Everyone's now putting their kids in front of cameras and
microphones and like getting them to say things like this.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak, Sunday, December 30 2012 times
you're getting donation media assassination episode four,
seven. This is no agenda living out the last days of the year in
the lowlands of good information day 24 living in exile in
Amsterdam in the morning everybody. I'm Adam curry
and back in northern Silicon Valley south of Northern
northern northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C My name Come
on. I'm John see like what do you what do you like your I like
your basketball like it like we're announcing you onto the
basketball court. John. Please, what is this?
You stepped off? You didn't even wait you didn't even get to the
dumb
No, but you went because you never do a long see never ever
you don't do a Johnson is our
robotic we become a show. Click,
click. I'm trying to anticipate because we have a delay and all
that stuff. You don't try to anticipate your your seed or
you're hitting the this thing on the letter on Sancy. Yeah, yeah,
exactly. Divorce. Laws like Wilt
Chamberlain. John C. Rebound de veau. Reg. It's kind of like
that. Well, it's been a it's been a weird day. Sad day. Sad
day today. John. is one of my friends died. Oh, that's
a good No. And it's an old friend, a new friend, a young
friend.
This is Lizzie Aden Blanca, Bear. 63. Very, that's very
young to die. He was the news guy that I worked with for a
couple of years, including the broadcast from Iraq in 2004. And
he was kind of like a buzzkill. Actually, he was very, very,
very funny guy. dry humor. And he had, I knew he had cancer
like a year ago, and then he actually kicked it. And we had a
little bit of contact, but I had no idea had come back and all of
a sudden it's just like, oh, he died. I was like, Okay, so as
you know, one of those like, ah, 63 Man, that's that's not not
that much older than I am. You know, it's like 16 years older.
That's a bummer. It's
random. Yeah, yeah,
I guess so. And not to mention that I thought you were dead the
other day. That was, that was a shock.
And why would you think that? Well, I'm just gonna send you a
long text message. And so I wanted to see if you are awake
so I sent you a message are you around, right? You might be in
bed and I'm not gonna sit there typing away to some you know, to
oblivion. Don't get angry. Listen, so I can't wait. So you
could panic? No, no, no, no,
no, no. Oh, yes. Okay,
and you call my wife?
Tell the story. No, that's not when you send a temp text
message. No, that's not how when you send a text message and it
was it's like coordinate a 12 and we're in on my third
Manhattan we're about to go home with some friends we're hanging
out. If that's that's over my limit, by the way, as you know,
you know that that's more than I can handle and and I get this
text message. Are you around? That is the most
uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic thing I've ever
received from you. Ever. Are you still there? I thought I lost
you. Did you just die on me? Hello. Hello, Joan. Joan. Joan,
come back. Oh my god. Yes. A restart. Mumble. This is what I
mean. I only have to talk about it and the guy keels over crap.
Hold on. Let's see what happened to him. Are you there? Yeah, I'm
here. Well, all of a sudden you were gone. But were you still
here? I
was gonna say okay, well, here's where I was where you said the
thing. And I said, Did you text me back? Yes, I'm here. No, you
called my wife thinking. No, I did not. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no
rally quiet. Now. Let me finish the story. You just interjecting
This is my story. So I in my phone, it's like so there's Are
are you around? This is nothing. This is not John C. Dvorak at
all. So I'm like, Okay, there's something is wrong. He's gonna
tell me he's ill, or he doesn't want to do the show anymore. Or,
you know, like some family meeting. You know, it's like,
how do you jump to these conclusions? It
was because it was so uncharacteristic. And excuse me,
I've been living in exile in a shoebox. And you know, it's
weird as a wildlife was a little weird right now. And so, so then
I'm like, I press call As I press Are you quite done? When I
press call calling the number that texted me? And then a woman
answers. So when I receive a text message Oh, and I call the
message that the number that sent me the text message, I'm
expecting to get your phone.
Okay, hold on a second. You so basically this all happened
because you violated violated the rules of texting.
What do you mean violated? This was an emergency like, I'm like
something's wrong. I gotta tell you.
I mean, obviously an emergency. You mean you didn't need me to
just say, in fact, I texted back and said yes, what's up and then
you didn't call and so I waited for like 10 minutes. And that's
when I called the number. So what did I violate?
You you? You're never supposed to go outside the texting? You
did when you're texting. You don't start calling and texting
and calling. I never got this text that you just said.
Well, I sent it. I sent a text message
back. I'm gonna go check. On Google. No, no,
you're you're Mr. consistency with all your communications.
You've got 8 million phone numbers. So anyway, so I hit
call after I get no reply to this. And then a woman answers
and I say hello. And she says hello. And she sounds Young. By
the way. She sounds young. And in my mind, I'm like, she sounds
young blonde with short hair. I don't know why I'm just telling
you the truth. And then I'm like, hello. And she says,
Hello. I said, is John there because I'm gonna have to take a
message. I'm like, Well, this is Adam. Because Oh, Adam, it's
Mimi. So then we you know, we get to talk and then we figure
out what this is all about. But I swear to God, John, I thought
there was a Russian hooker, and you had had a heart attack on
top of her this is this is the only thing I could think of. And
I didn't tell
what comes to your mind when I sent this simple text. Are you
around? Got my goalie macros are crazy.
I gotta get out of here. I need to get out of this country.
Here. Totally. I'm telling you. going nuts over it. Yes. Yes.
It's true. It's true.
Anyway, that was very funny.
Did you tell me that I thought she was a Russian hooker.
I don't remember telling her that. But whatever. The kids
actually take it as a compliment.
Anyway, so then, you know, today then,
yes, you gotta get out of there. Yeah, then my pal dies.
And, you know, it's just weird when you when you go into
certain situations with people. And one of them. You know, I did
a guy was on my show for like, two years on the radio. But we
were in Iraq, you know, for like a week and you really bond. You
know, the all the guys. It's like, you know, that's like, you
can't explain that. You know, I've also bonded with a lot of
the Marines who I was with at the time. That's a lifelong
thing. And this is, and then of course, Ms. Mickey's like, well,
it's only going to be like this from now on. You know that.
Don't you realize it, don't you? Oh, just more people gonna die.
Yeah, well, that's helpful. Well, she didn't say first. Do
you want a hug? I mean, you said that.
Yeah, hug and then drops that was gonna be dropped and dead.
is what it's gonna be from now until you die.
So I don't need this. I do not need this at all. Anyway, people
have been emailing a lot and saying, oh my gosh, you know,
the shows are so good that you're in Amsterdam. And I'm
trying to think what is really different because I'm not
leaving the house. I'm not walking the streets of
Amsterdam. You know, I'm just getting drunk. At night. There's
nothing there's nothing you know, it's like I don't know if
it's day or night here. It's always gray. And the only thing
I could come up with is that I'm in a different timezone. So when
I'm going through like the Norwegian, the news network, and
and my my RSS feeds, I'm getting different feeds because of the
different timezone there is there is factually nothing
different than that. And I'm thinking if we ever do get back
I'm going to try this as an experiment for a couple of
weeks. I'll just live on the other side of the clock. And
then see
why don't you just here's it here's the better experiment it
doesn't A B test okay never say your back. Yeah, no, yeah, just
bitch about Amsterdam. It sounds cold
there was that that center the center picture the one of me
outside by the trash cans. And he said this is fake. You're on
a you're on a tropical island.
Yeah, that's funny.
Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, anyway, you can
cross one off of the off of the Red Book. It was only Thursday.
That I said I bet you did it. We wanted with our vast network
that is the no agenda news that no agenda producers and
listeners that I could get a Mongolian hat with a picture of
the Mongolian dude whose hat whose head it was looking really
sad. Well, let me tell you, Dr. Peter has done it for us. He has
the picture of the Mongolian dude looking really sad and he's
ready to send the hat wherever we want to receive it. Are we
powerful or what?
Yeah, if you call that our where's our Learjet
that's about the extent of our power. But that's it. Yeah,
we get a Mongolian hat with a picture of some poor schlub who
you stole the hat from? That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Don't let anyone tell you any different. Look at what a
Mongolian hat looks like. He's
actually I don't think afford it. No, I think he copied you on
the link to what? It's like. Yeah, it's one of those furry
fuzzy things.
There's a bunch of them there's ones with a pointy top. There's
one that's all burr with a tail. Well, I'd have to look I know
it's really talking about you. Tom was just got to rim of fur.
And then yes, yes. Leather in the middle. Right.
Exactly. That's the one that's your
origin that has a beautiful usually like a complete douche
great in Amsterdam.
With a big target on my back. And by
the way, it will keep you very warm. Yeah, for sure. I used to
wear a beret skin cap hat. And I'd wear that or no Beaver, a
beaver hat and I you just start sweating. You could be sit, you
can sit down naked. And you'd be suave and do the podcasts. You'd
be sweating. Because why was he?
Why did you just give me the visual of you naked with a
beaver hat on doing the show?
Please don't do that. Think about that in your dreams.
Please, please don't do that. To me again. There has been a lot
of really great response to the previous episode. I got a lot of
comments on the financial thing we were talking about about this
all pin no cash about the difference with between the
American magnetic stripe swipe cards and the smart cards here
in Europe except for Germany. Did you get the picture that I
sent you of the of the stop of the shop here that says no cash
all pin? By email? Yeah, you got that? Okay.
I got a note from someone to anonymous, the same note you're
gonna
read from Simon?
I don't know, Mikey, I had to look at the note to see what's
from. Let me find the note. And you can
let me tell you what, so Simon works for. He doesn't want me to
disclose exactly. But he works for a company in the UK, where
and he's of course a either a SIS admin or developer or I
think I think he's in charge of all the technology that goes on
with this particular corporation. And
I he doesn't answer my I'm sorry, my answer, Mike Allen. So
I'll read mine after you're done. Okay.
So he does a lot of the he's in charge of all the processing for
this company. He says, The reason why Europe has moved
towards this system and why America will most definitely be
moving towards it is because you choose your pin number. When you
get this card, in fact, you go into a special little booth and
then you you you choose your PIN number, it's programmed onto the
chip, ergo, the responsibility is entirely yours. And if
something goes wrong, if there is a purchase made on your card,
it is no longer the bank's responsibility. The bank has no
liability for fraudulent charges. And this is why it's so
important. So it either shifts it towards the in some cases the
merchant if it's an online where these things, the 3d secure card
or whatever it's called. But basically the whole idea is to
move all of the liability and responsibility onto the citizen
ultimately, so But already here in Europe, the bank says hey,
look, you know, someone had your PIN code. It's your job to keep
that safe. Not our problem. Shut up slave. That's the note that I
got from Simon What did you get?
Okay, well, let me just analyze what Simon said first, mine's a
little different longer but he but here's what's been going on
obviously you can charge 18% on these cards because it did to
cover the amount of fraud that goes on because there's so much
fraud with these cards is ridiculous the
regular level with our cards with the magnetic stripe cards
Yeah, right right.
And in your only liable for the first $50 So you don't have to
but they keep trying to sell you this insurance policy, which is
another scam. Yeah, yeah, it's bad insurance. There will no
one's buying the insurance who's got a brain? So they say okay,
well, we're gonna have find some other way to screw our customers
because we're the banks and the customers need to be screwed by
us. And so they decided that dreamup Does other scheme which
is more secure and then now they have to push the responsibility
not on their image ridiculous you know giving away cars and
throwing them in the mail and doing all this crazy stuff they
do and then make it the responsibility of the customer
and then now they can stop both do two things. One, they won't
have the fraud so that 18% interest rate is great. You have
to keep it on you're not going to change that yeah, because
nobody gets the puts two and two together and two they get didn't
sell the insurance so they get the Gaucho for two things right.
This is a classic banker scam fantastic. I love it.
I'm getting myself back really loud now. Do you change
something you move?
No, I didn't do anything. Okay, so
the beaver hat back on.
Let me take off my clothes Adam did not get is from Mike Allen
Adam did not give the correct picture about using American
cars in Europe and perhaps causing confusion among the
listeners to the best part.
Once again, Adam is a douche Adam is wrong doesn't know what
he's talking about. Okay, right. Just want to make sure we set
that up. Okay.
under European law the retails liable for any fraud where they
don't check photo identity of a card use this kind of beating
around the same bush but he's not doing the same thing is not
to not do that. No analysis. Show me the user as an EMV Euro
card master. By the way, Citibank has these cards. Yeah,
they're
called World Elite, which I think is hilarious. Yes, it's
world elite.
same note, World,
world elite logger. No, I need that
liability shifting using the bank while leaving the retailer
without risk. Maybe Adam has come across some retailers and
others who don't understand the legal requirements or have
decided to tell the staff not to take non EMV cards but it's the
same everywhere including Germany under European federal
law. What often sees Asians and Middle Easterners with EMV cards
issued by their banks are the practices spreading outside of
Europe like the GSM mobile phone if you want to build a Doyen
restaurant they said they take your money but anyway what else
he said card fraud has greatly reduced as a result there we go
that's what the whole thing is well it's not
about reducing interest rates i It's not about reducing the
fraud it's about shifting the responsibility onto the onto the
customer so that it's your problem because you know we have
we have a great bank we have mechanics bank and member the
last Hot Pockets tour maybe the one before so we're in God knows
where we were and all sudden we get like you know $400 withdrawn
in Los Angeles and the bank goes okay, you know, hey, no problem.
