a4 paper is ugly. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, May 8 2014. It's time for your Gitmo nation media
assassination episode 615. This is no agenda, kicking off
another period of media disruption, hey, I don't know,
this disrupted we go. Kicking off another period of media
disruption from FEMA Region six here in the Travis heights
hangout in Austin tea house in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry, from Northern
Silicon Valley where I'm still fascinated by 1956. I'm John C.
Dvorak. bobbin. Buzzkill.
Alrighty, it's the new system. John, that's all just getting
used to it.
But you do you elbowed it? No. Well,
the cart machine is in a different spot on the table now.
The cart machine. Yeah. And about 1956. Do
you remember? Back in the old days, you had the actual cart
machine, and I had this at college?
Yeah. And you had a you had a thing that spun around and had
all the carts in it.
Right. But then in the 80s, and 90s. Before we got computerised
studios, you had the eight track cart,
which was basically it was a four track it was one of the it
wasn't an eight track. It was
an eight it was the housing the housing of an eight track
ascent, it was similar, similar. Yeah, the system was similar,
except the tape was on a loop. Right? And you could get a you
know, a 62nd card or a five minute card or a 30 minute card,
and you had to erase them. Remember the bulk eraser?
Yeah. Big giant magnet. Fantastic.
But before that, you didn't have the automatic card machine where
the roller pin would pop up. The minute you inserted the card,
you actually had a lever. So you put the cart in and then you had
a lever. You're getting it back. You pulled it. Yeah. And then
that would bring the rubber wheel up. And then when you hit
the button, it would it would go. Yeah, so anyway, so our cart
machine
virtual does this sound like to old geezer?
Hello? Yeah, we are too old geezers. That's part of the
charm.
No, no. Yeah, it is nothing charming about it.
It's totally charming.
Who told you this? I
I'm a radio pronounced to cater professional. I know how these
things work. I renounce
dedicated. That's what
I know what people like? Well, anyway, I've been monitoring all
the news channels. And obviously with everything going on in the
world, it is very clear that Monica Lewinsky is the top of
the news.
Yeah, apparently.
No wonder people listen to
our show. My thesis is that it's Elizabeth Warren that made this
happen.
And I'm not going to talk about it. I just refuse
I think is very important because Elizabeth for me,
because I'm still promoting the Elizabeth Warren.
A scenario Pocahontas programme.
I don't know why I keep forgetting to call it.
You know, one day someone's gonna say hey, man, that's
totally racist. You guys are racist you caught on in
Pocahontas. It raises you Well, I
have this I got a I got some flack from some joker because I
was critical. I blocked him by the way.
I always watch you reply to someone, but you didn't say
blocked?
I did in this case. You did not. I
didn't see that.
I think you should look again. Whenever you're blocked, I just
hashtag blocked. Okay, and so I found this this medley of and we
should maybe start the show with it because it's kind of amusing.
You have to
you know, it's funny this all of a sudden, I don't know where it
appeared. But this thing you can see where something goes viral.
It just exploded into my mailbox and I have the clip as well of
course the problem
with it is there's no kind of a setup for any of his lines and
you'll miss a few of them because it's just popping them
one after another but but there's a couple of beauties in
here. You can't miss it so you have to set it up so people know
what the hell we're gonna list. Yeah, this is Al Sharpton bought
he can't read from the teleprompter and then he also
can't pronounce words.
say the least.
Yeah, you put the two together and you get this.
But resist we much.
We must. They're all giddy about a shutdown the tortoise in the
race, co author of Kubrick's lead singer Bono friend dry
ships. We suspect Jaha Sanaya of Rush Limbaugh Rush Limbaugh Rush
Limbaugh the show rush Lombard hosts Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Santa Maya is Michael is Mike McCurry. Eat yesterday and
Tony and Tony Nene Scalia, Kim Kardashian and the Republican
candidates both K Ro And Ben Ghazi we rank behind locked VG
our la vita first. Kazakhstan Kazakhstan. Two college students
in Beijing is giving lunch at Chipotle in Iowa is appropriate.
The GOP Tax Day Giveaway to millionaires Why was traffic
problems email sent by a mental projection agency and what's the
sequestration has done?
Yeah, and at the very end, which is a visual gag, which you cut
off as well. It's like he almost throws up on camera.
Did you get something he had the hiccups or something?
No real confrere
Hey, guys, my favourite they left that one. Yeah, that's my
favourite.
And also I did the ones I liked the best. Were three there three
of them. I liked the instead of saying Latvia he says the la
vita environmental projection agency, environmental protection
agency may be a top and then the Chipo let well, who
Brizzy Kubrick is also kind of interesting. And and then the
Chief Justice. So Sonia Sotomayor
what a douchebag Yeah, let me just give him a douchebag
so I've come up with this thesis Yeah. That you don't want to
come up with a thesis that foxes is really run by Democrats of
course I'm beginning to think that they've turned on the big
guys really are he always has traditionally been a Republican
I think this that MSNBC is a Republican. They're just mocking
this is all mockery. leaves this why would they leave this guy
on? I mean, anybody else? Anybody else who was black,
anybody else who's white anybody else who's Hispanic? That is Al
Sharpton would have been fired by now
to be fair, MTV also kept Pauly Shore on the air for a long
time.
There is a certain shodhan froideur of executives.
So yeah, it's I don't know if it's necessarily a it's like a
bet. Like, like someone up at the office had a bet pay is like
Trading Places. The usual. I bet we can take this total bonehead
and put them on the and still get ratings, the usual bet $1
Something like posibility, something like that.
Okay, well, that was very funny.
Not so funny. Is
the total actually, I should play the jingle I guess it is
trash.
This is Nigeria. The Boko Haram the kidnapping, which of course
we identified three, almost four weeks ago, but was nowhere on
the media radar. Well, of course, that's a little
understandable. From the media perspective, a no one had given
the memo. You know, the memo was like, Hey, you gotta get it be
all over this now. switch gears. There's also no there's no
video, you know, like we had the the South Korean ferry. I mean,
that was cool. You know, had kids dying and live with you
know, we had text. Mom, I love you know, this is what TV
executives live for. You see this thing sink in you got
divers on the spot, live show live video. You know this mean?
You take 200 brown people on a boat or 200 brown people in
Africa. You take the one with the live video. Right?
Absolutely. And that's when they did that's really took them
three, three weeks, four weeks to get to this story. Yeah. And
in fact, the stories I actually developed further and they
haven't even gotten to that part. Yeah. Which really kind of
surprises me and I think they could get more sympathy for the
for the shooting. I do have a Boko Harem kind of update from
France 24. And they cover this thing. They're the ones who
covered it from the beginning.
And to manage that Islamic militants who have triggered
international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270
Nigerian school girls have now opened fire on a busy
marketplace in the country's northeast. It's estimated that
as many as 300 people were killed in the assault. A
shoppers took advantage of cooler evening temperatures
early on Monday evening, in the town of gamba, in a gala on the
border with Cameroon or phosphine count has spoken to
local journalists and we're back at Rambi
toll has risen to over 300 residents, some local Officials
so far a while ago said that there have been 10 people that
were killed in the attack. And the attack really, I mean
depicts the weakness of the Nigerian security forces in
combating Boko Haram.
Yeah. There's a couple of things wrong with this story. Do you
have any analysis that you want to get to first?
No, all I want to do is make fun of John. Good boy. Good luck,
Jonathan.
Good boy. Good boy. Good boy, Johnny, D. Okay, so there's a
couple things wrong with this. First of all, when this
happened, now, we're going back almost four weeks. The reason
why these girls were available to even be kidnapped, even
though most schools were closed. For security reasons. These
girls had been brought back for a test
by this school.
And that was kind of convenient to just have them all sitting
there ready to go. Then they there was the mass abduction.
Then we got the news. The people have forgotten this. We got the
news. Oh, we've recovered them all. We have them all back. And
then that lasted a couple of days. And then the Nigerian
official said, Oh, I'm sorry. Redo. We don't have them all
back. That makes me very suspicious as to what the what
really happened at all. And who was really we've we've seen a
couple of sad faces. You know, I've seen lots of stock photos
all over the place. Oh, oh, look at this poor girl. You know,
she's a sex slave now. But we again, we have no video of
anything. We have nothing.
And it's not as if they don't have cell phones in Africa. Oh,
yeah.
Not um, there's none of that they no, no, there's none of
that. There's no texting mama. I love you. None of that. Nothing.
And it bothers me that they said, Oh, we got them back. Or
we thought it it or, and then I'm sorry. No, we didn't.
That bothers me. Now.
Let's look at well, first, let's go to President Obama, who was
interviewed by the epitome of news journalism,
Al Roker
who I guess happened to be at the White House anyway to get
his programming for the I'm sorry
to get his underwear and his underwear back if you guys watch
that get I'm sure
they invited a slew of Wedeman to come out to be indoctrinated
get their their programming for the National Climate Assessment.
So that's why Allah was there now sits down with the
President.
Hello, hello, Al. What happened to
Chien again? Yes, it's
a damn card machine.
Nigerian President accepted the administration's offer for help
to find and rescue these these young girls. What are your
thoughts on that?
Well, look, this is a terrible situation. Boko Haram this, by
the way, that's
such a great question. We fund it the President said, well,
that totally sucks. What kind of question is that? What are your
thoughts on that? Oh, I think it's no good Al. That's just
dumb. This is more. It's almost like asking. Going to Elton John
and saying, so what is the song about your song? You know, it's
like stupid idiot. This guy is offered for help
to find and rescue these these young girls. What are your
thoughts on that?
Well, look, this is a terrible situation. Boko Haram, this
terrorist organisation that's been operating in Nigeria has
been killing people and innocence, civilians for a very
long time. We've already always identified them as one of the
worst local or regional terrorist organisations there is
out there. I can only imagine what the parents are going
through. So what we've done is we have offered and it's been
accepted help from our military and law enforcement officials,
we're going to do everything we can to provide assistance to
them. In the short term, our goal, obviously is to help the
international community and the Nigerian government as a team to
do everything we can to recover these young ladies. But we're
also going to have to deal with the broader problem of
organisations like this that can cause such havoc in people's day
to day lives. Yeah.
Okay. So let's review we have when we had Kony, Joseph Kony
who has been kidnapping and enslaving children and selling
them as sex slaves for decades. We had to have some Bogota viral
video campaign before finally we sent our consultants
into the Congo.
But this sale all it took was just I don't know some message
went out and boom, we're there now. Who is coming to the
rescue? The United Kingdom is coming to the rescue and the
United States because That's what we do. Let's listen to the
team that we're sending here. Spokes hold Jay Carney this
morning Secretary Kerry called Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan to reiterate our offer of assistance. President
Jonathan welcomed Secretary Kerry's offer to send a team to
Nigeria to discuss how the United States can best support
Nigeria in its response to this horrific event. These
kidnappings our embassy is prepared to form an entire
interdisciplinary team that could provide expertise on
intelligence investigations and hostage negotiation could help
facilitate information sharing and provide victim assistance.
It would include US military personnel, law enforcement
officials with expertise in investigations and hostess
hostage negotiations, as well as officials with expertise in
other areas. Oh, that may be helpful to hear in government in
its response.
Other Other areas. What could that be? I'm going to think
accounting and finance.
That's my guess. Yeah, that's
what doubt that's the ticket.
You know, I like to follow these things. I like to poke around
and we are talking about the board the northeastern Borno
state region of Nigeria, were in December of 2013. This is six
months ago, a huge crude oil discovery in the Lake Chad Basin
was announced. And the contract for developing this is in hands
of the NNPC, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
which is a joint venture with Chevron, yeh, and shell, shell,
a shell shell, of course, being primarily British, along with
Royal Dutch. And the problem is, in the past couple of months,
there's this discrepancy of $49.6 billion that the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation did not remit to the
shareholders. This is very annoying. So I'm going to think
that they're sending a couple of accountants up there. And maybe
we should talk to Johnny Johnny be good about some regime
change, because clearly things are not working out the way we
had originally envisioned in the partnership deal. So I'm calling
bullcrap on this. There is
some a few things to back you up. One is people have to
realise this, as Boko Haram was never deemed a terrorist
organisation. No. All the while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of
State No, never was because people had bitched and moaned
about it. So it's possible that they were working in cahoots
with our people, in some way, shape or form. You don't know
that good stuff is too shady. Did you see the video of this?
So suppose that head of Boko Haram
Yeah, it's like the sheiks the guys from Wu Tang Clan.
He's got the shakes. He's got
pirates. Oh, he has Tourette's. It's the Tourette's terrorist.
It could be but it's it looks. Yeah, well, I thought
Parkinson's, at first, but it could be Tourette's. Because he
violent. There's,
there's there's a lot of really weird, really weird things that
are that's going on. But first of all, the name Boko Haram does
not actually mean Western education is a sin. This was
this was only just two days ago finally changed on the wiki
page, which has been there for as long as the page has been up.
And it's much more complicated than that. But you're right,
Boko Haram was not deemed a terrorist organisation. And not
even in less than a year ago, I think.
And I noticed how Obama hedged his bed when he says they're
sort of the worst terrorist or is it locally? Yeah, he locally,
Minnesota the local terrorist, right, whatever that means.
So when you have the two countries that are jumping in to
go help, also heavily involved in the oil exploration with a
missing let me just say that again. $49.6 billion. You know,
that's enough to send a couple of experts. Yeah, I think we
need to go look up on those guys see what's going on over there.
And add to that, that, you know, they they recovered the girls
and then they didn't recover the girls. It's in the guardian. The
story is very clear. We got him back in the next day. Oh, well,
I'm sorry. We didn't get him
back. Yeah, well, that all played out before the mass media
the United States picked up the story at all. So that's not in
the narrative, right? It got into the official mainstream
media narrative
but that of course is the only kind of thing that we would look
at at all there's no mention of this massive massive oil fight
and this this this only was December 2013 is brand new, and
it's huge Of course,
it seems like an unlikely coincidence specialists in the
area where the girls were taken
coincidence I think not
all right, well, I guess that makes the show worthwhile for
everybody out there yeah.
Thanks for listening everybody you can take that and you can
just but it's fun though. When you when you look at these
things and and you just resolve it really only it was one Google
search for me. Here's here's how you do it. Here's the here's how
no agenda does it. Nigeria?
Oil. Yeah. It's an old trick
actually work. That's actually that's not entirely true. I
looked at the region, the Borno region, and I did Nigeria Borno
oil.
