'm just going to mention, last night we went out to dinner with the fraud, waste and abuse consultant.
Oh, yes.
Oh, my goodness.
Now what?
Well, before I tell you what she said, with her husband, and it turns out her husband hit her in the mouth, and she was telling me how he got hit in the mouth, and he's a dude named Ben.
And they have two kids, and the three-year-old loves the pasta glock, so I just wanted to play that again.
Now that I heard it, it triggered my memory.
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist pizza shit.
I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
Yeah, what you probably won't read, what she told me about, is all of these Medicare home health companies, particularly around the border in Texas, where they pay their health workers to go out and help people who are on Medicaid, and they pay them $10 where they pay their health workers to go out and help people They charge the government $13.50, so they pocket that, and meanwhile, that's just the front office.
In the back, they're running brothels, brothels, and they're laundering drug money.
And this is not being reported on, but it seems to be a pretty big scandal going on in the border towns.
It was great seeing them, though.
Entrepreneurs.
You know, I'm always surprised by the kind of people that every once in a while somebody crops up.
That is like, wow, our listening audience is wide and diverse.
Screw it, I want to read this note.
From Jason Shockley.
Listening to episode 1428, hearing you speak about how the alien technology was given to William Shockley, my paternal grandfather.
Oh!
Who also shares my same birthday.
Brought a lot of questions and answers at the same time.
My mother, who passed, kept everything very close to the chest about my father's side of the family.
My father, who I've never spoken to except one phone call on my 16th birthday, I really never knew him.
Except for a few little facts.
My father, a Vietnam vet, was ambushed in Vietnam and he was shot in the head.
Holy crap.
He still has the shell in his head.
My mother told me that the doctors and physicians said it was physically impossible for him to have survived.
Not only did he survive, he had no sustainable injuries.
It was as if he had a minor laceration.
As the phone call when I was 16, my father told me he loved me, asked me if I loved him, and I said one day I would understand.
Anyway, long story short, I had a tragic accident where I was clinically dead.
I had a strange experience.
It was just odd for me to hear that, especially with what has transpired recently.
I can prove my identity versus social security number, original birth certificate, ID, etc.
I haven't done a DNA test because I don't trust the system.
So if there is some way you can help me put an end to the mystery so I can know for sure, Well, we can't do that.
So the guy's grandfather was the guy who supposedly...
Shockly.
Right.
He got the alien technology and invented the transistor and never invented anything again.
Well, the story is the...
I'll give you the backstory.
Yeah, we need the full story.
I'll give you the story when I have it.
But anyway, let me continue his note.
It's almost done.
All right.
So if there's some way you can help me put an end to the mystery so I can know for sure.
Also, I've always had a superior knowledge of electronics, and especially mobile devices, and what technology it entails, and I've never got the koof, not even a sniffle.
So maybe they gave my genetics the key.
Thanks.
Good work.
Love is lit.
Thanks, Jay.
So...
The story that I had from George Morrow, who was an entrepreneur at Morrow Microsystems.
He made microcomputers, one of the last great 8080 machines, actually.
And George had worked at Shockley Labs.
William Shockley had worked at Bell Labs.
Bell Labs invented the transistor, and there was this rumor, and it was right after the Roswell crash.
Mm-hmm.
So he went from vacuum tubes to the transistor like...
Overnight.
Overnight, yeah.
And so Shockley decided to open up a semiconductor company, which morphed kind of into Fairchild semiconductors, which then morphed into Intel.
Uh-huh.
And Morrow was working at that plant.
And he says that people were always abuzz about the fact that they were producing transistors.
It was one of the early transistor makers.
But they never got the idea of an integrated circus that was given to somebody else and that moved on.
And he says there was always a buzz.
And we never talked about the transistor being alien technology, George and I.
He just mentioned this story out of the blue.
He says, you know, everyone was always asking the question whether Bill, old Bill Shockley, had lost it because he's never invented anything after the transistor.
He just never had another new idea, I guess.
And everyone was kind of baffled by that.
And then Shockley was marginalized probably in the 80s when he made some racial comments.
Oh, they had to get rid of him.
About gene pools.
Being blacks had a different gene pool than whites over the years.
Oh, no.
It caused him to be one way or another.
And that was it for Shockley.
He was a marginalized kid.
You know, he was done.
And then never heard from him again.
Hmm.
So that's all I know.
So I don't know any of this.
I mean, I believe George's story, but I don't know.
Yeah, well, maybe the bullet in his head was receiving some crazy idea.
No, no, that's the son.
That was Shockley's son.
The bullet in the head is Jason's father.
William Shockley's the granddad.
Right, he shot his son in the head.
Exactly.
That's not the story.
Okay.
Another game of telephone.
But no, I heard you.
I understand.
But it's...
So I don't know that any of...