It's not you We'll take care of it. You know anything anything
immediately they take in fact even when Mickey paid a fine in
Los Angeles and they double charged her card you know, they
said okay, we'll just we'll just credit you the half the fine or
that you know one times the fine and we'll take it up with that.
I mean, really, really good. But that is just kind of over here.
You know here if you know once you've authenticated that's it
you're done it's your responsibility no one's going to
help you get you get double charged to badge counted pound
you
don't have time for you slimeball so we have a one of
the last real banks Yeah, we do. We do. Even though they're still
bank. I want to Denise has this little comment as a PS Adam
mentioned that he still has a Dutch bank account. And he wants
to know and you can now this is a question doesn't ask Adam, why
don't you use that account?
Hello. I lost you. Oh, is this what it's going to be today? Is
this what it is? Hello? Man. It's annoying. And particularly
because I got it reach over to get to that computer what is
going on here
Hello, now he's now he's now he's really gone. Okay, let's
wait for him to log back in. Um, so I'm telling you, I'm thinking
you there.
Yeah. I just came back to the same
crowd. Okay. Anyway, so ask Adam Adam has a Dutch bank account?
Yes.
Yes, there are no bank charges in the Eurozone for payments to
other eurozone bank accounts, other than say a 20 cent debit
fee? Nothing if you have free banking. At your end, you
wouldn't have to pay the 5% the donor would just go to their PC
and put an atom's I ban and amount and approve the
transaction and the job's done. There is space for messages to
the beneficiary to I can't use Pay Pal because Pay Pal won't
accept my Platinum Visa card. But I would have no problem with
a bank payment. Adam could see the incoming payments if he
signed up for E banking, even while his wife is in captivity
in his own in your own country. More I bands. Yeah, you have
more on ibeji. There's a Wikipedia article. What's the
point?
If we start sending all these transactions back to the US then
this, look, this account is going to get closed because I've
been using it as an American citizen, they have to report
that my account is over. I mean, I'm just any day now they're
gonna be like, Hey, man, like, we don't want to do all this
paperwork. So we're going to close your account.
I'd say strike, that's exactly what they say. That's how they
sound when they say it to me. So we did something else that was
going to get off my chest here. There's a very, very small movie
theater right around the corner, they have four screens, and it's
literally like, you know, like, someone's extra bedroom. You
know, so maybe each, each theater has, I'm just gonna
guess, maybe 50 seats, and maybe 7075. And so we go to see our
go. And, of course, you know, when, when this whole Benghazi
thing came down, which we knew was a, you know, a complete con
job. It was a guys hired in Tunisia to go and kidnap the
ambassador. And then it went wrong. And a couple guys died,
including the ambassador. And that screwed everything over. So
we knew that Argo came out at the same time, which has a very
similar theme. It was in fact, the whole idea was to make the
President Obama look like a hero. Very much. Like what
eventually happened with Reagan, when he got all the hostages
back, there was little little thing called Iran Contra
involved in there were some other shenanigans going on. So
I'm kind of expecting this movie, if you've not seen it
with Ben Affleck, you know, to beat to be kind of in line. And
so I'm watching this thing. And you know, it's based on a true
story. And it ends like, Okay, well, gee, that was a nice CIA
movie. Yeah. Have you seen the movie? John Argo?
No, I wasn't planning to see it. Oh, you
might want to see it now. Because so I'm the guy that sits
there. And I will always want to see the credits because I want
to see, you know, to just who's really I want to see the
producers I want to see who paid for and it's all on the credit.
So you can't really, I guess you could probably get off of IMDb,
maybe but to see it in theaters important. So the lights are
even on at this point, because no one sits around for the
credits apparently in Holland, and Ms. McCain are staying
there. And we're just waiting, and we're waiting. And then the
first thing that comes by is Central Intelligence Agency did
not approve the use of the logo or anything like wow, okay, so
the CIA clearly wasn't involved. Then all of a sudden, car
voiceover comes on, which is Carter, and whether it's him or
it sounds like him. And so I don't know if it was a voice
artist, or if it's just over really was him. And it's
basically Carter taking credit for getting these six hostages
back. And of course, we know that what really happened is
yeah, you know, Canada got the credit, but the six hostages
came back with the real, you know, the real Ben Affleck from
the story. But then, you know, a couple of guys died, they tried
to go and get the rest of the hostages, that all became a
fiasco. Then of course, Reagan won the presidency. And then he
brings them all back and he's the superduper hero, but the way
it was played it was like oh my God giving Carter credit for
bring back the hostages kind of rubbing over the whole you know,
don't worry about the other ones and all that there's no mention
of all the stuff that went wrong. And then it says Special
thanks to the first name on a list. Who do you think that is?
If you think state that idea if you think State Department, you
think they made this movie, they did it in concert, you know, to
kind of mind control people into getting ready for the whole
Chris Stevens kidnapping and the President would look great when
he when he you know we had like a Ben Affleck go in which of
course would be Obama, you know, because the Navy SEALs didn't
kill Osama bin Laden Obama did. Well, kind of fake killed
whatever. So if you think state department if you think is set
up if you think this movie is completely set up to be a part
of this whole ruse, who would the first name be on the special
thanks to?
Well, Ma, you mean,
it's a trick question, obviously.
Well, I can't I wouldn't be Hillary. Or would it? Kuma
Aberdeen. Oh, that is a trick question. I'm like he's listed.
She's
the first one. Special. Thanks. Like, Oh, okay. So this was
the Yeah, this is. Yeah, go ahead. That's amazing. Yeah, so
the whole did catch, by the way, good for you.
So the whole movie is it really is true. It was a whole State
Department movie movie. And it was really set up to be a part
of this whole psychological operation. So no wonder Hillary
was incensed when it went wrong. She's like, Wait a minute. I
financed this movie. I got all this. I got all set up. And then
in the Tunisian guys you guys screw it up what up? Screw it up
literally. So I just
thought that she was so mad. It was amazing. Oh, that was the
giveaway that that thing was a scam. Yeah, she was very pissed
off very like that but she ended up getting a guy killed.
Yeah. Then there's that yeah minor detail.
Can you collateral damage my friend collateral damage do you
just turn your mic like three degrees or something? It's just
it's for some reason it's just
like slap and now I'm moving.
Yeah you're booming. Yeah this is better no no okay now yeah,
you're fine.
No you don't hear me at all? No, I
hear you. Unfortunately it's just better. It's not about.
It's about it's about me hearing myself that's I don't want to
hear myself coming through your microphone so it's just
fine a minute ago. Yeah, sorry. I can move the mic and move the
mic anyway,
so whatever you did just a second ago was fine now it's
sucking again. So.
Okay, hold on. I'm gonna get back. Yeah, there's that better?
Let me see. What sorry. What was that? You know, there's I don't
know if it's a good practice, but everyone's now putting their
kids in front of cameras and microphones and like getting
them to say things like this I don't know if this is really
good. You're gonna have a whole generation generation of kids
who talk about douchebags and don't eat me. Hillary Clinton is
just it's just not going to be good. We should have played
that.
Hillary Clinton classic.
Oh, my goodness. Anyway, in the morning to you should listen to
vorak I think
we're going to be seen as a corrupting influence in the
morning to you, Adam Korean Good morning all ships at sea,
although our ship at sea seems to have been moved. Also all in
the morning to boots on the ground and feet in the air subs
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nice to see y'all charged up and ready to go depleting your $9.1
million worth of value. It's funny, I've gotten like four
people in the past week who have asked me for a link about that
was actually the EPA who value is a life an American citizen is
worth $9.1 million. And four people asked me about that this
week alone. I don't know what's going on with it. Is that really
true? To Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we can keep track of this stuff ourselves. Well, it's
true. It's kind of cool, right? You can
just use the search.na shownotes.com and
usually shows up. It's actually kind of cool that way.
So one of the things unless you want to say that we maybe should
think a few executive producers before we start actually doing
anything important. Okay. Of course, I you know, I It's funny
because I say that. Yeah. And just as I closed,
just as you close the spreadsheet,
very good. Yeah. But you know, the funny thing is, what the
great thing about computers is that things can reopen rather
quickly, especially if you're running a fast machine. Okay.
All right. So so here's what we got. We have a bunch of people
that came in, because we only have one day left, before we
stopped giving away rings, right? For the night hoods, and
everyone gets a pin which I think is better to be honest
about it than the rings
well, but a lot of people also have been saving up one or two
people. There are a bunch of people that are on a layaway
plan that we're putting a little rings aside for and other people
have requested to put to do a put aside because they're on
their way. And so we've done that right. And but we're going
to be running out of sizes shortly. Doug Owens comes in
from overseas in the army I guess it's kind of interesting.
Wow. It was $1,203.12 the instant night and he says I can
get this whole
ship these ships at sea. No, he's he's our ships at sea guy.
He's not at sea but in the sand. You read the No. Because I I
have in the morning, and I'm here to you, Doug here from St.
Petersburg, Florida, in Afghanistan by way of Naples,
Italy. Now, sir Doug, the sailor to you. Not at sea, but in the
sand. So So I guess he's a marine then. I'm just I'm just
guessing, but he's an afghan.
He wouldn't call himself a sailor if he was a Marine.
If he has humor. Of course he does. Maybe Of course. I loved
hearing that way. Give it away. John, when you're telling me the
guys in the Navy say I'm a sailor man, like, really? Is
anyone in the Armed Forces uses that term sailor for themselves?
No, no, of course not all
the hooker say hey say he said he says he loved hearing that he
shouldn't listen, no agenda in Afghanistan as I sat listening
to the F in Afghanistan. Now I don't know who told him this. He
didn't say I didn't say that. No, I think somebody over there
did. He says I've always been listening for a year and would
have donated earlier but Ron Paul was calling not only for my
vote for but for my money. He got both for me and all I got
was this shitty deployment. All right. And also gave me a chance
to vote for Gary Johnson. All right, that didn't work either.
Isn't democracy great deed douche me if you must, but I
don't know if it will help with the smell. I like the one $1 an
hour for a minute as it makes me good for a long enough to it
makes me good for a long enough time to scale my way back after
falling over this cliff. I would like to call out Richie Garrido
and the neocon statist popper as douchebags not only for not
giving money but also for not listening. I'm tired of hitting
them in the mouth there's There's blood on my hands Maybe
it's from APA dot what does it add to Bombo the most limited
the most Liberty minded black guy No okay I don't know that
him if I weren't in AF G I'd offered you to stay at my house
and Bella Nepali not gonna help you
save only Nepali Yeah, really Bella Napoli really
to help you save a few dollars for my wife didn't sound very
thrilled when I mentioned we do need a house sitter starting at
the end of January if you care to watch my dog is going to be
for as long as you need to get your belongings sound like they
may be on the curb pretty soon. Here's your chance to find your
way down to southern Europe to get some of your tax dollars
back. This could work towards the wife's neighborhood. No, she
needs a hit in the mouth too. Since I haven't been able to
been there to do it. I have no idea what my ring size is. So
please wait patiently. Okay, well, long as it's not nine and
a half. Anyway, so he needs a Don't eat me Hillary Shut up
Slaven Italian followed with two shots of they had to karma. Wow,
okay. So shut up. Slay. No, it's Italian. Okay, don't eat me. I
got it. Hillary Clinton Shut up slave you've got karma I got it.
I got you man. And yeah, let's keep our options open, open for
the end of January. How sitting in Bella. Napoli or Napoleon's
John would call it Napoleon. Napoleon. In the Poli, it said
Napoleon. Right.
Thomas Ward and Millie's sons point Sydney New South Wales
1000 Instant night. Gentlemen only been listening for a few
months love the show really realize just how much I loved
when a month ago while listening to John on one of his justified
rants after a pretty poor round of contributions. I blamed the
listeners not only do you have a model different, a different
revenue model, but you rightfully give your listeners a
hard time and we still pay up I love it. Listen to you too has
been fantastic and makes me feel a hell of a lot better about
being myself comparatively about being myself comparatively that
is and while people's opinions of my opinions have not exactly
improved at least they're not they now just blame my rants on
YouTube.
Oh, wait a minute. So wait a minute so when when he says
something weird in brackets and quotes in porins then they just
say oh, that's that Korean Divorce Act talking again.
Exactly. Okay. Well, I mean, I do this for you I think
everybody does it I do it with a good friend of mine who's just
obviously Blessed is the Michael Savage all the time and he just
mouths you know this is Michael Savage target not you so that
we've gotten to that level apparently
that's unfortunately we haven't gotten to his salary level but
other
than the millions of dollars guys make the Rush Limbaugh 400
million No, I've always been a contrarian toward goes on. But
as I say, now at least as my arguments are so peppered with
your thoughts, they just blame you. I really love propagating
the formula. I'm not sure if this is typical, but I tend to
get two responses after they listen to you. They either love
it or they hate it. So far. 10 To 110 10 Love 21 hate really?