You Oh, you did three words. Oh, man. Uh, three words. A lot of
work into that one? Yeah.
How much do they know buddy?
It's funny that no other show does that. Or any
other news outfit for that matter?
Such as Goodluck Jonathan character. Yeah. He be he was a
general or some Generalissimo or something like that. Before he
became the head honcho. They they're gonna rouse him. There's
no doubt about it. He's Yeah, he's a do nothing loser. And he
had this and he will
do we will we have elections or a referendum? What do you what
do you think is the best way to do it? Or an unfortunate
accident?
car bomb that could be
to be an accent and maybe the most dramatic way of doing it.
Because otherwise is a big hassle. Yeah.
Doing elections it sucks. It's a hassle. Oh,
Rommel. Do it. Right. Whatever the case, he's, he used to dress
up like a Petraeus.
Oh, with all these metal hanger pictures
of him. Most of his pictures. He's got the stupid hat on. And
he's always wearing usually black and he's got this dumb
hat. He's guys obviously just a scammer. He's probably he may he
may actually leave the country with the 49 billion has anything
to do with him? Which you'd have to assume it does?
Yeah. Well, if you look at the the website for the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation, and they kicked the Chinese out
in 2009 70 of the Chinese were in and they got kicked out then.
If you if you look at the people who are running it, there's this
one woman and she's never really classy looking. And she's the
chairman and you can just it's she's like Imelda Marcos vibe,
just just dripping off the page. I'm accusing her of stuff I know
nothing about but you look like, okay. You're the Minister of
Energy. Yeah. Alrighty. You know what I mean? just rattle your
jewels when you're ready for the meeting to start.
It's not a diff. It's not impossible to identify these
characters. I mean, you may be jumping, you know, she may be
the nicest person in the world, and you're completely wrong.
Oh, and some of the biggest crooks I know, are the nicest
people that has nothing to do with it. They're nice, same
as you might be the nicest people and not a crook tech is
possible. But generally speaking, if they could look
like a crook, smells like a crook. And it's good. You know?
Yeah. Marcos is a good example. Many ways you can sign up for
the bank. So I was listening to the NDA meetings. Yeah. Good. So
they were doing it. And what I got out of it, I didn't get that
much out of it. There were a date to a couple of days worth
of these things in there. They putting all these amendments
through and they they're doing these, they're slamming these
amendments in as, you know, pre kind of pre approved.
And what exactly was the title of this? This is on C span, of
course, what exactly was the title of this meeting?
It was the appropriations or an NDA, which was something from
the
and this is the National Defence Authorization Act, which is
yeah, they have all the money that gets put in renewing
it and adding new stuff and pushing things around. And
the main news that came out was there's no change to the
indefinite detention clause. That remains.
Yeah, that and they've added a bunch of new stuff, which was
kind of interesting. You can only kind of pick up me you
eventually go and look at it. Look, this stuff up on the
things finally published, but you can pick up some pretty
funny things. I have two clips, they're both pretty long, but
they discussed the block of amendments that are going in.
And in other words, they're going to be pre approved. So
they're going to just be read, generalised. You're going to say
the amendments on so it's about this amendment, so and so it's
about that, and then they're going to generalise about all
these amendments. And then they're going to say yes, and
then they're going to go to another block, but I have the I
think the one you want to play is the block of NDA amendments
with the earmark as the head of the of the committee made a big
point. There will be no earmarks, no earmarks, and
there's an earmark in here of offering and explaining his
unblocking members amendments.
Chairman I call up and unblock package number one comprised of
the following amendment number 16 by Mr. Wilson to amend the
contracting authority of the Defence Advanced Research
Projects Agency. And then the number 21 by Mr. Nugent
concerning the Navy laser weapons system onboard the USS
Ponce, a member number 59 by Mr. Cook concerning briefing
requirements by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency,
and then that number 67 are two by Miss Shea Porter concerning
test capabilities for aerospace applications, amendment number
104 by Mr. lamborn directing a briefing on the need for near
term counter electronics capability, and then the number
107 by Mr. Land born regarding a review of the Air Force network
centric solutions to contract amendment number 129 are won by
Mr. Lamb born regarding a plan for operational testing of the
high energy laser mobile demonstrator, and then the
number 133 are won by Mr. Buffet regarding a briefing on the
development of a vaccine for Equine Encephalitis.
Hold on, I have that that's not an earmark. And
that number 174 by Ms. Gabbard, regarding a plan for improving
Cyber Situational Awareness tools 180
What what is that a web browser? It was this Cyber Situational
Awareness toy?
It's it's a it's a desktop. It's a it's a Oh, it's a
dashboard, a dashboard
are one by Mr. Johnson regarding a briefing on improving the
department's participation with historically black colleges and
universities. And then the number one ad for by Mr. Johnson
regarding an increase to historically black colleges and
universities for $10 million. amendment number 219. By Mr.
Carson. Regarding Illinois, wouldn't
it be cool if it's just all of a sudden was like, we have an
amended by Mr. Carson. This is for $10 million for the media
assassin nation true in the no agenda.
It's an area that would be that would be the Mr. Hammond
nation have a reporting requirement for Defence Research
Facilities, amendment number 230 By myself striking section 1062
from the bill and amendment number 234. r two by Ms. Sanchez
regarding a briefing on research and development for missile
propulsion systems.
Awesome. So they
package these up. Good stuff in there. And they call them on
blocks. I kept hearing in block on block on block. So I actually
called landlords office and asked him about this.
Oh, really? Yeah. And wait,
did you did you say Hello, I'm John C. Dvorak. Surely you've
heard of me? From the no agenda show, you know, who is your
nemesis? Now I didn't. And unlike Google, they actually
pick up the phone, right?
They pick up the phone. That's it, which is way to go. So you
call him you get one of the systems that knows what they're
doing because it's their senators and congressmen don't
Okay, let's see what they do. It's called unblock. And it's
a hello senator's office.
Yeah, this is I got a question for you.
Yes. Who am I speaking with?
What difference does it make?
Well, sir, for the record, we need to know who I'm speaking
with, but how can I be I can I assist you, sir.
I'd like to know what this is what this is about all this
blocking on non blocking and blocking these packages. These
amendments? What is going on? Well, sir,
if I can take your details, I'll be sure to get an answer back to
you.
Yeah, not giving you any details you have priek.
Is that kind of how the conversation went? No, I
didn't at all. Oh, I just asked him specifically what was what
was the procedure for doing these turns in his car? He had
to spell it out for me because I couldn't figure it out by
listening to the tape. He says yeah, it's on block. It's e n
dash b Loc, which is a term that means on
lock I'd like French. Yeah, they usually use in French in our in
our Senate, apparently. So for that.
So the idea is, is that the the chairman and the opponent, the
Republican chairman and the Democrat,
you should ask him, when you have dinner you go on toddler
with your own block, I
can get the answer from this guy. I'm not trying to give him
shit. So he says they the two guys sit there the two bosses
have on his part and they go through the die think that this
was the thing you could do a funny skit with because it must
go you know, they bring up all the amendments and they stick to
them decide on which ones are going to go on block. And
they're going to then they package them. It's called an on
block package. And so they says what do you think of this one
bill? Just spent more money. Oh yeah, that's good. Yeah. Put
that in the blog stamp stamp of approval. So they package them
up and I don't know why they just don't package all hundreds
of them up, but they do them in groups and then there's no
debate because there's no unnecessary debate because both
sides agree beforehand and then they have other amendments that
come up which they do debate and usually that they vote down Well
anyway, so Part Two are the one that's actually says block one
this is block one this other little list has got all the
really cool stuff in it.
I call amendment on block pack is number one comprised of the
following amendment number 25. Ms Lawsky to amend section one
to 15 Concerning the weather satellite following system
amendment number 51 Revision one by Mr. Bridenstine concerning
Russian global navigation, satellite system ground
monitoring stations
basically someone wants to build a GPS receiver
I'm not sure what that you know, we're gonna have to go back and
look at some of these because what is
well the Russians are have their own GPS satellite system and it
just he just literally said it's the global it's the Russian
global system monitoring station. Right so it's a house
with a GPS receiver in it with a dude so I'm gonna laptop with a
dude sitting there is you're
worn by Mr. Bridenstine. Concerning Russian Global
Navigation Satellite System ground monitoring stations,
stations, multiple stations. How about some smartphones just
60 Revision nearly $1 Right yeah. Oh, yeah. By Mr. Brooks of
Alabama concerning conventional prompt strike systems. Myth
number 70 Revision one by Ms. Sanchez concerning briefing on
basics due on gravity bombs, gravity bombs.
I had as opposed to the bombs that fall upwards.
The gravity bomb which I thought was cool sounding because it's
like you blows up and the gravity disappears and everyone
floats off into space. That'd be great. Yeah. No, bomb is a is a
tactical nuke. That is like can be flown on an F 16 has been in
the arsenal apparently since the 70s or something there were more
recent versions in the 90s they're old. But they keep them
around and these are the ones that they keep losing you know I
want to Oh, yeah.
Remember that? It's the Broken Arrow is what it is. Yeah, those
broken arrow.
So the grab it I liked the name of it.
Yes. Good. Good. Write that down for a possible show title.
gravity bomb
me NUMBER 72 by Ms. Sanchez concerning the retirement of
ICBM silos amendment number 77. Revision one by Mr. Turner
concerning a study on Centre of Excellence on deterrence for
NATO member number 82 Revision one by Mr. Turner concerning the
deployment of certain theatre missile defences to assure our
NATO allies member number 92 Revision by Mr. Larsen
concerning a briefing by the director of Naval Reactors
member number 93 by Mr. Larsen concerning a briefing on the
nuclear weapons budget, member number 141 by Mr. Forbes and
Miss Hanabusa concerning the missile defence cooperation with
our allies and Asia, member number 145 by Mr. Cook to
Section 215 concerning commercial satellite weather and
data member number 4141 Revision one by Mr. Lamb born concerning
an update to the joint staff assessment on the military
impact of a code of conduct for space activities, nah.
Stop shooting shit in space.
This is the I mean code of con you when you listen to these
hearings, and they do they roll out these amendments. Yeah. You
just feel the money being so bad
that that last 20 seconds was probably $5 billion. And we
don't even know what they were talking about. Yeah.
Now this is where your taxpayer monies go into these crazy they
just spend and like, I mean, I don't even think they're aware
of how much so out of control this. Anyway, I was just
fascinated by this. And there was a there's a few things in
this whole in these hearings that were kind of interesting
that kept cropping up. There's a lot of gratuitous stuff. I
didn't get the clip because I couldn't find it after I know I
made the clip. There was something that we're gonna give
Israel some you know, we were what are we going to do with
this this system and they also did a bunch of I mean, there was
a lot of was that dome thing Iron Dome, Iron Dome was
disgusting. And just gratuitously a guy would come
out in fact one of them I think he may have been lamb born as a
matter of fact, whose office I called.
See, and whatever I have the clip
crew Bama new predator. They do have it could be Congress. No,
this is not it. But this Congress at his best is a money
clip international trade. The prominent Stopstopstop I don't
See just following directions.
I know I told you to stop. Anyway, he didn't maybe not
didn't clip but he goes on and on about Iron Dome and how great
it is. And we should just keep giving Israel more weapons. And
there was a, it was just a weird weird
couple of days. And I went on forever, huh? No conclusions.
No, no.
There's a couple I got an NDA cyber and lasers clip. Oh, wait,
it actually here's the good clip, play this NDA wrap up this
guy. This guy kind of wraps up. Doesn't at the beginning. He's
one of the I think he's the co chair or the or the majority co
chair. And he just kind of wraps up the whole thing. I think it
was another Monday, I thought the money going away. provisions
related
to cyber Science and Technology, Information Technology, Defence
Intelligence, special operations, counterterrorism and
irregular warfare. And without going into great detail among
the things we have provisions related to our providing
requiring an executive agent for cyber testing and training rage,
it ranges, some provisions related to cyber command,
including some independent assessments of cloud computing,
which has been an interest to us a number of members. Yes, yes,
because it's a cool buzzword. We need some new cloud computing
stuff. Hey, hey, you know what? We haven't purchased a plane at
it. Yeah, we haven't purchased any cloud computing yet. This is
not good. Everyone's talking about it. And I got my
constituents then need some cloud computing.
We have a number. As I mentioned, number of provisions
related to Defence Intelligence, provision provisions related to
biosecurity and bio defence. We fully support special operations
forces with the current fight in Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle
East and other areas, as well as continuing or extending some
important counterterrorism authorities and some authorities
which allows special operations to work with indigenous or
surrogate forces across the globe.
Excellent. Well, Brendon place across
the globe of be didn't realise we already run the
course I did. Where's the Empire we run into place. It's like a
lot of work, though.
Well, but we have a lot of people to keep busy. They're in
Washington, DC and the surrounding states. I'm looking
at you Delaware and Virginia, and Carolinas and yeah,
so they did a little bit in the last little clip I have is the
cyber and laser clip and I do want to talk about the laser
weaponry because I did a little research on that.
We need to do more. Always to make sure that we're exercising
maximum effort to defend our cyber networks. The Mark today
gets okayed for big a nose is clogged up for the lack of the
cocaine I have been having. And I got like this this this the
situs they go right is I can't get rid of it. I totally shut
What about the hospital sucks.
Hey, why don't we do some gunshots?
No good boy includes mandates that the Department designated
executive agency for cyber test and training ranges to
synchronise efforts across the department to ensure a robust
cyber test and training Hold on
a second. Did he say Robo cyber?
I don't know. Did he? Yeah, he said Robo such what is a
training range?
It's rotunno training range for Robo cyber. No. Yes. All right.
Backing up with listeners again.
And see for cyber test and training ranges to synchronise
efforts across the department to ensure robust cyber.
Yes. Okay. Training range to ensure synchronise efforts
across the department across the department of Robo cyber telling
you saying Robo. Yeah, I heard
it that but I can't, you know, because he was so clogged up
because they rolled muscle.
Let's listen to that executive
agency for cyber test and training ranges. to synchronise
efforts across the department to ensure a robust cyber rope. I
think your
eyes robust, robust cyber chat room agrees, robust cyber, but
just the fact that anyone uses the word cyber, let's be honest.