I mean, all I know is what George told me.
And it always stuck with me.
That's interesting.
But you're right.
We have an amazing array of people who contribute to the show.
That's why you're all producers.
You're not audience.
You're not listeners.
You're not fans.
Fans.
Although we could probably make more money if you and I just did an only fans thing.
I don't think so.
Maybe you.
Let's catch up on some things while our attention is being diverted.
All right, four U.S. corporations will pay a combined $26 billion to settle claims over their role in the opioid epidemic.
Johnson& Johnson and three major drug distributors agreed to the settlement while insisting it was not an admission of guilt.
While none of the settlement money will go directly to victims of opioid addiction or their survivors, most of the money will go to state and local governments to deal with the epidemic.
Wow, how cool is that?
$25 billion.
Hey, did your kid die from an OD? Did your parents die?
You get nothing.
The states get it.
That's pretty...
And who gets the card?
The Sacklers, who only paid $6 billion of that $26 billion.
Johnson& Johnson, the same people who brought you the vaccine.
A vaccine.
Same people who brought you the baby powder.
When will people wake up to Big Pharma?
Never.
The Money Honey, and I brought this up on the last show, the Money Honey asked the CEO of Moderna, Bancel, you know, the guy who's been dumping $400 million, we're stuck!
Asked him about the odd coincidence that a genetic sequence in the COVID-19 virus Is in fact a patented sequence, patented years ago by Moderna.
And I appreciate the money, honey, doing this.
Now scientists find the virus contains a tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna three years before the pandemic began.
Your reaction, Stefan?
What can you tell us?
The...
My scientists are looking into those data to see how accurate they are or not.
As I've said before, the hypothesis of an escape from a lab by an accident is possible.
You know, human makes mistakes.
So is it possible that Wuhan lab in China was working on viruses enhancement or gene modification?
And then there was an accident where somebody was infected in a lab and then infected their families in France.
It is possible, on the claim you just mentioned, the scientists are analyzing to know if it's real or not.
Yeah.
I mean, I was struck by the line it matched a genetic sequence patented by Moderna for cancer research purposes, Stefan.
Yeah, and that's the type of things that the team is looking at very carefully to know is it real or not.
So it takes a bit of time to analyze all the genetic sequence.
Yeah, I love how, first of all, remember this came from a bat from a wet market, from those nasty-ass Chinese in Wuhan.
And then it didn't.
And we knew that it didn't.
And we said that it didn't.
And we were conspiracy theorists.
And now this guy is saying, well, what I hear him say is...
Well, you know, some idiot could have had some of our incredibly important stuff in the lab, and he made a mistake, went home, infected his friends and his family, and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Please insult me some more, douche.
And Pfizer, again, we were told so many things.
It'll stop transmission.
You won't get sick.
You're immune.
You can do whatever you want.
You can live your life.
No, you can't.
That turned out not to be true.
Get more boosters.
You need more boosters.
And now the conspiracy theory that this was a DNA-changing vaccination.
It is gene therapy.
It changes your DNA, which was explicitly said that is horrible.
You are not following the science.
But the scientists in Sweden are.
So there is a Swedish study that shows that the spike protein RNA from Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine...
in vitro goes into the liver cells and is converted into DNA in their nucleus and it also increases the expression of the reverse transcriptase line 1 which is an enzyme in all of our cells mostly present in the dividing cells And that enzyme is the one that helps to convert the RNA of the protein,
the vaccine, spike protein vaccine RNA, into the DNA. And that DNA is found in the nucleus in vitro.
So let's look at the study.
It is a Swedish accepted and published study.
So it's not a preprint.
It is not something that is still waiting for review.
It is reviewed and published.
In vitro, which means in the lab, but still...
Another chink in the armor.
I don't know if I'd use that phrase.
I was waiting to see if you'd catch it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This thing is no good.
I think we've got that established.
Yeah, but this is really, really no good.
Yeah?
I don't want my loved one's DNA changing.
Yeah.
Especially if they told us it wouldn't happen.
Oh, you know what?
Christina got the coup finally.
And she got it real bad.
Did she have a shot?
No.
No.
She did not.
Now, of all the different COVID side effects or effects we've had, what's the one you would not expect?
I think we've talked about it.
She had severe eyeball pain.
Wow.
Severe.
And it just brought on migraines and then she...
So here's what happened.
She's like, Dad, I need the ivermectin.
I'm like, well, okay, how do I get it to her as quick as possible?
And I'm sure I'd sent some.
I thought you said you did.
Yeah, I think...
I can't remember now.
Anyway, stuff is getting stolen everywhere or confiscated.
So what did I do?
I went into the No Agenda group, say, hey, I need some help.
Within 45 minutes, producer Marcel drove from The Hague to Rotterdam to her home, handed off a strip of ivermectin, 12 milligrams per pill that he had left over from his trip to Uganda.