Wow. I don't think so. I think he's confused. I think is really
good numbers. I've been getting a mostly half and half.
No, I get pretty much hate it.
Well, that's just you. Yeah. Hi. I'm contemplating using this as
a method of determining whether I continue to socialize with
them. Uh huh. I always say just preach to the choir is different
decision as some of the haters are, are very pretty. Oh yeah,
we had a lot of, well, how can this be for a woman or robots
pretty haters. Pretty haters, I'm so pretty, but I hate I hate
the way they free thinkers. They actually think for themselves
spiritually
theories.
I'm just, you know, as I say, I've loved listening to the two
of you, I've always believed that a healthy skepticism for
most things, and listening Jude just cultivates this skepticism.
And we'll be glad to hear that skepticism is also towards you
too. So Tom, could have summarized better.
Let me just say, let me just say to Tom, who will be Sir Thomas
later today. Thank you very much. First of all for that, for
that. I love what he says here. And what this is a continuing
theme, that it is good eye opener. It is good for your
soul. You know that when you had if you so if you found this
program, this is what you're feeling. You found this program,
you know that you're being bullcrap one way or the other,
you feel kind of weird about things that are going on about
the zombie like way in which most people react. And then now
all of a sudden you find this community, which has not just
us, us to, you know, there's there's art, there's music,
there's all kinds of things underneath these layers of this
community. And it turns out, there's a lot of people like
you,
and I should mention, in many ways, we're just a conduit.
Yeah. Whatever that means. Yeah. Now people send us stories that
Oh, but then we put two and two together.
Oh, yeah. Well, that's why we have producers. That's why
listeners are producers. Absolutely.
Yeah. If it wasn't for the listeners, this show would suck.
Well, it doesn't suck because we have great listeners, producers.
Producers. Yeah, we have great listeners and producer but
producers mostly the ones who actually get involved. Patrick
Vaughn and Traverse City Michigan 834 dot seven recently
passed my Red Hat Certified engineer exam with a score of
583 out of 600 decided to go congratulate myself by donating
and this is something we had to put in the notebook.
congratulate myself by donate to the no agenda show so I cashed
in some vacation time. Hopefully this helps make Amsterdam
bearable for Adam and Mickey and should finish out my knighthood
I mean it's karma
Yeah, happy to give you that karma Thank you. Congratulations
by the way you've got karma with your official certification and
you shall be an official sir later on and then we have a
really long list of knights which is great. This is because
this is what we have this is it. This is the year end of the year
this is it this is knighthood done after this Yeah, we're done
with the 2012 knights Absolutely.
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So hey citizen, original obey and then a what? Douchebag a
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buddies from Calgary. What do you expect? Yeah,
the stampede.
A stoma the stampede just Yeah, ghost chuck to stampede I want
to go Scott William and Ann Arbor, Michigan 790 92. Dear Jeb
and Alan I'm so glad the path to no agenda knighthood doesn't
involve dressing up in dark cloaks, laying in a coffin,
confessing my secret. My secret sexy woes to some long Dong
silver mofo Only to emerge as my new self into a wanton orgy of
elites while watching them munch on the sweet breads of some
newborn baby. I must be talking about what's at bones club or
wherever they are, they call it Skull and Bones. Yeah, Skull and
Bones. Instead, it involves giving with joy, and that equals
loving for 33 years. I've been that Beldon sounds so good. I've
been depleting my human resource value of 9.2 million and even
though I'm just an ordinary folk, getting by an hourly wage
job, I've managed to give up save of 790 point 92 of this
year, so I'm giving it all to you for the completion of a
knighthood. And like any good shit isn't living out the
American dream. I happen to be at Penny short. May I humbly
request a persistent jet contrails science to do they had
karma with the penny.
Okay, let me do the penny again. If I can fit it all in here,
hold on a second test science to the head karma. Okay.
You've got karma pretty good. Pretty good. i
So by the way, he uses the word folks. Well, I have a clip I
have a clip too. But let's let's get through this first and then
we'll talk what's interesting.
You have the same clip I bet. Calgary another Calgarian in
Alberta Calgarian 737 11 No Name please just Tim needs his gets
his knighthood de douching calm would be great. And then he's
got some other stuff
deuced you've got you shall be knighted today. Lovely. Thanks a
lot a long note that Tim thanks for the short note. Okay, you
get the beginning of this one or just start suggested
I have dear Erin and Jed my wife, Christina suggested the
douche bag, douche bag, but no,
too bad that never took off or else my Christmas list would
have been easily taken care of. The other day I discovered that
176 children have been killed by drones in Pakistan alone since
2004. And he has a source listed, which we'll put in the
show notes. If my math is right. That's one Sandy Hook per year
for the past eight years and no one cared. Granted I'm looking
at a kind of
hold on hold on hold on a second. I think we cared I think
we actually have killed this.curry.com I think we've
been tracking it
yes, we we do care is ridiculous. The one question
especially with the crocodile tears of Obama. The one question
and let me be clear, I would not have sought out this information
if not for the best podcast in the universe. So I thought it
was time to complete my knighthood accounting at the
end, I commute to get mo nation hot dog New York City nuts every
day and then potentially you can imagine somebody listened to the
show maniacs we're gonna lose a lot of newbies. I'm potentially
subject to the search by the Port Authority police and the
army national guard on every trip. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, that's when you when you take the PATH train into New
York City. They have the National Guard we've talked
about this has been going on for years. They have the national
guard standing there to pull you aside and frisk you Oh yeah,
it's it's Gitmo nation. Hot dog.
Brother, New York City nuts. In the meantime, please send karma
to my wife Christina Allen, Jeb, Mary and all the no agenda
producers everywhere. If you can throw in a yay, that would be
great.
Oh, almost second. I'm sorry. I'll get that going on with find
a yay.
You've got karma. That was $600 winner. i j Haruka embargo, New
South Wales. hercus phonetic apron pronounced her car. My
Location is actually Sydney. Despite whatever Pay Pal tells
you donating to get me closer tonight who had decided the end
of the year and because no agenda has kept me sane during
the long commute during the holiday season and love a Karma
shot for the new year.
Absolutely. It's those commuters you've got karma, which is
pretty much 90% of the audience.
Yeah, pretty much and it's a good show for them. Thomas
Baldrick Nutley New Jersey 38286 I couldn't think of a better way
to spend my crappy holiday bonus and to give a hefty chunk to the
best podcast in the universe. And at the same time, complete
my knighthood and celebration. I'd like to hear the fiscal
cliff followed by a little girl yay. Here's to being broke
together in the new year.
Does he want to karma with that? Or was it just fiscal?
I would think so. You've got karma. Clouds sigma Ag in
Zurich, 333 33 Christmas greetings from Cloud sigma to
all the SIS admins and it SLAVES OF THE WORLD paying Bernie
who run the world by the way and are the only saviors
Bernie anima a tema you into an Iowa 333 In the morning, John
and Anna my donation of 333 computers a knighthood plus $100
as 33 to the new PIN and shipping so he's gone for the
pin. Perfect. Now we gotta keep tracking.
Let me just here. Let me just here how you do that. So wait a
minute, so like, I love us so much like, Hey, man, here's the
here's the money for the shipping of the pin. And what's
John's response? Wow. Nice. Nice. It's part of the formula.
Here's what the problem is. I think it's great that this this
idea works but it's like I just know there's going to be a bunch
I said 33 and and I already I never heard from you. Excellent.
We don't read we won't be reading these. It's going to
just be I'm gonna we're gonna do something on the database to
make sure we pull these out and don't miss anybody. Yeah, what
are we doing the list all the nights and we're gonna have a
checklist. That's what I'll do. I'll make a big print of all the
nights. There's lots of them. And then I'll go okay, I'll deal
with it. Please give it a shot.
I just I just I just want this codified John Jeb C. Dvorak just
said, I'll deal with it. Perfect. Yeah, got it.
I'll deal with got it. You can't deal with it where you are. Now.
It's 50 bucks to ship and
I can't deal with anything right now. I'm at the edge of my rope.
It needs a shout out John and David. Hey, hey, his wife Rose,
my girlfriend Janet. And today light donuts in Sioux City. Hope
Adam and Miki return home soon, God's blessing to you and all
the listeners have the best podcasts in yours and maybe an
Atlas Shrugged. If you have time. By iron Rand Stephen
Sorrell in Amarillo, Texas, you will find write down the
reference from Jennifer and Steven. My name is Fernau
Stephen. Can I get a Don't eat me Hillary Clinton karma for our
growing human resource. Thanks for the show. You guys are
great. Good luck getting back to the US and don't get drowned
over
there. Hillary Clinton, hey, you go for your little you think the
human resource is growing internally or is already is
already in the in the world?
I don't know. It doesn't make it clear. Okay, well, either way.
We have I got a note from severo here and he has a different name
actually. Then this one here, which I can't pronounce anyway,
and I'll get to it at the break. But he gave us 200 bucks from
Sao Paulo. And he's donating for the first time this this is that
haven't that can't have enough John and Adam, I strongly
recommend that you listen to old episode old episodes. It's
amazingly entertaining to understand how the show evolved
and find out how so many expressions were created. You
have to listen for a long time we're almost at 500 shows
they're two hours average each. They have no agenda. That's 1000
hours of programming and we've done for the public. No agenda
really is the best information and entertainment product I have
access to thank you guys for doing this even during the
holidays. We're counting on you two times a week this donation
is celebrating the arrival of my first human resource Gabriel
please de douche me and give me a little girl hot milk karma for
the brand new mom. Christina.
We don't I don't think we have a little girl. Hot milk.
Yeah. Oh no. It's a little grits a little guy. She is sounds like
kind of you know the voice
I get I get what he's saying. Okay, hold
on a second. Oh, shoot one hot milk, baby.
I think what you just did was better actually. De douche me.
Okay.
You've been de deuced that's one hot milk. You've got took me
what will work Matthew to Matthew to Bile or to bill to
bill the bill. I don't know. Can you pronounce it?
Well do bill. I think it would be do Bill dooby dooby
Nast, rapper Ville, Illinois Frenchtown is probably not
French but he's got a French name. Yeah, Napper is probably
not French or he wouldn't be donating never Bill Illinois
$200. So I'm I missed a chance to include a notice to the note.
Give Adam a douchebag for not responding to my email below.
Oh, yeah. I remember this one. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, it's
right.
Always responded to my emails. So he's not really a douchebag.
I'm just joking. He's General Manager am daytime radio station
Chicago and says we stream 24/7 He actually puts this on the
stream. And if we clean up he says, our show a little bit so
there's no cussing. And so the FCC won't get mad at us. Right.
In other words, the thing I did earlier in this donation segment
has been bleeped out right. He'll put it on the air in the
morning. Oh, in the morning. Oh, really? Like in the morning?
Yeah. In the morning, like two in the morning. So
what am I going to preempt somebody?
No, no, they have apparently free airtime, you know, stuff
that they sell to advertorials or advertisements, right. Yeah.
And we they've got time and he believes I just went back and
forth with Matthew. He believes that we actually qualify as a
public service. Public Affairs show.
My mom would be so proud.
Mom, what do you guys do public public Public Affairs Public
affairs programming? Yeah, uh huh.
Sure. Wink, wink, nudge nudge.
Anyway, she's in for 200 bucks and give him a gratuitous karma.
And we'll be
looking forward to there too. You've got karma. And Matthew
says, we'll be talking and we'll be ending you know, he suggested
maybe some users could pull out some of the stuff but we we can
minimize but the problem is that we have to you have to have a
notebook and I gotta cook you know, whatever. All these
I don't have. I mean, we don't we really don't have the time.
Seriously. I mean, just post producing the show. There's
another two The half hours that I'm working after each show, and
by the time the show's done, I'm actually tired, but it's as
weird as it sounds. And quite honestly, I don't want to hear
myself or you anymore at all. So then the just the thought of
having to go and listen to that crap
we just did, I believe is doable.
To be a real public affairs Pro,
I may have to be doing it. Or if we're gonna do this, I mean,
we have so many listeners, wouldn't someone want to do
that? Now, you right, what am I thinking?
No, no, but people do a lot of work for us. But they don't.
Well just kill themselves.
People always, like get really excited. And they and they, you
know, this is this is this is, here's, here's a learning
moment. No matter what the initiative is, we have sown,
we've had so many great initiatives, they always start
off and people are enthusiastic. And then after like, three, four
weeks is like, really? Nothing.
Exactly. There's more work involved with this stuff than
people realize that all sounds good on paper.
We just and we just make it look easy. That's our mistake. If you
like, Yeah, it's me. It's easy what you do. And then you know,
so I
want to thank all these executive producers and
Associate Executive Producers remind people, we do have a new
year coming up. Yep. And we would like to start off with a
bang. For the next show, which will be the New Year's show and
heading towards show 500 Go to dvorak.org/and A, to continue
your support, we really appreciate it. And
Adam, well, I was going to mind control you for a moment.
vorak.org/and A definitely continue to support actually.
And then when we get to the segment, later on, I have this
you know, our model, our value for value model is actually
quite astounding to the mainstream. And I have an
interesting clip about that. In the meantime, there's always
something you can do. And that is always propagate our formula,
our formula is this, we go out, we hit people in the mouth.