If you were working anywhere outside of government, and you
said yeah, no, I'm involved in cyber. Anyone who knows. Anyone
who's a technologist will look at Are you an asshole?
This is ludicrous. Nobody says that. No,
no. Yes. Yes, our entire of the representatives of the of the
American people I say this all the time cyber like is just some
thing where cyber if you ask any kid who's 20 means certain means
jerking off together over the webcam hey want to go cyber.
As to training further this mark also funds ongoing research and
development efforts in such areas as directed energy which
shows considerable promise and could truly redefine the future
of warfighting I believe that lasers directed energy are going
to be our our game changing technologies
Oh my favourite rolling back a little directed energy weapons
yeah that's my kind now you're talking my language because that
because that's what melted the the World Trade centres directed
energy weapon Yeah, you should take a look at that stuff from
above nice circles your burn there, boys, secure
warfighting. I believe that lasers directed energy are going
to be our our game changing.
Hey, baby, I got some directed energy for you by pads
technologies. And we'll do a great deal both in the present
and the future to make our warfighters even more effective
than they are. I want to particularly highlight the
Navy's efforts to move technologies like directed
energy out of the labs, into killing
people, good boys,
fields. I thank the Office of Naval Research and adamak
kullander in particular for their time attention leadership
in this area. Getting this game changing technology in the hands
of our nation, sailors who kill people will ultimately serve to
realise the dead bodies the promise of this research
investment
which means dead people chiefly pried up fried like cotton
roaches, there's more. Wait, there's more. There's more.
There's more. There's more. I like him a lot. I love this game
changing technology. You can fry people. It's really cool.
And Do ensure that the Department of Defense's r&d
enterprise is particularly its properly organised and
resourced. And that it has the authority is required to produce
the most bang for the buck.
All the boats fry for the for the frigate for the franc. I'm
talking about
land given the name of the guy. But they went on the trip I
didn't get is that they're going to give a bunch of these
experimental laser directed energy devices to Israel? Well,
of course, because they we haven't been able to get enough
people
to give them. You haven't seen a circumcision unless it's with a
directed energy weapon job.
So
crack myself up on that one. Yeah, you're correct. I'm
feeling much better. Can you tell?
So the demo? Yeah, you're kind of punchy. So the demo this
mobile demo thing, which is in one of the Arizona New Mexico is
a it's a good giant Humvee. You've seen these things. Yeah.
And then they put they put people, usually a couple
reporters in the field. And they point the microwave dish at
them, and they fry him. Well,
this this is a laser device, though. This is different. Oh,
it looks very similar, right. But it's a it's a big giant
laser that has like these gigawatt and not a gigawatt. But
it's a lots of energy. And it can heat up anything from a
distance. And supposedly it can go up and heat up a missile
coming in and turn it into it. I
don't know, they there's videos. I've seen it on YouTube. So I,
from the companies that make this I forget who did it. And
they show flying a plane in the sky. So the plane is flying.
It's a drone plane, it's I think it's an F, maybe an F 415. And
it's flying by remote control, basically just a shell of a
plane, but it's flying, and then they direct this thing. And it's
just fries.
Yeah, well, that's not what happens. At least not with the
ones that have currently they can heat them up and disable
them. And they can do that. And the idea is that they're
supposed to be targeting drones literally drones that have said
in other words, we get a bunch of people's which is going to
happen. You know, these who knows who the Sinaloa Cartel for
all we know by a bunch of drones have been flying around, and you
can nail them with one of these devices and cook the thing, and
it just falls out of the sky.
We know we know that the press is not going to have drones. Did
you see that? The press the collective press corps has been
suing the US government
tried to get drones for Yeah, that way you that's a great idea
because those little drones that they want, which are not, you
know, dangerous.
The FAA is not allowing it. I know. I know. They don't want
to facilitate taking photographs of moms. No, no, that
would be very bad. Of course, that'd be bad. Actually, I
wanted to poke into that. Something that happened two
weeks ago or a week and a half ago. All of the flight data
systems at major airports stopped working and the
information that we have is very very very minor we have almost
nothing you heard about this right that they grounded I don't
know anything about it. Yeah, they grounded all planes. Let me
see I have the report here.
A computer glitch that caused
air traffic chaos in western US states last week. The Federal
Aviation Administration has revealed the meltdown occurred
when software incorrectly thought a YouTube spy plane I
know I know the story yeah was on a collision course with other
planes I'm gonna call bullshit on that.
But there's something bold crappy about it because of for
one thing the YouTube is at 60,000 feet a and b Why is a
YouTube flying I thought they were all taken out of service
directed energy weapon EMP. John.
That was a test No, that's an interesting,
crazy theory.
I'm not the only one thinking this as a couple other people
who are at all did you think it originally or did you react on
this the first thing I thought immediately, like oh,
you you Okay, so the directed energy
weapon EMP. There was you watch you're gonna see more of these
things happening? exhibited. This is not like a an EMP where
you blow out everyone's you know, the all electricity. This
is the look, you just heard the appropriations we have directed
energy weapons. That we have this this is not you know, and
this is not like new.
So that would explain why, you know, if the YouTube was flying,
you'd get it up there. And then you'd have it weaponized to do
send something off? And then it would it would send it it would
do whatever it does could be just very targeted, you don't
know. And then,
and I don't believe it. It blew out software for a moment. I
think it blew out some radar systems, which is what you'd
want this EMP technology to do.
We did like, Oh, I'm sorry
that it looked like it was on a collision course. So the
software froze. What are they running it on a Commodore 64
When you Oh, wait, let's get the cassette tape to reload the
software, please.
This is also saying that there's never been a collision?
Because it would crash it.
Right. Exactly. The Oh, I'm sorry. The system crashed
because of someone who was on a collision course. No, no. This
is this and where is the press by the way on this? This is an
outrage. This is this is this answer is accepted. Oh, a
computer glitch ever since Obamacare healthcare.gov. Just a
glitch. Oh, it's a glitch.
Glitch thing was gotten into the public domain. I think before
Obamacare I
use it on Miki all the time. She's, you know, the the Next
and Previous links on my website. You know, it doesn't
work. It's a glitch.
Glitch.
It's a good word. Anyway, so back to the show these laser
devices, they got one ship outfitted with them. And they're
supposed to be able to take out incoming missiles and drones
have their drones floating around. And they can do it
quickly. But I have issues with the so called mobile device,
which is the ground based thing. It's on a truck.
You have issues. What do you mean? Like they might use it on
people
terms of why would you employ I can see it being on a ship
because the likelihood of somebody taking over the ship
and turning the weapon on on us is unlikely. But you got one of
these things on a truck and you organise it. I've seen enough
movies you organise,
quote of the day right there. I've seen enough movies, I know
how this works. I
can see how this works. You grab this thing and instead of
shooting up you just shoot your American soldiers left and right
with this device with this laser and just chop them up right
there. I just don't think this should be in the field, as it
were,
but this is not for the battlefield. John, what a
mistake you make. This is for the protests. This is for the
citizenry. This is to keep the citizens at bay we don't have to
crank the thing up all the way. It's just this it look we
already have that to me. There's no difference between using a
laser to fry people to keep them you know, because of course
they're not really going to fry them to a crisp you know, just
if you could but you heat someone up in Seattle at the you
know the protests. They use audio weapons that's just as
that's just as harmful and offensive. Yeah, yeah, it's just
a different kind of wave. It's sound waves instead of
microwaves but that's it's a total crime against humanity to
use that
and I was looking I was I was reading all this stuff. It is a
crime against humanity. They described a device which will
heat the outside of your device that heats the outside of your
skin to high temperatures and in May and burn it you know you get
I can't take it and you have to rush it run out Yeah. It and
they believe they don't like using or they don't like using
because they believe it might affect the you know like boil
your eyeball Is the millimetre wave device which is the scanner
used at the airport,
all they have to do is turn the metre up, turn it up and then
just, ya know, no one ever believes that when we say that
this is the same technique, it's the exact same technology. I'll
bet you l three makes it next next time yeah, you're you're in
that thing, which of course most no agenda listeners know all you
have to say is you can't raise your arms above your head. But
if you do go through that thing, and you and you grimace or you
like flip the bird
just turn the dial up. No little switch
and a
footswitch right. Oh,
my ass got hot. Yeah,
well, that's just lovely John. And of course, this all got in
just before the well let's let's put a different way. This is
part this is the American economy. So I'm we're laughing
about all these earmarks and the special amendments. But this is
how people the people who are employed stay employed is
because we're making this stuff and we sell it all over the
world and we start some wars to make sure we have customers this
is what we do. Let's not kid each other this is this is this
is the United States economy. This is the big bucks this is
the this is where the real money is.
And it's real money and it's big. It's a huge live zone.
Yeah. The only I would have to leave and renounce my
citizenship if I was truly against it. Yeah, no, I
think this people should consider that if they don't if
they can't get with the programme. But that doesn't mean
we can't complain about sir oh yeah, no, no, we have to because
the money could be you know, you could still you doesn't mean you
have to just throw money away which it sounds like to me that
they do a lot of
those I think that I think the directed energy energy weapons
is not money wasted.
That's cool. Yeah, until it's aimed at you.
I want one of those EMP so I can selectively disable Tesla's just
driving down like just flip a button and the Tesla goes blue.
It just dies on the spot. What happened? My desk anyway, but
here's a gear I am driving around Berkeley. And so we've
got
a lot of Tesla's in Austin by the way
Oh yeah. Oh anywhere there's a lot of high tech businesses
gonna be a lot of Tesla's because the cool car to own even
though the Bentley Continental is cooler, but that's another
story. I'm driving I'm coming out of this street over by
Berkeley bowl and I'm gonna take a left but it's it's you know, I
got a lot of stops and it's a lot of traffic, a lot of
traffic. So finally, the traffic starts to lead up and and then I
see a guy on the crosswalk and he's going to do the crosswalk
thing is going to stop all traffic, which gives me an
opportunity to make the left because he's under on the
crosswalk on the right and just as I'm going to pull out as this
guy walks in, a Tesla comes up and instead of stopping before
the crosswalk to let me through, he just goes all the way up and
blocks me. Oh, really? Yeah. Just sits and by himself because
the other guy behind you him was going to go into who I don't
know why I did that. So oblivious, and then the guy and
I can't get out again and now traffic's back, you know,
backing up behind the crosswalk, and so the guy gets out of the
crosswalk. Now the tonne of guys are waiting another five
minutes. Thank you Tesla. Guys who used to be the Dixon, the
Porsche are now in testing
Tesla's Yeah. That's alright. Because they're continuously
they're all going to get cancer. And the reason why is they have
worry. They're always worrying because you have this battery
management worry. I know you have it. I know that if
I drove I tested three or four electric cars. And you get you
get this white knuckle thing going on when this battery is
good, because the battery gauges are crap.
It's like you have this like your laptop where it says, Oh, I
have eight more hours left and then you look you know, 20
minutes later, six hours?
Or 10 minutes?
Yeah. As an example.
Yeah, it's the so you Yeah, well, I don't think it would be
even that but you're in an electrical field. Well, there
must be Gauss. I mean, all over I mean, you're in a whole car
is, you know, is wired with all this high voltage and you're in
the middle of it, that can't be healthy. Well,
I guess we'd like everything. Anyway, I of course, as always
want to thank you for your courage. And I'd like to say in
the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Adam curry. Also in the morning
to all the ships at sea, the boots on the ground, the feet in
the air, the subs in the water, and all the Dames and nights out
there and in
the morning to everyone there in the chat room. norgine
stream.com no agenda chat.net are artists Thank you very much
melodious owls. Brand new, I think to the to the artist
lineup melodious owls.
Sounds like a winery.
And thank you for the artwork for episode 614. We're at 615.
and can't wait to see what you guys come up with. I I've seen
the level improved since we've been talking a little bit more
about how important the album art is for the overall. Well not
then we should mention that one of the art pieces, which was
beautiful, which I should go look it up that one that has
that the new the new version of our logo that he designed. Oh,
yeah. And the vaccination needle on there. Yeah. We, I mean, we
were so close to what we wanted to pick it because it was the
best looking garden. Let's see who did that. It was just
gorgeous. But, but it just wasn't thematic enough. I mean,
that when we picked
here's the problem, I will let you in on a little secret when
we're choosing art. If we choose the title before we choose the
art, then the art for some unwritten rule. I don't know why
we do this. But I mean, yeah, we I don't know why we make this
up. But for some for some unknown reason. It let's say the
title is squirrels and donkey punch. I don't know where that
came from. If someone did the artwork with a squirrel and a
donkey, then we wouldn't choose
it. The artists
was such as CEAF. A. No, we have well, actually what we tend to
do, let's be honest about we start by picking the art. Not
always. But most of the time,
sometimes we look at the art and then when we get the title from
the arguments. It's a it's a process.
Yeah, it's sometimes if the title is so good that we can
watch it with the hilarious title. And then the art is the
same as the say the art is about the title. We won't use that art
is weird.
Exactly. Yeah. And I don't know why. Well, it's redundant,
I think is the reason. Now there's the picture of Michelle
Obama. Okay, holding up the sign of holding up the sign already
showing up in the arch. Now that's new. But what is the
point of that? Does anybody really think holding up a sign
with some stupid message on it doesn't have any effect on
anybody? Because Boko Haram is is like, on the web all day? No,
no, no, it just bugs me. Anyway. Go on with your thank yous.
Well, thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank
you. No, no, that Thank you. This programme is not Oh, man. I
read a piece and it was I think it was maybe in vice or Forbes
or one of these, one of these magazines that shit. And it was
about people not donating to NPR and how you were low life, cheap
as scum. That was essentially the message. But what was
incorrect? It was a parody.
But I don't know. Did you read this? Did
you see this? I read it Yeah, I can't remember where it was and
and I'm looking at it. I'm like, at what point does someone not
notice and I think people don't notice because they're so used
to it. That NPR National Public Radio K u t here in Austin. Good
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what the individual stations have for budgets gets $185
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So yeah, nice studios. By the way, I'm sitting here with with
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sound just as good, though, ironically,
as the crazy part. So that's the way we do it is if you're new to
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your credit, upfront. We read, since we don't have like
Hollywood, you know, if you're an executive producer, you get
the bang the actresses or actor whichever one you want. Yeah, so
we don't have any. We don't have any goodies. No hookers, no
blow. But we'll read your note.