You're a hero.
Thank you very much.
Really appreciate it.
And next day, eyeball pain is over.
She's already feeling much better.
Oh, that can't be!
Yes, it can be.
But I just love how Gitmo Nation is there for each other.
That was really appreciated.
I want to play this series of clips about China.
I try to keep a China thing going on here so we keep up with what's going on.
Yes, because that's the wild card now in this whole game.
This is the China initiative that was mostly put in play by Trump.
And the reason I think this is interesting, because we remember the skier, the American-Chinese combo skier that was skiing for Mu or Gu, I think is her last name, Gu.
Yeah.
She was skiing for China, and they were condemning her, Tucker Carlson in particular.
Traitor!
Even though it's possible that they had a gun to her mom's head, the Chinese government, because Pompeo talked about this, a bunch of different people during the Trump administration talked about Chinese spies and Chinese spies from China in this country, strong-arming people to do this or that or not to shut up.
So let's play these clips with that in mind, that this is a problem.
China Initiative 1.
All right, we turn now to news on a different national security front.
The Justice Department says it's ending its controversial China initiative.
Now, the program began under the Trump administration, and it was aimed to counter China's theft of American trade secrets and technology.
But it's come under growing criticism from civil rights groups who say the program created a climate of fear among Asian Americans.
NPR Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas has been following all of this and joins us now.
Hi, Ryan.
Wow, they're cutting this program down because it's racist?
Wow.
And the best part is the climate of fear, which is what the Chinese intend to do.
They're the ones that create the climate of fear against their own people that are over here.
Students, and they intimidate people, and that's the climate of fear.
The fact that they've turned this around...
It's just obvious that the Biden administration is working for China.
Let's leave it at that.
It has to be.
They're in cahoots.
This is what I'm so worried about.
Pay no attention to the millions of dollars Hunter got.
All right, number two?
Yeah.
All right, so before we get into the Justice Department's decision to scrap this program, can you just explain in more detail what this China initiative was originally designed to do?
Well, the U.S. for years has accused China of waging a relentless campaign, really, to steal U.S. trade secrets, government secrets, technology, cutting-edge research, intellectual property, all of those things.
And China's goal, American officials say, is to use that knowledge to leapfrog the U.S. and supplant it as a world's preeminent power.
So in 2018, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this China initiative, and the goal of it was to focus Justice Department efforts and resources to counter this theft and protect America's economic and national security.
Fast forward three years, here is how FBI Director Christopher Wray sums up the situation.
There is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China.
In fact, Ray says the Bureau has more than 2,000 open cases related to China, and it opens a new China-related case every 12 hours, he says.
Wow.
Okay, if that's the reality, why is the department ending this program now?
That's a great question.
Finally.
Yep.
There's some...
I put a gap in there, I'm not sure, so let's go to clip three.
Well, the new head of the department's National Security Division, Matthew Olson, ordered a review of the China Initiative back in November in response to this mounting criticism about the program.
Some of that criticism has come from the civil rights community, which has said that the China Initiative fed into this anti-Asian system.
Who said it?
Growing in the U.S. Yeah.
Exactly.
I mean, who said?
The human rights community.
Yeah, exactly.
What the hell?
Who?
Who specifically?
When you say community, I'm thinking black.
That means that there's a racial issue.
Black and brown community, community.
How about this?
It's some Chinese pressure group.
Yes!
It's some phony baloney human rights.
Oh, it's the Chinese human rights organization.
Maybe it's the donors to NPR pressuring.
Who knows?
Chinese donors could be anything.
We don't know because it's inherently dishonest.
NPR is dishonest.
They take all kinds of money.
Their sponsorships are sold just like commercial radio by commercial radio salespeople.
They're dishonest.
We need to know who this was.
...that the China Initiative fed into this anti-Asian sentiment that's been growing in the U.S. and that it amounts to racial profiling of Asian Americans since...
Most of the people who have been charged have been of Asian descent.
And Olson acknowledged today that that impression among Asian Americans, that feeling that they're being targeted, is a problem.
This erosion of trust in the department can impair our national security.
It alienates us from the people we serve, including the very communities the PRC often targets as victims.
And he's acknowledging there that the program has led some people to believe that the department treats people from China or people of Asian descent differently.
So interesting.
Well, you know, a lot of the criticism of this program has focused on cases brought against particular academics and researchers.
And I'm curious, did Olson address that piece of this?
He did.
He did.
And you're right.
The department has prosecuted a number of academics, researchers, scientists for failing to disclose ties to China on U.S. government grant applications.
Here's what Olson said again.
We have heard that those prosecutions and the public narrative around those cases can lead to a chilling atmosphere for scientists and scholars that damages the scientific enterprise in the United States.