And we appreciate the propagation of said formula,
regardless of any monetary consideration. You get the
program because just trying to get people to listen is actually
helping humanity and eat, especially if it's your friends
and family. And you can and you see that they're convinced
double that they can be you know, they just mean a little
push just to get them over the edge because they're already
kind of thinking in the right way. And it comes in the It's
the strangest people. Like I was telling you on Thursday, when I
was Miss Mickey's extended family, and there's, you know,
her, you know, her kind of brother, and then we're just
talking and it turns out the guy is, you know, he's in the oil
business oil storage business, I didn't know is he just lives in.
He's an expat lives in Singapore. And then all of a
sudden, like, we have a connection for life. You know,
you'd be amazed who it is, you would really be amazed. And when
you when you make that kind of connection. It's it's good for
the soul. It really is nice. So let me well, we're gonna talk
about folks, something funny happened. I think what you're
referring to, is the President came back from his vacation
Hawaii, which I don't think heard him a lot because it's
been crappy weather in Hawaii. So he's like, Yeah, whatever.
And he did a speech. And which, to me was the most unnecessary
thing I've ever seen him do. You know, he flies back just to say,
hey, nothing new. Well, I'm working on it. And this is where
he so I just play my clip and you tell me what,
no, it's gonna be free. Yeah, you should play yours. But let's
before you do it, let me just say a couple of things. Okay.
One we've determined through deconstruction, that the word
folks as used by Obama is diminutive. It's designed to and
it's been going on for years, we just haven't really are what
we've been talking about it for a long time we
talk about and we never we never thought about the meaning that
the larger meaning which is the proletariat, or the
common people, it's literally a common people. The plebs. It's a
little
people. Yeah. So now that for the first time that I can
recall, I could be wrong. I mean, because we didn't go back
and read do with all his speeches, but he's now referring
to Congress, in the exact same way as the little people that
beneath him, he's the king.
They still want to vote no. And let tax hikes hit the middle
class. That's where did you record this is a total crap
recording. Within play you're going to hold on seems to be a
repeat pattern over and over again. ordinary folks They do
their jobs. ordinary folks. So now you have folks in Congress,
and then you have ordinary folks.
Yeah, they're the ones that aren't in Congress, but they're
still low, low, you know, low level,
low level people. So something funny happened with this. So I
am, you know, on C span, dot.org, or C span, video.org.
Actually, you can, you can clip a piece of a video, and then
it'll republish as a video. So I do that. And then I posted on my
new favorite place to hang out on Google Plus, thank you very
much, Mike Elgin for turning me into a horrible, horrible Google
Plus person. So good. I mean, so Google Plus is it's fantastic.
And I'll tell you why. So what happens? Oh, no, no, listen, not
enough. You got to understand. So I don't know how it works.
Exactly. But everything's public. And, and, you know,
people are following me and not everyone who's following me. In
fact, only a minority is in the no agenda community. So I post
this thing, and I'm, like, really ordinary folks, really.
And this starts off a thread. And people are commenting. And
then people come in. And then you know, there's one thing you
got to if you come in and you post something, kind of as a
zombie, and you post that within the no agenda community, it's
kind of like kicking over a hornet's nest, and they just,
they attack you. And they just jump on top of you. And so this
this guy, West Hirsch, and, and he's like, you know, he's like,
oh, you know, this is a bull crap. And, you know, the
President, you know, he's he, of course he immediately the, you
know, he deduces that I'm a Republican, you know, I love it
when people do that. And you say, like, hey, now what does
this president where the ordinary folks business? Oh,
well, at least he's back. The Republicans are oh, wait for you
to tell me they are. All this like bullcrap. like who is this
guy? And here's what I love about Google Plus, because
people because you know, Google was basically the government.
And so government employees, they all have their Gmail, you
know, it turns out this guy works for the Geospatial
Intelligence Agency in Tokyo. So he's a spoke, and he's bitching
and moaning. And you go look at his at his Google Plus profile.
And you can see, you know, that, you know, it's like, guns are
bad global warming, we're all gonna die. You know, we're going
over the fiscal cliff. It's all the Republicans fault. So the
guy's a total zombie. But wait, but wait, then I go, Look, I'm
like, I want to find out more about this guy. And if any, has
a LinkedIn profile, I'm like, Okay. And on his LinkedIn
profile, he calls himself the Jason Bourne of geospatial and
this is a Department of Defense Intelligence guy. How sick is
that? Wow. And so I confront him with it. I'm like, You're
insane. You're everything was wrong with with with the
department fact. I had some of our human resources go to my
wiki page. And if you look now at my Wikipedia page, I am the
Jason Bourne of cheese. I just really wanted what I wanted to
have. I wanted to be a Jason Bourne of something. So it's
just hilarious to see how you know how how people jump on of
course at the end of the thread, you know, 150 messages later?
I'm sorry, I'm actually a racist. That's what it is this
guy black Chinese. No, no, no, the
guy just said well, you know, it's very typical. You don't
like what the President says it's probably because he has
brown skin I'm like, okay, you know, this is
yeah, that's logic.
All we needed was just we're still waiting for the Hitler
card to be played but I didn't get that one. So just very very
interesting how people respond to this and in fact someone in
the there in the no agenda group says whenever I hear the
President say, folks, I always think of this musical
right come from Adam Neilan and still they're happy as can be
what comes naturally more time folks like us could never fuss
with schools and books and
learn and so do you know what the musical is it that comes
from
ah, no I thought about I could come up with it but what
any go get your gun
Oh, Annie go get your twisted is that that is funny. Wow. Folks
like us folks. Anyway. Yeah. In his clip he which Mike clip is I
got a bag I hit I over I screwed it up. But my clip points out
that he says the folks you elected to Congress to folks in
the Senate the 40s now with the folks are also these parents
idiot congress people their folks now they're not caught you
know, there's that this is like the mean seeing, you know, the
sky, you know, you demeaning or demeaning. The president knows
he's demeaning Congress. We're using this term, as far as we're
concerned, and I think I think it's I don't know that he's
knows he's doing it. But he's I think he just does it natural. I
got a couple of some of some other comments I got from this.
One is that in Hawaii, where the President supposedly grew up,
where he grew up, where he smoked a lot of weed, that
apparently the term folks is used, overused in Hawaii, so
I'll give him that. I'll give him that. But then to do this
ordinary folks thing is a little bit, a little bit beyond that.
But then he actually he said, something else which I was
committed, well, maybe you can help me deconstruct why he used
this particular phrase, if you can get a majority in the House
and you can get a majority in the Senate, then we should be
able to pass a bill. So the American people are watching
what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin.
This is deja vu all over again. So deja vu all over again, which
of course is stupid because Deja Vu is something happening again.
Bless you. Darn it. Deja vu all over again, was originally it's
a famous quote from Yogi Berra, who first said that, and at the
time, of course, it was funny. This is when when Mickey Mantle
and Roger Maris hit back to back home runs in like the 60s. But
why would he Why would he use this? Is he not familiar with
the fact that it's a Yogi Berra quote? Or you know,
everybody's pretty well, it was done. Yogi Berra quotes are
obviously idiotic, naturally idiotic things that he would
say, right. And they were all hilarious. Casey Stengel was the
was the progenitor of this sort of talk. And I don't know
because it really says that I'm an idiot. Or I'm being funny,
because by referencing this deja vu all over again, it didn't
come
out and sound funny, the whole thing. The whole conversation is
not funny. So I've just I really believe that someone wrote it
for him. And he doesn't even he doesn't even know it. He doesn't
even know what this is referencing.
Because I would agree with that theory. You know, we
used to say this, and it used to irk me all the time. Ron Bloom,
he'd say it all the time in meetings. It's like deja vu all
over again. Until I finally looked it up and like, why are
you saying that? It's lame. In pitch meetings, actually.
Interesting. Yeah. That's a good catch. I didn't I didn't notice
it. It's hard to listen to that guy and not kind of zone out.
Yeah, but folks, every time he says, folks, it wakes me up.
Yeah, me too. Me too. It irks me. It really
are. And look, these really backed off on this. Look, did
you
hear that? Did you hear that? Explosion? Seriously? No, you
didn't hear that? You probably didn't. There shooting fireworks
early here in the low that was a lot of what? With what? With
fireworks? No. Why? Because in Gitmo nation low lands. The last
weekend of the year, you're then you're allowed to go pick up
your fireworks that you buy, and everyone has just you know, like
they they spend hundreds and hundreds of Euros per person on
fireworks and then on New Year's Eve. Everyone burns all the crap
up. It's the stupidest tradition ever. I hate it. I really hate
it. I'm not a firework guy. I don't I mean, I like watching
pretty fireworks but this is all big exploding bombs. You know,
the all week there's pictures in the newspaper of you know,
someone threw a firecracker like an M ad in the canal and the
duck ate it and then blew his mouth off and they got a picture
of the duck with his beak all blown off. It's like it's it's
like horrible and all night long. Oh, no, no. It's like
boom, boom. You'll hear a couple more times before the show is
over. Just people are blowing stuff up. And you don't even
know if it's that or we had a liquidation take place not even
a kilometer from here in the city where someone was gunned
down machine gun in his car. Yeah, talking about America
everybody just getting machine guns and then and then the guy's
machine gun the cops machine gun. I mean, we're not talking
assault rifle. We're talking machine gun in Amsterdam.
Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, well, I thought that they respected no
guns in Europe. Yeah, that's right. So yeah, there's like
because we should be more like Europeans and be that way. Now
this is a knockin a machine gun even appear
when I'm telling you machine gun.
Let me read this note from well Note that we got from anonymous
spook. I just think it's funny. So he sent in a NSA challenge
could be he or a she could be a sheet the Vichy In fact,
it's likely I'm pretty sure. It reads like means a little more
like
a male but it could be I know who I know who anonymous spook
is my friend, and it's
a female. Okay, well she says in one of her most recent episodes,
I heard you complain about lack of an NSA kit challenge going
here's a 60th anniversary limited edition challenge going
direct from the fort. had been an urgent Jenna listener for a
few years and recently started working for the federal
government. I wanted to share a tip to any no agenda listener
who may be interested in a career in the intelligence
community. Okay, don't do it. That's tip number one. Don't do
it to a podcast. Is that really on an atom is that way you
wrote? John and Adam may refer to the intelligence community
employees as spooks. Oh, by the way, we're not that doesn't come
from us. That's an old term has always been used. Yeah. Don't
use it in the workplace. I turned a lot of heads my first
week when I use the term because apparently spook is a derogatory
term for a black person. Yeah. In the 1950s. Yeah, really?
Okay. Anyways, this is not a good idea to say shut up slave
at work. I blamed myself for letting that one slip. Anyway,
she would like to call out any GAVI or money grubbing contract.
You listen to the show, but not donating. She wants to make sure
that they're all called out, especially the government guys
as douchebags. She wishes us a happy holiday.
Yeah, so I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I know who this is.
She's smoking well, too. It's it's an honor.
He's anonymous. Yeah. Yeah.
I have one more thing on the on the I have Ron Paul on the
fiscal cliff, if you're interested. Love to hear it.
Because you know, Ron Paul, pretty soon he'll just be gone.
And then we won't have him anymore. At least he won't be
you know that people won't want to interview him anymore,
because he won't be a congressman. At the end, we'll
just be like, well,
before you play that clip, then I do have a bunch of
retrospective clips to kind of celebrate the year we did in
2012. And I want to remind people about how Ron Paul was
typically handled during the presidential election. With this
reminder clip, the Ron Paul event clip, I really don't have
to introduce my wife, I think you know, my wife care.
Have a few other members of the family here. We have a daughter
in law, Peggy and Lisa,
remember that? Pull the flag, pull the plug on it with
apologies, we have lost our signal from the Ron Paul event,
and we will work very hard to get that back.
Thank you for reminding us. You know, I have to say that
sometimes I'll be like lying in bed or something. I'm thinking
about what we're going to do on the show. And I just think about
all the things that we've covered that no one's ever heard
of ever, you know that no one has never been brought up
anywhere. And this is one of them. I mean, of course, it just
in retrospect, in retrospect, you think about it, we've
covered a lot of stuff. It's pretty amazing that they did
that. Okay, so here's a Ron Paul on CNBC talking about the fiscal
cliff, I kind of did a hack job to just put two pieces together
just so you get all the relevant pieces of what he's saying,
which is pretty much in line with what we've been saying all
along.
Nobody's talking about cutting any spending. And in the midst
of this crisis of a major deficit and a national debt
increase coming up. You know, nobody wants to talk about
military cuts. Nobody, you think they're not going to give the
farmers their their do because now this milk will be doubled in
price if they do that. So the farm bill get passed. The safety
net is always available to rich and poor. Republicans and
Democrats all support this. Now there's been a recent hurricane,
there will be no hesitation whatsoever to spend that money
without offsetting it. So the Republicans and Democrats, they
pretend they're fighting up there, but they really are.