Yeah, which is,
I don't know, might be as good. It seems very
fulfilling to a lot of people, and we appreciate it. And the
fact that you are providing value for us to give you the
value of our analysis, which I'm pretty sure, prove me wrong. You
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No, no, that's a known fact.
So let's thank a few of these guys, including our apparently a
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apparently, ITM John and Adam, find an enhanced Sanko to mile
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I don't know what he's doing,
by the way. The way he's doing this. That's okay. Six, easy 615
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So at this moment, he is still an Archduke. Yes, he's got you
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takes a lot of time he is
if I had a kid in college, he would be putting my kid through
college.
And he hopes you feel better soon. And apparently his karma
to you has paid off already.
I feel so much better. Thank you very much for asking. I have got
although now, Emma, our little our rent a kid are nice. Now
she's got the cough and the sniffles. See she picked it up
for me.
This isn't some virus or something as opposed to this
allergies. Well, no, I
didn't say it was just allergies, the allergies and I
got the virus on top of that, if you'll recall. Now, the sad
thing is Emma's leaving tomorrow.
Oh, she's gonna leave sick and breathe and brain
weather. Yeah. And I just taught her how to make the perfect
scotch and soda.
It's scotch and soda. Yeah, the perfect scotch and soda is
usually made with a good scotch but
yes, but you gotta have the right proportion and you know
the cubes and let's face it, when I say give me a scotch and
soda and it appears that's the perfect scotch and soda. There
you go.
That is the perfect scotch. Anyway, so we want to thanks for
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With knowing our audience, typically we haven't seen too
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You know, I had it. This is weird. I had it. What happened
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go and be would be what difference does it make?
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years ago like 20 years ago and they still had the old airport
there. And it was gorgeous. It was like kind of like Long
Beach. Oh, yeah. Where's everything's outside? Yeah. So
the baggage is outside.
Which is a little bit like Burbank. Although Burbank looks
a little bit like
little though. I agree. Burbank is very similar.
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then it'll be driving from LA all the way to Albuquerque.
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Yeah.
There is a producer in Albuquerque. Jeffrey to hygge
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That'll be nuts. Yeah, in Michigan is what timezone
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Maybe Eastern, would you? Oh, that
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mind doing the show an hour earlier on next Thursday? Are
you are you in Michigan next Thursday, or?
I'm in Michigan and I had to look at the calendar. But
because
that way I could start the show at midnight instead of one in
the morning. It would just give me that extra hour.
You want me to get up at five in the morning? In other words,
yeah, so you can not not by the way my go to bed at five in the
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Oh, you know, Mark and nastel Try to get your plastered.
Well, no, but they don't. No, no. So we arrive. No, no.
Mickey's show is on Thursday. On Thursday evening. That's that's
the opening of a show in Tokyo.
That's next week. Yes. Next Thursday.
Next Thursday. A week from today. At superduper. New what I
forget what it's called. Super New. She's gonna hate me now.
I'll put it in the show notes. Super duper new. It's one of
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about it.
And now you would have gotten a memo from the suits. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Sure. Was it listener supported
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So then we said we had the opening of the show, then around
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I'm leaving. What are you leaving on? Monday? Monday,
Monday. Okay. So after you move on to this shows Sunday is fine.
So Monday you leave.
Okay. Which means we actually arrive.
You arrive Wednesday, Wednesday. Yeah, I think yeah. We arrive
Wednesday,
which by the way, is going to be Tuesday. So the show this show
is going to be on Friday.
How confusing me Yes, but this is my point. I'm sorry. Arrive
Wednesday. Then Mickey has her opening the show on Thursday.
And then stay here Shut up. Wednesday from two weeks back,
yes. And then Thursday night then after the after the opening
of the show. I go back to the apartment, which was Dame Astrid
vai Countess has kindly offered her us her piano tear. And then
I finish up prep, which of course I will have been doing
all day Thursday. Then I do the show. Hopefully at midnight.
From midnight a Friday, yeah, Friday, midnight. So Thursday
night Friday until well, so the show itself will go until like,
we'll be done by three then after that post production so I
won't really be in bed until 430. Then that Friday night,
which would be Thursday for you. Sir Mark has is throwing a party
for both of us.
The 5050 Party
with like, all these crazy acts and no superstars are showing up
in the rent of the space and it's like a big party so
you know, come Saturday
when Mickey has a scheduled to go to the love hotel.
I'll be walking on my eyebrows.
I have no idea. We're gonna have to figure this. Anyway, confused
me. Yes. It sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, I
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Righto Well, we got two big big BB news.
Okay, boom news.
Big news out of the White House. We got a an email, and with
email came a video. And with a video came an 800 page report
way with that came a summary of 300 pages. And we got new terms.
Totally new terms, new ways of looking at it. We need new
terms. Yes, we have new terms. And the new term
is disruption. Right? Yeah.
I know that it's which is a high tech term. Yes. Client? Oh,
yeah.
Yeah, I'm in disruptive technology, as we're disrupted
by intermediate to disruptive technology. That so the the
White House had all the the all the women from around the
country, including Al Roker him to get their talking points
because of course, these are the guys who really sell the weather
and climate change to you but is no longer climate change is
climate disruption. And the title of the report is climate
change impacts in the United States. But first, let me play
the video. This video obviously is filled with you can just
close your eyes and here's what you imagine. Fire, brimstone,
floods, drowning babies. And John P. Holdren.
I'm John Holdren, President Obama's science advisor. Here to
talk about the third US national climate assessment that was
released today. This assessment is the most comprehensive and
authoritative account ever, about how climate has been
changing in the United States, how its projected to continue to
change in the future, and what can be done by public officials,
planners, businesses and individuals to reduce its
impacts. The online report provides unprecedented detail on
every geographic region of the United States, and all of the
most affected sectors of the national economy. And the
contents confirm that climate change is not a distant threat.
It is affecting the American people already. The whole
summers are
stuck, then I'm going to try to guess what he's going to talk
about next because it has the climate we're actually more or
less the weather has affected American economy in particular
because all the earnings reports in the last quarter reflected
the extreme cold temperatures and without rare exceptions, we
talk about this on the D H unplugged show. With rare
exceptions. Most people gate came in with crappy earnings and
they blamed it on the crappy cold weather. And so that's what
he's gonna bring up. I'm sure of it.
Well, I will. I will disrupt your little Intermezzo with a
little clip edge from Janet Yellen. Who is Ben Bernanke with
a scooch. Where did that come from?
Here she was, that was unacceptable.
I agree, Mr. Grey. That was just No, no good. Here she is.
Although real GDP growth is currently estimated to have
paused in the first quarter of this year. I see that pause is
mostly reflecting transitory factors, including the effects
of the unusually cold and snowy winter weather. There you go.
The harsh winter behind us. Many recent indicators suggest that
rebound ingesting in production is already underway.
All right, so no worries.
Just go aside just a little bit. But did you see her roaming
around at the correspondents?
Oh, yeah, of course.
I did. Yeah. Danny DeVito towered over her. Yeah, she
is a she's a tiny little package. And she Anyway, go on.
Yeah, there it is. And of course, this is when you have
nothing left to blame it on. It'll be blamed everything on
Bush now for five years. What do we do now? I don't blame it on
the weather a good idea. Yeah.
We got climate change is not a distant threat. It is affecting
the American people already. On the whole summers are longer and
hotter, with longer periods
on the whole on the whole. So I don't know where the whole is on
the whole but if you're on the hole. That by the way, is a very
scientific term.
Oh, yeah. No, the guy said outright outstanding. On the
whole of this of this art of science
on the whole I don't cheat on my taxes
can people already on the whole summers are longer and hotter
with longer periods of extended heat. Wildfires start earlier in
the spring and can lie later into the fall.
They start earlier in the spring and continue longer into the
fall. This is total. This is unsubstantiated crap.
Rain comes down in heavier downpours.
It's much heavier. Drought here. 15 kilos of rain,
people are experiencing changes in the length and severity of
seasonal allergens. Ah, now that one
that one caught my eye. Yeah, I thought you'd get stopped by
that. Why
that one. And I'm going to come back to that after you play the
rest of this promo video. This promo reel
and climate disruptions to water resources and agriculture have
been increasing. Across the country, regions are
experiencing climate change in different ways. For instance,
communities in the Northeast are affected by heat waves, more
extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea
level rise and storm surge. In the Great Plains. Rising
temperatures lead to increased demand for water and energy and
impacts on agricultural practices. drought and increased
warming in the southwest foster wildfires, and increased
competition for scarce water resources. What
is fought when you say Foster and Foster's wildfires, what
does that even mean? Means encourages?
Go ahead, coin burn
for people and for ecosystems. Scientists who study climate
change confirm that these phenomena are consistent with
the ongoing changes in global climate confirmed we know with
very high confidence,
very high confidence. Next time, next time I'm going to speak
they took a vote
if if if your spouse or your girlfriend or boyfriend says Do
you love me, you say I love you with very high confidence and
see how that works out
are being caused mainly by the increase of atmospheric carbon
dioxide and other heat trapping gases released by human
activities. When President Obama launched his Climate Action Plan
in June 2013, he made clear that the information in this new
national climate assessment would be used to inform efforts
at the federal state and local levels to increase preparedness
for and resilience against the impacts of changes in climate
that can no longer be avoided.
And by the way, listen to the music track. Little Claw they
action little little bit of Oriental but still add a little
bit of an urgency to loom boom, boom. This is very important
that live loom loom
I urge you to explore the assessment and to get informed
about the climate change impacts underway in the regions where
you live by visiting whitehouse.gov/climate change.
I'm John Holdren
and I approve this message. Why are they playing a music track
anyway? Well,
because this is a produced package meant to influence you,
hello. Now this report, of course, if you know me by 800
pages that I do that before I get up, I read through it, I
don't think I can do much better job at debunking a lot of it as
the Cato Institute did, actually. And they also produced
a report, which page by page goes through the
unsubstantiated, unscientific claims made in this with lots of
pretty pictures, I'll be the first to admit, it's a nice
looking report. And it was produced by an advisory
committee chartered on the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
And here's something I didn't know, for the Subcommittee on
Global Change Research. And I didn't know that there was
something called the Global Change Act, the Global Change
Research Act, and it stems from 1990. And this is where all of
this comes from. And when you go back, and of course, I put this
in the show notes. The Global Change Research Act is
incorporated in the United States Code. It is an act to
require the establishment of the United States Global Change
Research programme, aimed at understanding and responding to
global change, including the cumulative effects of human
activities and natural processes on the environment, to promote
discussion towards internal protocols in Global Change
Research and for other purposes. And it does specifically mention
such human induced changes in conjunction with natural flow
fluctuations may lead to significant global warming, and
thus alter world climate patterns and increase global sea
levels. 9090. So this is a long game, blog game they set up here
very, very, very smart. The way that's done,
yeah, the problem that they had with this long game, which
actually began previous to that, because there's 1988 references
to global warming. Is that right from the get go? They expected,
I think, a different response from the public. Because right
from the get go, there's documentation showing that in
1988, they said, we've got 20 years, and then it's too late.
Right? Oh, yeah. No, there's and they kept doing that, Oh, 15.
You got to do it now. Or it's going to be too late. Now, Gore
said
that the the polar ice caps would be done by 2014. I don't
even play that clip anymore. It's it's just it's it's
hilarious. Yeah, well, excuse me
that this hasn't been getting traction the way they want,
except with the people that are just the true believers.
Just a couple of things from this letter. A couple other
things here. So there's all these observed warming and
climatic changes. And what I found interesting. Some of these
changes can be beneficial over the short run, such as a longer
growing season in some regions and longer shipping season on
the Great Lakes. I know exactly the opposite. The great, they're
still frozen, is totally not true.
It's wishful thinking. Yeah. So this
National Climate Assessment, collects, integrates and
assesses observation and research from around the
country, helping us to see what is actually happening, and
understanding what it means for our lives or livelihood in our
future. And then there's a couple of things about the
report. When it is considered scientific justified to report
the likelihood of particular impacts within the range of
possible outcomes. This report takes a plain language approach
to expressing the expert judgement of the author team
based on the best available evidence. So this is this whole
very likely thing, for example, an outcome termed likely has at
least two thirds chance of occurring, an outcome termed
very likely has more than a 90% chance. I don't know why they
just say 60% or 90%. It's all academic anyway,
it's just like you're in Reno or something in Las Vegas. We're
betting on it, what's the chance of this team winning?
So here's the report findings, just an overview global climate
is changing. It's changing this apparent across the United
States and range of observations. The global warming
of the past 50 years is primarily due to human
activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels, a lot
of facts in here. And the people who wrote this, your names are
on it. One day, one day, we'll see which side of history you
are on.
Well, so it was condemned the guys that were on the list for
the global cooling. Yeah, I mean, nobody's ever seen
people, a lot of months and it's some of the same people and
nobody
dredges their names up or ridicule them in public or they
just, you know, they still go give their speeches and
everybody laps it up the people that go see the speech.
So So I was very interested in the allergy thing. This was new
to me and you know, I understand I have severe allergies you do
since I've lived here. Now I will point out that tech says he
is right in the path of the jet stream. And although I can't
find any real documentation to back this up ever heard this?
Will you? Do you know the jet stream goes across Texas? Don't
you
know I thought the jet stream stayed up north of the No, it
makes this huge dip if you just do map as it always make a huge
dip. Yeah, I think so. You know, one time I was caught in the
Jets, there's a little aside again, today is a side day for
me. It's a side dish, I get on a plane to fly to New York, and I
figure out get an early flight because I get in there about
nine. It's gonna take about usually about five hours to fly
to New York from here. We caught the jet stream the whole way. I
got in New York in three and a half hours. Seriously, and of
the airport was closed. It was like, you know, four in the
morning or so it was really Yes. Anyway.
So the jet stream? Of course, it does move, but I think probably
what I see correlation between the when the jet stream is right
over Texas, and we could not be more central to Central Texas.
And I think we're just getting all this crud along with, you
know, crazy trees that way. It
just shakes the crud out of the I don't think you're getting any
crud from the jet stream?
I don't know about it's just an observation. However, I'm still
interested. How does climate change and global warming and
co2 contribute to allergies? Yes, I want to know, and I found
the answer. It's in the book. I know I found the answer on USA
Today. Who extrapolated the answer from the National
Assessment. Okay, climate change impact. Do you have any idea
that
it could well, the co2 would make the trees happy and they
would drop their pollen. That could be one rising carbon
dioxide may be driving you right to your doctor's office. I'm
Shannon Ray green for USA Today's weathering the change.