And so he said that going forward, the Justice Department would closely examine the evidence in these sorts of cases to look at, among other things, whether there's a connection to U.S. national security and economic security.
And the department will then decide whether civil or administrative penalties would be a better option than the sort of heavy-handed criminal prosecution.
You think that level of inquiry would have already existed.
But anyway, what has the reaction been so far from civil rights groups to this decision to end the China Initiative Program?
Wow, we've been captured, man.
This is, oh my goodness.
And you put it in that light.
Well, you know, before you know it, we'll be calling everyone who looks Chinese a spy.
Because, you know, we're racist.
We're idiots.
We can't find Ukraine on a map.
This is, yeah, that makes nothing but sense.
But meanwhile, let's just keep it all going in academia and in pharma.
Yeah, let them steal us blind while we're at it.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Yep.
I think there's one more left.
Yep.
It's been positive.
Some expressed an appreciation that the Justice Department acknowledged and listened to the community's concerns, although there is a desire to ensure that this isn't just a sort of cosmetic change.
I will say, Olson made clear that the Justice Department still views China as a significant threat and will continue to focus on countering its cyber attacks and economic espionage, but the message today is that the China initiative wasn't the right way to do so.
Man!
And all of a sudden we now have a civil rights community.
Yeah, that's cool.
When did that happen?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
I don't know when that happened.
So we have President Biden will be doing a State of the Union.
Was he doing that tomorrow or Tuesday?
Tuesday.
Tuesday.
Which is pretty easy to predict.
We licked COVID. Good job, Joe.
We licked COVID. Although, you know, the mask mandates seems to be the only we licked COVID thing that we're going to get.
Other things will remain.
Hold on.
Tonight, cities and school districts across the country with fresh plans to drop their indoor mask mandates in line with the CDC's newest masking recommendations.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Long Beach, California dropping certain indoor mask mandates almost immediately.
School districts from Pennsylvania to Ohio proposing to do the same.
Again, only the mask mandates.
No vaccination mandates or any pressure to stop these types of things.
CDC is pushing this.
Tonight, the CDC advising more than 70% of Americans they no longer have to wear a mask indoors.
I'm so excited.
The new guidance is based on not only the number of COVID cases in a community, but also on hospitalizations and hospital capacity.
These markers will help determine whether the level of severe COVID is low, medium, or high, and what safety precautions to take.
What it really is is a tool that allows us to objectively look at what's happening in our communities, what is the impact of this on the healthcare systems, and then therefore what should we be recommending to the public.
The CDC will continue to make recommendations, but ultimately it's up to state and local officials to decide what's best for their communities.
Every state has rolled back indoor mask mandates except for Hawaii.
Take a look at the yellow and green areas.
These are locations where strain on the health care system is not considered high, where the CDC says mask requirements can be rolled back.
But masks are still advised in the orange areas where there's a potential for high levels of severe disease and strain on health care systems.
Also new tonight, the CDC now only recommends universal school masking in communities at the high level.
Still, the nation's largest school district, New York City, where the community level is low, announced today students must stay masked indoors.
Well, the new CDC guidance does not impact current mask mandates covering public transportation.
Those remain in effect until March 18th, and tonight it's unclear if they will be extended.
But today the CDC did end its mask requirement on school buses.
I don't understand.
Do you have any thinking, any thoughts on why they still want to keep the children masked?
They want to kill them.
They hate kids.
Okay, well, there's that.
So while there's a lot of talk about dropping mask mandates, the vaccine passports have silently rolled out.
And Forbes had a pretty good article about it.
They say, even as the Omicron variant loosens its grip on the world, destinations continue to require travelers to show proof of vaccination.
Yes, the United States still requires that.
If you are not a U.S. citizen, you need to show proof of vaccination.
Increasingly, a paper CDC vaccination card is not cutting it.
So, they go on to say, while the United States government has not issued a federal digital vaccine pass, a national standard has emerged.
This is what I've been keeping my eye on.
To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, offer accessibility to the Smart Health Card, a verifiable digital proof of vaccination developed through the Vaccination Credential Initiative, A global coalition of public and private stakeholders, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, the Mayo Clinic, and other health and tech heavyweights.
And simultaneously, the World Health Organization has announced that they are moving towards a global treaty, which would, it says here, tie member nations to a coordinated response to the next pandemic, which includes tie member nations to a coordinated response to the next pandemic, which includes the national VIC standard They're not gone, and they're not going away.
They may not be used for vaccines, vaccination proof in the future, but they want everyone to have this.
This is definitely coming.
Well, you're a big fan of this thing, so let me ask you a question.
Sure.
Why does sales, what's Salesforce, a customer relationship management company used by salespeople to subtract their customers and to talk to them and to keep tabs on them and the whole, it's kind of a database thing.