They're arguing over power and spin and, and who looks good and
who looks bad. But they're all trying to preserve this system,
where they can spend what they want, take care of their friends
and let the Fed free money when they need it. But the markets
are saying, you know, get a lot worse. I think they're saying
there's a limit to this, and we're reaching it. And there is
not going to be a political solution here in the next 20
days or 30 days or even six months. Whatever they do here
between now and the beginning of the year will just be fluff and
it will not solve our problems rather than mission, our
government is spending way too much. It's way beyond our means.
And there's not a single bit of effort to cut anything, even
when they talk about slashing the budget. And these cuts,
they're only talking about tinkering on the edges of
proposed automatic increases. So they so far removed from
admitting the seriousness of this crisis. And if they don't
admit it, they can't solve the problem. They're like, they're
like a bunch of drug addicts that just want another fix. And
that's what they're looking for.
So let me get this straight. Everyone's just acting and
they're a bunch of drug addicts. That sounds about right.
Yeah, I think you nailed it. Yeah. And we always have to
remember half of these cuts that are proposed by either side or
just in cases and yeah, they're cuts of the increases they're
not cuts of like you got a program that's costing you $150
million a year. And they want to run it up to 200 million. So
they're going to cut out say let's say 10 pesos or wherever
20% cut we're going to cut 40 million so 40 from the 240 from
the 150 so it ends up going up anyway exactly it's amazing to
me that they get away with this an immediate never calls them on
it.
Well, Ron Paul just mentioned that on CNBC and all 12 people
watching heard him
Yeah, I'm a CNBC is a is a classic station that does one
thing and one thing only stock tips. And so I guess it would
make a few people think twice about I don't know what's gonna
happen the stock market after the first if they go over the
cliff, it's gonna be interesting to watch.
So of course, amidst all of this, and I'm not in the Gitmo
nation, United States, so I have no idea but I can kind of make
an educated guess that this was not covered. And it may be a
little bit of coverage here and there sporadically. But on the
day of our previous show, there was a 10 hour session total in
in Congress and Senate, actually, and the the FISA, the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, originally
started by Jimmy Carter and of course, after 911 George W. Bush
put in the amendments which allowed for wire a warrantless
wiretapping ie spying on the citizens of the United States of
Gitmo nation. Even though there were two reasonable amendments
were vitiated, the amendments were just destroyed in the
entrails vitiated. And the whole thing was passed for another
five years, mainly driven by diet, Dianne Feinstein of
California. And I would just like to play a little bit of
her, her her the start of her monologue there in in the
Senate, and you can just, well, you'll throw up in your mouth
just when you hear her talk, and how she single handedly pretty
much along with all the other douchebags in the House and in
the Senate, just have placed no value on us whatsoever on any of
our rights. And of course, because of all the Gun Talk and
whatever show business news is going on end of the year
retrospectives, this was just rammed through and no
conversation about it whatsoever. In fact, that also
seems that most of the zombies in America don't even care
anymore from California.
Mr. President, I'd like to make the opening statement, at least
as the committee chair on the bill that's before the Senate.
This bill is a simple bill. This is a house bill that extends
reauthorizes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
called the FISA amendment, sections 702. It ought
reauthorizes it until for five years until December 31 2017.
That is all it does.
It's all it doesn't just go pay no attention doesn't do anything
really without
Senate action. These authorities to collect intelligence expire
in four days. That's the reason it's the House bill before us.
And that's the reason why I urge this body to vote no on all
amendments, send this reauthorization. Well, it goes
right to the President, if we accept the House bill and get it
signed. If it goes past the first the program comes down,
the program is interrupted. So this is important. It has the
support of the director of national security, Jim Clapper,
the Attorney General Eric Holder, and other natural
security officials, who have made clear as to the importance
of this and at this time, following my remarks, I'd like
to enter letters into the record from all of the The
administration essentially saying this is our highest
intelligence, authorization, right?
And of course, after a whole bunch of back and forth, the
douchebags just pass that and the King Obama shall be saying
that the man who actually campaigned against FISA and
accused the bush of being a total dictator with the
warrantless wiretaps. Now, it just it all comes into view,
although not covered by the complicit mainstream media that
King Obama is, is just Bush, he's not even Bush like he is
Bush double down. It's unbelievable. Bush on steroids
on steroids, and then not to mention his 333 drone strikes in
2012. That's not my number. That's an official number 333
drone strikes so shameful, shameful. I tell you, and, and
Feinstein, I believe is a Democrat. Am I correct?
Yeah, yeah. Well, it doesn't make Democrat Republican.
They're all for this. It's not that the Republicans stood up
and said, No, no, of
course not. Of course not. But Republicans always get blamed
for being total eight holes, and, you know, wanting to
militarize everything and, and spy and just be horrible people.
And here it is. It just couldn't just keep it going. Keep it out
the door. Nothing to see here. To keep on spying on Americans.
Yep. Yep, against the Constitution the whole thing.
Meanwhile, we have a we did have some interesting, lighter parts
of this last 2012 that I want to have a clip of just for people
who need to know this sort of thing, because you have to keep
people occupied with something that's more pleasant than this
political crap. And so I would play the AVN awards clip. Yes,
to get people back into the mood, right.
That's porn star website.
Wait a minute. Best porn star website. That's a category now.
Wow. Oh, yeah.
Joanna Angel. Joanna angel.com. The Lisa and.com. Jessica Drake,
Jessica Drake. Lupe went. I love Lupita calm Jenna. Hey, Jenna
haze, Sunny Leone, Sunny leone.com. And the winner is?
Joanna Hey, Joanna.
website from 2012 It is so cool to go on stage and accept an
award for yourself. See, this is why I hate not being back home.
I mean, what station was this on? How come I didn't get to see
the show time. Oh, man. That's awesome. I love it because
I come every was like, and so and so and so and so that calm
so and so so and so.com so and so. So dumb. Who cares? Not
dumb. Did any of the porn actresses make out with each
other on stage?
Uh, come on. Maybe Maybe I don't watch this whole thing. It's
very hard to watch. It's actually kind of sickening.
I love it. I love it. Another thing that took place in 2012
that was that seems to have died out especially with all these
gun shootings. Yeah. Is is the doomsday prepper show us we
started off with a bang and it's I think it's kind of fallen by
the wayside. But you get this particular kind of clip that we
pull from these shows. This is back in January, Becky becomes a
sniper
fire. But in a government takeover, Becky believes you
will need offensive as well as defensive weapons. So if
necessary, she can preemptively eliminate a threat without being
detected. Today with bombs expertise cheese training with a
bolt action sniper rifle outfitted with a telescopic lens
that guarantees optimal precision from up to 1000 yards
away. I'm taking sniper training because then I could keep people
as far away from me as I needed to this hand goes underneath.
You support it. Make a fist. Pull it tight into your
shoulder. You want me to have it dead center vertically right?
Today. Becky's Bullseye is 200 yards, the equivalent of two
football fields. You heard it tonight? Yes.
Yeah, yeah. Let me guess has the show not gotten picked up for
renewal is this The educated guess here. This is like, sweet.
It's very interesting how from afar, you know, if you have no
idea what's really what's really taking place, but a lot of
people are comparing this to exactly the way it went down in
Australia, when they had a massive mass killing, shooting,
and then all of the Australian Human Resources kind of gladly
gave up all of their weaponry. And that, and the only way you
can really get this and you were seeing all these shows being
cancelled movie premieres not happening. And that it really is
there really is a ashaming taking place. And, of course,
the only way to get people to you know, to give up their guns
is is not the government telling you to but to have people
tricked basically into doing it and peer pressure? And I don't
know, I mean, it seems to have kind of work in Australia. Do
you think that that could happen in the United States, John, from
where you're sitting and what you're seeing? No, I
think we've been pretty much just the Second Amendment thing
that doesn't exist in Australia. And right, we have a couple
propagandistic operations and national gun Association. And
there's a couple other ones.
And that's, I mean, National Rifle Association or national,
right. When I say national gun Association, which I like, I
like that one is better, we should start
NGA, we should start the National Rifle. But they've done
a job on and there's a certain we have a certain kind of a
reverse logic that we we've established in this country
where, because when they ran all those, they had a you go on the
internet, and there's an interactive map from one of the
newspapers, I guess, is in Jersey somewhere Westchester
County, and this shows every gun permit that was ever issued, is
gonna you can click on it and see who the person is. And
again, this is what you just said, shaming them. Oh, he has a
gun. And the counter argument is like, Oh, they're going to take
the truth, what people came in and they to comment on it. They
said, Oh, well, now we know who the robbers won't go. Rob.
Right. I mean, this kind of logic appears that didn't seem
to appear in Australia, which is, oh, oh, we know where the
guns are. That means that that everyone else doesn't have a gun
are the ones that are gonna get burglarized. Right, right. We
encourage the sales of more guns, obviously. And are the
thing about the schools? Well, yeah, you take all the guns out
of the school. So there's no guards or anything. You're just
leaving them as sitting ducks. We have the we assume in this
country that everybody is armed, and they're going to shoot
somebody if they're not armed. Yeah. And of course, nobody
wants to bring up the Texas crime statistic, which is
extremely low. Yes. And why is that? Do you think?
Because everyone's really nice to each other. This is the first
thing we noticed when we visited Austin. Austin, by the way,
which I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm pretty sure
the majority of Austinites voted for Obama. Yet everyone is
armed, which is why everyone's so nice. This is what I have to
keep explaining to people over here. You know, they say really?
That's crazy. So yeah, maybe, maybe it's crazy. But it does
seem to work. Everyone's nice. I don't have to worry about my
house getting broken into I don't have to worry about
getting carjacked. And you know, of course, Miss Mickey's
passenger side door won't open anyway. But there's no you just
have to people aren't doing that kind of thing. That's the end
what there was something else that in San Antonio, you know,
there was did you hear about this? Of course, actually, you
didn't hear about it. Because some guy was pissed at his, his
girlfriend and he went into a restaurant and and I don't know
if he killed her, but he shot at her. And then everyone ran out
into a movie theater next door. And then he went in there to go
and shoot people and then an off duty cop with a personal gun,
pulled it out and shot him and stopped him from shooting
anybody. And of course, that story got to zero legs in
mainstream media because it kind of doesn't fit with the with the
propaganda that's going on right now. It's hard though it's hard
for it's hard for the rest of the world. And also a lot of
Americans to just really believe that that is that it's just the
way it works
well, you know, I don't think that was the case some years
ago. I think it's hard nowadays. People because they've been you
know that we get the crap. I mean, it's like I mentioned this
on the show some few weeks back about the guy was in the rifle
club in high school, you know, is a shooting club and they
would go out and get different rifles and go shooting targets
and they I mean, we there are still target shooting in there
still target shooting in the in the Olympics. For example, and
all the countries participate with you ski first, and then you
shoot that too, that's a different one. But they have
their stationary,
my favorite. I like that one where they ski skiing. And
it's like, yeah, but you've tried to put one of those into
high school and California Gun Club and they would go crazy,
you know,
it's buried, but it's beyond that, John, it's something else.
It's, it's the idea. So of course, you know, we have
balance in the world, on the on the global stage, where we're
everyone has missiles. And we have, you know, nuclear
warheads. And, you know, even the Netherlands, you know, peace
loving Netherlands, where people get machine gun and Amsterdam,
but it's peace loving Netherlands, and they've got,
you know, some Patriot missile batteries, and like, oh, we'll
just move them over to Turkey, you know, to just to show the
power of NATO in front of Syria. So on this on this country
scale, it's used all the time, and everyone knows about it. And
I guess it kind of you have this balance of power, or whatever
it's supposed to be, at least it's accepted as generally
accepted. surance. Yeah, it's generally accepted by, by by
people. But then when it comes down to a citizenry, people just
really, something has happened. It has really, it's been this
way in America for 20 years. But it really changed. And I guess,
I think that you keep working on people long enough, you keep
pounding it in long enough, that at some point, and it it
probably won't be now but you know, maybe 3040 50 years in the
future, I can see in America without guns, I can see it
happening because people are just mind controlled into
believing that this other way is better, even though on a global
scale. That's not how the world works.
Well, the same people would tell you, well, we need to do
unilateral disarmament. Right. So I mean, it's not like they're
inconsistent with their thinking. But the fact that
anybody buys into it, if you look at the reality of the
situation, we're not one World One World Government eat at
maybe, I mean, they'd like that to happen. I don't see it.
Personally. I think culturally there's too much that I think
diversity proves that you can't do it. But I don't know. It's
just very it's semi depressing to to watch this deteriorate, I
think is a deteriorating situation. And in fact, they got
one more clip since we're on that topic. Tom, if you remember
any of this read play char on near Cleveland. This happened in
I think, January February. From ABC News. This is ABC World News
with Diane Sawyer. Good evening. Tonight
we add another name to that searing list that begins with
Columbine and Virginia Tech. It is the small town of Chardon,
Ohio 5000 People who live right outside Cleveland known for
their serenity and maple syrup until today.
No I don't remember this at all. What happened?
was a school shooting No. Yeah, how many soon you forget?
Well, yeah, I mean, there must have been a sex tape that came
on after that from some celebrate it. Of course, of
course you forget this. I don't even I don't remember this at
all. Especially not the maple syrup.