Here's one way climate change could affect your health. Carbon
dioxide or co2 is a heat trapping greenhouse gas that's
emitted when burning fossil fuels. It's really evil, such as
gasoline from your car,
it also comes out of your pie hole when you exhale, the added
co2 in
the atmosphere stimulates plant growth. And bigger plants in
turn produce more pollen. There you go.
Yes, because of the evil evil co2, which makes plants grow and
thrive. They're really happy with all the co2 and plants in
turn create or what is that again? That stuff that? Crazy?
Yeah, an oxygen, huh? Yeah, no,
yes, they do. So they actually clean the area. That's when
people have plants in their house.
Yes.
But this is the crazy thing. Was this this evil evil greenhouse
gas that is killing our Earth, which makes the trees very happy
and makes the wrong big girl
tree huggers. And this is a real bad narrative for them. Yeah,
they should never should have put it in here. Now, but don't
worry, because we have Gina McCarthy of the Environmental
Protection Agency out on the path. You know, of course, you
know, she's a climatologist. Oh, I'm sorry. She's not but it
doesn't matter.
She's not. No, she's
not.
She wouldn't be because only that climatologists are allowed
to talk about like
Tom Friedman, and people like that are allowed to talk about
this.
Yeah. Well, he's a climatologist
climatologist for the New York Times. She went on there with
the Ben Bernanke is known. I bet I always say it wrong.
Greenspan's squeeze. Andrea Mitchell. Oh, yeah. Because, you
know, she's a
reporter, unbiased. And
I had a couple little chat about just, I mean, just the
gross you out, but you know, it's just you ever even think
no, no,
don't even do that.
Okay, this is that is, ah, throw up in my mouth.
What steps should we be taking? I'm joined by the nation's
administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Gina McCarthy. Very good to have you with us. First of all, the
key points of this report, as far as you're concerned, as far
as science is concerned, they're visible, correct?
That's correct. This is a clear indication. Shut up already.
Already today facing the impacts from climate it's not just about
future projections anymore. No, oh, you
lost all those earnings because of the cold weather.
Imagine for a moment that
Oh, hold on. Everybody. Hold hands on your eyes. Let's hold
hands. Let's close your eyes
just about future projection. Are you ready? Are you ready?
Imagine for a moment that there's a baby being born right
now.
Okay, hold on. Do you have the you have the visual of the baby
being born? Yeah,
the babies being born. There are,
you know, babies being born all over this country? Oh,
wow. Wow,
I know we had a vision a bunch of babies
all over the country just laid on the ground. Oh, there's
another baby on the ground. What
future does this child face? If nothing is done, what is the
world level? What is going to happen to our coasts? What will
the temperature changes?
This kid's going to drown and then fry and won't be able to
breathe?
Well, we know from this assessment that there's impacts
in every region, we know the dangers of climate change. We
see rising sea levels, we see rising temperatures that's going
to result in more ozone. And that means more asthma attacks
for our kids moving forward.
Ah, asthma. Okay, so the ozone thing is shifting and I want
to talk about ozone. Your kid is gonna have nothing but asthma.
Ozone is the is the meme. The new meme. I don't know if you've
caught it, but I did. The new meme is ozone. And ozone is
going to be the new enemy. It's going to be ozone, this and
ozone that and they're bringing it up. I was listening to NPR I
was what would Mickey be listening to right now? And I
turned it on.
Is that do you really consider this during your day? Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
I think, you know, things like that. What would Mickey be
doing, and I'm big fan of hers. And so I put on NPR. And I
listened to this long spiel about ozone and they were going
on and on about and they had one of her assistants as EPA woman
second in charge going on about ozone, and how, you know, it's
caused by carbon dioxide somehow and climate change is creating
all this ozone and stuff is, it's bad for you, and it's
dangerous to diabetics, which is what diabetics. That's what I
said, Cool. How is it dangerous to diabetics? And they said,
well, they have a compromised immune system and ozone, you
know, breathes and oxygen. And so anyway, I you'll be hearing
about ozone more and more, and they're sneaking it in and
they're gonna use it as the new Boogeyman.
Well, that is partially true. Because I know how we can fix
climate change in America
very, very easily. Tell us please,
I use Are you sure you're ready for this? I'm very ready,
because I was tipped off by Harry Reid report
that I'm referring to here concluded their disastrous,
disastrous, climate change is taking place on our earth due to
human activity. While the Koch brothers admit to not being
experts on the matter. These billionaire oil tycoons are
certainly experts contributing to climate change. That's what
they do very well. They are one of the main causes of this. Not
a cause. One of the main causes
the Koch brothers are one of the main causes of climate change. I
say drone, the Koch brothers,
that's gonna have to happen drone, the Koch brothers to save
the earth to
save our children from
asthma. What a moron.
What a total dweeby doofus moron. Anyway, there is there is
something nice happening. Oh,
by the way, let's make a political commentary here, which
is that this guy who's just mentioned the Koch brothers
incessantly million times, only doing it because the Koch
brothers supported the woman that was running against him.
And I didn't even get him out. He doesn't have he has a
permanent grudge and he's never gonna stop bitching about the
Koch brothers typical.
Typical.
There is the ninth international conference on climate change
coming up in July 7 to ninth in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is from
the Heartland Institute, and it's in the show notes. This is
I picked all this up from our weather channel guy. John
Coleman, the co founder of The Weather Channel, who of course
has a very nice commentary on this report. He calls it the 600
page litany of doom, a total distortion of the data and
agenda driven destructive episode of bad science gone
berserk. And he will be speaking along with a number of very
interesting scientists at the ninth international conference
on climate change in in Vegas. Then it's nice to see at least
something is is happening with a the guest these are the tubers
shouted down Yeah, well that well, this is only about people
debunking all this bull crap.
Oh, it is is the DBA debunking conference. So
here's the C space. Heartland Institute. Yeah, let me look it
up. I'm Executive Vice President for the centre of the sense of
free enterprise the former climatology Professor University
of Winnipeg, co chief forecaster weather Bell analytics, Cornwall
Lions for snow that's creationism that of course, you
gotta have some creation guys there. Professor of Architecture
Endowed Professor of space architecture University of
Houston, Emeritus reader in the Department of Geography
University of all marine geologist, environmental
scientists, member of Australian Parliament, George Christianson,
he's going to be funny. It said that there's a number of
scientists a number of people with an agenda retired NASA
scientist positions, professor emeritus geology so there's a
lot of good speakers at this thing. And you know, they'll get
no play.
No, the guys will get play it will be the the creationists.
Yeah, of course, it'll be all crazy creationist. You took the
words the 2000 years old, you moron.
6000
Let's get that straight.
Yeah, I didn't mean to shortchange everybody. Which is
not universal amongst Christian. No,
no, that's just that's actually an American. Think it was
developed by some of the evangelicals in the United
States. I don't. You know, I was like, I never heard this.
But I saw it the other day, the doorbell rang. And I should have
got in the other room and Mickey's not here. There were
two guys dressed in suits. And the guy hands me. He said, Oh,
do you know about DNA and what to do with the chemtrails? And
I'm like, Yeah, I'm like, wow, the Alex Jones guys cleaned up
nice suits and ties on. And he hands me this, this pamphlet and
it's, you know, it's about your DNA being wrecked by GMOs. And
I'm like, Okay, this is um, and then I said, and I said, okay,
and then he just looked at me like, Well, are you selling me
something? No, we just wanted to you know, if you're aware and
you're interested in readings, yeah, but this is from December.
Give me one from April.
The Jehovah's Witnesses. Oh, those guys, but they
were really nice, but I just I just want that. Yeah, I totally
agree. I'm all in on this. Screw those GMO guys. Chemtrails suck.
Hey, thanks, guys. And they were like I guess they're expecting
to get the door slammed in their face or something but they had a
they had
they're gonna start showing up a lot. Now. This is the problem.
Did you
well, you're awakened services. Yeah. I
am. Awakened tema, when you
you should join our church. Well, I don't know about that.
So then you're going to be you're going to be hounded?
I don't know about that. Um,
my thing when anyone comes to the door is usually depends.
I've actually have different approaches. But I've got a
conference call has like because
I didn't need to busy you. Were saying interesting. I'll talk to
anybody. I'm interested. Yeah. People are interesting to me.
I'd like that. That's Is that so wrong? By the way, there is one
thing that I'm a little worried mine. Just to wrap up. This is
the agenda 21 Climate crap. That is one thing a little worried
about that and useless see if this crops up as a mean, East
Antarctic as Wilks basin. This is now this is a story that is
getting a little bit of play. The melting of rather small ice
volume on East Antarctica shore could trigger a persistent ice
discharge into the ocean resulting in unstoppable sea
level rise for 1000s of years to come. This is now shown in a
study published in Nature Climate Change by scientists
from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The
findings are based on computer simulations of the Antarctic ice
flow using improved dat improved data of the ground profile
numbers but here's the problem. It's a quote, Eastern articles
workspace and it's like a bottle on a slant says lead author
Matias mango. Once uncork it empties out the basin is the
largest region of marine ice on rocky ground and East
Antarctica. Currently a rim of ice at the coast holds the ice
behind in place like a cork holding back the content of a
bottle. While the air over Antarctica remains cold warming
oceans can cause ice loss on the coast. ice melting would make
this relatively small court disappear once lost, this would
trigger a long term sea level rise of 300 to 400 centimetres.
Now, why does this worry me?
This is Creighton's book. It says he brightened se
incretins book The which was the fear what was it called? state
of fear state of fear the crazy environmentalists to prove that
the Global warming is happening. They go dine and they want to go
dynamite. Some icebergs at the Antarctic
to cause this big change.
Yeah, this is interesting because most of the evidence
shows that Antarctica is the ice is expanding. You'll find this
No, I know
I understand. But if if what they say is true about this
bottle in the cork, right? It would be like it would be very
simple to go, you know, discharge one of your directed
energy weapons. You think you can only melt humans where that?
Ah
that's an interesting. Yeah, interesting twist is
interesting. You would pick that up.
If for some reason, that scenario,
now that's been published, they can say, hey, we gave you the
warning.
Yes, that scenario popped into my head just by itself. And I
was like,
Okay. We have to keep an eye on these guys. Keep an eye on this
whole group.
Yeah. I mean, I
live excuse me, literally.
I mean, I can wave my arm is not that good. But I you know, the
the San Francisco Bay is I'm looking at it right now, as a
matter of fact. And have you ever seen I haven't not seen it?
They're talking about 10 feet. They're talking about 10
degrees. There. They've changed all the numbers. The number used
to be a couple degrees now it's 10 degrees and the 10 feet of
sea level rise. Yeah. You're trying to do upping the ante to
try to scare people and people are still unfortunately these
still have the you know, the sceptics said the Cato Institute
and elsewhere was real scientists. Yeah, stuff and we
of course all scientists agree they these guys are nuts.
They're crazy. It's like that guy we have sorry. sciency
sciences. You had to clip with a guy given testimony before
Congress who was the head of the National Hurricane Centre. And
after he retired he went to front of Congress says there's
no connection between global even if there was a global warm,
it's got nothing to do with hurricanes. And they just
ridicule that guy's an old man he's cool. He's honest, is not
because he Kerbals
is lots of marbles. coot
is a cute
little bit of technology news for a moment here. Since we're
the only ones that do stuff properly. I'm going to evoke a
new term. Do everything today is about income equality. Yeah.
What do we have? A gender equality, race equality. I'm
gonna call net neutrality, packet equality. Just one more.
I just want to put that in there. I like it. And and I know
you don't like belabouring this conversation. But now we have Al
Franken doing videos and there's no absolutes. No slow net.org
And you got all of these NGOs? Let me tell you hear me now
believe me later. The minute you allow the government to regulate
anything with the internet that here's here is your slogan saps
Slade, you will remember number two on the list of three from
the FCC is that the ISPs will not be able to block legal
content, which of course means they will be forced to block e
legal content,
whatever that is, whatever is defined is illegal at the
moment, which could be anything
and in the end with crime, hate crime and hate speech will be
deemed illegal.
And I think you could probably in a broad sense, you could say
this podcast is a lot of illegal, illegal a tonne of hate
speech hate. We hate these these reports.
But it's all context of course. But if someone just casually
tuned in, they would say my God, these guys are misogynistic,
racist pricks.
That could happen and they're old. And they're all
old guy or citizens. These
old guys are too influential. Let's get them off the air.
Yeah.
So the technology firms who are you know, writing in that Google
and Yahoo. They love this because it is in their DNA to
provide brand safe content. You see, this is what they sell.
Brand safe. That's what Google does. That's what Yahoo does.
Although Tumblr. I don't know how they're gonna get around
that Tumblr. Man. Tumblr is nothing but gift porn. If you
look at Tumblr,
Tumblr is the most
but good high quality and much lot of high
quality stuff but I there's illegal stuff on Tumblr, lots of
it.
I love sexy blow jobs. Oh my god. This is a great
Tumblr on on Tumblr, and once you start is horrible. Oh, it's
fantastic. Your point your
boy, you would Yeah, it all depends on your on your. But in,
but in
in I think in a broad sense it's absolutely horrible.
It would be deemed elite entertaining
horrible. But I mean the kinds of stuff that your Yahoo owns
this thing? Yes. And it's like, did Marissa Meyer she must be on
there somewhere she only owned it to get her own pictures off.
I have no idea why they buy them.
Wow, I just had a fantasy. All right. Onward with that. So
the advice again, every page, you gotta get these pictures.
But but the point is that this whole thing started. And by the
way, Google and Netflix, they work together. Now we have
they're doing conferences together, they send noted
letters together, this whole thing started because of
Netflix, because people want their cheap access to Hollywood
entertainment. Netflix is not the no agenda show. It's not the
twit network. Netflix is just cheap. $5.07 What is it $15 A
month, I don't know what a cost
us that much, I think is 799. Or sometimes even, let's say 10
bucks a
month. And that's what people are complaining about. And
that's why this is going to be put in place. And it is not
going to net neutrality rules will not change anything with
your speed or your slowness, your access to content, but your
content will be deemed illegal. And that will be deemed illegal
by content. And by context
like how like I'm BitTorrent, how come nobody complains about
net neutrality on the mobile device?