What have they got to do with it?
Why are they involved at all?
I think you said it, kind of a database thing.
I mean, Oracle's a database company.
Microsoft, just because they have something, some remote link to a database, because, oh, you're a database company, you have to be involved in this?
I don't know.
I didn't write the report.
Why would they accept wanting to be?
Why would they want to be involved in this?
Well, they have a social network.
Maybe there's some control over that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
How about this?
If I'm a shareholder, I'm not going to be too pleased with this kind of getting taken.
As far as I'm concerned, as a shareholder, I'm not one, but let's assume I was.
Mm-hmm.
It's taking your eye off the ball.
You're supposed to be the, the, the, the, T-H-E, Customer Relationship Management Company.
What's got to do with vaccine passports?
You're taking your eye off the ball.
I don't disagree with you, but I would say most likely when it comes to that company and the CEO, there's probably a crap load of money involved.
How about that?
Would that be a reason why they're involved?
These guys clearly don't care what they do.
They got social networks.
They got all kinds of stuff that's not relevant to their core mission.
And, uh, I think Microsoft is, obviously there's backends in it.
Maybe it's all, maybe it's only for the backend or, you know, whatever.
It's like, hey, anyone who has any kind of database system and talks to people or has people using it, which is LinkedIn, you know, I don't know.
Alright, well then it brings another point up, at least for me.
Okay.
And this will be my version of your stove top gas engine or whatever it is.
It's called a gasifier.
Yeah.
The way I see it, if it's just about the money, that means it's going to be defrauded almost instantly.
Go get your phony cards now.
That's just advice to anyone out there who doesn't want to get the shot but wants to get into the system.
Yeah, that's probably sage advice.
Yeah, well, you probably won't do it.
I won't.
All right.
Okay, what else we got?
Well, you had a few clips and then we'll take another break.
We got some meetups and stuff to talk about.
So, what else you got on your plate?
Well, I've got the CPAC. Oh, CPAC. Yes, indeed.
CPAC. Yeah, in Florida.
Oh, it's in Florida.
Okay.
All right.
So here's the CPAC NPR report.
I got it under CPC, but NPR, this is the little rundown.
Leading GOP conservatives who have spent the past several days meeting in Florida at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, otherwise known as CPAC. Former President Donald Trump and his ongoing grievances about elections process largely going unmentioned.
Instead, GOP leaders are focusing on areas like more parental control of schools.
Well, I don't know if that was...
I have the summary.
I have Kennedy, John Kennedy.
Very short clip.
I've tightened it up a little bit.
This is the summary of the CPAC convention.
I think it's pretty much summarized what everybody's been saying.
And Kennedy, I think, does it best.
And this is all you need.
Do you listen to this?
You've got it down.
You know what's going on.
Let me say a word about the Biden administration.
I say this gently.
So far, the Biden administration sucks.
Yeah, that's a great soundbite.
He knows what he's doing.
Yeah, that's exactly what you want to do.
Say that, get that soundbite out there, because kids understand it.
They love it.
Hey, he says it sucks.
He said sucks.
And you know what?
I think in general, young voters in America all agree.
Biden sucks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that was CPAC. So that's what's going on at CPAC. That's CPAC. Has Trump spoken at CPAC? He spoke after that.
He spoke yesterday.
Hour and 29.
He went hour and 29.
Oh my.
Okay.
And mostly thanking everybody and pointing people out and making fun.
You know, he's just joking around.
Then he...
I'll take maybe one or two clips for the next show.
Any new material?
Anything new?
I haven't heard anything new, but the sense of the Ukraine situation, that will create new material because it's new.
He better come up with some new material because all I hear is about his perfect phone call.
It doesn't seem like his entertainment hat is on.
You think it is?
No, I'm not sure one way or the other, but this will, you know, he's not on a roll, that's for sure, but he's still packing them in.
The place is crowded.
He's applauding, jumping up and down for everything he says.
I'm going to show myself by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
And we do have a few people to thank for show, what is this show?
1429.
1429, almost 1430.
But I'm going to start with reading a note from one of our, and he knows who he is, but his name is Alan, or Elaine, I don't know, it's Alan, A-L-A-I-N, and he sent in a contribution for his mom, Vigliotto, I think is his name.
Dear Podcasters, he writes a note, and I want to play his jingles too.
This is a birthday donation going toward my mother Doris' damehood.
Now on her third donation, counting below, I fear she will become one of those rare individuals who gets knighted or damed but never listens to the show.
She won't make a habit of listening.
I do play her the podcast when she donates.
She giggles when she hears her name and then goes back to yelling at the television.
Yes, that's what you do.
Being a good son, I embarrassingly join her.
So he yells at the set too.
Thank you for your courage, Alan.
And he's got her...
So she should be on the birthday list.