It's been it was it's been taken out of the Litany and not
mentioned any more because it only killed I think six people
were shot and three died. It was only as too small. Oh no, this
was not but it was the first school shooting of 2012
really here it is Chardon High School shooting, Ohio. No, it's
and we did talk about it. I'm sure we did. But I can't
remember this at all. I just know
when I was going through the clips. I said what what and I
had to look it
up hold on a second did did the shooter kill himself?
I don't remember the details at all. Let's see Lane
lane. No, no,
they caught him he was running for I think it was running into
the woods or something. They grabbed it well, so
this wasn't this wasn't an MK Ultra mind controlled shooter.
This is no this was right. No, that's why didn't kill that
many.
He was also using a 22 which is problematic.
Yeah, it wasn't. It didn't get any legs because he wasn't using
an assault rifle isn't good enough. Wasn't it wasn't an A or
old ar 15 that they had to sell get rid of by selling them off.
Somebody mentioned they went to a gun show and we talked about
this in the last show. Eric the shields theory that these are
the old style AR fifteens are being discontinued and they
gotta dump inventory, especially Bushmaster right? The guy who
says he goes to a gun show he says the Bushmasters there's
tons of them they're trying to get rid of
interesting. There's other ones I got a clip here about a gun
show and that was the end of the clip that kind of made me I was
like huh, I didn't really maybe it'll be an ask John segment
here. Listen to this
gun sales are surging following the school shooting in Newtown
Connecticut two weeks ago.
That's a headline for you. right there isn't it's just all going
according to plan more sales were good dump but those
Bushmasters
in Virginia this weekend gun show organizers expected the
turnout to double over the November show. Virginia State
Police say gun dealers are requesting a record number of
background checks, representing twice as many gun sales over
last year. In Colorado, it took the Bureau of Investigation 23
minutes to do a background check in November. Now it's seven
days.
This is weird. So they're saying that because of the surge in
sales, it used to take 23 minutes to do a background
check. Now it's seven days. This doesn't make any sense to me.
That's not That's not a background check. That's a
waiting period.
Yeah, no, you're right. It's not a background check. Doesn't take
seven days to do a background check. Although it takes seven
days to wait for a background check. No, but she literally
just said it in November, it took 23 minutes now it takes
seven days because of the surge in sales, which something now
that she shouldn't it should. That's exactly what it takes
seven days to do a background check instead of seven days to
get a background check. I mean, this just allows you reporting.
I don't know. Let me hear it again.
Investigation. 23 minutes.
Oh, no. Let me just roll it back just a little bit. Let me go
background checks, representing twice as many gun sales over
last year. In Colorado, it took the Bureau of Investigation 23
minutes to do a background check in November. Now it's seven
days,
it was pretty clear to me.
30 of what
that is now taking seven days instead of 23 minutes.
Yeah, well, that's true, but it's a wait. I think you're
right. It's a waiting list. Yeah, we'll get to when we can.
Yeah, I was how long does it actually take? It's a there's no
waiting list. How long does it take to do a background check?
23 minutes is gotta be it or less.
I mean, it shouldn't even to me it's just because I think what
you say just
types up men and you look at it, guys okay.
Yeah, it's like social security number name. Look at what comes
back and you're done. That's
it. You got tickets. You got a ticket. You've been beaten your
wife. Restraining orders. Beaten Yeah, looks all that stuff.
Are you dying on a Russian hooker? No. Okay, you're good to
go. Now luckily though, we were able to turn this into a movie
promotion all the fiscal cliff wrangling director Steven
Spielberg and actor Daniel Day Lewis showed the movie Lincoln
to the entire Senate. Bill Ford is this moment now. Now now, the
film celebrates presidential
power and crafty legislative strategy. And the President may
need the wisdom of Lincoln for his latest legislative battle
gun control. The wisdom of Lincoln, I tell you, what is the
guy who got shot. The wisdom of Lincoln for was Lincoln such a
crafty legislator? Did I miss something?
I have no idea what they're talking about.
On the talking about Lincoln was such it was first of all,
they're
trying to associate him with Obama. Yes,
exactly. Exactly. That he was well, they're promoting a movie
regardless. That's what's going on. Yeah, it's
a movie. Hello.
So you show it to everyone on the hill. Hey, guys, free movie
and meet Steven Spielberg,
Spielberg show up
fellow. Of course. Of course. That's the extra ordinary folks.
See, we're ordinary folks. Those are the Do you think that
Congress is above us or below us in the folks level? Is it Are
they so we're ordinary? Are they extraordinary?
Are they think they're subhuman at this point?
Exactly. So um, before we get to our little thank you segment,
there was Ira Glass who? He works for the national treasure.
NP NPR. That's funny.
I almost had the same clip. Oh, really? I think so. Because Ira
Glass Yeah, go on.
So he does This American Life which is, I'd say a pretty
popular program even amongst the young uns a as a podcast. And he
did the Commencement for I think was CUNY the community
university or what is it New York, CUNY Yanni for the
journalism students and he he brought a basically in a kind of
tweet not exactly our way but it seems like and John, you and I
have been saying this that one day, all these idiots they're at
the national treasure the so called public service,
television and radio, who play commercials. Commercial also
actual commercials with, with codes to go get your free
goodies from GoDaddy or Carbonite or whatever. And you
know, the car car show us car commercial, you're not just
underwriters or, or you know, just grants or anything, but
he's an actual commercials, that one day they'll wake up in the
go, Oh my God, these no agenda, guys, you know, they're like
they're like doing something really revolutionary and new and
a real public service. And they'll be able to just get by
doing it. So I read glasses waking up not, of course,
there's no mention of us. And of course, it's not really our
value for value model. But I thought it was interesting. I'll
just play a little bit of this. So you can hear how, at least he
is seeing that there is something changing in the media
landscape, and I think we are leading that charge and, and it
was great, actually, and and this year, the buzz was all
about this guy named Roman Mars. And have you ever heard of this
guy named Roman Mars and the buzz of what but it's been a lot
of buzz about this guy. Roman had created this podcast called
99%. Invisible, about design did it on its own, he had it, it had
an audience, it wasn't a huge audience, it was a good audience
in the 10s of 1000s. And he decided, well, let's see if this
can be a business like this, see if I can make a living off of
this. And so he did a Kickstarter campaign. And his
goal was to raise $42,000. And his listeners gave him $170,000.
I'm like, Whoa, hello, should we try the Kickstarter thing, John?
Yeah, of course, that sounds like the way to go. And that was
just very new. In our, in our corner of the media world,
nobody had done that. And very, very different from a couple of
years ago, or from from the decades ago, when I started this
American life, where we had to turn to foundations and write
grants, or get some bigger institution like a radio station
or a network if you want to start something to be to be your
funder. And you know, and also, in the past, it was common to
have the experience of you could do really good work, and
original work. And there was no clear way to make a living off
of it. Like there was no clear way to monetize it. And what
Roman Mars showed us was that if you make something good, there's
an environment now where you can invent a way to get money from
it. So I don't know where this Roman Mars guy is, and I never
heard of his show. And I disagree with a lot of what I'm
hearing, but the idea that these guys are waking up, and they're
realizing that they are on the wrong end, and the wrong side of
history kind of makes me happy. Kind of makes me happy because
we clearly have an outstanding product. That is that it's got
to be that way.
Yeah, no, I think there's no doubt about it. Otherwise, you
wouldn't be able to hear I'm gonna show my agenda for the
day. Oh, yeah. That'd be fun.
That's right. That's really no, show me that on your 99 podcast.
Show me the harmonica show me that whistle thing?
Guys got nothing.
Where's that? Where's that thing?
Oh, this? Yeah. Where's that? Yeah, that's the problem I have.
I'm spending all my time smashing ants because I've got
an ant attack. How good well, I'm doing the podcast.
Again. I thought this was taken care of.
It's gotten worse as I started smashing them. They've decided
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Now. I know you don't have to you don't have to describe it to
me because Ms. Mickey and I have witnessed the horror. We know
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the beaver hat on because that's really bad if you've got
no I wouldn't be I would normally be because I like to
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it says, yeah, it's his wife. Well, they don't they don't have
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It would be wouldn't be shifted to Holland need to be export
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Wow. But I didn't quite read the note. And thank God, I didn't
drink it. I was just gonna do it. A classic wine test. Yeah,
well, you put in your mouth and you spit it out and you get did
I put in my mouth? Like an idiot? Because I didn't read the
documentation. People read your documentation. He warned me not
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Everclear had a shot of that or even put in your mouth. If you
drink it, you could die. It sucks all the moisture out of
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on it. And that is open source of course. But it actually kills
people. Is this what you're saying? No, I'm definitely
proud. No, I
mean Everclear will kill you.
What is ever clear is this what? What has ever been good? What
do you I will ever clear is a is a is almost pure alcohol sold as
ever clear. It's, it's made by a refining process. And it's a I
think it's 180 proof 190 Proof maybe or maybe 150 Whatever it
is, is too high.
But you can drink this I mean, so you can drink it or you can't
drink it. It's you can drink
it. It's a diet app, but he's it's filtered five times and
dense charcoal filter sounds awesome. To me. This
sounds really good.
It's very awesome. But you have to mix it you can take a shot of
this. Oh, I put it in some orange juice and you're in
business. Oh, I see you shouldn't be drinking it
straight up is what you're saying. And there's no shots of
those shots or when ad is not held and
this is in the documentation.
He told me about it. And I said I but you know I didn't read it.
I just so well packaged up beautiful. So
what do you have some of this right now with you? Do you have
an enamel bottle? Okay, so So why don't you spray some on the
and see what happens?
It'll kill them. Yes. So this is what I'm saying. Why did you
know he says it could be used as paint thinner. It can also be
used as gasoline in alcohol burning car. It's very powerful.
I just throw it in my in the in the truck.
But he also made it from cane sugar. This is a little tip.
That's interesting. Because if he doesn't make it from grain,
no matter what he does, because cane sugar will not produce
produce methanol as one of the alcohol byproducts. Oh, because
there's no wood in it as with alcohol. And so it's very it's
very nicely done. It was very I was really surprised how well
done this. What
can you do me a favor? Can you take a picture of the bottle?
And can you put it on? The no agenda community on Google Plus?
Oh, yeah, would you please I mean, I think people would
really love to see you there. And now that we're over 1000
Just post a picture. You don't have to say anything.
I'll be coming.
You heard it here first. He'll be coming round the mountain
when she comes. I finish,
man. Yeah, man. Meanwhile, Tempe Arizona, is it uh, yeah, he's,
he did we just did him. No, he scanned his
heart and went on Hold on. No, no, no. He says we didn't finish
him up, you just you just cut away
some celebrity moonshine to celebrate the new AMT field tax
year, which we're all going to be screwed by read my column
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more, it's come some links in there because I gotta put the
links in there because I know the editors didn't believe this
either. to ward off tax again for all the citizens of Gitmo
nation regarding Ryan because I
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like a reduced and then properly de douche. Now that business is
done. I would like to chime in about the recently released
movie Jack Reacher by the way they Cruise movie. They took a
bunch of scenes out of it because of the gun shooting.
Yeah, I saw it because it was filmed here in Pittsburgh and
and didn't expect much. However, the movie revolves around a mass
shooting in a central plot evolves into one of John's
favorite theories when it comes to mass shootings. There are a
lot of interesting memes tossed into the movie and the timing of
this release is highly suspicious. All in all, not a
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Lizzy Lizzy who you know from turn seven today. So happy
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I thought you that's good. Yeah, that hopefully she can do maybe
give us one more year of Great Clips.
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It'd be a shared apps they just won't be as good
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It's sad. It's just gonna be really, really sad. So let me
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we'll have a black dame, Samantha Esposito, and a black
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nozzle
calls themselves douche nozzle is an idiot.
It this report came in and I don't have really analysis but I
think we should take a look or should keep our eyes open for
what's happening here. Beyond the Northwest US troops have
been deployed to Africa about 50 troops are in Chad right now to
help evacuate Americans from the neighboring country. The Central
African Republic, President Obama authorized that move
because of security concerns. Rebels have seized several towns
in the Central African Republic and are advancing on the capital
city.
The evacuation comes three months after the attack on a US
consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Three people including the US
Ambassador were killed.
So I'm thinking that I know there are people were killed.
Oh, interesting. Good catch. I didn't hear that one. It was in
total. Well, I don't know what he said. Did he say three people
including the ambassador or three? No,
no. Really? He said three people will say the evacuation comes
three months after the attack on a US consulate in Benghazi,
Libya. Three people including the US Ambassador Jill,
that's incorrect or who knows? Who knows? Yeah, who knows? Who
knows? Who knows? What I'm thinking is if You look at the
map, because I mean, we've never really had any news reports on
the Central African Republic. And what kind of name is that?
For a country, by the way, it's a crappy name. But it is the
name of a country in Africa car. We've got Sudan to the right. Of
course, Madonna's were all the you've got a lot of oil there.
I'm thinking this may be it might be a pipeline thing
because they want to, they want to move the oil to the coast on
the west. So if there is something going on, I'd say look
for Cameroon to be in the news next. And I'd like that to be
put in the book, if you don't mind. Okay, hold on a second,
Cameroon. I think we're gonna see Cameroon in the news next.