Please don't even get me started or the fact that as metered
bandwidth, that's the second thing you'll get is you'll be
metered and you will be paying for this like utility, which is
what everybody wants.
I like you going back and forth with the guy on Twitter. The guy
has like two followers and
he had 10 After we've done he had 10 Okay, yeah, I gave him an
extra five gave
him eight more. So he starts
off and you and you gave me nothing but grief. And I think
it was on the last show for respond. I
know, I know, I fell for it. Okay,
just making sure that you realise it can happen to anyone
I
was ill.
Whatever the case was, I had some guy give him the guy gave
me grief about.
But that's the thing that the thing that bothers me the most
is though, and this will lead into my next topic, is the lack
the total lack of technical understanding of what a
saturated router looks like, what a what a 90% full port
looks like. What infinite Yeah, bandwidth and internet is not
infinite. We knew this day was coming. We knew it was going to
happen with video. It's here. And the the commercially
available solutions are really quite good. Now when it comes to
your Hollywood content, of course, the cable company that
provides your internet wants to have a piece of that pie of
course they do. But you'd been claiming calling for net
neutrality that I want a whole separate internet for Hollywood
content. But I think you should log into a separate network for
that. Please make it the fast lane. That'd be great. Google
fibre is only for Netflix. And for Amazon Video. That's what a
fantastic AM. It may be five years from now. But you will
come to me. And you will say because that doesn't my whole
life has been like this. People say oh man, you are so right. 10
You know that? I guess you don't they're gonna say no, they do
say it. You're gonna say yeah, Curry's a dick.
Yeah, well, there's that part. Then because it's playing up
again. And
he was on? Yeah, sure.
Alright, because it's playing up again. I need to debunk a few
things about the podcast patent lawsuit, and specifically Adam
Carolla is is making me a little mad, okay, because podcasting is
not in parallel. As an mp3 file that is played by you on your
computer that I get to you somehow, either through a
website, or a BitTorrent Sync or an email or an FTP server.
Podcasting is not in parallel. Moreover, podcasts on iTunes are
not in parallel because iTunes has already buckled and is
paying the licence, which is a licence to not a patent troll.
Okay, a patent troll is a company that buys patents to
then go and monetize them. This is the actual patent owner. Now,
do I believe that this patent is fair and correct. Probably not.
But that's not how the patent system works. But for Adam
Carolla to go raise money for the end, he did his whole
concert and everyone's all in on the comedian's of the podcasting
is going to die. It's bullshit. And I want to play this USA
Today piece from their technology reporter, which will
have to interrupt to set some of the record straight. Okay,
podcasting, particularly if it's through iTunes, who pay their
licence fee for the technology of delivering episodic content
through a playlist. That's the simplified version of what their
patent is, they pay for it. And Apple is very good at busting
patent lawsuits, so it's frivolous. And I believe the
money is being collected dishonest leet to some degree.
That's my part. I don't want to accuse anybody of anything. But
I feel if you're GiveWell, if you're putting money into this
thinking that you're saving podcasting, you're a fool.
Here's the thing that gets to me is that the EFF has been
actually filing cases against this thing and they haven't
spent but I think
it's $30,000 $30,000 you have to pay to do a reexamination of a
patent.
And I think they've spent already spent that. Yeah, they
spent that plus some more I think, but they spent a couple
100,000 Why does Corolla claim this $1.2 million that he needs
he met he needs new lawyers is what he needs. When you think
that goes into the ether no goes to some law firm. If true. Now
let's listen to this report. That by the way that music means
technology reporter hit
Yeah, get it on got to get it on no choice but to get it on
mandate. Get it
on. Yeah. And by the way, if that's what you're saving. If
that's the show, you're saving it just
a few short years, the new medium of podcasting has become
wildly popular. Yes, here we go. Allowing comedians authors and
average folks a vehicle to speak into a microphone directly the
millions of listeners
Spoken like a true mainstream hack millions. Well, first of
all ordinary folks with a microphone. Hello. Hello, 2004.
We'd like our reporting back on what a podcast is more on the
bed best podcast in the universe dude.
But the future of podcasting is in question. No, it's not. You
may have heard comedian Adam Carolla or others like Marc
Maron, or Maria Menounos complaining about podcast
trolls.
So podcast trolls now we've got a hybrid in this fine report of
USA Today. The newspaper for the masses, a podcast troll. The
only podcast troll I know of his comics read blogger was waiting
delayed reaction. But thank you,
a Texas company personal audio claims it invented the concept
of podcasting and it has the pens to prove it. They are suing
Corolla two other podcasters as well as broadcast networks.
The first thing they said was give us $3 million.
Corona is raising money on the fund anything site to fight the
case. So
it's over a million dollars to fight the patent troll so
far, he's brought in over $350,000 and his fans are with
him.
The fact that somebody can just buy a patent and then sue other
people. It was it's gonna destroy the fabric of America.
Okay,
so this report this is so off the rails at this point. We're
first it was a podcast troll. Corolla talks about patent
troll, which is, as far as I'm concerned, not the definition.
It's a pet someone has a patent, holds the patent, was awarded
this patent by the US Patent Office and is defending his
patent has already won an injunction against Apple who
fought and lost. And I'm pretty sure they didn't say give me $3
million. I'm pretty sure they said Well, here's what you're
making. Here's the licence fee for the way he is displaying.
See, it doesn't work this way.
It is not typical for a patent lawsuit to start with. You owe
me all this money because you ripped me off. Not in these
cases, certainly not for a process. They would have to send
a note and say, Oh, would you please cease and desist? And in
this case, he would have to cease and desist in the manner
in which he was making his shows available. With a notification
system for a podcast essentially, having a pod
catcher widget on your website, which you create and you put
there would open you up to a licencing fee from this company,
which is why no one is it has come after this podcast. That is
the only reason there is we are not in violation of any patent.
We use iTunes. We just put up a page We don't have any fancy
player stuff. We just got the single player for a single
episode no notification systems. That's what this is about. All
you had to do was just change it. This business of a million
dollars to fight some sued for 3 million they wanted. Without
seeing documentation, I'm just not buying it. And I've been in
some court cases myself.
This media is still sort of new and developing, but it is
accessible to to everybody and it would be a shame to allow
these so called non practising entities to put the kibosh on
it. So there's
no nonpracticing entity putting a kibosh on podcasting, and
well, who's behind personal audio. Well, I spoke with co
founder Jim Logan by phone, and he told me he came up with the
concept of downloadable entertainment in 1996, and
invested over $1 million to develop an mp3 player that could
receive content from the internet. Now the product never
made it to market. But he did file patent for his idea, then
updated it to include the new podcasting medium in 2009.
Corolla and others say companies like personal audio are trolls,
because they exist solely to buy patents, and then demand
licencing fees.
This is not true. This is just not true. They didn't buy the
patent. They own the patent is the inventor,
and that these things happen. Now, that doesn't
mean that there isn't prior art and that we can and what the eff
is doing, although I refuse to work with the EFF because the
same way they approached me was the same message. Podcasting is
in peril. No, I will not participate in that you're
scaring people into doing something which is just
factually not true. I don't like that. They're going the right
route by asking for a review on the patent and trying to show
prior art, but it's just not okay to say to scare people that
your favourite podcast is gonna go away and oh, please give me
money. That's not okay.
Logan, he says he came up with the concept and an idea and
quote, we're the bad guy because we're trying to get a licence
fee for that. The trial begins in September in a small East
Texas community where results from patent suits have
historically favoured the plaintiffs personal audio first
challenged Apple over the use of playlists and won an $8 million
settlement with the electronic Freedom Foundation, a San
Francisco nonprofit has filed a challenge to invalidate personal
audios patent in federal court and was granted a Go ahead. Now
stick with us here for the latest on the case. From the USA
newsroom. I'm Jefferson Graham.
Hay and of your technology report as witnessed by the
music.
A very poor report Jeff.
Very, very poor. And, and so the end there, we got a couple
things straight. But I failed to understand why a million dollars
is needed. When you can just say okay, I won't present my podcast
that way. Yeah.
Yeah, seems reasonable. To me. Your analysis seems to be the
only one I've heard. Of course, you are correct. By the way,
you're being you're losing the title of the pod father having
invented the podcast idea with Dave Weiner. Yes, because these
guys are making a big fuss.
And also Dave Winer, makes a good point, that technology
isn't never really invented. You know, it's like, neither here or
I created the mp3 format, you know, or the internet. You know,
technology evolves over time. And the popularisation of the
concept and putting all the pieces together Yes. And and
that happened in 2001 It took us three years before there was all
of a sudden the device and that was the iPod. And then it made
sense to have it delivered directly to that which
apparently this guy had already done in 1996 What can you say?
That's the way that that's the way the patent system works. But
as being the people are being taken advantage of with this
fundraising that this bothers me and the in in eff that same way
because they email Dave and myself hey, you know get on
board with this and but their whole thing was patent trolls.
bastards are killing podcasting. No, you're not. In fact, we
deliver a majority of our podcast now through BitTorrent
Sync
which is very effective
and people like it a lot and it's in a dyno servers just
Well, that's not entirely true, but there's no there's no no
charges. Nope. No bill comes at the end of the month. And I'm
just a little tired because people Yeah, what's your what's
your take on this? How could you be
alright, all righty. Gotta show my little boy Joe. Nice to know
agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah,
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lot of emails Thank you very much. Yes, that is the ISO 8601
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what are we what do we have in half by
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Yeah, well what is the format called?
It's called letter? What is gold?
All right. So now that we have started an international
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I know there's going to be a bunch of these guys who do
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Right which is even crazier. But I when I'm flying I'm like I
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Let's check in with another one of our favourite topics here
Common Core. Excuse me. The New York Times had an interesting
article. That that is now this common core thing. I'm although
it is so deep. And there's so much going on with this and that
and of course, this is mainly the bill Bill at the Belinda
Miller Gates Foundation, Belinda Miller Gates Foundation. But
Pearson, who of course are deep in this. They made and this is
from the New York Times they made the New York school system,
sign a nondisclosure about their tests.
What Yes. By state order, teachers and principals Bill
and Melinda Gates and Melinda Gates kind of thing. This is
like the Linda Miller hates the tech thing, y'all nondistrict
just use the non disclosure. I don't understand why all this
information is getting out and make them sign a nondisclosure.
I can't show you the demo until you sign my NDA. By state order
teachers and principals may not disclose any contents of the
three days of standardised English tests that were
beginning or given at the beginning of April. Can you
imagine? Can you imagine and the teachers were not happy with the
test. They didn't like the tests, but they were, by law
forbidden by or by law by agreement.
Actually, by the law that non disclosures tend to be a legal
binding document.
In the joint statement issued by by the 37 principles they noted
as well that they were product placements, ie Nike and Barbie
woven into the exam. No, and we already talked about that. But
yeah, the common core curriculum in New York is intended to
encourage students to get a strong grip on the meaning of a
piece of writing. So this, this common core stuff, here's what
I'm what I'm learning. That's the the it's one thing for this
all to be state controlled, which you need to question state
education in general. And by the way, I got a note from one of
our producers who works at Staples. And you know, a lot of
home schoolers pick up materials at Staples. Now, all the staples
stuff is also all common core adheres to Common Core, pick up
the handy app. But a lot of this stuff is just shoddy work. The
materials are just crap. Witness this little news report.
It's the worst case of documented genocide the world
has ever seen 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the
Holocaust yet this homework assignment in Rio alto asked
middle school students to debate whether it actually happened.
Why?
Yes, this Wow. Now Now the key here, okay, hold it. Not that
not yet. No, no, you gotta listen to the whole thing. No,
you gotta listen to the whole thing. The key is the key. What
is one of the main things that Common Core pretends to do poor
10 Poor tends to do? You'll hear that you'll hear it in here
debate whether it actually happened.
What was presented to kids in reality, though, was it was a
travesty.
Rabbi Cooper and others at the Museum of Tolerance in Los
Angeles are outraged by the assignment asking eighth graders
to cite credible sources on both sides. The first page states
some people claim the Holocaust is not an actual event. But
instead of propaganda tool create different political and
monetary gain.
The word credible just jumped right out of the page. And later
on, you have the Holocaust is the hoax. You even have a
section called. And Frank is a fraud. I love that.
This was a mistake, it should be corrected it will be corrected.
The 18 Page project completed in April was created by a group of
district educators as an exercise in critical thinking.
Initially, school officials defended the assignment but
following a firestorm of criticism quickly changed its
tune.
It is an exercise in critical thinking.
Do I get it now? You know, it's
yeah, you might as well give it to yourself. That was a good
clinical. I would just say you get you should have taken that
first one. Because the second one it was like a first you
stunned me with a clip of the day going into surgery and then
you just then you annihilated the whole thing, then you
overdid it. And I overdid
it with fret and Frank is a fraud. And Frank is a fraud is
priceless. I wish we could do that as a show title. We're not
going to do this, but this is the problem. And this is by the
way, Common Core. This the the group that did this funded by
Belinda Miller Gates Foundation. Can you say it Belinda Miller
gates, this is the new way to say it. Belinda middle
delegates, so Linda Miller Gates Foundation.
And if they're well
intended, this is a poor man, I had this conversation with
Mickey. The sad thing is these people really mean well, they
really think you know, in critical thinking to debunk
these morons who think the who are saying the Holocaust didn't
happen. We need our kids to grow up to be conspiracy theory
debunkers. But this is not the way to go about it. This is so
incredibly misplaced and mis judged and just wrong kind
of idealism that would come from a tech guy. This is exactly the
Aspergers coming out. I mean, it's like single minded tech,
too much logic that got us like, the Vulcan just spot coming up
with this logical Yes. Now the other thing, that sinister side
of this, which of course, that woman who you had the great clip
from some time back a few shows ago, maybe a couple months ago,
she would say that, well, here's what's really going on. They're
doing this testing to see what kids are actually already bought
into. Right.
So they have the camera on us, right? The webcam is tracking
the kids facial movements. And now a little bit later, we have
a Jew hater here, that Jew hater.
So let's track down his parents and see what's going on. Yeah.
Yes, hello. Hi. This is doohickey at the school
district. Yeah. You know, little Timmy, we had this exercise. And
we it was in critical thinking. Are you aware of are you aware
of our common core state standards and critical thinking?
Yeah, yeah, I've heard of it.