I don't know.
Ooh, let me double check that first.
227-22.
It's Doris.
Uh...
No.
So this is Alan to Mom.
Doris...
On the 27th.
227.
Okay.
And since I promised we'd play as Jingles.
But is she a dame too now?
No, no.
Oh, not yet.
She hasn't made it yet.
Oh, okay.
Yes, Jingles.
If you're white, you're a racist.
Yes.
If you're white, you're a racist.
Yeah, that's true.
And a goat scream.
Oh, a goat scream or a goat?
We'll give her a goat karma just to make sure.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
If you're white, you're a racist.
If you're male, you're a pig.
If you're siss, you are privileged.
Skinny, shaving if you're big.
And if you're straight, you're homophobic.
Heaven help if you're wrong.
So don't have an opinion.
And just do what you're told.
That's true.
You've got karma.
On, we're with Robert Brousseau, $110.40 in Pickney, Michigan, and he wants some F cancer karma for his mother-in-law, Nancy.
We can put that at the end for him.
You bet.
Dennis Schott in Dennis Schott in Zevenhuizen.
Zevenhuizen, 1990.
He has a couple of douchebag calls out.
He said, I'd like to thank our Dutch Minister of Climate for making our gasoline prices go up to $2.20 a liter.
Furthermore, I'd like to call out my two colleagues as douchebags.
Douchebag!
That's for both of them.
Yeah.
Kind regards.
Okay.
That sounds...
What is seven hoises?
What does it mean?
Seven homes.
Seven homes.
So there were seven houses there at one point, so they called it Seven Houses.
Wow.
Remember, this is when Napoleon took over.
And they came up with the stupid names for everything.
That's a good-sounding name.
Daniela...
Oh, here we go.
Another Dutch woman.
Daniela Terhorst in Poomerant.
Daniela Terhorst in Poomerant.
Puma rent.
Puma rent.
And she has a birthday donation for her fur baby Levi.
Levy would be the Dutch pronunciation.
Levy.
Yeah.
You got it.
8888.
Yeah.
Randall Lawful Mocker.
Lawful Mocker in Brooklyn, New York.
8008.
Please add me to the...
He's on a birthday list.
Yeah, March 4th.
Sir Herb Lamb comes in.
Duke of the Deep South in Sugar Hill, Georgia with 8008.
And then last on this little list of boob donations.
Oh!
Sir Kevin McLaughlin.
No surprise.
No surprise, Kevin.
Duke of Luna.
Lover of American boobs.
Mm-hmm.
8-0-0-8 in Concord, North Carolina.
Gary Blatt, 7-7-7-7 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Chris Durkin in Chicago, Illinois, 6-7-8-9.
Greetings, gentlemen.
Yeah, he says, Greetings, gentlemen.
With this meager donation of 6-7-8-9, I have burst through the threshold to knighthood.
Henceforth, I would like to be known as Sirringe, get it, of the mandatory jab.
And at the round table, request Snappy Beer Cheese and Ale 8-1 be available to all.
And then he has some jingles here.
Get vaccinated.
Do we have that one?
I'll play them at the end here.
If you can read on, I'll get those for him.
Anonymous comes in from Stittsville, Ontario, Canada, 6666.
And he wants to know what hearing aids you use.
Currently, I am using the Widex Evoke.
Hearing aids.
And I like them very, very much.
Sir Bee Boop, Night of the Frozen Tundra in New Brighton, Minnesota.
That's 5678.
David Galloway in Flower Mound, Texas, which is a big hill in the middle of nowhere.
5510.
Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington, 5510.
Rich Roberts in Frederick, Maryland, 5150.
And D-Douche, my bud, J Mapper G. You've been D-Douged.
He also says Maryland is the douchiest state in the USA. Might be.
It could be.
And now we have the $50 donors on this very short list today.
Greg Hartlob in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Matthew Dixon in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Richard Gardner, I think he's in New York.
Maybe not, but he's a sir.
Josh Springer in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Shane Morrison in Clark, New Jersey.
And last but not least...
Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
I want to thank these people for making the show 1489 a reality.
Thank you very much, people.
And thanks everybody who came in under 50 for anonymity.
And you're probably on one of our programs.
If not, consider getting on one of our fabulous promotions, which you can find at...
They're fabulous because they're subscriptions and it's a sustaining donation and it's very helpful to us.
Now we have a couple of jingles to play for that.
For that segment there, we've got Biden get vaccinated, two to the head.
And then we also have, oh, and F cancer.
Get vaccinated.
Fucking cancer.
You've got karma.
It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm so much champion.
Here's our list for today.
Not short.
Chris Rowe.
Happy birthday to the future Dame Angela Puppins in honor of her 29th trip around the sun.
Jacob Schlockter turns 35.
Dana Hildale.