It's just a hunch. It's just a hunch I, you know, who knows
what, who really knows what's going to happen in this case,
but I have a feeling that Cameroon may be something may be
happening. And we are now officially
now entering the second half of the show. So what does that say?
What did he say? It's
the second half of the show now entering second half of show.
There's another one
that has no resources. No, every second half of this does sound
effective, right.
Second half of show. So just before, just before the show
started, I got the craziest, craziest report and analysis
about Lucifer clippity clop, Hillary Clinton, and it plays
into something and there you go, plays into something, a report
that came out earlier in the week that we didn't get to it
was a which actually was sent to me by a couple of our
Afghanistan buddies saying, Hey, this is weird. This is weird,
because this will I'll play the report and then I'll tell you
why. It's weird. And then we'll find out what how this ties into
Hillary Barbara.
Dawn very sad news this holiday weekend for US Navy SEALs. The
Navy is now investigating the death in Afghanistan of one of
its most senior deployed seal officers as an apparent suicide.
A US military official tells CNN Navy Commander joke W price 42
years old DoD Could you
could you gotta turn something down because the report is
coming back double or turn turn your microphone away or do
something I moved this
22nd while serving as the commanding officer of SEAL team
for a group of more than two dozen Commandos, conducting
combat operations in the southern region of the country.
Now while the death remains under formal investigation, that
US military official who's directly familiar with the
event, said the family has been notified of the death and has
also been notified it is being investigated as an apparent
suicide. There is no indication at this time that commander
price was involved in any military related investigations
or any Controversies The official said.
Okay, so what's the couple of things going on with this? First
of all, he replaced a commander who in 2009 I believe who was
kicked out for no longer being able to handle his command
position you know, you've heard this kind of term before like no
longer fit to hold command. So a lot of people find it very
strange that this guy you know, under the circumstances now that
he committed suicide. Here's the crazy report. The report is and
I'm I just didn't have the time to go back and and make the
timeline. But this suicide report came out not long after
Hillary Clinton took ill or at least she had the so called
concussion and the report that is now out there and this is a
little bit second half of the show stuff. Is that the see 12
that Hillary was on coming back from actually from Iraq now
she's been traveling all over the world is included. Job W
price, it crashed. This is this is a this is a very this is a
weird one but you know, this is tricky land that it crashed. The
commander of the SEAL team was killed but that she that Hillary
was actually injured and that she was reportedly concussion
but she also was injured enough that she was bleeding. And that
that is what is really going on with her because of some quote
extreme turbulence but this see 12 crashed, and that is why
she's been out of commission. And that is why this guy's is
dead. Wood is just now apparently being covered up as a
suicide so I don't have the timeline I don't have the full
analysis came out just before we started the show.
So wait a minute. So you are telling me that there was a
plane wreck with Hillary and this guy on it's the rack
Hillary is horribly injured or not horribly but enough so that
she they came up with this cock and bull story about the bout
this concussion that she slipped in the bathroom or whatever it
was, it was something dumb. And and here's the only thing that I
don't like is that can't they come up with something else
besides the guy? suicided
Well, I think it's the so this is.
Wait a minute. Hold on. Is it just so they can save on their
death benefits for the widow? I don't know about seriously.
I think the I think the whole reason maybe she was flying
somewhere which she shouldn't have been. I don't think it's
typical that she flies on a C 12. Maybe it is I don't know.
They may have been on some mission that was unscheduled
that they had some kind of other covert to notice number
12 Not a C 17 Though see 12
children according to this report,
here on one of these little Yeah, that makes it that'd be a
jet show or not a jet but a prop she'd be on right.
Um, it may have been one of these oil missions. Yeah, there
could have been other people on who weren't supposed to be on
it. This is what I don't know. But I did find it kind of
interesting because particularly because so many people contacted
me from overseas saying, Wow, we don't believe this guy killed
himself. Because you know, the you know, there's knowledge
there on the ground. We got a lot of people in in Sandy places
who listened to the show and who questioned a lot of what's been
going on recently certainly with people in high places resigning,
you know, going away by the way, nothing more on Petraeus that's
just off the radar. So you know, so she probably had a real
stomach problem you know, could have been bleeding internal
bleeding and she probably had a real concussion for real
Yeah, if you're in a plane wreck Now luckily she didn't get
killed well as it were, no so that's a Beechcraft is
essentially the Super King.
Yes. King Air the super kid the Big King Air.
King turboprop, right? Yeah. Which I passed through.
Oh, it goes it goes very fast. Yeah, it's a very nice airplane.
So anyway, no, that's
a good one. That's that's the one that's the winner.
It's a winner of what? The day show?
No, no new as new information for everybody. We never thought
about this. And we obviously never gonna get reported. Oh,
does the mystery is why this guy killed himself or why they
designated killing himself. It's just
because while they were doing that, if this is true, then they
were doing something or they were in some place where they
shouldn't have been. Otherwise, there's no reason to clear that
up to cover that up at all. No reason whatsoever.
So yeah, no, there were obviously there was people
started looking into it. And then they find out something
screwy.
But I am going to be looking at it for sure. Looking into see
what I can what I can find out. I've got information, man, new
shit has come to light. So I think I have a kind of a new
segment that I'd like to do, which is a quick overview of the
Federal Register. The Fed will kind of call it the Federal
Register report. Right, that's not what I want to call it. I'm
sorry. I have the Federal Register. But then I have a
report of new new legislation. We need a snappy name for it.
Something other than new legislation report.
You wait a minute, hold on a second. What so you've been you
get as a big intro, you got a new idea. And now you're
changing. I
screwed it up now. Well, I'm confused here. The idea is that
I I have a new feed that I found, okay. And the new feed,
there's all these bills that get introduced. And no one ever
talks about them until, you know, until they're like kind of
getting voted on or maybe the committee of getting it coming
out of committee. Well, there's a lot of things that happen in
this letter. A lot of legislation goes nowhere. All
right. So which brings
me which brings me so I can interrupt here brings me to a
clip from early in the year which I think fits right into
this and you might even use it as your as your as your My
jingle my soundstage your jingle classic congressional vote.
On this vote the yeas are zero and the nays are 414 The The
amendment is not adopted.
Oh, is that from me? Now, by the way? If you remember that clip I
liked that was it was zero to 472 amendments not adopted,
apparently the guy who offered the amendment.
Like, screw it, I don't want to be I don't want to look stupid
amongst everyone else. Like, I'm the only guy who voted for it.
Right? Okay. So here, here are some new his new legislation.
That is that is being entered into the record. And I'm going
to I'm just gonna track these things as they come in. And I
just want you to know, because this is what your government is
looking at. So there's a new house resolution. And I've
always wondered about this. This is to establish a grant program,
ie money for automated external defibrillators in schools. And
I've always wondered about this, because I see these things at
airports. I see them at, you know, all over the place. Do we
know of anyone really, I mean, of any substantial number of
people who have been saved or created by these defibrillators
that are everywhere, apparently? Or is this just some giant
medical device scam? That is just continuing? I mean, if this
is really happened, that we need to have defibrillator everywhere
in public spaces. When did this start?
I don't know. Not you mentioned it, you know, maybe it gets used
once a must be used once in a while.
But I mean, there's a lot of them now. We need them in
schools. What, like kids are getting heart attacks?
Well, that doesn't make any sense. But a teacher could.
Yeah, but it seems like a big expanse.
How many people really get like, oh, and how many people can
actually use it? Can you imagine some teacher keeling over? And
then one of the kids grabbing this thing and then putting it
on her head? drove her brain? I mean, come on.
When I when I read this, I'm thinking, why do they have these
everywhere? I've seen them at airports. And it's like, I've
never really heard of what, what is this on? I do I have to look
at this right now. I can't I'm doing a show. And you want me to
read your Facebook? And then go away? What is this? You nuts?
Now their Facebook addict. She's like putting something going on
too long. Look at my Facebook page. Exactly. Honey, just like
something. I click the Like button.
Alright. Second bill to authorize the Secretary of
Homeland Security, acting through the Administrator of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to make grants to state
and local governments to assist in preparing for and responding
to mass casualty incidents. How about that?
Are they expecting?
No, I don't know. It's not about expecting anything. It's about
giving money.
No, that's just destroying money away. This is why the economy's
in the tank. Exactly. It's just throwing money. It's like, let
me tell you something. So I got my local police department here.
Nice little town. And there's I go there one day, the all the
cop cars, all new cop cars, the big ones the big giant covered
with big giant battering rams on them and new light bars. And
they got like 12 of them out of the blue. And it's like, and
they make them stay there. In the olden days, the police
department, they have just a good cop car that did the job.
And there's no they don't have to go on high speed chases, or
RAM anything. These are all SWAT team like cars. But they used to
take the cars home and then they get in the car. And right here.
The way the government works should be done. I big advocate
of this, you take the car home. It's not like an old 1920s movie
where they got to start downtown and then all these cars come out
of the garage and the black and whites. It's not what happens
anymore. We all do it that way. Black and whites, black and
white should they come. This is just money, money, money. It's
unbelievable.
There's more where that came from. And here's one that I
thought was actually interesting. Now this goes right
along with the mental health issue that we clearly have in
America. And what we need more pharmaceutical drugs for to
require the dismissal of HR 6712 to require the disclosure to
parents of information regarding mental illness treatment for
their children under the age of 26. Hmm that's clearly that's
clearly related to gun gun culture I'm sure
Oh yeah, there kid. Yeah, our child out was asked if you're
gonna get a 22 rifle and we're concerned that this may lead to
bigger weaponry.
All right now here's one from the here's one from the Federal
Register. And this is kind of a surprise me. Did you know? Well,
no, you didn't know. So the Russia has been admitted to the
World Trade Organization. This happened in August. Yeah, we
talked about it. So now in our president in the has proclaimed
as in the federal as reported in the Federal Register, a
proclamation you have not seen this on the news anywhere, I
guarantee you, the Russian Federation has been found to be
in full compliance with the freedom of emigration
requirements under Title four of the Trade Act, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. Therefore, pursuant to section
102, a public law bla bla, to no longer apply to the Russian
Federation, essentially I therefore Barack Obama President
knighted states by virtue of the authority vested in me blah blah
blah proclaimed that non discriminatory treatment as I II
Normal Trade Relations treatment shall be extended to the
products of the Russian Federation, which shall no
longer be subject to chapter one title four of the 1974 Act. So
we have apparently without much to do have just opened up the
entire United States to all Russian products. Oh, that's
sweet weed, but this is I find this highly interesting. Maybe
they make maybe maybe this was what remember when they had that
open mic thing when he was talking to Medvedev and he said
hey, man, I'll have more flexibility after I'm elected
maybe this is it. Who knows what we're gonna have now who knows
what right
I know what we should have what Russian electronic gear using
tubes. They make still make tube amps, I believe and they still
make tubes you can buy most of the tubes you gave you an old
tube set like or modern tube amplifier like audio research.
You load them up with Russian tubes.
And that concludes our tracking the bull crap segment.
Man has come to mind. The yeas are zero and the nays are 414
The amendment is not adopted.
Okay, you go I think we can make that a jingle I think we can
work that
out. Oh, maybe I got other stuff to find back going back to the
there's another story you know, looking back on these old clips
is the first quarter of 2012 by the way. I ran into a lot of
stories that we that we you know the problem that the news media
hasn't we're not gonna we don't really have the prom because we
have the red book. But we miss out on a lot of the we still
even we drop certain follow ups whatever happened remember
there's remember this one Mary Kennedy?
Yes, no, of course. I remember
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's estranged wife Mary has been found dead at
her home in New York State. The cause of her death is unknown.
her former husband is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and
son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who were both
assassinated in the 1960s. Our Washington correspondent
Jonathan Blake explains what's known about the death. Toll
police in Bedford, New York, which is a few hours drive north
of New York City have said that a body was found at a home
belonging to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his former wife, Mary,
earlier this afternoon. They have not confirmed reports that
it was Mary Kennedy and they have not confirmed or denied
reports that the body was found in an apparent suicide. And one
news organization, ABC News here in the United States reporting
that Mary Kennedy was found hanged
Yeah, I remember that. Well. You know, I think what's happened
here is you know, another Kennedy was another woman killed
and that near the Kennedys, no investigation like the what else
is new. This happens every decade.
Another story that got my attention from which is another
one and this one talking about somebody and falling off the
map. It became a big meme with a bunch of bowl crap hits on
YouTube that we all believe are done by robots. So the thing
that's never a big deal, and then it ended in the most
bizarre way, which is the Kony dude running around berserk and
naked.
The man behind the popular online video calling for the
arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has been detained
and taken to hospital in the US. Jason Russell and his charity
Invisible Children made the film Kony 2012. Witnesses say he will
see naked and screaming at drivers in San Diego in
California. His group says the controversy surrounding the
video has taken An emotional toll on Russell.
Several residents in the neighborhood were very concerned
about a male that they described as a white male in his late 20s.