And we're a little concerned. Why because when the phrase the
Holocaust was a hoax and Anne Frank is a fraud came up. Little
Timmy seemed for a moment there to nod his head.
What's the Holocaust? All right.
This kid is going nowhere quick.
Onward. Yeah, exactly. It's just it's
these people need to be stopped is all I have to say. And I love
seeing these articles pop up. I know the problem is a fact to
have a report here. Indiana wants to exit Common Core. And
on Friday, the US Department of Education sent a letter to the
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda rich
threatening to revoke the state's waiver from No Child
Child Left Behind.
Yeah, they blackmail Oh,
yes, yes. No, they take their money away.
Yeah, you gotta but this is the problem with it with the
Department of Education. Oh, this and then of course, you
listen to Melinda Gates Foundation, or whatever
you believe to mitigate Belinda Millgate it's too long. I'm
going to stick with Belinda. Excuse me, and they go it's not
a national Producer Bill Gates there was a he was on toggle.
It's not a national programme. What they want is everyone
upsetting do whatever they want. It's not a national programme.
There's not the government and federal government telling
people how to teach kids or what to teach them bull crap until
you want to leave what is is a de facto natural national
programmes de facto yes not officially.
But this is a good example. Pathetic out Are you one more in
California?
You got a California clip? Yeah, I
got another California clip. This is one of our favourite
topics. And this goes right along with packet equality.
Because, yeah,
packet equality because of course we know that bullying is
very slowly becoming
illegal. Right
and anything can be bullying.
Well, I have some definitions here. First, let's listen to
this clip. This is a bullying law, which was voted on last
night and past people
say Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never
hurt. That's a lie. That's a lie. That's a lie. That's a lie.
Words do hurt. Carson City Councilman Mike Gibson says the
ordinance treats bullies as people who need help, not
punishment. The first offence is an infraction. And then we hope
that that that ticket will change you. But if it happens
again, it's not only an infraction, where you have to
pay money, but also it's counselling. And then the third
offence goes to a misdemeanour that we believe it'd be
conditioned to your probation launch counselling as well
because we believe that those individuals need help you need
help
incarceration will work for you. So here is the actual law. As
marked up in your show notes at 615 dot n a show notes.com or
615 dot no agenda notes.com. Section 41 601 findings and
purpose the City Council finds and determines the following.
bullying and cyber bullying are a serious public health and
safety issue for the nation, the state and the city and the
citizens of Gaza. Cyber
bullying is a public health issues you know,
a serious public health and safety issue. B. bullying and
cyber bullying are associated with serious mental and physical
health issues up to and including suicide. Suicide is
the third leading cause of death and teenagers C. bullying and
cyber bullying are associated with societal problems that
result in cost to the taxpayers, including through minors
dropping out of school, abusing drug and alcohol and engaging in
criminal activity. D this ordinance is intended to provide
additional tools to law enforcement officers in schools
to address the worst cases of bullying and cyber bullying that
may lead to physical and mental harm to minors of the city of
Carson.
Citizens. II. Now let's go into definitions.
We need to know this bullying, including bullying by means of
electronic communication devices commonly referred to as cyber
bullying shall mean a willful course of conduct, which
involves harassment of a person from kindergarten through 25.
These are legal definitions, John, this is right.
Five years old or through to get grade 25 through to age 25.
Okay, so after and when you're 26 Which by the way is the time
you lose your health insurance.
Eat all that help you coincidental
you can cyberbully at 26 and up yep.
Oh good. Yeah.
Well, no, no, you can be cyber bullied. Oh, yeah. So this is if
someone believes you and you're 25 it still falls under this
law. Okay. course of conduct shall mean a pattern of conduct
composed of a series of overt acts over a period of time,
however,
short
evidencing a current continuity of purpose. So, if I just walked
by what douchebag
and did that a lot, that would be a course of conduct.
Harassment shall mean any conduct, whether verbal,
physical, written or by means of any mode of communication,
including but not limited to harassment by means of
electronic communication devices, commonly referred to as
cyber bullying which one? Here's the real definition, John ready,
would cause a person to feel terrorised, frightened,
intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested? And which
serves no legitimate purpose? Or is prohibited by the California
penal code sections? 240, etc, etc. and is intended to
seriously alarm
annoy, torment,
torment, annoy, you are holy crap, as was
luck. You have now torment or terrorise a person with no
legitimate purpose.
Does it purpose, legitimate somebody that's not legitimate.
prohibited conduct it shall be unlawful for any person to
engage in any bullying or cyberbullying of a person or
induce another person to engage in such bullying so I can't say,
hey, go annoy that kid. It shall be unlawful for any person to
retaliate against any person that reports any conduct which
is prohibited by this chapter. And then you'll The other thing
I'll add to that is it shall be unlawful. The Finks Yes, 41 605
parental responsibility. It shall be unlawful for any
custodial parent or guardian of an unemancipated person under 18
years of age to allow or permit such person to violate the
provisions of Section 41 603. As aforementioned, the fact that
prior to the present offence, a parent guardian or custodian was
informed in writing by a law enforcement officer of a
separate violation. incurring within 90 days prior to the
present offence shall constitute a rebuttable presumption that
such parent guardian or custodian allowed or permitted
the present violation, lock them up, take your kids
away, lock up the parents. So I just found it. Very strange that
I am now 49 years old, 49 years old. And this was a this was 50.
And this was hammered into my brain. Since I was a little kid.
People say
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt.
That's a lie. Words do hurt.
I who? Who said this is okay to change that.
I heard the same thing all my life and that's when it was the
it was the counter. It was all white. What so what what is so
what? What are they saying that so big, you're not getting used
to not beating you up or anything. They're just saying
stuff
and so on. But along with this, along with this comes,
but now it's a big deal. Oh, they said something bad about
me, daddy, well, I'll tell you what, bad.
I'm going to tell you what the problem is.
He said, I'm a slut. I'm going to tell you what the problem is.
The problem is 40% of these kids, and that's just my number.
It may be higher. He's on some form of medication. And a lot of
these medications are antidepressants. And the number
one we listen to all these commercials, the first thing
that is a disclaimer on any antidepressant drug is you may
have thoughts of suicide, right which is very strange. But
that's, that's dragging, right? So when you're drugged up and
you're then getting all of these horrible messages, which agreed
is no longer like used to be you're on the you know, your
Allegra already this used to be you're on the schoolyard. Hey,
curry, you suck. You got to read what is wrong with your head.
Hey, day, tick, boy.
Tick, tick boy. Let's go kick his ass.
But then, you know, once I was at home and the door was closed,
maybe maybe maybe once in a while someone would call up.
You're on the phone and the phone would ring and I'd be
like, hello. Hey, take
boy.
So it's a little different now with the Facebook's and the
Twitter's and all that
you can get inundated. But although you don't need a
Facebook account, it seems to me I don't know. True. But still,
with Twitter, it's somebody that I'm getting harassed
occasionally by some of these guys. I just block them.
I'm done. I'm good. And
I'm wrong about you're wrong about this. You're wrong about
this. So in a way, you were just saying Market Watch 10 years
ago.
I like John except for that mouse thing.
But prediction 32 years ago. Geez.
Well, you'll never live that down.
I see it as money in the bank. Oh, yeah. Hey.
So the parents, yes, you need to fortify your children. But not
with government regulation. Because the next thing is
restricted speech. Like that. That's what
it is what it is now. Yes, I'm sorry. You can't annoy someone
just by saying it. You're a dick.
Yeah, no, that's annoying, is reserved but borderline
misdemeanour to say somebody's a dick. Yeah, no, this is bad.
These kids. I feel so sorry for kids in school, they have to go.
They have to put up with a common core nonsense. The Bender
was just teaching them nothing. You know, it's just, you know,
cradle to prison. And someone said
someone said, The Belinda Miller Gates Foundation is penile to
penal.
Yeah, it works better when you read it, I
guess. Yeah, it's a written pun. Yeah.
But you know, you're, you're so right. And, and if you're a
little different, in fact, if you are intelligent, if you if
you exhibit be above and beyond intelligence, or my god, maybe
you're just different.
We got to drug you
because you think differently or you have different thoughts. So
you daydream or you think in music, you see music, you hear
colours.
Wow, that was pretty deep.
Wasn't that deep? And I am
other people who hear colours. Well, then yeah, but then you
get penalised you could you could just this is and this is
worldwide,
not if they shut up and sit down. What do we do, John?
I mean, we always complain, but sit down. Shut up and sit down.
Yeah.
What do we do? What do we do?
We just do the show. We'd luckily we have a lot of
students that listen and they appreciate what we're talking
about. I have a clip of I thought was the funniest clip of
the week. Okay. So Obama has a meeting with Merkel and he's
still and she's just steaming because he can't get his act
together to tell her that they're not going to keep spying
on her because apparently they're just gonna keep spying
on her. And what is he even meeting with her for but play
the clip and
President Obama hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the
White House Friday, amidst continued differences over NSA
spying. Leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden show the NSA
tapped Merkel's mobile phone in addition to monitoring other
German leaders. At a news conference miracle said gaps
remain between the two sides and that it's too soon to return to
business as usual. Acknowledge the Snowden revelations have
strained us German ties.
It has pained me to see the degree to which the Snowden
disclosures have created strains in the relationship. But more
broadly, I've also been convinced for a very long time
that it is important for our legal structures and our policy
structures to catch up with rapidly advancing technologies.
We are committed to a US German cyber dialogue to to close
further the gaps that may exist in terms of how we operate how
you German intelligence operates, to make sure that
there's transparency and clarity about what we're doing and what
our goals and our intentions are.
Negotiations between the US and Germany recently broke down
after the Obama administration refused to offer a blanket
pledge to refrain from all unauthorised spying on German
soil. Yeah, this is
interesting. She's standing right next to him.
Yeah, yeah, there was something else that popped up here that
appeared in an interview with
Professor Cohen.
This is the guy who we thought would would never reappear,
right? We both. He's a neuron. He's got a publicist, I'm sure
if
he does, and he was on PBS. And so I'll play this out of order.
I want to play what he said about the Merkel meeting. Now
you actually have to I guess I have to kind of set this up.
Something happened just yesterday, late yesterday, which
is this President
Vladimir Putin made some surprise statements today over
the crisis in Ukraine. This afternoon, he called on pro
Russian separatists to postpone their plans secession vote on
May 11. He announced that he has withdrawn Russian military
forces from Ukraine's border. And he even offered conditional
support for national elections in late May, which he had
previously rejected. But you know, just mention the,
I want to underline that the plans, presidential elections
and Kyiv are a move in the right direction. Some will perceive
you, but they won't solve anything, if all of the citizens
of Ukraine don't understand how their rights will be guaranteed
after these elections are held.
A White House spokesman said this afternoon that there is no
evidence that Russian troops have pulled back and the US
imposed further economic penalties on Moscow.
Okay, so there's the this is very interesting. This is
another brilliant move by Putin who's playing chess while the
Obama administration plays checkers. I think they actually
may have reverted to part cheesy at this point. Thank you. Thank
you for laughing at my old guy reference
canasta canasta.
I'm going to jump ahead to this piece by Professor Cohen here
about something that we had not heard of,
we have to read the whole statement is not very long and
looks like he spoke for about five or six minutes. But he said
many important things. First, he reiterated the Russian position
that we the United States created this crisis along with
Europe, and that Russia is aggrieved. Then he went on to
say though, I watched the video the footage of what happened in
Odessa on Friday, and that was a horrific event. And you have to
remember that for people who live in Russia and Ukraine in
particular, it evokes memories of people burning during World
War Two not not just Jews, but the fact that the Nazis in those
territories locked people in buildings and burn them to
death. I've talked to Russian friends in Crimea, and in larger
Russia, they were all horrified by what they saw. And so was
Putin. And so he said, I'm going to take a step to try to stop
this. We have withdrawn our troops or pulled them back for
Ukrainian border, I think we have to assume that's true,
unless surveillance says he's not telling the truth. And then
he clearly wants two things in return, which needs to be
mentioned. And we'll see if he gets them. He wants the United
States to tell Kyiv to Polish military forces out of Eastern
Europe, Eastern Ukraine, and then he revealed something I
didn't know maybe Angela knew, and maybe you folks know what I
mean. But he said that in a phone call with German
Chancellor Merkel, she had proposed a roundtable of all the
aggrieved parties in Ukraine, that's key of that's Western
Ukraine, that's eastern Ukraine, to talk about the future of
Ukraine, which means a new constitution. And he says that
he agrees with that, and he will support that. So you have it
appears if he's telling the truth, Germany, Europe more
generally, and Russia in favour of this roundtable. Now, the
United States, so far as I know, is silent. And in fact, when
Merkel was here, was it just a few days ago, right? I don't
recall it being part of what they reported they discussed. So
if Putin is telling the truth the United States seems to be
dragging its feet well, I don't know but that's the impression
we
have we clearly need some more clarification but Angela said
how do you how why
I love how she just like us Shut up. This is ixnay on the on the
roundtable a
this is big news. Yeah, it's not being covered
zero coverage and in fact, I just heard it being covered up
yeah, we need more information.
I got a couple of a Russian sources
and they just the State Department after that came out
and said I am moving any troops. bullcrap. But we can't believe
the State Department.
I have some funny little do hot Dicky donkeys. Here is this is a
you want want some hubris? Your Sokhi planning to visit Crimea
on May 9. Do you have a comment on that? I've heard
reports of that. I hope he enjoys his visit to Ukraine.
She says Ukraine
Yeah. And here is the I guess it actually it was Carrie had the
talking points. It was kind of funny to hear how they are
identical. And, and I only pulled this clip because of the
word he used. We also
are very concerned about efforts of pro Russian separatists in
Donetsk and Luhansk. To organise frankly a contrived a bogus
independence referendum on May 11.
Bogus it seems what is that
a diplomatic word bogus. But but it is bogus, as well. But I know
but here's Saki propagating the former United States
notes with concern efforts by pro Russian separatists in
Donetsk and Luhansk. To organise a bogus independence referendum
on a bogus independence referenda on May 11 has to
reflect herself.
She doesn't boast a bogus clear enough bogus I'd say Bogus
again, but I listen to this
flatly reject this illegal effort to further divide
Ukraine. This is the Crimea playbook all over again. No
civilised nation no recognise the results. And if Russia takes
the next step to reenact it's illegal Crimea, annexation and
Eastern or southern Ukraine and sends more forces over the
border harsh us. EU sanctions will follow.