Happy birthday to her fabulous husband who celebrated on the 24th.
And Dana herself celebrates today, February 27th.
Amy Traver.
Happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend Corey turns 38.
Daniela Terhorst.
Happy birthday to her fur baby Levy.
Randall Loffelmacher celebrates on March 4th.
And as we just heard, Alan says happy birthday to his mom, Doris.
She celebrates today.
Happy birthday, Mom Doris, from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah!
Um, let's see.
We have no titles.
We do have several Knights and Dames, so let's get him up on stage.
There you go, this old Mr.
Two.
Ha ha.
Anonymous, Lauren, pop on up here.
Andrea O'Hagan, Chris Durkin, and Ross Jennings, all of you who supported the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
That means you have deserved your place here at the Round Table of the Knights and Dames.
I'm very proud to pronounce to Kate Lee as Dame Lauren of the Pearly Crowns, Dame Aquamarine of the Lake Tanglewood and the Florida Keys, Sir Rind of the Mandatory Jab, and Sir You Are Insane Cameroon Flow, for you've got Hookers and Blow, Runt Boys and Chardonnay, Veal and Sir You Are Insane Cameroon Flow, for you've got Hookers and Blow, Runt Boys and Chardonnay, Veal Cutlets and Vov Clicquot at the round table, Snappy Beer Cheese and Ale 8-1 available to all, Bodkin Middleton, Bong Hitson-Burbins, Sparkling Sider and Escorts, Gin
And then mutton and meat, of course, for everybody who is here and is sitting at the table and clinking your glasses.
Please also go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
Fill out all the information there so we can get it to you as soon as possible.
Australian rings have landed, I believe, so we expect to see some pictures on No Agenda Social of some of our new knights and dames sporting their rings, their badges of honor.
Thank you all for supporting the No Agenda Show.
No Agenda Meetups.
Meetups taking place everywhere.
All we hear are positive things about the meetups.
If you have not gone to noagendameetups.com, we suggest you do.
You can find meetups all over the world.
It's a great way to get back into human face-to-face contact.
Talk about anything you want.
You can't get triggered because this is a community.
A community that surrounds an idea.
A show.
You're all producers.
It works.
Check it out.
Northeast Ohio had a pretty good one.
This is Sir Real Estate doing a meetup report from the 56th Kitchen in Northeast Ohio.
We had a great group tonight.
About 25 people came out.
And we're going to see how many of them can get up here and talk.
So, in the morning to all the knights and dames and slaves out there.
And here's everybody else.
Hi, John and Adam.
It's Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
Hi!
I'm at my first meetup and I love it.
I love the good company and the good food, the good spirits, and good conversation.
Cheers.
Hi, this is Sparky Jr.
I just want to say we had an awesome meetup out here with some great people and looking forward to more.
Yeah, this is Derek.
I just escaped the trucker blockade in Canada.
They impounded my truck and they confiscated my bank account.
And I had a cousin who was able to get me across the border in Wisconsin.
And somehow I made it to Cleveland and found these people.
And I think they're all cool.
And from now on, I'm a no-agenda believer.
Sir Joby-Wan here.
John Dogbiscuits.
Hi, my name's Lisa Marie and this is my first meetup.
In the morning from Josh here in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
This is Sir MFNFT. And screw your MFNFT! No, wait!
Screw your WF! Hi, this is Miss Beef Bag Lady.
We're having a great time here.
Everyone's just hugging and sharing secrets.
Hello, this is Dave.
Had a great time here at the Eastside No Agenda meetup in the morning.
This is Christopher.
It's my turn with the feather.
I just wanted to say that I really haven't been out for a long time, and it's been nice to get around with some like-minded folks and share my experiences and thoughts and them being understanding.
So it was really nice, and I had a really nice evening.
And food was great.
I'll see you at the fire when I get the feather in front of everyone.
Rather long, this report, but I appreciated that last bit because it really explained a little bit about the vibe at a meetup.
But let's try to keep it around a minute, everybody.
Like Charlotte, they did a good job.
John and Adam, here we are at the Charlotte meetup.
A bunch of super slaves here.
I'm going to pass it around, and here we go.
In the morning, this is Sir Kevin Dills, the Earl of North Carolina.
Thank you for your courage.
This is Sir Boyle Peanut.
Friends don't let friends nutfist in Wardam Eagle.
Hey, this is Steve.
I'm currently living off my frozen Canadian bank accounts.
Sir, tactician from the Fresh Coast, and I'm disappointed we're not going to get free crack pipes.
Thank you for your courage.
Soon-to-be Sir Stonks Trader.
Train's good, plane's bad.
Sir Lorne, super freak of the Catawba River.
In the moment!
Good morning to y'all.
Here's what's coming up meetup-wise.