That was acting strangely, there were various stages of undress
that were described, you know that he was wearing underwear
that he was naked, that kind of thing, that he was running into
the roadway that he was interfering with traffic,
screaming and that kind of thing. Officers responded to the
welfare check did contact the man and he was no problem for
the police department. However, during the evaluation with him,
we did learn that we probably needed to take care of him so
the officers detained him and transported him to a local
medical facility for further evaluation and treatment.
He was jerking off on the gun in the intersection. I was
fantastic. And it does fit in with with some news that came
out this week. YouTube, John, if you caught this has essentially
penalized the music business and removed hundreds of millions of
hits from their YouTube videos for their for a lot of their
artists because they were all Bogut IV
Hello, I'm here. Yeah. So that you would cut going to a clip?
No, no. So no. So I'm saying that this Kony thing, the first
thing we said was, oh, that's bogus, all those hits. And of
course, what happens is, yeah, the story started coming.
Remember, there wasn't like a weekend of everyone saying, Oh,
my God, this is viral. It's a viral sensation. And then of
course, it really started get hits, because people like, Oh,
check this thing out whatever was going on. But yeah, it was
totally gamed, and we're kind of seeing the proof now that
YouTube is now going back in and penalizing people for for fake
hits. And oh, good. And about time, hundreds of millions of
hits. Yeah. But I would love to go, we should we should figure
out what happened to that guy with a cold. Well, you
know, here's the thing, you know, you all these at this time
of year, all these news networks have all these retrospectives,
they will bring any of this stuff up. They're not going to
talk about Mary Kennedy being hanged this, you're not going to
talk about the Kony phenomenon this year, you're not going to
do any of this stuff. Are they especially not going to talk
about that school in Cleveland or the Cleveland area. It's just
amazing to me. And the one story, of course, that they
never bring up, which is a one that was was brought up gets
brought up only by Democracy Now. And the clip of it and this
week, we bring this up constantly, but the clip is you
want to play as Jim Crow lives.
Okay, today, there are more African Americans under
correctional control, whether in prison or jail, on probation or
on parole than the word enslaved in 1850. And more African
American men are disenfranchised. Now, because of
felon disenfranchisement laws than an 1870, a legal scholar
and civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander has argued in
her recent book that although Jim Crow laws have been
eliminated, the racial caste system that set up remains
intact, it's simply been redesigned. And now racial
control functions through the criminal justice system.
You know, when people are released from prison, and have a
criminal record, they are discriminated against for the
rest of their life and employment for the rest of their
life. They gotta check that box and employment applications
knowing that application is likely going straight to the
trash,
sometimes not even convicted. If so, you were arrested? Yes,
absolutely. And in public housing, you can be barred from
public housing, just based on an arrest. You don't even have to
be convicted people returning home from prison want to return
to their children or their families, their families, risky
eviction, just by allowing their loved ones to come home to them.
Under federal law, you're deemed ineligible for food stamps for
the rest of your life if you've been convicted of a drug felony.
And unfortunately, many states have now opted out of the
federal ban on food stamps for drug offenders. But it's still
the case that 1000s of people can't even get food food stamps,
because they were once caught with drugs.
That's right. That's right. Now why should we mention that the
only people who mentioned that are the Chinese and Russia who
say that we are huge human rights offenders and then you
know, of course everyone goes Whoa, whoa, you stupid rooskies
Oh, you Chinese Don't say that about us?
Well, the Chinese do have a point because we call them as
y'all that run in prison camps and labor camps. And the numbers
don't don't bear it out. We're the ones with the with the
prison Canada we're the ones that have federal company or
companies with the name federal in them that that by prisoners
to work for 10 cents an hour.
You telling me Federal Express has prisoners
now? Maybe.
Let me let me do it before you because I know you want to do a
few more of these to round out the year and I think that's a
good idea. Let me give you just a couple of reports here from
from Euro land, where things of course are not going well as you
know The guards list, which is also I would say not really
covered well in the United States at all, is still on fire
there in Greece.
Politicians from a number of parties are calling for the law
that protects ministers in Greece from prosecution not to
apply to former Finance Minister George pepper Constantino, the
51 year old who negotiated the country's bailout in 2010. is
accused of removing the names of three of his relatives from the
so called Lagarde list
How awesome was it going there? I mean those guys man they would
like you know, like three of his his family members all call him
Constantine new proper you whatever, and just take them off
the list I fantastic. That was great now though, is you know,
there isn't a kind of like an alternative economy is starting
to starting to crop up in, in Greece. As happens, you know,
people are survivors. And since they can't afford heating oil
anymore,
news for austerity stricken Greeks is also proving to be bad
news for the environment. Specifically the air quality in
Athens. Wood has soared in popularity with many of the
city's residents using it to heat their houses.
So they're just burning wood now. burning wood in their
houses and it's causing, it's causing like this smoke
over there just putting up a fire in the middle of the of the
living room. I guess they
must have something you know, but they're cold. That cold over
here, so there's just burning wood. But the little the soccer
teams have resorted to a new form of sponsorship, which is
quite innovative.
The beautiful game has a colorful new backer in tough
times who else to turn to but the local brothel and
unconventional sponsor, but Villa erotica has kept the team
on the pitch. For matches, the players must turn down with
neutral shirts. The coach though says football is full of much
shady as sponsors.
So they've got the local brothel sponsoring the
the local soccer team to wear pink, it's a hookers on the
back.
It's just erotica.
That's very funny. I
like it. I think that's great. We should have that. Even in non
austere times. We just having
their a commercial operation they can you know, and it's
legal in some parts of the world.
Yeah. I mean, I know we're not a commercial outfit, but I
wouldn't mind if we had a brothel sponsoring the show or
donating.
We need some brothel donations. In more ways than one if you
know what I'm saying
a wink wink, nudge, nudge Say no more. What do you mean you just
got back from right now right
now? What do I do? So I got a couple more here from the right
to round out the year. Okay. The one at the top. The kidding me?
One? I can't remember what it is. Read the short you might as
well play that. Which one? Is it? The one at the top? It says
Are you kidding me? Oh, yes. Okay, got it.
So believe it or not, there's an app for apes, an outreach group
for iPads to zoos all over the country. The primates are using
them to paint and to color and scientists hope that they'll
eventually Skype with Apes at other zoos.
Are you kidding me? You know, do you ever see what an ape does
with Samsonite luggage? What are they going to do with these
pads?
I remember, remember this wasn't this when this clip came out?
Wasn't that just a blatant promotion for the iPad? Wasn't
that what we deconstructed it to be? It's a very old clip. I
don't think this is from 2012. I think it's
from 2012. I thought it was I thought it was older. It's
either Jan I think might have been January. Wow. And then I
have another one which is kind of interesting. Which was its
this was kind of depressing. This is holder our Attorney
General rationalizing at his speech in Northwestern. And this
came at again the first quarter of this year, rationalizing us
the precedent and his kill list.
With the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. The Obama
administration has offered its most expensive defense to date
of its policy authorizing the assassination of US citizens
abroad. In his speech at Chicago's Northwestern
University, Attorney General Eric Holder outlined what the
White House billed as the legal rationale for its claimed right
to kill us citizens who belong to al Qaeda or associated
forces. Holder said it's preferable to capture suspected
terrorists when possible, but claimed the government also
reserves the right to use lethal force. Specifically, Holder said
the US can target those who play an operational role in attacks
that pose an imminent threat.
We must also recognize that there are instances where our
government has the clear authority and I would argue the
responsibility to defend the United States with the
appropriate and lawful use have lethal force. This principle has
long been established under both US and international law. In
response to the attacks perpetrated, and the continuing
threat posed by al Qaeda, Taliban and associated forces,
the Congress has authorized the president to use all necessary
and appropriate force against those groups. Because the United
States is in an armed conflict. We are authorized to take action
against enemy belligerents under international law. The
Constitution empowers the president to protect the nation
from any imminent threat of violent attack. An international
law recognizes the inherent right of national self defense
none of this is changed by the fact that we are not in a
conventional war
when moves or drone. That's right. Go yet no one talks about
that anymore.
No, and you don't see it in the retrospectives on the media.
They're more talking about holder going on about this or
even the the fact that we killed that guy. And the thing is, he
says the Taliban is like a direct threat to guess what gave
her was direct threat to the nation while
you're on that for just one second, just under the the beat
the BBC. And I caught a bit of this. I just want to play the
opening. They did a whole a panorama. It's a very it's a
pretty good BBC show. They did a whole thing about drone warfare.
in Waziristan, which of course we call before you ever heard of
it before in your life. We said watch for this was the era
storm, which is where the pipeline
was actually, you. Yeah, you spotted that one way early.
Yeah. Okay. All
you have to do is just see where they're laying, pipeline, the
pipeline. So here's the BBC, but they don't ask the central
question.
It's a weapon that kills its target by remote control 1000s
of miles away. It's a very humane type of warfare given the
ugliness and, and the killing that warfare entails. America
says its drones are destroying al Qaeda protecting Western
lives.
As great as a Taliban shooting into the air, my favorite this
thing is kept on a very tight leash. to it. Drones are killing
civilians, women and children as well. As children lose their
lives, then the battle for the hearts and minds is immediately
lost. Tonight the secret war that's angered a whole nation.
Is it making us any safer? This is completely counterproductive.
It actually helps the militants to recruit people. So what they
don't ask and then I watched this whole thing. It's in the
shownotes for seven for that any show notes.com. They don't
actually ask why we're droning people in Waziristan. So you
listen to no agenda, you know why it's protecting the
pipeline. But there's there's not there's no question
whatsoever about why this is happening. And how in the world
this can make any difference to us here. And by the way, it's
not a declared war. It's just not even the army. It's the CIA
doing this stuff. Oh, I'm sorry. That will be wrong to have that
in our retrospective
and have that and I like to use the word humane. It's things you
mean.
Oh, well, you know, we don't make you suffer. We just kill
you right out.
Dima lievable give me my last the last about play this so
don't get too boring. I there's you know, we these
retrospectives are. It's nice to look back. I have
known that you were going to do this. I would have done like
some music we could have done like we can do like Don Lemon
does. It's like 2012 was really a fantastic year. Yeah. And then
we can do we could do all kinds of like Charlie Sheen freaked
out. Remember that winning, winning, winning?
Oh, yeah, we could have put Charlie Sheen. And there's also
the one I do have a clip of Lindsay Lohan
did Dickens and Liz and really sucked and went crazy. And now
you mean,
the one that I think you may have forgotten is the clip that
I have, which is here is is where they go to Haiti to bring
in de worming medicine for the children of Haiti. While the
Clintons are building their hotel in the north side. Kids
have worms like dogs.
It's been great to be able to help out Aaron Jackson and
planting peace by doing some fundraisers. I've gotten to
introduce him to two people and to help raise money and just
help his organization really get moving these the amazing guy
who's doing all the really hard work and you know, give him the
cash and just let him go do what he does best.
Have four or five orphanages in Haiti and I also went out when
they distributed the deworming medication out in the rural
villages and towns near are distributing food aid all around
the country so many kids can, you know, eating their fill, but
because they're so filled with worms are unable to digest and
process that food. So it's really just kind of a waste. You
do worm a kid and the worms shoot out within usually 24 to
48 hours.
Me meanwhile, this just in the US State Department as of today
is warning against travel to Haiti because of recent reports
of killings, robbery, and infectious disease. Ottawa is
also urging Canadians to exercise a quote, high degree of
caution because of high crime rates in various parts of Haiti.
The goal of these people, the goal,
it's amazing and that meanwhile,
the hotels are open, the cruise ships are arriving. You can you
can go to Haiti as long as it's in an organized fashion. And you
stay in one of the sanctioned hotels. This is basically saying
don't go on your own Shizen No, no, no, no and,
and finally, the last clip would be this Di Di Di clip from which
is a Facebook post which again, need some rest some some, you
know, I like to see this kind of retrospective elsewhere.
Did shooter are just now emerging. Classmates describe
lane as an outcast who had been bullied. It's unclear why he
allegedly opened fire but in late December, he posted a poem
on his Facebook page that read he longed for one thing the
world to bow at his feet and ended ominously die. All of you.
Okay, another uplifting subtext story. Anyway, that was the kid
in Cleveland. Okay, die. Don't think I quite remember that was,
Oh, my goodness. Well, that's it, John. Apparently, we find
things more interesting than the mainstream media as it comes to
retrospective of the year past. We we have a very twisted sense
of of importance, apparently,
we have a sense of, it's not even twisted. It's what people
really should, you know, be thinking about and analyzing and
trying to figure out what is what is it they're trying to put
what wool? What type of wool? Are they trying to pull over our
eyes and why? And I think from the beginning of this show, like
the item you mentioned, with the with the credit card thing being
a scam, so you can keep the high interest rates and they don't
they get stuck with the fraud charges. There's a classic
example that's not discussed.
Exactly. Well, we hope to do a lot more of the deconstruction
for you in 2013. John, do you have any new year's resolutions
since I won't speak to you until the new year? Oh, I don't know.
Yeah, clean my office. All right. Well, I wish you a very
safe transition, my friend. Thank you stay away from those
rational hope
that you're back in Austin by the end of January. Yeah.
Wouldn't that be nice? Well, we're hoping that as well. And
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