They said when they send forces over the border.
No, no, no, they
keep they keep saying that, you know, the 40,000 or the 20,000.
There I know. I know what she said
something else. Like it's an active thing. They're
sending more force. It's theatre. As you said something
else which Matt wrapping the
United States The United States the American public is getting a
raw deal in this record on what they were being kept in the
dark.
Here is mats from AP who I owe a beer.
I'd like to get drunk with this guy. That'd be funny. Yeah,
especially
was on tape.
That was a no civilised nation will recognise this. I'm just
curious about the use of the word civilised. Are you saying
that? Would you say the same thing about Crimea? require me
in reference referendum. So Russia is an uncivilised
country?
Well, that's like a divorce rack thing. Oh, you said uncivilised.
Oh, does that mean we're civilised. Is that what you
mean? May
what I'm conveying there, Matt is a broad spectrum of the
international community oppose the referendum in Crimea, and we
don't think the international community will support this
either.
Alright, fair enough. But you've got any country that recognise
the Crimean referendum and annexation by Russia, or would
if these other places go is uncivilised in the US?
I think you're using the word in a in a way I didn't mean to
convey
Oh, well then don't say it. Of course the citizenry of Euro
land. They need to be controlled the message needs to come
through they need some they need a more reasons to hate
the Putin. Hold on a
second the Putin what is playing right now tonight we have the
second semi finals and on Saturday we have the final. The
final final final. I'm very excited John every single year
we pay attention to this you paid.
Russia and Ukraine pulled out all the stops in their
performances. The 17 year old toma civi twins hope the giant
seesaw would catapult them to the final and Ukraine's Maria
your M chick sang her heart out as a dancer sped around a human
hamster wheel.
Do you know what this is?
Of course I do is the Eurovision thing that you're just so in
love with.
Very impressive until the results were announced and there
was no suppressing the booze for Russia Russia. Bleach wins there
through under percent success rate and qualifying for the
final audience don't seem to like that. The first semi final
is over and all the fans are coming out of the stadium.
Russia and the Ukraine are both through to the final on Saturday
night. Now.
What a coincidence now.
The news
most rigged piece of crap ever here
is the news
coming out of Europe. That evil
evil evil he has put together telephone voting camps This is a
telephonic vote this is Eurovision Song Contest oh so
they're going to say we put together voting camps where
people are doing nothing but sitting there and calling and
voting
that's the that's the best they can come up with. Wow
have to be the winner Well what's your prediction my
prediction be the that Ukraine would have to win
well the problem is more dramatic and the problem is we
don't know all the finalists yet otherwise Of course I would have
I would have wanted to do this here's here's I think Ukraine
has the better song here is the classic clip. So here's the
Russian entry this is totally my Civ the Thomas you have sisters
and this is the song is shine Remember it's all about the song
fast forward a little
1980 calling
now the know the Netherlands is also through to the finals with
the Dutch are very very happy they have to have their big
stars.
He also the longer
and Whalen together they are called the common limits.
That's a stupid name.
The common isn't a limit but
the first one you played that was Russia. What were they
singing in English?
Oh, they're all singing in English this year for some
reason. Here's the Dutch entry. This is called calm after the
storm.
I hate it already.
Now listen to the US it's pretty bad. Here's the Ukrainian entry
This is
Maria Yeah, don't check.
Her song is called tick tock I think it's a catchy little tune
I think it could actually and she's cute. And she's cute by
the way here we go
wow
oh yeah baby I love you the first time I saw you could tell
that she's gonna win Listen, listen
you can get off yeah. So, okay, now we're now at the contest.
The songs are old fashioned.
Well, that's the whole that's what that the whole thing is old
fashioned. The whole idea is old fashioned.
But yeah, you can get a big round of applause rush it come
in number two. Hopefully we're this are in the same round
together in this semi finals.
Now we'll keep a track of where we are. Unfortunately,
when they cannot
win a Russian hold on Russia cannot win. Now they cannot win.
I have two more clips here. One is from the the Bogut of Prime
minister. Yes, that's a nuke. I've been doing a little more
research on kind of going back to the to the Victoria Nuland
thing,
right to handing out cookies.
Ya know what she says if the EU, Hannah and she's talking about,
you know, the boxer not being in the party and she keeps talking
about Ole
tiny, tiny Bach and, and yets
and Tawny Bach. He is the leader of the civil what was aboda
party and this and so you'd have pictures of her of McCain all of
this isn't
the party. That's the right wingers. These are the these are
the Nazis. Exactly. But she's behind the Nazi party.
You see this pictures of her? And yachts, and McCain and the
Nazi guy all hanging out? Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's
so it's so clear. But of course, I'm sorry, not clear, unless you
look at our show notes, because you're not going to get it from
the news. But here's here's this this bass player from the 70s
Disco band, known as yets, the Prime Minister of the Bogota of
Kyiv regime.
He is nuts.
Listen, we are fighting with an invisible Russian agents.
We're fighting invisible Russian agents, they're invisible now
Jah invisible, we
are fighting with an invisible Russian agents. With a well
planned and well plotted the operation, it seems to me that
the entire world is facing a new title for this is the new war
with the military, with no insignia on the uniforms. This
is
the new kind of war, the whole world is facing the invisible
Russian agents.
Really interesting.
Now this leads me I'm gonna I gotta take this all the way now.
I gotta, I gotta I gotta go all the way.
Sorry, I gotta go all the way.
Okay, the sanctions and all this bull crap is of course, exactly
that. And then even though we now have MasterCard, see Russia
demand $3.8 billion security deposit from Visa, MasterCard to
even operate in the country. This little report on the BBC, I
picked up this little snippet,
despite talks with Russia facing economic consequences for its
actions. There are fears that Russian money is too crucial for
the British economy, according to the Bank of International
Settlements, British banks and more than $19 billion in loans
in Russia. And that basically means that if there were to be
any sort of sanctions on Russian businesses, then British banks
could suffer huge losses. You see,
Russia has borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from British
American banks. This is all completely interwoven. And this
unfortunately now starts to come a little bit into my SDR
theory
that everyone is basically working for the Bank of
International Settlements, all the all the central banks, they
all do their their settlements, literally their their back and
forth payments through the BIS. And it was a piece that I picked
up from Charlie Rose from 2009. With Henry Kissinger did cut he
kind of lays out exactly what is happening at this very moment.
And I went to the trouble last night, it took me about 45
minutes to cut out
all of the pauses
that Kissinger and Rose collectively make.
Yeah, show could be a good half hour show if they weren't just
just staring at it.
It's just it's horrendous. So this is Kissinger. This is right
as the Obama administration is coming in in 2009. And he is
talking about the crisis, the financial crisis, how it is a
good thing, how it benefits those who are truly in control,
and that it will lead to some new form of system and I just
wanted to play this as a frame of reference because I think
it's very interesting because Kissinger is the kind of guy who
would know some of these long term plans
paradoxically, they is a moment of crisis. It's also a man of
great opportunity. I think that when the new administration
assesses the position in which it finds itself, it will see
huge crisis and terrible problems. But it can, I could
see that it sees a glimmer in which it could construct an
international system out of it. If, if you look back to the end
of the Second World War, many people now saying that the
period between 1945 and 1950, was in many ways, the most
creative period, or one of the most creative periods of
American foreign policy. But it started with chaos and fear of
Russian invasion of Europe and governments that were very weak.
And people.
The United Nations came out of that the Marshall Plan came out
of that, right and NATO, NATO, that and later the Clinton, I
mean, the Truman Doctrine came out of that later. There is
opportunity in the crisis,
when you look at the medium term interests, and the long term
interests of the key players, India, China, Russia, America,
Europe, they really are important, the parallel. But
when you talk about
a new structure new, I'm not sure you've used the term New
World Order. I mean, what is it simply a world order that's
defined by new interest and new mutuality of interest,
all of these issues necessitate a global approach. So you don't
have to invent an international order, in talking to the leaders
of the world that I have met, counted in recent months, their
willingness to cooperate with America has been enhanced by the
very recent graduates to economic crisis, and also the
way the whole international system is evolving,
it seems to me, the larger point you're making is that the
economic crisis that is prevalent in the United States
in Europe and Russia, and in China, India offers an
opportunity to make a case for something new rather than
something Oh,
funnily enough, even the jihadist crisis is springing up
to everybody that international affairs cannot be conducted
entirely by drawing borders, and then defining international
politics by who crosses what borders with organised military
force, this is now being reinforced by the fact that the
financial crisis, which totally unexpectedly has spread around
the world, limits the resources that each country has for a
foreign policy, he had fusion of its own pure interests,
what would you call this age, this opportunity, this moment,
may be the age of compatible interests. So
what I found interesting, there is the parallel of the fear of
Russia, invading countries, all these new programmes and groups
coming out of this and a possible new system. And I know
that, you know, you disagree with me on this, and you feel
that this will never happen with the dollar. But I just feel that
all these people are all in on I don't think they give a crap
about America. And, you know, because still comes down to this
rejiggering of the IMF with the 2010 reforms, those being
ratified, which now America has been given until the end of this
year, until 2015 to do that. But I just read more and more
opinion pieces that this the idea of killing the dollar
seems plausible. Just not buying it.
Now. It's okay. We don't have to agree on this. But you know,
there's more and well, in fact, here's Janet Yellen. Again. She
said something which I don't, I'm not quite sure why the stock
market goes up when she says these things.
Concern about regulations about taxation, about uncertainty
about fiscal policy. I guess one recommendation that I would give
you is that long term budget deficits, we can see in for
example, CBOs, very long term projections that they remain
they there is more work to do to put fiscal policy on a
sustainable course, that progress has been made over the
last several years in bringing down deficits in the short term,
but the combination of demographics, the structure of
entitlement programmes and historic trends in health care
costs, we can see that over the long term deficits will rise to
unsustainable levels.
Okay.
unsustainable level At the end, she says, you know, hey, well,
there you have it.
Yeah, why would that make the stock market go up? Yeah. Why?
Because it's assumed that if this this, the gloom and doom
scenario always assumes that the market does anyway, that means
that they have to keep the quantitative easing going on,
which means printing money, throwing it into the market,
making everything more valuable. Every time you had, if it was a
good scenario, they would all be bailing out, right, but just the
opposite of what you think whatever you think, Oh, this is
bad news is they can be reinterpreted as good news in
some ways. And the good news is trying to out guess what the
Feds gonna do about this problem that they foresee. And again,
typically what they've been doing recently is printing more
money. And that's
good news for the market. So it go up. Bye. Bye. Bye. It's
crazy. Just the way it works. I think
we should sell sell sell on the on the tech stuff, though.
Oh, well, especially Twitter. Did you Did you see
the that Justin Rosen cramp? whatever his name is now at the
TechCrunch Disrupt.
No, I don't pay attention to that anymore. Oh,
he did. Uh, this guy. I mean, he's, I think he used to work at
Google. And he did a
we like maybe you remember the the AOL digital Prophet, what's
his name? Ching law, that
crazy guy.
So this is this is kind of like the Yang to his Yang, you want
to hear anyone hear some buzzwords. Okay, you wanna hear
some crazy tech, some crazy tech
guy.
I love these crazy tech guys
in a room and he is who King lead with the second unveiled,
what would be his greatest legacy? This castle? Oh, we in
this room, we in technology have a greater capacity to change the
world, the kings and presidents of even 100 years ago, this one
little precedented moment in civilization, where suddenly
this tiny number of people have the ability to have huge world
shaping impact on everyone in the world. So the question we
want to look at here is, how do we want to be using all that
power? Power? How do you want to be using that power exudes the
power?
I say let's just say the anointing
of feet. Creep? Yes. Yeah, I can't take it
do great things.
Do great things, John, let's do great things with our power of
Silicon Valley.
Do great things.
Let's do things that are spoken their own dope,
really substantively work to help humanity thrive,
to help humanity.
Okay, I
can't handle it anymore.
These guys do nothing about poverty, which is the real
problem.
Oh, hold on, let's solve the
big problems like poverty.
And let's dedicate our energy to consciously moving the world in
the direction of our dreams,
like solving poverty.
He didn't say the word poverty does he
amazing being in technology is that we don't even have to do we
don't even have to sacrifice our personal well being in order to
do this. Oh, I mean, it would be insensitive for me to give this
talk in most industries. But for us, I've been lucky enough to
have the opportunities, we have to import the right place at the
right time with the right education. We can have our cake
and eat it too. And I want to live in the beautiful world we
can create together. So as an example, my first job out of
college,
I can't take it. You're right. No, no, no, I gotta hear the
rest.
Was a Google breach. Of course, the compensation. Google. Yeah,
out of
college did idiots listen
together. So as an example, my first job out of college was at
Google. And of course, the compensation package they were
offering was important to me. Love, love, love. But there were
several companies that could have offered me that
compensation. The reason I want to work for Google is because
Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make
it universally accessible and useful. And it's a hell of a
mission. The idea that I could even one small part of
organising the world's information is a no brainer
decision to take this job.
I don't Yes enough. No brainer. free food free food. And eat all
you can eat all 24/7 Do you have anything else you just
get out of here?
I got a couple of things. But I think we're running away long,
darling. Yeah. Well, you had these clips at the end. You
could have avoided
No, I can't avoid the Putin stuff. The Putin stuff and
stuff. Okay, but the guy from Google.
Two minutes out of your life.
It could have been on Sunday. Could have started the show with
that guy that'd be to Earth the whole time. It'd be more fun.
No. Okay. Now I'm going away or saying, all right,
I'm calling it I'm calling it
I'm calling it to three hours and 16 minutes
too long. Half an hour. Good. Now I want to say something. All
right at Sunday I'm going to we're going to introduce the new
president of Syria. Oh,
is this a clip? Yeah, it's a clip cheese. Hold on a second.
Really?
It's a long clip, so you can't play it now. No. Well,
do you want me to play? Do you want me to play it? No, no, no,
no, no, we're
pretending there's a news press. Brexit? No, we're not pretending
they're calling and President so and so.
Oh, okay. But we're playing. We're going to talk about that
on Sunday. Yes. And Sunday, we will also congratulate the
winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Oh.
I'm sorry. I left that out, too. I know. I know. I know. I know.
I try. All right, John. Well, it's always a pleasure to talk
with you.
Which is put these people behind further. Yeah.
Yeah, no kidding.
I did catch up trying to catch up.
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