Today, the Orlando Meetup Part 2 is underway at Hourglass Brewing Curry Ford.
Hope y'all are there having a good time.
On the 4th of March, so we're moving into March already.
That'll be Friday, so there's nothing on the upcoming Thursday.
Martinis with a view at 5 o'clock.
That'll be at Cliff House in the Downstairs Lounge in Tacoma, Washington.
Here's what's on the calendar so far for March.
For the 5th, Lindhurst, New Jersey.
Chamon, New York.
Lindhurst, New York.
Chamon, New Jersey.
Richmond, Oregon.
Sunset Valley, Texas.
Local one.
Chicago, Illinois.
And Zurich, Switzerland.
On the 12th, Tilburg.
The Netherlands, the 13th.
Post Falls, Idaho.
The 14th, Pittsburgh.
And that'll be Pi Day.
Another one for your donations.
Charlotte, North Carolina on the 17th.
Peterborough, Ontario on the 18th.
Marlborough, Massachusetts on the 18th.
On the 19th, Madras, Oregon.
And Fresno, California.
The 20th, Vienna, Austria.
Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Fishers, Indiana.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and York Haven, Pennsylvania.
And on the 26th of March, these are all booked already, Youngstown, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cherryvale, Kansas, Rhode Island, and Houston, Texas.
No Agenda Meetups.
Try one out.
You will not regret it.
You'll want to start one yourself.
If you can't find one nearby, that's exactly what you do.
Just go to noagendameetups.com.
Guaranteed, always a pate.
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you won't be.
Triggered or held to blame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Like a party.
I got a couple isos.
Let me see.
I'll play the first.
I have three.
Ready?
Yeah.
Stay safe.
What?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Stay safe.
Stay safe.
No, it's not enough dynamics.
I have this one.
Hashtag dream job.
Hashtag dream job.
People, if you send me these, and this was sent to me, make sure you get a little bit more.
That sounds cut off, and it doesn't work that way, which leaves me with only one, which I think is good, but maybe too long.
Ciao, man.
Really good talking to you.
I kind of like that one.
Well, mine are a little different.
I have, let's start with Chills.
Chills.
Chills.
Goosebumps.
I like it.
I like it.
And then Barbaric.
Barbaric.
Barbaric is grotesque.
No, that's not clipped well.
I like Chills.
Do you have another one or is that it?
No, I just got the two.
Chills is good.
I like that.
Chills.
Goosebumps.
Goosebumps.
Yeah, I like it.
That's good for me.
Yeah, that was a little echoey, but it's okay.
I'd like to have it louder.
Well, I can make it louder.
Can't do much else because I've just given up on the controller.
I have no idea how I'm going to get the end of the show done.
Chills!
Goosebumps!
Okay, that'll work for me.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
You got anything else before we leave?
I'll play the one kind of a funny clip.
This is the post office buying some crap cars.
They're upgrading their vehicles.
They're not going to go electric, and they're going to buy some junkers from a defense supplier.
It just makes no sense, but they're always trying to screw the post office, and these are setups as far as I'm concerned, so let's play it.
The U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with a big purchase of delivery vehicles.
Despite opposition from the Environmental Protection Agency, only a small fraction of the trucks will be electric.
More from NPR's Camila Dominovsky.
The Postal Service's iconic white delivery vehicles are showing their age.
It's past time to upgrade the fleet.
The post office spent years picking a design for the next generation of vehicles built by the military contractor Oshkosh Defense.
It will spend billions of dollars buying them.
The EPA didn't like that the post office was planning for just 10% of the vehicles to be electric and complained the gas burning versions would get less than nine miles per gallon.
The post office has officially decided to move forward anyway, though it says it could buy more electric vehicles if funding materializes.
Oh, I know what these guys need.
Yeah, they need a wood burner.
Yes, a gasifier.
Exactly.
That's exactly what they need.
Now you laugh.
But you're going to be jealous of my gasifier.
Maybe.
I'm excited about it.
It's such a manly thing to build.
I'm going to put it on YouTube, how we built it.
Okay.
Hey, coming up next...
To get tens and tens of views.
Yeah, we'll see.
Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, a live show, Planet Rage, with Larry, Darren, and Dame Jennifer.
Well, that sounds like a key club party.
Nice, nice, nice.
End of show mixes.
We're going to bring back some techno experts just to remind you of Frau Hilarie and what she likes doing.
We have a mix from the Thought Doc and we have Bill Mountainay.
Well, holy crap, we've got a lot of good stuff here.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where they're all saying the show's too long, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Well, we disagree.
We like the length of the show.
Remember us, though, at dvorak.org slash na.
Until next time, adios mofos and such.
I have this group of young, you know, techno experts.
I'm a techno expert.
Techno expert.
I'm a techno expert.
I have this group of young, you know, techno experts.